He decided to remove the resignation component from his plans weeks ago. He was prepared to go whole hog. The Democratic Party still didn't want him in.
Maybe if he hadn't started off with such a silly plan in the first place, people might have taken him a little more seriously.
Using the term "republic" to mean "representative democracy" is not a good idea, as to most people "republic" simply means a country without a dynastic leader. It might be a dictatorship, it might be a direct democracy, or it might be a representative democracy, or anything else.
Well, the THIRD definition at dictionary.com is "a state in which the head of government is not a monarch or other hereditary head of state", but the FIRST definition is "a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them". Wikipedia leads off "A republic (from Latin: res publica) is a form of government or country in which power resides in elected individuals representing the citizen body and government leaders exercise power according to the rule of law."
It's clearly a tortured stretch to refer to a dictatorship as any kind of a republic.
I don't happen to agree with your so-elegant rebuttal. The proposition is that 'The Left in America *despises* the common folk.' I believe there is clear evidence of that in every part of their agenda and their attitude. I submit that the way they treat their base as victims is so condescending as to invite seeing their attitude as one of contempt. The way they think everyone needs a big brother to guide them properly and enforce correct behavior and thinking (PC) is extremely insulting to anyone with any self-respect.
I am really not big on the left-right division, which I see as mostly diversionary, but I do think the above point has merit.
Now, if you're still with me and haven't tuned out yet, the really interesting thing is that I am much less sure than ever that the agenda and attitude of the left is actually mistaken and inappropriate.
I am prepared to censure him gently for using the apostrophe (forgive me if I would do so in my imagination only) if you would tell me how to deal with the following situation, not using an apostrophe or some similar mark.
Suppose a family's surname is S. How would you reference two of them? Or, a little more realistically, suppose Mr. Lessig's name were Mr. Less. How would you reference two of the members of his family?
Always writing "two members of the Sanders family" strikes me as rather circumlocutory, but "two Sanderss" just looks silly, and "two Sanderses" doesn't seem quite right either. I humbly suggest we not cut off our literary nose to spite our face. (I realize that figure of speech is just a bit misplaced, but I can't come up with the exactly correct one at the moment).
The fundamental problem is that the US Constitution does not define "enemy". It defines "treason" in terms of "enemy", but it doesn't define "enemy"
Look at the exact passage. It is very simply worded.
Treason against the United States, shall consist ONLY in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
[emphasis added] It then goes on to very briefly state what is required to prove treason, given that acts have already been found as treasonable given the above, and limit the scope of the punishment, but that part is not at issue here.
It is clear that "enemy" is referring to those "levying war" against the US. Now, "levying war" against the US does not imply that the US has to be "levying war" back. Still less does it require that war has to be declared by either side, and yet even less does it imply that any agency has to somehow declare who the enemy is.
The final paragraph of FDR's address to the nation regarding the attack on Pearl Harbor, I believe you will find illuminating.
I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war HAS EXISTED between the United States and the Japanese empire.
[emphasis added] Note that war existed due to the attack, and not due to a declaration of war, which had not yet been made.
I don't believe there is any basis for confusion here. China is not levying war against the US; therefore they are not an enemy and there can be no question of anyone giving them aid and comfort as an enemy.
Please do not mistake "competing with", or even "acting nasty to", nor even "struggling against short of violent action" as "levying war against".
HURD versus Linux is pretty clear; HURD's a microkernel and Linux is not. What makes HURD interesting compared to Genode's L4 kernel? At a glance, they seem to be doing more similar things.
I can't answer your question, but I just googled "genode" to find out what the heck it is. Holy crap! While Hurd has been masturbating for almost two dog LIFETIMES, Genode/seL4 have been cleaning up.
Here is VirtualBox running beside the Seoul VMM (virtual machine monitor) on top of Genode/NOVA. Seoul executes Tinycore Linux as guest OS. VirtualBox executes MS Windows 7. Both VMMs are utilizing hardware virtualization (VT-X) but are plain user-level programs with no special privileges.
Simply this, if it had not been grandfathered out of product liability laws and hazardous substances regulation, gasoline and diesel will not be approved for use as automobile fuel. All other hydro carbons with the same energy density (42 MJ/Kg), volatility and flammability are strictly regulated.
I'm not sure why you make that claim. Natural gas (55.5) is piped into a great many homes for heating and cooking. Propane (46.4) is used in grills on many home decks and torches in many home workshops. Butane (46.4) powers many or most cigarette lighters, actually carried in pants pockets.
