So far I have yet to meet any happily married males (or females for that matter). Even the ones who CLAIM to be happy fill their conversations with backstabbing comments about their spouse.
Are you sure you've met any married people, or are they all the "married in Vegas after meeting on a drunk weekend" variety? Of the adults I know, most are married (OK, I'm not a youngster). By far the majority are happy in their marriage - or present a good appearance of being so - and the few who became unhappy got divorced.
"2 cups of water + 2 cups of alcohol does not equal 4 cups of fluid./end chemistry jackassery"
Indeed it does not. If you add 2 cups of water to 2 cups of ethanol you get almost 4.1 cups of fluid due to the excess volume of mixing. The result is fractionally greater if thermal expansion due to released enthalpy of mixing is included.
Pardon my deficiency in jackassery where physical chemistry is concerned.
Saying that "Tasmanian police decline" to do something implies that they are actually empowered to do so as a matter of course. I suspect the Tasmanian police cannot censor the internet, and even if they were given a court order only limited censorship could be attempted (likely with even more limited success).
Allowing ignorance as a defense is not a good idea; it creates a perverse incentive whereby anyone driving with their eyes shut has a get out of jail free card.
Unless there is evidence to the contrary, it is assumed that one expresses an opinion only on subjects where one is sufficiently informed. In this case, ignorance is not assumed unless it is plausible to a judge or backed up by evidence. Willfully maintaining the semblance of ignorance in order to preserve deniability is tantamount to an admission of guilt. Your example shows why.
Either your interpretation is wrong or Finns aren't as smart as I thought they were.
Your interpretation is wrong, as it presumes that Finnish law follows the bizarre practices of US law. It does not.
Want to reach the hacking culture? It's like hiring tribes people to help log the Amazon rainforest. Corporations should learn from the mistakes made in those senarios before even thinking of strategies such as this.
What the corporate MBAs would immediately deduce is that the tribespeople had been improperly incentivized, and should have been offered different shiny stuff. Numerous case studies would then be performed to find the optimum lowest-cost shiny stuff to offer to induce tribespeople to wreck their environment. Devastation of the rainforest would not be abated, while corporate profits and MBA bonuses would increase grotesquely for a few quarters.
Similar dysfunctional thinking would be applied to recruiting hackers.
Uh, five what, exactly?
Ostmarks (obsolete) and Zimbabwe Dollars (obsolete) are no good, Vietnamese Dong are inadequate (1/20000 US$), but if you're talking Uganda Shillings (1/2400 US$) or better, I'll take it. Can I interest you in a quantity discount - my associates in Nigeria have millions of astronaut lives to trade...
I would guess you live somewhere libel laws are quite strict. The kind of country who would rather have censorship than gossip.
Not really. To be actionable in Finland, a libel or other form of defamation must be known to be false by the person making it in addition to being injurious to its target. Forget megabuck settlements also, as Finnish courts tend to award actual damages (without any wild-eyed interpretation of "actual") rather than exemplary or punitive amounts.
It's far more likely that either (i) some of the content at www.nationalenquirer.com is licensed by its providers only for the US and maybe Canada and some other English-speaking countries, or (ii) Finland is just in a blanket exclusion due to incompetence by the web site developers.
BTW, there are decent translations into English of the primary laws of Finland, but secondary laws (i.e. regulations set by government agencies), case law, and bills of parliament are only in Finnish and Swedish at FinLex. Regulations are sometimes translated by the relevant authority, and are often set quite sensibly - even reasonably - such as for private copying of all copyright materials published in Finland.
Now all we need is a "former sports analyst" to say that China has access to 80% of the world's athletes as they have implanted nano-technology in the clothing.:)
Well, they're already supplying the uniforms of the US team...
This "former pentagon analyst" is a writer for WND, a rightwing web news site with all the credibility of the National Enquirer.
Has WND told us the truth yet about the two-headed slime aliens anal-probing the kidnapped Elvis on the Moon (preferably with grainy photos)? Until then, WND has only a fraction of the credibility of the National Enquirer.
Probably counts as an artistic or cultural expression, so subject to copyright rather than patent (despite its obvious utility). If you make videos, you can copyright them.
For an iPod, the question is unclear. But for iPad and iPhone, I'd have thought the consensus was that they count as computers. Even Apple thinks so...
Not much chance for aurorae in Finland during "summer". There's not much darkness at night, unless it's really very cloudy - bright skies don't help with seeing aurorae. Anyway we've been mostly under clouds recently with a procession of low pressure systems and associated rainy fronts - clouds and rain don't help with seeing aurorae.
Ya where I live you can't mention this because the whole mytho thing. Very annoying science is science.
I recall reading (maybe 20-30 years ago) that blood types were significantly different between North American and South American natives. According to these maps, South and Central Americans are almost exclusively blood group O, while blood group A exists in North America, especially in arctic and subarctic regions. FYI, native Americans and East Asians often have Diego positive blood, whereas the rest of the world is exclusively Diego negative.
