The Congress shall have Power... To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
Our Founders realized that establishing conventional standards was a core governmental activity. If you don't like the local time that is our government established, you are free to ignore it. See how far that gets you.
Uhh, unless I can get other people to do so as well, I'm going to be the only one home at 4pm. DST allows for social activities in the summer since it applies to everyone automatically without anyone having to change their nominal schedule.
How is that going to help me get in a softball game before dark on a summer night? Are you suggesting that everyone try to coordinate to get everyone else to convince their bosses to let them come an hour earlier and leave an hour earlier from work? That's a huge coordination problem. Changing the clocks by comparison is dead simple. That's the brilliance of DST, the realization that local time is simply a convention and that it's simpler to change the convention twice a year than it is to try to get everyone to change the nominal time at which they perform activities like going to work.
DST would be worth it even if it wasted energy. Morning hours of daylight are useless to me considering that I am either at work or on the way to work. I can actually use after-work hours of daylight to do something enjoyable. That's the original rationale for DST and it still applies. DST should be extended year-round.
One way or another, the electric company is going to reduce your power usage in a power emergency, either by raising thermostats or shutting off your power. The former is certainly a preferable alternative to the latter.
Telegraph Hill in San Francisco was at one time the site of an optical telegraph. Hence the name.
The hill owes its current name to a semaphore, a windmill-like structure erected in September 1849, for the purpose of signaling to the rest of the city the nature of the ships entering the Golden Gate. Atop the newly-built house, the marine telegraph consisted of a pole with two raisable arms that could form various configurations, each corresponding a specific meaning: steamer, sailing boat, etc. The information was used by observers operating for financiers, merchants, wholesalers and speculators. As some of these information consumers would know the nature of the cargo carried by the ship they could quickly predict the upcoming (generally lower) local prices for those goods and commodities carried. Those who did not have advance information on the cargo might pay a too-high price from a merchant unloading his stock of a commodity -- a price that was about to drop. On October 18, 1850, the ship Oregon signaled to the hill as it was entering the Golden Gate the news of California's recently acquired statehood.
How dumb are reporters these days? Seriously, I fear for the future of the journalism. Also, whoever at Google is making claims like this should be fired for sheer stupidity.
Uh no. It's called a use tax. It's a tax on the consumption of the good instate and not a interstate tariff. I wish I could read a Slashdot post on so-called "internet tax" which acknowledged the existence of use taxes for once. First, the term "internet tax" is wrong, because the way that the item was bought out-of-state is irrelevant. It could have been bought from a catalog, by mail, by phone, whatever. Second, states don't want to introduce a new tax. They just want to be able to collect the tax that already exists, the use tax. As it is now, the tax exists but few individuals pay it. I don't pay it myself since I have no idea when April 15th rolls around how much I bought from out-of-state. I would almost prefer that it were collected by the vendor, because that would save me the hassle of keeping receipts all year were I to pay the taxes I owed.
They should have known it was a bad idea to appoint the President of the Arabian Horse Association to be the head of the National Reconnaissance Office.
I connect my desktop to the internet by wireless because running cables to the cable modem is very difficult. After trying to get Linux to work with my wireless PCI card, I finally decided that it is much simpler to use a wireless router as a bridge and connect my desktop to the bridge by ethernet. A cheap wireless router is $40. That's not much more than a wireless PCI card. It's even possible to install Linux on many routers and have quite a bit of control over the configuration of the router.
The Supreme Court ruled on this in 1958 in Kent v. Dulles. At that time the State Department regularly denied people the right to travel outside the US by denying them passports. The actor and civil-rights leader Paul Robeson famously was denied the right to travel abroad. In Kent v. Dulles (1958), the Supreme Court held that Americans have a right to travel abroad. William O. Douglas wrote for the Court:
The right to travel is a part of the 'liberty' of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the Fifth Amendment. . . . Freedom of movement across frontiers in either direction, and inside frontiers as well, was a part of our heritage. Travel abroad, like travel within the country, . . . may be as close to the heart of the individual as the choice of what he eats, or wears, or reads. Freedom of movement is basic in our scheme of values.
