I've got one as well and am pleased with it. However... I rather wish that we'd a) start seeing prices that reflect lower production costs and b) start seeing a standard, so that each device seller is not trying to lock you in.
Alas, I suspect neither one is coming soon.
Last I checked, the eBook readers will all handle ePub format. So it looks like (b) is covered, at least.
When the T-34 became available in significant numbers and the Soviets were able to fight a mobile war with better firepower, it became a matter of numbers and time.
When the USSR got enough Lend-Lease trucks from the USA/Canada/UK (Yes, Canada supplied trucks to the USSR) to actually supply those T-34's, it became just a matter of time.
T-34 was an amazing tank. Well, except for the Commander having to lay the gun instead of command. And the hatch that made any commander trying to actually command a sitting duck for any German with a rifle. And the lack of a radio in 9/10 of the tanks.
But it's not what allowed the Soviet mechanized war to really take off. What did that was the same thing that the USA/UK/Germany needed - trucks to haul food/ammo/fuel forward as fast as it was being used up by the millions of soldiers and thousands of tanks/guns/etc.
Remember the Red Ball Express - 6000+ 2.5t trucks running back and forth from Normandy to the 3rd Army daily could just barely keep up with that one Army's demands for supplies. And when those supplies dried up after the diversion to Market-Garden, the 3rd Army basically stalled for a few months till sufficient inventory of supplies could be built back up again for more offensive operations.
They thought they knew approximately how long the sea route would be based on Earth's circumference
Yes, they did. Which is why everyone thought Columbus was a crackpot - everyone knew that the distance from Europe west to China was close 15000 miles.
Note that Columbus was a distinct minority in thinking that China was close enough to reach with the ships of the day.
Note also that Flemish fishermen had been drying fish in Newfoundland before Columbus ever sailed. And that Columbus probably knew this, since he was a sailor himself.
what's the actual chance of a hospital being successfully sued, though?
It should, perhaps, be noted that even an UNSUCCESSFUL suit costs piles of money to defend against.
And even the possibility of having to spend anywhere from hundreds of thousands to millions to defend yourself (even before the ruling) means doctors and hospitals will practice defensive medicine, in hopes of heading things off before it becomes time to write big checks to lawyers....
I contacted Sony and let them know that I did not pay for repairs as I do not own a playstation. I was told that they would not remove the charge and that I would have to contest it thought the credit card company. They also informed me that if the charge was contested, they (Sony) would cancel the playstation network account associated with the playstation that was repaired.
Actually, this sounds perfectly reasonable.
Sony has no way of knowing whether you are the person who put the charge on the card or not (or even whether you're the owner of the card), and should not be expected to cancel the charge on their own.
By requiring you to go through your credit card company, they leave the problem of verifying your identity to someone who should have a bit more information to use to validate it.
And telling you they'll cancel the network account associated with the playstation means that if you are trying to scam them, you'll lose your PS network account, but if you are NOT trying to scam them, then whoever DID try to scam them (using your card number) will lose their PS network account.
Looks like a win for everyone, really.
Note, by the way, that if your normal process for dealing with unusual/unexpected charges on your cards is anything other than "go through the whole hassle of changing credit cards and notifying businesses that you do transactions with", then you're doing it wrong.
Qualifier to above: if you have children, your first reaction should be to call the children down and ask if any of them put anything on your credit card without asking. My eight-year-old did that once. Just once.
Technically, that would be "all mankind", I think.
Note that other nations have a moderately effective veto on anything we might choose to do there, since they can "request consultation on the matter" if desired (Afghanistan is a signatory of the Outer Space Treaty, so they can "request consultation" as often and as long as they desire, on any matter related to lunar exploration/exploitation we might want to do).
What are you talking about? Maybe I'm mistaken or something, but didn't the Republicans just vote to cut Medicare?
Would that be the Medicare cuts that are part of Obamacare? Or another set of cuts?
