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I just got a new iPad 2, this is my first iOS device.
What are some advantages to jailbreaking and what are some disadvantages?
Please make sure that answers are objective.
Stick to facts, not personal preferences or ethical debates.
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Jailbreaking causes battery failure for e.g. One day i was playing fifa 12 on my jailbroken ipad 2 and in 20 minutes the battery went from 64% to 33% also the speed decreases i had to wait relatively a lot of time for apps to open, even basic ones like settings and camera which is very irritating.also if youre downloading apps it takes double the time it would have taken to download on a normal ipad 2
Unjailbroken ios device would look more professional when compared to the jailbroken device.
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2013 Goodguys PPG Nationals - Fab 5 AwardsWritten by on January 17, 2014 Good Times in Ohio
This was the 16th Goodguys PPG Nationals held at the Ohio Expo Center, and the first of five events this year where we'll be selecting the Coker Tire–sponsored R&C Fab Five awards. It's also where Goodguys select their Street Rod and Street Machine of the Year, so you know the pro builders were out in force with their latest and greatest.
Once again circumstances meant we missed the Vintage Drags on Friday night, held at National Trail Raceway, but the show itself kept us busy selecting award winners and shooting features for your future delectation. Space is short, so we'll let the pictures do the talking from here.
David Trent
Morehead, Kentucky
1927 Ford Model T Roadster
David Trent's steel 1927 roadster packs a small-block Chevy and Muncie four-speed. Wide-five wheels are used all around, the fronts bolting to early Ford brake drums, with the back connecting to a late-model GM rearend via adapters. Plenty of louvers were stamped into the three-piece hood, as well as what looks like a bellypan, but is actually cleverly disguising the framerails. A track-nose, engine-turned dash, and Firestone dirt trackers complete the package.
Chris Ryan
Ninety Six, South Carolina
1953 Cadillac Convertible
"Root Beer Float" is the name Chris Ryan dubbed his Caddy convertible, now powered by a ZZ383 with 331 Caddy valve covers, Moon cross-ram intake, and Imagine injection. Ryan operates as Ryan's Rod & Kustom, the Cad a fine calling card for his talents. There's a Fatman Fabrications front chassis stub under there, and AccuAir E-Level air suspension all round. The one-off Cad-inspired wheels are 20-inchers, with integral whitewalls by Curtis Speed. That interior is by Chuck Hanna.
Jim Thompson
Saxonburg, Pennsylvania
1936 Ford Cabriolet
A man after my own heart, Jim Thompson built and painted his 1936 at home, with the exception of the white tuck 'n' roll upholstery. He chopped the windshield surround and added a Carson-style top, incorporated a 1940 Packard grille and Chevy hood louvers, and added fender skirts. The body was set on a Fatman Fabrications chassis and suspension, with a 350/350 Chevy engine and trans, and a Ford 8-inch rearend.
Tom Doll
Troy, Michigan
1934 Ford Coupe
Bonneville 200 MPH Club member Tom Doll has over 200,000 miles on this Lobeck-built 1934 three-window, though he has rebuilt the engine during that time, as well as modified the wiring. That motor is a 310ci small-block Chevy, backed by a mileage-friendly 700-R4 trans. The coupe has also racked up that mileage on 16-inch steelies shod with bias-plies.
Mark Renko
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1941 Willys
Many of the parts on Mark Renko's Willys are one-off, machined by the owner who operates under the Tesla Machine Works banner. Check out the drum pedal–inspired gas pedal and matching brake, the column drop, and numerous parts underhood. Based on an Outlaw chassis, the Willys rolls on Radir front and Solids rear wheels, shod with Diamond Classic tires, and is powered by a 354ci Hemi. Body and paint are by Bickford's Auto Restoration.
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There's a dual-quad, tunnel ram–fed 427 dumping gases into the white fenderwell headers on Scott Popplewell's 1937 Chevy Gasser.That's a 325ci Hemi stuffed into Ryan and Bob Rose's 1929 Tudor; the 7-inch chopped body dropped on a custom chassis by Hot Rod Chassis & Cycle. A '53 De Soto dash replaces the original, while cheater slicks put the power down.


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What is so called meta-game in StarCraft 2?
What other games have this meta-game?
What is so called meta-game in StarCraft 2?
What other games have this meta-game?
A metagame for any game is the way that the game is played. Knowing the metagame is not just knowing the mechanics of the game, but knowing what to expect your opponent to do. It is the relative frequency of each possible tactic, maneuver, build, etc.
One of the easiest to understand examples of this is with collectible card games like Magic: The Gathering and Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. Knowing the metagame in a collectible card game is knowing what styles of decks you might come up against. For example in Magic if your opponent plays an Island on turn one, are they attempting to lock you down, draw you out, make evasive creatures, or any variety of things blue Magic players can do? You don't know if you don't know the metagame.
In StarCraft, for a more localized example, Protoss should wall off against Zerg, but not against Protoss or Terran. Zerg might 6-pool, and if you don't wall off then your opponent is probably going to beat you. As Protoss continues to wall off and 6-pools continue to be ineffective, Zerg players might stop using that strategy. As Zerg players stop 6-pooling, Protoss players might not wall off as often, making the 6-pool effective again. You have to know the current mindset of other players to make the optimal play. That is the metagame.
The metagame is always evolving for any game, so you have to keep playing or reading about your game to keep up with the current metagame.
I like the wikipedia definition: "In simple terms, using out-of-game information, or resources, to affect one's in-game decisions." So, almost any game could have a meta-game.
In addition to what Strix said, metagame (in a more localized sense) can also be influenced by knowledge of the other players. Perhaps you weren't able to scout someone, but you have watched ten of their replays, and in eight of them, the player used the same strategy. You can prepare to counter that strategy even though you haven't actually gotten any useful info in the current game.
There are 2 sets of knowledge: what you (the player) know and what your avatar (the character you are using) knows. If you use the first set to make decisions then you are said to do "metagaming".
In SC2, as StrixVaria said, you are basically using your own experience to play: you make decisions based on what you have already seen in hundreds of similar matches. You are using your own knowledge, hence you are metagaming.
Metagaming is considered a bad thing in roleplaying games, for obvious reasons (i.e. your avatar should take decisions based on what HE knows not based of what YOU know).
Before you ask: "But my decisions in SC2 are the same of the ones a general could take in a real war. Is a general metagaming when taking decisions during war?". The answer is a big NO, because in real life, of course, there is no avatar involved, hence it makes no sense to distringuish between two sets of information.


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Maybe the issue will boil down to economics. She seems to have a strong p.r. team and other support.
I'm sure some of it has to do with PR but people can't convince people uninterested in ballet that they are interested in it. Misty clearly is reaching an audience that has been untapped here previously. There were a lot more African American patrons in the seats on sat (when she had been scheduled to dance) than normally are seen at the MET. To their credit, they showed up anyway (and from the lobby talk they already knew). But I think to chalk that up to PR alone, or even primarily, is overly cynical (I'm not saying *you* were doing so).
An audience that has not seen themselves represented is doing so in Misty, and they are clearly very excited about it. I think that is all for the good.
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Given the advent of various tablets, netbooks, and ebook readers which works best for viewing AND using roleplaying PDFs. Unreleased products should be mentioned as well as the field is constantly changing. Note that this question is slightly different than which is the best products overall. This should be focused on what works well (or not) for the gamer at home and the table.
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The smaller sized Kindles aren't great for PDFs; they're a little bit slow and the screen size is a big issue for most roleplaying PDFs. I haven't tried the Kindle DX, but it's designed for PDF reading so I assume it would be better. However, you're going to run into trouble if you read a PDF designed for color.
