No, they don't. They trump state laws and state constitutions, but there is no power for the adoption of a treaty that is in conflict with the Constitution.
Because of the supremacy clause in the Constitution:
"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding."
It is imperative that people be judged based on their individual characteristics. It is a simple undeniable fact that variation within large groups of people FAR exceeds the variation between the means of the groups. It is the idiocy of stereotyping that ignores this fact. It is appalling that people do not understand this basic truth.
Let me give you an example of how this stupidity affected me, personally.
My wife is a Hispanic immigrant. She came to the US as an English medieval lit PhD candidate on a Fullbright scholarship to an elite university after studying in Europe for 3 years. She graduated from university at age 17. At one time she held the highest score ever achieved in the Oxford English Competency exam by a South American.
That ethnic background meant my children were automatically stereotyped by the schools they attended. In particular one of them was misdiagnosed as having an English deficiency when in fact he had Asperger's.
This diagnosis was done on the basis of my wife's ethnic background despite the fact she speaks English better than 99.99+% of US citizens.
The harm done to my son from of this cannot be undone.
1. Sales are below forecasts. 2. Margins are decreasing. 3. Profits from operations are slightly down. 4. Apple has missed revenue and profit forecasts its last 3 quarters. 5. Apple (as usual) issues a lot of stock as part of its compensation program. 6. Earnings per share declines. 7. Apple is churning its product line with minor tweaks rather than real innovation. 8. Apple is suing like crazy. 9. People are wondering where the profit growth is going to come from. 10. The stock has lost 40% of its market value.
Seoul is halfway between Beijing and Tokyo. War has visited their peninsula many times over the centuries, yet they have managed to retain their identity.
China likes to have a client state as a buffer between them and South Korea.
Culturally it would be a problem for NK to be adsorbed into China - Korea and China have been hostile towards each other for thousands of years. Their cultures are quite different.
I spent a little time in South Korea a few years ago; one thing that my hosts were adamant on was the eventual re-unification of North and South, much like Germany was re-unified.
The depravity of conditions in NK are a great shame. This picture is the best illustration of it I have seen:
Day starts at sundown. Months are lunar and vary year to year. Some years have more than one month with the same name. Sometimes the calendar is adjusted to account for natural events. Sometimes extra months (leap month) are added.
There are variations on this theme as well, Tannaitic Amoraic Maimonides the Mishneh Torah in the 12th century (starts the AM era)
Oh wait there is more (from Wikipedia)
There are additional rules in the Hebrew calendar to prevent certain holidays from falling on certain days of the week. (See Rosh Hashanah postponement, below.) These rules are implemented by adding an extra day to Marcheshvan (making it 30 days long) or by removing one day from Kislev (making it 29 days long). Accordingly, a common Hebrew calendar year can have a length of 353, 354 or 355 days, while a leap Hebrew calendar year can have a length of 383, 384 or 385 days
FAS Policy Regarding the Privacy of Faculty Electronic Materials
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) provides the members of its faculty with computers, access to a computer network and computing services for business purposes, and it is expected that these resources will be used in an appropriate and professional manner. The FAS considers faculty email messages and other electronic documents stored on Harvard-owned computers to be confidential, and will not access them, except in the following circumstances. First, IT staff may need access to faculty electronic records in order to ensure proper functioning of our computer infrastructure. In performing these services, IT staff members are required to handle private information in a professional and appropriate manner, in accordance with the Harvard Personnel Manual for Administrative and Professional Staff. The failure to do so constitutes grounds for disciplinary action. Second, in extraordinary circumstances such as legal proceedings and internal Harvard investigations, faculty records may be accessed and copied by the administration. Such review requires the approval of the Dean of the FAS and the Office of the General Counsel. The faculty member is entitled to prior written notice that his or her records will be reviewed, unless circumstances make prior notification impossible, in which case the faculty member will be notified at the earliest possible opportunity.
The DHS representative said the exact same thing I did.
The DHS operates 71 checkpoints in the extended border zone for the entire United States. This is NOT a large number.
If you don't want to engage the DHS under the rules these checkpoints operate under, stay out of them.
Within those checkpoints they routinely stop all traffic. That is an exception to the normal standards of the 4th Amendment. Such exceptions also operate in ports of entry. Congress and the courts have both determined that it is 'reasonable' under the terms of the 4th amendment that the Border Patrol be able to stop citizens without any suspicion within these check points. They also have rules that allow an inspection of vehicles on a 'selective' basis. Searches require an even higher standard.
Outside those checkpoints (including in the extended border zone) they do not have the right to stop you without a reasonable suspicion - which is the same standard all law enforcement is held to.
The ACLU has adopted the position that the existence of these check points is of grave concern. Well, of course it is. Any suspension of the 4th Amendment normal default terms is worrying. But let's be clear. All nations do have a right to control their borders, and they exercise that right. These exceptions do not apply to the entire extended border, only at a limited number of checkpoints which may be located within this border.
