The game came with a coupon for a free personal pan pizza, now that is great advertisment to bovine America. Get your kids to play video games, then take them out for some greasy pizza!
It's actually, "cruel and unusual', thus you can't force spammers to take their own penis pills....too bad James Madison never got a bunch of messages asking him to refinance Montpilier.....
Well both Japanese and Korean have phonetic characters in addition to the Chinese characters. These phonetic characters are required to conjugate Japanese verbs, for use as sentence particles etc, as well as they can be used instead of the kanji. When Japanese people use their cell phones, they input the phonetic characters directly(There are about 50 of these phonetic symbols, organised into 10 groups by initial consonant, and each group has 5 vowels in it, so it's quite easy, if a bit slow, to enter them on a phone).
I'm not sure exactly how Korean works, the Hangul I know is phonetic, but they can also use Chinese characters. Though, from what I understand, the Chinese characters are usually for show(when writing the proper names of people or places etc) and serve very little grammatical function in day to day writing anymore, but I could be wrong.
that Microsoft cannot win on file formats alone. In order to sell more office suites, they are going to have to provide better ways of making documents. Clippy and very annoying auto-formtating that never works when you need it to and always kicks in when you don't do not count.
Now what features should be added? Maybe voice recognition/OCR, or automatic translation tools, since we are in the "global economy". If there is anyone with the resources to pull some of this stuff out it's Microsoft, whether or not they have the management and the insight to do it is a whole other can of worms.
A clever team should have just put Natalie Portman in the desert and called the governor of California. Then snapped a picture of him with a digital camera. Sure beats walking around in the heat!
However, if they start building in hooks for games to use it could get interesting.... with a few million of these out there what game manufacturer wouldn't want to have an 'instant on' game with no installation/windows issues?
You mean, like a playstation, or gamecube, or xBox or gameboy, or dreamcast, or saturn, or genesis, or SNES, or TurboGrafx 16, or NES, or master system?
Rumor out on the street is that game manufacturers may be into these.....
Um, no, you are the one taking me out of context.....
You can get on the hightest mount and claim that you care about the sanctity of life all you want, but guess what, it doesn't mean a god dammned thing. You like to pretend that you care about the sanctity of life, but you are just lying to yourself to make yourself feel good.
What have you personally done to stop the transmission of AIDS to the about 800,000 or so babies that get it each year? What have you personally done to stop the spread of one of the most fatal, but curable diseases in the world today, Tuberculosis? What have you done to stop the brutal civil wars raging in Africa, or protect Iraqi children from the bombs of American planes? What have you done to stop the genocide in Darfur?
Clearly, you are defending the sanctity of life from evil human beings such as myself who support abortion and have done nothing about said problems, so I would really like to know what you have done. You claim to support the sancity of life, so my best bet is you are actively trying to stop one of these pointless wastes of human life. So let an evil human being such as myself in on your secret.
It's also an issue of people in certain societies where people are not willing to question their superiors. Last year, the government of Japan had to shut down 17 reactors due to safety concerns. People had known about these concerns for a long time, but their supervisors told them to ignore the problem, and most Japanese people are not nearly as willing to go above their supervisor's head(much like Soviet Russia) as they are in the West. Thankfully, someone finally came clean and informed the authorities who ordered the plants shut down for maintenance.
It was a cool summer last year in Japan(well, cool by Japanese standards, it would still be roasting by US standards, I don't know how those people stand that weather) so there weren't any forced blackouts, but there are problems associated with strict obedience....
You really sidestepped the argument there. You have your feelings and I have mine. I don't revel in abortion, but I feel it should be an option. It sucks growing up in an abusive home, I for one can attest to that.
Off-topic, but here is my question to you: Isn't it better to erase the need for abortion(the demand) than it is to attempt to snuff out the practice of it(the supply). Seriously, do you really think if abortion is made illegal that will make a dramatic impact on the number of abortions performed in this country? Look at the war on drugs, the government spends billions of dollars every year to try to eliminate the supply, but to no avail. Educational and rehibilitation programs are the best way to fight drug addictions, the war on supply just jacks the prices up for drugs and makes dealers a lot more willing to shoot someone over them. Do you seriously want the same thing to happen with pregnant women? Are we going to have to send police in to investigate every mis-carriage? Are you prepared to handle the inevitable increase in unwanted and abused children?
