A few thousand more years back and we're in molten rock.
Your timescale is off. I don't know where you are now, but the North Atlantic craton was "molten" at least 540 million years ago.
I firmly believe that eventually the Earth will be again...be molten.
Then I think you're ignoring how the earth works. The only areas which have lava flows are hot spots (Hawaii), subduction zones (Japan, Chile, etc.) or spreading centers (Mid-Atlantic ridge, east Africa). The majority of cratons are not subject to lava flows (at least, not since the Pre-Cambrian), and won't be.
Changing the facts to fit the theory
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Quiet, you!
Do not introduce the chaos of factual numbers into the discussion!
And speeding tickets don't let you have a jury trial, anyway
What are you talking about? The Constitution guarantees trial by jury.
Article 3, section 2:
Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury;
6th Amendment:
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and
public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime
shall have been committed
7th Admendment:
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty
dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved
e-mailed voice mail will be just a popular as...voice mail
If they take that to mean that voicemail isn't popular, so the emailed version also won't be, they are correct.
Your choice, Mr. Anderson:
Receive your message via some old Gleep rattling on about the weather, his latest aches and pains, finally getting to the point 13 minutes into the message..., or
Skimming the email until you get to the part that matters, reading it quickly and then hitting a ^D to send it to hell.
Well, Mr. Anderson, which is it? Listen to 5 messages an hour (if you're lucky), or processing 30 emails in the same amount of time? Where do you want to go today, Mr. Anderson?
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
Oh wait, we're holding "terrorists," er "unlawful combatants," er... uh... whatever, in Camp X-Ray, without access to lawyers, and we're planning on haveing some non-public (i.e., secret) trials, and not inform them of the charges, and deny witnesses, and laywers....
Um. Right. Bill of rights? What bill of rights?
Yes, I DID sign my loyalty oath! Here it is! I'm not a threat! NO!!! HEEEELLLLPPPP!!!!~#$&#@*( NO CARRIER
I also know for a fact that every American...I know of thinks about the same way
That may be true, if you only know a few Americans. A quick poll around the office revealed about 2% having ever read the Constitution. I doubt most people know or care about laws in this country until directly confronted by an abuse.
Winess what happened in Houston when the cops arrested 278 people because they happened to be eating at a burger joint or going to KMart at the wrong time... and several of them pleaded GUILTY to the charge of tresspass charges, even though none of the businesses there even asked the police to clear the parking lot. That's why the real axis of evil (AOE) will win - because they have the ability to make laws and most people can't be bothered to watch or understand what they are doing.
Who here researches candidates before voting? Don't lie, you know you don't. Barely 1 out of 5 can even bother to get to the polls, so I seriously doubt there's more than one person in the entire country that checks up on his or her representatives.
we should run the state, and by extension our
society, by the principle of what gives the greatest good to the
greatest number
Define "good." Do you mean
something like, we should give everyone a car so they can get to
work and school? But what about all the pollution, crime, and
accidents caused by those cars? Which one is the "greater
good"?
Is removing barriers to commerce a good thing? If so,
why is spam "bad," since it is enabling commerce?
For murder, why is it that WTC caused so much panic, whereas traffic accidents, personal handguns, and AIDS cause nary a stir? The number of people who died in WTC was (for the sake of argument) 3,000. The number of people who died of in auto wrecks (41,730 for 2001) caused nary a stir, yet much more "harm."
By your reasoning, we need to forget this 9/11, "we'll never forget," patriotism, and Saddam and concentrate on increasing auto safety...
Re:forgetting how boy bands are assembled
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Anyone who's half decient could join together to make there own lable [sic] without the RIAA.
How are you going to promote yourself? You can't play anything on the radio without getting ClearChannel's permission, since they own the majority (all?) of radio stations in the country and wield enourmous power. Remember 9/11's song banning last year (grep for "Purging Playlists")?
So, if you don't go with the RIAA, you can't play your song on any ClearChannel station and you can't have your concert at any ClearChannel venue. Basically, you'll play local bars and clubs and hopefully get big enough to be invited to a mainstream venue.
Ever wonder why none of Prince's post-WB stuff is on the radio? Hmm...
Your point that there is no consensus on global warming, therefore it doesn't exist?
If that were the case, then you might as well go ahead and swap your car out for a hydrogen cell car and stop buying gas now. Why? Because hydrogen cell cars will be available next week for only $250, American. And the economy won't suffer with the switch from petrol to hydro overnight, because that's really easy to make the switch, and everyone is going to be doing it. You don't want to be the last one left that has an obsolute combustion engine, now do you?
If you doubt the truth of my statements, then prove me wrong by finding a report that all academics and industry agree upon that refutes my claim. Any journal. Any country. I'll wait, again...
Oh wait, I hear if you play the lottery right now then you'll win the Grand Power JackBall! Just find me a report that all academics and industry can agree upon that says you won't! See!!! I was right!!!!
until someone comes up with unbiased scientific study all the academics and industries can agree with
Nice straw man argument.
I challenge you to find ANY study that "all the academics and industries can agree with." Doesn't have to be earth-shattering or anything. Just one. In a real (printed) journal. Go on, we'll wait...
Re:Where, exactly, is modding prohibited?
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i bought my car, but if i remove my seatbelts, I am legally not allowed to drive it.
Not true. You don't have to have seatbelts in any car with a farm license plate (this also means it cannot drive on public roads). Also, if you live on a Reservation, the federal seat belt law doesn't apply to you or your car (provided you don't drive off the Reservation).