I have an iPad, and it's a superb PDF reader. GoodReader is the current champion of PDF readers; it's very fast, it has a lot of ways to get PDFs onto the device -- including downloading them from Mobile Safari -- and it includes a full implementation of folders so you can organize your PDFs. DiceBook is also worth mentioning, since it includes a built in die roller, but it's not otherwise as full-featured as GoodReader.
In my experience using the iPad for gaming, I get the full 10 hours promised by Apple, which is enough for even most convention usage. It's definitely not up to the standards of the Kindle, but practically speaking it's pretty good.
When Android tablets come out in the same form factor, I imagine they'll be just as good as the iPad. Watch out for battery life, though. Apple's using some clever technology there and I think that'll be the hardest thing for Android tablets to match initially, although I'm sure they'll get there in the end.
I do not like the iPhone for anything other than emergency PDF reading, for the same reasons as I don't like Kindles. The screen is too small. Same goes for other smartphones, with the possible exception of the new Dell Streak. It has a huge screen, and is probably worth considering.
I have a Kindle DX, and love it dearly, but so far it has been of very limited use for RPG books -- so this is a "what doesn't work" answer, rather than what does, because a few others have said that a DX "might be good" but haven't tried it. To summarize the problems:
I borrowed a friend's iPad 1 for about ten minutes, and it seemed much better for this job, although it is also worth noting that some RPG books do not render properly in Apple's PDF viewer (both on OS X and iOS), and are missing lines or words. This is fairly rare, and mostly happens (in my experience) with RPG PDF books of ... questionable provenance.
GoodReader on iPad
After moving from a Kindle Fire to an iPad, I can say with some surety that the killer app for electronically reading RPGs is GoodReader for iPad. I searched high and low for an Android PDF reader with the power and performance of GoodReader, but never found one. Here are the features that I love about GoodReader that I could never find anywhere else:
Excellent file handling
GoodReader can grab PDFs from Safari, from URLs, by browsing for them, or through truly excellent integration with every popular cloud storage service (Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, Skydrive, SugarSync, off the top of my head).
Whenever I buy a new game PDF, I just drop it into a cloud-synced folder and then I can get it onto my iPad whenever I want to.
GoodReader handles zip files, folders, and file management operations beautifully. It is easy to move files around internally, as well as upload them to any of your cloud services and email them.
Speed and quality of rendering
GoodReader is by far the fastest rendering PDF reader I have ever used - especially important for reading highly-formatted and highly-designed files like RPGs. The engine caches a page ahead, so while you are reading you can naturally flip pages at the highest possible speed.
It also handles the most complex and largest files - The Dresden Files RPG "Your Story" book is pretty hefty, and the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying has some complex masks that used to render properly on only the miserably slow Adobe app. GoodReader handles them both with aplomb.
GoodReader supports bookmarks, notes, highlights, annotations.
It even has the unrivaled Crop Margins feature that lets you remove the unnecessary and cumbersome exterior whitespace some books have. I looked for this all over the Android space and never found it. This was the first thing that pushed me to being a GoodReader fan.
It is GoodReader that prompted my switch from the Kindle (and Android in general) to the iPad. A retina iPad is an awesome reading experience - I don't even miss my regular Kindle for long-form text (novels, etc.) anymore.
The full-size iPad is suitable for reading even 8.5 x 11 or A4 formatted documents on, in a whole-page visible manner.
In the 2+ years since I made this comment, I have run several games with just a few printed sheets for reference, using the iPad as I would have used a book in times gone by. I still love books, but I don't print them just on principle anymore.
There are two considerations for gaming that aren't present for normal books, when using an e-reader.
I have tried a few readers, and have settled on the iPad - the screen is big enough, it's fast enough to render pages, and it is easy to use. The other readers I've tried have been great for reading books but too hard work for using for reference.
Update: I still use an iPad and am very happy with it, but i've moved from the built in PDF reader which had trouble on complex pages to Goodreader, which is fast and effective.
I have a Barnes and Noble Nook. (not the Nook color, the original E-ink based eBook reader) I would not suggest using it for several reasons.
I use an Asus 10" Windows tablet for my gaming these days. I use it to read pdfs (e.g. when running a game of Pathfinder from a PFS scenario), and to read and write on pdf character sheets.
I use the 4e Character Builder on my home desktop to build characters, and then CutePDF to create a PDF version of the character sheet, which I move to Dropbox, allowing it to automatically download to my tablet. I do much the same with PCGen for Pathfinder characters.
I use the application xournal to open the pdfs on my tablet, and enable 'writing' directly onto them. This allows me to take notes, or manage current hit points or powers used in much the same way as a physical character sheet. Although there might well be rpg-dedicated apps for doing this, xournal has the advantage of working on ANY pdf, regardless of source, and it allows me to write what I want where I want, without having to pay for a PDF-creator.
I do find that glare can be an issue in some cases, but I'm generally using it indoors, so not as much issue as it would be if I were travelling. I also find that scrolling to graphics-intensive pages (like maps, for instance) can be a little slow. Other than that, I'm reasonably happy with the experience so far. Battery life, with an extended battery, is about 5-7 hours, although the venue I game at has power available.
I also have a Windows Phone (Lumia 920), and apart from being able to web browse to rules reference sites, I've been able to find a Pathfinder Spell database and a 4e power database, both reasonably complete.
I've a Sony PRS600. For smaller PDF's (6x9 or smaller), it's great. above that, the text often is a bit small... but it's not unusable even then.
The ability to zoom in visually, in addition to the reflow option, makes reference of larger texts doable. The search feature is particularly useful. The highlighting and write-on feature makes it possible to make margin notes, etc.
The touch interface is also very natural to use, the screen refresh is fairly snappy except on certain badly put together PDFs. When the PDF page has a bunch of overlapping images instead of a one or two larger ones, it slows down. When it uses too many embedded fonts, it slows down.
The other issue is certain "recent" PDFs... using one of the Acrobat 8+ encoding/encryption formats... don't render at all.
The device is also fairly rugged. Metal case, shock resistance is decent (knocks off a table result in no damage; this is unlike gen 1 kindles). The 600 has a rubberized back; this makes it easy to hang on to, even with sweaty hands. And I'm getting 3-4 days of heavy use between charges. Or light reading over 10-12 days for a few hundred pages.
I've read the entire Vorkosigan series by Bujold on one charge, and got through the Flight Engineer series as well, before running out of power on a marathon read.
It also renders .gif, .jpeg, and .png nicely, but you're better off putting them inside PDFs, so you can zoom.
It also plays mp3 and AAC non-DRM files through a headphone port; iPod speakers work well.
Plus 3 ways to load: cable to computer, SD card, Sony Memory Stick Duo. And memory cards inserted, as well as internal memory, load as USB drives on XP, OS X, and some linux boxes; it should work with 98se or later, and MacOS 7.5-9. The desktop-side software is not needed to load non-DRM materials.
The Daily Edition (which I don't have) adds AT&T and 802.11B/G connectivity, a larger screen, and a web browser.
And the whole line is just getting updated.
I've use Sony Readers, and Table PC's but none have really worked the way I want, to slow / to small, I am going to try a HP TouchPad, when mine arrives, as its the same form factor as the iPad, but I'll also be writing some custom software for it to help me manage the Game.
I know it's not what you asked, but I use an Eee PC netbook for my gaming PDFs and it works great. Not to mention the ability to flip to an open internet window for other things. The battery life is a bit less, I only get about 3 hours, but usually where ever I am gaming has an outlet and I just plug it in, no biggie. I got mine for less than $200 and I love it. I have bought several pdf rpgs and I wouldn't trade it for the world. I have the books, plus everything else I might need right there.
I've used both the Kobo Reader and the Sony PRS505. For books that use the 8.5"x11" size, the smaller screen is harder to read. The Kobo is nicer in that you can zoom in by quadrant, but you have to scroll around to see the whole page. The Sony PRS505 does textual reflow, but some RPG books are designed so that the text is not in order when the reflow happens. Also, both are black-and-white only, so you can lose some of the flavor of the text if it's colorized.
