That section of the law is likely to be unconstitutional now, after Gillette v. United States (1971). It used to be that to be considered a conscientious objector (CO) in the US you had to be a member of a recognized faith. However the First Amendment has been increasingly recognized to provide protection for people who don't adhere to a religion who desire CO status.
From Wikipedia:
Currently, the U.S. Selective Service System states, "Beliefs which qualify a registrant for conscientious objector status may be religious in nature, but don't have to be. Beliefs may be moral or ethical; however, a man's reasons for not wanting to participate in a war must not be based on politics, expediency, or self-interest. In general, the man's lifestyle prior to making his claim must reflect his current claims.
Oh noes they asked me brutal questions for an entire hour.
Sorry, but I have an in-law who was sexually assaulted and had her home trashed by military police in a South American country because she belonged to a political party they didn't like.
The way it goes with the companies I've worked for is the salesmen are trying to ingratiate themselves with (and get hired by) their customers. To do this they promise new features for free along with the (obviously) free bug fixes. To the management the new features are presented as contractually owed work due to ambiguous wording in the contract, written by you guessed it the sales department. Since sales has no technical competence you could drive a truck through the loopholes in the statement of work.
Eventually this causes my employer to go bankrupt because they are getting no compensation for the work they are doing.
Sex is about exchange of genes. It DOESN'T require the simultaneous evolution of male and female or huge jumps in the structure of the organism. That concept is preposterous, in fact hilarious in it's naivete and lack of knowledge of basic biology.
Look at the sexual reproduction in plants - many reproduce sexually without having male and female types. Even the lowly yeast manages it.
I don't know where your information is coming from, but the ideas you are putting forward are ridiculous.
Science never believed the world was flat. That statement is completely preposterous. It shows such a fundamental lack of knowledge of history, science and mathematics as to place you as basically incompetent to discuss these issues.
Anyone with a decent knowledge of geometry can show the Earth is round, and in fact some Greek mathematicians actually measured the circumference fairly accurately, along with stuff like the tilt of the Earth's axis.
There are several reasons as to why HFT should be illegal. And it doesn't have anything to do with your stupid strawman arguments regards OWS etc, or front running which has been illegal for some time.
Some examples of the abuse that occurs are the practices of placing and rapidly cancelling limit orders to stimulate market orders on the other side, which are then executed at a less favorable price also placed by the HFT. In other words, HFTs are gaming the system to exploit sub-optimal behavior by slower traders. Another example is quote stuffing to map exchange network topologies to create arb opportunities.
Making it illegal is not hard. There are plenty of proposals on how to implement it. Micro taxes on financial transactions is one.
Completely and 100% wrong. The US is the #1 manufacturing economy in the world, and it is focused in exactly the right areas, high value technologically intensive products.
What ISN'T fine is to teach creationism as an alternative to evolution in a science curriculum. Creationism is NOT science, it is a religious belief. If you have a comparative religion course, teach creationism there, along with all the other creation myths. this will give students the proper perspective.
What is ALSO not fine is to single out evolution for special treatment in a science curriculum. Evolution is just as well established as many things taught in a typical science curriculum.
The problems occur when various forms of creationism are given time in a science curriculum, and when evolution is subject to special treatment i.e. specially identified as a "theory".
These views are NOT science and have no place in a science curriculum.
Many religious organizations have flat come out and recognized the correct treatment - that is that evolution is a hypothesis that is backed by so much evidence that it is very unlikely to be untrue.
I find it incredible that people will swallow ideas like there's a big sky daddy who will answer prayers but won't accept ideas that are based on careful work and lots of documented evidence.
âoeFather of the American License Plateâ is probably not how Henry Lee Higginson would choose to be remembered. âoeFounder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra,â perhaps, or âoeCivil War heroâ would be more to his liking. But in fact it was Major Higginson, the prominent banker and philanthropist, who first recommended that the state put a numbered plaque on each motor vehicle.
