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Velo Vol said:
Who is they?
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Jimmy Cheek, the provost (something Martin) and going back to the people in charge during the interim years (right before I got to UT). The uppers in the administration hired a planning firm to do a master plan of UTs campus, what they presented and has been implemented was an abortion of an idea. the firm had never been on UTs campus, had never talked with anyone but the people in charge. There was an hour long meeting where they presented the idea to the colleges of Architecture and Design and they essentially got laughed off the stage.
 
#328
#328
agent|orange said:
I got lost around the concrete band and the top and bottom floors being identical. I'm sure it's completely valid but it's architect shop-talk... I think he's saying it was a quickly and thoughtlessly designed building that didn't fit what a residential unit should be?

I think he was saying it was soul-less and drab. I think.
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pretty much, :) spent five years learning to talk like that.
 
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LouderVol said:
Jimmy Cheek, the provost (something Martin) and going back to the people in charge during the interim years (right before I got to UT). The uppers in the administration hired a planning firm to do a master plan of UTs campus, what they presented and has been implemented was an abortion of an idea. the firm had never been on UTs campus, had never talked with anyone but the people in charge. There was an hour long meeting where they presented the idea to the colleges of Architecture and Design and they essentially got laughed off the stage.
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I'm unknowledgeable on the process that leads to buildings appearing on campus. I assumed it was done on a building by building basis.
 
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Velo Vol said:
I'm unknowledgeable on the process that leads to buildings appearing on campus. I assumed it was done on a building by building basis.
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yes and no. and I have been gone long enough to no longer know how it goes down (to the plan vs not to the plan).
 
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#335
LouderVol said:
Vol Hall(a)? been up for a number of years. rooms are real nice, hallways aren't. its been where the athletes stay. its big enough where 50% isn't an issue.
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I know it's been there. The exterior looks kind of hideous to me. No idea how it is inside, though.
 
#336
#336
an explanation offering alternatives. Why is Xinjiang violence escalating? - BBC News

the most marking of the comments.
Mr Tohti, a moderate voice who has called for greater autonomy but not independence for Xinjiang, was arrested on 15 January this year for "inciting separatism" in his role at the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing.
That such a moderate critic, operating from a relatively privileged position and within the parameters of legitimate debate established by the state, can be so rapidly silenced gives us an indication of how marginalised the voices of average Uighurs are in Xinjiang. In this context, the radicalisation of a segment of the population should not be viewed as surprising.
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Velo Vol said:
I know it's been there. The exterior looks kind of hideous to me. No idea how it is inside, though.
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they are building another structure behind it. not sure what it is. i don't like the exterior either. but being in the fort my care-O-meter is near zilch for this one.
 
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LouderVol said:
but remember its all a CIA plot, and has nothing to do with religion, oppression or anything else. just the CIA at work. China police checkpoint attack 'kills 18' in Xinjiang - BBC News

for the non-ukraine thread people that is sarcasm.

ongoing civil unrest in China, this will continue to happen and will probably grow.
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The RT Op-Edge morons are going to have difficulty spinning this. Actually, they won't even mention it. Instead, we'll hear about how the Confederate flag issue is tearing America apart and how it may soon deteriorate into separate enclaves and dissolve.

Fact of the matter is, Russia and China are far closer to imploding and falling apart than the US. For a very big country, with as diverse a population as we have, we do pretty damn swell, if you ask me. Russia and China, not so much. Canada and Australia are exceptions, because, even though large, each only has a population of 5 people.
 
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volprof said:
The RT Op-Edge morons are going to have difficulty spinning this. Actually, they won't even mention it. Instead, we'll hear about how the Confederate flag issue is tearing America apart and how it may soon deteriorate into separate enclaves and dissolve.

Fact of the matter is, Russia and China are far closer to imploding and falling apart than the US. For a very big country, with as diverse a population as we have, we do pretty damn swell, if you ask me. Russia and China, not so much. Canada and Australia are exceptions, because, even though large, each only has a population of 5 people.
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considering how the relatively small minorities effect the rest of the worlds countries (look at the balkans) it is amazing we haven't torn ourselves apart. somehow we have found a way to relatively get along. despite the flair up of white "vs" black recently we have been stable. and generally without the divisions other countries face with even neighboring populations.
 
