Fair use is entirely contained within the Copyright Act. The Constitution of the US only allows for the creation of a copyright and patent system, leaving all the details up to congress.
There's a further problemt that the "normal" members of the group actively protect the deviants most of the time. They are often far more concerened with protecting the prestige and benefits of their occupation than with doing something about the ones that give it a bad name. Cops don't usually go after other cops for roughing up a suspect unless forced. Priests got reassigned instead of punished for molesting altar boys, and the biship doing the coverup got promoted. Good politicians fight tooth and nail against the public oversight that could help keep bad politicians in check, and try to protect members of their party regardless of circumstances. Etc...
And what exactly does the enemy combatant issue have to do with the patriot act? The act, bad though it is, is the same slow expansion of police powers we've seen many time over the years. It should be fought on those grounds. Nowhere does it allow a citizen to be declared an enemy combatant arbitrarily without due process. Although both are areas where this administration has become more authoritarian, you can't use one to prove the other is bad.
They could make a change in gear/money permanent as soon as it happens, similar to the use of atomic instructions. Although not perfectly analogous to this particular, they could, for instance, autosave both charachters involved in any trade.
They already seem to have the code in place to fix this, as it already works this way for server reboots and crashes. If you craft an item just before a scheduled reboot, when you log back in your inventory has been adjusted correctly, but you lose any skill up you gained. If you turn in a quest to get a reward just before a crash, when you return you have any item you recieved as a quest reward, and can turn in the quest again for a second copy. Inventory at least is stored seperately from charachter statistics. I can not confirm that it works this way for gold, but there's no reason it couldn't.
Yeah, you were a bastard.
And you missed the actual best part of the game: One Life to Live servers. Nothing like NOT being able to respawn to force actual teamwork.
I know, i'm in the minority in this, but OLTL games were way more interesting than standard games.
This is probably a waste of time... but check out the Raich decision. You will enjoy the spectacle of Scalia engaging in Legal Gymnastics in an attempt to justify banning Marijuana at the Federal level, while Thomas sticks to his principles and says it can't do that.
It is true that a Turing Machine cannot determine in a general sense whether a given program will halt. Nonetheless, it is quite possible for it to spot patterns that will be guaranteed not to halt, and to determine that some problems will halt. It's not really any different from out ability to spot solvability issues.
This is offtopic, but there is no such thing as a true Turing Machine. Part of the definition of a Turing Machine is that it has infinite storage space. Actual computers are better described as Linear Bounded Automata (It's been a while, but I believe that's the correct term.) I am a CS geek, but I never liked how heavily theory used a theoretical construct that didn't quite match reality, even though in practice it makes little difference. It does make a difference with the halting problem in particular, which IS solvable for an LBA.
I'm betting that you agreed with Thomas and Rehnquist on the medical marijuana case. On their decision at least, if not their reasoning.
Just a guess, but I could be wrong and you might support the drug war.
You do not understand the process correctly. Any judge is free to write his own opinion at any time, although there is a weak custom of signing on to a consensus opinion to avoid having each decision have 9 seperate opinions included. For a recent example, in the medical marijuana Scalia wrote a seperate assent from the primary opinion because the reasoning of that opinion was repugnat to him. To appease the dictates of his conscience, he had to write an opinion that had at least some sort of pseudo-originalist appearance. Several cases in the past have had multiple dissents.
Well, he said "...better than the best superconductors." That does not indicate the way in which they're better. I suspect he meant that they are capable of superconduction at a higher temperature than other existing superconductors.
My suggestions, including alternate card names in the tradition of exisitng groups and a possible special feature. I'm not sure if the full list should apply to each group or not.
Apple: Granny Smith Weird, Fanatic. If in the same control structure as Microsoft, +4 bonus on attacks to netralize this group. 1 outgoing arrow.
Intel: InToll Straight, possibly conservative. +1 income if Microshogoth is in the same control structure. 2 outgoing arrows.
Microsoft: Microshogoth (ok, this is weak, but I wanted to come up with a name that hasn't been done to death.) Liberal, Fanatic. The Network has +2 on any attack targetting this group. 3 outgoing arrows.
1. Unprecedented corruption:
Amounts to someone saying "see all these people who are complaining about conflicts of interest in the governemnt?" Hearsay if you prefer. I agree that conflicts of interested abound. However, they are not completely avoidable, and I'm not convinced it's any worse than it has been in the past. More to the point, despite definite attempts to remove such conflicts on the administrations part, these conflicts are still played up as much as possible. Although government corruption is detestable, this is not a partisan problem.
