In addition, the justices may have some decisions pending for which Scalia may not yet have given opinions.
It is not clear that a 'vote from the grave' will be permitted by, among others, Chief Justice Roberts, as vote can and do change between the initial vote and the actual rendering of the decision.
That might deadlock the court 4-4, leaving the appellate decision in place. That will favor conservatives in Texas and favor liberals most everywhere else. I'm pretty sure everyone (other than Cruz and some of the other TP types) will rally around a moderate, and that is just what Obama will nominate.
Frankly, for conservatives, better him than Bernie.
Or they could just wait. A 4 - 4 court favors liberals right now because of the generally liberal makeup of the appellate courts. Then the republicans get to worry about a progressive president-elect's coattails dragging a democratic majority in the Senate. Game over at that point.
On the basis of fatalities per 1billion km we are near the bottom of the list. We are worse than all of Western Europe other than Belgium. Even Spain and Italy which, if memory serves from the time I was involved in providing auto insurance for a rental car operation in Europe, lead Europe in traffic accidents of all kinds (or did, anyway).
I finished this book a week ago. The translation is excellent in my opinion. Where the cultural gap is too wide for normal translation, footnotes appear that you can ignore if you wish, but I found them helpful.
Measles: rarely but occasionally fatal, even in first world countries
Mumps: can cause sterility in males
Varicella: (Chicken pox): Dramatically increases the risk of shingles later in life
Rubella (German measles): rarely but occasionally fatal. Pregnant women exposed to rubella have an increased risk of birth defects.
Influenza: occasionally fatal
Big phama does not set the standards for the administration of vaccines; that's done by the CDC. Take a couple hours and browse their various websites (hint: www.cdc.gov will get you started}. The CDC is a highly professional, evidence based organization that is the envy of the world. I am not a physician or other medical professional nor am I in the employ of a pharmaceutical company. Before I retired I used a number of CDC resources as the basis for risk analysis and risk forecasting which is where I got to know them reasonably well.
I also recommend the brit site badscience.net if you would like to learn more about vaccines on the plus side and the evils of big pharma on the other.
I don't think that is the one. MTIW starts with a dream about life in a world in which the speed of light is 20 MPH or so, invovling bicycles. It has been decades since I read the books so this may be wrong, but I don't recall a box.
Personally, I think the Kindle concept, once the screen gets up to something like 8" x 11" will be the salvation of newspapers. Color would be a help, too. The Kindle 2 has too small a screen to handle headlines and photographs, but landscape on 8" x 11" would work quite well. The ability to deliver the news immediately, and presumably to update during the day but yet in an easily readable screen of inconsquential weight powered by a long life battery might even get my wife to switch. And even to pay a subscription.
When I was just a wee lad, not yet ready for high school, I learned a love of science from the classic Mr. Tompkins series by George Gamow. I think they are still quite useful as introductions, even though the science has moved on a hair.
So I just modded about 150 questions at change.gov to get a sense of the questions and what I, personally, would do as a moderator.
I modded a few 'inappropriate' for asking questions that were posted on a board devoted to politics that demonstrated racial bias or some kind of juvenile focus on sex. I found myself modding down questions that:
(1)assumed facts not in evidence
(2)were thinly disguised debating points, rather than actual questions
(3)asked for a federal response to what was a state oriented question, and/or
(4)were unduly personal for a board designed to surface policy issues important to the country.
In the course of modding, I ran across a fair number of questions about Ill.'s govenor, so censorship is not happening. I found myself modding almost all of them down for one of the four reasons I listed above.
I think what you percieve as 'censorship' is actually the result of the majority of voters coming to conclusions similar to mine, and perhaps even for similar reasons. That the questions drop to the end of the list is not surprsing. Perhaps you will find the questions you are interested in if you start at the bottom of the list where all the unpopular questions reside.
I thought exactly the same thing. The only explanation I can come up with is that the moderator felt, probably with some justification, that anyone just looking at the post would say the same thing.
