Wrong. Time in and of itself does *nothing*. There was no gradual erosion of religion from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, but rather a sudden interest in reason, humanism, and worldly living brought about by the rediscovery of classical philosophy (primarily Aristotle) through scholars like Aquinas. It's ideas that make the difference, not a matter of waiting out the clock. Sadly, in this day and age, I think that most of the Muslims with ideas capable of tempering ultra-orthodoxy are likely to find themselves in the West.
So, in other words, we should subsidize a cable network that would be deep in the red if it had to stand on its own? Wouldn't that just be brutal for them to have to make shows people wanted to watch...
Ironically enough, I don't pay any taxes either. I just pass the costs onto the corporations by buying less stuff. Seriously, there should be a law preventing economic activity from being all interconnected and stuff.
So where was Lucasfilm's choice as to whether or not their movie was going to be on this dumb kid's website? He distributed the copyrighted works of others, without their knowledge or consent, thereby initiating force (in the same sense that pickpocketing or embezzlement is an initiation of force). The government responded with force, in a concept known as "justice" (which is something we want governments to do, well, maybe not the anarchists), so he knows not to do it again and others can possibly learn from his example.
I've got a theory that it's part of a more complicated matter, which I currently title "Punishments Get Harsher When People Don't Fucking Listen". Same mentality behind SarbOx, Three Strikes, draconian DUI penalties, all the pushups I did in boot camp, etc.
I'm sure they could if they tried; but if one program can support 90+% of the desktop users out there, what's the point? If he really wants to be that "special", he can spend 5 months playing Sudoku on his Linux box.
What regulations are necessary for clean air? If dirty air caused by a corporation causes tangible harm, get their director's asses in a courtroom and find them civilly or criminally liable for negligence. All without a bunch of taxpayer-paid hacks running around enforcing myriad bits of alphabet-soup legislation. As for socialized medicine, I oppose it on moral grounds (I have no right to a hospital's goods or a doctor's services unpaid simply by the result of government fiat), but practically, employers and employees alike will end up paying out the ass for it.
Socialized medicine (I won't euphemize it) may or may not have some benefits. But it is a violation of my rights to have my property forcibly taken from me to pay for someone else's health care. Because I have a selfish interest in living in a society in which individual rights are respected, I am therefor opposed to socialized medicine.
Not only are we riding the 19th-20th century wealth base, we're actively seeking to undermine it. Both China and India have had up-close-and-personal lessons regarding the failures of command economies, and we're still trying to subvert our economy to government control and "social responsibility".
The G8 nations won't go for a gold standard, for the simple reason that it's impossible to run a welfare state without going into debt up to your eyeballs. And welfare statism will not go away as long as people believe they have a right to require others to live their life for them. Plunder really isn't a necessary part of the equation; more gold was produced in the last century by peaceful, voluntary trade than was ever lifted by the conquistadors and their ilk (unless you're one of the nutjobs who shouts "exploitation" at every instance of peaceful trade).
Paul's probably not the worst choice for president, he gets at least part of the issue, but like most libertarians, he can't integrate them into any sort of meaningful principle.
That's probably about 99% of the problem right there. Both sides of the mainstream political spectrum want the United States to be the economic superpower it once was, without any understanding of how it got there (ie, probably not central planning, punitive taxation, and subsidies). We handcuff domestic companies and make them unable to compete, and then we act shocked when they go out of business. Then, right out of the pages of Collectivism 101 (see also: Health Care), we claim that "freedom" has been given a chance and failed, so greater government control is needed. At this point, I wouldn't be too disappointed if the whole damn thing falls apart. Those who are capable of doing something that can create value will likely continue doing so, and those who can't, or won't, won't be able to continue their scavenging.
I really can't comment on IT, but when I put my resume up on Monster for the energy field, I had to turn down several jobs in the mid to high five-figure range. (The one I ended up taking is high five to low six, but it involves 60+ hr workweeks and 95% of my time on the road. Not bad for a single guy with no college degree.). I guess it's all a matter of what's hot and what's not.
