it is an evolving set of interpretations based on the four basic tests found in what is called the "lemon test." look it up.
Yes, let's look it up.
Lemon test[edit]
The Court's decision in this case established the "Lemon test", which details the requirements for legislation concerning religion. It consists of three prongs:
The government's action must have a secular legislative purpose; (Purpose Prong) The government's action must not have the primary effect of either advancing or inhibiting religion; (Effect Prong) The government's action must not result in an "excessive government entanglement" with religion. (Entanglement Prong)
The last time I logged into Google, there was a banner on the top of the browser window. "Our Privacy Policies Have Changed" and such, in bright Google blue.
I actually read the privacy policy change.
Then I unticked the box. They won't be using my "face" in ads. Bam.
This is really, really hard to do.
I wish some other (nearly all) companies were this forthcoming with their privacy policy changes. Especially when they put the onus on the user to actively diff the changes for their own selves in order to actually find them. They don't even take the minimum effort to post a notice.
No, but there are TV repeaters like the VCR Rabbit from the 1980s that are entirely legal, and do exactly what Areo do - rebroadcast taped or OTA (via the VCR's tuner) to another device.
Why was it called the Rabbit? Because it multiplies the video signal.
This is merely a VCR plus VCR Rabbit in a cabinet in a data-center paid for via subscription for the service. You could roll out your own rebroadcasting DVR and stick it in a closet or under your TV as part of your media system and pipe the signal back out to the Internet available to only your devices like this does.
There's "mathematically true" at arbitrary precision and then there's reality, where the difference is not even a rounding error when brought to 4 places.
Anyone who says that scp is slower than unencrypted, as if it makes a real difference in wall time, needs a slap.
I started using it a couple weeks ago because https is a useless waste of cycles....
but at least they don't force you to use https and heat up your but at least they don't force you to use https and heat up your CPU for no good reasonCPU for no good reason
What.
I had someone else trying to tell me that scp is slower because encryption slows the file transfer.
You do realize the article is about Boston, not New York City, right?
Since when is NYC part of New England?
NYC was New Amsterdam. Owned by the Dutch who also owned Pennsylvania and then sold all their holdings in North America to the English.
Know your fucking history, numbnuts.
True story:
Walking in Midtown, with a friend from Amsterdam. Walk by the ING building at 230 Park Ave. "You know, you guys used to own all of this" "Yeah, but we traded it, like we trade everything."
>They are clearly biased, superficial, and quality is clearly not a goal.
News for clowns by clowns. To make sure that clowns are elected to our legislature, to threaten the world economy by screwing with the dollar and the US credit rating, of which bonds are used as backing for other securities.
Because on party can't un-twist its panties about healthcare.
Warning: Begin rant:
The instant that mortgage-backed-securities were no longer AAA "same as cash" rated, Bear Stearns disappeared in a sea of red ink and the rest of the economy with it, affecting banks worldwide that used these "cash equivalents". The US defaulting on its debt is like that but worse. Threatening to tank our economy like that would be an act of war if it was done by a foreign country. And it will take Brazil's with it.
>except I assume you're just trolling to piss people off.
No, I deliberately wrote what I did not as a troll, but as an actual insult. You really can't read, just like the guy earlier in the thread that pointed out that Manhattan is crowded. No shit. What, exactly, was your point in repeating what he said?
>read what you wrote
I read it. Apparently I also forgot to criticize your choice of crayon.
...it was in a movie, doesn't mean it's a good idea.
So instead of actually touching something, we're supposed to be manipulating our hands out in space, accurately, with nothing to rest them on, like playing a Theremin all day. A Theremin is a box with an antenna. You wave your hands and make "space sounds" - the music you heard in all those 1950s science-fiction movies. Ever play one? They are effin' difficult, because you're just waving your hands in the air using your muscle memory as reference points for tones only. Anyone who is good at playing a Theremin is a musical instrument genius.
And we want to bring this to computer interfaces?
What drugs are you on? You need to either decrease or increase the dose, because whatever it is, it's wrong.
US news outlets have become so dumbed-down that in order to get what used to be regular news, one must pay attention to foreign broadcasters and read foreign print media (on the web, natch). I have NBC World News (the most ironic title ever) DVRed, and I FF through most of it. The rest of the Big Three, CBS and ABC, are like NBC - fluff. CNN Headline News doesn't even exist anymore. BBC, CBC, SRI (which went satellite only in 2004 and web as swissinfo.ch), DW, Al Jazeera, etc. All more reliable and informative than anything here. I skim the local news and anything national is covered far better by foreign press. And then there is just going to the wire services directly.
