Well given that he computes the carbon footprint of nuclear by dragging things like "terrorists could steal the fuel to make a bomb which could be used in a city which would burn and release lots of CO2,"
Ideally, car stereos would just come with a USB connector on the front panel!
USB? I really dislike the trend of using USB for everything, no matter how badly suited.
A simple 3.5mm stereo jack is the most versatile possible solution IMO.
I picked up some of his books when I was younger and hadn't heard of Scientology yet.
He is easily the worst writer I have ever had the misfortune to read a published novel from. In the novel I tried to read the hero saves the world from the energy crisis by making a carburetor which splits water into hydrogen and oxygen which is then burned by a V8 cadillac. In L. Ron's house, they do not obey the laws of thermodynamics.
Aren't all facts true and aren't all true statements facts?
Right up until true statements start being inconvenient, then you have to break out Truth with a capital T, which is a placeholder for whatever you want.
5) Leave the country, or arrange that the money does.
Forcing people to be charitable isn't going to work.
That's not charity, it's just theft and people will avoid it.
I think the whole point is that iiNet isn't doing that sort of thing.
iiNet, and the industry body, the Internet Industry Association, say ISPs should not be required to take action against any customers until they have been found guilty of an offence by the courts.
Saturating your internet connection isn't going to affect a court case one way or the other.
If anything, iiNet customers should write to their ISP to thank them for going to bat for sane copyright enforcement.
Yes, apparently.
Just because you are so convinced that you will never need to defend yourself, or that the police will always be there in time to save you, or that weakness is a virtue, et cetera, doesn't mean that no responsible individual has a right to defend themselves, or even enjoy a harmless sport.
Honestly your attitude towards guns being evil useless deathtraps reminds me of senior citizens who think computers are magical satanic apocalypse-engines.
I will never understand this sort of thing.
Unless you're a vegetarian, it's a complete cop-out not to be able to kill an animal. I mean, I couldn't kill a cat or a dog, and I might kill a person who killed a cat or a dog, but I wouldn't lose sleep over killing anything I ate. The only thing I still hunt is dove. I don't particularly like deer, or squirrel, and people get pissed when you shoot their hogs.
If on the other hand you ARE a vegetarian, I may eat you myself.
I realize that I'm not particularly eloquent, but Anthony Bourdain has covered this subject much better than I could on his show 'No Reservations' a few times.
Maybe, but this is the strategy that bankrupted the Soviets.
Now instead of building one big anti-satellite laser and knocking them out sequentially, they have to build many lasers and take them out in parallel. That equals time in which our satellites are safe, and more money out of any potential enemies pockets if they do decide to threaten our satellites.
Also, who says it would be a country doing the shooting?
It might be possible for a laser accurate and powerful enough to be built by a private party or paramilitary group soon.
Just because we can't save the satellite being taken out doesn't mean that this technology is useless.
Detection can be used to deploy countermeasures on other satellites, for example.
So instead of losing 100 of them we only lose 1 or 2 and the others rotate 180 degrees to present a reflective shield or something while we hunt down and bomb whoever is lasing our sats.
At the very least we could hunt them down and bomb them after the fact out of spite.
I think the biggest reason that there are hundreds of different USB connectors is that standardized plugs don't help sell 30 dollar Apple or Sony branded AC/DC adapters.
I really loved my old motorola phone with the mini-usb connector, now my LG phone doesn't share it's connector with any other device I own.
After playing Deus Ex for the third time through I got into the bad habit of freaking out when I would come around a corner and see a fire alarm or something attached to the wall, thinking that it was a security camera and I was about to get surrounded.
After a year or two of WoW certain noises make me jump up and do a 180, if they sound enough like a rogue coming out of stealth.
I see what you are saying, but there is nothing wrong with a justified opinion.
I believe that dedication to Peace and love of ones fellow man shows merit and should be rewarded over those who lay down their guns out of convenience or necessity.
The difference between them seems very clear to me.
Can you really compare Al Gore, Arafat, and Henry Kissinger to Nelson Mandela, Ghandi (never got the prize but should have), and Dr. Martin Luther King?
