This is a repost of the beginnings of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Just with Poland and the Czech Republic instead of Turkey.
I think I'd be OK if Russia put a defensive missile installation in Cuba. The key word here is DEFENSIVE.
All well and good but I don't even trust my country's government to be truthful so if another country's goverment uses the word DEFENSIVE I'm not going to believe it for a nanosecond.
Well, not until some police services are tendered out to the lowest private bidder. After all, their minimum wage staff are going to need some perk to compensate for the lack of pay.
Kind of like choosing a car that can reach 210mph over one that can only do 150mph when the national speed limit is only 70mph.
Yes, I know the figures don't show 100x but it just seems that it's pointlessly better than the currrent best clock which is already better than most people would ever need.
suggests that he is in the employ of some entity which derives income from some source.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest it is from something that you would want to alleviate your share of the potential trillion dollar damage bill.
Large corporations have no morals, by their very nature.
So true. A coporate entity is amoral and unethical and where it finds legislative restrictions to be inconvenient will put a lot of effort into seeking out a political entity agreeable to receiving something in return for repealling that legislation.
Now that the institute has lost the battle it was paid to fight, I mean that completely aligned with it's ideology, over the health risks of second hand smoke; it can now join in over the prevailing nonsense about AGW.
but of all places to find pockets of oil and natural gas in space, Mars is our closest workable candidate.
I was under the impression that fossil fuels were a result of organic (i.e. formerly living) material getting compressed for a few million years. There is no evidence that the required quantities of life ever existed on Mars and nor (I believe) any evidence of the plate tectonics needed to compress it when it was dead.
At the end of the movie when you think the monster is dead it is often revealled that something survived...
The sponsers of this still have deep pockets and a desire to maintain an income from a now flawed business model. Whose to say that what comes next isn't worse?
Yep, among friends I've seen it referred to as both the Daily Fail and the Daily Heil. It's not taken seriously outside of the church-going, right-wing, middle England demographic.
And if it had been white, devout Christian students taking that stance then I guarantee that the article would have a had a *very* different spin.
As has been pointed out the Alps are in the way (which is a very large concentration of mass which is going to have some effect on time dilation, but I digress).
Personally, I won't be happy until they've drilled an absolutely straight shaft between the locations and measured the length by using a piece of string between emitter and detector.
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This is a repost of the beginnings of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Just with Poland and the Czech Republic instead of Turkey.
I think I'd be OK if Russia put a defensive missile installation in Cuba. The key word here is DEFENSIVE.
All well and good but I don't even trust my country's government to be truthful so if another country's goverment uses the word DEFENSIVE I'm not going to believe it for a nanosecond.
...on every piece of hardware they can get their hands on...
But it's Apple, isn't there just one bit of hardware to check?
Well, not until some police services are tendered out to the lowest private bidder. After all, their minimum wage staff are going to need some perk to compensate for the lack of pay.
That wouldn't be so bad since the aliens in The Abyss seemed to be quite benevolent at the end of the film.
Unless I missed the sequel where they drowned everyone.
It all seems like an unnecessary gain.
Kind of like choosing a car that can reach 210mph over one that can only do 150mph when the national speed limit is only 70mph.
Yes, I know the figures don't show 100x but it just seems that it's pointlessly better than the currrent best clock which is already better than most people would ever need.
If the purpose is merely to appease the masses...
It's an appointment that only a minority will take notice of let alone approve of; so I don't think it can be considered as pointlessly populist.
Having said that, the current government does seem to concentrate on appeasing a minority to the exclusion of all else. A different minority though.
Well,
"privately employed"
suggests that he is in the employ of some entity which derives income from some source.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest it is from something that you would want to alleviate your share of the potential trillion dollar damage bill.
Would it work for a free trip to the US too? Never been there and a flight for this probably bypasses the regular airport security.
Booking details...
Terrorism Al Queda Terror Attack Iraq Afghanistan Iran Pakistan Agro Environmental terrorist Eco terrorism Conventional weapon Target Weapons grade Dirty bomb Enriched Nuclear Chemical weapon Biological weapon Ammonium nitrate Improvised explosive device IED (Improvised Explosive Device) Abu Sayyaf Hamas FARC (Armed Revolutionary Forces Colombia) IRA (Irish Republican Army) ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna) Basque Separatists Hezbollah Tamil Tiger PLF (Palestine Liberation Front) PLO (Palestine Libration Organization) Car bomb Jihad Taliban Weapons cache Suicide bomber Suicide attack Suspicious substance AQAP (Al Qaeda Arabian Peninsula) AQIM (Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) TTP (Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan) Yemen Pirates Extremism Somalia Nigeria Radicals Al-Shabaab Home grown Plot Nationalist Recruitment Fundamentalism Islamist
Al Queda (all spellings)
What would be the regular expression for that?
Well, it was a book of it's time.
I think in the modern world, we of the 99% know exactly who the real drains on society who should be on the B ark are.
Large corporations have no morals, by their very nature.
So true. A coporate entity is amoral and unethical and where it finds legislative restrictions to be inconvenient will put a lot of effort into seeking out a political entity agreeable to receiving something in return for repealling that legislation.
Now that the institute has lost the battle it was paid to fight, I mean that completely aligned with it's ideology, over the health risks of second hand smoke; it can now join in over the prevailing nonsense about AGW.
Does that make it ironic that Facebook has made it on to the list of things that the Daily Mail suggests can cause cancer?
Indeed.
My first thought on reading the headline was "Well, duh".
I think that before long it will be a crime to forget to celebrate the dear leader's birthday...
And I mean that for whichever country you might live in.
but of all places to find pockets of oil and natural gas in space, Mars is our closest workable candidate.
I was under the impression that fossil fuels were a result of organic (i.e. formerly living) material getting compressed for a few million years. There is no evidence that the required quantities of life ever existed on Mars and nor (I believe) any evidence of the plate tectonics needed to compress it when it was dead.
I live in Scotland.
No further qualification necessary.
Clearly my code commenting technique is slightly different from the norm.
At the end of the movie when you think the monster is dead it is often revealled that something survived...
The sponsers of this still have deep pockets and a desire to maintain an income from a now flawed business model. Whose to say that what comes next isn't worse?
Buy some ferrets and then keep an eye open for the agent assigned to tail you and observe your behaviour.
Xena was just a temporary suggestion for the name; since 13th September 2006 it's actually been called Eris.
Yep, among friends I've seen it referred to as both the Daily Fail and the Daily Heil. It's not taken seriously outside of the church-going, right-wing, middle England demographic.
And if it had been white, devout Christian students taking that stance then I guarantee that the article would have a had a *very* different spin.
As has been pointed out the Alps are in the way (which is a very large concentration of mass which is going to have some effect on time dilation, but I digress).
Personally, I won't be happy until they've drilled an absolutely straight shaft between the locations and measured the length by using a piece of string between emitter and detector.
I can maybe understand if a figure like that is reached via physical proximity and a sledgehammer.
But an unauthorised intrusion?
Even a complete restore from backup can't possibly cost that much in lost time for employees.
Think of the practical joke possibilities... floors, door handles... oh colleagues' coffee mugs.
I think the Health & Safety people are going to clamp down on this one.