Several years back, THE Bruce Perens of whom I took note would have been more restrained and less acerbic, and more likely to comment on tech than politics.
All the voluntary suspension of sanity on the right wing finally getting to you?
The Puritans had no interest in separation of church and state, they just wanted the state controlled by their church, and not another.
It was the Baptists who figured out that you only guarantee your own religious freedom by guaranteeing everyone's, and it was to Baptists that Jefferson was writing what he hoped would be a letter of re-assurance about the protection of religious liberty under the new Constitution and Bill of Rights when he penned the phrase "wall of separation between Church & State".
So google has developed artificial intelligence that is forced to read YouTube comments all day? I wonder how many lines of code it took to keep it from commiting suicide.
Well, now we know the real reason Skynet hates humanity.
And my assumptions are that the government isn't that competent and careful when something trips the "terrist" trigger and all the sirens sound and the red lights flash. Just ask Jean Charles de Menezes. Assuming you bump into him in the afterlife, that is.
Are you sure it isn't about language influencing the way you think about and view the world, and the way you think about and view the world influencing your physical being as a result of how it affects your actions?
Language itself doesn't make you fat, eating too much and failing to exercise enough does.
What leads to one overeating and not exercising enough? The thought that the consequences are far in the future and that one has plenty of time left in which to do something about it, perhaps?
It didn't say "cultural differences", it said "culture differences". "Culture" was the subject and "differences" was the verb.
Assuming said Yale researcher was accurately quoted and that this isn't the result of a translation of a translation, this may be the first time in the English language that that word has been used as a verb, and I certainly hope it will be the last.
CelticWhisper writes "H.R. 3674, the Promoting and Enhancing Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Effectiveness Act (PRECISE Act), would allow the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to require improved security practices from those businesses managing systems whose disruption could prove detrimental to critical life-sustaining or national-security initiatives."
A felony conviction doesn't, in and of itself, affect your ability to easily get the kind of identification card required to be shown at the polls under the various Voter ID laws recently passed or currently being considered.
It affects your ability to get or remain registered to vote in the first place.
Apples and oranges.
Women and blacks weren't being turned away at the polls after being allowed to register to vote, they were being prevented from getting registered in the first place.
These new voter ID laws are designed to keep people who are already registered to vote, some for decades and decades, from being able to vote when they show up at the polls.
You can create congressional districts that are reliably for one party while creating others that put 2 of the other parties congresscritters into the same district, which reduces their number in Congress by 1.
You can make sure "your" precincts have plenty of voting booths or machines, and shortchange the other party's precincts so that people have to wait in line for hours to vote.
You can pass voter ID laws that hamper some of those most likely to vote for the other party and most likely to have difficulty getting the approved IDs.
And you can place electronic voting machines in a few key places, like Native American reservations, and magically have those results go your way.
The person who wins by one vote or a handful of them is just as much a member of Congress as the one who wins by an overwhelming landslide.
If Towle was making replicas of the Batmobile from the original TV series, I'd think that George Barris and/or series producers Greenway Productions / Twentieth-Century Fox Television (and maybe Ford Motor Company) would have a greater claim than DC comics, who only started using the Barris design in the comic books after the TV series started.
Now if this is all about the word "Batmobile", then DC has "prior art"
"Kissenger is a robot with highly-sensitive and motor-actuated lips, which you can use to transmit a kiss to another Kissenger."
Did anyone else get the image of making out with a robot with the appearance of Henry Kissinger? Or am I the crazy one here...
Considering that you can't be absolutely sure who's operating the unit corresponding to yours, it brings back the old Nixon-era line "I wonder who's Kissinger now".
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Several years back, THE Bruce Perens of whom I took note would have been more restrained and less acerbic, and more likely to comment on tech than politics.
All the voluntary suspension of sanity on the right wing finally getting to you?
The people behind Carolina Journal are the John Locke Foundation, not exactly an unbiased source.
The super-rich elite are the ones making a profit because of that cheap, secure and reliable transport.
All the while whining about wanting the government that makes it possible to get off the backs of business.
Kinda like the "Keep your government hands off of my Medicare" "Morans".
The Puritans had no interest in separation of church and state, they just wanted the state controlled by their church, and not another.
It was the Baptists who figured out that you only guarantee your own religious freedom by guaranteeing everyone's, and it was to Baptists that Jefferson was writing what he hoped would be a letter of re-assurance about the protection of religious liberty under the new Constitution and Bill of Rights when he penned the phrase "wall of separation between Church & State".
So google has developed artificial intelligence that is forced to read YouTube comments all day? I wonder how many lines of code it took to keep it from commiting suicide.
