I am not american. I understand about the cost of war. I have retched both when reading about Auschwitz and when reading about Guadalcanal.
They are psycho killers of course. Some of them will go home and off themselves because they don't really want to be psycho killers.
It doesn't make it right, fair or sane if it's happened before. It's just wrong, man, even if a century of Empire has made constant war seem normal to you guys.
It's because it got a lot of publicity, as part of the psy-ops campaign which had the purpose to re-establish a simple thesis front and center in the minds of all those the FSB sees as potential traitors. The thesis is: you fuck mother Russia, you die. Horribly.
To take your example: China has no more and no less freedom of action now than it had before. Chinese interests are the same as they were a week ago and will not change for Assange, Obama, Kim or anyone else.
Business as usual, iow, will continue, perhaps now with a more informed public. As for the ability of the USA to negotiate, that hasn't changed either. Some people might demand that their future negotiations with the US be held off the record until concluded, given the recent embarrassment. Some of those may even get their wish granted. So what?
It's a piece of hardware. What you do with it after you bought it should be your business alone (including re-programming it to serve cookies, if you so wish). The Psystar thing was about software and has no relevance here.
Fixing at this point in time is not required nor indeed desirable. Bend over and be taught the value of democracy and the rule of law. Your people got them for free when your state was established and have been treating them as if they had no value ever since.
Incidentally, one of the things that really soured the French monarchy for most people (including noblemen and the wealthy bourgeois!) was the advent of the "lettre de cachet". It took them about 400 years to get sufficiently pissed off about it to actually do something.
Almost every big-budget game nowadays has a musical score. Some feature songs from actual artists. Guess where the money for copyright on the songs is going? Yes, you are sponsoring the RIAA with your gaming habit.
It will still be worth listening to after EMI goes into bankruptcy. It's not like a company's assets just evaporate into thin air if it goes bankrupt. They are sold and the proceeds divvied up between the various creditors.
OT: Sustainable marketing? What in the name of Pete is that? Are EMI printing posters on Panda hides nowadays?
I used it. Saw all the ugliness from the inside out. No more for me! The minute someone invents some protocol that scales better and is more privacy-conscious than XMPP, Facebook and all other "social media" will be dead in the water.
Yes, I would, provided he worked there for a good long time. I'm sure the frail ones get cancer after only ten, twenty years or so. 40 years on the job, died from stress-induced heart attack? Hell yea I want that pancreas. Kidneys, bones? No thanks, give them to the truly needy.
Are you willing to have your assigned inheritors plotting to kill you ASAP? 'Cause that's what will happen. Organs (especially young ones) are mighty expensive, y'know?
I've a better idea. Ban organ transplantation outright. This "donation" asshattery muddies the waters, albeit it's conceived in the hopes that old people won't be killed by their inheritors to get at all the costly organs inside..
I am quite certain that solutions will be found if a ban is imposed. It took a ban on embryonic stem cell research in the US to spur research into producing plurivalent cell lines from scratch. A ban on organ harvesting (preferably religiously motivated) would spur research into artificial organs. Man, and how it would be spurred on by sickly old men in positions of power..
The idea of having everything go to the state by default (as it is in Belgium) is pretty bad as well - the last thing you need is for the state to have any more reason to kill you. State-funded euthanasia offered as "treatment" for cancer (palliative care, it's called - morphine and a bedpan) doesn't sound so nice anymore when you know they're just after your spleen.
The transfer of sentiment from the living to some inanimate symbol (be it a photo or a corpse) speaks of inability to distinguish between people and things. It is a sickness, plain and simple.
In the extreme, people who collect organs from people they feel attracted to tend to be called psychopaths and killed once they are found out.
I blame the extreme sickness of modern western attitudes towards death on the institutionalization of dying. If you can't see your loved one die because at that point they're cradled by machines and prodded by doctors, if you can't touch the dead body because it's in the hands of the coroner, then in those of the mortician, then in a coffin to be buried or burnt post-haste, well then, you may be forgiven for not understanding the reality of death and for continuing to cling to childish beliefs such as "S/he lives on in our memory."
