I suspect Apple are fine with helping track down terrorists (I would be too) and that in effect the judge has given them permission / a shield against being accused of rolling over too easily. It's not as if there is any doubt that this couple were terrorists.
The engine is just a constant-load, constant temperature (once it warms up) generator to top up the battery. Any adaptation to power demand should be handled by the electric drivetrain.
There must be 1000s of books that I don't ever want to read. Clearly the marketing guys don't factor-in that quality of choice is as important as quantity. Looks like scribd is about to market itself into oblivion.
I hear what you're saying, but in some ways it is a good example because it is so trivial. If the first case had been about access to lifesaving drugs or something more clearly essential then the question of whether gay couples should be allowed to buy groceries would remain untested. A cake is pretty far down the list of essentials to life so establishing a precedent there makes it hard to slide under the bar for other things.
If the children are both consenting adults marrying of their own free will, and if I were a baker in Indonesia then I'd happily bake them a cake. On the other hand if I were a baker in the USA and I was asked to bake a cake to celebrate two gay minors being forced into marriage then I would refuse.
Complex, isn't it.
Not much trumps the rights of children to be protected until they are adult and certainly not some false comparison between gay marriage and child abuse
I know right? Refusing to bake a gay wedding cake is literally and exactly like dragging them into the street and stoning them to death. It is, as you say, "the exact same fucking thing."
Not to the same degree, no. But certainly the same side of the scale, just a question of being more emboldened after that.
I will say I'm impressed by the reflectives in Europe though. By and large the motorways I've driven on in the UK make good use of color and have really clear reflective markings at night. By contrast the road markings in Denver may as well not exist when it's raining they are so indistinct.
Presumably if the same number of people are trying to make the commute but at half the speed, then there are likely to be more cars on the road at the same time, that can't be good for accident rates, not to mention road rage incidents.
I was in Denver Recently, there had been a blizzard overnight and the next day I-225 was covered with no marking visible. I forget how many lanes it normally has (6 or so I think each way) but that morning drivers were uncommonly courteous, traffic divided itself into about 4 lanes, people used turn signals and backed off to give space to change lanes. Of course there was only half the normal traffic on the road which helped.
The next day the roads were clear and the assholes were back in action. But hey, for a few hours at least it was a fun commute
So my recipe for a better commute is less traffic and wider lanes, how practical is that !
What scares me about NK is that their leadership seems not to care about the NK populace. I'd like to think that the US would consider civilian casualties before a launch against another nuclear power, at the very least the extent of US casualties from a successful retaliation. I'm not convinced that NK care about casualties on either side and since so few NK people will have been involved in any launch decision on the part of NK it's hard to think of the average NK guy in the street as the enemy.
Last time I got a call from "microsoft support" I put the speakerphone next to the computer and told the guy on the line that he needed to sing to the computer to heal it. The conversation lasted a good 15 minutes as I insisted over and over that singing had restorative power over technology, I even offered to sing along with him.
I think there is a difference between ridiculing people for what they are and have no control over (skin color, sex etc.) and for the choices they make, like their choice of religion.
I always thought that the term "politically correct" was intended to be hurled as an insult at people who voice objections to racism, misogyny and intolerance. It is a lazy argument made by people who have resorted to calling sincerity into question. I'm sure there are plenty of pious and hypocritical campus bullies but critics should call them out for what they are on the demerits of each.
Cleese's comedy was at its peak when it highlighted government nonsense or the frailties of the human condition, the arbitrary nature of the olympics, messed up class politics. He has done plenty to make people more aware of the lack of logic in racism and witch trials.
If he can make the case that the students are falling into a trap of some kind in a way that rings true, then I want to see and enjoy the comedy, if he wants to regurgitate talk-radio gibberish then he's not saying anything of interest to me
I'm not sure what the higher mod cap achieves. When I have points the fact that some comments are maxed out just means I have to look for other worthy comments to mark up (or down).
The bumps on the top and the receptacles on the bottom are high accuracy, the bit in between probably less so, I imagine the brick could be a lot more that 5um out of square or height and still attach firmly if the top and bottom connecting surfaces were accurate.
So maybe you could buy a bunch of those thin bricks and simply glue them onto whatever you print.
That may not be good for replicating everything, but you could certainly create a lot of new types of blocks that way
I'd rather have the efficient healthcare system - but I can see the people losing their jobs putting up a fight and some of them are likely to be influential.
But isn't that the problem, if you get rid of the middle men and the vast bureaucracy of handling claims across multiple insurers, billing etc. then 70% of the jobs are lost.
Just exactly as you say, counting calories worked for me when I wanted to lose weight, I lost 35 pounds when I planned my intake and stuck to it. As you say, it's not like you have to hit the right numbers on day one, you can chart your weight and I could have adjusted my intake up and down through experimentation to manipulate my weight if I wanted to. My ultimate downfall is that I did not want to keep the diet up. The planning was a chore and quite frankly I enjoy eating the things that got me so overweight in the first place.
So in my case, the ability to measure my caloric intake with more precision would have made little difference I think
Maybe some kind of bio/blood monitor that could tell me that I had earned the right to eat something might help, but I'd probably switch it off if someone put a plate fo french fries in front of me
is it possible that those areas of the brain are associated with the concept of quantity of any kind (length, weight, number) and that this is just another measure, maybe a count of other neural activity in some way. After all, perception of time seems to vary considerably depending on what's going on.
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I suspect Apple are fine with helping track down terrorists (I would be too) and that in effect the judge has given them permission / a shield against being accused of rolling over too easily. It's not as if there is any doubt that this couple were terrorists.
