That's the second time you have posted that, and still no citation. Or are you using idea that if you repeat a lie often enough, it will come to be seem as the truth? It's a good propaganda trick, but you need a lot more spamming for it to work.
It's a standard clause in many consumer-to-business contracts: The business just gives themselves the right to alter the conditions of the contract at any time. Sometimes requiring notice some period in advance, but said notice is typicially in the form of a letter with five pages of tiny legal print that everyone throws away. Unless you explicitly end the contract upon recieving the notification (Which, in itsself, often means a termination fee), you are assumed to have agreed to the new terms by default.
The size of a sizable island - and that's before food. Creationists solved this one long ago though, by simply redefining species in order to allow some evolution. Thus there is no need to take several tens of thousands of different species of rodent: Only two 'rat-kind' individuals which can evolve after the flood through divine intervention into all the species we see today. This is stupid for many reasons, but you have to give them some credit for trying. Hovind even invented the Genesis Meat-Plant to explain how the carnivores were able to survive until the herbivores bred to a sustainable population.
That's basically what happened with the Jesus ossuary. The bone-box was discovered in approximatly the right location, and does indeed bear the words 'Jesus, son of Joseph' or something similar. It even dates from the right time. Proclaimed as proof Jesus was real, except... Jesus and Joseph were common names at the time. It's hardly surprising that such a box would exist.
I would be most amused if someone managed to prove it was *that* Jesus though, because the bible claims he ascended bodily shortly after the resurrection - thus leaving no remains. If the artifact is real, it actually proves the bible was wrong.
Science is not religion. Science is the reason you arn't dying of smallpox, why you can buy preserved and refrigerated food without having to take a spear and catch it, and why have an internet to complain on.
That would help, but it's not going to remove the late a lot. There is just some natural cultural antagonism, particually with the more strictly Islamic countries. Even if the US had no involvement there at all, they would still consider it an abhorent and evil country for treating women as equals and allowing adulterers to live.
This is true. You can look back in the old testament and find propaganda about Israel's enemies and the terrible things they apparently did, though there is no archaeological evidence to back the claims. Same for some of the ancient egyptian inscriptions. This is just adding a new level of sophistication.
They can be, yes. In this case, the police decided to instead press all the way through to getting him to arrange to meet the fake-thirteen for sex - no point convicting him for something small when a little encouragement could get a much more serious charge. Under other circumstances, they might have charged someone with "distributing pornography to a minor" or a similar offense - that particular can be a felony in the US, and it wouldn't be too hard to convince a jury that very explicit sexual conversation is a form of pornography.
I don't know of the implications should you not know the person you are talking to is a minor, as is quite possible on the internet. Somehow I doubt the law would make any allowance for that, but IANAL.
Those programs that replace text emotions with little symbol are annoying. I'm a furry. We often use our own variations, like:>. How are those of us with beaks supposed to emote when the programs only support human-based faces?
Games consoles owe their origins to the arcade, and that legacy lives on in the form of arcade-like controls. The keyboard+mouse combo provides by far the best set for FPSs and RTSs. On flight sims and racing games the console does have the edge with stock controls - the analog stick provides far superior fine control for those games. Achieving that on PC requires additional hardware.
That's an old trick. Famously used on Al Capone. The police couldn't actually prove beyond reasonable doubt any of his dealings with the mafia, but they were still very confident in his guilt - so they looked for something else, searching his past for some other crime he had committed that they could use for which conviction would be easier. They came up with tax evasion - conviction successful.
To give a more underhanded example, there was Matthew Bandy. Due to a mistake by the state police, he was falsely charged with posession of child pornography. His computer had been hacked, but without his knowledge, and he was able to show this in court. The incident was a huge embarassment for the police - it created the standard media circus in the local press, with many locals angry that they would accuse someone of such a serious crime wrongly. After it became clear they had screwed up, the police grew desperate. They discovered during their investigation that, when in high school, he had once brought an issue of Playboy in to show his friends. That was enough for them: They charged him with 'distributing pornography to a minor' instead, and this time told him that if he would plea guilty to that and register as a sex offender for life they would generously drop the child porn charges - thus saving them the further embarassment of actually losing in court or letting him go free. Eventually he managed to get out of that, but not through legal means - he managed to get the TV program 20/20 to do a program about event, and with the national spotlight turned on them the police finally dropped all charges just to make the whole thing end.
