Furthermore, most of the "civil rights successes of the last sixty years" have to do with race, and race is not an issue of Christianity for any but a very few loonies.
Who do you think were the biggest opponents against civil rights issues for non-whites during the mid 20th century?
The same rhetoric about gay marriage was espoused back then, only it was targeting interracial marriage. Verses from the bible were even used to justify it as a "sin".
Christians, on the whole, have probably come to accept the idea that non-whites should be treated equally under the law, but that wasn't the majority opinion back in the 40's or earlier.
In 50 years it's not inconceivable to imagine that the majority of Christians will accept that gay and bisexual people should be treated the same as straight people.
Jury nullification can be used for whatever purpose the juror decides.
During prohibition it was used to fight an unconstitutional law, but it has also been used to protect whites from being charged for killing blacks in the South.
It's inspiring to hear about people using it for a good cause (like fighting against unconstitutional laws), but jurors aren't law school graduates, and they might not be nullifying for the right reasons.
Full Disclosure: I'm a beta premium backer of the game
You can only purchase ships with in game currency. At least, as of right now that's the way the game works.
Most of the early backers, as well as kickstarter supporters, will get a free second ship when the game launches, but it's an Eagle, a bit of a sidegrade to the default Sidewinder. The only other advantages for people who paid early access is the ability to play the game sooner, which means more practice before things launch, and a better insurance rate, which reduces the amount of in game currency to replace your ship after it blows up.
There are micro-transactions for paint jobs for the ships you fly in the game, but it's purely cosmetic.
Comcast is being very friendly (sort of) to the announcement, because they want to cozy up to the FCC.
If the FCC approves their merge with TWC, Comcast is closer to becoming the biggest lumbering monopoly since Standard Oil, and it would only require the FTC's sign off.
The rules that the FCC implemented that prevents someone from saying "fuck you" on the radio, or broadcast television, came about from a single complaint back in the 70's.
Thirty years later, and four million times more complaints were filed about net neutrality, and they're still dragging their feet.
THAT should put some perspective of democracy into this.
There was a big industry behind copyright when the constitution was being drafted. It wasn't authors, or artists. It was map makers.
Map makers spent a lot of money ensuring that their maps were accurate, and they wanted to ensure that people wouldn't be able to seize their maps and build on them before they made back their initial investments.
Funny thing about placebos. If you have a severe bacterial infection and you're rendered unconscious, if a doctor administers a placebo antibiotic nothing happens. If the doctor administers a real antibiotic, your fever will go down and you'll wake up.
, you have the rand pauls and ted cruzs, the small government anti establishment types.
The entire Republican party was like that before Reagan became president. Reagan turned them into a bunch of religious lunatics hell bent on overspending to keep the military budget inflated.
he 4th Amendment doesn't cover foreigners engaging in war against the US or our allies, and the NSA is supposed to be looking for things like this.
Case law on this is very clear. When you have an expectation of privacy, a warrant is required. If you were on the phone in a public place, it's legal to record your half of the conversation, because you're speaking loudly in a public place. If you're at home, a warrant is required to record the phone call, because you have an expectation of privacy in your home.
A hard atheist who actively dis-believes in any deities?
I'm an atheist, but I don't actively dis-believe in any deities. I could understand it would be foolish to be certain about something like that, but I don't think people who would fit that description would be as dangerous as the Saudi "legal" system.
Breakage is not a big deal for Netflix because brand new movies are not that expensive to replace. Even if they have to pay retail prices, you're looking at 15-20 bucks. Brand new video games are easily more than quadruple that at 50-60.
The hopper doesn't analyze meta data or closed captions or anything like that.
The reason the commercial skip feature doesn't work right after broadcast, is because a human being actually watches the program at Dish HQ, marks the start and end time stamps of each commercial break, and the device then skips those times when you tell it to.
It's not an elegant solution, but it's immune to anything the broadcasters can try to do to muck up an automated solution.
This post is going to get buried, but it seems applicable to put here.
I was "escorted" off of a bus by a SWAT team, at least three of them pointing automatic weapons at my head while the six or so people on the bus were removed.
Fortunately for me, the SWAT team that was doing the "evacuating" had enough trigger discipline to not end up shooting me in the face.
Saying vaccines cause autism is a nice sound bite which is easy to understand whereas the counter argument that there is no credible evidence of any link is harder to explain
Don't say there's not evidence linking them, instead you should say something else.
Something like "if you don't give your kid the measles vaccine, your kid can catch measles and DIE!"
If that doesn't spur people into vaccination, then nothing will.
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Furthermore, most of the "civil rights successes of the last sixty years" have to do with race, and race is not an issue of Christianity for any but a very few loonies.
Who do you think were the biggest opponents against civil rights issues for non-whites during the mid 20th century?
The same rhetoric about gay marriage was espoused back then, only it was targeting interracial marriage. Verses from the bible were even used to justify it as a "sin".
Christians, on the whole, have probably come to accept the idea that non-whites should be treated equally under the law, but that wasn't the majority opinion back in the 40's or earlier.
In 50 years it's not inconceivable to imagine that the majority of Christians will accept that gay and bisexual people should be treated the same as straight people.
Jury nullification can be used for whatever purpose the juror decides.
