Now, I'm not pretending that there aren't other kinds of Doctorate out there, but why is it worthy of mention every fucking time
Because part of being a doctor is the duty to render aid when needed. Most likely, the people she tells are different every time, and she is probably on the scene before any EMTs.
The episode centered around our other leads buttering this guy up, telling him how much the force needed him, and how he couldn't let himself succumb to his guilt, because there were bad guys out there that needed catchin'.
Man, Law and Order is so much better - in there, the dirty cops get shot, often by Elliot.
They did this so that you can't put an MP3 of copyrighted music on your phone, because if you got a call in a public place, this would constitute a public performance of the song.
That's why the hardware is incapable of doing it? How thoughtful of them to keep me out of trouble with ASCAP. Too bad my next phone will have mp3 ringtones, where I can violate the copyright of some top 40's flash in the pan every time I get a call.
For example, the last episode I saw of CSI: NY, they spent well over half the show investigating the wrong guy
This is why I like Law and Order - they screw up, the bad guy gets away sometimes, or they get an innocent statutory rapist killed and one of the detectives blows it off because he's scum anyways. There's also the one I saw where the DA wanted to charge a witness with attempted murder, even though that'd blow her case against a known multiple murderer. Crap like this where things don't end neatly is what makes the show worthwhile.
There is no research evidence that violent movies or violent video games are cathartic.
And there is no evidence that these things cause violence. If you only play violent video games and have no parental involvement, then yes, you will likely become violent, but that's hardly the game's fault.
do you realize that a four member band making $100,000 per year only brings home $25,000 per member?
I believe his point was that most bands have day jobs, or should. How would you like to make an extra $25k doing what you enjoy? Lots of jobs pay around $40-$50k for relatively defined work (little overtime). Adding 50% to your take home has a certain appeal.
You do raise a valid point that not everyone can do what I described. But my provider Cingular didn't disable my phone's Bluetooth capabilities (at least, not so I'd notice), and it's great being able to transfer small files so easily.
How sad that my phone can't play sampled audio as ringtones. They apparently did this deliberately, which boggles the mind.
Are you suggesting Charles Darwin would hunt down and kill or neuter every person on the planet who has ever paid for ringtones were he alive today?
Nah, he's saying that the people who buy ringtones are the same ones that find it difficult to make it through the day without stabbing themselves with a pen.
Yeah, the keywords are "in the UK." In the good-ol Fascist States of America, each and every cellphone provider is it's own monopolistic ivory-tower-of-Babel, and the government refuses to do a damn thing about it!
At least we aren't quite so surveillance happy, and we can't legally hold someone without charge for 28 days. But our cellphones suck.
With statutory rape, one is actively seeking out people not in the right state of mind to make decisions about their bodies that will have an impact on them for the rest of their lives.
Are you saying that most high school girls are out of their minds? I mean, I always suspected...
I never realized how close these two events really were. Interesting.
Not really. Beavis and butthead had been planning a massacre for quite some time, to the point that they were reported to the local sheriff's office months before the shooting, which took place on Hitler's birthday. Also, I don't recall any propane bombs in the Matrix, but they had some at columbine.
1) boil water (~100C, ~212F) 2) pour on instant or ground coffee
Brew coffee and instant don't belong in the same sentence. I don't drink the stuff and I know that. Also, you don't boil the water, you heat it to 90-95C. Freshly brewed coffee is around 90C, but cools to 80C fairly quickly.
A kid jumping to his death because he's too into the game is not foreseeable. You have to be really dumb or a few cards short of a deck to do this.
On the other hand, it should be obvious that jumping too far will kill you - I learned that lesson like a lot of other kids by jumping out of a tree. 10 feet is ok, but 15 sucks!
his is probably even worse than suing WB for their Wiley Coyote cartoons. There Wiley is rarely hurt from jumping great heights while in WoW I'm sure they probably got hurt.
Yup. My first WoW death was from jumping out of a tree. Of course, I mainly wanted to see what would happen when you die. This kid learned the hard way that, in real life, you don't walk from the nearest graveyard to your body and go get your stuff fixed.
