Maybe I'm not reading that the right way, but if I remember my college math classes correctly, the outcome of other random events does not affect the probability of any given random event. If you roll a six-sided die (kinda sad I have to specifically say six-sided), and you roll a six four times in a row, the probability of rolling a six again is still the same. No matter how many other species advance enough to reach interstellar travel, the probability that humans do so is still the same.
Unless you're talking about a species being advanced enough to see humans as a threat and nuking us from orbit, of course.
I'm sorry that you don't understand how succession works in the executive branch. If Wikipedia isn't an authoritative enough source on something like the text of constitutional amendments, would you accept Cornell University?
Again, the original poster would only be correct if Cheney died before a new vice president was selected, which I would guess wouldn't take more than a week or two. Wikipedia explains it quite clearly, including how it was applied during the Nixon administration.
Okay, so "Cheney dies in office" was referring to after Bush was already gone. I can see how it you would read that way. That still wouldn't make Pelosi president, unless Cheney died so soon after Bush that he didn't have time to select a new vice president. My point was to clarify that a president dying doesn't give everyone in the line of succession a promotion, i.e. the Speaker of the House does not become vice president.
Cheney is already in office. Specifically, the office of Vice President of the United States. The term "in office" is used rather frequently to refer to elected officials other than the president.
I know that logic rarely finds a place in these types of policies, but it would be reasonable to read "receiving the notice" as the student actually picking up the envelope, similar to how court subpoenas work. If the notice is put in your mailbox on Friday, but you don't come back to your dorm until Monday, you didn't actually receive the notice on Friday.
You should be basing your college choices on three things, and only three things: a) quality of education, b) reputation in your chosen field, and c) networking opportunities.
Yeah, I can't believe that I took into consideration the fact that the college I went to had a decent music program, even though it was purely a hobby for me, where I ended up meeting people that will probably be my best friends for the rest of my life. I'm such an idiot for that.
I'm pretty sure that the only way Pelosi would get a promotion to the executive branch is if the president and vice president both die at the same time. If Cheney dies in office, Bush would replace him (my guess would be with Gonzales).
So we got viagra to keep people up and we'll soon have $name_to_add_to_spamfilter to cure the loss of hair, but still no reliable cure for cancer and let's not talk about AIDS.
But why?
Money, people. Simply and plainly, money.
Yup, you're exactly right. There's absolutely no way that we don't have cures for cancer and AIDS because they're actually difficult problems to solve.
I was originally only addressing the comment that Microsoft can't have the patent on something because they didn't invent it. I don't personally know if Microsoft has a patent on using the tab key for navigating links, I just took the word of the poster that first said it. If they don't actual have such a patent, this discussion is pretty much just academic.
have you been paying attention? "prior art" invalidates patents.
Only 1) if the prior art is known by the patent office when the patent is being considered, or 2) when the patent is challenged. If the patent was granted, then the first point isn't true. If the patent hasn't been challenged, then the second point doesn't apply. Showing prior art for something covered by a patent doesn't mean anything unless you show it to a court presiding over a challenge of the patent.
Just because Microsoft didn't invent it, it doesn't mean they don't have a patent on it. It only means that the patent office didn't know about lynx when the patent was granted, and the patent hasn't been challenged in court.
...six of them - IBM (Charts, Fortune 500), Sony, Philips, Novell, Red Hat (Charts) and NEC - set up the Open Invention Network to acquire a portfolio of patents...
Does that portfolio include Sony's patent on rootkits?
Um, so you've stopped paying your taxes, then? Because that's where the actual money for the war comes from.
Wouldn't that imply that the government is actually taking in as much money as it's spending? I was under the impression that the actual money for the war was coming from Americans 50 years in the future when other countries want some of the money we owe them.
Sometimes a member of the electoral college votes differently than pledged
Some states do not legally require members of the electoral college to vote for the candidate that won the popular vote in that state, but I'd be curious about when the last time that actually happened was. I don't remember hearing about it any time in recent history.
And god created the universe in seven days. How is that any *LESS* insane.
Generally, only the really conservative religious people still believe that the world was created in six Earth solar days. Most reasonable people interpret "day" as something like "era", as in the saying "back in my day". Not to mention the fact that the sun doesn't show up until the fourth day.
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Maybe I'm not reading that the right way, but if I remember my college math classes correctly, the outcome of other random events does not affect the probability of any given random event. If you roll a six-sided die (kinda sad I have to specifically say six-sided), and you roll a six four times in a row, the probability of rolling a six again is still the same. No matter how many other species advance enough to reach interstellar travel, the probability that humans do so is still the same.
Unless you're talking about a species being advanced enough to see humans as a threat and nuking us from orbit, of course.
I'm sorry that you don't understand how succession works in the executive branch. If Wikipedia isn't an authoritative enough source on something like the text of constitutional amendments, would you accept Cornell University?
Again, the original poster would only be correct if Cheney died before a new vice president was selected, which I would guess wouldn't take more than a week or two. Wikipedia explains it quite clearly, including how it was applied during the Nixon administration.
Okay, so "Cheney dies in office" was referring to after Bush was already gone. I can see how it you would read that way. That still wouldn't make Pelosi president, unless Cheney died so soon after Bush that he didn't have time to select a new vice president. My point was to clarify that a president dying doesn't give everyone in the line of succession a promotion, i.e. the Speaker of the House does not become vice president.
Aren't 2-4 already possible with normal credit and debit cards?
Cheney is already in office. Specifically, the office of Vice President of the United States. The term "in office" is used rather frequently to refer to elected officials other than the president.
I'm not sure if there's any law about it, but most job applications I've seen only ask about convictions from the past 7 years.
I'm pretty sure that the only way Pelosi would get a promotion to the executive branch is if the president and vice president both die at the same time. If Cheney dies in office, Bush would replace him (my guess would be with Gonzales).
"You cannot stop the lone gunman willing to exchange his life for the target's"
I was originally only addressing the comment that Microsoft can't have the patent on something because they didn't invent it. I don't personally know if Microsoft has a patent on using the tab key for navigating links, I just took the word of the poster that first said it. If they don't actual have such a patent, this discussion is pretty much just academic.
Just because Microsoft didn't invent it, it doesn't mean they don't have a patent on it. It only means that the patent office didn't know about lynx when the patent was granted, and the patent hasn't been challenged in court.
Army recruitment officers don't tell you to go out and kill for Jesus. Only politicians do that.
Only if Jar Jar loses, I assume?