Leisure Suit Larry had a type of DRM to prove you were an adult and not a teenager playing the game - by asking questions only adults of that time would know (and kids wouldn't have likely learned in history books, yet.)
And no one ever talked to their parents or grandparents? Or older siblings, for that matter? What were these uqestions, anyway?
I am not French and so have no axe to grind but this is a pretty lame anti-french statement. What espionage issues did they have from WWI and WWII?
You know they won WWI don't you? and covered more of the front than the British and late arriving Americans.
They won WWI by losing a horrendous portion of the military-age generation, about 1/3 of all males. They lost WWII quite quickly, as well. If they were spending all their espionage efforts on beating Germany and Great Britain economically, rather than militarily, it might explain the poor performance.
Ever since the French chose, correctly IMHO, to not enter the Gulf war there are these continual attacks on the French. I have no problem attacking the French personally, but these attacks are totally undeserved. It would be the equivalent of attacking the Americans for losing Vietnam, the ware of 1812 and failing to win the Korean war. Are the Americans "surrender monkeys" too?
Actually, the USA has been attacking the French since the XYZ Affair, and before that, when we made a separate peace with Great Britain at the end of our Revolution, all the negotiators congratulated each other, as the French were screwed out of any gains, and we might be independent politically but we were still English emotionally. Except during the time of England's Kings John and Henry VI, the Sun King, and Napoleon, the French have demonstrated a certain lack of seriousness to military affairs that only their size seemed to compensate for, thus their problem with strong English monarchs and unified German governments.
And that was tossed out in a few years, when we started reading the Japanese Empire's mail after they invaded China. By that time, even Stimson realized that he was full of it.
And, of course, were posted with a copy of the poster's US passport to prove their citizenship? After all, on the Internet, no one can know that you are a cat/45 yr old man in his underwear/13 yr old hot teenage girl/etc.
Alright, no ordinary person. Various intelligence agencies, maybe, but you aren't one.
Well you DO realize that we learned everything we know (except the Japanese Purple code, and maybe the Venona Intercepts) from British Intelligence? So I guess that we were your Mini-Me, first.
Well, my father thought that we fought WWII because the Germans did bad things to the Jews. People believe all sorts of juvenile things if you let them.
PS: If the KGB was so good, why did the USSR fall and not NATO? Or are you one of those who think that it is all just strategic deception?
Damn those Chinese! The French bribes should have been enough, but the nasty Americans were able to lower their price (or raised their assistance fees, or whatever the Chinese euphemism for bribes is). Surely that is only because of secret information, because there is no way that the Chinese may have passed on the best offer received in hopes of a better one. That would be unpossible!
The fact that you know about CIA Factbooks, let alone may have read one or two, should demonstrate just how little intelligence information it contains. One may as well take the writings of the local Chamber Of Commerce as gospel.
1) Espionage has been going on before governance got past the "Big Man" phase.
2) Every other government bugs and/or spies on their rivals, even their friendly (right now) rivals, or wishes that it could (Rwanda bugging wherever the Hutu genocidals went might be hard for it). The French are notorious for this (mainly concerned with economic espionage since WWII; if before, it might explain the problems that they had in WWII and WWI).
3) Spying is certainly illegal in any given country, providing that it is some other country spying on the given country. If it is the given country spying in its own country on others, or country A spying on country B in country C, it becomes a very different matter, and is usually NOT illegal, although it might get someone declare Persona Non Grata.
4) Since when is the EU a sovereign government, that it has an embassy in Washington? Is this like certain governments which recognize American Indian tribes' passports, just to demonstrate their superiority since going "nyah, nyah, you suck" didn't work well enough? In this case, since it claims rights over territory owned by NATO countries, it MUST be an enemy, and we have every right and even a duty to treat it as hostile.
As opposed to cash in nonconsecutive $20 bills, which are trivial to trace, and which record all transactions directly at the nearest IRS office? OP and grandparent ACs have it right. This is tangentially about anything in which nerds would be interested, as nerds.
The problem with your statement is that it will be interpreted completely differently depending on your stance on the subject. For your post to spur a relevant discussion and have real meaning you would have to elaborate a bit more.
How about: Joseph Mengele had a scientific education.
Of course, the question in the summary is about engineers, like Osama bin Laden, or alternately Massoud Shah (who led the Northern Alliance before being assassinated by al Quaeda the day before the Towers were attacked). One on each side should work better.
