No. It is the business of a Afghans -- both the women and their male sympathizers -- to decide to do something about this. It is NOT our business. If you think it is, you are ALSO saying that is the Afghans business to export their ideas into OUR way of life by force.
The situations are only symmetric if you are a cultural relativist.
Why do people keep making this mistake? The US doesn't work that way. The Japanese made the same calculation when they attacked Pearl Harbor and Osama Bin Ladin made that calculation when he attacked the twin towers, pentagon, and white house.
Evidently they think we're Europe.
However, if the US is attacked strongly enough to move the US to war conditions those people lose all power and are replaced by people best described as Jacksonians.
Either have the automation drive the car itself, or get it out of the way. If I wanted a goddamn backseat driver, I'd volunteer to drive senior citizens around.
And incandescent bulbs haven't been banned. They can still make and sell higher efficiency incandescent bulbs, halogen bulbs, heat-lamps, and specialty bulbs.
This is sophistry, since no non-halogen incandescent bulb can meet the standards.
Totally bogus bulb. CRI: 82. That's relatively good for fluorescent, but still nowhere near the 100 for incandescent or high 90-s for HIR.
Max lumens: 640. For a 60W equivalent? That's just out-and-out fraud. Sylvania's standard 60W soft white is 850 lumens.
Yes, but I can easily see a world where drugs are legal and gang members are doing drive-bys over bootleg Gucci purses and bootleg DVDs.
I can postulate it, but it seems rather unlikely. Gucci purses and legal DVDs are regularly available, which sets a ceiling on the price for the bootlegs; at some point sale of the merchandise fails to cover the overhead of running a criminal enterprise.
The Iranians have absolutely zero need to engage with the mighty US Navy at all; they just have to sink a couple of very fat, very slow oil tankers, just a few, then wait for Lloyd's to react, while the probably-unharmed crew are being fished from the lifeboats. And Lloyd's says to itself, "Can even the US Navy check out every goddamn cave the size of a 2-car garage in 200km of coastline? When the 90% that do not contain actual missiles do contain dummies? No, they cannot. Not this week, month, or, probably, year." And so the price of oil sits there at $250/bbl until everybody calms down.
And the US reacts by destroying Iran's navy, Iran's air force, and likely by taking Iran's ports and anything else within a 200km range of the coastline, then painstakingly DOES search every goddamn cave in the area. Who benefits from this, besides Saudi Arabia?
Not sure which side you mean. The US govt has been itching for an excuse to crush Iran for a long while now, and closing the Straits of Hormuz is a casus belli that pretty much the entire international community would recognize.
Ms. Darshan-Leitner, had such laws been in effect prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, it is rather likely that the organizations which requested American aid and support for the establishment of the state of Israel would have been forbidden from doing so. And perhaps, then, the state of Israel would not have been established. Now that it has, how about you stop trying to take away the American freedom which assisted your nation into coming into being.
Point me to any piece of legislation on THOMAS that would prohibit selling or possessing CPUs that can run arbitrary code, or requires a license to own a compiler, or any other of these dystopian futures that would put every software developer on the planet in the unemployment line or prison overnight, or require every functioning Intel CPU currently installed to go to the crusher.
None of the really crazy stuff has become legislation yet; the craziest I've heard floated was a 2002 proposal to require watermark detection on all analog/digital converters; this was part of the Content Protection Status Report the MPAA submitted to the US Senate.
At best, the content industry is saying we're going to build content protection into hardware, and if you want access to our properties, you'll use hardware that respects that.
That's too generous; they want to have content protection in all hardware, whether it has anything to do with their content or not.
That was a long piece of flamebait, so you'll excuse me if I only take part of it.
There's this self-absorbed attitude that I just can't wrap my head around, a petulant voice that screams "Don't tell me what to do!" like a child throwing a tantrum.
"Don't tell me what to do!" is one thing from a child to a parent, another from a slave to his master, a third from a man to his government, and yet a fourth from a purchaser of a product to its seller. Unless you feel all purchasers are children, the demand is not necessarily children.
The whole talk reeks of alarmism, as the very restrictions he rants about have all been circumvented already, and several major players have abandoned such restrictions entirely, such as the aforementioned iTunes Music Store, which dropped its DRM (something Apple doesn't get enough credit for, honestly--I can't imagine what Steve Jobs said to the labels to get them to play along).
Alarmism? Yes, they've been circumvented. Illegally in many cases. Which is only resulting in the other side tightening the screws more. And do you think those restrictions could have been circumvented if the most open computer anyone could get was an iPad?
Claiming this is alarmist with SOPA still on the table is sticking your head in the sand.
