So you're saying the UK made no significant changes immediately after 9-11? I think you're overlooking them, because they were already implemented before the tube attack. By all accounts, the CCTV cameras on every street corner would seem to counter your argument somewhat.
The US definitely overreacted in spending though, and now we're paying for it in spades. Not just the wars - but spending throughout the 2000s on every level, municipal, county, state.. and now we're hard pressed to find the money to keep up with all the programs and hardware they bought, from a personnel and infrastructure point of view.
/\ This.
I've always read the 3 headed dog's name as Cerberus.
Or, "Fluffy", from Harry Potter, if you prefer. In hindsight, I think I'll refer to these moons as
Styx and Fluffy.
"Traditionally gets ignored", my butt. There's been a huge push to stop abuse of prescription narcotics, especially the oxy; that stuff is all over the street. It hasn't been the drug of choice for the upper crust for many, many years.
I think this also illustrates an interesting contrast: the Jewish organizations wanted no part of the plot, and not only that, reported the perps to law enforcement; conversely, how many Islamic clerics and mosques have been found to eagerly fund terror plots? Certainly not all of them (duh) nor even a majority of them, but more than enough, historically, and it's likely that while a good many of them declined to be involved, a good number also failed to report the perps to the FBI.
This is why muslims, even the peaceful ones, tend to get a bad rap; even if they're not participating, they appear too willing to look the other way.
That said, it's possible that some do in fact report such plots, but that it's kept hush-hush, so that cooperative clerics don't get targeted themselves; we'll never know. My gut feeling, FWIW, though, is the former, because AQ and other similar groups must get their considerable funding from somewhere.
"I am not a lawyer" and yet under law you are deemed to have full and total knowledge of the law and ignorance is no excuse.
If we could mod things up to 10 this would be a good candidate, because this is such a poignant statement.
There's something ill in a society where, just to get by lawfully in so many mundane facets of everyday life, one nonetheless requires the services or education of a law specialist (attorney).
To be fair, the white stripe was deliberate, to lend a certain distinguished air (I assume you're referring to the final TV episode, "All Good Things"..) I don't think he had that in Nemesis though, did he? (and talk about a conflict.. he dies much younger in Nemesis. They kinda messed the timeline up, plus that movie sucked)
Maybe I'll like it better if I see it in action and in person, but the screenshots didn't seem appealing to me. I really don't get why they want to flatten the look of the icons, really.. do people misjudge that as screen glare maybe? I think the current ones look better. Of course, I can always stay with ios6 if I want.. but seeing that (1) on the Settings icon will drive me crazy. Guess I'm a little OCD about those update notifications..
What's wrong with gender neutral? And what's your source that more women use the iPhone than men? FWIW, all the guys here where I work use iPhones, including myself (I have the 5).
It works even better when the promotion comes with a bonus to compensate for the time the worker "should" have been in the new position (so s/he doesn't feel taken advantage of).
Yeah, because this actually happens..
If you can do the job for less, guess what.. you're stuck there. And most likely, a supervisor is going to pat themselves on the back, and showcase to their superiors their "ability" to get subordinates to do more work for less, as an example of their shining managerial skills and beneficence to the company, and also as a good reason why they (not you) should get a raise.
I hate to be such a cynic, but I've seen what I've seen.
The new IOS 7 UI looks an awful lot like another mobile UI I've seen without the 3d effect. We better check to see if flat images are patented or part of brand distinction.
You could've stopped at it just plain looks awful. The flat look, the syrupy pastel colors...this thing is designed to appeal to 14 year old girls. This is the "My Little Pony" of OSes. Barf.
Ahh... I'm not sure I see the benefit, physical interactivity is still at a minimum, and cost would be higher. What will this do for a meeting that a regular video conference can't? Shake hands -? A tour can be done with a wireless webcam.
Not at present; but if we ever get to the point of regular interplanetary travel (or beyond), just having a small section of ship not insulated from the deep cold of space should suffice as a housing, I would think. Certainly wouldn't hurt.
Yay, hydrogen based fuel cells and sulphur based batteries. If ever the 'twain meet - hydrogen sulfide... the future will smell like rotten eggs and fart! ;-p
They're outta control with the "minimalistic interface" BS.. No one wants to go through submenu after submenu to get to something.
It's a balance between clutter and functionality. They're obsessed with what they must consider to be a "clutter problem" where there really isn't any; it's not clutter if the user wants it that way. Clutter is in the mind of the beholder.
