When the charge is "torture", being "at war" is not a mitigating circumstance. If anything that just adds War Crime charges on top of the Human Rights Violations.
Now, does that mean that he really is the droid we're looking for? Because Jedi mind tricks aside, those were exactly the droids that the stormtroopers were looking for.
Big bang theorists have a belief, or faith if you will, in a theory forwards the notion that EVERYTHING came from a single infinitely massive object that exploded from nothing and caused everything to just "be".
No, scientists have a theory, based on evidence, that there was a big bang. One tiny shred of (verifiable) contradictory evidence, and the big bang would be disproven.
Where did the infinitely massive object come from? Does your faith in science tell you that it was just always there?
No, the only scientific answer to your question is, "We don't know." And that is the difference between science and religion.
I didn't even consider The Man of Change would want the status quo!
So advocating "Change", means advocating all change, even random, destructive, change? Trying to delay a change by four months until a support infrastructure is in place means wanting "the status quo"? What a strange and wonderful world you live in!
In Sweden the old analog system needed a directional antenna and getting a bounced signal meant ghosts in the TV picture.... With digital it's not a bad thing with a bounced signal (off building or mountain).
In this case, I think your experience won't translate to the US. Europe uses DVB for their digital TV, with (I think) COFDM as the modulation scheme. The US is using ATSC, with 8VSB as the modulation scheme. From what I've read, 8VSB is much more prone to problems with 'multipath'. If your antenna gets a signal directly from a transmitter, and another copy of that signal (slightly delayed) bounced off of a nearby building, then it might be impossible to decode the digital stream. If the two signals are perfectly out-of-phase, even COFDM should fail (again, an assumption on my part), but COFDM is supposed to be more robust in the face of multi-path signals.
I signed up (in the USA) with "Anatomy Gifts Registry". They donate any usable organs, then any usable tissues, then the rest is "for research". Whether this ends up being med students, or specific studies, I'll never know. According to their paperwork, the only cost is a $10 shipping fee is you want your ashes sent to your family, after the research is over.
I don't think anyone knows for certain, and if there is someone out there who's done the science properly and has proof, they'll have a tough time being identified through all the BS on both sides of the argument.
And that is what the oil companies purchased when they funded research to cast doubt on climate change. They shouldn't get any credit for original thought, though; the tobacco companies did this dance for decades, casting doubt on both lung cancer causation, and nicotine's addictiveness.
Meanwhile, I think our 'larger than the entire rest of the world combined' military budget is perhaps slighty to large unless there's some alien menace we don't know about, and I'll disagree there.
I'm right there with you, politically. But a slight fact-check might be in order. Last I looked, the US defense budget is about 45% of the entire world. So we spend almost as much as the rest of the world combined, and about as much as the next 14 or so countries, combined. And that list of 14 countries includes all of the biggies: Russia, China, Germany, England, etc. Maybe with Iraq and Afghanistan supplementals included, we have crossed the 50% mark, but I haven't seen any numbers to say so.
Barry Goldwater (perhaps the father of American Conservatism) gave a speech toward the end of his life. One of the things that he said is, "We have to turn The Pentagon into a triangle." Where have those kind of Conservatives gone? I like Ike: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
It passed several routers and the/. lameness filter, too. That doesn't mean much. (I'm not re-slamming you, just trying to take some more wind out of the sails of spellcheckers in the common imagining).
He tells everyone to their face he is going to anally violate them and everyone cheers. Can not call the guy a liar at all.
Our nation is in debt. If you have moral character, you agree that you must service your debt until you can pay it off. This requires that revenues come from somewhere. I'll take an honest politician who tells me that I have to pay my share of the debt, to one who says, "Don't worry! There are no consequences to being deeply in debt, and nobody will have to sacrifice to pay off this debt." Yes, a big-taxing, big-spending Democrat is morally and effectively superior to a small-taxing, big-spending, big-debt Republican.
I think you missed the point. When Mother Theresa runs against Pol Pot, the press is not biased if she gets 'painted' in a better light. The press was exceedingly kind to McCain, especially on his VP pick.
