Of course guns are dangerous, but this is like saying that the only safe kitchen knife is a kitchen knife that doesn't exist. Anything that is or was derived from a weapon is dangerous when used without proper respect for it's destructive power. This includes guns, kitchen knives (plenty of nasty injuries in the kitchen when people are careless), and most tools.
I like to cook, and I have a very nice set of very sharp knives in my kitchen. If you are careless with them, you have a very good chance of getting seriously injured or injuring someone else. But if you use them properly, you will be quite safe.
When the public is scared, it's easy to justify spending on security, etc. Where does a lot of that money end up going? To consultants. And guess who wrote the TFA?
This is the single most insightful comment on this post. I really need to get in on consulting work.
I think it's safe to assume that when a public institution becomes aggressively private, they are likely up to no good. With continually changing stories being the status quo, it's no wonder when people don't trust a damn word that comes from the Bush administration or the military.
After some further searching, I see that there was an official complete list releases (I will assume that the list was in fact complete). However, that still does not answer the question of why they were detained. We are detaining "illegal enemy combatants" and ignoring the Geneva Convention under the guise that they are "illegal". This gives rise to the assumption that there is such a thing as a "legal" enemy combatant (I would love to know what that means). I don't blame the military, they're just doing what they're told, but this administration has eroded the moral high ground that the US was once able to lay claim to. Imprisoning enemy combatants and treating them as less than our own soldiers is reprehensible. If we are on a so called "War on Terror", then these men (and women?) are POWs and should be treated with dignity as such.
Has even one political dissident been sent to GITMO?
How should we know? The DoD has never released an official complete list of names of those who are and who have been detained in GITMO, let alone a list of what they were detained for.
I never saw too many people on here arguing for greater Presidential powers. But that aside, I trust Obama with those powers a hell of a lot more than I trust Bush with them.
So, should Facebook allow explicit images of the "natural human act" of copulation?
Yes. I have been waiting for the day that people stop being offended by the very thing they do in their own bedroom (or living room, or kitchen, or bathroom, or all of the above).
It's not even about new vs old. It's about the specific item that "they" want you to buy. It's much more profitable to invest in and sell one big blockbuster than it is to invest in and sell several moderately popular items. In short, they want us back playing their game.
I for one have often browsed the shelves of airport bookstores and have walked out disgusted every time because I can't find anything worth reading. I've even passed up classics because they only stock the most poorly done translations. I don't shop at record stores anymore because almost no one carries good metal. I don't shop at hobby shops much anymore because in the few I can find, none carry any supplies for resin models (let alone carrying the models themselves).
5 pounds is not what people typically think of as weight loss. Also, most cleansing formulas are just a heavy dose of soluble and insoluble fiber. The mix of the two seems to be the major differing factor between them. Often (but not always) they come with a pro-biotic as well, which helps to replenish the bacteria lost in your colon from the high fiber dose with a bacteria that is known to be friendly to your system. These probiotics are not so advanced yet as to support any significant weight loss.
What bothers me is the exaggerated claims of herbal medicine industry in general. There are a lot of great things that come out of herbal medicine, but the claims made about them are so blown out of the water that they lose all credibility. For example, many "colon cleansing" products are a good thing considering the typical American diet. They restore regularity in bowel movements and consequently reduce gas emissions. But to suggest that you'll lose weight, and that toxins in your blood are excreted through your colon is a load of bull.
The problem is that the FBI's resources have largely been funneled to the War on Terror. As a result, a lot of crime is being left investigated. White collar crime among others is on the rise.
I'm actually going to side with Sony BMG on this one. It should not be their responsibility to control children access to their content. If they did, the only thing that would happen is that children will lie about their age (I did this all the time for certain unmentioned content back when I was 14 and just getting on the Internet). Parents need to first teach their kids to not be stupid, and they need to realize that a 12 year old being sexually solicited online is not going to damage them. Parents should also put the computer in their living room to limit their children from accessing material that they don't want them to access.
