You mean the made-up country that imperialistic powers set up to protect their oil companies' interests? The one where women couldn't vote until a couple of years ago? Where a religious cast detains all the power?
How exactly is that better than a secular egalitarian Iraq ruled by a dictator? Or are you one of those who believe the Kuwaiti Incubator Baby Hoax?
Why is this "inside his own country's borders" relevant? Are the deaths due to Iraq's invasion of Iran somehow less outrageous? Are the deaths due to the US invasion of Iraq more excusable?
I agree with the "screw Saddam" sentiment, but please refrain from relaying blatant propaganda.
I have to admit that I stopped downloading my favorite TV shows on April 1st. The legislation scared quite a few people, and we're adopting a wait-and-see policy. But plenty of people I talked to didn't change their habits when it comes to bittorrent.
Being in a student dorm, every room's got its own internet connection. I approached my "koriddor-mates", and they were split on the issue. Then, I proposed getting rid of our connections to keep just one for the entire floor. We can then share it (it's a 100Mb line), absorb the cost of a VPN (it's not much, but you know how every penny counts for students) and save plenty.
Whose loss is it? The ISP who's going to lose five customers!
This is a big deal. This machine has open software and hardware with a big company behind. That's enough to get me really excited.
Marvell has committed to do everything it can to ensure the best Linux support for SheevaPlug going forward. Raja Mukhopadhyay, product marketing manager, commented, "Whatever the community needs to facilitate development, we will provide the critical resources needed to facilitate that."
The article is very light, but let it be known that N-type organic semiconductors have conductivities that are orders of magnitude lower than their P-type counterparts. They are usually much less stable too. If they managed to get something that doesn't need inert athmosphere, encapsulation and can transport a fraction of charges the p-type conjugated materials do, it would be a breakthrough. But I'm really not holding my breath. As someone working in the field, it sounds like vaporware to me.
So, first the UK's ISPs censor the wiki's artwork (and accompanying text!) of that album by Scorpion. Then this? Next thing you know, people wearing t-shirts of Nirvana's Nevermind will be arrested.
No. It is precisely out of admiration and respect for all the other competitors that I'm passionate about this. They got disadvantaged because of a bunch of suits issuing laws and fixing arbitrary ages. I am quite close to the athletic field, and I can assure you that people get more pissed about laws that restrict their freedoms, than about people who circumvent them and get away with it.
The Olympics motto is about being the best. Fair's got nothing to do with it.
The more I read Americans talk about the subject the more it sounds like sour grapes. Nobody - I repeat, NOBODY! - has the authority to decide what age the girl is but the Chinese government. There's no such thing as an "officially forged" passport. The ultimate authority that can decide upon such matters decreed the girl is 16. Whether you agree with it or not is irrelevant.
Now, is 16 an appropriate age to compete? Maybe not, but I remain convinced that girl herself is very happy with the way things turned out. She's adulated in her country and achieved more than most of us will achieve in a lifetime (no, making babies is not an achievement!). Personally, I find arbitrary ages an aberration. Also, besides extremely naive people, everyone knows fair has never been much of an issue in the Olympics. If you want fair, let them all eat the same things, have access to the same doctors, juice with the same state-of-the-art shots (don't pretend to be surprised) and compete in categories.
I am staunchly opposed to the Chinese government's abuse. But this is a non-issue that's being blown out of proportions because...somebody lost a medal. Focus on what the little girl achieved instead of trying to downplay her performance. The medal is China's. Get over it!
Did you miss the bit about the US going around the world bombing people? What the Chinese government does to its own citizens is no business but their own.
The point could end up being "don't kill anyone unless you absolutely have to, because the cost is too high otherwise." Which would be a very good point to learn I think.
Clearly, you've never heard of the preemptive doctrine which has been official US foreign policy for over a century
Anything other than your fist or a blade/sword can and will inevitably hurt innocents. It is from that perspective that bombs, bullets and other mass destruction devices are frowned upon by some. But in a world where the sole hyperpower goes out of its way to attack and invade a country on the other side of the planet whose people never did anything to it, the notion of "collateral damage" slides into the surreal.
