In Jordan's style the whole fellowship would have been split up and he'd tell Frodo and Sam's story, Merry and Pippin's story, Gandalf's story, Aragon's story, Legolas' story, Gimli's story and Boromir's story as separate plot lines with side arcs for Elrond, Arwen, Eowyn and then some.
That actually sounds like it would be pretty awesome.
Yes, that's exactly what's needed in the modern car: more distractions, and reasons to let go of the steering wheel and take your eyes off the road so you can watch that restaurant as you wave your hands at it as you drive by...
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I used several big words, and one of them incorrectly, so perhaps your confusion is understandable.
The question is why so many people, yourself included, have a problem with the students breaking the law against, as you say, "blocking a path" (though they clearly weren't impeding anyone's movement), but you have no problem with the police breaking the law by using pepper spray in a manner expressly forbidden.
I see a lot of people claiming that the students were breaking the law by not moving when they were told to.
They may have been, but it's not clear that they were. Students at a University are not breaking the law by being on the grounds. There may be a school rule about erecting tents (though, at the time the pepper-spraying incident occured, all the tents had already been removed), but it's unlikely to be a law.
Is disobeying a police officer's order to surrender your first-amendment right to peacably gather and petition the government for a redress of greviences against the law in Davis, California? I doubt it.
But, even if they were, how come these same people who always pipe up with the claim that the protesters deserve it because they were breaking the law never also point out that the police were breaking the law by using pepper spray on them? California law is quite clear about when an officer can use force: To stop a fleeing suspect who is subject to arrest, and to eliminate a threat.
At the incident in UC Davis, Lt. Pike was neither eliminating a threat (there was quite obviously not threat of violence by anyone other than the police), nor was anybody fleeing.
So how come the approbation over the students who may or may not have been breaking a law, but none over the police who quite definitely were?
Assuming New York's laws are similar to California's, Anthony Bologna was also breaking the law when macing protesters when they were corralled and contained.
So is Fallout banned under these guidelines? There are a variety of drugs, including alcohol types, you can take in the game to give you various boosts.
Would "Whiskey" be banned, but "Buffout" OK, because one has the same name as a real drug?
And does that extend to "potions"? They're a staple of any fantasy game, and are exactly the same thing as drugs but with a different name.
That's even better, actually. If you have some that failed and some that succeeded, that can help you isolate what factors made it fail or succeed and make sure to include/not include those factors. I would think a mixture of failures and successes in this kind of test would be much more useful than a couple of successes with no failures would be.
A lot of people were saying pretty much exactly this in 1850:
Look, honestly, what are you going to do about it? Complaining doesn't matter. [Slavery] will be here forever, and, as much as we hate to admit it, there is nothing that can be done about it. There is too much money involved, and [plantation owners] have vast amounts of power, much more so than any collection of outraged stories and messages [in Northern pamphlets] does.
Seriously, I hope [slavery] is abolished tomorrow, or hell even five years from now. But honestly without fundamental, almost revolutionary changes to the way the US government works this simply will not happen. Money talks, [Southern] lobbyists have TONS of money, and that's pretty much the end of it.
In Uxmal, there's a marker that plaque that explains both the fact that the Maya built the pyramids themselves - they did not have the help of any aliens, and points out "Nor did the Maya disappear. We are still here. One of us wrote this plaque!"
Also, point of correction: The term for the people is the "Maya". The languages are "Mayan". "Mayans" is an obsolete term that is not correct in any context.
(Also, they don't generally refer to *themselves* as Maya, but rather as "Tzotzil", "Winik atel", "Yucatec", and so forth. (Or, occasionally, "Indios", which I've never been able to figure out whether it translates as "Indians" or "Indigenous" - they call the North American Native Americans "Indios" as well.))
Quite a few of us Obama supporters have been writing, calling, and petitioning him to do exactly that. Either these people are Prisoners of War, in which case they need to be treated as such, including decent accommodations with a complete lack of torture, or they are suspected criminals, in which case they need to be tried, in full accordance with the law.
