Has Amendment X ever been interpreted by the Supreme Court? I always thought it was a pretty natural amendment to try to challenge, but I've never seen it mentioned in any Supreme Court docs.
What do you challege? It's an amendment to the constitution, it doesn't get any higher on the ladder. What you might challenge is if it were lawfully passed (there's little to no argument on that) or if current actions taken under the amendment's guise are in fact allowed by the amendment. But you can't declare an amendment unconstitutional - it IS the constitution.
We have the second, but the first wouldn't do us any good. On the off chance you CAN get your phone unlocked, the new provider generally won't accept it anyway, IME. (Cingular and T-Mobile seem to be exceptions, since they're GSM-based so you just have to swap the card)
Who says they have a choice on accepting it? Drop your SIM in it and go. I've never seen one not work.
Doesn't seem to work too well with Firefox (Linux-Intel and Mac OSX-PPC), either. I just keep getting blank screens with "loading... loading... loading..." too.
Does it still use Flash? I don't install Flash because it cuts down on the annoying blinking crap and I'm too lazy.
No, it's being slashdotted. I was wondering why my live page was taking so long to load. Then I checked slashdot and digg.
That's ridiculous. You can NOT run gigabit over USB, no matter how hard you try. Hope your company doesn't need to transfer large files around quickly...
Your PCI bus can't transfer at gigabit speeds either. You do all your work on a switch?
Which makes me wonder, why not have just one or two 'mother' ports and a peripheral that you can plug in to give yourself all the others you might need? Maybe that's what USB is supposed to be, but I look at my machine and USB doesn't seem very 'universal' to me. Video, sound, network and other stuff still on other ports. Is such a mother port impossible?
Oh you can get them. The manufacturers just insist on adding all the extras. The only ports you really need on a computer are video (there's just too much data for USB to handle), USB, and power (got to get power in somehow, USB host can't do that). You can get usb peripherals for keyboard, mouse, sound, printer, network, and . . . whatever else you have dedicated ports for.
Start a card-swapping club at work or with a few friends. Every week, all of you throw your cards into a hat and draw them at random. You won't get targeted coupons that way, though, because "your" buying history is pretty much gibberish after a while.
What some of my friends did was get one in the group who had a "platinum" discount (10% off store brands, the best we could find), and we made copies of the UPC on the back of his card and stuck them on ours. We have a HUGE buying history (gives us discounts on gas too) and there's no tracking (the address and number where he registered no longer work).
Man! The lengths NASA will go to to shave expenses! They could bring it home, but nnnnooooooo, they're going to just chuck it and further clutter space!
If they really just wanted to get rid of it, I'm sure someone could toss it down to earth. I doubt any would survive reentry.
If I could opt for a coffin and an unfolded nap, I would almost certainly do so.
Then weight distribution would be easy for the airlines.
Of course there's safety issues, "someone please think of the children."
There are possible safety issues with the fasten seatbelts sign too. Then again, these are mostly feelgood BS. There aren't many jetliner crashes that a seatbelt will save you from. And I like turbulence!
I think we may both be right [sparknotes.com]. Not sure which actually killed him, my impression was the blow to the crotch.
I just read the book again a few days ago, and there was something said later (I think it was Ender thinking back) about seeing the dead look in Bonzo's eyes and knowing he was gone before he hit the floor.
Cool. Houston needs a good monitoring system. 610 at the Galleria was always a nightmare.
Oh it still is. I think they may have just saved money on the monitoring points and put a red line ("Very Slow") where 610 goes through the west in the static background of the realtime map.
Interestingly, they use the "EZ-tag" transponders (little RF tags that get read at fast lanes in toll booths for those who aren't familiar with the brand name) to monitor average speeds on all the freeways.
Oh, and while I'm on the subject, I happen to live almost right under high-tension power lines coming from Mansfield Dam [google.com], and they wreak havoc with everything wireless in my apartment. My wireless mouse is jumpy, people can't hear me on the cordless telephone, etc. I switched from a 900 MHz cordless phone to a 5.8 GHz cordless phone to try and escape the interference, but no improvement. I tried using a remote controlled toy that works in a friend's house, but even it won't work in my apartment. Come to think of it, I wonder if they aren't already running some kind of high-speed data transmissions over these power lines.
I would bet if you wrapped your house in chicken wire, you'd be able to use your wireless/cordless stuff inside just fine! I'm toying with the idea of building a faraday cage inside a friend's dorm room who has problems with all things electronic. I think she's right by a transformer or something.
The problem with that is that if one is trying to use big words, "stigma" just isn't big enough. Add a few prefixes and suffixes... ex. antipropenultimastigmatism and voila! instant intelligent-sounding babble.
am i the only one who has no idea what IS is? Was this article one massive typo?
