And it's illegal in all 50 states. Yes, Utah too. In fact, it's in the Utah constitution:
Article 3 Section 1 -- The following ordinance shall be irrevocable without the consent of the United States and the people of this State:
First: -- Perfect toleration of religious sentiment is guaranteed. No inhabitant of this State shall ever be molested in person or property on account of his or her mode of religious worship; but polygamous or plural marriages are forever prohibited.
Certain local law enforcement may look the other way, however.
The GP's larger argument that objection to bigamy is bigotry is fatally flawed, however, and implicitly accepts the thesis of the "same-sex marriage will lead to people marrying animals" crowd. Over the course of the 20th century, marriage evolved from a property transaction, where ownership of a woman (who could not vote or own property in many places) was transferred from one family to another, into a partnership between two individuals with equal rights under the law. Gender is currently entirely irrelevant to the social and legal purposes of marriage (tax and probate implications, hospital visitation rights, parental rights, right not to testify against one's spouse, etc.). Allowing more than two people to marry, on the other hand throws a wrench into all the modern purposes of marriage (e.g. all members of a criminal conspiracy could marry each other to avoid being testified against).
The scope of the punishment. Sane fines and community service for stealing candy, if it even gets past the law enforcment officer on scene to using a 'teachable moment' to scare the kid straight. Compare to $150,000 per song damages waved at the parents as pressure to settle for thousands in a copyright action.
The consoles have no indie developers, and probably never will have indie developers.
I think a good number of indie console developers would be rather surprised to hear that. What with the low cost of Wii dev kits and Xbox Live Arcade, that's no longer true. Yes, you have to know what you're doing, and have some sort of business plan, but small teams making small games have a nice niche in the current generation.
I have my MTA set up to reject incoming messages that claim (in the envelope) to come from my own domains. I know who I am and anyone claiming to be 'me' is, prima facie, making fradulent claims and should be treated accordingly.
Maybe I'm not understanding the level this occurs at, but doesn't that lock out any of your employees sending work email from a home account using their work return address? Or an employee without VPN access emailing the company from the road?
OK, how about the FTC crack down on 'Customer retention' policies that seek to prevent you from cancelling service, bait-and-switch rebate scams, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam and spam, the proliferation of advertising on every nonporous surface in the country (let's get some help protecting kids from THAT!), prescription drug advertising, redlining, extended warranties, and all the other consumer fucking going on in this country?
Somebody actually tried to address this 'problem'. There's an installation in the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. Guess which hotel now has to have a staff member on hand at all times to explain the elevator?
I think he'd prefer professional scientists who don't have a financial incentive to take a particular position on the evidence.
As in so many other fields of human endeavor, gaming a system (the credibility accorded scientists speaking on scientific matters) for short-term gain (oil industry payola) destroys the value of that system as a whole (the ability of science to provide useful solutions to human problems) in the long term.
I've used Photomodeler and Canoma, and made camera mapped environments in 3D software by hand for years. It is incredibly nontrivial. it is a lot of blood, sweat, tears, handpainting, and a not-so-terribly good result. Some typical problems:
Camera barrel distortion
chromatic abberations
hot colors in high-contrast areas of digital photos
JPEG compression artifacts
specular highlights and reflections
lens flares and blooms from those specular highlights and reflections
clipped/out of gamut areas
occluding objects like trees, parked cars, signs, telphone poles, pedestrians, trashcans, newspaper vending machines, etc., etc., etc.
occluding objects like other buildings in aerial photos
only being able to shoot certain details from awkward angles
not being able to shoot certain details from any angle at all
horrendous texture stretching
perspective problems with concave/convex detail like window ledges, cornices, awnings, etc., etc., etc.
stuff you forgot to photograph
different lighting conditions when you go back out to shoot the stuff you forgot to photograph
unavailable architectural drawings
paper architectural drawings
poorly-reproduced paper architectural drawings from 1912
architectural drawings that bear no resemblance to the conditions onsite
CAD files aligned to state survey coordinates so large that the single-precision floats in most 3D software starts scrambling the model due to rounding errors.
