I hope the above is parody. In case it isn't, or in case it is but others think it isn't, here are the relevant sections of the Constitution and the War Powers Act, from
http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Constitution.htm l> and http://www.cs.indiana.edu/statecraft/warpow.html>, respectively.
From Article I of the US Constitution, which explains the powers of Congress:
Section 8
Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Clause 10: To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
Clause 11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
Clause 12: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
Clause 13: To provide and maintain a Navy;
Clause 14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
Clause 16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
Section 10
Clause 3: No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
This bit at the end, explaining that no State shall engage in War without the consent of Congress unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay, is the basis of the War Powers Act - if the US is in a position in which it is certain that its safety is seriously threatened and there is no time for Congress to authorize military action, those who would normally carry out the Congressional will can act preemptively until such time as the Congress has an opportunity to confirm their actions. Now, see Article II, on the powers of the President:
Section. 2.
Clause 1: The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment
Note that clause "when called into the actual Service of teh United States." That clause prohibits the President from taking military action himself without Congressional approval: in other words, the President doesn't have to clear every decision made in the course of a war with Congress, but he does need Congressional approval to attack anyone who has not yet attacked the US, or is not an imminent threat. One can assume that a right granted to the states (under Article I) also adheres to the President (the right to respond when attacked), but there's nothing explicitly granting him even the power to respond when the US is attacked, without a declaration of war (the means by which the Army and Navy are called into actual service).
Friday. When was the last time I saw a BSOD? Friday. Funny thing is, the hardware is fine, as Windows worked fine when I reinstalled it. Oh, and it was Server 2003.
Yeah, the fact that I had to back out a patch the other day because it broke security auditing is a great example of Microsoft testing patches "through the roof." That's just me: another satisfied MS enterprise customer . . .
What do you think -1 Redundant is for? Oh, and a little information for the child poster who thought the jingoistic posting deserved to be modded up because "it's the truth": the signature says "Booth was a patriot." That would be the pro-slavery terrorist-traitor John Wilkes Booth he's praising there. So I don't think he's really all that concerned about proliferating freedom.
The reflection is in the wrong place to be the sun - look, the earth is less than half full, which means that the sun is on the other side of the earth from the sun. My guess is that it's a reflection of the moon; looking at Celestia, I think the angle's right. Anyone who knows what they're talking about care to correct this?
I didn't spend $3000 on a PowerMac G5 for it to be a home file server, thank you, I bought it as a workstation. And I doubt that we'll see more than one cycle of fat binary releases (how long did they continue to support the 68x?), where I was expecting this G5 to be good for at least three more software cycles (18-month cycles). Has any software vendor signed a contract with Apple promising to continue fat binary releases until after 10.7 comes out? So, yes, I'd say it's fair to say that the PPC will be effectively obsoleted by the advent of the MacIntel.
Socrates didn't live in a barrel, Diogenes the Cynic (of Sinope) did. Socrates also wasn't filthy, just ugly. Comparing Richard Stallman to Socrates or Gandhi is a little like comparing the Beatles to Jesus: yeah, Stallman may end up being a somewhat important historical figure, but you've got no sense of proportion when you make that kind of claim.
I can't find a pre-built mini-itx system that's any cheaper than a Mac mini (and I'm looking, because I'd like a separate box to run Linux and would prefer to wait on buying a mini until they go Intel - it's bad enough having two PPC machines that will be effectively obsoleted by the advent of the MacIntels). Where are you finding it? (I stopped building my own in 2001 after going Mac - it's simply easier not having to constantly tweak your hardware).
Keynote looks better, and is cleaner, and easier to use. Powerpoint has more features: for instance, there's a lot of animation stuff in Powerpoint that Keynote doesn't have available. When I'm doing something for work, I usually use Powerpoint, because that's what's expected. When I'm having fun with a presentation package, I use Keynote.
The Cell's core CPU is a PowerPC processor. And the PPC is a very good chip - the problem is that IBM decided that it should focus on Power5 and Cell, and neglected the G5 (and had some scaling issue, IIRC). The G5 wouldn't sell nearly as many units as Cell does, and the Power5 probably has a high margin (and is for their own server products). Again, IIRC, IBM tried to sell Apple on the Cell (so they could continue to fulfill their obligations to Apple without keeping up the G5), but Apple felt that the Cell wasn't really a good choice for general-purpose computing.
Isn't that the basic business plan that we once used to call "the New Economy" - until we realized that ads can never supply as much revenue as the products that the ads are trying to sell?
