Would you care to do a study over how many people meth heads hurt around them v the mortality due to 2nd hand smoke and other area effects of tobacco (house fires, etc) on a per smoker basis?
Abortion, of course, is 99.99% lethal to the fetus. So it comes down to the question of whether or not that's a person from the point of view of rights. If yes, the Reps are right, if no, the Dems are right.
Finally you can get healthcare without relying on a big paperwork socialized system. In fact, the paperwork is massively enlarged by medicare/medicaid, the number of useless and expensive tests is massively enlarged by the pro-Dem trial lawyers, and doctor supply is artificially limited via government action in order to raise prices. Healthcare needs vastly less government and the Reps seem to be the only party even halfway moving in that direction.
Stem cells come in embryonic and in adult varieties. The evidence so far from the labs is that embryonic stem cells aren't as good as adult because adult cell therapies are much more advanced in testing and there have been significant setbacks in the form of tumor growth and other regulation problems using embryonic cells as well as rejection issues.
So why are the Republicans who want to push adult stem cell research less science based than the Democrats who are all in favor of embryonic research?
On global warming, we've recently discovered that the MBH hockey stick is something of a crock, that the blade's generally right but the shaft simply doesn't stretch out as advertised for a millenium. Once the medieval warm period is no longer waved away as a local phenomena, you have serious grounds for disputing the policy prescriptions of those who are convinced that anthropogenic human warming is a world threatening pathology.
Where and when you recognize that a human being has rights is not a scientific question but a political one. Whether you have abortion, birth control, or any other sort of reproductive legislation is simply not a matter of science.
What this group is doing is running their political agenda under the cloak of science. As such, the group is itself anti-science.
You can be right wing or left wing, atheist or religious and rigorously apply the scientific method. But these guys are just not doing that. Shame on them.
The article mentions chipmunk basic. I don't know how he found it but he missed the fact that it's cross platform. There are versions for Linux and Windows. It's copyright freeware.
Actually, you can bottle electricity, it's called electrolysis and you ship the resulting hydrogen. The current price is about $6/gge (gallon of gasoline equivalent) though the DOE projects that price to drop below $3/gge by 2010. Coincidentally (or not), 2010 is when the DOE has projected we're going to have hydrogen cars that can run the standard 300 miles to the tank with a fuel cell system that is all weather and costs and takes up the same amount of space as a conventional gasoline engine. Try taking a look at the GM's Sequel. It looks like they might make their announcement of a few years back of 2011-2012 timeframe to ship a practical hydrogen car.
We could create plants that convert coal to gasoline via very well understood Fischer-Tropsch processes (WW I invention). Sasol in S. Africa does this for about $32/bbl. The crushing financial losses associated with FT plants started during the Carter oil spike has delayed the plants and environmental protests (CO2 is associated with the process) are likely to delay them yet more.
The companies are willing to provide the solution for cheaper energy. Are we willing to let them?
An admission against interest is often enough to get a warrant. You can bet that your taped confession will get the judge to sign that search warrant for the place where you say you stashed the bodies... or your copied movies.
On another point, persistently wasting police time with false crimes is usually a crime itself. That's why lonely people don't go to police stations to confess to crimes they didn't commit too often. They keep doing that and they eventually get arrested and convicted.
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Fedex did not do the search. Fedex, not wanting its packages to be put in the slow lane at Customs, cooperated with HM Customs and Excise in testing a proposed innovation brought to their attention by the MPAA. It is thus a government search but no different than warrantless government searches done by customs men for millenia. Border guards have been inspecting goods at the border for longer than than there have been guaranteed rights.
The problem is that we've fundamentally screwed up our war legislation so that extreme things like price controls kick in automatically the day that Congress declares war. This is stupid and the reason we never declare formal war anymore.
Compared to other wartime regimes, we're actually not doing so bad. For a war where you can't really trust the front lines, you'd have to go all the way back to the Civil War when we were shutting down newspapers, tossing copperheads into jail on the flimsiest of pretexts, and suspending habeas corpus in wide swathes of the US.
We need to remain vigilant over the Constitution but we should also be realistic in that vigilance. The first order of business is to win, and thus end, the war.
It's Customs which means they have a right to search without a warrant. They've always searched at the border in order to stop the importation of illegal and dangerous goods. No searches means that you can't stop a force from crossing as civilians and mailing themselves their weapons prior to executing their mission.
