These things do seem to take place in locations where it's not legal for people with carry permits to carry guns, though, and I believe that's the case where the Virginia Tech campus is concerned. I certainly wish that someone had been in a position to shoot this guy at the outset
yeah, if only the other kids at columbine high school all carried guns, the situation woulda fixed itself.
If you have a car priced at $125,000 with 600HP of power that weighs a mere 1200 kilos you better pull times like this. Otherwise go back to the drawing board. The Corvette Z06 weighs in at a hefty 3100 pounds, has 500 less HP and pulls 0-60 times of 3.2-3.8 with 3.5 being the official result.
the corvette does all that with only 100HP? that's amazing.
the point the GP was making was that the US extradites people all the time. it isn't exactly convincing to support that with a story about germany extraditing a US citizen.
you seem to be missing the point. 'democrat' is a noun. hence, 'democrats'. the adjective version is 'democratic'.
the use of 'democrat' as an adjective as in 'the democrat party' is a long-standing republican dig on the dems. i believe it originated as a means to slander them essentially refusing to describe them or their ideas as 'democratic' from some belief that since they're liberal they are anti-democracy.
it would be similar to dems describing the GOP as the "republican't party". 'oops, we just accidentally added a 't' there, no harm done'.
point is, we already have one. it isn't as detailed as a picture ID card, but everyone gasping about privacy concerns with some possible national ID card already has had one in their posession for years.
If we go too much further down this road, it will become a financial issue for the states and will place pressure on the states to "secure" their borders, so don't count on it not happening.
given the sheer number of state-crossing roads in this country, it would cost an astronomical amount of money to pull that off.
How much longer will it be until we have to present a National ID card to take out a loan, open a bank account, cross state lines, and more?
we already have that for the first two. a social security card.
as for crossing state lines, i doubt there will ever be an ID necessary for that unless the government wants to put checkpoints on every crossing. which would never happen.
if the driver's brakes are out that's his fault, not the pedestrian's. as pointed out, a deaf dude wouldn't notice such furious honking either yet it would still be the driver's fault.
at least these problems you talk about are *actual* problems that may or may not be exaggerated, as opposed to the christian right's fairy-tale about the upcoming armageddon.
For one kyoto gave a free pass to China who will one day be the worst polluter.
for s hort while, yes. then after a few years it has to start ramping down pollution levels.
it's amazing how the US, who catapulted itself into superpower status through the unflinching burning of fossil fuels gets pissed when someone else wants to use the catapult, now saying 'sorry, but after all that use by us we're now not sure how safe it is'. thanks, guys.
as mentioned above, kyoto is a short term playing-field leveler. yes, it allows developing countries to pollute more than the US for a few years, but the US and the first world is primarily responsible for the mess being cleaned up.
For another, kyoto would have systematically kept any other developing/third world country from joining us in the first world. Pollution controls would have made that impossible
how so? kyoto has plenty of exceptions for developing countries.
The possibility of a proportionally spaced typewriter being used is irrelevant. Probability is all that matters. The document should have triggered a high level of scrutiny because of the subject and the content. That reasonable investigation of the document should have found the font, because it sticks out like a sore thumb, and then triggered a much more detailed level of scrutiny to assure it's authenticity.
i agree. that's why rather got canned, he presented questionable docs as real w/o performing due diligence. i don't agree that they're fakes tho. that hasn't been definitively proven.
there were plenty of prop-spaced typewriters back then, many of which were used in gov't offices. the IBM type D for example. it had interchangeable fonts, superscripts and proportional spacing. and it was popular.
having it in word doesn't prove the docs were fake. it just proves that word was designed at default to look like an old typewriter. and it doesn't match word's times new roman, either. its close, but the '4' is different.
also, in the TANG docs some letters floated around the baseline, something that doesn't happen in word.
what this all shows is that, as i said, they were questionable. forged? real? maybe to both. can't say either way with certainty.
