Recognizes that there are absolutes and scientific truths that transcend relative social considerations of the day.
Recognizes that good medical science cannot exist in a moral vacuum and pledges to promote such science.
Recognizes the fundamental mother-father family unit, within the context of marriage, to be the optimal setting for the development and nurturing of children and pledges to promote this unit.
Recognizes the unique value of every human life from the time of conception to natural death and pledges to promote research and clinical practice that provides for the healthiest outcome of the child from conception to adulthood.
Recognizes the physical and emotional benefits of sexual abstinence until marriage and pledges to promote this behavior as the ideal for adolescence. ----- The American College of Pediatricians is a fraud. They've got around two hundred members, and were formed by a group who left the respected American Academy of Pediatrics in protest after that organisation endorsed gay marriage. The purpose of the organisation, the sole reason upon which they were founded, was to provide a legitimate-seeming medical front for those who have religious or moral objections to any deviation from their strictly heterosexual norm.
It's an example of the rich tradition of political pressure groups taking names that sound non-political, because people are instantly suspicious of anything an overtly political group says.
There's a simple means used to allocate spectrum: 1. Government agencies get first claim. 2. What's left is sold to the highest commercial bidder. 3. The bits that no company wants are made available unlicensed, and the public are expected to be grateful that the government honors the ITU suggestions for ISM bands.
The US power grid is a commercial enterprise. It's built with the minimum of redundancy needed to keep operating when a line goes down for maintenance, because unused capacity is seen as money wasted. This was demonstrated in 2003, when a single power line failed - and caused a series of cascade failures and desyncronisations that knocked out power to half the north-east US and a chunk of Ontario. The US has flaky power - and if electricity had a speed, it'd be slow too.
It's about some those nations that exploit space commercially contributed something to managing space junk better, even if it's only funding a few prototypes to test potential cleanup methods.
Anti-satellite missiles are not stealth weapons - the launch would certainly have been noticed by one of the many countries that monitors for missile-like objects riding a controlled explosion into the sky.
I went the simpler route on home automation: Got a cheap RF keyfob-remote and receiver and installed it in the loft. Now I can turn the bedroom light on and off without getting out of bed. I even did some stuff with relay logic so the light switch still works too.
The thing looks like a fire hazard still, I really need to get a proper enclosure for it.
More accurately we're talking about the people who read that news, as those were from the comments. Though Fox does moderate, so they must take a little credit for letting them through.
I don't need to. The previous poster mentioned the vitriolic attitude of many on the left - I didn't contest this, I just pointed out that it's just as common on the right and went on to describe a symmetry. American politics has become driven by extremes and party alignment, and both factions are now hostile to moderates or to anyone who doesn't pick a party position package and stick to it. If you try to run as, say, pro-gun-rights but also support gay marriage, then neither party will have anything to do with you.
Regardless of one's political views, Hitler's views are always the opposite.
There's even a conspiracy theory that claims the holocaust was secretly organised by a cabal of gay men who ran he Nazi party because the God-fearing Jews were a threat to their hedonistic ways.
It is a bad idea - which is why the petition is a good idea. It forces the candidates to go against their own rhetoric about second amendment rights and publicly admit that the government does have the power to dictate when and where you are permitted to carry a gun.
It's gone both ways - I read some conservative news sites and between comments and columnists it's really common to see all democrats being labelled as treasonous. How about this sample of choice comments, taken from a Fox News article about non-discrimination law: ----- "Hopefully, when North Korea decides to actually strike the USA they target and hit San Francisco. Clean out some of that Rainbow Sludge...." "Instead of sending pedophiles to jail, send them to SF. Apparently, they are very tolerant of those with sexual problems and know best how to deal with these people. They will then be part of the LGBT community and the sanctuary city community." "Imagine... North Carolina believes the male corn hole is Exit Only, and San Francisco is completely intolerant of that. If everyone thought like this guy, we wouldn't have a country for much longer. " "Pretty sure this is just another hidden way liberals want to do away with certain laws so that they want to be demonized and labeled as child molesters because they want child molestation decriminalized so they start with the bathrooms to achieve their goal.. " "San Freakisco has been a sewer since the Gays discovered it" ----- That wasn't from some crazy right-wing nutjob site like WND - that was from Fox News, the single highest-viewership news source in the US.
