Do you not remember Hans Blix? Inspectors were in Iraq, checking out sites given to them by U.S. intelligence, and they were finding nothing. The U.S. warned the U.N. inspectors to get out because the invasion was imminent.
While Iraq did expel inspectors in the '90s, we effectively expelled them -- while they were doing their job and trying to warn us there was nothing to find -- in order to effect our invasion.
Also, I'd like you to substantiate your claim that Iraq could have secreted all their contraband nuclear processing equipment in a couple of days. The number of centrifuges alone would have taken a serious amount of planning and execution, with U.S. satellites watching all the while. Don't you think Colin Powell would have liked to go before the U.N. with something better than aluminum tubes (which weren't part of any nuclear program)?
But don't an equal number of opportunities exist for the contrary side? Wouldn't Exxon be willing to sponsor a whole scad of research grants if it disproved climate worries? Wouldn't a researcher who proved AGW was a hoax be bathed in media attention, career opportunities, etc.? With good enough research, couldn't journals be shamed into publishing?
Anyone foolish enough to think they'll advance their careers with false science will be caught out soon enough.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- For the first time in 12 years, Toyota's Lexus luxury brand has to share its top rank in J.D. Power and Associates' annual Vehicle Dependability Study.
And it has to share it with an American car.
General Motors' Buick brand tied Lexus in the study, which measures the number of problems owners experience with their cars after three years of ownership.
As someone else so succinctly points out in a thread further down the page, that isn't true at all. If you can't use birth control for religious reasons, don't have sex. It's not hard.
Pope Benedict XVI has told Catholics to have more babies "for the good of society," saying that some countries were being sapped of energy because of low birth rates.
"Having children is a gift that brings life and well-being to society," he told about 15,000 people at his weekly audience in the Vatican, to which he arrived by helicopter from his summer residence south-east of Rome.
He said the decline in the number of births "deprives some nations of freshness and energy and of hopes for the future incarnate in children."
The Pope also spoke of "the security, the stability and the force of a numerous family."
Now, you could argue that if you're having sex with your spouse, STDs shouldn't be an issue. Fine. You're still using a Bronze Age text to dictate behavior for people with today's realities and an urge to reproduce as old as time. Good luck. I'm sure it works out as well as telling priests "Don't bugger the kids." You don't have to tell the ones who would listen.
The fidelity and attachment of this animal were remarkable. After the melancholy exit of Gov. Lewis, his dog would not depart for a moment from his lifeless remains; and when they were deposited in the earth no gentle means could draw him from the spot of interment. He refused to take every kind of food, which was offered him, and actually pined away and died with grief upon his master's grave!
I disagree with both parent AND grandparent! First, I think Kinky is sincere in his run for governor, even if he does seem to be "on" all the time: entertainer, politician -- easy transition as far as I can tell.
And I don't think anyone would be messing with Kinky with a GWB angle. He's friends with the President and First Lady, God help him.
It's unlikely anything would have helped her. The sheer amount of brain tissue that died as the result of her cardiac arrest probably precluded any treatment for her.
Car title loans and payday loan places often get higher interest rates than loan sharks. And while I certainly don't want to hang a smiley face on loan sharks, it isn't unusual for a shark to have a regular, reliable customer for whom a lower rate is given.
The difference: our governments say it's okay for the payday/car title people to fleece people, while loan sharks (rightly) operate illegally.
Oh, and most payday loan shops won't break your hip.
If they filed the trademark decades ago, have they been enforcing it all along? If so, then why is this news? If not, then it would be easy to have the trademark invalidated. A trademark must be defended or lost.
It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgement and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court. --John Adams, 1771
It is misguided to believe the legal system is supposed to bother only with efficiency and mechanical adjudication with no regard to justice.
Under English law, juries could render verdicts contra to the law and the instructions of the judge (Zenger case, for instance). Do you think the founding fathers would voluntarily surrender that right (see Zenger) in the interest of functionality over justice?
Do you think that in an age where 600-page bills are routinely passed and 536 (Congress + prez) decide the laws for 280 million people, that the solution to an unjust law is ONLY through petition?
Don't you think they'll just adapt by sipping the data from the nearest point to you? What good is driving furtively, turning a random direction every three blocks if they saw you get in your car?
I'm not by any means calling you a liar, but I'm puzzled that your tactic worked.
If your goal is to demonstrate that your engine was sufficiently advanced beyond prior art, anecdote wouldn't be the argument I'd turn to. It's physics, fer cryin' out loud, and I think it would be relatively straightforward to compile empirical evidence of computations that are missing or incorrectly implemented in prior art.
