So, in theory, there could be places where even saying "ask a lawyer" would be interpreted as "legal advice" and thus punishable.
That'd make for a really interesting court case though
DA: "I will show, that Snow Girl gave John Doe legal advice by recommending Dewey, Screwem & Howe." Judge: "Are you shitting me?" DA: "No, it's right here in section 4: Any kind of legal advice or suggestions may only be given by a lawyer, and Snow Girl clearly suggested that John Doe whould consult this law firm."
Lost, for me, has equated to reading 'The Hobbit' + 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy as a young kid
Lost, for me, has equated to reading Vogon poetry. I really tried getting into it, but it was just... blah. Never got past season one, simply because it seemed like a complete waste of time.
That's not true. One place I worked the receptionist got fired after she went to the store to buy fruit and came back with ten copies of Microsoft Office.
And how good are the Linux drivers for the FireGL and Quadro cards compared to their Windows brethren again? What kind of performance are we looking at, when doing it that way?
Or put another way - why on Earth would you want to sacrifice performance, just to run your workstation app in a VM on a Linux machine, instead of just dual booting if you have a need for Linux?
Considering that the grand parent was talking about niche software that have no equivalent on Linux, when are "you guys" going to throw together a replacement or port of AutoCad?
You want to run it in a VM? Alright... which VMs will let Windows access the GPU properly to allow an OpenGL driver to work, so that we can get more than fractions of frames per second?
It promotes the mindset of 'beat up first, oh shit, sorry guy'
That's just a flat out lie!
When's the last time you've read or heard about the police apologizing for mistakenly beating up someone? Tasering them? Or even shooting them? There's never an apology. There's some kind of lame excuse along the lines of "well, we thought he was armed" or "he looked dangerous".
Listen, I don't want to get crucified for this, but I did the math yesterday. 5,000 barrels a day sounds like a lot, but this spill only adds about 45% to the total daily runoff coming out of the Mississippi anyway.
Not entirely sure what you mean by this. Are you saying that the Mississippi 'leaks' 11,000 barrels of crude oil into the Mexican Gulf a day?
I did my own math on that. The river has an average discharge of 12,743 m^3/s. One barrel of oil is 0.158'987'3 m^3. 11,000 barrels a day equals 0.020'241'438'7 m^3/s, which is 1.6 * 10^-4%. Granted, that's really not a lot, but at 83 dollars a barrel, it does sound rather odd if the oil companies would be willing to let almost a million dollars a day just drift away
The problem with oil though, isn't so much that there's a lot of it, because in this case, there really isn't. It's just under 800 m^3 a day, and the Gulf of Mexico is a huge body of water. But oil floats, it sticks to things (like birds and mammals), it makes anything that has been in contact with it inedible for humans and our feed stock. This means we can't use any of the fish that have been in contact with oil for anything. We can't eat them and we can't feed them to our livestock. I doubt they could even be used as a fertilizer. It's probably lethal for any kind of fish anyway, as it tends to clog up their gills. And just to make it a bit more tricky, it reduces the amount of sunlight that can be used by algae - i.e. it ruins the entire bottom of the food chain.
But again, we're only talking 800 m^3 a day. But oil doesn't lump together until it has become tar. Until then it tends to lay in the upper 0.002 mm of the water table (given enough room, which is clearly available in the Gulf) when it's really thick. So now we're looking at 800 m^3 but only 0.002 mm deep. This gives us an area of 400 km^2.
So, each day we're covering a 400 km^2 (154 miles^2) with a relatively thick layer of oil every single day. This has been going on since April 20th. That's 20 days, so 4,000 km^2 which is the same size as Rhode Island.
And just to make it a bit more fun... it's not just an oil slick the size of Rhode Island drifting towards the Gulf coast. No. They've been trying to set it on fire, so now it's a wall of fire the size of Rhode Island drifting towards the Gulf coast.
