I use (the fairly old) Voice Commander II to do speech recognition. It lets you set up macros like: you say, "Machine Gun" = switch weapon to machine gun + reload + crouch + deploy
I wonder what the time parallel is between this mutation in digestion, and the change in human teeth (the addition of 'grinding' teeth for plant products) that allowed for ingestion.
I wonder if there's some mastermind that triggered a crime to occur after his death brings your number to 99.999% instead.
In that case, I imagine the 'preparation to trigger that crime' would be the criminal act, which would occur before execution. Interesting puzzle though...
Have you guys seen the new art history book I wrote?
It's waaaaaay better than that Canadian book. I've embedded the pictures right in the book: A Brief History Of Art (Please send me $180 if you click on it)
if you're already charging for the world's most worthless education
Hey asshole, this isn't Women's Studies, or Basketweaving, or any shit like that!
Yeah! This is Art History!
With a Ph.D. in Art History, the world is your oyster. You can get work as a, um, Art Historian, or like a cool job, ah, as a Professor of Art History.
Or, you could be like a, you know, ah, a lifetime career as an, er, well, just repeat after me, "Do you want fries with that?"
You are assuming a religion that practices its doctrine. Do you have any historical examples?
"Heaven's Gate!"
"Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religion based in San Diego, California, founded in the early 1970s and led by Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1928–1985).[1] On March 26, 1997, police discovered the bodies of 39 members of the group who had committed suicide[2] in order to reach what they believed was an alien space craft which was following the Comet Hale-Bopp, which was at its brightest."
I see the middle east as a rowdy Irish local pub, where the patrons have been drinking together, and brawling with each other, for generations. If you leave them alone, they will (sadly) keep brawling and giving each other black eyes, and broken ribs forever.
However, if an outsider (imagine an upper-class British twit) starts hanging out in the bar, constantly trying to break up the brawls, pretty soon he will be the one getting his ass pounded.
Unfortunately, as you mentioned, the oil is the wildcard in this equation; and short of us implementing non-oil based energy systems, it will be very difficult to extricate ourselves from there.
Not me. I'm not breaking any laws. I'm just sitting here quietly in my chair. Not doing nothing wrong.
Wait. My testicles are producing testosterone.
Under SEC. 2. (c) (41) of the "Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990" "The term `anabolic steroid' means any drug or hormonal substance that promotes muscle growth in a manner pharmacologically similar to testosterone, and includes..." (X) Testosterone.
Under this act, anabolic steroids are now Schedule III drugs.
Title 21 United States Code (USC) Controlled Substances Act, therefor makes it unlawful to possess (Section 844) or manufacture (Section 959) Testosterone.
... Just how much of this money is actually making it into the hands of the people we are trying to influence with this approach?
Probably very little, and this will, sadly, not change that.
However, the "man in the street" doing the violence is the one we are trying to influence, but we lack any real pathway to reach him/her. The leaders (that do slurp up our money) currently has no incentive to correct their "man in the street's" behavior. In fact, since they are trying to win the popularity of the "man in the street," they currently are incentivized not to correct them.
However, once our flow of money to the leadership is reduced, they will have a very strong incentive to reduce the violence.
(Reposting this response I made to a similar comment. Please forgive.)
One problem with your proposal and that is that those doing the violence are not the ones getting that money.
A good point - but you will see, I account for that:
Of course the "man in the street" doing the violence is the one we are trying to influence, but we lack any real pathway to reach him/her. The leaders (that do slurp up our money) currently has no incentive to correct their "man in the street's" behavior. In fact, since they are trying to win the popularity of the "man in the street," they currently are incentivized not to correct them.
However, once our flow of money to the leadership is reduced, they will have a very strong incentive to reduce the violence.
And what is your plan regarding Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates? Where's your leverage then?
I'm sorry I wasn't able to solve the whole 6000 year-old middle-east crisis in one Slashdot post. I'll try to be more thorough next time!:)
Obviously, this is just a start. I think if the whole region would start quieting down, it would create a foundation for better dialogue with all the countries in that area. We negotiate quite peacefully with Germany and Japan now; it wasn't really that long ago we were trying to destroy each other.
