And that's what everyone is missing. They think she is a spoiled brat blackmailing him for cutting her off. As you said from all appearances that car was her only transport. Given that's she got palsy she's probably very limited in what kind of transportation she can use. Although it doesn't excuse the fact that she should get her own transportation he's clearly using it as a form of control. He probably gave it to her with the intent to use it to control her, when she failed to do whatever it was he wanted he'd yank the chain and try to force her to obey. I'm willing to bet up to this point he's exerted immense influence over her and her life.
He needs serious help in the form of counseling, and I dare say she does as well because I really don't think this was an adult response to the situation.
Maybe you shouldn't stop at the first sentence. The OP made it clear he has enough money in the bank that SS will never be needed to survive unless there is an economic catastrophe. That means the OP was making serious money before retiring and reached the point where enough was saved that he/she was confident they could support themselves through retirement.
It's a tired fable that only the poor and people seeking handouts have left leaning views. It's a fable that's sold by the GOP and groups like the Koch brothers to try to convince you that those that are simply seeking a better more Christian society are somehow dirty socialists with their hand out. The data simply doesn't back up that assertion by the way as those most frequently active on the left are often wealthier on average than those on the average on the right.
The real question is why even consider giving an Xbox 360 to a prisoner.
They aren't giving him anything. He's asking to purchase with his own money a gaming console to likely use for the 12+ hours a day he's locked in a barred room. Much like the XBox he pays for everything but his food including soap, cigarettes and any other product he wants. Not only that but the prison vastly inflates the products sold at the commissary to sometime 10x their normal cost to soak money from the prisoners.
I have barely had time to even touch my Xbox 360 in the past year. I'm too busy working and commuting to work so I can keep my mortgage paid, heat running and food on the table for my family.
I don't see anyone out there leaping up to provide me with an Xbox 360 or PS3. I haven't had cable TV for the past 5 years. Can't afford it. Frankly, I'm tired of prisoners having it easier than law abiding citizens. I'm tired of prisoners receiving free cable, Xboxes, college degrees.
Nice bit of whining and demanding that if you can't play yours no one should be able to. Nice selfish attitude.
I'm tired of armed robbers being sentenced to 10 years and released in 9 months only to rob and shoot an innocent within days of release.
Then you better start petitioning the government to do away with drug prohibition. Because it's drug minimum mandatory sentences that are putting killers and rapists back on the street in 90 days. When more than 75% of the people in prison are there because of drugs (use or selling) and the real criminals go free you get the American prison system.
People in America blame a lot of things for our high crime, guns, drugs, you name it. But I think it's the fact that our criminal system is so freakishly gentle to violent habitual lifestyle criminals.
Horseshit. If prison was a deterrent the US would have the lowest crime rates in the world. Our prisons are the most violent, the most dangerous and by far the most confining than almost any in the world. Ironically, the most successful prisons (in preventing future crime) are the Norwegians and others that spend their prison time playing volleyball and learning, which if your beliefs were correct would have the highest recidivism in the world, currently the US holds that title with the strictest prisons. Maybe just maybe treating people like humans trying to teach them that crime isn't the answer is a better solution that simply trying to beat them into submission. And maybe just maybe you would feel differently if you spent some time there like all the innocent people in prison. With all the death row inmates being found innocent I wouldn't be surprised if half the incarcerated were innocent of any crime.
An adult daycare you can't leave, that locks you in a barred room for 12+ hours a day, that totally limits everyday activities, where gainful employment is either free or at vastly reduced wages (in the US typically $.70 cents an hour, where the prison vastly inflates the prices of items sold to the prisoners (are bar of soap can exceed $5 and a pack of cigarettes $10), where you are under threat of violence and where drug use is so high because there is nothing to do.
I'll never understand the American prison view that derives from Ben Franklin's writings that everyone should be in solitary confinement with nothing to do. Isn't it bad enough that you are locked in a place that you can't leave? Do you really need to throw in rape and abuse along with no entertainment?
