Most people don't seem capable of grasping that... the D.O. Education didn't even exist until 1979, and it's been downhill ever since it's inception.
Also, as others have pointed out, there certainly are some programs that could be considered best done by the federal government... and those would be moved to other departments.
The DE was formed in 1979 as a split off from the Department of Health Education and Welfare which was formed in 1953...
The Department of Education was created in 1979 by an Act that split the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was created in 1953.
Are you going to tell me that education has been on the decline since 1953 as well? (Of course you might, because we have this strong notion that everything is always going downhill, so you just might.)
Second, the states can pick up any of these 'profitable' public enterprises that Paul is proposing to be thrown out.
NOAA is a uniformed force of the Federal Government. The idea here is that there need be some surveyors who are potentially able to operate in warzones without being arrested and executed as "spies". If they are Uniformed Personnel, then they receive Geneva Convention protections. The several states just cannot really produce the same protections that the Federal Government can on this matter.
There seems to be universal confusion on this point. May I point out that, just because a currency is legal tender, that does not make it mandatory? If someone wants to sell me a DVD for three boxes of noodles, that does not mean I can force him accept paper money instead.
That's because the exchange does not involve a debt being created. "Legal tender" only applies to debts. If I owe someone money, they cannot refuse to accept legal tender. The idea behind legal tender being to create a payment method through which a debtor can be sure that a creditor must accept as payment.
For example, say I owed you $100, you're within your rights in the USA to refuse payment in euros, pounds, yen, pesos, chickens, boxes of noodles, or cigarettes. You are not however within your rights to refuse payment if made in US Dollars. Otherwise, if I were to show up with cash to pay my debt right before interest is scheduled to accrue, you could conveniently decide to not accept US Dollars, and when I come back tomorrow with whatever form of payment you demand, the interest has since accrued, and now I owe you more.
Purchases however do not involve a debt (no matter how many loopholes a layperson may attempt to describe). A purchase is a single contract designating an exchange of goods or services. Most times it is cash in exchange for a good or service, but it can be a barter (goods or services on both sides). Never does a debt attach to purchases without a direct statement that debt is attaching. ("I will buy this NetBook from you for $100 now, and $200 later." The $100 can be any form of payment that the seller chooses, and he is within his rights to refuse cash or other legal tender. The later $200 is however a debt, and he must accept a legal tender if offered.)
Yes, but people have IMDB pages from a 15-second non-speaking part in an indie film. Grace Park - while certainly not really an A-list superstar - has already had a regular recurring role in at least 2 different TV series. That's beyond up and coming and is basically a successful career in acting.
Well, I'll give you that. I once dated a guy with a Bacon number of 2. Just because he had a small bit part in a film with Sidney Poitier... didn't mean the guy was well-known or anything. (Great, now all the people with IMDB already loaded up will be searching vigorously for my ex-boyfriend's name now...)
That having been said, though, it does seem to be a pretty gross violation of privacy to me for IMDb to publish someone's birth date based only on information they submitted, a date that they didn't get from some other public source. It may not be a big deal to you or me, but that doesn't matter. It's private data, and it should have been held in confidence.
So you sue them for breach of contract (what contract?), and fraud (so it's wrong?)?
gingerbread and froyo mean more to me than 2.3.4 and 2.2.1
Except as a non-enthusiast, I don't know which comes first. "The first initial of the code name tells you which order they came in, A-Z." Huh, I hadn't noticed that at all, and no one else is likely to notice without being told, excepting of course for the random insights that people make from time to time.
Because it's easier to refer to a name than a version number. Primarily these code names are used only internally but as companies have become more public about internal ongoings, so have the code names. To the public it's still 4.0. I've never seen any non-developer-targetted ad mention anything besides "Android X.Y" for the Android OS. Not to mention having an excuse for themed release parties.
Ah, this makes a lot of sense. I'll have to defer to non-developer targetted ads, since I haven't really looked at Android except through enthusiast who use the code names.
I heard my bother talking on the phone about this awhile ago... It seems like one of the most weird and random names to call something. I get it, code names are cool, and people readily recognize them. But you sound absolutely silly for doing so. Who wants to go to a meeting and tell their bosses that they're thinking of: "Replacing Honeycomb with Ice Cream Sandwich on all our android devices"?
... as a detainee in Guantanamo Bay, I don't find it unlikely that a court ruling (which go to great details explaining their ruling) could contain secret or top secret government information, and as such, in fully appropriate application of law, the opinion of a court concerning national security, and/or secret and top secret government information could totally be classified itself.