It appears from their website that what PAR wants you to do is order sets of test forms, then use the test forms once per exam. But they can't actually require you to do it that way. You can make a scoring sheet (without the questions) and record the patient's scores on the scoring sheet, while giving the exam from a legitimate copy (perhaps one ordered from PAR, perhaps one obtained from the original journal) or even an illegitimate one, without violating copyright. The same exam sheet can be used over and over again.
Copyright 101 (and 106): Copyright covers reproduction, distribution, derivative works, public performance, and public display. Giving a screening exam is not _public_ performance of the work.
If someone sells you a good or service and doesn't require payment until the end of the month, then it's not "buying on credit" to hold off paying until that date.
If someone sells you a good or service and doesn't require payment until the end of the month, they have extended you credit. You have bought on credit, whether you know it or not.
Society deems it a science. A psychologist can sign you into a hospital for evaluation, the cops will bag you up like you are wild life on Wild Kingdom, and put you in a padded room. For a "pseudoscience" that is a lot of power.
A pseudoscience with a lot of power is still pseudoscience (sorry L. Ron). Since you mentioned fallacies, that's the "Argumentum ad Baculum".
Is it? I thought they were sold in in bullshit units that have no proper relation to the label, since a 4 by 6 is just what happens to be left over of a formerly 4" by 6" piece of wood after some kind of processing.
They're bullshit units, but bullshit conventional units. A 4 by 6 is 3.5" by 5.5"; I don't believe it's true any more that the rough-cut piece it came from was 4" by 6". The length of a 4 by 6 is in conventional units without the bullshit.
Right off the hop you owe $386K for a $200K loan on a $250K home. It will take 126 months (thats over 10 years) before you have any equity at all in the home, until that time the home is "upside down."
Fortunately that's not how it works with a conventional mortgage. You don't owe the entire amount of the loan when you sign the papers. Instead, interest is calculated monthly; if you get the loan on January 1st you owe 1/12 of the rate times the principal amount in interest on February 1st. So on Feb 1 you owe $200K principal + $833.33 interest, of which $1073.64 is due. When you make the payment, you owe $199,759.69 in principal, leaving you with an equity of $50240.31, assuming the home hasn't changed in value.
The only way you can be upside-down is if the home has dropped in value, you got a negative amortization loan, or you got a loan for more than the value of the home.
we pretend we're still using non-metric measurements of oz, pound, gallon, inch, foot, mile, but in reality, everything is made and sold in metric quantities, and dual labeled with the more familiar measurements
Nonsense. A can of Coke in the US is 12oz; it's the 355ml which is the secondary label. Milk is packaged and sold in customary units; again, it's the metric unit which is the secondary label. Gasoline is sold exclusively in customary units. True, liquor is metric (though we confuse things by calling 750ml a "fifth"; it's a little short), but beer is customary. For length, lumber is made and sold in customary units. Fasteners are made and sold in both. For weight, everything (except cocaine) we buy by weight is sold by the pound; it's often labeled in kg, but that's secondary.
It's true that our units are all referenced to metric standards, but that's not the same as saying we use the metric system.
Nope, look at a map. North of the 60, all the streets in Tempe and Mesa are straight, and run along a north-south line. South of Baseline, in Chandler/Gilbert, the same streets are also straight, and run along a north-south line. But those N-S lines are not the same between those two regions, there's a small deviation, for every single north-south road.
Baseline Road is called that because it lies on a baseline for surveying. So the parts south and the parts north were surveyed separately. Imposing a rectangular grid on a spherical surface accounts for the deviation; for them to meet at township boundaries, the north-south divisions would have had to be meridians, and they're not.
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The situations are only symmetric if you are a cultural relativist.
Evidently they think we're Europe.
Tom Kratman, is that you?
not another we'll-never-see-it solar breakthrough. I suppose highly-efficient batteries, flying cars, and fusion power will be the next stories.
Either have the automation drive the car itself, or get it out of the way. If I wanted a goddamn backseat driver, I'd volunteer to drive senior citizens around.
This is sophistry, since no non-halogen incandescent bulb can meet the standards.
I thought building codes existed so building inspectors could get wealthy on bribes. But then, I live in NJ.
Totally bogus bulb. CRI: 82. That's relatively good for fluorescent, but still nowhere near the 100 for incandescent or high 90-s for HIR. Max lumens: 640. For a 60W equivalent? That's just out-and-out fraud. Sylvania's standard 60W soft white is 850 lumens.
But don't you know that taking a numerator and an unrelated denominator and dividing them to make a scary percentage is an indefensible gambit?
I can postulate it, but it seems rather unlikely. Gucci purses and legal DVDs are regularly available, which sets a ceiling on the price for the bootlegs; at some point sale of the merchandise fails to cover the overhead of running a criminal enterprise.