The Jews have been practicing what is essentially a fairly pure form of ideal socialism in their Kibbutz (communal farms) and have been doing so for a VERY long time. They are successful for one very important reason. Although all material goods are shared those that don't contribute are kicked out of the Kibbutz. So if your the lazy asshole that wants to live off the work of everyone else they simply vote you out of the Kibbutz and away you go. Pure socialism is an egalitarian society and it only truly works when those egalitarian principles are embraced by everyone and the losers that want to work the system get tossed out.
Now I should point out that some of the Kibbutz in Israel are quite large on the order of several thousand people in the largest. Although you might consider that small the principle is established and it could scale, again as long as everyone abides the same work ethic and world views. What disrupts the system is those that aren't abiding the egalitarian view of minimalist lifestyle and shared needs and coping. It's structured very much like our tribal past where needs were joint and everyone worked for the common good of the community rather than to acquire material possessions.
But you are right, China is a totalitarian society, not some egalitarian society where everyone gets a free shake. Corruption is endemic in the communist party, as the leaders don't answer to anyone but their superiors it creates a culture that inspires and almost requires abuse. Until that system is gone they will always be handicapped both culturally and economically. But they do need to be worried, the second round of economic disaster hitting Europe has about a 90% chance to stall the US recovery. Inflation is running high (around 9% las I saw), they have a HUGE debt problem (prefecture level) that is going to make the greek default look like childs play and they are at a tipping point where all those manufacturing jobs flee back to the US/Europe. The communists are so worried about it they promised their industrialists they will hold dollar pricing parity, something I might add that isn't going to go over well in either Europe or the US.
China has issues that dwarf the petty stuff the Europeans and Americans deal with. Economic problems pale in comparison to raging ethnic discrimination (which is ultimately going to boil into ethnic unrest), corruption (entrenched mafia, endemic corruption in the communist party), localized debt defaults in the trillions (there are some prefectures where debt interest exceed tax revenues, and all this debt is carried by "private" banks to conceal how bad it is), dramatic labor problems, pollution, a coming population implosion that's going to decimate their social safety net (in 20 years the retired will outnumber the working). I could go on and on but ultimately China has a lot of internal problems to solve. Personally I don't know that they can pull it off without the type of social upheaval that puts all the communist leaders in the guillotine.
Your assuming space-time is a constant. Your final question should be Why does space-time exist? This is the logical conclusion of your questioning, now if you can imagine non-universe, in other words, no mass, no energy and no space-time then you can imagine what the universe would be like if it didn't exist.
You should have trouble with this concept because we're conditioned to believe space-time is constant, it's not and it's one of the single hardest principles to grasp in elementary physics.
Why circumvent an illegal law. Yes Illegal. Currency is an issue that there is no doubt in the Constitution, it's a power expressly reserved to the federal government. It's exclusively federal precisely because they had so many problems with it during the articles of confederation where the US had several dozen different currencies that were all essentially worthless. The federal courts tend to take a dim view of any attempt by the states to circumvent federal currency and bank laws because the constitution is so very direct about that authority resting with the federal government.
In response you you list of inventions. DOD, DOD, NASA, DOD, DOD, NASA, DOT (Interior), EPA (Interior). Electrical was a mix of the rural electric loan program and state and local investment including eminent domain purchases.
Nothing you listed would have happened without federal involvement, either in providing the research money or planning the result.
The biggest problem with American capitalism right now and the single biggest reason CEO salaries are going up at 100% per year is exactly because investors have abrogated their responsibility to the company they are owners of. This is the reason the boards of most companies are comprised of friendly CEO's from other companies and no one running the company actually owns any significant stock. If you need an example look at HP, other than the Hewlett and Packard relatives with minority ownership there isn't a single major shareholder on the board.
