If you compare the design of the VerticalMouse 2 with the Quill Mouse, you can see that they're virtually identical...with one important difference. The Quill Mouse is equipped with a shelf where the edge of your hand rests. The VerticalMouse 2 has no such shelf. Without a support for your hand, you'll have to support the weight of your hand by:
resting it in an abnormal position on top of the VerticalMouse 2, thereby completely negating the advantages of a vertically oriented mouse,
the use of your arm muscles, leading quickly to fatigue and muscle strain, or,
clinging to the vertical surface of the mouse with your fingers and/or thumb, again leading to fatigue and muscle strain.
Now add to all this the discomfort the large-handed will suffer as the edge of their hands develop friction burns against their desktops.
Any way you slice it, this product is a bad design and a non-starter. Save your money.
You must be joking if you're trying to pass off United Press International as an unbiased, objective source. The mere title of their current front page story, Analysis: Bush -- Never surrender to evil, is enough to raise serious doubts...doubts that are confirmed within the first two paragraphs of the story.
How about we instead rely upon a less partisan, more respected source....say, Reuters?
From the Reuters article:
The missile defense system, which has not staged any intercept tests for almost a year following two failures, has faced criticism from some lawmakers and government watchdogs, who worry the system has not been adequately tested.
Lehner said the agency planned four tests of the system this year, including two intercept tests in the second half of 2006, fulfilling another recommendation in the new Pentagon report.
The report said the battle management system was "making progress, but has not yet demonstrated engagement control."
In short, it doesn't work, and noone knows when it will, if ever. Any claims to the contrary are pure astroturf.
No. The treaty was with the Soviet Union, the USSR.
Sophistry.
The treaty was useless since the collapse of the Soviet Empire.
Because whatever political entity succeeds the Soviet Empire couldn't possibly launch nuclear missiles at us, could they?
Treaties can also be broken at any time.
People can be murdered at any time as well...that doesn't make it right. For this treaty to be abrogated legitimately, one of the necessary conditions for abrogation spelled out in the treaty must be met. To justify his unilateral action, Bush cited Article XV of the ABM Treaty, which states that the Treaty could be abrogated by one of the parties "if extraordinary events related to the subject matter of this treaty have jeopardized its supreme interests." To date, the President has not specified the 'extraordinary events' which supposedly prompted his decision, and has not explained how the United States' continued adherence to the ABM Treaty could 'jeopardize' its 'supreme interests'.
That treaty would not have stopped nukes from raining down on American cities.
Funny...the treaty was in existence from 1972 to 2002, ans I don't recall a single nuclear incident on U.S soil during that time. Fast forward to now...no treaty, and Putin's bragging about a missile that can penetrate our defense system (admittedly, not much of a boast, given the pathetic state of the 'missile defense system'). Seems to me there's a bit of a correlation there.
The missle[sic] defense shield *might*.
You might want to keep up on current events. Bottom line: our President threw away a 30-year old treaty like so much garbage, needlessly antagonizing other nations, to pursue a technology that is still firmly in pipe-dream status. Not much of a surprise, though, given that this same President pulled out of the Kyoto Accords on Climate Change, withdrew the US from the treaty creating an International Criminal Court, opposed a Protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention that would allow for inspections and verification, and failed to fulfill US obligations related to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. Again, I can't help but see a trend.
I think that this is one of those things that is simply too difficult a task to make work under battle conditions. At least for now...
Exactly. Someone really should have told Bush this before he scrapped a perfectly good 30-year old treaty in favor of science fiction nonsense...but then again, they probabaly did. As we all know by now, our fearless leader isn't too keen on hearing things he doesn't want to hear.
Putin said the new missiles were capable of changing both altitude and direction,
Sounds like some clever froods over in Russia decided to 'pull a Microsoft' and bill a bug (defective guidance system) as a feature (anti-missile defense guidance system).
