This is about blowing planes out of the sky, and the availability of the means and knowledge to do so.
And it's about people who, as a sub-culture within a very large culture that camouflages them, not only don't mind dying, but in fact consider it a fundamental step in the accomplishment of their loftiest goals.
100-200 years ago, was it reasonable to assume that one person could kill hundreds of people in a gruesome manner and set an entire world into a panic about one of their primary modes of transport, by setting his shoes or his underwear on fire?
It's also possible that someone in China also doesn't understand Internet basics, and figured if he/she said "route everything here" it would stop propagating that at the border, because they probably never browsed outside of China in their off hours and to them The Internet only goes that far.
Your power consists of raising your hand to show your preference for the persons to fill the seats to which the Constitution entrusted the power, and raising your voice to support or complain about the persons who are selected and the things they use their power to do. We're lucky to have that much, and it wasn't cheap.
There is no greater threat now than has existed in the past.
That is incorrect.
The ability to do great harm with easily-concealed weapons has grown. The willingness to do great harm despite the perpetrator losing his own life has also grown. The social structure to create people willing to do great harm despite the perpetrator losing his own life has also grown. The ability of government to control that social structure has decreased, if not evaporated entirely, if not been inverted into a greater excuse for that social structure to grow.
It implies that any government with any power will misuse it.
The evidence is that few governments misuse their power significantly. Abuse of power, especially in democracies, is hardly a habit and it's something most governments work hard to avoid.
However, what is true is that all governments are susceptible to subversion by malefactors who are interested in personal power rather than government (such as the corporatists who are undermining the United States government by conflating capitalism and democracy in such a way that it creates a de facto feudalism where money overwhelms facts in the accumulation of votes; in the process they abuse the law by biasing the capitialist and democratic systems in their favor; it remains to be seen whether the un-wealthy in the democracy can see this happening and use their innate numerical superiority to stop it, although there are glaring indications that it may already be too late).
Only works a few hours a day, and only on days it's not raining.
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Longer than it would take to select the question text, right-click it to google, scan the result summaries, and click a checkbox.
But you can't really give a test-taker 5-10 seconds unless you're running a quiz show. Because sometimes people have to think to remember what they know.
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In the 17th Century, if you told people there was an entire continent out there and they could have it for the price of a steerage ticket, they would look at its environment based on the scientific expeditions sent there, and they would take it, knowing that they could make something of it and probably end up filthy rich, even if there were risks associated with leaving civilization.
In the 21st Century, you can tell people there's an entire planet out there, and they'll look at what we know its environment based on the scientific expeditions sent there, and they would tell you to go fuck yourself.
grabbing a low quality stream from a phone handset
Funny thing about digital signals. Unless your connection is bad, you get exactly the same quality no matter what device you're streaming to, as long as that device can ask for all the quality.
One app later, you have a phone that loops through a database of film titles asking for 1080p streams, gets them, and offloads them realtime to a torrent server.
So if it was my content I wouldn't let those phones ask for it either.
It's science. It increases the number of significant figures in "most" from 0 ("0.5 to 1") to 2 ("24%) and reveals it not to be "most" but only 1 in 4.2 of those surveyed.
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The point is we want them to lose power without destroying our economy or the state. We do that by voting against them, not buying their bullshit.
This isn't about "assassinations".
This is about blowing planes out of the sky, and the availability of the means and knowledge to do so.
And it's about people who, as a sub-culture within a very large culture that camouflages them, not only don't mind dying, but in fact consider it a fundamental step in the accomplishment of their loftiest goals.
100-200 years ago, was it reasonable to assume that one person could kill hundreds of people in a gruesome manner and set an entire world into a panic about one of their primary modes of transport, by setting his shoes or his underwear on fire?
Go read your history books again.
Works when your session is already established before the man gets in the middle.
Gives you a false sense of security otherwise.
It's also possible that someone in China also doesn't understand Internet basics, and figured if he/she said "route everything here" it would stop propagating that at the border, because they probably never browsed outside of China in their off hours and to them The Internet only goes that far.
