In general I'd agree, but RSS readers essentially don't work without the cloud. The only thing that is "my" data in Reader is a list of URLs. Without pulling down content from elsewhere, that's essentially useless to me. That's also why it's so easy to migrate: I can import that list into a number of other services and applications that will do the same thing.
How, exactly, could one falsify the assertion that the only assertions which are valid are those which are falsifiable?
That's not really the best advice, what you don't want to do is talk to the police without your attorney present. If your attorney thinks it's a good idea to answer a particular question, then you may want to do it.
No, he's thinking of Stargate.
You seem to be conflating presumption of innocence with the standard of proof, when they're only tangentially related. "Preponderance of evidence" has nothing to do with your point.
Hence the GP said, "though obviously there are exceptions."
He wasn't claiming that these chips would be perfect for everyone, just that there are *some* areas where they would be.
3) high frame rates on high end hardware (and the listed testbed is bleeding edge) imply that it is possible to get reasonable framerates on lesser equipment..
But by your own argument, their opponent is someone who desires to enforce bad laws, therefore you cannot vote for them either. Are you suggesting simply abstaining?
I was agreeing with you, actually, hence the implication that "they choose not to market it to me."
To me, the game isn't worth its list price *plus the price of Windows* in order to play it. I can't see why a developer wouldn't understand that, even if they choose not to market it to me.
It's one of the few Federal programs I would actually like to see expanded.
They would have more to work with if they could do away with the bloated govt contractor process.
They could do away with the bloated govt contractor process if they weren't bound by congressional authorization acts.
There's a reason we like to refer to SLS as the Senate Launch System, and it's not because that's what we'd like to use it for. Sadly, it doesn't look like our politicians are going to pull their heads out about matters of general interest, so I see no hope for them viewing an (unfortunately) niche interest organization like NASA as anything other than a jobs program any time soon.
Kind of sad that the best hopes that I see comes from eccentric billionaires inspired by Apollo on the one hand, and from China on the other, but there you have it.
So you're saying the worst case scenario is... having to make a new vaccine every year?
I know it's cliche to complain about missing options, but seriously, why was this not listed?
Hell, it's how Washington would have voted:
I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.
Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.
(From his Farewell Address, 1796, emphasis mine)
When I get onto a ramp, I'm usually going very close to 0 since I've just stopped at the traffic signal and made a turn. I'm not disagreeing with you about whether it's necessary to have high acceleration, only whether it's desirable. 0-60 is a useful proxy for acceleration overall when comparing vehicles, and there are a large number of people who are in the demographic these cars are aimed at who will make a decision in part based on it.
You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do.
