I flew 25,000+ miles by June 1. By this rate, I should hit gold (50,000) at the end of the year.
I flew 25,000+ miles by June 1. By this rate, I should hit gold (50,000) at the end of the year.
Why not appoint Jersey’s finest Jurist to the U.S. Senate to temporarily fill the seat vacated by the late Senator Frank Lautenberg.
The incompatibility clause only prohibits a person from serving in an Article I and Article II position simultaneously. My reading suggests that it would not stop a person from serving in an Article I and Article III position.
And, if Alito declines, Snooki for Senate!
Update: I had thought that for purposes of the incompatibility clause, “office under the United States,” referred to executive branch officials, not Justices of the Supreme Court (positions not created by Congress). A friend showed me otherwise. I think he’s right, but I am researching this further. Does anyone know of any resource that states that a Justice is an officer of the United States? This may be me overthinking this too much…
Yesterday, I finally put down my Droid Pro, which still had the unlimited 3G Data from Verizon. That phone was long past its prime. In it’s place, I upgraded to a brand new 4G Samsung Galaxy S4. So far, I love it. The screen is amazing, it is lightning fast, and the onscreen keyboard is not as bad as I thought. The battery life sucks, as expected, but I already bought two spare batteries, which I carry around with me wherever I go.
However, (so far) there are two paternalistic features I don’t like.
First, when the phone is fully charged, the screen lights up, and a notice pops up telling me to unplug the phone. As far as I can tell there is no way to disable this. This may seem like a useful feature that probably saves energy, but generally, the only time this message pops up is when I am sleeping. Last night, the bright light woke me up (yes, that stuff bothers me, as the AMOLED screen is super bright). And, in light of the crappy battery life, why would I unplug it overnight? When I woke up in the morning, it would be depleted. Anyone know how to stop this?
Second, it seems that whenever I plug in headphones, or my car’s auxiliary cable, it automatically drops the volume by half, and displays some message how it is not safe to play music loud with headphones. I don’t like this. Every time I get in my car to plug in my phone, the volume drops. Sure, it only takes a second to adjust the volume, but I don’t care for the fact that Samsung has decided what my ideal volume level is. Anyone know how to stop this?
Recently, the NBA instituted a new policy where the league would fine plays after the game for “flopping,” defined loosely as intentionally exaggerating contact in hopes of drawing a foul. The penalty is a $5,000 fine after the game.
This penalty does not seem like enough of a deterrent. If a key foul call late in the game changes the outcome–perhaps by causing a player to foul out, or by generating free throws–it seems totally worth it.
Lebron James seems to agree.
LeBron James vehemently denies he’s a flopper but openly recognizes it as an effective strategy.
“Some guys have been doing it for years, just trying to get an advantage,” James said Monday in the lead-up to Tuesday’s Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals. “Any way you can get an advantage over the opponent to help your team win, so be it.”
Unless the punishment was something horrible, like suspension, it seems that players have every incentive to do it.
Still, fines have not seemed to stem the tide. No Heat players were officially warned or fined for flopping during the regular season or in the playoffs.
“It happens,” Wade said. “We would have no NBA possibly if they got rid of all the flopping.”
Kudos to Google for reducing the creep factor of Google Glass by blocking any apps for Google Glas that can utilize facial recognition technology to identify people.
Google confirmed on its official Glass G+ pageearlier this evening that it won’t allow developers to create applications for the head-worn display that are capable of recognizing the faces of people the wearer encounters.
It’s no surprise that Google has been keen to downplay the idea of first-party face recognition features — Google Glass director Steve Lee gave the New York Times a near identical statementearlier this month — but now the company has made it clear that developers are subject to that same code of conduct.
This tells me that Google is already worried that someone has/will create this app. I imagine a rooted Google glass device can accomplish some pretty creepy games.
Update: It took about a month. Hacked.