I'll just have to bring her to America then. Whipping is legal if the person volunteers. (In fact, even slavery is allowed as long as it's voluntary and time-limited.)
I just realized, we Americans have finally achieved success. The British politicians are acting like American politicians! (morality police). It only took ~70 years of NATO to influence them to our way of thinking.
Time for a serious reply: "Having engaged in it consensually would not be a crime, but to have a photograph of it in one's possession would be a crime."
Yeah.
No more fun for me and my British girlfriend. Time to put the whips and chains on ebay. Although no crime was committed, the British Moral Patrol need to punish us for filming/photographing our acts.
>>>"Imagine your house having an option to be hooked up to 4 different sewer systems - do you really care?"
That actually sounds like a good deal. One company charges $10 a month, another $5 a month, and the third $2 a month. Guess which company I'll pick? Yep. The cheapest (unless for some reason their pipes keep clogging, then I might upgrade to the $5 company).
I like choice.
I like having the power to decide in MY hands how I will spend my money; live my life.
>>>"unspent EU farm subsidies. This money would normally have been returned to donor nations"
So the E.U. misappropriated funds that were intended to help farmers, and instead spent it on shiny-new space toys... er, satellites. How nice. Reminds me of how the U.S. Congress works: Collecting money for the poor, and then using it to study butterflies or plant flowers along I-95 instead.
Congratulations... your E.U. Parliament is looking more and more like our U.S. Congress every day. Wait another twenty years and you'll be just as corrupt as us (with your president talking about "making the world safe for democracy" as justification to fight a merry little war).
>>>"the inability of France to understand U.S. motivations for everything from our participation in NATO to our willingness to defend Europe against the Soviets because of basic cultural differences."
To summarize:
The French don't understand the concept of "friendship" and "sharing with your neighbors". Frankly, I'm a bit surprised. I thought everyone understood those ideas, especially the people that has Fraternity as part of their motto. I guess not; they just the americans are waiting to stab them in the back.
I think the real flaw with this man is what the Judge said: "You are rude. You are arrogant. There are not enough words in the English language to describe the way you are."
i.e. Typical geek who thinks he's smarter or better than the average person on the street. In this case he thought he was smart enough (and everyone else dumb enough) to explain away a killing.
Time for a serious reply: "Having engaged in it consensually would not be a crime, but to have a photograph of it in one's possession would be a crime."
Yeah.
No more fun for me and my British girlfriend. Time to put the whips and chains on ebay. (Although this is consistent with UK law that arrests citizens for gun possession, even if the gun was used to save my life. No crime committed except in the eyes of the British Moral Patrol.)
That's true. There was some preservation of Roman culture preserved by the Eastern Roman Empire, and the church, but a lot of it was torn-apart and used by the invading German tribes as building material.
The collapse of the Greco-Roman world resulted in the loss of thousands of years of human creation that had been preserved upto 500 A.D. but was considered irrelevant & trashed by the subsequent barbarians.
The only difference is that the bodies have been processed by worms and bacteria and transformed into dirt, which is then absorbed into plants, and eaten by us. Our nutrients come from soil which is rotting bodies/plants.
>>>"Betacam is just a product line, not a media standard."
To say Betacam is not a "media standard" is akin to saying VHS is not a media standard (or more accurately: formats). They are both a type of media format, with VHS dominating the consumer world, and Betacam dominating the professional world (almost every show between 1985-2000 is stored on Betacam-format)(example: Star Trek TNG and DS9).
Hmmm... you posted the same message twice. Well, I'm not going to do that, so I'll just summarize:
Saying Betamax/Betacam are the same is just as incorrect as to say that Betamax/VHS is the same, or HD DVD/Bluray is the same. It is Not correct. They are incompatible formats, and they will not play each other's recordings.
Betamax-II (used by Hollywood for commercial release) was 240 horizontal analog resolution. VHS-SP (again, used by Hollywood for their releases) was 240 on standard VHS and 250 on VHS HQ.
There's no difference in video quality. They are virtually identical.
>>>"Theoretically they are the same. Betamax and betacam are still based off of the same tech."
Saying that Betamax/Betacam are the same is like saying HD DVD/Blu-ray or NTSC/PAL are the same. It doesn't make logical sense, because you cannot play a HD DVD inside a Bluray, you cannot watch an NTSC broadcast using a PAL set, nor can you play a Betacam tape inside a Betamax machine. It just won't work.
Betamax and Betacam don't even record at the same speed (Betacam runs pproximately three faster than Betamax). Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betacam
Bottom Line: - Betamax flopped for Sony's Consumer division (VHS won instead). - But Betacam was a success for Sony Professional.
The 70mpg Insight solves this problem using an electric generator that "pulses" on and off to provide balance. I don't know how the 90mpg VW Lupo 3L solves that problem... perhaps it just shakes the occupants. (shrug)
Honda is supposed to be coming-out with a 5-seat Insight II in 2009. I wish they'd hurry-up; people need high MPG cars now more than ever.
