Humans in the USA maybe, most humans I know use Celsius... and we perfectly understand it. Well, from time to time you can see somebody dressed like an eskimo when it's 12C in the middle of the winter... or the the other way around, a chick freezing in the chill with stockings and a miniskirt, but these aren't victims of misunderstanding scales but just victims of fashion:P
How exact.y do you "steal" the work? You hijack the musicians and force them to play?
And the lack of donations for free downloads... Isn't it maybe that people didn't like their crap? Radiohead sucks massive balls anyway.
And why in hell's name do they want a donation for it? Do they not get enough money for gigs and from royalties from spotify rdio? What did they expect, getting rich from donations ? In the days of crowdfunding this sounds rather than what I already said: that their album sucked so much dick that not even the more hardcore fans wanted it.
And in fact you are wrong: services like RDio have reduced music download... As they are conveniently priced and you can save a lot of space on your drives. Why would I download an album of (say) Sadistik Exekution when I have the whole discography online and it takes me less to start it on the browser than to start up iTunes?
Nice! And anyway, these guys from BREIN are the most brain-dead that you can find. TPB was blocked but neither it's other URL pirateproxy nor any other torrent site has ever been blocked. People continued downloading as happily as always. And that's a good example of the way these idiots work: They haven't said shit about any other torrent sire, nor about the extremely popular Usenet channels , they have concentrated exclusively on TBP.
In which way the blocking of one single torrent site can have any influence on online sales completely escapes me... Maybe by means of an exotic variation of the chaos mathematics and quantum electrodynamics.
But there is no BELIEF in science. You do not "believe" in the Second Law of Thermodynamics and you do not "believe" in the numbers proposed in a paper.
The problem is that most poeple who argue in a manner such as your do not realise that science is not only the words and the arguments, it's also numbers and maths, tons of math. If you want me to make a car analogy; what you see is just the colour of the paint while you fail to see anything from the carrocerie to the wheels.
You may discuss a methodology, the validity of the samples or whatver, but for that you need maths, no way around this mate, the day that you understand this you will stop trying to discuss science. KTHXBYE;)
I would actually detain and interrogate everybody wearing glasses, Hitler-haircut and groomed beard (that's the latest hipster trend here). Or better than interrogate them just use them as landfill.
I am aware of the situation as I do have a few friends there. The situation is very much the same in countries like Norway or Iceland and very far from what happens in the Faroe islands where they do make a similar slaughter jsut that in this case the whole population of the island (a small island group in the North Atlantic) is involved and they do it for fun (really).
I already commented that the real issue is the trade in dolphin babies for dolphinaria and this is an international trade were the US, Europe and Russia play an important part.
Of course, the resource of racism is an easy one... but I would actually take it with a bit of salt as many times when people say "these fucking Dutch (to use my country) do this and that..." what they actually mean is "this fucking Dutch government" or "this fucking group of Dutch people" and not "ALL the Dutch are this and that", just that it's easier to use. The card of "cultural invasion" is one that is very easily played by some too, exactly what Icelanders and Norse do to legitimize whale hunt (to sell the meat to Japan where it's used as "traditional" canned dog food).
And the this entrenchment on one part makes that other things happen, just read what European fishermen say about the Japanese fishing fleet, while almost nobody complains about ours (the Dutch, one of the most damaging) or the Spanish... and while it is true that the Japanese fleet is the biggest (Spain is second) the main market for fish is Spain (!), yes, you read well, not the USA nor China nor your country, but the EU.
Well, in any case: interesting to read from a Japanese native. I'm now going back to work and to my Jiuta playlist;)
It is actually not the meat they are after. Dolphin meat is laden with contaminants and used for pet food mostly. The actual cash cow are baby dolphins for dolphinaria.
don't worry, there is an US military probe following it, if there is oil in it it will first bomb the fuck out of it and then set up a puppet government on it to get full rights to drill.
Spot on mate!!! FOOTBALL is the name of the #1 sport on the planet, played by 11 vs 11 guys with spike in their shoes a _round_ ball and some guys in black that nobody cares about... and hooligans wrecking havoc in the town.
