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Almost every criminal act can also be legal, involuntary, informed consent of the "victim".

Should that be "voluntary"?

But rape is pretty unique jn the prevalence of consensual sex. If a person has a black eye, and their attacker admits to doing it, but says they asked or consented to be hit, they don't have much credibility, because we know that rarely happens (outside sport fighting rings).

For what it's worth, based on visits to hospital emergency rooms, this is rather common: unsanctioned fights, impromptu brawls, and bets (generally involving intoxication). (Unless you specifically meant cases in which the attacker says it was consensual and the victim says it wasn't.) Worst case: someone makes a bet, either "I can take a punch" or "I'll pay you to let me punch you", things happen, punchee dies (possibly hours or days later), puncher is tried for murder. Those aren't common, but they happen (Example 1 Example 2).

Seems to me this should be a tragic accident or involuntary manslaughter at worst, but I am not a prosecutor. I think they get extra points for more-serious charges, so verbum sapiens.

Now, of course, he is going to have to consult with parliament on some issues â" but remember â" he only needs to consult.

huh?

Actually, it's the other way round : parliament has to consult the Queen and the Prince of Wales before introducing new legislation, to ensure there is no harm to their private interests. This little known Royal Veto has been described by constitutional lawyers as a "royal nuclear deterrent".

Charles' support for homeopathy is well known - he argued in favour of homeopathy before the World Health Assembly in 2006, endorsed a company peddling homeopathic "cures" for polio, and in 2010 was accused of secretly lobbying ministers for homeopathy to be provided by the NHS.

Now, of course, he is going to have to consult with parliament on some issues â" but remember â" he only needs to consult.

huh?

Actually, it's the other way round : parliament has to consult the Queen and the Prince of Wales before introducing new legislation, to ensure there is no harm to their private interests. This little known Royal Veto has been described by constitutional lawyers as a "royal nuclear deterrent".

Charles' support for homeopathy is well known - he argued in favour of homeopathy before the World Health Assembly in 2006, endorsed a company peddling homeopathic "cures" for polio, and in 2010 was accused of secretly lobbying ministers for homeopathy to be provided by the NHS.

Is this ever going to be used, and is this going to speed up people going to Mars?

I think that, if they NASA et al really wanted to go to Mars and actually do a mission, they'd have developed a proper space suit to match the mission pretty fast. They also managed to do everything for the Moon mission in the 60's, so ...

On the list of things necessary to get to Mars and build a permanent outpost there (like the ISS or the Amundsen-Scott Base on the South Pole), I would put getting a proper space suit working is rather far down the list and one of the more insignificant issues to be resolved.... particularly because proven spacesuit designs have already been made in previous flights by at least three different nations and presumably different companies all trying to do the same thing.

Back when NASA was trying to figure out how to build a spacesuit in the first place, the only thing they could remotely find was a suit of armor worn by King Henry VIII of England. It was a full set of battle armor that similarly had to protect the whole body from head to toe, and it didn't expose any part of the body even when joints were flexed. A common technique for medieval warfare was to try and wedge a sword or an arrow into a joint, so the better your protected those joints the better your chances of survival in combat or even at a tournament.

It certainly is useful to look around for alternatives and Mars is going to be an interesting environment to at least plan for. I'm impressed that this kind of thinking is going on, but there are a whole bunch of other issues that need to be addressed for successful human exploration of Mars.

Lol, I first misread the headline as "interbred with dinosaurs". Well, the creationists at least might think that was possible.

I would almost go to a creationism museum to see the graphics for that. Can you imagine this shooped with a woman's body on the bottom?

The general consensus seems that the stress of starting diaspora* lead him to suicide; but I've never fully accepted it, even though it's reported he suffered Asperger's and that his mom thought he was depressed. I have never been able to find details on his suicide other than reports that he died of asphyxiation -- something that can be difficult to achieve without the right "tools". Almost immediately after his death, a "suicide note" was posted on the internet, then removed shortly after. From what I remember, the coroner's report was delayed for a few weeks or more, and the police-report didn't mention what item Ilya used to kill himself, yet "suicide" was prematurely announced by nearly every media outlet.

It was a project that caught a lot of attention; from the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, to Mark Zuckerberg himself.

At one point in their startup, Papal froze their donation account.

