Thread: Vietnam- who won?

Results 321 to 332 of 332

  1. #321
    Join Date Jan 2005
    Location The Upside Down
    Posts 11,499
    Rep Power 196

    Default

    How the fuck can you go "off the grid" when you're using a computer to communicate via the internet?

    Laptop or PDA and most cafe's, bookstores and other random businesses have free wifi.
    "whatever they might make would never be the same as that world of dark streets and bright dreams"

    http://youtu.be/g-PwIDYbDqI
  2. #322
    Join Date Oct 2009
    Location New York City
    Posts 4,407
    Rep Power 0

    Default

    Laptop or PDA and most cafe's, bookstores and other random businesses have free wifi.

    That's not being "off the grid"-- that's tagging along, hitch-hiking on the grid, or pilot fishing, like a remora, cleaning the shark's teeth for crumbs of other fish, then claiming to be a vegetarian.
  3. #323
    Join Date Jan 2005
    Location The Upside Down
    Posts 11,499
    Rep Power 196

    Default

    That's not being "off the grid"-- that's tagging along, hitch-hiking on the grid, or pilot fishing, like a remora, cleaning the shark's teeth for crumbs of other fish, then claiming to be a vegetarian.
    It's about 100% more off the grid than 99% of the rest of the population.
    "whatever they might make would never be the same as that world of dark streets and bright dreams"

    http://youtu.be/g-PwIDYbDqI
  4. #324
    Join Date Oct 2009
    Location New York City
    Posts 4,407
    Rep Power 0

    Default

    It's about 100% more off the grid than 99% of the rest of the population.
    Doesn't count-- you can only do what you're doing because there is a grid, and everybody else is using it.

    Off the grid is off the grid, not using somebody elses's grid
  5. #325
    Join Date Jan 2005
    Location The Upside Down
    Posts 11,499
    Rep Power 196

    Default

    Doesn't count-- you can only do what you're doing because there is a grid,
    Right, but you can be off it and still take advantage of some services.





    Off the grid is off the grid, not using somebody elses's grid
    You can certainly use someone else's grid and not be a functioning part of it.
    "whatever they might make would never be the same as that world of dark streets and bright dreams"

    http://youtu.be/g-PwIDYbDqI
  6. #326
    Join Date Feb 2008
    Location Florida
    Posts 10,555
    Rep Power 0

    Default

    Bush tax cuts--no death taxes, lots of deductions and low taxes on securities.

    Nobody's more off the gring than the rich.
  7. #327
    Join Date Jan 2005
    Location The Upside Down
    Posts 11,499
    Rep Power 196

    Default

    Bush tax cuts--no death taxes, lots of deductions and low taxes on securities.

    Nobody's more off the gring than the rich.

    What's a gring?
    "whatever they might make would never be the same as that world of dark streets and bright dreams"

    http://youtu.be/g-PwIDYbDqI
  8. #328
    Join Date Feb 2008
    Location Florida
    Posts 10,555
    Rep Power 0

    Default

    What's a gring?
    That's a good point.

    GRID
  9. #329
    Join Date Oct 2009
    Location New York City
    Posts 4,407
    Rep Power 0

    Default

    Right, but you can be off it and still take advantage of some services.





    You can certainly use someone else's grid and not be a functioning part of it.
    Right... I can borrow someone's SUV, and not be on the grid, and the hydrocarbon emissions don't count; I can use someone else's cell phone and the transmission towers don't really matter; I can spend all my time at a resort that someone else owns in Angola or Mozambique and it doesn't make any difference to the supplies of safe-drinking water, food, and shelter available to the rest of the indigenous population.

    Right not a functioning part... just a parasite.

    How does the old line go? "Nobody gets out of here alive"? Nobody gets on Revleft and gets off the grid.
  10. #330
    Join Date Jan 2005
    Location The Upside Down
    Posts 11,499
    Rep Power 196

    Default

    Right... I can borrow someone's SUV, and not be on the grid, and the hydrocarbon emissions don't count; I can use someone else's cell phone and the transmission towers don't really matter; I can spend all my time at a resort that someone else owns in Angola or Mozambique and it doesn't make any difference to the supplies of safe-drinking water, food, and shelter available to the rest of the indigenous population.
    You can use what's on the grid and not be on it.


    Right not a functioning part... just a parasite.
    No, someone who is off the grid.

    How does the old line go? "Nobody gets out of here alive"? Nobody gets on Revleft and gets off the grid.
    I don't know what line that is, I'm sorry.

    They're already off the grid.
    "whatever they might make would never be the same as that world of dark streets and bright dreams"

    http://youtu.be/g-PwIDYbDqI
  11. #331
    Join Date Nov 2010
    Location Russian Federation
    Posts 95
    Rep Power 8

    Default

    If only Soviet Union hasn't helped Vietnam... Any aggression should receive equivalent repulse. It was geopolitical repartition of spheres of influence of two giants. Vietnam, Afghanistan and forthcoming Iran is only toys between them.
  12. The Following User Says Thank You to Nicholas Popov For This Useful Post:


  13. #332
    Join Date Nov 2010
    Location Russian Federation
    Posts 95
    Rep Power 8

    Default

    If the ideal is imposed by force it is a violence ideal.

Similar Threads

  1. Replies: 0
    Last Post: 17th April 2008, 13:50
  2. vietnam
    By Bastable in forum News & Ongoing Struggles
    Replies: 3
    Last Post: 13th April 2008, 11:46
  3. Vietnam War
    By Major. Rudiger in forum History
    Replies: 19
    Last Post: 28th February 2005, 04:43
  4. The Vietnam War
    By Capitalist Lawyer in forum Opposing Ideologies
    Replies: 108
    Last Post: 11th October 2004, 02:36
  5. What can you get for $1.50 in Vietnam...
    By Supermodel in forum Opposing Ideologies
    Replies: 3
    Last Post: 28th February 2002, 19:02

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts

Tags for this Thread