Have to agree with you. I bought my bike new from a reputable dealer but can't imagine people wanting to save money will bother checking a serial number against a database. I've never even looked at the serial number on my bike.
Maybe if there was a good chance of being prosecuted for "Possession of stolen goods" if you bought a bike that was in the database or had a filed off serial number and should have known it was stolen it would prevent theft? Put a few people who purchased stolen bikes into prison for a few years and people in the market for used bikes might look a bit closer?
That or just drive some nails through the forearms of bike thieves and hang them up in the location the bike was stolen as a warning to other potential thieves.
You're right, it could have been worse. What ever happened to that man that was extradited to Saudi Arabia and sentenced to death for tweeting a poem about Muhammad?
No... that's one of the problems with anonymity, it's easier to fake. However, it's very, very important, especially in places in which your vote is more likely to be coerced. The advantages of anonymity far outweigh the disadvantages.
Coercion by definition requires a despot to be public about his despotism. With a secret ballot, despots can go around rigging elections for decades pretending to actually be chosen by the people.
Well few parasitic species recognize their nature and actively try to change it....sort of like this article describes?
That's not entirely true. While few species actively recognize themselves as parasitic, there are many examples of parasitic species that adapt to their new environment in ways that are beneficial to the host species/environment. Not only are you currently crawling with species that were originally purely parasitic, you could not survive without them.
The original series was just a tiny bit gritty. Not too much, just a little.
Han Shot first, Luke swore ("Dammit R2!"), Leah got pissed off and shot people. The original ending for Return of the Jedi was supposed to be a bittersweet moment with Han dead and the rebel forces taking stock of their losses until Lucas decided he'd sell more toys if he made it more kid friendly. The fight scenes were even a bit more believable - these were humans fighting with whatever equipment and abilities they have.
The new movies are nothing but special effects and acrobatics designed to entice kids and sell toys. That's why the originals are loved and the new ones hated. The originals actually told a story and made it believable, the new ones are just acrobatics and CGI.
of course not. most places in europe will have 0.5l as the "standard" size, british (and themed pubs elsewhere) will use pint. well, one of them:)
I seem to remember an old man in Orwell's 1984 complaining about how the evil totalitarian government required beer to be sold in.5L or 1L instead of the ideal size (the pint).
No no, it's much less rational that that. Studies have shown that people find the odor of their 3rd cousins smells better than anyone more or less closely related to them.
In a number of different memoirs from actors in the original Planet of the Apes, it was noted that people playing different types of apes always sat with each other at lunch. It was a bizarre granfalloon - baboons with baboons and orangs with orangs for no other reason than that they looked the same. And these were people that knew each other before the film.
People have a natural inclination to like people that look more like them whether it makes sense in modern society or not.
"I never could understand the Catholic's refusal to let priests marry, considering that one of the Apostles (Peter maybe? I'd have to look it up) said that men should marry to avoid being tempted into sinful sex, and there's surely not much that's more sinful than raping children."
It actually wasn't the policy for priests to be barred from marriage until the Catholic Church figured out that if priests married they would have heirs and if they had heirs then those heirs might inherit church property. If they don't have heirs, priests inheritance would go back into the Church. So in order to increase the wealth of the Church priests were not allowed to marry. That's the reason, the Catholic Church cares a lot more about money and power than child rape and always has.
To anyone that continues to support the Catholic Church: Stop. Supporting the Church makes you a bad person. You are an accessory to child rape and the spread of AIDS. Giving the keys to heaven to the Catholic Church is like giving the keys to your car to a drunken 9 year old, to be a Catholic you need to believe that God is simultaneously omniscient and a complete moron. Centuries of burning people to death for attempting to translate the Bible into English should be enough of a clue by itself. This religion is not appropriate for civilized people.
They have an excellent power-to-weight ratio (which is why they're used in aircraft, and why gas turbines are used in helicopters)
The big benefit for commercial aircraft is actually their extremely long TBO (Time Between Overhauls). The more times you have to take an airframe out of service for maintenance, the less money you make so turbines make economic sense.
I realize it isn't even within an order of magnitude of the US and Russia but is there any reason the nation with the 3rd largest number of nukes has to be France?
That's pretty much America for you. Can't afford to pay what you owe to the government? Then we'll be damned if we'll let you get to work!
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Religious people like to present the straw man argument that you cannot disprove "God" when all you need is to disprove THEIR God. Disproving that there is some vague intelligent like thing that created the universe defies rational argument but disproving that their particular holy book is his word is often fairly simple.
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Have to agree with you. I bought my bike new from a reputable dealer but can't imagine people wanting to save money will bother checking a serial number against a database. I've never even looked at the serial number on my bike.
Maybe if there was a good chance of being prosecuted for "Possession of stolen goods" if you bought a bike that was in the database or had a filed off serial number and should have known it was stolen it would prevent theft? Put a few people who purchased stolen bikes into prison for a few years and people in the market for used bikes might look a bit closer?
That or just drive some nails through the forearms of bike thieves and hang them up in the location the bike was stolen as a warning to other potential thieves.