Whatever the truth of the situation be, I don't dispute any aspect of it. I do remain curious though. Here's an old interview with Ilya: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3QwvlnhpDSo

Hmm. Must have said something politically controversial recently to be picking up all these 'troll' flags. Oh wait, found it: I said something bad about Apple. That tends to get people's panties all up in a knot. Well... here's a little something then to help them burn through those extra -1, disagree points; links backing up my previous post....

The war on piracy uses pretty much the same tactics as the war on drugs.

You can't have downloaded content. Any downloaded content you do have must be in clear digital containers with the administering agency. Even if you have prescr--er, license, for the downloaded content you have in your possession, you can still be charged with a crime if it does not come in a pre-approved container. Taking other people's downloaded content, even if they have the same content as well, is also forbidden. You cannot move your downloaded content from one container to another container, this is also illegal. Admission that you have downloaded content, or a suspicion that you may be in possession of downloaded content, legally or not, is grounds to search your person for it. Possession of a sufficient quantity would normally get you intent to distribute as well, but we have declared a quantity of zero to be intent to distribute: Every downloader is also an uploader, as a matter of law.

If charged, you are guilty until proven innocent. The best lawyers in the geographical area you are being prosecuted in will be used against you, while you will be given a crappy public defender, or none at all, since we've found that we can throw you in jail for civil violations as well, and only criminal court has to provide one. Possession in and of itself, regardless of whether or not you have a valid license to possess it, is sufficient for a conviction. There is no appeals process, or any appeals process present is designed only to look at things that are a "matter of law". You'll note the law has been so narrowly written as to make everyone guilty, merely by possession.

Fines and punishments will be far worse for this than any other crime. In fact, if you murder the artist who's song you downloaded, you'll face less time in jail and less fines. Actually, you could murder the whole band, and their agent, and still get off comparatively light.

Oh, lastly, trying to hide your content trafficing using encryption, vpns, or any other obfusciation technology will result in additional punishments, as it is obstruction of justice now to do so. Thank you for you cooperation, corporate citizen.

I don't think ST:TNG prior art is nearly as compelling as this 1994 *working prototype* from Knight Ridder: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1381528/Knight-Ridder-tablet-looks-just-like-iPad-17-YEARS-OLD.html This should really make Apple STFU. I certainly hope it does. Even more, though, I hope we get over this stupid idea of software and process patents. They're a total waste - like $500 billion since 1994: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1930272

You're dead on...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/How-children-lost-right-roam-generations.html

Jesus Christ in a chicken basket, READ THE FRIKKIN VERSE!

"28 “If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and SEIZES her and lies with her, and they are found, 29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days."

What in the heck do you think SEIZES means? It means rape. This is not the description of a man who runs into a hottie at a bar and they go home for a hookup. It is specifically referring to rape of a virgin; a virgin was considered hot property because men could only marry vigins, and since her "usefulness" as property was now lessened, the only thing to do is to marry her off to her rapist. that is what that verse means.

The proof that this is what was meant is that this practice is still in place EVEN TODAY.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2114884/Moroccan-girl-16-kills-judge-forced-marry-man-RAPED-her.html#ixzz1pFe4Rdzh

I understand the context; you appear to not know how to read.

I think the question might be, will we actually be human in 4-5 billion years or evolved through several species along the way to some other solar system? But, thats an evolutionary idea.

Where might we be in 1000 years... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-489653/Human-race-split-different-species.html Stephen Hawking on where we will be in 5 million years... http://bigthink.com/dangerous-ideas/5-stephen-hawkings-warning-abandon-earth-or-face-extinction

When you are talking about what some people consider murder, there are no shades of gray. There is only one place to draw the line that has no moral question.

If the argument is that a fetus cannot care for itself as an individual and survive, then perhaps Stephen Hawking should have been euthanized a long time ago?

How should one convince people to buy any argument about the womb holder's convenience? Except in the case of rape, pregnancy is something the womb holder chooses to have happen. There is a 1:1 relationship between choosing an action (having sex) and a result (pregnancy). You don't want to get pregnant? There is a pretty easy and 100% effective way to avoid it, and if you're really that horny, go rub one out.

FWIW, it is possible to be born at 21 weeks and survive. For those keeping score, that's just under 5 months.