1) Look like you have a lot more money than brains,
On the east coast (McLean), I noticed that women really eyed me closely when I went around in a suit. Wear a sports jacket and the women just look at you like meat.
Hehehehe.... As a kempo practitioner, I would say never to underestimate a ballpoint pen.
Screw your pen, just use your fingers. The notch below the throat or the cleft of the nose are great spots for persuasion. If the opportunity presents itself, grab a finger and twist it along its axis, then lock out a wrist/elbow, collapse the knee, and punch them in the side of the head.
I guess the point is, there's no such thing as a dangerous weapon, only dangerous people.
However, culture and ideology changes rather quickly; how people might react to that situation today could be totally different than, say, 20 years from now.
No, 9/11 was a one shot deal. It only worked 3 times out of 4, and that was with highly coordinated activities. Now, nobody expects that they'll be allowed to live, so they rush the would be terr'rist. The fact is, airport security isn't there to make you safe, it's there to make you afraid.
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Now, I'm not pretending that there aren't other kinds of Doctorate out there, but why is it worthy of mention every fucking time
Because part of being a doctor is the duty to render aid when needed. Most likely, the people she tells are different every time, and she is probably on the scene before any EMTs.
The episode centered around our other leads buttering this guy up, telling him how much the force needed him, and how he couldn't let himself succumb to his guilt, because there were bad guys out there that needed catchin'.
Man, Law and Order is so much better - in there, the dirty cops get shot, often by Elliot.
They did this so that you can't put an MP3 of copyrighted music on your phone, because if you got a call in a public place, this would constitute a public performance of the song.
That's why the hardware is incapable of doing it? How thoughtful of them to keep me out of trouble with ASCAP. Too bad my next phone will have mp3 ringtones, where I can violate the copyright of some top 40's flash in the pan every time I get a call.
It takes many, many years to refine the vocal cords to the point that you can sing proffesional opera.
Do most people that sing opera have day jobs? Are most actors working a job to pay the bills?
nd yes, rock and roll is often about far more than "maybe get a blister on your little finger, maybe get a blister on your thumb."
Sure is, but it's art - most people can't make a living at it, and there's lots of room for amateur artists.
Think what you want about the quality of Britney Spear's music, but when she puts on a show she goes all out.
How many groups perform at the level of Britney? In terms of size of production, not many. Statistically, people at her level are rouding error.
The fact that your brother in law can play some great gigs on the weekend shouldn't take away from that.
That's because the brother in law is part of 'most'.
For example, the last episode I saw of CSI: NY, they spent well over half the show investigating the wrong guy
This is why I like Law and Order - they screw up, the bad guy gets away sometimes, or they get an innocent statutory rapist killed and one of the detectives blows it off because he's scum anyways. There's also the one I saw where the DA wanted to charge a witness with attempted murder, even though that'd blow her case against a known multiple murderer. Crap like this where things don't end neatly is what makes the show worthwhile.
There is no research evidence that violent movies or violent video games are cathartic.
And there is no evidence that these things cause violence. If you only play violent video games and have no parental involvement, then yes, you will likely become violent, but that's hardly the game's fault.
do you realize that a four member band making $100,000 per year only brings home $25,000 per member?
I believe his point was that most bands have day jobs, or should. How would you like to make an extra $25k doing what you enjoy? Lots of jobs pay around $40-$50k for relatively defined work (little overtime). Adding 50% to your take home has a certain appeal.
You do raise a valid point that not everyone can do what I described. But my provider Cingular didn't disable my phone's Bluetooth capabilities (at least, not so I'd notice), and it's great being able to transfer small files so easily.
How sad that my phone can't play sampled audio as ringtones. They apparently did this deliberately, which boggles the mind.
Are you suggesting Charles Darwin would hunt down and kill or neuter every person on the planet who has ever paid for ringtones were he alive today?