Higginson hated the automobile. As the twentieth century dawned in Boston he was in a state of high complaint about the rudeness of the unlicensed âoeautomobilistsâ whizzing past his front door at 190 Commonwealth Ave. (in both directions on both sides of the avenue). At his summer home in Manchester, Massachusetts He even arranged to set up an elaborate network of timing devices in order to prove that over half of that townâ(TM)s motor traffic was routinely exceeding the speed limit of 15 miles per hour. But how to determine the identity of the offending motorists?
It was to address this question that Major Higginson submitted a petition to the Massachusetts legislature in January of 1903 âoeRelative to licensing Automobiles and Those operating the Same.â Since Higginson was perhaps the most influential private citizen in the Commonwealth at the time, his petition was sure to get prompt attention.
The story goes on from there and gets tied up in the politics of Boston of the time (Famously Corrupt).
So the intent of ANPR is little different indeed from the motivations that first led to license plates.
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That section of the law is likely to be unconstitutional now, after Gillette v. United States (1971). It used to be that to be considered a conscientious objector (CO) in the US you had to be a member of a recognized faith. However the First Amendment has been increasingly recognized to provide protection for people who don't adhere to a religion who desire CO status.
From Wikipedia:
Currently, the U.S. Selective Service System states, "Beliefs which qualify a registrant for conscientious objector status may be religious in nature, but don't have to be. Beliefs may be moral or ethical; however, a man's reasons for not wanting to participate in a war must not be based on politics, expediency, or self-interest. In general, the man's lifestyle prior to making his claim must reflect his current claims.
Yes, those 2000 or so Americans out of 330 million who renounce their citizenship every year is a HORDE.
LOL.
Oh noes they asked me brutal questions for an entire hour.
Sorry, but I have an in-law who was sexually assaulted and had her home trashed by military police in a South American country because she belonged to a political party they didn't like.
You have no idea what a brutal regime is.
That's if you work for a sane company.
The way it goes with the companies I've worked for is the salesmen are trying to ingratiate themselves with (and get hired by) their customers. To do this they promise new features for free along with the (obviously) free bug fixes. To the management the new features are presented as contractually owed work due to ambiguous wording in the contract, written by you guessed it the sales department. Since sales has no technical competence you could drive a truck through the loopholes in the statement of work.
Eventually this causes my employer to go bankrupt because they are getting no compensation for the work they are doing.
Yes, but criminal investigations are immune from copyright infringement claims.
Under US (and I bet most other countries laws) Law enforcement agencies are immune from copyright law while investigating crimes.
The Federal Government has specifically disclaimed sovereign immunity in copyright cases under 28 USC 1498(b).
There may be other concerns, like national security that make it difficult though.
How do you know they didn't buy a commercial license?
Poppycock.
The US is the #1 manufacturing nation in the world.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41349653/ns/business-us_business/t/despite-chinas-might-us-factories-maintain-edge/#.T86u08WaTtw
And it's enjoying a resurgence in manufacturing.
http://blog.equipnet.com/2012/05/16/boston-consulting-group-forecasts-resurgence-in-u-s-manufacturing/
The mechanism of sexual reproduction started some 1.2 billion years ago in the Proterozoic Eon.
http://paleobiol.geoscienceworld.org/content/26/3/386.abstract
Sex is about exchange of genes. It DOESN'T require the simultaneous evolution of male and female or huge jumps in the structure of the organism. That concept is preposterous, in fact hilarious in it's naivete and lack of knowledge of basic biology.
Look at the sexual reproduction in plants - many reproduce sexually without having male and female types. Even the lowly yeast manages it.
I don't know where your information is coming from, but the ideas you are putting forward are ridiculous.
Science never believed the world was flat. That statement is completely preposterous. It shows such a fundamental lack of knowledge of history, science and mathematics as to place you as basically incompetent to discuss these issues.
Anyone with a decent knowledge of geometry can show the Earth is round, and in fact some Greek mathematicians actually measured the circumference fairly accurately, along with stuff like the tilt of the Earth's axis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
Science was a much later invention than geometry.
You SERIOUSLY need to up your education level.
There are several reasons as to why HFT should be illegal. And it doesn't have anything to do with your stupid strawman arguments regards OWS etc, or front running which has been illegal for some time.
