See for example an article in Jerusalem Post, Jul 23, 2007 (available on the web).
That has to be one of the dumbest things I've seen online for quite a while.
Why the hell didn't you LINK to that article? Are we just supposed to browse through every single article in that newspaper from that day in order to find that article? Take your word for it? This isn't a book where you can't include the article - link to the bloody thing!
Well, part of the reason you can't use death row inmates for organ donation is how they're executed: * Electric chair - fried organs * Gas chamber - organs filled with cyanide * Lethal injection - organs filled various poisons I suspect
The only remaining record listed there is fastest speed for an Indian motorcycle, and that's just a little bit silly. Might as well have a list of records for fastest pink vehicle.
I'm not scoffing what he did, but his class record of 183.586 miles/hour has been broken at least 18 times, and a quick glean at the certified LSR records puts the new record in that class at 240.913 miles/hour, which is 31% faster.
Depending on the tax code where you live, something like this might be required anyway, as it'll be seen as either payment or benefits.
So - go all out. Either have him add the cost of your laptop to your pay check as a one time bonus (bring a copy of the receipt so they can see the price), or have them buy the laptop and give it to you as a gift along with papers showing that it is indeed your laptop and not the company's.
Personally I'd prefer the one time bonus. I'm buying the laptop anyway, I need it, and I'm effectively getting a company sponsored discount with none of the drawbacks.
My point was to bring up issues that some of us not living in the United States consider rights. Like the right not to be executed by the state and the inalienable right to vote. And sure, some of the things I mentioned might be okay in some of the US states (you said some or most, not all), but there sure as hell are countries where any of the things I mentioned would get you in serious trouble. You try having a woman flash her titties in Mecca and see how she's treated. Or light up a joint in Singapore. Not every comment that goes against what someone trying to defend the land of the free is target only at them.
I was going to leave out the individual criticisms out of my reply, but I would like to make a few comments, before going on a bigger rant:
I find it interesting that the preamble of the constitution says that the right to life is unalienable, but you say that "That's not a right. You have the right to due process before the state deprives you of life". I am not a constitutional scholar, but it certainly sounds to me that the right to life is inalienable. I didn't say you shouldn't be punished for your crimes, but locking someone up for life, certainly seems like a workable alternative to killing them. And no justice system has managed to avoide convicting innocent people. Personally I'd say that it's better to keep a million killers alive for 100+ years than it is to execute an innocent man - for I may be that innocent man. Will I feel differently if one of these killers has raped my daughter, cut her skin off of her body, sewn it into a jacket and then thrown her screaming to his dogs? I probably will - that's human nature. But that also makes me a better judge of what is reasonable - it hasn't happened to me, and thus I am less biased and blood thirsty
Just because you have certain "inalienable" rights in the US (that can then be revoked for arbitrary reasons) that you don't want to lose (like the right to bear arms), doesn't mean that the rest of us want to trade what we consider essential and more important rights.
I realise that it's popular to berate the US, it's politics, media and citizen's idea that they're the greatest at everything in the world, but from time to time, you really do need to give them a kick in the groin when they fail to realise that their idea of 'nirvana' isn't a good fit, let alone a perfect one for everybody else.
My own personal pet peeve with US society, is that I find it very ironic that a country that enshrines into its constitution that church and state must be kept 100% separate, and does a horrible job of it compared to a country like Denmark, that has a state religion enshrined into its constitution.
Both countries place freedom of religion into their constitution, but it is really, really difficult to see it in US politics - or probably the proper place to place that complaint is on the media in the US. Just look at the "Obama is really a muslim" silliness. No media coverage went with the "so fucking what" angle.
Actually, my biggest pet peeve with US society is that instead of having a media that is eternally in opposition of the government, you have one that is essentially a propaganda machine for the parties. Fox does the better job (I think the opposing 'team' there would be MSNBC), but I don't watch that much TV. Sadly it's not a US only problem that the media works as part of a propaganda machine, and in the western world, I'd suspect Italy is the worst since their prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi owns three TV networks
And I still fail to see how limiting CO2 emissions in SOME countries will actually solve the Climate Change problem....