I'm condemning all politically motivated awards, but I only had time to mention one and I did it in alphabetical order.
Your flame shows your reading comprehension (or lack thereof).
If you refused to recognize them then then you'd be unable to recognize major achievements in peace.
So why does the Nobel Prize have to be awarded for every major achievement in peace anyway? If nobody involved genuinely deservs recognition, someone in the world definitely does. Awarding a Peace Prize to someone who only only stopped fighting because they were running out of young bodies to strap assault rifles to cheapens the award. How about that for a context of objection to Arafat having a "Peace Prize"? It could have meant something, but instead it's a reward for people who do things that are politically popular in northern Europe.
Putting it another way. If the Peace Prize is awarded in order to make a statement about the cause a person is involved in, then the message is that the Prize isn't awarded to good people, but is only an endorsement of popular causes.
Well, I wasn't aware of the separation of the Peace and Economics prizes from the other original prizes awarded in Stockholm.
Still, even knowing that, I have a hard time taking anything labeled Nobel seriously as long as the Peace prize is being handed out for political reasons instead of merit. The fact that Al Gore got the prize for a documentary that convinced no one of anything they didn't already believe instead of someone who risked their life for no other reason than that it was the right thing to do. Irena Sendler for example. And shit, I think I've done more for the cause of peace than Yasir Arafat.
Are you saying that they are not all under the control of the Nobel Foundation, or that the actions of one committee should not reflect at all on the rest of the foundation?
I would always just leave the clutch in rather than put it in neutral in case you have to get out of trouble.
If you have to get out of trouble in a hurry you are going to need to downshift anyway. Holding in the clutch for an extended period of time isn't good for it. Nowadays clutches are super reliable, but I still don't like putting all that extra friction through the poor thing.
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Well given that he computes the carbon footprint of nuclear by dragging things like "terrorists could steal the fuel to make a bomb which could be used in a city which would burn and release lots of CO2,"
Man, that's such a stretch my back just popped.
Ideally, car stereos would just come with a USB connector on the front panel!
USB? I really dislike the trend of using USB for everything, no matter how badly suited.
A simple 3.5mm stereo jack is the most versatile possible solution IMO.
I picked up some of his books when I was younger and hadn't heard of Scientology yet.
He is easily the worst writer I have ever had the misfortune to read a published novel from.
In the novel I tried to read the hero saves the world from the energy crisis by making a carburetor which splits water into hydrogen and oxygen which is then burned by a V8 cadillac.
In L. Ron's house, they do not obey the laws of thermodynamics.
Aren't all facts true and aren't all true statements facts?
Right up until true statements start being inconvenient, then you have to break out Truth with a capital T, which is a placeholder for whatever you want.
If it was possible I think they would have done it at least for the ASA instead of dropping the commercial.
So should I be allowed to bottle my urine and sell it branded Mt. Dew?
I am a civilian after all.
You're still over-generalizing.
5) Leave the country, or arrange that the money does.
Forcing people to be charitable isn't going to work.
That's not charity, it's just theft and people will avoid it.
iiNet, and the industry body, the Internet Industry Association, say ISPs should not be required to take action against any customers until they have been found guilty of an offence by the courts.
Saturating your internet connection isn't going to affect a court case one way or the other.
If anything, iiNet customers should write to their ISP to thank them for going to bat for sane copyright enforcement.
Give it a few hundred million years.
I can't help but wonder if this would have been modded troll if McCain had raised the most money and won, and I voted Obama.
Yes, apparently.
Just because you are so convinced that you will never need to defend yourself, or that the police will always be there in time to save you, or that weakness is a virtue, et cetera, doesn't mean that no responsible individual has a right to defend themselves, or even enjoy a harmless sport.
Honestly your attitude towards guns being evil useless deathtraps reminds me of senior citizens who think computers are magical satanic apocalypse-engines.
I will never understand this sort of thing.
Unless you're a vegetarian, it's a complete cop-out not to be able to kill an animal.
I mean, I couldn't kill a cat or a dog, and I might kill a person who killed a cat or a dog, but I wouldn't lose sleep over killing anything I ate.
The only thing I still hunt is dove. I don't particularly like deer, or squirrel, and people get pissed when you shoot their hogs.
