No, but some options are worse than others, and one of those is groups like Hezbollah getting ahold of large quantities of nerve gas, which they might decide to fling into Israel at some random point in the future, or al-qaeda-ized militants also getting ahold of said weapons and shipping them off to god knows where for future use.
Well, I would wager that a large portion of planes owned by other countries in the world not named Russia, France, Germany, Israel or GB are actually planes made by US companies and then sold to them.
So you are saying that the government of the US, the same government that authorized the NSA to spy on it's own citizens, should be responsible for setting up our internet infrastructure? Am I reading you correctly?
You know, this sounds like the beginning of a plot for a possibly amazing movie.
To wit: A teen and his friends gang up on a ship on EVE that is carrying an absurd amount of money. The Russian mafia tracks the IP of the teens and then goes after them, and the teens have to run for their lives.
Or even better, the Russians kidnap their parents or something, and hold them for ransom, and the kids have to go back online in EVE and capture even more ships to save their parents. Or something like that.
So why is this? Bangkok is not a third world place anymore; more people visit there than anyplace on earth except London for vacation.
I wonder if it is the case that the higher death rates due to traffic accidents in these countries is not just because of lax traffic laws/enforcement, but because of inadequate (or nonexistant) response time of authorities/ambulances to the accidents. it would be interesting to compare countries with similar traffic laws and customs which have varying degrees of immediate medical services like ambulances.
I guess what I'm saying is, Thailand, maybe you can keep your crazy driving laws and customs, and just put into place an Ambulance system, and your numbers of traffic deaths will drop.
Less guns means less gun crime. Look at virtually every other country in the world that has fewer guns per capita than the US, and you will notice that they also have less gun crime per capita. It's really very simple.
I once was in Thailand, and took a minivan-taxi from thee airport to my hotel in Phuket, about 20 miles. On the way there it started pouring rain, I mean utterly pouring. As we drove down the road I saw a moped with three people on it, maybe more; I couldn't really tell because of the mass of people clinging to that thing as it was puttering down the road. There was a kid sitting on the front, and the driver was looking around the kid to see ahead. As we passed it, (it was on a side road) I noticed the driver lose control and the whole thing slid over and crashed, sending people flying. It wasn't going very fast, so I hope they were ok, but I told the driver and I don't think he cared to call the Thai version of 911. He did nothing.
The level of stupidity on display there was mind boggling. It was stupid to drive a moped out like that in the rain. it was stupid to try to put as many people on there as possible. It was stupid not to call 911. The whole thing was surreal, and yet this happens all the time there. I understand if you have to get the whole Surapapangkornipongikongkorn family to Aunties house for dinner, but there has to be a better way.
I won't go there. I live across the bay in SF, and I know better. What the above article doesn't mention is the fact that Oakland is #1 in the nation for robberies. #1. Now that is saying something,
Oaklanders endured one robbery for every 91 residents last year. That not only was the city's highest robbery rate in two decades, it was the highest of any major American city since 2000.
You have a complete idiot for a mayor, who doesn't know anything about how to manage and police a large city, and businesses are leaving in droves because of it. And your criminals BART over into the city and cause mayhem here out in my neighborhood, and then go back.
But you have a few nice bars downtown. And the Paramount and Fox theaters are nice.
The geese where I live usually just eat, then honk, then poop, then honk, then eat, then poop. Sometimes variations on a theme, but mostly pretty consistent.
These things are a menace. I lived in Colorado and they would routinely plant themselves into our apartment complex public space, making it unusable for long stretches of winter. If you were stupid enough to wander into the park area, a host of them would waddle up to you and attack, and they left a huge amount of green goose crap all over the place. If I had thought of using one of those little toy helicopters at the time to scare em off, I would have.
While amusing in this case, this treaty would likely not apply.
The statute in the treaty makes it unlawful without a waiver to pursue, hunt, take, capture, kill or sell birds listed therein ("migratory birds"). This includes the Canadian Goose. Piloting a drone into the middle of a stationary flock of geese constitutes none of these things. If the drone operator actually followed the birds, then yes, that would be "pursuing", but simply scaring the birds by flying into the midst of them as they are eating and pooping and doing other bird things wouldn't break the treaty, as far as I can tell.
This. Imagine the absolutely huge amounts of crappy, useless posts now on./, and then scale it infinitely. A veritable Ghraham's Number of useless, meaningless./ posts.
The article title is poorly worded. A datacenter did not give the internet to 70% of the Navajo Nation.
The correct title is, "Datacenter connects 70% of Navajo Nation to internet".
I'm pretty certain all the other nations on the internet would have an issue with transferring control of the internet to a tiny native american nation in the U.S. southwest. Although maybe they could manage it better? I dunno.
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There are greater downsides to us not intervening, which are the spreading of chemical weapons.
Um...Somalia?
No, but some options are worse than others, and one of those is groups like Hezbollah getting ahold of large quantities of nerve gas, which they might decide to fling into Israel at some random point in the future, or al-qaeda-ized militants also getting ahold of said weapons and shipping them off to god knows where for future use.
Well, I would wager that a large portion of planes owned by other countries in the world not named Russia, France, Germany, Israel or GB are actually planes made by US companies and then sold to them.
So you are saying that the government of the US, the same government that authorized the NSA to spy on it's own citizens, should be responsible for setting up our internet infrastructure? Am I reading you correctly?
You know, this sounds like the beginning of a plot for a possibly amazing movie.