You can get building plans and architectural drawings and everything from the city for free. There are algorithms that can easily map pictures to objects if you know ahead of time the shape of the things that "should" be there.
Carved Granite comes close. So does soil depletion in farming areas (3000-year-old Anasazi fields in the American southwest are still visible because the vegetation in them grows thinner). I would imagine our massive landfills would be hard to mistake for natural formations, even if excavated 10,000 years down the line. While many of our massive earthworks are coastal, and might be flooded in your scenario, many others are clearly not (Cheyenne Mountain? the Powder River coal fields? Every roadbed cut in a mountain range around the world?), and can be expected to be around to a detectable degree for a long, long time. We have geological evidence of the fallout from large meteor strikes triggering extinction events; I would expect the same for an ancient nuclear war, especially since Antarctic ice cores give us an atmospheric record going back at least 100,000 years. Even your example of concrete could never be totally wiped out - people will know for a long time after our civilization perishes that the grey crumbly rocks can often be broken open to find a nice iron bar good for smithing into a sword, and that somebody must have put it there.
How much more CO2 is in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution? 1/10th of a percent on the high side? So if every single molecule of CO2 captures twice as many photons as the ones that are naturally in the atmosphere, how much more eneregy stays and warms the planet? Is that within an order of magnitude of "global warming?" I'll leave the math as a excercise.
Try 25%. And that figure's from the Bush DOE. I'll leave how that impacts your argument as an exercise.
Lots and lots of space stuff is ITAR sensitive. It's not nearly as restrictive as classification. I taught an onsite 3D animation class at an aerospace firm where all the example files were ITAR-sensitive, and just had to sign a statement that I was a US citizen. It was an issue because the author of the renderer they were using had been flown in from Europe at the same time, and he couldn't look at any of the files they were having trouble with.
It's not the speech that's the problem, it's that the RECIPIENT pays for the messages. Just like there are strong laws against unsolicited commercial faxes which do not restrict advertisers' free speech rights one bit.
I was in exactly the same boat until my host made graylisting on their servers. It's gone from 3000/day down to 30 or so. The only problem is that some legit emails from domains with long retry waits don't arrive for hours, but it's uncommon, and adding them to the whitelist solves it.
Water purification. Much better than Bad-water-symptom alleviation
Biological desalination of seawater
Biological control of mosquito and other vector organism populations
Bio-engineered crop organisms that will give these countries a sustainable, non-oil economic leg to stand on, such as biofuels or bio-plastics
I don't think the GP was advocating nobody help developing nations, they were saying that the developed world has a horrible track record of making things worse almost everywhere (for both altruistic and utterly venal reasons), and we might best help by fucking around a bit less with things over there.
The Maine. Which was an accident. While the Hearst papers spun the explosion into a rationale for war, and it was not investigated until many decades after the fact, I don't think anyone seriously says today the destruction of the Maine was deliberate.
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Article 3 Section 1 -- The following ordinance shall be irrevocable without the consent of the United States and the people of this State:
First: -- Perfect toleration of religious sentiment is guaranteed. No inhabitant of this State shall ever be molested in person or property on account of his or her mode of religious worship; but polygamous or plural marriages are forever prohibited.
Certain local law enforcement may look the other way, however.
The GP's larger argument that objection to bigamy is bigotry is fatally flawed, however, and implicitly accepts the thesis of the "same-sex marriage will lead to people marrying animals" crowd. Over the course of the 20th century, marriage evolved from a property transaction, where ownership of a woman (who could not vote or own property in many places) was transferred from one family to another, into a partnership between two individuals with equal rights under the law. Gender is currently entirely irrelevant to the social and legal purposes of marriage (tax and probate implications, hospital visitation rights, parental rights, right not to testify against one's spouse, etc.). Allowing more than two people to marry, on the other hand throws a wrench into all the modern purposes of marriage (e.g. all members of a criminal conspiracy could marry each other to avoid being testified against).
The scope of the punishment. Sane fines and community service for stealing candy, if it even gets past the law enforcment officer on scene to using a 'teachable moment' to scare the kid straight. Compare to $150,000 per song damages waved at the parents as pressure to settle for thousands in a copyright action.
