Not so much need in most countries, where you can just use your bank app or website to transfer money to anyone, using their bank and account numbers, or credit card number.
But the US banking system is a nightmare. There are literally thousands of small local banks (think "Its a wonderful Life") . They still have cards with magnetic strips, and even write IOUs on pieces of paper that get physically shipped between banks and then returned to the writer. (Ask your grandparents what a cheque/check was.)
"cum" has been used long enough that it's an established new word.
But it is nothing new at all. It is an old meaning of an old word. ( Kids these days think they invented sex:-)
I was just whining about the recently mutated spelling, which is totally not cool in English. I believe it happened because young people were familiar with the word only from spoken English, and failed to realise it was from the verb "to come". It has not replaced the "proper" spelling,
Neologisms are generally new words or new meanings. We stopped mucking about with spelling since dictionaries became popular.
Possibly "come" as a noun is a neologism? I've noticed that Americans love turning nouns (e.g. action) into verbs and vice versa. That can be good. Sometimes.
Cum? It is "coming to orgasm", so why do illiterates spell it with a "u"?
"cum" is a Latin word meaning "with", which survives in place names, e.g. Cockshutt-cum-Petton in Shropshire. Or a 17th century English spelling of "come".
Is it a deliberate illiteracy intended to give an air of vulgarity, like fuck vs make love? Or should that now be "fuk"? Or perhaps simply that schools in some places are failing to teach the language of sex, and burning all the dirty books? I blame American puritanism. (or it that -izm in US English?)
I think back to a study done on the effects of legalizing prostitution on sex trafficking.
A very interesting topic in itself, but so different from the above. Those sort of studies are usually worthless, as they are structured in a way that will always find correlations, but can never succeed in controlling for related factors.
It sounds like you are suggesting that decriminalising CP possession will increase consumption, and therefore somehow increase child abuse.
There is a similar old argument against mainstream pornography, but the evidence against it is strong. Porn does not cause rape.
I find these prosecutions rather disturbing, as they amount to victimless thought crime. Yes, there is a child victim, and the story is terrible, but there is no causal connection, and no need to demonstrate one. The child is the victim of a very different crime, by a different person, possibly long ago. In other cases, there may not even be a single child who has suffered, ever. And that makes no difference to the law.
Whats the point of treating it as a criminal problem? It makes about as much sens as the war on drugs. What does all this achieve? Is there the slightest bit of evidence that our children are any safer for all these destroyed lives from the War on Porn ?
And if it helps you consider the question more objectively, the images themselves were not particularly shocking. Nothing compared to the sex and violence on an average night's TV.
Agent Tracey Riley admitted to U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney the so-called "Jenny" image found by a Best Buy Geek Squad technician, who doubled as a paid agency informant, "wasn't child pornography by itself." Riley tried to recover by explaining that the picture, which contains no sex or genital angles, originated from a "well-known" child-pornography video.
I have a hard enough time remembering where I put real things.
Try closing your eyes and picturing your home/office. Imagine yourself putting the thing away. Where did you put it? The memory palace technique can be modified for real things.
If you turn the key with gears engaged, a manual car will lurch forward. I'm not sure that is a feature. But it does count as battery powering the geartrain. Briefly:-)
Only if the battery powers the drive train. So, no. But nice try.
My old manual car could start in gear - enough to get a stalled vehicle off the train tracks. Stupid modern cars need to be put in neutral before the starter motor will turn.
What political leaders say and do are two separate things.
Generally, yes. But Trump has surprised a lot of us by actually trying to do some of the outlandish things he said he would. Hyperbole aside, his comments have not changed that much since getting elected.
He did veto TPP which is extremely beneficial to China
I'm still scratching my head on that one. The TPP was built to contain China.
> FTA: "It is against the law for anyone to distribute images of child exploitation.
Except they are *not* images of people exploiting children. They are pictures that young adults have taken of themselves and posted. Standard teen facebook stuff that gets lots of likes and annoys their parents. Then the perverts copy the photos and add distasteful comments. In a hidden, private forum.
So what do you do? Where draw the line? Do we end up dressing out kids in burqas, or shrug and move on with our lives?
Next; 10 hours in a day, 10 minutes in an hour and 10 seconds in a minutes?
Actually milli-days would be a great way to express time of day, rather than hours and minutes. A microday is around a tenth of a second, so good for stopwatches.
It is a little like the queen of England speaking pretty good French. For them it a must, a sign of noblesse,
Its mostly to distract us from the fact that the Royal Family are all German. Even the Greek one is really German.
Next time click "options" and try the the "code" comment mode, so it does not eat your whitespace indents.
