By the sounds of it you would be against research by car manufacturers to design safer cars because they would have to use information related to the dead people which have been killed by their cars.
Not true WMD definitely exist, I think we are all beginning to realise now that not only did Saddam obviously ship all his WMD's to Iran but that Iran is also a much greater support of terrorism and evil than we previously suspected, after all what else would it buy the WMD's for if it didn't plan on using them it's self or selling them on to Al Quaeda.
My favourite fact was the Al Quaeda secret bases hidden in the Afghan mountains. They were constructed on 10 levels with the bottom level being given over to the generators and plumbing system, the levels above contained vast warehouses holding Al Queada's terrible weapons ( parcel cutters, paper knives etc ), satellite and internet communication floors where the Al Quaeda controllers organised their millions of foot soliders, dormitories for all the Al Quaeda staff and of course secret tunnels for entry and exit.
Al Quaeda doesn't just have one of these complexes, it has dozens ! Unfortunately we have yet to find any so that would mean the threat is still just as deadly, maybe even more so since they have obviously hidden these bases a lot more cleverly than we thought possible.
You must belong to the older generation, us youngsters think in celcius and get very confused when people start banging on about this farenheit thing.
As for the other units we are comfortable using both feet and inches or metres, weights are understood in pounds and stone and volumes are understood in metric.
I like the first 'me too' post, if you read the entire thread after the first 'me too' post someone else says 'and me' and then changes his mind and says 'oh I misunderstood, not me after all'
The keeper of a gaol or prison, one who has the legal custody of the
place where prisoners are kept.
2. It is his duty to keep the prisoners in safe custody, and for this,
purpose he may use all necessary force. 1 Hale, P. C. 601. But any
oppression of a prisoner under a pretended necessity will be punished; for
the prisoner, whether he be a debtor or a criminal, is entitled to the
protection of the laws from oppression.
Think of them more like 'potential rights', if you are an American then you can convert them into actual rights and give them a practical existance.
If you aren't American then although you may have 'potential rights' that won't stop you being locked up for years with no evidence being shown against you and no trial.
The Brit's you have just released from Guantanamo didn't mention anything about Internet access: torture, solitary confinement, rascist gaolers all got a mention but not the Internet.
It's entirely possible but from a Chinese perspective it's also a good thing. I think China is behaving very intelligently in ensuring that their current benefit of low wages and cheap manufacturing power can progress to real technological innovation and progress in the future when it's factories may well be undercut by other countries at some point in the future.
Western companies can still keep up with research and development, once Chinese companies get up to our current baseline of knowledge they too can begin to develop new products which in the long term, in a friendly political climate, we will all benefit from.
"A creation can never be smarter than its creator, otherwise, why ever need the creator? The creation should be smart enough to create itself before it even exists. Nice paradox huh?"
Paradox ? It's just rubbish. Why can a creation never be smarter than it's creator, if it was created then it would need a creator or a creation process but what that is and how smart it is is totally irrelevant to the creation process.
I have done that as well, when I was 6 or 7 I was on holiday in Devon, on the beach half way up a sand dune and decided to spend a few minutes sitting in the same place and looking at the scene in front of me. The intention was to remember that for as long as possible so I put a lot of 'effort' into the remembering.
Over the years I have reminded myself of the scene and could look around it like looking at a photo but now unfortunately it has faded to the extent that although I remember the broad details any details I think I am remembering are almost certainly just being made up by my brain based on it's knowledge of what it is likely to have been like. For example I have strong recollections of sand, a steep sand dune and the grassy outcrop I was sitting on which I think is actually remembered. I know that if I had looked up the sand dune I would have seen the grassy top of the dune with little pathways going into it and behind that a heather covered hill but I can't say I actually remember seeing that since I know that is what I would have seen and I think my brain is just filling in the details for me.
There's a lot more I can't remember, what I was wearing, where our encampment was, what I had for dinner that day, what I did after this, what I was doing before this or how come I ended up on the sand dune on my own in the first place.
I actually can't remember my pin but I can remember the pattern I move my finger in to type it in. Obviously I can work out from that what it is very quickly but it's the pattern I am remembering and not the number.
That would be a bit like when BMW took over Land Rover, learnt as much as they could, sold Land Rover and released their own 4x4 vehicle 2 weeks later ?
Actually though if that is the price to pay to sell to the huge Chinese market and companies are happy to pay it then that's fair enough, why should China expose it's markets to powerful Western companies without getting something back in exchange ?
It's a good job no other large countries ever behaved like that isn't it. Gosh, imagine sneaking around to access technology and then using it to build rockets or missiles and using them to threaten the world. Wouldn't that be dreadful.
Carbon Dioxide in this case is a pollutant because the CO2 in the atmosphere from our energy production wouldn't be there if it wasn't for us. I.E. it would not naturally occur in those quantities if it wasn't for us.
