Terrorism is on topic, but your example isn't. Were those terrorists making a bunch of prepaid cell phone calls inside India the the Indian authorities intercepted or found but couldn't track?
I did RTFA and it talks all about how the times square bomber used prepaid cellphones to communicate back to Pakistan and the seller of the Nissan Pathfinder and how the authorities had trouble figuring out the identity of the buyer because they could not trace those cellphones which nearly let him escape the country.
But besides that they've been known to be used by terrorists, foreign agents and petty criminals for this purpose for years. What I'm pointing out is the ridiculousness of pointing out one act of terrorism or crime that had nothing to do with prepaid cellphones and declaring because the law didn't stop that then it's worthless.
India implemented this law before they had their terrorist attacks last year and it sure did a lot to prevent those eh?
It also won't stop GINGIVITIS!!!
Just saying, that's about as on topic as complaining it's worthless b/c it didn't stop armed assailants from scuba diving into the country and then opening fire in a hotel.
The proper response is that you still see it as plain text but everyone else just sees the asterisks.
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Well, actually he just optimistically carries the snakeskin around in his wallet. This is Slashdot after all.
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Dude what do you not understand? He lives in the city, he walks everywhere. The food in the grocery store where he shops is CERTIFIED organic, and he walks there using the grass section between the sidewalk and the street and uses a reusable cloth bag to hold the groceries which he washes with rain water collected in the cistern of his building. The farmer that grows that food uses an electric tractor which he plugs directly into a windmill on the property, the same with the truck that brings the food into town. When he has sex he uses snakeskin condoms like the ancient Egyptians. Do you DARE to question his devotion further?!?!
Could you explain to me if they could quickly and easily shut down the well what is the point of having the leak continue until another well is ready? That's a lot of oil being wasted in the ocean (evaporation, treated, burned, ect.) and a lot of expense in both PR and 'faking' other solutions.
Your telling me somehow that month long PR nightmare turning into congressional committees to investigate and fine the company so that they can-- what did you propose? -- Extract the oil from sea water for profit?? You're telling me that is more economically beneficial to them then shutting the well down quickly and easily as you believe they can, thus having no public outcry and a 4 day story on the loss of life, and then drill a new well a month later and then get all that oil INTACT?
You honestly believe BP's CEO is sitting at the end of a table making an evil finger pyramid saying: "MUuHaahahaha, my ridiculously circuitous plan is now nearly one quarter complete. Now we just have to extract all this oil from the ocean's surface which my evil engineers who assisted in putting the bottomless pit in the Emperor's throne room insist is much easier than extracting it from a well using a pipe."
I would like in times of peace (no declared war, and no war on terror doesn't count) there be a balanced budget amendment.
I like a couple of your ideas but I think people have gone too far in deciding that a balanced budget is always the best way to go. I'm not defending our current spending by any means, but just like a balanced budget isn't always in the best interest of an individual's finances, neither is it for a country. When you borrow money for college, or to pay for a house, you are spending your future earnings, investing in yourself. This is wholly acceptable for an individual if done wisely and the same can be done for a country.
The key is making sure when we don't run a balanced budget it's because we're investing in our country and we expect that investment to pay off just like a college degree or property purchase would, not be a sinkhole.
Again, I'm not even framing this in the context of our current spending, simply pointing out that the absolutist 'never have any deficit spending except in a time of war' might not always be the best way to go.
Take care of that how? By random napalm attacks against anyone who looks a bit shifty?
Yep, that's what they did to help Haiti after the earthquake, napalmed any ground that "looked a bit shifty". Hasn't been a major Earthquake in Haiti since. Mission Accomplished.
If you pay attention to the world around every now and then you'll notice the military can be and is used for a variety of purposes beyond killing people
I think American's understand Kilometer's just fine because it fits into their worldview of everything European being a little bit smaller (South can read 'wussier') than the American version;)
Sorry, we would have accepted 'Americans', 'fat Americans', or 'fatty-fattertons who reside in the United States' but what you typed there looks too much like some obscure Asian nationality to someone who's skimming quickly.
How quickly you forget our own history. We had much the same structure 500 years ago. All power came from God who entrusted Kings to rule along with the leaders of the Catholic church. Without the the protestant reformation and the shift to individual faith over church rituals and obedience we'd still be in very much the same boat. I'm not saying such a reformation would be easy, especially since the Muslim faith isn't under a unified body, but I don't think it's completely out of the question.