If any low-budget YouTube clip or Danish cartoon can set the region ablaze we still have a long ways to go.
I just thought of this as a first step, since we are spending the money over there anyway, seemingly with little result.
They were the ones who instigated it. They should be charged with inciting a riot and disturbing the peace, if not more.
You're confusing "inciting a riot" with doing something that someone might find offensive.
"inciting a riot" would be yelling to an excited crowd, "Come on everybody! Let's burn down city hall!"
Making an offensive movie may make people angry; but, you have a right to offend people, and their subsequent actions are their responsibility. ("Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 296 (1940), the United States Supreme Court held that speech may not be prohibited merely because it offends some listeners.")
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They wont ship any of it...
I'm not asking for shipping. I just want them to point that SSME in my direction and fire it off...
I agree with the foot pedal idea.
You can also use a head tracker for mouse moment. You don't have to have an HMD, this one can mount on your ear or hat:
http://www.naturalpoint.com/trackir/02-products/product-TrackIR-4-PRO.html
I use (the fairly old) Voice Commander II to do speech recognition. It lets you set up macros like:
you say, "Machine Gun" = switch weapon to machine gun + reload + crouch + deploy
...I could quote plenty of movies with terrorists in them on a plane, and would still be thrown in jail for it.
"I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!"
Husbands and Slashdotters?.. You're funny
Those are two non-intersecting groups.
I wonder what the time parallel is between this mutation in digestion, and the change in human teeth (the addition of 'grinding' teeth for plant products) that allowed for ingestion.
Or, you could be like a, you know, ah, a lifetime career as an, er, well, just repeat after me, "Do you want fries with that?"
Ignorant American twit.
Sorry, mate: repeat after me, "Do you want chips with that?"
I wonder if there's some mastermind that triggered a crime to occur after his death brings your number to 99.999% instead.
In that case, I imagine the 'preparation to trigger that crime' would be the criminal act, which would occur before execution. Interesting puzzle though...
cite at least five, then
Easy!
100% of executed criminals have never again committed a crime.
I like the economical Chinese method:
They shoot the prisoner with a single bullet...
If these ignoramuses would read a little history, they would learn you should mock the French for relying on the Maginot line, not for surrendering.
Yeah, but they set the admin password to the Maginot line to "123456."
Have you guys seen the new art history book I wrote?
It's waaaaaay better than that Canadian book. I've embedded the pictures right in the book:
A Brief History Of Art
(Please send me $180 if you click on it)
Thanks!
if you're already charging for the world's most worthless education
Hey asshole, this isn't Women's Studies, or Basketweaving, or any shit like that!
Yeah! This is Art History!
With a Ph.D. in Art History, the world is your oyster. You can get work as a, um, Art Historian, or like a cool job, ah, as a Professor of Art History.
Or, you could be like a, you know, ah, a lifetime career as an, er, well, just repeat after me, "Do you want fries with that?"
You are assuming a religion that practices its doctrine. Do you have any historical examples?
"Heaven's Gate!"
"Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religion based in San Diego, California, founded in the early 1970s and led by Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1928–1985).[1] On March 26, 1997, police discovered the bodies of 39 members of the group who had committed suicide[2] in order to reach what they believed was an alien space craft which was following the Comet Hale-Bopp, which was at its brightest."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven's_Gate_(religious_group)
We just started our own religion ! In the east it is a sin to eat, in the west it is a sin to have sex. In our new religion it is a sin to breathe ;)
I can see the headline now:
"New Religion Lasts For Just Six Minutes"
I actually kind of agree with you.
I see the middle east as a rowdy Irish local pub, where the patrons have been drinking together, and brawling with each other, for generations.
If you leave them alone, they will (sadly) keep brawling and giving each other black eyes, and broken ribs forever.
