Well, that might have been the breakthrough... They hire a stinkin' MS exec and find out that he lies all the time. Since with the DHS, correlation is causation, it was only natural to come up with the technology.
It is a very good way to put a point across, but overdone it just makes one look like an extremely frustrated lunatic.
I'm sure there are valid points on your side of the debate, but you're preaching to a highly biased and relatively intelligent crowd. There ought to be a less self-destructive way of making your case.
We need a bit of a reality check though. This is a lot like complaining about your glory days back when you were young.
'Free' and 'Brave' involves the sort of social character needed to maintain this sort of status. The root of the problem is that we are so used to the government taking care of everything for us that we have entirely forgotten how to be brave and fight for our freedom.
We're made to feel powerless and lulled out of our political/social involvement and activism. We let it happen, we have no right to complain.
Keep in mind that information has to travel out of that die at a significant clock speed to other components too. At 1Ghz, that leaves you 30cm of an ideal conductor to play with, and they can't all go in a straight line to your components.
Today the economic systems of China and the U.S. are incredibly intertwined. It is in China's best interest to keep the United States healthy as we are a major trading partner--and vice versa.
Well, it depends on how you view things. China gets to lend the US money so that the US can afford all their manufactured goods... But what does the US actually trade back to China? How long are they going to accept worthless paper (or digits) and keep providing goods in exchange for it?
Right now they're being nice, but it's not entirely clear why they *have* to.
Seriously... Is the US going to borrow from the Chinese to finance this kind of project? I'm not entirely sure the world's largest debtor is in a position to finance the frivolous wars it's engaged in, never mind a trip to the moon.
Give it a few years of what's going on now and it might have trouble just feeding and housing its people.
Then again, the US has nukes... Leveraging the threat of obliteration might become an option.
The point is that whenever the government sees you as an undesirable, they now have a new law to throw at you as an excuse to put you in jail.
The best way to have complete control over your citizens is to make every one of them a criminal without necessarily enforcing it. You just enforce it whenever it's convenient to you.
The convenient thing about terrorism these days is that 'probable cause' pretty much went out the window when it comes to getting a warrant, so people better darn well be white as snow if they cross the government.
Hehe, tell that to the man-made global warming gang (and watch my karma dive for merely mentioning it).
Seriously though, scientific measurement of personality in a creature so different from us humans probably would require a bit more than what they did. Can't fault them for trying though... Except perhaps in the 'what use do we have for such knowledge' way.
Wolves don't live long when the sheep have guns. Even if they manage to eat a few. Brings you back to the original poster's argument... Which was never that a society with guns doesn't have anything bad happening in it. Merely that the playing field is leveled and that is generally a good thing.
In a banned-gun society, your same ruthless person would still shoot first, and then could shoot again, and again, and again, until a cop shows up.
Slashdot Mirror
... texts the man blindly on his iPhone just before walking in the path of an incoming bus.
(Don't take it personal, it's just the first thing I thought of when I read your post)
I'm not sure if it's just propaganda by big-pot, but isn't hemp one of easiest and best-yielding crop?
So what, just use a skyhook.
This being said... I think a 'woosh' is in order here.
I resemble that remark.
I'd so mod you insightful. You summed it up brilliantly.
Well, that might have been the breakthrough... They hire a stinkin' MS exec and find out that he lies all the time. Since with the DHS, correlation is causation, it was only natural to come up with the technology.
Is this what they call sarcasm?
It is a very good way to put a point across, but overdone it just makes one look like an extremely frustrated lunatic.
I'm sure there are valid points on your side of the debate, but you're preaching to a highly biased and relatively intelligent crowd. There ought to be a less self-destructive way of making your case.
We need a bit of a reality check though. This is a lot like complaining about your glory days back when you were young.
'Free' and 'Brave' involves the sort of social character needed to maintain this sort of status. The root of the problem is that we are so used to the government taking care of everything for us that we have entirely forgotten how to be brave and fight for our freedom.
We're made to feel powerless and lulled out of our political/social involvement and activism. We let it happen, we have no right to complain.
Videotron (Quebecor) pretty much *is* the media company. A branch of it anyway.
And I saw people wonder why the local media wasn't picking up on this around here. Quebecor owns half the press and TV channels.
One of the major problems with Ockham's razor is a tendency that we have to assume that we have all the facts when we apply it.
Otherwise, it's a great tool.
Bah, I bet a swiffer would have done the trick.
Except that 'unique' is originally a french word which is where that 'u' sound comes from.
Keep in mind that information has to travel out of that die at a significant clock speed to other components too. At 1Ghz, that leaves you 30cm of an ideal conductor to play with, and they can't all go in a straight line to your components.
Wonderful idea... And I must commend you on your own sig.
I can only imagine the shame of getting a first post wrong...
On topic though, I wonder if that will help motivate the Gnome project. I've always preferred it but I see the flaws just as well as its critiques.
P.S.: I hink I managed to steal your second post claims.
Ron Paul?
Ron Paul, Peter Schiff and several other proponents of austrian economics did that already. But of course back then it was blasphemy to point it out.
Today the economic systems of China and the U.S. are incredibly intertwined. It is in China's best interest to keep the United States healthy as we are a major trading partner--and vice versa.
Well, it depends on how you view things. China gets to lend the US money so that the US can afford all their manufactured goods... But what does the US actually trade back to China? How long are they going to accept worthless paper (or digits) and keep providing goods in exchange for it?
Right now they're being nice, but it's not entirely clear why they *have* to.
Seriously... Is the US going to borrow from the Chinese to finance this kind of project? I'm not entirely sure the world's largest debtor is in a position to finance the frivolous wars it's engaged in, never mind a trip to the moon.
Give it a few years of what's going on now and it might have trouble just feeding and housing its people.
Then again, the US has nukes... Leveraging the threat of obliteration might become an option.
The point is that whenever the government sees you as an undesirable, they now have a new law to throw at you as an excuse to put you in jail.
The best way to have complete control over your citizens is to make every one of them a criminal without necessarily enforcing it. You just enforce it whenever it's convenient to you.
The convenient thing about terrorism these days is that 'probable cause' pretty much went out the window when it comes to getting a warrant, so people better darn well be white as snow if they cross the government.
Might want to re-consider solar power in such an event... At least on the short to mid-term.
Hehe, tell that to the man-made global warming gang (and watch my karma dive for merely mentioning it).
Seriously though, scientific measurement of personality in a creature so different from us humans probably would require a bit more than what they did. Can't fault them for trying though... Except perhaps in the 'what use do we have for such knowledge' way.
Isn't water vapor one of the biggest greenhouse gasses?
The Canadian part was 'Please.'
Wolves don't live long when the sheep have guns. Even if they manage to eat a few. Brings you back to the original poster's argument... Which was never that a society with guns doesn't have anything bad happening in it. Merely that the playing field is leveled and that is generally a good thing.
In a banned-gun society, your same ruthless person would still shoot first, and then could shoot again, and again, and again, until a cop shows up.