Do you really think the porn industry wants moneyless kids who can't buy any of their stuff as a target audience? So a 9 year old sees your porn website. He's not going to be able to buy the German Sick Fetish Video for 59.99 out of your store because he doesn't have a credit card! He can't pay for a monthly membership because he doesn't have a credit card! There's no point targeting a kid because they don't offer anything to you financially, and the production of and hosting of porn is not free so the goal is always to make money off it. Maybe you're thinking that porn, like cigarettes, are trying to hook them young? I didn't have a computer at that age, I did just fine with photography books at the library, books on sexuality at the library, National Geographic, underwear ads for Sears, and an old naughty swimsuit catalog from the 80s that somebody left in our attic before we moved in. You will not stop an adolescent boy from seeing boobies. What we need is some fscking responsibility from parents, we need them to teach their kids about sex and explain things to them so they don't get screwed up by what they find. Stop expecting Uncle Sam to parent for you, because if he starts, he won't stop and you've lost control as a parent. I'm no fan of a nanny state, regardless of whether it's moral majority conservatives pushing for it or easily offended liberals.
Sure it's not orbital. But the Wright Brothers didn't fly across the ocean in their first plane. Prop planes preceeded (sp?) jet planes. Once this starts getting popular and well developed, and it sounds like it will be a *very* fast way to get from point A to point B a long farging way aways, the design will be improved on. People will think of augmentations to it. Common use of it will inspire the next stage up from that. It's not a SSTOVTOL but it's getting there.
*Single Stage To Orbit Vertical Take-Off & Landing, for those who don't read Larry Niven...
Genesis the book of the Bible or Genesis the godlike being that is the result of mating between an angel and a demon?
Sorry, been reading a lot of Preacher lately.
It was a reference to the first movie...
Anyway, it's entirely possible that it was evolutionary memory that caused the writers of the tribal myths which became Genesis to put a snake as the bad guy. Snakes weren't terribly popular with anyone back then, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was because of ancient word-of-mouth tales that had been passed down through antiquity from the first hunter-gatherers.
I was homeschooled K-12, and it did absolutely nothing to prepare me socially for the outside world, while giving me both an excellent "book smarts" education and an unhealthy overdose of religious indoctrination. I was kept separate from other kids so I wouldn't pick up foul language, or opposing belief systems, or want to go to public school, or for any other of a host of reasons. My four younger siblings are all turning out as maladjusted as I am. Homeschooling can be done right and it can be done wrong, but that depends on the parents, and there's no control over it. Public schooling is horrible in that it enforces conformity and forces acceptance of social standards, but it provides the experience in dealing with people that homeschool may or may not. The education can be better or worse, depending on location, but a homeschool class size will always be smaller.
Yeah, because American Soldiers always carry their US Passports with them on patrol in Iraq. I'm fairly certain it'd take one, and only one, RFID-based IED to go off before all soldiers were told to stop carrying whatever RFID item was triggering the bomb.
American soldiers don't need passports to get to and from iraq, their military ID cards count as a passport. I am one, I know. However, the current military id card is the common access card, which has a RFID chip built into it.
According to the DoD's FAQ page on the card, it is capable of employing "Non-contact and radio frequency transmitters". However, I don't think it does, and I can't recall hearing of any cases where a CAC has caused an IED to detonate.
Maybe because our country got to where it is because of the failures of the country as a whole. Can't take credit for the good stuff and then say "well, I had nothing to do with it" when things go sour.
My parents homeschooled us using computer-based curriculum. I learned more than I needed to know, scoring at or above the 95th percentile in every category of the Iowa Achievement tests when I took those, and scoring nearly as high on the SAT and the ASVAB. Of course, I also got a whole lot of religious indoctrination, but then, that's why I was homeschooled.
Northrop described Skyguard as capable of destroying rockets, mortars, artillery shells, unmanned aerial vehicles, short-range ballistic missiles, as well as cruise missiles. Against shoulder-fired missiles, which are relatively easy to heat with a laser and destroy, the protective shield would extend to a 20-kilometer radius, Wildt said.
Assuming (biiiig assumption) that Northrop is telling the truth, this means 3 significant things.
1. If it can destroy a mortar or an artillery shell, the system is automated, as human reaction time would be too slow.
2. If it can destroy an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, it can destroy a manned aerial vehicle like a plane.
3. If it destroys weapons with non-active targeting, like mortars, rockets, and artillery shells that just fire off in whatever direction they're pointed and don't have any after-firing guidance, it does not "disable" like some have suggested, it outright heats and destroys.
