I have been enough to America, to know that msot of the folk is highly prejudicied for a reason or another.
Have you, now? Because, you know, America is a really fucking big country. Further, impoliteness is not necessarily prejudice; some people are rude to everyone. If you want politeness, there's a country just to the north known for that, it's called Canada.
Why all the worry about the US extraditing Assange from Sweden? He was after all in the UK, an ally of the US. If the US wanted him, the UK would have provided him wrapped up with a fucking bow (with the appropriate regrets in public).
There's no real reason for the US to want him here officially. Any trial would involve seriously messy 1st Amendment issues. Discrediting him by getting him charged with rape (or whatever) in Sweden works out a lot better, though IMO it's a little obvious.
Imagine if the entire US Congress was replaced overnight with smart people who didn't listen to faux news sources and who weren't beholden to peasants and farmers from Hicksville, Flyover Territory, USA. It would be a new era of smart government by smart people who know what the right thing to do and who aren't afraid of consequences.
Tyranny, untempered by incompetence? No thank you.
This will give Nikon, Cannon, etc all the clout they need to prevent places like 47th Street Photo from selling gray market cameras in the US at prices lower than everybody else.
47th Street Photo isn't within the jurisdiction of the Ninth Circuit. Most likely they'll try, and it'll end up in the 2nd Circuit, and if the 2nd circuit rules differently, it'll end up back at the Supreme Court, and we'll see what Kagan really thinks.
In ties, the lower court's ruling is upheld IIRC. Kagan had to recuse.
I don't think so; IIRC, it's not overturned but doesn't form binding precedent on the other circuits either. I think we'll see this one back in the Supreme Court at some point relatively soon.
Cons:
1) Does not have a farm lobby attached to it
Also low motor octane/high sensitivity. Put it in many gasoline engines without modification and they'll either knock heavily under load, or retard the timing severely reducing power and efficiency.
Well then, I guess the "insurance" my employer provides "isn't insurance" either. As the premiums for a 21 year old non-smoker are the same as a 55 year old with emphysema.
That's group insurance, so you have to look at the premiums paid by the employer as a whole, not for any one covered person. If your employer were to suddenly hire a bunch of 55-year-old people with emphysema, would the premiums paid by the employer change?
I live in New York and I'm required to buy car insurance. I believe if I have a mortgage I am required to buy home owners insurance. If I have a car, I must "buy" state inspections. There must be other examples.
These are all matters of state law, not Federal law.
Sure, the tea party people claim they want it repealed, but it's going to be interesting to actually ask them 'So you want insurance companies to deny insurance to children with pre-existing conditions again?'.
Alas, we live in a world where an honest answer cannot be given to that question. If you require insurance companies to "insure" for pre-existing conditions without adjusting premiums accordingly, that's not insurance, that's just a transfer payment from the insurer to the new insured. If you allow them to adjust premiums, the premiums for someone with a pre-existing condition will need to cover at least the average cost of the medical care for that pre-existing condition.
If obscenity laws were blatantly unconstitutional then this is a problem we've had since the founding. Why did the same people who wrote and ratified the constitution ok with it, or at least decide not to overturn those laws?
The First Amendment didn't originally apply to the states. "Congress shall make no law" and all of that.
The Alien and Sedition Acts weren't enacted by a radical government out of touch with the principles of the Union, but by founding fathers. If they couldn't clearly see what was blatantly unconstitutional or not, why should modern citizens be better tuned in?
The Alien and Sedition Acts were enacted by a radical government out of touch with the principles of the Union; that some of those in the government were also some of the founding fathers does not change that. It would hardly be the first (or last) time a revolutionary government quickly turned away from the principles it espoused during the revolution. The Sedition Act demonstrated Jefferson's point about the need for a Bill of Rights and was denounced as unconstitutional by Jefferson. Naturally, it was widely used against opposition press, though they didn't quite have the chutzpah to try to jail Jefferson himself..
For acting in such an obviously cartooney evil way. But next time, instead of just demanding control of a well-known blog over one lousy picture, and thus starkly outlining the dangers of copyright w.r.t. the First Amendment, could you work in a lawsuit against an 8-year old or something?
Seriously, of course Drudge wouldn't have a DMCA process; it's not applicable in cases where the publisher is exercising editorial control over the contents.
Although the 5.68 deciliter Imperial (British) Pint is better still.
Here in the US, we have (among other sizes) bottles which are 1 US pint (16oz, 473ml), 1/2 L (16.9oz, 500ml), 20 oz (591 ml, 1.04 Imperial pint), 1 US quart (32 oz, 946 ml), 1 Liter (33.8 fluid ounces, 1000ml), and 40oz (1182ml, 1.04 Imperial quart). The "forty" is generally only used for malt liquor, though.
Here in Sweden the only people who use imperial units seem to be carpenters who call a 5x10 cm piece of wood a "tvåtumfyra" ("twoinchfour") but even they don't actually assume the actual size of it is 5.08x10.16 cm, it's just that "tvåtumfyra" is faster to say than "fem gånger tio centimeter".
Wood is even stranger. While a 3/4" sheet of plywood is indeed 3/4" thick, a two-by-four has a cross section of 1.5" x 3.5". The usual explanation is that 2" x 4" is the rough cut size, and they are later dried and planed down to 1.5" x 3.5". This is sometimes augmented with the claim that the original sawing is cleaner today than when the size was standardized, so modern two-by-fours were never actually 2" x 4". Having never seriously researched sawmills, I have no idea of the truth of these stories.
A 5cm x 10cm (actual) piece of finished lumber is thus significantly heftier than an American two-by-four.
