This is incorrect. An executive order, other than those that are orders to people under the President's authority in the executive branch, may only be issued to clarify or enforce an existing law, and it must cite the law being invoked. A President cannot create a new branch of the military by executive order alone.
The President may hold the key to Congress' wage increases, but Congress holds the purse strings of the government. If the President wants anything funded, Congress must agree to fund it. A President who tries to abuse executive orders too blatantly will find 1) the Supreme Court blocking him, as Truman discovered, and 2) Congress suddenly becoming very uncooperative.
A President may be able to bypass a court, and he may be able to attempt a squelch of someone's free expression, but it's far more difficult for him to buck Congress.
It really amazes me that so many "good Christians" believe in always helping the cops.
In one of the sayings of the Desert Fathers, an abba was asked by a disciple if he should always tell the truth. No, replied the abba, because then you might be compelled to sin. Suppose you were to promise to a fugitive that you would shelter him and the authorities came looking for him. If you told them the truth when asked, that you knew where the fugitive was, then you'd be breaking your promise.
Many "good Christians" believe and act as they do because they've been cut off from the roots of their faith.
Why the hell not? This is just the same information you'd need to provide if you were to apply for a library card. Odd thing about libraries: They like to get books they lend out back, and so they like to have some idea who they're lending them to. Don't want anyone to know what you're reading? Then don't take it out of the library!
He left the feedback three months later because of the 90-day cutoff for doing so. That way he could screw you over and not have to worry about retaliation.
If an auction for any used product says "as is" -- which is frequently ignored by over-enthusiastic buyers, and may have been in this case -- you're safest in assuming that it doesn't work.
Other metaphors are possible, and perhaps more applicable. If a store in a mall defrauds you, is the mall responsible even though it's profiting to the extent that it charges the store rent for its space? Suppose a store did this repeatedly. Would mall management be at all responsible for warning the public about it? What responsibility would they have if they didn't?
To be sure, although I think with a very large torus the effects are minimized. But the point is that the feeling of weight comes from acceleration, whatever the source of the force. If you were on a rocket ship undergoing a constant acceleration of 9.8m/sec^2 you'd feel (while the acceleration lasted) exactly as if you were on the surface of the Earth at sea level.
"Weightlessness" and "freefall" are exactly the same sensation with exactly the same cause, so there's no point at all in distinguishing them. Sensation of weight is the result of a force being applied with an equally reactive force in the opposite direction. On the surface of the earth, we are all being accelerated toward the center of the planet by gravity, but this is opposed by the rigidity of the ground. In, say, a very large toroidal space station such as we saw in 2001, "centrifugal force" substitutes for gravity, and the outward surface of the station substitutes for the ground; "out" becomes "down". In any kind of orbit, not just LEO, where some arrangement such as the torus above isn't in place, you feel weightless because you're experiencing the exact same acceleration as your frame of reference with no opposing force at all applied to you.
The point is that weight has nothing to do with gravity as such, but everything do to with acceleration, whatever the source of that acceleration might be.
In the second and third Thief games Garrett has a "Scouting Orb" that's pretty much exactly what's being described here. He could throw it to an intersection, over a wall, or lean around and chuck it around a corner, and then see everything it does via the artificial eye he received at the end of the first game.
From the article: "...it is extraordinary that Australia has a mutated cat that can grow to the size of a leopard."
So it's a little big. Feh. I won't be impressed until we have mutant cats that can shoot lasers out of their eyes, or sprout wings, or that can freeze the water out of the air or something like that.
How on earth is it elitism of any kind to ask a potential article contributor to spend an extra 15 seconds to take the steps that will make him accountable for what he writes? Of course, not even that matters to someone who's purely a troll and doesn't much care about his standing in the community. After all, if he's banned he can just create another account as long as he has a dynamic IP address. As a barrier to entry, this is so low as to be virtually nonexistent.
Except we all know that media pirates don't much resemble the maritime variety, and it's the temperature of the sea that we have to worry about when it comes to global warming. Besides, they don't much resemble historical pirates. Many of them have the "not bathing" thing down OK, but distressingly few of them are missing any limbs, they generally are in possession of both eyes and most of their teeth, and they almost never say "Arrrr!"
Perhaps the factor in question is the global decrease in number of pirates?
