This is just an appeal of an appeal of a denial of a preliminary injunction in the actual suit. As such it's interesting but it really says very little about how this in going to work out in the long run.
One can hope but I wouldn't be investing much money in this company just yet. It's got a long legal path in front of it.
Don't count your chickens - this is a LONG way from being settled.
The problem with your statement is that militant theists don't recognize the existence of any other type of non-believer than atheists. That view is an epic fail.
That view doesn't cover things, and by a very long distance.
I do not believe in God. I am not an atheist though, I just don't care about the existence of God, or not. The reason is simple, as my tag line says, I have no need for that hypothesis. Other approaches to the problems posed by reality require simpler hypotheses, and hypothesis that are testable. God is not admissible as a hypothesis under these conditions.
When somebody is able to pose a problem that I think is reasonable to want an answer for and that answer requires the hypothesis of the existence of God, or alternatively the opposite, the hypothesis that God does not exist then I'll become more interested.
Right now though it's a waste of time. God, existence or not, is not a useful concept.
Yes, and the AC was debunked by another commenter.
This is a very silly comparison. 1700 PBq of the Chernobyl release was in the form of I-131, which has a half-life of 8 days. Which means that 3 months after the disaster, it was effectively gone. Thousands more Pbq of Xenon-133 were released, but Xe133 has a half-life of 5 days. So after 2 months, that was effectively gone, 99.98% of it had decayed to stable cesium.
The only radioisotopes released from Chernobyl that are still exist in significant amounts, 26 years after the release, are Sr90 and Cs137, with half-lives of about 30 years. Total release of those isotopes was 100 Pbq. So about equal to the total radioactive release from burning coal for 100 years. But that stuff from burning coal? That's going to last for many thousands of years. (And that's just the radioactive release, the arsenic, mercury, etc? That stuff's forever.)
Meanwhile, 300,000 people a year die to air pollution. That beats Chernobyl's total by a factor of 75.
On the face of it this is a grave miscarriage of justice. The 24 year sentence is ridiculous.
But did Alfred Anaya make a mistake? Surely he did, by not walking away when he saw the $800,000 in his customer's compartment. Anything he did for this customer after that revelation put him in a bad position.
Unfortunately the courts and the DOJ seem to have little flexibility or perspective. This is a situation where an appropriate punishment would be probation and perhaps a suspended sentence.
Don't carry a cell phone with you unless you think you will actually need it. Leave it at home most of the time. Lend it to a friend to establish an alibi.
And when you are in a situation where you don't want to be tracked but still want the phone around in case of emergencies take the battery out. If you are handy with a soldering iron make an external kill switch. Also try experiments with a RF blocking bag to see what the effect on battery life is with your phone. Consider having spare batteries.
It wasn't that long ago when most people didn't have these devices. Really, they aren't particularly necessary for daily life.
Also put your EZPass transponder in the foil bag instead of leaving it on your dash all the time. Especially when you are doing something that you don't want coming out during divorce proceedings.
. Buffet spent 3 years working an entry level as an investment salesman for his father in a small brokerage in the financial hub of Omaha Nebraska for a salary of a couple of thousand per year.
If you think that is something that automatically leads to being considered the greatest investor of the 20th century you are frigging nuts.
Nonsense. The OP stated that hard work is not rewarded.
Well that's horseshit. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama (both illegitimate children born into lower class America) didn't win the birth lottery. They seem to be doing fine. Warren Buffet started with NOTHING. Larry Ellison? Completely self-made.
If you want to restrict the consideration to Billionaires, I'm fine with that. The percentage of Billionaires on the Forbes list that are completely self-made is 70%. Even more telling is that the percentage that started with either a million dollars or more, or with a medium sized company is a mere 11%.
Maybe a million dollars isn't what it used to be. But it's FAR from nothing. It's enough to live on reasonably if you decide you are just not going to work any more. You are free to live your life independent of the whim of anyone. Ultimately that is the greatest luxury.
I have all my personal email from 1998 in a Maildir directory with Dovecot as the server on a dual core Atom server running Centos. About 900 MB worth.
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This is just an appeal of an appeal of a denial of a preliminary injunction in the actual suit. As such it's interesting but it really says very little about how this in going to work out in the long run.
One can hope but I wouldn't be investing much money in this company just yet. It's got a long legal path in front of it.
Don't count your chickens - this is a LONG way from being settled.
Atheism is the negation of theism. The denial of the existence of God.
Here is the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on the topic.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/atheism-agnosticism/
And Dr William Craig, a well known theistic philosopher.
http://www.reasonablefaith.org/definition-of-atheism
Atheism is NOT the same thing as not having belief in God.
> If the first part of that statement is true, then yes, you are an atheist by definition.
NO. Atheism is the belief that there is no God.
That is not the same as saying you do not believe in God.
But has that purpose been useful to me? I think not.
I think of it more as methodological naturalism.
Van der Graaf Generator?
Oxy-acetylene torch?
Cement kiln?
