Second, nobody has a monopoly on killing innocent people. From Salon's Patrick Smith, via Bruce Schneier's blog:
* In 1986, who attempted to smuggle three pounds of explosives onto an El Al jetliner bound from London to Tel Aviv?
d. A pregnant Irishwoman named Anne Murphy
That's probably the worst example I could think of if your trying to defend Arabs from the "Arabs want to blow up airplaes" sterotype. Ann Murphy had no intention of killing anyone. Her Jordanian fiancée, Nizar Hindawi, planted those three pounds of explosives in her bag and convinced her to go on the trip. When he was captured he claimed that this was done at the urging of high ranking officers in the Syrian Airforce. In short: At the behest of Syria a "Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40" was willing to kill his fiancée, his child, and 375 passengers.
It was because they engineered their subway system so poorly and so stupidly, that if you blocked one door - that none of the other doors would work and the whole freakin system would shut down. It wasn't long before kids discovered that all they gotta do is stuff their gum in the door on the way out, so then the doors couldn't shut, the subway couldn't move, and the whole freaking system would go out of service.
I would say the system should shut down if a door is stuck open. Do you really think a system that lets subway trains run when the doors won't close would be better?
You need to define what's included in the "sex crime rate" and a location the data is supposed to cover, otherwise your statement is meaningless.
According to the FBIs Uniform Crime Reports, the rate of forcible rape has increased dramatically between 1970 and 2005. Around 1970 the rate was ~20 per 100,000 inhabitants. In the 2000's the rate was ~31 per 100,000 inhabitants.
King Kong did not "barely break even", it's the 36th highest grossing film of all time with nearly $400m of profit to its name.
King Kong had a budget of just over $200m, and at the start of October had a worldwide gross of about $550m. That means if the studios got every dime of that $550m there would only be a $350m profit. When you take into account all the other people who get a piece of the pie, that $350m will shrink very quickly. So unless there was a MASSIVE number of DVDs bought in the last few weeks, there is no way that King Kong has made a $400m profit.
You'll recall Iraq under the government of Saddam Hussein launched two unprovoked aggressive wars of conquest, one against Iran in the 1980s and another against Kuwait in the 1990s.
I don't know the specifics of the Iran-Iraq war, but Kuwait certinly provoked Iraq. Iraq owed Kuwait some money from the Iran-Iraw war. Kuwait, in order to use this debt as leverage to screw Iraq out of some teritory, was driving down the cost of oil by increasing production. While they were doing this they were also stealing Iraqi oil via slant drilling. So, Kuwait was stealing Iraqi oil and then using that oil to attack Iraqs economy.
In that case I don't get why the government acknowledges the degree given out by that particular institution as valid.
That might be because the US government doesn't decide if a degree given out by a particular institution is "valid".
The state of West Virginia will not, and cannot, execute someone for treason.
If a West Virginia passed a law specifying what treason against that state would require, and allowed punishment by death, then why couldn't West Virginia state execute someone for treason? John Brown had exactly that happen to him in what was then Virginia.
Bank withdraws a 'normal' 1 month's payment at the start of the month. Bank withdraws "another full month's payment" on the 14th of the month. Bank probably would have withdrawn another full month's payment on the 28th of the month.
It gets better. According to Maxwell Technologies, their biggest model tops at 2.7V. So now do the same maths at 2.7V and you'd need over 400000A to charge the damn thing.
And no, you can't have several in series to rise the voltage, because with capacitors that reduces the capacity. So if you have a 2600 Farrad capacitor, two of them in series will only give you 1300. I don't follow. The energy stored in a capacitor is 1/2*C*V*V where C is the capacitor's capacitance, and V is the voltage. If you put two identical capacitors in series you only get 1/2 the capacitance, but you can apply double the voltage to the system. This means that two capacitors in series will store twice the energy of one capacitor.
I don't follow you, mostly because I don't see the conclusion that you do. He says "can be", to me it doesn't look statement about how things are, just about possibility.
Just because a computer doesn't handle voting doesn't mean to have to go to the complete Amish-style extreme of technical exclusion. Ever taken a standardized test before?
You'd really trust a system that can't score SAT exams properly with your vote?
