"One Law For the Rich and Another For the Poor" is a pretty common complaint in many places. The USA is supposed to refute that, though admittedly the power of cold hard cash does tend to skew the various legal and enforcement bodies. However, this will not be fixed by actually throwing the principle of equality away altogether, and creating actual seperate laws for rich and poor.
What possible justification can be made for deliberately setting out to punish those who have "made it", or even those who have had it made for them by the forbears simply because others haven't/can't/won't "make it"?
Keep in mind, you will want to be carefull in this justification to ensure it can't be extended to "Shoot the capitalist elite pigs! Power and means of production belong to the proletariat."
btw, where in america ISN'T a computer these days. even the ultra poor have pc access.
If that is indeed the case then the definition of ultra poor needs a massive updating.
Here's a few good starting points. - If you have/run a car you're not poor. - If you have a computer/TV that you haven't sold for food/rent money then you're not poor. - If you have less than 3 people per bedroom (and aren't squatting) then you're not poor. - If you can afford drugs/alchohol/tobacco then you're not poor, and if you think you are then you're just stupid.
And as for "there's computers everywhere", I suspect most publicly accessible computers managers would take a dim view of ransdom software installations.
1. 've electrocuted myself in many different ways You can only electrocute yourself once in a given incarnation. I believe the technical term you're seeking is "zapped myself" or possibly "affro'd myself".
2. I will take no risks when dealing with conductors Everything, and I do mean _everything_ is a conductor, for a given value of "conductor". I think you may mean "capacitors"?
Please excuse my pedantery, and I did meta-moderate your insightfull moderation as fair (which is what led me here in the first place).
You're going to vaporize in a puff of superheated radioactive carbon, calcides, iron and trace minerals, just like everybody else outside cheyenne mountain.
From the USSR's point of view Finland is the gateway/blockade to the entire Nordic penninsula, which is the most obvious staging area for attacks on Britain and North-Western Europe available.
Additionally, western Norway is the nearest thing the USSR has to a defensible set of seaports usable in the depths of winter.
If WWIII isn't just an unlimited ICBM exchange (unliklely I know), then Finland is gonna get it in the neck in the first few minutes, purely for blocking the way into Norway and Sweden (or possibly for blocking the way into St Petersburg, it really depends who's on the offensive).
In a previous employers of mines server room there is an elderly sco box (Yes yes, boo hiss, whatever, but they do make damn fine cheap stable oracle servers for older versions of oracle) named Magneto which was once shipped between Cork (Ireland) and London (Britain), thoroughly wrapped and labelled and rewrapped and padded and rewrapped etc...
On the return journey it emerged from baggage reclaim with only a single strand of duct tape and a scrap of bubble wrap trailing from it and an exceptionally wide rubber tyre mark diagonally across one side panel, while the opposite side panel was scraped almost paintless.
This occured about 5 years ago. I last saw this server 18 months ago still cheerfully responding to all the queries we needed to fling at it (despite only having a coax ethernet card for which we kept a small elderly hub to allow communication...)
There's still VII, VIII and IX to go, which will, no doubt, not only be in the "New Lucas" style, but will primarilly feature the offspring of Solo and Leia, no doubt having lots of kookie adventures involving both ewoks and Jar-jars great grand-tadpole...
Don't forget, its not just a windless environment. Its airless. Any motion energy imparted to the flag has nowhere to go except escape by radiant heat (generated between fibres of the flag itself) and absorbtion through the pole to the ground. Obviously neither of these will take the motion energy rapidly from the flag, so it will continue to "ripple" ("Vibrate"? "Resonate"? "Shake"? Any physicists care to fill me in on the correct term for motion rebounding from the edges in an almost closed system?) for quite some time after the last astronaut touches it.
This is a stick. It has a right end, over here, and a wrong end that you appear to have superglued your grasping hand to.
The moon does not rotate any more. Relative to the Earth that is. One face always faces towards the earth. The face it presents to the sun is thereby obviously changing, causing night and day on the moons surface. Very roughly 2 weeks of each, making for month long "days".
The only really memorable one was Ravage, betrayer of two decipticon leaders and ambusher of two Primes...
Laserbeak was a regularly appearing character early on, mostly as a spy/scout.
Ratbat made a brief name for itselfduring the time wars saga, but really never had much of a chance when it tried to join megatron, Cyclonus, Scourge, the cyclops headed decepticon that turned into a gun and wasn't Megatron or Galvatron whos name I can never remember, and Galvatron in competition for decipticon leadership.
The others were Overkill, Rumble, Frenzy and Buzzsaw most of whom were rarely if ever seen outside of one or two battle scenes.
Why, yes, I am a single male geek. How could you tell?
Because once they (the cell phone companies) have your signature or credit card details any attempt to dissassociate from them results in a large (X hundred dollars) early termination fee. And any attempt to evade this termination fee will result in either their fraudulent trashing of your credit rating and/or collection goons hounding you on the phone and/or your doorstep.
