Diplomacy and politics are all about mindshare. Economies are all about marketshare. If the US software economy starts to falter because of crappy legislation, then everyone suffers, including the government; less tax revenue, fewer trumps to play in foreign relations, etc.
Yes, Americans are sheep (hopefully they'll at least remain armed sheep...). But, government still can't quite dictate reality in the way it can in 1984, because we still have wars and real interactions with foreign states (both lacking in Orwell's world). It's probably the only Orwellian idea that hasn't come to pass (yet).
Parental consent laws (concerning abortion) are founded on the idea that parenting is a fundamental right protected by the constitution (Stanley v. Illinois, etc.). So, the parent can inflict his right to parent upon the child, prevent her from having an abortion, have her give birth, and therefore implicate her fundamental right to parent? What morons!
See Cummings v. Missouri (striking down anti-conferderate loyalty oaths) and US v. Brown (excluding communists as officers of unions). The sexual offender was convicted of a crime and served his penalty for that crime. Any additional punishment inflicted retroactively is unconstitutional: Article I, Section 9, "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed."
The problem is, no one likes sex offenders, and so no one has any qualms about violating their rights.
Historically speaking, in England, "livestock" was anything with four legs and a tail, and was therefore taxed. You may have noticed that English sheepdogs have been bred not to have tails. It seems the economy interprets taxes as damage and reroutes around them (to do some paraphrasing).
Proof that slashdot trolls are little kiddies
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It's 1am EST and out of 21 messages, there hasn't been a single "LINUX ROOLZ, BSD SUX" (or vice versa) post. It's all been civil (and mostly positive), and that's just as it should be. I guess it's past the trolls' bedtimes.
(Of course by the time I've said this, the euro-trolls will be waking up and logging in.)
I know women who specifically went into computer science back in the early-mid sixties because, as a field, it was too new to be completely dominated by men. We can all see how long that lasted, eh?
Civil law systems have had a long history of trying to lawyer-proof the legal system by making laws so clear that there's no need for interpretation, but it has pretty much always been a rousing failure. Complexity is inherrent in any such system, 'cause the competing interests that the legal system is supposed to arbitrate are inherrently multifaceted (and well-funded).
When will government (or individuals using government to their ends) stop trampling on the disfranchised? Not in this universe.
... mostly a matter of mass. For all intents and purposes, Jupiter is a brown dwarf. No cookie for anyone who retorts: "The difference between a star and my [object] is just a matter of mass."
Currently, if my threshhold is set to 1 and I check "Reparent Highly Rated Comments", then any registered user's followup (no matter how asinine) to a -1 post is reparented and displayed. I would think the purpose of reparenting would be to catch the +2 or +3 responses, but there's no way to have only that happen under the current implemenation.
I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress. -- John Adams (1776)
In your interpretation, "fighting" is a gerund. Gerunds are modified by adverbs (as in "fleeing quickly"), but when used with a copulating verb ("be", "seem", etc.) take adjectives.
Of course, he probably was trying to use "fighting" as an adjectival participle to modify "robots", in which case he should've made his numbers agree.
spelt \Spelt\, imp. & p. p. of Spell. Spelled. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
spelt \Spelt\, n. [AS. spelt, fr. L. spelta.] (Bot.) A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; -- called also German wheat.
smelt \Smelt\, n. [AS. smelt, smylt; akin to Dan. smelt.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small silvery salmonoid fishes of the genus Osmerus and allied genera, which ascend rivers to spawn, and sometimes become landlocked in lakes. They are esteemed as food, and have a peculiar odor and taste.
Note: The most important species are the European smelt (Osmerus eperlans) (called also eperlan, sparling, and spirling), the Eastern American smelt (O. mordax), the California smelt (O. thalichthys), and the surf smelt (Hypomesus olidus). The name is loosely applied to various other small fishes, as the lant, the California tomcod, the spawn eater, the silverside.
2. Fig.: A gull; a simpleton. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
Sand smelt (Zo["o]l.), the silverside. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
smelt \Smelt\, imp. & p. p. of Smell. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
smelt \Smelt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smelted; p. pr. & vb. n. Smelting.] [Of foreign origin; cf. Sw. sm["a]lta, D. smelten, Dan. smelte, Icel. smelta, G. schmelzen OHG. smelzan, smelzen; probably akin to Gr. ?????. Cf. Enamel, Melt, Mute, v. i., Smalt.] (Metal.) To melt or fuse, as, ore, for the purpose of separating and refining the metal; hence, to reduce; to refine; to flux or scorify; as, to smelt tin. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
The reason why schools are allowed to search lockers is that the school loans the locker to the student and never actually relinquishes ownership of it. The 4th amendment (made applicable to the states via the 14th amendment) still applies to minor students.
The line item veto has not been found unconstitutional, since it's really just a procedural motion (all appropriations bills are automatically broken up into lots of little bills that each stand individually). Congress is permitted to define its own procedures on matters such as these.
This, however, is not an appropriations bill and therefore the line item veto doesn't apply.
actually, athletics does produce some progress
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Think of it as NASCAR for humans. Many of our recent advances in medicine have come from putting humans back together after we take them apart on the field.
That being said, I'm more in favor of space research.
Lots of fun it was. That was when I first learned how to turn a battery into a resistor by putting it into one of the plastic cases and connecting the one terminal to the other. It's a wonder I didn't blow myself up or at least scald myself. The buggers did get warm, though.
Much more fun than construx or lincoln logs. YMMV.
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Diplomacy and politics are all about mindshare. Economies are all about marketshare. If the US software economy starts to falter because of crappy legislation, then everyone suffers, including the government; less tax revenue, fewer trumps to play in foreign relations, etc.
