An unfortunate story, certainly, but the only police force that can't make a mistake is an impotent one. In an ideal world the guy would still have his job and no-one would have a problem with him, but the police can't be held accountable for all of the consequences of every arrest they make.
Based on a quick study of the poorly Photoshopped image (you can clearly see the mask lines, and the bits they forgot to alter) it looks like someone simply doubled the saturation on the water.
I'm willing to bet that anything that could change the river to a color like this would probably stain the skin a bit.
That doesn't explain why there is a patch of un-brightened water under the guy's forearm, the line of which exactly matches up with the patch of orange on his arm itself.
Here's what the Wikipedia article said before immediately before Roth's biographer's edit (emphasis mine):
Salon.com critic Charles Taylor argues that Roth had to have been at least partly inspired by the case of Anatole Broyard, a literary critic who, like the protagonist of The Human Stain, was a man identified as Creole who spent his entire professional life more-or-less as white.[1] Roth states there is no connection, as he did not know Broyard had any black ancestry until an article published months after he had started writing his novel.[2]
I can't see why Roth threw such a fit over that. The article stated that one guy said one thing and that Roth contradicted him - I can't see any mis-statement.
The new readings, taken by the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, reveal that the pressure is at 1.6 megapascals, nearly 16 times the 0.1 megapascals it takes to trigger an eruption
If that's what it takes to trigger an eruption, why didn't it happen 1.5 megapascals ago?
I was just about to. Something along the lines of "Pounds? It's the 21st Century, NASA!" followed by an expression of vague discomfort at seeing "x million pounds" used in earnest.
The Glasgow airport "attack" wasn't terrorism, it was two drunk Asian kids crashing a car loaded with propane canisters. It happens all the time in Renfrew, it's a rough area.
FTFY. Maybe you were trying to be funny, but, eh...
You can still remain silent but they can hold it against you as if it were some kind of admission of guilt to refuse to speak to the police.
(possibly paraphrasing) "You have the right to remain silent, but it may harm your defence if you fail to mention now something which you later rely on in court."
So staying silent itself shouldn't be held against you - suddenly remembering an alibi six months down the line might, though.
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"The ticking of the clock stitched the blanket of time."
Drop the unfilmable metaphors and you lose half of the best stuff.
Or what?
...is that a lot? Not enough?
Anyway, my new language has a built-in function to do this, so it needs only one line of code!
which have the greatest amount of surface areas of any material to date
if one were able to take a crystal of NU-110 the size of a grain of salt, and somehow unfold it, the surface area would cover a desktop.
That's nothing, I've got a tablecloth that covers an entire table.
But seriously folks, is this area/volume? Area/mass?
My handy Transformer does a solid job of editing documents, more so with the keyboard dock.
Isn't there a word for tablets with keyboard docks? ;)
If you can waterproof the ubiquitous USB connection
Right. So, can you? Because if you can't, it renders the rest of your statement moot.
Can we have Jo, 22, from Leicester's opinion as the third comment on each story? OO
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An unfortunate story, certainly, but the only police force that can't make a mistake is an impotent one. In an ideal world the guy would still have his job and no-one would have a problem with him, but the police can't be held accountable for all of the consequences of every arrest they make.
It's better than calling them "adults."
It's funny, because the whole premise of shows like Jackass are stupid people harming themselves on video.
That's the first difference which invalidates your point, right there.
Based on a quick study of the poorly Photoshopped image (you can clearly see the mask lines, and the bits they forgot to alter) it looks like someone simply doubled the saturation on the water.
I've made an attempt to restore the image to something approaching reality.
I'm willing to bet that anything that could change the river to a color like this would probably stain the skin a bit.
That doesn't explain why there is a patch of un-brightened water under the guy's forearm, the line of which exactly matches up with the patch of orange on his arm itself.
It's called "sensationalism" and it sells newspapers.
Salon.com critic Charles Taylor argues that Roth had to have been at least partly inspired by the case of Anatole Broyard, a literary critic who, like the protagonist of The Human Stain, was a man identified as Creole who spent his entire professional life more-or-less as white.[1] Roth states there is no connection, as he did not know Broyard had any black ancestry until an article published months after he had started writing his novel.[2]
I can't see why Roth threw such a fit over that. The article stated that one guy said one thing and that Roth contradicted him - I can't see any mis-statement.
they would need to take Whitley Strieber [wikipedia.org] as a primary source when he says he was actually kidnapped by aliens.
But that's true. He does say he was actually kidnapped by aliens. And he is the primary source for that fact (that he does say it).
While you're there, could you make a note my crippling fear of sexy parties? Thanks.
A shame you posted as AC - you'd have had a modpoint or two from me if I had them, too.
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The new readings, taken by the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, reveal that the pressure is at 1.6 megapascals, nearly 16 times the 0.1 megapascals it takes to trigger an eruption
If that's what it takes to trigger an eruption, why didn't it happen 1.5 megapascals ago?
I was just about to. Something along the lines of "Pounds? It's the 21st Century, NASA!" followed by an expression of vague discomfort at seeing "x million pounds" used in earnest.
And I say it's the other way around. Let the battle of the unfounded assertions commence!
Seems to me that uncovering the truth would usually be the quickest route to a conviction, anyway.
For it to be "terrorism", it would have to be in some way terrifying. It wasn't.
Attempted terrorism, if you must - and even if you mustn't, that's still only your opinion. I'm sure plenty of people were terrified at the time.
The Glasgow airport "attack" wasn't terrorism, it was two drunk Asian kids crashing a car loaded with propane canisters. It happens all the time in Renfrew, it's a rough area.
FTFY. Maybe you were trying to be funny, but, eh...
You can still remain silent but they can hold it against you as if it were some kind of admission of guilt to refuse to speak to the police.
(possibly paraphrasing) "You have the right to remain silent, but it may harm your defence if you fail to mention now something which you later rely on in court."
So staying silent itself shouldn't be held against you - suddenly remembering an alibi six months down the line might, though.