even if you dispute the 13% figure and assume all road deaths are speed related, you may wish to see the number of drug related deaths for the same period
But when you take a town of 25,000 where the vast majority are violently anti-american and put lots of american soldiers in the center of town
hmm i wonder why they find it so easy to be violently anti-american?
some terrorist raghead who is hell-bent on destroying america
ah i see, not perhaps the possibility that you unlawfully invaded their country then, and then pissed all over them
You choose who you would rather have die
well i would have chosen to have neither of you die for a deeply flawed war.
it is a great shame the US administration seemed to forget the reason they didn't push through to Iraq at the end of the 1st gulf war was that they knew it was a no-win quagmire
oh and please don't try and tell me that 2nd gulf war was anything other than a phyrric victory
it was the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people
much like similar abilities in other species, such as sharks.
yeah but where does the platypus put the laser beam?
male Platypus have a poison spur on their back legs that delivers one of, (if not the) most painful toxin known to man
it pretty much ignores most pain suppression mechanisms, including morphine.
i think this possibly trumps lasers
Funnily enough Elitistjerks.com aren't into bought arena ratings at all... mostly they are into excessive maths and gentlemanly discussions regarding wow theorycrafting
the example post i linked to has a frequency graph for spell effects on weapon speeds for goodness sake...
Shakespeare [...] has been regarded for much of that time as being not only one of the greatest writers in the English language, but in the entire history of our species.
meh! you can't appreciate shakespeare until you have heard it in the original Klingon
It must come from the same bozos that designed Photoshop, which can't even make a plain, simple circle without going through a few menus and stuff. Even paintbrush from the win 3.1 days was easier to use. And "it's an image manipulation program, not a draw program!" isn't an excuse.
Eliptical marquee tool, (shift drag so you drag a circle not and elipse) Fill with colour... two steps hardly seems tricky. How would you have designed the interface?
One way I know the both the DoD and CIA are using to try and "reveal" signals through fiber is at the bends, since if the fiber is not *completely* straight, some of the signal is leaked into the cladding and can be captured.
sniffing fiber by bending to allow leaks has been a commercial possibility for at least the last 10 years, so i doubt very much they are mearly "trying" to reveal signal.
I recall seeing an all in one fibre/bending/sniffing device for about $500 bucks and that was a few years ago.
the only difficult thing with this sort of espionage is that it is possible to measure signal loss over the length of the fibre, so the trick is to be able to measure a leaked signal weaker than the kit on the end of the fibre can detect as a loss...
it had decided I needed folders called Documents, Music, Pictures etc. in my home directory.
Not wishing to flame or anything, but where exactly would you recommend storing your documents, music and pictures?
I loath windows MyDocuments folder structure that buries "user's stuff" in system folders.
Home Directories at the top of the file structure are more elegant IMHO, But how exactly would you sub-divide these things except by creating folders for Documents, Music and Pictures?
However, the 500 page novel you are writing which you haven't backed up for a while is irreplaceable.
Thank god. If you're not smart enough to back up, I don't want to read your shit anyway.
I'm going to be charitable and assume you were just a couple of cups of coffee short when you wrote this, but do you really expect your authors to be expert computer users?
Normal users dont do backups
Normal users don't know how their system works and don't want to know...
to expect your great writers to also be great users is to narrow your reading material more than you might be prepared to accept.
You do know for example that Douglas Adams lost an entire manuscript ( no backups) due to computer error. (back on topic the computer was an apple, the file was unrecoverable)
the guardian newspaper has a long and noble tradition of publishing typos
as such it is refered to by the private eye rather amusingly as "the Grauniad".
In case you are unfamilar with the eye, it is a satirical magazine, at one time owned by Peter Cook, that is best known in the UK for being sued for libel when printing things that later turn out to be completely true about certain politicians
The way to deal with Romulans simply ban lame scifi emulations of past society. On invent some silly Mongol and Vandal aliens to come and kick their asses.
Is it not said that those who do not learn from the lame sci-fi emulations of past societies are condemned to reinvent them, poorly?
For obvious reasons i don't want to google the link from work
But there recently was a case of an adult man (twenty something i think), who was pretending to be a 13yrd old school boy ( the teachers thought there was something strange about him, but couldn't quite work out what..) and who was in a relationship with a couple of 40 year old guys who also thought he was 13...
the older guys apparently felt cheated and deceived when the discovered that their 13yr old was in fact 20 something and just shaved a lot...
the link was from news of the weird, which is a great verified source of strangeness like this
p.s. and also no it doesn't "beg the question", but i'll leave it up to a philosophy nazi to slap your knuckles for that:)
Hunter-gatherers (still present today in various locations around the world, btw) spend approximately 1/3 of their day looking for food--just surviving.
You have your figures wrong, Hunter Gatherers actually only spend about 1/6 to 1/4 of the day gathering food ( dependent on the environment)
Hunter Gathering is in fact a very efficient lifestyle from a time use perspective, the problem is that is doesn't scale well. We shifted to an agrarian society not because it gave us more free time, but because it enabled us to support larger populations.
