Chocalate. Helped a buddy move, and the mice ate an entire box of hershey's chocolate bars he had left over from the previous halloween.
The peanut butter has never worked for me. Cheese NEVER fails to catch a mouse. On the flipside, what's good for catching moles? I tried cheese and peanut butter and a few leafy greens, no luck.
That's just rhetoric on your part. By your reckoning, Russia shouldn't have built the bomb, because the Evil American's used it on the poor Japanese Civilians and murdered them in the early morning hours of August 6 1945.
Bad example, I know, but it's an extreme example to help illustrate the fallacy of your last statement. Human's use metaphors all the time. Just because the metaphor has been abused by others before does not mean that anyone else who uses it is doomed to kill millions are slaughter innocents.
Shows the median incomes of American families in the 50 states. One teacher in many states, is making the Median Family income.
Underpaid teachers is bullshit. Especially ones in Massachusetts who won't take the same standardized tests that their students are required to in order to graduate.
Raw materials, yes, I can agree with you there... properly formed steel and aluminum is going to be the same no matter where it's made (the properly formed bit).
Yet auto manufactures are nothing more than design and assembly houses. They make few of the parts themselves, and the realities of modern machine manufacturing means that a significant portion (I don't know how much) of the parts in a car are NOT made in this country.
But it's really nitpicking, because I'm just blatantly nationalistic.:-)
Why would China cave? They're currently doing everything in their power to prove that they don't have to cow-tow to the U.S. I'd expect their efforts in the software realm to parallel that line, as we see here. And I don't blame them. After the non-sensical punishment doled out to Microsoft at the conclusion of the DOJ trial, most of the world sees the U.S. as beholden to corporate software interests.
And they're not wrong. The tech bubble has yet to truly burst for many politicians. I imagine some still see tech as the only recovery for a flagging U.S. economy.
Innovation occurs when you have no source of constantly recurring revenue. The power companies and phone companies have lots of recurring revenue, they get money whether they innovate or not.
Microsoft on the other hand, gets no money if they do not innovate. If they do not make a compelling product, they cannot sell any, they get no money, hence their push to go to software as a subscription model. They get money no matter HOW they innovate.
A dealer cannot change his play at blackjack. A dealer has very strict rules about when he can hit and when he cannot.
Card counting in blackjack helps because it can clue the dealer when he needs to reshuffle the shoe. If the computer can tell the dealer that out of 100 high cards (5 per suit A, J, Q, K, 10) x 4 x (5-7 decks), 90 have been dealt, it can indicate a reshuffle. But even that doesn't help, because (at Foxwoods casino in CT) a player chooses the reshuffle point in the deck.
So I cannot see this helping the casino, other than finding card counters, and punishing them.
Damn Atkins and those crazy fools for ruining carb's good name...
You'll notice we don't have any "smart bars" around in the US...;-) Whoops, you saw it here first, smart bars, the next cure-all pill for American sloth and laziness!!
Being pro-choice but pro-child (geez, how much of a cop-out is that), I have to concede that all that kicking and turning is indicative of a consciousness deserving protection. But since I'm not a woman, I really don't have a powerful anti-abortion tilt, although I'd prefer never to have to abort any child of mine.
I'd find it reprehensible however, if the government mandated fetal transplant in abortion cases. First off, that genetic material belongs to two people (mother and father) (it's evil talking about fetuses as genetic material, isn't it?), and the situation is akin to forced donation of a kidney, IMHO.
If a mother wants to donate her six month fetus, then so be it. She shouldn't be required to as a condition to get an abortion. However, I don't think this situation is likely to happen. I think we're getting better at building incubators and the like, and there are safer ways to give children to those who cannot have them. And let's face it, it's more of a nasty shock to the fetus being born twice.
But it doesn't get around that little bit about the government not being allowed to force you to give up your genetic material. If a mother wants to give up her 1 month old fetus to a machine or another woman to grow it, more power to her. But if she doesn't, don't penalize her for that choice.
No, I do believe that Columbia's WING melted off. That'd be hard for any computer or human to compensate for.
The shuttle, IIRC, was designed to bring 12 tons of material from orbit.
