I am well over 18 but I do feel that restricting legal adults drinking is wrong. If you are old enough to sign contracts, get married, and no longer under the juvenile court system then you are an adult. Heck I don't think anybody should drink or smoke regardless of age but making the drinking age 21 just seems wrong to me from a legal point of view. But then I think trying anyone under 18 as an adult is also wrong. Just my way of looking at things.
This is the battle of private vs public. You can get as drunk as you want in private. You can get very drunk in public as long as you don't drive. You can smoke as much as you want in private. I really don't like smoke and a lot of other people agree. You can smoke all you want in private. That isn't a vice law. It is public health. You lost all creatablity with one statment. "I can drink all night, have a high blood alcohol percentage, and not be affected, while others can be well under the legal limit and be severely impaired. Biological differences FTW." No you can not. There is no way that you can drink all night, have a high blood alcohol level and not be affected. Nope not a chance can not happen. You may be affected less than other people but it will have an affect on you. Unless you are a robot.
"One of the forecast climatic effects of increase global tempratures is an increase in extreme weather - simple thermodynamics says if you warm air up it will move around more. To date the peer-reviewed evidence supporting this view is weak to non-existant. "
The problem is that ignores simple thermodynamics.
Weather systems are heat engines. Heat engines are driven by temperature differences not just heat. Take a lot at all the big storms. They are driven by hot meeting cold. Oh trust me I didn't think that the storm season proved one thing or an other. I am still lacking data for a conclusion. As to Australia and Uranium. Yep you guys have a lot as does the US and Canada. Would I rather see Australia and Canada get rich on in the case of Canada richer on energy exports? Well if I had my choice I trust Australia and Canada with wealth more than some other groups.
It will not get to court but he lost two ranks because of it. He didn't curse at the kid with the gun. He refused to suspend the officer that did curse at the kid. He said that punishment was out of proportion and that warning would be good enough since the end result was nobody got hurt. The point that I am making is that the VAST majority of the police are good men and women doing a nasty terrible job. They can not choose to do anything but to enforce the laws and God help us if they start picking and choosing which laws they enforce. However most problems people have when dealing with the police usually involves them the people acting like idiots. What people don't understand is when a police officer walks up to your car at a stop they don't know if you will be just some guy or if you are going shoot them in the face. Want to get a cop upset? Jump out of your car at a stop. Want to be polite at a stop? Roll down your window and put both your hands on the door where they can see them. When I have been pulled over I have often gotten a break because I treated them with respect and I got treated with respect. And no I don't have any of the police friends stickers in my car.
That is actually a pretty good guess. An extreme example is the Intel compiler which used to do great optimization on Intel CPUs but really bad optimization on AMD. The VIA chip is really new and the code the compiler generates treats it as the a P3 or P2.
Except that firing a gun in the middle of a town is usually illegal IF you want to go that far in your silliness.
If the person really wanted to kill himself he should have and could have done it in the privacy of his own home or just driven out into the woods without telling anybody. Odds are he wanted to be stopped but if you want to be silly about it the guy was endangering others.
I did he first barricaded himself in his home and said that he had a gun which he did. I didn't go into all the details because frankly he is very upset over that and some other things that happened. I kept some of the details out to protect his privacy.
Oh it has the Usenet feeds but no it isn't the same thing as the Usenet of which I speak. The Usenet of which I speak had a much higher signal to noise ratio than GoogleGroups/Usenet has today.
Never said that they did. But frankly deal with the idiot and assholes like you perhaps is just not any fun. And the VAST majority of police officers are probably a lot like my BIL and my friend than the people you are screaming about. I would guess that if you treated police officers you deal with with a little respect your would get at least a little respect back.
Or yahoo groups or Myspace groups or...... Just not the same thing to be honest. The real problem for usenet and the Internet in general is that it is just to easy. A lot of the good stuff from usenet has now migrated to mailing lists and online forums but it still isn't the same.. Ahh the good old days.
