It's easy to see why. It reminds me of the pledge of allegiance I experienced in the communist school system. Instead of freedom and justice for all, it was peace and socialism. For a seven year old, all those are just abstract concepts.
It's indoctrination. It's religious indoctrination. "One nation under God" is the establishment of religion.
(And how is it with the children of non-U.S. americans in U.S. schools. Do they also have to recite the Pledge, even as citizens of another nation? And if not, what are they doing while the other pupils recite is? Do you think it's ok to make it clear every school morning that those children are aliens and systematically excluded from the community of the class?)
Actually, it was Win NT (which predates Win95). With Win95, you still had DOS and the Win32 as a shell programm separated, Win98 brought its own DOS but was still a Win32 subsystem running on top of it, and Win ME was just Win98C.
Your math doesn't add up. Manaus, Belém, Fortaleza, Recife, Salvador da Bahia, Brasilia, Porto Alegre and Goiania together have more than 20 mio inhabitants, are each more than 1000 km away from Sao Paulo, and comprise more than 10% of the Brasilian population. (And if we add the suburbs of each of the cities, we easily arrive at more than 25%...) And that's just those few cities.
Actually, the people you mention don't get the flu. They just get a common cold, whose symptoms are quite similar to the flu, albeit not as strong. And people who never had antibodies against the special tribe of flu they got the shot against sometimes develop unspecified symptoms like faintness or joint pains which get associated with the flu, but have nothing to do with it. Some of the symptoms of the flu are caused by the body busily creating antibodies against the infection. If you get a shot that causes the body to create antibodies, then you will have similar symptoms.
He is. That's the arithmetic of elections. Whoever wins the majority of the votes, wins. As "nobody" is no one, the next in line is the winner, however weak his number of votes compared with "nobody" is. It's not a poll to measure the amount of cultural or political pessimism. It's a presidental election. The goal of the presidential election is to have a president.
Amazon will implement whatever workaround is necessary to remain the internet's Walmart
I don't know if you wanted to be funny, but in Germany, Walmart came, saw and went home beaten. They never found the leverage to implement their business model in Germany, never became competitive, and finally gave up.
Another problem of Walmart was that the tried to get better prices at the wholesalers, and then noticed that they are just some second class customer to them. Thus Walmart couldn't compete on prices, as they couldn't buy in large enough volumes. Yes, Walmart was just too small in Germany for their business model. Maybe if they had kept the Wertkauf chain of stores intact and slowly expanded their business, they might still have a presence in Germany - known as Wertkauf and not as Walmart.
Just keep the packaging and send it back to Amazon if it breaks. As Amazon is the seller, they have to take it back for the next two years and repair or replace it.
The government competence at distinguishing sustainable businesses from losers is about the same than the competence of every other investor. Businesses fail. All the time. And the investors in the failed businesses lose. (And the workers waiting for outstanding pay lose. And the suppliers lose. And the town the business is incorporated in loses.) The average business founder is according to your definition incompetent, as most businesses fail within a few years. The average investor is incompetent, as most businesses he invests in, cost him money.
But only if the government is involved, it is all the fault of of the government, right?
Yes and no. The 90% are only valid if the laser beam hits the object nearly at 90 degrees. Then indeed, the reflection will cause 90% of the energy to be reflected and 10% will be heating the surface. But still, this means we need to have a 10 times larger laser to have the same effect than on a non reflective (black) object.
But in general, the beam will hit the surface at lower angles, and then we have to multiply the energy with the sinus of the angle. So if it hits the surface at 45 degrees, only about 71% of the energy will be transferred, and we need to increase the laser beam another 40%. And at lower angles, there is total reflection, and 0% of the laser will be able to heat the surface, as 100% of the energy is reflected. In general: if we build a drone like a stealth bomber with a shell of plane, mirroring facettes, laser beams will be rendered totally ineffective except for the seldom case that they hit the drone's surface at 90 degrees with 10 times the necessary energy.