I'll make sure these people know that
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1016262/Grandmother-dies-NHS-cancer-treatment-withdrawn-paid-privately-life-extending-drug.html

I'm sure they will be happy to know their grandmother didn't die, was able to get the drugs kept from her by the NHS and that the NHS is continuing to treat her.

Actually, she would have died by now anyways because the drug would have kept her alive about 6 months longer on average. But it is exactly what i said, they wanted a treatment not allowed, had to pay privately for it, and the NHS refused to continue covering that illness if they got the private treatment.

>>>place their bias out there are the truth. This is why you get Kentucky trying to get rid of evolution, stupid senators making dumb comments about rape...

...people who think government stimulus does any good. (Unemployment went over 10%... the bill was supposed to keep it below 8%.) Take a look at China's ghost cities. 64 million empty apartments that were built to "stimulate" the economy. All they really accomplished was a lot of money spent. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1339536/Ghost-towns-China-Satellite-images-cities-lying-completely-deserted.html

From where I'm standing (independent) I see dummies on both sides of the political aisle. I hear falsehoods coming from people like Rush Limbaugh, but I also hear falsehoods coming from Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz.

"I'm a former Armored Cav officer."

Obviously hasn't made you very clued up about human psychology.

"f I ever threaten anyone with an axe, it's a metaphor or something"

Oh right. So we should just accept that should we? I mean no former soldier PTSS with has EVER killed anyone with anything other than a gun in recent times have they. Oh , wait...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2168828/Former-soldier-strangled-wife-dogs-lead-promising-laugh-affair.html

From what I can tell, Sweden let Egypt have some suspects

Bull-fucking-shit. In 2001, it was CIA operatives that took possession of the two Egyptian men at Bromma airport in Stockholm. What you are confused about is what happened in 2006 with one individual when Sweden was found to be complicit with the CIA in the case of extraditing I-Zari again to Egypt. I bet you would get the facts right if it was you that was bound, gagged and put on that airplane.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2163436/Seven-Britons-extradited-US-sent-lopsided-act.html

With legal recourse. What was the legal recourse of the people extradited from Sweden?

In the past Sweden has been much more cooperative in extraditing suspects to the US than the UK

Source?

From what I can tell, Sweden let Egypt have some suspects after signing that they would not be subjected to torture. Egypt lied, and let CIA agents commit torture.

The UK, on the other hand, has a clear history:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2163436/Seven-Britons-extradited-US-sent-lopsided-act.html

And accidents DO happen: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-447704/Crushed-council-30-000-classic-car-parked-legally.html

>But it is probably true that this early experience contributed Apple's modern no-tolerance approach toward companies they perceive as crossing the line that separates competition from copying.

Knight Ridder ... remember that name...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1381528/Knight-Ridder-tablet-looks-just-like-iPad-17-YEARS-OLD.html

Reminds me of a funny comment at the bottom of this page ... "Apple sue over copy right"

It's one thing to share stuff between friends, it's another to make between £12,000 and £60,000 a month from sharing other peoples content. Clearly the site was profit-oriented. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2188262/Surfthechannel-com-Internet-pirate-earned-60-000-month-download-site-jailed-4-years.html

Bouyancy sure seems to do the trick for this old dog... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2186763/He-saved-MY-life--I-just-want-help-return-Owner-sick-dog-picture-touched-nations-hearts-reveals-loyal-companion-stopped-suicide.html

If you click through to TFA's TFA, you'll see they properly used the term "raft" unlike MSN. They also mentioned that their vessel plowed right through it, even though "The rock appeared to be sitting above the surface of the waves and when lit up looked like the edge of an ice shelf."

For further terminology bending, the Daily Mail calls it a rock ice-shelf. They also have a pic of it that looks more frothy than island or ice-shelf like.

I find it interesting that you translated what I said to "compare him to old anecdotal fairy tales of mystic powers". This I would view as a symptom of the bizarre extremist rational atheism (in fact irrational religion) which seems popular in certain circles, which views any expression of amazement at unusual events or people as being a direct challenge to all of science, when in fact its only a challenge to your dogmatism. That's dogmatism mind, not realism.

