I won't give you your $100000 back, is that worthy of a 911 call?
No, its not an emergency. Call the regular police number. 911 is for heart attacks, buildings on fire, and co-works going postal. You are just a richer version of the McNugget woman.
What a load of alarmist and deceptive nonsense. Carefully worded to make harmless or irrelevant things sound scary. That is immoral behavior. Worse, the sub-edit has taken those deceptive words, and made headlines which are outright lies. So if the editor is fooled so badly, the general readers must be even more so.
e.g. OMG Fukushima put more radiation into the ocean (100x claimed) than Chernobyl!! (But less into the Caspian maybe?) But this leads to the headline: "Released 100 times as much radiation as Chernobyl" I'm sad for the decline of journalism.
None of the reactors at that site will ever run again.
The Japanese are such wimps. The three remaining reactors at Chernobyl continued operating for 10 to 14 years after the #4 reactor incident. Fukushima may have lost 3 reactors, but there are still another 3 perfectly good ones on site that happened to be shut down for maintenance when the Tsunami hit.
The Pacific is kind of big. The ocean water naturally contains about 100 million tonnes of uranium. And while the reactor isotopes will cross the ocean in detectable quantities, that takes years.
How about a law that says movie stars can only make 100 times what the lowest wage guy on the movie set makes?
That would be a win for everyone. Top actors would still have their mansions in the hills, but maybe be slightly less likely to die from a drug binge. With a capped income, they might tell their agents to start looking at the quality of the scripts a bit more, not just the bottom line. Movies would be more profitable, studios could afford to make more of them. And most of all, without the mega-million star wages, studios might not make such dull, conservative safe movies.
Wouldn't it be nice to see the studios putting out more movies on a lower budget, and taking a few chances? We might see the occasional Casablanca again.
Saying US healthcare is the best, is a bit like saying India has the best housing on earth, and pointing to the mansions and palaces of Mumbai as evidence, while ignoring the slums. (BTW, India also has excellent healthcare, if you can afford it. )
Quality healthcare is more widely available in the US, but the system is still incredibly inefficient compared to other developed countries.
you ABSOLUTELY should be spying as high up as your ability will allow.
Does your philosophy apply to corporations? Families? Individuals? Is that the only sensible path for career advancement? Should gov't departments spy on each other? (They are competing for funding.) Should the spies stop at bugging phones? You OK with blackmail and assassination, because "that's their job", or do you still draw a line somewhere?
Or are national govt's just a special case where laws, morality and conventions can be broken with trivial justification and impunity? Because I really don't see any self-defense case here. Its not like SBY might be planning an invasion.
Its one thing to spy on their military capacity and movements. Or to collect open source intelligence.
But to directly bug the phone of civilian leaders of a friendly country for political purposes? That's not very neighbourly. How can we justify it? Its not the cold war.
the oldest animal on Earth was killed in the experiment. I don't know why, I guess I have some kind of respect for the uniqueness of the status of this animal.
For a scientist, you have made a big mistake.
There is a bit of Heisenberg here: It is the oldest known animal, but we only know the age because it was killed. There are presumably countless older clams still on the seabed. I doubt they survive well in captivity. The "uniqueness of the status of this animal", as you put it, relies on it being dead. Want to put on a deep-diving suit and start counting rings?
Nice strawman you've built there! You must be ones of those pedophiles/terrorists I hear about...
The "boat people" issue has been used by politicians of all sides as a distraction, but few things affect Australia as much as immigration. A nation is shaped by its people, much more than its geography or resources. Immigration has always been radically changing the country, and decisions made now have far-reaching consequences. Especially refugee intake, and due to their much higher birth rate than the native population, or non-refugee immigrants, there is a multiplier effect.
But please find someone else to abuse over our government's latest policy idiocy.
It's not the leaks that threaten these talks. It's the espionage that threatens the talks.
Yes, it really is the leaks. The Indonesian security services and government would have known of this all along. Australia and Indonesia have never had the coziest relationship. We've been shooting at each other in Borneo, new Guinea and Timor, which neither side wanted to publicise.