All of these are at least as volatile and flammable as gasoline. Propane and butane are much, much more volatile than gasoline. The only reason natural gas is not strictly speaking volatile is because it has already "volatilized" fully into a gas simply by being present at low pressure - at near one atmosphere it boils at -161 C. In fact the critical point is -82 C: above that temperature, no pressure can keep it liquified.
All of them are also applied to alternative vehicular propulsion without significant safety pushback despite not being "grandfathered" in the sense of having been used for a long time in large numbers of passenger cars.
The sets of ignorant Congressmen, stupid Congressmen, and evil Congressmen are all large. The union of all three encompasses almost the entire membership.
It wouldn't be quite so bad if only any one of those sets were problematic and we could concentrate all efforts on obliterating it. As it is, our only roles are Sisyphus, Don Quixote, or the ostrich with its head in the sand.
This will have absolutely no effect to the majority of programmers that use a higher level language such as Java or Objective-C... only Assembly and C have changes from the 32 bit version
OMG, what drivel. Objective C is a superset of C, and as such shares all of C's characteristics.
We gave highways a whirl and while they're super convenient, it's obvious that they don't scale nearly as well as we had imagined they would.
Highways have problems scaling to very high traffic densities. Railways don't scale to very low traffic densities, or allow servicing geographical tree distributions. They are for hubs.
Or he might have been talking about the magnificent Moscow Metro, and the USSR's collossal program of dam and railway building. There is no tie-in to the feared N-word or H-word there either.
Cutting edge, poorly tested software like PulseAudio was included in a desperate attempt to keep up with windows, and easy to manage config files was replaced with junk like NetworkManager..and then Unity happened.
None of that crap has anything whatever to do with Ubuntu except Unity. PulseAudio and NetworkManager (systemd too) are in just about all the distros - certainly in Fedora and RHEL. In fact they were pushed on all of us by Red Hat, with all of the distros falling over themselves panting to adopt them, eyes blazing with faith in the Master.
In the days of the HD204UI 2TB, I want to say maybe 10 years ago, Samsung owned the disk drive reliability world. While they were sold, I wouldn't get anything else. Seagate and WD were crap even then. All of my 20+ HD204UIs still work flawlessly after 5+ years of largely 24x7 operation.
Poor dear little things. Little self-absorbed, self-important pampered professional objectors. Living on Cape Cod, I know this type well. They have fought the Cape Wind offshore wind power project to a halt for 15 years where it is now all but dead because they don't want to see the towers way off on the horizon from their precious beach houses. They manufactured other reasons, but it was their personal slice of heaven they were jealously guarding. There was one real objection, which had they concentrated on it, would have resonated with me: the power source, which all ratepayers would have been saddled with, was phenomenally expensive.
If these idiots weren't afraid of a few powerlines running through town, they would just manufacture other absurd objections.
I for one don't want to live in the middle of Siberia just to have free cooling and cheap terrain. I may be a sysadmin, but I also like going to the movies, meeting friends and having a life.
OK. There are plenty of others who will take the job you spurn and live happily there.
Get your head out of your arse. Programming is not strictly a science.
It sure as hell isn't a liberal art. And you can't treat it like a language used to communicate with people. You don't get your head out of your ass and distinguish clearly between to, too, two, Two, TWO, etc., and you are a shitty programmer. If you write about a car's breaks, or braking a dish, a human can figure out what you actually mean inside that besotted head, but a compiler cannot.
everyone involved in stop and frisk should be in prison, or just executed for treason.
Unfortunately you've got a problem in the Constitution. It defines treason very narrowly. "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
The problem is that the Constitution does not define an offense for those sworn to uphold it who in actuality flout it. Nor a process for dealing effectively with these evil, lawless bastards. Once the entire bulk of the government has turned to using the Constitution for toilet paper, you are SOL.
So you believe this is unreasonable search. The 4th Amendment and the Constitution: when the key, overriding piece of the legal code is written in such vague language, it doesn't matter what you or I think it means in detail. It matters only what judicial process decides to think it means in detail.
The Constitution is purposely vague because it is not supposed to hamstring the process; it is supposed to be used as a guide by intelligent, well-meaning people to point the way in governing. It presupposes that the people involved in the legislative, executive, judicial, and bureaucratic process are receptive and respectful to its spirit. As these systems gradually [were allowed by the electorate to be] turned against the people and went out of control, we lost our country because we weren't paying attention.