Giving a surface a reflective coating and polish it is a craft humanity knows since at least 2000 BC (that's about the age of the oldest mirror ever found). So I don't expect 1) to be valid in any sense.
Actually, antibiotics poison bacteria. "Poisonous" just means that it messes something up in the metabolism to cause harm. Antibiotics happen to be poisons that mainly poison bacteria and are harmless to other organisms. They influence compounds and chemical reactions that only or mainly exist in bacteria. Penicillin (and other beta-lactams) for instance supresses the synthetization of the peptidoglycides needed by Gram-positive bacteria to build their cell walls. Thus the (Gram-positive) bacteria can't grow or multiply anymore and can't repair damages in existing cell walls, causing the bacteria to die off. Other organisms with a different cell wall structure like Gram-negative bacteria or non-bacterial organisms don't get poisoned by beta-lactams.
And organisms can also evolve resistance to other poisons.
And Santa Claus lived in Myra (today's Demre, Turkey) and is buried in Bari (Italy), and not at the Northpole. No wonder children stopped to believe in Santa.
I don't buy into anything. Edward Snowden seems to believe that there is no security by obscurity for long, and that he shouldn't bet his future on this. Yes, Chelsea Manning stumbled for her own fault. No, I don't think Edward Snowden might have fallen for the same trap. But in the end, it makes no difference which coincidence or happenstance would have revealed his identity. He wanted to get out of the U.S. reach, and by doing that, he was revealing his identity anyway or at least was putting himself as a prime suspect for the leaks when he didn't appear on his workplace anymore.
Actually, it's much more complicated. The gas Argon got its name from greek "argos", which means inert. The chemical group got the name of "noble gases" at the end of the 19th century from William Ramsay (Nobel prize in 1904). The first compound of a noble gas was discovered in 1962 by Neil Bartlett. Argon was the last noble gas for which a compound could be synthesized (2000).
Or to make it more clear: The Evo Morales affair was a typical play of cards as in the figure of speech. It was a completely thought through setup to figure out how much which European country is in the pockets of the U.S., and Spain and France totally failed on this test, and the U.S. really looked bad.
No, I am under the impression that it was at first not a card, Russia played, but some kind of halfhearted attempt to deal with the situation. It was not an intended move in a game, it was trying to cope with a situation that needed dealing with. I wouldn't call an attempt to extinguish a fire "playing the firefighter card", because this misses totally the actual situation Russia was in. It wasn't a cool move as "playing the X card" connotates. It was trying to somehow get in control and not making things worse. Edward Snowden was a hot potato, and Russia tried to blow on it until it cooled enough to be dealed with.
You mean, MIT is some small territory which was contractually separated from the surrounding town, and the head of the MIT is still the spiritual leader of the majority of Boston? Just because the State of Vatican was founded in 1929 in the Lateran Treaty between the Catholic Church and Italy, and the Pope is still the bishop of Rome.
The main difference between Julian Assange and Edward Snowden is the role they play in the leaks they are connected to. Julian Assange is never the original source, he's the guy providing the platform to publish it. As a publisher, he's a public head. Edward Snowden is the actual source, he's got the data. There are different channels for him to publish it. Instead of WikiLeaks, he has chosen the Guardian and the New York Times as publishing outlets.
If you need to compare him to someone, he's more a PFC Manning than a second Julian Assange. And he learned from Chelsea Manning that trying to hide your identity after the leaks works only for so long, so he decided to flee forward, make his identity open and in the same time got out of the direct reach of the U.S. authorities. There are not much places in the world where you are out of the reach of the U.S. authorities. He never openly decided for Russia, it was the place he got stuck.
The justified political asylum is not a card, the asylum is justified. Period. The NSA has shown that a) it consideres everyone an enemy and monitors everything it gets the hand on and b) the only reason they don't to it very openly against U.S. citizens on American soil is that the FBI and the local police already do lots of surveillance, and the electorate might elect enough people who ride on a "too much spent on domestic surveillance" platform.
