FYI: Senator Obama voted for the FISA act before he became president. So, really, he was on record opposing citizens rights to due process way early on. It should not be a surprise to anyone that his administration has continued to work to bypass the constitution wherever it seemed necessary (to them, for whatever reasons).
I can't believe any FISA request was ever turned down. Basically, I thought the purpose of the FISA act was to suspend the constitution. What went wrong?
I was hoping somebody would go there. How you define "God" will determine if God exists. The definition will determine if you can prove God's existence, and it will determine how you can prove it.
The article offered seemingly endless statistical assumptions about the evolution of life which neither prove, or disprove the existence of God. If the unlikelihood of the evolution of basic life points to the existence of God, it is only because you started with a definition that God is the creator of life. If you start with that definition, you don't really need all those assumptions anyway. Since the article never bothered to define "God" the whole argument is ridiculous .
Well said. I agree. It should absolutely be Snowden for exactly the reason you presented. Love him or hate him, he pointed a bright light into a very dark corner.
The article says "The CatGenie is not without itâ(TM)s consumables. It requires these the CatGenie Washable Granules, which are little pieces of hard plastic designed to be washed and not taken up by the cleaning mechanism."
So you have to periodically remove the CatGenie Washable Granules and WASH THEM? So you put them in a collander, or something, and wash them over the kitchen sink? WOW!
Give me plain old disposable clumping litter any day. Washing the granules is a way bigger problem for me than the DRMed sanitizer, of course it is the DRM that gets this on/.
I really wouldn't want to use a plastic socket on much of anything. But, why on earth was there not a decent socket set on the ISS in the first place? (pun intended)
As "Irate Engineer" hinted, providing throwaway email accounts just might be their core business. Everybody has one, right? And you don't want to have your throwaway be a Gmail account, so you choose Yahoo. Hotmail doesn't still exist, does it?
What a great illustration of ecosystem complexity and unintended consequences that involves salmon, alewives, lamprey, zebra mussels, quagga mussels, and round gobies, all of which are non-native to the great lakes. After half a century of unpredicted swings of boom and bust the fishery managers are gradually moving toward restoration of something that resembles, at least faintly, the original lake trout and perch ecosystem. I'm sure more unintended consequences will be revealed as this plays out, but the ride certainly reveals the pitfalls of messing with mother nature.
True, but most states have a law similar to FOIA. Oregon has Oregon Open Records Act, which is similar to FOIA. The Oregon Open Records Act applies to the State of Oregon, all municipalities, and all county governments, so pretty much all cops are covered in Oregon.
Say what? Who uses a single variable to model/explain climate change? Maybe Fox News does, but really, nobody else does. The models are enormously complex, and they get more complex all the time. They include a full array of climate/meteorological data, plus ocean temperatures, ocean circulation, ocean pH, solar radiation, earth's albedo, vegetation patterns, and much more. Maybe you are the one that is naive.
Our unintentional geoengineering has made it clear that the climate is a very complicated thing with vast opportunities for unintended consequences. Diving into a dynamical system that we don't understand all that well anyway is a sure recipe for disaster. We might just be better off adapting to the changes that are coming. There will be some winners and lots of losers, but at least it will be caused by all of us together rather than an adventuresome nation trying to cover its own losses.
On a side note, can you imagine the United Nations agreeing to a planetary geoengineering plan? I can't.
Great point. Unfortunately I currently have no mod points. I am as curious as you are. The lay press often ignores the real meat of the issue and only offers the headline. So, "why" is a good question. Laziness comes to mind, but I expect it is more complicated than that.
Don't forget Ebola. The Ivory Coast grows a huge amount of the world's cocoa. It is right next door to Liberia. Most of the labor to harvest the cocoa crop is migrant labor from Liberia. Ivory Coast has closed its border with Liberia in response to the Ebola. So, the cocoa crop there is not going to be harvested unless the growers figure out another source of cheap labor. Stock up on chocolate now.
