If you'll have a look at the declaration of war from World War 1 and World War 2, you will notice that they both contain the words 'declare' and 'war' in close proximity to one another. Authorizing the president to use military force is simply *not* a declaration of war, and the president should have no war powers without a real declaration.
First, $75k is not a lot of money in California. Second, anyone who plays the "I don't want to be the first one to leave" game is a first order moron. I leave every day at 5:00 on the nose, and if something breaks on the weekends or the evening, I work that many fewer hours during the week. 40 hours is the deal, and that's all that's fair for both sides.
>People need to be taught to realize that the internet isn't like gossiping to your airhead friend; it's something the entire world can see. Honestly, I think the judge did the right thing, and I'm a serious proponent of free speech.
No, you're not. The school has no authority whatsoever to punish a student for their actions while off campus. If it was libel, the principal should have sued the student, or at least got in contact with his parents. The school has no stake in this situation at all.
>Let's ask this question: what would happen to a school kid if he/she directed the same kind of provocative language at the principal or a school teacher, IN PERSON, either in the hallway or in a classroom?
I believe that is the whole point. The student *didn't* do anything in the school, therefore the school has no ability to punish him. Did you RTFA? What if this student had just graduated or was from a different district? The school has no more power to punish him in this case than it would in those.
Both of those are civil cases, and they have nothing to do with the school. Fact is, a school has no power to punish you for your actions when you are not in school. The principal is using his government power to punish a student for a personal insult. The judge got this completely wrong, and hopefully the judgment will be overturned on appeal, as it should be.
So what's the average range on a paintball gun, and how long do you think it will take the authorities to clean off every red light sensor in the city?
Whether we were targeting them or not, they are equally as dead. I wonder what the civilian to 'terrorist' kill ratio is in Iraq? 5 to 1? 10 to 1? I can't imagine why the Muslim world thinks of the US as "The Great Satan".
The vast majority of his chemical weapons were destroyed under the watch of the UN after the first Gulf War. This is welldocumented for anyone who cares to look. The whole argument was over the few weapons that couldn't be accounted for because of bookkeeping errors and the regular amount of chaos that happens after your country is bombed to hell. Bush did lie about the status of those weapons for political reasons, just like Clinton did in 1998, but at least Clinton had the sense not to try and take over the whole country.
Saves a lot of their lives? How many Iraqis would be alive today who are dead because of our "liberation" of them? 100,000? 500,000? Iraq is not a turd, the war in Iraq is. It was wrong from the beginning, and it's wrong now. The fact still remains that the day we leave is the day it collapses back into chaos, so we might as well leave today. All of it wasn't worth a single American life.
>It's possible to oppose the Iraq war without denying its progress since General Petraeus' takeover, the Anbar Awakening, the Surge, and whatever tech (real or fake) was mentioned in the article.
You are utterly and completely wrong. If they intercept even a single cell phone conversation or email of mine without a warrant, they are violating my rights as spelled out in the US Constitution. It truly disgusts me that you give up your rights so easily.
>High speed data connections to every data center of every cell phone service provider. We are talking OC3s at a minimum. Paying the network admins, sysadmins, production support analysts, managers, accountants, and executives of every company, even after they leave the company and/or industry. Oh, and some of those people will have to falsify financial reports, SOX compliance, etc. which can get them sent to jail, so it won't be cheap.
Is there something secret about this? Don't be even a little surprised if exactly the scenario spelled out at the start of this thread is exactly what's happening. The best part is, the telecoms have already been pardoned for their part in it all.
I believe the issue is the government not following the rules it is supposed to follow when it expects us to do the same. The weakness is allowing yourself to be monitored without rhyme or reason. The more information that they have on you, the easier you are to control.
That is *precisely* how I feel about it too. Being dead won't be any worse than the time before you were born. It's getting to that state that can be the bad part.
Biological neural networks are comprised of many more units of much higher complexity and containing much more variety than we could hope to simulate even on a tiny scale yet, even if we had a list of all the types of neurons and connections required.
