The Next Superpower in the World (686)

May 14, 2012 1:36 PM CST The Next Superpower in the World
sofarsogood74
sofarsogood74sofarsogood74Dublin, Ireland40 Threads 4 Polls 2,711 Posts
mr1983: They will all have studied him in some capacity in their training to be where they are at. Do you know that students doing corporate law in college must actually study modules of MIS, economics and accounting. The key here is not accounting or engineering or law. It is management. And executive managers are involved and need to know strategy. And Michael Porter is the king of strategy.



OH MY GOD!!! Why would a soliciter study Michael Porter?????????????

Why would an engineer study Michael Porter??????

Are you living in the real world??? Do Hairdressers study him too??? How about Computer Programmers???? You really are clutching at straws now!!!!

No the key here is basically you are basically saying everyone in college studies Porter. You are saying all exams contain stuff on Porter. You are claiming to know about all account exams, all engineering exams, all law exams, all complience exams!!!!!!! You dont have to study management to be made a director or manager!!! Your whole argument is based on crap!!!!
May 14, 2012 1:37 PM CST The Next Superpower in the World
sofarsogood74: Quite a few??? Is that it??? Have you done exams in accounting?????? And they specifically ask about Michael Porter in the Exams???? You are lieing through your teeth now!!!!!!

ACCA Exams??? Do all accountants study with the ACCA??? Is this where they all get the qualification they need? Thus having to do the 5 forces???


Yes you will have to have a detailed understanding of many of his models. The five forces model is one of the basic requirements a detailed knowledge of its use will be needed for anyone in a management or executive management position. Especially financial management. His value chain will also need to be known and anyone who knows about the five forces model will automatically need to have a detailed understanding of the value chain. Accountants need to understand these due to strategy. Managers need to know about them just as much if not more than accountants. Human resource managers, production managers, financial managers - all will have a good knowledge of these models.
May 14, 2012 1:43 PM CST The Next Superpower in the World
sofarsogood74
sofarsogood74sofarsogood74Dublin, Ireland40 Threads 4 Polls 2,711 Posts
mr1983: Yes you will have to have a detailed understanding of many of his models. The five forces model is one of the basic requirements a detailed knowledge of its use will be needed for anyone in a management or executive management position. Especially financial management..




That is crap!!! YOU DONT HAVE TO STUDY MANAGEMENT OR PORTER TO BECOME A MANAGER OR DIRECTOR!!!! Plenty of people climb whats known as the ladder!!!!!! Yiur whole argument is based on everyone in management or on a board studied management or Porter!!! Thats crap!!!


mr1983: His value chain will also need to be known and anyone who knows about the five forces model will automatically need to have a detailed understanding of the value chain. Accountants need to understand these due to strategy..



No they dont!!! Accountants dont NEED to know strategy?? What is the ACCA teaching???? Why would they NEED to know strategy!!

mr1983: Managers need to know about them just as much if not more than accountants. Human resource managers, production managers, financial managers - all will have a good knowledge of these models.


You are talking like every manager in Ireland astudied Porter!! Are you thay Nieve or stupid????? Are really really expexting me to believe that????????

I am finished with you now beacuse you haven't a clue. You really are very nieve if you think all managers and directors studied Porter and you think all of them studied Management!!!!!!! Cop on!!!!
May 14, 2012 1:46 PM CST The Next Superpower in the World
sofarsogood74: OH MY GOD!!! Why would a soliciter study Michael Porter?????????????

Why would an engineer study Michael Porter??????

Are you living in the real world??? Do Hairdressers study him too??? How about Computer Programmers???? You really are clutching at straws now!!!!

No the key here is basically you are basically saying everyone in college studies Porter. You are saying all exams contain stuff on Porter. You are claiming to know about all account exams, all engineering exams, all law exams, all complience exams!!!!!!! You dont have to study management to be made a director or manager!!! Your whole argument is based on crap!!!!


