Bad assumption. Just as a for instance, several US states tax illicit drugs and require a stamp as evidence of payment. Considering the heft prison term you can pull down if you actually do buy the stamp and sells the drugs, I don't think they intended to suggest any sort of legitimacy.
True enough, but as the indirect object pronoun, le is gender neutral, and so would be unobjectionable according to the logic of the grandparent post. I think he/she/it/they should confess to having mistyped el.
I agree. My father has cable modem service, but nevertheless keeps paying AOL. One of the reasons he's using AOL for Broadband is he's not only unfamiliar with configuring his PC, he'd like to stay that way. He doesn't just want to not have to know how to disable the messenger server, he wants to not have to know that it had to be done.
If that's a service he'd like to pay for, I don't see anything wrong with that. I figure AOL users are pretty much self selected to fall into the same camp, so I don't understand the outrage (particularly since it's probably covered in their agreement with their users).
I think you're misreading "respecting." They used "respecting" as a preposition. The point is that congress may make no law about an establishment of religion, either promoting an establishment of religion or discouraging it.
The first amendment says nothing about recognizing religion. For example, suspending alternate-side-of-street parking on religious holidays recognizes that religions exist without promoting or disparaging them in any way, which I think would be permissible.
The heart of the matter is what it means to establish a religion. Adding a reference to a deity in a semi-official loyalty oath is establishing religion to my mind, even if congress was not outrageous enough to promote a specific religion.
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Offhand, I can't think of a movie with a steam train exploding in a fireball, but fireball aside, it was fairly common for steam engines to explode when pushed beyond their specs. 1647 were killed when the Sultana exploded in 1864. I'm sure that was a pretty cinematic explosion.
I find the idea that people who are found not guilty should be subject to a lingering taint is about as outrageous as any interpretation I can come up with.
The same is true for the Caribbean. I don't think it has anything to U.S. hegemony, since Bell was a Canadian (sort of). I imagine the systems in the two countries had close ties from the start.
I agree with this. Before the industrial revolution, 80% of the workforce was in agriculture. Now it's something like 6% of the workforce, in the U.S., at least. Applying the same logic as the article, there should be something like 70% of the workforce sitting on their duffs as productivity increases made them redundant. Instead, it became possible to provide goods and services that were inconceivable before.
There was excellent empirical evidence to dispute this idea in 1900, since many trains traveled near 100 miles per hour at the time, and on most trips the passengers were just fine. On the other hand, the trains did have more of a tendency to explode, and they had fairly frequent nasty derailments.
Actually, the interstate commerce clause reserves the right to regulate commerce among the states to congress, that is, the federal goverment. To the extent that spam is designed to promote commerce across state boundaries (and I think it is), federal regulation would be a natural.
That's not a good response. While it's nice that there's some spotty availability of publicly reported caselaw online, you'll find you can't actually use any of the information you find this way, because West blocks everyone else from providing the official citation. Courts require any citations to provide the West Publishing volume and page number, so once you found something useful, you'd have to look it up again in Westlaw, Lexis, or the bound volume. West claims a copyright on the page numbers, even though the information is public. While they've worked out a deal with Lexis to provide the page numbers, the public is left twisting in the wind.
See "West's Copyright Claim."
The airlines say they lose money on the Airfone service, and many have been removing the phones. (Airlines consider hanging up in-flight phones.) Admittedly, the cell phone ban might be a desperate attempt to get the service to pay for itself, but they could just as easily cut their losses and let passengers use their cellphones if this were the only reason for the ban.
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Since you brought up Star Trek, it might be worthy of mention that modern man actually was genetically engineered by aliens in the Star Trek universe, along with many other intelligent species. The common origin is the excuse for all those prosthetic foreheads.
It seems to me that there's an element of fraud here. The victim is lead to believe they've received a greeting from a self-aware human a la Blue Mountain, but the email was actually generated by their software. So things aren't really above-board.
My guess is that since blocking this software would interfere with Permissioned Media's business model, Symantec is worried about being sued. Since this is a novel situation, the law is necessarily unsettled on whether they'd be entitled to block it, so they are erring on the side of caution.
Radio was able to delivery nationwide coverage from pretty much the beginning. See this announcement of the creation of NBC, which, as the name suggests, was intended to be nationwide--http://www.ipass.net/~whitetho/1926nbc.htm. There were also rogue "superpower" stations that could reach most of the country, until regulators stopped them (or forced them across the border). Technology wasn't the primary obstacle--we have local broadcasting because the FCC considered that a virtue.
If you're suggesting that Columbus was radical in his belief that the world was round, that would be incorrect. His proposal to reach the East Indies by heading west was examined by the commission headed by Isabela's confessor, Hernando de Talavera, consisting of religious and scholarly leaders.
Over the span of a couple of years, they decided to reject the plan because they concluded that Columbus had underestimated the distance, and that the actual distance was too far to be practical. They were correct on the first point, and wrong on the second only because of the unexpected presence of the Americas. Not even the religious leaders raised the idea the the plan would fail because the earth is flat.