But surely poltergeists would be a boon for a windmill. Put those lazy ass unemployed slackers to good work by making them keep the windmill going in quiet weather!
You'd know there's something fishy about the employees legal status the same way you know there's something fishy about someone offering you a new Rolex costing 500 dollars.
If you're hiring someone to work for less than minimum wage - you're likely only going to get illegals working for you. If you're hiring someone to work 12-14 hours a day, no health insurance and really crummy wages - you're likely hiring illegals.
If you're hiring someone to work for a reasonable pay (whatever that may be), possibly including health insurance (depending on the industry), reasonable hours under reasonable conditions, then you having illegals working for you is random chance, as none of your actions are predatory.
And yes, I realise that reasonable depends on a lot of things, and that if you stretch it a bit, then EA comes under suspicion for hiring illegal workers. My point is, that if your hiring practices are designed to never be attractive to legal workers (citizens or not), simply because the wage and hours doesn't allow you to survive, then you're guilty of something, even if it's just ethics.
Or think of it this way: The Feds are extremely happy to throw you in jail if you happen to have a joint on you. Not for trafficking or intent to sell - just possession. And they've made it a felony, so if you get caught with that one joint, you can now lose your right to vote and own a firearm.
But if you "happen" to have 400 illegal workers working for you in a factory, that's alright. You just have to find new workers when the old ones are detained and deported. And hey... if any of them start to be troublesome, you just go ahead and call in the cops. It's like the good old days where you hired mobsters to break legs and kill people who complained about working conditions, except now you're using the cops, so you don't even have to pay extra for it. And if you're really smart, you get the country or city to cut you some really nice tax breaks and economic incentives to set up shop.
That way, not only are you being paid to set up shop somewhere, and you don't have to pay (much in) taxes, but if you have any kind of rumblings from the workforce, you have a legal gang take them away free of charge (you don't pay taxes), and as an added bonus, you get to screw over the city or county, because you aren't hiring any of their legal residents. It's brilliant!
I'm pretty sure we are ALL breaking some law in one way or another. Just that some of these crimes are worse than others. And the reason I used thieves and drug dealers is that those are the typical ways criminals make money, even if they ARE citizens.
Or do they possibly work (illegally) in the country?
(why the parenthesis?)
Because some people are too stupid to realise that if you don't have a work permit in a country, working there is illegal.
(See recent sob stories)
Yes... I can see how that is a sob story. Company located in a city of 2,800 people hires 400 illegal workers. Said workers are deported. Company folded. Amazing. What I fail to see is any mention of what happened to the management. Sure, a new company has bought the locale, spruced it up and have started hiring new workers. Are those workers legal or not?
And even more interesting, once you read into the Wiki page on Agriprocessors (the company that folded):
As of October 2008, Agriprocessors owners and managers were charged with 9,311 misdemeanor charges for illegally hiring minors and allowing them to operate dangerous equipment.
Why the fuck are those things misdemeanors? Even if they only hired US citizens, 9,311 breaches of child labour laws and work place safety in an of itself should warrant an upgrade to felony for the entire board of directors as well. Fuckers shouldn't be allowed to vote!
Now obviously, the biggest issue with this particular company is the fact that it hired illegal immigrant workers (sarcasm).
On November 5, 2008 Agriprocessor filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Factors cited included [...] increased costs in the aftermath of the May 2008 immigration raid.
If this doesn't prove that the company knew exactly what they were getting (illegals), then I don't know what does. The only times massive lay offs results in increased worker costs, are if you're losing a workforce that is cheaper than market rate. That only happens if you aren't paying them competitive wages, and that's not something you can manage to do, unless you have something to hold over their heads. And obviously the pay wasn't worth the work. Just look at this particular tidbit:
The ICE raid left the company lacking employees, and it hired Labor Ready to supply "about 150 workers", but these workers stopped working because of alleged safety issues.[28] The Jacobson Staffing company took the job of staffing the plant shortly thereafter.