And this after attempting to denigrate his achievements as just "staying warm", with a tip of the hat towards the old genetics canard. The man climbed 7/8ths of the way up Mount Everest in his shorts, sits up to his neck in ice for hours at a stretch (they had to cut him out with axes in one demonstration, the thing had frozen solid), and hey, he just ran a marathon in one of the hottest deserts on earth, 40 degrees celcius, at age 52, without water. So much for just "staying warm".

If you know about cold, as you claim, you know very well just how lethal exposure can be and how quickly it can kill - survival training basics, the rule of threes, three hours of exposure, three days without water, three weeks without food, thats how long it will take to become incapacitated. And thats in relatively livable conditions, not north of the Arctic circle, making his achievements all the more remarkable.

My advice, grow an imagination and a sense of wonder, you're as much of a threat to science as any right wing religious nutjob at the moment.

There was just one two years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Austin_plane_crash If that's not enough, here's some more TSA Fail: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/newark-airport-terminal-shut-baby-checkpoint-unscreened-article-1.1068800#ixzz1tHJ5bW5z http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/new_jfk_security_breach_PB8L58gzpwjmyqktLHRssN http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/TSA-Agent-Slips-Through-DFW-Body-Scanner-With-a-Gun-116497568.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357012/TSA-causes-outrage-confiscating-pregnant-womans-insulin-ice-packs.html http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120509/10161518848/congress-tsa-is-wasting-hundreds-millions-taxpayer-dollars.shtml http://consumerist.com/2011/12/tsa-agent-finds-pot-in-rappers-bag-leaves-note-rather-than-confiscating-it.html http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/boarding-pass-arrest-nigerian-slipped-jfk-airport-security/story?id=13963831

Found two mention of "Facebook Dark Profiles" on google

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2165543/Facebooks-Dark-Profiles-twisted-genius-Mark-Zuckerbergs-quest-total-domination.html

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-06-28/social-media/32456558_1_facebook-photos-mark-zuckerberg-personal-email-addresses

But they do get massive financial stimulus - from other countries in aid. Of course, most of that goes in someone's pocket and not to the rural poor who need it. This is the great scandal of India, corruption is so rife its untrue.

$80m is peanuts to them, when a leading industrialist is currently building a 27-story house for himself, his wife and 3 kids, so I guess 2 stories for the servants, and 5 each. How will they cope?!

It's up to their people how they spend their money but I wonder how the people in Britain feel about that nearly 1 Billion in foreign aid they've been sending to India.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2097264/Britain-WILL-giving-millions-aid-India-don-t-want-it.html

I was surprised to find that the US doesn't provide any aid to India.

Blogs like Prochronisms look at 'historical changes in language by algorithmically checking historical TV shows and movies.' They utilize tools like Google Ngram viewer to bust Mad Men, for example, for using terms or phrases in dialogue that didn't yet exist.

Really, no offense (ok, maybe a little offense), but this comes across (to me anyways) as slightly... sad. It's one thing if you are looking up a fact about the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere last year. But this is another thing completely. I think Ratatouille actually put it quite well:

In many ways, the work of a critic is easy...

You make a good point.

But I believe the Prochronisms blog was only included in Hugh Pickens list only because it makes for an interesting bit of trivia, not because it supports Pickens main thesis (about lies and half-truths) in any way.

The Prochronisms guy for instance seems to have no interest in making those anachronisms go away. He's just interested in the analysis. And from one of his quotes below, he seems to imply that only the Daily Mail and other media outlets are interested in making those types of discrepancies an issue.

Digital humanists like to talk about what insights about the past big data can bring. So in that spirit, let me talk about Downton Abbey for a minute. The show's popularity has led many nitpickers to draft up lists of mistakes. [...] the Daily Mail even managed to cast the errors as a sort of scandal.

So if anyone is sad in my opinion, I don't think it's the Prochronisms guy, it's more the news outlets like the Daily Mail and potentially other nitpickers who imply by their criticisms that they actually want something to be done about those anachronisms.

You're touching on the unspoken assumption underlying all this. They're all people. We could just set up an Olympics where all the competitors are people rather than men or women.

It's our desire for gender equality which creates this arbitrary (with respect to the capabilities of the human body) distinction between men's and women's events. From what I understand, if you took a developing genetically female fetus, and artificially injected it with appropriate amounts of male hormones through her development and lifetime, her athletic potential would be the same as if she had male chromosomes. It's just that she lost the genetic XY lottery for getting those hormones naturally. Why should we stop at male/female? Shouldn't we have a category for people genetically predisposed for obesity? Or superior musculature? (There are human examples of the latter, but the mother is trying to keep her kid out of the spotlight so I won't link to it. Google for myostatin deficiency.)

