I believe Firmly that the Right to Bear Arms is the Right to Rebellion. Article One Section Nine is clearly the Government has the Right to Shoot at said Rebellion. It's a nice paradox that enables Civil War in the country if things go too far. However, it also discourages idiot rebellions where people don't actually believe its worth their own life. It also discourages the government for being overly broad in singling out people because it would turn into a civil war. If you're not willing to die for your Rebellion then maybe you shouldn't rebel. If you think it's too broad maybe you should exersize your Free Speech to get an Amendment to tighten it down a bit more.
No, some of them that look isn't "there is no way this could be real". It's more like "are you really so nieve to believe this isn't how all countries run. Even Democracies". Are you honestly trying to convince people that "The South" had all the rights of US Citizens during the Civil War? Because that's the only logical conclusion of your argument. If you are in a state of Rebellion against the Government ether by Joining Al-qaeda, or the Confederacy you shouldn't be too surprised if the Government, Military, CIA, or any other enforcement arm decides to shoot you rather than arrest you. Or do you not believe Article One Section Nine even exits?
The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
They are both very different chemically. People who are sensitive to Caffeine might not be sensitive to alcohol. Caffeine was mostly a black box up until the last 5 years. It works by messing with a couple of hormones, Estrogen and something else that I can't remember along with who knows what else. It is a stimulant so it wires you up. Alcohol on the other hand works with different hormones, testosterone being one of them. It also impedes the brain as a depressant. Even though you see that they are similar, in that gender and genetic variations play a roll, the same variations may or may not play a roll. Ultimately the liver, and water levels in the body play a roll in expelling both of them, and you could have a mutation in the liver that helps or hinders ether process.
I can see the problems they are having with regulation. They got the important part at least with getting rid of alcoholic energy drinks. The Idiots mixing Alcohol and Energy drinks now have to do it on their own. Selling it at a store already mixed gives people a false sense of safety. Whoever thought of mixing a Red Bull or Coffee with alcohol was a moron. Things like Red Bull and Coffee have too little caffeine unless you're sensitive. I think their real issue should be with things like 5 hour energy where it's a 4 shots of coffee in a small container. 4 cups of coffee over the day probably wont kill you even if you're sensitive. But one shot of 5 hour energy is a different story if you're sensitive to it.
If I were to bet I'd have two picks. First, if Windows 8 and Office 365 panic investors, Ballmer could be removed, and his replacement may have a mandate to remove any losing divisions and focus on getting Windows and Office back in line. That is unlikely, but if it were to occur MS backing out of the Console market rapidly could trigger a crash. Activision/Blizzard is my number 2 pick. They already have a bunch of Short sellers circling them. Too much revenue is bundled into WoW and CoD, and the moment ether fails will be a big day for the vultures. It's already headed down, and some estimates having it at 6 by 2014, but that's a slow decline. If something happens too rapidly and investors get spooked that correction can happen in an instant. So many things can go bad now I'm just waiting for who goes first.
This is defiantly going to be Epic. Probably not in the way they are thinking though. We're in the middle of the Next Great Video game crash, and all we're missing is an Epic Fail like ET. Someone, unexpected, needs to roll snake eyes already.
Don't hand out that "No Disrespect Meant to Anyone" BS. You whole heatedly intended to offend anyone who wasn't a Nieve Atheist like yourself. Maybe it's the fact that you're feel that you're not personally connected to any of the Secular atrocities committed. Everyone, not just the religious, are crazy nut jobs capable of being manipulated into doing outrageous things. Your arrogance in lumping all religion into an abstract "them" makes you no different than the nut jobs with the Cult of Reason. There hasn't be any group of people that formed together for any appreciable length of time that hasn't royally screwed up. The fact that you can't see the differences between Scientology and Most "main stream" Religions points out a gaping whole in your knowledge base. Scientology has done some pretty messed up things compared to most religions, but go ahead and keep drinking that Koolaid. You're just as crazy as the rest of us.
Ok, I see what they're talking about. Not sure if half a point is a Surge just yet. Was MS left out because they think it will go as good in China as it's done in Japan?