Also I've found I can get through a RPG book quicker in physical form than with an eReader device.
Your best bet would be to check out some tablets (iPad, Android, etc.), and see if those meet your needs. I think the quicker screen refresh, and larger screen size would be a boon for you.
Hope this helps!
My girlfriend has a Sony PRS-650. It has PDF support, but doesn't handle RPG PDFs well, I'm assuming because of the extra content rather than being a straight image. Something like Dogs in the Vineyard wouldn't cause any problems, and A Dirty World works OK, but most PDFs I tried were impossible to progress through or caused a complete freeze that necessitated a hard reset.
Whether a PDF will work I think is entirely a matter of luck for any e-Reader at this point, as they were really designed with reflowable text in mind. The AD&D 2e products that were released as RTF (Core Rules 2.0, Legends & Lore, Savage Coast and a few others) work very well on the Sony.
I'd also expect that the d20 SRD, Donjon, YAGS and a few other systems could easily enough be converted to an e-Reader compatible reflowable text format.
Reviews I've read of the Kindle DX Graphite suggest it would be much better. This one demonstrates it quite well. The larger screen size and greater resolution goes a long way to handling PDFs properly.
I bought a Nook Color for that very purpose, but I found the PDF reader that came with it to be barely usable (no bookmarks, no search feature). I ended up rooting the tablet just to be able to load DocumentsToGo.
Configured this way, it's a decent reader, although screen size is an issue (I find myself displaying half-pages, so there's more scrolling). Speed of response is so-so; graphics-heavy pages can take up to 5-8 seconds to load.
I'm currently vacillating between picking up a Motorola Xoom or waiting for the HP TouchPad. Either one addresses the screen size issue, but I'm not sure what the TouchPad will have available for PDF reading.
I have a Kindle 1 and it of limited value for roleplaying PDFs and ebooks. I tried mightily and it not quite there yet although it main source for reading regular books.
The Kindle 2 both small version and DX works much better just a hair on the not quite there side. The main issue is flipping through pages.
I played with the iPad and was able to view and manipulate several of my PDFs and technology wise it is great. An added benefit I was able to use the photo app to view maps including some large jpgs with ease. During my limited time with it the best app for manipulating multiple files turned out to be safari! However I am sure those who have iPads will have more detailed comments.
The big problem with the iPad is that you are going to pay a premimum, the low-end version is in short supply, and limited battery life compared to the kindle.
I think we are still two or three years away from the definitive electronic device for gaming books. But getting damn close.
Vanilla iPad + iBooks.
I recently got an iPad and have been playing around with Gaming PDFs. I have so far been successful reading both commercially obtained PDFs, Character sheets saved as PDF, form-fillable PDFs, and PDFs gained through a friend flatbed scanning an entire gaming book.
Whenever I open a PDF in either my email client or Safari Browser, there is a button on the top of the page which says something like "Open in iBooks". I've used iBooks to organize by game type, and moved pdfs around within the various groups. iBooks, Safari, and the email client all ship with iPads stock. I've used it as both a reference while at the gaming table and at home while rolling up characters. iBooks also has a great feature where you can jump to any page by tapping the center of the screen to bring up thumbnails of the pages then scrolling/picking the page you want to jump to. I've been so happy with iBooks that I haven't even gone looking for any of the others. With a Wifi/3G signal and Safari, you also have access to the various SRD pages on the internet as well.


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Absoloot Value Accommodation (AVA) opened in June 2010 with a variety of accommodation options for the backpacker, flashpacker and value-seeking traveler! AVA has an outlook second-to-none and four stories worth of character and comfort.
AVA is spectacularly located on the lakefront right in the centre of Queenstown. Newly refurbished, it offers boutique dorms (6 beds maximum), double and twin rooms. Fresh, contemporary style with space to play and space to relax. As guests you will have access to a fully equipped kitchen, TV and Games room (including SKY channels), Storage and Drying Rooms, and brand new laundromat. Every room is ensuited with key card entry, and 24 hour guest access and 24 hour security.
AVA is a boutique backpackers in that we only have four and six bed dorms, and we have a maximum occupancy of 112. We provide free linen and towels for all guests, and every bathroom includes hair and body wash for everyone's use.
Each room has been fitted with secondary glazing and shutters to keep the heat in and the noise out. And there's a heat pump/reverse-cycle air-conditioner in every room, so you can stay warm in winter and cool in summer.
The beds are fitted with reading lights, and extra power points so you can charge your phone, laptop and ipod all at the same time if you wish! There's also a fridge in every room, so you can keep an eye on your personal food. And if you feel like chilling out at the end of the day and want to do your own thing, there's an LCD TV in every room, so you don't always have to watch what everyone else wants to!
The Guest TV and Games Room has an awesome view over Lake Wakatipu, and bi-fold windows so it can get those summer breezes through. There's a pool table, Nintendo Wii and various board games to incite some healthy competition, and a 42 inch LCD television for movie evenings and major sporting events.
Our Guest Kitchen is on the ground floor with multiple microwaves, kettles and utensils so that you don't have to trip over each other. There's also a sitting area with gas fireplace where you can enjoy your hot chocolate, tea, coffee or beverage of your choice at the end of the day.
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Since Performance Rights Organizations collect royalties on plays on TV, cable etc., does this conflict with licensing your music directly with a music/sync supervisor?
For example, if I were to register with the digital PRO, SoundExchange, which claims to collect royalties on plays on cable and I were then to go to a music supervisor for a cable show who wanted to directly license the music, and if they paid me directly, what would happen when SoundExchange came knocking on their door to collect royalties? Would they be double charged? Or would they have to furnish proof that they'd obtained a sync license from me?
The reason I ask is somewhat of a followup question: If music supervisors risk being "double-charged", do they tend to avoid direct licensing with artists who are registered with a PRO? In other words, does registering with the PRO hurt my chances of being synced if I know music supervisors who would otherwise be interested in licensing my music?
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The words "durchfallen" ("to fail") and "der Durchfall" ("diarrhea") seem to have completely different meanings. Is it possible to use the former to mean "to have diarrhea" and the latter to mean "failure"? Do listeners associate between the words, e.g. giggle when you say "Ich bin durchgefallen."?
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Failure at school is "das Durchfallen". (e.g: Die Regierung will das Durchfallen in der ersten Klasse abschaffen.)
The phrase "Ich bin durchgefallen." does not connotate diarrhea.
There are many informal words for diarrhea anyway.
I support thei's answer that "durchfallen" has no connotation with diarrhea and vice-versa. At the risk of sounding a bit disgusting here, the similarities are still there though.
With "durchfallen", you cannot keep up and fall through the cracks.
With "Durchfall", you're unable to control your feces, they just fall through.
So in my opinion, the description of falling through something is what actually links failing and diarrhea - they're using the same metaphor, stretching it a bit in different directions.
I would say that "Durchfall" is a "durchfallen" (failure) of a particular sort. That is, failure to hold your -----. At least that's how I remember them.
So they're really not separate. One is a special case of the other, more general term.


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Religious liberty & the rights of conscience
To what extent is religious liberty reducible to the rights of conscience? That is one of the questions Brian Leiter's new book, Why Tolerate Religion?, tries to answer. It's a question that's been on my mind again since the Department of Health and Human Services announced its new proposal for accommodating nonprofit religious organizations, such as hospitals and universities, but not private employers, such as the Hobby Lobby.
The distinction makes sense to me, even if in this particular case it might not have been hard to accommodate any employer who didn't want to pay for contraceptives. As Eduardo Pealver suggested in his Friday post, if a health-insurance company actually saves money by covering contraceptive services for its policyholders, then the Obama administration may as well have required insurance companies to offer free contraceptive coverage to those employed by any business owner who objects to paying for it—and thereby avoided all the political problems that have arisen from the HHS mandate.
