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Location: Germany
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2012-06-19, 10:13 | Link #22083 | |
NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 35
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A waiter who sarcastically pointed out that the money was used to pay for the refrigerator cooling got an earful.
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2012-06-19, 11:55 | Link #22084 | |
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Shame general Jack D. Ripper looks rather "moderate" to some politicians out there today |
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2012-06-19, 12:07 | Link #22085 |
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Age: 74
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Thank goodness I've never sullied my precious bodily fluids!
I was surprised to learn recently that General Ripper would be happy to live in most European countries where fluoridation is no longer practiced. Fluoridation has been a staple research subject among academics studying public attitudes toward science. It's a good case study of the disjunction between scientific and popular opinion as disputes over fluoridation have extended over a much longer period than more recent controversies like global warming or mandatory HPV vaccinations. Dr. Strangelove remains firmly in my top-50 films all time, maybe higher. Even now you see references to our "precious bodily fluids" and "purity of essence" like this parody of Glenn Beck by Jon Stewart. If you watch the movie carefully, especially the scenes over the Soviet Union, you'll see the origins of Wally Veever's and Stanley Kubrick's matte work that was later brilliantly refined in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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2012-06-19, 15:58 | Link #22087 |
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Julian Assange has requested political asylum and is under the protection of the Ecuadorian embassy in London
Sauce I never had the chance to know, as US citizens what you guys think of wikileaks since it hits more on you than others countries. |
2012-06-19, 16:38 | Link #22089 | |
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Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
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Instead we have this horrid spectacle of the treatment of the guy who may have supplied the leak material (one guy with access to that broad a spectrum???? That is not how classified ops is supposed to work -which only emphasizes how incompetent the system has gotten). I used to work black ops projects and frankly, I found it much more damning of the current crop of officialdom than of Assange.
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2012-06-19, 17:19 | Link #22090 | |
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2012-06-19, 17:27 | Link #22091 |
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
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Which is one of the reasons we have a reverse osmosis filteration system for our drinking water.
Also to fill the fish tank since they started adding chlorides to the water that will kill the fish.
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2012-06-19, 18:19 | Link #22092 |
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Betweem wisdom and insanity
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Insight: Nomura collides with Japan's insider trading crackdown
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...85I1LA20120619
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2012-06-19, 18:39 | Link #22093 | ||
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Looks like these people didn't get the memo... The doom & gloom prospects (watch US news!) and time/money/stress associated with the Legal Path should easily dissuade those contemplating of settling here.
Asian immigrants to U.S. surpass Hispanics for first time Quote:
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Now for those who will try to do it step-by-step the right way (the right way like my short-fused buddy on fb just did)... you will be bloodied, you'll receive some (what's akin to some as) 'battle scars' to prove it. Once you completed this grueling naturalization process you earn my utmost respect! |
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2012-06-19, 18:56 | Link #22094 |
Gamilas Falls
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 46
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Funny. I worked for that Census. We had a specific question on if someone was Hispanic or not (and from where...be it themselves, or their great-great grandparents). Then we'd have a question on what they identified themselves as...and "Hispanic" was not an acceptible answer (as their are European Hispanics (white), Native American Hispanics, and Black Hispanics). Some did not want to answer the question, fearing Immigration I think. Or course the Census, don't care if you are legal or not. They just want numbers and statistics for the voting block in Congress.
The origns question was muliple choice as you could be one, some, or all the possible origins on the planet. After I got an answer out of one guy who didn't identify with his origin and had me put down "Native American: Aztec" I told him I was to put whatever he said. I would have put down "Klingon" if that was what he identifed as. (I probably would have been questioned on it by my superiors, but they said, 'if you can't get a reasonable answer after asking twice, you put down what the person said').
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2012-06-19, 22:39 | Link #22097 |
Gamilas Falls
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
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US Census had the following options specifically that covered the continent of Asia:
Asian Indian Chinese Filipino Japanese Korean Vietnamese Other Asian (What is that Group? -> fill in the blank) There were no Middle Eastern options specifically. I had to write in few Afghan and the like.
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2012-06-19, 22:48 | Link #22099 | |
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2012-06-19, 23:30 | Link #22100 |
Gamilas Falls
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
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Russian wasn't a specific option. "White" was an option that covers a lot of ground and is rather generic.
If one didn't identify with the options presented, "other" was a choice, and then whatever they said was written down. There were three Four "fill in the blank" options. The first was for specific tribes/nations under Native American. Their was "Other Asian" and "Other Pacific Islander". And their was just Other, if you felt you didn't fit into any of the Government's pegs. (There were other options, just none specificly for Asia)
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