Then you get thrown in jail for threatening the life of another person, unless you hire a really expensive lawyer who can prove that you were simply exercising your first amendment rights and had no intention to follow through with your "plans".
I've said it before and I'll say it again. The LHC will continue to be delayed for one reason or another until it finally goes fully operational on December 21, 2012, and destroys the world.
I'd say it's closer to 100% (of those who want to pay attention), though I know not how I'd calculate the actual percentage.
Consider it like this. Fill up the first row with people who want to pay attention. Then the next, then the next, until you run out of people who want to pay attention. Then fill in the remaining slots with everyone who doesn't want to be there, but for whatever reason, is there. Depending on seat layout, only the people who want to pay attention who are in the same row as those who just don't care should be affected, as long as the don't cares keep silent about their actions.
28 days minimum? Baloney. I don't know what the actual minimum is (if there is one), but when I began my first real employment just 3 years ago, I got 15 days a year. 2 years from now I'll get 20 a year.
While it may not be flamebait, it's probably at least offtopic. I'm not so sure stem cells could "cure" what is purely an aesthetic thing (breast/dick size). At least it sounds to me like that is what OP was hinting at.
Every time I overhear someone making fun of the fact that people in the EU get a month of paid vacation
How the hell does someone make fun of that??
"Haha, they get an entire month of paid time off while we get zilch*!...wait"
*Alternatively, "while I'd probably be canned for using all my PTO days at once". Though probably not from the act of taking off, but from the fallout of trying to get back on track when you do return.
Just because it's fitted cellophane doesn't mean it's factory wrapped. A few years ago I found "see-through wrapping paper" at I think it was a Staples. I bought some and found it very easy to re-wrap a DVD so that it appeared to be factory wrapped.
Copy/Paste doesn't copy the underlines, so I'll just bold the underlined t's.
Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike and Half-Life) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Portal 2 for shipment this coming holiday season.
Portal 2 is the sequel to 2007's Portal, which won 70 industry achievement awards.
I actually had a similar thought to GP. Sure, you could just cover your mouth such that only the camera can see it, and in those situations, it would work. But this technology can also be used by someone who wants to find out what someone else is saying from across the room, just speaking casually with another person. I'm sure there are situations where such a device would be more desirable than devices designed to pickup sound at a distance. That said, not advocating any sort of ban or anything, merely pointing it out.
And to expand upon your comment, I'd say this method is less likely to be tapped via the analog hole than other methods of communicating something discretely. If you're whispering, you might get back a "I'm sorry, I couldn't understand you, could you please speak up?", and as you get louder, the chance of being overheard increases. If typing or writing or otherwise using your hands to send the message, you'd need some extra device on you with which to cover your movements, as your hands are already occupied (unless you can do those same actions with your feet). With just moving your mouth, you've got those devices built-in.
You have that backwards. Free speech is guaranteed*, but the government can punish you for it**.
*Taking away the bullhorn that was not yours to begin with did not take away your ability to speak, you can still speak without it, or even get your own bullhorn if you so desire.
**Ala "freedom of speech does not mean freedom from responsibility", typically expressed via the example of yelling fire in a crowded theater when there is no fire.
Those four words alone could possibly trump any attempt to show a person's innocense by so-called "witnesses" to the person's whereabouts. It's the new "the computer says it, so it must be true"!
No, it's not like your example at all. In your example, they "should not have been doing it" simply because that is what the law says.
I was trying to avoid this since I figured it would just generate "it's only unsafe because the man says so" comments, but what part of "it's unsafe to consume, period, because methyl alcohol is not the same thing as ethyl alcohol" do you not understand?
Apparently mods cannot read, so allow me to explain.
camperslo makes a comment that this will create carbon-friendly jobs.
AC interprets "carbon-friendly" to mean setting carbon free, and makes a comment about how setting less carbon free is not carbon friendly. AC compares not freeing carbon to "locking up" (aka, not freeing) Jews.
M8e points out that we're not reducing the amount of carbon being set free, we're reducing the amount of carbon we're burning, and again compares this to Jews in order to point out that by reducing how much carbon is burned, we are being more friendly to carbon, because being burned hurts!
Mods, please don't waste your points on me, use them to mod up M8e.
Well, if that's the only reason you can think of, you're not thinking very hard, are you?
