This will come in really handy all those times I have too much to drink and need to get back to my Secret Moon Base.
And maybe once they figure this out they can build a working escalator at the Reagan Metro stop. Or maybe the Space Taxi's can just moonlight moving luggage up to the platform.
Odd, CNN had reported they were Akula-Class Attack submarines and specifically pointed out that they did not carry nuclear warheads. I think this article is sensationalizing the fact that they are nuclear-powered by using the more vague term "nuclear-armed" in order to make people think that they're boomers.
If the location of Russian Boomers was world news while on patrol they wouldn't be a show of force they'd be a sign of weakness as the whole point is you have to fear either a first strike without time to respond or a retaliatory strike from a target you can't take out in your first strike because you can't find it.
Knowledge of where that launch platform is (which means you can bet your ass it'd being shadowed by an attack sub of our own) would invalidate the threat.
I note you haven't either, however I haven't questioned any individual's donation to charity whether it be by financial, expertise, or time based and yet you have both done so to me and gone so far as to assume negatively about me.
I didn't realize pondering on oddities of society as a whole required full financial and charitable service disclosure. I guess I could tell you how I donate or spend weeks of my summers in the Appalachian Mountains rebuilding or repairing homes for people who need it but I don't see what that would prove here or how it would affect my original point. My guess is your attempting to set up a straw man of because I don't donate enough then my point must not be valid?
I've never understood our culture's need to have people do something entirely trivial and unhelpful before we're willing to donate to a worthy and important cause.
Imagine if we had volunteering for habitat humanity marathons to get people to donate for autism research instead or something like that. But I bet people wouldn't be willing to. you mean your going to build houses for homeless people and then you want me to pay you money for autism research? No, I think I'd feel more comfortable if you walked 3 miles in a circle for my donation.
Wouldn't you be willing to do 6-12 months for 2.5 million dollars? That's a large chunk of change, it's hard to say how long a person would be willing to hold out to keep it. And once you've been in for a year your thinking well that would be a huge waste if I gave it up now, I'm sure they'll blink first and let me out soon.
Good, I hate when installers and update utilities hide crap like that behind "express" or default settings. It's by no means a Microsoft-only trick though, the one I find most annoying is AIM's attempt to install all sorts of toolbar crap hidden behind a default checkbox so you have to uncheck two levels of things to stop it.
Even Mozilla does this to some extent to set itself as default, the only difference is anyone who's installed Mozilla probably actually WANTS it to be default, whereas with IE you'll have it rather you want it or not.
I bought Total War: Empires a while ago which uses Steam for it's registration and updates.
I'm pretty sure that locks the game down to my steam account so there's no way I could trade it in or sell it.
I'm on the fence about it really. On one hand I'm not sure I like not being able to resell the game like I would [Insert Car Analogy] but on the other hand there are benefits as far as ease of updating or installing on other machines. Certainly better than locking down to the hardware. While I don't fault the companies for trying to find a way to force consumers to buy new products straight from them (every company would love to do this) I don't think they have any right to complain about people reselling property they legally own.
.... the species whose members will literally do anything to "get ahead" of their neighbour in terms of money and power, the species who does nothing more than crave constant entertainment and shoveling their faces with as much food as they can get their fat hands on... yes, surely this is the species that deserves to dominate the planet.
As opposed to the noble male Tiger, renowned for eating just enough to stave off hunger after politely waiting for an elderly member of another species to die, and then distributes the left overs to other Male Tigers so that they will thrive as a happy community of goodwill and Tiger Friendship rather than "getting ahead".
I totally agree and feel the same way about people who claim to not be terrorists. Why just the other day a 90 year old man grumbled about the TSA officials inspecting his walker saying "It's not like I'm a terrorist!" Well boy did that make me nervous. I mean, who is always claiming that their not terrorists? TERRORISTS! They should have hauled his ass off to Guantanamo right then and there, but no, they ignored this obvious admission of guilt of actually being a terrorist. I can only hope you one day work in law enforcement so we won't be caught off-guard by such deceptions.
Also yesterday my neighbor claimed she wasn't a witch. Now I just need to figure out how to lure her onto my duck scale to be sure.