Since the distinction is arbitrary, there's no need to fret over how we categorize hermaphrodites and similar people for these events. Just set a rule and that's it. This isn't a matter of right or wrong.

When chicken embryos first start to develop they have teeth buds along their jaw lines and the beginnings of multi segmented tails. As they develop their DNA tells the developing embryo to absorb them. Much like human embryo's absorb our own embryonic gill slits. Now if you turn off the genes that control this absorption instruction you get chicken embryos that develop long multi segmented dinosaur tails and meat eating dinosaur teeth complete with the serrated inside edge.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1026340/Jurassic-Park-comes-true-How-scientists-bringing-dinosaurs-life-help-humble-chicken.html

Note:The 'Daily Mail' isn't the gold standard for scientific reporting but here it does a good job of describing the research so the public can understand it (creationists excepted). Names of people and institutions where the work was done are given allowing Internet searches to the relevant papers and science reporting.

See this link

Even black men respond less often to black women. So don't tell me this is racism. The men being black too doesn't change anything.

It's a simple fact black women are less desirable than white or asian women. They also got worse attitudes - often severe and militaristic. Like they grew up in boot camp or something. The frizzy "just stuck my finger in the light socket" nappy hair doesn't help either. The most attractive black women have their hair straightened. The big flat noses don't help for sure either. But mostly it's their attitude. It would be great for business but terrible for a love partner.

Hell even small children don't like blacks. That includes black children! Check it out for yourself. The bed-wetter liberal types who want reality to fit their ideas and not the other way around could use their normal page from their playbook and say "well that's cause of racism". So how does that explain why even black children preferred whites? THey like whites better than the black people they are raised by and spent their most formative years with. Racism? Please. You libs gotta come up with a new explanation if you are still averse to admitting inherent inferiority.

Oh then there's the crime rate. It's mostly black victims being victimized by black perpetrators. Even in the hypersensitive UK they admit this. Guess they are better at admitting painful truth than libs in the USA. Oh and speaking of USA, black men commit about 50% of all murders in that country but they are only about 6-7% of the population. Most of their victims are black too. How could racism explain that? If whites are racist against blacks a thinking man would expect it to cause "us against them" and make blacks unite together against whites. But no, blacks hate blacks more than whitey does.

So please somebody tell me this. I mean these days racism from whites is simply not tolerated. Most whites are not racist. THe few whites that are racist keep their mouth shut about it so we are talking about THOUGHTS here. How does a thought in a white person's head make innocent black children prefer whites? How does a thought in a white person's head make black men kill other black men? If you think whites have psychic mind control that can hypnotize blacks and make them do their bidding well... how's that tinfoil hat fitting you?

This is why thinking people think liberals are a bunch of bed-wetting nancyboys who cannot cope with reality. Why? Because they won't acknowledge these PROVEN FACTS (study after study) and they won't even dare try to explain them. Mostly they just insult you for asking a question that makes them uncomfortable. Reminds me of the Catholic Church in Galileo's time, the whole prospect of the "heavenly bodies" not being perfect spheres (craters etc) made them "uncomfotable" too so they tried to silence Galileo. So bedwetters, let's hear your answer. I don't think you can do it.

See this link

Even black men respond less often to black women. So don't tell me this is racism. The men being black too doesn't change anything.

It's a simple fact black women are uglier than white or asian women. They also got shittier attitudes - often severe and militaristic. Like they grew up in boot camp or something. The frizzy "just stuck my finger in the light socket" nappy hair doesn't help either. The most attractive black women have their hair straightened. The big flat noses don't help for sure either. But mostly it's their attitude. It would be great for business but terrible for a love partner.

Hell even small children don't like blacks. That includes black children! Check it out for yourself. The bed-wetter liberal types who want reality to fit their ideas and not the other way around could use their normal page from their playbook and say "well that's cause of racism". So how does that explain why even black children preferred whites? THey like whites better than the black people they are raised by and spent their most formative years with. Racism? Please. You libs gotta come up with a new explanation if you are still averse to admitting inherent inferiority.