Or didn't you ever bother to notice that part of the financing on Obamacare was Medicare cuts?
Admittedly, even while those Medicare cuts were being used as part of the "revenue-neutral" financing of Obamacare, the White House was saying that they expected future Congresses to cancel them.
In my view, the Tea Party wants to cut ALL spending, EXCEPT anything to do with the military or tax breaks for oil companies.
Personally, I expect that if we don't cut all spending by about 30%, we're not going to climb out of our deficit hole without massive inflation.
Note that even the bipartisan deficit reduction committee is only talking $4 trillion in cuts spread over ten years.
Which, by the way, leaves you with deficits greater than $1 trillion in each of those ten years.
And this doesn't even count the off-budget spending. Like, say, disaster relief.
The FBI and Interpol probably would have gotten him a long time ago if they had been able to do their jobs instead of needlessly engaging the military which had never dealt with terrorism before.
Well, the FBI wouldn't have done anything about him at all. Their jurisdiction pretty much ends at the US borders, and as long as bin Laden stayed outside, the FBI was irrelevant.
I quick read-up on Interpol suggests that as long as the Pakistani police (or Iraqi, Afghani, whoever) were unwilling to hunt for bin Laden, Interpol would have been unable to hunt him down either.
So, no, the FBI and Interpol wouldn't have gotten bin Laden any sooner.
Obviously, this won't be settled until it reaches the Supreme Court
Or the more likely scenario is the circuit court will strike down this judge and the case will be refused hearing by the Supreme Court.
It's quite rare for the Supremes to hear a case until contradictory rulings have been issued on the same subject by two separate Appellate Courts.
If this case is upheld in its own District, then you've pretty much got your contradictory Appellate Court rulings in place, which means that either the Supremes hear it and rule one way or the other, or the people in that particular Appellate Court District have got that ruling to fall back on forever....
The difference is that McCain's birth was questioned, the question was resolved, and people moved on. Since then the only questioning of McCain's birth has been as a counter-example to the questioning of Obama's birth. On the other hand, Obama's birth was questioned, the question was resolved, and people continued to question anyway.
The real difference is that McCain's birth was questioned, IMMEDIATELY answered, and we moved on.
Obama's birth was questioned, the question was ignored for three years, then suddenly he decides to answer it. People wonder why he didn't answer as soon as it was questioned, and assume that he couldn't answer it then, hence the delay.
Face it, the three year delay followed by a sudden about-face just makes the people who are inclined to conspiracy theories that much more certain that there's something to hide.
Note also the argument that it was illegal to show his long-from birth certificate was a silly one from the get-go. Since Obama has miraculously managed to get a waiver to show it, there's no reason to suspect he couldn't have gotten a waiver in 2008....
osama bin laden fought in the name of a strict interpretation of islam, to rebirth the caliphate in the medieval sense. this is not a cause of freedom
Well, no. The caliphate of the middle ages is one he would tolerate no better than he tolerated America.
Moorish Spain was by no means exceptional, and it was a font of freedom of thought, compared to Christian Europe of the same period.
Modern fundamentalist Islam grew out of the Mongol conquest of the caliphate. The mongols did their best to destroy the intellectuals of the Caliphate, leaving behind only the peasants and their fanaticism...
Thinking the death of Bin Laden will change anything is like thinking the death of Roosevelt in 1945 meant the end of WW2. (For those lacking in history, it didn't).
On the other hand, the death of Hitler did mean the end of WW2 in Europe.
Note that World War 2 was actually two wars, one against the Germans, one against the Japanese. Not everyone involved in the war against Germany were involved against Japan, and vice versa.
Someone once suggested bacon tipped bullets... use their fanaticism against them
One of the causes of the Sepoy Mutiny was the rumour that the new British cartridges were sealed in pig fat (offensive to Muslims) and cow fat (offensive to Hindus).
Note, for reference, that the cartridges in question were paper cartridges that had to be bitten by the user as part of the process of loading the musket.
