The military isn't responsible for maiming their own soldiers. It's the enemy that is. So we should just present Iraq or who ever we declare as the enemy with the bill for regen on all our soldiers. That's been done at least since the time of the Roman empire... It's called war reparations, and it's an excellent plan: Invade a country on some pretense or another, run amok for a while and when you're good and done, present the invaded party a bill for damages incurred.
I really don't see how kiddie porn being illegal reduces demand for it. Please explain?
To me the most compelling reason to keep it criminalized is it sends a message. Child abuse victims tend to end up blaming themselves for what was done to them. In my experience they need to see the abusers condemned, and I don't see how legalizing child pornography would help there at all.
Why WOULD they keep the servers up? If the store is gone, the servers are not generating revenue anymore. Sure, MS will get some negative publicity for it, but sooner or later, the costs of upkeep will outweigh the benefits.
As a lamp oil store owner, My business faces ruin. Lamp oil sales have dropped through the floor. People aren't buying half as much lamp oil as they did just a year ago. Revenue is down and costs are up. My store has survived for years, but I now face the prospect of bankruptcy. Every day I ask myself why this is happening.
I assume it stopped because the people controlling the robot decided they had proven their point? I mean, it seems unlikely it would walk contently along for 9 kilometres and then fall apart. Which makes me wonder if there's much point in having a record for distance walked, unless there are constraints, like a maximium amount of energy usage allowed. If not, then the robot whose operators have the most patience will walk the furthest.
I was going to ask where such a service might be found, and how much it costs. A quick Google search, however, yielded this helpful page:
http://www.toastedspam.com/freespamlist
I assume they promptly cut the cat open - it could, after all, have been transporting fissile material in it's body. You never know with those feline terrorists.
Of course, reality doesn't care one iota about what we humans would prefer to be true. I never understood using the psychological benefits of faith as a reason to believe - believing because it's convenient says nothing about the truth of the faith.
"The talks were organized by Matthew Nisbet, a professor of communications who is a proponent of the framing of science, in which communications techniques borrowed from the political realm are applied to promote scientific understanding."
So how do you spin scientific discourse to include "YOU'RE EITHER WITH US OR AGAINST US" or "GOD IS ON OUR SIDE"? The problem is, science tends to be so morally ambiguous - those damn atoms, for example, you can't tell which side they're on. Quantum mechanics is probably evil, though.
But Christians have God on their side - there is no evidence you can provide to refute a believer who does not wish to change their beliefs. If nothing else, they can just say "God made it that way" and that's that. God can do anything. No use arguing with that.
No, the GP had it pretty much right. To recap, had things been done properly, Perez would have been listed as a running candidate on all machines, which might have cost the other Democrat candidate some votes. However in places he was listed as withdrawn, which in principle should help the running Democrat, who lost despite the error, not because of it. Had the Republican lost, you might wonder if Perez being listed as withdrawn despite missing the deadline had changed the results of the vote.
Hamilton reads like a Hollywood blockbuster - gratuitous sex aplenty, big explosions, fast action. Banks has those too, but generally is more skillful and balanced in his writing. Also Hamilton seems to have issues with endings. Everything I've read from him either ends in a deus ex machina or comes damn close. "Ok, so the universe is going to shit if we don't find this supercomputer-übermind-whatever and get it to help us. Let's go do that! Hey here it is! Hello please help us? Woo, everything was fixed!" - If it's not that bad, then at least you can see the ending coming about a thousand pages away because Hamilton's idea of a plot is to have the characters come up with a plan and then execute it to the letter. Seriously, once you've read what the characters intend to do, you know what's going to happen at the end: Exactly what they say they're going to do.
That said, I do enjoy his works in the way I enjoy bubblegum, but damnit, writing huge trilogies with endings as unclimactic as Hamilton's is just sadistic.
