I did start immunizations on my first kid just when the doc said I should.... she had a terrible allergic reaction
Ah, so you've had a personal experience that make you no longer able to objective judge the facts. That happens, and it's kind of understandable, but doesn't make you any more correct. It just explains your error.
Federal control has been detrimental to state's economies, resulting in higher taxation and more regulation. I would also argue that education is the worse off for having the federal government meddling. Drug laws are another example, as are right-to-die state laws coming into conflict with federal. For that matter, abortion should properly be a state issue.
However, while that may have been the case in practice, there's no constitutional requirement for it. The constitution say only "The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators. "
While slaves counted 3/5 of a person for purposes of apportioning the number of representatives a state had, there's no constitutional reason they (or women) couldn't have been given a vote for their house representative, or presidental elector, immediately. It was up to the state.
The congress could, afterwards, have passed a law forbidding it... but that would have been something extraneous to the constitution itself.
And the vast majority of them believe they are above average intelligence.
Really, I believe there are more important qualities in a voter than intelligence. Most political principles are easy to understand; yet two people of IQ 80 may disagree, and two people of IQ 160 may disagree. I think that means that character and experience are more important to the voting process than intelligence.
An election is winner take all. The electoral college just recognizes that at a different level.
The real reason for the electoral college, is because there is no national election. Never has been, never (hopefully) will be. The presidential election is simply set of 50 elections local to each state. The states pick, by methods that may be unique to each state, their electors. I don't believe there's a constitutional mandate to even let the citizens of a state vote.
The ADA helps disabled people, but rewards disabled scumbags. Not all scumbags are disabled, and not all disabled people are scumbags, but ADA lawsuits tend to attract the intersection of the two.
From an investor's point of view, the PS3 may be well worth it. Even though the sales were a bust and it lost tons of money, it helped shoehorn in Blu-Ray, which might provide a more than sufficient return on investment.
The 360 is, while probably a money sink, still one of Microsoft's best chances at expanding into new markets. The X-Box isn't a sad attempt to break into the market, like the n-gauge. It's a major player in the gaming field.
Despite all the wildly fluctuating sales numbers from various professional and unprofessional sites, I've never seen one that put the PS3 ahead of the 360 in total sales. I don't think the PS3 is a flop; I think we have a competitive race between it and the 360. That's a good thing. But I can't see any reason other than wishful thinking anybody would think it wasn't 3rd place in sales.
They are dominating the high-end console space, with Wii dominating the low-end. The PS3 is a clear 3rd, and will probably not catch up. It might all change with the next generation, though.
Geez, Cornell, charging to download a copy of the constitution? That's weak.
Anyway...
It does state no ex-post facto laws may be passed, but I'm not convinced that means laws can't be retroactively removed. A rule that says you can't write in a book doesn't mean you can't erase from the book. I'm not defending the telecom immunity; that was bad for a number of reasons... and as I understand it, the law wasn't excised, it was modified so that it retroactively didn't apply to specific companies in specific cases. That isn't right.
My understand that ex-post-facto laws cannot be made to charge people under, but there's never been a restriction against ex-post-facto laws to exonerate people. It's not changing laws retroactive that's the problem, it's punishing people because of those changes that's not allowed.
I'm assuming that, as before, the new version will be highly customisable so users can decide what functionality they want to keep, and what they want to disable.
Ah, like I can turn off the awesomebar? Oh, wait...
At least somebody will probably write a plugin after a while that mostly disables the feature.
That would be ideal. The Awesomebar would have been a great extension; it just was an annoying fundamental change to force on to all users. The plugin feature allows the browser to be as bloated as it needs to be, and no more.
How is Opera, currently? I left it for Firefox several years ago, but the bloat is a bit discouraging. Is Opera still lean, or is it following the same path Firefox is?
My son is a math/computer geek, in a way, a little shy. Much like me when I was young.
But when he was sixteen, he got infatuated with a girl, and signed up for a ballroom dance class in order to get more face time with her. He's been taking lessons ever since.
Probably one of the best moves a geek could ever make, both for self-development and social development. If you can dance well, you will never hurt for female company. They'll line up to spend a Friday night with you. It's the losers that are scared of their own bodies and worried about what other people will think of them that make fun of other men that can dance.
Except pirating the program is a crime, with penalty under law; breaking the EULA is not quite as clear cut, legally, and ethically a lot more defensible. Courts are still wavering back and forth about how legitimate EULAs are. There's no such indecision about copyright infringement.
Completely untrue. The stimulus package could have been easily passed, even with every Republican in Washington opposing it. The trouble that Obama and the Democrats had is that the package is massively unpopular, and they really want to spread the blame.
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I did start immunizations on my first kid just when the doc said I should.... she had a terrible allergic reaction
Ah, so you've had a personal experience that make you no longer able to objective judge the facts. That happens, and it's kind of understandable, but doesn't make you any more correct. It just explains your error.
Life will find a way! Chaos Theory proves it!
Federal control has been detrimental to state's economies, resulting in higher taxation and more regulation. I would also argue that education is the worse off for having the federal government meddling. Drug laws are another example, as are right-to-die state laws coming into conflict with federal. For that matter, abortion should properly be a state issue.
