But thankfully that headline was hard to believe, because the US military is the sort that won't surrender even if they've completely lost. Now, if the headline had said that the French military surrendered...
or chose to stop insuring their house when they no longer owed any payments on it
Although this doesn't affect your main point, it's worth mentioning that a lot of the folks who got no or a minimal insurance payment were insured against flood damage, but the insurance companies found creative ways not to pay. An example of the kind of thinking that was employed: your neighbor's house crashing through your living room isn't water damage, so we don't have to pay the flood policy on that damage. But because the incident in question was caused by a flood rather than a fire or tornado, we also don't have to pay the regular homeowner's policy. Therefore, you get only payment for cleaning up the water damage. Another common tactic was to refuse to pay unless the homeowner could provide documentation for their policy, which was of course lost in the flood.
In short, insurance offered very limited at best protection for New Orleans homeowners.
If you read more about the Business Plot, you'd find out that the Congressional Committee that investigated it thought that the allegations were credible. However, for some strange reason the investigation soon stopped after names like duPont and JP Morgan started coming up. The standard historical interpretation of the Business Plot these days is that there was something there, and some of those industrialists wanted to do what Butler accused them of organizing, but that they hadn't gotten anywhere near the point where they could actually pull it off.
For instance, journalist John Spivak was able to get access to the committee's report in 1967, and this is what he found: "MacGuire denied [Butler's] allegations under oath, but your committee was able to verify all the pertinent statements made to General Butler, with the exception of the direct statement suggesting the creation of the organization. This, however, was corroborated in the correspondence of MacGuire with his principle, Robert Sterling Clark, of New York City, while MacGuire was abroad studying the various form of veterans' organizations of Fascist character."
I don't understand: Drones are easy to take down. A couple of dragoons or zealots should do the trick nicely, or maybe a few marines instead. Heck, you can go at em with SCVs and have a fighting chance.
The other good news is that being a pirate allows you to do your part in combating global warming, since, as this graph clearly shows, an increase in the number of pirates will decrease average global temperature.
The Patriot Act made this SOP at the federal level for anything related to a terrorism investigation.
Who said they limited this to terrorism investigations? There's some evidence that these are in fact being misused for non-terrorism cases.
Oh, and NSLs are probably just as unconstitutional as this bill. The issue with them, though, is that the person who would take the serious risk of challenging one in court is not actually the target of the investigation, but whoever the NSL is issued to.
Sounds like what happened with old-school Unix. Everyone buggered off and did their own thing with it making it a real arse for developers. For a server platform to be useful for developers it really should be standardized in basic capabilities (CPU, memory, and libraries).
The US (and Europe as well) uses age as a very poor approximation of maturity and adult capability. It's a very poor approximation at best, but it's well-entrenched, and since folks younger than 18 are legally second-class citizens they can't do very much about it.
I'm much more of a fan of tying privileges that are currently tied to age (e.g. driving, drinking, smoking, voting) and so on to passing appropriate tests on a regular basis.
For instance, if you want to hold a drivers license, I'd prefer a system where you can take the written tests whenever you're ready, take the driving test whenever you've recently taken a written test, and have to renew your license every few years. Yes, it's a PITA for everyone to retake their tests, but it means that there will be fewer incidents of half-blind elderly folks driving through a mall and the like.
Similarly, for drinking, I'd want to see a written test on things like the signs of alcohol poisoning, how to recognize when your buddy can't drive home, etc, and a practical test (taken after the written test) which would involve demonstrating the skills needed to drink responsibly. Again, perhaps a bit of an annoyance, but a worthwhile tradeoff if it reduces alcoholism, drunk driving, and so on.
And the half that is random is not very random, given that it's relatively short, all lower-case letters and digits, and emphasizes keys that can be found towards the middle of a QWERTY keyboard.
As I said, I'm all about making money and I'm all about industry making money, but profiting off the misfortune and ill-health of people is the worst kind of dickery.
No, that's probably just the second-worst kind of dickery. The worst kind of dickery is profiting off causing misfortune and ill-health. You know, like Blackwater, KBR, Lockheed, Boeing, and a bunch of other companies that Ike warned us all about 50 years ago.
Not only morons, but non-morons with axes to grind who's response to those with a contrary view is to try to shut them up rather than debate them. That comes up rather quickly as a factor in any discussion involving politics, religion, or global warming. Again, just like democracy.
