Back in the 1920's the FBI tried to argue that putting a wiretap on a public phone booth was not a search or a seizure. That logic was refuted by the Supreme Court.
Well, no, not really. But being a college student myself I know that high-end math books can easily go for $300 or $400. I don't feel like it's a fair market price but that is in the ballpark of the going cost for a textbook. Princeton is so expensive and well-to-do anyway that they probably don't mind assigning their students really expensive textbooks.
At the very least you can expect that a fair chunk of the $60,000 is going to publishers. Of course I don't doubt that Amazon will be making some money in this, there's obviously a conflict of interests, and giving a bunch of Ivy League students who are probably already rolling in money free digital gadgets seems kind of absurd too.
It's not the war veterans who care. It's the pacifists who care. At least that's what I'd imagine, I didn't RTFA (this is slashdot, I have better shit to be doing right now). But I'd imagine the objection is simply that the government is teaching war as a value, and that's bad, because like, you know, war sucks, dude.
IANAL, but it should be legal if the end result is not selling the hardware for less than it's production cost. Which is entirely possible, considering that $8,000 of IBM products doesn't actually cost IBM anywhere near $8,000.
That's horrifying; a cytokine storm was also associated with the deadly Spanish Flu, and is exactly what caused it to kill so many young, healthy people with strong immune systems.
You could simply hold up a picture to the thing to fool it, or an iPhone with the first season of Star Trek playing it would seem
That doesn't apply to all potential applications. What if we, say, used the facial recognition software to analyze mugshots of criminals who didn't cooperate with attempts to be identified, and cross-referenced the mugshots with digital databases of driver's license ID photos?
They won't be able to hold up a picture to fool the recognition software when they are being monitored in the police station.
And that's just ONE potential use. Personally I don't see how this is a waste of time.
But if the virus is evolved, couldn't it cause new symptoms?
Here is some good lunchtime material from wikipedia about the Spanish Flu: "Symptoms included a blue tint to the face and coughing up blood caused by severe obstruction of the lungs. In some cases, the virus caused an uncontrollable hemorrhaging that filled the lungs, and patients drowned in their body fluids (pneumonia). In others, the flu caused frequent loss of bowel control and the victim would die from losing critical intestinal lining and blood loss."
In any case we have no idea if the OP really had swine flu or not. I wonder if he went to the doctor to receive a medical opinion, or if he is just assuming?
Yeah; the accusations of the prosecutor, not the Judge. From the way it sounds, the lay assessors merely help the Judge to interpret the law, regardless of which side of the argument they fall on. The substantive issue here is that the Judge might deliberately form all of his arguments to support the prosecutor, because he may be biased.
IANAL. Although I did do state-level Mock Trial competition in High School.
Depends on what the blackmail material is. Voters can be fickle and to a politician, something like "politician X has a foot fetish" can be blackmail material to him/her since it could ruin his/her chances of re-election.
But this article takes it to a whole new level. The federal government is ignoring illegal actions taken on part of the politician, in order to blackmail her into publicly supporting something illegal. That stinks of corruption at so many levels, it makes my head spin. Everyone involved should be crucified, figuratively.
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Back in the 1920's the FBI tried to argue that putting a wiretap on a public phone booth was not a search or a seizure. That logic was refuted by the Supreme Court.
Just like Al-Qaeda being financed by the buyers of opium and other related drugs
That's why we should grow those things here instead.
Well, no, not really. But being a college student myself I know that high-end math books can easily go for $300 or $400. I don't feel like it's a fair market price but that is in the ballpark of the going cost for a textbook. Princeton is so expensive and well-to-do anyway that they probably don't mind assigning their students really expensive textbooks.
At the very least you can expect that a fair chunk of the $60,000 is going to publishers. Of course I don't doubt that Amazon will be making some money in this, there's obviously a conflict of interests, and giving a bunch of Ivy League students who are probably already rolling in money free digital gadgets seems kind of absurd too.
