Nothing you listed under the "War on Drugs" has anything to do with the war on drugs.
The war on drugs has made America a police state where the government can seize any of your property and auction it for profit before your trial. Even if you are found innocent, or the charges are thrown out for insufficient grounds, you will not be compensated for your lost money or profit. It has made an America where more people are imprisoned than any other nation on earth. It has made a nation where the cheapest and most effective drug for curing glaucoma and mitigating the pain and nausea associated with cancer treatments is a crime. Its made a nation where at least half its citizens are criminals.
That depends on the particular terrorist in question.
Some terrorists "hate us for our freedom" Some terrorists hate us because we are assholes who invade their country, sometimes we had a very good reason, sometimes not so good of a reason. Some terrorists hate us because their country invited us to be there to save their ass from a madman and they think the land is holy and we are infidels, Bin Laden is of this type. Some terrorists want to install a global totalitarian theocracy where everyone submits to the absolute will of the state lead by a select group of clerics and convert or exterminate all non believers and reverse the last thousand years of social and technological advancement. Not all of these guys are in the Taliban, some of them are jingoistic American Christians.
You forgot a few, below sea level, next to an ocean, between a river draining half the continent and a lake 30+ miles wide, and in a swamp.
New Orleans would be a lot safer if the USACE hadn't taken on the herculean effort of keeping the Mississippi river running through the city. Rivers naturally change course, and the Mississippi was in the process of shifting westward (IIRC it would have been headed close to due south from from Baton Rouge) before it was "tamed" through massive geological engineering. Without the weight of the Mississippi, the land in the area could well rebound and risen to or even above sea level again.
To be a smart ass, no, not all light from a planet is indirect. For instance Jupiter is releasing light in the infra-red spectrum that is not reflected nor absorbed & re-radiated from the sun. Due to its size and mass it retains a great deal of heat from its gravitational contraction and any internal radioactive decay. Jupiter is currently emitting more energy that it is receiving form the sun.
Though in this case I believe they are refering to reflected | absorbed & re-radiated light instead of starlight filtering through the atmosphere. The first produces chemical emission lines while the later negates them from the stars emissions.
You do realize that the democrats and the republicans were both called the democratic-republicans at one point. They are the same party, they represent nearly identical interests and have nearly identical policies. The only differences are cosmetic for the purpose of cornering the market on the votes of the ignorant.
America is a one party nation with two corrupt and necrotic faces taking turns at pretending to represent the people.
I own a few books that are published for free on the internet already. Hell, I found some of them because they were published for free on the internet by the original author.
Depends... Are you a member of a union where the union controls the labor market for your skillset? If the answer is yes, then there is the possibility of getting a pension if the company doesn't go bankrupt and you end up with a fist full of worthless shares of stock as compensation instead.
you would think that. But in the US, assets seized by the government when they arrest you for a drug felony do not have to be returned or compensated for if you are found innocent or even if the charges are dropped if the assets have been auctioned off before that happens. Yay, war on freedom.:(
actually, the first article clearly states he had 300k in his paypal account. Of course this is paypal, they have a tendency to lock your account and take your money for no reason at all, with no legal recourse because they are not a real bank.
Because we have carefully studied every bit of the pieces of mars available on earth with the best scientific laboratories available. Whereas we have only looked at a minuscule fraction of mars on site, and done so with tools light enough to transport to mars.
Its like asking why we can not prove the nature of human metabolic functions with nothing more than a thermometer in your behind.
Print screen is tool for terrorists and pirates! You could copy all 15 hours of the extended edition of lord of the rings by using print screen on each frame of film and saving it all to uncompressed bitmaps.[/humor]
I've never seen ubuntu crash, but I have seen ubuntu applications crash and unable to restart without restarting ubuntu. In my experience so far, ubuntuand windows 7 seem to have about the same stability. Neither one crashes but applications sometimes lock up or crash.
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Nothing you listed under the "War on Drugs" has anything to do with the war on drugs.
The war on drugs has made America a police state where the government can seize any of your property and auction it for profit before your trial. Even if you are found innocent, or the charges are thrown out for insufficient grounds, you will not be compensated for your lost money or profit. It has made an America where more people are imprisoned than any other nation on earth. It has made a nation where the cheapest and most effective drug for curing glaucoma and mitigating the pain and nausea associated with cancer treatments is a crime. Its made a nation where at least half its citizens are criminals.