Looking back at it, these are pretty similiar tactics to those used by loan sharks and various organised crime syndicates.
The irish solution is quite simple. Agricultural diesel is stained with a red dye. Any trace of that shows up in any vehicle not registered as a farm vehicle and you can either pay the tax on every drop of diesel you've purchased in the last (6? I think its 6... Call it 6 for now)6 years or face heavy handed justice from the courts.
Of course, over here the police are quite free to pop up a random checkpoint and demand a look at the fuel intake of every vehicle that passes.
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Anybody else get a "Caves of Steel" vibe? Just add a highly nutritious mutant yeast foodbase and you're there.
Of course, in these conditions you'd have to make the choice between:- a) armed police with authority to execute on the spot b) a choked judicial system and massive crime rates c) Psychological and surgical alterations from birth till death to ensure "good citizenship".
The moral of the story? Simple solutions are only better in programming and aircraft design.
Self correction : 40 days of rainfall coming in through that skylight plus however long it takes a global flood to evaporate and an olive tree to re-grow.
The myth clearly states that Noahs sons got to bring their wives along for the joyride...
And what a trip it must have been. 40 days worth of animal crap, no windows, one small skylight and a door that could only be opened when the tub was grounded...
There are people other than americans in Iraq you know. Many of them with far more right to be there and far less opportunity to get out.
As for Iraq being a "tough war", as you said yourself, less tahn 1000 americans dead. A lot less I believe. How can it be a tough war when you can wipe out your enemy (along with every woman and child within a 100 meter radius of him) from literally miles away and/or from inside an armour plated vehicle?
If it weren't for the media presence the war would be over and there'd be no more "terrorists" in Iraq. No more "potential terrorists" either mind you.
Iraq (like Afghanistan) is an easy war, complicated only slightly by the need to keep pretending its for the benefit of the victims.
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"One Law For the Rich and Another For the Poor" is a pretty common complaint in many places. The USA is supposed to refute that, though admittedly the power of cold hard cash does tend to skew the various legal and enforcement bodies. However, this will not be fixed by actually throwing the principle of equality away altogether, and creating actual seperate laws for rich and poor.
What possible justification can be made for deliberately setting out to punish those who have "made it", or even those who have had it made for them by the forbears simply because others haven't/can't/won't "make it"?
Keep in mind, you will want to be carefull in this justification to ensure it can't be extended to "Shoot the capitalist elite pigs! Power and means of production belong to the proletariat."
btw, where in america ISN'T a computer these days. even the ultra poor have pc access.
If that is indeed the case then the definition of ultra poor needs a massive updating.
Here's a few good starting points.
- If you have/run a car you're not poor.
- If you have a computer/TV that you haven't sold for food/rent money then you're not poor.
- If you have less than 3 people per bedroom (and aren't squatting) then you're not poor.
- If you can afford drugs/alchohol/tobacco then you're not poor, and if you think you are then you're just stupid.
And as for "there's computers everywhere", I suspect most publicly accessible computers managers would take a dim view of ransdom software installations.
Minor technical points...
1. 've electrocuted myself in many different ways
You can only electrocute yourself once in a given incarnation. I believe the technical term you're seeking is "zapped myself" or possibly "affro'd myself".
2. I will take no risks when dealing with conductors
Everything, and I do mean _everything_ is a conductor, for a given value of "conductor". I think you may mean "capacitors"?
Please excuse my pedantery, and I did meta-moderate your insightfull moderation as fair (which is what led me here in the first place).
You're going to vaporize in a puff of superheated radioactive carbon, calcides, iron and trace minerals, just like everybody else outside cheyenne mountain.
From the USSR's point of view Finland is the gateway/blockade to the entire Nordic penninsula, which is the most obvious staging area for attacks on Britain and North-Western Europe available.
Additionally, western Norway is the nearest thing the USSR has to a defensible set of seaports usable in the depths of winter.
If WWIII isn't just an unlimited ICBM exchange (unliklely I know), then Finland is gonna get it in the neck in the first few minutes, purely for blocking the way into Norway and Sweden (or possibly for blocking the way into St Petersburg, it really depends who's on the offensive).
In a previous employers of mines server room there is an elderly sco box (Yes yes, boo hiss, whatever, but they do make damn fine cheap stable oracle servers for older versions of oracle) named Magneto which was once shipped between Cork (Ireland) and London (Britain), thoroughly wrapped and labelled and rewrapped and padded and rewrapped etc...
On the return journey it emerged from baggage reclaim with only a single strand of duct tape and a scrap of bubble wrap trailing from it and an exceptionally wide rubber tyre mark diagonally across one side panel, while the opposite side panel was scraped almost paintless.
This occured about 5 years ago. I last saw this server 18 months ago still cheerfully responding to all the queries we needed to fling at it (despite only having a coax ethernet card for which we kept a small elderly hub to allow communication...)
