Your first instinct would be to switch providers, but you can't do that because you don't have infrastructure the competitors can use going to your house.
Sure he does. The coaxial cable will work just as well -- maybe better -- than the copper wire as competition for Verizon's fiber.
A Chef understands how each and every piece of food on the plate interacts.
Hah! At most, a chef thinks about it. They then create a dish, that may or may not be served anything at all like how they thought. The best ones (the guys who actually make money, as opposed to working for someone else their entire lives) make dishes that are self-contained, and can be compilmented by dishes as the customer prefers.
And because he does, he would NEVER cook with one.
Double-hah!
A microwave is a tool. For some foods (those that are mostly water and just need to be heated), it's perfect. For others, it's a bad choice. But that's the same as any tool. A chef who softens butter in their oven is a moron, plain and simple.
Maybe, MAYBE, if your chef works for a millionaire and has an unlimited budget, he would turn down a microwave. The chef would almost certainly want a dozen other tools before the microwave as well. But to say that a microwave has no place... well, that's just stupid.
Sagan said that he had the security clearances and access and he saw nothing about the Gov. covering up space aliens.
He apparently doesn't know what "cover-up" means.
Anyone not actually sitting as an officer of the United States with purview over aliens -- that is, DoD, CIA, FBI, President, Vice President -- needs to recognize that they may be wrong.
It's not a conversion. For certain items, usually chemicals, the US has adopted the metric system. (The others are usually utilitarian items.)
Please stop retarding the world with your garbage non-standard unit system. The only reason the Metric system became standard was the lack of any other unified standard in Europe. Here in America, we just steamrolled over any competing system with our semi-British units, and there's no real reason to change it.
Anyone who uses the metric system will have to do a number-dance to get to a rational quantity, anyway. It's the nature of the system.
Sure they do. The Original US Constitution explicitly entrusts Congress with (1) regulation of interstate commerce, (2) mediation of differences between the several states, (3) regulation of immigration, and (4) regulation of the militia. It then further REQUIRES Congress to conduct a decadial census, AND allows for the collection of income taxes.
Congress could require that every man, woman, and child be given an ID card, of a certain standard, that no other form of government-issued ID is valid identification for anything federally regulated, AND that any state which issues an identification card not complying with the standard forfeits all federal aid.
'course, if they did that, they'd likely get unelected real quick. Which is why they don't.
The monetary system is backed by trillions of promises. the most basic of which being "I will give you food for that shiney bauble."
Money itself is a fiat. If it weren't, we wouldn't call it money. The fact that this fiat is based on interconnected promissory notes shouldn't surprise you.
As much as I want to believe aliens are among us, it just doesn't make sense that a civilization advanced enough to cross interstellar space would crash in New Mexico. And the chances of aliens being humanoid in appearance are close to I can't believe that a civilization advanced enough to go to the moon could crash an automobile on their own planet.
I can't believe a civilization that can split the atom could burn all their fossil fuel.
I can't believe a civilization advanced enough to circumnavigate the globe could still practice slavery.
You're a screwball, you know that? Space travel is likely dangerous, or if not dangerous then so frequent that accidents still happen.
No. In ancient Hebrew he would have written "YH DD T" or more likely "YHWH WS HR LLZ!"
You're assuming that God typically writes in Hebrew. Which presumes that, not only did the Israelites maintain a separate language from Abraham to Moses, but that Abraham maintained his language even when he forgot God -- and that the language his ancestor were given at Babel was the original tongue, and that there were no variations between Adam and Noah, AND that the written word taught to Adam was the language that God uses when He writes stuff down.
Like I say, I keep my laptop close, and lock it up when I can't, but I feel a bit more secure knowing my laptop phones home. I can't imagine why. Even a luddite thief will be able to keep your laptop off the net, and once they see you're running Linux, you can expect a "liveCD" style wipe. The one who would actually care about your personal info -- a sophisticated identity thief -- is even less likely to try and connect online.
Only this time, the megalomaniac will have nukes, and since he's not just a power-hungry despot but a religious fanatic, he won't be afraid to use them. How many UN resolutions do you think it will take to stop Iran's nuclear program?