"jigga" is still not an acceptable pronunciation, unless you're using it for humorous effect. I don't care what source you cite, it's not an acceptable pronunciation, and never will be.:)
Oh... so you're going the denialist route. "I don't care what evidence you show me, evolution/global-warming is a conspiracy to fool Americans into accepting socialism."
And that does not counter my (rather tongue in cheek) statement that "jigga" is not an accepted pronunciation or that english is the primary (possibly the only) language that might pronounce the two g's differently.
"jigga-" is actually considered to be the proper pronunciation in the USA, and the "giga-" is considered the mispronunciation (and typically confined solely to computers).
Also, English is not the only language that has two pronunciations for "g" Spanish, and Italian both have pronunciations dependent upon the following vowel (Spanish <ge>, <gi> ->/x/ or/j/, <ga>, <go>, <gu> ->/g/; Italian <ge>, <gi> ->/dZ/, <ga>, <go>, <gu> ->/g/). As well, so does Swedish, <ge>, <gi>, <gö>, <gä> ->/x\/ or/j/, <ga>, <go>, <gu>, <gå> ->/g/.
But, let's presume that we want to limit our discussion strictly to the prefix "giga-", Arabic and Spanish both pronounce it "jigga-", Arabic is even clear about this, as it is spelled with their "j" character, which is distinct from their "g" character. Spanish even has a wikipedia page about it, noting that it is properly pronounced "jiga", except in computer science where it is "yiga", which is how "giga-" should properly be pronounced in Spanish, as the <g> is a front vowel.
So, no English is neither special nor unique in its treatment of the "giga-" prefix... At least two other languages pronounce it as "jigga-", and one of those two even has the proper pronunciation as an exceptional pronunciation that is regularized in computer science to conform with proper orthography.
The one on the right is the Samsung, it is longer even though you can tell from the parallax that it is being held at a shallower angle compared to the ground.
Its shapes, you can't fuck it up.
Wow, thanks for letting me know! Now, kindly explain to me how I'm supposed to naively tell the difference?
The author is Dutch. In Dutch, it is spelled foton [wikipedia.org]. You can't blame everyone for speaking English as a second language.
Oh come on, if I wrote something in French or German (neither of which I am fluent in) and made a spelling or grammar mistake, I wouldn't use "but it's not my first language" as an excuse.
There's a difference between casual internet forum postings and actual published works.
Right, but if you made an almost guaranteed grammatical error, you would pass it off as "not my first language". Or rather, "not one of my native languages". And yeah, I know: "if I were making a professional publication, then I would have it proofread by someone who does speak the language natively!" Yeah, and proofreaders never make mistakes, right?
You know what I see in common with all of these stories of unhelpful police? They are all civil offenses. Perhaps the solution is to call a lawyer not a cop. I wonder if the perpetrator had assaulted someone if the police response would be different, since that is a criminal offense.
Ok, same parties. Boyfriend's brother was trespassed from our property, and signed a form saying he understood he was trespassed. He returned the following night and took the license plates from the vehicle that they co-owned. (one would say "steal", except he was a legal owner.) As a result Shoreline (a suburb of Seattle) pressed charges for a few things, and enacted a criminal-proceeding protection order. Boyfriend shows up at a house rented out to friends owned by boyfriend's brother, boyfriend's brother is there. Brother charges him, boyfriend retreats as per his duty. Brother throws rock at boyfriend, and hits him on the thigh. Due to protection order, any assault no matter how slight is a felony. Witness saw it and everything.
Seattle declines to prosecute, because witness is afraid of being kicked out of his house (illegal, as per modus operandi of boyfriend's brother, his landlord).
Protection orders in Seattle are nearly worthless... you here all these stories about people with protection orders continuing to be harassed, and police doing nothing, until the protected individual is killed by the respondent... I used to think the idea had to be rare, but after seeing how well Seattle handled them, I was no longer surprised at all.
(Yes, I'm giving an answer other people have given, but with a few extra details.)
No, theft is a criminal offense, but there is a civil tort equivalent called "Conversion". If the police fail to press charges, a person can always sue in court. (In fact, nothing actually stops you from suing at the same time. Although, if the criminal case gives you restitution, then your damages will be ruled satisfied for the civil case, and vice-versa.)
If the perp is dead they cant counter your "they were trying to kill me" claim.
Remember, if you are going to shoot a home invader, make sure they are dead and IN THE HOME.
