I think some of that mentality may come from the primary election process, which I believe is followed universally across the US, but I could be wrong. The US citizens must register to vote for a political party in order to choose who will represent that party in the election. So if I wanted to have any say in which Republican would be put on the ballot for the general election, I would have to register as a Republican 6 months or so in advance.
That process may have a tendency to form allegiances to parties, long before (and after) the general election. Or course they could choose to register as a Republican just to vote for the underdog and give the leading guy a run for his money.
IANAL, but couldn't information like what sites you viewed or places you go be used to profile you and thus be used against you by law enforcement or prosecutors? If the government knew that you visited sharpshooting or rifle hunting sites, and you lived in the DC area, you might've received some hassle during the Sniper spree a while ago. I'm not sure how this works in the US, but could information like this be used to show that you have a keen knowledge of certain subject and would therefore be very capable of committing a certain crime? Admittedly, this would only be circumstantial evidence, but haven't people been convicted on just that before?
Once again I'm going to re-iterate for emphasis IANAL, but I have watched some "Law & Order"
As long as they don't force me to do excercises every day. That's what scared me most about that book. I'll fight for my right to be lay on the couch eating nachos....as long as its not too much effort.
I thought my computer was laughing at me instead. Sometimes when I walk away, I can hear it snicker. I confronted it, but it tried to act like it didn't know what I was talking about. Just wait, some day it'll be sorry. It'll be time for an upgrade and I'll be all like, Ha ha, no RAM for you funny boy!
Maybe, assuming the actual age and the apparent age are directly proportional by the constant 1712.5. (i.e. Actual_Age = 1712.5 * Apparent_age)
If, however, you presume that the graph would not be linear, but would approach some asymptote, the guess could me more realistic. Also remember, space is presumed to be infinite, and as you approach infinity, strange things begin to happen.
Well, It is his computer, so I don't want to fsck anything up. Plus, Billy Gates told me it is too thouroughly integrated with the operating system.
Additionally, I must confess using his computer from time to time for the IE because a few of the apps they wrote at work don't work with Mozilla. But then I immediately close down and resume browsing for Natalie Portman with Mozilla on my Beowulf cluster of linux machines. I Promise.
I tried to get my (casual PC user) roommate to switch to Mozilla, thinking that if he only knew the benefits and became familiar with it, he'd switch.
I installed Mozilla an made it the default browser. I put the icon on the desktop for him, right next to the IE Icon. I even clicked through it once for him and told him it would keep those nasty pop-ups from bugging him (for which he constantly had a new combination of swear words).
Still, every time I see him browsing, it's with IE. Time to give up? Old habits die hard.
As long as the U.S. troops occupying the the conflict area are still engaging in hostilities on a regular basis, I would not say that the war is over (regardless of what the U.S. President says). And until the warring is over, I don't think we can evaluate the war in its entirety. Like a nasty brush fire, the Iraq situation could flare up or gain momentum as new political fuel is added to the fire.
Bear in mind war can be defined in a few ways. Based on U.S. law, I believe there is a disparity between what they call a Police Action, a war, isolated surgical strike, military operation, whatever. Yet each of these could involve one nation-state attacking another. Someone not familiar with modern political rhetoric could conveive as any of these actions as war.
I agree that casualties in Afganistan and both Iraq conflicts seem to have been lower, than say Vietnam (granted that there is not a great method for counting casualties on the side opposing the US+Allies). However, great technological differences existed between the U.S. and Vietnam as well. Guerrilla warfare and political considerations, made the technological difference not as influential in the outcome. After all, the US possessed one of the greatest technological killing methods (nucular, as we now say), but many considerations kept that from becoming a reality.
Should the Guerrilla tactics continue or escalate, in Iraq, the death toll has the very real possibility of increasing to levels unacceptable by the United States citizens.
Thus far, I would agree that the reported casualty levels are indeed lower than most previous conflicts, and I think you are right to give much of the credit to the superiority of the technology, which can be more surgical and discriminating than weaponry of the past. I just don't think we've seen the final chapter yet, and I am hesitant put this war in the history books yet.
