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seems like definition of due process has been changed, secretly to avoid unnecessary disturbance to the public peace and enjoyment.
your point seems to be moot as this military explosives test ground and firing range happens to be located pretty much in the back yard of these homes.
>when i'm sure more dangerous things are regularly tested there.
either dumb luck or much better trained and/or smarter professionals doing the testing. (btw, i lived close to 2 military shooting ranges [ one for guns like AK-47 and another is the tank range ] and there is a world of difference between how military and civilians handle the weapons, i mean skill-wise, though even military do have mishaps )
that is true only in the ideal situation of unlimited law enforcement resources and the type of crimes affecting everybody. In real situation going after specific criminals or crimes [esp. the ones affecting only specific subset of the society] leaves other crimes unpunished and laws unenforced. Thus any real law enforcement inplementation (not theory) demonstrates rivalness and excludability.
PHP has been and will be on the wrong side for the very long time ahead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6...
After having already watched 6.5 seasons of TNG on Netflix i believe them that it isn't a cloaked Klingon warbird (because the warbird is smaller that the ship in the image :)
or at least in somewhat understandable models beyond simple linear ones:
better for what? If you study the economics, you'd know that free market naturally results in the outcomes like "food deserts" and 10%+ uninsured precisely because markets better allocate resources for profit maximization, not for universal coverage (which is a main objective of the public education system and must be, for basic human decency and net positive economical result for the whole society, made an objective of the healthcare system)
i bet it is much harder than produce a new scientific theory ( or may be it is just my Math MS talking :)
This matching algorithm has carried us, humans, through millions years. Various opinions and statements can be made about this algorithm, yet it is definitely not "broken" :)
no. Both - right for basic education and right for not being robbed/killed - are just guaranteed rights that the government is supposed to deliver upon.
>A school that has only profitability as it's goal will be outed as such in a free market, and will not be chosen by consumers that care more about their children's experience.
speaking about tired argument. To make your argument stronger you should have added some statement about "tricking down of good education from good school students to the students of bad schools".
Without going into how fast and effectively free market can out a bad school, i'll just note that basic education isn't object of consumption, it is a right of the children.
is that
>US children
is pure virtual "statistical" entity. The education in the US is local. Chinese children from Bay Area Cupertino are tigers ( as i heard, don't have direct experience). Children of my Russian or "native" (WASP type) American friends in the Bay Area have no problem being accepted to Stanford, Harward, Berkeley (though one "lazy" one was forced to go to lesser known UC campus).
On the other side, beside obvious case of black ghettos, there are well known areas in the US where school boards decide to teach Creationism, where people "cling to their guns and religion" while waiting for the President to bring back from China and hand them down "good paying jobs". What kind of motivation and resulting education will children get there?
The children must not be held hostages of the local political, religious, economical situation. Alabama didn't want to integrate schools - the real force was apllied to enforce the right of the people. The same way here - the basic education is a guaranteed right and the children don't have a way to defend their right. That means that federal government must step in and apply necessary resources (and force if necessary) to make sure that the children's right for the basic education (and that has very specific meaning in the 21st century, and isn't subject to specific religious beliefs of local school board members) isn't violated.
>exposed their schooling system to free market competition
not all things can be effectively put under free market framework. Bottom line optimization and profit maximization, natural main objectives of the known free market implementations, don't work well for nuclear weapons maintenance, law enforcement ... healthcare and education for that exact reason that the main objectives in all these areas aren't the bottom line and profit maximization. For example, private prisons and healthcare in the US is highly profitable enterprises, while they serve their main objectives worse then their non-free-market counterparts in comparably developed countries.
it isn't about "how long" this specific operation takes. In Russian there is a saying "One's experience of a theatrical show starts with the coatchecking experience at the theater". In this particular case the reg form strongly suggests that the user experience on the site wasn't designed well.
And as it happens according to the other posts, the experince of the majority of the users (the ones who completed the registration) was miserable as they didn't fit the narrow category of "know and interested in Python and ready to provide Skype ID".
"Scientists once thought that no living thing could survive the harsh combination of toxic chemicals, high temperatures, high pressures, and total darkness at these vents. "
"Vent bacteria use hydrogen sulfide as their energy source instead of sunlight. "
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/ps_vents.html
man, that plugs nicely into the whole dark matter/energy discussion.
Well, it is really hard to imagine how something/somebody can surpass Cro-Magnon in the ways of violence. On the other side, only violence can keep the Cro-Magnon at bay as Cro-Magnon willn't allow to be peacefully surpassed.
>"but only a buffoon thinks that man can be overleapt"
yep, the 20th century history is littered with such failed over-leap attempts. Curious time we live at - the previous attepts of "leap"-type [necessarily forced] transformations of humans and society are finished and no new is initiated yet. Is it quiet before the storm? I don't believe that we learned the lesson.
on related note: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2666839
True and false. The most "advanced" humans of any given time have destroyed and will be attempting to destroy the competition. Neandethals fell victim to Cro-Magnon, and the Cro-Magnon [ie. current "humans", we] will in its turn fall victim to the next human species. ( My previous comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3126716 )
And thus with the help of the law people are made to live as long as it is possible even when they don't want to. I'm afraid that when the policy is reversed, people would be "encouraged" to quit as soon as possible (and being afraid of such reversal the society clings to the current policy).
Somehow the society just can't understand the simple thing that the decision to quit or stay is personal and not for the society to make/enforce either way.
" The slight smacking movement of the lips made in uttering an m-sound is similar to the lip movement required to suck a nipple."
How about "mother", "no" sounding so similar in multitude of completely different languages? Your quote mistakenly attributes a property of human's mind - the ability to separate meaning from symbol - as a property of language. Shaka, when the walls fell.
"Come on, let us shoot"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
Games are to blame? Or hysterical propaganada dehumanizing arabs, Afgans, etc... and blessing violence against them.