Social Security Numbers are not designed for use as identification numbers, and their use as such is a perversion of the system. They're not even guaranteed to be unique.
Siberian vodka, which is nearly 200 proof (as in pure alcohol), flows like room-temperature water at VERY low temperatures. Low enough that you can drink it and not realize how cold it is until you (pretty much instantly) die due to freezing of your esophogas. But I somehow doubt being served too cold is this guy's problem.;-D
My IE (6.0.etc) just crashed with only '', which is one (malformed - you should get a parse error for it) tag. The full version linked to by the story is 5 tags. Just like you can measure C in instructions such that 'a(); b(); c++;' is 3, you can count HTML by tags. The generic term is 'lines', regardless of formatting.
Women actually have these three states (yes, no, and maybe), but here are the correct definitions:
YES - a superposition of maybe and no
NO - a definite no
MAYBE - a superposition of yes and no
standing at edge of universe, waving at twins in the next universe over
Fry: So there are an infinite number of parallel universes?
Farnsworth: No, just the two.
Bender: Can we go? I'm sick of parallel universe Bender lording his sombrero over me.
No shit. Piss-ass poor spelling and grammar in the body of a story is bad enough, but misspelling a word in the story's title is just pathetic. This is only made worse by the fact that at least some of the editors have probably attended college at a campus, seeing the word in print at least a few dozen times, at some point or other. They may have all dropped out, but that's no excuse.
Not necessarily more violent, but higher-temperature. When the Challenger exploded, it was on its way up and although I'm not certain at what altitude it exploded, it was not already pre-heated as the Columbia would have been at Mach 18+ at 200,000 feet. It will be interesting to see what pieces are recovered - will they recover any actual tiles, or do those things burn up when they come down solo? A Soyuz capsule that careened into the ground when its engineers packed the parachute upside down is the only comparable space disaster to this of which I'm aware, but in that case the capsule was designed for an entirely different type of re-entry than the shuttle is.
They were hardly blindly doing anything. They had numbers, and the numbers have agreed with everything I've been able to find. As to crimes with firearms falling, everything I've read indicates that firearm crimes did fall in the first 1-2 years after the ban took effect, but have been rising and are right back to within 0.1% of the average level from years prior to the ban. What you're failing to do is provide any sources that disagree with those which I cited. I'd love to see some numbers on this, but I can't find any objective data at all that supports Australia's gun ban.
I searched Google. There were exactly two articles supporting or giving positive results of the Australian gun ban: one was written in 1996, about 1 month after the ban took effect, and the other didn't back themselves up with any numbers whatsoever. If you read all my links, you'd see that they all agree in numbers, and come from various sources, and indeed one is even very objective. Don't be a fool - it's okay to disagree with me, but not blindly.
Mine was a counterpoint - read its parent. And I wasn't making a case for the Raelians being Judeo-Christian in origin at all (although they may or may not claim to be - I simply don't care enough to give them the benefit of researching this garbage), but rather citing one specific example of how many people in the world and, in particular, in the West would justify the different views between cloning a sheep and cloning a human.
And you're still not supposed to eat other people. If you were disagreeing with my counterpoint that cloning people is on a different level than cloning other animals, you've failed.
Because, as the Old Testament of the Bible tells us (and thus as is valid for all Judaism-descended religions), God made Adam master of all the other animals.
The main advantages of diamond include heat resistance and higher electrical resistance.
This seems to be going quite in the opposite direction of superconductor research and what most people generally think of as sound design principles - less electrical resistance means a more efficient contraption, right? So what gives? I can't get to the article from here given my Christmas-reduced bandwidth, but is this a Slashdot misprint or is this the truth; and if it's real, then what gives? Why is higher electrical resistance suddenly an advantage?
My problem with the Electoral College as it is used isn't with the 2000 election, but rather with the fact that it was designed to buffer between the masses making bad decisions and the president being chosen poorly. Right now, on the other hand, electors are actually fined and kicked out of their political party if they vote against party lines. A system that would have actually allowed third party candidates a chance at winning the national election now works to prevent them from getting even a single vote.
As to licensing being construed as "well-regulated", I can see your point. Maybe it would be acceptable at the state level, just as driver's licenses are done. Some states would definitely not need any such system - North Dakota, for example, has an extremely low rate of gun violence, because most of the people that have guns were raised in homes that promoted responsible use of those guns. California, on the other hand, would see a lot more of a benefit in this, as the vast majority of people there do not grow up in rural households where self-harvested venison is a winter staple.
Although a fascist political coup is extremely unlikely, it is still possible, especially given the degenerate status of the Electoral College system, which was designed to prevent such mistakes from entering the White House. As to licensing for all gun owners, though, keep in mind that gun ownership is a right that you're born with, while driving is a privilege that you must earn. It would make no sense to need a license to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; or a license to speek freely. So should there be no license to keep and bear arms. The public school system's main purpose is to teach people to make responsible use of their rights - why is the second amendment excluded from so many school curricula?
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That's not ironic. It's unusual, yes, but not ironic.
Social Security Numbers are not designed for use as identification numbers, and their use as such is a perversion of the system. They're not even guaranteed to be unique.