From Revelations 13:16-17 (16) He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, (17) so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
Of course, the preceding passages involve giant beasts rising out of the earth and the sea and ruling the world. What you have to realize is that there are things you have to consider to understand Revelations, things like symbolism, interpretation, and the special hallucinogenic mushrooms that grow naturally on the island the Apostle John was stranded on when he wrote Revelations.
Final Fantasy 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 aren't like that! Oh, wait. Well, um, Kingdom Hearts isn't like- whoops. Um. Grandia! Grandia was different. Well, wait, it wasn't. Err...
Seriously though, they could set up a roadblock just as easily, or just toss some spike strips out there, and in more lawless parts of the world roadblocks are a reality. If our country wasn't safer now then it has been, bandits could park an 18-wheeler jack-knifed across the highway with spike strips in front of it to waylay travelers. Hell, they could even drive right off afterwards. Banditry would be easier nowadays because if you're walking or on a horse, you don't have to go any given way from one point to another, but if you're driving, you pretty much have to be on a road.
Rapidly filling? Well, if you count Israel, and assume that Iran managed to get a nuke from somewhere (absent a delivery system however), you've got, um, 2. And Israel isn't on the verge of collapse. Actually, Iran isn't either, a lot of Iranians are perfectly happy where they are. If Iran collapses it will be another popular revolution by the younger ages, but since we're polarizing their country by encouraging anti-U.S. nationalism I don't see them collapsing anytime soon. Whatever complaints they may have in their country, they are going to present a unified face to us. Saudi Arabia could be on the verge of collapse, but they don't have nukes. I'd be more worried about Asia and North Korea, or about Pakistan or Russia selling nukes. If Al Qaeda gets a nuke, which they'd have to find ready-made, they still need a delivery method. Most likely is packed onto a freighter of some sort, which is why we need better port security, defined as not outsourcing to a Middle Eastern country.
I'm just curious, which countries were you referring to? And how does it relate to airline safety? The 9/11 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia which is not at all close to collapse, or a nuclear power. Educate and inform, please.
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Actually, the sacrifice of one for many is a basic principle of Christianity, ref: Jesus.
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I heard this story a LOT in Sunday School when I was growing up: http://theranch.org/The-Bridge-Went-Down.86.0.htm
"Jesus" and "God" are all about sick situations like that, you'd think Christians would love stem cell research.
Wouldn't you rather play a nice game of chess?
Do you really think the porn industry wants moneyless kids who can't buy any of their stuff as a target audience? So a 9 year old sees your porn website. He's not going to be able to buy the German Sick Fetish Video for 59.99 out of your store because he doesn't have a credit card! He can't pay for a monthly membership because he doesn't have a credit card! There's no point targeting a kid because they don't offer anything to you financially, and the production of and hosting of porn is not free so the goal is always to make money off it. Maybe you're thinking that porn, like cigarettes, are trying to hook them young? I didn't have a computer at that age, I did just fine with photography books at the library, books on sexuality at the library, National Geographic, underwear ads for Sears, and an old naughty swimsuit catalog from the 80s that somebody left in our attic before we moved in. You will not stop an adolescent boy from seeing boobies. What we need is some fscking responsibility from parents, we need them to teach their kids about sex and explain things to them so they don't get screwed up by what they find. Stop expecting Uncle Sam to parent for you, because if he starts, he won't stop and you've lost control as a parent. I'm no fan of a nanny state, regardless of whether it's moral majority conservatives pushing for it or easily offended liberals.
Sure it's not orbital. But the Wright Brothers didn't fly across the ocean in their first plane. Prop planes preceeded (sp?) jet planes. Once this starts getting popular and well developed, and it sounds like it will be a *very* fast way to get from point A to point B a long farging way aways, the design will be improved on. People will think of augmentations to it. Common use of it will inspire the next stage up from that. It's not a SSTOVTOL but it's getting there.
*Single Stage To Orbit Vertical Take-Off & Landing, for those who don't read Larry Niven...
Yes it would matter, as you'd have to be able to tell prey from background and prey from danger-color. You'd also have to see through camoflage.
And what about our Squats!
Genesis the book of the Bible or Genesis the godlike being that is the result of mating between an angel and a demon? Sorry, been reading a lot of Preacher lately.
It was a reference to the first movie... Anyway, it's entirely possible that it was evolutionary memory that caused the writers of the tribal myths which became Genesis to put a snake as the bad guy. Snakes weren't terribly popular with anyone back then, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was because of ancient word-of-mouth tales that had been passed down through antiquity from the first hunter-gatherers.
http://www.dumpalink.com/media/1151233546/Robot_Ch icken_Monkeys_in_Outer_Space/
Protecting the freedom of the human race!