Governments tend to preach what they don't practice. The US government is no exception. They threaten military action against countries trying to acquire civil nuclear energy, while over a thousand nukes sits in their hangars. They terrorize whole populations while denouncing terrorism.
I ask you. Why makes anyone think the army would give a damn about the DMCA?
Marijuana And Actual Driving Performance Executive Summary
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
By Robbe HWJ, O'Hanlon JF
November 1993
http://www.erowid.org/
Abstract
Abstract: This report concerns the effects of marijuana smoking on actual driving performance. It presents the results of one pilot and three actual driving studies. The pilot study's major purpose was to establish the THC dose current marijuana users smoke to achieve their desired "high".
From these results it was decided that the maximum THC dose for subsequent driving studies would be 300 mcg / kg (0.3 mg / kg). The first driving study was conducted on a closed section of a primary highway. After smoking marijuana delivering THC doses of 0, 100, 200, and 300 mcg / kg, subjects drove a car while maintaining a constant speed and lateral position.
This study was replicated with a new group of subjects, but now in the presence of other traffic. In addition, a car following test was executed. The third driving study compared the effects of a modest dose of THC (100 mcg / kg) and alcohol )BAC of 0.04 g %) on city driving performance.
This program of research has shown that marijuana, when taken alone, produces a moderate degree of driving impairment which is related to the consumed THC dose. The impairment manifests itself mainly in the ability to maintain a steady lateral position on the road, but its magnitude is not exceptional in comparison with changes produced by many medicinal drugs and alcohol.
Drivers under the influence of marijuana retain insight in their performance and will compensate where they can, for example, by slowing down or increasing effort. As a consequence, THC's adverse effects on driving performance appear relatively small.
Marijuana Use and Driving
By Robbe HWJ
November 1994
http://www.erowid.org/..._driving3.shtml
Abstract
Abstract: This article concerns the effects of marijuana smoking on actual driving performance. It presents the major results of one laboratory and three on-road driving studies. The latter were conducted on a closed section of a primary highway, on a highway in the presence of other traffic and in urban traffic, respectively.
This program of research has shown that marijuana produces only a moderate degree of driving impairment which is related to the consumed THC dose. The impairment manifests itself mainly in the ability to maintain a steady lateral position on the road, but its magnitude is not exceptional in comparison with changes produced by many medicinal drugs and alcohol.
Drivers under the influence of marijuana retain insight into their performance and will compensate where they can (e.g., by increasing distance between vehicles or increasing effort). As a consequence, THC's adverse effects on driving performance appeared relatively small in the tests employed in this program.
Marijuana, Alcohol and Actual Driving Performance
By Hindrik W. J. Robbe, Ph.D. and James F. O'Hanlon, Ph.D.
1999?
http://www.erowid.org/..._driving5.shtml
In a previous series of studies on the effects of THC alone we concluded that THC given in doses up to 300 1lg/kg has "slight" effects on driving performance (Robbe & O'Hanlon, 1993). The results of the present study now compel us to revise that conclusion. The present subjects' performance was more affected than their predecessors'.
The present subjects showed impaired car following performance after THC 100 1lg/kg whereas the previous ones were not impaired by doses up to 300 1lg/kg. In the present study, road tracking performance after 200 ~g/kg was worse than the performance after 300 ~g/kg in the previous study.
We believe that these differences are attributable to the groups' respective experience with THC smoking and to driving under the influence of THC. The present group was less experienced and probably had not developed the same degree of behavioral tolerance as their predecessors.
Yet
In Morocco, a 26 years old was kidnapped, tortured and sentenced to three years in prison for creating a Facebook profile with the name of a prince (the king's brother). The case showed that there have been little change in the country (and its institutions) since the end of Hassan II's tyrannical regime.
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You mean the made-up country that imperialistic powers set up to protect their oil companies' interests? The one where women couldn't vote until a couple of years ago? Where a religious cast detains all the power?
How exactly is that better than a secular egalitarian Iraq ruled by a dictator? Or are you one of those who believe the Kuwaiti Incubator Baby Hoax?
Why is this "inside his own country's borders" relevant? Are the deaths due to Iraq's invasion of Iran somehow less outrageous? Are the deaths due to the US invasion of Iraq more excusable?
