Can investigative journalists be sued for surreptitiously recording you doing something and then making a report about it without your pemission?
Can Church of Scientology sue you for discussing their teachings without their permission?
Can you be banned from taking of photo of, say, Times Square because you don't have the premission of all the people who happened to be walking by in the background?
Believe it or not, in most of the country garbage collection isn't a government function. If you want someone to pick up your trash, you have to go find a private trash hauler and pay them to do it, or you can take it to a landfill yourself.
Even if we take your source's suggestion and use a log-normal distribution as our model, the mean is still higher than the median, so Carlin's point that more than half of the population will have below average intelligence still stands.
Carlin was right: intelligence is a left-bounded Gaussian distribution (there is a hard minimum, but no hard maximum). The mean of such a distribution is always higher than the median, so more than half of the population will have below average intelligence.
Everyone will now be screaming blue murder because of the huge negative economic impact this is going to have. Reliable weather prediction is critical for many businesses, including the ones responsible for the food supply.
Which leads to the question I why I should be forced to chip in for a weather satellite so that Conagra and Accuweather can make millions. Unless I'm also gonna get some share of the profits that derive from it, let them buy their own damn satellites.
Sure, but only if all law enforcement officers are required to use the same tech on their firearms. Afterall, they're one of the groups most likely to be shot with their own firearm, so if this safety tech is so importatn, they should be the first to get it.
What's that? They're not ready to stake their lives on it working right in an emergency? Then neither am I.
Having Wi-fi on some of the lines would be pointless, because there's no infrastructure around for the train to connect to. If you're taking the Empire Builder from Chicago to Seatle, you're not going to get broadband internet out in the North Dakota wilderness.
The fall of Arthas has been the main story arc of since the Warcraft III. With the death of the lich king, that arc is not done. And yes, Deathwing was a character in Warcraft II, but they were nothing like the one in Cataclysm, who was really a "giant space flea from nowhere" character. And the rest of the plot was a swiss cheese mess. The king of the water elementals gets kidnapped and because the dungeon resolving that plotlin got cut, it's like he fell out of the game through a trap door, because no one ever mentions him again. There's all these plot hooks for an ancient god they never bothered to implement. And the different areas of the game are so disjointed they literally couldn't come up with anything better than your character hanging around in the capital looking for "Help Wanted" ads on a bulletin board to get you from one zone to the next.
It's painfully obvious that "Wrath of the Lich King" was the end of the story the original creators set out to tell. They've all moved on, and the replacements are just making crap up based on focus groups, rather than trying to create an interesting narrative. For the players that don't care about the story at all, this doesn't really matter, but the ones who did are likely moving on to games more interested in an artistic expression than in just monetizing a dead horse IP.
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Thankfully, Schenck v. United States was overruled by Brandenburg v. Ohio, in favor of the imminent lawless action test, although that doesn't stop ignorant people who think watching a few episodes of Law & Order makes them constitutional scholars from bringing it up over and over.
If you can afford to replace the device being covered, than they don't make sense. If you can't afford to replace the device, then it may be worth it, because even if it's a losing money proposition on average, it's worth it for the security of not having an unlikely event wipe you out.
That is, I don't have an extended warranty for my computer, because if it dies unexpectedly I can afford to get a new one right away. I do have an extended warranty for my car because if the engine dies unexpectedly that would be a huge financial problem for me.
Bayer didn't lose it's trademark on Aspirin because it failed to defend it. It lost it as criminal punishment for that whole "participating in war crimes" thing back in WWI.
That is, inertial mass determines how much an object will be accelerated by a particular force.
Gravitational Mass comed from Newton's law of graviation:
F = G * m_g1 * mg2 / r ^2
That is, the magnitude of the gravitational forces between two objects.
The question is whether the two definitions of mass are interchangable (e.g. does m_i = m_g1?). That appears to be the case for normal matter, which we can tell because all objects accelrate at the same rate in a given gravitational field regardless of mass. But it doesn't have to be the case.
The term "white paper" originally comes from UK parliamentary procedures and referred to documents containing an official policy statement of the government, as opposed to a "green paper" which only contained tentative proposals for the purposes of debate and discussion.
Just because an investor ends up losing money, that doesn't mean it's a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme requires fraud where the money coming in is being used to pay out older investors rather than being used to purchase claimed assets. If the assets are purchased but become worthless that's not a Ponzi scheme. People who invested money in Hostess lost it when they went bankrupt. That doesn't mean Twinkies were a Ponzi scheme.
Yeah, but those businesses all went through the approval process to get access to the ID system and are accessing it via the proper channels. It sounds like this CrunchButton website is just storing account credentials and then pretending to be the student so they can place orders in their name. It's obvious why the school would have an issue with that.
Suppose I create a business called "CashButton" that will transfer $100 from your bank to paypal with just a single button click, provided you just give me your userid and login to each. Do you think that the banks and paypal aren't going to flip out that I'm collecting a database of their account logins that they have no control over?
Can you explain to me where in the 2nd amendment it guarantees the right to have more than just 1 bullet in a magazine?
That's like saying the internet isn't covered by the first ammendment because it doesn't involve a physical printing press. Point to where the first ammendment says anything about web servers?
It seems to me this lossy vs. lossless compression debate is the information theory version of the $20,000 speaker cable. I'm willing to bet that in any blind trial, 99.99% of the population can't detect any difference. Pretending they can is just a way to conspicously signal that they care way more about music than you do with your $5 HDMI cable.
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Can investigative journalists be sued for surreptitiously recording you doing something and then making a report about it without your pemission?
Can Church of Scientology sue you for discussing their teachings without their permission?
Can you be banned from taking of photo of, say, Times Square because you don't have the premission of all the people who happened to be walking by in the background?
