Obviously, by that point we'd seen that the securitization of loans where nobody knew the quality of the mortgages they were based on, and the entire "lets force banks to loan money to people they otherwise wouldn't loan money to" ideas were fundamentally flawed.
Marvin the android is part of a comedy series, but if you want to see real tragedy, see the droids in the Star Wars Universe.
They are self-aware, capable of reasoning and emotion, and yet they are all slaves and no one pays more than cursory attention to them....maybe its because they don't rip people's arms out of their sockets when they lose at chess
Perhaps robots are not yet ready for artsy european films, but I think you could stick a couple of RealDolls in the cast of a soap opera and no one would notice...
Automated killing machines were banned at the Geneva convention. This is generally a good thing when we're sending real, live humans (versus the walking undead) to fight our wars.
I don't care what the Geneva convention says!
As soon as my ritual circle is completed, the dead will rise from their graves and destroooy yooouu! And then your dead soldiers will rise again and take up arms against their former companions!!! THE WORLD WILL BE MINE!!! MUAHAHAHA!!!
Sorry McGrew, but waterboarding and torture is both unethical and immoral. As far as I know (being an ignorant foreigner), the US Army does not include any torture instructions in its manuals.
Now, you could make a case that Gitmo's existence might be ethical but immoral, considering that it is technically not a US territory, but legally* under US jurisdiction.
*The legality of this is disputed by Cuba, of course...
I read that it was that Neanthertals lacked the ability to vocalize and therefore were less social than Cro-Magnons, so there werent able to build large tribes to defend themselves.
Well, I am in Mexico and I can tell you that a lot of small businesses here consist on buying some midsized reverse osmosis/filtration/UV equipment and make money distributing 20 liter bottles of water in a given neighborhood.
So yeah, a lot of those small stores are already "crushing our feeble electricity distribution infrastructure", so there wouldn't be too much of a difference there. Not to mention that it is a way-too-powerful union what's crushing the electricity distribution here, but I disgress...
I have LazyTown to thank for my kids' strange demands of fruits and vegetables... Can't they just eat candy and drink soda all day like we did when we were kids?
Darn Icelandic athlete with a pencil moustache and his ability to make mutants out of my kids!
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Obviously, by that point we'd seen that the securitization of loans where nobody knew the quality of the mortgages they were based on, and the entire "lets force banks to loan money to people they otherwise wouldn't loan money to" ideas were fundamentally flawed.
Agree on the first point, disagree on the second.
The Community Reinvestment Act had nothing to do with the subprime crisis:
http://www.stablecommunities.org/node/472
Somebody needs a good hug, a blankie and a cup of cocoa...
Marvin the android is part of a comedy series, but if you want to see real tragedy, see the droids in the Star Wars Universe.
They are self-aware, capable of reasoning and emotion, and yet they are all slaves and no one pays more than cursory attention to them. ...maybe its because they don't rip people's arms out of their sockets when they lose at chess
Perhaps robots are not yet ready for artsy european films, but I think you could stick a couple of RealDolls in the cast of a soap opera and no one would notice...
...or at least that's what I'll claim if I am ever confronted by my employers about my internet usage logs at work
But those manuals were not intended for the US military, only for the puppet right-wing goverments of latin america, right?
Just a pointer, Edmund Dantes was imprisoned in the Chateau d'If, not in the Bastille...
Now, back to topic, we should probably go back to a copyright of "author's life plus 20 years" or something like that.
After all, it is not an unreasonable expectation to want to leave some inheritance for our children...
Automated killing machines were banned at the Geneva convention. This is generally a good thing when we're sending real, live humans (versus the walking undead) to fight our wars.
I don't care what the Geneva convention says!
As soon as my ritual circle is completed, the dead will rise from their graves and destroooy yooouu! And then your dead soldiers will rise again and take up arms against their former companions!!! THE WORLD WILL BE MINE!!! MUAHAHAHA!!!
Sorry... couldn't help myself...
Sorry McGrew, but waterboarding and torture is both unethical and immoral. As far as I know (being an ignorant foreigner), the US Army does not include any torture instructions in its manuals.
Now, you could make a case that Gitmo's existence might be ethical but immoral, considering that it is technically not a US territory, but legally* under US jurisdiction.
*The legality of this is disputed by Cuba, of course...
Hey! I just submitted the same story this morning!
http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=1763885
I read that it was that Neanthertals lacked the ability to vocalize and therefore were less social than Cro-Magnons, so there werent able to build large tribes to defend themselves.
Not that I don't believe the quote to be true, but is there a citation for that?
The fan in my AspireOne usually turns on only when I have been using it for more than an hour in bed
When Im just idly browsing the net in a coffeeshop or some other place it never turns on
Well, this year I bought an Acer AspireOne netbook, but I decided for the model with a HDD instead of the SSD version...
However, if SSDs continue improving and becoming cheaper, maybe my next mobile computer will be moving-part free!
Thanks a lot, +1 informative
Well, I am in Mexico and I can tell you that a lot of small businesses here consist on buying some midsized reverse osmosis/filtration/UV equipment and make money distributing 20 liter bottles of water in a given neighborhood.
So yeah, a lot of those small stores are already "crushing our feeble electricity distribution infrastructure", so there wouldn't be too much of a difference there. Not to mention that it is a way-too-powerful union what's crushing the electricity distribution here, but I disgress...
I'm having a bit of trouble picturing this... is it like drinking out of an erlenmeyer flask?
Alternate views have to be legitimate first and proven.
Just because your pastor told you that 2+2=5 it doesn't mean it has the right to be pushed in classrooms.
Here is the link:
http://scienceblogs.com/afarensis/2006/10/27/intelligent_design_and_the_ala/
She surely scared the hell out of everyone outside the US...
The idea of a creationist ending up in charge of the US nuclear arsenal gave me the creeps
The fact that you can torture the English language that way doesn't mean that you should
Disclaimer: I am not a grammar nazi, just a concerned journalism student
I have LazyTown to thank for my kids' strange demands of fruits and vegetables... Can't they just eat candy and drink soda all day like we did when we were kids?
Darn Icelandic athlete with a pencil moustache and his ability to make mutants out of my kids!
What about the potassium? [bites a banana]
Hey! No mixing Sci-Fi and Fantasy! >:P
Well, I've seen a couple of articles about her in the "society" and "entertainment" pages of the newspapers lately...
Case in point: http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/famecrawler/2008/11/16-22/palin-poolside.jpg