A minor point, but the Veto power exists specifically to allow refusal to sign legislation that the President doesn't like.
This is also why the Congress has the ability to override the veto, in case the representatives of the People in large numbers decide the President is wrong.
I agree that blocking legislative items specifically because of 'us versus them' is ridiculously stupid. Legislation should be passed on the merits of what the legislation does.
They are making a choice. They choose not to endorse either one of the major parties' nominees. Stop acting like the only choice is to vote for someone you find slightly less abhorrent than someone else you find to be completely abhorrent. That only continues the problem.
From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent.
There were still 110 emails in 52 separate conversations that had classified information at the time sent or received, according to the director of the FBI during a televised statement, quoted above. Source, quoted paragraph 12.
Top Secret, Secret, and Confidential. At the time of sending or receipt. Stop being an apologist.
Oh, well as long as it's only a few counts of inappropriate handling of classified information I guess it's okay, and there shouldn't be any punishment.
Now switch the italics with "a few counts of assault" and see what you think about that statement.
No, but you can combine it with other data in order to get a better picture. Like source IP address and geolocation of that IP.
Sure, there's proxy hosts and VPNs and such, but if this guy is always using a particular subnet or two to access things that are known to be him, and those same subnets are used to access these posts on Reddit, the likelihood of impersonation gets rather small, especially considering the time factors.
Each state has different requirements. Ohio requires 10 hours of "instruction" from an NRA certified instructor, as well as being able to put 5 rounds into a silhouette target at 30 feet or so.
There is no more Slashdot effect. Not from Slashdot, anyway.
The combination of load balancers that work, incredibly powerful web servers, and the greatly diminished Slashdot population means that the Internet has probably seen it's last Slashdot stampede.
Not on the Slashdot of today. Remember when it was Slashdot that used to be responsible for the largest Internet stampedes? Those days are long fucking gone.
The laws that protect "hate speech" are the same laws that allow people to speak out against the hate speech. That's the great thing about the First Amendment - it grants people the right to show exactly who they are, and it grants me the right to declare them to be reprehensible people and cite reasons why.
Governments should absolutely not be in the business of legislating thought. See: the 'morality' laws against homosexuality in the not-so-distant past in "civilized" nations.
Namely: the "war on drugs" and "tough on crime" legislation of the 1990s that included such idiot provisions as "three strikes and you're out" which causes repeat minor offenses to add up to major time in prison.
According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, around 50% of inmates are there for drug offenses. (source) It's unclear of that number how many are repeat possession, and how many are distribution. But it's still likely to be a large number of people that are sitting in jail for doing no harm to anyone but themselves.*
* I say only themselves, because if they were caught stealing to fuel their drug habit, they'd be in prison for stealing, not on drug charges.
If you make statements that appear to be factual that are meant to discredit or smear, then there can be civil actions against you.
If you make statements of opinion, of really any variety at all, then you're good to go, as opinion is protected speech. However, that doesn't mean you can plaster your opinion anywhere you want - privately owned resources are free to restrict your opinions as they like. Example: private property, privately owned web sites and forums, newspapers, magazines, etc.
People didn't leave Detroit and Baltimore because the cities suck, though they do.
They left because the jobs left. Bringing in a shitload of refugees to a declining city without also having some kind of major jobs program will inevitably see all the other problems that large percentage unemployment causes in large cities.
Without the jobs, all you're doing is making a slightly nicer refugee camp made out of brick, rather than tents.
It goes back even farther than that - I remember us bombing the hell out of Japan at one point, even using atomic weapons. They are now one of our most stalwart allies, if not our best ally in the Pacific / East Asia region.
Well, they are probably just using the wrong words that everyone else uses ever since the 1970s when the "war on cancer" was started.
Curing cancer is probably impossible, because as you say, you would need to monitor the activity of billions of cells to make sure each one is doing what it's supposed to.
Making cancer a chronic condition that can be stabilized without the massive side effects of current treatments (chemo, radiation, surgery) would be a massive gain. Instead of feeling like shit for months while having an IV drip of poison followed by a dangerous expensive surgery, maybe we get something new that can be administered on an outpatient basis, or through nurse practitioners. That would be a massive win.
Is Microsoft going to get there before any of the other biotech companies that have been working the problem for decades? I doubt it. But I welcome their efforts.
Now don't go bringing reality into this perfect troll bait article! Don't you understand that merely using the words "apple" and "patent" in a Slashdot post is worth 75+ comments on rounded corners alone?
The new owners have to keep the numbers up somehow!
You're getting ahead of yourself. They have at least two other messaging platforms to kill off that are used by millions of people before they kill off this new one prematurely.
Slashdot Mirror
It's shingles that incorporate PV cells.
So, instead of panels sitting over shingles, it's just the shingles.
A minor point, but the Veto power exists specifically to allow refusal to sign legislation that the President doesn't like.
This is also why the Congress has the ability to override the veto, in case the representatives of the People in large numbers decide the President is wrong.
I agree that blocking legislative items specifically because of 'us versus them' is ridiculously stupid. Legislation should be passed on the merits of what the legislation does.
They are making a choice. They choose not to endorse either one of the major parties' nominees. Stop acting like the only choice is to vote for someone you find slightly less abhorrent than someone else you find to be completely abhorrent. That only continues the problem.
From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent.
There were still 110 emails in 52 separate conversations that had classified information at the time sent or received, according to the director of the FBI during a televised statement, quoted above. Source, quoted paragraph 12.
