Recently, I started hearing ads for medical marijuana on KLOS, one of the higher-rated rock music stations in Los Angeles. It was done by one of the station's own ad voices, and was shockingly open (as these things go) about what it meant and what it was offering.
There are some limitations. Discussing ways of overthrowing the bourgeois or discussing how to make pipe bombs may well be seen as inciting violence. OTOH, discussing tryptamines may well work out. However, there are nations where you can't say that whites should be in power, whereas this does happen in the US. Your mention of conspiracy charges only applies when there is evidence of an intention to actually carry through on the crimes. Merely discussing what-ifs is not enough to land you in prison (and conspiracy charges don't carry life sentences, anyway).
Discussion options are not unlimited, but they're not as claustrophobic as you seem to believe.
Recapitalizing existing systems isn't going to save much money. There are cases where this can be done -- ships can sometimes have an extra decade added to their useful lives with a good refit -- but in other cases, this isn't reasonable. The F-15 and F-16, which the F-22 and F-35 will replace, are designs that are more than 40 years old, and some of the airframes are showing severe stress. No US fighter has ever had to go that long without successors or analogues being immediately available. Prior to their entry, the longest a plane would go without a replacement design coming online was only a few years. The F-15s would all be in the Air National Guard at this age for older designs.
He's not really an exception, other than perhaps in the percentage that he's donated in a relatively short span of time. It's quite common for the wealthy to donate very large amounts of money. There are some who are misers, but they're the minority.
And the rich do sometimes become poor. It doesn't happen as often as in the middle class -- there's a much wider margin of error for the wealthy -- but history has shown many who have squandered their wealth. Buffalo Bill Cody was once the premier Wild West showman, and when he died his wealth was only a shadow of what it once was. Mike Tyson built up a fortune, and recently was sleeping in shelters. Michael Jackson is forever coming up with new schemes to keep his creditors at bay. Mark Twain had to be bailed out by a rich friend.
Some are simply on narrow grounds, even if they're currently well-off. Larry Ellison's wealth is largely due to his ownership share in Oracle, and if that ever crashes, he's going to have major problems. Professional sports now assign everyone a financial adviser to players in their first big league contracts. One of my high school teachers made it to spring training for a Major League Baseball team (didn't make the cut), and one day, a well-known player from (I think) the 1960s was due to be there. Everyone was excited about it, but when the player showed up, he arrived in a cab, and had to borrow a glove to participate. While the pay of ballplayers in his era was much less than now, it still allowed them to live well, but he'd spent it all within a few years of retiring, and was getting by on Social Security.
Some people sit on mountains of money, but all mountains are susceptible to external forces, and they do sometimes crumble away.
Your link says that the percentage of people without health insurance was only 16% at the end of 2005. Are you saying that it went up by more than 25% in one year?
The link also doesn't mention the significant fraction of people who simply choose to not pay for health insurance, even though they're perfectly capable of doing so. They'd rather have the cash in their pocket. This accounts for around a fifth of the uninsured. There are also millions eligible for coverage under various programs, but do not get it either because they're unaware that they're eligible or because they're too proud.
There are certainly people who can't afford insurance, but the issue, while needing to be addressed, isn't quite as bad as your numbers portray.
Bill Gates has not just sat on his horde. One of the reasons that he's no longer at the top is because he's donated vast sums to various causes, totaling nearly $30 billion, and has said that he intends to do the same with almost all of the rest.
It's going to cost $40 billion according to current projections. The running rule in California projects is to double the cost estimates to find out the likely cost. How many trains will be able to run on it? How much will ticket prices be? I can fly nonstop from Santa Ana to San Francisco -- a driving distance of about 425 miles -- for $320 with a flight time of around 90 minutes. Acela is $149 each direction for best weekday price from Boston to DC, a trip covering about 450 miles and taking seven hours. The fact that it takes that long makes me doubt that any locations much outside Silicon Valley or Los Angeles are going to be brought much closer in terms of travel time.
