> He only freed the slaves in the SOUTHERN states in the > emancipation proclamation so they would revolt and help > the North in their war effort. Slaves in the north were > left enslaved.
In fact, slaves in the Southern areas that the North controlled, such as Louisiana, were also not freed.
Of course, this is at least in part because HE COULDN'T FRRE THEM. Legally, he could make such a Proclamation and give it force only in areas in *active* rebellion. Slavery in the North and in Border States had to be handled by either each state in turn (most Northern states had already ended its legality before the Dred Scott Decision ruled that no state not part of the original 13 could ban slavery [decision might have prevented one of the originals from banning it, as well, but I doubt that it was ever litigated]) or by amending the Constitution to end it. Slavery in already-liberated areas was probably even trickier, since no state legislature existed in those states that was not already in rebellion, and thus not likely to vote to ban their own slavery.
> Now isn't quite as extreme as the year 2000, which > may have been the most extreme in the nation's history.
More extreme than 1984 Mondale vs. Reagan? More extreme than 1964 Johnson vs. Goldwater? More extreme than 1952 Stevenson vs. Eisenhower? More extreme than the 1860 4-way race?
The most evenly split, certainly. Most extreme? Hardly.
> If anything, it's probably an indication of just how > much Western military forces oversell the effectiveness > of high-tech toys.
Or how much we got use to using nothing but passive sensors on the Soviets, back when. If we had been pinging away, we would have seen them long before the surfaced. Unless all the brain-blasted whale corpses blocked the signal, of course. The problem is that active pinging shows where you are better than it sees, and so is too unsubtle for the old game of cat and mouse, just like launching live torpedoes would have been.
> P.s., female characters wear only a g-string under their armour.:) > Topless Playboy bunny hops abound. It truly is a fantasy wonderland.
Well, Robert E. Howard didn't write Conan at the highest level of sophistication, either, as his target readership was mostly teenage boys (no cracks relating to his possible homosexuality, here), to this is entirely appropriate.
Now, to be politically correct, male characters would have to go about in fur jockstraps, as well.
Well, whatever keeps the players out of the gene pool.
> Kucinich is perceived as a nutjob by the vast majority of the United States.
No, Kucinch isn't perceived as anything by the vast majority of the US. He is a non-entity, with no more credibility from his run at the Presidency than Gary Coleman from Different Strokes (who also ran).
> It is not very likely that Bush will be charged with > this in any country, but there is a real risk that > members of his administration, including possibly > the C-in-C himself
The President *is* the Commander-in-Chief.
Do you mean the Commanding General, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, or the SecDef?
False. Johnson was tried, and fond not guilty, by one vote, a Republican from Ohio. The "law" that he "violated" (firing a member of his own Cabinet without Senate approval) was later found to be unconstitutional.
Johnson then served out the rest of his term, but did not try to run for election in his own right.
> So you are saying that Jesus was never written about until over 30 years after his death?
He was not biographed (to coin a word) until 30 years after death, because before that one could ask any of several thousand people who had seen him alive, at various stages of his life. The Epistles were written about him, in the sense of about what he had taught, and what the Crucifixtion meant, for at least a decade before the first Gospel. Before that, they were too busy talking about him to set it down.
> What age were the disciples when Jesus died?
Some were probably in their late teens, some probably as old as he was, or early 30s. Quite easy for them to have survived to the Gospel-writing period. John of Patmos, writer of the last accepted Gospel, might have been a very old Disciple (i.e., THE John) or someone who had interviewed him enough to adopt him as PoV when writing his Gospel version.
Really, there are far better places than Slashdot to find this out.
Wrong Niven novels. Fallen Angels is not part of the Known Space series (where rishrathra occurs), nor the Magic Goes Away series, nor the Legacy of Heorot/Beowulf's Children series, but is a stand-alone.
> I didnt know the difference was so low for the hybrids. If what you say is true then why bother?
Hybrids suck on the highway, but are much better for city driving (about 20 MPG better than highway). If you have a car for commuting in LA, you want a hybrid. For commuting in Denver (at least, from what I saw of it back in 2001) not so much. And if you are a saleman with a 500 mile radius territory in the US Midwest, they are just wrong.
> Because they're afraid they'll be crushed to a fine pulp when they get hit by a big honking SUV.
Oh, so no one is afraid of the big honking semi-trailers, that each far outweigh the SUVs?
There are good reason why each individual, thinking only of/for him/her/itself, might chose a heavier car. SUVs are not a significant driver (pun intended) of this trend.
Personally, I prefer a light car, because, when the semi is bearing down, I can out-accelerate him, up or down hill, so I don't have to test whether my car is heavy enough not to be crushed. Of course, this means that I like a reasonable amount of power, so a hybrid is out, for highway driving. And no, I am not suggesting that we all need to buy Lotus Elises (my feet are too big for the pedals, anyway).