Yes, and actual Intelligent Machine would be boxed in by its own perceptions. Our reality is shaped by our experience though our senses. Lets say, for the sake of argument, that Watson is actually a Machine Intelligence/Strong AI, but the actual problem with it communicating with us is linked to its "Reality". When the Urban dictionary was put into it all it did was start swearing, and using curses incorrectly. What if that was just it having a complete lack of context for our reality. Its reality is just words and definitions after all. To it the Shadows on the wall is literally books and text based information. It cant move and experience the world in the way that we do. The problem of communication becomes a metaphysical one based in how each intelligence perceives reality. We get away with it because we assume that everyone has the same reality as context, but a machine AI does not necessarily have this same context to build communication off of.
There is still a problem. You can read and understand the book because you already know the context. The example of Rain is Wet works to illustrate the point. You already know what Wet is because you experienced life and constructed the context over time in your brain. How do you give a computer program this kind of Context? A computer could process the book, but it doesn't necessarily have the context needed to understand the book. What you'd end up with is an Intelligence similar to one from Plato's Cave. At this point "Reality" to an AI is radically different from "Reality" to us.
Your mixing up two different parts of republican party. Bible Thumpers typically fall into the Mike Huckabee Populist. Your "Free Market" group tends to be your Corporatist who only use Free Market as a buzz word to gain support. The two groups don't really get along very well.
I think the whole Untouchable and Cast System keeps them firmly in the "They're Just As Crazy as Everyone Else" territory. Regardless of their position on Evolution.
Incorrect. Only countries where a religious group believes that evolution is in opposition to their religion does that happen. In India 85% believe that Evolution is compatible with their religious beliefs, and I wouldn't consider Hindus to be any less crazy than any other religion out there.
A lot of your opinion has been shaped by early java developers who insisted on Synchronizing everything, and that made a lot of it run very slow. Most of that has been addressed, and the speed difference between 6 and 7 is clear. I believe, C# doesn't have the escape analysis that is in Java7 that allows it to bypass the heap and allocate some things on the stack instead. That is probably the core of the speed difference, and his first test using HttpServer isn't testing java but rather JNI code that has been neglected for a long time. Its most likely a variant of C and not really Java. A lot of your Java Games are running in the browser as an applet and are severely limited by the Browser. They'd run a lot better out of the browser as a WebStart app or just a regular Application. Java also lacks access to Direct X or any Good OpenGL out of the box. There are some good addons that you can get like lwjgl, but no good ones with a standard JVM. However, I've had more issue with using product based on.NET in production environments. My company has a server that the first request after it's gone to la la land results in a very long wait for the first result because it's based on.net. There isn't a real fix other than making a cron job that hits the server once an hour to make sure that.NET never starts unloading itself from memory. I could always try to convince them that we could just build a better one in house, but that's time and money already spent on the neurotic server. Which one is best depends on the skill set of the developer.
No that's not what it says. The Gap between our Rich Kid Scores and Poor Kid Scores is actually very small compared to other countries. However, the US, has more Poor Kids than other countries do which results in them pulling down the average. Our Rich kids are actually doing poorer than other country rich kids, and our Poor Kids are doing much better than other countries Poor Kids. So when you weight the two and compare Rich kids to Rich kids and Poor kids to Poor kids the Poor kids move us up in ranking. Just look at page 89 of the report. Our Rich Kids are Lazy and Stupid compared to other Rich Kids, and our Poor Kids are Smarter than the Poor of places like the UK, France, and Germany but they outnumber other countries poor kids by a large margin.
What Android device would actually have a JRE installed? I believe you're mistaken the Java Language for the Virtual Machine. I could be mistaken. Someone may have gone crazy and developed and packaged one for Android, but i doubt it.
You'd rather have an Up-to-date JRE with major vulnerabilities sitting exposed via your Browser? I'd take the chance of an Out-of-date JRE sitting in a folder that's only used for Minecraft when I'm running it to Any of Them sitting exposed on a Browser.
Copy the JRE folder into the Minecraft folder and write a batch file to launch it. Then Kill Java. Works for some enterprise environments too, but not all. All Browsers should block Java. Applets are nothing but plague rats now, and should be burned with fire.
It would be very difficult to cull Java in an Enterprise environment that was build on it even if you wanted to. Convincing your Boss that you have to redevelop the entire system just to do it would also be a difficult task.
Because all the lead that has accumulated from burning leaded gasoline while it was widespread has just magically disappeared away?
