Only after a moderation option for 'doesn't know what they're talking about' is added.
Whether you agree with calling it a sixth sense or not, they observed an effect, formulated a hypothesis, designed and executed an experiment with sound methodology in a controlled environment, and applied the results to validating their hypothesis. Their theory is supported by scientific evidence and can be used to predict new things. This is science, and is quite obviously not pseudoscience if one RTFA.
Microsoft Streets can do it. I have no love affair with Microsoft, but this is impressive. I live in Miami and have actually considered such a roadtrip, except to Barrow, the northernmost city in Alaska (Anchorage is in southern alaska).
DAY 1
9:00 AM 0.0 Depart Miami on SR-9 [SW 27th Ave] (North) 0.7 mi
9:01 AM 0.7 Turn RIGHT (East) onto US-1 [S Dixie Hwy] 1.7 mi
9:04 AM 2.4 Road name changes to I-95 87.1 mi I-95
10:24 AM 89.5 At exit 87B, take Ramp (RIGHT) onto SR-706 [W Indiantown Rd] 0.8 mi SR-706 / Okeechobee
10:25 AM 90.4 Turn RIGHT onto Ramp 0.2 mi Florida's Turnpike
10:26 AM 90.5 Keep LEFT to stay on Ramp 0.5 mi
10:27 AM 91.0 *Toll road* Merge onto Florida's Tpke 191.9 mi
1:17 PM 282.9 Take Ramp onto I-75 219.8 mi
3:43 PM 427.5 Entering Georgia
5:00 PM 502.7 End of day
DAY 2
Check your departure time; the next stop is in a different time zone.
9:00 AM 502.7 Stay on I-75 [SR-401] 81.5 mi
10:22 AM 584.2 At exit 156, take Ramp (LEFT) onto I-475 [SR-408] 15.4 mi I-475 / Atlanta
10:37 AM 599.6 Take Ramp onto I-75 [SR-401] 179.0 mi I-75 / GA-401
1:37 PM 777.5 Entering Tennessee
1:38 PM 778.7 At exit 2, take Ramp (LEFT) onto I-24 214.6 mi I-24 / Chattanooga / Nashville
1:50 PM 793.3 Entering Georgia
1:54 PM 797.3 Entering Tennessee
Resurfacing near Clarksville (NB) (May 10, 2004 - March 31, 2005)
4:32 PM 965.6 Entering Kentucky
Check local time; this stop is in a different time zone.
5:00 PM 993.3 End of day
DAY 3
9:00 AM 993.3 Stay on I-24 103.7 mi
10:06 AM 1059.0 Entering Illinois
10:38 AM 1096.9 At exit 44B, take Ramp (LEFT) onto I-57 193.9 mi I-57 / Chicago
1:20 PM 1290.8 At exit 237B, take Ramp (RIGHT) onto I-74 46.1 mi I-74 / Peoria
1:58 PM 1336.9 Merge onto I-55 [I-74] 6.4 mi
Construction between Bloomington and Normal (NB) (February 13, 2004 - March 31, 2005)
2:04 PM 1343.4 At exit 164, take Ramp (RIGHT) onto I-39 [US-51] 123.9 mi I-39 / US-51 / Rockford
3:50 PM 1467.2 Turn LEFT onto Ramp 0.4 mi I-90 / US-51 / Wisconsin
3:50 PM 1467.6 *Toll road* Merge onto I-39 [I-90] 14.4 mi
4:02 PM 1482.0 At exit 3, stay on I-39 [I-90] (North) 68.3 mi
4:05 PM 1485.1 Entering Wisconsin
5:00 PM 1550.3 End of day
DAY 4
9:00 AM 1550.3 Stay on I-39 [I-90] 13.3 mi
9:11 AM 1563.6 At exit 108A-B, road name changes to I-90 [I-94] 63.5 mi
10:04 AM 1627.1 Road name changes to I-94 156.0 mi I-94 / Eau Claire / St Paul
12:06 PM 1773.7 Entering Minnesota
12:14 PM 1783.1 Turn RIGHT onto Ramp 0.3 mi I-494 / I-694
12:14 PM 1783.4 Take Ramp (RIGHT) onto I-694 11.1 mi I-694
12:26 PM 1794.5 Merge onto I-35E [I-694] 0.7 mi
12:26 PM 1795.2 Keep RIGHT onto I-694 18.4 mi I-694 / US-10
12:45 PM 1813.7 Road name changes to I-94 [US-52] 220.1 mi I-94 / St Cloud
3:48 PM 2031.2 Entering North Dakota
3:50 PM 2033.7 At exit 349B, take Ramp (RIGHT) onto I-29 [US-81] 81.3 mi I-29 / Grand Forks
5:00 PM 2115.0 End of day
DAY 5
9:00 AM 2115.0 Stay on I-29 [US-81] 73.3 mi
10:01 AM 2188.3 Entering Manitoba
10:01 AM 2188.3 Road name changes to HWY-75 [Lord Selkirk Hwy] 25.4 mi
10:27 AM 2213.7 Bear RIGHT (North) onto HWY-23 [HWY-75] 0.3 mi
10:27 AM 2214.0 Turn LEFT (West) onto HWY-23 [Boyne Ave W] 4.3 mi
10:32 AM 2218.3 Turn RIGHT (North) onto HWY-422 7.2 mi
10:41 AM 2225.5 Turn LEFT (West) onto HWY-205 3.8 mi
10:46 AM 2229.3 Turn LEFT to stay on HWY-205 4.1 mi
10:51 AM 2233.4 Turn RIGHT (North) onto HWY-332 6.4 mi