Presenting adult stem cells as an adequate substitute for embryonic stems cells is just not true. Adult stem cells lack the ability to differentiate as widely as embryonic stem cells, i.e. they are multipotent rather than pluripotent. I'm sure that you wish it were true because then you wouldn't be sacrificing the lives of people who could benefit from embyronic stem cell research for the sake of some balls of cells. But it isn't true. And that's what this is all about. So-called "pro-life" people are more concerned about non-feeling, non-thinking, undifferentiated balls of a thousand cells, than they are about living, breathing, feeling people. That's just fucked up.
What about the track record of the Republican-led Congress or Bush administration gives you any indication that they are concerned about civil liberties or even with the most effective means of combatting terrorism? Everything tells me that they'd rather just let the President off the hook and authorize whatever he wants to do.
It is also short-sighted to see this as FUD. There are reports about what the bill will contain and many people are rightly concerned that the safeguards put in place by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act aren't eroded. This is not premature. If we wait until the t's are crossed and the i's dotted on Specter's FISA-Gutting-Act, it's going to be too late to respond to this travesty.
I'm not sure what your point is but I would start by asking "What constitutional authority?" The only people who think that Article II authorizes the President to do whatever he wants regardless of statutes are (1) Bush Administration lawyers, (2) John Woo, (3) some fourth-tier law school professors. The Supreme Court and the vast majority of constitutional scholars believe otherwise. The FISA set limits and the Bush administration ignored those limits. Now, Senator Specter wants to weaken FISA so that FISA Court review is optional. That's absurd. That's like dealing with a state's murder problem by making murder legal and declaring the problem solved.
These discussion of whether the studios release their own expurgated versions of movies are totally beside the point. The question is who gets to decide what gets edited. Maybe some copyright-holders make terrible decisions on how their works should be edited, but that is their choice. It certainly isn't the right of some third-party like Cleanflix to decide how a movie is edited. I also don't see how what this has to do with fair use. This doesn't relate to what the viewer of a work can do non-commercially with his or her own copy of the movie. This has to do with a for-profit company making money by making edited copies of someone else's work and selling those copies.
Amen, brother. Cringely's batting average for predictions must be.005. Why does anyone take him seriously? Remember when he claimed to have bounced a wifi signal off a mountain.
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Sounds good to me.
Uhh, unless I can get other people to do so as well, I'm going to be the only one home at 4pm. DST allows for social activities in the summer since it applies to everyone automatically without anyone having to change their nominal schedule.
How is that going to help me get in a softball game before dark on a summer night? Are you suggesting that everyone try to coordinate to get everyone else to convince their bosses to let them come an hour earlier and leave an hour earlier from work? That's a huge coordination problem. Changing the clocks by comparison is dead simple. That's the brilliance of DST, the realization that local time is simply a convention and that it's simpler to change the convention twice a year than it is to try to get everyone to change the nominal time at which they perform activities like going to work.
DST would be worth it even if it wasted energy. Morning hours of daylight are useless to me considering that I am either at work or on the way to work. I can actually use after-work hours of daylight to do something enjoyable. That's the original rationale for DST and it still applies. DST should be extended year-round.
One way or another, the electric company is going to reduce your power usage in a power emergency, either by raising thermostats or shutting off your power. The former is certainly a preferable alternative to the latter.
What, no "Dancing with the Stars"? I guess it wouldn't be your cup of tea then.
How dumb are reporters these days? Seriously, I fear for the future of the journalism. Also, whoever at Google is making claims like this should be fired for sheer stupidity.
