The police can badger you into submission by simply ticketing you for this every time, and then taking it to court every time.
Except after a couple of times that the police lose, YOUR lawyer can sue the department for legal harassment. Why do you think that the families of Mafia members aren't always in court, except for protections like this?
Or D) GoDaddy has managed to get Danica Patrick in even less clothing in their commercial. Or one of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition models, etc.
Prove that you are right to them, or it is just your religious dogma. Maybe the "flowering plant" trait reoccurred, like stripes in the two types of horse that we call zebras which are more closely related to Equus equus than to each other (or at least, so I am claiming without citing supporting evidence)?
Biology isn't just a collection of meaningless facts, or Linneaus' original prejudices, after all.
I can understand an international CT force made up of NATO members, but a private yet government created/sponsored counterterrorism company/agency? Plus the fact that the Emir was obviously bin Laden.
Plausible deniability, perhaps, if the Company was "private" rather than officially government? Changing an obvious OBL into "the Emir" was done so that the character didn't become dated, like Prince Charles in Patriot Games did.
I will say he also ruined politics for me. I would absolutely love someone like Jack as president, but we will never have someone like that get far enough in our politics to actually get there.
Jack DIDN'T get anywhere in politics. He became President because of multiple catastrophes, and was re-elected due to terrible (as in terribly clumsy) opposition after he literally saves every voter's life, by his actions against the (first) Plague. The situation that would be equivalent would be the post Civil War period, where the main qualification for Grant and the next few presidents was that they were successful generals, not politicians.
You mean microwave ovens with the door interlock wired around so that they can broadcast to the skies, and attract all the HARM missiles? Serbians already did that.
Hopefully, newer HARMs can ignore oven frequencies.
That was stupid of them. I turned in my Windows phone within the two week deadline, and got my iPhone before my new contract was even billed.
The Lumia wasn't bad, mind you, just not really good, and lots of friends have iPhones so I could get advice/support until I figured out how everything worked without having to wait for a class at the provider's store.
And he got the psychologist lady (and away from his frenemy!). And he got onto the Tour for the next year without having to go through Q School. And, if he learns to postpone his meltdowns just a bit longer, he'll win next year's Open.
Learn to think through your analogies before using them.
Anyway, Tin Cup kept trying for the hole to prove to it that he COULD do it. That he became immortal was just a side-benefit that he didn't think about until the love-interest pointed it out.
Or read anything by H. Beam Piper, especially Lord Kalvan Of Otherwhen, where the entire multi-timeline cosmology and pre-history is laid out by someone who should know, as his timeline had no decline after the migration from Mars.
No, but they were successful enough to attempt settling Vinland, and to send roughly-yearly lumbering expeditions for a century after the Skralings chased them out. Their surpluses probably went into internal growth until the climate change suddenly made life untenable, there. If they had learned more from the eskimos they might have been able to keep going.
Maybe we will have societies where people can relax all day because there is no need for them to work. Maybe one day the most intelligent people will be offered a chance to live in luxurious accommodations that are not available to the rest of society, in exchange for working -- while everyone else can spend their days relaxing sans luxury.
Already here. Welfare - where no one is hungry, but the poor are over-weight because they cannot afford health club memberships, and just 42 inch flat screens, not 60 inchers. How many people do the police pick up off the streets any day because they have starved to death?
Well, eventually only the upper middle and lower upper classes will work, all other jobs being de-skilled to the point that machines can handle them, while the ex-lumpen-proletariat will sit around discussing Snookie or the Kardassians, rather than Homer or the latest Nobel Prize winning authors like the drones of the upper classes (vs. how to run their hedge funds, like the workers of the upper classes).
PS, it wasn't that great of a novel. Shitty characterization, for one thing.
Coal miners in West Virginia will not be replaced by other/better jobs in WVa that ex-coal miners can perform. In fact, they will probably not be replaced by jobs that the average ex-miner can perform anywhere else in the world, and being on well-paying welfare doesn't give one a sense that one's life matters.
Taxi drivers - already replaced by people driving their own cars, or shared cars in the city centers. Limo drivers - the driver is ALL the service, which is why they wear livery. If it was just keeping drunk prom-goers from driving, they would call a cab. Couriers - Damned if I know. I suspect that unbonded couriers get replaced by FedEx/UPS already, and bonded couriers are there to maintain chain of custody. Mitt Romney's chauffeur is not a driver, he is security, well-trained in anti-kidnapping offensive driving, the non-criminal version of Joe Valachi when he was the driver for the first Capo di Tutti Capi (see the movie The Valachi Files). He will be the last type of driver replaced, along with bank robber wheelman. NASCAR drivers - might become the off-time job of moonshiners, again, like it started out. Those people started out paying to race go-karts when they were kids, after all. Formula One definitely dies when the first computer wins the World Championship, and polo players start accepting sponsors and visible ads.
BTW, the reason that the London Underground trains still have engineers is that the maintanance workers went on strike, or at least threatened to, unless their "brothers' jobs" were preserved, sometime in the past. It is called featherbedding and also explains why non-passenger trains have conductors.
