Titus Ultor
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Lol. That would be unfortunate.
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Oh, yeah. That's much higher than what I thought.
I was too lazy to check it myself. >.>
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Isn't there a tentative pop cap of 75? I think its in the FAQ.
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Excessive amounts of money don't usually hurt educational systems. Then again, I come from a system whose buildings collapse on a fairly regular basis. High voltages electrical wires are often exposed. Textbooks are often the exact same edition, if not the same book, that the parents of the children received.
Oh. And also, unlike many European systems (Germany for sure), American students take a large amount of "General Education" classes, even until about two years into a standard four-year university. I will never honestly use Calculus. I will never use Trigonometry. I will never use Chemistry. None of these classes represent anything needed for my eventual goal (law), and, yet, I have taken all of these classes, which costs the educational system money. It's a tremendous waste, which takes an already strained system, and taxes it to an even greater extent
Also, the American school system is on an agrarian schedule. We only go to school 180. I believe most European nations top 225.
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Hopefully more like the Godfather II than the Godfather.
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But, either way, America still ranks 39th in education quality, according to the United Nations. I believe this is based on a currency per student level. Even China is pouring more money into the system. And the fact is, the average American can only read at a 6th grade level, as found by a University of Pennsylvania battery of surveys and tests.
What's been occuring quite often lately is foreign companies, realizing that the average American has money to buy, but not the higher education to discern tricky advertising or to see through catchy slogans, find themselves with -the- largest market on Earth in which to peddle their goods. Ikea is one such example. Also, foreign car companies have begun marketing for America first, and their own native countries second.
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And McCain is certainly more palatable than Cheney or whoever else the Republicans would run. He's an old-school conservative, at the least, which is much more moderate than the world-conquering neo-cons in power at the moment. If you don't believe that isn't in their stated agenda, or even their hidden agenda, check it.
Also, his support of states' rights aligns him with a surprising amount of gay activists, and his protection of privacy aligns him with anti-Patriot Act-ivists, and pro-choice activists.
Who I'd like to see run is Barack Obama (sp?). Even though he doesn't stand too much of a chance, he'd help to win back a minority population which, for God knows what reason, has drifted towards the party which still has many members in power who harshly opposed the Civil Rights movement. Ex-Senator Strom Thurman (sp, again) was one example, but, fortunately, he's dead right now.
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I agree with Yieul entirely on this issue. Most of our differences in thought occur on a more abstract level. I also like the word "Unitedstaters". It's more correct than saying "Americans", as all people on both Western continents are "Americans". Good luck convincing Unitedstaters to change that, though. Also, Unitedstaters is much easier to say and type than "Citizens of the United States".
Anyway... the only people who would nuke Canada would be people whose ballistic missile range only extended that far, for most ballistic missiles are programmed to transverse the North Pole, as opposed to trying to cross the Pacific or Atlantic, because most targest are in the Northern Hemisphere, which eliminates roughly half of the range to transverse. However, in order to hit any of the Canadian major cities, one would have to fire close enough to the American border that you might as well hit Detroit, New York, and any of the other Midwest/New England cities.
Moreover, NATO guarantees that any entity which attacks a member state will be subject to immediate retaliation by the other member states. In the case of a nuclear attack, the United States would immediately respond in kind, or with an amount of strength and national outrage that would spell certain doom for any entity who would dare attack with nuclear weapons.
It all comes down to Mutual Assured Destruction. The government, particularly one as triggerhappy as this one, would not hesitate to have a chance to use it with popular support. Most administrations wouldn't, even if they tended towards peace. At the very least, such an amount of conventional (non-Nuclear/Biological/Chemical (NBC)) armament would be delivered that the devastation would be nearly as complete, but without that stigma only poison and radiation can provide.
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I don't believe you should have to buy it. Here's an example:
Because it's old as crap, it's public domain. You could even make an argument for reading other's translations without paying on the internet. I'm not sure about international laws, however. Oh, you're not a furner. Well, maybe others would enjoy reading it.
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I believe that it's not even just the cost and the killing, it's the sheer idiocy of joining an unworkable project. ONE test has worked, and that has been demonstrated by every test afterwards to be an extraordinary fluke. And who the heck is going to nuke Canada?
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Just as we have people towering past seven feet tall. Rare, sure, but they exist, and they play for the NBA.
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Nothin' beats a good ol' fashioned, pressed and dead tree.
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Lol. Seriously...who can blame Gunthahaha for it? I wouldn't have even understood the words in the sentence if it was in French, much less the subject.
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I think, at this moment, John McCain may be the most electable person for the 2008 Presidential Election. He's very centrist at a time when most people are rushing for the extremes. My primary question is this:
Would you, as a liberal, conservative, or a moderate, vote for Senator John McCain? I'm a self-described socialist, and I'd vote for him to be my President. I feel I can trust him. Can you?
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Whether or not it is actually Republican is highly questionable, seehttp://www.blackboxvoting.org . And given the ages and immigration structure of average Republicans and Ohio, respectively, suffice it to say that it the Republican party might be losing votes by the day.
The U.C. system costs around $16,000 a year, with consistenly rising costs. If you're out of state, it can easily go above Ivy League schools, with $30,000 and above.
What I find most hilarious is that Republicans, who have traditionally championed states rights and weak federal government, are now championed federal bans on such things as abortion and gay marriage. It's getting to the point that the only true classic "Republicans" are John McCain and the non-psychopathic section of the Libertarian Party. So, really, it's about three people.
That's a bit off topic, but it still deals with the power of the states, and given that money is power, and budgets deal in money, I think it works.
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The individual state education budgets shoulder most of the education load for the United States. Because the federal government, honestly, doesn't give a s***. The No Child Left Behind Act was a facade which only ended up giving ten percent, and possibly less in the long run, of the promised funds. Thus, there is a huge gap between the education levels received by students from the various states. California is consistently rated the worst in nearly every statistic by federal studies, losing to such intellectual giants as Mississippi and Alabama. Not to disaparage every person in the South...but the best history taught there is a Confederate flag flying from the South Carolinian capitol. California's redeeming features are its sheer attraction (both monetary and cultural) to smart foreigners, and the largest and most recognized state-funded universities in the nation (the University of California system, including such schools as UCLA and UC Berkeley).
Otherwise, the federal budget goes primarily into defense. I believe that the cost of our Defense Budget outweights most European nations entire budget. It also goes into such programs as Social Security and welfare, but those are being drained, and soon enough they will probably either cease to exist in a federal form (thus putting our retirements at the whims of the stock market. Yay. Not to mention putting our futures on the infallibility of corporations to not steal), or they will be shells, with their funding eaten alive as the Defense Budget grows inexplicably.
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Ooooh. Secret clubs and stuff. What is this, the Freeware Mafia?
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Markets should be big, open, plain spaces. And then you put the product in the space. At that point, it looks less austere.
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These look hand-drawn. Excellent job. It's freakin' schweet.
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I believe literally everything, besides the things mentioned in Paul's profile, decreased in the Dark Ages.
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The F-16 is called the Falcon, not Tomahawk
I believe there was a variant of sorts. But that's beside the point. I was banking on the fact that someone, somewhere in this forum had read America (the Book).
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Ah. While I'm not too much of a musician (I play guitar and bass), I'm always interested in where people draw their inspiration.
Thank you for sharing.
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Run across the border to Mehico! They'll never catch you if you run there!
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Where does your inspiration for the various cultures music come from? I know that it is difficult to tell about ancient cultures' music, because they usually didn't have a way to write music. Do you take it from modern music deriving from that culture?
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