"Biologically detailed large-scale models of the brain can now be simulated thanks to increasingly powerful massively parallel supercomputers. We present an overview, for the general technical reader, of a neuronal network model of layers II/III of the neocortex built with biophysical model neurons. These simulations, carried out on an IBM Blue Gene/L(TM) supercomputer, comprise up to 22 million neurons and 11 billion synapses, which makes them the largest simulations of this type ever performed. Such model sizes correspond to the cortex of a small mammal."
>Firstly, these "universes" are purely theoretical, and they're function of the modification of a few constants, that doesn't mean they're actually out there.
Of course, just like any hypothetical universe where humans couldn't exist. By talking about how lucky we are to have this seemingly perfect set of constants that allow us to exist, there is the implicit assumption that any other universe *could* exist.
>Even if the universe were fine tuned so that the characteristics we see are a unique product of its basic configuration, what's to say there aren't an infinite number of other universes which also harbor unique characteristics as a result of their own basic configurations - features that may make them more conducive to what we would call life?
I don't understand where this whole idea that our universe is somehow fine-tuned for life even comes from. The vast, vast majority of the universe is utterly inhospitable to life. If anything, I'd have to say that it is fine tuned for making empty space, or maybe black holes. Life is so far down on the list of things being created, it is literally insignificant as a process in this universe.
>The cooked up story about people calling from cell phones while the plane was in flight? (Have you ever made a successful phone call while a plane was in flight at any altitude? I have tried over and over and over again and have never been successful and I simply don't buy that story at all.)
It all depends on where you happen to be flying over at the moment. If you're in the middle of the Pacific, you're probably not going to get a signal. But if you're flying over any reasonably populated area, it's not difficult to get a signal even 5 miles up. I just flew from Vegas to Cleveland a few weeks back and forgot to turn my phone off until in the middle of the trip and I had 2 bars showing then. I didn't actually make a call, but my phone was saying it was ok.
Besides, weren't those flights brought closer to the ground than they would usually be before they were crashed?
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If you'll have a look at the declaration of war from World War 1 and World War 2, you will notice that they both contain the words 'declare' and 'war' in close proximity to one another. Authorizing the president to use military force is simply *not* a declaration of war, and the president should have no war powers without a real declaration.
First, $75k is not a lot of money in California. Second, anyone who plays the "I don't want to be the first one to leave" game is a first order moron. I leave every day at 5:00 on the nose, and if something breaks on the weekends or the evening, I work that many fewer hours during the week. 40 hours is the deal, and that's all that's fair for both sides.
Not only that, but the state is no longer going to be able to collect income taxes on the overtime that isn't going to be paid now.
>People need to be taught to realize that the internet isn't like gossiping to your airhead friend; it's something the entire world can see. Honestly, I think the judge did the right thing, and I'm a serious proponent of free speech.
No, you're not. The school has no authority whatsoever to punish a student for their actions while off campus. If it was libel, the principal should have sued the student, or at least got in contact with his parents. The school has no stake in this situation at all.
>Let's ask this question: what would happen to a school kid if he/she directed the same kind of provocative language at the principal or a school teacher, IN PERSON, either in the hallway or in a classroom?
I believe that is the whole point. The student *didn't* do anything in the school, therefore the school has no ability to punish him. Did you RTFA? What if this student had just graduated or was from a different district? The school has no more power to punish him in this case than it would in those.
>This case falls under libel and/or slander.
Both of those are civil cases, and they have nothing to do with the school. Fact is, a school has no power to punish you for your actions when you are not in school. The principal is using his government power to punish a student for a personal insult. The judge got this completely wrong, and hopefully the judgment will be overturned on appeal, as it should be.
So what's the average range on a paintball gun, and how long do you think it will take the authorities to clean off every red light sensor in the city?
Whether we were targeting them or not, they are equally as dead. I wonder what the civilian to 'terrorist' kill ratio is in Iraq? 5 to 1? 10 to 1? I can't imagine why the Muslim world thinks of the US as "The Great Satan".
The vast majority of his chemical weapons were destroyed under the watch of the UN after the first Gulf War. This is well documented for anyone who cares to look. The whole argument was over the few weapons that couldn't be accounted for because of bookkeeping errors and the regular amount of chaos that happens after your country is bombed to hell. Bush did lie about the status of those weapons for political reasons, just like Clinton did in 1998, but at least Clinton had the sense not to try and take over the whole country.
Lol! I wish I had thought of that phrase first.