Oh, I understand that, I even buy them myself sometimes, and like you, I don't have any real expectation of winning. Not all the numbers anyway; I forgot to mention that big lotteries still pay out something if you get *some* of the numbers, and the odds are slightly better there, though still lousy.
My main point though was that the lottery is not some kind of "tax", that's a bogus equivalence.
How the hell is buying something voluntarily equivalent to a tax? Taxes are mandatory, the lottery is not, period. Donation to the government maybe. This is an extension of the politically correct victim mindset, i.e. lottery = tax on the poor, tax on the bad at math, etc. I think people know full well the actual odds are astronomical, it's just that people tend to believe they're special, or it's destiny, or somehow their prayers will be answered. It's willful ignorance.
Reminds me a lot of the ol' Windows 3.11 Program Manager style interface.. just with a Win95 style start button/taskbar added. Maybe that's the way to go. I would prefer to group my deskop icons better into categories.
Well I already posted so I can't mod you up, but you seem to be on the way up as it is. That was the obvious reply but damn funny anyway. Why post anonymous?
I'd agree with this.. the trend seems to be one of the Doctor growing slightly younger with each regeneration --at least, for several seasons now. Why break with consistency?
Frankly I think it'd be pretty damn wicked if the Doctor, a few seasons from now, was a know-it-all 12 year old. Casting would be tricky of course, but not impossible.
Seeing the role go from Christopher Eccleston to David Tennant to Matt Smith, it'd be wrenching to suddenly see John Hurt as the Dr, as much as I like John Hurt. (and he'd be the second crossover from Harry Potter to Dr. Who that I'm aware of, FWIW) .
To get around the issue of continuing the show once the 12 year regenerates, have him simply go "full circle" so to speak, where in a single episode, we see him revert back to an infant, a fetus, and then.. (somehow) back to an old man, where it starts all over again. It'd be an interesting challenge for the writers at any rate. Seems more logical to me than him simply regenerating at any random age.
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So you're saying the UK made no significant changes immediately after 9-11? I think you're overlooking them, because they were already implemented before the tube attack. By all accounts, the CCTV cameras on every street corner would seem to counter your argument somewhat.
The US definitely overreacted in spending though, and now we're paying for it in spades. Not just the wars - but spending throughout the 2000s on every level, municipal, county, state.. and now we're hard pressed to find the money to keep up with all the programs and hardware they bought, from a personnel and infrastructure point of view.
/\ This.
I've always read the 3 headed dog's name as Cerberus.
Or, "Fluffy", from Harry Potter, if you prefer. In hindsight, I think I'll refer to these moons as Styx and Fluffy.
Jewish organizations already have the backup of one terrorist group: The U.S. army.
So I take it then you're cool with the Marines, Navy, and Air Force ..just checking.
lol! it's user "ass__faggot" from memdroid! :D
Oops.. yes, sorry, brain/finger fart
Well, that strong-arming thing usually goes both ways between corporations and the government.
"Traditionally gets ignored", my butt. There's been a huge push to stop abuse of prescription narcotics, especially the oxy; that stuff is all over the street. It hasn't been the drug of choice for the upper crust for many, many years.
I think this also illustrates an interesting contrast: the Jewish organizations wanted no part of the plot, and not only that, reported the perps to law enforcement; conversely, how many Islamic clerics and mosques have been found to eagerly fund terror plots? Certainly not all of them (duh) nor even a majority of them, but more than enough, historically, and it's likely that while a good many of them declined to be involved, a good number also failed to report the perps to the FBI.
This is why muslims, even the peaceful ones, tend to get a bad rap; even if they're not participating, they appear too willing to look the other way.
That said, it's possible that some do in fact report such plots, but that it's kept hush-hush, so that cooperative clerics don't get targeted themselves; we'll never know.
My gut feeling, FWIW, though, is the former, because AQ and other similar groups must get their considerable funding from somewhere.
"I am not a lawyer" and yet under law you are deemed to have full and total knowledge of the law and ignorance is no excuse.
If we could mod things up to 10 this would be a good candidate, because this is such a poignant statement.
There's something ill in a society where, just to get by lawfully in so many mundane facets of everyday life, one nonetheless requires the services or education of a law specialist (attorney).
