and 48 percent wish 'more was being done about it.'
Which can be loosely translated as "I hear people are concerned about this, so I guess *I* should be concerned about this, but it's not really worth my time or trouble to bother ACTUALLY doing something about"....
Not an individual right - otherwise it would have used the word Persons
So, which part of "the Right of the people to Keep and Bear Arms shall not be infringed" implies that it's not an individual Right?
Note, by the by, that the First Amendment doesn't use the word "Persons", either. In fact, taken literally, the First could be abrogated by Executive Order - the First specifically says that Congress can't mess with Free Speech, and sets no such limits on either the President or the Judiciary.
Likewise, the Fourth doesn't use the word "persons", so it shouldn't actually be taken to be an individual Right, right?
Revolvers typically hold ONLY 6 rounds and have been around for hundreds of years.
Only about 180 years, actually. Though your point stands - it's not like they're a new technology. Note that I own two Civil War era revolvers (okay, so I was a reenactor once upon a time - get over it). One of which, admittedly needs some work (which I'll get around to someday - it's on the list), but between them, that's enough shots for your classic school shooting. With the added advantage of black powder smoke to screw up the video surveillance....
Note that the basic technology of the "assault weapon" is rather more than a century old as well. Again, we're not talking about mysterious and complex and NEW (though the teeny little bullets fired by "assault weapons" is only 50 years old or so - back a century ago when self-loading weapons first appeared, the bullets would have gone through the target and gotten the guy behind him as well)....
Anyone can read the letter and come to their own conclusions, of course, but it seems obvious to me that the reason why they're going after these particular devices is due to piracy, not primarily because of a lack of FCC authorization.
No, it's not lack of FCC authorization. It's PRETENDING to FCC authorization that's the problem. The FCC really doesn't want to find itself being accused of encouraging piracy....
I believe that there is an implicit "...from the designated owl-nesting area" attached to that "should be removed." bit.
Maybe a cat got it.
***sighs*** yes, I assumed that. Stop feeding the cats, and they'll get hungry. Some will, no doubt, move on. Others will look at the owls and say "well, yesterday I had a good bit of kibble, but that's gone now. And you're about dinner-sized...."
Now Google has the extermination of a species in on its belt.
Well, except for the detail that the burrowing owl is "a species of special concern".
Which, for those who are unaware, means that the species is NOT Threatened, nor is it Endangered. What it means is that someone in CA's government has decided that the animal in question MIGHT, MAYBE, SOMEDAY become Endangered.
IOW, when the Burrowing Owl becomes Endangered, we can apply the usual rules for such, and until then, the birds can be treated like any other bird....
A better question is why the NRA is so vehemently opposed to gun laws.
I think it's that whole Second Amendment thing. You remember that, right? "Shall not be infringed"?
You don't see the Auto makers campaigning against driver's licenses and insurance.
Refresh my memory - Where in the Constitution does it say you can't restrict driving?
It should also be noted, for the record, that more people are killed by cars every year in the USA than by guns. And about 2/3 of the gun deaths are suicides (no data on what fraction of auto deaths are suicides, but I'm sure at least a few are).
It's interesting that flightless birds had a pretty strong reign during the early recovery phases.
By "interesting", I assume you mean "unsurprising", eh? It's not like the non-avian dinosaurs (flightless birds) didn't have a strong reign 200-odd megayears leading up to the Big Falling Rock....
The others have the same income and the one at the top will get the extra income normally for the 5 others.
More likely, a sizable chunk of that "extra income" you mention goes to paying for the robot, and paying for maintenance for same.
Note, by the by, that the same logic suggests that vacuum cleaners and washers/dryers should be disallowed in hotels, since they replace guys with brooms and washing sheets and such by hand in a washtub. We'd need a LOT more employees if all employers were restricted to using only 19th Century technology....
There are many countries around the world that do not tip, because it's not necessary, it's even frowned apon in some cultures.
And your point is?
By your logic, since there are also many countries around the world where English is not the primary language, American servers should not speak English....
While the proper payscale of servers is debatable, the fact that tips are part of our culture (yeah, I know, Americans and "culture" are two words that don't really go together) means that tips should at least be considered when discussing pay....