What I have a problem with is the dumping of blame. Your country decided on it's course. It didn't face any threat from the US it just took the cheapest route. Your nations decision and has nothing to do with the US. As far as US energy policy. The problem is way to many anti-nuclear nut jobs running around for one. We should be working on recycling nuclear fuel and using reactors to burn waste. I said years ago that we shouldn't build any new coal plants but instead build nuclear plants. And yes I have one in my back yard so to say. Coal? Well coal can be made into oil, plastics, and fertilizer. Anything that oil can be made into. While not totally green it is a resource that should be used where it can do the most good and least harm until it can be totally replaced. And lets be honest, hydrocarbons make wonderful fuel for a great many reasons. Solar and wind I have less hope for. Wind is the one I am really not thrilled with. It is too variable which means that you will need to have a lot of standby power stations to even out the load. Base line plants which are the most efficient take days to bring up from a cold state and cost a ton to idle. Even if the wind variability is just on a weekly basis it will be difficult to manage as a large percentage of power production. Since I live in Florida I think solar could have an impact but not as large as many. I can see how it would be wonderful to help with the large AC loads in the summer here but again I wonder about the stability and stand by issues that it will cause if it ever because a large percentage of the grid.
Back to climate change. I am still skeptical and frankly amused. I live in Hurricane country and have been hit by a good number of them lately. We had a few seasons that where just UNREAL and the experts predicted last year to be just as bad. Except it was one of the slowest on record. This year we had a few storms show up in July and the experts where saying that we better get ready for more... Then it just died. I know so little and yet I hear so many make statements of fact that just make me shake my head.
It will also depend on the state. In some states recording video is totally legal but audio requires permission. I have a brother in law that is a police officer and a good friend that is one also. The amount of crap they have to take is amazing. My brother in law as called out on a call because of "Pinching". I don't mean some stealing but two women at a Christmas sale started to pinch one another! He also had to deal with a man that was trying to commit suicide by cop. He tired to kill himself and my brother in law stopped him. The guy then sued the police because he suffered emotional trauma when my BIL tackled him and took away the gun. Sorry folks but the vast majority of the police offers I have had dealing with have been just normal people doing a crappy job the best that they can. My brother in law is in trouble with the town officials because he refused to discipline an officer under him. What did the cop do? Well during an armed robbery being committed by a minor the cop told the kid with the gun too "Drop the f'ing gun". The officer was going to be suspended for using foul language in front of a minor. A minor with a gun holding up a store mind you but still a minor.
I have to admit that I found Cuil less then useful as well. Type in CB750 Forum "A motorcycle I am rebuilding". The best forum I know for it is SOHC4.net. Not even on the page.
Try LongEZ one of the most popular Homebuilt aircraft ever. Cuil comes up with junk.
It is pretty to look at but not very useful as far as I can tell. Google is still better.
Not exactly. Part or the problem is that they will use the term Unlimited. Then they will put on limitations. To me that instantly invalidates all their contracts. Next they are operating as a "Common Carrier" that gives them all sorts of legal protections. This could cause them to loose their Common Carrier protections.
"again technically the Air Force can not even launch the thing as a military object," Sure they can. The only treaty limitation is that you can not put WMDs into orbit or detonate nukes in spaces. I don't know if you forbidden to detonate chemical or biological weapons in space but it would kid of silly. Russia/the USSR tested and deployed anti-satellite weapons in the 70s and 80s. The US tested on in the 80s. China has tested one so no there is nothing stopping the USAF from launching a military system as long as it isn't a nuke. "2) There never was EVER a secret military shuttle... " Yes there is! Don't you watch West Wing! Most of the silly comments where just that. Jokes.
I don't know but the cultural differences are amusing. I got to take some clients out for dinner. We took them to a Mexican restaurant and they started to eat the appraisers with a knife and fork. Well politely told them that traditionally you ate them with your fingers. He smiled and said, "Where British, we will never eat anything with our fingers with out being instructed first." He was also shocked that I liked a lot of British TV shows. He thought that Americans didn't get sarcasm. Over all very nice people and his wife to be and my wife are now friends on FaceBook.
