It's only warm in the eastern half. In California it's freakin' cold!
In October we had snow in the east, which was one of he earliest snows ever. And LAST winter we set records for cold & snowfall amounts! So it is not really global warming; it's just month-to-month/year-to-year variation.
Common response: "If you're not breaking the law, why wouldn't you let the cops search your car? (Or track you with cameras?) (Or record all your internet actions?)" -- It's amazing how easily americans are to give up their freedom to the government tyrants.
As with my cars I would obey the rules of the warranty (i.e. change the oil every 7500 miles even though synthetic oil is good for 10,000+), and when it runs-out THEN I would make permanent modifications. So I wouldn't be cracking-open the TV immediately; I'd just be taping over the lens that first year.
.....which were provided to Pennsylvanian teens, and had integrated cameras, but there was no indication to the users that they were being recorded in their bedrooms (by the government).
My phone is not net-capable but yes, I could mod myself by carrying my laptop to work and using 28k dialup through the phone to get a 2nd IP address. Then 10 minutes later of slow connection..... +1 myself. But why? It isn't worth the hassle (or risk of firing).
Nice attempt at a slam, but it fails, because it doesn't matter how many accounts a poster has. They all share the same IP address, and slashdot moderation is tied to that IP.
IOW if I logged-out right now, and tried to mod myself up with another account, slashdot would not let me. Two accounts sharing the same IP cannot give each other +1 points.
This is more than just money..... it's selling to the customer. Wouldn't it look bad if a Microsoft employee came to your company to demo a new product, and they whipped-out their Apple Macbook to give the presentation? Or even less obvious... the MS presenter spends the lunchbreak listening to an iPod. It sends the wrong message that "Yeah I work for Microsoft but I really prefer Apple."
Telling sales staff to not buy Apple (and instead use Microsoft products as frequently as possible), is the same as a store giving employees 40% off if they buy and wear the store's goods. It shows that the employee not only sells but also uses the product day-to-day.
Last time I looked it up, textbooks still said "Theory of Evolution" not "Law of Evolution". In fact I've had many professors over the years argue even Newton's Law of Gravity should be renamed a Theory, since the misnamed "law" has been debunked by later discoveries over the centuries.
In science ALL things are theories, because we will never have a complete understanding and the theories are eventually proven wrong (or at least flawed). Maybe if we evolve into the Q we'll finally understand it all, but that's definitely not the case now.
We have theories of how the world works. Not absolutes. Not laws.
Last time I looked it up, textbooks still said "Theory of Evolution" not "Law of Evolution". In fact I've had many professors over the years argue even Newton's Law of Gravity should be renamed a Theory, since the misnamed "law" has been debunked by later discoveries over the centuries.
In science ALL things are theories, because we will never have a complete understanding and the theories are eventually proven wrong (or at least flawed). Maybe if we evolve into the Q we'll finally understand it all, but that's definitely not the case now.
We have theories of how the world works. Not absolutes. Not laws.
>>>The Constitution means whatever the Supreme Court says the Constitution means
The Constitution does not give the SCOTUS that power. It gives them the power to decide individual cases, not to nullify laws duly passed by Congress and signed by the President.
Nor does it give them power to define what the Constitution means. To quote Jefferson, "To presume that power would place us under the despostism of a 7-person oligarchy. That power is all the more dangerous as the justices are not subject to the elective control of the People, and they are given that power for life."
(Note that the number of justices was later changed from 7 to 9.)
All you have to do is ask the AUTHOR of the Consitution what he meant. I don't have James Madison's direct quote but here is what I recollect (having read it many, many times):
- There is nothing more natural than to start with a general phrase, and then qualify that phrase with specifics. The power of Congress to "provide general welfare" is explicitly qualified and limited by the enumerated powers which form the second half of the sentence.
- To presume the opposite, that Congress may exercise any power that is "for the general welfare", would give the Congress unlimited power to do as it pleases, and there is a whole Host of proofs that was never intended by myself or my colleagues in the constitutional convention.
- To assuage any doubt, I crafted the Bill of Rights and the first Congress adopted the 10th amendment which states any powers not given to the Congress is reserved to the State governments. That is, the power of the States are MANY while the power of the congress is FEW and explicitly defined.
After writing those words, President Madison then proceeeded to veto a law that he considered to be exercising a power never granted to Congress (but instead was reserved to the Member States of this American Union). It's also worth noting that Madison authored the Kentucky Resolutions in the 1790s, which said congress may only exercise the powers expressly given to it, and states reserve to themselves the right to refuse enforcement of unconstitutional laws (per the 10th).
>>>Iran is not living up to the treaty obligations
So says the propaganda on NBC, FOX, CNN. (Who also cooperated with Bush and claimed Iraq was not living up to its obligations either, and furthermore that Iraq had WMDs, which led to a 10 year was of deaht and wasted money. By the way we're still searching for WMDs. They LIED to us and are likely lying now. Don't be duped twice.)
