someone who doesn't know Mexican is not a language
You might find a lot of Spaniards who don't know that, just as you'd find a pretty good number of English who think that American qualifies as a foreign language.
If you wear a short skirt low cut top and get raped are you responsible. No You can't blame the victim.
Except where Sharia law is in effect. There, a woman who tempts men with her "uncovered meat" is blamed for them reacting like rabid dogs and raping her. Women who accuse men of rape tend to be convicted of being adultresses and even executed. It's also fairly routine for the father or brother of a girl suspected of being loose to defend the family honor by killing her.
Why? If I don't need a serial port, why should the motherboard require me to have one? Give me the pin headers for the serial/parallel/kb/mouse/usb/firewire, and let me decide which connectors I want to use space on, and where I want those connectors to be for my design. Maybe I only need a keyboard connector while the cover is off, to initially configure the device, then I deploy it to run without a keyboard, driving a display such as a status board for flights at an airport.
The designers of this board have decided that VGA and Ethernet are the two things everyone's going to want, and that seems right to me. The 3.9 x 2.8" form factor looks like it just barely fits inside a 2" x 4", 22.5 cu. in. junction box, (the deepest usually available) leaving room for a nano power supply. I can definitely see these things being used in such an application, where there is no visible computer, just a wall plate with the two connectors.
It's perfectly legal for states or cities to mint their own currency, as long as the value of the currency is pegged 1 to 1 to the US dollar.
Article I, Section 10 of the US Constitution
No State shall... coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts;....
The way I read this, a private company (Franklin Mint?) could produce gold or silver coin, which a state could recognize as money, but the state per se could not coin it directly.
There's a tutorial for Enzo Launcher. At about 40% through, the voice-over describes finding one of four WordPad documents... "And, viola!" Yes, he actually said "viola!", not "voila!". This means that one person misspelled the word, and another one read it without realizing what the original author meant to write.
I know it's fashionable to not care about spelling, pronunciation, and grammar, but when someone wants me to part with money, they really ought to not use words that they don't understand.
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law....
Not a word there about a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum though.
I'm curious. A combatant taken prisoner in Afghanistan is in what exact State and district for the purposes of jury selection?
Oh, that's right. A legal proceeding against an enemy combatant isn't a 'criminal prosecution'. He's either a prisoner of war under the Geneva Conventions, or he's an unlawful combatant (perhaps because he's not wearing a uniform or equivalent) who our troops have authority to immediately execute as spies.
I think it's very important to draw the distinction between that sort of person, and those who are either US citizens or legal aliens, who the President or his delegate (such as AG AG) one day puts on an Unlawful Combatants List. I'd like to get clarified the distinction that the Constitution makes between 'privileges and immunities' of citizens, which we have in addition to the rights that all humans have.
Wrong operator. Instead of adding, you multiply. Since the prevailing opinion 'round here is that Wal-Mart and Microsoft are negatives, and the product of a negative is positive, the equation makes perfect sense.
this load of crap from the same party who ridiculed "That depends what 'is' is."
There's a huge difference here.
Let's start with the title "the US Constitution doesn't explicitly bestow habeas corpus rights on US citizens." The exact wording in the Constitution itself is this:
"the privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."
I've bolded some key words above. There is a huge difference between a 'right' and a 'privilege'. A privilege is granted or bestowed upon someone by benevolent authority, and may therefore be revoked by that same authority. Rights are moral principles defining a man's freedom of action in a social context. They are inalienable. That means that they may not be morally infringed upon; a robber is in the wrong, and his victim in the right.
The Framers of the Constitution were clear that the document did not bestow a right upon anyone. The original text of the constitution used the word 'right' once, in a context not too popular here; copyright and patent law. Even there, it echoed the terminology from the Declaration of Independence, which makes it quite clear that rights don't come from governments:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,
When the Bill of Rights was written, there was a concern that enumerating rights might produce the idea that those not mentioned didn't exist. So it explicitly included an amendment that said otherwise.
As to the Attorney General's comments,
The Constitution doesn't say every individual in the United States or citizen is hereby granted or assured the right of habeas corpus. It doesn't say that. It simply says the right shall not be suspended" except in cases of rebellion or invasion.
