If you can stick a replicant's hand in boiling water without hurting them, then the VK test is kind of pointless.
So please, right now, stick you hand into the boiling water and show me that you aren't a replicant. They had the same problem with witches, as the best tests all involved cheating death.
Also, since they are each genetically engineered for specific tasks, it's possible that heat resistance was his special talent and relatively unique amongst them.
So, are you just too stupid to realize you called him a Libertarian THEN called him a Republican Many republicans hide themselves in the libertarian label these days, not realizing the full scope of libertarian views, and just focus those which mesh with their screw every one else mentality. A true libertarian realizes that one shouldn't have to live in someone else's filth (pollution), that they have control over their own bodies(abortion, drugs), private schools shouldn't have public funding (school vouchers), and that wars should only be fought against those who attack (like Afghanistan, but not Iraq).
If it's corporations doing it in a capitalist market where the consumer decides what they want as opposed to the government doing it and not letting the consumer decide anything except to obey or die, then the worst that could happen is on the other end of the spectrum from 1984.
That's like claiming that Orwell's 'Animal Farm' cannot have any meaning as it's about talking pigs and such, not people. One of '1984's leading themes was the surveillance state, were one's every action, even at home, should be mindful of those who watch. Granted Microsoft/Facebook are not yet, ^H^H^H^H^H^H always have been the government.
While I too laughed at your joke, I'd have trouble marking it anything but 'funny', as it is not informative, nor insightful. But hey, there's 'underrated', and it works much better than a 'funny' as one can help a joke the '+5 Troll', or even the legondary '+5 Off Topic'. Also, don't confuse my love for 'underrated' as even a fondness for 'overrated', which is the abonination of Slashdot's moderation system. To cast a negitive mod, one should be required to give a reason, and for it to be subject to meta moderation.
Was massive land loss part of their equation? Maybe, I believe that it's a well known fact that colonies and occupation cost a ship load of money. A country is much better off dominating economically than militarily.
how did we evolve to use base-10 (10 digits), and not base-11? Consistency. For our standard base 10, 1, 11 21, 31, etc, would all occur on the same finger, but using base 11, the finger you use to start counting would be 1, 10, 1A, 29, etc.
I didn't intend on implying the OP's idea represented an exact duplicate of our original method, which would be foolish simply as he didn't elaborate in that way. So I didn't say anything about an Electoral College, but I didn't even mention any individual type of voter at all. Sure there are procedures involved, but in the end a person who didn't actually 'run' for a specific office ends up there because they lost the vote. This 'second place winner' was my point of the comparison, I thought it was fairly clear, sorry.
Sorry, I don't buy the story. Just media sensationalism to me. Actually there is a big difference. Finding stick on ground and knowing that more ants will crawl on it if it is bent a certain way, is one thing. However, finding large stick on ground, taking the time to sharpen it, stalk another animal, and then use it effectively, is something else altogether.
It is the first time that an animal other than a human has been directly observed in crafting a weapon for the purpose of hunting or killing. I don't know about anyone else, but I for one have never directly observed a human craft a weapon and then use it to hunt down an animal for food.
The closest I've ever seen is seeing someone load their own cartridges and shoot tin cans off of a fence.
I switched from Cingular to AT&T right when they were merging, worst service mistake of my life. AT&T was marginally cheaper and had the phone I wanted on special. I was happy with Cingular, but I figured that they just finished the merger, and I would end up with a Cingular contract (with roll over in a month or two). My first bill was for like $800 dollars, they charged for some 'no minutes' plan on all three phones (rather than the 1000 minute family plan I signed up for), It took me over two hours on the phone to straiten out that mess. The next month the bill was 'only' $400, which was also a screw up which cost me two hours on the phone, to fix what I thought was already fixed. The month after that the bill was still high, I called again to find out that the 'extra minutes' were calls between my three phones, apparently when I was 'roaming' on the cingular network (which I had no choice over) my 'free' calls between the phones where charged to the anytime minutes. Too top it all off I had for the first time signed up for a two year contract. I finally found a 'conversion' plan from AT&T to Cingular which could be done without penalty, and I took it. Since then I have been reasonably gruntled again.
