He simply stated the lawmakers bringing suit had no standing to do so; they did it as private citizens. The case was not a test of Constitutional powers (which would go to the supremes) but yet another simple case of individuals using the courts to further their agenda.
The Constitution is the "supreme law of the land" in its own words, and is intended to "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves" -- i.e. individuals. That individuals "don't have standing" to bring Constitutional issues to the courts is an idea popularized recently by the birther lawsuits, but individual standing wasn't an issue until 1922 -- within the "Constitution dying over the past century" that I mentioned.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
The right to assemble applies to cyberspace, not just meatspace. Furthermore, the right to freedom of press is meaningless without the right to assemble to give the person your leaflet. Even though the document is over 200 years old, already it made first-class acknowledgement of technology: the printing press, a major technological leap from the fifteenth century. The Constitution is technology-aware. The Internet is the new press, and to prevent publication on it or to prevent receiving publications from it is unconsitutional.
Of course, this is meaningless with a Constitution that is not just routinely ignored, but at this point completely dead. Although the Constitution has been dying for the past century, the watershed moment for me came last month when a U.S. judge nullified the War Powers Act and put the capacity for declaration of war completely in the Executive Branch. Worse than the actual court decision, is that no one noticed or cared.
Putting stock price aside and looking at technology alone, Microsoft has been stagnant for 15 years. NT4 with Office 95 and a quick install of the latest Firefox would give users 90% of the functionality they use today. Fast forward to Office 97 to get 96% functionality (file format compatible with Office 2010). Add a commercial third-party NT4 USB driver and get 99% functionality that is commonly used today.
In 2002, Microsoft came up with a Java/Flash/RIA/HTML5 killer,.NET, and then decided to not make.NET RIAs mainstream until five years later with Silverlight, when it was too late. This was, in my opinion and guess, a stock market driven decision to avoid killing Windows and Office. Microsoft employed the short-term thinking that results from our stock market system that rewards and demands next quarter's profits and short-term planning.
In the early 1990's, Lotus Notes was taking the world by storm until the web came along. Lotus Notes was a database system that allowed end "power" users to develop GUI database apps that they could immediately share with their coworkers. The web came along and IBM fumbled Notes. Microsoft had a popular web page designer, FrontPage. If they had integrated database capability into it, FrontPage would have ruled the world. Alternatively, Microsoft could have added web capability to Access, or just made it capable of handling more than 1000 records. Access was/is another phenomenal end-user database tool. It's nothing less than an intentional retarding of progress that Microsoft never made it work as an actual database. Undoubtedly, this was again stock-market driven to avoid cannibalizing SQL Server sales. Imagine the productivity the world economy could have experienced over the past decade if SQL Server Lite backend and Access front end were installed on every machine by default (e.g. SQL Server Lite installed with Windows, Access installed with the most basic version of Office). Now further imagine if Microsoft had deeply integrated FrontPage into that bundle!
It's too late now. Drupal et al are, finally after 15 years, the Lotus Notes replacement. Microsoft missed the boat. Goodbye, Microsoft.
Rocky Mountain Arsenal, bordering the city limits of Denver, tried disposing of liquid waste by injecting it 12,000 feet below the ground. The result was a series of damaging earthquakes in Denver, up to 5.0 - 5.5 magnitude. USGS wrote a report in 1990.
The Victorian warehouse at 1000 Bannock still shows steel L-braces affixed to the exterior to hold the brick building together from the 1967 earthquake damage -- notice also the long crack running clear through from the back wall diagonally up to the roof.
Although there hasn't been a serious suggestion that I am aware of that Benedict XVI is a freemason, objectively speaking, he is too close to the situation, having participated in Vatican II and having been the sexual misconduct watchdog under JPII, and continuing to this day to participate in coverup and permissiveness. There is no need for me to report him to the authorities because he has already been served with a lawsuit.
And as for Freemasons in the United States at least, as a group they have zero interest in supporting child pornography or bringing down the Roman Catholic church.
...church management still seems to be fighting their medieval battle to assert that their club's rules trump civil law...
If only it were so benign. It's actually a case of sabotage and infiltration of the Church by Satanists and Freemasons. Organizations such as The Catholic League that downplay the problem and blame the media unwittingly do a disservice to the Church. The Church will heal only once it acknowledges the depth, magnitude, and cause of the problem and a Pope is elected who has been outside the problem from the start and cleans house by excommunicating the guilty bishops, and the remaining or newly ordained bishops reform the seminaries.