I agree with the "screw Saddam" sentiment, but please refrain from relaying blatant propaganda.
Dear USA,
Please keep your "help" to yourself.
Sincerly,
Signed: The Rest of the World
I have to admit that I stopped downloading my favorite TV shows on April 1st. The legislation scared quite a few people, and we're adopting a wait-and-see policy. But plenty of people I talked to didn't change their habits when it comes to bittorrent. Being in a student dorm, every room's got its own internet connection. I approached my "koriddor-mates", and they were split on the issue. Then, I proposed getting rid of our connections to keep just one for the entire floor. We can then share it (it's a 100Mb line), absorb the cost of a VPN (it's not much, but you know how every penny counts for students) and save plenty. Whose loss is it? The ISP who's going to lose five customers!
Maybe. If you're willing to concede that Apple started that whole "in-your-face logo" crap.
Torrent link, please?
This is a big deal. This machine has open software and hardware with a big company behind. That's enough to get me really excited.
Marvell has committed to do everything it can to ensure the best Linux support for SheevaPlug going forward. Raja Mukhopadhyay, product marketing manager, commented, "Whatever the community needs to facilitate development, we will provide the critical resources needed to facilitate that."
I, for one, won't shed a tear at some of those exports being smacked into the ground. Maybe the USA will quit invading countries.
Save innocent lives. Pirate American productions.
Rather than moderate, I'll point out that it was $50,000 rather than $100.
The article is very light, but let it be known that N-type organic semiconductors have conductivities that are orders of magnitude lower than their P-type counterparts. They are usually much less stable too. If they managed to get something that doesn't need inert athmosphere, encapsulation and can transport a fraction of charges the p-type conjugated materials do, it would be a breakthrough. But I'm really not holding my breath. As someone working in the field, it sounds like vaporware to me.
Should I quote Plato or Burke? Complacency is NOT a good thing. And neither is cynicism. The stakes are way too high.
So, first the UK's ISPs censor the wiki's artwork (and accompanying text!) of that album by Scorpion. Then this? Next thing you know, people wearing t-shirts of Nirvana's Nevermind will be arrested.
Free country my knee!
And by "do something about it", you mean get a divorce?
"Equality"? "Press freedom"? Go tell that to the Kurds!
No. It is precisely out of admiration and respect for all the other competitors that I'm passionate about this. They got disadvantaged because of a bunch of suits issuing laws and fixing arbitrary ages. I am quite close to the athletic field, and I can assure you that people get more pissed about laws that restrict their freedoms, than about people who circumvent them and get away with it.
The Olympics motto is about being the best. Fair's got nothing to do with it.
The more I read Americans talk about the subject the more it sounds like sour grapes. Nobody - I repeat, NOBODY! - has the authority to decide what age the girl is but the Chinese government. There's no such thing as an "officially forged" passport. The ultimate authority that can decide upon such matters decreed the girl is 16. Whether you agree with it or not is irrelevant. Now, is 16 an appropriate age to compete? Maybe not, but I remain convinced that girl herself is very happy with the way things turned out. She's adulated in her country and achieved more than most of us will achieve in a lifetime (no, making babies is not an achievement!). Personally, I find arbitrary ages an aberration. Also, besides extremely naive people, everyone knows fair has never been much of an issue in the Olympics. If you want fair, let them all eat the same things, have access to the same doctors, juice with the same state-of-the-art shots (don't pretend to be surprised) and compete in categories. I am staunchly opposed to the Chinese government's abuse. But this is a non-issue that's being blown out of proportions because...somebody lost a medal. Focus on what the little girl achieved instead of trying to downplay her performance. The medal is China's. Get over it!
Did you miss the bit about the US going around the world bombing people? What the Chinese government does to its own citizens is no business but their own.
Why exactly couldn't they do this with some conducting polymer? Is it because of feature size? I have no idea how pressure is sensed, so I had to ask.
The point could end up being "don't kill anyone unless you absolutely have to, because the cost is too high otherwise." Which would be a very good point to learn I think.
