"Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it."
- Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy, 1517.
Coca Cola has come under fire in India for selling softdrinks containing pesticides, which in turn contain cadmium and lead, among other toxins and compounds.
Also, in several parts of India, local Coca-Cola bottlers have been known to use pesticides and other chemicals in their product Link. Since the bottling plants distribute the coca sludge leftover from making drinks to farmers who need the organic mess to provide nutrients for overfarmed fields, the pesticides and toxins present in the drink itself are also present in the sludge in much greater qualtities. Several villiages near Coke facilities have complained of high cancer rates, abnormally high infant mortality rates, and other problems.
...does that $37 billion to charity outweight the worlds of damage Warren Buffet has dealt out over his lifetime building up a late-capitalist nightmare? I recognize that Mr. Buffet has lead a modest and respectable lifestyle despite his wealth, and this donation certainly speaks well for him, but he funded and managed monstrous corporate entities such as credit companies which have created a caste of poverty-stricken families. He raised Bershire Hathaway from a dying company to one of the world's largest and most influential conglomerations which extends its tentacles to almost every industry through insurance; these insurance companies have earned universal disapproval for memorably screwing over hundreds of thousands of homeless in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He owns 7% of Coca-Cola and sat on its board of trustee; Coke is reknowned for having a terrible human-rights record (assassinating union leaders, distributing radioactive and toxic sludge to Indian farmers as 'fertilizer', etc).
He may be a nice man, but his excellent entrepreneurship has left the world in a hole overall.
The main problem I have with ST is that in its attempts to unify QFT with GR, the WGT becomes much too ambiguous with regard to WGO. Does our universe even qualify as proper SFU? And does ST demonstrate HTAW? Our universe, being ASLOM could be considered little more than a running simulation in the light of TBNT. The RFLN of alternate landscapes may not even BCWN; to assume there is a limit to their VPIN is shakey.
OT, but alcohol's 21 in every state. Thanks to our buddy Reagan, states which do not set the age limit to 21 don't get federal highway funding and other goodies, that sly bastard.
Perhaps I'm aged at my eighteen years, but I am aware of absolutely no children under the age of 16 with a job or private source of income other than selling weed to their middle-school friends. Additionally, I am aware of absolutely no children, employed or not, with an apartment of their own. Furthermore, all gaming kids I have seen must hassle their (grand)parents to pony up the dollars for their new idolized game/game system. What phenomenon are you describing?
The difference between Iran wanting to build a new nuclear weapon and the US wanting to build a new nuclear weapon is vastly significant in my opinion. Slow down there, mate. Iran has repeatedly stated that it seeks civil nuclear technology only, and the IAEA concurrs that there is no evidence whatsoever that Iran is developing military nuclear technology. It is us, the United States, who are accusing Iran of secretly developing this technology, despite the utter lack of substantiation of these claims.
The DOE has a brief document explaining why the US needs a new nuclear weapon. The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty has a brief article detailing how we are supposed to be on the path to complete nuclear disarmament, despite the wiles of our military-industrial complex.
A) No, one can not show you where this was used, because it's performed by an NSA secret project. Additionally, it's illegal to disclose information about it at all; file your motions under seal.
B) Your rights in that circumstance would be violated because as a citizen, you are protected from wiretaps by the fourth amendment. Police wiretaps are legal because they get warrants. NSA wiretaps are illegal because they don't. It doesn't matter to whom you're talking; *your* right not to be wiretapped is violated. If you travel to China and get thrown in jail for no reason, there will be an international incident. Panama tried that once, arresting an American citzen for politcal reasons. We invaded them shortly afterwards, though admittedly his rescue was a minor facet of the invasion as a whole. Regardless, your point that other nations make their own laws is indeed correct.
Tobacco doesn't kill millions of addicts. Diseases such as those that tobacoo can cause kill millions of people; the actual number of tobacoo-caused deaths is very small. Indeed, only 24 smokers in 100,000 develop lung cancer, compared to 7 in 100,000 non-smokers. Recognize that this statistic means that smokers are 350% more likely to develop lung cancer. Recognize as well that these same numbers also show that _99.975%_ of smokers never develop lung cancer. Additionally, the number of premature deaths attributed definitively to tobacco use in Great Britain in a given year is about 900, that out of a population of 60 million, of whom about 15 million smoke.
I'm not saying tobacoo is good, and I don't smoke tobacco myself, but the bullshit the anti-tobbaco lobby has been spreading recently is ludicrous. If Capricans like cigars, let us see it as a cultural element of Caprican life. If you're so caught up about smoking that you don't enjoy BSG because the characters often smoke after missions, loosen up.
