Your assertion that natural (or human) rights depend on the existence of a Creator doesn't logically follow. Humanity (i.e. humane-ity) and morality CAN exist outside a theological context. I don't have to believe in a deity to know that mistreating animals or oppressing my fellow humans is fundamentally wrong, doctorate level philosophical arguments notwithstanding.
Secondly, the "most Americans" who want a strong military want it to use on other people and nations, not on themselves. Your argument is essentially: "The government has all that firepower, so what's the point? We should give up the few remaining rights we have.", which is both defeatist and disingenuous. Most of the wars I can think of were, at their core, "might makes right" vs. "no, it doesn't".
This country was founded by armed revolutionaries (you know, treasonous traitors against their legal government) who then wrote a Constitution for their new Government that said that the Governors would be selected by and rule at the consent of an armed populace. "Think of the children!" is not a valid reason to do away with that concept.
P.S. I'm one of them there "liberals" on just about any subject you can name.
Unfortunately, "interfering" is subject to the individual officer's opinion, just like "resisting arrest" and a thousand other subjective offenses. In court, it's your word against his. Guess who the judge will side with?
"exercising a clearly established First Amendment right when she attempted to film the traffic stop in the absence of a police order to stop filming or leave the area."
So a simple "stop filming" or "go away" from the police, and THEN they can arrest you.
Others point to the corporatization of universities, which are increasingly inclined to hire part-time, âoeadjunctâ professors, rather than full-time, tenure-track ones, to teach undergrads. Adjuncts are cheaper; perhaps more importantly, they are easier to hire. Whereas it takes a committee of experts months to decide if someone's scholarship is good, it takes an administrator only a few minutes to decide if that person can teach. That makes it easy for faculty size to track student demand. Today, more than half of all the academic jobs at American universities are part-time, non-research positions.
If you think "good scholarship" is the first (or only) criteria for getting tenure, then you don't know anything at all about academia. Getting tenure is about politics and schmoozing and ass-kissing.
It will enter a world entirely of its own â" a world in which it is fighting to capture value that is completely independent of whether any is created in the first place.
Like a casino. The currency still has the same value, but the thing being bet on is meaningless and valueless in and of itself.
The report also says that the experiments are so poorly documented "that it will be extremely difficult for anyone else to accurately trace or understand her experiments." In a stinging summary, the committee wrote: "Dr. Obokata's actions and sloppy data management lead us to the conclusion that she sorely lacks, not only a sense of research ethics, but also integrity and humility as a scientific researcher."
Again, this is Nature we're talking about. Every time we get one of these situations, the apologists start up with "but peer-review wasn't meant to find that...", and yet the journals themselves are always chest-thumping about how everything they publish is infallible because it was peer-reviewed, except when it isn't, and then it's not their fault. Peer-review is just a crutch. It imparts a false sense on confidence where there shouldn't be any.
"The science of the two papers was rigorously, robustly peer-reviewed as part of our usual editorial procedures. Any inaccuracies in the presentation of data that may have come to light since the peer review are being investigated," the Nature representative wrote. "We are always looking for ways to improve our processes to best serve the community and will continue to do so going forward."
And this is Nature fer chrissakes; not the Journal of Homeopathic Chiropractic Aroma Therapy and Crystal Meditation.
Different nightmare. The Y2K embedded system nightmare was systems that wouldn't know what to do when the clock rolled over. By and large, the doomsayers were completely wrong. The current problem is *Internet enabled* embedded systems, easily hackable, out of warranty, out of support, manufacturer TU, owner/deployer isn't even sure how many they have, or where they're located, etc., etc. Picture making a botnet out of all the traffic light controllers, or the elevator controllers, or smart water meters, or internet toasters.
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It's because they can't make a fist.
Your assertion that natural (or human) rights depend on the existence of a Creator doesn't logically follow. Humanity (i.e. humane-ity) and morality CAN exist outside a theological context. I don't have to believe in a deity to know that mistreating animals or oppressing my fellow humans is fundamentally wrong, doctorate level philosophical arguments notwithstanding.
Secondly, the "most Americans" who want a strong military want it to use on other people and nations, not on themselves. Your argument is essentially: "The government has all that firepower, so what's the point? We should give up the few remaining rights we have.", which is both defeatist and disingenuous. Most of the wars I can think of were, at their core, "might makes right" vs. "no, it doesn't".
This country was founded by armed revolutionaries (you know, treasonous traitors against their legal government) who then wrote a Constitution for their new Government that said that the Governors would be selected by and rule at the consent of an armed populace. "Think of the children!" is not a valid reason to do away with that concept.
P.S. I'm one of them there "liberals" on just about any subject you can name.
It was always 30%: "human", "not human", and "not sure".
Yeah, especially that big magnetic anomaly in Tycho crater.
More importantly, can we reconfigure it to emit a tachyon pulse?
It's the Army Corps of Engineers, you twit. They oversee/control the work on waterways, dams, levees, canals and flood control all over the country.
Next you'll say that Turing machines were a thought experiment and never meant to perform calculations in the real world.
Because most humans would fail?
Unfortunately, "interfering" is subject to the individual officer's opinion, just like "resisting arrest" and a thousand other subjective offenses. In court, it's your word against his. Guess who the judge will side with?
So a simple "stop filming" or "go away" from the police, and THEN they can arrest you.
People with Medical Biology PhD.s are employable. In their field, not as Office Managers.
Thanks for adding that insight to a discussion of English degrees.
If you think "good scholarship" is the first (or only) criteria for getting tenure, then you don't know anything at all about academia. Getting tenure is about politics and schmoozing and ass-kissing.
That's Fronkensteen!
I think I speak for all of us when I say: "THE FUCK????"
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The Madame Curie Lego will have bald patches.
Like a casino. The currency still has the same value, but the thing being bet on is meaningless and valueless in and of itself.
But but but ... Raspberry Pi!!!
Again, this is Nature we're talking about. Every time we get one of these situations, the apologists start up with "but peer-review wasn't meant to find that...", and yet the journals themselves are always chest-thumping about how everything they publish is infallible because it was peer-reviewed, except when it isn't, and then it's not their fault. Peer-review is just a crutch. It imparts a false sense on confidence where there shouldn't be any.
And this is Nature fer chrissakes; not the Journal of Homeopathic Chiropractic Aroma Therapy and Crystal Meditation.
Those are maggots, not Rice-A-Roni.
You know, I'll bet if you fixed your hosts file...
Different nightmare. The Y2K embedded system nightmare was systems that wouldn't know what to do when the clock rolled over. By and large, the doomsayers were completely wrong. The current problem is *Internet enabled* embedded systems, easily hackable, out of warranty, out of support, manufacturer TU, owner/deployer isn't even sure how many they have, or where they're located, etc., etc. Picture making a botnet out of all the traffic light controllers, or the elevator controllers, or smart water meters, or internet toasters.