In primitive societies, grandmotherhood often occurs before menopause. If marriage occurs at 15, and it takes one year for the first child (actually, it often takes around six months for the first child, although nine for all subsequent ones:-), then women will often become grandmothers in their early 30s, while they are still fertile.
Overall though I just dislike the trend to finding the "reason" for something in evolution.
This trend came closely after Darwin's first book, so you might as well accept it. While there is no reason for what Darwin called "sport" (i.e., new characteristics showing up seemingly at random), the other side of evolution, the premature death of the less fit due to starvation, privation, or predation, especially before they have bred enough offspring to replace themselves, certainly has a reason behind it.
Don't be stupid. The problem is that even if all the CO2 in the atmosphere were chemically fixed, the Sun would continue warming to the point that the worst predictions of the Global Warming crowd would be considered Paradise. That will happen in a half billion years or less, unless we can move the planet out in orbit, first, or if some small portion of humans have moved and established a breeding population, much like all of Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas were populated, supposedly, by two groups of a few thousand individuals escaping Africa thousands of years apart.
If the biker starts beating your head against a surface so that you think that you might die, even if subsequent testing proves that the (say) wall will give before your head, yes, you can legally shoot him. If he is merely ahead on points as determined by the Marquis Of Queensbury Rules, no.
Sorry, but self defense doesn't apply to people who start the fight only if they start it by trying to kill their opponent. If Zimmerman had brandished his gun and Martin pulled one and shot him, Martin would have been found Not Guilty, too.
Hispanics are NOT white on government forms. In fact, hypothetical whites who are pure Visigoth whose ancestors moved from Spain to Latin America would not be able to call themselves "white" on most forms that I have seen because what was once called "Caucasian" is actually described as "Non-Hispanic White" on those forms. Just to make it more silly, a Spaniard would be a Non-Hispanic White unless he had a lot of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (that was not Boer or English colonial) and could "pass".
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The police can badger you into submission by simply ticketing you for this every time, and then taking it to court every time.
Except after a couple of times that the police lose, YOUR lawyer can sue the department for legal harassment. Why do you think that the families of Mafia members aren't always in court, except for protections like this?
Or D) GoDaddy has managed to get Danica Patrick in even less clothing in their commercial. Or one of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition models, etc.
Prove that you are right to them, or it is just your religious dogma. Maybe the "flowering plant" trait reoccurred, like stripes in the two types of horse that we call zebras which are more closely related to Equus equus than to each other (or at least, so I am claiming without citing supporting evidence)?
Biology isn't just a collection of meaningless facts, or Linneaus' original prejudices, after all.
The mini-series with Richard Chamberlain was a good adaptation of the book.
I can understand an international CT force made up of NATO members, but a private yet government created/sponsored counterterrorism company/agency? Plus the fact that the Emir was obviously bin Laden.
Plausible deniability, perhaps, if the Company was "private" rather than officially government? Changing an obvious OBL into "the Emir" was done so that the character didn't become dated, like Prince Charles in Patriot Games did.
I will say he also ruined politics for me. I would absolutely love someone like Jack as president, but we will never have someone like that get far enough in our politics to actually get there.
Jack DIDN'T get anywhere in politics. He became President because of multiple catastrophes, and was re-elected due to terrible (as in terribly clumsy) opposition after he literally saves every voter's life, by his actions against the (first) Plague. The situation that would be equivalent would be the post Civil War period, where the main qualification for Grant and the next few presidents was that they were successful generals, not politicians.
Umm, this was the BBC.
Which means it was probably Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear having his usual fun when in the USA.
Because Alaskans aren't all that crazy about security. Come on, do you really expect a moose to hijack an airplane?
Only if he has a flying squirrel as an accomplice. And William Conrad doing voice-over from the dead.
The F-16; the most beautiful fighter jet ever built..EVER!
Technically, that honor goes to the YF12A, the fighter version of the SR71 Blackbird.
Of course, those were only prototypes for a scrapped program (the design was later redone into the Blackbird), rather than deployed aircraft.
You mean microwave ovens with the door interlock wired around so that they can broadcast to the skies, and attract all the HARM missiles? Serbians already did that.
Hopefully, newer HARMs can ignore oven frequencies.
That was stupid of them. I turned in my Windows phone within the two week deadline, and got my iPhone before my new contract was even billed.
The Lumia wasn't bad, mind you, just not really good, and lots of friends have iPhones so I could get advice/support until I figured out how everything worked without having to wait for a class at the provider's store.
And he got the psychologist lady (and away from his frenemy!). And he got onto the Tour for the next year without having to go through Q School. And, if he learns to postpone his meltdowns just a bit longer, he'll win next year's Open.
Learn to think through your analogies before using them.
Anyway, Tin Cup kept trying for the hole to prove to it that he COULD do it. That he became immortal was just a side-benefit that he didn't think about until the love-interest pointed it out.
Or read anything by H. Beam Piper, especially Lord Kalvan Of Otherwhen, where the entire multi-timeline cosmology and pre-history is laid out by someone who should know, as his timeline had no decline after the migration from Mars.
