Or perhaps your parents are deluded by Israeli propaganda designed to make Iron Dome seem effective. Skewing the numbers is, unfortunately, common courtesy when evaluating missile defense systems. Perhaps the military are not including those missiles that landed but hit nothing but the ground in the counts.
When the conflict just started there were some numbers released that Iron Dome had shot down 80% of Palestinian rockets. A day later they released the number of rockets fired and those destroyed at that time: 160 fired, 2 destroyed. That's no 80% of the rockets, instead it amounts to 1.25%...so someone screwed with the numbers there, and I bet it's Israel.
You could swap "Israel" and "Hamas" in your list, and have the exact same list of arguments.
Meanwhile, Israel is isolating itself internationally, committing war crimes right and left, and showing to Muslims worldwide that they are assholes. I'm not denying that Hamas are assholes too, but seeing Israel's excessive use of force (and mass-punishment) Israel will be the loser of this conflict (just like last time...).
Personally, I believe Hamas or any other terrorist organisation will not destroy Israel. Israel will destroy itself instead.
154 Dutch nationals, 27 Australians, 23 Malaysians, 11 Indonesians, six Britons, four Germans, four Belgians, three from the Philippines and one Canadian. All 15 of the crew were Malaysian. Remaining ones yet unknown.
My country will have a day of mourning tomorrow. Personally I am wishing for the fast removal of Putin from the Kremlin, perhaps using a air-ground missile fired from a Boeing 777, for irony.
As has been confirmed by Vladimir Putin himself, who has rightfully blamed the Ukrainian government for this tragedy. If those bastards had not attacked the freedom fighters earlier this week, this tragedy could have been avoided!
The black boxes are already in transit to Russia, awaiting their truthful transcription which will show that the Ukranian government scrambled the pilot's transmissions right at the crucial moment, find pictorial evidence showing the Ukranian missile a second before impact, and reveal other incriminating delights!
In other news, the most likely hiding place for that battery of BUK missiles is Vladimir's eminent and firm behind.
Hint: If their primary occupation involves giving living humans concrete foundations (as opposed to statues), they may actually be part of the mafia. Bonus points if they have hobbies such as "listening to the collected symphonies of AK-47" they carry around in a violin case. The AK-47 is not a type of violin, it is a machine gun (which in turn is not construction equipment).
I once had a cowworker (the additional "w" is in there for a reason...) who managed to align her eyes with her cleavage by leaning over for no obvious reason whatsoever while we were talking (she was sitting with me standing opposite to her). I have never felt so uneasy and had to take a step back to be able to look at her face (obviously) without opening myself up to accusations of sexual harassment.
Of course, considering the person in question showed about 90% of the symptoms of a serious personality disorder (borderline, I am told...), it was probably done on purpose and she was just being her manipulative self.
Nothing, because after the 404 the Google Car complied to the mandatory "Arrest Vehicular Criminals Upon Apprehension By Automated Rovers" law and wrapped you up in the seat as a nice present for the cop around the corner.
As long as it isn't the same cop who tried using another Google Car to pursue a criminal...
If you buy an old box and plan to upgrade the RAM, it might be worthwhile to update the BIOS to the latest version to get more memory options. I had a vintage PC that would work with double-sided SDRAM modules but not with single-sided ones, until I upgraded the BIOS. After that the machine went from 64Mb to 320 Mb RAM quite easily, using one double-sided 64 Mb 100 MHz module and two single-sided 128 Mb 133 MHz modules.
Another source for compatible hardware (harddisks, memory, and DVD-players) are Macs up to about 2005. The 'specialised' Apple hardware used in these are just rebranded off-the-shelf components that will work fine in a Pentium II/III PC.
15 year old hardware is approx. 1999. In 1999 most hardware was starting to become plug-and-play, working well in general. 1999 is also a period that you can generally still find manuals and drivers online for. It's not 1995, when playing with jumpers using shitty manuals and solving IRQ conflicts was a major part of hardware installation that could be a total pain in the arse.
Pick up an old Pentium 2 or Pentium 3 box from a reputable manufacturer, maybe update to the latest BIOS, install a good OS, and off you go. Besides, some people like tinkering with hardware...
Sooooo...how will your driverless car install its snow tires? Forced human labor? Or will it just refuse to drive away if it snows and it lacks snow tires? In that case, what will happen if people sleep in their car and a blizzard starts overnight? The car refuses to start and they freeze to death instead?
