The DOJ does not investigate hypocrisy or being completely oblivious to the irony one is generating.
I am not and never have been a conservative, but I do sympathize with authentic conservatives trying to find a place in the modern right wing. They can do better with the Democrats in many respects.
Dark matter is a very simple theory. There's stuff that has mass that interacts in very limited ways, if at all, electromagnetically. No complicated calculations required. It explains assorted anomalies in gravitational lensing, galactic rotation speed curves, and matches up with some theory on the mass composition of the Universe. You could call it a place holder, in the sense that we don't know much of anything other than that it's matter and it's dark, but those are some important properties.
It's not like the idea is preposterous. Neutrinos have mass and don't interact electromagnetically, so dark matter could be related to neutrinos (hence the Weakly Interacting Massive Particle theory, "weakly" here referring to the weak nuclear force).
I have no idea why people seem to think dark matter is so unlikely.
The big difference between a nuclear ship and a non-nuclear ship is sustained speed, not top speed. The nuke is just the power plant, and the power has to go through the ship's systems and be applied to the ocean by the screws in either case, and having more power than the screws can use efficiently is not going to help top speed.
One inaccuracy: nuclear ships do not have unlimited power. They can keep up near-maximum power for a long, long time, so they can travel long distances fast, but that doesn't affect top speed.
The power has to go from the main source (boilers, diesel or gas engines, hamster wheels, whatever) through the ship into the water, which means that one limiting factor on speed is the screws. They've got to be a lot better at high speeds than they were in WWII, but there will be limits.
Sure. What do you want out of news? Raw news is impractical, and what's available is slanted by what the camera operators think are interesting, and what the reporters ask. There are going to be biases no matter what. Learn to deal with them.
Also, recognize that your intuition is not necessarily better than actual news. You're childishly suggesting investigating the Clinton foundation and State Department special treatment, in terms that make it quite obvious that this is something you hope is found rather than something you have good evidence will be found. You seem to be complaining that no news outlet reports what you want to hear.
That's likely true for the society as a whole, but individual crusaders are often intelligent, well-off, and educated. Consider the September 11 attackers.
I'm completely failing to see what using a different glyph for a Unicode code point has to do with reducing freedom. The Second Amendment doesn't cover the right to use more dangerous-looking emoji, and the First doesn't include a right to have your writings reproduced exactly as you like them.
However, I remember Unicode as saying they didn't want any jurisdiction over the actual glyphs used. I don't know what the emoji's Unicode name is, but if two entities display them differently that should be just fine.
There's also the issue that an army of infidels isn't the best way to calm down a religious crusade, and when you start killing such people you inspire an unfortunate more to take up the holy struggle.
Arresting a Muslim before a terrorist act occurs is a career-ending move.
Exactly what do you arrest the guy for? What's the charge? Being of the wrong religion is not a legal offense in the US. Neither is being more or less unhinged. (With evidence that the guy is indeed dangerous, it may be possible to involuntarily commit the guy to a psychiatric institution, but that's not easy. It should not be easy.)
Do you want the FBI to have the legal ability to grab people because they think they might be dangerous and throw them in jail for long periods of time?
A friend of mine suffered from low blood pressure, sufficiently low to be a problem. She started going heavy on the salt, in the hope of raising it. She said people would walk over to her table at restaurants to tell her not to use so much salt. (This was in the 90s.)
MLB, among other sports, has contracts that restrict players from switching teams freely. A MLB player on the Detroit Tigers team would have a choice between playing for the Tigers or not playing. That's enough to colloquially say the Tigers own the player, without being actual slavery.
That's not necessary in the case of voting machines that have a paper trail. If they're connected to the internet, and there's doubt about whether they were hacked, the paper ballots can be used to see.
Once it was down to Trump vs. Cruz (and maybe Kasich?), Trump would sometimes get a majority of primary votes cast. It wasn't just reasonable people divided among reasonable candidates.
How many candidates do Canadians vote for in each election? There's dozens of races on a typical ballot here, most of which I don't care much about, and sometimes ballot initiatives like state constitutional amendments. If there's one race per slip of paper, counting is pretty fast: just sort into piles and count the piles. It's harder with ballots for President, Senator, Representative, state Senator, state Representative, various judges, Soil and Water Commissioners, etc.