Back to the original point: Everyone has done something illegal, and if you upset the police there is a good chance they'll go to dig some of that up.
But nothing to attach the motor too. Maybe you could use a series of railguns on the equator, shooting mass at a shallow angle and above escape velocity like a catherine wheel firework? Or change the orbital velocity through an interaction with the sun's magnetic field? Or you could try moving an ocean around just a little bit ahead of the tide, thus speeding up the moon's orbit at the expense of the earth's rotational velocity.
It doesn't help that there are about six completly different measuresments call the 'ton' or 'tonne.' The metric system was introduced to replace the terrible mess of often contradictory units that were in use before - and remain in use in the UK, and just about nowhere else. We do use imperial in the UK for a few things - speed limits, beer - but most measurements are metric now.
It used to be. That was once right. All of the metric units were once defined in terms of some physical measurement which was, at the time, thought to be absolutly constant*. It later turned out that none of them were actually are and so all of them with the exception of the kilogram are defined now by some reference to an intrinsic physical effect which can be measured. In the case of the second, it's defined as a specific number of ticks of a cesium atomic clock. The meter is defined as the distance traveled by electromagnetic radiation in a precise fraction of a second**. Newton is defined in terms of the kilogram, meter and second. Ampre by newton and meter. And so on - every unit can be defined using only the kilogram and second.
The kilogram remains defined as the mass of a lump of metal in a vault in France. There have been several proposals to redefine it, but none have yet been accepted.
*As opposed to the old imperial units, which were defined in terms of some physical measurement which everyone knew was inconstant but just didn't care enough to worry about.
**There was an interim stage in which it was defined as a given number of wavelengths of light from a ruby laser, but the wavelength of a laser can actually be altered slightly by imperfections in the material used, so this replaced it.
I suspect most of them already are. So many things are illegal today.. hell, I'm commiting a criminal offense just by writing this post. I'm doing it from work, and the rules (which everyone ignores) forbid personal use of the internet or any form of political debate online (Lest it reflect badly on the organisation). This means I am accessing a computer system without the authrisation of the owner - a criminal offense under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
Everyone commits crimes on a regular basis. It's just that most of them are so trivial that there is no reason to enforce the law, even when in princible there could be a jail term of many years.
I think it means something that a previous law would have made illegal, except that circumstances unforseen at the time mean it isn't technically covered. An example in a completly different field would be human cloneing in the UK - there was a period when it was completly unregulated, because the Human Fertility and Embryology Act defined an embryo as 'an egg fertilised by a sperm' - at the time of writing, no-one envisioned embryos could be created by any other means. It was amended a few years ago to redefine embryo and close the loophole.
But that would require the copyright holders actually pay to enforce it. Why would they do that, when it's cheaper to have their lobbyists externalise the costs by having the taxpayer take care of them?
"But the fact remains, piracy is so rampant, pirates have literally chased developers away from the platform and literally created the entire ad ware market on Android"
But the only way this could happen is if pirates made pay-apps economically non-viable - which means that without piracy, most of those adware programs would be ad-free but require some level of payment instead. As things are now, they are mostly available in both ad-funded and for-pay, adless versions. So if your conclusion is accepted, it follows that piracy has indirectly increased user choice.
Huxley had to throw in a member of the old society in order to point out the dystopian aspects, as they were so subtle and the Brave New world so apparently superior on the surface - crime practically nonexistant, no poverty, almost no disease, no unemployment, most people living a life of great luxury, and everyone very happy with their job and life. All that achieved with a bare minimum of physical force. As dystopias go, it's one of the better ones. If you set aside all old notions of sexual morality and accept the surrender of some level of free will, it wouldn't be a dytopia at all.
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China are so skilled as oppressors, they don't *need* to use aircraft and tanks. They have perfected the art of propaganda.
That's the second time you have posted that, and still no citation. Or are you using idea that if you repeat a lie often enough, it will come to be seem as the truth? It's a good propaganda trick, but you need a lot more spamming for it to work.