Players may choose to create characters that are members of either the SGC (the Good Guys) or the System Lords (the Bad Guys).
That's rather stifling, isn't it? I can understand how the game creators might want to reserve such races as the Ancients, the Asgard, the Replicators, and the Ori as NPC plot devices, but that still leaves a lot of potential races out. What about the Tok'ra? Or the Unas? How about the Nox? Or the Re'tu?
Hopefully, there will be updates and expansion packs to address this, as there have been in similar games. On the whole, it looks like this could have a lot of potential....now it has the burden of living up to that potential.
"I think the reason so many people are open to hearing about Jesus in the World of Warcraft is because the majority of people who play the game are lonely kids who don't have any friends. I doubt any of them play sports so you can pretty much guess that there are lots of gay boys and fat little pale-faced Wiccan girls on the servers who hate themselves and escape into virtual characters so they don't have to deal with their pathetic lives. When they hear that someone loves them, even if it is just the Lord Jesus Christ, they always want to hear more!"
If you think that was funny, try checking out the links!
Doctor: I'm afraid your son has the knack. Dilmom: The knack? Doctor: It's a rare condition characterized by an extreme intuition about all things mechanical and electrical...and utter social ineptitude. Dilmom (worried): Can he lead a normal life? Doctor: No. He'll be an engineer. Dilmom (crying): Oh No! Doctor: there there...don't blame yourself. Dilmom: Will it go away over time? Doctor: It might but I pray it doesn't. If an engineer loses the knack the results can be devastating.
Worm-Nyxem-E propagates via email. It sends a copy of itself using its own Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server. Having its own SMTP server allows it to send email messages without relying on email application like Microsoft Outlook.
An excellent writeup on the Uberman sleep schedule can be found here.
In the past I've restricted my sleep to as little as three hours a night for several weeks without ill effects, but I've never tried the Uberman sleep schedule. Now that I'm older, I seem to need my sleep much more desperately than I used to (I get physically ill if I get less than five hours sleep per night), so I doubt I'll be trying it anytime soon.
I have a friend who decided to try it during his long period of unemployment (in fact, I first heard of it from him), but he dropped out after a few weeks. I suspect that he just enjoyed sleeping too much to give up so much of it. ^_^
when it in fact uncovered that no crime had been committed
That's a truly amazing claim, considering that legal action against Libby is still ongoing. Your statements are becoming increasingly incredible...and by that, I mean that they are becoming increasingly devoid of credibility.
Oh, by the way, if all that Libby did was 'say he didn't talk to somebody when he did', why exactly did he resign? Clinton didn't resign... Nixon did resign, however. Hmmm...
Is there any possible criticism of another country, ANY AT ALL, which you annoying fucks won't turn into yet another meandering invective against Bush, Halliburton, Guantanamo, etc.?
I'm not sure...the magnitude of Dubya & Company's evil makes it damn near impossible. You know, there's a reason that there's a 'Bush corollary' to Godwin's Law...
You are the reason the Democratic party is floundering with no hope of winning elections in the forseeable future.
Actually, if you'd read the article, you'd have read that Google was not the only company that was called
Actually, I did read the article, thanks. While Google wasn't the only company that was called, they are the only company that is currently holding out against the government's demands for search terms.
Yahoo!, Cisco and Microsoft
In the trade they call this collateral damage. Perfectly acceptable.
Libbey is being charged with saying he didn't talk to somebody when he did.
That's a rather poisonously disingenuous dismissal of the very serious charges against Libby. The federal grand jury indicted Libby on five charges: one charge of obstruction of justice, two charges of perjury and two charges of making false statements. All are felony crimes, and are rather more serious than you would have us believe.
I seem to remember someone else lying about something...something that in and of itself wasn't even a crime at all...and he went through impeachment proceedings for his trouble. Can you guess who I'm thinking of?
Your neo-con spin machine is up to maximum RPM, but it can't spin this away. Sorry.
