Which proteins? I ask as I have been a vegetarian for awhile, and I don't take suplemants, nor each much manufactured food, so I would actually be interested in knowing.
I don't know about any proteins, but I'm about 90% sure the amino acid lyseine doesn't occur outside of animals.
In the same vein, if a climate change that would kill us is "natural" I really don't care for natural. Better learn and figure out how to get a more unnatural but more friendly result if we at all can.
Anthropogenic climate change NOW!
Because he drags shortcuts to all of his documents onto a floppy, and calls from home when he can't open them. He calls you to his cubicle to fix his printer - by putting paper in it. He's angry that he can't dial in with his laptop, although he hasn't yet tried connecting a phone line to the modem. He wants to know if you could come to his house to "look at his internets". He recommends that you diagnose by "jiggling some wires or something".
There just comes a point when the case is made beyond a reasonable doubt. Why ask why?
Ijust fell in love with the word "meatspace". Meatspace meatspace meatspace. I'm going to find an excuse to use it in context every day for the rest of the week.
That's "registration" required, not "subscription". Free registration for many/most NYT articles has been required for ages, and is just one more good reason to have a BugMeNot plugin.
The condescentia dialect, I think. Or maybe populisary, they're pretty similar.
And is someone going to explain -- or even take a guess -- why this is Slashdot news? I just haven't made the technology connection yet, and it didn't mention whether Steve Jobs bought a subscription, so I'm in the dark.
To be pedantic, they're designed to put holes in things at a distance. If the things you prefer to put holes in happen to be alive, that's your hangup; give me a bunch of soda cans in an old quarry and I'm set for the afternoon.
Would Blogger's post-by-email feature count as an automated publisher?
A secure HTTP proxy, like MegaProxy, might be an alternative. I suppose that how anonymous it is depends on 1) how determined the regime is to know what you're doing, and 2) whether the remige is blocking proxies.
You are almost three times as likely to die if there's a gun in your house than if there isn't.
I'd be 300% likely to die if I had a gun?
As long as you're Googling anyway, try queries for "Morton Grove" and "Kenneshaw". Morton Grove, Il. outlawed handgun ownership some years ago, and got national press. The impact on crime, as you suggest, was arguably negligible. Keneshaw, Ga. also wanted some free press - so in response they mandated handgun ownership. Most categories of crime seemed unaffected, but their property crime went down. I speak only for myself, of course, but I do think I would prefer to rob a house in Morton Grove.
The comparison was especially interesting to me because the two are so demographically similar; they're of a similar size and composition, had fairly stable crime rates over the same period of time, and enacted their laws in fairly close proximity to each other.
Almost as delightful as having Western Digital refuse to honor a warranty because they said it had originally been shipped by them to another region (although it was purchased retain in this one). Same drive, SAME warranty, still fucked.
I don't recall any such consensus from any experts. I recall assertions from the US administration, and a US press that refused to defy him after 9/11
Then there must be good explanations for Germany volunteering the loan of 25 chemical-detecting Fox vehicles for the war, Guillaume Parmentier's lament that "It would have taken time, but at least we would know where the damn things were. With the war we have no idea, perhaps they are in the hands of terrorists", and the fact that not one person anywhere who had an intelligence organization reporting to them stood up and said "We don't think Iraq has anything". Even France had pledged support, provided that the U.S. didn't go for a second resolution.
The closest to a denial that I can recall was Joschka Fischer's "I am not convinced" that diplomacy had been exhausted (and giving credit where it's due, he was correct - diplomacy is never exhausted. We could still be negotiating with Germany for the emancipation of Poland today, and with Saddam for the release of Kuwait).
Meanwhile what we have on the other side is a consensus of experts, not US newscasters and the US administration they don't dare defy, just like when the people trying to force the same kind of consensus in the face of the evidence gave George the maneuvering room to get his invasion of Iraq off the ground.
I'm quite pleased for you. All you really appear to lack is the consensus of 13 years of two u.n. inpection regimes who actually spent time on the ground in Iraq trying to disarm it. But at least George Galloway agrees with you, that's got to stand for something.
Oh, and owing to the absolute failure of U.S. media to even resemble the claim that they "don't dare defy" the administration, I'd recommend that you try actually observing some before trying to characterize it. Relying on whatever you hear around the water cooler/campus/bar stool is notoriously ill-advised.
And which inspectors would those be? It was neither UNSCOM nor UNMOVIC; neither produced a report that they had "turned up nothing".
UNSCOM in particular found, disposed of, and/or secured materials even until 1998, and was frustrated year after year by Iraq's refusal to cooperate with verification. When it left the country, there were still tons of materials under u.n. seal awaiting disposal, and many tons more unaccounted for.