10:59 AM 2239.7 Turn RIGHT (North-East) onto HWY-3 [HWY-332], then immediately bear LEFT (North) onto HWY-332 5.9 mi
11:07 AM 2245.6 Turn LEFT (West) onto HWY-247 [HWY-332] 2.0 mi
11:10 AM 2247.7 Turn RIGHT (North) onto HWY-332 10.2 mi
11:23 AM 2257.9 Turn LEFT to stay on HWY-332 1.0 mi
11:24 AM 2258.9 Turn RIGHT to stay on HWY-332 3.1 mi
11:28 AM 2262.0 Keep STRAIGHT onto HWY-332 [Dakota Rd] 1.0 mi
11:29 AM 2263.0 Turn LEFT (West) onto
This is more equivalent to Subway putting up signs with the golden arches and saying McDonalds this way, leading people to Subway and away from McDonalds.
Furthermore, commercials like the one you're talking about are allowed provided they have some basis in fact; Subway could NOT run a commercial saying the Big Mac has 2000 calories when it has 500.
You're confusing microevolution with macroevolution. I want to know who on gods green earth OBSERVED monkeys turning into humans.
Geneticists observing markers of evolution in gene samples including living and past primates?
Evolution isn't just the fossil record and direct observation of speciation, there's EXTENSIVE molecular evidence of it. So extensive that the only proper thing to say is that evolution is a fact. Take human chromosome 2; it's clear that a Robertsonian translocation occured between two acrocentric chromosomes visible in the apes, and obviously this is a genetic process with a certain chance of happening that has been observed to actually occur, so therefore the only logical conclusion is that this occured in an ancient ape population, and the two groups (normal and translocated) diverged into modern apes and humans. Don't understand that? Then you're in no position to be asserting the validity of evolution to begin with.
Now, what started evolution is up for debate. Driving forces of evolution, i.e. natural selection, are theories, that, while on very solid ground, are still classified as theories... but evolution is a fact and saying otherwise can only be construed as supporting religious dogma.
It would be ruled illegal in this scenario with fraud in the execution, since replacing the price is clearly fraud. It would also fail to meet legal contractual requirements that consideration must be appropriate; a contract to purchase an item with a fair market value of $500 for $10 is not a valid contract.
Failing either of those two points, there's no way such a contract would not be ruled void under the doctrine of promissory estoppel.
When you are admin no security in the world can stop a user from clicking 'yes' when asked to install software.
Sure there is, just make the user have to pass a quiz on basic security they should know before enabling the yes button.
...and why do people overdose? There's 2 leading causes besides suicide attempts:
Lack of education about effects of mixing things. - Because we're too busy trying to convince our kids of all the evils that we don't bother teaching real facts. Abstinence-only does not work in sex ed, and it doesn't work in drug ed. People are doing it no matter what, so the best approach is to reduce the harm that may come. And when you lie to people so much about drugs, they stop believing it when you're telling the truth.
Contaminated doses and/or doses in unknown amounts. - When you buy something on the street, you have no idea how much of what is in it unless you take your stuff to a lab before doing it. This causes a very large percent of overdoses. If people inject a solution they KNOW is 10mg/ml, they're not going to accidently inject around 150mg that's required to OD. Not to mention the much lower safety margin and wildly inaccurate dosing of fentanyls that make up for shortages in actual heroin supplies.
and I think it's quite obvious prohibition does a piss poor job of accomplishing real results in harm reduction.
