You sound like a poster who knows a thing or two about the oil business. Since through three of your posts, and I haven't read down very far, there has been no mention of the quality of your tar sands crude, perhaps we should start there. It's not Brent sweet light crude, it's not West Texas Intermediate, shit, it's fucking bitumen. It's great for asphault, roofing shingles, and sealing your canoe per the First Canadians first use.
The shit's dirty. If we needed fuel to escape orbit to avoid imminent planetary disaster, and we've squandered our other options, maybe, but damn, just on the outside chance the climate change scientists are correct in their hypothesis... right?
Yes. Someone posted a link on here a year or two ago concerning a shovel being repurposed into a repeating rifle... no great task in the grand scheme of things where the metallurgy craft and tools were present.
This is an obvious attempt to market a piece of machinery with an advertised single purpose... even though that may not accurately reflect the product.
Move along now... nothing here worth wadding up your undergarments.
I found myself on the fence here. Though it is shrinking, there has been a great deal of support in Pakistan for the extremist Muslim crusades by Al Qaeda and ISIL. Case in point: the Americans didn't notify Pakastanis before the raid on bin Laden's compound, even though they were allegedly allies at the time.
I believe this represents a turn from the tacit support of recent Pakastani leadership, as the actions of ISIL have become less palatable to many of their former support bases.
So yeah, it's a restriction of personal freedom imposed by a heavy-handed government, but I don't think most westerners have any idea what the average citizen's freedom is in an Islamic Republic.
I wonder what happened to the guy they stole from. Guess he was a police informant this whole time.
If he were perhaps they wouldn't have had to show the other evidence to make the case.
It would make sense the low-level criminal, in this case the marijuana seller, would be given some immunity in exchange for testifying against the armed robber. I'll not argue the merits or measures of prosecuting the robber, as I think most points of view have been covered, but I am pleased to see the defense attorney and judge do their jobs.
The police believe they are in a technological arms race with criminals, and sometimes behave as if the fate of the free World hinges upon every investigation. Realistically, they cannot be trusted to determine what is proper. Constitutionally, they are not allowed to.
There are things you can change about yourself, and things you cannot.
If being less than average height in your era is the biggest deformity you have, you got a pretty good package.
Besides, being born tall, lean, athletic, and beautiful often leads to coasting through life. Being born short, ugly, and pudgy often leads to overachieving.
That's why you hate trilogies... now we're left hanging, not knowing if the final installment will have multiple esses, arrs, or some new alliteration.
Sony may not always be the smartest kids in the room, but they will not relegate their revenue stream to fewer segments of technology.
Too many companies get rendered irrelevant by not diversifying. Looking at you Blockbuster: After years of domination of the block and mortar video rental and sales niche, they passed up a chance to purchase the fledgling Netflix for $50 million US in 2000. (Current Netflix market cap is $28+ Billion.) Carl Icahn waged a proxy fight for control in 2005, and by 2010 the once great concern filed for Bankruptcy.
It's precisely why you see Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Google making what appear to be crazy stupid acquisitions.
Brick and stone are siding commonly used in housing construction after the framed structure is built, typically from dead tree lumber... although metal framing is used in some commercial applications.
I know that US bashing is all the vogue, but you have to see the benefit to the rest of the World created by the general easing of protectionist trade policies by its wealthiest nation.
The monitoring of pollution levels in places where tracking them might not occur is chicken soup... can't hurt, might help.
There is no appreciable difference to our common planet whether environmental contamination of industry is Indian, Chinese, American, or European.
Unfortunately this is such a bad, outdated idea that the government will probably go for it.
We already have digital currency - those bits that record our current balances, etc in our bank accounts, etc. It's not like the bank takes physical money and moves it from one drawer to the other, or that when you pay with a credit card that the credit card company sends the merchant a wad of cash and some coins.
We do already have digital currency, and this is an incredibly poor idea.
What spawns such things from the government, you say? Why, they've seen the recent success of the homegrown crypto-currencies like the Bitcoin, and they want in because they confidently believe they should control all the money. The flaw in their venture is the basic lack of understanding of the principle tenet of Bitcoin: it is outside government meddling.
FWIW: I just read an article about a house cat's brain being more complex than that of a dog .
The interesting thing to me about the link is the mice were tested with the human gene against the corresponding chimp gene in a mouse brain as a control.
We have at least one allele for brain development identified in three species. Don't you just know experiments with the human gene inserted in the monkey is the next logical step? Hail Caesar...
the question really isn't about privacy, but rather about freedom.
I could've gone either way there, but you caught me right in the middle of attempting an alliteral analogy.... vis a vis poverty stricken third World nations.
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If you can't explain yourself properly prior to the final line,
you've been necessarily culled, then.