You're right. And if SOME people stop killing other people, what's the use? Others will just continuing killing people.
Back in the day, Iceland still practised blood feuds. With a limited population, this was a very very bad thing, as they were effectively endangering themselves as a species because they were killing each other faster than than they could reproduce. So the families got together and agreed to put an end to blood feuds. Obviously some families had to set the example, despite being the latest victims in the feuds, and yet they managed to put survival ahead of honour.
We have the same issue currently, just on a slower but much larger scale, and instead of honour it's money on the line.
Sometimes you need to set an example for others to follow. Once upon a time, this was what the United States purported to do. Now the US apparently refuses to set an example unless they can get a monetary advantage from it. And I suspect that even if they get a monetary advantage, they'll still refuse if they can get a larger monetary advantage by refusing to be an example.
I suspect that one of the best things that could happen for US politics would be to reform political fund raising laws slightly: 0) Make companies non-human entities 1) Make it illegal for companies to donate money to political parties and candidates 2) Make an upper limit of donations of $100 per year.
That way you'd end up with a system, where a political campaign doesn't end up costing hundreds of millions of dollars (since no political party could afford it). This would make the playing field a lot more even for outsider parties. It'd minimize the influence of huge conglomerates of companies, and improve the influence of individual citizens instead.
But who am I kidding? Why would the ruling parties (D and R) cut their own money trains and death grip on the political process?
Well, he did misspell it, but only slightly - he forgot to capitalize it properly. It should be "BroSwing". It's an iPhone app for brotha's that like to swing...
I'm surprised to hear that the UK has less power over its own laws than does Utah
So, if Utah were to allow medical cannabis or just regular cannabis, are you entirely certain that people in Utah couldn't be arrested and charged for breaking federal laws against that particular substance? And that their stash wouldn't be confiscated?
Alternatively one could leave out the men from the mission. Women tend to weigh less than men, so you'll have room for more cargo. As they weigh less, they also eat less, which again allows you to either carry more cargo or have the food last longer.
In an environment where you either experience micro gravity or 1/3rd gravity you don't need the "big strong" physique that people tend to think is necessary for exploration. And women are generally better at multitasking than men, which is definitely an advantage in that kind of environment.
An as for the "but ten women locked up together for years will be useless for five days a month", that could be solved fairly easily with either medication or pre-flight surgery.
And let's not forget - who would you rather watch on pay-per-view? 10 guys locked up together for years or 10 women locked up together for years?
Like the right to say "bad" words on TV and radio, the right to show off your tits without being labelled a sex offender, the right to not having to "think of the children", the right to not be executed, the right to share a joint with your friend or how about the right not to be a 3rd rate citizen just because you've been in jail (i.e. the right to vote)?
In Danish the number "one point four one eight" (1.418) is literally "one comma four one eight" (1,418).
As such it is quite confusing when (as someone else pointed out) you see "1,418 million" written in a Danish text and how that's an insane amount of money to spend on building an office building, because some nitwit merely copy/pasted the numbers from somewhere else. If they wanted to make it "one thousand four hundred and eighteen million" the right way of typing it would be "1.418 million" because we used the period as a thousand separator in Danish.
This issue is often compounded by the fact that we use a different but similar counting system for large numbers than US English
1,000,000 is million/million (DK/US) 1,000,000,000 is milliard/billion (DK/US) 1,000,000,000,000 is billion/trillion (DK/US) 1,000,000,000,000,000 is billiard/quadrillion (DK/US) 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 is trillion/quintillion (DK/US)
This can result in some fairly absurd statements when ignorant journalists translates a US article into Danish. Let's use the US federal budget for 2008 as an example.
The budget is $2,979 billion ($2,979,000,000,000). Now someone translates that into Danish without knowing what he's doing and he gets it right, purely by chance, because the comma acts as a decimal point. (2,979 billion = 2.979.000.000.000 Danish style).
If he gets his numbers from a slightly different source however, it might say that the budget is $2.979 trillion. In Danish that number is $2.979.000.000.000.000.000.000... makes for a slightly different budget, wouldn't you say?
