Actually it was the employee of a parent of the friend of the child who committed suicide.
But that is frankly beside the point anyways. After reviewing as much of what happened in this case as is available to the general public, while what this woman did was sick, I no longer think it was the proximate cause of the girl committing suicide. It is very evident when you dig a little deeper into the story, that it was her own mother's reaction when Meghan tried to talk about what had happened that pushed her over the edge. She didn't get a nasty message and decide to hang herself. She got some nasty messages, tried to talk to her mom about it, her mom blew her off because she didn't like the language Meghan had used in her chatting, she cried out to her mom that she was supposed to be on her side, THEN went up to her room and immediately killed herself.
I still think the woman who perpetrated the hoax was a horrible horrible person. However, I feel Meghan's mother has to be held somewhat accountable. She knew her daughter suffered from depression, she saw her daughter was very upset. But rather than comfort her, she grew angry because Meghan had been talking naughty online. A decision I think she will regret to her dying day.
Maybe if these things do start being built, the Michigan UP Copper industry will experience a small revival. There is still tons of copper up there, the cost of extracting it just became too high eventually. A large spike in demand could make it cost-effective again
While perhaps the system should be designed to behave differently, what happened here was a good thing. When things went wrong, rather than the reactor systems freaking out and doing random crap, they were properly designed to shift to a known safe state (i.e. Shut the hell down).
The dead give away is actually the Warrior Titan Grip talent rather than the Warlock ones. Titan Grip was a fake "leaked" talent for Burning Crusade. I don't see Blizzard taking something someone made up a year and a half ago, and saying "Hey, lets actually put that in the game, and give it the same name they did."
No, the U.S. Federal government uses a Grand Jury system (It is Constitutionally required to), as well as most States.
If you've never heard of a Grand Jury, they are essentially large juries convened in order to decide if there is probable cause to charge someone with a crime. Their proceedings are secret, without the defendant and his or her lawyer. The Grand Jury has the power to subpoena witnesses to testify before it. Generally, they subpoena who the prosecutor asks them too, listens to the prosecutors evidence, and either decide there is a True Bill (case can go forward), or No True Bill(insufficient evidence to proceed). Technically their powers are broader than that however, and they can investigate as much as they want with or without the prosecutors consent. Lookup "runaway grand jury" if you want to know more. Stuff like that tended to happen back in the 20s when a Grand Jury believed a prosecutor might be in the mobs pocket or something.
I think Grand Juries are almost exclusive to the US now, because it is required by the Constitution for Federal criminal cases. Some states don't use them anymore, preferring preliminary hearings before a judge instead.
If you knowingly do so, yes, it would be something along the lines of criminally negligent homicide I think. However, the accused would have to be aware that their actions would likely cause the person to commit suicide.
That is probably the problem the Missouri prosecutors had, they couldn't show that Lori Drew should have reasonably expected her behavior to possibly cause Meghan's suicide. And no, telling someone to die doesn't generate sufficient expectation, as the reasonable response from most people would be not to heed your advice.
If the prosecutions claims don't get thrown out by the trial judge/appelate/supremes, then yes, if the ToS of your email provider says you must provide your real name, and you provide a fake one, every time you access the email, you are performing a criminal computer trespass.
What is scary in this case isn't that the bitch would be punished. That is why she has been charged, a huge public desire to see this woman punished when there is no clear law that would allow it.
What is scary is that instead of finding some actual law she broke, they are railroading her with an incredibly loose reading of anti-hacking laws. The problem is if she is convicted of this, and it is upheld on appeal, it sets incredibly bad binding legal precedent that violation of terms of service isn't just a civil contract violation anymore, it is criminal computer hacking.
I wouldn't donate money to Detroit Public Schools unless it was with the stipulation that the entire administration be replaced. DPS's financial problems are caused by horrible mismanagement of funds, not because there wasn't enough money to begin with. I wouldn't be suprised if none of that money ends up going to music education....
Nothing is ever "proven" in Science. The Theory of Evolution has more god damn evidence for it that Relativity and QFT combined.
The point is Evolution is well supported as both a fact (Evolution happens) and a Theory (that the process of evolution over time lead to the diversification of life on Earth). Creationism has no support except a bunch of bronze age texts which are contradicted by most all physical evidence.....
No, you couldn't copy it, but if they just give you the book, they can't attach a contractual obligation not to resell after the fact. You could sell the copy you received, not make more copies.
