You have made the classic correlation = causation error in your assumption that the local ordinance in the Pittsburgh city area is causing reduced drilling over the entire state of PA. It is far more likely that aggressive state regulations, high nat gas inventories, a plethora of shut in wells and low nat gas pricing is what is causing reduced drilling in PA.
Ok, so if any old id will be accepted like AARP cards, why aren't student photo id's being accepted under these laws? Could it be that these here student folks tend to vote liberal? Huh?
And that deal about Acorn? And voter fraud. Complete strawman. Voter fraud in the US is a non-problem. During the last election there were 95 cases of voter fraud brought in the entire United States. Out of an electorate of a hundred of millions.
It is quite obviously voter suppression. All you have to do is look at what IDs are accepted and what are not.
> While these fields are useful and perhaps enriching, > they will not contribute to making me better at my job.
You are assuming the job you have now is going to be the job you have 10 years from now.
Let me give you a hint about this. You don't want your job today to be the same one you have 10 years from now. You want to move up the food chain. As you move up you will find that your job will become one of getting things done by working through other people. The fields that you seem to think are unimportant now will become very important to you in the future. So take those psychology, economics and similar humanities courses.
When you start out with a personal attack in your response you immediately identify yourself as an asshat.
The fact is that corporations cannot be totally independent from their owners by the simple fact that the corporations are the property of the owners. Yes it is that simple. Mucking with property rights requires due process under western law. The value of a corporation is often completely different from the value of it's assets as anyone who has any knowledge (obviously not you asshat) of corporations would understand. Valuation is the discounted future cash flow which can be MUCH larger than the assets. Many corporations are completely virtual, with no salable assets at all yet are quite valuable. Just dissolving them and returning assets which may be zero deprives their owners of future earnings that have real present value as the earning potential can be used to obtain assets. Heck that is true of many people to - they have a negative net worth and are sustained only by future earnings potential.
The corporate shield is not a legal fiction, it is a legal FACT. If you think it is a fiction your education is completely lacking. That shield provides protection against certain (not all) types of liabilities incurred by the corporation. It is common law going back thousands of years. A legal fiction is a fact assumed or created by courts which is then used in order to apply a legal rule which was not necessarily designed to be used in that way. That is clearly not the case here.
Incorporation is not a 'entirely voluntary' act of a government. Governments operate under a system of laws. If a group wishes to incorporate the government must allow it if the laws are followed. The government has no say in the matter at all. It's called due process, nitwit. If it isn't followed the rights of the proposed owners are being violated. Likewise with the dissolution. The owners are stakeholders in the corporation if it is dissolved without due process the rights of the the owners to due process have been violated.
Yes, you can propose that the laws that govern incorporation be repealed. That would generate some loud laughter and identify you as the wacko of the year. Since that isn't going to happen in any western country we don't have to worry about the consequences. Societies that do have governments that allow disincorporation by fiat are totalitarian (i.e. China) which is not where I am going to be living any time soon.
You can move to such a place though anytime you want.
The ID laws are happening in Republican controlled states. If you spend the time to read the justifications for these laws and the politics of those pushing for them it is clear that the reason for them is voter suppression.
For example the Texas ID law exempts registered gun owners and senior citizens from the ID requirement. Hmmmm I wonder how these folks tend to vote?
You are thinking like corporations are entities that exist on their own, independent of their owners.
That is not the case.
When you muck around with corporations in the manner you are proposing you are interfering with the rights of the corporation's owners, and in the following ways.
1. Free speech 2, Right to assemble 3. Right to due process 4. Right to trial by jury in civil proceedings 5. Right to petition
Well except when it's an ongoing investigation or sources are in danger if they are revealed or it's the home addresses of undercover agents or jurors or information regarding people in a witness protection program or...
These are the first two claims which actually describe the covered material.
1. A method, comprising: at a portable multifunction device with one or more processors, memory, and a touch screen display; displaying a portion of web page content in a stationary application window on the touch screen display, wherein the portion of web page content includes: a frame displaying a portion of frame content, and other content of the web page, comprising content of the web page other than the frame content; detecting a translation gesture by a single finger on or near the touch screen display; in response to detecting the translation gesture by the single finger, translating the web page content to display a new portion of web page content in the stationary application window on the touch screen display, wherein translating the web page content includes simultaneously translating the displayed portion of the frame content and the other content of the web page; detecting a translation gesture by two fingers on or near the touch screen display; and in response to detecting the translation gesture by the two fingers, translating the frame content to display a new portion of frame content in the stationary application window on the touch screen display, without translating the other content of the web page.
