First off, as the other poster pointed out, Bush Sr. and Clinton have both been doing fundraising work for the tsunami, Katrina, etc. Reagan suffered from Alzheimer's (quite possibly beginning during his second term) and so was pretty much incapable of doing anything after he left office aside from reading the occasional scripted speech. Nixon was disgraced and wouldn't have been welcome doing much of anything. So what you're really saying is, Ford wasn't carrying his weight (and of course, he was never elected anyway).
Incorporating only limits civil liability. If an employee commits a criminal act, even on company orders, he's still going to jail (otherwise, why wouldn't we have bank robbery corporations?).
me on my bike, her on her quad (both silenced, small bore, so don't flame about exhaust fumes and saving the earth....
Actually, I recall a museum exhibit at the SF Academy of Science several years back about the horrible destruction wrought to topsoil by offroad bikes and quads. Not all environmental destruction is caused by emissions.
I apologize, I've never been to Italy, it just didn't seem like a pine-y sort of place. So that makes my point even more, the Romans definately would have had plenty of pine sap to make pitch with.
The Romans didn't have anything more flammable than olive oil
Huh, that surprises me. Wasn't pine sap one of the more common incendiaries during the Middle Ages? I suppose that there probably aren't a lot of pine trees in Italy, but presumably they existed somewhere in the Empire, and I imagine that other saps would work alright as well.
Cute, but there is a substantial difference between deciding a matter of facts (did John Smith kill his wife?) versus deciding a matter of opinion (when Mario stomps on a koopa, does that make the game violent?).
I wouldn't be surprised if they do this. They already do a smiliar thing with movies in the theater, patterns of red dots appear on individual frames scattered through the movie, different for each copy. That way they can tell where the camcorder rips are coming from. Even more useful digitally: each copy is unique (so you know EXACTLY who's ripping you off), it's impossible to remove (because the dots are scattered all over the screen, so you can't just put a little black box in the corner or anything), and it can be done in a manner that is not offensive to the viewer (a tv isn't bright enough to leave after images, so you're not likely to notice the dots like you do in the theater).
Time matters. The US ended slavery almost a hundred and fifty years ago. There are no living former slaves or slave owners. I'd wager money that there is no one alive today who has ever MET a slave or slave owner. On the other hand, many of the victims of the Cultural Revolution would probably be alive today had they not been killed. Plenty of those responsible are still alive, and some still hold seats of power in the government. They were running over their citizens with tanks as recently as 16 years ago.
A more apt comparison might be Germany or Japan, but they've paid for their sins. In the former case, they've paid monetary reparations, lost vast swaths of national territory, and several leading figures in the government were executed. In the latter case, theirs were the only cities ever to be hit by atomic bombs.
That would only be true if the disclaimer had a clause to the effect that one could use MTA copyrighted materiel in one's suggestion. Without such a clause, we're stuck with fair use, which does not allow one to modify and redistribute a copyrighted work.
You're misreading the disclaimer. They don't mean that you can include MTA copyrighted materiel in a suggestion and it becomes public domain. They mean that if YOU submit a suggestion to THEM, then you give up any rights to that idea. They can publish your idea, implement your idea, or bury it in a vault and never look at it again. You are giving up all of your rights by making a suggestion, but the MTA yields nothing.
Actually, they screwed that up in Ultimate Spider-Man as well. In Ultimate Spider-Man, there was a bit where a reporter named Eddie Brock asks a question at a news conference, and is ridiculed because he works for a tabloid. I guess that there can be more than two people named Eddie Brock though...
But with the looming US debt owed to China, how long before they say, "No, Yankee, we don't feel like it. What are you going to do about it" and grin the grin of one who knows they hold the other by the short hairs?
If China chooses to violate US IP, the US could just as easily choose not to repay its debt, changing trillions of bonds into worthless paper. I seriously doubt the US ever WOULD do that, because it would make it very hard to get new loans in the future, but China hardly has the US "by the short hairs" by virtue of being owed a lot of money.
You're a bit off there. There's 4 cards that you assign a +1 value to (10, J, Q, K), and 8 cards that you assign a -1 to (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9). I'm not sure which category you're putting Ace into, but even 5 vs. 8 is still uneven, and will result in a negative number virtually every time. Maybe you meant -0.5, with Ace being 0? It gives you better odds to do the following though: +1 for 10s and face cards -1 for 2-5
Actually, I read a book a while back where the author suggests that variety (eggs in different baskets) is not as valuable as is commonly supposed. Instead, he believes that men cheat purely for numbers (more children = better), while women cheat to secure improved genes. They find the best man that will stay with them for a husband, and look for stronger, healthier, more popular, smarter men to be the fathers of their children. Indeed, there have been studies showing that women are attracted to subtly more masculine men during the most fertile part of the cycle.
