Misdemeanors are criminal offenses. They just aren't felonies. But guess what, the Constitution entitles you to a trail by a jury of your peers for any case involving damages over $20! Seventh Amendment, bitches. Of course, that doesn't help French people, but it would provide some buffer in the U.S.
Tentacle porn and mail order brides? I don't know. Remember, their expansionism at the head of WWII was due to the quest for rubber and petrol. They wouldn't be trading now if we hadn't kicked their asses.
However, the economic well being of Japan isn't honestly my concern. I was referring to the U.S. and how our steady decline in manufacturing power has lead to a shit ton of other problems.
MacArthur said if we didn't bomb China during the Korean War, we'd just end up fighting in Indochina next. Guess what? Indochina was the French Colonial name for Vietnam. Guess he was right. But seriously though, while nuking China isn't really feasible or productive, outsourcing production and relying too heavily on foreign sources of raw materials are generally bad ideas. Plus, its not like nearly every war in history has been fought over natural resources (to include territory) or anything...
In the immortal words of Gin Rummy, I'll be dead on his ass like "Spencer for fuckin' Hire". I'll hunt him down and feed him his testicles, *and* I'll do it in a jiffy. And I don't care if his momma there, his grandmomma, innocent bystanders, little kids, baby sitters, bill collectors, whatever. I'll leave his whole block filled with hot brass if I have to, and you know why? 'Cause *I JUST DON'T GIVE A FUCK!* You guys sure you don't want any breakfast? I have English muffins and peach jelly.
So, I pay for a chip for my dog to let me know where it is if it gets lost or stolen. My dog gets lost or stolen, and the company knows where it is, but won't tell me, and they're "doing the right thing?" That's some ol' bullshit, dude.
Vulgarity comes from the Latin, meaning basically unrefined or plebeian. Vulgar Latin is what morphed into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Romanian. Often times the word seems to get confused with profane, which basically just means not sacred, and they both get confused with obscene.
So, yes, traditional Anglo-Saxon words for certain things are considered vulgar, because of the Norman conquest. Its why we have the Saxon words for living animals, as they took care of the livestock, and the Norman words for the food version of same (sheep v. mutton, duck v. canard, etc).
as to my uid, yes it's mine, yes i'm the original holder of it, but no I'm only 26. Been here a right while though.
There were more incidents than that involving the IRA. Then, its not as if the UK doesn't have a mounting issue with a growing Islamic population who seems to be actively hostile towards Western civilization. It wasn't Paddy that blew up those busses and whatnot in July of '05. Just saying.
Of course the only purpose of a gun is to kill. That's what they're for. However, I think a lot of people use 'purpose' to really mean 'intent' or 'motivation'. If someone is breaking into my home, or mugging me on the street, my intent in using a weapon is different from their intent. I'm trying to ensure that I live, while the criminal is trying to coerce me into giving up property or something else (in the case of rape) under the threat of killing me and taking what he wants anyway (hopefully not in the case of rape), leaving me much worse off.
I have a pistol (1911 model) and a concealed carry permit. I don't often carry unless I find myself required to go some place where I don't want to be since its dangerous, but for some reason must go, or when I drive to my sister's, since she lives on the other side of a hell of a lot of bears, and better safe than sorry. I've never had to use it except for target shooting, and it'd be nice if I never had to. But frankly, I don't think I'd have any problem using if I had to, and anyone who isn't 100% sure that when the time comes they'd pull the trigger shouldn't own a weapon, because that second or so of hesitation is all that it takes for the other guy to get the drop on you, and have a stronger legal justification for doing so.
There is a difference between being prepared and being cavalier, and a difference between being safe and being stupid. You'd think that at a minimum the type of people who go out hunting would at least, at a minimum, stop and respect the property rights of whoever owns the "weird black box on the pole", even if they changed nothing else about their behavior.
I think its a wish to live vicariously though civil disruption here, possibly with a side effect of "waking up" their own leaders, much the same way that Somalia has not.
The ability to dynamically create clones of your primary VPS set, deploy them and load balance against them is kind of cool though. Not sure I really get the 'cloud' metaphor for it, though.
My understanding of the situation, from years ago having watched that Robert X Cringley documentary as well as Pirates of Silicon Valley (admittedly, not a documentary) is that Jobs and some developers visited Xerox and were totally blown away by the GUI and decided to go and create one of their own.
Microsoft was contracted to write some of the applications that would be available at launch for the Mac, like Word and some other stuff. To accomplish this, they were given a great deal of access by Apple, in addition to hardware and software to test against.
Microsoft then showed up shortly there after with the first version of Windows, and was pushing Windows as a stop-gap between DOS and the planned release of OS/2, which it was collaborating on with IBM.
Apple claimed Microsoft stole everything from them. The point of the Gates quote seems to be that even if Microsoft got a leg up on developing Windows because of their work on Mac software, they were both basically just building on what Xerox had done before Apple.
