I'm an atheist myself, but you, sir, are begging the question. Religion is only deceptive towards their congregation if you take it as given that God does not exist. If we're wrong and God does, in fact, exist, then you are the one who is lying to everyone who reads your post.
My employer has no specific policy against personal internet usage but that doesn't mean that I'm going to use my company workstation to send sexually explicit "fuck me!" messages to my girlfriend.
No. But if your employer HAD a specific policy saying "if you pay your internet usage charges, then we will not monitor the content of your usage", and then they turned around and monitored the content of your internet usage, then you would have every right to send any message you want to your girlfriend and they would have no right to read it.
Normally I'd agree with you, but the summary says they are explicitly allowed personal use and were told that the messages wouldn't be read.
Exactly. This isn't about the government reading messages sent to government property. This is about the government lying to its employees. They are two very very different things.
Someone got really greedy. Someone else caught them and is now going to use that fact to advance their political career. Some stockholders will suffer and a handful of executives will spend a few years in white collar resort prison.
In fact, isn't that how con artists justify themselves? They offer someone a deal that's obviously dodgy, like cheap stolen goods or something, and let the mug's own greed blind them while they get ripped off. Makes it less likely for the mug to go to the cops. "Hi cops, this guy said he was gonna get me a 60" flatscreen TV for $1000 but he took a $500 deposit and never showed up".
Don't the warlords who destroyed their country and turned it into a failed state deserve some (most?) of the blame for that? If they still had a functioning state they would have a Coast Guard and the ability to regulate their waters. Why don't they turn all of those AK-47s and RPGs on the warlords?
It's a matter of willingness to kill. Sure, to well-fed, comfortable, hypocritical activists, us westerners might look like the evil scourge of the planet in terms of carbon dioxide emissions, factory-ship fishing, and industrial waste. But to some poor 18-year-old Somali guy with an AK-47, we're a much friendlier, nicer target than the local warlord. If he shoots at us, we'll try and talk it through with him and he may even get some cash out of the deal. The aforementioned warlord will just have some 9-year-old kid shoot him in the face the moment it looks like he's even thinking about stepping out of line.
The Da Vinci Code has annoyed me ever since it was pointed out to me (which it shouldn't have had to have been, in retrospect) that calling it the 'Da Vinci Code' would be like writing a book about a code developed by Leonard of Quirm and calling it "The Of Quirm Code".
Most governments refuse to allow armed men on ships flying their flag (or without other requirements on such ships) and many governments do not permit armed, foreign flagged ships into their ports. Frankly, I think paying extra fees for the right to be armed would be worth it, but it appears most shipping lines have not reached that conclusion.
Two things spring to mind:
Firstly, that if it's specifically armed men (and yes, it might be that archaic) there should be a burgeoning job market for female mercenaries.
Secondly, if the main objection is the legal difficulty of docking an armed ship, this poses a unique market opportunity for floating armouries outside popular ports in international waters, providing rental of quality weapons or mercenary crews to cargo ships.
Sorry, but precisely the same reason is actually no reason at all. LEDs use a tiny amount of power, ergo there is very little heat produced. Now I will admit that if you put a CFL, an LED and an incandescent bulb in the same sealed and insulated enclosure and turned them all on that the CFL and LED might well fail before the incandescent. That's because the heat from the incandescent will fry the other 2. But what kinda idiot would design an experiment like that?
LEDs produce a lot less heat than incandescent lights for a given brightness, but they're really not efficient in terms of turning electrical energy into light energy. The best figures I can find are around 12% efficient (for as-yet-unreleased LED lighting giving 80 lumens per watt of input energy, and using the best-possible-case conversion of 680 lumens ~= 1 watt of radiant energy.
We recently bought chickens, which we keep for their eggs. They eat bugs, grass, weeds, kitchen scraps, whatever. I can't speak for the taste of the chickens themselves but the eggs taste, well, exactly the same as any other free range eggs. They might have a bit more sulfur in them which is just great when I eat a few and spend the next day or so pumping out out the worst smelling egg gas you could imagine.