That is not mutually exclusive with the GP's option 2 in the least.
Yeah, that was awesome. Except for the total lack of a win condition.
I think a good number of indie console developers would be rather surprised to hear that. What with the low cost of Wii dev kits and Xbox Live Arcade, that's no longer true. Yes, you have to know what you're doing, and have some sort of business plan, but small teams making small games have a nice niche in the current generation.
To someone you need standing (i.e. you need to have been harmed by the evil pants manufacturers in that way). You first.
Maybe I'm not understanding the level this occurs at, but doesn't that lock out any of your employees sending work email from a home account using their work return address? Or an employee without VPN access emailing the company from the road?
OK, how about the FTC crack down on 'Customer retention' policies that seek to prevent you from cancelling service, bait-and-switch rebate scams, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam and spam, the proliferation of advertising on every nonporous surface in the country (let's get some help protecting kids from THAT!), prescription drug advertising, redlining, extended warranties, and all the other consumer fucking going on in this country?
Somebody actually tried to address this 'problem'. There's an installation in the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. Guess which hotel now has to have a staff member on hand at all times to explain the elevator?
As in so many other fields of human endeavor, gaming a system (the credibility accorded scientists speaking on scientific matters) for short-term gain (oil industry payola) destroys the value of that system as a whole (the ability of science to provide useful solutions to human problems) in the long term.
IPodService.exe allegedly is part of Quicktime functionality these days, and is also used to share an itunes library acrosss your LAN.
as I said, nontrivial.
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Not temporally. The banding in rack focus/defocus effects in 8 BPC color video is generally atrocious.
Multiplayer FPSes fail that test with certain server settings (no point/time limit).
Carved Granite comes close. So does soil depletion in farming areas (3000-year-old Anasazi fields in the American southwest are still visible because the vegetation in them grows thinner). I would imagine our massive landfills would be hard to mistake for natural formations, even if excavated 10,000 years down the line. While many of our massive earthworks are coastal, and might be flooded in your scenario, many others are clearly not (Cheyenne Mountain? the Powder River coal fields? Every roadbed cut in a mountain range around the world?), and can be expected to be around to a detectable degree for a long, long time. We have geological evidence of the fallout from large meteor strikes triggering extinction events; I would expect the same for an ancient nuclear war, especially since Antarctic ice cores give us an atmospheric record going back at least 100,000 years. Even your example of concrete could never be totally wiped out - people will know for a long time after our civilization perishes that the grey crumbly rocks can often be broken open to find a nice iron bar good for smithing into a sword, and that somebody must have put it there.
I'd rather play a game that plays like it was made in 2006. cf. Cave Story.
Try 25%. And that figure's from the Bush DOE. I'll leave how that impacts your argument as an exercise.
That's "A priest and a rabbi walk into a bar..."
Lots and lots of space stuff is ITAR sensitive. It's not nearly as restrictive as classification. I taught an onsite 3D animation class at an aerospace firm where all the example files were ITAR-sensitive, and just had to sign a statement that I was a US citizen. It was an issue because the author of the renderer they were using had been flown in from Europe at the same time, and he couldn't look at any of the files they were having trouble with.
It's not the speech that's the problem, it's that the RECIPIENT pays for the messages. Just like there are strong laws against unsolicited commercial faxes which do not restrict advertisers' free speech rights one bit.
I was in exactly the same boat until my host made graylisting on their servers. It's gone from 3000/day down to 30 or so. The only problem is that some legit emails from domains with long retry waits don't arrive for hours, but it's uncommon, and adding them to the whitelist solves it.
I don't think the GP was advocating nobody help developing nations, they were saying that the developed world has a horrible track record of making things worse almost everywhere (for both altruistic and utterly venal reasons), and we might best help by fucking around a bit less with things over there.
The Maine. Which was an accident. While the Hearst papers spun the explosion into a rationale for war, and it was not investigated until many decades after the fact, I don't think anyone seriously says today the destruction of the Maine was deliberate.
So 9/11 was an accident?