"A recent study has determined that Democrat administrations in Washington are just as bad as their Republican counterparts. There's just as much lying, corruption, scandal, debt, malfeasance and general stupidity. In fact, other than their respective logos, there appears to be no difference at all.
Indeed. How would media members feel about a published database of their name, address, political affiliation and donations?
I'll bet some would argue such a response would infringe on the First Amendment, and possibly Fourth Amendment rights... of the media members (and their families). But do their rights to that protection supersede those of others?
If that heralded sage of technology, user experience and public reaction Sean Hollister of Verge says touchscreen laptops are a success, who am I to argue? After all, how often was Jobs right about those things? And Sean Hollister has been a tech writer for what, two weeks?
Champagne must come from the Champagne region of France. Parmesan (Parmigiano-Reggiano) must be produced in a limited number of Italian provinces. There are other examples of such branding that convey the quality and source of various products. If this is what they are after, I'm fine with it..
Fine. Henceforth, only beans from Ethiopia or Yemen may be called Coffee. Everything else will be relegated to "that brown s*** in hot water". I'll let the locals in Yemen and Ethiopia duke it out over the actual use of the name "Coffee".
This is just idiotic on the part of someone at the university. Perhaps the reporters should respond by limiting their articles to something roughly equivalent to 20 tweets. Most tweets are extremely short. Maybe a total of 800 characters would be sufficient. Let's see how the administration truly likes reduced coverage of their product.
The hubris is that they predict, small, trivial little, meaningless earthquakes without knowing about the rest of the system's capacity to be influenced by these events.
Actually, the hubris is armchair techies on Slashdot masquerading as seismologists, geologists, etc. I can only that hope no one would seriously consider making policy or law based on the kind of shoddy, back of an envelope, pseudo-analysis as goes on in this forum on an hourly basis.
Rather than nuclear or coal power, why don't we all tilt at windmills or solar. Obviously those solutions are ready, cost-effective and totally hazard-free!!
Does it seem to you that a jacka** such as Assad is going to pay any attention to "Stop, or we'll say stop again!"? Show me one instance where it's made ANY difference.
I am appalled that Microsoft is to blame for the current state of our university.
Wow. You're as gullible as a FOX or NBC news viewer. You bought-into the politicians' propaganda hook, line, and sinker like a fish. The only ones to blame, are not Microsoft who followed the tax laws, but the poltiicians who failed to REWRITE the tax laws such that MS and other corporations would have to pay on all their income (since they reside in washington).
Well this simply won't do. This is what happens when the lemmings go off their meds and start thinking for themselves. We simply can't have the likes of you questioning the order of things. No siree, bob.
You're assuming my interpretation. The AC said he never espoused any support for ID. That was not factually correct. Further, Einstein actually derided anthropomorphic religion. Try actually reading what he said rather than jumping to your own conclusions.
Nice try, but no. There have been plenty of theories which have been postulated well in advance of any technical ability to test them being even on the horizon. In fact, we're STILL trying to prove some of Einstein's theories. Perhaps you've heard of Gravity Probe-B?
GP-B was designed to measure two key predictions of Einstein's general theory of relativity by monitoring the orientations of ultra-sensitive gyroscopes relative to a distant guide star.
...trouble is, fucking oil companies are taking what should server as a bit of a surplus and selling it to China and everywhere else, for more profit, and hence raises OUR prices due to this artificially created shortage.
We should try to mandate that more domestically drawn oil is kept for domestic use!!
Even if I accepted your premise that once again it's simply price gouging oil companies at work (hint: it's not that simple), good luck writing law that mandates where "domestically drawn" oil is sold. It isn't going to happen.
I'm not a fan of the Senator, however I think that in deference to the position there should be some semblance of decorum when referring to individual members of Congress or the President. There's far too little civility shown to the holders of the latter office for the current and previous occupants. The fault of that rests squarely on the two main political parties, their congressional attack dogs, and various political organizations masquerading as news outlets, charitable groups or think tanks. Not much thinking or charity as far as I can see.
Hence, I will have to disagree with you. Regardless of my feelings for the Senator, that's still his title.
More likely, the PRC govt has determined that Taiwan (whom they view as a renegade province) should not dictate T&C to ANY entity of the PRC. Ergo, the sale of such an asset by company operating in Taiwan would BY DEFAULT have no bearing in the PRC.
That's not a very effecient way to collect debris...
Nor is the notion that you can clean up such a vast volume of space with a small capsule. Kind of like thinking you can clean up the entire North American interstate system with a single street sweeper.
Keep in mind that this is the President's proposed budget. It's up to congress to actually spend money. And although they haven't got off their collective lazy butts to pass a budget, they've had no trouble spending (or wasting) money.
