The first debate was supposed to be about domestic concerns. The bacon shortage news originated in Europe, and this maple syrup caper is a product of Canada (also, by the by, a leading exporter of frozen waffles), so you will have to wait until the foreign policy debate to find out where the candidates sit on breakfast table issues.
At DFW the airport runways, taxiways, and parking aprons are also very nearly 100% concrete, not asphalt. Concrete is much more expensive, harder to repair, and the expansion joints can be rather murderous. Which is a point the summary left out: a good asphalt surface has fewer joints that can be split open by snow and ice.
North Korea got nuclear weapons technology from Pakistan, and possibly from China many years ago, not from India. Since India is not, unlike their neighbors to the north-west, bat-shit insane, they probably know that selling asymmetric weapons tech to countries that are bat-shit insane does not advance any of India's political or economic interests. As such they have probably already taken measures comparable to the US or France to secure their project rather than cold calling every drug exporting, famine inducing, hereditary dictatorship in their Rolodex.
And for similar reasons, nobody is any more worked up about this than if France tested a new missile, and maybe even a little less concerned than if the US developed a new ICBM.
Which means it becomes a case of one printed, signed and dated document and another printed, signed and dated document. It is just like having two differing files with the same checksum and same digital signature. But I bet buying an unprinter won't require as smart a crook as producing a good MD5 hash collision.
Unless there is a clear way to tell which has been unprinted and then reprinted it simply devolves into a case of who has more lawyers on speed dial.
And to build on another poster's reply to my first comment, with a little malice aforethought, the unscrupulous could print the originals on paper that has already been unprinted a few times as an 'eco-friendly' feature. If this tech really works as summarized then the only truly safe document is one that can't be unprinted cleanly.
Unless they also developed a way to make paper that can not be unprinted without damage, I imagine that unprinting a signed contract that is just a little too fair and replacing everything but the signature with something more to your liking will be far more efficient than regular forgery.
Actually, the key phrase in the ruling you quote, and in America libel law in general, is 'a private individual.' And as very noisy advocacy group, the Heartland Institute blew past 'private' years ago and is firmly in the realm of public figure. Which in turn means that an entirely different standard for constitutes libel applies, specifically the standard that allows the Enquirer and most political ads to exist. The Heartland Institute would probably have better luck making a copyright claim than a libel claim at this point.
As that very article points out, Motorola has declined various settlement offers from Apple for PAST infringement of Motorola's patents. Motorola has licensed these very patents to Apple on FRAND terms for use in newly developed products which is why the iPhone 4S was not affected by the sales injunction, only the older models.
Since Apple did not license the patent on FRAND terms before pushing out the older iPhones, Motorola does not have any obligation to be fair, reasonable or non-discriminatory in negotiating the deal for those products now.
Indeed, it would take an unbelievably long time to raise the temperature of the ENTIRE planet by one degree Celsius, but with two google searches and a couple of simple equations you can calculate the raising the temperature of the 5.97*10^24 kilogram ball of iron and nickel we call Earth by one degree Celsius would increase the Earth's mass by about 33 million tons, not a mere 160.
Even without reading the article, I think it is safe to say the 160 ton per year figure is derived from the heating of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans, which are getting measurably warmer and will continue to do so no matter how loudly you shout 'la-la-la can't hear you' while sticking your fingers in your ears.
A partial solution that seems to be working here in Oregon: for all scrap sales over a certain (relatively low) amount, the scrap dealer has to mail you a check rather than paying cash on the spot. Having to provide a working mailing address deters thieves, and the time delay discourages the druggies.
Because we have already used up almost all of the other 20th century US presidents as ships' names already. The only other dead president without a ship is Nixon, Clinton is still kicking, and Bush the second might just have to wait until the USS George H W Bush is sent off to become razor blades. Obama is still in office and USS Enterprise is still in service.
So that leaves Ford unless we want to have a third carrier and a lead ship named for some corrupt senator.
Free trade agreements between governments have no legal bearing on what a private company chooses to charge for its products and what private individuals seem willing to pay. Rather the point is to prevent the governments in question from adding import duties all willy-nilly on top of the seller's price point.
Ergo, the presence of a free trade agreement means that an Aussie iPod only costs 50% more than an American one rather than 100% more, and that only Apple gets to laugh themselves all the way to bank instead both Apple and the revenue office.
A free trade agreement can also make it easier for individuals to buy stuff from overseas directly, substituting one middle-man like me for three or four others in the normal retail chain, but that might be pure self-interest talking.