<quote><tt>
if (you make money){</tt><p><tt> if (you agree with the far right {</tt></p><p><tt> you are the smartest latest and greatest person;</tt></p><p><tt> Everyone must worship you.</tt></p><p><tt> } else {</tt></p><p><tt> you are a limousine liberal and a complete hypocrite</tt></p><p><tt> }</tt></p><p><tt> }else{</tt></p><p><tt> if (you agree with far right){</tt></p><p><tt> you are to be admired for believing in American dream etc etc</tt></p><p><tt> } else {</tt></p><p><tt> you must be dumb, because you didn't make money. </tt></p><p><tt> Probably consumed by envy and fomenting class warfare</tt></p><p><tt> You Enemy number 1 of America.</tt></p><p><tt> }</tt></p><p><tt> }</tt></p></quote>
Moons are next on the hit list. At last count Jupiter has 67 so-called moons: The four Galilean moons, plus 63 rocks. We really need to clamp down on what counts as a moon, or every bit of space-trash will demand to be listed.
1. A very powerful and long lasting power source. Think naval reactors or other self contained, compact reactors.
The naval analogy has already broken down. Naval reactors provide cruising power, but a spaceship only needs large amounts of energy for starting and stopping (initial and final delta-V) . For 99% of the time they are ballistic, so why carry a big heavy motor? A small reactor onboard for electricity will do, and large power sources placed at either end of your journey for the delta-V.
Ion engines make more sense for slower, unmanned exploration vehicles.
Lumen Database is now the king of piracy search engines. Just enter the movie/song title into the search box and see all the DMCA complaints, which list all the URLs for that movie. Let the MPAA and RIAA do all the hard indexing work for you. Thanks guys!
Carbon dating tells you when the carbon was taken from the atmosphere. It depends on a known ratio of carbon-14 isotopes in the air. It does not work for underground organisms, where the air may contain CO2 from the rocks.
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What's that? Doesn't exist in most countries.
Not so much need in most countries, where you can just use your bank app or website to transfer money to anyone, using their bank and account numbers, or credit card number.
But the US banking system is a nightmare. There are literally thousands of small local banks (think "Its a wonderful Life") .
They still have cards with magnetic strips, and even write IOUs on pieces of paper that get physically shipped between banks and then returned to the writer. (Ask your grandparents what a cheque/check was.)
"cum" has been used long enough that it's an established new word.
But it is nothing new at all. It is an old meaning of an old word. ( Kids these days think they invented sex :-)
I was just whining about the recently mutated spelling, which is totally not cool in English.
I believe it happened because young people were familiar with the word only from spoken English, and failed to realise it was from the verb "to come".
It has not replaced the "proper" spelling,
Big cum-vs-come discussion here:
https://stronglang.wordpress.c...
Neologisms are generally new words or new meanings. We stopped mucking about with spelling since dictionaries became popular.
Possibly "come" as a noun is a neologism? I've noticed that Americans love turning nouns (e.g. action) into verbs and vice versa. That can be good. Sometimes.
Cum? It is "coming to orgasm", so why do illiterates spell it with a "u"?
"cum" is a Latin word meaning "with", which survives in place names, e.g. Cockshutt-cum-Petton in Shropshire. Or a 17th century English spelling of "come".
Is it a deliberate illiteracy intended to give an air of vulgarity, like fuck vs make love? Or should that now be "fuk"?
Or perhaps simply that schools in some places are failing to teach the language of sex, and burning all the dirty books? I blame American puritanism. (or it that -izm in US English?)
Australia is incredibly dry (driest continent on earth)
No, Antarctica takes that honour. And not just because snow is dry. Antarctica has far lower total precipitation. It is one big desert.
I think back to a study done on the effects of legalizing prostitution on sex trafficking.
A very interesting topic in itself, but so different from the above. Those sort of studies are usually worthless, as they are structured in a way that will always find correlations, but can never succeed in controlling for related factors.
It sounds like you are suggesting that decriminalising CP possession will increase consumption, and therefore somehow increase child abuse.
There is a similar old argument against mainstream pornography, but the evidence against it is strong. Porn does not cause rape.
I find these prosecutions rather disturbing, as they amount to victimless thought crime.
Yes, there is a child victim, and the story is terrible, but there is no causal connection, and no need to demonstrate one. The child is the victim of a very different crime, by a different person, possibly long ago. In other cases, there may not even be a single child who has suffered, ever. And that makes no difference to the law.
Whats the point of treating it as a criminal problem? It makes about as much sens as the war on drugs.
What does all this achieve? Is there the slightest bit of evidence that our children are any safer for all these destroyed lives from the War on Porn ?
And if it helps you consider the question more objectively, the images themselves were not particularly shocking. Nothing compared to the sex and violence on an average night's TV.
Agent Tracey Riley admitted to U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney the so-called "Jenny" image found by a Best Buy Geek Squad technician, who doubled as a paid agency informant, "wasn't child pornography by itself."
