I would argue that the government agencies were traitors to the American people, and that Snowden selflessly exposed said treachery the only route that he knew how (since he saw his other whistleblower peers fired and discredited when they brought ethics concerns to the leadership).
Some people giggled, therefore it is a joke and complete work of art, and therefore copyrightable. Nobody can use the word "peepee" without express permission of me.
Absurd enough yet?
Because the idea that any statement or phrase, no matter how lame, could be construed as a joke and therefore copyrightable sure is.
He isn't talking about ignorance of the law, he is talking about law enforcement having to stretch a law so ambiguous and I'll defined that law enforcement can't figure out of it applies. Since LEOs aren't judges or legislature, it really isn't supposed to be within their power to make that determination.
To me, the most perverse thing is that the kid did nothing morally wrong or hurt anyone, but LEO is trying to find a way to punish him for scaring some chickenshits? That, to me, is just disgusting.
Yea, since when did Capitalism and the free market become equated with Affirmative Action?
I know a lot of companies pay lip service to the unquantifiable "benefits of diversity", but that doesn't mean tech companies are now a social program to artificially inflate minority numbers.
Especially since nowadays, there are often as many or more minority employees of all sorts of backgrounds (Jewish, all flavors of Asian, just not the "disadvantaged" minorities) than there are "white" (which is bullshit anyways, there are lots of disadvantaged white skinned ethnicities as well, which are conveniently ignored), simply because of what is available on the market and who is most competitive.
I say, it is 2015, fuck the ideas of race and skin color. People are people, and let us compete on an equal field in that sense. If the poor need help, then let us help them, but don't color the argument.
This coming from someone who has the ADVANTAGE of being able to self identify as either white or Hispanic on a whim (since most Hispanics have Spanish ancestry, the choice is cultural and left up to the person).
It isn't like coal fired power plants have a magic mystery electricity fairy inside them.... they need rare earths as well. Coal just has tons of problems ON TOP of the problems that green energy has.
All of those things are true of asphalt as well. Asphalt is just bitumen (flammable, brittle in cold, melts in sunlight), and sand/gravel(slippery when wet). There really isn't anything stopping them from putting gravel in a plastic matrix and ending up with something not much different than asphalt. Except stronger and less brittle so that you can transport it in preformed sections.
" a country very similar to the United States... The U.S. has some problems that Australia doesn't have. It's got a lot more racial crimes, it's got a lot more gun-related crimes"
Australia has twice the burglary rate and a higher rape rate. Australia has a ban happy nanny-state government. Australia has a lot of race crimes against Aborigines that just aren't reported in their pop media. Australia's cost of living is almost twice what it is in the U.S. Australia still has a fucking queen.
Australia is like the U.S. except with the fun and awesome parts removed, and instead replaced with the U.K.
Probably because nature's goal isn't a trivial experiment and there are many other factors we don't understand because we haven't had millions of years to try out the other DNA form in actual living organisms.
It probably has been tried in single celled organisms many millions of times, and there is probably a very good reason why it didn't stick.
If society has devolved to the point where it is acceptable to clamp down on unpopular (aka offensive) speech, then please, kill me now. I want no part of a society like that.
You actually brought up something interesting, maybe without even realizing it. This seems like a vector for asymmetrical warfare if a rogue nation could send up a single launch into LEO and have it spew millions of pieces in a direction most satellites aren't travelling but also in their orbits...
The economic cost to clean the space or to risk the area-denial for any space launch passing through the weaponized junk would be tremendous.
Yea, which is ironic given almost every Google Nexus 7 owner has screamed "NO GOOGLE I DO NOT WANT THAT UPDATE" to 5.1, which bricked or permabogged down tens of thousands of devices and caused people to have to manually reflash to 5.0 or older.
Pedantically pointing out the term was used as a portmanteau wasn't actually an argument, by the way. Given how many redditors aren't dudebros (unless dudebro now includes their 41% female), your post doesn't absolve the GGP as being a small minded bigot.
Hey man, don't mock them. We all know how DMCA and other anti-piracy legislation kept movies/music from being available illegally. Just think how well it will keep something that someone actually wants from being available.
Given the average cost of land in Greece is around €7k/acre as far as I can tell, or €4.5m/sq mile. Greece is only 51k square miles. Greece's GDP is only €220m.
