You do realize that that "precedent" was set in the US Constitution, right? Congress has the sole authority to coin money.
What a crazy misinterpretation. If we assume your poor interpretation, no currency exists except US currency. The simple fact is, your post is absolute nonsense. The US Constitution grants sole authority to coin US CURRENCY. Non-US currency can freely be coin and exchange is even allowed. So long as bitcoins are not presented at legal US tender, the absolutely are constitutionally allowed; as are all other foreign currencies. As as far as I know, it is not illegal to coin non-US currency within US borders. As such, I can't see how bitcoin is illegal in any way so long as its not presented as US coined currency - and its not as far as I know.
It wasn't so long ago you could purchase antibiotics. A lot of first aid kits used to supply antibiotics. The problem they found, people did take antibiotics and worse, not a full regiment, which created antibiotic resistant strains of bugs. They started requiring prescriptions by doctor and that largely addressed the issue until doctors started over prescribing once big pharm starting giving rewards for pushing drugs.
Not in the least. They are incompetent fighters who become empowered by the consumption of drugs. They notoriously poor fighters, strategists, and tacticians. They are in no way comparable to the Apache. To do so it to gravely insult the Apache people. The comparison is disgusting.
Frequently, the only thing which makes Somolies noteworthy is they are typically fearless (from drug consumption) and completely ruthless and immoral. Which means the best solution for dealing with Somolian pirates is to brutally kill any and all, on sight.
Not to diminish their considerable task, but their rotor sizes means they are required to hover within ground effect, which considerably reduces the overall challenge. Again, that's not the same thing from saying their challenge is easy - as it most definitely is not.
Ugh. Posts like yours make my head hurt because they are so illogical. Basically the judge has ruled its legal to hinder legal investigations with probable cause and has gone as far providing unique legal protections to a special category of criminals. Its illogical and completely unsupported by law and even logic. The judge and all of his supporters are idiots.
Like so many issues which relate to piracy, people get all emotional and completely lose sight of the fact that the emotion is almost always completely wrong. The simple fact is, an IP address may not always identify a specific person (frequently it actually does), regardless, it absolutely is probable cause to facilitate additional investigation. The problem is, people confuse that with how its instrumented in the streets. Meaning, idiot police then use the IP as a correlation to justify arrests rather than to further an investigation.
So in a nut shell, this judge (and all of his supporters), police, and torte lawyers are all wrong. Period. Contrary to the stupidity of the judge, there is no valid reason to stop subpoenas. Which means, the judge is 100% wrong. The flip side of that is, an IP address does not always translate to a specific person and is therefore not a reliable form of identification to justify arrest or legal prosecution. It is, however, probable cause for additional investigation.
In a nut shell, the judge and pro-pirates are completely wrong.
It bugs me to no end that programmers, architects and CS engineers will design a software system that pretty much ignores having physical separation of service tiers for things like this.
Frequently its someone who is completely out of touch with technology and paid 10x more who make these mandates of engineers.
I'm slightly confused how blood on your car tires is a likely transfer case.
Its the exact same reason spitting was outlawed long ago. The contamination can transfer to soil where it can be inhaled at a later time. Given that the tire is likely to go where you and your family resides, its not a pathogen you likely want around your house.
During the Vietnam War, Colt sold the M-16 to the Army with the promise that it would never need cleaning. And they were right. They just forgot to add the "unless you want it to keep firing" part.
Absolutely wrong. Colt sold them the weapon stating it was self cleaning allowing it to go longer durations between cleaning. It was. Colt designed the weapon to be sold with a cleaning kit (included in butt of rifle), to use specific gun powder, and to be designed with a specific process (chroming) to ensure carbon didn't collect, allowing the action to naturally scape carbon away. These weapons were tested with troops and the troops fell in love. Most couldn't wait for the weapon to be deployed en mass as it and its ammunition was far lighter; making it a literal game changing on the battlefield.