If anything, Gonzales has erred on the side of saying that the Constitution calls it a 'right', which it plainly does not.
So what happens when your primary MX goes down for real, which is when your secondary MX should be receiving mail, because your primary is unavailable?
How about this? As soon as the TCP socket is set up, your secondary MX tries to talk to your primary. If the primary is down, then the connection should proceed according to the normal rules.
If it sees that the primary is up, then it immediately tarpits the inbound connection, gradually increasing the delay for each line of the conversation until the sender drops out. If it's a legit email, it should retry the primary at that point, and all is well.
Let's say I make my folder as follows:/pictures/trip/2006/Christmas/pic001.jpg
Why shouldn't I be able to type in:/trip/2006/Christmas/pictures/pic001.jpg
And get the same result?
because that's not what filesystem pathnames are about. There is no way to know a priori that/pictures/trip/2006/Christmas is the same thing as/trip/2006/Christmas/pictures. You may have a good reason for those to be two different directories. If you want them to be the same thing, of course,
You might as well ask why you can't address a letter to
Washington, 20004 Pennsylvania NW, 1600 DC Avenue
and expect it to get to the White House. But that is not the canonical form of the address. Postal addresses are formed by strict rules promulgated by the postal services of the world, to facilitate getting mail routed to the right location. In order for this hypothetical letter to actually be delivered, it's going to require someone figure out what the real address was, and slap a label with it over the wrong one. In your example, a search function like Google Desktop or the venerable locate command might be helpful, in finding the actual address, as would renaming pic001.jpg to something more meaningful like "Alice, Bob, Carol, and Dave (Christmas 2006).jpg".
The number '2006' is only a year in the Gregorian calendar if that's what you're using as the basis for creating subdirectories. It may be the street address of the hotel you visited, or a serial number created by a digital camera. The words 'pictures', 'trip', and 'Christmas' have only the meanings that we humans happen to ascribe to them. The whole point of 'tags' or 'labels' is precisely that it takes a human to do the tagging or labelling.
To me the distinction between the words is this: When I put one or more 'labels' on a thread in Gmail, that's for my personal convenience. Whether any other person would find those labels meaningful is irrelevant. When I put a 'tag' on a story on a web site, it's to communicate that metadata to other humans, via their computer agents. In order for the latter to work, we have to have some kind of agreement on those tags. It wouldn't do for the tag 'trip' to describe physical travel, what Dick Van Dyke often did during the opening credits to his classic television show, an altered state of consciousness (whether induced via pharmacology or psychosis), or the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.
That'd be Barbara Boxer. WTG, crack editing staff!
They may not be on crack; probably off the anti-psychotics.
I mean, really. There are two (2) US Senators from any given state at a time. It's not a lot of work to check the spelling to see if it matches one of them.
It's called a SECRET Ballot for a reason
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Voting without a secret ballot is implicitly tainted. Exit polls will tend to underestimate votes that the voter might feel intimidated against expressing publicly. For instance, if voting (R) is thought likely to make the union enforcers mad, the voter might lie and say he voted the way the union leaders told him to. Or if you're a member of an ethnic group that traditionally votes (D), and you just don't want to deal with the dirty looks from the people who think you're a traitor.
I want to make it very clear that voting systems that don't allow a paper trail to confirm their validity are BAD NEWS. But looking at a discrepancy between polls and the results of secret ballots as a fault of the latter is not good either.
response rates actually look slightly better in Bush strongholds than in Kerry strongholds
So the people in the Kerry strongholds who voted in the (local) minority were reluctant to say so, lest they suffer some negative consequences, whilst their opposite numbers in Bush neighborhoods had no such fear? How many people just lied about who they voted for?
According to the article, Greenland has 630,000 cubic miles of ice. If all of it melted it will raise ocean levels by 23 feet, but the article also says we are losing only 80 cubic miles per year.
Hmmm...
Carl Egede Boggild, a professor of snow-and-ice physics at the University Center of Svalbard, said Greenland could be losing more than 80 cubic miles of ice per year.