The number of capitalists that could feed, clothe, and house people well for the price of their labor in the absence of government interference is vast.
So that would explain why famine is a huge problem within Somalia, where there is no government interference (since there's no functioning government) in the employment of labor nor in the pricing of food, clothing, and housing, right?
Harvard, just to spite Yale, has switched its mail system over to Yahoo! Mail. Also, 3 MIT students are currently being investigated for breaking into the accounts of the presidents of both universities and sending out notices to their entire university saying that the cafeteria systems at their universities had recently added a free bar.
Adding "under god" to the Texas pledge that all Texas public school children are forced to say every day.
No, they aren't forced to say a damn thing. Or at least, they aren't legally (although it wouldn't surprise me to find out that a teacher was doing so illegally). That's longstanding US Supreme Court precedent.
MAD got us to this point, but the knowledge that the US could, in 20 years, not only knock out all of your incoming warheads, but unleash its own reprisal would effectively end the threat of a large scale nuclear conflict between state actors.
No, it would end the threat of large scale nuclear attacks on the USA and any allies we sold/give the technology to. On the flip side, it would increase the chance that someone in the US government would level Tehran, Moscow, or Damascus knowing that it could completely escape retaliation. Just because it's the United States with the power to nuke anyone else without getting nuked back doesn't mean that that power would be only used for Truth, Justice, and Democracy.
That sort of reasoning is precisely why there was a treaty between the US and the USSR in 1972 that banned the development of missile defense shields.
I resent your accusation, sir/ma'am, and hereby challenge you to fisticuffs.
More to the point, your comment, while quite useful, doesn't in any way take away from my original point, namely that you shouldn't even need to depend on Google to keep your Google Mail. And since I manage my mail almost entirely locally to begin with, I never really concerned myself with copying tags or folders, I went with the simplest solution for what I was trying to do.
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Apparently both you and the mods don't know a non-serious post when you see one.
But thankfully that headline was hard to believe, because the US military is the sort that won't surrender even if they've completely lost. Now, if the headline had said that the French military surrendered ...
It depends entirely on the political clout of your congressional representation.
or chose to stop insuring their house when they no longer owed any payments on it
Although this doesn't affect your main point, it's worth mentioning that a lot of the folks who got no or a minimal insurance payment were insured against flood damage, but the insurance companies found creative ways not to pay. An example of the kind of thinking that was employed: your neighbor's house crashing through your living room isn't water damage, so we don't have to pay the flood policy on that damage. But because the incident in question was caused by a flood rather than a fire or tornado, we also don't have to pay the regular homeowner's policy. Therefore, you get only payment for cleaning up the water damage. Another common tactic was to refuse to pay unless the homeowner could provide documentation for their policy, which was of course lost in the flood.
In short, insurance offered very limited at best protection for New Orleans homeowners.
If you read more about the Business Plot, you'd find out that the Congressional Committee that investigated it thought that the allegations were credible. However, for some strange reason the investigation soon stopped after names like duPont and JP Morgan started coming up. The standard historical interpretation of the Business Plot these days is that there was something there, and some of those industrialists wanted to do what Butler accused them of organizing, but that they hadn't gotten anywhere near the point where they could actually pull it off.
For instance, journalist John Spivak was able to get access to the committee's report in 1967, and this is what he found:
"MacGuire denied [Butler's] allegations under oath, but your committee was able to verify all the pertinent statements made to General Butler, with the exception of the direct statement suggesting the creation of the organization. This, however, was corroborated in the correspondence of MacGuire with his principle, Robert Sterling Clark, of New York City, while MacGuire was abroad studying the various form of veterans' organizations of Fascist character."
I don't understand: Drones are easy to take down. A couple of dragoons or zealots should do the trick nicely, or maybe a few marines instead. Heck, you can go at em with SCVs and have a fighting chance.
Feeling rather cocky, Binestar?
The other good news is that being a pirate allows you to do your part in combating global warming, since, as this graph clearly shows, an increase in the number of pirates will decrease average global temperature.
The Patriot Act made this SOP at the federal level for anything related to a terrorism investigation.
Who said they limited this to terrorism investigations? There's some evidence that these are in fact being misused for non-terrorism cases.
Oh, and NSLs are probably just as unconstitutional as this bill. The issue with them, though, is that the person who would take the serious risk of challenging one in court is not actually the target of the investigation, but whoever the NSL is issued to.
