maybe, just maybe, as president, they know information that I don't, and are in a far better place to make a decision than I am.
Or maybe, as president, they learn they don't have the power they thought and have no real choice but to comply with the pressure brought upon them to act along certain lines.
Your entire post gives reasons why Obama may have signed this bill while being against the portions for detaining citizens. Since he is actively in support of a currently running a UAV program used to execute the occasional citizen without a trial - (some deservedly so, some maybe not, but regardless there should be some sort of trial: http://www.salon.com/2011/10/20/the_killing_of_awlakis_16_year_old_son/ )
I am guessing he doesn't have much heartburn with mere detention.
Same here. Neighbors are a pair of 30 something pediatricians. I am quite sure their combined income is more than double mine, but they also bought into our neighborhood 10 years later than me so their mortgage is likely 3 times what mine is. Their standard of living is certainly not different, and I am probably not even in the top 5% of income earners.
AC was referring to his friend who is a waitress having a shared apt with a bunk, not factory workers in a dorm. A shared apt is not going to have a sufficient quantity of people in it to talk about the body heat warming the place.
Indeed, I see in most of the stories that Foxconn workers live in company dorms, but I have yet to see mentioned whether those are provided for free, or if they are factored into the wages/benefits of the the employee. i.e. does an employee who lives close enough to the factory to not use the dorms receive the same wages as one who does use them?
You state the scarcity is natural, and then proceed to point out a similar market in Europe, that does not have an equivalent middleman class to the RIAA members, that does not exhibit this scarcity as further proof?
I applaud the library as well. I wonder what the city in question's ordinances would say about reading printed pornography in a public place. If there are laws allowing someone to be cited for that by calling the police, that is the action that should have been taken.
If not, then tell the local paper to write and article about the guy. Find some legitimate means of discouraging the behavior. Censoring the library internet should not even be on the table.
Illegal immigrants are not heroes. They are largely poverty stricken people looking to improve their situation, who are being leveraged by group #4 to erode the bargaining ability the current lower and middle class have against them.
As someone who works in radiation safety for the government, I can tell you that studies on these scanners have been done.
If you said you'd worked on the studies, I might be somewhat disposed to believe you.
No one credible is arguing that the overall amount of radiation is high. The concern is that it is concentrated in the dermal volume, not over the entire body mass, and that there are no guidelines for the amount of time the scan is allowed to linger or return to sensitive areas like breasts and genitals (where contraband is likely concealed and therefore subject to more intense scanning).
And the TSA has refused to show any study methodology which negates those concerns. They are in fact only now considering even allowing the operators to wear dosimeters. Not the actions of an agency which has a solid hazard analysis to back up their claims of safety.
So sorry, your proclamation that there is no risk remains unsubstantiated bullshit.
I saw a Docomo poster in Tokyo that read "DOing COmmunications the MObile way". If that's the basis of their name, not sure how the Japanese "alphabet" enters into it.
They were not arrested by US agents - they were arrested by New Zealand law enforcement at the request of US agents. So there's absolutely nothing unusual there.
Unless they had committed acts against New Zealand law, there is something unusual about it.
This is no different than if a current document protected by copyright were passed off as a public domain document by a third person. The onus on assessing the right to copy lies with the person making the copy.
It's completely different. They did assess the right to copy, he even stated that "No, but if someone got the work as public domain (with a public domain notice attached)".
Show me where it says anywhere in the relevant statutes that you must constantly recheck the right to copy every time a new copy is issued, just in case it has been removed from the public domain.
I live in an LA suburb and commute to work 30 miles each way daily. I would estimate 90% of the people around me, all people in their 30s, 40s and 50s, nail the throttle completely at virtually every light, given the cars they are driving and the rate they accelerate. In spite of the fact they will all end up together at another red light several times before we get to the freeway.
Might be behavior peculiar to LA, but I have never seen this "adult slowdown" you posit in any area I have lived as a driving adult around LA.
Yeah, well maybe if large chunks of our congress and populace didn't spend time spouting how scientists and technical people are biased and corrupt and don't know any better than plain folks, and we didn't pass laws that strangled technical innovation in a fashion obvious to anyone with a technical background, more kids would be interested in those fields
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maybe, just maybe, as president, they know information that I don't, and are in a far better place to make a decision than I am.
Or maybe, as president, they learn they don't have the power they thought and have no real choice but to comply with the pressure brought upon them to act along certain lines.
Not the same thing.
So you're saying the MPAA has been secretly bribing the telecom and broadband industry to keep bandwidth artificially low all this time.
Hmmmm.
Your entire post gives reasons why Obama may have signed this bill while being against the portions for detaining citizens. Since he is actively in support of a currently running a UAV program used to execute the occasional citizen without a trial - (some deservedly so, some maybe not, but regardless there should be some sort of trial: http://www.salon.com/2011/10/20/the_killing_of_awlakis_16_year_old_son/ )
I am guessing he doesn't have much heartburn with mere detention.
