The Chinese language is, in its spoken form, so simple. Grammatically its a perfect 'isolating language'
It should be very easy to learn to speak and understand than it would to read. So long as you could speak enough to be able to get clarification on the many homophones I'm sure a person could get by in China as an illiterate.
Note that if the US military budget were zeroed, the budget deficit would drop to about $700 billion per year.
Well... I guess that the only option for the USA is to invade the rest of the world sometime really soon. May as well use that military budget to annul any problems with budget deficit and pesky foreign nations potentially 'owning' the USA.
You can blame Disney and their rodent for the current state of copyright laws. Don't think that when copyright period for Mickey once again draws to a close there won't be a large bundle of cash handed out to the nearest person able to extend the period another 20-50 years.
One way to stop this would be to turn Mickey into an pop culture symbol for a pedophile or terrorist...
Degrade the icon to the point where Disney would rather wash their hands of the rodent.
Google offer a service for this!!
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I think that the best solution to the internet 'fuckwad' problem is not so much removal of anonymity as such. It doesn't lie in direct 'real world' identification of a person but rather in being able to connect a persons several online identities.
Sure, that could lead to identification of the person behind those identities, but thats something they need to manage if they want to be careful.
The real question is to see whether this lower perception is acually any danger for pedestrians.
I like to create danger for pedestrians who are obliviously focusing on their mobile phones while walking down the street.
What I do is I aim myself straight toward them and turn my head so as to be 'obviously' not looking where I am going. I clench my teeth and brace for the impact.
If it works out I'll slam right into them sending their mobile device flying.
Then I'll say "Ooops sorry! I guess I wasn't looking where I was going EITHER!"
The bottom line (my opinion) is that Philip K Dick's estate should say "thank you for the homage" and move on; Google should formally acknowledge the homage and move on as well; nobody is likely to affect change through the court system on this.
I bet that neither sides lawyers are saying this.
In fact I bet that both sides lawyers eyes are lit up with huge dollar signs.
I guess the question is, what do you profile for? Richard Reid was a Britain born from a white mother and a Jamaican father. The underwear bomber was Nigerian. The 9/11 attackers were all Arabs, but nowadays you would have to look for Afghans and Pakistanis too. Everyone knows that a TSA guy can't tell a Sikh from an Arab, let alone a Pakistani, so now you're screening for everyone who looks south Asian, African, or Middle Eastern, add Asian/Pacific Islanders if your worried about Indonesian Muslims. Any idea how many interviews a day that is?
I think the OP meant 'brown people' in general.
Thats how the USA foreign policy works; bomb the brown people. Therefore if you want to look out for potential terrorists, well, if they are a bit brown then you take them in for more questioning.
One, Second Life has a woefully steep learning curve.
The UI in Second Life is truly second to none when it comes to complete crap.
Seriously. Learning curve?
Sure, it *has* a learning curve but the UI is so incredibly ugly and useless and slow and clunky that... how can anyone be bothered with the learning curve at all?
Secondly, the point the OP was making was that war deaths today are a fraction of the deaths in WW2. You want to compare civilian deaths? The numbers at IraqBodyCount.org are quite suspect, but let's say there were 500,000 civilian deaths just for argument's sake. There were over 100,000,000 civilian deaths in WW2 and almost 3,000,000 deaths in Korea. The numbers in Iraq just don't compare to previous wars.
The Iraq 'war' is confined to a single nation, it hardly even leaks into the region as a whole.
The second world war had 100M civilian deaths over the whole Earth.
If you take the 'suspect' 500K civilian deaths in Iraq and scale that up to a world war it might come out pretty harsh.
I think, just because manners are good doesn't mean people won't regularly get shot in the face (or back) merely for being in the way or annoying.
I don't believe that the 'wild west' (as an example of an armed society) was a wonderful model of well mannered folk who refrained shooting one another dead over trifles.
I am sure that the Chinese would absolutely love for the USA to send their most technologically advanced stealth drones on missions deep into Chinese airspace.
That gives them the opportunity to learn to detect them and to shoot them down and reverse engineer them.
Public Defenders' offices are criminally underfunded compared to the DAs, who have the full backing of the State.
But... funding the public defenders office would almost be like funding public healthcare or maybe even unemployment benefit. It sounds almost... *socialist*
Hell, if America funded Public Defenders offices, it'd be just a slippery slope to communism!
if the ink you use is incompatible you could end up nackering the entire print head - and then you may aswell by another printer for sure.
If the cost of the 'official' ink is so high compared to the cost of the printer then... buying unofficial (and far cheaper ink) and having it wreck the printer doesn't seem like a net loss.
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The Chinese language is, in its spoken form, so simple. Grammatically its a perfect 'isolating language'
It should be very easy to learn to speak and understand than it would to read. So long as you could speak enough to be able to get clarification on the many homophones I'm sure a person could get by in China as an illiterate.
My guess is that every Apple employee is required to have a slashdot account...
Note that if the US military budget were zeroed, the budget deficit would drop to about $700 billion per year.
Well... I guess that the only option for the USA is to invade the rest of the world sometime really soon. May as well use that military budget to annul any problems with budget deficit and pesky foreign nations potentially 'owning' the USA.
I don't think they were arguing that NASA is whats driving the USA to bankruptcy.
It seems to me that the only large scale, extravagance that the USA funds these days is war.
And that is whats driving the USA to bankruptcy (in more ways than one) and what will ultimately prevent the USA from having a viable space program.
You can blame Disney and their rodent for the current state of copyright laws. Don't think that when copyright period for Mickey once again draws to a close there won't be a large bundle of cash handed out to the nearest person able to extend the period another 20-50 years.