Well since the article has no mass, I'd say you're off on the latter. As to the former, while I know (probably only because I held a job where I was the "IS Administrator"), it's not all that common. A little expansion would have helped.
Sure I may be a pedantic ass, but I find it incredibly difficult to read, let alone take seriously, blatant product placement with such poor grammar. I'll pass.
Ah, I get ya. Never heard the "replacement" thing. I'll have to look into that, because I like it better.
But this does nicely illustrate why I'm no longer a Christianity fan. The Bible hardly ever says what it says.
It generally says it just fine. The problem is you're reading a modern translation of a translation made by some random scribe in 1611.
Okay, now some of the sermon stuff. Skip the rest if it's not your thing: the way I understand it is that are three distinct phases of man's relationship with God. First started with Adam, a sort of direct communion (all this walking with God in Eden and stuff). For some reason, God decided to give a standard contract and set of rules to everyone. So you follow these big ten rules, and a bunch of smaller ones (that describe behavior that is healthy and good for you any way). And if you mess up, you can buy your way out with a sacrifice any way. Excellent deal. Except we still managed to screw it up all the time. So God decided to give us a new contract (research the etymology of testament - it comes from testicle, which back in that time you'd grab when you swore yourself to a deal - the modern equivalent is putting your signature on a written promise). In this one, God paid His end of it (absolving us of our wrongdoings) and our end of it (paying the blood debt) and all we had to do was claim this payment. The code of behavior is greatly simplified too - if you really understand how much was done for you, you'll honestly want to learn how to be a nice guy, and do it (at least in general, none of us are perfect). I'm no theologist, but that's a simple version of how I understand it.
The point was that, in the way it was originally said (John 13:34), the concept is not "new", but "replacement". It's not that it's not being a dick, it's that in honestly holding yourself to having an attitude of not being a dick, you'll inadvertently keep the spirit of all the other laws.
So there's the part where the Bible says the opposite of what the OP said. He was right about other part, but the old stuff is still good. New Testament, for the most part, says, "Be groovy," which me and him and, unless the Greek says something crazy-different, you seem to agree on. I'm not sure where you think I'm full of it.
I think from the context, Christ was speaking specifically of how He still had to go through with the rest of the deal (crucifiction, ressurection, etc), and all is not fulfilled yet. And the full of it part was that I can think like this but still be a literalist fundy and go to church all the time.
Sorry, but your understanding is that of a very casual Christian. As a reformed semi-fundamentalist, I can tell you that anyone that believes that is strictly the Christmas-and-Easter type. There's a Jesus quote in there that says the exact opposite. What the post-Jesus stuff modifies is dealings with other people. It boils down to "Old Testament: How to follow God's rules. New Testament: How not to be a dick about it." Actually I'm about as literal fundamentalist as it gets. As the go-to-church-three-or-four-times-a-week-type, I can tell you that you're about full of it. See John 13:34, interpret the original greek.
As I understand it, christianity builds on the old testament, sure - but it weighs in much more heavily on forgiveness (obviously forgotten during the crusades and inquisition) and love than on "smiting your enemies". Pretty sure you'd be shit out of luck if you tried portraying Jesus as wanting you to "smite and even kill or enslave your enemies".
My personal understanding is that the old testament (that's a synonym for contract or covenant) is just there to let us know where we came from, and the new one replaces it completely. All that love and forgiveness stuff, that's ALL the new testament is based on.
At home, I get an automated recording on the machine (from a telemarketer, no doubt), saying that isn't a sales call. What good is is law if simply saying "this isn't a sales call" makes it so, even if they are trying to sell you something?
I've been getting the same thing recently. To my cell phone. i wonder who's doing it.
Now, you just made me think of something. I wonder what the required size for one of these is. That is, I wonder if you could make a AA form-factor one that spit out 1.5v. That might shake things up a tad.
This worked fine until the 'genuine' advantage bullshit, now I have to break that too to get some of the upgrades... which slows down the already glacial windows install time quite considerably.
Yeah, that's incredibly stupid. There's an easy way to get around it though. Get genuinecheck.exe (remove that activex control if you already have it and the MS page will give you that option). Then run it on either some pre-windows-xp computer, or set it to run in compatibility mode for like windows 98. It will spit out a code you can put in the MS web page, and proceed to download the file. Save this file, it's the real deal and will work perpetually. And if you make your own slipstreamed install discs, you can easily hop it on there. Good stuff.
You should consider the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer. It will scan your computer (hell, it will remotely scan all the computers on your domain if you want), tell you what you have or don't have, and give you links to the download.
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Has Amendment X ever been interpreted by the Supreme Court? I always thought it was a pretty natural amendment to try to challenge, but I've never seen it mentioned in any Supreme Court docs.
