Prove that she had "practically no brain". Last week, we saw the story of the Frenchman with EXACTLY the same brain scan who was an active member of society- a father of two and a bureaucrat (ok, jokes aside, we heard them all last week, but bureaucrats are necessary to modern society). This week, we hear about a cortical stimulator which can allow a person with serious brain injuries to talk. What will we hear about next week that will make "practically no brain" irrelevant to the discussion?
On the plus side- this issue PREVENTED a workable IP treaty between the EU and the United States, so it's not becoming law until that treaty can be rewritten.
OTOH- if this gets written into any sort of trade treaty, I will be fully justified in calling the writers of that treaty FREE TRAITORS.
This isn't a new concept, Sun Tzu wrote about it thousands of years ago, and demonstrations of it are played out every thirty or so years in human history. Why did Truman nuke Japan? It was all about destroying resolve.
Absolutely right- so why hasn't Bush nuked Tikrit?
I don't think it's the army itself that defective I think it's the brass, politicians and the American people. America has become extremely risk averse in regards to American lives.
If we were truly risk adverse in regards to American Lives, there are plenty of ICBMs in our arsenal we could have sent after Osama and Saddam without risking a single American life.
The politicians thus won't touch anything that endangers people and the brass relay these sentiments.
Thereby killing off 3000+American soldiers for fear of being the bad guy.
It might be because of better communication and media which makes casualties more then numbers, it might be a very big shift in the idea of duty vs cost of duty. It might be the frivolous nature of the wars America has gotten itself into lately. Vietnam was about ideology, Iraq is about economics and influence while the major wars previous WWI and WWII was about duty to your allies and stopping actual threats to your security and economy. Korea was about ideology as well so perhaps it is a shift of the people.
And yet we still can't use our technology to actually insulate ourselves from the dangers of international trade.
I have NO worries about that- 'cause I know where I'm going. I also have no need to be spending lives and treasure to protect people in the Middle East. For the trillion this Administration has spent on this war, we could have nuked the Middle East and invested in bridge repair here at home....
Combatbot? That ain't a combatbot, THIS IS A COMBATBOT. That's just a little remote controlled toy tank, not much different than a Predator armed with a Hellfire missile, no more intelligent than a remote controlled car.
I was about to post "About damned time"- but that would have been in response to a bot patrolling at random a rectangular set of GPS co-ordinates that fired at anything that set off it's motion detector, not a remote-controlled toy that has to ask "father may I" three times before firing.
Just more proof that the modern army is defective on basic no-man's land tactics that their grandfathers would have been familiar with. And in so doing, guarantees a loss on the battlefield as they try to sort out what God only knows- who is really the enemy. Just kill them all, God can sort 'em out. And in so doing, you can separate populations that want to kill each other, by a line of death that neither can successfully cross.
Same difference. A slave would be bred as soon as possible, to increase the herd and give more slaves to sell. Likewise, a free person whose family owned slaves had a source of income to start working in- no need for any nasty learning there, so you might as well get married and have kids as soon as possible.
With the debtor society we have today, though, first you've got to get an education- then decide if you're going to rent or own your housing- get a job that allows you to rent or own your housing- then go deeply in debt furnishing that house- go further in debt for the wedding- and pay down some of that debt before having kids. If you're real lucky, you'll be in a financial place where it's a good idea to have kids by the time you're 30. And then you've got about 5 years before the really dangerous birth defects set in.
Pretty close. This advice actually came from a ZNet article circa 1995- back when incorrectly compressed pictures and improperly coded img tags could cause a page to be rendered so slowly that nobody actually ever got to the content- the modem would drop carrier first.
And what teenager can do that? Or even has any clue?
As far as HIV goes, the chance of (a) having sex with a random woman who has it (it is more prevalent among men), (b) having a condom fail and (c) getting infected from the woman (which is less likely than the reverse) is very very small.
Ok, so replace it with Herpes Simplex I, which is nearly certain in the United States. A stupid chance for 30 seconds of pleasure is a stupid chance for 30 seconds of pleasure, no matter what the outcome is.
I'm sure you're not- but I'll bet your future wife will really like it when you give her the virus and you have to raise your children alone because she died of cancer.
The real point, however, is that you're taking a stupid risk, for what? 30 seconds of pleasure?
My fault- I said pregnancy when I meant something more like STD infection. Though a broken condom is much more likely to cause a danger of having to discuss intimacy issues- after all, sex without birth control is *designed* to last 21 years when done right.
It's high enough that the virus that causes ovarian cancer (an STD) is present in 95% of 50 year old women in the United States. But hey, just keep living in your dream world where your chances of getting an STD by sleeping around are low.
Actually, my 2% figure was the Consumer Reports 3PSI test on Trojans. I'd expect a woman would have to have sex at least 4x in a year at random to get pregnant from a broken condom. Make it non-random by using Natural Family Planning, and the figure would go down significantly.
Here's something grades are a great measure of: Spending your time studying instead of spending your time in relationships with the opposite sex that you're not ready for anyway.
60% of the "free condoms" split at 3 PSI in a Consumer Reports test. 2% of Trojans did. The moral of this story- buy your condoms, don't take the free ones the college hands out, but you still are running a 2% chance of pregnancy regardless.
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Prove that she had "practically no brain". Last week, we saw the story of the Frenchman with EXACTLY the same brain scan who was an active member of society- a father of two and a bureaucrat (ok, jokes aside, we heard them all last week, but bureaucrats are necessary to modern society). This week, we hear about a cortical stimulator which can allow a person with serious brain injuries to talk. What will we hear about next week that will make "practically no brain" irrelevant to the discussion?