Good question. Pigs are cloven hoofed but they are not ruminants, and as such they aren't kosher. How many degrees of separation between pig and vat are required before it's no longer pig? A culture of pig muscle might be too close, but would a sample taken from that (consisting purely of cells grown in the lab) still count as an animal? If not, is it possible that it's not covered by halakha?
As a lifelong vegetarian, I'm curious about this horrible and disgusting death you speak of? I've yet to encounter it in my 28 years of non-meat-based sustenance, possibly it will occur in my mid-80s at around the same time most other humans succumb to similar fates?
Actually the system in the Matrix would never work because it violates the 2nd law of Thermodynamics. I believe that GGP is either mistakenly based on this, or is in fact an artful troll.
No, they really don't. GP is not talking about the flexing muscle tissue generating enough electricity to power the entire movement, merely enough to power the stimulating current. The work done comes from the release of chemical energy stored in the ATP in the muscles.
It's actually a very good point, that if artificial meat needs to be 'worked' to give it the right texture, we might as well use the work done to generate electricity and offset the plant running costs. Very matrixey though...:P
99% of all infections/trojans/malware/botnets infect/are created by user abuse of the system.
You can't code against that. The only "protection" that *nix/mac systems have over Windows is that no one gives a rats ass about infecting you, so they don't try. It's not because your system is any more secure against "CLICK HERE TO WIN FREE XBOX 360" infections.
And what is more, this will continue to be the case for as long as home computers are general-purpose machines on which their owners can install arbitrary software.
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I'm an atheist myself, but you, sir, are begging the question. Religion is only deceptive towards their congregation if you take it as given that God does not exist. If we're wrong and God does, in fact, exist, then you are the one who is lying to everyone who reads your post.
My employer has no specific policy against personal internet usage but that doesn't mean that I'm going to use my company workstation to send sexually explicit "fuck me!" messages to my girlfriend.
No. But if your employer HAD a specific policy saying "if you pay your internet usage charges, then we will not monitor the content of your usage", and then they turned around and monitored the content of your internet usage, then you would have every right to send any message you want to your girlfriend and they would have no right to read it.
Normally I'd agree with you, but the summary says they are explicitly allowed personal use and were told that the messages wouldn't be read.
Exactly. This isn't about the government reading messages sent to government property. This is about the government lying to its employees. They are two very very different things.
Someone got really greedy. Someone else caught them and is now going to use that fact to advance their political career. Some stockholders will suffer and a handful of executives will spend a few years in white collar resort prison.
You mean one with conjugal visits?
C is terse, but sometimes it's not concise. Python is what I'd call 'pithy'.
You mean that really annoying "one simple secret" that they're talking about is "get gene therapy... you defective blob"?
I'm a BEARLOCK now!
Jigga please!
Can you point to any studies showing that morning coffee makes you a genius? ;-)
Not yet, but I might be able to once I've had my coffee.
In other words, most women have fewer partners than men; but a small number of women have FAR more partners than most men.
I wonder if that's related in any way to the sex trade?
In fact, isn't that how con artists justify themselves? They offer someone a deal that's obviously dodgy, like cheap stolen goods or something, and let the mug's own greed blind them while they get ripped off. Makes it less likely for the mug to go to the cops. "Hi cops, this guy said he was gonna get me a 60" flatscreen TV for $1000 but he took a $500 deposit and never showed up".
...well snap. I'm actually gonna have to pay that one. Well played!
If Banker works for a different bank than the one that Pirate is going to rob, it sounds like a solid business proposition indeed.
Don't the warlords who destroyed their country and turned it into a failed state deserve some (most?) of the blame for that? If they still had a functioning state they would have a Coast Guard and the ability to regulate their waters. Why don't they turn all of those AK-47s and RPGs on the warlords?
It's a matter of willingness to kill. Sure, to well-fed, comfortable, hypocritical activists, us westerners might look like the evil scourge of the planet in terms of carbon dioxide emissions, factory-ship fishing, and industrial waste. But to some poor 18-year-old Somali guy with an AK-47, we're a much friendlier, nicer target than the local warlord. If he shoots at us, we'll try and talk it through with him and he may even get some cash out of the deal. The aforementioned warlord will just have some 9-year-old kid shoot him in the face the moment it looks like he's even thinking about stepping out of line.
