Maybe the simplest answer is the correct one; since it was men who made the rules it might just be a ban against raping them. "Thou shalt get it on with the ladies any way you like" though.
What I'd like to know is how much matter would there have to be in this dust cloud for X-ray emissions to be dangerous to life in the galaxy? I'm assuming that this one isn't since it's "only" 3 times the mass of the earth and would presumably not go in all at one time; there's bound to be a tipping point though at which the radiation will be energetic (and sustained) enough to sterilize the planets in a galactic plate.
Needless to say, Iranian civilization ain't what it used to be. This a major oil producing country with such inept leadership that they have to import refined fuels.
Persia's high point was a long time ago.
That's really a sad comment since it's only been 60 years that they were a democracy. If someone didn't see that link coming then they should stop watching the bobbleheads on Fox.
This is a project I've heard about a while ago, the WaveRoller, intended (as I'd imagine most of these are?) to be placed on shore lines to take advantage of the "surge phenomenon" (basically how the waves change into more of a circular motion as the depth decreases thus creating spots with continuous back and forth motion, explained in the link). On their site there is a mention in a blog that they should be just about finished assembling their first 3x100 kW power plant to be deployed at Peniche, Portugal.
Change is inevitable, it's probably my biggest gripe against people that are vehement about global warming, this idea that nothing should ever change. Just because a bird species used to stop at this place means that it should always stop at this place.
It's as if these people didn't realize that change is the only thing consistent about our planets biological history. From snowball earth to tropics in the arctic our world has never had a 'normal'. We need to learn to balance ourselves against our planets inevitable future of change.
It's not that most tree huggers are against change, it's mostly about letting nature run it's own course. In this the Berkeley Pit is a good testament to what happens when people don't think in the long term; it's inhabitable to life such as ours unless you count things living in rectums.
On the positive side, yes, some birds still stop there.
look around you. its not the us anymore that's in trouble now. its the eu. the us has mostly recovered, because they have people willing to work, not just find new ways to fine smart people.
If by mostly recovered you mean the fact that no one is talking about the US, then sure, you're as recovered as most of the EU was a while back; slight growth with hopes for better. Last I heard there were talks of the US maybe losing it's triple A status as it was going nowhere fast with balancing the budget.
Hey, EU. You're doing something wrong if you face huge budget shortfalls if you don't get your annual big business fine every year. Fining prosperous companies should not be a major source of income for ANY government.
That's actually funny; the US wouldn't be in such trouble if it didn't have this idea that you can't apply laws to business. The 2008 crash was completely unnecessary, but of course whatever happens now is EU's fault. Btw since you still haven't figured out it's not one big country here's the short and sweet of it: Euro-zone != EU and EU != Europe.
I wonder.... will it be fooled if images are converted to/from lossy formats a few times.....
From what I can tell this is completely useless; the basic idea seems to be that the people who do the airbrushing are the ones who then have to run the comparison software against the original and label the image "meaningfully changed". Even if it does a half decent job of comparing images there's still no sensitivity to context e.g. enlarging bosoms vs removing a stain from a carpet which I assume is the idea behind this type of grading system.
It is a "hard labour camp" in the sense that you're required to work there if you want to eat, i.e. if you want to live. You won't be shot or beaten for not working - you'll just be left to die - but the outcome is the same. It's healthy to see that you have Stalin as a yardstick for what counts as going too far, right? And even in the gulag, reduction of rations or transfer were often the punishments given to those who refused to work. No transport costs, either.
Europe is gradually introducing an underclass in each state by turning jobseekers' allowances into a pay well below minimum wage in exchange for doing government work or work for private companies which have the government's favour. This underclass replaces labourers which used to be, well, paid a regular wage for what is regular work. The UK, for example, has recently begun Work Programme, and was last week planning to add to this a scheme whereby the government pays a proportion of certain employees' wages for a fixed amount of time so employers don't have to. It's all about special interests keeping a cheap fund of desperate workers.
I am with you in that there are serious issues with the private sector getting the benefits of these programs or free labor competing with legitimate companies, but at the same time there are other issues to think about.
For one, the job of the unemployed is to find work; probably in most countries you will lose unemployment benefits if you refuse any work and isn't that the same thing as what you so casually deem a "hard labour camp". Of course in most cases this doesn't mean you're "dead" because there are often other welfare programs paying/giving you the minimum you need.