And while the journalists are quick to change their online articles once you point out the difference, I'm yet to see any of them remember it the next time they simply copy/paste numbers from one language to another.
As for fixing it - that's just not doable. You might as well try to do away with counting time in sets of 60 seconds, 60 minutes and 24 hours and try to go to a decimal based time system, like Swatch Internet Time, where this post was written @178. It's very practical because if I say I'll call you at @178 you don't have to wonder if I'm thinking my time, your time, have I considered DST etc., but time (just like decimal points) are too ingrained into the spoken language to change.
I did say along the lines of SLAPP. Not SLAPP directly.
Like I said, depending on what she's blogged about in the past, one could argue that being forced out into the open has diminished her chances of seeking gainful employment compared to when no one could just google her name and find that Liskula Cohen is a psychotic skank ho...
Liskula Cohen was still the blogger, right?
But as others have pointed out, the blogger will have no stance in court with her suit against Google, as Google is obviously required to follow a court order, not to mention that following such court orders are specifically mentioned in the terms of service for that particular service.
But a counter suit against the model could work. Might work. I'm not a lawyer, obviously, but I would think that a good lawyer could cook up some argument that being forced out into the open has diminished her chances of seeking gainful employment compared to when no one could just google her name and find that Liskula Cohen is a psychotic skank ho...
Didn't some of the founding fathers publish a series of letters highly critical of the King's government before the revolution?
Sure, they might kill him, but in a society where you can be sued into what is essentially life long indentured servitude with no means of paying off the "damages" you've done to some company by mentioning that they might not look clean to you, wouldn't you rather face death?
Can the outed blogger sue the model for something along the lines of SLAPP? Well, obviously you can sue for anything, but is it likely to have the suit stand up in court?
Depending on what she's blogged about in the past, one could argue that being forced out into the open has diminished her chances of seeking gainful employment compared to when no one could just google her name and find that Liskula Cohen is a psychotic skank ho...
Well, not entirely, but seriously - they've come up with a way to grow new teeth for mammals.
Personally, I would love it if I could go to the dentist and have him replace some of my bad teeth with new ones. One or two at a time would be fine.
Instead of getting fake teeth or fillings when you've abused your teeth to the point where the enamel on the outside of the tooth has worn away, exposing the dentine... if I could get those replaced? I'd almost be willing to kill for that.
Sure, it'd take time to regrow a new tooth, but I could live with that.
So yeah, screw growing new organs - get me some new teeth!
Apparently that wasn't the interview either. Where the hell is that interview?
It's like watching cable news doing a circle jerk talking about how a twitter post talks about a blog post that mentions an article that refers to an interview where the reporter asks a question about something, but no one even cares about showing the relevant clip!
So, in the 1600s we had a very low number of sun spots and a little ice age.
In the last decade we've had a low number of sun spots and a temperature spike.
But the people who says that global warming isn't caused by human factors, primarily claim that it's due to this low number of sun spots.
So... normal sun spot count, normal temperatures. Low number of sun spots, high temperatures. Very low number of sun spots, very low temperatures.
I wonder what happens if we get a high and very high number of sun spots - one will probably push the average global temperature to 300 Kelvin while the other will send it to 350. Wonder which will do what.
Which was my point. The number 18 does not exist in base 8, because the number 8 isn't in base 8. That it is the equivalent of something in base 8 is different.
The word "blåøjet" doesn't exist in English either - the equivalent in English is "blue eyed" or "naïve".
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That has to be one of the dumbest things I've seen online for quite a while.
Why the hell didn't you LINK to that article? Are we just supposed to browse through every single article in that newspaper from that day in order to find that article? Take your word for it? This isn't a book where you can't include the article - link to the bloody thing!
Well, part of the reason you can't use death row inmates for organ donation is how they're executed:
* Electric chair - fried organs
* Gas chamber - organs filled with cyanide
* Lethal injection - organs filled various poisons I suspect
BBC Horizon had a program called How to Kill a Human Being that looked into the science of execution (YouTube viewing).