AFAICT, the cost of the Acela program through 2003 was about $3.2 billion, including train acquisition, facility construction, and costs of running the trains. Acela seems to be one of the rare portions of Amtrak that is in the black, servicing some 2.8 million passengers per year. I have grave concerns about a project claimed to cost $40 billion -- and more likely to run about $80 billion -- being able to come anywhere close to making the money back, especially since the population density of California is nowhere near that of the Boston-NYC-DC corridor.
Legislators dealt with a $15 billion shortfall in the budget passed in September. They're dealing with an additional $8 billion shortfall right now. That's $23 billion out of originally anticipated revenues of somewhere between $111 billion and $129 billion, depending on where you get the numbers. I suspect that the percentage range is among the highest in the nation, too.
No, we can't afford it. The Legislature was called back into special session to address an $11 billion shortfall in revenues. This was after it went overdue on delivering the budget in the first place in part because of squabbling over how to handle a $15 billion budget shortfall. The plan floated today covered $17 billion in expected revenue shortfalls over the next two years, but does not address an anticipated $5 billion extra shortfall for the next fiscal year.
On top of that, a bond measure passed in November for $10 billion for a high-speed rail system to run from Anaheim to San Francisco. What a lot of voters missed is that this is the first part of a total of $40 billion it will cost to build the system, and that it won't be completed until 2030. The overall cost to the state for the bonds will be about $19.4 billion in principle and interest just for this first piece.
The government already has that power, though it's usually used in fairly clear cases. A person can be adjudicated to be a danger to himself or others, and lose access to firearms. In many states, a person can be adjudicated legally insane due to an inability to perceive right from wrong, and lose their right to vote. This usually happens in criminal cases, so the result would be the same either way, but it doesn't always happen that way.
The defendant is certainly someone that I find a bit scary. She seems to have little or no remorse, having attended the wake on the reasoning that she "didn't pull the trigger." I think that she should be punished, but I'm not sure that any criminal law exists that clearly defines this as bad (that they had to go for the CFABA is evidence of that), nor that any could be written that wouldn't be overbroad and have a chilling effect on anonymity not only on the Internet but everywhere. I think that a civil action is more appropriate here (and almost certainly will happen), where malice and/or negligence on a personal level is much better handled. Even then, I get a bit nervous at the potential implications of a verdict in the plaintiff's favor.
I think the original is still the more fun of the two. I've beaten it probably eight times, compared to maybe three times for HL2. The play was more linear, but the story seemed to be a bit better and a little less contrived. The enemies were also more varied instead of just more heavily armored.
And who can forget the covert ops girls dying and falling forward on their knees?:) You just don't get that with rag-doll physics.
Some companies do use it for marketing. Others use it secondarily for marketing, but primarily to garner or maintain eligibility for certain contracts. EAL certification is required to get into certain government roles, for example. Ongoing re-certification is required to remain in some of them. The criteria and results are available from the Common Criteria website. For example, the evaluation covering Windows XP and Server 2003 details the OS variants, hardware on which it was tested, and drivers and patches that were present during testing.
TFA doesn't mention specific percentage improvements in efficiency. That was kdawson's contribution, and then only in the poorly-worded headline. TFA is claiming that the overall output of a given wind turbine could be boosted by 50% or more by altering the dynamics of the generator to make it more efficient over a wider range of wind speeds.
Basically, turbines are most efficient at a given speed, and efficiency drops off for anything outside of that, whether faster or slower. This new design attempts to address that by decreasing the amount by which the efficiency drops off at different speeds. The improvement in the efficiency curve boosts overall power output, as the turbine isn't as strictly limited to a given wind speed for peak efficiency as it was before.
i know that one of the ex prime ministers of israel is gonna be arrested as soon as he sets foot on belgium soil.
I'm sure many Belgians are eager to prosecute him, but putting Ariel Sharon on trial when he's incapable of mounting a defense just won't work. The man is in an apparently irreversible coma following a stroke nearly three years ago.
