Torturing prisoners has done immense harm to Americas reputation, and made it difficult for Uncle Sam to preach human rights top others. McCain is the only Republican candidate who looks like he wants to end this shameful chapter in Americas history.
>> I'm sure someone will soon reply to this insisting that I'm a socialist and I'd like to see everyone's taxes go up as high as possible. Neither is true. IMHO we can provide every American with access to health care universally without increasing taxes.
The USA spends more taxpayers $$$ (as % of GDP) on it's crappy only-for-the-old-and-poor system than Canada or Australia, both of which have universal health care systems which provide better care (on a wide range of objective measures) than the USA.
> Bomb making and Marxist literature are not illegal (in the US). I have lots of Marx books, because I have a degree in German. I was in the Army too, so maybe I have some explosives manuals around somewhere too. Ruin my life? Hardly.
1. Engineer tells politician bridge needs fixed. 2. Politician is too busy bragging about his "low tax government" to listen. 3. Bridge falls over. 4. Politician calls an official enquiry, staffed by his cronies, which blames the engineer.
Yes, I'm aware of the difference between 'climate' and 'exceptional events'.
I'm also aware that there's been an awful lot of 'exceptional events' lately, both in oz and elsewhere - you may have noticed the loss of one of Americas major cities not too long ago.
The disruption of usual climate, and an increase in 'exceptional events' is exactly what the climate experts have been predicting due to greenhouse warming.
We're in the middle of what meteorologists described as a "once in 1,000 years drought", had our hottest December night on record (minimum 27C/81F) and a 4 days later it snowed on xmas day.
Climate change?
That's just a myth put about by people who believe what they see when they look out their window!
... that projects the back-to-front green text onto the face of the user.
Oh, and the image processing software that takes a poor quality security camera image, and 'enhances' it so you can see the villains face reflected in the sunglasses of the victim.
From TFA: Asked which, if any, indicators stood out as reliable predicators of homicide, Berk pointed to one in particular: youthful exposure to violence
Seen the news from Iraq lately?
Looks like we're creating a whole generation of homicidal maniacs over there...
> Ever open a warm beer? CO2 increases at warmer temperatures.
This one nearly made me spill my coffee !
Ever hear of the law of Conservation of Mass?
Put in simple terms, it says that the amount of Carbon in the can is fixed at the time the can is sealed. Heating it, cooling it, or giving it a really good shake makes no difference.
I've heard the following works fairly well, but haven't tried it m'self.
Put 2 email addresses on your web site, the real one, and a 'decoy' one which is hidden from normal users (eg white-on-white text right at the bottom of the screen).
Any email that arrives at the 'decoy' address is parsed, and the sender added to a blacklist.
I've known for a long time....
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Remember when Uncle Sam set up the Gulags in Guantanamo and other secret locations, where people could be tortured and imprisoned indefinietly without anything remotely resembling a fair trial? Remember when people like me warned you that this was the thin edge of the wedge, and it would be "ordinary criminals" next, then "ordinary citizens" ?
Frankly, I didn't think it would happen so quickly, but...
Yes, they could have got better times avoiding the USB adapter, but as they sad in the review, they weren't after 'ideal conditions' figures (manufacturers already provide these), they wanted to measure performance for a 'typical user'.
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Torturing prisoners has done immense harm to Americas reputation, and made it difficult for Uncle Sam to preach human rights top others.
McCain is the only Republican candidate who looks like he wants to end this shameful chapter in Americas history.
>> I'm sure someone will soon reply to this insisting that I'm a socialist and I'd like to see everyone's taxes go up as high as possible. Neither is true. IMHO we can provide every American with access to health care universally without increasing taxes.
The USA spends more taxpayers $$$ (as % of GDP) on it's crappy only-for-the-old-and-poor system than Canada or Australia, both of which have universal health care systems which provide better care (on a wide range of objective measures) than the USA.
That remind me why I stopped being an employee, and became a contractor.
The bad thing about being a contractor is I only get paid for the time I work (no sick leave, public holidays, annual leave etc)
The good thing about being a contractor is I get paid for _every_ hour I work.