And that's just the missile, not the underwater launch platform. GP wasn't arguing that it wasn't possible, he was arguing that it is both difficult and expensive to do.
And even if you do manage to come up with the technology you're now vulnerable to an even CHEAPER defense: Attack Submarines. The US Navy has a tiny bit of experience with anti submarine warfare and following missile subs around and would absolutely love it if a rogue state decided to put their only nukes aboard an easy target and send it out to sea for us to guard for them. You might as well ask to lease some land in Kansas to set up your rogue state launch platform and let the US Army control the Silo doors
And it's not just their SUV's, those country bumpkins are wasting tons of gas with all these trucks loading who knows what type of nonsense onto them from farms and driving them towards the cities, just for fun I suspect.
The plain fact is that almost 100% of blacks today have joined the Democrats, as have a majority of Jews, Asians, Latinos, and any other minority you care to name. And the undeniable fact is that virtually all racists have joined the Republican party
Does anyone else see the irony having literally listing the races you believe to be superior to falling under the sway of any racist thoughts (making snap judgments on a person and their character based upon the color of their skin). No black parent would be mad about their child dating a white kid, or Asians their kid dating a black kid? Or to you is racism only a problem when it manifests itself in a race you don't like?
If you want to actually eliminate racism you need to be ready to address it in all forms, on all fronts, and leave it no safe harbor, no acceptable form that you're willing to overlook for now. Otherwise the pendulum just swings back and forth and we'll never move past it.
That is of course assuming that you're actually interested in combating racism for a better tomorrow and not just wishing to wield it as a political weapon.
So you're complaint is you're paid too much and you can't find a job where you can get paid less to do the kind of work you want to do? I'm pretty sure if you go to some interviews and complain you got paid too much at your previous job and wish to rectify that situation you'll be a leading candidate.
Well I know my edumacation ain't very good being from the United of States and the South at that, but shoot, they always learned us that 13 racoon skins was less than 20: http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/
Backup copies also work until someone happens to break into your house and steals them, your computer and fluffy the cat. And you thought putting your daily backups on a microSD card in her morning meals was SOOOoooo smart.
I think your correct that it isn't a right at all, it's simply something that's legal to do. There's a big difference between something being a 'right' and something being legal for you to do. For example, it may be legal to drive at 35mph on a community road, but that community might put in some speed bumps that makes maintaining that speed difficult. You could even say nearly forcing you to slow down. Maintaining that speed is perfectly legal, but it isn't a right that cannot be impeded.
I'm not a lawyer, but I get the feeling the law would have to specifically say something to the effect of "your ability to make backup copies is a right that cannot be impeded in any way" for there to be anything legally wrong with DRM.
And honestly, when you can download the game as many times as you want on as many computers as you want with your steam account, is "backup copies" really an issue here and I'm missing some angle or is that just a convenient excuse for complaining about it being harder to pirate?
The kite is steered so that the turbine on it gathers energy from the motion of the kite through the water. Sort of like when you see those kites doing figure 8 patterns in the sky. Their saying the kite is moving 10 times faster then just the current, therefore able to gather more energy then the turbine just sitting in the current. I don't know if the power generation is 10 times as much, but I'm pretty sure they are saying that the movement of water through the turbine will be 10 times as fast.
After six months you would be too busy shooting anyone that came to steal what was left of your canned goods and fresh water to have any sort of intelligent debate on the issue.
I had a friend who believed the same thing. What he found out when he went into teaching was that the school required him to take attendance because many of the students had grants that required them to miss no more then two classes or else they would lose them and they'd be given to students willing to actually show up.
Like it or not, Higher Education, at least in public universities and community colleges, is no longer a pay your own way and we don't care if you don't make it sort of deal. They are heavily funded by tax payers and there are many programs designed to try to get underprivileged and underrepresented groups more interested and involved in higher education. This leads to making sure people are honestly TRYING, a much harder metric then whether they are succeeding, and often they turn towards attendance to make sure grant programs and taxpayers are getting their money's worth.
Christianity has nothing to do with it, they don't even care if it's an Abrahamic God, or ancient greek gods or whatever, you just have to theoretically believe in some sort of god to advance, though I never saw anyone kicked out for not doing so, even in the rural south.
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Terrorism is on topic, but your example isn't. Were those terrorists making a bunch of prepaid cell phone calls inside India the the Indian authorities intercepted or found but couldn't track?
