The Chinese approach to ethics is almost purely situational. Compound this with a manipulative media, and what you get are fat, happy citizens who are staunchly nationalistic and xenophobic. All they care about is money.
If you want some positive moderation, reply to the above true statement about the Chinese changing only the nationality.
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If only/. ran the Chinese Journal of Whateverology.
This comment will probably go down in flames, but it seems like this article is just an excuse to brown nose Steve Jobs. Apple makes fad devices; pretty nice devices but they are still playing to a fad (just take a look at their stock price). Microsoft, on the other hand, makes business computing possible on over 90% of the world's computers.
I just looked at their prices over the past few years.
Jan 2001 Apple about $11, Microsoft about $31 Feb 2010 Apple about $204, Microsoft about $28
That said, if what you say is true (which it isn't, at least given the jurisdictional decisions made over the last decade) Apple would be guilty of unfair competition. ("vente liée")
Complicate much? Just let go the pressure keeping the burger on the grill, it'll float, flip it, press it back down.
Pressure doesn't keep a burger down. It is a combination of gravity and surface tension. Remove the gravity and the burger would still stick weakly to the grill surface. We need to break that adhesion, preferably with some sort of fully functional fembot - with a spatula.
Sure you can. Just not in the traditional way. You could have two griddles parallel to one another and maybe 5-6 feet apart. Cook one side of the patty, flip it to the other cooking surface, spin yourself 180 degrees, finish cooking.
As countless posters following will point out, you don't have the right to take it for free. But at a certain price, you will have the motivation. It is only human nature. We make cost/benefit analyses all the time, often without even thinking deeply about them. An industry which prices its product above that price point which the average consumer thinks is reasonable is just begging for trouble.
When VHS movies came out in the early 80's, they cost upwards of $100 or so. There were shortly illegal copies of these for sale on streetcorners in Brooklyn. A decade later, the manufacturers dropped the price of a movie below $20 or so and it became easier to buy one than copy one. Shortly after that the streetcorners were clear of illegal tapes.
Same dynamics will happen with ebooks. At $5, it isn't worth my time to go find an "illegal" copy. At $20, it is.
Jobs and Apple wouldn't be where they are today if they waited around for you to spread your legs. They have a history of throwing the consumer on the ground and mounting them while the consumer cries "No! Please! Not there! I've never done that before! I can't!... Oh! Oh! Yes! Yes! More! Please! More! Oh God! Yes! I never knew it could be so good!"
In the old days, radiocarbon dating was done by scintillation counting of a sample and correction for background. AMS is a mass spec technique and counts by actually counting 12C/13C/14C atoms in the sample.
I've had a $400 wine before (obtained at a decent price and then aged). The difference between a decent $20-$40 wine and a $400 one is minimal relative to the price.
I doubt anyone without a really refined palate would be able to notice. And even if you did, you would probably chalk it up to poor storage or oxidation or something.
Is it just me? I can tell the difference between types of beers, but all wines taste like mouthwash to me.
That plus a nuke warhead sounds great for killing big carriers. If push really comes to shove kiss power projection in the Indian Ocean goodbye. I wonder how long it will take China to buy one.
I think China is really the one that should be worrying about the Indian military.
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If an enemy combatant starts taking potshots across the boarder at US soldiers, escorts a convoy full of weapons destined for insurgents, encourages acts of terror or militancy and engages in these acts in a combat zone, region administered by martial law or region outside the jurisdiction of the united states but not maintained by any government (tribal regions of Pakistan) then they are an enemy and NOT a US Citizen. As a result, they are not afforded any of the protections under our constitution or laws.
Nishikawa v. Dulles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishikawa_v._Dulles "Citizenship may only be forfeited by a voluntary act; the Government must prove voluntariness by clear, convincing and unequivocal evidence."
I am not a constitutional lawyer, but you seem to be right and wrong. Voluntary service in an enemy force is grounds for loss of citizenship, but such loss is not automatic. The government must prove such service was voluntary.
