If you are on a greencard you must carry that with you at all times. EAD, same thing.
A driver's license is not proof of citizenship.
Citizenship? Who said anything about citizenship? We're talking about legal residency which a driver's license should be enough to prove since it's kinda hard to get one of them without producing the paperwork to prove that you're in the country legitimately.
Indeed. I thought the Pioneer probes were way ahead of the game and have already left, but a quick visit to wikipedia says that they haven't. Are the Voyagers going faster or something?
I have over 20 different firearms, some of which I've had for over ten years. I have never used any of them on anything other than targets.
I have, on three different occasions used them to save my self in self defense situations:
1) A guy tried to break into my house after I was in bed (ostensibly he didn't know I was home). I scared him off with a shotgun, and the police picked him up shortly after.
2) A guy tried to break into my residence while I was there, and after I twice warned him that I was armed. I held him at gun point until the police arrived.
3) A gang banger tried to mug me at knife point. Luckily, I was concealed carrying, legally, and I scared him off with the gun.
Never had to fire a shot in any of the above cases, but the gun saved my life.
If you are ever in such a situation, at least be mentally secure in the smug knowledge that you aren't "compensating", as your body probably won't be.
*shakes head*
Yeah right.
I'll go one better. A guy once cut me off in his car. I saw him later in the street on the way to the pub. I did a double take and sure enough it was him. I turned back and tapped him on the shoulder. He look back me with fear in his eyes before I picked him up with one hand and threw him to the ground. I kicked the crap out of him for over an hour while my friends all clapped and cheered. I then went on to the pub and scored with two hot Swedish chicks. I took them out to the car and had wild passionate sex with both of them on the back seat while my friend stayed in the bar watching the AC Milan v Barcelona game, drinking a pint of Strongbow, and eating a packet of dry roasted peanuts.
Don't believe me? It's a hell of a lot more believable than your stories.
Furthermore, guns are not designed to "kill". They are designed to shoot a piece of metal at high velocities.
Shoot them at what? Tin cans sitting on a fence?
Whether the owner turns that on an innocent person, an attacker, an animal, or an inanimate target is solely the discretion of the owner, just the same as if I took a bat and decided to beat innocent people to death instead of playing baseball.
A baseball bat is designed to play baseball with. A gun is designed to kill people.
Are you people so fucking retarded that you can't spot the difference?
First let's get some perspective: Cars, Swimming Pools, and Ladders all cause more deaths than guns each year,
Jesus H Christ! Are you seriously comparing guns to fucking ladders? Are ladders designed to kill people? What the hell is it with you people that you can't see the problem right in front of your paranoid faces?
Guns are designed to kill.
Making it easier for people to own guns leads to more deaths by gunshot.
The second-amendment-toting "oh I'm a genius and I can get around this therefore every criminal will as well" crowd need to wake up to the reality of crime which is often committed by stupid people. Just because a new method is "not a panacea" (to use another well-worn cliché) doesn't mean it is useless in the course of an investigation or compiling enough evidence to convict the perp.
The US, under any government, has been a world leader in technology advancements.
First train? English. First commercial train service? Manchester to Liverpool. First car? German. First TV? Invented by a Scotsman. First TV broadcast service? English. First freeway/motorway/autobahn? German. First satellite? Russian. First man in space? Russian. First man to orbit the Earth? Russian. First woman in space? Russian. First moon rover? Russian. First space walk? Russian. First space station? Russian. (The ISS has a Salyut-derived core) First probe to land on another planet? Russian. Countless records broken for long duration stays in orbit? Russian. Inventor of the jet engine? English. Home of first electronic computer? Manchester, England. First supersonic airliner? Anglo-French. Inventor of the World Wide Web? An Englishman working in Switzerland.
Do those parties advocate for a capitalistic society without government intervention?
Sorry, but the capitalist v socialist / privatisation v nationalisation debate ended in Europe ages ago. Everyone is more or less agreed that there's a happy medium. Only in the USA is this tedious debate still going on.
