Traction? Democrats have been wanting to take over healthcare for years. They finally got their chance and they ramrodded it through. There was no traction.
For years I've thought that a place like Hobby Lobby would be an ideal handler for the Arduino and Raspberry Pi projects. Carry some shields and the associated components and put in a small corner of the store. It could provide a better experience than Radio Shack and wouldn't be any more niche than their hobby rockets.
[but a more recent and more analogous example of Americans being unfairly targeted by their own government would be conservatives spying on liberal groups in the twentieth century - from suspected communists to civil rights leaders like MLK to anti-war groups.
I'm sure it just feels right to you to blame the MLK spying on conservatives, but Robert Kennedy (as Attorney General) started the wiretapping and Lyndon Johnson continued it during his Presidency.
So, just to be clear -- in this case and in cases similar to this, we'd like the the Ohio State legislature to act more conservatively than they are currently acting. Excellent. I believe that you'd have agreement from most of the Republican voters across the country.
At least we have a hammer to use against the Republican politicians that are out of step with their constituency (unlike those poor folks that elect Democrat representatives).
Thanks, but not really what I'm looking for - I definitely don't need half of my desktop reserved for icons. I like to have a working set of documents on my desktop -- I usually keep this down to 1 or 2 columns worth of icons. I'd like a mode where that space is never covered up by overlapping or maximized windows.
Basically, I want something like a physical folder stand (the kind that holds about ten folders). On my physical desk, I put that off to the side and the rest of my desktop is where I spread out the papers when I'm working on them.
I hate having to move or un-maximize an application when I just want to drag-and-drop one of my working files into it.
I want a protected area of the screen where I can park icons, files, and folders. When I maximize a window or move windows around, I want the desktop to reserve that space so that it is never covered up. Anyway to do this with Windows 7?
In support of your argument: after Voter ID laws were introduced in Georgia, voter participation among Blacks and Hispanics increased at rates faster than their population rates increased. [source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution].
As a staunch conservative, let me just say that I'm embarrassed by these numbers. In case no one else has pointed this out, I'd like to put at least some of the blame for this on conservative radio talk show host Michael Medved, who devotes an hour each week to the promotion of "Intelligent Design".
One thing in his favor is that he greatly prefers to take dissenting opinions from his callers, so I'd like to encourage articulate and well-informed call-ins. Just make sure that you've read some of the literature in support of "Intelligent Design" first, as he tends to ask that as a way to put the caller on unequal footing.
Bender: In the name of all that is good and logical, we give thanks for the chemical energy we are about to absorb. To quote the prophet Jerematic, one-zero-zero-zero-one-zero-one-zero-one-zero-one-zero-one...
Well, since the only *facts* that I'm arguing against are the words that he *actually* used, then I'm factually correct. You can't presume to know what he's thinking, when it conflicts with what he said.
I'm certainly not being obtuse. You're just seem to be trying to reframe the argument. My point still stands that there is no particularly overt Christian message about the Ten Commandments, as Henderson stated. My contention is that his wording (not your rationalization of his wording) appears to expose a particular bias against Christians, a position of which you seemed to be in agreement in your first post. So, I'm not sure which position you are now arguing against - yours or mine.
But he doesn't say "this version of the Ten Commandments", he says "the Ten Commandments". There is nothing overtly Christian about "the Ten Commandments".
As to Muslims, in Islam 101 identifies the verses in the Quran that match the verses of the Ten Commandments. The author, I.A. Arshed Ph.D, says
I have been pursuing the recent debate going on in the Press about Ten Commandments. Quran claims to testify what had been revealed before it (Torah and Gospel). I give passages in Exodus 20 (3-17) and the parallel verses of the Quran to show that Islam also testifies the Ten Commandments (which are upheld by other religions also as Universal Code of conduct.)
'But if the Ten Commandments, with its overtly Christian message,..."
Nothing overtly Christian about the Ten Commandments. This doctrine is followed by Jews, Muslims, and Christians. I wonder if Brady Henderson has a particular problem with Christians that he would choose to word his statement that way.
Does the NSA get around the restrictions on spying on US citizens by allowing/encouraging Great Britain (for example) to spy on us (and vice versa) and then sharing the data?
If so, has that behavior been documented?