Neither are you apparently, otherwise surely you'd have provided some examples of additional reasons instead of simply insulting GP.
While personally I side with GP, I will point out that games do use dates for a variety of reasons. Pokemon games starting with Gold and Silver for the GBC, and the Animal Crossing series, all have date-specific events. Of course, none of those refused to play if their internal clocks did not match the clocks of some central server. Heck, you could even set your clock to before the time of the last time you played, and it would still play just fine (though some Animal Crossing residents might be like "it's been hundreds of years since you've visited me!").
Except maybe the Wii version of Animal Crossing, have yet to touch that.
you may lay these 10,000 deaths at the feet of authoritarianism and christianity.
I abhor people who push their religious beliefs onto others as much as anyone else here, but come on. It's not like they were poisoning beer being sold off the shelf, they were adding poisons to stuff that people already should not have been drinking even before prohibition.
Blaming all those deaths on "authoritarianism and christianity" is as ridiculous as blaming fuel manufacturers for deaths that result from someone drinking gasoline that has ethanol mixed in with it.
That's what I said in my bullet point, or tried to anyway.
The anti-nuclear crowd brings it up as a reason why nuclear power is dangerous, but really, it's a reason why it isn't dangerous, when the proper safety procedures are followed anyway.
I cannot say I have ever seen a comment stating that nuclear power "never-has-any-kind-of-problem-EVAR", except when followed with a "when the proper safety procedures are followed". I mean, it's kinda hard to ignore Chernobyl* and TMI** when the "nuclear power is dangerous" crowd keeps trying to shove them in everyone's faces as examples of why nuclear power is dangerous.
*What happens when proper safety procedures are not followed.
**Not a problem at all, but they still try and bring it up despite the fact that proper safety procedures were followed, and thus the risk was minimal.
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Then you get thrown in jail for threatening the life of another person, unless you hire a really expensive lawyer who can prove that you were simply exercising your first amendment rights and had no intention to follow through with your "plans".
FTFY
And yes I know you were making a joke.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. The LHC will continue to be delayed for one reason or another until it finally goes fully operational on December 21, 2012, and destroys the world.
I'd say it's closer to 100% (of those who want to pay attention), though I know not how I'd calculate the actual percentage.
Consider it like this. Fill up the first row with people who want to pay attention. Then the next, then the next, until you run out of people who want to pay attention. Then fill in the remaining slots with everyone who doesn't want to be there, but for whatever reason, is there. Depending on seat layout, only the people who want to pay attention who are in the same row as those who just don't care should be affected, as long as the don't cares keep silent about their actions.
Except we were discussing people in the USA making fun of people in Europe for getting that much time off :P
28 days minimum? Baloney. I don't know what the actual minimum is (if there is one), but when I began my first real employment just 3 years ago, I got 15 days a year. 2 years from now I'll get 20 a year.
While it may not be flamebait, it's probably at least offtopic. I'm not so sure stem cells could "cure" what is purely an aesthetic thing (breast/dick size). At least it sounds to me like that is what OP was hinting at.
Every time I overhear someone making fun of the fact that people in the EU get a month of paid vacation
How the hell does someone make fun of that??
...wait"
"Haha, they get an entire month of paid time off while we get zilch*!
*Alternatively, "while I'd probably be canned for using all my PTO days at once". Though probably not from the act of taking off, but from the fallout of trying to get back on track when you do return.
Just because it's fitted cellophane doesn't mean it's factory wrapped. A few years ago I found "see-through wrapping paper" at I think it was a Staples. I bought some and found it very easy to re-wrap a DVD so that it appeared to be factory wrapped.
Copy/Paste doesn't copy the underlines, so I'll just bold the underlined t's.
Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike and Half-Life) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Portal 2 for shipment this coming holiday season. Portal 2 is the sequel to 2007's Portal, which won 70 industry achievement awards.
drattmannh0nee?
Back when Microsoft first claimed that FOSS violates 235 patents, they did, and near as I can tell, nothing ever came of it.
I am not a jazz listener. Is light jazz the same thing as smooth jazz?
I actually had a similar thought to GP. Sure, you could just cover your mouth such that only the camera can see it, and in those situations, it would work. But this technology can also be used by someone who wants to find out what someone else is saying from across the room, just speaking casually with another person. I'm sure there are situations where such a device would be more desirable than devices designed to pickup sound at a distance. That said, not advocating any sort of ban or anything, merely pointing it out.
