Exactly right. The future of telemarketing is this: telemarketers in country A ring suckers in country B, and telemarketers in country B ring suckers in country A, thus evading Do Not Call laws in both countries.
The problem with this is that people attach emotional value to having things done their way: to being believed, obeyed, or agreed with. So, the contrarian advisor is put in the position of almost never succeeding; this would be an emotionally devastating duty, that almost no human being could put up with for long.
In normal discourse (political, legal, or scientific) intelligent and prepared people will go through a process of anticipating the arguments of the other side, and addressing those that can be addressed. Of course, the degree of intellectual honesty and rationality of argument varies on that spectrum: the proof of Turing-completeness of the Wolfram 2,3 machine could be sunk by anyone pointing out a flaw in it, with not much regard to the dissenter's eminence; on the other hand, one can scream about the effects of abstinence-only sex "education" on sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancy rates forever, one could literally tattoo graphs and survey results and common-sense logic onto their stupid smug faces, but the Repugs would not resile one step from their chosen position unless it became expedient to do so.
"Had no comment", whenever it appears in the newspaper, is pretty much an admission of guilt and should be taken that way, especially from a public official.
The one thing no one seems to mention is apple has NO activation process, they are one of the few companies on the planet that dont assume their customers are crooks.
Apple's activation process is "buy Apple hardware". Regardless of assumptions of "crookedness", they do assume their customers won't want to modify Apple hardware or software much.
So the implication is that, as lawmakers who grew up in a high-lead-content atmosphere retire or get busted for breach of family values or die or otherwise shuffle off the stage, we should see a reduction in legislative violence against harmless drug users.
Rep Dumbass(RIAA-R): Hey, Bogknock, check this bill out. It's for "Banning All P2P For Any Reason Totalitarian". Heh, I love the acronym, a real work of the Congressional art there. Do you know what a P2P is?
Rep Bogknock(Tobacco-R): *blushes* Er, no, but I sure don't like the sound of it!
Dumbass: So, it's fair to say that banning it wouldn't inconvenience you or anyone you care about?
Bogknock: Nope, not a bit.
Dumbass: Me neither, so who the hell cares? Ban it!
Actually it's much more likely to happen in the UK than in the rest of Europe. The US legal system, like that of most former British Imperial nations, is derived from the English Common Law, which is adversarial, ie, each side, normally through lawyers, presents a case and the judge acts as impartial referee. Judges are greatly constrained from actual participation in the trial, and under most conditions cannot themselves bring up any matter that neither party to the trial sees fit to bring up.
Most Continental European nations derive their legal system from Roman Civil Law, where the judge is an active participant whose brief includes pursuing the actual truth of the matter. A European judge is free to call witnesses, and can make judgements for and against (and lay charges against) third parties if they become relevant to the case at hand.
Still having trouble? We'll create an actually useful LFG system, and tie entry into the LFG channel to registering with it (to avoid it looking like Trade - City)
You play a healer or a tank, don't you?
Last time I used it, it got me a mage, a rogue, a shaman, a hunter and a warlock. Yay.
It is the suck, it is significantly less useful than the LFG channel for multiple reasons, and all players wwho don't exclusively play healers and/or tanks, and aren't in hundred-member raiding guilds with an active alt culture who are constantly running instances everywhere consider it a BAD IDEA.
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Exactly right. The future of telemarketing is this: telemarketers in country A ring suckers in country B, and telemarketers in country B ring suckers in country A, thus evading Do Not Call laws in both countries.
In normal discourse (political, legal, or scientific) intelligent and prepared people will go through a process of anticipating the arguments of the other side, and addressing those that can be addressed. Of course, the degree of intellectual honesty and rationality of argument varies on that spectrum: the proof of Turing-completeness of the Wolfram 2,3 machine could be sunk by anyone pointing out a flaw in it, with not much regard to the dissenter's eminence; on the other hand, one can scream about the effects of abstinence-only sex "education" on sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancy rates forever, one could literally tattoo graphs and survey results and common-sense logic onto their stupid smug faces, but the Repugs would not resile one step from their chosen position unless it became expedient to do so.
3) Put it on silent and sit near the aisle.
Oh, bullshit. Most murders are committed in the heat of extreme emotion. "Deterrence" is a concept of interest only to the sane and sober.
"Filling up" is precisely the issue at hand. There is no such thing. It's not applicable to an electronic medium.
"Had no comment", whenever it appears in the newspaper, is pretty much an admission of guilt and should be taken that way, especially from a public official.
Apple's activation process is "buy Apple hardware". Regardless of assumptions of "crookedness", they do assume their customers won't want to modify Apple hardware or software much.
So the implication is that, as lawmakers who grew up in a high-lead-content atmosphere retire or get busted for breach of family values or die or otherwise shuffle off the stage, we should see a reduction in legislative violence against harmless drug users.
Rep Dumbass(RIAA-R): Hey, Bogknock, check this bill out. It's for "Banning All P2P For Any Reason Totalitarian". Heh, I love the acronym, a real work of the Congressional art there. Do you know what a P2P is?
Rep Bogknock(Tobacco-R): *blushes* Er, no, but I sure don't like the sound of it!
Dumbass: So, it's fair to say that banning it wouldn't inconvenience you or anyone you care about?
Bogknock: Nope, not a bit.
Dumbass: Me neither, so who the hell cares? Ban it!
That's odd. I'd have thought it cost "do it or be fined/arrested".
Much as I would like to agree, "rendered null" isn't how it works. Try "enforced more vigorously and with more strident insistence".
Wow, he looks so much like a black text message saying "No Linking From This Host". I wonder if they're related.
Most Continental European nations derive their legal system from Roman Civil Law, where the judge is an active participant whose brief includes pursuing the actual truth of the matter. A European judge is free to call witnesses, and can make judgements for and against (and lay charges against) third parties if they become relevant to the case at hand.
Along with several of the rest of his stories: http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
Ray, have you put in a complaint with the Bar Association yet?
Just a question ... are Americans teaching their children that it is good to share, or that it is bad to share?
Oh! You mean Hiro Nakamura's dad! :)
All of human language can be seen as concentric abstractions.
It's not as if we use the roofs (and external walls) of our houses for much else.
Ha! That's game over right there.
Can you "steal" my Ferrari in a way that doesn't deprive me of it?
Tautological as it is, popular data is the majority.
You play a healer or a tank, don't you?
Last time I used it, it got me a mage, a rogue, a shaman, a hunter and a warlock. Yay.
It is the suck, it is significantly less useful than the LFG channel for multiple reasons, and all players wwho don't exclusively play healers and/or tanks, and aren't in hundred-member raiding guilds with an active alt culture who are constantly running instances everywhere consider it a BAD IDEA.
Wizardry I was written in Apple Pascal. I'd love to see the source code for it, for nostalgic reasons.
Free Republic? Little Green Footballs? WorldNetDaily?