Minor correction: the Mormon church didn't spend money in support of Prop 8 (this is a matter of public record).
Actually, they spent massive amounts of money by donating to the National Organization for Marriage and the Yes on 8 Campaign, which in turn spent it supporting Prop 8. Of course, that's not a matter of public record because 14 states are currently suing the National Organization for Marriage for refusing to turn over their donor lists. Several sources have corroborated the claim that the vast majority of NOMs funds came from the Catholic and Mormon churches. And the California Fair Political Practices Commission even fined the Mormon Church for nondisclosure of political donations. And that ignores the huge effort they expended via door-to-door campaigns and providing manpower for other lobbying efforts.
So, maybe the public record doesn't show the contributions that the LDS Church made, but the fact remains that they were the single biggest contributor to the support of Prop 8.
I, on the other hand, find it more telling that people feel the need for the federal government to "magically" find rights where none existed before and ignore the actual PROCESS our framers put in place to amend the constitution. There are REASONS why its difficult to change the constitution -- one of which is that wild changes on emotional whims can rip this country apart.
I'd love to see where in our constitution it spells out exactly which rights straight people have, and which ones gay people have. Nobody is "magically" finding rights. It's spelled out in black and white, "all men are created equal". It can't get any plainer than that.
Being against homosexual marriage is *NOT* unusual or extreme by definition. In all 50 states, only about 7 or 8 allow it, and only 2 were by electoral choice of their respective peoples. Even the left-coast liberal state of California (who voted in President Obama for a second term by a wide margin) ALSO passed Prop 8 amending the constitution of the State of CA preventing homosexual marriage.
Actually, it's 12 states, plus the District of Columbia. And furthermore, it was 3 states, Washington, Maine, and Maryland who passed via a direct vote of the people, and 6 more, Vermont, New York, Rhode Island, Delaware, Minnesota, and the District of Columbia, who passed a vote in the legislature, representing the will of their constituents. Prop 8 in California passed because the Catholic Church and the Mormon Church spent untold millions of dollars campaigning for it. Polls in California before and since the vote show a decided majority of Californians support gay marriage.
People think that EXTREME? If so, to paraphrase a famous swordsman, "I do not think it means what you think it means".
When our country is READY to accept this issue without further polarizing us, it will pass an amendment. Until then, the fed should REALLY stay out of it.
The fed should not stay out of it. One of the express goals of our government is to protect minorities from the tyranny of the masses. That is exactly what is happening here. Saying that anyone should "stay out of it" is the same as saying, "We're doing a good job of marginalizing these people right now, don't go and do something that would change the status quo."
*I* find it much more telling that people feel the need to *insist* that the federal government deny gay people their rights, merely because *their* religious beliefs say that gay people are sinners.
And then they have the pathological gall to explicitly express that their rights are being trampled upon if someone suggests that gay people should have the same rights as everyone else.
And furthermore, the government has nothing to do with your "social ritual". Holy matrimony is a religious institution that the government does not regulate. Civil marriage is a contract between two people that the government administers. Just because people use the word "marriage" to refer to both of them does not mean that they are the same thing.
Wolfram Alpha does similar analysis with your Facebook data. Those bubble charts reveal some amazing insights on seemingly insufficient amounts of data.
Many continue to claim the Always-On function in SimCity is a DRM scheme. It’s not. People still want to argue about it. We can’t be any clearer – it’s not. Period.
EA continues to claim the Always-On function in SimCity is not a DRM scheme. It is. EA still wants to lie about it. We can't be any clearer - it is. Period.
I don't think that if you multiply all the known primes and add one you get a number that's guaranteed to be prime. All you get is a number that isn't divisible by any known prime. You could very well get a composite number whose factors are all bigger than the largest known prime.
You should get an AUTObuntu then. They've done all that work for you. You just get in it and go. The GNU/car is more for people who *LIKE* doing all that tinkering.
Adobe is still catching up after Apple yanked 64-bit Carbon support out from under them.
Boo-freakin-hoo!
Apple told developers ten years ago that Carbon was just a bridge to the new OS and that Cocoa was the way to go. Adobe knew full well that sooner or later, carbon applications were going to be second-class citizens; and spent the last ten years with their heads in the sand about it.
Actually, printing to the iPad is already dead simple (at least if you're on a Mac). Just drop an alias of the iTunes application in your ~/Library/PDF Services folder and name it "Print PDF to iPad". Then in the print dialog box, the PDF dropdown will have an entry to print to the iPad. It automatically creates the PDF and imports it to iTunes, ready to upload to your iPad the next time you sync.
All very good points, and more than likely those same laws apply to most states/countries. This is also why you actually should do more research before filing a patent, which apparently this guy did, which I'm pretty certain is not a trivial or cheap task.
