Also, Nintendo's under completely different leadership than it was in 1995. Hiroshi Yamauchi was president back then, and he was a very conservative businessman. It's part of the reason that the N64 stayed with cartridges.
It's a good thing that entrapment only applies to criminal cases, then. Even then, the standards under which it applies are very high. See this Slate article for more details:
1. The idea of committing the crime came from law enforcement officers, rather than the defendant. 2. The law enforcement officers induced the person to commit the crime. 3. The defendant was not ready and willing to commit this type of crime before being induced to do so.
Even if it did apply in civil cases (which it doesn't), this wouldn't even come close to entrapment. Not one of the three legal conditions was satisfied. Basically, you've made the mistake of thinking that traps and entrapment are one in the same, but they're not.
Furthermore, though it may be fraud in a loose sense of the word, it doesn't even come close to criminal fraud. Thousands upon thousands of cases have hinged upon evidence gained from FBI agents posing as 13-year-old girls or undercover cops posing as crackheads, all of whom give phony names. Giving a false name for the sake of obtaining evidence is completely legal, unless that false name gives the impression that you are another specific person (e.g., if you are a drug dealer and the cop comes to you claiming to be your boss). Random names, though, are just fine.
As a Tivo owner, I must say that I'm extremely happy about this announcement, as this will help keep the company from dying. However, we mustn't forget that they also lost their DirecTV deal, so they're not much better off than they were before. Hopefully Comcast pushes this onto its customers.
Almost all BT clients allow you to adjust your maximum upload bandwidth. You probably just need to lower it a bit, until you find that "sweet spot" where your download rate = your upload rate.
Part of the reason that colorized films look colorized has nothing to do with the technology. Black and white filming required that different types of colors be used than in real life to get a better picture. For example, the makeup that actors wore actually had a greenish tint, so that they'd stand out better. A similar scheme was often used for props as well. The result is that when we see the colorized version, it looks funny to us, even if it captures the original colors perfectly.
when you snag someone off the field in Afganistan, and they are carrying an AK-47, and are not in the Northern Alliance or a US Special Forces soldier using native weapons for practical reasons, then it is safe to assume they are a terrorist or terrorist sympathizer.
It's not always as cut and dry as you make it sound. How do you know that that person is a terrorist, and not just an ardent supporter of the Taliban? It's possible that, in his mind, he is a resistance fighter, determined to kick foreigners out of his homeland. In this case, he should definitely get a trial, as this situation is acknowledged directly in the Geneva convention. The problem is that you can't know someone's motivation unless you allow them to speak freely in a public forum, such as a courthouse. Are you proposing that this should not be allowed?
This isn't even where the issue gets messiest, either. Imagine if Timothy McVeigh had bombed the Oklahoma City federal building in 2005 instead of 1995. Without a doubt, he would be classified as a terrorist under the PATRIOT Act. Thus, the FBI would easily be able to invoke its "special privileges" to investigate the bombing. So, what happens when a farmer is investigated under the guise of "protecting against terrorism," simply because he bought a large quantity of fertilizer? Aren't his civil liberties at stake? The point is that at some point you have to clearly draw the line somewhere, or else it will keep getting moved.
Heard of Rathergate? How about the Gannon/Guckert incident? In both instances, traditional journalists failed to find the truth, and it was uncovered by bloggers. Would you not call these people journalists?
On the other hand, would you call every cable news stay-in-bed reporter a journalist? What of the local news anchors, most of whom have jobs which consist of reading off of a teleprompter and telling us what the Abu Ghraib scandal means for our weekend? Even Dan Rather had to admit that he made a huge mistake. The line is not fine at all.
IMO, it is good for only one thing, and that is catching passive verb usage "errors." Technically, they're not wrong, but I do appreciate the chance to make my sentences active (as it is more forceful writing, after all).
Other than that, though, it is indeed worthless.
If a company develops an Ebola virus vaccine today, and there's an Ebola outbreak in my city tomorrow, I don't want to have to wait 20 years for it to become available to be widely distributed.
Because I'm sure that the majority of doctors are altruistic enough to stay in a state where their profits are controlled by the government rather than move to a state where more patients means more money. I'm not saying doctors are greedy, just that they're human.
I'm sure they would, as a matter of fact. Remember, doctors are leaving health care due to high malpractice costs left and right. Now, imagine that they had the chance to lose most of their liability. Some might move out of the state, but I'd bet that more move in.
