you nailed it. What we need is somebody who realizes that profit in the information age is obtained by providing an actual service as best as you can, not forcing people to conform to your bullshit business model. We need Google Jobs or something like that.
Here's my prediction: America's energy barrons will hire thousands of PR men to counter the mounting evidence of global warming by selling them entirely baseless and asinine theories like yours. American capitalism will continue to optimize for next quarter's profits while rejecting any policy that would address the problems of global climate change.
You can legally say no, and the officer must let you go due to the lack of a warrant.
That's not what the Texas State Troopers did when I got pulled over. Instead they detained me for an hour and a half while they fetched a drug-sniffing dog. Then when the dog didn't react to my person or car they induced the dog to jump at my car by tapping on the windows and saying "right here boy, right here boy." Then they claimed the dog gave them "probable cause" and made me sit around for another hour while some cop rifed through all my belongings and dismantled parts of my car.
You're living in lawyer land. In the real world the police have almost all the rights.
Nooo, the Fourth Amendment (not Article IV) just says there can be no "unreasonable" searches. That may or may not mean a warrant -- the definition of "unreasonable" is up to the Courts, ultimately the Supreme Court
For those who need a quick reminder, the fourth amendment reads as follows:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
This hot bitch screwed her way all the way up the Canadian Space Agency hierarchy, and the astronaut wives sur did not want their husbands to screw with that hot bitch in space.
Your story breaks down upon examination of the photo. That girl is ok at best. I'd probably need to be in space at least three weeks before she became a "hot bitch". And how can wives of astronauts go "on strike" anyways? Don't you need to be employed before you can go on strike?
"World of Warcraft, I'm fairly certain that Blizzard has not written sex into the actual game, so therefore it doesn't officially exist. You can't have a gay or straight character -- you can't have sex at all."
Right. And I'm sure Blizzard will be doing away with heterosexual exchanges any day now in order to preserve the proper fantasy context.
I don't know where a guy who writes "poncy" gets off criticizing other people's vocabulary. The word is Ponzi and using it to mean "fraudulent" is really stretching it.
I said Geeks will have successful relationships when they get older. I said nothing about Geeks getting treated like rockstars at the local bar. If you're a Geek, I don't know what you're doing trying to hook up at bars anyway. Women that will go for geeky men generally don't go to bars. Women that go to bars are generally looking to have sex, which is probably what you really meant when you said your roommate "dates" 60 to 70 women a year. If you want to have lots of sex with women you meet in bars, then you've got to sculpt yourself like a manwhore and develop a routine of superficial bravado.
Man, there sure are a lot of self-hating Geeks on Slashdot. Anytime the subject of "that other 50% of the population" comes up, there's invariably +5 modded comments about how pathetic all the Geeks are. If you guys spent the time you spend on slashdot beefing up your skills with women and exercising, you'd probably find some chick. Fact of the matter is: women over the age of 25, are desperate for intelligent, nice, financially stable men. Younger than that, women are still looking for traditional masculine stereotypes. If you're young, you may need to hold out for a little while. Sorry.
In the mean time, you can 'comfort' yourself with the fact that men are declining in every subject other than computer science. This is leading to an over educated female population. And when these women move from college girls to yuppies, they're going to realize they want somebody more intelligent, less volatile, and more succesful. And when they don't find any of those guys, they're going to settle for you.
"How many Jews were murdered in the Holocaust? How do we know? Do we have their names?"
If anybody wants real information about how many Jews were killed in the holocaust, they can get more information at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
If Marquette claims that this student violated the policy when they know he didn't, that is illegal. If Marquette has inflated the charges against this student to punish him for acts unrelated to ethics violations (which seems to be the case), they can be sued.
I disagree. The issue is not whether of not Marquette can set its own policies -- they can. The issue is whether or not they can apply their policies spuriously and vindictively against disliked members of the student body -- they cannot. That would be a breach of contract. Marquette's policy does not prohibit blogging or making negative statements about one's professors. To punish this student, the administration has falsely accused him of "stalking, hazing or harassments". This is a bullshit charge. The charge is being made purely to retaliate against the student. That's Illegal. Whether or not you think this is a "first amendment" issue, this is absolutely an abuse of power, and a threat to free speech.
All you libertarians shouting about the rights of private institutions are missing the point. By claiming the student engaged in "stalking, hazing or harassments" because of a few dickhead remarks he made in his own blog, Marquette is obviously hitting this guy with bullshit, trumped-up charges to punish him for saying negative things about the university. Let me emphasize this: Marquette is abusing its own policies to retaliate against and punish an outspoken critic. Marquette has no stated policy against blogging. Yes, the university can set whatever policies they want, but they have no "right" to apply them spuriously and vindictively. In Libertarian speak: Marquette has entered into a contract with this student, and they are in violation of that contract by invoking a clause regarding the a breach of ethics when no breach of ethics was incurred.
