There's a huge difference between journalism and 'documentaries'. Either way, both need to get prior permission from the U.S. government before they even think about crossing that border. I'm certain that Moore, even with all the crap he's pulled before, had he gone through the proper channels, could have gotten proper permission. But he didn't. Now he has to pay his dues, just like the rest of us who break laws. Just because he has a cause, doesn't make Moore exempt, whether or not you or I agree with him.
I beg to differ. I was a SAW gunner (essentially an M16 on crack) in the US Army infantry for a couple years, and the most efficient (i.e. cheap in terms of training, maintenance an operation) way of killing someone is to quickly throw as many bullets down-range as possible. An M16 (A1 or otherwise) would never cost anybody, but a fool, $20k -- even with the best of training included. If you're going for one shot one kill, however, your going to need the money for a decent 338 or 50cal rifle with at worst a 0.5MOA (I personally wouldn't go with less than.25) and a whole lot of sniper training, which would definitely cost upwards of $20k.
That's odd. I've had to clean both men's and women's public restrooms as well, and I'd have to say that used cotex and other USED feminine-hygiene-products all over the floor, along with the urine and feces being where it shouldn't, which are only slightly less prevalent than in the men's, make the women's FAR worse than anything I've ever encountered in any men's room. I could care less about the urine on the seat... it's the damn bloody thing on the floor that scares me. That's a biohazard for crying out loud. How flipping hard is it to hit the damn mini stainless trashcan anyway?
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The dumbest upper-middle-management-catch-phrase in the history of the spoken word. Why that caught on, I'll never know... I'd feel stupid actually using it... and think less of those who do on a regular basis -- not to offend the parent-poster or anybody else for that matter, it's just that it sounds like some CEO's lackey made it up to impress his/her superior.
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Back on topic: you're absolutely right... Sony will only have people be less likely to comply with requests like that now, just to spite them.
Well, considering a quick Google search turned up that over US$34 billion were spent in advertising in China last year alone... and that the Bush administration spent US$1.6 billion on advertising since 2003. In the US, there is over US$2.4 Billion spent on advertising deodorant! It seems that you're mistaken in your assumption.
Advertising appears to be more of a world-wide expenditure.
I agree... He had me up until that last line as well. Yes, we tout our relatively impoverished population a bit more than we should -- as a matter of fact, I think we pull them up too much, but a society is only as good as it's weakest link. After visiting several third world countries I've seen what truly impoverished people are (and oddly, they're happier than we are here) and we have none of that in the U.S..
Anybody has the possibility to make a decent living if they bother to try. But for the GP to say that everybody in the U.S. hasn't the foggiest about how to do those things is just a gross overstatement.
Seriously, you are far more likely to be eaten by a shark then killed by mad cow disease.
After seeing video of people being killed by each... I'd opt for the shark any day. A quick, painful death would IMHO be far more desirable than a slow wasting.
Though I suppose you're right about the statistics end of it, as individuals we have more to fear from Multiple Sclerosis than CJD. Then again, as a society don't we have an obligation to prevent what deaths we can? Even if they are only a few?
I don't know how legal this would all be considering there was not initial contract or bid for services... but just the same: fuckin' ballsy response guys... I love it!
I'm a little jealous though, as I'd love to bill a client for over a million someday... well, before a million isn't worth anything.
Just the same, screwing up the quote isn't redundant. Besides, are you that much of a pedant that you would mod someone down for not being perfect? I thought the purpose of communication was to get a point across... I understood it, how 'bout you?
Poor guy posted over 15 minutes before the other guy too -- I feel your pain man.
if you work at Microsoft you'll have a life outside of work. If you work at Google, then work will be your life.
If free time is yer gig, and a lot of money/benefits aren't... take either job (I would personally go with Google; you'd probably learn more with thier innovation) for a couple of years in order to build your resume a little... and then go freelance. I went to contract programming three years ago, and have never looked back. In between projects (you get to pick long/short and hard/easy jobs) you can do anything you want. Last year I spent a total of three months traveling (two months solid plus a bunch of sporadic trips). This year, I'm taking a few more classes to keep current, but I'm going to ski my ass off this Winter on my school breaks.
Of course there will be weeks where you won't see the light of day, but if you plan properly -- or charge more for rush jobs --, you can aleviate most of that.