I keep giving you examples of questions you ask me. You just seem to reject all these. At first you asked me why accountants would know about him and his models. I told you. And you can disagree with it all you want but it is true.
I am also telling you that all business schools in Ireland will teach his models. I can tell you also that most managers and directors will have come across Porter and most will have done exams pertaining to his models in their training, college or otherwise.
You are rejecting these assertions. You are in financial executive management. You say you are an example of someone who never studied his models or were examined on these. You should be able to back up these claims by simply telling us the courses and training you have done to get to your position. All is needed is for you to simply tell us your course you done in college and your training afterwards.
By the way I do understand that there may be examples of directors and managers who have never went to college but these are extremely rare cases. So it is over to you.
May 14, 2012 1:50 PM CST The Next Superpower in the World
sofarsogood74: That is crap!!! YOU DONT HAVE TO STUDY MANAGEMENT OR PORTER TO BECOME A MANAGER OR DIRECTOR!!!! Plenty of people climb whats known as the ladder!!!!!! Yiur whole argument is based on everyone in management or on a board studied management or Porter!!! Thats crap!!!No they dont!!! Accountants dont NEED to know strategy?? What is the ACCA teaching???? Why would they NEED to know strategy!!
You are talking like every manager in Ireland astudied Porter!! Are you thay Nieve or stupid????? Are really really expexting me to believe that????????

I am finished with you now beacuse you haven't a clue. You really are very nieve if you think all managers and directors studied Porter and you think all of them studied Management!!!!!!! Cop on!!!!


Your argument is falling down here. To say that an accountant has no need to understand strategy is complete nonsense. All the major accounting bodies examine on strategy. You can't pass these without an understanding of it. Again I'm putting these things out there. You can check these up on the ACCA website or CIMA website or any of these websites. How can you say that accountants don't need to know or study strategy? You are a financial executive manager. You, above all people, should know they do.
May 14, 2012 2:03 PM CST The Next Superpower in the World
sofarsogood74
sofarsogood74sofarsogood74Dublin, Ireland40 Threads 4 Polls 2,711 Posts
mr1983: Your argument is falling down here. To say that an accountant has no need to understand strategy is complete nonsense. All the major accounting bodies examine on strategy. You can't pass these without an understanding of it. Again I'm putting these things out there. You can check these up on the ACCA website or CIMA website or any of these websites. How can you say that accountants don't need to know or study strategy? You are a financial executive manager. You, above all people, should know they do.


Your whole argument fell down ages ago!!! To say all managers and directors have studied Porter is crap. You know its crap and thats what your whole argument is based on!!!!

Most accountabts dont need to know strategy!!!!! They work with numbers not with business strategy!!! Most dont care about strategy and push numbers around all day!!!!

They dont!!!! Simple. You are being nieve again! And stop mentioning the ACCA will ya. I dont want to start slagging it off. roll eyes
May 14, 2012 2:20 PM CST The Next Superpower in the World
sofarsogood74: Your whole argument fell down ages ago!!! To say all managers and directors have studied Porter is crap. You know its crap and thats what your whole argument is based on!!!!

Most accountabts dont need to know strategy!!!!! They work with numbers not with business strategy!!! Most dont care about strategy and push numbers around all day!!!!

They dont!!!! Simple. You are being nieve again! And stop mentioning the ACCA will ya. I dont want to start slagging it off.


Slag it off all you want. You don't seem to understand what is thought in the accounting professional exams of any of the professional bodies.
Yes I gave you an example of why Porter would be studied by accountants. Might only be one but I can list many more. Most accountants will have done him in their courses in college. If they didn't go to college they will have studied him in their professional exams. All of this is fact.
You are a compliance director now. What qualifications did you obtain to get to this position. It is a simple question.
May 14, 2012 2:25 PM CST The Next Superpower in the World
sofarsogood74: Your whole argument fell down ages ago!!! To say all managers and directors have studied Porter is crap. You know its crap and thats what your whole argument is based on!!!!

