Which is exactly the point the OP is making: If you're planning on going close to the operational limits, you'd need to know those limits with a higher degree of accuracy.
Well, the UK stopped it by finally engaging in bilateral talks and abandoning ideologically based military action. Perhaps, just perhaps, if we stop screwing the third world, the third world will stop trying to screw us back. Middle Eastern religious groups are a small subset of the people who dislike the west, you know.
In all seriousness though, while MS may get its way in many cases when dealing with media producers, it's mainly due to the fact that MS's agenda is aligned with the media producers' agenda. Were there a conflict, I have no doubt that Hollywood would get the upper hand, as they have a far more balanced and controllable position of political and economic power, compared to MS's raw, untrained brute force.
In any case, the "would Hollywood beat MS in a fight" discussion feels very much like a "would Mighty Mouse beat Superman in a fight" argument.
You've missed a conjunction, and it's "you yourself are". If you're going to throw around words like "retarded" and talk about gene pool pollution, at least demonstrate that you passed high school.
They took the land quite a long time ago from races that no longer exist, really.
Presuming you're not pro-Israel by default (in which case I'll never convince you), I'd just like to point out that it just is not true that the land now called "Israel" was most certainly NOT purely vacant prior to 1948, as you seem to believe. The land was populated, but since 1948 there have been incremental displacements of the local population, inch by inch, year by year. Just look at the current building of the wall. It goes deep onto the other side of the border, illegally annexing the land for all intents and purposes. This has been going on for a half century, they push the border a bit, put a few settlements there and then say "oh well, we're here now, can't go back in time so let's just live with how it is now".
As I said though, if you're just pro-Israeli, there's nothing I'll be able to say to convince you of the injustice of the situation. You'll just keep pointing to the suicide bombers and rocket firing terrorists and saying how evil they are, ignoring the fact that they are only doing what every other nation would do under those circumstances. So if you're pro-Israeli, lets just agree that we're not going to see eye to eye, and leave it at that.
Yea, because the third world is responsible for global warming, sweatshopped labour, "pre-emptive" wars and capitalistic plutocracy. Get over yourself, if you think the west's natural position is at the top of the human pecking order. If you had any perspective at all you'd know that history has shown again and again that any empire or civilization that seeks to place itself above others will eventually be pulled out of privilege, or die due to the inherent instabilities that arise when a whole order is based upon competitive self-serving narcissism.
Holy crap, I was making a joke, not inviting a whole bunch of pro-Israeli zealots to come out of the woodwork and attempt to bludgeon me with their version of history. Get of/. and go find some neocon political website to post on ffs.
Given that Israel is the most flagrant violator of UN resolutions, perhaps they'll listen to this. Oh crap, this isn't a political site, is it? *Runs away from the pitchfork weilding mods*
Sharks bite at stuff, it's what sharks do, they are pretty much giant eating machines living in the ocean.
Spoken like a true Jaws watcher who's never actually seen a shark in real life. I have, and I can tell you that it's *damn* hard to get anywhere near them, as they are far more afraid of you than you are of them.
You're also wrong about shark vision, many sharks have excellent vision. They are also quite intelligent, research (that I can't be bothered finding links on) has demonstrating sharks solving problems that were previously thought to be beyond them. They're not exactly going to be April fooling Flipper, but they aren't the mindless ocean dwelling mulchers that you seem to think they are.
Sharks also almost uniformly go for dead or dying fish. They are predators of opportunity. Only the great white is a habitual predator, and even then it will not attack prey that it feels can fight back. So in short, if you have a tiger, bull or bronze whaler shark circling you and eying you the way you'd eye a McDonalds burger (although I think the average human would be healthier than McDonals), swimming confidently towards it would likely scare it off. If not, a punch in the nose or gills is almost certain to do so. I'm not saying it's foolproof, but its better than scrambling to the surface like a panicked seal. If you have a great white circling you, looking hungry, the same tactic would work, only pray first. Jokes aside, sharks of any species are hard to approach. If you're diving and you see one, you're lucky, not unlucky. They can sense you well outside visible range, and they know you're not food and will avoid you before you even knew they were there. I really wish I saw more sharks on the dives I've done, and plan on going shark watching more. They truly are beautiful creatures.