No point - since they're a martyr, they go straight to paradise. Nothing you do to the body matters after that point. Yet another case of an armchair analyst not actually understanding what they're dealing with.
As I recall, the Moro Revolt in the Philippines died pretty quickly when Pershing decided to bury dead rebels in pigskin, and announced that publicly.
And then followed through with his promise (threat?)....
Free, liberated adults should be able to view any site (or book or pamphlet) they desire - without restriction. No government official may overrule that basic natural right of expression.
Isn't it still illegal to sell Nazi memorabilia in France and Germany?
Oh come on - tanks are driven by people who have volunteered to get shot at. How hard can it be? Certainly no harder to drive than the old 1970's caterpillar D-6C (a bulldozer for those not in the know) and actually much easier. I've seen them with handlebars and a throttle just like a motorcycle. Add a brake pedal for each side and an automatic transmission and you're set.
Ever notice how a lot of people who know nothing about a subject think it must be easy?
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Last I checked, the eBook readers will all handle ePub format. So it looks like (b) is covered, at least.
Low-Enriched-Uranium doesn't go boom. Period.
When the USSR got enough Lend-Lease trucks from the USA/Canada/UK (Yes, Canada supplied trucks to the USSR) to actually supply those T-34's, it became just a matter of time.
T-34 was an amazing tank. Well, except for the Commander having to lay the gun instead of command. And the hatch that made any commander trying to actually command a sitting duck for any German with a rifle. And the lack of a radio in 9/10 of the tanks.
But it's not what allowed the Soviet mechanized war to really take off. What did that was the same thing that the USA/UK/Germany needed - trucks to haul food/ammo/fuel forward as fast as it was being used up by the millions of soldiers and thousands of tanks/guns/etc.
Remember the Red Ball Express - 6000+ 2.5t trucks running back and forth from Normandy to the 3rd Army daily could just barely keep up with that one Army's demands for supplies. And when those supplies dried up after the diversion to Market-Garden, the 3rd Army basically stalled for a few months till sufficient inventory of supplies could be built back up again for more offensive operations.
There are really friendly logical errors? Never knew that.
By the by, I suspect you meant "egregious", not "gregarious".
Yes, they did. Which is why everyone thought Columbus was a crackpot - everyone knew that the distance from Europe west to China was close 15000 miles.
Note that Columbus was a distinct minority in thinking that China was close enough to reach with the ships of the day.
Note also that Flemish fishermen had been drying fish in Newfoundland before Columbus ever sailed. And that Columbus probably knew this, since he was a sailor himself.
It should, perhaps, be noted that even an UNSUCCESSFUL suit costs piles of money to defend against.
And even the possibility of having to spend anywhere from hundreds of thousands to millions to defend yourself (even before the ruling) means doctors and hospitals will practice defensive medicine, in hopes of heading things off before it becomes time to write big checks to lawyers....
Actually, this sounds perfectly reasonable.
Sony has no way of knowing whether you are the person who put the charge on the card or not (or even whether you're the owner of the card), and should not be expected to cancel the charge on their own.
By requiring you to go through your credit card company, they leave the problem of verifying your identity to someone who should have a bit more information to use to validate it.
And telling you they'll cancel the network account associated with the playstation means that if you are trying to scam them, you'll lose your PS network account, but if you are NOT trying to scam them, then whoever DID try to scam them (using your card number) will lose their PS network account.
Looks like a win for everyone, really.
Note, by the way, that if your normal process for dealing with unusual/unexpected charges on your cards is anything other than "go through the whole hassle of changing credit cards and notifying businesses that you do transactions with", then you're doing it wrong.
Qualifier to above: if you have children, your first reaction should be to call the children down and ask if any of them put anything on your credit card without asking. My eight-year-old did that once. Just once.
Who owns the moon?
Technically, that would be "all mankind", I think.