Free trade Less government regulation (liberalized economy) Law and order Controls on immigration and measures to make immigrants conform to local customs
European left:
Statutory protections for workers Individual rights Tolerance for immigrants and respect for diversity
American right:
Homophobic, xenophobic, scientifically illiterate, market fundamentalist, religious fundamentalist nutjobs who worship at the altar of Ronald Reagan even though he'd be run out of the modern GOP as the 'most radical socialist president everrr!'
How about they focus on fixing their 28nm production problems before they set their eyes on lowering cost through bigger wafers. It's not like many of their most lucrative clients aren't hobbled at the moment by lack of supply for their top bin parts. Oh, yes they are.
Our CEO (based in Silicon Valley) makes regular trips to Taiwan. He tells me of massive developments out there, office parks the size of the city of Fremont are springing up left right and centre. Says there's this government organisation (can't recall its name) that takes in graduates as resident interns, carries out pure research, incubates new companies, and is a driving force behind the country's growth.
Anyone on here from Tawian that can confirm this? Sounds to me like they're kicking ass over there.
+3 Informative? Because you can't be on the right without hating Jews and Roma people I guess...
Yes, +3 informative. Neo-Nazi parties in Europe are on the far right and labelled as such in the European media. Only in American journalism does the term "far right" not exist. Anytime extremist parties like the National Front or British National Party are mentioned in America it is conveniently omitted that these are parties of the right.
And the big problem with H1B visas is that they artificially DRIVE DOWN the average salary (much as illegal workers do too).
"Artificially"? And putting up barriers to the free movement of labor is "natural"?
I'll give you a very concrete example. When I was in college, I used to work farm labor during the summers. This was before the glut of illegals started....
We're not talking about illegal farm labor. We're talking about legal skilled white collar workers on H1B visas.
I'll jump to one: you belittle others to make yourself feel better because you have low self-esteem. Maybe you'd have better self-esteem if you didn't undermine others'.
Incorrect. Car Talk is an unfunny, overrated, irritating radio show hosted by two jackasses who laugh like hyenas at everything they say to each other and somehow get away with passing it off as entertainment. Fact.
And people wonder why Ireland has become the basket case of Europe.
Because of a culture of corruption that crept into the planning system so that big developers got cozy with government head honchos and got their developments approved according to who paid the biggest bribes rather than what was best for urban regeneration or population growth.
Because of a culture of corruption that crept into the financial system to the point where the financial regulator didn't do its job, the Taoiseach bragged about it in the form of "light touch regulation", and backs like Anglo Irish got to gamble like drunken sailors with depositors' money way beyond their means.
Because a property bubble inflated but interest rates (which in a normal country would shave risen to counter the effect of excess building) were kept artificially low because of Ireland's presence in a currency union with Germany which had an economy more suited to low interest rates.
There are many reasons for Ireland becoming (one of) the basket cases of Europe, but the 12.5% corporation tax rate is not one of them. In fact the low corporate tax rate is one of the reasons why there was a genuine export-driven period of growth in the 1990s before the Euro and the accompanying bubble that squandered all that hard earned wealth. It was one of the distinguishing factors that the country had that allowed it to compete with the big boys and is one of its last hopes for growing its economy out of this mess. Merkel and her cronies have been pressuring Ireland for years to harmonize its taxes with the rest of the Eurozone, but thankfully successive Irish governments have managed to dig their heels in and retain one of the few pieces of sovereignty they have left.
Well here's a little pointer for you. Having a sense of humor is as much about knowing when not to laugh as knowing when to laugh. Anybody who laughs with these guys has a serious sense of humor deficit. They are not funny. The stuff they laugh at is not funny. The act of laughing at stuff that is not funny is not funny. Clear?
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If you are on a greencard you must carry that with you at all times. EAD, same thing.
A driver's license is not proof of citizenship.
Citizenship? Who said anything about citizenship? We're talking about legal residency which a driver's license should be enough to prove since it's kinda hard to get one of them without producing the paperwork to prove that you're in the country legitimately.
Can films be used as prior art to invalidate patents?
Nope. To get a patent you have to have a working prototype. A TV or movie prop is not a working prototype, it's just an imitation.
My high school geography teacher predicted the rise of China in 1986.
Indeed. I thought the Pioneer probes were way ahead of the game and have already left, but a quick visit to wikipedia says that they haven't. Are the Voyagers going faster or something?