Siberian vodka, which is nearly 200 proof (as in pure alcohol), flows like room-temperature water at VERY low temperatures. Low enough that you can drink it and not realize how cold it is until you (pretty much instantly) die due to freezing of your esophogas. But I somehow doubt being served too cold is this guy's problem. ;-D
My IE (6.0.etc) just crashed with only '', which is one (malformed - you should get a parse error for it) tag. The full version linked to by the story is 5 tags. Just like you can measure C in instructions such that 'a(); b(); c++;' is 3, you can count HTML by tags. The generic term is 'lines', regardless of formatting.
Women actually have these three states (yes, no, and maybe), but here are the correct definitions: YES - a superposition of maybe and no
NO - a definite no
MAYBE - a superposition of yes and no
Most caught crackers are going to bring special, outdated skills to the job.
standing at edge of universe, waving at twins in the next universe over
Fry: So there are an infinite number of parallel universes?
Farnsworth: No, just the two.
Bender: Can we go? I'm sick of parallel universe Bender lording his sombrero over me.
...a dual Athlon MP and Xeon system...
One of each, or what?
No shit. Piss-ass poor spelling and grammar in the body of a story is bad enough, but misspelling a word in the story's title is just pathetic. This is only made worse by the fact that at least some of the editors have probably attended college at a campus, seeing the word in print at least a few dozen times, at some point or other. They may have all dropped out, but that's no excuse.
Not necessarily more violent, but higher-temperature. When the Challenger exploded, it was on its way up and although I'm not certain at what altitude it exploded, it was not already pre-heated as the Columbia would have been at Mach 18+ at 200,000 feet. It will be interesting to see what pieces are recovered - will they recover any actual tiles, or do those things burn up when they come down solo? A Soyuz capsule that careened into the ground when its engineers packed the parachute upside down is the only comparable space disaster to this of which I'm aware, but in that case the capsule was designed for an entirely different type of re-entry than the shuttle is.
I added the others from that site to mine as well. The more distributed, the better.
Here is a mirror of some pictures from pdrap.org.
I have a mirror up at http://ari.ods.org/columbia/
This is the end of the manned space program, at least for the short-term.
Fortunately, not for the long term: "The cause will continue." - President Bush
They were hardly blindly doing anything. They had numbers, and the numbers have agreed with everything I've been able to find. As to crimes with firearms falling, everything I've read indicates that firearm crimes did fall in the first 1-2 years after the ban took effect, but have been rising and are right back to within 0.1% of the average level from years prior to the ban. What you're failing to do is provide any sources that disagree with those which I cited. I'd love to see some numbers on this, but I can't find any objective data at all that supports Australia's gun ban.
I searched Google. There were exactly two articles supporting or giving positive results of the Australian gun ban: one was written in 1996, about 1 month after the ban took effect, and the other didn't back themselves up with any numbers whatsoever. If you read all my links, you'd see that they all agree in numbers, and come from various sources, and indeed one is even very objective. Don't be a fool - it's okay to disagree with me, but not blindly.
That's right, gun control works. Australia is a very safe place to live, now that crimes like armed robbery are more common than before the 1996 ban/confiscation took effect. You sound brainwashed to me.
This is surprising, of course, because of Australia's typical dedication to its citizens' liberties (e.g., gun control).
I aggree it is a great game, but shouldn't the government be putting that money to better use? I meen it's just a recruiting tool isn't it?
I definitely think the government could have done well to spend the $7 million development costs on, say, your education.
Mine was a counterpoint - read its parent. And I wasn't making a case for the Raelians being Judeo-Christian in origin at all (although they may or may not claim to be - I simply don't care enough to give them the benefit of researching this garbage), but rather citing one specific example of how many people in the world and, in particular, in the West would justify the different views between cloning a sheep and cloning a human.
And you're still not supposed to eat other people. If you were disagreeing with my counterpoint that cloning people is on a different level than cloning other animals, you've failed.
Because, as the Old Testament of the Bible tells us (and thus as is valid for all Judaism-descended religions), God made Adam master of all the other animals.
Wait a minute...
The main advantages of diamond include heat resistance and higher electrical resistance.
This seems to be going quite in the opposite direction of superconductor research and what most people generally think of as sound design principles - less electrical resistance means a more efficient contraption, right? So what gives? I can't get to the article from here given my Christmas-reduced bandwidth, but is this a Slashdot misprint or is this the truth; and if it's real, then what gives? Why is higher electrical resistance suddenly an advantage?
My problem with the Electoral College as it is used isn't with the 2000 election, but rather with the fact that it was designed to buffer between the masses making bad decisions and the president being chosen poorly. Right now, on the other hand, electors are actually fined and kicked out of their political party if they vote against party lines. A system that would have actually allowed third party candidates a chance at winning the national election now works to prevent them from getting even a single vote.
As to licensing being construed as "well-regulated", I can see your point. Maybe it would be acceptable at the state level, just as driver's licenses are done. Some states would definitely not need any such system - North Dakota, for example, has an extremely low rate of gun violence, because most of the people that have guns were raised in homes that promoted responsible use of those guns. California, on the other hand, would see a lot more of a benefit in this, as the vast majority of people there do not grow up in rural households where self-harvested venison is a winter staple.
Although a fascist political coup is extremely unlikely, it is still possible, especially given the degenerate status of the Electoral College system, which was designed to prevent such mistakes from entering the White House. As to licensing for all gun owners, though, keep in mind that gun ownership is a right that you're born with, while driving is a privilege that you must earn. It would make no sense to need a license to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; or a license to speek freely. So should there be no license to keep and bear arms. The public school system's main purpose is to teach people to make responsible use of their rights - why is the second amendment excluded from so many school curricula?