There were plenty of people pointing out the laughable lies in Powell's speech at the time, who were just dismissed as "conspiracy theorists". There were millions of people around the world protesting
, and there were a few hundred million who did not protest because they believed that getting rid of a bloodthirsty dictator is a) a darn good thing to do, and b) never a clean, straightforward process. But now both parties are vindicated: a bloodthirsty dictator in Syria is killing his own people and basically no one cares. It's called "progress".
Do you miss the tens (hundreds?) of thousands of other people who are also gone? Not to mention the arms, legs, eyes, health, etc. of thousands of other folks?
Killing dictators is dangerous and woeful. Keeping dictators alive is enormously more so. But in a (twisted) way you're right: no one can force you to be sympathetic with Saddam's victims.
I used to work for an Italian producer in the lighting sector. We had almost no sales in Switzerland. The Swiss used to buy from a distributor of ours located in the south of Italy, where we sold at lower prices. Mind you, the lamps physically moved south then north again, adding more than 1500 miles in transportation.
How many more nails in the coffin of "human races do not exists" and "ethnic differences are just skin deep" nonsense statements do we need before we all demand politics stay the funk off science?
Refusing to look into Galileo's telescope has always proved dangerous and wrong, no matter how many priests shouted "looking is evil"
Yeah, and as we all know Sweden is the country with the highest unemployment humanly possible and its economy is about to collapse. People are rioting in the streets and even camp outside... no, wait, that wasn't Sweden...
Sweden has (for the time being) a low percentage of people in the lowest level of society (not even close to 15%). Those, to be clear, who don't do good at school, have kids at 16 with no family income, commit crimes disproportionally more than other groups, get Obamaphones and need affirmative action to get a decent job. And is far from sources of unneeded/undesired immigration (Africa for Europe and Mexico for the US).
But these problems aren't even necessary to destroy a healthy economy. Overpopulation and imbalance in pension systems are slower, but totally able to do the job.
At 17 you can drive. If you're reckless you can do some damage, for example running a red light or writing that Mr. John Doe is a mass murderer, and that will remain searchable. I'd rather protect Mr. Doe than the young idiot. I have to admit I'd be tempted to vote for a guy who wasn't a total jerk even at 17.
If not being legally allowed to discriminate based on irrelevant information causes your business to suffer, you were doing it wrong in the first place, and I'm quite happy to replace you in the market.
It's not irrelevant. It's protected. If it were irrelevant, no law would be necessary regarding this subject and natural selection would wipe out incapable employers who are "doing it wrong" leaving only those like you in business. But if you're a very smart businessman (apologies if you're a lady) you really shouldn't mix up "irrelevant" and "protected", so either you're very lucky or you're not sincere. If a woman struggles raising five kids and her talents barely provide earnings to decently raise only one, shouldn't you question her ability to plan what she does even when she's outside of her bedroom? That's relevant.
Here in the EU there are contracts which allow for unbelievable discrimination. You can discriminate based on sex, age and marital status. Car insurance is horrendously more expensive for young unmarried males than for middle-aged housewives. Before you jump in to replace our insurance companies in the market, here's the bad news for you: it works. It's called statistics.
Have you heard about a guy called Mohamed Merah? As the Principal of a Jewish (not religious) primary school, how would you feel about being forced by law to hire a quota of Muslims as teachers?
Employment comes after the offer and acceptance. Until you are an employee, you don't need to tell them. When they need it to deal with Social Security, they will get it.
The potential employer is testing your desire to decide the timing for his job. And he wants to be sure he's not wasting his time interviewing someone he couldn't eventually hire.
"Please, Latoya, send me a memo about yesterday's meeting before today EOB." "No, boss, you don't need it until Friday. I'll send it tomorrow. From now ask me to do things only if and when you really need them, will you?"
I would love to be your employee Latoya for a couple of days.
