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Post #72,011
by marlowe
1/2/03 10:56:35 AM
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New No, not all that different.
They still do all that and worse to those they find inconvenient. At this point in time, they find foreign investment and a semblance of capitalism to be convenient. That could change at any moment, on a whim.

Don't mistake a change in policy for an institutional transformation.

Where's Abdul Rahman Yasin?
The reason I don't budge is I'm waiting for you to catch up.
"What must it feel like to lose an election to a retarded monkey?" - Andrew Sullivan
"The US party calls in mortar fire on the enemy positions. The UN party stands up, climbs over the lip of the trench, and recites Robert\ufffds Rules of Order as it approaches the machine-gun positions." - Lileks
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Post #72,442
by dmarker
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1/4/03 10:37:08 AM
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New SO THATS IT !!! - Marlowe is a Falun Gonger !
     Shanghai miracle - (rcareaga) - (62) - Dec. 30, 2002, 11:14:14 PM EST
         did you get to Shanghai? - (boxley) - (6) - Dec. 30, 2002, 11:13:57 PM EST
             Re: did you get to Shanghai? - (rcareaga) - Dec. 30, 2002, 11:18:14 PM EST
             "Chairman Mao it aint" - (rcareaga) - (4) - Dec. 30, 2002, 11:20:10 PM EST
                 I nominate Marlowe as ambassador to China <grin> - (dmarker) - (3) - Dec. 31, 2002, 04:36:36 AM EST
                     Zooooom - - - (Ashton) - Dec. 31, 2002, 06:09:10 PM EST
                     Just noticed "Marlowe" is an anagram of "War Mole" -NT - (deSitter) - (1) - Dec. 31, 2002, 07:29:54 PM EST
                         I'm 100% satisfied Marlowe is our new Merlin <grin> ... - (dmarker) - Jan. 1, 2003, 01:12:21 AM EST
         The "Shanghai miracle" - (Silverlock) - (9) - Dec. 31, 2002, 02:51:16 AM EST
             Re: The "Shanghai miracle" - (dmarker) - Dec. 31, 2002, 04:07:31 AM EST
             China appears ready to put man in space ... - (dmarker) - (7) - Dec. 31, 2002, 08:54:11 AM EST
                 ...and on the moon - (rcareaga) - (1) - Dec. 31, 2002, 09:51:24 AM EST
                     Now that tops my news <grin>. Where will this end ? - (dmarker) - Dec. 31, 2002, 11:47:11 AM EST
                 Pics fine [and er.. deja vu] in Moz 1.01 -NT - (Ashton) - Dec. 31, 2002, 06:14:46 PM EST
                 Laundry and take-out for ISS :) -NT - (deSitter) - Dec. 31, 2002, 07:36:37 PM EST
                 Do you suppose they had some help... - (a6l6e6x) - (2) - Jan. 1, 2003, 03:02:52 PM EST
                     Re: Do you suppose they had some help... - (deSitter) - (1) - Jan. 1, 2003, 03:03:09 PM EST
                         So China can help N. Korea and the Pakistanis build ICBMs? - (a6l6e6x) - Jan. 1, 2003, 03:07:56 PM EST
         An antidote for irrational exuberance - (marlowe) - (44) - Dec. 31, 2002, 11:59:19 AM EST
             Fucking amazing - it 1st revises its facts ... - (dmarker) - (4) - Jan. 1, 2003, 04:05:49 AM EST
                 Crash & burn #1 - 'Marlowe' Where in your quoted link here - (dmarker) - Jan. 1, 2003, 09:49:19 PM EST
                 Crash & Burn #2 - Where in this quoted link is there any .. - (dmarker) - Jan. 1, 2003, 09:53:30 PM EST
                 Crash & Burn #3 - Your quoted link #3 actually argues in - (dmarker) - Jan. 1, 2003, 09:58:18 PM EST
                 Crash & Burn #4 - This link is not 'facts' it is subjective - (dmarker) - Jan. 1, 2003, 10:08:59 PM EST
             take all of your facts and convert them to truth - (boxley) - (2) - Dec. 31, 2002, 12:33:10 PM EST
                 No, not all that different. - (marlowe) - (1) - Jan. 2, 2003, 10:56:35 AM EST
                     SO THATS IT !!! - Marlowe is a Falun Gonger ! -NT - (dmarker) - Jan. 4, 2003, 10:37:08 AM EST
             Re: An antidote for irrational exuberance - (rcareaga) - (35) - Dec. 31, 2002, 09:02:34 PM EST
                 Chuckle....sometimes it's hard for us to remember - (Simon_Jester) - (2) - Dec. 31, 2002, 01:51:03 PM EST
                     Had that 'Energia' not suffered a Murican-style blow-up - (Ashton) - (1) - Dec. 31, 2002, 06:57:34 PM EST
                         Merlin/Marlowe/Whoever - brings to mind 'Cool Hand Luke' - (dmarker) - Dec. 31, 2002, 09:02:45 PM EST
                 Re: An antidote for irrational exuberance - (deSitter) - (31) - Dec. 31, 2002, 07:55:49 PM EST
                     rocket science - (rcareaga) - (30) - Dec. 31, 2002, 08:55:26 PM EST
                         Russians were desparate to show the US up. - (static) - (26) - Dec. 31, 2002, 09:09:27 PM EST
                             Russians messed up by allowing politics to override tech - (dmarker) - (25) - Dec. 31, 2002, 10:38:38 PM EST
                                 Let us hope, then... - (rcareaga) - (5) - Dec. 31, 2002, 11:09:31 PM EST