Since you beat me to the citation, the best I guess I can do is to add the Amazon link. I believe there are some new things in astrodynamics, but this will give the reader a solid background.
Why yes, I have registered copyrights. It isn't just lawyers. And yes, I have written standards-compliant web applications: I do most of it on the server precisely so any browser with halfway modern capabilities (IE 6, Safari, Firefox, Opera, etc.) will work.
Your version is Clarke's 3rd law. Benford's is his corollary to Clarke's 3rd law - a simple reversal of terms. Both are insightful, though Clarke's more so.
So you've got the CD running an X server and a NAT to let the BlackDog see the network? Why did you decide to use the CD rather than have it on a partition on the device that runs through Windows' generic USB storage device driver?
(Oh, and mods: why was I modded +4 interesting, while the guy answering the question was only modded +2???)
Not sure what they're doing with it, but it seems to me that if you could get this to do two things, you'd have a useful product. Get it to appear to the main computer as two items: 1. a USB drive, with an executable that includes VNC functionality and a TCP/IP over USB engine for Windows (am I right in assuming that you need additional software to establish a TCP/IP connection over USB in windows) in the memory; 2. a network device, which connects via TCP/IP over USB. Bingo, you just plug in, run the application from the FAT32 partition on the USB drive, and you can log into your own USB-powered, network-connected computer with your own data on it.
Apple tried letting otherss sell clones. It nearly killed them. The first thing Jobs did when he regained control of Apple was kill the clones. Now Apple is profitable. So what do you think?
Illegal? Not in the sense of criminal. But violating the GPL, well, if there's Linux kernel code in there, yep, they violating the GPL. But that's civil, not criminal (unless the DMCA has something in it; and in that case, wouldn't it be pretty hypocritical of those of us who have been bashing SCO (I have) and bashing the DMCA to take refuge in the latter to attack the former?).
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I hope the above is parody. In case it isn't, or in case it is but others think it isn't, here are the relevant sections of the Constitution and the War Powers Act, from http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Constitution.htm l> and http://www.cs.indiana.edu/statecraft/warpow.html>, respectively.
From Article I of the US Constitution, which explains the powers of Congress:
Section 8
Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Clause 10: To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
Clause 11: To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
Clause 12: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
Clause 13: To provide and maintain a Navy;
Clause 14: To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
Clause 16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
Section 10
Clause 3: No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
This bit at the end, explaining that no State shall engage in War without the consent of Congress unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay, is the basis of the War Powers Act - if the US is in a position in which it is certain that its safety is seriously threatened and there is no time for Congress to authorize military action, those who would normally carry out the Congressional will can act preemptively until such time as the Congress has an opportunity to confirm their actions. Now, see Article II, on the powers of the President:
Section. 2.
Clause 1: The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment
Note that clause "when called into the actual Service of teh United States." That clause prohibits the President from taking military action himself without Congressional approval: in other words, the President doesn't have to clear every decision made in the course of a war with Congress, but he does need Congressional approval to attack anyone who has not yet attacked the US, or is not an imminent threat. One can assume that a right granted to the states (under Article I) also adheres to the President (the right to respond when attacked), but there's nothing explicitly granting him even the power to respond when the US is attacked, without a declaration of war (the means by which the Army and Navy are called into actual service).
Let's remember that Roosevelt act
Friday. When was the last time I saw a BSOD? Friday. Funny thing is, the hardware is fine, as Windows worked fine when I reinstalled it. Oh, and it was Server 2003.
Either you are insanely fast, you are a subscriber, you are a PERL script, or you are from the future.
Didn't you know that subscribers are from the mysterious future?
Yeah, the fact that I had to back out a patch the other day because it broke security auditing is a great example of Microsoft testing patches "through the roof." That's just me: another satisfied MS enterprise customer . . .
What do you think -1 Redundant is for? Oh, and a little information for the child poster who thought the jingoistic posting deserved to be modded up because "it's the truth": the signature says "Booth was a patriot." That would be the pro-slavery terrorist-traitor John Wilkes Booth he's praising there. So I don't think he's really all that concerned about proliferating freedom.
Of course, what any of this has to do with Hubble is beyond me. HST: just ANOTHER victim of one of the worst disasters to hit the US.
Thanks, I think I can visualize this now.
Given the phase, shouldn't the specular highlight of the sun be on the other side?
