Or you've spent 5 years in an illegal prison without valid charge, and subject to torture. Finally, prosecution says you can go home tomorrow if you plead guilty to this new retrospective crime we just made up.
And there you have the confession and first conviction of a Gitmo detainee! (Five years later, the US Court of Appeals ruled the conviction invalid.)
Also very naive. Botswana is often said to be the least corrupt country in Africa. They have made big advances in education and the economy, but despite the newfound wealth it has utterly failed to control HIV and has one of the highest AIDS rates in Africa. Education has not improved behaviour.
Maybe we should just accept sub-Saharan Africa for what it is, and stop trying (and failing) to turn their culture into ours?
The argument over images is not unique to Islam. Many protestants regard images of Jesus or saints as idolatry. They just don't tend to kill people over it.
ASUS Chromebox $160, has been $120 complete. Fanless, 2GB (+ vacant slot), 16GB SSD, 4xusb3, Gig-E, display-port, wifi, BT... Only thing missing is s/pdif.
Might be a subsidy from Google. Sells with Chrome-OS but freely unlockable.
AC misses it. Most of the borrowing is internal. GDP is being diverted from consumption to infrastructure investment.
But there is certainly precedent for what he describes. The US borrowed billions for a housing boom, selling Collateral Debt Obligations and other derivatives to pay for it. Much of the money will never be paid back, and nobody can sue the US government for allowing fraudulent credit ratings.
That is irrelevant. Are you unaware of the Japanese economic disaster of the 1990s? Large foreign reserves did not save them from bad internal debts. And many think China is heading for much worse.
It would be a terrible failure of humanity if one day this was no longer true.
Was it a terrible failure of humanity that we stopped building giant pyramids? Sure the first few are cool, but its awfully expensive. Why not wait a few generations until the technology has progressed sufficiently, that we can do something substantially better. There is only so much you can reasonably do with muscle power or fossil-fuel rockets.
Wait a minute! You mean this is just about exempting ISP fees from normal sales tax ? Why? I thought it must have been some kind of special levy. Most of the developed world has moved away from sales tax to a broad-based "good and services" tax (GST or VAT), as goods have become a much smaller part of our spending than in the past.
Any exemption (almost) is a dumb idea from an economics view, as it distorts the market and increases the cost of compliance and collection. Even exempting food is a bad idea. (Better to increase benefits etc to compensate the poor.)
The US tax system is a shambles with so many of these special-interest exemptions that wealthy individuals and corporations can end up contributing very little tax.
The problem with that is the internet is a major avenue of interstate, and even international trade,
That doesn't make any sense. The states are not taxing passing traffic - they're not building toll-gates on the interstate. The tax they want to ban is an access tax - more like a local car registration tax to pay for local road building.
Don't Christians believe that God raped Mary when she was around 12 or 13?
Which bit of the Virgin Birth don't you get? Anyway, that totally misses the point. Christians believe some crazy stuff, but don't start threatening you if you ask a question like that, or joke about it. Down Brown doesn't get firebombed for writing about Jesus & Mary Magdalene.
BTW, it was the custom for Jewish girls to be betrothed at that age, (ie puberty) and same in Mohammed's time. His marriage to Aisha at 6 would have been for political reasons, not because he had a preference. None of that is very funny in a cartoon though. The issue is not the sexual mores of 1400 years ago, but the violence, intimidation and bigotry of today.
The modem and its noise lives on inside the fax machine, which inexplicably refuses to die. Even if the machines are silent, you hear it every time you accidentally dial the fax number on the business card. Arrgh!!
Basically, it makes me type in specific words like "breasts" or "naked" if I want to see picture results including such things.
I think your memory is faulty. Safe-search will block nudity (Google is American), but is not over-ridden by such keywords. Remember the internet is so full of porn that the problem is not so much finding it, as avoiding it when you don't want it. So google tries to filter out porn unless certain keywords are seen. "naked" will disable the filter, but "breasts" will not. Try doing an image search on each and see the difference. Or vulva vs vulva nude . In a google search, nude=porn.
So how do we find "nude art" - I see about 50% art, and a lot of non-medical vulva close-ups. Enabling safe-seach does not help as "nude" is removed from your search terms.
Easy! Add -porn. https://www.google.com/search?...
Since google appears quite capable of separating nudes from porn, I don't see why they cannot offer it as an easy option in the search filter settings. It could even be made the default setting outside the US and middle east, where people (vocal minority?) are not too shocked at nudes when searching for gallery art or baby feeding:-)
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Not that cesspit of hackers!
The only way to be safe from malware is to stick to respectable corporate sites like C|net's download.com.
Obvious sarcasm is not a troll. But I'm sick of hearing about the subject too - Should have been modded off-topic :)
Sadly diverse fields, but not much diversity in hiring. All white men. Sorry, Jewish scientists do not count for your minority quota.
Or you've spent 5 years in an illegal prison without valid charge, and subject to torture.
Finally, prosecution says you can go home tomorrow if you plead guilty to this new retrospective crime we just made up.
And there you have the confession and first conviction of a Gitmo detainee! (Five years later, the US Court of Appeals ruled the conviction invalid.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
You know that hackers are always attacking mainstream OS. Use an obscure one and everyone leaves you alone.
BSD?
The best question is "Why buy a Mac to run Linux", and the answer is conspicuous consumption. To show that you can.
If you already have the Mac, OS-X vs Linux is usually just a matter of personal preference. They both do the job.
Also very naive. Botswana is often said to be the least corrupt country in Africa. They have made big advances in education and the economy,
but despite the newfound wealth it has utterly failed to control HIV and has one of the highest AIDS rates in Africa. Education has not improved behaviour.
Maybe we should just accept sub-Saharan Africa for what it is, and stop trying (and failing) to turn their culture into ours?
