"let loose the dogs of war" can be reworded to "to let the dogs of war loose"
Either way, both "let" and "loose" are verbs here.
"To let loose" is the unconjugated verb. Regardless of how you order the words, the verb (and there is only on in that phrase) is "to let loose". This is an example of a compound verb, which, in most cases, is a combination of two other verbs. It's important to note that when a compound verb is used, you cannot consider the verbs to be independent, as additional meaning is given by the compound form. Yes, "to let" and "to loose" are both verbs in general. But when parsing that that phrase, they cannot be considered verbs by themselves. The verb is "to let loose".
It would be trivial for those policy makers to order GSA to drop IBM from its vendor list...
Trivial? I'm not sure that's the right word to describe it. Sure, it may be trivial to remove them from the list... but far less trivial to disengage IBM from current projects and bring in new contractors. How much would that cost?
Here's a not-so-deep thought for the day: why is it that the dumber people are, the more likely they are to own guns ?
Obviously it is the long reach of His Noodly Appendage attempting to intelligently evolve humans to a higher capacity for appreciation of all things pastiform.*
Did you really need to ask?
*Please note that the third Synod of the Church of He of the Tangled Forkful determined that the Church recognizes the doctrine of intelligently-guided evolution.
Picante has also been described as ALL of your tastebuds being forcibly activated at once in a sort of brute force sort of way as if they had been forced open by crowbars.
I like the imagery... but it leaves out one set of receptors that is triggered by picante: surface pain receptors.
That is, unless you consider pain a taste sensation, in which case my^H^H a dominatrix can give you the best meal you've ever tasted.
It's not just the FDA (thought the FDA can be involved).
The Colorado State Board of Medical Examiners is the oversight board for medical practitioners in CO. Among other things, the SBME uses FDA guidelines for common treatments in order to determine whether a specific practice falls within allowable treatments by a licensed practitioner.
So regardless of whether the FDA steps in directly, FDA regulations apply to how the State of Colorado enforces its licensing system. Typically, by default, treatments proscribed by the FDA would be considered to NOT be a commonly accepted medical treatment, and thus a medical practitioner using that treatment would be subject to sanctions by the Colorado SBME.
Finally. One daring little company, and we finally move forward. Thumbs up for the Colorado mavericks.
Hah. Shutdown pending in 3... 2... 1...
The clinic that is using this treatment is claiming that the FDA does not apply to them, because they the treatment is within their clinic and has nothing to do with business outside of Colorado.
Good luck with that claim.
For example, is the clinic aware that the State of Colorado requires medical practitioners to comply with federal regulations in order to maintain their license? Please see this document for the legal requirement (PDF; specific location of federal compliance language begins on page 60 of the legal document, which is page 63 of the pdf).
That "one daring little company" is gonna get shut down, which is a good thing. Clinical testing of their treatment method has yet to be completed, and a lot of people could get hurt if it turns out there are problems.
No, my point was that the FBI gets involved because people get killed in bank robberies.. Stealing from a small business, over the internet, doesn't involve hostage negotiators, swat teams, high speed chases, etc.
I don't think the FBI cares as much about the financial part of it, as they are the collateral damage.
Hahahah, that was very funny. The FBI wants to catch killers because it's good for press, which is good for the budget. But the financial crimes aspect is what they're really after... that's where they can get influence among the power brokers. Sure, those crimes are supposed to be under the Treasury Department... but since the days of Hoover, the FBI has been fighting a turf war with other enforcement agencies in the Federal government.
These days you can find what you're looking for in a few clicks. Somehow that makes the internet feel smaller.
I think you've hit upon the true purpose of wikipedia.
Nostalgic inefficient search.
Next time you need to find something online, try to find it using only wikipedia -- it works best if you limit yourself to a single one-word search and force yourself to then follow links manually:)
It looks like you did not even read the summary to the end, much less TFA... For shame. I'd expect that from a 7 digit ID, but a 6 digit ID?!!!! What's this world becoming?
a six-digit ID is nothing. Just as there are idiots who join slashdot today, there are idiots who joined slashdot five years ago. And many of them still post here frequently.
Q. What types generally join the whole GreenPeace/Anti Capitalism/Freiheit fuer alle! terrorism/anti-establishment groups in the west?
A. Generally rich little brats, who have had the silver spoon thrust so deep down their throats that they don't really know what it's like to live in the real world, or to make a buck, but rather feel guilty that they happened to win on the birth lottery.
You cannot equate membership of GreenPeace/Anti-capitalist groups with terrorism. That's a huge logical error.