Personally I think the whole line between console and PC is likely to get blurred in the future. When you have a home entertainment system that lets you browse the internet, peruse media and play games, is it a PC or a console? The way the industry seems to be heading, I wouldn't be surprised to see mainstream PCs ditching a lot of the configurability we now have in favour of ready-made packages that provide a tightly controlled user experience. Kind of like consoles. Or maybe consoles will complexify a little further. The point is, with HTPCs and what have you, the trend seems to be to make home PCs more a home appliance and less a highly complex multi-function tool.
Or maybe it's just that the kind of person who likes to have fun and drink with buddies every now and then is less likely to be an obsessive workaholic, and therefore at least slightly less likely to get a lot of brilliant work done. That's probably too simplistic an assumption, but if this negative correllation between beer consumption and scientific output does exist, I'd wager it boils down to some factor or factors that makes a person more likely to work on their projects and less likely to drink.
man, subjects^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H citizens with 200-year life expectancies are the last thing any government wants. That would the age balance of the population. Either you get a large amount of people who are too old to be able to work, but too young to have the decency to die, or you get a lot of people who do continue to work and contribute, but are old enough to be cynical and less than less than enthusiastic about going off to die for their government. Physical fitness is not the only reason it's the kids who fight the wars - they're by definition naïve and therefore perfect cannon fodder. The older you get, the more you start to see how much you have to lose by dying.
Besides, 200 years is plenty of time for citizens to develop agendas of their own... I suspect an old, physically and mentally fit population would be a real bitch to control.
Certainly, but linking a card to a user is not the same thing as making the usage statistics traceable to the card, and thus the owner. Or maybe collecting such stats anonymously is harder than I think. I guess if the cops got hold of a person's card, they could use it to make a log entry on the system and see under which usernode in the stats database that information is entered, even if the system itself didn't store the identity of a user with their usage statistics.
...Although, if the reporting is accurate and she did indeed try to walk through a security checkpoint, wearing a bundle of wires and circuitry on her chest without responding to security personnel when they asked what the thing on her shirt was, the blame for that incident lies squarely on the MIT student's shoulders.
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Well, you're not the one who's going to be doing the burying at your funeral.
This sounds like a wonderful product. Who manufactures them, and where could I find some more information, testimonials etc. on Congressmen?
I really don't see how kiddie porn being illegal reduces demand for it. Please explain? To me the most compelling reason to keep it criminalized is it sends a message. Child abuse victims tend to end up blaming themselves for what was done to them. In my experience they need to see the abusers condemned, and I don't see how legalizing child pornography would help there at all.
Why WOULD they keep the servers up? If the store is gone, the servers are not generating revenue anymore. Sure, MS will get some negative publicity for it, but sooner or later, the costs of upkeep will outweigh the benefits.
As a lamp oil store owner, My business faces ruin. Lamp oil sales have dropped through the floor. People aren't buying half as much lamp oil as they did just a year ago. Revenue is down and costs are up. My store has survived for years, but I now face the prospect of bankruptcy. Every day I ask myself why this is happening.
Why release any animals? Just stop breeding them and let the species go extinct.
let's hope your first first was your last first
I assume it stopped because the people controlling the robot decided they had proven their point? I mean, it seems unlikely it would walk contently along for 9 kilometres and then fall apart. Which makes me wonder if there's much point in having a record for distance walked, unless there are constraints, like a maximium amount of energy usage allowed. If not, then the robot whose operators have the most patience will walk the furthest.
Excuse me? 10%? That's news to me.
I was going to ask where such a service might be found, and how much it costs. A quick Google search, however, yielded this helpful page: http://www.toastedspam.com/freespamlist
I assume they promptly cut the cat open - it could, after all, have been transporting fissile material in it's body. You never know with those feline terrorists.
Of course, reality doesn't care one iota about what we humans would prefer to be true. I never understood using the psychological benefits of faith as a reason to believe - believing because it's convenient says nothing about the truth of the faith.
"The talks were organized by Matthew Nisbet, a professor of communications who is a proponent of the framing of science, in which communications techniques borrowed from the political realm are applied to promote scientific understanding."
