Hey, guys. Isnt there already a law in Arizona that requires employers to
check the papers of anybody they hire and gives them a website to do it? I
understand that that law is not enforced, because, obviously, it would
interfere with employers exploitation of illegal aliens. If it were
Nick-Please cite the facts that support your contention re the Arizona law empowering the police to ask for papers if you just happen to "look" Mexican and the source of the heavy weapons flowing to Mexico.The idea that the types of military-grade weapons used comes from smuggling civilian weapons
Russ,
Well, presumably i got those facts from some left wing rant. They both
seemed like the kind of facts that would be difficult to fake, so I
believed them. I will do my best to back them up. Please hold your mind
open for a time while I do that.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus
Nick and Steve-
Will be happy to hold my mind open. This issue points out a number of clearly
important points. David Logan, a professor of mine at USC in the master's
program on management, investigated the importance of rhetoric in forming the
dominant culture of an organization. The
Russ, Nick,
Here is the relevant part of the Arizona Senate Bill
1070http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070s.pdf
:
40 13-1509. Trespassing by illegal aliens; assessment; exception;
41 classification
42 A. IN ADDITION TO ANY VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW, A PERSON IS GUILTY OF
43
Dear Steve,
Thanks for your post. I particularly want to respond to:
Amazing we usually manage to avoid polarizing political discussions
here... hang on for the wild ride! Happy Mother's day!
I think one of the most distressing features of our society these is that even
smart people
Here's Not the nine o'clock news take on this from the 1980s in the
UK: Constable
Savage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO8EpfyCG2Yfeature=related
-- R
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Robert Holmes rob...@holmesacosta.comwrote:
Russ, Nick,
Here is the relevant part of the Arizona Senate
Ariz. gov signs bill revising new immigration law
April 28, 2010
Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed a follow-on bill approved by Arizona
legislators that make revisions to the state's sweeping law against illegal
immigration - changes she says should quell concerns that the measure will
lead to
Seems to be an over-hyped silicone 1-component variant of something we've
been using for years -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXj7tl0--7g
(I use http://google.co.in .. so this is what it threw up when I searched
for magic putty http://shoesoles.co.in)
On second thoughts its probably 2 component
Nicholas Thompson wrote circa 05/07/2010 05:14 PM:
I think one of the implications of the The Rant I recently posted is that
metaphors can be made unfuzzy, precise, and exact if we are willing to take
the time to separate out their implications into those that we already know
to be false,
Glen:
Ok. Let's work with this:
You wrote:
That's perfectly reasonable. But if it's only the implications of the
metaphor that can be made precise, then the metaphor itself, regardless
of how important it was in the formation of the result, is NOT what is
precise. The result of the
Whatever it is, the marketing looks very slick1) target early adopters
(hackers), 2) liberal use of social networking tools (twitter, blogs,
youtube), 3) create scarcity (first batch all sold out...register to be
notified).
If they are half the materials geniuses that they are marketing
Yup.
Useful lessons.
Tory
On May 9, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Saul Caganoff wrote:
Whatever it is, the marketing looks very slick1) target early
adopters (hackers), 2) liberal use of social networking tools
(twitter, blogs, youtube), 3) create scarcity (first batch all sold
out...register
Glen,
Nick had a student who harped on him mercilessly for this metaphor stuff. As I
recall the argument was pretty sophisticated, but basically boiled down to
something like: Look here, old man. I don't know why you keep ranting about
'implicature.' I want to talk about the metaphor, just the
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