I don't think that's out of context at all. Sure, I probably don't know all the details, but I wasn't alive when a lot of that was going down (I'm only 26), so I don't have first hand knowledge of it. It doesn't change the fact that Apple and Microsoft were basically just clunking around doing business as usual until they touched the obelisk.
When Jobs petulantly pouted that Windows stole the Mac's look and feel, Gates countered with "Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox's house before I did and stole the TV doesn't mean that I can't go in later and take the stereo."
That pretty much sums it up right there. I know its probably meaningless for most people in the world, but when those who claim to be "in the know" start taking sides between Apple and MS on "innovation," they really need to just check that right there.
Transubstantiation is the (largely Catholic; most Protestants don't believe this) that the communion wafer and wine literally turn into the body and blood of Christ upon consumption. This is why Catholics aren't really allowed to eat before mass if they intend to take communion. However, the heart of the matter is that the belief is one of literal transformation (although clearly unsubstantiated (no pun intended)). Eating human flesh, when one is oneself a human, is pretty much the definition of cannibalism. Drinking human blood falls in line with that, too, and wanders off in the direction of vampirism.
Rising from the dead is also a fairly zombie-like behavior. The reason that Christians traditionally can't be cremated and must be burred intact, a practice originally derived from Judaism for similar spiritual reasons, is the belief that after the second coming when God establishes a literal kingdom on earth, the souls collected in heaven will be put back in their bodies, and thus they, too, will literally rise from the dead.
Sure, the majority of people seem to have moved on from more medieval beliefs, but they are in fact "real" beliefs with theological underpinnings and thus mocking them is totally OK, since we're not making fun of Islam which is bad and naughty.
See, its not ignoring Beck that's hard. Personally, I find it easy to do. However, the part that cannot be ignored is that there is a large segment of the population who does not ignore him, who takes him very seriously, and for some reason is allowed to vote.
Ignoring a leader becomes more dangerous as the number of followers grows. It's never the leader you need to worry about, its the people who actually carry out his orders.
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trial, not trail... grr.
Misdemeanors are criminal offenses. They just aren't felonies. But guess what, the Constitution entitles you to a trail by a jury of your peers for any case involving damages over $20! Seventh Amendment, bitches. Of course, that doesn't help French people, but it would provide some buffer in the U.S.
Well, nothing sucks like a VAX...
Tentacle porn and mail order brides? I don't know. Remember, their expansionism at the head of WWII was due to the quest for rubber and petrol. They wouldn't be trading now if we hadn't kicked their asses.
However, the economic well being of Japan isn't honestly my concern. I was referring to the U.S. and how our steady decline in manufacturing power has lead to a shit ton of other problems.
what the hell are you talking about? Did you even read what I wrote?
Which would screw over Mexico, since Tequila, one of the main ingredients in a Sunrise, is basically their only legal export.
MacArthur said if we didn't bomb China during the Korean War, we'd just end up fighting in Indochina next. Guess what? Indochina was the French Colonial name for Vietnam. Guess he was right. But seriously though, while nuking China isn't really feasible or productive, outsourcing production and relying too heavily on foreign sources of raw materials are generally bad ideas. Plus, its not like nearly every war in history has been fought over natural resources (to include territory) or anything...
In the immortal words of Gin Rummy, I'll be dead on his ass like "Spencer for fuckin' Hire". I'll hunt him down and feed him his testicles, *and* I'll do it in a jiffy. And I don't care if his momma there, his grandmomma, innocent bystanders, little kids, baby sitters, bill collectors, whatever. I'll leave his whole block filled with hot brass if I have to, and you know why? 'Cause *I JUST DON'T GIVE A FUCK!* You guys sure you don't want any breakfast? I have English muffins and peach jelly.
So, I pay for a chip for my dog to let me know where it is if it gets lost or stolen. My dog gets lost or stolen, and the company knows where it is, but won't tell me, and they're "doing the right thing?" That's some ol' bullshit, dude.
The 1980s called. They want their curiosity back, you terrorist sympathizer!
Vulgarity comes from the Latin, meaning basically unrefined or plebeian. Vulgar Latin is what morphed into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Romanian. Often times the word seems to get confused with profane, which basically just means not sacred, and they both get confused with obscene.
So, yes, traditional Anglo-Saxon words for certain things are considered vulgar, because of the Norman conquest. Its why we have the Saxon words for living animals, as they took care of the livestock, and the Norman words for the food version of same (sheep v. mutton, duck v. canard, etc).
as to my uid, yes it's mine, yes i'm the original holder of it, but no I'm only 26. Been here a right while though.
So fucking what? /sarcasm
Is it hard to type with 6 fingers on your right hand?
What the hell does Bruce Willis have to do with Oracle?
