Strange. I wanted to serve on a jury, but was never selected. And I was never eager ('anxious' is one of my pet peeves) to lock anyone away. I've spoken at length with a juror and he gave every indication of not wanting to lock someone away. In the case we discussed it was the passenger in a car when the driver was guilty of possession of a controlled substance. He seemed pleased that the defendant was acquitted. He also said that the judge indicated he was pleased that the jurors had acquitted the defendant. Where are you getting your data?
National Nuclear Security Administration dismissed fears the computers contained highly-sensitive or classified information...
He explained that the NNSA has lists of highly sensitive and classified information, and none of the laptops appear on those lists. At least, none of the laptops appear on their remaining lists.
John Allen Paulos makes a compelling case that every voting system is unfair. I don't think it's in his book Innumeracy. Perhaps it's in his book A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper. Continual harping on minor problems with the voting system distracts attention from larger issues.
Also, there will be a small royalty charge for moving your lips as you read. This has two benefits. There will be fewer people moving their lips as they read. And there will be fewer people reading.
Ideas are easier to attack when they can be pinned to a particular individual, and the attacks made ad hominem. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it's a tactic most often used by conservatives.
Yeah, those conservatives are a bunch of poopey heads and you can ignore every argument they make because those dummies make ad hominem arguments. You don't even have to listen to their arguments because you already know that it's going to be an ad hominem one.
For example, I find it difficult to discuss global warming with conservatives without veering into a debate on the merits of Al Gore and whether he invented the Internet. Similarly, debates on other matters have been "settled" with assertions that Michael Moore is undeniably fat and doesn't dress nicely.
You'll start hearing about "Newtonism" and "Einsteinism" the moment that some conservative (most likely religious) constituency realizes that modern physics challenges their worldview every bit as much as evolutionary biology. After all, Relativity is only a theory, and why should anyone listen to a guy who can't comb his hair properly?
But don't listen to me - I didn't shave today...
That is so right! Those poopey-headed conservatives bring up an argument that doesn't have anything to do with the topic and tear it down. Then they think they have refuted what you have to say. Bunch of poopey-heads I say!
Obama is wonderful! He's taking RIAA's and BSA's lawyers away from them and giving them productive jobs, and now the RIAA and BSA won't be able to sue helpless people!
Honestly, the real reason Microsoft is able to get away with what it does is that monopolies are an inherent flaw in our current economic system.
Inherent? I suppose in the sense that it was there in my parent's time, and it's still there. I prefer to think of it as having been specifically crafted into our political system. Quoting Article I, section 8, in relevant part: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;" Milton Friedman once said that almost all monopolies are government granted or government supported. Ask yourself this question--who comes beating down your door if you start copying Microsoft software and offer it for sale? Or this one--what kind of monopoly would Microsoft have if anyone had the right to copy Microsoft's software at will?
Actually, this is in response to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's act of shutting down Parliament. If the government isn't working, then bunkers aren't needed to keep it working, eh?
Can someone please explain in layman's terms how this results in a decision, for those of us who aren't quantum mathematicians? I somewhat get the whole "indecision results in a decision" thing but seems to be a hard idea to wrap my brain around so to speak.
I immediately thought of Euclid's five postulates. For years people thought that the fifth, parallel, postulate could be derived from the other four. That held for about 2100 years until a couple of boffins found used two different negations of the fifth to derive entire geometries. Applying that to this, I would suppose that if it were possible to encode Euclid's first four postulates into quantum states, and ask whether there was exactly one line parallel to another through a point not on the second line, then the result would sometimes be yes and sometimes no.
Mathematics is an abstract game of counting, built up into great complexity. 1 + 1 = 2 will be true in any universe, under any god(s), in any circumstances.
Well...No, it's not. The famous story is told of the philosopher who was cloud watching. It seems that he saw one cloud, and he saw another cloud. As he watched one cloud approached the other until they got very close to each other and then merged. "What do you know?" declared the philosopher. "1+1=1."
Now, the engineer will immediately object and say that the mass of one cloud can be added to the mass of the other cloud to get the combined mass, but that objection is unprevailing. It merely stands for the unremarkable proposition that 1+1=2 when it does, and otherwise it doesn't.
If you are performing an operation that violates a statute like FISA, it's going to come out," he says in an interview. "It always comes out.
Mr. Johnson went on to explain that there were no operations that violate a statute like FISA that have not been revealed. It's futile to look for operations that violate a statute like FISA, as all of them have been revealed. No unrevealed operations violating a statue like FISA remain. All unrevealed operations comply with all statutes like FISA.
"Incorporation" concerns the Bill of Rights and various other rights. FOIA is an act of congress that applies to certain documents of certain federal agencies. FOIA is not a right, and thus is not incorporated.
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No, recursion is the recursion.
It's also collusion when the goal is to raise barriers to entry into the market.
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scary that they did not wipe it to Department of Defense standards which I believe is wiping the whole disk and then writing 1010 all over it.
That's nearly right. The actual procedure is to wipe it to DoD standards, and then load it up with fake documents.
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Taxes are the price we pay for a modern society.
Taxes are the price we pay for not having highway robbers. And vice versa.
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Cotton Swabs Prime Suspect In 8 Year Phantom Chase
Cotton Swabs is innocent! Free Cotton Swabs!
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I hate fucking English.
Yes. Italians are much better.
