The fact is, we have a "pile on" mentality here in the US. Once something is out in the open and there's even one piece of information that can be flogged (or blogged) to death, people jump on the bandwagon without using any critical reasoning skills. So yes, this could happen here, but to the wrong people, for the wrong reasons.
I love seeing this in action on usenet and other forums, where someone will wander in with a legitimate beef ("my neighbor burned down my house") mitigated somewhat by some slight misbehavior their own part ("My sprinkler got three drops of water on their car once") and get nothing but grief ("what are you watering your lawn for? Don't you know there's a drought?","What you did amounts to trespassing","Maybe you should learn how to use a sprinkler"). Of course, the foolish OP then tries to reason with the herd while the smart ones just go away.
9/11 is the first instance EVER where the hi-jackers were actually trying to kill themselves and a lot of other people. Before 9/11, every hi-jacking, EVERY ONE, ended up landing peacefully at some airfield and we dealt with without any danger to the plane or passengers.
A quick glance at the Wikipedia list of well-know hijackings reveals that many passengers have died as the result of previous hijackings. This was just the first time that the hijackers were overtly suicidal.
Fixed. The terorrists have expended far less effort and manpower but caused more damage (economic and rights-wise especially) than any other group in history.
But for what purpose? The West is hardly on the verge of collapse because of it. Nor have their actions reduced the presence of Western forces in the Middle East. I hardly think that al-Qaeda is particularly heartened by the U.S. governments increased surveillance of its own people, etc, either. But if bin Laden predicted that the U.S. would invade Iraq a year and a half after 9/11, costing way more in money and lives than the more predictable invasion of Afghanistan, then I will grant you that he must be a genius.
Especially as they've arrested 21 people and no terrorist in his right mind would try to put his "sub-plot" into action with the headlines full of this news.
Trying to use logic and reason to predict the actions of someone who is willing to blow himself up in a plane full of people is a dangerous game.
Most of my friends use their ipod/iriver/whatever for in the car and at work, and their computer for music at home.
Which makes me wonder why a stereo with an audio-in jack seems to be available more often as an upgrade rather than standard equipment. It sure seems like it would be a rather trivial addition. Maybe they figure fewer people would upgrade to the 6-CD changer for $500 if they could easily hook up their 100+ CD containing iPod to the standard head.
Another problem would be that if the field (or whatever you wish to call is) did not end exactly match the contours of your body anything that the field overlapped (like the floor) would appear to have a chunk missing.
Why wouldn't a bubble-city have more trees that we currently do? Who is to say that some inventor won't come up with an interesting way to divert CO2 emissions from factories within the bubble city straight into the ground so the trees can use it to create oxygen for the city? We just don't know. We didn't know about plasma TVs a few decades ago, but that invention will greatly cut down on the garbage created from large CRT TVs that get thrown into the dumps (and plasma TVs far outlive the life-span of a CRT). Thank the market for that "pro-environment" creation, and we'll thank the market when they find cleaner ways to create those plasmas or flat panels. Remember, every ounce of waste that is created by industry is WASTE -- it means something goes into the mix that is a loss for the company. Companies would likely try to find ways to cut that waste or find productive uses for it rather than tossing it.
Lol, plasma TVs were create as a waste reduction measure by TV manufacturers? I am sure it was that and not that they knew consumers would prefer a large screen TV that wasn't four feet deep. Sure there is less waste in the finished product, but for all we know there is more waste in the production process. They will only produce things more cleanly if it is economically beneficial and often the most economical way is not the cleanest.
I'm not sure that the future will look anything like what our lives look like today. I know that my life is significantly better than that of my ancestors, who had to deal with smelly and polluted cities. It wasn't government that cut pollutions, it was industries striving to reduce waste and increase efficiency that did it. I was in communist Russia before the USSR fell, and I was in the DDR before the wall fell, and those "heavily regulated" societies stank and were incredibly dirty.
