Politicians are a mixed bag. If I vote for the guy who says he'll eliminate civil asset forfeiture, he may be the guy who tries to legalize cannibalism. It's hard to judge who's going to be good enough on the most important issues, and blaming the voters on any but the most obvious cases is mistaken.
Progress in the 1 mile run has been fairly regular. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile_run_world_record_progression Many people may have regarded the 4 minute mile as impossible, but that doesn't seem to have had significantly altered progress to and beyond the 4 minute mile.
Intelligence is a matter of creativity: a person must be able to apply knowledge to solve problems, rather than repeat back rote facts. Creativity is, in turn, a matter of knowledge: invention and inventory are the same; you invent by reassembling the inventory of your mind into new forms, dividing a problem into recognizable components and adjusting solutions to similar components so as to produce a solution. Knowledge is, of course, a matter of memory: you cannot know what you do not remember
Oversimplify much?
Nonetheless, your overall argument does seem to have some merit.
Location, location, location.
You can get a quite nice motel room in rural Nevada for US$45 a night. Suburban Pennsylvania, $60 for a mediocre room. Downtown Boston, figure over $150 for a roach-infested dive. Location drives price far more than any other factor.
Wrong. Religious conservatives are concerned with human embryos. The Bible gives man dominion over the animals. It's the "Animal Rights" and other such emos that see a problem here.
Extinction was about 4000 years ago. Freezer burn is mostly a surface/dehydration effect. A thick chunk of meat completely coated with ice doesn't suffer freezer burn.
Mammoths aren't so long extinct that they couldn't easily be reintroduced. The ecology just hasn't changed that much. Their numbers were greatly reduced by hunting, and the last few (probably) were a pigmy mammoth variant that died off on an isolated island. Create a breeding population, protect it from human predation, and find a place where there's likely to be enough food.
Perhaps you'd like to calculate the cost of an electric transmission cable from Brazilian summer to Canadian winter, or vice-versa? Something that could carry 1,000,000,000,000 watts?
It is never a good idea to bury something that may someday be considered toxic. Be prepared to pay over $50,000 to dig up the polluted soil and have it purified. Possibly have the land condemned and declared forever unfit for human habitation.
Can't they be optimized for typical winds, and then just feathered for high winds? No need to be efficient during strong winds, just keep them turning. Or is the variable pitch mechanism too expensive?
That something is the law does not mean that it is good. That something is the law does not mean that it should be the law. Otherwise, laws would never be repealed.
it's part of the cost of doing business
Every government intrusion raises the end cost to the consumer. The damage of these costs accumulate and multiply over the years, to the extent that the average US citizen would easily have twice as much personal property if it weren't for government-imposed "cost of doing business". The result of loss of freedom is poverty and death.
With a state license, the data can be cross-referenced to other official government databases, and discrepencies noted and inaccurate applications rejected
And each additional government database is another government department with unreliable employees, Another opportunity for blackmail. Another opportunity for a Jack the Ripper. Another loss of freedom. Wake up.
It's sloppy thinking like that, that makes civil libertarians look stupid. If it were valid to say that dancing is free speech, it would be equally valid to say that gracefully stabbing someone is free speech.
It's easy to defend a dancer's rights based upon her actions being harmless and falling under the general protections for liberty. There's no need to weaken and muddy the concept of speech.
Assuming that a stripper will engage in drug use or prostitution is a violation of one of the fundamental principles of American law, "Innocent until proven guilty." And don't give me any bullshit about "It's only a correlation, we're not actually assuming they'll misbehave", because the state assumes misbehavior. If the state actually takes any action based on the simple act of being a stripper, it will quickly become harassment.
It's none of the state's damn business. any more than sugary carbonated beverages or nose-picking.
Most people - about 80% by some estimates - have a fairly clear idea of what they believe, and that belief corresponds roughly to either the Democrat or Republican party. They vote according to their belief, not "Yay my team". Lessig's view is far too shallow, and in all likelihood he's blind to his own bias.
Han Solo refers to C-3PO as "goldenrod" in episode 4, referring to the yellowish color, not necessarily the element gold. Your point stands, however, because the images I found for episode 1 show C-3PO unskinned. Most of its parts are steel-colored, although some large parts that might be visible in a finished droid are yellowish. Good catch, matfud.
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Copyright infringement is a deliberate act. Oil spills are accidents, and the worst that can be assigned to them is criminal negligence.
