Yeah, that's the problem with this line of reasoning; everything is a genetic disability, until it isn't. And a lot of times, you get good and bad. I.e. on the plus side, you're now resistant to malaria. On the negative side, you're now prone to sickle-cell anemia.
The point Darwin tried to make, and that so many people miss, is that evolution isn't a journey to a pre-defined end goal, but an adaptation to specific environments. Today's advantage might be tomorrow's weakness, and vice versa. All the other finches are laughing at your thick, blunt beak, which is useless for picking insects out of narrow holes, until a storm blows a bunch of you over to the next island, where the insects are lacking but there's delicious nuts who's hard shells you can crack with your now mighty and advantageous beak.
I liked some of what they did, but so much of the movie was just a series of straight-up 'take that's' at TFA and the prequels. Rey's parents? Nobodies. Luke's lightsaber? Tossed away, then broken for no good reason. From a certain point of view? Ben and Luke's different perceptions of that fateful night. Poe is a swashbuckling derring-doer and gets his whole squad killed? Fuck you, Star Wars is swashbuckling space opera, it's SUPPOSED to work like that.
My main problem with the Luke story is that it erased all of his growth from ESB and ROTJ, and turned him right back into a whiney little bitch who wanted to go to Tosche Station and pick up some power converters. They could have had him being an inscrutable old master who went into seclusion to discover where he went wrong, and figure out where to go from there, but instead, he was just running away and hiding. He should have been training Rey like an old kung-fu master, or like Yoda. Yoda's force ghost should have shown up and been like 'That bad, was I? So silly, my training techniques were?'
Having Luke's final interaction with Leia and Ben be nothing but an illusion robbed it of EVERYTHING. Luke should have shown up on the planet in person, kissed Leia, apologized for Ben, then strode out and called Ben out. The AT-ATs and what not should have been wiped away with a wave of the hand when they tried to interfere. Luke should have absolutely CLOWNED Ben, then simply turned off his lightsaber, said something like 'You see? Even though I'm far more powerful than you, I still failed. Strength alone is never enough' and Obi-Wan'd out. Rey should have been left on the Falcon, at the end, looking across all of the old Jedi texts, and one new one, written by Luke Skywalker. She should have been the inheritor of his new understanding, the one to actually put it into practice.
Hmmm, this item is $19.95. Lets round it up to 20 bux. 9.417 percent tax, well, lets round it up to 10 percent. I'm going to wind up paying slightly less than 22 bux at the cashier.
I agree with this sentiment in general. I don't agree with this sentiment for the rich corporate executive.
If a poor minority kid is in the wrong time, wrong place situation, and is told to 'just take the deal, they'll throw the book at you if you dare to assert your innocence,' that's a problem.
This guy, however, had enough high-priced lawyers and what not that if he took a plea deal, it was a reasoned and informed decision. If he could have fought it with a decent chance of winning, he would have. If he'd been able to implicate somebody else, he would have.
Gold fluctuates, because it has the same problem that bitcoin has; people mistake it for having intrinsic value, rather than for being a convenient placeholder of value.
No currency has a stable value, but if your game is $39.95 USD last week, and $39.95 USD this week, the difference in the purchasing power of that $39.95 USD between those two time periods is vanishingly small. Apparently, that game should be priced 0.00262 bitcoin today, and 0.00369 bitcoin last week.
Yes. So, how do you price a game in bitcoin? If a game is $39.95 USD, how much bitcoin do you charge for it, if the value of 'one bitcoin' is fluctuating by four thousand dollars over the space of a week?
No, people *think* they're using gold as a safe haven to store wealth.
Historically, gold was an excellent material for currency. Many people have conflated this to mean that gold has intrinsic, universal value. It doesn't.
Your sister could have fed them sugar and just counted calories, they wouldn't be fat.
This is dangerously untrue. Humans are biochemical machines, not physics equations or incinerators. Different inputs trigger different bodily reactions. Sugar (and artificial sweeteners,) for example, kick off insulin. Insulin prompts the body to store fat. High and constant insulin promotes insulin resistance, which promotes more insulin, leading to a vicious cycle.
