Can I jut say here for one moment that I have a new theory about black holes? What is it that it is - this theory of mine. Well, this is what it is - my theory that I have, that is to say, which is mine, is mine. What is my theory? This is it. My theory that belongs to me is as follows.
This is how it goes. The next thing I"m going to say is my theory. My theory by MillionthMonkey Esq., Sir, brackets. This theory goes as follows and begins now. Black holes that swallow the earth can be made easily and for cheap in a laboratory. That is my theory, it is mine, and belongs to me and I own it, and what it is too.
Hmm. so your criteria for being a live human being is having a head?
That sounds perfectly reasonable. Carl Sagan had a better suggestion, that a useful criteria for ethical or moral purposes can be that the brain is working, claiming that this happens in the seventh month of pregnancy. Of course the technical criteria is earlier than that; I would certainly consider a zygote to be technically a live human being!
You use "live human being" and "human" in an argumentum ad lexicon, confusing descriptive and proscriptive definitions. The people who oppose Plan B tablets engage in a similar fallacy, as if preventing a blastula from implanting is the same as murder. (Well it can't possibly be any other species of animal in there, can it? So it must be human, ergo, taking that tablet is committing murder.)
Trying to come up with a single definition for something that's useful for all purposes will lead you to think you have to "draw a line" somewhere. I certainly wouldn't want to be eight months pregnant with a brain dead baby inside and find myself on the wrong side of some "line" drawn by people who think anything spelled the same must be the same.
Ah, but if you live near a state line (assuming relatively uniform population density in your area for sake of argument) you're only well-protected by state law from about half the criminals in your local vicinity; felonies committed against you by the other half can really only be prosecuted successfully by the feds. They're much harder to prosecute at the state level because of all the legal complications between states. Not every victim in NY gets murdered by someone in CA- there are troublemakers in NJ too!
It's not logical, local threats are more credible (does anyone really believe a thug would come extra from California to NY to vandalize the home of an unhappy customer?)
That's a pretty silly example. Lots of thugs in CA visit their grandmothers in NY. Are you saying they should be no federal law prohibiting them from making a hit or something while in town, because they can't be expected to make an extra trip back to NY to vandalize a house? It's not logical.
A state with a low population like AZ (not to pick on AZ undeservedly here) would be presented with a good motive to set itself up with a predatory policy based on e.g. light criminal penalties for making threats against people in general. (Which it wouldn't for crimes of local consequence, like car theft or vandalism.) The benefit would be to make AZ more attractive to anyone looking to set up shop who plans to make money ripping off and abusing customers who are mostly going to live out-of-state anyway. If the population of your state is low enough, policies start to look attractive that encourage picking on people in other states by encouraging picking on people in general.
This is similar to how NV legalized gambling, or how the credit industry is based in ND. In general interstate commerce is something that presents a conflict of interest to a state legislature, so crimes involving it get singled out for federal nitpicking. I'm not surprised that there's a law against threatening to injure the person of someone in an interstate business conversation. Interstate commerce gets used like a hat rack by the feds, but a law like that seems pretty basic if you're going to submit interstate commerce to any regulative structure at all./IANAL
This case is different from your typical predatory industry. A collection agency for example is trying to get money out of people; it may be perfectly willing to abuse them, but only in order to get the money. What makes this guy weird is that he stalked people in order to get free advertising.
Under 18 U.S.C. 875(c), it is a federal crime, punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, to transmit any communication in interstate or foreign commerce containing a threat to injure the person of another. Internet-based communication is not exempt. Is this something you do a lot?
I used to have a razr with AT&T a few years ago when I lived two miles east of Apple's Cupertino CA headquarters and worked two miles west of it, and I couldn't make phone calls home with it.
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I sincerely wish Pennsylvania would culture a few nice wolf populations to control the deer. I'm tired of dodging them with my car.