Actually you said: "Any university worth attending will not allow any college courses taken to replace high-school requirements to count." Which I suppose might be true for private schools, but most state colleges will take the dual enrollment credits. Of course, like I said, you have to be careful what courses you take, Object Oriented Programming (with Visual Basic 5.... that is right VB5.... seriously, wtf) might very well not transfer as anything meaningful. On the other hand a decent Fortran class (in... *shudder* Fortran 77) can free up those 3 required Fortran credits for your degree. Other useful dual enrollment dumps for CS majors are Humanities. Get HU101 taken care of pre-emptively, either with AP or Dual-enrollment, so you don't have to sit waiting for enrollment to open at midnight, mashing your refresh button, praying that you will get in a section that meets after 7 a.m. or get in one at all. I didn't manage to get my second semester of humanities requirement until my Junior year because of damn scheduling constraints.
True true, the dual enrollment is more for schools that don't offer much in the way of AP, which I'm guessing is alot especially in more rural areas. Another option if your school doesn't offer AP CS, is to do the dual enrollment, then take the AP test, if you don't feel comfortable with just independent study.
This is absolutely true. Certainly WoW is very polished, and has alot of fun to it. But what keeps you going after your 200th night in the Black Temple or Hyjal, is your sense of obligation to your guildmates. It is the social connectedness people develop with the people they play with that keeps people playing, even when they have grown rather bored with the game.
Screw AP, here is how I got college credit early:
Do well on your ACT (or SAT I guess, never had to take the SAT myself) to qualify for college substitution credits. Try to find out which courses at your local Community College will actually transfer to your preferred university. Apply with your high school and the CC to take those courses for high school credit.
Upside: If you choose correctly, you probably only have community college classes two days a week, but only have to go to high school for half a day.
Downside: You are probably going to school at night. If you don't pick the courses right, the best you can hope for on transferring credits is some sort of 1 credit in General Science 999999 which doesn't count towards credits for your degree...... (Seriously, I'm lucky I took a Fortran class in addition to my Object Oriented Programming class, since OOP turned out to be... Visual Basic)
It is in the "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" part. Even without interpreting it as applying to states as well, this clearly limits the entire Federal government. But you say, it doesn't say anything about the Executive or the Judiciary. Well, no, it doesn't have to, since the Executives job is to enforce the laws made by Congress, and has no enumerated power to "establish religion" independently thereof. The same applies to the Judiciary.
Just because it says Congress, doesn't mean the other branches are excluded, it applies to them by proxy, as their function is to execute and judicate the law laid down by the Congress.
Now, once you accept that the rights enumerated in the Constitution apply to the states as well, you end up with the entirety of the US governmental bodies not being able to establish religion.
A problem that is NP-complete is simply an problem that is NP, for which a solving algorithm is generally applicable to all other NP problems. That is why the P = NP question is so important. So, lets step back abit to the superset of NPC and P, NP, since that is really what you are arguing is that if a protein can fold in real time, the protein folding problem isn't in NP, not just NPC.
This is where you make your mistake, the protein folding problem can be summarized as: What are the valid ways for a protein to fold? This is NP if it can be solved in polynomial time by a non-deterministic Turing machine. More importantly, for the problem to be in NP, the question: "Given *folded structure*, prove it was reachable from *unfolded structure*" must be solvable in polynomial time by a deterministic Turing machine (in other words the second question must be in P). You are using the second question (the fact that proteins do fold certain ways), which is not the protein folding problem. I hope that makes sense, it has been a decade since my CS theory classes, and I've never studied protein folding, but I'm pretty sure what I wrote above is fairly accurate, feel free to correct any errors I made.
You are confused as to what NP-complete means. It isn't that a protein folding is "NP-complete", but the algorithm for generally calculating protein folding is.
He bought put options. That means he essentially bought a contract to sell someone stock at a certain price at a later date.
Say that the price of the stock was $100, he buys a put option to sell 100 shares at $90 apiece. If the put option expires and the price is >= $90, then he loses money, because he now has to buy the stock for the "seller" of the put option for more than he payed for the contract. If the price goes down to say $50 a share though, he received $9000 for the contract, and only has to pay $5000 for the stock, making a profit of $4000 dollars. Hope that makes sense.
Exactly, so what is the problem? You can play a Paladin that isn't classed that way mechanically.
You are basically saying 'Who cares if the class mechanics for the Paladin are hideously weak, it is about the RP', but if it is about the RP, then you don't need to play the hideously weak class.... I'm not sure why you find this difficult to understand. The class mechanics for 3.5E Paladins are very bad. Just because you don't care about numbers doesn't mean that is OK, the game designers actually have to look at the classes and see where improvements can be made.
Remember it is up to them to balance the game by the numbers, not to RP, that is your job.
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Actually it was the employee of a parent of the friend of the child who committed suicide.
