It was tacitly condoned, but the document itself does not even have the word "slave" in it.
Hairsplitting, since it has "other" [than "free"] "Persons" in it. Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3:
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
Team Newt is driving hard to brand Newt as the "intellectual" candidate.
I abhor Gingrich's politics. I'm not impressed by his treatment of his ex-wives, though I care relatively little about "character" issues that are largely irrelevant to job performance.
But it seems quite fair to me to brand Gingrich as "intellectual". Ph.D. in history from Tulane, eight-year college professor, plenty of intellectual achievements in the years since.
I don't think "pretends to run" was an unfair characterization of the 2008 campaign; see this excerpt from 20 September 2007:
"Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he still might run for president in 2008, but he wants his supporters to cough up some cash to help him.
Gingrich wants his backers to pledge 30 million dollars by November. He says that's what he would need to compete with Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who has raised the most money, so far, for the GOP presidential race."
The whole "1970s computer graphics technique" thing is sort of silly anyway. If anything, it's surprising that the technique was invented so recently.
"Area under curve in Second Life calculated by 1600s mathematics technique..."
It's not the radiation pressure from the sun that they're calculating, it's thermal effects from the on-board plutonium on the back of the antenna. So the source of the slowing is a very short distance away.
"quite obviously"... or is coincidental. Does "gddmn" mean "goddamn", or is that coincidental too?
Maybe "se" means the characters before it are either plaintext ("nearse") or abbreviated plaintext ("gddmnse" => "goddamn"? "nptnse" => "and put in"? "inputing"? "and put on"?)
If New York City were hit by a 9.0 earthquake [...] Then if there's a Tsunami to follow, there could be another 10 million (at least) killed from that. Because DC, Baltimore, Phildelphia Newark, and Boston would also be affected.
Tsunamis are frightfully destructive, but they don't turn sharp corners. Look at http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/indo20041226/Figure_1_sign.jpg. DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Boston would all be fine, as the tsunami from a NYC earthquake would do little to water levels in the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac (Cape Charles is in the way), the Delaware Bay and the Delaware River (Cape May is in the way), and the Massachusetts Bay (Cape Cod is in the way).
The counterpunch.org page on the other side of that link is fearmongering. Its tone in a microcosm: "[...] there is no safe dose of radiation, and none will ever be found."
Isn't it the case that the iPad YouTube app gives access to only a subset of YouTube? It seems to be the subset of videos that are most popular, true, but it seems to me that there are times I can find an unpopular video on YouTube that I can't find on my iPad.
Checking online, though, it appears I should just be going to m.youtube.com on my iPad anyway instead of using the app -- good to know.
Yes, it's easy to solve outside of a computer- tie a bunch of strings together representing your routes.
Any two points are easily resolved by picking holding the points in each hand and pulling it taught.
The taught strings are your route.
Congratulations, you just solved the shortest-path problem, which is also solved by several known polynomial-time algorithms.
On the other hand, I can't fault anyone who can speak Mandarin for the boilerplate nature of his or her remarks in English. What exactly could I say in Mandarin about the success of this train? Not much more than "We go to Hangzhou." The phrase "I want chopsticks", while useful in other contexts, falls short here...
Here's the end of game 7 of the 1960 World Series.
One of the two greatest moments in Pittsburgh sports history; the other is of course the one at this link. (Not to sell any of the Super Bowl moments short, especially not this one.)
if you ever get a chance, see the film "Rose Hobard" actually projected on a screen
You may not be able to project it on a screen, but Rose Hobart is on YouTube:
part 1 and
part 2
Slashdot Mirror
This is the Slashdot homepage of the juror on the case who posted heavily in the Slashdot thread about the verdict in the criminal trial of Terry Childs.
It was tacitly condoned, but the document itself does not even have the word "slave" in it.
Hairsplitting, since it has "other" [than "free"] "Persons" in it. Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3:
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
"Electrocute" means "kill by electricity".
Wait -- you can get good Yorkshire pudding in the UK? Where? Recommendations wanted...
Signed, an American who has only ever had homemade (delicious) Yorkshire pudding
Team Newt is driving hard to brand Newt as the "intellectual" candidate.
