Patent circle of Willis.
@LiberalEd
The judge decided that's what the text *says*, which to her is more important than what the writers meant.
This is an ongoing debate in legal philosophy. The SCOTUS majority, in contrast, is notorious for claiming that what the writers *meant* is more important than what they said. Hence their penchant for historical analyses of 18th century mindsets. Now let's see if they really believe that.
@LiberalEd
Not all government officers are "officers of the US". Nobody seriously disputes that. For one thing, all "officers of the US" can be impeached, but not all government officers can be impeached.
If you only take orders from officers who can be impeached, you will probably get fired from your government job.
@LiberalEd @georgetakei
It's not so simple. The President is an officer, but is he an "officer of the United States"?
The Constitution says "all officers of the United States" must be appointed by the president. It also says "all officers of the United States" take a particular oath, and the president takes a different oath.
If you like to split hairs, then these lines logically mean that the president is not an "officer of the United States."
I don't like to split hairs. Some judges do.
More like:
McCarthy renewed an ethics investigation into Matt Gaetz, so Gaetz invented a pretext to get rid of McCarthy. It is indeed genius, but it's evil genius.
As long as Johnson doesn't investigate Gaetz's misconduct, he can make whatever deals he likes.
@HistoPol @GottaLaff
Technically the same is true in Russia. The Russian parliament passed a law on October 25 to revoke ratification, and this week Putin signed the law.
@SteveCooke @TheConversationUK
Mesofauna have most of the same behaviors as minnows, including aversion to pain. Are minnows sentient? If so, why not earthworms?
Yes, we must grow some food. But surely we could do without growing any spices, which are nutritionally empty and therefore can only cause unnecessary animal suffering. Likewise we could do without crops associated with excessive animal deaths. For example, rice, which requires flooding a field, thus drowning any small animals within.
@SteveCooke @TheConversationUK
I don't think it's possible to grow food, even vegan food, without killing animals. Tilling the soil, removing weeds, harvesting crops - all of these kill countless mesofauna that live on plants or underground.
Do only certain animals get legal rights?
@BigMcLargeHuge@mstdn.social @GottaLaff
She was not charged with voter fraud.
In fact, I'm not aware of anyone charged with voter fraud in Fulton County. Probably because there wasn't any voter fraud in Fulton County.
You seem to be suggesting that a false claim of voter fraud is an example of voter fraud. But that's not how it works.
@BigMcLargeHuge@mstdn.social @GottaLaff
.... what she pled guilty to.
@BigMcLargeHuge@mstdn.social @GottaLaff
Her purpose was to collect evidence of voter fraud.
Her charge was election interference. They aren't the same.
@BigMcLargeHuge@mstdn.social @GottaLaff
This is the Georgia state case prosecuted by Willis, not the Jan 6 federal case prosecuted by Smith.
So it has nothing to do with insurrection. She was charged with unauthorized download of data from Georgia voting machines after the election.
And anyway now she has to testify against Trump.
@monkeyborg
But if you don't spend money, then you can invest it.
And if it grows faster than inflation, which it almost always will, then you'll have a little left over when you finally succumb to consumerism.
@_thegeoff
That would only work if the alien detector were located precisely on the line connecting the nova and earth. For nearly every point in the universe, "directly away from the nova" means something different from what it means to us, kind of like how "directly facing Mecca" can mean virtually any direction on Earth.
If they remove the TRUMP, it's actually a nice building. Same architect designed the Burj Khalifa, same firm designed the Sears Tower and John Hancock building.
The Sun-Times building it replaced was kind of ugly:
https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/16-patrick-warneka.jpg
Anyone with a US residential mailing address can again order 4 free COVID rapid tests via USPS. It's really easy.
@tyrell_turing @pinecone @beneuroscience
I think consciousness/qualia are the elephant in the room. There's plenty of hypotheses but little evidence regarding their computability, so as an empirical question it's still wide open.
@pinecone @beneuroscience @tyrell_turing
I don't know about that, I think pretty much every time someone claims "The brain is not a computer" it is just shorthand for "A Turing machine cannot fully simulate the brain".
FWIW, Searle did address the terminology issues when arguing the above, decades ago. After discussing various definitions, he decided that the "right question" is "Could instantiating a program, the right program of course, by itself be a sufficient condition of understanding?"
@pinecone @beneuroscience @tyrell_turing
Your quote suggests there is an underlying empirical question, so it's not just semantic.
@tyrell_turing @pinecone
I have no evidence either! But this suggests the debate over whether the brain is a computer isn't just semantic, but about burden of proof.
On one side are those who will assume the brain can't be simulated by a Turing machine, until shown an implementation of "hard" functions (depending on who you ask: semantics, consciousness, etc).
On the other side are those who will assume the brain can be fully simulated, until it's proven some functions cannot be implemented.