Unlike South Africa, which decided on its own to eliminate its nuclear weapons and welcomed inspection as a means of creating confidence in its disarmament, Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance - not even today - of the disarmament, which was demanded of it and which it needs to carry out to win the confidence of the world and to live in peace.
Of course, to cite every u.n. report that failed to "turn up nothing" would be to commit myself to an all-nighter, but from memory, between 2002 and 2003 UNMOVIC found unfilled CW and BW munitions, a uranium centrifuge, rocket test facilities modified for rockets beyond permitted range, and a prototype UAV. Since the war, prohibited rocket engines have made their way from Iraq to European scrapyards, a radiologically dirty site was found which shouldn't be dirty, and old chemical-filled munitions have been encountered at least once.
Were the Girl Scouts perhaps looking for WMD's in Iraq? Was it their inspectors who "turned up nothing for like 10 years"? Or does it all depend on what the definition of 'nothing' is?
Ok, then nix drunk driving and substitute any form of negligence you please. If the tires on your car have worn to the point of blowing out and you kill someone, you're responsible; you're responsible for the condition of your vehicle. If you drive over an oil slick, spin out and kill someone, you're responsible; you're responsible for operating your vehicle in a manner that permits complete control over it. If a UFO swoops down over the road and shoots blinding light in your eyes and you to kill someone, then you're responsible; you're responsible for taking every precaution against circumstances that would prevent you from driving safely. It IS your fault that you didn't wear sunglasses in case of aliens.
Systems get infected through negligence. If you've been advised of the possibility, and even given the means to avert it -- free of charge or not -- then it's your fault if you cripple the network anyway. Sayonara.
You mean that pillaging the patent rights of rich nations doesn't help the environment? Wait, I need to act shocked. Hold on... getting there... wow, this is harder than it looks. There! I got it! I'm aghast!
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Which proteins? I ask as I have been a vegetarian for awhile, and I don't take suplemants, nor each much manufactured food, so I would actually be interested in knowing.
I don't know about any proteins, but I'm about 90% sure the amino acid lyseine doesn't occur outside of animals.
In the same vein, if a climate change that would kill us is "natural" I really don't care for natural. Better learn and figure out how to get a more unnatural but more friendly result if we at all can. Anthropogenic climate change NOW!
Great. After nuclear armageddon, the roaches will be free to tool around on the little Segways we made for them. The legacy of man.
Why call him a Loser?
Because he drags shortcuts to all of his documents onto a floppy, and calls from home when he can't open them. He calls you to his cubicle to fix his printer - by putting paper in it. He's angry that he can't dial in with his laptop, although he hasn't yet tried connecting a phone line to the modem. He wants to know if you could come to his house to "look at his internets". He recommends that you diagnose by "jiggling some wires or something".
There just comes a point when the case is made beyond a reasonable doubt. Why ask why?
Hmm. That could be it, thanks.
Ijust fell in love with the word "meatspace". Meatspace meatspace meatspace. I'm going to find an excuse to use it in context every day for the rest of the week.
That's "registration" required, not "subscription". Free registration for many/most NYT articles has been required for ages, and is just one more good reason to have a BugMeNot plugin.
The condescentia dialect, I think. Or maybe populisary, they're pretty similar.
And is someone going to explain -- or even take a guess -- why this is Slashdot news? I just haven't made the technology connection yet, and it didn't mention whether Steve Jobs bought a subscription, so I'm in the dark.
I really don't know much about them. Can you elaborate?
No, guns are designed to kill.
To be pedantic, they're designed to put holes in things at a distance. If the things you prefer to put holes in happen to be alive, that's your hangup; give me a bunch of soda cans in an old quarry and I'm set for the afternoon.
Would Blogger's post-by-email feature count as an automated publisher? A secure HTTP proxy, like MegaProxy, might be an alternative. I suppose that how anonymous it is depends on 1) how determined the regime is to know what you're doing, and 2) whether the remige is blocking proxies.
You are almost three times as likely to die if there's a gun in your house than if there isn't.
I'd be 300% likely to die if I had a gun?
As long as you're Googling anyway, try queries for "Morton Grove" and "Kenneshaw". Morton Grove, Il. outlawed handgun ownership some years ago, and got national press. The impact on crime, as you suggest, was arguably negligible. Keneshaw, Ga. also wanted some free press - so in response they mandated handgun ownership. Most categories of crime seemed unaffected, but their property crime went down. I speak only for myself, of course, but I do think I would prefer to rob a house in Morton Grove.
The comparison was especially interesting to me because the two are so demographically similar; they're of a similar size and composition, had fairly stable crime rates over the same period of time, and enacted their laws in fairly close proximity to each other.