While the HHS's decision to distinguish between religious nonprofit employers and for-profit employers who happen to be religious makes sense to me, it seems perfectly arbitrary to many conservatives, including many Catholics. Why privilege the religious liberty of a hospital or university, they ask, and not that of a small-business owner who is also a devout Catholic? What does it matter whether the organization's primary mission is religious or secular? And why should the integrity of an institution count for more than the conscience of an individual?
I don't pretend to have perfect answers to all these questions. But the line taken by some champions of religious freedom, such as the Becket Fund, seems to me untenable. It would logically lead to a situation they couldn't possibly wish for. Should an overzealous Jehovah's Witness be able to get a group plan that excludes coverage for emergency blood transfusions, even if none of his employees are coreligionists?
But that is a hard case, you may say, and hard cases make bad law. How many other religious believers object to health services that most people consider morally unproblematic? Well, a few: there are the Scientologists, with their extreme skepticism of psychopharmacology; there are unreconstructed Christian Scientists—now in decline but once a very prominent sect—with their general suspicion of drugs. (I have a distant relative who died because of that suspicion.)
But why even restrict this to religious believers? What if someone believes, as a matter of conscience unrelated to any religious conviction, that it is immoral to avail oneself of a medical treatment that was ever tested on animals? Should such a person be able to line-item-veto insurance coverage for dozens of treatments in the health plan available to his employees? Where would this end?
(Perhaps you think that, while this problem is theoretically interesting, it's unlikely to present any practical difficulties, since an employer with such an idiosyncratic view of health care would in any event be unlikely to find a policy that answered to his requirements, the market for such a policy being prohibitively small. Maybe, maybe not. With lax enough regulation, it's possible to imagine an la carte market for health insurance, each plan or policy tailored to the whims of the customer and priced accordingly. I'm not an expert on the insurance market, but I think it's fair to say that, as a general rule, some insurance companies will sell any old crap if regulators let them get away with it.)
But now imagine a militant atheist who is convinced by the natural-law argument that contraception is gravely immoral. (I realize this example may appear to require rare powers of imagination, but bear with me.) He owns a business, too, and wants an exemption from the contraception-coverage mandate. Should the fact that his belief is not attributable to any faith matter? After all, he believes that contraception is wrong for precisely the same reason the Catholic Church teaches that it's wrong, even if he doesn't accept the Church's authority to teach anything. Someone might reply: I can just about imagine such a person, but he must be one of kind, or at most one of a few. But if you can imagine this small business owner, you can also imagine one who believes, for reasons moral but not religious, that prostheses of any kind are an affront to the dignity of the human body, and another who believes that neonatal intensive care units are a waste of precious medical resources on nonpersons and so refuses to pay for an insurance policy that would cover an employee's prematuraly born child.
Leiter believes claims of conscience should be accommodated if they do not threaten someone else's individual rights or an important public interest. But he also believes they should not be understood to have any extra force—or to warrant any special deference—just because they originate from religious faith. A conscientious objector, for example, should not need to prove he's a Quaker. Or, to take a recent case from Canada that Leiter mentions in his book, if you allow a student to carry a ceremonial dagger to school because he's a Sikh, you should allow another student to carry a knife because he sincerely believes, in accordance with his rural upbringing, that carrying a knife is a sign of honor and manhood.
I disagree with Leiter about some things, including his low esteem for religion and religious institutions in general, which he regards as seedbeds of irrationality. Unlike Leiter, and like many conservatives critics of the original HHS mandate, I think the federal government has good reason to give churches and other religious organizations broad latitude, and that this reason has something to do with the important and unique role religious institutions have played in our nation's history. But when it comes to individuals who object to neutral laws of general applicability, I'm not at all sure why the government should discriminate between sincere religious belief and any other kind of sincere conviction.
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Next Sunday, February 3, 2013, by instruction from our bishop, our parish will ask Mass-goers to sign postcards for the Life and Liberty campaign described in this USCCB brochurehttp://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/religious-liberty/upload/Project-... postcards will not be given out to be mailed, but rather to be collected from the pews or at the end of Mass. I wonder to what extent this is an attempt to collect names for a mailing list so that the coordinators (National Committee for a Human Life Amendment) can have addresses for solicitations.
Hobby Lobby not Hobby Bench.
Thanks, Bill.
Date of postcard campaign, not Feb. 3 but February 10, 2013.
Unless I am mistaken, some people who object to the HHS mandate claim that it violates a constitutional right that they have. That is a legal claim. Others claim a natural right, one that the laws ought to accommodate, whether they in fact do or not. Unless I am mistaken, Martin Luther King based his campaign for civil rights on both scores. In the HHS case, the adjudication of the legal claim belongs to the courts. The claim of natural right is one that has to do with policy and so falls under the purview of the legislative and/or the executive branches of government. If this is so, then to determine how to honor this right in public policy is a the task for the legislative and/or the executive branch.If all this is accurate, then if someone objects to the HHS policy on legal grounds, their avenue of redress runs through the courts. If otherwise, then it runs through the political processes, perhaps even leading to amending the constitution.So far as I can tell from Matthew's account, he, and perhaps Leiter, are asking about the prudence of the HHS mandate, a political matter. I take it that some legal scholars, on the other hand, think that it is a constitutional issue, and hence seek redress through the courts.Perhaps all I have done here is to display my ignorance.
Maybe the reason is because there are about 2 million small businesses in this country, and if all claimants to exemption (including fake ones) were actually exempt, then that could cost the federal government or the insurance companies a significant amount of money. The insurance companies might suffer such a financial burden that they wouldn't offer free coverage, and then the government would have to pay, which might throw off-balance the weighing of the religious liberty of the citizens versus the government's right to impose (what it considers) just taxes. In other words, the law as it stands doesn't cost anybody a great amount of money, but if it were extended to all, it woul.d Then the question would be: doesn't this discriminate against some claimnts? And the answer to that would be: yes, but to respect the rights of some than the rights of none.Maybe this is stretching it, but maybe not. Who knows what the actual number of Hobby Lobbys there would be and, thus, the cost of universal religious exemption..
Well, it seems to me the rights of conscience belong to individuals, so thinking about the problem in terms of institutions is starting in the wrong place. (When he listens to his conscience, the prudent man can hear God speaking). Further, as an employer, be that person a priest, bishop, or layman, they have conscience obligations appropriate to their station, which means they must include a just consideration of their employees. Even in the most dire of governmental conditions - war - we allow individuals their conscience rights, both individually as an employers (no business is required to supply war material to the government because they can sell, change or cease operations). In the case of the HHS mandate which is surely a less compelling governmental interest than war, neither employer nor employee is being allowed conscience rights. Its just a raw exercise of governmental power.
I wonder what it is that bothers the consciences of so many individual business owners about this mandate, given that almost all Catholics use contraception. Is the primacy of conscience valued above everything else, even the common good? And if it is, why in the church is conscientious dissent pubished?
Sorry - "punished"
Re: post card campaignI am sure this is carefully worded, but the spirit of it is questionable at best. Why don't the bishiops do something like for gu control? immigration reform diminishing nuclear aresenals?This "campaign" is as short-sighted (I want to say "hypocritical") as ever.
Matthew:"But that is a hard case, you may say, and hard cases make bad law."Exactly backwards. The Jehovah's Witnesses case would be easy. The tradeoff--protecting public health and safety versus the insane delusions of the adherent of a crazy religion--would be a no-brainer. Probably 90 to 95% public approval.It's the contraception mandate that's the hard case making bad law. That's why secular humanists like me thought Obama had already surrendered too much a year ago. But I'm also a practible man, so I realize challenging a big religion's not-so-obviously crazy delusions about women's reproductive health might not be feasible, so I think both that and this new "compromise" are tolerable.Ultimately, it's not about the "religious" belief of "employers" because in virtually all cases where the mandate would apply the "employer" is a CORPORATION and corporations can't hold relgious beliefs. If the person who owns the corporation wants to evade the responsibility of corporate ownership, the solution is simple: Surrender the privileges of incorporation.If they accept the Employer Exclusion for provision a group insurance, they have to accept the standards for group insurance. Not hard.
