The Court did not explicitly incorporate the Second Amendment against the states. I thought that any ruling at the federal level pertaining to Constitutional issues becomes de facto policy at the state level. My understanding is that when, for example, someone files a lawsuit against Chicago's handgun ban that it is assured of striking the law when this case is cited.
To be honest, I was a little surprised at the breadth of this opinion. Roberts has appeared in the past to address issues as narrowly as possible. In this case, his court did something that has fundamentally changed the game in the 2nd amendment debate. Not only has the SCOTUS decided the question of "individual" vs "organized militia" the gun control supporters have leaned on for so long, it has defined the right of the individual to keep and bear arms so clearly that a future court looking to reverse this one will have a staggering amount of reasoning to do in order to do so.
The 2nd amendment, and the rest of those rights, apply to AMERICAN citizens. Will you please show us where any of those things are being done to Americans not captured during combat overseas?
When I read the original article my thought was that someone was just trying to write something to get noticed. The Scientific method, IMHO, is all about a person or group of persons using a logical process to determine the vailidity of an idea. Observing massive amounts of data can reveal relationships that may not have been noticed in other ways, but at the end of the day the process of "I think X, I wonder if it is true", the heart of the scientific method, can no sooner become obsolete than we can stop being human. The questions of What, Why and How are so fundamental to humans as humans that nothing short of total omniscience will ever replace the logical process represented by the scientific method.
I don't think they had the idea of people owning guns to protect their home and overthrow the government Nice try but, No. Not today, not ever. Except for the 10th amendment, the other nine rights address what individuals are allowed to do or be free from having done to them. The second amendment was included to ensure that individuals (the people) not "the state" would have the ability to ensure the right guaranteed them in the other eight, especially the 3rd and 4th which address the sanctity of the home. The rights guaranteed by the bill of rights addressed those things inflicted or denied by the previous government, i.e. the English and you can be assured that men as brilliant as these would not be so naive as to think that the government they were creating being incapable of denying these freedoms as well.
If the SCOTUS rules otherwise on District of Columbia v. Heller I will concede your view, but I strongly believe that they are going to read the 2nd amendment as an individual right, acknowledged and formalized by the Bill of Rights as the ultimate protection for the individual against the tyranny of the State.
You would either be crushed by the mass of rock above you or cooked by the intense heat since the only way to go directly from Germany to Singapore is through the Earth.
This isn't quite right as the homeowner, landlord, somebody, pays for incremental water usage. A better analogy would be entering an unairconditioned house and breathing the air. In no way is the owner worse off for you having been there.
I used to work in the oil industry and I have relatives who own producing oil wells in South Texas. When a speculator buys a contract from my uncle to buy his oil, I promise you my uncle is NOT betting that the price of oil will go down; he is entering a contract to sell his future production. Unlike the stock market, in which your premise is true, in commodities markets the assets being traded are consumable goods and the instrument of trade has a shelf life. This is a very, very different thing from shares of stock in a corporation that exist, basically as is, for the life of the corporation. There really aren't many people selling contracts because they expect the price to decline and are avoiding a decline in the values of the financial instrument. Producers are simply trying to find buyers for their product. I believe that what is actually going on is that in the zero-sum world of oil production, speculators purchase future production, thereby making it unavailable to be purchased by consumers and then later sell that production to actual consumers who must pay a premium rate for a commodity they must have to do business.
I'm curious to know how much YOU know about the oil futures market.
I think the problem with the profiles from the user's perspective is that the user had to log in as a different user to utilize the features of the queues. If they could set up folders within a single login to which movies can be added and discs assigned to then it would make using the queues much simpler. I just sent them a User Request outlining the importance of being able to group movies and assign discs to the groups. The profiles *were* a PITA to maintain but they did work once set up.
This dichotomy helps to explain why we have so many problems with multilateral treaties here in the US. We can sign some agreement with 5 other countries, each of whom agree to do X. When they discover that X is in fact produces unexpected and bothersome side effects the other country will choose not to follow the agreement or modify it as they see fit. Here in the US, once it is law via treaty, some person who benefits due to regulation X will go to court and get the US to comply if they see any sign of noncompliance. While I realize that not all countries so easily suspend compliance with their rules, the difficulty of doing so here in the US is one major difference between us and the rest of the world.