It's only the 2dRank list that's screwed up, the PageRank list is a lot more reasonable. I don't know why they even included that 2dRank list, it ruins their credibility. The methodology doesn't even make sense. PageRank works based on determining how influential you are based on how much things link to you. Makes sense, right? Well, 2dRank uses that *plus* how much you link to other people. Why should how much you link to other people have any significance on how influential you are? Perhaps how influenced you are, but certainly not how influential you are.
Making stupid claims makes people stop listening to what you have to say. It's like you're sitting on a bus and you see the following sign: "1. This is a space ship. 2. No smoking". The demonstrable falsity of the first part undermines the credibility of the second part.
The first list also has its problems. It is not objective at all, as how many things link to you is unfortunately time-frame-dependent. What this list actually measures is the popularity of historic figures in the current time-frame (2014). To give a more objective view, it would have to take into account all the literature from all times...
...and that would not preclude the list from changing in the future.
Even back in the late 1980s there were characters with long hair, who'd be female, and short hair or no hair, who'd be male. No pink colours though. That only started with Lego Paradiso, which were architecturally interesting but stereotypically pink. When I was a kid in the 1980s there were already houses and other less manly Lego stuff, but they had normal colours. Later I thought I had been dumb for not buying more of those sets; 1980s Lego buildings were really cool.
Just imagine that the Lego world is filled with many, many women with butch features (and sometimes stubble). While the obviously and stereotypically female figures are actually men in drag fondling their inner maiden.
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Or perhaps your parents are deluded by Israeli propaganda designed to make Iron Dome seem effective. Skewing the numbers is, unfortunately, common courtesy when evaluating missile defense systems. Perhaps the military are not including those missiles that landed but hit nothing but the ground in the counts.
When the conflict just started there were some numbers released that Iron Dome had shot down 80% of Palestinian rockets. A day later they released the number of rockets fired and those destroyed at that time: 160 fired, 2 destroyed. That's no 80% of the rockets, instead it amounts to 1.25%...so someone screwed with the numbers there, and I bet it's Israel.
You could swap "Israel" and "Hamas" in your list, and have the exact same list of arguments.
Meanwhile, Israel is isolating itself internationally, committing war crimes right and left, and showing to Muslims worldwide that they are assholes. I'm not denying that Hamas are assholes too, but seeing Israel's excessive use of force (and mass-punishment) Israel will be the loser of this conflict (just like last time...).
Personally, I believe Hamas or any other terrorist organisation will not destroy Israel. Israel will destroy itself instead.
154 Dutch nationals, 27 Australians, 23 Malaysians, 11 Indonesians, six Britons, four Germans, four Belgians, three from the Philippines and one Canadian. All 15 of the crew were Malaysian. Remaining ones yet unknown.
My country will have a day of mourning tomorrow. Personally I am wishing for the fast removal of Putin from the Kremlin, perhaps using a air-ground missile fired from a Boeing 777, for irony.
Damn Rednecks, never doin' the right thing. I tell ya, why aren't they firing BUK missiles at their shooting ranges?
As has been confirmed by Vladimir Putin himself, who has rightfully blamed the Ukrainian government for this tragedy. If those bastards had not attacked the freedom fighters earlier this week, this tragedy could have been avoided!
The black boxes are already in transit to Russia, awaiting their truthful transcription which will show that the Ukranian government scrambled the pilot's transmissions right at the crucial moment, find pictorial evidence showing the Ukranian missile a second before impact, and reveal other incriminating delights!
In other news, the most likely hiding place for that battery of BUK missiles is Vladimir's eminent and firm behind.
Hint: If their primary occupation involves giving living humans concrete foundations (as opposed to statues), they may actually be part of the mafia. Bonus points if they have hobbies such as "listening to the collected symphonies of AK-47" they carry around in a violin case. The AK-47 is not a type of violin, it is a machine gun (which in turn is not construction equipment).
I once had a cowworker (the additional "w" is in there for a reason...) who managed to align her eyes with her cleavage by leaning over for no obvious reason whatsoever while we were talking (she was sitting with me standing opposite to her). I have never felt so uneasy and had to take a step back to be able to look at her face (obviously) without opening myself up to accusations of sexual harassment.