In a functional capitalism and publicly traded system investors take active interest in and responsibility to ensure the company has proper management. Without this oversight you essentially have the fox watching the hen house. What we have right now in America is a system where 95% of investors do so through pension and 401k plans tied to mutual funds. Those mutual funds in the interest of keeping expenses down take no involvement in the businesses they own significant percentages in. In most fortune 500 companies the institutional investors comprise upwards of 70% of the voting shares and often are not even peripherally involved.
In most cases the funds do exactly what you suggest, they simply sell the stock and buy another. The problem is that creates the dysfunctional capital system we have right now. CEO's are only interested in short term returns not long term gains. Corporations acting against the interests of the investors and the country as a whole. The system could be easily fixed, by the actual investors taking interest in the companies they own. Every investor could make more money and the companies would do better if the investors took more involvement in these companies with dysfunctional management systems.
News corp is in fact a prime example a corporation without real oversight. You have a single man in control who's aged to the point where I question his ability to make rational decisions, he allowing cronies and relatives to treat the company as their own private play toys in opposition to the majority of shareholders. CalPers decision to take a stand against the lack of management oversight and attempting to fix that is EXACTLY what this country needs to fix many of it's problems. It's a perfect example of an owner of the company taking an active interest in it's management and profitability. There should be no question that news corp has made some very bad decisions in the past few years and that's adverse to the future profitability of news corp in general. As a major stockholder CalPers should be actively concerned about that.
- With all due respect, Mexican food is delicious and very fresh and complex, but you cannot compare it with a country where you have hundreds of parallel food cultures all running back several thousands of years. You can probably compare Mexico to a specific Indian state, but that's about it. Comparing India to South America would be more accurate.
While you are up on that pedestal lecturing everyone about making assumptions about "Indian" food maybe you shouldn't be making assumptions about "Mexican" food. The nation of Mexico has a diverse palette and cuisine that ranges from the Sonoran food that most American's equate to "Mexican" all the way to the fruit, corn and coca (mole!) based diets of the Mayans of southern Mexico. With just about everything in between.
Mexican cuisine is just as diverse as Indian cuisine when consideration of size of the country and population is taken into account. As with India, the defining characteristic of the food is often not the ingredients or the type of food, but how it's served that is unique to the name. Just as the ingredients of the curry change dramatically as you move across the Indian subcontinent but the use of the curry itself remains fairly constant so does the Tortilla and it's use in meal remains relatively constant across Mexico even though the primary ingredients (including the grain used in the tortilla itself) changes as you move across the Mexican nation.
Much as when we discuss "Indian" food when in fact we are talking about the peculiarities of cuisine specific to the Indian subcontinent we also refer to the specifics of the Mexican cuisine when we refer to Mexican. That there may be a far wider variety to the cuisine doesn't mean calling it Indian is meaningless. But more importantly, if you choose to attack a generalization, don't generalize another culture to make you point.
Boy that's a big pile of steaming shit. Just a couple errors I will respond to, I'll let everyone else point out the rest of the garbage in your post.
Kimchee is fermented cabbage not peppers and it's strong because like most bacterial fermenting processes it produces acid while being fermented.
Coke is acidic enough to eat through it's can, that's why the can is coated with plastic on the inside. Coke is acidic enough to eat through bone. In fact remove the plastic coating and regular grocery store vinegar can probably eat through the can because aluminum is super reactive hence the reason they coat the cans.
I agree with you but it's possible the lawyers in question don't even use the tablets or have even seen them outside the case.
Had I been the lawyer I would have answered the judge's silly question with an equally silly question. "Your Honor, you aren't asking me to use the Tablet from 10 feet away are you?". Either that or asked the judge to Identify an Omega watch versus a similar Casio from 10 feet.
I wouldn't ignore that 12MPG fuel efficiency if I was you. They might have been fun to drive (peak torque and HP at the same RPM!) but a 1960 MPG wasn't a selling point, even more so with $4 a gallon gas. Gotta remember, with that low of MPG they paid the gas guzzler tax on top of the overpriced car and maintenance. They just weren't worth the costs.