It is however, very difficult to prove the case of blackmail. Your boss could ask you to do it it verbally, and if you don't maybe you just get passed up for a raise or bonus. Maybe you just get crappy assignments from now on. There's any number of different ways they can punish you that would be difficult to prove in a court case.
It's not that I don't agree with the idea of personal accountability it's that I fear it would be too easily abused by corporate entities.
If we held individuals responsible, then individuals would stand-up to the corporations and say no. But so long as they can clear their conscience by blaming their boss, and on up the chain, these things will happen.
If you work at such a morally righteous company then good for you. However, many corporations would have a field day with the ability to ask employees to do illicit activities without any threat of it falling back on the company itself. If you "stood up" to the company as you suggest you'd likely find negative consequences to your employment/advancement.
The individuals stood little to nothing to gain. It's the corporate entity that is involved in the illegal actions. Could you make a dummy corporation with a boss and do the same thing to "protect" yourself? Sure thing, but the $300,000 fine is going to come to your boss and dummy corporation (ie: you) so what would be the point?
I think it's also important to make the distinction that their violating laws pertaining to the legal operation a corporation and therefore the corporation is fined. Had they been told to go murder someone, then clearly the individuals would be held responsible as well, not just the corporate entity.
You have to wonder if these people have either a wonderful sense of irony or no understanding of the word at all. To pay 18 million to create a website that will show where our money is going is so ludicrous I thought I had clicked the bookmark to go to The Onion instead.
Oh sure, everyone's in favor of bug powered clocks, but as soon as you put a pedestrian catcher on the front of your electric SUV to make city driving more efficient then OHHhhh, suddenly you've gone too far!
If a tribe of Native Americans wanted to have their own small section of land to govern would you call them religious extremists interested in "separatism, extreme nationalism and religious supremacy combined" or do you think maybe their a tribe of people that have been F'd over at the hands of history that just want a place they can call their own?
Not saying either should or shouldn't get what they want but I think what your calling it is way off base.
And add on to that the fact that you need to make sure the results of Thread A and B are deterministic meaning that the threads won't produce different results depending upon which thread is given cycles first. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_condition
I know that's where waiting and therefore deadlock problems come in but it is usually these race conditions that people overlook.
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This will come in really handy all those times I have too much to drink and need to get back to my Secret Moon Base.
And maybe once they figure this out they can build a working escalator at the Reagan Metro stop. Or maybe the Space Taxi's can just moonlight moving luggage up to the platform.
Odd, CNN had reported they were Akula-Class Attack submarines and specifically pointed out that they did not carry nuclear warheads. I think this article is sensationalizing the fact that they are nuclear-powered by using the more vague term "nuclear-armed" in order to make people think that they're boomers.
If the location of Russian Boomers was world news while on patrol they wouldn't be a show of force they'd be a sign of weakness as the whole point is you have to fear either a first strike without time to respond or a retaliatory strike from a target you can't take out in your first strike because you can't find it.
Knowledge of where that launch platform is (which means you can bet your ass it'd being shadowed by an attack sub of our own) would invalidate the threat.
I note you haven't either, however I haven't questioned any individual's donation to charity whether it be by financial, expertise, or time based and yet you have both done so to me and gone so far as to assume negatively about me.
I didn't realize pondering on oddities of society as a whole required full financial and charitable service disclosure. I guess I could tell you how I donate or spend weeks of my summers in the Appalachian Mountains rebuilding or repairing homes for people who need it but I don't see what that would prove here or how it would affect my original point. My guess is your attempting to set up a straw man of because I don't donate enough then my point must not be valid?
I've never understood our culture's need to have people do something entirely trivial and unhelpful before we're willing to donate to a worthy and important cause.
Imagine if we had volunteering for habitat humanity marathons to get people to donate for autism research instead or something like that. But I bet people wouldn't be willing to. you mean your going to build houses for homeless people and then you want me to pay you money for autism research? No, I think I'd feel more comfortable if you walked 3 miles in a circle for my donation.
Wouldn't you be willing to do 6-12 months for 2.5 million dollars? That's a large chunk of change, it's hard to say how long a person would be willing to hold out to keep it. And once you've been in for a year your thinking well that would be a huge waste if I gave it up now, I'm sure they'll blink first and let me out soon.
As such the robot will seek out enemy combatants who are not *quite* dead yet and feed on them...