Well, now we know the real reason Skynet hates humanity.
I thought prior art was pentimento.
Unless it's a guy named Arthur who's waiting to be promoted to Abbot.
So a bad summary of a poorly written article, then.
The article only identifies one bill
"[*]The clever acronyms are already out in force: H.R. 3674 is the Promoting and Enhancing Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Effectiveness Act."
The AP article to which the article links never specifically identifies a specific Senate bill, either.
And my assumptions are that the government isn't that competent and careful when something trips the "terrist" trigger and all the sirens sound and the red lights flash. Just ask Jean Charles de Menezes. Assuming you bump into him in the afterlife, that is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes
A healthful diet would be even better for you.
You have one of those alternate universe memories like mine*. In this one the female lead wasn't Tomlin, it was Jane Seymour.
*Until today I was sure that the female lead in Wonderfalls was the same actress I next saw as the lead character when Bones premiered.
Are you sure it isn't about language influencing the way you think about and view the world, and the way you think about and view the world influencing your physical being as a result of how it affects your actions?
Language itself doesn't make you fat, eating too much and failing to exercise enough does.
What leads to one overeating and not exercising enough? The thought that the consequences are far in the future and that one has plenty of time left in which to do something about it, perhaps?
"Cultural" was a misquote.
I refer you to my expanation above.
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2661229&cid=38977143
It didn't say "cultural differences", it said "culture differences". "Culture" was the subject and "differences" was the verb.
Assuming said Yale researcher was accurately quoted and that this isn't the result of a translation of a translation, this may be the first time in the English language that that word has been used as a verb, and I certainly hope it will be the last.
CelticWhisper writes "H.R. 3674, the Promoting and Enhancing Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Effectiveness Act (PRECISE Act), would allow the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to require improved security practices from those businesses managing systems whose disruption could prove detrimental to critical life-sustaining or national-security initiatives."
A felony conviction doesn't, in and of itself, affect your ability to easily get the kind of identification card required to be shown at the polls under the various Voter ID laws recently passed or currently being considered.
It affects your ability to get or remain registered to vote in the first place.
Apples and oranges.
Women and blacks weren't being turned away at the polls after being allowed to register to vote, they were being prevented from getting registered in the first place.
These new voter ID laws are designed to keep people who are already registered to vote, some for decades and decades, from being able to vote when they show up at the polls.
Go here
http://homeland.house.gov/markup/subcommittee-markup-hr-3674
look at the seal in the upper left hand corner that says U.S. House of Representatives.
Go here
http://blogs.cio.com/security/16787/law-would-put-homeland-security-charge-business-it-security
look in the upper left hand part of the page at the picture of an idiot columnist who can't tell the House from the Senate.
If the bill says HR, that means House of Representatives.
Senate bills are S-insertnumberhere
... heck in Canada, there is a public school that outlawed ALL BALLS...
So, girls only, then?
They don't always have to outright rig elections.
You can create congressional districts that are reliably for one party while creating others that put 2 of the other parties congresscritters into the same district, which reduces their number in Congress by 1.
You can make sure "your" precincts have plenty of voting booths or machines, and shortchange the other party's precincts so that people have to wait in line for hours to vote.
You can pass voter ID laws that hamper some of those most likely to vote for the other party and most likely to have difficulty getting the approved IDs.
And you can place electronic voting machines in a few key places, like Native American reservations, and magically have those results go your way.
The person who wins by one vote or a handful of them is just as much a member of Congress as the one who wins by an overwhelming landslide.
But how can we oppress and ridicule you for your beliefs if we don't know what they are?
What makes you think the translation was done by a human and not a computer program?
If Towle was making replicas of the Batmobile from the original TV series, I'd think that George Barris and/or series producers Greenway Productions / Twentieth-Century Fox Television (and maybe Ford Motor Company) would have a greater claim than DC comics, who only started using the Barris design in the comic books after the TV series started.
Now if this is all about the word "Batmobile", then DC has "prior art"
Batman VS Chuck Norris.... Now taking bets on the victor!
Not Chuck Norris, Chuck Barris.
"Kissenger is a robot with highly-sensitive and motor-actuated lips, which you can use to transmit a kiss to another Kissenger."
Did anyone else get the image of making out with a robot with the appearance of Henry Kissinger? Or am I the crazy one here...
Considering that you can't be absolutely sure who's operating the unit corresponding to yours, it brings back the old Nixon-era line "I wonder who's Kissinger now".
that pronounces it wee-fee
Just you and my French maid, Fifi.