This sport that USians call "football" where an undefined number of guys stay for hours deciding how to place themselves and were everybody is covered in cushions should be called more appropriately "Fluffyball" or "sissy-rugby".
They forgot to say "The size of a basketball court for hamsters", it's the favourite sport at ESA, you should see new power forward, maaan! the critter is awesome, MVP for two consecutive seasons:
That's the situation in Holland right now, a quite contradictory one actually as this is one of the most agnostic countries in the world with 42% of declared unbelievers (if you have to believe the CIA WFB).
we have a "blasphemy" law that prohibits anti-religous expressions... this law has however not been used since the 1950s (if I recall correctly) and it can't be used because it contradicts freedom of speech. It is held in place because of two very minoritary Christian parties and some Christian and Muslim MP who want it to be kept (for no other reason than it's value as "symbolpolitik" to show their voters they care).
Note that most Christian and Muslims do not support this law either.
The fact is that there is already a law in place that supersedes this one and which prohibits personal harassment based on religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and such...
Our parliament was also going to pass a law supported by the majority of the population and the chambers which would have prohibited the ritual slaughter of cattle without anaesthesia, in the same way it's done for common meat consumption (it's done with CO2 gas which renders the cattle senseless). The popular support was as commented very broad... but the religious lobbies mounted a mayor circus: The Jewish brought in a bunch of orthodox rabbis who gave a speech in the parliament and the Muslims did their own part too... to add a more ridiculous tint to the stunt they appeared separately and refused to speak with each other... later they did.
And the Christians aided a hand and suddenly slaughtering cattle the standard way was "against the religious freedom". Needles to say that while the rest of the country, including most Christians, Muslims and 99,9% of Jews supported the law the lobbyist got what they wanted and are still allowed to mutilate cattle they way they fancy... I wonder if a Satanic Ritual slaughter would also be permitted (it's a joke, Satanists do not condone animal sacrifices of any type).
It's really frustrating how these people get what they want in the name that their "religious freedom" or "religious sensitivity" is offended.
In Spain availability of organs for donation is very high, they actually have an almost paradigm of good working system down there where people massively donate their organs after death (yes, I know it's a bit contradictory with the overall economic state of the country, yet their hospitals are first class). The donation is voluntary of course.
Here in Holland we have finally adopted an default opt-in system such as the one you comment, just that you can opt for a more general donation: I myself have donated all my organs... I won't miss them anyway;)
Thus, the issue this fine and smart economist is trying to resolve seems to be directly caused by the way the US market works. And on the other hand it it were adopted it would utterly screw up well functioning systems as the Spanish or the Dutch.
My proposal would be to make all the economists and financiers _in-vivo_ obligatory donors and test subjects, we could this way resolve a wide list of issues:
* They would finally be good for something * They would pay their debt with society for causing the crisis * We would also make PETA happy * while at the same time providing 100% accurate lab test results * And we could make vivisection a sport and have a lot of fun with it;)
You are all wrong. All what the boys had was a LAN card in promiscuous mode and tried to impress the chicks with their 1337 skillz... So, no sex was had this night: the chicks got bored to dead and the guys utterly ridiculed themselves.
How did they manage to know that what I wanted was just one of these delivery drones? That's genius mates! And as I didn't order it I assume it to be a gift, of course... unless they are willing to pay for the return: I didn't order it, I wont pay for it's return.
Well, it's still NOT cold here in Europe. We have had the hottest January on record while we normally would have had our first snows here in Holland. In Austria and Switzerland snow on the Sky resorts is missing and only available at the highest altitudes. In Australia their are suffering an extreme heat wave...
Even this much commented incident in Antarctica. It's Summer there if you recall and no matter how much Global Cooling and Little Ice Age faith you put on i. When it's cold in Antarctica the ice stays happily where it belongs to: packed nicely in a huge stable sheet or on top of the landmass. In Antarctic winter you don't use a ship to get to the ice but a tractor. The ice that trapped the ships were floating on the water... so go figure how it got here (Oh, yes, the intervention of SPECTRA of course).