Well nobody said the average consumer is smart. Many think they "need" Ford Living Rooms to survive their daily grind and/or "bigger is safer".
Neither of those is true.
Most people can survive just fine with a 5-seat Civic or Prius getting twice the MPG. And although these cars are smaller, they lay low to the road, meaning they don't rollover (and crush the occupants) the way that SUVs do. (Recall the Michigan video where a woman made a small steering correction; the top-heavy SUV rolled over instantly.)
Our dependence on "oil as slave" has allowed us to overpopulate the land, squeezing in more people per acre than the land can support, by using oil to ship-in vast quantities of food & water. But what happens when oil costs $50 a gallon? The result will be a shortfall in food/water and depopulation.
Basically the same thing that happened to Ancient Rome (down from 3 million to ~30,000) after the food/water supplies stopped flowing.
The analogy works because the "fat body" can transition to smaller cars that get ~100 mpg. The people can make adjustments when the oil drought arrives.
Whereas if we were *already* driving 100 mpg, then when the crisis hits, we'd have nowhere to go. The drought would be much more painful.
Interesting analysis. I never thought of it that way. Fat vs. Lean.
Well if I was in a position of policy, I would use eminent domain to take control of all U.S. oil fields and declare them "strategic reserve". I would then encourage corporations to drain the Mideast dry of oil, while keeping my own oil fields untouched.
Like a retirement savings - kept aside for when I need it.
I'd like to know where the military is going to get "molten metal". The stuff isn't just laying around... you need lots of metal & lots of heat.
Perhaps the concept will be similar to the uranium-tipped anti-tank weapons that impact the external armor. The pressure of the impact instantly vaporizes the metal, and splatters the interior occupants with the resulting vapor (turning them into ash).
(shrug) Who knows. I've seen the military come-up with some whacky ideas like an airplane carrier that, instead of airplanes, was filled with 1000 tomahawk missiles, but most of these ideas never come to fruition.
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>>>"'most comprehensive image search on the Web.'"
Sub-title:
Making topless Miley Cyrus photos easier to find than ever before!
I'll just have to bring her to America then. Whipping is legal if the person volunteers. (In fact, even slavery is allowed as long as it's voluntary and time-limited.)
P.S.
I just realized, we Americans have finally achieved success. The British politicians are acting like American politicians! (morality police). It only took ~70 years of NATO to influence them to our way of thinking.
Time for a serious reply: "Having engaged in it consensually would not be a crime, but to have a photograph of it in one's possession would be a crime."
Yeah.
No more fun for me and my British girlfriend. Time to put the whips and chains on ebay. Although no crime was committed, the British Moral Patrol need to punish us for filming/photographing our acts.
Reminds me of Americans.
>>>"Imagine your house having an option to be hooked up to 4 different sewer systems - do you really care?"
That actually sounds like a good deal. One company charges $10 a month, another $5 a month, and the third $2 a month. Guess which company I'll pick? Yep. The cheapest (unless for some reason their pipes keep clogging, then I might upgrade to the $5 company).
I like choice.
I like having the power to decide in MY hands how I will spend my money; live my life.
>>>"unspent EU farm subsidies. This money would normally have been returned to donor nations"
So the E.U. misappropriated funds that were intended to help farmers, and instead spent it on shiny-new space toys... er, satellites. How nice. Reminds me of how the U.S. Congress works: Collecting money for the poor, and then using it to study butterflies or plant flowers along I-95 instead.
Congratulations... your E.U. Parliament is looking more and more like our U.S. Congress every day. Wait another twenty years and you'll be just as corrupt as us (with your president talking about "making the world safe for democracy" as justification to fight a merry little war).
>>>"the inability of France to understand U.S. motivations for everything from our participation in NATO to our willingness to defend Europe against the Soviets because of basic cultural differences."
To summarize:
The French don't understand the concept of "friendship" and "sharing with your neighbors". Frankly, I'm a bit surprised. I thought everyone understood those ideas, especially the people that has Fraternity as part of their motto. I guess not; they just the americans are waiting to stab them in the back.
So if I say Brits are arrogant bastards, that's not a racist insult to people from Britannia?
I think the real flaw with this man is what the Judge said: "You are rude. You are arrogant. There are not enough words in the English language to describe the way you are."
i.e. Typical geek who thinks he's smarter or better than the average person on the street. In this case he thought he was smart enough (and everyone else dumb enough) to explain away a killing.
It didn't work.
Time for a serious reply: "Having engaged in it consensually would not be a crime, but to have a photograph of it in one's possession would be a crime."
Yeah.
No more fun for me and my British girlfriend. Time to put the whips and chains on ebay. (Although this is consistent with UK law that arrests citizens for gun possession, even if the gun was used to save my life. No crime committed except in the eyes of the British Moral Patrol.)
Nazis!