I'm not talking about graphics mode: the whole
jazz about command.com allows you to run a "dos shell" in
protected mode. Lucky for you, I found my old copy of
Unauthorized Windows 95 by Andrew Schulman (IDB Books
Worldwide, 1994). Let me quote from Chapter 6: Win386 and MSDPMI
(pp 161-2)
Writing in
Windows Tech Journal
(March 1992), David Thielen, then a Microsoft employee,
noted:
Win386 isn't really even part of Windows. It's a
preemptive multitasking kernel that controls multiple virtual
machines. Once Win386 has initialized itself, it loads Windows in
the system VM (the main virtual machine that always exists).
However, it could just as easily load COMMAND.COM instead,
resulting in a multitasking DOS. (No, I won't tell you how to do
this.)
Well, after Chapter 5's discussion of how to
make DOSX.EXE load something other than the Windows kernel, it
should be fairly apparent how to do the same thing with WIN386.EXE. Just as DOSX.EXE insists on running KRNL286.EXE or KRNL386.EXE, WIN386.EXE (actually, the SHELL VxD within WIN386) insists on running KRNL386.EXE But just as with DOSX, WIN386 will run any file called KRNL386.EXE: even COMMAND.COM, if you rename it!
The point isn't that you're running graphics mode, or not. The point is that COMMAND.COM thinks that it can get to the first meg of memory without that pesky text thing taking up space at B000h-B7FFh (remember, the ROMs at 0xA000-0xAFFF, 0xB800-0xC800, and 0xF000-0xFFFF are all gone thanks to QEMM).
~create a handful more conventional memory beyond the 640k~
During one QA session with QEMM 6.x, we managed to create something in the neighborhood of 900k (!) conventional memory. If memory serves, the trick was to stealth the roms out with QEMM, copy command.com onto Kernl386.exe and fire up Win 3.1 (if any of you punks who didn't live on the top floor of 150 Pico remember different, please chip in).
Since there are no requirements, no licensing, and no professional endorsements required to call one's self "a graphic artist" (which is as it should be) it is really up to the buyer to determine the fitness of said artist to do the required work.
The usual way to measure the artist's fitness and capability is to view his or her portfolio and talk to references.
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Probably the same guy who came up with www.wehavethewayout.com/...
Here's a link to the transcript of episode 217. Grep "profit" and you'll find the dialog.
He must be from Iraq.
Do not introduce the chaos of factual numbers into the discussion!
Article 3, section 2:
6th Amendment:
7th Admendment:
Obligatory bleeding-heart, civil liberties plug.
Your choice, Mr. Anderson:
- Receive your message via some old Gleep rattling on about the weather, his latest aches and pains, finally getting to the point 13 minutes into the message..., or
- Skimming the email until you get to the part that matters, reading it quickly and then hitting a ^D to send it to hell.
Well, Mr. Anderson, which is it? Listen to 5 messages an hour (if you're lucky), or processing 30 emails in the same amount of time? Where do you want to go today, Mr. Anderson?My name is Neo!
THUD.
Um. Right. Bill of rights? What bill of rights?
Yes, I DID sign my loyalty oath! Here it is! I'm not a threat! NO!!! HEEEELLLLPPPP!!!!~#$&#@*( NO CARRIER
Winess what happened in Houston when the cops arrested 278 people because they happened to be eating at a burger joint or going to KMart at the wrong time... and several of them pleaded GUILTY to the charge of tresspass charges, even though none of the businesses there even asked the police to clear the parking lot. That's why the real axis of evil (AOE) will win - because they have the ability to make laws and most people can't be bothered to watch or understand what they are doing.
Who here researches candidates before voting? Don't lie, you know you don't. Barely 1 out of 5 can even bother to get to the polls, so I seriously doubt there's more than one person in the entire country that checks up on his or her representatives.
For those of you who have realplayer, this Ad Council clip never fails to amuse. It is not a matter of if, but when.
Then, I'll sim-sue!
Can you call Lockerbie, Okla. Federal Building, and WTC a repeating event?
Is removing barriers to commerce a good thing? If so, why is spam "bad," since it is enabling commerce?
For murder, why is it that WTC caused so much panic, whereas traffic accidents, personal handguns, and AIDS cause nary a stir? The number of people who died in WTC was (for the sake of argument) 3,000. The number of people who died of in auto wrecks (41,730 for 2001) caused nary a stir, yet much more "harm."
By your reasoning, we need to forget this 9/11, "we'll never forget," patriotism, and Saddam and concentrate on increasing auto safety...
So, if you don't go with the RIAA, you can't play your song on any ClearChannel station and you can't have your concert at any ClearChannel venue. Basically, you'll play local bars and clubs and hopefully get big enough to be invited to a mainstream venue.
Ever wonder why none of Prince's post-WB stuff is on the radio? Hmm...
If that were the case, then you might as well go ahead and swap your car out for a hydrogen cell car and stop buying gas now. Why? Because hydrogen cell cars will be available next week for only $250, American. And the economy won't suffer with the switch from petrol to hydro overnight, because that's really easy to make the switch, and everyone is going to be doing it. You don't want to be the last one left that has an obsolute combustion engine, now do you?
If you doubt the truth of my statements, then prove me wrong by finding a report that all academics and industry agree upon that refutes my claim. Any journal. Any country. I'll wait, again...
Oh wait, I hear if you play the lottery right now then you'll win the Grand Power JackBall! Just find me a report that all academics and industry can agree upon that says you won't! See!!! I was right!!!!
Now send me all your money.
I challenge you to find ANY study that "all the academics and industries can agree with." Doesn't have to be earth-shattering or anything. Just one. In a real (printed) journal. Go on, we'll wait...
*Cackle*
Does that count as part of the "private" (i.e., by the average private citizen) financing?
The usual way to measure the artist's fitness and capability is to view his or her portfolio and talk to references.