I think my conscientious objection to war has no chance in hades of excluding me from paying a portion of my taxes to fund America's manifest destiny fantasies. We all have to pay for some things to which we object, but which those we have elected to represent us have determined to be for the better good of the commonweal.The problem with this debacle is that the overwhelming opinion of Catholics appears to be that contraception is not wrong. This is borne out by the stats that tell us that Catholics contracept as much as any other religious/non-religious group.The more the bishops make a big deal out of this, the less their influence will be felt within the church and outside of it. Their people (the 99%) have simply ignored the 1% in their non-persuasive, non-compelling arguments against contraception.
"I wonder what it is that bothers the consciences of so many individual business owners about this mandate, given that almost all Catholics use contraception. "Presumably, "it" is the teaching of the Catholic church, or of some other Christian denomination that teaches traditional Christian teachings regarding contraception. One could as easily ask, "I wonder what it is that bothers the consciences of so many conscientious objectors to military service, given that almost all Catholics favor military service." Regarding "the common good" - that mantle can be wrapped around many policies, some of which are diametrically opposed to one another.
jfxgillis,"Exactly backwards. The Jehovahs Witnesses case would be easy."Easy for you. Harder, maybe, for the Catholic libertarian who thinks (or says he thinks) that religious believers ought to be exempt from generally applicable laws that conflict with their beliefs.
"the insane delusions of the adherent of a crazy religion"*cough!*
This discussion seems to be all about the consciences of employers. What about employes? Why doesn't an employer have to respect the consciences of his employees at least to the same extent that the government has to respect the consciences of employers? Are supporters of special treatment for the Hobby Lobby OK with making the Hobby Lobby provide similar accommodation for employees for religious holidays? Or is this another case where money rules?Good test cases coming up: Ash Wednesday falls on a traditional workday and involves an outward sign of faith. Will the people who have to work when ashes are being given or who are required to wash off the ashes before greeting customers get half of the anguished support the rugged individualists who employ them have been getting from Church if not State?
Ash Wednesday is not a holy day of obligation. Catholics are encouraged to go to church, but there is no obligation.
Jim,Given your example of conscientious objectors and military service, it would be like saying that one is a conscientious objector while at the same time having decided to serve in the military. If most Catholics are using contraception, how can those same people say that using it is against their consciences? They have described their consciences with their actions.
Probably it's helpful to recall that we are discussing two distinct religious protections, at least in the United States: free exercise, and the protection against establishment. The former asserts the believer's right to live privately as a believer and to step out into the public square as a believer but, as Matt alludes, there are limits that have broadly been categorized as neutral, valid laws of general applicability (i.e., made for some legitimate purpose, not singling out believers). The latter asserts a protection for the neutrality of the public square, that it truly might belong to all believers and non-believers. Both, in a sense, are conscience protections--though they are distinct. Free exercise grants a (reasonably limited) right to wave the freak flag of whatever creed one practices while the protection against establishment insulates the conscience against public pressure, maintains the accessibility of the commons to all regardless of creed. These protections wend around one another, naturally. They have a certain mutual dependence. But there are times when it becomes important to distinguish them.The HHS mandate imbroglio is an argument about free exercise--the liberty of believers, or groups of believing citizens gathered as religious organizations (churches, hospitals, schools, etc.) to live according to faith. That free exercise claim, like any, is bounded at least in part by the protection against establishment. Once government indulges the free exercise of some collection of believers excessively, inevitably it impinges on the claims of other believing and non-believing groups. It favors a faith group to a degree that verges on establishment. So, we might usefully ask here about the economic impact faced by every American if the diseases provably prevented by contraception must be treated because they would not have been prevented owing to religious exceptions to the mandate. All of the valid, reasonable limitations on free exercise begin where the public square, the common good, suffers unreasonably from some claim of free exercise. (Pause here and reflect on the individualistic terms in which arguments against the mandate have been made, how many times the USCCB has quoted Thomas Jefferson who was no communitarian nor any friend of our "Romish follies." The irony is compelling.) We ought not simply reduce religious liberty to dollars and cents and move on. The point is that there is a measurable cost to borne by the community when this claim of free exercise rights is made, a cost found in health insurance premiums that remain too high and which may frustrate the effectiveness of the ACA. Once the costs of a free exercise claim prejudice the state against the common good, we've crossed a line from free exercise to establishment. How we measure where that tipping point is remains a political question that really only can be answered by whatever consensus is achieved on the question.What this analysis exposes is that the protection of religious conscience really is not very different from the other protections of conscience. Speech has limits (shouting "Fire" in a crowded theater), assembly has limits (mob action), and press has limits (mostly on grounds of national security, but they exist). We balance the protection of conscience always against the good of the community. Individual conscience always wins when the community can bear it. Community wins when individual conscience asks too high a price. We're skeptical of conscientious objectors because the community could not bear universal conscientious objection. Schools filled with armed, hormone-fueled students asserting their honor are not safe educational environments. Important public purposes always have trumped conscience because, in the end, we all belong to the polis. That's not statism; it is communitarianism. We belong to each other. We have mutual duties that supersede individual goods, even in some cases the goods of conscience. Without the community to defend us, we have no liberty. Only the most radical libertarians believe otherwise, and they are in the grips of a fantasy. Our liberty of conscience bends to the needs of the community that asserts our liberty of conscience. The rightness of that proposition depends on the community's serious valuation of individual conscience in all but the most necessary cases. But in those cases, there is no reasonable alternative other than to privilege the polis.Is the HHS mandate such a case? Debatable. And that is why it is so interesting.
"We have mutual duties that supersede individual goods, even in some cases the goods of conscience. Without the community to defend us, we have no liberty. Only the most radical libertarians believe otherwise, and they are in the grips of a fantasy. Our liberty of conscience bends to the needs of the community that asserts our liberty of conscience."A Catholic addition to the above would be to add a word, and a concept, which, if I may say so, seems to be missing from your analysis. That word is "family". A Catholic account of community would note that the community is not simply the aggregation of unrelated individuals, but rather an aggregation of families, which are the protean communal arrangement and the basic units of larger-scale communal life, and in which all individuals are situated in some way.If, in response to this objection, it is pointed out that a larger percentage than ever before of Americans no longer live in traditional family arrangements, the Catholic reply, of course, is that this is not a neutral fact but rather a telling symptom of what ails the US, and a mighty contributor to the public costs which this enormous contraption known as the ACA will allegedly (but, in all likelihood, not really) alleviate.
Jehovah's Witnesses *blood transfusion confusion*.In 2013 God's will and scripture has little to do with the Jehovah's Witnesses position on use of blood products.The JW leadership is foremost concerned what will play out in a secular court of law as to the parent Watchtower being held liable for wrongful deaths.Most Jehovah's Witnesses rushed to the ER with massive blood loss will cry NO BLOOD right up to their last breath.The shocker is they can now have most of the blood components that will pull them through,but they are so indoctrinated that blood is forbidden that they can't comprehend the loopholes.The Watchtower has drilled and grilled us that our stand on blood is NON NEGOTIABLE. The loopholes that allow blood usage is to save the Watchtower corporation money from blood death liability suits.This is a truly evil organization that would sacrifice tens of thousands of men,women,children for the almighty dollar.The blood products ban has been in force since 1945 the buzz today about it being a *personal conscience matter* and the hope of new medical advances like artificial blood don't undo all those who have past perished.The New York city based Watchtower sect is concerned foremost with liability lawsuits for wrongful death.They know that if they repeal the ban on *whole* blood transfusion,that it will open the door for legal examination of all the thousands who have died since 1945. Cults do get people killed! 50-100 times as many men,women,children have been killed by the Watchtower society ban on *whole* blood transfusions than at Jonestown kool-aid mass murders. *tell the truth don't be afraid* --Danny Haszard
Jim P.: "the Catholic reply"I don't need to go beyond the pages of this blog to know that the Catholic reply to many things is rich, thoughtful, multifarious, andtry as some mayhard to put a bridle on.
