First evolution came on the scene, and science was used not only to oppose the beliefs of religious authorities, but to try to disprove God. Galileo and his followers never tried to disprove God - the evolutionists do - many upon many are atheist and use the theory of evolution to try to prove there is no God.
Now they say there is no free will. No moral responsibility either. Next, no consciousness without the body and no soul. When we are dead we cease to perceive (and cease to BE) and even when alive, have no thoughts or will aside from what biochemistry determines. Finally, they'll say there is no God. See Ps 10:4; 14:1 for the truth about that. Scientist that think they own the Truth should read 1 Cor 3:19 for wisdom.
The world will be seen as a Newtonian fully deterministic machine. Too bad quantum mechanics says that isn't true and there really is a "ghost in the machine".
Information theory says information can not be created, only lost. Entropy is forever increasing. So where did the original order and information come from? You can try to set the starting value of entropy as low as you want, but you can't set the starting amount of information as high as you want, it just doesn't make sense. We are rolling downhill according to conventional science (entropy and information wise) and are not getting any push up (as that is impossible within those models) and there is a point beyond which we cannot fall (no information, no energy differences, "heat death" of universe - actually very cold). Nothingness wouldn't be higher than that, so how did we start "up the hill" to begin with?
See, everyone would buy the cure instead of the treatment, and sales, revenue and profits would spike.
Sure once everyone was better sales, revenue and profits would plunge, but it wouldn't happen in that quarter, and that is as far as American business looks nowadays.
I made another post arguing as such (regulations need laws behind them).
They could try to reinterpret 18 USC 331 so that melting coins and selling the metal is considered fraudulent and hope they can get a court to swallow that very strained interpretation (courts can use administrative regulations and interpretations to interpret law, but it still must a correct interpretation - they can use it to resolve ambiguity, but not use something the contradicts the text of the law).
Since the articles say a 5 years in prison penalty, that is consistent with 18 USC 331 (coins) and not the defacing paper money one (which might also apply since it says "other evidence of debt" which is a catchall) which says 6 months.
No they can't. They can pass regulations and Congress can pass laws making it illegal to violate the regulations.
Violations of regulations do not automatically make you liable to be fined, jailed or otherwise punished. It is the violation of the accompanying law that gets you. Every enforceable regulation has an enabling law. If the law is repealed or found unconstitutional or otherwise taken out of action the regulation loses its power. Courts can use regulations and decisions of an administrative agency to interpret a law, but the law still must exist and be enforceable (and actually enforced) for them to have any impact.
Under what LAW did the Mint issue its regulation? If we know then we can find out if the law exists, is enforceable, allows such a regulation and what the penalties are.
E.g. In Nevada there a regulations (NAC) and laws (NRS). Violations of the former are made unlawful by terms of the latter. So one can always look at the laws first and know what is illegal, since the only regulations one needs to be concerned about are refeered to by the laws.
"Orphan" regulations without a law backing them are empty.
You don't pay sales tax as a consumer. The store does. You pay the value of the item and then pay an additional amount to the store to reimburse them for the tax that they pay on the revenue.
This may matter when rounding. Please tell me if the following is accurate:
Let's assume a 7.75% tax rate. (actual rate in Clark County, Nevada)
You and 99 other people buy an item sold at $1 (e.g. at one of the many "dollar" stores.) The store rounds up the 7.75 so you pay $1.08.
The store gets $108 in money for $100 in transactions, but would only have to pay $7.75 on $100 so they pocket the $0.25 left over. That would get them in trouble because they'd have to pay tax on $100.25 so they'd have to pay the gov't $7.77 Let's try $100.23 left over. Still rounds (up) to $7.77
So the store gets $108 in for $100 of products, pays the gov't $7.77 on a reported revenue of $100.23 which is legal ($100.23 * 7.75% rounds UP to $7.77), so they get to keep $100.23 for selling $100 of goods because even though they have to round up to pay the government, the rounding impact is much less because it is only once (max $0.01) instead of per item which adds up.