If that where the case then you should have the trend going up to 1990 for violent crime then start a down ward trend with the reduction of lead. The trends match up until 2000 where magically lead drops off, and crime continues a slow and steady decline. Instead it takes a sharp left turn in 1990, and then steadies itself about 10 years later. This "study" is also purposefully leaving out data. Was the Crime wave of the 20's caused by lead too? Or was it what we already know to be true with prohibition gave an existing criminal element more power then it should have? Was the crime increase in crime from the 60's to the 80's related to us using lead in gas, or was it more related to continued urbanization when we have a sharp increase from a prior 10 year stable period. We already know Urbanization leads to an increase in crime regardless of the time period, area, or lead in gas. Why it causes more crime is a bit of a problem, but if you urbanize you get more crime, and that graph maps onto the increase pretty well just as lead in gas does.
I'm more likely to believe what Levitt published in Freakonomics. They did a lot more work to show, and estimate, the effect size. This group seems to believe that just because "the statistics correlate almost perfectly" that they have a cause. However, there statistics are far from a perfect match. If it were, we would have reverted back to pre 1950's crime levels. We haven't, we're not really even close. I'll give them that it's probably had a bit of an effect, but the downward trend of 15-17 year old pregnancies correlates better to Roe v Wade then it does to Lead. Levitt showed the effect size based on how Liberally or Conservatively Roe v Wade was implemented. I'm not sure if Lead use is measured accurately enough State to State to do that kind of analysis, but you need something more than "Hay, look the trend lines match". Their map of New Orleans doesn't show nearly the correlation of Lead to Crime that I would expect if they were right about it. If you look, there is a strip near the river of "rich" 140K+ household with a 300 - 500 ppm lead range, and a very poor neighborhood in the North East part of the map that is 0 - 200 ppm lead. How does that "Match Up"?
You've done nothing, but prove my analogy is completely relevant. I said it's LIKE comparing apples and oranges. You can compare them, but it quickly becomes meaningless. Your comparison can't tell anyone which is better. Is an orange worse because it wont grow in colder climates that an Apple is just fine at? Or is the Orange still preferred because you happen to like its flavor. If they are supposed to be the same thing then it become easy to compare. Women are better because they comprise 60% of all Degrees given is meaningless unless they are getting the same exact degrees that men are. They are simple getting more degrees in completely different fields. Unless they are in the same field getting more is irrelevant to one gender being "Better" than the other.
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I believe Firmly that the Right to Bear Arms is the Right to Rebellion. Article One Section Nine is clearly the Government has the Right to Shoot at said Rebellion. It's a nice paradox that enables Civil War in the country if things go too far. However, it also discourages idiot rebellions where people don't actually believe its worth their own life. It also discourages the government for being overly broad in singling out people because it would turn into a civil war. If you're not willing to die for your Rebellion then maybe you shouldn't rebel. If you think it's too broad maybe you should exersize your Free Speech to get an Amendment to tighten it down a bit more.
Nice one. You're one of those "War of Northern Aggression" nuts aren't ya.
The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
They are both very different chemically. People who are sensitive to Caffeine might not be sensitive to alcohol. Caffeine was mostly a black box up until the last 5 years. It works by messing with a couple of hormones, Estrogen and something else that I can't remember along with who knows what else. It is a stimulant so it wires you up. Alcohol on the other hand works with different hormones, testosterone being one of them. It also impedes the brain as a depressant. Even though you see that they are similar, in that gender and genetic variations play a roll, the same variations may or may not play a roll. Ultimately the liver, and water levels in the body play a roll in expelling both of them, and you could have a mutation in the liver that helps or hinders ether process.
I can see the problems they are having with regulation. They got the important part at least with getting rid of alcoholic energy drinks. The Idiots mixing Alcohol and Energy drinks now have to do it on their own. Selling it at a store already mixed gives people a false sense of safety. Whoever thought of mixing a Red Bull or Coffee with alcohol was a moron. Things like Red Bull and Coffee have too little caffeine unless you're sensitive. I think their real issue should be with things like 5 hour energy where it's a 4 shots of coffee in a small container. 4 cups of coffee over the day probably wont kill you even if you're sensitive. But one shot of 5 hour energy is a different story if you're sensitive to it.