Obviously if they were dirty and polluted it was not because they were "heavily regulated" in terms of the environment. Undoubtedly, some reduction in pollution does come from increased efficiency but again sometimes the most efficient thing to do is pollute. For example, I am sure there are plenty of coal power plant owners that would be happy to get rid of their NOx reducing SCR's, SO2 scrubbers and filter baghouses in favor of dumping all their waste into the air. So far no one has devised a profitable way to use those "resources". How long are we supposed to put up with the smog, acid rain, and soot hoping that they do?
when was the last time you ever heard of a peadophile convincing a child to get naked on a web cam in a library?
I suspect it has something to do with anonymity afforded to one using a library computer. Sure, the webcam thing won't be happening there but all kinds of emailing, etc, leading up to a meeting could and it won't be traceable. Please note that I still think this law is stupid.
It doesn't seem like it has to be all that complicated.
Soldier has his freeze dried blood in a deflated sealed IV bag. Medic or CLS carries water (or saline) in appropriately sized bag. Water bag is attached to blood bag and water is squeezed/drained in. Mix as necessary. Proceed as usual.
Sure there are a couple more steps, but the logistics are not insurmountable.
Why does anyone need to hire a coach for video games? If yo want to get better--here's a novel thought--find where the good players go, and go there, too. It will either force you to get better or give up because you lack any natural aptitude for the game.
I believe the thinking would be:
But that takes time and effort. I want to be better RIGHT NOW! (and I don't mind paying for it)
They must have enough money that they feel paying $25+/hr to have someone spoonfeed them the strategies is a better overall use of their time than scrounging around for the tips themselves. That and sometimes there is just no substitute for having someone actually show you how to do something and there to offer you immediate feedback on how to improve.
I don't remember the rates ever being that low. I locked in a couple years back at 3.625% and thought that I did pretty well. According to Sallie Mae students consolidating now will be lucky to lock in at 4.75% and rates for new loans are over 6%.
So even if you put it into a money market account or high yield savings (currently over 5% APY at HSBC, Citibank, and a couple others), even if you're paying interest immediately, you're still making 2% back.
Don't forget to factor in taxes here. Student loan interest is currently a "above the line" deduction, but gets phased out starting for a MAGI of $50K and the provision is due to expire in 2010. If you can't deduct it, you have to compare your after-tax interest rate to the rate you are paying. A lot of people fail to take taxes into account when comparing loan rates to investment yields.
Exactly. Would the GP have us believe that the money spent on the war in Iraq would be otherwise spent on some grand national effort to provide last mile fiber to every home in the country at taxpayer expense? More likely that it would just not be spent at all and we would have something closer to a balanced budget. (ok, maybe the estate tax would be repealed instead of balancing the budget, but still...)
Because it adds a little chlorine to the gene pool?
Did you hear about the guy who accidently shot his wife recently while trying to balance his pistol and the plate of fried chicken she had just handed him? Brilliant!
I cannot wait for this information to be easy and cheap to obtain. Imagine how much better GPS navigation systems would be if they always had real time data of traffic patterns, even if you live in a small midwestern town.
But they can do this already with low-tech traffic cameras and pavement sensors without the need to identify the individual cars. What purpose would knowing the identity of the people stuck in a traffic jam serve?
If you are filling up the bagging area then.... YOU ARE TRYING TO BUY TOO MUCH STUFF USING SELF CHECKOUT!
Self-checkout should be _strictly_ reserved for people who have about 5 things _max_. When I see people with a cart full of groceries pull up to a self-checkout station I just laugh... it will take them _forever_...
Well, at my home depot it is common for there to be only one (often not even that) regular checkout lane open.
Recently I was at BJ's and my purchases included several bags of ice. I was leery of scanning the bags of ice since the barcode was a squished up mess, but the two manned checkouts were pretty stacked up. The scanner timed out on me on the first bag but eventually I got through, leaving a nice wet mess for the next customer.
To get the funding, NASA had to tell congress that it was actually an invasion mission in which the Lunarian race would be freed from the evil Man in the Moon.