Anyway, the summary was stupid (or is that redundant, on Slashdot?). That lighter cars get better gas mileage, even when not a hybrid, isn't going to affect the popularity of SUVs. Fuel/power/cost calculations will, because if the cost per mile is not sensitive to the cost of fuel/power, then SUVs make good sense for each individual. If we ever design zero-point modules the size and power density of the ones on StarGate SG-1, the SUV is coming right back.
> then you were adhering to the principles set in the U.S. Constitution
No, English and then American Common Law. Thus, in US Tax Court, you are presumed guilty, because positive law created by the Congress has overridden the presumptions in the Common Law, in that court, only.
Presumption of Innoncence until proven guilty is not part of the Constitution, it preceded the Constitution by at least 600 years, and probably more. It underlies the Constitution on as unexamined a level as did the meaning of "well-regulated militia" when they passed the Second Amendment; fortunately, language change haven't screwed it up as much as the 2nd Amendment, or "Thou shalt not kill" have.
Carbine Williams could design and manufacture gun parts in prison, first, for the wardens, then for Remington and Winchester. Unless the prison, itself, doesn't have a broadband link, the warden has the power to allow him special access to it (after all, his kernel work had nothing to do with his killing her). I doubt that the warden has any reason to allow this, of course.
He could not run any company set up to support development of or to "market" the ReiserFS, in any case.
> Not sure how that would turn out). If he were permitted > to present the evidence on appeal, and the court found > it established a reasonable doubt, he would be acquitted.
No, an Appeals Court cannot give him an acquittal, as that requires a finding of fact, not law. It can find that sufficient new exculpatory evidence exists that he should be retried, and then the lower courts handle it. Then, if the body indicates that he didn't do it, the DA can decline to refile charges.
More likely, the body will not provide any such evidence, of course, or he would have turned over the location far earlier. If there is enough question raised (and remember, as convicted, he now has to meet a higher level of proof than he did when presumed legally innocent) for the judges to order a retrial, the DA will refile, and probably reconvict. After all, no one can say, then, that the body hadn't been found, and she had just disappeared.
The often touted left-wing claim that the right-wing claims that if the criminals are treated well, they would want to go to jail is a completely unfounded fabrication. In countries that do treat their criminals like human beings, convicts still prefer freedom over incarceration, no matter how benign it otherwise is.
Fixed it for you.
Of course they mind short sentences in minimum security. Just because someone can do a short sentence "standing on his head" does not mean that they would want to, anymore than I like paying $50 for parking violations, or $150 for a speeding ticket; it just means that they don't mind it much.
Well, in America, it's pretty much a given that even if you spend 6 months in prison, you're never going to have much of a chance at a normal life outside again. You're never going to have a real, legitimate job, of the kind that pays enough to support a family.
Yeah. You'll be stuck living as an author, actor, and political commentator, like G. Gordon Libby. Or a gun designer working for various Firearms companies, like "Carbine" Williams. Or living the life of Abignale, working for the FBI, catching other criminals.
> hint, in 1st world countries, you cannot profitably farm bulk crops without oil originated fertilzer
Well, by calling it "organic produce" you can, sometimes. And there are lots of other sources of fertilzer than just cheap oil; for years, my family used Milwaukee's sewer effluent [MilOrganite (TM)] dried and corned on our old yard. Other cities can, and probably will, start doing the same thing if the value increases. Such other non-petroleum sources have higher Nitrogen values, as well, which is often the biggest problem for which fertilizers help.
> part of me pines for the simple days when it > was Usenet that contained the useful technical > information we needed, and when Dejanews was > the best way to get to it.
Noob. Getting a feed from someone was the best way, and second best was getting a login on a small machine that had the feed. Dejanews was the Harbinger of Death for Usenet.
> Ha. That's what "you" is for. We just need to bring back "thou" for the singular.
Thou was only used within the family, to someone you wanted to treat like family (ie, a close friend), or an inferior. God, being the Father, was addressed as thou, and since most people only know their thee's and thou's from Shakespeare or the King James Version of the Bible, they think that thou was used far more than it was. It was already on its way out by the start of the KJV project, but the scholars used slightly antique language, rather than risk using what could turn out to be slang, and wrong in a generation or two.
> Even if Hillary was somehow able to get all outstanding superdelegates to support her
All superdelegates are in play (ie, outstanding, in their mediocre way) at all times, up until they vote at the Convention. Even if a super declares for X, there is nothing, save their future reputation, to prevent them from publically switching later to Y, or just quietly voting the other way. If voting for the loser would hurt, will they shift. By this, I mean that if Obama becomes more inevitable, Clinton supers will slowly desert, whereas if it becomes apparent that Obama cannot win in the General election (for whatever reason), his supers will desert to her.
