I'm not sure where the OP is coming from. Australia has always been about the suburbs. There's nothing like NYC in Australia (for example) where a chunk of the population actually lives in the city rather than in the surrounding suburbs.
Of course it is. Each ticket has a 1 in N chance of winning, if you buy N tickets you have a 100% of winning (and still lose money but that's not relevant).
And no if you buy 50 lottery tickets you don't buy two tickets with the exact same numbers on them.
Sure if you add such a retarded idea to it then yes buying 50 tickets would not give you 50 times the chance of winning over buying 1 ticket. If, however, you aren't retarded then those 50 tickets will in fact give you 50 times the chance of winning (assuming there are at least 50 possible outcomes in the lottery of course). Overlapping numbers other than exact duplicate tickets make no difference - you win if you match everything if it's a pick 5 numbers and I have two tickets 1,2,3,4,5 and 1,2,3,4,6 then I have doubled my chances of winning.over having one ticket, which should be obvious enough I now cover two of the equally likely potential outcomes instead of one.
And of course the individual tickets chances doesn't go up, I'm not sure why you thought it worth pointing out the completely obvious. And of course no ticket diminishes the chance of any other ticket are you arguing with voices in your head or something?
One is removing the tool because it has a criminal use, and one is just you being stupid.
The same reasoning would be: Some people drink alcohol and then drive killing innocent people, thus we should make alcohol illegal. Or some people write viruses that do untold damage to businesses thus we should ban personal computers. Some people arrange murders via cell phone, thus we should ban all cell phones.
All of those work as as arguments against the basis of the original argument without requiring the construction of a completely unrelated straw man.
That thermal energy is transferred from your body to the environment twice as fast.
"Hot" and "cold" are not temperatures. A piece of metal that has a temperature of 0F will feel *much* colder when you touch it with your hand than a piece of cardboard that has a temperature of 0F.
I'm pretty sure they cover this in grade school science and then keep going back to it all the way up to physics at universities.
And this won't change anything for any of those people, so how is that overreach?
How exactly do you think changing something from being illegal to do at all, to being legal to do as long as you do the mountain of paperwork could make that thing harder to do? Just don't do the paperwork and you are just as illegal as you were before and thus nothing has changed at all.
I take it you also line up at the bank waiting for a teller rather than using the ATM outside. After all what happened to the poor human who used to do that work? Do you get a discount for now doing their labor?
And never use those check in machines at the airport let alone online check in (taking away the job of the guy who services the machines at the airport as well).
And of course cracked will run anything. Never mind that it was never approved for field testing - Ingham made that up (ok she claimed to have "received this information from third party sources and was mistaken about it").
Because we don't assume safety. Nothing stops you from making a GM crop that produces a poison toxic to humans (lots of non-GM plants already do after all) that of course doesn't mean that all GM products are unsafe.
It's pretty simple economics, which you surely must have come across at some point in the past?
Money that would have come into America will now not go into America. That means higher prices on imports (less exports to balance them currency wise) - though this really doesn't seem to apply to America for the moment since the rest of the world is happy with dollars anyway. That means a loss of jobs in America which means both lower tax revenues and higher spending on welfare - bad if you happen to be an American tax payer. And of course the knock on effects on suppliers and so on.
And no Boeing didn't have a "right" to the business. But actions of the US government seem to have cost them some business and you would expect there to be less noisy instances as well. Which is a cost of those actions and hence should factor in future cost/benefit decisions about future actions (but of course will not).
No one cares about the 3x income limit for a buying a house. That went out the window with down payments and needing an income back in the over a decade ago.
You would think a housing bust would have changed that, but just to pick a random google result try:
Enter 12500 for the monthly income and click to the results, you won't see anything anywhere near $450000 (yes that ignores the insurance and property tax fields, it's not exactly accurate anyway...)
1) My copy is in English. You can get Monopoly in German does that make it geeky too? I guess I've never associated foreign languages* with geekiness - does having an English game make a non-English speaker geeky?
2) There are huge numbers of board games for adults. Many far more than the the simple and short Carcassonne which is clearly a game made with children in mind.
* Well OK collecting Japanese cartoons and insisting on subtitles does have some connection with geekiness...
And I'm pretty sure none of the books I have on my bookcases are big-ass etched stones either. I also suspect there's a better chance of one of my e-books still existing in 2,000 years than one of my paperbacks. I doubt either will, but the paperback is more likely to become ash in a house fire or mush in a flood than the file.
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You have that pretty much exactly backwards.
Sure these are wikiepedia but you can follow the darn references if you hate that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream - Freedom and opportunity to move upwards in society through work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Dream - I want to own me a house.
I'm not sure where the OP is coming from. Australia has always been about the suburbs. There's nothing like NYC in Australia (for example) where a chunk of the population actually lives in the city rather than in the surrounding suburbs.
So basically, you don't know what the word confirmed means?
Of course it is. Each ticket has a 1 in N chance of winning, if you buy N tickets you have a 100% of winning (and still lose money but that's not relevant).
And no if you buy 50 lottery tickets you don't buy two tickets with the exact same numbers on them.
