The one where gun nuts demand they get whatever penis surrogate they want, justified by some grammatical error in the Second Amendment
Doc, on most of this kind of stuff on with you. But I challenge you to point out which rule of grammar is violated by the 2nd amendment. If you want to say that the amendment doesn't clearly spell out what we can and can not do with guns, well, you're probably right. But there's nothing grammatically wrong with the sentence of interest.
I'll spare you the part about how "a well-regulated militia" != "the National Guard".
... is start looking for another job. Once she gets any kind of offer, she should tell the current outfit she's leaving unless she gets $X increase in salary. If she's really seen as critical to the success of the project, they'll cough up.
Sean
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Why do we need a rail gun to put a factory in orbit? We got the ISS up there with plain old rocket technology.
Reflecting the sun away from hurricanes? And why would we even want to do this? Hurricanes get their energy from the sun only indirectly, in the form of heated water. Unless you're planning to reflect the sun away from the tropical regions of the ocean for months at a time (which would have God only knows what side effects), you wouldn't cool the water appreciably, and wouldn't effect the strength of the hurricane.
You do know that hurricanes still blow at night, right?
I guess that was three words. Anyway, drop it onto your hard drive, and you'll never have to care what your IT nazis think about Firefox. It runs without installing.
Why do people not count Hussein as a terrorist? How many hundreds of thousands of murders do you have to commit before people think you're a bad guy these days? Chemical weapons, torture, murder, mass graves, invading a neighboring country then burning the oil fields as he left...the list goes on and on.
He did all that stuff 20 years ago - you remember, when Don Rumsfeld was shaking his hand? If Gulf War II was really about mass murder, you'd think we would have done it sooner than 20 years after the fact. But of course, the reason for GWII wasn't anything Saddam did or didn't do - it was all about George Bush's political advancement.
Milk is "Vitamin D enriched" via the same process that creates it in your skin - it's irradiated. The same Vitamin D precursors found in your skin are also in the milk, and are converted to D via exposure to ultraviolet. So yes, you can get it from milk. It's also put in multivitamins.
And before anyone gets all "well people do actually watch Friends, tom". That's simply a product of not having a choice.
I wasn't aware that anyone in the US was chained to their screen and literally forced to watch. Of course there's a choice - kill your television.
This is not to say that I'm indifferent to the broadcast flag - I think it's a terrible idea. But you do have a choice. You can vote with the power button on your remote.
Scenario two. A guy overseeing 20 robots with 20 hammers. He directs all day, takes a same sized paycheck goes home to his new home which was built at a 10th the price of the first guy's house because it was built by robots.
And presumably, the 19 guys who used to be swinging those hammers now hang around all day in their luxurious cardboard boxes, which is all the home they can now afford. It's the same story, over and over: we all used to be farmers, and when the farm jobs were automated, they told us to upgrade our skills to become industrial workers. So we did that. When the industrial jobs went, they told us to upgrade our skills again and become knowledge workers. Those who could, did (the rest sank into poverty). Now the knowledge jobs are headed to India, and it looks like we can't even look forward to having labor-type jobs to fall back on, thanks to robots. What are people supposed to do?
but IMHO grouping Europe all together and compare it against nations like US and China is just wrong.
Given that Europe's population is comparable to the US, and much smaller than China's, what possible objection could you have to grouping the European countries together?
... being that land mines in Vietnam and Cambodia weren't DESIGNED to remain unexploded for a long period. In fact, the ones that did remain unexploded represent a failure of mechanisms in place (in some types of mine) to self-destruct or self-inactivate after a certain period of time. Not only would there be no military advantage in designing them to remain unexploded, the weapons would actually be more dangerous to the mine-employing force itself than conventional mines would be.
and, just like US and Russian landmines that are designed to injure children rather than kill them, this would have disruptive effects out of proportion to the numbers and economic activity of those affected.
Oh, please. Quote for me the models of US landmines that are designed to injure children. I suspect you've been drinking the anti-landmine kool-aid. Almost every mine in the US inventory (and EVERY mine used outside the Korean peninsula) is self-destructing or self-neutralizing, which minimizes injury to non-combatants.
Not quite right. If there's no fission, where would the heat come from? In fact, the plutonium is undergoing spontaneous fission, decaying into smaller nuclei, and producing heat. What it doesn't do is produce a chain reaction, which is what power-generating nuclear reactors (and also nuclear weapons) do.
You wouldn't really have to do without your Domino apps... most of them can be turned into web-based applications with pretty minor modifications. Also, lots of people get Notes going under Wine.
glucose molecules will break down into carbon dioxide and urea
That would be quite a trick, given that urea has two nitrogen atoms in it, and glucose has none. Unless you think this machine can transmute elements, I think the reaction would be more likely to develop CO2 and water.
