150 pounds are exactly 75 kilograms. We are talking about German pounds, right?
As for measurements in roleplaying systems (you tend to encounter these when using English books) -just replace "foot" with "meter" and "inch" with "decimeter" and pretend you're playing Exalted so the characters' superhuman feats make sense.
Actually, I'm fairly certain that through surgery and creative use of bleach/pigments one could attempt to mask one's race. That does constitute a chioce, albeit one even more silly than becoming asexual.
The problem is that we can't get rid of the problem without getting rid of the special status marriage has. People don't want to enter a civil union, they want to marry. Even atheists who'd never enter a church get married - at least according to colloquial English.
The fact that the religious ceremony used the term first doesn't change the fact that "marriage" is the term used to describe civil unions. A bit like how most people only consider a computer a PC if it's running Windows - technically wrong but widespread enough to be effectively authoritative.
I don't really see a way out of the dilemma that doesn't involve ignoring someone's opinions. We can extend the marriage concept to same.sex couples but then we'd have the religious people run amok over the devaluing of their traditions. We could try to make "civil union" displace "marriage" as the desirable thing but then we'd also have the religious people run amok over the devaluing of their traditions. We can deny homosexuals the "married" title but that's not going to end well, either, and it will require existing laws to be rewritten if we want their civil unions to be legally equivalent to marriage.
If you remove the RAS syndrome jokes my post reduces to "they built a webcrawler-accessible website using regular HTML, which makes the website fairly SEO-friendly".
That the it was written in the HTML language using American ASCII (or possibly Unicode UTF-8 or the international ISO 8859-1) in a way that gives the Googlebot robot and similar HTTP protocol-based spiders easy access. That's a crude kind of SEO optimization but it's much better than wrapping everthing in an SWF Flash movie, for example.
Except that you can't just decide to stop beig homosexual. You can try to act like you aren't but then again women can, through dressing and acting appropriately, try to pass off as men - yet this doesn't make discrimination based on sex acceptable.
The question is whether "something you do" and "something you are" can meaningfully be discerned when you have little or no control over what you do. (Yes, you can just never have any kind of sexual or romantic relationship but that's not an acceptable choice for most people.)
Exactly. Plus, churches can still refuse to do it on religious grounds if they are against it. It's not like everyone's campaigning for a law to for them to wed everyone who wants. It's the legal differences that need to go; the ability to have a ceremony in the church of one's choice is secondary.
Except that the term "marriage" is also applied to civil unions. Nobody but civil workers and clergy makes a distinction between civil unions and marriage. In fact, look at forms you fill out. When you state the status you and a potential partner live in (tellingly usually called "marital status"), do you get "in a civil union" or "married"?
Plus, it's not like same-sex civil unions are in the laws everywhere and it's just the religious ceremony that isn't supported. Same-sex civil unions are rarely supported and when they are they bring significantly fewer additional rights than mixed-sex ones (as, for instance, laws might use the terms "married" or "spouse" instead of "in a civil union" or "partner"). They're even lobbied against on religious grounds.
There is no practical difference between "marriage" and "civil union".
In fact, shouldn't it be possible to mirror the locate database to the local file system so that local calls to locate will show the proper results on the share? Granted, you lose the ability to index the local file system but depending on the setup that might not actually be a loss.
I just think of my university education. I pay ~250 EUR per semester (because Bremen's tuition law was found unconstitutional and they haven't bothered to make a new one so far; with tuition it'd be ~750 EUR) and very few courses require books. I'm working on a diploma (the local Masters predecessor) in Computer Science, so of course we don't rely much on printed books, though.
Also, you can fill most (but not all) of your curriculum with seminars where you do a presentation with very little pre-cooked material.
I get the feeling that the way US universities go about teaching people is... peculiar.
Wow. Just... wow. Over here in Germany they introduced tuitions for the public universities (in addition to management fees of 200-300 EUR we had before) we had demonstrations and in some cases even lawsuits about the constitutionality of the tuition laws.
The unbearable amount they're trying fo make students pay? 500 EUR. Yes, German students are still pissed off about having to pay up to the equivalent of 1200 USD per semester. 30.000 EUR is a realistic number, though - you can accumulate that much debt during your studies if you overly rely on loans and don't watch your spending.
By the way, tuitions were introduced so the states could slash their education spending. If they keep it up some pulic universities might end up running entirely on third-party funds...
I actually don't see much of an ethical problem with this experiment as the technique only works on genetically-modified flies and requires brain surgery -stealthily rewriting someone's memories is not likely to work. The human brain contains ATP so they can't even use the same receptors and introducing a new chemical that doesn't yet have receptors and doesn't interact with the bran in other ways might prove difficult.