After my wife caught a real nasty malware from surfing I've got her to use noscript. And if she can use it, anyone could. Really it takes all of about a day to get all your standard major websites whitelisted. Then it's just a matter of the occasional visited sites. In general I just temp approve, even on my normal sites unless the entire site is non functional without JS in which case I probably don't even i use the site. Most of the places I visit work fine without JS on so I don't even bother. And without JS there is almost no risk from malware.
TPA and other clot busters are very dangerous. I personally wouldn't want one used on me without a hematologist and neurologist in consultation and providing care. When I had my blood clot they made the decision not to use them because the risks outweighed the benefit. The first thing that happens when you administer those drugs is that the clot immediately begins moving. Where it moves to could end up killing you. AFAIK they don't even administer those drugs without an angiogram to verify the clot location so they can predict where the clot will end up. On top of that they can disrupt the bodies natural clotting system and you can bleed to death without proper care.
I doubt any doctor would allow those drugs to be administered without the patient being in a full blown trauma hospital with all the required doctors and care available.
So in Windows 8 (for those that tried the demo, yes I downloaded the ISO and setup a VM to try it) they replaced the simple little menu in the start button with a whole screen monstrosity that takes the entire desktop. Taking over my whole desktop because I pushed the start button isn't the answer to this problem. IMO people don't use the start menu much because they put icons of their most used programs in the quick launch tool bar and on the desktop itself. Instead they take a simple menu, blow it up full screen and if you decide you don't want to pick a program and go back to what you have running, there is no logical way to do it (there isn't a close button that's obvious, ESC doesn't work, right click doesn't work). That's fucked up.
Gnome3 and Ubuntu's solution to doing away with the start button is far better than what MS has cooked up and I don't really like those either but I can see them working better). If I fail that badly using their "NEW AND IMPROVED" start menu I can't even comprehend how disastrous this will be for the less computer literate. The best part is, you cannot bring back the old start menu that I could find. It's not in the control panel, the options are gone from the right click menu, etc.
MS is making a huge mistake overlaying their Windows Phone 7 Metro interface on windows. This is a huge fuckup that's obviously being done to use the windows monopoly against the phone competition. It's going to backfire and damage windows just like Vista did.
I have to wonder if they accounted for the curvature of earth. This location was 478 miles away. The neutrinos would have traveled in a straight line, but the distance measurement could be measured along the curved path of the earth's surface. I'm too lazy to run the numbers but I wouldn't be surprised if the curvature of the earth over 478 miles at that location accounts for 18m of distance. It's really hard to measure distances like that accurately.
The board of directors is a bunch of CEO cronies (ask yourself why Meg Whitman is even on the board in the first place, does she own 5%+ of the stock? Does she have a vested interest in the company succeeding or just padding her resume for another failed political bid?). Oh there are one or two actual shareholders on the board but not with the voting power to actually right this ship. The board of directors of most of the fortune 500 are populated by other CEO's. That's the demise of American capitalism. You wonder why CEO salaries have increased at about 100% a year and why golden parachutes exist? This is why.
Personally I blame mutual funds that own 75% of these companies and take no vested interest in the company or it's management.
The old rule was that there was always two reasonable windows releases for every bad one (win95, win98; winME), (win2000, WinXP, Vista). Now the rule appears to be every other release is going to suck. So though Win7 is ok, win8 appears doomed. That metro interface isn't going to fly in the corporate world where people are trying to get real work done.
Those independent graphics are gone in 5 years or so. The low end is already gone, the middle will be gone with Ivy Bridge and later. They can't make money only selling into the high end.
What's amazing to me is how well Jen-Hsun has snowballed wallstreet. 3 years ago he said the companies main drive and all their R&D was going into Tesla and high performance computing (HPC). When that investment of 2 years worth of R&D (and a failed line of mainstream graphics cards due to the strategy) cratered he switched his story to mobile and ARM are the future. I think he's closer to right this time but he's strongly out of his element in this market. The SOC market is already well established and there are significant players that aren't going to walk off into the sunset easily. The best part is that he hasn't told wall street that margins on these new SOCs will be in the single digits (graphics chips have 40-50% margins) I don't envy him, personally I think if nVidia survives it's going to be a much smaller company with a much smaller market share.