If you haven't hit a deer, you haven't lived... in Pennsylvania. This is a particular problem there because of their use of Jersey barriers up and down the middle of the highways, with few if any gaps for deer to find. So you'll round a turn and find yourself traveling at high speed within a herd of deer who are standing idly around on the road at the Jersey barrier trying to figure out what the hell. It happens to a lot of people. Both times it happened to me I was really lucky.
The first time I ran into a herd of deer in Pennsylvania, I was driving a POS 86 Ford Thunderbird at about 60+ mph on Route 70 and as they were stampeding all over the place a doe rolled up the side of the car, perfectly. She did a sort of somersault up the frame, rolling over the side of the windshield and the side view mirror. I remember the car seemed to handle the load without even noticing; this was a heavy V8 engine. The trunks on those eighties Thunderbirds were sort of brachycephalic and stunted if you remember, and when you're trying to clear a doe at 60-70 mph, every cubic centimeter of that lost trunk space counts. So she ascended over the car and cleared the shitty trunk on her way down, and slammed onto the asphalt halfway into the right lane behind me. *I* was really lucky because she didn't even crack the windshield or dent the car anywhere. This was southeast PA and there are a lot of rednecks around, and one of the first guys to pull over was a redneck in a pickup halfway loaded with crap. We figured since her leg was broken and she was crippled and staggering around, she had to go. So he got a jack out of his pickup and smashed it into her skull. Then he decided that there was no point in wasting all the meat so I said sure, I'd help him load her carcass into the back of his pickup. This was before Thanksgiving so the timing was perfect for him and wherever he was going. (Not quite perfect since I hit a deer and not one of those wild turkeys you sometimes see there.) But first he had to bash her skull in with the jack again because of all the go to hell looks she was giving him.
Then a cop pulled over and we told him what happened. He decided we were innocent and he didn't have to write anything up, and *he* ended up helping the guy load her into his pickup truck instead. I didn't have to do *anything*. I really had a reason to feel thankful that Thanksgiving.
But I still felt guilty about it. The second time, though, I steered a POS Saturn on a path through a herd of deer on the PA turnpike at about 70 mph, and flew all the way through without hitting any of them! Although nobody was behind me to see it (except maybe one guy, not sure) it was one of my proudest moments.
Do your grandparents spray anhydrous ammonia all over their little garden? That stuff they grow is something called "Sweet Delicious Corn", which can probably be eaten on the cob and isn't real, honest, Monsanto corn.
Simply do what the US did. Get rid of all your factories and buy everything from overseas.
We sold U.S. Treasuries to Chinese officials who showed up at auctions and scooped them up in order to strengthen the dollar with respect to their own currency. When a growing world power like China insists on indexing its own strengthening currency to yours, carrying out business overseas in other countries becomes financially obvious to industries like manufacturing and importing that benefit from inflated dollars.
Censorship might not be as bad as a crazy religion allowing something and then using it to spy on and persecute people. Would you want someone you care about to be surfing around on Facebook while in Saudi Arabia? When a country gets that screwed up they probably figure they might as well just start censoring everything that might prick on a religious sensibility, just for public safety's sake. We take similar measures ourselves when we drape chain link fencing across cliff faces on roadsides in our own attempts to keep stones from raining down on people.
The Pentagon denies that its gamma-ray bubbles were operating near the galactic center 25,000 years ago, and the State Department is being tight-lipped as well.
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Raising pCO2 (i.e. [H+]) LOWERS the pH.
A doubling of atmospheric CO2 partial pressure above a water surface will acidify it by approx. 0.2 pH units. (ref.)
To be a theory it must be testable.
Can I jut say here for one moment that I have a new theory about black holes? What is it that it is - this theory of mine. Well, this is what it is - my theory that I have, that is to say, which is mine, is mine. What is my theory? This is it. My theory that belongs to me is as follows.
This is how it goes. The next thing I"m going to say is my theory. My theory by MillionthMonkey Esq., Sir, brackets. This theory goes as follows and begins now. Black holes that swallow the earth can be made easily and for cheap in a laboratory. That is my theory, it is mine, and belongs to me and I own it, and what it is too.
