Context. Most of those "other gods" required human sacrifices, especially Baal and Moloch which required child sacrifices. If someone is enticing you to offer children as human sacrifices, I'm ok with the death penalty. If a whole town is so morally corrupt that no stands up to oppose the human sacrifice of children, I think you can justify wiping out the whole town.
In this context, the death penalty wasn't something to hush competing religions. It was to stop the evil that those religions were doing. Remember the context.
I'm genuinely asking. If a person makes scamming/threatening phone calls from another country, can they be extradited because the person they're calling is somewhere else? It should be the same for data, whatever that is.
It is irrelevant that he uncovered shady government practices proving the spy agencies broke laws
Actually, it's very relevant. New York Times v United States (1971). Information may not be classified merely because it would be embarrassing or to cover illegal activity; information may only be classified to protect national security objectives. United States v Nixon (1974). Executive privilege cannot be used to cover illegal activity.
For that fact, probably most people lack the ability to understand cause and effect beyond what is clearly spelled out to them at the given time in the given context.
I have to disagree. Our problem is the casual voter. It's not that they're stupid. It's that they simply don't care to put in the effort. They want to spend no more than 5 minutes thinking about who to elect. There are polls that show huge numbers of people are still undecided going into the voting booth. The end result may be the same as a stupid voter -- a stupid decision and a terrible elected leader. However, the root cause isn't stupidity; it's apathy. This is an important distinction, because it opens up other solutions.
The system is completely flawed, but there's no alternative. mass stupidity represents the wide scale human species.We have no way to limit the vast scope of stupid and we can't cure it and we can't leave stupid unrepresented because they do in fact represent the majority.
We already have a better process for picking the President -- the caucus. In a primary, a person shows up and checks a box -- in and out in 5 minutes; this is very conducive to the casual voter. To the contrary, in a caucus, people vote for delegates who advocate for a candidate. This means you have to learn a little something about the candidates, and carry on an intelligent conversation about them (or else you look like a fool). It's a more involved process that could take 1-2 hours. The caucus is much more conducive to the thoughtful voter, and you get a higher caliber of voter from it. (For an in-depth comparison, see Caucus vs. Primary)
Primary vs Caucus explains the huge difference in results between Iowa and New Hampshire. Trump supporters are casual voters, who can't be bothered to show up, so he came in second in the Iowa caucus. Well, government goes to those who show up. If Trump supporters want to screen themselves out by choosing not to show up, I have no problem with that. (It's also much better than a top-down approach of screening out who can vote.) If you want a better process, get states to switch from Primary to Caucus.
For all other elected offices, use a Instant Runoff Voting. So many people complain about poor choices, but when they get more than two choices, these same people complain that they want to vote for someone who will win. If we had Instant Runoff Voting, people would rank their choices. If their choice came in last, their vote would roll to their second choice. Rinse and repeat until someone has a majority. It would free up people to vote for whomever they chose, while still giving them a vote if their first choice didn't do well.
I did a clean install, and I had ONE problem that was fixed by uninstalling & reinstalling Norton. I have to wonder how many of these problems would not have happened under a clean install.
Treason is levying war against the US or giving aid and comfort to its enemies. Who did they kill? Who did they even fire upon? How does refusing to leave a wildlife sanctuary -- even when armed -- constitute an act of treason? The one guy who might have tried something (witness reports vary widely, even from fed's pov) was shot and killed. If we start making every piece of civil disobedience treason, then a revolution becomes the only option, instead of a last resort.
I believe that this action was no different than Jon Brown's Raid [wikipedia.org] and the perpetrators should be punished accordingly.
That was one year before the civil war. If you're analogy holds, then shouldn't we be asking ourselves if there's a bigger problem brewing?
As for punishment, since no officers or civilians were killed, I'd be willing to let the followers off with misdemeanor trespassing, and the leaders with what they're charged with now. Once the bodies start piling up however, all bets are off; then, I'd punish them like Jon Brown's raid.
Why doesn't Apple just buy a sunny island in the Mediterranean and declare themselves a sovereign nation?
Once Apple leaves the US, there's no fourth amendment protection at all. The NSA could legally spy-on and break-into anything if Apple leaves.
Besides, the US has a history of just taking what it wants (at least often enough that's it's worth mentioning). Unless Apple has the international diplomacy and armed forces to fight back the US Army, it's a fool's errand.
that is because we have permitted corporations to dodge taxes
"Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes." Helvering v. Gregory, 69 F.2d 809, 810-11 (2d Cir. 1934).
Imagine that I am a greedy businessman. I can create my corporation anywhere. Why should I create my business in the US and be taxed at 35%, when I can create it in:
India / Mexico at 30%
China / Spain at 25%
Russia, Turkey, or UK at 20%
Israel, Singapore, or Switzerland at 17%
Canada at 15%
Ireland at 12.5%
Make the corporations bear the tax burden, and you'll see that situation cleaned up in a hot second.
