The supremacy clause is a constitutional power. The 10th amendment does not enumerate powers.
The inability of the federal government to cap speed limits directly is consistent with this since any point of a highway is only in one state at a time. The Zimmerman case as well is consistent with this since as you say it did not involve anything outside of a single state or any area where the federal government can specifically intervene in an otherwise purely intra-state matter. These examples only show that the supremacy clause doesn't completely negate state law, but this does not completely negate federal law either.
The gambling issue is *specifically* a case involving sites outside of a state's borders. The supremacy clause would not allow the federal government to force a state to have a purely state lottery or prohibit a purely state lottery, but it does allow the federal government to intervene if a state tried to prohibit its residents from possessing a lottery ticket from another state or in this case from gambling on a website that is located outside of the state
"and more like early America, where our forebears had little stake in maintaining the seemingly unjust control of foreign interests"
The difference is that "early America" had not yet agreed to any terms and was taking unilateral action, while in the current case the US *agreed to terms* and then reneged so Antigua pursued the remedy *that the US agreed to*.
"The problem is that the US federal government does not have the authority to mandate states allow gambling inside their borders or restrict them from allowing it."
Article Six does give the federal government the authority for the former with respect to transactions outside of the states borders.
31 inches is the pitch, i.e. the distance between corresponding parts of adjacent rows. If they make the back of the seat 1" thinner and reduce the pitch by 1" then the open space between the back of one seat and the front edge of the seat behind is constant.
"If their gamble is unsuccessful, they get what they paid for, and often end up sitting together anyway, because they'll just trade with the grateful soul who got "upgraded" out of the middle to the aisle or window."
Or they can turn out to be jackasses who won't move together and will talk over the top of you for the whole flight.
"What do you hope to gain by passing yet more laws that prohibit consenting adults from engaging in transactions that you think should be banned"
Accounting of external costs, which is recognized as a proper role of regulation in a free market, since the effects of the transaction are provably not limited to just those who are "consenting" to it.
In a way it's like the opposite of insider trading: since the trades are communicated faster than anything else, they cannot possibly be based on information.
'And what kind of problem you can have on a fab that is not a "defect density issue"?'
Systematic flaws, like all horizontal wires are printing 10% narrower than intended or the effective dielectric constant at a particular layer trails off evenly from the center of a wafer to the edges.
I am *shocked* by the thought that Steve Gibson would claim something as an innovative and original idea that turns out to be old and tired. Shocked, I tell you! Surely this has never happened before... (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/02/25/steve_gibson_invents_broken_syncookies/)
Someone bitches about how claims of a scientific result should be verified but are not, and the supporting evidence is examples of attempting to verify scientific results which are claimed to not be happening.
Good for you, but I can't necessarily tell the difference by smelling. I have to drink it, by which time I've drank bad milk. I think to would be helpful if I could avoid that situation.
Even more than true data getting out of some database, I fear false data getting in and accumulating. Someday, I will not be able to prove who I am because I won't be able to verify all of the false facts that have been stored about me.
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The supremacy clause is a constitutional power. The 10th amendment does not enumerate powers.
The inability of the federal government to cap speed limits directly is consistent with this since any point of a highway is only in one state at a time. The Zimmerman case as well is consistent with this since as you say it did not involve anything outside of a single state or any area where the federal government can specifically intervene in an otherwise purely intra-state matter. These examples only show that the supremacy clause doesn't completely negate state law, but this does not completely negate federal law either.
The gambling issue is *specifically* a case involving sites outside of a state's borders. The supremacy clause would not allow the federal government to force a state to have a purely state lottery or prohibit a purely state lottery, but it does allow the federal government to intervene if a state tried to prohibit its residents from possessing a lottery ticket from another state or in this case from gambling on a website that is located outside of the state
"and more like early America, where our forebears had little stake in maintaining the seemingly unjust control of foreign interests"
The difference is that "early America" had not yet agreed to any terms and was taking unilateral action, while in the current case the US *agreed to terms* and then reneged so Antigua pursued the remedy *that the US agreed to*.