Something similar just happened in St. Louis. The case is called Aaron v. Target Corp. Basically, what happened is that Target had been leasing this piece of land in South St. Louis from some out-of-town investors since the 70's, and wanted to build a new store over the old one. The owners wanted higher rent for it, something Target wouldn't allow. So, what did they do? They went to the city of St. Louis, and threatened to pull their tax dollars from the city unless they did something about it. The city subsequently declared that the property was "blighted," took it via eminent domain, and tried to sell it off to Target. By the time the owners (Aaron) found out about it, it was pretty much done. They sued St. Louis and Target to prevent it, but the federal court ruled in the favor of Target.
As someone mentioned, Big Pharm spends much more on advertising than they do research. Regardless, their profits are the biggest of any industry. They average 14% returns on revenue, while the average Fortune 500 averages 7%. Reducing profits will only reduce the incentive to research if researching would make them unprofitable, and this would not be the case.
Furthermore, anecdotal evidence has actually suggested that whenever the government has passed legislation making it harder on Big Pharm, research spending has gone up. The Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984 increased the availability of generics (something Big Pharm lobbied intensely against on the grounds that research spending would decrease), and what happened? Over the next five years, research doubled. The same thing happened after 1990, when a law was passed allowing Medicaid to bargain with drug companies.
Panera is a St. Louis based company, yet there are no Paneras in the entire city. There, are, however, a few dozen St. Louis Bread Companies. St. Louis Bread Co. is the original name of the chain, but Panera is the name that they decided to expand nationally under. Other than the name, though, pretty much everything else is the same.
In mid-2003, St. Louis turned its downtown into a giant municipal Wi-Fi hotspot. Why is Philly considered to be the archetype, anyway?
Oh yeah, St. Louis didn't have to fight a legal battle with Big Telco. And they didn't highly publicize theirs, because in that same week, they announced the closing of sixteen elementary schools.
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40 rods/hogshead means that you're only getting 0.00231 mpg. That's not too good, IMO.
The first sign is when the following line appears in a publication:
"[Clinton] aligns with hardline right-wingers"
Also, Nintendo's under completely different leadership than it was in 1995. Hiroshi Yamauchi was president back then, and he was a very conservative businessman. It's part of the reason that the N64 stayed with cartridges.
It's 2X the PSP's size when it's unfolded. Folded, the sizes are comparable to one another.
Sorry, I only speak Unicode.
Wasn't one of his "predictions" that mini-black holes would be created in particle accelerators at around this time?
It's a good thing that entrapment only applies to criminal cases, then. Even then, the standards under which it applies are very high. See this Slate article for more details:
1. The idea of committing the crime came from law enforcement officers, rather than the defendant.
2. The law enforcement officers induced the person to commit the crime.
3. The defendant was not ready and willing to commit this type of crime before being induced to do so.
Even if it did apply in civil cases (which it doesn't), this wouldn't even come close to entrapment. Not one of the three legal conditions was satisfied. Basically, you've made the mistake of thinking that traps and entrapment are one in the same, but they're not.
Furthermore, though it may be fraud in a loose sense of the word, it doesn't even come close to criminal fraud. Thousands upon thousands of cases have hinged upon evidence gained from FBI agents posing as 13-year-old girls or undercover cops posing as crackheads, all of whom give phony names. Giving a false name for the sake of obtaining evidence is completely legal, unless that false name gives the impression that you are another specific person (e.g., if you are a drug dealer and the cop comes to you claiming to be your boss). Random names, though, are just fine.
As a Tivo owner, I must say that I'm extremely happy about this announcement, as this will help keep the company from dying. However, we mustn't forget that they also lost their DirecTV deal, so they're not much better off than they were before. Hopefully Comcast pushes this onto its customers.
Almost all BT clients allow you to adjust your maximum upload bandwidth. You probably just need to lower it a bit, until you find that "sweet spot" where your download rate = your upload rate.
Part of the reason that colorized films look colorized has nothing to do with the technology. Black and white filming required that different types of colors be used than in real life to get a better picture. For example, the makeup that actors wore actually had a greenish tint, so that they'd stand out better. A similar scheme was often used for props as well. The result is that when we see the colorized version, it looks funny to us, even if it captures the original colors perfectly.
when you snag someone off the field in Afganistan, and they are carrying an AK-47, and are not in the Northern Alliance or a US Special Forces soldier using native weapons for practical reasons, then it is safe to assume they are a terrorist or terrorist sympathizer.