2. A method, comprising: at a portable multifunction device with one or more processors, memory, and a touch screen display: displaying a portion of page content in a stationary application window on the touch screen display, wherein the portion of page content includes: a frame displaying a portion of frame content, and other content of the page; detecting an N-finger translation gesture on or near the touch screen display; in response to detecting the N-finger translation gesture, translating the page content to display a new portion of page content in the stationary application window, on the touch screen display, wherein translating the page content includes simultaneously translating the displayed portion of the frame content and the other content of the page; detecting an M-finger translation gesture on or near the touch screen display, where M is a different number than N; and in response to detecting the M-finger translation gesture, translating the frame content in the stationary application window, to display a new portion of frame content on the touch screen display without translating the other content of the page.
So is this really all there is to a multi-touch interface? Just transitioning between pages?
It certainly doesn't seem to be that broad a patent and it only covers page transitions. I think a clever UI designer could easily get around these claims.
Oh horseshit. Neocons like John Yoo have long argued that anything a President does with respect to war is constitutional. You cannot just turn around and say that reasoning doesn't apply to Obama.
You can't apply strict constructionalism only when a Democrat is in the White House. It has to apply equally to all Presidents. Like Reagan and his little secret wars.
If you really want strict constructionalism the War Powers Act is clearly unconstitutional because it delegates a power specifically assigned to Congress to the President. I know it's attractive to Congress to dodge any kind of hard issue like deciding to go to war, and then later hoist the President by the short hairs for public effect, but in absence of an Amendment that's the way it is. You can't end run the amendment process by passing a law.
So you can't have it both ways. Either constructionalist and the Congress has to actually declare war, or wink wink nudge nudge and the President can send troops wherever and whenever. No one way when a Republican is in power and the other way when a Democrat is in power.
Over the course of my academic career I have met many egocentric jerks. My general conclusion on the matter is that there is no correlation between the jerkiness and the competence of the individual.
Hmm I think Judge Posner has a much deeper knowledge than you of what one can and cannot do in a court of law.
From Wikipedia:
Posner has been called "the worldâ(TM)s most distinguished legal scholar." He is the author of nearly 40 books on jurisprudence, legal philosophy, and several other topics, including The Problems of Jurisprudence, Sex and Reason, Overcoming Law, Law, Pragmatism and Democracy, and The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory. The Journal of Legal Studies has identified Posner as the most cited legal scholar of the 20th century, and a 1999 New York Times article identified Posner as one of the most respected judges in the United States.
I imagine that it would have it's own thermostat to monitor the temperature rise when the compressor is off.
I was actually kind of pissed by the idea. Over the past few years I've upgraded my windows, furnace and A/C so that my utility consumption has been cut by 40% or thereabouts. Now comes trotting around some utility rep who is really looking to install something that will cut back on the utility's need for CapEx to bring their distribution and generation system up to snuff. They are always having problems with overloaded substations around here.
I can't imagine what's going to happen as plug in electric cars become more popular.
Yes, there was some subsidy implicit in the interest rates, however along with those rates the guvmint was purchasing preferred stock in the banks which required payment of additional dividends of 5 to 9%.
No. I don't trust these guys and I only use them when there is a good reason.
I made the mistake once of signing up for a web service with an annual use fee. Paypal cheerfully processed the renewal request from this site without my permission.
I do use them to make purchases from Ebay and some web sites that I visit infrequently as I like not giving out my credit card info to piss ant vendors. This helped me out once as one of these sites was compromised and there were a lot of complaints of fraudulent credit card charges from this incident.
But I always pay through a credit card when doing so with the theory that if anything goes wrong I can dispute the charges with the credit card company. I have done this a couple of times with non-Paypal stuff and my experience is that the credit card company is very willing to take my side in the dispute.
The only thing that would stop someone from making these would be if he enforced this hypothetical patent. It seems very unlikely that he would do so after being dead.
Then there is the other thing - he started making these controllers 30 years ago. Any possible patents would be either expired or otherwise moot.
US currency is backed by the treasury department of the united states of america.
O RLY? It USED to be backed by the US Treasury but that ended when Nixon took us off the gold standard. Now its backed by the faith people place in the ability to exchange it for useful goods and services in the future.
Some people mistrust this and put their money into gold, land, stocks, other currencies etc. Of course this is really no different because they are evidencing faith in the idea that they will be able to exchange these things for useful goods and services in the future too.
Personally I think it's a good idea to diversify, and not have all your savings tied up in one type of asset. Shit happens as they say.
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You have made the classic correlation = causation error in your assumption that the local ordinance in the Pittsburgh city area is causing reduced drilling over the entire state of PA. It is far more likely that aggressive state regulations, high nat gas inventories, a plethora of shut in wells and low nat gas pricing is what is causing reduced drilling in PA.
Ok, so if any old id will be accepted like AARP cards, why aren't student photo id's being accepted under these laws? Could it be that these here student folks tend to vote liberal? Huh?
And that deal about Acorn? And voter fraud. Complete strawman. Voter fraud in the US is a non-problem. During the last election there were 95 cases of voter fraud brought in the entire United States. Out of an electorate of a hundred of millions.