In terms of amount of free time / working to survive ; modern office workers actually do very badly, we work about twice long just to have somewhere to live when compared to a medieval peasant... of course the relative standard of living is a different thing altogether, but in terms of hours worked 21 century humans have a raw deal.
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hyperbole doesn't help your argument
the number of accidents where excessive speed is a factor is variously quoted by the police at anywhere from 10-15%
total number of road deaths in GB in 2007 was 2,946
so we can assume 300 of those are speed related
this compares with about 275 knife crime related deaths for the same period
or 8,724 alcohol-related deaths in 2007
even if you dispute the 13% figure and assume all road deaths are speed related, you may wish to see the number of drug related deaths for the same period
The total number of deaths related to drug poisoning in 2007 was 2,640
speeding may not be a very safe or desirable activity, but to suggest it is the most dangerous criminal activity is disingenuous at best
well said sir
hmm i wonder why they find it so easy to be violently anti-american?
ah i see, not perhaps the possibility that you unlawfully invaded their country then, and then pissed all over them
well i would have chosen to have neither of you die for a deeply flawed war.
it is a great shame the US administration seemed to forget the reason they didn't push through to Iraq at the end of the 1st gulf war was that they knew it was a no-win quagmire
oh and please don't try and tell me that 2nd gulf war was anything other than a phyrric victory
it was the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people
i'd give it a week and 15 minutes before they die in a fireball
Is 20 years ago sufficently "back in the day", I was using email for university stuff back then,as I would imagine were a good many other people?
much like similar abilities in other species, such as sharks.
yeah but where does the platypus put the laser beam?
male Platypus have a poison spur on their back legs that delivers one of, (if not the) most painful toxin known to man it pretty much ignores most pain suppression mechanisms, including morphine. i think this possibly trumps lasers
can't believe this bit of wisdom is still at 2 that's the trouble with mods today they are just educated stupid
Funnily enough Elitistjerks.com aren't into bought arena ratings at all... mostly they are into excessive maths and gentlemanly discussions regarding wow theorycrafting
the example post i linked to has a frequency graph for spell effects on weapon speeds for goodness sake...
this is clearly stealing my idea for a Large Array of Gilgameshes
I'll see you in court mr coward...
meh! you can't appreciate shakespeare until you have heard it in the original Klingon
I recall seeing an all in one fibre/bending/sniffing device for about $500 bucks and that was a few years ago.
the only difficult thing with this sort of espionage is that it is possible to measure signal loss over the length of the fibre, so the trick is to be able to measure a leaked signal weaker than the kit on the end of the fibre can detect as a loss...
I loath windows MyDocuments folder structure that buries "user's stuff" in system folders.
Home Directories at the top of the file structure are more elegant IMHO, But how exactly would you sub-divide these things except by creating folders for Documents, Music and Pictures?
or did you mean that when people consider security, they tend to have daemons running as restriced users?
well guess what, you can run services as resricted users on a windows box too, and any competent admin will configure them that way.
basically it all boils down to the trite tautology that when a system is administered by security concious admins, services will be secured...
Normal users dont do backups
Normal users don't know how their system works and don't want to know...
to expect your great writers to also be great users is to narrow your reading material more than you might be prepared to accept.
You do know for example that Douglas Adams lost an entire manuscript ( no backups) due to computer error. (back on topic the computer was an apple, the file was unrecoverable)
You've just made a classic schoolboy error!
Come on this isn't rocket science!
the guardian newspaper has a long and noble tradition of publishing typos
as such it is refered to by the private eye rather amusingly as "the Grauniad".
In case you are unfamilar with the eye, it is a satirical magazine, at one time owned by Peter Cook, that is best known in the UK for being sued for libel when printing things that later turn out to be completely true about certain politicians
For obvious reasons i don't want to google the link from work
:)
But there recently was a case of an adult man (twenty something i think),
who was pretending to be a 13yrd old school boy ( the teachers thought there was something strange about him, but couldn't quite work out what..)
and who was in a relationship with a couple of 40 year old guys who also thought he was 13...
the older guys apparently felt cheated and deceived when the discovered that their 13yr old was in fact 20 something and just shaved a lot...
the link was from news of the weird, which is a great verified source of strangeness like this
p.s. and also no it doesn't "beg the question", but i'll leave it up to a philosophy nazi to slap your knuckles for that
Sorry to break it to you, but you are mistaken, the Placebo hasn't really cured your hypochondria...
... it has just made you think you dont think you think you are sick all the time.
I hope you can find a real cure before the delusion about your delusion wears off
i might be able to sell you some oil of ophidea that may help
Hunter Gathering is in fact a very efficient lifestyle from a time use perspective, the problem is that is doesn't scale well. We shifted to an agrarian society not because it gave us more free time, but because it enabled us to support larger populations.
In terms of amount of free time / working to survive ; modern office workers actually do very badly, we work about twice long just to have somewhere to live when compared to a medieval peasant... of course the relative standard of living is a different thing altogether, but in terms of hours worked 21 century humans have a raw deal.