But which game? I'm about to win (in a few more words) Mornington Crescent.
Sounds like what happened with old-school Unix. Everyone buggered off and did their own thing with it making it a real arse for developers. For a server platform to be useful for developers it really should be standardized in basic capabilities (CPU, memory, and libraries).
No, those are Bothans.
Boffins are one of the major families of hobbits, of course, who are included as part of Bilbo Baggins' ancestry.
The US (and Europe as well) uses age as a very poor approximation of maturity and adult capability. It's a very poor approximation at best, but it's well-entrenched, and since folks younger than 18 are legally second-class citizens they can't do very much about it.
I'm much more of a fan of tying privileges that are currently tied to age (e.g. driving, drinking, smoking, voting) and so on to passing appropriate tests on a regular basis.
For instance, if you want to hold a drivers license, I'd prefer a system where you can take the written tests whenever you're ready, take the driving test whenever you've recently taken a written test, and have to renew your license every few years. Yes, it's a PITA for everyone to retake their tests, but it means that there will be fewer incidents of half-blind elderly folks driving through a mall and the like.
Similarly, for drinking, I'd want to see a written test on things like the signs of alcohol poisoning, how to recognize when your buddy can't drive home, etc, and a practical test (taken after the written test) which would involve demonstrating the skills needed to drink responsibly. Again, perhaps a bit of an annoyance, but a worthwhile tradeoff if it reduces alcoholism, drunk driving, and so on.
And the half that is random is not very random, given that it's relatively short, all lower-case letters and digits, and emphasizes keys that can be found towards the middle of a QWERTY keyboard.
As I said, I'm all about making money and I'm all about industry making money, but profiting off the misfortune and ill-health of people is the worst kind of dickery.
No, that's probably just the second-worst kind of dickery. The worst kind of dickery is profiting off causing misfortune and ill-health. You know, like Blackwater, KBR, Lockheed, Boeing, and a bunch of other companies that Ike warned us all about 50 years ago.
Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) argued exactly that point on the House floor. Although I prefer this version (about 50 seconds in) of the same speech.
Not only morons, but non-morons with axes to grind who's response to those with a contrary view is to try to shut them up rather than debate them. That comes up rather quickly as a factor in any discussion involving politics, religion, or global warming. Again, just like democracy.
The number of capitalists that could feed, clothe, and house people well for the price of their labor in the absence of government interference is vast.
So that would explain why famine is a huge problem within Somalia, where there is no government interference (since there's no functioning government) in the employment of labor nor in the pricing of food, clothing, and housing, right?
the best cable news team in America.
Harvard, just to spite Yale, has switched its mail system over to Yahoo! Mail. Also, 3 MIT students are currently being investigated for breaking into the accounts of the presidents of both universities and sending out notices to their entire university saying that the cafeteria systems at their universities had recently added a free bar.
Adding "under god" to the Texas pledge that all Texas public school children are forced to say every day.
No, they aren't forced to say a damn thing. Or at least, they aren't legally (although it wouldn't surprise me to find out that a teacher was doing so illegally). That's longstanding US Supreme Court precedent.
Don't you mean the downward pressure of the FSM's Noodly Appendages (which press more thoroughly upon the Midgets)?
If we just avoid observing the state of the cat, then it might still be alive. Learn your physics!
MAD got us to this point, but the knowledge that the US could, in 20 years, not only knock out all of your incoming warheads, but unleash its own reprisal would effectively end the threat of a large scale nuclear conflict between state actors.
No, it would end the threat of large scale nuclear attacks on the USA and any allies we sold/give the technology to. On the flip side, it would increase the chance that someone in the US government would level Tehran, Moscow, or Damascus knowing that it could completely escape retaliation. Just because it's the United States with the power to nuke anyone else without getting nuked back doesn't mean that that power would be only used for Truth, Justice, and Democracy.
That sort of reasoning is precisely why there was a treaty between the US and the USSR in 1972 that banned the development of missile defense shields.
I resent your accusation, sir/ma'am, and hereby challenge you to fisticuffs.
More to the point, your comment, while quite useful, doesn't in any way take away from my original point, namely that you shouldn't even need to depend on Google to keep your Google Mail. And since I manage my mail almost entirely locally to begin with, I never really concerned myself with copying tags or folders, I went with the simplest solution for what I was trying to do.