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And that's what everyone is missing. They think she is a spoiled brat blackmailing him for cutting her off. As you said from all appearances that car was her only transport. Given that's she got palsy she's probably very limited in what kind of transportation she can use. Although it doesn't excuse the fact that she should get her own transportation he's clearly using it as a form of control. He probably gave it to her with the intent to use it to control her, when she failed to do whatever it was he wanted he'd yank the chain and try to force her to obey. I'm willing to bet up to this point he's exerted immense influence over her and her life.
He needs serious help in the form of counseling, and I dare say she does as well because I really don't think this was an adult response to the situation.
Maybe you shouldn't stop at the first sentence. The OP made it clear he has enough money in the bank that SS will never be needed to survive unless there is an economic catastrophe. That means the OP was making serious money before retiring and reached the point where enough was saved that he/she was confident they could support themselves through retirement.
It's a tired fable that only the poor and people seeking handouts have left leaning views. It's a fable that's sold by the GOP and groups like the Koch brothers to try to convince you that those that are simply seeking a better more Christian society are somehow dirty socialists with their hand out. The data simply doesn't back up that assertion by the way as those most frequently active on the left are often wealthier on average than those on the average on the right.
They aren't giving him anything. He's asking to purchase with his own money a gaming console to likely use for the 12+ hours a day he's locked in a barred room. Much like the XBox he pays for everything but his food including soap, cigarettes and any other product he wants. Not only that but the prison vastly inflates the products sold at the commissary to sometime 10x their normal cost to soak money from the prisoners.
Nice bit of whining and demanding that if you can't play yours no one should be able to. Nice selfish attitude.
Then you better start petitioning the government to do away with drug prohibition. Because it's drug minimum mandatory sentences that are putting killers and rapists back on the street in 90 days. When more than 75% of the people in prison are there because of drugs (use or selling) and the real criminals go free you get the American prison system.
Horseshit. If prison was a deterrent the US would have the lowest crime rates in the world. Our prisons are the most violent, the most dangerous and by far the most confining than almost any in the world. Ironically, the most successful prisons (in preventing future crime) are the Norwegians and others that spend their prison time playing volleyball and learning, which if your beliefs were correct would have the highest recidivism in the world, currently the US holds that title with the strictest prisons. Maybe just maybe treating people like humans trying to teach them that crime isn't the answer is a better solution that simply trying to beat them into submission. And maybe just maybe you would feel differently if you spent some time there like all the innocent people in prison. With all the death row inmates being found innocent I wouldn't be surprised if half the incarcerated were innocent of any crime.
An adult daycare you can't leave, that locks you in a barred room for 12+ hours a day, that totally limits everyday activities, where gainful employment is either free or at vastly reduced wages (in the US typically $.70 cents an hour, where the prison vastly inflates the prices of items sold to the prisoners (are bar of soap can exceed $5 and a pack of cigarettes $10), where you are under threat of violence and where drug use is so high because there is nothing to do.
I'll never understand the American prison view that derives from Ben Franklin's writings that everyone should be in solitary confinement with nothing to do. Isn't it bad enough that you are locked in a place that you can't leave? Do you really need to throw in rape and abuse along with no entertainment?
The Jews have been practicing what is essentially a fairly pure form of ideal socialism in their Kibbutz (communal farms) and have been doing so for a VERY long time. They are successful for one very important reason. Although all material goods are shared those that don't contribute are kicked out of the Kibbutz. So if your the lazy asshole that wants to live off the work of everyone else they simply vote you out of the Kibbutz and away you go. Pure socialism is an egalitarian society and it only truly works when those egalitarian principles are embraced by everyone and the losers that want to work the system get tossed out.