I still find that scene creepy and unnerving. It's even more unnerving than the book's description (or at least how I recall it -- it's been a few years since I read it), where the modules were completely removed and floated around the room. Bowman did what he had to do, but watching the lobotomization of another thinking being is still uncomfortable.
That's been extended as of around June, I think. Third-class certificates now last 60 calendar months if the person is under 40. The change is retroactive, so if you're two years into your 36-month certificate, you're now two years into your 60-month certificate.
The odds of any random non-child-porn file on a system having an MD5 collision with any file in the child porn database is vanishingly small. MD5 is broken such that there may be ways of generating files with the same hash, but random files are going to be so unlikely to match as to be practically impossible.
Still, it's a far better thing to use at least SHA1 hashes, or preferably SHA256 or higher.
That's exactly the reason. By preventing felons from running, it allows a party in power to convict those that they don't like to prevent them from having to face them in elections. It's been used in other countries, where trumped-up charges are brought against political opponents specifically to disrupt their ability to run for office.
Term limits have turned into a disappointing disaster in California, because everyone wants to stay in "public service." They get into one house of the Legislature, and they want to move to the other when their terms are served out. They maintain their core popularity by attempting to screw the other party. Because at some point there will be no incumbent to hold onto the seat, the Legislature carved out perfectly-safe domains that always elect either a Democrat or a Republican at a fixed ratio, ensuring that any 2/3 vote requirement must be satisfied by all Democrats plus one Republican voting in favor (otherwise the Republicans weren't going along with it).
Once they've served out terms in the Legislature, they start bouncing through other offices and appointed committees. We never see the end of them.
Willie Brown was something of a model of excess when he led the Assembly. But he also knew how to work with the Republicans to get the compromises necessary to get his legislation passed. Now, the Legislature is so completely divided that almost anything proposed by a Democrat and requiring a majority gets passed, and anything requiring a 2/3 majority (like the budget) gets stuck for weeks or months.
I was once an avid proponent of term limits. Now I would like to get rid of them -- right after getting rid of the ability of legislators to draw their own districts.
Because if he won, his re-election chances would be very high. If he still had it hanging over his head, his opponent could use it against him. It was a big gamble, and he lost the bet, and now he'll probably lose the election.
This alone will not remove Stevens from office. On the (slim) chance that he wins re-election, he will still be a senator, unless the Senate chooses by a 2/3 margin to remove him (which is fairly likely).
I didn't say that I agreed with it. I intended only to point out how it would work.
Gangs thrive on the basis of perception of power. Part of that perception is the ability to project threat of force. Eventually, a mere visual reference is enough. If you're not wearing your colors, you can't project threat of force as easily (and you're not as easy a target for rivals, either). There's a lot of pride attached to a gang's insignia. Removing it is, as someone mentioned above, a humiliating factor.
While that may work for someone not in the Mongols organization, it's my understanding that the patch is awarded, not personally made.
In any case, even if you made it, you're getting into personal, possibly willful violation of the trademark. If it's worn during any sanctioned Mongol activity -- even an illegal one -- then it's use of the trademark in trade, and a violation. As I mentioned above, if there's a standing court order against members of the club using the insignia, there may be reason for arrest.
I suspect that the first thing the DOJ would do, then, is to get a court order against all members of the Mongols pertaining to the use of the logo. Once the court order is there, they'd have potential reason to move on those seen wearing it.
Of course, this does nothing to stop the Mongols from simply using another insignia, one that does not directly reference the Mongol name. It would spread throughout the organization in weeks, if not days, and the whole exercise would lose its value.
They're also used repeatedly when in the context of a security clearance. One of the guys I work with used to work in the Pentagon, and he said that he kept going back for more and more polygraphs to get his TS clearance. Police polygraphs are normally only one or two sessions; his was many more than that, and the examiners got to know him much better.