With this, the time it takes to charge a battery is non-trivial. Its not comparable to the five minutes it takes to fill your gas tank
If this is the same system that has been presented here in San Francisco, then it may also involve swappable batteries. The charging stations might include some at which batteries are switched in a matter of seconds or minutes, aleviating this issue.
I admit I've never actually read Gould or Dawkins, but my impression of PE has always been exactly what you're describing here: evolution doesn't happen at the steady pace that Darwin expected. Sometimes it's really fast because the environment just changed dramatically and there's lots of new stuff to adapt to, and sometimes really slow because the population is as well adapted to its environment as is feasible.
I have read a bit of both (but IANAEB), and it appears to me that for the most part evolution is reasonably gradual, although not so gradual under extreme conditions that you cannot observe it over human lifespans. The Pullitzer prize winning
The Beak of the Finch is a good example of severe evoutionary pressure promoting observable, but still gradual, evolutionay change.
Experiments with e. coli show that both kinds of evolution have been observed in the lab, too. In this case the emergence of a gene to process a new food source was 'aburpt' but keep in mind that the experiment has been running 20 years in this case, and it took many, probably tens or even hundreds of generations, for the mutation to become observable in any gross sense.
That must be new. I got a username and password yesterday. Unfortunately neither my test search nor the one test search that I tested among those posted returned any results. I suspect it was a victim of/.ing before even being posted to/.
I believe the point is that the record companies are repesented by lawyers, hundreds of lawyers, who are trained in the law, and who have experience not just in the strategic use of the law, but in its tactical uses as well. The strategic uses include choice of venue, points of law to be briefed and argued, witnesses to prepare and examine, etc. The tactical uses include the taking of depositions, issuing subpoenas, and requiring access to documents and accountings. All of this can be arcane and difficult to fathom for a non-lawyer, and compliance can be expensive. Non-lawyers are at a disadvantage in both depolying these strategies and tactics and in executing them to the satisfaction of a court. It is not that the defendants were not permitted to speak. It is more as if they could not find the right words to say.
To follow on:
If your candidate is behind in the polls, then even an 'unbiased' swapping between one party and the other will favor the trailing candidate, just by chance.
What is wrong with the free market? When has it ever failed us?
A softball question. One simple example of the failure of the market is the apparent inability of science publishers, particularly in the pharma area, to publish so-called negative results or to spin negative results as if they are postive. In epidemiology and in pharmacology, negative results are at least as important as postive ones ("first, do no harm"). Yet, the greater economic forces of pharmaceutical sales (and nutricutical sales, and outright woo sales) incent the supression, or simple failure to publish, of such findings in pernicious ways.
Check out Ben Goldacre's site (and buy his book while you are there). Tucked away among various rants against, among other things, media coverage of medicine, you will find several discussions about this very phenomonon, and why it is so incredibly bad.
IANAA (accountant) either, but I think the basis value (for tax purposes) is zero assuming it was being written off and discarded, so it is pretty much impossible for it to be valued differently as an employee benefit (which would then be reported on your employer pepared tax forms). You should only face a tax liability if you ever turn around and sell it. I suspect that you may be treated differently if you use it for a long time and sell it at the end as opposed to acquiring lots of similar things and making a little business out of flipping the stuff, say on eBay. That will attract income tax for sure, imo.
IANAL, but I see no reason for that to be illegal. However, you may wish to consider the tax implications: You pay 0, sell for $3000. That sounds a lot like ordniary income to me, and of a magnitude that an IRS audit could pick it up. I would (personally) record the in and the out and declare the income, particularly if you did this regularly. Tax evasion, is, after all, illegal.
I debated with myself for a bit whether to mod you or reply. Reply won. I read the wiki link to Treasury Secretary Paulson. I'm a life long Democrat but nonetheless found much in that bio to admire. You should be ashamed for having posted that link as if to suggest that Paulson should be compared to Thompson in virtually any shape, manner or form.
Note: To those that are considering a 'Woosh' reply to this comment, I will say that I considered the possiblity this was just some obscure sense of humor, but could come up with no plausible way to see this comment as funny.
But assuming that the factor in question (intelligence) is Normally distributed, then the median and the mean (and the mode, of course) are all the same. No harm, no foul.