I'm familiar with the Pirate Theory of global warming, and the proposed correlation with other natural disasters, but it suffers from the fatal flaw that there is, in fact, no global shortage of pirates. In fact, they are most likely to be encountered in the area of last year's earthquake and tsunami.
It may well be that it's the recent upswing in the number of pirates that's causing global warming and earthquakes, rather than the opposite.
Treat people (children / teens are certainly no exception!) like crap, then don't expect anything else than crap back.
Well that works both ways, doesn't it? It's not as if using the "Mosquito" is an unprovoked act of child-hatred, and one assumes that the shop owner has exhausted other more reasonable means for fixing the situation. These teens are treating the shop owner and his customers like crap. They shouldn't expect anything else in return.
No, the full burden of raising them is not on the parents, but without support from the parents it's generally not possible to improve a teen's behavior, and a shop owner can't be expected to cope with an entire crowd of them on the most reasonable of terms anyway. One assumes that these children are being either neglected or allowed such free rein that it's nearly criminal.
It's not the store owner's job to "encourage teenagers to develop into worthwhile adults". He has a business to run and they're interfering with it. The parents are the ones who should be raising their kids.
You must have forgotten about the average age of the/. moderators.
However, to "grandparent": Teens, like everyone else, get the respect they earn. If a group of adults behaved as the teens in the story did, they'd be equally unwelcome. Age has nothing at all to do with it.
If anything, teens have an advantage here, or didn't you read the story? The inventor of the device was considering developing one with a "panic button" that would emit painfully loud noise to drive out teens who might invade a store en masse for a shoplifting spree. In the UK this is apparently common enough that there's a slang term for it, "steaming". Teens who do this are treated as nuisances. Adults who might do this are treated as criminals.
FWIW, I'm 42 and I'd probably be very annoyed by this device. I'm the only one in my office who's irritated by the sound of a monitor going bad. I don't know what frequency they put out, but it's loud and piercing.
Urine is normally sterile, unless someone has a bladder infection. Is this really the best counterargument that can be made for the things? It's specious.
Sorry, but you have no idea what you're talking about. The only place you'll see the old, high-flow toilets are in older houses. You can't even buy the things anymore, not since 1992. 1.6 gpf toilets are now standard everywhere in the US. There was early resistance to them because, as another poster pointed out, early models did not work well, and in reaction some people went so far as to import high-flush models from Canada. No one bothers anymore unless they're atavistic; new low-flush toilets work just fine.
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The President may hold the key to Congress' wage increases, but Congress holds the purse strings of the government. If the President wants anything funded, Congress must agree to fund it. A President who tries to abuse executive orders too blatantly will find 1) the Supreme Court blocking him, as Truman discovered, and 2) Congress suddenly becoming very uncooperative.
A President may be able to bypass a court, and he may be able to attempt a squelch of someone's free expression, but it's far more difficult for him to buck Congress.
In one of the sayings of the Desert Fathers, an abba was asked by a disciple if he should always tell the truth. No, replied the abba, because then you might be compelled to sin. Suppose you were to promise to a fugitive that you would shelter him and the authorities came looking for him. If you told them the truth when asked, that you knew where the fugitive was, then you'd be breaking your promise.
Many "good Christians" believe and act as they do because they've been cut off from the roots of their faith.
Why the hell not? This is just the same information you'd need to provide if you were to apply for a library card. Odd thing about libraries: They like to get books they lend out back, and so they like to have some idea who they're lending them to. Don't want anyone to know what you're reading? Then don't take it out of the library!
Sheesh.
Article I Section 8 of the US Constitution vests the power to create, arm, and regulate branches of the military in Congress alone.
He left the feedback three months later because of the 90-day cutoff for doing so. That way he could screw you over and not have to worry about retaliation.
If an auction for any used product says "as is" -- which is frequently ignored by over-enthusiastic buyers, and may have been in this case -- you're safest in assuming that it doesn't work.
Other metaphors are possible, and perhaps more applicable. If a store in a mall defrauds you, is the mall responsible even though it's profiting to the extent that it charges the store rent for its space? Suppose a store did this repeatedly. Would mall management be at all responsible for warning the public about it? What responsibility would they have if they didn't?
Now, that's comprehensive. Thankfully, it's not comprehensive enough to include the original image in the article.
