As all we've heard our complaints about wrongly identified people, Has this wonderful "no fly list" ever had a successful outcome in preventing a real suspect from boarding a plane i.e. a terrorist dumb enough to use his own name and passport?
Really, just one little success case will convince me it's useful...
Please understand what self-recognition in a mirror is. It has been known for a long time that dogs recognize their own scent, but with their black-and-white eyesight they have never shown any signs of recognizing themselves in a mirror, at least not in any social sense.
And why should only being able to see in black and white make a difference if you're a dalmatian?
[...] They set up shop in the most deprived places in whichever country they operate in. [...]In my home city their reputation is horrible yet they are the largest employers, nearly doubling that of the second largest.
Are you sure you weren't working for the Mafiaa?;-)
"Light is that range of electromagnetic energy that is visible to the human eye, the visible colors. The optical radiation includes not only the visible range, but a broader range of invisible electromagnetic radiation that could be influenced in its radiation behavior in a similar way as the visible radiation, but needs often other transmitters or receivers for this radiation. Dependant on the kind of experimental question light - optical radiation behaves as a wave or a particle named lightwave or photon. The birth or death of photons needs electrons - electromagnetic charges, that change their energy."
Now can you see why you need professional writing/editing in order to produce a _good_ textbook?;-)
[quote]What were they supposed to fail-over to? Binoculars?[/quote]
And a giant relief model of the airport with young ladies pushing around little model aircraft with billiard cues. And a big glass panel with people marking up aircraft positions with wax crayons.
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blames it on some sort of botched upgrade.
Well yes, changing a mission critical system from Unix to Windows could be called a "botched upgrade".
Well, apparently he was once seen at a Metallica concert...
Unfortunately, whereas I can use my computer without WiFi and USB, etc. I do find it much harder to use it without the screen being on ;-)
Average time before battery goes flat under normal usage: 1 minute more than figures quoted by Dell
Average time before battery goes flat under Vista: 8 hours (i.e. during startup process)
Average time before battery goes flat watching DVD: length of film - 10 minutes
Average time before battery goes flat using Office: Fails during write process of important presentation
Average time before battery explodes into flame: 7 hours 32 minutes
Average time before stored spare battery goes flat: 5 seconds after it was last tested
Average time before battery goes flat under Linux:
Never. It is constantly recharged by sucking energy from the superior mind of the user
Back when I was in particle physics, we would pronounce "wino" to rhyme with neutrino
Funnily enough, in Oz it's the other way round - they pronounce neutrino to rhyme with wino... !
Yes - but not enough to account for the difference between Joan Rivers' apparent and actual age.
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/snl-funny-terrorist-names/4040669571
"M'balz es-Hari"
"Haid D'Salaami"
"Mustaf Herod Apyur Poupr"
"Usuqa M'diq"
"Hous bin Phartin"
"I'zheet m'drawrz"
Apparently Nelson Mandela was on the list, until the fact was embarrasingly publicized and he was finally removed.
So, easy solution - if you don't want to be bothered by the no fly list then change your name to Nelson Mandela...
I always give false names and information on government forms just to protect myself against this kind of data loss. ;-)
Please don't over exaggerate. If you read the quote correctly, you'll see it is only 139,999 scammers ;-)
As all we've heard our complaints about wrongly identified people, Has this wonderful "no fly list" ever had a successful outcome in preventing a real suspect from boarding a plane i.e. a terrorist dumb enough to use his own name and passport?
Really, just one little success case will convince me it's useful...
Just one... anybody... ?
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within a mock enemy village, robots were instructed to find potential targets and make distinctions between armed troops
This is obviously designed for use in "the war on terror" where most of the fighting is against mock enemies....
so what would you call a creature that constantly looks for ways to compare itself with others?
And so we're back to the Olympics again...
Please understand what self-recognition in a mirror is. It has been known for a long time that dogs recognize their own scent, but with their black-and-white eyesight they have never shown any signs of recognizing themselves in a mirror, at least not in any social sense.
And why should only being able to see in black and white make a difference if you're a dalmatian?
Magpies are known to like shiny things... was it a hot, sweaty day and are you bald by any chance?
[...] They set up shop in the most deprived places in whichever country they operate in. [...]In my home city their reputation is horrible yet they are the largest employers, nearly doubling that of the second largest.
Are you sure you weren't working for the Mafiaa? ;-)
Excerpt from a wikibook for Physics Study Guide/Optics. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Physics_Study_Guide/Optics.
"Light is that range of electromagnetic energy that is visible to the human eye, the visible colors. The optical radiation includes not only the visible range, but a broader range of invisible electromagnetic radiation that could be influenced in its radiation behavior in a similar way as the visible radiation, but needs often other transmitters or receivers for this radiation. Dependant on the kind of experimental question light - optical radiation behaves as a wave or a particle named lightwave or photon. The birth or death of photons needs electrons - electromagnetic charges, that change their energy."
Now can you see why you need professional writing/editing in order to produce a _good_ textbook? ;-)
Speaking as somebody with taste, this seems rather redundant as the page already has no style....!
Maybe you should have used a photo of him from before they put him in the coffin....
How is that different from writing a novel entitled Lord of the Bracelets, you know the one?
But apparently if you just title it "The Sword of Shannara" you can get away with it ;-)
No trouble with Battleships as this was a popular pen and paper game long before it became a board game.
Grammar is for Grandmas -- it's so 20th century.....
I thought Grammar was for Grampar !
[quote]What were they supposed to fail-over to? Binoculars?[/quote]
And a giant relief model of the airport with young ladies pushing around little model aircraft with billiard cues. And a big glass panel with people marking up aircraft positions with wax crayons.