Internet poker was cut off for violating gambling laws. You're more than welcome to play poker online all you want if there's no money involved.
Acceptable complaints about free speech in America (on the internet anyway) include:
Child Pornography (unpopular)
Beastiality (unpopular)
Piracy (see above, not actually censorship)
And those are sites which are blocked absolutely, without any further clarification or influences just as someone who has been granted full powers operates.
It's not a great use of it, but I wouldn't beat him up over it.
Mandrin Chinese is the most common first language in the world, but I'll give you a guess what the most common second language in the world is, and I bet the percentage is even higher among young, computer literate, internet users.
You must have missed the press conference where Hugo Chavez claimed the earthquake was caused by a weapon of the U.S. Navy that they're planing on using on Iran soon. I was glad to see that he's so concerned about the Haitians' plight that he took the time to draw attention to this threat.
The best part is the U.S. isn't even in charge of security, though they've offered. Everyone is stuck waiting on member states to donate more UN peacekeepers.
The U.S. Has 13,000 soldiers in the area, 4,000 or so on the ground including marines and air cavalry.
However the UN is in charge of security and has only in the last couple of days approved sending more troops which could mean another week if not more before they actually arrive. I don't really think the U.S. needs to be stomping through the bushes right now in a third country, but it would certainly be more effective.
I'm always happy when someone makes a point faster and better than I had ever hoped to. Even in the face of a systematic and willful effort to rob people of their hope, humanity, and lives people found ways to illustrate the beauty of the human spirit when it refuses to be defined by its circumstances. Desperation is a powerful force. It certainly makes extreme acts more understandable, but it doesn't make them right. There are a lot of hungry people in Haiti right now and most of them are just struggling to pick up the pieces, they're not shooting at aid workers and I bet they're not too happy with anyone who is.
Unless you subscribe to the theory of many that it creates an atmosphere encouraging to the exploitation of real children.
Of course I don't think that's anymore logical than saying videogames contribute to a society more accepting of stereotypical villains with bad voice acting.
Depends where you live and what you know. There are quite a few places that have laws regarding your responsibility to aid those in need. I believe in Wisconsin it only applies specifically to people with emergency medical training but there is some group that is under a legal obligation to help. I personally don't agree not only because I don't think an unwilling population makes the best responder but also because I think the legislation of morality is a slippery slope.
That being said, especially after the event in Oakland last year where the 15 year old was gang raped for two hours out side of a school dance and no one so much as called the police I wish a stronger sense of moral obligation existed in some people.
Wow, apparently getting older means losing respect for dedicated servers (If the incredible success of MW2 is any indicator), a useful modding community, and a superior control scheme (for everything other than Rockband anyway but those are USB so I imagine a port would be more than possible).
That being said, who goes down to Best Buy looking for the latest shiny spreadsheet app or enhanced productivity tool? People who give a shit about things like that don't find out about it while running their Sunday errands and they don't get their cutting edge tech from a store that makes their money on ten versions of Norton.
I don't eat pigs' feet or stomachs so I don't really see a problem if the end product tastes the same. They also talked a couple of months ago about growing flesh in giant vats which would also be able to produce kosher pork.
From my experience with European McDonalds (it's a bit of a pet fascination for me as I travel the world) is that in that comparison you should still be prepared to get less and pay more. It's not all that different really, except that for most thing the prices are in fact higher in Euros than they are in dollars. For someone who's used to shopping for a small drink off the $1 menu, finding here on the "2 Euro Menu" is like watching a daylight robbery. There are a few exceptions to this, Germany in particular has some really good 1 Euro items (the chicken sandwich with chili sauce in particular or the cheapest cappuccino you'll find) but they are far and away the exception.
I honestly can't understand why people eat McDonalds in Europe, at least in the U.S. it's one of the cheapest things you can buy and almost every location has a drive-thru.
