It's not a matter of if it's better(It is, I've examined them), it's a matter if its enough for most people to care. I personally don't really care much, I can see the difference, and the margin of difference in price is simply not worth the cost to replace the units. I think many, like me, will not buy an HDTV until their current set becomes useless.
Actually I'm not sure they use spoons at all, anything you're allowed to eat that would be spoonable is sucked out of a sealed bag so it won't break up and jam equipment. I think you only get a knife and fork. And I'm pretty sure there's no crispy food, crumbs and all.
"Religions are like farts. Yours is ok, but everybody else's stink."
Paraphrased from something I heard a kid say while my parents were watching Picket Fences.
There was an outer limits episode made from a James Patrick Kelly short story called "Think like a dinosaur" where the reptilian race cooperating with humans and helping them with interstellar travel has a technology which moves a person from one location to the other by copying them and instantly vaporizing the(suspended) original when the new copy is confirmed to be in place. After one transport, an error makes it seem as though the copy was not created, which it was, and the original unfrozen. When the news comes, the reptilian race expect the human researcher working with them to kill the original. An error like that is an interesting problem with that type of travel.
No, thats just wrong. See, there was a time BEFORE there were laws, when anyone could do anything they wanted. Laws are a social construct. Simple which came first, therefore, laws only take away rights. In the natural state, we all have the right to do the right to do anything we have the ability to do, and in fact, the right to do plenty we probably don't have the ability to do.
I thought it only counted as Arc welding without a buffering gas, and was called Mig or Tig, depending on device, once you used inert gas, though they all certainly work on the same principle of inducing welding heat though causing a spark to arc between two metals.
Yea, but your argument would to totally wrong inherently, because it's fundamentally untrue. Government only takes away rights, it never gives you any. We're born with every right to do anything we want, including swing our fist past where someone else's face begins, then take what they carry. This used to be common, in fact. By moving to a society with governance and laws, we agree as individuals to give up some of these rights, for the protection offered by other people giving up the same rights, ie, I give up my right to knock you over the head and take your stuff, for the protection of not having to keep looking over my shoulder to see if someone is going to hit ME over the head and take MY stuff. None of our freedoms are PRIVILEGES, and thinking of them that way undermines the entire premise of law. The Bill of Rights doesn't give us privileges, it sets forth a list of things the government can never ever restrict, no matter how good an idea it might seem at the time, without an amendment. Sending a death threat is already restricted, using the internet instead of a letter made with magazine cutouts does not mean we should restrict internet anonymity anymore than the prior example means we should make magazines illegal.
Axe is amazingly combustible. Check out the ingredients. You don't just get a flame if you spray axe on a lighter, you get a deep blue TORCH flame, you could melt solder with that thing easy, or light a pile of people's clothes on fire. I had a pyro roommate in college, and axe handed out 200 promotional mini cans in my dorm. He had like 50 of them by the end of the night just bumming them...
I actually don't disagree with your results, in fact, my own experiences confirm them(I've personally observed the post-ninja-movie effect), but I'm curious if you controlled for general competitive physiological arousal, as it's the most commonly missed variable. By this I mean, did you compare the aggression levels of gamers involved in an active competitive game that is not violent(Basketball maybe) with results for a similar but violent competitive game(Football maybe)? I'm curious to what extent general psychological arousal and competitive emotions are responsible for the increase, as opposed to modeling and simulation of violent behavior.
I'd actually say the Metal Gear Solid particularly does quite a bit to depict the negative aspects of violence and their effects. Snake is shown as somewhat damaged by his killing, and the game system is designed to reward avoiding any needless bloody encounter. Stun techniques and drugged darts are often offered up as well, and even without them, you can hold up a guard, then knock him out; they act like people, not some kind of killing machines you feel nothing when you kill. In many cases, you are given plot reasons to feel genuinely bad about the killing you ARE actually forced to do, with only a couple exceptions, even your most violent and dangerous enemies are sympathizable. You are even chided in game for being a killer. The games themselves portray Snake's espionage missions as an alternative to a much more violent, much higher body count direct military resolution. I personally feel damn proud of playing with a near zero kill count in that series.
Sadly in New York, it doesn't work like that. A guy I know had a gun pulled on him, and the guy was going to use it. He took the gunman by surprise and pushed the gun out of the way with one hand and knifed the guy with the other until he dropped the gun. This is a situation where running would have allowed him to be shot in the back, with no defense at all, and he did the only thing he could to preserve his life. Spent 7 years in jail because he had an "obligation to run rather than escalate violence when not defending his own property."
