:) right? i just kinda wanna give them a hug and ask them what it's like to live in russia, and if all those dashboard cam videos are like... representative of life there.
in another one of these threads someone was saying they were a helicopter pilot of some sort and the general guideline he got from his FAA rep was something along the lines of
'if i get one call about a helicoptor flying too low, i'm gonna give you a heads up, these things happen. if i get 5 calls about a helicopter flying too low, you've already fucked up.
anyway, the supreme court ruled that considering the US airplanes were passing at 83 feet in that particular case, and were certainly violating the owners property rights. the US government was in fact appropriating his property and needed to pay him for the 'easement'
the final upshot being, property rights extend at least 83' as per this case and at most 500 feet, as established by the faa. really up to the judge's discretion for any future cases where this might come into play.
sauce for the goose and all. It's a pretty grey area, but in my mind, people are reddit's customers, and reddit is serving as a mass messaging tool/communication device.
we already have protection in the US that protect voice calls from tampering by phone companies.
How comfortable would you be with comcast screening your traffic?
reddit has the right to refuse service, just as comcast does, just as verizon does. should they though?
corporate self-censorship is so much more insidious in my eyes than government censorship. How soon until censorship as a concept no longer has any meaning, because nobody has an unwelcome thought?
well you can understand the impulse, if government is taking my money to force me to provide for those less fortunate, i can't do it voluntarily even if i want to... because, you know, no money.
if french google is a french subsidiary google.com is american.
on what basis would france kick them out? google france presumably is in full compliance with the courts, and google.com effectively has no presence in france. can they refuse a company for non-compliance of a partner that the court has no jurisdiction over?
I mean, shouldn't french laws protect french companies from the tyranny of the french government too?
escalation is not a fact. it's your interpretation of the facts.
don't your beat cops have partners? you've gotta get some laws on the book that bring down the full weight of the criminal justice system on a cop killer.
from looking at some of the citations, number 6 and 7 in particular, it appears as if you really need to take into consideration how they're counting.
the 1.5 percent figure comes from lining up similar sequences and counting the number of base substitutions but not the segments in between.
"However, as the chimpanzee consortium noted, the figure reflects only base substitutions, not the many stretches of DNA that have been inserted or deleted in the genomes. The chimp consortium calculated that these “indels,” which can disrupt genes and cause serious diseases such as cystic fibrosis, alone accounted for about a 3% additional difference (Science, 2 September 2005, p. 1468)." - the 6th citation in the wikipedia article.
subsequent research has apparently shown that there's also significant differences in the number of copies.
on top of all this, you've got to take into consideration that there's really only one system we're interested in, the brain... where that same link says that computational studies... bleh for lack of a better way, they inferred that genetic coexpression was correlated to functional relevance, in other words that the more tightly 2 genes were found to be on or off together, the more likely that they both would have some important role in the tissue, otherwise there'd be no real point to linking them. Apparently when they compared cortex tissue between the species, 17 percent of the this genetic linkage was exclusive to the human cortex.
Regardless of the numbers/conclusions, it does bring up a number of concerns when saying we're 98 percent similar genetically to chimps.
are you counting by:
differences found in similar sequences? are you taking into account gene positions? number of copies of the genes? distribution of the differences?
what happens if 95% of our genes are keeping us alive/keeping the species going, and the rest goes into that lb of gray matter between our ears? how much of that 1 % is in that 5%?
your conclusion is wrong because your premise is wrong. they have lower gun violence because they have less guns... disarm everyone and youll have a lot less shootings across the board. cops will be a lot less twitchy, and they'll have the luxury of deciding whether toting around fire arms is worth it.
disarming street cops... sounds like a great way to get a lot of cops killed.
your first step would be to confiscate all firearms from the populous. short of that i don't see there being a solution.
maintain the passive voice as to not assign or imply guilt. Until the officer is convicted of murder there could be every possibility that there was a misfire.
the fire arm discharged. it is not for the reporter to say whether the officer decided to shoot someone before the courts decide. to do otherwise would be incredibly irresponsible.
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:) right? i just kinda wanna give them a hug and ask them what it's like to live in russia, and if all those dashboard cam videos are like... representative of life there.
holy shit, i thought people were joking about the russian astroturfing :) this is awesome.