With a little peeking at the packets, yes - just look at an HTTP request, see the user agent. Wouldn't even be hard.
It's a standard clause in many consumer-to-business contracts: The business just gives themselves the right to alter the conditions of the contract at any time. Sometimes requiring notice some period in advance, but said notice is typicially in the form of a letter with five pages of tiny legal print that everyone throws away. Unless you explicitly end the contract upon recieving the notification (Which, in itsself, often means a termination fee), you are assumed to have agreed to the new terms by default.
"A boat large enough to hold 2 of every species"
The size of a sizable island - and that's before food. Creationists solved this one long ago though, by simply redefining species in order to allow some evolution. Thus there is no need to take several tens of thousands of different species of rodent: Only two 'rat-kind' individuals which can evolve after the flood through divine intervention into all the species we see today. This is stupid for many reasons, but you have to give them some credit for trying. Hovind even invented the Genesis Meat-Plant to explain how the carnivores were able to survive until the herbivores bred to a sustainable population.
That's basically what happened with the Jesus ossuary. The bone-box was discovered in approximatly the right location, and does indeed bear the words 'Jesus, son of Joseph' or something similar. It even dates from the right time. Proclaimed as proof Jesus was real, except... Jesus and Joseph were common names at the time. It's hardly surprising that such a box would exist.
I would be most amused if someone managed to prove it was *that* Jesus though, because the bible claims he ascended bodily shortly after the resurrection - thus leaving no remains. If the artifact is real, it actually proves the bible was wrong.
Science is not religion. Science is the reason you arn't dying of smallpox, why you can buy preserved and refrigerated food without having to take a spear and catch it, and why have an internet to complain on.
That would help, but it's not going to remove the late a lot. There is just some natural cultural antagonism, particually with the more strictly Islamic countries. Even if the US had no involvement there at all, they would still consider it an abhorent and evil country for treating women as equals and allowing adulterers to live.
This is true. You can look back in the old testament and find propaganda about Israel's enemies and the terrible things they apparently did, though there is no archaeological evidence to back the claims. Same for some of the ancient egyptian inscriptions. This is just adding a new level of sophistication.
This is the internet. If I wanted to live in the real world, I wouldn't be on slashdot.
They can be, yes. In this case, the police decided to instead press all the way through to getting him to arrange to meet the fake-thirteen for sex - no point convicting him for something small when a little encouragement could get a much more serious charge. Under other circumstances, they might have charged someone with "distributing pornography to a minor" or a similar offense - that particular can be a felony in the US, and it wouldn't be too hard to convince a jury that very explicit sexual conversation is a form of pornography.
I don't know of the implications should you not know the person you are talking to is a minor, as is quite possible on the internet. Somehow I doubt the law would make any allowance for that, but IANAL.
Those programs that replace text emotions with little symbol are annoying. I'm a furry. We often use our own variations, like :>. How are those of us with beaks supposed to emote when the programs only support human-based faces?
Games consoles owe their origins to the arcade, and that legacy lives on in the form of arcade-like controls. The keyboard+mouse combo provides by far the best set for FPSs and RTSs. On flight sims and racing games the console does have the edge with stock controls - the analog stick provides far superior fine control for those games. Achieving that on PC requires additional hardware.
It is an unfortunate consequence of economic theory that companies are expected to endlessly grow.
That's an old trick. Famously used on Al Capone. The police couldn't actually prove beyond reasonable doubt any of his dealings with the mafia, but they were still very confident in his guilt - so they looked for something else, searching his past for some other crime he had committed that they could use for which conviction would be easier. They came up with tax evasion - conviction successful.
To give a more underhanded example, there was Matthew Bandy. Due to a mistake by the state police, he was falsely charged with posession of child pornography. His computer had been hacked, but without his knowledge, and he was able to show this in court. The incident was a huge embarassment for the police - it created the standard media circus in the local press, with many locals angry that they would accuse someone of such a serious crime wrongly. After it became clear they had screwed up, the police grew desperate. They discovered during their investigation that, when in high school, he had once brought an issue of Playboy in to show his friends. That was enough for them: They charged him with 'distributing pornography to a minor' instead, and this time told him that if he would plea guilty to that and register as a sex offender for life they would generously drop the child porn charges - thus saving them the further embarassment of actually losing in court or letting him go free. Eventually he managed to get out of that, but not through legal means - he managed to get the TV program 20/20 to do a program about event, and with the national spotlight turned on them the police finally dropped all charges just to make the whole thing end.