The bean counters morons (yes, they are the literal definition of idiots) decided they knew better than the manufacturers, despite knowing absolutely nothing about firearms. They decided they could save money by redesigning components (no chroming), changed powder used in rounds to high carbon, and by not providing a cleaning kit. As a result, thousands of US soldiers were murdered with a "weapon" in hand which couldn't fire. McNamara justified their deaths by all the money he saved. McNamara has the blood of thousands of dead military personnel on his hands. Their deaths have nothing to do with Colt.
They are commonly eaten. In Central and South America, they are an important source of protein. In fact, many consider them a delicacy. Armadillos frequently sell out in markets by mid morning specifically because they are in high demand.
The fact leprosy follows an age and gender trends suggests you're far more likely to get leprosy playing and working than from consumption of its flesh. Interestingly enough, armadillos are only found in the Americas and yet Asia and Africa have far, far, far higher rates of leprosy.
I'd also like to point out, many serious diseases are also associated with pork, beef, and domestic turkey, and yet rarely do people have significant problems specifically because we all understand the importance of proper food preparation. Now, I'm not suggesting we all run out and start handling wild armadillos but statistically, they are not primary carriers and despite their daily consumption in large scale, other countries have far higher contamination rates and yet have no armadillos.
I saw an essay once by a anthropologist who made the claim that video games and sports do not increase violence. His argument in a nutshell was the humans like all mammals have a very deep seated sense of play vs serious business
I can tell you authoritatively that guy in an idiot.
Most professional athletes got where they are specifically because their play is a "serious business." There are many a player who have no problem breaking your arm so they can make that catch. They justify it as the risks of playing the game and a risk you willingly accepted when you started playing.
The simple fact is, people perceive the world in different ways. For some people, a silly, friendly game is just that. For others, that same game is a means of proving they are better than someone else and they'll do anything they can make that statement. Its not really a question of games, its a question of the person.
Certain people in our society can rationalize anything or have little concern for the societal fallout. In many cases, these people go on to become sports stars, successful businessmen, or serial killers.
Welcome to police standard operating procedures 101. Police are actively being taught to be more brutal, more confrontational, and more militant. There is an active effort by police departments to not hire intelligent officers (average IQ or lower). Furthermore, they are encouraged to not know the local laws they are charged with enforcing. The combination makes for a highly functional, zombie-like police officer who tends to forcefully arrest and ask questions later. This in turn leaves the courts to sort things out. As a result, we have over crowded courts where judges (frequently in a profit sharing plan with police/sheriff) directly pump up their incomes from court fees and tickets from everyone who goes in front the judges..
Normally, the FBI is only sent when they require an investigation. Example, US embassy blown up. In this case, there wasn't so much a need for investigation as there was intelligence gathering. Again, not really a job for the FBI. Furthermore, there is a long documented history of the CIA performing enforcement actions - legal,means of local forces, US military, or otherwise.
Not trying to be a prick, but the FBI is for domestic crimes and domestic enforcement. The CIA is for external crimes (threats); among other things. Contrary to movie crap, it would be the CIA, not the FBI, which is exactly why the CIA has always handled such issues.
No, not kidding at all. You seem to be seriously confused. Just because people did die doesn't mean it wasn't largely non-lethal. Unless you wish to re-write history, the story starts and stops there.
You need to keep in mind, they were in fact, not upset that people were dieing. Rather, they were upset about WHO was dieing. You do realize, even during wartime, it was the exception rather than the rule, for the wealthy and/or royalty to actually die in combat. Before the 20th century, it was almost universally true, with the largest exception being the Crusades. It was the commoner who actually did the dieing. Accordingly, any activity which negatively affected the transfer or wealth and power was of concern to the wealthy and nobility of the day.
The history is actually far richer than I'm entailing. Regardless, my original statements remain factually accurate.
The simple fact is, even after duels migrated away from swords to pistols, it was the exception rather than the rule for the duel to actually result in someone's death.
Wow - I was doing that back in '94 and maybe even earlier. And in discussion with other developers at the time, the implementation was obvious. Its not exactly rocket science. You have a bucket which holds one item. You need to hold multiple items. How do you resolve that? There are a finite number of ways to resolve the issue and all of which are obvious to anyone how is looking to resolve the issue.
