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Comment · 15 years ago
I've never met a class I didn't want to inherit.
Comment · 15 years ago
If you pay attention to the commas the structure of the law is:

If you do A OR B based on C

A: Deprivation of rights B: Different punishments

where C is on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race

I removed B to make it more readable in my initial comment because you were only talking about A.

Comment · 15 years ago
This law refers to race discrimination and isn't relevant to your argument.

Key part with lots of sub clauses removed for readability: "Whoever, under color of any law, willfully subjects any person in any State to the deprivation of any rights, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both;"

Comment · 15 years ago
Comment · 15 years ago
This is a significant disadvantage for some categories. For example one category from Friday was "WARE"-ING with each question containing "ware" in the response.

After typing out this comment it occurs to me that if you carefully consider each answer there is only only logical question for all the answers in this category. Although I don't have any specific examples, there are times when a question is ruled incorrect because of the category name (e.g The category called for a specific number of letters in the response).

Comment · 16 years ago
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett is a great fictionalized spy novel centered around Operation Fortitude and spy catching in the UK during the second world war.
Comment · 16 years ago
Comment · 16 years ago
The article implies he simply used the cards to buy stuff he would buy normally which put him over the threshold dollar amount to earn the bonus miles. If this is true it's equivalent to getting the miles for free since he didn't buy anything out of the ordinary. I'm assuming he paid the cards off in full each month
Comment · 16 years ago
Bizarre Google Trend Spikes are traditionally caused by 4chan, it doesn't seem like that is the case here though.
Comment · 16 years ago
Not only do they follow a small number of patterns, most that involve subject matter rather than simply logic are part of a small number of categories. Almost all involve body parts, colors, names and days of the week.
Comment · 16 years ago
Works well in Opera.
Comment · 16 years ago
I think despite all the differences between systems I would still call someone who is a member of the legislative body a member of the government in general terms.

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