Definitely, anyone that I know that got "the first one free" had a friend that genuinely thought they would enjoy the experience. I got my first hit of X free way back when and I don't regret it, or the hits I bought after that during college. I haven't touched the stuff in like 5 years(I get bored easily with passive entertainments), but no regrets from this poor, peer pressure drug-pushed kid.
Yes, actually, you should go to any number of available nonsmoking establishments that would be available to fill this need. If a business owner wants a smoking establishment, he should be able to have it. Nobody dragged you in there by your hair. In fact, I'd say that MOST establishments, especially quality ones, would be nonsmoking, and it's the smokers who would have to make due.
Sadly you CAN'T hit back if someone hits you 95% of the time. Unless they have you physically trapped so you cannot escape the situation, or are defending a threat on your own property (so forget defending your car in a parking lot) if you hit back and do substantially more damage with that hit that they did(you have a bruise on the arm, he has a shattered jaw) you are definately getting charges filed by the police if the incident gets to them. If neither of you is hurt bad it's probably just disturbing the peace charges for both of you. Only big exception on hitting someone when not trapped or on your own property and they assault you is defense of another - if guy is decking his GF(or bf I guess) at a bar and you decide to knock him out before he does real damage, you're probably not getting in trouble so long as the victim you defend corroborates your story.
Actually, LOL, I am, right now. Got me one of those reach flossers with the handle you keep and little bows of floss you replace when they break. Makes it so much more practical, and safer, I never pull too hard and cut my gums now.
The real problem here is that the RIAA exists in it's present form in the first place. Why should the distributor make most of the money? They aren't a hard working group of people that earn a small honest margin spreading the word about musicians, they are a cartel that controls the music industry. If I download, they have effectively done nothing anymore. They have offered no service, no physical media for my convenience, nothing at all. Why should they get any money? The one tiny thing they do for the artists is obsolete, only their totalitarian control of the industry keeps them where they are, and they are frightened because they know their currently existing power is the only thing keeping them around. If we bought direct from artists at several times what they make now from the RIAA, we'd be paying next to nothing for music, benefitting the artists more, and be exposed to more varieties of better music. I say steal from the RIAA until they rot and die and their bloated carcass has to be dynamited after washing up on the beach, just send a few $ to the artists.
My experience is once a cop thinks he sees you doing something suspicious, you are no longer a citizen he would give directions to or take a police report from... you are now something else(something practically nonhuman), and you are treated totally differently. Everybody has seen this difference, cop that pulled you over VS cop who you ask for directions on the street. Thats only the firt level though, if the cop thinks he saw something he really doesn't like, you're in much worse trouble. What makes this a real problem instead of just annoying is that many cops, if they discover they were mistaken about your suspicious activity being illegal, are very upset by this, rather than happy. You made the cop WRONG, and everybody hates being wrong, especially authority figures. So, he decides he has to Get You on something. So depending on his corruption level, he might write a frivolous ticket you can't really fight(following too closely, for example, or using your bright headlights too near another operating vehicle), or he might decide the dime bag he took off a 13 year old a few hours before just fell out of your jacket pocket, and it's time for a night in jail. A cop is always trusted over a regular person, so nobody can actually do anything about it, and there's plenty of actual people lying about cops doing this stuff that filling out reports can't ever amount to anything. When I was recently in a correctional facility, the co's where treating the inmates and visitors like SHIT, scaring the life out of people, for their own amusement. This one guy was genuinely near a panic attack because he'd already payed his bail and they were telling him he wasn't allowed to be processed out today, it was the weekend and only half the people get processed on Saturdays, he's too far down on the list and will have to spend the night and wait till Sunday. They were smart about it too, they all called each other by nicknames and had a black elastic band over their badge numbers so none of the visitors(who have some small chance of someone believing them) could report them. Some cops are good guys that just want to help keep society running and protect people, but more than not are jerks that like being empowered, and they often drag a lot of the cops that would have been good over with them.
I wonder how many kids who ate only a couple and just got a nice buzz and now have the dots tucked away to eat them now and again as recreational drugs.
Tightening the BP cuff to a painful level has the effect of causing the person to seem to read deceptive on any questions you tighten it for, and the current pressure in the cuff is conveniently not provided in polygraph data so a person has no way of proving this was done.
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I believe the scientist who published this study admits to sometimes putting down a dozen beers in a sitting.
Drop one spoonful and microscopic splatter starts damaging equipment... all stuff like that is sucked out of bags I believe.
