The libertarian impulse on this is clear. It's the (purported) conservatives and (purported) liberals who are all over the map.
Something tells me the liberal impulse is fully on board the dealers-only rule...until it gets in the way of a beloved pet project. Hate to companies...except the ones we love.
How does the IRS handle foreign currencies? What about stores and restaurants near the border that accept Canadian currency? Is it the exchange value at the time of sale?
AFAIK, the real reason for the Second Amendment isn't personal protection or hunting, but as a final check on the government as a whole by the people.
In that sense, I reject the notion as archaic. In such a scenario, we would have to rely on persuasion to cause mass defection of troops, but that has often been the case anyway.
That's a new direction which, fortunately, courts are shifting towards -- that there are no meaningful distinctions between journalists AKA "The Press", in First Amendment terms, and everybody else merely exercising First Amendment free speech.
Some say there should be no distinction at all w.r.t. speech, which I agree with. You know Congress would try to restrict speech by restricting presses under some trumped-up rationale. That's why that clause is there, not to grant a larger free speech pass to the press.
To pre-respond to doubters, is there some part of "always" you don't understand? He made regular, loud, public bets with physical scientists about shortages. 10-year bets (a minimum time granularity he wasn't comfortable with.)
Isaac Asimov, a 1970s gloom-and-doomer, was intellectually honest enough to admit he was wrong, and didn't understand it.
The worst-case scenario here is ending up like North Korea because of too much government controls. Compare vs. South Korea.
A free people will find solutions and keep ahead of the problem curve as measured by quality of life and costs. This has been proven over and over and over again against the predictions of physical scientists, who erroneously make predictions into how things will affect humanity.
They have been predicting shortages, wrongly, sinct the 1970s. This theory predicts that only happens with government intervention in the ecenomy.
This theory iz always right, like quantum mechanics or relativity.
Isn't Turkey a member of the EU? How can one man act as a dictator and order the shutting down of political opposition voices? Or in this case, their "printing press"?
To put the chaos theory in terms even internationally-recognized top climatologists can understand, storms are a function of differences in temp or humidity, that kind of thing. Now the warmer temps mean a greater delta between top and coldest (or humidity or anything else), the low end is also raising by the same amount on average. Most of the time the delta is almost identical. The worst case is just a few percent greater, and that's not even the average.
Physical scientists are good in their domain, but they learn the hard way over and over again through the decades that they cannot predict economic impacts. That is the job of economists.
Physical scientists have been proven monstrously wrong, repeatedly and predictably, regarding dire warnings of impact on human life and society. Based on Simon's repeated successes in predicting results the exact opposite of physical scientistscin the 1970s and 1980s, I predicted the Peak Oil BS would not pan out either, in its context of impact on humanity. I was right.
It's very tiring to see this stuff continue to rear up over and over given this theory which is as predictively solid as quantum mechanics or relativity is, with just as strange, but successful, counterintuitive predictions.
In this particular case, their belief doesn't make sense even in their own realm -- a fraction warmer means a fraction of a fraction more energetic or prevalent. If it amounts to two more hurricanes a century I'd be stunned. And they would be no more energetic on average, like 1% maybe.
Learn2chaos theory, you terrible, incompetent so-called climatoligists.
I've been programming 20 years. I picked up Pythton in 2 days, and inside a week had a multithread serial port driver embedded in someone else's framework, which had never been done and. they didn't think would work.
The foolish young punk.
In seriousness, I see many young ones treading down the same paths and mistakes. Clearly colleges aren't keeping up with lessons learned in the field.
It's motion sickness on ships and planes, but the opposite. In large vehicle interiors, your eyes say you're not moving, but your inner ear says you are. Clearly you ate something bad messing with your body, so initiate poison response.
With a VR helm, your eyes say you are moving, but your inner ear says no. Ironically, it's probably more due to the movement-in-game than twisting your head, where ear and eyes match.
In other words, same issue as with an FPS on a normal monitor -- fast-twich turn/shoot has this problem. VR being all-encompassing may have this issue more in same fast-twitch, and lesser in 3D adventure mmo type games. But it's not the 3D per se.
So optical engineers have to develop an entirely new plastic lens molding technology because the mechanical engineers who got Cs at mediocre schools can't build a simpler holder.
It's amazing you have to prove you are actually harmed by NSA spying to get standing, when our core concept in creating a government is the assumption government is up to no good and will abuse power.
That a hostage views his resistance as too dangerously risky does not mean external free people cannot intervene and free him. It just means he's in a sad state and in need of help.
"Morally"? No dictatorship has any moral validity. It is no more self-determination than a stadium of people held hostage by terrorists are practicing self-determination.
Free people have every moral right to free people who are held hostage. Whether to do so is a practical problem, not a moral one.
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The libertarian impulse on this is clear. It's the (purported) conservatives and (purported) liberals who are all over the map.
Something tells me the liberal impulse is fully on board the dealers-only rule...until it gets in the way of a beloved pet project. Hate to companies...except the ones we love.
You can't have books but here's some free breast implants so you can diddle around.
Fuck this, where's the tranya?
Speaking of which, why aren't they cleaning up the Borg or Klingons? Their ship makes the Enterprise J look like Fred Flintstone's car.
Your post fills my mind with a recall: Jane Fonda and some mime pointing to his ass saying, "Butt...". The rest is hazy.
How does the IRS handle foreign currencies? What about stores and restaurants near the border that accept Canadian currency? Is it the exchange value at the time of sale?
How can you patent using the Internet as a printing press? Cloning and copying and transferring data is core to what it is.
If someone invents roads, is there suddenly a land grab to patent using roads to ship X, or Y, or Z?
Anecdotes are useful as a startig poiny if you're looking for some new phenomenon. That's all, nothing more.
If the effects are real, you can discern them through repeatable tests.
The vast majority of alternative claims have been disproven, shown to have no effect.
AFAIK, the real reason for the Second Amendment isn't personal protection or hunting, but as a final check on the government as a whole by the people.
In that sense, I reject the notion as archaic. In such a scenario, we would have to rely on persuasion to cause mass defection of troops, but that has often been the case anyway.
That's all part of NATO now. Russia won't do anything to Germany or Poland or Lithuania.
Ukraine's goof was in voting to not seek Nato membership a few years back. While that was partly Russian influence, oh well.
Other remaining, non-NATO former Soviet bloc countries might wanna step on the gas.
What now, Ira Flatow? I trusted you and Science Friday. I TRUSTED YOU!!!
That's a new direction which, fortunately, courts are shifting towards -- that there are no meaningful distinctions between journalists AKA "The Press", in First Amendment terms, and everybody else merely exercising First Amendment free speech.
Some say there should be no distinction at all w.r.t. speech, which I agree with. You know Congress would try to restrict speech by restricting presses under some trumped-up rationale. That's why that clause is there, not to grant a larger free speech pass to the press.
To pre-respond to doubters, is there some part of "always" you don't understand? He made regular, loud, public bets with physical scientists about shortages. 10-year bets (a minimum time granularity he wasn't comfortable with.)
Isaac Asimov, a 1970s gloom-and-doomer, was intellectually honest enough to admit he was wrong, and didn't understand it.
The worst-case scenario here is ending up like North Korea because of too much government controls. Compare vs. South Korea.
A free people will find solutions and keep ahead of the problem curve as measured by quality of life and costs. This has been proven over and over and over again against the predictions of physical scientists, who erroneously make predictions into how things will affect humanity.
They have been predicting shortages, wrongly, sinct the 1970s. This theory predicts that only happens with government intervention in the ecenomy.
This theory iz always right, like quantum mechanics or relativity.
Isn't Turkey a member of the EU? How can one man act as a dictator and order the shutting down of political opposition voices? Or in this case, their "printing press"?
To put the chaos theory in terms even internationally-recognized top climatologists can understand, storms are a function of differences in temp or humidity, that kind of thing. Now the warmer temps mean a greater delta between top and coldest (or humidity or anything else), the low end is also raising by the same amount on average. Most of the time the delta is almost identical. The worst case is just a few percent greater, and that's not even the average.
Physical scientists are good in their domain, but they learn the hard way over and over again through the decades that they cannot predict economic impacts. That is the job of economists.
Physical scientists have been proven monstrously wrong, repeatedly and predictably, regarding dire warnings of impact on human life and society. Based on Simon's repeated successes in predicting results the exact opposite of physical scientistscin the 1970s and 1980s, I predicted the Peak Oil BS would not pan out either, in its context of impact on humanity. I was right.
It's very tiring to see this stuff continue to rear up over and over given this theory which is as predictively solid as quantum mechanics or relativity is, with just as strange, but successful, counterintuitive predictions.
In this particular case, their belief doesn't make sense even in their own realm -- a fraction warmer means a fraction of a fraction more energetic or prevalent. If it amounts to two more hurricanes a century I'd be stunned. And they would be no more energetic on average, like 1% maybe.
Learn2chaos theory, you terrible, incompetent so-called climatoligists.
Please put an NSFW warning. Some of us browse /. on the clock.
Thank you. "NSFW" is brilliant -- anything to lead me at work to porn faster.
I've been programming 20 years. I picked up Pythton in 2 days, and inside a week had a multithread serial port driver embedded in someone else's framework, which had never been done and. they didn't think would work.
The foolish young punk.
In seriousness, I see many young ones treading down the same paths and mistakes. Clearly colleges aren't keeping up with lessons learned in the field.
For that matter, your right to have sex with your own gender shouldn't need to rely on being born that way as legal justification.
"Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another." -- a wise person
It's motion sickness on ships and planes, but the opposite. In large vehicle interiors, your eyes say you're not moving, but your inner ear says you are. Clearly you ate something bad messing with your body, so initiate poison response.
With a VR helm, your eyes say you are moving, but your inner ear says no. Ironically, it's probably more due to the movement-in-game than twisting your head, where ear and eyes match.
In other words, same issue as with an FPS on a normal monitor -- fast-twich turn/shoot has this problem. VR being all-encompassing may have this issue more in same fast-twitch, and lesser in 3D adventure mmo type games. But it's not the 3D per se.
So optical engineers have to develop an entirely new plastic lens molding technology because the mechanical engineers who got Cs at mediocre schools can't build a simpler holder.
Nice.
serve : v to rule "I'd like to thank Senator Linepockets for his many decades serving us."
It's amazing you have to prove you are actually harmed by NSA spying to get standing, when our core concept in creating a government is the assumption government is up to no good and will abuse power.
That a hostage views his resistance as too dangerously risky does not mean external free people cannot intervene and free him. It just means he's in a sad state and in need of help.
"Morally"? No dictatorship has any moral validity. It is no more self-determination than a stadium of people held hostage by terrorists are practicing self-determination.
Free people have every moral right to free people who are held hostage. Whether to do so is a practical problem, not a moral one.