[An extraterrestrial robot and spaceship has just landed on earth. The robot steps out of the spaceship...]
"I come in peace," it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, "take me to your Lizard."
Ford Prefect, of course, had an explanation for this, as he sat with Arthur and watched the nonstop frenetic news reports on television, none of which had anything to say other than to record that the thing had done this amount of damage which was valued at that amount of billions of pounds and had killed this totally other number of people, and then say it again, because the robot was doing nothing more than standing there, swaying very slightly, and emitting short incomprehensible error messages.
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like to straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
[ From So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams ]
Except lawyers, as officers of the court, are supposed to look at a client's case and make a first-look decision whether or not they should even bother bringing the case to court.
WHY would Israel do this? They got far better methods available. And they don't need to disable a windows PC of a nuclear reactor office workers. They got reliable aircraft to do that that send a far stronger message. They got plenty of experience with it.
Sending a stronger message via aircraft has the unfortunate side effect of harming/killing innocents that may be otherwise sympathetic to your cause. Contrary to what you think, Israel would rather counter a threat without casualties, if possible.
that we pledge allegiance to a foreign head of state.
We don't. It's just that our head of state also happens to be the head of several other states and prefers (or is it obligated?) to spend most of her time in one of them.
Have you ever heard of an Israeli project, military or otherwise, named after a Greek word when a Hebrew one is available? And I am not talking about translations by non-Hebrew media.
Also, the creators of the virus called it Myrtus, which is another name for Esther. Esther was the Jewish wife of a Persian king. One of the kings lieutenants hatched a plan to destroy the Jewish people and Esther convinced the king to give permission to fight back. The story is vaguely appropriate.
Damn, people, you're beginning to sound like the whackos that find "biblical references" that "predict" everything that happened since (in hindsight, of course).
If you believe that Israel is behind the attack, fine -- at this point it is as plausible an assumption as any -- but stop getting all over yourselves in ridiculous attempts to "prove" it.
Consider this:
1. State actors do not put "easter eggs" into munitions. If a state wants it to be known that they are behind such an action, it will either claim responsibility or will leak the information while officially refusing to comment. If a foreign intelligence programmer decides to get "creative", they will be dealt with harshly.
2. Israelis speak Hebrew. The name Esther is written and pronounced as ESTER (transliteration, the 'E' is short, like in 'merry'). *Nobody* uses the word "Myrtus". Also see #1 above.
I voted for Obama based on my belief that he would make better decisions than McCain. We tend to forget that the election was not a yea or nay vote for Obama. It was a contest between two contenders.
No, it was a contest among 24 contenders, but thanks to people like yourself it turned into a contest between a giant douche and a turd sandwich.
Stop wasting your vote on the same D or R screwage. Vote third party. Even if you lose you can brag, "Well I didn't vote for either asshole. Can't blame me."
Because being a smug, self-important asshole yourself is better and more productive way to solve problems. Gotcha. Asshole.
I don't usually feed anonymous trolls but this fallacy deserves to be exposed for what it is.
This is how it works: 1. Vote 3rd party (or independent). 2. Act smug, impressing the idea that both Rs and Ds are equally assholes onto friends and showing them that there is an alternative, even if only to feel morally superior. 3. Friends fork() the process. 4. Profit!
In short: In this case being smug *is* a productive way to solve the problem, and the ACPP is a harmful idiot.
Let's say they show "Arsenic and Old Lace" on cable and I want to decide whether to record/watch it or not. IMDB gives it an aggregate score of 8.1/10 based on 30,053 votes, with 193 user reviews and 42 "critics" reviews. themoviedb gives it an aggregate of 8.6/10 based on 4 votes and no reviews.
It's called "having a different profile in Firefox"
No, it doesn't. FF profiles have completely different bookmarks, passwords, etc. What Xmarks allows (allowed?) me to do is to sync everything (both ways!) except a sub-tree of bookmarks that were not pushed to my work machine.
Slashdot Mirror
It is advisable to wait for Nauseous Nematode.