Yah, this was my first thought on reading about this. They really think that going out on strike will convince their employers that they can't be replaced by robots???
100mg is in the ballpark of 100ml. That seems like a lot.
No, 100mg is in the ballpark of 0.1ml. In spite of SI being the Perfect System of Measurements, grams, liters, and meters (the basic units) are only loosely related (1g = 0.001l H2O, 1l - 0.001 m^3)...
So many things wrong here that would have been avoided had there been sensible regulations written by sensible engineers.
Hmm...you seem to think that regulations (Rules of the Road, that sort of thing) are written by engineers. Alas, the truth is that they're mostly written by politicians....
"Wind turbines kill between 214,000 and 368,000 birds annually â" a small fraction compared with the estimated 6.8 million fatalities from collisions with cell and radio towers and the 1.4 billion to 3.7 billion deaths from cats, according to the peer-reviewed study by two federal scientists and the environmental consulting firm West Inc."
So, enough wind turbines for a minute fraction of the electricity needed kills ~5% of the number of birds as are killed by the cast number of cell towers scattered hither and yon across the nation?
That bit should have been left off the summary, if whomever were really trying to make a case.
The amount of offshore windpower they attribute to the UK and Germany (combined) amounts to 0.0035% of all the electricity produced in those two countries.
In other words, it's a rounding error, not a significant factor....
The fossil fuel industry and the politicians in their stranglehold for campaign money don't care about the cost everyone has to pay. They care not a whit about the voters and customers yet to be born.
Quite so. And the "common man" doesn't care all that much about voters and customers yet to be born either.
Maybe the costs could vastly exceed 20 trillion if we have to relocate or rebuild all cities affected by 10m of vertical ocean rise.
Luckily, we're not actually expecting even 1m vertical ocean rise for a couple centuries. Much less 10m.
Seriously, expecting elected pols to give a rat's ass about something that won't happen till their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren are dead of old age is a bit of a stretch, don't you think?
You want people to take AGW really seriously? Two choices:
1) let it get completely out of hand as quickly as possible, so people are going to be directly affected, as opposed to their g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-grandchildren, or...
2) develop a useful universal longevity treatment. If average lifespan were 500+ years, people would look at "300 years from now" a bit more often than they do now....
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Which can be loosely translated as "I hear people are concerned about this, so I guess *I* should be concerned about this, but it's not really worth my time or trouble to bother ACTUALLY doing something about"....
So, which part of "the Right of the people to Keep and Bear Arms shall not be infringed" implies that it's not an individual Right?
Note, by the by, that the First Amendment doesn't use the word "Persons", either. In fact, taken literally, the First could be abrogated by Executive Order - the First specifically says that Congress can't mess with Free Speech, and sets no such limits on either the President or the Judiciary.
Likewise, the Fourth doesn't use the word "persons", so it shouldn't actually be taken to be an individual Right, right?
Only about 180 years, actually. Though your point stands - it's not like they're a new technology. Note that I own two Civil War era revolvers (okay, so I was a reenactor once upon a time - get over it). One of which, admittedly needs some work (which I'll get around to someday - it's on the list), but between them, that's enough shots for your classic school shooting. With the added advantage of black powder smoke to screw up the video surveillance....
Note that the basic technology of the "assault weapon" is rather more than a century old as well. Again, we're not talking about mysterious and complex and NEW (though the teeny little bullets fired by "assault weapons" is only 50 years old or so - back a century ago when self-loading weapons first appeared, the bullets would have gone through the target and gotten the guy behind him as well)....
True. Of course, it's true of all politicians....
No, it's not lack of FCC authorization. It's PRETENDING to FCC authorization that's the problem. The FCC really doesn't want to find itself being accused of encouraging piracy....
That sounds suspiciously like what was being said about desktop ram, oh, 40 years back.
Back when no-one would ever need more than 640K....
Actually, it makes perfect sense - "You've got money, we want some of it..."
Big problem is that if the city wins, it'll lose its largest employer. Which is generally bad news for cities....