Not sure about the UK or Europe, but here in the US if you look at actual acts or attempted acts of terror, they tend not to be committed by people of advanced education.
Timothy McVeigh -- graduated high school, all further education received was in the Army. John Walker Lindh -- GED; no advance formal education outside of a madrassa in Pakistan. Counterexample: Ted Kaczynski -- undergrad at Harvard, PhD from U Michigan.
But aside from these examples, it's more than a little disingenuous to equate peaceful protest with terrorist activity, which is the glaring issue in your post IMO.
Hangovers are at least partially caused by dehydration. The "quality" of your vodka will have no effect on that.
I'll second that.
Another cause is nervous system acclimation to the alcohol. EtOH is a central nervous system depressant -- in response to prolonged periods of EtOH intoxication, the nervous system ramps up production of some neurotransmitters. When the alcohol intoxication wears off, your nervous system is primed to over-react to stimuli. This is why loud noise and bright light is so bothersome to people with hangovers. I believe it is also why some of the effects of dehydration (especially the headache!) are so pronounced when hung over.
The worst drinking experience I ever had involved everclear and an unexpected laugh. I snarfed it, and though the liquor stopped flowing out my nose very quickly, it was a good half hour before the blood trickle stopped.
Ahah, you're obviously from the left side of the pond. Over here on the correct side, pure ethyl alcohol is 175 degrees proof.
Meh. Over here on the left side of the pond we get ethyl alcohol at 190 proof (95%) marketed under the brand Everclear. (Not available in all states).
Also, FWIW, "pure ethyl alcohol" is 200 proof by definition. The liquors we are referring to are not pure ethyl alcohol -- they are, however, pure ethyl alcohol and water. No flavorants or colorants.
Part of a free market means that those industries that best suit the needs of their customers will succeed. Trains, while they might satisfy some personal desire of yours, are not a popular choice of personal transportation in this country. Since no one uses them or cares about them, they fall apart. It's really not that difficult a concept to understand, one wonders why you marvel at it.
Let's subsidize them at the same rate we subsidize car travel and see how they fare. Let the government pay for all the bridges, track, and maintenance of the track just like it works for cars. While we're at it, let's make sure we make people pay the environmental costs of operating their cars, in cash. Mass transit and auto transport are not on equal footing -- we subsidize road transport with billions (trillions?) in spending.
As for our health care system, as long as foreign politicians come here for their operations we can safely that, yes, we do have the best health care system in the world.
Ah yes, let's consider the well-being of our health-care system by only looking at the care the wealthy and connected get. Because obviously if people can't afford healthcare, they don't deserve it.
Either you're uninformed or willfully ignorant wrt mass transit, and either you're clueless or an asshole (imo) wrt healthcare.
Most Americans live in metropolitan areas and are dozens of miles away from the nearest small family farm. To someone living in a metro area like D.C., going out to a family farm is easily a two- or three-hour round trip. The opportunity costs there jack the $4.75 price up substantially more. You aren't just paying $4.75 per pound at that rate -- you're giving up a substantial chunk of your weekend, too.
Do what I did. Buy a deep-freeze chest freezer and restock it once or twice a year. That really lowers the opportunity cost, though it does cost me about $30/yr. I buy a side of beef (@ $8/lb) once a year.
You can also get it shipped to you (though that drives up the cost a bit). Bear River Valley does good grass-fed beef, I think they do 20 lbs of ground beef for $100.
I prefer the trip to the farm to having it shipped -- it's always a fun & educational trip for the kids (we usually make it an outing with one or two other families). But I know people who do shipped beef, and are very happy with it.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that just because something works for you, that it will scale up to work for a nation of millions.
Don't think that just because you haven't thought about the easy ways to get around your objections, that no one else has -- and that millions couldn't.
Get a gun. Then, make an appointment with the landlord. Explain your fears and phobias (about microwave radiation) to the landlord. Wave the gun back and forth while you are talking. Ask the landlord to relocate the cell-phone towers.
This strategy is quite effective in dealing with obstinate landlords. I should know since I'm serving time for 1 count of voluntary manslaughter.
Wait... if you're serving time for voluntary manslaughter, that means your strategy is NOT effective, since obviously the landlord did not do what you wanted him to do (otherwise, why shoot him?).
But then again, you have a gun and you're willing to use it... I'm sure your strategy is the best strategy ever. No really.
If humanity ceases to exist, due to self destruction or our own lethargy towards taking the steps needed to ensure our survival, then everything every human has ever done, was for nothing.