What we do have is direct evidence of the President's lack of commitment to a manned space program. He doesn't want to come right out and say that given the romantic attachment Americans have to the history of the program. Still, at every turn this President has paid lip service to the notion of a manned program and then cut the legs off when he thought no one might be looking.
And to the parent, this isn't quibbling. It's a statement of fact.
The judge is declaring that the style of the photo is central to the copyright of the composition. It's almost as though we're supposed to consider this as a patent. Yes, I know it's not but allow me the point. Houghton's image is not the first I have seen given this treatment (a color object in a B&W field). Admittedly, the other instances which come to mind are nature photos, but the intent is the same. My point is that Houghton is not original in the treatment. He did not design the central items in his composition (Parliament, the bridge, and the distinctive bus). There is too much variation in the composition between the two photos for me to come to the conclusion that this is infringement. Further, I think the judge is setting a vary chilling and dangerous precedent with regard to specifically photography but other expressions of art as well. Musicians should hope that this judge, abetted by some slimeball with a law degree, does not take in his head to look into the copyright of arrangements.
Yes. There's something seriously wrong with that graphic. It doesn't add up. Consider for example the Obama White House claim of debt under Bush: 12.7 T. But they arrive at that number by comparing an estimate, in this case a projected savings, against an actual deficit. There's nothing objective about that comparison because you're not comparing two values computed in the same manner.
I looked the Treasury Dept's own figures. Jan, 2001 (Month/Year Bush took office): $5.7T Jan, 2008 (Month/Year of transition): $9.2T Today: $15.1T
According to the Treasury Dept then, the debt increased during Bush's 8 years by $3.5T. In the almost 4 years since Obama took office, the debt has increased an additional $5.9T. The White House only takes responsibility for $1.4T in their graphic. Either the Treasury of the White House need to explain the significant discrepancy in those numbers.
In the words of Mark Twain: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
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"A recent study has determined that Democrat administrations in Washington are just as bad as their Republican counterparts. There's just as much lying, corruption, scandal, debt, malfeasance and general stupidity. In fact, other than their respective logos, there appears to be no difference at all.
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Indeed. How would media members feel about a published database of their name, address, political affiliation and donations?
I'll bet some would argue such a response would infringe on the First Amendment, and possibly Fourth Amendment rights... of the media members (and their families). But do their rights to that protection supersede those of others?
No to Nuclear
No to Coal
No to Oil
No to Natural Gas
What does this administration think the US will use for energy in the future, magic?
If that heralded sage of technology, user experience and public reaction Sean Hollister of Verge says touchscreen laptops are a success, who am I to argue? After all, how often was Jobs right about those things? And Sean Hollister has been a tech writer for what, two weeks?
Champagne must come from the Champagne region of France. Parmesan (Parmigiano-Reggiano) must be produced in a limited number of Italian provinces. There are other examples of such branding that convey the quality and source of various products. If this is what they are after, I'm fine with it..
Fine. Henceforth, only beans from Ethiopia or Yemen may be called Coffee. Everything else will be relegated to "that brown s*** in hot water". I'll let the locals in Yemen and Ethiopia duke it out over the actual use of the name "Coffee".
This is just idiotic on the part of someone at the university. Perhaps the reporters should respond by limiting their articles to something roughly equivalent to 20 tweets. Most tweets are extremely short. Maybe a total of 800 characters would be sufficient. Let's see how the administration truly likes reduced coverage of their product.
The hubris is that they predict, small, trivial little, meaningless earthquakes without knowing about the rest of the system's capacity to be influenced by these events.
Actually, the hubris is armchair techies on Slashdot masquerading as seismologists, geologists, etc. I can only that hope no one would seriously consider making policy or law based on the kind of shoddy, back of an envelope, pseudo-analysis as goes on in this forum on an hourly basis.
Rather than nuclear or coal power, why don't we all tilt at windmills or solar. Obviously those solutions are ready, cost-effective and totally hazard-free!!
Really? What has diplomacy EVER solved?
Does it seem to you that a jacka** such as Assad is going to pay any attention to "Stop, or we'll say stop again!"? Show me one instance where it's made ANY difference.
Not to worry. Obama has decided to kill any and all manned space exploration. Yes we Can't!
That notwithstanding, we're a lot more than 20 years away from being able to do anything like the USS Enterprise. It's strictly sci-fi for now.
I am appalled that Microsoft is to blame for the current state of our university.
Wow.
You're as gullible as a FOX or NBC news viewer. You bought-into the politicians' propaganda hook, line, and sinker like a fish. The only ones to blame, are not Microsoft who followed the tax laws, but the poltiicians who failed to REWRITE the tax laws such that MS and other corporations would have to pay on all their income (since they reside in washington).
Well this simply won't do. This is what happens when the lemmings go off their meds and start thinking for themselves. We simply can't have the likes of you questioning the order of things. No siree, bob.
