Blazingly hot and streaming out of a rocket exhaust. How else should a man worthy of that name do it ? I mean - hey, I really look like Chuck Norris ( according to my assistent, that is )
Blackadder: "How do you feel, Darling ?"
Darling: "Pretty rotten, actually."
B: "You don't want to die today, I take it ?"
D: "No, I would rather not, indeed."
B: "Are you scaaaaared, Darling ?"
D: "Errrr...yes, yes, I am scared to death, now you mention it."
B: "Then here we go ! Over the top, men !!"
It is general and public knowledge that the US are out of real money to give. The US has only increasingly wobbly IOUs printed in green and black on rectangular slips of paper.
Exactly. A legal check is nothing more than a written order by the account holder to his bank, to pay a certain amount from his account to an identified person, with the stress upon "identified". It needs the account indentification ( a number, in our times), the account holder's name, and his signature. This goes back all the way to Antiquity, when checks travelled considerable distances through space and time, and were still cashed.
Although checks are something from the Stone Age in the Netherlands, one of its main banks, Rabobank, has not only been pushing account access from mobile phones. It has even become a mobile connectivity provider itself. And very soon, one will be able to pay by phone in a majority of the Dutch supermarkets. America seems to be lagging by about 12 months.
Whether the measure is effective or not does not matter in the first place. What matters in the first place, is having laws that make sense. Here, there is perfect sense in "decriminalizing". Only after the Canadians have actually got the law, they will need to look into ways to enforce it.
Way to go, Canada !!
Wow, I can already imagine a Scotsman with a thickly rolling "r" in a limousine with blackened windows, going to Qatar or Abu Dhabi to spend his billions. "Yes mate, I am frrrrrom Scotland. Wave sheikh, you know. At home on ya old Orrrrrkneys. Waiter ! Twenty morrre bottles of champagnes forrrr my wives, please !"
...is that is was born in Africa, under dire circumstances regarding connectivity and developer skills. A look at the PHP code, however, would never make you suspect this.
RESPECT.
Although you are right, this is not where the real crux of the case lies. The sad part of it all is that, where "a government should fear its citizens, and not citizens their government" ( forgot who said that ), here Americans very obviously must not even fear their government anymore. This creates an atmosphere of mutual distrust and lack of respect that goes beyond fear.
Which is a very sad thing to happen in a so-called democracy. Even sadder is the fact that the government uses the constitution to be allowed to spy upon its citizens.
In my country of origin, the Netherlands, things are not better, by the way.
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I maniacally voted against this story. This reeks too much of slashvertisement. Is this a slow news day, or what ?
Blazingly hot and streaming out of a rocket exhaust. How else should a man worthy of that name do it ? I mean - hey, I really look like Chuck Norris ( according to my assistent, that is )
... I'll eat a soup plate full of hydrazine. Promise.
Blackadder: "How do you feel, Darling ?" Darling: "Pretty rotten, actually." B: "You don't want to die today, I take it ?" D: "No, I would rather not, indeed." B: "Are you scaaaaared, Darling ?" D: "Errrr...yes, yes, I am scared to death, now you mention it." B: "Then here we go ! Over the top, men !!"
That would be more something for a sci-fi opera. In which "Her Majesty" would be, of course, virgin queen Elizabeth XIII...
But where do we bring lieutenant Darling under ??
Yeah, right. And Captain Blackadder will be CEO. Of course.
...if you want us to give you free money.
It is general and public knowledge that the US are out of real money to give. The US has only increasingly wobbly IOUs printed in green and black on rectangular slips of paper.
The US still acting as the world's cop ? This is a thought model of the Bush era. Aged and provenly not working, that is.
....by the sheer amount of either revulsed or declining comments here. Proof that the /. crowd is still having common sense.
I DON'T want to be treated as a frakkin' pair of eyeballs, dammit !
...will KNOW whether or not I read that remark of hers about going shopping together.
British citizens will soon be able to upgrade their citizenship with Value Pack and Premium services. I envy you.
Exactly. A legal check is nothing more than a written order by the account holder to his bank, to pay a certain amount from his account to an identified person, with the stress upon "identified". It needs the account indentification ( a number, in our times), the account holder's name, and his signature. This goes back all the way to Antiquity, when checks travelled considerable distances through space and time, and were still cashed.
Although checks are something from the Stone Age in the Netherlands, one of its main banks, Rabobank, has not only been pushing account access from mobile phones. It has even become a mobile connectivity provider itself. And very soon, one will be able to pay by phone in a majority of the Dutch supermarkets. America seems to be lagging by about 12 months.
I certainly would have sex with a female copy of myself. Old fantasy.
Surely we will soon have space-ship sized objects in two positions at once ?? *drool*
Amen, brother.
Whether the measure is effective or not does not matter in the first place. What matters in the first place, is having laws that make sense. Here, there is perfect sense in "decriminalizing". Only after the Canadians have actually got the law, they will need to look into ways to enforce it. Way to go, Canada !!
Or in furlongs per shake ( flg / sh ). 1000 mph = 8,991092 * 10E12 flg / sh
Please do remember that, originally, "car" was any vehicle drawn by animals.
"Speed, more speed". And then: "You ain't seen nothing yet". Ha !
Wow, I can already imagine a Scotsman with a thickly rolling "r" in a limousine with blackened windows, going to Qatar or Abu Dhabi to spend his billions. "Yes mate, I am frrrrrom Scotland. Wave sheikh, you know. At home on ya old Orrrrrkneys. Waiter ! Twenty morrre bottles of champagnes forrrr my wives, please !"
...is that is was born in Africa, under dire circumstances regarding connectivity and developer skills. A look at the PHP code, however, would never make you suspect this. RESPECT.
Although you are right, this is not where the real crux of the case lies. The sad part of it all is that, where "a government should fear its citizens, and not citizens their government" ( forgot who said that ), here Americans very obviously must not even fear their government anymore. This creates an atmosphere of mutual distrust and lack of respect that goes beyond fear. Which is a very sad thing to happen in a so-called democracy. Even sadder is the fact that the government uses the constitution to be allowed to spy upon its citizens. In my country of origin, the Netherlands, things are not better, by the way.