Ignoring your misunderstanding of Iran (it's a democracy that's elected itself a theocracy: "them" is more appropriate), there's a simple answer to your question:
Zero.
If Iran gets nukes, and uses said nuclear weapons as you suggest, there will be no more Iran. The President won't even need to go to Congress -- there are extant laws regarding USA's nuclear doctrine, and a surprise attack with a nuclear weapon will result in the world's first, and only, nuclear counterattack. (Why, exactly, do you think Israel doesn't declare its nuclear weapons? Because their real nuclear arsenal is the United States' arsenal. Same deal we have with Japan and Germany.)
Yes, a bunch of people would die. And the face of world politics would be forever changed. But Iran knows this, the Iranian people and the Iranian government are smart, and they know that the only way they can guarantee the end of their country is to actually nuke Israel. Heck, an Iranian nuclear attack might wind up getting their entire religion declared a criminal conspiracy in the west, which would make the current post-9/11 prejudice look like a walk in the park.
Thats like hoping God will include Christians of *all* denominations (Anglican, Catholic, 7th day adventists, Jehovas witnesses et.al.) as well as Mormons, Jews, Muslims and Scientologists[1] in the Rapture. He will. We are to be judged not by what creed we claim, but by how well we know the Savior, no matter what name we call Him.
Of course, the ones who go by-by are the ones who moderate the exesses you're trolling about -- so expect the world to get crappier if the Dispensationists are right and there is a Rapture before the end time.
1) Aganist Copyright Law, you are not allowed to convert to other formats. Wrong. Media-shifting a disk that doesn't remove DRM has long been recognized as Fair Use. If it wasn't, the iPod would never have been sold in the first place.
2) Aganist Copyright Law, you are not allowed to backup your music. Also wrong. An actual backup is well within the realm of Fair Use. Buy your CD, copy it to a CD-R, and let the copy go to crap in your automobile.
3) Agreed. Shiny. Meh.
Courts are judges. Judges are either elected, or appointed by elected officials. And they LOVE smacking corporate America for the little guy. The only thing they like more is doing it for children.
I'll take it as a general rule that it is better to go into court with a rifle than a shotgun.
Nope. It's better go in with a shotgun and a carton of videotape. Rifles are for D.A's, programmers, and writers. When you're wronged, you want to slap as many people as you can.
The same system of reasoning can be appropriately applied to the military endeavors in Afghanistan and Iraq.
No, it can't.
For your interpretation to have merit, not only would a substantial majority of the federal government need to be as amoral as the wost governments in history, but they would also have to be so amazingly competent so as to hide this from neutral, disinterested observers.
If you have ever filed your taxes, much less served in the military, you know that "amazingly competent" is not a phrase applied to any part of the government that does not involve destroying something in a spectacular fashion.
We're sorry. You seem to be under the misconception that employer workplaces are sovereign nations unto themselves and the humans inside of those sovereign nation compounds are no longer afforded the rights and protections of the Constitution. You're wrong. You've obviously never contemplated how the US military, a congressman's office, or a federal embassy work, have you?
The US Constitution has limits on the laws that the government may enact; it has no limits on the terms of employment that the government or a private entity may impose, although the government has seen fit to enact such laws for the benefit of its citizens.
At work, if you can't justify the time you spend not working, then you've just got a shitty job.
I eagerly await you trying to shift the goalposts. "That's not a bug, that's a feature" is not a compelling retort.
Muller's argument is essentially "of course it's a clock; the parts that weren't clock-like are removed." It does nothing to explain the genesis of life, which is the fundamental difference between intelligent design and spontaneous evolution. All it does, to switch analogies back to football, is rebutt one defense while ignoring the wall on the 5-yard line.
Darwin was right -- there is no conflict between the simple concept of evolution and the teachings of a divinely-created religion. The conflict arises when someone takes Darwin and attempts to push an agenda, either way or the other, and substitutes a state of agnostic curiosity with a faith in some predetermined outcome.
But no car I've ever owned has had a regenerative break system, a completely automatic starter, or an alternator/engine -- which is something substantially different from an alternator or an engine.
If they (the RIAA) participate in P2P activities to catch people leaching off them... surely that's entrapment? No. That's just a sting operation.