Bastard! That was MY life you were describing! OK, I was never in danger of flunking out; going on forever because an English course was required, rather than being just another distribution course, maybe.
OTOH, I missed my chance to take German because I finally passed my English course in my last semester, after I registered for the next under the assumption that I would flunk the English course, again.
In America, it's common for universities to have some sort of general education program, which takes up about 2 years of a 4 year degree. I honestly don't know why John Horgan has the idea that engineers *don't* take humanities courses.
Where I went, engineering students could get through to their BE without having to take any courses outside of the Math, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, and Business departments, and most tried for that. The only Philosophy course that most took was really more like Boolean Logic. Of course, we DID joking call the place "The Trades School For Scientists and Engineers" (despite its having a world-famous Acting Department, in the Arts College).
Many Engineering Departments do prefer to cram just engineering into their students, and enough Accounting to understand the Business majors that would inevitably be their bosses at some time or another, and leave the flakes in the Humanities alone. Any Humanities education that a student wanted was a distribution course, and taking a followup to one course would not be counted towards the distribution requirements so all that you would take were the 101 Intro To X courses, which are more survey courses than anything else. The only way to take more would be to try the Perpetual Student path, if you had enough money to afford it.
Science never taught a Flat Earth, from at least the time of Aristotle, who had a proof of the curvature of the Earth in one of his works. Given the quality of the proof, it was probably old when he wrote it down. The polar circumference of the Earth was fairly accurately calculated before the death of Augustus.
You mean: Plato _claimed_ that Socrates disagreed with most of the other citizens of Athens, and according to his shaded view of things that we get, Socrates was right and the citizens wrong. The citizens of Athens were interested in preserving their just-recovered democracy, and it is agreed by everyone that his most famous students tended to disagree with it, some like Alcibiades ended up disagreeing treasonously (and there has to be a reason that Xenophon never returned to Athens from the Persian Expedition, but moved to another city, despite being an Athenian noble), which rather implies that he was at best a long-term danger, rather as if the Cambridge Ring had a common teacher known to be a Soviet apologist. Of course, he could also have been trying to commit suicide-by-assembly, being in his 80s.
BTW, how do YOU know what gods Socrates worshipped? All we can be sure is that he claimed to have consulted the Pythia, and to have received a boot-licking answer.
The only problem is if they believe that the world doesn't exist because they are solipsists. Kill them, and what if they are right?:-)
Anyway, most everyone believes that it exists, the trick is that not all believe it is worth knowing more about it. I would point out that Plato's version of Socrates did not, really. Xenophon's version was a bit more grounded, but no one reads anything by X., anymore, other than the Anabasis, and that because it is a cracking good adventure, at least when compared to The Republic.
Why worry about that? Now that homosexuality is acceptable and they can marry, they will not be accidentally "contaminating" the heterosexual gene pool (Oscar Wilde had 3 children with his wife, England's Edward II had 4 legitimate and at least 1 illegitimate offspring; both were notoriously homosexual according to history), and any genes which lead to likely homosexuals will quickly breed themselves out (or unbreed themselves, or however you describe it). Soon, only the genes which lead to somewhat higher chances of homosexuality in 5th and later sons will survive, as they express too infrequently to matter except over hundreds of generations. Perhaps they should have thought about that before they decided to come out of the closet.
Are you trying to argue that there's a specific subgenre of scif that is the only "real Science Fiction"? Because that sounds pretty close to a No True Scotsman situation.
Ozspeed's question was about legality, not import duties. An old Metallica CD would probably be viewed as worth however much or little you choose to value it, including valueless. An old Metallica rip (if noticed) would still be illegal, as they would presume that you intended to redistribute them. Hence my suggestion that the legal way would be to just move with the original physical media and something to read (and rip) them.
(And there are probably rules regarding its prescription and administration - I'm neither a doctor nor an American to know these minutiae.)
Heroin can never be prescribed for a patient (nor marijuana nor LSD) according to Federal regs. It *can* be used for research purposes, but those licenses are harder to get than one for a working 50 caliber machine gun with ammo. Importing nuclear weapons might be easier (we had a project to import Russian surplus nukes to be spread into our reactor fuel), but I would not bet either way on the question.
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Leisure Suit Larry had a type of DRM to prove you were an adult and not a teenager playing the game - by asking questions only adults of that time would know (and kids wouldn't have likely learned in history books, yet.)
And no one ever talked to their parents or grandparents? Or older siblings, for that matter? What were these uqestions, anyway?