While the edges of the glaciers are melting, the ice sheets in Greenland's interior are getting thicker, according to satellite data collected over the last 11 years. On average the ice sheets have got thicker by about six centimetres each year, the researchers say.
strangely enough, that was actually predicted by climate models. melting water on the edges of the sheet evaporate causing precipitation over the center of the sheet, thickening the middle. it forms an ice dome which then overloads itself and collapses. whereas overall the sheet is thinning.
it's like pointing to one small part on the back of your head and saying your hair is getting thicker while the obvious giant bald spot on the top keeps getting bigger and bigger...
but I am convinced that the documents were forged and that no proper fact-checking was done.
the former is not proven, but the latter is obvious.
Based on what I see there, it seems like those documents would be obviously forged to any expert in the field.
i've seen experts in the field who don't believe they were forged.
After all, it was just a bunch of bloggers that initially raised the questions.
so how is the fact that 'just a bunch of bloggers' raised the question show in any way that it was 'obviously forged'? hell, when 'a bunch of bloggers' say something my first instinct is to believe the opposite. sh1t. since when does 'being raised by bloggers' give any idea credence??
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Clinton lied under oath in a court of law, that makes all the difference.
that isn't illegal unless it's a relevant line of questioning. in clinton's case, the judge declared it irrelevant, and so it wasn't perjury.
These things do seem to take place in locations where it's not legal for people with carry permits to carry guns, though, and I believe that's the case where the Virginia Tech campus is concerned. I certainly wish that someone had been in a position to shoot this guy at the outset
yeah, if only the other kids at columbine high school all carried guns, the situation woulda fixed itself.
If you have a car priced at $125,000 with 600HP of power that weighs a mere 1200 kilos you better pull times like this. Otherwise go back to the drawing board. The Corvette Z06 weighs in at a hefty 3100 pounds, has 500 less HP and pulls 0-60 times of 3.2-3.8 with 3.5 being the official result.
the corvette does all that with only 100HP? that's amazing.
dunno, if it's verizon vs vonage, verizon wins the 'annoying commercials' competition.
"have you heard the new fall out boy single? it. gets. me. pumped!"
y'know what gets me 'pumped'? the thought of stabbing that man repeatedly and flaying the corpse.
the point the GP was making was that the US extradites people all the time. it isn't exactly convincing to support that with a story about germany extraditing a US citizen.
I said "most", not "all". Do you even know how to read?
given that you use the word 'democrat' incorrectly (as an adjective), it's established that you don't know how to write, for starters.
jesus, do you have a camera hidden in my kitchen or something?
Nah, soliders expect better housing than my place nowadays
haven't been to walter reed recently, have you?
you seem to be missing the point. 'democrat' is a noun. hence, 'democrats'. the adjective version is 'democratic'.
the use of 'democrat' as an adjective as in 'the democrat party' is a long-standing republican dig on the dems. i believe it originated as a means to slander them essentially refusing to describe them or their ideas as 'democratic' from some belief that since they're liberal they are anti-democracy.
it would be similar to dems describing the GOP as the "republican't party". 'oops, we just accidentally added a 't' there, no harm done'.
CWhat the hell is NOT protected under free speech? Can I smoke at work as a protest against the proletariat?
smoking isn't speech.
Can I smack around some ACLU lawyers to show my displeasure with NAMBLA?
physical assault isn't speech.
Could 9-11 be considered "Protest Terrorism"?
blowing up buildings isn't speech.
yeah, and tripling the national debt. apparently spending far more money than you have makes you a 'true conservative'.
in interstates were the only way to cross state lines, yeah. there are tons of roads that cross state borders.
point is, we already have one. it isn't as detailed as a picture ID card, but everyone gasping about privacy concerns with some possible national ID card already has had one in their posession for years.