If the middle class people would just totally evacuate decaying cities such as Oakland and Newark, those cities will either have to give up and consider themselves a write off (which is where Oakland may already be) or they will have to clean up their acts to stop the loss and re-attract the middle class. Washington, DC used to be almost as bad as Oakland, it got itself out of the situation that it was in and today it is generally as safe as any city.
I don't think I've ever known someone before who considers Washington DC a safe city. According to the FBI statistics in 2003 and 2004 it had one of the highest murder rates for a large city. Did they really do something to clean it up in the last two years? Or has the simple fact that the problem has been pushed out of the heart of the city (for the most part) mean that it's no longer an issue?
If the system came out on Sept. 31, I'm pretty sure it would turn out that the real date of the launch titles would be... Sept. 31. Can't call them confirmed launch titles if they aren't out at launch.
While I don't know how Nintendo is doing it, I belive that XBOX 360 "Launch Titles" only had to be out within 3 months of launch of the system itself.
Where does anyone say that 27% of people with aids are getting it when they are over 50? The GP makes two points: Point 1 - 27% of those in the US living with HIV are over 50 Point 2 - they are the fastest growing group of new HIV cases You seem to agree with point 1, so I figure your problem is with point 2. The article says "AIDS cases among the over-50 crowd have soared from 16,000 in 1995 to 90,000 in 2003 a 500 percent increase". Please point me to another group in the US that experienced a 500+ percent increase in AIDS cases in those years.
It's law in the state of California that the pedestrian ALWAYS gets the right of way on a public highway. I agree with this law - people are much more sensitive to collisions than cars. But, if somebody struts across Interstate 5 without paying attention to the cars, I won't be surprised if they get hit, and I won't necessarily blame the driver.
While I agree with the point you were trying to make, I don't think what you said about California law is correct. As far as I can tell the pedestrain only has the right of way if they are at a corner/intersection, or in a marked crosswalk. To quote section 21954 of the California Vehice Code "Every pedestrian upon a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway so near as to constitute an immediate hazard." and section 21950 of The Californa Vehicle Code "(a) The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within any marked crosswalk or within any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. (b) This section does not relieve a pedestrian from the duty of using due care for his or her safety. No pedestrian may suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle that is so close as to constitute an immediate hazard. No pedestrian may unnecessarily stop or delay traffic while in a marked or unmarked crosswalk." So if somebody "struts across Interstate 5 without paying attention to the cars" then it's probably going to be their fault legally if they are involved in an accident.
I dont like the name one bit... they have NOTHING to do with planets... they are stelar objects whos mass is simply to low to get their internal temperature high enough for hydrogen fusion.
How would that would differentiate them from very large gas giant planets?
Unfortunatly none of them are as good as the ability to switch OSes while a system is running. Synergy or a KVM switch require that you have two computers, and they don't make any allowances for things like printers, scanners, speakers, etc. If QEMU is anything like VMware then you run into problems with unsupported or poorly supported hardware. AFAIK VMware still has issues with TV tuner cards, FireWire, and USB 2.0.
I question that we would necessarily have developed velcro, microcomputers, Tang, new alloys, biomedical advances, etc., by sending robotic ships to explore space.
Tang and Velcro were devolped independently of the US space program. Velcro was invented in Europe in 1948. Tang was devolped as a breakfast drink in the 50's about 10 years before its association with the space program.
What's more, it's the manned space flights that hold the public's interest and keep the funding up.
Then why were the later Apollo missions abandoned due to lack of public interest? Holding the public's interest is impossible, the public is far to fickle.
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If somone wants to do embryonic stem cell research, thats fine by me - let them fund it themselves. Nothing stopping them at all.
But put the Fed money to work where it shows the most promise - and that most definitely is *not* embryonic stem cells. So stop using stem cells as a political football.
Bush is doing the right thing with his veto. Its questionable on the reasons he is putting forth, but good in the end results. Like a stopped clock, his hands this time are aligning with the right things. Let some time pass and I'm sure you can find somethign legitimate to beat him up over. But get your politics out of the funding questions.