I see they managed to make you forget their original intent for the moon invasion: to rid it of Green Cheese of Destruction. When it was discovered there was no GCD on the moon, it was claimed that it must have been moved to Mars prior to the invasion, hence the Viking missions seven years later.
As one of the posters below points out, that 10% miss might be meaningful if it was the result of some unforeseen negative turn in MS's business prospects. But unless you think MS will be fined like this on an ongoing basis (or paying the fine will impact their ability to do business), there is no reason to expect that the earnings will not jump back to their previous level in the following quarter.
Hmm... bash Christians, get modded +5, Insightful. Why am I not surprised?
Guess what? Not all Mormons or Christians think or believe the exact same thing or try to push their views on non-believers. Taking this one Mormon to task for the actions of a small element of Christian fundies is like making every Republican defend Anne Coulter, every Democrat defend Howard Dean, every white person defend the Klu Klux Klan, etc.
The end of your post suggests you favor this application of copyright law, yet everyone on slashdot knows that "infomation wants to be free". You hypocrite!!
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I love seeing this in action on usenet and other forums, where someone will wander in with a legitimate beef ("my neighbor burned down my house") mitigated somewhat by some slight misbehavior their own part ("My sprinkler got three drops of water on their car once") and get nothing but grief ("what are you watering your lawn for? Don't you know there's a drought?","What you did amounts to trespassing","Maybe you should learn how to use a sprinkler"). Of course, the foolish OP then tries to reason with the herd while the smart ones just go away.
A quick glance at the Wikipedia list of well-know hijackings reveals that many passengers have died as the result of previous hijackings. This was just the first time that the hijackers were overtly suicidal.
But for what purpose? The West is hardly on the verge of collapse because of it. Nor have their actions reduced the presence of Western forces in the Middle East. I hardly think that al-Qaeda is particularly heartened by the U.S. governments increased surveillance of its own people, etc, either. But if bin Laden predicted that the U.S. would invade Iraq a year and a half after 9/11, costing way more in money and lives than the more predictable invasion of Afghanistan, then I will grant you that he must be a genius.
Trying to use logic and reason to predict the actions of someone who is willing to blow himself up in a plane full of people is a dangerous game.
Redundant?
How about "All your bouillabaisse are belong to us"?
Which makes me wonder why a stereo with an audio-in jack seems to be available more often as an upgrade rather than standard equipment. It sure seems like it would be a rather trivial addition. Maybe they figure fewer people would upgrade to the 6-CD changer for $500 if they could easily hook up their 100+ CD containing iPod to the standard head.
Another problem would be that if the field (or whatever you wish to call is) did not end exactly match the contours of your body anything that the field overlapped (like the floor) would appear to have a chunk missing.
That should be 12,000 tonnes of nuclear waste a year, not pounds.
Lol, plasma TVs were create as a waste reduction measure by TV manufacturers? I am sure it was that and not that they knew consumers would prefer a large screen TV that wasn't four feet deep. Sure there is less waste in the finished product, but for all we know there is more waste in the production process. They will only produce things more cleanly if it is economically beneficial and often the most economical way is not the cleanest.
I'm not sure that the future will look anything like what our lives look like today. I know that my life is significantly better than that of my ancestors, who had to deal with smelly and polluted cities. It wasn't government that cut pollutions, it was industries striving to reduce waste and increase efficiency that did it. I was in communist Russia before the USSR fell, and I was in the DDR before the wall fell, and those "heavily regulated" societies stank and were incredibly dirty.
Obviously if they were dirty and polluted it was not because they were "heavily regulated" in terms of the environment. Undoubtedly, some reduction in pollution does come from increased efficiency but again sometimes the most efficient thing to do is pollute. For example, I am sure there are plenty of coal power plant owners that would be happy to get rid of their NOx reducing SCR's, SO2 scrubbers and filter baghouses in favor of dumping all their waste into the air. So far no one has devised a profitable way to use those "resources". How long are we supposed to put up with the smog, acid rain, and soot hoping that they do?
