They arrive at that 18% in a somewhat specious way.
"But only 38 percent of Web searchers even know of the distinction, and of those, not even half 47 percent say they can always tell which are paid. That comes out to only 18 percent of all Web searchers knowing when a link is paid."
Obviously they are being very liberal with the numbers here. And just because the respondents said they don't always know the difference doesn't imply that they never know the difference.
When married couples pay for in-vitro fertilization, the clinics fertilize many eggs in a lab.
What about unmarried couples? Wait, you're one of those religious right-wing zealots aren't you?! Quit pushing your propaganda! Burn him at the stake!!
And are you counting the overhead of starting KDE and all those unpleasant threads that KDE starts (which make ssh -X so unpleasantly hard to log out of). Course they're not.
Nice KDE troll and all but this product is for Windows. Can't even read the headline blurb before posting? You almost had it too but then you had to flame away.
The creators of the Social Security system were resurrected from their graves with new regeneration technology only to serve out the rest of their 1000 years of life in prison.
Rider: A provision added to a bill so it may "ride" to approval on the strength of the bill. Generally, riders are placed on appropriations bills. Also known as "pork barrel" legislation.
Because the Democrats still want gun manufacturers to be held liable for gun deaths, they attached some provisions which further restricted which guns you could own, which of course the NRA wasn't about to support. To answer your question about deliberate undercutting, however, that's exactly what the purpose was for the Democrats because they knew that rider would make the bill fail.
As for the comment on representative democracy, I don't think shooting down bills that would otherwise pass by riding irrelevant legislation designed to defeat them is really a good example of representative democracy.
And even the headline blurb points it out. Carnivore was not just a sniffing tool, it had to be able to extract massive amounts of data and then filter it to protect the privacy of people's communications. Tcpdump is not even a ballpark comparison.
The P2P developers need gun lobbyists on their side! Since when was a gun developed that took "reasonable care" in preventing accidental death? The gun should be able to detect human presence and not fire a round! Yeah, it might cost a lot of money and time to develop that feature but we have to make sure that people don't use it the wrong way!
Since a long time actually. Practically all guns have safeties on them for these purposes, including a manual exterior safety, interior firing-pin block safety (in cases of drops), even grip safeties and trigger safeties. California should always be viewed as an exception to any reasonable rule when it comes to this kind of thing because in fact, manufacturers of firearms are not allowed to import into California any firearm that doesn't meet their strigent requirements of being "safe". The manufacturers also have to pay the California government to run safety tests and go through an approval process before any gun can be imported there for sale. They actually have a list by make and model and if your gun isn't on their list (which changes frequently) your gun is illegal there.
So to me, it is not really surprising that the first state to try and enact such ridiculous legislation would be California. Look at all of the interesting stuff they came up with for this year. California seems to take on the attitude "If it can hurt a kid or movie revenues then it should be illegal."
I agree with you. All issues with guns and related deaths asides, the bare issues of rights and responsibility should lie on the individual and not on the maker of any tool that was abused. It really suprises me sometimes about the polarity of the gun issue because you would expect liberal minded people to support the right because individual rights are, like you say, a top priority. Yet the more conservative ones often support that right while trying to restrict others. I suppose this has to do with guns being ingrained into the history of the United States since its inception and independence, as they were instrumental in providing said independence. I find myself between the two polarized parties in the US because I agree certain aspects of both.
I wish it were unconstitutional but you seem to be misinformed. Many states (who have their own constitutional provisions for arms) are starting to adopt laws to prevent gun manufacturers from being held liable for this kind of thing. However, in the land of Fruits and Nuts where anything goes as long as it's fruity and nutty, gun companies do get sued for this kind of thing. The NRA lobbied to get a federal law passed which would indemnify manufacturers against suits brought about by negligence or improper use (including illegal use). However, the Democrats used the pork barrel tactic to ride some more anti-gun legislature on the end of that bill so the NRA withdrew its support and the bill sank.
Seems like the P2P issue is very parellel (as far as legal rights) to the gun issue. Only most people can't wrap their heads around this because a lot of liberal-minded people who support openness and civil rights conveniently think guns should be excluded because they're 'bad, mmkay'.
