Here is a test on Voting Rights and Right to Bear Arms. We have a set of court opinions that one requires ID and the other doesn't require any, both on "Constitutional" grounds. Either both are rights, and require the same application to exercise, or they are not rights.
Devils' Advocate position: "voting" is a Right for Citizens. Determining whether you are, in fact, a Citizen before you vote is not unreasonable.
On the other hand, RKBA does NOT specify "for citizens only", so there is no reason to require an ID.
That said, note that in actual practice, you're required to produce ID to buy a gun, but not to vote...
Do you stand to gain, directly or indirectly, any benefit either personally, professionally, or politically, by whatever is being whistle blown on?
If yes, the whistle blower is a publicity seeking criminal leaker.
By this definition, the people who leaked the Watergate stories were "publicity seeking criminal leakers", since they stood to gain something "either personally, professionally, or politically". At a minimum, they removed a President they despised, which has to count as a benefit....
openness to whistleblowers, as distinct from criminal leakers and publicity seekers
So, how do you distinguish between "whistleblowers" and "criminal leakers" and "publicity seekers" BEFORE you make the decision to blow the whistle?
If you guess wrong, you become one more statistic in the Obama Administration's policy of prosecuting whistleblowers (twice as many prosecutions as ALL other Administrations combined so far).
I'm willing to bet, however, that the basic rule will be "if it embarrasses the other Party more than the Administration, it's "whistleblowing", but if it embarrasses the Administration it's "criminal leakers" or "publicity seekers"...
Treason is defined in the Constitution (Article 3, Section 3. Learn it, love it, live it), and what he allegedly did doesn't fit the definition.
And this ignoring the fact that a treason conviction requires (according to Article 3, Section 3) two witnesses to the same (treasonous) overt act.
Since there aren't two witnesses to what he did, and what he did does NOT fit the definition of treason, he can't be convicted of treason no matter how hard the Constitutional Scholar tries....
You are claiming that ALL politicians are 100% for the NSA and just always lie about it.
No, I am claiming that "We never learn even deserts burn and all politicians lie They won't do nothin' 'till we reach high noon"
Note that most likely most politicians (remember some of them are on oversight committees and, at least theoretically, get the straight scoop from the NSA directly) don't actually see what people are getting excited about, since it's likely that NSA is MUCH MUCH LESS CAPABLE of actually doing the stuff they want us (and everyone else) to think they're doing..
Does this mean that the NSA shouldn't be reined in? Nope. Does it mean Congress should ignore the issue? Nope. Does it mean Obama isn't ultimately to blame for this? Nope (he's the President, head of the Executive Branch. the NSA is part of the Executive Branch, and therefore under his orders. Remember, if he wanted to, he could tell them to stop anytime at all).
Having read the Anarchist Cookbook back in the day, a word of advice:
Do NOT attempt those recipes. They're dangerous as hell to anyone who isn't already a trained chemist (and anyone who IS a trained chemist doesn't need the Anarchist Cookbook to make things that go boom).
It is naive to just assume that it is always a result of lying politicians and whatever other stereotypes you are more comfortable with than questioning whether the system is so corrupt that it has working control over politicians who threaten the soft spots.
So, you find it far more reasonable to assume a vast conspiracy rather than that people will lie to get elected?
you'd have to conclude that LAPD is also the most corrupt police force in California, or at least in the top 5. It has a history of lieing extensively and getting caught later.
Sounds like LAPD has a history of being incompetent at being corrupt. They get caught at it.
It's just possible that "the most corrupt police force in CA" is so skilled at corruption that everyone thinks they're just fine as police go....
The most powerful rocket engines are made by the Russians
Hmmm...
RD-180 - 860,568lbf at S/L, a bit more in vacuum.
F-1 - 1522000 lbf at S/L.
Yeah, we're not making F-1 anymore. Which I understand is a side-effect of Shuttle - the capability to build more Saturns was deliberately eliminated so that there'd be no talk of an alternative to Shuttle....
