The Art Of War
I also read The Art of War twice, albeit many years ago--when it first came out.
~Bruno~
So you are 2600 years old?
Second printing!
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I also read The Art of War twice, albeit many years ago--when it first came out.
~Bruno~
So you are 2600 years old?
Second printing!
Was reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, but after 300 pages and not a single thing of interest happening, I gave up.
Baby. That thar's a man's book.
I enjoyed the conversations in the beginning with Lawrence and Alan Turing, but after that, there was no plot progression at all, I had no idea what the conflict is, and reading about laying fiber cables undersea is incredibly dry. If I read 1/4 of a book and have absolutely no idea where it's headed, that is a poorly written book imho.
Cryptonomicon is a very enjoyable book. It gave me such great pleasure to read it. It's not often that you get an epic tome of fiction that combines treasure hunting, cryptography, a grand tour of WWII, hacking, Cap'n Crunch, the South Pacific, nerds, and dot com scheming.
Truly a wonderful book.
I'm now reading The Unincorporated Man. It seems that many here might find its premise interesting.
The Art Of War
I also read The Art of War twice, albeit many years ago--when it first came out.
~Bruno~
So you are 2600 years old?
The Art Of War
I also read The Art of War twice, albeit many years ago--when it first came out.
~Bruno~
Some Tom Clancy book (SSN something or other). It's not great but keeps me occupied during my downtime working.
Anyone ever read Benjamin Graham's Intelligent Investor?
I got 1/2 way through and thought it was far too technical at the time for me to fully understand.
I got 1/2 way through and thought it was far too technical at the time for me to fully understand.
not much time for books to read, i only read technical books when i can
Was reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, but after 300 pages and not a single thing of interest happening, I gave up.
Baby. That thar's a man's book.
I enjoyed the conversations in the beginning with Lawrence and Alan Turing, but after that, there was no plot progression at all, I had no idea what the conflict is, and reading about laying fiber cables undersea is incredibly dry. If I read 1/4 of a book and have absolutely no idea where it's headed, that is a poorly written book imho.
Just read Ender's Game, which was enjoyable, and provided about a million examples of prior art on iPads if anyone happens to be getting sued by Apple over patents.
Starting on A Canticle for Leibowitz, which was recommended to me.
Starting on A Canticle for Leibowitz, which was recommended to me.
Was reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, but after 300 pages and not a single thing of interest happening, I gave up.
Baby. That thar's a man's book.
Was reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, but after 300 pages and not a single thing of interest happening, I gave up.
The Art Of War
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1. Nearly every First Ammendment case appearing before contemporary courts contains a phrase declaring "the First Ammendment made applicable to the states by the Fourteenth Ammendment..."
by using this phrase, the court is invoking it's decisions from the 1940s which reinterpreted the Fourteenth Ammendment. That reinterpretation created a mechanism for the court whereby, for the first time, it could intervene in all practices of States and local communities, including religion.
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In the Fourteenth Ammendment, the "evil intended to be remedied" and "the intent of Congress" was clear: to make recently freed slaves citizens of the state in which they resided. Very simply-and very specifically-the Fourteenth Ammendment was a badly needed racial civil rights ammendment.
How, then, could the courts of the 1940s manage so completely to rewrite the intent?
As a result of seperating the wording from it's intent, in Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940), Murdock v. Pennsylvania (1943), Everson v. Board of Education (1947), and other decisions, the Court substituted a totaly revised and foreign interpretation for the Fourteenth Ammendment. In those decisions, the Court declared that the purpose of the Fourteenth Ammendment was to limit the States not just on racial civil rights issues, but on numerous items contained within the Bill of Rights.
by using this phrase, the court is invoking it's decisions from the 1940s which reinterpreted the Fourteenth Ammendment. That reinterpretation created a mechanism for the court whereby, for the first time, it could intervene in all practices of States and local communities, including religion.
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In the Fourteenth Ammendment, the "evil intended to be remedied" and "the intent of Congress" was clear: to make recently freed slaves citizens of the state in which they resided. Very simply-and very specifically-the Fourteenth Ammendment was a badly needed racial civil rights ammendment.
How, then, could the courts of the 1940s manage so completely to rewrite the intent?
As a result of seperating the wording from it's intent, in Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940), Murdock v. Pennsylvania (1943), Everson v. Board of Education (1947), and other decisions, the Court substituted a totaly revised and foreign interpretation for the Fourteenth Ammendment. In those decisions, the Court declared that the purpose of the Fourteenth Ammendment was to limit the States not just on racial civil rights issues, but on numerous items contained within the Bill of Rights.
Chapter 10 The Court's Selective Use of History, pages 197-198
Original Intent by David Barton
This weeks book!
my c++ is already full of exceptions, thanks.
That's what I'm trying to avoid!
Sarcasm in a book title?
This weeks book!
my c++ is already full of exceptions, thanks.
That's what I'm trying to avoid!
This weeks book!
my c++ is already full of exceptions, thanks.
This weeks book!
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson
No Angel by Jay Dobyns (ATF agent that went deep undercover in the Hell's Angels)
Good so far.
Good so far.
Ooooh let me guess what happens, the ATF agent becomes addicted to coke, drugs and violence and becomes a double agent.... happens all the time
I'll tell you tomorrow.
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