Most accountabts dont need to know strategy!!!!! They work with numbers not with business strategy!!! Most dont care about strategy and push numbers around all day!!!!

They dont!!!! Simple. You are being nieve again! And stop mentioning the ACCA will ya. I dont want to start slagging it off.


OK so we will take it you didn't have to study Michael Porter, you just heard of him and know a little about him. You brought up his five forces model but I know if I ask you to explain what it is you will just lose the head again.
Can you tell me about the Saloman case?
May 14, 2012 2:32 PM CST The Next Superpower in the World
sofarsogood74
sofarsogood74sofarsogood74Dublin, Ireland40 Threads 4 Polls 2,711 Posts
mr1983: OK so we will take it you didn't have to study Michael Porter, you just heard of him and know a little about him. You brought up his five forces model but I know if I ask you to explain what it is you will just lose the head again.
Can you tell me about the Saloman case?



WHAT ARE YOU ON ABOUT??? What has that got to do with me being in exec management which you said I wasn't. What has that got to do with me being a complience director! What has that got to do with all exec managers having to study Porter(absolute crap) and what has it got to do with China being the next Superpower!

You are talking bollx now so go away!!!!!
May 14, 2012 2:51 PM CST The Next Superpower in the World
ttom500
ttom500ttom500St. Cloud, Florida USA30 Threads 5 Polls 10,523 Posts
As a real criticism of China, I would add, they are their own worst enemy, if they could only learn to become transparent and open, and show the world the real side of China, I truly believe they and the west could live in peaceful harmony. Just my honest opinion

Rizlared, Now you are being honest with us. I appreciate that. Because I also know that the Chinese government monitors social networking sites and blogging. Honesty is not something that they encourage.

China did not hack Google for no reason. Ask me someday and I will tell you why.))

I am not trying to 'put China down'. Just saying Communist China has some problems. As the US has problems. As the EU has problems. As Russia has problems.

Do I like the way China rules these outer regions and peoples? With a iron fist? No. I don't. I think down the road, that major revolutions comes from such kind of governance. That has been proven in history many times.

There are 55 subcultures in China. Yes, they all speak Mandrin. But so did both sides of the American Civil war commonly speak English. A common language does not necessarily means that a country will not develop issues to divide it.

Look at Chinese history for a moment. It is full of rebellions and civil wars. History unfortunately has many ways of repeating itself.

Do I want this for China? No. But when I see the repression going on in China. I don't see the ability to avoid it.

Only you can answer this one. But I bet I have the answer. Of the 55 subcultures of China, how many do you have in your classes? Or are most of your students from the Han group? Han is the most populace group in China.

See....in the US...I go into a class room...I see the rainbow of cultures and races sitting there getting the same education. Maybe not a good education by many of today's standards)).....but all get the same quality education.

You are a good instructor, Riz. I can tell by your post. But a Communist party will take the best and use it for the elite class of people benefit. Today, the Han Chinese are that elite group. My bet is you don't see many of the 55 sub cultures in your classroom.

This is the kind of internal stuff that fractured the Soviet Union. The non card Russians saw the Communist card carrier Russians reaping the benefits of society. They saw the Dachua on the Black Sea coast. I see the Chinese government villas on satellite imagery sitting along side the impoverished sections of Chinese cities.

I may be wrong there. But if not....you are seeing educational bias in Communist China. You are seeing a 'elite wealthy class' emerge in Communist China.

I will give you another.

China has strict gun control. China policy line says it does not want to be a 'gun culture like the US'. OK....but also China does not want those 55 subcultures being armed.

China has a pretty good crime rate. Don't the Chinese people have a right to bear arms to defend themselves? By the way, it was Mao that imposed gun control on them in 1966. But these gun controls have not stopped gun violence in the country.