Yes, Americans are sheep (hopefully they'll at least remain armed sheep...). But, government still can't quite dictate reality in the way it can in 1984, because we still have wars and real interactions with foreign states (both lacking in Orwell's world). It's probably the only Orwellian idea that hasn't come to pass (yet).
Parental consent laws (concerning abortion) are founded on the idea that parenting is a fundamental right protected by the constitution (Stanley v. Illinois, etc.). So, the parent can inflict his right to parent upon the child, prevent her from having an abortion, have her give birth, and therefore implicate her fundamental right to parent? What morons!
See Cummings v. Missouri (striking down anti-conferderate loyalty oaths) and US v. Brown (excluding communists as officers of unions). The sexual offender was convicted of a crime and served his penalty for that crime. Any additional punishment inflicted retroactively is unconstitutional: Article I, Section 9, "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed."
The problem is, no one likes sex offenders, and so no one has any qualms about violating their rights.
Historically speaking, in England, "livestock" was anything with four legs and a tail, and was therefore taxed. You may have noticed that English sheepdogs have been bred not to have tails. It seems the economy interprets taxes as damage and reroutes around them (to do some paraphrasing).
It's 1am EST and out of 21 messages, there hasn't been a single "LINUX ROOLZ, BSD SUX" (or vice versa) post. It's all been civil (and mostly positive), and that's just as it should be. I guess it's past the trolls' bedtimes.
(Of course by the time I've said this, the euro-trolls will be waking up and logging in.)
I know women who specifically went into computer science back in the early-mid sixties because, as a field, it was too new to be completely dominated by men. We can all see how long that lasted, eh?
Civil law systems have had a long history of trying to lawyer-proof the legal system by making laws so clear that there's no need for interpretation, but it has pretty much always been a rousing failure. Complexity is inherrent in any such system, 'cause the competing interests that the legal system is supposed to arbitrate are inherrently multifaceted (and well-funded).
When will government (or individuals using government to their ends) stop trampling on the disfranchised? Not in this universe.
... mostly a matter of mass. For all intents and purposes, Jupiter is a brown dwarf. No cookie for anyone who retorts: "The difference between a star and my [object] is just a matter of mass."
Currently, if my threshhold is set to 1 and I check "Reparent Highly Rated Comments", then any registered user's followup (no matter how asinine) to a -1 post is reparented and displayed. I would think the purpose of reparenting would be to catch the +2 or +3 responses, but there's no way to have only that happen under the current implemenation.
"Political power ... I take to be the right of making laws with the penalty of death." -- John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress. -- John Adams (1776)
In your interpretation, "fighting" is a gerund. Gerunds are modified by adverbs (as in "fleeing quickly"), but when used with a copulating verb ("be", "seem", etc.) take adjectives.
Of course, he probably was trying to use "fighting" as an adjectival participle to modify "robots", in which case he should've made his numbers agree.
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It's the clause that reads "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed." Read &graph url=&court=US&case=/us/3/386.html">Calder v. Bull (1798 for the binding precedent.
... has been doing this for a few years now. Here or here.
spelt \Spelt\, imp. & p. p. of Spell. Spelled.
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Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
spelt \Spelt\, n. [AS. spelt, fr. L. spelta.] (Bot.) A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; -- called also German wheat.
smelt \Smelt\, n. [AS. smelt, smylt; akin to Dan. smelt.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small silvery salmonoid fishes of the genus Osmerus and allied genera, which ascend rivers to spawn, and sometimes become landlocked in lakes. They are esteemed as food, and have a peculiar odor and taste.
Note: The most important species are the European smelt (Osmerus eperlans) (called also eperlan, sparling, and spirling), the Eastern American smelt (O. mordax), the California smelt (O. thalichthys), and the surf smelt (Hypomesus olidus). The name is loosely applied to various other small fishes, as the lant, the California tomcod, the spawn eater, the silverside.
2. Fig.: A gull; a simpleton. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
Sand smelt (Zo["o]l.), the silverside.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
smelt \Smelt\, imp. & p. p. of Smell.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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smelt \Smelt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smelted; p. pr. & vb. n. Smelting.] [Of foreign origin; cf. Sw. sm["a]lta, D. smelten, Dan. smelte, Icel. smelta, G. schmelzen OHG. smelzan, smelzen; probably akin to Gr. ?????. Cf. Enamel, Melt, Mute, v. i., Smalt.] (Metal.) To melt or fuse, as, ore, for the purpose of separating and refining the metal; hence, to reduce; to refine; to flux or scorify; as, to smelt tin.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
The program was called "gatekeeper". "Gateway" is a computer manufacturer with the customer-service record of your average virus.
The reason why schools are allowed to search lockers is that the school loans the locker to the student and never actually relinquishes ownership of it. The 4th amendment (made applicable to the states via the 14th amendment) still applies to minor students.
That was a story on theOnion a while ago. It's parody.
The trojans were the ones who accepted the gift (from the Greeks).
The line item veto has not been found unconstitutional, since it's really just a procedural motion (all appropriations bills are automatically broken up into lots of little bills that each stand individually). Congress is permitted to define its own procedures on matters such as these.
This, however, is not an appropriations bill and therefore the line item veto doesn't apply.
Think of it as NASCAR for humans. Many of our recent advances in medicine have come from putting humans back together after we take them apart on the field.
That being said, I'm more in favor of space research.
you know what to do
... until Hodgeson decided that 2000 was just too close. The original poster does demonstrate his ignorance, however. Gawd, I miss that show.
Lots of fun it was. That was when I first learned how to turn a battery into a resistor by putting it into one of the plastic cases and connecting the one terminal to the other. It's a wonder I didn't blow myself up or at least scald myself. The buggers did get warm, though.
Much more fun than construx or lincoln logs. YMMV.