Nicotine is the most physically addictive drug. Pot is not physically addictive.
Nicotine is the most deadly drug (LD50/ED50); the LD50 of smoking pot is so incredibly high it has not been reliably established.
You are FAR more likely (percentage) to die from causes relating to smoking nicotine than smoking pot (in fact, more like then with ANY drug habit, including crack and heroin).
So yeah, pot contains carcinogens, probably as many in raw amounts as cigarettes, but the damage and addictiveness make it absolutely pale in comparison to smoking cigarettes.
The users are mainly to blame for most drug related violence (I mean hard drug users like coke, crack and heroin users.)
No, the dealers are to blame. Most of the users of "hard" drugs are no more violent than anyone else, and furthermore alcohol (and other dissociatives) is more likely to cause violent behavior than the "hard" drugs.
Around 85% of violence is related to dealers when talking about crack-related violence in fact.
Not only that, the people who commit crimes for drugs do so only because of the astronomical price markups. If the habit cost the same as alcoholism, that violence would drop to an even lesser level.
The joke in the parent points to a cynical truth... I'm 21 now and there's no doubt in my mind the only way I'll see a colony on Mars in my lifetime is if something valueable is found there, and another country begins a serious effort to get it first. Without this, pure science will take much much longer to fund the prerequisite research and actual cost.
America deciding it wants to own Mars, for it's financial or military value, is the only thing getting us there to stay this century.
IIRC the US is still part of a UN treaty saying that no nation can claim another planet as their own, and barring the presence of oil I doubt we'll be in any rush to withdraw from the treaty. Although, it couldn't be too hard to convince Dubya that intelligence consisting of a black dot on a read circle with a little blurring for realism is evidence of oil on Mars, and a little white spec near it is WMD... sure it's imperialism, but it'd sure speed up the colonization of Mars. The ends justifies the means right?
BTW, laugh at the joke conservatives, I'm sick of being modded troll by rightist mods who can't tell the difference between a joke and leftist hippy who seriously thinks everything comes down to oil. michael moore is just as big a douche as bush, now stop playing politics with your mod points.
Even if everyone had a cell phone, not all areas have cell phone signals. Structures without signal reflectors and structures spefically designed to prevent cell phone use will continue to exist for the foreseeable future, plus everyone forgets their cell phone from time to time, and a good number of 911 calls are made without being able to rely on others. Until we reach a point where none of these situations exist, even voip phones with physical lines need 911 service.
Now, taxing mobile phone users to pay for VoIP emergency services is not moot; but these taxes already exist to provide the E911 service on the mobile network, which isn't exactly cheap. Increasing this to pay for VoIP E911 services would raise this tax to a very high level that would be objectionable to people not using VoIP phones.
As a flourinert blooded to cool my devices geek I dislike the idea of government interference with VoIP phones as separate from internet service as much as the next guy, providing emergency call routing is an essential and not profitable service, and universal service essential for progress, and I would find it acceptable for the government to levy a tax on broadband internet connections to fund these services. Targetting only VoIP services is arbitrary, and targetting broadband will hopefully be less objectionable as VoIP becomes ubiquitous where broadband is found; and incidently funding universal service with broadband will be neccessary to finally end the copper wire communication era. Even in this case, however, regulation should not happen even with imposing taxes.
Which will most likely be the case, since i2hub is restricted to just schools on I2, white-list style. Just because they're on I2 doesn't give them access to i2Hub traffic any more than it gives them access to a closed network on I1.
I had some trouble accessing Slate a little while ago, in case others have the same problem, here is a copy of text as of 5:55PM EST: --
Early Exit
Kerry leads.
By Jack Shafer
Updated Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004, at 2:46 PM PT
The first wave of exit-poll data reaching my desk comes from a variety of sources. In some states the sources disagree about the specific margin by which a candidate leads, but never about which candidate is out in front. Some of the confusion may stem from the mixing of morning exit-poll numbers with early afternoon numbers. With those provisos and the understanding that the early numbers are predictive of nothing without their accompanying computer model, here's what I've heard:
Florida
Kerry 50
Bush 49
Ohio
Kerry 50
Bush 49
Pennsylvania
Kerry 54
Bush 45
Wisconsin
Kerry 51
Bush 46
Michigan
Kerry 51
Bush 47
Minnesota
Kerry 58
Bush 40
Nevada
Kerry 48
Bush 50
New Mexico
Kerry 50
Bush 48
North Carolina
Kerry 49
Bush 51
Colorado
Kerry 46
Bush 53
Other exit-poll results have arrived in more vague form, with Kerry leading Bush in New Hampshire but trailing him in Arizona and Louisiana.