Now that they're bordering on default, I'd be okay with them paying in dirt. Maybe 10x the value of the land, or 1/10th their area. Or at least putting that on the table to light their fires and maybe scare them into doing something financially responsible for once.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I am sure the problem isn't entirely their fault, but I would have more sympathy of they spent more effort working than whining, and instead of protesting austerity actually started acting austere with their milk and honey pension/retirement system and culture of sleeping on the job/corruption.
The article is more than a little disingenuous. A more appropriate title would have been "The F35 multirole strike fighter can't dogfight against one of the greatest air superiority dog fighting planes every designed".
The F22 is the competition for the F16. The F35 is the competition for the F18 Superhornet and the A10.
No shit the F35 can't compete against the F16. It was never designed to.
Diversity metrics are bullshit anyways. The people that I know who were hired by Facebook were Jewish, a group that, while having white-ish skin, is just as discriminated against as blacks are.
But is that taken into consideration? Humankind isn't divided into white, asian, hispanic, and black.
Also depends on the company. Not all companies only have one product. For me, a promotion would mean working on a very different project. If I can't hand off my work, I can't be promoted.
I think we Americans enjoy the Imperial system so much because of how upset it makes NonAmericans that we use a completely fucking arbitrary set of measures instead of THEIR completely arbitrary set of measures, and we haven't been peer pressured into adopting the other arbitrary set of measures in 100+ years.
And as for that bullshit about logical units your science teacher told you, here is the historical definition of a metre before being redefines to be more precise but just as arbitrary in 1983:
"1 â„ 10,000,000 of the distance from the Earth's equator to the North Pole measured on the circumference through Paris."
And the candela:
"The candlepower, which is based on the light emitted from a burning candle of standard properties."
And now the Imperial units are pegged to the redefined Metric ones anyways.
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Your argument was nothing more than snarl words.
I would argue that the government agencies were traitors to the American people, and that Snowden selflessly exposed said treachery the only route that he knew how (since he saw his other whistleblower peers fired and discredited when they brought ethics concerns to the leadership).
Snowden only made obvious how America failed us.
"Peepee"
Some people giggled, therefore it is a joke and complete work of art, and therefore copyrightable. Nobody can use the word "peepee" without express permission of me.
Absurd enough yet?
Because the idea that any statement or phrase, no matter how lame, could be construed as a joke and therefore copyrightable sure is.
First, there has never been any evidence of photographic memory. Self reporting photographic memory is akin to him self reporting having a 24" penis.
Second, Qi is a commonly played word even in novice games, as it is one of the few Q words that can be played without a U.
He isn't talking about ignorance of the law, he is talking about law enforcement having to stretch a law so ambiguous and I'll defined that law enforcement can't figure out of it applies. Since LEOs aren't judges or legislature, it really isn't supposed to be within their power to make that determination.
To me, the most perverse thing is that the kid did nothing morally wrong or hurt anyone, but LEO is trying to find a way to punish him for scaring some chickenshits? That, to me, is just disgusting.
Yea, since when did Capitalism and the free market become equated with Affirmative Action?
I know a lot of companies pay lip service to the unquantifiable "benefits of diversity", but that doesn't mean tech companies are now a social program to artificially inflate minority numbers.
Especially since nowadays, there are often as many or more minority employees of all sorts of backgrounds (Jewish, all flavors of Asian, just not the "disadvantaged" minorities) than there are "white" (which is bullshit anyways, there are lots of disadvantaged white skinned ethnicities as well, which are conveniently ignored), simply because of what is available on the market and who is most competitive.
I say, it is 2015, fuck the ideas of race and skin color. People are people, and let us compete on an equal field in that sense. If the poor need help, then let us help them, but don't color the argument.
This coming from someone who has the ADVANTAGE of being able to self identify as either white or Hispanic on a whim (since most Hispanics have Spanish ancestry, the choice is cultural and left up to the person).
It isn't like coal fired power plants have a magic mystery electricity fairy inside them.... they need rare earths as well. Coal just has tons of problems ON TOP of the problems that green energy has.
All of those things are true of asphalt as well. Asphalt is just bitumen (flammable, brittle in cold, melts in sunlight), and sand/gravel(slippery when wet). There really isn't anything stopping them from putting gravel in a plastic matrix and ending up with something not much different than asphalt. Except stronger and less brittle so that you can transport it in preformed sections.
... I can definitively and objectively say...
That claim is not true.
In fact, I said "When the quality is back, I'll give it another look." just the other day... about Neil Young's music.
It is costing 3.5b USD just for the first phase of adding one new route to the DC Metro
" a country very similar to the United States... The U.S. has some problems that Australia doesn't have. It's got a lot more racial crimes, it's got a lot more gun-related crimes"
Australia has twice the burglary rate and a higher rape rate. Australia has a ban happy nanny-state government. Australia has a lot of race crimes against Aborigines that just aren't reported in their pop media. Australia's cost of living is almost twice what it is in the U.S. Australia still has a fucking queen.
Australia is like the U.S. except with the fun and awesome parts removed, and instead replaced with the U.K.
Probably because nature's goal isn't a trivial experiment and there are many other factors we don't understand because we haven't had millions of years to try out the other DNA form in actual living organisms.
It probably has been tried in single celled organisms many millions of times, and there is probably a very good reason why it didn't stick.
If society has devolved to the point where it is acceptable to clamp down on unpopular (aka offensive) speech, then please, kill me now. I want no part of a society like that.
You actually brought up something interesting, maybe without even realizing it. This seems like a vector for asymmetrical warfare if a rogue nation could send up a single launch into LEO and have it spew millions of pieces in a direction most satellites aren't travelling but also in their orbits...
The economic cost to clean the space or to risk the area-denial for any space launch passing through the weaponized junk would be tremendous.
Yea, which is ironic given almost every Google Nexus 7 owner has screamed "NO GOOGLE I DO NOT WANT THAT UPDATE" to 5.1, which bricked or permabogged down tens of thousands of devices and caused people to have to manually reflash to 5.0 or older.
Pedantically pointing out the term was used as a portmanteau wasn't actually an argument, by the way. Given how many redditors aren't dudebros (unless dudebro now includes their 41% female), your post doesn't absolve the GGP as being a small minded bigot.
Hey man, don't mock them. We all know how DMCA and other anti-piracy legislation kept movies/music from being available illegally. Just think how well it will keep something that someone actually wants from being available.
Given the average cost of land in Greece is around €7k/acre as far as I can tell, or €4.5m/sq mile. Greece is only 51k square miles. Greece's GDP is only €220m.
Now that they're bordering on default, I'd be okay with them paying in dirt. Maybe 10x the value of the land, or 1/10th their area. Or at least putting that on the table to light their fires and maybe scare them into doing something financially responsible for once.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I am sure the problem isn't entirely their fault, but I would have more sympathy of they spent more effort working than whining, and instead of protesting austerity actually started acting austere with their milk and honey pension/retirement system and culture of sleeping on the job/corruption.
It is possible they are dressed up as Telco workers, but given their knowledge of the fiber lines, they couldn't possibly BE Telco workers...
Ah, you're right. I had the F16 and F15 mixed up. whoops.
The article is more than a little disingenuous. A more appropriate title would have been "The F35 multirole strike fighter can't dogfight against one of the greatest air superiority dog fighting planes every designed".
The F22 is the competition for the F16. The F35 is the competition for the F18 Superhornet and the A10.
No shit the F35 can't compete against the F16. It was never designed to.
Diversity metrics are bullshit anyways. The people that I know who were hired by Facebook were Jewish, a group that, while having white-ish skin, is just as discriminated against as blacks are.
But is that taken into consideration? Humankind isn't divided into white, asian, hispanic, and black.
Also Virginia, I pay $55/mo for 105/10 from Comcast, get 127/12 in reality.
Also depends on the company. Not all companies only have one product. For me, a promotion would mean working on a very different project. If I can't hand off my work, I can't be promoted.
I think we Americans enjoy the Imperial system so much because of how upset it makes NonAmericans that we use a completely fucking arbitrary set of measures instead of THEIR completely arbitrary set of measures, and we haven't been peer pressured into adopting the other arbitrary set of measures in 100+ years.
And as for that bullshit about logical units your science teacher told you, here is the historical definition of a metre before being redefines to be more precise but just as arbitrary in 1983:
"1 â„ 10,000,000 of the distance from the Earth's equator to the North Pole measured on the circumference through Paris."
And the candela:
"The candlepower, which is based on the light emitted from a burning candle of standard properties."
And now the Imperial units are pegged to the redefined Metric ones anyways.
The obvious answer is that returning 0 for 0/0 would be a lie.