When Battle for Wesnoth has 50% of the polish that any of the games in the Civ or Heroes of Might and Magic series has I'll start factoring in that your choice was free and mine cost me a couple of hours work. Unless you're emulating or using one the incredibly rare Linux ports, neither or which is free, it doesn't matter if you have 10,000 options of 50,000,000 the simple difference in quality is worth a little money to me. When the best in FOSS gaming isn't approximately 5 years behind proprietary, mass budget offerings I'll certainly consider a switch.
Belgium frequently has the same problem that kills me with the Netherlands: a moderate speed road lined with a path on each side that has to accommodate pedestrians, bicycles, as well small motorized vehicles like scooters. The first two don't seem to have any trouble living in harmony in most places, the last should be on the roads where it belongs. As I said in another post I don't know the exact legal situation of this, but from what the locals tell me that's how it's supposed to be done.
The extra problematic part of the system in the Netherlands is that motorized bikes (like these E-Bikes, moped like scooters, or even small dirt bikes) use the bike lanes, which are very frequently the pedestrian walkways as well. I don't like bicycles zipping past me at full speed, but I really don't appreciate mopeds whipping around at 30km/h because they don't feel like ridding in traffic. I don't know for a fact that this is what they're supposed to do, but from all accounts it's the accepted way of doing things.
The problem with this theory of winning the new cold war simply by buying the opponent is that it doesn't, and can't, lead to any kind of victory.
By investing in US debt China has bound themselves in an unholy blood pact to the U.S. economy. We on some level need them to continue pouring money into the economy to pay for poorly thought out foreign policy, they on the other hand need us to continue to prosper or all of their investments become worthless. If one side wins both sides win, if one sides loose both sides loose. The Chinese have already shown their realization of this in their effort to keep interest rates low to prevent inflation from devaluing their assets.
I just got back from 9 months overseas withdrawing large amounts of cash in about two dozen different countries, sometimes in multiple countries and currencies in the same day. I had to have my card replaced twice as well. They were never anything but helpful beyond not being able to ship the cards overseas forcing me to use an intermediary.
If telling them I was going on vacation got them to not cut off my card I don't know what you did to piss off the gods of banking but it looks like the problem may have been with you.
I'm going to have use an example I see. Let's say there are 100,000 loggers and 100,000 police officers, just to make this easy. 99,999 loggers are crushed by falling logs, one kills another with an axe. Two police are hit by their own cars, two are shot execution style while on duty. Let's look at the numbers:
Deathrate: (per 100,000):
Loggers: 100,000 (Obviously the highest)
Police: 4 (What an easy job!)
Rate of intentional death:
Loggers: 1
Police: 2
it does not matter if they were directed or not. The number of dead is not high on the list.
Actually, it does. In the example logging is a terribly dangerous job, but not because as was being argued, someone failed to maintian control of the situation. When loggers have a dispute with paper mills I doubt things tend to get violent on the level they do when someone gets pulled over with outstanding warrants or a car full of drugs. The point isn't a strawman, it's the point the OP made that you're trying to argue with. That some jobs are overall more dangerous due almost entirely to the extreme environment they're performed in somehow affecting the confrontational nature of law enforcement is a strawman. You can say it's not the most dangerous job, you can't say they don't have a reason to worry about a situation escalating.
As to your question about teachers and abortion doctors, I would be interested to know as well, as I stated. Those are some interesting and potentially correct ideas, but I think I'll stick with my bet for the moment.
Because they don't like people who only pay them month to month, very obviously. Moving you to a higher rate is an enticement to get a new phone, lower rates, and another year or two of commitment.
Why do people suddenly think that the price they pay is always somehow related to the cost of providing the product or service?
Or, and stop me if this is too complicated for you because I said it once already, I'm saying that I'd be interested to know where police rank in intentional deaths. I would make an informed guess that it's quite a bit higher than loggers, fishers, or pretty much any other civilian profession. Since the OP was commenting on the fact that when situations get out of control officers can very realisticly die it's entirely irrelevent if 100% of loggers are killed in accidents every year because the statistic has nothing to do with the conversation. The parent stated that only 50% of police fatalities are accidental, try to say that about any of the other jobs on that list.
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Internet poker was cut off for violating gambling laws. You're more than welcome to play poker online all you want if there's no money involved.