According to <a href=http://hubble.gsfc.nasa.gov/faq.html>The Hubble Project Website</a>, hubble weighs 24000 pounds American (12 tons), or ~11000kg, what the shuttle was designed to return from orbit.
Since the shuttle is ass-heavy anyway, any mass in front of the engines is only going to HELP it's flying ability (by keeping the nose pointed at the ground, flying with your tail pointing at the ground is bad if you're gliding). It may indeed prove difficult to maneover in initial descent, but SpaceHab weighs quite a bit too, and we've had no shuttles lost because of it.
I want to run this software so we can milk more money out of our users. Plug this onto the webserver by yesterday afternoon.
And you go to the CEO to complain, because he's an open kinda guy, and he says:
Oh yeah, I told "PHB" to make sure you had that done by Friday...
And you give up and go dig ditches in Jamaica smoking all the pot you can get your hands on, because it's better than interfacing with these dipshits.:-)
Yea... how 95% of us proved just how big a bunch of geeks we really were... May the Terrasque eat your soul and pick it's teeth with your bones, intrepid explorer...;-)
WTF is "the logical fallacy of the Paradigm"? My argument boils down to whether or not said human is capable of living outside of it's mothers body. Period. If you want a 6 month premie who's mother wants it aborted, you're more than welcome to pay for the c-section and keep it alive, for at that point it becomes a human (in my mind).
Victims of Hitlers final solution had made choices which put them at the wrong end of a gun. You forget that many who would have fallen victim to the gas chambers took heed of the warning signs, and fled when the fleeing was still a choice.
A fetus is neither able to affect it's own situation in life, nor is it able to ignore the desire of it's mother to kill it.
Although I can understand your argument, I cannot see how they are similar. If at some point in the future, a child spontaneously divorces itself from it's mother, crawls down it's leg, and implants itself into the nearest available foreign uterus, then I think you'd have an apples to apples comparison.
Anyhow, Godwin's law has been met, I'll concede the last word to you, b-baggins, since you and I will never be able to see eye to eye. This is why I only discuss abortion on every second thursday of the month.;-)
Right right... so that when you're banging her, and you finally manage to get her off, instead of just leaving red marks on your back, she'll claw your innards out... yah, just what *I* want on any woman I've got writhing in the throes of orgasm, CLAWS...
Because none of Hitlers victims were sucking their very nourishment from the blood and placenta of Hitler himself. Until said "human" is removed from it's donated life-support of it's mother, it has NO rights that it's mother doesn't give it.
Yes, now you'll argue that government protects fetuses. Yes, but you'll notice that first the government protects the mother. By very definition no violent act (short of abortion) that harms the fetus will not also harm the mother. But that also harming the fetus *IS* harming the mother, since the fetus is nothing more than a developing collection of organs that "belongs" to said mother.
Which goes back to my original argument (which is unwinnable, I concede, we all have way too many strong opinions on the matter), is that a fetus becomes HUMAN when it is divorced from it's mother, either by birth or c-section.
Because the fetus is divorced from another organism. ANY person can take that baby and nurture it and keep it alive. Prior to birth, only the MOTHER can do that. It's a parasite living off of the gracious whims of it's host, and thank the 20th century for the technology that gives woman a (relatively) safe way of extricating said parasite.
Ah, thanks for the correction. Yes, I was referring to the Illuminatus Trilogy. I actually enjoyed myself up to Book 3, but then took a three month breather, and tried to come back and finish. Not an endeavor I recommend. So how's it end?;-)
What exactly was up with that book? The whole trilogy for crying-out-loud... I've never before read a book written by a dyslexic with ADD before. The way those paragraphs and thoughts just blended together hurt my brain...:-/
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Chocalate. Helped a buddy move, and the mice ate an entire box of hershey's chocolate bars he had left over from the previous halloween.
The peanut butter has never worked for me. Cheese NEVER fails to catch a mouse. On the flipside, what's good for catching moles? I tried cheese and peanut butter and a few leafy greens, no luck.
That's just rhetoric on your part. By your reckoning, Russia shouldn't have built the bomb, because the Evil American's used it on the poor Japanese Civilians and murdered them in the early morning hours of August 6 1945.