Interestingly one of the most humane ways of executing people (I'll leave out the spoiler), is one that won't hurt the organs.
And here I was, thinking that the USA was number one at everything ... disappointing.
Why not use the area as a parking lot? If it's in an area that gets snow, they'll get two advantages:
1) 'Free' cooling
2) 'Free' snow clearing
The only remaining record listed there is fastest speed for an Indian motorcycle, and that's just a little bit silly. Might as well have a list of records for fastest pink vehicle.
I'm not scoffing what he did, but his class record of 183.586 miles/hour has been broken at least 18 times, and a quick glean at the certified LSR records puts the new record in that class at 240.913 miles/hour, which is 31% faster.
Yes, but that doesn't help if you tend to visit http://www.hutubigboys.com/ on a daily basis ...
Nothing to it.
Depending on the tax code where you live, something like this might be required anyway, as it'll be seen as either payment or benefits.
So - go all out. Either have him add the cost of your laptop to your pay check as a one time bonus (bring a copy of the receipt so they can see the price), or have them buy the laptop and give it to you as a gift along with papers showing that it is indeed your laptop and not the company's.
Personally I'd prefer the one time bonus. I'm buying the laptop anyway, I need it, and I'm effectively getting a company sponsored discount with none of the drawbacks.
My point was to bring up issues that some of us not living in the United States consider rights. Like the right not to be executed by the state and the inalienable right to vote. And sure, some of the things I mentioned might be okay in some of the US states (you said some or most, not all), but there sure as hell are countries where any of the things I mentioned would get you in serious trouble. You try having a woman flash her titties in Mecca and see how she's treated. Or light up a joint in Singapore. Not every comment that goes against what someone trying to defend the land of the free is target only at them.
I was going to leave out the individual criticisms out of my reply, but I would like to make a few comments, before going on a bigger rant:
I find it interesting that the preamble of the constitution says that the right to life is unalienable, but you say that " That's not a right. You have the right to due process before the state deprives you of life". I am not a constitutional scholar, but it certainly sounds to me that the right to life is inalienable. I didn't say you shouldn't be punished for your crimes, but locking someone up for life, certainly seems like a workable alternative to killing them. And no justice system has managed to avoide convicting innocent people. Personally I'd say that it's better to keep a million killers alive for 100+ years than it is to execute an innocent man - for I may be that innocent man. Will I feel differently if one of these killers has raped my daughter, cut her skin off of her body, sewn it into a jacket and then thrown her screaming to his dogs? I probably will - that's human nature. But that also makes me a better judge of what is reasonable - it hasn't happened to me, and thus I am less biased and blood thirsty
Just because you have certain "inalienable" rights in the US (that can then be revoked for arbitrary reasons) that you don't want to lose (like the right to bear arms), doesn't mean that the rest of us want to trade what we consider essential and more important rights.
I realise that it's popular to berate the US, it's politics, media and citizen's idea that they're the greatest at everything in the world, but from time to time, you really do need to give them a kick in the groin when they fail to realise that their idea of 'nirvana' isn't a good fit, let alone a perfect one for everybody else.
My own personal pet peeve with US society, is that I find it very ironic that a country that enshrines into its constitution that church and state must be kept 100% separate, and does a horrible job of it compared to a country like Denmark, that has a state religion enshrined into its constitution.
Both countries place freedom of religion into their constitution, but it is really, really difficult to see it in US politics - or probably the proper place to place that complaint is on the media in the US. Just look at the "Obama is really a muslim" silliness. No media coverage went with the "so fucking what" angle.
Actually, my biggest pet peeve with US society is that instead of having a media that is eternally in opposition of the government, you have one that is essentially a propaganda machine for the parties. Fox does the better job (I think the opposing 'team' there would be MSNBC), but I don't watch that much TV. Sadly it's not a US only problem that the media works as part of a propaganda machine, and in the western world, I'd suspect Italy is the worst since their prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi owns three TV networks
You're right. And if SOME people stop killing other people, what's the use? Others will just continuing killing people.
