What's the difference between a first trimester abortion and using condoms?
That is, what's the difference between an unfertilized egg and a freshly fertilized egg? They both have the potential to grow into a genetically unique individual, the one just involves a single extra step. If the woman had been screwing more, that unfertilized egg might not have gone to waste.
You raise an interesting point, but I'm not sure they care.
Besides, most people in prison on drug charges are anything but white collar. White collar people are casual users that can afford to pay other people to deal with the risks associated with acquiring drugs (i.e., they only buy what they need for a short period of time from a dealer they (sort of) trust, they never have a large amount in possession).
Storing and being able to access 5 copies of 100,000 different books is certainly going to cost more than nothing. Amazon does print on demand to mitigate that, but it isn't free. Digital products are a different matter.
So you are mad that they have an explicit statement of what they consider fair use? Wowszers.
It isn't like they have a magic button that they can push that disallows somebody who wants to interpret fair use in a broader sense from using 502 words.
That's for you. Lot's of other people just buy Harry Potter.
As long as they make a profit on each individual sale, or even on each individual customer, it really doesn't matter much. If helping you find an obscure technical book didn't result in a profit, they would stop doing it. It wouldn't be shocking to see them start to contract their offerings, I can see where low volume stuff isn't worth the hassle.
Back of the envelope, at 500 watt hours per square meter per day, I get a surface area of about 1 million square kilometers (assuming relatively flat consumption of 5e11 kilowatt hours per day). So at 250 watts per square meter per day, that's 2 million square kilometers, and at 1 kilowatt per square meter per day, it is 500,000 square kilometers.
It's a huge amount of land, but even at 250 watt hours per square meter, it doesn't jibe with 300-500% of American soil, it is 3 or 4 Arizonas or maybe 2 Texases.
This would be a lot more insightful if more than 1 new refinery permit had been issued in the last 20 years, or if more than about 15% of the oil that the U.S. imports came from private companies rather than nations (Canada and Mexico are the organizations that make the most money feeding oil to the United States).
You are wrong about the local heating being a problem. Many cities are tens of square miles, and while they experience a heating effect, it is several degrees, not several tens of degrees.
A light breeze has the effect of spreading the heat from a 1 mile zone across several cubic miles of air in an hour. Significant local heating would *generate* a breeze.
Your take is sort of strange, you are implying that a great deal of our social structure results from the 70ish year lifespan, which is reasonable, and then you imply either that there is no way to ever change a social structure or that the current social structure would force people to die, neither of which makes a great deal of sense.
Perhaps you were being extremely oblique about my first line up there.
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What's the difference between a first trimester abortion and using condoms?
That is, what's the difference between an unfertilized egg and a freshly fertilized egg? They both have the potential to grow into a genetically unique individual, the one just involves a single extra step. If the woman had been screwing more, that unfertilized egg might not have gone to waste.
Did somebody decide once and for all that animals take offense at pain?
You raise an interesting point, but I'm not sure they care.
Besides, most people in prison on drug charges are anything but white collar. White collar people are casual users that can afford to pay other people to deal with the risks associated with acquiring drugs (i.e., they only buy what they need for a short period of time from a dealer they (sort of) trust, they never have a large amount in possession).
So what do you consider the prison industry?
It has not been demonstrated to be enforceable. Until that happens, it is just a statement.
To the extent that they are telling you what they will accept before you read their material, it avoids bait and switch tactics.
Because you are complaining about something that is pretty much an improvement on the status quo.
If you aren't making at least a small profit, you usually can't stay in business. I didn't say 'a large profit', I said 'a profit'.
Storing and being able to access 5 copies of 100,000 different books is certainly going to cost more than nothing. Amazon does print on demand to mitigate that, but it isn't free. Digital products are a different matter.
So you are mad that they have an explicit statement of what they consider fair use? Wowszers.
It isn't like they have a magic button that they can push that disallows somebody who wants to interpret fair use in a broader sense from using 502 words.
That's for you. Lot's of other people just buy Harry Potter.
As long as they make a profit on each individual sale, or even on each individual customer, it really doesn't matter much. If helping you find an obscure technical book didn't result in a profit, they would stop doing it. It wouldn't be shocking to see them start to contract their offerings, I can see where low volume stuff isn't worth the hassle.
Where are you getting your numbers from?
Back of the envelope, at 500 watt hours per square meter per day, I get a surface area of about 1 million square kilometers (assuming relatively flat consumption of 5e11 kilowatt hours per day). So at 250 watts per square meter per day, that's 2 million square kilometers, and at 1 kilowatt per square meter per day, it is 500,000 square kilometers.
It's a huge amount of land, but even at 250 watt hours per square meter, it doesn't jibe with 300-500% of American soil, it is 3 or 4 Arizonas or maybe 2 Texases.
This would be a lot more insightful if more than 1 new refinery permit had been issued in the last 20 years, or if more than about 15% of the oil that the U.S. imports came from private companies rather than nations (Canada and Mexico are the organizations that make the most money feeding oil to the United States).
http://www.eia.doe.gov/basics/quickoil.html
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_epc0_im0_mbblpd_a.htm
You are wrong about the local heating being a problem. Many cities are tens of square miles, and while they experience a heating effect, it is several degrees, not several tens of degrees.
A light breeze has the effect of spreading the heat from a 1 mile zone across several cubic miles of air in an hour. Significant local heating would *generate* a breeze.
May be? Turning into?
(on the other hand, Rove and his ilk have shown that a calculated understanding of the electorate is a powerful tool)
That was back when they had a sense of humor.
I'm pretty comfortable with being selfish.
Britney Spears is on track to kill herself after about 35 years, I wouldn't worry too much about it.
You make them dead neocons.
Your take is sort of strange, you are implying that a great deal of our social structure results from the 70ish year lifespan, which is reasonable, and then you imply either that there is no way to ever change a social structure or that the current social structure would force people to die, neither of which makes a great deal of sense.
Perhaps you were being extremely oblique about my first line up there.
Who do you take the hours from when everybody wants a second house and boat to go with it?
Unemployment (here) is for a fixed period of time and requires the recipient to be looking for work.
Social security was originally intended for people that lived to extreme age, not as a general retirement fund.
You would feel bad purchasing human blood?
I meant calling a particular list of internet acronyms the most useless.
As someone who is not a resident of North Carolina, I have one thing to say: <nelson>Ha-ha</nelson>.
Does that even mean anything?
Welcome To France and We The French are patently offensive.