Back to the original point: Everyone has done something illegal, and if you upset the police there is a good chance they'll go to dig some of that up.
But nothing to attach the motor too. Maybe you could use a series of railguns on the equator, shooting mass at a shallow angle and above escape velocity like a catherine wheel firework? Or change the orbital velocity through an interaction with the sun's magnetic field? Or you could try moving an ocean around just a little bit ahead of the tide, thus speeding up the moon's orbit at the expense of the earth's rotational velocity.
Remain in use in the US, rather. One letter, so much change in meaning.
It doesn't help that there are about six completly different measuresments call the 'ton' or 'tonne.' The metric system was introduced to replace the terrible mess of often contradictory units that were in use before - and remain in use in the UK, and just about nowhere else.
We do use imperial in the UK for a few things - speed limits, beer - but most measurements are metric now.
It used to be. That was once right. All of the metric units were once defined in terms of some physical measurement which was, at the time, thought to be absolutly constant*. It later turned out that none of them were actually are and so all of them with the exception of the kilogram are defined now by some reference to an intrinsic physical effect which can be measured. In the case of the second, it's defined as a specific number of ticks of a cesium atomic clock. The meter is defined as the distance traveled by electromagnetic radiation in a precise fraction of a second**. Newton is defined in terms of the kilogram, meter and second. Ampre by newton and meter. And so on - every unit can be defined using only the kilogram and second.
The kilogram remains defined as the mass of a lump of metal in a vault in France. There have been several proposals to redefine it, but none have yet been accepted.
*As opposed to the old imperial units, which were defined in terms of some physical measurement which everyone knew was inconstant but just didn't care enough to worry about.
**There was an interim stage in which it was defined as a given number of wavelengths of light from a ruby laser, but the wavelength of a laser can actually be altered slightly by imperfections in the material used, so this replaced it.
It sounds like quite a pleasant place to live, really.
I suspect most of them already are. So many things are illegal today.. hell, I'm commiting a criminal offense just by writing this post. I'm doing it from work, and the rules (which everyone ignores) forbid personal use of the internet or any form of political debate online (Lest it reflect badly on the organisation). This means I am accessing a computer system without the authrisation of the owner - a criminal offense under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
Everyone commits crimes on a regular basis. It's just that most of them are so trivial that there is no reason to enforce the law, even when in princible there could be a jail term of many years.
I think it means something that a previous law would have made illegal, except that circumstances unforseen at the time mean it isn't technically covered. An example in a completly different field would be human cloneing in the UK - there was a period when it was completly unregulated, because the Human Fertility and Embryology Act defined an embryo as 'an egg fertilised by a sperm' - at the time of writing, no-one envisioned embryos could be created by any other means. It was amended a few years ago to redefine embryo and close the loophole.
But that would require the copyright holders actually pay to enforce it. Why would they do that, when it's cheaper to have their lobbyists externalise the costs by having the taxpayer take care of them?
"But the fact remains, piracy is so rampant, pirates have literally chased developers away from the platform and literally created the entire ad ware market on Android"
But the only way this could happen is if pirates made pay-apps economically non-viable - which means that without piracy, most of those adware programs would be ad-free but require some level of payment instead. As things are now, they are mostly available in both ad-funded and for-pay, adless versions. So if your conclusion is accepted, it follows that piracy has indirectly increased user choice.
Huxley had to throw in a member of the old society in order to point out the dystopian aspects, as they were so subtle and the Brave New world so apparently superior on the surface - crime practically nonexistant, no poverty, almost no disease, no unemployment, most people living a life of great luxury, and everyone very happy with their job and life. All that achieved with a bare minimum of physical force. As dystopias go, it's one of the better ones. If you set aside all old notions of sexual morality and accept the surrender of some level of free will, it wouldn't be a dytopia at all.