A dictatorship can be as free as the dictator wants it to be. After all, a dictator has absolute power to do as he pleases and take what he pleases. He has no need to accept bribes or shady deals, within his domain, since he can just take what he wants anyway.
Course we used to call these guys kings but nowdays dictator just sounds so much more evil. Royalty has something of a romantic overtone of days gone by and doesn't create the proper repulsion.
Legal definitions aside, I'd have to agree with the gp. Although there may be no legal distinction or need for one I think most of us would certainly agree that there is a difference defined by population between a village, town, and city.
When one refers to 'the city' like driving up to the city to go to a party or show, or what have you they are usually referring to the nearest large metropolitan area.
Would you be okay with the GP's point if he simply said 'major city' everywhere he said city? Because when you refer to the cities in the U.S. 9 sounds about right to me.
I come from a small town of about 20,000 and I can promise you even though it is legally incorporated as a city nobody refers to it as anything other than a town.
'Over all you're likely correct, but keep in mind that until there's a good understanding of how it actually works in the body and what the effects of various strengths of plant have, it's premature to talk about that sort of step. That's not to say that a reasonable balanced couldn't be struck, but more to say that our method of refusing to regulate herbal supplements is probably not a good idea either.'
You have stepped over a very slippery slope. A very substantial amount of documented and conclusive evidence should be required before usurping an individual's right to do what he wishes with his body.
The assumption should not be that everyone should need permission from big brother to touch anything big brother hasn't deemed safe for him is arrogant and presumptuous.
In this case however, we are talking about a well clinically studied substance in addition to thousands of years of safe use. Granted the DEA has done their best to prevent anyone from doing research that doesn't assume negative properties from marijuana but even with that slant and lots of people looking for reasons to damn marijuana they simply haven't been able to turn up much.
On the other hand with nothing but a grass roots campaign to find its benefits one could stand and evangelize its uses and properties for hours without mentioning anything that is even disputed.
That was a stack? I thought that was swiss cheese. I do remember that they replaced parts of the cheese with a stable stack but they didn't write that stack. They borrowed it from an already well established system that was designed around the network years prior.
Marijuana is a fairly safe herbal supplement with thousands of years of demonstrated safe use. By even the most exaggerated accounts it is less addictive than most cough syrups. The known side effects are less severe and occur with less frequency than over the counter medications like say Aspirin and many other herbal supplements.
According to the FDA's own rules an herbal remedy with an established long term history of safe use should be unregulated right alongside all the other herbal supplements from the scam diet pills to those supported by clinical evidence like Ginko Biloba.
There is no legitimate reason to make marijuana a black market product but there are plenty of illegitimate reasons.
That's not really realistic. Those costs are based on the largest economy in the world having a market driven healthcare system.
Currently the cost of drug development is cost + profit, the same is true of every medical device, every healthcare facility, healthcare professional, every medical supply, medical school, etc. Every step and every person along the way is currently skimming off the top and they are skimming dramatically more than just cost. Even if socialized medicine were the inefficient nightmare envisioned, it would have to be not 20% or 50% less efficient but several thousand times over less efficient to cost the same as privatized healthcare does today. Especially when you consider that every other nation in the world with a socialized healthcare system has had to compete with us and the result is dramatically inflated costs.
Why have costs driven so dramatically? Because captialism requires limited, supply and limited demand of a nonessential element to work. Healthcare has limited supply but unlimited demand and it is absolutely essential. How much is your life worth to you? It doesn't matter how much wealth you have, the answer is all of it. When 90% of the wealth is in the hands of 10% of the people you will quickly realize that the most profit can be derived from prices that most people can't afford. It is unacceptable for most of the population in our society to go without a basic need like healthcare.
True enough but the moon habitat would teach a great deal about running off world habitats. It's like anything else, you can sit around a table all day and plan something but you won't discover anywhere near as much as you would having actually done it.
Its a great deal cheaper to find, fix, and optimize a habitat mission on the moon than one on say mars.
Someone (you?) said earlier that a mission should return 5-20% a year in value or it isn't worth it. But knowledge and practical experience are of far greater value than cash and minerals.
In order for the system to work they need to profit on the bottleneck. This used to be copying, distribution, recording, and marketing. Those things were hard/expensive to do/get.
Modern technology has changed that. Recording is cheap, distribution is free, there is still value in marketing but it can also be done on the cheap. The bottleneck in the music world is now in the production of the music. Ultimately, a sustainable business model will need to derive profits from this bottleneck if its going to thrive in the face of competition.