Two points:Claire, Ash Wednesday may not be a holy day of obligation in the Catechism, and neither is Good Friday, but it is in the conscience of many Catholics. Otherwise, how come we have more people in our church on those days than on average Sundays? That noted, I was making my point about the consciences of individuals which seem, to me, to get different treatment depending on whether the individual is issuing a paycheck or receiving one.Jim P., I see you your point coming at the family from a "defense of..." tradition. But the family can also be viewed as the basis of the tribe, as it is in the more war-prone parts of the world at the moment. Then you get the "I kill you because you kill my nephew because my grandfather kill your... etc." mentality with which no one can have civilization. The only family that isn't hate-prone is the one headed by the original Father. When as we privilege individual employers or our families over that one we get in real trouble.
The Catholic approach to that Aristotelian argument from which I'm drawing certainly would prize the family as Aristotle did, beginning all social relationships from the generative relationship between husband and wife. That is to say, Aristotle prized it too. But I don't think that we should be very willing to say that the argument is null without the traditional family. The point is not to extol the goodness of the traditional family so much as it is to demonstrate how inevitably we all are a part of one another: "he who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."I don't wish to attribute this to Jim, and please don't let it be thought I'm trying to put words in his mouth. His remark merely is indicative of something else. But that line of argument he suggests is quite typical of what we hear today, it grows more prevalent, it leads down a path that ends in the strange Catholic libertarianism that has become too popular. It is, I think, an increasingly popular misreading of John Paul II's analysis of modernity and personhood that begins from saying that the modern world frustrates traditional institutions of family, personhood, etc. A polis cannot be built from such such building blocks as can be found (i.e., non-traditional families) in our world today. Therefore, we do not owe allegiance to the polis in the same way we did, say, under medieval kingship because the polis today lacks the traditional architecture that legitimates it. Our conscience rights secure our position to make these judgments and, strangely, our assertion of the traditional ethic of community transforms us into characteristically-modern, isolated individuals defending the distinctiveness of our identity and standing apart from the community. I've argued with eminent Catholic scholars about this, attended their meetings. There are smart people who defend this sort of thinking. Obviously, I disagree.The only real question that hangs over our public life today is--How can history and tradition guide us in a world where the familiar signposts of tradition and history no longer help us? More specific to this discussion--How can we build a polis from these building blocks when the most fundamental building block, the traditional family, is in decline? This is the challenge of pluralism, an important problem that the Council attempted quite boldly to address. There is no easy answer. But no good answer, it seems to me, begins from the presumption that our ethic of community hinges on living in a world where everyone agrees with us. The Catholic reply is to reply as Jesus replied to the Samaritan woman, to tax collectors and prostitutes. We take the world as we find it, we do our best to cultivate the garden, and we make the most of the world in the best way we can. That never will be possible unless it is that ethic of solidarity and mutual dependence which guides all we do. That also means that our consciences must bear, for the sake of our solidarity, some things we find objectionable. To live in community is to compromise and bear with one another. There is no (good) other way.
John Prior, I happen to find the topic of the family, its relationship to the individual, and its relationship to the community to be one that is rich, thought-provoking and multifarious. It was in that vein that I responded to Steven P Millies - to add another dimension to his comment. It is true that a constitutive element of Catholicism is that there are those who possess teaching authority, and so one can speak of a distinctively Catholic teaching - there are certain teachings that are properly and formally Catholic, by virtue of being taught by those who possess that teaching authority. Not everything that is thought or taught by members of the church qualifies as church teaching. Nevertheless, my observation of what properly is church teaching is that it is rich, thoughtful and multifarious.I suppose there is a point of view - a common one - that views the Catholic moral tradition as a bridle, and if one follows it, it does constrain some unbridled behavior. I'm convinced, though, that abiding by Catholic moral teaching, rooted as it is in our rich biblical patrimony, the revelation of God in Jesus, and developed by prayer, reflection and intellectual rigor over the centuries, is not a constraint on freedom, but the way to true freedom.Contraception almost certainly is a case in point. The unbridled so-called freedom unleashed by contraceptives, aka sexual license, has proven to be, among other things, the freedom for moms to be saddled with the care for children with little or no help or support from the fathers; the freedom for children to be reared in poverty and to attend dismally-performing schools that prepare the children for nothing but an adulthood of more poverty and dependency (not to mention crime); the freedom of our society to be burdened with sharply inceasing social and financial costs; and the freedom of people to be afflicted with deadly diseases spread through sex acts.Certainly, it could be noted in reply that, even if one grants that contraceptives contribute in some way to this cycle of failure and despair, contraceptives also are used in ways that are more positive and productive to society. Supposing that I grant that point for the sake of conversation, it still needs to be pointed out that the HHS contraception mandate makes no distinction between allegedly productive use and unproductive/counterproductive use. The morality promoted by the contraception mandate is that contraceptives are an unmixed social good, and therefore should always be free to anyone who wants them. That strikes me as profoundly wrongheaded.
Easy solution. Have the conscience objectors put their thoughts in the memo section of their check to the insurance co or IRS. Jim P you would have to tighten up your argument to fit in memo space.
The Catholic Taco Bell owner deserves our sympathy but we should also give thought to the plight of the Hasidic owner of a business employing fellow Jews for whom high fertility rates are the ideal and for whom business tasks are secondary to religious duties (including "Be fruitful and multiply"). "Hasidic Jews do not pursue occupational careers as is the norm in Western culture, but organize their livelihood so that it does not interfere with their religious obligations . . ."http://www.everyculture.com/North-America/Hasidim-Economy.htmlWhy shouldn't such an employer be given an exemption from the contraception coverage mandate?
"The morality promoted by the contraception mandate is that contraceptives are an unmixed social good, and therefore should always be free to anyone who wants them. That strikes me as profoundly wrongheaded."Jim, there is absolutely nothing wrong with contraception. The only reason Paul VI went against his Birth Control Commission is that the Curia and others convinced him that this would go against the infallibility of the church since CASTI CONNUBII practically made the prohibition of contraceptives an article of faith. Rome has admitted many errors in the past. Its stand on contraceptives is another one. Infallibility is not that important to the living of the Christian life. Rome has been terrible on this question and it is time that reasonable Catholics have to let them know it.
Why should anybody have an exemption other than to avoid losing votes unnecessarily at the next election? There is a contraception requirement because the Supreme Court says everybody has a constitutional right to contraceive. The problem isn't Obamacare, which reflects the constitutional right, but the Supreme Court which found the constitutional right. That right belongs to an individual, not in his or her employer. Five votes decide a case on the Supreme Court. The current court has six Catholics, five of whom were put there by supposedly pro-life Republican presidents. Anyone who has a problem with the HHS respecting a constitutional right should take it up with the people who keep the right into the Constitution, not with HHS which is simply following it.
