I think the courts would read this narrowly as providing the same civil immunity from suits in negligence when they screw stuff up as most other executive agencies have, and that the administrative decisions of the Department aren't subject to any more judicial review than other executive decisions. That's to say you can't go to court asking they change some internal procedure, say interrogations, on less-than-Constitutional grounds and get to have the public policy debate in open court and settled by the district judge.
I won't get into whether such an article belongs on howstuffworks.com. I just want to say that the best discussion ever of how lighsabres might work, to the best knowledge of contemporary physics was Robert Brown's lightsabre page, may it rest in peace.
And by "rest in peace" I mean stay on the wayback machine until he brings it back.
I propose that, since Thomas Jefferson is on the two-dollar bill, we should all make a point of getting a couple and using them on his birthday: next Wednesday, the 13th. The more these bills are circulated, the more people will recognize them; the less likely this will be to happen again.
His birthday is as good an occasion as any to make a modest effort, and it's close enough that we shouldn't forget by then.
I had a similar experience on my high school paper. The principal quashed a story about gang activity. But he was very explicit about the fact he was interveining as the publisher of the paper and that he didn't have some sort of other authority.
If you think rehabilitation is a novel development, incarceration itself is. Felonies are today defined as crimes that'll fetch more than one year in prison. It used to be that felonies warranted execution. That was it: misdemeanors and hangin' offenses.
I didn't mean to suggest Beagle wasn't a worthwhile endeavour in itself. Just that Evolution has passed the 1.0 milestone (by a lot) and there's probably more pent-up profit potential in a feature-complete Outlook replacement.
So why put the moving target that's less valuable first?
Why bother porting Beagle to Windows first? Practice? I'd figure Novell would want to prepare a polished application they can sell, instead of Yet Another Google Desktop Search Alternative.
IIRC, Korean has "two present tenses" for certainty - one for events that the speaker knows to be true, and on that they are not 100% certain of. IANAKS (I am not a Korean speaker)
And now so does English IANGT (I am not a grammar teacher)!
Well, if we're going to put together massive government databases on citizens, this is the way to do it. If you're convicted of a crime, you give up certain rights. After reading so much about CAPPS and other super-spying databases that are geared towards law-abiding citizens, I'm glad someone saw the utility in applying it to people who actually commit crimes.
I agree, there's a huge difference between data-mining my legal activities and data-mining ilegal activities. For example, it's fair game to use my parking tickets against me to track my movements if the police are still working on getting a warrant. But it's not acceptable for them to follow my legal use of the tollway if they don't have probable cause to suspect me of a crime yet. Same goes for any other sort of data related to legal vs. ilegal activies. According to the articles, they aren't collecting that kind of information... at the present, anyway. I can't say that was true of CAPPS.
The fact that they're also digitizing contact cards for leads in ongoing investigations is also not problematic. So long as the information that I'm Joe Killer's brother-in-law stays in Joe Killer's file, and isn't attached to a search of my good name, it'll help keep that asshole my sister married in check.
Okay, I'm being picky for the sake of being picky, but I think the declining birth rate has more to do with cultural factors. Medical technology on its own does nothing to take away incentives to have a small army of spare rugrats in the house, and if anything reduces infant mortality (raising birth rates). The shift from agrarian to industrial (and even post-industrial) economies, and most importantly women's rights -- education for girls, work opportunities outside the home for women and a slow end to the percieved desirability of boy children over girl children -- do change the incentive structures for large and small families.
Certainly medical technology is a contemporary phenomenon of both feminism and lower birth rates, but I think the second and third have more in common than the first has with either of the other two.
I bet I know what the problem is. Now that they have, in their arrogance, disclosed certain key details about the Google File System, the global HACKER conspiracy has managed to infiltrate their mainframe and bring it to its knees!
Verily, I say, security through obscurity and security through obscurity alone will save you. Google should never have given those dirty hackers the keys to their kingdom.
The strongest form of operant conditioning (think monkeys in a cage... or screaming toddlers) is to give them what they want after a random number of attempts to get your attention. They learn that if they pester you long enough and often enough, eventually you'll give in for one reason or another. Same goes with salesmen.
As for girl scouts and their cookies... if you want to reward that kind of behavior, buy the product (same for any other sub-genre of door-to-door salesmen). The door-to-door types generally peddle one kind of product for a good while.
Telemarketers (companies and grunts in the call center), on the other hand handle a wide variety of products with negligable costs to offer you something else later. You can't give them the hope for them that eventually they'll offer another piece of tripe you'll actually buy.
Dr Kanazawa suggests "a single psychological mechanism" is responsible for this: the competitive edge among young men to fight for glory and gain the attention of women. That craving drives the all-important male hormone, testosterone.
That explains why politicians get driven for success after they get married: the intense competition for mistresses.
Don't you think that after fighting for the attention of women, the "scientist" would go ahead and concentrate on other stuff: his scientific career? You know with one thing out of the way, even lesser mortals like us pay attention to other issues.