However they're loaded with materials for 3 courses.
3 courses * 50 students = 150 textbooks.
$35,000 / 150 textbooks = $233.33 / textbook
Taking that into consideration, the expense seems more reasonable.
all of the atheists would be climbing over themselves to be the first to prove that god doesn't exist
Really? Because, you know, being an agnostic, I was pretty sure that's what atheists actually do.
It's not the war veterans who care. It's the pacifists who care. At least that's what I'd imagine, I didn't RTFA (this is slashdot, I have better shit to be doing right now). But I'd imagine the objection is simply that the government is teaching war as a value, and that's bad, because like, you know, war sucks, dude.
"While in the United States of America, it is unlawful to be in possession of any items capable of the mass production and/or spread of fire"
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IANAL, but it should be legal if the end result is not selling the hardware for less than it's production cost. Which is entirely possible, considering that $8,000 of IBM products doesn't actually cost IBM anywhere near $8,000.
That's pretty circular logic. How can we speculate as to what might be wrong with it when we can't even see it?
If I wanted to watch Ugly Betty, etc, I could watch TV.
Or you could save yourself $50/month and watch them online instead. Why do people insist on paying for redundant services like it is "no big deal?"
Have you bothered to read the studies?
That isn't helpful. What studies?
Something tells me that violent criminal terrorists aren't the sort of folks who went to college in the first place.
Was the flu pandemic of 1918 that killed an estimated 20 to 100 million people worldwide newsworthy?
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I don't think it's unreasonable to fire them, but taking their pension is another matter entirely.
That's horrifying; a cytokine storm was also associated with the deadly Spanish Flu, and is exactly what caused it to kill so many young, healthy people with strong immune systems.
1. They should lose any pensions and should never be able to work in law enforcement again
How might that affect any children they might have, who are innocent?
You could simply hold up a picture to the thing to fool it, or an iPhone with the first season of Star Trek playing it would seem
That doesn't apply to all potential applications. What if we, say, used the facial recognition software to analyze mugshots of criminals who didn't cooperate with attempts to be identified, and cross-referenced the mugshots with digital databases of driver's license ID photos?
They won't be able to hold up a picture to fool the recognition software when they are being monitored in the police station.
And that's just ONE potential use. Personally I don't see how this is a waste of time.
But if the virus is evolved, couldn't it cause new symptoms?
Here is some good lunchtime material from wikipedia about the Spanish Flu: "Symptoms included a blue tint to the face and coughing up blood caused by severe obstruction of the lungs. In some cases, the virus caused an uncontrollable hemorrhaging that filled the lungs, and patients drowned in their body fluids (pneumonia). In others, the flu caused frequent loss of bowel control and the victim would die from losing critical intestinal lining and blood loss."
In any case we have no idea if the OP really had swine flu or not. I wonder if he went to the doctor to receive a medical opinion, or if he is just assuming?
Yeah; the accusations of the prosecutor, not the Judge. From the way it sounds, the lay assessors merely help the Judge to interpret the law, regardless of which side of the argument they fall on. The substantive issue here is that the Judge might deliberately form all of his arguments to support the prosecutor, because he may be biased.
IANAL. Although I did do state-level Mock Trial competition in High School.
Efficient agriculture has a money value.
"Hey, can you borrow me some money."
Sure thing boss, I'll see the loan shark tomorrow.
Depends on what the blackmail material is. Voters can be fickle and to a politician, something like "politician X has a foot fetish" can be blackmail material to him/her since it could ruin his/her chances of re-election.
But this article takes it to a whole new level. The federal government is ignoring illegal actions taken on part of the politician, in order to blackmail her into publicly supporting something illegal. That stinks of corruption at so many levels, it makes my head spin. Everyone involved should be crucified, figuratively.
Oops. Disregard that, I suck cocks. I missed the OP's subject line, "There was a real life Q"
I wonder if by "model" the OP meant the original Q character in Ian Fleming's novels.