Actually, have a look at some of the early drafts of the script, you can see how heavily based on the Hidden Fortress it was. Sure, after it had been kicking around in his brain for 3 years, it became a very different story, but just as clearly it owes a lot to Kurosawa. The fight between Vader and Obi Wan, with Stormtroopers gathered around, is straight out of Hidden Fortress for example, as are the characters of C-3PO and R2-D2. Leia is princess of Alderaan, which is destroyed, making her the last surviving leader of her "clan," just like in HF.
Well, the founders of this particular State believed that the rights were issued by God. That's why they were prone to use phrases like "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights." The Founding Fathers were mostly believers in the principle of Natural Law, the notion that humans have a certain intrinsic moral nature (imparted by a divine figure) that social laws must reflect, or face just rebellion. So, when the Founding Fathers put the "just compensation" clause into the Constitution, it is an indication that they considered property rights to be a Natural Law, and hence granted by God Almighty.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you quibbling over semantics? The reason that we step the voltage up and down is that it allows power to be transmitted farther. The reason we use AC is to facilitate stepping voltage up and down. So, we're using AC to transmit power farther.
If we had superconducting wires, we wouldn't need to change voltage, so we wouldn't need AC, and hence it might be worth switching to DC. IANAElectrician though, so correct me if I've misunderstood something.
Of course, $10 (2x5) and $50 (2.5x20) bills are also less popular, though not nearly to the extent of the $2. Most popular are $1, $5, $20, and $100, each one being 4-5x the amount of the next one down.
For a beautiful example of this, look at the Interstate Commerce Commission. What was originally created to control the railroad monopolies became a club that the railroads wielded to fend off trucking for decades. There was a time when a trucking company had to go before a government board and prove that there was a "need" for regular truck shipments from point A to point B before it would be allowed (and a "need" genereally meant that there were no railroads that went there).
Note that the title has the word "discretionary" in it? Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid are mandatory programs, and are not included in those totals. What's left over in HHS is just stuff like the FDA. Social Security is an even better example. In S-3, SS costs on 7 billion! That's just the discretionary portion, what it costs them for overhead before they make any payments at all
See how table S-1 (Budget Totals) has total outlays of above 2 trillion per year, while table S-2 has shows total discretionary authority around 600 billion? The difference between the two is mainly Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
If you'd RTFA, you'd know that the issue is still evolution. The movie puts forth the notion that life on Earth started in environments similar to the undersea vents.
I'd second this. My father has become somewhat fanatical about The Teaching Company, having gone through an ungodly number of courses, trying to fill in the gaps in his Detroit public school education. He's passed some along to me, and I've generally found them worthwile. Robert Greenberg has a large number of courses covering classical music that are consistently good.
You're not understanding how dilute this homeopathic stuff is. Don't think half a dozen guys smoking in a small room, think one guy smoking in the Astrodome. Besides which, most of the studies which showed cancer caused by second-hand smoke have been pretty flawed. Unless you live with a smoker, the effects seem to be statistically insignificant.
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First off, as the other poster pointed out, Bush Sr. and Clinton have both been doing fundraising work for the tsunami, Katrina, etc. Reagan suffered from Alzheimer's (quite possibly beginning during his second term) and so was pretty much incapable of doing anything after he left office aside from reading the occasional scripted speech. Nixon was disgraced and wouldn't have been welcome doing much of anything. So what you're really saying is, Ford wasn't carrying his weight (and of course, he was never elected anyway).
Incorporating only limits civil liability. If an employee commits a criminal act, even on company orders, he's still going to jail (otherwise, why wouldn't we have bank robbery corporations?).
Actually, I recall a museum exhibit at the SF Academy of Science several years back about the horrible destruction wrought to topsoil by offroad bikes and quads. Not all environmental destruction is caused by emissions.
I apologize, I've never been to Italy, it just didn't seem like a pine-y sort of place. So that makes my point even more, the Romans definately would have had plenty of pine sap to make pitch with.
Huh, that surprises me. Wasn't pine sap one of the more common incendiaries during the Middle Ages? I suppose that there probably aren't a lot of pine trees in Italy, but presumably they existed somewhere in the Empire, and I imagine that other saps would work alright as well.
Cute, but there is a substantial difference between deciding a matter of facts (did John Smith kill his wife?) versus deciding a matter of opinion (when Mario stomps on a koopa, does that make the game violent?).
I wouldn't be surprised if they do this. They already do a smiliar thing with movies in the theater, patterns of red dots appear on individual frames scattered through the movie, different for each copy. That way they can tell where the camcorder rips are coming from. Even more useful digitally: each copy is unique (so you know EXACTLY who's ripping you off), it's impossible to remove (because the dots are scattered all over the screen, so you can't just put a little black box in the corner or anything), and it can be done in a manner that is not offensive to the viewer (a tv isn't bright enough to leave after images, so you're not likely to notice the dots like you do in the theater).