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If you compare the design of the VerticalMouse 2 with the Quill Mouse, you can see that they're virtually identical...with one important difference. The Quill Mouse is equipped with a shelf where the edge of your hand rests. The VerticalMouse 2 has no such shelf. Without a support for your hand, you'll have to support the weight of your hand by:
or,
Now add to all this the discomfort the large-handed will suffer as the edge of their hands develop friction burns against their desktops.
Any way you slice it, this product is a bad design and a non-starter. Save your money.
If the answer is B, then that implies A.
You must be joking if you're trying to pass off United Press International as an unbiased, objective source. The mere title of their current front page story, Analysis: Bush -- Never surrender to evil, is enough to raise serious doubts...doubts that are confirmed within the first two paragraphs of the story.
How about we instead rely upon a less partisan, more respected source....say, Reuters?
From the Reuters article: In short, it doesn't work, and noone knows when it will, if ever. Any claims to the contrary are pure astroturf.
No. The treaty was with the Soviet Union, the USSR.
Sophistry.
The treaty was useless since the collapse of the Soviet Empire.
Because whatever political entity succeeds the Soviet Empire couldn't possibly launch nuclear missiles at us, could they?
Treaties can also be broken at any time.
People can be murdered at any time as well...that doesn't make it right. For this treaty to be abrogated legitimately, one of the necessary conditions for abrogation spelled out in the treaty must be met. To justify his unilateral action, Bush cited Article XV of the ABM Treaty, which states that the Treaty could be abrogated by one of the parties "if extraordinary events related to the subject matter of this treaty have jeopardized its supreme interests." To date, the President has not specified the 'extraordinary events' which supposedly prompted his decision, and has not explained how the United States' continued adherence to the ABM Treaty could 'jeopardize' its 'supreme interests'.
That treaty would not have stopped nukes from raining down on American cities.
Funny...the treaty was in existence from 1972 to 2002, ans I don't recall a single nuclear incident on U.S soil during that time. Fast forward to now...no treaty, and Putin's bragging about a missile that can penetrate our defense system (admittedly, not much of a boast, given the pathetic state of the 'missile defense system'). Seems to me there's a bit of a correlation there.
The missle[sic] defense shield *might*.
You might want to keep up on current events. Bottom line: our President threw away a 30-year old treaty like so much garbage, needlessly antagonizing other nations, to pursue a technology that is still firmly in pipe-dream status. Not much of a surprise, though, given that this same President pulled out of the Kyoto Accords on Climate Change, withdrew the US from the treaty creating an International Criminal Court, opposed a Protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention that would allow for inspections and verification, and failed to fulfill US obligations related to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. Again, I can't help but see a trend.
I think that this is one of those things that is simply too difficult a task to make work under battle conditions. At least for now...
Exactly. Someone really should have told Bush this before he scrapped a perfectly good 30-year old treaty in favor of science fiction nonsense...but then again, they probabaly did. As we all know by now, our fearless leader isn't too keen on hearing things he doesn't want to hear.
From TFA: Sounds like some clever froods over in Russia decided to 'pull a Microsoft' and bill a bug (defective guidance system) as a feature (anti-missile defense guidance system).
And all this time I thought the Worf hypothesis was just "Today is a good day to die.".
Apparently the left visual field is "without honor".
Story is a dupe...original story can be found here.
Wow, how stupid are you to assume I thought this was genuine, given this line from my OP:
Perhaps I should have thrown in the anime smiley to make it perfectly clear, but that seems to get your panties in such a twist...
Players may choose to create characters that are members of either the SGC (the Good Guys) or the System Lords (the Bad Guys).
That's rather stifling, isn't it? I can understand how the game creators might want to reserve such races as the Ancients, the Asgard, the Replicators, and the Ori as NPC plot devices, but that still leaves a lot of potential races out. What about the Tok'ra? Or the Unas? How about the Nox? Or the Re'tu?
