The administration that is disgraced, out the door & is in the process of having a lot of the bad, illegal things that they pulled in their tenure reversed or revoked?
No, the one that you kept voting in to the incredulity of the rest of the world, whose approval only crashed as a result of an economic house of cards not of its own making, and whose president only left the White House because he had limited tenure from the start?
This isn't about the US.
Um, I think you'll find it is. Check the thread all the way back up to its first ancestor.
We have the option of removing our government by force if needed. That option has never been played & hopefully will never have to be played. But we still have that option & our government, deep down, knows it.
We also have that option -- our weapons are only marginally less effective than those at the government's disposal as yours are (perhaps, indeed, in Britain the relative armaments are in our favour).
Either you guys like fascism or your government has stopped listening to you a long, long time ago. No amount of fingerpointing & burning strawmen will change that.
Just because you've got a decent president at last you're suddenly all high and mighty. But your country is still ruled by corporations.
porn-peddler Wales managed to fob Wikipedia off as a "nonprofit" site, and convinced Google not to downgrade its linking weight according to the formula they use for all the other linkfarms out there.
o rly? citation needed pls.
Wikipedia gets its high PageRank from the millions of external sites linking to it that do not link to each other. It could easily get nil points from its internal links and still appear top of every search result.
But that's largely a legal construct, and has nothing to do with how logic works or how burden of proof works. We as a society decided that you _must_ make and prove that kind of claims.
So if society decides you need to prove that your new media immersive experiences do not cause people to go on shooting sprees, that's exactly what you need to do (for some close statistical approximation of "proof").
The "burden of proof" does not exist in isolation of the risks and benefits involved -- which are for people, not logic, to decide.
Cocaine is known for making its users go on and on about the same thing, thinking they're being terribly clever when they're really just boring everyone else rigid. It is therefore well-loved by Slashdot AC trolls.
According to the graph you linked to, the most major downturn in stock value related not to Steve's health, but to the following news:
Apple Inc. Executives Settle Shareholder Suits For $14 Million-Reuters Thursday, 11 Sep 2008 01:32am EDT Reuters reported that federal judge in San Jose has given preliminary approval to a $14 million settlement of shareholder claims over backdating of stock options against current and former Apple Inc executives, court documents showed. The current and former executives and directors, including Chief Executive Steve Jobs, agreed to the settlement. As part of the deal, Apple's liability insurer agreed to pay the Company $14 million, the court document said. The deal also includes the insuring company's payment of nearly $9 million in fees and expenses to lawyers who brought the state and federal actions that were later consolidated. U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel gave preliminary approval to the proposal and set a hearing for Oct. 31 to finalize it.
The proper term is "copyright infringement", but the term "theft" is commonly used even for legal purposes, e.g. the US Federal No Electronic Theft Act of 1997.
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The administration that is disgraced, out the door & is in the process of having a lot of the bad, illegal things that they pulled in their tenure reversed or revoked?
No, the one that you kept voting in to the incredulity of the rest of the world, whose approval only crashed as a result of an economic house of cards not of its own making, and whose president only left the White House because he had limited tenure from the start?
This isn't about the US.
Um, I think you'll find it is. Check the thread all the way back up to its first ancestor.
We have the option of removing our government by force if needed. That option has never been played & hopefully will never have to be played. But we still have that option & our government, deep down, knows it.
We also have that option -- our weapons are only marginally less effective than those at the government's disposal as yours are (perhaps, indeed, in Britain the relative armaments are in our favour).
Either you guys like fascism or your government has stopped listening to you a long, long time ago. No amount of fingerpointing & burning strawmen will change that.
Just because you've got a decent president at last you're suddenly all high and mighty. But your country is still ruled by corporations.
Google themselves don't care -- they just measure how much people creating web content care. Of course, the answer comes up the same!
Second result in Google for "how many eggs does a chicken lay in a week" contains the answer in the summary.
I'm sure they're already working on the appropriate extensions to Google Calculator in the Labs.
I doubt that, because it would be seriously susceptible to feedback.
porn-peddler Wales managed to fob Wikipedia off as a "nonprofit" site, and convinced Google not to downgrade its linking weight according to the formula they use for all the other linkfarms out there.
o rly? citation needed pls.
Wikipedia gets its high PageRank from the millions of external sites linking to it that do not link to each other. It could easily get nil points from its internal links and still appear top of every search result.
Whereas bombing the crap out of cities from your ivory tower aircraft, with clusters, bunker-busters, etc., is morally upright?
Never forget that the USA is founded upon guerilla warfare against the British.
Do you honestly think that Bush's administration was any better WRT removal of civil rights?
Indeed. If only we had guns like in America, we'd be able to keep our government entirely free of corruption!
Why stop at amoeba? It's the laws of physics which cause me to behave selfishly :)
But that's largely a legal construct, and has nothing to do with how logic works or how burden of proof works. We as a society decided that you _must_ make and prove that kind of claims.
So if society decides you need to prove that your new media immersive experiences do not cause people to go on shooting sprees, that's exactly what you need to do (for some close statistical approximation of "proof").
The "burden of proof" does not exist in isolation of the risks and benefits involved -- which are for people, not logic, to decide.
Yeah, well, some kids have to deal drugs for a living, you insensitive clod!
It talks about prediction ... for ... which correlation is enough.
If it rains, I'll stay indoors. Therefore, if I stay indoors, it'll rain!
Cocaine is known for making its users go on and on about the same thing, thinking they're being terribly clever when they're really just boring everyone else rigid. It is therefore well-loved by Slashdot AC trolls.
No, but we can have a coward who thinks he's funny making a fool of himself.
Crikey! I didn't even notice the redirect. Those Disney bastards. Sorry Gr8Apes!
Plus, I think your google-fu might be broken:
http://disneyshopping.go.com/disney/store/Product_10002_10051_1224770_-1_13694
In which declaration of human rights do I find the one about the guarantee to be able to watch Disney movies?
Top 40 music singles chart predicts highest-selling singles of the week with astounding precision!
And you write like a coward. Why don't you read the link he provided?
This is CmdrTaco posting as hobbit to make some serious point that unfortunately currently escapes me.
I'm just saying: there's no indication on the graph that stocks tanked more when Jobs' health concerns surfaced.
According to the graph you linked to, the most major downturn in stock value related not to Steve's health, but to the following news:
Apple Inc. Executives Settle Shareholder Suits For $14 Million-Reuters
Thursday, 11 Sep 2008 01:32am EDT
Reuters reported that federal judge in San Jose has given preliminary approval to a $14 million settlement of shareholder claims over backdating of stock options against current and former Apple Inc executives, court documents showed. The current and former executives and directors, including Chief Executive Steve Jobs, agreed to the settlement. As part of the deal, Apple's liability insurer agreed to pay the Company $14 million, the court document said. The deal also includes the insuring company's payment of nearly $9 million in fees and expenses to lawyers who brought the state and federal actions that were later consolidated. U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel gave preliminary approval to the proposal and set a hearing for Oct. 31 to finalize it.
The proper term is "copyright infringement", but the term "theft" is commonly used even for legal purposes, e.g. the US Federal No Electronic Theft Act of 1997.
in effect I've been sentenced to a lifetime of enslavement trying to earn the money to pay that fine.
You should really read up about what it means to be a slave sometime, so that you can stop continuing to tarnish the memory of your forebears.
The store probably has to sell 25 gallons of milk to cover the cost of the one gallon
Whoa there, cowboy! It's been 25 seconds since you last pulled 25 numbers out of your ass.