American politics has turned hyper-polarised now - it's just two rabid factions who hate each other with an such intensity that all rational debate is impossible.
Only to snobby pure mathematicians. You can't actually solve it, but you can come 'close enough' with a finite-time-interval approximation. The only limitation on accuracy is how much processor time you've got to throw at the problem.
Just steal it from some drunk guy - easy enough to find one. Then you don't have to kill him - you'll have a couple of hours at least, possibly days, before they contact the cell company to block the phone, and a random mugging attracts much less attention from the police than a string of murders.
If that was the purpose of the second amendment, it isn't fit for purpose any longer. You have your hunting rifle, the government has a lot of men with many years of training, fully-automatic assault rifles, body armor... oh, yes, and a helicopter gunship. Directed by an intelligence service that will be monitoring every electronic conversation you have. Hardly a fair fight.
With encryption: Google and the US government spy on you. Without encryption: Google, the US government, Russia, China, half of Europe, Canada, the script kiddie who hacked your router and an organised crime gang spy on you.
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From: http://www.acpeds.org/about-us
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Core Values of the College
The American College of Pediatricians:
Recognizes that there are absolutes and scientific truths that transcend relative social considerations of the day.
Recognizes that good medical science cannot exist in a moral vacuum and pledges to promote such science.
Recognizes the fundamental mother-father family unit, within the context of marriage, to be the optimal setting for the development and nurturing of children and pledges to promote this unit.
Recognizes the unique value of every human life from the time of conception to natural death and pledges to promote research and clinical practice that provides for the healthiest outcome of the child from conception to adulthood.
Recognizes the physical and emotional benefits of sexual abstinence until marriage and pledges to promote this behavior as the ideal for adolescence.
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The American College of Pediatricians is a fraud. They've got around two hundred members, and were formed by a group who left the respected American Academy of Pediatrics in protest after that organisation endorsed gay marriage. The purpose of the organisation, the sole reason upon which they were founded, was to provide a legitimate-seeming medical front for those who have religious or moral objections to any deviation from their strictly heterosexual norm.
It's an example of the rich tradition of political pressure groups taking names that sound non-political, because people are instantly suspicious of anything an overtly political group says.
There's a simple means used to allocate spectrum:
1. Government agencies get first claim.
2. What's left is sold to the highest commercial bidder.
3. The bits that no company wants are made available unlicensed, and the public are expected to be grateful that the government honors the ITU suggestions for ISM bands.
The US power grid is a commercial enterprise. It's built with the minimum of redundancy needed to keep operating when a line goes down for maintenance, because unused capacity is seen as money wasted. This was demonstrated in 2003, when a single power line failed - and caused a series of cascade failures and desyncronisations that knocked out power to half the north-east US and a chunk of Ontario. The US has flaky power - and if electricity had a speed, it'd be slow too.
It's about some those nations that exploit space commercially contributed something to managing space junk better, even if it's only funding a few prototypes to test potential cleanup methods.
Anti-satellite missiles are not stealth weapons - the launch would certainly have been noticed by one of the many countries that monitors for missile-like objects riding a controlled explosion into the sky.
I went the simpler route on home automation: Got a cheap RF keyfob-remote and receiver and installed it in the loft. Now I can turn the bedroom light on and off without getting out of bed. I even did some stuff with relay logic so the light switch still works too.
The thing looks like a fire hazard still, I really need to get a proper enclosure for it.
Never mind gaming, I'm interested in VR for data visualisation. Like graphs with tens of thousands of nodes, or heat maps in three dimensions.