This is being misrepresented. This does NOT prevent storing IP addresses. All it does is require a warrant to get the account holder details from the ISP because the account holder has a reasonable expectation of privacy. The same should be the case anywhere.
pdf is a media independent display language masquerading as a printed document format. It was created primarily for marketing purposes, it is embedded postscript and does nothing of note that postscript didn't already do.
generally? Have you ever seen coherent output from a wysiwyg editor? When I encounter the stuff I generally find it faster and easier to rewrite the page from scratch than to make even minor changes to the existing garbage.
But would we want to... WYSIWYG editors produce output that is total garbage and would make anyone who actually knows html/javascript/etc cringe. In fact it is so bad that you can't update and modify the site by hand after that, either you load up the editor again (and it better be the same editor if you want the same result) or its dramatically easier to recode it from scratch.
I've seen pagemaker sites with single pages that were 2mb of just html/css.
Actually i would tell her that her ass is so massive it threatens to collapse into a singularity and then tell her to give it a lil wiggle for daddy and slap it.
Works like a charm. These is why geeks have trouble getting laid, they haven't figured out that women screw guys they worship, not guys who worship them.
A human is in that chain of control, its just up to the computer when he gets in and how much. The computer is right more often than the pilot. The pilot might be able to save you from a broken computer but for each of those times there are dozens where the computer saves you and the pilot wouldn't have.
This is no different than a skilled bookkeeper doing your books by hand and one who uses accounting software. The software makes mistakes, but I'll be damned if I'd wager money on the computer having made a mistake versus the human.
It's all about the odds. How much do the odds have to favor the computer before we should trust the computers judgement over that of the pilot? Personally I think that we should always play the odds. People will die either way, less people die when we trust the computers to decide if they are working than when we trust the pilots to make that decision.
woah hold on a minute there, while that is true you are forgetting the critical 'hot flight attendant' exception. And in the amended edition there is also a 'hot co-pilot' exception as well to recognize gender equality.
They have these magic things called simulators and they are damn near perfect these days. In fact, they are so good that pilots learn to fly in them instead of in real planes now. Simulators are really just a computer program with some fancy hardware on top, flight computers can fly them and those NTSB crash reports you mentioned... Well the pencil protector wearing weenies who invented, designed, and built this shit we are talking about can load them up as test scenerios to make sure the computer can handle the types of failure that have occurred. They also load up everything their anal geek minds can think of while they are at it. Hell, maybe they even bring in some of the best pilots in the world (it isn't like they are short on bread here) and load up everything THEY can think of... but they don't stop there.
No no no. Actually, they program the computer to think up shit that could go wrong on its own and test itself. Of course, that's great for today, but what about when shit goes wrong tomorrow? They flash the plane.
Not to mention that the mentality that an evil computer overload or glitch will destroy us resulted in launch codes of 0000000 on all US nuclear missiles for how many years because the stupid humans couldn't remember real codes? Hell for all we know they might still be 0's and someone is patting himself on the back about how clever he is, now that they officially discovered it nobody would think the codes are still 0's!
Are there situations where a human can save the day and a well designed computer can't? You bet. But I guarantee you for every one of those there are a thousand situations where a well designed computer will outperform a human being. Any casino will tell you, play the odds.
Any pro IP lawyer who has made public statements has already made it clear he has no interest in integrity either his own or that associated with his name.
Here in the states almost all official action like this requires you showing up in person at the official office to submit the document where they will check id or at least to have the document certified by a state registered and bonded notary republic who will verify your ID.
Only because said tax authorities and officials have a stick up their tailpipe. This is a fairly harmless prank incited by the mans own public actions.
Most things are pretty heavily criminal conduct in the U.S. The problem is that people often confuse criminal/illegal with wrong/immoral/bad/evil/nefarious.
This may have been highly illegal but it wasn't particularly bad and certainly not evil. No harm was intended except ridicule and in the U.S. at least, someone who has made themselves such a public figure loses their right to protection against ridicule, they are expected to endure it as the price for living a public life. Lets not forget the free speech rights of those who made this statement.
Sounds like most places really or raises are minimal. Why do you think people don't care about their work anymore? If you are taken care of then you don't have to worry about money so much and can focus on doing what you spend a fair chunk of your life sinking time into right and take some pride in it. After all, for most whatever work they do and its products is going to be the only potentially worthwhile achievement they will ever have.
Aside from family, but everyone takes pride in their offspring, despite the fact that most everyone manages to do that.
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A dictatorship can be as free as the dictator wants it to be. After all, a dictator has absolute power to do as he pleases and take what he pleases. He has no need to accept bribes or shady deals, within his domain, since he can just take what he wants anyway.