While I don't disagree that casting ballots anonymously is essential to a free election, when the framers of the US Constitution were around, voting was not anonymous. It was a very public spectacle where everyone cast their vote in the open. This of course enabled intimidation which became a real problem. Thus the adoption of the secret ballot where you dropped your ballot into a box. This too was plagued by problems because the ballots were printed by the individual political parties and looked blatantly different, so it was not very anonymous, though a definite improvement. Finally came the standardized ballot printed by the government.
I actually learned my first moderately complex programming in assembly, and I found it to be very straight forward. It's easy to step through code and see exactly what went wrong when things don't work (until you run into memory paging problems).
I think what you are looking for does not exist. You obviously already know a fair amount about analog circuit design if you have been in the field for 5 years dealing with them. It sounds to me more like you need something about system design. If you do not already have intimate knowledge with op amps, discrete transistor circuits, and problems associated with extremely low currents, then you will need to learn about each of these individually. The ability to develop a large and complex system is the mark of a very experienced, and knowledgeable engineer. Chances are that you will need to rely on the expertise of others to design the various sub-systems.
Could you obfuscate that with some more negatives please
My apologies. Please allow me to clarify.
It's not even a non-tractioned slope. It's not an outright truth. Just because something is not non-legal does not mean that we don't want to not keep it in full view.
People need to remember that if you are being searched, then you are suspected of some wrongdoing. If the criteria for suspicion are some baseless set of rules on your body language, then not only is it demeaning and humiliating, it's unethical under many well accepted ethical philosophies.
So searching people who instead get into a two-ton metal apparatus that can rocket down a street at high speed and potentially maim and kill lots of people would violate the 4th Amendment where searching people getting on a plane would not? I think very few people have an issue with x-ray scanners and metal detectors. It's the whole pulling you aside for a full pat down, luggage search, and analysis of your personal electronics for reason of "he had a suspicious look in his eye" that people find unreasonable.
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Of course guns are dangerous, but this is like saying that the only safe kitchen knife is a kitchen knife that doesn't exist. Anything that is or was derived from a weapon is dangerous when used without proper respect for it's destructive power. This includes guns, kitchen knives (plenty of nasty injuries in the kitchen when people are careless), and most tools.
I like to cook, and I have a very nice set of very sharp knives in my kitchen. If you are careless with them, you have a very good chance of getting seriously injured or injuring someone else. But if you use them properly, you will be quite safe.
All you need to do is knock him down. Then he's all yours.
When the public is scared, it's easy to justify spending on security, etc. Where does a lot of that money end up going? To consultants. And guess who wrote the TFA?
This is the single most insightful comment on this post. I really need to get in on consulting work.
So they're the ones to blame for Global Warming. Terrorists hate polar bears too.
Standard shredded wheat used to come in huge pieces and you were supposed to break them up. Thus the mini-wheat is a bite size version of this.
I blame sugar coated sugar cereal in part for the chronic constipation of America. People need to learn to eat their shredded wheat damnit.
it really is likely that there are no, and likely have never been any US citizens there
Yasir Esam Hamdi, born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
I think it's safe to assume that when a public institution becomes aggressively private, they are likely up to no good. With continually changing stories being the status quo, it's no wonder when people don't trust a damn word that comes from the Bush administration or the military.
After some further searching, I see that there was an official complete list releases (I will assume that the list was in fact complete). However, that still does not answer the question of why they were detained. We are detaining "illegal enemy combatants" and ignoring the Geneva Convention under the guise that they are "illegal". This gives rise to the assumption that there is such a thing as a "legal" enemy combatant (I would love to know what that means). I don't blame the military, they're just doing what they're told, but this administration has eroded the moral high ground that the US was once able to lay claim to. Imprisoning enemy combatants and treating them as less than our own soldiers is reprehensible. If we are on a so called "War on Terror", then these men (and women?) are POWs and should be treated with dignity as such.
Has even one political dissident been sent to GITMO?
How should we know? The DoD has never released an official complete list of names of those who are and who have been detained in GITMO, let alone a list of what they were detained for.
I never saw too many people on here arguing for greater Presidential powers. But that aside, I trust Obama with those powers a hell of a lot more than I trust Bush with them.
So, should Facebook allow explicit images of the "natural human act" of copulation?
Yes. I have been waiting for the day that people stop being offended by the very thing they do in their own bedroom (or living room, or kitchen, or bathroom, or all of the above).
