The thing Obama was trying to say is, essentially, that Romney doesn't understand how the modern military works.
Which, given what you've just said, I'd say that's pretty accurate. Since he seems to want to expand the military, rather than keep it as it is.
That was the point of Obama's "bayonet" quote (Romney was citing that there are less ships in the Navy now than there were in 1912), to make him seem out of touch.
And honestly for sheer burn value, I thought the part of the statement that proceeded the bayonets quote was much funnier ("we've got these ships called aircraft carriers now, planes can land on them....").
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
Oh, and around this time last year the captain of the USS Abraham Lincoln visited campus, gave a presentation and took questions. One of the things I asked him was specifically about China and their new carrier and their latest ambitions in that regard -- they even had the Commandant USMC over for a visit. He said that China has a ways to go but he hopes that 20-30 years from now, China doesn't park a carrier group right on the border of International/American waters to send us a message like we've done to other nations.
I've always personally felt that China is too concerned with its own internal problems to put up anything more than a facade to the world at large. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know. It just seems to me that when quite a lot of your resources are going to making sure everyone is pretending to be happy, you're not going to have much left over for anything else.
I'm not one of those people who buys into the "China will own us in ten years" scare.
I'm not one of those people who buys into the "China will own us in ten years" scare.
And I agree -- but China has always known that they have the resources, they have the people, and their population has the determination and discipline to put them ahead of the rest of the world. They just didn't realize what was holding them back this entire time (communism) until pretty much recently. As a consequence of embracing capitalism, an actual middle class is growing as quickly as it did in the postwar United States. They're also maintaining an authoritarian system which I'll argue will be to their further benefit. They're not going to catch up in 10 years, but they will eventually.
Thing about that is that I don't really feel threatened by that.
Any of those assumptions about China tend to assume that they're going to invade us or something which I just kind of don't see happening (or some kind of economic domination which again, I don't see happening). Maybe I'm short-sighted, whatever.
My parents are arguing, and they're doing it in the classroom, which is the next room over, so I can hear everything they're saying. Fucking annoying.
Finally found a crack of FL Studio that isn't riddled with viruses.
Though the installation screen for the cracker was absolutely horrifying. Partly because of the random, unannounced Dancehall song, partly because of the FL Fruit with the face photoshopped on it. But whatever.
Machine Gun is the most frightening album in jazz. Hands down. It was in 1968, and it still is today. Only a few other albums even come close. there's the unbearable tension of John Coltrane's Ascension, the brute force of John Zorn's Spy vs. Spy and of course six or seven other Brotzmann records. But this one shows no mercy at all. It doesn't swing. There's no melody. There's no rhythm. It's pure emotion: Peter Brotzmann blowing the hell out of his horn, two drummers bashing the skins and cymbals senseless, Fred Van Hove beating the life out of the piano. It's a 15-minute expression of frustration and anger. Is it an antiwar statement? It must be, but it's hard to know for certain. What we do know is that it scares the bejesus out of us, every time.
Don't we already have the biggest navy in the world? And also the biggest army?
Also, our suburban automobile-obsessed paved-roads right-angle-streets parking-lot-instead-of-something-good polluting car culture is probably not only going to wreck the nice places in the continent, it'll mean that we won't have any trains or bikes or strangely-streeted cities.
Then again, if the world is the price that we must pay for street signs and traffic laws, then it is totally worth it; anorakia at all costs!
This is the second person in the past few days that's found a "dope jacket" or "awesome uniform" and decided to wear it hipster style and show the entire internet
note the comments, that should tell you everything. (I don't condone what he's doing or how he's being responded to)
Reminds me of the rednecks at school who would say it's disrespectful to wear anything camo. Or anything red, white, and blue. You get the picture.
These people are known as Semperheads around here, because they tend to get Semper Fi tattooed on them (usually the arm) despite having never been anywhere near the military. They will usually try to justify this by saying they have a parent/sibling/cousin/uncle/whatever in the military. They're usually cartoonishly conservative, racist, and tend to think that pretty much any problem can be solved by shooting it. Suffice it to say the handful of actual members of the armed forces that we have around here don't take kindly to them. My friend Thomas in particular (he's a marine. Why the hell do I know so many marines?) really hates them.
My question: If it's so darn important, how did it end up at the thrift store?
If I had to guess, here giving the person who it formerly belonged to the benefit of a doubt. It probably somehow got passed on to relatives who didn't know/care about its significance and just pawned it off. People can be kinda cold about that sort of thing. My grandfather's navy uniform got sold somewhere years ago.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
NO. FISH WILL REIGN SUPREME.
(This is an actual, albeit paraphrased, response to that in pencil graffiti on the outside of my school's science building.)
I have to speed read Ishmael cuz I have a quarter project due on it Friday. Crazy thing is, I'm kind of fascinated by it even though by all accounts it's not really that positively received a book with my peers, my sister included.
At the very least it's a hell of a lot better than Anthem. That book was shit.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
I keep thinking about depicting Bowser at least somewhat sympathetically, for some reason.
You ever notice how Dark Land is a volcanic wasteland? I'm wondering if Bowser's attempts to take over the Mushroom Kingdom are partly out of a desire to provide for his people, albeit in a misguided fashion. Perhaps Bowser is too stubborn/proud to ask for foreign aid? Perhaps the Mushroom Kingdom isn't exactly willing to help them?
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Anonus: They do have a little more definition in the RPGs. But then again, I remember Irene once saying that since those games have more of a solid story to them, that shouldn't be too surprising.
Imi: Maybe it's because they tend to be hotter than everyplace else? He seems to have more of an affinity for fire and volcanic activity than most other Koopas.