If I were to bet I'd have two picks. First, if Windows 8 and Office 365 panic investors, Ballmer could be removed, and his replacement may have a mandate to remove any losing divisions and focus on getting Windows and Office back in line. That is unlikely, but if it were to occur MS backing out of the Console market rapidly could trigger a crash. Activision/Blizzard is my number 2 pick. They already have a bunch of Short sellers circling them. Too much revenue is bundled into WoW and CoD, and the moment ether fails will be a big day for the vultures. It's already headed down, and some estimates having it at 6 by 2014, but that's a slow decline. If something happens too rapidly and investors get spooked that correction can happen in an instant. So many things can go bad now I'm just waiting for who goes first.
This is defiantly going to be Epic. Probably not in the way they are thinking though. We're in the middle of the Next Great Video game crash, and all we're missing is an Epic Fail like ET. Someone, unexpected, needs to roll snake eyes already.
Don't hand out that "No Disrespect Meant to Anyone" BS. You whole heatedly intended to offend anyone who wasn't a Nieve Atheist like yourself. Maybe it's the fact that you're feel that you're not personally connected to any of the Secular atrocities committed. Everyone, not just the religious, are crazy nut jobs capable of being manipulated into doing outrageous things. Your arrogance in lumping all religion into an abstract "them" makes you no different than the nut jobs with the Cult of Reason. There hasn't be any group of people that formed together for any appreciable length of time that hasn't royally screwed up. The fact that you can't see the differences between Scientology and Most "main stream" Religions points out a gaping whole in your knowledge base. Scientology has done some pretty messed up things compared to most religions, but go ahead and keep drinking that Koolaid. You're just as crazy as the rest of us.
Ok, I see what they're talking about. Not sure if half a point is a Surge just yet. Was MS left out because they think it will go as good in China as it's done in Japan?
Yes, and actual Intelligent Machine would be boxed in by its own perceptions. Our reality is shaped by our experience though our senses. Lets say, for the sake of argument, that Watson is actually a Machine Intelligence/Strong AI, but the actual problem with it communicating with us is linked to its "Reality". When the Urban dictionary was put into it all it did was start swearing, and using curses incorrectly. What if that was just it having a complete lack of context for our reality. Its reality is just words and definitions after all. To it the Shadows on the wall is literally books and text based information. It cant move and experience the world in the way that we do. The problem of communication becomes a metaphysical one based in how each intelligence perceives reality. We get away with it because we assume that everyone has the same reality as context, but a machine AI does not necessarily have this same context to build communication off of.
There is still a problem. You can read and understand the book because you already know the context. The example of Rain is Wet works to illustrate the point. You already know what Wet is because you experienced life and constructed the context over time in your brain. How do you give a computer program this kind of Context? A computer could process the book, but it doesn't necessarily have the context needed to understand the book. What you'd end up with is an Intelligence similar to one from Plato's Cave. At this point "Reality" to an AI is radically different from "Reality" to us.
Your mixing up two different parts of republican party. Bible Thumpers typically fall into the Mike Huckabee Populist. Your "Free Market" group tends to be your Corporatist who only use Free Market as a buzz word to gain support. The two groups don't really get along very well.
I think the whole Untouchable and Cast System keeps them firmly in the "They're Just As Crazy as Everyone Else" territory. Regardless of their position on Evolution.
Incorrect. Only countries where a religious group believes that evolution is in opposition to their religion does that happen. In India 85% believe that Evolution is compatible with their religious beliefs, and I wouldn't consider Hindus to be any less crazy than any other religion out there.
Apache would probably kill to have full control over Java.
A lot of your opinion has been shaped by early java developers who insisted on Synchronizing everything, and that made a lot of it run very slow. Most of that has been addressed, and the speed difference between 6 and 7 is clear. I believe, C# doesn't have the escape analysis that is in Java7 that allows it to bypass the heap and allocate some things on the stack instead. That is probably the core of the speed difference, and his first test using HttpServer isn't testing java but rather JNI code that has been neglected for a long time. Its most likely a variant of C and not really Java. A lot of your Java Games are running in the browser as an applet and are severely limited by the Browser. They'd run a lot better out of the browser as a WebStart app or just a regular Application. Java also lacks access to Direct X or any Good OpenGL out of the box. There are some good addons that you can get like lwjgl, but no good ones with a standard JVM. However, I've had more issue with using product based on .NET in production environments. My company has a server that the first request after it's gone to la la land results in a very long wait for the first result because it's based on .net. There isn't a real fix other than making a cron job that hits the server once an hour to make sure that .NET never starts unloading itself from memory. I could always try to convince them that we could just build a better one in house, but that's time and money already spent on the neurotic server. Which one is best depends on the skill set of the developer.