So the store makes $0.23 a day or $83.95 a year. Not bad.
Sound low? Think about Wal*Mart and do the math.
Some business don't add the sales tax to the price after they quote it to you, rather they factor it in beforehand. They still have to pay the gov't, they just say it is $1.08 tax included instead of $1.00 and then charge you to reimburse them on what they pay in sales tax. Gas stations do that, a $2.43 gallon of gas hear is really under $2, since about 55 cents is tax.
I always tried to use the Google search engine to find information first, almost always succeeded. The few times I didn't, and yet wanted to know badly enough to use Google Answers (and I offered a good price) my questions expired unanswered.
It seems it would only be able to help when you actually don't need it. From its description it seemed like they would just research by trying Google queries and getting the information. If you know how to get relevant queries (use of Google's minus operator helps get rid of junk) you often can do it yourself and if you can't it is likely little good info is available on the public and indexed part of the web.
Still, it was a nice idea and a shame it couldn't be made to work. Too many expired questions (the 30 day lifetime was too short I believe) was a big part of it.
TV is a bad example. The US Government is going to break your TV in 2009 when it is ILLEGAL for anyone to transmit the analog signals needed by "old" TVs. They are going to force everyone to go digital, to put more money in the pockets of the electronics manufacturers and so they can put force DRM down consumers throats - making it illegal under the DMCA to exercise fair use rights.
Thank you Michael Powell (of the FCC). You did this!
Cygnus forked egcs from gcc when the FSF was dragging its feet on letting improvements in (and being dictators) - egcs was far more efficient and far less buggy and was overall much better, even though it was "commercial" (which does NOT mean proprietary) while gcc was non-commercial and moribund.
Many people (me included) switched to egcs because it was better (and also to protest the ironic hidebound, un-OSS like stance of the FSF). Eventually it was folded into gcc (a merge, the opposite of a fork) and made gcc that much better. gcc hadn't be developed, but egcs was and it breathed new life into gcc.
gcc is better today as a result.
Anything usable from GNOME should be folded into KDE.
Windows Mobile OS is either totally locked down i.e. doesn't allow any 3rd party applications to be installed or run, or locked in such a way that the user is prompted to verify software should be run that has not authorised by the mobile phone vendor.
My Sprint Samsung is "locked" in such a way, it says "Not Sprint content - Can't guarantee" and prompts for Continue/Cancel, with the latter being the default (if I remember correctly), so you need 2 extra keypresses (one to move to Continue and then hit OK). This is reasonable - if something breaks they shouldn't have to support it, and the phone stores can ask you to delete those apps in order to get support (they've never asked me).
Totally locked down is wrong, but given people who will dial 611 or *2 at the drop of a hat, their policy is reasonable. To stop offering the Samsung a740, that is annoying.:(
That just mean fair use isn't gone as far as copyright law - you won't get sued or convicted for INFRINGEMENT. Fair use WILL still protect you from INFRINGEMENT claims (except where the court ignores that, but that is another issue). Circumvention offenses are not infringement offenses, and fair use won't protect you from that. So you'll get 5 years in a Federal penitentiary for a circumvention offense, instead of 10 years (5 for circumvention and 5 for infringement).
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Forced mental treatment because of a PROPENSITY for bad actions seems like an atrocity.
The Internet is also everywhere, and contains the sum total of all useful knowledge...
Hey, that's what Wikipedia claims to be!
First evolution came on the scene, and science was used not only to oppose the beliefs of religious authorities, but to try to disprove God. Galileo and his followers never tried to disprove God - the evolutionists do - many upon many are atheist and use the theory of evolution to try to prove there is no God.
Now they say there is no free will. No moral responsibility either. Next, no consciousness without the body and no soul. When we are dead we cease to perceive (and cease to BE) and even when alive, have no thoughts or will aside from what biochemistry determines. Finally, they'll say there is no God. See Ps 10:4; 14:1 for the truth about that. Scientist that think they own the Truth should read 1 Cor 3:19 for wisdom.
