I want your use of question marks to be lesser. At the same time I want our use of money for defense spending to be halved. Don't worry, that is still an insanely huge amount of money. When you can point to an 'enemy' that spends anywhere near as much per capita on defense as we do I will give you back your gratuitous punctuation privilege.
Yeah, it's not like the NYC tax base supports the rest of the state or anything... If they are paying 'maintenance' for the city I wish they would do a better job of maintaining city education without court orders and consent decrees to threaten Albany.
I can't even read him anymore. Ringo is the current foremost purveyor of what I like to call "...and then those hippies will be sorry!" science fiction.
--Aliens will invade our defenseless, unarmed civilization...and then those liberal gun-haters will be sorry!
--Evil warring factions will revert our utopian dreamworld to bronze-age barbarism...and then those limp-wristed hippies will be sorry!
etc.etc.
He also engages in another of my pet peeves, i.e. using the lofty vantage point of his (imaginary) future position to have his characters condescend to and ridicule us poor benighted (real) present dwellers about his pet political issues. All science fiction does this to a certain extent, but Ringo literally has characters say things like "Those poor 21st century people really believed their planet was warming, the enviro-commie schmucks...and then they were sorry."
The problem is that they probably don't know what to do with the prey when they catch it. That is the part that is taught. My cat likes to chase things like all get out, but he only every really manages to kill bugs, mostly because he squishes them more or less accidentally with his vast bulk:)
Well, Limbaugh/Coulter et al (and Olbermann etc on the left) do say things that are arguably slanderous fairly frequently. However two things explain why they are not punished more often. Firstly, they usually say things about people with substantial public exposure. Our government officials are not simply private citizens, they have a public role and a decreased protection from libel and slander. Secondly it is fortunately quite difficult to win a libel case in this country. I say fortunately because in places where it is less difficult, such as Singapore, it is common for government officials to simply sue critics into silence/penury/jail. All in all my personal opinion is that this added restriction on free and public discourse is not worth the admittedly great satisfaction that would be derived from making Rush stfu.
Yes, but from what I've read on SCOTUS blog there are signs that the justices are at least considering a grant of cert. The vast majority of petitioners are really granted no such amount of consideration. Also, in this case even a refusal to grant cetorari is important, in that it would implicitly endorse the machine or transformation test proposed below.
Well, naninani in this case is probably more like 'something something' or 'whatever' or 'thingamajig'. 'What what' is not a very good translation, though that is what it literally means.
Yes, but the effect of solar wind on the Martian atmosphere is really only significant in the very long term. Left to itself over millions of years a thickened Martian atmosphere would be thinned by the solar wind, but the point is we wouldn't be leaving to itself, and in the long term we are don't really care.
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Lets grow those types then, and quit trucking them in to the city.
I want your use of question marks to be lesser. At the same time I want our use of money for defense spending to be halved. Don't worry, that is still an insanely huge amount of money. When you can point to an 'enemy' that spends anywhere near as much per capita on defense as we do I will give you back your gratuitous punctuation privilege.
Yeah, it's not like the NYC tax base supports the rest of the state or anything... If they are paying 'maintenance' for the city I wish they would do a better job of maintaining city education without court orders and consent decrees to threaten Albany.
I can't even read him anymore. Ringo is the current foremost purveyor of what I like to call "...and then those hippies will be sorry!" science fiction. --Aliens will invade our defenseless, unarmed civilization...and then those liberal gun-haters will be sorry! --Evil warring factions will revert our utopian dreamworld to bronze-age barbarism...and then those limp-wristed hippies will be sorry! etc.etc. He also engages in another of my pet peeves, i.e. using the lofty vantage point of his (imaginary) future position to have his characters condescend to and ridicule us poor benighted (real) present dwellers about his pet political issues. All science fiction does this to a certain extent, but Ringo literally has characters say things like "Those poor 21st century people really believed their planet was warming, the enviro-commie schmucks...and then they were sorry."
What we need is wolves. Unfortunately we can't have those though.
The problem is that they probably don't know what to do with the prey when they catch it. That is the part that is taught. My cat likes to chase things like all get out, but he only every really manages to kill bugs, mostly because he squishes them more or less accidentally with his vast bulk :)
You and your virulent spawn should be locked away where they can't infect the rest of us.
Perpetuum Mobil perhaps?
They even have a name for it: 'Libertarian'
Well, Limbaugh/Coulter et al (and Olbermann etc on the left) do say things that are arguably slanderous fairly frequently. However two things explain why they are not punished more often. Firstly, they usually say things about people with substantial public exposure. Our government officials are not simply private citizens, they have a public role and a decreased protection from libel and slander. Secondly it is fortunately quite difficult to win a libel case in this country. I say fortunately because in places where it is less difficult, such as Singapore, it is common for government officials to simply sue critics into silence/penury/jail. All in all my personal opinion is that this added restriction on free and public discourse is not worth the admittedly great satisfaction that would be derived from making Rush stfu.
I'm sorry sir, you are being too reasonable. I'm going to have to ask you to come with me...
I don't think anyone could call the Japanese telecom sector a libertarian paradise. Not with a straight face anyway.
Sounds like academic science to me...or more honestly, it sounds like any human endeavor.
Because they aren't trying to buy Viacom?
Slashdot: News for Consumers, Stuff that's at Best Buy...
Yes, but from what I've read on SCOTUS blog there are signs that the justices are at least considering a grant of cert. The vast majority of petitioners are really granted no such amount of consideration. Also, in this case even a refusal to grant cetorari is important, in that it would implicitly endorse the machine or transformation test proposed below.
Assuming of course that the SCOTUS grants cetorari at random...
Yes. No.
And that is not replacing electric/natural gas/oil boilers?
'Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom' - Barak Obama
You can tell what a tough and cynical fellow the Parent is by his use of the word 'sheeple'.
I hope you are including Caffine and sugar in there as 'mind-altering'.
Of course, vandalism is far less of a problem then deletionism on Wikipedia these days.
Well, naninani in this case is probably more like 'something something' or 'whatever' or 'thingamajig'. 'What what' is not a very good translation, though that is what it literally means.
Yes, but the effect of solar wind on the Martian atmosphere is really only significant in the very long term. Left to itself over millions of years a thickened Martian atmosphere would be thinned by the solar wind, but the point is we wouldn't be leaving to itself, and in the long term we are don't really care.