I did RTFA and it talks all about how the times square bomber used prepaid cellphones to communicate back to Pakistan and the seller of the Nissan Pathfinder and how the authorities had trouble figuring out the identity of the buyer because they could not trace those cellphones which nearly let him escape the country.
But besides that they've been known to be used by terrorists, foreign agents and petty criminals for this purpose for years. What I'm pointing out is the ridiculousness of pointing out one act of terrorism or crime that had nothing to do with prepaid cellphones and declaring because the law didn't stop that then it's worthless.
India implemented this law before they had their terrorist attacks last year and it sure did a lot to prevent those eh?
It also won't stop GINGIVITIS!!!
Just saying, that's about as on topic as complaining it's worthless b/c it didn't stop armed assailants from scuba diving into the country and then opening fire in a hotel.
The proper response is that you still see it as plain text but everyone else just sees the asterisks.
Well, actually he just optimistically carries the snakeskin around in his wallet. This is Slashdot after all.
Dude what do you not understand? He lives in the city, he walks everywhere. The food in the grocery store where he shops is CERTIFIED organic, and he walks there using the grass section between the sidewalk and the street and uses a reusable cloth bag to hold the groceries which he washes with rain water collected in the cistern of his building. The farmer that grows that food uses an electric tractor which he plugs directly into a windmill on the property, the same with the truck that brings the food into town. When he has sex he uses snakeskin condoms like the ancient Egyptians. Do you DARE to question his devotion further?!?!
Could you explain to me if they could quickly and easily shut down the well what is the point of having the leak continue until another well is ready? That's a lot of oil being wasted in the ocean (evaporation, treated, burned, ect.) and a lot of expense in both PR and 'faking' other solutions.
Your telling me somehow that month long PR nightmare turning into congressional committees to investigate and fine the company so that they can-- what did you propose? -- Extract the oil from sea water for profit?? You're telling me that is more economically beneficial to them then shutting the well down quickly and easily as you believe they can, thus having no public outcry and a 4 day story on the loss of life, and then drill a new well a month later and then get all that oil INTACT?
You honestly believe BP's CEO is sitting at the end of a table making an evil finger pyramid saying: "MUuHaahahaha, my ridiculously circuitous plan is now nearly one quarter complete. Now we just have to extract all this oil from the ocean's surface which my evil engineers who assisted in putting the bottomless pit in the Emperor's throne room insist is much easier than extracting it from a well using a pipe."
I would like in times of peace (no declared war, and no war on terror doesn't count) there be a balanced budget amendment.
I like a couple of your ideas but I think people have gone too far in deciding that a balanced budget is always the best way to go. I'm not defending our current spending by any means, but just like a balanced budget isn't always in the best interest of an individual's finances, neither is it for a country. When you borrow money for college, or to pay for a house, you are spending your future earnings, investing in yourself. This is wholly acceptable for an individual if done wisely and the same can be done for a country.
The key is making sure when we don't run a balanced budget it's because we're investing in our country and we expect that investment to pay off just like a college degree or property purchase would, not be a sinkhole.
Again, I'm not even framing this in the context of our current spending, simply pointing out that the absolutist 'never have any deficit spending except in a time of war' might not always be the best way to go.
Take care of that how? By random napalm attacks against anyone who looks a bit shifty?
Yep, that's what they did to help Haiti after the earthquake, napalmed any ground that "looked a bit shifty". Hasn't been a major Earthquake in Haiti since. Mission Accomplished.
If you pay attention to the world around every now and then you'll notice the military can be and is used for a variety of purposes beyond killing people
I think American's understand Kilometer's just fine because it fits into their worldview of everything European being a little bit smaller (South can read 'wussier') than the American version ;)
And evolution isn't a clock.
That's just a theory unless you can prove it! =P
Sorry, we would have accepted 'Americans', 'fat Americans', or 'fatty-fattertons who reside in the United States' but what you typed there looks too much like some obscure Asian nationality to someone who's skimming quickly.
How quickly you forget our own history. We had much the same structure 500 years ago. All power came from God who entrusted Kings to rule along with the leaders of the Catholic church. Without the the protestant reformation and the shift to individual faith over church rituals and obedience we'd still be in very much the same boat. I'm not saying such a reformation would be easy, especially since the Muslim faith isn't under a unified body, but I don't think it's completely out of the question.
Well, submarines are neither cheap, nor easy. Nor are cruise missiles launched from them.