Some examples of the abuse that occurs are the practices of placing and rapidly cancelling limit orders to stimulate market orders on the other side, which are then executed at a less favorable price also placed by the HFT. In other words, HFTs are gaming the system to exploit sub-optimal behavior by slower traders. Another example is quote stuffing to map exchange network topologies to create arb opportunities.
Making it illegal is not hard. There are plenty of proposals on how to implement it. Micro taxes on financial transactions is one.
That is not the problem.
In the US suburban school districts do extremely well in international comparisons.
The problem is the performance of children from economically stressed families. Their performance is horrific which is why the US averages are so low.
There is flat out something wrong with a society where a group this large is shut out from all opportunity to improve their lot in life.
And the problem is not in the schools. This children are doomed to fail by the environment they are subjected to from birth.
Completely and 100% wrong. The US is the #1 manufacturing economy in the world, and it is focused in exactly the right areas, high value technologically intensive products.
http://business.time.com/2011/03/10/can-china-compete-with-american-manufacturing/
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-top-manufacturing-countries.htm
Furthermore it is actually improving while China and Europe are in decline.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2012/05/24/seattle-is-leading-an-american-manufacturing-revival/
It's fine to have multiple points of view.
What ISN'T fine is to teach creationism as an alternative to evolution in a science curriculum. Creationism is NOT science, it is a religious belief. If you have a comparative religion course, teach creationism there, along with all the other creation myths. this will give students the proper perspective.
What is ALSO not fine is to single out evolution for special treatment in a science curriculum. Evolution is just as well established as many things taught in a typical science curriculum.
The problems occur when various forms of creationism are given time in a science curriculum, and when evolution is subject to special treatment i.e. specially identified as a "theory".
These views are NOT science and have no place in a science curriculum.
Many religious organizations have flat come out and recognized the correct treatment - that is that evolution is a hypothesis that is backed by so much evidence that it is very unlikely to be untrue.
This is not good news; it promotes a trend in a technological approach to making money in the stock market that should be flat out illegal.
I find it incredible that people will swallow ideas like there's a big sky daddy who will answer prayers but won't accept ideas that are based on careful work and lots of documented evidence.
The no comparison part of your message was right.
Sounds like a reasonable recipe for a student who doesn't know WTF he is doing.
Ansel Adams typically took 2 pictures per day.
Low ID's mean you have seen better times.
She's making a good case for sterilization as a legal penalty.
Photoblocker paint is a scam.
http://www.amazon.com/PhantomPlate-Inc-Photo-Blocker-Spray/dp/B000EQUFHS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338691883&sr=8-1
Oh Pooh.
From http://www.jphs.org/people/2005/4/14/james-michael-curley-and-the-5-license-plate.html
âoeFather of the American License Plateâ is probably not how Henry Lee Higginson would choose to be remembered. âoeFounder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra,â perhaps, or âoeCivil War heroâ would be more to his liking. But in fact it was Major Higginson, the prominent banker and philanthropist, who first recommended that the state put a numbered plaque on each motor vehicle.
Higginson hated the automobile. As the twentieth century dawned in Boston he was in a state of high complaint about the rudeness of the unlicensed âoeautomobilistsâ whizzing past his front door at 190 Commonwealth Ave. (in both directions on both sides of the avenue). At his summer home in Manchester, Massachusetts He even arranged to set up an elaborate network of timing devices in order to prove that over half of that townâ(TM)s motor traffic was routinely exceeding the speed limit of 15 miles per hour. But how to determine the identity of the offending motorists?
It was to address this question that Major Higginson submitted a petition to the Massachusetts legislature in January of 1903 âoeRelative to licensing Automobiles and Those operating the Same.â Since Higginson was perhaps the most influential private citizen in the Commonwealth at the time, his petition was sure to get prompt attention.
The story goes on from there and gets tied up in the politics of Boston of the time (Famously Corrupt).
So the intent of ANPR is little different indeed from the motivations that first led to license plates.
Really like static compile time type checking which means a lot of client side programming pisses me off.
I really like Apache Click. For someone who is really happy working in Java it's a good tool.