Then the solution is obvious. Tax e-mail. It wouldn't be much, say 1p each. Less than the cost of a text-message by far. It wouldn't hurt normal users, but would make spamming non-profitable, thereby removing the problem. The tax money could be used to abolish the tax on alcohol and tobacco.
Who cares about forests? I don't live anywhere near any of these National parks, and don't care to visit any of them, why should I care? They can all burn as far as I care. It's only fucking wood.
On average, people live within the catchment area of very few schools, meaning there aren't many available that are feasable to travel to every day. Most schools are crap, turning down a good one because you love libel is a really stupid thing to do.
Yeah, but most of them are too far away for it to be practical to get to them. You're never going to find a planet with earth gravity and atmosphere, so just give up. Who wants to live in a rotating tin can their whole life?
A larger skeleton allows a person to carry more weight.
How does this force you to sit on your arse eating food and not doing any exercise. No matter how big your skeleton is, a bullfrog chin is simply unacceptable, unless you have an extra 'chin' bone that we don't have. Hint: if it wobbles, it's fat. Not big-bones. Not your skeleton. Fat. In fact, a bigger skeleton should stretch the fat out, making you look leaner. The fact that you manage to both have a big skeleton, and to have excess fat hanging off it, means you must eat a hell of a lot.
But even if I lose 150 pounds and ripped with muscles from head to toe, some small-minded people will still point out that I'm still technically obese
What, they're going to measure your height and weight and apply an equation to determine that you're technically overweight? It sounds like you're making excuses not to lose weight. I'm not surprised, fat people often do that.
If that was the case, I wouldn't bother with the Slim Fast diet to go from 400 pounds to 325 pounds in one year.
So you got a fraction of the way and gave up because you liked your food too much? That's OK, not everyone has tenacity and determination, or enough self-motivation to keep going and going, even when it's hard. Just open a tub of ice-cream and congratulate yourself for at least trying.
I've never seen a little red icon in the upper-right corner, and surely after all these months there must be an update available, I read about them on slashdot all the time. The 'check for updates' things just hangs, or gives me some incomprehensible error about 'DOM', whatever the hell that is.
Well if you don't like the rules, go to another school. Personally I believe the poor state of schools is a result of not enough discipline, rather than too much. Go to a private school and complain about the uniform, they'll just tell you go somewhere else if you don't like.
There's no law guaranteeing you free speech. Even your First Amendment just stops Congress making laws against speech, it doesn't let you get away with saying anything you want. If free speech were absolute, there would be no libel laws.
You must be making this up, what sort of news programme uses rumours as real stories? I can't think of any in the world. Even Al-Jazeera is honest enough not to disguise things are rumours or hearsay. I can't believe anyone would be so unprofessional.
That's got to hurt their business in the long run.
I would think that libel would hurt them in the long run. Imaging people 'Googling' for 'Charter Schools USA' and 9 of the top 10 results are false comments about Charter Schools employees, accusing them of all sorts of things they didn't do. That's what would hurt them.
I hope that parents will vote with their money and send their kids to school elsewhere.
Why? Because they stand up for their rights not to be libelled? That's a really stupid reason to decide your kids' educations. 'Hey son, you're not going to that good school, you have to go to a shit one instead, because the good one is suing someone who lied about them.' 'But Daddy, that shit school's full of bullies and incompetent teachers and drugs.' 'I'm sorry son, but people's right to libel people on the Internet comes before everything, even you.'
Well, that's a lie. I use Firefox, have done for nearly a year, it's never told me about any updates or patches at all. The 'check for updates' thing in the extensions window doesn't bring anything back. Where exactly do I get these simple, semi-automatic updates?
Perhaps because it's written: 7th May, 2005? You don't say 'May the seventh', you say 'the seventh of May'. Yet again American imperialist bastards fuck everything up, just to be different.
You know, it's not good form to reply to an amusing post with an embarassingly un-funny follow-up. You've just sucked all the humour out of it, if I were the grandparent poster I'd be really fucking pissed off with you.
That begs the question of whether human lifesupport is something we need.