Funny, because the games the GP mentions were distributed exclusively by mail-order for the first few years of their existence and *still* became hits before they ever hit store shelves. True, then ain't now, but if Rockstar wanted to put whatever snuff fantasy the ESRB balked on out on their webpage, they'd probably get sales (at least from people who are into that kind of shit). Granted, that freezes them out of consoles, but hey, you lie down with dogs, don't bitch about the fleas.
Had it gone critical, it probably would have been an accident on the level of the one in Tokaimura, Japan in 1999 (which was a criticality accident). A bunch of people died, and more got sick, but not exactly China Syndrome.
Regardless of its classification status, it is NNPI (Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information) and has its own protection independent of classification (Atomic Energy Act of 1956). I think I've beat this about to death on this topic, but Naval Reactors was doing what by law they are supposed to do in making this FOUO and pulling it from the archives.
I doubt that the NRC had all the horses in this one. The plant in question was a fuel supplier to Naval Reactors, and under the Atomic Energy Act, even nonclassified information regarding naval nuclear propulsion information is not permitted to be released to the public. It was Naval Reactors that made the decision to pull the archives, and sad as it may be, they're in the legal right here.
The words "Navy", "Naval", or "military" appear nowhere in that document. That's the issue with the classification. It's subject to the Atomic Secrets Act (a byproduct of Fuchs and later the Rosenbergs). The major stuff is all classified CONFIDENTIAL at the least (with it's own subheading - RESTRICTED DATA). Even the trivial stuff is FOUO or NOFORN (effectively the same thing). This is definitely something that Naval Reactors should have released to the public, however. (If it's any consolation, from someone who's worn the blue suit, by the time NR got through with these guys, they were probably wishing they had dealt with the EPA and Congressional hearings.)
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Wrong. Time in and of itself does *nothing*. There was no gradual erosion of religion from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, but rather a sudden interest in reason, humanism, and worldly living brought about by the rediscovery of classical philosophy (primarily Aristotle) through scholars like Aquinas. It's ideas that make the difference, not a matter of waiting out the clock. Sadly, in this day and age, I think that most of the Muslims with ideas capable of tempering ultra-orthodoxy are likely to find themselves in the West.
So, in other words, we should subsidize a cable network that would be deep in the red if it had to stand on its own? Wouldn't that just be brutal for them to have to make shows people wanted to watch...
Software isn't platform agnostic because there's really only one platform that counts.
Ironically enough, I don't pay any taxes either. I just pass the costs onto the corporations by buying less stuff. Seriously, there should be a law preventing economic activity from being all interconnected and stuff.
So where was Lucasfilm's choice as to whether or not their movie was going to be on this dumb kid's website? He distributed the copyrighted works of others, without their knowledge or consent, thereby initiating force (in the same sense that pickpocketing or embezzlement is an initiation of force). The government responded with force, in a concept known as "justice" (which is something we want governments to do, well, maybe not the anarchists), so he knows not to do it again and others can possibly learn from his example.
Where in the article does it say this kid went to a maximum security lockup?
Ford doesn't hold 90+% of the automobile market.
I've got a theory that it's part of a more complicated matter, which I currently title "Punishments Get Harsher When People Don't Fucking Listen". Same mentality behind SarbOx, Three Strikes, draconian DUI penalties, all the pushups I did in boot camp, etc.
I'm sure they could if they tried; but if one program can support 90+% of the desktop users out there, what's the point? If he really wants to be that "special", he can spend 5 months playing Sudoku on his Linux box.
The kids they caught in Operation Sundevil about 20 years back were given the same restriction, and it got shot down in Federal court IIRC.
What regulations are necessary for clean air? If dirty air caused by a corporation causes tangible harm, get their director's asses in a courtroom and find them civilly or criminally liable for negligence. All without a bunch of taxpayer-paid hacks running around enforcing myriad bits of alphabet-soup legislation. As for socialized medicine, I oppose it on moral grounds (I have no right to a hospital's goods or a doctor's services unpaid simply by the result of government fiat), but practically, employers and employees alike will end up paying out the ass for it.