I would guess that the biggest reason 'deflector shields' aren't used in space yet are that military tanks' armor rely on angular deflection for their reactive armor. You can't really rely upon micrometeoroids coming from a certain angle so as to protect the astronauts with this method -- although you could assume that they wouldn't be coming from Earth's direction, I suppose. Not to mention the weight of it all.
Oh, and it's dangerous enough being strapped to a rocket without having explosives lathered all over the outside.
Yes, those Russians sure know a lot about rockets... but not by design: At least we can get our shuttle program running.
But, beside all of that... cutting edge technology breaks. No matter who built it.
The one thing that this article points out is that it's very difficult to do this on a plane. But they offer no argument to the fact that one could perform this in a restroom at the airport, before they board the plane.
There are more possibilities than this article explores.
I'd have to agree. My childhood never involved having much in the way of new toys. My parents brought a computer home once (a hand-me-down from work), that was it -- and it was only 'new' to me. Since reaching adulthood (actually after I got out of the military), however, I've found the strange desire to compensate for my childhood.
... the only problem (for them) is that I've picked up swapping portable hard drives full of music at a time with friends, co-workers, etc.. Now, instead of getting my music at only a couple thousand megabits per second I'm getting them by the hundreds of gigabytes! It's too bad they've chased us toward something that they really can't trace or bait. Face to Face is a bit more secure than Peer to Peer, and I actually prefer it this way.
Not to be one of those nit-picking idiots out there, but some of us who wear glasses can't always get lasik due to medical conditions out of our control. In my case, for example, Dry Eye Syndrome.
Was that Best Buy in Iraq? Shit I read that entire article and I thought it was in New York, USA! Wow... I need to get my eyes checked.
How on earth does this event, his comments or anything else in here relate to how bad things are in a country outside of the US? He was speaking in relative terms... related to our country several years ago. Not every country on the planet.
If you'd bother to grow up a bit and understand more than one point of view, you'd have relize that. But you choose the popular, foriegn (again, in case you didn't notice, relative to the US) path... "hate all Americans!"
BTW... attacking us repeatedly with the "stupid Americans, you don't know anything about the outside world" thing doesn't exactly motivate anybody to quickly pick up an international newspaper and start reading. If you keep that attitude you'll get the general, western, response of: Go fuck yourself!
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There's a huge difference between journalism and 'documentaries'. Either way, both need to get prior permission from the U.S. government before they even think about crossing that border. I'm certain that Moore, even with all the crap he's pulled before, had he gone through the proper channels, could have gotten proper permission. But he didn't. Now he has to pay his dues, just like the rest of us who break laws. Just because he has a cause, doesn't make Moore exempt, whether or not you or I agree with him.
I beg to differ. I was a SAW gunner (essentially an M16 on crack) in the US Army infantry for a couple years, and the most efficient (i.e. cheap in terms of training, maintenance an operation) way of killing someone is to quickly throw as many bullets down-range as possible. An M16 (A1 or otherwise) would never cost anybody, but a fool, $20k -- even with the best of training included. If you're going for one shot one kill, however, your going to need the money for a decent 338 or 50cal rifle with at worst a 0.5MOA (I personally wouldn't go with less than .25) and a whole lot of sniper training, which would definitely cost upwards of $20k.
That's odd. I've had to clean both men's and women's public restrooms as well, and I'd have to say that used cotex and other USED feminine-hygiene-products all over the floor, along with the urine and feces being where it shouldn't, which are only slightly less prevalent than in the men's, make the women's FAR worse than anything I've ever encountered in any men's room. I could care less about the urine on the seat... it's the damn bloody thing on the floor that scares me. That's a biohazard for crying out loud. How flipping hard is it to hit the damn mini stainless trashcan anyway?
Yeah, but the setup time and learning curve is atrocious, and you run the risk of shooting your own foot off.
Yeah, but why use a cannon to kill a mouse?
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The dumbest upper-middle-management-catch-phrase in the history of the spoken word. Why that caught on, I'll never know... I'd feel stupid actually using it... and think less of those who do on a regular basis -- not to offend the parent-poster or anybody else for that matter, it's just that it sounds like some CEO's lackey made it up to impress his/her superior.
[/off-topic-rant]
Back on topic: you're absolutely right... Sony will only have people be less likely to comply with requests like that now, just to spite them.
Well, considering a quick Google search turned up that over US$34 billion were spent in advertising in China last year alone... and that the Bush administration spent US$1.6 billion on advertising since 2003. In the US, there is over US$2.4 Billion spent on advertising deodorant! It seems that you're mistaken in your assumption.
