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2) This will be considered illegal soon, and the books will no longer be available. Even if the blood had been drawn legally, we're looking at a health hazard. There are VERY strict standards about what you can do with blood. Mostly because there are SO many diseases associated with blood that we know, and we don't even have a clue about what we do NOT know yet. In labs, you'll notice that blood is usually handled in ways that already assume it's somehow hazardous.

To expand on that, in the US the law is called "Assault with bodily fluid"
http://leg.mt.gov/bills/mca/45/5/45-5-214.htm

All that is required is to intentionally transfer bodily fluids to another. That's it. Plus it carries a jail sentence.

If the target is in a special class (mostly law enforcement but includes some medical care situations too) it carries an automatic sentence.
For any other target (unfortunately IMHO) the only automatic sentencing is for "Attempted assault of a bodily fluid" which is pretty minor, and then depends upon the results for more. The blood would have to be determined to actually be a biohazard before the "assault with a bodily fluid" charge can be brought.

Then there are additional laws involved if you knowingly assault someone with infected blood, and I gather that also depends on the type of infection.
For example intentionally transmitting HIV has quite a few specific laws.

It is also treated differently if you knowingly assault someone with bodily fluids and unknowingly transmit an infection.

Outside of the legal ramifications, as you said medically blood is always treated as a biohazard until proven otherwise, and in practice even then. There are too many infections carried in the blood we don't know of or can't detect easily even if we do.

There are quite a few charges related to stealing blood on top of forging medical orders alone.
But then intentionally transmitting that blood (and stamping it onto a book intended to be sold is exactly that) pretty much guarantees a jail sentence at best.
If it is shown that blood carries anything dangerous, even so much as the common cold, this guy is looking at multiple felony counts and a prison sentence.

All of that even is simply under criminal code. He would still be open to civil suits from anyone and everyone that came into contact with these comics, all the way from the people performing distribution, warehousing, and selling, down to the buyers.
I have no idea on any civil suit limitations, but as he is potentially open to thousands of such suits I'd imagine all but a "slap on the wrist" limit will still add up to some pretty hefty fines at best.

Yes, we do (PDF).

First they would need a business permit in order to be contractors. They can not be supervised by Uber in any way, And they would need a written contract

None of these are specific requirements to be an independent contractor. The IRS has a list of 20 criteria for classification as a contractor. No single criteria is either necessary or sufficient.

There are many reasons why drivers should be classified as employees rather than as contractors.

Yes. There are 20 reasons. Here is the list.

The most obvious is that drivers don't price their own services.

In some ways the drivers are treated like employees, and in other ways they are treated like contractors. Uber may be able to shift the balance enough to satisfy the courts, and the IRS.

Like employees:
- Uber sets the price
- Uber prohibits drivers from offering services outside of the Uber App
- Uber drivers are an integral part of Uber's business
- Uber drivers cannot subcontract
- Uber drivers are trained by Uber
- Uber drivers must follow specific procedures
- Uber drivers can quit or be fired at any time

Like contractors:
- Uber drivers set their own hours
- Uber drivers own their own equipment
- Uber drivers are not required to work full time, or a minimum or maximum number of hours
- Uber drivers do not work on Uber's premises
- Uber drivers are not directly supervised

You want to say different? Come up with the stats in Montana highways.

Montana Traffic Safety Problem Identification
  FFY 2011
  2009 Data
http://www.mdt.mt.gov/publicat...

P. 103 (PDF p. 113), "Collisions with Animals"
4 fatalities in 2009.

This extra energy will have 2 effects. It makes it more likely that (1) you overcome the road barriers and drive off the road and (2) you roll over, and keep rolling over. The most common dangerous accidents is a rollover. The more times you roll over, the more likely it is that the roof will collapse, and it's pretty unlikely to survive a roof collapse, even if you are wearing seat belts.

You can spend many happy hours reading

Montana Traffic Safety Problem Identification
  FFY 2011 (2009 Data)
http://www.mdt.mt.gov/publicat...