What has happened is only fitting and deserved on the whole, though it is an evil imposition on those of us who never bought into the cynical, corrupt process. Weep not for the lazy and stupid electorate. Be angry. Be outraged.
seven TEPCO workers were exposed to radiation over the limit of 100 millisievert
And you conclude that because the exposure was higher than the allowed limit it must have been "high"?
3500-4500 millisievert (sources vary) is "high". That is the LD50 for near term lethality with no medical intervention. 2000 is "high". That is LD10 and causes haemmorhage. 1000 is borderline. Practically nobody dies. Mild sickness. 200 is not high. Temporary reduction in white cell count is about it.
100? No detectable gross effects. Most definitely not "high" in any meaningful sense. The occupational annual exposure limit in the US for workers in the industry is 50. They just went moderately over that. There are places on the earth where the natural background approaches 40.
Last year, Toyota sold over twice as much kWhr by battery as Tesla. They have battery tech - and they have production. Tesla is playing catch-up, not the other way around (Toyota: Prius has a 1.3 kW battery pack, Tesla S has an 85 kW battery pack. Prius sales of 419,000 in 2014 and Tesla 32,000 in 2014).
So according to your own figures, Tesla sold 2.72 GWh of installed batteries and Prius sold 0.54 GWh of installed batteries. I realize Toyota sells other hybrid cars, but so far you sure haven't supported your claim.
Also, how much of those Prius GWh are nickel metal hydride, that would be practically useless for EVs?
1) Not just today, but even in WW2, generally or very often armor piercing tank rounds were solid shot.
2) The amount of explosive in one of the shells of old battleship big guns was rather ludicrously small. The Mark 8 AP armor-piercing projectile for the 16 inch gun had a complete weight of 1225 kg, of which 18.55 kg was the explosive charge. Even the Mark 13 HC "high capacity" non-armor-piercing projectile intended for purely explosive effect, which weighed 861.8 kg, had an explosive charge of only 69.67 kg. That's right: even the smallish Mark 82 general purpose 500 pound bomb, which weighs 232-259 kg with an explosive charge of 89 kg, makes a bigger bang, and did so in WW2 too. The more impressive Mark 84 general purpose 2000 pound bomb packs 428.6 kg of explosive charge and makes the 16 inch round seem puny.
Over the years, the big guns have acquired an aura of supernatural power which was never justified from the standpoint of bang. What remains impressive is that they could penetrate a foot of homogeneous steel armor at perpendicular impact BEFORE exploding. Supposedly they could penetrate 10 meters of reinforced concrete (I believe the last to be a gross exaggeration, given that armor piercing bombs of 5500 kg had trouble penetrating the 3-5 meter concrete roofs of U-boat pens).
Incidentally, when fired from the Mark 7 16 inch 50 caliber gun of an Iowa class battleship, these rounds were propelled by 299 kg of "smokeless powder" (which was neither smokeless, nor was it anything like a powder in form) hand-placed in the loading tray in the form of six 50 kg silk bags.
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Maybe if he hadn't started off with such a silly plan in the first place, people might have taken him a little more seriously.
Well, the THIRD definition at dictionary.com is "a state in which the head of government is not a monarch or other hereditary head of state", but the FIRST definition is "a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them". Wikipedia leads off "A republic (from Latin: res publica) is a form of government or country in which power resides in elected individuals representing the citizen body and government leaders exercise power according to the rule of law."
It's clearly a tortured stretch to refer to a dictatorship as any kind of a republic.
I don't happen to agree with your so-elegant rebuttal. The proposition is that 'The Left in America *despises* the common folk.' I believe there is clear evidence of that in every part of their agenda and their attitude. I submit that the way they treat their base as victims is so condescending as to invite seeing their attitude as one of contempt. The way they think everyone needs a big brother to guide them properly and enforce correct behavior and thinking (PC) is extremely insulting to anyone with any self-respect.
I am really not big on the left-right division, which I see as mostly diversionary, but I do think the above point has merit.
Now, if you're still with me and haven't tuned out yet, the really interesting thing is that I am much less sure than ever that the agenda and attitude of the left is actually mistaken and inappropriate.
I am prepared to censure him gently for using the apostrophe (forgive me if I would do so in my imagination only) if you would tell me how to deal with the following situation, not using an apostrophe or some similar mark.
Suppose a family's surname is S. How would you reference two of them? Or, a little more realistically, suppose Mr. Lessig's name were Mr. Less. How would you reference two of the members of his family?