So in this case the illegal immigrant workers weren't even stealing jobs from local workers. Those local workers didn't want to work under the conditions offered. Clearly greed is as much to blame as illegal immigration. It's much cheaper to hire illegal workers than to fix the safety issues. AND they save on things like health insurance and can pay lower salaries as well.
Even if you could flick a switch and all the illegal immigrants and day workers in the US disappeared, you wouldn't fix the problem. You'd end up with huge losses in a ton of industries, as they don't have the cheap labour that they all claim are legal workers, wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Someone said 10 to 20 million illegals in the country. I think it's a fair bet to say that 50% of them work for a living.
They do all the cheap, grubby jobs, that form the basis for quite a lot of other economies. They work in plantations picking fruit. So you've just lost all the fruit supplies, followed by a massive increase in prices. They do gardening. Baby sitting, so now you can't just leave the kids with the sitter, so we're turning t
Personally, I love the freedom of free world PVP. In fact, I'd love to play a game with free world PVP and permanent character death... hardcore Diablo 2 on battle.net was one of the most satisfying experiences ever.
That is somewhat entertaining, but Diablo 2 suffers from the typical problem plaguing these kinds of games: Invulnerability.
If you're a high enough level, you are essentially invulnerable to anything below a certain level. That's boring and quite frankly silly.
While you can find that in modern warfare (Amazon Indians would be helpless against an Aircraft carrier), it doesn't hold up in infantry battles (which is what pretty much all RPGs simulate). Doesn't matter how well you equip your infantry (apart from armoured vehicles), if you make them do nothing for an hour against an enemy that massively outnumber them, they'll take massive losses. Yet in RPGs you can leave the computer for an hour after walking into the middle of a stronghold of low level enemies.
As a consumer, all I care about is that the stuff I buy is good value for money and doesn't punish me too much as an honest user
Uhm... and what is a reasonable punishment as an honest user? It is a kick in the balls? Punch in the face? Having your leg used as a urinal?
To be honest, the only time I'd expect to be punished after having purchased something, would be if I bought an hour with a professional dominatrix. But being punished for buying a game? Well, they can fuck off!
You see the ER was packed with illegal immigrants who did not have insurance
Question: Where did these illegal immigrants get money for stuff like food and clothing?
Are they ALL thieves, drug dealers and such? Or do they possibly work (illegally) in the country? Why aren't anyone punishing the employers who are enabling these illegal immigrants? Why aren't you throwing them in prison for violating the law? Conspiracy to break the law at the very least. Aiding and abetting a criminal.
Change these charges from misdemeanors to felonies. Throw the responsible parties in jail (including the illegal immigrants), from foremen to CEOs, single citizen hiring maids, gardeners, nannies etc.
It's supply and demand at work. There's a demand for illegal immigrant workers, because they're cheaper. No need for insurance, lower salaries all round - they aren't going to be paying tax, so you can cut that away from their salary, you can press their salary even more, because they won't complain about working 12-16 hours a day, because that can get them deported etc. And since there's a demand for these workers, and a natural amount of replacement due to deportation, there will be a massive supply of these illegal immigrant workers.
What is the punishment for hiring illegal immigrant workers at the moment? Is there any kind of punishment at all? As long as it is not only cheaper to hire them, but still cheaper even when you get caught red handed hiring them. Essentially you have a law stating that it is illegal for radioactive waste being stored in kindergartens, but you're just moving the waste and not giving a rats ass about who put it there in the first place. No wonder you have a problem.
There IS a reason to be upset with Arizona for this law. They are punishing people for something they cannot possibly fix or even rectify. It's not as if the Arizona state legislature doesn't know this is an issue.
Imagine this situation: You're arrested for whatever trivial reason. The phone system is down, so you can't get to call your own lawyer, so you're assigned a court appointed one. Once in court, your lawyer suffers a stroke, but the court don't want to waste its time arranging for you to get another lawyer, and not only convicts you of whatever you were arrested for, but also holds you in contempt of court for wasting its time because your lawyer had a stroke.
