Enjoy the first three books, they are by far the best. I am sitting here reading "Crossroads of Twilight" again and am amazed at Jordan's ability to write 700 pages in which virtually nothing substantive occurs in the plot.
Don't get me wrong, it's interesting, but the man needs to move the story along at some point.
The article is predicated on the assumption that the stock price means something about the fundementals of the company. I'd say a comment on the realities of speculative investing is on-topic.
Because you are never going to be able to unwind hundreds of years of legal precedent. Conservatives will fight giving "additional" rights to gays and lesbians, and the result is that civil unions will lack the legal power of marriages indefinitely.
Same-sex marriage with the same meaning as heterosexual marriage is the only way to achieve parity.
I'm not trying to be combative, but try comparing your argument to segregation. Did seperate but equal work there?
It isn't the fault of the gay community that straight people attached a huge pile of legal and civil rules to the institution of marriage. It is too late to go back now and rewrite them.
If you want something that stands for the union of a man and a woman, why don't YOU invent and use that new term, and keep it only for religious purposes.
Already certain companies give benefits to life partners and are in theory vulnerable to the scenario above. Allowing gays to marry would remove that "loophole" and would put gays and straights on equal footing. (that is, marriages of convenience could occur but there is a clear legal process instead of this hazy "life partner" designation)
Most life does have some form of quality-control built in. If your cells go haywire they are supposed to self-destruct. Obviously, this is not always successful, despite millions of years of evolution.
Simple organisms like bacteria and viruses have poor or no checks during reproduction, so they mutate a lot faster.
I think a robust middle class IS good for business, but business CANNOT take a long view. If they don't succeed now, they won't be around in 25 years to reap the fruits of improving their society. They cannot ignore a near-term development that could mean their destruction, even if they are fully aware it could mean lower profits in the future.
This is good, but I am guessing that there are probablistic components to the white noise generated by a reverse-biased zener junctions. There is also an issue of ADC imposing order on the chaoes. That may well make it less random than the CCD technique.
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I don't think there is any implication at all for fertility. Even if you are a chimera, and even if you happen to have multiple germlines, any individual sperm cell will be from a single line. (i.e. normal) But IANAD.
My statement about healthcare was more in terms of insurance. The UK has a national healthcare program, does it not? In the U.S. the health insurance cost is, I believe, the highest in the world and there is little support from the Federal government for most of the population. I think Americans may have higher out-of-pocket insurance expenses.
Undeveloped space IS probably a big source of differences.
You do realize that IBM moved development for some products to India/years/ ago, don't you? This isn't a new idea for them, nor do they appear to be suffering from quality issues.
I don't know, but maybe it has something to do with labor practices? I'm not familiar with the situation in the UK but I know that many European countries make it much harder to lay off workers than is so in the U.S. This tends to make companies less willing to hire new staff since they may be stuck with them, which ends up depressing the labor market somewhat. Essentially you are paying some hidden unemployment insurance in the form of a lower salary.
I think that benefits like healthcare also have some marked differences; these don't show up in a direct salary comparison.
I believe though, that they can register after infringement and still collect some damages. I think this is a valuable protection for small-time artists and others that may not see an incentive in copyrighting their works but that still don't deserve to be ripped off.
The problem is that natural evolution occurs over time, and generally (although not always) ends up with a fairly diverse set of genes and characteristics. A GM species might overtake a natural one in a mere 50-100 years, without any significant differenatiation occurring.
Now, say there is a vulnerability to a mold in it. Bam, the entire "hardier" population is gone, because genetic diversity went way down when the GM species took over. It is like engineering a genetic bottleneck, because researchers will not want diversity...they will want all of their seeds to have all of the good traits and none of the bad ones.
The most important thing when performing kaishaku is to allow the person committing seppuku to do it/honorably/. That means not distracting them, killing them quickly after they finish the last cut, and NOT cutting completely through the neck. (Actually beheading a samurai would be dishonorable)
But to couch it in terms of explaining the argument is missing the point, in my opinion. Philosophy is dedicated to finding truths; an insight is valid even if it is difficult to explain.
Well, that was pretty obtuse. Let's face it, many concepts in philosophy can probably not be understood by a layman unless they are given considerable background. Other concepts may require a great deal of setup in order to make a cogent argument. Still others may simply be beyond the grasp of persons of "average intelligence."
The validity of an argument in the abstract is not measured by my skill in presenting it to you.
Get a better TV. Mine adjusts so that you get the same number of scanlines regardless of the aspect ratio. Yes, you still are losing some potential active pixels, but it is much better than throwing away resolution.
Woah! You are really going out on a limb. Mathematics is generated from a very small set of axioms, which are defined. We can be free to define them, because they are an abstract concept. Everything (validly) generated from those axioms is both testable and falsifiable.
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Enjoy the first three books, they are by far the best. I am sitting here reading "Crossroads of Twilight" again and am amazed at Jordan's ability to write 700 pages in which virtually nothing substantive occurs in the plot.