Sorry, not only can they be launched from submarines, they have been launched from submarines since the 1991 Persian Gulf conflict.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGM-109_Tomahawk
From the article you linked:
* Total program cost: $US11,210,000,000[4]
And that's just the missile, not the underwater launch platform. GP wasn't arguing that it wasn't possible, he was arguing that it is both difficult and expensive to do.
And even if you do manage to come up with the technology you're now vulnerable to an even CHEAPER defense: Attack Submarines. The US Navy has a tiny bit of experience with anti submarine warfare and following missile subs around and would absolutely love it if a rogue state decided to put their only nukes aboard an easy target and send it out to sea for us to guard for them. You might as well ask to lease some land in Kansas to set up your rogue state launch platform and let the US Army control the Silo doors
And it's not just their SUV's, those country bumpkins are wasting tons of gas with all these trucks loading who knows what type of nonsense onto them from farms and driving them towards the cities, just for fun I suspect.
The plain fact is that almost 100% of blacks today have joined the Democrats, as have a majority of Jews, Asians, Latinos, and any other minority you care to name. And the undeniable fact is that virtually all racists have joined the Republican party
Does anyone else see the irony having literally listing the races you believe to be superior to falling under the sway of any racist thoughts (making snap judgments on a person and their character based upon the color of their skin). No black parent would be mad about their child dating a white kid, or Asians their kid dating a black kid? Or to you is racism only a problem when it manifests itself in a race you don't like?
If you want to actually eliminate racism you need to be ready to address it in all forms, on all fronts, and leave it no safe harbor, no acceptable form that you're willing to overlook for now. Otherwise the pendulum just swings back and forth and we'll never move past it.
That is of course assuming that you're actually interested in combating racism for a better tomorrow and not just wishing to wield it as a political weapon.
Whoa whoa whoa, lets not go off the deep end here and start slinging words around about Texas like "developed".
So you're complaint is you're paid too much and you can't find a job where you can get paid less to do the kind of work you want to do? I'm pretty sure if you go to some interviews and complain you got paid too much at your previous job and wish to rectify that situation you'll be a leading candidate.
Well I know my edumacation ain't very good being from the United of States and the South at that, but shoot, they always learned us that 13 racoon skins was less than 20: http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/
Backup copies also work until someone happens to break into your house and steals them, your computer and fluffy the cat. And you thought putting your daily backups on a microSD card in her morning meals was SOOOoooo smart.
I think your correct that it isn't a right at all, it's simply something that's legal to do. There's a big difference between something being a 'right' and something being legal for you to do. For example, it may be legal to drive at 35mph on a community road, but that community might put in some speed bumps that makes maintaining that speed difficult. You could even say nearly forcing you to slow down. Maintaining that speed is perfectly legal, but it isn't a right that cannot be impeded.
I'm not a lawyer, but I get the feeling the law would have to specifically say something to the effect of "your ability to make backup copies is a right that cannot be impeded in any way" for there to be anything legally wrong with DRM.
And honestly, when you can download the game as many times as you want on as many computers as you want with your steam account, is "backup copies" really an issue here and I'm missing some angle or is that just a convenient excuse for complaining about it being harder to pirate?
The kite is steered so that the turbine on it gathers energy from the motion of the kite through the water. Sort of like when you see those kites doing figure 8 patterns in the sky. Their saying the kite is moving 10 times faster then just the current, therefore able to gather more energy then the turbine just sitting in the current. I don't know if the power generation is 10 times as much, but I'm pretty sure they are saying that the movement of water through the turbine will be 10 times as fast.
After six months you would be too busy shooting anyone that came to steal what was left of your canned goods and fresh water to have any sort of intelligent debate on the issue.
I had a friend who believed the same thing. What he found out when he went into teaching was that the school required him to take attendance because many of the students had grants that required them to miss no more then two classes or else they would lose them and they'd be given to students willing to actually show up.
Like it or not, Higher Education, at least in public universities and community colleges, is no longer a pay your own way and we don't care if you don't make it sort of deal. They are heavily funded by tax payers and there are many programs designed to try to get underprivileged and underrepresented groups more interested and involved in higher education. This leads to making sure people are honestly TRYING, a much harder metric then whether they are succeeding, and often they turn towards attendance to make sure grant programs and taxpayers are getting their money's worth.
Their morals promotes his fear and ignorance of the organization ;)
Christianity has nothing to do with it, they don't even care if it's an Abrahamic God, or ancient greek gods or whatever, you just have to theoretically believe in some sort of god to advance, though I never saw anyone kicked out for not doing so, even in the rural south.