Well obviously the NPR test was flawed. Most people prefer pizza to NO pizza. While there are some who would pay for a simple NO pizza diet plan (a foll and his money are easily parted), it would be difficult to target them as a group.
Your problem is that you want a simple explanation for the universe for reasons that are your own. Unfortunately reality is very complex - possibly to the point of being beyond our abilities to understand. Simply plugging the hole with a creator and/or active god does not advance our understanding at all. Aristotle was a very smart guy but if you think anyone alive several thousand years ago had it all figured out then you are delusional. I think Socrates was much closer to the mark:
Really? The same 911 perpetrated by mostly Saudi's? Starting a war in Afghanistan for harboring Bin Laden is a bit like bombing a neighborhood that won't co-operate with police. I'm sure a SWAT raid that resulted in 20,000 civilian and almost 3,000 friendly casualties would be viewed as an abject failure. That's before you even consider that Bin Laden was eventually killed in Pakistan!!
You have the meaning of the expression wrong. It doesn't mean snow that has been driven over but snow driven by the wind. It means clean/pure/uncorrupted/moral etc.
Can you really be imprisoned in the UK for posting something racially insensitive? Just because he wrote something about a soccer player people liked doesn't mean he should be arrested and sent to jail. What kind of wacky police state does the UK have that this is acceptable legal policy? Don't the police there have better things to do than be made to chase down Twitter trolls?
While I don't support jailing people for this type of speech where no direct threat or incitement to violence was made, the US, in spite of the 1st amendment, has jailed people for producing material judged obscene.
There are a few modern cordless units that have a function whereby a handset can be used to charge the base station during an outage. Then you can either place a call from the base station or use another handset. Panasonic does this on some of their higher end models. No need for a separate UPS.
Er...killing US citizens with drone missile strikes outside of any judicial review or trial process for one. Pre-emptive wars of aggression for another.
So what's your point? It was still a territory under US jurisdiction and the naval base that was attacked was a US military asset and the people killed were US citizens. Attacking an overseas embassy is an act of war even though they're not states,
I dont think thats what the diagram is showing. It has the private key stored on the phone and on the Blackberry Enterprise Server sitting behind the company's firewall, not RIMs. Importantly, those servers can be located in jurisdictions where there are legal protections from the government's demands for data. Obviously if the US govt produces a warrant to get the key from your US based IT dept they are going to be successful but not so with Saudi or India govts.
Also the duplicate key is a necessary evil as stuff does occasionally go wrong with handsets...
That's a bit of an unfair comparison. Designing an advanced CPU or an advanced print head is waaaayyyy different that a simple home project CPU which would be equivalent in complexity to a pen and paper.
No. One is deprivation of POTENTIAL financial gain which is only realized if the person would have bought the game in the absence of piracy. This is often not the case - you may download and play a game that you wouldn't be interested in paying for. Car theft deprives the owner of the use of the car. Its not even a subtle distinction and attempting to equate the two is intellectual dishonesty.
Pascal's wager is a poor argument. It could be used to justify all sorts of foolish behavior on the infinitismal chance that any given theory is correct. How can you be sure you've even got the right god? Maybe you should avoid pork and shellfish and sacrafice a lamb to Thor while your at it.
ALL arguements for a deity boil down to the same thing and can be refuted in the same way - the probability of a supernatural explanation for life, the universe and everything is so tiny that it can be safely dismissed.
What I mean is that it was a bit too convienient and highly improbable that they both would survive which lessened the book's overall anti-war message. I thought it would have been more powerful if the main character was the last of the old type of human which would have meant he was isolated and alone - read "The World at the End of Time" by Frederik Pohl for a similar idea. For me The Forever War is about the pointlessness of war and its effect on the individual soldier.
Don't get me wrong though - its still a great book and one of my favorite sci-fi's.
The (too) happy ending of Forever War detracted slightly IMO. The rest of the book was great. It was the first sci fi I ever read that made an attempt at a realistic portrayal of space and extra-terrestrial combat. Also he handled the massive technological and social jumps very well.
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Well obviously the NPR test was flawed. Most people prefer pizza to NO pizza. While there are some who would pay for a simple NO pizza diet plan (a foll and his money are easily parted), it would be difficult to target them as a group.
