Curiously, I could not locate the paper referred to in the link you pointed out.
I did find this paper talking about two particular bird species that seemed to avoid nesting in highly contaminated sites, which factor might be reflected in the study your article quoted.
Your study quoted "some areas with hundreds of animals per square meter, others with none". I can think of examples of both: right on an ant hill; and the middle of an abandoned paved lot. Without actually looking at the study, it's hard to tell if they were playing fair with the numbers.... and sometimes not even then.
The rest of the eligible voters that don't vote, don't count. Because if they really cared and all voted for some other party that party would win.
Would you care for a pony, while you're at it? That someone doesn't cast their vote in an election does not mean they would not support one of the main two candidates in an election. Non-partisan "get out the vote" campaigns are proof of that.
Anyone seen footage from how the authorities handled Katrina? (Unedited footage I mean, not the sanitized stuff for TV).
And from another of your posts...
Wouldn't it be great if there was a large on line repository of knowledge that could be linked to when making broad claims and repeated insistence that a reader should "review history".
Have you actually seen such footage as you describe? Care to name your source? Provide a link, perhaps? Anything?
The article calls out that primarily, bots are used to actually distribute the spam.
Bots are also used for any number of malicious purposes, spam being perhaps the most benign (because it CAN be recognized and discarded).
People have called in this thread for training victims to make spam not pay. This might work for spam bots, but would do nothing for any other type of bot. How about training people to ensure their machine is swept clean of malware on a regular basis, and to keep adequate defenses (AV software, browser guards, whatever)?
Not so much a minority in Portland, OR, at least. The biggest three grocers, Safeway, Albertsons, Fred Meyer all have card programs. Some others chains, including WinCo and some Thriftways (independently owned) don't, but they have less coverage than the big three.
You can call it a "minority of stores" if you include things like 7-11, neighborhood markets, etc.
The League of Nations took several mortal blows (such as the withdrawal of Germany in 1933) before that pact, and lingered on for a full decade after the pact was publicized (and then repudiated by both Brittain and France). If the pact killed the league, it was more like a coup de grace than "ripping out the bleeding heart".
it was untrue that IPR negotiations are normally secret, mentioning as examples that drafts of the other IPR texts, including the proposed WIPO treaty for disabilities and the climate change agreement language on IPR, as well as several drafts of the FTAA text and the 1996 WIPO copyright treaties had been public. Kirk said that ACTA "was different" and the topics being negotiated in ACTA were "more complex."
Perhaps because instead of dealing with nations, they were dealing with corporations? "Corporate paymaster" tin hat comments aside, the corporations may simply not have as many cut-outs as they like in this discussion.
Perhaps because the piece of software used to enter the raw data did not throw up flags when the raw data did not match reality?
The people they polled didn't have a clue of their congressional district, so gave some random number. The web designer simply took data from the database and displayed it. The data entry people didn't have knowledge or instruction to chuck bogus data either.
That only leaves the software used to enter data as a gatekeeper. And if someone specifies a valid district that is NOT the one they actually live in, you still can't tell.
That poll would have been better served by using the 5-digit zip code. (The 9-digit one would raise even more privacy concerns than the 5-digit one does.)
> Nobody else ever has anything to show for how they have spent their time that has any value to me. I was born, I know that I will die, what's inbetween is mine.
"/played" time (that is, time spent actually logged in)? You would have to ask him; it's not a stat available to the general public, afaik.
Sidereal time?
1) While he has the "Swift Flight Form" Feat of Strength achievement, the datestamp on it is not that of when achievements were first noted. This feat was added April 14 2009, he got it April 23rd. This might not be an accurate measure, though, if the Taiwan servers were updated later than the US ones.
2) He has the "Stone Guard" Feat of Strength achievement, indicating that he was involved in PvP at least as far back as 2006.
Armory also has other issues with deprecated achievements...
The summary shows 164 PvP achievements, but if you count all the achievements listed under 'PvP' and its sub-categories, you come up with only 132. Yay, Achievement Inflation!
...As the good salesfolk at the Verizon Wireless store were swift to tell me. I can't stop in at the Verizon Wireless store to pay my Verizon FIOS bill. Verizon Wireless is only majority-owned by Verizon. Verizon itself is the one with FIOS, not Verizon Wireless.