Fox "news" is just horrid. The lowest of all of them, catering to the lowest possible denominator - the people most easily propagandized. Since doing this sells a lot better than anything "intellectual", the other networks followed right on down the road to mediocrity. Thus the Fox effect.
As for print, nobody in his right mind reads Time, Newsweek, or US Snooze. Ever since the WSJ became a Murdoch property, that is also suspect, especially in the editorial department.
One reads the Pink Paper and The Economist. Even The Guardian is better.
Oh hey, another person who can't read where it says "voluntary compliance" and "good neighbor."
What the fuck.
After this stretch of people who can't find their arse with both hands when it comes to reading comprehension, I have to now say "yes" that hard and fast regulation is needed instead of voluntary compliance with best practices, because people are goddamned stupid.
The question is whether crowdfundingâ"better known for financing things such as games and indie movies, at this pointâ"could catch on as a way of funding residential projects.
Beyond a certain size, which is variable, you need taxes instead of voluntary donations. Because some people are just leeches on the system.
Yes, I'm looking at you so-called libertarians, randroids, and anarchists that want all the bennies of living in a civilized society but think that paying for it is bad.
Really, it is. There isn't a single application worth using on Linux (where mono was meant to be used) that uses Mono. And there won't be. Because Mono is Microsoft Technology, and Microsoft has threatened, in the press, that Linux violates 235 MS patents (which they refuse to enumerate).
So despite the "community promise" that Microsoft published (thus giving Mono developers the protection of estoppel), there aren't any Mono devs left, except maybe Miguel himself.
I've never seen one in the wild either, just like I haven't seen any kind of Surface (RT,Pro,Pro2) in the wild either. Sold out, eh? Sold out as in "pushed into the channel by threatening our customers over discounts for other things"?
The Kin is sitting in the landfill, on top of the concrete covering the pile of Lisas. It may soon have company.
>To be fair, Obama did expand single payer to 1/3 of the uninsured population.
That he did.
>Bush expanded Medicare
That he did too.
But it wasn't enough, IMO. After experiencing the Canadian healthcare system as a furriner and being entirely satisfied with the results, the concerns that you hear on this side of the border are so overblown. My Canadian friends get horrified when I tell them what we pay for health insurance and where we rank in overall results (we pay 2x per capita, and 6 steps below them, at 37'th place, typically). One of my Canadian friends who now lives in a Great Plains state, never had the problems north of the border that she's had here trying to get ins companies to pay out. (Ontario, fer instance, has OHIP, the single insurer for the province paid for out of taxes).
With single payer, there could be massive cost-savings, as the Canadian system makes an effort to keep prices from being out of control. My asthma meds north of the border, out of pocket, cash, uninsured, are the same as my co-pay here. Office visits, cash, uninsured, are likewise affordable.
And United Health (for-profit, US based health ins) was almost useless when I had to get them to pay for a hospital admission in Lindsay, Ontario. Fuckers.
"I'm voting for. I never would have guessed that Obama would be Bush II on almost any issue that matters."
When Obama took Single-Payer off the table straight away, I was.... livid. That and continuing the wars as he has done to the point where we almost invaded Syria.
But under Romney, we would have been in Iran a month after inauguration.
Unless some sort of financial malfeasance can be sufficiently proved the corporate veil works. Look at what happened with TheScoGroup . You'd think that IBM would have the power to pierce the corporate veil and nail Microsoft for champerty. They didn't.
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it is an evolving set of interpretations based on the four basic tests found in what is called the "lemon test." look it up.
Yes, let's look it up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_v._Kurtzman
Oh hey, it's entirely unrelated, asshole.
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The last time I logged into Google, there was a banner on the top of the browser window. "Our Privacy Policies Have Changed" and such, in bright Google blue.
I actually read the privacy policy change.
Then I unticked the box. They won't be using my "face" in ads. Bam.
This is really, really hard to do.
I wish some other (nearly all) companies were this forthcoming with their privacy policy changes. Especially when they put the onus on the user to actively diff the changes for their own selves in order to actually find them. They don't even take the minimum effort to post a notice.
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BMO
No, but there are TV repeaters like the VCR Rabbit from the 1980s that are entirely legal, and do exactly what Areo do - rebroadcast taped or OTA (via the VCR's tuner) to another device.
Why was it called the Rabbit? Because it multiplies the video signal.