"The problem is that the US federal government does not have the authority to mandate states allow gambling inside their borders or restrict them from allowing it."
Article Six does give the federal government the authority for the former with respect to transactions outside of the states borders.
I've always assumed that he relocated to a nice island somewhere, and the police were simply agreeing with the "fuck the damn commie libruls" defense.
" If you make your estimate based on what will happen if everything goes wrong, then your estimates will be a lot better. "
No, your estimates will still be inaccurate, just in somewhat different ways.
It's the difference between "average" and "median".
I guess Elon is out of luck, since he will only have the ENTIRE OCEAN.
Lithium ion batteries do not contain metallic lithium.
The flammable part of the battery is the organic solvent in the electrolyte.
"Duh: The Journal of the Insipidly Obvious"
Obviousness is not much of a basis for a scientific theory.
"communication and travels was much slower in the middle ages"
Not the question under study.
"not even like we're talking about a time when humanity was on the cusp of "small world" connectiveness."
Fact not in evidence.
"did not travel when they were infected with the bubonic plague."
Mostly irrelevant, since bubonic plague is only rarely transmitted directly from human to human.
The typical vectors is healthy animals (including humans) carrying the infected fleas around.
I have flown Lufthansa intra-Europe... those seats are something like lawn chairs.
I'm 5'5" and even I have trouble with my knees hitting the seat in front of me and my shoulders banging into my neighbors.
31 inches is the pitch, i.e. the distance between corresponding parts of adjacent rows. If they make the back of the seat 1" thinner and reduce the pitch by 1" then the open space between the back of one seat and the front edge of the seat behind is constant.
"If their gamble is unsuccessful, they get what they paid for, and often end up sitting together anyway, because they'll just trade with the grateful soul who got "upgraded" out of the middle to the aisle or window."
Or they can turn out to be jackasses who won't move together and will talk over the top of you for the whole flight.
"What do you hope to gain by passing yet more laws that prohibit consenting adults from engaging in transactions that you think should be banned"
Accounting of external costs, which is recognized as a proper role of regulation in a free market, since the effects of the transaction are provably not limited to just those who are "consenting" to it.
Why do you hate Adam Smith?
In a way it's like the opposite of insider trading: since the trades are communicated faster than anything else, they cannot possibly be based on information.
'And what kind of problem you can have on a fab that is not a "defect density issue"?'
Systematic flaws, like all horizontal wires are printing 10% narrower than intended or the effective dielectric constant at a particular layer trails off evenly from the center of a wafer to the edges.
I am *shocked* by the thought that Steve Gibson would claim something as an innovative and original idea that turns out to be old and tired. Shocked, I tell you! Surely this has never happened before... (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/02/25/steve_gibson_invents_broken_syncookies/)
Someone bitches about how claims of a scientific result should be verified but are not, and the supporting evidence is examples of attempting to verify scientific results which are claimed to not be happening.
Good for you, but I can't necessarily tell the difference by smelling. I have to drink it, by which time I've drank bad milk. I think to would be helpful if I could avoid that situation.
" Obama may be liberal but I don't think he's crooked."
Name 3 policies where Obama is to the left of Nixon.
"failed to prove the key elements of its case, including the claim that Cuban agreed to keep certain information confidential"
Who would believe that Mark Cuban could keep his mouth shut, even if he said he would?
"You didn't call the humongous bright thing an EXOSUN or EXOSTAR, so let's have some consistency here."
I don't, but astronomers do.
"People still cling to the idea of using the past to predict the future."
Do you think the sun will rise in the east tomorrow?
Even more than true data getting out of some database, I fear false data getting in and accumulating. Someday, I will not be able to prove who I am because I won't be able to verify all of the false facts that have been stored about me.