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These individuals can now be sentenced to up to ten years in a federal prison for possession of a firearm, regardless of whether the weapon was legally possessed when the law was passed. [50] The law has been legally upheld because it is considered regulatory, not punitive; it is a status offense. [51]
History is a continuing dialogue, between the present and the past. Interpretations of the past are subject to change in response to new evidence, new questions asked of the evidence, new perspectives gained by the passage of time. There is no single, eternal, and immutable "truth" about past events and their meaning.
Temporal paradoxes fall into three broad groups: bootstrap paradoxes, consistency paradoxes, and Newcomb's paradox. [1] Bootstrap paradoxes violate causality by allowing future events to influence the past and cause themselves, or "bootstrapping", which derives from the idiom "pull oneself up by one's bootstraps."
In attempting to revise and influence the past, historical negationism acts as illegitimate historical revisionism by using techniques inadmissible in proper historical discourse, such as presenting known forged documents as genuine, inventing ingenious but implausible reasons for distrusting genuine documents, attributing conclusions to books ...
To change or clarify how the prior work should be interpreted. To match reality, when assumptions or projections of the future are later proven wrong. [Note 1] Retcons are used by authors to increase their creative freedom, on the assumption that the changes are unimportant to the audience compared to the new story which can be told.
It is a formula that can “go off like a rocket”, to use the words of one high-profile figure, if you get the right manager. All of that only hastens the need for severe change in the United ...
You can get that from one-half to three-quarters of a teaspoon of iodized table salt. In the last 15 years or so, U.S. researchers have increasingly reported seeing mild iodine deficiency in ...
Keller and Nelson have argued that even if past and future objects do not exist, there can still be definite truths about past and future events, and thus it is possible that a future truth about a time traveler deciding to travel back to the present date could explain the time traveler's actual appearance in the present; [88] these views are ...