But that is frankly beside the point anyways. After reviewing as much of what happened in this case as is available to the general public, while what this woman did was sick, I no longer think it was the proximate cause of the girl committing suicide. It is very evident when you dig a little deeper into the story, that it was her own mother's reaction when Meghan tried to talk about what had happened that pushed her over the edge. She didn't get a nasty message and decide to hang herself. She got some nasty messages, tried to talk to her mom about it, her mom blew her off because she didn't like the language Meghan had used in her chatting, she cried out to her mom that she was supposed to be on her side, THEN went up to her room and immediately killed herself.
I still think the woman who perpetrated the hoax was a horrible horrible person. However, I feel Meghan's mother has to be held somewhat accountable. She knew her daughter suffered from depression, she saw her daughter was very upset. But rather than comfort her, she grew angry because Meghan had been talking naughty online. A decision I think she will regret to her dying day.
Maybe if these things do start being built, the Michigan UP Copper industry will experience a small revival. There is still tons of copper up there, the cost of extracting it just became too high eventually. A large spike in demand could make it cost-effective again
Umm, yes you do. If something in the system is shit, you don't want the reactor ON!
While perhaps the system should be designed to behave differently, what happened here was a good thing. When things went wrong, rather than the reactor systems freaking out and doing random crap, they were properly designed to shift to a known safe state (i.e. Shut the hell down).
The dead give away is actually the Warrior Titan Grip talent rather than the Warlock ones. Titan Grip was a fake "leaked" talent for Burning Crusade. I don't see Blizzard taking something someone made up a year and a half ago, and saying "Hey, lets actually put that in the game, and give it the same name they did."
No, the U.S. Federal government uses a Grand Jury system (It is Constitutionally required to), as well as most States.
If you've never heard of a Grand Jury, they are essentially large juries convened in order to decide if there is probable cause to charge someone with a crime. Their proceedings are secret, without the defendant and his or her lawyer. The Grand Jury has the power to subpoena witnesses to testify before it. Generally, they subpoena who the prosecutor asks them too, listens to the prosecutors evidence, and either decide there is a True Bill (case can go forward), or No True Bill(insufficient evidence to proceed). Technically their powers are broader than that however, and they can investigate as much as they want with or without the prosecutors consent. Lookup "runaway grand jury" if you want to know more. Stuff like that tended to happen back in the 20s when a Grand Jury believed a prosecutor might be in the mobs pocket or something.
I think Grand Juries are almost exclusive to the US now, because it is required by the Constitution for Federal criminal cases. Some states don't use them anymore, preferring preliminary hearings before a judge instead.
If you knowingly do so, yes, it would be something along the lines of criminally negligent homicide I think. However, the accused would have to be aware that their actions would likely cause the person to commit suicide.
That is probably the problem the Missouri prosecutors had, they couldn't show that Lori Drew should have reasonably expected her behavior to possibly cause Meghan's suicide. And no, telling someone to die doesn't generate sufficient expectation, as the reasonable response from most people would be not to heed your advice.
If the prosecutions claims don't get thrown out by the trial judge/appelate/supremes, then yes, if the ToS of your email provider says you must provide your real name, and you provide a fake one, every time you access the email, you are performing a criminal computer trespass.
What is scary in this case isn't that the bitch would be punished. That is why she has been charged, a huge public desire to see this woman punished when there is no clear law that would allow it.
What is scary is that instead of finding some actual law she broke, they are railroading her with an incredibly loose reading of anti-hacking laws. The problem is if she is convicted of this, and it is upheld on appeal, it sets incredibly bad binding legal precedent that violation of terms of service isn't just a civil contract violation anymore, it is criminal computer hacking.
I wouldn't donate money to Detroit Public Schools unless it was with the stipulation that the entire administration be replaced. DPS's financial problems are caused by horrible mismanagement of funds, not because there wasn't enough money to begin with. I wouldn't be suprised if none of that money ends up going to music education....
Nothing is ever "proven" in Science. The Theory of Evolution has more god damn evidence for it that Relativity and QFT combined.
The point is Evolution is well supported as both a fact (Evolution happens) and a Theory (that the process of evolution over time lead to the diversification of life on Earth). Creationism has no support except a bunch of bronze age texts which are contradicted by most all physical evidence.....
Or they could be rated AA-grade! Maybe the radiation pre-tenderizes them. Sorta like they have been cooking really really slowly their entire lives.
No, you couldn't copy it, but if they just give you the book, they can't attach a contractual obligation not to resell after the fact. You could sell the copy you received, not make more copies.
In the case where there was a pre-existing contract to even receive the promo disks, it is a completely different story.
This is a case of promos being sent out unsolicited, with restrictions stickered onto the cover.