You have no way of influencing the things that get screwed up. Same with the green card system. You apply in time, you're told that while they're working on it, you can stay, but you have no paperwork showing they're working on it, so you can be arrested and deported (to Mexico? who will then deport you to somewhere else for not having a VISA). Now you've been arrested and left the country, so your green card might not be approved. And it will make it impossible for you to come back.
So yeah... a state deciding to punish the victims of Federal incompetence is quite immoral. What next? Jailing and deporting women who have been kidnapped, raped and transported to a foreign country against their will to be sold off as sex slaves? Oh... right... maybe Arizona's taking a page out of the Danish rulebook.
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. -Ann Coulter
How about we declare Ann Coulter's home a new country for a few days? That way she can have two out of three of her wishes fulfilled, AND she'll get a front row seat to the spectacle.
Also, film step three. I'd love to see some fundamental right wing Christian nutter trying to convert three cats and a gold fish.
Sure, but it's still a silly argument to make. What exactly are we supposed to do with data that we cannot visualize otherwise? Just ignore it? Pretend it's not there?
The false colour images we, the public, get aren't just PR meant to drum up support. They still have scientific value.
The North Korean artillery aimed at Seoul would make any kind of attack on North Korea that doesn't turn all of it into glass or molten metals are going to be trying to disarm one of these mousetrap by shooting it with a gun. Unless you're insanely lucky, you'll be setting off all the other mousetraps.
And in case you forgot, Seoul has about 10,000,000 inhabitants.
Sure... the US might not give a rats ass about being responsible for inciting the attack that killed half a dozen million people, but I really doubt any of their allies would be so lackadaisical. Especially because South Korea is supposed to be an ally of the US.
No, this particular missile will be pretty much useless against North Korea. Best bet there, if you insist on military intervention, is a massive nuclear strike, and it had better be done in such a fashion, that they don't have a chance to detect it in time to launch a 'fuck you' retaliatory attack on South Korea (like in Nuclear War)
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Suppose the 40 hour games cost 40$ a piece and the 10 hour game costs 10$ a piece.
Would you then be willing to buy the 10$ game?
Let me guess. The actual password is:
P@ssw0rd
So, in theory, there could be places where even saying "ask a lawyer" would be interpreted as "legal advice" and thus punishable.
That'd make for a really interesting court case though
DA: "I will show, that Snow Girl gave John Doe legal advice by recommending Dewey, Screwem & Howe."
Judge: "Are you shitting me?"
DA: "No, it's right here in section 4: Any kind of legal advice or suggestions may only be given by a lawyer, and Snow Girl clearly suggested that John Doe whould consult this law firm."
Lost, for me, has equated to reading Vogon poetry. I really tried getting into it, but it was just ... blah. Never got past season one, simply because it seemed like a complete waste of time.
That's not true. One place I worked the receptionist got fired after she went to the store to buy fruit and came back with ten copies of Microsoft Office.
And how good are the Linux drivers for the FireGL and Quadro cards compared to their Windows brethren again? What kind of performance are we looking at, when doing it that way?
Or put another way - why on Earth would you want to sacrifice performance, just to run your workstation app in a VM on a Linux machine, instead of just dual booting if you have a need for Linux?
Considering that the grand parent was talking about niche software that have no equivalent on Linux, when are "you guys" going to throw together a replacement or port of AutoCad?
You want to run it in a VM? Alright ... which VMs will let Windows access the GPU properly to allow an OpenGL driver to work, so that we can get more than fractions of frames per second?
Well ... add a couple of scout masters and catholic priests to the camp staff, and you can use them as exercise AND punishment rolled into one.
If you can manage to run away from them - exercise.
If not - punishment that you will have nightmares about for decades!
