Why is it NASA's fault? There is too much Congressionally mandated/oversighted/etc Boeing and Lockheed $$$ involved in supporting the Space Shuttle program for NASA to just give up on it and try something else, especially something that is a lot cheaper to run.
Yes, but he's only one. Now, if there were 5 more like him, then it would be bad. But there's not.
He is one voice of 9. So he believes in "natural law". He's a balance to the more self-interpretive of the judges. They hear the most challenging cases. They should be slightly isolated, because their job demands it, for better or worse. Their goal is to try and protect the Constitution.
The Executive Orders generally apply to Executive Branch departemtns (i.e., all of them, except the courts and Congress).
Because the Judicial Branch is so inherently limited in its focus, I don't see the problem with "activist" judges, any less so than I do with completely ignorant and clueless juries.
What I do have a problem with is judges that fail to apply the law. Case in point, the judge presiding over the white trash wacko who attacked the Kansas City Royals baseball coach at a Chicago White Sox game a couple of years ago. The judge might as well have thrown out the case, and has quite the reputation for doing so.
3) Consider the problems that could arise from having an even more powerful DNC list, such as bill collectors not being able to pursue deadbeats, your electric company not being able to call about a hazard that requires your immediate attention (the need to cut power, for example). These extreme examples are meant to illustrate a point about the difficulty of policy formulation.
I think the "prior business relationship" clause allows these calls, and "immediate hazard" clause allow the utility to call you (yeah, right, like you don't know already) that your power is out.
What I don't like is the "prior business relationship" implies willingness to recieve advertisement calls. No, it should be more tightly related to the business transaction type. If you have a Credit card, your credit company should be able to call you if you're late, if they suspect fraudulent use of the card, etc., but not to push more fee-based "services" related to having the account.
Tired of arguing with AT&T that they can't beat my cell phone w.r.t. long distance, since I make most of my long distance calls at night (in the same time zone) or on the weekend (free minutes).
...in a way, though, it is appropo. If you beat the shit out of someone trying to steal your wallet, you will probably end up in a civil court case and pay the ass monkey's medical bills.
Just like in some areas, if you shoot a home intruder, and he gets away, you're in deep doo-doo, both criminally and financially.
There has got to be some balance to this, though.
There was a guy in Blaine, WA, in the late 80's, who got tired of his mail box being M-80'd. So he took to sitting outside on Fri and Sat nights, with his trusty shotgun. Sure enough, someone came by to blow up his mail box, and he shot at them. Well, he killed one of the kids, and he did some time in Monroe (a Washington prison).
So, yes, home invasion, justified (in my book). Rural mail box, not justified.
Congress can also pass a law that also strips the SOCTUS' jurisdiction over the matter...
It's happened once before, and was thought to be the next tactic to be used by the Repubs after the "marriage sanctity amendment", or whatever it was called, failed in the House...
Hard to rule constitutionality over a law that Congress has passed a law saying you have no jurisdiction over the matter...
Perhaps having uniforms of a very rich cobalt blue with blocks of very red red (red, like International Rescue Orange is, so that it almost seems to be glowing...), the offsetting image focusings from the two intense colors might work a bit.
Another fun one is to get a fine grid, like chicken wire or hardware cloth. I think that there is a distance from your eyes where focusing on a particular part of the grid just about matches the same view you would get if you were looking through it, in that the images from each eye get overlapped the same in your brain for either situation, so your brain is flipping between the two modes... Talk about a brain cramp after messing with that for a couple of minutes.
I've always had an interesting effect when viewing a bunch of regularly spaced vertical lines, like vertical blinds. If I'm at the right distance, the vertical lines will jiggle back and forth.
...but the problem is, winning on one "variant", as you allege, opens the door for Kodak to generalize further on their winnings, and equivalently get a patent broadened in scope to cover the concept of "bridge". That is bad and wrong.
You can still get 2,4,D (Crossbow). Together with Roundup, it's a pretty potent combination against tough perenials like blackberries, poison ivy, etc.
Roundup (glyphosate), while originally developed by Monsanto, doesn't have much to do with 2,4,D other than association.
The patents on Roundup have expired. There are plenty of non-Roundup packagings of glyphosate as well as 2,4,D.