I use a kneeling chair and have since my parents bought me one on a whim over 20 years ago when I was in high school. When I went into the corporate world I bought one to take to work. Now I have a set of equipment consisting of a Microsoft Natural Keyboard, a Logitech Marble+ trackball and a kneeling chair I take with me from employer to employer. I don't get tired sitting for hours at a time and my hands and wrists are never in any way uncomfortable. I wouldn't give any of these, but most importantly the chair, up for anything.
I'm curious to know if you do what you propose and how satisfying the experience is. Most home users have asynchronous broadband connections that are blazingly fast to the house and relatively slow out of the house; e.g. I have have 3 Mbps down but only 384Kbps up. On occasion I use my house to view NSFW content that would raise alerts to corporate IT and I find the slow transfer rates back to me to be fairly unpleasant.
At a previous employer I was responsible for getting the company on the Internet in the first place and had intimate knowledge of every networked server in the company. On 11/20/1999, I accepted a lucrative job offer to go to a new company, but I did so with the condition that I would help my current employer through Y2K. I gave notice, telling my current employer well in advance, and told them I planned to stay through the Friday after 1/1/00 if they wante me. Not only was I not cut off, the night I left I was the very last person to leave the building; I slid my access card under the HR manager's door.
I used to work for one of IBM's biggest midrange channel partners. We would usually invite a few IBM'ers to the annual Christmas party and one year at the party one of our high level sales consultants got in a fistfight with an IBM employee. Because of the violent nature of the event he was met in the parking lot by a uniformed police officer, escorted to the COO's office to be fired and escorted to the parking lot back to his car. HR went through his desk and he was sent his personal effects via USPS.
In reading over this discussion I really think that very few people consider the realities of doing anything that involves the moon because of it departures from our normal ways of thinking. First of all, space travel is exceeding dangerous and expensive. There have only been a few fatal missions but the number of failures involved in the unmanned space program is great enough to indicate that we can expect a fair number of spectacular and deadly failed launches should more frequent trips to the moon be attempted. We've had a few amateurs go into space but my understanding of space travel is that our bodies simply are not built for the conditions of outerspace. Genetic progression has had billions of years to come up with a physiological form that works well. Changing pressures and gravity don't do good things to the body. Further, the moon is not a nice place. Because of the bombardment of the surface by meteors over the ages, the entire surface is covered in a rather nasty dust. Every point and sharp edge that was created when various materials fractured on impact is still there because no weathering exists so this stuff is abrasive and sharp.
There may end up being something commercial that can be done on the moon whose product can be returned to Earth for outrageous selling prices but the cost to get a fab there is going to be unreal.
Interesting. I wouldn't mind reading about that. As many problems as authoritarian governments cause on the world stage, they always leave me envious in their freedom to deal with threats for which violence is the only answer.
Customs in China did not even ask to see my laptop, never mind read files or anything like that. That's because there isn't a racist, totalitarian culture targeting China for destruction. When is the last time an Islamofacist terrorist flew a plane into a building in Beijing or referred to Asians as having descended from pigs or monkeys?
Should the Chinese ever find themselves the focus of any well funded group of people willing to blow themselves up for their cause you can be quite certain the entry process into China will become far more invasive than anything Uncle Sam has ever dreamed up.
Actually, she was not assessed for downloading music but for making music available. I agree that downloading music without paying for it is theft but that is not why she was sent the letter. In her case, she allowed her gnutella client to upgrade itself and when it did it shared a directory she had previously excluded from sharing. The RIAA had no proof that anyone actually downloaded anything from her, only that 9 songs were listed as shared.
I label it as extortion because she was assessed without proof of any actual transfer of copyrighted content occurring. I have no problem with people being punished for committing a crime but I'd kind of hope that people be punished for crimes they actually commit.
My cousin is a student at the University of Texas in Austin and received (and paid) an RIAA extortion letter. Given that the UT Law school is often considered one of the very top schools for Constitutional law I really don't think that fear of the faculty is much of a factor in the RIAA's decision making process.