In the US, local governments are allowed to place restrictions on 1-900-based sex lines (I know someone who worked at one). The caller-id info from the incoming call is checked against a database, to see if the 'actor' must limit their conversation to: 'G', 'PG', 'R', or 'X' content. I assume that this is a "local standards of decency" argument, that does not apply if a non-toll line is used (if a toll-line is used, then the business that is charging you (the phone company) is necessarily within your jurisdiction; if you use a credit-card then it is "interstate trade". IANAL).
If you ever call such a service, and the actor speaks in euphamisms ("I love to lick lollipops, stick to tip, for hours"), then you probably live in a restrictive jurisdiction. The service usually won't tell you about the restriction (or how to get around it by using a credit card), because they want to keep you on the line. And no, that doesn't make sense to me either; they should be able to reap higher revenues by having you call back with a credit card to get what you really want.
Sinowal is not free as in beer. Its more like free as in the-raping-you-get in prison is free. Now if Sinowal were a Microsoft product, it would pound you in the ass and then take your 'smokes'.
Ever since the embarrassment that is Vista, Microsft just can't seem to "extend" like it used to. And you are a cruel person for ridiculing their lack of tumescence.
I interpret your comment to say, "Obama is the second coming of Jesus Christ. Broccoli causes cancer. Puppies should not only be served Well-Done, but they should be cooked while still alive; you can taste the cruelty." If you didn't say any of those things, then I guess we have "a point of contention".
Well, no. They are about rights to property in general.
Well, no. They are about encouraging people to keep on creating, by helping them to reap some benefit. The U.S. Constitution clearly says why Congress is allowed to create copyright laws: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
These are not property rights at all. We (the People) grant copyright and patent holders a limited-term monopoly, because it is in our (collective) best interest (in theory).
Cool. That should free-up one finger to express disdain for people who are going to edit text files several hours a day, for most of their career, but can't be bothered to master the most powerful editor on the planet.
The planet's atmosphere was originally mostly carbon dioxide, then the appearance of life (cyanobacteria) started consuming this, and releasing Nitrogen.
How, pray tell, did cyanobacteria consume carbon dioxide and release nitrogen? Biological creatures (that we know of) do not perform fission or fusion. Every smidgen of every element, except for hydrogen, was created inside stars, or by decay of other elements that were created inside stars (except for the tiny amount of products of fusion accomplished by humans (or possibly other intelligent creatures)). Biological processes compose and decompose compounds. They do not alter the elements with which they interact.
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When the charge is "torture", being "at war" is not a mitigating circumstance. If anything that just adds War Crime charges on top of the Human Rights Violations.
Now, does that mean that he really is the droid we're looking for? Because Jedi mind tricks aside, those were exactly the droids that the stormtroopers were looking for.
Microsoft has already figured out how to nearly eliminate fanboys: Vista.
No, scientists have a theory, based on evidence, that there was a big bang. One tiny shred of (verifiable) contradictory evidence, and the big bang would be disproven.
Where did the infinitely massive object come from? Does your faith in science tell you that it was just always there?
No, the only scientific answer to your question is, "We don't know." And that is the difference between science and religion.
So advocating "Change", means advocating all change, even random, destructive, change? Trying to delay a change by four months until a support infrastructure is in place means wanting "the status quo"? What a strange and wonderful world you live in!
In this case, I think your experience won't translate to the US. Europe uses DVB for their digital TV, with (I think) COFDM as the modulation scheme. The US is using ATSC, with 8VSB as the modulation scheme. From what I've read, 8VSB is much more prone to problems with 'multipath'. If your antenna gets a signal directly from a transmitter, and another copy of that signal (slightly delayed) bounced off of a nearby building, then it might be impossible to decode the digital stream. If the two signals are perfectly out-of-phase, even COFDM should fail (again, an assumption on my part), but COFDM is supposed to be more robust in the face of multi-path signals.
I signed up (in the USA) with "Anatomy Gifts Registry". They donate any usable organs, then any usable tissues, then the rest is "for research". Whether this ends up being med students, or specific studies, I'll never know. According to their paperwork, the only cost is a $10 shipping fee is you want your ashes sent to your family, after the research is over.
And that is what the oil companies purchased when they funded research to cast doubt on climate change. They shouldn't get any credit for original thought, though; the tobacco companies did this dance for decades, casting doubt on both lung cancer causation, and nicotine's addictiveness.
