OK, I am a bit unsure of what you expect. Lets say an organization's goal is to reduce waste of truffula trees. They have reduced waste to the point that the harvest of trees is sustainable. If they were to hold a press conference and say we could be defunded, mission accomplished, do you believe the industry would stick to the sustainable practices or revert to ways that are more profitable.
How about this question, what government institution do you think has a goal that is permanently attainable? I mean once attained it no longer needs to be monitored or regulated.
For a disturbing read, take a look at the new alliance's co-operation frameworks with countries. Mozambique, for example, is committed to "systematically ceasing to distribute free and unimproved [non-commercial] seeds to farmers except in emergencies". The new alliance will lock poor farmers into buying increasingly expensive seeds – including genetically modified seeds – allow corporate monopolies in seed selling, and escalate the loss of precious genetic diversity in seeds – absolutely key in the fight against hunger. It will also open the door to genetically modified (GM) crops in Africa by stopping farmers' access to traditional local varieties and forcing them to buy private seeds.
Ignore the AC. It found only four spelling errors. Debian, openSUSE, favourism, and kinda. The first two are proper names, the third is a regional spelling, and the forth is nitpicky. It only found one grammar error. and that was the sentence fragment "So small advantages."
I've had cars with bad sensors forcing the computer to go into "limp" mode (check engine light illuminates) and driven them for months like that. That light comes on, I pull out my bluetooth code reader, see what this issue is, and if it is unimportant (90% of the time) then I drive it like that until I find it convenient to fix it. It would be ridiculous for my car to be immobile because of a bad O2 sensor, or a loose gas cap.
There is no evidence that it is a deterrent though. In fact in some places there is more crime. Criminals are real bad about thinking of long term consequences, so if there is no deterrent you save no lives, and jet still kill at least 4% innocent.
It very well might have changed. When I joined in 03 I was told I would most likely be sent to learn some form of arabic, or pashtu, or some other regional dialects.
It would be different if these facts were out in the open to be debated by the populous. They are instead hidden, even from the ones making the laws (Clapper). Thats the real irony here. They rob everyone else of their privacy, but yet demand their own secrets hidden behinds claims of state secrets. Since they will not tell us about it, we the tax payers are forced to pay for them to rob us of our own privacy. What a effing joke.
If you get a good score on your ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) they send you to take the DLAB (Defense Language Aptitude Battery) if you do well on that you are pulled from your assigned MOS and sent to be a translator. They wanted to send me, but I had 0 interest in learning a middle eastern language. They made me take the DLAB twice because I was only a couple of points from passing the first time. By that time I had found out what it was for, so the second one got christmas treed, and I got a much needed nap. (Basic training wasn't know for giving you lots of time to rest.)
Ok, I only thought I was talking with a kook. The fact that you claim your robots can locate itself better then GPS (anywhere in the world?!?) is so obviously crazy that you have removed all doubt on your kookiness.
Sure, but can your robot figure out where it is with no GPS. Remember the requirement was to find your location without GPS, using primarily a map.
Sure you need other things like landmarks of some sort or another. The landmarks are necessary to find your location with the map, just as the satellites are necessary to find your location with a GPS receiver.
If you have the correct map for the area you are in, and you can spot landmarks, or perhaps even an intersection. Then yes, I can figure out where I am. Land nav class in the military actually has exercises in that. My unit didn't even have GPS devices until we deployed. Everything was a map, a compass, a protractor and a good pace count.
Sure if you are dropped in the middle of the Saraha with a world atlas and no idea of your general location, or even what country you are in then you would be SOL. That does not happen though.
Sure the land was stolen from them, and I find that to be abhorrent. If I had been around when it happened, I would have voiced that opinion. I was not. I am around as we watch Russia try to steal the land. I am doing nothing but speaking out against that.
Frankly I believe we should bend over backwards to make amends on the land that was stolen from the Native Americans. Be this returning the land, or paying the tribe fair market value, with how ever many years of interest. I am not sure what else you expect me to do about it though.