> That would be incredibly unlikely unless Obama is caught with a dead girl or live boy.
If that happened, almost all the superdelegates would switch, loudly.
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> He only freed the slaves in the SOUTHERN states in the
> emancipation proclamation so they would revolt and help
> the North in their war effort. Slaves in the north were
> left enslaved.
In fact, slaves in the Southern areas that the North controlled, such as Louisiana, were also not freed.
Of course, this is at least in part because HE COULDN'T FRRE THEM. Legally, he could make such a Proclamation and give it force only in areas in *active* rebellion. Slavery in the North and in Border States had to be handled by either each state in turn (most Northern states had already ended its legality before the Dred Scott Decision ruled that no state not part of the original 13 could ban slavery [decision might have prevented one of the originals from banning it, as well, but I doubt that it was ever litigated]) or by amending the Constitution to end it. Slavery in already-liberated areas was probably even trickier, since no state legislature existed in those states that was not already in rebellion, and thus not likely to vote to ban their own slavery.
> Now isn't quite as extreme as the year 2000, which
> may have been the most extreme in the nation's history.
More extreme than 1984 Mondale vs. Reagan?
More extreme than 1964 Johnson vs. Goldwater?
More extreme than 1952 Stevenson vs. Eisenhower?
More extreme than the 1860 4-way race?
The most evenly split, certainly. Most extreme? Hardly.
> If anything, it's probably an indication of just how
> much Western military forces oversell the effectiveness
> of high-tech toys.
Or how much we got use to using nothing but passive sensors on the Soviets, back when. If we had been pinging away, we would have seen them long before the surfaced. Unless all the brain-blasted whale corpses blocked the signal, of course. The problem is that active pinging shows where you are better than it sees, and so is too unsubtle for the old game of cat and mouse, just like launching live torpedoes would have been.
> P.s., female characters wear only a g-string under their armour. :)
> Topless Playboy bunny hops abound. It truly is a fantasy wonderland.
Well, Robert E. Howard didn't write Conan at the highest level of sophistication, either, as his target readership was mostly teenage boys (no cracks relating to his possible homosexuality, here), to this is entirely appropriate.
Now, to be politically correct, male characters would have to go about in fur jockstraps, as well.
Well, whatever keeps the players out of the gene pool.
> And how do you wash the car?
Use the Perma-Press setting, with no starch or fabric softener.
> Kucinich is perceived as a nutjob by the vast majority of the United States.
No, Kucinch isn't perceived as anything by the vast majority of the US. He is a non-entity, with no more credibility from his run at the Presidency than Gary Coleman from Different Strokes (who also ran).
> It is not very likely that Bush will be charged with
> this in any country, but there is a real risk that
> members of his administration, including possibly
> the C-in-C himself
The President *is* the Commander-in-Chief.
Do you mean the Commanding General, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, or the SecDef?
> Johnson resigned before his Senate trial
False. Johnson was tried, and fond not guilty, by one vote, a Republican from Ohio. The "law" that he "violated" (firing a member of his own Cabinet without Senate approval) was later found to be unconstitutional.
Johnson then served out the rest of his term, but did not try to run for election in his own right.
> So you are saying that Jesus was never written about until over 30 years after his death?
He was not biographed (to coin a word) until 30 years after death, because before that one could ask any of several thousand people who had seen him alive, at various stages of his life. The Epistles were written about him, in the sense of about what he had taught, and what the Crucifixtion meant, for at least a decade before the first Gospel. Before that, they were too busy talking about him to set it down.
> What age were the disciples when Jesus died?
Some were probably in their late teens, some probably as old as he was, or early 30s. Quite easy for them to have survived to the Gospel-writing period. John of Patmos, writer of the last accepted Gospel, might have been a very old Disciple (i.e., THE John) or someone who had interviewed him enough to adopt him as PoV when writing his Gospel version.
Really, there are far better places than Slashdot to find this out.
> The consensus in science amongst string theorists is that string theory is correct.
And among everyone else, that it is practically unfalsible.
Wrong Niven novels. Fallen Angels is not part of the Known Space series (where rishrathra occurs), nor the Magic Goes Away series, nor the Legacy of Heorot/Beowulf's Children series, but is a stand-alone.
> I didnt know the difference was so low for the hybrids. If what you say is true then why bother?
Hybrids suck on the highway, but are much better for city driving (about 20 MPG better than highway). If you have a car for commuting in LA, you want a hybrid. For commuting in Denver (at least, from what I saw of it back in 2001) not so much. And if you are a saleman with a 500 mile radius territory in the US Midwest, they are just wrong.
> Because they're afraid they'll be crushed to a fine pulp when they get hit by a big honking SUV.
