i bet the chance of a seeing eye dog biting someone are higher than a blind hunter hurting someone.
Until you provide statistics to support your claim, there is no way in hell I'm going to believe it. I've never heard of a seeing-eye dog biting someone by accident, but every season there's some news report about a hunter shooting another hunter.
i would love to see someone bring up a single case of a time where a blind hunter, being assisted by a seeing person, hurt somebody.
Um, maybe you didn't RTFA, but currently blind people are not legally allowed to hunt. That's the whole point behind this bill. Obviously, you won't find any statistics.
It's not unusual for convicted criminals to be put on probation and required not to own or engage in various activities. Sex offenders, for instance, are not allowed to live near schools.
So how about adding violent (rated M) video games to that list? If you're teenager convicted of some violent crime, part of your punishment is a prohibition on owning and playing these games. That way, the 99.9999% of the population who are not influenced by these games to commit crimes won't also be punished.
Now infect as many computers as you can (And ofcourse have it propigate itself).
A better idea would be to have the SMTP server, when it receives an email, to look at the sender's IP address and try to hack into it, the same way these spammers did. If it succeeds, then assume that the box has been trojaned and then insert the malware and have it do its thing (delete the spambot, activate the firewall, whatever).
Just having a virus propagate itself would get us into trouble and be hard to justify, and it would attack millions of machines that aren't causing any problems.
In reality, the vast majority of people who identify themselves as aligning with the Republican Party do so because of economic reasons not social policies.
If this were really true, then the Libertarian party would garner more than 1% of the vote. Every Republican I know is also a social conservative.
I am supposed to believe that the women voters in this country are to blame for our heavy handed, civil rights trampling, fear mongering, war-hawking government?
Yes, because it's the voting, middle-aged soccer moms who want everyone to "think of the children" when passing laws.
Mod the parent up. In fact, I would go so far as to say that MS started working on the next Xbox before the Xbox 360 shipped. Anyone who's working on large projects in big companies would know that this is standard procedure.
"In 1999 research was published in the journal Nature suggesting that Dolly may have been susceptible to premature aging, due to shortened telomeres in her cells. It was speculated that these were passed on from her donor sibling, who was six years old when the genetic material was taken from her, so that Dolly may have been genetically six years old at birth."
I travel the globe and specifically like to visit previously poor countries (Ethiopia, Uganda, India, etc) and what I see is people who have better lives because of the ability to purchase their needs cheaper. If the health concern is a higher rate of disease that might knock 5 years off your life expectancy, but being able to eat or clothe yourself or keep your body mass consistant will add 20 years, this sounds like a net benefit.
I'm not concerned about what's better for them, I'm concerned about what's better for me. They might benefit from cloned cows, because they already live crappy lives. But I don't live a crappy life. I have access to healthy living, so I have a higher standard for the food I eat. I want to know where the food I eat comes from, and how it was made and prepared. I have concerns about food from cloned animals because I read that cloned animals have genetic problems.
So please, don't tell me that if it's good enough for them, then it should be good enough for me, because it isn't.
Then the real problem is that "not interested" means two completely different things. Like you said, one way around that is to check whether the TV series was voted on, but I have a different angle. If I say I'm not interested, but I rated it, that means that I've seen it. If I haven't rated it at all, it means I'm really not interested in it.
The cost of gas must increase if you expect to see an impact in fuel consumption.
The cost of gas has increased, but consumption has not been affected by any meaningful amount. This is because people will buy the same amount of gas no matter how much it costs, because they need the gas to live their lives. People are also not going to buy new fuel-efficient cars just to save money, becase the cost of a new car far exceeds any savings in fuel. In the meantime, the higher fuel costs affect all industries, depressing the economy. This makes it even harder for people to buy newer fuel-efficient products.
Have you been living in a cave? The current administration is guilty of "cut taxes and spend more", not less. They are known as "borrow and spend" Republicans.
What happens if your new company asks you to write code that does the same thing you did at your last company? After all, if you write SCSI device drivers for company A, and then work for company B who also makes SCSI hardware, would it be okay to write a new SCSI driver the same way you've always written them? Even if you didn't take the code "with you", it's still in your head. Not only that, but you were probably hired because of your experience at company A writing SCSI driver code.
The chance of getting Down Syndrome increases signifcantly if the mother is over 35, and gets even worse beyond that. Your idea sucks. And yes, eugenics has gone out of style.
If you know that "begs the question" doesn't mean "raises the question", then why didn't you just say "raises the question"? Wouldn't that have been a lot simpler then posting a footnote?
it's conceivable that HD televisions will become affordable during the PS3's lifecycle
I won't dispute this statement, but it's not enough. Just because an HDTV is affordable doesn't mean that a person is going to buy it. If a person needs to buy a new TV in 1-2 years, he will probably find that HDTV's are affordable. But very few people find themselves in this situation. Even when all OTA signals are DTV, he'll probably buy a converter box instead of a new TV. With the exception of my first TV, all of my home electronic purchases have been upgrades, and I only bought them because I had the extra cash. Very few people will ditch their regular TV just for a PS3.
If you want them to make a difference, have them en masse vote Libertarian at the local level.
