Requiring everyone to stay in their homes after dark would also reduce crime (well aside from the "outside after dark offense") should we get on setting that up?
Implanting everyone with some sort of microchip that electrocutes them if they leave their government assigned house, work, or path from home to work would also reduce crime I suspect.
Having the police arbitrarily search everyone's property at whim would likely also reduce crime, so that's a good idea, right?
Most people vote above the line for the senate and hence do in fact let the party they picked choose for them. I want to say they shouldn't, but given how much thought the average voter puts into their vote letting the party they think they like the most choose is probably actually better.
But, this is how you win senate seats in Australia - if you're a tiny party then you want to keep those preferences in with the minor parties for as long as possible. I remember the table cloth ballot paper in the NSW elections many years ago - I even cared enough to vote below the line...
You don't have to be able to be able to afford to buy the car in order to own stock in the company. Though if you owned enough of it early enough one could lead to the other.
Most western democracies don't have their children pledging allegiance to the flag on a daily basis. American exceptionalism is pretty exceptional as well, most western democracies don't claim such a thing for their countries.
It has nothing to do with actual propulsion (despite the title) - just changing the relative positions of groups of satellites without changing the center of mass of the group. External (nonuniform) magnetic fields would cause problems (I suspect anyway) making the task more difficult and limiting just how far apart things can get while still using this system.
But is our brain that existed before writing actually triggered by writing specifically? Or is that essentially learned behavior from years of schooling that uses writing in learning? The brain predates writing after all.
If people typed notes from day 1 in school would the act of typing "trigger the learning centre of the brain"?
Not that that sounds like a good thing, pen and paper is nice and quiet. And having to copy notes by rewriting them rather than ctrl-C, ctrl-V seems a good thing in itself.
You can use the atmosphere to slow down without having landing as a plane.
See basically everything but the space shuttle that has gone into orbit and returned to earth.
Doesn't mean you want to use a rocket rather than a wing or parachute of course, but doing so does not mean you don't use the amosphere to shed as much velocity as possible.
"We are subject to a variety of claims and lawsuits"
Clearly states the existence of lawsuits. And then the rest is "guess what, if we lose some it could cost us lots of money" (since that's what the SEC actually cares about).
Only if the company misled about the existence of the lawsuit.
But because even microsoft isn't completely retarded you'll find their 10-K will always have something like:
""" We have claims and lawsuits against us that may result in adverse outcomes. We are subject to a variety of claims and lawsuits. Adverse outcomes in some or all of these claims may result in significant monetary damages or injunctive relief that could adversely affect our ability to conduct our business. The litigation and other claims are subject to inherent uncertainties and management’s view of these matters may change in the future. A material adverse impact on our financial statements also could occur for the period in which the effect of an unfavorable final outcome becomes probable and reasonably estimable. """
Iran is a Republic. Iraq was and is a Republic. The USSR was a republic. Any form of government other than a monarchy is a Republic.
The Democratic part of the US system of government is just as important as the Republic part.
Those Founding Fathers presented a Democracy. Hint: the people vote on who makes up the government. Sure a Republic as well, but still a Democracy. Time will tell if their system is really better - right this second it doesn't seem better than the various British style Constitutional Monarchies.
Personally I breath out some of the carbon from the foods I eat. You have a very strange respiratory system if that's coming out you butt hole. You may want to see a medical professional in fact.
And if it spikes food prices then the farmers will not be making more growing stuff to sell for fuel. So the problem fixes itself.
Of course it sucks for the transition period especially for those who can't afford the spiked food prices and starve to death. Hopefully one of those huge corporations that run the farming industry will have an economist on staff to point the basics of supply and demand from high school economics to them so they can make more money by sticking with growing food.
Oh please. Blink is as well written as anything written for a weekly TV show. Which is amazing since the lead is a female and Moffat can't write females (which happens to be the best reason for not having a female doctor).
That deus ex is really the only way people of normal intelligence (the writers) do a character who is supposed to *much* smarter than them. At least when they have deadlines anyway.
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So what?
Requiring everyone to stay in their homes after dark would also reduce crime (well aside from the "outside after dark offense") should we get on setting that up?
Implanting everyone with some sort of microchip that electrocutes them if they leave their government assigned house, work, or path from home to work would also reduce crime I suspect.
Having the police arbitrarily search everyone's property at whim would likely also reduce crime, so that's a good idea, right?
http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Factsheets/English/ines.pdf
Would the standard of living dropping for everyone else concern you?