Riley tried to recover by explaining that the picture, which contains no sex or genital angles, originated from a "well-known" child-pornography video.
I know Hawaii doesn't use Daylight Savings Time.
Being tropical, it would be ridiculous.
Why can't other states just legislate to change standard business hours so people work earlier in summer? That would make a lot more sense.
I have a hard enough time remembering where I put real things.
Try closing your eyes and picturing your home/office. Imagine yourself putting the thing away. Where did you put it?
The memory palace technique can be modified for real things.
If you turn the key with gears engaged, a manual car will lurch forward. I'm not sure that is a feature. :-)
But it does count as battery powering the geartrain. Briefly
Only if the battery powers the drive train. So, no. But nice try.
My old manual car could start in gear - enough to get a stalled vehicle off the train tracks.
Stupid modern cars need to be put in neutral before the starter motor will turn.
What political leaders say and do are two separate things.
Generally, yes. But Trump has surprised a lot of us by actually trying to do some of the outlandish things he said he would. Hyperbole aside, his comments have not changed that much since getting elected.
He did veto TPP which is extremely beneficial to China
I'm still scratching my head on that one. The TPP was built to contain China.
> FTA: "It is against the law for anyone to distribute images of child exploitation.
Except they are *not* images of people exploiting children. They are pictures that young adults have taken of themselves and posted.
Standard teen facebook stuff that gets lots of likes and annoys their parents. Then the perverts copy the photos and add distasteful comments. In a hidden, private forum.
So what do you do? Where draw the line? Do we end up dressing out kids in burqas, or shrug and move on with our lives?
Since we could already obliterate every square inch of north korea, why would putting nukes in south korea be any different?
Tactical nukes in S.Korea, vs ICBMs?
That's like saying "our police already have guns, so why do they need batons, pepper spray or dogs"?
Next; 10 hours in a day, 10 minutes in an hour and 10 seconds in a minutes?
Actually milli-days would be a great way to express time of day, rather than hours and minutes. A microday is around a tenth of a second, so good for stopwatches.
It is a little like the queen of England speaking pretty good French. For them it a must, a sign of noblesse,
Its mostly to distract us from the fact that the Royal Family are all German. Even the Greek one is really German.
And second, this one is from the man that did it once before.
Two words: Linus Pauling. (two Nobels)
..requiring a literacy test to vote?
In some countries, that would be denounced by one party as racist. Just as soon as they've checked their voter demographics and literacy statistics.
Use of obvious irony is not always a troll.
Next time click "options" and try the the "code" comment mode, so it does not eat your whitespace indents.
<quote><tt>
if (you make money){</tt><p><tt>
if (you agree with the far right {</tt></p><p><tt>
you are the smartest latest and greatest person;</tt></p><p><tt>
Everyone must worship you.</tt></p><p><tt>
} else {</tt></p><p><tt>
you are a limousine liberal and a complete hypocrite</tt></p><p><tt>
}</tt></p><p><tt>
}else{</tt></p><p><tt>
if (you agree with far right){</tt></p><p><tt>
you are to be admired for believing in American dream etc etc</tt></p><p><tt>
} else {</tt></p><p><tt>
you must be dumb, because you didn't make money. </tt></p><p><tt>
Probably consumed by envy and fomenting class warfare</tt></p><p><tt>
You Enemy number 1 of America.</tt></p><p><tt>
}</tt></p><p><tt>
}</tt></p></quote>
that makes Earth the larger part of a binary planetary system.
There is a rule to avoid that. If the common centre of mass is inside one body, Earth in this case, it is considered a planet & moon, not a binary.
Moons are next on the hit list.
At last count Jupiter has 67 so-called moons: The four Galilean moons, plus 63 rocks.
We really need to clamp down on what counts as a moon, or every bit of space-trash will demand to be listed.
Howz about we call them a "dwarf continent".
Call the new continent "Gimli".
1. A very powerful and long lasting power source. Think naval reactors or other self contained, compact reactors.
The naval analogy has already broken down. Naval reactors provide cruising power, but a spaceship only needs large amounts of energy for starting and stopping (initial and final delta-V) . For 99% of the time they are ballistic, so why carry a big heavy motor? A small reactor onboard for electricity will do, and large power sources placed at either end of your journey for the delta-V.
Ion engines make more sense for slower, unmanned exploration vehicles.
Google is so Alta Vista now.
Lumen Database is now the king of piracy search engines.
Just enter the movie/song title into the search box and see all the DMCA complaints, which list all the URLs for that movie.
Let the MPAA and RIAA do all the hard indexing work for you. Thanks guys!
example: here are 300 ways to get The Force Awakens. Good job team.
Carbon dating tells you when the carbon was taken from the atmosphere. It depends on a known ratio of carbon-14 isotopes in the air.
It does not work for underground organisms, where the air may contain CO2 from the rocks.