I know what to do with a hard drive (DBAN followed by drill press) and a DVD (shredder).
The problem with your statement is that militant theists don't recognize the existence of any other type of non-believer than atheists. That view is an epic fail.
That view doesn't cover things, and by a very long distance.
I do not believe in God. I am not an atheist though, I just don't care about the existence of God, or not. The reason is simple, as my tag line says, I have no need for that hypothesis. Other approaches to the problems posed by reality require simpler hypotheses, and hypothesis that are testable. God is not admissible as a hypothesis under these conditions.
When somebody is able to pose a problem that I think is reasonable to want an answer for and that answer requires the hypothesis of the existence of God, or alternatively the opposite, the hypothesis that God does not exist then I'll become more interested.
Right now though it's a waste of time. God, existence or not, is not a useful concept.
Yes, and the AC was debunked by another commenter.
This is a very silly comparison. 1700 PBq of the Chernobyl release was in the form of I-131, which has a half-life of 8 days. Which means that 3 months after the disaster, it was effectively gone. Thousands more Pbq of Xenon-133 were released, but Xe133 has a half-life of 5 days. So after 2 months, that was effectively gone, 99.98% of it had decayed to stable cesium.
The only radioisotopes released from Chernobyl that are still exist in significant amounts, 26 years after the release, are Sr90 and Cs137, with half-lives of about 30 years. Total release of those isotopes was 100 Pbq. So about equal to the total radioactive release from burning coal for 100 years. But that stuff from burning coal? That's going to last for many thousands of years. (And that's just the radioactive release, the arsenic, mercury, etc? That stuff's forever.)
Meanwhile, 300,000 people a year die to air pollution. That beats Chernobyl's total by a factor of 75.
Finland has a permanent storage site for spent fuel.
So there is your example.
Laws against possession of burglary tools are not part of a new trend. They've been around for 80 years or more in some jurisdictions.
On the face of it this is a grave miscarriage of justice. The 24 year sentence is ridiculous.
But did Alfred Anaya make a mistake? Surely he did, by not walking away when he saw the $800,000 in his customer's compartment. Anything he did for this customer after that revelation put him in a bad position.
Unfortunately the courts and the DOJ seem to have little flexibility or perspective. This is a situation where an appropriate punishment would be probation and perhaps a suspended sentence.
Don't carry a cell phone with you unless you think you will actually need it. Leave it at home most of the time. Lend it to a friend to establish an alibi.
And when you are in a situation where you don't want to be tracked but still want the phone around in case of emergencies take the battery out. If you are handy with a soldering iron make an external kill switch. Also try experiments with a RF blocking bag to see what the effect on battery life is with your phone. Consider having spare batteries.
It wasn't that long ago when most people didn't have these devices. Really, they aren't particularly necessary for daily life.
Also put your EZPass transponder in the foil bag instead of leaving it on your dash all the time. Especially when you are doing something that you don't want coming out during divorce proceedings.
Perhaps to the standards of ordinary people. However the real metric assloads of loot come from settlements in class action suits.
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Buffet spent 3 years working an entry level as an investment salesman for his father in a small brokerage in the financial hub of Omaha Nebraska for a salary of a couple of thousand per year.
If you think that is something that automatically leads to being considered the greatest investor of the 20th century you are frigging nuts.
They care about stability if it interferes with their tax revenues.
Nonsense. The OP stated that hard work is not rewarded.
Well that's horseshit. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama (both illegitimate children born into lower class America) didn't win the birth lottery. They seem to be doing fine. Warren Buffet started with NOTHING. Larry Ellison? Completely self-made.
If you want to restrict the consideration to Billionaires, I'm fine with that. The percentage of Billionaires on the Forbes list that are completely self-made is 70%. Even more telling is that the percentage that started with either a million dollars or more, or with a medium sized company is a mere 11%.
Maybe a million dollars isn't what it used to be. But it's FAR from nothing. It's enough to live on reasonably if you decide you are just not going to work any more. You are free to live your life independent of the whim of anyone. Ultimately that is the greatest luxury.
Um no. Most of these people had nothing to do with the decisions made by the DOJ in the processing of this case.
1. Narrow study group.
2. Highly questionable conclusions.
3. Suspected publication bias.
All in all -1 Overrated story.
I was thinking M. Night Shyamalan.
Please explain then how roughly 80% of the millionaires in the US are first generation wealthy.
Index funds are balanced by large pension funds like Calpers, hedge funds, activist investors, private capital looking to buy out companies, etc.
HP's board cam very close to being thrown out due to dissatisfaction from these investors.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/mar/21/hewlett-packard-shareholder-rebellion-directors
A subpoena won't get you into a house. That requires a search warrant which requires probably cause of a crime.
Completely different.
Holy wheel reinvention, Batman.
So can anyone with a subpoena. And you can bet Google would be running their advertising stuff on that.
There is no way I would put my life on a public server like that.
I have all my personal email from 1998 in a Maildir directory with Dovecot as the server on a dual core Atom server running Centos. About 900 MB worth.
Plenty fast.