Course we used to call these guys kings but nowdays dictator just sounds so much more evil. Royalty has something of a romantic overtone of days gone by and doesn't create the proper repulsion.
Legal definitions aside, I'd have to agree with the gp. Although there may be no legal distinction or need for one I think most of us would certainly agree that there is a difference defined by population between a village, town, and city.
When one refers to 'the city' like driving up to the city to go to a party or show, or what have you they are usually referring to the nearest large metropolitan area.
Would you be okay with the GP's point if he simply said 'major city' everywhere he said city? Because when you refer to the cities in the U.S. 9 sounds about right to me.
I come from a small town of about 20,000 and I can promise you even though it is legally incorporated as a city nobody refers to it as anything other than a town.
'Over all you're likely correct, but keep in mind that until there's a good understanding of how it actually works in the body and what the effects of various strengths of plant have, it's premature to talk about that sort of step. That's not to say that a reasonable balanced couldn't be struck, but more to say that our method of refusing to regulate herbal supplements is probably not a good idea either.'
You have stepped over a very slippery slope. A very substantial amount of documented and conclusive evidence should be required before usurping an individual's right to do what he wishes with his body.
The assumption should not be that everyone should need permission from big brother to touch anything big brother hasn't deemed safe for him is arrogant and presumptuous.
In this case however, we are talking about a well clinically studied substance in addition to thousands of years of safe use. Granted the DEA has done their best to prevent anyone from doing research that doesn't assume negative properties from marijuana but even with that slant and lots of people looking for reasons to damn marijuana they simply haven't been able to turn up much.
On the other hand with nothing but a grass roots campaign to find its benefits one could stand and evangelize its uses and properties for hours without mentioning anything that is even disputed.
That was a stack? I thought that was swiss cheese. I do remember that they replaced parts of the cheese with a stable stack but they didn't write that stack. They borrowed it from an already well established system that was designed around the network years prior.
"I'm sure most people don't know that marijuana is the most common cause of acute psychosis in adolescents."
Probably because it isn't true. Correlation doesn't equal causation.
Marijuana is a fairly safe herbal supplement with thousands of years of demonstrated safe use. By even the most exaggerated accounts it is less addictive than most cough syrups. The known side effects are less severe and occur with less frequency than over the counter medications like say Aspirin and many other herbal supplements.
According to the FDA's own rules an herbal remedy with an established long term history of safe use should be unregulated right alongside all the other herbal supplements from the scam diet pills to those supported by clinical evidence like Ginko Biloba.
There is no legitimate reason to make marijuana a black market product but there are plenty of illegitimate reasons.
That's not really realistic. Those costs are based on the largest economy in the world having a market driven healthcare system.
Currently the cost of drug development is cost + profit, the same is true of every medical device, every healthcare facility, healthcare professional, every medical supply, medical school, etc. Every step and every person along the way is currently skimming off the top and they are skimming dramatically more than just cost. Even if socialized medicine were the inefficient nightmare envisioned, it would have to be not 20% or 50% less efficient but several thousand times over less efficient to cost the same as privatized healthcare does today. Especially when you consider that every other nation in the world with a socialized healthcare system has had to compete with us and the result is dramatically inflated costs.
Why have costs driven so dramatically? Because captialism requires limited, supply and limited demand of a nonessential element to work. Healthcare has limited supply but unlimited demand and it is absolutely essential. How much is your life worth to you? It doesn't matter how much wealth you have, the answer is all of it. When 90% of the wealth is in the hands of 10% of the people you will quickly realize that the most profit can be derived from prices that most people can't afford. It is unacceptable for most of the population in our society to go without a basic need like healthcare.
True enough but the moon habitat would teach a great deal about running off world habitats. It's like anything else, you can sit around a table all day and plan something but you won't discover anywhere near as much as you would having actually done it.
Its a great deal cheaper to find, fix, and optimize a habitat mission on the moon than one on say mars.
Someone (you?) said earlier that a mission should return 5-20% a year in value or it isn't worth it. But knowledge and practical experience are of far greater value than cash and minerals.
In order for the system to work they need to profit on the bottleneck. This used to be copying, distribution, recording, and marketing. Those things were hard/expensive to do/get.
Modern technology has changed that. Recording is cheap, distribution is free, there is still value in marketing but it can also be done on the cheap. The bottleneck in the music world is now in the production of the music. Ultimately, a sustainable business model will need to derive profits from this bottleneck if its going to thrive in the face of competition.