For an explanation of why Slate is posting exit-poll numbers, see the previous post, below.... 12:15 p.m. PT
Exit Poll Charade: Why Slate is posting the exit-poll numbers: As this item posts, the first raw exit-poll data are streaming from the National Election Pool consortium owned by the Associated Press and the five television networks (CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, and CNN) to their news divisions and to the newsrooms of NEP subscribers--big city newspapers and other broadcasters.
These early exit-poll numbers do not divine the name of the winner. Instead, regard these numbers as a sportswriter does the line scores from the fourth inning of a baseball game. The leading team might win the game, but then again it might not. But having the early data in front of him helps the sportswriter plot the story he thinks he'll need to write at game's end.
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As you read this posting, the political reporters at the networks, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, NPR, Newsweek, and about two dozen other news outlets are cracking their knuckles over their keyboards, contemplating the story, while statisticians and political analysts at the networks prepare to run the numbers through their computer models to generate a prediction.
The paid users of exit-poll data have signed a blood oath not to divulge it to unauthorized eyes, and the networks have promised not to call any states before their polls close. But the numbers always leak out to other journalists--such as the writers at Slate--and starting at about 5 p.m. ET or so, the news anchors start giving clues about what they've learned from the exit-poll results. As John Tierney writes in today's New York Times, the result on television is sometimes like a "version of the Dance of the Seven Veils, in which anchors or correspondents will pretend not to know what's happening in a state but give enough clues for the discerning viewer. They might allude to the high spirits at one campaign headquarters, or start speculating about what effect the loss of this state would have on the other candidate."
In the 2003 gubernatorial election in California, the networks kept their solemn oath not to call the winner until polls closed at 11 p.m. ET. Just the same, CBS News' Dan Rather telegraphed his findings in this 6:30 p.m. ET broadcast.
With voting still under way in the California governor recall election, CBS News exit polls, for whatever, if anything, they may be worth, now indicate many voters made up their minds weeks ago.... If [Gov. Gray Davis] is recalled, there are widespread expectations--again, for whatever they may be worth--that Republican Arnold
I don't believe the behavior of electorate members has ever affected the outcome in modern times. In 2000, one elector from DC cast a blank ballot in protest of DC not being represented in congress, but VERY few (single digits for the past few decades combined) electors have voted against what their state has chosen. Not only is it political suicide, but it's illegal in many states. There's many many people along the lines that can screw things up, but the electors are not part of them.
What part of agreeing with going to war based on available intelligence but disagreeing with how we handled the war after we got in, and the fact we didn't exhaust every means besides war before starting, do you Republicans have such a hard time understanding?
Seriously, this whole "flip-flop" thing is another campaign propaganda trick. It's simple enough to stick in peoples heads, and its backed up with blatantly inaccurate, but simple and clear, accusations. Kerry is not saying he is now against a resolution he voted for, he's saying he's against the manner in which that resolution was executed, and how its being handled now. The only reason this trick is still working is because debunking the propaganda Bush's campaign is repeating ad nauseum is far more complex, and therefore beyond the grasp of most voters.
It's not like Bush hasn't changed his position on some issues.
The very fact that Bush specifically mentioned how important it was to kill/capture Osama and then outsourced the job to groups who were also actively fighting eachother, who let him escape, and then to add insult to injury denied he ever said Osama was a priority and that he didn't even think about him anymore, is one of the many reasons i did not vote for Bush (early voting r0x0rZ!).
RTFA please... " After the agents left, Cox called the manufacturer of the Magic Cube, the Toysmith Group, which is based in Auburn, Wash."
This not fall under Customs.
"I want" is not the same as "I myself will".
It's not a threat, it's just an expression of a desire, there's absolutely no indication of a plan to act.
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And what's more, the Wildcat Realizm 800 has 640MB of memory. Anyone can buy it, but it costs around $2,000.
Only after a moderation option for 'doesn't know what they're talking about' is added.
Whether you agree with calling it a sixth sense or not, they observed an effect, formulated a hypothesis, designed and executed an experiment with sound methodology in a controlled environment, and applied the results to validating their hypothesis. Their theory is supported by scientific evidence and can be used to predict new things. This is science, and is quite obviously not pseudoscience if one RTFA.