I know one thing, that I know nothing.
People that fail to think of course find holes in any argument.
Is it opposite day or something?
No because plain text emails could be intercepted entering and leaving the server.
In population statistics for a large workforce, the mean and median are likely to be the same thing.
Really? The same 911 perpetrated by mostly Saudi's? Starting a war in Afghanistan for harboring Bin Laden is a bit like bombing a neighborhood that won't co-operate with police. I'm sure a SWAT raid that resulted in 20,000 civilian and almost 3,000 friendly casualties would be viewed as an abject failure. That's before you even consider that Bin Laden was eventually killed in Pakistan!!
You have the meaning of the expression wrong. It doesn't mean snow that has been driven over but snow driven by the wind. It means clean/pure/uncorrupted/moral etc.
Can you really be imprisoned in the UK for posting something racially insensitive? Just because he wrote something about a soccer player people liked doesn't mean he should be arrested and sent to jail. What kind of wacky police state does the UK have that this is acceptable legal policy? Don't the police there have better things to do than be made to chase down Twitter trolls?
While I don't support jailing people for this type of speech where no direct threat or incitement to violence was made, the US, in spite of the 1st amendment, has jailed people for producing material judged obscene.
Never heard of José Padilla?
Are you asking the Europeans or the Americans?
There are a few modern cordless units that have a function whereby a handset can be used to charge the base station during an outage. Then you can either place a call from the base station or use another handset. Panasonic does this on some of their higher end models. No need for a separate UPS.
If passed, this law could be challenged on constitutional grounds as a bill of attainder.
Er...killing US citizens with drone missile strikes outside of any judicial review or trial process for one. Pre-emptive wars of aggression for another.
>2. A pinch of dissappointment The considerably less lethal version of Spock's death grip.
That made me laugh but I have no mod points I'm afraid. Well played!
So what's your point? It was still a territory under US jurisdiction and the naval base that was attacked was a US military asset and the people killed were US citizens. Attacking an overseas embassy is an act of war even though they're not states,
Ah I suppose Pearl Harbour doesn't really count as the homeland then. It is pretty far away...
I dont think thats what the diagram is showing. It has the private key stored on the phone and on the Blackberry Enterprise Server sitting behind the company's firewall, not RIMs. Importantly, those servers can be located in jurisdictions where there are legal protections from the government's demands for data. Obviously if the US govt produces a warrant to get the key from your US based IT dept they are going to be successful but not so with Saudi or India govts. Also the duplicate key is a necessary evil as stuff does occasionally go wrong with handsets...
That's a bit of an unfair comparison. Designing an advanced CPU or an advanced print head is waaaayyyy different that a simple home project CPU which would be equivalent in complexity to a pen and paper.
How this isn't +5 Funny is beyond me. Wish I had some mod points...
when using an open fist near the taint!
No. One is deprivation of POTENTIAL financial gain which is only realized if the person would have bought the game in the absence of piracy. This is often not the case - you may download and play a game that you wouldn't be interested in paying for. Car theft deprives the owner of the use of the car. Its not even a subtle distinction and attempting to equate the two is intellectual dishonesty.
You know that in prison the skanks are dudes right?
Pascal's wager is a poor argument. It could be used to justify all sorts of foolish behavior on the infinitismal chance that any given theory is correct. How can you be sure you've even got the right god? Maybe you should avoid pork and shellfish and sacrafice a lamb to Thor while your at it. ALL arguements for a deity boil down to the same thing and can be refuted in the same way - the probability of a supernatural explanation for life, the universe and everything is so tiny that it can be safely dismissed.
What I mean is that it was a bit too convienient and highly improbable that they both would survive which lessened the book's overall anti-war message. I thought it would have been more powerful if the main character was the last of the old type of human which would have meant he was isolated and alone - read "The World at the End of Time" by Frederik Pohl for a similar idea. For me The Forever War is about the pointlessness of war and its effect on the individual soldier.
Don't get me wrong though - its still a great book and one of my favorite sci-fi's.
The (too) happy ending of Forever War detracted slightly IMO. The rest of the book was great. It was the first sci fi I ever read that made an attempt at a realistic portrayal of space and extra-terrestrial combat. Also he handled the massive technological and social jumps very well.