No, the way the economy works is you can't afford a house, so a bank put you in debt and gave the money to a developer. So when you want to remodel, you take out an additional loan or renegotiate your current loan and pay cash to a contractor who is maxxed out on his credit cards. He takes your money and gives it back to the bank to pay down his debt, and so the slavery continues. And here you were thinking you were going to break out of your servitude by remodeling because you were fooled by greed into thinking that house prices will go up forever and there will be eternal demand for homes - especially taking into account the inverted population pyramid.
Imaginary and hypothetical scenarios are fun aren't they? Have you ever held a scalpel and made the incision? Have you every done it for god knows how many thousands of hours, at any and all possible times, when you felt good, when you felt sick, and when you should have gone to bed 10 hours ago? Don't worry, your scenario is absolutely the last thing that will ever happen to you. There's no last minute "oh I forgot something" once the operation has already begun. Usually you are worked on by professionals and it's not their first time. Just like you will never find a commercial airline pilot who forgets to - I dunno - put the gear down before landing.
Preaching to the choir - I am a physician. I don't believe you because I work in a country that isn't computerized yet. If you transpose 3.7 and 7.3 so easily without a computer to double-check things for you then you prove my argument: computers make us stupid.
Yet another example of how technology makes us stupid. How ever did we manage BEFORE computers and computer records... I guess patients just died in the hallways. The other day I went to a tire shop and asked the guy for some tires. He said he didn't have any. I asked him if he could check to see if another store in the chain across town had some. He said the computer network was down, and he couldn't do it from there. I guess telephones no longer work for calling the other store up and asking them like they did 20 years ago.
It makes sense. Religion is about stasis. Stasis of a written story that never changes. A safe world with a father figure that makes sure that nothing changes and when something bad happens it's part of some "plan". The stasis of a routine that includes weekly (or even daily) mass hysteria events. And of course the stasis of the mind, which ignores or discredits any data that is contradictory or thought provoking as "the work of the devil".
Because said aircraft do not cross the border, they turn back right at the border. However spy planes have been shot down before by all parties - why does this surprise you?
You seem to have none. Governments own both the electromagnetic spectrum and the airspace of their countries. Therefore they can do what they want to who they want and are only answerable to themselves. If you don't like it, make sure your MILITARY equipment isn't in their airspace, which in itself is a violation of sovereignty and an act of war. You know when the Russians come flying up to the US/UK border regularly when playing games? They turn back. If you don't turn back YOU are the aggressor. But it seems to me like I'm talking to another one of those "America can do no wrong" types.
it was cited as response to an American act of aggression.
Illegally invading another country's sovereign airspace is an act of aggression.
Now we hear that they overrode communications and forced the drone to land.
Any stray military aircraft would also be offered a choice of being forced to land, or be shot down, under the same circumstances.
It's also possible that the drone was patrolling the border from inside Iraq or Afghanistan
The US lately seems to have no problems with crossing borders in Pakistan and Yemen and even killing people there in complete violation of international law. Why would flying over Iran be a problem? You have played the "poor innocent America we mean no harm we come in peace" card far too often. Sorry.
There's an air of deliberation here that doesn't square.
Oh it squares alright. Just like the ICBM launched off the California coast earlier this year oh no sorry it was a "jet". Just like the Chinese sub popping up next to the USS Kitty Hawk and saying hi. Just like the satellite that got blown out of the sky. It says "look what we can do - please invest more trillions in easily circumventable drone technology".
Blowing stuff up (even your own drones) in another sovereign nation is usually considered an act of war. This sovereign nation happens to have Russia and China as allies.
About as mature as Fox is every day, or NYT headlines saying "The Evil Has Landed" when Ahmadinejad visited New York a few years back. Pot, kettle, black.
If you aren't prepared to do it and try to "cheat" by asking slashdot, why should you expect any different from your students?
Design tests that challenge understanding of the subject and reasoning, not memory. But I guess mediocre teachers are good enough for mediocre students. Or was it the other way around?
Er no. From TFA they've already had a previous incident with stray rounds from the range. Either the range is in the wrong place, or the town is in the wrong place. "Shit happens" is not good enough for sentient human beings. But alas I realize you are a "mythbusters" fan.
AFAIK they haven't made any changes to KE = 1/2 mv^2 recently. Where exactly are you aiming that thing, how much does it weigh, and how much powder are you putting behind it? 100% preventable. It wasn't "god" that made the ball go through the wall.
People are not arrested and prosecuted for accidents.
Want to bet?
They took appropriate precautions,
No, obviously they didn't.
They are extremely lucky no one was injured or killed. Culpable homicide or manslaughter, whatever you call it depending where you live, includes accidents.
Yes just remember when your country's currency implodes and you are relegated to less than 3rd world status because your country is not designed to survive without the automobile, that spending money on alien research was a top priority.
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No, the way the economy works is you can't afford a house, so a bank put you in debt and gave the money to a developer. So when you want to remodel, you take out an additional loan or renegotiate your current loan and pay cash to a contractor who is maxxed out on his credit cards. He takes your money and gives it back to the bank to pay down his debt, and so the slavery continues. And here you were thinking you were going to break out of your servitude by remodeling because you were fooled by greed into thinking that house prices will go up forever and there will be eternal demand for homes - especially taking into account the inverted population pyramid.