Acceptable complaints about free speech in America (on the internet anyway) include:
Child Pornography (unpopular)
Beastiality (unpopular)
Piracy (see above, not actually censorship)
And those are sites which are blocked absolutely, without any further clarification or influences just as someone who has been granted full powers operates.
It's not a great use of it, but I wouldn't beat him up over it.
Mandrin Chinese is the most common first language in the world, but I'll give you a guess what the most common second language in the world is, and I bet the percentage is even higher among young, computer literate, internet users.
To be fair a very large portion of that population (75%) have no internet access. 360M is still a lot of users, but it's a lot less than a billion.
You must have missed the press conference where Hugo Chavez claimed the earthquake was caused by a weapon of the U.S. Navy that they're planing on using on Iran soon. I was glad to see that he's so concerned about the Haitians' plight that he took the time to draw attention to this threat.
The best part is the U.S. isn't even in charge of security, though they've offered. Everyone is stuck waiting on member states to donate more UN peacekeepers.
The U.S. Has 13,000 soldiers in the area, 4,000 or so on the ground including marines and air cavalry.
However the UN is in charge of security and has only in the last couple of days approved sending more troops which could mean another week if not more before they actually arrive. I don't really think the U.S. needs to be stomping through the bushes right now in a third country, but it would certainly be more effective.
I'm always happy when someone makes a point faster and better than I had ever hoped to. Even in the face of a systematic and willful effort to rob people of their hope, humanity, and lives people found ways to illustrate the beauty of the human spirit when it refuses to be defined by its circumstances. Desperation is a powerful force. It certainly makes extreme acts more understandable, but it doesn't make them right. There are a lot of hungry people in Haiti right now and most of them are just struggling to pick up the pieces, they're not shooting at aid workers and I bet they're not too happy with anyone who is.
Unless you subscribe to the theory of many that it creates an atmosphere encouraging to the exploitation of real children.
Of course I don't think that's anymore logical than saying videogames contribute to a society more accepting of stereotypical villains with bad voice acting.
Depends where you live and what you know. There are quite a few places that have laws regarding your responsibility to aid those in need. I believe in Wisconsin it only applies specifically to people with emergency medical training but there is some group that is under a legal obligation to help. I personally don't agree not only because I don't think an unwilling population makes the best responder but also because I think the legislation of morality is a slippery slope.
That being said, especially after the event in Oakland last year where the 15 year old was gang raped for two hours out side of a school dance and no one so much as called the police I wish a stronger sense of moral obligation existed in some people.
Guess you're stuck debating arbitrary achievement like everyone else.
Wow, apparently getting older means losing respect for dedicated servers (If the incredible success of MW2 is any indicator), a useful modding community, and a superior control scheme (for everything other than Rockband anyway but those are USB so I imagine a port would be more than possible).
That being said, who goes down to Best Buy looking for the latest shiny spreadsheet app or enhanced productivity tool? People who give a shit about things like that don't find out about it while running their Sunday errands and they don't get their cutting edge tech from a store that makes their money on ten versions of Norton.
I don't eat pigs' feet or stomachs so I don't really see a problem if the end product tastes the same. They also talked a couple of months ago about growing flesh in giant vats which would also be able to produce kosher pork.
From my experience with European McDonalds (it's a bit of a pet fascination for me as I travel the world) is that in that comparison you should still be prepared to get less and pay more. It's not all that different really, except that for most thing the prices are in fact higher in Euros than they are in dollars. For someone who's used to shopping for a small drink off the $1 menu, finding here on the "2 Euro Menu" is like watching a daylight robbery. There are a few exceptions to this, Germany in particular has some really good 1 Euro items (the chicken sandwich with chili sauce in particular or the cheapest cappuccino you'll find) but they are far and away the exception.
I honestly can't understand why people eat McDonalds in Europe, at least in the U.S. it's one of the cheapest things you can buy and almost every location has a drive-thru.
Sadly it's a donation. What kind of person takes back a gift they gave to someone?