China has no ethical problem in exporting millions of AK-47 around the globe. Annually the US gets about 500,000 of them. So they don't mind making a buck from them. Or to help out a civil war someplace. But back in China, it is no guns. But they have a major illegal gun black market going on.

ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51921

By the way....if China surpasses the US as the world's biggest economy.
Big deal. 1B people should out consume and out produce 312m people. It is only logical.
May 14, 2012 2:57 PM CST The Next Superpower in the World
lifeisadream
lifeisadreamlifeisadreamMexi Go, Mexico State Mexico156 Threads 20 Polls 16,713 Posts
rizlared: ttom500.

Of course areas want independence, Tibet, Taiwan, outer Mongolia, but these are not part of mainland China, but autonomous regions, somewhat different to Russia, as the biggest area of China mainland is still one of the worlds largest countries, unlike the regional breakdown of the USSR.
I have no desire to see everyone carry a CPC card, was pointing out that just because most don't have a card does not mean they do not support the party. You said only 14m solders against 1B people, I was showing that you cannot quantify how many would support the Red Army and the CPC.

China rules with an iron fist, they have to with such a huge population, it would never have become so successful if instead of planning and developing a sound future, they had to deal with constant political battles, look at how the political scene is in America!!! Nothing really gets solved from one election to the next.
Dissidents get locked up, it is the way of China, rightly or wrongly, that is their rule, not all laws are just, even in your own country.
Maybe a country less than 400 years old should not be telling a country of two thousand years what is right or wrong.

I have yet to find a Chinese that cannot communicate in Mandarin, yet in the Former USSR they had separate languages and often could not communicate using the national language, only having their own regional dialect or language.

Why are so many fearful of China taking the top position?

I really fail to understand the inherent fear shown by so many, What if China does become the number one country in the world!

Do you think they will make you speak Chinese?
Force you to follow their political bias?
Attack non Asian countries??
Why do so many regard China as a terrifying Country?

When so many other countries are far more dangerous, Chinese people are non violent, believe in harmony not conflict, sure their party's politics is not close to perfect, but this is a fast developing country, changing all the time, the CPC does not follow Mao's ideals and is the first to call themselves "The New Socialist Party".

You may not like China's way of ruling, their poor human rights by developed country standards, but the fact remains that in 60 odd years they have done what has taken America around 300 years, how many died in America to ensure they became the number one superpower of today??

As a real criticism of China, I would add, they are their own worst enemy, if they could only learn to become transparent and open, and show the world the real side of China, I truly believe they and the west could live in peaceful harmony. Just my honest opinion




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Remarkable points of you R

It would be interesting to know from people that think that China is not going to be a superpower, how would affect them personally if US is or not a superpower anymore.

To me it does not matter which country is a superpower, my job is the same, my income is the same. Trading opportunities for my country are open.....

To learn a new language I would love it and Chinese would be a challenge that would embrace (not much for the witting though but I would give it try).

The role change among countries for the top place goes like the Chinese word for crisis = danger and opportunity.



typing
May 14, 2012 2:58 PM CST The Next Superpower in the World
sofarsogood74: Go away. I am finished with you. I have proved your statement about having to study Porter is crap. Thats me finished. I told you my position and I did not study Porter nor have many of the people who are on the management team or on the board with me.

I am not telling you my qualification. I am not telling you anything. What you think of me I care not a jot! Your little pop quizes dont interest me. Its not my fault you can't get on in business. I would suggest stop being so nieve and thing qualification are the be all and end all. They may get you in the door but them they mean nothing!!!!!!!!! Its results that matter.