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-06-22/business/fi-20799_1_rabbit-system
This is merely a VCR plus VCR Rabbit in a cabinet in a data-center paid for via subscription for the service. You could roll out your own rebroadcasting DVR and stick it in a closet or under your TV as part of your media system and pipe the signal back out to the Internet available to only your devices like this does.
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" but the statement is strictly true."
There's "mathematically true" at arbitrary precision and then there's reality, where the difference is not even a rounding error when brought to 4 places.
Anyone who says that scp is slower than unencrypted, as if it makes a real difference in wall time, needs a slap.
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BMO
"Considerations to be discussed later" is rarely a powerful diplomatic pose.'"
No shit. It means those considerations consist entirely, wholly, and purely, of bupkis.
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I started using it a couple weeks ago because https is a useless waste of cycles. ...
but at least they don't force you to use https and heat up your but at least they don't force you to use https and heat up your CPU for no good reasonCPU for no good reason
What.
I had someone else trying to tell me that scp is slower because encryption slows the file transfer.
I.... I just don't know...
What the hell is going on?!
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That actually sounds like a brilliant idea.
Get them to put themselves in the pot.
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None of that makes NYC part of New England. Sorry.
How the heck do you get that then when I said:
Since when is NYC part of New England?
How? Tell me.
Are you being deliberately obtuse?
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|> the largest city in New England.
You do realize the article is about Boston, not New York City, right?
Since when is NYC part of New England?
NYC was New Amsterdam. Owned by the Dutch who also owned Pennsylvania and then sold all their holdings in North America to the English.
Know your fucking history, numbnuts.
True story:
Walking in Midtown, with a friend from Amsterdam. Walk by the ING building at 230 Park Ave. "You know, you guys used to own all of this" "Yeah, but we traded it, like we trade everything."
Also
"Everything here is big, except your churches"
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>savoir
french - v. "to know"
Yes, I do know others' suffering.
I also savor, with drawn butter.
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>They are clearly biased, superficial, and quality is clearly not a goal.
News for clowns by clowns. To make sure that clowns are elected to our legislature, to threaten the world economy by screwing with the dollar and the US credit rating, of which bonds are used as backing for other securities.
Because on party can't un-twist its panties about healthcare.
Warning: Begin rant:
The instant that mortgage-backed-securities were no longer AAA "same as cash" rated, Bear Stearns disappeared in a sea of red ink and the rest of the economy with it, affecting banks worldwide that used these "cash equivalents". The US defaulting on its debt is like that but worse. Threatening to tank our economy like that would be an act of war if it was done by a foreign country. And it will take Brazil's with it.
End rant.
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BMO
>except I assume you're just trolling to piss people off.
No, I deliberately wrote what I did not as a troll, but as an actual insult. You really can't read, just like the guy earlier in the thread that pointed out that Manhattan is crowded. No shit. What, exactly, was your point in repeating what he said?
>read what you wrote
I read it. Apparently I also forgot to criticize your choice of crayon.
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BMO
...it was in a movie, doesn't mean it's a good idea.
So instead of actually touching something, we're supposed to be manipulating our hands out in space, accurately, with nothing to rest them on, like playing a Theremin all day. A Theremin is a box with an antenna. You wave your hands and make "space sounds" - the music you heard in all those 1950s science-fiction movies. Ever play one? They are effin' difficult, because you're just waving your hands in the air using your muscle memory as reference points for tones only. Anyone who is good at playing a Theremin is a musical instrument genius.
And we want to bring this to computer interfaces?
What drugs are you on? You need to either decrease or increase the dose, because whatever it is, it's wrong.
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BMO
why is the bbc first to report on this?
Because of the Fox effect.
US news outlets have become so dumbed-down that in order to get what used to be regular news, one must pay attention to foreign broadcasters and read foreign print media (on the web, natch). I have NBC World News (the most ironic title ever) DVRed, and I FF through most of it. The rest of the Big Three, CBS and ABC, are like NBC - fluff. CNN Headline News doesn't even exist anymore. BBC, CBC, SRI (which went satellite only in 2004 and web as swissinfo.ch), DW, Al Jazeera, etc. All more reliable and informative than anything here. I skim the local news and anything national is covered far better by foreign press. And then there is just going to the wire services directly.
Fox "news" is just horrid. The lowest of all of them, catering to the lowest possible denominator - the people most easily propagandized. Since doing this sells a lot better than anything "intellectual", the other networks followed right on down the road to mediocrity. Thus the Fox effect.