Sure if you add such a retarded idea to it then yes buying 50 tickets would not give you 50 times the chance of winning over buying 1 ticket. If, however, you aren't retarded then those 50 tickets will in fact give you 50 times the chance of winning (assuming there are at least 50 possible outcomes in the lottery of course). Overlapping numbers other than exact duplicate tickets make no difference - you win if you match everything if it's a pick 5 numbers and I have two tickets 1,2,3,4,5 and 1,2,3,4,6 then I have doubled my chances of winning.over having one ticket, which should be obvious enough I now cover two of the equally likely potential outcomes instead of one.
And of course the individual tickets chances doesn't go up, I'm not sure why you thought it worth pointing out the completely obvious. And of course no ticket diminishes the chance of any other ticket are you arguing with voices in your head or something?
No it's nothing like that line of reasoning.
One is removing the tool because it has a criminal use, and one is just you being stupid.
The same reasoning would be: Some people drink alcohol and then drive killing innocent people, thus we should make alcohol illegal. Or some people write viruses that do untold damage to businesses thus we should ban personal computers. Some people arrange murders via cell phone, thus we should ban all cell phones.
All of those work as as arguments against the basis of the original argument without requiring the construction of a completely unrelated straw man.
No, that is exactly how it works.
the mainland United States as a synonym for the contiguous United States is hardly unheard of.
That thermal energy is transferred from your body to the environment twice as fast.
"Hot" and "cold" are not temperatures. A piece of metal that has a temperature of 0F will feel *much* colder when you touch it with your hand than a piece of cardboard that has a temperature of 0F.
I'm pretty sure they cover this in grade school science and then keep going back to it all the way up to physics at universities.
He meant the post cold war definition of third world obviously.
He is one of the ten people who turned up. The other 140 people didn't turn up.
Which of course would put him in the "sucker" group, but that doesn't make the statement confusing.
And this won't change anything for any of those people, so how is that overreach?
How exactly do you think changing something from being illegal to do at all, to being legal to do as long as you do the mountain of paperwork could make that thing harder to do? Just don't do the paperwork and you are just as illegal as you were before and thus nothing has changed at all.
Which clearly doesn't define treason as "Allegiance to a foreign country".
Bullshit.
If not then please point out the part of the constitution that provides that ridiculous definition.
Which rather than answering the question makes it even more of a good question.
Given that the live editing in drive is "from wave" what does wave offer that drive does not?
Whereas I've found for those times where I have one item to buy the self check outs have been fast and easy.
I take it you also line up at the bank waiting for a teller rather than using the ATM outside. After all what happened to the poor human who used to do that work? Do you get a discount for now doing their labor?
And never use those check in machines at the airport let alone online check in (taking away the job of the guy who services the machines at the airport as well).
Because planning is for people with a brain cell or two.
Those are great references. The first one gets the paper citation completely wrong, they probably mean http://ucbiotech.org/issues_pgl/ARTICLES/soil_sterilization/KlebsiellaHolmes1999.pdf - Different issue, different authors, different title - you know they put effort into fact checking!
And of course cracked will run anything. Never mind that it was never approved for field testing - Ingham made that up (ok she claimed to have "received
this information from third party sources and was mistaken about it").
Because we don't assume safety. Nothing stops you from making a GM crop that produces a poison toxic to humans (lots of non-GM plants already do after all) that of course doesn't mean that all GM products are unsafe.
It says that supersymmertry predicts a larger dipole moment, that's why it would be in question.
If you want to know why supersymmetry makes that prediction then you aren't going to get that in a new article or a slashdot post. There are lots of resources available for learning SUSY, or jump in the deep end with something random like http://www.springer.com/physics/particle+and+nuclear+physics/book/978-4-431-54543-9
It's in the summary for fuck sake.
It's pretty simple economics, which you surely must have come across at some point in the past?
Money that would have come into America will now not go into America. That means higher prices on imports (less exports to balance them currency wise) - though this really doesn't seem to apply to America for the moment since the rest of the world is happy with dollars anyway. That means a loss of jobs in America which means both lower tax revenues and higher spending on welfare - bad if you happen to be an American tax payer. And of course the knock on effects on suppliers and so on.
And no Boeing didn't have a "right" to the business. But actions of the US government seem to have cost them some business and you would expect there to be less noisy instances as well. Which is a cost of those actions and hence should factor in future cost/benefit decisions about future actions (but of course will not).
No one cares about the 3x income limit for a buying a house. That went out the window with down payments and needing an income back in the over a decade ago.
You would think a housing bust would have changed that, but just to pick a random google result try:
http://www.myfico.com/loancenter/mortgage/calculators/loanbalancelimit.aspx
Enter 12500 for the monthly income and click to the results, you won't see anything anywhere near $450000 (yes that ignores the insurance and property tax fields, it's not exactly accurate anyway...)
1) My copy is in English. You can get Monopoly in German does that make it geeky too? I guess I've never associated foreign languages* with geekiness - does having an English game make a non-English speaker geeky?
2) There are huge numbers of board games for adults. Many far more than the the simple and short Carcassonne which is clearly a game made with children in mind.
* Well OK collecting Japanese cartoons and insisting on subtitles does have some connection with geekiness...
You mightn't call being in the top 9% of households incomes "exceptionally affluent", but the other 91% of people probably do.
Not all of them http://www.vidstone.com/ProductsGeneral.aspx?productID=26
And I'm pretty sure none of the books I have on my bookcases are big-ass etched stones either. I also suspect there's a better chance of one of my e-books still existing in 2,000 years than one of my paperbacks. I doubt either will, but the paperback is more likely to become ash in a house fire or mush in a flood than the file.