Extremists should not be ignored. They should be actively marginalized. We currently have in Princeton, a named chair in bioethics who thinks it is ok to kill children up to 6 months post birth as if it were an abortion. He was spouting this sort of lunacy for years and was ignored by most people as just some crazy extremist but now he's become wildly influential.
Extremists have to be judged, not ignored. This is the lesson of the 20th century dictator and other assorted 20th century crazies.
I know omnigraffle. The problem is that it doesn't solve my requirements which are to receive and send visio documents to customers who expect those file formats. Unless omnigraffle has acquired that ability since I last looked at it, the program doesn't fit the spec.
Actually, the task for somebody upholding moderate feminism as the defining strain of the movement has to deal with the problem of sympathizers. Sure, you may not personally geld men or go around screaming that all sex is rape but if you accept such extremism, if you don't clean your own house, you provide tacit support to those who do, providing them support and cover to espouse their hard-line views.
This is a problem that is not unique to feminism. All political and social movements are vulnerable to the same dynamic.
The key indictment of feminism is not that the majority of those who self-label as such are fire breathing kooks, but rather that they are far too tolerant of the kooks among them, treating with respect views that should be marginalized and even condemned.
It would be quite easy to have a "security report" on "ported OS vulnerabilities" You could get one when you run X11 or Win32 and update the data with Software Update. "Warning, 67.4% of known vulnerabilities are on this API according to security research frim X, do you want to continue to launch it?" would be unlikely to draw a lawsuit.
There's a difference. IBM's OS/2 was a software project which lived or died on its software ecosystem. Apple is a hardware/software combined widget which requires *a* successful software ecosystem but is relatively neutral on which one it's going to be. Apple drives their hardware market share to 25% and they don't much care that it's mostly a WIN32 API software ecosystem that's quintupled their hardware share.
If I can run Outlook, Visio, & MS Project, I can switch out of Dell running Windows and into Mac OS X on Apple hardware. These are simply "must have" applications. Everything else is already native or has an accepted alternative.
Why, yes, they all need a watchdog. Unfortunately, what's going on is that the US government, which has a long track record of telling the truth in extradition hearings, says that it's not going to be a terror trial and Guantanamo is not in the cards. The prisoner says they're lying and his record of probity and truth telling before the court simply doesn't match up.
Watchdogs can be fooled and the US government should at least be entitled to the benefit of the doubt that they're not going to slit their own throats on all extradition hearings for the next decade.
Basic timelines of trials start with investigating a suspect, charging him, asking for extradition if some other jurisdiction has the defendant, holding the trial (in all its phases), coming to a verdict, and finally punishment if there's a guilty verdict. There are possible appeals at every phase starting the moment you're charged on. There are a few stubborn family members who file appeals to clear people who served their full sentence and are dead.
It's just silly to say that he shouldn't be charged if there isn't a trial.
Now being held indefinitely without trial sounds much more like what you do to a POW. They're out of circulation for the duration of the war, period. Since the US government says this is a criminal and not a war matter, the US' highly stringent pre-trial detention rules (you can hold onto somebody a lot longer in Europe) apply.
The US could make the argument that he should be rendered to Guantanamo. It is not. It's saying he's getting a federal trial on hacking charges. He's accusing the US government of lying to the UK government in open court in the UK. If he's right, that's going to absolutely ruin *any* extradition request from anywhere to the US, going forward for a long time.
It's highly unlikely he's going to Guantanamo and against the interests of the US government if they were to change their tune post extradition.
Since the US government is representing in open court that he's not going to go to Guantanamo (read the article), what he's doing is asserting that the US government is lying and possibly purveying false documents purportedly from the US embassy in London in a UK court.
He obviously hopes for a lighter sentence from a UK trial.
The cell processor is plenty powerful, it's just not optimized to minimize heat. Intel sliced 2 years off its netburst architecture (which apple mercilesly mocked for being too hot for years) and shifted to one that was optimized for low heat. It's an easy call for Apple if the engineers are in charge. I guess they are in charge.
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Is Gillette a razor company or a razor blade company. Their customers think they are a razor company and buy their razors. The stockholders know that they are a razor blade company, with razors being sold at a loss to gain volume on their core product, razor cartridges.
So who is right?
Apple is a hardware company like Gillette is a razor blade company.
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No doubt this 1st beta release is a response to kill any adoption of the "hack" method with attendant community creation. I think that it's very likely that the normal course of events would have seen the beta released later with all hardware drivers already written at least in rough form.
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Would you care to do a study over how many people meth heads hurt around them v the mortality due to 2nd hand smoke and other area effects of tobacco (house fires, etc) on a per smoker basis?