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Strange. I wanted to serve on a jury, but was never selected. And I was never eager ('anxious' is one of my pet peeves) to lock anyone away. I've spoken at length with a juror and he gave every indication of not wanting to lock someone away. In the case we discussed it was the passenger in a car when the driver was guilty of possession of a controlled substance. He seemed pleased that the defendant was acquitted. He also said that the judge indicated he was pleased that the jurors had acquitted the defendant. Where are you getting your data?
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Nice profile, but I was disabused of the reliability of profiles by Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammad.
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National Nuclear Security Administration dismissed fears the computers contained highly-sensitive or classified information...
He explained that the NNSA has lists of highly sensitive and classified information, and none of the laptops appear on those lists. At least, none of the laptops appear on their remaining lists.
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John Allen Paulos makes a compelling case that every voting system is unfair. I don't think it's in his book Innumeracy. Perhaps it's in his book A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper. Continual harping on minor problems with the voting system distracts attention from larger issues.
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Also, there will be a small royalty charge for moving your lips as you read. This has two benefits. There will be fewer people moving their lips as they read. And there will be fewer people reading.
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Ideas are easier to attack when they can be pinned to a particular individual, and the attacks made ad hominem. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it's a tactic most often used by conservatives.
Yeah, those conservatives are a bunch of poopey heads and you can ignore every argument they make because those dummies make ad hominem arguments. You don't even have to listen to their arguments because you already know that it's going to be an ad hominem one.
For example, I find it difficult to discuss global warming with conservatives without veering into a debate on the merits of Al Gore and whether he invented the Internet. Similarly, debates on other matters have been "settled" with assertions that Michael Moore is undeniably fat and doesn't dress nicely.
You'll start hearing about "Newtonism" and "Einsteinism" the moment that some conservative (most likely religious) constituency realizes that modern physics challenges their worldview every bit as much as evolutionary biology. After all, Relativity is only a theory, and why should anyone listen to a guy who can't comb his hair properly?
But don't listen to me - I didn't shave today...
That is so right! Those poopey-headed conservatives bring up an argument that doesn't have anything to do with the topic and tear it down. Then they think they have refuted what you have to say. Bunch of poopey-heads I say!
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Obama is wonderful! He's taking RIAA's and BSA's lawyers away from them and giving them productive jobs, and now the RIAA and BSA won't be able to sue helpless people!
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Honestly, the real reason Microsoft is able to get away with what it does is that monopolies are an inherent flaw in our current economic system.
Inherent? I suppose in the sense that it was there in my parent's time, and it's still there. I prefer to think of it as having been specifically crafted into our political system. Quoting Article I, section 8, in relevant part: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;" Milton Friedman once said that almost all monopolies are government granted or government supported. Ask yourself this question--who comes beating down your door if you start copying Microsoft software and offer it for sale? Or this one--what kind of monopoly would Microsoft have if anyone had the right to copy Microsoft's software at will?
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So I don't know why you're comparing stealing a beef jerky from a 7-11 to copyright infringement.
He's not. He's contrasting it.
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However, researchers warn against drinking too much coffee, as 3 cups or more may cause hallucinations.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
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Obama is wonderful. He's taken an unethical lawyer and made an honorable public servant out of him. Why are you against honorable public service?
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Since they are so low maintenance and self-contained, they are calling them nuclear batteries.
The first name for the nuclear batteries, "community warheads," didn't poll well in focus groups.
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[citation needed]
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Actually, this is in response to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's act of shutting down Parliament. If the government isn't working, then bunkers aren't needed to keep it working, eh?
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Can someone please explain in layman's terms how this results in a decision, for those of us who aren't quantum mathematicians? I somewhat get the whole "indecision results in a decision" thing but seems to be a hard idea to wrap my brain around so to speak.
I immediately thought of Euclid's five postulates. For years people thought that the fifth, parallel, postulate could be derived from the other four. That held for about 2100 years until a couple of boffins found used two different negations of the fifth to derive entire geometries. Applying that to this, I would suppose that if it were possible to encode Euclid's first four postulates into quantum states, and ask whether there was exactly one line parallel to another through a point not on the second line, then the result would sometimes be yes and sometimes no.
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Mathematics is an abstract game of counting, built up into great complexity. 1 + 1 = 2 will be true in any universe, under any god(s), in any circumstances.
Well...No, it's not. The famous story is told of the philosopher who was cloud watching. It seems that he saw one cloud, and he saw another cloud. As he watched one cloud approached the other until they got very close to each other and then merged. "What do you know?" declared the philosopher. "1+1=1."
Now, the engineer will immediately object and say that the mass of one cloud can be added to the mass of the other cloud to get the combined mass, but that objection is unprevailing. It merely stands for the unremarkable proposition that 1+1=2 when it does, and otherwise it doesn't.
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If you are performing an operation that violates a statute like FISA, it's going to come out," he says in an interview. "It always comes out.
Mr. Johnson went on to explain that there were no operations that violate a statute like FISA that have not been revealed. It's futile to look for operations that violate a statute like FISA, as all of them have been revealed. No unrevealed operations violating a statue like FISA remain. All unrevealed operations comply with all statutes like FISA.
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"Incorporation" concerns the Bill of Rights and various other rights. FOIA is an act of congress that applies to certain documents of certain federal agencies. FOIA is not a right, and thus is not incorporated.
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Strange. I don't see the one about the train leaving Chicago at 6:00...
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