Two Chinook helicopters followed the two stealth helicopters. This was intended so that the SEALs could make a ground escape if necessary (to be picked up nearby).
One or both of those likely picked up the other SEALs.
You are assuming a definition of "natural born". Any child of a citizen is, by law, a citizen, so he'd be a citizen because his mom is one. However, some people believe that the law which defines all children of citizens as citizens is a distinctly separate law than the one which defines "natural born" - where "natural born" can only include people born on U.S. soil (regardless of parentage).
See the difference? To some people, if you give birth while on vacation in another country, your child can never be president, unless you happened to run onto a military base or into an embassy.
I bet that there is quite an overlap between the people that say "natural born" must be born on U.S. soil per the Constitution and the ones that want to restrict "natural born" to only be those with parents of legal immigration status. I think there's a mental disconnect there somewhere.
The Malaysians I know do. They all speak a local dialect (their first language), plus they speak Mandarin (the regional language taught for normal communication), plus they speak English (the language they learn to conduct business). They can't really co-mingle the applications, either; they don't know many business terms in their native language so English isn't just an option, it's preferred for those uses.
While that might work, I personally find it very doubtful that either the vendor or American Express would let you call about a piece of defective merchandise you purchased more than four years ago (assuming you mean that you would do it now based on your plan to include the court filings as supporting paperwork). I haven't looked at American Express' policies recently, but I would be surprised if you could do that two years after the purchase when the class action was originally filed.
Without reading TFA, I assume the laptop reward may be on top of keeping the existing hardware, including in cases where that existing hardware was repaired.
Of course I don't you nutless twit. I am merely pointing out that, over the extent of history, it's not likely that suicide bombers have killed more civilians that the U.S. military. It's a hypothesis based on reason, not a political statement.
Just consider the number of Southern civilians killed by the U.S. military during the Civil War. Add to that the number of civilians killed in each of the other major wars, including all of those killed by the nuclear detonations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Compare that to the number of suicide bombing deaths. Actually, compare it to ten times the number of suicide bombing deaths. I hypothesize that the U.S. military has, over its history, killed more civilians than that. I would be very happy to be proven wrong.
>> the American military goes out of its way to avoid civilian casualties
Is that what it did in Hiroshima? I thought the purpose there was to kill a large number of civilians so as to save the lives of a bunch of American soldiers. We are talking about the entire history of the U.S. military compared to the relatively short history of suicide bombings.
You might have her look at Dish's family package, which (if my memory serves) gets rid of things like that in favor of lots of channels that a grandmother might watch (as well as some for her to watch with your kids).
Also, I covered that where I said "method AND product". In other words, by patenting both, the inventor would both cover the method behind the making of the sculpture, and the innovative part of the sculpture. While the patent was valid, no other artist would be able to make a statue with that feature.
Obviously the inventor doesn't get to patent the whole sculpture, unless every little aspect of the sculpture is innovative. I don't get to patent the car just because I invented a better harness system for seat belts. No patent system works like that.
Almost any mechanical device that has ever received a patent is a sculpture. How are they different?
Consider, for example, each of the many varieties of barbed wire that received a patent. (One of my older relatives had a board with five or six of them attached, each with its patent number underneath.) How is that not sculpture? Do you not consider it art because it has a purpose?
Most likely the little stretch where the road is 35 MPH is within the jurisdiction of a nearby town (perhaps one you can't see) that annexed over just far enough to grab a little piece of the road. That allows them to set the limit on that part, which they did. When the road leaves the town, the speed returns to the county's rate. Then you reach the next little town...
It would be better if the state restricted the ability of cities to enforce speed limit reductions based on jurisdictional boundaries, and instead required them to justify speed limit reductions based on, say, peak (midnight-to-midnight) populations within 500 feet of the area. If there are few to no homes or businesses nearby, the town would be prevented from lowering the speed limit on the road just because it is within their city limits.
A good option (for the employees and regular investors) would allow the CEO to buy that $1/share option only if the share price is over $2/share, and only if it has been over $2/share for the last twelve successive quarters (or over $3/share for the last ten, or over $4/share for the last eight).
Any CEO in the job for the good of the company should readily agree to that.
So will you try to take them to small claims court to get more than the cheap laptop? Or did you just give up the ~$200 you could have made selling this thing on eBay?
>> However, how do you prove that you have killed a "fighter" or a "civilian?" They both wear the same clothes.
If you kill someone, then review their body, and find that they were not wearing a uniform, nor were they carrying any weapons, nor were they strapped with explosives, nor were there any weapons nearby, nor is their likelihood that they were directing others to engage in warfare, then they were a civilian.