Abortion, of course, is 99.99% lethal to the fetus. So it comes down to the question of whether or not that's a person from the point of view of rights. If yes, the Reps are right, if no, the Dems are right.
Finally you can get healthcare without relying on a big paperwork socialized system. In fact, the paperwork is massively enlarged by medicare/medicaid, the number of useless and expensive tests is massively enlarged by the pro-Dem trial lawyers, and doctor supply is artificially limited via government action in order to raise prices. Healthcare needs vastly less government and the Reps seem to be the only party even halfway moving in that direction.
Stem cells come in embryonic and in adult varieties. The evidence so far from the labs is that embryonic stem cells aren't as good as adult because adult cell therapies are much more advanced in testing and there have been significant setbacks in the form of tumor growth and other regulation problems using embryonic cells as well as rejection issues.
So why are the Republicans who want to push adult stem cell research less science based than the Democrats who are all in favor of embryonic research?
On global warming, we've recently discovered that the MBH hockey stick is something of a crock, that the blade's generally right but the shaft simply doesn't stretch out as advertised for a millenium. Once the medieval warm period is no longer waved away as a local phenomena, you have serious grounds for disputing the policy prescriptions of those who are convinced that anthropogenic human warming is a world threatening pathology.
Where and when you recognize that a human being has rights is not a scientific question but a political one. Whether you have abortion, birth control, or any other sort of reproductive legislation is simply not a matter of science.
What this group is doing is running their political agenda under the cloak of science. As such, the group is itself anti-science.
You can be right wing or left wing, atheist or religious and rigorously apply the scientific method. But these guys are just not doing that. Shame on them.
Um, since you can get old C64s for $50, I can't see how getting a C64 rom is much of an issue.
The article mentions chipmunk basic. I don't know how he found it but he missed the fact that it's cross platform. There are versions for Linux and Windows. It's copyright freeware.
Actually, you can bottle electricity, it's called electrolysis and you ship the resulting hydrogen. The current price is about $6/gge (gallon of gasoline equivalent) though the DOE projects that price to drop below $3/gge by 2010. Coincidentally (or not), 2010 is when the DOE has projected we're going to have hydrogen cars that can run the standard 300 miles to the tank with a fuel cell system that is all weather and costs and takes up the same amount of space as a conventional gasoline engine. Try taking a look at the GM's Sequel. It looks like they might make their announcement of a few years back of 2011-2012 timeframe to ship a practical hydrogen car.
We could create plants that convert coal to gasoline via very well understood Fischer-Tropsch processes (WW I invention). Sasol in S. Africa does this for about $32/bbl. The crushing financial losses associated with FT plants started during the Carter oil spike has delayed the plants and environmental protests (CO2 is associated with the process) are likely to delay them yet more.
The companies are willing to provide the solution for cheaper energy. Are we willing to let them?
An admission against interest is often enough to get a warrant. You can bet that your taped confession will get the judge to sign that search warrant for the place where you say you stashed the bodies... or your copied movies.
On another point, persistently wasting police time with false crimes is usually a crime itself. That's why lonely people don't go to police stations to confess to crimes they didn't commit too often. They keep doing that and they eventually get arrested and convicted.
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Fedex did not do the search. Fedex, not wanting its packages to be put in the slow lane at Customs, cooperated with HM Customs and Excise in testing a proposed innovation brought to their attention by the MPAA. It is thus a government search but no different than warrantless government searches done by customs men for millenia. Border guards have been inspecting goods at the border for longer than than there have been guaranteed rights.
This is a UK story. The US doesn't have "HM Customs'" since we through out George III.
Are you embarrassed even in the least at your reflexive, anti-american prejudice?
The problem is that we've fundamentally screwed up our war legislation so that extreme things like price controls kick in automatically the day that Congress declares war. This is stupid and the reason we never declare formal war anymore.
Compared to other wartime regimes, we're actually not doing so bad. For a war where you can't really trust the front lines, you'd have to go all the way back to the Civil War when we were shutting down newspapers, tossing copperheads into jail on the flimsiest of pretexts, and suspending habeas corpus in wide swathes of the US.
We need to remain vigilant over the Constitution but we should also be realistic in that vigilance. The first order of business is to win, and thus end, the war.
It's Customs which means they have a right to search without a warrant. They've always searched at the border in order to stop the importation of illegal and dangerous goods. No searches means that you can't stop a force from crossing as civilians and mailing themselves their weapons prior to executing their mission.