Microsoft Streets can do it. I have no love affair with Microsoft, but this is impressive. I live in Miami and have actually considered such a roadtrip, except to Barrow, the northernmost city in Alaska (Anchorage is in southern alaska).
DAY 1 9:00 AM 0.0 Depart Miami on SR-9 [SW 27th Ave] (North) 0.7 mi
9:01 AM 0.7 Turn RIGHT (East) onto US-1 [S Dixie Hwy] 1.7 mi
9:04 AM 2.4 Road name changes to I-95 87.1 mi I-95
10:24 AM 89.5 At exit 87B, take Ramp (RIGHT) onto SR-706 [W Indiantown Rd] 0.8 mi SR-706 / Okeechobee
10:25 AM 90.4 Turn RIGHT onto Ramp 0.2 mi Florida's Turnpike
10:26 AM 90.5 Keep LEFT to stay on Ramp 0.5 mi
10:27 AM 91.0 *Toll road* Merge onto Florida's Tpke 191.9 mi
1:17 PM 282.9 Take Ramp onto I-75 219.8 mi
3:43 PM 427.5 Entering Georgia
5:00 PM 502.7 End of day
DAY 2
Check your departure time; the next stop is in a different time zone.
9:00 AM 502.7 Stay on I-75 [SR-401] 81.5 mi
10:22 AM 584.2 At exit 156, take Ramp (LEFT) onto I-475 [SR-408] 15.4 mi I-475 / Atlanta
10:37 AM 599.6 Take Ramp onto I-75 [SR-401] 179.0 mi I-75 / GA-401
1:37 PM 777.5 Entering Tennessee
1:38 PM 778.7 At exit 2, take Ramp (LEFT) onto I-24 214.6 mi I-24 / Chattanooga / Nashville
1:50 PM 793.3 Entering Georgia
1:54 PM 797.3 Entering Tennessee
Resurfacing near Clarksville (NB) (May 10, 2004 - March 31, 2005)
4:32 PM 965.6 Entering Kentucky
Check local time; this stop is in a different time zone.
5:00 PM 993.3 End of day
DAY 3
9:00 AM 993.3 Stay on I-24 103.7 mi
10:06 AM 1059.0 Entering Illinois
10:38 AM 1096.9 At exit 44B, take Ramp (LEFT) onto I-57 193.9 mi I-57 / Chicago
1:20 PM 1290.8 At exit 237B, take Ramp (RIGHT) onto I-74 46.1 mi I-74 / Peoria
1:58 PM 1336.9 Merge onto I-55 [I-74] 6.4 mi
Construction between Bloomington and Normal (NB) (February 13, 2004 - March 31, 2005)
2:04 PM 1343.4 At exit 164, take Ramp (RIGHT) onto I-39 [US-51] 123.9 mi I-39 / US-51 / Rockford
3:50 PM 1467.2 Turn LEFT onto Ramp 0.4 mi I-90 / US-51 / Wisconsin
3:50 PM 1467.6 *Toll road* Merge onto I-39 [I-90] 14.4 mi
4:02 PM 1482.0 At exit 3, stay on I-39 [I-90] (North) 68.3 mi
4:05 PM 1485.1 Entering Wisconsin
5:00 PM 1550.3 End of day
DAY 4
9:00 AM 1550.3 Stay on I-39 [I-90] 13.3 mi
9:11 AM 1563.6 At exit 108A-B, road name changes to I-90 [I-94] 63.5 mi
10:04 AM 1627.1 Road name changes to I-94 156.0 mi I-94 / Eau Claire / St Paul
12:06 PM 1773.7 Entering Minnesota
12:14 PM 1783.1 Turn RIGHT onto Ramp 0.3 mi I-494 / I-694
12:14 PM 1783.4 Take Ramp (RIGHT) onto I-694 11.1 mi I-694
12:26 PM 1794.5 Merge onto I-35E [I-694] 0.7 mi
12:26 PM 1795.2 Keep RIGHT onto I-694 18.4 mi I-694 / US-10
12:45 PM 1813.7 Road name changes to I-94 [US-52] 220.1 mi I-94 / St Cloud
3:48 PM 2031.2 Entering North Dakota
3:50 PM 2033.7 At exit 349B, take Ramp (RIGHT) onto I-29 [US-81] 81.3 mi I-29 / Grand Forks
5:00 PM 2115.0 End of day
DAY 5
9:00 AM 2115.0 Stay on I-29 [US-81] 73.3 mi
10:01 AM 2188.3 Entering Manitoba
10:01 AM 2188.3 Road name changes to HWY-75 [Lord Selkirk Hwy] 25.4 mi
10:27 AM 2213.7 Bear RIGHT (North) onto HWY-23 [HWY-75] 0.3 mi
10:27 AM 2214.0 Turn LEFT (West) onto HWY-23 [Boyne Ave W] 4.3 mi
10:32 AM 2218.3 Turn RIGHT (North) onto HWY-422 7.2 mi
10:41 AM 2225.5 Turn LEFT (West) onto HWY-205 3.8 mi
10:46 AM 2229.3 Turn LEFT to stay on HWY-205 4.1 mi
10:51 AM 2233.4 Turn RIGHT (North) onto HWY-332 6.4 mi
10:59 AM 2239.7 Turn RIGHT (North-East) onto HWY-3 [HWY-332], then immediately bear LEFT (North) onto HWY-332 5.9 mi
11:07 AM 2245.6 Turn LEFT (West) onto HWY-247 [HWY-332] 2.0 mi