Someone's been reading too much Dan Brown.
The Da Vinci Code has annoyed me ever since it was pointed out to me (which it shouldn't have had to have been, in retrospect) that calling it the 'Da Vinci Code' would be like writing a book about a code developed by Leonard of Quirm and calling it "The Of Quirm Code".
Most governments refuse to allow armed men on ships flying their flag (or without other requirements on such ships) and many governments do not permit armed, foreign flagged ships into their ports. Frankly, I think paying extra fees for the right to be armed would be worth it, but it appears most shipping lines have not reached that conclusion.
Two things spring to mind:
Firstly, that if it's specifically armed men (and yes, it might be that archaic) there should be a burgeoning job market for female mercenaries.
Secondly, if the main objection is the legal difficulty of docking an armed ship, this poses a unique market opportunity for floating armouries outside popular ports in international waters, providing rental of quality weapons or mercenary crews to cargo ships.
Religion: n, A delusion shared by many people. Cult: n, A group that uses cognitive dissonance to recruit and indoctrinate it's followers.
I fail to see how this distinction is either technical or profound. I'm curious, however, and willing to learn.
Somebody please chuck mod points at parent until he bursts.
Given his stated preference for not finding surprise stickiness, I'm not sure he'd like that.
Sorry, but precisely the same reason is actually no reason at all. LEDs use a tiny amount of power, ergo there is very little heat produced. Now I will admit that if you put a CFL, an LED and an incandescent bulb in the same sealed and insulated enclosure and turned them all on that the CFL and LED might well fail before the incandescent. That's because the heat from the incandescent will fry the other 2. But what kinda idiot would design an experiment like that?
LEDs produce a lot less heat than incandescent lights for a given brightness, but they're really not efficient in terms of turning electrical energy into light energy. The best figures I can find are around 12% efficient (for as-yet-unreleased LED lighting giving 80 lumens per watt of input energy, and using the best-possible-case conversion of 680 lumens ~= 1 watt of radiant energy.
We recently bought chickens, which we keep for their eggs. They eat bugs, grass, weeds, kitchen scraps, whatever. I can't speak for the taste of the chickens themselves but the eggs taste, well, exactly the same as any other free range eggs. They might have a bit more sulfur in them which is just great when I eat a few and spend the next day or so pumping out out the worst smelling egg gas you could imagine.
Good question. Pigs are cloven hoofed but they are not ruminants, and as such they aren't kosher. How many degrees of separation between pig and vat are required before it's no longer pig? A culture of pig muscle might be too close, but would a sample taken from that (consisting purely of cells grown in the lab) still count as an animal? If not, is it possible that it's not covered by halakha?
As a lifelong vegetarian, I'm curious about this horrible and disgusting death you speak of? I've yet to encounter it in my 28 years of non-meat-based sustenance, possibly it will occur in my mid-80s at around the same time most other humans succumb to similar fates?
Actually the system in the Matrix would never work because it violates the 2nd law of Thermodynamics. I believe that GGP is either mistakenly based on this, or is in fact an artful troll.
The laws of thermodynamics disagree with you.
No, they really don't. GP is not talking about the flexing muscle tissue generating enough electricity to power the entire movement, merely enough to power the stimulating current. The work done comes from the release of chemical energy stored in the ATP in the muscles.
:P
It's actually a very good point, that if artificial meat needs to be 'worked' to give it the right texture, we might as well use the work done to generate electricity and offset the plant running costs. Very matrixey though...
99% of all infections/trojans/malware/botnets infect/are created by user abuse of the system.
You can't code against that. The only "protection" that *nix/mac systems have over Windows is that no one gives a rats ass about infecting you, so they don't try. It's not because your system is any more secure against "CLICK HERE TO WIN FREE XBOX 360" infections.
And what is more, this will continue to be the case for as long as home computers are general-purpose machines on which their owners can install arbitrary software.
With great flexibility comes great fuckupability.