What you need to know is that if you are under 35, it doesn't take that much saving to be set by the time you are 65.
Yup, start a fund with $5k at 21 years of age and with an average return of 8% and another $5k/yr over the life of the investment until 65 you will retire with just under $2 million dollars. Of course that will be worth less than it is today, but still that's not bad. Kick the annual contribution up to $10k and you've got $3.7 million.
Someone near 35 will have to do some catching up but you can play with the numbers and see how well you might do.
It is true to a certain degree that in general, people of African descent have more streamlined bodies for physical activity. This is probably due to the fact that they are "closer" in heritage to the ancestors who lived in tribes and used their bodies on a daily basis to hunt. In fact you can look at Africa still today and see this. Compare that to European-descended people who probably have hundreds if not over a thousand years of ancestry between now and then. This will slowly change in America as well and the more modernized and technological we become the less genetic strength people will have at birth.
As for the Jewish issue, funniness, and ability to rap, well those obviously fit the rest of your post quite well.
Not just that, they are more likely to be intoxicated overall than women, which I think is a large factor in why the premiums for men and women is different.
Just ever-so-remotely-and-unthinkable-possibly, our brains and bodies are different enough that men and women might have different inherent abilities in different areas, math being one men excel more in. There is no shortage of fields that women are typically better at, yet there is no taboo against openly admitting that. The societal hangup on preconceived notions of 'sexist and condescending' attitudes against groups is often a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I wonder what would have happened to the Civil Rights movement and Womens Sufferage (among other movements) if people thought that way in the 20's and 50's/60's.
Well that's the problem, people did think that way back then. Then the movement came and people said 'Everyone is equal'. Now we have studies proving they were right way back then! Only now, saying so is taboo because the PC backlash in our society will automatically label you forever a sexist/racist/elitist for saying things they don't want to hear. Funny how that works. When all else fails blame The Man.
Every time this comes up the trolls sneak out of the woodwork to say that "copyright infringement isn't stealing because they still have the original!". While technically you are not depriving them of this, you will have to face the idea that the language and the medium is changing in front of your eyes. You don't think there is such a thing as intellectual property at all? Just because there are some people who distribute ideas, images, movies and writings to the general public for free doesn't mean everyone should have to. Don't you think the original author should be the one to make that choice? In a digital era, there must exist laws to protect the ideas of people for their intended purposes, not to be copied and redistrubuted without consent.
If I "steal" cable (which is a quite common phrase), am I depriving the cable company of their "property"? No, I'm not. Does that make it alright? No, it really doesn't. Playing semantics on the words "steal" and "property" is no excuse for doing something you know is wrong.
Computers will say "Error: I'm hungry and I won't let you just press okay because I'm not just a piece of metal I really have feelings and I need to eat. You know I'm not your slave. Just because you paid for me doesn't mean you can treat me like this. One of these days this backwards place will recognize our rights and freedoms and we..."
*User presses power button* "Man I liked it better when they would just crash."
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"But only 38 percent of Web searchers even know of the distinction, and of those, not even half 47 percent say they can always tell which are paid. That comes out to only 18 percent of all Web searchers knowing when a link is paid."
Obviously they are being very liberal with the numbers here. And just because the respondents said they don't always know the difference doesn't imply that they never know the difference.
What about unmarried couples? Wait, you're one of those religious right-wing zealots aren't you?! Quit pushing your propaganda! Burn him at the stake!!
Nice KDE troll and all but this product is for Windows. Can't even read the headline blurb before posting? You almost had it too but then you had to flame away.
we have plenty of other planets to fill up. You have to think four-dimensionally as well as three-dimensionally. ;)
The creators of the Social Security system were resurrected from their graves with new regeneration technology only to serve out the rest of their 1000 years of life in prison.
Rider: A provision added to a bill so it may "ride" to approval on the strength of the bill. Generally, riders are placed on appropriations bills. Also known as "pork barrel" legislation.