2. Four short stories:
Well, there are some good points in here. There's a little bit of conspiracy theory and usupported claims as well though. Just for one example, it claims that US companies are involved in a recently singed contract for an oil pipline in afghanistan. I cannot find any evidence of an existing contract with a quick google search. There is some information on Karzai trying to get an agreement to build a pipeline to Pakistan and India. No evidence of US control. It's true that several years ago a couple of US companies did propose such a pipline, but that project was dropped a long time ago and has not been pursued. I have to agree with the site's claims about Saudi Arabia.
3. George Pataki's statements:
World trade center bombing, 1992 predates any of his statements, killing a major part of your arguments. On a side note, this link as well as the previous one both present the official creation of Isreal as a sudden displacement of the native arabs in 1948. This is a massive oversimplifcation. What follows is also an oversimplification, but a more accurate one. There have always been a few Jews living in the region. In the late 1800's, many Jews began immigrating into the Ottoman empire and settled in the area by buying land. They moved into a sparsely populated, poor region, and began making it profitable. (Tel aviv did not exist 100 years ago.) As they did so, arab population, which had been declining, began growing as well, and at a faster rate than the Jewish population, partially because Jewish immigration was capped. Conflict between the 2 groups started early and become worse as time went on. The partitioning of the region was unfair in many ways, but it's not worth going into any more detail on this.
4. U.S. government bankrupt:
Well, there are certainly many issues with public debt. No major disagreements here, although it does not appear that the Deficit by Political Party corrects for inflation. It would be much better if they did so. I'm not sure if it would be better if they focused on Public held debt. Most of the debt growth under Bush has been intragovernmental for some reason. Frankly, I think history has shown our government to work best with a Democratic President and a Republican Congress.
Well, alternate definitions of a live birth may have some effect on this, although probably not for Canada/US comparisons in particular. See here for one view on this. Canada and the US appear to use the same definition, but I have seen comparisons made to other countries as well.
I tend to do this with song lyrics. However, I also like to throw in non-typeable ascii codes specifically to derail some cracking software, at least for passwords I'm really concerned about, when possible. IIRC, most tools don't even try charachters like a ± or .
The problem is, the current sets of belief generally referred to as "conservative" and "liberal" are both authoritarian in nature. "Libertarian" is a much closer fit to the original meaning of "Liberal".
I think you misunderstood him. If I am understanding the post correctly, he didn't think the newly implemented policy was implemented with a democratic process and was then fought by several home owners. He didn't say that the suit was undemocratic.
That could have something to do with the US using imprisonment and fines as the primary punishment. China has about 4 times our per capita execution rate. Our per capita crime rate is fairly high, with china not even on the list. Maybe executing people really does act as a deterrent, or maybe it just means that career criminals tend to have short careers in China.
That sight include imprisonment rate per GDP, and we are extremely low there. Is there actually a relationship there, and if so which way does the influence run? I could see an argument either direction.
Well, since we did in fact have thousands of troops in the region when we won, and the presence of those troops was a large part of the threat to Japan, the GP is correct that you cannot name a war that was won without occupying infantry. Without those troops, we would not have been able to force Japan to reform in such a way that they were no longer a threat.
If you are willing to accept complete and utter distruction of your enemy as a winning condition, then it is theoretically possible to win with just long range munitions. That is an unacceptable win for most people.
I would have to agree that the GGP has a point as well though, since the long range munitions have a significant impact in any conflict. They just aren't capable of victory by themselves.
Well, they have allowed italians to inspect the car. Not part of your post, but related to general claims that the report was a coverup.
The US military has not changed it's story on this event in any significant details that I'm aware of. The jounalist in question has changed her story a few times. Whether or not lights were flashed, for instance. The direction the shots were fired from. The number of shots fired (actually, I'm willing to give her this one since people generally overestimate this statistic.) She has also recently concluded that the soldiers involved really weren't deliberately targetting her.
It seems likely that the SOP are overly aggressive, so requests for more information about SOP is somewhat reasonable, but concerns about revealing additional information cannot be summarily dismissed based on one incident.
"You are a god damned Idiot. Allow me to prove this mathematically, if I may. Think of yourself ten years ago. Were you smart back then? No, you were a god damned idiot! Thing is, you're just as much of an idiot now, it's just going to take you another 10 years to realize it."
Red Vs. Blue, PSA on tattoos. I may not have gotten the quote exactly right unfortunately, but I don't have time to play it back right now to check.
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Fair use is entirely contained within the Copyright Act. The Constitution of the US only allows for the creation of a copyright and patent system, leaving all the details up to congress.