During prohibition it was used to fight an unconstitutional law, but it has also been used to protect whites from being charged for killing blacks in the South.
It's inspiring to hear about people using it for a good cause (like fighting against unconstitutional laws), but jurors aren't law school graduates, and they might not be nullifying for the right reasons.
Full Disclosure: I'm a beta premium backer of the game
You can only purchase ships with in game currency. At least, as of right now that's the way the game works.
Most of the early backers, as well as kickstarter supporters, will get a free second ship when the game launches, but it's an Eagle, a bit of a sidegrade to the default Sidewinder. The only other advantages for people who paid early access is the ability to play the game sooner, which means more practice before things launch, and a better insurance rate, which reduces the amount of in game currency to replace your ship after it blows up.
There are micro-transactions for paint jobs for the ships you fly in the game, but it's purely cosmetic.
Comcast is being very friendly (sort of) to the announcement, because they want to cozy up to the FCC.
If the FCC approves their merge with TWC, Comcast is closer to becoming the biggest lumbering monopoly since Standard Oil, and it would only require the FTC's sign off.
The rules that the FCC implemented that prevents someone from saying "fuck you" on the radio, or broadcast television, came about from a single complaint back in the 70's.
Thirty years later, and four million times more complaints were filed about net neutrality, and they're still dragging their feet.
THAT should put some perspective of democracy into this.
Rwanda tried and imprisoned many people involved in the Rwandan genocide back in the 90's.
I could possibly see a software engineering course focus on a library for sorting functionality.
But I don't believe that a computer science course wouldn't address algorithm efficiency.
Charon was the mass relay, not Pluto.
Just because space isn't owned by someone doesn't mean it's not foreign.
The astronauts who went to the moon had to go through customs after they were picked up from the ocean.
There was a big industry behind copyright when the constitution was being drafted. It wasn't authors, or artists. It was map makers.
Map makers spent a lot of money ensuring that their maps were accurate, and they wanted to ensure that people wouldn't be able to seize their maps and build on them before they made back their initial investments.
Funny thing about placebos. If you have a severe bacterial infection and you're rendered unconscious, if a doctor administers a placebo antibiotic nothing happens. If the doctor administers a real antibiotic, your fever will go down and you'll wake up.
In the United States, heroin is a schedule 1 drug. Which means it's illegal to use it for recreational, medical, or research purposes.
Even if heroin were a better choice, it's illegal to reintroduce it.
Do you have a source for that comment?
From what I've read on the shuttles, they were normally landed on full auto-pilot except for the first or second launch, where it was done by hand.
Then you have the new breeds
(of Republicans)
, you have the rand pauls and ted cruzs, the small government anti establishment types.
The entire Republican party was like that before Reagan became president. Reagan turned them into a bunch of religious lunatics hell bent on overspending to keep the military budget inflated.
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he 4th Amendment doesn't cover foreigners engaging in war against the US or our allies, and the NSA is supposed to be looking for things like this.
Case law on this is very clear. When you have an expectation of privacy, a warrant is required. If you were on the phone in a public place, it's legal to record your half of the conversation, because you're speaking loudly in a public place. If you're at home, a warrant is required to record the phone call, because you have an expectation of privacy in your home.
How can you be an extreme atheist?
A hard atheist who actively dis-believes in any deities?
I'm an atheist, but I don't actively dis-believe in any deities. I could understand it would be foolish to be certain about something like that, but I don't think people who would fit that description would be as dangerous as the Saudi "legal" system.
Breakage is not a big deal for Netflix because brand new movies are not that expensive to replace. Even if they have to pay retail prices, you're looking at 15-20 bucks. Brand new video games are easily more than quadruple that at 50-60.
Gamefly wouldn't be able to handle those losses.
The hopper doesn't analyze meta data or closed captions or anything like that.
The reason the commercial skip feature doesn't work right after broadcast, is because a human being actually watches the program at Dish HQ, marks the start and end time stamps of each commercial break, and the device then skips those times when you tell it to.
It's not an elegant solution, but it's immune to anything the broadcasters can try to do to muck up an automated solution.
This post is going to get buried, but it seems applicable to put here.
I was "escorted" off of a bus by a SWAT team, at least three of them pointing automatic weapons at my head while the six or so people on the bus were removed.
Fortunately for me, the SWAT team that was doing the "evacuating" had enough trigger discipline to not end up shooting me in the face.
Saying vaccines cause autism is a nice sound bite which is easy to understand whereas the counter argument that there is no credible evidence of any link is harder to explain
Don't say there's not evidence linking them, instead you should say something else.
Something like "if you don't give your kid the measles vaccine, your kid can catch measles and DIE!"
If that doesn't spur people into vaccination, then nothing will.
It might be like carbon dioxide, at standard pressures, it can't exist as a liquid, it'll sublimate instead of melt.
Simple solution. Make the hacker perform the necessary upgrades to the system that was hacked as the punishment.
Tennant quit because he was offered to do Shakespeare with Patrick Stewart.
It would have caused a massive scheduling conflict to remain on Doctor Who, so Tennant left.
Colorado and Washington have only legalized marijuana. It's a good first step, but the war on drugs is still raging in those states.