Bad example, I know, but it's an extreme example to help illustrate the fallacy of your last statement. Human's use metaphors all the time. Just because the metaphor has been abused by others before does not mean that anyone else who uses it is doomed to kill millions are slaughter innocents.
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Considering teachers work 40 weeks out of the year, said teachers are definitely making more money than many American families do.
http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/income01/stat
Shows the median incomes of American families in the 50 states. One teacher in many states, is making the Median Family income.
Underpaid teachers is bullshit. Especially ones in Massachusetts who won't take the same standardized tests that their students are required to in order to graduate.
Raw materials, yes, I can agree with you there... properly formed steel and aluminum is going to be the same no matter where it's made (the properly formed bit).
:-)
Yet auto manufactures are nothing more than design and assembly houses. They make few of the parts themselves, and the realities of modern machine manufacturing means that a significant portion (I don't know how much) of the parts in a car are NOT made in this country.
But it's really nitpicking, because I'm just blatantly nationalistic.
Cheers.
Why would China cave? They're currently doing everything in their power to prove that they don't have to cow-tow to the U.S. I'd expect their efforts in the software realm to parallel that line, as we see here. And I don't blame them. After the non-sensical punishment doled out to Microsoft at the conclusion of the DOJ trial, most of the world sees the U.S. as beholden to corporate software interests.
And they're not wrong. The tech bubble has yet to truly burst for many politicians. I imagine some still see tech as the only recovery for a flagging U.S. economy.
Innovation occurs when you have no source of constantly recurring revenue. The power companies and phone companies have lots of recurring revenue, they get money whether they innovate or not.
Microsoft on the other hand, gets no money if they do not innovate. If they do not make a compelling product, they cannot sell any, they get no money, hence their push to go to software as a subscription model. They get money no matter HOW they innovate.
No, it was probably ASSEMBLED there. My Mercury has a sticker that proudly boasts (Assembled in Chicago) woo-hoo...
:-)
With Taiwanese steel, no doubt.
A dealer cannot change his play at blackjack. A dealer has very strict rules about when he can hit and when he cannot.
Card counting in blackjack helps because it can clue the dealer when he needs to reshuffle the shoe. If the computer can tell the dealer that out of 100 high cards (5 per suit A, J, Q, K, 10) x 4 x (5-7 decks), 90 have been dealt, it can indicate a reshuffle. But even that doesn't help, because (at Foxwoods casino in CT) a player chooses the reshuffle point in the deck.
So I cannot see this helping the casino, other than finding card counters, and punishing them.
Damn Atkins and those crazy fools for ruining carb's good name...
;-) Whoops, you saw it here first, smart bars, the next cure-all pill for American sloth and laziness!!
You'll notice we don't have any "smart bars" around in the US...
Caio!
That's it in a nutshell. But hey. Opinions are like assholes; we all got one. :-)
Nasty nasty little quandaray there.
Being pro-choice but pro-child (geez, how much of a cop-out is that), I have to concede that all that kicking and turning is indicative of a consciousness deserving protection. But since I'm not a woman, I really don't have a powerful anti-abortion tilt, although I'd prefer never to have to abort any child of mine.
I'd find it reprehensible however, if the government mandated fetal transplant in abortion cases. First off, that genetic material belongs to two people (mother and father) (it's evil talking about fetuses as genetic material, isn't it?), and the situation is akin to forced donation of a kidney, IMHO.
If a mother wants to donate her six month fetus, then so be it. She shouldn't be required to as a condition to get an abortion. However, I don't think this situation is likely to happen. I think we're getting better at building incubators and the like, and there are safer ways to give children to those who cannot have them. And let's face it, it's more of a nasty shock to the fetus being born twice.
But it doesn't get around that little bit about the government not being allowed to force you to give up your genetic material. If a mother wants to give up her 1 month old fetus to a machine or another woman to grow it, more power to her. But if she doesn't, don't penalize her for that choice.
Not to be pedantic, but tell that to the Challenger astronauts.
No, I do believe that Columbia's WING melted off. That'd be hard for any computer or human to compensate for.
The shuttle, IIRC, was designed to bring 12 tons of material from orbit.