So how is NASA doing on that 'B Ark' project? I heard that the enormous mutant star-goat could strike earth any moment now.
You're right, it could have been worse. What ever happened to that man that was extradited to Saudi Arabia and sentenced to death for tweeting a poem about Muhammad?
"But those that accepted aren't being assigned work that matches their course or skill set."
This is different from 90% of internships in any other nation in the world... how exactly?
No... that's one of the problems with anonymity, it's easier to fake. However, it's very, very important, especially in places in which your vote is more likely to be coerced. The advantages of anonymity far outweigh the disadvantages.
Coercion by definition requires a despot to be public about his despotism. With a secret ballot, despots can go around rigging elections for decades pretending to actually be chosen by the people.
Our current trend of releasing the CO2 from fossil fuels is just repairing the damage caused by prehistoric vegetation,
Please tell me you just didn't personify nature?
Psst that was the joke.
obviously. H. Sapiens is a parasitic species
Well few parasitic species recognize their nature and actively try to change it....sort of like this article describes?
That's not entirely true. While few species actively recognize themselves as parasitic, there are many examples of parasitic species that adapt to their new environment in ways that are beneficial to the host species/environment. Not only are you currently crawling with species that were originally purely parasitic, you could not survive without them.
The original series was just a tiny bit gritty. Not too much, just a little.
Han Shot first, Luke swore ("Dammit R2!"), Leah got pissed off and shot people. The original ending for Return of the Jedi was supposed to be a bittersweet moment with Han dead and the rebel forces taking stock of their losses until Lucas decided he'd sell more toys if he made it more kid friendly. The fight scenes were even a bit more believable - these were humans fighting with whatever equipment and abilities they have.
The new movies are nothing but special effects and acrobatics designed to entice kids and sell toys. That's why the originals are loved and the new ones hated. The originals actually told a story and made it believable, the new ones are just acrobatics and CGI.
of course not. most places in europe will have 0.5l as the "standard" size, british (and themed pubs elsewhere) will use pint. well, one of them :)
I seem to remember an old man in Orwell's 1984 complaining about how the evil totalitarian government required beer to be sold in .5L or 1L instead of the ideal size (the pint).
Kind of sad how well Orwell predicted the future.
...unless their cable broke (cables do wear our on occasion)
In which case Apple is just making a money grab by forcing people to buy their overpriced cables.
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Connotation vs denotation.
Use "RC aircraft" when it's a good individual citizen, use "drone" when it's an evil government or corporation.
"the rules of ethics for attorneys"
That can't be a real thing, you just made that up.
No no, it's much less rational that that. Studies have shown that people find the odor of their 3rd cousins smells better than anyone more or less closely related to them.
In a number of different memoirs from actors in the original Planet of the Apes, it was noted that people playing different types of apes always sat with each other at lunch. It was a bizarre granfalloon - baboons with baboons and orangs with orangs for no other reason than that they looked the same. And these were people that knew each other before the film.
People have a natural inclination to like people that look more like them whether it makes sense in modern society or not.
Well there's no way they're going to fit a lens capable of giving a great picture onto a phone.
"I never could understand the Catholic's refusal to let priests marry, considering that one of the Apostles (Peter maybe? I'd have to look it up) said that men should marry to avoid being tempted into sinful sex, and there's surely not much that's more sinful than raping children."
It actually wasn't the policy for priests to be barred from marriage until the Catholic Church figured out that if priests married they would have heirs and if they had heirs then those heirs might inherit church property. If they don't have heirs, priests inheritance would go back into the Church. So in order to increase the wealth of the Church priests were not allowed to marry. That's the reason, the Catholic Church cares a lot more about money and power than child rape and always has.
To anyone that continues to support the Catholic Church: Stop. Supporting the Church makes you a bad person. You are an accessory to child rape and the spread of AIDS. Giving the keys to heaven to the Catholic Church is like giving the keys to your car to a drunken 9 year old, to be a Catholic you need to believe that God is simultaneously omniscient and a complete moron. Centuries of burning people to death for attempting to translate the Bible into English should be enough of a clue by itself. This religion is not appropriate for civilized people.
They have an excellent power-to-weight ratio (which is why they're used in aircraft, and why gas turbines are used in helicopters)
The big benefit for commercial aircraft is actually their extremely long TBO (Time Between Overhauls). The more times you have to take an airframe out of service for maintenance, the less money you make so turbines make economic sense.
What about Secular Humanism? Is that considered a religion in Ireland because it's offensive to secular humanists to pass a ban on blasphemy.
I realize it isn't even within an order of magnitude of the US and Russia but is there any reason the nation with the 3rd largest number of nukes has to be France?
But what happens when we encounter a situation where we need our over 10,000 nuclear warheads?
Or switch to devices that compare speed based on the Doppler shift of a LASER.
That's pretty much America for you. Can't afford to pay what you owe to the government? Then we'll be damned if we'll let you get to work!
Religious people like to present the straw man argument that you cannot disprove "God" when all you need is to disprove THEIR God. Disproving that there is some vague intelligent like thing that created the universe defies rational argument but disproving that their particular holy book is his word is often fairly simple.
If it's caused by malware there's no mens rea.