One way to solve this problem, of course, is to develop a font that constantly varies the size and type so that your document ends up looking like a ransom that's been clipped and pasted from a newspaper.
One nice thing about being paranoid, you're never bored.
Please read my post before replying. You're misunderstanding which rules I'm refering to. I'm not arguing against the Geneva convention. All my examples concern the weapons/tactics used against soldiers.
Ya know, you start with 'you've got to be kidding me' but you seem to have halfway figured things out after a few paragraphs of typing.
Companies are advertising one price and charging another. Sometimes these extra fees are taxes and some times they are just designed to look like them so folks don't argue. If companies want to send notes to their customers telling them how much of the cost on their phone is taxes, wonderful. But it's dishonest for companies to collect more money than the advertised price, and should be illegal. If the government charges a special tax, that means merchants should have to roll that money into into their advertised price rather than hide it. Likewise, adding exhorbinant 'shipping and handling fees' for mail order should be illegal. If you charge exactly the price of the shipping, so be it, but often 'shipping and handling' fees are simply a way of collecting more profit once the consumer has shopped around and thought they made the right decision.
If Mr. Aquinas starts selling cell phones, you let me know, okay?
Look at it this way - when you buy a CD you don't actually own the contents, do use as you please. You have purchased a liscense to use the contents. So backing up those contents is acceptable under that liscense. Either a CD is property or it is a liscense to access copyrighted material.
What bugs me is that companies want to have it both ways. They want IP to be treated as real property, but it isn't subjected to tarrifs, purchasing it doesn't mean you own it, etc.
And sure, we could just suck it up and let the music industry write their own laws, but why should we? Last time I checked this was still a democracy... okay, second to last time I checked anyways.
None of these resources explained how the thing worked. They explained 'what it does', yes. But not how it worked.
If you had an air bubble around your torpedo it would create drag. I assume that this uses a vacuume rather than an actual 'air bubble'. The only way I know to create supercavitating bubbles is with powerful sound waves. Is that what this does? How do you get a supercavitating bubble around your missle? Or is this one of those "I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you" deals.
I sometimes wonder whether another purpose of "the rules" is to provide moral protection to those with power from those without.
Crossbows were banned when they could kill knights. Nuclear weapons were banned when they could give smaller nations advantages against more powerful ones (but were still kept by the more powerful ones)
The British got pissed in 177x when Americans weren't standing out on fields in brightly colored uniforms and firing at them like good little soldiers. Taking cover behind trees? Not fair!
Powerful armies can overcome weaker ones, unless the weaker army strikes at 'soft spots' and uses hit-and-run tactics.
Does anyone get this whole 'supercavitating torpedo' thing? Wouldn't a gas bubble cause just as much friction as the torpedo itself? And I thought cavitation created a vacuume? But then IANANSMD (I am not a nuclear sub missle designer)
But medical research is such an EXPENSIVE way to kill things - rats in cages mostly, and a few rabits and primates. Booooriiinggg. Guns are much cheaper and far more interesting.
How about timers in land mines so that they blow up/self destruct after two or three years. That way, we don't leave land mines all over the place like we did in Cambodia, with people still dying from them, god knows how long after the conflict. Does anyone know if the US does anything like this? It doesn't sound that hard, and would do a lot of good. (Have them blow up at 3 in the morning, so noone is nearby).
I had one book full of misspellings and grammatical errors. Ironically it was about common grammatical mistakes made by Chinese students learning English. Some of the examples they used were even incorrect. The guys writing it obviously didn't have English as their first language.
Don't be foolish. The last thing we want is constructive criminals. They'll be setting up nice, constructive...*cough cough* herb importation businesses.
1. not all women are in sexual relationships. Of course, there are also a lot of women who aren't 'of legal age' yet who are getting it on.
2. Just because the average penis is 6 inches doesn't mean that the average penis involved in sex is 6 inches. A small proportion of guys account for most of the sex in the population.