In just a couple of generations we have a significant subpopulation that can't breed at all without medical intervention. Some of these traits are heritable, such as difficulties in childbirth or needing IVF techniques to overcome fertility problems.
I think you're off base here. IVF techniques are extremely expensive and not all that reliable - many couples fail to conceive via this route. What this means is that successful births via IVF are much more rare than "normal" births, which in turn means that people who suffer from these maladies are at a reproductive disadvantage... which means they are still selected against (although perhaps less strongly than before). So traits that impair reproduction will still tend to get purged from the gene pool.
... they told us we had to upgrade our skills to be manufacturers, so we did that. And when the manufacturing jobs went, they told us to upgrade our skills to be knowledge workers. Those who had the talent, did that. Now the knowledge worker jobs are going. What are we supposed to do? Mouthing platitudes about "innovation, not regulation" to the hordes of newly laid off people isn't cutting it.
Sean
perhaps instead the line should be 'all known javascript vulnerabilities'?
Do you really mean to tell me that you read the line "all javascript vulnerabilities" and thought that they had fixed even the vulnerabilities they didn't know about? Do you really think ANYONE would come to that conclusion?
It's not possible to fix unknown problems (except maybe by accident), so adding "known" to that expression is pointless.
People care about *price* first and *effort* second. Some people will crawl through mud to save a nickel. We call those people "the majority".
If this was true, a majority of computer users would ALREADY be using Linux, since for the individual home user, it's free. You might argue that most people get Windows "free", because it's pre-installed. But in fact, it's already possible to buy computers (at least from your local white box outfit) that have Linux or no operating system installed. Without the MS tax, they go for significantly less money than those with XP pre-installed... but most people don't buy them.
People will take the path of least resistance, even if it costs them money.
I noticed that you didn't bother to refute any of the facts pointed out in the grandparent... just attacked their source as biased. How typically Republican - when you don't like the message, attack the messenger.
The trouble with making these things much smaller is that they literally blow away - in any kind of wind, a very small UAV becomes impossible to control. I seem to recall a toy version of a micro UAV (so far I can't find it on Google) that was restricted to indoor use for this very reason.
I am sure Microsoft was fully aware of that option, but I think they were more interested in causing a problem so that they can "prove" that Media Player is indeed a required component of Windows.
People keep saying this, and it still doesn't make sense. How is it to MS's advantage to ship (as opposed to demonstrate in front of a judge) a known bad version of Windows to its users? They would be just asking people to consider alternatives that actually work.
This is not to say that MS never ships faulty products, but that's not the same thing as shipping faulty products ON PURPOSE.
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Doc, on most of this kind of stuff on with you. But I challenge you to point out which rule of grammar is violated by the 2nd amendment. If you want to say that the amendment doesn't clearly spell out what we can and can not do with guns, well, you're probably right. But there's nothing grammatically wrong with the sentence of interest.
I'll spare you the part about how "a well-regulated militia" != "the National Guard".
Sean
... is start looking for another job. Once she gets any kind of offer, she should tell the current outfit she's leaving unless she gets $X increase in salary. If she's really seen as critical to the success of the project, they'll cough up.
Sean
Why do we need a rail gun to put a factory in orbit? We got the ISS up there with plain old rocket technology.
Reflecting the sun away from hurricanes? And why would we even want to do this? Hurricanes get their energy from the sun only indirectly, in the form of heated water. Unless you're planning to reflect the sun away from the tropical regions of the ocean for months at a time (which would have God only knows what side effects), you wouldn't cool the water appreciably, and wouldn't effect the strength of the hurricane.
You do know that hurricanes still blow at night, right?
Sean
PCS Vision is priced at a flat rate.
Sean
Portable Firefox, baby.
I guess that was three words. Anyway, drop it onto your hard drive, and you'll never have to care what your IT nazis think about Firefox. It runs without installing.
Subversively yours,
Sean
You don't need the historical record - there's plenty of evidence in your backyard. See grasshoppers.
Sean
He did all that stuff 20 years ago - you remember, when Don Rumsfeld was shaking his hand? If Gulf War II was really about mass murder, you'd think we would have done it sooner than 20 years after the fact. But of course, the reason for GWII wasn't anything Saddam did or didn't do - it was all about George Bush's political advancement.
Sean
Milk is "Vitamin D enriched" via the same process that creates it in your skin - it's irradiated. The same Vitamin D precursors found in your skin are also in the milk, and are converted to D via exposure to ultraviolet. So yes, you can get it from milk. It's also put in multivitamins.