Oh then there's the crime rate. It's mostly black victims being victimized by black perpetrators. Even in the hypersensitive UK they admit this. Guess they are better at admitting painful truth than libs in the USA. Oh and speaking of USA, black men commit about 50% of all murders in that country but they are only about 6-7% of the population. Most of their victims are black too. How could racism explain that? If whites are racist against blacks a thinking man would expect it to cause "us against them" and make blacks unite together against whites. But no, blacks hate blacks more than whitey does.

So please somebody tell me this. I mean these days racism from whites is simply not tolerated. Most whites are not racist. THe few whites that are racist keep their mouth shut about it so we are talking about THOUGHTS here. How does a thought in a white person's head make innocent black children prefer whites? How does a thought in a white person's head make black men kill other black men? If you think whites have psychic mind control that can hypnotize blacks and make them do their bidding well... how's that tinfoil hat fitting you?

This is why thinking people think liberals are a bunch of bed-wetting nancyboys who cannot cope with reality. Why? Because they won't acknowledge these PROVEN FACTS (study after study) and they won't even dare try to explain them. Mostly they just insult you for asking a question that makes them uncomfortable. Reminds me of the Catholic Church in Galileo's time, the whole prospect of the "heavenly bodies" not being perfect spheres (craters etc) made them "uncomfotable" too so they tried to silence Galileo. So bedwetters, let's hear your answer. I don't think you can do it.

Holy crap, whom did you marry?!

Couldn't give you exact figures, but I've seen values of around £45k to £50k for 18 months in prison.

That is probably the costs paid by the state to keep someone in prison. Here is a news story about someone who was forced to pay the room-and-board fee: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-505428/Victim-false-rape-claim-pay-12-500-bed-board-jail.html

He received £252,500 in compensation for three years and four months and paid £12,500 for room and board. So they charged him about £10 per day. I suppose the room and board _might_ be worth that. However, charging for it is in terrificly bad taste.

I don't know how the £252,500 in compensation was computed, but if we figure that he should be treated as a state employee working 16 hours a day (24 hours minus eight hours sleep) without weekends or holidays and we pay him twice the UK minimum wage, then we arrive at a similiar figure.

I think a newspaper or TV channel could write some interesting stories about this. They could contact the board of prisons and tell them that they want to send resturant and hotel critics to their facilities. They could then go out and try to find room and board of similiar quality in a neighbourhood with similiar levels of violence with a similiar level of friendly service and find out how much it costs. Who knows, the burocrats might decide that the ensuing mockery is not worth the tiny (from a government's perspective) amount they get out of this.

I'm pretty sure it was the reverse, neither Kirsten Dunst, nor Toby Maguire at 34 years old, wanted to go back to High School and pretend to be a 17-18yo.

See: Tobey Maguire quits Spider-Man 4... after new script sends Peter Parker back to high school

Above all: I realize we are all participating in a thought exercise in the comments today. My thoughts are with the people harmed in this incident and their families.

Now...
Can we please begin blaming the perpetrator and NOT the tool they used to commit their crimes?

Can we craft laws that give family members the ability to report troubling behavior to authorities, possibly forcing a doctors' consultation? How is it that in the U.S., you can be jailed and forced to take treatment for Tuberculosis, but persons who walk around month after month, year after year exhibiting a dozen classical red flags for behavioral illness are left to their own devices? - Maybe they'll never harm anyone. Maybe they'll shoot up a movie theater.

Please stop blaming guns. Where are all the guns in Western Europe, where Britain has a violent crime rate higher than the United States, or for that matter even South Africa?

SOURCE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196941/The-violent-country-Europe-Britain-worse-South-Africa-U-S.html
SOURCE: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/696036-britain-more-violent-than-us-and-europe

10 killed - 63 seriously injured - CLEARLY we need a background check and 30 day waiting period to buy AUTOMOBILES. What happens when a tragedy like this is intentional and not an accident? What could a sick person do with a Chevy Suburban in a crowded parking lot?