No matter important we humans think we are, a robot or a computer is much better suited to the task of exploration. They don't need feeding, they don't need oxygen, or gravity. A computer doesn't get bored, it doesn't make human errors, it can explore for decades in outer space and won't go insane. Think a human would last long in a pod on Mars? How long 'till he opens the door to commit suicide?
We could explore the entire galaxy without a human even leaving LEO.
As for finding habitation for when the Earth is hit by an asteroid, what makes you think that an asteroid-hit Earth in a perpetual global winter will be any less of a habitable place than Mars? If you can live in a 'space city' on Mars with artificial oxygen/water/food generation, you can do the same on Earth, with less hassle if something goes wrong.
Space isn't like on Star Trek or Star Wars, it won't be full of exciting planets all with Earth gravity and human-breathable atmosphere, filled with aliens who both look and sound like humans, and speak English or have a perfect translator. Space is largely a dead and empty place, planets are years of travel apart, inter-stellar would take decades, and you wouldn't find much when you got there. Space-stations or planet/moon habitations wouldn't be nice places to be. There'd be little or no gravity, you'd spend most of your time floating around, shitting and pissing in tubes, and eating re-hydrated powder.
Even if there was a largely-pleasant space-station to live on, within a few months the novelty would wear off and you'd be begging to go back to Earth, even if just to breath fresh air or to feel rain.
No, but if you make a post as a certain user, then another in the same discussion as the same user, then whoever's reading knows it's from the same person. They can also confront them about it later if they see the same user posting something contradicting something they've already said. An anonymous coward could be anyone, it could be ten people pretending to be one in the same discussion.
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If he's not astroturfing, why the amazon plugs? No doubt imdb are in league with amazon. Imdb send people to amazon, amazon sends $$$ to imdb.
Actually you can, all you need to do is dip the cigarette in liquid oxygen beforehand. Just ask any smoker who's been to space.
Then the solution is obvious. Tax e-mail. It wouldn't be much, say 1p each. Less than the cost of a text-message by far. It wouldn't hurt normal users, but would make spamming non-profitable, thereby removing the problem. The tax money could be used to abolish the tax on alcohol and tobacco.
That's blasphemy, God doesn't use e-mail. And he doesn't start hurricanes. God doesn't deliberately kill people, you're thinking of Allah.
Who cares about forests? I don't live anywhere near any of these National parks, and don't care to visit any of them, why should I care? They can all burn as far as I care. It's only fucking wood.
Troll? How the hell am I a troll pointing out the difference between animate (live), and non-animate objects? Whatever next???
Yeah, but a Jew is alive (just), but a picture is an inanimate object, and so is an Xbox.
On average, people live within the catchment area of very few schools, meaning there aren't many available that are feasable to travel to every day. Most schools are crap, turning down a good one because you love libel is a really stupid thing to do.
Yeah, but most of them are too far away for it to be practical to get to them. You're never going to find a planet with earth gravity and atmosphere, so just give up. Who wants to live in a rotating tin can their whole life?
Wow, Microsoft Certified, that's impressive. I bet you can beat Minesweeper and everything. And perhaps even change the screensaver. Go you!
No, it's right. Lawsuits aren't decided by juries.
Note to anagama: Ally McBeal doesn't equal real-life.
A larger skeleton allows a person to carry more weight.
How does this force you to sit on your arse eating food and not doing any exercise. No matter how big your skeleton is, a bullfrog chin is simply unacceptable, unless you have an extra 'chin' bone that we don't have. Hint: if it wobbles, it's fat. Not big-bones. Not your skeleton. Fat. In fact, a bigger skeleton should stretch the fat out, making you look leaner. The fact that you manage to both have a big skeleton, and to have excess fat hanging off it, means you must eat a hell of a lot.
But even if I lose 150 pounds and ripped with muscles from head to toe, some small-minded people will still point out that I'm still technically obese
What, they're going to measure your height and weight and apply an equation to determine that you're technically overweight? It sounds like you're making excuses not to lose weight. I'm not surprised, fat people often do that.
If that was the case, I wouldn't bother with the Slim Fast diet to go from 400 pounds to 325 pounds in one year.