This is being misrepresented. This does NOT prevent storing IP addresses. All it does is require a warrant to get the account holder details from the ISP because the account holder has a reasonable expectation of privacy. The same should be the case anywhere.
You mean aside from the part that you run an open wifi and therefore are a common carrier and it could have been anybody?
pdf is a media independent display language masquerading as a printed document format. It was created primarily for marketing purposes, it is embedded postscript and does nothing of note that postscript didn't already do.
generally? Have you ever seen coherent output from a wysiwyg editor? When I encounter the stuff I generally find it faster and easier to rewrite the page from scratch than to make even minor changes to the existing garbage.
But would we want to... WYSIWYG editors produce output that is total garbage and would make anyone who actually knows html/javascript/etc cringe. In fact it is so bad that you can't update and modify the site by hand after that, either you load up the editor again (and it better be the same editor if you want the same result) or its dramatically easier to recode it from scratch.
I've seen pagemaker sites with single pages that were 2mb of just html/css.
Actually i would tell her that her ass is so massive it threatens to collapse into a singularity and then tell her to give it a lil wiggle for daddy and slap it.
Works like a charm. These is why geeks have trouble getting laid, they haven't figured out that women screw guys they worship, not guys who worship them.
Shit my go downhill, but blowjobs go uphill.
A human is in that chain of control, its just up to the computer when he gets in and how much. The computer is right more often than the pilot. The pilot might be able to save you from a broken computer but for each of those times there are dozens where the computer saves you and the pilot wouldn't have.
This is no different than a skilled bookkeeper doing your books by hand and one who uses accounting software. The software makes mistakes, but I'll be damned if I'd wager money on the computer having made a mistake versus the human.
It's all about the odds. How much do the odds have to favor the computer before we should trust the computers judgement over that of the pilot? Personally I think that we should always play the odds. People will die either way, less people die when we trust the computers to decide if they are working than when we trust the pilots to make that decision.
woah hold on a minute there, while that is true you are forgetting the critical 'hot flight attendant' exception. And in the amended edition there is also a 'hot co-pilot' exception as well to recognize gender equality.
They have these magic things called simulators and they are damn near perfect these days. In fact, they are so good that pilots learn to fly in them instead of in real planes now. Simulators are really just a computer program with some fancy hardware on top, flight computers can fly them and those NTSB crash reports you mentioned... Well the pencil protector wearing weenies who invented, designed, and built this shit we are talking about can load them up as test scenerios to make sure the computer can handle the types of failure that have occurred. They also load up everything their anal geek minds can think of while they are at it. Hell, maybe they even bring in some of the best pilots in the world (it isn't like they are short on bread here) and load up everything THEY can think of... but they don't stop there.
No no no. Actually, they program the computer to think up shit that could go wrong on its own and test itself. Of course, that's great for today, but what about when shit goes wrong tomorrow? They flash the plane.
omg no wonder...
If airbus is running windows it WOULD explain a lot....
Not to mention that the mentality that an evil computer overload or glitch will destroy us resulted in launch codes of 0000000 on all US nuclear missiles for how many years because the stupid humans couldn't remember real codes? Hell for all we know they might still be 0's and someone is patting himself on the back about how clever he is, now that they officially discovered it nobody would think the codes are still 0's!
Are there situations where a human can save the day and a well designed computer can't? You bet. But I guarantee you for every one of those there are a thousand situations where a well designed computer will outperform a human being. Any casino will tell you, play the odds.
Any pro IP lawyer who has made public statements has already made it clear he has no interest in integrity either his own or that associated with his name.
Here in the states almost all official action like this requires you showing up in person at the official office to submit the document where they will check id or at least to have the document certified by a state registered and bonded notary republic who will verify your ID.
Only because said tax authorities and officials have a stick up their tailpipe. This is a fairly harmless prank incited by the mans own public actions.
Most things are pretty heavily criminal conduct in the U.S. The problem is that people often confuse criminal/illegal with wrong/immoral/bad/evil/nefarious.
This may have been highly illegal but it wasn't particularly bad and certainly not evil. No harm was intended except ridicule and in the U.S. at least, someone who has made themselves such a public figure loses their right to protection against ridicule, they are expected to endure it as the price for living a public life. Lets not forget the free speech rights of those who made this statement.
Sounds like most places really or raises are minimal. Why do you think people don't care about their work anymore? If you are taken care of then you don't have to worry about money so much and can focus on doing what you spend a fair chunk of your life sinking time into right and take some pride in it. After all, for most whatever work they do and its products is going to be the only potentially worthwhile achievement they will ever have.
Aside from family, but everyone takes pride in their offspring, despite the fact that most everyone manages to do that.