Get rid of career Politicians is the only solution. This means "term limits". However, I propose a lifetime term limit to serving in the public sector elected offices.
The problem then is that the people who wield the real power will be in unelected positions. It will be the lifelong civil servants that control the government, and they will do but lip service to the elected officials. I'm chillingly reminded of J Edgar Hoover. This is aside from the influence of lobbyists and power brokers who do not even hold public office (elected or not).
Personally, I don't think the problem can be corrected. Our culture, especially our media culture, prevents it from happening. We're just to large to govern effectively with any kind of meaningful representation. 3,000,000 people per Senator (+/- greatly depending on state). 500k-600k per Member of the House? And if the governing bodies were made larger to make representation more meaningful, they'd be even less effective.
The only way it'll get fixed is if we tear it all down (the whole shebang -- government, culture, infrastructure) and build it up again. And there's no way in hell anyone with half a brain would want to see that happen.
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"To let loose" is the unconjugated verb. Regardless of how you order the words, the verb (and there is only on in that phrase) is "to let loose". This is an example of a compound verb, which, in most cases, is a combination of two other verbs. It's important to note that when a compound verb is used, you cannot consider the verbs to be independent, as additional meaning is given by the compound form. Yes, "to let" and "to loose" are both verbs in general. But when parsing that that phrase, they cannot be considered verbs by themselves. The verb is "to let loose".
Trivial? I'm not sure that's the right word to describe it. Sure, it may be trivial to remove them from the list... but far less trivial to disengage IBM from current projects and bring in new contractors. How much would that cost?
That phrase you're looking for is "let loose the dogs of war".
The verb in that quote is "to let loose", not "to loose".
Obviously it is the long reach of His Noodly Appendage attempting to intelligently evolve humans to a higher capacity for appreciation of all things pastiform.*
Did you really need to ask?
*Please note that the third Synod of the Church of He of the Tangled Forkful determined that the Church recognizes the doctrine of intelligently-guided evolution.
Unfortunately, I cannot count my wife among those.
Ba-zing!
FYI, sopssa uses alts to moderate his own posts.
Everyone knows that people tend to up-mod posts that have already been up-modded; he uses this to his advantage.
I like the imagery... but it leaves out one set of receptors that is triggered by picante: surface pain receptors.
That is, unless you consider pain a taste sensation, in which case my^H^H a dominatrix can give you the best meal you've ever tasted.
Hah. Go ahead and read any of Hoover's biographies, if it makes no sense to you. Times aren't that different now. There are still turf wars going on.
The creation of the DHS was supposed to smooth those out, but has been very ineffective in doing so.
It's not just the FDA (thought the FDA can be involved).
The Colorado State Board of Medical Examiners is the oversight board for medical practitioners in CO. Among other things, the SBME uses FDA guidelines for common treatments in order to determine whether a specific practice falls within allowable treatments by a licensed practitioner.
So regardless of whether the FDA steps in directly, FDA regulations apply to how the State of Colorado enforces its licensing system. Typically, by default, treatments proscribed by the FDA would be considered to NOT be a commonly accepted medical treatment, and thus a medical practitioner using that treatment would be subject to sanctions by the Colorado SBME.
Helps if I screw up the link when I try to insert it (boo me, I forgot to preview).
Document referenced in above post is here.
Hah. Shutdown pending in 3... 2... 1...
The clinic that is using this treatment is claiming that the FDA does not apply to them, because they the treatment is within their clinic and has nothing to do with business outside of Colorado.
Good luck with that claim.
For example, is the clinic aware that the State of Colorado requires medical practitioners to comply with federal regulations in order to maintain their license? Please see this document for the legal requirement (PDF; specific location of federal compliance language begins on page 60 of the legal document, which is page 63 of the pdf).
That "one daring little company" is gonna get shut down, which is a good thing. Clinical testing of their treatment method has yet to be completed, and a lot of people could get hurt if it turns out there are problems.
Hahahah, that was very funny. The FBI wants to catch killers because it's good for press, which is good for the budget. But the financial crimes aspect is what they're really after... that's where they can get influence among the power brokers. Sure, those crimes are supposed to be under the Treasury Department... but since the days of Hoover, the FBI has been fighting a turf war with other enforcement agencies in the Federal government.
I think you've hit upon the true purpose of wikipedia.
:)
Nostalgic inefficient search.