After some Googling of images of antique cash registers, I'm guessing that cash registers had the lower numbers at the bottom because their predecessors, the tablet/placard cash registers, had the lower numbers at the right (i.e. both are reverse of reading order). This is in contrast to the adder of James Ritty, who invented what is considered the very first cash register (though with no drawer), which had the lower numbers on the left. Why did NCR swap it? My guess is that the tablet/placard cash registers had windows on both front and back for the tablets, so both the customer and the operator could see the tablets, and the reverse ordering was done for the convenience of the customer so that the lower-numbered tablets would pop up on the left, from the customer's perspective, in reading order.
If all that is true, then it is calculators and computer keyboard numerical keypads that are backwards, not phones, and for an ease-of-manufacturing issue that is no longer relevant.
Now if I find a product I like
I'll buy up the whole company
Shave my face, and grin and smile
And then I'll sell it on tv
And everyone will know me
I'll be more famous than howard hughes
I'll grow a long beard and watch
Ice station zebra in the nude
I had heard once that each TNG episode was a mix of film and video. If so, wouldn't an HD transfer result in an annoying change of resolution from one scene to the next?
"Market cap" of bid shares is bogus. What happens after the first 10% (or 1% or less) of shares get sold? The price goes down. This is especially true for volatile, speculative, or foward-looking stocks where there are comparatively few buyers who are willing to bid a high price, as opposed to a company like Exxon that has reserves in the ground and the price is more readily and more universally agreed upon and the bids have "depth" that strongly support a price not much less than the highest bid price, which is the only thing that gets reported on Yahoo! Finance and even the vast majority of brokerage accounts.
This distinction between reporting highest bid only and the full depth of bids (e.g. NASDAQ Level II Quotes) is ignored by the mass media (e.g. in stories such as this one) and is one of the ways that Wall Street and also the Plunge Protection Team can manipulate markets -- naked shorts are another and can be used in conjunction.
A truer market cap calculation would take into account the dynamic price and would use the full depth of bids as an indicator and input into a model.
The GPS may have hurt exploration, but it was already put on life support by by the cell phone (which greatly reduces the danger associated with exploration) and Flickr & YouTube & Street View. With physical exploration dead, youth now instead explore societal bounds (to the detriment of society).
I've been saying for 20 years that application software that doesn't feel like a videogame is a failure. I just never had a word for it. I'm glad there is one now.
This is in contrast to the cheesy words "mashup" (replacing "integration") and "cloud" (replacing "server" and actually now meaning the opposite of its original "Internet connection" or "peer-to-peer" meaning from 90's PowerPoints).
From my 1970's/1980's perspective, everything started at as consumer technology. The "P" in "PC" stands for "personal computer" -- the PC was IBM's entry into the market to compete against the home computers of the Atari 800, Apple ][, and Commodore 64. To this day, I have this stereotype stuck in my head, and when I think my hotel reservations, bank account info, brokerage account, etc. are probably being handled by Windows or Linux servers I can't help but think, "I can't believe they're storing all this information on just home computers." -- even though I know they have redundant power supplies, redundant storage, clustered servers, replicated data, and probably fallback servers in geographically distant locations.
I guess the big exception came shortly after the PC: the LAN. Novell was not a consumer product nor did it have a direct consumer predecessor. But even there, if you take just a slightly broader view, personal computers had file sharing and e-mail before Novell existed -- just that it was in the form of BBS's. Consumers at the time didn't care about sharing within their home because they had only one computer and even if a friend brought over a second one, there was sneakernet for files and the human voice instead of e-mail.
Now someone slightly older than me may very well take the attitude that in the mainframe & minicomputer world everything started out commercial. And evidently the case is similar for the younger generation. But from my perspective, everything's a home computer.
30 years ago, the culture was all about showing off how much stereo equipment you had. "Component" systems were held in higher regard than "all-in-one" systems. The emphasis was on bigger, more in number, and most especially, the most number of blinky lights. "Bigger" especially applied to speakers, which each had to have at least one woofer (subwoofers were esoteric).
Now it's all about miniaturization. It's all about making the equipment disappear entirely, if possible. Access a fileserver in the closet from your cell phone with the music piped to two miniature computer speakers placed on a bookshelf, desk, or mantle and a small "sub"woofer (really what would have been called a mini-woofer 30 years ago, and a mono one at that) hidden behind a piece of furniture.
A lot of technogical advances have minimized the impact on sound quality, but the impact is still noticeable.
This is like asking a 110-year-old man how he got to live to be so old, him answering that he ate Ho-Hos every day, and then you adding Ho-Hos to your daily diet. Forget correlation != causality. There's not even any correlation here.