I'm right there with you, politically. But a slight fact-check might be in order. Last I looked, the US defense budget is about 45% of the entire world. So we spend almost as much as the rest of the world combined, and about as much as the next 14 or so countries, combined. And that list of 14 countries includes all of the biggies: Russia, China, Germany, England, etc. Maybe with Iraq and Afghanistan supplementals included, we have crossed the 50% mark, but I haven't seen any numbers to say so.
Barry Goldwater (perhaps the father of American Conservatism) gave a speech toward the end of his life. One of the things that he said is, "We have to turn The Pentagon into a triangle." Where have those kind of Conservatives gone? I like Ike: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
It passed several routers and the /. lameness filter, too. That doesn't mean much. (I'm not re-slamming you, just trying to take some more wind out of the sails of spellcheckers in the common imagining).
Our nation is in debt. If you have moral character, you agree that you must service your debt until you can pay it off. This requires that revenues come from somewhere. I'll take an honest politician who tells me that I have to pay my share of the debt, to one who says, "Don't worry! There are no consequences to being deeply in debt, and nobody will have to sacrifice to pay off this debt." Yes, a big-taxing, big-spending Democrat is morally and effectively superior to a small-taxing, big-spending, big-debt Republican.
Actually, if they aren't singing, it isn't really a song. If they aren't playing instruments (or whistling or humming), then it isn't a tune.
Stevens = pwnd!
I think you missed the point. When Mother Theresa runs against Pol Pot, the press is not biased if she gets 'painted' in a better light. The press was exceedingly kind to McCain, especially on his VP pick.
In the US, local governments are allowed to place restrictions on 1-900-based sex lines (I know someone who worked at one). The caller-id info from the incoming call is checked against a database, to see if the 'actor' must limit their conversation to: 'G', 'PG', 'R', or 'X' content. I assume that this is a "local standards of decency" argument, that does not apply if a non-toll line is used (if a toll-line is used, then the business that is charging you (the phone company) is necessarily within your jurisdiction; if you use a credit-card then it is "interstate trade". IANAL).
If you ever call such a service, and the actor speaks in euphamisms ("I love to lick lollipops, stick to tip, for hours"), then you probably live in a restrictive jurisdiction. The service usually won't tell you about the restriction (or how to get around it by using a credit card), because they want to keep you on the line. And no, that doesn't make sense to me either; they should be able to reap higher revenues by having you call back with a credit card to get what you really want.
Sinowal is not free as in beer. Its more like free as in the-raping-you-get in prison is free. Now if Sinowal were a Microsoft product, it would pound you in the ass and then take your 'smokes'.
Bush's "reinterpretation" of the Constitution is just as disconnected from reality as my interpretation of your comment.
Ever since the embarrassment that is Vista, Microsft just can't seem to "extend" like it used to. And you are a cruel person for ridiculing their lack of tumescence.
I interpret your comment to say, "Obama is the second coming of Jesus Christ. Broccoli causes cancer. Puppies should not only be served Well-Done, but they should be cooked while still alive; you can taste the cruelty." If you didn't say any of those things, then I guess we have "a point of contention".
Well, no. They are about encouraging people to keep on creating, by helping them to reap some benefit. The U.S. Constitution clearly says why Congress is allowed to create copyright laws: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
These are not property rights at all. We (the People) grant copyright and patent holders a limited-term monopoly, because it is in our (collective) best interest (in theory).
In Soviet Russia, Hitler accuses you of acting like Godwin.
This is /. "Significant digits" is more likely.
In this market, a house is cheaper than a girlfriend.
Cool. That should free-up one finger to express disdain for people who are going to edit text files several hours a day, for most of their career, but can't be bothered to master the most powerful editor on the planet.
How, pray tell, did cyanobacteria consume carbon dioxide and release nitrogen? Biological creatures (that we know of) do not perform fission or fusion. Every smidgen of every element, except for hydrogen, was created inside stars, or by decay of other elements that were created inside stars (except for the tiny amount of products of fusion accomplished by humans (or possibly other intelligent creatures)). Biological processes compose and decompose compounds. They do not alter the elements with which they interact.