"If he pulls the trigger on this, Reid would not only break his on-the-record, unambiguous promise to the Senate in 2011, he would also execute a ploy that he deemed "un-American" when the shoe was on the other foot. Here is a parade of Senate Democrats angrily denouncing a(n abandoned) Republican proposal to enact a similar rule change in 2005...The 'Gang of 14' compromise ultimately prevailed in '05, thus averting the "Constitutional crisis" Chuck Schumer warned about. It has held ever since." -- Guy Benson
"We remember when a "judicial emergency" was the Senate's way of calling attention to vacancies based on a court's caseload. Those were the good old days. Now Democrats are threatening to change Senate rules if Republicans don't acquiesce to their plan to confirm three new judges to the most underworked appellate circuit in the country. That's the story behind the fight over the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, with the White House trying to pack the court that reviews much of its regulatory agenda.
"On Monday Senate Republicans blocked the third nominee to the D.C. appellate court in recent weeks, and Democrats with short memories of their judicial filibusters in the Bush years are claiming this is unprecedented. Majority Leader Harry Reid and other Democrats are threatening to resort to the so-called nuclear option, which would let the Senate confirm judicial nominees by a simple majority vote.
"This is nothing but a political power play because the D.C. Circuit doesn't need the new judges. It currently has 11 authorized judgeships and eight active judges—four appointed by Democratic Presidents and four by Republicans. The court also has six senior judges who hear cases varying from 25% to 75% of an active judge's caseload. Together they carry the equivalent caseload of 3.25 active judges, according to numbers from Chief Judge Merrick Garland. That means the circuit has the equivalent of 11.25 full-time judges. That's more than enough considering that the court's caseload is the lightest in the country." -- Wall Street Journal
Thanks for the explanation! However, it sounds to me like this wouldn't address the anonymity concerns, because, somewhere, the entire chain still needs to be preserved. Correct?
I see the complaint about Bitcoin transaction history all the time in these stories. From what I can gather, there are two downsides: theoretical loss of anonymity and data storage.
So, is it impossible for Bitcoin to eventually support some form of transaction truncation, where a chunk of transactions are authenticated and then replaced with a detail-losing marker?
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Traction? Democrats have been wanting to take over healthcare for years. They finally got their chance and they ramrodded it through. There was no traction.
For years I've thought that a place like Hobby Lobby would be an ideal handler for the Arduino and Raspberry Pi projects. Carry some shields and the associated components and put in a small corner of the store. It could provide a better experience than Radio Shack and wouldn't be any more niche than their hobby rockets.
[but a more recent and more analogous example of Americans being unfairly targeted by their own government would be conservatives spying on liberal groups in the twentieth century - from suspected communists to civil rights leaders like MLK to anti-war groups.
I'm sure it just feels right to you to blame the MLK spying on conservatives, but Robert Kennedy (as Attorney General) started the wiretapping and Lyndon Johnson continued it during his Presidency.
So, just to be clear -- in this case and in cases similar to this, we'd like the the Ohio State legislature to act more conservatively than they are currently acting. Excellent. I believe that you'd have agreement from most of the Republican voters across the country.
At least we have a hammer to use against the Republican politicians that are out of step with their constituency (unlike those poor folks that elect Democrat representatives).
The cognitive dissonance that you've created may cause some heads to explode.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
New Jersey (where the superbowl isn't even happening) is spending something like $20m just to accommodate extra transportation for the super bowl.
Umm ... This year's Superbowl will be played in MetLife Stadium at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
From Political Cartoonist Glenn McCoy - "This was all the result of an anti-Islam video."
Thanks, but not really what I'm looking for - I definitely don't need half of my desktop reserved for icons. I like to have a working set of documents on my desktop -- I usually keep this down to 1 or 2 columns worth of icons. I'd like a mode where that space is never covered up by overlapping or maximized windows.
Basically, I want something like a physical folder stand (the kind that holds about ten folders). On my physical desk, I put that off to the side and the rest of my desktop is where I spread out the papers when I'm working on them.
I hate having to move or un-maximize an application when I just want to drag-and-drop one of my working files into it.
I want a protected area of the screen where I can park icons, files, and folders. When I maximize a window or move windows around, I want the desktop to reserve that space so that it is never covered up. Anyway to do this with Windows 7?
In support of your argument: after Voter ID laws were introduced in Georgia, voter participation among Blacks and Hispanics increased at rates faster than their population rates increased. [source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution].
