Who are these people that don't want to stand up for their constitional rights? How come so many staunch U.S. patriots are willing to run like chicken littles at the first test of the strength of the Constitution? My God, when we've lost the bill of rights, what do we have left? The damage the Bush is doing to the 4th ammendment is every bit as damaging as what the terrorists are attempting to do.
All you're suggesting is that there is already precedent for the abuse of civil rights. If your interpretation of the law is correct, anyone can who re-enters the country can be arrested for indeterminate periods by executive fiat.
The Bush administration is violating his fourth ammendment rights and will continue to do so until let him meet with his lawyer *and* either charge him with a crime followed by a speedy trial, or show compelling evidence to a judge why he should be considered a military prisoner and not a criminal suspect.
It's also pretty clear that we shouldn't be trouncing on our constitutional rights because due process for some Nazi saboteurs was violated 55 years ago. By the same logic it would be good idea to incarcerate all the Muslims, since the courts never shut down the Japanese internment camps.
Iran Contra made a sound, Halliburton made a sound, AWOL Bush made a sound, insider trading Bush made a sound, lying to the American people Bush made a sound, Cocaine sniffing Bush made a sound, coward Bush made a sound...wait a minute, i got that backwards, they *didn't* make a sound, my bad.
He hasn't even done that. He's gathered up others ideas and called them his own, but done little with them. His great result, that 1-D rule "110" is turing complete, is cool, except that he didn't discover it, and other simple CAs have been shown to be turing complete years before.
Why did he bother sending some of you non-sycophants a copy when it's painfully obvious he didn't take any of your advice?
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His team of PhDs are a mob Yes man, judging by the editing and accuracy of the book. This monstronsity is larded with egomaniacal fluff, he twists the history of science to discredit people who made the exact same discoveries he did, only twenty years earlier, and generally makes a fool of himself page after page. can we say "it turns out that simple rules can produce complex results" for the thousandth time? I would tell Wolfram that we got the message, except that we understood that BEFORE WE BOUGHT THE BOOK this new kind of science, did not spring out of Wolframs forhead. People just as smart as Wolfram had thought through these same ideas decades before he had his epiphany.
Many of us bought the book hoping to see an elaboration of new ideas in a hot subject, not a ham-handed power grab of twenty year-old, well established ideas, with an unhealthy dose of vague sciencefictiony blue sky hypothesizing.
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He needs to give credit for *his own* sake, because if he did, he'd realize that the history of CA he put at the start of his book is a load of crap. Some of the things he says about people not understanding this or not even dreaming about that make me want to puke. Does he even know that very simple CAs were shown to be turing universal decades before he had even considered the topic? This is a new kind of science, but it wasn't invented by Wolfram, and, frankly, he hasn't contributed much to it.
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This book is one big fat stinker. Any one with even a passable knowledge of the history of CA will guffaw at Wolfram's introduction to his subject. There may be goodness in the book, but there sure isn't 2000 pages worth , and when every other paragraph looks like
Common sense tells us that [insert straw man lame idea such as simple rules will only produce simple results] but it turns out thats not true, blah blah blah.
it's just not worth it to wade through. And don't get me started on the airiness of his proclomations. This book is the "Celestene Prophecy" of self organizing systems, CA, emergent behaviour, what have you. Get back to us, Wolfram, when you have something concrete and testable to say.
If ever there is a transporter invented, run this experiment: Try to split the signal to two different endpoints. If the two "arrivals" share the same mental state, then somehow continuity is conserved. If not, than it isn't. If it is theoretically proved that you *can't* split the signal, that when one goes in, only one comes out, that at least lends some credence to the idea that continuity is conserved. You really do go to mars, not just your clone.
Volcano effect overstated.
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You've been duped by Rush. There are a few Rush fact checking websites that can provide some insight into this mistake.
That's the only virus thats ever hit me. Had it on every single floppy for my XT, and didn't figure it out till I tried to install my first hard drive (10 megs). The virus loaded int ram on insertion, and would immedietly reinfect the disk once it was cleaned, if you did anything other than turn the computer off.
What John Katz forgot to tell you is that Star Wars can only make more money if they sell more tickets than they have seats, since SW2 is limited release the first weekend.
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Most Chinese poeple probably don't want thousands of Fulong Gong members arrested and killed, either.
You would rather that the mother and her kids were disappeared into a prison? Did it ever occur to you that the story is Government Propaganda?
Let us all know when Padilla gets a trial or even gets to talk to his lawyer.
A sled made out of people.
And one of them is Luke's father!
Gandalf and Tyler are the SAME DUDE!!!!
