What has whether he is on the spectrum (yes, I know people who are) got to do with whether he is a criminal low-life.
Because it may change how you end up dealing with the situation. For example, if your intent is to fix the problem, instead of just sending such people away and forgetting about them.
Well of course! What, you didn't think we just harvest them from anywhere, did you? It takes a lot of time and special preparation to grow a cockroach that is fit for human consumption.
But if you do not declare, are you disallowed from voting in the primaries? As I understand it, in Maryland, if you do not declare a party affiliation, that is fine, but then you don't get to vote in the primaries.
But also useful for euthanasia (assisted suicide). [...] You would know for a fact that there would be no discomfort or pain of dying
Just one problem with that.
it takes around three gigajoules of death-ray to entirely vaporize a person — enough to completely melt 5,000 pounds of steel or simulate a lightning bolt.
People have survived being hit by lightning. But then, I don't know what goes in to simulating a lightning bolt. So maybe most of that energy isn't in the lightning bolt itself.
I must say, I am shocked at the number of people posting here who support China's policy. Is there a sudden flood of postings from Texas high-school students, or something?
Supporting China's policy of using the organs of executed people does not imply support for the death penalty.
I oppose both for different reasons, but can easily see how someone else could oppose the death penalty, grudgingly accept that until things change it is going to happen whether they like it or not, and thus support not being wasteful with the organs of the condemned.
Flamebait? It's a serious question. I am genuinely curious as to what AC meant by "reduced prison term". Because at first glance, it seems funny (so maybe I've just been whooshed?), the idea of offering a reduced prison term to a death row inmate in exchange for performing scientific experiments on the inmate, when the reason you are performing the experimentation on the inmate and not a random volunteer from off the street is because it will end up killing the inmate anyway.
Or maybe AC didn't mean just experimentation that results in death, just experimentation that might result in death. So the inmate is trading guaranteed death for possible death?
I think one thought is that it creates incentive to push for the death penalty instead of just life in prison. But we'll see if it changes their execution rate (assuming those figures are released).
When you're in class and your BFF Skypes you, or sends a chat message, are you going to ignore it?
Isn't that a bit like saying "when you're at the bar, and you've had a bit too much too drink, but you really need to get home right away, are you going to just sit there until you sober up?"?
If you focus only on laptop users who will become distracted, then to be fair, you must also focus only on alcohol drinkers who will get behind the wheel when they probably should not.
Exactly. For the obligatory car analogy, the idea that using a computer to take notes leads to goofing off, seems about as silly as saying drinking alcohol leads to drunk driving.
(and will be hard to study short of another guillotine wielding revolution)
But not impossible. Just have to use some other animal besides humans, and find some organization willing to perform the experiments. Some Russians apparently did some stuff with dogs in the 1940's.
Breathing isn't triggered by a lack of oxygen but with a high level of CO2. In water or helium* the CO2 is washed out and so there is no panic demand to breathe.
Never had a gulp of water go down the wrong pipe? While you are correct that the feeling of "I need to breathe!!!12@" is triggered by an increase in CO2 levels and not a decrease in O2 levels, I suspect it would still be an unpleasant experience if all of the air in your lungs was suddenly replaced with water.
But maybe a full displacement is less unpleasant than a partial displacement. Still, I know I would be hesitant to voluntarily take that first (and final) gulp of water until the need to breathe overcame my ability to hold my breath, no matter what anyone else says.
I would be VERY surprised if this were "untested ground". I doubt that very much.
Given the inconsistency regarding the legality of requiring someone to decipher the contents of their notebooks just because the notebook is now made out of metal and written to using magnets, I'm not so sure about that.
But not so far in the dark that they cannot give you the answer you want. "The hydrogen is two times more than the oxygen" is meaningless unless you convey to someone why this should worry them. Now granted, simply adding "in water" probably won't get you the desired response either. But if you make sure they understand that fire needs both oxygen and a fuel source, remind them about the Hindenburg, and then point out that this "terrible substance" is found all over the globe.... well, it's a wonder we've avoided going up in flames this long.
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What has whether he is on the spectrum (yes, I know people who are) got to do with whether he is a criminal low-life.
Because it may change how you end up dealing with the situation. For example, if your intent is to fix the problem, instead of just sending such people away and forgetting about them.
Well of course! What, you didn't think we just harvest them from anywhere, did you? It takes a lot of time and special preparation to grow a cockroach that is fit for human consumption.
siimilar product.
Can't say I've ever thought of popcorn as being similar to cookies. But I suppose they are both junk food.
Reusing the same sprites and other art assets != reusing maps.
As someone who played LttP when it first came out on the SNES, I must disagree.
It is close, but the music, for me, pushes OoT ahead.
was a fucking joke
Yes.. as was mine. Super Mario Bros, World 3-1, turtle stomping just before the flag for extra lives.