S/he does not, you sad souls. No-one lives after they die, not even a bit. Not even in effigy. Understanding and internalizing that simple fact is the end-state of the process of mourning. Some people never get around to it, is all. What's more, such people seem to be encouraged by society at large to continue grieving indefinitely, as if it were a good thing, not the expensive, highly destructive process it actually is.
I can't just take my AT&T phone and hook up to Verizon's or Sprint's network because their networks are different technologies
I responded to that, so now you put out some other bullshit argument about how it's suddenly necessary to upgrade all the existing phones to quad-band.
No. What is necessary is to break out of the walled garden. Vote with your dollars, buy an unlocked quad-band phone next time you buy a phone.
They are not significantly more expensive than the crippled variety, in fact they are much cheaper in the long run as they allow you to migrate between carriers in search of ever-cheaper service.
I would like to get a hold of the moron who modded you informative and slap him around a bit with a quad-band GSM phone with 2G 3G/EDGE and GPRS support. Such as oh I dunno... the Samsung Galaxy that is nice and light and plasticky and won't do much damage even if I use a sock to swing it around.
I am supposed to believe this Bahneman fellow, who probably hasn't even ever seen a radar screen. I'm sure he's an upstanding citizen and all but... really now.
The FAA has declared... nothing. That silence is just contemptuous, whatever else you think about the issue.
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I am not american. I understand about the cost of war. I have retched both when reading about Auschwitz and when reading about Guadalcanal.
They are psycho killers of course. Some of them will go home and off themselves because they don't really want to be psycho killers.
It doesn't make it right, fair or sane if it's happened before. It's just wrong, man, even if a century of Empire has made constant war seem normal to you guys.
It's because it got a lot of publicity, as part of the psy-ops campaign which had the purpose to re-establish a simple thesis front and center in the minds of all those the FSB sees as potential traitors. The thesis is: you fuck mother Russia, you die. Horribly.
Ah but the radio chatter. The cold-blooded serial killer aspect of it all, made more blatant by the obvious technico-tactical superiority.
No, they're hoping the isomer is meta-stable so they can make atomic hand-grenades.
Try this long word on for size: realpolitik.
To take your example: China has no more and no less freedom of action now than it had before. Chinese interests are the same as they were a week ago and will not change for Assange, Obama, Kim or anyone else.
Business as usual, iow, will continue, perhaps now with a more informed public. As for the ability of the USA to negotiate, that hasn't changed either. Some people might demand that their future negotiations with the US be held off the record until concluded, given the recent embarrassment. Some of those may even get their wish granted. So what?
It's a piece of hardware. What you do with it after you bought it should be your business alone (including re-programming it to serve cookies, if you so wish). The Psystar thing was about software and has no relevance here.
When I last played that old gem I had this real neat moment of "who the fuck let Sarah Palin aboard the Unity?".
Moore's law and additive fabrication should take care of that one right sharpish.
More like the bolt-action SMLE (Enfield .303), still being used by Afghan marksmen. Or the AK 74.
Scenarios? What scenarios? Do tell.
Cyclized chromosomes are more stable. Ionizing radiation therefore hurts them less. The tradeoff might be interesting to make.
Yes yes! State Security! Then you can give them the coolest badges ever!
Fixing at this point in time is not required nor indeed desirable. Bend over and be taught the value of democracy and the rule of law. Your people got them for free when your state was established and have been treating them as if they had no value ever since.
Incidentally, one of the things that really soured the French monarchy for most people (including noblemen and the wealthy bourgeois!) was the advent of the "lettre de cachet". It took them about 400 years to get sufficiently pissed off about it to actually do something.
Almost every big-budget game nowadays has a musical score. Some feature songs from actual artists. Guess where the money for copyright on the songs is going? Yes, you are sponsoring the RIAA with your gaming habit.
