Vivtek

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by Vivtek 13y ago
The download page is so sleek it doesn't even have a link to documentation so I can see what I'm downloading before wasting my time.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I suspect the NSA and CIA remember the Cold War and still regard Germany to be an occupied US possession.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Let me add a real #12 - restaurant food there is plentiful and fantastic. While I was courting my wife, she did a month in Delft. I was living in Stuttgart at the time and went there every weekend. We repeated only one restaurant in all tha
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Now this is the kind of comment I come to HNN for. (1) From the point of view of a liberal American, it seems a given. To have any negative opinion of Israeli politics in the States marks you as Not The In Crowd. (2) I dunno - all I kno
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by Vivtek 13y ago
No, because none of these laws have been enacted in the Obama administration. And yes, because Candidate Obama said he was going to fix things, then discovered other priorities once in office.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
That wouldn't be in the spirit of empty grandstanding at all! You, sir, simply don't understand Ron Paul's strategy.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Rand Paul needs a class in civics, looks like.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
But if nationality no longer matters, then everyone else gets a say in how far we recognize this, right? Just as a little sanity check here: could you please define what you mean when you use the word "nationalism"? Because tha
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by Vivtek 13y ago
You started out defending nationalism, and now you're taking a libertarian stance. I'm not sure where you're going with it.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I didn't mean financial survival. To listen to any apologist of our Middle East policy, it's utterly vital for Israeli survival to have the threat of American nuclear reprisal at their beck and call. Perhaps "military assista
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by Vivtek 13y ago
"The cure for cancer" is about an ill-defined goal as "the right way to earn money" - it's a very complex topic and we're making a shitload of progress on it every year. Which doesn't mean it doesn't
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I think you're conflating nationalism with ... love of community or something. And you're conflating rights with law, I think. I'm not even sure we're talking about the same thing, and I'm anything but certain we d
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by Vivtek 13y ago
That's stupid. When they say "Israel", they mean "that nominally democratic ally of ours who survives on our military aid and who is well-known for technical savvy and outsourcing to whom would neatly circumvent our inco
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I've been thinking about this issue of Hopi "child abuse". Is it more abusive to subject children to a single coming-of-age ritual designed to teach them to think, or to allow children to transition to adulthood physically un
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I think it's entirely wrong for Americans to sympathize with Boston victims while disregarding and in many cases outright denying the existence of victims of drone strikes. It's hypocrisy at its finest and especially rich coming
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Eat food. Not too much.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
No, in fact, that's not at all what I said. I said every human should be accorded the same rights and opportunities , which my government shamefully betrays every day. If anything, the worst crime of which history will accuse America
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Speak for yourself.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Am I not special in this regard? Shouldn't I simply get whatever I want? I'm more than five years old, so I accept that I'm not as special as I once thought. Nationalism is similarly infantile. And you're not respondin
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Actually, I suspect Americans in general should be subjected to this ritual. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
And yet your government asserts rights of control over them without your granting them any legal recourse. Tell me, how do you think that's gong to play out, ultimately? He who lives by the sword...
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by Vivtek 13y ago
This is incoherent, unless you equate culture with nation. Nationalism says that people in your nation are special , that, in effect, rights pertain to them that are not granted to other nations - it is incompatible with morality. On your
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I was not aware of any terrorist attack on Chicago. Nor do I believe that any terrorists have your children on their checklists. Hyperbole is a fun game. But this is beneath you.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I'd say rather that you took it as a "shut up and move along". Others didn't. So it may have been a less than perfectly effective expression of my intent, but that's as far as I'll go.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Well, 51.5% is better than the small minority that would be served if he weren't an elected official - and the threat of losing his next election keeps him at least moderately accountable. [insert Churchill quote here]
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Hahaha! Greenwald would love that...
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by Vivtek 13y ago
He was actually given the Nobel Peace Prize for not being Bush - 100% subversion. I think it's not unfair to say that he's harmed American democracy more than Bush could have, by legitimizing every harmful thing Bush did.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Some of us have been shouting for the rooftops until hoarse for the last decade and more. Suddenly everybody's reacting (and I don't mean everybody here - I mean the New York Bloody Times) like this is the very first time this has ever com
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by Vivtek 13y ago
French to English generally works rather well because they have similar sentence structure (except for inverted adjectival order) and neither has a lot of long-distance dependency stuff. Even Systran kicks ass on French to English. Where F
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by Vivtek 13y ago
He's the guy his constituents want. I personally think voting for sheriffs is a good idea.

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