Good luck boycotting GMOs. Better stop buying vegetable oil, anything with soybeans, fresh tomatoes, etc. Chances are, the soybeans, corn and canola seed are Roundup-Ready (GMO'd to be resistant to Roundup) or otherwise GMO'd, the tomatoes are GMO'd to be more frost resistant, etc.
...but they're still the shiznit in medical xrays and imaging. Sure, GE might make fancy MRI and CAT scan equipment, but they still print the result sets on high quality film, and I would guess that it probably doesn't come from GE, or if it does, it's OEM'd from Kodak. That's where Kodak stil makes enough $$$ these days to pursue bad stuff like this.
Better add "don't go to dentist" to your boycott list.
No, you hire people who will enjoy the work, the kind who appreciate the money, but don't care too much about it.
If all you hire is people wanting to move up to $70K a year, instead of people looking for new cool things to do, then, yes, you create the lack of motivation that money seekers get.
TACMARS...you mean like warchalking? Or the stars and moons chalked when the Regulators were in town, with the bogus "found dog" signs strategicall posted?
Mmm... if the terms of the EULA say that "if you do not agree to the terms of this agreement, take it back to your software vendor and get a refund". To me, that establishes the retailer as an agent of the publisher. Failure to take the software back means to me that the contract is not being honored.
It also applies to pre-recorded music media: compact discs, tapes, records, etc.
In the late 80's, a group of artists, including Garth Brooks, tried to go after The Warehouse and other large retail outlets to try and stop them from reselling used CDs. It failed. First Sale doctrine applied, and could not be waived.
No, Washington doesn't have an income tax, so there is no way for Washington to collect these kinds of stupid taxes. Besides, the 150-250 mile drive to Oregon for most people (Vancouver WA, Tri-cities doesn't count. Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia does) just might generate enough revenue from gas taxes...
Technically, if you live in Oregon, you can flash your Oregon ID and not pay WA sales tax...
Now if you live in Washington and try to register a car in OR, the cops will make some effort to find you out. $5000 min. fine for that one.
...are you kidding? Washington's tax board at one time in the 80's was trying to come up with a way to garner sales tax revenues from coin-operated washers and driers in apartment buildings.
I'm pretty sure they decided that that one was going to be kind of difficult to collect.
You pay WA state sales tax on purchases from amazon, because WA state makes Amazon collect it from you.
The taxes that Amazon was getting out of were probably related to their warehouses/fulfillment centers, which have a bunch of other taxes on what is in the warehouses at any given time.
Part of Amazon's philosophy is to minimize as much as possible the amount of stock kept on-hand, and keep it moving, to minimize that part of their tax load.
Nevada doesn't collect warehousing taxes.
Boeing moved their offices out of Seattle to stop having to deal with the Washington State legislature every go-around.
...yet if you or I try to do things like this with our taxes, we're busted to hell by the IRS or state tax boards.
*THAT* is the rub.
Why does the govment care more about the taxes due on my $50,000/yr, when it allows companies to report $0 net income or profit to the IRS, yet report $billions in operating profits on SEC reports, thus keeping Wall Street happy?
My wife was freaked out yesterday, because some kooks were calling in the radio station stating "the end of the world has begun", with the earthquakes in Central California, Mt. St. Helens, etc.
Freaking Revelationists (Christian, and the Islamic equivalents), doing what they can to "prepare" (i.e., create) what they most fear!
Hmm... Boeing or Airbus could provide a flight computer "off the shelf". They're not really off-the-shelf, because they're custom for each type of aircraft they're put in.
Plus, there are plenty of civilian flight control systems that could probably be easily adapted to the role, but of course, in a commercial aircraft, that will require lots of expensive FAA documentation and oversight (and liability insurance for the manufacturers...).
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Why is it NASA's fault? There is too much Congressionally mandated/oversighted/etc Boeing and Lockheed $$$ involved in supporting the Space Shuttle program for NASA to just give up on it and try something else, especially something that is a lot cheaper to run.
Yes, but he's only one. Now, if there were 5 more like him, then it would be bad. But there's not.