Sean
If you did, it's not obvious. Yes, you can find examples of words that do not follow the pattern. It does not follow that there IS no pattern.
Sean
I wasn't aware that anyone in the US was chained to their screen and literally forced to watch. Of course there's a choice - kill your television.
This is not to say that I'm indifferent to the broadcast flag - I think it's a terrible idea. But you do have a choice. You can vote with the power button on your remote.
Sean
And presumably, the 19 guys who used to be swinging those hammers now hang around all day in their luxurious cardboard boxes, which is all the home they can now afford. It's the same story, over and over: we all used to be farmers, and when the farm jobs were automated, they told us to upgrade our skills to become industrial workers. So we did that. When the industrial jobs went, they told us to upgrade our skills again and become knowledge workers. Those who could, did (the rest sank into poverty). Now the knowledge jobs are headed to India, and it looks like we can't even look forward to having labor-type jobs to fall back on, thanks to robots. What are people supposed to do?
Sean
Given that Europe's population is comparable to the US, and much smaller than China's, what possible objection could you have to grouping the European countries together?
Sean
... being that land mines in Vietnam and Cambodia weren't DESIGNED to remain unexploded for a long period. In fact, the ones that did remain unexploded represent a failure of mechanisms in place (in some types of mine) to self-destruct or self-inactivate after a certain period of time. Not only would there be no military advantage in designing them to remain unexploded, the weapons would actually be more dangerous to the mine-employing force itself than conventional mines would be.
Sean
Oh, please. Quote for me the models of US landmines that are designed to injure children. I suspect you've been drinking the anti-landmine kool-aid. Almost every mine in the US inventory (and EVERY mine used outside the Korean peninsula) is self-destructing or self-neutralizing, which minimizes injury to non-combatants.
More detail here.
Sean
Not quite right. If there's no fission, where would the heat come from? In fact, the plutonium is undergoing spontaneous fission, decaying into smaller nuclei, and producing heat. What it doesn't do is produce a chain reaction, which is what power-generating nuclear reactors (and also nuclear weapons) do.
Sean
... would that be called logorhea?
Sean
You wouldn't really have to do without your Domino apps... most of them can be turned into web-based applications with pretty minor modifications. Also, lots of people get Notes going under Wine.
Sean
That would be quite a trick, given that urea has two nitrogen atoms in it, and glucose has none. Unless you think this machine can transmute elements, I think the reaction would be more likely to develop CO2 and water.
Sean
I think you're off base here. IVF techniques are extremely expensive and not all that reliable - many couples fail to conceive via this route. What this means is that successful births via IVF are much more rare than "normal" births, which in turn means that people who suffer from these maladies are at a reproductive disadvantage... which means they are still selected against (although perhaps less strongly than before). So traits that impair reproduction will still tend to get purged from the gene pool.
Sean
... they told us we had to upgrade our skills to be manufacturers, so we did that. And when the manufacturing jobs went, they told us to upgrade our skills to be knowledge workers. Those who had the talent, did that. Now the knowledge worker jobs are going. What are we supposed to do? Mouthing platitudes about "innovation, not regulation" to the hordes of newly laid off people isn't cutting it. Sean
Do you really mean to tell me that you read the line "all javascript vulnerabilities" and thought that they had fixed even the vulnerabilities they didn't know about? Do you really think ANYONE would come to that conclusion?
It's not possible to fix unknown problems (except maybe by accident), so adding "known" to that expression is pointless.
Sean
If this was true, a majority of computer users would ALREADY be using Linux, since for the individual home user, it's free. You might argue that most people get Windows "free", because it's pre-installed. But in fact, it's already possible to buy computers (at least from your local white box outfit) that have Linux or no operating system installed. Without the MS tax, they go for significantly less money than those with XP pre-installed... but most people don't buy them.
People will take the path of least resistance, even if it costs them money.
I have no problem with the rest of your post.
Sean
I noticed that you didn't bother to refute any of the facts pointed out in the grandparent... just attacked their source as biased. How typically Republican - when you don't like the message, attack the messenger.
Sean
The trouble with making these things much smaller is that they literally blow away - in any kind of wind, a very small UAV becomes impossible to control. I seem to recall a toy version of a micro UAV (so far I can't find it on Google) that was restricted to indoor use for this very reason.
Sean
People keep saying this, and it still doesn't make sense. How is it to MS's advantage to ship (as opposed to demonstrate in front of a judge) a known bad version of Windows to its users? They would be just asking people to consider alternatives that actually work.
This is not to say that MS never ships faulty products, but that's not the same thing as shipping faulty products ON PURPOSE.
Sean
Sean