It's not a matter of if it's better(It is, I've examined them), it's a matter if its enough for most people to care. I personally don't really care much, I can see the difference, and the margin of difference in price is simply not worth the cost to replace the units. I think many, like me, will not buy an HDTV until their current set becomes useless.
Well, yea, but _I_ wasn't going to say it ;)
Weird, I only use spoons for soup and similar... Try eating ice cream with a fork if you remember, you'd be surprised how much nicer it is.
Actually I'm not sure they use spoons at all, anything you're allowed to eat that would be spoonable is sucked out of a sealed bag so it won't break up and jam equipment. I think you only get a knife and fork. And I'm pretty sure there's no crispy food, crumbs and all.
"Religions are like farts. Yours is ok, but everybody else's stink." Paraphrased from something I heard a kid say while my parents were watching Picket Fences.
There was an outer limits episode made from a James Patrick Kelly short story called "Think like a dinosaur" where the reptilian race cooperating with humans and helping them with interstellar travel has a technology which moves a person from one location to the other by copying them and instantly vaporizing the(suspended) original when the new copy is confirmed to be in place. After one transport, an error makes it seem as though the copy was not created, which it was, and the original unfrozen. When the news comes, the reptilian race expect the human researcher working with them to kill the original. An error like that is an interesting problem with that type of travel.
No, thats just wrong. See, there was a time BEFORE there were laws, when anyone could do anything they wanted. Laws are a social construct. Simple which came first, therefore, laws only take away rights. In the natural state, we all have the right to do the right to do anything we have the ability to do, and in fact, the right to do plenty we probably don't have the ability to do.
I thought it only counted as Arc welding without a buffering gas, and was called Mig or Tig, depending on device, once you used inert gas, though they all certainly work on the same principle of inducing welding heat though causing a spark to arc between two metals.
Yea, but your argument would to totally wrong inherently, because it's fundamentally untrue. Government only takes away rights, it never gives you any. We're born with every right to do anything we want, including swing our fist past where someone else's face begins, then take what they carry. This used to be common, in fact. By moving to a society with governance and laws, we agree as individuals to give up some of these rights, for the protection offered by other people giving up the same rights, ie, I give up my right to knock you over the head and take your stuff, for the protection of not having to keep looking over my shoulder to see if someone is going to hit ME over the head and take MY stuff. None of our freedoms are PRIVILEGES, and thinking of them that way undermines the entire premise of law. The Bill of Rights doesn't give us privileges, it sets forth a list of things the government can never ever restrict, no matter how good an idea it might seem at the time, without an amendment. Sending a death threat is already restricted, using the internet instead of a letter made with magazine cutouts does not mean we should restrict internet anonymity anymore than the prior example means we should make magazines illegal.
Axe is amazingly combustible. Check out the ingredients. You don't just get a flame if you spray axe on a lighter, you get a deep blue TORCH flame, you could melt solder with that thing easy, or light a pile of people's clothes on fire. I had a pyro roommate in college, and axe handed out 200 promotional mini cans in my dorm. He had like 50 of them by the end of the night just bumming them...
I actually don't disagree with your results, in fact, my own experiences confirm them(I've personally observed the post-ninja-movie effect), but I'm curious if you controlled for general competitive physiological arousal, as it's the most commonly missed variable. By this I mean, did you compare the aggression levels of gamers involved in an active competitive game that is not violent(Basketball maybe) with results for a similar but violent competitive game(Football maybe)? I'm curious to what extent general psychological arousal and competitive emotions are responsible for the increase, as opposed to modeling and simulation of violent behavior.
I'd actually say the Metal Gear Solid particularly does quite a bit to depict the negative aspects of violence and their effects. Snake is shown as somewhat damaged by his killing, and the game system is designed to reward avoiding any needless bloody encounter. Stun techniques and drugged darts are often offered up as well, and even without them, you can hold up a guard, then knock him out; they act like people, not some kind of killing machines you feel nothing when you kill. In many cases, you are given plot reasons to feel genuinely bad about the killing you ARE actually forced to do, with only a couple exceptions, even your most violent and dangerous enemies are sympathizable. You are even chided in game for being a killer. The games themselves portray Snake's espionage missions as an alternative to a much more violent, much higher body count direct military resolution. I personally feel damn proud of playing with a near zero kill count in that series.
Sadly in New York, it doesn't work like that. A guy I know had a gun pulled on him, and the guy was going to use it. He took the gunman by surprise and pushed the gun out of the way with one hand and knifed the guy with the other until he dropped the gun. This is a situation where running would have allowed him to be shot in the back, with no defense at all, and he did the only thing he could to preserve his life. Spent 7 years in jail because he had an "obligation to run rather than escalate violence when not defending his own property."