So even if you don't acknowledge this as a "first amendment" case, it's still an abuse of power that will have a chilling effect on free speech.
I like the way the Canadian government does it. It only slows you down after it catches you, but before they give you a ticket. This system could save me about a $50 a year.
Basic science lesson:
A transformation whose only final result is the transform into work heat extracted from a source which is at the same temperature throughout is impossible.
You got it completely backwards. The scientists were the ones contradicting the WMD hypothesis. The scientists were ones who were skeptical that annoidized aluminum tubes were meant for centrifuges, etc. The Bush administration explicitly suppressed these conclusions. The Bush administration hyped falsehoods and conjecture. The WMD episode wasn't at all a scientific error. Don't blame Bush's bullshit on the hardworking scientists of America.
"And because the costs of energy are closely related, how about tripling your winter heating bills now? When one fuel goes up in price, they ALL do basically."
Not really. As one commodity gets expensive, the demand for substitutes will also increase, but even if the price of oil triples the price of all other energy isn't going to triple. And as alternate forms of energy get mass produced economy of scale will kick in and drive prices back down.
Ok, I agree: Saying America dislikes all other nations is only telling half the story. To really gauge America's diplomatic isolation, we must also note the extent that other nations across the globe dislike America.
Why are you stopping with just the French and the Mexicans? American xenophobia extends to the people of all other nations from those socialist tree-hugging Canadians to those crafty Japanese who keep stealing American jobs. When you unfairly single out only Mexicans and French, you create the false impression that Americans are a much more benign and tolerant people than they really are.
I agree entirely. As time continues all the articles get better. For static subjects like math, this means that Wikipedia's articles are eventually going to be as good as anywhere else. For dynamic subjects, Wikipedia can provide up-to-date information which can serve as a good starting point for continued research.
One mechanism that people haven't mentioned for maintaining quality is that good authors take pride in their articles and ensure that nobody fucks them up. For instance, I'll adopt a page on Wikipedia such as this one and I'll add it to the watchlist and check every single edit that's made. Thus, the quality of that page will strictly increase.
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you nailed it. What we need is somebody who realizes that profit in the information age is obtained by providing an actual service as best as you can, not forcing people to conform to your bullshit business model. We need Google Jobs or something like that.
What are you talking about? In the long-run the ice won't be there which will decrease the albedo. This will contribute to higher temperatures.
Here's my prediction: America's energy barrons will hire thousands of PR men to counter the mounting evidence of global warming by selling them entirely baseless and asinine theories like yours. American capitalism will continue to optimize for next quarter's profits while rejecting any policy that would address the problems of global climate change.
Thank you for your new and innovative take on this contraversial topic! Doubtful that anybody has pondered the fine points you have made!
oh you guys worry too much. AIDS is dead. Anonymous gay sex, here I come!
You can legally say no, and the officer must let you go due to the lack of a warrant.
That's not what the Texas State Troopers did when I got pulled over. Instead they detained me for an hour and a half while they fetched a drug-sniffing dog. Then when the dog didn't react to my person or car they induced the dog to jump at my car by tapping on the windows and saying "right here boy, right here boy." Then they claimed the dog gave them "probable cause" and made me sit around for another hour while some cop rifed through all my belongings and dismantled parts of my car.
You're living in lawyer land. In the real world the police have almost all the rights.
For those who need a quick reminder, the fourth amendment reads as follows:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
This hot bitch screwed her way all the way up the Canadian Space Agency hierarchy, and the astronaut wives sur did not want their husbands to screw with that hot bitch in space.
Your story breaks down upon examination of the photo. That girl is ok at best. I'd probably need to be in space at least three weeks before she became a "hot bitch". And how can wives of astronauts go "on strike" anyways? Don't you need to be employed before you can go on strike?
"World of Warcraft, I'm fairly certain that Blizzard has not written sex into the actual game, so therefore it doesn't officially exist. You can't have a gay or straight character -- you can't have sex at all."
Right. And I'm sure Blizzard will be doing away with heterosexual exchanges any day now in order to preserve the proper fantasy context.
I don't know where a guy who writes "poncy" gets off criticizing other people's vocabulary. The word is Ponzi and using it to mean "fraudulent" is really stretching it.