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The Constitution is the "supreme law of the land" in its own words, and is intended to "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves" -- i.e. individuals. That individuals "don't have standing" to bring Constitutional issues to the courts is an idea popularized recently by the birther lawsuits, but individual standing wasn't an issue until 1922 -- within the "Constitution dying over the past century" that I mentioned.
First Amendment
The right to assemble applies to cyberspace, not just meatspace. Furthermore, the right to freedom of press is meaningless without the right to assemble to give the person your leaflet. Even though the document is over 200 years old, already it made first-class acknowledgement of technology: the printing press, a major technological leap from the fifteenth century. The Constitution is technology-aware. The Internet is the new press, and to prevent publication on it or to prevent receiving publications from it is unconsitutional.
Of course, this is meaningless with a Constitution that is not just routinely ignored, but at this point completely dead. Although the Constitution has been dying for the past century, the watershed moment for me came last month when a U.S. judge nullified the War Powers Act and put the capacity for declaration of war completely in the Executive Branch. Worse than the actual court decision, is that no one noticed or cared.
Did the identify the CIA as being a source of nuclear proliferation to Iran?
Putting stock price aside and looking at technology alone, Microsoft has been stagnant for 15 years. NT4 with Office 95 and a quick install of the latest Firefox would give users 90% of the functionality they use today. Fast forward to Office 97 to get 96% functionality (file format compatible with Office 2010). Add a commercial third-party NT4 USB driver and get 99% functionality that is commonly used today.
In 2002, Microsoft came up with a Java/Flash/RIA/HTML5 killer, .NET, and then decided to not make .NET RIAs mainstream until five years later with Silverlight, when it was too late. This was, in my opinion and guess, a stock market driven decision to avoid killing Windows and Office. Microsoft employed the short-term thinking that results from our stock market system that rewards and demands next quarter's profits and short-term planning.
In the early 1990's, Lotus Notes was taking the world by storm until the web came along. Lotus Notes was a database system that allowed end "power" users to develop GUI database apps that they could immediately share with their coworkers. The web came along and IBM fumbled Notes. Microsoft had a popular web page designer, FrontPage. If they had integrated database capability into it, FrontPage would have ruled the world. Alternatively, Microsoft could have added web capability to Access, or just made it capable of handling more than 1000 records. Access was/is another phenomenal end-user database tool. It's nothing less than an intentional retarding of progress that Microsoft never made it work as an actual database. Undoubtedly, this was again stock-market driven to avoid cannibalizing SQL Server sales. Imagine the productivity the world economy could have experienced over the past decade if SQL Server Lite backend and Access front end were installed on every machine by default (e.g. SQL Server Lite installed with Windows, Access installed with the most basic version of Office). Now further imagine if Microsoft had deeply integrated FrontPage into that bundle!
It's too late now. Drupal et al are, finally after 15 years, the Lotus Notes replacement. Microsoft missed the boat. Goodbye, Microsoft.
Rocky Mountain Arsenal, bordering the city limits of Denver, tried disposing of liquid waste by injecting it 12,000 feet below the ground. The result was a series of damaging earthquakes in Denver, up to 5.0 - 5.5 magnitude. USGS wrote a report in 1990.
The Victorian warehouse at 1000 Bannock still shows steel L-braces affixed to the exterior to hold the brick building together from the 1967 earthquake damage -- notice also the long crack running clear through from the back wall diagonally up to the roof.
Facebook is just making the Working Group sound cool by calling it "open".
See the following books:
Although there hasn't been a serious suggestion that I am aware of that Benedict XVI is a freemason, objectively speaking, he is too close to the situation, having participated in Vatican II and having been the sexual misconduct watchdog under JPII, and continuing to this day to participate in coverup and permissiveness. There is no need for me to report him to the authorities because he has already been served with a lawsuit.
From Albert Pike's book Morals and Dogma:
If only it were so benign. It's actually a case of sabotage and infiltration of the Church by Satanists and Freemasons. Organizations such as The Catholic League that downplay the problem and blame the media unwittingly do a disservice to the Church. The Church will heal only once it acknowledges the depth, magnitude, and cause of the problem and a Pope is elected who has been outside the problem from the start and cleans house by excommunicating the guilty bishops, and the remaining or newly ordained bishops reform the seminaries.
How did NewEgg make out with regards to selling toner and ink now that we are in a paperless society?