Now I should point out that some of the Kibbutz in Israel are quite large on the order of several thousand people in the largest. Although you might consider that small the principle is established and it could scale, again as long as everyone abides the same work ethic and world views. What disrupts the system is those that aren't abiding the egalitarian view of minimalist lifestyle and shared needs and coping. It's structured very much like our tribal past where needs were joint and everyone worked for the common good of the community rather than to acquire material possessions.
But you are right, China is a totalitarian society, not some egalitarian society where everyone gets a free shake. Corruption is endemic in the communist party, as the leaders don't answer to anyone but their superiors it creates a culture that inspires and almost requires abuse. Until that system is gone they will always be handicapped both culturally and economically. But they do need to be worried, the second round of economic disaster hitting Europe has about a 90% chance to stall the US recovery. Inflation is running high (around 9% las I saw), they have a HUGE debt problem (prefecture level) that is going to make the greek default look like childs play and they are at a tipping point where all those manufacturing jobs flee back to the US/Europe. The communists are so worried about it they promised their industrialists they will hold dollar pricing parity, something I might add that isn't going to go over well in either Europe or the US.
China has issues that dwarf the petty stuff the Europeans and Americans deal with. Economic problems pale in comparison to raging ethnic discrimination (which is ultimately going to boil into ethnic unrest), corruption (entrenched mafia, endemic corruption in the communist party), localized debt defaults in the trillions (there are some prefectures where debt interest exceed tax revenues, and all this debt is carried by "private" banks to conceal how bad it is), dramatic labor problems, pollution, a coming population implosion that's going to decimate their social safety net (in 20 years the retired will outnumber the working). I could go on and on but ultimately China has a lot of internal problems to solve. Personally I don't know that they can pull it off without the type of social upheaval that puts all the communist leaders in the guillotine.
Your assuming space-time is a constant. Your final question should be Why does space-time exist? This is the logical conclusion of your questioning, now if you can imagine non-universe, in other words, no mass, no energy and no space-time then you can imagine what the universe would be like if it didn't exist.
You should have trouble with this concept because we're conditioned to believe space-time is constant, it's not and it's one of the single hardest principles to grasp in elementary physics.
Why circumvent an illegal law. Yes Illegal. Currency is an issue that there is no doubt in the Constitution, it's a power expressly reserved to the federal government. It's exclusively federal precisely because they had so many problems with it during the articles of confederation where the US had several dozen different currencies that were all essentially worthless. The federal courts tend to take a dim view of any attempt by the states to circumvent federal currency and bank laws because the constitution is so very direct about that authority resting with the federal government.
In response you you list of inventions. DOD, DOD, NASA, DOD, DOD, NASA, DOT (Interior), EPA (Interior). Electrical was a mix of the rural electric loan program and state and local investment including eminent domain purchases.
Nothing you listed would have happened without federal involvement, either in providing the research money or planning the result.
The biggest problem with American capitalism right now and the single biggest reason CEO salaries are going up at 100% per year is exactly because investors have abrogated their responsibility to the company they are owners of. This is the reason the boards of most companies are comprised of friendly CEO's from other companies and no one running the company actually owns any significant stock. If you need an example look at HP, other than the Hewlett and Packard relatives with minority ownership there isn't a single major shareholder on the board.
In a functional capitalism and publicly traded system investors take active interest in and responsibility to ensure the company has proper management. Without this oversight you essentially have the fox watching the hen house. What we have right now in America is a system where 95% of investors do so through pension and 401k plans tied to mutual funds. Those mutual funds in the interest of keeping expenses down take no involvement in the businesses they own significant percentages in. In most fortune 500 companies the institutional investors comprise upwards of 70% of the voting shares and often are not even peripherally involved.
In most cases the funds do exactly what you suggest, they simply sell the stock and buy another. The problem is that creates the dysfunctional capital system we have right now. CEO's are only interested in short term returns not long term gains. Corporations acting against the interests of the investors and the country as a whole. The system could be easily fixed, by the actual investors taking interest in the companies they own. Every investor could make more money and the companies would do better if the investors took more involvement in these companies with dysfunctional management systems.