Politicians are a mixed bag. If I vote for the guy who says he'll eliminate civil asset forfeiture, he may be the guy who tries to legalize cannibalism. It's hard to judge who's going to be good enough on the most important issues, and blaming the voters on any but the most obvious cases is mistaken.
Progress in the 1 mile run has been fairly regular. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile_run_world_record_progression Many people may have regarded the 4 minute mile as impossible, but that doesn't seem to have had significantly altered progress to and beyond the 4 minute mile.
Oversimplify much?
Nonetheless, your overall argument does seem to have some merit.
It's only fraud if his parents don't show, and he fails to cover the shortfall.
Location, location, location.
You can get a quite nice motel room in rural Nevada for US$45 a night. Suburban Pennsylvania, $60 for a mediocre room. Downtown Boston, figure over $150 for a roach-infested dive. Location drives price far more than any other factor.
Wrong. Religious conservatives are concerned with human embryos. The Bible gives man dominion over the animals. It's the "Animal Rights" and other such emos that see a problem here.
We are also creating new species at record rates. Just ask Monsanto.
Not enough time. Minimum age for US president is 35 years.
Besides, we should only clone ethical presidents. There have only been about a half dozen of those, and BHO most definitely isn't one.
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Extinction was about 4000 years ago. Freezer burn is mostly a surface/dehydration effect. A thick chunk of meat completely coated with ice doesn't suffer freezer burn.
Mammoths aren't so long extinct that they couldn't easily be reintroduced. The ecology just hasn't changed that much. Their numbers were greatly reduced by hunting, and the last few (probably) were a pigmy mammoth variant that died off on an isolated island. Create a breeding population, protect it from human predation, and find a place where there's likely to be enough food.
Perhaps you'd like to calculate the cost of an electric transmission cable from Brazilian summer to Canadian winter, or vice-versa? Something that could carry 1,000,000,000,000 watts?
It is never a good idea to bury something that may someday be considered toxic. Be prepared to pay over $50,000 to dig up the polluted soil and have it purified. Possibly have the land condemned and declared forever unfit for human habitation.
Can't they be optimized for typical winds, and then just feathered for high winds? No need to be efficient during strong winds, just keep them turning. Or is the variable pitch mechanism too expensive?
You mean that 17-year-old runaway who, because she can't get a license to be a stripper, turns to prostitution? Is that what you call protection?
It hurts the women who can't come up with the front money for the license.
That something is the law does not mean that it is good. That something is the law does not mean that it should be the law. Otherwise, laws would never be repealed.
Every government intrusion raises the end cost to the consumer. The damage of these costs accumulate and multiply over the years, to the extent that the average US citizen would easily have twice as much personal property if it weren't for government-imposed "cost of doing business". The result of loss of freedom is poverty and death.
And each additional government database is another government department with unreliable employees, Another opportunity for blackmail. Another opportunity for a Jack the Ripper. Another loss of freedom. Wake up.
It's sloppy thinking like that, that makes civil libertarians look stupid. If it were valid to say that dancing is free speech, it would be equally valid to say that gracefully stabbing someone is free speech.
It's easy to defend a dancer's rights based upon her actions being harmless and falling under the general protections for liberty. There's no need to weaken and muddy the concept of speech.
Assuming that a stripper will engage in drug use or prostitution is a violation of one of the fundamental principles of American law, "Innocent until proven guilty." And don't give me any bullshit about "It's only a correlation, we're not actually assuming they'll misbehave", because the state assumes misbehavior. If the state actually takes any action based on the simple act of being a stripper, it will quickly become harassment.
It's none of the state's damn business. any more than sugary carbonated beverages or nose-picking.
It's the Starbuck bosun.
C is a general purpose language, perhaps the most general purpose language. Processors optimized for C code are by default general purpose.
Most people - about 80% by some estimates - have a fairly clear idea of what they believe, and that belief corresponds roughly to either the Democrat or Republican party. They vote according to their belief, not "Yay my team". Lessig's view is far too shallow, and in all likelihood he's blind to his own bias.
imdb says 6'1". Taller than average.
Han Solo refers to C-3PO as "goldenrod" in episode 4, referring to the yellowish color, not necessarily the element gold. Your point stands, however, because the images I found for episode 1 show C-3PO unskinned. Most of its parts are steel-colored, although some large parts that might be visible in a finished droid are yellowish. Good catch, matfud.