So mates, sorry for you to have your balls frozen, but we are still waiting for some bits of white and I am still going out to run in shorts and t-shirt:P
And they don't need to be so big as to "Launch them far enough to reach the asteroids". Mate, it's 2014 already, the way spacecrafts work should be common knowledge by now.
With a common rocket you wouldn't have ot "make it so big..." we would just do what we are doing every time and send something just outside of the earths gravitational well. This "something" could be driven by ion engines or something similar.
And why would you do the whole operation from within the gravitational well in the first place?
You could send a lot of small ships to the moon to or put them into orbit an assemble a larger mining craft there.
Or you could mine the moon and build the whole spaceship or a fleet of them there...
Or you could use the very same asteroids to build the ships, or just don't build them and use them as ships while you mine them.
It is not even necessary for the spacecrafts to be robotic; there's enough oxygen and whatever you need to maintain live. Miners and prospectors could live from the asteroids and other small bodies like moons (there's anything you need, water, oxygen, hydrocarbons, metals...).
And they wouldn't only be mining, a whole secondary economy would arise as some would specialise in mining ores while others would specialise in mining commodities such as oxygen, water, etc...
let the calculations fail, the asteroids fall to earth, impact and create a nuclear winter and Voila, end of Global Warming... and the deniers would even get their much-fancied Little Ice Age!!! it's a win-win situation !!
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Humans in the USA maybe, most humans I know use Celsius... and we perfectly understand it. :P
Well, from time to time you can see somebody dressed like an eskimo when it's 12C in the middle of the winter... or the the other way around, a chick freezing in the chill with stockings and a miniskirt, but these aren't victims of misunderstanding scales but just victims of fashion
Right! finally someone with a bit of common sense.
Screw Fahrenheit and Celsius!
how the hell did they figure that out if it was written in Chinese?
Yeah, I knew this band was fucking awesome, but not that they were alos useful for hte advance of humanity:
http://www.metal-archives.com/...
How exact.y do you "steal" the work? You hijack the musicians and force them to play?
And the lack of donations for free downloads... Isn't it maybe that people didn't like their crap?
Radiohead sucks massive balls anyway.
And why in hell's name do they want a donation for it? Do they not get enough money for gigs and from royalties from spotify rdio? What did they expect, getting rich from donations ?
In the days of crowdfunding this sounds rather than what I already said: that their album sucked so much dick that not even the more hardcore fans wanted it.
And in fact you are wrong: services like RDio have reduced music download... As they are conveniently priced and you can save a lot of space on your drives. Why would I download an album of (say) Sadistik Exekution when I have the whole discography online and it takes me less to start it on the browser than to start up iTunes?
Summing up: Radiohead sucks!
Nice! And anyway, these guys from BREIN are the most brain-dead that you can find. TPB was blocked but neither it's other URL pirateproxy nor any other torrent site has ever been blocked.
People continued downloading as happily as always. And that's a good example of the way these idiots work: They haven't said shit about any other torrent sire, nor about the extremely popular Usenet channels , they have concentrated exclusively on TBP.
In which way the blocking of one single torrent site can have any influence on online sales completely escapes me... Maybe by means of an exotic variation of the chaos mathematics and quantum electrodynamics.
362000 â to be paid to XS4ALL and Ziggo, nice!
Good try mate.
But there is no BELIEF in science. You do not "believe" in the Second Law of Thermodynamics and you do not "believe" in the numbers proposed in a paper.
The problem is that most poeple who argue in a manner such as your do not realise that science is not only the words and the arguments, it's also numbers and maths, tons of math. If you want me to make a car analogy; what you see is just the colour of the paint while you fail to see anything from the carrocerie to the wheels.
You may discuss a methodology, the validity of the samples or whatver, but for that you need maths, no way around this mate, the day that you understand this you will stop trying to discuss science. KTHXBYE ;)
sorry my shortcoming in the English language, but what or who is a Buthcer ?