So far, his only plan to "close" Gitmo is to open another Gitmo but with a different name. (Kinda like how Clinton responded to demands to close the School of the Americas by renaming it the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.)
Actually, since the passage of the PATRIOT Act, you're no longer required to take cash then, either, anymore.
But that's irrelevant, as the law the summary (and presumably the article) references doesn't just say you're not required to accept cash, but that you're not permitted to use it.
There was also a whole series of "Bush or Chimp" pictures comparing the two. (I'd find the URL but I'm at work.)
But, yeah, racists sometimes compare people to monkeys (or chimps). It does not follow that therefore everyone who compares a person to a monkey is a racist.
I have plenty of IKEA furniture. It's perfect for my lifestyle - I take 3-6 month contracts and follow them around the country. When I move more than a couple of states away, I have found it's cheaper for me to completely furnish my house from Ikea than it is to rent a truck and move all my stuff. (Not to mention also easier and more fun).
But, for the most part, it isn't "real wood" - most of the parts are laminate with folded cardboard on the inside.
I don't buy it for its high quality, though - it's cheap, basically disposable, and not really meant to last. And, at the end of a contract, it's easy to post to Craigslist and can be disassembled to fit into most cars so people can come haul it off for me.
At $700 around here, they would need to issue a total of two tickets per hour to pay for it.
I'd be surprised if, from a helicopter, they can't spot more than two speeders every hour.
And, of course, that's just from the speeding ticket. In Beaverton, Oregon (as I recently found out:), if you don't pay the ticket on time it can go from $470 to $1130 total - all they have to do is catch the person driving with a six-month old "unpaid" ticket on their record.
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In Jordan's style the whole fellowship would have been split up and he'd tell Frodo and Sam's story, Merry and Pippin's story, Gandalf's story, Aragon's story, Legolas' story, Gimli's story and Boromir's story as separate plot lines with side arcs for Elrond, Arwen, Eowyn and then some.
That actually sounds like it would be pretty awesome.
Maybe I'll have to check this series out...
We're working on it!
Yes, that's exactly what's needed in the modern car: more distractions, and reasons to let go of the steering wheel and take your eyes off the road so you can watch that restaurant as you wave your hands at it as you drive by...
Capture one. See who knocks down your door.
Just make sure you're livestreaming, because you probably won't get a chance to talk to anybody about it for a very long time...
This was back in the days when a three-hole-punch was required equipment for every student. That's what most of us used.
The question is why so many people, yourself included, have a problem with the students breaking the law against, as you say, "blocking a path" (though they clearly weren't impeding anyone's movement), but you have no problem with the police breaking the law by using pepper spray in a manner expressly forbidden.
Goddammmit. That's what I meant. I hate making that kind of mistake publicly.
They may have been, but it's not clear that they were. Students at a University are not breaking the law by being on the grounds. There may be a school rule about erecting tents (though, at the time the pepper-spraying incident occured, all the tents had already been removed), but it's unlikely to be a law.
Is disobeying a police officer's order to surrender your first-amendment right to peacably gather and petition the government for a redress of greviences against the law in Davis, California? I doubt it.
But, even if they were, how come these same people who always pipe up with the claim that the protesters deserve it because they were breaking the law never also point out that the police were breaking the law by using pepper spray on them? California law is quite clear about when an officer can use force: To stop a fleeing suspect who is subject to arrest, and to eliminate a threat.
At the incident in UC Davis, Lt. Pike was neither eliminating a threat (there was quite obviously not threat of violence by anyone other than the police), nor was anybody fleeing.
So how come the approbation over the students who may or may not have been breaking a law, but none over the police who quite definitely were?
Assuming New York's laws are similar to California's, Anthony Bologna was also breaking the law when macing protesters when they were corralled and contained.