Next time you need to find something online, try to find it using only wikipedia -- it works best if you limit yourself to a single one-word search and force yourself to then follow links manually
a six-digit ID is nothing. Just as there are idiots who join slashdot today, there are idiots who joined slashdot five years ago. And many of them still post here frequently.
I like a little alliteration in my catchphrases. How about:
Void thine vellum!
Oust thine onion skin!
And that's about all I can come up with.
Except maybe "Shit the sheet", but that doesn't sound as nice.
You cannot equate membership of GreenPeace/Anti-capitalist groups with terrorism. That's a huge logical error.
Not sure about the UK or Europe, but here in the US if you look at actual acts or attempted acts of terror, they tend not to be committed by people of advanced education.
Timothy McVeigh -- graduated high school, all further education received was in the Army.
John Walker Lindh -- GED; no advance formal education outside of a madrassa in Pakistan.
Counterexample: Ted Kaczynski -- undergrad at Harvard, PhD from U Michigan.
But aside from these examples, it's more than a little disingenuous to equate peaceful protest with terrorist activity, which is the glaring issue in your post IMO.
I'll second that.
Another cause is nervous system acclimation to the alcohol. EtOH is a central nervous system depressant -- in response to prolonged periods of EtOH intoxication, the nervous system ramps up production of some neurotransmitters. When the alcohol intoxication wears off, your nervous system is primed to over-react to stimuli. This is why loud noise and bright light is so bothersome to people with hangovers. I believe it is also why some of the effects of dehydration (especially the headache!) are so pronounced when hung over.
The worst drinking experience I ever had involved everclear and an unexpected laugh. I snarfed it, and though the liquor stopped flowing out my nose very quickly, it was a good half hour before the blood trickle stopped.
Eh, nevermind. Didn't realize that the UK boozers used a different formula for calculating proof.
I'll go shut up now.
Meh. Over here on the left side of the pond we get ethyl alcohol at 190 proof (95%) marketed under the brand Everclear. (Not available in all states).
Also, FWIW, "pure ethyl alcohol" is 200 proof by definition. The liquors we are referring to are not pure ethyl alcohol -- they are, however, pure ethyl alcohol and water. No flavorants or colorants.
Let's subsidize them at the same rate we subsidize car travel and see how they fare. Let the government pay for all the bridges, track, and maintenance of the track just like it works for cars. While we're at it, let's make sure we make people pay the environmental costs of operating their cars, in cash. Mass transit and auto transport are not on equal footing -- we subsidize road transport with billions (trillions?) in spending.
Ah yes, let's consider the well-being of our health-care system by only looking at the care the wealthy and connected get. Because obviously if people can't afford healthcare, they don't deserve it.
Either you're uninformed or willfully ignorant wrt mass transit, and either you're clueless or an asshole (imo) wrt healthcare.
Take your blinders off.
Do what I did. Buy a deep-freeze chest freezer and restock it once or twice a year. That really lowers the opportunity cost, though it does cost me about $30/yr. I buy a side of beef (@ $8/lb) once a year.
You can also get it shipped to you (though that drives up the cost a bit). Bear River Valley does good grass-fed beef, I think they do 20 lbs of ground beef for $100.
I prefer the trip to the farm to having it shipped -- it's always a fun & educational trip for the kids (we usually make it an outing with one or two other families). But I know people who do shipped beef, and are very happy with it.
Don't think that just because you haven't thought about the easy ways to get around your objections, that no one else has -- and that millions couldn't.
Wait... if you're serving time for voluntary manslaughter, that means your strategy is NOT effective, since obviously the landlord did not do what you wanted him to do (otherwise, why shoot him?).
But then again, you have a gun and you're willing to use it... I'm sure your strategy is the best strategy ever. No really.
...
Please don't hurt me.
Ex nihilo in nihilo.
The problem then is that the people who wield the real power will be in unelected positions. It will be the lifelong civil servants that control the government, and they will do but lip service to the elected officials. I'm chillingly reminded of J Edgar Hoover. This is aside from the influence of lobbyists and power brokers who do not even hold public office (elected or not).
Personally, I don't think the problem can be corrected. Our culture, especially our media culture, prevents it from happening. We're just to large to govern effectively with any kind of meaningful representation. 3,000,000 people per Senator (+/- greatly depending on state). 500k-600k per Member of the House? And if the governing bodies were made larger to make representation more meaningful, they'd be even less effective.
The only way it'll get fixed is if we tear it all down (the whole shebang -- government, culture, infrastructure) and build it up again. And there's no way in hell anyone with half a brain would want to see that happen.