So you got a fraction of the way and gave up because you liked your food too much? That's OK, not everyone has tenacity and determination, or enough self-motivation to keep going and going, even when it's hard. Just open a tub of ice-cream and congratulate yourself for at least trying.
I've never seen a little red icon in the upper-right corner, and surely after all these months there must be an update available, I read about them on slashdot all the time. The 'check for updates' things just hangs, or gives me some incomprehensible error about 'DOM', whatever the hell that is.
Well if you don't like the rules, go to another school. Personally I believe the poor state of schools is a result of not enough discipline, rather than too much. Go to a private school and complain about the uniform, they'll just tell you go somewhere else if you don't like.
There's no law guaranteeing you free speech. Even your First Amendment just stops Congress making laws against speech, it doesn't let you get away with saying anything you want. If free speech were absolute, there would be no libel laws.
You must be making this up, what sort of news programme uses rumours as real stories? I can't think of any in the world. Even Al-Jazeera is honest enough not to disguise things are rumours or hearsay. I can't believe anyone would be so unprofessional.
That's got to hurt their business in the long run.
I would think that libel would hurt them in the long run. Imaging people 'Googling' for 'Charter Schools USA' and 9 of the top 10 results are false comments about Charter Schools employees, accusing them of all sorts of things they didn't do. That's what would hurt them.
I hope that parents will vote with their money and send their kids to school elsewhere.
Why? Because they stand up for their rights not to be libelled? That's a really stupid reason to decide your kids' educations.
'Hey son, you're not going to that good school, you have to go to a shit one instead, because the good one is suing someone who lied about them.'
'But Daddy, that shit school's full of bullies and incompetent teachers and drugs.'
'I'm sorry son, but people's right to libel people on the Internet comes before everything, even you.'
This would be a civil matter, not a criminal matter, there is no jury.
Well, that's a lie. I use Firefox, have done for nearly a year, it's never told me about any updates or patches at all. The 'check for updates' thing in the extensions window doesn't bring anything back. Where exactly do I get these simple, semi-automatic updates?
May I please enquire, what the fuck is RSS? I've never heard of it. Is it like CSS?
Perhaps because it's written: 7th May, 2005? You don't say 'May the seventh', you say 'the seventh of May'. Yet again American imperialist bastards fuck everything up, just to be different.
You know, it's not good form to reply to an amusing post with an embarassingly un-funny follow-up. You've just sucked all the humour out of it, if I were the grandparent poster I'd be really fucking pissed off with you.
How user-friendly. Opera is so far ahead of Firefox it's not funny.
That begs the question of whether human lifesupport is something we need.
No matter important we humans think we are, a robot or a computer is much better suited to the task of exploration. They don't need feeding, they don't need oxygen, or gravity. A computer doesn't get bored, it doesn't make human errors, it can explore for decades in outer space and won't go insane. Think a human would last long in a pod on Mars? How long 'till he opens the door to commit suicide?
We could explore the entire galaxy without a human even leaving LEO.
As for finding habitation for when the Earth is hit by an asteroid, what makes you think that an asteroid-hit Earth in a perpetual global winter will be any less of a habitable place than Mars? If you can live in a 'space city' on Mars with artificial oxygen/water/food generation, you can do the same on Earth, with less hassle if something goes wrong.
Space isn't like on Star Trek or Star Wars, it won't be full of exciting planets all with Earth gravity and human-breathable atmosphere, filled with aliens who both look and sound like humans, and speak English or have a perfect translator. Space is largely a dead and empty place, planets are years of travel apart, inter-stellar would take decades, and you wouldn't find much when you got there. Space-stations or planet/moon habitations wouldn't be nice places to be. There'd be little or no gravity, you'd spend most of your time floating around, shitting and pissing in tubes, and eating re-hydrated powder.
Even if there was a largely-pleasant space-station to live on, within a few months the novelty would wear off and you'd be begging to go back to Earth, even if just to breath fresh air or to feel rain.
No, but if you make a post as a certain user, then another in the same discussion as the same user, then whoever's reading knows it's from the same person. They can also confront them about it later if they see the same user posting something contradicting something they've already said. An anonymous coward could be anyone, it could be ten people pretending to be one in the same discussion.