UCAVs are not at all autonomous....firing weapons requires somebody on the ground... It's not as though a drone can actually see the face of any people its shooting at; how would it know that it has found somebody on The Dreaded List
A rocket engine works like you explained. A jet engine still uses air pressure as a "pillow to push against".
Interesting engineering question. If the jet engine depends on having air to push against, how can it go past Mach 1? Can air "push" faster than the speed of sound?
If you have ever had the misfortune to take this product, you will realize that it is misnamed. It should be GoLoudly or GoOften. Going lightly don't enter into it.
The problem has always to find a chemical which would accumulate in tumors and not in healthy tissures and would also respond to radiation by generating cell-killing chemicals. Not an easy couple of parameters to satisfy.
"Any people who have been persecuted for two thousand years must be doing something wrong."
On the other hand, any people who have survived two thousand years of persecution might be doing something right.
Re rabbinical decisions on organs etc.: One of the nice things about Judaism is that if you are in a congregation and your rabbi says things you disagree with, you can lobby to have him or her replaced or you can go find another temple to join. Try that in the Catholic Church.
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The Chinese approach to ethics is almost purely situational. Compound this with a manipulative media, and what you get are fat, happy citizens who are staunchly nationalistic and xenophobic. All they care about is money.
If you want some positive moderation, reply to the above true statement about the Chinese changing only the nationality.
(/. added: This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original...)
If only /. ran the Chinese Journal of Whateverology.
You realize the computer you typed that message on was built using parts originally designed for the manned space program, right?
You may be overreaching. Dan thinks that manned space flight does not demand cutting edge hardware.
http://www.dansdata.com/spacecomp.htm
This comment will probably go down in flames, but it seems like this article is just an excuse to brown nose Steve Jobs. Apple makes fad devices; pretty nice devices but they are still playing to a fad (just take a look at their stock price). Microsoft, on the other hand, makes business computing possible on over 90% of the world's computers.
I just looked at their prices over the past few years.
Jan 2001 Apple about $11, Microsoft about $31
Feb 2010 Apple about $204, Microsoft about $28
That said, if what you say is true (which it isn't, at least given the jurisdictional decisions made over the last decade) Apple would be guilty of unfair competition. ("vente liée")
YANAL
Complicate much? Just let go the pressure keeping the burger on the grill, it'll float, flip it, press it back down.
Pressure doesn't keep a burger down. It is a combination of gravity and surface tension. Remove the gravity and the burger would still stick weakly to the grill surface. We need to break that adhesion, preferably with some sort of fully functional fembot - with a spatula.
You can't flip a burger in 0-g.
Sure you can. Just not in the traditional way. You could have two griddles parallel to one another and maybe 5-6 feet apart. Cook one side of the patty, flip it to the other cooking surface, spin yourself 180 degrees, finish cooking.
Sounds like a space-age version of the weather lights on top of the old Hancock building in Boston:
Steady blue, clear view.
Flashing blue, clouds due.
Steady red, rain ahead.
Flashing red, snow instead.
(During baseball season, flashing red means the Boston Red Sox game has been called off on account of weather.)
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As countless posters following will point out, you don't have the right to take it for free. But at a certain price, you will have the motivation. It is only human nature. We make cost/benefit analyses all the time, often without even thinking deeply about them. An industry which prices its product above that price point which the average consumer thinks is reasonable is just begging for trouble.
When VHS movies came out in the early 80's, they cost upwards of $100 or so. There were shortly illegal copies of these for sale on streetcorners in Brooklyn. A decade later, the manufacturers dropped the price of a movie below $20 or so and it became easier to buy one than copy one. Shortly after that the streetcorners were clear of illegal tapes.
Same dynamics will happen with ebooks. At $5, it isn't worth my time to go find an "illegal" copy. At $20, it is.
Jobs and Apple wouldn't be where they are today if they waited around for you to spread your legs. They have a history of throwing the consumer on the ground and mounting them while the consumer cries "No! Please! Not there! I've never done that before! I can't!... Oh! Oh! Yes! Yes! More! Please! More! Oh God! Yes! I never knew it could be so good!"