SOURCE: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,222924,00.html
SOURCE: http://articles.cnn.com/2004-01-05/justice/farmer.market.crash_1_movsha-hoffman-molok-ghoulian-brendon-esfahani?_s=PM:LAW

I'd rather gamble my life rushing a gunman to grapple their weapon away. The Tueller Drill / 21 Foot Rule says I'd probably win:
SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tueller_Drill
SOURCE: http://www.policeone.com/edged-weapons/articles/102828-Edged-Weapon-Defense-Is-or-was-the-21-foot-rule-valid-Part-1/

According to a number of sources, gunshot wounds - with access to medical treatment - are survivable nearly 95% of the time. Fate is cruel; survivability has everything to do with where you are shot and what is damaged internally.

SOURCE: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/nyregion/03shot.html?_r=1

This just in!
Another human being can pick a fight with you, or sucker punch you in the head, AND KILL YOU BARE HANDED.

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I appreciate this. Very nice.
Also, this.

You're getting +Funnies, but it's a legit part of the equation.

A thundering famous example is cargo shipping stuff from China. China, as we all know, is the poster country for Non-Expensive, and just to amuse the /. crowd, I'll use the example where a businessman lost $100,000 because his shipment of Justin Bieber dolls took too long to arrive and then they had a haircut that was no longer good.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2046881/Justin-Bieber-haircut-cost-doll-company-100-000.html

The other more harmless example is US Mail's Bulk Rate shipping.

And later refuted when the only thing found via blood tests was evidence of pot use. I'm not saying this to slam pot, mearly to continue the job ignored by the media ... hyping the truth not the kneejerk

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2170486/Miami-cannibal-attack-Rudy-Eugene-NOT-high-bath-salts-linked-cannabis.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-512815/Briton-jailed-years-Dubai-customs-cannabis-weighing-grain-sugar-shoe.html Because a police state is a safe state.

So let's see, there are a few holes in your argument. I don't think your environmentalist point of view is necessarily wrong, but some of the evidence you provide is flawed.

It's important you realize that the majority of photosynthesis doesn't include trees, see for example algaes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sink
Additionally, our cars are not even a blip on the global scale for carbon output: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1229857/How-16-ships-create-pollution-cars-world.html
Furthermore, while it isn't on a global scale, we've basically stopped having a negative impact on forest sizes here in the US for a while: http://www.wendmag.com/greenery/2011/02/the-u-s-has-more-trees-now-than-100-years-ago/
Next, many of the sources of greenhouse gases are unrelated to burning things, and just normal biological processes which are involved in food PRODUCTION: http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/zoology/mammals/methane-cow.htm

Food for thought (pun intended), but I'm not challenging your goals, just want you to be more informed in your arguments or you make yourself and any others that hold your views look bad.

Blah Blah Blah Tax Cuts. Shit, there was pork in that legislation for everybody even the bottom two brackets 10 and 15% got something. Most of us got a 2% reduction in our rates. WHooopity shit.
For those who have a lot of money and those like CEOs who take their money in terms of stock options, they're paying a much lower capital gains tax. For a lot of us, that doesn't really take a bite out of my tax bill.

I did look at the 2003 vote and it was a tight vote with Cheney breaking the tie in the Senate. That's how a democracy works. And since you bring up the ACA, and it is a piece of shit in terms of legislative triumph, it was passed and now affirmed by the Supreme Court. So, it's like the old adage: garbage in, garbage out. I don't think there was one congressman or senator that put in the work to write the legislation. It came, as usual, from lobbyists and was cobbled together by staff. The folks on the hill have a way of doing things and mostly, it's not their own work.

Oh and check your facts, the grand poobah of the democrats, nancy pelosi, proposed extending the tax cuts for people making up to $1,000,000. Strangely enough, It's about the most intelligent thing I've heard her say and it shows something that we haven't seen in a long time, compromise. Or maybe it's the fact that her personal finances would be negatively impacted or her husbands?

I hold both Republicans and Democrats with the same contempt. They're incompetent at doing what's best for the country and they put their own agendas before the public agenda. Frankly they are irresponsible when it comes to money matters and I doubt most of them could pass a simple economics 101 class. You can't keep spending more than you have. If you keep taking money in taxes, you dry up capital and that's what fuels job creation. No Money = No Jobs and the biggest employer in this country is the Federal Government. Your tax dollars going to paper pushers and bureaucrats and the pork keeps going on and on. I'm not advocating giving the rich people a break, far from it but you can't keep expecting to have a fair tax system when half of the people in this country don't pay federal income taxes. So, if you earn money and pay federal income tax, you may not be a 99% you're a 50%... Oh yeah, the 1% get most of the breaks too so as they say them that has the gold, makes the rules.

