Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's you !!
CATS: How are you gentlemen !!
CATS: All your base are belong to us.
CATS: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time.
CATS: Ha Ha Ha Ha....
Operator: Captain !! *
Captain: Take off every 'ZIG' !!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'ZIG'.
Captain: For great justice.
When you have 2 ruling political parties, it is easy to make things black or white.
Not really. To me your two parties are conservative and conservativer. You don't have a left and a right, you have a right and an even more right. Seriously, look outside your borders a bit.
I'd have to go with/usr/bin/yes. Often I find myself needing something to tell me I'm correct about a tough decision, or to provide me motivation to do something, or just for some general personal validation. For that and more, I trust yes.
We can drive the nukes across the country, we can throw them on a train, or we can fly them.
Hey, Sam-I-Am, You forgot:
put them in a box,
pack them with a fox.
keep them in a house,
keep them with a mouse.
store those nukes here or there.
store those nukes anywhere.
I do not like that Sam-I-Am.
"... a mutation could mean that the triclosan can no longer get to the target site to kill the bacteria because the bacteria and the pathway have changed form." I know that it's kinda a bad word now in the US and no-one wants to upset Anne Coulter and Bill O'Reilly (why anyone would care is beyond me though), but I think the word you're looking for there is "evolved" Don't thank me, just doing my job...
Really? Come on...Who gives a shit about this? It's not like it's actually literature. hats off to JKR for all the money she's made and for getting little kids into reading again but it's Famous Five Go Casting a Spell without the lashings of ginger beer. I can't believe anyone over the age of 12 gives a damn.
This is standard bait & switch. They want to do this to make money/gain more control (allowing them to make more money).
That it's to catch terrorists or criminals is:
(a) a segway to the standard "if you're not doing anything wrong, why should you be worried?"
(b) a way to get funding into the hands of your friends (ID cards and the proposed tube scanners aren't going to solve any crime problems, only funnel huge sums of money to defence contractors.)
This is obvious if you look at London where the huge number of cameras and the already in-place surveillance veil didn't help one little bit in preventing terrorist attacks/attemtps.
Although, it's convenient that all the cameras on the underground train platform when the cops killed Jean Charles de Menezes. Technology's funny that way.
I think the trouble comes about when we start to think of evolution as a "force". Evolution is not the driving force behind change; instead, outside forces in the environment (temperature, weather, resources, competitors, etc.) create natural selection, which drives change. Evolution is merely the description of that change. What kind of force? A bangy force? A pushy force? A growy force? A forcy force force? A magic man dunnit
No-one thinks of evolution as a force, except those that don't understand it. Your final comment is true - evolution is the result of Natural Selection, and that is the real beauty of Darwin's insight. He proposed a machanism to explain diversity beyond the then-prevalent magic man dunnit hypothesis. Others had played with the idea of evolution, but no-one really saw how it could occur. Lamarck was famously wrong on this count, and even Linnaeus got caught up in the magic man.
Perhaps there's a force that hasn't been taken into account in his calculations...
What kind of force?
A bangy force?
A pushy force?
A growy force?
A forcy force force?
A magic man dunnit.
When a breach like this happens, is the company legally obligated to inform those who may have had their information compromised?? If so, how the hell do you do that with 45 million people?
Well, you can be damn sure they'd find a way if 45 million people owed them money.
No shipping charges over $39 so your point is kinda moot...no? The wait time thing on the other hand is valid. Although I rarely (i.e., never) need a book right now enough to pay way more for it in-store (here in Canada, books are usually a good 15+% cheaper at chapters online than at the walk-in chapters store, which is weird, they're competing with themselves), and I generally don't have time to go find a store and buy the thing anyway. Much better use of time to have it delivered to work for free and at a lower price in the first place.
I guess it's time for another metaphor. The metaphor of the drowning man No, where the RIAA are concerned, I think I much prefer the kick in the nuts metaphor.
Of course, this guy's main crime is being poor. If OTOH he was a highlypaidCEO, his disability would have automatically disqualify him from legal problems just like this lady.
This is emotional to a lot of people yes. But we are also highly intelligent people who know quite a bit about this and how this came to be. While we may be emotional doesnt mean we are wrong!
Intelligent, yes. But one of us is having a hard time understanding sarcasm...
You'r eall coming at this from the worong direction and presuming that anyone (anyone with a say in the matter anyways) is actually trying to build a system that's (a) reliable and (b) immune/highly resistant to fraud. Seems like the perfect solution those pushing for these systems would have only a single big red 'Vote Republican' button that automatically deposited a large sum of money in the bank accounts of each of the congresscritters responsible for getting the machines installed along with a sizeable sum into the coffers of the corporation that built it. Sounds like the rest of the wrangling is to get as close to that goal as possible.
Then of course there was the total botch up where they raided a home in Forest Gate on no evidence whatsoever (except is seems that dark people live there) and shot Mohammed Abdul Kahar--again accidentally .
Wonder if someone (I was going to say I, but then you don't know who's listening) was to shoot, say, Tony Bliar or Jack Straw, and then say 'oops, that was an unfortunate accident' would there be no comeback at all? Is this now a valid defence?
Of course, your friend GWB is alloverthis a stark reminder that "Islamic fascists... will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom"...he's actually right, just delete the Islamic part and you're getting close.
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I would have thought SCOsaurus litigousbastardus would be more apt.
Captain: What happen ? ....
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's you !!
CATS: How are you gentlemen !!
CATS: All your base are belong to us.