It is quite obviously voter suppression. All you have to do is look at what IDs are accepted and what are not.
> While these fields are useful and perhaps enriching,
> they will not contribute to making me better at my job.
You are assuming the job you have now is going to be the job you have 10 years from now.
Let me give you a hint about this. You don't want your job today to be the same one you have 10 years from now. You want to move up the food chain. As you move up you will find that your job will become one of getting things done by working through other people. The fields that you seem to think are unimportant now will become very important to you in the future. So take those psychology, economics and similar humanities courses.
When you start out with a personal attack in your response you immediately identify yourself as an asshat.
The fact is that corporations cannot be totally independent from their owners by the simple fact that the corporations are the property of the owners. Yes it is that simple. Mucking with property rights requires due process under western law. The value of a corporation is often completely different from the value of it's assets as anyone who has any knowledge (obviously not you asshat) of corporations would understand. Valuation is the discounted future cash flow which can be MUCH larger than the assets. Many corporations are completely virtual, with no salable assets at all yet are quite valuable. Just dissolving them and returning assets which may be zero deprives their owners of future earnings that have real present value as the earning potential can be used to obtain assets. Heck that is true of many people to - they have a negative net worth and are sustained only by future earnings potential.
The corporate shield is not a legal fiction, it is a legal FACT. If you think it is a fiction your education is completely lacking. That shield provides protection against certain (not all) types of liabilities incurred by the corporation. It is common law going back thousands of years. A legal fiction is a fact assumed or created by courts which is then used in order to apply a legal rule which was not necessarily designed to be used in that way. That is clearly not the case here.
Incorporation is not a 'entirely voluntary' act of a government. Governments operate under a system of laws. If a group wishes to incorporate the government must allow it if the laws are followed. The government has no say in the matter at all. It's called due process, nitwit. If it isn't followed the rights of the proposed owners are being violated. Likewise with the dissolution. The owners are stakeholders in the corporation if it is dissolved without due process the rights of the the owners to due process have been violated.
Yes, you can propose that the laws that govern incorporation be repealed. That would generate some loud laughter and identify you as the wacko of the year. Since that isn't going to happen in any western country we don't have to worry about the consequences. Societies that do have governments that allow disincorporation by fiat are totalitarian (i.e. China) which is not where I am going to be living any time soon.
You can move to such a place though anytime you want.
The ID laws are happening in Republican controlled states. If you spend the time to read the justifications for these laws and the politics of those pushing for them it is clear that the reason for them is voter suppression.
For example the Texas ID law exempts registered gun owners and senior citizens from the ID requirement. Hmmmm I wonder how these folks tend to vote?
Who is to say that what gets printed or counted is the same thing the voter marked?
Ultimately trust is a matter of finding a way to trust and verify the entire process. E-voting is just a minor part of this.
Can you trust non e-voting either?
The RSA trust issue discussed in a different story teaches that trust is not a matter of the process, but rather a social issue.
The thing is that most of the time these accusations are not baseless.
You are thinking like corporations are entities that exist on their own, independent of their owners.
That is not the case.
When you muck around with corporations in the manner you are proposing you are interfering with the rights of the corporation's owners, and in the following ways.
1. Free speech
2, Right to assemble
3. Right to due process
4. Right to trial by jury in civil proceedings
5. Right to petition
Well except when it's an ongoing investigation or sources are in danger if they are revealed or it's the home addresses of undercover agents or jurors or information regarding people in a witness protection program or ...
You get the picture.
This patent doesn't cover pinch to zoom or most other multi-touch gestures. Read the claims.
Despite the statements in the lousy summary it is actually a relatively narrow patent.
These are the first two claims which actually describe the covered material.
1. A method, comprising: at a portable multifunction device with one or more processors, memory, and a touch screen display; displaying a portion of web page content in a stationary application window on the touch screen display, wherein the portion of web page content includes: a frame displaying a portion of frame content, and other content of the web page, comprising content of the web page other than the frame content; detecting a translation gesture by a single finger on or near the touch screen display; in response to detecting the translation gesture by the single finger, translating the web page content to display a new portion of web page content in the stationary application window on the touch screen display, wherein translating the web page content includes simultaneously translating the displayed portion of the frame content and the other content of the web page; detecting a translation gesture by two fingers on or near the touch screen display; and in response to detecting the translation gesture by the two fingers, translating the frame content to display a new portion of frame content in the stationary application window on the touch screen display, without translating the other content of the web page.