                                     Ah yes, McPhee - - and the decline of US amateur electronics - (Ashton) - (3) - Jan. 1, 2003, 06:16:04 AM EST
                                         Re: Ah yes, McPhee - (rcareaga) - (2) - Jan. 1, 2003, 04:04:30 PM EST
                                             Well.. Rhodes ain't too shabby in that department, either. - (Ashton) - (1) - Jan. 1, 2003, 07:32:28 PM EST
                                                 Rhodes not shabby at all - (rcareaga) - Jan. 1, 2003, 10:28:18 PM EST
                                     You mean like Timothy McVeigh :-) - (dmarker) - Jan. 1, 2003, 09:40:34 PM EST
                                 But we are losing it.. - (Ashton) - (9) - Jan. 1, 2003, 06:38:38 AM EST
                                     The world is no longer electronic - (Arkadiy) - (8) - Jan. 1, 2003, 02:24:58 PM EST
                                         The world! is analog(ue). - (Ashton) - (7) - Jan. 1, 2003, 08:15:10 PM EST
                                             Yes, alas, digitial does not actually exist . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - Jan. 1, 2003, 08:34:33 PM EST
                                                 What matters is the precision necessary and possible - (Arkadiy) - Jan. 2, 2003, 11:59:44 AM EST
                                             Be careful saying "never". - (Another Scott) - (4) - Jan. 1, 2003, 08:48:57 PM EST
                                                 Methinks that "0 resistance" - (Ashton) - (3) - Jan. 1, 2003, 09:17:06 PM EST
                                                     Electrical resistance and *c* are different issues. - (Another Scott) - (2) - Jan. 1, 2003, 10:41:32 PM EST
                                                         Well... DC resistivity does seem bulletproof - (Ashton) - Jan. 1, 2003, 11:42:01 PM EST
                                                         A/C for runing a super conductor - (dmarker) - Jan. 2, 2003, 12:15:07 AM EST
                                 Re: Russians messed up by allowing politics to override tech - (rcareaga) - (8) - Jan. 1, 2003, 03:50:18 PM EST
                                     Yes - very good point. My interest is homebuilt h/c and ... - (dmarker) - (7) - Jan. 1, 2003, 09:37:05 PM EST
                                         Re: Yes - very good point. My interest is homebuilt h/c and - (rcareaga) - (6) - Jan. 1, 2003, 10:43:05 PM EST
                                             OOOooooo that was below the belt <grin> - (dmarker) - (5) - Jan. 1, 2003, 11:02:29 PM EST
                                                 Kinda OT: Insert tasteless joke here... - (Meerkat) - (4) - Jan. 1, 2003, 11:27:31 PM EST
                                                     Re: Kinda OT: Insert tasteless joke here... - (rcareaga) - (2) - Jan. 1, 2003, 11:41:55 PM EST
                                                         Don't know of her - was she somone who wouldn't let go - (dmarker) - (1) - Jan. 2, 2003, 12:33:35 AM EST
                                                             sic transit gloria mundi! - (rcareaga) - Jan. 2, 2003, 12:47:01 AM EST
                                                     Then there's Rod McKuen - for complete masslessness: - (Ashton) - Jan. 1, 2003, 11:49:08 PM EST
                         Re: rocket science - (deSitter) - Jan. 1, 2003, 01:40:36 PM EST
                         Russia has alway been good - (Arkadiy) - (1) - Jan. 1, 2003, 02:38:13 PM EST
                             Re: Russia has alway been good - (deSitter) - Jan. 1, 2003, 02:48:24 PM EST

You're typing on a device that stores trillions of pieces of data and makes billions of computations per second with the ability to grab data on almost anything from around the world in milliseconds, using electricity transmitted from hundreds of kilometers through wires on towers dozens of meters tall connected to megastructures that do things like burn coal as fast as entire trains can pull into the yard, or spin in the wind with blades the size of jumbo jets, or the like, which were delivered to their location by vehicles with computer-timed engines burning a fuel that was pumped up halfway around the world from up to half a dozen kilometers underground and locked into complex strata (through wells drilled by diamond-lined bores that can be remote-control steered as they go), shipped around the world in tankers with volumes the size of large city blocks and the height of apartment complexes, run through complex chemical processes in unimaginable quantities, distributed nationwide and sold to you at a corner store for $1.80 a gallon, which you then pay for with a little piece of microchipped plastic, if not a smartphone, which does all of the aforementioned computer stuff but in a box the size of your hand that tolerates getting beaten up in your pocket all day.

But technology never seems to advance...


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