That's just a flat out lie!
When's the last time you've read or heard about the police apologizing for mistakenly beating up someone? Tasering them? Or even shooting them? There's never an apology. There's some kind of lame excuse along the lines of "well, we thought he was armed" or "he looked dangerous".
But there is never an apology.
Not entirely sure what you mean by this. Are you saying that the Mississippi 'leaks' 11,000 barrels of crude oil into the Mexican Gulf a day?
I did my own math on that. The river has an average discharge of 12,743 m^3/s. One barrel of oil is 0.158'987'3 m^3. 11,000 barrels a day equals 0.020'241'438'7 m^3/s, which is 1.6 * 10^-4%. Granted, that's really not a lot, but at 83 dollars a barrel, it does sound rather odd if the oil companies would be willing to let almost a million dollars a day just drift away
The problem with oil though, isn't so much that there's a lot of it, because in this case, there really isn't. It's just under 800 m^3 a day, and the Gulf of Mexico is a huge body of water. But oil floats, it sticks to things (like birds and mammals), it makes anything that has been in contact with it inedible for humans and our feed stock. This means we can't use any of the fish that have been in contact with oil for anything. We can't eat them and we can't feed them to our livestock. I doubt they could even be used as a fertilizer. It's probably lethal for any kind of fish anyway, as it tends to clog up their gills. And just to make it a bit more tricky, it reduces the amount of sunlight that can be used by algae - i.e. it ruins the entire bottom of the food chain.
But again, we're only talking 800 m^3 a day. But oil doesn't lump together until it has become tar. Until then it tends to lay in the upper 0.002 mm of the water table (given enough room, which is clearly available in the Gulf) when it's really thick. So now we're looking at 800 m^3 but only 0.002 mm deep. This gives us an area of 400 km^2.
So, each day we're covering a 400 km^2 (154 miles^2) with a relatively thick layer of oil every single day. This has been going on since April 20th. That's 20 days, so 4,000 km^2 which is the same size as Rhode Island.
And just to make it a bit more fun ... it's not just an oil slick the size of Rhode Island drifting towards the Gulf coast. No. They've been trying to set it on fire, so now it's a wall of fire the size of Rhode Island drifting towards the Gulf coast.
That is untrue! Just ask the newly formed Farmers Union and the Framers of the Constitution! ;)
Why not Goldman-Sachs? If that can get the fuckers thrown in jail, I'm all for it!
But surely poltergeists would be a boon for a windmill. Put those lazy ass unemployed slackers to good work by making them keep the windmill going in quiet weather!
You'd know there's something fishy about the employees legal status the same way you know there's something fishy about someone offering you a new Rolex costing 500 dollars.
If you're hiring someone to work for less than minimum wage - you're likely only going to get illegals working for you.
If you're hiring someone to work 12-14 hours a day, no health insurance and really crummy wages - you're likely hiring illegals.
If you're hiring someone to work for a reasonable pay (whatever that may be), possibly including health insurance (depending on the industry), reasonable hours under reasonable conditions, then you having illegals working for you is random chance, as none of your actions are predatory.
And yes, I realise that reasonable depends on a lot of things, and that if you stretch it a bit, then EA comes under suspicion for hiring illegal workers. My point is, that if your hiring practices are designed to never be attractive to legal workers (citizens or not), simply because the wage and hours doesn't allow you to survive, then you're guilty of something, even if it's just ethics.
Or think of it this way: The Feds are extremely happy to throw you in jail if you happen to have a joint on you. Not for trafficking or intent to sell - just possession. And they've made it a felony, so if you get caught with that one joint, you can now lose your right to vote and own a firearm.
But if you "happen" to have 400 illegal workers working for you in a factory, that's alright. You just have to find new workers when the old ones are detained and deported. And hey ... if any of them start to be troublesome, you just go ahead and call in the cops. It's like the good old days where you hired mobsters to break legs and kill people who complained about working conditions, except now you're using the cops, so you don't even have to pay extra for it. And if you're really smart, you get the country or city to cut you some really nice tax breaks and economic incentives to set up shop.