"The problem for the last 11yrs in this country has been purely political as we stood stubbornly by the US. Because of this misdirected loyalty our power generation remains 90+% derived from coal and we have seen many innovations payed for by taxpayers sold off to private companies in the EU and elsewhere. " I will simply state that I fail to understand is how standing stubbornly by the US has anything to do with your choice in energy? Australia uses coal because Australia has a lot of coal. Your country has chosen to use the cheapest power available to it. That has nothing to do with it's relationship with the US. There is nothing wrong with being a skeptic. I am skeptical as well that there is proof of man made global warming. At the same time I am all for cutting CO2 just because I don't think that it can hurt and it may help. The problem is that unless China and India get on board and NO I am not willing to pay them off it really will make little difference.
Never said that Gnome was perfect. The System/Prefs are a mess but frankly I find them a mess everywhere. XP, Gome, KDE. Most of the GUI tweekability I find to be useless except for CompWiz where I find the defaults pretty useless. The big problem I have with most Linux systems is that they by default load a dozen of everything. XP isn't much better with Notepad, Wordpad, and edit all installed by default. I found Gnome to be MUCH more stable than KDE 4. I found it more usable than KDE 3.5 under Ubuntu. When I use OpenSuse it is flipped around.
Okay a reporter in a war zone gets in between a tank and it's target? I really don't see it as even being close to the same thing. You may see it differently but that reporter was running around a war zone on his own and get into a fire fight. "A coroner ruled in 2006 that Mr Lloyd, 50, was unlawfully killed by troops and called for charges against them. " Not a judge just a coroner. Did UK government ever ask for anybody to extradited? I don't see it as even being close to the same thing. I know a lot of people in the Military and I just can not imagine 15 US Marines would site by and watch while one shot a UK journalist in cold blood. No more than I could imagine that 15 Royal Marines would do the same. Back to the man in question though. He admits that he broke in to US systems. This seems like a clear case where extradition is in order.
When has that happened? Just when has the US refused to extradite a suspect to the UK say in the last ten years? Just wondering if you have any news stores or documentation about it? I have no problem with the US extraditing criminals back the the UK unless they are serving time in the US for some crime. Then you guys can have them when we are done.
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I am well over 18 but I do feel that restricting legal adults drinking is wrong.
If you are old enough to sign contracts, get married, and no longer under the juvenile court system then you are an adult.
Heck I don't think anybody should drink or smoke regardless of age but making the drinking age 21 just seems wrong to me from a legal point of view. But then I think trying anyone under 18 as an adult is also wrong.
Just my way of looking at things.
This is the battle of private vs public.
You can get as drunk as you want in private. You can get very drunk in public as long as you don't drive.
You can smoke as much as you want in private.
I really don't like smoke and a lot of other people agree. You can smoke all you want in private.
That isn't a vice law. It is public health.
You lost all creatablity with one statment.
"I can drink all night, have a high blood alcohol percentage, and not be affected, while others can be well under the legal limit and be severely impaired. Biological differences FTW."
No you can not. There is no way that you can drink all night, have a high blood alcohol level and not be affected. Nope not a chance can not happen. You may be affected less than other people but it will have an affect on you. Unless you are a robot.
"One of the forecast climatic effects of increase global tempratures is an increase in extreme weather - simple thermodynamics says if you warm air up it will move around more. To date the peer-reviewed evidence supporting this view is weak to non-existant. "
The problem is that ignores simple thermodynamics.
Weather systems are heat engines. Heat engines are driven by temperature differences not just heat. Take a lot at all the big storms. They are driven by hot meeting cold.
Oh trust me I didn't think that the storm season proved one thing or an other. I am still lacking data for a conclusion.
As to Australia and Uranium. Yep you guys have a lot as does the US and Canada. Would I rather see Australia and Canada get rich on in the case of Canada richer on energy exports? Well if I had my choice I trust Australia and Canada with wealth more than some other groups.
It will not get to court but he lost two ranks because of it. He didn't curse at the kid with the gun. He refused to suspend the officer that did curse at the kid. He said that punishment was out of proportion and that warning would be good enough since the end result was nobody got hurt. The point that I am making is that the VAST majority of the police are good men and women doing a nasty terrible job. They can not choose to do anything but to enforce the laws and God help us if they start picking and choosing which laws they enforce.
However most problems people have when dealing with the police usually involves them the people acting like idiots.
What people don't understand is when a police officer walks up to your car at a stop they don't know if you will be just some guy or if you are going shoot them in the face.
Want to get a cop upset? Jump out of your car at a stop.