News corp is in fact a prime example a corporation without real oversight. You have a single man in control who's aged to the point where I question his ability to make rational decisions, he allowing cronies and relatives to treat the company as their own private play toys in opposition to the majority of shareholders. CalPers decision to take a stand against the lack of management oversight and attempting to fix that is EXACTLY what this country needs to fix many of it's problems. It's a perfect example of an owner of the company taking an active interest in it's management and profitability. There should be no question that news corp has made some very bad decisions in the past few years and that's adverse to the future profitability of news corp in general. As a major stockholder CalPers should be actively concerned about that.
While you are up on that pedestal lecturing everyone about making assumptions about "Indian" food maybe you shouldn't be making assumptions about "Mexican" food. The nation of Mexico has a diverse palette and cuisine that ranges from the Sonoran food that most American's equate to "Mexican" all the way to the fruit, corn and coca (mole!) based diets of the Mayans of southern Mexico. With just about everything in between.
Mexican cuisine is just as diverse as Indian cuisine when consideration of size of the country and population is taken into account. As with India, the defining characteristic of the food is often not the ingredients or the type of food, but how it's served that is unique to the name. Just as the ingredients of the curry change dramatically as you move across the Indian subcontinent but the use of the curry itself remains fairly constant so does the Tortilla and it's use in meal remains relatively constant across Mexico even though the primary ingredients (including the grain used in the tortilla itself) changes as you move across the Mexican nation.
Much as when we discuss "Indian" food when in fact we are talking about the peculiarities of cuisine specific to the Indian subcontinent we also refer to the specifics of the Mexican cuisine when we refer to Mexican. That there may be a far wider variety to the cuisine doesn't mean calling it Indian is meaningless. But more importantly, if you choose to attack a generalization, don't generalize another culture to make you point.
Boy that's a big pile of steaming shit. Just a couple errors I will respond to, I'll let everyone else point out the rest of the garbage in your post.
Kimchee is fermented cabbage not peppers and it's strong because like most bacterial fermenting processes it produces acid while being fermented.
Coke is acidic enough to eat through it's can, that's why the can is coated with plastic on the inside. Coke is acidic enough to eat through bone. In fact remove the plastic coating and regular grocery store vinegar can probably eat through the can because aluminum is super reactive hence the reason they coat the cans.
I agree with you but it's possible the lawyers in question don't even use the tablets or have even seen them outside the case.
Had I been the lawyer I would have answered the judge's silly question with an equally silly question. "Your Honor, you aren't asking me to use the Tablet from 10 feet away are you?". Either that or asked the judge to Identify an Omega watch versus a similar Casio from 10 feet.
Or the invention. It was dynamite, not TNT. Two completely different things.
I thought it was a 5 furlong penalty? Or was that cubits?
I wouldn't ignore that 12MPG fuel efficiency if I was you. They might have been fun to drive (peak torque and HP at the same RPM!) but a 1960 MPG wasn't a selling point, even more so with $4 a gallon gas. Gotta remember, with that low of MPG they paid the gas guzzler tax on top of the overpriced car and maintenance. They just weren't worth the costs.
After my wife caught a real nasty malware from surfing I've got her to use noscript. And if she can use it, anyone could. Really it takes all of about a day to get all your standard major websites whitelisted. Then it's just a matter of the occasional visited sites. In general I just temp approve, even on my normal sites unless the entire site is non functional without JS in which case I probably don't even i use the site. Most of the places I visit work fine without JS on so I don't even bother. And without JS there is almost no risk from malware.
TPA and other clot busters are very dangerous. I personally wouldn't want one used on me without a hematologist and neurologist in consultation and providing care. When I had my blood clot they made the decision not to use them because the risks outweighed the benefit. The first thing that happens when you administer those drugs is that the clot immediately begins moving. Where it moves to could end up killing you. AFAIK they don't even administer those drugs without an angiogram to verify the clot location so they can predict where the clot will end up. On top of that they can disrupt the bodies natural clotting system and you can bleed to death without proper care.