"Single vehicle, run-off-the-road crashes accounted for 28.9% of all crashes in Montana and accounted for 59.1% of all fatal crashes."

The elk issue is dealt with in

Montana Traffic Safety Problem Identification
  FFY 2011
  2009 Data
http://www.mdt.mt.gov/publicat...

P. 103 (PDF p. 113), "Collisions with Animals"
4 fatalities in 2009.

Also of interest, from the executive summary:

SINGLE VEHICLE, RUN-OFF-THE-ROAD CRASHES

Single vehicle, run-off-the-road crashes accounted for 28.9% of all crashes in Montana and accounted for 59.1% of all fatal crashes.

http://rwis.mdt.mt.gov/scanweb...

Over to the right, a bit behind the "Welcome to Idaho" sign, is a snow depth marker that is 9 feet tall.

Don't see the marker? That's cuz it's completely covered, for the first time in all the years I've been checking these highway cams (I think this one went up around 2001).

It is up to private property owners ( or supposed to be ) whether to let oil pipeline through their property, not up to govt.

Go go gadget government! http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/texas-judge-rules-in-favor-of-transcanada-in-eminent-domain-case/2012/08/23/87744776-ecda-11e1-a80b-9f898562d010_story.html http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-09-27/keystone-pipeline-eminent-domain-foes-seek-nebraska-court-order http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/26/oklahoma-keystone-pipeline-tar-sands_n_937748.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/keystone-xl-pipeline-is-issue-of-property-rights-for-some-ranchers/2012/07/27/gJQAqlQgDX_story.html http://leg.mt.gov/content/Committees/Interim/2011-2012/EQC/Meeting-Documents/January-2012/public-uses-eminent-domain.pdf

Kansas is excluded because Keystone XL uses the existing Keystone segment for that state, but I'm willing to assume that they had the government come and turn out people who didn't want their farms and ranches divided in half by a pipeline back when that was built too. God forbid they spend the extra few bucks to make the pipe go along property lines.

Relax, corporations are people in nearly every way. They just can't vote.

They were this close in Montana. Well, not that close, really. They hardly even discussed it before tabling the bill, but there's still hope next year.

OK, curiosity got the better of me. And guess what? Seawater is not suitable for F-T processes.

http://leg.mt.gov/content/committees/interim/2007_2008/energy_telecom/assigned_studies/coal2liquidpage/Coal2liquidone.pdf

You right wingers and your magic technofixes.

Well gosh, I guess I can do your research for you. I'm a bit busy, but you can start here:

http://www.privacy.ca.gov/privacy_laws.htm

http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/glbact/glbsub1.htm

http://www.law.state.ak.us/department/civil/consumer/4548.html

http://government.dc.gov/DC/Government/Data+&+Transparency/Consumer+Protection/Consumer+Information+101/Consumer+Personal+Information+Security+Breach+Notification+Act

http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/mca_toc/30_14_17.htm

http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/1349.19

http://www.cdt.org/privacy/guide/protect/laws.php

Telecommunications Act (1996) Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI)

Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003

Shall I keep going? or are you prepared to admit that in this very same universe that we share, here in America, there are in fact laws governing the use, protection, and sharing of personal information? The laws aren't what I personally want them to be, but they exist, and the whole point of what I was saying is that the current hands-off free-market approach is BAD, and would be LESS BAD if there were MORE LAWS in this area -- a point which survives your assertion that the laws don't exist. Actually I don't have time to keep looking things up for you, so if you aren't prepared to admit it, then your denial will have to be the end of the discussion.

My final point, as a question to you, would be why would Borders even have a contract, if the contract didn't expand its rights beyond the legal defaults? Why would it bother to pay a lawyer to make up such a contract? Why would it bother to present the contract to consumers? If there were no laws governing it, and they could do whatever they want, then they would, no contract required. It doesn't even make sense that they would tie their own hands with their own contract, resulting in a lesser ability for them to do what they want to do.

Montana has speed limits:

http://www.doj.mt.gov/driving/drivingsafety.asp#speedlimits

And they even expect you to operate your vehicle in "a careful and prudent manner".