Want to be polite at a stop? Roll down your window and put both your hands on the door where they can see them.
When I have been pulled over I have often gotten a break because I treated them with respect and I got treated with respect. And no I don't have any of the police friends stickers in my car.
That is actually a pretty good guess.
An extreme example is the Intel compiler which used to do great optimization on Intel CPUs but really bad optimization on AMD.
The VIA chip is really new and the code the compiler generates treats it as the a P3 or P2.
Except that firing a gun in the middle of a town is usually illegal IF you want to go that far in your silliness.
If the person really wanted to kill himself he should have and could have done it in the privacy of his own home or just driven out into the woods without telling anybody.
Odds are he wanted to be stopped but if you want to be silly about it the guy was endangering others.
I did he first barricaded himself in his home and said that he had a gun which he did.
I didn't go into all the details because frankly he is very upset over that and some other things that happened. I kept some of the details out to protect his privacy.
Oh it has the Usenet feeds but no it isn't the same thing as the Usenet of which I speak.
The Usenet of which I speak had a much higher signal to noise ratio than GoogleGroups/Usenet has today.
Never said that they did. But frankly deal with the idiot and assholes like you perhaps is just not any fun. And the VAST majority of police officers are probably a lot like my BIL and my friend than the people you are screaming about.
I would guess that if you treated police officers you deal with with a little respect your would get at least a little respect back.
Or yahoo groups or Myspace groups or ......
Just not the same thing to be honest. The real problem for usenet and the Internet in general is that it is just to easy.
A lot of the good stuff from usenet has now migrated to mailing lists and online forums but it still isn't the same.. Ahh the good old days.
What I have a problem with is the dumping of blame. Your country decided on it's course. It didn't face any threat from the US it just took the cheapest route. Your nations decision and has nothing to do with the US.
As far as US energy policy. The problem is way to many anti-nuclear nut jobs running around for one. We should be working on recycling nuclear fuel and using reactors to burn waste. I said years ago that we shouldn't build any new coal plants but instead build nuclear plants. And yes I have one in my back yard so to say.
Coal? Well coal can be made into oil, plastics, and fertilizer. Anything that oil can be made into. While not totally green it is a resource that should be used where it can do the most good and least harm until it can be totally replaced.
And lets be honest, hydrocarbons make wonderful fuel for a great many reasons.
Solar and wind I have less hope for. Wind is the one I am really not thrilled with. It is too variable which means that you will need to have a lot of standby power stations to even out the load. Base line plants which are the most efficient take days to bring up from a cold state and cost a ton to idle. Even if the wind variability is just on a weekly basis it will be difficult to manage as a large percentage of power production. Since I live in Florida I think solar could have an impact but not as large as many. I can see how it would be wonderful to help with the large AC loads in the summer here but again I wonder about the stability and stand by issues that it will cause if it ever because a large percentage of the grid.
Back to climate change. I am still skeptical and frankly amused. I live in Hurricane country and have been hit by a good number of them lately. We had a few seasons that where just UNREAL and the experts predicted last year to be just as bad. Except it was one of the slowest on record. This year we had a few storms show up in July and the experts where saying that we better get ready for more... Then it just died.
I know so little and yet I hear so many make statements of fact that just make me shake my head.
Hey Alta Vista was pretty sweet.
It will also depend on the state. In some states recording video is totally legal but audio requires permission.
I have a brother in law that is a police officer and a good friend that is one also.
The amount of crap they have to take is amazing.
My brother in law as called out on a call because of "Pinching". I don't mean some stealing but two women at a Christmas sale started to pinch one another!
He also had to deal with a man that was trying to commit suicide by cop. He tired to kill himself and my brother in law stopped him. The guy then sued the police because he suffered emotional trauma when my BIL tackled him and took away the gun.
Sorry folks but the vast majority of the police offers I have had dealing with have been just normal people doing a crappy job the best that they can.
My brother in law is in trouble with the town officials because he refused to discipline an officer under him.
What did the cop do? Well during an armed robbery being committed by a minor the cop told the kid with the gun too "Drop the f'ing gun".
The officer was going to be suspended for using foul language in front of a minor. A minor with a gun holding up a store mind you but still a minor.
