Completely off topic, but I felt compelled to correct the misspelling of this archaeic form of the 2nd person singular prononoun. It's still alive and well in Icelandic, in the form of "ú" and to a lesser extent in other scandinavian languages and german, as "du".
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Well, Iain M. Banks' "State of the Art" discusses this point to some lengths. And it offers up another solution to the Fermi paradox: The aliens are actively hiding from us.
Right. when episode I was first announced I immediately thought: Cool! they're gonna kit all those new hollywood actors up in 70s garb for continuity. Gonna be a challenge, but worth the effort. Imagine my surprise.
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No, no. After the apocalypse, the discover all the 80s media on fail-safe celluloid and microfilm. And so the post-apocalyptic retrofashion and cars with mechanical distributors are born.
I simply do not believe that any website author has the right to upload any program on my computer as a condition of viewing content. I don't care what the software does.
Of course he has. He can make any condition he pleases, just as McBurger may choose to make your burger purchase conditional on you handing in a filled out questionaire. It's their right to make conditions, it's your right to decline.
Ha! that's what you assume. But you didn't stop to check, did you?
The F-number of a lens is the ratio of the focal length of the lens to the effective diameter of its apperture. Low F-numbers are hard to achieve because of the amount of corrective optics needed
It's like the smart people of London. Back in the days of the IRA bomb scare someone thought of the swell idea to remove all the garbage cans from the streets. That way, the IRA crowd would have no way to plant bombs and would revert to peaceful beekeeping.
The truth is, actions like these only serve to give the public the illusion of safety, to provide an example of determined action. If someone really wants to cause havoc they will, garbage cans or not.
Why is the adjective "innocent" invariably attached to these victims? In what way were they innocent? And where were all the non-innocent New Yorkers? Would it have been somehow more acceptible if the people that died hadn't been innocent?
I don't think our leaders had to tell us that the country was attacked. The jumbo jets flying into the skyscrapers did that just fine.
And was the Oklahoma City bombing also an attack on the USA? Did the USA proclaim that it was at war with its citizens?
The events of 11/09/2001 were perpetrated a group of civilians, against civilians. As such, it was a criminal act. The scale of it doesn't categorically change that. War has to be declared by one or on one. It is unfortunate that the USA should choose the former.
5) When he's in mid sentence, punch him in the face as hard as you can.
And the college student is shocked and hurt because he hasn't done anything to provoke this now, has he?
Yes, this is a good parallel, because everyone knows that how USA has never involved themselves in world politics except to wave peace placards.
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Completely off topic, but I felt compelled
to correct the misspelling of this archaeic
form of the 2nd person singular prononoun.
It's still alive and well in Icelandic, in the form of "ú" and to a lesser extent in other scandinavian languages and german, as "du".
Well, Iain M. Banks' "State of the Art" discusses this point to some lengths. And it offers up another solution to the Fermi paradox: The aliens are actively hiding from us.
Right.
when episode I was first announced I immediately thought:
Cool! they're gonna kit all those new hollywood actors up in 70s garb for continuity. Gonna be a challenge, but worth the effort.
Imagine my surprise.
No, no.
After the apocalypse, the discover all the 80s
media on fail-safe celluloid and microfilm. And so the post-apocalyptic retrofashion and cars with mechanical distributors are born.
Of course he has. He can make any condition he pleases, just as McBurger may choose to make your burger purchase conditional on you handing in a filled out questionaire. It's their right to make conditions, it's your right to decline.
Ha! that's what you assume. But you didn't stop to check, did you?
The F-number of a lens is the ratio of the
focal length of the lens to the effective
diameter of its apperture. Low F-numbers are
hard to achieve because of the amount of
corrective optics needed
Actually, you probably want to use ptrdiff_t
Rubbish. Just set this thing up in a desert somewhere and use solar power.
It's like the smart people of London. Back in the days of the IRA bomb scare someone thought of the swell idea to remove all the garbage cans from the streets. That way, the IRA crowd would have no way to plant bombs and would revert to peaceful beekeeping.
The truth is, actions like these only serve to give the public the illusion of safety, to provide an example of determined action. If someone really wants to cause havoc they will, garbage cans or not.
Student -> Innocent New Yorkers
Why is the adjective "innocent" invariably attached to these victims? In what way were they innocent? And where were all the non-innocent New Yorkers? Would it have been somehow more acceptible if the people that died hadn't been innocent?
I don't think our leaders had to tell us that the country was attacked. The jumbo jets flying into the skyscrapers did that just fine.
And was the Oklahoma City bombing also an attack on the USA? Did the USA proclaim that it was at war with its citizens?
The events of 11/09/2001 were perpetrated a group of civilians, against civilians. As such, it was a criminal act. The scale of it doesn't categorically change that.
War has to be declared by one or on one. It is unfortunate that the USA should choose the former.
5) When he's in mid sentence, punch him in the face as hard as you can.
And the college student is shocked and hurt because he hasn't done anything to provoke this now, has he?
Yes, this is a good parallel, because everyone knows that how USA has never involved themselves in world politics except to wave peace placards.