In reality the UN inspectors observed and reported that the uranium facility in Iran is only 20% pure..... well below the levels allowed by the treaty (it bans 30% and up).
What the Europeans are contributing (especially the Greeks, Poles, Czechs) is also hopelessly outdated but we didn't refuse to extend the shield over their countries. I don't think ye realize that Russia is a democracy just the same as the EU states, and deserves to be treated as an ALLY not an enemy that we want to marginalize and wipe off the planet. (As we did with 1 million Iraqis.)
The recent heinous laws (SOPA/ACTA, IP ACT, TARP, forced purchase of a health product (insurance), NDAA jail w/o trail,...) were passed overwhelming by Democrat congress representatives, and signed by the current Democrat president. You would be wise to hate BOTH parties, not just one.
Don't be a Democrat-loving dupe because they are no better than the Republican neofucks. In fact many Demcorats love war and imprisoning/assainating Americans just as much as if they WERE neocons too.
>>>Linux us NOT missing features. This is the same B.S. we heard constantly with MacOS in the days before OS X came out. There wasn't features (or software) missing then >>>
Classic Macs upto 2000 didn't have preemptive multitasking, a feature that had been around for a long, long time (Commodore Amiga 1985). Instead they had cooperative multitasking such that when program crashed, it entered an infinite loop, which brought down the whole OS (frozen). It was one of the most frustrating things of the old OS 7, 8, 9 Macs I worked upon. (On my Amiga the CPU would halt the crashed program, so I force it to disappear, and the OS would continue onward.) So yes the Mac was missing a feature and a major one at that.
Since Windows died on my P3 laptop and I rescued it with Lubuntu Linux, I will have ample opportunity to see if the alternatives really do work as sufficient replacement for Acrobat, MS Office, et cetera.
So basically you're claiming the Constitution is not law. Except if you read the document it very clearly states it is the "Supreme Law of the land" and the courts enforce the document as if it were law (citizens freed from jail because of the Constitution, especially the bill of rights).
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It has warmed-up some, but it snowed over the weekend.
It's only warm in the eastern half. In California it's freakin' cold!
In October we had snow in the east, which was one of he earliest snows ever. And LAST winter we set records for cold & snowfall amounts! So it is not really global warming; it's just month-to-month/year-to-year variation.
Hulu + Computer is the TV of a new generation. Cable is so old school.
Common response: "If you're not breaking the law, why wouldn't you let the cops search your car? (Or track you with cameras?) (Or record all your internet actions?)" -- It's amazing how easily americans are to give up their freedom to the government tyrants.
As with my cars I would obey the rules of the warranty (i.e. change the oil every 7500 miles even though synthetic oil is good for 10,000+), and when it runs-out THEN I would make permanent modifications. So I wouldn't be cracking-open the TV immediately; I'd just be taping over the lens that first year.
.....which were provided to Pennsylvanian teens, and had integrated cameras, but there was no indication to the users that they were being recorded in their bedrooms (by the government).
My phone is not net-capable but yes, I could mod myself by carrying my laptop to work and using 28k dialup through the phone to get a 2nd IP address. Then 10 minutes later of slow connection..... +1 myself. But why? It isn't worth the hassle (or risk of firing).
I'm not using them anyway, so what does it matter. ;-)
And on a side note, now I know where the word vaccine came from (from smallpox's vaccinia).
PearPads?
Penguin Wees?
Nice attempt at a slam, but it fails, because it doesn't matter how many accounts a poster has. They all share the same IP address, and slashdot moderation is tied to that IP.
IOW if I logged-out right now, and tried to mod myself up with another account, slashdot would not let me. Two accounts sharing the same IP cannot give each other +1 points.
This is more than just money..... it's selling to the customer. Wouldn't it look bad if a Microsoft employee came to your company to demo a new product, and they whipped-out their Apple Macbook to give the presentation? Or even less obvious... the MS presenter spends the lunchbreak listening to an iPod. It sends the wrong message that "Yeah I work for Microsoft but I really prefer Apple."
Telling sales staff to not buy Apple (and instead use Microsoft products as frequently as possible), is the same as a store giving employees 40% off if they buy and wear the store's goods. It shows that the employee not only sells but also uses the product day-to-day.
>>>Evolution is no longer a theory.
Last time I looked it up, textbooks still said "Theory of Evolution" not "Law of Evolution". In fact I've had many professors over the years argue even Newton's Law of Gravity should be renamed a Theory, since the misnamed "law" has been debunked by later discoveries over the centuries.
In science ALL things are theories, because we will never have a complete understanding and the theories are eventually proven wrong (or at least flawed). Maybe if we evolve into the Q we'll finally understand it all, but that's definitely not the case now.
We have theories of how the world works.
Not absolutes. Not laws.