Don't trust this! Some states have a duty to retreat even in your own home. Many states also still have a requirement that lethal force can only be brought against lethal force even in your own home. Check your local state laws; better yet, ask a lawyer in your own state before you go shooting ANYONE. If you own a gun, then you really should know the specific laws for your state!
Namely, every gun owner should know two things: how to use their firearm properly, and how to legally operate their firearm!
Actually "jiga" is the correct pronounciation, seeing that it derives from a greek word that is pronounced like that. And in other languages I speak, it is pronounced as "jiga" in all of them.
Checking the various language Wikipedias, it seems to be relatively split actually. Arabic, and Spanish use "jiga-"; Japanese, German, Esperanto, Russian, Hebrew use "giga-", French uses "zhiga-" ("jiga-" with a fricative instead of an affricative in the same place of articulation.), Greek and I presume Dutch both use the voiced velar fricative. (These were the only ones I could really check for sure, as they have strictly accurate spelling, or their Wikipedias have a clear pronunciation note. It appears that all of the Scandinavian Germanic languages/dialects use "giga-" but I can't be sure enough of my understanding of their pronunciation notes.)
So, it appears kind of like it's all over the map... if you can update me about which languages you can vouch for "jiga" as the correct pronunciation, I'd be interested in hearing them. (I'm a crazy linguaphile, if you couldn't tell.)
And you just made the voice in my head say "jibi-bytes." Deeply disturbing.
I can't find any "official" pronunciation direction for gibibytes, but my understanding was always that the "giga-" prefix is always pronounced like "jigga-" unless you're talking about computers, in which case it's always pronounced with a "hard" g.
In any case, I'm one of those freaks who actually does use the -bi- notation, and it usually causes people to stare at me and say, "did you just say giBIbyte?"
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Most people don't seem capable of grasping that... the D.O. Education didn't even exist until 1979, and it's been downhill ever since it's inception.
Also, as others have pointed out, there certainly are some programs that could be considered best done by the federal government... and those would be moved to other departments.
The DE was formed in 1979 as a split off from the Department of Health Education and Welfare which was formed in 1953...
The Department of Education was created in 1979 by an Act that split the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was created in 1953.
Are you going to tell me that education has been on the decline since 1953 as well? (Of course you might, because we have this strong notion that everything is always going downhill, so you just might.)
Second, the states can pick up any of these 'profitable' public enterprises that Paul is proposing to be thrown out.
NOAA is a uniformed force of the Federal Government. The idea here is that there need be some surveyors who are potentially able to operate in warzones without being arrested and executed as "spies". If they are Uniformed Personnel, then they receive Geneva Convention protections. The several states just cannot really produce the same protections that the Federal Government can on this matter.
There seems to be universal confusion on this point. May I point out that, just because a currency is legal tender, that does not make it mandatory? If someone wants to sell me a DVD for three boxes of noodles, that does not mean I can force him accept paper money instead.
That's because the exchange does not involve a debt being created. "Legal tender" only applies to debts. If I owe someone money, they cannot refuse to accept legal tender. The idea behind legal tender being to create a payment method through which a debtor can be sure that a creditor must accept as payment.
For example, say I owed you $100, you're within your rights in the USA to refuse payment in euros, pounds, yen, pesos, chickens, boxes of noodles, or cigarettes. You are not however within your rights to refuse payment if made in US Dollars. Otherwise, if I were to show up with cash to pay my debt right before interest is scheduled to accrue, you could conveniently decide to not accept US Dollars, and when I come back tomorrow with whatever form of payment you demand, the interest has since accrued, and now I owe you more.
Purchases however do not involve a debt (no matter how many loopholes a layperson may attempt to describe). A purchase is a single contract designating an exchange of goods or services. Most times it is cash in exchange for a good or service, but it can be a barter (goods or services on both sides). Never does a debt attach to purchases without a direct statement that debt is attaching. ("I will buy this NetBook from you for $100 now, and $200 later." The $100 can be any form of payment that the seller chooses, and he is within his rights to refuse cash or other legal tender. The later $200 is however a debt, and he must accept a legal tender if offered.)
Yes, but people have IMDB pages from a 15-second non-speaking part in an indie film. Grace Park - while certainly not really an A-list superstar - has already had a regular recurring role in at least 2 different TV series. That's beyond up and coming and is basically a successful career in acting.
Well, I'll give you that. I once dated a guy with a Bacon number of 2. Just because he had a small bit part in a film with Sidney Poitier... didn't mean the guy was well-known or anything. (Great, now all the people with IMDB already loaded up will be searching vigorously for my ex-boyfriend's name now...)