I see your point, but I think the analogy fails. No one is currently trying to take any more land from the indigenous people and calling it New Ireland, or New Germany. There are also no ties left to the parent countries as the immigrants left those countries in many cases over a hundred years ago. Even if the analogy was spot on it doesn't mean the Russians should have the right to land grab.
Sure, I have always thought that creating a new state there was a ridiculous idea. It was a poor idea that has led to many of the problems in the middle east today. To bad thats not what this story was about.
You will note that I suggest they move to the country they wish to be a part of, I never said they should be kicked out.
It would be like all of the Hispanics in Texas voting to secede and asking to rejoin Mexico. If you want to live in Mexico, then you should just move back.
Equating my view that people should move to where they want to live does not in any way shape or form liken me to Stalin. Even suggesting that is akin to goodwinning the thread.
Your quick note left out quite a bit of information that is relevant. Mainly that the russian speaking ukranians were imported to Ukraine, and the originally ethnic groups were cleared out.
Sure the majority of the people in eastern Ukraine might want to belong to Russia, but those people have only lived there since the 40s through the 70s for the most part. In which case I propose they just move back to Russia, and leave Ukraine to the ethnic groups that were cleared out.
In fact the Russians that moved in were hell bent on stamping out Ukranian cultrue.
The first wave of purges between 1929 and 1934 targeted the revolutionary generation of the party that in Ukraine included many supporters of Ukrainization. Soviet authorities specifically targeted the commissar of education in Ukraine, Mykola Skrypnyk, for promoting Ukrainian language reforms that were seen as dangerous and counterrevolutionary; Skrypnyk committed suicide in 1933. The next 1936–1938 wave of political purges eliminated much of the new political generation that replaced those who perished in the first wave. Being accused of using the "Skrypnyk alphabet" – in other words, using Ukrainian Cyrillic letters instead of Russian ones – could lead to arrest or death
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OK, I am a bit unsure of what you expect. Lets say an organization's goal is to reduce waste of truffula trees. They have reduced waste to the point that the harvest of trees is sustainable. If they were to hold a press conference and say we could be defunded, mission accomplished, do you believe the industry would stick to the sustainable practices or revert to ways that are more profitable.
How about this question, what government institution do you think has a goal that is permanently attainable? I mean once attained it no longer needs to be monitored or regulated.
For a disturbing read, take a look at the new alliance's co-operation frameworks with countries. Mozambique, for example, is committed to "systematically ceasing to distribute free and unimproved [non-commercial] seeds to farmers except in emergencies". The new alliance will lock poor farmers into buying increasingly expensive seeds – including genetically modified seeds – allow corporate monopolies in seed selling, and escalate the loss of precious genetic diversity in seeds – absolutely key in the fight against hunger. It will also open the door to genetically modified (GM) crops in Africa by stopping farmers' access to traditional local varieties and forcing them to buy private seeds.
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Steam doesn't randomly change the GUI. Thats at least one point in their favor.
Ignore the AC. It found only four spelling errors. Debian, openSUSE, favourism, and kinda. The first two are proper names, the third is a regional spelling, and the forth is nitpicky. It only found one grammar error. and that was the sentence fragment "So small advantages."
The majority of automakers today call for oil changes at either 7,500 or 10,000 miles, and the interval can go as high as 15,000 miles in some cars.
Um, Woosh.
No vaccine is 100% effective.
It is difficult to take someone with the chosen moniker of "Frosty Piss" seriously. (FTFY)
I've had cars with bad sensors forcing the computer to go into "limp" mode (check engine light illuminates) and driven them for months like that. That light comes on, I pull out my bluetooth code reader, see what this issue is, and if it is unimportant (90% of the time) then I drive it like that until I find it convenient to fix it. It would be ridiculous for my car to be immobile because of a bad O2 sensor, or a loose gas cap.
There is no evidence that it is a deterrent though. In fact in some places there is more crime. Criminals are real bad about thinking of long term consequences, so if there is no deterrent you save no lives, and jet still kill at least 4% innocent.
It very well might have changed. When I joined in 03 I was told I would most likely be sent to learn some form of arabic, or pashtu, or some other regional dialects.