It will still be worth listening to after EMI goes into bankruptcy. It's not like a company's assets just evaporate into thin air if it goes bankrupt. They are sold and the proceeds divvied up between the various creditors.
OT: Sustainable marketing? What in the name of Pete is that? Are EMI printing posters on Panda hides nowadays?
They do have records. They are needed and used for many things, from crash investigations to training.
I don't understand the excitement either. Surely there must be lots of contrails visible above the sea every day - lots of planes coming in?
I used it. Saw all the ugliness from the inside out. No more for me! The minute someone invents some protocol that scales better and is more privacy-conscious than XMPP, Facebook and all other "social media" will be dead in the water.
Ahem. I thought you wanted voice, not data.
Yes, I would, provided he worked there for a good long time. I'm sure the frail ones get cancer after only ten, twenty years or so. 40 years on the job, died from stress-induced heart attack? Hell yea I want that pancreas. Kidneys, bones? No thanks, give them to the truly needy.
Are you willing to have your assigned inheritors plotting to kill you ASAP? 'Cause that's what will happen. Organs (especially young ones) are mighty expensive, y'know?
I've a better idea. Ban organ transplantation outright. This "donation" asshattery muddies the waters, albeit it's conceived in the hopes that old people won't be killed by their inheritors to get at all the costly organs inside..
I am quite certain that solutions will be found if a ban is imposed. It took a ban on embryonic stem cell research in the US to spur research into producing plurivalent cell lines from scratch. A ban on organ harvesting (preferably religiously motivated) would spur research into artificial organs. Man, and how it would be spurred on by sickly old men in positions of power..
The idea of having everything go to the state by default (as it is in Belgium) is pretty bad as well - the last thing you need is for the state to have any more reason to kill you. State-funded euthanasia offered as "treatment" for cancer (palliative care, it's called - morphine and a bedpan) doesn't sound so nice anymore when you know they're just after your spleen.
The transfer of sentiment from the living to some inanimate symbol (be it a photo or a corpse) speaks of inability to distinguish between people and things. It is a sickness, plain and simple.
In the extreme, people who collect organs from people they feel attracted to tend to be called psychopaths and killed once they are found out.
I blame the extreme sickness of modern western attitudes towards death on the institutionalization of dying. If you can't see your loved one die because at that point they're cradled by machines and prodded by doctors, if you can't touch the dead body because it's in the hands of the coroner, then in those of the mortician, then in a coffin to be buried or burnt post-haste, well then, you may be forgiven for not understanding the reality of death and for continuing to cling to childish beliefs such as "S/he lives on in our memory."
S/he does not, you sad souls. No-one lives after they die, not even a bit. Not even in effigy. Understanding and internalizing that simple fact is the end-state of the process of mourning. Some people never get around to it, is all. What's more, such people seem to be encouraged by society at large to continue grieving indefinitely, as if it were a good thing, not the expensive, highly destructive process it actually is.
In the GP post you were arguing that
I can't just take my AT&T phone and hook up to Verizon's or Sprint's network because their networks are different technologies
I responded to that, so now you put out some other bullshit argument about how it's suddenly necessary to upgrade all the existing phones to quad-band.
No. What is necessary is to break out of the walled garden. Vote with your dollars, buy an unlocked quad-band phone next time you buy a phone.
They are not significantly more expensive than the crippled variety, in fact they are much cheaper in the long run as they allow you to migrate between carriers in search of ever-cheaper service.
I would like to get a hold of the moron who modded you informative and slap him around a bit with a quad-band GSM phone with 2G 3G/EDGE and GPRS support. Such as oh I dunno... the Samsung Galaxy that is nice and light and plasticky and won't do much damage even if I use a sock to swing it around.
I am supposed to believe this Bahneman fellow, who probably hasn't even ever seen a radar screen. I'm sure he's an upstanding citizen and all but... really now.
The FAA has declared... nothing. That silence is just contemptuous, whatever else you think about the issue.