Go stick your head in a pig. If there's a draft, I'll damned well join the army. Just because you're an inconstant coward who would change your ideals under the threat of harm, don't assume everyone else is too.
Violence solves plenty of things. It's been a very effective solution throughout human history, when done right. It's just not particularly feasible in our current situation, as our enemies decided to hide in the middle of uninvolved civillian populations, which we generally try not to destroy.
It also helps that the US and Canada are so unlikely to take up arms against each other that 'invading canada' is a joking way of calling someone completely off their rocker down here.
Yeah, I pretty much gathered that from the fact that "incorporation" means, roughly, "making into a person". Good job, Einstein, I'm looking forward to your next brilliant insight.
In fairness to various pots and kettles, "rogue nation that fails to abide by widely accepted standards" is a pretty good description of every country in the world at one point in its history.
In all fairness to Bush, it is rather nice to have a president who actually reacts to threats, declarations of enimity, and people blowing up american citizens. I still find it hard to look back on the policies of Will "Hey, some terrorists bombed our soldiers and embassies, but that's ok 'cause I don't care about my country" Clinton with any real fondness. "Wasn't completely awful" is about as high a praise as I can give those eight years of poor policy descisions, and even then I'd be exaggerating a bit.
Why would you waste a perfectly good fusion device to make a dirty bomb? Especially a fusion device which absorbs more power than it produces. The point of a dirty bomb is to, you know, explode. I guess you could powder the device with cesium and then hit it really, really hard with a sledgehammer...
Oh, and the department of defense funds this because the department of energy has no interest in higher-sensitivity methods of detecting fissile materials. They can find their fissile materials just fine with the technology they have, thanks.
Yes, because designing a system around the behaviors of the engineers is a whole lot better than designing it around the needs of the consumer. You have fun with that.
Yeah, but the example in this case is OO.o vs. MS Office. If you're really applying the car with faulty brakes analogy to the specific case here, I'm afraid I have to laugh at you now.
Open Office: Adequate. As long as you don't want to do anything with slideshows but display them, and don't want to do anything with spreadsheets but use them to store data points.
(For those missing the sarcasm, here's a synopsis: OpenOffice: No, it isn't)
they're obligated to surrender the info to a court which issues a warrant. If I go into the campus office and say "hey, dude, some guys on your network cursed at me in a public area, give me your records" they'd just laugh at me.
Oh, go figure. That makes a hell of a lot of things bigoted, then. Seems to take all the impact out of the word, then, as it would make things like "obstinately refusing to let the madman burn down the orphanage" an indication of bigotry.
Oh, well, one less thing I have to take as an insult.
No. You're pretty much forbidden from firing people for things unrelated to their work performance. All this bill will do is discriminate against non-homosexuals by giving them a legal bludgeon to blackmail employers with: "What? you've never done a day of work in your life and you spend all day playing solitaire instead of typing reports like you're supposed to? And your employer fired you? Must be 'cause you're gay! Sue Sue Sue!"
In conclusion, I'm sick of all this nonsense. Screw this racism/sexism nonsense, let's start discriminating against opportunistic political activists! See you guys, I'm off to label all the water fountains "politically apathetic only".
Preturbations in atmospheric density which cause stars to twinkle inspire poetry, and thus affect society. Should aerodynamics be included in your great amorphous lump with social, fiscal, and political policy? the lines are drawn where they are drawn for convenience of discussion. Tearing apart the fabric of language will not, i assure you, convince anyone (outside of slashdot moderators, of course, who are what I like to call "fish in a barrel"). I should know, I've tried it.
Additionally, "disagreeing ideologically and politically" is pretty much what defines insanity. We lock people up in mental hospitals and aquit them of murder in the first because of their ideological and political disagreements with the rest of humanity all the time. I really don't see what bothered the grandparent about the use of 'psychotic' in roughly the sense that it was intended to be used.
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Go stick your head in a pig. If there's a draft, I'll damned well join the army. Just because you're an inconstant coward who would change your ideals under the threat of harm, don't assume everyone else is too.
Violence solves plenty of things. It's been a very effective solution throughout human history, when done right. It's just not particularly feasible in our current situation, as our enemies decided to hide in the middle of uninvolved civillian populations, which we generally try not to destroy.
The fact that it was come up with by an economist doesn't necessarily mean it isn't a lefty doomsday scenario, it just cuts the 'slashdotter' part ;)
It also helps that the US and Canada are so unlikely to take up arms against each other that 'invading canada' is a joking way of calling someone completely off their rocker down here.