If you really have your heart set on stopping abortion, than stop supply. In George Bush's term, it has become a lot harder to have a child, especially if one is poor. There are less jobs, and those that are being created for the most part pay less and offer much less healthcare benefits. At the same time, because of a lack of funding, many states(including the one run by the President's brother) are slashing health benefits for children. So basically the message I'm getting from Republicans are they care deeply about you till you are born. To quote George Carlin, "Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers." People are working longer hours, it's becoming harder and harder for those of less means to raise children. At the same time Fundamentalist George decides that we all need to partake in his joy by teaching abstinance only education. Well, it doesn't work. It might work if Georgy boy didn't cut after school programs for girls that allow them to explore all the things they can do when they grow up(such as careers in math and science) which helps to give them the self-esteem to say "No" when a boy comes calling. Also, you can't stop teens from having sex, you never could, you never will be able to. They should be educated on the various types of birth control and of course the associated risk.
If you do some of these things while still keeping abortion as a legal option, then you may see a drop off in the number of abortions.
The problem with both Bush and Kerry is that they are both New England bluebloods(as much as Bush likes to pretend he is from Texas, he was born and raised in Maine, and that is the most fake accent I have ever heard) and they are both out of touch with reality. The key difference being that at least Kerry's base keeps him somewhat in line, Bush seems to pride himself on being out of touch with what really goes on in America, preferring to deliver us sermons from mansions.....
Clearly you aren't a mac owner! Not everyone wants a beige box on the corner of their room, even if it is cheaper and faster than the equivalent PC.
Actually, within the past year I bought an iBook and a g5........
I bought them because of the functionality. I like the UI much better than the available Linux ui's(though OS X runs a bit slow on the iBook, thinking of loading linux on it), and I refuse to run windows. The little glowing apple on the iBook and the nice metallic casing on the g5 are just bonuses for me.
people just concentrate on the best tool for the job instead of worrying about things like, "coolness".
These, "my programming language is better than the rest and here is a list why" arguments are BS. Every situation is different, every problem requires different tools/methodologies to solve. You wouldn't go into the carpentry business and claim your hammer is the best hammer for every single job would you? You would be laughed at and possibly hit in the head with said hammer. Same goes with programming languages.
simple biological fact aborted human life == dead human
Shows you do not understand what science is, it's not a simple, "biological fact" as you say, biology, as is all science, is simply a set of observations and predictions. That is all it is, and you are trying to make it be some sort of ultimate law.
All science says is that if a person is inseminated, then a human being will come through their birth canal in about 9 months or so. Science says nothing of whether or not a fetus is a child, it's up to society to say that. Scientists have shown that unhealthy women who do not get enough folic acid are more likely to have miscarriages than healthy women. Does this imply that a woman who doesn't exercise and doesn't drink her OJ should be arrested for manslaughter if she has a miscarriage? By your logic, she should, because as you say, it's a "simple biological fact"
If you are against abortion, that is fine, it's your choice. However, please don't claim that the authority known as, "biology" said that is the only choice. And maybe you need to expand your horizons a bit by reading up on both philosophy and science. Might learn something
Heh, well I have a question for you, do you honestly believe that your guns can take on a government that has B52 bombers, tanks, tomahawk missles, and if need be nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons to defend itself with? I don't think you would like to try to defend yourself with your gun, no matter how powerful it is.
228 years ago, the most powerful weapons were muskets(to a lesser extent cannon, but they were not the most mobile of objects). You and the army you were facing had the exact same weapons, and you, as a farmer for example, probably have had a lot more practice with the weapon than the troops you are fighting. Today, the average army soldier has better gear than you could ever hope to obtain. Plus, a few precision guided bombs, and your angry militia is now a smoldering heap, with minimal civilian casualties(to keep the rest of the populace happy). If that doesn't work, a few tanks can mow you down pretty easily, or you could be infected with small pox or anthrax, or your water poisened with cyanide etc. The only way now to defeat the government if it decided to get tyrannical would be massive strikes, make the people in power unable to produce what they need to survive. Though as autonomous systems develop further, even that may not be enough. Democracy was a nice idea, but it is no match for technology.....
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I know that, if you see the subject, I had a japanese phone, but I just tried to simplify it for someone who doesn't know much about it.....
The game came with a coupon for a free personal pan pizza, now that is great advertisment to bovine America. Get your kids to play video games, then take them out for some greasy pizza!