If we go too much further down this road, it will become a financial issue for the states and will place pressure on the states to "secure" their borders, so don't count on it not happening.
given the sheer number of state-crossing roads in this country, it would cost an astronomical amount of money to pull that off.
How much longer will it be until we have to present a National ID card to take out a loan, open a bank account, cross state lines, and more?
we already have that for the first two. a social security card.
as for crossing state lines, i doubt there will ever be an ID necessary for that unless the government wants to put checkpoints on every crossing. which would never happen.
if the driver's brakes are out that's his fault, not the pedestrian's. as pointed out, a deaf dude wouldn't notice such furious honking either yet it would still be the driver's fault.
at least these problems you talk about are *actual* problems that may or may not be exaggerated, as opposed to the christian right's fairy-tale about the upcoming armageddon.
ah yes, the 'a liberal said it so it must be wrong' fallacy. one of my favorites.
For one kyoto gave a free pass to China who will one day be the worst polluter.
for s hort while, yes. then after a few years it has to start ramping down pollution levels.
it's amazing how the US, who catapulted itself into superpower status through the unflinching burning of fossil fuels gets pissed when someone else wants to use the catapult, now saying 'sorry, but after all that use by us we're now not sure how safe it is'. thanks, guys.
as mentioned above, kyoto is a short term playing-field leveler. yes, it allows developing countries to pollute more than the US for a few years, but the US and the first world is primarily responsible for the mess being cleaned up.
For another, kyoto would have systematically kept any other developing/third world country from joining us in the first world. Pollution controls would have made that impossible
how so? kyoto has plenty of exceptions for developing countries.
It was basically a bill that punishes the first world for pollution, while the worst offenders get a free pass
the first world caused a greater percentage of this problem so the first world should shoulder more punishment for it.
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The possibility of a proportionally spaced typewriter being used is irrelevant. Probability is all that matters. The document should have triggered a high level of scrutiny because of the subject and the content. That reasonable investigation of the document should have found the font, because it sticks out like a sore thumb, and then triggered a much more detailed level of scrutiny to assure it's authenticity.
i agree. that's why rather got canned, he presented questionable docs as real w/o performing due diligence. i don't agree that they're fakes tho. that hasn't been definitively proven.
there were plenty of prop-spaced typewriters back then, many of which were used in gov't offices. the IBM type D for example. it had interchangeable fonts, superscripts and proportional spacing. and it was popular.
having it in word doesn't prove the docs were fake. it just proves that word was designed at default to look like an old typewriter. and it doesn't match word's times new roman, either. its close, but the '4' is different.
also, in the TANG docs some letters floated around the baseline, something that doesn't happen in word.
what this all shows is that, as i said, they were questionable. forged? real? maybe to both. can't say either way with certainty.
these numbers can totally come in useful in finding a cure for cancer.
While the edges of the glaciers are melting, the ice sheets in Greenland's interior are getting thicker, according to satellite data collected over the last 11 years. On average the ice sheets have got thicker by about six centimetres each year, the researchers say.
strangely enough, that was actually predicted by climate models. melting water on the edges of the sheet evaporate causing precipitation over the center of the sheet, thickening the middle. it forms an ice dome which then overloads itself and collapses. whereas overall the sheet is thinning.
it's like pointing to one small part on the back of your head and saying your hair is getting thicker while the obvious giant bald spot on the top keeps getting bigger and bigger...
I didn't say he forged them
i didn't accuse you of saying that.
but I am convinced that the documents were forged and that no proper fact-checking was done.
the former is not proven, but the latter is obvious.
Based on what I see there, it seems like those documents would be obviously forged to any expert in the field.
i've seen experts in the field who don't believe they were forged.
After all, it was just a bunch of bloggers that initially raised the questions.
so how is the fact that 'just a bunch of bloggers' raised the question show in any way that it was 'obviously forged'? hell, when 'a bunch of bloggers' say something my first instinct is to believe the opposite. sh1t. since when does 'being raised by bloggers' give any idea credence??