On the plus side- this issue PREVENTED a workable IP treaty between the EU and the United States, so it's not becoming law until that treaty can be rewritten.
OTOH- if this gets written into any sort of trade treaty, I will be fully justified in calling the writers of that treaty FREE TRAITORS.
For me? A, B, and C. Withdraw our troops, and send in the nukes. Resettle later when the radiation has died down.
This isn't a new concept, Sun Tzu wrote about it thousands of years ago, and demonstrations of it are played out every thirty or so years in human history. Why did Truman nuke Japan? It was all about destroying resolve.
Absolutely right- so why hasn't Bush nuked Tikrit?
I don't think it's the army itself that defective I think it's the brass, politicians and the American people. America has become extremely risk averse in regards to American lives.
If we were truly risk adverse in regards to American Lives, there are plenty of ICBMs in our arsenal we could have sent after Osama and Saddam without risking a single American life.
The politicians thus won't touch anything that endangers people and the brass relay these sentiments.
Thereby killing off 3000+American soldiers for fear of being the bad guy.
It might be because of better communication and media which makes casualties more then numbers, it might be a very big shift in the idea of duty vs cost of duty. It might be the frivolous nature of the wars America has gotten itself into lately. Vietnam was about ideology, Iraq is about economics and influence while the major wars previous WWI and WWII was about duty to your allies and stopping actual threats to your security and economy. Korea was about ideology as well so perhaps it is a shift of the people.
And yet we still can't use our technology to actually insulate ourselves from the dangers of international trade.
I have NO worries about that- 'cause I know where I'm going. I also have no need to be spending lives and treasure to protect people in the Middle East. For the trillion this Administration has spent on this war, we could have nuked the Middle East and invested in bridge repair here at home....
Combatbot? That ain't a combatbot, THIS IS A COMBATBOT. That's just a little remote controlled toy tank, not much different than a Predator armed with a Hellfire missile, no more intelligent than a remote controlled car.
I was about to post "About damned time"- but that would have been in response to a bot patrolling at random a rectangular set of GPS co-ordinates that fired at anything that set off it's motion detector, not a remote-controlled toy that has to ask "father may I" three times before firing.
Just more proof that the modern army is defective on basic no-man's land tactics that their grandfathers would have been familiar with. And in so doing, guarantees a loss on the battlefield as they try to sort out what God only knows- who is really the enemy. Just kill them all, God can sort 'em out. And in so doing, you can separate populations that want to kill each other, by a line of death that neither can successfully cross.
Same difference. A slave would be bred as soon as possible, to increase the herd and give more slaves to sell. Likewise, a free person whose family owned slaves had a source of income to start working in- no need for any nasty learning there, so you might as well get married and have kids as soon as possible.
With the debtor society we have today, though, first you've got to get an education- then decide if you're going to rent or own your housing- get a job that allows you to rent or own your housing- then go deeply in debt furnishing that house- go further in debt for the wedding- and pay down some of that debt before having kids. If you're real lucky, you'll be in a financial place where it's a good idea to have kids by the time you're 30. And then you've got about 5 years before the really dangerous birth defects set in.
In other words having sex with a condom when she's on her period?
Pretty close. This advice actually came from a ZNet article circa 1995- back when incorrectly compressed pictures and improperly coded img tags could cause a page to be rendered so slowly that nobody actually ever got to the content- the modem would drop carrier first.
Correct. Doing it right yields 21 years of pleasure.
12. But 200 years ago we didn't have a debtor culture that made sure you had to borrow your way into adulthood either.
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Just keep your sex well below 3 PSI. No problem.
And what teenager can do that? Or even has any clue?
As far as HIV goes, the chance of (a) having sex with a random woman who has it (it is more prevalent among men), (b) having a condom fail and (c) getting infected from the woman (which is less likely than the reverse) is very very small.
Ok, so replace it with Herpes Simplex I, which is nearly certain in the United States. A stupid chance for 30 seconds of pleasure is a stupid chance for 30 seconds of pleasure, no matter what the outcome is.
I'm sure you're not- but I'll bet your future wife will really like it when you give her the virus and you have to raise your children alone because she died of cancer.
The real point, however, is that you're taking a stupid risk, for what? 30 seconds of pleasure?
My fault- I said pregnancy when I meant something more like STD infection. Though a broken condom is much more likely to cause a danger of having to discuss intimacy issues- after all, sex without birth control is *designed* to last 21 years when done right.
The kind of fun where you actually survive the 11 year incubation period of HIV.
It's high enough that the virus that causes ovarian cancer (an STD) is present in 95% of 50 year old women in the United States. But hey, just keep living in your dream world where your chances of getting an STD by sleeping around are low.
Actually, my 2% figure was the Consumer Reports 3PSI test on Trojans. I'd expect a woman would have to have sex at least 4x in a year at random to get pregnant from a broken condom. Make it non-random by using Natural Family Planning, and the figure would go down significantly.
I noticed that too- reduces the chances to something closer to .5% (since human women are only fertile for 25% of the time).
And actually- that 2% is reduced by the human female fertile cycle to something more like .5%...but STDs happen regardless of the female fertile cycle.
Here's something grades are a great measure of: Spending your time studying instead of spending your time in relationships with the opposite sex that you're not ready for anyway.
But you should at least Buy them, and even then you're running about the same risk as betting both red and black on roulette.
60% of the "free condoms" split at 3 PSI in a Consumer Reports test. 2% of Trojans did. The moral of this story- buy your condoms, don't take the free ones the college hands out, but you still are running a 2% chance of pregnancy regardless.
So you married the first woman that came along that didn't gag in your presence.
Every man does this, if not actually, than figuratively. Even Jocks.