That's nice, I think that is a very convenient definition. So, in your opinion it is Ok to kill a child if it is still on the womb, but not once it is out. How far out does it have to be? Are there any other places where it is Ok for a mother to kill her child?
Speaking of which, I haven't heard a peep from any of the birthers about his plans to run for president.
That is because you aren't listening. I have heard plenty of people state that Ted Cruz is not eligible to be President. The response of those conservatives who were receptive to the "birther" arguments that Obama was not eligible to be President but consider that Ted Cruz is has been that the courts have ruled in Obama's case that he was and is eligible and if Obama is eligible to be President then Ted Cruz certainly is. However, those who are still arguing that Obama is not legitimately President because he is not a natural-born citizen for the most part do not consider Ted Cruz eligible to be President.
Ok, how about 1/8th or 1/16th? English Units are designed to be divided by fractions. Metric units are designed to be divided by 10ths, but rarely does one adjust a recipe up or down by 10ths, generally one thinks of adjusting it by some fraction (1/4.1/3, 1/2, etc).
There are very few signs put up by the federal government. So, the notion of voluntary means that you can use whatever unit of measure you want in any signs that you put up and I can use whatever unit of measure I want in any signs that I put up. And in both cases, we are free to lobby the various government bodies that put up signs to use our preferred unit of measure.
Of course, as someone else pointed out there is very little that is within the authority of the President to change what units of measure are used on signs (that is mostly based on laws passed by Congress or state legislators).
Then don't. Just make everything in metric and sell however many units of your goods that U.S. residents want to buy when they are purely metric. I am assuming that the reason companies don't do that is because they make more from selling products made in U.S. Customary Units. Why should U.S. residents be forced to change to help corporations make more profit? Companies are free to produce everything in metric units if they wish.
Actually, you make a good point. If we really want a good measurement system, we would get rid of the metric system and replace it with a base 12 system. Of course, we should probably at the same time replace our numbering system with one in base 12 as well. Base 12 is the ideal numbering system because in base 12, 10 is divisible by the first two prime numbers. This makes math a lot easier.
You may be right about the difficulty in converting between units of volumetric measurement, but what is one quarter of 236 ml? One quarter of a cup is 1/4 cup. Everything I have seen suggests that English Units are better for cooking and baking than metric units. I am not going to go into it in depth, but the above is based on an argument made by a European as to why English Units were better for cooking and baking than metric units. His point was that English Units were more readily scaled to increase or decrease a recipe. He, also, argued that they lent themselves more to being "eyeballed" because they were based on "human scale" (I wish I remembered where I came across the article because he made a very good case). He even made a case for them in construction that I, someone who grew up using English Units but perfectly comfortable with Metric Units, would never have thought of, but found rather convincing. Up until I read that article, written by someone who grew up in and lived in a country which uses Metric Units, I believed that eventually Metric Units would displace English Units because they are easier to do math with. However, now I do not know.
OK, a person with the handle "For a Free Internet" posts praising a regime that heavily restricts its populations access to the Internet. Make up your mind, do you support totalitarian control over all aspects of people's lives, including what information they can access, or do you support a free Internet? Or by "free Internet" do you really mean someone else pays for your access to the Internet?
I always wonder why these people who praise Cuba so much don't move there.
"NO EXCEPTIONS TO RULES EVER" is the most important message schools can teach to kids.
That is actually the rule that public schools were set up to teach kids. That the kids who go to public schools are to follow the rules and do what their "betters" tell them to do. Now the children of those "betters" go to private schools and receive different lessons.
You do not know what you are talking about. Gun dealers have to do background checks on EVERY gun they sell, even if they sell it at a gun show. Since you are aware of the Fast & Furious program, you must then be aware that there was no need for a court order to prevent ATF agents from tailing straw purchasers, they had orders from Washington to not do so. Please give a citation for either of your claims.
We already HAVE passed the point of sensible gun control. First point to make, violent crime is falling in this country, including crime where the criminal used a gun. Second point to make, perhaps if the government enforced the gun laws already on the books, we could determine which ones actually work, which ones should be repealed and whether there is any reason to create new ones.
Since Obama took office, the percentage of violations of current background check laws which were prosecuted has fallen.
The US Government needs to get the problems at that agency fixed, now.
What problem? The issues you are referring to are features of the IRS that led to it being chosen for its role as the key enforcer of the Affordable Care Act, not bugs that would lead those who passed that law to consider it unwise to give it that additional power.
The person I responded to seemed to imply that you can force other people to send you encrypted email. I was under the impression that whether or not email is encrypted is decided on the sender's end of the connection. Are you telling me that you can impose encryption on those who send you email? That you can stop them from sending unencrypted email?