Nudity is nudity. They should either not care or ban it all. Making exceptions based on the cultural perceptions of a few is bullshit.
It's not even about new vs old. It's about the specific item that "they" want you to buy. It's much more profitable to invest in and sell one big blockbuster than it is to invest in and sell several moderately popular items. In short, they want us back playing their game.
I for one have often browsed the shelves of airport bookstores and have walked out disgusted every time because I can't find anything worth reading. I've even passed up classics because they only stock the most poorly done translations. I don't shop at record stores anymore because almost no one carries good metal. I don't shop at hobby shops much anymore because in the few I can find, none carry any supplies for resin models (let alone carrying the models themselves).
I usually point out that crude oil is also completely natural and yet is somehow not used as medication
Crude oil was used as medicine once upon a time
5 pounds is not what people typically think of as weight loss. Also, most cleansing formulas are just a heavy dose of soluble and insoluble fiber. The mix of the two seems to be the major differing factor between them. Often (but not always) they come with a pro-biotic as well, which helps to replenish the bacteria lost in your colon from the high fiber dose with a bacteria that is known to be friendly to your system. These probiotics are not so advanced yet as to support any significant weight loss.
What bothers me is the exaggerated claims of herbal medicine industry in general. There are a lot of great things that come out of herbal medicine, but the claims made about them are so blown out of the water that they lose all credibility. For example, many "colon cleansing" products are a good thing considering the typical American diet. They restore regularity in bowel movements and consequently reduce gas emissions. But to suggest that you'll lose weight, and that toxins in your blood are excreted through your colon is a load of bull.
The problem is that the FBI's resources have largely been funneled to the War on Terror. As a result, a lot of crime is being left investigated. White collar crime among others is on the rise.
I'm actually going to side with Sony BMG on this one. It should not be their responsibility to control children access to their content. If they did, the only thing that would happen is that children will lie about their age (I did this all the time for certain unmentioned content back when I was 14 and just getting on the Internet). Parents need to first teach their kids to not be stupid, and they need to realize that a 12 year old being sexually solicited online is not going to damage them. Parents should also put the computer in their living room to limit their children from accessing material that they don't want them to access.
While I don't disagree that casting ballots anonymously is essential to a free election, when the framers of the US Constitution were around, voting was not anonymous. It was a very public spectacle where everyone cast their vote in the open. This of course enabled intimidation which became a real problem. Thus the adoption of the secret ballot where you dropped your ballot into a box. This too was plagued by problems because the ballots were printed by the individual political parties and looked blatantly different, so it was not very anonymous, though a definite improvement. Finally came the standardized ballot printed by the government.
I actually learned my first moderately complex programming in assembly, and I found it to be very straight forward. It's easy to step through code and see exactly what went wrong when things don't work (until you run into memory paging problems).
I think what you are looking for does not exist. You obviously already know a fair amount about analog circuit design if you have been in the field for 5 years dealing with them. It sounds to me more like you need something about system design. If you do not already have intimate knowledge with op amps, discrete transistor circuits, and problems associated with extremely low currents, then you will need to learn about each of these individually. The ability to develop a large and complex system is the mark of a very experienced, and knowledgeable engineer. Chances are that you will need to rely on the expertise of others to design the various sub-systems.
That's what the Erotic Services section on Craigslist is for.
Could you obfuscate that with some more negatives please
My apologies. Please allow me to clarify.
It's not even a non-tractioned slope. It's not an outright truth. Just because something is not non-legal does not mean that we don't want to not keep it in full view.
People need to remember that if you are being searched, then you are suspected of some wrongdoing. If the criteria for suspicion are some baseless set of rules on your body language, then not only is it demeaning and humiliating, it's unethical under many well accepted ethical philosophies.
So searching people who instead get into a two-ton metal apparatus that can rocket down a street at high speed and potentially maim and kill lots of people would violate the 4th Amendment where searching people getting on a plane would not? I think very few people have an issue with x-ray scanners and metal detectors. It's the whole pulling you aside for a full pat down, luggage search, and analysis of your personal electronics for reason of "he had a suspicious look in his eye" that people find unreasonable.