Oh look at Commander Killbuzz here, trampling on the spirit of the thread.
Congrats.
There's a difference between fucking around with your own stuff and fucking around with stuff owned by your employer (or any other person).
I'm pretty sure the judges that rotate in for FISA court duty don't hate the US, but I like your bucking of the Slashmind conspiracy ideas.
The bit of wire wrapped around the push-mower handle that keeps the engine brake from engaging the moment I release my grip on the handle.
Oh, it's for the safety of the children! Think of the puppies! No. Just, No.
Not only a hack but a macho-hack.
I bet you cut the seatbelts out of your car too.
Unlike ISIS, Iran is a country that has existed continuously for 2500 years.
The people of Persia have existed for thousands of years. The Islamic Republic of Iran has only existed for a few decades, and has fostered suicide bombings and Islamic revolution around the world.
I highly doubt they would self-immolate just for a chance to 'nuke the infidel.'
Much as Germany wouldn't self-immolate just for a chance to kill a few million Jews? Oddly enough there is another country so inclined to attempt that feat. Any guesses on that? You should look into the question of Germany's use of railway shipping to send Jews to death camps versus sending supplies to the fighting fronts.
Assuming each bagel is 87.4 grams and that each employee eats 1,125 bagels, that would make 210 lbs (or 95 kgs) of bagels consumed per employee each Thursday
And people wonder why there's an obesity crisis in the US.
Every publisher believes that the e-books don't really compete against one another in price because each one is unique. They aren't interchangeable...someone won't say "wow, I bet I can get this same book cheaper somewhere else..."
But they are wrong. Lately, people have been able to get the same book cheaper by buying a used physical copy (still cheaper even after shipping costs). But, apart from that, when the price of a book exceeds the potential customer's sense of the book's value, they absolutely will buy a completely different book instead.
No product is immune to market forces, which is a good thing, and price-fixing harms the majority.
I don't agree. There are certain authors whose books I buy as soon as they are published. In the past this meant buying a hardback edition which is more than twice the cost of a paperback.
Books and other works of creative art are NOT fungible. You can't just replace a novel by your favourite author with a cheaper alternative in the same genre..
It all seems like utter bollocks to me anyway, but a home intranet seems even more pointless unless you live in Buckingham Palace or something. (How hard is it for a normal person to walk downstairs to the kitchen to turn on a coffee machine?)
The coup was a counter-coup. The Iranian PM was the one that overthrew the government, faked an election, dissolved parliament, was ruling by decree, and caused the Shah to flee.
Horse shit.
Iran was a pro-Western, pro-American country until we sent the CIA to overthrow their government in 1953 and installed the Shah. If you're going to quote an Israeli PJMedia/Fox News propagandist, you might want to find one with more credibility than Barry Rubin.
The "Horse shit" prefix wasn't needed, at least some of us could identify the content of your post without it.
The government of Iran had been overthrown by the Prime Minister who faked an election, dissolved parliament, and was ruling by decree while ignoring the Shah as constitutional monarch. (You know, the traditional head of government being responsible to head of state?) Not even Stalin faked elections as brazenly as the Iranian PM. The Shah fled for his own safety. The US and UK helped restore the Shah to power, not install him.
Iran was also an ally of Israel but that changed with the Islamic revolution and Iran's turning on the Jewish state as well as the US. The bad blood between Iran and Israel is Iran's doing.
Imagine, if you can, a world without war, it's easy if you try.
I can also imagine purple unicorns that vomit rainbows. The fact that I have a good imagination doesn't change reality.
The thing is, even given that there are conflicts in the world (a) wars are not the only way to deal with them and (b) whatever other countries do, your own can always refuse to initiate armed conflict.
The world would be a lot better with a reduced number of unnecessary armed conflicts, even if you can't avoid them entirely.
If it works it'll revolutionize aerial warfare and instantly make every Air Force in the world obsolete.
Yeah, IF.
History is full of revolutionary military technologies that will make armies/navies/air forces obsolete. The trouble is that the other guys don't just sit around twiddling their thumbs while you develop that technology. By the time your revolutionary technology is fit for service, the world has moved on.
I tend to ignore GDP as an indicator because it's utterly useless
Maybe in some respects, but it's fine as a means of comparison.
Saying that the cost of this plane is the same as the GDP of Australia has nothing to do with problems of defining economic growth
Why do we have a $1 trillion plane? I'm not saying it's a lot of money--it's only about $100bn every year
I think even besotted fans of fighter jets would admit that it is, in fact, quite a lot of money.
I think they probably should have just executed them
Cool, then you're on the same moral level as ISIL.
See, that's the problem -- as long as they see themselves in either role, it won't work. Perhaps if they were isolated at youth, taught to fight each other, and then misled into thinking it was just a really good video game or simulation of some sort. I bet they could make a movie out of that.
No, it would suck as a movie, Hollywood would completely miss the point of the story. Better if it was a book. Or even a series of books - you could even narrate it from different points of view.
You appear to have omitted the word "terrible" before "book" in your post.
Ender's Game is perhaps the worst famous science fiction book I have ever read, and I've struggled through several Heinleins and A Canticle for Fucking Leibowitz.
God help those who do not help themselves. -- Wilson Mizner
