The bridge to nowhere was in a transportation appropriations bill, not in a defense bill.
And who do you propose we put in charge of deciding which spending items are "pork" and which are legitimate needs? I, for one, don't think the midwest should have any Interstate highways paid for with federal money, because I have no intention of driving on them. Maybe we should have some sort of elected body that makes these decisions. We could call it "Congress" or something.
My friend married a Turkish woman and she is the most nationalistic person I've ever known. She will not tolerate any jokes or snide comments about Turkey.
That's not nationalism, it's just good sense. She knows that if she returns to Turkey after tolerating jokes or snide comments in another country, she could be imprisoned for life for toleration.
I believe the penalty for using the letters q, w, and x has been liberalized and no longer calls for immediate execution.
If you think that the "right" to purchase copyrighted music from another country without copyright laws is a "free speech" issue, anything else you say probably isn't very credible.
Exactly. Submitter says "I design software..." but in reality he wants someone else to design the software so he can just be the codemonkey who programs it.
Yes, but the "equal and opposite reaction" doesn't mean that the 2 objects involved have equla and opposite momentum after the collision; if all of my momentum is transferred to the person I kick, the equal and opposite force I feel is, by definition, exactly enough to leave me at rest, rather than moving in the other direction.
If you're going to write an article about the laws of physics, shouldn't you actually understand the laws of physics? "Equal and opposite reaction" doesn't mean that when I kick someone and they go flying in one direction, I must go flying in the opposite direction at the same speed, unless I had no momentum toward them before impact. In which case, umm, it would be kind of hard for me to hit them.
That's just more proof that we don't have to do anything... There's still exactly as much life on Jupiter now as there was before it was hit; therefore if the Earth is hit by a similar-sized object, life will survive just fine. Q.E.D.
Ok, I'm imagining what would happen. They'd all start moving forward at the exact same time, none of them hitting each other. This is bad why, exactly?
What you are apparently imagining is what happens when some of the people don't actually start accelerating at the exact same time by the exact same amount.
I really enjoyed the talk page for the dinosaur article, where the conservative Americans flame the conservative Brit for being British, and the complaints that right wing Catholic nutjob dogma is being censored in favor of Southern Baptist nutjob dogma.
Their article on Stephen Colbert makes me doubt the site's a huge troll; if it was it would surely be full of glowing praise for the leading conservative thinker of our time. As it is, I'm pretty sure they don't get his criticism of Wikipedia; it's practically the opposite of their own criticism.
Ironic that you'd get modded up for suggesting that antibiotics becoming less effective is going to cause everyone to die from the flu, when it's largely idiots thinking that antibiotics can stop the flu who are responsible for them becoming ineffective in the first place.
Sure, but to leap from that to suggesting that he would have ordered a massive invasion of Iraq for no apparent reason is just astoundingly stupid. I find it more likely he'd have overseen a much larger offensive in Afghanistan against bin Laden, most likely before 9/11 since that administration he was a part of actually saw al Queda as a threat without waiting for them to kill thousands of Americans.
Well, it's arguable that shipping telnetd at all even without this vulnerability is an obvious hole in the OS, but software bugs are usually only "obvious" after they've been found.
...until idiot drivers who don't understand "objects in mirror are closer than they appear" start causing more accidents. Although I suppose the passenger side ones would be banned too if there was enough such stupidity to have a statistically significant impact on the number of accidents.
Ok, that makes it more likely (but probably not by a huge amount) that I will someday come across one of these. Hey, who needs servers when your printer is a Sparc?
Or maybe you're just showing a fundamental lack of understanding of what the word "nasty" means. A chemical that's dangerous to us can be called "nasty" without implying any sort of moral judgment.
So what you're saying is that Congress doesn't mandate DRM, and that your mention of them in a discussion about why the record companies don't just get rid of DRM is a complete non sequitur. Thanks for clearing that up.
That's an interesting argument, but if I was running a corporation selling something in 2 formats, one of which was seeing huge increases in revenue and the other of which was doing so badly that my overall revenue was still down, I'd think that from my point of view the incredibly profitable side of my business wouldn't be the one I saw as "very bad".
Apple should just close their music store entirely and watch every single record label file for Chapter 11 by the end of the year.
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The bridge to nowhere was in a transportation appropriations bill, not in a defense bill.
And who do you propose we put in charge of deciding which spending items are "pork" and which are legitimate needs? I, for one, don't think the midwest should have any Interstate highways paid for with federal money, because I have no intention of driving on them. Maybe we should have some sort of elected body that makes these decisions. We could call it "Congress" or something.
My friend married a Turkish woman and she is the most nationalistic person I've ever known. She will not tolerate any jokes or snide comments about Turkey.