11:10 AM 2247.7 Turn RIGHT (North) onto HWY-332 10.2 mi
11:23 AM 2257.9 Turn LEFT to stay on HWY-332 1.0 mi
11:24 AM 2258.9 Turn RIGHT to stay on HWY-332 3.1 mi
11:28 AM 2262.0 Keep STRAIGHT onto HWY-332 [Dakota Rd] 1.0 mi
11:29 AM 2263.0 Turn LEFT (West) onto
This is more equivalent to Subway putting up signs with the golden arches and saying McDonalds this way, leading people to Subway and away from McDonalds. Furthermore, commercials like the one you're talking about are allowed provided they have some basis in fact; Subway could NOT run a commercial saying the Big Mac has 2000 calories when it has 500.
LOL. Talk about misinformation and hype.
The group velocity exceeds c. The phase velocity does not. I'll refer you back to the modern research that started this public interest in superluminal motion:
Wang, et al. Gain Assisted Superluminal Light Propagation, Nature 406, 277 - 279 (20 July 2000); doi:10.1038/35018520
Yes, a newer and better one is on the horizon. The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to launch in 2011.
You're confusing microevolution with macroevolution. I want to know who on gods green earth OBSERVED monkeys turning into humans.
Geneticists observing markers of evolution in gene samples including living and past primates?
Evolution isn't just the fossil record and direct observation of speciation, there's EXTENSIVE molecular evidence of it. So extensive that the only proper thing to say is that evolution is a fact. Take human chromosome 2; it's clear that a Robertsonian translocation occured between two acrocentric chromosomes visible in the apes, and obviously this is a genetic process with a certain chance of happening that has been observed to actually occur, so therefore the only logical conclusion is that this occured in an ancient ape population, and the two groups (normal and translocated) diverged into modern apes and humans. Don't understand that? Then you're in no position to be asserting the validity of evolution to begin with.
Now, what started evolution is up for debate. Driving forces of evolution, i.e. natural selection, are theories, that, while on very solid ground, are still classified as theories... but evolution is a fact and saying otherwise can only be construed as supporting religious dogma.
It would be ruled illegal in this scenario with fraud in the execution, since replacing the price is clearly fraud. It would also fail to meet legal contractual requirements that consideration must be appropriate; a contract to purchase an item with a fair market value of $500 for $10 is not a valid contract.
Failing either of those two points, there's no way such a contract would not be ruled void under the doctrine of promissory estoppel.
When you are admin no security in the world can stop a user from clicking 'yes' when asked to install software. Sure there is, just make the user have to pass a quiz on basic security they should know before enabling the yes button.
GMail also does this, it's very nice.
...and why do people overdose? There's 2 leading causes besides suicide attempts:
Lack of education about effects of mixing things. - Because we're too busy trying to convince our kids of all the evils that we don't bother teaching real facts. Abstinence-only does not work in sex ed, and it doesn't work in drug ed. People are doing it no matter what, so the best approach is to reduce the harm that may come. And when you lie to people so much about drugs, they stop believing it when you're telling the truth.
