From the summary, it looks like sunrise/sunset cycle on the local planet (~24 hours on earth). My knowledge of the solar system is fuzzy (it's been a long time since I was a "junior astronomer" but I think the martian day is about 25 Earth hours (their year is considerably longer, though).
I thought conferring law status on a theory made it better than a theory. It's been a while since 1st year of college but doesn't relativity fit within Newtonian physics except at the atomic level (where other forces are much higher in magnitude than Newtonian forces)? I agree with the overall point, though.
Christians would have believed that the law was not subject to them (rather that a new more simple set of laws based on a relationship applied). It's complex, but essentially think of speeding in Virginia vs Montana a few years back. Virginia has a speedlimit of 55-60 on most roads. Exceeding this speed breaks the laws, however if a Virginia driver had vacationed in Montana they could have driven at any reasonable speed without breaking the law of either state. Since the law was fulfilled with Christ's death, the curse wouldn't apply (anymore than Virginia's speed limits) under the new law.
As mentioned in the other reply, stoning had the advantage that it is difficult to tell who struck the killing blow, and reinforced the concept that under the old law, sin had to be paid by shed blood. It wasn't meant to be cute nor sweet. Both Jews and Christians believe that God is not trite, safe, nor cute, but just and loving enough to offer grace to those who ask. Unfortunatly, His representatives have too frequently been too much of the first group, or simply just without the tempering of love and grace. Remember the strongest words Jesus had were for the religous leaders of the time, who were burdening the people with a littany of impossible rules (that only existed to show that pleasing God was impossible through human effort alone).
I was sticking to the old testament for most of the prophecies:
Deut. 21:23 "Cursed is anyone who hangs on a tree"--which is why Israelites stoned people.
Psalm 22 "I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint"... "they pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me."
Zachariah 12:10 "and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him"
Psalm 34:20 "He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken."
Part of the association is that Christians believe that the Messiah was foretold to have been killed in that or a similar manner, which makes him more likely to be the Messiah. Had the Romans keelhauled him (or far more likely toss rocks at him) he wouldn't have been the Messiah.
If Ghandi had been foretold to have died from an explosion or projectile, he'd have a bigger claim on the handgun.
It is for nickels, but not dimes, quarters, or those dollar coins. Pennies were right on the edge you can get up to date values from http://www.coinflation.com./ Pre 1982 pennies (copper)are now worth almost $0.03 these days. Oh and the GBP is worth about $2.
Also the saying, "all politics is local" didn't arise from random chance. State offices set the national districts in house races, and decide how to asign electors in presidential races. County officers have a huge impact on growth patterns, policies, and other issues that directly affect votors. Without some say on those fronts, it's very, very difficult to build the support necessary to run a national (or even statewide, but nationally supported campaign).
In every state but 2, the electoral college and gerrymandering cannot affect the same election, right? Gerrymandering refers to the creation of US House of Representative districts within a state's borders (two states use those districts to award Electoral College votes), but all of the rest run winner take all contests within their state for the presidential votes. The electoral college assigns each state a weighting in only the presidential election (and allows states to assign their votes how ever they choose). Senate races are straight majority races in every state of the union. There's no reason a third party couldn't mount a campaign in a split state (or small state) with a national fundraising campaign to get a senator for their party.
Third parties need to focus more on winning state and local elections (even though that isn't fun, easy, or glamourous) because that's where the foundation is built for a national run. I've not seen any credible third party candidates running for anything except very high offices. Seems more like ego stroking for the folks running, to me.
That's because the country was founded following a great comprimise between city folks and very wealthy rural folks who at that time had far more divergent interests. Things are the way they are because both sides did their best to make a system that neither side would dominate, rather that gave each advantages and disadvantages (with the goal that the nations three powers would need support from at least a portion of both major groups. Ironically enough the two sides haven't changed much in the last 220 years, but the labels and issues have. BTW the city folks won when Lincoln won the Civil War, ever sense, the rural folks have just been giving them hell.
Insurance works very well when both the buyer and the seller mutually lack knowledge of the events. It doesn't work at all when one party has information that the other lacks. Homeowners insurance is a good example. It's fairly competitive, so homeowners insurance companies don't make much and almost everyone can get insurance that is a small portion of their home's structural value. Health insurance isn't structured that way. You have tons of additional knowledge about your lifestyle and genetic history that the insurance company doesn't. This becomes something more akin to the used car market (where most cars are priced at lemon levels because it's too costly to differentiate between a lemon and a peach).