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Bad assumption. Just as a for instance, several US states tax illicit drugs and require a stamp as evidence of payment. Considering the heft prison term you can pull down if you actually do buy the stamp and sells the drugs, I don't think they intended to suggest any sort of legitimacy.
True enough, but as the indirect object pronoun, le is gender neutral, and so would be unobjectionable according to the logic of the grandparent post. I think he/she/it/they should confess to having mistyped el.
If that's a service he'd like to pay for, I don't see anything wrong with that. I figure AOL users are pretty much self selected to fall into the same camp, so I don't understand the outrage (particularly since it's probably covered in their agreement with their users).
If you're back from the future, shouldn't you be out betting on the World Series or buying lottery tickets?
This is a non-issue. I predict ADM will lobby to require the use of the new discs.
The first amendment says nothing about recognizing religion. For example, suspending alternate-side-of-street parking on religious holidays recognizes that religions exist without promoting or disparaging them in any way, which I think would be permissible.
The heart of the matter is what it means to establish a religion. Adding a reference to a deity in a semi-official loyalty oath is establishing religion to my mind, even if congress was not outrageous enough to promote a specific religion.
Offhand, I can't think of a movie with a steam train exploding in a fireball, but fireball aside, it was fairly common for steam engines to explode when pushed beyond their specs. 1647 were killed when the Sultana exploded in 1864. I'm sure that was a pretty cinematic explosion.
I find the idea that people who are found not guilty should be subject to a lingering taint is about as outrageous as any interpretation I can come up with.
I have no opinion on whether Abe's a mumified, Italian badass, but he's no murder victim, since he's not dead yet.
The same is true for the Caribbean. I don't think it has anything to U.S. hegemony, since Bell was a Canadian (sort of). I imagine the systems in the two countries had close ties from the start.
I agree with this. Before the industrial revolution, 80% of the workforce was in agriculture. Now it's something like 6% of the workforce, in the U.S., at least. Applying the same logic as the article, there should be something like 70% of the workforce sitting on their duffs as productivity increases made them redundant. Instead, it became possible to provide goods and services that were inconceivable before.
There was excellent empirical evidence to dispute this idea in 1900, since many trains traveled near 100 miles per hour at the time, and on most trips the passengers were just fine. On the other hand, the trains did have more of a tendency to explode, and they had fairly frequent nasty derailments.
See this discussion of the Sicarii for an answer to the question, "What can a terrorist do in Roman times."
The infrastructure may not exist yet, but it's mandated to be completed by December 31, 2005. So the idea is just slightly ahead of its time.
Actually, the interstate commerce clause reserves the right to regulate commerce among the states to congress, that is, the federal goverment. To the extent that spam is designed to promote commerce across state boundaries (and I think it is), federal regulation would be a natural.
I guess I was dating myself. My information was old, and it appears that West did lose in their efforts to copyright page numbers back in 1999.
That's not a good response. While it's nice that there's some spotty availability of publicly reported caselaw online, you'll find you can't actually use any of the information you find this way, because West blocks everyone else from providing the official citation. Courts require any citations to provide the West Publishing volume and page number, so once you found something useful, you'd have to look it up again in Westlaw, Lexis, or the bound volume. West claims a copyright on the page numbers, even though the information is public. While they've worked out a deal with Lexis to provide the page numbers, the public is left twisting in the wind. See "West's Copyright Claim."
The airlines say they lose money on the Airfone service, and many have been removing the phones. (Airlines consider hanging up in-flight phones.) Admittedly, the cell phone ban might be a desperate attempt to get the service to pay for itself, but they could just as easily cut their losses and let passengers use their cellphones if this were the only reason for the ban.
Since you brought up Star Trek, it might be worthy of mention that modern man actually was genetically engineered by aliens in the Star Trek universe, along with many other intelligent species. The common origin is the excuse for all those prosthetic foreheads.
I think this might be a reference to the Highway Beautification Act. Obviously, the law did not have the intended result.
And tal shares its origin with the English word dale.
My guess is that since blocking this software would interfere with Permissioned Media's business model, Symantec is worried about being sued. Since this is a novel situation, the law is necessarily unsettled on whether they'd be entitled to block it, so they are erring on the side of caution.
Radio was able to delivery nationwide coverage from pretty much the beginning. See this announcement of the creation of NBC, which, as the name suggests, was intended to be nationwide--http://www.ipass.net/~whitetho/1926nbc .htm. There were also rogue "superpower" stations that could reach most of the country, until regulators stopped them (or forced them across the border). Technology wasn't the primary obstacle--we have local broadcasting because the FCC considered that a virtue.
Over the span of a couple of years, they decided to reject the plan because they concluded that Columbus had underestimated the distance, and that the actual distance was too far to be practical. They were correct on the first point, and wrong on the second only because of the unexpected presence of the Americas. Not even the religious leaders raised the idea the the plan would fail because the earth is flat. http://www2.worldbook.com/features/features.asp?fe ature=explorers&page=html/newworld_plan.html&direc t=yes