I'm still trying to figure out why I'm posting this with 13.0.1 and it says there are no updates. What is 14 going to have, a new start page and a little dancing animated monkey? Are they already done with it? Why hasn't it been released?
They don't even support Linux properly. Even if it's actually effective on Linux, you'd have to explicitly agree to run the exploit and then type in your password to install the stupid thing. And that would only work if you're in the sudoers group or logged in as root; otherwise, it's no go. What kind of malware is that???
Interesting note: although example screenshots were given for the malware on Windows and OSX, there were none for Linux. Maybe it does not work at all on Linux, and the code people are foaming over is just a leftover fragment for identifying the client OS.
Of course they really should return to the spirit of the original Games and compete naked.
But that would just lead to other regulations and attempts to circumvent them. Women's swimming would be merely a contest between flat-chested completely hairless females, while men's swimming would involve recently-castrated completely hairless males. Contests between shaved persons whose gender can be determined only by genetic testing is not guaranteed to provide a spectacle people actually want to watch.
Then again, most of the current Olympics is just as bad - many of my colleagues refer to it as "turn-off-TV" month. I postponed a trip to Vancouver to avoid the Winter games, and plan on avoiding London just as assiduously. Without the absurd hype, it would be ignored more widely.
We don't really vote for MEPs. We vote for European political parties, almost all of which are made up of groups of national political parties.
If you're in a country which uses the party-list system, that's true enough, and some of those elected due to a favorable placing on the party list would most likely be unelectable as individuals (most of the EU uses this, with some variations). However, if you're in a country which uses the single transferrable vote system, you actually get to vote for your MEP, and only candidates who were individually voted for can be elected (only Ireland, Malta, and Northern Ireland for European elections).
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So far I have yet to meet any happily married males (or females for that matter). Even the ones who CLAIM to be happy fill their conversations with backstabbing comments about their spouse.
Are you sure you've met any married people, or are they all the "married in Vegas after meeting on a drunk weekend" variety? Of the adults I know, most are married (OK, I'm not a youngster). By far the majority are happy in their marriage - or present a good appearance of being so - and the few who became unhappy got divorced.
this should have read:
"2 cups of water + 2 cups of alcohol does not equal 4 cups of fluid. /end chemistry jackassery"
Indeed it does not. If you add 2 cups of water to 2 cups of ethanol you get almost 4.1 cups of fluid due to the excess volume of mixing. The result is fractionally greater if thermal expansion due to released enthalpy of mixing is included.
Pardon my deficiency in jackassery where physical chemistry is concerned.
Saying that "Tasmanian police decline" to do something implies that they are actually empowered to do so as a matter of course. I suspect the Tasmanian police cannot censor the internet, and even if they were given a court order only limited censorship could be attempted (likely with even more limited success).
Allowing ignorance as a defense is not a good idea; it creates a perverse incentive whereby anyone driving with their eyes shut has a get out of jail free card.
Unless there is evidence to the contrary, it is assumed that one expresses an opinion only on subjects where one is sufficiently informed. In this case, ignorance is not assumed unless it is plausible to a judge or backed up by evidence. Willfully maintaining the semblance of ignorance in order to preserve deniability is tantamount to an admission of guilt. Your example shows why.
Either your interpretation is wrong or Finns aren't as smart as I thought they were.
Your interpretation is wrong, as it presumes that Finnish law follows the bizarre practices of US law. It does not.
Want to reach the hacking culture? It's like hiring tribes people to help log the Amazon rainforest. Corporations should learn from the mistakes made in those senarios before even thinking of strategies such as this.
What the corporate MBAs would immediately deduce is that the tribespeople had been improperly incentivized, and should have been offered different shiny stuff. Numerous case studies would then be performed to find the optimum lowest-cost shiny stuff to offer to induce tribespeople to wreck their environment. Devastation of the rainforest would not be abated, while corporate profits and MBA bonuses would increase grotesquely for a few quarters.
Similar dysfunctional thinking would be applied to recruiting hackers.
I'll give you a fiver for one.
Uh, five what, exactly?
Ostmarks (obsolete) and Zimbabwe Dollars (obsolete) are no good, Vietnamese Dong are inadequate (1/20000 US$), but if you're talking Uganda Shillings (1/2400 US$) or better, I'll take it. Can I interest you in a quantity discount - my associates in Nigeria have millions of astronaut lives to trade...
I would guess you live somewhere libel laws are quite strict. The kind of country who would rather have censorship than gossip.
Not really. To be actionable in Finland, a libel or other form of defamation must be known to be false by the person making it in addition to being injurious to its target. Forget megabuck settlements also, as Finnish courts tend to award actual damages (without any wild-eyed interpretation of "actual") rather than exemplary or punitive amounts.
