For fuck sake, Google was not standing over the guys bed trespassing in his home. They accidentally drove up a private driveway, then removed the images when asked. Thats it. No invasion of privacy. No break and enter.
It was a stupid lawsuit and deserved to be thrown out.
I wouldn't think that a reasonable person could consider a dirt driveway to be a public access road.
A case obviously existed, but their day in court ended because their lawyer apparently didn't know what s/he was doing.
No there was no case here at all and their lawyer knew it. It was a stupid lawsuit and deserved to be thrown out. The morons raising the lawsuit should have been made to pay for the defendants court costs as well.
The autism scare doesn't really have anything to do with how medical professionals and scientists in the United States treat mental disorders. Instead it has to do with how the media does business.
I'd disagree
I'd say it has a lot to do with the fact that the US supposedly has the most advanced healthcare in the world, and spends the most per capita on healthcare, yet US citizens have the shortest lifespans and highest diagnosis rate of illnesses in the G8.
And when someone has the gall to say that *maybe* it's because we are pumping too mush shit into out children, a whole lot of people take offence. The MDs then see this as an opportunity to make even more money on pointless unproveable studies.
Anyone who's seen a neanderthal skull knows that something different was going on there. Humans just don't look like that. The bone structures are all quite different.
Of course if you looked at a Chihuahua and a Great Dane you would think something was going on there too.
After we annex the provinces (except Quebec) and turn them into states, you'll be just as liable to U.S. law as all the rest.
Ha! Don't forget Canada has more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. Once oil goes up again we will simply buy the debt ridden US and you will wake up in a province! Bwuu ha ha ha!
- You can't trust the government with your data. Whether it's stolen social security numbers, do not call lists, or medical information, the government WILL be used and abused. Power corrupts politicians; they don't care.
Do you believe the politicians you vote for have anything to do with peoples private data? Your data is being compromised by lowly paid swivel servants that have the same job regardless of what party is elected in.
Actually it's pretty standard to be conscious during brain surgery.
No it's not very common at all. You would typically be conscious if they were trying to destroy an overactive area causing seizures for example, but for biopsies or tumor removal which would be far more common type of brain surgery, you are unconscious.
Canada will deny you entry if you've been convicted of drug possession or DWI -- even if said conviction was a misdemeanor/civil affair if your home country. Why don't I see anybody complaining about that?
Because you are a drugged up loser - that's why.
My friend got hassled at the US border because they had a record of him being convicted of illegally scalping a ticket (small fine). So don't start complaining Canadas rules are extreme but not the US ones.
Additionally, updating finger prints occurs when getting or renewing a drivers license.
Are you saying you have to get fingerprinted to get a freakin drivers license? Wow you really do live in a Nazi run country.
The U.S. gov't has my complete set of fingerprints. They have the fingerprints of everyone that I grew up with and knew as a child.
I live in Canada and absolutely no one I know has ever been fingerprinted. Here the attitude generally is that only the criminals need to be tracked, not the general population.
Matlab and it's toolboxes are a great tools for analysis, but for direct production deployments of exe's there are a great many inconvenient detours involved.
I disagree. A lot of code running on-orbit is autocoded from Matlab/Simulink. This code is far easier to maintain (as long as you keep the software developers from modifying it) and more reliable than hand written code. Analysis and development is also far easier in the Matlab environment as well.
So basically you are saying "Sure, Christianity was responsible for murdering millions of people but that was long ago so it doesn't really matter and Christians are now all good and right. Muslims are wrong and evil because they are killing people now."
You completely missed the point. None of those atrocities were about religion in the sense that the religious teachings demanded that they happen. The events occurred because people were using the religion as an excuse to commit evil acts.
If religion were truly followed then killing would never happen.
So you agree with my point that it is never truly about religion - religion is just used as an excuse for one group to try and force beliefs on another.
Part of the problem with moderate religionists is that they give cover for the extremists under the umbrella of "respect for religion". If they want their religion to continue getting respect, they need to police their own.
Ah yes, so as Christians we were supposed to have policed the following:
- Christians who think the crusade massacres were a good idea (massacre)
- fundamentalists who go around shooting abortion doctors (murder)
- the protestant catholic fighting in Ireland (terrorism)
- the Salem and other witch trials (murder)
- the 500 years of the dark ages when Christianity ruled over science and anyone questioning the authority of the church was killed (murder/massacre)
Basically violence has nothing to do with religion. People will use ANY religion as an excuse to justify their view they they are right and everyone else is wrong.
