I wonder if the sidewalk it was traveling down (to the south) had a physical barrier blocking it from going further south? (toward traffic)
From the photos and Google Maps, it looks like it's partially separated from the road by fenced trees and shrubbery, but there's wide gaps where the road is accessible. It seems the lil' fellow did nearly go on a journey of discovery into traffic at one point:
One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, "You can't go that way, it's toward the road."
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If the margin of victory was greater then 2 percent,
It was not, as best as I can tell from the translation:
Kauniainen municipality electronically of the votes lost to two percent, and for missing votes in the number would have been enough change in the outcome of the elections.
Only one actor, singular and lower-case. Reagan had a degree in economics and a fairly long political career; it's not like he stepped right off the silver screen into the White House.
only two parties one can vote for,
Not entirely accurate, although the two major parties hold a strong dominance. Generally, two parties have been dominant in the past, but not always the same two. We've elected one President with no party at all. We currently have two US Senators and a fair few US Reps who are neither Democrats nor Republicans. At the state level, it gets a lot more mixed.
It would be nice if we could loosen the hold the Big Two have over politics, tho'. I think Ross Perot got the closest in my lifetime to breaking that hold - pity he was stark, raving mad.
tolerate torture,
Every nation "tolerates" torture that does not take actions against nations who torture. The US does not torture, although admittedly Bush broke that policy for a while (both by allowing waterboarding and transferring prisoners to nations who do full-blown torture). You'll notice that the majority of Americans were angry about that, while some other nations defended him.
infiltrate other countries...
Every nation not in the third world (and some that are) engages in espionage. Whatever country you're from does, too.
For example, "that member of Anonymous may hang out" is bad English. It could be "that members of an Anonymous group may hang out".
It is bad English, but only because of your typo. The phrase "that members of Anonymous may hang out" is fine; it refers to a group named "Anonymous". Your suggestion, on the other hand, is poor English, because it breaks capitalization rules. It also changes the meaning of the phrase.
Remember the rule: A grammar flame invariably contains at least one grammatical error. Even this one.
All I know of it is that it's worse than anything I can imagine or you can either.
Oh, I dunno, I can imagine a lot. I once imagined I was an Army Specialist in a war in Bosnia. Heck, if I close my eyes and concentrate, or simply turn my head, I can imagine my decorations sitting on the nightstand behind me. Imagination is a wonderful thing.
But I also don't go around judging the men and women of the military for showing a movie.
I do. Many, many soldiers take tremendous pride in their professionalism. These men and women work very hard, often for most of their lives, to shape our armed forces into something our nation and the world can view with respect. When Beavis and Butthead enlist and start playing games, this undermines a lot of that reputation.
Worse, this kind of crap endangers our combat troops. While these guards are yukking it up safely out of harm's way, they're inciting the locals. Hussein was popular, and I can't help but wonder how many Iraqis may be pushed over the edge by this behavior into joining or assisting the local resistance.
I don't think I'm qualified to second guess what happens in their line of duty.
Sure you are! Soldiers risk their lives to preserve your right to criticize them, among other things. (Okay, the Iraq war is hardly a defense of American rights, but that's not the soldiers' fault.)
3) The Global Warming Trend does not follow the Sun activities close enough for it to be the cause of the trend.
While I agree with you, that statement is bad science. We're dealing with complex systems here we don't fully understand, and a lack of obvious correlation does not mean there's none. We should of course work with the best information we have - that CO2 is the major cause of climate change, but that doesn't mean we should ignore other potential factors.
1) You are nit picking about the bacteria vs archaea thing. It's not relevant to the speech.
And hooray for the nitpickers, says I! The tone of the OP may've been sour, but I'd never heard of archaea before in my life. I learned a little something from the discussion that I wouldn't otherwise have, thanks to a nitpicker.
Is showing a prisoner a satirical movie which mocks him really torture?
Over and over again? No, it isn't torture, but it's mean, petty, and unprofessional. It reflects poorly upon the soldiers as soldiers, Americans, and human beings. It reflects poorly upon America in general, reinforcing the "drunken frat boy with a shotgun" image we've managed to mint for ourselves. But no, it isn't torture.
Not in my book. Hell, going to a regular American prison, and potentially getting raped, for committing a non-violent crime (drug possession for instance) seems much worse than being shown potentially insulting films.
Stabbing out both of your eyes would be much worse than just one. So you don't mind if I stab out one, right? Not that I'm comparing the movie to eye-stabbery; the point is that "not-as-bad" is not the same thing as "good".
I think most people don't know just how bad Saddam was...