These rules are pretty clearly spelled out in some treaties we've signed and ratified. Certainly some of the people claimed as civilians were not, but in some cases they most certainly were.
>> I would strongly suspect that suicide bombers have killed far more civilians than the US military has.
I doubt it, given the 200+ year history of the US military and relatively short history of suicide bombers, even taking into account 9/11.
>> # of civilians killed as a result of US military actions
There's no web source that cannot be dismissed by you or others as "biased", therefore there is no possible source to give you definitive proof. My short web search started here, which is where I would start reading if I was so inclined: http://www.iraqbodycount.org/
Sure. The first person who did something innovative with sculpture - like, say, creating a method and product where interlocking pieces of wood are created in sculpture by carving them out of a single piece - would be patentable. 3000 years ago.
While I'm not the OP, all I'd do is change the system so that trades only execute once every five seconds, all simultaneously, all trying to best match the closest buyers and sellers. No more millisecond trade bullshit where the trades are re-ordered to maximize the split-second revenue for the trade house.
I think anyone who runs a regular (non-financial services) company, and who doesn't want his or her stock to be manipulated by the financial industry, would appreciate a market that followed those guidelines. And someone who created such a market can tout how more of the profit goes to the stockholders, not the middle men.
Additional changes - like preventing people from wrapping bad debt in a derivative and calling it good debt - already fall under fraud laws and merely need adequate prosecution.
My company uses engineers exclusively for field sales. They claim it's easier to sell when the people selling the products have a similar background to the people buying the products. In my opinion, there's hope that it at least makes the sales guy look less stupid compared to the many non-technical sales folks that have tried to foist things upon me.
Not that I agree with not paying in any way, but I'm curious: would you consider it necessary for them to put all their merchandise back before they leave? Or can they just leave the cart at the front and walk out? What about any refrigerated items? Should they be responsible for those if they leave the cart and they spoil? What if the person is managing a small child or two? Maybe they don't have time to put everything back. Maybe they or a loved one have a medical condition that requires them to get home quickly.
Would it be okay for them to slip a check, or maybe an IOU, under the manager's door and leave with their items?
The ones near me have fixed both of your other pet peeves.
1. The numbers are on the items in the produce section. You can weigh them there, enter the code, and get a printed-out barcode to put on the bag. Then at the register you can treat them as any other pre-coded merchandise. Honest obviously applies.
2. Just after you start, before you scan the first item, there's a button on the screen that says "My Bag". Press that button, and the screen tells you to place your bags in the bagging area. There's a large "Done" button to press when finished. At this point, alas, it does wait for the attendee, I assume to verify that you placed only empty bags in the bagging area, but I've never seen an attendee more than glance my way before they clear this. Then it returns to the other screen and you can proceed with scanning, with your bags all zeroed out.
This will take legislation to break up. The content providers not only required the cable channels to bundle, but they mandate that you bundle with other content providers. In other words, Disney doesn't just require that you provide EPSN2 with ESPN, or that you provide ESPN Classic with ESPNU, they require that ESPN and ESPN2 be part of the first tier package along with all other first-tier channels. That prevents Dish Network from providing, for example, a Disney-only package, where you don't have to pay for Warner channels. There are some pre-negotiated exceptions, like the Family package, where a different first-tier is allowed.
Personally I think there's merit for an anti--trust case based on the providers insisting their products be bundled with other providers' products. But I also think there's merit for a monopoly-busting case based on each channel being a copyright-based-monopoly, and it being against the law to use that monopoly to force bundling of a second monopoly channel...
The cables companies will never allow this. Don't be fooled into thinking Microsoft is negotiating an end-around to the bundling. This will take legislation, and legislation will take politicians, and politicians prefer cash.
Dish Network has been pushing for ala carte packages for years. If Microsoft were to announce such a deal, I suspect Dish Network would insist on one, too, with each contract renewal.
But it did survive the 9.0 just fine. They over-engineered it for that, and did so well.
What it wasn't design for was the tsunami. And that's where they failed. There's no reason to couple the two, either. Theoretically they could have lost their diesel generators to a tsunami caused by California's "Big One" or some other event, and still would have flipped the system into cold shutdown in preparation, and still would have resulted in today's crisis.
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Two Chinook helicopters followed the two stealth helicopters. This was intended so that the SEALs could make a ground escape if necessary (to be picked up nearby).
One or both of those likely picked up the other SEALs.
