That's a dumb theory considering everyone and their mom believes that Trump will kill off TPP. It's practically the only thing he has said he will do that people actually believe he will do.
What Trump said is irrelevant. What matters is how much he likes the people who will benefit from it.
Yeah, I forgot a lot of good ones. Sharks, eels, piranhas, snakes, volcanoes, rising water on sinking ships, asteroids, robots, machines on the blink, doomsday devices, heat, cold, incompetent technicians, ghosts, time travellers, parties unknown, mad scientists, angry scientists, monsters created by mad/angry scientists, radiation monsters, diseases,... It's kind of fun to think through the list.
And then there's the *real* villians: bad actors, bad directors, bad screenplays, bad ideas, ruining good books, bad soundtracks, theatres that set the sound too loud, people that talk during the movie, people that use electronics during the movie, people that talk to their electronics during the movie, spoilers, overpriced tickets, overpriced snacks, commercials, product placement deals, cameos by overrated actors, actors that are in too many movies, sequels, prequels, remakes, reboots, retcons.
1. The villain will be a US military agency, a US spy agency, a corporation/CEO, a gun company, a non-renewable energy company.
Wow, I must have misunderstood the plot on all those post-1968 movies where I thought the baddies were commies, nazis, drug lords, foreign terrorists, domestic terrorists, anarchists, poor people trying to get rich quick, rich people trying to get richer quick, crazy people trying to do incomprehensible things for incomprehensible reasons, wayward do-gooders, megalomoniacal supercrooks, pirates, pirate hunters, aliens, alien hunters, vampires, vampire hunters, zombies, orcs, dragons, ghosts, etc.
If you don't like the simulation you're living in, you can always rejoin us here in reality.
To change the Electoral College process now, after the popular vote is over, is sour grapes.
FWIW, Lessig isn't actually calling for changing the process. He's pointing out that the rules-as-written all putting someone other than Trump in office, and arguing that it would be the smart thing to do.
supposedly argued in IIRC The Federalist #68 that one purpose of the Electoral College was to prevent anyone who was unqualified or beholden to a foreign power from becoming President.
IMO both are applicable now, but defecting electors could set a precedent that might come back and bite us later.
I can't imagine that Republican electors would defect to Clinton. AIUI, all they have to do is prevent anyone from getting 270 EV, in which case the selection would fall to the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. The House Democrats might all go for Clinton, and the Republicans would be very divided, but they tend to get in line when the chips are down, so we'd surely get a Republican. Romney would be my best guess, but they might decide that the appearance of legitimacy requires choosing someone who actually ran, maybe Bush or that guy from Utah, or even Pence.
I don't expect any of that to happen, and I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but then I've been wrong about everything else concerning this election, so who knows...
As for switching from the Electoral College to the popular vote, the low-population states will be very much against this. I suspect it was designed as a deliberate attempt to keep the high-population states from dominating the low-population states, but now that we have 50 with a great deal of variety, maybe that motivation isn't relevant any more.
Also, if the EC should be replaced by proportional representation or direct popular vote, where does that leave the Senate? Should it be converted to proportional representation as well? Would it be any good to us if it was just a clone of the House of Representatives?
Learning internal representations are what neural networks are all about.
Conventional wisdom is that each successive layer in a feed-forward network detects higher-level features based on the lower-level features detected by the previous layer. That's why deep networks can do their magic.
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That's a dumb theory considering everyone and their mom believes that Trump will kill off TPP. It's practically the only thing he has said he will do that people actually believe he will do.
What Trump said is irrelevant. What matters is how much he likes the people who will benefit from it.
Can we whine about the editors continually offering up tech billionaires for hero worship?
If they've outgrown Legos, maybe a copy of The Anarchist Cookbook ?
Without all the action figure stuff that serves as training wheels their imagination, unless they've demonstrated that they need it.
'Star In a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works, Promises Infinite Energy
I thought the story was going to be that a company named Infinite Energy was pushing a snake-oil product called Star in a Jar.
How many bananas does it take to create a Gojira class radiation monster?
Would a salamander or something have to eat all those bananas, or would external exposure suffice?
How is it spying when its ALL Public info?
My bad. Mod me down if you can spare the points.
There's so much market for warrantless spying that people are starting for-profit companies to support it.