A more apt comparison might be Germany or Japan, but they've paid for their sins. In the former case, they've paid monetary reparations, lost vast swaths of national territory, and several leading figures in the government were executed. In the latter case, theirs were the only cities ever to be hit by atomic bombs.
That would only be true if the disclaimer had a clause to the effect that one could use MTA copyrighted materiel in one's suggestion. Without such a clause, we're stuck with fair use, which does not allow one to modify and redistribute a copyrighted work.
You're misreading the disclaimer. They don't mean that you can include MTA copyrighted materiel in a suggestion and it becomes public domain. They mean that if YOU submit a suggestion to THEM, then you give up any rights to that idea. They can publish your idea, implement your idea, or bury it in a vault and never look at it again. You are giving up all of your rights by making a suggestion, but the MTA yields nothing.
Actually, they screwed that up in Ultimate Spider-Man as well. In Ultimate Spider-Man, there was a bit where a reporter named Eddie Brock asks a question at a news conference, and is ridiculed because he works for a tabloid. I guess that there can be more than two people named Eddie Brock though...
If China chooses to violate US IP, the US could just as easily choose not to repay its debt, changing trillions of bonds into worthless paper. I seriously doubt the US ever WOULD do that, because it would make it very hard to get new loans in the future, but China hardly has the US "by the short hairs" by virtue of being owed a lot of money.
You're a bit off there. There's 4 cards that you assign a +1 value to (10, J, Q, K), and 8 cards that you assign a -1 to (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9). I'm not sure which category you're putting Ace into, but even 5 vs. 8 is still uneven, and will result in a negative number virtually every time. Maybe you meant -0.5, with Ace being 0? It gives you better odds to do the following though:
+1 for 10s and face cards
-1 for 2-5
Actually, I read a book a while back where the author suggests that variety (eggs in different baskets) is not as valuable as is commonly supposed. Instead, he believes that men cheat purely for numbers (more children = better), while women cheat to secure improved genes. They find the best man that will stay with them for a husband, and look for stronger, healthier, more popular, smarter men to be the fathers of their children. Indeed, there have been studies showing that women are attracted to subtly more masculine men during the most fertile part of the cycle.
Actually, have a look at some of the early drafts of the script, you can see how heavily based on the Hidden Fortress it was. Sure, after it had been kicking around in his brain for 3 years, it became a very different story, but just as clearly it owes a lot to Kurosawa. The fight between Vader and Obi Wan, with Stormtroopers gathered around, is straight out of Hidden Fortress for example, as are the characters of C-3PO and R2-D2. Leia is princess of Alderaan, which is destroyed, making her the last surviving leader of her "clan," just like in HF.
You mean like this? (Feeling Lucky link on Google)- slope.html
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/slippery
The UK is not part of Europe. Need I remind you, "Fog in Channel: Continent Cut Off"
Well, the founders of this particular State believed that the rights were issued by God. That's why they were prone to use phrases like "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights." The Founding Fathers were mostly believers in the principle of Natural Law, the notion that humans have a certain intrinsic moral nature (imparted by a divine figure) that social laws must reflect, or face just rebellion. So, when the Founding Fathers put the "just compensation" clause into the Constitution, it is an indication that they considered property rights to be a Natural Law, and hence granted by God Almighty.
If we had superconducting wires, we wouldn't need to change voltage, so we wouldn't need AC, and hence it might be worth switching to DC. IANAElectrician though, so correct me if I've misunderstood something.
Of course, $10 (2x5) and $50 (2.5x20) bills are also less popular, though not nearly to the extent of the $2. Most popular are $1, $5, $20, and $100, each one being 4-5x the amount of the next one down.
For a beautiful example of this, look at the Interstate Commerce Commission. What was originally created to control the railroad monopolies became a club that the railroads wielded to fend off trucking for decades. There was a time when a trucking company had to go before a government board and prove that there was a "need" for regular truck shipments from point A to point B before it would be allowed (and a "need" genereally meant that there were no railroads that went there).
See how table S-1 (Budget Totals) has total outlays of above 2 trillion per year, while table S-2 has shows total discretionary authority around 600 billion? The difference between the two is mainly Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
If you'd RTFA, you'd know that the issue is still evolution. The movie puts forth the notion that life on Earth started in environments similar to the undersea vents.
I'd second this. My father has become somewhat fanatical about The Teaching Company, having gone through an ungodly number of courses, trying to fill in the gaps in his Detroit public school education. He's passed some along to me, and I've generally found them worthwile. Robert Greenberg has a large number of courses covering classical music that are consistently good.
You're not understanding how dilute this homeopathic stuff is. Don't think half a dozen guys smoking in a small room, think one guy smoking in the Astrodome. Besides which, most of the studies which showed cancer caused by second-hand smoke have been pretty flawed. Unless you live with a smoker, the effects seem to be statistically insignificant.