I was homeschooled K-12, and it did absolutely nothing to prepare me socially for the outside world, while giving me both an excellent "book smarts" education and an unhealthy overdose of religious indoctrination. I was kept separate from other kids so I wouldn't pick up foul language, or opposing belief systems, or want to go to public school, or for any other of a host of reasons. My four younger siblings are all turning out as maladjusted as I am. Homeschooling can be done right and it can be done wrong, but that depends on the parents, and there's no control over it. Public schooling is horrible in that it enforces conformity and forces acceptance of social standards, but it provides the experience in dealing with people that homeschool may or may not. The education can be better or worse, depending on location, but a homeschool class size will always be smaller.
American soldiers don't need passports to get to and from iraq, their military ID cards count as a passport. I am one, I know. However, the current military id card is the common access card, which has a RFID chip built into it.
Observe: http://federalvoice.dscc.dla.mil/images/030423pic
According to the DoD's FAQ page on the card, it is capable of employing "Non-contact and radio frequency transmitters". However, I don't think it does, and I can't recall hearing of any cases where a CAC has caused an IED to detonate.
Maybe because our country got to where it is because of the failures of the country as a whole. Can't take credit for the good stuff and then say "well, I had nothing to do with it" when things go sour.
My parents homeschooled us using computer-based curriculum. I learned more than I needed to know, scoring at or above the 95th percentile in every category of the Iowa Achievement tests when I took those, and scoring nearly as high on the SAT and the ASVAB. Of course, I also got a whole lot of religious indoctrination, but then, that's why I was homeschooled.
"That's a negative Ghost Rider, the pattern is full!"
It's only a flesh wound.
Because men have nipples.
Pretty crazy, considering that Star Trek inspired the Tablet PC (remember the PADD?), the cell phone (thanks Captain Kirk!), the hypospray, and a number of other elements of modern technology. Well, I guess, maybe not all that crazy, eh? http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/ch ronicle/archive/2004/03/15/BUGLV5J6GT1.DTL&type=bu siness
Now I can subvocalize and communicate with Jane without my wife hearing.
("Speaker for the Dead" reference)
From Revelations 13:16-17
(16) He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, (17) so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
Of course, the preceding passages involve giant beasts rising out of the earth and the sea and ruling the world. What you have to realize is that there are things you have to consider to understand Revelations, things like symbolism, interpretation, and the special hallucinogenic mushrooms that grow naturally on the island the Apostle John was stranded on when he wrote Revelations.
Today's State of the Union address is sponsored by Vivid Porn Productions.
I might actually start watching the SOTU again if they did that...
The in-game desktop is disconcerting. But neat!
I liked the series and only stopped after I lost the PS2 card that I had my game saved on.
Final Fantasy 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 aren't like that! Oh, wait. Well, um, Kingdom Hearts isn't like- whoops. Um. Grandia! Grandia was different. Well, wait, it wasn't. Err...
Safer!
Seriously though, they could set up a roadblock just as easily, or just toss some spike strips out there, and in more lawless parts of the world roadblocks are a reality. If our country wasn't safer now then it has been, bandits could park an 18-wheeler jack-knifed across the highway with spike strips in front of it to waylay travelers. Hell, they could even drive right off afterwards. Banditry would be easier nowadays because if you're walking or on a horse, you don't have to go any given way from one point to another, but if you're driving, you pretty much have to be on a road.
Rapidly filling? Well, if you count Israel, and assume that Iran managed to get a nuke from somewhere (absent a delivery system however), you've got, um, 2. And Israel isn't on the verge of collapse. Actually, Iran isn't either, a lot of Iranians are perfectly happy where they are. If Iran collapses it will be another popular revolution by the younger ages, but since we're polarizing their country by encouraging anti-U.S. nationalism I don't see them collapsing anytime soon. Whatever complaints they may have in their country, they are going to present a unified face to us. Saudi Arabia could be on the verge of collapse, but they don't have nukes. I'd be more worried about Asia and North Korea, or about Pakistan or Russia selling nukes. If Al Qaeda gets a nuke, which they'd have to find ready-made, they still need a delivery method. Most likely is packed onto a freighter of some sort, which is why we need better port security, defined as not outsourcing to a Middle Eastern country.
I'm just curious, which countries were you referring to? And how does it relate to airline safety? The 9/11 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia which is not at all close to collapse, or a nuclear power. Educate and inform, please.