I have no medical evidence, jd0g85, I, too, was treated for lazy eye with patches and I have ended up with the same effects over which fshalor complains.
I can see out of my left eye, but only when the right eye is closed. My left (bad) eye also suffers color offset, I can't wear contacts for more than a few hours, I have bad prescriptions now in both eyes, etc etc.
While I can prove nothing, I've doubled the sample size:)
There are a number of small fragments from Ma Bell, such as Cincinatti Bell, which also has survived the breakup independently. However, they're scarcely major players in the telecom field, which is why I neglected them; Lucent's going down the tubes especially.
The fact that the system has a decade of precedent use does not mean that the system of measure is valid. If I were using a ruler with centimeter incriments placed every pi centimeters, regardless of how long I use that ruler, its measurements are not correct. One cannot measure server dominance based on sales for obvious reasons; free OSes are a powerful plurality in the server market, and this plurality itself is only a fragment of non-free OSes which are, in many ways, identical and all competing against Microsoft's deployment. In terms of actual usage, UNIX machines dominate the market; this is usful data. Knowing that Microsoft raked in more cash than any single competing business selling UNIX is interesting, but tells me nothing of practical value about UNIX and Windows servers.
The fact that Windows OS now outnumbers UNIX boxes is neither suprising nor noteworthy. They've been chipping away at the server market for ages. Bound to happen eventually.
This is not what the article reports. UNIX servers still vastly outnumber Windows servers; however, if you count the dollars spend on *new* servers in the last year, and you differentiate between Linux and other UNIXes, Windows servers come out on top with $.2 billion more generated revenue than non-Linux UNIX boxes. It's a crappy way to compare server dominance obfuscated to make MS look better.
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American dollars are worth quite a bit less than British pounds. I'd rather have British pounds lining my pockets.
There's no denying that America provides a much larger audience, however.
Do not taunt the Happy Fun Ball.
I think you'd have lots of angry customers complaining about how your funky RAM doesn't fit their slots.
"Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it."
- Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy, 1517.
Coca Cola has come under fire in India for selling softdrinks containing pesticides, which in turn contain cadmium and lead, among other toxins and compounds.
Yes, assassinating union leaders.
Also, in several parts of India, local Coca-Cola bottlers have been known to use pesticides and other chemicals in their product Link. Since the bottling plants distribute the coca sludge leftover from making drinks to farmers who need the organic mess to provide nutrients for overfarmed fields, the pesticides and toxins present in the drink itself are also present in the sludge in much greater qualtities. Several villiages near Coke facilities have complained of high cancer rates, abnormally high infant mortality rates, and other problems.
As for Katrina, that was indeed a bit trollish.
...does that $37 billion to charity outweight the worlds of damage Warren Buffet has dealt out over his lifetime building up a late-capitalist nightmare? I recognize that Mr. Buffet has lead a modest and respectable lifestyle despite his wealth, and this donation certainly speaks well for him, but he funded and managed monstrous corporate entities such as credit companies which have created a caste of poverty-stricken families. He raised Bershire Hathaway from a dying company to one of the world's largest and most influential conglomerations which extends its tentacles to almost every industry through insurance; these insurance companies have earned universal disapproval for memorably screwing over hundreds of thousands of homeless in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He owns 7% of Coca-Cola and sat on its board of trustee; Coke is reknowned for having a terrible human-rights record (assassinating union leaders, distributing radioactive and toxic sludge to Indian farmers as 'fertilizer', etc).
He may be a nice man, but his excellent entrepreneurship has left the world in a hole overall.
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The main problem I have with ST is that in its attempts to unify QFT with GR, the WGT becomes much too ambiguous with regard to WGO. Does our universe even qualify as proper SFU? And does ST demonstrate HTAW? Our universe, being ASLOM could be considered little more than a running simulation in the light of TBNT. The RFLN of alternate landscapes may not even BCWN; to assume there is a limit to their VPIN is shakey.
I'm willing to put $50 down to say that affected manufacturers include my mine.
OT, but alcohol's 21 in every state. Thanks to our buddy Reagan, states which do not set the age limit to 21 don't get federal highway funding and other goodies, that sly bastard.
Walmart's already got this worked out. Haven't you heard of the stores which lock their employees inside 'to prevent theft'?
Yeah yeah. The +3 Insightful modifier on grandparent at the time through me off.