Saying that the entire extended border is a '4th Amendment free zone' is at best a gross exaggeration of the actual state of affairs.
I don't think it could. It was a monoplane with two engines (one diesel) and the wing design looks like it would not provide much lift at all. Plus the fuselage looks like it would have a lot of drag.
You need to read this more carefully. The government in the US does NOT have the right to stop you without a reason unless you are in a border checkpoint or point of entry.
Notice I used the word 'search', not the word 'stop'.
The Border Patrol is allowed to set up checkpoints within the 60-100 mile region where it can conduct routine stops as part of its mission to control illegal immigration. At such places it is not allowed to conduct suspicion-less searches. They may ask you questions which you can respond to voluntarily.
The only places that the Border Patrol is allowed to conduct suspicion-less searches is at ports of entry. Not generally along the border. Not 100 miles from the border. Only at ports of entry. Ports of entry include international airports that may be in the interior of the US.
It is not a long-standing 'view'. It is the result of laws passed by the FIRST Congress of the United States, actually their 5th bill, known as the Tariff Act which was signed into law July 4 1789 by George Washington. For nearly 100 years tariffs were the chief source of funds for the operation of the Federal Government. Obviously to enforce and collect tariffs it is necessary to search people and goods entering the US.
Since Congress is granted the power to regulate commerce by enumeration in the Constitution they can define reasonable search under the 4th Amendment to include inspecting everything that enters the country at a port of entry.
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Na and Cl in equal proportions would be way too much Cl.
You want the ratio 22.99 to 35.45.
Hell I have seen vibrators with inductive charging.
Actually the incarceration rate in China is pretty much 100%.
To track money laundering and tax evasion. It's been a requirement since 1970.
You would be the first to survive that.
So it doesn't count as re-invention.
(and no Franklin didn't actually fly a kite in a lightning storm).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwZjm6SSTLw
No, they don't. They trump state laws and state constitutions, but there is no power for the adoption of a treaty that is in conflict with the Constitution.
Because of the supremacy clause in the Constitution:
"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding."
It is imperative that people be judged based on their individual characteristics. It is a simple undeniable fact that variation within large groups of people FAR exceeds the variation between the means of the groups. It is the idiocy of stereotyping that ignores this fact. It is appalling that people do not understand this basic truth.
Let me give you an example of how this stupidity affected me, personally.
My wife is a Hispanic immigrant. She came to the US as an English medieval lit PhD candidate on a Fullbright scholarship to an elite university after studying in Europe for 3 years. She graduated from university at age 17. At one time she held the highest score ever achieved in the Oxford English Competency exam by a South American.
That ethnic background meant my children were automatically stereotyped by the schools they attended. In particular one of them was misdiagnosed as having an English deficiency when in fact he had Asperger's.
This diagnosis was done on the basis of my wife's ethnic background despite the fact she speaks English better than 99.99+% of US citizens.
The harm done to my son from of this cannot be undone.
If you are an investor what counts is discounted future cash flow.
That is what is dipping.
Here's what the picture is:
1. Sales are below forecasts.
2. Margins are decreasing.
3. Profits from operations are slightly down.
4. Apple has missed revenue and profit forecasts its last 3 quarters.
5. Apple (as usual) issues a lot of stock as part of its compensation program.
6. Earnings per share declines.
7. Apple is churning its product line with minor tweaks rather than real innovation.
8. Apple is suing like crazy.
9. People are wondering where the profit growth is going to come from.
10. The stock has lost 40% of its market value.
> Orly Taitz
You can't make this shit up.
Well, this will definitely provide considerable ongoing entertainment. I feel sorry for the judge(s) though.
Seoul is halfway between Beijing and Tokyo. War has visited their peninsula many times over the centuries, yet they have managed to retain their identity.
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/bender4/eall131/EAHReadings/module02/m02korean.html
They will fight.
China likes to have a client state as a buffer between them and South Korea.
Culturally it would be a problem for NK to be adsorbed into China - Korea and China have been hostile towards each other for thousands of years. Their cultures are quite different.
I spent a little time in South Korea a few years ago; one thing that my hosts were adamant on was the eventual re-unification of North and South, much like Germany was re-unified.
The depravity of conditions in NK are a great shame. This picture is the best illustration of it I have seen:
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2012/12/new-highly-detailed-image-north-koreas-lack-electrical-infrastructure/4201/
Unfortunately that little dog is developing a nuclear bite. Combine that with conditions in NK and you have potential for great disaster.
Along with the earthworms and greening go changes in the range of animals. Bird migration records are one area this is showing up.
http://bwfov.typepad.com/birders_world_field_of_vi/2009/02/audubon-birds-wintering-farther-north-due-to-climate-change.html
Except they didn't. Harvard's policy is a bit more respectful of faculty privacy than the average company. At least they are supposed to notify you.
There will be more mail tomorrow.