Hmm. so your criteria for being a live human being is having a head?
That sounds perfectly reasonable. Carl Sagan had a better suggestion, that a useful criteria for ethical or moral purposes can be that the brain is working, claiming that this happens in the seventh month of pregnancy. Of course the technical criteria is earlier than that; I would certainly consider a zygote to be technically a live human being!
You use "live human being" and "human" in an argumentum ad lexicon, confusing descriptive and proscriptive definitions. The people who oppose Plan B tablets engage in a similar fallacy, as if preventing a blastula from implanting is the same as murder. (Well it can't possibly be any other species of animal in there, can it? So it must be human, ergo, taking that tablet is committing murder.)
Trying to come up with a single definition for something that's useful for all purposes will lead you to think you have to "draw a line" somewhere. I certainly wouldn't want to be eight months pregnant with a brain dead baby inside and find myself on the wrong side of some "line" drawn by people who think anything spelled the same must be the same.
That's an easy thing to regulate. Are you worried about creating an embryonic stem cell black market? (Too late.)
Ah, but if you live near a state line (assuming relatively uniform population density in your area for sake of argument) you're only well-protected by state law from about half the criminals in your local vicinity; felonies committed against you by the other half can really only be prosecuted successfully by the feds. They're much harder to prosecute at the state level because of all the legal complications between states. Not every victim in NY gets murdered by someone in CA- there are troublemakers in NJ too!
It's not logical, local threats are more credible (does anyone really believe a thug would come extra from California to NY to vandalize the home of an unhappy customer?)
That's a pretty silly example. Lots of thugs in CA visit their grandmothers in NY. Are you saying they should be no federal law prohibiting them from making a hit or something while in town, because they can't be expected to make an extra trip back to NY to vandalize a house? It's not logical.
Is this really a problem that required a law?
A state with a low population like AZ (not to pick on AZ undeservedly here) would be presented with a good motive to set itself up with a predatory policy based on e.g. light criminal penalties for making threats against people in general. (Which it wouldn't for crimes of local consequence, like car theft or vandalism.) The benefit would be to make AZ more attractive to anyone looking to set up shop who plans to make money ripping off and abusing customers who are mostly going to live out-of-state anyway. If the population of your state is low enough, policies start to look attractive that encourage picking on people in other states by encouraging picking on people in general.
/IANAL
This is similar to how NV legalized gambling, or how the credit industry is based in ND. In general interstate commerce is something that presents a conflict of interest to a state legislature, so crimes involving it get singled out for federal nitpicking. I'm not surprised that there's a law against threatening to injure the person of someone in an interstate business conversation. Interstate commerce gets used like a hat rack by the feds, but a law like that seems pretty basic if you're going to submit interstate commerce to any regulative structure at all.
This case is different from your typical predatory industry. A collection agency for example is trying to get money out of people; it may be perfectly willing to abuse them, but only in order to get the money. What makes this guy weird is that he stalked people in order to get free advertising.
Under 18 U.S.C. 875(c), it is a federal crime, punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, to transmit any communication in interstate or foreign commerce containing a threat to injure the person of another. Internet-based communication is not exempt. Is this something you do a lot?
I used to have a razr with AT&T a few years ago when I lived two miles east of Apple's Cupertino CA headquarters and worked two miles west of it, and I couldn't make phone calls home with it.
"I hereby sentence you to 10^-33 seconds."
In other news I noticed that one 10^-33-th of my spam is gone this morning.
Aren't there contracts or something to figure this stuff out?
Just electrocute everybody; a population of zero implies stability.
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I sincerely wish Pennsylvania would culture a few nice wolf populations to control the deer. I'm tired of dodging them with my car.
If you haven't hit a deer, you haven't lived... in Pennsylvania. This is a particular problem there because of their use of Jersey barriers up and down the middle of the highways, with few if any gaps for deer to find. So you'll round a turn and find yourself traveling at high speed within a herd of deer who are standing idly around on the road at the Jersey barrier trying to figure out what the hell. It happens to a lot of people. Both times it happened to me I was really lucky.