Of course, I suppose that it's possible that your school hasn't covered these topics yet ; if not, I'd suggest that you ask your parents for permission to get a science tutor, so that you can get up to speed on the basic knowledge necessary for a 14-year-old to get into senior school.
Of course the school hasn't taught this yet. Because to teach anything that would imply the earth is not the center of the universe and more than 8000 years old would be contrary to the teachings of God and must of course be wrong. Welcome to church controlled schooling.
That's just a problem with the use and abuse of english, and people not learning how to write and speak correctly.
Take 'America' for instance - America is often incorrectly used to refer to just the United States, when in fact is actually refers to the entire western hemisphere including the continents of North and South America.
Now when people learn in school that Christopher Columbus discovered America, they assume he discovered and landed somewhere in what is now called the US. This is wrong. He only ever landed in Central and South America.
So when a non technical person incorrectly refers to a Watt as a quantity and not a rate, cut them some slack - it's invariably because US education system has gone to complete shit.
Ignoring the ridiculous weight that would have to be accelerated along the track (1.5 million pounds), the shuttle travels about 2000 Km to get into orbit (just over 100Km straight up but about 1600Km horizontally to get over the rotational motion of the launchsite as the eartch is spinning).
I don't think that you could realistically build a track of any significant length to even make a dent in the fuel required to travel that distance.
Doubtless it will take some very clever engineering. But it's an engineer problem, not a physics problem.
No. Engineering is the application of Physics and Chemistry. It would only be an engineering problem if all of the materials existed. Since no material designed or built exists right now or even in the near future that neets the requirements needed for the tether, then it is a physics problem.
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Your ideals won't save your stupid ass from a beating or a bullet. Wise up. The real world doesn't give a shit about you.
I love how these so called god fearing Christian Republicans will claim they will shoot you for setting one foot on their private property.
You do realize killing someone for simple trespass on your driveway will land you in jail for manslaughter. Or maybe you're too stupid.
For fuck sake, Google was not standing over the guys bed trespassing in his home. They accidentally drove up a private driveway, then removed the images when asked. Thats it. No invasion of privacy. No break and enter.
It was a stupid lawsuit and deserved to be thrown out.
I wouldn't think that a reasonable person could consider a dirt driveway to be a public access road. A case obviously existed, but their day in court ended because their lawyer apparently didn't know what s/he was doing.
No there was no case here at all and their lawyer knew it. It was a stupid lawsuit and deserved to be thrown out. The morons raising the lawsuit should have been made to pay for the defendants court costs as well.
The autism scare doesn't really have anything to do with how medical professionals and scientists in the United States treat mental disorders. Instead it has to do with how the media does business.
I'd disagree
I'd say it has a lot to do with the fact that the US supposedly has the most advanced healthcare in the world, and spends the most per capita on healthcare, yet US citizens have the shortest lifespans and highest diagnosis rate of illnesses in the G8.
And when someone has the gall to say that *maybe* it's because we are pumping too mush shit into out children, a whole lot of people take offence. The MDs then see this as an opportunity to make even more money on pointless unproveable studies.
Anyone who's seen a neanderthal skull knows that something different was going on there. Humans just don't look like that. The bone structures are all quite different.
Of course if you looked at a Chihuahua and a Great Dane you would think something was going on there too.
Sure but we also have Santa. Lets see how you like a Christmas without gifts!
It's what we call civil servants that work in offices. Implies they do fuck all but spin on their chairs all day.
After we annex the provinces (except Quebec) and turn them into states, you'll be just as liable to U.S. law as all the rest.
Ha! Don't forget Canada has more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. Once oil goes up again we will simply buy the debt ridden US and you will wake up in a province! Bwuu ha ha ha!
- You can't trust the government with your data. Whether it's stolen social security numbers, do not call lists, or medical information, the government WILL be used and abused. Power corrupts politicians; they don't care.
Do you believe the politicians you vote for have anything to do with peoples private data? Your data is being compromised by lowly paid swivel servants that have the same job regardless of what party is elected in.
Actually it's pretty standard to be conscious during brain surgery.
No it's not very common at all. You would typically be conscious if they were trying to destroy an overactive area causing seizures for example, but for biopsies or tumor removal which would be far more common type of brain surgery, you are unconscious.