Not exactly... because gaining the attentions of women is what's motivating scientific work, according to the authors. Women are attracted by success and status, so the way to get the youngest, hottest woman who digs scientists is to be the most prestigious bachellor with a Ph.D. around. Once that's accomplished the only thing you need your job for is putting the kids through college and building a retirement savings which, compared to sex, doesn't exactly get the, uh, juices flowing.
So citizens shouldn't be allowed private communication channels, but carrying fire arms is legal?
<sarcasm>Well, people with private communication channels can kill thousands in one fell swoop, but with a gun you can only kill... at tops 10 before you get dropped by the cops. On the other hand, a gun can be used to stop a terrorist, but you can't stop an unhinged ex-postman with an encrypted e-mail.</scarcasm>
Every time I read such comments about privacy, I wish that George Orwell's 1984 was made obligatory reading in schools.
Yeah... but would it ever make an impression on students? Assuming they even cared, then assuming they understood the underlying message, it's easy to say "Well, that's just fiction. It could never really happen. We could never have tyrants, because we elect our leaders..."
Then assuming they do understand the message, and they do not deny it... how many will do something, and how many will just preach to the choir?
While I like Morgan Freeman, and think he's done well in every movie i've ever seen him in... I can't see him as the captain of the Endeavour. As far as sci-fi goes, hasn't he been totally typecast as the government agent reluctantly tasked with the butchering of thousands of Americans for some greater good?
When I read through Rama, I pictured the captain as being the last great astronaut, fresh from the set of 2001. Another Dave Bowman Frank Poole, or Lone Star (without the gravel in Bill Pullman's throat).
Or do they think the star of the movie will come from some other role?
One more thing... Space shuttle launches aren't numbered exactly sequentially. It's close, but they do skip around a little, and fill-back in numbers they didn't use before. Maybe they're numbered in the order they're originally planned in.
They had multiple STS 41, 51, and 61's before Challenger was lost on STS-51 L (they have not re-used 51, but there has been an STS-41 since). However, we ought to be up around 100... Maybe they were right on sequence. I haven't done an actual count.
...you only have to pay the difference in sales tax to the state revenue board. State tax rate is 7%. If I buy something with 6.5% tax, say in Arkansas, and use it in Illinois I only have to pay Springfield for 0.5% tax. This is cool under the spirit of the "Internet tax moratorium". Now, if you had to pay full Massachusetts tax on top of sales tax wherever, that is not cool. (And according to the article, this is not the case.) This is the first year it's included with the IL-1040, as well.
Two more things:
If a company has "physical presence" (buildings, incorporation or licenses, contracts with municipalities) in the state, they generally have to collect appropriate sales tax from you already.
Almost all mail-order (and phone-order) sales are part of a national clearing-house to appropriately re-distribute sales tax under use tax rules whether there's physical presence in the state or not.
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But as we all know from the funnyfox ads, cell phones are edible and taste a lot like chocolate bars.
I think the courts would read this narrowly as providing the same civil immunity from suits in negligence when they screw stuff up as most other executive agencies have, and that the administrative decisions of the Department aren't subject to any more judicial review than other executive decisions. That's to say you can't go to court asking they change some internal procedure, say interrogations, on less-than-Constitutional grounds and get to have the public policy debate in open court and settled by the district judge.
I won't get into whether such an article belongs on howstuffworks.com. I just want to say that the best discussion ever of how lighsabres might work, to the best knowledge of contemporary physics was Robert Brown's lightsabre page, may it rest in peace.
And by "rest in peace" I mean stay on the wayback machine until he brings it back.
Please bring it back!
First, I thought: "Wow. That would be a great idea for a book." Then I remembered The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
I propose that, since Thomas Jefferson is on the two-dollar bill, we should all make a point of getting a couple and using them on his birthday: next Wednesday, the 13th. The more these bills are circulated, the more people will recognize them; the less likely this will be to happen again.
His birthday is as good an occasion as any to make a modest effort, and it's close enough that we shouldn't forget by then.
I had a similar experience on my high school paper. The principal quashed a story about gang activity. But he was very explicit about the fact he was interveining as the publisher of the paper and that he didn't have some sort of other authority.
If you think rehabilitation is a novel development, incarceration itself is. Felonies are today defined as crimes that'll fetch more than one year in prison. It used to be that felonies warranted execution. That was it: misdemeanors and hangin' offenses.
I didn't mean to suggest Beagle wasn't a worthwhile endeavour in itself. Just that Evolution has passed the 1.0 milestone (by a lot) and there's probably more pent-up profit potential in a feature-complete Outlook replacement.
So why put the moving target that's less valuable first?
Why bother porting Beagle to Windows first? Practice? I'd figure Novell would want to prepare a polished application they can sell, instead of Yet Another Google Desktop Search Alternative.
When a simulation run finally runs out of gas / data / whatever, does it return a 42?
The Nationwide Asteroid Threat Level is:
Maybe it's just the Econ major in me, but I thought rivalry inspired innovation. I mean it's not like EA rolled-out first-person play this year.