No, what you'll see is a race to move to the countries with lower tax rates. The US has a corporate tax rate that isn't competitive, and it shows by many businesses having already moved and others on their way out. Business are voting with their feet, and choosing America's competitors. You don't fix that with a big stick. You fix that with a carrot. You lower the taxes, so business would rather pay your taxes than someone else's.
I personally want to live amongst a more educated populace. You may think that's wasted money, but can readily see what the alternative looks like in the midwest, where most of the welfare mouths are.
Their uneducated habits must be rubbing off on you. This article from January 2015 says States with the most people on food stamps are: 7) Louisiana, 6) Tennessee, 5) Oregon, 4) West Virginia, 3) New Mexico, 2) Mississippi, and 1) District of Columbia. None of those are in the midwest.
So the judge is saying that Cox should shut off customers based on repeated allegations?
I would be very interested in knowing if the Judge has Cox Internet and if the Judge's IP address showed up on any of the frivolous complaints. If so and I were Cox, I'd shut him off. Turnabout is fair play.
Sure it will tick him off, but he wasn't going to rule in Cox's favor anyway. This way Cox can embarrass him on appeal. Judges hate it when their rulings get overturned.
It constantly floors me the foresight America's founders had. They had a process for amending the Constitution (pass two-thirds of Congress and be ratified by three-fourths of the States), but they asked, "What if the federal government gets to much power? How do you change it then? Surely, Congress won't pass an amendment that restricts its own power."
In response, they put in a second way to amend the Constitution that has never yet been used. Two-thirds of the states can call for a Convention of States, attended by delegates of state legislators. This cuts Congress and the federal government completely out of the loop. They can pass amendments that Congress would never vote for, like term limits. Best of all, whatever comes out of here still needs to be ratified by three-fourths of the states, so they can't go crazy.
Randy Harper's blacklist, [leagueforgamers.com] an list of white men, gamers, nerds, conservatives, KFC,... and other people Randy Harper and her radical feminist friends consider too "problematic"
None of these people will ever again be able to participate in spying/undercover operations. Major governments already have software to comb over millions of fingersprints. If the mob doesn't have it already, I'm sure they will soon.
That's the only way I'll ever be able to remove support for XP's https implementation from my servers
No, what you need is your boss/company/whatever to adopt a sane support policy. That's what my company did with Win98. The day after MS support ended we politely told our customers, "Windows 98 is sold old that even Microsoft doesn't support it. Therefore, we cannot support it either."
There's a very good reason for this. Let's say we screw something up, and we need to make-it-right for the customer. Without support from MS, we're completely on our own with no fallback and no one to rely on. Could we probably fix it? Sure, but how much more are we on the hook if we run into trouble? How unlimited are our losses if we can't fix it?
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That's why I use GNOME 3. No clunky configuring. In fact, no configuring at all, not even if you want to.
There's a hidden message in the genealogies of genesis. If you take the root meaning of each of the names, here's what it says:
You're going to have a hard time convincing me that bunch of Hebrew scribes made all that up.
Source: https://evidencetobelieve.net/design-in-genesis-5/
From wikipedia:
That phrase is poorly written. "Widest" refers to width of 5'6", not popularity. Standard gauge is twice as popular by mile. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_gauge#Dominant_gauges
Context. Most of those "other gods" required human sacrifices, especially Baal and Moloch which required child sacrifices. If someone is enticing you to offer children as human sacrifices, I'm ok with the death penalty. If a whole town is so morally corrupt that no stands up to oppose the human sacrifice of children, I think you can justify wiping out the whole town.
In this context , the death penalty wasn't something to hush competing religions. It was to stop the evil that those religions were doing. Remember the context.
I'm genuinely asking. If a person makes scamming/threatening phone calls from another country, can they be extradited because the person they're calling is somewhere else? It should be the same for data, whatever that is.
That's good, because in today's world there's a lot of people who can't pass the Turing Test.
Actually, it's very relevant. New York Times v United States (1971). Information may not be classified merely because it would be embarrassing or to cover illegal activity; information may only be classified to protect national security objectives. United States v Nixon (1974). Executive privilege cannot be used to cover illegal activity.
I have to disagree. Our problem is the casual voter. It's not that they're stupid. It's that they simply don't care to put in the effort. They want to spend no more than 5 minutes thinking about who to elect. There are polls that show huge numbers of people are still undecided going into the voting booth . The end result may be the same as a stupid voter -- a stupid decision and a terrible elected leader. However, the root cause isn't stupidity; it's apathy. This is an important distinction, because it opens up other solutions.
We already have a better process for picking the President -- the caucus. In a primary, a person shows up and checks a box -- in and out in 5 minutes; this is very conducive to the casual voter. To the contrary, in a caucus, people vote for delegates who advocate for a candidate. This means you have to learn a little something about the candidates, and carry on an intelligent conversation about them (or else you look like a fool). It's a more involved process that could take 1-2 hours. The caucus is much more conducive to the thoughtful voter, and you get a higher caliber of voter from it. (For an in-depth comparison, see Caucus vs. Primary)
Primary vs Caucus explains the huge difference in results between Iowa and New Hampshire. Trump supporters are casual voters, who can't be bothered to show up, so he came in second in the Iowa caucus. Well, government goes to those who show up. If Trump supporters want to screen themselves out by choosing not to show up, I have no problem with that. (It's also much better than a top-down approach of screening out who can vote.) If you want a better process, get states to switch from Primary to Caucus.
