Objectively, the mortality rate for Coronavirus infections is no higher than the mortality rate for regular influenza infections. Perhaps it is time to admit you can’t control the spread and just advise people to be as hygienic as possible. Shutting down the entire planet is not gonna work. It will...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/RussianJet" class="quote" target="_blank">RussianJet</a> (<a href="#118" class="quote">Reply 118</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> /righte...
Jump to postThis isn't likely to go over well here, but just something I've noticed as an expat in Asia (and online): The general tolerance for stereotypes, or blatant ignorance, about Americans/American culture in the world, without the reciprocal tolerance for the same sort of statements/ideas <i>from</i> Ame...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ogre727" class="quote" target="_blank">ogre727</a> (<a href="#13" class="quote">Reply 13</a>):<br/><i>Right... but the problem is how we use thi...
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Jump to post<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14430598" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14430598</a> Let the record show that the world's largest drug dealer has officially served notice to its biggest patron/addict. In all seriousness, although I can certainly underst...
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Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Mir" class="quote" target="_blank">Mir</a> (<a href="#175" class="quote">Reply 175</a>):<br/><i>We're talking about someone who brings in 250k a...
Jump to postMore from the Telegraph, including a picture: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...derails-and-falls-from-bridge.html
Jump to post"A CHINESE bullet train derailed on Saturday with two of its carriages falling off a bridge but the number of casualties was unknown, the official Xinhua news agency reported." <a href="http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_694001.html" target="_blank">http://www.straitstimes....
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/trvyyz" class="quote" target="_blank">trvyyz</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table><table border="0" ...
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Jump to post"Haboob," really? From Straits Times: "TWO disc-shaped objects were seen flying through a massive dust cloud that struck the US state of Arizona last week. The 160km-wide sandstorm - called a haboob - engulfed the small town of Mesa last Wednesday. A CNN News helicopter captured footage that appears...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/MoltenRock" class="quote" target="_blank">MoltenRock</a> (<a href="#13" class="quote">Reply 13</a>):<br/><i>China is nowhere near what Japan was...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/weebie" class="quote" target="_blank">weebie</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>As for Americans they are not sophisticated en...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/pelican" class="quote" target="_blank">pelican</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i>You forgot China and Russia, which gave us...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/DeltaMD90" class="quote" target="_blank">DeltaMD90</a> (<a href="#7" class="quote">Reply 7</a>):<br/><i>Where did I say 3,000? I've never even h...
Jump to post<a href="http://deadspin.com/5815424/if-youve-always-wanted-to-hunt-live-humans-heres-your-willing-prey" target="_blank">http://deadspin.com/5815424/if-youve...ive-humans-heres-your-willing-prey</a> "I seek hearty gents who fancy themselves sportsmen and bored of the usual game. I am a new breed of ...
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Jump to postRitz-Carlton, by a mile. Honorable mentions: Hyatt, Westin. Not an American chain, but I still have to ask: Why do so many people favor Four Seasons over Ritz-Carlton? I have always felt like <acronym title="Atlantic Airways (Denmark)">RC</acronym> generally has better properties, warmer service, etc.
Jump to post<a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/43366947" target="_blank">http://www.cnbc.com/id/43366947</a> Sure doesn't sound like the work of anonymous. Given the level of sensitive economic data held by the <acronym title="Imphal - Tulihal (Municipal) (IMF / VEIM), India">IMF</acronym>, and considering the nat...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Fly2HMO" class="quote" target="_blank">Fly2HMO</a> (<a href="#13" class="quote">Reply 13</a>):<br/><i>Culture? What is that? Signed, 99% of Amer...
Jump to postLet's see...I'm from Naples, <acronym title="Airtran (USA)">FL</acronym>, which certainly isn't "the South," but isn't quite Miami either. But a lot of this applies to America in general: 1) General Camaraderie/Friendliness. I really took this for granted before I lived abroad, but things like the r...
Jump to postWow, as others have said, this really does borrow quite a bit from Audi and BMW. Interesting since the recent 7 seemed to borrow a surprising amount from the <acronym title="Channel Express (United Kingdom)">LS</acronym>. I'm definitely not sold on the grill, but as the article states maybe it will ...
Jump to postSenior at Vanderbilt University, hoping to lock up a B.A. in Economics and Political Science in the next month or so...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Severnaya" class="quote" target="_blank">Severnaya</a> (<a href="#22" class="quote">Reply 22</a>):<br/><i>Abu Ghraib was located in Baghdad, in ...
Jump to postFound this snippet from the "Ministry of Truth", among others, to be pretty interesting/relevant: February 22, 2011 From the State Council Information Office: All websites are not to report on the following content related to disclosures and leaks found on WikiLeaks: China purchasing U.S. national d...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/oldeuropean" class="quote" target="_blank">oldeuropean</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>I also see this site for teh first t...
Jump to postAn old "friend" of mine, who has been known to embrace radical political views from time to time, recently sent me a story from the site <a href="http://www.eutimes.net/" target="_blank">http://www.eutimes.net/</a> . The story was absolute garbage, full of borderline hilarious sources such as 'secre...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Mir" class="quote" target="_blank">Mir</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i>I don't see CNN or MSNBC making these sorts of mista...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/JakeOrion" class="quote" target="_blank">JakeOrion</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>Why is it always Fox News threads? How c...
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Jump to postVia Wikileaks, we have a new window into the oft reported Creditor/Debtor relationship between China and the US. Pretty interesting stuff here, especially the case of the head of China's sovereign wealth fund requesting a "favor" from Geithner regarding U.S. regulatory policy. A bit disconcerting, r...
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Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/U2380" class="quote" target="_blank">U2380</a> (<a href="#20" class="quote">Reply 20</a>):<br/><i> think these comments back up the point I was ...
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Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Klaus" class="quote" target="_blank">Klaus</a> (<a href="#17" class="quote">Reply 17</a>):<br/><i>Nationalities don't really determine who we ar...
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Jump to postWhich <acronym title="Virgin Blue Airways (Australia)">DJ</acronym>'s, based either on your experiences or word of mouth, tend to give the best live performances? In my somewhat limited experience, I've definitely found that the dj rankings don't necessarily indicate whether or not a <acronym title=...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Rara" class="quote" target="_blank">Rara</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>If by that you mean going into a country where peo...
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Jump to postno votes for Mad Men yet!? Hands down the best thing on <acronym title="Virgin Express (Belgium)">TV</acronym> right now, though admittedly I probably spend most of my limited tv time watching either CNBC or, if there's college basketball on, ESPN these days. Agreed that Family Guy has really gone d...
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