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Recently, I started hearing ads for medical marijuana on KLOS, one of the higher-rated rock music stations in Los Angeles. It was done by one of the station's own ad voices, and was shockingly open (as these things go) about what it meant and what it was offering.
There are some limitations. Discussing ways of overthrowing the bourgeois or discussing how to make pipe bombs may well be seen as inciting violence. OTOH, discussing tryptamines may well work out. However, there are nations where you can't say that whites should be in power, whereas this does happen in the US. Your mention of conspiracy charges only applies when there is evidence of an intention to actually carry through on the crimes. Merely discussing what-ifs is not enough to land you in prison (and conspiracy charges don't carry life sentences, anyway).
Discussion options are not unlimited, but they're not as claustrophobic as you seem to believe.
Recapitalizing existing systems isn't going to save much money. There are cases where this can be done -- ships can sometimes have an extra decade added to their useful lives with a good refit -- but in other cases, this isn't reasonable. The F-15 and F-16, which the F-22 and F-35 will replace, are designs that are more than 40 years old, and some of the airframes are showing severe stress. No US fighter has ever had to go that long without successors or analogues being immediately available. Prior to their entry, the longest a plane would go without a replacement design coming online was only a few years. The F-15s would all be in the Air National Guard at this age for older designs.
He's not really an exception, other than perhaps in the percentage that he's donated in a relatively short span of time. It's quite common for the wealthy to donate very large amounts of money. There are some who are misers, but they're the minority.
And the rich do sometimes become poor. It doesn't happen as often as in the middle class -- there's a much wider margin of error for the wealthy -- but history has shown many who have squandered their wealth. Buffalo Bill Cody was once the premier Wild West showman, and when he died his wealth was only a shadow of what it once was. Mike Tyson built up a fortune, and recently was sleeping in shelters. Michael Jackson is forever coming up with new schemes to keep his creditors at bay. Mark Twain had to be bailed out by a rich friend.
Some are simply on narrow grounds, even if they're currently well-off. Larry Ellison's wealth is largely due to his ownership share in Oracle, and if that ever crashes, he's going to have major problems. Professional sports now assign everyone a financial adviser to players in their first big league contracts. One of my high school teachers made it to spring training for a Major League Baseball team (didn't make the cut), and one day, a well-known player from (I think) the 1960s was due to be there. Everyone was excited about it, but when the player showed up, he arrived in a cab, and had to borrow a glove to participate. While the pay of ballplayers in his era was much less than now, it still allowed them to live well, but he'd spent it all within a few years of retiring, and was getting by on Social Security.
Some people sit on mountains of money, but all mountains are susceptible to external forces, and they do sometimes crumble away.
Your link says that the percentage of people without health insurance was only 16% at the end of 2005. Are you saying that it went up by more than 25% in one year?
The link also doesn't mention the significant fraction of people who simply choose to not pay for health insurance, even though they're perfectly capable of doing so. They'd rather have the cash in their pocket. This accounts for around a fifth of the uninsured. There are also millions eligible for coverage under various programs, but do not get it either because they're unaware that they're eligible or because they're too proud.
There are certainly people who can't afford insurance, but the issue, while needing to be addressed, isn't quite as bad as your numbers portray.
Bill Gates has not just sat on his horde. One of the reasons that he's no longer at the top is because he's donated vast sums to various causes, totaling nearly $30 billion, and has said that he intends to do the same with almost all of the rest.
It's going to cost $40 billion according to current projections. The running rule in California projects is to double the cost estimates to find out the likely cost. How many trains will be able to run on it? How much will ticket prices be? I can fly nonstop from Santa Ana to San Francisco -- a driving distance of about 425 miles -- for $320 with a flight time of around 90 minutes. Acela is $149 each direction for best weekday price from Boston to DC, a trip covering about 450 miles and taking seven hours. The fact that it takes that long makes me doubt that any locations much outside Silicon Valley or Los Angeles are going to be brought much closer in terms of travel time.
