Marriage was around long before the US government existed, and it was used by churches long before the US government existed,
IIRC there have been times in the past where Christian churches have been somewhat anti-marriage. What about temples, mosques, synagogues, etc? As well as a myriad of non monotheistic faiths.
and it always meant a union between a man and a woman.
Except that this isn't the case. The Bible (even in the New Testament) defines marriage to include one man and an arbitraty number of women. AFAIK it does not exclude any possible grouping. There's also an entity called "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" which actually originates in the USA...
Why "close"? This is government officials, who have a duty to (and many are even sworn to) serve their country, intentionally placing the interests of a foreign country above theirs where there is a clear conflict of interests. My common sense tells me that this is textbook treason.
According to the textbook it would be "treason" if it involved a regular member of the public. When an official of the state does this it is "high treason".
they already know that governments are full of lying sacks of shit. in fact all governments are liars and murderers. yes even yours.
I'm not sure that politicians can be reasonably compared with bags of organic fertiliser. Since they are typically rather less use in helping plants to grow. It also appears quite common in the "developed" world for people to believe that however bad past governments have proven to be the current one is fine or that members of a political party they support are much better than other politicans.
They may be out there, but the unfortunate part is that none of them initiate the conversations. I don't consider myself an unattractive person, but I've never had a woman wink/poke/etc. or initiate conversation.
Which is an interesting question to ask of many "feminists".
Perhaps 'timewaster' was the wrong choice of word.
The term is rather subjective.
Compare that to a pay site, where there will be fewer people sending messages (because to do so involves the commitment of paying a sub), and the recipient is likely to read every message properly, (because they paid a sub, and dammit they want to get value from it).
On the other hand the paying of a sub may actually tend to eliminate the kind of people you want to meet.
There is the complication that you may be writing to a user who's still on the free tariff of course.
It could be that a "free" user is restricted in the number of messages and/or replies they can send. The other complication is that all subscriptions may not be equal. Which whilst obvious (and typically sexist) in some cases could be quite difficult to detect if a price is only displayed when "upgrading" from free.
Of course, "works" is somewhat hazily defined. What does "works" mean?
- Your message gets a response?
- Your message eventually results in a date?
- Your message eventually results in sex?
- Your message eventually results in marriage?
OK Cupid's stats seems to be all about the first one -- which admittedly is an important first step towards any of the others.
It's also the only one they can really measure. People are unlikely to provide feedback on any of the others from the list. As well as possibly changing to a different communication media. Also the last two have the strange property of many cultures expecting everyone to want them. In just about any other context the idea of everybody wanting (or even liking) the same thing would be dismissed out of hand.
Worst of all is that recent cameras seem to be going back to the late '90s method of using a proprietary transfer method that requires a special application. What's wrong with USB Mass Storage mode? None of the recent consumer cams have it.
How many of these cameras store their pictures some kind of removable SD card...
figure out exactly how much "damage" would be reasonable for a kid at say 4-6 7-9 10-12 and then when a lawsuit comes down the pike that is within those guidelines stamp the papers
DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE
and then go on to the next case
This can only happen if the case actually gets before a judge. If an "our of court settlement" is involved judges can do nothing,
Cops have a really thick book of possible tickets to write but if the infraction isn't exciting or "sexy". the cops aren't writing tickets. Far and away the most common root cause of accidents works out to failure to yield right-of-way. This can be from obliviousness (cells and whatnot), aggression, stupidity, ignorance, etc. When this driving behavior is witnessed a police officer is more likely to just give a warning. And this is what is killing people.
If it is a "sexy" infraction the cops are all over it. Speeding which is a root cause in accidents in very low rates (I have seen figures listed on the high side at 4% and on the low side at about 1%). Why is this the vast majority of tickets written? Because it is exciting.
It's also very easy to make a machine which can detect speeding.
Cell phones have been given such a big public blitz (for good reason) and it is easy to see so it is now a big enforcement item.
But quite possibly against traffic laws 40 plus years old.
Does addons.mozilla.org offer private hosting of bespoke addons used by a single company? Does addons.mozilla.org offer hosting of addons whose use requires payment? Or is addons.mozilla.org intended solely for addons intended for public use at no charge?
A couple of additional issues. Have Mozilla ever sorted out the problems with updating global addons? (Or even installing them in the first place...) This is an HTTPS site, thus can't be easily cached.