Yeah... among his atrocities, he united his splintered nation, started free public education and literacy programs, guaranteed health care for citizens, modernized the country's infrastructure, eliminated the Islamic legal system in favor of a secular one, extended women's rights, and took back the oil fields from foreign corporations that were playing robber-baron.
That guy should've really been tortured. I mean, geeze, literacy and women's rights. Just think how much trouble those've caused the western world.
If France had invaded to free us from the tyranny of Abe Lincoln, how would we feel? I mean, he suspended habeas corpus, imprisoned thousands with no trial, and allowed his generals to burn entire cities.
Fifteen, but no upfront charge for the software, which is nice.
That said, I tried Eve and gave it up. It's not really my thing; it's got a lot of tedious travel, a lot of grind, and is very PVP oriented. Griefing is actively encouraged.
The gameplay tends to encourage players to join into large, highly-structured, aggressively-run corporations (which are the equivalent of guilds or clans).
That said, it has a lot going for it, if you really like PVP and corporation administration. Corps, in particular, have a great deal of power and flexibility; they can claim sovereign rights over territory, for example, and build various structures and powerful warships there. Cool in concept, but the grind/PVP focus and long, slow travel turned me off to it. Your mileage may vary; try the trial and see for yourself.
Since Swedish doesn't have the concept of habeas corpus, they find themselves in this kind of circular "watching the watchers" predicament.
*sniff* That's a beautifully constructed troll, sir. The obvious response, of course, is that habeas corpus has nothing whatsoever to do with initiating investigations. At all. In any way.
The only reasonable conclusion, of course, is that your native tongue is Chewa, which of course has no phrase for "I don't know what the hell I'm talking about, but I could sure use another drink".
In principle this is a great concept, but given that most vehicles don't have this yet, that's not something you can solely rely on for the time being.
In fairness, this thing's still a long way from seeing the market. Possibly GM predicts, or hopes, that such systems will have begun to proliferate before that day comes.
I'll agree with you anyway, but go further and say it's not something you'll ever be able to solely rely upon. Until cars can recognize pedestrians, animals, obstructions, big potholes, sudden lane changes, stuff falling off an overloaded truck, and suchlike, as well as take appropriate actions other than braking, this will be no more then an assist. If it lessens accidents, however, I'm all for it.
I mean, let's say a bus is coming towards you. If you're in this thing, you're toast. But if you just WALK, you can always jump out of the way.
I suspect GM may include some sort of control for controlling the direction of movement. If so, you could, y'know, turn. I doubt it'll be any less safe than bicycles and motorcycles in that regard.
Walking is an excellent option and I do so whenever possible. However, it's tricky to walk at 35mph; I never got the knack.
Something like this looks like it'd be an okay option for someone who needs to travel a fair bit within a city metro area. I'm strictly meh on it from what's said in TFA, but I don't think your specific criticism is particularly valid.
Trillions of dollars going from my and your pockets directly into shady Banks, who will lose our money just like they lost their own.
That is a pretty good troll, and I wish we saw more like it rather than the tripe that passes for trolling these days.
I confess I'm vaguely curious as to why you capitalized "Banks" and "Trillions" but not "congress". Your troll is so well-written elsewise, it makes me wonder if it was a deliberate affectation to look a little more cranklike.
While the AP is, indeed, a not-for-profit organization, that doesn't mean it isn't trying to make a profit. No, really:
The Olympics and the presidential election also made the AP incur higher expenses, one reason that pretax profit fell 18 percent to $37.3 million. Net income, however, rose 4.5 percent to $25.1 million because of lower tax expenses. The AP remained debt-free, though its cash balance dropped 26 percent to $34.5 million at the end of last year.
That link sort of proves the GP's point. That piece of "investigative journalism" is a series of interviews in Iraq which demonstrates that life is really hard there for women. Gosh. There's not an investigation, as such.
I respect that reporters take risks when going into war zones and other areas of unrest, but that doesn't turn a human interest piece into investigative journalism.
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I wonder if the sidewalk it was traveling down (to the south) had a physical barrier blocking it from going further south? (toward traffic)
From the photos and Google Maps, it looks like it's partially separated from the road by fenced trees and shrubbery, but there's wide gaps where the road is accessible. It seems the lil' fellow did nearly go on a journey of discovery into traffic at one point:
One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, "You can't go that way, it's toward the road."
Why do new comments on stories go to the bottom of the list?
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If the margin of victory was greater then 2 percent,
It was not, as best as I can tell from the translation:
Kauniainen municipality electronically of the votes lost to two percent, and for missing votes in the number would have been enough change in the outcome of the elections.
