I'm no expert, but I'll go out on a limb here and suggest that maybe, just maybe, rather than catching it from your friends through some kind of wierd emotional virus, it's having friends that makes you happy.
When has customs NOT violated that particular set of rules?
Customs agents have pretty much always had the power to search you, your luggage, your vehicle, etc. pretty much on a whim, without all the pesky "probable cause" restrictions that real cops need.
The official line has always been something to the effect of "crossing the border is all the grounds necessary to satisfy the probable cause requirement" or "crossing the border constitutes consent to what would otherwise be illegal searches".
As I recall, previous reports have shown that the cameras didn't change the overal crime rates, so the implication is that for every crime that they help solve, they are in some way making another crime harder to solve. Probably by simply causing the people doing it to be more sneaky than they otherwise would be.
The old way of campaigning in japan is also incredibly annoying. I was in Tokyo during some elections a couple years ago, and they were driving around in trucks at 8am blaring campaign slogans or something via loudspeakers.
It's very similar to all those super-secret military installations that various governments freaked out at google over when they showed up on google maps, even though the images used were publicly available and entirely legal.
Meh. Zombies are mostly a problem due to horror movie tropes like "running away never works", "the authorities are useless when it comes to anything important" and "nobody in the movie has ever seen a zombie movie". Chances are it wouldn't get beyond a small initial outbreak.
Even if they get established in a city, once the military gets called in, tanks and other armored vehicles will make short work of the milling throngs - if the "zombies are attracted to noise" rule is in effect, you could get them all by just driving tanks through the streets constantly for a few weeks.
Modern zombies pretty much always stem from a single case 0 and don't have an airborn infection vector, so unless you get really unlucky, you're looking at losing one city at most.
That said, if animals can spread it, you're hosed. Forget about packs of zombie-dogs, what you'd have to worry about is crows...
Actually, a rather large percentage of people probably would do it. Lovely thing about people - most of us will obey perceived authority. The Milgram experiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment) showed that most of us would quite likely kill, or at least harm, an innocent person if a perceived authority figure pushed us to do it in the right way.
Comparatively speaking, getting you to break a window is simple.
That said, a totally free market is impossible without eliminating any and all power discrepencies between agents within the market. What most people who say they want a free market actually want is a market in which they are free to exploit anyone and everyone without any sort of legal oversight.
Actually, I've pretty much done this though the options menu... but I almost never use office2007 due to massive bugs like jumping to random points in the document when what I'm typing wordwraps, and arbitrarily changing the IME into japanese mode while i'm typing in english. I only even have it for the sake of compatability.
The question is whether Open Office will allow something similar/better if they continue with this ribbon madness.
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The logical next step is requiring warning labels on women wearing padded bras.
So, it makes wild guesses, allows others to tell it how it should be thinking and/or bases vital decisions on obviously false beliefs?
I have never been called on to use cursive script from grade 8 onwards... I graduated back in 92.
For the last 20 years or so they've pretty much only been teaching it so that we'll be able to read it.
"You sir, have accused me of libel. This is obviously untrue, so I am bringing you up on charges of libel."
I'm no expert, but I'll go out on a limb here and suggest that maybe, just maybe, rather than catching it from your friends through some kind of wierd emotional virus, it's having friends that makes you happy.
Not even very usefull on laptops, really. It's iffy at best on tablets.
The only way it's usefull on a desktop is if the screen is actually set into the desk. And for most purposes that's a horrible place to put a screen.
M.U.L.E. is more fun that most games made in the last 20 years.
Even a basic grasp of concepts such as evolution will tell you that every living thing is a mutant.
The company that is best known for making the same games every damned year.
Prostitutes are demanding that everybody else stop providing sex for free, as it reduces the demand for their paid services.
When has customs NOT violated that particular set of rules?
Customs agents have pretty much always had the power to search you, your luggage, your vehicle, etc. pretty much on a whim, without all the pesky "probable cause" restrictions that real cops need.
The official line has always been something to the effect of "crossing the border is all the grounds necessary to satisfy the probable cause requirement" or "crossing the border constitutes consent to what would otherwise be illegal searches".
Don't let your managers find out about this.
And last time I checked, the process of getting Aluminum in the first place isn't exactly stunningly pleasent to the environment.
Include the required hardware. A dirt cheap netbook, for example.
As I recall, previous reports have shown that the cameras didn't change the overal crime rates, so the implication is that for every crime that they help solve, they are in some way making another crime harder to solve. Probably by simply causing the people doing it to be more sneaky than they otherwise would be.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could control our own damned hardware?
"she may have a rare medical condition that gives her an unfair advantage."
If it's a medical condition, it's fair. Deal with it.
There is no way there's enough gamers in their 40s and above to counterbalance the fact that almost everybody under 20 plays video games.
The old way of campaigning in japan is also incredibly annoying. I was in Tokyo during some elections a couple years ago, and they were driving around in trucks at 8am blaring campaign slogans or something via loudspeakers.
It's very similar to all those super-secret military installations that various governments freaked out at google over when they showed up on google maps, even though the images used were publicly available and entirely legal.
For the most part twitter is a measure of what a vanishingly tiny and very niche chunk of the population incorrectly believes to be interesting.
Meh. Zombies are mostly a problem due to horror movie tropes like "running away never works", "the authorities are useless when it comes to anything important" and "nobody in the movie has ever seen a zombie movie". Chances are it wouldn't get beyond a small initial outbreak.
Even if they get established in a city, once the military gets called in, tanks and other armored vehicles will make short work of the milling throngs - if the "zombies are attracted to noise" rule is in effect, you could get them all by just driving tanks through the streets constantly for a few weeks.
Modern zombies pretty much always stem from a single case 0 and don't have an airborn infection vector, so unless you get really unlucky, you're looking at losing one city at most.
That said, if animals can spread it, you're hosed. Forget about packs of zombie-dogs, what you'd have to worry about is crows...
Actually, a rather large percentage of people probably would do it.
Lovely thing about people - most of us will obey perceived authority. The Milgram experiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment) showed that most of us would quite likely kill, or at least harm, an innocent person if a perceived authority figure pushed us to do it in the right way.
Comparatively speaking, getting you to break a window is simple.
This is where unfettered capitalism actually ends up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_massacre
That said, a totally free market is impossible without eliminating any and all power discrepencies between agents within the market. What most people who say they want a free market actually want is a market in which they are free to exploit anyone and everyone without any sort of legal oversight.
Actually, I've pretty much done this though the options menu... but I almost never use office2007 due to massive bugs like jumping to random points in the document when what I'm typing wordwraps, and arbitrarily changing the IME into japanese mode while i'm typing in english. I only even have it for the sake of compatability.
The question is whether Open Office will allow something similar/better if they continue with this ribbon madness.