I don't want the steaming turd that is a weekly build... I want something which has been tested and has demonstrated itself to be somewhat stable. I sure as hell don't want the latest build because some guy decided to add a new feature and expects me to upgrade my production system to try it out for him.
Especially if those new "features" are on by default. Even worst if things you are using start disappearing at random.
I don't care what the "reasoning" is - this is just ridiculous versioning. At this rate in 2020, we'll be using Firefox 153. It will be confusing for the users.
Or maybe they could just start picking numbers at random.
The whole purpose of the point system is to separate major changes from trivial changes. 4.01 is a bug fix. 4.1 is an upgrade. 5.0 means you gave your program a whole new look (or possibly a complete rewrite).
Thunderbird has also suddenly gone to 5.0. Probably less than the change between versions 2 and 3 though...
I'm still using Firefox 3.x and hearing they are now on version 8 makes me think the MARKETERS have taken over Mozilla, instead of the persons who have brains.(i.e. engineers, programmers)
Interesting that the article says that co.cc is being managed by a company in Korea. When CC is The Cocos Islands and Keeling Islands, a territory of Australia. (Christmas Island, CX is also an Australian territory.)
co.ck would be The Cook Islands, which is a semi-autonomous part of New Zealand.
How do you propose to keep it below 20.28K? Especially considering that the lowest ambient temperature recorded on the planet is 184K. Even the coldest planet in the Solar System has a minimum temperature of 49K
It's true that any company can discriminate their customers at their free will. But they can not do this if they dominate the market. If you want to earn money and customers use credit cards to pay you and out of a sudden 96% of the credit cards are no longer accepted, then this is an abuse of market dominance. If 1% of cards wouldnt work, then nobody would care.
IIRC there are situations where a company having 20-30% of a market can be subject to laws protecting customers from monopolies.
Energy companies bill in Kilo-watt hours, though. You pay some number of cents per kWh. So to calculate costs, you have to multiply it right back in. It would be more scientificially proper to measure in Joules, perhaps, or even kJoules, but that unit would be one very small fraction a a cent. kWh works out nice, because it translates into an easily grasped monitary amount.
A kWh is 3.6MJ. So you'd probably be better off using MJs or GJs if wanted to know how much energy your bill translates to.
Well except when it's an ongoing investigation or sources are in danger if they are revealed or it's the home addresses of undercover agents or jurors or information regarding people in a witness protection program or...
Without proper oversight any secrecy is likely to be used to protect criminal, corrupt and inept police officers.
I'm not saying he was either (Hawaii has certified through ordinary means that he was born there, case closed).
Actually case not closed. Since the question of Hawaii being lawfully part of the USA still remains.
Ironically when it would be far easier to close the case by proving him to be the son of a US citizen...
Harold Koh is one of the big lawyers supporting the air strikes for the Administration. He condemns Republicans for going to war without authorization when in academia, but was brought into the Administration with President Obama, and since has changed his tune a bit.
Sounds typical for a politician.
It should be interesting to see (1) if a Republican president keeps him on whenever one next gets elected and (2) whether he will return to academia and try to walk back his current position.
Depends what matters to him more. Position or political party...
On the upside, $10M a day is going mostly to our military industrial complex, which pumps some money into the economy. Also on the upside, getting rid of tyrants.
There may be better ways (for the US economy and/or people) to spend that amount of money. As for getting rid of tyrants it's probably easier to stop funding them in the first place.
It comes down to laziness on the part of legislators and prosecutors. Rather than stipulating the sorts of actions which are criminal, which can become bogged down in specific terminology, it's much easier to just say that in order to have the typical tools required to perform the act in the first place, you must register. Not registering but still having the tools then becomes a criminal offense, and that's ever so much tidier and easier to prosecute.
It also leads to situations like someone who simply has a tool (such as a gun) getting a more severe sentence than someone who's actually killed.
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Marriage was around long before the US government existed, and it was used by churches long before the US government existed,
IIRC there have been times in the past where Christian churches have been somewhat anti-marriage. What about temples, mosques, synagogues, etc? As well as a myriad of non monotheistic faiths.
and it always meant a union between a man and a woman.
Except that this isn't the case. The Bible (even in the New Testament) defines marriage to include one man and an arbitraty number of women. AFAIK it does not exclude any possible grouping. There's also an entity called "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" which actually originates in the USA...