Or to put it another way, since 2011 8% of data center operators have decided that they have other priorities than further improving what they perceive to be energy efficiency numbers that are as good as the cost of improving further can justify (while a much larger number still say it is a priority, but have no intention of improving it in the near future because they don't think the cost is justified by the potential savings).*
*None of this is intended to in anyway be in disagreement with any part of the point you made, just trying to phrase your point in another way (perhaps not well).
Why would they build two products when most governments would be happy to have a backdoor into people's electronics (especially when they thought they could claim they thought it was disabled if people found out about it)?
What about non-American companies that want to sell their products in the U.S.? Do you really think they will give up the U.S. market? And do you really think they will go to the effort of building one product for the U.S. market and another one for other markets? Oh some might build a model for none U.S. markets with the wiretapping features disabled (with instructions provided to the relevant governments about how to re-enable them when they desire) and a few might build a non-U.S. model without the feature. But most will build it with the feature "disabled" in software, also with instructions given to the relevant governments about how to turn it back on.
The biggest problem that the FBI is not thinking about is that THEIR equipment will also have this built in, meaning that the bad guys will be able to tap them.
Actually that is not true. I do not have to fill out any forms to sell a car. However, the other person needs me to fill out a bunch of forms if they intend to drive the car on the highway. I can however sell a car to you and let you tow it away without filling out any paperwork (I have done this twice, in both cases the other party was buying the car for parts).
That's fine, as long as you accept that I am not willing to live like that. And that it is not your place to tell me how to live. I happen to think that everyone should live according to their beliefs. I, also, believe that if people actually believe something, they will actively try to convince others to believe it and work to live accordingly. However, I will resist when others attempt to force me to live according to their beliefs.
I am not sure you are talking about the same thing as the article. The article is talking about the North axial pole, not the North magnetic pole. I believe the ships logs from the 1700s and earlier record shifts in the magnetic North pole (although I may have missed the references to shifts in the axis).
We know we're making SOME things worse, so why don't we stop it with those things?
That is a fine idea, go ahead and stop doing those things...oh, I see, you want to force me and everyone else to stop as well. Or maybe you want to be like Al Gore who is making a fortune doing more of those things than just about everybody else while going around and demanding that the government stop everybody else from doing them.
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That's nice, I think that is a very convenient definition. So, in your opinion it is Ok to kill a child if it is still on the womb, but not once it is out. How far out does it have to be? Are there any other places where it is Ok for a mother to kill her child?
Let women figure it out. Let them exclusively vote on whether it ought to be legal for them.
So, when does a child become old enough that women no longer get to vote that it is legal to kill it?
Speaking of which, I haven't heard a peep from any of the birthers about his plans to run for president.
That is because you aren't listening. I have heard plenty of people state that Ted Cruz is not eligible to be President. The response of those conservatives who were receptive to the "birther" arguments that Obama was not eligible to be President but consider that Ted Cruz is has been that the courts have ruled in Obama's case that he was and is eligible and if Obama is eligible to be President then Ted Cruz certainly is. However, those who are still arguing that Obama is not legitimately President because he is not a natural-born citizen for the most part do not consider Ted Cruz eligible to be President.
Ok, how about 1/8th or 1/16th? English Units are designed to be divided by fractions. Metric units are designed to be divided by 10ths, but rarely does one adjust a recipe up or down by 10ths, generally one thinks of adjusting it by some fraction (1/4.1/3, 1/2, etc).
There are very few signs put up by the federal government. So, the notion of voluntary means that you can use whatever unit of measure you want in any signs that you put up and I can use whatever unit of measure I want in any signs that I put up. And in both cases, we are free to lobby the various government bodies that put up signs to use our preferred unit of measure.
Of course, as someone else pointed out there is very little that is within the authority of the President to change what units of measure are used on signs (that is mostly based on laws passed by Congress or state legislators).
Then don't. Just make everything in metric and sell however many units of your goods that U.S. residents want to buy when they are purely metric. I am assuming that the reason companies don't do that is because they make more from selling products made in U.S. Customary Units. Why should U.S. residents be forced to change to help corporations make more profit? Companies are free to produce everything in metric units if they wish.
Actually, you make a good point. If we really want a good measurement system, we would get rid of the metric system and replace it with a base 12 system. Of course, we should probably at the same time replace our numbering system with one in base 12 as well. Base 12 is the ideal numbering system because in base 12, 10 is divisible by the first two prime numbers. This makes math a lot easier.
