Here's a simple test for you. Try driving your car at about 20 km's an hour... and instantly jamming it into reverse. Those gears that are now lying on the road behind you? That'd be what's left of your knees if you tried the same thing on the bike.
I'm sure it'd be easy to have a hand-brake to lock the rear tires, and just slide to a stop that way... or perhaps a disk-brake system for the spinning fan itself... but simply attempting to reverse the blades... being helped along with movement mind you by the air passing over them... isn't going to happen without either the chain, the gears, or your legs breaking first.
It was indeed a horrible abuse of product placement, but it'll still never beat "I robot"... which is in my opinion the worst movie for product placement ever created so far.
Without a doubt it'll happen more to any minority. No matter how unbiased the border crossing between for example Canada and the USA is supposed to be, if I (random white guy) am crossing it either alone, or with other random white people... I have never ONCE been stopped. Ever. Should I be travelling with a black and/or chinese friend... not a SINGLE time have we been let through without being stopped.
Now... coincidences can happen... but once you start flipping a coin a hundred times and every single flip is 'heads'... you're going to start to think something's not quite right about that coin.
Aaaand it's people like this in the jury that keep non-violent crimes from getting a light slap on the wrist, being told to 'stop it', and they're scott-free.
Exactly what I was going to reply with. This isn't a physical crime... thusly next to nothing will actually come of it. My money is on 4 months before some legal loophole breaks him out.
And then he'll get a big settlement for false imprisonment to boot.
Any chance of tossing us a link explaining why? So far as your post, the researcher could reply to you saying "can too", and you both would have supplied about the same amount of proof:P
Well... looks like Sony's definitely got a Blu-ray stronghold around there. I wouldn't mind seeing what HD-DVD to Blu-ray sales have been doing for the past few months in that area.
And as an added note, I don't know whether to see it as funny or not... but directly under TFA, under "related information", was a link on Wii sales, putting it at 1.6 million:P
I think it says in the article somewhere that the museum states that all animals were vegetarians until after the original sin... whereas I guess they spontaneously started eating eachother.
Because y'know... a digestive system that eats only plantlife is able to instananeously switch to eating only meat pretty easily. Trust me, I saw it happen to cow pasture once... vicious sight... it was a bloodbath:P
Possibly, unless they're told every day from when they're a baby that these "loonies" are 100% correct, and that everyone else is a heathen damned to hell.
Yep, I think 'jump ship' would be about their only reprieve of sorts... however then the US would be full of NOTHING but religious zealots. It's kinda nice to at least have a science-minded person or two kicking around in there to stop them from genociding the rest of the heathen world. And it's not like the states is weak or underpowered either... I could see a 100% creationalist country starting up a WW3 pretty damn quickly.
I love that third picture on the first page of Ars Technica's site in the article that states "Present changes are too small and too slow to explain these differences, suggesting God provided organisms with special tools to change rapidly."
YES! Because nothing that we're directly looking at in the past few hundred years or so isn't showing massive steps in evolution, that's surely UNDENIABLE evidence that that it couldn't have EVER possibly happened in the past, and is therefore completely false! A VICTORY IS GOD!!!11!:P
Fermilab may already have seen the 'holy grail of particle physics' the LHC was build to find
The problem is that the damn thing rolled under the couch. LHC still has some time, since there's lots of chip bags and old sandwiches that it could be hiding under at Fermilab:P
If you're too busy to watch what your child is doing on the computer yourself, then maybe you should just not allow them to be on the computer when you're not there. After all... a child doesn't HAVE to be on the computer at all hours of the day. Maybe you should... y'know... let them play outside or something.
One could argue that it's no different than someone messaging someone saying "Hey, I found a cool new webpage" or "I got a cool new *random object or service*. A spammer is just doing that repeatedly... to anyone they're capable of reaching... over and over again.
Now, one would think it would be easy to differentiate the two... but there's no solid line drawn between them. It's going to have a large grey area where Blizzard won't know whether it's actually spam or just a really annoying jerk... which isn't illegal anywhere (unfortunately)
Eh, tell them to throw in an extra chapter about how he found or somehow acquired a sword of true damascus steel. Then in the word file, just have them replace 'diamond' with 'damascus'. I'm sure that sword would do good enough.
I've been trying to get my website to view correctly in both IE AND Firefox... and I gotta tell you, it's hard as hell. There's STILL one aspect of it which absolutely REFUSES to work correctly in IE, but perfectly in any other browser.
Money isn't everything. There's also fame, a sense of moral duty, getting a desirable mate, just for fun, to be able to brag, and many other motivations. I am sick and tired of the idea that profit is the only thing that motivates human beings. Open source would not work if that were the case.
Tell that to a big company. All they'll see is a dump-truck full of money being driven up to their door.
Since when did computers become so infallible such that the customer is always wrong? Why does it take multiple escalations of support calls before anyone starts believing that maybe the computer made a mistake?"
Since a large number of customers that call in ARE lying and trying to scam free stuff?
And I've done tech support for 7 years... I'm not just blindly guessing. I've heard customers pull just about everything.
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Here's a simple test for you. Try driving your car at about 20 km's an hour... and instantly jamming it into reverse. Those gears that are now lying on the road behind you? That'd be what's left of your knees if you tried the same thing on the bike.
I'm sure it'd be easy to have a hand-brake to lock the rear tires, and just slide to a stop that way... or perhaps a disk-brake system for the spinning fan itself... but simply attempting to reverse the blades... being helped along with movement mind you by the air passing over them... isn't going to happen without either the chain, the gears, or your legs breaking first.