Why "close"? This is government officials, who have a duty to (and many are even sworn to) serve their country, intentionally placing the interests of a foreign country above theirs where there is a clear conflict of interests. My common sense tells me that this is textbook treason.
According to the textbook it would be "treason" if it involved a regular member of the public. When an official of the state does this it is "high treason".
Yes, true, but in many circumstances, it's important to know the specifics.
But only really necessary if they are going to be prosecuted...
they already know that governments are full of lying sacks of shit. in fact all governments are liars and murderers. yes even yours.
I'm not sure that politicians can be reasonably compared with bags of organic fertiliser. Since they are typically rather less use in helping plants to grow.
It also appears quite common in the "developed" world for people to believe that however bad past governments have proven to be the current one is fine or that members of a political party they support are much better than other politicans.
They may be out there, but the unfortunate part is that none of them initiate the conversations. I don't consider myself an unattractive person, but I've never had a woman wink/poke/etc. or initiate conversation.
Which is an interesting question to ask of many "feminists".
Perhaps 'timewaster' was the wrong choice of word.
The term is rather subjective.
Compare that to a pay site, where there will be fewer people sending messages (because to do so involves the commitment of paying a sub), and the recipient is likely to read every message properly, (because they paid a sub, and dammit they want to get value from it).
On the other hand the paying of a sub may actually tend to eliminate the kind of people you want to meet.
There is the complication that you may be writing to a user who's still on the free tariff of course.
It could be that a "free" user is restricted in the number of messages and/or replies they can send. The other complication is that all subscriptions may not be equal. Which whilst obvious (and typically sexist) in some cases could be quite difficult to detect if a price is only displayed when "upgrading" from free.
Of course, "works" is somewhat hazily defined. What does "works" mean?
- Your message gets a response?
- Your message eventually results in a date?
- Your message eventually results in sex?
- Your message eventually results in marriage?
OK Cupid's stats seems to be all about the first one -- which admittedly is an important first step towards any of the others.
It's also the only one they can really measure. People are unlikely to provide feedback on any of the others from the list. As well as possibly changing to a different communication media.
Also the last two have the strange property of many cultures expecting everyone to want them. In just about any other context the idea of everybody wanting (or even liking) the same thing would be dismissed out of hand.
Worst of all is that recent cameras seem to be going back to the late '90s method of using a proprietary transfer method that requires a special application. What's wrong with USB Mass Storage mode? None of the recent consumer cams have it.
How many of these cameras store their pictures some kind of removable SD card...
This would be the first device built in the last decade that lasts longer than ones built 30 years ago.
What proportion of "consumer grade" electronic devices from the early 1980's are still in use now?
figure out exactly how much "damage" would be reasonable for a kid at say 4-6 7-9 10-12 and then when a lawsuit comes down the pike that is within those guidelines stamp the papers
DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE
and then go on to the next case
This can only happen if the case actually gets before a judge. If an "our of court settlement" is involved judges can do nothing,
Cops have a really thick book of possible tickets to write but if the infraction isn't exciting or "sexy". the cops aren't writing tickets. Far and away the most common root cause of accidents works out to failure to yield right-of-way. This can be from obliviousness (cells and whatnot), aggression, stupidity, ignorance, etc. When this driving behavior is witnessed a police officer is more likely to just give a warning. And this is what is killing people.
If it is a "sexy" infraction the cops are all over it. Speeding which is a root cause in accidents in very low rates (I have seen figures listed on the high side at 4% and on the low side at about 1%). Why is this the vast majority of tickets written? Because it is exciting.
It's also very easy to make a machine which can detect speeding.
Cell phones have been given such a big public blitz (for good reason) and it is easy to see so it is now a big enforcement item.
But quite possibly against traffic laws 40 plus years old.
my company is planning a move away from mozilla because of the user installable plugins / add ons - why oh why under the home directory.
You can install them with the program and available to all users. It just isn't well documented and apparently can't be done via the regular GUI.
Does addons.mozilla.org offer private hosting of bespoke addons used by a single company? Does addons.mozilla.org offer hosting of addons whose use requires payment? Or is addons.mozilla.org intended solely for addons intended for public use at no charge?
