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Comment It worked in Guatamala (Score 1) 132

The new city of Cayala in Guatemala is a really good place to work and live. And it's an awesome tourist area as well. If they can do the same in California, then I'm all for it. We need more cities that are walkable and not based entirely on cars. Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Re:all race horses have an age system like that so (Score 2, Informative) 52

It's the difference between ordinal and cardinal numbers, just like the year. This is the 2023rd year of Christ's birth (ordinal) but people refer to it as 2023 (cardinal) incorrectly. The first year of your birth is from your birth until 12 months later. How old are you at 6 months? You are in your first year. That is incorrectly shortened to one year old in the previous system confusing "first" to "one." Also span versus point. The first year is a span of time. You are one year old at the end of that span at a point in time. Do you count the span or the point? People have been confused about this for a long time. In this case it's just a different way of looking at it. The year zero debate confirms that confusion in the west though. Christ was born at a point in time. One year after that spanned one year. That was another point in time on the timeline. That span was the first year. One year passed at the point in time after his birth. That point is labelled "one." Six months after that first year, you are in the second year. But you are at 1.5 in counting years. So it's still year "one" even though it's in the second year which we incorrectly label year "2" (it should be 2nd). Same counting for birthdays in Korea.

Comment Re:Classified? (Score 1) 342

What harm? Everything he tweeted has now been officially released under a FOIA request. Nothing he tweeted was redacted in that release indicating that it no longer needs to be classified, nor that it will cause any harm to the country. If it would, it would remain classified like the portions that were redacted.

Comment None of the redactions were in Trump's tweet (Score 2) 342

Many details on the original image remain redacted -- a clear sign that Trump was sharing some of the U.S. government's most prized intelligence on social media.

None the things that were redacted from the declassified release were included in Trump's tweet. In fact, just the opposite conclusion can be derived in that everything that was tweeted is now considered no longer worthy of continued classification.

Comment House Votes Without Evidence To Impeach Trump (Score -1, Troll) 557

"House Votes Without Evidence To Impeach President Trump a Historic Second Time" is what you meant to say.

No hearings.
No witnesses.
No evidence offered.
No evidence submitted.
No defense allowed.

There may be evidence, but none was offered. It's the same as Trump claiming without evidence that the election was fraudulent. If you have evidence, you have to present it. Just making a statement and having everyone either agree or disagree is the same thing Trump is being accused of doing in this very impeachment procedure.

Comment Re:Not getting the whole story..... (Score 1) 379

At our school, staff and volunteers are banned from taking anything home that has children's names on it like seating charts, absent logs, or even track schedules. It has something to do with the kids being minors.

So teachers can't take homework home to grade (has students' names on it)? No one can take home a yearbook (names AND photos, oh my!)? School newspapers (has bylines)? And so forth...

Comment Re:Oh Really? (Score 5, Interesting) 302

Quoted from here: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/201...

Earlier this year, a Canadian company called Stargrove Entertainment began selling two Beatles records featuring performances that are in the public domain in Canada. The records were far cheaper than those sold through Universal Music and were picked up by retail giant Walmart, who continues to list the records on their website (Can’t Buy Me Love, Love Me Do). There were additional titles featuring the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, and the Beach Boys. Some of the titles are still available for sale through Walmart.

The Stargrove Entertainment records provided Canadian consumers with low-priced alternatives while still ensures that the authors of the songs received the approriate royalties. While the sound recording is in the public domain for these works, the song itself remains subject to copyright. Therefore, the song writers – Lennon and McCartney in the case of the Beatles – were still paid for every record sold. The difference is that Universal Records was not profiting from the sale. Instead, a small Canadian company was succeeding in selling the records at a lower price to Canadian consumers.

Comment Even that's been hacked (Score 1) 342

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1... The 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal, colloquially known as the Triple Six Fix, was a plot to rig the Daily Number, a three-digit game the Pennsylvania Lottery offers. All of the balls except four and six were weighted, meaning that the drawing was almost sure to be a combination of only fours and sixes. The scheme was successful in that 666, an expected result, was drawn on April 24, 1980.

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