"Entrapment" is when the state induces you to perform an act that you would not ordinarily perform, and then charges you with a crime for it. If the police just catch you doing something of your own free will, it's not entrapment. Even if they lie to you about not being police officers.
What is and is not entrapment varies by jurisdiction. In MA a speed trap is entrapment, in NY it's perfectly fine. (Or so I understand: it may be completely different now.)
(In a related note, also varying by jurisdiction, you may be REQUIRED to comply with a police officer's orders. So if a man with a badge comes up and says "go buy a joint from that dealer", you're probably immune from prosecution for it. But check with your local laws first.)
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Your first instinct would be to switch providers, but you can't do that because you don't have infrastructure the competitors can use going to your house.
Sure he does. The coaxial cable will work just as well -- maybe better -- than the copper wire as competition for Verizon's fiber.
A Chef understands how each and every piece of food on the plate interacts.
Hah! At most, a chef thinks about it. They then create a dish, that may or may not be served anything at all like how they thought. The best ones (the guys who actually make money, as opposed to working for someone else their entire lives) make dishes that are self-contained, and can be compilmented by dishes as the customer prefers.
And because he does, he would NEVER cook with one.
Double-hah!
A microwave is a tool. For some foods (those that are mostly water and just need to be heated), it's perfect. For others, it's a bad choice. But that's the same as any tool. A chef who softens butter in their oven is a moron, plain and simple.
Maybe, MAYBE, if your chef works for a millionaire and has an unlimited budget, he would turn down a microwave. The chef would almost certainly want a dozen other tools before the microwave as well. But to say that a microwave has no place... well, that's just stupid.
Sagan said that he had the security clearances and access and he saw nothing about the Gov. covering up space aliens.
He apparently doesn't know what "cover-up" means.
Anyone not actually sitting as an officer of the United States with purview over aliens -- that is, DoD, CIA, FBI, President, Vice President -- needs to recognize that they may be wrong.
It's not a conversion. For certain items, usually chemicals, the US has adopted the metric system. (The others are usually utilitarian items.) Please stop retarding the world with your garbage non-standard unit system. The only reason the Metric system became standard was the lack of any other unified standard in Europe. Here in America, we just steamrolled over any competing system with our semi-British units, and there's no real reason to change it.
Anyone who uses the metric system will have to do a number-dance to get to a rational quantity, anyway. It's the nature of the system.
The Feds have no power over the issuance of IDs.
Sure they do. The Original US Constitution explicitly entrusts Congress with (1) regulation of interstate commerce, (2) mediation of differences between the several states, (3) regulation of immigration, and (4) regulation of the militia. It then further REQUIRES Congress to conduct a decadial census, AND allows for the collection of income taxes.
Congress could require that every man, woman, and child be given an ID card, of a certain standard, that no other form of government-issued ID is valid identification for anything federally regulated, AND that any state which issues an identification card not complying with the standard forfeits all federal aid.
'course, if they did that, they'd likely get unelected real quick. Which is why they don't.
You can't patent an idea. You can only patent the implementation of an idea.
Yes, you can. But your idea needs to be novel and working. Which means that you need to actually put your idea to fruition, at least once.
Where you can't do anything for "ideas" is copyright.
Most of the time I'd rather listen to my brain atrophy than what the characters have to say.
That's what happens when you sit around and bitch, loser.
It's a movie, not a political dialog. Not a scientfic experiment. A movie. It's meant to be watched, and enjoyed, and possibly re-watched.
Money itself is a fiat. If it weren't, we wouldn't call it money. The fact that this fiat is based on interconnected promissory notes shouldn't surprise you.
That makes no sense at all, when at least 99.9% of the species on Earth (a very "earth-like" planet) are not humanoid!
100% of the sentient ones are. And, above a certain size, flying creatures are all "bird shaped."
Your point?
I can't believe a civilization that can split the atom could burn all their fossil fuel.
I can't believe a civilization advanced enough to circumnavigate the globe could still practice slavery.
You're a screwball, you know that? Space travel is likely dangerous, or if not dangerous then so frequent that accidents still happen.
So, how'd we get to the big bang in the first place?
You know, the state where we had (at plank-second zero) 0% entropy?
No. In ancient Hebrew he would have written "YH DD T" or more likely "YHWH WS HR LLZ!"