But with the leaks, the Indonesians have to be "shocked, shocked I tell you" for internal political reasons.
And they would have to start cooperating with Australia before they could stop.
For cost conscious parents whose kids don't have a modern video game system yet, this is a solid option for Christmas. There is a huge library of excellent titles for the Wii.
Cost-conscious parents will borrow their friends' (with older kids who got a wii years ago) games, and build a library in a hard-drive hanging off the back.
Even though it still remains, the U.S. (inc.), like the MAFIA will collapse due to the rot within.
The US will still remain, and still be a major power, after the "collapse". The US economy and political system may be living on borrowed time (and money), but its not as bad as the Soviet Union in its later days. The Soviet collapse may have been painful, but Russia is coming back, and so will the US. I just hope it's more like Britain and France, rather than some other past empires like Turkey or Portugal.
That might have something to do with the fact that the USA and Australia are on the Pacific, and the UK isn't.
Not really. If Britain was not struggling to avoid total invasion by Germany, British Singapore would never have fallen to Japan. Britain would have had no trouble projecting sufficient power there, were it not all tied up in Europe and North Africa.
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Try calling the non-emergency line for a crime. They'll direct you to call 911 in order to get a case number.
Not where I live. Your local police seem to be abusing the system. Thats not how it was intended.
I won't give you your $100000 back, is that worthy of a 911 call?
No, its not an emergency. Call the regular police number. 911 is for heart attacks, buildings on fire, and co-works going postal.
You are just a richer version of the McNugget woman.
to his own charity?
to The Human Fund.
What makes it geeky?
Well, 1) its in a foreign language, and 2) its a board game. For adults.
I don't get it, I've never seen DRM on anything I've downloaded from The Pirate Bay EVER.
Then you ain't using a PS3 or other Cinavia-infected hardware to play them. Just because you don't see it, doesn't mean it ain't there.
If you count games actually played, Carcassonne is awfully geeky. At least if you are not German, major geek points.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcassonne_(game)
Are you saying that nipples are not visible unless there is a significant amount of fat behind them?
In order to use a digit for counting, you need to be able to move it. He is saying that Mayan women had articulated nipples.
Sorry, but no, in medicine it is simply called risk-vs-benefit ratio.
I hate it when doctors try to confuse us with Latin mumbo-jumbo.
What a load of alarmist and deceptive nonsense. Carefully worded to make harmless or irrelevant things sound scary.
That is immoral behavior.
Worse, the sub-edit has taken those deceptive words, and made headlines which are outright lies. So if the editor is fooled so badly, the general readers must be even more so.
e.g. OMG Fukushima put more radiation into the ocean (100x claimed) than Chernobyl!! (But less into the Caspian maybe?)
But this leads to the headline: "Released 100 times as much radiation as Chernobyl"
I'm sad for the decline of journalism.
None of the reactors at that site will ever run again.
The Japanese are such wimps. The three remaining reactors at Chernobyl continued operating for 10 to 14 years after the #4 reactor incident.
Fukushima may have lost 3 reactors, but there are still another 3 perfectly good ones on site that happened to be shut down for maintenance when the Tsunami hit.
And I've stopped eating Sushi.
The Pacific is kind of big. The ocean water naturally contains about 100 million tonnes of uranium.
And while the reactor isotopes will cross the ocean in detectable quantities, that takes years.
Well, Hitler actually declared war on the United States first, not the other way round,
The US was well involved in the war against Germany already. They just don't like _declaring_ war. At least not on countries, just abstract nouns.
How about a law that says movie stars can only make 100 times what the lowest wage guy on the movie set makes?
That would be a win for everyone. Top actors would still have their mansions in the hills, but maybe be slightly less likely to die from a drug binge. With a capped income, they might tell their agents to start looking at the quality of the scripts a bit more, not just the bottom line. Movies would be more profitable, studios could afford to make more of them.