A numeric designation of time is purely arbitrary in the first place, so adding an arbitrary adjustment twice a year seems consistent with the arbitrary nature of it. The main problem is dealing with more than 24 different times. If we could all agree to make the switch, using a single arbitrary time would make sense in our connected world. I expect that to happen soon after the USA switches to the metric system, which is also somewhat arbitrary, but oh so much more sensible than the totally insane system we use now.
I could be wrong, but I don't think any propeller driven aircraft has flown to 65,000 feet, or even anywhere close. There is a problem with the low density air that makes props a really poor choice for high altitude. Since a solar jet has huge tech problems as well, I think the concept is stuck with problems that it can't easily solve.
OK, it is a pretty cool project, and the illustrations were good, but is there no video of the flies "rolling like Spitfires". How do they know it happened if there isn't video? How do we know it happened?
You only can have the extra dimension until you open the box at which point the dimension collapses into the ordinary three dimensions. Next time don't open the box to insure the dimension stays intact. Be warned, however, that some theorists believe that you can't see the extra dimensions, so the extra dimension you purchased might still be alive and well. It might be best to just close the box and hope for the best. Perhaps you can re-sell it on Ebay. How would anyone know you had opened the box?
Oregon has had vote-by-mail for about two decades. Opponents suggested vote selling and other vote frauds would occur. Every investigation into these things since then has shown only an incredibly tiny amount of abuse. Vote-by-mail works very very well in Oregon.
The problem with online voting lies in other issues, like the lack of a paper trail for recounts, fraudulent logins, and the potential for wholesale fraud with software/malware manipulations. These are real potential issues, but don't suck vote-by-mail into the argument. Mail voting works. Oregon gets a high turnout in even minor elections because it is so painless, and that is a very good thing. Democracy is alive and well in Oregon, largely due to vote-by-mail.
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FYI: Senator Obama voted for the FISA act before he became president. So, really, he was on record opposing citizens rights to due process way early on. It should not be a surprise to anyone that his administration has continued to work to bypass the constitution wherever it seemed necessary (to them, for whatever reasons).
I can't believe any FISA request was ever turned down. Basically, I thought the purpose of the FISA act was to suspend the constitution. What went wrong?
I was hoping somebody would go there. How you define "God" will determine if God exists. The definition will determine if you can prove God's existence, and it will determine how you can prove it.
The article offered seemingly endless statistical assumptions about the evolution of life which neither prove, or disprove the existence of God. If the unlikelihood of the evolution of basic life points to the existence of God, it is only because you started with a definition that God is the creator of life. If you start with that definition, you don't really need all those assumptions anyway. Since the article never bothered to define "God" the whole argument is ridiculous .
Well said. I agree. It should absolutely be Snowden for exactly the reason you presented. Love him or hate him, he pointed a bright light into a very dark corner.
The article says "The CatGenie is not without itâ(TM)s consumables. It requires these the CatGenie Washable Granules, which are little pieces of hard plastic designed to be washed and not taken up by the cleaning mechanism."
So you have to periodically remove the CatGenie Washable Granules and WASH THEM? So you put them in a collander, or something, and wash them over the kitchen sink? WOW!
Give me plain old disposable clumping litter any day. Washing the granules is a way bigger problem for me than the DRMed sanitizer, of course it is the DRM that gets this on /.
Oops, I guess I should occasionally read AC posts. I kind of get in the habit of ignoring ACs, and I forgot they existed.
Gee, that's really strange, because it never occurred to me that there was anything racist. And, really, there wasn't anything until your post.
I really wouldn't want to use a plastic socket on much of anything. But, why on earth was there not a decent socket set on the ISS in the first place? (pun intended)
As "Irate Engineer" hinted, providing throwaway email accounts just might be their core business. Everybody has one, right? And you don't want to have your throwaway be a Gmail account, so you choose Yahoo. Hotmail doesn't still exist, does it?
What a great illustration of ecosystem complexity and unintended consequences that involves salmon, alewives, lamprey, zebra mussels, quagga mussels, and round gobies, all of which are non-native to the great lakes. After half a century of unpredicted swings of boom and bust the fishery managers are gradually moving toward restoration of something that resembles, at least faintly, the original lake trout and perch ecosystem. I'm sure more unintended consequences will be revealed as this plays out, but the ride certainly reveals the pitfalls of messing with mother nature.
