abortions can also be counted as early deaths
Not for the purposes of determining life expectancy.
At the stage abortion is legal, a fetus is not (legally) a human being, and so would not be included in life expectancy calculations.
Any citations? I agree with your argument, but I've only heard it from second hand accounts. Data would be helpful.
You can find some data for the US broken down by age, sex, and (partially) race here.
peoples' expected lifespan returns to 35!
When exactly was our lifespan 35?
Or are you just demonstrating that you suck at math?
Here's a mental exercise for you:
Say you have 1000 people. 499 of them die before they turn one year old. 499 of them die at the age of 70. Two of them die at the age of 35.
What is the average lifespan? At what age did most of them die?
Our "average lifespan" has been increasing because we're eliminating infant mortality, not because most people only lived to some ridiculously low age.
Are you familiar with the Berne Convention?
Are you? Are you familiar with Canadian Law?
My guess would be proving infringement in the US is a first step to getting it shut down in Canada.
Um.... WHAT!?!?!?
I would imagine that suing in Canada would be the first step to getting it shut down in Canada.
that'd be "on the smart card that you stick into your decoder".
Since the decoder is software, how exactly do you do that?
My computer doesn't have a "smart card" slot. I'd wager that yours doesn't either.
If the solution is "the software only works on a computer with a smartcard reader installed" it's a non-starter from day 1.
I cannot trust them because in the United States a public corporation is required by law, first and foremost, to do what is in the best interests of shareholders which generally means anything which legally maximizes profits.
So what you're saying is that you don't trust them because you have no idea what the law actually says, or how corporations actually work?
Your name wouldn't happen to be Kyle Mortensen would it?
A publicly-traded company is required to maximize shareholder value in accordance with its prospectus.
Before a company goes public, it produces a prospectus. The prospectus details the business plan of the company, as well as its philosophy and self-imposed restrictions. It is the responsibility of the investor to read and understand the prospectus before investing. If the prospectus states that the company will place customer loyalty above short-term profit, then any lawsuit based on "the company didn't maximize short-term profit because they weren't pricks to their customers" will fail.
HTH.
Has anybody sued MS and won because there was a bug in their product?
Of course not. Everyone knows that MS products don't have bugs.
Just because Fox News is decidedly Neo-Con, doesn't mean that every other news outlet is automatically trustworthy.
Ahh.. the wonderful Republican tactic of changing the topic... "OK, *my* source isn't trustworthy - but that doesn't mean that yours is!"
Here's the thing: it doesn't mean they aren't.
Hows about instead of saying "oh, yours is *probably* untrustworthy too!", you actually show me how they are funding and promoting political protests?
Oh, that's right - you can't. If you can't show *evidence*, then don't make the claim.
Thankfully it is not nearly the level of Bias on MS "Text my blackberry please" NBC.
I'm not sure what you mean by "thankfully" - you're saying you want MSNBC to start promoting political protests like Fox News does?!?!?! This sort of thing is bad for *everyone*.
Why?
Because they admit they intentionally deceive their viewers, and they fund and promote anti-democrat political protests.
Should anything the New York Times reports on a Republican also be assumed to be false?
Only if you can show any evidence that they intentionally deceive their readers, and have funded anti-republican protests. I await your citations.
Documentation can almost always be improved - it doesn't have to be technical-writer level.. just write out what you did and how you did it. What problems did you encounter and how did you solve them? What would you do differently?
All of the films sucked.
Sorry, but no.
My wife was 27 when I met her in the 1990s. Although she was a huge movie fan, she hated science-fiction, and hadn't seen the Star Wars movies at all. It took some convincing, but she finally agreed to watch them with me. We rented "Star Wars", and watched it together. She liked it so much that she insisted we go rent the other two the same day.
Detach yourself, and watch any of the films with a critical eye. They are all awful.
Done, and it turns out you're completely wrong.
You just said that you don't agree with my thesis, and then in the second sentence of your reply, you reworded exactly what I said.
I think you replied to the wrong post - he said he disagreed, then he said why. You said nothing about Lucas handing over the reigns, or hiring others to do the jobs he took on himself, so there's no way he "reworded" anything you said.
Ummm.. you're asking about relationship advice on slashdot?
Sorry, I have to repeat that.. it just sounded funny.
You're asking about relationship advice on slashdot?!?!?!
Isn't that like visiting an Amish community to ask for help with your Linux install?
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