Definitely, anyone that I know that got "the first one free" had a friend that genuinely thought they would enjoy the experience. I got my first hit of X free way back when and I don't regret it, or the hits I bought after that during college. I haven't touched the stuff in like 5 years(I get bored easily with passive entertainments), but no regrets from this poor, peer pressure drug-pushed kid.
Yes, actually, you should go to any number of available nonsmoking establishments that would be available to fill this need. If a business owner wants a smoking establishment, he should be able to have it. Nobody dragged you in there by your hair. In fact, I'd say that MOST establishments, especially quality ones, would be nonsmoking, and it's the smokers who would have to make due.
Sadly you CAN'T hit back if someone hits you 95% of the time. Unless they have you physically trapped so you cannot escape the situation, or are defending a threat on your own property (so forget defending your car in a parking lot) if you hit back and do substantially more damage with that hit that they did(you have a bruise on the arm, he has a shattered jaw) you are definately getting charges filed by the police if the incident gets to them. If neither of you is hurt bad it's probably just disturbing the peace charges for both of you. Only big exception on hitting someone when not trapped or on your own property and they assault you is defense of another - if guy is decking his GF(or bf I guess) at a bar and you decide to knock him out before he does real damage, you're probably not getting in trouble so long as the victim you defend corroborates your story.
I'm a computer nerd, but switched to psych after the dot crash, and now have a useless psych BA.
Actually, LOL, I am, right now. Got me one of those reach flossers with the handle you keep and little bows of floss you replace when they break. Makes it so much more practical, and safer, I never pull too hard and cut my gums now.
The real problem here is that the RIAA exists in it's present form in the first place. Why should the distributor make most of the money? They aren't a hard working group of people that earn a small honest margin spreading the word about musicians, they are a cartel that controls the music industry. If I download, they have effectively done nothing anymore. They have offered no service, no physical media for my convenience, nothing at all. Why should they get any money? The one tiny thing they do for the artists is obsolete, only their totalitarian control of the industry keeps them where they are, and they are frightened because they know their currently existing power is the only thing keeping them around. If we bought direct from artists at several times what they make now from the RIAA, we'd be paying next to nothing for music, benefitting the artists more, and be exposed to more varieties of better music. I say steal from the RIAA until they rot and die and their bloated carcass has to be dynamited after washing up on the beach, just send a few $ to the artists.
My experience is once a cop thinks he sees you doing something suspicious, you are no longer a citizen he would give directions to or take a police report from... you are now something else(something practically nonhuman), and you are treated totally differently. Everybody has seen this difference, cop that pulled you over VS cop who you ask for directions on the street. Thats only the firt level though, if the cop thinks he saw something he really doesn't like, you're in much worse trouble. What makes this a real problem instead of just annoying is that many cops, if they discover they were mistaken about your suspicious activity being illegal, are very upset by this, rather than happy. You made the cop WRONG, and everybody hates being wrong, especially authority figures. So, he decides he has to Get You on something. So depending on his corruption level, he might write a frivolous ticket you can't really fight(following too closely, for example, or using your bright headlights too near another operating vehicle), or he might decide the dime bag he took off a 13 year old a few hours before just fell out of your jacket pocket, and it's time for a night in jail. A cop is always trusted over a regular person, so nobody can actually do anything about it, and there's plenty of actual people lying about cops doing this stuff that filling out reports can't ever amount to anything. When I was recently in a correctional facility, the co's where treating the inmates and visitors like SHIT, scaring the life out of people, for their own amusement. This one guy was genuinely near a panic attack because he'd already payed his bail and they were telling him he wasn't allowed to be processed out today, it was the weekend and only half the people get processed on Saturdays, he's too far down on the list and will have to spend the night and wait till Sunday. They were smart about it too, they all called each other by nicknames and had a black elastic band over their badge numbers so none of the visitors(who have some small chance of someone believing them) could report them. Some cops are good guys that just want to help keep society running and protect people, but more than not are jerks that like being empowered, and they often drag a lot of the cops that would have been good over with them.
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I wonder how many kids who ate only a couple and just got a nice buzz and now have the dots tucked away to eat them now and again as recreational drugs.
Tightening the BP cuff to a painful level has the effect of causing the person to seem to read deceptive on any questions you tighten it for, and the current pressure in the cuff is conveniently not provided in polygraph data so a person has no way of proving this was done.