CATS: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time.
CATS: Ha Ha Ha Ha
Operator: Captain !! *
Captain: Take off every 'ZIG' !!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'ZIG'.
Captain: For great justice.
Looks like it works well...
...you forgot to add "And get off My Lawn!"
...the witch is dead
Not really. To me your two parties are conservative and conservativer. You don't have a left and a right, you have a right and an even more right. Seriously, look outside your borders a bit.
George? Is that you?
Hey, Sam-I-Am, You forgot:
put them in a box,
pack them with a fox.
keep them in a house,
keep them with a mouse.
store those nukes here or there.
store those nukes anywhere.
I do not like that Sam-I-Am.
"... a mutation could mean that the triclosan can no longer get to the target site to kill the bacteria because the bacteria and the pathway have changed form."
I know that it's kinda a bad word now in the US and no-one wants to upset Anne Coulter and Bill O'Reilly (why anyone would care is beyond me though), but I think the word you're looking for there is "evolved"
Don't thank me, just doing my job...
Really? Come on...Who gives a shit about this? It's not like it's actually literature. hats off to JKR for all the money she's made and for getting little kids into reading again but it's Famous Five Go Casting a Spell without the lashings of ginger beer. I can't believe anyone over the age of 12 gives a damn.
This is standard bait & switch. They want to do this to make money/gain more control (allowing them to make more money). That it's to catch terrorists or criminals is: (a) a segway to the standard "if you're not doing anything wrong, why should you be worried?" (b) a way to get funding into the hands of your friends (ID cards and the proposed tube scanners aren't going to solve any crime problems, only funnel huge sums of money to defence contractors.) This is obvious if you look at London where the huge number of cameras and the already in-place surveillance veil didn't help one little bit in preventing terrorist attacks/attemtps. Although, it's convenient that all the cameras on the underground train platform when the cops killed Jean Charles de Menezes. Technology's funny that way.
I think the trouble comes about when we start to think of evolution as a "force". Evolution is not the driving force behind change; instead, outside forces in the environment (temperature, weather, resources, competitors, etc.) create natural selection, which drives change. Evolution is merely the description of that change.
What kind of force? A bangy force? A pushy force? A growy force? A forcy force force? A magic man dunnit
No-one thinks of evolution as a force, except those that don't understand it. Your final comment is true - evolution is the result of Natural Selection, and that is the real beauty of Darwin's insight. He proposed a machanism to explain diversity beyond the then-prevalent magic man dunnit hypothesis. Others had played with the idea of evolution, but no-one really saw how it could occur. Lamarck was famously wrong on this count, and even Linnaeus got caught up in the magic man.
Shhh, Karl, don't tell them any more than they already know.
Can I just edit that slightly for you?
As if a hundred million anti-evolutionists screamed in error (yet again).
Although I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the "suddenly silenced" part--that never seems to happen, they just get more shrill and more stupid.
Perhaps there's a force that hasn't been taken into account in his calculations...
What kind of force? A bangy force? A pushy force? A growy force? A forcy force force? A magic man dunnit.
When a breach like this happens, is the company legally obligated to inform those who may have had their information compromised?? If so, how the hell do you do that with 45 million people?
Well, you can be damn sure they'd find a way if 45 million people owed them money.
No shipping charges over $39 so your point is kinda moot...no? The wait time thing on the other hand is valid. Although I rarely (i.e., never) need a book right now enough to pay way more for it in-store (here in Canada, books are usually a good 15+% cheaper at chapters online than at the walk-in chapters store, which is weird, they're competing with themselves), and I generally don't have time to go find a store and buy the thing anyway. Much better use of time to have it delivered to work for free and at a lower price in the first place.
I guess it's time for another metaphor. The metaphor of the drowning man
No, where the RIAA are concerned, I think I much prefer the kick in the nuts metaphor.
Of course, this guy's main crime is being poor. If OTOH he was a highly paid CEO, his disability would have automatically disqualify him from legal problems just like this lady.
This is emotional to a lot of people yes. But we are also highly intelligent people who know quite a bit about this and how this came to be. While we may be emotional doesnt mean we are wrong!
Intelligent, yes. But one of us is having a hard time understanding sarcasm...
In in the end Charisma is what makes you president or not
I think you misspelled 'Karl Rove'
You'r eall coming at this from the worong direction and presuming that anyone (anyone with a say in the matter anyways) is actually trying to build a system that's (a) reliable and (b) immune/highly resistant to fraud. Seems like the perfect solution those pushing for these systems would have only a single big red 'Vote Republican' button that automatically deposited a large sum of money in the bank accounts of each of the congresscritters responsible for getting the machines installed along with a sizeable sum into the coffers of the corporation that built it.
Sounds like the rest of the wrangling is to get as close to that goal as possible.
...and Poland, don't forget Poland.
...seeing in their toast you say. Non-believer - how about this for evidence. FSM be praised.
Then of course there was the total botch up where they raided a home in Forest Gate on no evidence whatsoever (except is seems that dark people live there) and shot Mohammed Abdul Kahar--again accidentally .
Wonder if someone (I was going to say I, but then you don't know who's listening) was to shoot, say, Tony Bliar or Jack Straw, and then say 'oops, that was an unfortunate accident' would there be no comeback at all? Is this now a valid defence?
Of course, your friend GWB is all over this a stark reminder that "Islamic fascists... will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom"...he's actually right, just delete the Islamic part and you're getting close.
"what does this button do?" -DOES NOT WANT!