In Cathleen Kaveny's column in the 1/25 issue she, unconvincingly, in my opinion, argues that in the mandate controversy the government is not really "defining religion," then she goes on to say that, "The Catholic Health Association and others have suggested broadening the total exemption category to include religiously sponsored hospitals and universities, while providing contraceptives under another another government program." I make this citation so as to add it to to one Matthew makes in his piece above, "As Eduardo Penalver suggested in his Friday post, if a health-insurance company actually saves money by covering contraceptive service for its policyholders [note: proponents of "free" contraceptives contend it is a healthcare cost-savings because purportedly it prevents unwanted pregnancies and related problems that are far more costly than the very low cost of contraceptives free for all], then the Obama administration may as well have required insurance companies to offer free contraceptive coverage to those employed by any business owner who objects to paying for it -- and thereby avoided all the political problems that have arisen from the HHS mandate." Indeed, why not, to both the CHA suggestion and Penalver's point. The Obama administration seems to have, wittingly or not, created a problem that could have been so easily avoided; and, to what end? It seems the prime beneficiaries would be the health insurers, who will reap extra profits, and have religious institutions and religious conscientious objectors help pay for those profits.
"The only real question that hangs over our public life today isHow can history and tradition guide us in a world where the familiar signposts of tradition and history no longer help us? More specific to this discussionHow can we build a polis from these building blocks when the most fundamental building block, the traditional family, is in decline?"Steven - my excitement grew as I read these words, because I saw that I had another half-paragraph to go, and I hoped it would contain a decisive answer to those questions :-). Alas, you seem to have concluded, as I have, while no doubt approaching the question from a somewhat different angle: we try our best, we muddle through, we staunchly defend our rights while recognizing that compromise is necessary. You may be right that, in a world in which there is no good answer, that is the least bad.
What ... no mention of this yet? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/opinion/bruni-a-convenient-morality.ht...
Jim--I'm shaped by Augustine on these questions. My expectations are low. Muddle we must, at least on this side of the Eschaton.
"The Catholic Taco Bell owner deserves our sympathy ...."No, his employees and ... even worse the customers of such faux food ... do."Most Jehovahs Witnesses rushed to the ER with massive blood loss will cry NO BLOOD right up to their last breath." That's their call ... but not for their minor children.
There is a contraception requirement because the Supreme Court says everybody has a constitutional right to contraceiveTom,This is NOT what the court decided. Rather they decided it was unconstitutional for the government to prohibit and penalize contraception. Unconstitutional to prohibit and penalize is not identical to a constitutional right to contraception. Unconstitutional to prohibit and penalize allows a negative or neutral view of contraception while a constitutional right would necessarily imply encouragement of the practice.
This discussion seems to be all about the consciences of employers. What about employes?Employees have other ways to access contraceptives etc, so their rights are unaffected.
Bruce: You can't stop me because it's my right. Or you can't stop me because you have a negative or neutral view of contraception. What's the difference if no one can stop me?Now you want to come along and tell me my employer can stop me if he does have a negative view of contraception, but the government can't? Why can the idiot I work for do what the government can't do to me? Your friends at the NRA can explain to you that condoms don't contracieve, people contracieve.
Steven, One can argue quite well that contraception is pro family because it allows for more stable parents to take care of their existing children. Especially, when you cite Augustine who lived in the fourth century when bringing children to term was much more doubtful.
And as Jim McRea points out above; what a shame when a hierarchy which put the power and glory of clerics over the rights of children. And it can well be argued that they are doing the same here as they are denying Catholics the right to contraception when they have zero experience in raising children as a family.
Tom, your logic is completely faulty. Your employer cant tell the employee they cant use contraception. Not having the employer supply it through insurance is completely different than the employer prohibiting it. And making ridiculous statements about the NRA does not provide any support to your faulty argument.
" -- they (bishops) have zero experience in raising children as a family."Carefully parsed. Is there a hidden claim/accusation/thought there? I think a couple of Irish guys might give lie to that statement, but that's a quibble.


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What are the advantages/disadvantages of OpenNIC vs ISP for DNS resolution with regards to security and privacy?
You may chose a DNS server (a list is here, on their wiki) that logs, logs for a time period, logs and anonymizes the file after a time period, logs anonymously, or keeps no logs. As such, this privacy concern is well addressed in the OpenNIC project. A server owner could lie about the type of logs kept, you must judge whether or not you believe that is a possibility.
While I shouldn't give a statement based on my opinion, based on the resources needed to run a Tier 2 server and the type of information that could be gathered, I do not have a reason to mistrust any specific operator or the concept.
There are negligible security concerns, as the only attack a DNS server could assist is sending you to a website other than the one you requested, possibly containing malware or phishing attempts. This would be quickly addressed by the community's Tier 1 operators.
NameBench is a Google engineer's side project. It can test a large number of DNS servers to make sure that their resolution is "safe", and not a source of censorship. It will try and resolve common domain names like www.paypal.com, and make sure that they are pointing to the right location. (Not of the censorship checks are working properly at the time of this writing, but this feature still works.)
Namebench also performs speed checks. When I ran it i found out that level3's DNS resolution servers where on average 4 times as fast as the ones provided by my ISP. Also my ISP was maliciously redirecting failed DNS lookups to a spam page, which is why I was looking to replace them in the first place.


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Young lifts Kennedy over Sacred Heart
WATERBURY — Moments after senior Ty'Zhon Young's finest game in a Kennedy High football uniform, Sacred Heart's Zach Festa sprinted toward Young at midfield.
Festa tapped Young on the shoulder pads to congratulate him on his three-touchdown performance in the Eagles' 42-22 win over the Hearts Friday night at Municipal Stadium's Ray Snyder Sr. Field.
"That was a real nice thing to do," said Young of Festa's gesture. "Before the game, I didn't know who he was. He showed great sportsmanship out there."
What Festa and the Hearts saw was a determined Young. Not only did Young score on rushing touchdowns of 10, 1 and 1 yards, he also played stellar in all phases of the game. That included blocking a punt and recovering a fumble. Both plays led to touchdowns.
"Getting the blocked punt was real big," said Young. "It was the first time that I blocked one. I tried real hard to get through the line. That play gave us a lot of momentum."
That sparked second-quarter play sparked the Eagles (2-7), who scored 22 second-quarter points en route to a 30-16 halftime edge.
In the game, Kennedy's Jake D'Alusio caught a 25-yard TD from Will Stevenson for the first score of the game and Elijah Benjamin and Jacob Gonzalez also scored TDs on runs of 35 and 29 yards, respectively.
Dashaun Abdul-Lateef, playing in his first game since being sidelined with a hand injury during the season opener with Wilby, intercepted a pass in the fourth quarter for the Eagles.
"Everyone is playing hard and we're getting better and better," said Young. 'I'm proud of everyone's effort."
Sacred Heart's Jae'Quan Robinson and Quincey Williams scored rushing TDs in the second quarter and Parris Wolfe caught a 59-yard TD pass from Williams in the fourth period.
"Sacred Heart has some very good players," said Young. "Parris Wolfe is fast and a great playmaker. Jae'Quan Robinson is a tough runner and Quincey Williams is a very good quarterback and he's only going to get better."
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15 Dec 2011 3:18 PM #1
Which types of proxy for stores is working?
Which types of proxy for stores is working in PR2 (or PR3)?
LocalStorageProxy is brocken, SessionStorageProxy and MemoryProxy seems not exists at all.
is only working proxy is Json?
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I used this one my personal site but since it mimics ipchicken I guess its a clone. The script makes use of the php auto global $_SERVER[]. It stores the stuff the browser sends to the server when it makes a request to a page.
You dont need to use it in the same sense as the above its just a ready made example you can copy and paste and run. If your pretty good with regex you can even broaden it to show only the browser and browser version. If you do it I'd be interested in seeing how you did it. You can optionally use:
but you need to edit your config file to point to the browsercap.ini file on your server.