You are aware that there is a difference between the federal government not funding stem cell research, and the government refusing to let its money be used for stem cell research. The big difference is infrastructure. Lets say I run a large medical research company in the US. If I buy a piece of equipment using any money from the federal government that equipment can never be used in anything related to new stem cell lines. If I hire someone to wash my floors using any federal money, then that person can't wash the floors in labs where research into new stem cell lines is being conducted. In the end if I want to do any research with new stem cell lines it ends up being a massive waste of resources as I have to duplicate a lot of my infrastructure for no good reason. You may think that wasting money that could be spent on research is a good thing, but I don't.
Call me an idealist, but if you're found innocent of a crime, that should be about it.
Good for you. Now you just need to move to a place where people are found innocent of crimes and you'll be all set. I don't know about the rest of the world, but the US justice system does not decide innocence, it decides guilt. Being found "not guilty" just means is that there was insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that someone is guilty.
b) At the BB closest to me, I cannot buy a tube TV anymore. They do not stock them. Everything is LCD/Plasma. Those are great items to have but not everyone can afford $1000 or more for a TV. Heck I wouldn't want to put that kinda TV in my kids rooms. So at that BB, people w/o the $ (or willingness to spend the $) for high item TV probably don't even shop there.
Assuming that Best Buy secret shoppers work like all the other places I've seen it done, purchasing a $1000 would be increadibly stupid. Secret Shoppers are supposed to look around for problems, not buy expensive items. The two most important parts of what a secret shopper does are walking around while carefully observing the store, and talking to the employees while pretending to be a customer. The purchase only does two things, it gives them an excuse to talk to a cashier (and watch them deal with other customers), and it proves that they were at the store at some point and arn't just making up stuff.
Would you happen to have the name of a reputable scientist that claims solar output variation is responsible for global warming, by any chance?
I don't know about you, but anyone who would claim he knows what is responsible for global warming would fail my test for being considered a scientist. No one knows why the Earth is getting warmer, we have some ideas but they can't be tested. A scientist should know decent but untested hypothesis is a long way from knowing how something works.
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Second, nobody has a monopoly on killing innocent people. From Salon's Patrick Smith, via Bruce Schneier's blog:
* In 1986, who attempted to smuggle three pounds of explosives onto an El Al jetliner bound from London to Tel Aviv?
d. A pregnant Irishwoman named Anne Murphy
That's probably the worst example I could think of if your trying to defend Arabs from the "Arabs want to blow up airplaes" sterotype. Ann Murphy had no intention of killing anyone. Her Jordanian fiancée, Nizar Hindawi, planted those three pounds of explosives in her bag and convinced her to go on the trip. When he was captured he claimed that this was done at the urging of high ranking officers in the Syrian Airforce. In short: At the behest of Syria a "Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40" was willing to kill his fiancée, his child, and 375 passengers.
It was because they engineered their subway system so poorly and so stupidly, that if you blocked one door - that none of the other doors would work and the whole freakin system would shut down. It wasn't long before kids discovered that all they gotta do is stuff their gum in the door on the way out, so then the doors couldn't shut, the subway couldn't move, and the whole freaking system would go out of service.
I would say the system should shut down if a door is stuck open. Do you really think a system that lets subway trains run when the doors won't close would be better?
You need to define what's included in the "sex crime rate" and a location the data is supposed to cover, otherwise your statement is meaningless.
According to the FBIs Uniform Crime Reports, the rate of forcible rape has increased dramatically between 1970 and 2005.
Around 1970 the rate was ~20 per 100,000 inhabitants.
In the 2000's the rate was ~31 per 100,000 inhabitants.
King Kong did not "barely break even", it's the 36th highest grossing film of all time with nearly $400m of profit to its name.
King Kong had a budget of just over $200m, and at the start of October had a worldwide gross of about $550m. That means if the studios got every dime of that $550m there would only be a $350m profit. When you take into account all the other people who get a piece of the pie, that $350m will shrink very quickly. So unless there was a MASSIVE number of DVDs bought in the last few weeks, there is no way that King Kong has made a $400m profit.
You'll recall Iraq under the government of Saddam Hussein launched two unprovoked aggressive wars of conquest, one against Iran in the 1980s and another against Kuwait in the 1990s.