You are assuming a definition of "natural born". Any child of a citizen is, by law, a citizen, so he'd be a citizen because his mom is one. However, some people believe that the law which defines all children of citizens as citizens is a distinctly separate law than the one which defines "natural born" - where "natural born" can only include people born on U.S. soil (regardless of parentage).
See the difference? To some people, if you give birth while on vacation in another country, your child can never be president, unless you happened to run onto a military base or into an embassy.
I bet that there is quite an overlap between the people that say "natural born" must be born on U.S. soil per the Constitution and the ones that want to restrict "natural born" to only be those with parents of legal immigration status. I think there's a mental disconnect there somewhere.
The Malaysians I know do. They all speak a local dialect (their first language), plus they speak Mandarin (the regional language taught for normal communication), plus they speak English (the language they learn to conduct business). They can't really co-mingle the applications, either; they don't know many business terms in their native language so English isn't just an option, it's preferred for those uses.
No, Texas. And yes, just using the shelf does remain faster for smaller loads.
While that might work, I personally find it very doubtful that either the vendor or American Express would let you call about a piece of defective merchandise you purchased more than four years ago (assuming you mean that you would do it now based on your plan to include the court filings as supporting paperwork). I haven't looked at American Express' policies recently, but I would be surprised if you could do that two years after the purchase when the class action was originally filed.
Without reading TFA, I assume the laptop reward may be on top of keeping the existing hardware, including in cases where that existing hardware was repaired.
Agreed. But, after the incident, you can prove that they were, in fact, civilians.
Of course I don't you nutless twit. I am merely pointing out that, over the extent of history, it's not likely that suicide bombers have killed more civilians that the U.S. military. It's a hypothesis based on reason, not a political statement.
Just consider the number of Southern civilians killed by the U.S. military during the Civil War. Add to that the number of civilians killed in each of the other major wars, including all of those killed by the nuclear detonations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Compare that to the number of suicide bombing deaths. Actually, compare it to ten times the number of suicide bombing deaths. I hypothesize that the U.S. military has, over its history, killed more civilians than that. I would be very happy to be proven wrong.
>> the American military goes out of its way to avoid civilian casualties
Is that what it did in Hiroshima? I thought the purpose there was to kill a large number of civilians so as to save the lives of a bunch of American soldiers. We are talking about the entire history of the U.S. military compared to the relatively short history of suicide bombings.
You might have her look at Dish's family package, which (if my memory serves) gets rid of things like that in favor of lots of channels that a grandmother might watch (as well as some for her to watch with your kids).
Also, I covered that where I said "method AND product". In other words, by patenting both, the inventor would both cover the method behind the making of the sculpture, and the innovative part of the sculpture. While the patent was valid, no other artist would be able to make a statue with that feature.
Obviously the inventor doesn't get to patent the whole sculpture, unless every little aspect of the sculpture is innovative. I don't get to patent the car just because I invented a better harness system for seat belts. No patent system works like that.
Almost any mechanical device that has ever received a patent is a sculpture. How are they different?
Consider, for example, each of the many varieties of barbed wire that received a patent. (One of my older relatives had a board with five or six of them attached, each with its patent number underneath.) How is that not sculpture? Do you not consider it art because it has a purpose?
Most likely the little stretch where the road is 35 MPH is within the jurisdiction of a nearby town (perhaps one you can't see) that annexed over just far enough to grab a little piece of the road. That allows them to set the limit on that part, which they did. When the road leaves the town, the speed returns to the county's rate. Then you reach the next little town...
It would be better if the state restricted the ability of cities to enforce speed limit reductions based on jurisdictional boundaries, and instead required them to justify speed limit reductions based on, say, peak (midnight-to-midnight) populations within 500 feet of the area. If there are few to no homes or businesses nearby, the town would be prevented from lowering the speed limit on the road just because it is within their city limits.
A good option (for the employees and regular investors) would allow the CEO to buy that $1/share option only if the share price is over $2/share, and only if it has been over $2/share for the last twelve successive quarters (or over $3/share for the last ten, or over $4/share for the last eight).
Any CEO in the job for the good of the company should readily agree to that.
So will you try to take them to small claims court to get more than the cheap laptop? Or did you just give up the ~$200 you could have made selling this thing on eBay?
>> However, how do you prove that you have killed a "fighter" or a "civilian?" They both wear the same clothes.
If you kill someone, then review their body, and find that they were not wearing a uniform, nor were they carrying any weapons, nor were they strapped with explosives, nor were there any weapons nearby, nor is their likelihood that they were directing others to engage in warfare, then they were a civilian.
