" The Federal government should ensure that all states laws are made publicly available and the states should ensure that all local municipalities make their laws publicly available."
And who ensures that the beast known as Federal laws is made available?
Something I will say in favor of the Vatican: They accept evolution. As far as accepting science goes, the Vatican does a hell of a better job than AIG.
Nazis were neither secular nor godless. Communists are typically godless, but not secular. Also, I think you mean the 20th century. There weren't any communist states until the beginning of the 20th century, and the Nazi party didn't exist until around the end of the first world war.
Galileo used a telescope to observe the movement of some of Jupiter's moons. When he saw that the smaller moons were going around the larger Jupiter, he used induction to posit that the moon went around the Earth, and the Earth went around the sun.
Even if the Earth were the center of the universe, his observations contradicted the Bible, because he observed something that did NOT directly revolve around the Earth.
Getting government services isn't why the ADA was passed. The government doesn't pass laws to make the government comply with making life easier for people who need to utilize government services.
Those handicapped parking spaces which are on private property are a direct result of the ADA. Notice the lack of door knobs in public buildings being replaced with those lever things? ADA. Two water fountains, one very, very close to the ground? ADA.
The MAD scenario wasn't actually reached until the late 50's or early 60's. Both the Soviet Union AND United States had already developed hydrogen bombs by the time MAD became universal. The Soviets were lagging behind in a retaliatory capacity. Remember that incident with the missiles in Cuba? When that president from Massachusetts put a blockade around the island? The reason the Soviets put those missiles there was because they didn't have enough long range missiles to retaliate against the U.S. if they pushed the button first.
Even with the new requirements, it's not impossible to get a shot at the million. The bare minimum would be a quick blurb in a local paper or five seconds on the evening news from a local network affiliate, and a scientist to sign off on your claim. Scientists are really easy to fool when you grab one who isn't a specialist in the area you're scamming people in. Dowsers could easily get an entire room of chemistry or biology graduate students to sign off on their craziness.
The main reason for the switch is for the JREF to focus on ousting the really popular charlatans like Uri Geller and Sylvia Browne.
Everybody seems to be replying about a human's ability to detect magnetic fields. I'm more interested in the ability of WATER to generate one when it flows. If I turn on a light switch, a compass will jiggle because of the magnetic field induced by the wires. When I turn on my sink, I get no such effect.
The only issue with public domain that I see as a potential problem, is somebody taking the public domain code, adapting it to suit their needs without disclosing their own modifications, and selling it.
Without any sort of licensing, people could keep the code for their own profit without offering insight to the person or people who made it.
Of course, anybody who puts their code in the public domain would be aware of that risk.
The P = NP problem isn't a problem where EVERYBODY knows the answer. From the same Wikipedia article: In a 2002 poll of 100 researchers, 61 believed the answer is no, 9 believed the answer is yes, 22 were unsure, and 8 believed the question may be independent of the currently accepted axioms, and so impossible to prove or disprove.
A single Einstein is worth an infinite number of mediocre physicists who never end up producing any work in their careers.
I'm an engineering student, not a science student, but that statement strikes me as profoundly ignorant. If it were for people who had failed, like the hundreds who tried to measure the aether back in the 19th century, Einstein's brilliant ideas would never have taken hold.
If it weren't for the works of Galileo, Newton's advances to the laws of motion, light, and maybe even calculus, would not have been realized.
All successful scientists stand on the shoulders of their unsuccessful forebears, Einstein was no different.
you really don't want politicians being able to throw you in prison because something you legally did last year is now illegal.
Ex post facto laws are forbidden in the United States by the Constitution. Politicians here are UNABLE to punish you for shit that wasn't illegal when you did it.
If there were cars in the 18th century [no taxation without representation] would have been a bumper sticker,
That statement is actually available on license plates for people who are residents of Washington DC, because of that whole no-senators/representatives thing. Not just bumper stickers, but government provided vehicle registration tags.
Even if the calander were supposed to have ended, I'm not going to put much stock in the predictive abilities of a society that didn't see its own fall from those damn Aztecs, or Inca, or however wiped them out.
Do you honestly think after 2012 we'll stop hearing from the apocalypse crowd for two hundred years? I've heard no less than a dozen different dates from people in the media since January 1st, 2000.
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Isn't it illegal to have Nazi flags scattered around your front yard in Germany?
I find it rude to infringe on people's rights of expression.
He doesn't HAVE to try. He's hoping for a big "shut the fuck up and leave us alone" check from the Wikipedia people.
" The Federal government should ensure that all states laws are made publicly available and the states should ensure that all local municipalities make their laws publicly available."
And who ensures that the beast known as Federal laws is made available?