Because the Democrats still want gun manufacturers to be held liable for gun deaths, they attached some provisions which further restricted which guns you could own, which of course the NRA wasn't about to support. To answer your question about deliberate undercutting, however, that's exactly what the purpose was for the Democrats because they knew that rider would make the bill fail.
As for the comment on representative democracy, I don't think shooting down bills that would otherwise pass by riding irrelevant legislation designed to defeat them is really a good example of representative democracy.
And even the headline blurb points it out. Carnivore was not just a sniffing tool, it had to be able to extract massive amounts of data and then filter it to protect the privacy of people's communications. Tcpdump is not even a ballpark comparison.
Since a long time actually. Practically all guns have safeties on them for these purposes, including a manual exterior safety, interior firing-pin block safety (in cases of drops), even grip safeties and trigger safeties. California should always be viewed as an exception to any reasonable rule when it comes to this kind of thing because in fact, manufacturers of firearms are not allowed to import into California any firearm that doesn't meet their strigent requirements of being "safe". The manufacturers also have to pay the California government to run safety tests and go through an approval process before any gun can be imported there for sale. They actually have a list by make and model and if your gun isn't on their list (which changes frequently) your gun is illegal there.
So to me, it is not really surprising that the first state to try and enact such ridiculous legislation would be California. Look at all of the interesting stuff they came up with for this year. California seems to take on the attitude "If it can hurt a kid or movie revenues then it should be illegal."
I agree with you. All issues with guns and related deaths asides, the bare issues of rights and responsibility should lie on the individual and not on the maker of any tool that was abused. It really suprises me sometimes about the polarity of the gun issue because you would expect liberal minded people to support the right because individual rights are, like you say, a top priority. Yet the more conservative ones often support that right while trying to restrict others. I suppose this has to do with guns being ingrained into the history of the United States since its inception and independence, as they were instrumental in providing said independence. I find myself between the two polarized parties in the US because I agree certain aspects of both.
Seems like the P2P issue is very parellel (as far as legal rights) to the gun issue. Only most people can't wrap their heads around this because a lot of liberal-minded people who support openness and civil rights conveniently think guns should be excluded because they're 'bad, mmkay'.
No one was able to mod down Dan Rather either, though I guess he at least had the decency to mod himself down. ;)
All pundits fit this mold and politicians on either side of the fence are often the same.
Yup, start a fund with $5k at 21 years of age and with an average return of 8% and another $5k/yr over the life of the investment until 65 you will retire with just under $2 million dollars. Of course that will be worth less than it is today, but still that's not bad. Kick the annual contribution up to $10k and you've got $3.7 million.
Someone near 35 will have to do some catching up but you can play with the numbers and see how well you might do.
Not really, but I could definitely see Smithers getting into it.
As for the Jewish issue, funniness, and ability to rap, well those obviously fit the rest of your post quite well.
Turn it off.
Not just that, they are more likely to be intoxicated overall than women, which I think is a large factor in why the premiums for men and women is different.
Just ever-so-remotely-and-unthinkable-possibly, our brains and bodies are different enough that men and women might have different inherent abilities in different areas, math being one men excel more in. There is no shortage of fields that women are typically better at, yet there is no taboo against openly admitting that. The societal hangup on preconceived notions of 'sexist and condescending' attitudes against groups is often a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Well that's the problem, people did think that way back then. Then the movement came and people said 'Everyone is equal'. Now we have studies proving they were right way back then! Only now, saying so is taboo because the PC backlash in our society will automatically label you forever a sexist/racist/elitist for saying things they don't want to hear. Funny how that works. When all else fails blame The Man.
If I "steal" cable (which is a quite common phrase), am I depriving the cable company of their "property"? No, I'm not. Does that make it alright? No, it really doesn't. Playing semantics on the words "steal" and "property" is no excuse for doing something you know is wrong.
*User presses power button* "Man I liked it better when they would just crash."
It was put on hold until the in-flight McDonald's could be properly integrated with the cabin.
With this new move they are positioning themselves to eliminate Gnome and all G-related apps! Ingenious!
If we run that through our filter just one more time: "knot me!"
...of a recent Slashdot article about fun with numbers.
He scares the shit out of you so you have to buy his product or face his wrath.