Not the community, not the current user. Nobody else. You couldn't be more wrong. The overwhelming majority of US businesses run their operations on MS software, whether it be simply XP/Vista desktops or a full blown W2K3 domain with Exchange email and IIS webservers. While it is true that MS is the primary beneficiary of a shared license, anything that makes MS software better benefits society at large because the market gets a better product. As much as many here would like to see MS go away, the fact remains that for all its flaws businesses still choose to run it, and if they are going to do that in spite of its flaws then anything that improves security and reduces time lost to errors benefits everyone.
You're using the wrong stats. He was flying in a single engine general aviation plane, not a commercial jet flight. The crash fatality rate in GA is about 19%. The odds were 4-1 in his favor that he lived and given the terrain in which he was flying he should have had no problem finding level ground on which to land. Unless his plane crashed because of some catastrophic structural failure, if they ever find his body I would not be surprised to hear that he did not die of injuries sustained in the landing.
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To be honest, I was a little surprised at the breadth of this opinion. Roberts has appeared in the past to address issues as narrowly as possible. In this case, his court did something that has fundamentally changed the game in the 2nd amendment debate. Not only has the SCOTUS decided the question of "individual" vs "organized militia" the gun control supporters have leaned on for so long, it has defined the right of the individual to keep and bear arms so clearly that a future court looking to reverse this one will have a staggering amount of reasoning to do in order to do so.
The 2nd amendment, and the rest of those rights, apply to AMERICAN citizens. Will you please show us where any of those things are being done to Americans not captured during combat overseas?
When I read the original article my thought was that someone was just trying to write something to get noticed. The Scientific method, IMHO, is all about a person or group of persons using a logical process to determine the vailidity of an idea. Observing massive amounts of data can reveal relationships that may not have been noticed in other ways, but at the end of the day the process of "I think X, I wonder if it is true", the heart of the scientific method, can no sooner become obsolete than we can stop being human. The questions of What, Why and How are so fundamental to humans as humans that nothing short of total omniscience will ever replace the logical process represented by the scientific method.
If the SCOTUS rules otherwise on District of Columbia v. Heller I will concede your view, but I strongly believe that they are going to read the 2nd amendment as an individual right, acknowledged and formalized by the Bill of Rights as the ultimate protection for the individual against the tyranny of the State.
You would either be crushed by the mass of rock above you or cooked by the intense heat since the only way to go directly from Germany to Singapore is through the Earth.
This isn't quite right as the homeowner, landlord, somebody, pays for incremental water usage. A better analogy would be entering an unairconditioned house and breathing the air. In no way is the owner worse off for you having been there.
I used to work in the oil industry and I have relatives who own producing oil wells in South Texas. When a speculator buys a contract from my uncle to buy his oil, I promise you my uncle is NOT betting that the price of oil will go down; he is entering a contract to sell his future production. Unlike the stock market, in which your premise is true, in commodities markets the assets being traded are consumable goods and the instrument of trade has a shelf life. This is a very, very different thing from shares of stock in a corporation that exist, basically as is, for the life of the corporation. There really aren't many people selling contracts because they expect the price to decline and are avoiding a decline in the values of the financial instrument. Producers are simply trying to find buyers for their product. I believe that what is actually going on is that in the zero-sum world of oil production, speculators purchase future production, thereby making it unavailable to be purchased by consumers and then later sell that production to actual consumers who must pay a premium rate for a commodity they must have to do business. I'm curious to know how much YOU know about the oil futures market.
I think the problem with the profiles from the user's perspective is that the user had to log in as a different user to utilize the features of the queues. If they could set up folders within a single login to which movies can be added and discs assigned to then it would make using the queues much simpler. I just sent them a User Request outlining the importance of being able to group movies and assign discs to the groups. The profiles *were* a PITA to maintain but they did work once set up.
Last time I checked, McCain is a member of the legislative, not executive, branch of the US Government.
This dichotomy helps to explain why we have so many problems with multilateral treaties here in the US. We can sign some agreement with 5 other countries, each of whom agree to do X. When they discover that X is in fact produces unexpected and bothersome side effects the other country will choose not to follow the agreement or modify it as they see fit. Here in the US, once it is law via treaty, some person who benefits due to regulation X will go to court and get the US to comply if they see any sign of noncompliance. While I realize that not all countries so easily suspend compliance with their rules, the difficulty of doing so here in the US is one major difference between us and the rest of the world.