Now, off to re-education camp with you!
[Btw: If you're reading this, you're in the 1%.]
Actually, in places where medical care is run by the state, we call this corruption.
Really? In the States we call that ObamaCare (or RomneyCare if you're in MA).
You're assuming my interpretation. The AC said he never espoused any support for ID. That was not factually correct. Further, Einstein actually derided anthropomorphic religion. Try actually reading what he said rather than jumping to your own conclusions.
Stop trying to put words in someone else's mouth.
Nice try, but no. There have been plenty of theories which have been postulated well in advance of any technical ability to test them being even on the horizon. In fact, we're STILL trying to prove some of Einstein's theories. Perhaps you've heard of Gravity Probe-B?
GP-B was designed to measure two key predictions of Einstein's general theory of relativity by monitoring the orientations of ultra-sensitive gyroscopes relative to a distant guide star.
Really? How do you square that with:
...trouble is, fucking oil companies are taking what should server as a bit of a surplus and selling it to China and everywhere else, for more profit, and hence raises OUR prices due to this artificially created shortage.
We should try to mandate that more domestically drawn oil is kept for domestic use!!
Even if I accepted your premise that once again it's simply price gouging oil companies at work (hint: it's not that simple), good luck writing law that mandates where "domestically drawn" oil is sold. It isn't going to happen.
Kind of hard to keep up with your eyes clamped shut and your hands over your ears.
Politicians are dirty, period. It's not like Republicans have a monopoly on corruption.
I'm not a fan of the Senator, however I think that in deference to the position there should be some semblance of decorum when referring to individual members of Congress or the President. There's far too little civility shown to the holders of the latter office for the current and previous occupants. The fault of that rests squarely on the two main political parties, their congressional attack dogs, and various political organizations masquerading as news outlets, charitable groups or think tanks. Not much thinking or charity as far as I can see.
Hence, I will have to disagree with you. Regardless of my feelings for the Senator, that's still his title.
More likely, the PRC govt has determined that Taiwan (whom they view as a renegade province) should not dictate T&C to ANY entity of the PRC. Ergo, the sale of such an asset by company operating in Taiwan would BY DEFAULT have no bearing in the PRC.
That's not a very effecient way to collect debris...
Nor is the notion that you can clean up such a vast volume of space with a small capsule. Kind of like thinking you can clean up the entire North American interstate system with a single street sweeper.
Keep in mind that this is the President's proposed budget. It's up to congress to actually spend money. And although they haven't got off their collective lazy butts to pass a budget, they've had no trouble spending (or wasting) money.
What we do have is direct evidence of the President's lack of commitment to a manned space program. He doesn't want to come right out and say that given the romantic attachment Americans have to the history of the program. Still, at every turn this President has paid lip service to the notion of a manned program and then cut the legs off when he thought no one might be looking.
And to the parent, this isn't quibbling. It's a statement of fact.
The judge is declaring that the style of the photo is central to the copyright of the composition. It's almost as though we're supposed to consider this as a patent. Yes, I know it's not but allow me the point. Houghton's image is not the first I have seen given this treatment (a color object in a B&W field). Admittedly, the other instances which come to mind are nature photos, but the intent is the same. My point is that Houghton is not original in the treatment. He did not design the central items in his composition (Parliament, the bridge, and the distinctive bus). There is too much variation in the composition between the two photos for me to come to the conclusion that this is infringement. Further, I think the judge is setting a vary chilling and dangerous precedent with regard to specifically photography but other expressions of art as well. Musicians should hope that this judge, abetted by some slimeball with a law degree, does not take in his head to look into the copyright of arrangements.
How about this: The messenger in this case [RMS] has nothing to do with the current state of affairs. There is no correlation. No prognostication.
Is that a satisfactory summary?
Yes. There's something seriously wrong with that graphic. It doesn't add up. Consider for example the Obama White House claim of debt under Bush: 12.7 T. But they arrive at that number by comparing an estimate, in this case a projected savings, against an actual deficit. There's nothing objective about that comparison because you're not comparing two values computed in the same manner.
I looked the Treasury Dept's own figures.
Jan, 2001 (Month/Year Bush took office): $5.7T
Jan, 2008 (Month/Year of transition): $9.2T
Today: $15.1T
According to the Treasury Dept then, the debt increased during Bush's 8 years by $3.5T. In the almost 4 years since Obama took office, the debt has increased an additional $5.9T. The White House only takes responsibility for $1.4T in their graphic. Either the Treasury of the White House need to explain the significant discrepancy in those numbers.
In the words of Mark Twain: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
What did Montclair expect? Let's see: Legally binding contract. Contract not met. Customer sues for breach of contract.
Seems to me that Montclair has the upper hand here. It all falls on the conditions of the contract.