Having legions of unemployed doing absolutely nothing is the biggest waste of all since it's adding to the class of "terminally unemployed" who'll never be able to fully take part in society and earn wages of any sort. Seems like something has to be done, if for no other reason than to give the people a wakeup call.
p.s. I don't think your Stalin yardstick comment is representative of the original use.
Getting a really nice looking picture comes later, since it pretty much requires putting it in a human eye (rabbits are lousy at describing what they're seeing), which requires us to know we won't be hurting said humans by doing so.
It sounds to me like the system worked - there was a secondary verification of using a photograph, which would have cleared the person who got the false positive.
The problem is that I don't think this reporter of "American Norwegian" descent looked anything even remotely like the match suggested. The real deal is when using it to pick out natives and then having a system which does low odds "best guesses" sounds retarded; especially if it gives you helpful hints to treat people with extreme prejudice.
I had a spanish chick, an exchange student, as a roommate at university. Don''t know why, partly because she knew so little english that she'd probably just filled the housing application wrong. Anyway, one day she started complaining that her jaw was hurting and that she'd need to go to the pharmacist to get something for it. I offered to show her where it was and to help translate if need be, she was hot so I thought it couldn't hurt. When we got there she started saying that she needed antibiotics (apparently you can buy them like candy in Spain) and would not believe that you couldn't get them without a prescription... + the ailment was a zit she'd had all since yesterday. Had to do that "I'm really sorry"- look as we left and she ended getting a few pills from her friend.
So it truly doesn't help jack shit that when I go to the doctor I have to be on deaths knell to get a course of antibiotics when people, who against all common sense are allowed to freely go where they may, can shoot the stuff up as much as they want.
Say what you want, despite the larger number of Christians in the UK we haven't had them setting of bombs on public transport in the name of their religion, trying to blow up aircraft, and driving burning vehicles into airports. They don't disrupt remembrance day services, hold banners saying "Freedom can go to hell", and "Britain will become an Islamic state" or "those who insult Jesus will be killed". There aren't reports of Christians killing relatives for marrying the wrong person or leaving Christianity every week. They don't demand that areas with lots of Christians become "Christian law" areas and say they will violently punish people who don't dress the way they like. Muslims do all these things.
Horacio Gutiérrez, the deputy general counsel in charge of Microsoft’s intellectual property group is a major proponent of patent reform including the bill passed in September. For example
I think we’ve come a long way, but there remain some areas where the practices in the context of litigation as well as in some administrative proceedings could be adapted to really try to curb the abuses of the system by nonpracticing entities [polite term for patent trolls]..There is currently debate emerging over whether nonpracticing entities should be entitled to obtain an injunction either in court or in the International Trade Commission.
So I'm not sure where you are getting this idea they support the current system from.
The way I read that quote is that Microsoft wants immunity from patent trolls, nothing there about them being on "our" side which I assume wants everyone to be safe from harassment by practicing entities also. This stance reminds me of the joke that the puritans did not so much escape persecution as wanting themselves to be free to persecute.
I've actually asked the spanish people I know and none of them knew the meaning in the "prostitute" context; apparently that usage, like the joke, is getting old,
Did I blink and end up back in primary school? Does anyone who refuses to use Ubuntu have cooties too?
If you think this is bad, imagine if Nokia were making an Ubuntu-phone... ... with a touch-screen... ... and rounded corners... ... and they called it De Puta Madre.
Even though a single evolutionary change can mean the difference between living and dying I would think it also effect everything else, especially when it has to do with metabolism. In this case the fishs' genes have found a local maxima, so to say, that makes them resistant to PCB; nobody knows what evolutionary possibilities they've sacrificed and what it does to them in the long run.
I don't think anyone is surprised about embargoes being broken, so the ethics part is it. But don't write your congresscritters, since the US does this globally they'll probably just pass laws to make censorship free speech and eavesdropping protected speech; ethics fixed for ya.
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Maybe the simplest answer is the correct one; since it was men who made the rules it might just be a ban against raping them. "Thou shalt get it on with the ladies any way you like" though.
Mouth the words, and then closed caption the lyrics.
Do it in sign language and substitute a middle finger for all punctuation...
Just be careful you don't infringe on the antics of Signmark
What I'd like to know is how much matter would there have to be in this dust cloud for X-ray emissions to be dangerous to life in the galaxy? I'm assuming that this one isn't since it's "only" 3 times the mass of the earth and would presumably not go in all at one time; there's bound to be a tipping point though at which the radiation will be energetic (and sustained) enough to sterilize the planets in a galactic plate.