With half the calories burned.
I'm going to skip it.
Modify the body scanners to remove the displays and any I/O connectors. Further modify them so that they detonate any explosives within them.
I bet we run out of terrorists before the replacement costs for the scanners start to become a problem.
That's going to make the Church's recruiting efforts grind to a halt...
Your power consists of raising your hand to show your preference for the persons to fill the seats to which the Constitution entrusted the power, and raising your voice to support or complain about the persons who are selected and the things they use their power to do. We're lucky to have that much, and it wasn't cheap.
There is no greater threat now than has existed in the past.
That is incorrect.
The ability to do great harm with easily-concealed weapons has grown.
The willingness to do great harm despite the perpetrator losing his own life has also grown.
The social structure to create people willing to do great harm despite the perpetrator losing his own life has also grown.
The ability of government to control that social structure has decreased, if not evaporated entirely, if not been inverted into a greater excuse for that social structure to grow.
The problem is that that is a false statement.
It implies that any government with any power will misuse it.
The evidence is that few governments misuse their power significantly. Abuse of power, especially in democracies, is hardly a habit and it's something most governments work hard to avoid.
However, what is true is that all governments are susceptible to subversion by malefactors who are interested in personal power rather than government (such as the corporatists who are undermining the United States government by conflating capitalism and democracy in such a way that it creates a de facto feudalism where money overwhelms facts in the accumulation of votes; in the process they abuse the law by biasing the capitialist and democratic systems in their favor; it remains to be seen whether the un-wealthy in the democracy can see this happening and use their innate numerical superiority to stop it, although there are glaring indications that it may already be too late).
Or we could dam up the river and attach a wheel to the falling water and hook up some rotating permanent magnets and...
And an unreliable one.
Only works a few hours a day, and only on days it's not raining.
Longer than it would take to select the question text, right-click it to google, scan the result summaries, and click a checkbox.
But you can't really give a test-taker 5-10 seconds unless you're running a quiz show. Because sometimes people have to think to remember what they know.
http://www.google.com/search?q=ballpark+of+5-10+seconds
About 667,000 results (0.15 seconds)
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I know I'll ace it, because I'll open Google in another window.
And that, of course, is the correct answer, in 2010.
In the 17th Century, if you told people there was an entire continent out there and they could have it for the price of a steerage ticket, they would look at its environment based on the scientific expeditions sent there, and they would take it, knowing that they could make something of it and probably end up filthy rich, even if there were risks associated with leaving civilization.
In the 21st Century, you can tell people there's an entire planet out there, and they'll look at what we know its environment based on the scientific expeditions sent there, and they would tell you to go fuck yourself.
The only thing Apple has a monopoly on is its own products.
They are not going to switch fleets to cheaper Chinese aircraft just to save a few dollars.
Horseshit.
They'll switch the instant the FAA certifies Chinese aircraft for use.
grabbing a low quality stream from a phone handset
Funny thing about digital signals. Unless your connection is bad, you get exactly the same quality no matter what device you're streaming to, as long as that device can ask for all the quality.
One app later, you have a phone that loops through a database of film titles asking for 1080p streams, gets them, and offloads them realtime to a torrent server.
So if it was my content I wouldn't let those phones ask for it either.
Hell-loooooo!
Anyone thinking in there?
Mars is already post-apocalyptic, times a factor of a million!
And it's tens of millions of miles away, on a good day.
If we're worried about catastrophe, we should be looking for ways to prevent it for everyone's sake, not just helping the super-wealthy and astronautically psychotic avoid it.
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It's science. It increases the number of significant figures in "most" from 0 ("0.5 to 1") to 2 ("24%) and reveals it not to be "most" but only 1 in 4.2 of those surveyed.
Good practitioners are able to get feedback from the body they're working on.
When they can do X-rays by ESP, that'll be something interesting.
As for allopathic, that term is a buzzword showing the speaker rejects science in favor of obvious fraud.
Patent yes, copyright no.
Blame the CSS, not the HTML.
Wait...what?