But this is Slashdot again, so I'm still amazed at why this has become a political discussion on which party will lead us of the cliff quicker. The way I see it, we're getting pushed along just fine so vote whoever you want into office, it won't make much difference. I do know however that I wouldn't trust anybody in congress to hold my wallet or my checkbook for that matter.

The UK is leading the charge once again in destroying freedom and democracy http://www.channel4.com/news/black-boxes-to-monitor-all-internet-and-phone-data , with their plan to install "black boxes" in all internet providers.. it's for your protection you see, so many nasty terrorists out there http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134333/Why-allowed-spy-Facebook-Twitter-Whitehall-intelligence-chief.html If you don't allow your internet connection to be spied up, you'll be killed....do you want that? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2159041/Snoopers-Charter-matter-life-death-says-Met-Police-chief-Home-Secretary-unveils-plans-monitor-website-use.html

The UK already said they will allow access to the information to the USA and to Brussles (EU). Think of all the other crooks, I mean corporations that could do with this information. See, now YOU have to PAY the corporations to prove you're innocent...... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18594105

The UK is leading the charge once again in destroying freedom and democracy http://www.channel4.com/news/black-boxes-to-monitor-all-internet-and-phone-data , with their plan to install "black boxes" in all internet providers.. it's for your protection you see, so many nasty terrorists out there http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134333/Why-allowed-spy-Facebook-Twitter-Whitehall-intelligence-chief.html If you don't allow your internet connection to be spied up, you'll be killed....do you want that? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2159041/Snoopers-Charter-matter-life-death-says-Met-Police-chief-Home-Secretary-unveils-plans-monitor-website-use.html

The UK already said they will allow access to the information to the USA and to Brussles (EU). Think of all the other crooks, I mean corporations that could do with this information. See, now YOU have to PAY the corporations to prove you're innocent...... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18594105

They will send him to jail. Damages are a civil matter. In Japan, they made this stuff criminal. He isn't been sued, he is being arrested.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2005891/Japan-passes-law-viruses-spam-emails-carrying-years-jail-time.html

The climates of the US and Europe are similar, but Europe is much more mild than the US. Using a pair of large inland cities on a similar latitude, Paris can expect 10-15 light snow days each winter (light enough that I couldn't find any measure of seasonal averages). Chicago averages over a meter. Europe doesn't get hurricanes and the US is basically the only place in the world that powerful tornados occur regularly. A storm like this occurs almost every year in most of the US. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095509/Snow-Rome-1st-time-26-YEARS-36c-temperatures-eastern-Europe.html

That's why there are newer design patents (and more to the point in the US) for the newer iPads. Doesn't change the fact tat the basic iPad design predates all the "prior art" given.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1381528/Knight-Ridder-tablet-looks-just-like-iPad-17-YEARS-OLD.html

That was about 20 seconds of Googling (I'm presuming that it's a fairly "well debated" topic on the internet these days).

Bearing in mind we're only talking about the physical hardware design if we're talking about your linked sketches- although seeing it in action it seems surprisingly up-to-date.

And if you had wasted 10 seconds of actually looking at the pictures, you would have seen that the surface is not flush. And that's not even going into that thing being nothing but a prop.

That's why there are newer design patents (and more to the point in the US) for the newer iPads. Doesn't change the fact tat the basic iPad design predates all the "prior art" given.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1381528/Knight-Ridder-tablet-looks-just-like-iPad-17-YEARS-OLD.html

That was about 20 seconds of Googling (I'm presuming that it's a fairly "well debated" topic on the internet these days).

Bearing in mind we're only talking about the physical hardware design if we're talking about your linked sketches- although seeing it in action it seems surprisingly up-to-date.

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So long as we're talking about old tablets, let's pull out the good-old Knight-Ridder Tablet. Were you unaware of it, or did you post about all the others and not this one?

Same form factor? Check
Black bezel? Check
Simple, uncluttered design? Check
Oh, and rounded corners-Check (what else are they supposed to be? Razor sharp?)

Pictures

The Knight-Ridder was cited in a sane ruling by Judge Koh.

By the way, can anyone what brand of phone the current ruling's judge uses? Likely Apple.