Yes, he *bought* the licenses. What is it with you slashdotters? You actually expect to receive tangible goods in exchange for your hard earned dollars? That just doesn't make any sense.

On a related note, many of you are unaware that I am the owner of all paper money, and I've just granted all of you the license to use it. The next person to demand an actual good will have their money license revoked and will have to return all cash to me. Thank you.

You have a very interesting point. However, he's petitioning the Utah state government, which he is not a constituent of. Does the 1st apply to just your local/state/national government, or to every local/state government?

Any lawyers around to clarify?

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I could see the Secret Service investigating someone who makes somewhat outrageous comments about the president. However, a background check and quick interview are the most that would happen. Unless the person in question has some other mental/emotional issues, there's no way the Secret Service is going to waste their time with it.

Is it just me, or does this "national ID number" sounds just like a social security number?

However, the GP never said the word sue. He instead suggested talking to a lawyer. This seems to be the most prudent course of action. The law is a VERY complicated topic, and your explanation here doesn't begin to get into all the nuances of contract law. And, since neither you nor I nor the GP understands these nuances, speaking to a lawyer is the next logical step.

You must be new here. And, by "here" I mean, the internet. Cuz people bitching and whining is the same everywhere. Except some places they post pictures of ambulances and call you a crybaby.

Isn't that what all /. stories are?

What makes you think this could only be detected in the last 170 years? Yes, we didn't have large networks of copper wire strung across the country until that point. But even the summary talks of some much easier to observe products of this event, such as auroras being visible at the equator.

Please don't use the term "Americans". It refers to many of us that do realize the complete hypocrisy and idiocy of major portions of the population. And, yes, we hate it as much as you do.

So in the future, when referring to these people, please use "Rednecks" or "Hillbilly Yokels" or "Inbred Fucktards".

Ok, we're veering a bit off topic here, but I'll try and clarify this quickly.

There's 2 main branches of Christianity (and a few other small ones) Orthodox and Catholic. From the Catholic branch, the Protestants broke off for a variety of reasons. If you boil it all down, it's basically that Protestants wanted to focus the religion more on the Bible than the collection of Catholic Dogma. (Anglicans are in-between, being part Protestant part Catholic)

Within Protestantism there are many different branches, all with slightly different interpretations of the bible and different meanings of it. They also have very different liberal/conservative viewpoints buried inside those interpretations.

"Fundamentalism" was a movement within Protestant religions started in the early 20th Century, mainly among Presbyterians and Baptists. It was started in response to perceived threats to Christianity and advocated a strict adherence to the "Five Fundamentals". They are:

1) The Bible is directly created with the aid of the Holy Spirit and is without error and free of contradiction.

2) Mary was a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus.

3) Jesus's death was for atonement of our sins.

4) The Resurrection

5) Jesus's miracles were a historical reality.

However, many (most?) protestants don't believe in these, especially number 1.

They are a type of quark named "charm quarks".
They are not a quark that has been bewitched.

And before DOOM was the hunting sequence in Oregon Trail.

So, the more detectors, the worse your odds of detecting it are? I think something strange is going on.

I agree that Hawking might have jumped to his conclusion rather abruptly. However, it is valid.

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle says that the error in your measurement of the momentum times the error in your measurement of the position must be greater than or equal to Planck's constant divided by two. The important thing to keep in mind (and what Heisenberg didn't realize when he first proposed it) is that it's not just your error in measurement, it's the very nature of the universe to not be a well-defined particle.

So, if you looked at a pure vacuum, you would know it's momentum is EXACTLY zero, so your error in position would have to be infinite. This makes no sense, so a pure vacuum is impossible.

20 miles and you don't get a signal? You either have no concept of distance or you don't actually have an antenna.