Because there's an opportunity for profit in doing so.
1932? Slashdot? What did it run on? Discrete flip-flops?
[An extraterrestrial robot and spaceship has just landed on earth. The robot steps out of the spaceship...]
"I come in peace," it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, "take me to your Lizard."
Ford Prefect, of course, had an explanation for this, as he sat with Arthur and watched the nonstop frenetic news reports on television, none of which had anything to say other than to record that the thing had done this amount of damage which was valued at that amount of billions of pounds and had killed this totally other number of people, and then say it again, because the robot was doing nothing more than standing there, swaying very slightly, and emitting short incomprehensible error messages.
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like to straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
[ From So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams ]
No, only in Soviet Russia.
<cough> Interstate Commerce Clause </cough>
compared to the apparent size of his ego and greed.
I accidentally the comments section in the Washington Post website. Sorry.
Extraordinary rendition is usually done in lieu of trial, no court involvement is necessary.
> We rejected feudalism hundreds of years ago.
Did we?
Of course she is.
Talk about conflict of interests.
Sending a stronger message via aircraft has the unfortunate side effect of harming/killing innocents that may be otherwise sympathetic to your cause. Contrary to what you think, Israel would rather counter a threat without casualties, if possible.
We don't.
It's just that our head of state also happens to be the head of several other states and prefers (or is it obligated?) to spend most of her time in one of them.
Have you ever heard of an Israeli project, military or otherwise, named after a Greek word when a Hebrew one is available?
And I am not talking about translations by non-Hebrew media.
Damn, people, you're beginning to sound like the whackos that find "biblical references" that "predict" everything that happened since (in hindsight, of course).
If you believe that Israel is behind the attack, fine -- at this point it is as plausible an assumption as any -- but stop getting all over yourselves in ridiculous attempts to "prove" it.
Consider this:
1. State actors do not put "easter eggs" into munitions. If a state wants it to be known that they are behind such an action, it will either claim responsibility or will leak the information while officially refusing to comment. If a foreign intelligence programmer decides to get "creative", they will be dealt with harshly.
2. Israelis speak Hebrew. The name Esther is written and pronounced as ESTER (transliteration, the 'E' is short, like in 'merry'). *Nobody* uses the word "Myrtus". Also see #1 above.
Because they voted Bush, and later Obama, in and they are the ones who can stop voting for future Bushes and Obamas.
No, it was a contest among 24 contenders, but thanks to people like yourself it turned into a contest between a giant douche and a turd sandwich.
Are you Canadian perchance?
I don't usually feed anonymous trolls but this fallacy deserves to be exposed for what it is.
This is how it works:
1. Vote 3rd party (or independent).
2. Act smug, impressing the idea that both Rs and Ds are equally assholes onto friends and showing them that there is an alternative, even if only to feel morally superior.
3. Friends fork() the process.
4. Profit!
In short: In this case being smug *is* a productive way to solve the problem, and the ACPP is a harmful idiot.
The popular children's game has now been renamed to "cops and opposing forces"
That is inconvenient. Why should I care about SFW/NSFW when I'm browsing from home?
Let's say they show "Arsenic and Old Lace" on cable and I want to decide whether to record/watch it or not.
IMDB gives it an aggregate score of 8.1/10 based on 30,053 votes, with 193 user reviews and 42 "critics" reviews.
themoviedb gives it an aggregate of 8.6/10 based on 4 votes and no reviews.
Which site should I use?
No, it doesn't.
FF profiles have completely different bookmarks, passwords, etc.
What Xmarks allows (allowed?) me to do is to sync everything (both ways!) except a sub-tree of bookmarks that were not pushed to my work machine.
FF Sync does not allow you to:
1. Access your bookmarks from the web (when using somebody else's machine), and
2. Have different profiles (not syncing the NSFW bookmark-subtree to your work machine)
That said, I will start switching to FF Sync before Xmarks goes under so I can have a backup if anything foes wrong.