But I'd be happy to do somthing about this travesty if it's that important to you. Where does your wife live?
I don't pretend to know exactly why Bush does what he does but I can make some educated guesses. I think he's trying to be all things to all people, doing what he's told, and trying to maintain American dominance in the world. I do know that the CIA tends to think in terms of power relations, that Bush's father was head of the CIA and this seems to describe how 'W' sees the world too.
Heres some speculation; the cover of war allows the president and the CIA power that they normally wouldn't have, and is a distraction from domestic issues. Bush has managed to deport a number of illegal immigrants from the US without the numerous complaints which would have been raised otherwise. The CIA has gotten the various Patriot acts passed, which would have been difficult in peacetime. A message has been sent to a number of nations; respond to America's diplomatic requests or we'll take you down. Iraq attacked Kuwait and threatened our ally Saudi Arabia, and Bush has close ties to the Wahabi (sp?) rulers of Saudi Arabia. The Saudis can't retaliate. That would be bad politically. But they can use the US to do so.
Iraq traded a lot of oil with France and Russia rather than the states. Not a good move.
The 'war on terrorism' is another war which justifies the US attacking its enemies in the eyes of the American people. You can decide for yourself whether this method of justifying a pre-emptive strike and preventing powers hostile to the US from 'going nuclear' is good or evil. Sadadm did want nuclear weapons. Iran and N.Korea were working on them.
Iraq had been trading too much oil with France and Russia, rather than the states, perhaps? I know that this is true, but it's hard to determine someone's motives if they want to keep them covered.
I don't think that Bush is 'evil' so much as he wants to acomplish his goals by any means necessary but that's a fine line.
Actually, it turns out that the abuse is much more widespread and was encouraged from high up the chain of command. These kids were congratulated for 'getting results.'
Bush is still trying his first 'enemy combatant' cases which will determine whether he can have Americans detained at will without charge, trial, or the right to talk to the outside world. He doesn't want to tolerate dissent, but he can't overplay his hand. Our system has checks and balances to presidential power, and he's removing them, one by one. Even Hitler tried to legitimize his power before dissolving democracy completely. Bush is still in the phase of rooting out dissent in government and consolidating his power. For example, Karl Rove committed treason by blowing the cover of a CIA operative. Why hasn't he been tried? Numerous people in government have complained that Bush is trying to eliminate his critics.
I realize there are still some Hopi (I took the time to read the hoplessly boring Hopi bible. Why are religious texts so monotonous? I suppose they weren't originally meant to be read all at once.) And yes, many natives were converted to Christianity. They were essentially assimilated into the dominant culture, ideologically and genetically. That's essentially my point. Will there be somthing that assimilates humans, ideologically and genetically? Wouldn't that be what an alien religion is designed to do for humans, in the same way that Christianity helped 'assimilate' the Hopi. There would still be some people who kept their old faith, but the majority would cross over.
On a similar note; I always disliked the 'Borg' Star Trek movie. Instead of turning the Borg into vampires and adding the old Hollywood cliche of 'curing evil by killing the evil leader and then everything is alright', I wish the scriptwriters had had the Enterprise go back in time and see the borg 'selected for' by a capitalist society, or somthing along those lines. "Old fashioned" learning would become hopelessly inefficient compared to just plugging into the system. Join the borg and get a good job without having to attend college, etc. Growing political domination.
In short, I think the Borg would have been scarier if they were shown as a path taken by supposedly free people - a 'free market' essentially compelling people to join an organization which destroyed their freedom.
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One way to solve this problem, of course, is to develop a font that constantly varies the size and type so that your document ends up looking like a ransom that's been clipped and pasted from a newspaper.
One nice thing about being paranoid, you're never bored.
Please read my post before replying. You're misunderstanding which rules I'm refering to. I'm not arguing against the Geneva convention. All my examples concern the weapons/tactics used against soldiers.