Hopefully, there will be updates and expansion packs to address this, as there have been in similar games. On the whole, it looks like this could have a lot of potential....now it has the burden of living up to that potential.
I see tons of pro-Christian conversations and Guild named all night long when I play.
You mean like these people?...
From their website:
If you think that was funny, try checking out the links!
Good luck...I hear this year's exam has a lot more flying turtles than the previous one.
Kinda gives the phrase 'point-to-point tunneling protocol' a whole new meaning, doesn't it? ^_^
This story seems oddly familiar...
Cue the 'finally enough storage space for my pr0n' jokes.
Check out these nifty one-switch games. Not just one hand, but one button. These games are controlled entirely through skillful use of the space bar.
Doctor: I'm afraid your son has the knack.
Dilmom: The knack?
Doctor: It's a rare condition characterized by an extreme intuition about all things mechanical and electrical...and utter social ineptitude.
Dilmom (worried): Can he lead a normal life?
Doctor: No. He'll be an engineer.
Dilmom (crying): Oh No!
Doctor: there there...don't blame yourself.
Dilmom: Will it go away over time?
Doctor: It might but I pray it doesn't. If an engineer loses the knack the results can be devastating.
As long as it disables their internet access too, I don't see the problem.
Unfortunately, that is the problem....it's not going to disable internet access, as that would impair its ability to propogate.
From F-Secure: And from E-Security Planet:
From TFA: Honestly, are there still computer users out there...even regular users...who don't know this is a bad idea by now???
An excellent writeup on the Uberman sleep schedule can be found here.
In the past I've restricted my sleep to as little as three hours a night for several weeks without ill effects, but I've never tried the Uberman sleep schedule. Now that I'm older, I seem to need my sleep much more desperately than I used to (I get physically ill if I get less than five hours sleep per night), so I doubt I'll be trying it anytime soon.
I have a friend who decided to try it during his long period of unemployment (in fact, I first heard of it from him), but he dropped out after a few weeks. I suspect that he just enjoyed sleeping too much to give up so much of it. ^_^
when it in fact uncovered that no crime had been committed
That's a truly amazing claim, considering that legal action against Libby is still ongoing. Your statements are becoming increasingly incredible...and by that, I mean that they are becoming increasingly devoid of credibility.
Oh, by the way, if all that Libby did was 'say he didn't talk to somebody when he did', why exactly did he resign? Clinton didn't resign... Nixon did resign, however. Hmmm...
Is there any possible criticism of another country, ANY AT ALL, which you annoying fucks won't turn into yet another meandering invective against Bush, Halliburton, Guantanamo, etc.?
I'm not sure...the magnitude of Dubya & Company's evil makes it damn near impossible. You know, there's a reason that there's a 'Bush corollary' to Godwin's Law...
You are the reason the Democratic party is floundering with no hope of winning elections in the forseeable future.
I know...integrity is such a fucking millstone.
Actually, if you'd read the article, you'd have read that Google was not the only company that was called
Actually, I did read the article, thanks. While Google wasn't the only company that was called, they are the only company that is currently holding out against the government's demands for search terms.
Yahoo!, Cisco and Microsoft
In the trade they call this collateral damage. Perfectly acceptable.
Libbey is being charged with saying he didn't talk to somebody when he did.
That's a rather poisonously disingenuous dismissal of the very serious charges against Libby. The federal grand jury indicted Libby on five charges: one charge of obstruction of justice, two charges of perjury and two charges of making false statements. All are felony crimes, and are rather more serious than you would have us believe.
I seem to remember someone else lying about something...something that in and of itself wasn't even a crime at all...and he went through impeachment proceedings for his trouble. Can you guess who I'm thinking of?
Your neo-con spin machine is up to maximum RPM, but it can't spin this away. Sorry.
Exactly why do you think the U.S Government is interested in Google's dealings with China?
Is it because:
or...
Please submit your answers below. Don't forget to show your work.