Strangely enough, once I was working on a strictly per-hour basis, the boss found far fewer 'emergencies' that required me to work all weekend.
I think we have an answer to Gearge W Bush's famous question "Is our children learning?"
No, they aren'ting.
To keep the system running smoothly.
So, find some reasonable metric for the number of problems you have, and define
productivity = 1/problems
1. Engineer tells politician bridge needs fixed.
2. Politician tells engineer "Ok, fix it".
Sadly, the more common scenario is...
1. Engineer tells politician bridge needs fixed.
2. Politician is too busy bragging about his "low tax government" to listen.
3. Bridge falls over.
4. Politician calls an official enquiry, staffed by his cronies, which blames the engineer.
Hmmm... genetically engineering chickens with human DNA.
Am I just paranoid, or is this a good way of helping bird-flu jump the species barrier ?
And you sound like some of the smokers I knew back in the 1980's.
No matter how much scientific evidence piled up to show the harmfull effects of smoking, they kept on bleating...
"but you can't prove all those cancers were caused by smoking, those people might have got cancer even if they didn't smoke"
There's none so blind as those that will not see.
Yes, I'm aware of the difference between 'climate' and 'exceptional events'.
I'm also aware that there's been an awful lot of 'exceptional events' lately, both in oz and elsewhere - you may have noticed the loss of one of Americas major cities not too long ago.
The disruption of usual climate, and an increase in 'exceptional events' is exactly what the climate experts have been predicting due to greenhouse warming.
To clarify:
The record December night I mentioned was here in Melbourne, about 38 degrees South, a similar latitude to San Francisco which is about 38 N.
The snow was in the nearby 'mountains', which aren't very high, there was snow down to about the 1000 metre mark.
There was also snow in Hobart Tasmania, about 43 South, roughly equivalent to Boston.
We're in the middle of what meteorologists described as a "once in 1,000 years drought", had our hottest December night on record (minimum 27C/81F) and a 4 days later it snowed on xmas day.
Climate change?
That's just a myth put about by people who believe what they see when they look out their window!
... they've been eaten by the polar bears ;)
... that projects the back-to-front green text onto the face of the user.
Oh, and the image processing software that takes a poor quality security camera image, and 'enhances' it so you can see the villains face reflected in the sunglasses of the victim.
My life is so boring, spying on me is its own punishment.
From TFA: Asked which, if any, indicators stood out as reliable predicators of homicide, Berk pointed to one in particular: youthful exposure to violence
Seen the news from Iraq lately?
Looks like we're creating a whole generation of homicidal maniacs over there...
> Ever open a warm beer? CO2 increases at warmer temperatures.
This one nearly made me spill my coffee !
Ever hear of the law of Conservation of Mass?
Put in simple terms, it says that the amount of Carbon in the can is fixed at the time the can is sealed.
Heating it, cooling it, or giving it a really good shake makes no difference.
I've heard the following works fairly well, but haven't tried it m'self.
Put 2 email addresses on your web site, the real one, and a 'decoy' one which is hidden from normal users (eg white-on-white text right at the bottom of the screen).
Any email that arrives at the 'decoy' address is parsed, and the sender added to a blacklist.
... that the average /. poster is 'unbalanced'.
"My hovercraft is full of eels"
:(
and then poked me with the electric cattle prod again.
I'd tell him what he wants to know, if only I could understand the question.
Remember when Uncle Sam set up the Gulags in Guantanamo and other secret locations, where people could be tortured and imprisoned indefinietly without anything remotely resembling a fair trial?
Remember when people like me warned you that this was the thin edge of the wedge, and it would be "ordinary criminals" next, then "ordinary citizens" ?
Frankly, I didn't think it would happen so quickly, but...
I TOLD YOU SO !
Yes, they could have got better times avoiding the USB adapter, but as they sad in the review, they weren't after 'ideal conditions' figures (manufacturers already provide these), they wanted to measure performance for a 'typical user'.
>that's not very druid like.
;)
Yes, you're right, but these days the old-fashioned wicker-man approach is frowned upon