And most of all, without the mega-million star wages, studios might not make such dull, conservative safe movies.
Wouldn't it be nice to see the studios putting out more movies on a lower budget, and taking a few chances? We might see the occasional Casablanca again.
The healthcare in the US is second to none.
Or according to the NEJM, second to 36, when you look at actual results. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp0910064
Saying US healthcare is the best, is a bit like saying India has the best housing on earth, and pointing to the mansions and palaces of Mumbai as evidence, while ignoring the slums.
(BTW, India also has excellent healthcare, if you can afford it. )
Quality healthcare is more widely available in the US, but the system is still incredibly inefficient compared to other developed countries.
As Prego discovered, there isn't one spaghetti sauce that makes everyone happy;
Well, its all the same sauce, but you need different packaging and marketing to appeal to all consumers.
you ABSOLUTELY should be spying as high up as your ability will allow.
Does your philosophy apply to corporations? Families? Individuals? Is that the only sensible path for career advancement?
Should gov't departments spy on each other? (They are competing for funding.)
Should the spies stop at bugging phones? You OK with blackmail and assassination, because "that's their job", or do you still draw a line somewhere?
Or are national govt's just a special case where laws, morality and conventions can be broken with trivial justification and impunity?
Because I really don't see any self-defense case here. Its not like SBY might be planning an invasion.
Its one thing to spy on their military capacity and movements.
Or to collect open source intelligence.
But to directly bug the phone of civilian leaders of a friendly country for political purposes?
That's not very neighbourly. How can we justify it? Its not the cold war.
the oldest animal on Earth was killed in the experiment. I don't know why, I guess I have some kind of respect for the uniqueness of the status of this animal.
For a scientist, you have made a big mistake.
There is a bit of Heisenberg here: It is the oldest known animal, but we only know the age because it was killed. There are presumably countless older clams still on the seabed. I doubt they survive well in captivity. The "uniqueness of the status of this animal", as you put it, relies on it being dead. Want to put on a deep-diving suit and start counting rings?
Only Doctor Hans Zarkhov, formerly at NASA, has provided any explanation.
Nice strawman you've built there! You must be ones of those pedophiles/terrorists I hear about ...
The "boat people" issue has been used by politicians of all sides as a distraction, but few things affect Australia as much as immigration. A nation is shaped by its people, much more than its geography or resources. Immigration has always been radically changing the country, and decisions made now have far-reaching consequences. Especially refugee intake, and due to their much higher birth rate than the native population, or non-refugee immigrants, there is a multiplier effect.
But please find someone else to abuse over our government's latest policy idiocy.
It's not the leaks that threaten these talks. It's the espionage that threatens the talks.
Yes, it really is the leaks. The Indonesian security services and government would have known of this all along. Australia and Indonesia have never had the coziest relationship. We've been shooting at each other in Borneo, new Guinea and Timor, which neither side wanted to publicise.
But with the leaks, the Indonesians have to be "shocked, shocked I tell you" for internal political reasons.
And they would have to start cooperating with Australia before they could stop.
For cost conscious parents whose kids don't have a modern video game system yet, this is a solid option for Christmas. There is a huge library of excellent titles for the Wii.
Cost-conscious parents will borrow their friends' (with older kids who got a wii years ago) games, and build a library in a hard-drive hanging off the back.
But will it blend?
Even though it still remains, the U.S. (inc.), like the MAFIA will collapse due to the rot within.
The US will still remain, and still be a major power, after the "collapse". The US economy and political system may be living on borrowed time (and money), but its not as bad as the Soviet Union in its later days. The Soviet collapse may have been painful, but Russia is coming back, and so will the US. I just hope it's more like Britain and France, rather than some other past empires like Turkey or Portugal.
That might have something to do with the fact that the USA and Australia are on the Pacific, and the UK isn't.
Not really. If Britain was not struggling to avoid total invasion by Germany, British Singapore would never have fallen to Japan.
Britain would have had no trouble projecting sufficient power there, were it not all tied up in Europe and North Africa.