Secondly, as Richard Dawkins states, religion should keep its nose out of science.
Dawkins is very wrong on this, if religious people had kept out of science, Dawkins wouldn't have a job today; the father of modern genetics was a priest.
If people from a predominantly Mauve country have a tendency to fudge facts on their resume (maybe it's easier due to corruption/politics in that country), what does it mean if I take extra care to verify the details of a Mauve person's resume.
Is there anyone in the world who doesn't "fudge facts" on their CV to some extent?
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It's relative -- I always look at a game as having some goal, some achievement, something to do and mark the world.
Just wandering around aimlessly doesn't suit my style of saying it's a "game".
So classics such as Civ or simCity aren't games in your opinion? Because if this game is as good as either of those two, I'll be buying it. If only some of the people here would talk about the gameplay instead of the DRM.
If he loses, it will be interesting to use "ignorance of the law" as a defense.
Ignorance of the law is no defense, at least in English law; as I understand it, US law is heavily based on English law, so I'm suprised it's not the same there.
Hmm... And Ossetia and Abkhazia were a part of the Russian empire (and then USSR), they also rebelled after Georgia tried to grab them after the USSR collapse. Russia protected them back in 1992.
I see you can't tell the difference between was and is. Ossetia (indeed all of Georgia) *was* a part of the USSR, just like India *was* a part of the British Empire. That doesn't give Britain the right to interfere in modern day India. Russia has no right to interfere in modern day Georgia or Ossetia
As for passports - do you realize that this whole conflict started when Georgia _refused_ to give international passports to Ossetians and Abkhazians?:)
Can you provide a source please? I didn't know that, and don't entirely trust your word. Your post history shows you to be a Russian propagandist.
Russian troops will surely leave Georgia.
I'll believe it when I see it.
Russia has no interest in grabbing Georgian territory, that's certain.
As I speak Russian troops show no sign of leaving Georgia
We have learned it hard way during the last Afghanistan war. Right now, Russian troops prevent further provocations and enforce cease-fire.
Also, US continues to support Saakashivili's military. Several days ago Russia captured several brand-new army Hummers (which US asked to give back:) ).
You think that's bad? If I was in charge in Georgia, I would publicly invite NATO peacekeepers into Georgia to help enforce the ceasefire agreement. I also hope the Ukraine get's NATO membership before Russia tries a similar stunt there.
I'm not a climatologist, or even a statistician, but I would have thought that just collating more and more "probably correct" data points doesn't necessarily make them more accurate, especially when you're plugging them into a simulation...
When those data points come from multiple sources and all point in the same direction, I'm inclined to believe the overall trend that they show. The other explanations are that the whole thing is a big coincidence, or a big conspiracy on behalf of all the worlds climate scientists. Occam's razor suggests that these cases are not true.
Learn some history. The Falklands were invaded by Argentina; they are a British Overseas Territory, and have been under British rule since 1833 (at least). The Falklands war was self defense on behalf of the UK, and the initial conquest wasn't exactly in recent times* now unless you are claiming South Ossetia is part of Russia the comparison fails.
As for the Iraq war, I don't see UK and American troops giving out passports, and I don't think that anyone is about to annex it, and turn it into an old fashioned protectorate or territory, governed from a distant land. Indeed, many British troops have left the county, and many other coalition troops have withdrawn entirely. Only American troops remain in any numbers, and only at the behest of the current Iraqi government. The Russian troops in Georgia, have been asked to leave but remain regardless.
*I specify recent times because all countries have dirty histories, it's what they are doing now that counts.
When was the last time the UK gave free passports to a neighbouring country then invaded it in order to "save" them? No, the invasion of Georgia is closer to the invasion of the sudaten land that anything that the UK or USA have done (at least in recent times.)
Not really, if the whole world is watching the Olympics they're not going to care much about a what Russia's doing in the caucuses. That can wait until after the beach volleyball...
I personally don't see why pants (or underpants, as is more likely meant in the UK) should be associated with being crappy-in-an-incompetent-way, (under)pants, as an AC wag already pointed out, do a sterling and important duty. But that's the way it is.
It may have someting to do with the fact that underpants are in contact with your Arse, and that's about the amount of respect you give the crap product\company. i.e it's only worthy of being where you can shit on it.
Not as far as I know, I think that you make one claim for multiple children as opposed to making a single claim for each child. IIRC The ammount you get changes according to how many kids you have, so it has to be done this way (Note; I don't have kids, nor claimed child benifit so I might be totally wrong).
Or he lives somewhere other than the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland, and has never travelled to either of those places.
Plc is somewhat analogous to GmbH or LLC elsewhere.