Ya know, you start with 'you've got to be kidding me' but you seem to have halfway figured things out after a few paragraphs of typing.
Companies are advertising one price and charging another. Sometimes these extra fees are taxes and some times they are just designed to look like them so folks don't argue. If companies want to send notes to their customers telling them how much of the cost on their phone is taxes, wonderful. But it's dishonest for companies to collect more money than the advertised price, and should be illegal. If the government charges a special tax, that means merchants should have to roll that money into
into their advertised price rather than hide it. Likewise, adding exhorbinant 'shipping and handling fees' for mail order should be illegal. If you charge exactly the price of the shipping, so be it, but often 'shipping and handling' fees are simply a way of collecting more profit once the consumer has shopped around and thought they made the right decision.
If Mr. Aquinas starts selling cell phones, you let me know, okay?
Look at it this way - when you buy a CD you don't actually own the contents, do use as you please. You have purchased a liscense to use the contents. So backing up those contents is acceptable under that liscense. Either a CD is property or it is a liscense to access copyrighted material.
What bugs me is that companies want to have it both ways. They want IP to be treated as real property, but it isn't subjected to tarrifs, purchasing it doesn't mean you own it, etc.
And sure, we could just suck it up and let the music industry write their own laws, but why should we? Last time I checked this was still a democracy... okay, second to last time I checked anyways.
None of these resources explained how the thing worked. They explained 'what it does', yes. But not how it worked.
If you had an air bubble around your torpedo it would create drag. I assume that this uses a vacuume rather than an actual 'air bubble'. The only way I know to create supercavitating bubbles is with powerful sound waves. Is that what this does? How do you get a supercavitating bubble around your missle? Or is this one of those "I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you" deals.
I sometimes wonder whether another purpose of "the rules" is to provide moral protection to those with power from those without.
Crossbows were banned when they could kill knights. Nuclear weapons were banned when they could give smaller nations advantages against more powerful ones (but were still kept by the more powerful ones)
The British got pissed in 177x when Americans weren't standing out on fields in brightly colored uniforms and firing at them like good little soldiers. Taking cover behind trees? Not fair!
Powerful armies can overcome weaker ones, unless the weaker army strikes at 'soft spots' and uses hit-and-run tactics.
Flippant. I was going for flippant.
Does anyone get this whole 'supercavitating torpedo' thing? Wouldn't a gas bubble cause just as much friction as the torpedo itself? And I thought cavitation created a vacuume? But then IANANSMD (I am not a nuclear sub missle designer)
I hope not. It makes my job that much more difficult.
Waitasec, does that make Ralph Nader Princess Leia?
But medical research is such an EXPENSIVE way to kill things - rats in cages mostly, and a few rabits and primates. Booooriiinggg. Guns are much cheaper and far more interesting.
Listen to his allies? Bush blew the cover of a CIA spy because her husband was saying things he didn't want to hear.
Bush decides what he wants to do, and goes fishing for someone who will give him a good excuse for doing it.
Rumsfeld or Colin Powel. Powel's voice is closer to James Earl Jones'. That's gotta count for somthing.
How about timers in land mines so that they blow up/self destruct after two or three years. That way, we don't leave land mines all over the place like we did in Cambodia, with people still dying from them, god knows how long after the conflict. Does anyone know if the US does anything like this? It doesn't sound that hard, and would do a lot of good. (Have them blow up at 3 in the morning, so noone is nearby).
We're developing space based weapons. But watch out. Bin Ladin is developing Ewoks.
My parallel self tried it and said that it didn't work.
I had one book full of misspellings and grammatical errors. Ironically it was about common grammatical mistakes made by Chinese students learning English. Some of the examples they used were even incorrect. The guys writing it obviously didn't have English as their first language.
Don't forget Karl Rove.
Boxing makes money. Duh.
Don't be foolish. The last thing we want is constructive criminals. They'll be setting up nice, constructive ...*cough cough* herb importation businesses.