Socialized medicine (I won't euphemize it) may or may not have some benefits. But it is a violation of my rights to have my property forcibly taken from me to pay for someone else's health care. Because I have a selfish interest in living in a society in which individual rights are respected, I am therefor opposed to socialized medicine.
Not only are we riding the 19th-20th century wealth base, we're actively seeking to undermine it. Both China and India have had up-close-and-personal lessons regarding the failures of command economies, and we're still trying to subvert our economy to government control and "social responsibility".
The G8 nations won't go for a gold standard, for the simple reason that it's impossible to run a welfare state without going into debt up to your eyeballs. And welfare statism will not go away as long as people believe they have a right to require others to live their life for them. Plunder really isn't a necessary part of the equation; more gold was produced in the last century by peaceful, voluntary trade than was ever lifted by the conquistadors and their ilk (unless you're one of the nutjobs who shouts "exploitation" at every instance of peaceful trade).
Paul's probably not the worst choice for president, he gets at least part of the issue, but like most libertarians, he can't integrate them into any sort of meaningful principle.
That's probably about 99% of the problem right there. Both sides of the mainstream political spectrum want the United States to be the economic superpower it once was, without any understanding of how it got there (ie, probably not central planning, punitive taxation, and subsidies). We handcuff domestic companies and make them unable to compete, and then we act shocked when they go out of business. Then, right out of the pages of Collectivism 101 (see also: Health Care), we claim that "freedom" has been given a chance and failed, so greater government control is needed. At this point, I wouldn't be too disappointed if the whole damn thing falls apart. Those who are capable of doing something that can create value will likely continue doing so, and those who can't, or won't, won't be able to continue their scavenging.
But do they have the right to title them as "Oz" movies? The copyrights may be expired, but trademarks *never* go away as long as defended.
I really can't comment on IT, but when I put my resume up on Monster for the energy field, I had to turn down several jobs in the mid to high five-figure range. (The one I ended up taking is high five to low six, but it involves 60+ hr workweeks and 95% of my time on the road. Not bad for a single guy with no college degree.). I guess it's all a matter of what's hot and what's not.
Funny, because the games the GP mentions were distributed exclusively by mail-order for the first few years of their existence and *still* became hits before they ever hit store shelves. True, then ain't now, but if Rockstar wanted to put whatever snuff fantasy the ESRB balked on out on their webpage, they'd probably get sales (at least from people who are into that kind of shit). Granted, that freezes them out of consoles, but hey, you lie down with dogs, don't bitch about the fleas.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/
There's at least three who died from the SL-1 reactivity insertion accident in the 50's. Other than that, it's a pretty clean record.
Had it gone critical, it probably would have been an accident on the level of the one in Tokaimura, Japan in 1999 (which was a criticality accident). A bunch of people died, and more got sick, but not exactly China Syndrome.
Regardless of its classification status, it is NNPI (Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information) and has its own protection independent of classification (Atomic Energy Act of 1956). I think I've beat this about to death on this topic, but Naval Reactors was doing what by law they are supposed to do in making this FOUO and pulling it from the archives.
I doubt that the NRC had all the horses in this one. The plant in question was a fuel supplier to Naval Reactors, and under the Atomic Energy Act, even nonclassified information regarding naval nuclear propulsion information is not permitted to be released to the public. It was Naval Reactors that made the decision to pull the archives, and sad as it may be, they're in the legal right here.
It's not an executive privilege issue. It pertains to a military nuclear program, and falls under the heading of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.
The words "Navy", "Naval", or "military" appear nowhere in that document. That's the issue with the classification. It's subject to the Atomic Secrets Act (a byproduct of Fuchs and later the Rosenbergs). The major stuff is all classified CONFIDENTIAL at the least (with it's own subheading - RESTRICTED DATA). Even the trivial stuff is FOUO or NOFORN (effectively the same thing). This is definitely something that Naval Reactors should have released to the public, however. (If it's any consolation, from someone who's worn the blue suit, by the time NR got through with these guys, they were probably wishing they had dealt with the EPA and Congressional hearings.)