Mininova is a really good choice and is pretty popular. Torrentz.com is a good index of torrents from other sites, though it's not clear why torrents are sometimes missing.
So if you go to the middle east there are regularly news reports about how the west (possibly with some specifics), are dumping toxic/radioactive waste off the coast of Somalia/Egypt/Iraq/Pakistan/other muslim country with a coast. And we - in the west- tend to regard these as nonsense.
I don't think "we" - if by that you mean the average Western person - regard those accusations as nonsense. We care and it upsets us, but only for about five seconds until we see another news story about a drunk celebrity or a serial killer on the loose or whatever. We largely ignore the part about the dumping being done by Western corporations and instead file it in our brains under "corrupt third world governments".
I learn some of the local language, stick to local norms of courtesy, and do some basic research instead of just being a blatant, obnoxious and naÃve foreigner.
You can blame a person for being obnoxious (depending on your definition, anyway), but you can't condemn a person for acting like a blatant tourist and foreigner if that's what they are.
This is filed under Classic Gaming? Ouch... The Sega Saturn (along with the PS and N64) was the first "next-gen" I was aware of in my lifetime, and that's even older.
But that doesn't address my point. You say "If they'd said "some scientists" then they'd be right. But "many" seems to imply a majority to me". In fact, they said many *because* it wasn't a majority, but still a large number of them. Like I said, I don't think you quite understand the word.
So it isn't true that many scientists oppose nuclear power. A minority of scientists oppose nuclear power
I don't think you understand the word many. If it was a majority they'd say "majority" or "most". 27%, especially if it's of such a large group, is "many".
Nothing about burgling requires a gang. In the days before eBay, it may have required underworld connections to sell your loot safely, but even that's not necessarily true anymore.
Indeed. I'm pretty sure that, to choose a relevant example, the bombs dropped in the "Shock and Awe" operation were pretty massively destructive. Or, to get back to nukes, the firebombing of Dresden was every bit as massively destructive as the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
If all I'm gonna get is $3000, I might as well... oh, I dunno, WORK for the money and not have the years in jail.
Money (especially in a state of desperation) does crazy things to people. This isn't that far removed from someone who gambles their life savings in Las Vegas. Losing in this case may have harsher consequences, but the odds of winning are higher if you do it right.
It may not have been a good target due to the serial number issue, but it was otherwise a good choice. They were, after all, able to grab thousands of dollars worth of items in a matter of seconds. If you're going to burgle, pick a place that's unprepared for it.
It's far better to let a guilty person go free than send an innocent person to prison. The system of deterrence is not undermined by letting a few guilty people off.
Iraq had WMDs and had a history of using them. The UN destroyed some of them in the 90's. Apparently they had abandoned the WMD programs before the second war but pretended to still have them to provoke the US.
The UN itself said before the war that Iraq was free of all WMDs, just like Iraq was *insisting all along*. Are you willfully ignorant of this, or was it some inexplicable accident?
Nobody said anything about wearing masks being creative, let alone "criminal mastermind" area. Despite security cameras and otherwise all comprehendability, burglars frequently don't wear masks. The correct term is "savvy".
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, that's very helpful to the majority of Slashdot.
Although I should have mentioned that The Pirate Bay does not seem to be at all dead yet. The site is still fully operational.
Mininova is a really good choice and is pretty popular. Torrentz.com is a good index of torrents from other sites, though it's not clear why torrents are sometimes missing.
Imagine for a second if the verdict had gone the other way. I wonder how far it would have carried.
It did go the other way, and it got as far as the Court of Appeals.
So if you go to the middle east there are regularly news reports about how the west (possibly with some specifics), are dumping toxic/radioactive waste off the coast of Somalia/Egypt/Iraq/Pakistan/other muslim country with a coast. And we - in the west- tend to regard these as nonsense.
I don't think "we" - if by that you mean the average Western person - regard those accusations as nonsense. We care and it upsets us, but only for about five seconds until we see another news story about a drunk celebrity or a serial killer on the loose or whatever. We largely ignore the part about the dumping being done by Western corporations and instead file it in our brains under "corrupt third world governments".
I learn some of the local language, stick to local norms of courtesy, and do some basic research instead of just being a blatant, obnoxious and naÃve foreigner.
You can blame a person for being obnoxious (depending on your definition, anyway), but you can't condemn a person for acting like a blatant tourist and foreigner if that's what they are.
I hereby declare this It's-Okay-to-Like-Microsoft-For-a-Day Day. This is pretty cool.
If we don't rely on the Scientific Method to find out the truth, what do you propose we use instead?
Goat entrails, obviously.
It then feeds on the newly sentient species?
Actually, I deliberately disobey the accepted rule regarding this because I prefer being understood over being politically correct.
Don't equate avoiding saying things that are offensive with avoiding irrational language rules.
This is filed under Classic Gaming? Ouch... The Sega Saturn (along with the PS and N64) was the first "next-gen" I was aware of in my lifetime, and that's even older.
But that doesn't address my point. You say "If they'd said "some scientists" then they'd be right. But "many" seems to imply a majority to me". In fact, they said many *because* it wasn't a majority, but still a large number of them. Like I said, I don't think you quite understand the word.
So it isn't true that many scientists oppose nuclear power. A minority of scientists oppose nuclear power
I don't think you understand the word many. If it was a majority they'd say "majority" or "most". 27%, especially if it's of such a large group, is "many".
Car analogies.... is there anything they can't explain?
Make any sense to those of us who don't have any idea what a Yugo or swaybar is?
Maybe they stole if for their gang's use.
Nothing about burgling requires a gang. In the days before eBay, it may have required underworld connections to sell your loot safely, but even that's not necessarily true anymore.
Indeed. I'm pretty sure that, to choose a relevant example, the bombs dropped in the "Shock and Awe" operation were pretty massively destructive. Or, to get back to nukes, the firebombing of Dresden was every bit as massively destructive as the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
If all I'm gonna get is $3000, I might as well... oh, I dunno, WORK for the money and not have the years in jail.
Money (especially in a state of desperation) does crazy things to people. This isn't that far removed from someone who gambles their life savings in Las Vegas. Losing in this case may have harsher consequences, but the odds of winning are higher if you do it right.
It may not have been a good target due to the serial number issue, but it was otherwise a good choice. They were, after all, able to grab thousands of dollars worth of items in a matter of seconds. If you're going to burgle, pick a place that's unprepared for it.
It's far better to let a guilty person go free than send an innocent person to prison. The system of deterrence is not undermined by letting a few guilty people off.
Iraq had WMDs and had a history of using them. The UN destroyed some of them in the 90's. Apparently they had abandoned the WMD programs before the second war but pretended to still have them to provoke the US.
The UN itself said before the war that Iraq was free of all WMDs, just like Iraq was *insisting all along*. Are you willfully ignorant of this, or was it some inexplicable accident?
So would most common burglars.
Nobody said anything about wearing masks being creative, let alone "criminal mastermind" area. Despite security cameras and otherwise all comprehendability, burglars frequently don't wear masks. The correct term is "savvy".
That's assuming they get away with it.
Yes, just like everyone above you already said. :-P
intelligence != morality
I'll probably get modded down as a troll or something for this, but...
morality != respecting property laws (necessarily)
Most people would disagree, but a respectable argument could be made that stealing from a wealthy corporation is morally neutral.
Apple Store's next product release: iRobbed.
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