Comment Re:Dear Australia (Score 2) 91
Hate to break it to you, but the US is way ahead of Australia in that regard.
If you ever get pulled over by a cop while carrying a large amount of cash on you, you'll find out the hard way.
Hate to break it to you, but the US is way ahead of Australia in that regard.
If you ever get pulled over by a cop while carrying a large amount of cash on you, you'll find out the hard way.
Think about it - they obviously didn't reoffend, right? If they had, they'd have been detected and returned (probably with a few extra bruises) to the Rock. Therefore, in the case of these three men the system worked perfectly - whether they escaped or not.
Didn't re-offend? You mean, didn't get caught. There's a difference.
The theaters are contractually obligated to play the movie.
Sony can claim publicly that they don't have to play the movie, but those legally binding contracts are still in place, and remember, the theaters still want to play the movie. That's cash in their pockets and the threats are likely fake. So they show the movie anyways, and if a real attack happens, the first thing they are going to do is point at that contract and say Sony forced them to show the movie, they had no choice. Viola, Sony is now liable.
Yea but... they only have to pull it off at 1 theater.
And it doesn't have to be NK that does it... some crazy nut job could... and Sony would be on the hook for liability.
If Sony were smart (which they definitely are not) they would have leaked the movie as a torrent themselves, blamed North Korea, and then with the Sword of Demaclese now lying squarely at their feet moved on with their lives. They may have pulled the movie from theaters but it could still get released, and until that threats gone NK will continue with the pain.
Neckbeards having sex with drunken Muslim fundamentalists?
I think you might be on to something...
Nah... When getting concerned about control, the following usually holds true:
Rules that inform are good.
Rules that control are bad.
This rule informs. It's good.
This has been a public service announcement.
...the "mostly by Cubans in exile" is the important part.
As someone who occasionally orders Cuban cigars from the Swiss, I can tell you that they're simply not any better than the same cigar from the same company from their Dominican or Nicaraguan plants.
meh... You seem to be arguing that people of Cuban decent do not have magical cuban pixie dust that makes them taste better. Ok... I guess we can agree.
But that's like saying (since you mentioned the Swiss) that you know a Swiss guy living in North Dakota that makes watches just as good as Swiss watches, so clearly Switzerland ain't all that great at watches... But there's certainly a cultural interest in Switzerland of making fine watches, and a long and storied history of them doing so. Are all Swiss watches perfect? Can no other country or ethnic group produce a good watch? The answer to that question is about as dumb as asking it.
There are many fine Cigars made in Cuba. Those that enjoy smoking fine Cigars will be happy that they have a new and interesting place to buy them from. Would they be as excited if we normalized realizations with North Korea and they could finally get those fine North Korean Cigars? No... and that has nothing to do with "hype" and has everything to do with a real and notable difference in the quality of products coming out of those 2 countries.
> Cuban cigars are desired because they're good.
[citation needed]. Outside of the 'neat' factor of buying a cuban cigar, there are equally good makers in other countries.
How about the fact that the primary magazine dedicated to cigars has an entire wing of their site dedicated to Cuba?
http://www.cigaraficionado.com...
Go check out their reviews...Most of the top reviewed were either made in Cuba, or by Cubans in exile in the US. Clearly they're doing something right.
I doubt the US administration "realized" anything.
Very likely a conglomerate of US companies sees business opportunities and is pulling strings behind the scene.
Pretty much every business in the US has wanted to reopen trade with Cuba since the day after the US Closed it. They've been tugging on those strings for a long time with no luck.
No one's ever tried to issue a takedown notice like that...
Really?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
They haven't?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
Tried this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
Because, the last I checked...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
It was happening
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
all the time...
Umm, this is not the methane you simple person know; or think you know. For one thing, temperatures on Titan are somewhat different than that on Earth, so please try again to recompute what you once thought you knew. Seas of frozen methane do exist, take Titan for example.
He's just being pedantic about a phrase in the summary.
The bodies of water appear to be made mostly of methane, and not mostly ethane as previously thought.
A "Body of water" can't be made of methane.
Not that it matters. People like to post stuff like this AC and then mod themselves up... so they get to post AND mod in the same thread. I wish they'd just stop allowing AC posts to get modded, but oh well...
Interesting, but I can't help wonder if this enzyme exists for a reason. I presume these scientists are working hard to determine what evolutionary role it fills (before working on selling it as part of an anti-aging cream)
I hear this a lot... There seems to be a lot of misconception about evolution and the body. We gain and lose traits when they affect our ability to reproduce... and at no other time. So, at some time, this enzyme increased our ability to reproduce in some way. It did not need to increase our chances of survival because, evolution only cares about getting us to reproductive maturity. So, whatever reason that enzyme helped us in the past may be long gone and it's just a vestige of that time. It'll not be bread out of us until it hurts our chances at reproduction and since "Wrinkly skin" isn't going to hurt that until we're in our 40s, well outside of normal reproductive age, there's no reason it would become an evolutionary disadvantage. What I'm saying is, Evolution doesn't care if you get ugly, contract cancer and die in your 50s. If this thing doesn't make you less attractive or hurt your chances to make it into your teens and early 20s, evolution doesn't even notice it.
Certain types of black people get treated very well in Chicago by the police, others like trash. That is not racism, there is another kind of social stratification going on.
suggesting adoption for purpose of making social experiment is silly.
Yes, if they would just behave properly they'd not have a problem. That's what you're saying? Because... that's what you're saying.
Change the above experiment into one where guys pop out from behind dumpsters with guns and test who the cop shoots with those laser tag guns. I don't think either of have any illusions about the result of that test.
Im white and I'll be honest, I dont much care for inner city police either. Somehow I dont have trouble with cops outside the city either.
Could it maybe be that turning everything into a race issue is dumb?
"Everything" isn't a race issue. You're correct. The problem in inner city Chicago however is without a doubt a race issue. If I follow the path I think you're reasoning is taking me, it leads me to it being a poverty issue. But if you look up poverty numbers by race in Chicago, it immediately becomes an race issue again. And if you rich and black in Chicago, and get pulled over by police, it's not like they're going to ask you for your check stub before they unload their sidearm into you.
hmm... not sure what you're saying but I think you're making an improper assumption about the number of children I have. But hey, don't let me stop you from your going on with your typical personal attacks rather than discussing the actual issue.
1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1.