There's a further problemt that the "normal" members of the group actively protect the deviants most of the time. They are often far more concerened with protecting the prestige and benefits of their occupation than with doing something about the ones that give it a bad name. Cops don't usually go after other cops for roughing up a suspect unless forced. Priests got reassigned instead of punished for molesting altar boys, and the biship doing the coverup got promoted. Good politicians fight tooth and nail against the public oversight that could help keep bad politicians in check, and try to protect members of their party regardless of circumstances. Etc...
And what exactly does the enemy combatant issue have to do with the patriot act? The act, bad though it is, is the same slow expansion of police powers we've seen many time over the years. It should be fought on those grounds. Nowhere does it allow a citizen to be declared an enemy combatant arbitrarily without due process. Although both are areas where this administration has become more authoritarian, you can't use one to prove the other is bad.
Not true.
They could make a change in gear/money permanent as soon as it happens, similar to the use of atomic instructions. Although not perfectly analogous to this particular, they could, for instance, autosave both charachters involved in any trade.
They already seem to have the code in place to fix this, as it already works this way for server reboots and crashes. If you craft an item just before a scheduled reboot, when you log back in your inventory has been adjusted correctly, but you lose any skill up you gained. If you turn in a quest to get a reward just before a crash, when you return you have any item you recieved as a quest reward, and can turn in the quest again for a second copy. Inventory at least is stored seperately from charachter statistics. I can not confirm that it works this way for gold, but there's no reason it couldn't.
Yeah, you were a bastard. And you missed the actual best part of the game: One Life to Live servers. Nothing like NOT being able to respawn to force actual teamwork. I know, i'm in the minority in this, but OLTL games were way more interesting than standard games.
This is probably a waste of time... but check out the Raich decision. You will enjoy the spectacle of Scalia engaging in Legal Gymnastics in an attempt to justify banning Marijuana at the Federal level, while Thomas sticks to his principles and says it can't do that.
That's a rather misleading quote. The meaning of corporatism at the time was far different than the current usage.
It is true that a Turing Machine cannot determine in a general sense whether a given program will halt. Nonetheless, it is quite possible for it to spot patterns that will be guaranteed not to halt, and to determine that some problems will halt. It's not really any different from out ability to spot solvability issues.
This is offtopic, but there is no such thing as a true Turing Machine. Part of the definition of a Turing Machine is that it has infinite storage space. Actual computers are better described as Linear Bounded Automata (It's been a while, but I believe that's the correct term.) I am a CS geek, but I never liked how heavily theory used a theoretical construct that didn't quite match reality, even though in practice it makes little difference. It does make a difference with the halting problem in particular, which IS solvable for an LBA.
I'm betting that you agreed with Thomas and Rehnquist on the medical marijuana case. On their decision at least, if not their reasoning. Just a guess, but I could be wrong and you might support the drug war.
You do not understand the process correctly. Any judge is free to write his own opinion at any time, although there is a weak custom of signing on to a consensus opinion to avoid having each decision have 9 seperate opinions included. For a recent example, in the medical marijuana Scalia wrote a seperate assent from the primary opinion because the reasoning of that opinion was repugnat to him. To appease the dictates of his conscience, he had to write an opinion that had at least some sort of pseudo-originalist appearance. Several cases in the past have had multiple dissents.
Well, he said "...better than the best superconductors." That does not indicate the way in which they're better. I suspect he meant that they are capable of superconduction at a higher temperature than other existing superconductors.
My suggestions, including alternate card names in the tradition of exisitng groups and a possible special feature. I'm not sure if the full list should apply to each group or not.
Apple: Granny Smith
Weird, Fanatic. If in the same control structure as Microsoft, +4 bonus on attacks to netralize this group.
1 outgoing arrow.
Intel: InToll
Straight, possibly conservative. +1 income if Microshogoth is in the same control structure.
2 outgoing arrows.
Microsoft: Microshogoth (ok, this is weak, but I wanted to come up with a name that hasn't been done to death.)
Liberal, Fanatic. The Network has +2 on any attack targetting this group.
3 outgoing arrows.
Decent post, but some of your links are weak.
1. Unprecedented corruption:
Amounts to someone saying "see all these people who are complaining about conflicts of interest in the governemnt?" Hearsay if you prefer. I agree that conflicts of interested abound. However, they are not completely avoidable, and I'm not convinced it's any worse than it has been in the past. More to the point, despite definite attempts to remove such conflicts on the administrations part, these conflicts are still played up as much as possible. Although government corruption is detestable, this is not a partisan problem.