I don't know the specifics of the Iran-Iraq war, but Kuwait certinly provoked Iraq. Iraq owed Kuwait some money from the Iran-Iraw war. Kuwait, in order to use this debt as leverage to screw Iraq out of some teritory, was driving down the cost of oil by increasing production. While they were doing this they were also stealing Iraqi oil via slant drilling. So, Kuwait was stealing Iraqi oil and then using that oil to attack Iraqs economy.
In that case I don't get why the government acknowledges the degree given out by that particular institution as valid. That might be because the US government doesn't decide if a degree given out by a particular institution is "valid".
The state of West Virginia will not, and cannot, execute someone for treason.
If a West Virginia passed a law specifying what treason against that state would require, and allowed punishment by death, then why couldn't West Virginia state execute someone for treason? John Brown had exactly that happen to him in what was then Virginia.
Bank withdraws a 'normal' 1 month's payment at the start of the month.
Bank withdraws "another full month's payment" on the 14th of the month.
Bank probably would have withdrawn another full month's payment on the 28th of the month.
It really isn't that hard to figure out.
It gets better. According to Maxwell Technologies, their biggest model tops at 2.7V. So now do the same maths at 2.7V and you'd need over 400000A to charge the damn thing.
And no, you can't have several in series to rise the voltage, because with capacitors that reduces the capacity. So if you have a 2600 Farrad capacitor, two of them in series will only give you 1300.
I don't follow.
The energy stored in a capacitor is 1/2*C*V*V where C is the capacitor's capacitance, and V is the voltage. If you put two identical capacitors in series you only get 1/2 the capacitance, but you can apply double the voltage to the system. This means that two capacitors in series will store twice the energy of one capacitor.
I don't follow you, mostly because I don't see the conclusion that you do. He says "can be", to me it doesn't look statement about how things are, just about possibility.
When you buy gas, you have to stop the car, get out and pump*, pay, and leave.[...]
*Excepting NJ, where you aren't allowed to pump your own gas.
AFAIK you also aren't allowed to pump your own gas in Oregon.
Just because a computer doesn't handle voting doesn't mean to have to go to the complete Amish-style extreme of technical exclusion. Ever taken a standardized test before?
You'd really trust a system that can't score SAT exams properly with your vote?
If the middle class people would just totally evacuate decaying cities such as Oakland and Newark, those cities will either have to give up and consider themselves a write off (which is where Oakland may already be) or they will have to clean up their acts to stop the loss and re-attract the middle class. Washington, DC used to be almost as bad as Oakland, it got itself out of the situation that it was in and today it is generally as safe as any city.
I don't think I've ever known someone before who considers Washington DC a safe city. According to the FBI statistics in 2003 and 2004 it had one of the highest murder rates for a large city. Did they really do something to clean it up in the last two years? Or has the simple fact that the problem has been pushed out of the heart of the city (for the most part) mean that it's no longer an issue?
If the system came out on Sept. 31, I'm pretty sure it would turn out that the real date of the launch titles would be... Sept. 31. Can't call them confirmed launch titles if they aren't out at launch.
While I don't know how Nintendo is doing it, I belive that XBOX 360 "Launch Titles" only had to be out within 3 months of launch of the system itself.
Where does anyone say that 27% of people with aids are getting it when they are over 50? The GP makes two points:
Point 1 - 27% of those in the US living with HIV are over 50
Point 2 - they are the fastest growing group of new HIV cases
You seem to agree with point 1, so I figure your problem is with point 2. The article says "AIDS cases among the over-50 crowd have soared from 16,000 in 1995 to 90,000 in 2003 a 500 percent increase". Please point me to another group in the US that experienced a 500+ percent increase in AIDS cases in those years.
It's law in the state of California that the pedestrian ALWAYS gets the right of way on a public highway. I agree with this law - people are much more sensitive to collisions than cars. But, if somebody struts across Interstate 5 without paying attention to the cars, I won't be surprised if they get hit, and I won't necessarily blame the driver.
While I agree with the point you were trying to make, I don't think what you said about California law is correct. As far as I can tell the pedestrain only has the right of way if they are at a corner/intersection, or in a marked crosswalk. To quote section 21954 of the California Vehice Code "Every pedestrian upon a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway so near as to constitute an immediate hazard." and section 21950 of The Californa Vehicle Code "(a) The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within any marked crosswalk or within any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. (b) This section does not relieve a pedestrian from the duty of using due care for his or her safety. No pedestrian may suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle that is so close as to constitute an immediate hazard. No pedestrian may unnecessarily stop or delay traffic while in a marked or unmarked crosswalk." So if somebody "struts across Interstate 5 without paying attention to the cars" then it's probably going to be their fault legally if they are involved in an accident.