Good, I hate when installers and update utilities hide crap like that behind "express" or default settings. It's by no means a Microsoft-only trick though, the one I find most annoying is AIM's attempt to install all sorts of toolbar crap hidden behind a default checkbox so you have to uncheck two levels of things to stop it. Even Mozilla does this to some extent to set itself as default, the only difference is anyone who's installed Mozilla probably actually WANTS it to be default, whereas with IE you'll have it rather you want it or not.
I'm pretty sure that locks the game down to my steam account so there's no way I could trade it in or sell it.
I'm on the fence about it really. On one hand I'm not sure I like not being able to resell the game like I would [Insert Car Analogy] but on the other hand there are benefits as far as ease of updating or installing on other machines. Certainly better than locking down to the hardware. While I don't fault the companies for trying to find a way to force consumers to buy new products straight from them (every company would love to do this) I don't think they have any right to complain about people reselling property they legally own.
.... the species whose members will literally do anything to "get ahead" of their neighbour in terms of money and power, the species who does nothing more than crave constant entertainment and shoveling their faces with as much food as they can get their fat hands on... yes, surely this is the species that deserves to dominate the planet.
As opposed to the noble male Tiger, renowned for eating just enough to stave off hunger after politely waiting for an elderly member of another species to die, and then distributes the left overs to other Male Tigers so that they will thrive as a happy community of goodwill and Tiger Friendship rather than "getting ahead".
I totally agree and feel the same way about people who claim to not be terrorists. Why just the other day a 90 year old man grumbled about the TSA officials inspecting his walker saying "It's not like I'm a terrorist!" Well boy did that make me nervous. I mean, who is always claiming that their not terrorists? TERRORISTS! They should have hauled his ass off to Guantanamo right then and there, but no, they ignored this obvious admission of guilt of actually being a terrorist. I can only hope you one day work in law enforcement so we won't be caught off-guard by such deceptions.
Also yesterday my neighbor claimed she wasn't a witch. Now I just need to figure out how to lure her onto my duck scale to be sure.
It is however, very difficult to prove the case of blackmail. Your boss could ask you to do it it verbally, and if you don't maybe you just get passed up for a raise or bonus. Maybe you just get crappy assignments from now on. There's any number of different ways they can punish you that would be difficult to prove in a court case.
It's not that I don't agree with the idea of personal accountability it's that I fear it would be too easily abused by corporate entities.
If we held individuals responsible, then individuals would stand-up to the corporations and say no. But so long as they can clear their conscience by blaming their boss, and on up the chain, these things will happen.
If you work at such a morally righteous company then good for you. However, many corporations would have a field day with the ability to ask employees to do illicit activities without any threat of it falling back on the company itself. If you "stood up" to the company as you suggest you'd likely find negative consequences to your employment/advancement.
The individuals stood little to nothing to gain. It's the corporate entity that is involved in the illegal actions. Could you make a dummy corporation with a boss and do the same thing to "protect" yourself? Sure thing, but the $300,000 fine is going to come to your boss and dummy corporation (ie: you) so what would be the point?
I think it's also important to make the distinction that their violating laws pertaining to the legal operation a corporation and therefore the corporation is fined. Had they been told to go murder someone, then clearly the individuals would be held responsible as well, not just the corporate entity.
You have to wonder if these people have either a wonderful sense of irony or no understanding of the word at all. To pay 18 million to create a website that will show where our money is going is so ludicrous I thought I had clicked the bookmark to go to The Onion instead.
Oh sure, everyone's in favor of bug powered clocks, but as soon as you put a pedestrian catcher on the front of your electric SUV to make city driving more efficient then OHHhhh, suddenly you've gone too far!
If a tribe of Native Americans wanted to have their own small section of land to govern would you call them religious extremists interested in "separatism, extreme nationalism and religious supremacy combined" or do you think maybe their a tribe of people that have been F'd over at the hands of history that just want a place they can call their own?
Not saying either should or shouldn't get what they want but I think what your calling it is way off base.
Unless that phone contains their next clue!
And add on to that the fact that you need to make sure the results of Thread A and B are deterministic meaning that the threads won't produce different results depending upon which thread is given cycles first. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_condition I know that's where waiting and therefore deadlock problems come in but it is usually these race conditions that people overlook.