To wit: A teen and his friends gang up on a ship on EVE that is carrying an absurd amount of money. The Russian mafia tracks the IP of the teens and then goes after them, and the teens have to run for their lives.
Or even better, the Russians kidnap their parents or something, and hold them for ransom, and the kids have to go back online in EVE and capture even more ships to save their parents. Or something like that.
Armed with a gun or a knife? Guns kill 30,000 people a year. We don't need more guns, or people with them.
Less guns means less gun violence.
It's true.
I will NEVER EVER EVER EVER NEVER EVER EVER take a tuk-tuk again in Thailand, for any reason.
Firstly, regular taxis are more ubiquitous than when I first started going there 10 years ago, even though virtually none of them have seatbelts.
The tuk-tuk drivers are crazy, and the other drivers are too.
The air is dangerously polluted to breathe when in the back of a tuk-tuk in downtown Bangkok.
So why is this? Bangkok is not a third world place anymore; more people visit there than anyplace on earth except London for vacation.
I wonder if it is the case that the higher death rates due to traffic accidents in these countries is not just because of lax traffic laws/enforcement, but because of inadequate (or nonexistant) response time of authorities/ambulances to the accidents. it would be interesting to compare countries with similar traffic laws and customs which have varying degrees of immediate medical services like ambulances.
I guess what I'm saying is, Thailand, maybe you can keep your crazy driving laws and customs, and just put into place an Ambulance system, and your numbers of traffic deaths will drop.
Less guns means less gun crime. Look at virtually every other country in the world that has fewer guns per capita than the US, and you will notice that they also have less gun crime per capita. It's really very simple.
I once was in Thailand, and took a minivan-taxi from thee airport to my hotel in Phuket, about 20 miles. On the way there it started pouring rain, I mean utterly pouring. As we drove down the road I saw a moped with three people on it, maybe more; I couldn't really tell because of the mass of people clinging to that thing as it was puttering down the road. There was a kid sitting on the front, and the driver was looking around the kid to see ahead. As we passed it, (it was on a side road) I noticed the driver lose control and the whole thing slid over and crashed, sending people flying. It wasn't going very fast, so I hope they were ok, but I told the driver and I don't think he cared to call the Thai version of 911. He did nothing.
The level of stupidity on display there was mind boggling. It was stupid to drive a moped out like that in the rain. it was stupid to try to put as many people on there as possible. It was stupid not to call 911. The whole thing was surreal, and yet this happens all the time there. I understand if you have to get the whole Surapapangkornipongikongkorn family to Aunties house for dinner, but there has to be a better way.
US deaths cased by guns in 2010: ~30,000.
And yet not only do idiot gun control opponents not think this is a problem, they make WAR ON GUN CONTROL LEGISLATION!!! Ludicrous.
I won't go there. I live across the bay in SF, and I know better. What the above article doesn't mention is the fact that Oakland is #1 in the nation for robberies. #1. Now that is saying something,
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_23191895/oakland-robbery-capital-america?source=pkg
Oaklanders endured one robbery for every 91 residents last year. That not only was the city's highest robbery rate in two decades, it was the highest of any major American city since 2000.
You have a complete idiot for a mayor, who doesn't know anything about how to manage and police a large city, and businesses are leaving in droves because of it. And your criminals BART over into the city and cause mayhem here out in my neighborhood, and then go back.
But you have a few nice bars downtown. And the Paramount and Fox theaters are nice.
The guy who made iFart made 80,000$ within two weeks of launch.
The geese where I live usually just eat, then honk, then poop, then honk, then eat, then poop. Sometimes variations on a theme, but mostly pretty consistent.
Were the geese black? Was the man who piloted the drone white? If not, or if you have no information on this, then your article is irrelevant.
These things are a menace. I lived in Colorado and they would routinely plant themselves into our apartment complex public space, making it unusable for long stretches of winter. If you were stupid enough to wander into the park area, a host of them would waddle up to you and attack, and they left a huge amount of green goose crap all over the place. If I had thought of using one of those little toy helicopters at the time to scare em off, I would have.
While amusing in this case, this treaty would likely not apply.
The statute in the treaty makes it unlawful without a waiver to pursue, hunt, take, capture, kill or sell birds listed therein ("migratory birds"). This includes the Canadian Goose. Piloting a drone into the middle of a stationary flock of geese constitutes none of these things. If the drone operator actually followed the birds, then yes, that would be "pursuing", but simply scaring the birds by flying into the midst of them as they are eating and pooping and doing other bird things wouldn't break the treaty, as far as I can tell.
This is an important point. If you are ever confronted with a genie granting you wishes, take a long time to consider thoughtfully your answer.
German is a funny language.
In the card game Magic the Gathering, there are cards that do points of damage to players.
In German, the word used translates not to damage, but to "suffering."
As in, "I play a lightning bolt against you. Take three points of SUFFERING!!!!"
This. Imagine the absolutely huge amounts of crappy, useless posts now on ./, and then scale it infinitely. A veritable Ghraham's Number of useless, meaningless ./ posts.
to this day you're 90? You mean you've been 90 all along? How long have you been 90, exactly?
The article title is poorly worded. A datacenter did not give the internet to 70% of the Navajo Nation.
The correct title is, "Datacenter connects 70% of Navajo Nation to internet".
I'm pretty certain all the other nations on the internet would have an issue with transferring control of the internet to a tiny native american nation in the U.S. southwest. Although maybe they could manage it better? I dunno.
mySQL?
The triangle fight was better.