I suspect it has something to do with anonymity afforded to one using a library computer. Sure, the webcam thing won't be happening there but all kinds of emailing, etc, leading up to a meeting could and it won't be traceable. Please note that I still think this law is stupid.
It doesn't seem like it has to be all that complicated.
Soldier has his freeze dried blood in a deflated sealed IV bag. Medic or CLS carries water (or saline) in appropriately sized bag. Water bag is attached to blood bag and water is squeezed/drained in. Mix as necessary. Proceed as usual.
Sure there are a couple more steps, but the logistics are not insurmountable.
I believe the thinking would be:
But that takes time and effort. I want to be better RIGHT NOW! (and I don't mind paying for it)
They must have enough money that they feel paying $25+/hr to have someone spoonfeed them the strategies is a better overall use of their time than scrounging around for the tips themselves. That and sometimes there is just no substitute for having someone actually show you how to do something and there to offer you immediate feedback on how to improve.
I don't remember the rates ever being that low. I locked in a couple years back at 3.625% and thought that I did pretty well. According to Sallie Mae students consolidating now will be lucky to lock in at 4.75% and rates for new loans are over 6%.
So even if you put it into a money market account or high yield savings (currently over 5% APY at HSBC, Citibank, and a couple others), even if you're paying interest immediately, you're still making 2% back.
Don't forget to factor in taxes here. Student loan interest is currently a "above the line" deduction, but gets phased out starting for a MAGI of $50K and the provision is due to expire in 2010. If you can't deduct it, you have to compare your after-tax interest rate to the rate you are paying. A lot of people fail to take taxes into account when comparing loan rates to investment yields.
Exactly. Would the GP have us believe that the money spent on the war in Iraq would be otherwise spent on some grand national effort to provide last mile fiber to every home in the country at taxpayer expense? More likely that it would just not be spent at all and we would have something closer to a balanced budget. (ok, maybe the estate tax would be repealed instead of balancing the budget, but still...)
Imagine how quickly they could surrender at those upload speeds!
Because it adds a little chlorine to the gene pool?
Did you hear about the guy who accidently shot his wife recently while trying to balance his pistol and the plate of fried chicken she had just handed him? Brilliant!
But they can do this already with low-tech traffic cameras and pavement sensors without the need to identify the individual cars. What purpose would knowing the identity of the people stuck in a traffic jam serve?
Self-checkout should be _strictly_ reserved for people who have about 5 things _max_. When I see people with a cart full of groceries pull up to a self-checkout station I just laugh... it will take them _forever_...
Well, at my home depot it is common for there to be only one (often not even that) regular checkout lane open.
Recently I was at BJ's and my purchases included several bags of ice. I was leery of scanning the bags of ice since the barcode was a squished up mess, but the two manned checkouts were pretty stacked up. The scanner timed out on me on the first bag but eventually I got through, leaving a nice wet mess for the next customer.
I see they managed to make you forget their original intent for the moon invasion: to rid it of Green Cheese of Destruction. When it was discovered there was no GCD on the moon, it was claimed that it must have been moved to Mars prior to the invasion, hence the Viking missions seven years later.
Really, what is the point of posting this article? Hasn't this topic been rehashed over and over and over again?
As one of the posters below points out, that 10% miss might be meaningful if it was the result of some unforeseen negative turn in MS's business prospects. But unless you think MS will be fined like this on an ongoing basis (or paying the fine will impact their ability to do business), there is no reason to expect that the earnings will not jump back to their previous level in the following quarter.
Captain NoHumor here to point out that bacterium != virus !
Hmm... bash Christians, get modded +5, Insightful. Why am I not surprised?
Guess what? Not all Mormons or Christians think or believe the exact same thing or try to push their views on non-believers. Taking this one Mormon to task for the actions of a small element of Christian fundies is like making every Republican defend Anne Coulter, every Democrat defend Howard Dean, every white person defend the Klu Klux Klan, etc.
The end of your post suggests you favor this application of copyright law, yet everyone on slashdot knows that "infomation wants to be free". You hypocrite!!
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