I abhor Gingrich's politics. I'm not impressed by his treatment of his ex-wives, though I care relatively little about "character" issues that are largely irrelevant to job performance.
But it seems quite fair to me to brand Gingrich as "intellectual". Ph.D. in history from Tulane, eight-year college professor, plenty of intellectual achievements in the years since.
I don't think "pretends to run" was an unfair characterization of the 2008 campaign; see this excerpt from 20 September 2007:
"Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he still might run for president in 2008, but he wants his supporters to cough up some cash to help him.
Gingrich wants his backers to pledge 30 million dollars by November. He says that's what he would need to compete with Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who has raised the most money, so far, for the GOP presidential race."
http://www.mysouthwestga.com/news/story.aspx?id=52130
Also, Tigran Petrosian, World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969, was Armenian.
Somehow this escaped notice in the article, but surely Garry Kasparov's legacy is part of the Armenian psyche, as he is half-Armenian.
Adding on, from 438 BC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcestis_(play)
Here's a Slashdot story about fungus on Mir: http://slashdot.org/story/00/10/02/191229/Space-Fungus-Eating-Mir-Really Here's a mirror of the article linked there: http://www.rense.com/general8/mir.htm Consensus on Slashdot back then seemed to be that the fungus was only growing on the inside, and that dublin's "both inside and outside" summary was mistaken.
Exactly, since Julius Caesar was never crowned emperor.
Si te placet, "videtur"
The whole "1970s computer graphics technique" thing is sort of silly anyway. If anything, it's surprising that the technique was invented so recently. "Area under curve in Second Life calculated by 1600s mathematics technique..."
It's not the radiation pressure from the sun that they're calculating, it's thermal effects from the on-board plutonium on the back of the antenna. So the source of the slowing is a very short distance away.
"quite obviously"... or is coincidental. Does "gddmn" mean "goddamn", or is that coincidental too? Maybe "se" means the characters before it are either plaintext ("nearse") or abbreviated plaintext ("gddmnse" => "goddamn"? "nptnse" => "and put in"? "inputing"? "and put on"?)
Love that dirty water... Boston, you're my home!
If New York City were hit by a 9.0 earthquake [...] Then if there's a Tsunami to follow, there could be another 10 million (at least) killed from that. Because DC, Baltimore, Phildelphia Newark, and Boston would also be affected. Tsunamis are frightfully destructive, but they don't turn sharp corners. Look at http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/indo20041226/Figure_1_sign.jpg. DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Boston would all be fine, as the tsunami from a NYC earthquake would do little to water levels in the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac (Cape Charles is in the way), the Delaware Bay and the Delaware River (Cape May is in the way), and the Massachusetts Bay (Cape Cod is in the way).
Johnny-come-lately here, but mod parent up!
The counterpunch.org page on the other side of that link is fearmongering. Its tone in a microcosm: "[...] there is no safe dose of radiation, and none will ever be found."
Isn't it the case that the iPad YouTube app gives access to only a subset of YouTube? It seems to be the subset of videos that are most popular, true, but it seems to me that there are times I can find an unpopular video on YouTube that I can't find on my iPad. Checking online, though, it appears I should just be going to m.youtube.com on my iPad anyway instead of using the app -- good to know.
Well, Ono can't win the Fields medal for it -- he's too old. (Born in 1968; you can't win the Fields medal after 40.)
Yes, it's easy to solve outside of a computer- tie a bunch of strings together representing your routes. Any two points are easily resolved by picking holding the points in each hand and pulling it taught. The taught strings are your route.
Congratulations, you just solved the shortest-path problem, which is also solved by several known polynomial-time algorithms.
On the other hand, I can't fault anyone who can speak Mandarin for the boilerplate nature of his or her remarks in English. What exactly could I say in Mandarin about the success of this train? Not much more than "We go to Hangzhou." The phrase "I want chopsticks", while useful in other contexts, falls short here...
Here's the end of game 7 of the 1960 World Series. One of the two greatest moments in Pittsburgh sports history; the other is of course the one at this link. (Not to sell any of the Super Bowl moments short, especially not this one.)
if you ever get a chance, see the film "Rose Hobard" actually projected on a screen You may not be able to project it on a screen, but Rose Hobart is on YouTube: part 1 and part 2