Its funny that you use the phrase "pro-gun". It seems that people familiar with firearms tend to support private ownership of firearms, even those that choose not to own one themselves. While those unfamiliar with firearms tends to be against private ownership. Familiar as in having gone shooting to some small extent at some point in their lives. Unfamiliar as in what they "know" they "learned" from the mass media, TV and movies. What does that tell you?
I am entirely familiar with firearms, and grew up with them around me in the country in the UK. However, they were used for hunting and that was it. Handguns and automatic rifles are only useful for killing people.
So I have no problem with handguns and automatic rifels being illegal here. My only real criticism would be that the laws were drafted too stringently, so that even target shooting pistols were outlawed, which seems unnecessary.
But, yeah, I know, I'm defenceless to rise up in armed revolution against the goverrnment, because obviously if I were a revolutionary I would be asking for a fucking gun permit first, just like I would for handling explosives.
Almost everyone on Google Talk. If you use Google Talk and don't set up SRV records pointing to Google's server for XMPP, other Google Talk users can talk to you, but other XMPP users can't.
I have absolutely no idea what you just said. Is it anything to do with telephones?
Messaging is not some special technology that requires much bandwidth or infrastructure. It's no different form email and google is able to give it to us for free.
Nothing you get from Google is free. Just because you don't get billed by them each month doesn't mean they're a charity. They're just a geek-friendly version of Facebook.
Yes but if the over-the-Internet Consultation is suppose to be free or a minimal charge; you will not find a lot of Doctors doing it. The good thing I guess, is that it would be easy to weed out the Doctors who are in it for the money, verses the Doctors that actually care about their Patients. From my personal experience, a real caring Doctor is a rarity in the USA.
All consultations are free in the UK (at the point of use, yes I know we pay for the NHS through taxes).
The inability for remote interviews to be done is pretty crippling too.
I was just in for a check-up recently that was held up by 1.5 hours because most of the doctors weren't in that day because of illness.
ONE doctor had to take up the majority of interviews, others cancelled for another time.
Now just imagine if those doctors had access to their systems for remote interviews.
If the doctors weren't in because of illness, do you really think they should be working from home when they're below par? Aren't doctors allowed holidays and sick time like everyone else?
Examples: Communist Russia was one of the poorest countries, and failed. Now, fully embracing capitalism, Russia is a success story (in the context of global recession.) So in the US, we've decided to try moving further toward communism.
You have got to be fucking kidding. You don't know what the words "communism" or "capitalism" mean, although you've certainly proved that you know what "fail" does.
England banned guns and violent crime DOUBLED.
England has always had fairly tight gun controls (since the First World war, anyway) and very few people ever legally carried weapons anyway. The people who use guns in crimes now would have done so fifty years ago (i.e. they're career criminals like armed robbers or large scale drug dealers/gangsters). By definition, you can't stop criminals getting hold of guns if they really want to, all you can do is make it harder, and increase penalties for possessing them as some sort of deterrent to lower level criminals.
Violent crimes of the drunken argument type have seldom been solved with guns in Britain, and any increase in violent crime is down to other sociological issues.
If you think it's "politically correct" to support Assad and therefore object to this game on those grounds, you're living in a fantasy world. But then again, using "beatnik" as an insult is like something from the 1950s, so maybe you're just stuck in a Senator Joe McCarthy timewarp somehow.
Were you around for most of this curve? Did you find that time pleasant?
I think in the context of the tens of thousands of people killed in the civil war in Syria (which is what this thread is about), having to accommodate the limitations of Internet Explorer for a few years is pretty trivial.
I think the most told lie in the history of the world is probably "guns don't kill people, people kill people" although I suppose it's more of a half-truth than an outright lie.
Any common measurement that needs 3 digits is crying out for a better unit. I'm 6 foot tall not 183 cm.
So how about if you're five feet eleven inches tall? 1.8m ( or even 180cm) is a much neater way of putting it.
Same with the stones thing, sure if you're exactly 15 stones that's a neat way of saying it. But if you're fourteen stones and four pounds it's less elegant than saying 200 pounds
(355/113 – pi = 2.66e-7, not bad for an easily memorized ratio of integers)
I don't see how memorising 6 digits (two 3 digit numbers) as a way of remembering pi to 7 digits is any great improvement. You need to round it to 3.141592 to be accurate, it's barely any easier than just remembering 3.1415927
The universe is so big that anything possible becomes probable... you might even say "anything possible is guaranteed to happen somewhere... and probably a lot of somewheres".
My understanding is that you need an infinite universe to be able to say that "anything possible is guaranteed to happen somewhere"? As with monkeys typing Shakespeare.