A couple of additional issues. Have Mozilla ever sorted out the problems with updating global addons? (Or even installing them in the first place...) This is an HTTPS site, thus can't be easily cached.
I don't want the steaming turd that is a weekly build ... I want something which has been tested and has demonstrated itself to be somewhat stable. I sure as hell don't want the latest build because some guy decided to add a new feature and expects me to upgrade my production system to try it out for him.
Especially if those new "features" are on by default. Even worst if things you are using start disappearing at random.
I don't care what the "reasoning" is - this is just ridiculous versioning. At this rate in 2020, we'll be using Firefox 153. It will be confusing for the users.
.(i.e. engineers, programmers)
Or maybe they could just start picking numbers at random.
The whole purpose of the point system is to separate major changes from trivial changes. 4.01 is a bug fix. 4.1 is an upgrade. 5.0 means you gave your program a whole new look (or possibly a complete rewrite).
Thunderbird has also suddenly gone to 5.0. Probably less than the change between versions 2 and 3 though...
I'm still using Firefox 3.x and hearing they are now on version 8 makes me think the MARKETERS have taken over Mozilla, instead of the persons who have brains
Was there ever a version 6 of Firefox..
Interesting that the article says that co.cc is being managed by a company in Korea. When CC is The Cocos Islands and Keeling Islands, a territory of Australia. (Christmas Island, CX is also an Australian territory.)
co.ck would be The Cook Islands, which is a semi-autonomous part of New Zealand.
Liquid hydrogen is the way to go.
How do you propose to keep it below 20.28K? Especially considering that the lowest ambient temperature recorded on the planet is 184K. Even the coldest planet in the Solar System has a minimum temperature of 49K
It's true that any company can discriminate their customers at their free will. But they can not do this if they dominate the market. If you want to earn money and customers use credit cards to pay you and out of a sudden 96% of the credit cards are no longer accepted, then this is an abuse of market dominance. If 1% of cards wouldnt work, then nobody would care.
IIRC there are situations where a company having 20-30% of a market can be subject to laws protecting customers from monopolies.
Energy companies bill in Kilo-watt hours, though. You pay some number of cents per kWh. So to calculate costs, you have to multiply it right back in. It would be more scientificially proper to measure in Joules, perhaps, or even kJoules, but that unit would be one very small fraction a a cent. kWh works out nice, because it translates into an easily grasped monitary amount.
A kWh is 3.6MJ. So you'd probably be better off using MJs or GJs if wanted to know how much energy your bill translates to.
Well except when it's an ongoing investigation or sources are in danger if they are revealed or it's the home addresses of undercover agents or jurors or information regarding people in a witness protection program or ...
Without proper oversight any secrecy is likely to be used to protect criminal, corrupt and inept police officers.
I think the USA is probably the only country to have all their notes in varying shades of the same colour.
How many countries, other than the US, have notes which are all the same size?
I'm not saying he was either (Hawaii has certified through ordinary means that he was born there, case closed).
Actually case not closed. Since the question of Hawaii being lawfully part of the USA still remains.
Ironically when it would be far easier to close the case by proving him to be the son of a US citizen...
The U.S. government is EXTREMELY corrupt
Corruption appears to be an intrinsic part of any government beyond a certain size.
Harold Koh is one of the big lawyers supporting the air strikes for the Administration. He condemns Republicans for going to war without authorization when in academia, but was brought into the Administration with President Obama, and since has changed his tune a bit.
Sounds typical for a politician.
It should be interesting to see (1) if a Republican president keeps him on whenever one next gets elected and (2) whether he will return to academia and try to walk back his current position.
Depends what matters to him more. Position or political party...
On the upside, $10M a day is going mostly to our military industrial complex, which pumps some money into the economy. Also on the upside, getting rid of tyrants.
There may be better ways (for the US economy and/or people) to spend that amount of money. As for getting rid of tyrants it's probably easier to stop funding them in the first place.
It comes down to laziness on the part of legislators and prosecutors. Rather than stipulating the sorts of actions which are criminal, which can become bogged down in specific terminology, it's much easier to just say that in order to have the typical tools required to perform the act in the first place, you must register. Not registering but still having the tools then becomes a criminal offense, and that's ever so much tidier and easier to prosecute.
It also leads to situations like someone who simply has a tool (such as a gun) getting a more severe sentence than someone who's actually killed.