Yeah, I forgot a lot of good ones. Sharks, eels, piranhas, snakes, volcanoes, rising water on sinking ships, asteroids, robots, machines on the blink, doomsday devices, heat, cold, incompetent technicians, ghosts, time travellers, parties unknown, mad scientists, angry scientists, monsters created by mad/angry scientists, radiation monsters, diseases, ... It's kind of fun to think through the list.
And then there's the *real* villians: bad actors, bad directors, bad screenplays, bad ideas, ruining good books, bad soundtracks, theatres that set the sound too loud, people that talk during the movie, people that use electronics during the movie, people that talk to their electronics during the movie, spoilers, overpriced tickets, overpriced snacks, commercials, product placement deals, cameos by overrated actors, actors that are in too many movies, sequels, prequels, remakes, reboots, retcons.
If it's from Hollywood, post 1968, then:
1. The villain will be a US military agency, a US spy agency, a corporation/CEO, a gun company, a non-renewable energy company.
Wow, I must have misunderstood the plot on all those post-1968 movies where I thought the baddies were commies, nazis, drug lords, foreign terrorists, domestic terrorists, anarchists, poor people trying to get rich quick, rich people trying to get richer quick, crazy people trying to do incomprehensible things for incomprehensible reasons, wayward do-gooders, megalomoniacal supercrooks, pirates, pirate hunters, aliens, alien hunters, vampires, vampire hunters, zombies, orcs, dragons, ghosts, etc.
If you don't like the simulation you're living in, you can always rejoin us here in reality.
Don't forget -
b) Internet Explorer
c) Flash
Congress looking out for people rather than companies???
Fetch the smelling sauce!
is on.
care to elaberate im gitty with anticipacion.
Feeling gitty is normal for gits.
shields? cloaking device? transporters?
Also, they should have a 1-click to calculate how many parasecs it would take to make the Kessel Run.
The information won't get there any quicker; X-rays don't yet travel faster than light.
I think the idea is that the x-rays will allow us to see inside alien starships, to steal their FTL technology.
Kind of funny when it's a bomb...
Trump meets the qualifications to be President (natural born citizen, over 35).
I'm guessing that that isn't the kind of "qualified" that Hamilton was talking about.
Read the Constitution. The House has to choose from among the three leading candidates. Romney isn't there.
Ah, interesting. Limits the possible strategies, eh?
Does anyone even qualify as third place, without any EV?
To change the Electoral College process now, after the popular vote is over, is sour grapes.
FWIW, Lessig isn't actually calling for changing the process. He's pointing out that the rules-as-written all putting someone other than Trump in office, and arguing that it would be the smart thing to do.
supposedly argued in IIRC The Federalist #68 that one purpose of the Electoral College was to prevent anyone who was unqualified or beholden to a foreign power from becoming President.
IMO both are applicable now, but defecting electors could set a precedent that might come back and bite us later.
I can't imagine that Republican electors would defect to Clinton. AIUI, all they have to do is prevent anyone from getting 270 EV, in which case the selection would fall to the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. The House Democrats might all go for Clinton, and the Republicans would be very divided, but they tend to get in line when the chips are down, so we'd surely get a Republican. Romney would be my best guess, but they might decide that the appearance of legitimacy requires choosing someone who actually ran, maybe Bush or that guy from Utah, or even Pence.
I don't expect any of that to happen, and I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but then I've been wrong about everything else concerning this election, so who knows...
As for switching from the Electoral College to the popular vote, the low-population states will be very much against this. I suspect it was designed as a deliberate attempt to keep the high-population states from dominating the low-population states, but now that we have 50 with a great deal of variety, maybe that motivation isn't relevant any more.
Also, if the EC should be replaced by proportional representation or direct popular vote, where does that leave the Senate? Should it be converted to proportional representation as well? Would it be any good to us if it was just a clone of the House of Representatives?
Except the ones off fighting the robots/singularity/aliens/zombies/vampires/GMO rabbits, or whoever it was that apocalypsized us.
At what point will I need to register my phone as a destructive device under the NFA?
Samsung will register it for you before they ship it.
Learning internal representations are what neural networks are all about.
Conventional wisdom is that each successive layer in a feed-forward network detects higher-level features based on the lower-level features detected by the previous layer. That's why deep networks can do their magic.
When we reconstitute the dinosaurs they' have a cozy climate waiting for them.