>>>Evolution is no longer a theory.
Last time I looked it up, textbooks still said "Theory of Evolution" not "Law of Evolution". In fact I've had many professors over the years argue even Newton's Law of Gravity should be renamed a Theory, since the misnamed "law" has been debunked by later discoveries over the centuries.
In science ALL things are theories, because we will never have a complete understanding and the theories are eventually proven wrong (or at least flawed). Maybe if we evolve into the Q we'll finally understand it all, but that's definitely not the case now.
We have theories of how the world works. Not absolutes. Not laws.
>>>The Constitution means whatever the Supreme Court says the Constitution means
The Constitution does not give the SCOTUS that power. It gives them the power to decide individual cases, not to nullify laws duly passed by Congress and signed by the President.
Nor does it give them power to define what the Constitution means. To quote Jefferson, "To presume that power would place us under the despostism of a 7-person oligarchy. That power is all the more dangerous as the justices are not subject to the elective control of the People, and they are given that power for life."
(Note that the number of justices was later changed from 7 to 9.)
All you have to do is ask the AUTHOR of the Consitution what he meant. I don't have James Madison's direct quote but here is what I recollect (having read it many, many times):
- There is nothing more natural than to start with a general phrase, and then qualify that phrase with specifics. The power of Congress to "provide general welfare" is explicitly qualified and limited by the enumerated powers which form the second half of the sentence.
- To presume the opposite, that Congress may exercise any power that is "for the general welfare", would give the Congress unlimited power to do as it pleases, and there is a whole Host of proofs that was never intended by myself or my colleagues in the constitutional convention.
- To assuage any doubt, I crafted the Bill of Rights and the first Congress adopted the 10th amendment which states any powers not given to the Congress is reserved to the State governments. That is, the power of the States are MANY while the power of the congress is FEW and explicitly defined.
After writing those words, President Madison then proceeeded to veto a law that he considered to be exercising a power never granted to Congress (but instead was reserved to the Member States of this American Union). It's also worth noting that Madison authored the Kentucky Resolutions in the 1790s, which said congress may only exercise the powers expressly given to it, and states reserve to themselves the right to refuse enforcement of unconstitutional laws (per the 10th).
>>>Iran is not living up to the treaty obligations
So says the propaganda on NBC, FOX, CNN. (Who also cooperated with Bush and claimed Iraq was not living up to its obligations either, and furthermore that Iraq had WMDs, which led to a 10 year was of deaht and wasted money. By the way we're still searching for WMDs. They LIED to us and are likely lying now. Don't be duped twice.)
In reality the UN inspectors observed and reported that the uranium facility in Iran is only 20% pure..... well below the levels allowed by the treaty (it bans 30% and up).
What the Europeans are contributing (especially the Greeks, Poles, Czechs) is also hopelessly outdated but we didn't refuse to extend the shield over their countries. I don't think ye realize that Russia is a democracy just the same as the EU states, and deserves to be treated as an ALLY not an enemy that we want to marginalize and wipe off the planet. (As we did with 1 million Iraqis.)
>>>sniveling to their Republican base
The recent heinous laws (SOPA/ACTA, IP ACT, TARP, forced purchase of a health product (insurance), NDAA jail w/o trail, ...) were passed overwhelming by Democrat congress representatives, and signed by the current Democrat president. You would be wise to hate BOTH parties, not just one.
Don't be a Democrat-loving dupe because they are no better than the Republican neofucks. In fact many Demcorats love war and imprisoning/assainating Americans just as much as if they WERE neocons too.
I doubt you'd find any State General Attorney to prosecute the CEO for that.
Prosecuted for what?
>>>Linux us NOT missing features. This is the same B.S. we heard constantly with MacOS in the days before OS X came out. There wasn't features (or software) missing then
>>>
Classic Macs upto 2000 didn't have preemptive multitasking, a feature that had been around for a long, long time (Commodore Amiga 1985). Instead they had cooperative multitasking such that when program crashed, it entered an infinite loop, which brought down the whole OS (frozen). It was one of the most frustrating things of the old OS 7, 8, 9 Macs I worked upon. (On my Amiga the CPU would halt the crashed program, so I force it to disappear, and the OS would continue onward.) So yes the Mac was missing a feature and a major one at that.
Thanks I bookmarked this.
Since Windows died on my P3 laptop and I rescued it with Lubuntu Linux, I will have ample opportunity to see if the alternatives really do work as sufficient replacement for Acrobat, MS Office, et cetera.
>>> From stealing their election from the people by stuffing the ballot box
Sounds like America's ongoing primaries.
Is it as big as Jessica Simpson's ass? ;-)
So basically you're claiming the Constitution is not law. Except if you read the document it very clearly states it is the "Supreme Law of the land" and the courts enforce the document as if it were law (citizens freed from jail because of the Constitution, especially the bill of rights).