ocschwar

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by ocschwar 10y ago
Well, that is an improvement, as it means our border guards won't get the chance to disgrace the nation by mistreating travelers.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Steve Bannon has a thing for shipyards. Someone should tell him what the NOAA does for merchant shipping.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Dude, you don't have to be enslaved outright for your life under military occupation to suck.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
What do you think they'll be doing?>
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by ocschwar 10y ago
By that reasoning, America has cause to go conquer Britain.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Then why is Russia constantly interfering with the Baltics? Why did Russia abduct that Estonian border guard?
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by ocschwar 10y ago
As others have pointed out, if the nation state you live in does not have a secure hold on its territory, then you can either lose some of your freedom to conscription, or lose a whole lot more in foreign occupation.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Russia isn't going to utterly destroy Sweden either. What they want is to disintegrate the European economy so they can have better access to it. Leveling Sweden would be both expensive and unprofitable. Bullying Sweden is much more u
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by ocschwar 10y ago
I wouldn't call it superficial, even. Might not be deep rooted, but some thought and work go into it.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Home prices. Rents.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
"City leaders had poured money into a high-concept modernistic new culture center at the town’s edge. And the shopping mall had been built. Large grocery chains, called hypermarkets, had also been constructed outside the city, with fre
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Sometimes it gets a little absurd. In Somerville, MA, there are stores for locally made goods, and the goods are high quality, and certainly good examoples of the local esthetic. Which in turn is built around the cultural identity of the 20
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Funny thing. The densest, most walkable city in Massachusetts, Somerville, is now the most sought after city in the Commonwealth, and among the most sought after in the country.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Endorsement for PHP? "If you were any other man, I would kill you where you stand!"
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Waugh's book The Loved One made me want to rinse my hands in holy water after reading it.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
I have endorsements for "potato salad" and "teenage paranormal romance". My potato salad is pretty good. My twilight fanfic, however, only deserves endorsement because I have not yet written any.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
> So with facts gone and the real world gone, that leaves only one purpose for language, for saying anything at all: to get others to do what you want them to do. And now we have a regime in the United States that has downright weaponize
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Yes. Sanders also decided to sacrifice TPP, meaning no coalition in East Asia to check China. However, Sanders has no intention of goading China into war.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Having trouble googling the articles I read on this years ago. But here's a start: https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/bretton-woods In that article, the United Kingdom agreed that in return for U.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
And using it in this particular fashion is poor form if your intent is to secure another nation's commitment to send their soldiers and sailors to die alongside yours.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
> When England and France and Germany etc fought, they were huge colonial powers (or wannabe powers), controlling large parts of the world. So they were in competition, and there were great stakes from the outcomes of such battles. More
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by ocschwar 10y ago
We can discuss the economics of the H-1B visa program at such a time as we have a president who's capable of discussing the economics of the H1B visa program. Right now, however, we have an administration that's intent on ratcheti
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by ocschwar 10y ago
That's assuming the other parties to the negotiation will be cool with it. We have a president who doesn't seem to understand we don't get to dictate terms to other countries.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
All true. But it takes a president with an attention span longer than 90 seconds to fix these issues. If instead we have a guy who just nixes TPP, then we have to take note that we do not have allies in the west Pacific in a war with China.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Because one thing the EU established and maintained is the principle that countries should compete for resources and economic position in the market place and not the battlefield. It's the one constant about the EU from 1957 to today.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
What allies? The Philippines already crossed over to China;s side. Vietnam, which just 2 years ago invited the US Navy to use the ports at Da Nang, has been miffed by the loss of TPP. Obama worked hard to build a coalition confronting China
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by ocschwar 10y ago
My favorite factoid: the Baby Boomers are the first generation to go from birth to retirement (and I might hope: to death) without witnessing a war along the Rhine. The first, that is, since the death of Charlemagne. The EU has its issues,
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Oh, my, pass the Geritol. I remember having to contend with a 5MB storage quota in school. My fraternity had to impose a policy of not discussing contentious things over email at the end of a semester, so people's quotas would not fill
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by ocschwar 10y ago
I want to buy one and like it, but 4GB is not much when you're using git and flitting around different projects on github. Otherwise the limitation would be a good thing, in forcing me to back up early and often and not waste my time w
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by ocschwar 10y ago
I am nto signing because I have absolutely no confidence that the petition will do anything about this. We're in for a 4 year marathon of trying to save our country from Trump, and the first thing to do is to estimate what has more of

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