According to <a href=http://hubble.gsfc.nasa.gov/faq.html>The Hubble Project Website</a>, hubble weighs 24000 pounds American (12 tons), or ~11000kg, what the shuttle was designed to return from orbit.
Since the shuttle is ass-heavy anyway, any mass in front of the engines is only going to HELP it's flying ability (by keeping the nose pointed at the ground, flying with your tail pointing at the ground is bad if you're gliding). It may indeed prove difficult to maneover in initial descent, but SpaceHab weighs quite a bit too, and we've had no shuttles lost because of it.
Yes, but reality is often:
:-)
I want to run this software so we can milk more money out of our users. Plug this onto the webserver by yesterday afternoon.
And you go to the CEO to complain, because he's an open kinda guy, and he says:
Oh yeah, I told "PHB" to make sure you had that done by Friday...
And you give up and go dig ditches in Jamaica smoking all the pot you can get your hands on, because it's better than interfacing with these dipshits.
Yea... how 95% of us proved just how big a bunch of geeks we really were... May the Terrasque eat your soul and pick it's teeth with your bones, intrepid explorer... ;-)
I guess it doesn't hurt to mention that all those reindeer are female...
Jokes about Scotsmen and sheep on cliffs come to mind...
A lot more understandable than "PC Load Legal"...
WTF is "the logical fallacy of the Paradigm"? My argument boils down to whether or not said human is capable of living outside of it's mothers body. Period. If you want a 6 month premie who's mother wants it aborted, you're more than welcome to pay for the c-section and keep it alive, for at that point it becomes a human (in my mind).
;-)
Victims of Hitlers final solution had made choices which put them at the wrong end of a gun. You forget that many who would have fallen victim to the gas chambers took heed of the warning signs, and fled when the fleeing was still a choice.
A fetus is neither able to affect it's own situation in life, nor is it able to ignore the desire of it's mother to kill it.
Although I can understand your argument, I cannot see how they are similar. If at some point in the future, a child spontaneously divorces itself from it's mother, crawls down it's leg, and implants itself into the nearest available foreign uterus, then I think you'd have an apples to apples comparison.
Anyhow, Godwin's law has been met, I'll concede the last word to you, b-baggins, since you and I will never be able to see eye to eye. This is why I only discuss abortion on every second thursday of the month.
Caio, and may the fates be kind to you.
Right right... so that when you're banging her, and you finally manage to get her off, instead of just leaving red marks on your back, she'll claw your innards out... yah, just what *I* want on any woman I've got writhing in the throes of orgasm, CLAWS...
Because none of Hitlers victims were sucking their very nourishment from the blood and placenta of Hitler himself. Until said "human" is removed from it's donated life-support of it's mother, it has NO rights that it's mother doesn't give it.
Yes, now you'll argue that government protects fetuses. Yes, but you'll notice that first the government protects the mother. By very definition no violent act (short of abortion) that harms the fetus will not also harm the mother. But that also harming the fetus *IS* harming the mother, since the fetus is nothing more than a developing collection of organs that "belongs" to said mother.
Which goes back to my original argument (which is unwinnable, I concede, we all have way too many strong opinions on the matter), is that a fetus becomes HUMAN when it is divorced from it's mother, either by birth or c-section.
Because the fetus is divorced from another organism. ANY person can take that baby and nurture it and keep it alive. Prior to birth, only the MOTHER can do that. It's a parasite living off of the gracious whims of it's host, and thank the 20th century for the technology that gives woman a (relatively) safe way of extricating said parasite.
:-)
Flame on, dude...
Yeah, but was someone sitting in it at the time? Quite a bit more difficult, I'd expect, than an empty chair.
If you truly meant that, you'd raid a DeBeers warehouse and steal some. Try your ninja skills versus some armed guards with closed-circuit TV...
Oh, you meant someone ELSE's death... oh, that's okay then... nevermind.
Ah, thanks for the correction. Yes, I was referring to the Illuminatus Trilogy. I actually enjoyed myself up to Book 3, but then took a three month breather, and tried to come back and finish. Not an endeavor I recommend. So how's it end? ;-)
What exactly was up with that book? The whole trilogy for crying-out-loud... I've never before read a book written by a dyslexic with ADD before. The way those paragraphs and thoughts just blended together hurt my brain... :-/