I don't care what the judge says, if your summary is accurate, its entirely invalidated as being obvious, regardless of prior art. And frankly, I can't imagine there not being almost limitless prior art.
That's a really good point. Some aircraft can't legally fly if it gets too hot, specifically because of its composite construction. That means an afternoon departure from Arizona or New Mexico may be prohibited. There's a nice little sensor your check during pre-flight. If its red, your flight is scrubbed.
Both the rapier and foil were generally considered a gentleman's weapon and generally not used against armored opponents. Generally armor was worn by the military and both the rapier and foil were considered a non-military, civilian's weapon. In fact, one of the foil's biggest advantages is that it was generally non-lethal and yet still allowed for gentlemen to resolve their disputes while respecting the mortality of mere man. Both the foil and the rapier were generally a gentleman's weapon of ornate defense. That's not to say they can't or were not lethal.
I did some quick checking about found graphene's combustion point is roughly on par with diamond. Which basically means, by the time you're concerned about graphene's fire risk, something else has already gone horribly, horribly wrong. Its not a serious consideration, especially given that this material would like be use in conjunction with epoxies (which in of themselves can also be fire retardant) and other materials (plastic, aluminum, steel, or titanium).
The space shuttle's landing gear is specifically not made from aluminum because aluminum wonderfully burns. In fact, its one of the primary elements of thermite. The space shuttle uses titanium rather than aluminum for its landing gear.
A material doesn't have to be cheaper in *every* application than anything else to be successful. It need only solve a problem *within a certain set of valuable constraints* more cheaply than anything else.
Very likely yes. That's the whole concept behind composite construction. Generally, you're never going to use a single ply. Rather, you'll bind them with epoxy of some type; which in turn would prevent oxidation and contact with any other caustic elements. Not to mention, but to provide utility for most construction materials, these types of materials are typically turned 45' against its previous layer allowing to to provide tensile strength in all directions. Though it may not be the case here.
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You do realize that that "precedent" was set in the US Constitution, right? Congress has the sole authority to coin money.
What a crazy misinterpretation. If we assume your poor interpretation, no currency exists except US currency. The simple fact is, your post is absolute nonsense. The US Constitution grants sole authority to coin US CURRENCY. Non-US currency can freely be coin and exchange is even allowed. So long as bitcoins are not presented at legal US tender, the absolutely are constitutionally allowed; as are all other foreign currencies. As as far as I know, it is not illegal to coin non-US currency within US borders. As such, I can't see how bitcoin is illegal in any way so long as its not presented as US coined currency - and its not as far as I know.
I'm talking about pills for oral consumption.
It wasn't so long ago you could purchase antibiotics. A lot of first aid kits used to supply antibiotics. The problem they found, people did take antibiotics and worse, not a full regiment, which created antibiotic resistant strains of bugs. They started requiring prescriptions by doctor and that largely addressed the issue until doctors started over prescribing once big pharm starting giving rewards for pushing drugs.
Superb fighters.
Not in the least. They are incompetent fighters who become empowered by the consumption of drugs. They notoriously poor fighters, strategists, and tacticians. They are in no way comparable to the Apache. To do so it to gravely insult the Apache people. The comparison is disgusting.
Frequently, the only thing which makes Somolies noteworthy is they are typically fearless (from drug consumption) and completely ruthless and immoral. Which means the best solution for dealing with Somolian pirates is to brutally kill any and all, on sight.
Not to diminish their considerable task, but their rotor sizes means they are required to hover within ground effect, which considerably reduces the overall challenge. Again, that's not the same thing from saying their challenge is easy - as it most definitely is not.
Ugh. Posts like yours make my head hurt because they are so illogical. Basically the judge has ruled its legal to hinder legal investigations with probable cause and has gone as far providing unique legal protections to a special category of criminals. Its illogical and completely unsupported by law and even logic. The judge and all of his supporters are idiots.
Like so many issues which relate to piracy, people get all emotional and completely lose sight of the fact that the emotion is almost always completely wrong. The simple fact is, an IP address may not always identify a specific person (frequently it actually does), regardless, it absolutely is probable cause to facilitate additional investigation. The problem is, people confuse that with how its instrumented in the streets. Meaning, idiot police then use the IP as a correlation to justify arrests rather than to further an investigation.