Population officially using US dollars : 294 million American Factfinder (rounded up)
Population officially using Euros : 303 Million Euromania (rounded down)
And with more countries joining the EU and soon the Eurozone, y'all are going to need to do a _lot_ of extra breeding to keep up.
So, not so long ago, the Tribune printed from the French Center?
There's still VII, VIII and IX to go, which will, no doubt, not only be in the "New Lucas" style, but will primarilly feature the offspring of Solo and Leia, no doubt having lots of kookie adventures involving both ewoks and Jar-jars great grand-tadpole...
Don't forget, its not just a windless environment. Its airless.
Any motion energy imparted to the flag has nowhere to go except escape by radiant heat (generated between fibres of the flag itself) and absorbtion through the pole to the ground. Obviously neither of these will take the motion energy rapidly from the flag, so it will continue to "ripple" ("Vibrate"? "Resonate"? "Shake"? Any physicists care to fill me in on the correct term for motion rebounding from the edges in an almost closed system?) for quite some time after the last astronaut touches it.
This is a stick.
It has a right end, over here, and a wrong end that you appear to have superglued your grasping hand to.
The moon does not rotate any more. Relative to the Earth that is. One face always faces towards the earth. The face it presents to the sun is thereby obviously changing, causing night and day on the moons surface. Very roughly 2 weeks of each, making for month long "days".
That'll be a well pressed suit...
The only really memorable one was Ravage, betrayer of two decipticon leaders and ambusher of two Primes...
Laserbeak was a regularly appearing character early on, mostly as a spy/scout.
Ratbat made a brief name for itselfduring the time wars saga, but really never had much of a chance when it tried to join megatron, Cyclonus, Scourge, the cyclops headed decepticon that turned into a gun and wasn't Megatron or Galvatron whos name I can never remember, and Galvatron in competition for decipticon leadership.
The others were Overkill, Rumble, Frenzy and Buzzsaw most of whom were rarely if ever seen outside of one or two battle scenes.
Why, yes, I am a single male geek. How could you tell?
Substitute the details for [boss_who_fired_me]@[my_first_job].com
Petty? Moi? _Never!_
Because once they (the cell phone companies) have your signature or credit card details any attempt to dissassociate from them results in a large (X hundred dollars) early termination fee. And any attempt to evade this termination fee will result in either their fraudulent trashing of your credit rating and/or collection goons hounding you on the phone and/or your doorstep.
Looking back at it, these are pretty similiar tactics to those used by loan sharks and various organised crime syndicates.
The irish solution is quite simple. Agricultural diesel is stained with a red dye. Any trace of that shows up in any vehicle not registered as a farm vehicle and you can either pay the tax on every drop of diesel you've purchased in the last (6? I think its 6... Call it 6 for now)6 years or face heavy handed justice from the courts.
Of course, over here the police are quite free to pop up a random checkpoint and demand a look at the fuel intake of every vehicle that passes.
Anybody else get a "Caves of Steel" vibe?
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Just add a highly nutritious mutant yeast foodbase and you're there.
Of course, in these conditions you'd have to make the choice between
a) armed police with authority to execute on the spot
b) a choked judicial system and massive crime rates
c) Psychological and surgical alterations from birth till death to ensure "good citizenship".
The moral of the story? Simple solutions are only better in programming and aircraft design.
there were editions that missed the word NOT out of the 10 commandments? God's work?
Probably not, but it'd sure make sunday services a lot more lively (Coveting of neighbours wives and oxen for all!)
Self correction : 40 days of rainfall coming in through that skylight plus however long it takes a global flood to evaporate and an olive tree to re-grow.
The myth clearly states that Noahs sons got to bring their wives along for the joyride...
And what a trip it must have been. 40 days worth of animal crap, no windows, one small skylight and a door that could only be opened when the tub was grounded...
And even more of a shame when they come back with several thousand blurry photos with blue tinged anti-aliasing artefacts around the important bits...
Mount Ararat is not actually part of the mountains of Ararat. They're quite seperate. Quite distantly seperate even.
However, this does not diminish their chances of a genuine find even slightly.
Nice theory...
Lets see if it holds up under practical experimentation.
There are people other than americans in Iraq you know. Many of them with far more right to be there and far less opportunity to get out.
As for Iraq being a "tough war", as you said yourself, less tahn 1000 americans dead. A lot less I believe. How can it be a tough war when you can wipe out your enemy (along with every woman and child within a 100 meter radius of him) from literally miles away and/or from inside an armour plated vehicle?
If it weren't for the media presence the war would be over and there'd be no more "terrorists" in Iraq. No more "potential terrorists" either mind you.
Iraq (like Afghanistan) is an easy war, complicated only slightly by the need to keep pretending its for the benefit of the victims.
Can't give you the root, but the db SYSTEM and SYS accounts are "manager" and "changeoninstall"...