And his home town is really a GIANT TV SET!!!
And those MANIACS, they BLEW IT ALL UP!!!
But in the end he gets arrested for MURDERING an HISTORIAN!
Except that he's really been dead the ENTIRE MOVIE!!!
That's exactly what they should do. What ever happened to the art of showmanship?
Come to think of it, have you ever seen them in the same room together?
I'm sorry, but the parent is the funniest post I've read in a long, long time.
Who are these people that don't want to stand up for their constitional rights? How come so many staunch U.S. patriots are willing to run like chicken littles at the first test of the strength of the Constitution? My God, when we've lost the bill of rights, what do we have left? The damage the Bush is doing to the 4th ammendment is every bit as damaging as what the terrorists are attempting to do.
The Bush administration is violating his fourth ammendment rights and will continue to do so until let him meet with his lawyer *and* either charge him with a crime followed by a speedy trial, or show compelling evidence to a judge why he should be considered a military prisoner and not a criminal suspect.
It's also pretty clear that we shouldn't be trouncing on our constitutional rights because due process for some Nazi saboteurs was violated 55 years ago. By the same logic it would be good idea to incarcerate all the Muslims, since the courts never shut down the Japanese internment camps.
A majority of senators, in a Republican controlled senate, aquitted him.
Iran Contra made a sound, Halliburton made a sound, AWOL Bush made a sound, insider trading Bush made a sound, lying to the American people Bush made a sound, Cocaine sniffing Bush made a sound, coward Bush made a sound...wait a minute, i got that backwards, they *didn't* make a sound, my bad.
And Drudge has slept through the whole thing.e
CNN is only liberal in comparison to Fox News, which is saying exactly nothing.
He hasn't even done that. He's gathered up others ideas and called them his own, but done little with them. His great result, that 1-D rule "110" is turing complete, is cool, except that he didn't discover it, and other simple CAs have been shown to be turing complete years before.
Why did he bother sending some of you non-sycophants a copy when it's painfully obvious he didn't take any of your advice?
Many of us bought the book hoping to see an elaboration of new ideas in a hot subject, not a ham-handed power grab of twenty year-old, well established ideas, with an unhealthy dose of vague sciencefictiony blue sky hypothesizing.
He needs to give credit for *his own* sake, because if he did, he'd realize that the history of CA he put at the start of his book is a load of crap. Some of the things he says about people not understanding this or not even dreaming about that make me want to puke. Does he even know that very simple CAs were shown to be turing universal decades before he had even considered the topic? This is a new kind of science, but it wasn't invented by Wolfram, and, frankly, he hasn't contributed much to it.
Common sense tells us that [insert straw man lame idea such as simple rules will only produce simple results] but it turns out thats not true, blah blah blah.
it's just not worth it to wade through. And don't get me started on the airiness of his proclomations. This book is the "Celestene Prophecy" of self organizing systems, CA, emergent behaviour, what have you. Get back to us, Wolfram, when you have something concrete and testable to say.
If ever there is a transporter invented, run this experiment: Try to split the signal to two different endpoints. If the two "arrivals" share the same mental state, then somehow continuity is conserved. If not, than it isn't. If it is theoretically proved that you *can't* split the signal, that when one goes in, only one comes out, that at least lends some credence to the idea that continuity is conserved. You really do go to mars, not just your clone.
You've been duped by Rush. There are a few Rush fact checking websites that can provide some insight into this mistake.
Satan: Horns -- Bill: Melinda -- Winner: Bill
Satan: Lake of Ice -- Bill: Lake Washington Fun House -- Winner: Satan
Satan: Dropped out of Heaven -- Bill: Dropped out of college -- Winner: Satan
Satan: Tempted Christ in Desert -- Bill: WindowsME -- Winner: Satan
Satan: Wants you to have sympathy, taste -- Bill: Wants a blow job from Attorney General John Ashcroft. -- Winner: Bill
Satan: Hooves -- Bill: Working "Bat Mobile". Still too chicken to try the afterburner. -- Winner: Bill
The Article is so full of obvious innacuracies like this that I have to assume that JonKatz is a troll.
The whole High Rise-Helicopter scene blew me away like no Star Wars scene has since the the battle for Hoth.
That's the only virus thats ever hit me. Had it on every single floppy for my XT, and didn't figure it out till I tried to install my first hard drive (10 megs). The virus loaded int ram on insertion, and would immedietly reinfect the disk once it was cleaned, if you did anything other than turn the computer off.
What John Katz forgot to tell you is that Star Wars can only make more money if they sell more tickets than they have seats, since SW2 is limited release the first weekend.