Actually, the constitution gives SCOTUS the power to make a decision for whatever reason they please.
Um, no. All three branches have written limits on what their jobs are....
Sure the constitution dictates what kind of cases the court can see, but it does not dictate to the SCOTUS how the decisions are to be made. None of the examples you gave state that the SCOTUS is required to use the constitution as justification for a ruling, if I remember correctly there are even a couple rulings where SCOTUS said "because that's the way England does it".
All the Supreme Court hearings I've heard Sotomayor take part that have been broadcasted on C-SPAN have shown that she does just what someone in her position should do: stick to the law.
I thought that they were supposed to stick to the Constitution.
Actually, the constitution gives SCOTUS the power to make a decision for whatever reason they please. They have simply chosen historically to make those decisions primarily based on the constitution. However, it is important to note that the congress could easily make them completely impotent with the whole "... with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make."
While there are some very clear benefits of using DNA as evidence in some cases, it can also be deliberately misused to purposefully frame people.
Yeah, just wait until the crooks catch up and start using DNA synthesis to frame people without even having access to their DNA (or just sufficiently contaminating a crime scene to make DNA evidence useless). You may not be able to recreate someone's entire DNA, but you can recreate enough of it to fool the "fingerprint" in the database.
I'd like to know where you got your financial education. I think you need to get a refund. And maybe kill yourself.
As an outsider to investment, it seems to me like this happens a lot with large public companies. It appears that investors get really upset when profits this year are less than profits last year (even if profits are huge) and they encourage the company to start sacrificing long-term stability for short-term income.
Every phone I owned would happily connect to some webpage owned by the cell phone company and proceed to download 200-300k before you could figure out you hit the wrong button.
That's one of the reasons I like older phones, they're too slow to connect to the internet before you can click cancel.
Yes dielectric heating is how microwaves work, that doesn't mean 2.4GHz is special at it.
2.4 GHz is chosen to balance several different issues involved in the dielectric heating of water (different temperatures, good penetration depth, salinity, etc):
Dipole rotation is the mechanism normally referred to as dielectric heating, and is most widely observable in the microwave oven where it operates most efficiently on liquid water, and much less so on fats, sugars, and frozen water.
SMS is broadcast over the air unencrypted. There should be no expectation of privacy.
You mean that you have to have special equipment to receive the message if you're not the intended recipient? I guess that means there should be no expectation of privacy with postal mail either, since with special equipment you can easily read other people's mail.
Those power plant generators have a ridiculously high cost and lead time, and if they do it right, you won't know who did it, so you'd be impotently waggling your spear at no one in particular.
They also run on their own closed-circuit network, so good luck causing trouble without physical access or making yourself pretty obvious digging up the cables.
Even if you could get WINE working with it, You're only going to be able to get a few windows games working.
1) Wine runs plenty of games, provided that you have a good enough video card. I personally use it for Supreme Commander, Borderlands, C&C3, and the StarCraft II Beta - and I'm only using a GeForce 8600M.
2) Linux has it's own games. In addition to the FOSS games there are plenty of indie titles, all of Id's games support Linux, and we're anticipating Steam for Linux in the near future.
The grandparent from ms. Santax is a bee-keeper. He told me about the many losses of complete hyves in recent years, not only at his place, but with the 'competition' also. If this is truly the reason or of an influence of this magnitude as suggested by the article, then we really really really need to shut down those GSM-freqencies and fix it or find a better alternative. Cause else there won't be anybody left to call in about 40 years.
Why do we persist in continuing to believe that somehow we'll cure the problem of religious fundamentalism if only we pound enough data through everyone's skull?...
Because knowledge is the only weapon we believe we have against this problem?
Because there is the pervasive belief that we're just programmable machines. Well if that's so, then why in this day and age do we STILL have people who believe in Creationism? Or ID? Or climate change being false? Wouldn't an overload of correct information purge those beliefs away?
Probably for the exact reason the article stated, that humans are more like a one-time PROM. Apparently, once parents have indoctrinated their children it is incredibly unlikely that any amount of facts, logic, or reason will undo the crappy programming.
Does anyone hear [sic] use it on their computer, I sincerely do not get why anyone would (unless they changes [sic] it radically since the last time I used it).
