I 100% categorically deny the assertion that the Constitution is an impediment to fighting evil. It was wrong when Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, it was wrong with the alien and sedition acts, it was wrong with McCarthy, it was wrong with the Japanese internment, it's wrong with the DEA seizures, it's wrong with this document.
It's still wrong.
Some regulatory takings are wrong. I tend to agree that property owners are entitled to some consideration when their property is devalued due to regulations.
But, just because that's wrong, doesn't make this right. Again: Binary thinking. Bad.
Individual liberty and real property rights are more important than fighting terror/Communism/the Japanese/Johnny Reb.
Well, my philosophy education says that the ends do not justify the means. Therefore, doing something unethical to get a good result is still unethical.
There is a unit called the "pound mass", which is numerically equal to the weight of an object in a 1 G gravity well. I always found it extremely awkward, because you basically had to carry around a conversion factor called "gee sub C" (yeah, not gonna bust out the HTML subscript tags, sorry) in order for your numbers to work out. Dimensional analysis is needlessly complicated.
Use slugs. That's the English equivalent of a kilogram. 1 slug weighs 32.2 pounds (force) on Earth's surface.
Conversely, the metric unit of weight is a newton. 9.8 newtons masses 1 kilogram. If you look at the acceleration due to gravity expressed in English and metric units, you will see the happy parallel structure.
Space capsules are not normally run at full atmospheric pressure. I believe the Shuttle runs at atmospheric pressure, but I wonder if that is just to make it easier on the crews on relatively short voyages. On a long mission, I imagine that a low-pressure environment will be easier to maintain.
If the strategy is to reduce everybody to the standard of living of the lowest common denominator, well, that's just not gonna get my vote.
There are sensible ways to conserve resources and take care of the environment that do not involve me taking up dirt farming. I say that we should do that stuff.
"It's a bigger detriment than helper to our current power structures and economic structures"
Ah yes, but what if you wish to create a new power and economic structure? Like, for instance, if you wish to create a business where you sell "carbon offsets"? Or a governmental agency that requires people to buy carbon offsets?
I know that this is hard to understand, but perhaps America is populated by more than one human, and can therefore have two or more sets of values that are not consistent, but are also not contradictory? Do you think that's possible?
Do you seriously think that somebody who can tell right side up on a radio schematic is going to have trouble opening an iPod? Hell, I did it on the bus the other day. It's just not a problem.
Chatter plays nice with my email servers. Now all I need is Gmail to support imap idle, and I'm set.
I didn't use Snapper very long, but for me Chatter has been more flexible and reliable. The UI is no great shakes (the configuration pages are a mess), but once you get it set up, it's pretty darn good.
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I 100% categorically deny the assertion that the Constitution is an impediment to fighting evil. It was wrong when Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, it was wrong with the alien and sedition acts, it was wrong with McCarthy, it was wrong with the Japanese internment, it's wrong with the DEA seizures, it's wrong with this document.
It's still wrong.
Some regulatory takings are wrong. I tend to agree that property owners are entitled to some consideration when their property is devalued due to regulations.
But, just because that's wrong, doesn't make this right. Again: Binary thinking. Bad.
Individual liberty and real property rights are more important than fighting terror/Communism/the Japanese/Johnny Reb.
"I am found not guilty, or never go to trial, the computer must be returned to me"
How cute. You've never read about Steve Jackson Games' experience with seizure.
Oh yeah, and if you have a $20 in your wallet that somebody in the past has used to snort coke, you can pretty much kiss all your stuff goodbye.
The Democrats are wrong to make that argument. The President is wrong to make this argument.
Binary thinking is bad, mmmkay?
Because clearly, you have all the facts of the matter, and can safely conclude that this is an irrational overreaction.
(as opposed to, maybe, a humorous hyperbole. Or somebody who had a bad experience with Comcast.)
So, maybe you could....
(stay with me now!)
not buy one?
Call me crazy.
Well, my philosophy education says that the ends do not justify the means. Therefore, doing something unethical to get a good result is still unethical.
It surely is.
There is a unit called the "pound mass", which is numerically equal to the weight of an object in a 1 G gravity well. I always found it extremely awkward, because you basically had to carry around a conversion factor called "gee sub C" (yeah, not gonna bust out the HTML subscript tags, sorry) in order for your numbers to work out. Dimensional analysis is needlessly complicated.
Use slugs. That's the English equivalent of a kilogram. 1 slug weighs 32.2 pounds (force) on Earth's surface.
Conversely, the metric unit of weight is a newton. 9.8 newtons masses 1 kilogram. If you look at the acceleration due to gravity expressed in English and metric units, you will see the happy parallel structure.
Use this knowledge only for good.
I'm sure the engineers were waiting for you to come up with a solution to that problem. Because they probably didn't think of it.
Space capsules are not normally run at full atmospheric pressure. I believe the Shuttle runs at atmospheric pressure, but I wonder if that is just to make it easier on the crews on relatively short voyages. On a long mission, I imagine that a low-pressure environment will be easier to maintain.
Just speculatin'...
If the strategy is to reduce everybody to the standard of living of the lowest common denominator, well, that's just not gonna get my vote.
There are sensible ways to conserve resources and take care of the environment that do not involve me taking up dirt farming. I say that we should do that stuff.
I wish to come to your store and transact much business with you.
Could use some help on risk assessment too, I suppose.
"No, I want the plane to be built well enough that they'd never have to know any of that."
Wow, you're really bad at engineering.
"but if I had no other choice I would rather trust in an airplane programmed with decades of information over a single persons memory any day"
Those don't exist. The thing that's programmed with decades of information is the pilot.
"It's a bigger detriment than helper to our current power structures and economic structures"
Ah yes, but what if you wish to create a new power and economic structure? Like, for instance, if you wish to create a business where you sell "carbon offsets"? Or a governmental agency that requires people to buy carbon offsets?
" what gives Americans (or indeed Europeans) the right to pollute more than anyone else?"
Because Americans and Europeans are more productive per unit of pollution than "anyone else"?
Graphing CO2 output per capita per dollar of economic output is instructive.
Follow the law...GREAT IDEA! Let's start with the Bill of Rights!
I know that this is hard to understand, but perhaps America is populated by more than one human, and can therefore have two or more sets of values that are not consistent, but are also not contradictory? Do you think that's possible?
Spoken like somebody who has never been in a basement.
The planet is a pretty good heat sink, and insulator.
"All this law will do is create another subjective standard by which some people can be arbitrarily criminalized."
Ya think that might be the point of the exercise?
Considering the trivial amount of resources it takes to handle SMS messages, I'd say that's highway robbery.
You mean like a shipping container? Yeah, there sure aren't any of those.
Do you seriously think that somebody who can tell right side up on a radio schematic is going to have trouble opening an iPod? Hell, I did it on the bus the other day. It's just not a problem.
How much does your unlimited data plan cost? I think mine's $20/mo.
Seriously...I'd love to go with a GSM phone, but the data service pricing is insano-time.
Chatter plays nice with my email servers. Now all I need is Gmail to support imap idle, and I'm set.
I didn't use Snapper very long, but for me Chatter has been more flexible and reliable. The UI is no great shakes (the configuration pages are a mess), but once you get it set up, it's pretty darn good.
Background downloading is awesome.
Why don't the companies that stand to profit from 64 bit technology build a testbed for 64 bit technology, and then sell the results?
I'm tired of being an unpaid beta tester.