Canada will deny you entry if you've been convicted of drug possession or DWI -- even if said conviction was a misdemeanor/civil affair if your home country. Why don't I see anybody complaining about that?
Because you are a drugged up loser - that's why.
My friend got hassled at the US border because they had a record of him being convicted of illegally scalping a ticket (small fine). So don't start complaining Canadas rules are extreme but not the US ones.
Additionally, updating finger prints occurs when getting or renewing a drivers license.
Are you saying you have to get fingerprinted to get a freakin drivers license? Wow you really do live in a Nazi run country.
The U.S. gov't has my complete set of fingerprints. They have the fingerprints of everyone that I grew up with and knew as a child.
I live in Canada and absolutely no one I know has ever been fingerprinted. Here the attitude generally is that only the criminals need to be tracked, not the general population.
Matlab and it's toolboxes are a great tools for analysis, but for direct production deployments of exe's there are a great many inconvenient detours involved.
I disagree. A lot of code running on-orbit is autocoded from Matlab/Simulink. This code is far easier to maintain (as long as you keep the software developers from modifying it) and more reliable than hand written code. Analysis and development is also far easier in the Matlab environment as well.
Matlab supports production of a stand alone executable from Matlab that does not require the Matlab environment.
So basically you are saying "Sure, Christianity was responsible for murdering millions of people but that was long ago so it doesn't really matter and Christians are now all good and right. Muslims are wrong and evil because they are killing people now."
Did I understand your argument correctly?
You completely missed the point. None of those atrocities were about religion in the sense that the religious teachings demanded that they happen. The events occurred because people were using the religion as an excuse to commit evil acts.
If religion were truly followed then killing would never happen.
Why do I need a modern set of examples - had Christianity radically changed in 2000 years?
So you agree with my point that it is never truly about religion - religion is just used as an excuse for one group to try and force beliefs on another.
Part of the problem with moderate religionists is that they give cover for the extremists under the umbrella of "respect for religion". If they want their religion to continue getting respect, they need to police their own.
Ah yes, so as Christians we were supposed to have policed the following:
- Christians who think the crusade massacres were a good idea (massacre)
- fundamentalists who go around shooting abortion doctors (murder)
- the protestant catholic fighting in Ireland (terrorism)
- the Salem and other witch trials (murder)
- the 500 years of the dark ages when Christianity ruled over science and anyone questioning the authority of the church was killed (murder/massacre)
Basically violence has nothing to do with religion. People will use ANY religion as an excuse to justify their view they they are right and everyone else is wrong.
Of course, I suppose that it's possible that your school hasn't covered these topics yet ; if not, I'd suggest that you ask your parents for permission to get a science tutor, so that you can get up to speed on the basic knowledge necessary for a 14-year-old to get into senior school.
Of course the school hasn't taught this yet. Because to teach anything that would imply the earth is not the center of the universe and more than 8000 years old would be contrary to the teachings of God and must of course be wrong. Welcome to church controlled schooling.
That's just a problem with the use and abuse of english, and people not learning how to write and speak correctly.
Take 'America' for instance - America is often incorrectly used to refer to just the United States, when in fact is actually refers to the entire western hemisphere including the continents of North and South America.
Now when people learn in school that Christopher Columbus discovered America, they assume he discovered and landed somewhere in what is now called the US. This is wrong. He only ever landed in Central and South America.
So when a non technical person incorrectly refers to a Watt as a quantity and not a rate, cut them some slack - it's invariably because US education system has gone to complete shit.
Ignoring the ridiculous weight that would have to be accelerated along the track (1.5 million pounds), the shuttle travels about 2000 Km to get into orbit (just over 100Km straight up but about 1600Km horizontally to get over the rotational motion of the launchsite as the eartch is spinning).
I don't think that you could realistically build a track of any significant length to even make a dent in the fuel required to travel that distance.
Because you cannot build a maglev system that can switch fast enough to get anything into near enough speed tolaunch something into orbit.
Doubtless it will take some very clever engineering. But it's an engineer problem, not a physics problem.
No. Engineering is the application of Physics and Chemistry. It would only be an engineering problem if all of the materials existed. Since no material designed or built exists right now or even in the near future that neets the requirements needed for the tether, then it is a physics problem.
You do realize that only people with no education in Physics actually thought this would work in the first place.
You can always make a compelling argument when you don't know what you are talking about and are trying to convince the uninformed.