The airwaves are public property.
Says you. Just because we were unlucky enough to have radio hit its stride when FDR was in office doesn't mean his socialist policies are right. The airwaves may be *legislated* to be public property, but that doesn't make it so. They should be sold off *permanently* to the highest bidder and the FCC dissolved.
If you like it, please consider joining the project and giving us a hand. (I'm the guy who does the nightly builds.) We're in dire need of more coders.
There was voice comm in the multiplayer game, but I never actually experienced it. It broke on PPCs, and anyway, the networking model only supported AppleTalk LANs, which I never had access to.
Personally, I found the Cato Institute's paper on the privileges and immunities clause very persuasive. They say that had it been enforced as written and intended, we'd be living in a very dfifferent country today. They say that it was essentially intended to grant the feds (court or otherwise) full authority to review *all* state laws for compliance with both enumerated and unenumerated (but traditional) rights. Unfortunately, the original case upholding Jim Crow laws declared that clause meaningless.
Interesting point. It suggests that perhaps the 2nd should have always been interpreted to apply to all levels of government (at the very least), even before the 14th "incorporated" (I think that's the con law term) all the other rights that were originally only binding against the Feds.
Which didn't mean in 179 what it means today. "Regulated" was more in the sense that one might describe a machine part as a "regulator", not the way we now refer to a government offical by that term. IOW, a better rendition in modern language might be "a well organized militia" or even "a well equipped militia".
While I agree in general, the nitpicker in me is forced to point out that your specific point is totally bogus. "Congress shall make no law" is from the *First* Amendment. The key phrase from the Second is "shall not be infringed", as someone on here has in their sig.
The part that displays a dialog if the current page is blank doesn't work on Safari 1.2.3. If you just enter a hostname without a protocol, it replaces the "lank" in "about:blank" with that, and fails to add the coral part (i.e., "google.com" becomes "about:bgoogle.com"; if you enter a full URI w/protocol, it's echoed directly into the location bar, again w/o coral. What exactly are you doing with that grep against/\b\/(\b|$)/?
Firstly, religion: we must make sure that in our quest to discourage endorsement of a particular religion, we do not discourage religion outright. That is, we must ensure that we accept all religions equally, favoring none.
Among the religions we treat equally must also be atheism: we cannot encourage religion per se any more than we can encourage one religion over others.
I'd be interested to see a study on reading Japanese. Modern Japanese texts are typically a mixture of ideograms (Kanji), syllabic scripts (hiragana and katakana), and the occasional bit of alphabetic text (romaji). Is the kanji read with the Chinese-recognizing part of the brain, while the kana and romaji are read with the phonetics part? What impact does this have on reading speed?
IANAL, but AFAIK, they can copyright the new lyrics, but not the tune. I'm pretty sure derivative works of public domain material are copyrightable to the extent that they differ.
Very little of Weird Al's stuff is parody in the legal sense. To be a protected parody, you must "comment on" the original material, not just use it to comment on something else. The only Weird Al songs I'm aware of that would qualify would be "Still Billy Joel To Me", "Smells Like Nirvana", and "Achy-Breaky Song".
The problem is that term "liberal" has been hijacked. Many people today prefer to say "classical liberal" to differentiate themselves from the FDR/LBJ meaning of the term, which describes the modern Democratic party. The original meaning applied to the Democratic party as founded by Thomas Jefferson, who would most likely be considered a libertarian today. The Rebpublicans are only marginally more in line with the philosophy, incidentally, as rejection of religious domination of society was as integral a part of classical liberalism as laissez-faire capitalism was.
IIRC, the gravity/acceleration equivalence is only supposed to be true at a point anyway. Thus, your objection, as well as the other common one, that gravity is spherical while acceleration is flat, says nothing about relativity.
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The airwaves are public property. Says you. Just because we were unlucky enough to have radio hit its stride when FDR was in office doesn't mean his socialist policies are right. The airwaves may be *legislated* to be public property, but that doesn't make it so. They should be sold off *permanently* to the highest bidder and the FCC dissolved.
If you like it, please consider joining the project and giving us a hand. (I'm the guy who does the nightly builds.) We're in dire need of more coders.