It's actually, "cruel and unusual', thus you can't force spammers to take their own penis pills....too bad James Madison never got a bunch of messages asking him to refinance Montpilier.....
weren't they also the ones that slammed Apple for claiming the g5 was the fastest personal computer on earth?
Well both Japanese and Korean have phonetic characters in addition to the Chinese characters. These phonetic characters are required to conjugate Japanese verbs, for use as sentence particles etc, as well as they can be used instead of the kanji. When Japanese people use their cell phones, they input the phonetic characters directly(There are about 50 of these phonetic symbols, organised into 10 groups by initial consonant, and each group has 5 vowels in it, so it's quite easy, if a bit slow, to enter them on a phone).
I'm not sure exactly how Korean works, the Hangul I know is phonetic, but they can also use Chinese characters. Though, from what I understand, the Chinese characters are usually for show(when writing the proper names of people or places etc) and serve very little grammatical function in day to day writing anymore, but I could be wrong.
that Microsoft cannot win on file formats alone. In order to sell more office suites, they are going to have to provide better ways of making documents. Clippy and very annoying auto-formtating that never works when you need it to and always kicks in when you don't do not count.
Now what features should be added? Maybe voice recognition/OCR, or automatic translation tools, since we are in the "global economy". If there is anyone with the resources to pull some of this stuff out it's Microsoft, whether or not they have the management and the insight to do it is a whole other can of worms.
to get a girl to sit on your lap while you sit on a cheap chair. You won't even think about your back(or work)!
pigeons :P
Note: Original story was in IT dept, gave it non-retina burning Apple color scheme
A clever team should have just put Natalie Portman in the desert and called the governor of California. Then snapped a picture of him with a digital camera. Sure beats walking around in the heat!
However, if they start building in hooks for games to use it could get interesting.... with a few million of these out there what game manufacturer wouldn't want to have an 'instant on' game with no installation/windows issues?
You mean, like a playstation, or gamecube, or xBox or gameboy, or dreamcast, or saturn, or genesis, or SNES, or TurboGrafx 16, or NES, or master system?
Rumor out on the street is that game manufacturers may be into these.....
Um, no, you are the one taking me out of context.....
You can get on the hightest mount and claim that you care about the sanctity of life all you want, but guess what, it doesn't mean a god dammned thing. You like to pretend that you care about the sanctity of life, but you are just lying to yourself to make yourself feel good.
What have you personally done to stop the transmission of AIDS to the about 800,000 or so babies that get it each year? What have you personally done to stop the spread of one of the most fatal, but curable diseases in the world today, Tuberculosis? What have you done to stop the brutal civil wars raging in Africa, or protect Iraqi children from the bombs of American planes? What have you done to stop the genocide in Darfur?
Clearly, you are defending the sanctity of life from evil human beings such as myself who support abortion and have done nothing about said problems, so I would really like to know what you have done. You claim to support the sancity of life, so my best bet is you are actively trying to stop one of these pointless wastes of human life. So let an evil human being such as myself in on your secret.
It's also an issue of people in certain societies where people are not willing to question their superiors. Last year, the government of Japan had to shut down 17 reactors due to safety concerns. People had known about these concerns for a long time, but their supervisors told them to ignore the problem, and most Japanese people are not nearly as willing to go above their supervisor's head(much like Soviet Russia) as they are in the West. Thankfully, someone finally came clean and informed the authorities who ordered the plants shut down for maintenance.
It was a cool summer last year in Japan(well, cool by Japanese standards, it would still be roasting by US standards, I don't know how those people stand that weather) so there weren't any forced blackouts, but there are problems associated with strict obedience....
You really sidestepped the argument there. You have your feelings and I have mine. I don't revel in abortion, but I feel it should be an option. It sucks growing up in an abusive home, I for one can attest to that.
Off-topic, but here is my question to you: Isn't it better to erase the need for abortion(the demand) than it is to attempt to snuff out the practice of it(the supply). Seriously, do you really think if abortion is made illegal that will make a dramatic impact on the number of abortions performed in this country? Look at the war on drugs, the government spends billions of dollars every year to try to eliminate the supply, but to no avail. Educational and rehibilitation programs are the best way to fight drug addictions, the war on supply just jacks the prices up for drugs and makes dealers a lot more willing to shoot someone over them. Do you seriously want the same thing to happen with pregnant women? Are we going to have to send police in to investigate every mis-carriage? Are you prepared to handle the inevitable increase in unwanted and abused children?
