As someone who works campaigns for a living now, I can tell you that trying to get off the lists is nigh impossible. Unless you tell them you will be voting against them. Those are the only ones who stopped getting called. Even then, that doesn't always work.
Lying is not fraud. Fraud implies a transaction under false pretenses. If no transaction takes place, there is no fraud. Fraud requires lying, but lying does not imply fraud. Otherwise prank calling would be fraud.
You miss the point. Prior to 9/11 the assumption was that any hijackers would be looking for money and to use the passengers as hostages. In that case, it was too the passengers benefit not to fight back because the expectation was that they would be released en masse, eventually. Now that people realize that a man taking hijacking the plane means they are already dead, then they have a choice. If they do nothing, they face certain death. If they successfully resist, they stand a pretty good chance of surviving (out of 200-300 people on a plane, no more than a dozen are likely to be killed even by gun weilding terroriests unless the plane is itself destroyed.)
Caesar was not an emperor of rome. Octavius was the first Emperor. Julius Caesar was appointed dictator for life by the Senate before being murdered by Senators. His ascension WAS the end of the republic, but he was not an emperor. The period after his death prior to Octavian's rule was essentially pure chaos and civil war between the Senate, Octavian, and Marc Antony for which of the three would rule Rome. After Octavian came to power, the Senate was officially done with and the Imperial period began.
Actually add 'brutal' to inneffectual and it pretty much matches up. The Tsars were TERRIBLE rulers, with a few exceptions (and all of those exceptions have 'the Great' tacked onto their names, so they're hard to miss). The only people in history to have mismanaged their countries as bad as som of the Tsars would be Chairman Mao (50 million dead from starvation for no reason other than economic mismanagement), the Hapsburg rulers of Spain (how the hell did they manage to waste all the gold they brought back from the colonies on NOTHING), the Belgian colonial governments, and that's all I've got. I mean, the current administration will likely take the cake for worst American mismanagement, but unless things get a whole lot worse (which may very well happen) they aren't yet in the league of 'Worst Ever in the History of the World.'
Which is exactly how I am left without anyone to vote for in the presidential election. No McCain (Military Commissiona Act of 2006), No Obama (FISA Amendments Act of 2008), No Bob Barr (*shudder*).
The source of America's problems are not the voting habits of election voters, its the voting habits of PRIMARY voters. Nuts in both parties pick the Greg Stillsons of the world over and over and over. The kind of people *COUGH* CHENEY-PELOSI-MCCAIN-REID-BUSH-..........*COUGH* who would beat a dog to death after pepper spraying it if no one was looking.
There may be a infinite number of ways to do art right, but there an infinitely infinite number of ways to do it wrong. Or put another way, For every way to do art correctly, there are an infinite number of ways to do it wrong.
Hollywood has mastered most of the ways of doing wrong, and almost none of the ways of doing it right.
People are more likely to be trustworthy if you are paying them to be trustworthy. We pay the government to be assholes, so they're more likely to be assholes. Just sayin'.
They can't be blamed at all, for one simple reason: Cosmic radiation. The radiation produced from high energy collisions in the upper atmosphere douses a plane in far more EMI than any cell phone could ever generate. A few hours in a airplane gives you a year's worth of ground level radiation exposure.
Lots of lights penetrate solid objects, so I think you're simply making shit up. It entirely depends on the frequency of the light, and the exact nature of the material. Or did you think radio waves were something other than light?
Eh, at that point I imagine that infinite regression would be the result. Which has resulted in me having an epiphany that will lead to my winning a nobel prize. Probably not, but its an interesting thought.
I have long argued that there is nothing in principle that stops us from building a complete simulation of the entire universe past, present and future (as quantum mechanics becomes a stochastic phenomenon on a macro scale and is thus perfectly predictable).
Thinking about your post made me realize I was wrong, the reason having to do with data storage and processing. There is no way to store all the data on the state of the universe (position of all particles, charges, etc.) without using a storage device AT LEAST as massive as the entire universe. You cannot store more bits of data than you have particles. Its simply not possible. Therefore we will never be able to build a computer that can simulate the entire universe exactly. Of course, we can do approximations to some level, but we already do this for the entire observable universe regularly in galaxy supercluster formation simulations. That would be nothing new. But a particle by particle precise simulation is physically impossible because we could never build a calculator with enough data storage.
Woe unto the computational physicists!
Hong Kong, being part of China, and not having the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, is not one of those places where freedom of speech is considered important by the government.
You apparently know nothing of the legal system. Pray the RIAA doesn't come after you, you'll be doomed.
Firstly, prosecutors file charges, not suits. Secondly, at worst all they could be guilty of is filing a false police report. There is no fraud.
Anyone who knows what they're doing to just reformat the hard drive would be smart enough to know they could have gotten a bigger discount on the PC by just ordering all the components and self assembling. No one who knows how to get rid of crapware would ever need to buy a pre-assembled desktop. Laptops of course, are a different story.
Foraging naturally occuring foodstuffs is both carbon and energy neutral.
Institutional farming that uses no machinery and takes advantage of only natural irrigation is carbon and energy neutral.
Mechanized farming that relies only on windmills is carbon neutral.
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He won't settle for anything that doesn't let him insult republicans at the end of his retort.
That would just be racists against purple skinned people
As someone who works campaigns for a living now, I can tell you that trying to get off the lists is nigh impossible. Unless you tell them you will be voting against them. Those are the only ones who stopped getting called. Even then, that doesn't always work.