Unfortunately you have not proved my statement about having to study Porter to be in executive management to be crap. I do agree with you on your assertion that some people in these positions have not gone to college. But these are few and far between. And these days college and degrees are usually a minimum pre-requisite for these positions.
But as you are a compliance director and state that you might possibly be one of these people not to have studied Porter in his climb to executive management, I have to ask of your knowledge of the Saloman case. You hardly want me to believe you haven't come across this in your climb to compliance director??
Of course all that matters is results. But to be a compliance director and not be able to tell me about the Saloman case is rare I'd think.
May 14, 2012 3:08 PM CST The Next Superpower in the World
ttom500: As a real criticism of China, I would add, they are their own worst enemy, if they could only learn to become transparent and open, and show the world the real side of China, I truly believe they and the west could live in peaceful harmony. Just my honest opinion

Rizlared, Now you are being honest with us. I appreciate that. Because I also know that the Chinese government monitors social networking sites and blogging. Honesty is not something that they encourage.

China did not hack Google for no reason. Ask me someday and I will tell you why.))

I am not trying to 'put China down'. Just saying Communist China has some problems. As the US has problems. As the EU has problems. As Russia has problems.

Do I like the way China rules these outer regions and peoples? With a iron fist? No. I don't. I think down the road, that major revolutions comes from such kind of governance. That has been proven in history many times.

There are 55 subcultures in China. Yes, they all speak Mandrin. But so did both sides of the American Civil war commonly speak English. A common language does not necessarily means that a country will not develop issues to divide it.

Look at Chinese history for a moment. It is full of rebellions and civil wars. History unfortunately has many ways of repeating itself.

Do I want this for China? No. But when I see the repression going on in China. I don't see the ability to avoid it.

Only you can answer this one. But I bet I have the answer. Of the 55 subcultures of China, how many do you have in your classes? Or are most of your students from the Han group? Han is the most populace group in China.

See....in the US...I go into a class room...I see the rainbow of cultures and races sitting there getting the same education. Maybe not a good education by many of today's standards)).....but all get the same quality education.

You are a good instructor, Riz. I can tell by your post. But a Communist party will take the best and use it for the elite class of people benefit. Today, the Han Chinese are that elite group. My bet is you don't see many of the 55 sub cultures in your classroom.

This is the kind of internal stuff that fractured the Soviet Union. The non card Russians saw the Communist card carrier Russians reaping the benefits of society. They saw the Dachua on the Black Sea coast. I see the Chinese government villas on satellite imagery sitting along side the impoverished sections of Chinese cities.

I may be wrong there. But if not....you are seeing educational bias in Communist China. You are seeing a 'elite wealthy class' emerge in Communist China.

I will give you another.

China has strict gun control. China policy line says it does not want to be a 'gun culture like the US'. OK....but also China does not want those 55 subcultures being armed.

China has a pretty good crime rate. Don't the Chinese people have a right to bear arms to defend themselves? By the way, it was Mao that imposed gun control on them in 1966. But these gun controls have not stopped gun violence in the country.

China has no ethical problem in exporting millions of AK-47 around the globe. Annually the US gets about 500,000 of them. So they don't mind making a buck from them. Or to help out a civil war someplace. But back in China, it is no guns. But they have a major illegal gun black market going on.

ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51921

By the way....if China surpasses the US as the world's biggest economy.
Big deal. 1B people should out consume and out produce 312m people. It is only logical.


Time magazine had a fantastic article on China in their 14th of May edition this year. It was the European edition, not sure if the American one had the same article.

Also the following link brings in the dangers that China and its economy faces!
May 14, 2012 3:08 PM CST The Next Superpower in the World
sofarsogood74
sofarsogood74sofarsogood74Dublin, Ireland40 Threads 4 Polls 2,711 Posts
mr1983: Unfortunately you have not proved my statement about having to study Porter to be in executive management to be crap. I do agree with you on your assertion that some people in these positions have not gone to college. But these are few and far between. And these days college and degrees are usually a minimum pre-requisite for these positions. .



Oh but I have. College degrees are not a requirement to be promoted from within which most people are!!!!!!! And the fact people like Bill Gates, David Geffen, Alan Sugar, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Davis Green did not finish or go to college proves your assertion as absolute crap! So go away will ya. You are flogging a dead horse!




mr1983: But as you are a compliance director and state that you might possibly be one of these people not to have studied Porter in his climb to executive management, I have to ask of your knowledge of the Saloman case. .