If on the other hand you ARE a vegetarian, I may eat you myself.
I realize that I'm not particularly eloquent, but Anthony Bourdain has covered this subject much better than I could on his show 'No Reservations' a few times.
Maybe, but this is the strategy that bankrupted the Soviets.
Now instead of building one big anti-satellite laser and knocking them out sequentially, they have to build many lasers and take them out in parallel.
That equals time in which our satellites are safe, and more money out of any potential enemies pockets if they do decide to threaten our satellites.
Also, who says it would be a country doing the shooting?
It might be possible for a laser accurate and powerful enough to be built by a private party or paramilitary group soon.
Just because we can't save the satellite being taken out doesn't mean that this technology is useless.
Detection can be used to deploy countermeasures on other satellites, for example.
So instead of losing 100 of them we only lose 1 or 2 and the others rotate 180 degrees to present a reflective shield or something while we hunt down and bomb whoever is lasing our sats.
At the very least we could hunt them down and bomb them after the fact out of spite.
I think the biggest reason that there are hundreds of different USB connectors is that standardized plugs don't help sell 30 dollar Apple or Sony branded AC/DC adapters.
I really loved my old motorola phone with the mini-usb connector, now my LG phone doesn't share it's connector with any other device I own.
After playing Deus Ex for the third time through I got into the bad habit of freaking out when I would come around a corner and see a fire alarm or something attached to the wall, thinking that it was a security camera and I was about to get surrounded.
After a year or two of WoW certain noises make me jump up and do a 180, if they sound enough like a rogue coming out of stealth.
I see what you are saying, but there is nothing wrong with a justified opinion.
I believe that dedication to Peace and love of ones fellow man shows merit and should be rewarded over those who lay down their guns out of convenience or necessity.
The difference between them seems very clear to me.
Can you really compare Al Gore, Arafat, and Henry Kissinger to Nelson Mandela, Ghandi (never got the prize but should have), and Dr. Martin Luther King?
I'm condemning all politically motivated awards, but I only had time to mention one and I did it in alphabetical order.
Your flame shows your reading comprehension (or lack thereof).
If you refused to recognize them then then you'd be unable to recognize major achievements in peace.
So why does the Nobel Prize have to be awarded for every major achievement in peace anyway?
If nobody involved genuinely deservs recognition, someone in the world definitely does.
Awarding a Peace Prize to someone who only only stopped fighting because they were running out of young bodies to strap assault rifles to cheapens the award. How about that for a context of objection to Arafat having a "Peace Prize"?
It could have meant something, but instead it's a reward for people who do things that are politically popular in northern Europe.
Putting it another way.
If the Peace Prize is awarded in order to make a statement about the cause a person is involved in, then the message is that the Prize isn't awarded to good people, but is only an endorsement of popular causes.
Well, I wasn't aware of the separation of the Peace and Economics prizes from the other original prizes awarded in Stockholm.
Still, even knowing that, I have a hard time taking anything labeled Nobel seriously as long as the Peace prize is being handed out for political reasons instead of merit.
The fact that Al Gore got the prize for a documentary that convinced no one of anything they didn't already believe instead of someone who risked their life for no other reason than that it was the right thing to do.
Irena Sendler for example.
And shit, I think I've done more for the cause of peace than Yasir Arafat.
Are you saying that they are not all under the control of the Nobel Foundation, or that the actions of one committee should not reflect at all on the rest of the foundation?
Does that mean the Nobel people endorse all their political viewpoints?
Since Al Gore and Yasir Arafat, it seems like political viewpoint is the most important thing for consideration for a Nobel prize.
Yeah, especially since steel is softer than glass. D'oh!
Since when?
Glass is about a 5.5 on the Mohs scale.
Steel ranges from 5.5 to 7 depending on the alloy.
I would always just leave the clutch in rather than put it in neutral in case you have to get out of trouble.
If you have to get out of trouble in a hurry you are going to need to downshift anyway.
Holding in the clutch for an extended period of time isn't good for it. Nowadays clutches are super reliable, but I still don't like putting all that extra friction through the poor thing.