Conservative politicians, at least of the US and Canadian varieties, fully understand that money and truth are often enemies. They are also very unequivocal about which of the two they will side with.
They sell censored CDs (or at least used to), slap black plastic covers over some of the magazines... and sell the raunchiest 'unrated' DVDs in the eye level racks facing the main aisles.
Sam Walton, the source of the old 'family friendly' policies, is dead and the money men running Walmart now are not going to add restrictions that reduce the in-flow of money unless they have to.
And how many non-English monolingual people are there in the US?
Quite a few, and far more who can order a sandwich or find a restroom but get stumped by 'Do you have a family history of hypertension or cardiac arrhythmia?'
The only way you would end any significant percentage of the nutters 'theories' that we never landed on the Moon would be to go up there and deface the lunar surface to look like a giant Pepsi logo.
Even that wouldn't convince everybody, and especially not the Coke faithful, because the Moon is just a liberal myth to begin with.
The new appearance is fine by me, better than the last version of slashdot (that I promptly reverted away from), and I assume everything I use is still working.
My only issues are the following items that now load with the main page:
cdn.optimizely.com/js/4215026.js
optimizely.appspot.com/tracking...
Which both appear to be third-party tracking widgets that add a delay to the page load. Google analytics I tolerate because they are moderately trustworthy. These other guys, not so much. And it is kinda surprising given the general warnings from the top on down about the perils of third party tracking you see so often on Slashdot.
Well, assuming you don't try to replace your entire network in a brief flurry of activity once every five years, then you don't have to have that much equipment in your system to end up replacing millions of dollars worth of it every year.
Indeed, given the size and cost of some data centers these days, I don't think it would that hard to spend a couple million dollars every month upgrading the hardware in a single building. It would probably be more cost effective that trying to maintain a static configuration with the requisite supply of spare parts.
No, that purpose was entirely defeated by endemic corruption in the selection of Senators by state legislatures: buying off 50 to 100 part-time local legislators is actually far cheaper and easier than buying off 50%+1 of the voting public. Direct election of Senators was a necessary solution to a problem the framers of the Constitution did not anticipate.
For a modern example of how things would work, but perhaps with more hair than normal, just Google 'Blagoviech.'
And without a specific, enabling law already in place authorizing and legitimizing those bills to either the county or the homeowner, what do think are the chances said bills would actually get paid? (hint: start at almost-zero and count downward)
If the people of rural Fulton County want to pass a law providing for enforced payment when fire services are provided (like how EMS works in most places: they have to show up when called, you have to pay the bill), they can do so. But they haven't.
Or they could charge everybody a $75 (or less) a year tax and pay the fee in bulk every year. But they don't. Its conservative democracy inaction.
And now they should not be surprised if everybody gets a letter amending their homeowners insurance policy to not cover fire damage on properties that have not paid the fire department service fee, as the fire protection rating for your area is a major component in calculating the insurance cost.
That seems to track pretty well with my brief experience as an outside contractor at NASA Langley. Lots of powerpoint, meetings, red tape and general pettiness raining from above, pervasive exasperation down below. Part of why I have come to think that the most dangerous organization currently operating on American soil is Harvard business school.
At least the food in the cafeteria was cheap and decent, and I could go there without an escort during daylight hours.
And what makes you think that an institution that has been open six days a week for decades has not discovered the miracle of rotating shifts, thus allowing its workers to have consecutive days off?
Before you wish for more Supreme Court justices in the mold of Scalia and Thomas, you may wish to read this article, also in the NYTimes, about another recent court decision where the two were again part of the dissent. In this case, they dissented from the majority's ruling that life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for a teenager who hasn't killed (or been party to a killing) is cruel and unusual punishment.
Scalia's and Thomas' objection to civil commitment has nothing to do with opposing excessive sentences and everything to do with opposing an administration they personally do not like (If you want to play the 'limiting Federal powers' card, please check up on some of their terrorism-related rulings during the Bush administration first).
Too bad the Glomar Explorer has been refitted for deep sea oil drilling. The biggest problem she would have had with a wreck 248 meters down is that it might be too shallow, as the wreck Glomar Explorer was designed to go after was 4.9km down. The Russians would probably object to its use, though, given the ship's history.
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The first debate was supposed to be about domestic concerns. The bacon shortage news originated in Europe, and this maple syrup caper is a product of Canada (also, by the by, a leading exporter of frozen waffles), so you will have to wait until the foreign policy debate to find out where the candidates sit on breakfast table issues.
