At least in London there are very helpful (and crucial for surviving) paintings on crossings.
They're not crucial. Whoever is stupid enough to think they only need to look one way when crossing will find themselves dead and so survival of the fittest will take place. Its only crucial for morons.
Having a great grandmother and great grandfather from Britain, I can tell you now there are many people who claim to speak English within Britain and yet certainly speak nothing remotely resembling what the rest of the world (and certain parts of Britain) call English.
Simply because you have the technology to support internet kiosks, doesn't mean your economy supports it. People in London may think internet kiosks are a bloody stupid idea and so they don't use them and so they go out of business.
Humans are particularly bad at passing this kind of knowledge over extended time gaps.
Good! If we have to relearn how to create nuclear weapons every single time, we won't be able to create them in such a hurry. Also, if we're really desperate, can't we use the old designs? You only start from scratch if you want to improve it.
And if not, I'd like to ask The Man why it isn't illegal.
I would hazard a guess it isn't illegal because torture is of course illegal so therefore you couldn't possibly produce evidence through torture. If America acknowledges these people have been tortured, surely criminal proceedings would have to take place against SOMEBODY.
A decent accountant can make any profitable company appear to post a loss.
Then they get to go down that road. Then we as a society get to question the value in having a tax system so difficult to navigate and so easily abused that any "decent accountant" can do so. Perhaps we'll get a better tax system. Perhaps not. But teaching about beings of questionable existence shouldn't exempt anyone from paying taxes.
they make no money to speak of (enough to give to charities and cover liability costs on public worship - and perhaps support a minister).
So because someone's job is to teach people about a being of questionable existence, he should be exempt from taxes? If they want to be a charity, register as a charity. If you want to be a religion, you should get taxed. Teaching people about beings of questionable existence (you say only god X exists? Man down the road says only god Y exists. Clearly there is question to which one, if either, exists) isn't something society should be forced to burden.
I've used Ubuntu. I willingly moved away from it and paid for Microsoft XP because after 6 months I found Linux wasn't worth my time in making it work as well as XP.
Believe it or not, not everyone in this big wide world shares your view. Hop off your high-horse and consider personal freedom of choice for once.
You have to understand, slashdot isn't pro-Linux. Its anti-The Man. And at the moment The Man is Microsoft. Once Microsoft becomes an underdog people will sing its praises as they hate on whoever The Man is of the day.
I bet you watch it all in black and white too. After all, only children are awed by purdy colours. Why, I bet you also watch it muted with the subtitles on. After all, really intelligent people don't need this new fandangled sound technology. The best movies are silent films.
I use to think like you, even after we got a HD tv. I looked at it and went "so what? Its just like the old tv." After a few months of using it I then went and looked at someone's old SD tv and I could immediately tell the difference.
So hey, while ever you don't know the difference, it won't kill you. But the second you do, you won't be able to go back.
You see porn is bad. Because it has naked people in it pretending to have sex. Which is bad because sex isn't fun, its a terrible thing that must be endured for the betterment of society. Or something. I dunno, don't ask me hard questions. Its in the bible, right after god said to go forth and multiply...
Its not random. Its not arbitrary. Not only is it in the Terms of Service, its been done before. The only people who have an excuse for not realising this would happen are the first wave of "cheaters" (and based on the mod scene from Playstation 1, the modders who actually cheat are few and far between). That's come and gone. These people have had ample warning, its their own fault.
Although I doubt most of them will be upset over losing the ability to cheat. Its much more likely they're upset over losing the ability to pirate games and be on Live.
You shouldn't have to pay them to put code on your own box.
I miss the old days when consoles were for playing games and computers were for writing and running custom code. Nowadays you can't just throw in the disc and press the "on" button. You must instead download patches, sometimes install the damn thing and only after all this, can you run it.
What happened to consoles being consoles instead of locked down computers?
What do you want MS to do? Scour the interwebs for every licensed software to compare it with what Microsoft's coders produce? I'm by no means a fan of Microsoft, but this is the one time where the company appears to be acting in good faith. And yet people like you criticise them still! You're creating a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" atmosphere, which only encourages MS to do every illegal thing it thinks it can get away with.
That's the important thing. If you do all these wonderful changes and then once the weight is lost revert back to normal, you will put the weight back on. If someone knows they won't keep up an exercise regime, but feel they can eat less/healthier indefinitely, then its better to do the latter.
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Are you pale? The paler you are, the safer you are.
At least in London there are very helpful (and crucial for surviving) paintings on crossings.
They're not crucial. Whoever is stupid enough to think they only need to look one way when crossing will find themselves dead and so survival of the fittest will take place. Its only crucial for morons.
Having a great grandmother and great grandfather from Britain, I can tell you now there are many people who claim to speak English within Britain and yet certainly speak nothing remotely resembling what the rest of the world (and certain parts of Britain) call English.
Simply because you have the technology to support internet kiosks, doesn't mean your economy supports it. People in London may think internet kiosks are a bloody stupid idea and so they don't use them and so they go out of business.
Welcome to the right to bear arms.
Humans are particularly bad at passing this kind of knowledge over extended time gaps.
Good! If we have to relearn how to create nuclear weapons every single time, we won't be able to create them in such a hurry. Also, if we're really desperate, can't we use the old designs? You only start from scratch if you want to improve it.
