Quantized Inertia is a hypothesis, not a theory. While in general usage, a theory can be a guess or educated guess, in science, a hypothesis is the educated guess. It only becomes a theory after it has been verified repeatedly by experiment, and there is virtually no doubt that the hypothesis is true. Science articles should be careful to use the terms properly.
While I hate mosquitoes, I would suggest caution. Mosquitoes are important in the food chain. If one species of mosquitoes are wiped out, would other insects fill the void? We need to think carefully about the ramifications of this. Of course, reducing the damage and death caused by malaria would be highly beneficial.
You are talking about only one state. Some people do not even have an extra dollar.
As I mentioned in my post, one, it is not just the cost of the ID. There are also transportation costs and lost wages. Two, the law is not needed and serves no useful purpose. Voter fraud is virtually non-existent.
Government issued IDs when voting are not necessary as anybody who as studied this issue knows.
Voter fraud is not an issue. First, I need to define this term. Voter fraud is when a person votes or attempts to vote as somebody different than who they are. It is hard to imitate a different voter and not very efficient. Republicans have been trying to prove massive voter fraud for many years, at least since George W. Bush has been in office. I don't have exact statistics handy, but there has been less that two people per state per year. It is not a problem.
However there have been documented cases of legitimate people being denied the right to vote because they could not get an ID. IDs cost money, and some people could not afford the fees and/or could not afford the transportation costs to get the ID. Even if they could afford the ID, they could not afford to take off time from work to get IDs.
In some states, officials reduce the hours of offices where you could get IDs or closed offices. Most of these offices where minority areas or heavily Democratic areas. In Texas, they allowed hunting licenses to be used, but not student IDs issues by state schools because they thought that hunters were more likely to be Republicans than students
So no, it is not a double standard to opposed government issued IDs because the requirement was and is used to deny the people their right to vote.
As anybody ever figured out much prices would go down if CEOs were paid only 20-25 times the average worker's wage? That is a question I would liked answered.
"In an 8-2 majority, justices on Wednesday sided with government arguments that the paper trails posed a risk to ballot secrecy."
The justices are right about one point, E-voting has complete ballot secrecy. The ballots are so secret that nobody knows if the ballot count is accurate.
There may be something to see here. When businesses engage in actions that destroy lives or block free speech, there could be a problem. For example, suppose Amazon stopped ranking books that talked about racial discrimination. Where is the line drawn? Can I stop ranking books about gays? Can I stop ranking books about religions that don't allow gay marriage? This action by Amazon is very disturbing.
"Moir added that "'it is dangerous to cross roadways in the evening hour when well-illuminated, managed crosswalks are available.'"
Note that it is dangerous to cross a street at night under any conditions. Generally, by the time a driver sees a person in their headlights, there is not enough time to avoid hitting them. That is why you should always use crosswalks at night, (and, as a matter of safety, even during the day.) At a crosswalk, I still wait for the cars to stop even if I have the signal. If there is no crosswalk, I always make sure that I have enough time cross even if the driver does not see me, I would rather be wrong than dead right.
I guess now lawmakers are planning to charge us to view anything they don't like. I have an idea, why don't they start charging to view guns or the NRA website. I am sure that looking at porn has caused fewer injuries and deaths than looking at guns. This is nothing more than censorship, and it is a terrible idea.
We need Medicare-for-all (single-payer) now. This article, "Medicare-For-All Requires No Increase in Taxes," is still true. Of course, it could change depending on how much Republicans gut social programs. The savings and benefits from Medicare-for-all would be great for individuals and the nation.
I was a programmer and DBA for many years. I learned on command line interfaces, so I have a good understanding about directories and files. Even with that knowledge, sometimes I find it hard to find files in a GUI system. I currently use a Mac. If I use the Terminal program, I sometimes have a hard time locating the files. I can do it, but it is often a pain. I also have the same problem when using windows systems.
Likewise for my Android phone. Moving a file from my Mac to my phone or vice versa is a real pain. Then opening the app, and finding the file can be a frustrating experience. If I save an attachment from email to my phone, again finding it can be pain. There is no excuse for it being so hard.
I have rented quite a few cars in the past two years. The info systems are very distracting. Sometimes doing very basic tasks can be distracting. For example, trying change the radio band or even changing the channel can require 3-5 button pushes or screen touches just to find the function I want.
The problem is that this could be abused in many ways. For example, with political postings if someone did not like what is posted even if the posting is true, they could tell YouTube that it is offensive and use Twitter or Facebook to tell other users to say the posting is offensive. Companies or countries--not that have one in mind--could use bots to say that a posting is offensive. Without checks, I could see this quickly turning into censorship.
The anxiety with sentient machines started before 1982. The movie, "Colossus: The Forbin Project" was released in 1970. It was based on the book of the same name that came out in 1966.
"Khosrowshahi said having the state change laws so that contract workers can carry benefits between jobs would be preferable to Uber hiring them as full employees."
I wonder whose preference this is. Perhaps the contract employees would rather be full-time employees.
I agree. Unfortunately, there are people who think the government can do no right and vice versa, and both sides bring in the ideology. I am pragmatist and favor whatever works best.
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Quantized Inertia is a hypothesis, not a theory. While in general usage, a theory can be a guess or educated guess, in science, a hypothesis is the educated guess. It only becomes a theory after it has been verified repeatedly by experiment, and there is virtually no doubt that the hypothesis is true. Science articles should be careful to use the terms properly.
