Posted on 05/08/2006 7:43:07 PM PDT by Leisler
>> [BTW, I'm new on the forum, how do you do the italics here?]
It's straight-up HTML. If you're not familiar (probably because you're used to UBB-style unicode), check the Links from my FReeper homepage, I'm pretty sure I've got some HTML tutorials linked-to in there.
Let's hope for the worst here. Weaker China is always in our interest.
Let's be careful what we wish for. There are perhaps a billion people there whose life depends on crony capitalist enterprises overproducing junk at slave wages. The best way to correct that is to use enterprise at the lowest levels circumventing the communist middlemen. We need something like a global EBay where any Chinese craftsman can sell directly to any consumer in the world. Our priorities should be to keep the clever and productive Chinese out of state-run war factories and keep a vast number from starving.
But having a billion people means a billion mouths to feed.
If we screw their food or water supply, they're DONE.
Cheers!
Liu, along with three other senior managers, were also alleged to have made "unauthorised distribution for personal purposes" of funds belong to the Bank of China before BOCHK was established. The Standard speculated that the amount involved was HK$30 million.
Chinese court has sentenced him to death.
Has the sentence been carried out? I didn't see anything about it.
That was my impression.
Or they'll see it as a provocation by us to destroy them and fight. What will they do to preserve their commie regime? How far are they willing to go? And are we prepared for any of those possibilities? A delicate balance is required in this.
On the other hand, Wal Mart could come to their rescue. :-)
(i'm not bashing wally world)
Just the perfect combination to get into a war.
Now, on the flip side. If we get a real conservative in office, and finally get conservative control in Congress, get real tax reform, and unleash human creativity within the stogy military procurement process.....
You have a good point there. I think since the first day of the Internet it has been used for cybersex for those prolonged separations in long distance relationships and no-psychical-contact-ever relationships also. Along with the phone.
That being said, that teledildonics thingie is just plain scary!
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The US Navy, should, for the next fifty years at least, decide who and what goes anywhere. Let's hope the ChiComs don't remember the lesson the British Navy taught the frogs.
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