I don't celebrate my birthday, nor do I share it with anyone except as needed. Not just because I'm a hermetic curmudgeon, but because the only reason (in my experience) people ask you your birthday is to determine your sign, so they can "know" things about you. With these people, your sign is your first impression with them, and they use their "knowledge" about your sign to interpret their interactions with you. They'll avoid you if you're the "wrong" sign, etc.
I say if you want to get to know me, get to know me; don't use a gobbledygook glossary to guess. (And if you don't like the fact that I won't tell you my 'sign', then good. Go away.)
I donated to Wikipedia; unfortunately, the begging ads were still there after doing so. (In fact, I also got the follow-up begging e-mail specifically because I donated.)
(4) it sets the Democrats' bar very low, when they should be working hard to earn the presidency through a serious debate between two informed and competent candidates.
Frequent changes to routes is a bug, not a feature, where I come from. Makes the whole damn system unpredictable if you're trying to get somewhere you don't go on a regular basis, because the route you took the last time won't get you there anymore.
Low-speed vehicles have been around a long time. They're called bicycles. Paris has been embracing those, too, and I presume they do so despite the "safety concerns" touted by the international helmet brigade.
The real danger is high-speed vehicles that have "safety features" like airbags to protect the ignorant occupants, to the detriment of anyone else who might be using the road.
That and so-called licensing schemes that treat driving as a right instead of a privilege and let unsafe drivers on the road. Not sure how bad that might be in Paris, but it's pretty easy to get and hard to lose your license for bad driving in North America.
If deception isn't necessary for placebos to work...
There are still a number of assumptions here. This trial only looked at one condition (irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS), and as described in other comments below, this only had a "reported effect", not a "clinical effect".
To go from there to "all homeopathic placebos work for all conditions" is a big leap.
There's been a stunning amount of feedback from the slashdot audience on the original post. Seems we need to go test some things. Clearly, metal is getting exposed, and making contact inside the Kindle. Which circuit is being closed is less clear. More testing is needed. We'll get back to you... Thanks. Meanwhile enjoy what the original post was going to say in the first place:
That's my point. If BoA has been engaged in these shenanigans so long and their customers didn't leave them, what is so different about this Wikileaks thing that should worry BoA that anybody would actually go to the effort of closing their account? People are lazy.
Not only that, but the summary also suggests there are "Space Nations". All nationalities that have a presence in space are ones that originated--and remain based--on Earth.
C&C Generals does the same thing. I have the retail CD on my shelf. I've reinstalled several times. 30 seconds in base explodes. The game was playable for about 2 years and then nothing. I won't get bit by that again.
This is why I don't plan to buy Civ V: I still have the 15-year-old disc for Civ III and it works fine. But 15 years from now, if Civ V's ping to the DRM servers doesn't respond, the game will not play.
I should be able to pass on my computer games to my children like my parents did to me with their board games.
I don't know how it is in Sweden but here in the USA if you don't have money for a lawyer you get a "public pretender"
In Canada (which for these purposes isn't all that far to the US, except we don't have a constitutional right to a lawyer), high-profile lawyers leap on high-profile cases like these and defend them pro-bono if necessary because it gets their name in the papers as free publicity.
Sexual consent was discussed at the Supreme Court of Canada in the last month or so (obviously not an arbiter for justice in Sweden, but nonetheless...).
At issue was whether you could give advance sexual consent for someone to perform sexual acts on your body while you are unconscious. One of the key aspects in the decision (either of the lower court or of the SCC itself) was that advance consent for sexual activity while unconscious prevents you from being able to withdraw that consent in the midst of the act.
There are plenty of differences between sex and full-anaesthetic surgery. Not the least being that sex doesn't require you to be asleep. In a surgery, there is a large legal apparatus with lots of paperwork and precedent, compared with sex where consent is often oral or even just implied and/or with impaired judgement (e.g. drunk). With surgery, you often can't simply stop halfway through a procedure without causing more harm through withdrawal (but I wouldn't be surprised if this does happen).
Yes, but generally so are the drivers, because they have to actually prove they can drive before they get licenses.
Here in North America we have to depend on rules like speed limits because idiots like to rocket down pedestrian-lined urban streets at speeds too fast to see or respond to hazards, because society sees driving as a right and the government doesn't seem to want to take driving permits away from people who genuinely drive dangerously.
As an aside, I hate those signs saying stuff like "If you can't see my mirrors, I can't see you". They imply that if you can see the mirrors, then the driver can see you, which is absolutely not the case.
LOGIC ERROR
No, you're thinking of "If you can't see my eyes reflected in my mirrors, I can't see you."
For example, if the truck is doing a hard turn, all the driver will see in the mirrors is the side of the truck, but you could still see the mirrors if you were, say, standing on the sidewalk next to the turning truck.
Citation please? The CIA world factbook says the median age is around 45, and only a quarter of the population is at or above the retirement age of 65. I can't find any references for the average age.
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What is wrong with admiring a skilled cold read?
Because gullible people are idiots.
I don't celebrate my birthday, nor do I share it with anyone except as needed. Not just because I'm a hermetic curmudgeon, but because the only reason (in my experience) people ask you your birthday is to determine your sign, so they can "know" things about you. With these people, your sign is your first impression with them, and they use their "knowledge" about your sign to interpret their interactions with you. They'll avoid you if you're the "wrong" sign, etc.
I say if you want to get to know me, get to know me; don't use a gobbledygook glossary to guess. (And if you don't like the fact that I won't tell you my 'sign', then good. Go away.)
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It looks like it's a vestigial apostrophe that applied to text removed in an edit. The original submission referred to "broadcaster's group's".
