The Conservative MPs get cushy jobs after they retire from politics or get their ass booted out of parliament by displeased voters. What the mere citizens get is irreverent.
If your body fails to produce sperm and does not have the ability to transmit it properly to a female host then MAYBE you shouldn't be having children?
Right. Because one specific defect automatically means you have no useful genetic characteristics.
This statement implies taxes are not considered a "charge,"
A tax is not a charge, it's a tax.
A charge is a usually consistent payment for a service used by people specifically and is paid at approximately the time of use.
A tax is a usually proportional payment for services used by people in general and is not necessarily paid at time of use.
A road toll would be a charge. It's a consistent payment specifically for the use of that road by your vehicle and paid when you enter the road.
A fuel tax would be a tax. It's a proportional (to amount of fuel) payment for government services in general and is paid when you buy the fuel, not when you use a road or the fuel.
it is neither practical nor healthy for the body politic to have a 'highest law' that is impossibly long and detailed for most people to understand
Instead, you make a short and simple document, and append a couple thousand pages of interpretation too long and detailed for most people to understand.
The "militia is everyone" (more specifically, the militia is "every free able-bodied white male citizen between the ages of 18 and 45", later amended to include black men after the civil war) isn't to do with constitutional law. That's laid out in the Second Militia Act of 1792 and thus subject to the whims of Congress.
Prime Minster and President are both valid translations of Presidente del Gobierno. Presumably Prime Minister gets used more as English speaking countries are accustomed to the head of government in a constitutional monarchy being called that, as in Commonwealth countries.
So? That merely shows that Stradivarius violins really aren't specially wonderful sounding and throws into question their actual worth in terms of performing value. It says nothing about whether they can examine the thing and identify that it is indeed a Stradivarius as opposed to one made by some other guy.
Some people do get paid to contribute patches or features
That "some" is higher than one might expect. According to the Linux Foundation's most recent report about kernel development, at least 70% of Linux kernel development is done by people being paid to do it. Red Hat (who'd a figured?), Novell, IBM, Intel, Oracle, and the Linux Foundation itself make about about 1/3rd of kernel work.
How many times did World of Warcraft get downloaded illegally? Zero? Oh yeah.
Quite a bit more than zero. There're hundreds of private servers for WoW with probably at least a couple million players total. Blizzard just generally doesn't bother going after the non-profiting ones (if you're making money off it, you're going to get hammered), except at expansion releases, as they aren't meaningful competition (even the best ones have tons of broken stuff) and shutting them down is unlikely to pull those players into the real game, likely as they simply can't afford $15/month.
"Didn't crumple"? Are we watching the same video? look at 2:29 and tell me that again. The front of the Smart is nothing but crumple as they stow the engine in the back.
but in the US, you can get a car for the same price with equivalent gas mileage and more space, with more power, that's safer at highways speeds.
The issue is that the US version of the smart is a gimped heap of crap riding on the name and reputation of the EU version without getting remotely similar performance.
Combined fuel economy: US smart (premium gasoline) - 36 MPG, 6.5L/100km EU smart (premium gasoline) - 50 MPG, 4.7L/100km EU smart (diesel) - 69MPG, 3.4L/100km
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What are you getting in return?
The Conservative MPs get cushy jobs after they retire from politics or get their ass booted out of parliament by displeased voters. What the mere citizens get is irreverent.
If your body fails to produce sperm and does not have the ability to transmit it properly to a female host then MAYBE you shouldn't be having children?
Right. Because one specific defect automatically means you have no useful genetic characteristics.
This statement implies taxes are not considered a "charge,"
A tax is not a charge, it's a tax.
A charge is a usually consistent payment for a service used by people specifically and is paid at approximately the time of use.
A tax is a usually proportional payment for services used by people in general and is not necessarily paid at time of use.
A road toll would be a charge. It's a consistent payment specifically for the use of that road by your vehicle and paid when you enter the road.