To be fair, the white stripe was deliberate, to lend a certain distinguished air (I assume you're referring to the final TV episode, "All Good Things"..) I don't think he had that in Nemesis though, did he? (and talk about a conflict .. he dies much younger in Nemesis. They kinda messed the timeline up, plus that movie sucked)
Maybe I'll like it better if I see it in action and in person, but the screenshots didn't seem appealing to me. I really don't get why they want to flatten the look of the icons, really.. do people misjudge that as screen glare maybe? I think the current ones look better. Of course, I can always stay with ios6 if I want.. but seeing that (1) on the Settings icon will drive me crazy. Guess I'm a little OCD about those update notifications..
What's wrong with gender neutral? And what's your source that more women use the iPhone than men? FWIW, all the guys here where I work use iPhones, including myself (I have the 5).
It works even better when the promotion comes with a bonus to compensate for the time the worker "should" have been in the new position (so s/he doesn't feel taken advantage of).
Yeah, because this actually happens..
If you can do the job for less, guess what.. you're stuck there. And most likely, a supervisor is going to pat themselves on the back, and showcase to their superiors their "ability" to get subordinates to do more work for less, as an example of their shining managerial skills and beneficence to the company, and also as a good reason why they (not you) should get a raise.
I hate to be such a cynic, but I've seen what I've seen.
The new IOS 7 UI looks an awful lot like another mobile UI I've seen without the 3d effect. We better check to see if flat images are patented or part of brand distinction.
You could've stopped at it just plain looks awful. The flat look, the syrupy pastel colors...this thing is designed to appeal to 14 year old girls. This is the "My Little Pony" of OSes. Barf.
I disagree with you on all those counts, but I'd suspect most males between 15 and 50 watch the show primarily because of Penny.
Ahh... I'm not sure I see the benefit, physical interactivity is still at a minimum, and cost would be higher. What will this do for a meeting that a regular video conference can't? Shake hands -? A tour can be done with a wireless webcam.
Not at present; but if we ever get to the point of regular interplanetary travel (or beyond), just having a small section of ship not insulated from the deep cold of space should suffice as a housing, I would think. Certainly wouldn't hurt.
I was thinking more of the "Weyland-Yutani" corporation from the Alien movie franchise
Yay, hydrogen based fuel cells and sulphur based batteries. If ever the 'twain meet - hydrogen sulfide... the future will smell like rotten eggs and fart!
;-p
They're outta control with the "minimalistic interface" BS.. No one wants to go through submenu after submenu to get to something.
It's a balance between clutter and functionality. They're obsessed with what they must consider to be a "clutter problem" where there really isn't any; it's not clutter if the user wants it that way. Clutter is in the mind of the beholder.
Oh, I understand that, I even buy them myself sometimes, and like you, I don't have any real expectation of winning. Not all the numbers anyway; I forgot to mention that big lotteries still pay out something if you get *some* of the numbers, and the odds are slightly better there, though still lousy.
My main point though was that the lottery is not some kind of "tax", that's a bogus equivalence.
How the hell is buying something voluntarily equivalent to a tax? Taxes are mandatory, the lottery is not, period. Donation to the government maybe. This is an extension of the politically correct victim mindset, i.e. lottery = tax on the poor, tax on the bad at math, etc. I think people know full well the actual odds are astronomical, it's just that people tend to believe they're special, or it's destiny, or somehow their prayers will be answered. It's willful ignorance.
Reminds me a lot of the ol' Windows 3.11 Program Manager style interface.. just with a Win95 style start button/taskbar added. Maybe that's the way to go. I would prefer to group my deskop icons better into categories.
Well I already posted so I can't mod you up, but you seem to be on the way up as it is. That was the obvious reply but damn funny anyway. Why post anonymous?
I'd agree with this.. the trend seems to be one of the Doctor growing slightly younger with each regeneration --at least, for several seasons now. Why break with consistency?
Frankly I think it'd be pretty damn wicked if the Doctor, a few seasons from now, was a know-it-all 12 year old. Casting would be tricky of course, but not impossible.
Seeing the role go from Christopher Eccleston to David Tennant to Matt Smith, it'd be wrenching to suddenly see John Hurt as the Dr, as much as I like John Hurt. (and he'd be the second crossover from Harry Potter to Dr. Who that I'm aware of, FWIW) .
To get around the issue of continuing the show once the 12 year regenerates, have him simply go "full circle" so to speak, where in a single episode, we see him revert back to an infant, a fetus, and then.. (somehow) back to an old man, where it starts all over again. It'd be an interesting challenge for the writers at any rate. Seems more logical to me than him simply regenerating at any random age.