I told you I am not answering any pop quiz you have googled! Get a life. First of all I am not a exec manager, then when I tell you the position you drop the whole Porter thing and bang on about the Saloman Case. Get a life you sad individual!

mr1983: You hardly want me to believe you haven't come across this in your climb to compliance director??
Of course all that matters is results. But to be a compliance director and not be able to tell me about the Saloman case is rare I'd think.


I could not care less what you believe or not! Do you not get that??? Your opinion of me matters not a jot to me!!! You are sad sad sad! You have now dropped Porter and are a parrot about Salomen. Go away will ya. I am now completly finished with you.

You assertion that all exec managers or board members have to have studied Porter has been blown out of the water and is dead and buried.

And if you can't see that then you're more stupid than I thought!

Outa here. Not wasting any more time on a childish loser like you.


roll eyes
May 14, 2012 3:17 PM CST The Next Superpower in the World
sofarsogood74: Oh but I have. College degrees are not a requirement to be promoted from within which most people are!!!!!!! And the fact people like Bill Gates, David Geffen, Alan Sugar, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Davis Green did not finish or go to college proves your assertion as absolute crap! So go away will ya. You are flogging a dead horse!I told you I am not answering any pop quiz you have googled! Get a life. First of all I am not a exec manager, then when I tell you the position you drop the whole Porter thing and bang on about the Saloman Case. Get a life you sad individual!
I could not care less what you believe or not! Do you not get that??? Your opinion of me matters not a jot to me!!! You are sad sad sad! You have now dropped Porter and are a parrot about Salomen. Go away will ya. I am now completly finished with you.

You assertion that all exec managers or board members have to have studied Porter has been blown out of the water and is dead and buried.

And if you can't see that then you're more stupid than I thought!

Outa here. Not wasting any more time on a childish loser like you.


In this day and age promotion from within usually means college degrees. You can get to a certain level in certain companies without a college degree but let me tell you you don't get to executive management without usually.
I have moved of the Porter subject because I know that you don't know anything really about him now. And you suddenly are not an executive manager anymore. You have been telling me for the last few days how you were. Can you remember telling me how you were going out on Saturday to spend some of your exec. management salary and how I'm only a loser. But it seems you have moved into the compliance director position over the weekend. And now you face down questions about the Saloman case. And your anger is beginning to rise again. I have a feeling you will be at explosion stage soon!
May 14, 2012 3:44 PM CST The Next Superpower in the World
HotRodDeluxe
HotRodDeluxeHotRodDeluxeBrisbane, Queensland Australia11 Posts
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May 14, 2012 6:22 PM CST The Next Superpower in the World
ttom500
ttom500ttom500St. Cloud, Florida USA30 Threads 5 Polls 10,523 Posts
Thank you HotRodDeluxe.

Some time images are more powerful than words.......
May 14, 2012 8:25 PM CST The Next Superpower in the World
ttom500
ttom500ttom500St. Cloud, Florida USA30 Threads 5 Polls 10,523 Posts
Oh Mods....Mods......can you please take a take a look at this.....)))
May 15, 2012 2:47 AM CST The Next Superpower in the World
patmac
patmacpatmacglasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland UK730 Threads 6 Polls 9,662 Posts
Love all this nonesense going on.

Asimple question folks and all it takes is a simple answer.
May 15, 2012 2:57 AM CST The Next Superpower in the World
patmac
patmacpatmacglasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland UK730 Threads 6 Polls 9,662 Posts
patmac: Love all this nonesense going on.

Asimple question folks and all it takes is a simple answer.


Just look and count the votes...110 cast and guess what 72 for China.


Regardless of what your own viewpoint is and what definations you want the fact is of all the 110 voters who read the thread and cast their vote.

China is way ahead of any other country.