When Battle for Wesnoth has 50% of the polish that any of the games in the Civ or Heroes of Might and Magic series has I'll start factoring in that your choice was free and mine cost me a couple of hours work. Unless you're emulating or using one the incredibly rare Linux ports, neither or which is free, it doesn't matter if you have 10,000 options of 50,000,000 the simple difference in quality is worth a little money to me. When the best in FOSS gaming isn't approximately 5 years behind proprietary, mass budget offerings I'll certainly consider a switch.
Belgium frequently has the same problem that kills me with the Netherlands: a moderate speed road lined with a path on each side that has to accommodate pedestrians, bicycles, as well small motorized vehicles like scooters. The first two don't seem to have any trouble living in harmony in most places, the last should be on the roads where it belongs. As I said in another post I don't know the exact legal situation of this, but from what the locals tell me that's how it's supposed to be done.
The extra problematic part of the system in the Netherlands is that motorized bikes (like these E-Bikes, moped like scooters, or even small dirt bikes) use the bike lanes, which are very frequently the pedestrian walkways as well. I don't like bicycles zipping past me at full speed, but I really don't appreciate mopeds whipping around at 30km/h because they don't feel like ridding in traffic. I don't know for a fact that this is what they're supposed to do, but from all accounts it's the accepted way of doing things.
The problem with this theory of winning the new cold war simply by buying the opponent is that it doesn't, and can't, lead to any kind of victory. By investing in US debt China has bound themselves in an unholy blood pact to the U.S. economy. We on some level need them to continue pouring money into the economy to pay for poorly thought out foreign policy, they on the other hand need us to continue to prosper or all of their investments become worthless. If one side wins both sides win, if one sides loose both sides loose. The Chinese have already shown their realization of this in their effort to keep interest rates low to prevent inflation from devaluing their assets.
If you really wanted to be mean you could've pointed out that simply writing out the number would have been more space and time efficient.
I just got back from 9 months overseas withdrawing large amounts of cash in about two dozen different countries, sometimes in multiple countries and currencies in the same day. I had to have my card replaced twice as well. They were never anything but helpful beyond not being able to ship the cards overseas forcing me to use an intermediary.
If telling them I was going on vacation got them to not cut off my card I don't know what you did to piss off the gods of banking but it looks like the problem may have been with you.
Ryanair is actually exploring "standing" seats.
Deathrate: (per 100,000):
Loggers: 100,000 (Obviously the highest)
Police: 4 (What an easy job!)
Rate of intentional death:
Loggers: 1
Police: 2
it does not matter if they were directed or not. The number of dead is not high on the list.
Actually, it does. In the example logging is a terribly dangerous job, but not because as was being argued, someone failed to maintian control of the situation. When loggers have a dispute with paper mills I doubt things tend to get violent on the level they do when someone gets pulled over with outstanding warrants or a car full of drugs. The point isn't a strawman, it's the point the OP made that you're trying to argue with. That some jobs are overall more dangerous due almost entirely to the extreme environment they're performed in somehow affecting the confrontational nature of law enforcement is a strawman. You can say it's not the most dangerous job, you can't say they don't have a reason to worry about a situation escalating.
As to your question about teachers and abortion doctors, I would be interested to know as well, as I stated. Those are some interesting and potentially correct ideas, but I think I'll stick with my bet for the moment.
Because they don't like people who only pay them month to month, very obviously. Moving you to a higher rate is an enticement to get a new phone, lower rates, and another year or two of commitment.
Why do people suddenly think that the price they pay is always somehow related to the cost of providing the product or service?
Or, and stop me if this is too complicated for you because I said it once already, I'm saying that I'd be interested to know where police rank in intentional deaths. I would make an informed guess that it's quite a bit higher than loggers, fishers, or pretty much any other civilian profession. Since the OP was commenting on the fact that when situations get out of control officers can very realisticly die it's entirely irrelevent if 100% of loggers are killed in accidents every year because the statistic has nothing to do with the conversation. The parent stated that only 50% of police fatalities are accidental, try to say that about any of the other jobs on that list.