The market always works.
Now we just need a definition of "works".
FYI, carbon dating is now mostly done by AMS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerator_mass_spectrometry
In the old days, radiocarbon dating was done by scintillation counting of a sample and correction for background. AMS is a mass spec technique and counts by actually counting 12C/13C/14C atoms in the sample.
I've had a $400 wine before (obtained at a decent price and then aged). The difference between a decent $20-$40 wine and a $400 one is minimal relative to the price.
I doubt anyone without a really refined palate would be able to notice. And even if you did, you would probably chalk it up to poor storage or oxidation or something.
Is it just me? I can tell the difference between types of beers, but all wines taste like mouthwash to me.
That plus a nuke warhead sounds great for killing big carriers. If push really comes to shove kiss power projection in the Indian Ocean goodbye. I wonder how long it will take China to buy one.
I think China is really the one that should be worrying about the Indian military.
It worked great until they brought in the George Clooney avatar to fire us.
Blade Runner U.S. theatrical version
Blade Runner Criterion Edition
Blade Runner U.S. broadcast version
Blade Runner Director's Cut
Blade Runner 25th Anniversary Edition
Blade Runner Ultimate Collector's Edition
Blade Runner 3D
Blade Runner 3D BluRay
Blade Runner 3D Enhanced Sensory Edition
Blade Runner 3D Olifactory Special Release
Blade Runner Ridley Scott Memorial Edition
If an enemy combatant starts taking potshots across the boarder at US soldiers, escorts a convoy full of weapons destined for insurgents, encourages acts of terror or militancy and engages in these acts in a combat zone, region administered by martial law or region outside the jurisdiction of the united states but not maintained by any government (tribal regions of Pakistan) then they are an enemy and NOT a US Citizen. As a result, they are not afforded any of the protections under our constitution or laws.
Nishikawa v. Dulles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishikawa_v._Dulles
"Citizenship may only be forfeited by a voluntary act; the Government must prove voluntariness by clear, convincing and unequivocal evidence."
I am not a constitutional lawyer, but you seem to be right and wrong. Voluntary service in an enemy force is grounds for loss of citizenship, but such loss is not automatic. The government must prove such service was voluntary.
UCAVs are not at all autonomous. ...firing weapons requires somebody on the ground...
It's not as though a drone can actually see the face of any people its shooting at; how would it know that it has found somebody on The Dreaded List
Yet.
This story made me think of the phrase "not enough of him left to fill a matchbox".
A rocket engine works like you explained. A jet engine still uses air pressure as a "pillow to push against".
Interesting engineering question. If the jet engine depends on having air to push against, how can it go past Mach 1? Can air "push" faster than the speed of sound?
The cancer industry has no incentive to find a cancer cure.
There was a cure for cancer to be announced at a press conference on the 54th floor of WTC 2 on 9/11/2001.
It was a graphic lesson to all who might be tempted to slip the leash of the cancer industry.
GoLyTELY
If you have ever had the misfortune to take this product, you will realize that it is misnamed. It should be GoLoudly or GoOften. Going lightly don't enter into it.
This is another form of photodynamic therapy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photodynamic_therapy
The problem has always to find a chemical which would accumulate in tumors and not in healthy tissures and would also respond to radiation by generating cell-killing chemicals. Not an easy couple of parameters to satisfy.
and ceding Poland to Apple
godWIN!
The Sudetenland was ceded. Poland was invaded. Get your convoluted memes right.
"Any people who have been persecuted for two thousand years must be doing something wrong."
On the other hand, any people who have survived two thousand years of persecution might be doing something right.
Re rabbinical decisions on organs etc.: One of the nice things about Judaism is that if you are in a congregation and your rabbi says things you disagree with, you can lobby to have him or her replaced or you can go find another temple to join. Try that in the Catholic Church.
These weren't men, they were MIT students.