Except for that one time in New Super Mario Bros. where he burned to death. That was just weird.
Dry Bowser is really only a separate character in stuff like Mario Kart, where there is clearly time travel to have any character playable. It's pretty much a separate "canon" if you will. In a sense, it's just a different character only in series like that. They're the same person in NSMB, and different people in Mario Kart, etc.
Anyway, let's remember that in Sunshine he actually swims in Lava. He's also not affected by it in Super Mario 64. So it depends the game, I'd say.
Same with his size, and yes, Imi, I was making a dick joke. XD
Reptiles need heat to be active, and we become sluggish in the cold. Too much heat overexerts our systems, paralyzing us, but perhaps a volcanic wasteland would be the best possible home for a giant spiked turtle and his turtle minions.
I doubt that a typical green-forest-lush place like you mammals love would be what Bowser is after.
Well, he's apparently part dragon, so that would explain the fire. And some easily live in lava. I think the best way to look at it is that in 2D games, Lava hurts him, but not in(most, if not all, I may have missed some) 3D games, where he likes it.
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The thing Obama was trying to say is, essentially, that Romney doesn't understand how the modern military works.
Which, given what you've just said, I'd say that's pretty accurate. Since he seems to want to expand the military, rather than keep it as it is.
That was the point of Obama's "bayonet" quote (Romney was citing that there are less ships in the Navy now than there were in 1912), to make him seem out of touch.
And honestly for sheer burn value, I thought the part of the statement that proceeded the bayonets quote was much funnier ("we've got these ships called aircraft carriers now, planes can land on them....").
I've always personally felt that China is too concerned with its own internal problems to put up anything more than a facade to the world at large. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know. It just seems to me that when quite a lot of your resources are going to making sure everyone is pretending to be happy, you're not going to have much left over for anything else.
I'm not one of those people who buys into the "China will own us in ten years" scare.
Thing about that is that I don't really feel threatened by that.
Any of those assumptions about China tend to assume that they're going to invade us or something which I just kind of don't see happening (or some kind of economic domination which again, I don't see happening). Maybe I'm short-sighted, whatever.
My parents are arguing, and they're doing it in the classroom, which is the next room over, so I can hear everything they're saying. Fucking annoying.
Finally found a crack of FL Studio that isn't riddled with viruses.
Though the installation screen for the cracker was absolutely horrifying. Partly because of the random, unannounced Dancehall song, partly because of the FL Fruit with the face photoshopped on it. But whatever.
-- spamFart [SF] began bothering nonarySpade [NS] at 19:28 --
-- spamFart [SF] ceased bothering nonarySpade [NS] at 19:28 --
[07:28] NS: [9 <3<]Hi there!
[07:29] SF: hello
[07:29] SF: i am spamfart
[07:29] SF: king of canned meat products
[07:29] SF: and i have a flatulence problem
[07:29] NS: [9 <3<]Might those two be connected?
[07:29] SF: i dunno
[07:29] SF: im the king of canned meat products i aint very much smarter then them
[07:30] NS: [9 <3<]You can write.
[07:30] NS: [9 <3<]That's considerably smarter than a canned meat product.
[07:30] SF: i dont type
[07:30] SF: the ants do
[07:30] SF: for i am not spamfart i am the ant queen hue hue hue fear me as i pop out more babies
[07:30] -- spamFart [SF] poops out ant babies --
-- spamFart [SF] ceased bothering nonarySpade [NS] at 19:30 --
why can't I hold all these samples
It's just my sample folder. I finally took it off my old laptop and put it on my new one.
It's honestly not that many, especially not when you compare to people who do this for a living. I shudder to see say, DJ Spooky's.
And most of these are only a second or two long each.
Also, our suburban automobile-obsessed paved-roads right-angle-streets parking-lot-instead-of-something-good polluting car culture is probably not only going to wreck the nice places in the continent, it'll mean that we won't have any trains or bikes or strangely-streeted cities.
Then again, if the world is the price that we must pay for street signs and traffic laws, then it is totally worth it; anorakia at all costs!
-explodes with joy-
Threats of violence over jackets.
*sigh*
Reminds me of the rednecks at school who would say it's disrespectful to wear anything camo. Or anything red, white, and blue. You get the picture.
These people are known as Semperheads around here, because they tend to get Semper Fi tattooed on them (usually the arm) despite having never been anywhere near the military. They will usually try to justify this by saying they have a parent/sibling/cousin/uncle/whatever in the military. They're usually cartoonishly conservative, racist, and tend to think that pretty much any problem can be solved by shooting it. Suffice it to say the handful of actual members of the armed forces that we have around here don't take kindly to them. My friend Thomas in particular (he's a marine. Why the hell do I know so many marines?) really hates them.
I have to speed read Ishmael cuz I have a quarter project due on it Friday. Crazy thing is, I'm kind of fascinated by it even though by all accounts it's not really that positively received a book with my peers, my sister included.
At the very least it's a hell of a lot better than Anthem. That book was shit.
That doesn't mean what you think it means.
You ever notice how Dark Land is a volcanic wasteland? I'm wondering if Bowser's attempts to take over the Mushroom Kingdom are partly out of a desire to provide for his people, albeit in a misguided fashion. Perhaps Bowser is too stubborn/proud to ask for foreign aid? Perhaps the Mushroom Kingdom isn't exactly willing to help them?
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Sometimes I wish he had more definition, and Peach too
I find it weird that Dry Bowser is now a character in his own right, though the main reason for this is probably so the spinoffs have more characters.
I doubt that a typical green-forest-lush place like you mammals love would be what Bowser is after.