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Four arms would create symmetry. But add some mods for stronger body as well - great candidates for olympics.
Three arms work for Moties. Why not him?
In addition, the justices may have some decisions pending for which Scalia may not yet have given opinions.
It is not clear that a 'vote from the grave' will be permitted by, among others, Chief Justice Roberts, as vote can and do change between the initial vote and the actual rendering of the decision. That might deadlock the court 4-4, leaving the appellate decision in place. That will favor conservatives in Texas and favor liberals most everywhere else. I'm pretty sure everyone (other than Cruz and some of the other TP types) will rally around a moderate, and that is just what Obama will nominate. Frankly, for conservatives, better him than Bernie.
Or they could just wait. A 4 - 4 court favors liberals right now because of the generally liberal makeup of the appellate courts. Then the republicans get to worry about a progressive president-elect's coattails dragging a democratic majority in the Senate. Game over at that point.
I think this only applies in criminal cases. You do not have a right to a court appointed lawyer for a speeding ticket as far as I know.
I forsee government drones up in the sky, all networked and patrolling, sort of a Sky Network. What could possibly go wrong?
On the basis of fatalities per 1billion km we are near the bottom of the list. We are worse than all of Western Europe other than Belgium. Even Spain and Italy which, if memory serves from the time I was involved in providing auto insurance for a rental car operation in Europe, lead Europe in traffic accidents of all kinds (or did, anyway).
I finished this book a week ago. The translation is excellent in my opinion. Where the cultural gap is too wide for normal translation, footnotes appear that you can ignore if you wish, but I found them helpful.
So:
Measles: rarely but occasionally fatal, even in first world countries
Mumps: can cause sterility in males
Varicella: (Chicken pox): Dramatically increases the risk of shingles later in life
Rubella (German measles): rarely but occasionally fatal. Pregnant women exposed to rubella have an increased risk of birth defects.
Influenza: occasionally fatal
Big phama does not set the standards for the administration of vaccines; that's done by the CDC. Take a couple hours and browse their various websites (hint: www.cdc.gov will get you started}. The CDC is a highly professional, evidence based organization that is the envy of the world. I am not a physician or other medical professional nor am I in the employ of a pharmaceutical company. Before I retired I used a number of CDC resources as the basis for risk analysis and risk forecasting which is where I got to know them reasonably well.
I also recommend the brit site badscience.net if you would like to learn more about vaccines on the plus side and the evils of big pharma on the other.
Personally I think the quality of public discussion of and reporting about science has dropped greatly in the last few decades..
I expect that is what you are actually experiencing.
I don't think that is the one. MTIW starts with a dream about life in a world in which the speed of light is 20 MPH or so, invovling bicycles. It has been decades since I read the books so this may be wrong, but I don't recall a box.
Personally, I think the Kindle concept, once the screen gets up to something like 8" x 11" will be the salvation of newspapers. Color would be a help, too. The Kindle 2 has too small a screen to handle headlines and photographs, but landscape on 8" x 11" would work quite well. The ability to deliver the news immediately, and presumably to update during the day but yet in an easily readable screen of inconsquential weight powered by a long life battery might even get my wife to switch. And even to pay a subscription.
When I was just a wee lad, not yet ready for high school, I learned a love of science from the classic Mr. Tompkins series by George Gamow. I think they are still quite useful as introductions, even though the science has moved on a hair.
There. Fixed that for ya.
So I just modded about 150 questions at change.gov to get a sense of the questions and what I, personally, would do as a moderator.
I modded a few 'inappropriate' for asking questions that were posted on a board devoted to politics that demonstrated racial bias or some kind of juvenile focus on sex. I found myself modding down questions that:
(1)assumed facts not in evidence
(2)were thinly disguised debating points, rather than actual questions
(3)asked for a federal response to what was a state oriented question, and/or
(4)were unduly personal for a board designed to surface policy issues important to the country.
In the course of modding, I ran across a fair number of questions about Ill.'s govenor, so censorship is not happening. I found myself modding almost all of them down for one of the four reasons I listed above.