Note that other nations have a moderately effective veto on anything we might choose to do there, since they can "request consultation on the matter" if desired (Afghanistan is a signatory of the Outer Space Treaty, so they can "request consultation" as often and as long as they desire, on any matter related to lunar exploration/exploitation we might want to do).
Would that be the Medicare cuts that are part of Obamacare? Or another set of cuts?
Or didn't you ever bother to notice that part of the financing on Obamacare was Medicare cuts?
Admittedly, even while those Medicare cuts were being used as part of the "revenue-neutral" financing of Obamacare, the White House was saying that they expected future Congresses to cancel them.
Personally, I expect that if we don't cut all spending by about 30%, we're not going to climb out of our deficit hole without massive inflation.
Note that even the bipartisan deficit reduction committee is only talking $4 trillion in cuts spread over ten years.
Which, by the way, leaves you with deficits greater than $1 trillion in each of those ten years.
And this doesn't even count the off-budget spending. Like, say, disaster relief.
hate when I don't close my blockquote tags properly....
It's quite rare for the Supremes to hear a case until contradictory rulings have been issued on the same subject by two separate Appellate Courts.
If this case is upheld in its own District, then you've pretty much got your contradictory Appellate Court rulings in place, which means that either the Supremes hear it and rule one way or the other, or the people in that particular Appellate Court District have got that ruling to fall back on forever....
M60. Plus an APC or two.
But "natural born citizen" does NOT mean "born in America.
It means "born a citizen of the USA". Not quite the same thing.
The real difference is that McCain's birth was questioned, IMMEDIATELY answered, and we moved on.
Obama's birth was questioned, the question was ignored for three years, then suddenly he decides to answer it. People wonder why he didn't answer as soon as it was questioned, and assume that he couldn't answer it then, hence the delay.
Face it, the three year delay followed by a sudden about-face just makes the people who are inclined to conspiracy theories that much more certain that there's something to hide.
Note also the argument that it was illegal to show his long-from birth certificate was a silly one from the get-go. Since Obama has miraculously managed to get a waiver to show it, there's no reason to suspect he couldn't have gotten a waiver in 2008....
He can't get fame and fortune from revealing secrets if they're already all over Facebook.
It still is. Depending on where you live, the tax credits for solar range from fair to impressively large.
Well, no. The caliphate of the middle ages is one he would tolerate no better than he tolerated America.
Moorish Spain was by no means exceptional, and it was a font of freedom of thought, compared to Christian Europe of the same period.
Modern fundamentalist Islam grew out of the Mongol conquest of the caliphate. The mongols did their best to destroy the intellectuals of the Caliphate, leaving behind only the peasants and their fanaticism...
On the other hand, the death of Hitler did mean the end of WW2 in Europe.
Note that World War 2 was actually two wars, one against the Germans, one against the Japanese. Not everyone involved in the war against Germany were involved against Japan, and vice versa.
One of the causes of the Sepoy Mutiny was the rumour that the new British cartridges were sealed in pig fat (offensive to Muslims) and cow fat (offensive to Hindus).
Note, for reference, that the cartridges in question were paper cartridges that had to be bitten by the user as part of the process of loading the musket.
As I recall, the Moro Revolt in the Philippines died pretty quickly when Pershing decided to bury dead rebels in pigskin, and announced that publicly.
And then followed through with his promise (threat?)....
It should be pointed out that cigarette smuggling is still big business, if not in the same league as cocaine smuggling.
Why? Taxes on cigarettes (and presumably would be on legalized marijuana or cocaine) are very high.
Note, historically, that smuggling has been far more often about avoiding taxes than about moving illegal goods.
Except, of course, that this isn't a sign of the free market in action.
Local monopolies for Telco and Cable are government imposed, not free market entities.
For that matter, all the corporate immunities that annoy so many people are also government imposed.
Isn't it still illegal to sell Nazi memorabilia in France and Germany?
Or has that changed since I was there last?
Ever notice how a lot of people who know nothing about a subject think it must be easy?