The argument over images is not unique to Islam. Many protestants regard images of Jesus or saints as idolatry. They just don't tend to kill people over it.
Just enabling "developer mode" is enough to get root access and install a full linux environment.
ASUS Chromebox $160, has been $120 complete. ...
Fanless, 2GB (+ vacant slot), 16GB SSD, 4xusb3, Gig-E, display-port, wifi, BT
Only thing missing is s/pdif.
Might be a subsidy from Google. Sells with Chrome-OS but freely unlockable.
AC misses it. Most of the borrowing is internal.
GDP is being diverted from consumption to infrastructure investment.
But there is certainly precedent for what he describes. The US borrowed billions for a housing boom, selling Collateral Debt Obligations and other derivatives to pay for it. Much of the money will never be paid back, and nobody can sue the US government for allowing fraudulent credit ratings.
Not pay the debt? When a few hundred million Chinese citizens see their life saving evaporate, how secure do you think the Party is going to feel?
Really, what is any other country going to do about it?
What do other countries have to do with this?
Chinese foreign reserves are almost US$4 trillion
That is irrelevant. Are you unaware of the Japanese economic disaster of the 1990s?
Large foreign reserves did not save them from bad internal debts. And many think China is heading for much worse.
I've heard it said today if expense wasn't a concern a pyramid like the greats could not be reproduced using modern tools.
I'm not an engineer so I don't know how true it is.
I hear Obama is a Reptilian, but I'm not a zoologist.
A minor nit-pick: I think you mean "chemical rocket".
No, I was trying to stress the antiquated nature, and the limited reserves of this resource we are squandering.
rockets are liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen. Neither are fossil fuels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
> Currently, the majority of hydrogen (95%) is produced from fossil fuels by steam reforming or partial oxidation of methane and coal gasification.
OK, so "fossil-fuel-derived" ? But so is gasoline.
It would be a terrible failure of humanity if one day this was no longer true.
Was it a terrible failure of humanity that we stopped building giant pyramids? Sure the first few are cool, but its awfully expensive.
Why not wait a few generations until the technology has progressed sufficiently, that we can do something substantially better.
There is only so much you can reasonably do with muscle power or fossil-fuel rockets.
Taking money [VAT] and then handing it back to them costs more money than just not taking it at all.
Not if it simplifies the tax system and uses existing mechanisms to compensate the poor. (Everyone else is compensated by lower income tax.)
both honest and dishonest.
The argument is that partially shifting from income to consumption tax reduces incentive and opportunity for tax-dodging. Too many papers to cite :)
Wait a minute! You mean this is just about exempting ISP fees from normal sales tax ? Why?
I thought it must have been some kind of special levy. Most of the developed world has moved away from sales tax to a broad-based "good and services" tax (GST or VAT), as goods have become a much smaller part of our spending than in the past.
Any exemption (almost) is a dumb idea from an economics view, as it distorts the market and increases the cost of compliance and collection.
Even exempting food is a bad idea. (Better to increase benefits etc to compensate the poor.)
The US tax system is a shambles with so many of these special-interest exemptions that wealthy individuals and corporations can end up contributing very little tax.
The problem with that is the internet is a major avenue of interstate, and even international trade,
That doesn't make any sense. The states are not taxing passing traffic - they're not building toll-gates on the interstate.
The tax they want to ban is an access tax - more like a local car registration tax to pay for local road building.
Dumb idea, but none of the fed's business.
Don't Christians believe that God raped Mary when she was around 12 or 13?
Which bit of the Virgin Birth don't you get? Anyway, that totally misses the point. Christians believe some crazy stuff, but don't start threatening you if you ask a question like that, or joke about it. Down Brown doesn't get firebombed for writing about Jesus & Mary Magdalene.
BTW, it was the custom for Jewish girls to be betrothed at that age, (ie puberty) and same in Mohammed's time.
His marriage to Aisha at 6 would have been for political reasons, not because he had a preference. None of that is very funny in a cartoon though.
The issue is not the sexual mores of 1400 years ago, but the violence, intimidation and bigotry of today.
I vote for a cartoon of Mohammed and his six-year-old bride Aisha on the front cover.
And a few Jesus & Moses gags inside for balance.
So, in order to avoid the biggest health risks associated with this sample, I recommend that you not eat it.
A few micrograms? Harmless to eat. Famously compared to caffeine.
You'd need to inhale it to begin worrying.
In fact there is some evidence that ingesting plutonium extends life. http://atomicinsights.com/how-...
(no mutant powers though)
the clinking of milk bottles in the morning delivery.
The modem and its noise lives on inside the fax machine, which inexplicably refuses to die.
Even if the machines are silent, you hear it every time you accidentally dial the fax number on the business card. Arrgh!!
Basically, it makes me type in specific words like "breasts" or "naked" if I want to see picture results including such things.
I think your memory is faulty. Safe-search will block nudity (Google is American), but is not over-ridden by such keywords.
Remember the internet is so full of porn that the problem is not so much finding it, as avoiding it when you don't want it.
So google tries to filter out porn unless certain keywords are seen. "naked" will disable the filter, but "breasts" will not. Try doing an image search on each and see the difference.
Or vulva vs vulva nude . In a google search, nude=porn.
So how do we find "nude art" - I see about 50% art, and a lot of non-medical vulva close-ups. Enabling safe-seach does not help as "nude" is removed from your search terms.
Easy! Add -porn. https://www.google.com/search?...
Since google appears quite capable of separating nudes from porn, I don't see why they cannot offer it as an easy option in the search filter settings. :-)
It could even be made the default setting outside the US and middle east, where people (vocal minority?) are not too shocked at nudes when searching for gallery art or baby feeding