At least one more of those from atop a Falcon in flight,
After that, they can put men it for further testing groundside (pretty much more escape sequence testing).
Then they send some men up in the thing.
Note that in parallel with that testing, there'll probably be at least one unmanned test to the ISS to test whether this thing can dock to ISS without the robot arm.
After all that, it goes live. Note that Dragon V2 is expected to be man-rated by 2016, if you're trying to guesstimate how long any testing will take. Note further that "man-rated" does not necessarily mean "ready to dock with ISS"....
When they don't enforce a law, there is little, if any, incentive to repeal it.
And with 200+ years of accumulation of laws, the legislatures would do nothing but repeal archaic laws if they ever went down that road in the first place.
Easier by far to ignore it till the courts declare the laws unconstitutional....
Most of us chose more mundane messages than 'kill all women'.
Whatsisname didn't want to "kill all women". He wanted to kill all of the Alpha Phi girls.
Alas, when he went out to get his revenge, they ignored him, and he didn't manage to kill even one of them. Instead he was reduced to spraying a crowd of people walking near their Sorority House, killing two women who were NOT Alpha Phi's.
Pathetic. If you're going to go to the trouble of putting your master-plan for revenge and world domination online, at least make sure you can carry it out first.
Yes, by the by, I'm making fun of whatsisname. He apparently thought he was awesome, but underappreciated. He wasn't awesome, and it looks like the ladies appreciated him exactly as much as they should have (not at all).
I thought the whole point of the ACA was that everyone got the same basic benefits?
And while it's true that calculating the subsidy is part of the job, that's not all that big a deal, really. Family size & family income are pretty much the only variables. Given those inputs, you should be able to make the calculation in a hundred lines of code, tops.
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Devils' Advocate position: "voting" is a Right for Citizens. Determining whether you are, in fact, a Citizen before you vote is not unreasonable.
On the other hand, RKBA does NOT specify "for citizens only", so there is no reason to require an ID.
That said, note that in actual practice, you're required to produce ID to buy a gun, but not to vote...
By this definition, the people who leaked the Watergate stories were "publicity seeking criminal leakers", since they stood to gain something "either personally, professionally, or politically". At a minimum, they removed a President they despised, which has to count as a benefit....
So, how do you distinguish between "whistleblowers" and "criminal leakers" and "publicity seekers" BEFORE you make the decision to blow the whistle?
If you guess wrong, you become one more statistic in the Obama Administration's policy of prosecuting whistleblowers (twice as many prosecutions as ALL other Administrations combined so far).
I'm willing to bet, however, that the basic rule will be "if it embarrasses the other Party more than the Administration, it's "whistleblowing", but if it embarrasses the Administration it's "criminal leakers" or "publicity seekers"...
He isn't a traitor.
Treason is defined in the Constitution (Article 3, Section 3. Learn it, love it, live it), and what he allegedly did doesn't fit the definition.
And this ignoring the fact that a treason conviction requires (according to Article 3, Section 3) two witnesses to the same (treasonous) overt act.
Since there aren't two witnesses to what he did, and what he did does NOT fit the definition of treason, he can't be convicted of treason no matter how hard the Constitutional Scholar tries....
No, I am claiming that "We never learn even deserts burn and all politicians lie They won't do nothin' 'till we reach high noon"
Note that most likely most politicians (remember some of them are on oversight committees and, at least theoretically, get the straight scoop from the NSA directly) don't actually see what people are getting excited about, since it's likely that NSA is MUCH MUCH LESS CAPABLE of actually doing the stuff they want us (and everyone else) to think they're doing..
Does this mean that the NSA shouldn't be reined in? Nope. Does it mean Congress should ignore the issue? Nope. Does it mean Obama isn't ultimately to blame for this? Nope (he's the President, head of the Executive Branch. the NSA is part of the Executive Branch, and therefore under his orders. Remember, if he wanted to, he could tell them to stop anytime at all).
Check out the launch manifest on their website.
Last time I did (a launch or two back), they had scheduled 11 flights for the US govenment, and 17 for other customers over the next several years.