At DFW the airport runways, taxiways, and parking aprons are also very nearly 100% concrete, not asphalt. Concrete is much more expensive, harder to repair, and the expansion joints can be rather murderous. Which is a point the summary left out: a good asphalt surface has fewer joints that can be split open by snow and ice.
North Korea got nuclear weapons technology from Pakistan, and possibly from China many years ago, not from India. Since India is not, unlike their neighbors to the north-west, bat-shit insane, they probably know that selling asymmetric weapons tech to countries that are bat-shit insane does not advance any of India's political or economic interests. As such they have probably already taken measures comparable to the US or France to secure their project rather than cold calling every drug exporting, famine inducing, hereditary dictatorship in their Rolodex.
And for similar reasons, nobody is any more worked up about this than if France tested a new missile, and maybe even a little less concerned than if the US developed a new ICBM.
Which means it becomes a case of one printed, signed and dated document and another printed, signed and dated document. It is just like having two differing files with the same checksum and same digital signature. But I bet buying an unprinter won't require as smart a crook as producing a good MD5 hash collision.
Unless there is a clear way to tell which has been unprinted and then reprinted it simply devolves into a case of who has more lawyers on speed dial.
And to build on another poster's reply to my first comment, with a little malice aforethought, the unscrupulous could print the originals on paper that has already been unprinted a few times as an 'eco-friendly' feature. If this tech really works as summarized then the only truly safe document is one that can't be unprinted cleanly.
Unless they also developed a way to make paper that can not be unprinted without damage, I imagine that unprinting a signed contract that is just a little too fair and replacing everything but the signature with something more to your liking will be far more efficient than regular forgery.
Actually, the key phrase in the ruling you quote, and in America libel law in general, is 'a private individual.' And as very noisy advocacy group, the Heartland Institute blew past 'private' years ago and is firmly in the realm of public figure. Which in turn means that an entirely different standard for constitutes libel applies, specifically the standard that allows the Enquirer and most political ads to exist. The Heartland Institute would probably have better luck making a copyright claim than a libel claim at this point.
As that very article points out, Motorola has declined various settlement offers from Apple for PAST infringement of Motorola's patents. Motorola has licensed these very patents to Apple on FRAND terms for use in newly developed products which is why the iPhone 4S was not affected by the sales injunction, only the older models.
Since Apple did not license the patent on FRAND terms before pushing out the older iPhones, Motorola does not have any obligation to be fair, reasonable or non-discriminatory in negotiating the deal for those products now.
Indeed, it would take an unbelievably long time to raise the temperature of the ENTIRE planet by one degree Celsius, but with two google searches and a couple of simple equations you can calculate the raising the temperature of the 5.97*10^24 kilogram ball of iron and nickel we call Earth by one degree Celsius would increase the Earth's mass by about 33 million tons, not a mere 160.
Even without reading the article, I think it is safe to say the 160 ton per year figure is derived from the heating of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans, which are getting measurably warmer and will continue to do so no matter how loudly you shout 'la-la-la can't hear you' while sticking your fingers in your ears.
A partial solution that seems to be working here in Oregon: for all scrap sales over a certain (relatively low) amount, the scrap dealer has to mail you a check rather than paying cash on the spot. Having to provide a working mailing address deters thieves, and the time delay discourages the druggies.
Because we have already used up almost all of the other 20th century US presidents as ships' names already. The only other dead president without a ship is Nixon, Clinton is still kicking, and Bush the second might just have to wait until the USS George H W Bush is sent off to become razor blades. Obama is still in office and USS Enterprise is still in service.
So that leaves Ford unless we want to have a third carrier and a lead ship named for some corrupt senator.
Free trade agreements between governments have no legal bearing on what a private company chooses to charge for its products and what private individuals seem willing to pay. Rather the point is to prevent the governments in question from adding import duties all willy-nilly on top of the seller's price point.
Ergo, the presence of a free trade agreement means that an Aussie iPod only costs 50% more than an American one rather than 100% more, and that only Apple gets to laugh themselves all the way to bank instead both Apple and the revenue office.
A free trade agreement can also make it easier for individuals to buy stuff from overseas directly, substituting one middle-man like me for three or four others in the normal retail chain, but that might be pure self-interest talking.