And Wikipedia has had Nicole Bilderback's birthday since the article first began on the 31st of January, 2005....
If she's an up and coming actress, we might not have heard of her...
But if she has an IMDB page, then she has to have been in at least a few things...
Nope, not Maggie. Maybe Asia Carrera :-)
Looked at her Wikipedia page, she posts her own birthday on her own website. So, not her.
That having been said, though, it does seem to be a pretty gross violation of privacy to me for IMDb to publish someone's birth date based only on information they submitted, a date that they didn't get from some other public source. It may not be a big deal to you or me, but that doesn't matter. It's private data, and it should have been held in confidence.
So you sue them for breach of contract (what contract?), and fraud (so it's wrong?)?
he confused it with feltchmale. Common problem amongst those who are obsessed with sucking cum out of a man's ass.
Ahem, the proper term is "santorum"...
They're just using a letter sequence, the same as Ubuntu does.
Eclair
Froyo
Gingerbread
Honeycomb
Ice cream sandwich
I agree that "Ice cream sandwich" is a bit of a silly name, but it is part of a logical sequence.
And kinda like Ubuntu, everyone will now start second-guessing what the next code name will be.
I noticed this once I was clued in above. I don't really think Ubuntu code names are any better (or worse), honestly...
gingerbread and froyo mean more to me than 2.3.4 and 2.2.1
Except as a non-enthusiast, I don't know which comes first. "The first initial of the code name tells you which order they came in, A-Z." Huh, I hadn't noticed that at all, and no one else is likely to notice without being told, excepting of course for the random insights that people make from time to time.
Because it's easier to refer to a name than a version number.
Primarily these code names are used only internally but as companies have become more public about internal ongoings, so have the code names.
To the public it's still 4.0. I've never seen any non-developer-targetted ad mention anything besides "Android X.Y" for the Android OS.
Not to mention having an excuse for themed release parties.
Ah, this makes a lot of sense. I'll have to defer to non-developer targetted ads, since I haven't really looked at Android except through enthusiast who use the code names.
I heard my bother talking on the phone about this awhile ago... It seems like one of the most weird and random names to call something. I get it, code names are cool, and people readily recognize them. But you sound absolutely silly for doing so. Who wants to go to a meeting and tell their bosses that they're thinking of: "Replacing Honeycomb with Ice Cream Sandwich on all our android devices"?
Use the damn version numbers, PLEASE.
Will they be also tweeting things like "the opinion of this court is not available to Public"?
... as a detainee in Guantanamo Bay, I don't find it unlikely that a court ruling (which go to great details explaining their ruling) could contain secret or top secret government information, and as such, in fully appropriate application of law, the opinion of a court concerning national security, and/or secret and top secret government information could totally be classified itself.
No, I'm going the "jigga" is a stupid pronunciation route, so I refuse to acknowledge it as valid.
I'm with you! I pronounce gigantic as "ggigantic" not as "jigantic". </sarcasm>
"jigga" is still not an acceptable pronunciation, unless you're using it for humorous effect. I don't care what source you cite, it's not an acceptable pronunciation, and never will be. :)
Oh... so you're going the denialist route. "I don't care what evidence you show me, evolution/global-warming is a conspiracy to fool Americans into accepting socialism."
And that does not counter my (rather tongue in cheek) statement that "jigga" is not an accepted pronunciation or that english is the primary (possibly the only) language that might pronounce the two g's differently.
"jigga-" is actually considered to be the proper pronunciation in the USA, and the "giga-" is considered the mispronunciation (and typically confined solely to computers).
Also, English is not the only language that has two pronunciations for "g" Spanish, and Italian both have pronunciations dependent upon the following vowel (Spanish <ge>, <gi> -> /x/ or /j/, <ga>, <go>, <gu> -> /g/; Italian <ge>, <gi> -> /dZ/, <ga>, <go>, <gu> -> /g/). As well, so does Swedish, <ge>, <gi>, <gö>, <gä> -> /x\/ or /j/, <ga>, <go>, <gu>, <gå> -> /g/.
But, let's presume that we want to limit our discussion strictly to the prefix "giga-", Arabic and Spanish both pronounce it "jigga-", Arabic is even clear about this, as it is spelled with their "j" character, which is distinct from their "g" character. Spanish even has a wikipedia page about it, noting that it is properly pronounced "jiga", except in computer science where it is "yiga", which is how "giga-" should properly be pronounced in Spanish, as the <g> is a front vowel.
So, no English is neither special nor unique in its treatment of the "giga-" prefix... At least two other languages pronounce it as "jigga-", and one of those two even has the proper pronunciation as an exceptional pronunciation that is regularized in computer science to conform with proper orthography.