That way, not only are you being paid to set up shop somewhere, and you don't have to pay (much in) taxes, but if you have any kind of rumblings from the workforce, you have a legal gang take them away free of charge (you don't pay taxes), and as an added bonus, you get to screw over the city or county, because you aren't hiring any of their legal residents. It's brilliant!
I'm pretty sure we are ALL breaking some law in one way or another. Just that some of these crimes are worse than others. And the reason I used thieves and drug dealers is that those are the typical ways criminals make money, even if they ARE citizens.
Because some people are too stupid to realise that if you don't have a work permit in a country, working there is illegal.
Yes ... I can see how that is a sob story. Company located in a city of 2,800 people hires 400 illegal workers. Said workers are deported. Company folded. Amazing. What I fail to see is any mention of what happened to the management. Sure, a new company has bought the locale, spruced it up and have started hiring new workers. Are those workers legal or not?
And even more interesting, once you read into the Wiki page on Agriprocessors (the company that folded):
Why the fuck are those things misdemeanors? Even if they only hired US citizens, 9,311 breaches of child labour laws and work place safety in an of itself should warrant an upgrade to felony for the entire board of directors as well. Fuckers shouldn't be allowed to vote!
Now obviously, the biggest issue with this particular company is the fact that it hired illegal immigrant workers (sarcasm).
If this doesn't prove that the company knew exactly what they were getting (illegals), then I don't know what does. The only times massive lay offs results in increased worker costs, are if you're losing a workforce that is cheaper than market rate. That only happens if you aren't paying them competitive wages, and that's not something you can manage to do, unless you have something to hold over their heads. And obviously the pay wasn't worth the work. Just look at this particular tidbit:
So in this case the illegal immigrant workers weren't even stealing jobs from local workers. Those local workers didn't want to work under the conditions offered. Clearly greed is as much to blame as illegal immigration. It's much cheaper to hire illegal workers than to fix the safety issues. AND they save on things like health insurance and can pay lower salaries as well.
Even if you could flick a switch and all the illegal immigrants and day workers in the US disappeared, you wouldn't fix the problem. You'd end up with huge losses in a ton of industries, as they don't have the cheap labour that they all claim are legal workers, wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Someone said 10 to 20 million illegals in the country. I think it's a fair bet to say that 50% of them work for a living.
They do all the cheap, grubby jobs, that form the basis for quite a lot of other economies. They work in plantations picking fruit. So you've just lost all the fruit supplies, followed by a massive increase in prices. They do gardening. Baby sitting, so now you can't just leave the kids with the sitter, so we're turning t
That is somewhat entertaining, but Diablo 2 suffers from the typical problem plaguing these kinds of games: Invulnerability.
If you're a high enough level, you are essentially invulnerable to anything below a certain level. That's boring and quite frankly silly.
While you can find that in modern warfare (Amazon Indians would be helpless against an Aircraft carrier), it doesn't hold up in infantry battles (which is what pretty much all RPGs simulate). Doesn't matter how well you equip your infantry (apart from armoured vehicles), if you make them do nothing for an hour against an enemy that massively outnumber them, they'll take massive losses. Yet in RPGs you can leave the computer for an hour after walking into the middle of a stronghold of low level enemies.
Uhm ... and what is a reasonable punishment as an honest user? It is a kick in the balls? Punch in the face? Having your leg used as a urinal?
To be honest, the only time I'd expect to be punished after having purchased something, would be if I bought an hour with a professional dominatrix. But being punished for buying a game? Well, they can fuck off!
Question: Where did these illegal immigrants get money for stuff like food and clothing?