As for print, nobody in his right mind reads Time, Newsweek, or US Snooze. Ever since the WSJ became a Murdoch property, that is also suspect, especially in the editorial department.
One reads the Pink Paper and The Economist. Even The Guardian is better.
None are US based.
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...and reading all the faux outrage (because it is) over the poor cockroaches...
I'm gonna go boil up some lobsters - just to piss you guys off - and I will savor every butter-dipped bite.
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Oh hey, another person who can't read where it says "voluntary compliance" and "good neighbor."
What the fuck.
After this stretch of people who can't find their arse with both hands when it comes to reading comprehension, I have to now say "yes" that hard and fast regulation is needed instead of voluntary compliance with best practices, because people are goddamned stupid.
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BMO
The question is whether crowdfundingâ"better known for financing things such as games and indie movies, at this pointâ"could catch on as a way of funding residential projects.
Beyond a certain size, which is variable, you need taxes instead of voluntary donations. Because some people are just leeches on the system.
Yes, I'm looking at you so-called libertarians, randroids, and anarchists that want all the bennies of living in a civilized society but think that paying for it is bad.
--
BMO
Mono is dead. It's been dead for years.
Really, it is. There isn't a single application worth using on Linux (where mono was meant to be used) that uses Mono. And there won't be. Because Mono is Microsoft Technology, and Microsoft has threatened, in the press, that Linux violates 235 MS patents (which they refuse to enumerate).
So despite the "community promise" that Microsoft published (thus giving Mono developers the protection of estoppel), there aren't any Mono devs left, except maybe Miguel himself.
Microsoft stuff is just plain toxic.
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BMO
Remember the Kin?
I do.
You don't? Never seen one in the wild?
I've never seen one in the wild either, just like I haven't seen any kind of Surface (RT,Pro,Pro2) in the wild either. Sold out, eh? Sold out as in "pushed into the channel by threatening our customers over discounts for other things"?
The Kin is sitting in the landfill, on top of the concrete covering the pile of Lisas. It may soon have company.
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Nope, it's still illegal for the medicare and medicaid to bargain with the drug manufacturers.
Because the "magic hand of the free market solves everything"
The "magic hand" also gives a UFIA.
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>To be fair, Obama did expand single payer to 1/3 of the uninsured population.
That he did.
>Bush expanded Medicare
That he did too.
But it wasn't enough, IMO. After experiencing the Canadian healthcare system as a furriner and being entirely satisfied with the results, the concerns that you hear on this side of the border are so overblown. My Canadian friends get horrified when I tell them what we pay for health insurance and where we rank in overall results (we pay 2x per capita, and 6 steps below them, at 37'th place, typically). One of my Canadian friends who now lives in a Great Plains state, never had the problems north of the border that she's had here trying to get ins companies to pay out. (Ontario, fer instance, has OHIP, the single insurer for the province paid for out of taxes).
With single payer, there could be massive cost-savings, as the Canadian system makes an effort to keep prices from being out of control. My asthma meds north of the border, out of pocket, cash, uninsured, are the same as my co-pay here. Office visits, cash, uninsured, are likewise affordable.
And United Health (for-profit, US based health ins) was almost useless when I had to get them to pay for a hospital admission in Lindsay, Ontario. Fuckers.
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BMO
"I'm voting for. I never would have guessed that Obama would be Bush II on almost any issue that matters."
When Obama took Single-Payer off the table straight away, I was.... livid. That and continuing the wars as he has done to the point where we almost invaded Syria.
But under Romney, we would have been in Iran a month after inauguration.
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But I don't think this is true
I believe it was a freeper thing.
Notice the sign on the first picture:
http://washingtonindependent.com/31868/scenes-from-the-new-american-tea-party (and only a month after Obama's inauguation)
Wikipedia says "teabagger" refers to tea partiers. The talk page for disambiguation is funny. For some people.
As for both parties sucking....
I agree. But the Republicans seem more wild-eyed and mean-spirited about it. "Food stamps are BAD!" I mean come on, guys...
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>Of course Microsoft is untouchable
The corporate veil was TSG's. TSG vs. The Nazgul (ibm lawyers). Who would win, typically?
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" but they are not completely judgement-proof,"
Unless some sort of financial malfeasance can be sufficiently proved the corporate veil works. Look at what happened with TheScoGroup . You'd think that IBM would have the power to pierce the corporate veil and nail Microsoft for champerty. They didn't.
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