We don't look anything like food they're used to, we smell funny, give off all kinds of weird electrical signals with all that metal gear we carry and we certainly don't taste good, which is why most attack victims survive the first exploratory nibble, as the shark wrinkles its nose, thinking "eew, human" and goes off to find a tasty seal. If the shark wanted to eat the surfer, we wouldn't be yelling "jeez that surfer got attacked!", we'd be mumbling "I coulda sworn there was a surfer there a minute ago".
I think that the fact that it appears longer than 10cm on the ruler is that the ruler is not on the edge closest to the camera taking the picture resulting in a different aspect ratio between the closest edge (the edge you can see in the picture) and the ruler itself. They really should have arranged the picture better.
Because modern "democratic" government is actually just a thinly veiled plutocracy, and the "globalized free market" as it exists currently is really just a vehicle for furthering the interests of apex capitalism.
Are you seriously trying to tell me that you think that corporates and governments are not incestuously linked and that government policy doesn't primarily serve the interests of big money? I'll igore US policy, seeing as this is a discussion about Australia.
There are two recent examples of where the government basically ignored public opinion to do something that obviously benefited corporate interests: a) The Telstra sale and b) Workplace agreements. Both of those were strongly opposed by the public, and in both cases the government said "too bad" and did it anyway, and the backers were big business. Then there's the issue of how on Earth a country flush with cash needs to privatize infrastructure development, such as the toll roads in Victoria being constructed by Transurban.
I won't even touch the US gov't and it's relationship with defense contractors and big companies engaged in war reconstruction, such as Halliburton and Bechtel.
And you call me delusional. You're the one living in a delusional world if you think that your government actually cares about you, and your fellow middle class citizens.
As for 1984 being fiction, if you think Orwell intended it to be nothing more than a good story, then you think wrong.
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Which is exactly the point the OP is making: If you're planning on going close to the operational limits, you'd need to know those limits with a higher degree of accuracy.
You're forgetting about mind controlled arcade machines, holographic suspended sharks, self-drying voice activated jackets and of course, Mr. Fusion.
Well, the UK stopped it by finally engaging in bilateral talks and abandoning ideologically based military action. Perhaps, just perhaps, if we stop screwing the third world, the third world will stop trying to screw us back. Middle Eastern religious groups are a small subset of the people who dislike the west, you know.
Aah the good old 404 counter argument :P
In all seriousness though, while MS may get its way in many cases when dealing with media producers, it's mainly due to the fact that MS's agenda is aligned with the media producers' agenda. Were there a conflict, I have no doubt that Hollywood would get the upper hand, as they have a far more balanced and controllable position of political and economic power, compared to MS's raw, untrained brute force.
In any case, the "would Hollywood beat MS in a fight" discussion feels very much like a "would Mighty Mouse beat Superman in a fight" argument.
Cheers.
You've missed a conjunction, and it's "you yourself are". If you're going to throw around words like "retarded" and talk about gene pool pollution, at least demonstrate that you passed high school.
Whenever I see MiB I run my alien ass away!
You really, really need to buy a lottery ticket.
Aah! So it's *you* that's behind the slow sales of HDDVD and Blueray!
Yea, they can even show you the silhouettes of the people in the cinema watching it at the Chinese premiere! Now *that's* a feature!
Actually, the Hollywood behemoth is one of the few powers that can *make* MS do something. Holywood in this case is the proverbial "bigger fish".
I'd prefer a Lulz Loyce. I've always wanted an epic mount.
Presuming you're not pro-Israel by default (in which case I'll never convince you), I'd just like to point out that it just is not true that the land now called "Israel" was most certainly NOT purely vacant prior to 1948, as you seem to believe. The land was populated, but since 1948 there have been incremental displacements of the local population, inch by inch, year by year. Just look at the current building of the wall. It goes deep onto the other side of the border, illegally annexing the land for all intents and purposes. This has been going on for a half century, they push the border a bit, put a few settlements there and then say "oh well, we're here now, can't go back in time so let's just live with how it is now".
As I said though, if you're just pro-Israeli, there's nothing I'll be able to say to convince you of the injustice of the situation. You'll just keep pointing to the suicide bombers and rocket firing terrorists and saying how evil they are, ignoring the fact that they are only doing what every other nation would do under those circumstances. So if you're pro-Israeli, lets just agree that we're not going to see eye to eye, and leave it at that.
-Naz
Come again? Dude, you sound like someone who's never met a Christian, a Jew OR a Muslim.
