When you suggest that someone who thinks about the nature of crime would actually commit the crime, that doesn't help either. How about just saying that prosecuting people for thinking is something only done by those afraid of thinking?
...we had to change some of the defaults on the computer. He insisted that I was wrong, because he hadn't missed any payments on any loans...Still, he wasn't a techno-phobe by any means, he was computerizing his business long before it became common.
He probably just thought that "computerizing" is what you do to open wounds, when your company is hemorrhaging.
It's not about us. It's about Iran. It's their election and their struggle for democracy.
You really believe that? Democracy is a western concept, that doesn't really exist, but is a very useful idea in controlling populations -- either by making them rise up against a leader who is bad, or by making them accept a leader who is bad because other people seem to like him. In other words, you simply need to plant some popular opinion about the current leader, and the idea of democracy, and you have yourself some population control.
Inciting civil unrest is almost as common a war tactic as invasion is -- it's so well known that even games like Civilisation include it as a basic tactic. The Art of War (the most ancient book on military tactics, still taught in western military schools until very recently) talks about using 5 kinds of spies to "manipulate the divine threads" as the best part of your army.
b) I don't subscribe to the joined first = better thing, but I did have an ~300k account before losing the account details years ago. It wasn't any better than my current account. In fact, my karma's much better in this one.
cause they reduce the sensation...and...its so much more enjoyable to bust inside a bitch
I think that last one is probably hugely underestimated. The fact is that guys evolved to like spreading seed where it matters. No amount of research is going to change that, unless it's essentially turning guys into something less than guys.
But you did miss a few other important reasons:
* they're awkward to put on, effectively becoming a test/demonstration of sexual experience when you're usually in the middle of way too many tests already, like saying (or not saying) the right thing, performing like that chippendale, etc.
* the spoil the mood (which is difficult enough to build sometimes even without condoms getting in the way)
* they leave nasty lube residues/odors that make things awkward later, just when you're hoping for a blowjob
* you have to go buy them in a shop, which essentially means you need grocery-store approval to screw. In some countries, it is/was the relatively empty/unused/conspicuous pharmacy's approval to screw. In some countries, it's worse: society as a high-minded theoretical whole doesn't even approve of condoms, never mind the old fashioned people in the store.
* if you're new to it all, the whole thing (given the above, the posts you made, general nervousness and lack of clue) can be a real turn-off.
Geeks will naturally jump on the digital vs. paper angle, but actually, this is about a much larger ethical issue: whether exclusives should exist at all. I've always considered exclusives to be unethical, since they're effectively a (relatively bad) form of DRM: you can know about an important issue in your society, but not if you get your information from our competitors. Now, they're taking it one step further: you can read the story, but not if you got the information in a certain format.
The RIAA is just doing anything they can to stay in business, like any good capitalist business should.
There's a company that makes blow-up car passengers to help scare off rapists. Do you really believe that they should rape people to make sure their product sells well, or do you think you might have forgotten about ethics somewhere along the line?;)
100m mirror for a telescope, solar collectors that beam power back to Earth, etc.
You know, with a 100m magnifying glass in space, we could create a free chicken toasting area right here on earth, thereby reducing the vast global power consumption of McDonalds, KFC, Burger Kings, etc.
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My vote is for extreme sarcasm.
He meant that, since discovering the dremel tool, he no longer uses his knob.
When you suggest that someone who thinks about the nature of crime would actually commit the crime, that doesn't help either. How about just saying that prosecuting people for thinking is something only done by those afraid of thinking?
Don't you think dissolving the space shuttle is overkill?
So is leaving something there when it's stuck ;)
So these are old geysers who DON'T complain about people being worth their salt? Wow, it really is an alien world.
Prodigies? I'm pretty sure algae invented it.
He probably just thought that "computerizing" is what you do to open wounds, when your company is hemorrhaging.
Hey, as long as Andromeda's still hot.
You really believe that? Democracy is a western concept, that doesn't really exist, but is a very useful idea in controlling populations -- either by making them rise up against a leader who is bad, or by making them accept a leader who is bad because other people seem to like him. In other words, you simply need to plant some popular opinion about the current leader, and the idea of democracy, and you have yourself some population control.
Inciting civil unrest is almost as common a war tactic as invasion is -- it's so well known that even games like Civilisation include it as a basic tactic. The Art of War (the most ancient book on military tactics, still taught in western military schools until very recently) talks about using 5 kinds of spies to "manipulate the divine threads" as the best part of your army.
a) it's called a joke :)
b) I don't subscribe to the joined first = better thing, but I did have an ~300k account before losing the account details years ago. It wasn't any better than my current account. In fact, my karma's much better in this one.
Current production has nothing to do with it. Future yield, in a world with ever diminishing supplies, is all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves#Estimated_reserves_by_country
What's the point? NY doesn't have anywhere near as much (potential for) oil as Iran.
Never let reality get in the way of a good slashvertisement.
I think that last one is probably hugely underestimated. The fact is that guys evolved to like spreading seed where it matters. No amount of research is going to change that, unless it's essentially turning guys into something less than guys.
But you did miss a few other important reasons:
* they're awkward to put on, effectively becoming a test/demonstration of sexual experience when you're usually in the middle of way too many tests already, like saying (or not saying) the right thing, performing like that chippendale, etc.
* the spoil the mood (which is difficult enough to build sometimes even without condoms getting in the way)
* they leave nasty lube residues/odors that make things awkward later, just when you're hoping for a blowjob
* you have to go buy them in a shop, which essentially means you need grocery-store approval to screw. In some countries, it is/was the relatively empty/unused/conspicuous pharmacy's approval to screw. In some countries, it's worse: society as a high-minded theoretical whole doesn't even approve of condoms, never mind the old fashioned people in the store.
* if you're new to it all, the whole thing (given the above, the posts you made, general nervousness and lack of clue) can be a real turn-off.
Clearly so, as that's the reason condoms exist in the first place.
If you want to spread sperm-killing chemicals all over your one and only sperm-producing tool, go right ahead. I'll stick with the rubber.
Geeks will naturally jump on the digital vs. paper angle, but actually, this is about a much larger ethical issue: whether exclusives should exist at all. I've always considered exclusives to be unethical, since they're effectively a (relatively bad) form of DRM: you can know about an important issue in your society, but not if you get your information from our competitors. Now, they're taking it one step further: you can read the story, but not if you got the information in a certain format.
If Tesla had an iPod back then, he must've been really into his music. I guess that finally explains why he started The Band
There, fixed that for you.
First: thanks for the humor; I've just worked my butt off for a deadline, and needed it :)
Second: I illustrated the GP's fallacy. Big difference.
The ball-point pen. Astronaut ice-cream.
There's a company that makes blow-up car passengers to help scare off rapists. Do you really believe that they should rape people to make sure their product sells well, or do you think you might have forgotten about ethics somewhere along the line? ;)
Give me $499m. I'll get 'em there.
Oh, you mean... in working order?
You know, with a 100m magnifying glass in space, we could create a free chicken toasting area right here on earth, thereby reducing the vast global power consumption of McDonalds, KFC, Burger Kings, etc.