And monkeys could fly out of my ass. Funny, though, according to this article in The Register:
While the edges of the glaciers are melting, the ice sheets in Greenland's interior are getting thicker, according to satellite data collected over the last 11 years. On average the ice sheets have got thicker by about six centimetres each year, the researchers say.
The biggest reason I make the distinction is because I do tech support, and when I'm trying to diagnose why a VPN connection isn't working, it's good to know if the underlying internet connection is.
You'd be surprised how many people think "My Internet's down" because their DNS servers aren't accessible. Because of the idiotic assumption of certain OSes that if you aren't doing DHCP, you must also manually configure DNS, I've seen this happen when the ISP changes DNS servers.
woolworths.com is the "phone number" for the special computer with Woolworths pages on it.
No, 195.188.18.40 is like the "phone number", and DNS is like dialing 411 or looking up "Woolworths" in a phone directory. I use this all the time to explain what IP addressing is all about. People understand the hierarchical nature of phone numbers, being organized into Area Codes and exchanges, much like networks and subnets.
I even wrote up a tutorial using this metaphor: Demystifying IP Addressing, which opens thusly:
John Jones and Mary Smith both work for the same company. John's telephone number is 555-5123, and Mary's is 555-
5678, but when John wants to call Mary, or Mary wants to call John, they don't dial all those digits - just the last three. In
fact, when they need to call someone outside the company, they actually have to dial '9', and then the rest of the phone
number, sometimes including 1 and an area code (let's not even go into what they do when they talk to customers in Europe
or South America!). Meanwhile, at another company, only the first three digits have to match, and the employees dial the last
four.
If you can understand how that works, then you can understand IP addressing....
Iowa gave Wisconsin the software for free on the condition that Wisconsin not develop the application for commercial purposes, said Kernats.
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If he did indeed base his work off another piece of software (that was given to him on the condition that he not sell it commercially), then I don't think he really has a leg to stand on.
You are assuming a transitive property not in evidence.
Iowa didn't say anything about him. They only talked about Wisconsin. Did their licence require that Wisconsin could not give the code to anyone else?
It may be that the entire procedure is a pro forma showing by WI that they are trying to abide by the IA license. If the judge rules that Meredith owns the copyright to the derivative work, and that the IA license has been satisfied, then Meredith may indeed be free to sell the improved program, with a wink-wink, nudge-nudge from WI, who isn't making a dime off it.
Because that wouldn't jive with the competitor-funded Apple-haters desperately trying to tear down the iPhone in the last few days
I think you meant to say 'jibe', which pretty much has the opposite meaning. Or at least it used to. The more people use the wrong word, the less meaning either one has.
You're probably biased by the fact that they put your name at the beginning of the backronym.
Ah, well. I'm sure there's a way we can retaliate against Media Organization Representatives' Orwellian Nomenclature In Congress. If someone could just think of a way we could fight the Advocates for Spurious Senate and House Oligarchic Lobbying Efforts.
The hard part will be not stooping to their level in the process.
This is about the dozenth time in the last week I've seen this misspelling; damn it, it's got to stop:
They mostly have DRM so they can segway that iPod purchase into some iTunes purchases
The word you're trying to use is 'segue', which refers to a transition. 'Segway(tm)' is the brand name of a personal transportation device. Unless you are saying that Apple wants iPod owners to ride Segways while surfing the iTunes store via WiFi to buy songs to play, it is the wrong spelling.
Let me pre-emptively address the people who don't care about spelling and grammar. If you use incorrect syntax, or misspell a word in code or data, it's not going to work right, so you have to fix the error. When you're writing for humans, don't you owe us at least as much respect as you do a machine?
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if you plan on never having kids, then you are welcome to be short sighted.
I have a brother who is infertile, but his genes still are being propagated in my children, and those of our other siblings.
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In the 1980s capitalism triumphed over communism. In the 1990s it triumphed over democracy.
And a damned good thing, too. A democracy is three wolves and two sheep voting on what's for dinner. A republic, restrained by constitutional protections of individual rights, is quite different.
Ubuntu has become very popular, IMO in large part because of the sheer simplicity of a single CD that now can be used both as 'Live CD' and to install a fully-functioning OS. Once it's installed, you can go back into Synaptic and add more packages if you like, but the point is that you don't have to.