That's a geek excuse.
A gang member excuse is "the bitch set me up"
1. not all women are in sexual relationships. Of course, there are also a lot of women who aren't 'of legal age' yet who are getting it on.
2. Just because the average penis is 6 inches doesn't mean that the average penis involved in sex is 6 inches. A small proportion of guys account for most of the sex in the population.
But I'd be happy to do somthing about this travesty if it's that important to you. Where does your wife live?
I don't pretend to know exactly why Bush does what he does but I can make some educated guesses. I think he's trying to be all things to all people, doing what he's told, and trying to maintain American dominance in the world. I do know that the CIA tends to think in terms of power relations, that Bush's father was head of the CIA and this seems to describe how 'W' sees the world too.
Heres some speculation; the cover of war allows the president and the CIA power that they normally wouldn't have, and is a distraction from domestic issues. Bush has managed to deport a number of illegal immigrants from the US without the numerous complaints which would have been raised otherwise. The CIA has gotten the various Patriot acts passed, which would have been difficult in peacetime. A message has been sent to a number of nations; respond to America's diplomatic requests or we'll take you down. Iraq attacked Kuwait and threatened our ally Saudi Arabia, and Bush has close ties to the Wahabi (sp?) rulers of Saudi Arabia. The Saudis can't retaliate. That would be bad politically. But they can use the US to do so.
Iraq traded a lot of oil with France and Russia rather than the states. Not a good move.
The 'war on terrorism' is another war which justifies the US attacking its enemies in the eyes of the American people. You can decide for yourself whether this method of justifying a pre-emptive strike and preventing powers hostile to the US from 'going nuclear' is good or evil. Sadadm did want nuclear weapons. Iran and N.Korea were working on them.
Iraq had been trading too much oil with France and Russia, rather than the states, perhaps? I know that this is true, but it's hard to determine someone's motives if they want to keep them covered.
I don't think that Bush is 'evil' so much as he wants to acomplish his goals by any means necessary but that's a fine line.
Actually, it turns out that the abuse is much more widespread and was encouraged from high up the chain of command. These kids were congratulated for 'getting results.'
Bush is still trying his first 'enemy combatant' cases which will determine whether he can have Americans detained at will without charge, trial, or the right to talk to the outside world.
He doesn't want to tolerate dissent, but he can't overplay his hand. Our system has checks and balances to presidential power, and he's removing them, one by one.
Even Hitler tried to legitimize his power before dissolving democracy completely. Bush is still in the phase of rooting out dissent in government and consolidating his power. For example, Karl Rove committed treason by blowing the cover of a CIA operative. Why hasn't he been tried? Numerous people in government have complained that Bush is trying to eliminate his critics.
Thanks for the detailed reply.
Re 2.
I realize there are still some Hopi (I took the time to read the hoplessly boring Hopi bible. Why are religious texts so monotonous? I suppose they weren't originally meant to be read all at once.) And yes, many natives were converted to Christianity. They were essentially assimilated into the dominant culture, ideologically and genetically. That's essentially my point. Will there be somthing that assimilates humans, ideologically and genetically? Wouldn't that be what an alien religion is designed to do for humans, in the same way that Christianity helped 'assimilate' the Hopi. There would still be some people who kept their old faith, but the majority would cross over.
On a similar note;
I always disliked the 'Borg' Star Trek movie.
Instead of turning the Borg into vampires and adding the old Hollywood cliche of 'curing evil by killing the evil leader and then everything is alright', I wish the scriptwriters had had the Enterprise go back in time and see the borg 'selected for' by a capitalist society, or somthing along those lines. "Old fashioned" learning would become hopelessly inefficient compared to just plugging into the system. Join the borg and get a good job without having to attend college, etc. Growing political domination.
In short, I think the Borg would have been scarier if they were shown as a path taken by supposedly free people - a 'free market' essentially compelling people to join an organization which destroyed their freedom.