In the US the federal government can not trump state law.Uh, yes it can.
Fourteenth Amendment: Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
In other words, a state can't pass a law counter to the laws of the United States.
f it came down to it, would they have tried sending the columbia towards the space station and then each astronaut space walking out of the shuttle to the ISS or something? Is it even possible?
No. The ISS is in a completely different orbit than the Shuttle was. The ISS was unreachable.
Seperation of church and state IS NOT in the Constitution. It was made up by a judge. Read the first amendment. It states that the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, Congress specifically, can't ESTABLISH a state run religion.
Since the Pledge of Allegiance was made official by an act of Congress in 1954, and since the version of the Pledge approved by Congress contains the phrase "under God", which clearly has religious implications, the Pledge is in violation of the establishment clause of the 1st Amendment. Therefore, the 9th Circuit Court's rulign was correct.
That anyone finds this to be anything other than a logical extension of using dynamite to create tunnels or mine ore is a little perplexing.
Well, for starters, dynamite doesn't throw radiactive particles everywhere. Someone stealing a truckload of dynamite is not as worrying as someone stealing a thermonuclear weapon.
Apparently nobody studies history anymore, but Mr. Teller should be recognized as a national hero of science.
Except, on closer inspection, he was also somewhat crazy. He thought nuclear bombs should be used for stuff like earthmoving. Once he proposed an idea along these lines to Greece's Queen Frederika. Supposedly she replied, "Thank vou, Dr. Teller, but Greece has enough quaint ruins already."
Don't get me wrong; I am pro-nuclear. I just think Dr. Teller was a bit too rabid about flinging bombs around.
Just found this link. It's a chapter from Carl Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World" that talks about Teller.
No one would accept the army following the logic, "The enemy has guns, so we could buy bulletproof vests for our soldiers, but if we did that the enemy would just sneak up on them and use knives or bombs instead, so let's not bother with the bulletproof vests and let our soldiers get shot to pieces."
You analogy sucks. Nuclear weapons are not the same as bullets.
The point of nuclear missile arsenal is not to attack somebody. It's to make another country think twice about attacking you. This is the principal of "deterrence". A missile defense system destroys the concept of deterrence. If I were a suicidal dictator *today*, the logical thing to do would be to build up my arsenal as fast as possible and nuke the US before we got the defense system employed. Also, the simplest way to counter a defense system is to just build more warheads. And, on top of that, missiles are passe anyway. IMO, the future threat is not from missiles. It's from weapons smuggled into the country by other means, or just built here and detonated.
In short: The missile defense system is an expensive way of not protecting us from the real danger.
By and large, this is a GREAT tool in that it will help get rid of the absurd variance in strike zones as called by different umps.
Shrug. That's part of the game. Some umps have a wide strike zone. Some really squeeze it. Some allow a higher strike than others. As long as they are consistent, no one cares much.
Ron Luciano had a story in one of his books about a game he called early in his career. The pitcher threw a pitch right around the top of the "official" strike zone. Ron called it a ball. The next pitch was right around the batter's knees. Ron called that a ball too. The catcher turned to him and said, "I'm not complaining, but you have to give me either the high pitch or the low pitch or we're going to be here all night." At that moment, Mr. Luciano was enlightened.
There is no such thing as an 'extraordinary claim'.
Yes, there is.
Ordinary claim: I saw a light in the sky last night.
Extraordinary claim: I saw an alien spacecraft over my house last night. It was piloted by aliens from a planet in the galaxy we know as M33. It was constructed of elements from the trans-uranic island of stability and had a faster-than-light stardrive. Oh, and it used marshmallow Easter peeps for power.
No, that's not what the parent was talking about. Mars is a dry planet now, but there is evidence of liquid water in the past. So the idea was that the recipe to find dormant organisms would be "add water". The Viking landers did an experiment where they took a scoop of Martian dirt, put it in a container, and added a nutrient broth. The goal was to look for gases coming from the dirt which typically are produced by living things.
So, the landers landed, did the experiment, and immediately detected a whole bunch of the gases. Woohoo, life! Well, not really. They examined the data and decided the results were due to some unusual chemistry, not living organisms.
The experiment you're talking about produced amino acids and was done here on earth by Miller and Urey, not Sagan.:)
One of the big problems with the IETF is that the RFCs look like shit, they are designed to be printed in a fixed width font because thats the way they did things in Babbage's day. So not surprisingly engineers tend to go for documentation that is easier on the eye, even if it turns out to be wrong.
I don't know about that. I'm an engineer, and I'd rather have something printed in fixed-width font, on green-and-white fanfold paper. Less BS, more facts.:)
I'd hate to do more than a 200 line program in it because I'd get lost without objects.