However, while that may have been the case in practice, there's no constitutional requirement for it. The constitution say only "The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators. "
While slaves counted 3/5 of a person for purposes of apportioning the number of representatives a state had, there's no constitutional reason they (or women) couldn't have been given a vote for their house representative, or presidental elector, immediately. It was up to the state.
The congress could, afterwards, have passed a law forbidding it... but that would have been something extraneous to the constitution itself.
I say put in "C", since he's obviously the Libertarian.
And the vast majority of them believe they are above average intelligence.
Really, I believe there are more important qualities in a voter than intelligence. Most political principles are easy to understand; yet two people of IQ 80 may disagree, and two people of IQ 160 may disagree. I think that means that character and experience are more important to the voting process than intelligence.
An election is winner take all. The electoral college just recognizes that at a different level.
The real reason for the electoral college, is because there is no national election. Never has been, never (hopefully) will be. The presidential election is simply set of 50 elections local to each state. The states pick, by methods that may be unique to each state, their electors. I don't believe there's a constitutional mandate to even let the citizens of a state vote.
The ADA helps disabled people, but rewards disabled scumbags. Not all scumbags are disabled, and not all disabled people are scumbags, but ADA lawsuits tend to attract the intersection of the two.
From an investor's point of view, the PS3 may be well worth it. Even though the sales were a bust and it lost tons of money, it helped shoehorn in Blu-Ray, which might provide a more than sufficient return on investment.
The 360 is, while probably a money sink, still one of Microsoft's best chances at expanding into new markets. The X-Box isn't a sad attempt to break into the market, like the n-gauge. It's a major player in the gaming field.
Despite all the wildly fluctuating sales numbers from various professional and unprofessional sites, I've never seen one that put the PS3 ahead of the 360 in total sales. I don't think the PS3 is a flop; I think we have a competitive race between it and the 360. That's a good thing. But I can't see any reason other than wishful thinking anybody would think it wasn't 3rd place in sales.
Or, more likely, to defend against other patent trolls.
They are dominating the high-end console space, with Wii dominating the low-end. The PS3 is a clear 3rd, and will probably not catch up. It might all change with the next generation, though.
Right. How many companies sell Notepad replacements? Wouldn't they love it if Microsoft was forced to stop including a text editor with Windows?
Ok, I was looking up the exact wording, and came across this as the first search result:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html - "[The full Constitution, in both hypertext and word-processor formats, can be purchased and downloaded for individual local use from the LII. For details click here.]"
Geez, Cornell, charging to download a copy of the constitution? That's weak.
Anyway...
It does state no ex-post facto laws may be passed, but I'm not convinced that means laws can't be retroactively removed. A rule that says you can't write in a book doesn't mean you can't erase from the book. I'm not defending the telecom immunity; that was bad for a number of reasons... and as I understand it, the law wasn't excised, it was modified so that it retroactively didn't apply to specific companies in specific cases. That isn't right.
My understand that ex-post-facto laws cannot be made to charge people under, but there's never been a restriction against ex-post-facto laws to exonerate people. It's not changing laws retroactive that's the problem, it's punishing people because of those changes that's not allowed.
It'd probably be less stupid to just not commit crimes.
I'm assuming that, as before, the new version will be highly customisable so users can decide what functionality they want to keep, and what they want to disable.
Ah, like I can turn off the awesomebar? Oh, wait...
At least somebody will probably write a plugin after a while that mostly disables the feature.
That would be ideal. The Awesomebar would have been a great extension; it just was an annoying fundamental change to force on to all users. The plugin feature allows the browser to be as bloated as it needs to be, and no more.
How is Opera, currently? I left it for Firefox several years ago, but the bloat is a bit discouraging. Is Opera still lean, or is it following the same path Firefox is?
So, if we eliminate women from the tally, like during the great depression, will we have a -42% unemployment rate?
That's a joke, but seriously, it's folly to equate today's unemployment to the great depression's. It's like comparing a windy day to a hurricane.
This is the sort of thing that gets us out of a poor economy.
My son is a math/computer geek, in a way, a little shy. Much like me when I was young.
But when he was sixteen, he got infatuated with a girl, and signed up for a ballroom dance class in order to get more face time with her. He's been taking lessons ever since.
Probably one of the best moves a geek could ever make, both for self-development and social development. If you can dance well, you will never hurt for female company. They'll line up to spend a Friday night with you. It's the losers that are scared of their own bodies and worried about what other people will think of them that make fun of other men that can dance.
Except pirating the program is a crime, with penalty under law; breaking the EULA is not quite as clear cut, legally, and ethically a lot more defensible. Courts are still wavering back and forth about how legitimate EULAs are. There's no such indecision about copyright infringement.
Completely untrue. The stimulus package could have been easily passed, even with every Republican in Washington opposing it. The trouble that Obama and the Democrats had is that the package is massively unpopular, and they really want to spread the blame.
Are people who argue against abortion pro-life or anti-choice? Are both correct English? Yes. Do they carry significantly different connotations? Yes.
Is a person a global warming denier, doubter, or skeptic? Why use one term over the other? Generally it is to imply a judgment of relative merit.