You are guilty of withholding the encryption key. You aren't thrown in for being a child molester. You may be completely innocent of that.
And if not, I'd like to ask The Man why it isn't illegal.
I would hazard a guess it isn't illegal because torture is of course illegal so therefore you couldn't possibly produce evidence through torture. If America acknowledges these people have been tortured, surely criminal proceedings would have to take place against SOMEBODY.
The two go hand in hand in a good church.
Then a good church gets to register as a charity.
But, you're going to be hard pressed to find a good church who, for the love of money, decides to register as a charity instead.
Well boo fucking who. Separation of church and state bitches. Your religion is in my law far too much as it is.
A decent accountant can make any profitable company appear to post a loss.
Then they get to go down that road. Then we as a society get to question the value in having a tax system so difficult to navigate and so easily abused that any "decent accountant" can do so. Perhaps we'll get a better tax system. Perhaps not. But teaching about beings of questionable existence shouldn't exempt anyone from paying taxes.
they make no money to speak of (enough to give to charities and cover liability costs on public worship - and perhaps support a minister).
So because someone's job is to teach people about a being of questionable existence, he should be exempt from taxes? If they want to be a charity, register as a charity. If you want to be a religion, you should get taxed. Teaching people about beings of questionable existence (you say only god X exists? Man down the road says only god Y exists. Clearly there is question to which one, if either, exists) isn't something society should be forced to burden.
I've used Ubuntu. I willingly moved away from it and paid for Microsoft XP because after 6 months I found Linux wasn't worth my time in making it work as well as XP.
Believe it or not, not everyone in this big wide world shares your view. Hop off your high-horse and consider personal freedom of choice for once.
You have to understand, slashdot isn't pro-Linux. Its anti-The Man. And at the moment The Man is Microsoft. Once Microsoft becomes an underdog people will sing its praises as they hate on whoever The Man is of the day.
10% of last years Christmas presents ( made in China ) didn't work on they day.
50% of the rest ( made in China) are now broken.
Citation needed.
Sounds like a perfectly good argument for legalising drink driving. Thankfully the rest of society hasn't gone that crazy. Yet.
I bet you watch it all in black and white too. After all, only children are awed by purdy colours. Why, I bet you also watch it muted with the subtitles on. After all, really intelligent people don't need this new fandangled sound technology. The best movies are silent films.
I use to think like you, even after we got a HD tv. I looked at it and went "so what? Its just like the old tv." After a few months of using it I then went and looked at someone's old SD tv and I could immediately tell the difference.
So hey, while ever you don't know the difference, it won't kill you. But the second you do, you won't be able to go back.
You see porn is bad. Because it has naked people in it pretending to have sex. Which is bad because sex isn't fun, its a terrible thing that must be endured for the betterment of society. Or something. I dunno, don't ask me hard questions. Its in the bible, right after god said to go forth and multiply...
Sex = bad! Stop questioning things!
Its not random. Its not arbitrary. Not only is it in the Terms of Service, its been done before. The only people who have an excuse for not realising this would happen are the first wave of "cheaters" (and based on the mod scene from Playstation 1, the modders who actually cheat are few and far between). That's come and gone. These people have had ample warning, its their own fault.
Although I doubt most of them will be upset over losing the ability to cheat. Its much more likely they're upset over losing the ability to pirate games and be on Live.
You shouldn't have to pay them to put code on your own box.
I miss the old days when consoles were for playing games and computers were for writing and running custom code. Nowadays you can't just throw in the disc and press the "on" button. You must instead download patches, sometimes install the damn thing and only after all this, can you run it.
What happened to consoles being consoles instead of locked down computers?
What do you want MS to do? Scour the interwebs for every licensed software to compare it with what Microsoft's coders produce? I'm by no means a fan of Microsoft, but this is the one time where the company appears to be acting in good faith. And yet people like you criticise them still! You're creating a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" atmosphere, which only encourages MS to do every illegal thing it thinks it can get away with.
Now, if only I could keep it up....
That's the important thing. If you do all these wonderful changes and then once the weight is lost revert back to normal, you will put the weight back on. If someone knows they won't keep up an exercise regime, but feel they can eat less/healthier indefinitely, then its better to do the latter.
They will want to be careful or else they just might get arrested.
Except you also have to pay an additional $1100 to use it without breaking their EULA.
I don't see how Apple can justify an $1,100 (USD) price difference. This isn't a little more expensive, this is double the price.
Mac:
Processor: 2.93 GHz Intel 2 Core Duo
Memory: 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x2GB
640GB Serial ATA Drive
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 256MB
Apple Mighty Mouse
TOTAL PRICE: $3,000 (AUD)
LINK: http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html
PC
$90 - Tower, fan and power supply
$60 - DVD Burner
$170 - 2.93 GHz Intel 2 Core Duo
$95 - 640GB SATA HDD 3.5"; 7200 rpm
$30 - Keyboard and Mouse
$140 - 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL9 DIMM (Kit of 2)
$450 - 24" LCD Monitor
$150 - Speakers and Sound card (estimate)
$190 - Graphics Card: Gigabyte GF9800GT, 1GB, Model:N98TOC-1GI #18192
$400 - Windows 7 Ultimate
TOTAL PRICE: $1775 (AUD)
SOURCE: Beecom - http://beecom.com.au/home.php