It really isn't. Japan has something like a 99% conviction rate; the idea really is that if you were charged, you must be guilty. Or the police and prosecutors would lose face if you're found innocent.
The Ace Attorney series was created as a take that (pun intended) against the horrors of the Japanese judicial system.
Aw, man, I remember playing Mean Streets, Life&Death and some Marvel side-scroller on a Hercules monochrome system running a TSR that emulated CGA graphics.
The dictionary definition of 'gross negligence' doesn't apply in this case; you'd need the legal definition, with case law to support your interpretation.
But by that dictionary definition, 'to actively take the care one would of his/her own property,' well, she was sending her own emails, too. By that definition, she would absolutely be treating any 'classified' emails the same as she was treating 'her own' property, and therefore, wouldn't meet this particular definition of 'gross negligence.'
But again, you'd have to look to prior case law and jurisprudence, not a dictionary.
And also by this definition, *any* government official, having gone through security clearances, receiving the proper training, and signing off that they understand their duties, would meet the definition of 'gross negligence' in then not following the rules that they'd explicitly agreed to follow, no?
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Yeah, that's the problem with this line of reasoning; everything is a genetic disability, until it isn't. And a lot of times, you get good and bad. I.e. on the plus side, you're now resistant to malaria. On the negative side, you're now prone to sickle-cell anemia.
The point Darwin tried to make, and that so many people miss, is that evolution isn't a journey to a pre-defined end goal, but an adaptation to specific environments. Today's advantage might be tomorrow's weakness, and vice versa. All the other finches are laughing at your thick, blunt beak, which is useless for picking insects out of narrow holes, until a storm blows a bunch of you over to the next island, where the insects are lacking but there's delicious nuts who's hard shells you can crack with your now mighty and advantageous beak.
Hmmm. I wonder what would happen if you built these into, say, light sockets, or electrical sockets, with narrow sector antennas?
Or build them into the bottom of your monitor, with the sector antenna pointed down and somewhat forward, basically to cover the front of your desk?
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I liked some of what they did, but so much of the movie was just a series of straight-up 'take that's' at TFA and the prequels. Rey's parents? Nobodies. Luke's lightsaber? Tossed away, then broken for no good reason. From a certain point of view? Ben and Luke's different perceptions of that fateful night. Poe is a swashbuckling derring-doer and gets his whole squad killed? Fuck you, Star Wars is swashbuckling space opera, it's SUPPOSED to work like that.
My main problem with the Luke story is that it erased all of his growth from ESB and ROTJ, and turned him right back into a whiney little bitch who wanted to go to Tosche Station and pick up some power converters. They could have had him being an inscrutable old master who went into seclusion to discover where he went wrong, and figure out where to go from there, but instead, he was just running away and hiding. He should have been training Rey like an old kung-fu master, or like Yoda. Yoda's force ghost should have shown up and been like 'That bad, was I? So silly, my training techniques were?'
Having Luke's final interaction with Leia and Ben be nothing but an illusion robbed it of EVERYTHING. Luke should have shown up on the planet in person, kissed Leia, apologized for Ben, then strode out and called Ben out. The AT-ATs and what not should have been wiped away with a wave of the hand when they tried to interfere. Luke should have absolutely CLOWNED Ben, then simply turned off his lightsaber, said something like 'You see? Even though I'm far more powerful than you, I still failed. Strength alone is never enough' and Obi-Wan'd out. Rey should have been left on the Falcon, at the end, looking across all of the old Jedi texts, and one new one, written by Luke Skywalker. She should have been the inheritor of his new understanding, the one to actually put it into practice.
Actually, Texas only recently, as in 2016, allowed open carry of handguns, and then, only for people in possession of a valid concealed carry license.
By that logic, the Sony PSP was a console, not a handheld.
Foreign key to a lookup table, same thing as anything else with an arbitrary number of discrete options.