The world will be seen as a Newtonian fully deterministic machine. Too bad quantum mechanics says that isn't true and there really is a "ghost in the machine".
Information theory says information can not be created, only lost. Entropy is forever increasing. So where did the original order and information come from? You can try to set the starting value of entropy as low as you want, but you can't set the starting amount of information as high as you want, it just doesn't make sense. We are rolling downhill according to conventional science (entropy and information wise) and are not getting any push up (as that is impossible within those models) and there is a point beyond which we cannot fall (no information, no energy differences, "heat death" of universe - actually very cold). Nothingness wouldn't be higher than that, so how did we start "up the hill" to begin with?
Because the consumer wants to buy the NEW purple pill (Nexium) because it MUST be better than the OLD purple pill (Prilosec).
What's funny is Nexium is just one of the optical isomers of Prilosec (which is racemic).
The ads say it, so the consumers believe it.
Cures are good for business the way they see it.
See, everyone would buy the cure instead of the treatment, and sales, revenue and profits would spike.
Sure once everyone was better sales, revenue and profits would plunge, but it wouldn't happen in that quarter, and that is as far as American business looks nowadays.
closed source written by Satan himself.
Windows Vista?
That's already happening.
I made another post arguing as such (regulations need laws behind them).
They could try to reinterpret 18 USC 331 so that melting coins and selling the metal is considered fraudulent and hope they can get a court to swallow that very strained interpretation (courts can use administrative regulations and interpretations to interpret law, but it still must a correct interpretation - they can use it to resolve ambiguity, but not use something the contradicts the text of the law).
Since the articles say a 5 years in prison penalty, that is consistent with 18 USC 331 (coins) and not the defacing paper money one (which might also apply since it says "other evidence of debt" which is a catchall) which says 6 months.
No they can't. They can pass regulations and Congress can pass laws making it illegal to violate the regulations.
Violations of regulations do not automatically make you liable to be fined, jailed or otherwise punished. It is the violation of the accompanying law that gets you. Every enforceable regulation has an enabling law. If the law is repealed or found unconstitutional or otherwise taken out of action the regulation loses its power. Courts can use regulations and decisions of an administrative agency to interpret a law, but the law still must exist and be enforceable (and actually enforced) for them to have any impact.
Under what LAW did the Mint issue its regulation? If we know then we can find out if the law exists, is enforceable, allows such a regulation and what the penalties are.
E.g. In Nevada there a regulations (NAC) and laws (NRS). Violations of the former are made unlawful by terms of the latter. So one can always look at the laws first and know what is illegal, since the only regulations one needs to be concerned about are refeered to by the laws.
"Orphan" regulations without a law backing them are empty.
You don't pay sales tax as a consumer. The store does. You pay the value of the item and then pay an additional amount to the store to reimburse them for the tax that they pay on the revenue.
This may matter when rounding. Please tell me if the following is accurate:
Let's assume a 7.75% tax rate. (actual rate in Clark County, Nevada)
You and 99 other people buy an item sold at $1 (e.g. at one of the many "dollar" stores.)
The store rounds up the 7.75 so you pay $1.08.
The store gets $108 in money for $100 in transactions, but would only have to pay $7.75 on $100 so they pocket the $0.25 left over.
That would get them in trouble because they'd have to pay tax on $100.25 so they'd have to pay the gov't $7.77
Let's try $100.23 left over. Still rounds (up) to $7.77
So the store gets $108 in for $100 of products, pays the gov't $7.77 on a reported revenue of $100.23 which is legal ($100.23 * 7.75% rounds UP to $7.77), so they get to keep $100.23 for selling $100 of goods because even though they have to round up to pay the government, the rounding impact is much less because it is only once (max $0.01) instead of per item which adds up.
So the store makes $0.23 a day or $83.95 a year. Not bad.
Sound low? Think about Wal*Mart and do the math.