I think what you percieve as 'censorship' is actually the result of the majority of voters coming to conclusions similar to mine, and perhaps even for similar reasons. That the questions drop to the end of the list is not surprsing. Perhaps you will find the questions you are interested in if you start at the bottom of the list where all the unpopular questions reside.
I thought exactly the same thing. The only explanation I can come up with is that the moderator felt, probably with some justification, that anyone just looking at the post would say the same thing.
If this is the same system that has been presented here in San Francisco, then it may also involve swappable batteries. The charging stations might include some at which batteries are switched in a matter of seconds or minutes, aleviating this issue.
I have read a bit of both (but IANAEB), and it appears to me that for the most part evolution is reasonably gradual, although not so gradual under extreme conditions that you cannot observe it over human lifespans. The Pullitzer prize winning The Beak of the Finch is a good example of severe evoutionary pressure promoting observable, but still gradual, evolutionay change.
Experiments with e. coli show that both kinds of evolution have been observed in the lab, too. In this case the emergence of a gene to process a new food source was 'aburpt' but keep in mind that the experiment has been running 20 years in this case, and it took many, probably tens or even hundreds of generations, for the mutation to become observable in any gross sense.
That must be new. I got a username and password yesterday. Unfortunately neither my test search nor the one test search that I tested among those posted returned any results. I suspect it was a victim of /.ing before even being posted to /.
I believe the point is that the record companies are repesented by lawyers, hundreds of lawyers, who are trained in the law, and who have experience not just in the strategic use of the law, but in its tactical uses as well. The strategic uses include choice of venue, points of law to be briefed and argued, witnesses to prepare and examine, etc. The tactical uses include the taking of depositions, issuing subpoenas, and requiring access to documents and accountings. All of this can be arcane and difficult to fathom for a non-lawyer, and compliance can be expensive. Non-lawyers are at a disadvantage in both depolying these strategies and tactics and in executing them to the satisfaction of a court. It is not that the defendants were not permitted to speak. It is more as if they could not find the right words to say.
To follow on: If your candidate is behind in the polls, then even an 'unbiased' swapping between one party and the other will favor the trailing candidate, just by chance.
A softball question. One simple example of the failure of the market is the apparent inability of science publishers, particularly in the pharma area, to publish so-called negative results or to spin negative results as if they are postive. In epidemiology and in pharmacology, negative results are at least as important as postive ones ("first, do no harm"). Yet, the greater economic forces of pharmaceutical sales (and nutricutical sales, and outright woo sales) incent the supression, or simple failure to publish, of such findings in pernicious ways. Check out Ben Goldacre's site (and buy his book while you are there). Tucked away among various rants against, among other things, media coverage of medicine, you will find several discussions about this very phenomonon, and why it is so incredibly bad.
IANAA (accountant) either, but I think the basis value (for tax purposes) is zero assuming it was being written off and discarded, so it is pretty much impossible for it to be valued differently as an employee benefit (which would then be reported on your employer pepared tax forms). You should only face a tax liability if you ever turn around and sell it. I suspect that you may be treated differently if you use it for a long time and sell it at the end as opposed to acquiring lots of similar things and making a little business out of flipping the stuff, say on eBay. That will attract income tax for sure, imo.
IANAL, but I see no reason for that to be illegal. However, you may wish to consider the tax implications: You pay 0, sell for $3000. That sounds a lot like ordniary income to me, and of a magnitude that an IRS audit could pick it up. I would (personally) record the in and the out and declare the income, particularly if you did this regularly. Tax evasion, is, after all, illegal.
I debated with myself for a bit whether to mod you or reply. Reply won. I read the wiki link to Treasury Secretary Paulson. I'm a life long Democrat but nonetheless found much in that bio to admire. You should be ashamed for having posted that link as if to suggest that Paulson should be compared to Thompson in virtually any shape, manner or form.
Note: To those that are considering a 'Woosh' reply to this comment, I will say that I considered the possiblity this was just some obscure sense of humor, but could come up with no plausible way to see this comment as funny.
But assuming that the factor in question (intelligence) is Normally distributed, then the median and the mean (and the mode, of course) are all the same. No harm, no foul.