The difference being that I live in the UK and know that a PLc is equivalent to an LLC and it took me no more than 2 seconds to discover the Wikipedia definition of GmbH. The point being that the Great grand parent should do his research before moaning.
Because this appears to be a huge breach of the Data protection Act by the companies involved, and if he didn't go to the police he may have later been found party to the crime (or of covering it up) if these files were found by someone else at a later date.
You're not allowed to discriminate based on age. It wouldn't surprise me if some PHB interpreted that as age == experience, therefore we cant discriminate based on experience.
Was it 25 Million distinct people or just the details of people who filed 25 million claims. I'm not saying that the 4 million figure is correct, but I am saying that I don't think that those 25 million "claimants" are all distinct people
As Far as I know, you're not supposed to (legally) claim for child benefit multiple times.
"We don't know what is going to be important" can justify me keeping records on my bowel movements just as easily as it can for documenting online games.
In both cases though you can be sure no one is going to be interested in that shit.
Not really, if you start to notice irregularities in the records of your bowel movements, it could easily be a warning sign of some medical problem. Perhaps something you wouldn't have noticed until later without those records.
We don't yet know what these records could reveal, but it could be something equally as important.
Honesty? Seriously? Colbert makes a living pretending to be a Republican while making that party look foolish. He may be many things, satirical, funny, insightful, but lets not make him the bastion of truth and honesty, kay?
Satirists generally tell lies to reveal the truth; surely that's the whole point of satire.
Fair enough, but from what people have described both here and in the wiki article, they seem to be very close to closed shops, and the practice of "Union shops" doesn't exist here in the UK; presumably the same laws that curbed union power and abolished closed shops (The Employment acts of 1982 and 1988) stopped them before they started. It seems that perhaps the USA should also abolish union shops if (as others have suggested) the unions are abusing their power.
According to that link the USA still allows "Union shops". To me there seems little difference between the two. Someone should challenge the practice of Union shops in court. Any sane judge would conclude that they are closed shops by any other name.
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Secondly, as Richard Dawkins states, religion should keep its nose out of science.
Dawkins is very wrong on this, if religious people had kept out of science, Dawkins wouldn't have a job today; the father of modern genetics was a priest.
The BBC has it at 15PB/yr. As it says, that's 100GB every four minutes. Sneakernet wouldn't need a forklift, but a truck.
It's called "the grid". just do a google search for "LHC grid" and you'll get lots of info. Here's a couple of links for starers:
http://lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/
http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/cernlcg.html
The BBC has a less tchnical piece on te grid: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7534866.stm
New problem: Someone shares the same name as me, and they have a facebook account... and they're a goddamn chav.
That touches on the main reason I have a Facebook account. That way *I* get to control what info get's put there about me.
If people from a predominantly Mauve country have a tendency to fudge facts on their resume (maybe it's easier due to corruption/politics in that country), what does it mean if I take extra care to verify the details of a Mauve person's resume.
Is there anyone in the world who doesn't "fudge facts" on their CV to some extent?
It's relative -- I always look at a game as having some goal, some achievement, something to do and mark the world.
Just wandering around aimlessly doesn't suit my style of saying it's a "game".
So classics such as Civ or simCity aren't games in your opinion? Because if this game is as good as either of those two, I'll be buying it. If only some of the people here would talk about the gameplay instead of the DRM.
If he loses, it will be interesting to use "ignorance of the law" as a defense.
Ignorance of the law is no defense, at least in English law; as I understand it, US law is heavily based on English law, so I'm suprised it's not the same there.
Hmm... And Ossetia and Abkhazia were a part of the Russian empire (and then USSR), they also rebelled after Georgia tried to grab them after the USSR collapse. Russia protected them back in 1992.
I see you can't tell the difference between was and is. Ossetia (indeed all of Georgia) *was* a part of the USSR, just like India *was* a part of the British Empire. That doesn't give Britain the right to interfere in modern day India. Russia has no right to interfere in modern day Georgia or Ossetia
As for passports - do you realize that this whole conflict started when Georgia _refused_ to give international passports to Ossetians and Abkhazians? :)
Can you provide a source please? I didn't know that, and don't entirely trust your word. Your post history shows you to be a Russian propagandist.
Russian troops will surely leave Georgia.
I'll believe it when I see it.
Russia has no interest in grabbing Georgian territory, that's certain.
As I speak Russian troops show no sign of leaving Georgia
We have learned it hard way during the last Afghanistan war. Right now, Russian troops prevent further provocations and enforce cease-fire.
Also, US continues to support Saakashivili's military. Several days ago Russia captured several brand-new army Hummers (which US asked to give back :) ).