Lying is not fraud. Fraud implies a transaction under false pretenses. If no transaction takes place, there is no fraud. Fraud requires lying, but lying does not imply fraud. Otherwise prank calling would be fraud.
I must point out that Eric S. Raymond wrote the Cathedral and the Bazaar. Not RMS.
You miss the point. Prior to 9/11 the assumption was that any hijackers would be looking for money and to use the passengers as hostages. In that case, it was too the passengers benefit not to fight back because the expectation was that they would be released en masse, eventually. Now that people realize that a man taking hijacking the plane means they are already dead, then they have a choice. If they do nothing, they face certain death. If they successfully resist, they stand a pretty good chance of surviving (out of 200-300 people on a plane, no more than a dozen are likely to be killed even by gun weilding terroriests unless the plane is itself destroyed.)
Caesar was not an emperor of rome. Octavius was the first Emperor. Julius Caesar was appointed dictator for life by the Senate before being murdered by Senators. His ascension WAS the end of the republic, but he was not an emperor. The period after his death prior to Octavian's rule was essentially pure chaos and civil war between the Senate, Octavian, and Marc Antony for which of the three would rule Rome. After Octavian came to power, the Senate was officially done with and the Imperial period began.
Actually add 'brutal' to inneffectual and it pretty much matches up. The Tsars were TERRIBLE rulers, with a few exceptions (and all of those exceptions have 'the Great' tacked onto their names, so they're hard to miss). The only people in history to have mismanaged their countries as bad as som of the Tsars would be Chairman Mao (50 million dead from starvation for no reason other than economic mismanagement), the Hapsburg rulers of Spain (how the hell did they manage to waste all the gold they brought back from the colonies on NOTHING), the Belgian colonial governments, and that's all I've got. I mean, the current administration will likely take the cake for worst American mismanagement, but unless things get a whole lot worse (which may very well happen) they aren't yet in the league of 'Worst Ever in the History of the World.'
Which is exactly how I am left without anyone to vote for in the presidential election. No McCain (Military Commissiona Act of 2006), No Obama (FISA Amendments Act of 2008), No Bob Barr (*shudder*).
The source of America's problems are not the voting habits of election voters, its the voting habits of PRIMARY voters. Nuts in both parties pick the Greg Stillsons of the world over and over and over. The kind of people *COUGH* CHENEY-PELOSI-MCCAIN-REID-BUSH-..........*COUGH* who would beat a dog to death after pepper spraying it if no one was looking.
There may be a infinite number of ways to do art right, but there an infinitely infinite number of ways to do it wrong. Or put another way, For every way to do art correctly, there are an infinite number of ways to do it wrong. Hollywood has mastered most of the ways of doing wrong, and almost none of the ways of doing it right.
Washington DC Charter Schools. That's all I have to say to you sir.
Ever hear of cognitive dissonance? They say the students come first, and they don't.
People are more likely to be trustworthy if you are paying them to be trustworthy. We pay the government to be assholes, so they're more likely to be assholes. Just sayin'.
They can't be blamed at all, for one simple reason: Cosmic radiation. The radiation produced from high energy collisions in the upper atmosphere douses a plane in far more EMI than any cell phone could ever generate. A few hours in a airplane gives you a year's worth of ground level radiation exposure.
Lots of lights penetrate solid objects, so I think you're simply making shit up. It entirely depends on the frequency of the light, and the exact nature of the material. Or did you think radio waves were something other than light?
Carrying them in anything other than glass though, would be highly ill advised. And who carries glass bottles anymore?
Eh, at that point I imagine that infinite regression would be the result. Which has resulted in me having an epiphany that will lead to my winning a nobel prize. Probably not, but its an interesting thought. I have long argued that there is nothing in principle that stops us from building a complete simulation of the entire universe past, present and future (as quantum mechanics becomes a stochastic phenomenon on a macro scale and is thus perfectly predictable). Thinking about your post made me realize I was wrong, the reason having to do with data storage and processing. There is no way to store all the data on the state of the universe (position of all particles, charges, etc.) without using a storage device AT LEAST as massive as the entire universe. You cannot store more bits of data than you have particles. Its simply not possible. Therefore we will never be able to build a computer that can simulate the entire universe exactly. Of course, we can do approximations to some level, but we already do this for the entire observable universe regularly in galaxy supercluster formation simulations. That would be nothing new. But a particle by particle precise simulation is physically impossible because we could never build a calculator with enough data storage. Woe unto the computational physicists!
Its even the most fun game he has played in his life so far. Wait, slashdot reader? Make that ever.
What encyclopaedias are good for is getting lists of sources you can cite when looking for general/further information on a subject.
Hong Kong, being part of China, and not having the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, is not one of those places where freedom of speech is considered important by the government.
You apparently know nothing of the legal system. Pray the RIAA doesn't come after you, you'll be doomed. Firstly, prosecutors file charges, not suits. Secondly, at worst all they could be guilty of is filing a false police report. There is no fraud.
Anyone who knows what they're doing to just reformat the hard drive would be smart enough to know they could have gotten a bigger discount on the PC by just ordering all the components and self assembling. No one who knows how to get rid of crapware would ever need to buy a pre-assembled desktop. Laptops of course, are a different story.
Seat size, spacing, food quality, staff friendliness. There are lots of things on airlines that people gripe about, but will never pay more for.
Foraging naturally occuring foodstuffs is both carbon and energy neutral. Institutional farming that uses no machinery and takes advantage of only natural irrigation is carbon and energy neutral. Mechanized farming that relies only on windmills is carbon neutral.