Always writing "two members of the Sanders family" strikes me as rather circumlocutory, but "two Sanderss" just looks silly, and "two Sanderses" doesn't seem quite right either. I humbly suggest we not cut off our literary nose to spite our face. (I realize that figure of speech is just a bit misplaced, but I can't come up with the exactly correct one at the moment).
Look at the exact passage. It is very simply worded.
[emphasis added] It then goes on to very briefly state what is required to prove treason, given that acts have already been found as treasonable given the above, and limit the scope of the punishment, but that part is not at issue here.
It is clear that "enemy" is referring to those "levying war" against the US. Now, "levying war" against the US does not imply that the US has to be "levying war" back. Still less does it require that war has to be declared by either side, and yet even less does it imply that any agency has to somehow declare who the enemy is.
The final paragraph of FDR's address to the nation regarding the attack on Pearl Harbor, I believe you will find illuminating.
[emphasis added] Note that war existed due to the attack, and not due to a declaration of war, which had not yet been made.
I don't believe there is any basis for confusion here. China is not levying war against the US; therefore they are not an enemy and there can be no question of anyone giving them aid and comfort as an enemy.
Please do not mistake "competing with", or even "acting nasty to", nor even "struggling against short of violent action" as "levying war against".
I can't answer your question, but I just googled "genode" to find out what the heck it is. Holy crap! While Hurd has been masturbating for almost two dog LIFETIMES, Genode/seL4 have been cleaning up.
Here is VirtualBox running beside the Seoul VMM (virtual machine monitor) on top of Genode/NOVA. Seoul executes Tinycore Linux as guest OS. VirtualBox executes MS Windows 7. Both VMMs are utilizing hardware virtualization (VT-X) but are plain user-level programs with no special privileges.
I'm not sure why you make that claim. Natural gas (55.5) is piped into a great many homes for heating and cooking. Propane (46.4) is used in grills on many home decks and torches in many home workshops. Butane (46.4) powers many or most cigarette lighters, actually carried in pants pockets.
All of these are at least as volatile and flammable as gasoline. Propane and butane are much, much more volatile than gasoline. The only reason natural gas is not strictly speaking volatile is because it has already "volatilized" fully into a gas simply by being present at low pressure - at near one atmosphere it boils at -161 C. In fact the critical point is -82 C: above that temperature, no pressure can keep it liquified.
All of them are also applied to alternative vehicular propulsion without significant safety pushback despite not being "grandfathered" in the sense of having been used for a long time in large numbers of passenger cars.
Go and Rust are both stupidly named. Try googling "go" or "rust". It's hopeless.
The sets of ignorant Congressmen, stupid Congressmen, and evil Congressmen are all large. The union of all three encompasses almost the entire membership.
It wouldn't be quite so bad if only any one of those sets were problematic and we could concentrate all efforts on obliterating it. As it is, our only roles are Sisyphus, Don Quixote, or the ostrich with its head in the sand.
OMG, what drivel. Objective C is a superset of C, and as such shares all of C's characteristics.
Highways have problems scaling to very high traffic densities. Railways don't scale to very low traffic densities, or allow servicing geographical tree distributions. They are for hubs.
The two are complementary.
Ah, the all-too-common Godwin-baiter who sees Godwin everywhere. The poster you are replying to is very likely talking about FDR. "Almost every community in the United States had a new park, bridge or school constructed by [FDR's WPA]". The WPA provided paid jobs for 3 million unemployed at its peak. Most of the facilities constructed are still in use.
Or he might have been talking about the magnificent Moscow Metro, and the USSR's collossal program of dam and railway building. There is no tie-in to the feared N-word or H-word there either.
None of that crap has anything whatever to do with Ubuntu except Unity. PulseAudio and NetworkManager (systemd too) are in just about all the distros - certainly in Fedora and RHEL. In fact they were pushed on all of us by Red Hat, with all of the distros falling over themselves panting to adopt them, eyes blazing with faith in the Master.
In the days of the HD204UI 2TB, I want to say maybe 10 years ago, Samsung owned the disk drive reliability world. While they were sold, I wouldn't get anything else. Seagate and WD were crap even then. All of my 20+ HD204UIs still work flawlessly after 5+ years of largely 24x7 operation.
Poor dear little things. Little self-absorbed, self-important pampered professional objectors. Living on Cape Cod, I know this type well. They have fought the Cape Wind offshore wind power project to a halt for 15 years where it is now all but dead because they don't want to see the towers way off on the horizon from their precious beach houses. They manufactured other reasons, but it was their personal slice of heaven they were jealously guarding. There was one real objection, which had they concentrated on it, would have resonated with me: the power source, which all ratepayers would have been saddled with, was phenomenally expensive.