It was indeed a horrible abuse of product placement, but it'll still never beat "I robot"... which is in my opinion the worst movie for product placement ever created so far.
Without a doubt it'll happen more to any minority. No matter how unbiased the border crossing between for example Canada and the USA is supposed to be, if I (random white guy) am crossing it either alone, or with other random white people... I have never ONCE been stopped. Ever. Should I be travelling with a black and/or chinese friend... not a SINGLE time have we been let through without being stopped.
Now... coincidences can happen... but once you start flipping a coin a hundred times and every single flip is 'heads'... you're going to start to think something's not quite right about that coin.
Aaaand it's people like this in the jury that keep non-violent crimes from getting a light slap on the wrist, being told to 'stop it', and they're scott-free.
Exactly what I was going to reply with. This isn't a physical crime... thusly next to nothing will actually come of it. My money is on 4 months before some legal loophole breaks him out.
:P
And then he'll get a big settlement for false imprisonment to boot.
Strangely, my captcha word was "optimism"
Any chance of tossing us a link explaining why? So far as your post, the researcher could reply to you saying "can too", and you both would have supplied about the same amount of proof :P
Well... looks like Sony's definitely got a Blu-ray stronghold around there. I wouldn't mind seeing what HD-DVD to Blu-ray sales have been doing for the past few months in that area.
:P
And as an added note, I don't know whether to see it as funny or not... but directly under TFA, under "related information", was a link on Wii sales, putting it at 1.6 million
I think it says in the article somewhere that the museum states that all animals were vegetarians until after the original sin... whereas I guess they spontaneously started eating eachother.
:P
Because y'know... a digestive system that eats only plantlife is able to instananeously switch to eating only meat pretty easily. Trust me, I saw it happen to cow pasture once... vicious sight... it was a bloodbath
Possibly, unless they're told every day from when they're a baby that these "loonies" are 100% correct, and that everyone else is a heathen damned to hell.
Yep, I think 'jump ship' would be about their only reprieve of sorts... however then the US would be full of NOTHING but religious zealots. It's kinda nice to at least have a science-minded person or two kicking around in there to stop them from genociding the rest of the heathen world. And it's not like the states is weak or underpowered either... I could see a 100% creationalist country starting up a WW3 pretty damn quickly.
Lemme trump you on Creation as a whole. There's a far more dangerous enemy in the midst:
Scientology.
Nuff said.
Hmm... Godwin's law kicked in later than I expected it to in this topic. Surprising.
I love that third picture on the first page of Ars Technica's site in the article that states "Present changes are too small and too slow to explain these differences, suggesting God provided organisms with special tools to change rapidly."
:P
YES! Because nothing that we're directly looking at in the past few hundred years or so isn't showing massive steps in evolution, that's surely UNDENIABLE evidence that that it couldn't have EVER possibly happened in the past, and is therefore completely false! A VICTORY IS GOD!!!11!
Ahh, hilarity at it's best.
Fermilab may already have seen the 'holy grail of particle physics' the LHC was build to find
:P
The problem is that the damn thing rolled under the couch. LHC still has some time, since there's lots of chip bags and old sandwiches that it could be hiding under at Fermilab
The easy solution to this is neither very technologically advanced, or requiring much work.
All it requires is an air-horn.
I said 'watch', not 'stare, scrutinize, and remove yourself from all activity that would detract from the staring'.
If you're too busy to watch what your child is doing on the computer yourself, then maybe you should just not allow them to be on the computer when you're not there. After all... a child doesn't HAVE to be on the computer at all hours of the day. Maybe you should... y'know... let them play outside or something.
One could argue that it's no different than someone messaging someone saying "Hey, I found a cool new webpage" or "I got a cool new *random object or service*. A spammer is just doing that repeatedly... to anyone they're capable of reaching... over and over again.
Now, one would think it would be easy to differentiate the two... but there's no solid line drawn between them. It's going to have a large grey area where Blizzard won't know whether it's actually spam or just a really annoying jerk... which isn't illegal anywhere (unfortunately)
Eh, tell them to throw in an extra chapter about how he found or somehow acquired a sword of true damascus steel. Then in the word file, just have them replace 'diamond' with 'damascus'. I'm sure that sword would do good enough.
I've been trying to get my website to view correctly in both IE AND Firefox... and I gotta tell you, it's hard as hell. There's STILL one aspect of it which absolutely REFUSES to work correctly in IE, but perfectly in any other browser.
Damn IE.
Last I heard... sending out billions upon billions of spam emails was a crime.
Last I looked, I'm still getting tons of spam email.
Last I checked, spam tends to require the internet.
Why wasn't it on the list again?
Aaaand it appears to have stripped out my [/sarcasm] at the end of that line.
Sony arrogant? Why, that's obsurd!
Money isn't everything. There's also fame, a sense of moral duty, getting a desirable mate, just for fun, to be able to brag, and many other motivations. I am sick and tired of the idea that profit is the only thing that motivates human beings. Open source would not work if that were the case.
Tell that to a big company. All they'll see is a dump-truck full of money being driven up to their door.
Since when did computers become so infallible such that the customer is always wrong? Why does it take multiple escalations of support calls before anyone starts believing that maybe the computer made a mistake?" Since a large number of customers that call in ARE lying and trying to scam free stuff? And I've done tech support for 7 years... I'm not just blindly guessing. I've heard customers pull just about everything.