Hey! The Charles de Gaulle was very effective... at irradiating the crew...
It's kind of odd that the French leave the US in the dust with respect to civillian reactors, but everything they've learned seems to go out the window when they try to fit one in a ship's hull.
The moon doesn't have weather and all those impact craters seem to indicate that you don't need to worry about heat shielding when you're going to land.
"the moon seems like it will be a much harsher locale for future astronauts, despite its closer location."
The destination may be harsher, but factor in the 1+ year a trip to Mars takes and all that lovely hard radiation you'd be exposed to, and the moon doesn't look so bad.
Besides, if something goes wrong, the moon is only about a week away.
"IIRC it is now illegal to even say anything that could even be construed as "glorifying" terrorism,"
Unless it's said by Sinn Fein? Gerry Adams said something about believing it to be easier to raise money in London than it is in DC these days this past St. Patrick's Day.
"George W Bush lied about WMD during his first term in office, but people forgot/forgave him and voted him in for a second term."
That was less about forgiving him and more about people being terrified of terrorists and/or gay marriage.
"A lot of people hated the Vietnam war and the soldiers who fought there, but now most have come to terms that the soldiers did what the country asked them to do, and had to go through hell and back."
It only took 10-15 years.
"Microsoft has a terrible track record when it comes to security, but people still install their software."
It's called a "monopoly" for a reason.
"Union Carbide was responsible for 15,000 people's deaths in India, but the company is still alive and well."
Few people in the US know, let alone care. Fewer still know how their purchaes support UC.
Oh, come now, RealMedia "changed their ways" and now everybody loves them! I mean, look at the grassroots campaign they successfully waged against iTunes! Won't it be the same for Claria?
Inertial mass or gravitational charge? Just becuase they always seem to be the same doesn't mean they must continue to be.
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"IIRC they sued through a technicality (use of the Sony trademark in their adverts without permission) - they couldnt stop them from actually selling PSPs."
A technicality at best. Sales understandably dropped sharply when the sellers couldn't say anything more than "new handheld imported from North America."
"Heh, and here I was thinking that only a communist (in the "commune" sense) would disagree with that (ie but people can just live in one happy, open community with a flat organisational structure)."
Why must "all power rests in the hands of the people" mean "the people as a whole must own all means of production?"
"I'd agree with that. Incidentally it is also the Christian model of leadership."
The difference is that you seem to assume that the leader is best able to decide what is in the people's best interest, as opposed to the people deciding for themslves. For example:
"I guess I'm not convinced that he necessarily exercised his authority just to prove he had it. Maybe I am just being too charitable towards him."
By being "charitable" to the teacher, you are being uncharitable to the ejected student (if not the student body as a whole). You are assuming that the teacher was justified in ejecting the student, therefore you believe that the student had what was coming to him (and you apparently need no justification to believe this beyond comments like "he was a pompous ass"). You are assuming the teacher knows better than the student what is in the best interest of the student. Your lack of "charity" for the ejected student is made more appalling when you consider that the ejected student apparently has no recourse.
Personally, I see a shocking lack of respect, for the power of ejecting students if not the students themselves, in this particular teacher's trumpeting his use of power. That lack of respect shown by someone with such power, in and of itself, should be enough to raise doubts about the teacher's motivations for using his power.
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That doesn't mean the PS3 is capable of putting out both PAL and NTSC.
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Or is it because Sony is satisfied with the court decisions in the UK, etc. where they successfully sued importers of the PSP for trademark violations?
After all, why worry about the technical hassles of DRM when you can sue the pants off of somebody trying to sell Japanese games in the US, US games in the EU, etc?
No, you're stuck with the same problem as the US: a popularly-elected body that is not apportioned with respect to population. Why should Tasmania be entitled to the same number of votes as New South Wales?
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Hey! The Charles de Gaulle was very effective... at irradiating the crew...
It's kind of odd that the French leave the US in the dust with respect to civillian reactors, but everything they've learned seems to go out the window when they try to fit one in a ship's hull.
Yeah, they don't have the armor to stand up to the smallest battlecruiser, let alone a fully-fledged battleship!
"Last time I checked, it unconstitutional to prohibit people from peacably assembling."
Conspiring to kill somebody doesn't strike me as "peacable."
As a frequent (ab)user of sarcasm, I can tell you confidently that all sarcasm is stupid.
"Magellan et al were looking for PROFIT. They weren't risking their lives for the hell of it."
Phase 1: Go to the Philippines
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: Profit!
The moon doesn't have weather and all those impact craters seem to indicate that you don't need to worry about heat shielding when you're going to land.
"the moon seems like it will be a much harsher locale for future astronauts, despite its closer location."