Of course, considering the person in question showed about 90% of the symptoms of a serious personality disorder (borderline, I am told...), it was probably done on purpose and she was just being her manipulative self.
They could call it...the Axis of Evil!
(now, imagine what happened to the car)
Nothing, because after the 404 the Google Car complied to the mandatory "Arrest Vehicular Criminals Upon Apprehension By Automated Rovers" law and wrapped you up in the seat as a nice present for the cop around the corner. As long as it isn't the same cop who tried using another Google Car to pursue a criminal...
Eat a bag of dicks Ford.
Facial Recognition Might Be Coming To Your Car?
Please stop promoting anti-ISP terrorism.
Quick! Someone call the cops to investigate PolygamousRanchKid's ranch! There might be corpses hiding in the walls!
If you buy an old box and plan to upgrade the RAM, it might be worthwhile to update the BIOS to the latest version to get more memory options. I had a vintage PC that would work with double-sided SDRAM modules but not with single-sided ones, until I upgraded the BIOS. After that the machine went from 64Mb to 320 Mb RAM quite easily, using one double-sided 64 Mb 100 MHz module and two single-sided 128 Mb 133 MHz modules.
Another source for compatible hardware (harddisks, memory, and DVD-players) are Macs up to about 2005. The 'specialised' Apple hardware used in these are just rebranded off-the-shelf components that will work fine in a Pentium II/III PC.
15 year old hardware is approx. 1999. In 1999 most hardware was starting to become plug-and-play, working well in general. 1999 is also a period that you can generally still find manuals and drivers online for. It's not 1995, when playing with jumpers using shitty manuals and solving IRQ conflicts was a major part of hardware installation that could be a total pain in the arse.
Pick up an old Pentium 2 or Pentium 3 box from a reputable manufacturer, maybe update to the latest BIOS, install a good OS, and off you go. Besides, some people like tinkering with hardware...
Sooooo...how will your driverless car install its snow tires? Forced human labor? Or will it just refuse to drive away if it snows and it lacks snow tires? In that case, what will happen if people sleep in their car and a blizzard starts overnight? The car refuses to start and they freeze to death instead?
...zap any NSA agent, or people of similar ilk, by mere voice command.
Unfortunately, given the amount of morons who want to know all about you, I might get vocal problems quite quickly...
I for one welcome our new Monolithic Overlords.
Got yakisoba?
Is this "half a brain" shared by all individuals that lost their BitCoins in the Mt Gox fiasco? Could explain something...
It's only the 2dRank list that's screwed up, the PageRank list is a lot more reasonable. I don't know why they even included that 2dRank list, it ruins their credibility. The methodology doesn't even make sense. PageRank works based on determining how influential you are based on how much things link to you. Makes sense, right? Well, 2dRank uses that *plus* how much you link to other people. Why should how much you link to other people have any significance on how influential you are? Perhaps how influenced you are, but certainly not how influential you are.
Making stupid claims makes people stop listening to what you have to say. It's like you're sitting on a bus and you see the following sign: "1. This is a space ship. 2. No smoking". The demonstrable falsity of the first part undermines the credibility of the second part.
The first list also has its problems. It is not objective at all, as how many things link to you is unfortunately time-frame-dependent. What this list actually measures is the popularity of historic figures in the current time-frame (2014). To give a more objective view, it would have to take into account all the literature from all times...
...and that would not preclude the list from changing in the future.
Even back in the late 1980s there were characters with long hair, who'd be female, and short hair or no hair, who'd be male. No pink colours though. That only started with Lego Paradiso, which were architecturally interesting but stereotypically pink. When I was a kid in the 1980s there were already houses and other less manly Lego stuff, but they had normal colours. Later I thought I had been dumb for not buying more of those sets; 1980s Lego buildings were really cool.
Why is it a limited edition?
Because Lego women are highly prized, precious, and rare objects of desire?
Especially for the target group of this product, Lego geeks who may or may not have problems obtaining instances of the other sex.
Reducing great women to objects! Mere playthings!
...in a world of studs.
Just imagine that the Lego world is filled with many, many women with butch features (and sometimes stubble). While the obviously and stereotypically female figures are actually men in drag fondling their inner maiden.
I eagerly await the future Lego bird-wildlife sets!
So my crocodiles can feed on something.