Back in the day, Iceland still practised blood feuds. With a limited population, this was a very very bad thing, as they were effectively endangering themselves as a species because they were killing each other faster than than they could reproduce. So the families got together and agreed to put an end to blood feuds. Obviously some families had to set the example, despite being the latest victims in the feuds, and yet they managed to put survival ahead of honour.
We have the same issue currently, just on a slower but much larger scale, and instead of honour it's money on the line.
Sometimes you need to set an example for others to follow. Once upon a time, this was what the United States purported to do. Now the US apparently refuses to set an example unless they can get a monetary advantage from it. And I suspect that even if they get a monetary advantage, they'll still refuse if they can get a larger monetary advantage by refusing to be an example.
I suspect that one of the best things that could happen for US politics would be to reform political fund raising laws slightly:
0) Make companies non-human entities
1) Make it illegal for companies to donate money to political parties and candidates
2) Make an upper limit of donations of $100 per year.
That way you'd end up with a system, where a political campaign doesn't end up costing hundreds of millions of dollars (since no political party could afford it). This would make the playing field a lot more even for outsider parties. It'd minimize the influence of huge conglomerates of companies, and improve the influence of individual citizens instead.
But who am I kidding? Why would the ruling parties (D and R) cut their own money trains and death grip on the political process?
Well, he did misspell it, but only slightly - he forgot to capitalize it properly. It should be "BroSwing". It's an iPhone app for brotha's that like to swing ...
So, if Utah were to allow medical cannabis or just regular cannabis, are you entirely certain that people in Utah couldn't be arrested and charged for breaking federal laws against that particular substance? And that their stash wouldn't be confiscated?
I give you medical cannabis.
Alternatively one could leave out the men from the mission. Women tend to weigh less than men, so you'll have room for more cargo. As they weigh less, they also eat less, which again allows you to either carry more cargo or have the food last longer.
In an environment where you either experience micro gravity or 1/3rd gravity you don't need the "big strong" physique that people tend to think is necessary for exploration. And women are generally better at multitasking than men, which is definitely an advantage in that kind of environment.
An as for the "but ten women locked up together for years will be useless for five days a month", that could be solved fairly easily with either medication or pre-flight surgery.
And let's not forget - who would you rather watch on pay-per-view? 10 guys locked up together for years or 10 women locked up together for years?
Like the right to say "bad" words on TV and radio, the right to show off your tits without being labelled a sex offender, the right to not having to "think of the children", the right to not be executed, the right to share a joint with your friend or how about the right not to be a 3rd rate citizen just because you've been in jail (i.e. the right to vote)?
??? O_o
It depends on the language being used.
In Danish the number "one point four one eight" (1.418) is literally "one comma four one eight" (1,418).
As such it is quite confusing when (as someone else pointed out) you see "1,418 million" written in a Danish text and how that's an insane amount of money to spend on building an office building, because some nitwit merely copy/pasted the numbers from somewhere else. If they wanted to make it "one thousand four hundred and eighteen million" the right way of typing it would be "1.418 million" because we used the period as a thousand separator in Danish.
This issue is often compounded by the fact that we use a different but similar counting system for large numbers than US English
1,000,000 is million/million (DK/US)
1,000,000,000 is milliard/billion (DK/US)
1,000,000,000,000 is billion/trillion (DK/US)
1,000,000,000,000,000 is billiard/quadrillion (DK/US)
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 is trillion/quintillion (DK/US)
This can result in some fairly absurd statements when ignorant journalists translates a US article into Danish. Let's use the US federal budget for 2008 as an example.
The budget is $2,979 billion ($2,979,000,000,000). Now someone translates that into Danish without knowing what he's doing and he gets it right, purely by chance, because the comma acts as a decimal point. (2,979 billion = 2.979.000.000.000 Danish style).
If he gets his numbers from a slightly different source however, it might say that the budget is $2.979 trillion. In Danish that number is $2.979.000.000.000.000.000.000 ... makes for a slightly different budget, wouldn't you say?
And while the journalists are quick to change their online articles once you point out the difference, I'm yet to see any of them remember it the next time they simply copy/paste numbers from one language to another.