If you really have your heart set on stopping abortion, than stop supply. In George Bush's term, it has become a lot harder to have a child, especially if one is poor. There are less jobs, and those that are being created for the most part pay less and offer much less healthcare benefits. At the same time, because of a lack of funding, many states(including the one run by the President's brother) are slashing health benefits for children. So basically the message I'm getting from Republicans are they care deeply about you till you are born. To quote George Carlin, "Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers." People are working longer hours, it's becoming harder and harder for those of less means to raise children. At the same time Fundamentalist George decides that we all need to partake in his joy by teaching abstinance only education. Well, it doesn't work. It might work if Georgy boy didn't cut after school programs for girls that allow them to explore all the things they can do when they grow up(such as careers in math and science) which helps to give them the self-esteem to say "No" when a boy comes calling. Also, you can't stop teens from having sex, you never could, you never will be able to. They should be educated on the various types of birth control and of course the associated risk.
If you do some of these things while still keeping abortion as a legal option, then you may see a drop off in the number of abortions.
The problem with both Bush and Kerry is that they are both New England bluebloods(as much as Bush likes to pretend he is from Texas, he was born and raised in Maine, and that is the most fake accent I have ever heard) and they are both out of touch with reality. The key difference being that at least Kerry's base keeps him somewhat in line, Bush seems to pride himself on being out of touch with what really goes on in America, preferring to deliver us sermons from mansions.....
Define human.
I don't think a fetus is human till it can survive outside of the womb.
Clearly you aren't a mac owner! Not everyone wants a beige box on the corner of their room, even if it is cheaper and faster than the equivalent PC.
Actually, within the past year I bought an iBook and a g5........
I bought them because of the functionality. I like the UI much better than the available Linux ui's(though OS X runs a bit slow on the iBook, thinking of loading linux on it), and I refuse to run windows. The little glowing apple on the iBook and the nice metallic casing on the g5 are just bonuses for me.
people just concentrate on the best tool for the job instead of worrying about things like, "coolness".
These, "my programming language is better than the rest and here is a list why" arguments are BS. Every situation is different, every problem requires different tools/methodologies to solve. You wouldn't go into the carpentry business and claim your hammer is the best hammer for every single job would you? You would be laughed at and possibly hit in the head with said hammer. Same goes with programming languages.
simple biological fact aborted human life == dead human
Shows you do not understand what science is, it's not a simple, "biological fact" as you say, biology, as is all science, is simply a set of observations and predictions. That is all it is, and you are trying to make it be some sort of ultimate law.
All science says is that if a person is inseminated, then a human being will come through their birth canal in about 9 months or so. Science says nothing of whether or not a fetus is a child, it's up to society to say that. Scientists have shown that unhealthy women who do not get enough folic acid are more likely to have miscarriages than healthy women. Does this imply that a woman who doesn't exercise and doesn't drink her OJ should be arrested for manslaughter if she has a miscarriage? By your logic, she should, because as you say, it's a "simple biological fact"
If you are against abortion, that is fine, it's your choice. However, please don't claim that the authority known as, "biology" said that is the only choice. And maybe you need to expand your horizons a bit by reading up on both philosophy and science. Might learn something
Heh, well I have a question for you, do you honestly believe that your guns can take on a government that has B52 bombers, tanks, tomahawk missles, and if need be nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons to defend itself with? I don't think you would like to try to defend yourself with your gun, no matter how powerful it is.
228 years ago, the most powerful weapons were muskets(to a lesser extent cannon, but they were not the most mobile of objects). You and the army you were facing had the exact same weapons, and you, as a farmer for example, probably have had a lot more practice with the weapon than the troops you are fighting. Today, the average army soldier has better gear than you could ever hope to obtain. Plus, a few precision guided bombs, and your angry militia is now a smoldering heap, with minimal civilian casualties(to keep the rest of the populace happy). If that doesn't work, a few tanks can mow you down pretty easily, or you could be infected with small pox or anthrax, or your water poisened with cyanide etc. The only way now to defeat the government if it decided to get tyrannical would be massive strikes, make the people in power unable to produce what they need to survive. Though as autonomous systems develop further, even that may not be enough. Democracy was a nice idea, but it is no match for technology.....
Thank you overly-broad and entirely incorrect generalisation man, what would we ever do without you?