You had and have Actors as heads of state,
Only one actor, singular and lower-case. Reagan had a degree in economics and a fairly long political career; it's not like he stepped right off the silver screen into the White House.
only two parties one can vote for,
Not entirely accurate, although the two major parties hold a strong dominance. Generally, two parties have been dominant in the past, but not always the same two. We've elected one President with no party at all. We currently have two US Senators and a fair few US Reps who are neither Democrats nor Republicans. At the state level, it gets a lot more mixed.
It would be nice if we could loosen the hold the Big Two have over politics, tho'. I think Ross Perot got the closest in my lifetime to breaking that hold - pity he was stark, raving mad.
tolerate torture,
Every nation "tolerates" torture that does not take actions against nations who torture. The US does not torture, although admittedly Bush broke that policy for a while (both by allowing waterboarding and transferring prisoners to nations who do full-blown torture). You'll notice that the majority of Americans were angry about that, while some other nations defended him.
infiltrate other countries ...
Every nation not in the third world (and some that are) engages in espionage. Whatever country you're from does, too.
For example, "that member of Anonymous may hang out" is bad English. It could be "that members of an Anonymous group may hang out".
It is bad English, but only because of your typo. The phrase "that members of Anonymous may hang out" is fine; it refers to a group named "Anonymous". Your suggestion, on the other hand, is poor English, because it breaks capitalization rules. It also changes the meaning of the phrase.
Remember the rule: A grammar flame invariably contains at least one grammatical error. Even this one.
Let's post our real names.
This is my real name, you insensitive clod!
Someone who does not appear to belong in a ...neighborhood ... due to their behavior, including unusual questions or statements they make.
Men, take notice! New reason not to ask for directions: "But if we pull over and ask, we could be reported as terrorists, honey."
I'm pretty sure it should be "whoever" in this case
You're absolutely right. Just an artifact of editing my response while distracted.
All I know of it is that it's worse than anything I can imagine or you can either.
Oh, I dunno, I can imagine a lot. I once imagined I was an Army Specialist in a war in Bosnia. Heck, if I close my eyes and concentrate, or simply turn my head, I can imagine my decorations sitting on the nightstand behind me. Imagination is a wonderful thing.
But I also don't go around judging the men and women of the military for showing a movie.
I do. Many, many soldiers take tremendous pride in their professionalism. These men and women work very hard, often for most of their lives, to shape our armed forces into something our nation and the world can view with respect. When Beavis and Butthead enlist and start playing games, this undermines a lot of that reputation.
Worse, this kind of crap endangers our combat troops. While these guards are yukking it up safely out of harm's way, they're inciting the locals. Hussein was popular, and I can't help but wonder how many Iraqis may be pushed over the edge by this behavior into joining or assisting the local resistance.
I don't think I'm qualified to second guess what happens in their line of duty.
Sure you are! Soldiers risk their lives to preserve your right to criticize them, among other things. (Okay, the Iraq war is hardly a defense of American rights, but that's not the soldiers' fault.)
Not trying to flame, but honestly who cares how much water flows through a data center?
Whomever has to pay the water bill cares.
3) The Global Warming Trend does not follow the Sun activities close enough for it to be the cause of the trend.
While I agree with you, that statement is bad science. We're dealing with complex systems here we don't fully understand, and a lack of obvious correlation does not mean there's none. We should of course work with the best information we have - that CO2 is the major cause of climate change, but that doesn't mean we should ignore other potential factors.
1) You are nit picking about the bacteria vs archaea thing. It's not relevant to the speech.
And hooray for the nitpickers, says I! The tone of the OP may've been sour, but I'd never heard of archaea before in my life. I learned a little something from the discussion that I wouldn't otherwise have, thanks to a nitpicker.
Microsoft will find a way to pay them with coupons toward the purchase of copies of Windows XP.
Fixed that for ya.
Is showing a prisoner a satirical movie which mocks him really torture?
Over and over again? No, it isn't torture, but it's mean, petty, and unprofessional. It reflects poorly upon the soldiers as soldiers, Americans, and human beings. It reflects poorly upon America in general, reinforcing the "drunken frat boy with a shotgun" image we've managed to mint for ourselves. But no, it isn't torture.
Not in my book. Hell, going to a regular American prison, and potentially getting raped, for committing a non-violent crime (drug possession for instance) seems much worse than being shown potentially insulting films.
Stabbing out both of your eyes would be much worse than just one. So you don't mind if I stab out one, right? Not that I'm comparing the movie to eye-stabbery; the point is that "not-as-bad" is not the same thing as "good".
I think most people don't know just how bad Saddam was...