Perhaps I'm aged at my eighteen years, but I am aware of absolutely no children under the age of 16 with a job or private source of income other than selling weed to their middle-school friends. Additionally, I am aware of absolutely no children, employed or not, with an apartment of their own. Furthermore, all gaming kids I have seen must hassle their (grand)parents to pony up the dollars for their new idolized game/game system. What phenomenon are you describing?
Is the RIAA still in charge?
The difference between Iran wanting to build a new nuclear weapon and the US wanting to build a new nuclear weapon is vastly significant in my opinion.
Slow down there, mate. Iran has repeatedly stated that it seeks civil nuclear technology only, and the IAEA concurrs that there is no evidence whatsoever that Iran is developing military nuclear technology. It is us, the United States, who are accusing Iran of secretly developing this technology, despite the utter lack of substantiation of these claims.
The DOE has a brief document explaining why the US needs a new nuclear weapon.
The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty has a brief article detailing how we are supposed to be on the path to complete nuclear disarmament, despite the wiles of our military-industrial complex.
No one saw this coming. No one.
A) No, one can not show you where this was used, because it's performed by an NSA secret project. Additionally, it's illegal to disclose information about it at all; file your motions under seal.
B) Your rights in that circumstance would be violated because as a citizen, you are protected from wiretaps by the fourth amendment. Police wiretaps are legal because they get warrants. NSA wiretaps are illegal because they don't. It doesn't matter to whom you're talking; *your* right not to be wiretapped is violated.
If you travel to China and get thrown in jail for no reason, there will be an international incident. Panama tried that once, arresting an American citzen for politcal reasons. We invaded them shortly afterwards, though admittedly his rescue was a minor facet of the invasion as a whole. Regardless, your point that other nations make their own laws is indeed correct.
Tobacco doesn't kill millions of addicts. Diseases such as those that tobacoo can cause kill millions of people; the actual number of tobacoo-caused deaths is very small. Indeed, only 24 smokers in 100,000 develop lung cancer, compared to 7 in 100,000 non-smokers. Recognize that this statistic means that smokers are 350% more likely to develop lung cancer. Recognize as well that these same numbers also show that _99.975%_ of smokers never develop lung cancer. Additionally, the number of premature deaths attributed definitively to tobacco use in Great Britain in a given year is about 900, that out of a population of 60 million, of whom about 15 million smoke.
I'm not saying tobacoo is good, and I don't smoke tobacco myself, but the bullshit the anti-tobbaco lobby has been spreading recently is ludicrous. If Capricans like cigars, let us see it as a cultural element of Caprican life. If you're so caught up about smoking that you don't enjoy BSG because the characters often smoke after missions, loosen up.
I have no medical evidence, jd0g85, I, too, was treated for lazy eye with patches and I have ended up with the same effects over which fshalor complains.
:)
I can see out of my left eye, but only when the right eye is closed. My left (bad) eye also suffers color offset, I can't wear contacts for more than a few hours, I have bad prescriptions now in both eyes, etc etc.
While I can prove nothing, I've doubled the sample size
Lucent, too :)
Forgive me for ignoring the little people.
There are a number of small fragments from Ma Bell, such as Cincinatti Bell, which also has survived the breakup independently. However, they're scarcely major players in the telecom field, which is why I neglected them; Lucent's going down the tubes especially.
The fact that the system has a decade of precedent use does not mean that the system of measure is valid. If I were using a ruler with centimeter incriments placed every pi centimeters, regardless of how long I use that ruler, its measurements are not correct. One cannot measure server dominance based on sales for obvious reasons; free OSes are a powerful plurality in the server market, and this plurality itself is only a fragment of non-free OSes which are, in many ways, identical and all competing against Microsoft's deployment. In terms of actual usage, UNIX machines dominate the market; this is usful data. Knowing that Microsoft raked in more cash than any single competing business selling UNIX is interesting, but tells me nothing of practical value about UNIX and Windows servers.
The fact that Windows OS now outnumbers UNIX boxes is neither suprising nor noteworthy. They've been chipping away at the server market for ages. Bound to happen eventually.
This is not what the article reports. UNIX servers still vastly outnumber Windows servers; however, if you count the dollars spend on *new* servers in the last year, and you differentiate between Linux and other UNIXes, Windows servers come out on top with $.2 billion more generated revenue than non-Linux UNIX boxes. It's a crappy way to compare server dominance obfuscated to make MS look better.
how long has this service been disgustingly obsolete?