The reflection is in the wrong place to be the sun - look, the earth is less than half full, which means that the sun is on the other side of the earth from the sun. My guess is that it's a reflection of the moon; looking at Celestia, I think the angle's right. Anyone who knows what they're talking about care to correct this?
So then it's a GOOD thing that 3,700 devices shipped in Japan with a virus on the drive?
I didn't spend $3000 on a PowerMac G5 for it to be a home file server, thank you, I bought it as a workstation. And I doubt that we'll see more than one cycle of fat binary releases (how long did they continue to support the 68x?), where I was expecting this G5 to be good for at least three more software cycles (18-month cycles). Has any software vendor signed a contract with Apple promising to continue fat binary releases until after 10.7 comes out? So, yes, I'd say it's fair to say that the PPC will be effectively obsoleted by the advent of the MacIntel.
Damn that's funny. Disturbingly accurate, but funny.
Socrates didn't live in a barrel, Diogenes the Cynic (of Sinope) did. Socrates also wasn't filthy, just ugly. Comparing Richard Stallman to Socrates or Gandhi is a little like comparing the Beatles to Jesus: yeah, Stallman may end up being a somewhat important historical figure, but you've got no sense of proportion when you make that kind of claim.
I can't find a pre-built mini-itx system that's any cheaper than a Mac mini (and I'm looking, because I'd like a separate box to run Linux and would prefer to wait on buying a mini until they go Intel - it's bad enough having two PPC machines that will be effectively obsoleted by the advent of the MacIntels). Where are you finding it? (I stopped building my own in 2001 after going Mac - it's simply easier not having to constantly tweak your hardware).
Keynote looks better, and is cleaner, and easier to use. Powerpoint has more features: for instance, there's a lot of animation stuff in Powerpoint that Keynote doesn't have available. When I'm doing something for work, I usually use Powerpoint, because that's what's expected. When I'm having fun with a presentation package, I use Keynote.
The Cell's core CPU is a PowerPC processor. And the PPC is a very good chip - the problem is that IBM decided that it should focus on Power5 and Cell, and neglected the G5 (and had some scaling issue, IIRC). The G5 wouldn't sell nearly as many units as Cell does, and the Power5 probably has a high margin (and is for their own server products). Again, IIRC, IBM tried to sell Apple on the Cell (so they could continue to fulfill their obligations to Apple without keeping up the G5), but Apple felt that the Cell wasn't really a good choice for general-purpose computing.
Isn't that the basic business plan that we once used to call "the New Economy" - until we realized that ads can never supply as much revenue as the products that the ads are trying to sell?
Since you beat me to the citation, the best I guess I can do is to add the Amazon link. I believe there are some new things in astrodynamics, but this will give the reader a solid background.
Why yes, I have registered copyrights. It isn't just lawyers. And yes, I have written standards-compliant web applications: I do most of it on the server precisely so any browser with halfway modern capabilities (IE 6, Safari, Firefox, Opera, etc.) will work.
Your version is Clarke's 3rd law. Benford's is his corollary to Clarke's 3rd law - a simple reversal of terms. Both are insightful, though Clarke's more so.
So you've got the CD running an X server and a NAT to let the BlackDog see the network? Why did you decide to use the CD rather than have it on a partition on the device that runs through Windows' generic USB storage device driver? (Oh, and mods: why was I modded +4 interesting, while the guy answering the question was only modded +2???)
No, they made the switch to STAROFFICE. StarOffice is not free as in beer.
Not sure what they're doing with it, but it seems to me that if you could get this to do two things, you'd have a useful product. Get it to appear to the main computer as two items: 1. a USB drive, with an executable that includes VNC functionality and a TCP/IP over USB engine for Windows (am I right in assuming that you need additional software to establish a TCP/IP connection over USB in windows) in the memory; 2. a network device, which connects via TCP/IP over USB. Bingo, you just plug in, run the application from the FAT32 partition on the USB drive, and you can log into your own USB-powered, network-connected computer with your own data on it.
Apple tried letting otherss sell clones. It nearly killed them. The first thing Jobs did when he regained control of Apple was kill the clones. Now Apple is profitable. So what do you think?
Is this the DMCA??? (Note that in the US Code it will not have a big "DMCA" title on it.)
Illegal? Not in the sense of criminal. But violating the GPL, well, if there's Linux kernel code in there, yep, they violating the GPL. But that's civil, not criminal (unless the DMCA has something in it; and in that case, wouldn't it be pretty hypocritical of those of us who have been bashing SCO (I have) and bashing the DMCA to take refuge in the latter to attack the former?).