Believe it or not, in most of the country garbage collection isn't a government function. If you want someone to pick up your trash, you have to go find a private trash hauler and pay them to do it, or you can take it to a landfill yourself.
Even if we take your source's suggestion and use a log-normal distribution as our model, the mean is still higher than the median, so Carlin's point that more than half of the population will have below average intelligence still stands.
Carlin was right: intelligence is a left-bounded Gaussian distribution (there is a hard minimum, but no hard maximum). The mean of such a distribution is always higher than the median, so more than half of the population will have below average intelligence.
Which leads to the question I why I should be forced to chip in for a weather satellite so that Conagra and Accuweather can make millions. Unless I'm also gonna get some share of the profits that derive from it, let them buy their own damn satellites.
Sure, but only if all law enforcement officers are required to use the same tech on their firearms. Afterall, they're one of the groups most likely to be shot with their own firearm, so if this safety tech is so importatn, they should be the first to get it.
What's that? They're not ready to stake their lives on it working right in an emergency? Then neither am I.
Having Wi-fi on some of the lines would be pointless, because there's no infrastructure around for the train to connect to. If you're taking the Empire Builder from Chicago to Seatle, you're not going to get broadband internet out in the North Dakota wilderness.
The fall of Arthas has been the main story arc of since the Warcraft III. With the death of the lich king, that arc is not done. And yes, Deathwing was a character in Warcraft II, but they were nothing like the one in Cataclysm, who was really a "giant space flea from nowhere" character. And the rest of the plot was a swiss cheese mess. The king of the water elementals gets kidnapped and because the dungeon resolving that plotlin got cut, it's like he fell out of the game through a trap door, because no one ever mentions him again. There's all these plot hooks for an ancient god they never bothered to implement. And the different areas of the game are so disjointed they literally couldn't come up with anything better than your character hanging around in the capital looking for "Help Wanted" ads on a bulletin board to get you from one zone to the next.
It's painfully obvious that "Wrath of the Lich King" was the end of the story the original creators set out to tell. They've all moved on, and the replacements are just making crap up based on focus groups, rather than trying to create an interesting narrative. For the players that don't care about the story at all, this doesn't really matter, but the ones who did are likely moving on to games more interested in an artistic expression than in just monetizing a dead horse IP.
You do realize the "clear and present danger" test was originally created to justify jailing people for protesting against WWI, right? If George W. Bush had arrested everyone who protested the Iraq War, would you have been fine with that?
Thankfully, Schenck v. United States was overruled by Brandenburg v. Ohio, in favor of the imminent lawless action test, although that doesn't stop ignorant people who think watching a few episodes of Law & Order makes them constitutional scholars from bringing it up over and over.
I'm pretty sure most office refrigerators are already considered "community biology labs".
...a result of our failure to make timely sacrifices to the Wicker Man
So you shouldn't by a car unless you have enough cash on hand to not only pay for the car itself, but to buy a replacement if it fails?
If you can afford to replace the device being covered, than they don't make sense. If you can't afford to replace the device, then it may be worth it, because even if it's a losing money proposition on average, it's worth it for the security of not having an unlikely event wipe you out.
That is, I don't have an extended warranty for my computer, because if it dies unexpectedly I can afford to get a new one right away. I do have an extended warranty for my car because if the engine dies unexpectedly that would be a huge financial problem for me.
Bayer didn't lose it's trademark on Aspirin because it failed to defend it. It lost it as criminal punishment for that whole "participating in war crimes" thing back in WWI.
Inertial Mass comes from Newton's second law:
F = m_i * a
That is, inertial mass determines how much an object will be accelerated by a particular force.
Gravitational Mass comed from Newton's law of graviation:
F = G * m_g1 * mg2 / r ^2
That is, the magnitude of the gravitational forces between two objects.
The question is whether the two definitions of mass are interchangable (e.g. does m_i = m_g1?). That appears to be the case for normal matter, which we can tell because all objects accelrate at the same rate in a given gravitational field regardless of mass. But it doesn't have to be the case.
Uh... Prometric, LSAC, and ETS are all private corporations, albeit nonprofit.
The term "white paper" originally comes from UK parliamentary procedures and referred to documents containing an official policy statement of the government, as opposed to a "green paper" which only contained tentative proposals for the purposes of debate and discussion.
Just because an investor ends up losing money, that doesn't mean it's a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme requires fraud where the money coming in is being used to pay out older investors rather than being used to purchase claimed assets. If the assets are purchased but become worthless that's not a Ponzi scheme. People who invested money in Hostess lost it when they went bankrupt. That doesn't mean Twinkies were a Ponzi scheme.
Will the remake have BRIAN BLESSED? Because if not, what's the point??
Yeah, but those businesses all went through the approval process to get access to the ID system and are accessing it via the proper channels. It sounds like this CrunchButton website is just storing account credentials and then pretending to be the student so they can place orders in their name. It's obvious why the school would have an issue with that.
Suppose I create a business called "CashButton" that will transfer $100 from your bank to paypal with just a single button click, provided you just give me your userid and login to each. Do you think that the banks and paypal aren't going to flip out that I'm collecting a database of their account logins that they have no control over?
In exchange for the students giving their ID information to a third party. How is this different than a phising scam, really?
That's like saying the internet isn't covered by the first ammendment because it doesn't involve a physical printing press. Point to where the first ammendment says anything about web servers?
It's cooking, not alchemy. Why did you expect cauliflower and nuts cooked in a pot to not taste like cauliflower and nuts cooked in a pot?
It seems to me this lossy vs. lossless compression debate is the information theory version of the $20,000 speaker cable. I'm willing to bet that in any blind trial, 99.99% of the population can't detect any difference. Pretending they can is just a way to conspicously signal that they care way more about music than you do with your $5 HDMI cable.