Most actors are cheaper than the >$300 million it took to poop out avatar.
That depends on the particular terrorist in question.
Some terrorists "hate us for our freedom"
Some terrorists hate us because we are assholes who invade their country, sometimes we had a very good reason, sometimes not so good of a reason.
Some terrorists hate us because their country invited us to be there to save their ass from a madman and they think the land is holy and we are infidels, Bin Laden is of this type.
Some terrorists want to install a global totalitarian theocracy where everyone submits to the absolute will of the state lead by a select group of clerics and convert or exterminate all non believers and reverse the last thousand years of social and technological advancement. Not all of these guys are in the Taliban, some of them are jingoistic American Christians.
There is no one solution.
You forgot a few, below sea level, next to an ocean, between a river draining half the continent and a lake 30+ miles wide, and in a swamp.
New Orleans would be a lot safer if the USACE hadn't taken on the herculean effort of keeping the Mississippi river running through the city. Rivers naturally change course, and the Mississippi was in the process of shifting westward (IIRC it would have been headed close to due south from from Baton Rouge) before it was "tamed" through massive geological engineering. Without the weight of the Mississippi, the land in the area could well rebound and risen to or even above sea level again.
To be a smart ass, no, not all light from a planet is indirect. For instance Jupiter is releasing light in the infra-red spectrum that is not reflected nor absorbed & re-radiated from the sun. Due to its size and mass it retains a great deal of heat from its gravitational contraction and any internal radioactive decay. Jupiter is currently emitting more energy that it is receiving form the sun.
Though in this case I believe they are refering to reflected | absorbed & re-radiated light instead of starlight filtering through the atmosphere. The first produces chemical emission lines while the later negates them from the stars emissions.
Sure, it wasn't able to shoot at most targets. Just ones that happened to be 800 miles west of iraq. For example, the entirety of Israel.
I'm pretty sure libtard was one of the updates I saw yesterday on my ubuntu rig.
Its not actually that preposterous. Some of the more advanced artillery shells are effectively rockets shot from cannons.
Of course they get something out of it. The only difference between the democrats and republicans are which industries hold the purse strings.
hey, I just based it on what the article said, I have not been following this story.
Digital?
You do realize that the democrats and the republicans were both called the democratic-republicans at one point. They are the same party, they represent nearly identical interests and have nearly identical policies. The only differences are cosmetic for the purpose of cornering the market on the votes of the ignorant.
America is a one party nation with two corrupt and necrotic faces taking turns at pretending to represent the people.
Looks like they bought both parties, but the republicans sold out for less.
I own a few books that are published for free on the internet already. Hell, I found some of them because they were published for free on the internet by the original author.
Depends... Are you a member of a union where the union controls the labor market for your skillset? If the answer is yes, then there is the possibility of getting a pension if the company doesn't go bankrupt and you end up with a fist full of worthless shares of stock as compensation instead.
actually, they did just that. TPB was perfectly legal. They were just asshats and tried before a corrupt judge.
you would think that. But in the US, assets seized by the government when they arrest you for a drug felony do not have to be returned or compensated for if you are found innocent or even if the charges are dropped if the assets have been auctioned off before that happens. Yay, war on freedom. :(
actually, the first article clearly states he had 300k in his paypal account. Of course this is paypal, they have a tendency to lock your account and take your money for no reason at all, with no legal recourse because they are not a real bank.
The big question is...
Now that he has been found innocent, does he get his 300k back?
Or am I mistaken in assuming that his assets were seized?
what about all the people who don't even bother to log in to post as AC?
Because we have carefully studied every bit of the pieces of mars available on earth with the best scientific laboratories available. Whereas we have only looked at a minuscule fraction of mars on site, and done so with tools light enough to transport to mars.
Its like asking why we can not prove the nature of human metabolic functions with nothing more than a thermometer in your behind.
Print screen is tool for terrorists and pirates! You could copy all 15 hours of the extended edition of lord of the rings by using print screen on each frame of film and saving it all to uncompressed bitmaps.[/humor]
I've never seen ubuntu crash, but I have seen ubuntu applications crash and unable to restart without restarting ubuntu. In my experience so far, ubuntuand windows 7 seem to have about the same stability. Neither one crashes but applications sometimes lock up or crash.
Yes, as long as you get the long and flexible ones so they can reach the sofa in your basement.
Have you tried aural?
It can lead to blindness...
if you are not wearing protective eye wear, have bad aim and poor reflexes.