Actually you said: "Any university worth attending will not allow any college courses taken to replace high-school requirements to count." Which I suppose might be true for private schools, but most state colleges will take the dual enrollment credits. Of course, like I said, you have to be careful what courses you take, Object Oriented Programming (with Visual Basic 5.... that is right VB5.... seriously, wtf) might very well not transfer as anything meaningful. On the other hand a decent Fortran class (in... *shudder* Fortran 77) can free up those 3 required Fortran credits for your degree. Other useful dual enrollment dumps for CS majors are Humanities. Get HU101 taken care of pre-emptively, either with AP or Dual-enrollment, so you don't have to sit waiting for enrollment to open at midnight, mashing your refresh button, praying that you will get in a section that meets after 7 a.m. or get in one at all. I didn't manage to get my second semester of humanities requirement until my Junior year because of damn scheduling constraints.
True true, the dual enrollment is more for schools that don't offer much in the way of AP, which I'm guessing is alot especially in more rural areas. Another option if your school doesn't offer AP CS, is to do the dual enrollment, then take the AP test, if you don't feel comfortable with just independent study.
This is absolutely true. Certainly WoW is very polished, and has alot of fun to it. But what keeps you going after your 200th night in the Black Temple or Hyjal, is your sense of obligation to your guildmates. It is the social connectedness people develop with the people they play with that keeps people playing, even when they have grown rather bored with the game.
Screw AP, here is how I got college credit early: Do well on your ACT (or SAT I guess, never had to take the SAT myself) to qualify for college substitution credits. Try to find out which courses at your local Community College will actually transfer to your preferred university. Apply with your high school and the CC to take those courses for high school credit. Upside: If you choose correctly, you probably only have community college classes two days a week, but only have to go to high school for half a day. Downside: You are probably going to school at night. If you don't pick the courses right, the best you can hope for on transferring credits is some sort of 1 credit in General Science 999999 which doesn't count towards credits for your degree...... (Seriously, I'm lucky I took a Fortran class in addition to my Object Oriented Programming class, since OOP turned out to be... Visual Basic)
It is in the "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" part. Even without interpreting it as applying to states as well, this clearly limits the entire Federal government. But you say, it doesn't say anything about the Executive or the Judiciary. Well, no, it doesn't have to, since the Executives job is to enforce the laws made by Congress, and has no enumerated power to "establish religion" independently thereof. The same applies to the Judiciary. Just because it says Congress, doesn't mean the other branches are excluded, it applies to them by proxy, as their function is to execute and judicate the law laid down by the Congress. Now, once you accept that the rights enumerated in the Constitution apply to the states as well, you end up with the entirety of the US governmental bodies not being able to establish religion.
A problem that is NP-complete is simply an problem that is NP, for which a solving algorithm is generally applicable to all other NP problems. That is why the P = NP question is so important. So, lets step back abit to the superset of NPC and P, NP, since that is really what you are arguing is that if a protein can fold in real time, the protein folding problem isn't in NP, not just NPC.
This is where you make your mistake, the protein folding problem can be summarized as: What are the valid ways for a protein to fold? This is NP if it can be solved in polynomial time by a non-deterministic Turing machine. More importantly, for the problem to be in NP, the question: "Given *folded structure*, prove it was reachable from *unfolded structure*" must be solvable in polynomial time by a deterministic Turing machine (in other words the second question must be in P). You are using the second question (the fact that proteins do fold certain ways), which is not the protein folding problem. I hope that makes sense, it has been a decade since my CS theory classes, and I've never studied protein folding, but I'm pretty sure what I wrote above is fairly accurate, feel free to correct any errors I made.
You are confused as to what NP-complete means. It isn't that a protein folding is "NP-complete", but the algorithm for generally calculating protein folding is.
Thanks, I was a little fuzzy on the exact details. Dug that out of 12 year old memories of doing a paper on the stock market in high school.
He bought put options. That means he essentially bought a contract to sell someone stock at a certain price at a later date. Say that the price of the stock was $100, he buys a put option to sell 100 shares at $90 apiece. If the put option expires and the price is >= $90, then he loses money, because he now has to buy the stock for the "seller" of the put option for more than he payed for the contract. If the price goes down to say $50 a share though, he received $9000 for the contract, and only has to pay $5000 for the stock, making a profit of $4000 dollars. Hope that makes sense.
Exactly, so what is the problem? You can play a Paladin that isn't classed that way mechanically. You are basically saying 'Who cares if the class mechanics for the Paladin are hideously weak, it is about the RP', but if it is about the RP, then you don't need to play the hideously weak class.... I'm not sure why you find this difficult to understand. The class mechanics for 3.5E Paladins are very bad. Just because you don't care about numbers doesn't mean that is OK, the game designers actually have to look at the classes and see where improvements can be made. Remember it is up to them to balance the game by the numbers, not to RP, that is your job.