I am not French and so have no axe to grind but this is a pretty lame anti-french statement. What espionage issues did they have from WWI and WWII?
You know they won WWI don't you? and covered more of the front than the British and late arriving Americans.
They won WWI by losing a horrendous portion of the military-age generation, about 1/3 of all males. They lost WWII quite quickly, as well. If they were spending all their espionage efforts on beating Germany and Great Britain economically, rather than militarily, it might explain the poor performance.
Ever since the French chose, correctly IMHO, to not enter the Gulf war there are these continual attacks on the French. I have no problem attacking the French personally, but these attacks are totally undeserved. It would be the equivalent of attacking the Americans for losing Vietnam, the ware of 1812 and failing to win the Korean war. Are the Americans "surrender monkeys" too?
Actually, the USA has been attacking the French since the XYZ Affair, and before that, when we made a separate peace with Great Britain at the end of our Revolution, all the negotiators congratulated each other, as the French were screwed out of any gains, and we might be independent politically but we were still English emotionally. Except during the time of England's Kings John and Henry VI, the Sun King, and Napoleon, the French have demonstrated a certain lack of seriousness to military affairs that only their size seemed to compensate for, thus their problem with strong English monarchs and unified German governments.
And that was tossed out in a few years, when we started reading the Japanese Empire's mail after they invaded China. By that time, even Stimson realized that he was full of it.
I'm serious, though: Germany needs to start showing leadership.
Yeah, because that worked out so well the last time. Or the time before that.
And, of course, were posted with a copy of the poster's US passport to prove their citizenship? After all, on the Internet, no one can know that you are a cat/45 yr old man in his underwear/13 yr old hot teenage girl/etc.
Alright, no ordinary person. Various intelligence agencies, maybe, but you aren't one.
Well you DO realize that we learned everything we know (except the Japanese Purple code, and maybe the Venona Intercepts) from British Intelligence? So I guess that we were your Mini-Me, first.
Well, my father thought that we fought WWII because the Germans did bad things to the Jews. People believe all sorts of juvenile things if you let them.
PS: If the KGB was so good, why did the USSR fall and not NATO? Or are you one of those who think that it is all just strategic deception?
Damn those Chinese! The French bribes should have been enough, but the nasty Americans were able to lower their price (or raised their assistance fees, or whatever the Chinese euphemism for bribes is). Surely that is only because of secret information, because there is no way that the Chinese may have passed on the best offer received in hopes of a better one. That would be unpossible!
Nonsense. Superman either stands and takes the oncoming train, or he flies. Running is so ... Flash.
The fact that you know about CIA Factbooks, let alone may have read one or two, should demonstrate just how little intelligence information it contains. One may as well take the writings of the local Chamber Of Commerce as gospel.
When has country X spying on country Y ever started a war between the two of them?
1) Espionage has been going on before governance got past the "Big Man" phase.
2) Every other government bugs and/or spies on their rivals, even their friendly (right now) rivals, or wishes that it could (Rwanda bugging wherever the Hutu genocidals went might be hard for it). The French are notorious for this (mainly concerned with economic espionage since WWII; if before, it might explain the problems that they had in WWII and WWI).
3) Spying is certainly illegal in any given country, providing that it is some other country spying on the given country. If it is the given country spying in its own country on others, or country A spying on country B in country C, it becomes a very different matter, and is usually NOT illegal, although it might get someone declare Persona Non Grata.
4) Since when is the EU a sovereign government, that it has an embassy in Washington? Is this like certain governments which recognize American Indian tribes' passports, just to demonstrate their superiority since going "nyah, nyah, you suck" didn't work well enough? In this case, since it claims rights over territory owned by NATO countries, it MUST be an enemy, and we have every right and even a duty to treat it as hostile.
Well, it is, but it gets overwritten too fast for anyone to see unless they read the HTML source.
As opposed to cash in nonconsecutive $20 bills, which are trivial to trace, and which record all transactions directly at the nearest IRS office? OP and grandparent ACs have it right. This is tangentially about anything in which nerds would be interested, as nerds.
The problem with your statement is that it will be interpreted completely differently depending on your stance on the subject.
For your post to spur a relevant discussion and have real meaning you would have to elaborate a bit more.
How about: Joseph Mengele had a scientific education.
Of course, the question in the summary is about engineers, like Osama bin Laden, or alternately Massoud Shah (who led the Northern Alliance before being assassinated by al Quaeda the day before the Towers were attacked). One on each side should work better.