No, but they were successful enough to attempt settling Vinland, and to send roughly-yearly lumbering expeditions for a century after the Skralings chased them out. Their surpluses probably went into internal growth until the climate change suddenly made life untenable, there. If they had learned more from the eskimos they might have been able to keep going.
Maybe we will have societies where people can relax all day because there is no need for them to work. Maybe one day the most intelligent people will be offered a chance to live in luxurious accommodations that are not available to the rest of society, in exchange for working -- while everyone else can spend their days relaxing sans luxury.
Already here. Welfare - where no one is hungry, but the poor are over-weight because they cannot afford health club memberships, and just 42 inch flat screens, not 60 inchers. How many people do the police pick up off the streets any day because they have starved to death?
Well, eventually only the upper middle and lower upper classes will work, all other jobs being de-skilled to the point that machines can handle them, while the ex-lumpen-proletariat will sit around discussing Snookie or the Kardassians, rather than Homer or the latest Nobel Prize winning authors like the drones of the upper classes (vs. how to run their hedge funds, like the workers of the upper classes).
PS, it wasn't that great of a novel. Shitty characterization, for one thing.
Coal miners in West Virginia will not be replaced by other/better jobs in WVa that ex-coal miners can perform. In fact, they will probably not be replaced by jobs that the average ex-miner can perform anywhere else in the world, and being on well-paying welfare doesn't give one a sense that one's life matters.
Taxi drivers - already replaced by people driving their own cars, or shared cars in the city centers.
Limo drivers - the driver is ALL the service, which is why they wear livery. If it was just keeping drunk prom-goers from driving, they would call a cab.
Couriers - Damned if I know. I suspect that unbonded couriers get replaced by FedEx/UPS already, and bonded couriers are there to maintain chain of custody.
Mitt Romney's chauffeur is not a driver, he is security, well-trained in anti-kidnapping offensive driving, the non-criminal version of Joe Valachi when he was the driver for the first Capo di Tutti Capi (see the movie The Valachi Files). He will be the last type of driver replaced, along with bank robber wheelman.
NASCAR drivers - might become the off-time job of moonshiners, again, like it started out. Those people started out paying to race go-karts when they were kids, after all. Formula One definitely dies when the first computer wins the World Championship, and polo players start accepting sponsors and visible ads.
BTW, the reason that the London Underground trains still have engineers is that the maintanance workers went on strike, or at least threatened to, unless their "brothers' jobs" were preserved, sometime in the past. It is called featherbedding and also explains why non-passenger trains have conductors.
In primitive societies, grandmotherhood often occurs before menopause. If marriage occurs at 15, and it takes one year for the first child (actually, it often takes around six months for the first child, although nine for all subsequent ones :-), then women will often become grandmothers in their early 30s, while they are still fertile.
Overall though I just dislike the trend to finding the "reason" for something in evolution.
This trend came closely after Darwin's first book, so you might as well accept it. While there is no reason for what Darwin called "sport" (i.e., new characteristics showing up seemingly at random), the other side of evolution, the premature death of the less fit due to starvation, privation, or predation, especially before they have bred enough offspring to replace themselves, certainly has a reason behind it.
The old testament still contains many norms regulating polygamous live.
Of course, the Old Testament Hebrews were not agricultural, but pastoral, especially at the time when many of the rules were made.
If Zimmerman had brandished his gun and Martin pulled one and shot him, Martin would have been found Not Guilty, too.
I really, truly wish that I believed this.
Ask Ron Goldman's and Nicole Brown Simpson's families if a black man can get a Not Guilty verdict in America.
Don't be stupid. The problem is that even if all the CO2 in the atmosphere were chemically fixed, the Sun would continue warming to the point that the worst predictions of the Global Warming crowd would be considered Paradise. That will happen in a half billion years or less, unless we can move the planet out in orbit, first, or if some small portion of humans have moved and established a breeding population, much like all of Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas were populated, supposedly, by two groups of a few thousand individuals escaping Africa thousands of years apart.
You should have used "median" rather than "mean" to contrast with "average". The average is precisely the same as the arithmetic mean.
If the biker starts beating your head against a surface so that you think that you might die, even if subsequent testing proves that the (say) wall will give before your head, yes, you can legally shoot him. If he is merely ahead on points as determined by the Marquis Of Queensbury Rules, no.
Sorry, but self defense doesn't apply to people who start the fight only if they start it by trying to kill their opponent. If Zimmerman had brandished his gun and Martin pulled one and shot him, Martin would have been found Not Guilty, too.
Hispanics are NOT white on government forms. In fact, hypothetical whites who are pure Visigoth whose ancestors moved from Spain to Latin America would not be able to call themselves "white" on most forms that I have seen because what was once called "Caucasian" is actually described as "Non-Hispanic White" on those forms. Just to make it more silly, a Spaniard would be a Non-Hispanic White unless he had a lot of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (that was not Boer or English colonial) and could "pass".
Or The Machine, itself.