Your story would seem to further the argument that USPTO has poor evaluation skills.
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I *think* the rule is the contractor can take 10% of your rate, the subcontractor can do the same, and the rest must go to your salary and benefits.
The workers are often full-time employees of the contractor (e.g., General Dynamics IT). They get benefits along with their salary.
Past Decade Warmest on Record, NASA Data Shows
Of course he didn't wear a condom -- they prevent leaks!
Do you not remember Hans Blix? Inspectors were in Iraq, checking out sites given to them by U.S. intelligence, and they were finding nothing. The U.S. warned the U.N. inspectors to get out because the invasion was imminent.
While Iraq did expel inspectors in the '90s, we effectively expelled them -- while they were doing their job and trying to warn us there was nothing to find -- in order to effect our invasion.
Also, I'd like you to substantiate your claim that Iraq could have secreted all their contraband nuclear processing equipment in a couple of days. The number of centrifuges alone would have taken a serious amount of planning and execution, with U.S. satellites watching all the while. Don't you think Colin Powell would have liked to go before the U.N. with something better than aluminum tubes (which weren't part of any nuclear program)?
Not within the cloud itself. Incompleteness and all that.
But don't an equal number of opportunities exist for the contrary side? Wouldn't Exxon be willing to sponsor a whole scad of research grants if it disproved climate worries? Wouldn't a researcher who proved AGW was a hoax be bathed in media attention, career opportunities, etc.? With good enough research, couldn't journals be shamed into publishing?
Anyone foolish enough to think they'll advance their careers with false science will be caught out soon enough.
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Boy, you nailed it!
Oh, wait, were you talking about Silverlight?
Oops.
Now, you could argue that if you're having sex with your spouse, STDs shouldn't be an issue. Fine. You're still using a Bronze Age text to dictate behavior for people with today's realities and an urge to reproduce as old as time. Good luck. I'm sure it works out as well as telling priests "Don't bugger the kids." You don't have to tell the ones who would listen.
Well, as long as we're passing out Wikipedia links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke
Vista? Buddy, they have enough on their plate getting a Beowulf cluster of these strung together ...
Did these governments
This has been yet another edition of stuff you can find in a 20-second Google session.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
I thought public schools were modeled on the Prussian school system.
I disagree with both parent AND grandparent! First, I think Kinky is sincere in his run for governor, even if he does seem to be "on" all the time: entertainer, politician -- easy transition as far as I can tell.
And I don't think anyone would be messing with Kinky with a GWB angle. He's friends with the President and First Lady, God help him.
It's unlikely anything would have helped her. The sheer amount of brain tissue that died as the result of her cardiac arrest probably precluded any treatment for her.
Car title loans and payday loan places often get higher interest rates than loan sharks. And while I certainly don't want to hang a smiley face on loan sharks, it isn't unusual for a shark to have a regular, reliable customer for whom a lower rate is given.
The difference: our governments say it's okay for the payday/car title people to fleece people, while loan sharks (rightly) operate illegally.
Oh, and most payday loan shops won't break your hip.
If they filed the trademark decades ago, have they been enforcing it all along? If so, then why is this news? If not, then it would be easy to have the trademark invalidated. A trademark must be defended or lost.
It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict
according to his own best understanding, judgement and conscience,
though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.
--John Adams, 1771
It is misguided to believe the legal system is supposed to bother only with efficiency and mechanical adjudication with no regard to justice.
Under English law, juries could render verdicts contra to the law and the instructions of the judge (Zenger case, for instance). Do you think the founding fathers would voluntarily surrender that right (see Zenger) in the interest of functionality over justice?
Do you think that in an age where 600-page bills are routinely passed and 536 (Congress + prez) decide the laws for 280 million people, that the solution to an unjust law is ONLY through petition?
Don't you think they'll just adapt by sipping the data from the nearest point to you? What good is driving furtively, turning a random direction every three blocks if they saw you get in your car?
Does a Grammer Nazi point out mistakes in the television series "Frasier"?
Affectionately,
The Spelling Nazi (I monitor "The Love Boat," "90210," "Melrose Place," etc.)
I'm not by any means calling you a liar, but I'm puzzled that your tactic worked.
If your goal is to demonstrate that your engine was sufficiently advanced beyond prior art, anecdote wouldn't be the argument I'd turn to. It's physics, fer cryin' out loud, and I think it would be relatively straightforward to compile empirical evidence of computations that are missing or incorrectly implemented in prior art.
Your story would seem to further the argument that USPTO has poor evaluation skills.