Auction off the tickets at various prices based on demand (so maybe someone will start using Google Checkout), maximize income, give the surplus money to charity (unemployed developers?). Much better than random choice of winners , much less time wasted.
Enormously better than giving the extra money people are willing to pay to scalpers. Nobody likes them, everybody does his best to make them rich.
this is exactly the kind of story that I would tell them so that they would continue using SSDs.
This is exactly the kind of comment that I would post so that they would stop using SSDs. Especially so, if I omitted any kind of reference to actual data. Not a pointless critic or trolling routine, just a request for useful info
They can be and are. But if fake comments become the majority, the community moves away from the site and chooses a new one. If the site is reputable its comments are, too. Creating hundreds of users and thousands of fake comments is an expensive and not very effective method to fight piracy.
I'm a tad perplexed on how so many people think that working 11 hours a day is unprofitable. A huge amount of business owners, lawyers, MDs, scientists, freelancers do that. Are all these people so retarded they don't understand what's good for themselves?
We are talking about individuals. Hugely different from one another. Some are smart, others less so. Easily distracted, highly focused. In astonishly good health, or sickly to say the least. Tough as sumo fighters or frail like paper ballerinas.
Coudn't we just say that "unpaid overtime" clause should be considered illegal in any system of law? That the employee is obviously the weaker part in the contract, and therefore should be protected from being strongarmed into signing unfair contract terms? The whole history of civilization has gone in this direction: more balance between the weaker and the stronger parties.
Of course this should be paired by laws which protect companies from unfair competition by those which use slave labor (forced, unpaid or unfairly paid).
It's obvious all this should rather be discussed with your MPs than with your geek peers.
I know, this is just utopia, it is not affordable and cannot be achieved. That's why the US weren't able to abolish slavery, right?
Marx is dead, but justice doesn't feel very well, either.
It turns out that child pornography is illegal in every country on earth that has any Internet infrastructure worth mentioning.
I'll gladly run the risk to be considered as dumb as the unnamed politician in your post: don't you see the risk of a gray zone in countries where the vast majority of people worships (and see as role models) prophets which had sex with individuals below ten years of age? Do you think that a "you can bang 'em, but no pictures allowed" attitude will effectively protect children? Maybe this won't produce websites, but let's keep an eye on traditional cultural acceptance of pedophilia, shan't we? Would you mind taking a break on your political agenda and clearly state your position regarding religious figures who weren't so clear cut on "kids out of the bedroom" behavior?
I'm no hard-core Christian fanatic, but to be honest, let's remember that 600 years before the events in question a guy called Jesus didn't pretend his God told him to get laid with kids, so it's not just a matter of changing sexual behaviors. I would just say it's the eternal right-against-wrong battle.
Some of the "first world sensibilities" aren't so idiotic. I don't find a world with just 3 mammal species (dogs, cows and ourselves) particularly attractive.
But you can still hope the Chinese will take care of the project, so that no wildlife would survive in North Africa.
No need to worry, actually. It won't take longer than it took the US to switch to metric. People will just realize it's a better option and start using it voluntarily.
Today in Rome a guy put a woman into a coma punching her in the face following a trivial quarrel. He was caught in a matter of hours because of surveillance camera at the railway station. Case closed. No need for witnesses, no need for excessive legal fees for the grieving immigrant family and for the taxpayers.
I guess people who overdo their philosophical exercises get punched in the face much too seldom. Violent people are no longer afraid of prison in so called civilized countries. At least, let's increase their chances of being caught.
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There were plenty of people pointing out the laughable lies in Powell's speech at the time, who were just dismissed as "conspiracy theorists". There were millions of people around the world protesting
, and there were a few hundred million who did not protest because they believed that getting rid of a bloodthirsty dictator is a) a darn good thing to do, and b) never a clean, straightforward process.
But now both parties are vindicated: a bloodthirsty dictator in Syria is killing his own people and basically no one cares. It's called "progress".
Saddam is gone. I don't miss him.