Way to make an overarching statement and broad generalizations. More often than not, when I go "hunting" it typically ends up really being a hike in nature where I happen to have a firearm or bow. Hunters don't go out to shoot guns and kill things; they also experience nature, provide food for their families and fund a large portion of state lands, BLM, BMA, and other areas that non-hunters are able to enjoy free of charge. These areas would not be available to the public were it not for hunters and the private land-owners opening up their land for public use.

http://fwp.mt.gov/hunting/hunterAccess/privateLand/blockman/

http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en.html

I can own as many firearms as I want, so long as I don't assault anybody without justifiable cause.

Not in all cases. My point is just that mere possession can in fact be a crime under certain circumstances. Alcohol is a great example, it's never legal for a person under 21 to be in possession of an open container of alcohol. I believe that the laws concerning child porn are equally black and white, it's never OK to possess it. Personally, I don't find an ethical nor legal objection to that particular law.

Slashdot is notorious for spreading this incorrect information, and it needs to stop. Theft of time/labor is also a crime, at least in two state, and a Google search for "theft of labor" reveals many more citations for you to peruse.

The first example I could quickly find would be something like this. It's a state government website, and its terms of use claim copyright on what is public, state-produced work that is publicly and freely available. However, the terms also deny you the right to redistribute the work.

In this case it looks like a boilerplate template... not sure off the top of my head if a state has ever invoked copyright law to stop redistribution of public records, but it's entirely possible.

There were reports at the time, that the recent Station Fire (the one that threatened Mount Wilson Observatory) put our more CO2 every two to three days as all the cars in the US do in a year.

Lets do an estimate of how much CO2 was released and compare to the CO2 released by the transport part of the economy. For the amount of biomass in a forest I get from 44 metric tons per acre for dry biomass in Montana up to 200 tons for all biomass including roots in tropical rainforest. If we take the mean and assume 122 tons per acre and 50% of dry wood is made of carbon. 336,000 acres was destroyed in the 2009 California wildfires. From this I get 20.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide released, which I believe is an over-estimate. In comparison the USA released 1887 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2007. Cars and light duty trucks account for two-thirds of the total or 1258. That's at least 60 times more than the fire released over 3+ months.

Of course, the AGW people either ignore or deny this because it doesn't fit their dogma.

Practise what you preach my friend.

Thanks for the maps, it looks like coverage is similar or better in Finland. As far as prices though, I'm not sure the headline is telling the right story. I checked AT&T's and TeleSonera's reports, and Verizon's monthy revenue per user were $51 while TeleSonera's were $30. But the surprising thing was the minutes of use for TS were only 196 while US minutes of use were more than 700 in 2007.

http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/732717/000073271709000050/att2q0910q.htm>AT&T's 2Q report (ARPU page 20)

TeleSonera's annual report ARPU [PDF]and MoU on pg 8

US vs European MoU are on page 2 with a nice chart of US usage on page 6
Yeah I know it's a lobbing chart, but we get a huge amount more usage than most Europeans do, so we pay for it.

Don't forget the excellent pro-gun, pro-self-defense, and pro-states-rights laws recently passed by the Montana legislature.

http://thehighroad.us/showthread.php?t=409178
scroll down to letter from Gary Marbut

text of bill
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2009/billhtml/HB0228.htm

This bill goes a long ways toward restoring and protecting our rights across the board. It is based on normal people, not corner cases. Very good law.

From the Secretary of State's website, http://sos.mt.gov/ELB/Voting_Tech.asp

"Depending on where they live, Montana's paper ballots may be counted in two ways: hand count or with paper ballot optical scan tabulators. Either way ALL Montanans vote on a paper ballot."

...and to play devil's advocate: the deaf guy!

I have to use headphones *because* of my hearing loss. Looking at page two here should give you a good idea of how long those earcans should sit on your noggin....

If you want to drown out outside noise, use a good set of noise-cancelling headphones. You keep your hearing, AND drown out the noise around you...

This is no longer true, and hasn't been since 1999. