Wow. How can I find this wonderful world of make-believe? Will I find Candy Mountain? Oh please, oh please!
That's easy enough. Create something. Write a novel, perform some music. Simple, right?
What I would like, my "Candy Mountain," is where I can call in sick to work, not do anything for a whole day, and still get paid as if I did something productive.
No they are the terms to a legally binding contract. What's your point?
I think my point would be that clause that's usually in there stating that they can unilaterally change the anything in the TOS at any time, rape your mother, help themselves to your beer, etc, without notice before or afterhand to you. That's not how terms of a contract work.
Four force?
Weak, Strong, Electromagnetic and...? The fourth is Gravity.
It was a typo. I was initially typing "into four seperate force carriers" and forgot to remove "four" after I edited it to what it is.
And the reason for the original edit was that the divergence didn't happen all at once. First came gravity, then came electromagnetic some time later, and so on. I didn't want to imply a superforce carrier, which suddenly became 4 force carrier types.
> I co-wrote 'Never Gonna Give You Up', which Rick Astley performed in the eighties, and which must have been played more than 100 million times on YouTube - owner Google. My PRS for Music income in the year ended September 2008 was £11.
Translation: I did some work back in the 80's, and I still want collect paychecks from it.
Wow. How can I find this wonderful world of make-believe? Will I find Candy Mountain? Oh please, oh please!
Not really, DNA is just a salt by itself it is not really dangerous. Consider if you have eaten anything that was at some point a living object (such as a steak or piece of fruit or a vegetable). That stuff is full of DNA and it hasn't killed you yet.
I am surprised that the forensics lab that has been doing this testing did not run the appropriate negative control (cotton swab only) in their PCRs. DNA evidence alone would not lead to a conviction especially if this woman has alibis for the times these crimes were committed (such as she was busy packing cotton swabs at the time of the murder).
Actually, I do believe it's a technically an acid, Deoxyribonucleic acid (which by definition, can be combined with a base to get salt, water, and some heat).
I don't think anyone was actually worried about the DNA being dangerous. I think it was more along the lines of whatever microbes are hitching a ride along with the swabs, since obviously the packer seems to be making all sorts of meaningful contact with the cotton.
Well, I'd like to think that the defense (had it gotten to that stage) would have made the connection that the woman being charged for two dozen random and unconnected crimes works in a Q-tip factory and that maybe, just maybe, she coughed on a box along the way.
She must cough on each one, extra-special-like. She's been doing it for 8 years...
And this one is just for you, Detective Jimbo Junior...>hack< >wheeze< >bloodsplutter<
Except the fact that they have no proof of a TOS violation and only shut you off on the say-so of a corporation known to falsely accuse people of said violation.
They actually started out with an electronic democrat, but it consumed too much power and didn't do anything useful. When they tried to cut off the power to it, it caught on fire and burned until they turned the power back on.
He posted links to child porn. That's not "doing something right". That's disgusting. Uncovering links to sites that shouldn't've been censored is good; I'm all for saying "hey look the Australian government's censoring us and these pro-lifers". Uncovering links to sites that should never have existed and whose owners should be, at least, jailed for the rest of their life, is bad. Knee-jerk reactions of either kind are completely unnecessary.
The domain was registered to him. It doesn't mean he actually posted anything. It's a wiki site, which potentially means anyone could post something. I could be wrong, and maybe he had some sort of editorial control, which would legally be a pitfall for him.
That aside, if he posted the list in its entirety (or nearly enough so), and it was for protestant purposes, then I completely stand by him. I'm guessing the majority of internet users aren't into child pornography per se. These lists will quickly morph into something far worse, and probably already doing so. First its CP sites. Then it's websites that companies see as competition. Before you know it, the governments all use it to control any communication that isn't in line with their official position.
Sunshine has a habit of melting bad legislation: the good of posting these secret lists far outweighs the evil of some perverts getting their jollies.
You're a pathetic troll, and you know it. So do the moderators.
So says the anonymous coward. Why don't you come out of the shadows, my little anonymous friend? Since you're obviously not a troll, you have nothing to fear, but fear itself, right?
Let's make sure I understand this correctly, since maybe I'm not following.
Not only did the hospital not actually move and the Daleks moved the planet out from under it, but they achieved this by moving the episodes out from under the planet, which they did by moving the seasons out from under the episodes, the sidekicks, and the villians?
This just gets freakier and freakier!
"Richard Stallman has published an article which warns about the 'Javascript trap' posed by non-free AJAX-based applications. The article calls for a mechanism which would enable browsers to identify freely-licensed Javascript applications and run modified version thereof. 'It is possible to release a Javascript program as free software,' Stallman writes. 'But even if the program's source is available, there is no easy way to run your modified version instead of the original... The effect is comparable to tivoization, although not quite so hard to overcome.'"
Show me a libertarian who has a snowball's chance in hell of winning, and I'll vote for him.
Substitute any third party for 'libertarian' above and your statement makes just as little sense.
What's the point of voting for someone who is going to win anyway? Might as well just stay home.
Reverse that, and it makes just as much sense: What's the point of voting for someone who is going to lose anyway? Might as well just stay home.
Of course, the two major parties would have you believe that if you don't vote for a major party candidate, you're just "wasting your vote" -- which is utter bullshit. You're only wasting your vote if you vote for someone who doesn't support the policies you believe in. Yeah, your guy may not get elected, but at least you did your bit -- and if enough other people feel the same way you do (including rejecting the nonense about "wasting votes"), then your guy might actually make it.
Or at least put a big enough dent in the major parties' vote numbers to make them reconsider their policies.
This two-party bullshit is actually an artifact of the winner-takes-all system we have. If the guy I really want to win takes votes away from the guy who is most likely to win against the guy I really hate, then I strategically don't vote for my favorite. I vote against the guy who I don't like. That's a flawed system.
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There will never be a point in voting Libertarian.
1) The candidate won't win.
2) You'll only peel votes from a Republican.
3) Some of them are scarier than the devils we know.
Show me a libertarian who has a snowball's chance in hell of winning, and I'll vote for him. I didn't like all of Ron Paul's stuff, but I liked a lot of it. Damn the major parties, full speed ahead.
When weighed against a possible loss of lives, the cost of an hour's business at a Windmill is insignificant.
This argument can be used to justify anything the police decide to do, even if as in this case, there was NO RISK AT ALL. As in the even sillier case of the "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" hysteria in Boston. Even if the frontline staff know, or should have known, that there was no danger at all, the response by ass-covering bureaucrats is to declare a full terror alert.
And all the airline security measures, the idiotic restrictions on liquids because of a fantasy threat that could never have been carried out are the same. NO ONE IS SAFER because of this security theatre.
Ironically, one can use security theatre to waste vast amounts of resources. For instance, one sets up hoax devices around in legal spots (with the tag on them "this is not a bomb"). Noone ever claims it was a bomb, so nothing illegal happens. Of course, the authorities scramble to verify that they aren't bombs, wasting inordinate resources and looking like complete goobers.
We need to tear down the security theatre if we're ever to win our freedom back. But I'm not counting on any help from the sheeple.
There have been physicists who've gotten wrapped up in the "cult" of mathematics. Stereotypically and anecdotally as a generality perhaps but the 'cult of math' effect is not really limited to any particular discipline, it's more to do with the person and their inclinations and the institutions they are a part of, I've seen great economists, engineers, and intelligent businessmen have similar opinions.
It all comes down to what you've been exposed to.
As long as you keep it in your head that math is the language used to describe the model, you don't fall into the trap you're describing. That's what it is, a language. Nothing more, nothing less.
Note to whoever moderated me: Take off the beer goggles. They're making you mod the wrong post as troll. I believe you meant to mod the AC who responded to this post.
The troll moderation is not intended for use because you disagree with me.
Unfortunately mathematics has a cult like tendency to draw people in, in the real world numbers don't mean anything without someone vetting the numbers.
FYI: Those someones are called physicists and cosmologists.
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Wow. How can I find this wonderful world of make-believe? Will I find Candy Mountain? Oh please, oh please!
That's easy enough. Create something. Write a novel, perform some music. Simple, right?
What I would like, my "Candy Mountain," is where I can call in sick to work, not do anything for a whole day, and still get paid as if I did something productive.
I have two words for you: 1099E.
Also, WHOOSH!
This sounds inherently stupid. How many people send an e-mail, just to think: "oh no!" 2 - 4 seconds later.
A lot. I've had this happen. It happens no /. to.
Not that a TOS is a legally binding contract...
No they are the terms to a legally binding contract. What's your point?
I think my point would be that clause that's usually in there stating that they can unilaterally change the anything in the TOS at any time, rape your mother, help themselves to your beer, etc, without notice before or afterhand to you. That's not how terms of a contract work.
Four force? Weak, Strong, Electromagnetic and ...? The fourth is Gravity.
It was a typo. I was initially typing "into four seperate force carriers" and forgot to remove "four" after I edited it to what it is.
And the reason for the original edit was that the divergence didn't happen all at once. First came gravity, then came electromagnetic some time later, and so on. I didn't want to imply a superforce carrier, which suddenly became 4 force carrier types.
Four force? Weak, Strong, Electromagnetic and ...? The fourth is Gravity.
It was a typo. I was initially typing "into four seperate force carriers" and forgot to remove "four" after I edited it to what it is.
> I co-wrote 'Never Gonna Give You Up', which Rick Astley performed in the eighties, and which must have been played more than 100 million times on YouTube - owner Google. My PRS for Music income in the year ended September 2008 was £11.
Translation: I did some work back in the 80's, and I still want collect paychecks from it.
Wow. How can I find this wonderful world of make-believe? Will I find Candy Mountain? Oh please, oh please!
oh come on guys, i know posting here is like watching a train wreck, but.. let's stop hopping onto the bandwagon, shall we?
Better not keep going down this way. I think the light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
Not really, DNA is just a salt by itself it is not really dangerous. Consider if you have eaten anything that was at some point a living object (such as a steak or piece of fruit or a vegetable). That stuff is full of DNA and it hasn't killed you yet. I am surprised that the forensics lab that has been doing this testing did not run the appropriate negative control (cotton swab only) in their PCRs. DNA evidence alone would not lead to a conviction especially if this woman has alibis for the times these crimes were committed (such as she was busy packing cotton swabs at the time of the murder).
Actually, I do believe it's a technically an acid, Deoxyribonucleic acid (which by definition, can be combined with a base to get salt, water, and some heat).
I don't think anyone was actually worried about the DNA being dangerous. I think it was more along the lines of whatever microbes are hitching a ride along with the swabs, since obviously the packer seems to be making all sorts of meaningful contact with the cotton.
Well, I'd like to think that the defense (had it gotten to that stage) would have made the connection that the woman being charged for two dozen random and unconnected crimes works in a Q-tip factory and that maybe, just maybe, she coughed on a box along the way.
She must cough on each one, extra-special-like. She's been doing it for 8 years...
And this one is just for you, Detective Jimbo Junior...>hack< >wheeze< >bloodsplutter<
Except the fact that they have no proof of a TOS violation and only shut you off on the say-so of a corporation known to falsely accuse people of said violation.
Not that a TOS is a legally binding contract...
omg they have invented an electronic republican.
now they have a chance in the next election.
They actually started out with an electronic democrat, but it consumed too much power and didn't do anything useful. When they tried to cut off the power to it, it caught on fire and burned until they turned the power back on.
He posted links to child porn. That's not "doing something right". That's disgusting. Uncovering links to sites that shouldn't've been censored is good; I'm all for saying "hey look the Australian government's censoring us and these pro-lifers". Uncovering links to sites that should never have existed and whose owners should be, at least, jailed for the rest of their life, is bad. Knee-jerk reactions of either kind are completely unnecessary.
The domain was registered to him. It doesn't mean he actually posted anything. It's a wiki site, which potentially means anyone could post something. I could be wrong, and maybe he had some sort of editorial control, which would legally be a pitfall for him.
That aside, if he posted the list in its entirety (or nearly enough so), and it was for protestant purposes, then I completely stand by him. I'm guessing the majority of internet users aren't into child pornography per se. These lists will quickly morph into something far worse, and probably already doing so. First its CP sites. Then it's websites that companies see as competition. Before you know it, the governments all use it to control any communication that isn't in line with their official position.
Sunshine has a habit of melting bad legislation: the good of posting these secret lists far outweighs the evil of some perverts getting their jollies.
Why do I find the notion of reflecting gravity waves frightening?
Beats me. They don't appear to have killed you yet, and they've probably been around since gravity differentiated from the other four force carriers.
Quick, claim you're being persecuted.
You're a pathetic troll, and you know it. So do the moderators.
So says the anonymous coward. Why don't you come out of the shadows, my little anonymous friend? Since you're obviously not a troll, you have nothing to fear, but fear itself, right?
So, let me get this straight... The hospital didn't actually move, the Daleks moved the planet out from under it?
Different episode, different villains and different seasons, different (at least, extra) sidekicks, for that matter:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/episodes/S3_01 versus http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/episodes/S4_12
Let's make sure I understand this correctly, since maybe I'm not following.