Any system that allows 150 votes out of 100 registered voters isn't going to be fixed by voter ID. All an ID can do is verify that the prospective voter is a particular person, who can be matched against the voter registration list. Where I live, I show up, the poll workers find my name in the printouts, I sign the printout, and that's it. If there were 100 people on the list, and they were marked off, then things would get pretty suspicious once the list was completely marked off and voters kept showing up.
Driving homeless people around doesn't seem all that effective to me. An individual isn't going to be able to vote too many times in the course of the day, and the legal risks are pretty severe. If the voter must identify himself or herself, even if not requiring ID, the risk goes up that the name will be either struck or used.
It also isn't clear to me that these methods would be party-specific. The most famous case of life-impaired citizens exercising their right to vote is Chicago and the Daly machine, of course, but it could be done anywhere with a strong political machine.
The US Constitution doesn't put many restrictions on the form of state governments. They must be democratic, but if you look around you'll see a lot of democratic systems of government. The Constitution says that members of the House of Representatives are elected in whatever way the state selects, so a state presumably could have proportional representation by party.
How do you verify homelessness? A utility bill addressed to nowhere? There's several ways I can show I have a home, but proving I didn't have one would be more difficult.
Also, there's a gap between "able to get an ID card without undue time, inconvenience, or expense" and "homeless", particularly in states that have tried to make it difficult for the poor to get IDs.
And, of course, the sort of fraud voter ID would prevent is extremely small-scale.
Do all voter ID laws accept all of the IDs above? It's been a long time since I last showed my passport to an employer, but I had several choices for proving citizenship and identity, and I don't know what voter ID laws require.
Why do you think poor people are all on welfare? There's lots of the working poor. For a two-person household, one full-time minimum wage job doesn't provide enough money to get over the poverty line.
The big players who are clearly in for the long haul won't go away. Businesses don't worry about Microsoft or Adobe going out of business and leaving their software orphaned.
What I find more interesting about the Zune is that the earlier Microsoft music format (Play4Sure, IIRC) wouldn't run on it. Was it Windows Phone 7 phones that they said could be updated, and later changed their minds? Microsoft is not as reliable on support as it wants people to think it is, although it does very well in general.
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The DOJ does not investigate hypocrisy or being completely oblivious to the irony one is generating.
I am not and never have been a conservative, but I do sympathize with authentic conservatives trying to find a place in the modern right wing. They can do better with the Democrats in many respects.
Heliocentricity didn't fix everything. Heliocentricity combined with elliptical orbits (thank you, Kepler!) did.
Dark matter is a very simple theory. There's stuff that has mass that interacts in very limited ways, if at all, electromagnetically. No complicated calculations required. It explains assorted anomalies in gravitational lensing, galactic rotation speed curves, and matches up with some theory on the mass composition of the Universe. You could call it a place holder, in the sense that we don't know much of anything other than that it's matter and it's dark, but those are some important properties.
It's not like the idea is preposterous. Neutrinos have mass and don't interact electromagnetically, so dark matter could be related to neutrinos (hence the Weakly Interacting Massive Particle theory, "weakly" here referring to the weak nuclear force).
I have no idea why people seem to think dark matter is so unlikely.
The big difference between a nuclear ship and a non-nuclear ship is sustained speed, not top speed. The nuke is just the power plant, and the power has to go through the ship's systems and be applied to the ocean by the screws in either case, and having more power than the screws can use efficiently is not going to help top speed.
One inaccuracy: nuclear ships do not have unlimited power. They can keep up near-maximum power for a long, long time, so they can travel long distances fast, but that doesn't affect top speed.
The power has to go from the main source (boilers, diesel or gas engines, hamster wheels, whatever) through the ship into the water, which means that one limiting factor on speed is the screws. They've got to be a lot better at high speeds than they were in WWII, but there will be limits.
Sure. What do you want out of news? Raw news is impractical, and what's available is slanted by what the camera operators think are interesting, and what the reporters ask. There are going to be biases no matter what. Learn to deal with them.
Also, recognize that your intuition is not necessarily better than actual news. You're childishly suggesting investigating the Clinton foundation and State Department special treatment, in terms that make it quite obvious that this is something you hope is found rather than something you have good evidence will be found. You seem to be complaining that no news outlet reports what you want to hear.
That's likely true for the society as a whole, but individual crusaders are often intelligent, well-off, and educated. Consider the September 11 attackers.
I'm sure I can find something about geek culture you don't know, either. Not all of us are into quadcopters.
