Just out of curiosity, how difficult would it be to block (or at least severely weaken) cell phone reception in a theater?
Idiots on cell phones seem to me a good use of that overpriced crap at the concession stand, assuming you have good aim of course.
This is true, one of the intro logic classes for my CS degree (textbook titled: "Logic, Sets and Functions") was taught through the philosophy dept. (mind you philosophy majors stayed well clear of that course). But basically as I see it, philosophy majors take that sort of thing and apply it to real world situations, though the real world is seldom as straightforward as propositional logic etc.
I'm not so sure about this. Afganistan has been crapped on by the rest of the world for like 20 someodd years now. While any death is unfortunate and sad, the fact of the matter is, if we do the right thing in Afganistan, and build a stable self-determined nation-state, there will have been less deaths in the long run than there would have been had we not intervened. Lets remember neither the Northern Alliance or the Taleban had too many problems with killing civilians, take for example the massecres that followed the (first) fall of Mazar-e-Sharif in '98 (I think). That country, and its people had been dying a slow death since '79, and it was partially our (the US's) fault. While certainly this was not our reason for going into Afganistan, it is a byproduct with value that I think it will be difficult to argue against. And most certainly the Afgan public has many more freedoms and rights than they did under the Taleban. Who knows whats next for the Afgans, running water and phone service perhaps?
Actually smart guy, nobody won the war of 1812.
Hostilities ceased with the treaty of Ghent which established the present day borders between the US and Canada.
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You're an uncultured clod Look jackass, nobody likes a pseudointellectual film snob.
Just out of curiosity, how difficult would it be to block (or at least severely weaken) cell phone reception in a theater? Idiots on cell phones seem to me a good use of that overpriced crap at the concession stand, assuming you have good aim of course.
This is true, one of the intro logic classes for my CS degree (textbook titled: "Logic, Sets and Functions") was taught through the philosophy dept. (mind you philosophy majors stayed well clear of that course). But basically as I see it, philosophy majors take that sort of thing and apply it to real world situations, though the real world is seldom as straightforward as propositional logic etc.
if only I could spell the word Afghanistan.
I'm not so sure about this. Afganistan has been crapped on by the rest of the world for like 20 someodd years now. While any death is unfortunate and sad, the fact of the matter is, if we do the right thing in Afganistan, and build a stable self-determined nation-state, there will have been less deaths in the long run than there would have been had we not intervened. Lets remember neither the Northern Alliance or the Taleban had too many problems with killing civilians, take for example the massecres that followed the (first) fall of Mazar-e-Sharif in '98 (I think). That country, and its people had been dying a slow death since '79, and it was partially our (the US's) fault. While certainly this was not our reason for going into Afganistan, it is a byproduct with value that I think it will be difficult to argue against. And most certainly the Afgan public has many more freedoms and rights than they did under the Taleban. Who knows whats next for the Afgans, running water and phone service perhaps?
Actually smart guy, nobody won the war of 1812. Hostilities ceased with the treaty of Ghent which established the present day borders between the US and Canada.
I don't know, an open source version of SAP's RDBMS? Sounds like bad juju to me.