Sorry I called your wife a bloated warthog.
Good day.
Yes it is. They are just dark matter cats. I saw one in the basement once.
I've yet to encounter an HOA that mows your lawn for you. Ours just has their lawyer write you letters if you don't.
Now we know why no one answers our calls. They've seen Star Trek.
"It's that little planet out near the rim calling again."
"Sssshh. Just pretend we're not home, or they might come over."
Way to miss the joke.
Wil Wheaton is Sheldon's archenemy on The Big Bang Theory.
Was. Brent Spiner usurped him.
Same here. Neighbors are a pair of 30 something pediatricians. I am quite sure their combined income is more than double mine, but they also bought into our neighborhood 10 years later than me so their mortgage is likely 3 times what mine is. Their standard of living is certainly not different, and I am probably not even in the top 5% of income earners.
AC was referring to his friend who is a waitress having a shared apt with a bunk, not factory workers in a dorm. A shared apt is not going to have a sufficient quantity of people in it to talk about the body heat warming the place.
Indeed, I see in most of the stories that Foxconn workers live in company dorms, but I have yet to see mentioned whether those are provided for free, or if they are factored into the wages/benefits of the the employee. i.e. does an employee who lives close enough to the factory to not use the dorms receive the same wages as one who does use them?
You got that completely wrong. It should be
In Sony Japan, batteries charge YOU!
Not to mention he will never find a new 60Hz TV on the market again. He'll be lucky if he can find one that is "only" 120 hz.
You state the scarcity is natural, and then proceed to point out a similar market in Europe, that does not have an equivalent middleman class to the RIAA members, that does not exhibit this scarcity as further proof?
I applaud the library as well. I wonder what the city in question's ordinances would say about reading printed pornography in a public place. If there are laws allowing someone to be cited for that by calling the police, that is the action that should have been taken.
If not, then tell the local paper to write and article about the guy. Find some legitimate means of discouraging the behavior. Censoring the library internet should not even be on the table.
Illegal immigrants are not heroes. They are largely poverty stricken people looking to improve their situation, who are being leveraged by group #4 to erode the bargaining ability the current lower and middle class have against them.
As someone who works in radiation safety for the government, I can tell you that studies on these scanners have been done.
If you said you'd worked on the studies, I might be somewhat disposed to believe you.
No one credible is arguing that the overall amount of radiation is high. The concern is that it is concentrated in the dermal volume, not over the entire body mass, and that there are no guidelines for the amount of time the scan is allowed to linger or return to sensitive areas like breasts and genitals (where contraband is likely concealed and therefore subject to more intense scanning).
And the TSA has refused to show any study methodology which negates those concerns. They are in fact only now considering even allowing the operators to wear dosimeters. Not the actions of an agency which has a solid hazard analysis to back up their claims of safety.
So sorry, your proclamation that there is no risk remains unsubstantiated bullshit.
I saw a Docomo poster in Tokyo that read "DOing COmmunications the MObile way". If that's the basis of their name, not sure how the Japanese "alphabet" enters into it.
If you don't have $500 to invest in the market, I don't know what to tell you.
Android still has more marketshare in phones and smartphones. But if you count android devices agains iOS devices, I am not sure they are.
They were not arrested by US agents - they were arrested by New Zealand law enforcement at the request of US agents. So there's absolutely nothing unusual there.
Unless they had committed acts against New Zealand law, there is something unusual about it.
This is no different than if a current document protected by copyright were passed off as a public domain document by a third person. The onus on assessing the right to copy lies with the person making the copy.
It's completely different. They did assess the right to copy, he even stated that "No, but if someone got the work as public domain (with a public domain notice attached)".
Show me where it says anywhere in the relevant statutes that you must constantly recheck the right to copy every time a new copy is issued, just in case it has been removed from the public domain.
Tom Cruise was unavailable for comment as he was squashed flat by the alien ship landing.
Rendering him several inches shorter.
I live in an LA suburb and commute to work 30 miles each way daily. I would estimate 90% of the people around me, all people in their 30s, 40s and 50s, nail the throttle completely at virtually every light, given the cars they are driving and the rate they accelerate. In spite of the fact they will all end up together at another red light several times before we get to the freeway.
Might be behavior peculiar to LA, but I have never seen this "adult slowdown" you posit in any area I have lived as a driving adult around LA.
Yeah, well maybe if large chunks of our congress and populace didn't spend time spouting how scientists and technical people are biased and corrupt and don't know any better than plain folks, and we didn't pass laws that strangled technical innovation in a fashion obvious to anyone with a technical background, more kids would be interested in those fields