What often happens is they get donated to book bank-type programs which give away the books for free. I've been volunteering at one for a few years, and we get a lot of free books from publishers like that.
He can't challenge the validity in court unless he is harmed by the law - he has to have standing to sue. If he gets sued now, he can bring up the issues.
the average person, applying contemporary community standards (not national standards, as some prior tests required), must find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest;
the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct or excretory functions[1] specifically defined by applicable state law; and
the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
IANAL, but this does have a legal history in the US and is much better than it used to be. All these doom-and-gloom "what happened to the US" posts ignore that obscenity law used to be much, much stricter.
If you RTFA, the summary is pretty inaccurate. His shift on coal was at most relatively minor, from "I don't know if this can happen" to "If it can happen, it will take a long time to develop." On nuclear, his opinions haven't changed at all. I think his statements contain a remarkable amount of sense.
Ex post facto has a relatively narrow legal interpretation in the U.S. - essentially, it only means you can't *increase* punishments in a criminal case retroactively. Decreasing punishments is (and should be) fine.
See Calder v. Bull. Note that compulsory sex offender registration is not considered a punishment by SCOTUS.
Furthermore, it's probably a good idea to get kids interested in competitions. www.artofproblemsolving.com has an amazing forum for mathematically interested kids.
Actually, what generally happens in the US with eminent domain is an independent appraiser comes and the government then pays a significant premium OVER the appraised value. For example, in Kelo v. New London, the NLDC offered all the eminent domain'd people *twice* the appraised value of their homes.
'"We haven't any use for old things here."
"Even when they're beautiful?"
"Particularly when they're beautiful. Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things."
"But the new ones are so stupid and horrible... Why don't you let them see Othello instead?"
"It's old. Besides, they wouldn't understand it."'
-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
I'm not sure about that "slow giant" characterization. Consider the one-child policy, which will have absolutely wrecked their demographics by 2021, 50 years afters its beginning.
Yeah, the anti-trust laws are named that for a reason. They were originally written in the late 1800s to fight the monopolies and collusion created by "trusts" - secretive organizations of all the largest corporations in an industry.
Honestly, the Google-Yahoo deal struck me as similar to these criminal trusts.
Well of course if you have a rootkit, scanning for rootkits will show clean. Thats how they work.
A rootkit modifies the kernel so that it intercepts all API calls, including the read() functions your scanner is using, and the rootkit feeds back false info such as directory listings omitting the rootkits files, and if one tries to open one of its files by name, the open() call now controlled by the rootkit returns a no such file error.
Rootkits can be scanned for. See Rootkit Revealer. If you don't trust the kernel to accurately report the contents of the HD, just don't use it.
I doubt this will ever happen. The fact is, hard drives (SSD or traditional) are and will remain a very efficient way of storing data. Maybe there would be some sort of mirroring, but I doubt we'll ever see computers just become thin clients.
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What often happens is they get donated to book bank-type programs which give away the books for free. I've been volunteering at one for a few years, and we get a lot of free books from publishers like that.
He can't challenge the validity in court unless he is harmed by the law - he has to have standing to sue. If he gets sued now, he can bring up the issues.
The Associated Press, apparently.
This test is still in use today.
IANAL, but this does have a legal history in the US and is much better than it used to be. All these doom-and-gloom "what happened to the US" posts ignore that obscenity law used to be much, much stricter.
One billion yuan = $146 million, not $146,000.
My bad - he has not received money from Wikimedia ever. Even if he did have a salary, it would be to administer, not to create content.
He does make his living off Wikipedia... it's called a salary.
If you RTFA, the summary is pretty inaccurate. His shift on coal was at most relatively minor, from "I don't know if this can happen" to "If it can happen, it will take a long time to develop." On nuclear, his opinions haven't changed at all. I think his statements contain a remarkable amount of sense.
I don't have mod points right now, but this AC is quite obviously a troll (re: last paragraph).
The US Constitution defines treason as "levying war against [the US], or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." This isn't it.
That's not true at all. The U.S. has a long history of various forms of electoral fraud. See for example this book.
Ex post facto has a relatively narrow legal interpretation in the U.S. - essentially, it only means you can't *increase* punishments in a criminal case retroactively. Decreasing punishments is (and should be) fine.
See Calder v. Bull. Note that compulsory sex offender registration is not considered a punishment by SCOTUS.
Disclaimer: IANAL
Furthermore, it's probably a good idea to get kids interested in competitions. www.artofproblemsolving.com has an amazing forum for mathematically interested kids.
Watergate? If the offense is particularly egregious, getting it out in the open is usually enough to force change.
Actually, what generally happens in the US with eminent domain is an independent appraiser comes and the government then pays a significant premium OVER the appraised value. For example, in Kelo v. New London, the NLDC offered all the eminent domain'd people *twice* the appraised value of their homes.
'"We haven't any use for old things here."
"Even when they're beautiful?"
"Particularly when they're beautiful. Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things."
"But the new ones are so stupid and horrible... Why don't you let them see Othello instead?"
"It's old. Besides, they wouldn't understand it."'
-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
It is good to note, though, that colleges are far more selective than public high schools.
You're actually integrating one, not zero...
I'm not sure about that "slow giant" characterization. Consider the one-child policy, which will have absolutely wrecked their demographics by 2021, 50 years afters its beginning.
Yeah, the anti-trust laws are named that for a reason. They were originally written in the late 1800s to fight the monopolies and collusion created by "trusts" - secretive organizations of all the largest corporations in an industry. Honestly, the Google-Yahoo deal struck me as similar to these criminal trusts.
Well of course if you have a rootkit, scanning for rootkits will show clean. Thats how they work.
A rootkit modifies the kernel so that it intercepts all API calls, including the read() functions your scanner is using, and the rootkit feeds back false info such as directory listings omitting the rootkits files, and if one tries to open one of its files by name, the open() call now controlled by the rootkit returns a no such file error.
Rootkits can be scanned for. See Rootkit Revealer. If you don't trust the kernel to accurately report the contents of the HD, just don't use it.
It's in alpha. You can't really expect it to have a fully-formed community or mature addons.
The very reason our do-nothing Congress "stood up" to the automakers is that it does nothing.
I doubt this will ever happen. The fact is, hard drives (SSD or traditional) are and will remain a very efficient way of storing data. Maybe there would be some sort of mirroring, but I doubt we'll ever see computers just become thin clients.