Something I will say in favor of the Vatican: They accept evolution. As far as accepting science goes, the Vatican does a hell of a better job than AIG.
Nazis were neither secular nor godless. Communists are typically godless, but not secular. Also, I think you mean the 20th century. There weren't any communist states until the beginning of the 20th century, and the Nazi party didn't exist until around the end of the first world war.
Dolphins are no where near as intelligent as humans. The second smartest animals on earth would be both species of chimp.
I thought the story went that we didn't have knowledge of good and evil until Adam and Eve ate the apple?
Galileo used a telescope to observe the movement of some of Jupiter's moons. When he saw that the smaller moons were going around the larger Jupiter, he used induction to posit that the moon went around the Earth, and the Earth went around the sun.
Even if the Earth were the center of the universe, his observations contradicted the Bible, because he observed something that did NOT directly revolve around the Earth.
Getting government services isn't why the ADA was passed. The government doesn't pass laws to make the government comply with making life easier for people who need to utilize government services.
Those handicapped parking spaces which are on private property are a direct result of the ADA. Notice the lack of door knobs in public buildings being replaced with those lever things? ADA. Two water fountains, one very, very close to the ground? ADA.
The MAD scenario wasn't actually reached until the late 50's or early 60's. Both the Soviet Union AND United States had already developed hydrogen bombs by the time MAD became universal. The Soviets were lagging behind in a retaliatory capacity. Remember that incident with the missiles in Cuba? When that president from Massachusetts put a blockade around the island? The reason the Soviets put those missiles there was because they didn't have enough long range missiles to retaliate against the U.S. if they pushed the button first.
Even with the new requirements, it's not impossible to get a shot at the million. The bare minimum would be a quick blurb in a local paper or five seconds on the evening news from a local network affiliate, and a scientist to sign off on your claim. Scientists are really easy to fool when you grab one who isn't a specialist in the area you're scamming people in. Dowsers could easily get an entire room of chemistry or biology graduate students to sign off on their craziness.
The main reason for the switch is for the JREF to focus on ousting the really popular charlatans like Uri Geller and Sylvia Browne.
Everybody seems to be replying about a human's ability to detect magnetic fields. I'm more interested in the ability of WATER to generate one when it flows. If I turn on a light switch, a compass will jiggle because of the magnetic field induced by the wires. When I turn on my sink, I get no such effect.
The only issue with public domain that I see as a potential problem, is somebody taking the public domain code, adapting it to suit their needs without disclosing their own modifications, and selling it.
Without any sort of licensing, people could keep the code for their own profit without offering insight to the person or people who made it.
Of course, anybody who puts their code in the public domain would be aware of that risk.
Thomas Jefferson never said that. It was Gerald Ford.
Don't forget that it took a WAR to make the 10th amendment "inconvenient".
The P = NP problem isn't a problem where EVERYBODY knows the answer. From the same Wikipedia article:
In a 2002 poll of 100 researchers, 61 believed the answer is no, 9 believed the answer is yes, 22 were unsure, and 8 believed the question may be independent of the currently accepted axioms, and so impossible to prove or disprove.
A single Einstein is worth an infinite number of mediocre physicists who never end up producing any work in their careers.
I'm an engineering student, not a science student, but that statement strikes me as profoundly ignorant. If it were for people who had failed, like the hundreds who tried to measure the aether back in the 19th century, Einstein's brilliant ideas would never have taken hold.
If it weren't for the works of Galileo, Newton's advances to the laws of motion, light, and maybe even calculus, would not have been realized.
All successful scientists stand on the shoulders of their unsuccessful forebears, Einstein was no different.
I thought that got fixed last year, with the Heller decision?
you really don't want politicians being able to throw you in prison because something you legally did last year is now illegal.
Ex post facto laws are forbidden in the United States by the Constitution. Politicians here are UNABLE to punish you for shit that wasn't illegal when you did it.
If there were cars in the 18th century [no taxation without representation] would have been a bumper sticker,
That statement is actually available on license plates for people who are residents of Washington DC, because of that whole no-senators/representatives thing. Not just bumper stickers, but government provided vehicle registration tags.
No, it was a declaration of... Independence. War only occured because the king of England didn't recognize the sovereignty of the United States.
Even if the calander were supposed to have ended, I'm not going to put much stock in the predictive abilities of a society that didn't see its own fall from those damn Aztecs, or Inca, or however wiped them out.
Do you honestly think after 2012 we'll stop hearing from the apocalypse crowd for two hundred years? I've heard no less than a dozen different dates from people in the media since January 1st, 2000.
Shadowrun required online play.
Final Fantasy 11 did also.
Perhaps the components which are plugged in at either end of the superconductor?