Nah, he's saying that the people who buy ringtones are the same ones that find it difficult to make it through the day without stabbing themselves with a pen.
Yeah, the keywords are "in the UK." In the good-ol Fascist States of America, each and every cellphone provider is it's own monopolistic ivory-tower-of-Babel, and the government refuses to do a damn thing about it!
At least we aren't quite so surveillance happy, and we can't legally hold someone without charge for 28 days. But our cellphones suck.
With statutory rape, one is actively seeking out people not in the right state of mind to make decisions about their bodies that will have an impact on them for the rest of their lives.
Are you saying that most high school girls are out of their minds? I mean, I always suspected...
The only reason they might seem "pro-author" is that it happens to be a by-product of being pro-profit...
That's actually backwards - they're pro-customer and that makes them money.
I never realized how close these two events really were. Interesting.
Not really. Beavis and butthead had been planning a massacre for quite some time, to the point that they were reported to the local sheriff's office months before the shooting, which took place on Hitler's birthday. Also, I don't recall any propane bombs in the Matrix, but they had some at columbine.
Brew coffee and instant don't belong in the same sentence. I don't drink the stuff and I know that. Also, you don't boil the water, you heat it to 90-95C. Freshly brewed coffee is around 90C, but cools to 80C fairly quickly.
Actually, I wonder if any kids ever died while trying to leap out of trees using bedsheets as a shuba, like in the old game Below the Root.
Come on, jumping off the roof with a bedsheet is almost a cliche. I'm pretty sure it predates video games.
The problem of virtual experiences that cannot be reenacted is a somewhat new one.
Well, except for books. I'm sure Heinlein wrote a bunch of stuff that would kill you if you tried it.
A kid jumping to his death because he's too into the game is not foreseeable. You have to be really dumb or a few cards short of a deck to do this.
On the other hand, it should be obvious that jumping too far will kill you - I learned that lesson like a lot of other kids by jumping out of a tree. 10 feet is ok, but 15 sucks!
his is probably even worse than suing WB for their Wiley Coyote cartoons. There Wiley is rarely hurt from jumping great heights while in WoW I'm sure they probably got hurt.
Yup. My first WoW death was from jumping out of a tree. Of course, I mainly wanted to see what would happen when you die. This kid learned the hard way that, in real life, you don't walk from the nearest graveyard to your body and go get your stuff fixed.
If you put up a serious solar panel setup and plan to back feed enough that the power company will notice, they get real, real huffy about that.
Well yeah, if it's enough for them to notice, it's enough to kill a worker.
Not with the new ATX power supplies that Al Gore pushed so hard.
Get a better power supply. Mine has a rocker switch that turns the power off completely. It also runs fairly cool and quiet.
And still denying quantum mechanics works...
He's not denying that it works, he's just pissed off that it turns his worldview upside down.
knives are the most dangerous weapon you can face at short range, I am happy to see these banned on board an airplane.
They ban knives, but hand out soda cans - some people have no imagination
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There's a guy at my office like that. He ain't never getting any. Of course, it may be the nerd tshirts and the belly...
1) Look like you have a lot more money than brains,
On the east coast (McLean), I noticed that women really eyed me closely when I went around in a suit. Wear a sports jacket and the women just look at you like meat.
I kinda like it...
Hehehehe.... As a kempo practitioner, I would say never to underestimate a ballpoint pen.
Screw your pen, just use your fingers. The notch below the throat or the cleft of the nose are great spots for persuasion. If the opportunity presents itself, grab a finger and twist it along its axis, then lock out a wrist/elbow, collapse the knee, and punch them in the side of the head.
I guess the point is, there's no such thing as a dangerous weapon, only dangerous people.
However, culture and ideology changes rather quickly; how people might react to that situation today could be totally different than, say, 20 years from now.
No, 9/11 was a one shot deal. It only worked 3 times out of 4, and that was with highly coordinated activities. Now, nobody expects that they'll be allowed to live, so they rush the would be terr'rist. The fact is, airport security isn't there to make you safe, it's there to make you afraid.