Needless to say, Iranian civilization ain't what it used to be. This a major oil producing country with such inept leadership that they have to import refined fuels.
Persia's high point was a long time ago.
That's really a sad comment since it's only been 60 years that they were a democracy. If someone didn't see that link coming then they should stop watching the bobbleheads on Fox.
This is a project I've heard about a while ago, the WaveRoller, intended (as I'd imagine most of these are?) to be placed on shore lines to take advantage of the "surge phenomenon" (basically how the waves change into more of a circular motion as the depth decreases thus creating spots with continuous back and forth motion, explained in the link). On their site there is a mention in a blog that they should be just about finished assembling their first 3x100 kW power plant to be deployed at Peniche, Portugal.
It's an eEmbassy?
Or a Nukebook maybe?
And these ppl should NOT be ripped for this. THey should be scolded publicly and then privately thanked.
I say set each of them up with an ankle monitor, security problem solved.
Change is inevitable, it's probably my biggest gripe against people that are vehement about global warming, this idea that nothing should ever change. Just because a bird species used to stop at this place means that it should always stop at this place.
It's as if these people didn't realize that change is the only thing consistent about our planets biological history. From snowball earth to tropics in the arctic our world has never had a 'normal'. We need to learn to balance ourselves against our planets inevitable future of change.
It's not that most tree huggers are against change, it's mostly about letting nature run it's own course. In this the Berkeley Pit is a good testament to what happens when people don't think in the long term; it's inhabitable to life such as ours unless you count things living in rectums.
On the positive side, yes, some birds still stop there.
look around you. its not the us anymore that's in trouble now. its the eu. the us has mostly recovered, because they have people willing to work, not just find new ways to fine smart people.
If by mostly recovered you mean the fact that no one is talking about the US, then sure, you're as recovered as most of the EU was a while back; slight growth with hopes for better. Last I heard there were talks of the US maybe losing it's triple A status as it was going nowhere fast with balancing the budget.
Hey, EU. You're doing something wrong if you face huge budget shortfalls if you don't get your annual big business fine every year. Fining prosperous companies should not be a major source of income for ANY government.
That's actually funny; the US wouldn't be in such trouble if it didn't have this idea that you can't apply laws to business. The 2008 crash was completely unnecessary, but of course whatever happens now is EU's fault. Btw since you still haven't figured out it's not one big country here's the short and sweet of it: Euro-zone != EU and EU != Europe.
I wonder.... will it be fooled if images are converted to/from lossy formats a few times.....
From what I can tell this is completely useless; the basic idea seems to be that the people who do the airbrushing are the ones who then have to run the comparison software against the original and label the image "meaningfully changed". Even if it does a half decent job of comparing images there's still no sensitivity to context e.g. enlarging bosoms vs removing a stain from a carpet which I assume is the idea behind this type of grading system.
It is a "hard labour camp" in the sense that you're required to work there if you want to eat, i.e. if you want to live. You won't be shot or beaten for not working - you'll just be left to die - but the outcome is the same. It's healthy to see that you have Stalin as a yardstick for what counts as going too far, right? And even in the gulag, reduction of rations or transfer were often the punishments given to those who refused to work. No transport costs, either.
Europe is gradually introducing an underclass in each state by turning jobseekers' allowances into a pay well below minimum wage in exchange for doing government work or work for private companies which have the government's favour. This underclass replaces labourers which used to be, well, paid a regular wage for what is regular work. The UK, for example, has recently begun Work Programme, and was last week planning to add to this a scheme whereby the government pays a proportion of certain employees' wages for a fixed amount of time so employers don't have to. It's all about special interests keeping a cheap fund of desperate workers.
I am with you in that there are serious issues with the private sector getting the benefits of these programs or free labor competing with legitimate companies, but at the same time there are other issues to think about.
For one, the job of the unemployed is to find work; probably in most countries you will lose unemployment benefits if you refuse any work and isn't that the same thing as what you so casually deem a "hard labour camp". Of course in most cases this doesn't mean you're "dead" because there are often other welfare programs paying/giving you the minimum you need.