While I hate mosquitoes, I would suggest caution. Mosquitoes are important in the food chain. If one species of mosquitoes are wiped out, would other insects fill the void? We need to think carefully about the ramifications of this. Of course, reducing the damage and death caused by malaria would be highly beneficial.
You are talking about only one state. Some people do not even have an extra dollar.
As I mentioned in my post, one, it is not just the cost of the ID. There are also transportation costs and lost wages. Two, the law is not needed and serves no useful purpose. Voter fraud is virtually non-existent.
Government issued IDs when voting are not necessary as anybody who as studied this issue knows.
Voter fraud is not an issue. First, I need to define this term. Voter fraud is when a person votes or attempts to vote as somebody different than who they are. It is hard to imitate a different voter and not very efficient. Republicans have been trying to prove massive voter fraud for many years, at least since George W. Bush has been in office. I don't have exact statistics handy, but there has been less that two people per state per year. It is not a problem.
However there have been documented cases of legitimate people being denied the right to vote because they could not get an ID. IDs cost money, and some people could not afford the fees and/or could not afford the transportation costs to get the ID. Even if they could afford the ID, they could not afford to take off time from work to get IDs.
In some states, officials reduce the hours of offices where you could get IDs or closed offices. Most of these offices where minority areas or heavily Democratic areas. In Texas, they allowed hunting licenses to be used, but not student IDs issues by state schools because they thought that hunters were more likely to be Republicans than students
So no, it is not a double standard to opposed government issued IDs because the requirement was and is used to deny the people their right to vote.
As anybody ever figured out much prices would go down if CEOs were paid only 20-25 times the average worker's wage? That is a question I would liked answered.
To put it another way, the smart choice is to have a dumb home.
Seriously, this is a problem? I thought the data got transferred with no problem. I thought I was the only one who had trouble accessing my data.
That help explains why Norway is the happiest country in the world.
"In an 8-2 majority, justices on Wednesday sided with government arguments that the paper trails posed a risk to ballot secrecy."
The justices are right about one point, E-voting has complete ballot secrecy. The ballots are so secret that nobody knows if the ballot count is accurate.
I just hope that nobody decides to reboot. That would mean 4.5 billion years down the drain.
As an aside, can somebody improve my memory retrieval function? It has been having some issues lately.
There may be something to see here. When businesses engage in actions that destroy lives or block free speech, there could be a problem. For example, suppose Amazon stopped ranking books that talked about racial discrimination. Where is the line drawn? Can I stop ranking books about gays? Can I stop ranking books about religions that don't allow gay marriage? This action by Amazon is very disturbing.
I don't care about pornography, but can we please ban cat and dog videos. I think those are a bigger time waster than porn.
"Moir added that "'it is dangerous to cross roadways in the evening hour when well-illuminated, managed crosswalks are available.'"
Note that it is dangerous to cross a street at night under any conditions. Generally, by the time a driver sees a person in their headlights, there is not enough time to avoid hitting them. That is why you should always use crosswalks at night, (and, as a matter of safety, even during the day.) At a crosswalk, I still wait for the cars to stop even if I have the signal. If there is no crosswalk, I always make sure that I have enough time cross even if the driver does not see me, I would rather be wrong than dead right.
I guess now lawmakers are planning to charge us to view anything they don't like. I have an idea, why don't they start charging to view guns or the NRA website. I am sure that looking at porn has caused fewer injuries and deaths than looking at guns. This is nothing more than censorship, and it is a terrible idea.
We need Medicare-for-all (single-payer) now. This article, "Medicare-For-All Requires No Increase in Taxes," is still true. Of course, it could change depending on how much Republicans gut social programs. The savings and benefits from Medicare-for-all would be great for individuals and the nation.
I was a programmer and DBA for many years. I learned on command line interfaces, so I have a good understanding about directories and files. Even with that knowledge, sometimes I find it hard to find files in a GUI system. I currently use a Mac. If I use the Terminal program, I sometimes have a hard time locating the files. I can do it, but it is often a pain. I also have the same problem when using windows systems.
Likewise for my Android phone. Moving a file from my Mac to my phone or vice versa is a real pain. Then opening the app, and finding the file can be a frustrating experience. If I save an attachment from email to my phone, again finding it can be pain. There is no excuse for it being so hard.
I have rented quite a few cars in the past two years. The info systems are very distracting. Sometimes doing very basic tasks can be distracting. For example, trying change the radio band or even changing the channel can require 3-5 button pushes or screen touches just to find the function I want.
We need a standard interface.
It's not a bug. It's a a feature!
The problem is that this could be abused in many ways. For example, with political postings if someone did not like what is posted even if the posting is true, they could tell YouTube that it is offensive and use Twitter or Facebook to tell other users to say the posting is offensive. Companies or countries--not that have one in mind--could use bots to say that a posting is offensive. Without checks, I could see this quickly turning into censorship.
The anxiety with sentient machines started before 1982. The movie, "Colossus: The Forbin Project" was released in 1970. It was based on the book of the same name that came out in 1966.
I have a MAC and Version: 5.3.7.2, and it still had the bug.
Does anybody know if LibreOffice 6 fixes the bug where portrait documents will only print in landscape mode?
Or you could just leave some good books for them. (There is one in every crowd, and today, I am the one.)
"Khosrowshahi said having the state change laws so that contract workers can carry benefits between jobs would be preferable to Uber hiring them as full employees."
I wonder whose preference this is. Perhaps the contract employees would rather be full-time employees.
I agree. Unfortunately, there are people who think the government can do no right and vice versa, and both sides bring in the ideology. I am pragmatist and favor whatever works best.