What I am waiting for is a document leaked which shows how little evidence actually comes out of the big data heap. I do think that the actual profiles the NSA is able to create have about the same quality than the weekend horoscope in the tabloids - fitting everyone and saying nothing. The NSA's successes seem to be not much different from random chance. If you blindly fire a drone in South Yemen or in Northwest Pakistan on a group of people, the chance you also hit someone somehow linked to some fundamentalistic group is close to one -- the fundamentalistic groups are some of the few that are actually organised and can provide some support if a problem arises. If you have difficulties there you are not able to cope with on your own, the Taliban or the local al-Qaida branch might actually help, the local authorities not so much. It's the same reason the Muslim Brotherhood has so many supporters in rural Egypt.
Back in 1993, when I was playing LPmuds, we had an email system for all players open to the outside. As the LPmuds I was playing had between 10,000 to 100,000 accounts, I would say: even toy email servers had no problem with 100,000 accounts 20 years ago;)
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It's indoctrination. It's religious indoctrination. "One nation under God" is the establishment of religion.
(And how is it with the children of non-U.S. americans in U.S. schools. Do they also have to recite the Pledge, even as citizens of another nation? And if not, what are they doing while the other pupils recite is? Do you think it's ok to make it clear every school morning that those children are aliens and systematically excluded from the community of the class?)
If you can't learn anything from movies, you have bigger problems than lacking business skills.
Actually, it was Win NT (which predates Win95). With Win95, you still had DOS and the Win32 as a shell programm separated, Win98 brought its own DOS but was still a Win32 subsystem running on top of it, and Win ME was just Win98C.
Actually, it's AB (for aktiebolaged).
Your math doesn't add up. Manaus, Belém, Fortaleza, Recife, Salvador da Bahia, Brasilia, Porto Alegre and Goiania together have more than 20 mio inhabitants, are each more than 1000 km away from Sao Paulo, and comprise more than 10% of the Brasilian population. (And if we add the suburbs of each of the cities, we easily arrive at more than 25%...) And that's just those few cities.
Actually, the people you mention don't get the flu. They just get a common cold, whose symptoms are quite similar to the flu, albeit not as strong. And people who never had antibodies against the special tribe of flu they got the shot against sometimes develop unspecified symptoms like faintness or joint pains which get associated with the flu, but have nothing to do with it. Some of the symptoms of the flu are caused by the body busily creating antibodies against the infection. If you get a shot that causes the body to create antibodies, then you will have similar symptoms.
He is. That's the arithmetic of elections. Whoever wins the majority of the votes, wins. As "nobody" is no one, the next in line is the winner, however weak his number of votes compared with "nobody" is. It's not a poll to measure the amount of cultural or political pessimism. It's a presidental election. The goal of the presidential election is to have a president.
Don't like the job..?? quit.. someone will be forced by sheer financial pressure to take your place..
There. Fixed that for you.
Amazon will implement whatever workaround is necessary to remain the internet's Walmart
I don't know if you wanted to be funny, but in Germany, Walmart came, saw and went home beaten. They never found the leverage to implement their business model in Germany, never became competitive, and finally gave up.
Another problem of Walmart was that the tried to get better prices at the wholesalers, and then noticed that they are just some second class customer to them. Thus Walmart couldn't compete on prices, as they couldn't buy in large enough volumes. Yes, Walmart was just too small in Germany for their business model. Maybe if they had kept the Wertkauf chain of stores intact and slowly expanded their business, they might still have a presence in Germany - known as Wertkauf and not as Walmart.
Just keep the packaging and send it back to Amazon if it breaks. As Amazon is the seller, they have to take it back for the next two years and repair or replace it.
But only if the government is involved, it is all the fault of of the government, right?
Or: you are a liar.