Having legions of unemployed doing absolutely nothing is the biggest waste of all since it's adding to the class of "terminally unemployed" who'll never be able to fully take part in society and earn wages of any sort. Seems like something has to be done, if for no other reason than to give the people a wakeup call.
p.s. I don't think your Stalin yardstick comment is representative of the original use.
Getting a really nice looking picture comes later, since it pretty much requires putting it in a human eye (rabbits are lousy at describing what they're seeing), which requires us to know we won't be hurting said humans by doing so.
Queue augmented reality carrots.
It sounds to me like the system worked - there was a secondary verification of using a photograph, which would have cleared the person who got the false positive.
The problem is that I don't think this reporter of "American Norwegian" descent looked anything even remotely like the match suggested. The real deal is when using it to pick out natives and then having a system which does low odds "best guesses" sounds retarded; especially if it gives you helpful hints to treat people with extreme prejudice.
I had a spanish chick, an exchange student, as a roommate at university. Don''t know why, partly because she knew so little english that she'd probably just filled the housing application wrong. Anyway, one day she started complaining that her jaw was hurting and that she'd need to go to the pharmacist to get something for it. I offered to show her where it was and to help translate if need be, she was hot so I thought it couldn't hurt. When we got there she started saying that she needed antibiotics (apparently you can buy them like candy in Spain) and would not believe that you couldn't get them without a prescription... + the ailment was a zit she'd had all since yesterday. Had to do that "I'm really sorry"- look as we left and she ended getting a few pills from her friend.
So it truly doesn't help jack shit that when I go to the doctor I have to be on deaths knell to get a course of antibiotics when people, who against all common sense are allowed to freely go where they may, can shoot the stuff up as much as they want.
Say what you want, despite the larger number of Christians in the UK we haven't had them setting of bombs on public transport in the name of their religion, trying to blow up aircraft, and driving burning vehicles into airports. They don't disrupt remembrance day services, hold banners saying "Freedom can go to hell", and "Britain will become an Islamic state" or "those who insult Jesus will be killed". There aren't reports of Christians killing relatives for marrying the wrong person or leaving Christianity every week. They don't demand that areas with lots of Christians become "Christian law" areas and say they will violently punish people who don't dress the way they like. Muslims do all these things.
Maybe you're thinking of the IRA.
Steve would have never done that.
Beware the power of the turtleneck.
Like Shakespeare, this was better in the original klingon.
Horacio Gutiérrez, the deputy general counsel in charge of Microsoft’s intellectual property group is a major proponent of patent reform including the bill passed in September. For example
I think we’ve come a long way, but there remain some areas where the practices in the context of litigation as well as in some administrative proceedings could be adapted to really try to curb the abuses of the system by nonpracticing entities [polite term for patent trolls]..There is currently debate emerging over whether nonpracticing entities should be entitled to obtain an injunction either in court or in the International Trade Commission.
Microsoft is on our side on this one.
As for Apple they are one of the founding companies in the Coalition for Patent Fairness.
So I'm not sure where you are getting this idea they support the current system from.
The way I read that quote is that Microsoft wants immunity from patent trolls, nothing there about them being on "our" side which I assume wants everyone to be safe from harassment by practicing entities also. This stance reminds me of the joke that the puritans did not so much escape persecution as wanting themselves to be free to persecute.
Am I the only one who had to read that twice to be clear on who was supposed to be talking after the ellipses?
That's how it starts, but at least now you can blame the internets.
I've actually asked the spanish people I know and none of them knew the meaning in the "prostitute" context; apparently that usage, like the joke, is getting old,
Did I blink and end up back in primary school? Does anyone who refuses to use Ubuntu have cooties too?
If you think this is bad, imagine if Nokia were making an Ubuntu-phone...
... with a touch-screen...
... and rounded corners...
... and they called it De Puta Madre.
Fuck, nvm, they'd probably eat it up.
The heavy lifting is done on Apple's servers, not locally on the phone.
That's kind of eerie when you think about it...
In corporate America, Apple has you in their pocket.
Even though a single evolutionary change can mean the difference between living and dying I would think it also effect everything else, especially when it has to do with metabolism. In this case the fishs' genes have found a local maxima, so to say, that makes them resistant to PCB; nobody knows what evolutionary possibilities they've sacrificed and what it does to them in the long run.
I don't think anyone is surprised about embargoes being broken, so the ethics part is it. But don't write your congresscritters, since the US does this globally they'll probably just pass laws to make censorship free speech and eavesdropping protected speech; ethics fixed for ya.