Hmmm, this item is $19.95. Lets round it up to 20 bux. 9.417 percent tax, well, lets round it up to 10 percent. I'm going to wind up paying slightly less than 22 bux at the cashier.
I agree with this sentiment in general. I don't agree with this sentiment for the rich corporate executive.
If a poor minority kid is in the wrong time, wrong place situation, and is told to 'just take the deal, they'll throw the book at you if you dare to assert your innocence,' that's a problem.
This guy, however, had enough high-priced lawyers and what not that if he took a plea deal, it was a reasoned and informed decision. If he could have fought it with a decent chance of winning, he would have. If he'd been able to implicate somebody else, he would have.
Gold fluctuates, because it has the same problem that bitcoin has; people mistake it for having intrinsic value, rather than for being a convenient placeholder of value.
No currency has a stable value, but if your game is $39.95 USD last week, and $39.95 USD this week, the difference in the purchasing power of that $39.95 USD between those two time periods is vanishingly small. Apparently, that game should be priced 0.00262 bitcoin today, and 0.00369 bitcoin last week.
Yes. So, how do you price a game in bitcoin? If a game is $39.95 USD, how much bitcoin do you charge for it, if the value of 'one bitcoin' is fluctuating by four thousand dollars over the space of a week?
I'll agree. It occurs to me that they're great movies, but they're bad films, if that makes sense.
And just as important, avoid ANY sugar-substitute. Aspartame, stevia, all of it.
Also, do all your eating in an eight hour window.
I have fond memories of lawn darts.
No, people *think* they're using gold as a safe haven to store wealth.
Historically, gold was an excellent material for currency. Many people have conflated this to mean that gold has intrinsic, universal value. It doesn't.
This is dangerously untrue. Humans are biochemical machines, not physics equations or incinerators. Different inputs trigger different bodily reactions. Sugar (and artificial sweeteners,) for example, kick off insulin. Insulin prompts the body to store fat. High and constant insulin promotes insulin resistance, which promotes more insulin, leading to a vicious cycle.
It really isn't. Japan has something like a 99% conviction rate; the idea really is that if you were charged, you must be guilty. Or the police and prosecutors would lose face if you're found innocent.
The Ace Attorney series was created as a take that (pun intended) against the horrors of the Japanese judicial system.
Nonsense. The original Star Trek had tons of 'this changes everything, but next week it never existed' moments. Let alone TNG.
Well, the problem with that is that we, right now, have better tech than the TOS Enterprise.
Could you really make a TOS era show in this day and age, with banks of toggle switches and blinkenlights?
Personally, I think Discovery is doing a fine job of trying to be evocative of the original series, without looking like horrible 60s throwback.
They said the same thing about radio. And books.
Aw, man, I remember playing Mean Streets, Life&Death and some Marvel side-scroller on a Hercules monochrome system running a TSR that emulated CGA graphics.
Ah, remember the days of the Pronto?
Except that 3 + 3 * 3 does, in fact, equal 12.
If you'd typed '3 + 3 [enter] * 3 [enter]' you'd get 18.
Type in an equation, get an answer to the equation. Type in a sequence of discrete operations, get the answer to a sequence of discrete operations.
And we trust that nobody will just make a copy of the parcel cubby keys and check the parcel cubbies every day.
The dictionary definition of 'gross negligence' doesn't apply in this case; you'd need the legal definition, with case law to support your interpretation.
But by that dictionary definition, 'to actively take the care one would of his/her own property,' well, she was sending her own emails, too. By that definition, she would absolutely be treating any 'classified' emails the same as she was treating 'her own' property, and therefore, wouldn't meet this particular definition of 'gross negligence.'
But again, you'd have to look to prior case law and jurisprudence, not a dictionary.
And also by this definition, *any* government official, having gone through security clearances, receiving the proper training, and signing off that they understand their duties, would meet the definition of 'gross negligence' in then not following the rules that they'd explicitly agreed to follow, no?