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by madaxe 13y ago
Yup - exactly what I just said. Kaz is VERY free compared to the US. Put it this way - at the border between Kaz and Uzbek, we... Stole the border guard's hat. Wore it. In front of him. Stole his gun. Wore it. In front of him. Then all
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by madaxe 13y ago
Been there. Nothing like Uzbekistan. And Uzbekistan is nothing like Turkmen. Just because they're in the same (HUGE) part of the world doesn't make them all the same. Mexicans, Americans, Ecuadorians, what's the difference?
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by madaxe 13y ago
Agreed. Kaz is very free, compared to, say, Kyrgyz, or Uzbek, or Turkmen. It's also very free compared to the US. You can see the "secret" police. They stand out like sore thumbs, as they're mostly Russians, and dress
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by madaxe 13y ago
Homeland == vaterland. You did not have this term until the DHS came about.
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by madaxe 13y ago
I had the Kazakh "special police" tail then detain me. Plain clothes. We mocked them relentlessly then went on our way. Secret police in kaz aren't very secret, and I feel far more intruded upon and am more careful about what
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by madaxe 13y ago
The USA?
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by madaxe 13y ago
But all of those criteria are already true in both the US and the UK. I think that was his point.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Actually, Japan were ready to throw in the towel as a result of the tripartite pact being enacted, and Russia joining the fray. Sakhalin was the trigger, and their worst fears were confirmed when the soviets raped and pillaged their way thr
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by madaxe 13y ago
Sure, no problem. It relates to D&Y as it's similar in vein. It was wildly successful in getting European economies rolling again, but the hook was that it ensured penetration into and possession of European markets by American bus
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by madaxe 13y ago
I think it's more like 0.05% of us give a shit. Nobody else gives a damn so long as American Idol on Ice-Factor or whatever the hell people are vicariously existing through these days airs. Humanity is neatly self correcting themselves
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by madaxe 13y ago
Nobody rational. Were you to evaluate the actions of any given nation state as those of an individual, you would probably decide that the individual was psychotic, psychopathic, deranged, and suffering from a bevy of learning disabilities.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Wait, what? Ireland is nothing to do with religion. It's a handy banner. It's all about British colonialism and oppression. Fuck, we sold the Irish as slaves to west indies planters. Of course it's geopolitics. Religious fana
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by madaxe 13y ago
It's rather more pseudothought than thought - groupthink and machiavellian manoeuvring and politicking, rather than cohesive decision making about any given matter at hand, and the continuation of policies not because they make sense b
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by madaxe 13y ago
Well, yes, OBL and the mujahideen who became al-qaeda were set up, trained and armed by the CIA in the 80's. There's no way it's not blowback. I mean, jesus, the US are supporting AQ RIGHT NOW in Syria. Fickle.
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by madaxe 13y ago
Nobody. Create any sufficiently complicated system and it'll do random crap that nobody expects or desires. The sad truth is that there's no "man behind the curtain", just a gaggle of idiots and processes that make no se
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by madaxe 13y ago
All "terrorism" is "blowback". Terrorists aren't just crazy folk who come out of the blue and go "I know, I'll blow some shit up just because" - they're politically motivated and use fear as a we
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by madaxe 13y ago
I think that the average US cit is fundamentally good , but so poorly informed as to the world around them due to the media, educational and, frankly, thought control in the state in which they reside that they end up playing straight into
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by madaxe 13y ago
> Marshall plan. Little to do with reconstruction, lots to do with ensuring economic dependence. Why not talk about the Dawes and Young plans? > Defense of South Korea. Again, not doing objective good, protecting American interests,
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by madaxe 13y ago
> How does one even go about disagreeing with a comment like this? I guess I'll go for the obvious: If the U.S. wanted to "claim dominance" at any expense, we certainly would have felt much less constrained in the use of
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by madaxe 13y ago
Absolutely. I quit my well paid job for a bank in 2006, as the stink of corruption was too much for me - and quit by just walking out one day, and not coming back. 'lo and behold, banking scandal and collapse, not long later. Fuckers I
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by madaxe 13y ago
No. Stalin died in March '53, leaving a directionless power vacuum until September, when Khrushchev took over. This was almost certainly a factor in the timing of the coup, as the US wanted to seize the opportunity of the USSR's d
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by madaxe 13y ago
No. US foreign policy, when viewed from a perspective other than that of the US, is one heartbreak after another. They take promise, dreams, progress and hope and crush them, in order to preserve hegemonistic power at any cost. The US would
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by madaxe 13y ago
> If you have a career with Dell, AT&T, Booz Allen Hamilton, SAIC, and many others, start making demands or make resumes. Stop being complicit. Unfortunately, the majority of wage-slaves are so indentured to their overlords that si
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by madaxe 13y ago
One of the things that repeatedly bothers me about this entire situation is the continuous use of the words "foreign" and "foreigner", from all camps discussing this. Since when did it become acceptable to be so outright
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by madaxe 13y ago
I think he'd have preferred "Meatfucker".
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by madaxe 13y ago
The two-dimensional horizon of the gyre on the water's surface does expand, slowly, and is analogous to the three dimensional event horizon of a black hole. That is to say, the portion of the gyre which extends below the water, which i
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by madaxe 13y ago
How a company with no revenue or product can have a "low" valuation that results in a $1M+ investment is beyond me. Any value beyond $0 is hyperbolic. No revenue, no product, no proof, no value. Yes, you can have potential value
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by madaxe 13y ago
Don't know if you saw your sibling's response, but it's not how he's always talked (slightly different to what you said, I know). I forget what it was he was responding to, but you could see him blundering headlong into
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by madaxe 13y ago
Nope. http://www.bigprimes.net/cruncher/159591041/ Don't take up gambling. ;)
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by madaxe 13y ago
Pipes itself into a new instance of itself every time, thus spawning processes geometrically. Hence, Fork Bomb .

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