Bastard! That was MY life you were describing! OK, I was never in danger of flunking out; going on forever because an English course was required, rather than being just another distribution course, maybe.
OTOH, I missed my chance to take German because I finally passed my English course in my last semester, after I registered for the next under the assumption that I would flunk the English course, again.
In America, it's common for universities to have some sort of general education program, which takes up about 2 years of a 4 year degree. I honestly don't know why John Horgan has the idea that engineers *don't* take humanities courses.
Where I went, engineering students could get through to their BE without having to take any courses outside of the Math, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, and Business departments, and most tried for that. The only Philosophy course that most took was really more like Boolean Logic. Of course, we DID joking call the place "The Trades School For Scientists and Engineers" (despite its having a world-famous Acting Department, in the Arts College).
Many Engineering Departments do prefer to cram just engineering into their students, and enough Accounting to understand the Business majors that would inevitably be their bosses at some time or another, and leave the flakes in the Humanities alone. Any Humanities education that a student wanted was a distribution course, and taking a followup to one course would not be counted towards the distribution requirements so all that you would take were the 101 Intro To X courses, which are more survey courses than anything else. The only way to take more would be to try the Perpetual Student path, if you had enough money to afford it.
Science never taught a Flat Earth, from at least the time of Aristotle, who had a proof of the curvature of the Earth in one of his works. Given the quality of the proof, it was probably old when he wrote it down. The polar circumference of the Earth was fairly accurately calculated before the death of Augustus.
Can we please quit repeating this meme, soon?
Unless he was an engineer seeking to minimize complexity in his first designs, then re-used the same designs with subsequent minor modifications.
Besides, some people like anal (supposedly).
You mean: Plato _claimed_ that Socrates disagreed with most of the other citizens of Athens, and according to his shaded view of things that we get, Socrates was right and the citizens wrong. The citizens of Athens were interested in preserving their just-recovered democracy, and it is agreed by everyone that his most famous students tended to disagree with it, some like Alcibiades ended up disagreeing treasonously (and there has to be a reason that Xenophon never returned to Athens from the Persian Expedition, but moved to another city, despite being an Athenian noble), which rather implies that he was at best a long-term danger, rather as if the Cambridge Ring had a common teacher known to be a Soviet apologist. Of course, he could also have been trying to commit suicide-by-assembly, being in his 80s.
BTW, how do YOU know what gods Socrates worshipped? All we can be sure is that he claimed to have consulted the Pythia, and to have received a boot-licking answer.
The only problem is if they believe that the world doesn't exist because they are solipsists. Kill them, and what if they are right? :-)
Anyway, most everyone believes that it exists, the trick is that not all believe it is worth knowing more about it. I would point out that Plato's version of Socrates did not, really. Xenophon's version was a bit more grounded, but no one reads anything by X., anymore, other than the Anabasis, and that because it is a cracking good adventure, at least when compared to The Republic.
Why worry about that? Now that homosexuality is acceptable and they can marry, they will not be accidentally "contaminating" the heterosexual gene pool (Oscar Wilde had 3 children with his wife, England's Edward II had 4 legitimate and at least 1 illegitimate offspring; both were notoriously homosexual according to history), and any genes which lead to likely homosexuals will quickly breed themselves out (or unbreed themselves, or however you describe it). Soon, only the genes which lead to somewhat higher chances of homosexuality in 5th and later sons will survive, as they express too infrequently to matter except over hundreds of generations. Perhaps they should have thought about that before they decided to come out of the closet.
Are you trying to argue that there's a specific subgenre of scif that is the only "real Science Fiction"? Because that sounds pretty close to a No True Scotsman situation.
Yes. Written Science Fiction. All else is SyFy.
Ozspeed's question was about legality, not import duties. An old Metallica CD would probably be viewed as worth however much or little you choose to value it, including valueless. An old Metallica rip (if noticed) would still be illegal, as they would presume that you intended to redistribute them. Hence my suggestion that the legal way would be to just move with the original physical media and something to read (and rip) them.
(And there are probably rules regarding its prescription and administration - I'm neither a doctor nor an American to know these minutiae.)
Heroin can never be prescribed for a patient (nor marijuana nor LSD) according to Federal regs. It *can* be used for research purposes, but those licenses are harder to get than one for a working 50 caliber machine gun with ammo. Importing nuclear weapons might be easier (we had a project to import Russian surplus nukes to be spread into our reactor fuel), but I would not bet either way on the question.