How about the one thing that truly distingues 'black hats':
Has a known history of fraud
A big salary doesn't mean honest living. The question wasn't if they could work in their general business, but top positions in security related IT jobs. Sure several years ago the most experienced security experts were reformed criminals, but these days training is available which doesn't eventually require a lawyer.
As far as I know it's the only sci-fi show EVER to be able to complete a season in one country, before that season starts in another.
That happens all the time, but usually it's the other way around (premieres in the states and shows up later elsewhere), I'm ok with it. However, I am not ok with knowing that the 'new' guy sucks, be sure to add **spoiler alert** to your comments folks. I did think that he'd have a hard time 'filling in' for the guy from last season who seemed to portray the Doctor with just the right amount of insanity and logic. I'm too lazy to look in the right places, but does anyone know why he did only one season? was it something that was planned from the beginning or a end-of-season contract dispute?
The price per gallon of gasoline in the US is mostly tax.
Only if by 'most' you mean 19%. However you are correct in realizing that eventually the gasoline taxes would eventually need to be replaced, but I really don't believe that it would be added to electrical cost as it would equate running your air conditioner with driving your car. Most likely it would be a DMV surcharge on miles driven. Of course that would make trucking companies register their trucks in states with the lowest per mile charge, so it would have to be a national standard to avoid that kind of problem. With the current charge at the pump, there is a natural association of were you drive to where your gasoline tax dollars are generated, and I don't believe the tax could not be more accurately charged in any other manner.
Eventually, yes, it will. That was roughly 50 times it's 2005 earnings. Pricey, but not considered unreasonable for a strategic purchase of a well known brand.
How's this for an idea, often dictionary items have more than one meaning, dictionary.com has two sources for meme . The first one is from their unabridged dictionary:
a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes.
The American Heritage Dictionary, which is displayed on the same page defines meme as:
A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.
Also you should change the Wikipedia entry for meme, as some fool (well, really, you'd see them as a collection of fools) over there also doesn't seem to agree with your rather strict inter-generational requirement.
what are you talking about? what tubes are there to get clogged?
Series of Tubes is becoming a meme. Senator Ted Stephens gave a speech where for the benefit of his audience (well, presumably) he created an analogy for the Internet as a Series of Tubes
They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck.
It's a series of tubes.
And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
Personally I believe it the "Tim Taylor trap", where someone who has a conversation with someone who presents a good analogy, or complicated explanation of fact. Then completely bungles an attempt to retell the story to another audience. The TV show "Home Improvement" had it as a running gag where 'Tim Taylor' would embarrass himself every time he tried to retell his neighbor's sagely advice.
What type of gass guzzler can only get 300 per 14 gallons[21 MPG]. Even my impala gets better than that.
Well, few cars get that good gas mileage overall. I found that most people seem to use a long trip to figure gas mileage, rather than day-to-day mileage. My old minivan used to get 21 MPG on a long trip, but suburban driving dropped it sometimes to less than 10 MPG.
My other car gets like 600 per 14 gallons.[42 MPG]
Mine too, but the fuel tank for my Honda Civic Hybrid only holds 12 gallons.
This just in, Patricia Dunn has been discovered to be more evil than Hitler and Stalin... combined.
So are Hitler and Stalin now the 'low end' of what is considered to be evil. Does one need to exceed their crimes to be evil? Does a person need to kill more than 20 million people to be evil? I think not. Greedy, lying, and manipulative is enough for me. Hopefully prosecutors will find a way to put that woman in jail for a couple of months.
So I guess the lesson is, the Internet can completely ruin your reputation, and close doors where you wouldn't expect it to.
The second lesson is that names are not unique. If you didn't have corroborating evidence of his identity, such as SS number, age, previous addresses, it's just as likely that you held one man to account for another man's poor reputation.