Are they ALL thieves, drug dealers and such? Or do they possibly work (illegally) in the country? Why aren't anyone punishing the employers who are enabling these illegal immigrants? Why aren't you throwing them in prison for violating the law? Conspiracy to break the law at the very least. Aiding and abetting a criminal.
Change these charges from misdemeanors to felonies. Throw the responsible parties in jail (including the illegal immigrants), from foremen to CEOs, single citizen hiring maids, gardeners, nannies etc.
It's supply and demand at work. There's a demand for illegal immigrant workers, because they're cheaper. No need for insurance, lower salaries all round - they aren't going to be paying tax, so you can cut that away from their salary, you can press their salary even more, because they won't complain about working 12-16 hours a day, because that can get them deported etc. And since there's a demand for these workers, and a natural amount of replacement due to deportation, there will be a massive supply of these illegal immigrant workers.
What is the punishment for hiring illegal immigrant workers at the moment? Is there any kind of punishment at all? As long as it is not only cheaper to hire them, but still cheaper even when you get caught red handed hiring them. Essentially you have a law stating that it is illegal for radioactive waste being stored in kindergartens, but you're just moving the waste and not giving a rats ass about who put it there in the first place. No wonder you have a problem.
There IS a reason to be upset with Arizona for this law. They are punishing people for something they cannot possibly fix or even rectify. It's not as if the Arizona state legislature doesn't know this is an issue.
Imagine this situation:
You're arrested for whatever trivial reason. The phone system is down, so you can't get to call your own lawyer, so you're assigned a court appointed one. Once in court, your lawyer suffers a stroke, but the court don't want to waste its time arranging for you to get another lawyer, and not only convicts you of whatever you were arrested for, but also holds you in contempt of court for wasting its time because your lawyer had a stroke.
You have no way of influencing the things that get screwed up. Same with the green card system. You apply in time, you're told that while they're working on it, you can stay, but you have no paperwork showing they're working on it, so you can be arrested and deported (to Mexico? who will then deport you to somewhere else for not having a VISA). Now you've been arrested and left the country, so your green card might not be approved. And it will make it impossible for you to come back.
So yeah ... a state deciding to punish the victims of Federal incompetence is quite immoral. What next? Jailing and deporting women who have been kidnapped, raped and transported to a foreign country against their will to be sold off as sex slaves? Oh ... right ... maybe Arizona's taking a page out of the Danish rulebook.
How about we declare Ann Coulter's home a new country for a few days? That way she can have two out of three of her wishes fulfilled, AND she'll get a front row seat to the spectacle.
Also, film step three. I'd love to see some fundamental right wing Christian nutter trying to convert three cats and a gold fish.
I doubt he'll understand it even then. Mostly because he died in 1977!
I'm not sure I want to even know what kind of porn you'd serve from a site called Slash Dot.
And hand-built furniture is more expensive than factory made furniture.
There could be several reasons that hemp paper is more expensive, but you can pretty much count on scale of production being at the top of the list.
Sure, but it's still a silly argument to make. What exactly are we supposed to do with data that we cannot visualize otherwise? Just ignore it? Pretend it's not there?
The false colour images we, the public, get aren't just PR meant to drum up support. They still have scientific value.
The North Korean artillery aimed at Seoul would make any kind of attack on North Korea that doesn't turn all of it into glass or molten metals are going to be trying to disarm one of these mousetrap by shooting it with a gun. Unless you're insanely lucky, you'll be setting off all the other mousetraps.
And in case you forgot, Seoul has about 10,000,000 inhabitants.
Sure ... the US might not give a rats ass about being responsible for inciting the attack that killed half a dozen million people, but I really doubt any of their allies would be so lackadaisical. Especially because South Korea is supposed to be an ally of the US.
No, this particular missile will be pretty much useless against North Korea. Best bet there, if you insist on military intervention, is a massive nuclear strike, and it had better be done in such a fashion, that they don't have a chance to detect it in time to launch a 'fuck you' retaliatory attack on South Korea (like in Nuclear War)