So in a nut shell, this judge (and all of his supporters), police, and torte lawyers are all wrong. Period. Contrary to the stupidity of the judge, there is no valid reason to stop subpoenas. Which means, the judge is 100% wrong. The flip side of that is, an IP address does not always translate to a specific person and is therefore not a reliable form of identification to justify arrest or legal prosecution. It is, however, probable cause for additional investigation.
In a nut shell, the judge and pro-pirates are completely wrong.
It bugs me to no end that programmers, architects and CS engineers will design a software system that pretty much ignores having physical separation of service tiers for things like this.
Frequently its someone who is completely out of touch with technology and paid 10x more who make these mandates of engineers.
That would imply guidance wings
It can all be done by spin variance, induced drag, and slight changes in cg. No need for fins.
I'm slightly confused how blood on your car tires is a likely transfer case.
Its the exact same reason spitting was outlawed long ago. The contamination can transfer to soil where it can be inhaled at a later time. Given that the tire is likely to go where you and your family resides, its not a pathogen you likely want around your house.
During the Vietnam War, Colt sold the M-16 to the Army with the promise that it would never need cleaning. And they were right. They just forgot to add the "unless you want it to keep firing" part.
Absolutely wrong. Colt sold them the weapon stating it was self cleaning allowing it to go longer durations between cleaning. It was. Colt designed the weapon to be sold with a cleaning kit (included in butt of rifle), to use specific gun powder, and to be designed with a specific process (chroming) to ensure carbon didn't collect, allowing the action to naturally scape carbon away. These weapons were tested with troops and the troops fell in love. Most couldn't wait for the weapon to be deployed en mass as it and its ammunition was far lighter; making it a literal game changing on the battlefield.
The bean counters morons (yes, they are the literal definition of idiots) decided they knew better than the manufacturers, despite knowing absolutely nothing about firearms. They decided they could save money by redesigning components (no chroming), changed powder used in rounds to high carbon, and by not providing a cleaning kit. As a result, thousands of US soldiers were murdered with a "weapon" in hand which couldn't fire. McNamara justified their deaths by all the money he saved. McNamara has the blood of thousands of dead military personnel on his hands. Their deaths have nothing to do with Colt.
They are commonly eaten. In Central and South America, they are an important source of protein. In fact, many consider them a delicacy. Armadillos frequently sell out in markets by mid morning specifically because they are in high demand.
The fact leprosy follows an age and gender trends suggests you're far more likely to get leprosy playing and working than from consumption of its flesh. Interestingly enough, armadillos are only found in the Americas and yet Asia and Africa have far, far, far higher rates of leprosy.
I'd also like to point out, many serious diseases are also associated with pork, beef, and domestic turkey, and yet rarely do people have significant problems specifically because we all understand the importance of proper food preparation. Now, I'm not suggesting we all run out and start handling wild armadillos but statistically, they are not primary carriers and despite their daily consumption in large scale, other countries have far higher contamination rates and yet have no armadillos.
What the hell are you talking about?
I saw an essay once by a anthropologist who made the claim that video games and sports do not increase violence. His argument in a nutshell was the humans like all mammals have a very deep seated sense of play vs serious business
I can tell you authoritatively that guy in an idiot.
Most professional athletes got where they are specifically because their play is a "serious business." There are many a player who have no problem breaking your arm so they can make that catch. They justify it as the risks of playing the game and a risk you willingly accepted when you started playing.
The simple fact is, people perceive the world in different ways. For some people, a silly, friendly game is just that. For others, that same game is a means of proving they are better than someone else and they'll do anything they can make that statement. Its not really a question of games, its a question of the person.
Certain people in our society can rationalize anything or have little concern for the societal fallout. In many cases, these people go on to become sports stars, successful businessmen, or serial killers.