The summary, and the article it points to, quoted the response as from "Verizon Wireless". Looking at the filing itself, "Name of Filer" is "Verizon and Verizon Wireless". I'm guessing that "Verizon Wireless" looks cooler in print. I think it would have been more accurate, though, to simply say "Verizon" in this case.
With a proxy client (TOR or whatever) in China, you could find out live what is blocked and what is not. For instance, This site used to provide just such a service.
It took a bit of searching, but I think your link was to the "top of the opinion page", not a permanent link. Try this link instead.
While it has "1 of 2" at the top of it, and talks about the town hall, I found no link to a second page, and the word "censorship" (appearing in your quote) does not appear in this article I read.
You might even have heard of Sumptuary laws, forbidding (for example) commoners to dress as aristocrats. (While it wasn't related to what people wear, Prohibition was a sumptuary law as well.)
So... Do you really have a right to show your inadequate man-parts (or woman-parts) in public, anywhere, in this hypothetical free country of yours?
Tomb robbers will break into my cryogenic storage facility, see the pretty lights, and break the machinery.
My semiaware body, badly in need of intensive care after having been hauled out of my cryo-capsule after an incomplete revivification sequence, will be shoved aside while the neobarbarians rip out the pretty wires as their Just Rewards for their efforts.
Sadly, it does happen that computers that are on critical care monitoring systems get infected.
One example? A stand-alone system (or connected to internal LAN *only*). Someone brings their USB key in with the latest video from You-tube. Voila. If not the video itself, then the USB key.
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They got eaten by scientists after a period of torture.
Curiously, I could not locate the paper referred to in the link you pointed out.
I did find this paper talking about two particular bird species that seemed to avoid nesting in highly contaminated sites, which factor might be reflected in the study your article quoted.
Your study quoted "some areas with hundreds of animals per square meter, others with none". I can think of examples of both: right on an ant hill; and the middle of an abandoned paved lot. Without actually looking at the study, it's hard to tell if they were playing fair with the numbers. ... and sometimes not even then.
Save Guantanamo, people are not dragged away to torture, incarceration and sometimes murder without trial.
That's like saying "if you ignore the trees, there is no forest here".
One copse does not make a forest.
The rest of the eligible voters that don't vote, don't count. Because if they really cared and all voted for some other party that party would win.
Would you care for a pony, while you're at it? That someone doesn't cast their vote in an election does not mean they would not support one of the main two candidates in an election. Non-partisan "get out the vote" campaigns are proof of that.
Anyone seen footage from how the authorities handled Katrina? (Unedited footage I mean, not the sanitized stuff for TV).
And from another of your posts...
Wouldn't it be great if there was a large on line repository of knowledge that could be linked to when making broad claims and repeated insistence that a reader should "review history".
Have you actually seen such footage as you describe? Care to name your source? Provide a link, perhaps? Anything?
The article calls out that primarily, bots are used to actually distribute the spam.
Bots are also used for any number of malicious purposes, spam being perhaps the most benign (because it CAN be recognized and discarded).
People have called in this thread for training victims to make spam not pay. This might work for spam bots, but would do nothing for any other type of bot. How about training people to ensure their machine is swept clean of malware on a regular basis, and to keep adequate defenses (AV software, browser guards, whatever)?
See: Iran.
Not so much a minority in Portland, OR, at least. The biggest three grocers, Safeway, Albertsons, Fred Meyer all have card programs. Some others chains, including WinCo and some Thriftways (independently owned) don't, but they have less coverage than the big three.
You can call it a "minority of stores" if you include things like 7-11, neighborhood markets, etc.
The link you posted has been replaced by
this one.
A zombie bankruptcy like the same way that SCO has declared bankruptcy?
I do hope you're not talking about a Chrysler-style bankruptcy. Or worse, a Lehman Brothers bankruptcy...
The League of Nations took several mortal blows (such as the withdrawal of Germany in 1933) before that pact, and lingered on for a full decade after the pact was publicized (and then repudiated by both Brittain and France). If the pact killed the league, it was more like a coup de grace than "ripping out the bleeding heart".
Thanks for the links, btw.