I find doing middle-advanced DIY tasks that I'm _regularly_ doing inter-unit conversions. Just yesterday, I had to work out how much water was in my central heating system. Measure the radiators in metres, estimate length of 15mm diameter pipe, quick calculations, quite easy. If I was working in feet and had to convert to gallons it would have been trickier.
I'd think the irrational factor of pi would be more of a problem than the 231 inch^3/gallon, or the factor of 12 for feet to inches.
The cables refer to him as an "alpha bear", compare him to Batman, claim his people "masterminded" a shadow war in Georgia. Far from being embarrassed, he probably is on top of the world and seriously considering having a Batmobile built.
(granted, Medvedev might be a bit embarrassed, but no one cares what Robin thinks..)
Arguably, the failures were caused by the fact that they had to go to such great lengths to conceal the explosives. If they had brought on a nice, simple stick of dynamite, they'd almost certainly have succeeded.
Probably. But they didn't have the chutzpah to walk through the metal detector with a stick of dynamite concealed on their body.
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Have you, now? Because, you know, America is a really fucking big country. Further, impoliteness is not necessarily prejudice; some people are rude to everyone. If you want politeness, there's a country just to the north known for that, it's called Canada.
There's no real reason for the US to want him here officially. Any trial would involve seriously messy 1st Amendment issues. Discrediting him by getting him charged with rape (or whatever) in Sweden works out a lot better, though IMO it's a little obvious.
Gone. You missed it while you were crying for "more regulation".
Tyranny, untempered by incompetence? No thank you.
Too bad tert-butanol's freezing point is 77F. So it'll only work on hot days.
47th Street Photo isn't within the jurisdiction of the Ninth Circuit. Most likely they'll try, and it'll end up in the 2nd Circuit, and if the 2nd circuit rules differently, it'll end up back at the Supreme Court, and we'll see what Kagan really thinks.
I don't think so; IIRC, it's not overturned but doesn't form binding precedent on the other circuits either. I think we'll see this one back in the Supreme Court at some point relatively soon.
Also low motor octane/high sensitivity. Put it in many gasoline engines without modification and they'll either knock heavily under load, or retard the timing severely reducing power and efficiency.
Personally I find that difference both necessary and sufficient.
That's group insurance, so you have to look at the premiums paid by the employer as a whole, not for any one covered person. If your employer were to suddenly hire a bunch of 55-year-old people with emphysema, would the premiums paid by the employer change?
Which doesn't in any way affect whether it is constitutional.
These are all matters of state law, not Federal law.
Alas, we live in a world where an honest answer cannot be given to that question. If you require insurance companies to "insure" for pre-existing conditions without adjusting premiums accordingly, that's not insurance, that's just a transfer payment from the insurer to the new insured. If you allow them to adjust premiums, the premiums for someone with a pre-existing condition will need to cover at least the average cost of the medical care for that pre-existing condition.
I think if as many as 3 justices think a law is unconstitutional, it should be struck down.
The First Amendment didn't originally apply to the states. "Congress shall make no law" and all of that.
The Alien and Sedition Acts were enacted by a radical government out of touch with the principles of the Union; that some of those in the government were also some of the founding fathers does not change that. It would hardly be the first (or last) time a revolutionary government quickly turned away from the principles it espoused during the revolution. The Sedition Act demonstrated Jefferson's point about the need for a Bill of Rights and was denounced as unconstitutional by Jefferson. Naturally, it was widely used against opposition press, though they didn't quite have the chutzpah to try to jail Jefferson himself..
For acting in such an obviously cartooney evil way. But next time, instead of just demanding control of a well-known blog over one lousy picture, and thus starkly outlining the dangers of copyright w.r.t. the First Amendment, could you work in a lawsuit against an 8-year old or something?
Seriously, of course Drudge wouldn't have a DMCA process; it's not applicable in cases where the publisher is exercising editorial control over the contents.
Here in the US, we have (among other sizes) bottles which are 1 US pint (16oz, 473ml), 1/2 L (16.9oz, 500ml), 20 oz (591 ml, 1.04 Imperial pint), 1 US quart (32 oz, 946 ml), 1 Liter (33.8 fluid ounces, 1000ml), and 40oz (1182ml, 1.04 Imperial quart). The "forty" is generally only used for malt liquor, though.
Wood is even stranger. While a 3/4" sheet of plywood is indeed 3/4" thick, a two-by-four has a cross section of 1.5" x 3.5". The usual explanation is that 2" x 4" is the rough cut size, and they are later dried and planed down to 1.5" x 3.5". This is sometimes augmented with the claim that the original sawing is cleaner today than when the size was standardized, so modern two-by-fours were never actually 2" x 4". Having never seriously researched sawmills, I have no idea of the truth of these stories.
A 5cm x 10cm (actual) piece of finished lumber is thus significantly heftier than an American two-by-four.
I'd think the irrational factor of pi would be more of a problem than the 231 inch^3/gallon, or the factor of 12 for feet to inches.
To deflect your anger.
The cables refer to him as an "alpha bear", compare him to Batman, claim his people "masterminded" a shadow war in Georgia. Far from being embarrassed, he probably is on top of the world and seriously considering having a Batmobile built.
(granted, Medvedev might be a bit embarrassed, but no one cares what Robin thinks..)
This isn't an interview, it's a publicity piece for Ms. Stoddart. Ick.
Probably. But they didn't have the chutzpah to walk through the metal detector with a stick of dynamite concealed on their body.
Apple doesn't have any integrators either, so that conversation makes no sense.