So what if they share 99% of our DNA? We perhaps share 50% with a banana. And we all share 100% of a few dozen chemical elements.
We're related to just about every living thing on this planet that has a face. I think that's pretty mind blowing.
Um yes?
I have over 20 different firearms, some of which I've had for over ten years. I have never used any of them on anything other than targets.
I have, on three different occasions used them to save my self in self defense situations:
1) A guy tried to break into my house after I was in bed (ostensibly he didn't know I was home). I scared him off with a shotgun, and the police picked him up shortly after.
2) A guy tried to break into my residence while I was there, and after I twice warned him that I was armed. I held him at gun point until the police arrived.
3) A gang banger tried to mug me at knife point. Luckily, I was concealed carrying, legally, and I scared him off with the gun.
Never had to fire a shot in any of the above cases, but the gun saved my life.
If you are ever in such a situation, at least be mentally secure in the smug knowledge that you aren't "compensating", as your body probably won't be.
*shakes head*
Yeah right.
I'll go one better. A guy once cut me off in his car. I saw him later in the street on the way to the pub. I did a double take and sure enough it was him. I turned back and tapped him on the shoulder. He look back me with fear in his eyes before I picked him up with one hand and threw him to the ground. I kicked the crap out of him for over an hour while my friends all clapped and cheered. I then went on to the pub and scored with two hot Swedish chicks. I took them out to the car and had wild passionate sex with both of them on the back seat while my friend stayed in the bar watching the AC Milan v Barcelona game, drinking a pint of Strongbow, and eating a packet of dry roasted peanuts.
Don't believe me? It's a hell of a lot more believable than your stories.
Furthermore, guns are not designed to "kill". They are designed to shoot a piece of metal at high velocities.
Shoot them at what? Tin cans sitting on a fence?
Whether the owner turns that on an innocent person, an attacker, an animal, or an inanimate target is solely the discretion of the owner, just the same as if I took a bat and decided to beat innocent people to death instead of playing baseball.
A baseball bat is designed to play baseball with. A gun is designed to kill people.
Are you people so fucking retarded that you can't spot the difference?
First let's get some perspective: Cars, Swimming Pools, and Ladders all cause more deaths than guns each year,
Jesus H Christ! Are you seriously comparing guns to fucking ladders? Are ladders designed to kill people? What the hell is it with you people that you can't see the problem right in front of your paranoid faces?
Guns are designed to kill.
Making it easier for people to own guns leads to more deaths by gunshot.
The second-amendment-toting "oh I'm a genius and I can get around this therefore every criminal will as well" crowd need to wake up to the reality of crime which is often committed by stupid people. Just because a new method is "not a panacea" (to use another well-worn cliché) doesn't mean it is useless in the course of an investigation or compiling enough evidence to convict the perp.
The US, under any government, has been a world leader in technology advancements.
First train? English.
First commercial train service? Manchester to Liverpool.
First car? German.
First TV? Invented by a Scotsman.
First TV broadcast service? English.
First freeway/motorway/autobahn? German.
First satellite? Russian.
First man in space? Russian.
First man to orbit the Earth? Russian.
First woman in space? Russian.
First moon rover? Russian.
First space walk? Russian.
First space station? Russian. (The ISS has a Salyut-derived core)
First probe to land on another planet? Russian.
Countless records broken for long duration stays in orbit? Russian.
Inventor of the jet engine? English.
Home of first electronic computer? Manchester, England.
First supersonic airliner? Anglo-French.
Inventor of the World Wide Web? An Englishman working in Switzerland.
Thank you
Do those parties advocate for a capitalistic society without government intervention?
Sorry, but the capitalist v socialist / privatisation v nationalisation debate ended in Europe ages ago. Everyone is more or less agreed that there's a happy medium. Only in the USA is this tedious debate still going on.
Sorry, we are on Slashdot here,
Try Finland. Do I need to specify the OS ?
FFS will you stop confusing the "everything cool was invented in America" lobby with facts? Sheesh!