What do you challege? It's an amendment to the constitution, it doesn't get any higher on the ladder. What you might challenge is if it were lawfully passed (there's little to no argument on that) or if current actions taken under the amendment's guise are in fact allowed by the amendment. But you can't declare an amendment unconstitutional - it IS the constitution.
We have the second, but the first wouldn't do us any good. On the off chance you CAN get your phone unlocked, the new provider generally won't accept it anyway, IME. (Cingular and T-Mobile seem to be exceptions, since they're GSM-based so you just have to swap the card)
Who says they have a choice on accepting it? Drop your SIM in it and go. I've never seen one not work.
Doesn't seem to work too well with Firefox (Linux-Intel and Mac OSX-PPC), either. I just keep getting blank screens with "loading... loading... loading..." too.
Does it still use Flash? I don't install Flash because it cuts down on the annoying blinking crap and I'm too lazy.
No, it's being slashdotted. I was wondering why my live page was taking so long to load. Then I checked slashdot and digg.
That's ridiculous. You can NOT run gigabit over USB, no matter how hard you try. Hope your company doesn't need to transfer large files around quickly...
Your PCI bus can't transfer at gigabit speeds either. You do all your work on a switch?
Which makes me wonder, why not have just one or two 'mother' ports and a peripheral that you can plug in to give yourself all the others you might need? Maybe that's what USB is supposed to be, but I look at my machine and USB doesn't seem very 'universal' to me. Video, sound, network and other stuff still on other ports. Is such a mother port impossible?
Oh you can get them. The manufacturers just insist on adding all the extras. The only ports you really need on a computer are video (there's just too much data for USB to handle), USB, and power (got to get power in somehow, USB host can't do that). You can get usb peripherals for keyboard, mouse, sound, printer, network, and . . . whatever else you have dedicated ports for.
Start a card-swapping club at work or with a few friends. Every week, all of you throw your cards into a hat and draw them at random. You won't get targeted coupons that way, though, because "your" buying history is pretty much gibberish after a while.
What some of my friends did was get one in the group who had a "platinum" discount (10% off store brands, the best we could find), and we made copies of the UPC on the back of his card and stuck them on ours. We have a HUGE buying history (gives us discounts on gas too) and there's no tracking (the address and number where he registered no longer work).
Man! The lengths NASA will go to to shave expenses! They could bring it home, but nnnnooooooo, they're going to just chuck it and further clutter space!
If they really just wanted to get rid of it, I'm sure someone could toss it down to earth. I doubt any would survive reentry.
If I could opt for a coffin and an unfolded nap, I would almost certainly do so.
Then weight distribution would be easy for the airlines.
Of course there's safety issues, "someone please think of the children."
There are possible safety issues with the fasten seatbelts sign too. Then again, these are mostly feelgood BS. There aren't many jetliner crashes that a seatbelt will save you from. And I like turbulence!
I think we may both be right [sparknotes.com]. Not sure which actually killed him, my impression was the blow to the crotch.
I just read the book again a few days ago, and there was something said later (I think it was Ender thinking back) about seeing the dead look in Bonzo's eyes and knowing he was gone before he hit the floor.
Man turns around to find the stranger at the door has already moved his shit into his house. Does this not constitute tresspassing?
Not only, in Texas it's an invitation to kill them without further provocation.
If only it applied to computers too.
Cool. Houston needs a good monitoring system. 610 at the Galleria was always a nightmare.
Oh it still is. I think they may have just saved money on the monitoring points and put a red line ("Very Slow") where 610 goes through the west in the static background of the realtime map.
Interestingly, they use the "EZ-tag" transponders (little RF tags that get read at fast lanes in toll booths for those who aren't familiar with the brand name) to monitor average speeds on all the freeways.
Oh, and while I'm on the subject, I happen to live almost right under high-tension power lines coming from Mansfield Dam [google.com], and they wreak havoc with everything wireless in my apartment. My wireless mouse is jumpy, people can't hear me on the cordless telephone, etc. I switched from a 900 MHz cordless phone to a 5.8 GHz cordless phone to try and escape the interference, but no improvement. I tried using a remote controlled toy that works in a friend's house, but even it won't work in my apartment. Come to think of it, I wonder if they aren't already running some kind of high-speed data transmissions over these power lines.
I would bet if you wrapped your house in chicken wire, you'd be able to use your wireless/cordless stuff inside just fine! I'm toying with the idea of building a faraday cage inside a friend's dorm room who has problems with all things electronic. I think she's right by a transformer or something.
The problem with that is that if one is trying to use big words, "stigma" just isn't big enough. Add a few prefixes and suffixes... ex. antipropenultimastigmatism and voila! instant intelligent-sounding babble.
Oh, you must know my step father!
am i the only one who has no idea what IS is? Was this article one massive typo?