Some business don't add the sales tax to the price after they quote it to you, rather they factor it in beforehand. They still have to pay the gov't, they just say it is $1.08 tax included instead of $1.00 and then charge you to reimburse them on what they pay in sales tax. Gas stations do that, a $2.43 gallon of gas hear is really under $2, since about 55 cents is tax.
Isn't the angle for atan in radians?
True in my case.
I always tried to use the Google search engine to find information first, almost always succeeded. The few times I didn't, and yet wanted to know badly enough to use Google Answers (and I offered a good price) my questions expired unanswered.
It seems it would only be able to help when you actually don't need it. From its description it seemed like they would just research by trying Google queries and getting the information. If you know how to get relevant queries (use of Google's minus operator helps get rid of junk) you often can do it yourself and if you can't it is likely little good info is available on the public and indexed part of the web.
Still, it was a nice idea and a shame it couldn't be made to work. Too many expired questions (the 30 day lifetime was too short I believe) was a big part of it.
TV is a bad example. The US Government is going to break your TV in 2009 when it is ILLEGAL for anyone to transmit the analog signals needed by "old" TVs. They are going to force everyone to go digital, to put more money in the pockets of the electronics manufacturers and so they can put force DRM down consumers throats - making it illegal under the DMCA to exercise fair use rights.
Thank you Michael Powell (of the FCC). You did this!
I use Gentoo, and I upgrade every day.
Start programming in Java, Pascal, C# or .NET and even dating Hillary Clinton will seem preferable.
Cygnus forked egcs from gcc when the FSF was dragging its feet on letting improvements in (and being dictators) - egcs was far more efficient and far less buggy and was overall much better, even though it was "commercial" (which does NOT mean proprietary) while gcc was non-commercial and moribund.
Many people (me included) switched to egcs because it was better (and also to protest the ironic hidebound, un-OSS like stance of the FSF). Eventually it was folded into gcc (a merge, the opposite of a fork) and made gcc that much better. gcc hadn't be developed, but egcs was and it breathed new life into gcc.
gcc is better today as a result.
Anything usable from GNOME should be folded into KDE.
So what if it is impossible, you can still get investment and a patent.
Look at the guaranteed lossless compression algorithm which will compress "n" bits to "n-1".
It even has a specific claim for the case where "n=2".
Can you convert 4 input values (00/01/10/11) to 2 (0/1) losslessly? No!
Windows Mobile OS is either totally locked down i.e. doesn't allow any 3rd party applications to be installed or run, or locked in such a way that the user is prompted to verify software should be run that has not authorised by the mobile phone vendor.
:(
My Sprint Samsung is "locked" in such a way, it says "Not Sprint content - Can't guarantee" and prompts for Continue/Cancel, with the latter being the default (if I remember correctly), so you need 2 extra keypresses (one to move to Continue and then hit OK). This is reasonable - if something breaks they shouldn't have to support it, and the phone stores can ask you to delete those apps in order to get support (they've never asked me).
Totally locked down is wrong, but given people who will dial 611 or *2 at the drop of a hat, their policy is reasonable. To stop offering the Samsung a740, that is annoying.
That just mean fair use isn't gone as far as copyright law - you won't get sued or convicted for INFRINGEMENT. Fair use WILL still protect you from INFRINGEMENT claims (except where the court ignores that, but that is another issue). Circumvention offenses are not infringement offenses, and fair use won't protect you from that. So you'll get 5 years in a Federal penitentiary for a circumvention offense, instead of 10 years (5 for circumvention and 5 for infringement).
I swear the rabbits that were native to the university campus (for where else do you conduct such crazy experiments?) were plotting against me.
:)
Everyone knows that it is cats, not rabbits, which plot against people.
I mean seriously, just how MUCH blood can you squeeze from a turnip?
:)
With a suitable genetically engineered turnip, quite a bit!
Monsanto might be working on one right as we speak!
He gets paid to do it.
Guess you won't be going to NYC any time soon? :)
They're not stable, their half-life is in the order of seconds. They can't bioaccumulate or even persist or long.
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