No that's not what it says. The Gap between our Rich Kid Scores and Poor Kid Scores is actually very small compared to other countries. However, the US, has more Poor Kids than other countries do which results in them pulling down the average. Our Rich kids are actually doing poorer than other country rich kids, and our Poor Kids are doing much better than other countries Poor Kids. So when you weight the two and compare Rich kids to Rich kids and Poor kids to Poor kids the Poor kids move us up in ranking. Just look at page 89 of the report. Our Rich Kids are Lazy and Stupid compared to other Rich Kids, and our Poor Kids are Smarter than the Poor of places like the UK, France, and Germany but they outnumber other countries poor kids by a large margin.
What Android device would actually have a JRE installed? I believe you're mistaken the Java Language for the Virtual Machine. I could be mistaken. Someone may have gone crazy and developed and packaged one for Android, but i doubt it.
You'd rather have an Up-to-date JRE with major vulnerabilities sitting exposed via your Browser? I'd take the chance of an Out-of-date JRE sitting in a folder that's only used for Minecraft when I'm running it to Any of Them sitting exposed on a Browser.
Because some people deployed the applications using Applets and WebStart so just getting rid of it becomes a bit of an issue.
Copy the JRE folder into the Minecraft folder and write a batch file to launch it. Then Kill Java. Works for some enterprise environments too, but not all. All Browsers should block Java. Applets are nothing but plague rats now, and should be burned with fire.
It would be very difficult to cull Java in an Enterprise environment that was build on it even if you wanted to. Convincing your Boss that you have to redevelop the entire system just to do it would also be a difficult task.
Because all the lead that has accumulated from burning leaded gasoline while it was widespread has just magically disappeared away?
If that where the case then you should have the trend going up to 1990 for violent crime then start a down ward trend with the reduction of lead. The trends match up until 2000 where magically lead drops off, and crime continues a slow and steady decline. Instead it takes a sharp left turn in 1990, and then steadies itself about 10 years later. This "study" is also purposefully leaving out data. Was the Crime wave of the 20's caused by lead too? Or was it what we already know to be true with prohibition gave an existing criminal element more power then it should have? Was the crime increase in crime from the 60's to the 80's related to us using lead in gas, or was it more related to continued urbanization when we have a sharp increase from a prior 10 year stable period. We already know Urbanization leads to an increase in crime regardless of the time period, area, or lead in gas. Why it causes more crime is a bit of a problem, but if you urbanize you get more crime, and that graph maps onto the increase pretty well just as lead in gas does.
I'm more likely to believe what Levitt published in Freakonomics. They did a lot more work to show, and estimate, the effect size. This group seems to believe that just because "the statistics correlate almost perfectly" that they have a cause. However, there statistics are far from a perfect match. If it were, we would have reverted back to pre 1950's crime levels. We haven't, we're not really even close. I'll give them that it's probably had a bit of an effect, but the downward trend of 15-17 year old pregnancies correlates better to Roe v Wade then it does to Lead. Levitt showed the effect size based on how Liberally or Conservatively Roe v Wade was implemented. I'm not sure if Lead use is measured accurately enough State to State to do that kind of analysis, but you need something more than "Hay, look the trend lines match". Their map of New Orleans doesn't show nearly the correlation of Lead to Crime that I would expect if they were right about it. If you look, there is a strip near the river of "rich" 140K+ household with a 300 - 500 ppm lead range, and a very poor neighborhood in the North East part of the map that is 0 - 200 ppm lead. How does that "Match Up"?
You've done nothing, but prove my analogy is completely relevant. I said it's LIKE comparing apples and oranges. You can compare them, but it quickly becomes meaningless. Your comparison can't tell anyone which is better. Is an orange worse because it wont grow in colder climates that an Apple is just fine at? Or is the Orange still preferred because you happen to like its flavor. If they are supposed to be the same thing then it become easy to compare. Women are better because they comprise 60% of all Degrees given is meaningless unless they are getting the same exact degrees that men are. They are simple getting more degrees in completely different fields. Unless they are in the same field getting more is irrelevant to one gender being "Better" than the other.