2. A method, comprising: at a portable multifunction device with one or more processors, memory, and a touch screen display: displaying a portion of page content in a stationary application window on the touch screen display, wherein the portion of page content includes: a frame displaying a portion of frame content, and other content of the page; detecting an N-finger translation gesture on or near the touch screen display; in response to detecting the N-finger translation gesture, translating the page content to display a new portion of page content in the stationary application window, on the touch screen display, wherein translating the page content includes simultaneously translating the displayed portion of the frame content and the other content of the page; detecting an M-finger translation gesture on or near the touch screen display, where M is a different number than N; and in response to detecting the M-finger translation gesture, translating the frame content in the stationary application window, to display a new portion of frame content on the touch screen display without translating the other content of the page.
So is this really all there is to a multi-touch interface? Just transitioning between pages?
It certainly doesn't seem to be that broad a patent and it only covers page transitions. I think a clever UI designer could easily get around these claims.
This is a complete fantasy. There is no provision in patent law for scrapping a patent 'in the public interest'.
What are you going to do? Switch to the other carrier that does the same damn thing?
That is well short of being the consensus opinion.
Oh horseshit. Neocons like John Yoo have long argued that anything a President does with respect to war is constitutional. You cannot just turn around and say that reasoning doesn't apply to Obama.
You can't apply strict constructionalism only when a Democrat is in the White House. It has to apply equally to all Presidents. Like Reagan and his little secret wars.
If you really want strict constructionalism the War Powers Act is clearly unconstitutional because it delegates a power specifically assigned to Congress to the President. I know it's attractive to Congress to dodge any kind of hard issue like deciding to go to war, and then later hoist the President by the short hairs for public effect, but in absence of an Amendment that's the way it is. You can't end run the amendment process by passing a law.
So you can't have it both ways. Either constructionalist and the Congress has to actually declare war, or wink wink nudge nudge and the President can send troops wherever and whenever. No one way when a Republican is in power and the other way when a Democrat is in power.
Over the course of my academic career I have met many egocentric jerks. My general conclusion on the matter is that there is no correlation between the jerkiness and the competence of the individual.
Hmm I think Judge Posner has a much deeper knowledge than you of what one can and cannot do in a court of law.
From Wikipedia:
Posner has been called "the worldâ(TM)s most distinguished legal scholar." He is the author of nearly 40 books on jurisprudence, legal philosophy, and several other topics, including The Problems of Jurisprudence, Sex and Reason, Overcoming Law, Law, Pragmatism and Democracy, and The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory. The Journal of Legal Studies has identified Posner as the most cited legal scholar of the 20th century, and a 1999 New York Times article identified Posner as one of the most respected judges in the United States.
I imagine that it would have it's own thermostat to monitor the temperature rise when the compressor is off.
I was actually kind of pissed by the idea. Over the past few years I've upgraded my windows, furnace and A/C so that my utility consumption has been cut by 40% or thereabouts. Now comes trotting around some utility rep who is really looking to install something that will cut back on the utility's need for CapEx to bring their distribution and generation system up to snuff. They are always having problems with overloaded substations around here.
I can't imagine what's going to happen as plug in electric cars become more popular.
For the people in Boston this is the 7th pro sports championship since 2000. No wonder they are blase.
Yes, there was some subsidy implicit in the interest rates, however along with those rates the guvmint was purchasing preferred stock in the banks which required payment of additional dividends of 5 to 9%.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122390023840728367.html
As far as Shadowstats, you actually believe that hooey? It's complete bull.
http://blog.jparsons.net/2011/06/shadow-stats-debunked-part-ii.html
My electric company has already been by to ask permission to install a device that would be able to set my thermostat.
My answer was uh no I don't think I want that.
No. I don't trust these guys and I only use them when there is a good reason.
I made the mistake once of signing up for a web service with an annual use fee. Paypal cheerfully processed the renewal request from this site without my permission.
I do use them to make purchases from Ebay and some web sites that I visit infrequently as I like not giving out my credit card info to piss ant vendors. This helped me out once as one of these sites was compromised and there were a lot of complaints of fraudulent credit card charges from this incident.
But I always pay through a credit card when doing so with the theory that if anything goes wrong I can dispute the charges with the credit card company. I have done this a couple of times with non-Paypal stuff and my experience is that the credit card company is very willing to take my side in the dispute.
The only thing that would stop someone from making these would be if he enforced this hypothetical patent. It seems very unlikely that he would do so after being dead.
Then there is the other thing - he started making these controllers 30 years ago. Any possible patents would be either expired or otherwise moot.
US currency is backed by the treasury department of the united states of america.
O RLY? It USED to be backed by the US Treasury but that ended when Nixon took us off the gold standard. Now its backed by the faith people place in the ability to exchange it for useful goods and services in the future.
Some people mistrust this and put their money into gold, land, stocks, other currencies etc. Of course this is really no different because they are evidencing faith in the idea that they will be able to exchange these things for useful goods and services in the future too.
Personally I think it's a good idea to diversify, and not have all your savings tied up in one type of asset. Shit happens as they say.