That's true. There was some preservation of Roman culture preserved by the Eastern Roman Empire, and the church, but a lot of it was torn-apart and used by the invading German tribes as building material.
The collapse of the Greco-Roman world resulted in the loss of thousands of years of human creation that had been preserved upto 500 A.D. but was considered irrelevant & trashed by the subsequent barbarians.
We already eat Soylent Green.
The only difference is that the bodies have been processed by worms and bacteria and transformed into dirt, which is then absorbed into plants, and eaten by us. Our nutrients come from soil which is rotting bodies/plants.
>>>"Betacam is just a product line, not a media standard."
To say Betacam is not a "media standard" is akin to saying VHS is not a media standard (or more accurately: formats). They are both a type of media format, with VHS dominating the consumer world, and Betacam dominating the professional world (almost every show between 1985-2000 is stored on Betacam-format)(example: Star Trek TNG and DS9).
Hmmm... you posted the same message twice. Well, I'm not going to do that, so I'll just summarize:
Saying Betamax/Betacam are the same is just as incorrect as to say that Betamax/VHS is the same, or HD DVD/Bluray is the same. It is Not correct. They are incompatible formats, and they will not play each other's recordings.
>>>"despite the higher video quality."
Betamax-II (used by Hollywood for commercial release) was 240 horizontal analog resolution.
VHS-SP (again, used by Hollywood for their releases) was 240 on standard VHS and 250 on VHS HQ.
There's no difference in video quality. They are virtually identical.
>>>"Theoretically they are the same. Betamax and betacam are still based off of the same tech."
Saying that Betamax/Betacam are the same is like saying HD DVD/Blu-ray or NTSC/PAL are the same. It doesn't make logical sense, because you cannot play a HD DVD inside a Bluray, you cannot watch an NTSC broadcast using a PAL set, nor can you play a Betacam tape inside a Betamax machine. It just won't work.
Betamax and Betacam don't even record at the same speed (Betacam runs pproximately three faster than Betamax). Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betacam
Bottom Line:
- Betamax flopped for Sony's Consumer division (VHS won instead).
- But Betacam was a success for Sony Professional.
>>>"The Insights were definitely cool, but at 67 horsepower, they aren't even close to moderately powered 4 cylinder engines."
I didn't say "insights" were the same power as 4-bangers. Re-read what I ACTUALLY wrote, instead of what you believe I wrote. Thanks.
>>>"Four cylinder engines are in some really fast cars. Consider the...Dodge Neon SRT-4."
That's good. Now consider the Dodge Shadow which is only 90 hp (I used to own one.)
The 70mpg Insight solves this problem using an electric generator that "pulses" on and off to provide balance. I don't know how the 90mpg VW Lupo 3L solves that problem... perhaps it just shakes the occupants. (shrug)
Honda is supposed to be coming-out with a 5-seat Insight II in 2009. I wish they'd hurry-up; people need high MPG cars now more than ever.
>>>"One word: Radial. Two more words: Floating block."
Three more words: Pollutes the air. Four more words: Leaks oil like sieve.
Well nobody said the average consumer is smart. Many think they "need" Ford Living Rooms to survive their daily grind and/or "bigger is safer".
Neither of those is true.
Most people can survive just fine with a 5-seat Civic or Prius getting twice the MPG. And although these cars are smaller, they lay low to the road, meaning they don't rollover (and crush the occupants) the way that SUVs do. (Recall the Michigan video where a woman made a small steering correction; the top-heavy SUV rolled over instantly.)
The one person per acre is a good analogy.
Our dependence on "oil as slave" has allowed us to overpopulate the land, squeezing in more people per acre than the land can support, by using oil to ship-in vast quantities of food & water. But what happens when oil costs $50 a gallon? The result will be a shortfall in food/water and depopulation.
Basically the same thing that happened to Ancient Rome (down from 3 million to ~30,000) after the food/water supplies stopped flowing.
The analogy works because the "fat body" can transition to smaller cars that get ~100 mpg. The people can make adjustments when the oil drought arrives.
Whereas if we were *already* driving 100 mpg, then when the crisis hits, we'd have nowhere to go. The drought would be much more painful.
Interesting analysis. I never thought of it that way. Fat vs. Lean.
Well if I was in a position of policy, I would use eminent domain to take control of all U.S. oil fields and declare them "strategic reserve". I would then encourage corporations to drain the Mideast dry of oil, while keeping my own oil fields untouched.
Like a retirement savings - kept aside for when I need it.
I'd like to know where the military is going to get "molten metal". The stuff isn't just laying around... you need lots of metal & lots of heat.
Perhaps the concept will be similar to the uranium-tipped anti-tank weapons that impact the external armor. The pressure of the impact instantly vaporizes the metal, and splatters the interior occupants with the resulting vapor (turning them into ash).
(shrug) Who knows. I've seen the military come-up with some whacky ideas like an airplane carrier that, instead of airplanes, was filled with 1000 tomahawk missiles, but most of these ideas never come to fruition.