And high powered lasers aren't?
No need to buy your own drone anymore. Maybe they can send me a drone soon. I like drones.
True, but most states have a law similar to FOIA. Oregon has Oregon Open Records Act, which is similar to FOIA. The Oregon Open Records Act applies to the State of Oregon, all municipalities, and all county governments, so pretty much all cops are covered in Oregon.
Say what? Who uses a single variable to model/explain climate change? Maybe Fox News does, but really, nobody else does. The models are enormously complex, and they get more complex all the time. They include a full array of climate/meteorological data, plus ocean temperatures, ocean circulation, ocean pH, solar radiation, earth's albedo, vegetation patterns, and much more. Maybe you are the one that is naive.
Our unintentional geoengineering has made it clear that the climate is a very complicated thing with vast opportunities for unintended consequences. Diving into a dynamical system that we don't understand all that well anyway is a sure recipe for disaster. We might just be better off adapting to the changes that are coming. There will be some winners and lots of losers, but at least it will be caused by all of us together rather than an adventuresome nation trying to cover its own losses.
On a side note, can you imagine the United Nations agreeing to a planetary geoengineering plan? I can't.
Great point. Unfortunately I currently have no mod points. I am as curious as you are. The lay press often ignores the real meat of the issue and only offers the headline. So, "why" is a good question. Laziness comes to mind, but I expect it is more complicated than that.
Don't forget Ebola. The Ivory Coast grows a huge amount of the world's cocoa. It is right next door to Liberia. Most of the labor to harvest the cocoa crop is migrant labor from Liberia. Ivory Coast has closed its border with Liberia in response to the Ebola. So, the cocoa crop there is not going to be harvested unless the growers figure out another source of cheap labor. Stock up on chocolate now.
A numeric designation of time is purely arbitrary in the first place, so adding an arbitrary adjustment twice a year seems consistent with the arbitrary nature of it. The main problem is dealing with more than 24 different times. If we could all agree to make the switch, using a single arbitrary time would make sense in our connected world. I expect that to happen soon after the USA switches to the metric system, which is also somewhat arbitrary, but oh so much more sensible than the totally insane system we use now.
As it turns out, the unofficial propeller driven altitude record is 96,863 feet. So, I guess I'm completely wrong. Nevermind.
And, it was a solar powered plane to boot.
I could be wrong, but I don't think any propeller driven aircraft has flown to 65,000 feet, or even anywhere close. There is a problem with the low density air that makes props a really poor choice for high altitude. Since a solar jet has huge tech problems as well, I think the concept is stuck with problems that it can't easily solve.
A pecion is a person with bulging pectoral muscles.
OK, it is a pretty cool project, and the illustrations were good, but is there no video of the flies "rolling like Spitfires". How do they know it happened if there isn't video? How do we know it happened?
You only can have the extra dimension until you open the box at which point the dimension collapses into the ordinary three dimensions. Next time don't open the box to insure the dimension stays intact. Be warned, however, that some theorists believe that you can't see the extra dimensions, so the extra dimension you purchased might still be alive and well. It might be best to just close the box and hope for the best. Perhaps you can re-sell it on Ebay. How would anyone know you had opened the box?
Oregon has had vote-by-mail for about two decades. Opponents suggested vote selling and other vote frauds would occur. Every investigation into these things since then has shown only an incredibly tiny amount of abuse. Vote-by-mail works very very well in Oregon.
The problem with online voting lies in other issues, like the lack of a paper trail for recounts, fraudulent logins, and the potential for wholesale fraud with software/malware manipulations. These are real potential issues, but don't suck vote-by-mail into the argument. Mail voting works. Oregon gets a high turnout in even minor elections because it is so painless, and that is a very good thing. Democracy is alive and well in Oregon, largely due to vote-by-mail.
Wow. What a surprise. Russia is involved in the conflict in Ukraine.