it is better to conquer parts of the market than conquer the world :)
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it is better to conquer parts of the market than conquer the world :)
I bet loosing in World War 2 had something to do with it
You're "loose" Mish. Losing may have had something to do with it
At least for Germany and Japan, because the Germans were actually stupid enough to follow Hitler and his racial superiority bullshit, and the Japanese were similarly dumb and crazy
The Italians didn't want to fight and they hated it. In my dads hometown, one of his relatives was killed because of Nazi resistance there. In retaliation, the Nazis would round up a bunch of people and kill every 10th or so person as punishment
But otherwise all 3 countries haven't fallen into the bullshit service sector economy the US has now
I'm assuming you are being sarcastic, DM? B/c Germany & Japan are both now officially in recession?
No I'm not being sarcastic at all. Who isn't in a recession right now?
For countries that have given so much up militarily they have large GDPs (yes, everytime I see GDP now I think guanosine diphosphate thanks to biochem), Japan and Germany being 2nd and 3rd only after the US. To have that without the military component but formerly having it is just.... it's just that
Its interesting to read you posting this stuff, esp after our previous arguments.
I found it interesting that China was able to put >500 billion into its own economic stimulus package without putting a dent into their surplus.
Yeah, that's because lucky China hasn't spent $1 trillion on a war to rebuild a country for the sake of the countries image when nobody is gonna give a shit anyways
Half of China lives in poverty as well, you'd think they would take care of themselves first if they weren't such nationalist assholes. And by themselves I mean the needs of their people
Yep to your first statement & yep to your second one also.
How (and with what) will the US help THEIR poor now, tho? Doubt many will argue that Iraq was a total mistake.
Think Obama will stick to his 18 month withdrawl now that Iraq is allowing for 3 more years of US troops?
Our poor? Are you nuts? People here think you are poor if you make $20k a year. That's fuccking crazy
Another key difference is that people here have all the opportunities to help themselves
At least you agree with me that our spending is bullshit. The entire world is laughing at us. They yell at us for being assholes and we try to rebuild a country to stop the trainwreck and it doesn't change opinion. Let Iraq and social security go fucck themselves
How's your Mandarin coming along, DM? ;)
God, I hope so.Quote:
Originally Posted by IndiReloaded [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
I was in an official class debate about whether or not we should have gone to war in Iraq back in '03. I even remember that teache, Mr. Kuhn. I was against the "Iraqi Freedom" campaign from the start.
I wonder if my opponents switched to my stance.
Mandarin is one of the most annoying languages on earth
Setting up a final deadline is good for the PR, but bad for the war.
At this point I feel like we should at least finish up since we've already come this far. Why the fucck can't these people handle themselves like every European country did after the World Wars? What the fucck is their problem?
If you read history, long drawn out wars NEVER lead to any good. They just drain the resources of the countries at war & increase the chance mistakes get made. If you must fight, you get in, win, get out. That's good military (and economic) strategy.
There were so many problems, like not destroying the country to ever loving shit like and keeping their military resources intact so they could use them for the new regime
Achtung Panzer was one of the best books I've read as a side note
That's what I supported. I supported the invasion. I supported getting Hussein out of power. I didn't support the fact that we stayed as long as we did.Quote:
Originally Posted by IndiReloaded [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
Well, remaining there for longer is a consequence, not something you would've chosen, and essentially the effect of poor gathering of info (if anything this was proved by the "weapons of mass destruction"), figure that after the muhajeedin fighting the Russians it should've been pretty obvious that conventional warfare didn't work then, didn't work in 'nam, and wouldn't work in Iraq.
Or the option would be to pull out despite how things turned out and face the media shitstorm of entering a country based on bad intelligence without U.N approval and leaving it as a bunch of separatist sectors that borders on anarchy, and worse off than what Saddam would've conceived if he had a chronic migraine condition.
I'm all for Hussein's execution. Except it shouldn't have been our responsibility to take the man. If the Iraqi people were tired of living under his thumb they should have risen up and done away with him themselves with US backing. Instead, we sent our young men and women into another man's country, fought a war for him, bled and died for him, and for what?