This should not have escaped the notice of other distros, who would then be prompted to ask the obvious "Why can't we do that?".
I haven't seen anything to suggest that such an artificial restriction would be set.
There is nothing 'artificial' about the one-CD limit. When you make me stop the install process to swap CDs, that requires me to intervene in the process. That might not sound like much for a single personal install, but it adds up over time, especially if you've got a lot of machines to deal with. If I have to change CDs, that might as well be the end of the installation, and the remaining CDs can be package repositories, which may instead be on a server on your LAN if you don't have broadband, or want to control what gets upgraded when.
And a number of articles on the case have pointed out that McDonald's also served hot chocolate at the same scalding temperature as their coffee.
This avoids the question of why McDonald's would want to serve hot drinks at such high temperatures. A business makes a decision like this If they believe:
It will reduce costs
It will increase demand, allowing them to sell the product at a higher price, sell more of the product, or a combination.
Running the equipment at a higher temperature increases costs more, not less, so the only thing left is they think it increases demand. Now, let's put on our thinking caps and see if we can figure out why.
A lot of people who buy coffee at McDonald's don't plan on drinking it in their cars. They may have a long drive to get to a cold construction site, by which time the 'scalding' coffee is merely 'hot'. If instead they served 'hot' coffee to these people, it would end up 'lukewarm' before it can be drunk. The people who need it to be hotter don't have any easy way to heat it up, but those who think it's too hot can easily cool it down by adding something cold (my mother used to put an ice cube in her coffee).
Now there's a bunch of construction workers freezing their butts off who can't even get a hot cup of joe. And who knows how many teachers can only bring Warm Chocolate to their students... Won't anyone think of the children!
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The designers of this board have decided that VGA and Ethernet are the two things everyone's going to want, and that seems right to me. The 3.9 x 2.8" form factor looks like it just barely fits inside a 2" x 4", 22.5 cu. in. junction box, (the deepest usually available) leaving room for a nano power supply. I can definitely see these things being used in such an application, where there is no visible computer, just a wall plate with the two connectors.
I know it's fashionable to not care about spelling, pronunciation, and grammar, but when someone wants me to part with money, they really ought to not use words that they don't understand.
I'm curious. A combatant taken prisoner in Afghanistan is in what exact State and district for the purposes of jury selection?
Oh, that's right. A legal proceeding against an enemy combatant isn't a 'criminal prosecution'. He's either a prisoner of war under the Geneva Conventions, or he's an unlawful combatant (perhaps because he's not wearing a uniform or equivalent) who our troops have authority to immediately execute as spies.
I think it's very important to draw the distinction between that sort of person, and those who are either US citizens or legal aliens, who the President or his delegate (such as AG AG) one day puts on an Unlawful Combatants List. I'd like to get clarified the distinction that the Constitution makes between 'privileges and immunities' of citizens, which we have in addition to the rights that all humans have.
Let's start with the title "the US Constitution doesn't explicitly bestow habeas corpus rights on US citizens." The exact wording in the Constitution itself is this:
I've bolded some key words above. There is a huge difference between a 'right' and a 'privilege'. A privilege is granted or bestowed upon someone by benevolent authority, and may therefore be revoked by that same authority. Rights are moral principles defining a man's freedom of action in a social context. They are inalienable. That means that they may not be morally infringed upon; a robber is in the wrong, and his victim in the right.The Framers of the Constitution were clear that the document did not bestow a right upon anyone. The original text of the constitution used the word 'right' once, in a context not too popular here; copyright and patent law. Even there, it echoed the terminology from the Declaration of Independence, which makes it quite clear that rights don't come from governments:
When the Bill of Rights was written, there was a concern that enumerating rights might produce the idea that those not mentioned didn't exist. So it explicitly included an amendment that said otherwise.As to the Attorney General's comments,
If anything, Gonzales has erred on the side of saying that the Constitution calls it a 'right', which it plainly does not.Meanwhile, 'is' means 'is'.