He is one voice of 9. So he believes in "natural law". He's a balance to the more self-interpretive of the judges. They hear the most challenging cases. They should be slightly isolated, because their job demands it, for better or worse. Their goal is to try and protect the Constitution.
The Executive Orders generally apply to Executive Branch departemtns (i.e., all of them, except the courts and Congress).
Because the Judicial Branch is so inherently limited in its focus, I don't see the problem with "activist" judges, any less so than I do with completely ignorant and clueless juries.
What I do have a problem with is judges that fail to apply the law. Case in point, the judge presiding over the white trash wacko who attacked the Kansas City Royals baseball coach at a Chicago White Sox game a couple of years ago. The judge might as well have thrown out the case, and has quite the reputation for doing so.
3) Consider the problems that could arise from having an even more powerful DNC list, such as bill collectors not being able to pursue deadbeats, your electric company not being able to call about a hazard that requires your immediate attention (the need to cut power, for example). These extreme examples are meant to illustrate a point about the difficulty of policy formulation.
I think the "prior business relationship" clause allows these calls, and "immediate hazard" clause allow the utility to call you (yeah, right, like you don't know already) that your power is out.
What I don't like is the "prior business relationship" implies willingness to recieve advertisement calls. No, it should be more tightly related to the business transaction type. If you have a Credit card, your credit company should be able to call you if you're late, if they suspect fraudulent use of the card, etc., but not to push more fee-based "services" related to having the account.
Tired of arguing with AT&T that they can't beat my cell phone w.r.t. long distance, since I make most of my long distance calls at night (in the same time zone) or on the weekend (free minutes).
...in a way, though, it is appropo. If you beat the shit out of someone trying to steal your wallet, you will probably end up in a civil court case and pay the ass monkey's medical bills.
Just like in some areas, if you shoot a home intruder, and he gets away, you're in deep doo-doo, both criminally and financially.
There has got to be some balance to this, though.
There was a guy in Blaine, WA, in the late 80's, who got tired of his mail box being M-80'd. So he took to sitting outside on Fri and Sat nights, with his trusty shotgun. Sure enough, someone came by to blow up his mail box, and he shot at them. Well, he killed one of the kids, and he did some time in Monroe (a Washington prison).
So, yes, home invasion, justified (in my book). Rural mail box, not justified.
Congress can also pass a law that also strips the SOCTUS' jurisdiction over the matter...
It's happened once before, and was thought to be the next tactic to be used by the Repubs after the "marriage sanctity amendment", or whatever it was called, failed in the House...
Hard to rule constitutionality over a law that Congress has passed a law saying you have no jurisdiction over the matter...
Perhaps having uniforms of a very rich cobalt blue with blocks of very red red (red, like International Rescue Orange is, so that it almost seems to be glowing...), the offsetting image focusings from the two intense colors might work a bit.
Another fun one is to get a fine grid, like chicken wire or hardware cloth. I think that there is a distance from your eyes where focusing on a particular part of the grid just about matches the same view you would get if you were looking through it, in that the images from each eye get overlapped the same in your brain for either situation, so your brain is flipping between the two modes... Talk about a brain cramp after messing with that for a couple of minutes.
I've always had an interesting effect when viewing a bunch of regularly spaced vertical lines, like vertical blinds. If I'm at the right distance, the vertical lines will jiggle back and forth.
IIRC, COM is a variant on some sort of software technology that IBM had for its mainframes, SOM. I remember reading a Byte article about it...
...but the problem is, winning on one "variant", as you allege, opens the door for Kodak to generalize further on their winnings, and equivalently get a patent broadened in scope to cover the concept of "bridge". That is bad and wrong.
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Object manager is the shell. It's been programmed to interpret #! in the first 2 bytes of a script to execute a different object accordingly.
Works for me.
Agent Orange was 2,4,5,T, along with some 2,4,D.
You can still get 2,4,D (Crossbow). Together with Roundup, it's a pretty potent combination against tough perenials like blackberries, poison ivy, etc.
Roundup (glyphosate), while originally developed by Monsanto, doesn't have much to do with 2,4,D other than association.
The patents on Roundup have expired. There are plenty of non-Roundup packagings of glyphosate as well as 2,4,D.