That's not nationalism, it's just good sense. She knows that if she returns to Turkey after tolerating jokes or snide comments in another country, she could be imprisoned for life for toleration.
I believe the penalty for using the letters q, w, and x has been liberalized and no longer calls for immediate execution.
"sudo -s" is more friendly to people who use a real shell and want to continue using it as root.
If you think that the "right" to purchase copyrighted music from another country without copyright laws is a "free speech" issue, anything else you say probably isn't very credible.
Yet another problem that would be completely solved if we'd just listen to the fine folks at alt.chrome.the.moon.
Exactly. Submitter says "I design software..." but in reality he wants someone else to design the software so he can just be the codemonkey who programs it.
Yes, but the "equal and opposite reaction" doesn't mean that the 2 objects involved have equla and opposite momentum after the collision; if all of my momentum is transferred to the person I kick, the equal and opposite force I feel is, by definition, exactly enough to leave me at rest, rather than moving in the other direction.
If you're going to write an article about the laws of physics, shouldn't you actually understand the laws of physics? "Equal and opposite reaction" doesn't mean that when I kick someone and they go flying in one direction, I must go flying in the opposite direction at the same speed, unless I had no momentum toward them before impact. In which case, umm, it would be kind of hard for me to hit them.
That's just more proof that we don't have to do anything... There's still exactly as much life on Jupiter now as there was before it was hit; therefore if the Earth is hit by a similar-sized object, life will survive just fine. Q.E.D.
No, you're wrong. No information travels when one quantum entangled particle affects another at a distance.
If enough people vote it down in the Firehose after it's already a story, can we get it removed from the site?
Ok, I'm imagining what would happen. They'd all start moving forward at the exact same time, none of them hitting each other. This is bad why, exactly?
What you are apparently imagining is what happens when some of the people don't actually start accelerating at the exact same time by the exact same amount.
I really enjoyed the talk page for the dinosaur article, where the conservative Americans flame the conservative Brit for being British, and the complaints that right wing Catholic nutjob dogma is being censored in favor of Southern Baptist nutjob dogma.
Their article on Stephen Colbert makes me doubt the site's a huge troll; if it was it would surely be full of glowing praise for the leading conservative thinker of our time. As it is, I'm pretty sure they don't get his criticism of Wikipedia; it's practically the opposite of their own criticism.
Ironic that you'd get modded up for suggesting that antibiotics becoming less effective is going to cause everyone to die from the flu, when it's largely idiots thinking that antibiotics can stop the flu who are responsible for them becoming ineffective in the first place.
Sure, but to leap from that to suggesting that he would have ordered a massive invasion of Iraq for no apparent reason is just astoundingly stupid. I find it more likely he'd have overseen a much larger offensive in Afghanistan against bin Laden, most likely before 9/11 since that administration he was a part of actually saw al Queda as a threat without waiting for them to kill thousands of Americans.
I'm sure Chris# will be a much more full-featured language. You should have seen the original Chris language; that was a monster to work with.
Well, it's arguable that shipping telnetd at all even without this vulnerability is an obvious hole in the OS, but software bugs are usually only "obvious" after they've been found.
...until idiot drivers who don't understand "objects in mirror are closer than they appear" start causing more accidents. Although I suppose the passenger side ones would be banned too if there was enough such stupidity to have a statistically significant impact on the number of accidents.
Ok, that makes it more likely (but probably not by a huge amount) that I will someday come across one of these. Hey, who needs servers when your printer is a Sparc?
Or maybe you're just showing a fundamental lack of understanding of what the word "nasty" means. A chemical that's dangerous to us can be called "nasty" without implying any sort of moral judgment.
I've yet to come across a printer that was running Solaris, but I'll certainly keep that in mind if I ever do.
So what you're saying is that Congress doesn't mandate DRM, and that your mention of them in a discussion about why the record companies don't just get rid of DRM is a complete non sequitur. Thanks for clearing that up.
Congress doesn't mandate DRM, so no, that doesn't matter.
It's perfectly legal for me to make music and sell it to whomever I want without any DRM on it.
Oh, I see. IHBT.
That's an interesting argument, but if I was running a corporation selling something in 2 formats, one of which was seeing huge increases in revenue and the other of which was doing so badly that my overall revenue was still down, I'd think that from my point of view the incredibly profitable side of my business wouldn't be the one I saw as "very bad".
Apple should just close their music store entirely and watch every single record label file for Chapter 11 by the end of the year.
Mods: please do not mod people who think NXDOMAIN is the same thing as a 404 response "Insightful". You'll only encourage the idiots to spread their misinformation further, and make the people reading these comments dumber.