I said Geeks will have successful relationships when they get older. I said nothing about Geeks getting treated like rockstars at the local bar. If you're a Geek, I don't know what you're doing trying to hook up at bars anyway. Women that will go for geeky men generally don't go to bars. Women that go to bars are generally looking to have sex, which is probably what you really meant when you said your roommate "dates" 60 to 70 women a year. If you want to have lots of sex with women you meet in bars, then you've got to sculpt yourself like a manwhore and develop a routine of superficial bravado.
Man, there sure are a lot of self-hating Geeks on Slashdot. Anytime the subject of "that other 50% of the population" comes up, there's invariably +5 modded comments about how pathetic all the Geeks are. If you guys spent the time you spend on slashdot beefing up your skills with women and exercising, you'd probably find some chick. Fact of the matter is: women over the age of 25, are desperate for intelligent, nice, financially stable men. Younger than that, women are still looking for traditional masculine stereotypes. If you're young, you may need to hold out for a little while. Sorry. In the mean time, you can 'comfort' yourself with the fact that men are declining in every subject other than computer science. This is leading to an over educated female population. And when these women move from college girls to yuppies, they're going to realize they want somebody more intelligent, less volatile, and more succesful. And when they don't find any of those guys, they're going to settle for you.
If anybody wants real information about how many Jews were killed in the holocaust, they can get more information at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Also, here is a project for collecting all the names of holocaust victims
If Marquette claims that this student violated the policy when they know he didn't, that is illegal. If Marquette has inflated the charges against this student to punish him for acts unrelated to ethics violations (which seems to be the case), they can be sued.
I disagree. The issue is not whether of not Marquette can set its own policies -- they can. The issue is whether or not they can apply their policies spuriously and vindictively against disliked members of the student body -- they cannot. That would be a breach of contract. Marquette's policy does not prohibit blogging or making negative statements about one's professors. To punish this student, the administration has falsely accused him of "stalking, hazing or harassments". This is a bullshit charge. The charge is being made purely to retaliate against the student. That's Illegal. Whether or not you think this is a "first amendment" issue, this is absolutely an abuse of power, and a threat to free speech.
All you libertarians shouting about the rights of private institutions are missing the point. By claiming the student engaged in "stalking, hazing or harassments" because of a few dickhead remarks he made in his own blog, Marquette is obviously hitting this guy with bullshit, trumped-up charges to punish him for saying negative things about the university. Let me emphasize this: Marquette is abusing its own policies to retaliate against and punish an outspoken critic. Marquette has no stated policy against blogging. Yes, the university can set whatever policies they want, but they have no "right" to apply them spuriously and vindictively. In Libertarian speak: Marquette has entered into a contract with this student, and they are in violation of that contract by invoking a clause regarding the a breach of ethics when no breach of ethics was incurred.
So even if you don't acknowledge this as a "first amendment" case, it's still an abuse of power that will have a chilling effect on free speech.
I like the way the Canadian government does it. It only slows you down after it catches you, but before they give you a ticket. This system could save me about a $50 a year.
Basic science lesson: A transformation whose only final result is the transform into work heat extracted from a source which is at the same temperature throughout is impossible.
No. Fossils of tropical animals in Anartica are relics of Pangea. Antartica wasn't always in the the antartic region.
You got it completely backwards. The scientists were the ones contradicting the WMD hypothesis. The scientists were ones who were skeptical that annoidized aluminum tubes were meant for centrifuges, etc. The Bush administration explicitly suppressed these conclusions. The Bush administration hyped falsehoods and conjecture. The WMD episode wasn't at all a scientific error. Don't blame Bush's bullshit on the hardworking scientists of America.
Ok, I agree: Saying America dislikes all other nations is only telling half the story. To really gauge America's diplomatic isolation, we must also note the extent that other nations across the globe dislike America.
it seems like you're trying to disagree with me, but you're never actually got around to doing so.
Why are you stopping with just the French and the Mexicans? American xenophobia extends to the people of all other nations from those socialist tree-hugging Canadians to those crafty Japanese who keep stealing American jobs. When you unfairly single out only Mexicans and French, you create the false impression that Americans are a much more benign and tolerant people than they really are.
I agree entirely. As time continues all the articles get better. For static subjects like math, this means that Wikipedia's articles are eventually going to be as good as anywhere else. For dynamic subjects, Wikipedia can provide up-to-date information which can serve as a good starting point for continued research.
One mechanism that people haven't mentioned for maintaining quality is that good authors take pride in their articles and ensure that nobody fucks them up. For instance, I'll adopt a page on Wikipedia such as this one and I'll add it to the watchlist and check every single edit that's made. Thus, the quality of that page will strictly increase.