Extremists should not be ignored. They should be actively marginalized. We currently have in Princeton, a named chair in bioethics who thinks it is ok to kill children up to 6 months post birth as if it were an abortion. He was spouting this sort of lunacy for years and was ignored by most people as just some crazy extremist but now he's become wildly influential.
Extremists have to be judged, not ignored. This is the lesson of the 20th century dictator and other assorted 20th century crazies.
I know omnigraffle. The problem is that it doesn't solve my requirements which are to receive and send visio documents to customers who expect those file formats. Unless omnigraffle has acquired that ability since I last looked at it, the program doesn't fit the spec.
Actually, the task for somebody upholding moderate feminism as the defining strain of the movement has to deal with the problem of sympathizers. Sure, you may not personally geld men or go around screaming that all sex is rape but if you accept such extremism, if you don't clean your own house, you provide tacit support to those who do, providing them support and cover to espouse their hard-line views.
This is a problem that is not unique to feminism. All political and social movements are vulnerable to the same dynamic.
The key indictment of feminism is not that the majority of those who self-label as such are fire breathing kooks, but rather that they are far too tolerant of the kooks among them, treating with respect views that should be marginalized and even condemned.
It would be quite easy to have a "security report" on "ported OS vulnerabilities" You could get one when you run X11 or Win32 and update the data with Software Update. "Warning, 67.4% of known vulnerabilities are on this API according to security research frim X, do you want to continue to launch it?" would be unlikely to draw a lawsuit.
There's a difference. IBM's OS/2 was a software project which lived or died on its software ecosystem. Apple is a hardware/software combined widget which requires *a* successful software ecosystem but is relatively neutral on which one it's going to be. Apple drives their hardware market share to 25% and they don't much care that it's mostly a WIN32 API software ecosystem that's quintupled their hardware share.
If I can run Outlook, Visio, & MS Project, I can switch out of Dell running Windows and into Mac OS X on Apple hardware. These are simply "must have" applications. Everything else is already native or has an accepted alternative.
Why, yes, they all need a watchdog. Unfortunately, what's going on is that the US government, which has a long track record of telling the truth in extradition hearings, says that it's not going to be a terror trial and Guantanamo is not in the cards. The prisoner says they're lying and his record of probity and truth telling before the court simply doesn't match up.
Watchdogs can be fooled and the US government should at least be entitled to the benefit of the doubt that they're not going to slit their own throats on all extradition hearings for the next decade.
Basic timelines of trials start with investigating a suspect, charging him, asking for extradition if some other jurisdiction has the defendant, holding the trial (in all its phases), coming to a verdict, and finally punishment if there's a guilty verdict. There are possible appeals at every phase starting the moment you're charged on. There are a few stubborn family members who file appeals to clear people who served their full sentence and are dead.
It's just silly to say that he shouldn't be charged if there isn't a trial.
Now being held indefinitely without trial sounds much more like what you do to a POW. They're out of circulation for the duration of the war, period. Since the US government says this is a criminal and not a war matter, the US' highly stringent pre-trial detention rules (you can hold onto somebody a lot longer in Europe) apply.
The US could make the argument that he should be rendered to Guantanamo. It is not. It's saying he's getting a federal trial on hacking charges. He's accusing the US government of lying to the UK government in open court in the UK. If he's right, that's going to absolutely ruin *any* extradition request from anywhere to the US, going forward for a long time.
It's highly unlikely he's going to Guantanamo and against the interests of the US government if they were to change their tune post extradition.
Since the US government is representing in open court that he's not going to go to Guantanamo (read the article), what he's doing is asserting that the US government is lying and possibly purveying false documents purportedly from the US embassy in London in a UK court.
He obviously hopes for a lighter sentence from a UK trial.
The cell processor is plenty powerful, it's just not optimized to minimize heat. Intel sliced 2 years off its netburst architecture (which apple mercilesly mocked for being too hot for years) and shifted to one that was optimized for low heat. It's an easy call for Apple if the engineers are in charge. I guess they are in charge.
Is Gillette a razor company or a razor blade company. Their customers think they are a razor company and buy their razors. The stockholders know that they are a razor blade company, with razors being sold at a loss to gain volume on their core product, razor cartridges.
So who is right?
Apple is a hardware company like Gillette is a razor blade company.
No doubt this 1st beta release is a response to kill any adoption of the "hack" method with attendant community creation. I think that it's very likely that the normal course of events would have seen the beta released later with all hardware drivers already written at least in rough form.