One way to stop this would be to turn Mickey into an pop culture symbol for a pedophile or terrorist...
Degrade the icon to the point where Disney would rather wash their hands of the rodent.
Called "Google Opt Out":
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/google_opt_out_feature_lets_users
I think that the best solution to the internet 'fuckwad' problem is not so much removal of anonymity as such. It doesn't lie in direct 'real world' identification of a person but rather in being able to connect a persons several online identities.
Sure, that could lead to identification of the person behind those identities, but thats something they need to manage if they want to be careful.
Do it my way or I'll bash in your brains.
But thats the crazy thing; the USA is NOT bombing them!
I mean, Costa Rica is full of brown people, just the kind of people the USA just *loves* to bomb!
Could it be that the USA is learning... restraint????
The real question is to see whether this lower perception is acually any danger for pedestrians.
I like to create danger for pedestrians who are obliviously focusing on their mobile phones while walking down the street.
What I do is I aim myself straight toward them and turn my head so as to be 'obviously' not looking where I am going. I clench my teeth and brace for the impact.
If it works out I'll slam right into them sending their mobile device flying.
Then I'll say "Ooops sorry! I guess I wasn't looking where I was going EITHER!"
Yeh I'm evil. But its hilarious.
The bottom line (my opinion) is that Philip K Dick's estate should say "thank you for the homage" and move on; Google should formally acknowledge the homage and move on as well; nobody is likely to affect change through the court system on this.
I bet that neither sides lawyers are saying this.
In fact I bet that both sides lawyers eyes are lit up with huge dollar signs.
Whenever people like this talk about 'security' what they really mean is 'financial security'.
There is simply no other form of 'security' on their radar.
I guess the question is, what do you profile for? Richard Reid was a Britain born from a white mother and a Jamaican father. The underwear bomber was Nigerian. The 9/11 attackers were all Arabs, but nowadays you would have to look for Afghans and Pakistanis too. Everyone knows that a TSA guy can't tell a Sikh from an Arab, let alone a Pakistani, so now you're screening for everyone who looks south Asian, African, or Middle Eastern, add Asian/Pacific Islanders if your worried about Indonesian Muslims. Any idea how many interviews a day that is?
I think the OP meant 'brown people' in general.
Thats how the USA foreign policy works; bomb the brown people. Therefore if you want to look out for potential terrorists, well, if they are a bit brown then you take them in for more questioning.
One, Second Life has a woefully steep learning curve.
The UI in Second Life is truly second to none when it comes to complete crap.
Seriously. Learning curve?
Sure, it *has* a learning curve but the UI is so incredibly ugly and useless and slow and clunky that... how can anyone be bothered with the learning curve at all?
That's because it isn't a game - it's a simulation.
It isn't a simulation - its a social club.
520,833.33 > 500,000
Thats probably within the margin of error anyway.
Secondly, the point the OP was making was that war deaths today are a fraction of the deaths in WW2. You want to compare civilian deaths? The numbers at IraqBodyCount.org are quite suspect, but let's say there were 500,000 civilian deaths just for argument's sake. There were over 100,000,000 civilian deaths in WW2 and almost 3,000,000 deaths in Korea. The numbers in Iraq just don't compare to previous wars.
The Iraq 'war' is confined to a single nation, it hardly even leaks into the region as a whole.
The second world war had 100M civilian deaths over the whole Earth.
If you take the 'suspect' 500K civilian deaths in Iraq and scale that up to a world war it might come out pretty harsh.
I think, just because manners are good doesn't mean people won't regularly get shot in the face (or back) merely for being in the way or annoying.
I don't believe that the 'wild west' (as an example of an armed society) was a wonderful model of well mannered folk who refrained shooting one another dead over trifles.
I play Eve Online.
They are polite but very dangerous.
Politeness is just a way of saying 'nice dog' while you get a big stick ready.
I totally agree with universal gun ownership and the right to use them.
Anyone acts stupid in a public place, *BLAM* dead.
Anyone pushes in ahead of you in the queue, *BLAM* dead.
People don't move down the bus so more people can get on, *BLAMBLAMBLAM* now theres room on the bus.
Awesome.
in 6 months listening music will be illegal and dangerous, in one year thinking wil be a threat,
In the UK all knowledge is banned already.
Theres a law that says its illegal to possess any information that may be useful to a terrorist.
I don't understand. What does that story have to do with your willingness to eat octopus?
Some people believe that eating sentient beings is wrong.
I'm not vegetarian, but I draw the line at eating sentients.
There is nothing as beneficial to mankind as Pax Americana
Do you really believe that or are you being um, ironic or sarcastic or something?
I need to know because I'll mark you friend or for accordingly.
Personally, I find the prospect of a world ruled from America horrifying.
I want to be able to see breasts on television sometimes.
I am sure that the Chinese would absolutely love for the USA to send their most technologically advanced stealth drones on missions deep into Chinese airspace.
That gives them the opportunity to learn to detect them and to shoot them down and reverse engineer them.
Public Defenders' offices are criminally underfunded compared to the DAs, who have the full backing of the State.
But... funding the public defenders office would almost be like funding public healthcare or maybe even unemployment benefit. It sounds almost... *socialist*
Hell, if America funded Public Defenders offices, it'd be just a slippery slope to communism!
if the ink you use is incompatible you could end up nackering the entire print head - and then you may aswell by another printer for sure.
If the cost of the 'official' ink is so high compared to the cost of the printer then... buying unofficial (and far cheaper ink) and having it wreck the printer doesn't seem like a net loss.