#340
#340
FT_Diversity_Map.png
here is a world map based on diversity. I tend to disagree with it as I see there being no way Canada is more diverse than the US, and by such a degree as marked. couldn't find the info behind this.

go go gadget map, hopefully it works this time
 
#341
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LouderVol said:
considering how the relatively small minorities effect the rest of the worlds countries (look at the balkans) it is amazing we haven't torn ourselves apart. somehow we have found a way to relatively get along. despite the flair up of white "vs" black recently we have been stable. and generally without the divisions other countries face with even neighboring populations.
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America succeeds as a very large, diverse nation, because, unlike most other nations on Earth (in fact, all of them), it was founded as a moral and political project. People can castigate that notion all the want, and, indeed, we often don't live up to that ideal, but it's true. Even a nation like Canada, for instance, was merely founded as an imperial project that slowly developed into a national project, not a moral or political one.

This is one reason why I am an unabashed American exceptionalist. We are indeed an exceptional nation, unlike any other.

But my American exceptionalism is not that of Ras's or Pacer's. Unlike them, I don't think that the fact America is exceptional should overrule the sovereignty and ability to act of other nations.

We are exceptional, but no better or worse than any other nation on Earth.
 
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LouderVol said:
FT_Diversity_Map.png
here is a world map based on diversity. I tend to disagree with it as I see there being no way Canada is more diverse than the US, and by such a degree as marked. couldn't find the info behind this.

go go gadget map, hopefully it works this time
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That map doesn't make much sense. Like you, I would like to know how they're defining "diversity." If it's a matter of separate linguistic, cultural enclaves that exist almost as separate "states" and entities within a nation, than I suppose I can see how Canada and Russia are more "diverse."

That has to be how they're defining it. How Brazil is considered non-diverse blows my mind otherwise.
 
#343
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volprof said:
That map doesn't make much sense. Like you, I would like to know how they're defining "diversity." If it's a matter of separate linguistic, cultural enclaves that exist almost as separate "states" and entities within a nation, than I suppose I can see how Canada and Russia are more "diverse."

That has to be how they're defining it. How Brazil is considered non-diverse blows my mind otherwise.
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And considering the ever expanding population we are pulling in from those nations of more diversity has to be in our favor for diversity.
 
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Velo Vol said:
Apart from the west region, what are the fault lines in China?
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Hong Kong is trying to pull itself away. the whole west and north is a mess as well. anywhere where the Han Chinese are not the vast majority of the population you have problems. there have been other incidents scattered about the country. no real hotspots just the crazies you get anywhere. there are more and more incidents with in their large cities. also the rumblings from the rich is getting louder and louder and that is when the CIA, i mean civil unrest, really kicks in and gets bad.
 
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LouderVol said:
Hong Kong is trying to pull itself away. the whole west and north is a mess as well. anywhere where the Han Chinese are not the vast majority of the population you have problems. there have been other incidents scattered about the country. no real hotspots just the crazies you get anywhere. there are more and more incidents with in their large cities. also the rumblings from the rich is getting louder and louder and that is when the CIA, i mean civil unrest, really kicks in and gets bad.
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Velo Vol said:
Apart from the west region, what are the fault lines in China?
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Yeah, what Louder said.

The Han have never integrated the rest of that nation into being "Chinese."

In America, despite our obvious and persistent flaws, we've actually attempted to integrate people into American society. The reason why it seems like the US has such a hard time, relative to other countries, is because other nations' media (i.e., govt. branches) largely ignore and cover poor race/ethnic relations up, unlike ours, which benefits greatly from it.
 
#350
#350
Velo Vol said:
How to make money off the Chinese stock market implosion?
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invest in American equivalents to the biggest busts. or whichever international business is going to pick up the slack of the biggest drops. either that or wait until the bust is really bad, go in and buy up a couple companies, one of them is bound to rebound, and maybe you have a controlling interest.

*that being said I know very little about stocks in general and no idea how the chinese system works.
 
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