You might as well ask why you can't address a letter to
and expect it to get to the White House. But that is not the canonical form of the address. Postal addresses are formed by strict rules promulgated by the postal services of the world, to facilitate getting mail routed to the right location. In order for this hypothetical letter to actually be delivered, it's going to require someone figure out what the real address was, and slap a label with it over the wrong one. In your example, a search function like Google Desktop or the venerable locate command might be helpful, in finding the actual address, as would renaming pic001.jpg to something more meaningful like "Alice, Bob, Carol, and Dave (Christmas 2006).jpg".The number '2006' is only a year in the Gregorian calendar if that's what you're using as the basis for creating subdirectories. It may be the street address of the hotel you visited, or a serial number created by a digital camera. The words 'pictures', 'trip', and 'Christmas' have only the meanings that we humans happen to ascribe to them. The whole point of 'tags' or 'labels' is precisely that it takes a human to do the tagging or labelling.
To me the distinction between the words is this: When I put one or more 'labels' on a thread in Gmail, that's for my personal convenience. Whether any other person would find those labels meaningful is irrelevant. When I put a 'tag' on a story on a web site, it's to communicate that metadata to other humans, via their computer agents. In order for the latter to work, we have to have some kind of agreement on those tags. It wouldn't do for the tag 'trip' to describe physical travel, what Dick Van Dyke often did during the opening credits to his classic television show, an altered state of consciousness (whether induced via pharmacology or psychosis), or the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.
I mean, really. There are two (2) US Senators from any given state at a time. It's not a lot of work to check the spelling to see if it matches one of them.
I want to make it very clear that voting systems that don't allow a paper trail to confirm their validity are BAD NEWS. But looking at a discrepancy between polls and the results of secret ballots as a fault of the latter is not good either.
So the people in the Kerry strongholds who voted in the (local) minority were reluctant to say so, lest they suffer some negative consequences, whilst their opposite numbers in Bush neighborhoods had no such fear? How many people just lied about who they voted for?That was when Greenland was green. Strangely, there isn't any evidence of higher CO2 in the atmosphere then.
Ich heiße Grammatiknazi!
Kinder alles Gottes heißt Grammatiknazi!
You'd be surprised how many people think "My Internet's down" because their DNS servers aren't accessible. Because of the idiotic assumption of certain OSes that if you aren't doing DHCP, you must also manually configure DNS, I've seen this happen when the ISP changes DNS servers.
It may be that the entire procedure is a pro forma showing by WI that they are trying to abide by the IA license. If the judge rules that Meredith owns the copyright to the derivative work, and that the IA license has been satisfied, then Meredith may indeed be free to sell the improved program, with a wink-wink, nudge-nudge from WI, who isn't making a dime off it.
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Ah, well. I'm sure there's a way we can retaliate against Media Organization Representatives' Orwellian Nomenclature In Congress. If someone could just think of a way we could fight the Advocates for Spurious Senate and House Oligarchic Lobbying Efforts.
The hard part will be not stooping to their level in the process.
Let me pre-emptively address the people who don't care about spelling and grammar. If you use incorrect syntax, or misspell a word in code or data, it's not going to work right, so you have to fix the error. When you're writing for humans, don't you owe us at least as much respect as you do a machine?
Watt wood-eyed dew width out mine ice bell Czech her?
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Your sig caught my eye
And a damned good thing, too. A democracy is three wolves and two sheep voting on what's for dinner. A republic, restrained by constitutional protections of individual rights, is quite different.- It will reduce costs
- It will increase demand, allowing them to sell the product at a higher price, sell more of the product, or a combination.
Running the equipment at a higher temperature increases costs more, not less, so the only thing left is they think it increases demand. Now, let's put on our thinking caps and see if we can figure out why.A lot of people who buy coffee at McDonald's don't plan on drinking it in their cars. They may have a long drive to get to a cold construction site, by which time the 'scalding' coffee is merely 'hot'. If instead they served 'hot' coffee to these people, it would end up 'lukewarm' before it can be drunk. The people who need it to be hotter don't have any easy way to heat it up, but those who think it's too hot can easily cool it down by adding something cold (my mother used to put an ice cube in her coffee).
Now there's a bunch of construction workers freezing their butts off who can't even get a hot cup of joe. And who knows how many teachers can only bring Warm Chocolate to their students... Won't anyone think of the children!