Yes, I use it on my computer that I have plugged into my TV.
... What is your definition of "no competition left", in such a way that your statement can be backed up with data?...
In many large sectors of our economy (telecom, department stores, petroleum, and OS software are examples) there are only a few providers, and in many regions only one provider. Sometimes this issue is confused through "branding" to make it look like there's a bunch of different companies when they're all just fronts for the same company (see: gas stations). Other times the resources paid for by the public are used exclusively by individual companies (see: telecom). There's also the network effect (see: OS software, wireless telecom) and price fixing to push competitors out of the market (see: all listed).
I think you will find the local terrestrial telecommunications industry, which is actually often non-competitive, to be highly regulated by federal, state, and local laws, not really a "libertarian" situation at all.
Nope, but what they've been pushing for has just made the problem worse. I'd say that an uncompetitive market does not benefit consumers by being unregulated, unless you think that there's some sort of hugely repressive regulations that are keeping other players out of the market. I highly doubt that the regulations we're placing on telecom companies fall into that category.
No, I think we lost the Corporate America looks only to squeeze the most profit out of consumers war. I expect the push for short term investor returns overrides the long term investment required for providing good service.
It's not just that, we've deregulated our economy to the point that there's virtually no competition left. All the push from the libertarians for a "free market" has put us back to the days of robber barons running our country. I honestly think that a lot of these people do not realize that the "free market" is just as broken of an idealized concept as communism. What we really need is a competitive market, not a "free" one.
Given that we tend to aim very reliably, it sounds like the argument here simply about aiming location, which is the result of a few parameters in the software. That's a completely different story than saying the entire system is flawed.
You're fighting a losing battle here, most people don't realize that in the testing phase of a product that you do intentionally stupid crap to see what kind of tolerances are necessary.
... Let's face it.. the vast majority of these cases are going to be from people who see the yellow, could stop perfectly fine, but -assume- that it is the proper time of 4.5s and say to themselves "hah! I can still make that!" and then *click* they get caught. ...
Even if that were true it's perfectly legal in a lot of states, even states where they're starting to ticket people like this. I know of an intersection near where I live that I avoid like the plague because even if you're the first car at the turn you can't make it through the light before it turns red.
I'm an aforementioned moron. The argument is very simple; it's much more effective to let Verizon shoot itself in the foot than to pass a law with potentially harmful side effects.
That would only be true if there were economic incentive for Verizon to change its behavior. Verizon isn't actually shooting itself in the foot because the vast majority of people will continue to purchase service, only the minority of customers who actually attempt to use the service to the full extent will suffer.
Sometimes content includes presentation, but not always content needs it. Most books in particular, as flow of words, of ideas, not of something physical, should be independent of presentation, so any way to transmit it, comfortably enogh for the receiver, should be equivalent, so either audio, reading in a cellphone, pdf, computer montior, printed book or wallscreen should be more or less the same.
I have two reasons I won't buy electronic books:
DRM, a solvable problem - if I can actually "own" my book and not worry about losing it then I won't care. After they are eventually forced to solve this problem I might actually end up trying more books, but I'm not holding my breath.
Collecting, an unsolvable problem - a hardbound book is very much the equivalent of a "collector's edition" and you will not be able to replicate that with an eBook.
Again, I suspect that getting at the bits written by scientists, with the possible exception of the ones working in fields(oil geology, drug development, etc.) that also have lucrative commercial applications, will mainly be a matter of developing norms and mechanisms around releasing it.
The problem is that most institutions will not let us release our materials because they're concerned that there might be a lucrative commercial application and we're just not aware of it yet. At my institution there's an entire chapter of the handbook related to the distribution of research materials, and several sections on the appropriate procedure for getting approval to release those materials. Unless you have tenure you have to follow those rules or you will get fired.
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Last I heard when US ham radio operators provide internet connections they get praised by the press.
Sure the constitution dictates what kind of cases the court can see, but it does not dictate to the SCOTUS how the decisions are to be made. None of the examples you gave state that the SCOTUS is required to use the constitution as justification for a ruling, if I remember correctly there are even a couple rulings where SCOTUS said "because that's the way England does it".