Yeah... among his atrocities, he united his splintered nation, started free public education and literacy programs, guaranteed health care for citizens, modernized the country's infrastructure, eliminated the Islamic legal system in favor of a secular one, extended women's rights, and took back the oil fields from foreign corporations that were playing robber-baron.
That guy should've really been tortured. I mean, geeze, literacy and women's rights. Just think how much trouble those've caused the western world.
If France had invaded to free us from the tyranny of Abe Lincoln, how would we feel? I mean, he suspended habeas corpus, imprisoned thousands with no trial, and allowed his generals to burn entire cities.
When exactly was the last time you ever defused a landmine or stormed a machine gun nest?
Yeah, there aren't any combat veterans here. You're the only person on /. who knows what war is like, 'cause you saw Saving Private Ryan twice.
It got an ovation, great. But are they allowing anyone to release any reviews?
TFA is a review.
-Does Eve work through WINE?
Yeah. I think they have a Linux client, as well.
-What is the $/month rate
Fifteen, but no upfront charge for the software, which is nice.
That said, I tried Eve and gave it up. It's not really my thing; it's got a lot of tedious travel, a lot of grind, and is very PVP oriented. Griefing is actively encouraged.
The gameplay tends to encourage players to join into large, highly-structured, aggressively-run corporations (which are the equivalent of guilds or clans).
That said, it has a lot going for it, if you really like PVP and corporation administration. Corps, in particular, have a great deal of power and flexibility; they can claim sovereign rights over territory, for example, and build various structures and powerful warships there. Cool in concept, but the grind/PVP focus and long, slow travel turned me off to it. Your mileage may vary; try the trial and see for yourself.
Since Swedish doesn't have the concept of habeas corpus, they find themselves in this kind of circular "watching the watchers" predicament.
*sniff* That's a beautifully constructed troll, sir. The obvious response, of course, is that habeas corpus has nothing whatsoever to do with initiating investigations. At all. In any way.
The only reasonable conclusion, of course, is that your native tongue is Chewa, which of course has no phrase for "I don't know what the hell I'm talking about, but I could sure use another drink".
Frog. Kettle of water. Slowly apply heat.
That doesn't actually work.
...uh, I hear.
In principle this is a great concept, but given that most vehicles don't have this yet, that's not something you can solely rely on for the time being.
In fairness, this thing's still a long way from seeing the market. Possibly GM predicts, or hopes, that such systems will have begun to proliferate before that day comes.
I'll agree with you anyway, but go further and say it's not something you'll ever be able to solely rely upon. Until cars can recognize pedestrians, animals, obstructions, big potholes, sudden lane changes, stuff falling off an overloaded truck, and suchlike, as well as take appropriate actions other than braking, this will be no more then an assist. If it lessens accidents, however, I'm all for it.
I mean, let's say a bus is coming towards you. If you're in this thing, you're toast. But if you just WALK, you can always jump out of the way.
I suspect GM may include some sort of control for controlling the direction of movement. If so, you could, y'know, turn. I doubt it'll be any less safe than bicycles and motorcycles in that regard.
Walking is an excellent option and I do so whenever possible. However, it's tricky to walk at 35mph; I never got the knack.
Something like this looks like it'd be an okay option for someone who needs to travel a fair bit within a city metro area. I'm strictly meh on it from what's said in TFA, but I don't think your specific criticism is particularly valid.
Trillions of dollars going from my and your pockets directly into shady Banks, who will lose our money just like they lost their own.
That is a pretty good troll, and I wish we saw more like it rather than the tripe that passes for trolling these days.
I confess I'm vaguely curious as to why you capitalized "Banks" and "Trillions" but not "congress". Your troll is so well-written elsewise, it makes me wonder if it was a deliberate affectation to look a little more cranklike.
Um, the AP isn't really run for profit, silly.
While the AP is, indeed, a not-for-profit organization, that doesn't mean it isn't trying to make a profit. No, really:
The Olympics and the presidential election also made the AP incur higher expenses, one reason that pretax profit fell 18 percent to $37.3 million. Net income, however, rose 4.5 percent to $25.1 million because of lower tax expenses. The AP remained debt-free, though its cash balance dropped 26 percent to $34.5 million at the end of last year.
Are you quite certain about that? Back in February, CNN won a National Headline Award in the Documentary Or Series Of Reports category for its special "On Deadly Ground: Women Of Iraq" produced by its Special Investigations Unit ... which, as you can see, has been working hard on a lot of things for a long time.
That link sort of proves the GP's point. That piece of "investigative journalism" is a series of interviews in Iraq which demonstrates that life is really hard there for women. Gosh. There's not an investigation, as such.
I respect that reporters take risks when going into war zones and other areas of unrest, but that doesn't turn a human interest piece into investigative journalism.