Contaminated doses and/or doses in unknown amounts. - When you buy something on the street, you have no idea how much of what is in it unless you take your stuff to a lab before doing it. This causes a very large percent of overdoses. If people inject a solution they KNOW is 10mg/ml, they're not going to accidently inject around 150mg that's required to OD. Not to mention the much lower safety margin and wildly inaccurate dosing of fentanyls that make up for shortages in actual heroin supplies.
and I think it's quite obvious prohibition does a piss poor job of accomplishing real results in harm reduction.
Nicotine is the most physically addictive drug. Pot is not physically addictive.
Nicotine is the most deadly drug (LD50/ED50); the LD50 of smoking pot is so incredibly high it has not been reliably established.
You are FAR more likely (percentage) to die from causes relating to smoking nicotine than smoking pot (in fact, more like then with ANY drug habit, including crack and heroin).
So yeah, pot contains carcinogens, probably as many in raw amounts as cigarettes, but the damage and addictiveness make it absolutely pale in comparison to smoking cigarettes.
The users are mainly to blame for most drug related violence (I mean hard drug users like coke, crack and heroin users.)
No, the dealers are to blame. Most of the users of "hard" drugs are no more violent than anyone else, and furthermore alcohol (and other dissociatives) is more likely to cause violent behavior than the "hard" drugs.
Around 85% of violence is related to dealers when talking about crack-related violence in fact.
Not only that, the people who commit crimes for drugs do so only because of the astronomical price markups. If the habit cost the same as alcoholism, that violence would drop to an even lesser level.
The joke in the parent points to a cynical truth... I'm 21 now and there's no doubt in my mind the only way I'll see a colony on Mars in my lifetime is if something valueable is found there, and another country begins a serious effort to get it first. Without this, pure science will take much much longer to fund the prerequisite research and actual cost.
America deciding it wants to own Mars, for it's financial or military value, is the only thing getting us there to stay this century.
IIRC the US is still part of a UN treaty saying that no nation can claim another planet as their own, and barring the presence of oil I doubt we'll be in any rush to withdraw from the treaty. Although, it couldn't be too hard to convince Dubya that intelligence consisting of a black dot on a read circle with a little blurring for realism is evidence of oil on Mars, and a little white spec near it is WMD... sure it's imperialism, but it'd sure speed up the colonization of Mars. The ends justifies the means right?
BTW, laugh at the joke conservatives, I'm sick of being modded troll by rightist mods who can't tell the difference between a joke and leftist hippy who seriously thinks everything comes down to oil. michael moore is just as big a douche as bush, now stop playing politics with your mod points.
Even if everyone had a cell phone, not all areas have cell phone signals. Structures without signal reflectors and structures spefically designed to prevent cell phone use will continue to exist for the foreseeable future, plus everyone forgets their cell phone from time to time, and a good number of 911 calls are made without being able to rely on others. Until we reach a point where none of these situations exist, even voip phones with physical lines need 911 service.
Now, taxing mobile phone users to pay for VoIP emergency services is not moot; but these taxes already exist to provide the E911 service on the mobile network, which isn't exactly cheap. Increasing this to pay for VoIP E911 services would raise this tax to a very high level that would be objectionable to people not using VoIP phones.
As a flourinert blooded to cool my devices geek I dislike the idea of government interference with VoIP phones as separate from internet service as much as the next guy, providing emergency call routing is an essential and not profitable service, and universal service essential for progress, and I would find it acceptable for the government to levy a tax on broadband internet connections to fund these services. Targetting only VoIP services is arbitrary, and targetting broadband will hopefully be less objectionable as VoIP becomes ubiquitous where broadband is found; and incidently funding universal service with broadband will be neccessary to finally end the copper wire communication era. Even in this case, however, regulation should not happen even with imposing taxes.
Which will most likely be the case, since i2hub is restricted to just schools on I2, white-list style. Just because they're on I2 doesn't give them access to i2Hub traffic any more than it gives them access to a closed network on I1.
I had some trouble accessing Slate a little while ago, in case others have the same problem, here is a copy of text as of 5:55PM EST:
... 12:15 p.m. PT
... If [Gov. Gray Davis] is recalled, there are widespread expectations--again, for whatever they may be worth--that Republican Arnold
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Early Exit
Kerry leads.