And to expand upon your comment, I'd say this method is less likely to be tapped via the analog hole than other methods of communicating something discretely. If you're whispering, you might get back a "I'm sorry, I couldn't understand you, could you please speak up?", and as you get louder, the chance of being overheard increases. If typing or writing or otherwise using your hands to send the message, you'd need some extra device on you with which to cover your movements, as your hands are already occupied (unless you can do those same actions with your feet). With just moving your mouth, you've got those devices built-in.
They already tried that. A bunch of FOSS developers then said, "bring it".
Near as I can tell, nothing ever developed from it.
Until the virus writers start targeting non-Microsoft OSes because their market share is now increasing.
You have that backwards. Free speech is guaranteed*, but the government can punish you for it**.
*Taking away the bullhorn that was not yours to begin with did not take away your ability to speak, you can still speak without it, or even get your own bullhorn if you so desire.
**Ala "freedom of speech does not mean freedom from responsibility", typically expressed via the example of yelling fire in a crowded theater when there is no fire.
Real history demonstrates that knowledge and intellect have both increased over the thousands of years of human development
Except for that part during the dark/middle ages and perhaps even early renaissance where it instead decreased thanks in no small part to the church.
"DNA does not lie."
Those four words alone could possibly trump any attempt to show a person's innocense by so-called "witnesses" to the person's whereabouts. It's the new "the computer says it, so it must be true"!
No, it's not like your example at all. In your example, they "should not have been doing it" simply because that is what the law says.
I was trying to avoid this since I figured it would just generate "it's only unsafe because the man says so" comments, but what part of "it's unsafe to consume, period, because methyl alcohol is not the same thing as ethyl alcohol" do you not understand?
Apparently mods cannot read, so allow me to explain.
camperslo makes a comment that this will create carbon-friendly jobs.
AC interprets "carbon-friendly" to mean setting carbon free, and makes a comment about how setting less carbon free is not carbon friendly. AC compares not freeing carbon to "locking up" (aka, not freeing) Jews.
M8e points out that we're not reducing the amount of carbon being set free, we're reducing the amount of carbon we're burning, and again compares this to Jews in order to point out that by reducing how much carbon is burned, we are being more friendly to carbon, because being burned hurts!
Mods, please don't waste your points on me, use them to mod up M8e.
Well, if that's the only reason you can think of, you're not thinking very hard, are you?
Neither are you apparently, otherwise surely you'd have provided some examples of additional reasons instead of simply insulting GP.
While personally I side with GP, I will point out that games do use dates for a variety of reasons. Pokemon games starting with Gold and Silver for the GBC, and the Animal Crossing series, all have date-specific events. Of course, none of those refused to play if their internal clocks did not match the clocks of some central server. Heck, you could even set your clock to before the time of the last time you played, and it would still play just fine (though some Animal Crossing residents might be like "it's been hundreds of years since you've visited me!").
Except maybe the Wii version of Animal Crossing, have yet to touch that.
you may lay these 10,000 deaths at the feet of authoritarianism and christianity.
I abhor people who push their religious beliefs onto others as much as anyone else here, but come on. It's not like they were poisoning beer being sold off the shelf, they were adding poisons to stuff that people already should not have been drinking even before prohibition.
Blaming all those deaths on "authoritarianism and christianity" is as ridiculous as blaming fuel manufacturers for deaths that result from someone drinking gasoline that has ethanol mixed in with it.
That's what I said in my bullet point, or tried to anyway.
The anti-nuclear crowd brings it up as a reason why nuclear power is dangerous, but really, it's a reason why it isn't dangerous, when the proper safety procedures are followed anyway.
I cannot say I have ever seen a comment stating that nuclear power "never-has-any-kind-of-problem-EVAR", except when followed with a "when the proper safety procedures are followed". I mean, it's kinda hard to ignore Chernobyl* and TMI** when the "nuclear power is dangerous" crowd keeps trying to shove them in everyone's faces as examples of why nuclear power is dangerous.
*What happens when proper safety procedures are not followed.
**Not a problem at all, but they still try and bring it up despite the fact that proper safety procedures were followed, and thus the risk was minimal.
a necessary condition for reversibility is that the transition function mapping states to their successors at a given later time should be one-to-one.