Not only did the hospital not actually move and the Daleks moved the planet out from under it, but they achieved this by moving the episodes out from under the planet, which they did by moving the seasons out from under the episodes, the sidekicks, and the villians?
This just gets freakier and freakier!
"Richard Stallman has published an article which warns about the 'Javascript trap' posed by non-free AJAX-based applications. The article calls for a mechanism which would enable browsers to identify freely-licensed Javascript applications and run modified version thereof. 'It is possible to release a Javascript program as free software,' Stallman writes. 'But even if the program's source is available, there is no easy way to run your modified version instead of the original ... The effect is comparable to tivoization, although not quite so hard to overcome.'"
Mr Stallman, we already have a standard for this.
For your reference, please refer to RFC 3514 and the relevant wikipedia article.
In one Dr. Who episode, the Daleks moved the entire planet.
So, let me get this straight...
The hospital didn't actually move, the Daleks moved the planet out from under it?
Anyone else picture a guy jumping into a cab and telling the driver to "follow that building"?
Are you the weird guy who's been following me around with the camera as I hungrily stalk buildings in my natural environment?
Show me a libertarian who has a snowball's chance in hell of winning, and I'll vote for him.
Substitute any third party for 'libertarian' above and your statement makes just as little sense.
What's the point of voting for someone who is going to win anyway? Might as well just stay home.
Reverse that, and it makes just as much sense: What's the point of voting for someone who is going to lose anyway? Might as well just stay home.
Of course, the two major parties would have you believe that if you don't vote for a major party candidate, you're just "wasting your vote" -- which is utter bullshit. You're only wasting your vote if you vote for someone who doesn't support the policies you believe in. Yeah, your guy may not get elected, but at least you did your bit -- and if enough other people feel the same way you do (including rejecting the nonense about "wasting votes"), then your guy might actually make it.
Or at least put a big enough dent in the major parties' vote numbers to make them reconsider their policies.
This two-party bullshit is actually an artifact of the winner-takes-all system we have. If the guy I really want to win takes votes away from the guy who is most likely to win against the guy I really hate, then I strategically don't vote for my favorite. I vote against the guy who I don't like. That's a flawed system.
There will never be a point in voting Libertarian.
1) The candidate won't win. 2) You'll only peel votes from a Republican. 3) Some of them are scarier than the devils we know.
Show me a libertarian who has a snowball's chance in hell of winning, and I'll vote for him. I didn't like all of Ron Paul's stuff, but I liked a lot of it. Damn the major parties, full speed ahead.
When weighed against a possible loss of lives, the cost of an hour's business at a Windmill is insignificant.
This argument can be used to justify anything the police decide to do, even if as in this case, there was NO RISK AT ALL. As in the even sillier case of the "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" hysteria in Boston. Even if the frontline staff know, or should have known, that there was no danger at all, the response by ass-covering bureaucrats is to declare a full terror alert.
And all the airline security measures, the idiotic restrictions on liquids because of a fantasy threat that could never have been carried out are the same. NO ONE IS SAFER because of this security theatre.
Ironically, one can use security theatre to waste vast amounts of resources. For instance, one sets up hoax devices around in legal spots (with the tag on them "this is not a bomb"). Noone ever claims it was a bomb, so nothing illegal happens. Of course, the authorities scramble to verify that they aren't bombs, wasting inordinate resources and looking like complete goobers.
We need to tear down the security theatre if we're ever to win our freedom back. But I'm not counting on any help from the sheeple.
There have been physicists who've gotten wrapped up in the "cult" of mathematics. Stereotypically and anecdotally as a generality perhaps but the 'cult of math' effect is not really limited to any particular discipline, it's more to do with the person and their inclinations and the institutions they are a part of, I've seen great economists, engineers, and intelligent businessmen have similar opinions.
It all comes down to what you've been exposed to.
As long as you keep it in your head that math is the language used to describe the model, you don't fall into the trap you're describing. That's what it is, a language. Nothing more, nothing less.
Note to whoever moderated me: Take off the beer goggles. They're making you mod the wrong post as troll. I believe you meant to mod the AC who responded to this post.
The troll moderation is not intended for use because you disagree with me.
Unfortunately mathematics has a cult like tendency to draw people in, in the real world numbers don't mean anything without someone vetting the numbers.
FYI: Those someones are called physicists and cosmologists.
Hear hear! The voice of reason. Hannity, is that you?