Uh no. It's called a use tax. It's a tax on the consumption of the good instate and not a interstate tariff. I wish I could read a Slashdot post on so-called "internet tax" which acknowledged the existence of use taxes for once. First, the term "internet tax" is wrong, because the way that the item was bought out-of-state is irrelevant. It could have been bought from a catalog, by mail, by phone, whatever. Second, states don't want to introduce a new tax. They just want to be able to collect the tax that already exists, the use tax. As it is now, the tax exists but few individuals pay it. I don't pay it myself since I have no idea when April 15th rolls around how much I bought from out-of-state. I would almost prefer that it were collected by the vendor, because that would save me the hassle of keeping receipts all year were I to pay the taxes I owed.
They should have known it was a bad idea to appoint the President of the Arabian Horse Association to be the head of the National Reconnaissance Office.
I connect my desktop to the internet by wireless because running cables to the cable modem is very difficult. After trying to get Linux to work with my wireless PCI card, I finally decided that it is much simpler to use a wireless router as a bridge and connect my desktop to the bridge by ethernet. A cheap wireless router is $40. That's not much more than a wireless PCI card. It's even possible to install Linux on many routers and have quite a bit of control over the configuration of the router.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_travel
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/U
Presenting adult stem cells as an adequate substitute for embryonic stems cells is just not true. Adult stem cells lack the ability to differentiate as widely as embryonic stem cells, i.e. they are multipotent rather than pluripotent. I'm sure that you wish it were true because then you wouldn't be sacrificing the lives of people who could benefit from embyronic stem cell research for the sake of some balls of cells. But it isn't true. And that's what this is all about. So-called "pro-life" people are more concerned about non-feeling, non-thinking, undifferentiated balls of a thousand cells, than they are about living, breathing, feeling people. That's just fucked up.
in partnership with Sony. That's really the solution for E-waste, computers which self-destruct.
Steam Computing in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIgsqYJmtJs&eurl=
What about the track record of the Republican-led Congress or Bush administration gives you any indication that they are concerned about civil liberties or even with the most effective means of combatting terrorism? Everything tells me that they'd rather just let the President off the hook and authorize whatever he wants to do. It is also short-sighted to see this as FUD. There are reports about what the bill will contain and many people are rightly concerned that the safeguards put in place by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act aren't eroded. This is not premature. If we wait until the t's are crossed and the i's dotted on Specter's FISA-Gutting-Act, it's going to be too late to respond to this travesty.
http://cdt.org/security/20060109legalexpertsanalys is.pdf
See Section II of this for the response. It has to do with the difference between inherent and exclusive authority.
But the Supreme Court didn't enshrine any such authority and seem unlikely to given the Hamdan decision. So, I'm still confused about your point.
I'm not sure what your point is but I would start by asking "What constitutional authority?" The only people who think that Article II authorizes the President to do whatever he wants regardless of statutes are (1) Bush Administration lawyers, (2) John Woo, (3) some fourth-tier law school professors. The Supreme Court and the vast majority of constitutional scholars believe otherwise. The FISA set limits and the Bush administration ignored those limits. Now, Senator Specter wants to weaken FISA so that FISA Court review is optional. That's absurd. That's like dealing with a state's murder problem by making murder legal and declaring the problem solved.
That was my impression of this editorial...umm, I mean story too.
These discussion of whether the studios release their own expurgated versions of movies are totally beside the point. The question is who gets to decide what gets edited. Maybe some copyright-holders make terrible decisions on how their works should be edited, but that is their choice. It certainly isn't the right of some third-party like Cleanflix to decide how a movie is edited. I also don't see how what this has to do with fair use. This doesn't relate to what the viewer of a work can do non-commercially with his or her own copy of the movie. This has to do with a for-profit company making money by making edited copies of someone else's work and selling those copies.
Amen, brother. Cringely's batting average for predictions must be .005. Why does anyone take him seriously? Remember when he claimed to have bounced a wifi signal off a mountain.
Considering that Federal Government pisses away $15 million every two hours in Iraq, it hardly makes a dent.