The PATRIOT Act is all about invasion of privacy and attempting to define protestors as domestic terrorists. I don't believe there are any provisions for jailing people for anything they wouldn't already get in trouble for if caught; it's just easier to catch them now that they have the power to invade privacy at will. The complaints about the PATRIOT Act are about the wrong rights. The problem is its power to ignore our right to privacy; not the power to brand citizens as terrorists. They could do that long before the PATRIOT Act.
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No, it's the parent's responsibility to make sure the child gets an education by either homeschooling them or sending them to either the state provided school system or a private school.
It is the responsiblity of the state and federal government to make sure every child has access to at least elementary and high school education and the oppurtunity to further that education. That is why state and federal dollars go to public schools and universities.
If the company is forced to defend their computer record keeping system and it is found that a manager with something to gain can manually alter records, then that paper and ink journal becomes much more believable. If the system does not log manual alterations, it begins to look downright unreliable and easily tampered with.
My grandmother requires it to keep from being forced into a nursing home and having everything she ever owned taken away from her. I think it's a great system.
In a fission-fusion-fission weapon, most of the power is due to the fission fuel. Without the third fission stage, it is usually mostly fusion, though. So no, it's not *always* just to kick off the fusion.
He's talking about the high yield dirty staged weapons with yields of 75-85%+ fission. These are usually in fission-fusion-fission configurations. The clean but lower yield weapons are fission-fusion with yields 75-90+% fusion.
Keep in mind that a fission bomb may be boosted by small amounts of fusion fuel to increase effiency of the fission reaction and may be used as the triggers for the above weapon types. Also, staged weapons may have more than just 2 or 3 stages.
In fission, the atoms are split into more smaller atoms and the energy given off is the leftovers that were ejected in the process. In fusion, the situation is similar except the atoms are fusing into fewer atoms and there are leftovers given off in the process. Fission actually gives off more energy per atom but since the atoms used are so large a relatively tiny hydrogen mass in fusion will give off more on an equal mass basis. Fission also has the habit of resulting in nasty byproducts.
It's all about *releasing* energy that is stored as mass. There's no creation of energy going on; it was already there. The power going in is just power used to release the larger quantity of energy stored within the mass. The power going out is energy released that will hopefully be greater than the power used to release it in order to power the reactor to continue the reaction and provide useful amounts of power.
Yet the US government runs the postal service and has the habit of forcing people to work by court injunction and possibly federal troops. But as long as their shooting or imprisoning the workers instead of employing them, it's quite alright.
Or Microsoft knows that not all formatting comes across correctly from Word to OOo. I've seen such mangling before, and I doubt MS wants people insulting them for releasing screwed up documents trying to pimp their products.;p PDF is great for this sort of thing.
Our Supreme Court put a stop to the perpetual recounts and the result at the time showed Bush as winning so he was elected by a slim majority of the electoral college. Just because you don't agree with our electoral system it doesn't mean you have any right to call the man unelected. There have been far worse elections in US history anyhow and those presidents did just fine.:p
Reminds me of the anti-trust against IBM over their monopoly in mainframes that actually went on till IBM a) no longer had a monopoly and b) mainframes weren't relevenant any longer. Makes me wonder if the anti-trust cases against MS are for nothing. In a few years, maybe MS will lose their monopoly without any intervention.
The EU is only dealing with MS's dealings in the EU. They have absolutely no say in what they do elsewhere. MS will continue bundling everywhere else in the world and the poor gits in the EU will end up downloading the unbundled software to play media anyway. This is just the EU trying to grab some money and glory to justify its regulatory power.:p
Yeah, competitors whining. IE is and was better than Netscape 4.x and I don't think MS should have to bundle an adware media player or not have one at all. It was all about whiney competitors.
First of all, the federal government would probably stomp a hole in MS's skull for anti-trust concerns over funding SCO and another we're talking about the federal government who a) doesn't care about running deficits and b) would probably move the court proceedings along rather than let SCO/MS drag them into a war of attrition and delay.
The Soviets got to Berlin first. The other allies defeated Italy and liberated France and the other western European countries. I can't imagine how the front opened by the invasion of Normandy and the southern front leading from Africa and into Italy could have had an affect on the number of soldiers and the amount of supplies available to throw at the Soviets though.
I mean, it's not like Stalin was demanding another front because the Red Army wasn't exactly mowing the German's down.
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How do they know what hardware plays well together in order to reduce tech support calls? It would be foolish if they didn't spend tons of money and time on figuring out what does and does not play well together. I doubt they just order a bunch of hardware, slap Dell logos on all of it and throw it in a case and say "Dude, you got a Dell!".
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The PATRIOT Act is all about invasion of privacy and attempting to define protestors as domestic terrorists. I don't believe there are any provisions for jailing people for anything they wouldn't already get in trouble for if caught; it's just easier to catch them now that they have the power to invade privacy at will. The complaints about the PATRIOT Act are about the wrong rights. The problem is its power to ignore our right to privacy; not the power to brand citizens as terrorists. They could do that long before the PATRIOT Act.