To be sure, although I think with a very large torus the effects are minimized. But the point is that the feeling of weight comes from acceleration, whatever the source of the force. If you were on a rocket ship undergoing a constant acceleration of 9.8m/sec^2 you'd feel (while the acceleration lasted) exactly as if you were on the surface of the Earth at sea level.
The point is that weight has nothing to do with gravity as such, but everything do to with acceleration, whatever the source of that acceleration might be.
In the second and third Thief games Garrett has a "Scouting Orb" that's pretty much exactly what's being described here. He could throw it to an intersection, over a wall, or lean around and chuck it around a corner, and then see everything it does via the artificial eye he received at the end of the first game.
I wonder if that wasn't the inspiration here.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/1 2/0436204&tid=99&tid=14
Not the exact same article of course, but this is not the first time the subject's been discussed here and it's not exactly news anyway.
So it's a little big. Feh. I won't be impressed until we have mutant cats that can shoot lasers out of their eyes, or sprout wings, or that can freeze the water out of the air or something like that.
The... X-Cats!
How on earth is it elitism of any kind to ask a potential article contributor to spend an extra 15 seconds to take the steps that will make him accountable for what he writes? Of course, not even that matters to someone who's purely a troll and doesn't much care about his standing in the community. After all, if he's banned he can just create another account as long as he has a dynamic IP address. As a barrier to entry, this is so low as to be virtually nonexistent.
Except we all know that media pirates don't much resemble the maritime variety, and it's the temperature of the sea that we have to worry about when it comes to global warming. Besides, they don't much resemble historical pirates. Many of them have the "not bathing" thing down OK, but distressingly few of them are missing any limbs, they generally are in possession of both eyes and most of their teeth, and they almost never say "Arrrr!"
I'm familiar with the Pirate Theory of global warming, and the proposed correlation with other natural disasters, but it suffers from the fatal flaw that there is, in fact, no global shortage of pirates. In fact, they are most likely to be encountered in the area of last year's earthquake and tsunami.
It may well be that it's the recent upswing in the number of pirates that's causing global warming and earthquakes, rather than the opposite.
That sounds reasonable, but depending on local culture it may or may not be an option.
Well that works both ways, doesn't it? It's not as if using the "Mosquito" is an unprovoked act of child-hatred, and one assumes that the shop owner has exhausted other more reasonable means for fixing the situation. These teens are treating the shop owner and his customers like crap. They shouldn't expect anything else in return.
No, the full burden of raising them is not on the parents, but without support from the parents it's generally not possible to improve a teen's behavior, and a shop owner can't be expected to cope with an entire crowd of them on the most reasonable of terms anyway. One assumes that these children are being either neglected or allowed such free rein that it's nearly criminal.
It's not the store owner's job to "encourage teenagers to develop into worthwhile adults". He has a business to run and they're interfering with it. The parents are the ones who should be raising their kids.
However, to "grandparent": Teens, like everyone else, get the respect they earn. If a group of adults behaved as the teens in the story did, they'd be equally unwelcome. Age has nothing at all to do with it.
If anything, teens have an advantage here, or didn't you read the story? The inventor of the device was considering developing one with a "panic button" that would emit painfully loud noise to drive out teens who might invade a store en masse for a shoplifting spree. In the UK this is apparently common enough that there's a slang term for it, "steaming". Teens who do this are treated as nuisances. Adults who might do this are treated as criminals.
FWIW, I'm 42 and I'd probably be very annoyed by this device. I'm the only one in my office who's irritated by the sound of a monitor going bad. I don't know what frequency they put out, but it's loud and piercing.
Yes it is. It's an insulting colloquialism for "throwback".
Urine is normally sterile, unless someone has a bladder infection. Is this really the best counterargument that can be made for the things? It's specious.
Sorry, but you have no idea what you're talking about. The only place you'll see the old, high-flow toilets are in older houses. You can't even buy the things anymore, not since 1992. 1.6 gpf toilets are now standard everywhere in the US. There was early resistance to them because, as another poster pointed out, early models did not work well, and in reaction some people went so far as to import high-flush models from Canada. No one bothers anymore unless they're atavistic; new low-flush toilets work just fine.
Well, kinda. The chemist he hired solved that problem by inventing a new type of dye.
It's like Thomas Edison's attitude about mathematics. He once said he didn't need to be a mathematician himself; if he needed one, he'd hire one.