I disagree. The two parties seem to agree with each other a lot. They disagree on abortion and how to spend the taxes. The Patriot act wasn't a close vote. I heard on the news two days ago that from that oil spill in the Gulf, BP can only be held liable for 95 million or something.
Dubya passed the legislation through to keep the oil companies liability low, but now that the Dems have control of the White House and both sides of Congress, the law should have been repealed, but it wasn't. They're the same party, with two different names.
Tuition alone it probably comes out to that. My (public) university will bump up tuition in a month or so, but the current rate is about 150 bucks per credit hour. With a degree that requires 120 credits, that's 18 grand for the degree itself. This doesn't factor fees or books, just the tuition.
Which is why CS majors also need credits in the humanities and why art majors need credits in math.
That second bit isn't really true. One of my exit courses for my CS degree was a communication class. It was taught by an English graduate student who didn't know that a nanosecond was a measure of time. I don't have a problem with technical degrees having liberal arts coursework as a requirement, but I'd like to see the liberal arts students take as many math/science classes as I had to take liberal arts classes.
A friend of mine dual majored in Philosophy and Political Science, and he never took any math classes at the university, and only one science course. And the science course was optional.
Well said. Even if books completely vanished next year, there are still tons of ways for children to utilize their imaginations. I also doubt it would lead to illiteracy, because reading is used for more than books.
Mandatory breathalyzer tests are, in the US, unconstitutional. The fifth amendment protects against self incrimination, which means testimony OR evidence. The state cannot compel you to provide evidence against yourself. With breathalyzers, if you refuse to blow, you probably lose your license, but you can't be jailed for it.
This is a school IT. I seriously doubt he or she has to do 30 things in a given day. I used to help out my school's IT department when I was in high school, and most days involved video games. The IT wasn't authorized to do more than handle software issues, if hardware was the problem the machine was shipped off to have its RAM or Hard Drive replaced.
Hell, wasn't there a YouTube video of the actual guy who pitched the idea to the school's administration doing a demo of this spyware?
The first sale doctrine equates copyrights TO physical goods. All physical goods have a first sale-like doctrine, because when a retailer buys a good it becomes theirs to do with as they please. Apple has no business telling them what to do with stuff they own.
Japan currently has a republican form of government, and that's all that the Constitution requires for entry into the Union. There are no population caps. China and Sealand are both viable, when they become republics and the citizens in those countries decide they want to join. Then Congress has to approve too.
Dubya preemptively pardoned the Pope for any criminal charges that may be levied. Since the Pope is the head of the church, this makes RICO all but impossible.
All these anti-counterfeiting features on new designs are useless until the old bills are no longer legal tender. Because people can still just fake the old style ones, that were easy to fake.
How do you have a device that can detect counterfeits, that a human being cannot also do?
In the USA, we have these silly pens that just detect starch on the paper. The assumption being that counterfeiters would use crappy paper that has starch in it, and they will get marked as purple from the pen.
Of course, here, if a bill is suspected of being counterfeit, you have to call the police immediately, but when a bill fails the pen test, most cashiers will just give the bill back to the customer and ask for a new one.
Nobody actually checks the watermarks, or color changing inks, or the other anti-counterfeiting stuff.
Bin Laden's group doesn't garner support because of their religion, they garner support because of the imperialist white people are moving into their countries. Japan has a lower percentage of Muslims than the U.S., but they don't seem to get attacked by Muslim extremists. I bet it's because they don't fund Israel, or despots like Hussein.
As a gamer who considers games to be an art, I think there is very real motivation to believe it. If games are not art, then there is no reason to afford the same expression freedoms upon them that exist for films and books.
If games are art, then they cannot be censored or banned. At least in my country, the Aussies don't seem to recognize the artistic nature of games, so their government bans them or censors them.
Why isn't the ALA pushing for funding to get a study? If there's no hard evidence one way or the other, it seems stupid to make any statements about these things.
How did you get one belief set from "theology" and "creationism"? Christian fundamentalists are NOT the only creationist gang in town. There are more Muslim creationists than Christian creationists. That's still the same deity, with a very similar creation myth. There are even more Hindu creationists who have myths that have nothing at all in common with the Muslim or Christian myths.
Granted, in the west, it's the Christian creationists who are pushing to get time in a classroom. The Muslim creationists don't have to bother, because in their countries, their version of creationism is already taught in "science" class, and look how well they're doing.
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I disagree. The two parties seem to agree with each other a lot. They disagree on abortion and how to spend the taxes. The Patriot act wasn't a close vote. I heard on the news two days ago that from that oil spill in the Gulf, BP can only be held liable for 95 million or something.
Dubya passed the legislation through to keep the oil companies liability low, but now that the Dems have control of the White House and both sides of Congress, the law should have been repealed, but it wasn't. They're the same party, with two different names.
Tuition alone it probably comes out to that. My (public) university will bump up tuition in a month or so, but the current rate is about 150 bucks per credit hour. With a degree that requires 120 credits, that's 18 grand for the degree itself. This doesn't factor fees or books, just the tuition.
Which is why CS majors also need credits in the humanities and why art majors need credits in math.
That second bit isn't really true. One of my exit courses for my CS degree was a communication class. It was taught by an English graduate student who didn't know that a nanosecond was a measure of time. I don't have a problem with technical degrees having liberal arts coursework as a requirement, but I'd like to see the liberal arts students take as many math/science classes as I had to take liberal arts classes.
A friend of mine dual majored in Philosophy and Political Science, and he never took any math classes at the university, and only one science course. And the science course was optional.
Maybe the mod itself is going to initiate a flamewar. Sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The legislative MAKES the law also.
Well said. Even if books completely vanished next year, there are still tons of ways for children to utilize their imaginations. I also doubt it would lead to illiteracy, because reading is used for more than books.
Read the Constitution.
...nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself
Mandatory breathalyzer tests are, in the US, unconstitutional. The fifth amendment protects against self incrimination, which means testimony OR evidence. The state cannot compel you to provide evidence against yourself. With breathalyzers, if you refuse to blow, you probably lose your license, but you can't be jailed for it.
This is a school IT. I seriously doubt he or she has to do 30 things in a given day. I used to help out my school's IT department when I was in high school, and most days involved video games. The IT wasn't authorized to do more than handle software issues, if hardware was the problem the machine was shipped off to have its RAM or Hard Drive replaced.
Hell, wasn't there a YouTube video of the actual guy who pitched the idea to the school's administration doing a demo of this spyware?
The first sale doctrine equates copyrights TO physical goods. All physical goods have a first sale-like doctrine, because when a retailer buys a good it becomes theirs to do with as they please. Apple has no business telling them what to do with stuff they own.
Why would each prefecture become a single state?
Japan currently has a republican form of government, and that's all that the Constitution requires for entry into the Union. There are no population caps. China and Sealand are both viable, when they become republics and the citizens in those countries decide they want to join. Then Congress has to approve too.
As trees are the primary ingredients of paper, I would say that it is a mostly renewable resource.
Dubya preemptively pardoned the Pope for any criminal charges that may be levied. Since the Pope is the head of the church, this makes RICO all but impossible.
This doesn't prevent civil charges, however.
Use a thumb drive. Whenever I flash my BIOS, that's usually the best option.
I can claim to be an atheist that believes in God
No, you can't. The very definition of atheist is "without belief in a god or gods". The two positions are mutually exclusive.
All these anti-counterfeiting features on new designs are useless until the old bills are no longer legal tender. Because people can still just fake the old style ones, that were easy to fake.
How do you have a device that can detect counterfeits, that a human being cannot also do?
In the USA, we have these silly pens that just detect starch on the paper. The assumption being that counterfeiters would use crappy paper that has starch in it, and they will get marked as purple from the pen.
Of course, here, if a bill is suspected of being counterfeit, you have to call the police immediately, but when a bill fails the pen test, most cashiers will just give the bill back to the customer and ask for a new one.
Nobody actually checks the watermarks, or color changing inks, or the other anti-counterfeiting stuff.
Can they ship the cables to my house in less than the 5 minutes it takes to dig the cable out of the box in my closet?
Sometimes you need parts NOW, and I have been desperate enough on several occasions to get ripped off by the local stores.
Bin Laden's group doesn't garner support because of their religion, they garner support because of the imperialist white people are moving into their countries. Japan has a lower percentage of Muslims than the U.S., but they don't seem to get attacked by Muslim extremists. I bet it's because they don't fund Israel, or despots like Hussein.
As a gamer who considers games to be an art, I think there is very real motivation to believe it. If games are not art, then there is no reason to afford the same expression freedoms upon them that exist for films and books.
If games are art, then they cannot be censored or banned. At least in my country, the Aussies don't seem to recognize the artistic nature of games, so their government bans them or censors them.
While that sort of behavior sounds absolutely horrifying, your ideas intrigue me, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Moratorium on sales? Hasn't the FDA determined that cigarettes are dangerous? Aren't they still sold, regardless of harm?
Why isn't the ALA pushing for funding to get a study? If there's no hard evidence one way or the other, it seems stupid to make any statements about these things.
There's already several religions for atheists. Buddhism, Objectivism, Raelism. Hell, even Scientology doesn't have deities.
How did you get one belief set from "theology" and "creationism"? Christian fundamentalists are NOT the only creationist gang in town. There are more Muslim creationists than Christian creationists. That's still the same deity, with a very similar creation myth. There are even more Hindu creationists who have myths that have nothing at all in common with the Muslim or Christian myths.
Granted, in the west, it's the Christian creationists who are pushing to get time in a classroom. The Muslim creationists don't have to bother, because in their countries, their version of creationism is already taught in "science" class, and look how well they're doing.