Disclaimer: I own Madden '04, but I won't be in the market for another console football game in the foreseeable future.
And now so does English IANGT (I am not a grammar teacher)!
If that were shorter, I'd have a new .signature file.
I agree, there's a huge difference between data-mining my legal activities and data-mining ilegal activities. For example, it's fair game to use my parking tickets against me to track my movements if the police are still working on getting a warrant. But it's not acceptable for them to follow my legal use of the tollway if they don't have probable cause to suspect me of a crime yet. Same goes for any other sort of data related to legal vs. ilegal activies. According to the articles, they aren't collecting that kind of information... at the present, anyway. I can't say that was true of CAPPS.
The fact that they're also digitizing contact cards for leads in ongoing investigations is also not problematic. So long as the information that I'm Joe Killer's brother-in-law stays in Joe Killer's file, and isn't attached to a search of my good name, it'll help keep that asshole my sister married in check.
In the race for Boone County Dog Catcher:
Jim Brewer: 2,890
Deborah Thomas: 2462
George W. Bush: 138,648
Okay, I'm being picky for the sake of being picky, but I think the declining birth rate has more to do with cultural factors. Medical technology on its own does nothing to take away incentives to have a small army of spare rugrats in the house, and if anything reduces infant mortality (raising birth rates). The shift from agrarian to industrial (and even post-industrial) economies, and most importantly women's rights -- education for girls, work opportunities outside the home for women and a slow end to the percieved desirability of boy children over girl children -- do change the incentive structures for large and small families.
Certainly medical technology is a contemporary phenomenon of both feminism and lower birth rates, but I think the second and third have more in common than the first has with either of the other two.
I bet I know what the problem is. Now that they have, in their arrogance, disclosed certain key details about the Google File System, the global HACKER conspiracy has managed to infiltrate their mainframe and bring it to its knees!
Verily, I say, security through obscurity and security through obscurity alone will save you. Google should never have given those dirty hackers the keys to their kingdom.
Or maybe not...
A Men Brutha!
The strongest form of operant conditioning (think monkeys in a cage... or screaming toddlers) is to give them what they want after a random number of attempts to get your attention. They learn that if they pester you long enough and often enough, eventually you'll give in for one reason or another. Same goes with salesmen.
As for girl scouts and their cookies... if you want to reward that kind of behavior, buy the product (same for any other sub-genre of door-to-door salesmen). The door-to-door types generally peddle one kind of product for a good while.
Telemarketers (companies and grunts in the call center), on the other hand handle a wide variety of products with negligable costs to offer you something else later. You can't give them the hope for them that eventually they'll offer another piece of tripe you'll actually buy.
That explains why politicians get driven for success after they get married: the intense competition for mistresses.
Not exactly... because gaining the attentions of women is what's motivating scientific work, according to the authors. Women are attracted by success and status, so the way to get the youngest, hottest woman who digs scientists is to be the most prestigious bachellor with a Ph.D. around. Once that's accomplished the only thing you need your job for is putting the kids through college and building a retirement savings which, compared to sex, doesn't exactly get the, uh, juices flowing.
<sarcasm>Well, people with private communication channels can kill thousands in one fell swoop, but with a gun you can only kill... at tops 10 before you get dropped by the cops. On the other hand, a gun can be used to stop a terrorist, but you can't stop an unhinged ex-postman with an encrypted e-mail.</scarcasm>
Yeah... but would it ever make an impression on students? Assuming they even cared, then assuming they understood the underlying message, it's easy to say "Well, that's just fiction. It could never really happen. We could never have tyrants, because we elect our leaders..."
Then assuming they do understand the message, and they do not deny it... how many will do something, and how many will just preach to the choir?
While I like Morgan Freeman, and think he's done well in every movie i've ever seen him in... I can't see him as the captain of the Endeavour. As far as sci-fi goes, hasn't he been totally typecast as the government agent reluctantly tasked with the butchering of thousands of Americans for some greater good?
When I read through Rama, I pictured the captain as being the last great astronaut, fresh from the set of 2001. Another Dave Bowman Frank Poole, or Lone Star (without the gravel in Bill Pullman's throat).
Or do they think the star of the movie will come from some other role?
One more thing... Space shuttle launches aren't numbered exactly sequentially. It's close, but they do skip around a little, and fill-back in numbers they didn't use before. Maybe they're numbered in the order they're originally planned in.
They had multiple STS 41, 51, and 61's before Challenger was lost on STS-51 L (they have not re-used 51, but there has been an STS-41 since). However, we ought to be up around 100... Maybe they were right on sequence. I haven't done an actual count.
...you only have to pay the difference in sales tax to the state revenue board. State tax rate is 7%. If I buy something with 6.5% tax, say in Arkansas, and use it in Illinois I only have to pay Springfield for 0.5% tax. This is cool under the spirit of the "Internet tax moratorium". Now, if you had to pay full Massachusetts tax on top of sales tax wherever, that is not cool. (And according to the article, this is not the case.) This is the first year it's included with the IL-1040, as well.
Two more things: