IIRC, when Putin seized the TV stations, he brought in an American company to manage them.
The President is constitutionally charged with making foreign policy. Congress is constitutionally charged with approving treaties and passing laws.
If you want it, they will put a stop to it. China may do it anyway themselves, but at least the US can stop its citizens directly from helping, and can put a huge, heavy hand on other countries and companies (especially ones that also do business in the US.)
"This was awarded first prize in the Increase Lazy Children Toy Show.
Second prize went to Shrinky-Dinks that came with software and a little robot. The child surfs their site for a color scheme they liked from among dozens others have uploaded, then pushes a button, wherein the robot colors it, sticks it in the oven and shrinks it, then takes it out and heaves it into the bottom of the toy box for the child."
As someone who lives just outside the City of Detroit proper, and watches the clownish manipulations of that collapsing kleptocracy, that failed mini-state which has grave difficulties maintaining authority in some regions, screw 'em.
It's just an attempt to get more money extracted from yet another business. It relies on the failed notion of "there's not room for the two of us, pardner", so beloved in statism, yet so contrary to the power of capitalism.
They want this 1985 agreement. This agreement was after years of delay in even getting cable TV (Detroit lagged the suburbs by many years) precisely because Detroit was demanding everything be covered in exchange for exclusivity and god knows what kickbacks.
> "I have two children, one of whom is a boy born on a Tuesday. What's the probability that my other child is a boy?"
Well, that it's Tuesday is irrelevant unless you're gonna go data mining into actual births mapped to days of the week.
But that "a boy was born on a particular day of the week" is important. Certain births are multiple births, possibly twins in this case. Hence one could expect that, knowing precisely 2 were born, that there's a slightly increased chance the other child was born on the same day, being a twin.
So that's my 10s of thought, written over about two minutes.
> This gives Baidu Inc., which already has a greater than 60% share in Internet search in > China, a chance to expand. It has announced new plans to hire US engineers to enhance > its technical skills and propel its growth globally.
China's big, but not bigger than everyone else. Everyone else could:
1. Don't use Baidu
2. Ostracize the companies helping Baidu/China and any "US engineers" they hire, as well as any companies that hire said engineers in the future, or deal with them on a business level.
3. Make all this loudly known to everybody. Someday China's regime will crack, and we need to pre-emptively disable the future apologists' lament that "thems was the times back then."
> when in fact going 'on record' with dangerous opinions is the very foundation of civic society in the United States.
Yes, but so is the secret ballot.
In a case earlier this year, while not dealing with this issue directly, the justices noticed in passing that the reasons people wanted the names -- so that they could, indeed, harass, and stated as so, was a very troubling development.
Haven't read the decision, yet, but I'm betting it'll mention that issue big time, but that it simply didn't outweigh the public nature of it.
The public nature of it, of course, is to keep tabs on government by allowing people to make sure they didn't fake up petitions, not so that people could go track down and harass the signers.
Prevention of harassment is why the vote is secret.
It is closer to fantasy than Star Trek is, that's for sure.
But even Trek has its own "Han shot first!"
Specifically, V-Ger being 82 AUs in diameter, chopped to just 2.
82 is roughly the diameter of the solar system, while 2 is the diameter of Earth's orbit.
"How can a thing 82 AUs in diameter 'enter' the solar system, much less orbit around Earth?"
Thus they chop the "eighty" part of the 82 from the pronounciation.
This is truly sad, and reduces V-Ger by over 3 orders of magnitude in power. Couldn't they have changed another word, say, "enter" to "merge" or whatever she said was happening? Forget the details.
That's what I thought, too, in my own attempt to technobabble it. That it bent the space until the (wormhole) length was only 12 parsecs.
The only problem with that is that that's still years objective at 0.99999c.
Unless, of course, light speed is different in the wormhole. But if that's the case, an explanation need not include distance. Then the parsec thing falls apart as stupid.
because doing such a thing might promote 'unwholesome' behavior.
Like, oh, I don't know. Becoming greedy and rising in the communist hierarchy?
Or, worse, learn capitalist values hard work, and the belief that giving kickbacks to local officials is not "part of the legitimate business world", to pull a phrase from Back to School?
Speaking of small groups, something like 80% of people on the Gulf do not want draconian attacks on BP or the oil industry. It's their living, too. The judge in question could be responding to local pressure much more than the "conflict of interest" with the oil stocks.
If anything, the stocks will go up in a little bit thanks to uncertainty driving gas price increases.
Actually, to continue your contrived example, at this point, the population says, "Wait a minute!" and Obama backs down from banning driving.
Rule number 1 of politics: You must only beat up on small groups, be they businessmen or some small religion or sect or smokers (took 30 years to get there) and so on.
Assange's answer to this is that they (WikiLeaks) are super-national, so the concept of national security or state secret is irrelevant for them.
Like most reporters, they put on blinders and treat as equivalent the other side who'd execute them en mass without batting an eye. Freedom and dictatorship are not equally arbitrary, and thus equally valid, viewpoints.
Speech doesn't have to be political to be guaranteed. Only in very strict situations related to imminent military action, IIRC, has a court allowed a temporary censorship. Others (like the Pentagon Papers) were reversed as improper.
One could argue, of course, that that would be a proper use of speech. But it is also arguably deliberately aiding the enemy w.r.t. the military actions of democratically elected officials and war and harming your side by putting soldiers and the effort at increased risk.
IIRC, there's a movement among SW Galaxies fans to have the game officially set up pre-NGE servers because they prefer it that way. It wasn't perfect, but it was a lot better than the more "action-oriented" crapboot.
"The plan will also bump license plate annual fees by $200. When asked why this didn't reduce or eliminate license plate fees, the senator replied, 'You just don't get it.'"
It's not Intel's fault people wrote to Microsoft OS APIs.
15+ years ago, Symantec, which bought Lightspeed C, had "Bedrock", wherein you supposedly wrote to the Bedrock API, then could push a button and cross-compile your app for both Apple and Windows.
Don't use Posix, or whatever it's current descendant is. Use Win32.Net Sharp 8.0!
The new issue of Skeptic, on the stands now (!!!) has a detailed article about the fraud of cellphone and power lines and other EMF "cancer causers".
The energies are no where near enough to break the chemical bonds, so there is no rational basis for what might be happening. And, of course, there is no evidence of it, either, so there's really no more need to explain how it might operate any more than you need to explain how telepathy might operate.
"Before you explain a thing, first prove it exists as a phenomenon."
I.e. 33.6 modems, yes, used to play EQ all the time.
I was totally geeked when I got a 112kbaud dual-channel ISDN, then I could finally play EQ on one computer and surf on the other. Previously, loading a web page would start to choke out EQ with lag.
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IIRC, when Putin seized the TV stations, he brought in an American company to manage them.
The President is constitutionally charged with making foreign policy. Congress is constitutionally charged with approving treaties and passing laws.
If you want it, they will put a stop to it. China may do it anyway themselves, but at least the US can stop its citizens directly from helping, and can put a huge, heavy hand on other countries and companies (especially ones that also do business in the US.)
"This was awarded first prize in the Increase Lazy Children Toy Show.
Second prize went to Shrinky-Dinks that came with software and a little robot. The child surfs their site for a color scheme they liked from among dozens others have uploaded, then pushes a button, wherein the robot colors it, sticks it in the oven and shrinks it, then takes it out and heaves it into the bottom of the toy box for the child."
As someone who lives just outside the City of Detroit proper, and watches the clownish manipulations of that collapsing kleptocracy, that failed mini-state which has grave difficulties maintaining authority in some regions, screw 'em.
It's just an attempt to get more money extracted from yet another business. It relies on the failed notion of "there's not room for the two of us, pardner", so beloved in statism, yet so contrary to the power of capitalism.
They want this 1985 agreement. This agreement was after years of delay in even getting cable TV (Detroit lagged the suburbs by many years) precisely because Detroit was demanding everything be covered in exchange for exclusivity and god knows what kickbacks.
Ok, here's my thought after 10s of thinking:
> "I have two children, one of whom is a boy born on a Tuesday. What's the probability that my other child is a boy?"
Well, that it's Tuesday is irrelevant unless you're gonna go data mining into actual births mapped to days of the week.
But that "a boy was born on a particular day of the week" is important. Certain births are multiple births, possibly twins in this case. Hence one could expect that, knowing precisely 2 were born, that there's a slightly increased chance the other child was born on the same day, being a twin.
So that's my 10s of thought, written over about two minutes.
> This gives Baidu Inc., which already has a greater than 60% share in Internet search in
> China, a chance to expand. It has announced new plans to hire US engineers to enhance
> its technical skills and propel its growth globally.
China's big, but not bigger than everyone else. Everyone else could:
1. Don't use Baidu
2. Ostracize the companies helping Baidu/China and any "US engineers" they hire, as well as any companies that hire said engineers in the future, or deal with them on a business level.
3. Make all this loudly known to everybody. Someday China's regime will crack, and we need to pre-emptively disable the future apologists' lament that "thems was the times back then."
This is a ballcutter issue to see if people really have a set philosophy, or just glom onto any political rational that supports their position.
Like gay marrage. Therefore like the idea of public disclosure so that they can be harassed to aid gay marriage.
Sickening. And I support gay marriage.
> when in fact going 'on record' with dangerous opinions is the very foundation of civic society in the United States.
Yes, but so is the secret ballot.
In a case earlier this year, while not dealing with this issue directly, the justices noticed in passing that the reasons people wanted the names -- so that they could, indeed, harass, and stated as so, was a very troubling development.
Haven't read the decision, yet, but I'm betting it'll mention that issue big time, but that it simply didn't outweigh the public nature of it.
The public nature of it, of course, is to keep tabs on government by allowing people to make sure they didn't fake up petitions, not so that people could go track down and harass the signers.
Prevention of harassment is why the vote is secret.
V-Ger's cloud, that is. V-Ger itself is still pretty damned big.
It is closer to fantasy than Star Trek is, that's for sure.
But even Trek has its own "Han shot first!"
Specifically, V-Ger being 82 AUs in diameter, chopped to just 2.
82 is roughly the diameter of the solar system, while 2 is the diameter of Earth's orbit.
"How can a thing 82 AUs in diameter 'enter' the solar system, much less orbit around Earth?"
Thus they chop the "eighty" part of the 82 from the pronounciation.
This is truly sad, and reduces V-Ger by over 3 orders of magnitude in power. Couldn't they have changed another word, say, "enter" to "merge" or whatever she said was happening? Forget the details.
Han shot first! V-Ger is not a wimp!
Ok, let's just simplify the damned thing once and for all. Star Wars engines shoot gremlins out their ass.
That's what I thought, too, in my own attempt to technobabble it. That it bent the space until the (wormhole) length was only 12 parsecs.
The only problem with that is that that's still years objective at 0.99999c.
Unless, of course, light speed is different in the wormhole. But if that's the case, an explanation need not include distance. Then the parsec thing falls apart as stupid.
Like, oh, I don't know. Becoming greedy and rising in the communist hierarchy?
Or, worse, learn capitalist values hard work, and the belief that giving kickbacks to local officials is not "part of the legitimate business world", to pull a phrase from Back to School?
Speaking of small groups, something like 80% of people on the Gulf do not want draconian attacks on BP or the oil industry. It's their living, too. The judge in question could be responding to local pressure much more than the "conflict of interest" with the oil stocks.
If anything, the stocks will go up in a little bit thanks to uncertainty driving gas price increases.
Actually, to continue your contrived example, at this point, the population says, "Wait a minute!" and Obama backs down from banning driving.
Rule number 1 of politics: You must only beat up on small groups, be they businessmen or some small religion or sect or smokers (took 30 years to get there) and so on.
Like most reporters, they put on blinders and treat as equivalent the other side who'd execute them en mass without batting an eye. Freedom and dictatorship are not equally arbitrary, and thus equally valid, viewpoints.
Speech doesn't have to be political to be guaranteed. Only in very strict situations related to imminent military action, IIRC, has a court allowed a temporary censorship. Others (like the Pentagon Papers) were reversed as improper.
One could argue, of course, that that would be a proper use of speech. But it is also arguably deliberately aiding the enemy w.r.t. the military actions of democratically elected officials and war and harming your side by putting soldiers and the effort at increased risk.
IIRC, there's a movement among SW Galaxies fans to have the game officially set up pre-NGE servers because they prefer it that way. It wasn't perfect, but it was a lot better than the more "action-oriented" crapboot.
"The plan will also bump license plate annual fees by $200. When asked why this didn't reduce or eliminate license plate fees, the senator replied, 'You just don't get it.'"
> The dessicants are, compared to typical refrigerants like HCFCs, relatively
> benign on the environment
Correction. The dessicants are relatively benign on the super-high level atmosphere compared to HCFCs, which are nigh infinitely safe to biology.
How do the dessicants fare when they leak out into someone's house?
It's not Intel's fault people wrote to Microsoft OS APIs.
15+ years ago, Symantec, which bought Lightspeed C, had "Bedrock", wherein you supposedly wrote to the Bedrock API, then could push a button and cross-compile your app for both Apple and Windows.
Don't use Posix, or whatever it's current descendant is. Use Win32 .Net Sharp 8.0!
I'm glad courts today aren't scientifically illiterate witchhunters, and are up to modern day stan...
Oh, wait. Breast implant lawsuits.
That dork wouldn't even be here but for the pr0n.
"Oh, I swore I would never use one of these. Activate cellphone emergency medical technicion!"
"Please state the nature of the medical emergency!"
"I'm a nerd and don't know what to say to this girl."
"I beg your pardon? I'm a doctor, not a song-and-dance Don Juan."
"I don't care. Tell her she's fugly but you might do her. Wave your arms and barf on her shoes. Anything. Just buy me enough time to run away!"
The new issue of Skeptic, on the stands now (!!!) has a detailed article about the fraud of cellphone and power lines and other EMF "cancer causers".
The energies are no where near enough to break the chemical bonds, so there is no rational basis for what might be happening. And, of course, there is no evidence of it, either, so there's really no more need to explain how it might operate any more than you need to explain how telepathy might operate.
"Before you explain a thing, first prove it exists as a phenomenon."
I.e. 33.6 modems, yes, used to play EQ all the time.
I was totally geeked when I got a 112kbaud dual-channel ISDN, then I could finally play EQ on one computer and surf on the other. Previously, loading a web page would start to choke out EQ with lag.