This is why we need to watch what we do (i.e. not torture people) because we don't get to have one standard for ourselves and a much higher one for everyone else.
I agree with this part. The Bush administration, in condoning torture and promoting the idea that we can preemptively strike enemies has greatly weakened our ability to take the high ground. But I don't think even the worst of the Bush administration is remotely comparable to the WTC attacks.
It's almost hard to believe you meant that as a legitimate question, but I'll bite.
It has to do with intention and lack of reckless disregard. There were no legitimate non-civilian targets in the WTC. Even if there were, the attacks showed a complete disregard for the magnitude of civilian loss.
It's certainly true that the US and Israel have killed civilians without achieving legitimate military goals. But you can't say that they attack without regard to civilian casualties or that they don't try to learn from such mistakes.
It's funny to argue that the Iraq insurgency supports the idea that private ownership of guns under the second amendment would help overthrow the government. Private ownership of guns was, of course, illegal under Saddam, and most insurgent possession of weapons still is. The insurgents don't have a "right" to build IEDs. They build them and used them illegally.
To expect any government to support the possession and use of weapons that are being used against the government in an active insurgency is insane. The US just suspended Habeus Corpus, a more fundamental right, in a much less serious situation (and, yeah, it mostly got overturned by the courts, so maybe your plan is to keep your armed insurgency going for six or seven years while you fight for your second amendment rights in court and then hope that the Executive Branch will actually listen to the courts. Good luck with that).
I'm sure you couldn't be bothered to actually read the article, but the EPA report found "that tough regulation of motor vehicle emissions could produce $500 billion to $2 trillion in economic benefits over the next 32 years". That's benefits, not costs.
The article also mentions that the EPA report was produced because the Supreme Court ruled that, under the Clean Air Act, the EPA was required to determine whether greenhouse gasses should be regulated.
In other words, Congress did pass a law. It is known as the Clean Air Act. The Executive Branch was not properly implementing the law, and the Supreme Court told them that they needed to do so.
This has nothing to do with your fantasy about non-elected officials substituting their regulations for laws. The regulations were specifically required by the law.
I don't know if Apple loves or hates DRM, but licensing their DRM to Microsoft or Sansa would make it more difficult for Apple to later drop it. What if Sansa ran a marketing campaign talking about how great it was that their player could use all the music from the iTunes store, but Creative's players couldn't? Do you think Sansa would let Apple just drop the DRM?
Without other licensees, the decision to drop the DRM is just between Apple and the music labels. When they dropped it for EMI, they didn't have to go to Sansa and see if they'd object.
Apple's never been too happy about Java. They don't want developers using an API that they can't control. They were (and are) required to implement Java on the Mac (in order to stay competitive), but they've never shown any enthusiasm about it. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple told Sun that they'd support Java on the iPhone if and only if Sun took over the OS X Java implementation.
I don't understand the negative posts here. There are lots of good, well-written, accessible science books that would be appropriate reading for an English class.
I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone mention Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. It's "about" math but it's as much social criticism (of Victorian England). Edwin A Aabot, the author, was also largely responsible for the acceptance of Shakespeare as high literature, and there are lots of references to Shakespeare scattered througout (including beginning every chapter). Students can follow up with Sphereland or one of Rudy Rucker's books. Another great math-related book is George Gamow's One, two, three...Infinity
Another good choice is The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks (or Awakenings or just about anything else he's written). Howard Gardner and Steve Pinker are also good authors for middle school students interested in cognition.
How about Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel or Collapse? Either combine science and history in a way that may appeal to students. Stephen Jay Gould's The Panda's Thumb might also be good (if evolution isn't too hot to touch).
In computer science, there's Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine (which is more history of science than science per se), and Ray Kruzweils' The Singularity is Near will get students talking.
Dava Sobel's Longitude is a great story wrapped into a short book about the history of science and the relationship between science and engineering.
According to the AP (via the Pittsburgh Post Gazette), the DMCA specifically allows cell-phone unlocking.
The amazing thing is that the Post-Gazette somehow considered this important enough to put on the front page today! Maybe Apple's a bit annoyed that this happened, but I bet Jobs is thrilled with the publicity.
Silverlight development for non-Windows platforms is done by the Mono project, I'd guess that Microsoft has minimal control of whether or not updates are issued. And that's ignoring the fact that it's all based on a published standard.
Microsoft has learned that a technology need not be proprietary nor solely available from MS in order for MS to own it. They just need to make sure that Silverlight is the best implementation (in terms of performance and features that go beyond the standard) so that the Windows implementation is always better than the Mono implementation. The fact that this is a published, cross-platform standard just gives managers better justification to go ahead with the implementation in Silverlight and then cancel the Mac/Linux support later.