The universe can be very sensitive about her age. We can't simply ask outright, because she might get offended and decide to give us the big Crunch or the cold shoulder.
We can make educated guesses, but in the end we're better off guessing low. I wouldn't say The universe is 13.7 billion years old, plus or minus 200 million years. I would say she doesn't look a day over 8 million years old....and then change the subject.
I'm trying to remember....was this one of the movies that they got in trouble for making up review taglines? I remember the midevievil (sp?) one with the Aussie was one of them and I thought there were one or two more.
I think those reviews are great. They take a sentence "This movie gave me explosive diarrhea!!!" and turn it into "... explosive..."
Obviously someone did a poor job of testing this easily reproducable condition. They probably didn't even test what happens when you hold your Vaio over your head, and stand on one foot, eating a twinkie. And I'm certainly not going to try using my Vaio in a box, with a fox, and wearing socks. Just to be safe, I'm going to disconnect my doorbell when using my playstation and unplug my fridge when listening to my discman.
Actually, it could be argued that nobody has the right to do anything as long as they are governed by someone else. They are allowed certain things based on the approval of those governing. "Rights" are those things the governors trade you for your civility and obedience. (Unless one were to bring the theological arguments into play and claim that rights were bestowed upon women and men by a higher power.) I think my point was that if you allow yourself to be ruled by others, you really have no rights, only permissions. Or maybe I was trying to make some other point
I thought tangible meant it was a physical object that could be touched, in which case a song is not tangible. This may be why some people have an objection to calling it stealing. You are not taking some finitely held object for yourself, and depriving others of it. You are making an exact copy of it which, in the world of tangebility, would be making another wholly seperate tangible object.
SCO: Same Code as Ours
SCO: Software costs 0 (zero)
SCO: Some Company Oppressing
SCO: Same Crap Online
SCO: Some Crazy Organization
SCO: Save Costs. Obtain
SCO: Steal Code Online
More? Try some, they're fun.
My commute is half that distance and still takes about an hour. Why? I drive 2 Miles to the train stop and ride that to work. It's not as fast, but it saves money, I can read (though some people do this while driving), it's less hassle, and it let's me be righteous about taking public transportation (though I usually don't mention the part about driving to the train station)
Plus, for 15 bucks you can make homeless people fight each other, tape it, and sell it on the internet.
Isn't there a provision along the same lines in the Kyoto agreement? You get a certain amount of credits, meaning you can cause a certain amount of pollution. However, if you're wealthy enough, you can buy the right to pollute more, albeit from other polluters who don't use all their credits.
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When I was an undergrad, every class had a survey at the end of the semester where the students provided feedback on the professor. I suspect many schools do this.
The survey was performed by the dean of the department, and was somewhat anonymous (i.e., no names assigned, but certain guesses could be made by class rosters). This has the benefit of not being available for any Joe Internet user from falsely adjusting the statistics for a specific teacher, but the drawback was that the general student population was never really made aware of the results.
I suspect the school as a whole would not want these results posted for anyone to view, as it could potentially paint the school's faculty in a negative light (and in my experience, anything that made the school look even somewhat questionable was usually oppressed). However, the data probably more accurately reflected the opinion of the students. Maybe if this survey taking became standard on an inter-university level, some sort of governing body could institute some sort of web ranking of professors (and even schools for that matter). Okay, I'm done rambling...for now.
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That process may have a tendency to form allegiances to parties, long before (and after) the general election. Or course they could choose to register as a Republican just to vote for the underdog and give the leading guy a run for his money.
Once again I'm going to re-iterate for emphasis IANAL, but I have watched some "Law & Order"
I can't wait until I can pay so that I don't even have to play the game at all.
If, however, you presume that the graph would not be linear, but would approach some asymptote, the guess could me more realistic. Also remember, space is presumed to be infinite, and as you approach infinity, strange things begin to happen.