Most people vote above the line for the senate and hence do in fact let the party they picked choose for them. I want to say they shouldn't, but given how much thought the average voter puts into their vote letting the party they think they like the most choose is probably actually better.
But, this is how you win senate seats in Australia - if you're a tiny party then you want to keep those preferences in with the minor parties for as long as possible. I remember the table cloth ballot paper in the NSW elections many years ago - I even cared enough to vote below the line...
It very well may, but whether I'm a moron irrelevant to my claim that he is.
Well actually if living in the US qualifies you as a moron, I guess that makes my claim even more likely since he clearly is American.
That seems unlikely. The high price would be an incentive to drive more safely in order to keep your insurance rates semi-reasonable...
You don't have to be able to be able to afford to buy the car in order to own stock in the company. Though if you owned enough of it early enough one could lead to the other.
I live in the US you fucking moron.
One thing was free. A different thing was stolen. That's really not that hard to understand.
Most western democracies don't have their children pledging allegiance to the flag on a daily basis. American exceptionalism is pretty exceptional as well, most western democracies don't claim such a thing for their countries.
No, maybe you should try reading the article?
It has nothing to do with actual propulsion (despite the title) - just changing the relative positions of groups of satellites without changing the center of mass of the group. External (nonuniform) magnetic fields would cause problems (I suspect anyway) making the task more difficult and limiting just how far apart things can get while still using this system.
But is our brain that existed before writing actually triggered by writing specifically? Or is that essentially learned behavior from years of schooling that uses writing in learning? The brain predates writing after all.
If people typed notes from day 1 in school would the act of typing "trigger the learning centre of the brain"?
Not that that sounds like a good thing, pen and paper is nice and quiet. And having to copy notes by rewriting them rather than ctrl-C, ctrl-V seems a good thing in itself.
You can use the atmosphere to slow down without having landing as a plane.
See basically everything but the space shuttle that has gone into orbit and returned to earth.
Doesn't mean you want to use a rocket rather than a wing or parachute of course, but doing so does not mean you don't use the amosphere to shed as much velocity as possible.
"We are subject to a variety of claims and lawsuits"
Clearly states the existence of lawsuits. And then the rest is "guess what, if we lose some it could cost us lots of money" (since that's what the SEC actually cares about).
Only if the company misled about the existence of the lawsuit.
But because even microsoft isn't completely retarded you'll find their 10-K will always have something like:
"""
We have claims and lawsuits against us that may result in adverse outcomes. We are subject to a variety of claims and lawsuits. Adverse outcomes in some or all of these claims may result in significant monetary damages or injunctive relief that could adversely affect our ability to conduct our business. The litigation and other claims are subject to inherent uncertainties and management’s view of these matters may change in the future. A material adverse impact on our financial statements also could occur for the period in which the effect of an unfavorable final outcome becomes probable and reasonably estimable.
"""
in it.
Because he didn't want to go to prison? Because he didn't want to end up paying a fine?
Seems like exactly the type of thing that people would make jokes about.
Why did Hitler kill himself?
He saw his gas bill
Iran is a Republic. Iraq was and is a Republic. The USSR was a republic. Any form of government other than a monarchy is a Republic.
The Democratic part of the US system of government is just as important as the Republic part.
Those Founding Fathers presented a Democracy. Hint: the people vote on who makes up the government. Sure a Republic as well, but still a Democracy. Time will tell if their system is really better - right this second it doesn't seem better than the various British style Constitutional Monarchies.
If you only count free to air TV then it hasn't aired in the US either.
Who knows? It's impossible to work out from the context after all.
I mean if it said a X dollar smartphone, or a Y euro smartphone, or a Z peso smartphone no one could work it out either, right?
Personally I breath out some of the carbon from the foods I eat. You have a very strange respiratory system if that's coming out you butt hole. You may want to see a medical professional in fact.
And if it spikes food prices then the farmers will not be making more growing stuff to sell for fuel. So the problem fixes itself.
Of course it sucks for the transition period especially for those who can't afford the spiked food prices and starve to death. Hopefully one of those huge corporations that run the farming industry will have an economist on staff to point the basics of supply and demand from high school economics to them so they can make more money by sticking with growing food.
Oh please. Blink is as well written as anything written for a weekly TV show. Which is amazing since the lead is a female and Moffat can't write females (which happens to be the best reason for not having a female doctor).
Yes there are also terrible episodes.
That deus ex is really the only way people of normal intelligence (the writers) do a character who is supposed to *much* smarter than them. At least when they have deadlines anyway.
They and their are both "you Muricans".