So how do you spin scientific discourse to include "YOU'RE EITHER WITH US OR AGAINST US" or "GOD IS ON OUR SIDE"? The problem is, science tends to be so morally ambiguous - those damn atoms, for example, you can't tell which side they're on. Quantum mechanics is probably evil, though.
But Christians have God on their side - there is no evidence you can provide to refute a believer who does not wish to change their beliefs. If nothing else, they can just say "God made it that way" and that's that. God can do anything. No use arguing with that.
No, the GP had it pretty much right. To recap, had things been done properly, Perez would have been listed as a running candidate on all machines, which might have cost the other Democrat candidate some votes. However in places he was listed as withdrawn, which in principle should help the running Democrat, who lost despite the error, not because of it. Had the Republican lost, you might wonder if Perez being listed as withdrawn despite missing the deadline had changed the results of the vote.
Huh? Isn't that what the GP said? That the candidate withdrew, but too late.
Hamilton reads like a Hollywood blockbuster - gratuitous sex aplenty, big explosions, fast action. Banks has those too, but generally is more skillful and balanced in his writing. Also Hamilton seems to have issues with endings. Everything I've read from him either ends in a deus ex machina or comes damn close. "Ok, so the universe is going to shit if we don't find this supercomputer-übermind-whatever and get it to help us. Let's go do that! Hey here it is! Hello please help us? Woo, everything was fixed!" - If it's not that bad, then at least you can see the ending coming about a thousand pages away because Hamilton's idea of a plot is to have the characters come up with a plan and then execute it to the letter. Seriously, once you've read what the characters intend to do, you know what's going to happen at the end: Exactly what they say they're going to do.
That said, I do enjoy his works in the way I enjoy bubblegum, but damnit, writing huge trilogies with endings as unclimactic as Hamilton's is just sadistic.
What are you talking about?
Personally I think the whole line between console and PC is likely to get blurred in the future. When you have a home entertainment system that lets you browse the internet, peruse media and play games, is it a PC or a console? The way the industry seems to be heading, I wouldn't be surprised to see mainstream PCs ditching a lot of the configurability we now have in favour of ready-made packages that provide a tightly controlled user experience. Kind of like consoles. Or maybe consoles will complexify a little further. The point is, with HTPCs and what have you, the trend seems to be to make home PCs more a home appliance and less a highly complex multi-function tool.
Or maybe it's just that the kind of person who likes to have fun and drink with buddies every now and then is less likely to be an obsessive workaholic, and therefore at least slightly less likely to get a lot of brilliant work done. That's probably too simplistic an assumption, but if this negative correllation between beer consumption and scientific output does exist, I'd wager it boils down to some factor or factors that makes a person more likely to work on their projects and less likely to drink.
Eugh. That would *shift* the age balance of the population.
man, subjects^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H citizens with 200-year life expectancies are the last thing any government wants. That would the age balance of the population. Either you get a large amount of people who are too old to be able to work, but too young to have the decency to die, or you get a lot of people who do continue to work and contribute, but are old enough to be cynical and less than less than enthusiastic about going off to die for their government. Physical fitness is not the only reason it's the kids who fight the wars - they're by definition naïve and therefore perfect cannon fodder. The older you get, the more you start to see how much you have to lose by dying.
Besides, 200 years is plenty of time for citizens to develop agendas of their own... I suspect an old, physically and mentally fit population would be a real bitch to control.
Certainly, but linking a card to a user is not the same thing as making the usage statistics traceable to the card, and thus the owner. Or maybe collecting such stats anonymously is harder than I think. I guess if the cops got hold of a person's card, they could use it to make a log entry on the system and see under which usernode in the stats database that information is entered, even if the system itself didn't store the identity of a user with their usage statistics.
...Although, if the reporting is accurate and she did indeed try to walk through a security checkpoint, wearing a bundle of wires and circuitry on her chest without responding to security personnel when they asked what the thing on her shirt was, the blame for that incident lies squarely on the MIT student's shoulders.