Do you miss the tens (hundreds?) of thousands of other people who are also gone? Not to mention the arms, legs, eyes, health, etc. of thousands of other folks?
Killing dictators is dangerous and woeful. Keeping dictators alive is enormously more so.
But in a (twisted) way you're right: no one can force you to be sympathetic with Saddam's victims.
It isn't a bad thing that emails on porn are blocked. Members, even of Parliament, could easily get stiff on them.
I used to work for an Italian producer in the lighting sector. We had almost no sales in Switzerland. The Swiss used to buy from a distributor of ours located in the south of Italy, where we sold at lower prices. Mind you, the lamps physically moved south then north again, adding more than 1500 miles in transportation.
How many more nails in the coffin of "human races do not exists" and "ethnic differences are just skin deep" nonsense statements do we need before we all demand politics stay the funk off science?
Refusing to look into Galileo's telescope has always proved dangerous and wrong, no matter how many priests shouted "looking is evil"
Yeah, and as we all know Sweden is the country with the highest unemployment humanly possible and its economy is about to collapse. People are rioting in the streets and even camp outside ... no, wait, that wasn't Sweden...
Sweden has (for the time being) a low percentage of people in the lowest level of society (not even close to 15%). Those, to be clear, who don't do good at school, have kids at 16 with no family income, commit crimes disproportionally more than other groups, get Obamaphones and need affirmative action to get a decent job. And is far from sources of unneeded/undesired immigration (Africa for Europe and Mexico for the US).
But these problems aren't even necessary to destroy a healthy economy. Overpopulation and imbalance in pension systems are slower, but totally able to do the job.
At 17 you can drive. If you're reckless you can do some damage, for example running a red light or writing that Mr. John Doe is a mass murderer, and that will remain searchable. I'd rather protect Mr. Doe than the young idiot. I have to admit I'd be tempted to vote for a guy who wasn't a total jerk even at 17.
If not being legally allowed to discriminate based on irrelevant information causes your business to suffer, you were doing it wrong in the first place, and I'm quite happy to replace you in the market.
It's not irrelevant. It's protected. If it were irrelevant, no law would be necessary regarding this subject and natural selection would wipe out incapable employers who are "doing it wrong" leaving only those like you in business. But if you're a very smart businessman (apologies if you're a lady) you really shouldn't mix up "irrelevant" and "protected", so either you're very lucky or you're not sincere. If a woman struggles raising five kids and her talents barely provide earnings to decently raise only one, shouldn't you question her ability to plan what she does even when she's outside of her bedroom? That's relevant.
Here in the EU there are contracts which allow for unbelievable discrimination. You can discriminate based on sex, age and marital status. Car insurance is horrendously more expensive for young unmarried males than for middle-aged housewives. Before you jump in to replace our insurance companies in the market, here's the bad news for you: it works. It's called statistics.
Have you heard about a guy called Mohamed Merah? As the Principal of a Jewish (not religious) primary school, how would you feel about being forced by law to hire a quota of Muslims as teachers?
Employment comes after the offer and acceptance. Until you are an employee, you don't need to tell them. When they need it to deal with Social Security, they will get it.
The potential employer is testing your desire to decide the timing for his job. And he wants to be sure he's not wasting his time interviewing someone he couldn't eventually hire.
"Please, Latoya, send me a memo about yesterday's meeting before today EOB."
"No, boss, you don't need it until Friday. I'll send it tomorrow. From now ask me to do things only if and when you really need them, will you?"
I would love to be your employee Latoya for a couple of days.
Auction off the tickets at various prices based on demand (so maybe someone will start using Google Checkout), maximize income, give the surplus money to charity (unemployed developers?).
Much better than random choice of winners , much less time wasted.
Enormously better than giving the extra money people are willing to pay to scalpers. Nobody likes them, everybody does his best to make them rich.
What about non-tumor cells, which also display this cell determinant?