I'm completely failing to see what using a different glyph for a Unicode code point has to do with reducing freedom. The Second Amendment doesn't cover the right to use more dangerous-looking emoji, and the First doesn't include a right to have your writings reproduced exactly as you like them.
However, I remember Unicode as saying they didn't want any jurisdiction over the actual glyphs used. I don't know what the emoji's Unicode name is, but if two entities display them differently that should be just fine.
There's also the issue that an army of infidels isn't the best way to calm down a religious crusade, and when you start killing such people you inspire an unfortunate more to take up the holy struggle.
Exactly what do you arrest the guy for? What's the charge? Being of the wrong religion is not a legal offense in the US. Neither is being more or less unhinged. (With evidence that the guy is indeed dangerous, it may be possible to involuntarily commit the guy to a psychiatric institution, but that's not easy. It should not be easy.)
Do you want the FBI to have the legal ability to grab people because they think they might be dangerous and throw them in jail for long periods of time?
What legal action should the FBI have taken?
A friend of mine suffered from low blood pressure, sufficiently low to be a problem. She started going heavy on the salt, in the hope of raising it. She said people would walk over to her table at restaurants to tell her not to use so much salt. (This was in the 90s.)
MLB, among other sports, has contracts that restrict players from switching teams freely. A MLB player on the Detroit Tigers team would have a choice between playing for the Tigers or not playing. That's enough to colloquially say the Tigers own the player, without being actual slavery.
Empirically false. I remain attentive while the cruise control is engaged, and that's a type of autopilot.
That's not necessary in the case of voting machines that have a paper trail. If they're connected to the internet, and there's doubt about whether they were hacked, the paper ballots can be used to see.
Once it was down to Trump vs. Cruz (and maybe Kasich?), Trump would sometimes get a majority of primary votes cast. It wasn't just reasonable people divided among reasonable candidates.
How many candidates do Canadians vote for in each election? There's dozens of races on a typical ballot here, most of which I don't care much about, and sometimes ballot initiatives like state constitutional amendments. If there's one race per slip of paper, counting is pretty fast: just sort into piles and count the piles. It's harder with ballots for President, Senator, Representative, state Senator, state Representative, various judges, Soil and Water Commissioners, etc.
Any system that allows 150 votes out of 100 registered voters isn't going to be fixed by voter ID. All an ID can do is verify that the prospective voter is a particular person, who can be matched against the voter registration list. Where I live, I show up, the poll workers find my name in the printouts, I sign the printout, and that's it. If there were 100 people on the list, and they were marked off, then things would get pretty suspicious once the list was completely marked off and voters kept showing up.
Driving homeless people around doesn't seem all that effective to me. An individual isn't going to be able to vote too many times in the course of the day, and the legal risks are pretty severe. If the voter must identify himself or herself, even if not requiring ID, the risk goes up that the name will be either struck or used.
It also isn't clear to me that these methods would be party-specific. The most famous case of life-impaired citizens exercising their right to vote is Chicago and the Daly machine, of course, but it could be done anywhere with a strong political machine.
The US Constitution doesn't put many restrictions on the form of state governments. They must be democratic, but if you look around you'll see a lot of democratic systems of government. The Constitution says that members of the House of Representatives are elected in whatever way the state selects, so a state presumably could have proportional representation by party.
How do you verify homelessness? A utility bill addressed to nowhere? There's several ways I can show I have a home, but proving I didn't have one would be more difficult.
Also, there's a gap between "able to get an ID card without undue time, inconvenience, or expense" and "homeless", particularly in states that have tried to make it difficult for the poor to get IDs.
And, of course, the sort of fraud voter ID would prevent is extremely small-scale.
Do all voter ID laws accept all of the IDs above? It's been a long time since I last showed my passport to an employer, but I had several choices for proving citizenship and identity, and I don't know what voter ID laws require.
Why do you think poor people are all on welfare? There's lots of the working poor. For a two-person household, one full-time minimum wage job doesn't provide enough money to get over the poverty line.
The big players who are clearly in for the long haul won't go away. Businesses don't worry about Microsoft or Adobe going out of business and leaving their software orphaned.
What I find more interesting about the Zune is that the earlier Microsoft music format (Play4Sure, IIRC) wouldn't run on it. Was it Windows Phone 7 phones that they said could be updated, and later changed their minds? Microsoft is not as reliable on support as it wants people to think it is, although it does very well in general.