Advertising appears to be more of a world-wide expenditure.
I agree... He had me up until that last line as well. Yes, we tout our relatively impoverished population a bit more than we should -- as a matter of fact, I think we pull them up too much, but a society is only as good as it's weakest link. After visiting several third world countries I've seen what truly impoverished people are (and oddly, they're happier than we are here) and we have none of that in the U.S..
Anybody has the possibility to make a decent living if they bother to try. But for the GP to say that everybody in the U.S. hasn't the foggiest about how to do those things is just a gross overstatement.
After seeing video of people being killed by each... I'd opt for the shark any day. A quick, painful death would IMHO be far more desirable than a slow wasting.
Though I suppose you're right about the statistics end of it, as individuals we have more to fear from Multiple Sclerosis than CJD. Then again, as a society don't we have an obligation to prevent what deaths we can? Even if they are only a few?
I don't know how legal this would all be considering there was not initial contract or bid for services... but just the same: fuckin' ballsy response guys... I love it! I'm a little jealous though, as I'd love to bill a client for over a million someday... well, before a million isn't worth anything.
Just the same, screwing up the quote isn't redundant. Besides, are you that much of a pedant that you would mod someone down for not being perfect? I thought the purpose of communication was to get a point across... I understood it, how 'bout you?
Poor guy posted over 15 minutes before the other guy too -- I feel your pain man.
If free time is yer gig, and a lot of money/benefits aren't... take either job (I would personally go with Google; you'd probably learn more with thier innovation) for a couple of years in order to build your resume a little... and then go freelance. I went to contract programming three years ago, and have never looked back. In between projects (you get to pick long/short and hard/easy jobs) you can do anything you want. Last year I spent a total of three months traveling (two months solid plus a bunch of sporadic trips). This year, I'm taking a few more classes to keep current, but I'm going to ski my ass off this Winter on my school breaks.
Of course there will be weeks where you won't see the light of day, but if you plan properly -- or charge more for rush jobs --, you can aleviate most of that.
I would guess that the biggest reason 'deflector shields' aren't used in space yet are that military tanks' armor rely on angular deflection for their reactive armor. You can't really rely upon micrometeoroids coming from a certain angle so as to protect the astronauts with this method -- although you could assume that they wouldn't be coming from Earth's direction, I suppose. Not to mention the weight of it all. Oh, and it's dangerous enough being strapped to a rocket without having explosives lathered all over the outside.
Yes, those Russians sure know a lot about rockets... but not by design: At least we can get our shuttle program running. But, beside all of that... cutting edge technology breaks. No matter who built it.
The one thing that this article points out is that it's very difficult to do this on a plane. But they offer no argument to the fact that one could perform this in a restroom at the airport, before they board the plane. There are more possibilities than this article explores.
I'd have to agree. My childhood never involved having much in the way of new toys. My parents brought a computer home once (a hand-me-down from work), that was it -- and it was only 'new' to me. Since reaching adulthood (actually after I got out of the military), however, I've found the strange desire to compensate for my childhood.
... the only problem (for them) is that I've picked up swapping portable hard drives full of music at a time with friends, co-workers, etc.. Now, instead of getting my music at only a couple thousand megabits per second I'm getting them by the hundreds of gigabytes! It's too bad they've chased us toward something that they really can't trace or bait. Face to Face is a bit more secure than Peer to Peer, and I actually prefer it this way.
That was awesome... If I had 'em I'd do it myself, but I seem to have misplaced them...somebody mod parent up!
Not to be one of those nit-picking idiots out there, but some of us who wear glasses can't always get lasik due to medical conditions out of our control. In my case, for example, Dry Eye Syndrome.
Was that Best Buy in Iraq? Shit I read that entire article and I thought it was in New York, USA! Wow... I need to get my eyes checked. How on earth does this event, his comments or anything else in here relate to how bad things are in a country outside of the US? He was speaking in relative terms... related to our country several years ago. Not every country on the planet. If you'd bother to grow up a bit and understand more than one point of view, you'd have relize that. But you choose the popular, foriegn (again, in case you didn't notice, relative to the US) path... "hate all Americans!" BTW... attacking us repeatedly with the "stupid Americans, you don't know anything about the outside world" thing doesn't exactly motivate anybody to quickly pick up an international newspaper and start reading. If you keep that attitude you'll get the general, western, response of: Go fuck yourself!
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