These rules are pretty clearly spelled out in some treaties we've signed and ratified. Certainly some of the people claimed as civilians were not, but in some cases they most certainly were.
>> I would strongly suspect that suicide bombers have killed far more civilians than the US military has.
I doubt it, given the 200+ year history of the US military and relatively short history of suicide bombers, even taking into account 9/11.
>> # of civilians killed as a result of US military actions
There's no web source that cannot be dismissed by you or others as "biased", therefore there is no possible source to give you definitive proof. My short web search started here, which is where I would start reading if I was so inclined:
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/
1% interest rate on $24M would be enough to pay the annual salaries of chauffeurs 24/7 to sit in your driveway holding your keys, for life.
Sure. The first person who did something innovative with sculpture - like, say, creating a method and product where interlocking pieces of wood are created in sculpture by carving them out of a single piece - would be patentable. 3000 years ago.
While I'm not the OP, all I'd do is change the system so that trades only execute once every five seconds, all simultaneously, all trying to best match the closest buyers and sellers. No more millisecond trade bullshit where the trades are re-ordered to maximize the split-second revenue for the trade house.
I think anyone who runs a regular (non-financial services) company, and who doesn't want his or her stock to be manipulated by the financial industry, would appreciate a market that followed those guidelines. And someone who created such a market can tout how more of the profit goes to the stockholders, not the middle men.
Additional changes - like preventing people from wrapping bad debt in a derivative and calling it good debt - already fall under fraud laws and merely need adequate prosecution.
My company uses engineers exclusively for field sales. They claim it's easier to sell when the people selling the products have a similar background to the people buying the products. In my opinion, there's hope that it at least makes the sales guy look less stupid compared to the many non-technical sales folks that have tried to foist things upon me.
Not that I agree with not paying in any way, but I'm curious: would you consider it necessary for them to put all their merchandise back before they leave? Or can they just leave the cart at the front and walk out? What about any refrigerated items? Should they be responsible for those if they leave the cart and they spoil? What if the person is managing a small child or two? Maybe they don't have time to put everything back. Maybe they or a loved one have a medical condition that requires them to get home quickly.
Would it be okay for them to slip a check, or maybe an IOU, under the manager's door and leave with their items?
The ones near me have fixed both of your other pet peeves.
1. The numbers are on the items in the produce section. You can weigh them there, enter the code, and get a printed-out barcode to put on the bag. Then at the register you can treat them as any other pre-coded merchandise. Honest obviously applies.
2. Just after you start, before you scan the first item, there's a button on the screen that says "My Bag". Press that button, and the screen tells you to place your bags in the bagging area. There's a large "Done" button to press when finished. At this point, alas, it does wait for the attendee, I assume to verify that you placed only empty bags in the bagging area, but I've never seen an attendee more than glance my way before they clear this. Then it returns to the other screen and you can proceed with scanning, with your bags all zeroed out.
This will take legislation to break up. The content providers not only required the cable channels to bundle, but they mandate that you bundle with other content providers. In other words, Disney doesn't just require that you provide EPSN2 with ESPN, or that you provide ESPN Classic with ESPNU, they require that ESPN and ESPN2 be part of the first tier package along with all other first-tier channels. That prevents Dish Network from providing, for example, a Disney-only package, where you don't have to pay for Warner channels. There are some pre-negotiated exceptions, like the Family package, where a different first-tier is allowed.
Personally I think there's merit for an anti--trust case based on the providers insisting their products be bundled with other providers' products. But I also think there's merit for a monopoly-busting case based on each channel being a copyright-based-monopoly, and it being against the law to use that monopoly to force bundling of a second monopoly channel...
The cables companies will never allow this. Don't be fooled into thinking Microsoft is negotiating an end-around to the bundling. This will take legislation, and legislation will take politicians, and politicians prefer cash.
Dish Network has been pushing for ala carte packages for years. If Microsoft were to announce such a deal, I suspect Dish Network would insist on one, too, with each contract renewal.
I liked Dr. Roth's EFBT design, though it's unlikely it will move forward again..
Could be fun watching drivers fill up at "versatile fuel stations" in Kentucky. Although if you're in line, you might be waiting awhile.
That's okay. Folks will just queue up with a gallon left in the tank and a straw...
But it did survive the 9.0 just fine. They over-engineered it for that, and did so well.
What it wasn't design for was the tsunami. And that's where they failed. There's no reason to couple the two, either. Theoretically they could have lost their diesel generators to a tsunami caused by California's "Big One" or some other event, and still would have flipped the system into cold shutdown in preparation, and still would have resulted in today's crisis.