There were more incidents than that involving the IRA. Then, its not as if the UK doesn't have a mounting issue with a growing Islamic population who seems to be actively hostile towards Western civilization. It wasn't Paddy that blew up those busses and whatnot in July of '05. Just saying.
to be fair, you were in a city with a history of problems that might justify that level of preparedness by the authorities: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Manchester_bombing
Of course the only purpose of a gun is to kill. That's what they're for. However, I think a lot of people use 'purpose' to really mean 'intent' or 'motivation'. If someone is breaking into my home, or mugging me on the street, my intent in using a weapon is different from their intent. I'm trying to ensure that I live, while the criminal is trying to coerce me into giving up property or something else (in the case of rape) under the threat of killing me and taking what he wants anyway (hopefully not in the case of rape), leaving me much worse off.
I have a pistol (1911 model) and a concealed carry permit. I don't often carry unless I find myself required to go some place where I don't want to be since its dangerous, but for some reason must go, or when I drive to my sister's, since she lives on the other side of a hell of a lot of bears, and better safe than sorry. I've never had to use it except for target shooting, and it'd be nice if I never had to. But frankly, I don't think I'd have any problem using if I had to, and anyone who isn't 100% sure that when the time comes they'd pull the trigger shouldn't own a weapon, because that second or so of hesitation is all that it takes for the other guy to get the drop on you, and have a stronger legal justification for doing so.
There is a difference between being prepared and being cavalier, and a difference between being safe and being stupid. You'd think that at a minimum the type of people who go out hunting would at least, at a minimum, stop and respect the property rights of whoever owns the "weird black box on the pole", even if they changed nothing else about their behavior.
I think its a wish to live vicariously though civil disruption here, possibly with a side effect of "waking up" their own leaders, much the same way that Somalia has not.
Isn't that the plot to Old Yeller?
The ability to dynamically create clones of your primary VPS set, deploy them and load balance against them is kind of cool though. Not sure I really get the 'cloud' metaphor for it, though.
My understanding of the situation, from years ago having watched that Robert X Cringley documentary as well as Pirates of Silicon Valley (admittedly, not a documentary) is that Jobs and some developers visited Xerox and were totally blown away by the GUI and decided to go and create one of their own.
Microsoft was contracted to write some of the applications that would be available at launch for the Mac, like Word and some other stuff. To accomplish this, they were given a great deal of access by Apple, in addition to hardware and software to test against.
Microsoft then showed up shortly there after with the first version of Windows, and was pushing Windows as a stop-gap between DOS and the planned release of OS/2, which it was collaborating on with IBM.
Apple claimed Microsoft stole everything from them. The point of the Gates quote seems to be that even if Microsoft got a leg up on developing Windows because of their work on Mac software, they were both basically just building on what Xerox had done before Apple.
I don't think that's out of context at all. Sure, I probably don't know all the details, but I wasn't alive when a lot of that was going down (I'm only 26), so I don't have first hand knowledge of it. It doesn't change the fact that Apple and Microsoft were basically just clunking around doing business as usual until they touched the obelisk.
damned subordinate clauses... #commafail
From the article you linked:
When Jobs petulantly pouted that Windows stole the Mac's look and feel, Gates countered with "Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox's house before I did and stole the TV doesn't mean that I can't go in later and take the stereo."
That pretty much sums it up right there. I know its probably meaningless for most people in the world, but when those who claim to be "in the know" start taking sides between Apple and MS on "innovation," they really need to just check that right there.
Transubstantiation is the (largely Catholic; most Protestants don't believe this) that the communion wafer and wine literally turn into the body and blood of Christ upon consumption. This is why Catholics aren't really allowed to eat before mass if they intend to take communion. However, the heart of the matter is that the belief is one of literal transformation (although clearly unsubstantiated (no pun intended)). Eating human flesh, when one is oneself a human, is pretty much the definition of cannibalism. Drinking human blood falls in line with that, too, and wanders off in the direction of vampirism.
Rising from the dead is also a fairly zombie-like behavior. The reason that Christians traditionally can't be cremated and must be burred intact, a practice originally derived from Judaism for similar spiritual reasons, is the belief that after the second coming when God establishes a literal kingdom on earth, the souls collected in heaven will be put back in their bodies, and thus they, too, will literally rise from the dead.
Sure, the majority of people seem to have moved on from more medieval beliefs, but they are in fact "real" beliefs with theological underpinnings and thus mocking them is totally OK, since we're not making fun of Islam which is bad and naughty.
See, its not ignoring Beck that's hard. Personally, I find it easy to do. However, the part that cannot be ignored is that there is a large segment of the population who does not ignore him, who takes him very seriously, and for some reason is allowed to vote.
Ignoring a leader becomes more dangerous as the number of followers grows. It's never the leader you need to worry about, its the people who actually carry out his orders.