Saves a lot of their lives? How many Iraqis would be alive today who are dead because of our "liberation" of them? 100,000? 500,000? Iraq is not a turd, the war in Iraq is. It was wrong from the beginning, and it's wrong now. The fact still remains that the day we leave is the day it collapses back into chaos, so we might as well leave today. All of it wasn't worth a single American life.
>It's possible to oppose the Iraq war without denying its progress since General Petraeus' takeover, the Anbar Awakening, the Surge, and whatever tech (real or fake) was mentioned in the article.
Ever heard the phrase "You can't polish a turd"?
>Man was unique, having free-will.
I've always wondered how Satan was able to rebel against God without free will.
>You wouldn't understand it now, but the old testament laws are meant to be a sharp contrast to new testament grace.
Seems to me that the man is very selective in the old testament laws he chooses to want enforced.
>They are not invading your rights.
You are utterly and completely wrong. If they intercept even a single cell phone conversation or email of mine without a warrant, they are violating my rights as spelled out in the US Constitution. It truly disgusts me that you give up your rights so easily.
>High speed data connections to every data center of every cell phone service provider. We are talking OC3s at a minimum.
Paying the network admins, sysadmins, production support analysts, managers, accountants, and executives of every company, even after they leave the company and/or industry. Oh, and some of those people will have to falsify financial reports, SOX compliance, etc. which can get them sent to jail, so it won't be cheap.
Is there something secret about this? Don't be even a little surprised if exactly the scenario spelled out at the start of this thread is exactly what's happening. The best part is, the telecoms have already been pardoned for their part in it all.
I believe the issue is the government not following the rules it is supposed to follow when it expects us to do the same. The weakness is allowing yourself to be monitored without rhyme or reason. The more information that they have on you, the easier you are to control.
That is *precisely* how I feel about it too. Being dead won't be any worse than the time before you were born. It's getting to that state that can be the bad part.
It's no different except for the constant hovering police escort, or the random interrogations.
No. It would not.
Biological neural networks are comprised of many more units of much higher complexity and containing much more variety than we could hope to simulate even on a tiny scale yet, even if we had a list of all the types of neurons and connections required.
I wouldn't say that.:
"Biologically detailed large-scale models of the brain can now be simulated thanks to increasingly powerful massively parallel supercomputers. We present an overview, for the general technical reader, of a neuronal network model of layers II/III of the neocortex built with biophysical model neurons. These simulations, carried out on an IBM Blue Gene/L(TM) supercomputer, comprise up to 22 million neurons and 11 billion synapses, which makes them the largest simulations of this type ever performed. Such model sizes correspond to the cortex of a small mammal."
>Firstly, these "universes" are purely theoretical, and they're function of the modification of a few constants, that doesn't mean they're actually out there.
Of course, just like any hypothetical universe where humans couldn't exist. By talking about how lucky we are to have this seemingly perfect set of constants that allow us to exist, there is the implicit assumption that any other universe *could* exist.
>Even if the universe were fine tuned so that the characteristics we see are a unique product of its basic configuration, what's to say there aren't an infinite number of other universes which also harbor unique characteristics as a result of their own basic configurations - features that may make them more conducive to what we would call life?
I don't understand where this whole idea that our universe is somehow fine-tuned for life even comes from. The vast, vast majority of the universe is utterly inhospitable to life. If anything, I'd have to say that it is fine tuned for making empty space, or maybe black holes. Life is so far down on the list of things being created, it is literally insignificant as a process in this universe.
>The cooked up story about people calling from cell phones while the plane was in flight? (Have you ever made a successful phone call while a plane was in flight at any altitude? I have tried over and over and over again and have never been successful and I simply don't buy that story at all.)
It all depends on where you happen to be flying over at the moment. If you're in the middle of the Pacific, you're probably not going to get a signal. But if you're flying over any reasonably populated area, it's not difficult to get a signal even 5 miles up. I just flew from Vegas to Cleveland a few weeks back and forgot to turn my phone off until in the middle of the trip and I had 2 bars showing then. I didn't actually make a call, but my phone was saying it was ok.
Besides, weren't those flights brought closer to the ground than they would usually be before they were crashed?
Not after they have been pardoned by Bush.