You're assuming that God typically writes in Hebrew. Which presumes that, not only did the Israelites maintain a separate language from Abraham to Moses, but that Abraham maintained his language even when he forgot God -- and that the language his ancestor were given at Babel was the original tongue, and that there were no variations between Adam and Noah, AND that the written word taught to Adam was the language that God uses when He writes stuff down.
Only this time, the megalomaniac will have nukes, and since he's not just a power-hungry despot but a religious fanatic, he won't be afraid to use them. How many UN resolutions do you think it will take to stop Iran's nuclear program?
Ignoring your misunderstanding of Iran (it's a democracy that's elected itself a theocracy: "them" is more appropriate), there's a simple answer to your question:
Zero.
If Iran gets nukes, and uses said nuclear weapons as you suggest, there will be no more Iran. The President won't even need to go to Congress -- there are extant laws regarding USA's nuclear doctrine, and a surprise attack with a nuclear weapon will result in the world's first, and only, nuclear counterattack. (Why, exactly, do you think Israel doesn't declare its nuclear weapons? Because their real nuclear arsenal is the United States' arsenal. Same deal we have with Japan and Germany.)
Yes, a bunch of people would die. And the face of world politics would be forever changed. But Iran knows this, the Iranian people and the Iranian government are smart, and they know that the only way they can guarantee the end of their country is to actually nuke Israel. Heck, an Iranian nuclear attack might wind up getting their entire religion declared a criminal conspiracy in the west, which would make the current post-9/11 prejudice look like a walk in the park.
Of course, the ones who go by-by are the ones who moderate the exesses you're trolling about -- so expect the world to get crappier if the Dispensationists are right and there is a Rapture before the end time.
Yes.
Courts are judges. Judges are either elected, or appointed by elected officials. And they LOVE smacking corporate America for the little guy. The only thing they like more is doing it for children.
I'll take it as a general rule that it is better to go into court with a rifle than a shotgun.
Nope. It's better go in with a shotgun and a carton of videotape. Rifles are for D.A's, programmers, and writers. When you're wronged, you want to slap as many people as you can.
The same system of reasoning can be appropriately applied to the military endeavors in Afghanistan and Iraq.
No, it can't.
For your interpretation to have merit, not only would a substantial majority of the federal government need to be as amoral as the wost governments in history, but they would also have to be so amazingly competent so as to hide this from neutral, disinterested observers.
If you have ever filed your taxes, much less served in the military, you know that "amazingly competent" is not a phrase applied to any part of the government that does not involve destroying something in a spectacular fashion.
The US Constitution has limits on the laws that the government may enact; it has no limits on the terms of employment that the government or a private entity may impose, although the government has seen fit to enact such laws for the benefit of its citizens.
At work, if you can't justify the time you spend not working, then you've just got a shitty job.
Muller's argument is essentially "of course it's a clock; the parts that weren't clock-like are removed." It does nothing to explain the genesis of life, which is the fundamental difference between intelligent design and spontaneous evolution. All it does, to switch analogies back to football, is rebutt one defense while ignoring the wall on the 5-yard line.
Darwin was right -- there is no conflict between the simple concept of evolution and the teachings of a divinely-created religion. The conflict arises when someone takes Darwin and attempts to push an agenda, either way or the other, and substitutes a state of agnostic curiosity with a faith in some predetermined outcome.
All cars have alternators, motors and batteries.
Yes, they do. How amazing that you realize that.
But no car I've ever owned has had a regenerative break system, a completely automatic starter, or an alternator/engine -- which is something substantially different from an alternator or an engine.
"Entrapment" is when the state induces you to perform an act that you would not ordinarily perform, and then charges you with a crime for it. If the police just catch you doing something of your own free will, it's not entrapment. Even if they lie to you about not being police officers.
What is and is not entrapment varies by jurisdiction. In MA a speed trap is entrapment, in NY it's perfectly fine. (Or so I understand: it may be completely different now.)
(In a related note, also varying by jurisdiction, you may be REQUIRED to comply with a police officer's orders. So if a man with a badge comes up and says "go buy a joint from that dealer", you're probably immune from prosecution for it. But check with your local laws first.)