God help us. This may comes as a great shock, but not every problem is best solved with OO. You may need to lie down for a while until you stop quivering.:)
But you never have to have more than four of them in your pocket at a time. Get five dollar coins, change it for a fiver.
But since dollar bills are so light, I don't *have* to change it, see.:) Plus I'd feel like I was holding up the line if I had to ask the checkout person to be a money changer too. Also, it's just more convenient to have a bunch of dollar bills for things like vending machines.
The dime is way too small. Coins should increase in size as they increase in value.
Why?
Again, when you see American coins for the first time, you will have no idea what a dime is worth.
I have a stack of English coins here, and the order from smallest to largest is 5p, 1p, 1 pound, 10p, 2 pounds. I don't have a 2p coin handy, but I remember that it's pretty big. So it's not just the US.
The $1 bill is the most commonly used piece of currency.
Which means if it gets replaced, I have to walk around with a bunch of heavy coins. Not only that, but under your scheme, it would have to be the largest coin!:-b
If a 20c or 50c coin was available, coin use would be much easier.
Um, you can get 50 cent coins. Tell me you've never seen a Kennedy half-dollar. They are big, bulky, and whenever someone gets one in change, they horde it.
If you do not think having bill of different color/size helps telling them apart, you're not honest...
I'm not honest then. I've been in England, where the money has different sizes and colors, and I still can't tell the damn things apart when I'm peeking in my wallet without looking at the denomination in the corner.
That's not the problem though.:) Since he define NOTHING as a semicolon, and used it as "NOTHING;", he has two null statements after the 'if'. He needs a set of braces.
Is the Phantom still there for anyone thats been there recently? I haven't been back there for a couple of years and I think I remember somebody saying that they took it down.
They took out the loops, extended the big drop slightly, and added some wide, sweeping turns and a few little hills. It's now called the Phantom's Revenge. Oh, and they got rid of the crummy Arrow trains with the over-the-shoulder horse collars and replaced them with trains that only have a lap bar. I think it's actually a much better ride now.:)
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In the US the federal government can not trump state law.Uh, yes it can.
Fourteenth Amendment:
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
In other words, a state can't pass a law counter to the laws of the United States.
or convert 30 feets in metres.
Bah. Give it something interesting, like converting attometers per month to furlongs per fortnight
f it came down to it, would they have tried sending the columbia towards the space station and then each astronaut space walking out of the shuttle to the ISS or something? Is it even possible?
No. The ISS is in a completely different orbit than the Shuttle was. The ISS was unreachable.
Seperation of church and state IS NOT in the Constitution. It was made up by a judge. Read the first amendment. It states that the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, Congress specifically, can't ESTABLISH a state run religion.
Since the Pledge of Allegiance was made official by an act of Congress in 1954, and since the version of the Pledge approved by Congress contains the phrase "under God", which clearly has religious implications, the Pledge is in violation of the establishment clause of the 1st Amendment. Therefore, the 9th Circuit Court's rulign was correct.
QED.
That anyone finds this to be anything other than a logical extension of using dynamite to create tunnels or mine ore is a little perplexing.
Well, for starters, dynamite doesn't throw radiactive particles everywhere. Someone stealing a truckload of dynamite is not as worrying as someone stealing a thermonuclear weapon.
Apparently nobody studies history anymore, but Mr. Teller should be recognized as a national hero of science.
Except, on closer inspection, he was also somewhat crazy. He thought nuclear bombs should be used for stuff like earthmoving. Once he proposed an idea along these lines to Greece's Queen Frederika. Supposedly she replied, "Thank vou, Dr. Teller, but Greece has enough quaint ruins already."
Don't get me wrong; I am pro-nuclear. I just think Dr. Teller was a bit too rabid about flinging bombs around.
Just found this link. It's a chapter from Carl Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World" that talks about Teller.
No one would accept the army following the logic, "The enemy has guns, so we could buy bulletproof vests for our soldiers, but if we did that the enemy would just sneak up on them and use knives or bombs instead, so let's not bother with the bulletproof vests and let our soldiers get shot to pieces."
You analogy sucks. Nuclear weapons are not the same as bullets.
The point of nuclear missile arsenal is not to attack somebody. It's to make another country think twice about attacking you. This is the principal of "deterrence". A missile defense system destroys the concept of deterrence. If I were a suicidal dictator *today*, the logical thing to do would be to build up my arsenal as fast as possible and nuke the US before we got the defense system employed. Also, the simplest way to counter a defense system is to just build more warheads. And, on top of that, missiles are passe anyway. IMO, the future threat is not from missiles. It's from weapons smuggled into the country by other means, or just built here and detonated.
In short: The missile defense system is an expensive way of not protecting us from the real danger.
I'm just glad the odds are only 909,000 to one and not a million to one.
My point is that it CAN be that simple. It's possible.