Clearly, you've never heard of the preemptive doctrine which has been official US foreign policy for over a century
Anything other than your fist or a blade/sword can and will inevitably hurt innocents. It is from that perspective that bombs, bullets and other mass destruction devices are frowned upon by some. But in a world where the sole hyperpower goes out of its way to attack and invade a country on the other side of the planet whose people never did anything to it, the notion of "collateral damage" slides into the surreal.
And yet, you probably pay taxes to the US government, whose foreign policy makes the Chinese look like a bunch of pacifists.
Governments tend to preach what they don't practice. The US government is no exception. They threaten military action against countries trying to acquire civil nuclear energy, while over a thousand nukes sits in their hangars. They terrorize whole populations while denouncing terrorism. I ask you. Why makes anyone think the army would give a damn about the DMCA?
Marijuana And Actual Driving Performance Executive Summary National Highway Traffic Safety Administration By Robbe HWJ, O'Hanlon JF November 1993 http://www.erowid.org/ Abstract Abstract: This report concerns the effects of marijuana smoking on actual driving performance. It presents the results of one pilot and three actual driving studies. The pilot study's major purpose was to establish the THC dose current marijuana users smoke to achieve their desired "high". From these results it was decided that the maximum THC dose for subsequent driving studies would be 300 mcg / kg (0.3 mg / kg). The first driving study was conducted on a closed section of a primary highway. After smoking marijuana delivering THC doses of 0, 100, 200, and 300 mcg / kg, subjects drove a car while maintaining a constant speed and lateral position. This study was replicated with a new group of subjects, but now in the presence of other traffic. In addition, a car following test was executed. The third driving study compared the effects of a modest dose of THC (100 mcg / kg) and alcohol )BAC of 0.04 g %) on city driving performance. This program of research has shown that marijuana, when taken alone, produces a moderate degree of driving impairment which is related to the consumed THC dose. The impairment manifests itself mainly in the ability to maintain a steady lateral position on the road, but its magnitude is not exceptional in comparison with changes produced by many medicinal drugs and alcohol. Drivers under the influence of marijuana retain insight in their performance and will compensate where they can, for example, by slowing down or increasing effort. As a consequence, THC's adverse effects on driving performance appear relatively small. Marijuana Use and Driving By Robbe HWJ November 1994 http://www.erowid.org/..._driving3.shtml Abstract Abstract: This article concerns the effects of marijuana smoking on actual driving performance. It presents the major results of one laboratory and three on-road driving studies. The latter were conducted on a closed section of a primary highway, on a highway in the presence of other traffic and in urban traffic, respectively. This program of research has shown that marijuana produces only a moderate degree of driving impairment which is related to the consumed THC dose. The impairment manifests itself mainly in the ability to maintain a steady lateral position on the road, but its magnitude is not exceptional in comparison with changes produced by many medicinal drugs and alcohol. Drivers under the influence of marijuana retain insight into their performance and will compensate where they can (e.g., by increasing distance between vehicles or increasing effort). As a consequence, THC's adverse effects on driving performance appeared relatively small in the tests employed in this program. Marijuana, Alcohol and Actual Driving Performance By Hindrik W. J. Robbe, Ph.D. and James F. O'Hanlon, Ph.D. 1999? http://www.erowid.org/..._driving5.shtml In a previous series of studies on the effects of THC alone we concluded that THC given in doses up to 300 1lg/kg has "slight" effects on driving performance (Robbe & O'Hanlon, 1993). The results of the present study now compel us to revise that conclusion. The present subjects' performance was more affected than their predecessors'. The present subjects showed impaired car following performance after THC 100 1lg/kg whereas the previous ones were not impaired by doses up to 300 1lg/kg. In the present study, road tracking performance after 200 ~g/kg was worse than the performance after 300 ~g/kg in the previous study. We believe that these differences are attributable to the groups' respective experience with THC smoking and to driving under the influence of THC. The present group was less experienced and probably had not developed the same degree of behavioral tolerance as their predecessors. Yet
In Morocco, a 26 years old was kidnapped, tortured and sentenced to three years in prison for creating a Facebook profile with the name of a prince (the king's brother). The case showed that there have been little change in the country (and its institutions) since the end of Hassan II's tyrannical regime.
Hmmm...one seems like a consistent fellow. The other, not so much.