The first time I ran into a herd of deer in Pennsylvania, I was driving a POS 86 Ford Thunderbird at about 60+ mph on Route 70 and as they were stampeding all over the place a doe rolled up the side of the car, perfectly. She did a sort of somersault up the frame, rolling over the side of the windshield and the side view mirror. I remember the car seemed to handle the load without even noticing; this was a heavy V8 engine. The trunks on those eighties Thunderbirds were sort of brachycephalic and stunted if you remember, and when you're trying to clear a doe at 60-70 mph, every cubic centimeter of that lost trunk space counts. So she ascended over the car and cleared the shitty trunk on her way down, and slammed onto the asphalt halfway into the right lane behind me. *I* was really lucky because she didn't even crack the windshield or dent the car anywhere. This was southeast PA and there are a lot of rednecks around, and one of the first guys to pull over was a redneck in a pickup halfway loaded with crap. We figured since her leg was broken and she was crippled and staggering around, she had to go. So he got a jack out of his pickup and smashed it into her skull. Then he decided that there was no point in wasting all the meat so I said sure, I'd help him load her carcass into the back of his pickup. This was before Thanksgiving so the timing was perfect for him and wherever he was going. (Not quite perfect since I hit a deer and not one of those wild turkeys you sometimes see there.) But first he had to bash her skull in with the jack again because of all the go to hell looks she was giving him.
Then a cop pulled over and we told him what happened. He decided we were innocent and he didn't have to write anything up, and *he* ended up helping the guy load her into his pickup truck instead. I didn't have to do *anything*. I really had a reason to feel thankful that Thanksgiving.
But I still felt guilty about it. The second time, though, I steered a POS Saturn on a path through a herd of deer on the PA turnpike at about 70 mph, and flew all the way through without hitting any of them! Although nobody was behind me to see it (except maybe one guy, not sure) it was one of my proudest moments.
A group of people that actually believe the Corn Sugar is some who worse the sugar IS a bunch of morons.
What do you mean, a worse group of people that actually believe the Corn Sugar? Who is this Corn Sugar fellow, and how did he get morons in his sugar?
Do your grandparents spray anhydrous ammonia all over their little garden? That stuff they grow is something called "Sweet Delicious Corn", which can probably be eaten on the cob and isn't real, honest, Monsanto corn.
I see why she divorced you.
And the CLOUD is so in right now. Everyone is using the CLOUD. Just say "CLOUD" and you'll be swamped with job offers. Women will be... ok never mind.
Simply do what the US did. Get rid of all your factories and buy everything from overseas.
We sold U.S. Treasuries to Chinese officials who showed up at auctions and scooped them up in order to strengthen the dollar with respect to their own currency. When a growing world power like China insists on indexing its own strengthening currency to yours, carrying out business overseas in other countries becomes financially obvious to industries like manufacturing and importing that benefit from inflated dollars.
I have to wonder if they've yet used conventional adjectives like "semi-transparent", "translucent", and "opaque" that are found the dictionary.
Censorship might not be as bad as a crazy religion allowing something and then using it to spy on and persecute people. Would you want someone you care about to be surfing around on Facebook while in Saudi Arabia? When a country gets that screwed up they probably figure they might as well just start censoring everything that might prick on a religious sensibility, just for public safety's sake. We take similar measures ourselves when we drape chain link fencing across cliff faces on roadsides in our own attempts to keep stones from raining down on people.
That's a decent theory- the Chinese are blowing bubbles with gamma rays in an effort to meet their future energy needs.
The Pentagon denies that its gamma-ray bubbles were operating near the galactic center 25,000 years ago, and the State Department is being tight-lipped as well.
There are folks that can't afford to hunger strike, at least these strikers are leaving the jobs for those that need them.
WTF? Who can't afford to not buy groceries?