A fuel tax would be a tax. It's a proportional (to amount of fuel) payment for government services in general and is paid when you buy the fuel, not when you use a road or the fuel.
it is neither practical nor healthy for the body politic to have a 'highest law' that is impossibly long and detailed for most people to understand
Instead, you make a short and simple document, and append a couple thousand pages of interpretation too long and detailed for most people to understand.
The "militia is everyone" (more specifically, the militia is "every free able-bodied white male citizen between the ages of 18 and 45", later amended to include black men after the civil war) isn't to do with constitutional law. That's laid out in the Second Militia Act of 1792 and thus subject to the whims of Congress.
This guy does not appear to be an "executive" under any reasonable definition of the word. He was fairly high in middle management.
Prime Minster and President are both valid translations of Presidente del Gobierno. Presumably Prime Minister gets used more as English speaking countries are accustomed to the head of government in a constitutional monarchy being called that, as in Commonwealth countries.
You might be thinking of Emacs.
Past version 1.12 they dropped the 1, hence why they're up to 23.3 now.
But if it was real, then they should be broken to bits too.
Paypal, the buyer, or both?
So? That merely shows that Stradivarius violins really aren't specially wonderful sounding and throws into question their actual worth in terms of performing value. It says nothing about whether they can examine the thing and identify that it is indeed a Stradivarius as opposed to one made by some other guy.
Some people do get paid to contribute patches or features
That "some" is higher than one might expect. According to the Linux Foundation's most recent report about kernel development, at least 70% of Linux kernel development is done by people being paid to do it. Red Hat (who'd a figured?), Novell, IBM, Intel, Oracle, and the Linux Foundation itself make about about 1/3rd of kernel work.
How many times did World of Warcraft get downloaded illegally? Zero? Oh yeah.
Quite a bit more than zero. There're hundreds of private servers for WoW with probably at least a couple million players total. Blizzard just generally doesn't bother going after the non-profiting ones (if you're making money off it, you're going to get hammered), except at expansion releases, as they aren't meaningful competition (even the best ones have tons of broken stuff) and shutting them down is unlikely to pull those players into the real game, likely as they simply can't afford $15/month.
I'd put it closer to 0%. Illegal downloaders don't have to worry about DRM, as that gets removed rapidly.
Specialty lighting bulbs are exempt from this law, and those would fall into that category.
Also anything bigger than 150W or smaller than 40W is exempt.
That's Verizon Wireless.
Verizon is a LANDLINE company. They own the phone lines on most of the east coast.
I can't think of a single case in which corporate civil disobedience has succeeded.
I seem to recall there being a little phone company called Qwest saying "No. Come back with a warrant.".
AFAICT:
ALL post-September devices are unlockable.
Some (the ones they list and a couple more) pre-September devices are unlockable, with possibly more becoming unlockable in the coming months.
- about 30% voter turnout
In presidential election years it is more like 58%, twice your claim. And better yet the turnout numbers have been trending up.
Voter turn out was about 37.6% for the 2010 congressional elections.
86.8 million votes out of approximately 231 million persons of voting age.
Not quite his 30% figure, but still rather concerning.
I don't think it's a human-friendly system if we're eventually going to have to deal with it in scientific notation if it does ever take hold.
Why bother with scientific notion? Just use SI prefixes.
Not anymore. They're already in the process of moving away from GD.
https://twitter.com/#!/jimmy_wales/status/150287579642740736
You're aware that the US and British have different gallons, right?
Yes, and all figures are in US gallons. And even if I did goof that up, litres and kilometres are still the same regardless of country.
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"Didn't crumple"? Are we watching the same video? look at 2:29 and tell me that again. The front of the Smart is nothing but crumple as they stow the engine in the back.
but in the US, you can get a car for the same price with equivalent gas mileage and more space, with more power, that's safer at highways speeds.
The issue is that the US version of the smart is a gimped heap of crap riding on the name and reputation of the EU version without getting remotely similar performance.
Combined fuel economy:
US smart (premium gasoline) - 36 MPG, 6.5L/100km
EU smart (premium gasoline) - 50 MPG, 4.7L/100km
EU smart (diesel) - 69MPG, 3.4L/100km