Almost as delightful as having Western Digital refuse to honor a warranty because they said it had originally been shipped by them to another region (although it was purchased retain in this one). Same drive, SAME warranty, still fucked.
Are you an American? (That would explain why you don't know shit about Kilo, Mega and Giga....)
And what would account for your apparent misconceptions about the charm or cleverness of bigotry?
Oh, come on - admit that you loved it whenever characters would awkwardly and unconvincingly start sputtering Chinese for no apprehensible reason...
Mind you, if there's even a chance that Morena Baccarin and Jewel Staite might be spanking each other, you can mark another ticket sold.
I don't recall any such consensus from any experts. I recall assertions from the US administration, and a US press that refused to defy him after 9/11
Then there must be good explanations for Germany volunteering the loan of 25 chemical-detecting Fox vehicles for the war, Guillaume Parmentier's lament that "It would have taken time, but at least we would know where the damn things were. With the war we have no idea, perhaps they are in the hands of terrorists", and the fact that not one person anywhere who had an intelligence organization reporting to them stood up and said "We don't think Iraq has anything". Even France had pledged support, provided that the U.S. didn't go for a second resolution.
The closest to a denial that I can recall was Joschka Fischer's "I am not convinced" that diplomacy had been exhausted (and giving credit where it's due, he was correct - diplomacy is never exhausted. We could still be negotiating with Germany for the emancipation of Poland today, and with Saddam for the release of Kuwait).
Meanwhile what we have on the other side is a consensus of experts, not US newscasters and the US administration they don't dare defy, just like when the people trying to force the same kind of consensus in the face of the evidence gave George the maneuvering room to get his invasion of Iraq off the ground.
I'm quite pleased for you. All you really appear to lack is the consensus of 13 years of two u.n. inpection regimes who actually spent time on the ground in Iraq trying to disarm it. But at least George Galloway agrees with you, that's got to stand for something.
Oh, and owing to the absolute failure of U.S. media to even resemble the claim that they "don't dare defy" the administration, I'd recommend that you try actually observing some before trying to characterize it. Relying on whatever you hear around the water cooler/campus/bar stool is notoriously ill-advised.
UNSCOM in particular found, disposed of, and/or secured materials even until 1998, and was frustrated year after year by Iraq's refusal to cooperate with verification. When it left the country, there were still tons of materials under u.n. seal awaiting disposal, and many tons more unaccounted for.
UNMOVIC continued to find inspections hampered by Saddam's regime, concluding in the last report before the war that Of course, to cite every u.n. report that failed to "turn up nothing" would be to commit myself to an all-nighter, but from memory, between 2002 and 2003 UNMOVIC found unfilled CW and BW munitions, a uranium centrifuge, rocket test facilities modified for rockets beyond permitted range, and a prototype UAV. Since the war, prohibited rocket engines have made their way from Iraq to European scrapyards, a radiologically dirty site was found which shouldn't be dirty, and old chemical-filled munitions have been encountered at least once.
Were the Girl Scouts perhaps looking for WMD's in Iraq? Was it their inspectors who "turned up nothing for like 10 years"? Or does it all depend on what the definition of 'nothing' is?
It doesn't address the problem, but it's my favorite solution anyway.
Ok, then nix drunk driving and substitute any form of negligence you please. If the tires on your car have worn to the point of blowing out and you kill someone, you're responsible; you're responsible for the condition of your vehicle. If you drive over an oil slick, spin out and kill someone, you're responsible; you're responsible for operating your vehicle in a manner that permits complete control over it. If a UFO swoops down over the road and shoots blinding light in your eyes and you to kill someone, then you're responsible; you're responsible for taking every precaution against circumstances that would prevent you from driving safely. It IS your fault that you didn't wear sunglasses in case of aliens. Systems get infected through negligence. If you've been advised of the possibility, and even given the means to avert it -- free of charge or not -- then it's your fault if you cripple the network anyway. Sayonara.
Plus who says that Apple should follow the same route that all the x86 companies are following? When have they ever done that?
Perhaps you've heard of the G5?
I've read and re-read TFA, and I still can't figure out - why is this news?
*sigh*
Bistromathematics... six times nine... hello?
Could someone who's actually read the books mod the parent as funny please?
How could reducing our CO2 emissions cost many times more than the entire world economic output?
GNP is typically measured over a year, and Kyoto expenses are being measured from now until they end. Crafty accounting witchery!
The difference between "listening to" and "obeying" is worth noting.
You mean that pillaging the patent rights of rich nations doesn't help the environment? Wait, I need to act shocked. Hold on... getting there... wow, this is harder than it looks. There! I got it! I'm aghast!