You may be right about the difficulty in converting between units of volumetric measurement, but what is one quarter of 236 ml? One quarter of a cup is 1/4 cup. Everything I have seen suggests that English Units are better for cooking and baking than metric units. I am not going to go into it in depth, but the above is based on an argument made by a European as to why English Units were better for cooking and baking than metric units. His point was that English Units were more readily scaled to increase or decrease a recipe. He, also, argued that they lent themselves more to being "eyeballed" because they were based on "human scale" (I wish I remembered where I came across the article because he made a very good case). He even made a case for them in construction that I, someone who grew up using English Units but perfectly comfortable with Metric Units, would never have thought of, but found rather convincing. Up until I read that article, written by someone who grew up in and lived in a country which uses Metric Units, I believed that eventually Metric Units would displace English Units because they are easier to do math with. However, now I do not know.
OK, a person with the handle "For a Free Internet" posts praising a regime that heavily restricts its populations access to the Internet. Make up your mind, do you support totalitarian control over all aspects of people's lives, including what information they can access, or do you support a free Internet? Or by "free Internet" do you really mean someone else pays for your access to the Internet?
I always wonder why these people who praise Cuba so much don't move there.
"NO EXCEPTIONS TO RULES EVER" is the most important message schools can teach to kids.
That is actually the rule that public schools were set up to teach kids. That the kids who go to public schools are to follow the rules and do what their "betters" tell them to do. Now the children of those "betters" go to private schools and receive different lessons.
You do not know what you are talking about. Gun dealers have to do background checks on EVERY gun they sell, even if they sell it at a gun show. Since you are aware of the Fast & Furious program, you must then be aware that there was no need for a court order to prevent ATF agents from tailing straw purchasers, they had orders from Washington to not do so. Please give a citation for either of your claims.
We already HAVE passed the point of sensible gun control. First point to make, violent crime is falling in this country, including crime where the criminal used a gun. Second point to make, perhaps if the government enforced the gun laws already on the books, we could determine which ones actually work, which ones should be repealed and whether there is any reason to create new ones.
Since Obama took office, the percentage of violations of current background check laws which were prosecuted has fallen.
The US Government needs to get the problems at that agency fixed, now.
What problem? The issues you are referring to are features of the IRS that led to it being chosen for its role as the key enforcer of the Affordable Care Act, not bugs that would lead those who passed that law to consider it unwise to give it that additional power.
The person I responded to seemed to imply that you can force other people to send you encrypted email. I was under the impression that whether or not email is encrypted is decided on the sender's end of the connection. Are you telling me that you can impose encryption on those who send you email? That you can stop them from sending unencrypted email?
Are you saying that you have a way to prevent someone from sending you unencrypted email?
Or to put it another way, since 2011 8% of data center operators have decided that they have other priorities than further improving what they perceive to be energy efficiency numbers that are as good as the cost of improving further can justify (while a much larger number still say it is a priority, but have no intention of improving it in the near future because they don't think the cost is justified by the potential savings).*
*None of this is intended to in anyway be in disagreement with any part of the point you made, just trying to phrase your point in another way (perhaps not well).
Why would they build two products when most governments would be happy to have a backdoor into people's electronics (especially when they thought they could claim they thought it was disabled if people found out about it)?
What about non-American companies that want to sell their products in the U.S.? Do you really think they will give up the U.S. market? And do you really think they will go to the effort of building one product for the U.S. market and another one for other markets? Oh some might build a model for none U.S. markets with the wiretapping features disabled (with instructions provided to the relevant governments about how to re-enable them when they desire) and a few might build a non-U.S. model without the feature. But most will build it with the feature "disabled" in software, also with instructions given to the relevant governments about how to turn it back on.
The biggest problem that the FBI is not thinking about is that THEIR equipment will also have this built in, meaning that the bad guys will be able to tap them.
You do understand that lots of companies will distribute the same devices in other countries, perhaps with the wiretapping capability "disabled"?
Then if I run it on a differently designed computer (say ARM rather than x86) it doesn't violate the patent.
Actually that is not true. I do not have to fill out any forms to sell a car. However, the other person needs me to fill out a bunch of forms if they intend to drive the car on the highway. I can however sell a car to you and let you tow it away without filling out any paperwork (I have done this twice, in both cases the other party was buying the car for parts).
CO2 is not poison. Go ahead and try and live without it.
That's fine, as long as you accept that I am not willing to live like that. And that it is not your place to tell me how to live. I happen to think that everyone should live according to their beliefs. I, also, believe that if people actually believe something, they will actively try to convince others to believe it and work to live accordingly. However, I will resist when others attempt to force me to live according to their beliefs.
I am not sure you are talking about the same thing as the article. The article is talking about the North axial pole, not the North magnetic pole. I believe the ships logs from the 1700s and earlier record shifts in the magnetic North pole (although I may have missed the references to shifts in the axis).
We know we're making SOME things worse, so why don't we stop it with those things?
That is a fine idea, go ahead and stop doing those things...oh, I see, you want to force me and everyone else to stop as well. Or maybe you want to be like Al Gore who is making a fortune doing more of those things than just about everybody else while going around and demanding that the government stop everybody else from doing them.