There are background checks available on the Internet which are fairly 'cheap' (well, a lot cheaper than 2 months of back rent), and I would highly suggest one before you take a random stranger off of the street. Just before you have the right information, such as age and previous addresses.
SciFi decided against it cause they thought if an Alien showed up and had the shit beat out of it it would Hurt SciFi's image and decided against it.
And how would that be different than nearly all of their other shows? I'd say that there is a near 90% certainty that any time an one appears on a show, a least some alien butt is going to be kicked.
Well, I'm looking forward to Dr Who, BG and Eureka. Other than that bizare for the format ECW show, SciFi has done a terrific job overall. I just want to make sure that they do the right thing and wrap up the show well.
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So please, right now, stick you hand into the boiling water and show me that you aren't a replicant. They had the same problem with witches, as the best tests all involved cheating death.
Also, since they are each genetically engineered for specific tasks, it's possible that heat resistance was his special talent and relatively unique amongst them.
People are apt to confuse arrogance and bluster with knowledge and ability.
The first step of a successful con artist is convincing you to distrust other people.
Really, YouTube predates the Internet, the neighborhood pub, and 'conservative' media?
That's like claiming that Orwell's 'Animal Farm' cannot have any meaning as it's about talking pigs and such, not people. One of '1984's leading themes was the surveillance state, were one's every action, even at home, should be mindful of those who watch. Granted Microsoft/Facebook are not yet, ^H^H^H^H^H^H always have been the government.
I prefer to think of 2008 as a roll-back to Clinton.
While I too laughed at your joke, I'd have trouble marking it anything but 'funny', as it is not informative, nor insightful. But hey, there's 'underrated', and it works much better than a 'funny' as one can help a joke the '+5 Troll', or even the legondary '+5 Off Topic'. Also, don't confuse my love for 'underrated' as even a fondness for 'overrated', which is the abonination of Slashdot's moderation system. To cast a negitive mod, one should be required to give a reason, and for it to be subject to meta moderation.
I didn't intend on implying the OP's idea represented an exact duplicate of our original method, which would be foolish simply as he didn't elaborate in that way. So I didn't say anything about an Electoral College, but I didn't even mention any individual type of voter at all. Sure there are procedures involved, but in the end a person who didn't actually 'run' for a specific office ends up there because they lost the vote. This 'second place winner' was my point of the comparison, I thought it was fairly clear, sorry.
I switched from Cingular to AT&T right when they were merging, worst service mistake of my life. AT&T was marginally cheaper and had the phone I wanted on special. I was happy with Cingular, but I figured that they just finished the merger, and I would end up with a Cingular contract (with roll over in a month or two). My first bill was for like $800 dollars, they charged for some 'no minutes' plan on all three phones (rather than the 1000 minute family plan I signed up for), It took me over two hours on the phone to straiten out that mess. The next month the bill was 'only' $400, which was also a screw up which cost me two hours on the phone, to fix what I thought was already fixed. The month after that the bill was still high, I called again to find out that the 'extra minutes' were calls between my three phones, apparently when I was 'roaming' on the cingular network (which I had no choice over) my 'free' calls between the phones where charged to the anytime minutes. Too top it all off I had for the first time signed up for a two year contract. I finally found a 'conversion' plan from AT&T to Cingular which could be done without penalty, and I took it. Since then I have been reasonably gruntled again.
- Has a known history of fraud
A big salary doesn't mean honest living. The question wasn't if they could work in their general business, but top positions in security related IT jobs. Sure several years ago the most experienced security experts were reformed criminals, but these days training is available which doesn't eventually require a lawyer.There are background checks available on the Internet which are fairly 'cheap' (well, a lot cheaper than 2 months of back rent), and I would highly suggest one before you take a random stranger off of the street. Just before you have the right information, such as age and previous addresses.
Well, I'm looking forward to Dr Who, BG and Eureka. Other than that bizare for the format ECW show, SciFi has done a terrific job overall. I just want to make sure that they do the right thing and wrap up the show well.