I don't think pollutants have to be especially harmful just present in locations or quantities which they wouldn't normally be in.
Whatever is causing climate change if reducing emissions might stop it or slow it down then we should make all the efforts we can to do so, if it turns out that isn't going to help then for want of anything else to do we wont have lost anything.
I have 28 separate personalities and each of them has stolen the identity of someone else, they each have accounts on our computer and behave as though they were the person who's identity they have assumed. Our system is totally insecure since none of us can agree on a password but at least no one will find out any personal information from us because it all belongs to someone else.
Speaking for myself I prefer to see my bosses doing their best to run the company in such a way that they increase my wages, don't lose me my job and manage to business to sensible long term goals.
Anything which isn't directly related to doing that e.g. writing pointless circulars announcing great new initiative #18472, spending time telling us all how it great it is to cruise around in the company yacht and telling us our wages will be frozen for year because of a lack of money ( which curiosily doesn't affect the comany yacht or the vast amount of money printing glossy brochures for new initiative #18472 or sycophantic company newspapers ).
Speculation is what we are engaged in now, we can tell from the physical properties of ice cores and tree rings what kind of climate was prevalent when that data was recorded.
There may be data which says the sun is warming up ( I don't know I haven't seen anything about that ) but are you saying that will make any potential global warming worse or better ?
Nuclear power is a good energy source, it's ironic that some environmentalists have been so successful in influencing policy against pursuing the nuclear route that in most countries it will now take a long time and a lot of money to restructure our power generation to a mainly nuclear solution.
At least with nuclear power you do have to keep a tight control on where the waste materials end up rather than just pumping them into the atmosphere and hoping for the best.
Maybe global warming isn't happening, maybe it is happening but it's entirely natural or maybe it is happening and it's us causing it. None of those possibilities is any reason not to make an effort to stop polluting the atmosphere with the by products of our energy production and in some cases it's vital that we do this. There is no argument to say that our pollution is actually good for either the environment or our continued survival in it.
At some point in the future we are going to have a better, cleaner and more efficient energy generation process and businesses and companies will be selling this and making money from producing and using energy. The point is we could have this now, and maybe stave off a global catastrophe a lot sooner if we made a big effort to change right now. Rather than waiting for our energy companies to take the lead we should force them to do something now.
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It's tough to think of something insightful to say on a topic AND get first post, under the circumstances a 50% success rate isn't bad.
My point, such as it was, is why run MySQL on Windows when you can equally well run it on Linux ?
Who'd use MySQL on Windows though ?
You are a fuckwit.
By the sounds of it you would be against research by car manufacturers to design safer cars because they would have to use information related to the dead people which have been killed by their cars.
Not true WMD definitely exist, I think we are all beginning to realise now that not only did Saddam obviously ship all his WMD's to Iran but that Iran is also a much greater support of terrorism and evil than we previously suspected, after all what else would it buy the WMD's for if it didn't plan on using them it's self or selling them on to Al Quaeda.
My favourite fact was the Al Quaeda secret bases hidden in the Afghan mountains. They were constructed on 10 levels with the bottom level being given over to the generators and plumbing system, the levels above contained vast warehouses holding Al Queada's terrible weapons ( parcel cutters, paper knives etc ), satellite and internet communication floors where the Al Quaeda controllers organised their millions of foot soliders, dormitories for all the Al Quaeda staff and of course secret tunnels for entry and exit.
Al Quaeda doesn't just have one of these complexes, it has dozens ! Unfortunately we have yet to find any so that would mean the threat is still just as deadly, maybe even more so since they have obviously hidden these bases a lot more cleverly than we thought possible.
You must belong to the older generation, us youngsters think in celcius and get very confused when people start banging on about this farenheit thing.
As for the other units we are comfortable using both feet and inches or metres, weights are understood in pounds and stone and volumes are understood in metric.
I like the first 'me too' post, if you read the entire thread after the first 'me too' post someone else says 'and me' and then changes his mind and says 'oh I misunderstood, not me after all'
The keeper of a gaol or prison, one who has the legal custody of the place where prisoners are kept.
2. It is his duty to keep the prisoners in safe custody, and for this, purpose he may use all necessary force. 1 Hale, P. C. 601. But any oppression of a prisoner under a pretended necessity will be punished; for the prisoner, whether he be a debtor or a criminal, is entitled to the protection of the laws from oppression.
Think of them more like 'potential rights', if you are an American then you can convert them into actual rights and give them a practical existance.
If you aren't American then although you may have 'potential rights' that won't stop you being locked up for years with no evidence being shown against you and no trial.
The Brit's you have just released from Guantanamo didn't mention anything about Internet access: torture, solitary confinement, rascist gaolers all got a mention but not the Internet.
It's entirely possible but from a Chinese perspective it's also a good thing. I think China is behaving very intelligently in ensuring that their current benefit of low wages and cheap manufacturing power can progress to real technological innovation and progress in the future when it's factories may well be undercut by other countries at some point in the future.