You think that's bad? If I was in charge in Georgia, I would publicly invite NATO peacekeepers into Georgia to help enforce the ceasefire agreement. I also hope the Ukraine get's NATO membership before Russia tries a similar stunt there.
I'm not a climatologist, or even a statistician, but I would have thought that just collating more and more "probably correct" data points doesn't necessarily make them more accurate, especially when you're plugging them into a simulation...
When those data points come from multiple sources and all point in the same direction, I'm inclined to believe the overall trend that they show. The other explanations are that the whole thing is a big coincidence, or a big conspiracy on behalf of all the worlds climate scientists. Occam's razor suggests that these cases are not true.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War ? Or maybe Iraq war?
Learn some history. The Falklands were invaded by Argentina; they are a British Overseas Territory, and have been under British rule since 1833 (at least). The Falklands war was self defense on behalf of the UK, and the initial conquest wasn't exactly in recent times* now unless you are claiming South Ossetia is part of Russia the comparison fails.
As for the Iraq war, I don't see UK and American troops giving out passports, and I don't think that anyone is about to annex it, and turn it into an old fashioned protectorate or territory, governed from a distant land. Indeed, many British troops have left the county, and many other coalition troops have withdrawn entirely. Only American troops remain in any numbers, and only at the behest of the current Iraqi government. The Russian troops in Georgia, have been asked to leave but remain regardless.
*I specify recent times because all countries have dirty histories, it's what they are doing now that counts.
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When was the last time the UK gave free passports to a neighbouring country then invaded it in order to "save" them? No, the invasion of Georgia is closer to the invasion of the sudaten land that anything that the UK or USA have done (at least in recent times.)
Not really, if the whole world is watching the Olympics they're not going to care much about a what Russia's doing in the caucuses. That can wait until after the beach volleyball...
I personally don't see why pants (or underpants, as is more likely meant in the UK) should be associated with being crappy-in-an-incompetent-way, (under)pants, as an AC wag already pointed out, do a sterling and important duty. But that's the way it is.
It may have someting to do with the fact that underpants are in contact with your Arse, and that's about the amount of respect you give the crap product\company. i.e it's only worthy of being where you can shit on it.
It's given to everyone with children under 19 whose children live with them. Full info here:
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/childbenefit/introduction.htm
Not as far as I know, I think that you make one claim for multiple children as opposed to making a single claim for each child. IIRC The ammount you get changes according to how many kids you have, so it has to be done this way (Note; I don't have kids, nor claimed child benifit so I might be totally wrong).
Or he lives somewhere other than the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland, and has never travelled to either of those places.
Plc is somewhat analogous to GmbH or LLC elsewhere.
The difference being that I live in the UK and know that a PLc is equivalent to an LLC and it took me no more than 2 seconds to discover the Wikipedia definition of GmbH. The point being that the Great grand parent should do his research before moaning.
Why bother, except to attract troubles ?
Because this appears to be a huge breach of the Data protection Act by the companies involved, and if he didn't go to the police he may have later been found party to the crime (or of covering it up) if these files were found by someone else at a later date.
You're not allowed to discriminate based on age. It wouldn't surprise me if some PHB interpreted that as age == experience, therefore we cant discriminate based on experience.
Was it 25 Million distinct people or just the details of people who filed 25 million claims. I'm not saying that the 4 million figure is correct, but I am saying that I don't think that those 25 million "claimants" are all distinct people
As Far as I know, you're not supposed to (legally) claim for child benefit multiple times.
"We don't know what is going to be important" can justify me keeping records on my bowel movements just as easily as it can for documenting online games.
In both cases though you can be sure no one is going to be interested in that shit.
Not really, if you start to notice irregularities in the records of your bowel movements, it could easily be a warning sign of some medical problem. Perhaps something you wouldn't have noticed until later without those records.
We don't yet know what these records could reveal, but it could be something equally as important.
don't worry, you can still watch the highlights or if you're in the USA they're here
OT: Why do the US media sites rank the medal table different from everyone else?
Honesty? Seriously? Colbert makes a living pretending to be a Republican while making that party look foolish. He may be many things, satirical, funny, insightful, but lets not make him the bastion of truth and honesty, kay?
Satirists generally tell lies to reveal the truth; surely that's the whole point of satire.
Fair enough, but from what people have described both here and in the wiki article, they seem to be very close to closed shops, and the practice of "Union shops" doesn't exist here in the UK; presumably the same laws that curbed union power and abolished closed shops (The Employment acts of 1982 and 1988) stopped them before they started. It seems that perhaps the USA should also abolish union shops if (as others have suggested) the unions are abusing their power.
According to that link the USA still allows "Union shops". To me there seems little difference between the two. Someone should challenge the practice of Union shops in court. Any sane judge would conclude that they are closed shops by any other name.