Equal opportunity is not flawed. The problem is that too many people (politicians included) confuse equal opportunity (everyone has an equal chance to prove they can do the job) with equality of results (workforce 50/50 whites and blacks).
Remember, even a 17 yearold is still considered a "child".
Not all children suddenly become capable of giving informed consent at the same age. I will concede that there may be an age that is too young across the board, but yes, children are capable of giving informed consent.
If only God would swing by every couple thousand years to refresh our memories
Maybe he does? Personally, I'm an atheist, so I may have some things a little mixed up, but it has only been a little over 3000 years since he's basically done something like that (Moses died around 1271 BC, and God seemed pretty active during Moses' lifetime).
While I would prefer it to require a warrant, we're not talking about intercepting a letter here. We're talking about asking the post office where letters that John Smith sent got picked up from, and maybe where they were sent too.
Except that the alternative isn't death, it's to have never been born in the first place. But even if you ask them like that, a 4 year old probably wouldn't understand the difference. It would be like a virgin asking the children they never had if they wished they had been born.
BTW, I can say with 100% certainty that I would not care if I had never been born. I know this because had I not been born, I would not be around to care, because I would not exist.
I see you've been drinking the kool-aid being dished out by the banking and credit card industries. That is actually fraud, not theft. They're only trying to call it theft in order to shift blame off of themselves for their involvement in letting someone pretend to be you.
Except that's not what GP is advocating at all. The site will remain up, but the people reading through everything that's submitted will have enormous amounts of noise to sift through.
Or they could just, you know, be like me and this guy (warning: language NSFW but can you blame him?) and downloading cracked versions of games we already bought because the shitty DRM doesn't work!
Didn't even read the post before responding, did you.
Some might say those places don't count as news sources.
<tin_foil_hat>Maybe the real purpose of this law is to give the courts something to point to to say that such places aren't actually "news" (aka, the press), and thus they do not qualify for 1st amendment protections.</tin_foil_hat>
In my 2002 Toyota Celica, it has a sensor to automatically turn on the headlights when it gets too dark outside. I always manually turn them on and off so cannot say for certain, but maybe if you ignore the switch and just let the sensor turn them on and off, they will turn off right away when turning the key to the off position? Can anyone confirm or deny that their car functions like so?
Given that GP was referring to running Win7 in a VM on OSX, I can see exactly what they mean. Maybe it's changed in the year or so since I tried, but XP was too slow for my tastes when run from within VMWare on OSX Leopard.
So get into the habit of replacing the watch battery twice yearly like the PSAs are always talking about for smoke detectors? Presuming of course that the battery should normally last for much longer than ~6 months.
That said, I worry about it for reasons already stated in other posts.
I cannot say I've ever been given this as a "test" persay, but always as a list of things to do. And while sometimes steps do not need to be done in order (put on seat belt, adjust mirrors, set iPod), other times they do (unlock car, open door, get in, start car, drive).
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Equal opportunity is not flawed. The problem is that too many people (politicians included) confuse equal opportunity (everyone has an equal chance to prove they can do the job) with equality of results (workforce 50/50 whites and blacks).
If our impact did not cause it, are we responsible to fix it?
If it means the human race dies off because we did nothing to "fix" (read, keep earth habitable to humans) things, then yes, we are responsible.
Remember, even a 17 yearold is still considered a "child".
Not all children suddenly become capable of giving informed consent at the same age. I will concede that there may be an age that is too young across the board, but yes, children are capable of giving informed consent.
You realize, of course, that Kagura is plagiarizing OP, right? :P
If only God would swing by every couple thousand years to refresh our memories
Maybe he does? Personally, I'm an atheist, so I may have some things a little mixed up, but it has only been a little over 3000 years since he's basically done something like that (Moses died around 1271 BC, and God seemed pretty active during Moses' lifetime).
As Microsoft keeps tightening up on people, I really have to wonder why anyone still puts up with it.
Games.
While I would prefer it to require a warrant, we're not talking about intercepting a letter here. We're talking about asking the post office where letters that John Smith sent got picked up from, and maybe where they were sent too.
Except that the alternative isn't death, it's to have never been born in the first place. But even if you ask them like that, a 4 year old probably wouldn't understand the difference. It would be like a virgin asking the children they never had if they wished they had been born.
BTW, I can say with 100% certainty that I would not care if I had never been born. I know this because had I not been born, I would not be around to care, because I would not exist.
I see you've been drinking the kool-aid being dished out by the banking and credit card industries. That is actually fraud, not theft. They're only trying to call it theft in order to shift blame off of themselves for their involvement in letting someone pretend to be you.
Apparently you didn't notice my tinfoil hat tags.
Explaining? I thought they were expanding upon it by adding "liken".
I hope this doesn't count as explaining it. >.>
Except that's not what GP is advocating at all. The site will remain up, but the people reading through everything that's submitted will have enormous amounts of noise to sift through.
Or they could just, you know, be like me and this guy (warning: language NSFW but can you blame him?) and downloading cracked versions of games we already bought because the shitty DRM doesn't work!
Didn't even read the post before responding, did you.
Some might say those places don't count as news sources.
<tin_foil_hat>Maybe the real purpose of this law is to give the courts something to point to to say that such places aren't actually "news" (aka, the press), and thus they do not qualify for 1st amendment protections.</tin_foil_hat>
At least in roulette if you bet on every number you also can't lose as you'll break even.
Unless I'm thinking of some other game.
Meg's evil twin?
a recent test of a US missile defense system has failed.
Both the target missile [...] and the interceptor [...] performed as expected.
Reading those two lines, I think the missiles failed to fail?
And what exactly were you trying to add with that comment?
In my 2002 Toyota Celica, it has a sensor to automatically turn on the headlights when it gets too dark outside. I always manually turn them on and off so cannot say for certain, but maybe if you ignore the switch and just let the sensor turn them on and off, they will turn off right away when turning the key to the off position? Can anyone confirm or deny that their car functions like so?
Uh, we're talking about methods of stopping a car when the engine is revving faster and faster all on its own. :P
Given that GP was referring to running Win7 in a VM on OSX, I can see exactly what they mean. Maybe it's changed in the year or so since I tried, but XP was too slow for my tastes when run from within VMWare on OSX Leopard.
So get into the habit of replacing the watch battery twice yearly like the PSAs are always talking about for smoke detectors? Presuming of course that the battery should normally last for much longer than ~6 months.
That said, I worry about it for reasons already stated in other posts.
So you're saying that GP is wrong because, like everything else, too much is a bad thing?
If you'd checked the wiki link, you'd have known GP was implying a specific substance for the remaining 4%.
That said, I always thought Guinness was more like 7% abv?
I cannot say I've ever been given this as a "test" persay, but always as a list of things to do. And while sometimes steps do not need to be done in order (put on seat belt, adjust mirrors, set iPod), other times they do (unlock car, open door, get in, start car, drive).