It doesn't help at all that a salary cap during World War II shifted health insurance to a pre-tax deduction and caused people to effectively ignore the cost of their insurance/health care.
My field is finance where you have the same problems (it's very difficult to tell the excellent from the good (and even sometimes the average). One tool used is a very bonus loaded compensation structure. You pay everyone decently well (higher than average but low for the good and excellent) but with the common knowledge that the very good will receive a bonus that is many times their salary (after the race). It's expensive (big banks pay out half of their revenue in employee costs) but they seem to continue to attract and retain (although it bounces from firm to firm pretty regularly).
The trouble might be that it's more difficult in coding to tell who really won the race, even after the fact.
Yeah for an intern working for the government (effectively) CYA should have been job one (why do you think bureaucracies are so inefficient). That intern must have skipped the day the lesson was taught.
That sure seems to be the case, I could understand if it was a first round of products, but it's been pretty obvious since 2001 or 2002 that their drivers have been enough of a detrement to performance (and sometimes operation) that customers are choosing competitors' products.
I've always found Ars to have pretty thorough and fair articles. Even their forums are surprisingly well behaved. Perhaps this was influenced by forming my opinion at the same time I was reading stuff like Tom's.
I dunno, last time I was at the MoMA it was $10 and I stayed for 2-3 hours. While I certainly got substantially more enjoyment out of it than my $10 admission, it's not as cheap per hour.
Um we use most of our own oil first. The stuff we aren't lifting is generally pretty crappy oil (high water and/or sulfer content or too remote to access). Even if we were drilling that we'd still have to import most of our daily oil needs.
Generally it's the same in the US. I've hit hundreds of beaches and never paid a fee. Waterways and their riparian areas (flood zones) are generally public property, but you can own all the land around them. You have to provide access but it doesn't have to be nice acces nor do you have to provide parking (which very much restricts access in many places).
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I think it was Churchill who was drunk, it was the society lady who was the ugly one. Happily in the morning, Churchill had sobered up ;-)
From the summary, it looks like sunrise/sunset cycle on the local planet (~24 hours on earth). My knowledge of the solar system is fuzzy (it's been a long time since I was a "junior astronomer" but I think the martian day is about 25 Earth hours (their year is considerably longer, though).
I thought conferring law status on a theory made it better than a theory. It's been a while since 1st year of college but doesn't relativity fit within Newtonian physics except at the atomic level (where other forces are much higher in magnitude than Newtonian forces)? I agree with the overall point, though.
Christians would have believed that the law was not subject to them (rather that a new more simple set of laws based on a relationship applied). It's complex, but essentially think of speeding in Virginia vs Montana a few years back. Virginia has a speedlimit of 55-60 on most roads. Exceeding this speed breaks the laws, however if a Virginia driver had vacationed in Montana they could have driven at any reasonable speed without breaking the law of either state. Since the law was fulfilled with Christ's death, the curse wouldn't apply (anymore than Virginia's speed limits) under the new law.
As mentioned in the other reply, stoning had the advantage that it is difficult to tell who struck the killing blow, and reinforced the concept that under the old law, sin had to be paid by shed blood. It wasn't meant to be cute nor sweet. Both Jews and Christians believe that God is not trite, safe, nor cute, but just and loving enough to offer grace to those who ask. Unfortunatly, His representatives have too frequently been too much of the first group, or simply just without the tempering of love and grace. Remember the strongest words Jesus had were for the religous leaders of the time, who were burdening the people with a littany of impossible rules (that only existed to show that pleasing God was impossible through human effort alone).
I was sticking to the old testament for most of the prophecies:
Deut. 21:23 "Cursed is anyone who hangs on a tree"--which is why Israelites stoned people.
Psalm 22 "I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint"... "they pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me."
Zachariah 12:10 "and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him"
Psalm 34:20 "He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken."
Part of the association is that Christians believe that the Messiah was foretold to have been killed in that or a similar manner, which makes him more likely to be the Messiah. Had the Romans keelhauled him (or far more likely toss rocks at him) he wouldn't have been the Messiah.
If Ghandi had been foretold to have died from an explosion or projectile, he'd have a bigger claim on the handgun.
It is for nickels, but not dimes, quarters, or those dollar coins. Pennies were right on the edge you can get up to date values from http://www.coinflation.com./ Pre 1982 pennies (copper)are now worth almost $0.03 these days. Oh and the GBP is worth about $2.