As a staunch conservative, let me just say that I'm embarrassed by these numbers. In case no one else has pointed this out, I'd like to put at least some of the blame for this on conservative radio talk show host Michael Medved, who devotes an hour each week to the promotion of "Intelligent Design".
One thing in his favor is that he greatly prefers to take dissenting opinions from his callers, so I'd like to encourage articulate and well-informed call-ins. Just make sure that you've read some of the literature in support of "Intelligent Design" first, as he tends to ask that as a way to put the caller on unequal footing.
Bender: In the name of all that is good and logical, we give thanks for the chemical energy we are about to absorb. To quote the prophet Jerematic, one-zero-zero-zero-one-zero-one-zero-one-zero-one-zero-one...
[later]
Bender: ... zero-one-zero-one-one-zero-zero-one... two. Amen.
Well, since the only *facts* that I'm arguing against are the words that he *actually* used, then I'm factually correct. You can't presume to know what he's thinking, when it conflicts with what he said.
I'm certainly not being obtuse. You're just seem to be trying to reframe the argument. My point still stands that there is no particularly overt Christian message about the Ten Commandments, as Henderson stated. My contention is that his wording (not your rationalization of his wording) appears to expose a particular bias against Christians, a position of which you seemed to be in agreement in your first post. So, I'm not sure which position you are now arguing against - yours or mine.
Wow. Christian hating, indeed.
As to Muslims, in Islam 101 identifies the verses in the Quran that match the verses of the Ten Commandments. The author, I.A. Arshed Ph.D, says
I have been pursuing the recent debate going on in the Press about Ten Commandments. Quran claims to testify what had been revealed before it (Torah and Gospel). I give passages in Exodus 20 (3-17) and the parallel verses of the Quran to show that Islam also testifies the Ten Commandments (which are upheld by other religions also as Universal Code of conduct.)
Nothing overtly Christian about the Ten Commandments. This doctrine is followed by Jews, Muslims, and Christians. I wonder if Brady Henderson has a particular problem with Christians that he would choose to word his statement that way.
Does the NSA get around the restrictions on spying on US citizens by allowing/encouraging Great Britain (for example) to spy on us (and vice versa) and then sharing the data? If so, has that behavior been documented?
70% of the representatives that voted against the bill were Democrats.
"If he pulls the trigger on this, Reid would not only break his on-the-record, unambiguous promise to the Senate in 2011, he would also execute a ploy that he deemed "un-American" when the shoe was on the other foot. Here is a parade of Senate Democrats angrily denouncing a(n abandoned) Republican proposal to enact a similar rule change in 2005...The 'Gang of 14' compromise ultimately prevailed in '05, thus averting the "Constitutional crisis" Chuck Schumer warned about. It has held ever since." -- Guy Benson
"We remember when a "judicial emergency" was the Senate's way of calling attention to vacancies based on a court's caseload. Those were the good old days. Now Democrats are threatening to change Senate rules if Republicans don't acquiesce to their plan to confirm three new judges to the most underworked appellate circuit in the country. That's the story behind the fight over the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, with the White House trying to pack the court that reviews much of its regulatory agenda.
"On Monday Senate Republicans blocked the third nominee to the D.C. appellate court in recent weeks, and Democrats with short memories of their judicial filibusters in the Bush years are claiming this is unprecedented. Majority Leader Harry Reid and other Democrats are threatening to resort to the so-called nuclear option, which would let the Senate confirm judicial nominees by a simple majority vote.
"This is nothing but a political power play because the D.C. Circuit doesn't need the new judges. It currently has 11 authorized judgeships and eight active judges—four appointed by Democratic Presidents and four by Republicans. The court also has six senior judges who hear cases varying from 25% to 75% of an active judge's caseload. Together they carry the equivalent caseload of 3.25 active judges, according to numbers from Chief Judge Merrick Garland. That means the circuit has the equivalent of 11.25 full-time judges. That's more than enough considering that the court's caseload is the lightest in the country." -- Wall Street Journal
Thanks for the explanation! However, it sounds to me like this wouldn't address the anonymity concerns, because, somewhere, the entire chain still needs to be preserved. Correct?
I see the complaint about Bitcoin transaction history all the time in these stories. From what I can gather, there are two downsides: theoretical loss of anonymity and data storage.
So, is it impossible for Bitcoin to eventually support some form of transaction truncation, where a chunk of transactions are authenticated and then replaced with a detail-losing marker?
Which is?
Honest question: why the apostrophe in the name?