Oh yeah!!
I would actually detain and interrogate everybody wearing glasses, Hitler-haircut and groomed beard (that's the latest hipster trend here). Or better than interrogate them just use them as landfill.
I am aware of the situation as I do have a few friends there.
The situation is very much the same in countries like Norway or Iceland and very far from what happens in the Faroe islands where they do make a similar slaughter jsut that in this case the whole population of the island (a small island group in the North Atlantic) is involved and they do it for fun (really).
I already commented that the real issue is the trade in dolphin babies for dolphinaria and this is an international trade were the US, Europe and Russia play an important part.
Of course, the resource of racism is an easy one... but I would actually take it with a bit of salt as many times when people say "these fucking Dutch (to use my country) do this and that..." what they actually mean is "this fucking Dutch government" or "this fucking group of Dutch people" and not "ALL the Dutch are this and that", just that it's easier to use. The card of "cultural invasion" is one that is very easily played by some too, exactly what Icelanders and Norse do to legitimize whale hunt (to sell the meat to Japan where it's used as "traditional" canned dog food).
And the this entrenchment on one part makes that other things happen, just read what European fishermen say about the Japanese fishing fleet, while almost nobody complains about ours (the Dutch, one of the most damaging) or the Spanish... and while it is true that the Japanese fleet is the biggest (Spain is second) the main market for fish is Spain (!), yes, you read well, not the USA nor China nor your country, but the EU.
Well, in any case: interesting to read from a Japanese native. I'm now going back to work and to my Jiuta playlist ;)
It is actually not the meat they are after. Dolphin meat is laden with contaminants and used for pet food mostly.
The actual cash cow are baby dolphins for dolphinaria.
don't worry, there is an US military probe following it, if there is oil in it it will first bomb the fuck out of it and then set up a puppet government on it to get full rights to drill.
Spot on mate!!!
FOOTBALL is the name of the #1 sport on the planet, played by 11 vs 11 guys with spike in their shoes a _round_ ball and some guys in black that nobody cares about... and hooligans wrecking havoc in the town.
This sport that USians call "football" where an undefined number of guys stay for hours deciding how to place themselves and were everybody is covered in cushions should be called more appropriately "Fluffyball" or "sissy-rugby".
They forgot to say "The size of a basketball court for hamsters", it's the favourite sport at ESA, you should see new power forward, maaan! the critter is awesome, MVP for two consecutive seasons:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic...
How much is that in FIFA approved football fields?
I also woke up this Monday, what's the big deal?
That's the situation in Holland right now, a quite contradictory one actually as this is one of the most agnostic countries in the world with 42% of declared unbelievers (if you have to believe the CIA WFB).
we have a "blasphemy" law that prohibits anti-religous expressions... this law has however not been used since the 1950s (if I recall correctly) and it can't be used because it contradicts freedom of speech. It is held in place because of two very minoritary Christian parties and some Christian and Muslim MP who want it to be kept (for no other reason than it's value as "symbolpolitik" to show their voters they care).
Note that most Christian and Muslims do not support this law either.
The fact is that there is already a law in place that supersedes this one and which prohibits personal harassment based on religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and such...
Our parliament was also going to pass a law supported by the majority of the population and the chambers which would have prohibited the ritual slaughter of cattle without anaesthesia, in the same way it's done for common meat consumption (it's done with CO2 gas which renders the cattle senseless). The popular support was as commented very broad... but the religious lobbies mounted a mayor circus: The Jewish brought in a bunch of orthodox rabbis who gave a speech in the parliament and the Muslims did their own part too... to add a more ridiculous tint to the stunt they appeared separately and refused to speak with each other... later they did.
And the Christians aided a hand and suddenly slaughtering cattle the standard way was "against the religious freedom".
Needles to say that while the rest of the country, including most Christians, Muslims and 99,9% of Jews supported the law the lobbyist got what they wanted and are still allowed to mutilate cattle they way they fancy... I wonder if a Satanic Ritual slaughter would also be permitted (it's a joke, Satanists do not condone animal sacrifices of any type).