Good luck boycotting GMOs. Better stop buying vegetable oil, anything with soybeans, fresh tomatoes, etc. Chances are, the soybeans, corn and canola seed are Roundup-Ready (GMO'd to be resistant to Roundup) or otherwise GMO'd, the tomatoes are GMO'd to be more frost resistant, etc.
...but they're still the shiznit in medical xrays and imaging. Sure, GE might make fancy MRI and CAT scan equipment, but they still print the result sets on high quality film, and I would guess that it probably doesn't come from GE, or if it does, it's OEM'd from Kodak. That's where Kodak stil makes enough $$$ these days to pursue bad stuff like this.
Better add "don't go to dentist" to your boycott list.
No, you hire people who will enjoy the work, the kind who appreciate the money, but don't care too much about it.
If all you hire is people wanting to move up to $70K a year, instead of people looking for new cool things to do, then, yes, you create the lack of motivation that money seekers get.
TACMARS...you mean like warchalking? Or the stars and moons chalked when the Regulators were in town, with the bogus "found dog" signs strategicall posted?
Mmm... if the terms of the EULA say that "if you do not agree to the terms of this agreement, take it back to your software vendor and get a refund". To me, that establishes the retailer as an agent of the publisher. Failure to take the software back means to me that the contract is not being honored.
It also applies to pre-recorded music media: compact discs, tapes, records, etc.
In the late 80's, a group of artists, including Garth Brooks, tried to go after The Warehouse and other large retail outlets to try and stop them from reselling used CDs. It failed. First Sale doctrine applied, and could not be waived.
No, Washington doesn't have an income tax, so there is no way for Washington to collect these kinds of stupid taxes. Besides, the 150-250 mile drive to Oregon for most people (Vancouver WA, Tri-cities doesn't count. Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia does) just might generate enough revenue from gas taxes...
Technically, if you live in Oregon, you can flash your Oregon ID and not pay WA sales tax...
Now if you live in Washington and try to register a car in OR, the cops will make some effort to find you out. $5000 min. fine for that one.
...are you kidding? Washington's tax board at one time in the 80's was trying to come up with a way to garner sales tax revenues from coin-operated washers and driers in apartment buildings.
I'm pretty sure they decided that that one was going to be kind of difficult to collect.
You pay WA state sales tax on purchases from amazon, because WA state makes Amazon collect it from you.
The taxes that Amazon was getting out of were probably related to their warehouses/fulfillment centers, which have a bunch of other taxes on what is in the warehouses at any given time.
Part of Amazon's philosophy is to minimize as much as possible the amount of stock kept on-hand, and keep it moving, to minimize that part of their tax load.
Nevada doesn't collect warehousing taxes.
Boeing moved their offices out of Seattle to stop having to deal with the Washington State legislature every go-around.
...yet if you or I try to do things like this with our taxes, we're busted to hell by the IRS or state tax boards.
*THAT* is the rub.
Why does the govment care more about the taxes due on my $50,000/yr, when it allows companies to report $0 net income or profit to the IRS, yet report $billions in operating profits on SEC reports, thus keeping Wall Street happy?
...and neither is Mt. St. Helens.
Mt. Hood and Mt. Rainier are, however.
And then there is the area around Yellowstone Park.
Mmm...the ash fall did not really make it out of the crater. What is left of the plume is blowing to the SSW, north of Vancouver, WA.
Not a lot of people in that region (and I have relatives in Castle Rock, WA).
Nice try, though.
No, it is predicted in Nostradamus.
My wife was freaked out yesterday, because some kooks were calling in the radio station stating "the end of the world has begun", with the earthquakes in Central California, Mt. St. Helens, etc.
Freaking Revelationists (Christian, and the Islamic equivalents), doing what they can to "prepare" (i.e., create) what they most fear!
Hmm... Boeing or Airbus could provide a flight computer "off the shelf". They're not really off-the-shelf, because they're custom for each type of aircraft they're put in.
Plus, there are plenty of civilian flight control systems that could probably be easily adapted to the role, but of course, in a commercial aircraft, that will require lots of expensive FAA documentation and oversight (and liability insurance for the manufacturers...).