The one on the right is the Samsung, it is longer even though you can tell from the parallax that it is being held at a shallower angle compared to the ground.
Its shapes, you can't fuck it up.
Wow, thanks for letting me know! Now, kindly explain to me how I'm supposed to naively tell the difference?
The author is Dutch. In Dutch, it is spelled foton [wikipedia.org]. You can't blame everyone for speaking English as a second language.
Oh come on, if I wrote something in French or German (neither of which I am fluent in) and made a spelling or grammar mistake, I wouldn't use "but it's not my first language" as an excuse.
There's a difference between casual internet forum postings and actual published works.
Right, but if you made an almost guaranteed grammatical error, you would pass it off as "not my first language". Or rather, "not one of my native languages". And yeah, I know: "if I were making a professional publication, then I would have it proofread by someone who does speak the language natively!" Yeah, and proofreaders never make mistakes, right?
You know what I see in common with all of these stories of unhelpful police? They are all civil offenses. Perhaps the solution is to call a lawyer not a cop. I wonder if the perpetrator had assaulted someone if the police response would be different, since that is a criminal offense.
Ok, same parties. Boyfriend's brother was trespassed from our property, and signed a form saying he understood he was trespassed. He returned the following night and took the license plates from the vehicle that they co-owned. (one would say "steal", except he was a legal owner.) As a result Shoreline (a suburb of Seattle) pressed charges for a few things, and enacted a criminal-proceeding protection order. Boyfriend shows up at a house rented out to friends owned by boyfriend's brother, boyfriend's brother is there. Brother charges him, boyfriend retreats as per his duty. Brother throws rock at boyfriend, and hits him on the thigh. Due to protection order, any assault no matter how slight is a felony. Witness saw it and everything.
Seattle declines to prosecute, because witness is afraid of being kicked out of his house (illegal, as per modus operandi of boyfriend's brother, his landlord).
Protection orders in Seattle are nearly worthless... you here all these stories about people with protection orders continuing to be harassed, and police doing nothing, until the protected individual is killed by the respondent... I used to think the idea had to be rare, but after seeing how well Seattle handled them, I was no longer surprised at all.
Theft is a civil offense?
(Yes, I'm giving an answer other people have given, but with a few extra details.)
No, theft is a criminal offense, but there is a civil tort equivalent called "Conversion". If the police fail to press charges, a person can always sue in court. (In fact, nothing actually stops you from suing at the same time. Although, if the criminal case gives you restitution, then your damages will be ruled satisfied for the civil case, and vice-versa.)
If the perp is dead they cant counter your "they were trying to kill me" claim.
Remember, if you are going to shoot a home invader, make sure they are dead and IN THE HOME.
Don't trust this! Some states have a duty to retreat even in your own home. Many states also still have a requirement that lethal force can only be brought against lethal force even in your own home. Check your local state laws; better yet, ask a lawyer in your own state before you go shooting ANYONE. If you own a gun, then you really should know the specific laws for your state!
Namely, every gun owner should know two things: how to use their firearm properly, and how to legally operate their firearm!
Actually "jiga" is the correct pronounciation, seeing that it derives from a greek word that is pronounced like that. And in other languages I speak, it is pronounced as "jiga" in all of them.
Checking the various language Wikipedias, it seems to be relatively split actually. Arabic, and Spanish use "jiga-"; Japanese, German, Esperanto, Russian, Hebrew use "giga-", French uses "zhiga-" ("jiga-" with a fricative instead of an affricative in the same place of articulation.), Greek and I presume Dutch both use the voiced velar fricative. (These were the only ones I could really check for sure, as they have strictly accurate spelling, or their Wikipedias have a clear pronunciation note. It appears that all of the Scandinavian Germanic languages/dialects use "giga-" but I can't be sure enough of my understanding of their pronunciation notes.)
So, it appears kind of like it's all over the map... if you can update me about which languages you can vouch for "jiga" as the correct pronunciation, I'd be interested in hearing them. (I'm a crazy linguaphile, if you couldn't tell.)
And you just made the voice in my head say "jibi-bytes." Deeply disturbing.
I can't find any "official" pronunciation direction for gibibytes, but my understanding was always that the "giga-" prefix is always pronounced like "jigga-" unless you're talking about computers, in which case it's always pronounced with a "hard" g.
In any case, I'm one of those freaks who actually does use the -bi- notation, and it usually causes people to stare at me and say, "did you just say giBIbyte?"