It's not always as cut and dry as you make it sound. How do you know that that person is a terrorist, and not just an ardent supporter of the Taliban? It's possible that, in his mind, he is a resistance fighter, determined to kick foreigners out of his homeland. In this case, he should definitely get a trial, as this situation is acknowledged directly in the Geneva convention. The problem is that you can't know someone's motivation unless you allow them to speak freely in a public forum, such as a courthouse. Are you proposing that this should not be allowed?
This isn't even where the issue gets messiest, either. Imagine if Timothy McVeigh had bombed the Oklahoma City federal building in 2005 instead of 1995. Without a doubt, he would be classified as a terrorist under the PATRIOT Act. Thus, the FBI would easily be able to invoke its "special privileges" to investigate the bombing. So, what happens when a farmer is investigated under the guise of "protecting against terrorism," simply because he bought a large quantity of fertilizer? Aren't his civil liberties at stake? The point is that at some point you have to clearly draw the line somewhere, or else it will keep getting moved.
I think I speak for us all when I say that that is the scariest-looking depiction of Link that I've ever seen.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't all Tivos already Linux-based? And didn't they just recently come out with an SDK for third-party users?
Heard of Rathergate? How about the Gannon/Guckert incident? In both instances, traditional journalists failed to find the truth, and it was uncovered by bloggers. Would you not call these people journalists?
On the other hand, would you call every cable news stay-in-bed reporter a journalist? What of the local news anchors, most of whom have jobs which consist of reading off of a teleprompter and telling us what the Abu Ghraib scandal means for our weekend? Even Dan Rather had to admit that he made a huge mistake. The line is not fine at all.
FYI: 100 MB is more than 100,000,000 ASCII characters. That's a lot of books, IMO.
IMO, it is good for only one thing, and that is catching passive verb usage "errors." Technically, they're not wrong, but I do appreciate the chance to make my sentences active (as it is more forceful writing, after all). Other than that, though, it is indeed worthless.
You forgot the other main segment of the populace in which Democrats almost always win out: people with Ph.Ds and college students.
If a company develops an Ebola virus vaccine today, and there's an Ebola outbreak in my city tomorrow, I don't want to have to wait 20 years for it to become available to be widely distributed.
Trust me, Americans don't need to eat any more than we do now.
Because I'm sure that the majority of doctors are altruistic enough to stay in a state where their profits are controlled by the government rather than move to a state where more patients means more money. I'm not saying doctors are greedy, just that they're human.
I'm sure they would, as a matter of fact. Remember, doctors are leaving health care due to high malpractice costs left and right. Now, imagine that they had the chance to lose most of their liability. Some might move out of the state, but I'd bet that more move in.
Something similar just happened in St. Louis. The case is called Aaron v. Target Corp. Basically, what happened is that Target had been leasing this piece of land in South St. Louis from some out-of-town investors since the 70's, and wanted to build a new store over the old one. The owners wanted higher rent for it, something Target wouldn't allow. So, what did they do? They went to the city of St. Louis, and threatened to pull their tax dollars from the city unless they did something about it. The city subsequently declared that the property was "blighted," took it via eminent domain, and tried to sell it off to Target. By the time the owners (Aaron) found out about it, it was pretty much done. They sued St. Louis and Target to prevent it, but the federal court ruled in the favor of Target.
As someone mentioned, Big Pharm spends much more on advertising than they do research. Regardless, their profits are the biggest of any industry. They average 14% returns on revenue, while the average Fortune 500 averages 7%. Reducing profits will only reduce the incentive to research if researching would make them unprofitable, and this would not be the case.
Furthermore, anecdotal evidence has actually suggested that whenever the government has passed legislation making it harder on Big Pharm, research spending has gone up. The Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984 increased the availability of generics (something Big Pharm lobbied intensely against on the grounds that research spending would decrease), and what happened? Over the next five years, research doubled. The same thing happened after 1990, when a law was passed allowing Medicaid to bargain with drug companies.
Panera is a St. Louis based company, yet there are no Paneras in the entire city. There, are, however, a few dozen St. Louis Bread Companies. St. Louis Bread Co. is the original name of the chain, but Panera is the name that they decided to expand nationally under. Other than the name, though, pretty much everything else is the same.
The DS isn't a GameBoy, though. If it was, they would have named it as such. It's actually considered to be separate from their GB line of products.
In mid-2003, St. Louis turned its downtown into a giant municipal Wi-Fi hotspot. Why is Philly considered to be the archetype, anyway? Oh yeah, St. Louis didn't have to fight a legal battle with Big Telco. And they didn't highly publicize theirs, because in that same week, they announced the closing of sixteen elementary schools.