They could then just put a download/upload cap. By targeting one technology they are at risk.
I have to admit that I found Cuil less then useful as well.
Type in CB750 Forum "A motorcycle I am rebuilding".
The best forum I know for it is SOHC4.net.
Not even on the page.
Try LongEZ one of the most popular Homebuilt aircraft ever.
Cuil comes up with junk.
It is pretty to look at but not very useful as far as I can tell.
Google is still better.
Not exactly.
Part or the problem is that they will use the term Unlimited. Then they will put on limitations. To me that instantly invalidates all their contracts.
Next they are operating as a "Common Carrier" that gives them all sorts of legal protections. This could cause them to loose their Common Carrier protections.
"again technically the Air Force can not even launch the thing as a military object,"
Sure they can.
The only treaty limitation is that you can not put WMDs into orbit or detonate nukes in spaces. I don't know if you forbidden to detonate chemical or biological weapons in space but it would kid of silly.
Russia/the USSR tested and deployed anti-satellite weapons in the 70s and 80s. The US tested on in the 80s. China has tested one so no there is nothing stopping the USAF from launching a military system as long as it isn't a nuke.
"2) There never was EVER a secret military shuttle... "
Yes there is! Don't you watch West Wing! Most of the silly comments where just that. Jokes.
"But the article (and even more so the summary) is mostly sensationalist crap:"
I think it was mostly a joke...
I don't know but the cultural differences are amusing. I got to take some clients out for dinner. We took them to a Mexican restaurant and they started to eat the appraisers with a knife and fork.
Well politely told them that traditionally you ate them with your fingers.
He smiled and said, "Where British, we will never eat anything with our fingers with out being instructed first."
He was also shocked that I liked a lot of British TV shows. He thought that Americans didn't get sarcasm.
Over all very nice people and his wife to be and my wife are now friends on FaceBook.
"The problem for the last 11yrs in this country has been purely political as we stood stubbornly by the US. Because of this misdirected loyalty our power generation remains 90+% derived from coal and we have seen many innovations payed for by taxpayers sold off to private companies in the EU and elsewhere. "
I will simply state that I fail to understand is how standing stubbornly by the US has anything to do with your choice in energy?
Australia uses coal because Australia has a lot of coal. Your country has chosen to use the cheapest power available to it. That has nothing to do with it's relationship with the US.
There is nothing wrong with being a skeptic. I am skeptical as well that there is proof of man made global warming. At the same time I am all for cutting CO2 just because I don't think that it can hurt and it may help. The problem is that unless China and India get on board and NO I am not willing to pay them off it really will make little difference.
Actually you should have real problem with the US government but with your own.
Never said that Gnome was perfect.
The System/Prefs are a mess but frankly I find them a mess everywhere. XP, Gome, KDE.
Most of the GUI tweekability I find to be useless except for CompWiz where I find the defaults pretty useless.
The big problem I have with most Linux systems is that they by default load a dozen of everything. XP isn't much better with Notepad, Wordpad, and edit all installed by default.
I found Gnome to be MUCH more stable than KDE 4. I found it more usable than KDE 3.5 under Ubuntu. When I use OpenSuse it is flipped around.
Okay a reporter in a war zone gets in between a tank and it's target?
I really don't see it as even being close to the same thing. You may see it differently but that reporter was running around a war zone on his own and get into a fire fight.
"A coroner ruled in 2006 that Mr Lloyd, 50, was unlawfully killed by troops and called for charges against them. "
Not a judge just a coroner. Did UK government ever ask for anybody to extradited?
I don't see it as even being close to the same thing. I know a lot of people in the Military and I just can not imagine 15 US Marines would site by and watch while one shot a UK journalist in cold blood.
No more than I could imagine that 15 Royal Marines would do the same.
Back to the man in question though. He admits that he broke in to US systems. This seems like a clear case where extradition is in order.
When has that happened?
Just when has the US refused to extradite a suspect to the UK say in the last ten years?
Just wondering if you have any news stores or documentation about it?
I have no problem with the US extraditing criminals back the the UK unless they are serving time in the US for some crime. Then you guys can have them when we are done.
Cool I spent hours playing games on the 2600. If they got a version of combat that I can play over wifi I am so there!