European right:
Free trade
Less government regulation (liberalized economy)
Law and order
Controls on immigration and measures to make immigrants conform to local customs
European left:
Statutory protections for workers
Individual rights
Tolerance for immigrants and respect for diversity
American right:
Homophobic, xenophobic, scientifically illiterate, market fundamentalist, religious fundamentalist nutjobs who worship at the altar of Ronald Reagan even though he'd be run out of the modern GOP as the 'most radical socialist president everrr!'
American left:
Anything to the left of Genghis Khan
Anyone remember HyperCard?
How about they focus on fixing their 28nm production problems before they set their eyes on lowering cost through bigger wafers. It's not like many of their most lucrative clients aren't hobbled at the moment by lack of supply for their top bin parts. Oh, yes they are.
Apply for the CEO's job then.
Our CEO (based in Silicon Valley) makes regular trips to Taiwan. He tells me of massive developments out there, office parks the size of the city of Fremont are springing up left right and centre. Says there's this government organisation (can't recall its name) that takes in graduates as resident interns, carries out pure research, incubates new companies, and is a driving force behind the country's growth.
Anyone on here from Tawian that can confirm this? Sounds to me like they're kicking ass over there.
+3 Informative? Because you can't be on the right without hating Jews and Roma people I guess...
Yes, +3 informative. Neo-Nazi parties in Europe are on the far right and labelled as such in the European media. Only in American journalism does the term "far right" not exist. Anytime extremist parties like the National Front or British National Party are mentioned in America it is conveniently omitted that these are parties of the right.
And the big problem with H1B visas is that they artificially DRIVE DOWN the average salary (much as illegal workers do too).
"Artificially"? And putting up barriers to the free movement of labor is "natural"?
I'll give you a very concrete example. When I was in college, I used to work farm labor during the summers. This was before the glut of illegals started ....
We're not talking about illegal farm labor. We're talking about legal skilled white collar workers on H1B visas.
I'll jump to one: you belittle others to make yourself feel better because you have low self-esteem. Maybe you'd have better self-esteem if you didn't undermine others'.
Incorrect. Car Talk is an unfunny, overrated, irritating radio show hosted by two jackasses who laugh like hyenas at everything they say to each other and somehow get away with passing it off as entertainment. Fact.
Oh, and let's not forget the ill-advised bank guarantee that socialized all that private debt and foisted it on the taxpayer.
And people wonder why Ireland has become the basket case of Europe.
Because of a culture of corruption that crept into the planning system so that big developers got cozy with government head honchos and got their developments approved according to who paid the biggest bribes rather than what was best for urban regeneration or population growth.
Because of a culture of corruption that crept into the financial system to the point where the financial regulator didn't do its job, the Taoiseach bragged about it in the form of "light touch regulation", and backs like Anglo Irish got to gamble like drunken sailors with depositors' money way beyond their means.
Because a property bubble inflated but interest rates (which in a normal country would shave risen to counter the effect of excess building) were kept artificially low because of Ireland's presence in a currency union with Germany which had an economy more suited to low interest rates.
There are many reasons for Ireland becoming (one of) the basket cases of Europe, but the 12.5% corporation tax rate is not one of them. In fact the low corporate tax rate is one of the reasons why there was a genuine export-driven period of growth in the 1990s before the Euro and the accompanying bubble that squandered all that hard earned wealth. It was one of the distinguishing factors that the country had that allowed it to compete with the big boys and is one of its last hopes for growing its economy out of this mess. Merkel and her cronies have been pressuring Ireland for years to harmonize its taxes with the rest of the Eurozone, but thankfully successive Irish governments have managed to dig their heels in and retain one of the few pieces of sovereignty they have left.
>We really need to make sure people understand that ALL wealth comes from government.
There's a hell of a lot of government in North Korea, why aren't they rich?
-jcr
There's no government in Somalia. Why aren't they rich?
Well here's a little pointer for you. Having a sense of humor is as much about knowing when not to laugh as knowing when to laugh. Anybody who laughs with these guys has a serious sense of humor deficit. They are not funny. The stuff they laugh at is not funny. The act of laughing at stuff that is not funny is not funny. Clear?
Laughing like a hyena at everything that comes out of your brother's mouth is not "humour". It's annoying idiocy.