Would "Whiskey" be banned, but "Buffout" OK, because one has the same name as a real drug?
And does that extend to "potions"? They're a staple of any fantasy game, and are exactly the same thing as drugs but with a different name.
That's even better, actually. If you have some that failed and some that succeeded, that can help you isolate what factors made it fail or succeed and make sure to include/not include those factors. I would think a mixture of failures and successes in this kind of test would be much more useful than a couple of successes with no failures would be.
If Obama is against legalizing marijuana, then they're for it.
When President Bachmann gets into office, they'll be against it again.
And yes, judges do occasionally get caught getting kickbacks from the prison owners to hand out more and longer sentences.
"Death panels" + "health care rationing" = Shibboleth for "I watch way too much Fox News and actually take them seriously"
Look, honestly, what are you going to do about it? Complaining doesn't matter. [Slavery] will be here forever, and, as much as we hate to admit it, there is nothing that can be done about it. There is too much money involved, and [plantation owners] have vast amounts of power, much more so than any collection of outraged stories and messages [in Northern pamphlets] does.
Seriously, I hope [slavery] is abolished tomorrow, or hell even five years from now. But honestly without fundamental, almost revolutionary changes to the way the US government works this simply will not happen. Money talks, [Southern] lobbyists have TONS of money, and that's pretty much the end of it.
Sorry. I guess I should have said "states both the facts", as it did not actually "explain" either of them.
Also, point of correction: The term for the people is the "Maya". The languages are "Mayan". "Mayans" is an obsolete term that is not correct in any context.
(Also, they don't generally refer to *themselves* as Maya, but rather as "Tzotzil", "Winik atel", "Yucatec", and so forth. (Or, occasionally, "Indios", which I've never been able to figure out whether it translates as "Indians" or "Indigenous" - they call the North American Native Americans "Indios" as well.))
I think you overestimate people's average intelligence...
And here I am out of mod points.
Quite a few of us Obama supporters have been writing, calling, and petitioning him to do exactly that. Either these people are Prisoners of War, in which case they need to be treated as such, including decent accommodations with a complete lack of torture, or they are suspected criminals, in which case they need to be tried, in full accordance with the law.
So far, his only plan to "close" Gitmo is to open another Gitmo but with a different name. (Kinda like how Clinton responded to demands to close the School of the Americas by renaming it the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.)
But that's irrelevant, as the law the summary (and presumably the article) references doesn't just say you're not required to accept cash, but that you're not permitted to use it.
But, yeah, racists sometimes compare people to monkeys (or chimps). It does not follow that therefore everyone who compares a person to a monkey is a racist.
Even the US space program, with a pretty darn good track record, still loses the occasionaly probe or shuttle.
And we did our share to deplete the surplus population of monkeys while we were developing it, too.
If most people paid into it for a while, but the insurance companies never had to pay out, that would increase profit margin even more, not less.
In other words, it was equipment abandoned outside of any national jurisdiction?
Wouldn't it - and anything else he wanted to take - be his under international salvage laws, then?
I have plenty of IKEA furniture. It's perfect for my lifestyle - I take 3-6 month contracts and follow them around the country. When I move more than a couple of states away, I have found it's cheaper for me to completely furnish my house from Ikea than it is to rent a truck and move all my stuff. (Not to mention also easier and more fun).
But, for the most part, it isn't "real wood" - most of the parts are laminate with folded cardboard on the inside.
I don't buy it for its high quality, though - it's cheap, basically disposable, and not really meant to last. And, at the end of a contract, it's easy to post to Craigslist and can be disassembled to fit into most cars so people can come haul it off for me.
I'd be surprised if, from a helicopter, they can't spot more than two speeders every hour.
And, of course, that's just from the speeding ticket. In Beaverton, Oregon (as I recently found out :), if you don't pay the ticket on time it can go from $470 to $1130 total - all they have to do is catch the person driving with a six-month old "unpaid" ticket on their record.