Top Secret, Secret, and Confidential. At the time of sending or receipt. Stop being an apologist.
Oh, well as long as it's only a few counts of inappropriate handling of classified information I guess it's okay, and there shouldn't be any punishment.
Now switch the italics with "a few counts of assault" and see what you think about that statement.
Don't be an apologist.
No, but you can combine it with other data in order to get a better picture. Like source IP address and geolocation of that IP.
Sure, there's proxy hosts and VPNs and such, but if this guy is always using a particular subnet or two to access things that are known to be him, and those same subnets are used to access these posts on Reddit, the likelihood of impersonation gets rather small, especially considering the time factors.
Yeah, because we clearly need more laws that make something already illegal to be illegaler.
This has proven to work time and time again, especially with the war on drugs.
Yeah, because I forgot where backwards militia with small arms automatically lose to overwhelming disparity in arms level.
Signed,
Vietnam in the late 60s / early 70s
Afghanistan in the late 70s / 1980s
Yugoslavia in the 1990s
Iraq / Afghanistan in the 2000s to today
No, but they could lend them to unarmed neighbors that also would like to not be oppressed by a tyrannical government run amok.
That's because the NRA has the opposite extreme view of those who have radical views on the left that include confiscation and manufacturer liability.
Good policy lies somewhere in the middle as compromise.
It has been for some time. People abuse moderation points to silently disagree. Been that way for years.
Your understanding of physics is astonishingly bad.
The only reason a bullet needs to go that fast is because the mass is so small. F = m * a
Nobody needs to propel a bat at 500 mph, and in fact it would probably break apart if you did. Who's a fucking moron again?
Each state has different requirements. Ohio requires 10 hours of "instruction" from an NRA certified instructor, as well as being able to put 5 rounds into a silhouette target at 30 feet or so.
There is no more Slashdot effect. Not from Slashdot, anyway.
The combination of load balancers that work, incredibly powerful web servers, and the greatly diminished Slashdot population means that the Internet has probably seen it's last Slashdot stampede.
Maybe 5 years ago.
Not on the Slashdot of today. Remember when it was Slashdot that used to be responsible for the largest Internet stampedes? Those days are long fucking gone.
The laws that protect "hate speech" are the same laws that allow people to speak out against the hate speech. That's the great thing about the First Amendment - it grants people the right to show exactly who they are, and it grants me the right to declare them to be reprehensible people and cite reasons why.
Governments should absolutely not be in the business of legislating thought. See: the 'morality' laws against homosexuality in the not-so-distant past in "civilized" nations.
Something else is going on here.
Namely: the "war on drugs" and "tough on crime" legislation of the 1990s that included such idiot provisions as "three strikes and you're out" which causes repeat minor offenses to add up to major time in prison.
According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, around 50% of inmates are there for drug offenses. (source) It's unclear of that number how many are repeat possession, and how many are distribution. But it's still likely to be a large number of people that are sitting in jail for doing no harm to anyone but themselves.*
* I say only themselves, because if they were caught stealing to fuel their drug habit, they'd be in prison for stealing, not on drug charges.
Like all things, it's more nuanced than that.
If you make statements that appear to be factual that are meant to discredit or smear, then there can be civil actions against you.
If you make statements of opinion, of really any variety at all, then you're good to go, as opinion is protected speech. However, that doesn't mean you can plaster your opinion anywhere you want - privately owned resources are free to restrict your opinions as they like. Example: private property, privately owned web sites and forums, newspapers, magazines, etc.
People didn't leave Detroit and Baltimore because the cities suck, though they do.
They left because the jobs left. Bringing in a shitload of refugees to a declining city without also having some kind of major jobs program will inevitably see all the other problems that large percentage unemployment causes in large cities.
Without the jobs, all you're doing is making a slightly nicer refugee camp made out of brick, rather than tents.
It goes back even farther than that - I remember us bombing the hell out of Japan at one point, even using atomic weapons. They are now one of our most stalwart allies, if not our best ally in the Pacific / East Asia region.
Shockingly, as you said, things change with time.
So don't buy them if you don't see the value?
I still don't understand why people get pissy about Apple charging a price that their customers are apparently willing to pay.
Well, they are probably just using the wrong words that everyone else uses ever since the 1970s when the "war on cancer" was started.
Curing cancer is probably impossible, because as you say, you would need to monitor the activity of billions of cells to make sure each one is doing what it's supposed to.
Making cancer a chronic condition that can be stabilized without the massive side effects of current treatments (chemo, radiation, surgery) would be a massive gain. Instead of feeling like shit for months while having an IV drip of poison followed by a dangerous expensive surgery, maybe we get something new that can be administered on an outpatient basis, or through nurse practitioners. That would be a massive win.
Is Microsoft going to get there before any of the other biotech companies that have been working the problem for decades? I doubt it. But I welcome their efforts.
Now don't go bringing reality into this perfect troll bait article! Don't you understand that merely using the words "apple" and "patent" in a Slashdot post is worth 75+ comments on rounded corners alone?
The new owners have to keep the numbers up somehow!
Long awaited by Snapchat and Whatsapp, the primary competitors. Now they know what features Google has shamelessly copied.
At least it's not Microsoft - if it was, they would know what features had been shamelessly copied badly.
You're getting ahead of yourself. They have at least two other messaging platforms to kill off that are used by millions of people before they kill off this new one prematurely.