Well since the article has no mass, I'd say you're off on the latter. As to the former, while I know (probably only because I held a job where I was the "IS Administrator"), it's not all that common. A little expansion would have helped.
I think it has to do with animations. An individual illustraion that makes a frame is a "cel".
Sure I may be a pedantic ass, but I find it incredibly difficult to read, let alone take seriously, blatant product placement with such poor grammar. I'll pass.
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Ah, I get ya. Never heard the "replacement" thing. I'll have to look into that, because I like it better.
But this does nicely illustrate why I'm no longer a Christianity fan. The Bible hardly ever says what it says.
It generally says it just fine. The problem is you're reading a modern translation of a translation made by some random scribe in 1611.
Okay, now some of the sermon stuff. Skip the rest if it's not your thing: the way I understand it is that are three distinct phases of man's relationship with God. First started with Adam, a sort of direct communion (all this walking with God in Eden and stuff). For some reason, God decided to give a standard contract and set of rules to everyone. So you follow these big ten rules, and a bunch of smaller ones (that describe behavior that is healthy and good for you any way). And if you mess up, you can buy your way out with a sacrifice any way. Excellent deal. Except we still managed to screw it up all the time. So God decided to give us a new contract (research the etymology of testament - it comes from testicle, which back in that time you'd grab when you swore yourself to a deal - the modern equivalent is putting your signature on a written promise). In this one, God paid His end of it (absolving us of our wrongdoings) and our end of it (paying the blood debt) and all we had to do was claim this payment. The code of behavior is greatly simplified too - if you really understand how much was done for you, you'll honestly want to learn how to be a nice guy, and do it (at least in general, none of us are perfect). I'm no theologist, but that's a simple version of how I understand it.
How is that not not-being-a-dick?
The point was that, in the way it was originally said (John 13:34), the concept is not "new", but "replacement". It's not that it's not being a dick, it's that in honestly holding yourself to having an attitude of not being a dick, you'll inadvertently keep the spirit of all the other laws.
So there's the part where the Bible says the opposite of what the OP said. He was right about other part, but the old stuff is still good. New Testament, for the most part, says, "Be groovy," which me and him and, unless the Greek says something crazy-different, you seem to agree on. I'm not sure where you think I'm full of it.
I think from the context, Christ was speaking specifically of how He still had to go through with the rest of the deal (crucifiction, ressurection, etc), and all is not fulfilled yet. And the full of it part was that I can think like this but still be a literalist fundy and go to church all the time.
Sorry, but your understanding is that of a very casual Christian. As a reformed semi-fundamentalist, I can tell you that anyone that believes that is strictly the Christmas-and-Easter type. There's a Jesus quote in there that says the exact opposite. What the post-Jesus stuff modifies is dealings with other people. It boils down to "Old Testament: How to follow God's rules. New Testament: How not to be a dick about it."
Actually I'm about as literal fundamentalist as it gets. As the go-to-church-three-or-four-times-a-week-type, I can tell you that you're about full of it. See John 13:34, interpret the original greek.
As I understand it, christianity builds on the old testament, sure - but it weighs in much more heavily on forgiveness (obviously forgotten during the crusades and inquisition) and love than on "smiting your enemies". Pretty sure you'd be shit out of luck if you tried portraying Jesus as wanting you to "smite and even kill or enslave your enemies".
My personal understanding is that the old testament (that's a synonym for contract or covenant) is just there to let us know where we came from, and the new one replaces it completely. All that love and forgiveness stuff, that's ALL the new testament is based on.
I'll spare you the sermon though.
Got head while laughing at a chick...I don't know if I should look up to you for being the ultimate man or look down upon you for degrading women.
It depends on if you're sitting up or laying back.
At home, I get an automated recording on the machine (from a telemarketer, no doubt), saying that isn't a sales call. What good is is law if simply saying "this isn't a sales call" makes it so, even if they are trying to sell you something?
I've been getting the same thing recently. To my cell phone. i wonder who's doing it.
Now, you just made me think of something. I wonder what the required size for one of these is. That is, I wonder if you could make a AA form-factor one that spit out 1.5v. That might shake things up a tad.
This worked fine until the 'genuine' advantage bullshit, now I have to break that too to get some of the upgrades... which slows down the already glacial windows install time quite considerably.
Yeah, that's incredibly stupid. There's an easy way to get around it though. Get genuinecheck.exe (remove that activex control if you already have it and the MS page will give you that option). Then run it on either some pre-windows-xp computer, or set it to run in compatibility mode for like windows 98. It will spit out a code you can put in the MS web page, and proceed to download the file. Save this file, it's the real deal and will work perpetually. And if you make your own slipstreamed install discs, you can easily hop it on there. Good stuff.
You should consider the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer. It will scan your computer (hell, it will remotely scan all the computers on your domain if you want), tell you what you have or don't have, and give you links to the download.