I doubt any doctor would allow those drugs to be administered without the patient being in a full blown trauma hospital with all the required doctors and care available.
So in Windows 8 (for those that tried the demo, yes I downloaded the ISO and setup a VM to try it) they replaced the simple little menu in the start button with a whole screen monstrosity that takes the entire desktop. Taking over my whole desktop because I pushed the start button isn't the answer to this problem. IMO people don't use the start menu much because they put icons of their most used programs in the quick launch tool bar and on the desktop itself. Instead they take a simple menu, blow it up full screen and if you decide you don't want to pick a program and go back to what you have running, there is no logical way to do it (there isn't a close button that's obvious, ESC doesn't work, right click doesn't work). That's fucked up.
Gnome3 and Ubuntu's solution to doing away with the start button is far better than what MS has cooked up and I don't really like those either but I can see them working better). If I fail that badly using their "NEW AND IMPROVED" start menu I can't even comprehend how disastrous this will be for the less computer literate. The best part is, you cannot bring back the old start menu that I could find. It's not in the control panel, the options are gone from the right click menu, etc.
MS is making a huge mistake overlaying their Windows Phone 7 Metro interface on windows. This is a huge fuckup that's obviously being done to use the windows monopoly against the phone competition. It's going to backfire and damage windows just like Vista did.
Uh, he was unarmed. And after he said so Mal promptly shot him several times.
Operative:" I'm not armed but I'm not a fool, I'm wearing full body armor."
He then proceeds to kick Mal's ass handily and is only saved by Anora's Incense which is actually a flash bang weapon.
Or furniture. Don't ever touch furniture in a newlywed's house because chances are they've had sex on it.
I have to wonder if they accounted for the curvature of earth. This location was 478 miles away. The neutrinos would have traveled in a straight line, but the distance measurement could be measured along the curved path of the earth's surface. I'm too lazy to run the numbers but I wouldn't be surprised if the curvature of the earth over 478 miles at that location accounts for 18m of distance. It's really hard to measure distances like that accurately.
Without a warrant it's all illegal wiretapping IMO.
DING DING DING.
The board of directors is a bunch of CEO cronies (ask yourself why Meg Whitman is even on the board in the first place, does she own 5%+ of the stock? Does she have a vested interest in the company succeeding or just padding her resume for another failed political bid?). Oh there are one or two actual shareholders on the board but not with the voting power to actually right this ship. The board of directors of most of the fortune 500 are populated by other CEO's. That's the demise of American capitalism. You wonder why CEO salaries have increased at about 100% a year and why golden parachutes exist? This is why.
Personally I blame mutual funds that own 75% of these companies and take no vested interest in the company or it's management.
The old rule was that there was always two reasonable windows releases for every bad one (win95, win98; winME), (win2000, WinXP, Vista). Now the rule appears to be every other release is going to suck. So though Win7 is ok, win8 appears doomed. That metro interface isn't going to fly in the corporate world where people are trying to get real work done.
Those independent graphics are gone in 5 years or so. The low end is already gone, the middle will be gone with Ivy Bridge and later. They can't make money only selling into the high end.
What's amazing to me is how well Jen-Hsun has snowballed wallstreet. 3 years ago he said the companies main drive and all their R&D was going into Tesla and high performance computing (HPC). When that investment of 2 years worth of R&D (and a failed line of mainstream graphics cards due to the strategy) cratered he switched his story to mobile and ARM are the future. I think he's closer to right this time but he's strongly out of his element in this market. The SOC market is already well established and there are significant players that aren't going to walk off into the sunset easily. The best part is that he hasn't told wall street that margins on these new SOCs will be in the single digits (graphics chips have 40-50% margins) I don't envy him, personally I think if nVidia survives it's going to be a much smaller company with a much smaller market share.