I use a kneeling chair and have since my parents bought me one on a whim over 20 years ago when I was in high school. When I went into the corporate world I bought one to take to work. Now I have a set of equipment consisting of a Microsoft Natural Keyboard, a Logitech Marble+ trackball and a kneeling chair I take with me from employer to employer. I don't get tired sitting for hours at a time and my hands and wrists are never in any way uncomfortable. I wouldn't give any of these, but most importantly the chair, up for anything.
I'm curious to know if you do what you propose and how satisfying the experience is. Most home users have asynchronous broadband connections that are blazingly fast to the house and relatively slow out of the house; e.g. I have have 3 Mbps down but only 384Kbps up. On occasion I use my house to view NSFW content that would raise alerts to corporate IT and I find the slow transfer rates back to me to be fairly unpleasant.
At a previous employer I was responsible for getting the company on the Internet in the first place and had intimate knowledge of every networked server in the company. On 11/20/1999, I accepted a lucrative job offer to go to a new company, but I did so with the condition that I would help my current employer through Y2K. I gave notice, telling my current employer well in advance, and told them I planned to stay through the Friday after 1/1/00 if they wante me. Not only was I not cut off, the night I left I was the very last person to leave the building; I slid my access card under the HR manager's door.
I used to work for one of IBM's biggest midrange channel partners. We would usually invite a few IBM'ers to the annual Christmas party and one year at the party one of our high level sales consultants got in a fistfight with an IBM employee. Because of the violent nature of the event he was met in the parking lot by a uniformed police officer, escorted to the COO's office to be fired and escorted to the parking lot back to his car. HR went through his desk and he was sent his personal effects via USPS.
In reading over this discussion I really think that very few people consider the realities of doing anything that involves the moon because of it departures from our normal ways of thinking. First of all, space travel is exceeding dangerous and expensive. There have only been a few fatal missions but the number of failures involved in the unmanned space program is great enough to indicate that we can expect a fair number of spectacular and deadly failed launches should more frequent trips to the moon be attempted. We've had a few amateurs go into space but my understanding of space travel is that our bodies simply are not built for the conditions of outerspace. Genetic progression has had billions of years to come up with a physiological form that works well. Changing pressures and gravity don't do good things to the body. Further, the moon is not a nice place. Because of the bombardment of the surface by meteors over the ages, the entire surface is covered in a rather nasty dust. Every point and sharp edge that was created when various materials fractured on impact is still there because no weathering exists so this stuff is abrasive and sharp.
There may end up being something commercial that can be done on the moon whose product can be returned to Earth for outrageous selling prices but the cost to get a fab there is going to be unreal.
Congrats. Now go possess it. I think you may find exercising your claim to be somewhat difficult.
Interesting. I wouldn't mind reading about that. As many problems as authoritarian governments cause on the world stage, they always leave me envious in their freedom to deal with threats for which violence is the only answer.
Should the Chinese ever find themselves the focus of any well funded group of people willing to blow themselves up for their cause you can be quite certain the entry process into China will become far more invasive than anything Uncle Sam has ever dreamed up.
Actually, she was not assessed for downloading music but for making music available. I agree that downloading music without paying for it is theft but that is not why she was sent the letter. In her case, she allowed her gnutella client to upgrade itself and when it did it shared a directory she had previously excluded from sharing. The RIAA had no proof that anyone actually downloaded anything from her, only that 9 songs were listed as shared.
I label it as extortion because she was assessed without proof of any actual transfer of copyrighted content occurring. I have no problem with people being punished for committing a crime but I'd kind of hope that people be punished for crimes they actually commit.
My cousin is a student at the University of Texas in Austin and received (and paid) an RIAA extortion letter. Given that the UT Law school is often considered one of the very top schools for Constitutional law I really don't think that fear of the faculty is much of a factor in the RIAA's decision making process.
You're using the wrong stats. He was flying in a single engine general aviation plane, not a commercial jet flight. The crash fatality rate in GA is about 19%. The odds were 4-1 in his favor that he lived and given the terrain in which he was flying he should have had no problem finding level ground on which to land. Unless his plane crashed because of some catastrophic structural failure, if they ever find his body I would not be surprised to hear that he did not die of injuries sustained in the landing.
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The moment I read the titiel I was going to post something about thanking the Thermians for these so the above poster can STFU.