Why exactly was it hard to search for this in google?
I searched the first thing that came to mind for this "doom 3" original mod and what you were looking for was the 4th link.
I dont like the name one bit... they have NOTHING to do with planets... they are stelar objects whos mass is simply to low to get their internal temperature high enough for hydrogen fusion.
How would that would differentiate them from very large gas giant planets?
Three ways of doing this come to mind.
Unfortunatly none of them are as good as the ability to switch OSes while a system is running.
Synergy or a KVM switch require that you have two computers, and they don't make any allowances for things like printers, scanners, speakers, etc.
If QEMU is anything like VMware then you run into problems with unsupported or poorly supported hardware. AFAIK VMware still has issues with TV tuner cards, FireWire, and USB 2.0.
I question that we would necessarily have developed velcro, microcomputers, Tang, new alloys, biomedical advances, etc., by sending robotic ships to explore space.
Tang and Velcro were devolped independently of the US space program. Velcro was invented in Europe in 1948. Tang was devolped as a breakfast drink in the 50's about 10 years before its association with the space program.
What's more, it's the manned space flights that hold the public's interest and keep the funding up.
Then why were the later Apollo missions abandoned due to lack of public interest?
Holding the public's interest is impossible, the public is far to fickle.
If somone wants to do embryonic stem cell research, thats fine by me - let them fund it themselves. Nothing stopping them at all.
But put the Fed money to work where it shows the most promise - and that most definitely is *not* embryonic stem cells. So stop using stem cells as a political football.
Bush is doing the right thing with his veto. Its questionable on the reasons he is putting forth, but good in the end results. Like a stopped clock, his hands this time are aligning with the right things. Let some time pass and I'm sure you can find somethign legitimate to beat him up over. But get your politics out of the funding questions.
You are aware that there is a difference between the federal government not funding stem cell research, and the government refusing to let its money be used for stem cell research. The big difference is infrastructure. Lets say I run a large medical research company in the US. If I buy a piece of equipment using any money from the federal government that equipment can never be used in anything related to new stem cell lines. If I hire someone to wash my floors using any federal money, then that person can't wash the floors in labs where research into new stem cell lines is being conducted. In the end if I want to do any research with new stem cell lines it ends up being a massive waste of resources as I have to duplicate a lot of my infrastructure for no good reason. You may think that wasting money that could be spent on research is a good thing, but I don't.
Call me an idealist, but if you're found innocent of a crime, that should be about it.
Good for you. Now you just need to move to a place where people are found innocent of crimes and you'll be all set. I don't know about the rest of the world, but the US justice system does not decide innocence, it decides guilt. Being found "not guilty" just means is that there was insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that someone is guilty.
b) At the BB closest to me, I cannot buy a tube TV anymore. They do not stock them. Everything is LCD/Plasma. Those are great items to have but not everyone can afford $1000 or more for a TV. Heck I wouldn't want to put that kinda TV in my kids rooms. So at that BB, people w/o the $ (or willingness to spend the $) for high item TV probably don't even shop there.
Assuming that Best Buy secret shoppers work like all the other places I've seen it done, purchasing a $1000 would be increadibly stupid. Secret Shoppers are supposed to look around for problems, not buy expensive items. The two most important parts of what a secret shopper does are walking around while carefully observing the store, and talking to the employees while pretending to be a customer. The purchase only does two things, it gives them an excuse to talk to a cashier (and watch them deal with other customers), and it proves that they were at the store at some point and arn't just making up stuff.
Would you happen to have the name of a reputable scientist that claims solar output variation is responsible for global warming, by any chance?
I don't know about you, but anyone who would claim he knows what is responsible for global warming would fail my test for being considered a scientist. No one knows why the Earth is getting warmer, we have some ideas but they can't be tested. A scientist should know decent but untested hypothesis is a long way from knowing how something works.
I think he was talking about Carl Bialik from the Wall Street Journal, the person who submitted the article.