2. Four short stories:
Well, there are some good points in here. There's a little bit of conspiracy theory and usupported claims as well though. Just for one example, it claims that US companies are involved in a recently singed contract for an oil pipline in afghanistan. I cannot find any evidence of an existing contract with a quick google search. There is some information on Karzai trying to get an agreement to build a pipeline to Pakistan and India. No evidence of US control. It's true that several years ago a couple of US companies did propose such a pipline, but that project was dropped a long time ago and has not been pursued. I have to agree with the site's claims about Saudi Arabia.
3. George Pataki's statements:
World trade center bombing, 1992 predates any of his statements, killing a major part of your arguments. On a side note, this link as well as the previous one both present the official creation of Isreal as a sudden displacement of the native arabs in 1948. This is a massive oversimplifcation. What follows is also an oversimplification, but a more accurate one. There have always been a few Jews living in the region. In the late 1800's, many Jews began immigrating into the Ottoman empire and settled in the area by buying land. They moved into a sparsely populated, poor region, and began making it profitable. (Tel aviv did not exist 100 years ago.) As they did so, arab population, which had been declining, began growing as well, and at a faster rate than the Jewish population, partially because Jewish immigration was capped. Conflict between the 2 groups started early and become worse as time went on. The partitioning of the region was unfair in many ways, but it's not worth going into any more detail on this.
4. U.S. government bankrupt:
Well, there are certainly many issues with public debt. No major disagreements here, although it does not appear that the Deficit by Political Party corrects for inflation. It would be much better if they did so. I'm not sure if it would be better if they focused on Public held debt. Most of the debt growth under Bush has been intragovernmental for some reason. Frankly, I think history has shown our government to work best with a Democratic President and a Republican Congress.
Well, alternate definitions of a live birth may have some effect on this, although probably not for Canada/US comparisons in particular. See here for one view on this. Canada and the US appear to use the same definition, but I have seen comparisons made to other countries as well.
Yes I know. You missed the reference.
It's a slightly incorrect quote from Monty Python's Flying Circus, the parrot sketch. It follows right after the line the parent post used.
I tend to do this with song lyrics. However, I also like to throw in non-typeable ascii codes specifically to derail some cracking software, at least for passwords I'm really concerned about, when possible. IIRC, most tools don't even try charachters like a ± or .
The problem is, the current sets of belief generally referred to as "conservative" and "liberal" are both authoritarian in nature. "Libertarian" is a much closer fit to the original meaning of "Liberal".
I think you misunderstood him. If I am understanding the post correctly, he didn't think the newly implemented policy was implemented with a democratic process and was then fought by several home owners. He didn't say that the suit was undemocratic.
The palindrome of Bolton is Notlob!
That could have something to do with the US using imprisonment and fines as the primary punishment. China has about 4 times our per capita execution rate. Our per capita crime rate is fairly high, with china not even on the list. Maybe executing people really does act as a deterrent, or maybe it just means that career criminals tend to have short careers in China. That sight include imprisonment rate per GDP, and we are extremely low there. Is there actually a relationship there, and if so which way does the influence run? I could see an argument either direction.
Well, since we did in fact have thousands of troops in the region when we won, and the presence of those troops was a large part of the threat to Japan, the GP is correct that you cannot name a war that was won without occupying infantry. Without those troops, we would not have been able to force Japan to reform in such a way that they were no longer a threat.
If you are willing to accept complete and utter distruction of your enemy as a winning condition, then it is theoretically possible to win with just long range munitions. That is an unacceptable win for most people.
I would have to agree that the GGP has a point as well though, since the long range munitions have a significant impact in any conflict. They just aren't capable of victory by themselves.
Actually, the driver is allive an unharmed. It's an Italian agent who is dead.
Can't resist... Obscure reference below...
Ever try a Freezza with carrots? It's an explosive combination it seems.
Well, they have allowed italians to inspect the car. Not part of your post, but related to general claims that the report was a coverup.
The US military has not changed it's story on this event in any significant details that I'm aware of. The jounalist in question has changed her story a few times. Whether or not lights were flashed, for instance. The direction the shots were fired from. The number of shots fired (actually, I'm willing to give her this one since people generally overestimate this statistic.) She has also recently concluded that the soldiers involved really weren't deliberately targetting her.
It seems likely that the SOP are overly aggressive, so requests for more information about SOP is somewhat reasonable, but concerns about revealing additional information cannot be summarily dismissed based on one incident.
"You are a god damned Idiot. Allow me to prove this mathematically, if I may. Think of yourself ten years ago. Were you smart back then? No, you were a god damned idiot! Thing is, you're just as much of an idiot now, it's just going to take you another 10 years to realize it." Red Vs. Blue, PSA on tattoos. I may not have gotten the quote exactly right unfortunately, but I don't have time to play it back right now to check.