And the US reacts by destroying Iran's navy, Iran's air force, and likely by taking Iran's ports and anything else within a 200km range of the coastline, then painstakingly DOES search every goddamn cave in the area. Who benefits from this, besides Saudi Arabia?
The Sunburn is a Cold War era Soviet missile. Do you really think the US Navy has no countermeasures against them by now?
Hypersonic missiles haven't been (openly) deployed by major nations yet; Iran certainly doesn't have any.
An embargo is not an act of war. A blockade is an act of war, but the only country threatening anything like a blockade is Iran.
Not sure which side you mean. The US govt has been itching for an excuse to crush Iran for a long while now, and closing the Straits of Hormuz is a casus belli that pretty much the entire international community would recognize.
Killing the mayor and city council isn't necessarily terrorism. It could be outright rebellion. Not all violent action is terrorism.
Ms. Darshan-Leitner, had such laws been in effect prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, it is rather likely that the organizations which requested American aid and support for the establishment of the state of Israel would have been forbidden from doing so. And perhaps, then, the state of Israel would not have been established. Now that it has, how about you stop trying to take away the American freedom which assisted your nation into coming into being.
(tl;dr: Go fuck yourself)
None of the really crazy stuff has become legislation yet; the craziest I've heard floated was a 2002 proposal to require watermark detection on all analog/digital converters; this was part of the Content Protection Status Report the MPAA submitted to the US Senate.
That's too generous; they want to have content protection in all hardware, whether it has anything to do with their content or not.
That was a long piece of flamebait, so you'll excuse me if I only take part of it.
"Don't tell me what to do!" is one thing from a child to a parent, another from a slave to his master, a third from a man to his government, and yet a fourth from a purchaser of a product to its seller. Unless you feel all purchasers are children, the demand is not necessarily children.
Alarmism? Yes, they've been circumvented. Illegally in many cases. Which is only resulting in the other side tightening the screws more. And do you think those restrictions could have been circumvented if the most open computer anyone could get was an iPad?
Claiming this is alarmist with SOPA still on the table is sticking your head in the sand.
It appears from their website that what PAR wants you to do is order sets of test forms, then use the test forms once per exam. But they can't actually require you to do it that way. You can make a scoring sheet (without the questions) and record the patient's scores on the scoring sheet, while giving the exam from a legitimate copy (perhaps one ordered from PAR, perhaps one obtained from the original journal) or even an illegitimate one, without violating copyright. The same exam sheet can be used over and over again.
Copyright 101 (and 106):
Copyright covers reproduction, distribution, derivative works, public performance, and public display. Giving a screening exam is not _public_ performance of the work.
I'd watch that if the movie poster had Shatner posing with Nichelle Nichols in an "American Gothic" scene.
Score 5: Wrong. *sigh*
If someone sells you a good or service and doesn't require payment until the end of the month, they have extended you credit. You have bought on credit, whether you know it or not.
A pseudoscience with a lot of power is still pseudoscience (sorry L. Ron). Since you mentioned fallacies, that's the "Argumentum ad Baculum".
They're bullshit units, but bullshit conventional units. A 4 by 6 is 3.5" by 5.5"; I don't believe it's true any more that the rough-cut piece it came from was 4" by 6". The length of a 4 by 6 is in conventional units without the bullshit.
Fortunately that's not how it works with a conventional mortgage. You don't owe the entire amount of the loan when you sign the papers. Instead, interest is calculated monthly; if you get the loan on January 1st you owe 1/12 of the rate times the principal amount in interest on February 1st. So on Feb 1 you owe $200K principal + $833.33 interest, of which $1073.64 is due. When you make the payment, you owe $199,759.69 in principal, leaving you with an equity of $50240.31, assuming the home hasn't changed in value.
The only way you can be upside-down is if the home has dropped in value, you got a negative amortization loan, or you got a loan for more than the value of the home.
Nonsense. A can of Coke in the US is 12oz; it's the 355ml which is the secondary label. Milk is packaged and sold in customary units; again, it's the metric unit which is the secondary label. Gasoline is sold exclusively in customary units. True, liquor is metric (though we confuse things by calling 750ml a "fifth"; it's a little short), but beer is customary. For length, lumber is made and sold in customary units. Fasteners are made and sold in both. For weight, everything (except cocaine) we buy by weight is sold by the pound; it's often labeled in kg, but that's secondary.
It's true that our units are all referenced to metric standards, but that's not the same as saying we use the metric system.
Baseline Road is called that because it lies on a baseline for surveying. So the parts south and the parts north were surveyed separately. Imposing a rectangular grid on a spherical surface accounts for the deviation; for them to meet at township boundaries, the north-south divisions would have had to be meridians, and they're not.