As for fixing it - that's just not doable. You might as well try to do away with counting time in sets of 60 seconds, 60 minutes and 24 hours and try to go to a decimal based time system, like Swatch Internet Time, where this post was written @178. It's very practical because if I say I'll call you at @178 you don't have to wonder if I'm thinking my time, your time, have I considered DST etc., but time (just like decimal points) are too ingrained into the spoken language to change.
I did say along the lines of SLAPP. Not SLAPP directly.
Like I said, depending on what she's blogged about in the past, one could argue that being forced out into the open has diminished her chances of seeking gainful employment compared to when no one could just google her name and find that Liskula Cohen is a psychotic skank ho ...
Liskula Cohen was still the blogger, right?
But as others have pointed out, the blogger will have no stance in court with her suit against Google, as Google is obviously required to follow a court order, not to mention that following such court orders are specifically mentioned in the terms of service for that particular service.
But a counter suit against the model could work. Might work. I'm not a lawyer, obviously, but I would think that a good lawyer could cook up some argument that being forced out into the open has diminished her chances of seeking gainful employment compared to when no one could just google her name and find that Liskula Cohen is a psychotic skank ho ...
Hrmm .. my first thought was that it was called "FIT" by the students, but then I decided it might have a funnier name:
FASHion InStitute of Technology
60% of the readers believes, that "if you are going to write something, you should have the courage to stand by it by putting your name on it.".
Not necessarily wrong, but considering how much the US is clamouring for people in other countries to be allowed anonymous and secret access to uncensored (but not necessarily unbiased) news, I find it odd that people in the US shouldn't be allowed to express anonymous speech.
Didn't some of the founding fathers publish a series of letters highly critical of the King's government before the revolution?
Sure, they might kill him, but in a society where you can be sued into what is essentially life long indentured servitude with no means of paying off the "damages" you've done to some company by mentioning that they might not look clean to you, wouldn't you rather face death?
Can the outed blogger sue the model for something along the lines of SLAPP? Well, obviously you can sue for anything, but is it likely to have the suit stand up in court?
Depending on what she's blogged about in the past, one could argue that being forced out into the open has diminished her chances of seeking gainful employment compared to when no one could just google her name and find that Liskula Cohen is a psychotic skank ho ...
Liskula Cohen was the blogger, right?
Well, not entirely, but seriously - they've come up with a way to grow new teeth for mammals.
Personally, I would love it if I could go to the dentist and have him replace some of my bad teeth with new ones. One or two at a time would be fine.
Instead of getting fake teeth or fillings when you've abused your teeth to the point where the enamel on the outside of the tooth has worn away, exposing the dentine ... if I could get those replaced? I'd almost be willing to kill for that.
Sure, it'd take time to regrow a new tooth, but I could live with that.
So yeah, screw growing new organs - get me some new teeth!
*sigh*
Apparently that wasn't the interview either. Where the hell is that interview?
It's like watching cable news doing a circle jerk talking about how a twitter post talks about a blog post that mentions an article that refers to an interview where the reporter asks a question about something, but no one even cares about showing the relevant clip!
Link to an old Slashdot story that then links to an archive page that doesn't even have the word Childs on it.
You have to go to page three of the archive to find the bloody interview!
Why the hell is it so difficult to provide direct links to the actual articles?
So, in the 1600s we had a very low number of sun spots and a little ice age.
In the last decade we've had a low number of sun spots and a temperature spike.
But the people who says that global warming isn't caused by human factors, primarily claim that it's due to this low number of sun spots.
So ... normal sun spot count, normal temperatures. Low number of sun spots, high temperatures. Very low number of sun spots, very low temperatures.
I wonder what happens if we get a high and very high number of sun spots - one will probably push the average global temperature to 300 Kelvin while the other will send it to 350. Wonder which will do what.
Which was my point. The number 18 does not exist in base 8, because the number 8 isn't in base 8. That it is the equivalent of something in base 8 is different.
The word "blåøjet" doesn't exist in English either - the equivalent in English is "blue eyed" or "naïve".