Oh, so no one is afraid of the big honking semi-trailers, that each far outweigh the SUVs?
There are good reason why each individual, thinking only of/for him/her/itself, might chose a heavier car. SUVs are not a significant driver (pun intended) of this trend.
Personally, I prefer a light car, because, when the semi is bearing down, I can out-accelerate him, up or down hill, so I don't have to test whether my car is heavy enough not to be crushed. Of course, this means that I like a reasonable amount of power, so a hybrid is out, for highway driving. And no, I am not suggesting that we all need to buy Lotus Elises (my feet are too big for the pedals, anyway).
Anyway, the summary was stupid (or is that redundant, on Slashdot?). That lighter cars get better gas mileage, even when not a hybrid, isn't going to affect the popularity of SUVs. Fuel/power/cost calculations will, because if the cost per mile is not sensitive to the cost of fuel/power, then SUVs make good sense for each individual. If we ever design zero-point modules the size and power density of the ones on StarGate SG-1, the SUV is coming right back.
> then you were adhering to the principles set in the U.S. Constitution
No, English and then American Common Law. Thus, in US Tax Court, you are presumed guilty, because positive law created by the Congress has overridden the presumptions in the Common Law, in that court, only.
Presumption of Innoncence until proven guilty is not part of the Constitution, it preceded the Constitution by at least 600 years, and probably more. It underlies the Constitution on as unexamined a level as did the meaning of "well-regulated militia" when they passed the Second Amendment; fortunately, language change haven't screwed it up as much as the 2nd Amendment, or "Thou shalt not kill" have.
He could not run any company set up to support development of or to "market" the ReiserFS, in any case.
> Not sure how that would turn out). If he were permitted
> to present the evidence on appeal, and the court found
> it established a reasonable doubt, he would be acquitted.
No, an Appeals Court cannot give him an acquittal, as that requires a finding of fact, not law. It can find that sufficient new exculpatory evidence exists that he should be retried, and then the lower courts handle it. Then, if the body indicates that he didn't do it, the DA can decline to refile charges.
More likely, the body will not provide any such evidence, of course, or he would have turned over the location far earlier. If there is enough question raised (and remember, as convicted, he now has to meet a higher level of proof than he did when presumed legally innocent) for the judges to order a retrial, the DA will refile, and probably reconvict. After all, no one can say, then, that the body hadn't been found, and she had just disappeared.
Yeah. You'll be stuck living as an author, actor, and political commentator, like G. Gordon Libby. Or a gun designer working for various Firearms companies, like "Carbine" Williams. Or living the life of Abignale, working for the FBI, catching other criminals.
From what I remember of that movie, the line should have been in a #pragma, not a mere comment. It definitely affected Nicholson's actions.
Well, by calling it "organic produce" you can, sometimes. And there are lots of other sources of fertilzer than just cheap oil; for years, my family used Milwaukee's sewer effluent [MilOrganite (TM)] dried and corned on our old yard. Other cities can, and probably will, start doing the same thing if the value increases. Such other non-petroleum sources have higher Nitrogen values, as well, which is often the biggest problem for which fertilizers help.
> part of me pines for the simple days when it
> was Usenet that contained the useful technical
> information we needed, and when Dejanews was
> the best way to get to it.
Noob. Getting a feed from someone was the best way, and second best was getting a login on a small machine that had the feed. Dejanews was the Harbinger of Death for Usenet.
Thou was only used within the family, to someone you wanted to treat like family (ie, a close friend), or an inferior. God, being the Father, was addressed as thou, and since most people only know their thee's and thou's from Shakespeare or the King James Version of the Bible, they think that thou was used far more than it was. It was already on its way out by the start of the KJV project, but the scholars used slightly antique language, rather than risk using what could turn out to be slang, and wrong in a generation or two.
> I am SO FUCKIGN GLAD its not going to be another 8 years of Clinton
But with the same people as she would have, including usual suspects back to the Carter presidency, probably.
> Even if Hillary was somehow able to get all outstanding superdelegates to support her
All superdelegates are in play (ie, outstanding, in their mediocre way) at all times, up until they vote at the Convention. Even if a super declares for X, there is nothing, save their future reputation, to prevent them from publically switching later to Y, or just quietly voting the other way. If voting for the loser would hurt, will they shift. By this, I mean that if Obama becomes more inevitable, Clinton supers will slowly desert, whereas if it becomes apparent that Obama cannot win in the General election (for whatever reason), his supers will desert to her.
> That would be incredibly unlikely unless Obama is caught with a dead girl or live boy.
If that happened, almost all the superdelegates would switch, loudly.
Yeah, just a few in Korea, then a few in Vietnam, and a pittance in Afghanistan before the Soviets left. Almost no shots fired, at all.