Did you actually read the patent? IANAPL but it is very enlightening.
instead of using floating point for representing decimal numbers, one can of coarse easily use fixed point... for currency computations, just store every value multiplied by 100 and use some fancy printing routine to put the decimal point at the right position.
and if you're afraid that you might mix up floating point and fixed point numbers, just define a special type for the fixed-point numbers, and define corresponding overloaded operators... oh wait
Depends on the state. About half of the states legally require the electors to vote for whom the state tells them to.
Even in those states, the electors can still vote for whomever they wish. It's just that they potentially face state criminal charges after the fact for doing so.
The marketing department didn't get the memo about what file types aren't allowed to be shared. In the description on their own website it says:
Use This Product When You Want To... Listen to the music on your My Book World Edition drive while you're on vacation. I guess if your music isn't WMA, MP3, or AAC you're good to go. They say they block OOG too. I guess that means that you can share your OGG music.
The first amendment doesn't apply to people who operate big networks because the first amendment only specifies rights that the government can't take away. The people who operate the big networks also own said networks, and can dictate what they can and can't be used for with impunity.
The moon's cycle is about 29.5 days, which makes about 12.4 full moons a year. That means a blue moon about every 3 years.
The 17 blue moons in 20 years is due to two different definitions of what constitutes a blue moon. So, blue moons are twice as common, because there are two different ways to define what a blue moon is!
Actually, PGP and other encryption programs don't work this way. Your description is over-simplified. PGP uses a single-key algorithm with a random key to encrypt the message. (That's the x in your f[x] above.) That random key is then encrypted with the recipient's public key and placed in the header of the message. In order to decrypt the message, the recipient uses his private key to decrypt the header, retrieve the key to the message, then decrypt the message.
In order to support a backdoor, all the software has to do is encrypt the random key with the backdoor public key and append it to the header of the message.
This doesn't require any compromise of the security of the algorithms themselves. In fact, if you send an encrypted message to more than one recipient with the current version of PGP, you're doing exactly the same thing.
The compromise in security from a backdoor is that *every* message everywhere would be immediately and irrevocably exposed if the backdoor private key is ever discovered. It makes a very tantalizing target.
You young whippersnappers don't know much abour crappy mail systems. You're half right when you say that Lotus Notes is the worst mail system known to mankind, because that's what Lotus gave us to save us from the unique hell that was Lotus cc:Mail.
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Minor correction: the Mormon church didn't spend money in support of Prop 8 (this is a matter of public record).
Actually, they spent massive amounts of money by donating to the National Organization for Marriage and the Yes on 8 Campaign, which in turn spent it supporting Prop 8. Of course, that's not a matter of public record because 14 states are currently suing the National Organization for Marriage for refusing to turn over their donor lists. Several sources have corroborated the claim that the vast majority of NOMs funds came from the Catholic and Mormon churches. And the California Fair Political Practices Commission even fined the Mormon Church for nondisclosure of political donations. And that ignores the huge effort they expended via door-to-door campaigns and providing manpower for other lobbying efforts.
So, maybe the public record doesn't show the contributions that the LDS Church made, but the fact remains that they were the single biggest contributor to the support of Prop 8.
I, on the other hand, find it more telling that people feel the need for the federal government to "magically" find rights where none existed before and ignore the actual PROCESS our framers put in place to amend the constitution. There are REASONS why its difficult to change the constitution -- one of which is that wild changes on emotional whims can rip this country apart.
I'd love to see where in our constitution it spells out exactly which rights straight people have, and which ones gay people have. Nobody is "magically" finding rights. It's spelled out in black and white, "all men are created equal". It can't get any plainer than that.
Being against homosexual marriage is *NOT* unusual or extreme by definition. In all 50 states, only about 7 or 8 allow it, and only 2 were by electoral choice of their respective peoples. Even the left-coast liberal state of California (who voted in President Obama for a second term by a wide margin) ALSO passed Prop 8 amending the constitution of the State of CA preventing homosexual marriage.
Actually, it's 12 states, plus the District of Columbia. And furthermore, it was 3 states, Washington, Maine, and Maryland who passed via a direct vote of the people, and 6 more, Vermont, New York, Rhode Island, Delaware, Minnesota, and the District of Columbia, who passed a vote in the legislature, representing the will of their constituents. Prop 8 in California passed because the Catholic Church and the Mormon Church spent untold millions of dollars campaigning for it. Polls in California before and since the vote show a decided majority of Californians support gay marriage.
People think that EXTREME? If so, to paraphrase a famous swordsman, "I do not think it means what you think it means".
When our country is READY to accept this issue without further polarizing us, it will pass an amendment. Until then, the fed should REALLY stay out of it.
The fed should not stay out of it. One of the express goals of our government is to protect minorities from the tyranny of the masses. That is exactly what is happening here. Saying that anyone should "stay out of it" is the same as saying, "We're doing a good job of marginalizing these people right now, don't go and do something that would change the status quo."
