Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 206
"Sorry, my dear Intelligent Kneecap. We've had good times together, but now you know aye too much!"
*BLAM*BLAM*BLAM*
[Drags rest of self away from crime scene.]
"Sorry, my dear Intelligent Kneecap. We've had good times together, but now you know aye too much!"
*BLAM*BLAM*BLAM*
[Drags rest of self away from crime scene.]
'cause they aren't getting our money fast enough yet?
Re #2, Teh Beeb or someone on the telly said that the IPO was already for a front company, 'cause foreigners aren't allowed to own Chinese companies.
Also said some potential investors are shy because it's not clear whether / how long China will tolerate the kind of workaround set up for the IPO.
You beat me to it, 'cause I paused to look it up. He was a woodcutter, not the thieves' leader. The wanted to kill him because he knew how to get their treasure.
Not that that version of the story is particularly reasurring for an IPO either...
s/customer/consumer/
All missiles have civilian applications: governments can use them to blow up civilians, and malcontent citizens who can get their hands on the can use them to blow up governments.
And other governments are always there to provide missiles to the malcontents.
Dude he can call it "cucumber" if he wants as long as it creates actual STEM jobs in North America.
Once it's built it will probably only employee low-paid assembly line workers and some managers.
(Which isn't STEM, but may still be an improvement on the way the USA has been hedded for the past few decades.)
WTF is a "gigafactory?"
A factory that makes giants.
Anyone can get a sweetheart deal in Nevada. Microsoft and Amazon are already firmly established their.
Nevada's economy is so weak that there was once serious consideration of reverting its rushed statehood.
But dealing with reality is very logical.
If you don't want people to see pictures of you naked, don't take the pictures.
And if you do, don't put them on a computer.
And if you do, don't put them on a computer on the internet.
And if you do, don't put them on someone else's computer on the internet.
If they're out there, someone is going to get them.
lawyers for the federal government argued that provisions within the Patriot Act that legalize mass surveillance without warrants have already been carefully considered and approved by all three branches of government
Two of which are irrelevant for deciding constitutionally.
And if a higher court has already agreed that what they are using the Patriot Act to justify is constitutional, they need merely cite the case. Otherwise they're just trying to blow smoke up the judges' asses. Or arguing that Appeals Courts' opinions don't matter.
(I wouldn't think either was a good strategy for an argument in an Appeals Court, but maybe they think Appeals Courts' judges are stupid.)
Is this article some kind of joke I don't quite get?
I suspect people put too much emphasis on brain evolution as an explanation for technological innovation. Think how slow innovation would be coming now if the world population was 50,000 and we didn't have writing.
Our ancestors of maybe 10,000 years ago had a material culture closer to the apes than to us, but we probably hyaven't changed much during that period.
Probably I should learn to spell it, but if you got a laugh out of it, more power to you.
I'm even more sad that so many Americans would STILL vote for this guy today simply because they're Democrats and that's that.
Low as my opinion of Obama is, I'd certainly vote for him again if he was running against the same two clowns as last time, or the two psychopaths from the time before.
This is why the solution, if Putin persists in this line of thinking, will involve a single bullet from a covert operative, not legions of troops or thousands of missiles.
I hardly imagine that that would matter, other than give his successor the "terrorism" excuse to do whatever he wanted.
Putin's cronies at the FSB put him into power. His successor isn't going to a have noticibly different agenda.
According to all the latest reports, there was no truth in any of the earlier reports.