Welcome to police standard operating procedures 101. Police are actively being taught to be more brutal, more confrontational, and more militant. There is an active effort by police departments to not hire intelligent officers (average IQ or lower). Furthermore, they are encouraged to not know the local laws they are charged with enforcing. The combination makes for a highly functional, zombie-like police officer who tends to forcefully arrest and ask questions later. This in turn leaves the courts to sort things out. As a result, we have over crowded courts where judges (frequently in a profit sharing plan with police/sheriff) directly pump up their incomes from court fees and tickets from everyone who goes in front the judges..
Normally, the FBI is only sent when they require an investigation. Example, US embassy blown up. In this case, there wasn't so much a need for investigation as there was intelligence gathering. Again, not really a job for the FBI. Furthermore, there is a long documented history of the CIA performing enforcement actions - legal,means of local forces, US military, or otherwise.
Not trying to be a prick, but the FBI is for domestic crimes and domestic enforcement. The CIA is for external crimes (threats); among other things. Contrary to movie crap, it would be the CIA, not the FBI, which is exactly why the CIA has always handled such issues.
Non-Lethal? Are you kidding?
No, not kidding at all. You seem to be seriously confused. Just because people did die doesn't mean it wasn't largely non-lethal. Unless you wish to re-write history, the story starts and stops there.
You need to keep in mind, they were in fact, not upset that people were dieing. Rather, they were upset about WHO was dieing. You do realize, even during wartime, it was the exception rather than the rule, for the wealthy and/or royalty to actually die in combat. Before the 20th century, it was almost universally true, with the largest exception being the Crusades. It was the commoner who actually did the dieing. Accordingly, any activity which negatively affected the transfer or wealth and power was of concern to the wealthy and nobility of the day.
The history is actually far richer than I'm entailing. Regardless, my original statements remain factually accurate.
The simple fact is, even after duels migrated away from swords to pistols, it was the exception rather than the rule for the duel to actually result in someone's death.
Wow - I was doing that back in '94 and maybe even earlier. And in discussion with other developers at the time, the implementation was obvious. Its not exactly rocket science. You have a bucket which holds one item. You need to hold multiple items. How do you resolve that? There are a finite number of ways to resolve the issue and all of which are obvious to anyone how is looking to resolve the issue.
I don't care what the judge says, if your summary is accurate, its entirely invalidated as being obvious, regardless of prior art. And frankly, I can't imagine there not being almost limitless prior art.
That's a really good point. Some aircraft can't legally fly if it gets too hot, specifically because of its composite construction. That means an afternoon departure from Arizona or New Mexico may be prohibited. There's a nice little sensor your check during pre-flight. If its red, your flight is scrubbed.
Both the rapier and foil were generally considered a gentleman's weapon and generally not used against armored opponents. Generally armor was worn by the military and both the rapier and foil were considered a non-military, civilian's weapon. In fact, one of the foil's biggest advantages is that it was generally non-lethal and yet still allowed for gentlemen to resolve their disputes while respecting the mortality of mere man. Both the foil and the rapier were generally a gentleman's weapon of ornate defense. That's not to say they can't or were not lethal.
I did some quick checking about found graphene's combustion point is roughly on par with diamond. Which basically means, by the time you're concerned about graphene's fire risk, something else has already gone horribly, horribly wrong. Its not a serious consideration, especially given that this material would like be use in conjunction with epoxies (which in of themselves can also be fire retardant) and other materials (plastic, aluminum, steel, or titanium).
I don't think an apology is due or forthcoming.
The space shuttle's landing gear is specifically not made from aluminum because aluminum wonderfully burns. In fact, its one of the primary elements of thermite. The space shuttle uses titanium rather than aluminum for its landing gear.
A material doesn't have to be cheaper in *every* application than anything else to be successful. It need only solve a problem *within a certain set of valuable constraints* more cheaply than anything else.
Agreed. Titanium is a classic example.
Oppss - I said, "from horseback", I meant, "against opponent on horseback."
Very likely yes. That's the whole concept behind composite construction. Generally, you're never going to use a single ply. Rather, you'll bind them with epoxy of some type; which in turn would prevent oxidation and contact with any other caustic elements. Not to mention, but to provide utility for most construction materials, these types of materials are typically turned 45' against its previous layer allowing to to provide tensile strength in all directions. Though it may not be the case here.