Conservative politicians, at least of the US and Canadian varieties, fully understand that money and truth are often enemies. They are also very unequivocal about which of the two they will side with.
They sell censored CDs (or at least used to), slap black plastic covers over some of the magazines ... and sell the raunchiest 'unrated' DVDs in the eye level racks facing the main aisles.
Sam Walton, the source of the old 'family friendly' policies, is dead and the money men running Walmart now are not going to add restrictions that reduce the in-flow of money unless they have to.
If you would like to improve your Google search experience, we encourage you to write to your local member of parliament.
And surely Google would then be charged with sedition and fomenting revolution.
And how many non-English monolingual people are there in the US?
Quite a few, and far more who can order a sandwich or find a restroom but get stumped by 'Do you have a family history of hypertension or cardiac arrhythmia?'
The only way you would end any significant percentage of the nutters 'theories' that we never landed on the Moon would be to go up there and deface the lunar surface to look like a giant Pepsi logo.
Even that wouldn't convince everybody, and especially not the Coke faithful, because the Moon is just a liberal myth to begin with.
The new appearance is fine by me, better than the last version of slashdot (that I promptly reverted away from), and I assume everything I use is still working.
My only issues are the following items that now load with the main page:
cdn.optimizely.com/js/4215026.js
optimizely.appspot.com/tracking...
Which both appear to be third-party tracking widgets that add a delay to the page load. Google analytics I tolerate because they are moderately trustworthy. These other guys, not so much. And it is kinda surprising given the general warnings from the top on down about the perils of third party tracking you see so often on Slashdot.
Well, assuming you don't try to replace your entire network in a brief flurry of activity once every five years, then you don't have to have that much equipment in your system to end up replacing millions of dollars worth of it every year.
Indeed, given the size and cost of some data centers these days, I don't think it would that hard to spend a couple million dollars every month upgrading the hardware in a single building. It would probably be more cost effective that trying to maintain a static configuration with the requisite supply of spare parts.
No, that purpose was entirely defeated by endemic corruption in the selection of Senators by state legislatures: buying off 50 to 100 part-time local legislators is actually far cheaper and easier than buying off 50%+1 of the voting public. Direct election of Senators was a necessary solution to a problem the framers of the Constitution did not anticipate.
For a modern example of how things would work, but perhaps with more hair than normal, just Google 'Blagoviech.'
And without a specific, enabling law already in place authorizing and legitimizing those bills to either the county or the homeowner, what do think are the chances said bills would actually get paid? (hint: start at almost-zero and count downward)
If the people of rural Fulton County want to pass a law providing for enforced payment when fire services are provided (like how EMS works in most places: they have to show up when called, you have to pay the bill), they can do so. But they haven't.
Or they could charge everybody a $75 (or less) a year tax and pay the fee in bulk every year. But they don't. Its conservative democracy inaction.
And now they should not be surprised if everybody gets a letter amending their homeowners insurance policy to not cover fire damage on properties that have not paid the fire department service fee, as the fire protection rating for your area is a major component in calculating the insurance cost.
That seems to track pretty well with my brief experience as an outside contractor at NASA Langley. Lots of powerpoint, meetings, red tape and general pettiness raining from above, pervasive exasperation down below. Part of why I have come to think that the most dangerous organization currently operating on American soil is Harvard business school.
At least the food in the cafeteria was cheap and decent, and I could go there without an escort during daylight hours.
And what makes you think that an institution that has been open six days a week for decades has not discovered the miracle of rotating shifts, thus allowing its workers to have consecutive days off?
Before you wish for more Supreme Court justices in the mold of Scalia and Thomas, you may wish to read this article, also in the NYTimes, about another recent court decision where the two were again part of the dissent. In this case, they dissented from the majority's ruling that life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for a teenager who hasn't killed (or been party to a killing) is cruel and unusual punishment.
Scalia's and Thomas' objection to civil commitment has nothing to do with opposing excessive sentences and everything to do with opposing an administration they personally do not like (If you want to play the 'limiting Federal powers' card, please check up on some of their terrorism-related rulings during the Bush administration first).
Too bad the Glomar Explorer has been refitted for deep sea oil drilling. The biggest problem she would have had with a wreck 248 meters down is that it might be too shallow, as the wreck Glomar Explorer was designed to go after was 4.9km down. The Russians would probably object to its use, though, given the ship's history.
Yes, Switzerland is absolutely free of mayhem.
Wide availability of guns does nothing to stem violence either, a fact pro-gun people tend to ignore.