You're lucky. I held a launch party and all I got were some porn-themed plastic bags and napkins and a "Steve Ballmer signature edition" DVD I'm still too afraid to even touch.
It still remains that fraud, insider trading, monopoly abuse and certain forms of breach of contract would all be theft. In fact, one could even argue for rape to be theft (the raper gains sexual satisfaction; the rapee's physical and mental health is "devalued"). It turns out that there are a lot of cases where you don't want larceny laws to apply to those scenarios.
Again, "one party gains anything, one party loses anything" is not automatically theft, not even when those two anythings are somehow connected. That's not how the law operates and that's not how anyone outside the content industry thinks. And the constant demands of having something treated under a law that was never intended to cover it (instead of a law that is) only serves to make the content industry less sympathetic and less believable. After all, wouldn't honest people work with the law instead of bending it?
However, the mails never stated they were from Toyota. Even if she agreed to receive mails from Toyota, I bet she didn't agree to receive mails from random people who just happen to be Toyota sockpuppets.
If you went to, say, Sun's website and did some quiz about their new server line and agreed to let them send you mails - would that mean you agree to receive Mails from Horst Wemsinger from Bavaria who keeps insisting that you give him your address so he can send you pictures of his children?
Even if Sun later told you that Wemsinger was their creation, at the time when you received them the mails were irritating, possibly creepy and definitely not something you'd have agreed to receive.
When one agrees to receive communications from a company, there are some very things a reasonable person will expect (for example that the communications are going to be recognizably from them). Is it still consent when the communications come in a way a reasonable person could not have expected?
By that logic, destruction of property is also stealing, as are breach of contract, insider trading and monopoly abuse. Not everything that involves someone losing money or devaluing something is theft.
Except for the fact that these are cylindrical solid structures and are definitely not going to be shrunk down to aerosol particle size. You're not going to get these deployed less conspicuously than a portable wall that has been painted black.
The materials they use for this are useful for the military, which everyone agreed on when they were first discovered.
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150 pounds are exactly 75 kilograms. We are talking about German pounds, right?
As for measurements in roleplaying systems (you tend to encounter these when using English books) -just replace "foot" with "meter" and "inch" with "decimeter" and pretend you're playing Exalted so the characters' superhuman feats make sense.
With all the czars the United States are having recently, how long do you think it will take for government-installed soviets?
Actually, I'm fairly certain that through surgery and creative use of bleach/pigments one could attempt to mask one's race. That does constitute a chioce, albeit one even more silly than becoming asexual.
The problem is that we can't get rid of the problem without getting rid of the special status marriage has. People don't want to enter a civil union, they want to marry. Even atheists who'd never enter a church get married - at least according to colloquial English.
The fact that the religious ceremony used the term first doesn't change the fact that "marriage" is the term used to describe civil unions. A bit like how most people only consider a computer a PC if it's running Windows - technically wrong but widespread enough to be effectively authoritative.
I don't really see a way out of the dilemma that doesn't involve ignoring someone's opinions. We can extend the marriage concept to same.sex couples but then we'd have the religious people run amok over the devaluing of their traditions. We could try to make "civil union" displace "marriage" as the desirable thing but then we'd also have the religious people run amok over the devaluing of their traditions. We can deny homosexuals the "married" title but that's not going to end well, either, and it will require existing laws to be rewritten if we want their civil unions to be legally equivalent to marriage.
Do you see a somewhat clean way out of this?
*whooosh*
If you remove the RAS syndrome jokes my post reduces to "they built a webcrawler-accessible website using regular HTML, which makes the website fairly SEO-friendly".
I wasn't aware that lynch mobs are better when you're on acid but it definitely sounds worth trying.
That the it was written in the HTML language using American ASCII (or possibly Unicode UTF-8 or the international ISO 8859-1) in a way that gives the Googlebot robot and similar HTTP protocol-based spiders easy access. That's a crude kind of SEO optimization but it's much better than wrapping everthing in an SWF Flash movie, for example.
Except that you can't just decide to stop beig homosexual. You can try to act like you aren't but then again women can, through dressing and acting appropriately, try to pass off as men - yet this doesn't make discrimination based on sex acceptable.
The question is whether "something you do" and "something you are" can meaningfully be discerned when you have little or no control over what you do. (Yes, you can just never have any kind of sexual or romantic relationship but that's not an acceptable choice for most people.)
Exactly. Plus, churches can still refuse to do it on religious grounds if they are against it. It's not like everyone's campaigning for a law to for them to wed everyone who wants. It's the legal differences that need to go; the ability to have a ceremony in the church of one's choice is secondary.