Interesting, true, but (FTFA) ...
it was untrue that IPR negotiations are normally secret, mentioning as examples that drafts of the other IPR texts, including the proposed WIPO treaty for disabilities and the climate change agreement language on IPR, as well as several drafts of the FTAA text and the 1996 WIPO copyright treaties had been public. Kirk said that ACTA "was different" and the topics being negotiated in ACTA were "more complex."
Perhaps because instead of dealing with nations, they were dealing with corporations? "Corporate paymaster" tin hat comments aside, the corporations may simply not have as many cut-outs as they like in this discussion.
Don't imagine that even public sessions are innocent affairs.
Perhaps because the piece of software used to enter the raw data did not throw up flags when the raw data did not match reality?
The people they polled didn't have a clue of their congressional district, so gave some random number. The web designer simply took data from the database and displayed it. The data entry people didn't have knowledge or instruction to chuck bogus data either.
That only leaves the software used to enter data as a gatekeeper. And if someone specifies a valid district that is NOT the one they actually live in, you still can't tell.
That poll would have been better served by using the 5-digit zip code. (The 9-digit one would raise even more privacy concerns than the 5-digit one does.)
Perhaps when Warcraft became a card game?.
But say, do you have change for 25 million people?
> Nobody else ever has anything to show for how they have spent their time that has any value to me. I was born, I know that I will die, what's inbetween is mine.
Including that beautiful digital watch...
"/played" time (that is, time spent actually logged in)? You would have to ask him; it's not a stat available to the general public, afaik.
Sidereal time?
1) While he has the "Swift Flight Form" Feat of Strength achievement, the datestamp on it is not that of when achievements were first noted. This feat was added April 14 2009, he got it April 23rd. This might not be an accurate measure, though, if the Taiwan servers were updated later than the US ones.
2) He has the "Stone Guard" Feat of Strength achievement, indicating that he was involved in PvP at least as far back as 2006.
Beyond that, hard to tell.
Armory also has other issues with deprecated achievements...
The summary shows 164 PvP achievements, but if you count all the achievements listed under 'PvP' and its sub-categories, you come up with only 132. Yay, Achievement Inflation!
...As the good salesfolk at the Verizon Wireless store were swift to tell me. I can't stop in at the Verizon Wireless store to pay my Verizon FIOS bill. Verizon Wireless is only majority-owned by Verizon. Verizon itself is the one with FIOS, not Verizon Wireless.
The summary, and the article it points to, quoted the response as from "Verizon Wireless". Looking at the filing itself, "Name of Filer" is "Verizon and Verizon Wireless". I'm guessing that "Verizon Wireless" looks cooler in print. I think it would have been more accurate, though, to simply say "Verizon" in this case.
"Advocacy Groups"
"Issue Advertising"
"Astroturfing"
A company does not need to simply hand over money (or other direct assistance) to a politician, in order exert leverage.
If it is anonymous, it is off the record, and should bear no weight in the real world.
By this, do you include death threats? How about malicious libel?
How about spam?
With a proxy client (TOR or whatever) in China, you could find out live what is blocked and what is not. For instance, This site used to provide just such a service.
You might find Open Net Initiative's page on china of interest too.
It took a bit of searching, but I think your link was to the "top of the opinion page", not a permanent link. Try this link instead.
While it has "1 of 2" at the top of it, and talks about the town hall, I found no link to a second page, and the word "censorship" (appearing in your quote) does not appear in this article I read.
Governments have told people how to dress for quite a long while. Public Nudity and Indecent exposure come to mind as topics. (Note that some Muslim countries consider covering women head to toe part of public decency.
You might even have heard of Sumptuary laws, forbidding (for example) commoners to dress as aristocrats. (While it wasn't related to what people wear, Prohibition was a sumptuary law as well.)
So... Do you really have a right to show your inadequate man-parts (or woman-parts) in public, anywhere, in this hypothetical free country of yours?
I already read this in a short story...
Tomb robbers will break into my cryogenic storage facility, see the pretty lights, and break the machinery.
My semiaware body, badly in need of intensive care after having been hauled out of my cryo-capsule after an incomplete revivification sequence, will be shoved aside while the neobarbarians rip out the pretty wires as their Just Rewards for their efforts.
Sadly, it does happen that computers that are on critical care monitoring systems get infected.
One example? A stand-alone system (or connected to internal LAN *only*). Someone brings their USB key in with the latest video from You-tube. Voila. If not the video itself, then the USB key.