However, if an outsider (imagine an upper-class British twit) starts hanging out in the bar, constantly trying to break up the brawls, pretty soon he will be the one getting his ass pounded.
Unfortunately, as you mentioned, the oil is the wildcard in this equation; and short of us implementing non-oil based energy systems, it will be very difficult to extricate ourselves from there.
That would be fair.
I still have a feeling more money would be flowing in their direction... (at least at first)
They would not have all the problems they fight abroad if they would not have that army in the first place.
So if we disband our military, we won't have any more problems...?
Yeaaaaaaaaaah... I think I'll pass on that idea.
Best of luck in Antarctica!
Not me. I'm not breaking any laws. I'm just sitting here quietly in my chair.
Not doing nothing wrong.
Wait. My testicles are producing testosterone.
Under SEC. 2. (c) (41) of the "Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990"
"The term `anabolic steroid' means any drug or hormonal substance that promotes muscle growth in a manner pharmacologically similar to testosterone, and includes..."
(X) Testosterone.
Under this act, anabolic steroids are now Schedule III drugs.
Title 21 United States Code (USC) Controlled Substances Act,
therefor makes it unlawful to possess (Section 844) or manufacture (Section 959) Testosterone.
Aw, nuts.
... Just how much of this money is actually making it into the hands of the people we are trying to influence with this approach?
Probably very little, and this will, sadly, not change that.
However, the "man in the street" doing the violence is the one we are trying to influence, but we lack any real pathway to reach him/her. The leaders (that do slurp up our money) currently has no incentive to correct their "man in the street's" behavior. In fact, since they are trying to win the popularity of the "man in the street," they currently are incentivized not to correct them.
However, once our flow of money to the leadership is reduced, they will have a very strong incentive to reduce the violence.
(Reposting this response I made to a similar comment. Please forgive.)
One problem with your proposal and that is that those doing the violence are not the ones getting that money.
A good point - but you will see, I account for that:
Of course the "man in the street" doing the violence is the one we are trying to influence, but we lack any real pathway to reach him/her. The leaders (that do slurp up our money) currently has no incentive to correct their "man in the street's" behavior. In fact, since they are trying to win the popularity of the "man in the street," they currently are incentivized not to correct them.
However, once our flow of money to the leadership is reduced, they will have a very strong incentive to reduce the violence.
And what is your plan regarding Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates? Where's your leverage then?
I'm sorry I wasn't able to solve the whole 6000 year-old middle-east crisis in one Slashdot post. I'll try to be more thorough next time! :)
Obviously, this is just a start. I think if the whole region would start quieting down, it would create a foundation for better dialogue with all the countries in that area. We negotiate quite peacefully with Germany and Japan now; it wasn't really that long ago we were trying to destroy each other.
If any low-budget YouTube clip or Danish cartoon can set the region ablaze we still have a long ways to go.
I just thought of this as a first step, since we are spending the money over there anyway, seemingly with little result.
You mean the movie producers?
They were the ones who instigated it. They should be charged with inciting a riot and disturbing the peace, if not more.
You're confusing "inciting a riot" with doing something that someone might find offensive.
"inciting a riot" would be yelling to an excited crowd, "Come on everybody! Let's burn down city hall!"
Making an offensive movie may make people angry; but, you have a right to offend people, and their subsequent actions are their responsibility. ("Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 296 (1940), the United States Supreme Court held that speech may not be prohibited merely because it offends some listeners.")
I like the idea in principle, but I think the amounts should be doubled and the money should be paid to me instead.
I thought of giving the money to you, Anne, :) but I'm doing it this way because each one dollar is doing two dollars worth of 'work.'
Not only have they lost a dollar, they have enriched their enemy by a dollar.
The US aid is pretty much bribery. You are already paying them to act a certain way.
That's right. We're already paying them they still slaughter our citizens, and attack our embassies.
Let's put that money to work.
He waited until she was 12 before nailing her.
No. He contracted the marriage when she was 6. But he didn't bang her 'till she was 8.
...and he was only 53 at the time.
She didn't hit puberty until 14, however.