Be a silver lining person and not a doomsayer.
You are not a special snowflake... unless you are.
That's about right, huh ladies? Pregnant and, now, no drinking either!
You sir, are quite a little bit brighter, indeed.
For those folks who may see it 599.99 years before us, a little brighter may not fully capture the magnitude of it. Insensitive clods.
The shit's dirty. If we needed fuel to escape orbit to avoid imminent planetary disaster, and we've squandered our other options, maybe, but damn, just on the outside chance the climate change scientists are correct in their hypothesis... right?
This is an obvious attempt to market a piece of machinery with an advertised single purpose... even though that may not accurately reflect the product.
Move along now... nothing here worth wadding up your undergarments.
Remember when we worried that perverting science was being done in the name of some shark killing?
I believe this represents a turn from the tacit support of recent Pakastani leadership, as the actions of ISIL have become less palatable to many of their former support bases.
So yeah, it's a restriction of personal freedom imposed by a heavy-handed government, but I don't think most westerners have any idea what the average citizen's freedom is in an Islamic Republic.
The sincerest form of flattery will then level the playing field, and the next thing you know, we're waging war with no human casualties.
Earth's puny humans need more, not less incentives to aggression.
911... what's your emergency?
"Man's been run over on Main and Syc-a-mmm..Sssik-am...sssii...shit! "
Sorry sir...where are you?
"Main and Sick... er, sik-ammmmm. Goddamnit. I'm going to drag him down to Main and Oak. Pick him up there."
We've had the power to fix it all along. How unfortunate there doesn't seem to be an end game that involves us.
and our leadership is filled by tools bent on their own reelection above all else,
we are likely to wait until such a measure is a the only recourse.
If he were perhaps they wouldn't have had to show the other evidence to make the case.
It would make sense the low-level criminal, in this case the marijuana seller, would be given some immunity in exchange for testifying against the armed robber. I'll not argue the merits or measures of prosecuting the robber, as I think most points of view have been covered, but I am pleased to see the defense attorney and judge do their jobs.
The police believe they are in a technological arms race with criminals, and sometimes behave as if the fate of the free World hinges upon every investigation. Realistically, they cannot be trusted to determine what is proper. Constitutionally, they are not allowed to.
If being less than average height in your era is the biggest deformity you have, you got a pretty good package.
Besides, being born tall, lean, athletic, and beautiful often leads to coasting through life. Being born short, ugly, and pudgy often leads to overachieving.
when so many times, the film industry polishes up a flawed human hero in a Hollywood retelling.
They've been doing nothing but putting spin on this since it blew up in their face.
Spin. Present day corporatese for lies and deception.
My, how those ugly accusations have been made to sound pretty.
That's why you hate trilogies... now we're left hanging, not knowing if the final installment will have multiple esses, arrs, or some new alliteration.
If you've lived in the U.S. long enough, you may find yourself of the opinion that the real enemies of the state are in Congress.
Too many companies get rendered irrelevant by not diversifying. Looking at you Blockbuster: After years of domination of the block and mortar video rental and sales niche, they passed up a chance to purchase the fledgling Netflix for $50 million US in 2000. (Current Netflix market cap is $28+ Billion.) Carl Icahn waged a proxy fight for control in 2005, and by 2010 the once great concern filed for Bankruptcy.
It's precisely why you see Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Google making what appear to be crazy stupid acquisitions.
Brick and stone are siding commonly used in housing construction after the framed structure is built, typically from dead tree lumber... although metal framing is used in some commercial applications.
The monitoring of pollution levels in places where tracking them might not occur is chicken soup... can't hurt, might help.
There is no appreciable difference to our common planet whether environmental contamination of industry is Indian, Chinese, American, or European.
Unfortunately this is such a bad, outdated idea that the government will probably go for it.
We already have digital currency - those bits that record our current balances, etc in our bank accounts, etc. It's not like the bank takes physical money and moves it from one drawer to the other, or that when you pay with a credit card that the credit card company sends the merchant a wad of cash and some coins.
We do already have digital currency, and this is an incredibly poor idea.
What spawns such things from the government, you say? Why, they've seen the recent success of the homegrown crypto-currencies like the Bitcoin, and they want in because they confidently believe they should control all the money. The flaw in their venture is the basic lack of understanding of the principle tenet of Bitcoin: it is outside government meddling.
The interesting thing to me about the link is the mice were tested with the human gene against the corresponding chimp gene in a mouse brain as a control.
We have at least one allele for brain development identified in three species. Don't you just know experiments with the human gene inserted in the monkey is the next logical step? Hail Caesar...
the question really isn't about privacy, but rather about freedom.
I could've gone either way there, but you caught me right in the middle of attempting an alliteral analogy.... vis a vis poverty stricken third World nations.