The destination may be harsher, but factor in the 1+ year a trip to Mars takes and all that lovely hard radiation you'd be exposed to, and the moon doesn't look so bad.
Besides, if something goes wrong, the moon is only about a week away.
No thanks, I don't want to deal with quasi-RPG "hero" unit bullshit in StarCraft as well. Gimme me my marines and I'm a happy camper.
"I gave $5 to GameStop over 2 years ago to reserve a copy of this"
That's like $3, adjusting for inflation.
"IIRC it is now illegal to even say anything that could even be construed as "glorifying" terrorism,"
Unless it's said by Sinn Fein? Gerry Adams said something about believing it to be easier to raise money in London than it is in DC these days this past St. Patrick's Day.
"where's the accountability for failure?"
They're a monopoly, there isn't any!
So now the Phantom will have two pack-in games!
This is going to be the best N64 game ever!
Hrm... dark location, surrounded by plastic, no view of the ouside world, lighted by fluorescence... Sounds like a cube farm to me!
"This one just relies on stupidity of investors..."
It's 1997 all over again!
Wait at least until they change their name to "eClaira" (or maybe "iClaria"), that's when you know you have a winner.
"George W Bush lied about WMD during his first term in office, but people forgot/forgave him and voted him in for a second term."
That was less about forgiving him and more about people being terrified of terrorists and/or gay marriage.
"A lot of people hated the Vietnam war and the soldiers who fought there, but now most have come to terms that the soldiers did what the country asked them to do, and had to go through hell and back."
It only took 10-15 years.
"Microsoft has a terrible track record when it comes to security, but people still install their software."
It's called a "monopoly" for a reason.
"Union Carbide was responsible for 15,000 people's deaths in India, but the company is still alive and well."
Few people in the US know, let alone care. Fewer still know how their purchaes support UC.
Oh, come now, RealMedia "changed their ways" and now everybody loves them! I mean, look at the grassroots campaign they successfully waged against iTunes! Won't it be the same for Claria?
Madmartigan got FP on you.
"Okay let me see if I got this straight here. You have a bunch of unelected rich kids who decide what becomes law or not in your country."
Which is completely different from the elected rich kids we have populating the United States Senate, right?
"People with very little in common with the common man"
There's the Senate again.
"who can't be sacked,"
Senators can only be ejected by each other, and they can't even be arrested.
"whose vested interests are, well, incredibly vested,"
K Street.
"Their qualifications? Right surname."
Like "Bush" and "Kennedy."
You seem to be under the misconception that popular elections automatically make things better.
Inertial mass or gravitational charge? Just becuase they always seem to be the same doesn't mean they must continue to be.
"IIRC they sued through a technicality (use of the Sony trademark in their adverts without permission) - they couldnt stop them from actually selling PSPs."
A technicality at best. Sales understandably dropped sharply when the sellers couldn't say anything more than "new handheld imported from North America."
"Heh, and here I was thinking that only a communist (in the "commune" sense) would disagree with that (ie but people can just live in one happy, open community with a flat organisational structure)."
Why must "all power rests in the hands of the people" mean "the people as a whole must own all means of production?"
"I'd agree with that. Incidentally it is also the Christian model of leadership."
The difference is that you seem to assume that the leader is best able to decide what is in the people's best interest, as opposed to the people deciding for themslves. For example:
"I guess I'm not convinced that he necessarily exercised his authority just to prove he had it. Maybe I am just being too charitable towards him."
By being "charitable" to the teacher, you are being uncharitable to the ejected student (if not the student body as a whole). You are assuming that the teacher was justified in ejecting the student, therefore you believe that the student had what was coming to him (and you apparently need no justification to believe this beyond comments like "he was a pompous ass"). You are assuming the teacher knows better than the student what is in the best interest of the student. Your lack of "charity" for the ejected student is made more appalling when you consider that the ejected student apparently has no recourse.
Personally, I see a shocking lack of respect, for the power of ejecting students if not the students themselves, in this particular teacher's trumpeting his use of power. That lack of respect shown by someone with such power, in and of itself, should be enough to raise doubts about the teacher's motivations for using his power.
That doesn't mean the PS3 is capable of putting out both PAL and NTSC.
Or is it because Sony is satisfied with the court decisions in the UK, etc. where they successfully sued importers of the PSP for trademark violations?
After all, why worry about the technical hassles of DRM when you can sue the pants off of somebody trying to sell Japanese games in the US, US games in the EU, etc?
No, you're stuck with the same problem as the US: a popularly-elected body that is not apportioned with respect to population. Why should Tasmania be entitled to the same number of votes as New South Wales?