Well, It is his computer, so I don't want to fsck anything up. Plus, Billy Gates told me it is too thouroughly integrated with the operating system.
Additionally, I must confess using his computer from time to time for the IE because a few of the apps they wrote at work don't work with Mozilla. But then I immediately close down and resume browsing for Natalie Portman with Mozilla on my Beowulf cluster of linux machines. I Promise.
I installed Mozilla an made it the default browser. I put the icon on the desktop for him, right next to the IE Icon. I even clicked through it once for him and told him it would keep those nasty pop-ups from bugging him (for which he constantly had a new combination of swear words).
Still, every time I see him browsing, it's with IE. Time to give up? Old habits die hard.
Well it has to be believable, or she won't buy it ...
... and 6000 years is just too unbelievable for a monkey like me.
Bear in mind war can be defined in a few ways. Based on U.S. law, I believe there is a disparity between what they call a Police Action, a war, isolated surgical strike, military operation, whatever. Yet each of these could involve one nation-state attacking another. Someone not familiar with modern political rhetoric could conveive as any of these actions as war.
I agree that casualties in Afganistan and both Iraq conflicts seem to have been lower, than say Vietnam (granted that there is not a great method for counting casualties on the side opposing the US+Allies). However, great technological differences existed between the U.S. and Vietnam as well. Guerrilla warfare and political considerations, made the technological difference not as influential in the outcome. After all, the US possessed one of the greatest technological killing methods (nucular, as we now say), but many considerations kept that from becoming a reality.
Should the Guerrilla tactics continue or escalate, in Iraq, the death toll has the very real possibility of increasing to levels unacceptable by the United States citizens.
Thus far, I would agree that the reported casualty levels are indeed lower than most previous conflicts, and I think you are right to give much of the credit to the superiority of the technology, which can be more surgical and discriminating than weaponry of the past. I just don't think we've seen the final chapter yet, and I am hesitant put this war in the history books yet.
We can make educated guesses, but in the end we're better off guessing low. I wouldn't say The universe is 13.7 billion years old, plus or minus 200 million years. I would say she doesn't look a day over 8 million years old....and then change the subject.
I think those reviews are great. They take a sentence "This movie gave me explosive diarrhea!!!" and turn it into "... explosive ..."
I thought tangible meant it was a physical object that could be touched, in which case a song is not tangible. This may be why some people have an objection to calling it stealing. You are not taking some finitely held object for yourself, and depriving others of it. You are making an exact copy of it which, in the world of tangebility, would be making another wholly seperate tangible object.
SCO: Same Code as Ours
SCO: Software costs 0 (zero)
SCO: Some Company Oppressing
SCO: Same Crap Online
SCO: Some Crazy Organization
SCO: Save Costs. Obtain
SCO: Steal Code Online
More? Try some, they're fun.
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I think he did. Oh well, it was just an idea to get us by till the flying cars are ready.
Plus, for 15 bucks you can make homeless people fight each other, tape it, and sell it on the internet.
How bout we all get Segways? If W. can use 'em, they can't be all bad.
Isn't there a provision along the same lines in the Kyoto agreement? You get a certain amount of credits, meaning you can cause a certain amount of pollution. However, if you're wealthy enough, you can buy the right to pollute more, albeit from other polluters who don't use all their credits.
The survey was performed by the dean of the department, and was somewhat anonymous (i.e., no names assigned, but certain guesses could be made by class rosters). This has the benefit of not being available for any Joe Internet user from falsely adjusting the statistics for a specific teacher, but the drawback was that the general student population was never really made aware of the results.
I suspect the school as a whole would not want these results posted for anyone to view, as it could potentially paint the school's faculty in a negative light (and in my experience, anything that made the school look even somewhat questionable was usually oppressed). However, the data probably more accurately reflected the opinion of the students. Maybe if this survey taking became standard on an inter-university level, some sort of governing body could institute some sort of web ranking of professors (and even schools for that matter). Okay, I'm done rambling...for now.