Unless *all* the religious alternatives are discussed though, they're running afoul of the Constitution. I don't think you'll find a whole lot of places where teaching creationism in science class is a priority that are willing to give as much time to the Muslim take on creationism. This battle is usually pretty specific to "I believe", not "other people believe".
It doesn't prevent teaching about religions.
Teaching about religion is not the same thing as teaching religion. If your comparative religion class says "And Christians believe all life was created by blah blah blah" you're teaching about religion. If your science class says "An alternative possibly to evolution is that God created all life blah blah blah", it is teaching religion. Nobody will stop you from teaching *about* Christianity, so long as it's presented neutrally and within the context of other religions. As a wise man once said, "There's a time and a place for everything", science class is neither the time nor the place for people's creation myths.
...is going to have a field day...
Are they though? I mean, sure, they want people to treat animals well (by PETA standards) while they're alive, and they definitely don't like it when people turn live animals into dead animals, but doing weird stuff with an animal carcass that was already dead when the guy got it? I'm not sure it fits in with their general focus...
ADDENDUM: Okay, after typing that, I had the idea to google for "peta position on eating roadkill". Yes, they actually have one. I'm thinking the catcopter may actually be okay by PETA standards....
If its as hydrophobic as they claim, I want a glass bottom boat made with it. It'd be awesome- just like a mag-lev, but on water!
Then why during the Dominion War did Starfleet officers have to try to stage a coup to take control of the Federation, and then get arrested and jailed when their plot was revealed? If they were in charge all along, they'd just do what they want and the puppet president would have gone along with it. Admirals certainly wouldn't have gone to prison for attempting implement martial law if the civilian government wasn't actually in control.
Did you once see the president or any other democratically elected figure even participating in them, much less leading them?
Sure, at the conference at Khitomer in "Undiscovered Country". Kirk and friends have to prevent the president's assassination during talks with the Klingons.
No, you didn't, because it was always admirals or some other higher-ups from the Navy/Starfleet.
Except for when it was ambassadors or other representatives. C'mon, the galaxy is a big place, the president can't be everywhere (not to mention, it's a TV show, it's more interesting to watch Picard do things on screen than have a new political representative on every week that Picard just follows around saying "Yes Mr. Ambassador" to over and over).
So while there may be a token civilian democracy in the Federation, it's really the military that exercises all the executive power. How could you miss that?
I didn't miss it, it's not there.
same for the other rights that suffer when all of space is controlled by a military dictatorship, aka, 'the federation'
You fail at Star Treks. The government is the United Federation of Planets, which has an elected President and representitves. It's not much different than today's democratic governments. Starfleet is the military/exploration arm of the Federation. Please turn in your geek card.
Carriers have built a market structure in which consumers gladly accept a new bauble every 18 months in exchange for paying for text messaging (which literally costs carriers nothing) and overage charges in which 300MB of data for $20 is a fair market value."
Why do I suspect that under this interesting new vision, the above would all still be true with the addition of a hefty cost for the bauble. The carriers will give up their long term lock-ins and overpriced data/text when you pry them from their cold, dead hands.
That was the Democratic party platform. The Republican party was founded on abolishing slavery.
"From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats." -- Kevin Phillips, Nixon political strategist.
Isn't marijuana a Schedule 1 drug according to the Feds? Which would essentially ban it? But states can then override it (see California), correct?
No, the states can not override federal law. Medical marijuana may be left alone by state authorities in California, but the feds can swoop in any time they like and shut down any MM operation they want and prosecute them in federal court. For a while, it seemed that they were backing off of this sort of "unwelcome enforcement" in Cali, but recently word is that they're about to return to business as usual.
State laws are always trumped by federal laws.
Also Apple is very unlikely to agree to make custom military units with whatever requirements the military has. It's just not their thing.
Well, not saying you're wrong about them being willing to do special builds now, but there's the Black Mac, which may have been made by Apple (although last time I heard, nobody was completely sure).
For the same reason we have tax discs. They replace the whole plate every year, we replace a small piece of paper.
No, we do a similar thing as you, although implementation varies from state to state. In some states, there's a sticker that gets put on the plate, in others, it's just the actual registration card that gets changed, but AFAIK, there's no place in the U.S. where the actual plate changes year to year. As another poster pointed out, the main difference really is that here, plates are usually assigned to a person (I say usually because someone else mentioned California being different), meaning when you buy the car (new or used), you get plates for it at the DMV and keep them, usually until you get rid of the car. You can also (again, may not be true in *every* state) keep those plates if you want and put them on your new car rather than turning them in and getting new ones (probably more popular with vanity plates than normal ones, but you can still do it either way). This compared to other countries where the plate is permanently attached to the vehicle and is reassigned to the vehicle's new owner when it's sold.
You'd still really have to fail the attitude test in a big way to be arrested for an out-of-date tax disc.
I'd say the same thing is normally true in the U.S.. I've known plenty of people who were caught driving with an expired registration, and unless there was something entirely else going on (outstanding warrant, open container, drugs) I've never heard of any of them getting more than a fine, and perhaps being told the car has to be towed.
Cavemen knew how to operate in a world that we cannot even phantom, not by choice but by necessity.
It's true. The average Slashdotter wouldn't stand a ghost of a chance in their environment.
Look into AziLink (free) and EasyTether (easy).
Neither of these do wifi tethering though from what I saw. True, it's not a big deal to use a cord when you want to get your laptop online (and it's better for battery life on both devices), but if you want to share the connection with other devices, like a tablet or ebook reader, the WiFi tether is pretty much your only choice. Unfortunately, it's absurdly expensive to buy the plan from the carrier if you're just going to use it once in a while for a quick download. Sprint used to let you turn the feature on and off as needed, and pro-rate your use which worked out to about a buck a day, but from what I've heard they're not allowing that anymore
Take a piece of double-sided tape, apply it to the back of your iPhone. Firmly press a second iPhone against the first, back to back, and offset so as not to cover the cameras. I got the idea from watching war movies where they'd tape two ammo clips together and flip them when the first goes empty, and it works great for them, so I figure it'll work fine here too. Added benefit that if one iPhone is cool, a double iPhone should be double cool...
"Gary Morgenthaler, a recognized expert in artificial intelligence and a Siri board member
Wow, board member of company says company's technology is the most amazing and groundbreaking thing since sliced bread. What a surprise. This just in, Bill Gates says Windows is the best OS, and Larry Ellison says Oracle databases are hands-down unbeatable.
I don't blame the guy for saying it, of course he probably thinks his product is the best. Maybe he even believes the thing about the two-year advantage, but he's also got a pretty vested interest in making other people believe it too.
Remember to say hello to your bank teller.
