I used to work at Kmart, and we were required to open all bags and unzip all compartments. I even did the customers one better: I told them I was going to remove all the cardboard and paper that was used to make the bags look full on the shelf. They would have just thrown it all away anyway, and most people appreciated it. It also absolved me of the need for a reasonable suspicion to open the bag. Another way to look at it is that the bag does not actually belong to them until payment is accepted, so they really have no rights on the bag at that point. IANAL
Give the guy a break. It's Reuters, not some physics journal. I think most reasonable people are going to understand from the article that it's 3 microseconds per day, which would be the truth.
Flamebait? What? It's supposed to be (+5, Funny). You know, classic Fortune cookie... Ah well, it's not funny if I try to explain it. Whoever modded this flamebait has no sense of humor.
The ultimate bottleneck.
Flawed beyond belief.
The only thing you have to fear.
Somewhere between chaos and insanity.
On autopilot to oblivion.
The joke that kills.
A disgrace you can be proud of.
A mistake carried out to perfection.
Belongs more to the problem set than the solution set.
To err is X windows.
Ignorance is our most important resource.
Complex nonsolutions to simple nonproblems.
Built to fall apart.
Nullifying centuries of progress.
Falling to new depths of inefficiency.
The last thing you need.
The defacto substandard.
First of all I'd like to point out that (and I'm just taking a swag here) the vast majority of those Iraqis killed had and even used weapons meant to kill our troops.
Now, to get back on topic, U.S. gov't officials have said that the amount of aid will almost certainly increase. That's how we always do it. We have a small amount of immediate funds we can use, and then we wait until Congress gets back in session for crying out loud and allocate more.
Finally, (I could be making this up, but) I believe I heard last night that the President will send the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force to help with whatever.
There will always be those kind of people, regardless of whether any type of warning system may be in place. There are people who want to watch the hurricane, the tornado, the volcano. Many of them don't survive. I would even group the news crews in with those people. They are perfectly capable of reporting on the situation from a safe location, rather than in the middle of it, and I wouldn't care a bit. Darwin and I disagree about many things, but stupid people sure do have a knack for getting themselves killed.
I'm all for stem cell research as long as it's not destroying embryos to get the stem cells. I hear stem cells can be obtained other ways, from adults even. I hear that some of those adult stem cells are just as good as the embryonic stem cells. Why are the stem cell research proponents hell bent on embryonic stem cells when there are other, less morally and ethically questionable, options available?
If out of every 300 million people there are a couple dozen terrorists, how do you expect to find the terrorists talking about bombs through all the talk about bombs in video games, bombs in the movies, blonde bombshells and new cars that are "the bomb"?
There is no "rule" similar to the current leapyear rule. You simply consult this list (or your computer does).
As a programmer, I'd consider this a downside. I want a way to calculate which years have a Newton Week. There's no way I'd adopt this calendar in my code if I didn't have a deterministic formula like leap years do.
I, for one, welcome our new power over ethernet overlords. I have such a tangle of power cords for everything in my office that one less cord for a few devices would be a welcome change.
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So when do they pick a truman?
I used to work at Kmart, and we were required to open all bags and unzip all compartments. I even did the customers one better: I told them I was going to remove all the cardboard and paper that was used to make the bags look full on the shelf. They would have just thrown it all away anyway, and most people appreciated it. It also absolved me of the need for a reasonable suspicion to open the bag. Another way to look at it is that the bag does not actually belong to them until payment is accepted, so they really have no rights on the bag at that point. IANAL
No Marty, it would cause a paradox that would destroy the fabric of the space-time continuum! Quick, cover the DeLorean!
It's the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Unit, my bad. Also the USS Abraham Lincoln, and a couple destroyers I think.
Give the guy a break. It's Reuters, not some physics journal. I think most reasonable people are going to understand from the article that it's 3 microseconds per day, which would be the truth.
Flamebait? What? It's supposed to be (+5, Funny). You know, classic Fortune cookie... Ah well, it's not funny if I try to explain it. Whoever modded this flamebait has no sense of humor.
First of all I'd like to point out that (and I'm just taking a swag here) the vast majority of those Iraqis killed had and even used weapons meant to kill our troops.
Now, to get back on topic, U.S. gov't officials have said that the amount of aid will almost certainly increase. That's how we always do it. We have a small amount of immediate funds we can use, and then we wait until Congress gets back in session for crying out loud and allocate more.
Finally, (I could be making this up, but) I believe I heard last night that the President will send the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force to help with whatever.
There will always be those kind of people, regardless of whether any type of warning system may be in place. There are people who want to watch the hurricane, the tornado, the volcano. Many of them don't survive. I would even group the news crews in with those people. They are perfectly capable of reporting on the situation from a safe location, rather than in the middle of it, and I wouldn't care a bit. Darwin and I disagree about many things, but stupid people sure do have a knack for getting themselves killed.
Because he's either joking or stupid.
More like: Fish. Barrel. Shotgun.
On a lighter note:
You mean it's not the aliens? *takes off tinfoil hat*
Arthur C. Clarke also wrote about space elevators. This has sort of been done to death lately, hasn't it?
I, for one, welcome our new power over ethernet overlords. I have such a tangle of power cords for everything in my office that one less cord for a few devices would be a welcome change.