More accurately we're talking about the people who read that news, as those were from the comments. Though Fox does moderate, so they must take a little credit for letting them through.
I don't need to. The previous poster mentioned the vitriolic attitude of many on the left - I didn't contest this, I just pointed out that it's just as common on the right and went on to describe a symmetry. American politics has become driven by extremes and party alignment, and both factions are now hostile to moderates or to anyone who doesn't pick a party position package and stick to it. If you try to run as, say, pro-gun-rights but also support gay marriage, then neither party will have anything to do with you.
Regardless of one's political views, Hitler's views are always the opposite.
There's even a conspiracy theory that claims the holocaust was secretly organised by a cabal of gay men who ran he Nazi party because the God-fearing Jews were a threat to their hedonistic ways.
They were from the comments on a Fox News story - those are the ones that made it through moderation, so just try to imagine was the mods blocked.
Why would they fear that? They can carry guns to defend themselves too.
It is a bad idea - which is why the petition is a good idea. It forces the candidates to go against their own rhetoric about second amendment rights and publicly admit that the government does have the power to dictate when and where you are permitted to carry a gun.
It's gone both ways - I read some conservative news sites and between comments and columnists it's really common to see all democrats being labelled as treasonous. How about this sample of choice comments, taken from a Fox News article about non-discrimination law:
-----
"Hopefully, when North Korea decides to actually strike the USA they target and hit San Francisco. Clean out some of that Rainbow Sludge...."
"Instead of sending pedophiles to jail, send them to SF. Apparently, they are very tolerant of those with sexual problems and know best how to deal with these people. They will then be part of the LGBT community and the sanctuary city community."
"Imagine... North Carolina believes the male corn hole is Exit Only, and San Francisco is completely intolerant of that. If everyone thought like this guy, we wouldn't have a country for much longer. "
"Pretty sure this is just another hidden way liberals want to do away with certain laws so that they want to be demonized and labeled as child molesters because they want child molestation decriminalized so they start with the bathrooms to achieve their goal.. "
"San Freakisco has been a sewer since the Gays discovered it"
-----
That wasn't from some crazy right-wing nutjob site like WND - that was from Fox News, the single highest-viewership news source in the US.
American politics has turned hyper-polarised now - it's just two rabid factions who hate each other with an such intensity that all rational debate is impossible.
The human brain runs on about twenty watts. The computational power required to match it is barely imaginable.
Clearly we are a long, long way from the limits imposed by the laws of physics.
"The possible responses look to be mined from over a million twitter posts."
There's 'yer problem!
We are pretty good in the skies too.
Only to snobby pure mathematicians. You can't actually solve it, but you can come 'close enough' with a finite-time-interval approximation. The only limitation on accuracy is how much processor time you've got to throw at the problem.
Of course. There's demand for natural-language personal assistants, and serious money to be made by running one.
Even if you can get cash, it's now a standard government assumption that anyone handling large amounts of cash must be involved in criminal activity.
You're also more likely to be killed by lightening, if you live in the US or Europe.
I'm not so sure about sharks. I've had some trouble finding reliable statistics.
Just steal it from some drunk guy - easy enough to find one. Then you don't have to kill him - you'll have a couple of hours at least, possibly days, before they contact the cell company to block the phone, and a random mugging attracts much less attention from the police than a string of murders.
If that was the purpose of the second amendment, it isn't fit for purpose any longer. You have your hunting rifle, the government has a lot of men with many years of training, fully-automatic assault rifles, body armor... oh, yes, and a helicopter gunship. Directed by an intelligence service that will be monitoring every electronic conversation you have. Hardly a fair fight.
You can, but it's tricky. Receiving works, but sending doesn't from any residential IP - you get blocked by anti-spam services.
With encryption: Google and the US government spy on you.
Without encryption: Google, the US government, Russia, China, half of Europe, Canada, the script kiddie who hacked your router and an organised crime gang spy on you.