Don't get me wrong, it's interesting, but the man needs to move the story along at some point.
The article is predicated on the assumption that the stock price means something about the fundementals of the company. I'd say a comment on the realities of speculative investing is on-topic.
Because you are never going to be able to unwind hundreds of years of legal precedent. Conservatives will fight giving "additional" rights to gays and lesbians, and the result is that civil unions will lack the legal power of marriages indefinitely.
Same-sex marriage with the same meaning as heterosexual marriage is the only way to achieve parity.
I'm not trying to be combative, but try comparing your argument to segregation. Did seperate but equal work there?
It isn't the fault of the gay community that straight people attached a huge pile of legal and civil rules to the institution of marriage. It is too late to go back now and rewrite them.
If you want something that stands for the union of a man and a woman, why don't YOU invent and use that new term, and keep it only for religious purposes.
That sounds like an argument FOR gay marriage.
Already certain companies give benefits to life partners and are in theory vulnerable to the scenario above. Allowing gays to marry would remove that "loophole" and would put gays and straights on equal footing. (that is, marriages of convenience could occur but there is a clear legal process instead of this hazy "life partner" designation)
Good reason not to live in Texas.
The movies constantly seem to confuse Orcs, Urukhai, and Goblins.
Funny, I read Kafka in junior high school.
Most life does have some form of quality-control built in. If your cells go haywire they are supposed to self-destruct. Obviously, this is not always successful, despite millions of years of evolution.
Simple organisms like bacteria and viruses have poor or no checks during reproduction, so they mutate a lot faster.
I think a robust middle class IS good for business, but business CANNOT take a long view. If they don't succeed now, they won't be around in 25 years to reap the fruits of improving their society. They cannot ignore a near-term development that could mean their destruction, even if they are fully aware it could mean lower profits in the future.
This is good, but I am guessing that there are probablistic components to the white noise generated by a reverse-biased zener junctions. There is also an issue of ADC imposing order on the chaoes. That may well make it less random than the CCD technique.
I don't think there is any implication at all for fertility. Even if you are a chimera, and even if you happen to have multiple germlines, any individual sperm cell will be from a single line. (i.e. normal) But IANAD.
My statement about healthcare was more in terms of insurance. The UK has a national healthcare program, does it not? In the U.S. the health insurance cost is, I believe, the highest in the world and there is little support from the Federal government for most of the population. I think Americans may have higher out-of-pocket insurance expenses.
Undeveloped space IS probably a big source of differences.
You do realize that IBM moved development for some products to India /years/ ago, don't you? This isn't a new idea for them, nor do they appear to be suffering from quality issues.
I don't know, but maybe it has something to do with labor practices? I'm not familiar with the situation in the UK but I know that many European countries make it much harder to lay off workers than is so in the U.S. This tends to make companies less willing to hire new staff since they may be stuck with them, which ends up depressing the labor market somewhat. Essentially you are paying some hidden unemployment insurance in the form of a lower salary.
I think that benefits like healthcare also have some marked differences; these don't show up in a direct salary comparison.
Can you provide any more details?
I believe though, that they can register after infringement and still collect some damages. I think this is a valuable protection for small-time artists and others that may not see an incentive in copyrighting their works but that still don't deserve to be ripped off.
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The problem is that natural evolution occurs over time, and generally (although not always) ends up with a fairly diverse set of genes and characteristics. A GM species might overtake a natural one in a mere 50-100 years, without any significant differenatiation occurring.
Now, say there is a vulnerability to a mold in it. Bam, the entire "hardier" population is gone, because genetic diversity went way down when the GM species took over. It is like engineering a genetic bottleneck, because researchers will not want diversity...they will want all of their seeds to have all of the good traits and none of the bad ones.
You mean that $1/month 911 service I paid on my ISDN? Which didn't have any phones attached? Yeah...
The most important thing when performing kaishaku is to allow the person committing seppuku to do it /honorably/. That means not distracting them, killing them quickly after they finish the last cut, and NOT cutting completely through the neck. (Actually beheading a samurai would be dishonorable)
But to couch it in terms of explaining the argument is missing the point, in my opinion. Philosophy is dedicated to finding truths; an insight is valid even if it is difficult to explain.
Well, that was pretty obtuse. Let's face it, many concepts in philosophy can probably not be understood by a layman unless they are given considerable background. Other concepts may require a great deal of setup in order to make a cogent argument. Still others may simply be beyond the grasp of persons of "average intelligence."
The validity of an argument in the abstract is not measured by my skill in presenting it to you.
True, but in reference to movies virtually all modern widescreen DVDs are anamorphic.
Get a better TV. Mine adjusts so that you get the same number of scanlines regardless of the aspect ratio. Yes, you still are losing some potential active pixels, but it is much better than throwing away resolution.
Woah! You are really going out on a limb. Mathematics is generated from a very small set of axioms, which are defined. We can be free to define them, because they are an abstract concept. Everything (validly) generated from those axioms is both testable and falsifiable.