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This is why we need to watch what we do (i.e. not torture people) because we don't get to have one standard for ourselves and a much higher one for everyone else.
I agree with this part. The Bush administration, in condoning torture and promoting the idea that we can preemptively strike enemies has greatly weakened our ability to take the high ground. But I don't think even the worst of the Bush administration is remotely comparable to the WTC attacks.
It's almost hard to believe you meant that as a legitimate question, but I'll bite.
It has to do with intention and lack of reckless disregard. There were no legitimate non-civilian targets in the WTC. Even if there were, the attacks showed a complete disregard for the magnitude of civilian loss.
It's certainly true that the US and Israel have killed civilians without achieving legitimate military goals. But you can't say that they attack without regard to civilian casualties or that they don't try to learn from such mistakes.
It's funny to argue that the Iraq insurgency supports the idea that private ownership of guns under the second amendment would help overthrow the government. Private ownership of guns was, of course, illegal under Saddam, and most insurgent possession of weapons still is. The insurgents don't have a "right" to build IEDs. They build them and used them illegally.
To expect any government to support the possession and use of weapons that are being used against the government in an active insurgency is insane. The US just suspended Habeus Corpus, a more fundamental right, in a much less serious situation (and, yeah, it mostly got overturned by the courts, so maybe your plan is to keep your armed insurgency going for six or seven years while you fight for your second amendment rights in court and then hope that the Executive Branch will actually listen to the courts. Good luck with that).
I'm sure you couldn't be bothered to actually read the article, but the EPA report found "that tough regulation of motor vehicle emissions could produce $500 billion to $2 trillion in economic benefits over the next 32 years". That's benefits, not costs.
The article also mentions that the EPA report was produced because the Supreme Court ruled that, under the Clean Air Act, the EPA was required to determine whether greenhouse gasses should be regulated.
In other words, Congress did pass a law. It is known as the Clean Air Act. The Executive Branch was not properly implementing the law, and the Supreme Court told them that they needed to do so.
This has nothing to do with your fantasy about non-elected officials substituting their regulations for laws. The regulations were specifically required by the law.
I don't know if Apple loves or hates DRM, but licensing their DRM to Microsoft or Sansa would make it more difficult for Apple to later drop it. What if Sansa ran a marketing campaign talking about how great it was that their player could use all the music from the iTunes store, but Creative's players couldn't? Do you think Sansa would let Apple just drop the DRM? Without other licensees, the decision to drop the DRM is just between Apple and the music labels. When they dropped it for EMI, they didn't have to go to Sansa and see if they'd object.
Yes, they could use Java, but they don't want to.
Apple's never been too happy about Java. They don't want developers using an API that they can't control. They were (and are) required to implement Java on the Mac (in order to stay competitive), but they've never shown any enthusiasm about it. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple told Sun that they'd support Java on the iPhone if and only if Sun took over the OS X Java implementation.
I don't understand the negative posts here. There are lots of good, well-written, accessible science books that would be appropriate reading for an English class.
I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone mention Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. It's "about" math but it's as much social criticism (of Victorian England). Edwin A Aabot, the author, was also largely responsible for the acceptance of Shakespeare as high literature, and there are lots of references to Shakespeare scattered througout (including beginning every chapter). Students can follow up with Sphereland or one of Rudy Rucker's books. Another great math-related book is George Gamow's One, two, three...Infinity
Another good choice is The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks (or Awakenings or just about anything else he's written). Howard Gardner and Steve Pinker are also good authors for middle school students interested in cognition.
How about Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel or Collapse? Either combine science and history in a way that may appeal to students. Stephen Jay Gould's The Panda's Thumb might also be good (if evolution isn't too hot to touch).
In computer science, there's Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine (which is more history of science than science per se), and Ray Kruzweils' The Singularity is Near will get students talking.
Dava Sobel's Longitude is a great story wrapped into a short book about the history of science and the relationship between science and engineering.
According to the AP (via the Pittsburgh Post Gazette), the DMCA specifically allows cell-phone unlocking.
The amazing thing is that the Post-Gazette somehow considered this important enough to put on the front page today! Maybe Apple's a bit annoyed that this happened, but I bet Jobs is thrilled with the publicity.
Microsoft has learned that a technology need not be proprietary nor solely available from MS in order for MS to own it. They just need to make sure that Silverlight is the best implementation (in terms of performance and features that go beyond the standard) so that the Windows implementation is always better than the Mono implementation. The fact that this is a published, cross-platform standard just gives managers better justification to go ahead with the implementation in Silverlight and then cancel the Mac/Linux support later.