It's the only way you can sell tech IPO's nowadays.
Imaginary and hypothetical scenarios are fun aren't they? Have you ever held a scalpel and made the incision? Have you every done it for god knows how many thousands of hours, at any and all possible times, when you felt good, when you felt sick, and when you should have gone to bed 10 hours ago? Don't worry, your scenario is absolutely the last thing that will ever happen to you. There's no last minute "oh I forgot something" once the operation has already begun. Usually you are worked on by professionals and it's not their first time. Just like you will never find a commercial airline pilot who forgets to - I dunno - put the gear down before landing.
Preaching to the choir - I am a physician. I don't believe you because I work in a country that isn't computerized yet. If you transpose 3.7 and 7.3 so easily without a computer to double-check things for you then you prove my argument: computers make us stupid.
Yet another example of how technology makes us stupid. How ever did we manage BEFORE computers and computer records... I guess patients just died in the hallways. The other day I went to a tire shop and asked the guy for some tires. He said he didn't have any. I asked him if he could check to see if another store in the chain across town had some. He said the computer network was down, and he couldn't do it from there. I guess telephones no longer work for calling the other store up and asking them like they did 20 years ago.
"religion" is far far older than the Jews. Your bias is showing.
I hope you brought her back to the cemetery and buried her again afterwards.
It makes sense. Religion is about stasis. Stasis of a written story that never changes. A safe world with a father figure that makes sure that nothing changes and when something bad happens it's part of some "plan". The stasis of a routine that includes weekly (or even daily) mass hysteria events. And of course the stasis of the mind, which ignores or discredits any data that is contradictory or thought provoking as "the work of the devil".
Almost as good as Dr. Bob... 3/10
Because said aircraft do not cross the border, they turn back right at the border. However spy planes have been shot down before by all parties - why does this surprise you?
common sense
You seem to have none. Governments own both the electromagnetic spectrum and the airspace of their countries. Therefore they can do what they want to who they want and are only answerable to themselves. If you don't like it, make sure your MILITARY equipment isn't in their airspace, which in itself is a violation of sovereignty and an act of war. You know when the Russians come flying up to the US/UK border regularly when playing games? They turn back. If you don't turn back YOU are the aggressor. But it seems to me like I'm talking to another one of those "America can do no wrong" types.
it was cited as response to an American act of aggression.
Illegally invading another country's sovereign airspace is an act of aggression.
Now we hear that they overrode communications and forced the drone to land.
Any stray military aircraft would also be offered a choice of being forced to land, or be shot down, under the same circumstances.
It's also possible that the drone was patrolling the border from inside Iraq or Afghanistan
The US lately seems to have no problems with crossing borders in Pakistan and Yemen and even killing people there in complete violation of international law. Why would flying over Iran be a problem? You have played the "poor innocent America we mean no harm we come in peace" card far too often. Sorry.
There's an air of deliberation here that doesn't square.
Oh it squares alright. Just like the ICBM launched off the California coast earlier this year oh no sorry it was a "jet". Just like the Chinese sub popping up next to the USS Kitty Hawk and saying hi. Just like the satellite that got blown out of the sky. It says "look what we can do - please invest more trillions in easily circumventable drone technology".
Blowing stuff up (even your own drones) in another sovereign nation is usually considered an act of war. This sovereign nation happens to have Russia and China as allies.
Good thing that US law does not apply in Iran then, eh? No harm no foul.
Real mature.
About as mature as Fox is every day, or NYT headlines saying "The Evil Has Landed" when Ahmadinejad visited New York a few years back. Pot, kettle, black.
Eh? No. Captured US drone ends up in China before the New Year more likely.
Yes, the solution is obviously an advanced AI system inside the drone. And we should call it Skynet, just to be safe.
No it's the US government that can be taken so easy, at $100 million a pop.
If you aren't prepared to do it and try to "cheat" by asking slashdot, why should you expect any different from your students?
Design tests that challenge understanding of the subject and reasoning, not memory. But I guess mediocre teachers are good enough for mediocre students. Or was it the other way around?
Living entails a 100% chance of dying - is living safe?
Er no. From TFA they've already had a previous incident with stray rounds from the range. Either the range is in the wrong place, or the town is in the wrong place. "Shit happens" is not good enough for sentient human beings. But alas I realize you are a "mythbusters" fan.
AFAIK they haven't made any changes to KE = 1/2 mv^2 recently. Where exactly are you aiming that thing, how much does it weigh, and how much powder are you putting behind it? 100% preventable. It wasn't "god" that made the ball go through the wall.
Better yet make them look like the name of some sheik but upside down.
People are not arrested and prosecuted for accidents.
Want to bet?
They took appropriate precautions,
No, obviously they didn't.
They are extremely lucky no one was injured or killed. Culpable homicide or manslaughter, whatever you call it depending where you live, includes accidents.
Yes just remember when your country's currency implodes and you are relegated to less than 3rd world status because your country is not designed to survive without the automobile, that spending money on alien research was a top priority.