For all other elected offices, use a Instant Runoff Voting. So many people complain about poor choices, but when they get more than two choices, these same people complain that they want to vote for someone who will win. If we had Instant Runoff Voting, people would rank their choices. If their choice came in last, their vote would roll to their second choice. Rinse and repeat until someone has a majority. It would free up people to vote for whomever they chose, while still giving them a vote if their first choice didn't do well.
I did a clean install, and I had ONE problem that was fixed by uninstalling & reinstalling Norton. I have to wonder how many of these problems would not have happened under a clean install.
Treason is levying war against the US or giving aid and comfort to its enemies. Who did they kill? Who did they even fire upon? How does refusing to leave a wildlife sanctuary -- even when armed -- constitute an act of treason? The one guy who might have tried something (witness reports vary widely, even from fed's pov) was shot and killed. If we start making every piece of civil disobedience treason, then a revolution becomes the only option, instead of a last resort.
That was one year before the civil war. If you're analogy holds, then shouldn't we be asking ourselves if there's a bigger problem brewing?
As for punishment, since no officers or civilians were killed , I'd be willing to let the followers off with misdemeanor trespassing, and the leaders with what they're charged with now. Once the bodies start piling up however, all bets are off; then, I'd punish them like Jon Brown's raid.
Once Apple leaves the US, there's no fourth amendment protection at all. The NSA could legally spy-on and break-into anything if Apple leaves.
Besides, the US has a history of just taking what it wants (at least often enough that's it's worth mentioning). Unless Apple has the international diplomacy and armed forces to fight back the US Army, it's a fool's errand.
Even. Prove me wrong.
/ducks
This is why people should follow the oxford punctuation. Do you mean "Land of the free, my ass", or "Land of the free-my-ass"?
Got a match?
"Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes." Helvering v. Gregory, 69 F.2d 809, 810-11 (2d Cir. 1934).
Imagine that I am a greedy businessman. I can create my corporation anywhere. Why should I create my business in the US and be taxed at 35%, when I can create it in:
No, what you'll see is a race to move to the countries with lower tax rates. The US has a corporate tax rate that isn't competitive, and it shows by many businesses having already moved and others on their way out. Business are voting with their feet, and choosing America's competitors. You don't fix that with a big stick. You fix that with a carrot. You lower the taxes, so business would rather pay your taxes than someone else's.
Their uneducated habits must be rubbing off on you. This article from January 2015 says States with the most people on food stamps are: 7) Louisiana, 6) Tennessee, 5) Oregon, 4) West Virginia, 3) New Mexico, 2) Mississippi, and 1) District of Columbia. None of those are in the midwest.
Old software. I have old games that work fine on 64-bit Windows 7, but they will not work on Windows 10.
The MS upgrade tool tests the hardware, but I don't know that it checks any software.
There's a clause in the law that says the end of the program doesn't stop any ongoing investigation.
But wait, the NSA was investigating everyone.
That's right. Everyone is merely part of an ongoing investigation. Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
I would be very interested in knowing if the Judge has Cox Internet and if the Judge's IP address showed up on any of the frivolous complaints. If so and I were Cox, I'd shut him off. Turnabout is fair play.
Sure it will tick him off, but he wasn't going to rule in Cox's favor anyway. This way Cox can embarrass him on appeal. Judges hate it when their rulings get overturned.
That might not be as revealing as you think. Instead, try to buy a gun.
http://www.conventionofstates.com/
It constantly floors me the foresight America's founders had. They had a process for amending the Constitution (pass two-thirds of Congress and be ratified by three-fourths of the States), but they asked, "What if the federal government gets to much power? How do you change it then? Surely, Congress won't pass an amendment that restricts its own power."
In response, they put in a second way to amend the Constitution that has never yet been used. Two-thirds of the states can call for a Convention of States, attended by delegates of state legislators. This cuts Congress and the federal government completely out of the loop. They can pass amendments that Congress would never vote for, like term limits. Best of all, whatever comes out of here still needs to be ratified by three-fourths of the states, so they can't go crazy.
See also: The Liberty Amendments
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I think it had to do with clearing 10% of his docket. Lazy trumps corrupt.
None of these people will ever again be able to participate in spying/undercover operations. Major governments already have software to comb over millions of fingersprints. If the mob doesn't have it already, I'm sure they will soon.
No, what you need is your boss/company/whatever to adopt a sane support policy. That's what my company did with Win98. The day after MS support ended we politely told our customers, "Windows 98 is sold old that even Microsoft doesn't support it. Therefore, we cannot support it either."
There's a very good reason for this. Let's say we screw something up, and we need to make-it-right for the customer. Without support from MS, we're completely on our own with no fallback and no one to rely on. Could we probably fix it? Sure, but how much more are we on the hook if we run into trouble? How unlimited are our losses if we can't fix it?