By Jack Shafer
Updated Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004, at 2:46 PM PT
The first wave of exit-poll data reaching my desk comes from a variety of sources. In some states the sources disagree about the specific margin by which a candidate leads, but never about which candidate is out in front. Some of the confusion may stem from the mixing of morning exit-poll numbers with early afternoon numbers. With those provisos and the understanding that the early numbers are predictive of nothing without their accompanying computer model, here's what I've heard:
Florida
Kerry 50
Bush 49
Ohio
Kerry 50
Bush 49
Pennsylvania
Kerry 54
Bush 45
Wisconsin
Kerry 51
Bush 46
Michigan
Kerry 51
Bush 47
Minnesota
Kerry 58
Bush 40
Nevada
Kerry 48
Bush 50
New Mexico
Kerry 50
Bush 48
North Carolina
Kerry 49
Bush 51
Colorado
Kerry 46
Bush 53
Other exit-poll results have arrived in more vague form, with Kerry leading Bush in New Hampshire but trailing him in Arizona and Louisiana.
For an explanation of why Slate is posting exit-poll numbers, see the previous post, below.
Exit Poll Charade: Why Slate is posting the exit-poll numbers: As this item posts, the first raw exit-poll data are streaming from the National Election Pool consortium owned by the Associated Press and the five television networks (CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, and CNN) to their news divisions and to the newsrooms of NEP subscribers--big city newspapers and other broadcasters.
These early exit-poll numbers do not divine the name of the winner. Instead, regard these numbers as a sportswriter does the line scores from the fourth inning of a baseball game. The leading team might win the game, but then again it might not. But having the early data in front of him helps the sportswriter plot the story he thinks he'll need to write at game's end.
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As you read this posting, the political reporters at the networks, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, NPR, Newsweek, and about two dozen other news outlets are cracking their knuckles over their keyboards, contemplating the story, while statisticians and political analysts at the networks prepare to run the numbers through their computer models to generate a prediction.
The paid users of exit-poll data have signed a blood oath not to divulge it to unauthorized eyes, and the networks have promised not to call any states before their polls close. But the numbers always leak out to other journalists--such as the writers at Slate--and starting at about 5 p.m. ET or so, the news anchors start giving clues about what they've learned from the exit-poll results. As John Tierney writes in today's New York Times, the result on television is sometimes like a "version of the Dance of the Seven Veils, in which anchors or correspondents will pretend not to know what's happening in a state but give enough clues for the discerning viewer. They might allude to the high spirits at one campaign headquarters, or start speculating about what effect the loss of this state would have on the other candidate."
In the 2003 gubernatorial election in California, the networks kept their solemn oath not to call the winner until polls closed at 11 p.m. ET. Just the same, CBS News' Dan Rather telegraphed his findings in this 6:30 p.m. ET broadcast.
With voting still under way in the California governor recall election, CBS News exit polls, for whatever, if anything, they may be worth, now indicate many voters made up their minds weeks ago.
I don't believe the behavior of electorate members has ever affected the outcome in modern times. In 2000, one elector from DC cast a blank ballot in protest of DC not being represented in congress, but VERY few (single digits for the past few decades combined) electors have voted against what their state has chosen. Not only is it political suicide, but it's illegal in many states. There's many many people along the lines that can screw things up, but the electors are not part of them.
What part of agreeing with going to war based on available intelligence but disagreeing with how we handled the war after we got in, and the fact we didn't exhaust every means besides war before starting, do you Republicans have such a hard time understanding?
Seriously, this whole "flip-flop" thing is another campaign propaganda trick. It's simple enough to stick in peoples heads, and its backed up with blatantly inaccurate, but simple and clear, accusations. Kerry is not saying he is now against a resolution he voted for, he's saying he's against the manner in which that resolution was executed, and how its being handled now. The only reason this trick is still working is because debunking the propaganda Bush's campaign is repeating ad nauseum is far more complex, and therefore beyond the grasp of most voters.
It's not like Bush hasn't changed his position on some issues.
The very fact that Bush specifically mentioned how important it was to kill/capture Osama and then outsourced the job to groups who were also actively fighting eachother, who let him escape, and then to add insult to injury denied he ever said Osama was a priority and that he didn't even think about him anymore, is one of the many reasons i did not vote for Bush (early voting r0x0rZ!).
It's not imported by the merchant, therefore while Toysmith may fall under Customs, the retailer does not.
Too bad it's not imported.
RTFA please... " After the agents left, Cox called the manufacturer of the Magic Cube, the Toysmith Group, which is based in Auburn, Wash."
This not fall under Customs.
"I want" is not the same as "I myself will".
It's not a threat, it's just an expression of a desire, there's absolutely no indication of a plan to act.
Or you can vote for a 3rd party, because the goal there is simply a relatively small percent of the popular vote to be eligible for certain benefits the major parties have next election cycle.