... bitch, where's my fifty bucks?
he is a very talented craftsman
... the problem being, there's things like overriding the veto.
and you seem to believe that they won't just let it burn.
because, people hate congress. but they don't hate their congressman.
http://uspolitics.about.com/od...
all you gotta do, is make enough people believe it's the other guy's fault.
in another one of these threads someone was saying they were a helicopter pilot of some sort and the general guideline he got from his FAA rep was something along the lines of
'if i get one call about a helicoptor flying too low, i'm gonna give you a heads up, these things happen. if i get 5 calls about a helicopter flying too low, you've already fucked up.
don't scare the locals.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
83 feet is a friggin huge barn. 8 stories?
anyway, the supreme court ruled that considering the US airplanes were passing at 83 feet in that particular case, and were certainly violating the owners property rights. the US government was in fact appropriating his property and needed to pay him for the 'easement'
the final upshot being, property rights extend at least 83' as per this case and at most 500 feet, as established by the faa. really up to the judge's discretion for any future cases where this might come into play.
nuke, corpse acquisition and disposal all in one easy step.
also, isn't dangerous enough to scare chemists shitless in the quantities they would require.
http://pipeline.corante.com/ar...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09...
sauce for the goose and all. It's a pretty grey area, but in my mind, people are reddit's customers, and reddit is serving as a mass messaging tool/communication device.
we already have protection in the US that protect voice calls from tampering by phone companies.
How comfortable would you be with comcast screening your traffic?
reddit has the right to refuse service, just as comcast does, just as verizon does. should they though?
corporate self-censorship is so much more insidious in my eyes than government censorship. How soon until censorship as a concept no longer has any meaning, because nobody has an unwelcome thought?
well you can understand the impulse, if government is taking my money to force me to provide for those less fortunate, i can't do it voluntarily even if i want to... because, you know, no money.
i think the religious right and and the fiscal right actually intersect on this issue.
they both believe that charity is not the purview of government.
because along with the fiscal right, small government people, the big tent also includes the religious right... who frown on that.
someone needs to color this shit for me.
... i think when they crafted the phrase they were going for statesmanship.
also, everyone probably just thought, "no freedom, oh yeah, N. Korea, yeah that'll do" and they got it right in one go.
the freedoms afforded in the least free place can also be the exact intersection of the freedoms in all places.
again, north korea is probably close enough.
it's also a business, and it's customers are advertisers.
i don't know many businesses that want to be associated with any of that.
well yeah, because google really doesn't want to move out of the US
if french google is a french subsidiary
google.com is american.
on what basis would france kick them out?
google france presumably is in full compliance with the courts, and google.com effectively has no presence in france. can they refuse a company for non-compliance of a partner that the court has no jurisdiction over?
I mean, shouldn't french laws protect french companies from the tyranny of the french government too?
i'd actually like to hear your reasoning on that.
escalation is not a fact. it's your interpretation of the facts.
don't your beat cops have partners? you've gotta get some laws on the book that bring down the full weight of the criminal justice system on a cop killer.
http://nypost.com/2014/10/31/a...
they estimate they spent 10 million over the course of a 48 day manhunt.
you have facts, many facts, but your interpretations of them are, in my opinion, wrong.
small point, it's a latch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
from looking at some of the citations, number 6 and 7 in particular, it appears as if you really need to take into consideration how they're counting.
the 1.5 percent figure comes from lining up similar sequences and counting the number of base substitutions but not the segments in between.
"However,
as the chimpanzee consortium noted,
the figure reflects only base substitutions,
not the many stretches of DNA that have
been inserted or deleted in the genomes.
The chimp consortium calculated that these
“indels,” which can disrupt genes and
cause serious diseases such as cystic fibrosis,
alone accounted for about a 3% additional
difference (Science, 2 September
2005, p. 1468)." - the 6th citation in the wikipedia article.
subsequent research has apparently shown that there's also significant differences in the number of copies.
on top of all this, you've got to take into consideration that there's really only one system we're interested in, the brain... where that same link says that computational studies... bleh for lack of a better way, they inferred that genetic coexpression was correlated to functional relevance, in other words that the more tightly 2 genes were found to be on or off together, the more likely that they both would have some important role in the tissue, otherwise there'd be no real point to linking them. Apparently when they compared cortex tissue between the species, 17 percent of the this genetic linkage was exclusive to the human cortex.
Regardless of the numbers/conclusions, it does bring up a number of concerns when saying we're 98 percent similar genetically to chimps.
are you counting by:
differences found in similar sequences?
are you taking into account gene positions?
number of copies of the genes?
distribution of the differences?
what happens if 95% of our genes are keeping us alive/keeping the species going, and the rest goes into that lb of gray matter between our ears? how much of that 1 % is in that 5%?
your conclusion is wrong because your premise is wrong. they have lower gun violence because they have less guns... disarm everyone and youll have a lot less shootings across the board. cops will be a lot less twitchy, and they'll have the luxury of deciding whether toting around fire arms is worth it.
disarming street cops... sounds like a great way to get a lot of cops killed.
your first step would be to confiscate all firearms from the populous. short of that i don't see there being a solution.
i see that as a standard of objectivity.
maintain the passive voice as to not assign or imply guilt. Until the officer is convicted of murder there could be every possibility that there was a misfire.
the fire arm discharged. it is not for the reporter to say whether the officer decided to shoot someone before the courts decide. to do otherwise would be incredibly irresponsible.