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That's all fine and good, but what happens when he makes his first mistake and it's under a Crossfire at 1.5 lb/sqft? Oh look, a new thread in the incident forums...
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heh, blurry line sometimes... I'm not sure how gay marriage came up either, that clash isn't any more world-threatening than the Colts are "World-Champions" of anything. (check out that segue) The problem with specifically recognizing first-time accomplishments by minorities is that what you are really celebrating is how normal and accepted the event is now, where in the past it might have been unthinkable. How do you do that without making the event that much less normal? I didn't see the entire award ceremony, but from what I saw they didn't make a big enough deal out of it to ruin the occasion. Sometimes these things are pointed out in good fashion, sometimes they aren't. In either case, those who experienced some of the insanity that went on just a few decades ago will more naturally appreciate the progress than us newcomers will ever be able to.
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I think, by "team-bigotry," he was referring to clashes of religion, not sexual orientation.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/xjohnpaulx/366630853 I spy an LM2585S-12 flyback voltage reg (with accompanying caps, diode, and inductor) a photo diode to shut the thing off during the day, and a simple looping timer to allow it to blink. ...obviously a bomb...
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In addition to figuring out and executing an exit strategy from Iraq, we need to figure out and execute an exit strategy from this "post 9/11 world" I keep hearing about. It sounds a lot scarier than Iraq.
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No desires unless satisfaction for said desires exist
champu replied to steveorino's topic in Speakers Corner
Well, normally you can put together a lemma like this and not many people will argue with you. But when you use it back in the context of the principle proposition you were thinking about, people who don't agree will set out to show why your lemma really doesn't work as well as you thought it did. While you haven't stated your intentions regarding your original question, consciously or otherwise, people have apparently seen into the future of this discussion. -
I had a great time too. Much thanks to you and everyone else as well for making the jumps fun and successful. The "three-layer concentric-ring 29-way human-hoop-dive" for sunset was hilarious.
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As an aside, a directed energy weapon such as this would actually be less likely to injure people when used in a riot situation than spraying a crowd with a water cannon. It would certainly make video taken of a crowd dispersal much less dramatic too. No crowds getting knocked down by water cannons, no tear gas clouds, no baton blows, just people running away from an antenna. The question that remains is, would the absence of all the bad press footage associated with today's methods of dispersal likely extend the employment of such a device into situations that it oughtn't be used?
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Now that is a fine line in the sand if there ever was one.
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I wonder if this guy has ever tried to eat a pomegranate without making a disaster of himself and the immediate vicinity.
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You're preaching to the choir. Everything I design operates on solar power... ...oh yeah, and uh, hydrazine.
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We're having enough trouble selling renewable power sources. Deep space mining operations may be a ways out in terms of public support.
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Eh... most Americans don't give a shit about our space program unless you structure it in terms of "winning" or "losing" against an enemy, such as a race to the moon with the U.S.S.R. ...or when, every so often, something blows up. I'd love to see the results of a street quiz that asks things like, "About how high up are satellites?" or "Why do you point your DirectTV dish south?"
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I'm not sure what suit you had in mind, but I'd estimate my wingloading wearing an S3 at somewhere around 17:1.
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Plagued with numerous instances of theft, harrassment of passengers, and wastes of money, it has been determined that the TSA's best line of action is to... ...expand its scope... ... ...well I guess it's no more ridiculous than any other decisions made regarding the TSA.
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Eh, I don't stand by my original post...
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Can you please elaborate/clarify. The "choice" in pro-choice is the decision of the woman regarding whether or not having this child is the right thing to do. That's what I support, and I support it in spite of its misuses by those who would terminate a pregnancy only to try again, hoping for trait X or characteristic Y (pun intended.) I support this because I feel the right to choose is more important than how it may be abused. To suggest that I would automatically also support this hormonal alteration of an unborn child's sexual preferences, or even that such support would be related to being pro-choice strikes me as both capricious and absurd.
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A 460nm polar orbit probably isn't too busy a piece of real estate, but yeah, space trash sucks.
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...out comes the author's misunderstanding of the pro-choice viewpoint.
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I guess it's a good thing I'm not a doctor. Convieniently, my sister has very good handwriting, and she's also the one with the scrip pad. On a side note... I love this term for just how meaningless it is.
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not sure if I am understanding this correctly, however there was a case here in Oz in the last couple of years of a PC in tow caused by rotating the bridle under the pin after closing. The pin was forced through the bridle on throwing the PC!! A few years ago, if I remember correctly, there was also a PCIT caused when a main pin got caught in the kill-line check window of the bridle. Tucking the excess bridle between the last main flap and the main closing pin would make this rather bizarre malfunction much more likely to occur.
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False accusations of Rape-What should be done?
champu replied to Darius11's topic in Speakers Corner
Assuming it's a lie, it shouldn't be about, "how obvious it was." There's no quantifiable way to determine "obviousity" (or if there is a way, it's not obvious ) Certainly malice aforethought should weigh in on the punishment, though, just as it does when other serious crimes are committed. -
Circumstances involving the commission of any other felony, eh? To include... -Driving recklessly to your partner's house to have sex -Having sex with a CD of pirated music playing in the background -Having sex, knocking over a candle and burning down your home
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So much for freedom of speech.... It uh, sounds like the DoD agrees with you, hence the purging... As for what the military and CIA have been doing with their letters, yes it's backhanded, and congress should tell them to knock it off. In the meantime, complain to the financial institutions, they don't have to cooperate with requests from CIA or the pentagon.
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I wanna roll with... the gangstas... But so far... they all think I'm too white and nerdy. Think I’m just too white and nerdy... Think I’m just too white and nerdy... I’m just too white and nerdy. Really really white and nerdy.