**** that. If I could I'd raise Hussein from the dead in exchange for the 4200+ we've lost.
Well, there were rebellions taking place after the gulf war, and while the U.S had urged it it did not provide any assistance, and never did for the years to come other than in the manner of bombing a few military installations to use an an incentive.
To be honest Hussein wasn't much worse than any other dictators, and a lot better until things got out of hand ever since the Iraq-Iran war.
I remember that period leading up to invasion of Iraq. It was surreall. It was lunacy. I saw people drumming up for the war with their main reason being we're stronger than them, so we should bomb them all to hell. I saw some true colours of people who I would normally consider decent people. The reasons used for the invasion were all fake, but it was imposible to argue against it. People had this strange "bloodlust twinkle" in their eye. It's like they were posessed. They wanted blood. I felt this is what it must have been like to be in a Colosseum watching people fed to lions in Rome some 2 milliniums ago. All veneer of humanity and civility was suddenly washed away. I couldn't understand why, these people living half a world away wanted so much blood.
Mish, step back and look at that dramatized bullshit you just wrote. Why do you have to write current events in such a philosophical way? It's not that special
BTW, Coliseum fights were in good taste, it was sport and entertainment
Why do you have to write what you write with such intense arrogance and ignorance?Quote:
Originally Posted by DoesntMatter [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
I wasn't talking about the fights. I was talking about innocent people being fed to lions, while crowds cheered them on.Quote:
Originally Posted by DoesntMatter [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
That's what I felt I was witnessing back then. It was disgusting.
Because you wrote your post with a lot of drama. Of course by replying like this I am affirming your statement that my response was arrogant and ignorant, when it was neither. Just because I think you're full of shit doesn't say anything about how I feel about myself, I don't pose as a pseudointellectual like some doQuote:
Originally Posted by Mishanya [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
DM, I hate to break this to you, but I have learned a lot more from Mish's posts than yours. You are currently only studying things I already know about. But you don't have any additional life experience that adds depth to make it interesting.
Its what I said before about you criticizing ppls ideas without actually having created any of your own.
FWIW, I'd *like* to hear more of your original ideas, DM. The tiny tidbits you have rarely flashed sound like you could have a lot going on in that fine brain. I dunno why you are so reluctant to air them. Its good for you to air them out, esp in a safe environment like this place where noone gives a shit if your ideas are dumb.
Give my ideas about what? WHAT do you want to hear my ideas of?
Other technical threads make me highly doubt this ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by IndiReloaded [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
DM, like Eco, I have forgotten more than you know. Come back and talk to me once you have been *accepted* to med school, k?
I'll just leave out the 'will ever' (know) part, b/c that's debatable.
Forgetting a law of thermodynamics is a kind of fundamental thing to forgetQuote:
Originally Posted by IndiReloaded [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
And do you really think your undergrad experience was tit for tat with mine? ;)
These words usually bring you out of your lioness den
Yeh you just post self righteous, inflated, arrogant, ignorant, out of touch with reality garbageQuote:
Originally Posted by DoesntMatter [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
No offence
It's cool :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mishanya [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
In Australia?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mishanya [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
There were people drumming up for war here too.Quote:
Originally Posted by DoesntMatter [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
I mean were you specifically referring to the US or Australia. Because that's kind of important
You already said your Canadian classmates kick ass. And you know where it got me in the end. So, the answer is yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by DoesntMatter [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
I'd have to say for a bio major, no ;)
And I said that about one Canadian girl. Believe it or not she is from Vancouver. And ridiculously, ridiculously fuccking HOT
Oh and that doesn't say anything about the college experience. At all. She's better off than her classmates from high school going to school in Canada was my argument
Ask her out then. Canadian girls make good partners. And when the US goes to shit, you'll have an option for coming to live in Canada. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by DoesntMatter [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
Both in Australia and in US (And in other parts of the world too)Quote:
Originally Posted by DoesntMatter [Dear Guest/Member you have to reply to see the link.click here to register]
I haven't talked to her in quite some time because we don't have the same classes anymore. An absolutely stunning blonde haired blue eyed beauty. Completely unpretentious, plays lacrosse here. I think she was a premed
Probably the hottest girl who has EVER held regular conversations with me :D
Oh and btw if the US went to shit I would move to Calabria or Sardinia ;)