Sure it's possible. All you need to to have only one company that makes the computers who can control the configuration completely. No problem!
Yeah, but the Roosevelt can lay waste to a small country. Can the Voyager do that? I think not. :)
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By and large, this is a GREAT tool in that it will help get rid of the absurd variance in strike zones as called by different umps.
Shrug. That's part of the game. Some umps have a wide strike zone. Some really squeeze it. Some allow a higher strike than others. As long as they are consistent, no one cares much.
Ron Luciano had a story in one of his books about a game he called early in his career. The pitcher threw a pitch right around the top of the "official" strike zone. Ron called it a ball. The next pitch was right around the batter's knees. Ron called that a ball too. The catcher turned to him and said, "I'm not complaining, but you have to give me either the high pitch or the low pitch or we're going to be here all night." At that moment, Mr. Luciano was enlightened.
There is no such thing as an 'extraordinary claim'.
Yes, there is.
Ordinary claim: I saw a light in the sky last night.
Extraordinary claim: I saw an alien spacecraft over my house last night. It was piloted by aliens from a planet in the galaxy we know as M33. It was constructed of elements from the trans-uranic island of stability and had a faster-than-light stardrive. Oh, and it used marshmallow Easter peeps for power.
No, that's not what the parent was talking about. Mars is a dry planet now, but there is evidence of liquid water in the past. So the idea was that the recipe to find dormant organisms would be "add water". The Viking landers did an experiment where they took a scoop of Martian dirt, put it in a container, and added a nutrient broth. The goal was to look for gases coming from the dirt which typically are produced by living things.
:)
So, the landers landed, did the experiment, and immediately detected a whole bunch of the gases. Woohoo, life! Well, not really. They examined the data and decided the results were due to some unusual chemistry, not living organisms.
The experiment you're talking about produced amino acids and was done here on earth by Miller and Urey, not Sagan.
You can use a pound as a unit of mass
Well, no. And anyway, the unit of mass in the imperial system is the 'slug'. Really.
Why don't people use languages that make programs more failsafe and make programmers more productive.
:)
Because, while such languages exist, no one likes to program in them. Also, I don't know any of them.
One of the big problems with the IETF is that the RFCs look like shit, they are designed to be printed in a fixed width font because thats the way they did things in Babbage's day. So not surprisingly engineers tend to go for documentation that is easier on the eye, even if it turns out to be wrong.
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I don't know about that. I'm an engineer, and I'd rather have something printed in fixed-width font, on green-and-white fanfold paper. Less BS, more facts.
I'd hate to do more than a 200 line program in it because I'd get lost without objects.
:)
God help us. This may comes as a great shock, but not every problem is best solved with OO. You may need to lie down for a while until you stop quivering.
Let's start this off nice and flameworthy: what is the point of using C anymore?
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If you read the rest of your post, you'll have your answer.
But you never have to have more than four of them in your pocket at a time. Get five dollar coins, change it for a fiver.
:) Plus I'd feel like I was holding up the line if I had to ask the checkout person to be a money changer too. Also, it's just more convenient to have a bunch of dollar bills for things like vending machines.
But since dollar bills are so light, I don't *have* to change it, see.
The dime is way too small. Coins should increase in size as they increase in value.
:-b
Why?
Again, when you see American coins for the first time, you will have no idea what a dime is worth.
I have a stack of English coins here, and the order from smallest to largest is 5p, 1p, 1 pound, 10p, 2 pounds. I don't have a 2p coin handy, but I remember that it's pretty big. So it's not just the US.
The $1 bill is the most commonly used piece of currency.
Which means if it gets replaced, I have to walk around with a bunch of heavy coins. Not only that, but under your scheme, it would have to be the largest coin!
If a 20c or 50c coin was available, coin use would be much easier.
Um, you can get 50 cent coins. Tell me you've never seen a Kennedy half-dollar. They are big, bulky, and whenever someone gets one in change, they horde it.
If you do not think having bill of different color/size helps telling them apart, you're not honest...
I'm not honest then. I've been in England, where the money has different sizes and colors, and I still can't tell the damn things apart when I'm peeking in my wallet without looking at the denomination in the corner.
That's not the problem though. :) Since he define NOTHING as a semicolon, and used it as "NOTHING;", he has two null statements after the 'if'. He needs a set of braces.
Is the Phantom still there for anyone thats been there recently? I haven't been back there for a couple of years and I think I remember somebody saying that they took it down.
:)
They took out the loops, extended the big drop slightly, and added some wide, sweeping turns and a few little hills. It's now called the Phantom's Revenge. Oh, and they got rid of the crummy Arrow trains with the over-the-shoulder horse collars and replaced them with trains that only have a lap bar. I think it's actually a much better ride now.