It would be different if these facts were out in the open to be debated by the populous. They are instead hidden, even from the ones making the laws (Clapper). Thats the real irony here. They rob everyone else of their privacy, but yet demand their own secrets hidden behinds claims of state secrets. Since they will not tell us about it, we the tax payers are forced to pay for them to rob us of our own privacy. What a effing joke.
If you get a good score on your ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) they send you to take the DLAB (Defense Language Aptitude Battery) if you do well on that you are pulled from your assigned MOS and sent to be a translator. They wanted to send me, but I had 0 interest in learning a middle eastern language. They made me take the DLAB twice because I was only a couple of points from passing the first time. By that time I had found out what it was for, so the second one got christmas treed, and I got a much needed nap. (Basic training wasn't know for giving you lots of time to rest.)
Ok, I only thought I was talking with a kook. The fact that you claim your robots can locate itself better then GPS (anywhere in the world?!?) is so obviously crazy that you have removed all doubt on your kookiness.
Sure, but can your robot figure out where it is with no GPS. Remember the requirement was to find your location without GPS, using primarily a map. Sure you need other things like landmarks of some sort or another. The landmarks are necessary to find your location with the map, just as the satellites are necessary to find your location with a GPS receiver.
If you have the correct map for the area you are in, and you can spot landmarks, or perhaps even an intersection. Then yes, I can figure out where I am. Land nav class in the military actually has exercises in that. My unit didn't even have GPS devices until we deployed. Everything was a map, a compass, a protractor and a good pace count.
Sure if you are dropped in the middle of the Saraha with a world atlas and no idea of your general location, or even what country you are in then you would be SOL. That does not happen though.
103 years is almost as old as America? Umm. Wrong.
Sure the land was stolen from them, and I find that to be abhorrent. If I had been around when it happened, I would have voiced that opinion. I was not. I am around as we watch Russia try to steal the land. I am doing nothing but speaking out against that.
Frankly I believe we should bend over backwards to make amends on the land that was stolen from the Native Americans. Be this returning the land, or paying the tribe fair market value, with how ever many years of interest. I am not sure what else you expect me to do about it though.
I think there is no easy solution to the middle east problems. Frankly in that situation both sides have a lot of blood on their hands.
I agree that the Russian "studies" and "polls" are fragrantly biased.
I see your point, but I think the analogy fails. No one is currently trying to take any more land from the indigenous people and calling it New Ireland, or New Germany. There are also no ties left to the parent countries as the immigrants left those countries in many cases over a hundred years ago. Even if the analogy was spot on it doesn't mean the Russians should have the right to land grab.
Sure, I have always thought that creating a new state there was a ridiculous idea. It was a poor idea that has led to many of the problems in the middle east today. To bad thats not what this story was about.
I did not go further into this as I am unaware of all of the details, but yes this plays into the issue significantly.
You will note that I suggest they move to the country they wish to be a part of, I never said they should be kicked out.
It would be like all of the Hispanics in Texas voting to secede and asking to rejoin Mexico. If you want to live in Mexico, then you should just move back.
Equating my view that people should move to where they want to live does not in any way shape or form liken me to Stalin. Even suggesting that is akin to goodwinning the thread.
Sure the majority of the people in eastern Ukraine might want to belong to Russia, but those people have only lived there since the 40s through the 70s for the most part. In which case I propose they just move back to Russia, and leave Ukraine to the ethnic groups that were cleared out.
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In fact the Russians that moved in were hell bent on stamping out Ukranian cultrue.
The first wave of purges between 1929 and 1934 targeted the revolutionary generation of the party that in Ukraine included many supporters of Ukrainization. Soviet authorities specifically targeted the commissar of education in Ukraine, Mykola Skrypnyk, for promoting Ukrainian language reforms that were seen as dangerous and counterrevolutionary; Skrypnyk committed suicide in 1933. The next 1936–1938 wave of political purges eliminated much of the new political generation that replaced those who perished in the first wave. Being accused of using the "Skrypnyk alphabet" – in other words, using Ukrainian Cyrillic letters instead of Russian ones – could lead to arrest or death