My last on this as it has een turned into a joke over the past few pages.

The OP asked for our views not some so called expert or anything else, just our views.

And the vast majority are in agreement it will be China.

Agree or disagree if you like but it is the clearest Poll I hve seen for a long time. So given the OP asked us the CS members I suggest the vote is valid with 110 votes and it has a very clear winner.

Have fun calling the majority wrong folks. It shows your mindset so well.doh Even funnier is the way some folk are trying to tell a member who lives in China he does not know what he is talking about doh

grin cheers
May 15, 2012 3:09 AM CST The Next Superpower in the World
HotRodDeluxe
HotRodDeluxeHotRodDeluxeBrisbane, Queensland Australia11 Posts
lifeisadream: At HotrodDEluxe!

Another profile again (blues, classs....)


Yes, I hope you don't mind. grin
May 15, 2012 3:58 AM CST The Next Superpower in the World
sofarsogood74
sofarsogood74sofarsogood74Dublin, Ireland40 Threads 4 Polls 2,711 Posts
mr1983: This to me tells me that you are a fraud. Why would you want to lie about something like this. You only started to tell me you didn't know about him much and you didn't need to study him when you knew you couldn't win an argument concerning him. But why lie in the first place?.?


First of all I dont care what you think. How many times do I have to tell you that??? And second of all there you go again basing your whole argument on Porter. You say people can't be managers without have studied Porter!!! I PROVED this was crap. I even named billionaire company CEO's who would never have studied you. You skipped over that mighty quick!!!!
May 15, 2012 4:18 AM CST The Next Superpower in the World
Albertaghost
AlbertaghostAlbertaghostCultural Wasteland, Alberta Canada76 Threads 5 Polls 5,914 Posts
Wow. Four posts in seven minutes, all of them involving quote and reply. Must've worked on them all night Shotstopper. Good on you!thumbs up

Say, after spending all that time ranting and doing a spell check (as you finally did as this lot are refreshingly free of the usual errors) did you at least spend a second or two to see what a superpower is by hitting Pat up for one of many definitions he won't allow us to see?

Have a good day Shotstopper! You started it off right for a change!comfort
May 15, 2012 6:41 AM CST The Next Superpower in the World
Merriweather
MerriweatherMerriweatherAdelaide, South Australia Australia51 Threads 11,403 Posts
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May 15, 2012 7:12 AM CST The Next Superpower in the World
HotRodDeluxe
HotRodDeluxeHotRodDeluxeBrisbane, Queensland Australia11 Posts
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May 15, 2012 7:34 AM CST The Next Superpower in the World
sofarsogood74
sofarsogood74sofarsogood74Dublin, Ireland40 Threads 4 Polls 2,711 Posts
Albertaghost: Wow. Four posts in seven minutes, all of them involving quote and reply. Must've worked on them all night Shotstopper. Good on you!

Say, after spending all that time ranting and doing a spell check (as you finally did as this lot are refreshingly free of the usual errors) did you at least spend a second or two to see what a superpower is by hitting Pat up for one of many definitions he won't allow us to see?

Have a good day Shotstopper! You started it off right for a change!


You even check post times???? The answer I wrote was too big to fit into one post you muppet so CS would not let me post it!! I had to break it up!!!rolling on the floor laughing

And Pat is wiping the floor with you as is riz. Pat pointed out something I told you that you little mind cant cope with! The thread is about the NEXT superpower. You just can't grasp that concept at all can you???laugh

Now go away and play some bridge with your care home pals. Because there is no way a man of your age can be as petty and childish as you without having some issues.

laugh
May 15, 2012 7:49 AM CST The Next Superpower in the World
ttom500
ttom500ttom500St. Cloud, Florida USA30 Threads 5 Polls 10,523 Posts
This entire thread of whom the next super power in the world reminds me....of our US college football and basketball seasonal polls.....to see who is number one. Then at the end you can have a head to head playoff tournament....that usually means the number one gets defeated.