Actually, the constitution gives SCOTUS the power to make a decision for whatever reason they please. They have simply chosen historically to make those decisions primarily based on the constitution. However, it is important to note that the congress could easily make them completely impotent with the whole "... with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make."
Yeah, just wait until the crooks catch up and start using DNA synthesis to frame people without even having access to their DNA (or just sufficiently contaminating a crime scene to make DNA evidence useless). You may not be able to recreate someone's entire DNA, but you can recreate enough of it to fool the "fingerprint" in the database.
As an outsider to investment, it seems to me like this happens a lot with large public companies. It appears that investors get really upset when profits this year are less than profits last year (even if profits are huge) and they encourage the company to start sacrificing long-term stability for short-term income.
That's one of the reasons I like older phones, they're too slow to connect to the internet before you can click cancel.
2.4 GHz is chosen to balance several different issues involved in the dielectric heating of water (different temperatures, good penetration depth, salinity, etc):
http://www1.lsbu.ac.uk/water/microwave.html
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You mean that you have to have special equipment to receive the message if you're not the intended recipient? I guess that means there should be no expectation of privacy with postal mail either, since with special equipment you can easily read other people's mail.
I would direct you to the 1st Amendment and kindly request that you not ask others to STFU ;)
They also run on their own closed-circuit network, so good luck causing trouble without physical access or making yourself pretty obvious digging up the cables.
1) Wine runs plenty of games, provided that you have a good enough video card. I personally use it for Supreme Commander, Borderlands, C&C3, and the StarCraft II Beta - and I'm only using a GeForce 8600M.
2) Linux has it's own games. In addition to the FOSS games there are plenty of indie titles, all of Id's games support Linux, and we're anticipating Steam for Linux in the near future.
I haven't raised bees in a while, but I remember "mites" being the really big problem affecting most hives (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varroa_destructor)
Because knowledge is the only weapon we believe we have against this problem?
Probably for the exact reason the article stated, that humans are more like a one-time PROM. Apparently, once parents have indoctrinated their children it is incredibly unlikely that any amount of facts, logic, or reason will undo the crappy programming.
Yes, I use it on my computer that I have plugged into my TV.
In many large sectors of our economy (telecom, department stores, petroleum, and OS software are examples) there are only a few providers, and in many regions only one provider. Sometimes this issue is confused through "branding" to make it look like there's a bunch of different companies when they're all just fronts for the same company (see: gas stations). Other times the resources paid for by the public are used exclusively by individual companies (see: telecom). There's also the network effect (see: OS software, wireless telecom) and price fixing to push competitors out of the market (see: all listed).
Nope, but what they've been pushing for has just made the problem worse. I'd say that an uncompetitive market does not benefit consumers by being unregulated, unless you think that there's some sort of hugely repressive regulations that are keeping other players out of the market. I highly doubt that the regulations we're placing on telecom companies fall into that category.
It's not just that, we've deregulated our economy to the point that there's virtually no competition left. All the push from the libertarians for a "free market" has put us back to the days of robber barons running our country. I honestly think that a lot of these people do not realize that the "free market" is just as broken of an idealized concept as communism. What we really need is a competitive market, not a "free" one.
You're fighting a losing battle here, most people don't realize that in the testing phase of a product that you do intentionally stupid crap to see what kind of tolerances are necessary.
He who controls the Spice... controls the universe!
Even if that were true it's perfectly legal in a lot of states, even states where they're starting to ticket people like this. I know of an intersection near where I live that I avoid like the plague because even if you're the first car at the turn you can't make it through the light before it turns red.
Ask me about Grim Fandango.
That would only be true if there were economic incentive for Verizon to change its behavior. Verizon isn't actually shooting itself in the foot because the vast majority of people will continue to purchase service, only the minority of customers who actually attempt to use the service to the full extent will suffer.
I have two reasons I won't buy electronic books:
I highly doubt that they hold any rights on "Olympian," I know I think of the newspaper whenever I hear anyone use it.
The problem is that most institutions will not let us release our materials because they're concerned that there might be a lucrative commercial application and we're just not aware of it yet. At my institution there's an entire chapter of the handbook related to the distribution of research materials, and several sections on the appropriate procedure for getting approval to release those materials. Unless you have tenure you have to follow those rules or you will get fired.