By the way, it's not actually the "Peace Sign" as it's commonly but mistakenly referred but rather the CND logo http://www.cnduk.org/INFORM~1/symbol.htm. Still not a Mercedes emblem though.
I don't think the Tsunami is a great example for the US military or US in general. They were generally regarded as arriving late, leaving early and generally not putting in anything like the resources other much smaller nations did. For example, Australian citizens donated A$1,000,000,000 - more than the US government and there's only 24,000,000 of us.
I have to disagree, what is taught in public schools is not for the parents to decide but society as a whole. The parents do not own their childrens lives and should not solely be making decisions based in part on their own ignorance. That will just perpetuate ignorance and ultimately have the potential to reduce their childrens quality of life. The reason systems have evolved (there's that word) into the current basis is due to old systems where this was the rule having fallen by the way due to their entrenched short-comings.
The Japanese do the same thing, they'll greet each other with 'Genki desu ka?' or just 'Genki?' with people they already know with some degree of familiarity. The normal polite answer would be simply 'Genki.' in return. It's a world wide thing not an American thing at all. It's common here in Australia as well.
That's an amusing example. The US backed candidate with a minority of support has been leveraged into power over the russian backed candidate. Real people power there.
It's not illegal in a criminal sense, it's a civil contract which hasn't been tested in the case of the unknown individuals. You're working from a great many presumptions to make that statement.
It's just as important to stamp down on this slow erosion of press freedom in the name of big business profits as any of the current far more blatant examples. Thin end of the wedge and all that.
In criminal law the lawyers will use whatever they can to influence the jury. What is said in court is used to influence and emotive plays are stock in trade. Frankly this brings nothing new except another legal gambit to light.
He said twisties.
Of course as a sports bike rider I'm dismissive of any of these 4 wheeled things.;) My bike stock will do 10 second passes with me riding it (and I'm not the best at launches). Motorcycles are the purists version of automotive fun. There's nothing more minimalist than a current generation litre bike and little that can get near it; road, strip or track. And then you can mod them as well:)
We don't have any real issue except with the idea of a foreign national being our head of state. Plus it would be a good time to review our own Constitution. Under the current system there's a group of implicit rights that many of us would prefer to be made explicit.
Well seeing the origin of this project being Australian would probably help. Though it looks like the money came from Italy and France the research mostly seems to be coming from Australia. Not suprising seeing we have one of the largest Antartic claims.
Prior to Chris Bangle becoming the design head at BMW I might have agreed. Now the new series of BMWs poliarise opinion like never before. Though they're still better than any Caddy or H2. As for the iPod it is a shiny, white box but it's a shiny, white box with pleasing proportions, a well-regarded user interface and a logo that is regarded as being elitist but accessible. Oh and it plays music too. The mini is slightly less convincing from an industrial design pov but has the other advantages.
So curling is a major world sport by that metric? Ice dancing too? See how many people tuned into the last Cricket World Cup final and compare it with the 'World' Series.
"With its multitude of different statistical measures, baseball has always had the highest Geek Quotient of any major sport." You might want to check out cricket, www.cricinfo.org and Wisden for some serious stats. Not to mention that with all the offshoring to India there's a huge cricket loving geek population there. Baseball's only a fairly minor sport in world terms.
The Australian SAS forces were rotated out shortly after the conflict 'ended', they've been replaced with about 1000 regular Army troops doing patrols, some Air Force personel handling the Air Traffic Control and Naval units doing coastal interdiction stuff. So far there have been no casualties for Australia. None of the 3 Occupying Powers (Aust, UK or US) was in that list, who were of course the only ones who provided combat units in the actual war, regardless of the list of 'Allied Nations'.
You can't believe it beause it's not even remotely true. Motorcycle deaths in Australia have consistently decreased in the last 30 years (even though the riding population has grown) and the growth areas have been in the over 50s age bracket. Born agains who get the latest sports bike and have no idea how to handle the power. I associate with over 200 WA based bikers on a mailing list and we've only had 1 fatality in 4 years. That was caused by a car turning in front of a bike without indicating. BTW The Hurt report quoted earlier is now 20 years out of date.
But then so are the Yanks - the Brits had a habit of making convicts out of anyone who showed initiative and sending them to the colonies. Australia was founded as a penal colony because they lost the US and needed a new place to send the convicts. Sad that they sent the ones with all the cricket talent;)
Yes they can still try you but of course enforcing the judgement is problematic. As part of the judgement would probably be a court order requiring removal of the offending remarks it could lead to your content being blocked within Australia (although as Defamation is done at a State level here it shold really only apply within that state). Of course it would be nearly impossible to enforce the financial part of the judgement unless you gained some sort of financial status within the country. The US government wouldn't extradite you on a civil matter ( defamation is a civil matter, libel a criminal one ).
BTW Truth is not necessarily a defence against defamation in Australia, if intent to cause harm is the motive you can still lose a case. The defamation laws are highly tilted in the favour of the rich over here.
Verging off-topic but to answer your question Microsoft is indeed the single biggest purchaser of MS stock. It does this to supply the employees options that have vested and coincidentally keeps its own stock price high while avoiding tax. All perfectly legitimate under US law (but not many other countries allow corporations to dodge tax this way).
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By the way, it's not actually the "Peace Sign" as it's commonly but mistakenly referred but rather the CND logo http://www.cnduk.org/INFORM~1/symbol.htm. Still not a Mercedes emblem though.