Also the saying, "all politics is local" didn't arise from random chance. State offices set the national districts in house races, and decide how to asign electors in presidential races. County officers have a huge impact on growth patterns, policies, and other issues that directly affect votors. Without some say on those fronts, it's very, very difficult to build the support necessary to run a national (or even statewide, but nationally supported campaign).
In every state but 2, the electoral college and gerrymandering cannot affect the same election, right? Gerrymandering refers to the creation of US House of Representative districts within a state's borders (two states use those districts to award Electoral College votes), but all of the rest run winner take all contests within their state for the presidential votes. The electoral college assigns each state a weighting in only the presidential election (and allows states to assign their votes how ever they choose). Senate races are straight majority races in every state of the union. There's no reason a third party couldn't mount a campaign in a split state (or small state) with a national fundraising campaign to get a senator for their party.
Third parties need to focus more on winning state and local elections (even though that isn't fun, easy, or glamourous) because that's where the foundation is built for a national run. I've not seen any credible third party candidates running for anything except very high offices. Seems more like ego stroking for the folks running, to me.
That's because the country was founded following a great comprimise between city folks and very wealthy rural folks who at that time had far more divergent interests. Things are the way they are because both sides did their best to make a system that neither side would dominate, rather that gave each advantages and disadvantages (with the goal that the nations three powers would need support from at least a portion of both major groups. Ironically enough the two sides haven't changed much in the last 220 years, but the labels and issues have. BTW the city folks won when Lincoln won the Civil War, ever sense, the rural folks have just been giving them hell.
Insurance works very well when both the buyer and the seller mutually lack knowledge of the events. It doesn't work at all when one party has information that the other lacks. Homeowners insurance is a good example. It's fairly competitive, so homeowners insurance companies don't make much and almost everyone can get insurance that is a small portion of their home's structural value. Health insurance isn't structured that way. You have tons of additional knowledge about your lifestyle and genetic history that the insurance company doesn't. This becomes something more akin to the used car market (where most cars are priced at lemon levels because it's too costly to differentiate between a lemon and a peach).
It doesn't help at all that a salary cap during World War II shifted health insurance to a pre-tax deduction and caused people to effectively ignore the cost of their insurance/health care.
My field is finance where you have the same problems (it's very difficult to tell the excellent from the good (and even sometimes the average). One tool used is a very bonus loaded compensation structure. You pay everyone decently well (higher than average but low for the good and excellent) but with the common knowledge that the very good will receive a bonus that is many times their salary (after the race). It's expensive (big banks pay out half of their revenue in employee costs) but they seem to continue to attract and retain (although it bounces from firm to firm pretty regularly).
The trouble might be that it's more difficult in coding to tell who really won the race, even after the fact.
Me thinks, Alton sorta has a pretty good lead on that.
Further to the left means better further to the right means worse, I'm color blind too, and it's worked ok so far (protanomalous, so YMMV).
Yeah but finding the marble in the oatmeal is pretty original (or insane), probably both.
Yeah for an intern working for the government (effectively) CYA should have been job one (why do you think bureaucracies are so inefficient). That intern must have skipped the day the lesson was taught.
That sure seems to be the case, I could understand if it was a first round of products, but it's been pretty obvious since 2001 or 2002 that their drivers have been enough of a detrement to performance (and sometimes operation) that customers are choosing competitors' products.
Why has ATI struggled with driver development for as long as I can remember. I'm curious why they've never been able to hire better developers.
Japan is not so much higher but everyone is much more similar. The average is about the same, but the difference between higher and lower is smaller.
Just don't smoke while you enjoy your beverage.
I've always found Ars to have pretty thorough and fair articles. Even their forums are surprisingly well behaved. Perhaps this was influenced by forming my opinion at the same time I was reading stuff like Tom's.
I dunno, last time I was at the MoMA it was $10 and I stayed for 2-3 hours. While I certainly got substantially more enjoyment out of it than my $10 admission, it's not as cheap per hour.
Um we use most of our own oil first. The stuff we aren't lifting is generally pretty crappy oil (high water and/or sulfer content or too remote to access). Even if we were drilling that we'd still have to import most of our daily oil needs.
Generally it's the same in the US. I've hit hundreds of beaches and never paid a fee. Waterways and their riparian areas (flood zones) are generally public property, but you can own all the land around them. You have to provide access but it doesn't have to be nice acces nor do you have to provide parking (which very much restricts access in many places).
Didn't Abramoff make a career living off that twofer?