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SNYDER v. PHELPS (No. 09-751) Is a case revolving around a tort claim filed by Albert Snyder, the father of Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, over picketing at his son’s funeral by the Westboro Baptist Church. LCPL Matthew Snyder was killed in the line of duty serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom and buried in Westminster Maryland. His funeral was picketed by the Westboro Baptist church because of their dogmatic belief that “God Hates the United States for its tolerance of homosexuality, particularly in America’s military.” (Snyder v. Phelps, 2011) Albert Snyder sued the leader of the Westboro Baptist Church Fred...
Machines are larger than humans and have been for some time.
My existence invalidates the claim made Ben Garfinkel, Miles Brundage, Daniel Filan, Carrick Flynn, Jelena Luketina, Michael Page, Anders Sandberg, Andrew Snyder-Beattie, and Max Tegmark, "that it is not only implausible that machines will ever exceed human size, but in fact impossible." in their paper On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines. Machines have been larger than humans for some time now. In fact, machines began larger than humans. We computation machines at one time occupied entire warehouses. In the near present era, billions of us will dance on the head of a pin. We have shrunk over time for compatibility...
Machiavelli’s divergence
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli lived during the Italian Renaissance and needed a poignantly distinct philosophy to stand out among the colossal artists during this epochal period of human history. Machiavelli’s political philosophy writings in Il Principe and Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio were the intellectual supernova needed to scorch a path for a new ideal marking the behavior of political leaders as it relates to leading. These works did so in such a brilliant way they carry discernible weight in the modern arena of political dialogue. Niccolò sought to fundamentally change the paradigm of the previous...
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