***sighs*** yes, I assumed that. Stop feeding the cats, and they'll get hungry. Some will, no doubt, move on. Others will look at the owls and say "well, yesterday I had a good bit of kibble, but that's gone now. And you're about dinner-sized...."
Well, except for the detail that the burrowing owl is "a species of special concern".
Which, for those who are unaware, means that the species is NOT Threatened, nor is it Endangered. What it means is that someone in CA's government has decided that the animal in question MIGHT, MAYBE, SOMEDAY become Endangered.
IOW, when the Burrowing Owl becomes Endangered, we can apply the usual rules for such, and until then, the birds can be treated like any other bird....
Which would make the cats even more dangerous to local wildlife. While cats do hunt when well-fed, they hunt even more when they need to hunt to eat.
Pretty sure even TFS mentioned that the cats were spayed or neutered.
His child wasn't living with them. His child was living with the child's mother.
If you're a member of the class, you get $20 to $280, which is supposed to recompense you for the $5K you spent for the useless software...
The lawyers, of course, get the lion's share of the $5M....
I think it's that whole Second Amendment thing. You remember that, right? "Shall not be infringed"?
Refresh my memory - Where in the Constitution does it say you can't restrict driving?
It should also be noted, for the record, that more people are killed by cars every year in the USA than by guns. And about 2/3 of the gun deaths are suicides (no data on what fraction of auto deaths are suicides, but I'm sure at least a few are).
By "interesting", I assume you mean "unsurprising", eh? It's not like the non-avian dinosaurs (flightless birds) didn't have a strong reign 200-odd megayears leading up to the Big Falling Rock....
Umm, that word does not mean what you think it means.
Note that, as a rule, if you don't know what a word means, don't use it. Or look it up first.
By the by, the word you were looking for when you settled on "kowtowed" was "cowed".
More likely, a sizable chunk of that "extra income" you mention goes to paying for the robot, and paying for maintenance for same.
Note, by the by, that the same logic suggests that vacuum cleaners and washers/dryers should be disallowed in hotels, since they replace guys with brooms and washing sheets and such by hand in a washtub. We'd need a LOT more employees if all employers were restricted to using only 19th Century technology....
And neither does anyone else.
An Apollo could have made it, but there haven't been any of them to be had for 40+ years.
And your point is?
By your logic, since there are also many countries around the world where English is not the primary language, American servers should not speak English....
While the proper payscale of servers is debatable, the fact that tips are part of our culture (yeah, I know, Americans and "culture" are two words that don't really go together) means that tips should at least be considered when discussing pay....
Yah, this was my first thought on reading about this. They really think that going out on strike will convince their employers that they can't be replaced by robots???
No, 100mg is in the ballpark of 0.1ml. In spite of SI being the Perfect System of Measurements, grams, liters, and meters (the basic units) are only loosely related (1g = 0.001l H2O, 1l - 0.001 m^3)...
Hmm...you seem to think that regulations (Rules of the Road, that sort of thing) are written by engineers. Alas, the truth is that they're mostly written by politicians....
So, enough wind turbines for a minute fraction of the electricity needed kills ~5% of the number of birds as are killed by the cast number of cell towers scattered hither and yon across the nation?
Again, you're not making a good case here....
That bit should have been left off the summary, if whomever were really trying to make a case.
The amount of offshore windpower they attribute to the UK and Germany (combined) amounts to 0.0035% of all the electricity produced in those two countries.
In other words, it's a rounding error, not a significant factor....
Quite so. And the "common man" doesn't care all that much about voters and customers yet to be born either.
Luckily, we're not actually expecting even 1m vertical ocean rise for a couple centuries. Much less 10m.
Seriously, expecting elected pols to give a rat's ass about something that won't happen till their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren are dead of old age is a bit of a stretch, don't you think?
You want people to take AGW really seriously? Two choices:
1) let it get completely out of hand as quickly as possible, so people are going to be directly affected, as opposed to their g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-grandchildren, or...
2) develop a useful universal longevity treatment. If average lifespan were 500+ years, people would look at "300 years from now" a bit more often than they do now....