Yeah, I pretty much gathered that from the fact that "incorporation" means, roughly, "making into a person". Good job, Einstein, I'm looking forward to your next brilliant insight.
The commonwealth is a major source of trade, eh? What's the US, then, a four-stone set of toenail clippers?
In fairness to various pots and kettles, "rogue nation that fails to abide by widely accepted standards" is a pretty good description of every country in the world at one point in its history.
In all fairness to Bush, it is rather nice to have a president who actually reacts to threats, declarations of enimity, and people blowing up american citizens. I still find it hard to look back on the policies of Will "Hey, some terrorists bombed our soldiers and embassies, but that's ok 'cause I don't care about my country" Clinton with any real fondness. "Wasn't completely awful" is about as high a praise as I can give those eight years of poor policy descisions, and even then I'd be exaggerating a bit.
Yeah, cause it's not like most of the country's grid is powered by domestic nuclear plants or anything.. oh, wait.
Why would you waste a perfectly good fusion device to make a dirty bomb? Especially a fusion device which absorbs more power than it produces. The point of a dirty bomb is to, you know, explode. I guess you could powder the device with cesium and then hit it really, really hard with a sledgehammer...
Oh, and the department of defense funds this because the department of energy has no interest in higher-sensitivity methods of detecting fissile materials. They can find their fissile materials just fine with the technology they have, thanks.
Meh, openoffice isn't all that useful. I kind of wish I had gotten a copy of at least MS excel with my computer. MAybe 2.0 will be better.
Yes, because designing a system around the behaviors of the engineers is a whole lot better than designing it around the needs of the consumer. You have fun with that.
Yeah, but the example in this case is OO.o vs. MS Office. If you're really applying the car with faulty brakes analogy to the specific case here, I'm afraid I have to laugh at you now.
Open Office: Adequate. As long as you don't want to do anything with slideshows but display them, and don't want to do anything with spreadsheets but use them to store data points.
(For those missing the sarcasm, here's a synopsis: OpenOffice: No, it isn't)
OK, I'm done complaining now.
they're obligated to surrender the info to a court which issues a warrant. If I go into the campus office and say "hey, dude, some guys on your network cursed at me in a public area, give me your records" they'd just laugh at me.
And by "no subphoena" I mean "a stupid form subphoena of the kind that routinely gets struck down by the court". apologies for the inaccuracy.
No.
Kiddie porn = federal crime = police involvement + official warrant
RIAA lawsuit = civil case = just a request (no subphoena was filed)
It's fairly clear that the University's policy outweighs an unofficial request, but not a federal law. At least, it seems pretty clear to me.
Even with the police, I'd ask for the warrant or other legal order.
Evil will triumph becuase good can't tell when we're making a joke... :)
What's wrong with the acronym? I liked the Boy Scouts of America, they let me climb tall things and play with fire, sometimes both at once.
So... getting consultation from a variety of sources is a BAD thing?
Oh, go figure. That makes a hell of a lot of things bigoted, then. Seems to take all the impact out of the word, then, as it would make things like "obstinately refusing to let the madman burn down the orphanage" an indication of bigotry.
Oh, well, one less thing I have to take as an insult.
No. You're pretty much forbidden from firing people for things unrelated to their work performance. All this bill will do is discriminate against non-homosexuals by giving them a legal bludgeon to blackmail employers with: "What? you've never done a day of work in your life and you spend all day playing solitaire instead of typing reports like you're supposed to? And your employer fired you? Must be 'cause you're gay! Sue Sue Sue!"
In conclusion, I'm sick of all this nonsense. Screw this racism/sexism nonsense, let's start discriminating against opportunistic political activists! See you guys, I'm off to label all the water fountains "politically apathetic only".
Preturbations in atmospheric density which cause stars to twinkle inspire poetry, and thus affect society. Should aerodynamics be included in your great amorphous lump with social, fiscal, and political policy? the lines are drawn where they are drawn for convenience of discussion. Tearing apart the fabric of language will not, i assure you, convince anyone (outside of slashdot moderators, of course, who are what I like to call "fish in a barrel"). I should know, I've tried it.
Additionally, "disagreeing ideologically and politically" is pretty much what defines insanity. We lock people up in mental hospitals and aquit them of murder in the first because of their ideological and political disagreements with the rest of humanity all the time. I really don't see what bothered the grandparent about the use of 'psychotic' in roughly the sense that it was intended to be used.