AFAICT, the cost of the Acela program through 2003 was about $3.2 billion, including train acquisition, facility construction, and costs of running the trains. Acela seems to be one of the rare portions of Amtrak that is in the black, servicing some 2.8 million passengers per year. I have grave concerns about a project claimed to cost $40 billion -- and more likely to run about $80 billion -- being able to come anywhere close to making the money back, especially since the population density of California is nowhere near that of the Boston-NYC-DC corridor.
Legislators dealt with a $15 billion shortfall in the budget passed in September. They're dealing with an additional $8 billion shortfall right now. That's $23 billion out of originally anticipated revenues of somewhere between $111 billion and $129 billion, depending on where you get the numbers. I suspect that the percentage range is among the highest in the nation, too.
No, we can't afford it. The Legislature was called back into special session to address an $11 billion shortfall in revenues. This was after it went overdue on delivering the budget in the first place in part because of squabbling over how to handle a $15 billion budget shortfall. The plan floated today covered $17 billion in expected revenue shortfalls over the next two years, but does not address an anticipated $5 billion extra shortfall for the next fiscal year.
On top of that, a bond measure passed in November for $10 billion for a high-speed rail system to run from Anaheim to San Francisco. What a lot of voters missed is that this is the first part of a total of $40 billion it will cost to build the system, and that it won't be completed until 2030. The overall cost to the state for the bonds will be about $19.4 billion in principle and interest just for this first piece.
The government already has that power, though it's usually used in fairly clear cases. A person can be adjudicated to be a danger to himself or others, and lose access to firearms. In many states, a person can be adjudicated legally insane due to an inability to perceive right from wrong, and lose their right to vote. This usually happens in criminal cases, so the result would be the same either way, but it doesn't always happen that way.
The defendant is certainly someone that I find a bit scary. She seems to have little or no remorse, having attended the wake on the reasoning that she "didn't pull the trigger." I think that she should be punished, but I'm not sure that any criminal law exists that clearly defines this as bad (that they had to go for the CFABA is evidence of that), nor that any could be written that wouldn't be overbroad and have a chilling effect on anonymity not only on the Internet but everywhere. I think that a civil action is more appropriate here (and almost certainly will happen), where malice and/or negligence on a personal level is much better handled. Even then, I get a bit nervous at the potential implications of a verdict in the plaintiff's favor.
I think the original is still the more fun of the two. I've beaten it probably eight times, compared to maybe three times for HL2. The play was more linear, but the story seemed to be a bit better and a little less contrived. The enemies were also more varied instead of just more heavily armored.
And who can forget the covert ops girls dying and falling forward on their knees? :) You just don't get that with rag-doll physics.
Some companies do use it for marketing. Others use it secondarily for marketing, but primarily to garner or maintain eligibility for certain contracts. EAL certification is required to get into certain government roles, for example. Ongoing re-certification is required to remain in some of them. The criteria and results are available from the Common Criteria website. For example, the evaluation covering Windows XP and Server 2003 details the OS variants, hardware on which it was tested, and drivers and patches that were present during testing.
TFA doesn't mention specific percentage improvements in efficiency. That was kdawson's contribution, and then only in the poorly-worded headline. TFA is claiming that the overall output of a given wind turbine could be boosted by 50% or more by altering the dynamics of the generator to make it more efficient over a wider range of wind speeds.
Basically, turbines are most efficient at a given speed, and efficiency drops off for anything outside of that, whether faster or slower. This new design attempts to address that by decreasing the amount by which the efficiency drops off at different speeds. The improvement in the efficiency curve boosts overall power output, as the turbine isn't as strictly limited to a given wind speed for peak efficiency as it was before.
I'm sure many Belgians are eager to prosecute him, but putting Ariel Sharon on trial when he's incapable of mounting a defense just won't work. The man is in an apparently irreversible coma following a stroke nearly three years ago.