It's far more likely that either (i) some of the content at www.nationalenquirer.com is licensed by its providers only for the US and maybe Canada and some other English-speaking countries, or (ii) Finland is just in a blanket exclusion due to incompetence by the web site developers.
BTW, there are decent translations into English of the primary laws of Finland, but secondary laws (i.e. regulations set by government agencies), case law, and bills of parliament are only in Finnish and Swedish at FinLex. Regulations are sometimes translated by the relevant authority, and are often set quite sensibly - even reasonably - such as for private copying of all copyright materials published in Finland.
Now all we need is a "former sports analyst" to say that China has access to 80% of the world's athletes as they have implanted nano-technology in the clothing. :)
Well, they're already supplying the uniforms of the US team...
Have you looked www.nationalenquirer.com recently? Can you give more a detailed reasoning on why anyone should take your statements seriously?
"The content of this website is not available in your area."
I definitely can't take the National Enquirer seriously. In fact, I can't take it at all!
This "former pentagon analyst" is a writer for WND, a rightwing web news site with all the credibility of the National Enquirer.
Has WND told us the truth yet about the two-headed slime aliens anal-probing the kidnapped Elvis on the Moon (preferably with grainy photos)? Until then, WND has only a fraction of the credibility of the National Enquirer.
Who knows, maybe like the PC, 3D is flat-lining.
Whatever they're introduced on will jump straight up when the feelies are invented.
Is fuck-till-death patented, by the way?
Probably counts as an artistic or cultural expression, so subject to copyright rather than patent (despite its obvious utility). If you make videos, you can copyright them.
For an iPod, the question is unclear. But for iPad and iPhone, I'd have thought the consensus was that they count as computers. Even Apple thinks so...
Not much chance for aurorae in Finland during "summer". There's not much darkness at night, unless it's really very cloudy - bright skies don't help with seeing aurorae. Anyway we've been mostly under clouds recently with a procession of low pressure systems and associated rainy fronts - clouds and rain don't help with seeing aurorae.
http://images.apple.com/environment/reports/docs/macbookpro_retinadisplay_per_june2012.pdf
Those pie charts are all filled with images of endangered tropical hardwoods. Typical Apple thoughtlessness.
Ya where I live you can't mention this because the whole mytho thing. Very annoying science is science.
I recall reading (maybe 20-30 years ago) that blood types were significantly different between North American and South American natives. According to these maps, South and Central Americans are almost exclusively blood group O, while blood group A exists in North America, especially in arctic and subarctic regions. FYI, native Americans and East Asians often have Diego positive blood, whereas the rest of the world is exclusively Diego negative.
Come now, a moment of sane thought please. It's one ISP in Britain, it's not massive censorship.
A sane moment of thought suggests that it's the camel's nose.
Allowing religious groups to define filters for the web should be resisted. As they say: "it is a wise rule to resist the beginnings of evil."
I'm still trying to figure out why I'm posting this with 13.0.1 and it says there are no updates. What is 14 going to have, a new start page and a little dancing animated monkey? Are they already done with it? Why hasn't it been released?
Ballmer threatened to sue them...
They don't even support Linux properly. Even if it's actually effective on Linux, you'd have to explicitly agree to run the exploit and then type in your password to install the stupid thing. And that would only work if you're in the sudoers group or logged in as root; otherwise, it's no go. What kind of malware is that???
Interesting note: although example screenshots were given for the malware on Windows and OSX, there were none for Linux. Maybe it does not work at all on Linux, and the code people are foaming over is just a leftover fragment for identifying the client OS.
Of course they really should return to the spirit of the original Games and compete naked.
But that would just lead to other regulations and attempts to circumvent them. Women's swimming would be merely a contest between flat-chested completely hairless females, while men's swimming would involve recently-castrated completely hairless males. Contests between shaved persons whose gender can be determined only by genetic testing is not guaranteed to provide a spectacle people actually want to watch.
Then again, most of the current Olympics is just as bad - many of my colleagues refer to it as "turn-off-TV" month. I postponed a trip to Vancouver to avoid the Winter games, and plan on avoiding London just as assiduously. Without the absurd hype, it would be ignored more widely.
We don't really vote for MEPs. We vote for European political parties, almost all of which are made up of groups of national political parties.
If you're in a country which uses the party-list system, that's true enough, and some of those elected due to a favorable placing on the party list would most likely be unelectable as individuals (most of the EU uses this, with some variations). However, if you're in a country which uses the single transferrable vote system, you actually get to vote for your MEP, and only candidates who were individually voted for can be elected (only Ireland, Malta, and Northern Ireland for European elections).
For the record, I like Opera. :)
I like Opera and I like Ballet.
I'm not posting this using Ballet...
Either +1 funny, or +1 insightful (depending how you feel about double-barreled anti-right-wing parody).
Don't you need videos for that?
Or at least a darn good picture...