Even a mind-bogglingly incomprehsible large number is still not infinity.
Assuming that our solar systems layout is pretty average in the galaxy that puts about 11 Billion planets in the (current) habitable zone, assuming 1% of those have life that leaves 110 Million planets, assuming that 1% of those have complex life, that is about 1 Million planets, and assuming that 1% of worlds where complex life develops intelligent life follows that suggests about 10,000 planets. Sounds about right.
Yes, because "1%" is a magic formula for discovering the truth.
Love the "sounds about right" conclusion too. Do you base that on some extrapolation from Star Trek or something?
Hmm, 100 billion planets that might be able to support life, one that does. At least one in 100 billion. Not made up at all. Possibly wrong. Uses a single data point. Etc..etc..etc. but still not made up.
No, it's not "at least one in 100 billion" odds of there being another planet supporting life at all. The odds may be far worse than that, we simply don't know until we actually find life somewhere else.
Even if we could accurately estimate the entire number of planets in the universe at 100 billion billion billion billion (or whatever) it says nothing about the odds if we still don't actually find life elsewhere. If we found another life form somewhere in the universe, the odds would rocket from 1 in 100 billion billion billion billion to 2 in 100 billion billion billion billion.
And while we've got an actual example of 1 (us) all we can say is that we know life is possible in at least one place.
We need to STOP putting people in prison for stupid crimes (drugs, financial crimes)
Most crime is financial crime, in the sense of being caused by being poorer than you think you should be, isn't it? Or do you just mean white collar "victimless" crime in the financial services industry?
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Its funny that you use the phrase "pro-gun". It seems that people familiar with firearms tend to support private ownership of firearms, even those that choose not to own one themselves. While those unfamiliar with firearms tends to be against private ownership. Familiar as in having gone shooting to some small extent at some point in their lives. Unfamiliar as in what they "know" they "learned" from the mass media, TV and movies. What does that tell you?
I am entirely familiar with firearms, and grew up with them around me in the country in the UK. However, they were used for hunting and that was it. Handguns and automatic rifles are only useful for killing people.
So I have no problem with handguns and automatic rifels being illegal here. My only real criticism would be that the laws were drafted too stringently, so that even target shooting pistols were outlawed, which seems unnecessary.
But, yeah, I know, I'm defenceless to rise up in armed revolution against the goverrnment, because obviously if I were a revolutionary I would be asking for a fucking gun permit first, just like I would for handling explosives.
Why not just have "I am a cunt" tattooed on your forehead?
Almost everyone on Google Talk. If you use Google Talk and don't set up SRV records pointing to Google's server for XMPP, other Google Talk users can talk to you, but other XMPP users can't.
I have absolutely no idea what you just said. Is it anything to do with telephones?
As much as I dislike Microsoft, if they wanted to acquire the startup that I work for, I wouldn't turn down their millions of dollars.
Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?
Woman: My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose I would.
Churchill: Would you sleep with me for five pounds?
Woman: Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!
Churchill: Madam, we've already established that. Now we are just haggling about the price.
Messaging is not some special technology that requires much bandwidth or infrastructure. It's no different form email and google is able to give it to us for free.
Nothing you get from Google is free. Just because you don't get billed by them each month doesn't mean they're a charity. They're just a geek-friendly version of Facebook.
TANSTAAFL.
Yes but if the over-the-Internet Consultation is suppose to be free or a minimal charge; you will not find a lot of Doctors doing it. The good thing I guess, is that it would be easy to weed out the Doctors who are in it for the money, verses the Doctors that actually care about their Patients. From my personal experience, a real caring Doctor is a rarity in the USA.
All consultations are free in the UK (at the point of use, yes I know we pay for the NHS through taxes).
Fucking socialism, eh?
The inability for remote interviews to be done is pretty crippling too.
I was just in for a check-up recently that was held up by 1.5 hours because most of the doctors weren't in that day because of illness.
ONE doctor had to take up the majority of interviews, others cancelled for another time.
Now just imagine if those doctors had access to their systems for remote interviews. If the doctors weren't in because of illness, do you really think they should be working from home when they're below par? Aren't doctors allowed holidays and sick time like everyone else?
Examples: Communist Russia was one of the poorest countries, and failed. Now, fully embracing capitalism, Russia is a success story (in the context of global recession.) So in the US, we've decided to try moving further toward communism.
You have got to be fucking kidding. You don't know what the words "communism" or "capitalism" mean, although you've certainly proved that you know what "fail" does.
England banned guns and violent crime DOUBLED.