There was voice comm in the multiplayer game, but I never actually experienced it. It broke on PPCs, and anyway, the networking model only supported AppleTalk LANs, which I never had access to.
Personally, I found the Cato Institute's paper on the privileges and immunities clause very persuasive. They say that had it been enforced as written and intended, we'd be living in a very dfifferent country today. They say that it was essentially intended to grant the feds (court or otherwise) full authority to review *all* state laws for compliance with both enumerated and unenumerated (but traditional) rights. Unfortunately, the original case upholding Jim Crow laws declared that clause meaningless.
Interesting point. It suggests that perhaps the 2nd should have always been interpreted to apply to all levels of government (at the very least), even before the 14th "incorporated" (I think that's the con law term) all the other rights that were originally only binding against the Feds.
Which didn't mean in 179 what it means today. "Regulated" was more in the sense that one might describe a machine part as a "regulator", not the way we now refer to a government offical by that term. IOW, a better rendition in modern language might be "a well organized militia" or even "a well equipped militia".
Stephenson in-joke, very funny if you've read his books
While I agree in general, the nitpicker in me is forced to point out that your specific point is totally bogus. "Congress shall make no law" is from the *First* Amendment. The key phrase from the Second is "shall not be infringed", as someone on here has in their sig.
ASP is dying, Netcraft confirms it!
Exotic matter does. Don't you know anything about wormhole physics?
I don't know when it will be out, but I can tell you what the Apple headline will be: "Tiger on Tiger".
Correct definition: to affect is to effect an effect.
It works fine when used on an existing URL (i.e., when clicked while on a webpage), just not when one is typed into the dialog.
The part that displays a dialog if the current page is blank doesn't work on Safari 1.2.3. If you just enter a hostname without a protocol, it replaces the "lank" in "about:blank" with that, and fails to add the coral part (i.e., "google.com" becomes "about:bgoogle.com"; if you enter a full URI w/protocol, it's echoed directly into the location bar, again w/o coral. What exactly are you doing with that grep against /\b\/(\b|$)/?
The FA is some of the worst writing I've read since my last visit to Usenet. Is this what passes for front page material here these days?
Reflective of the quality of the FA, IMAO.
From page 37:
Firstly, religion: we must make sure that in our quest to discourage endorsement of a particular religion, we do not discourage religion outright. That is, we must ensure that we accept all religions equally, favoring none.
Among the religions we treat equally must also be atheism: we cannot encourage religion per se any more than we can encourage one religion over others.
I'd be interested to see a study on reading Japanese. Modern Japanese texts are typically a mixture of ideograms (Kanji), syllabic scripts (hiragana and katakana), and the occasional bit of alphabetic text (romaji). Is the kanji read with the Chinese-recognizing part of the brain, while the kana and romaji are read with the phonetics part? What impact does this have on reading speed?
IANAL, but AFAIK, they can copyright the new lyrics, but not the tune. I'm pretty sure derivative works of public domain material are copyrightable to the extent that they differ.
Very little of Weird Al's stuff is parody in the legal sense. To be a protected parody, you must "comment on" the original material, not just use it to comment on something else. The only Weird Al songs I'm aware of that would qualify would be "Still Billy Joel To Me", "Smells Like Nirvana", and "Achy-Breaky Song".
The problem is that term "liberal" has been hijacked. Many people today prefer to say "classical liberal" to differentiate themselves from the FDR/LBJ meaning of the term, which describes the modern Democratic party. The original meaning applied to the Democratic party as founded by Thomas Jefferson, who would most likely be considered a libertarian today. The Rebpublicans are only marginally more in line with the philosophy, incidentally, as rejection of religious domination of society was as integral a part of classical liberalism as laissez-faire capitalism was.
So basically, alumina glass is to corundum as silica glass is to quartz?
Shouldn't we at least be able to see a couple science stations, like McMurdo?
IIRC, the gravity/acceleration equivalence is only supposed to be true at a point anyway. Thus, your objection, as well as the other common one, that gravity is spherical while acceleration is flat, says nothing about relativity.