How do crime rates amongst NFL players compare to those in other with similar incomes rather than those with similar backgrounds, or compare them with baseball and basketball players, with similar backgrounds and incomes.
Football players often come from backgrounds of poverty: its over generous to compare their offending rates with people who may be stealing to eat.
Re:Kind of emphasizes a major point.
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Folks, that kind of insane non-sequitor explains my sig.
No, no credible scientist ever predicted an oncoming anthropogenic Ice Age.
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The article wasn't clear on this point.
Furthermore, they appear to be talking mainly about wavelengths in the spectrum of visible light. Whether this is true of IR (which causes the majority atmospheric / planetary heating) and UV (cancer / tanning) spectrum is not touched upon, and the reflection / absorption properties of EM radiation is all about wavelength.
If you can'y play R1 DVDs in the UK, you're just not trying. All major vendors sell multi-region kit. Have you considered this, or perhaps this. Your multiregion woes will be behind you.
Thats right there on my TODO list with: i) Jim Carrey's wackiest movie, ii) Todd Rundgren's most experimental synthesiser sounds, iii) Elvis Presley's most sugary ballads and iV) JRR Tolkein's most esoteric back-of-an-envelope scribbling, lovingly -- and profitably -- edited by his hack son.
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"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution."
Not counting oxygen failures, several fires, and the odd collision with a supply ship. Mir functioned. It certainly did not function well.
Given that the USSR / Russia had people in space for pretty much the whole time between the Challenger and Columbia accidents, how many cosmonauts did they lose. Mir functioned a darn sight more safely than NASA's missions over the same period.
I think I'm the only person on the freaking planet who actually considers paying taxes a civic duty, and that pays them willingly and with the knowledge that it is in my best interest to do so.
No, you're not alone. I think this now means that there are two of us.
Given a choice between pissing off the EU or allowing the EU to aid and abet the killing of US citizens I don't think there could be any doubt that the US would rather piss off the EU.
I disagree. Saudi funded terrorists killed thousands of innocent Americans on 9/11, but political expediency meant the US overthrew the government of a completely different country.
Politicians do not have the same high regard for the lives of servicemen that we do, only remembering to strike the right poses when election time comes around (remember Bush's "Bring 'Em On" comments about pro-Saddam counter-insurgents?)
The US appears to think that the current regime in Saudi Arabia is about the best they can hope for. Are you suggesting that an attack on EU satelites would result in the EU collapsing and degenerating into an Islamic Theocracy?
There are other developments than Islamic Theocracy that would weaken the US. A belligerently anti-US EU would be one of them. Even superpowers do not, by and large, go around pissing off their largest single trading partner and greatest ally of the past 100 years.
The term "act of war" is pretty much obsolete in modern international law,
True, but in the now-common usage shooting down satellites of a third party is an "act of armed aggression" (which is a well defined term, especially within NATO)
there is *zero* chance of the EU calling it an act of war
True, but there's also *zero* chance of the US (deliberately) shooting down EU satellites, even if they consider them to be giving aid-and-succour to the enemy. Look how carefully even the present hawkish administration has ignored continued Saudi support for terrorism, because they're nominally allies.
What's to keep them from just trashing the whole system?
Lets see... how about: because that would be an act of war? Do you really think the US is hankering to declare war on Europe, given the amount of trouble they're having subduing a few thousand dissident Iraqis?
Glad you included that, because times of day -- especially those lacking any sort of timezone information -- are extremely useful when referring to events that take place in space.
Well - why don't you? Is it because it's addictive? So's alcohol. Cuz it messes with your mind? So does alcohol. Impairs judgement? So does alcohol. How is it any different?
Alcohol doesn't make me want to listen to Prog Rock...
We should stop trying to stop spammers by technological means
We should just trick 'em. Tell them that simply everyone is using ICQ and IRC. Let the spammers switch their efforts to those media, and then we'll all secretly go back to using email.
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Aaron Levenstein is a Slashdotter? Despite being 93? Cool.
I don't think they do a worthwhile comparison.
How do crime rates amongst NFL players compare to those in other with similar incomes rather than those with similar backgrounds, or compare them with baseball and basketball players, with similar backgrounds and incomes.
Football players often come from backgrounds of poverty: its over generous to compare their offending rates with people who may be stealing to eat.
Folks, that kind of insane non-sequitor explains my sig.
Yes some people thought this, and said.
No, no credible scientist ever predicted an oncoming anthropogenic Ice Age.
If you can'y play R1 DVDs in the UK, you're just not trying. All major vendors sell multi-region kit. Have you considered this, or perhaps this. Your multiregion woes will be behind you.
Heinlein's *preachiest* book?
Thats right there on my TODO list with:
i) Jim Carrey's wackiest movie,
ii) Todd Rundgren's most experimental synthesiser sounds,
iii) Elvis Presley's most sugary ballads
and
iV) JRR Tolkein's most esoteric back-of-an-envelope scribbling, lovingly -- and profitably -- edited by his hack son.
Politicians do not have the same high regard for the lives of servicemen that we do, only remembering to strike the right poses when election time comes around (remember Bush's "Bring 'Em On" comments about pro-Saddam counter-insurgents?)
True, but there's also *zero* chance of the US (deliberately) shooting down EU satellites, even if they consider them to be giving aid-and-succour to the enemy. Look how carefully even the present hawkish administration has ignored continued Saudi support for terrorism, because they're nominally allies.
Wow. You're phenomenally unaware of International Law, even for a Slashdotter...
They did, but it wasn't as grim as the model they made of Paul Newman's stomach to prove that there's no way he could eat fifty hard boiled eggs.
Glad you included that, because times of day -- especially those lacking any sort of timezone information -- are extremely useful when referring to events that take place in space.
Glad someone picked up the reference...
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