They will die. But, from TFA: "CD47 is overexpressed on cancer cells". Cancer treatment is about destroying much more cancer cells than healthy ones.
impoverished, underdeveloped, famine-stricken countries
May I add "increasingly overpopulated"?
Modders, please, don't push "Informative" when you mean "Insightful"
this is exactly the kind of story that I would tell them so that they would continue using SSDs.
This is exactly the kind of comment that I would post so that they would stop using SSDs. Especially so, if I omitted any kind of reference to actual data. Not a pointless critic or trolling routine, just a request for useful info
Has the Open Source community gain anything to do with Rebellino accepting the position?
The best thing Wikipedia could do to attract women's attention would be to extensively cover the upcoming prince William's wedding.
Sadly, my statement is both outrageously sexist and completely true.
They can be and are. But if fake comments become the majority, the community moves away from the site and chooses a new one. If the site is reputable its comments are, too. Creating hundreds of users and thousands of fake comments is an expensive and not very effective method to fight piracy.
I'm a tad perplexed on how so many people think that working 11 hours a day is unprofitable. A huge amount of business owners, lawyers, MDs, scientists, freelancers do that. Are all these people so retarded they don't understand what's good for themselves?
We are talking about individuals. Hugely different from one another. Some are smart, others less so. Easily distracted, highly focused. In astonishly good health, or sickly to say the least. Tough as sumo fighters or frail like paper ballerinas.
Coudn't we just say that "unpaid overtime" clause should be considered illegal in any system of law? That the employee is obviously the weaker part in the contract, and therefore should be protected from being strongarmed into signing unfair contract terms? The whole history of civilization has gone in this direction: more balance between the weaker and the stronger parties.
Of course this should be paired by laws which protect companies from unfair competition by those which use slave labor (forced, unpaid or unfairly paid).
It's obvious all this should rather be discussed with your MPs than with your geek peers.
I know, this is just utopia, it is not affordable and cannot be achieved. That's why the US weren't able to abolish slavery, right?
Marx is dead, but justice doesn't feel very well, either.
being smart enough to win a prize
You needn't be that smart to win a Nobel Prize
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6868905.ece
It turns out that child pornography is illegal in every country on earth that has any Internet infrastructure worth mentioning.
I'll gladly run the risk to be considered as dumb as the unnamed politician in your post: don't you see the risk of a gray zone in countries where the vast majority of people worships (and see as role models) prophets which had sex with individuals below ten years of age? Do you think that a "you can bang 'em, but no pictures allowed" attitude will effectively protect children? Maybe this won't produce websites, but let's keep an eye on traditional cultural acceptance of pedophilia, shan't we? Would you mind taking a break on your political agenda and clearly state your position regarding religious figures who weren't so clear cut on "kids out of the bedroom" behavior?
I'm no hard-core Christian fanatic, but to be honest, let's remember that 600 years before the events in question a guy called Jesus didn't pretend his God told him to get laid with kids, so it's not just a matter of changing sexual behaviors. I would just say it's the eternal right-against-wrong battle.
Some of the "first world sensibilities" aren't so idiotic. I don't find a world with just 3 mammal species (dogs, cows and ourselves) particularly attractive.
But you can still hope the Chinese will take care of the project, so that no wildlife would survive in North Africa.
No need to worry, actually. It won't take longer than it took the US to switch to metric. People will just realize it's a better option and start using it voluntarily.
Anyone having technical knowledge willing to explain whether a drone is more likely to drop off the sky than a helicopter?
Today in Rome a guy put a woman into a coma punching her in the face following a trivial quarrel. He was caught in a matter of hours because of surveillance camera at the railway station. Case closed. No need for witnesses, no need for excessive legal fees for the grieving immigrant family and for the taxpayers.
I guess people who overdo their philosophical exercises get punched in the face much too seldom.
Violent people are no longer afraid of prison in so called civilized countries. At least, let's increase their chances of being caught.
Are you a teacher in Microsoft's course "Monopoly, Cartels & Area 51: debunking conspiracy theories"?