Of the completed launches, 3.5 have been for ngo custmers (Orbcomm, MDA, SES, Thaicomm).
Having read the Anarchist Cookbook back in the day, a word of advice:
Do NOT attempt those recipes. They're dangerous as hell to anyone who isn't already a trained chemist (and anyone who IS a trained chemist doesn't need the Anarchist Cookbook to make things that go boom).
So, you find it far more reasonable to assume a vast conspiracy rather than that people will lie to get elected?
Wow, just wow....
And if Bloomberg wants to spend millions on a candidate, they usually win too.
Note that there are billionaires on both sides of the spectrum buying votes.
Last time I checked, NSA was our copy of GCHQ. We were so impressed with what they did in WW2, we decided we needed some of that....
Sounds like LAPD has a history of being incompetent at being corrupt. They get caught at it.
It's just possible that "the most corrupt police force in CA" is so skilled at corruption that everyone thinks they're just fine as police go....
Why would she do that? Given statistics like these, she's almost guaranteed a seat anywhere she goes to meet diversity quotas.
Hmmm...
RD-180 - 860,568lbf at S/L, a bit more in vacuum.
F-1 - 1522000 lbf at S/L.
Yeah, we're not making F-1 anymore. Which I understand is a side-effect of Shuttle - the capability to build more Saturns was deliberately eliminated so that there'd be no talk of an alternative to Shuttle....
Escape sequence test later this year groundside.
At least one more of those from atop a Falcon in flight,
After that, they can put men it for further testing groundside (pretty much more escape sequence testing).
Then they send some men up in the thing.
Note that in parallel with that testing, there'll probably be at least one unmanned test to the ISS to test whether this thing can dock to ISS without the robot arm.
After all that, it goes live. Note that Dragon V2 is expected to be man-rated by 2016, if you're trying to guesstimate how long any testing will take. Note further that "man-rated" does not necessarily mean "ready to dock with ISS"....
No, actually it doesn't.
There's a whole section of the Constitution concerning Congressional Powers (and another for Executive Powers).
And then there's the "if we didn't mention it, it's a prerogative of the States of the People" part (10th Amendment.)
And prosecuting way more whistleblowers than ALL other Administrations combined.
When they don't enforce a law, there is little, if any, incentive to repeal it.
And with 200+ years of accumulation of laws, the legislatures would do nothing but repeal archaic laws if they ever went down that road in the first place.
Easier by far to ignore it till the courts declare the laws unconstitutional....
Does it bother the Feds that those cats are going to die of old age one of these days anyway?
If there are only two affected cats in the area, they're already effectively extinct in that place....
Of course, they also made the mistake of providing numbers. Energy cost differential for one hour of DVD vs Streaming is about 1KWh.
Which amounts to maybe 5% of the cost of the DVD. And it's not like you get a discount on cost because you're saving all that energy....
What the hell is a "robere"? Besides a French surname, I mean...
Logic allows you to reach an incorrect answer with authority....
Whatsisname didn't want to "kill all women". He wanted to kill all of the Alpha Phi girls.
Alas, when he went out to get his revenge, they ignored him, and he didn't manage to kill even one of them. Instead he was reduced to spraying a crowd of people walking near their Sorority House, killing two women who were NOT Alpha Phi's.
Pathetic. If you're going to go to the trouble of putting your master-plan for revenge and world domination online, at least make sure you can carry it out first.
Yes, by the by, I'm making fun of whatsisname. He apparently thought he was awesome, but underappreciated. He wasn't awesome, and it looks like the ladies appreciated him exactly as much as they should have (not at all).
I thought the whole point of the ACA was that everyone got the same basic benefits?
And while it's true that calculating the subsidy is part of the job, that's not all that big a deal, really. Family size & family income are pretty much the only variables. Given those inputs, you should be able to make the calculation in a hundred lines of code, tops.
Yeah, next thing you know, we'll be allowing them to be President....
Intellectual disabilities like Depression are already being treated experimentally by adding what amounts to a prosthesis to the brain.