PHP Code:
$ip = $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
$port = substr($_SERVER["REMOTE_PORT"],0,2);
$browser = $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"];
$hostname = gethostbyaddr($ip);
echo $ip;
echo " " . $browser;
echo " " . $hostname;
echo " " . $port;
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$browser = get_browser(null, true);


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I cannot find, for the life of me, the page that displays the instances of a workflow and the ability to delete past instances. I've made a ton of changes and done a ton of testing which I'm assuming probably created a ton of instances of the workflow. I just can't seem to locate this page to delete the instances, did the link go missing for some reason?
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Many Oklahomans and Texans honored Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his legacy on Monday.
Martin Luther King Jr Celebration Breakfast/ Austin College
In Sherman, members of the community gathered Monday morning at Austin College at a community breakfast to honor the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The keynote speaker was Norm Lyons, a vice president with the Texas Rangers Baseball Club.
The event was co-sponsored by the local NAACP organization, but it started years ago as a rotary event.
"The event started four or five years ago to help the community celebrate the life of Dr. King, a man who had higher values in life," Austin College president Dr. Oscar Page said.
MLK Day Parade/ Ardmore
In Ardmore, the annual Martin Luther King Day Parade was held Monday morning.
The lineup started at Central Park and went down Ardmore's Main Street.
Many activities are scheduled for later on Monday at the H-F-V Wilson Community Center.
Patrons say the cold weather will not deter them from honoring the civil rights leader.
"Even though it's cold, we're still going to celebrate. Ain't nothing gonna stop that," parade participant Carlos Wells said.
Candleight vigil in Denison
The Grayson County NACCP hosted a candlelight vigil this Martin Luther King Day.
Those attending say they are lighting candles in his memory and singing songs like "Lift Every Voice and Sing" and "We Shall Overcome," the anthem of the civil rights movement.
This is a yearly event, but it is the first time it is being held at the Bethel Community Baptist Church in Denison, and Pastor Michael Braxton says we have to remember where we came from because history can repeat itself if we're not reminded how far we've come.
Reverend Braxton is over religious affairs at the NAACP, and they want to stress that this is advancement for all people of color- not just black-Americans because that's what Dr. King is all about.


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JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (WIBW) -- Two Junction City men are being treated at Kansas hospitals for gunshot wounds following an early morning shooting in the parking lot of an apartment complex.
Lieutenant Jeff Childs with the Junction City Police Department says the shooting took place at the Green Park Apartments. He released the following information on Friday, April 6, 2012:
"On 04/06/2012, at approximately 0228 hours, members of the Junction City Police Department Patrol Division were dispatched to the area of 1450 North Calhoun Street, in reference to shots fired. As the units arrived on scene a subject identified as Michael A. Washington, B/M, 25 years of age, of Junction City arrived at the Geary Community Hospital emergency room suffering from two gunshot injuries. It was learned through the investigation that Mr. Washington was involved in the incident at 1450 North Calhoun Street.
Upon arrival of the units at 1450 North Calhoun Street, a second subject suffering from a gunshot injury was located. The second subject identified as Lemar T. Davis, B/M, 25 years of age of Junction City, was transported to the Geary Community Hospital emergency room by ambulance."
Washington was transferred to the KU Medical Center in Kansas City and Davis was transferred to the Wesley Medical Center in Wichita for further medical treatment. Officials say both men were in serious but stable condition.
Lieutenant Childs said he could not yet comment on whether or not the men were shooting at each other or if they were shot by someone else. The case is still under investigation and no further information is available at this time.
The Green Park Apartments was also the scene of a fatal shooting last August when a 24-year-old mother was killed in front of her toddler inside one of the apartments.
Nathaniel Lewis Jr. has been arraigned in Geary County District Court and has pleaded not guilty to First Degree Murder and several other charges in connection with the death of Jennifer Pigg.
Lewis' trial is set to start April 23, 2012. He is being held in the Geary County Detention Center on $1 million bond.


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I've read photographers write about using a cyclo wall instead of a seamless background. What is a cyclo wall?
In a large professional studio (think of something that you'd bring a vehicle into to photograph) a cyclo wall is a permanent installation that serves the same purpose as a seamless background paper setup. A cove, or curved transition, is built between wall and floor (usually a bendable plywood over a rib form), and the wall, cove and floor are painted the same color, usually white. The wall stops short of the ceiling so lights can be fired from above and behind. Think of a light table (not a transparency viewer -- one of those deals with a plexi sweep) writ large. The idea, as with seamless paper, is to allow the subject to appear to float in space, often to allow the subject image to be "keyed out" later for print, although it is just as easy to create a gradient background with lighting alone. It is used mostly for large product photography (vehicles and major appliances), although something at a somewhat smaller scale would be useful for fashion (particularly catalog) shoots.
A 'cyclo wall,' also referred to in various combinations of 'infinity,' 'seamless,' 'cyc,' 'cyclo,' 'wall,' 'drop,' 'backdrop,' and 'background,' are all synonyms for the same thing:
A backdrop which curves smoothly at the floor in order to eliminate the 'corner' where the wall meets the floor, thereby providing the illusion that the floor stretches on to infinity.
Visual top-down example of a 'cyclo wall:'
In short, a seamless background and a cyclo wall are different terms for the same thing.


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Below is a visual proof (!) that $32.5 = 31.5$. How could that be?
Below is a visual proof (!) that $32.5 = 31.5$. How could that be?
It's an optical illusion - neither the first nor second set of blocks actually describes a triangle. The diagonal edge of the first is slightly concave and that of the second is slightly convex.
To see clearly, look at the gradients of the hypotenuses of the red and blue triangles - they're not 'similar'.
gradient of blue triangle hypotenuse = 2/5
Since these gradients are different, combining them in the ways shown in the diagram does not produce an overall straight (diagonal) line.
Overlay the two triangles to see the difference. This is known as the missing square puzzle.
Since this question has been bumped up, and some people find pictures helpful, may as well supply illustrations of the explanation.
The area of the red triangle is $\frac12(8)(3) = 12$ and that of the blue triangle is $\frac12(5)(2) = 5$. The area of the yellow and green regions are clearly 7 and 8 respectively, so the total coloured area is 12 + 5 + 7 + 8 = 32 which is less than 32.5, the area of a 13×5 triangle. Indeed, in the figure below you can see that the hypotenuses of the red and blue triangles "dip" below the actual hypotenuse of the large triangle; this accounts for the 0.5 difference in area.
Similarly, in the second figure, the hypotenuse of the red and blue triangles are above the actual hypotenuse, which accounts for the 0.5 difference in area again.
The difference between the two figures is a thin parallelogram with vertices at the endpoints of the hypotenuses in both figures (coloured pink below), which has area exactly 1. (If it looks much less, that's the nature of the optical illusion.)
Also, there are some links to similar figures at Wikipedia's article on this missing square puzzle.
Surprisingly, the general case remains to be explained.
Consider the recursion $F(n+2) = F(n+1) + F(n)$, with $F(1) = F(2) = 1$
Let the blue triangle have horizontal and vertical sides of length $F(n+1)$ and $F(n-1)$, respectively.
By the Fibonacci identity $F(n-1)F(n+2) - F(n)F(n+1) = \pm1$
As n increases the gradient/slope of each triangle tends to the square of the Golden Ratio $ \phi$,
The red and blue triangles are not similar (the ratios of the sides are 3/8 = 0.375 and 2/5 = 0.4 respectively), so the "hypotenuse" of your big triangle is not a straight line.
No, this is not a proof of your statement. If you look very closely, you will see that the hypotenuse of the triangles aren't straight. You can also verify this algebraically by calculating the internal angles of the triangle using trigonometry.
The other way to demonstrate the non-straightness of the hypotenuse is in the fact that the red and blue triangles aren't similar, which can be seen by the difference in the ratios of their width and height. For the blue triangle, this is 2/5 and for the red triangle this is 3/8. As they are both right angled triangles, these ratios would be the same for similar triangles and the fact that they aren't means the interior angles are different.