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I donated to Wikipedia; unfortunately, the begging ads were still there after doing so. (In fact, I also got the follow-up begging e-mail specifically because I donated.)
- RG>
"What do you mean I can't bring an electron microscope into the exam hall? That guy has a calculator!"
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(4) it sets the Democrats' bar very low, when they should be working hard to earn the presidency through a serious debate between two informed and competent candidates.
- RG>
Frequent changes to routes is a bug, not a feature, where I come from. Makes the whole damn system unpredictable if you're trying to get somewhere you don't go on a regular basis, because the route you took the last time won't get you there anymore.
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Those Europeans all looked alike too.
Darn crusadin' terrorists!
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Low-speed vehicles have been around a long time. They're called bicycles. Paris has been embracing those, too, and I presume they do so despite the "safety concerns" touted by the international helmet brigade.
The real danger is high-speed vehicles that have "safety features" like airbags to protect the ignorant occupants, to the detriment of anyone else who might be using the road.
That and so-called licensing schemes that treat driving as a right instead of a privilege and let unsafe drivers on the road. Not sure how bad that might be in Paris, but it's pretty easy to get and hard to lose your license for bad driving in North America.
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Last year, the headline was "One Crime Solved Per 1,000 London CCTV Cameras".
The rate can't be much better this year.
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If deception isn't necessary for placebos to work...
There are still a number of assumptions here. This trial only looked at one condition (irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS), and as described in other comments below, this only had a "reported effect", not a "clinical effect".
To go from there to "all homeopathic placebos work for all conditions" is a big leap.
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At the top of the page is this text in italics:
There's been a stunning amount of feedback from the slashdot audience on the original post. Seems we need to go test some things. Clearly, metal is getting exposed, and making contact inside the Kindle. Which circuit is being closed is less clear. More testing is needed. We'll get back to you... Thanks. Meanwhile enjoy what the original post was going to say in the first place:
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That's my point. If BoA has been engaged in these shenanigans so long and their customers didn't leave them, what is so different about this Wikileaks thing that should worry BoA that anybody would actually go to the effort of closing their account? People are lazy.
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And would that be because of BoA's recent behaviour with Wikileaks, or the fraud and corruption of which Wikileaks claims to have evidence?
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I keep them all listed on my online dating profile. Nobody will ever look there!
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TV* is an addiction that's sapping so many of time and energy.
So is the internet. Ironically, your comment is tl;dr.
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Why attack twitter?
Are they attacking Twitter?
Twitter isn't on the list of targets on the instructions image another poster linked to earlier in this discussion.
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You must be new here.
Moore's claims were accurate. He helped bail out Assange. He posted his on money towards bail.
It is the /. submitter/editor who suggested Moore posted the entire bail.
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Not only that, but the summary also suggests there are "Space Nations". All nationalities that have a presence in space are ones that originated--and remain based--on Earth.
- RG>
C&C Generals does the same thing. I have the retail CD on my shelf. I've reinstalled several times. 30 seconds in base explodes. The game was playable for about 2 years and then nothing. I won't get bit by that again.
This is why I don't plan to buy Civ V: I still have the 15-year-old disc for Civ III and it works fine. But 15 years from now, if Civ V's ping to the DRM servers doesn't respond, the game will not play.
I should be able to pass on my computer games to my children like my parents did to me with their board games.
- RG>
I don't know how it is in Sweden but here in the USA if you don't have money for a lawyer you get a "public pretender"
In Canada (which for these purposes isn't all that far to the US, except we don't have a constitutional right to a lawyer), high-profile lawyers leap on high-profile cases like these and defend them pro-bono if necessary because it gets their name in the papers as free publicity.
- RG>
Sexual consent was discussed at the Supreme Court of Canada in the last month or so (obviously not an arbiter for justice in Sweden, but nonetheless...).
At issue was whether you could give advance sexual consent for someone to perform sexual acts on your body while you are unconscious. One of the key aspects in the decision (either of the lower court or of the SCC itself) was that advance consent for sexual activity while unconscious prevents you from being able to withdraw that consent in the midst of the act.
There are plenty of differences between sex and full-anaesthetic surgery. Not the least being that sex doesn't require you to be asleep. In a surgery, there is a large legal apparatus with lots of paperwork and precedent, compared with sex where consent is often oral or even just implied and/or with impaired judgement (e.g. drunk). With surgery, you often can't simply stop halfway through a procedure without causing more harm through withdrawal (but I wouldn't be surprised if this does happen).
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Thanks, it was unclear from the GP post that the reference was to the farming population as opposed to the general population.
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In Germany, traffic laws there are sensible.
Yes, but generally so are the drivers, because they have to actually prove they can drive before they get licenses.
Here in North America we have to depend on rules like speed limits because idiots like to rocket down pedestrian-lined urban streets at speeds too fast to see or respond to hazards, because society sees driving as a right and the government doesn't seem to want to take driving permits away from people who genuinely drive dangerously.
- RG>
As an aside, I hate those signs saying stuff like "If you can't see my mirrors, I can't see you". They imply that if you can see the mirrors, then the driver can see you, which is absolutely not the case.
LOGIC ERROR
No, you're thinking of "If you can't see my eyes reflected in my mirrors, I can't see you."
For example, if the truck is doing a hard turn, all the driver will see in the mirrors is the side of the truck, but you could still see the mirrors if you were, say, standing on the sidewalk next to the turning truck.
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the average age is already above retirement age
Citation please? The CIA world factbook says the median age is around 45, and only a quarter of the population is at or above the retirement age of 65. I can't find any references for the average age.
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