In the world of politics and nuclear arnesal...is this a good mentality to have?

Say tomorrow China is number one......what do you want the US to do about it? We can take our aging B-52s and fly them into China airspace for a demonstration of aged nuclear might? I am sure the Chinese would just love that.

Is being number uno that important? But also is this what the world fears that the US will do if treasured position of the World's Biggest Super Power is lost to the Chinese?

Don't you think we have just a smidgen of more sense than that?

I will be honest with you. I don't mind a economic trade war with China over human rights issues at all. It is one I think that the US would win....both in world opinion in the flow of BOP and trading of goods.

But am not suggesting nuclear holocaust or military conflict either. To achieve human rights victories in China. Thought the idea of a Doctor Strangelove movie with Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, or other high dollar movie actor riding a nuc into Bejing.....does have a certain appeal.....grin
May 15, 2012 9:06 AM CST The Next Superpower in the World
lifeisadream
lifeisadreamlifeisadreamMexi Go, Mexico State Mexico156 Threads 20 Polls 16,713 Posts
HotRodDeluxe: Yes, I hope you don't mind.



Not at all!


How many have you had with the same picture?
How many with other pictures?
How many with not picture?

Just curious


laugh
May 15, 2012 9:17 AM CST The Next Superpower in the World
lifeisadream
lifeisadreamlifeisadreamMexi Go, Mexico State Mexico156 Threads 20 Polls 16,713 Posts
Albertaghost: MEXICAN WARS

Pre-Columbian/Indigenous Tribal Warfare (?B.C.-1600's)
The Tepanec Civil War (1426–1428), Aztec Mexico civil war
Flower Wars (1426/8-1519)
Spanish Invasion (1519–1521)
Mexican Indian Wars (1519-1933)
Yaqui Wars (1533-1929)
Yaqui Uprising (1896)
Yaqui Indian War (1899-1904?)
Apache-Mexico Wars (Spain: 1600s-1821
Victorio's War (1879–1880),
Comanche-Mexico Wars
Caste War of Yucatán (1847–1901)
Mexican War of Independence (1810–1821)
Spanish reconquest of Mexico (1821–1829)
Era of Mexican Coups (1820s-1846)
Central American Federation War of independence (1822–1823)
Texas Revolution (1835–1836)
Caste War of Yucatán (1847–1901)
Pastry War (1838–1839)
Mexican–American War (1846–1848)
Reform War (1857–1861), civil war between Conservatives and Liberals
French intervention in Mexico (1861–1867)
Las Cuevas War (1875)
Mexican Revolution (1910–1921),
Border War (1910-1918)
Banana Wars
World War I
Cristero War (1926–1929)
World War II (1942–1945)
Dirty War (1968–1982)
Zapatista Uprising (1994–Present )
EPR Marxist Guerrilla Conflict (1996–Present)
Mexican Drug War (2006-Ongoing)



Have you ever heard about?

Size matters and number, well it does in this case.

Can you compare the damage of the Mexican Wars vs the damage of the American Wars? And the world is composed of other countries, not only America and the Americanos.

None of them are right and worst as long as humans are in this planet –or maybe even in others- unfortunately wars will be part of societies. Although, the finances war are getting hot.

Btw, there is a great difference between American people and the American government exterior policies.

For some one portraying China as the only one country that has too much to go on human rights and not to consider the other sides, means he has a narrow point of view but many profiles.



Comparing our wars with the US wars make us look like angels!




rolling on the floor laughing
May 15, 2012 3:36 PM CST The Next Superpower in the World
HotRodDeluxe
HotRodDeluxeHotRodDeluxeBrisbane, Queensland Australia11 Posts
lifeisadream: Not at all!How many have you had with the same picture?
How many with other pictures?
How many with not picture?

Just curious


1. Three (each after cancelling the previous profile)

2. None

3. None

Do you want me to come wiith you down to the station for further interrogation?

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