*I* find it much more telling that people feel the need to *insist* that the federal government deny gay people their rights, merely because *their* religious beliefs say that gay people are sinners.
And then they have the pathological gall to explicitly express that their rights are being trampled upon if someone suggests that gay people should have the same rights as everyone else.
And furthermore, the government has nothing to do with your "social ritual". Holy matrimony is a religious institution that the government does not regulate. Civil marriage is a contract between two people that the government administers. Just because people use the word "marriage" to refer to both of them does not mean that they are the same thing.
Wolfram Alpha does similar analysis with your Facebook data. Those bubble charts reveal some amazing insights on seemingly insufficient amounts of data.
Many continue to claim the Always-On function in SimCity is a DRM scheme. It’s not. People still want to argue about it. We can’t be any clearer – it’s not. Period.
EA continues to claim the Always-On function in SimCity is not a DRM scheme. It is. EA still wants to lie about it. We can't be any clearer - it is. Period.
Hornet's nest, meet boot.
I don't think that if you multiply all the known primes and add one you get a number that's guaranteed to be prime. All you get is a number that isn't divisible by any known prime. You could very well get a composite number whose factors are all bigger than the largest known prime.
Update 13 is already out, and *not* blocked by Apple. All that's blocked are the old, insecure (well, more insecure) versions.
I bet the first thing you'll be able to watch on this device is "Duke Nukem Forever: The Movie".
You should get an AUTObuntu then. They've done all that work for you. You just get in it and go. The GNU/car is more for people who *LIKE* doing all that tinkering.
Boo-freakin-hoo! Apple told developers ten years ago that Carbon was just a bridge to the new OS and that Cocoa was the way to go. Adobe knew full well that sooner or later, carbon applications were going to be second-class citizens; and spent the last ten years with their heads in the sand about it.
Actually, printing to the iPad is already dead simple (at least if you're on a Mac). Just drop an alias of the iTunes application in your ~/Library/PDF Services folder and name it "Print PDF to iPad". Then in the print dialog box, the PDF dropdown will have an entry to print to the iPad. It automatically creates the PDF and imports it to iTunes, ready to upload to your iPad the next time you sync.
All very good points, and more than likely those same laws apply to most states/countries. This is also why you actually should do more research before filing a patent, which apparently this guy did, which I'm pretty certain is not a trivial or cheap task.
Did you actually read the patent? IANAPL but it is very enlightening.
instead of using floating point for representing decimal numbers, one can of coarse easily use fixed point... for currency computations, just store every value multiplied by 100 and use some fancy printing routine to put the decimal point at the right position.
and if you're afraid that you might mix up floating point and fixed point numbers, just define a special type for the fixed-point numbers, and define corresponding overloaded operators... oh wait
Do you work for these guys?
Depends on the state. About half of the states legally require the electors to vote for whom the state tells them to.
Even in those states, the electors can still vote for whomever they wish. It's just that they potentially face state criminal charges after the fact for doing so.
doubleplusgood warmfuzzy protection for all your digital lifestyles!
It can compress anything! At the demo, I saw them compress 25 oz. of snake oil so that it all fit in a 1 oz. jar!
The first amendment doesn't apply to people who operate big networks because the first amendment only specifies rights that the government can't take away. The people who operate the big networks also own said networks, and can dictate what they can and can't be used for with impunity.
The moon's cycle is about 29.5 days, which makes about 12.4 full moons a year. That means a blue moon about every 3 years.
The 17 blue moons in 20 years is due to two different definitions of what constitutes a blue moon. So, blue moons are twice as common, because there are two different ways to define what a blue moon is!
Come on guys! April Fool's Day was almost 3 weeks ago, this joke is *really* late.
Actually, PGP and other encryption programs don't work this way. Your description is over-simplified. PGP uses a single-key algorithm with a random key to encrypt the message. (That's the x in your f[x] above.) That random key is then encrypted with the recipient's public key and placed in the header of the message. In order to decrypt the message, the recipient uses his private key to decrypt the header, retrieve the key to the message, then decrypt the message.
In order to support a backdoor, all the software has to do is encrypt the random key with the backdoor public key and append it to the header of the message.
This doesn't require any compromise of the security of the algorithms themselves. In fact, if you send an encrypted message to more than one recipient with the current version of PGP, you're doing exactly the same thing.
The compromise in security from a backdoor is that *every* message everywhere would be immediately and irrevocably exposed if the backdoor private key is ever discovered. It makes a very tantalizing target.
You young whippersnappers don't know much abour crappy mail systems. You're half right when you say that Lotus Notes is the worst mail system known to mankind, because that's what Lotus gave us to save us from the unique hell that was Lotus cc:Mail.
In comparison, Lotus Notes is manna from heaven.
Except you forgot to buy WinXP.