If it had been the President of Konami then maybe that would work.
But what he could have done instead, is he could have smashed a few more turtles when he was 31. ;)
In Virginia, we don't have to declare at all.
But if you do not declare, are you disallowed from voting in the primaries? As I understand it, in Maryland, if you do not declare a party affiliation, that is fine, but then you don't get to vote in the primaries.
But also useful for euthanasia (assisted suicide). [...] You would know for a fact that there would be no discomfort or pain of dying
Just one problem with that.
it takes around three gigajoules of death-ray to entirely vaporize a person — enough to completely melt 5,000 pounds of steel or simulate a lightning bolt.
People have survived being hit by lightning. But then, I don't know what goes in to simulating a lightning bolt. So maybe most of that energy isn't in the lightning bolt itself.
So I guess the question then, is does there exist a network topology that does not violate this troll's patent?
I thought the intent wasn't to get information, but to trick the system to display "STOLEN" on the wrong vehicle.
So then it is a cat.
I must say, I am shocked at the number of people posting here who support China's policy. Is there a sudden flood of postings from Texas high-school students, or something?
Supporting China's policy of using the organs of executed people does not imply support for the death penalty.
I oppose both for different reasons, but can easily see how someone else could oppose the death penalty, grudgingly accept that until things change it is going to happen whether they like it or not, and thus support not being wasteful with the organs of the condemned.
Flamebait? It's a serious question. I am genuinely curious as to what AC meant by "reduced prison term". Because at first glance, it seems funny (so maybe I've just been whooshed?), the idea of offering a reduced prison term to a death row inmate in exchange for performing scientific experiments on the inmate, when the reason you are performing the experimentation on the inmate and not a random volunteer from off the street is because it will end up killing the inmate anyway.
Or maybe AC didn't mean just experimentation that results in death, just experimentation that might result in death. So the inmate is trading guaranteed death for possible death?
Death row inmates should also be used for scientific experimentation, possibly in exchange for a reduced prison term.
.....what? Do you mean, like, pushing out the date of their execution, or reducing it from execution to life in prison, or what?
I think one thought is that it creates incentive to push for the death penalty instead of just life in prison. But we'll see if it changes their execution rate (assuming those figures are released).
Well Pirates of Silicon Valley wasn't just about Steve Jobs and Apple. It also followed Bill Gates and Microsoft.
While I'm not exactly interested in seeing Jobs, I am curious to see how Jobs compares to Pirates.
When you're in class and your BFF Skypes you, or sends a chat message, are you going to ignore it?
Isn't that a bit like saying "when you're at the bar, and you've had a bit too much too drink, but you really need to get home right away, are you going to just sit there until you sober up?"?
If you focus only on laptop users who will become distracted, then to be fair, you must also focus only on alcohol drinkers who will get behind the wheel when they probably should not.
Exactly. For the obligatory car analogy, the idea that using a computer to take notes leads to goofing off, seems about as silly as saying drinking alcohol leads to drunk driving.
(and will be hard to study short of another guillotine wielding revolution)
But not impossible. Just have to use some other animal besides humans, and find some organization willing to perform the experiments. Some Russians apparently did some stuff with dogs in the 1940's.
Breathing isn't triggered by a lack of oxygen but with a high level of CO2. In water or helium* the CO2 is washed out and so there is no panic demand to breathe.
Never had a gulp of water go down the wrong pipe? While you are correct that the feeling of "I need to breathe!!!12@" is triggered by an increase in CO2 levels and not a decrease in O2 levels, I suspect it would still be an unpleasant experience if all of the air in your lungs was suddenly replaced with water.
But maybe a full displacement is less unpleasant than a partial displacement. Still, I know I would be hesitant to voluntarily take that first (and final) gulp of water until the need to breathe overcame my ability to hold my breath, no matter what anyone else says.
I also read it that way. I'm surprised there aren't more posts about it.
There is nothing illegal about not hiring someone with long hair.
Correct. Doesn't make it right though.
Dressing and looking unprofessional does not go under any of these critera.
Also correct. But what does that have to do with having long hair?
I would be VERY surprised if this were "untested ground". I doubt that very much.
Given the inconsistency regarding the legality of requiring someone to decipher the contents of their notebooks just because the notebook is now made out of metal and written to using magnets, I'm not so sure about that.
But not so far in the dark that they cannot give you the answer you want. "The hydrogen is two times more than the oxygen" is meaningless unless you convey to someone why this should worry them. Now granted, simply adding "in water" probably won't get you the desired response either. But if you make sure they understand that fire needs both oxygen and a fuel source, remind them about the Hindenburg, and then point out that this "terrible substance" is found all over the globe.... well, it's a wonder we've avoided going up in flames this long.