Yea, because the third world is responsible for global warming, sweatshopped labour, "pre-emptive" wars and capitalistic plutocracy. Get over yourself, if you think the west's natural position is at the top of the human pecking order. If you had any perspective at all you'd know that history has shown again and again that any empire or civilization that seeks to place itself above others will eventually be pulled out of privilege, or die due to the inherent instabilities that arise when a whole order is based upon competitive self-serving narcissism.
Holy crap, I was making a joke, not inviting a whole bunch of pro-Israeli zealots to come out of the woodwork and attempt to bludgeon me with their version of history. Get of /. and go find some neocon political website to post on ffs.
Err... chill dude...
Haha UN-possible. *giggles uncontrollably* OK I'm done.
Given that Israel is the most flagrant violator of UN resolutions, perhaps they'll listen to this. Oh crap, this isn't a political site, is it? *Runs away from the pitchfork weilding mods*
Spoken like a true Jaws watcher who's never actually seen a shark in real life. I have, and I can tell you that it's *damn* hard to get anywhere near them, as they are far more afraid of you than you are of them.
You're also wrong about shark vision, many sharks have excellent vision. They are also quite intelligent, research (that I can't be bothered finding links on) has demonstrating sharks solving problems that were previously thought to be beyond them. They're not exactly going to be April fooling Flipper, but they aren't the mindless ocean dwelling mulchers that you seem to think they are.
Sharks also almost uniformly go for dead or dying fish. They are predators of opportunity. Only the great white is a habitual predator, and even then it will not attack prey that it feels can fight back. So in short, if you have a tiger, bull or bronze whaler shark circling you and eying you the way you'd eye a McDonalds burger (although I think the average human would be healthier than McDonals), swimming confidently towards it would likely scare it off. If not, a punch in the nose or gills is almost certain to do so. I'm not saying it's foolproof, but its better than scrambling to the surface like a panicked seal. If you have a great white circling you, looking hungry, the same tactic would work, only pray first. Jokes aside, sharks of any species are hard to approach. If you're diving and you see one, you're lucky, not unlucky. They can sense you well outside visible range, and they know you're not food and will avoid you before you even knew they were there. I really wish I saw more sharks on the dives I've done, and plan on going shark watching more. They truly are beautiful creatures.
We don't look anything like food they're used to, we smell funny, give off all kinds of weird electrical signals with all that metal gear we carry and we certainly don't taste good, which is why most attack victims survive the first exploratory nibble, as the shark wrinkles its nose, thinking "eew, human" and goes off to find a tasty seal. If the shark wanted to eat the surfer, we wouldn't be yelling "jeez that surfer got attacked!", we'd be mumbling "I coulda sworn there was a surfer there a minute ago".
I think they converted to AC because if they posted under their own name, the Oil companies would assassinate them.
Eh? Wassat? Y'll 'ave te speek oop laddy, I can no' hear ya talkin'. All aah heard was "My ball, my rules".
Where Are They Now? Episode 205:
Captain Obvious, the washed up superhero, now works writing hardware reviews.
I think that the fact that it appears longer than 10cm on the ruler is that the ruler is not on the edge closest to the camera taking the picture resulting in a different aspect ratio between the closest edge (the edge you can see in the picture) and the ruler itself. They really should have arranged the picture better.
Because modern "democratic" government is actually just a thinly veiled plutocracy, and the "globalized free market" as it exists currently is really just a vehicle for furthering the interests of apex capitalism.
Are you seriously trying to tell me that you think that corporates and governments are not incestuously linked and that government policy doesn't primarily serve the interests of big money? I'll igore US policy, seeing as this is a discussion about Australia.
There are two recent examples of where the government basically ignored public opinion to do something that obviously benefited corporate interests: a) The Telstra sale and b) Workplace agreements. Both of those were strongly opposed by the public, and in both cases the government said "too bad" and did it anyway, and the backers were big business. Then there's the issue of how on Earth a country flush with cash needs to privatize infrastructure development, such as the toll roads in Victoria being constructed by Transurban.
I won't even touch the US gov't and it's relationship with defense contractors and big companies engaged in war reconstruction, such as Halliburton and Bechtel.
And you call me delusional. You're the one living in a delusional world if you think that your government actually cares about you, and your fellow middle class citizens.
As for 1984 being fiction, if you think Orwell intended it to be nothing more than a good story, then you think wrong.
Fanboy vs Fanboy.
Wasn't there a game called something similar in the old days of yore?