No, it's the parent's responsibility to make sure the child gets an education by either homeschooling them or sending them to either the state provided school system or a private school.
It is the responsiblity of the state and federal government to make sure every child has access to at least elementary and high school education and the oppurtunity to further that education. That is why state and federal dollars go to public schools and universities.
Taxes NEED to be increased actually. This country has to pay off its debt eventually and lowering taxes for the rich ain't going to do it.
You are incorrect.
It's a pro. Consumer debt and non-existant saving is a problem in the US.
If the company is forced to defend their computer record keeping system and it is found that a manager with something to gain can manually alter records, then that paper and ink journal becomes much more believable. If the system does not log manual alterations, it begins to look downright unreliable and easily tampered with.
But they implemented something similar to Intel's stuff so according to McBride, they are dirty dirty criminals.
My grandmother requires it to keep from being forced into a nursing home and having everything she ever owned taken away from her. I think it's a great system.
In a fission-fusion-fission weapon, most of the power is due to the fission fuel. Without the third fission stage, it is usually mostly fusion, though. So no, it's not *always* just to kick off the fusion.
He's talking about the high yield dirty staged weapons with yields of 75-85%+ fission. These are usually in fission-fusion-fission configurations. The clean but lower yield weapons are fission-fusion with yields 75-90+% fusion.
Keep in mind that a fission bomb may be boosted by small amounts of fusion fuel to increase effiency of the fission reaction and may be used as the triggers for the above weapon types. Also, staged weapons may have more than just 2 or 3 stages.
In fission, the atoms are split into more smaller atoms and the energy given off is the leftovers that were ejected in the process. In fusion, the situation is similar except the atoms are fusing into fewer atoms and there are leftovers given off in the process. Fission actually gives off more energy per atom but since the atoms used are so large a relatively tiny hydrogen mass in fusion will give off more on an equal mass basis. Fission also has the habit of resulting in nasty byproducts.
It's all about *releasing* energy that is stored as mass. There's no creation of energy going on; it was already there. The power going in is just power used to release the larger quantity of energy stored within the mass. The power going out is energy released that will hopefully be greater than the power used to release it in order to power the reactor to continue the reaction and provide useful amounts of power.
Yet the US government runs the postal service and has the habit of forcing people to work by court injunction and possibly federal troops. But as long as their shooting or imprisoning the workers instead of employing them, it's quite alright.
Or Microsoft knows that not all formatting comes across correctly from Word to OOo. I've seen such mangling before, and I doubt MS wants people insulting them for releasing screwed up documents trying to pimp their products. ;p PDF is great for this sort of thing.
I'd rather give my money to my local government than a foreign corporation.
"They're obviously using information from one of our lawbreaking licensees!" ;p
Our Supreme Court put a stop to the perpetual recounts and the result at the time showed Bush as winning so he was elected by a slim majority of the electoral college. Just because you don't agree with our electoral system it doesn't mean you have any right to call the man unelected. There have been far worse elections in US history anyhow and those presidents did just fine. :p
Reminds me of the anti-trust against IBM over their monopoly in mainframes that actually went on till IBM a) no longer had a monopoly and b) mainframes weren't relevenant any longer. Makes me wonder if the anti-trust cases against MS are for nothing. In a few years, maybe MS will lose their monopoly without any intervention.
The EU is only dealing with MS's dealings in the EU. They have absolutely no say in what they do elsewhere. MS will continue bundling everywhere else in the world and the poor gits in the EU will end up downloading the unbundled software to play media anyway. This is just the EU trying to grab some money and glory to justify its regulatory power. :p
It's one of the lessons they're learning from Microsoft. :p
Yeah, competitors whining. IE is and was better than Netscape 4.x and I don't think MS should have to bundle an adware media player or not have one at all. It was all about whiney competitors.
Clinton claimed that at the time he left office, Iraq had WMD. Didn't take much fooling there, I suppose.
An unpatched IE is the only culprit IMO besides people leaving the preview pane enabled.
First of all, the federal government would probably stomp a hole in MS's skull for anti-trust concerns over funding SCO and another we're talking about the federal government who a) doesn't care about running deficits and b) would probably move the court proceedings along rather than let SCO/MS drag them into a war of attrition and delay.
The Soviets got to Berlin first. The other allies defeated Italy and liberated France and the other western European countries. I can't imagine how the front opened by the invasion of Normandy and the southern front leading from Africa and into Italy could have had an affect on the number of soldiers and the amount of supplies available to throw at the Soviets though.
I mean, it's not like Stalin was demanding another front because the Red Army wasn't exactly mowing the German's down.
How do they know what hardware plays well together in order to reduce tech support calls? It would be foolish if they didn't spend tons of money and time on figuring out what does and does not play well together. I doubt they just order a bunch of hardware, slap Dell logos on all of it and throw it in a case and say "Dude, you got a Dell!".