I still find that scene creepy and unnerving. It's even more unnerving than the book's description (or at least how I recall it -- it's been a few years since I read it), where the modules were completely removed and floated around the room. Bowman did what he had to do, but watching the lobotomization of another thinking being is still uncomfortable.
That's been extended as of around June, I think. Third-class certificates now last 60 calendar months if the person is under 40. The change is retroactive, so if you're two years into your 36-month certificate, you're now two years into your 60-month certificate.
Just use a bandsaw. That way, when you cut off your own fingers, it's your own fault.
The odds of any random non-child-porn file on a system having an MD5 collision with any file in the child porn database is vanishingly small. MD5 is broken such that there may be ways of generating files with the same hash, but random files are going to be so unlikely to match as to be practically impossible.
Still, it's a far better thing to use at least SHA1 hashes, or preferably SHA256 or higher.
That's exactly the reason. By preventing felons from running, it allows a party in power to convict those that they don't like to prevent them from having to face them in elections. It's been used in other countries, where trumped-up charges are brought against political opponents specifically to disrupt their ability to run for office.
Term limits have turned into a disappointing disaster in California, because everyone wants to stay in "public service." They get into one house of the Legislature, and they want to move to the other when their terms are served out. They maintain their core popularity by attempting to screw the other party. Because at some point there will be no incumbent to hold onto the seat, the Legislature carved out perfectly-safe domains that always elect either a Democrat or a Republican at a fixed ratio, ensuring that any 2/3 vote requirement must be satisfied by all Democrats plus one Republican voting in favor (otherwise the Republicans weren't going along with it).
Once they've served out terms in the Legislature, they start bouncing through other offices and appointed committees. We never see the end of them.
Willie Brown was something of a model of excess when he led the Assembly. But he also knew how to work with the Republicans to get the compromises necessary to get his legislation passed. Now, the Legislature is so completely divided that almost anything proposed by a Democrat and requiring a majority gets passed, and anything requiring a 2/3 majority (like the budget) gets stuck for weeks or months.
I was once an avid proponent of term limits. Now I would like to get rid of them -- right after getting rid of the ability of legislators to draw their own districts.
Because if he won, his re-election chances would be very high. If he still had it hanging over his head, his opponent could use it against him. It was a big gamble, and he lost the bet, and now he'll probably lose the election.
This alone will not remove Stevens from office. On the (slim) chance that he wins re-election, he will still be a senator, unless the Senate chooses by a 2/3 margin to remove him (which is fairly likely).
I didn't say that I agreed with it. I intended only to point out how it would work.
Gangs thrive on the basis of perception of power. Part of that perception is the ability to project threat of force. Eventually, a mere visual reference is enough. If you're not wearing your colors, you can't project threat of force as easily (and you're not as easy a target for rivals, either). There's a lot of pride attached to a gang's insignia. Removing it is, as someone mentioned above, a humiliating factor.
While that may work for someone not in the Mongols organization, it's my understanding that the patch is awarded, not personally made.
In any case, even if you made it, you're getting into personal, possibly willful violation of the trademark. If it's worn during any sanctioned Mongol activity -- even an illegal one -- then it's use of the trademark in trade, and a violation. As I mentioned above, if there's a standing court order against members of the club using the insignia, there may be reason for arrest.
I suspect that the first thing the DOJ would do, then, is to get a court order against all members of the Mongols pertaining to the use of the logo. Once the court order is there, they'd have potential reason to move on those seen wearing it.
Of course, this does nothing to stop the Mongols from simply using another insignia, one that does not directly reference the Mongol name. It would spread throughout the organization in weeks, if not days, and the whole exercise would lose its value.
They're also used repeatedly when in the context of a security clearance. One of the guys I work with used to work in the Pentagon, and he said that he kept going back for more and more polygraphs to get his TS clearance. Police polygraphs are normally only one or two sessions; his was many more than that, and the examiners got to know him much better.