Western companies can still keep up with research and development, once Chinese companies get up to our current baseline of knowledge they too can begin to develop new products which in the long term, in a friendly political climate, we will all benefit from.
"A creation can never be smarter than its creator, otherwise, why ever need the creator? The creation should be smart enough to create itself before it even exists. Nice paradox huh?"
Paradox ? It's just rubbish. Why can a creation never be smarter than it's creator, if it was created then it would need a creator or a creation process but what that is and how smart it is is totally irrelevant to the creation process.
IF tuesday IS louder THAN frogs OR ELSE at least as wet as despair
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I have done that as well, when I was 6 or 7 I was on holiday in Devon, on the beach half way up a sand dune and decided to spend a few minutes sitting in the same place and looking at the scene in front of me. The intention was to remember that for as long as possible so I put a lot of 'effort' into the remembering.
Over the years I have reminded myself of the scene and could look around it like looking at a photo but now unfortunately it has faded to the extent that although I remember the broad details any details I think I am remembering are almost certainly just being made up by my brain based on it's knowledge of what it is likely to have been like. For example I have strong recollections of sand, a steep sand dune and the grassy outcrop I was sitting on which I think is actually remembered. I know that if I had looked up the sand dune I would have seen the grassy top of the dune with little pathways going into it and behind that a heather covered hill but I can't say I actually remember seeing that since I know that is what I would have seen and I think my brain is just filling in the details for me.
There's a lot more I can't remember, what I was wearing, where our encampment was, what I had for dinner that day, what I did after this, what I was doing before this or how come I ended up on the sand dune on my own in the first place.
I actually can't remember my pin but I can remember the pattern I move my finger in to type it in. Obviously I can work out from that what it is very quickly but it's the pattern I am remembering and not the number.
That would be a bit like when BMW took over Land Rover, learnt as much as they could, sold Land Rover and released their own 4x4 vehicle 2 weeks later ?
Actually though if that is the price to pay to sell to the huge Chinese market and companies are happy to pay it then that's fair enough, why should China expose it's markets to powerful Western companies without getting something back in exchange ?
It's a good job no other large countries ever behaved like that isn't it. Gosh, imagine sneaking around to access technology and then using it to build rockets or missiles and using them to threaten the world. Wouldn't that be dreadful.
The only problem with that is that it's a lot easier trying to predict the actions of someone who is trying to predict your next move and counter it.
Carbon Dioxide in this case is a pollutant because the CO2 in the atmosphere from our energy production wouldn't be there if it wasn't for us. I.E. it would not naturally occur in those quantities if it wasn't for us.
I don't think pollutants have to be especially harmful just present in locations or quantities which they wouldn't normally be in.
Whatever is causing climate change if reducing emissions might stop it or slow it down then we should make all the efforts we can to do so, if it turns out that isn't going to help then for want of anything else to do we wont have lost anything.
I have 28 separate personalities and each of them has stolen the identity of someone else, they each have accounts on our computer and behave as though they were the person who's identity they have assumed. Our system is totally insecure since none of us can agree on a password but at least no one will find out any personal information from us because it all belongs to someone else.
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Speaking for myself I prefer to see my bosses doing their best to run the company in such a way that they increase my wages, don't lose me my job and manage to business to sensible long term goals.
Anything which isn't directly related to doing that e.g. writing pointless circulars announcing great new initiative #18472, spending time telling us all how it great it is to cruise around in the company yacht and telling us our wages will be frozen for year because of a lack of money ( which curiosily doesn't affect the comany yacht or the vast amount of money printing glossy brochures for new initiative #18472 or sycophantic company newspapers ).
Speculation is what we are engaged in now, we can tell from the physical properties of ice cores and tree rings what kind of climate was prevalent when that data was recorded.
There may be data which says the sun is warming up ( I don't know I haven't seen anything about that ) but are you saying that will make any potential global warming worse or better ?
Nuclear power is a good energy source, it's ironic that some environmentalists have been so successful in influencing policy against pursuing the nuclear route that in most countries it will now take a long time and a lot of money to restructure our power generation to a mainly nuclear solution.
At least with nuclear power you do have to keep a tight control on where the waste materials end up rather than just pumping them into the atmosphere and hoping for the best.
Maybe global warming isn't happening, maybe it is happening but it's entirely natural or maybe it is happening and it's us causing it. None of those possibilities is any reason not to make an effort to stop polluting the atmosphere with the by products of our energy production and in some cases it's vital that we do this. There is no argument to say that our pollution is actually good for either the environment or our continued survival in it.
At some point in the future we are going to have a better, cleaner and more efficient energy generation process and businesses and companies will be selling this and making money from producing and using energy. The point is we could have this now, and maybe stave off a global catastrophe a lot sooner if we made a big effort to change right now. Rather than waiting for our energy companies to take the lead we should force them to do something now.