England has always had fairly tight gun controls (since the First World war, anyway) and very few people ever legally carried weapons anyway. The people who use guns in crimes now would have done so fifty years ago (i.e. they're career criminals like armed robbers or large scale drug dealers/gangsters). By definition, you can't stop criminals getting hold of guns if they really want to, all you can do is make it harder, and increase penalties for possessing them as some sort of deterrent to lower level criminals.
Violent crimes of the drunken argument type have seldom been solved with guns in Britain, and any increase in violent crime is down to other sociological issues.
Most people like to think they are doing good in the world.
Sociopaths don't, and corporations are essentially sociopathic, as are the people who control them.
If you think it's "politically correct" to support Assad and therefore object to this game on those grounds, you're living in a fantasy world. But then again, using "beatnik" as an insult is like something from the 1950s, so maybe you're just stuck in a Senator Joe McCarthy timewarp somehow.
Were you around for most of this curve? Did you find that time pleasant?
I think in the context of the tens of thousands of people killed in the civil war in Syria (which is what this thread is about), having to accommodate the limitations of Internet Explorer for a few years is pretty trivial.
I think the most told lie in the history of the world is probably "guns don't kill people, people kill people" although I suppose it's more of a half-truth than an outright lie.
For instance the whale shark lives off of plankton and similar sized foods, but it's still a shark.
Sounds like one of Viz's pathetic sharks.
Because people in America are stubborn, arrogant, and resistant to change.
As an English man, can I just say that they've got great teeth though?
Any common measurement that needs 3 digits is crying out for a better unit. I'm 6 foot tall not 183 cm.
So how about if you're five feet eleven inches tall? 1.8m ( or even 180cm) is a much neater way of putting it.
Same with the stones thing, sure if you're exactly 15 stones that's a neat way of saying it. But if you're fourteen stones and four pounds it's less elegant than saying 200 pounds
On the plus side, saying you've got a 15 (cm) dick is quite awesome the first time.
If you need six:
355/113 = 3.1415929
(355/113 – pi = 2.66e-7, not bad for an easily memorized ratio of integers)
I don't see how memorising 6 digits (two 3 digit numbers) as a way of remembering pi to 7 digits is any great improvement. You need to round it to 3.141592 to be accurate, it's barely any easier than just remembering 3.1415927
Grammar Nazis!
Don't mention the war! I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it.
The universe is so big that anything possible becomes probable... you might even say "anything possible is guaranteed to happen somewhere... and probably a lot of somewheres".
My understanding is that you need an infinite universe to be able to say that "anything possible is guaranteed to happen somewhere"? As with monkeys typing Shakespeare.
Even a mind-bogglingly incomprehsible large number is still not infinity.
Assuming that our solar systems layout is pretty average in the galaxy that puts about 11 Billion planets in the (current) habitable zone, assuming 1% of those have life that leaves 110 Million planets, assuming that 1% of those have complex life, that is about 1 Million planets, and assuming that 1% of worlds where complex life develops intelligent life follows that suggests about 10,000 planets. Sounds about right.
Yes, because "1%" is a magic formula for discovering the truth.
Love the "sounds about right" conclusion too. Do you base that on some extrapolation from Star Trek or something?
Hmm, 100 billion planets that might be able to support life, one that does. At least one in 100 billion. Not made up at all. Possibly wrong. Uses a single data point. Etc..etc..etc. but still not made up.
No, it's not "at least one in 100 billion" odds of there being another planet supporting life at all. The odds may be far worse than that, we simply don't know until we actually find life somewhere else.
Even if we could accurately estimate the entire number of planets in the universe at 100 billion billion billion billion (or whatever) it says nothing about the odds if we still don't actually find life elsewhere. If we found another life form somewhere in the universe, the odds would rocket from 1 in 100 billion billion billion billion to 2 in 100 billion billion billion billion.
And while we've got an actual example of 1 (us) all we can say is that we know life is possible in at least one place.
You point strengthens the Fermi paradox.
When are you going to stop living in fear?
Hint: We are not alone -- we'll have proof of contact within 20 years.
That'll be round about the same time we get cold fusion and true AI, yes? Not a coincidence, I'm sure.
17 billion earth sized. .1% suitable for life as we know it.
that's 17 million possible habitable worlds.
If we are alone that seems like an awful lot of wasted space.
Only if you start from the assumption that there is a purpose to the universe, or some sort of Cosmic Architect.
We need to STOP putting people in prison for stupid crimes (drugs, financial crimes)
Most crime is financial crime, in the sense of being caused by being poorer than you think you should be, isn't it? Or do you just mean white collar "victimless" crime in the financial services industry?