If these idiots weren't afraid of a few powerlines running through town, they would just manufacture other absurd objections.
OK. There are plenty of others who will take the job you spurn and live happily there.
It sure as hell isn't a liberal art. And you can't treat it like a language used to communicate with people. You don't get your head out of your ass and distinguish clearly between to, too, two, Two, TWO, etc., and you are a shitty programmer. If you write about a car's breaks, or braking a dish, a human can figure out what you actually mean inside that besotted head, but a compiler cannot.
Unfortunately you've got a problem in the Constitution. It defines treason very narrowly. "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
The problem is that the Constitution does not define an offense for those sworn to uphold it who in actuality flout it. Nor a process for dealing effectively with these evil, lawless bastards. Once the entire bulk of the government has turned to using the Constitution for toilet paper, you are SOL.
So you believe this is unreasonable search. The 4th Amendment and the Constitution: when the key, overriding piece of the legal code is written in such vague language, it doesn't matter what you or I think it means in detail. It matters only what judicial process decides to think it means in detail.
The Constitution is purposely vague because it is not supposed to hamstring the process; it is supposed to be used as a guide by intelligent, well-meaning people to point the way in governing. It presupposes that the people involved in the legislative, executive, judicial, and bureaucratic process are receptive and respectful to its spirit. As these systems gradually [were allowed by the electorate to be] turned against the people and went out of control, we lost our country because we weren't paying attention.
What has happened is only fitting and deserved on the whole, though it is an evil imposition on those of us who never bought into the cynical, corrupt process. Weep not for the lazy and stupid electorate. Be angry. Be outraged.
Yes.
Not established. Not even particularly likely. Cancers don't come with little labels that say "caused by x on date y".
And you conclude that because the exposure was higher than the allowed limit it must have been "high"?
3500-4500 millisievert (sources vary) is "high". That is the LD50 for near term lethality with no medical intervention.
2000 is "high". That is LD10 and causes haemmorhage.
1000 is borderline. Practically nobody dies. Mild sickness.
200 is not high. Temporary reduction in white cell count is about it.
100? No detectable gross effects. Most definitely not "high" in any meaningful sense. The occupational annual exposure limit in the US for workers in the industry is 50. They just went moderately over that. There are places on the earth where the natural background approaches 40.
So according to your own figures, Tesla sold 2.72 GWh of installed batteries and Prius sold 0.54 GWh of installed batteries. I realize Toyota sells other hybrid cars, but so far you sure haven't supported your claim.
Also, how much of those Prius GWh are nickel metal hydride, that would be practically useless for EVs?
No it doesn't. It has 4 real cores plus 4 hyperthreads that are sorta kinda like cores but not as good.
Excellent.
Facts which surprise most people:
1) Not just today, but even in WW2, generally or very often armor piercing tank rounds were solid shot.
2) The amount of explosive in one of the shells of old battleship big guns was rather ludicrously small. The Mark 8 AP armor-piercing projectile for the 16 inch gun had a complete weight of 1225 kg, of which 18.55 kg was the explosive charge. Even the Mark 13 HC "high capacity" non-armor-piercing projectile intended for purely explosive effect, which weighed 861.8 kg, had an explosive charge of only 69.67 kg. That's right: even the smallish Mark 82 general purpose 500 pound bomb, which weighs 232-259 kg with an explosive charge of 89 kg, makes a bigger bang, and did so in WW2 too. The more impressive Mark 84 general purpose 2000 pound bomb packs 428.6 kg of explosive charge and makes the 16 inch round seem puny.
Over the years, the big guns have acquired an aura of supernatural power which was never justified from the standpoint of bang. What remains impressive is that they could penetrate a foot of homogeneous steel armor at perpendicular impact BEFORE exploding. Supposedly they could penetrate 10 meters of reinforced concrete (I believe the last to be a gross exaggeration, given that armor piercing bombs of 5500 kg had trouble penetrating the 3-5 meter concrete roofs of U-boat pens).
Incidentally, when fired from the Mark 7 16 inch 50 caliber gun of an Iowa class battleship, these rounds were propelled by 299 kg of "smokeless powder" (which was neither smokeless, nor was it anything like a powder in form) hand-placed in the loading tray in the form of six 50 kg silk bags.