After some Googling of images of antique cash registers, I'm guessing that cash registers had the lower numbers at the bottom because their predecessors, the tablet/placard cash registers, had the lower numbers at the right (i.e. both are reverse of reading order). This is in contrast to the adder of James Ritty, who invented what is considered the very first cash register (though with no drawer), which had the lower numbers on the left. Why did NCR swap it? My guess is that the tablet/placard cash registers had windows on both front and back for the tablets, so both the customer and the operator could see the tablets, and the reverse ordering was done for the convenience of the customer so that the lower-numbered tablets would pop up on the left, from the customer's perspective, in reading order.
If all that is true, then it is calculators and computer keyboard numerical keypads that are backwards, not phones, and for an ease-of-manufacturing issue that is no longer relevant.
I had heard once that each TNG episode was a mix of film and video. If so, wouldn't an HD transfer result in an annoying change of resolution from one scene to the next?
Better wait for the 2 kilopixel model.
Target that belch and fire!
Last time it happened, when Clinton starved the military, the Internet was born.
If the U.S. government weren't preoccupying its engineers with "defense", even more engineers would be available for productive endeavors.
F3 doesn't work in Word or Acrobat
"Market cap" of bid shares is bogus. What happens after the first 10% (or 1% or less) of shares get sold? The price goes down. This is especially true for volatile, speculative, or foward-looking stocks where there are comparatively few buyers who are willing to bid a high price, as opposed to a company like Exxon that has reserves in the ground and the price is more readily and more universally agreed upon and the bids have "depth" that strongly support a price not much less than the highest bid price, which is the only thing that gets reported on Yahoo! Finance and even the vast majority of brokerage accounts.
This distinction between reporting highest bid only and the full depth of bids (e.g. NASDAQ Level II Quotes) is ignored by the mass media (e.g. in stories such as this one) and is one of the ways that Wall Street and also the Plunge Protection Team can manipulate markets -- naked shorts are another and can be used in conjunction.
A truer market cap calculation would take into account the dynamic price and would use the full depth of bids as an indicator and input into a model.
The GPS may have hurt exploration, but it was already put on life support by by the cell phone (which greatly reduces the danger associated with exploration) and Flickr & YouTube & Street View. With physical exploration dead, youth now instead explore societal bounds (to the detriment of society).
I've been saying for 20 years that application software that doesn't feel like a videogame is a failure. I just never had a word for it. I'm glad there is one now.
This is in contrast to the cheesy words "mashup" (replacing "integration") and "cloud" (replacing "server" and actually now meaning the opposite of its original "Internet connection" or "peer-to-peer" meaning from 90's PowerPoints).
From my 1970's/1980's perspective, everything started at as consumer technology. The "P" in "PC" stands for "personal computer" -- the PC was IBM's entry into the market to compete against the home computers of the Atari 800, Apple ][, and Commodore 64. To this day, I have this stereotype stuck in my head, and when I think my hotel reservations, bank account info, brokerage account, etc. are probably being handled by Windows or Linux servers I can't help but think, "I can't believe they're storing all this information on just home computers." -- even though I know they have redundant power supplies, redundant storage, clustered servers, replicated data, and probably fallback servers in geographically distant locations.
I guess the big exception came shortly after the PC: the LAN. Novell was not a consumer product nor did it have a direct consumer predecessor. But even there, if you take just a slightly broader view, personal computers had file sharing and e-mail before Novell existed -- just that it was in the form of BBS's. Consumers at the time didn't care about sharing within their home because they had only one computer and even if a friend brought over a second one, there was sneakernet for files and the human voice instead of e-mail.
Now someone slightly older than me may very well take the attitude that in the mainframe & minicomputer world everything started out commercial. And evidently the case is similar for the younger generation. But from my perspective, everything's a home computer.
Given that XP is no longer sold, it has 0% of the market share. I think they meant to say "installed base".
30 years ago, the culture was all about showing off how much stereo equipment you had. "Component" systems were held in higher regard than "all-in-one" systems. The emphasis was on bigger, more in number, and most especially, the most number of blinky lights. "Bigger" especially applied to speakers, which each had to have at least one woofer (subwoofers were esoteric).
Now it's all about miniaturization. It's all about making the equipment disappear entirely, if possible. Access a fileserver in the closet from your cell phone with the music piped to two miniature computer speakers placed on a bookshelf, desk, or mantle and a small "sub"woofer (really what would have been called a mini-woofer 30 years ago, and a mono one at that) hidden behind a piece of furniture.
A lot of technogical advances have minimized the impact on sound quality, but the impact is still noticeable.
Need to tag the discovery.com article as flamebait. The U.S. is involved in more modules than Russia.
This is like asking a 110-year-old man how he got to live to be so old, him answering that he ate Ho-Hos every day, and then you adding Ho-Hos to your daily diet. Forget correlation != causality. There's not even any correlation here.