Except that the term "marriage" is also applied to civil unions. Nobody but civil workers and clergy makes a distinction between civil unions and marriage. In fact, look at forms you fill out. When you state the status you and a potential partner live in (tellingly usually called "marital status"), do you get "in a civil union" or "married"?
Plus, it's not like same-sex civil unions are in the laws everywhere and it's just the religious ceremony that isn't supported. Same-sex civil unions are rarely supported and when they are they bring significantly fewer additional rights than mixed-sex ones (as, for instance, laws might use the terms "married" or "spouse" instead of "in a civil union" or "partner"). They're even lobbied against on religious grounds.
There is no practical difference between "marriage" and "civil union".
In fact, shouldn't it be possible to mirror the locate database to the local file system so that local calls to locate will show the proper results on the share? Granted, you lose the ability to index the local file system but depending on the setup that might not actually be a loss.
In retrospect I have to agree. Reading "sentence" and understanding "word" does require quite a bit of (hopefully temporary) ineptitude.
"A"?
I just think of my university education. I pay ~250 EUR per semester (because Bremen's tuition law was found unconstitutional and they haven't bothered to make a new one so far; with tuition it'd be ~750 EUR) and very few courses require books. I'm working on a diploma (the local Masters predecessor) in Computer Science, so of course we don't rely much on printed books, though.
Also, you can fill most (but not all) of your curriculum with seminars where you do a presentation with very little pre-cooked material.
I get the feeling that the way US universities go about teaching people is... peculiar.
Wow. Just... wow. Over here in Germany they introduced tuitions for the public universities (in addition to management fees of 200-300 EUR we had before) we had demonstrations and in some cases even lawsuits about the constitutionality of the tuition laws.
The unbearable amount they're trying fo make students pay? 500 EUR. Yes, German students are still pissed off about having to pay up to the equivalent of 1200 USD per semester. 30.000 EUR is a realistic number, though - you can accumulate that much debt during your studies if you overly rely on loans and don't watch your spending.
By the way, tuitions were introduced so the states could slash their education spending. If they keep it up some pulic universities might end up running entirely on third-party funds...
I wasn't aware that the colon is the most direct way to access the brain. Then again, maybe if you use a really powerful laser...
I actually don't see much of an ethical problem with this experiment as the technique only works on genetically-modified flies and requires brain surgery -stealthily rewriting someone's memories is not likely to work. The human brain contains ATP so they can't even use the same receptors and introducing a new chemical that doesn't yet have receptors and doesn't interact with the bran in other ways might prove difficult.
You're lucky. I held a launch party and all I got were some porn-themed plastic bags and napkins and a "Steve Ballmer signature edition" DVD I'm still too afraid to even touch.
He only reads the web for the articles.
It still remains that fraud, insider trading, monopoly abuse and certain forms of breach of contract would all be theft. In fact, one could even argue for rape to be theft (the raper gains sexual satisfaction; the rapee's physical and mental health is "devalued"). It turns out that there are a lot of cases where you don't want larceny laws to apply to those scenarios.
Again, "one party gains anything, one party loses anything" is not automatically theft, not even when those two anythings are somehow connected. That's not how the law operates and that's not how anyone outside the content industry thinks. And the constant demands of having something treated under a law that was never intended to cover it (instead of a law that is) only serves to make the content industry less sympathetic and less believable. After all, wouldn't honest people work with the law instead of bending it?
However, the mails never stated they were from Toyota. Even if she agreed to receive mails from Toyota, I bet she didn't agree to receive mails from random people who just happen to be Toyota sockpuppets.
If you went to, say, Sun's website and did some quiz about their new server line and agreed to let them send you mails - would that mean you agree to receive Mails from Horst Wemsinger from Bavaria who keeps insisting that you give him your address so he can send you pictures of his children?
Even if Sun later told you that Wemsinger was their creation, at the time when you received them the mails were irritating, possibly creepy and definitely not something you'd have agreed to receive.
When one agrees to receive communications from a company, there are some very things a reasonable person will expect (for example that the communications are going to be recognizably from them). Is it still consent when the communications come in a way a reasonable person could not have expected?
Is "Toyota is really desperate to get anyone to buy their car" really the kind of association they want people to form?
By that logic, destruction of property is also stealing, as are breach of contract, insider trading and monopoly abuse. Not everything that involves someone losing money or devaluing something is theft.
Except for the fact that these are cylindrical solid structures and are definitely not going to be shrunk down to aerosol particle size. You're not going to get these deployed less conspicuously than a portable wall that has been painted black.
The materials they use for this are useful for the military, which everyone agreed on when they were first discovered.
Maybe he was also a spider.