Bwahahahahaha.
Day starts at sundown.
Months are lunar and vary year to year.
Some years have more than one month with the same name. Sometimes the calendar is adjusted to account for natural events.
Sometimes extra months (leap month) are added.
There are variations on this theme as well,
Tannaitic
Amoraic
Maimonides the Mishneh Torah in the 12th century (starts the AM era)
Oh wait there is more (from Wikipedia)
There are additional rules in the Hebrew calendar to prevent certain holidays from falling on certain days of the week. (See Rosh Hashanah postponement, below.) These rules are implemented by adding an extra day to Marcheshvan (making it 30 days long) or by removing one day from Kislev (making it 29 days long). Accordingly, a common Hebrew calendar year can have a length of 353, 354 or 355 days, while a leap Hebrew calendar year can have a length of 383, 384 or 385 days
Harvard has a problem because of THIS:
Harvard University Information Security
FAS Policy Regarding the Privacy of Faculty Electronic Materials
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) provides the members of its faculty with computers, access to a computer network and computing services for business purposes, and it is expected that these resources will be used in an appropriate and professional manner. The FAS considers faculty email messages and other electronic documents stored on Harvard-owned computers to be confidential, and will not access them, except in the following circumstances.
First, IT staff may need access to faculty electronic records in order to ensure proper functioning of our computer infrastructure. In performing these services, IT staff members are required to handle private information in a professional and appropriate manner, in accordance with the Harvard Personnel Manual for Administrative and Professional Staff. The failure to do so constitutes grounds for disciplinary action.
Second, in extraordinary circumstances such as legal proceedings and internal Harvard investigations, faculty records may be accessed and copied by the administration. Such review requires the approval of the Dean of the FAS and the Office of the General Counsel. The faculty member is entitled to prior written notice that his or her records will be reviewed, unless circumstances make prior notification impossible, in which case the faculty member will be notified at the earliest possible opportunity.
They were not notified according to this policy.
Could get messy.
The DHS representative said the exact same thing I did.
The DHS operates 71 checkpoints in the extended border zone for the entire United States. This is NOT a large number.
If you don't want to engage the DHS under the rules these checkpoints operate under, stay out of them.
Within those checkpoints they routinely stop all traffic. That is an exception to the normal standards of the 4th Amendment. Such exceptions also operate in ports of entry. Congress and the courts have both determined that it is 'reasonable' under the terms of the 4th amendment that the Border Patrol be able to stop citizens without any suspicion within these check points. They also have rules that allow an inspection of vehicles on a 'selective' basis. Searches require an even higher standard.
Outside those checkpoints (including in the extended border zone) they do not have the right to stop you without a reasonable suspicion - which is the same standard all law enforcement is held to.
The ACLU has adopted the position that the existence of these check points is of grave concern. Well, of course it is. Any suspension of the 4th Amendment normal default terms is worrying. But let's be clear. All nations do have a right to control their borders, and they exercise that right. These exceptions do not apply to the entire extended border, only at a limited number of checkpoints which may be located within this border.
Saying that the entire extended border is a '4th Amendment free zone' is at best a gross exaggeration of the actual state of affairs.
I don't think it could. It was a monoplane with two engines (one diesel) and the wing design looks like it would not provide much lift at all. Plus the fuselage looks like it would have a lot of drag.
I call bullshit
There is no fool like an old fool.
Um the links you posted make it pretty clear that what he is training people for is NOT interrogation.
The essence of the 4th Amendment is searches must be 'reasonable'.
I think a reasonable person would acknowledge the type of search you describe is necessary at ports of entry and border crossing checkpoints.
Every sovereign nation protects their borders to at least this extent.
You need to read this more carefully. The government in the US does NOT have the right to stop you without a reason unless you are in a border checkpoint or point of entry.
Notice I used the word 'search', not the word 'stop'.
The Border Patrol is allowed to set up checkpoints within the 60-100 mile region where it can conduct routine stops as part of its mission to control illegal immigration. At such places it is not allowed to conduct suspicion-less searches. They may ask you questions which you can respond to voluntarily.
http://www.usborderpatrol.com/Border_Patrol300b.htm
The only places that the Border Patrol is allowed to conduct suspicion-less searches is at ports of entry. Not generally along the border. Not 100 miles from the border. Only at ports of entry. Ports of entry include international airports that may be in the interior of the US.
It is not a long-standing 'view'. It is the result of laws passed by the FIRST Congress of the United States, actually their 5th bill, known as the Tariff Act which was signed into law July 4 1789 by George Washington. For nearly 100 years tariffs were the chief source of funds for the operation of the Federal Government. Obviously to enforce and collect tariffs it is necessary to search people and goods entering the US.
Since Congress is granted the power to regulate commerce by enumeration in the Constitution they can define reasonable search under the 4th Amendment to include inspecting everything that enters the country at a port of entry.
Hope this clarifies the law for you.