The engine is just a constant-load, constant temperature (once it warms up) generator to top up the battery. Any adaptation to power demand should be handled by the electric drivetrain.
There must be 1000s of books that I don't ever want to read. Clearly the marketing guys don't factor-in that quality of choice is as important as quantity. Looks like scribd is about to market itself into oblivion.
I hear what you're saying, but in some ways it is a good example because it is so trivial. If the first case had been about access to lifesaving drugs or something more clearly essential then the question of whether gay couples should be allowed to buy groceries would remain untested. A cake is pretty far down the list of essentials to life so establishing a precedent there makes it hard to slide under the bar for other things.
If the children are both consenting adults marrying of their own free will, and if I were a baker in Indonesia then I'd happily bake them a cake. On the other hand if I were a baker in the USA and I was asked to bake a cake to celebrate two gay minors being forced into marriage then I would refuse.
Complex, isn't it.
Not much trumps the rights of children to be protected until they are adult and certainly not some false comparison between gay marriage and child abuse
I know right? Refusing to bake a gay wedding cake is literally and exactly like dragging them into the street and stoning them to death. It is, as you say, "the exact same fucking thing."
Not to the same degree, no. But certainly the same side of the scale, just a question of being more emboldened after that.
I will say I'm impressed by the reflectives in Europe though. By and large the motorways I've driven on in the UK make good use of color and have really clear reflective markings at night. By contrast the road markings in Denver may as well not exist when it's raining they are so indistinct.
Presumably if the same number of people are trying to make the commute but at half the speed, then there are likely to be more cars on the road at the same time, that can't be good for accident rates, not to mention road rage incidents.
I was in Denver Recently, there had been a blizzard overnight and the next day I-225 was covered with no marking visible. I forget how many lanes it normally has (6 or so I think each way) but that morning drivers were uncommonly courteous, traffic divided itself into about 4 lanes, people used turn signals and backed off to give space to change lanes. Of course there was only half the normal traffic on the road which helped.
The next day the roads were clear and the assholes were back in action. But hey, for a few hours at least it was a fun commute
So my recipe for a better commute is less traffic and wider lanes, how practical is that !
I think you're supposed to use the force to navigate the Arc de Triomphe though, there's no way to get around it using human senses alone.
What scares me about NK is that their leadership seems not to care about the NK populace. I'd like to think that the US would consider civilian casualties before a launch against another nuclear power, at the very least the extent of US casualties from a successful retaliation. I'm not convinced that NK care about casualties on either side and since so few NK people will have been involved in any launch decision on the part of NK it's hard to think of the average NK guy in the street as the enemy.
Maybe they'll bring the MZ-80K back
or just forward the call to the FCC if they have an 800 number
Last time I got a call from "microsoft support" I put the speakerphone next to the computer and told the guy on the line that he needed to sing to the computer to heal it. The conversation lasted a good 15 minutes as I insisted over and over that singing had restorative power over technology, I even offered to sing along with him.
Come to think of it they never called back.
To be fair, for a while in the middle of the last 50 you could do it in a couple of hours.
The Iranian government.
I think there is a difference between ridiculing people for what they are and have no control over (skin color, sex etc.) and for the choices they make, like their choice of religion.
I always thought that the term "politically correct" was intended to be hurled as an insult at people who voice objections to racism, misogyny and intolerance. It is a lazy argument made by people who have resorted to calling sincerity into question. I'm sure there are plenty of pious and hypocritical campus bullies but critics should call them out for what they are on the demerits of each.
Cleese's comedy was at its peak when it highlighted government nonsense or the frailties of the human condition, the arbitrary nature of the olympics, messed up class politics. He has done plenty to make people more aware of the lack of logic in racism and witch trials.
If he can make the case that the students are falling into a trap of some kind in a way that rings true, then I want to see and enjoy the comedy, if he wants to regurgitate talk-radio gibberish then he's not saying anything of interest to me
I'm not sure what the higher mod cap achieves. When I have points the fact that some comments are maxed out just means I have to look for other worthy comments to mark up (or down).
Well if they send it to Coventry nothing will communicate with it.
The bumps on the top and the receptacles on the bottom are high accuracy, the bit in between probably less so, I imagine the brick could be a lot more that 5um out of square or height and still attach firmly if the top and bottom connecting surfaces were accurate.
So maybe you could buy a bunch of those thin bricks and simply glue them onto whatever you print.
That may not be good for replicating everything, but you could certainly create a lot of new types of blocks that way
I'd rather have the efficient healthcare system - but I can see the people losing their jobs putting up a fight and some of them are likely to be influential.
But isn't that the problem, if you get rid of the middle men and the vast bureaucracy of handling claims across multiple insurers, billing etc. then 70% of the jobs are lost.
Just exactly as you say, counting calories worked for me when I wanted to lose weight, I lost 35 pounds when I planned my intake and stuck to it. As you say, it's not like you have to hit the right numbers on day one, you can chart your weight and I could have adjusted my intake up and down through experimentation to manipulate my weight if I wanted to. My ultimate downfall is that I did not want to keep the diet up. The planning was a chore and quite frankly I enjoy eating the things that got me so overweight in the first place.
So in my case, the ability to measure my caloric intake with more precision would have made little difference I think
Maybe some kind of bio/blood monitor that could tell me that I had earned the right to eat something might help, but I'd probably switch it off if someone put a plate fo french fries in front of me
is it possible that those areas of the brain are associated with the concept of quantity of any kind (length, weight, number) and that this is just another measure, maybe a count of other neural activity in some way. After all, perception of time seems to vary considerably depending on what's going on.