I don't think the Tsunami is a great example for the US military or US in general. They were generally regarded as arriving late, leaving early and generally not putting in anything like the resources other much smaller nations did. For example, Australian citizens donated A$1,000,000,000 - more than the US government and there's only 24,000,000 of us.
I have to disagree, what is taught in public schools is not for the parents to decide but society as a whole. The parents do not own their childrens lives and should not solely be making decisions based in part on their own ignorance. That will just perpetuate ignorance and ultimately have the potential to reduce their childrens quality of life. The reason systems have evolved (there's that word) into the current basis is due to old systems where this was the rule having fallen by the way due to their entrenched short-comings.
The Japanese do the same thing, they'll greet each other with 'Genki desu ka?' or just 'Genki?' with people they already know with some degree of familiarity. The normal polite answer would be simply 'Genki.' in return. It's a world wide thing not an American thing at all. It's common here in Australia as well.
That's an amusing example. The US backed candidate with a minority of support has been leveraged into power over the russian backed candidate. Real people power there.
It's not illegal in a criminal sense, it's a civil contract which hasn't been tested in the case of the unknown individuals. You're working from a great many presumptions to make that statement.
It's just as important to stamp down on this slow erosion of press freedom in the name of big business profits as any of the current far more blatant examples. Thin end of the wedge and all that.
So you worked on Duke Nukem Forever? Wow!
The less Daoist amongst you can simply watch the movie War Games.
In criminal law the lawyers will use whatever they can to influence the jury. What is said in court is used to influence and emotive plays are stock in trade. Frankly this brings nothing new except another legal gambit to light.
He said twisties. ;) My bike stock will do 10 second passes with me riding it (and I'm not the best at launches). :)
Of course as a sports bike rider I'm dismissive of any of these 4 wheeled things.
Motorcycles are the purists version of automotive fun. There's nothing more minimalist than a current generation litre bike and little that can get near it; road, strip or track.
And then you can mod them as well
"Apple recently filed a patent about changing the colour of a piece of hardware dependent on what was happening on it..."
... similar to a red light or amber light coming on when a problem occurs. Now there's a non-obvious invention...
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We don't have any real issue except with the idea of a foreign national being our head of state.
Plus it would be a good time to review our own Constitution.
Under the current system there's a group of implicit rights that many of us would prefer to be made explicit.
So the three of us who remember The Goodies will get that one. Like the English could ever regain the Ashes anyway ;)
Well seeing the origin of this project being Australian would probably help. Though it looks like the money came from Italy and France the research mostly seems to be coming from Australia. Not suprising seeing we have one of the largest Antartic claims.
Prior to Chris Bangle becoming the design head at BMW I might have agreed. Now the new series of BMWs poliarise opinion like never before. Though they're still better than any Caddy or H2.
As for the iPod it is a shiny, white box but it's a shiny, white box with pleasing proportions, a well-regarded user interface and a logo that is regarded as being elitist but accessible.
Oh and it plays music too.
The mini is slightly less convincing from an industrial design pov but has the other advantages.
So curling is a major world sport by that metric? Ice dancing too? See how many people tuned into the last Cricket World Cup final and compare it with the 'World' Series.
"With its multitude of different statistical measures, baseball has always had the highest Geek Quotient of any major sport."
You might want to check out cricket, www.cricinfo.org and Wisden for some serious stats.
Not to mention that with all the offshoring to India there's a huge cricket loving geek population there. Baseball's only a fairly minor sport in world terms.
The Australian SAS forces were rotated out shortly after the conflict 'ended', they've been replaced with about 1000 regular Army troops doing patrols, some Air Force personel handling the Air Traffic Control and Naval units doing coastal interdiction stuff. So far there have been no casualties for Australia. None of the 3 Occupying Powers (Aust, UK or US) was in that list, who were of course the only ones who provided combat units in the actual war, regardless of the list of 'Allied Nations'.
You can't believe it beause it's not even remotely true. Motorcycle deaths in Australia have consistently decreased in the last 30 years (even though the riding population has grown) and the growth areas have been in the over 50s age bracket. Born agains who get the latest sports bike and have no idea how to handle the power. I associate with over 200 WA based bikers on a mailing list and we've only had 1 fatality in 4 years. That was caused by a car turning in front of a bike without indicating. BTW The Hurt report quoted earlier is now 20 years out of date.
Look for the small print before entering a store.. it's interesting sometimes. :) :|
And completely non-binding.
But then so are the Yanks - the Brits had a habit of making convicts out of anyone who showed initiative and sending them to the colonies. Australia was founded as a penal colony because they lost the US and needed a new place to send the convicts. Sad that they sent the ones with all the cricket talent ;)
Nor is "potental".
Yes they can still try you but of course enforcing the judgement is problematic. As part of the judgement would probably be a court order requiring removal of the offending remarks it could lead to your content being blocked within Australia (although as Defamation is done at a State level here it shold really only apply within that state). Of course it would be nearly impossible to enforce the financial part of the judgement unless you gained some sort of financial status within the country.
The US government wouldn't extradite you on a civil matter ( defamation is a civil matter, libel a criminal one ).
BTW Truth is not necessarily a defence against defamation in Australia, if intent to cause harm is the motive you can still lose a case. The defamation laws are highly tilted in the favour of the rich over here.
Hey they used the US to transport convicts to well before they started using Australia. Check your history.
Verging off-topic but to answer your question Microsoft is indeed the single biggest purchaser of MS stock. It does this to supply the employees options that have vested and coincidentally keeps its own stock price high while avoiding tax. All perfectly legitimate under US law (but not many other countries allow corporations to dodge tax this way).