It's really frustrating how these people get what they want in the name that their "religious freedom" or "religious sensitivity" is offended.
It's wondrous
Strangely enough:
In Spain availability of organs for donation is very high, they actually have an almost paradigm of good working system down there where people massively donate their organs after death (yes, I know it's a bit contradictory with the overall economic state of the country, yet their hospitals are first class). The donation is voluntary of course.
Here in Holland we have finally adopted an default opt-in system such as the one you comment, just that you can opt for a more general donation: I myself have donated all my organs... I won't miss them anyway ;)
Thus, the issue this fine and smart economist is trying to resolve seems to be directly caused by the way the US market works. And on the other hand it it were adopted it would utterly screw up well functioning systems as the Spanish or the Dutch.
My proposal would be to make all the economists and financiers _in-vivo_ obligatory donors and test subjects, we could this way resolve a wide list of issues:
* They would finally be good for something ;)
* They would pay their debt with society for causing the crisis
* We would also make PETA happy
* while at the same time providing 100% accurate lab test results
* And we could make vivisection a sport and have a lot of fun with it
You are all wrong.
All what the boys had was a LAN card in promiscuous mode and tried to impress the chicks with their 1337 skillz...
So, no sex was had this night: the chicks got bored to dead and the guys utterly ridiculed themselves.
See what the interwebz do? I tell you it's BAD!
How did they manage to know that what I wanted was just one of these delivery drones? That's genius mates!
And as I didn't order it I assume it to be a gift, of course... unless they are willing to pay for the return: I didn't order it, I wont pay for it's return.
Thanks Amazon.
Well, most of us have never seen these guys. A little unimportant issue with both being death since quite some time ago.
Well, it's still NOT cold here in Europe. We have had the hottest January on record while we normally would have had our first snows here in Holland. In Austria and Switzerland snow on the Sky resorts is missing and only available at the highest altitudes. In Australia their are suffering an extreme heat wave...
Even this much commented incident in Antarctica. It's Summer there if you recall and no matter how much Global Cooling and Little Ice Age faith you put on i. When it's cold in Antarctica the ice stays happily where it belongs to: packed nicely in a huge stable sheet or on top of the landmass. In Antarctic winter you don't use a ship to get to the ice but a tractor. The ice that trapped the ships were floating on the water... so go figure how it got here (Oh, yes, the intervention of SPECTRA of course).
So mates, sorry for you to have your balls frozen, but we are still waiting for some bits of white and I am still going out to run in shorts and t-shirt :P
Well, so much for Global Cooling awesomeness
Not correct.
And they don't need to be so big as to "Launch them far enough to reach the asteroids". Mate, it's 2014 already, the way spacecrafts work should be common knowledge by now.
With a common rocket you wouldn't have ot "make it so big..." we would just do what we are doing every time and send something just outside of the earths gravitational well. This "something" could be driven by ion engines or something similar.
And why would you do the whole operation from within the gravitational well in the first place?
You could send a lot of small ships to the moon to or put them into orbit an assemble a larger mining craft there.
Or you could mine the moon and build the whole spaceship or a fleet of them there...
Or you could use the very same asteroids to build the ships, or just don't build them and use them as ships while you mine them.
It is not even necessary for the spacecrafts to be robotic; there's enough oxygen and whatever you need to maintain live. Miners and prospectors could live from the asteroids and other small bodies like moons (there's anything you need, water, oxygen, hydrocarbons, metals...).
And they wouldn't only be mining, a whole secondary economy would arise as some would specialise in mining ores while others would specialise in mining commodities such as oxygen, water, etc...
yes, why not.
let the calculations fail, the asteroids fall to earth, impact and create a nuclear winter and Voila, end of Global Warming... and the deniers would even get their much-fancied Little Ice Age!!! it's a win-win situation !!
Who says earth?
Why not the moon instead?
We could just steer them in it's direction and harvest the results after impact.