Mod the parent up. I was going to say the same thing. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats support pro-gamer issues. I wonder if the ESA realizes that. I'm going to send them an email about it, but the only major political party that is pro-gamer is the Libertarian party.
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i bet the chance of a seeing eye dog biting someone are higher than a blind hunter hurting someone.
Until you provide statistics to support your claim, there is no way in hell I'm going to believe it. I've never heard of a seeing-eye dog biting someone by accident, but every season there's some news report about a hunter shooting another hunter.
i would love to see someone bring up a single case of a time where a blind hunter, being assisted by a seeing person, hurt somebody.
Um, maybe you didn't RTFA, but currently blind people are not legally allowed to hunt. That's the whole point behind this bill. Obviously, you won't find any statistics.
Somehow I doubt it. Maybe GenCon should consider merging with with the Texas Soapmakers Association Annual Convention instead. Lake Conroe is nice in July.
It's not unusual for convicted criminals to be put on probation and required not to own or engage in various activities. Sex offenders, for instance, are not allowed to live near schools.
So how about adding violent (rated M) video games to that list? If you're teenager convicted of some violent crime, part of your punishment is a prohibition on owning and playing these games. That way, the 99.9999% of the population who are not influenced by these games to commit crimes won't also be punished.
Yeah, but it wasn't kernel-level threading until a couple years ago. OS/2 had kernel-level threading back in 1987.
Now infect as many computers as you can (And ofcourse have it propigate itself).
A better idea would be to have the SMTP server, when it receives an email, to look at the sender's IP address and try to hack into it, the same way these spammers did. If it succeeds, then assume that the box has been trojaned and then insert the malware and have it do its thing (delete the spambot, activate the firewall, whatever).
Just having a virus propagate itself would get us into trouble and be hard to justify, and it would attack millions of machines that aren't causing any problems.
In reality, the vast majority of people who identify themselves as aligning with the Republican Party do so because of economic reasons not social policies.
If this were really true, then the Libertarian party would garner more than 1% of the vote. Every Republican I know is also a social conservative.
That's actually a bad thing. The U.S. military does not want foreigners to have this knowledge, and for good reason.
Yes, because it's the voting, middle-aged soccer moms who want everyone to "think of the children" when passing laws.
Mod the parent up. In fact, I would go so far as to say that MS started working on the next Xbox before the Xbox 360 shipped. Anyone who's working on large projects in big companies would know that this is standard procedure.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_the_sheep
I'm not concerned about what's better for them, I'm concerned about what's better for me. They might benefit from cloned cows, because they already live crappy lives. But I don't live a crappy life. I have access to healthy living, so I have a higher standard for the food I eat. I want to know where the food I eat comes from, and how it was made and prepared. I have concerns about food from cloned animals because I read that cloned animals have genetic problems.
So please, don't tell me that if it's good enough for them, then it should be good enough for me, because it isn't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outing_(Seinfeld_ episode)
Then the real problem is that "not interested" means two completely different things. Like you said, one way around that is to check whether the TV series was voted on, but I have a different angle. If I say I'm not interested, but I rated it, that means that I've seen it. If I haven't rated it at all, it means I'm really not interested in it.
The plural of "box" is "boxes", not "boxen". Please do not propagate incorrect English.
But those people are typically in good shape physically. The average gamer is not.
The cost of gas has increased, but consumption has not been affected by any meaningful amount. This is because people will buy the same amount of gas no matter how much it costs, because they need the gas to live their lives. People are also not going to buy new fuel-efficient cars just to save money, becase the cost of a new car far exceeds any savings in fuel. In the meantime, the higher fuel costs affect all industries, depressing the economy. This makes it even harder for people to buy newer fuel-efficient products.
Have you been living in a cave? The current administration is guilty of "cut taxes and spend more", not less. They are known as "borrow and spend" Republicans.
What happens if your new company asks you to write code that does the same thing you did at your last company? After all, if you write SCSI device drivers for company A, and then work for company B who also makes SCSI hardware, would it be okay to write a new SCSI driver the same way you've always written them? Even if you didn't take the code "with you", it's still in your head. Not only that, but you were probably hired because of your experience at company A writing SCSI driver code.
You could vote for a third party, like I do. Contrary to popular opinion, it's not a wasted vote.
The chance of getting Down Syndrome increases signifcantly if the mother is over 35, and gets even worse beyond that. Your idea sucks. And yes, eugenics has gone out of style.
If you know that "begs the question" doesn't mean "raises the question", then why didn't you just say "raises the question"? Wouldn't that have been a lot simpler then posting a footnote?
I wonder if the people who did the original effects, which were groundbreaking at the time, feel "honored" by the "clean up".
I won't dispute this statement, but it's not enough. Just because an HDTV is affordable doesn't mean that a person is going to buy it. If a person needs to buy a new TV in 1-2 years, he will probably find that HDTV's are affordable. But very few people find themselves in this situation. Even when all OTA signals are DTV, he'll probably buy a converter box instead of a new TV. With the exception of my first TV, all of my home electronic purchases have been upgrades, and I only bought them because I had the extra cash. Very few people will ditch their regular TV just for a PS3.
Mod the parent up. I was going to say the same thing. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats support pro-gamer issues. I wonder if the ESA realizes that. I'm going to send them an email about it, but the only major political party that is pro-gamer is the Libertarian party.