But in general, the beam will hit the surface at lower angles, and then we have to multiply the energy with the sinus of the angle. So if it hits the surface at 45 degrees, only about 71% of the energy will be transferred, and we need to increase the laser beam another 40%. And at lower angles, there is total reflection, and 0% of the laser will be able to heat the surface, as 100% of the energy is reflected. In general: if we build a drone like a stealth bomber with a shell of plane, mirroring facettes, laser beams will be rendered totally ineffective except for the seldom case that they hit the drone's surface at 90 degrees with 10 times the necessary energy.
Giving a surface a reflective coating and polish it is a craft humanity knows since at least 2000 BC (that's about the age of the oldest mirror ever found). So I don't expect 1) to be valid in any sense.
And organisms can also evolve resistance to other poisons.
And Santa Claus lived in Myra (today's Demre, Turkey) and is buried in Bari (Italy), and not at the Northpole. No wonder children stopped to believe in Santa.
I don't buy into anything. Edward Snowden seems to believe that there is no security by obscurity for long, and that he shouldn't bet his future on this. Yes, Chelsea Manning stumbled for her own fault. No, I don't think Edward Snowden might have fallen for the same trap. But in the end, it makes no difference which coincidence or happenstance would have revealed his identity. He wanted to get out of the U.S. reach, and by doing that, he was revealing his identity anyway or at least was putting himself as a prime suspect for the leaks when he didn't appear on his workplace anymore.
Actually, it's much more complicated. The gas Argon got its name from greek "argos", which means inert. The chemical group got the name of "noble gases" at the end of the 19th century from William Ramsay (Nobel prize in 1904). The first compound of a noble gas was discovered in 1962 by Neil Bartlett. Argon was the last noble gas for which a compound could be synthesized (2000).
Or to make it more clear: The Evo Morales affair was a typical play of cards as in the figure of speech. It was a completely thought through setup to figure out how much which European country is in the pockets of the U.S., and Spain and France totally failed on this test, and the U.S. really looked bad.
No, I am under the impression that it was at first not a card, Russia played, but some kind of halfhearted attempt to deal with the situation. It was not an intended move in a game, it was trying to cope with a situation that needed dealing with. I wouldn't call an attempt to extinguish a fire "playing the firefighter card", because this misses totally the actual situation Russia was in. It wasn't a cool move as "playing the X card" connotates. It was trying to somehow get in control and not making things worse. Edward Snowden was a hot potato, and Russia tried to blow on it until it cooled enough to be dealed with.
You mean, MIT is some small territory which was contractually separated from the surrounding town, and the head of the MIT is still the spiritual leader of the majority of Boston? Just because the State of Vatican was founded in 1929 in the Lateran Treaty between the Catholic Church and Italy, and the Pope is still the bishop of Rome.
If you need to compare him to someone, he's more a PFC Manning than a second Julian Assange. And he learned from Chelsea Manning that trying to hide your identity after the leaks works only for so long, so he decided to flee forward, make his identity open and in the same time got out of the direct reach of the U.S. authorities. There are not much places in the world where you are out of the reach of the U.S. authorities. He never openly decided for Russia, it was the place he got stuck.
What I am waiting for is a document leaked which shows how little evidence actually comes out of the big data heap. I do think that the actual profiles the NSA is able to create have about the same quality than the weekend horoscope in the tabloids - fitting everyone and saying nothing. The NSA's successes seem to be not much different from random chance. If you blindly fire a drone in South Yemen or in Northwest Pakistan on a group of people, the chance you also hit someone somehow linked to some fundamentalistic group is close to one -- the fundamentalistic groups are some of the few that are actually organised and can provide some support if a problem arises. If you have difficulties there you are not able to cope with on your own, the Taliban or the local al-Qaida branch might actually help, the local authorities not so much. It's the same reason the Muslim Brotherhood has so many supporters in rural Egypt.
Back in 1993, when I was playing LPmuds, we had an email system for all players open to the outside. As the LPmuds I was playing had between 10,000 to 100,000 accounts, I would say: even toy email servers had no problem with 100,000 accounts 20 years ago ;)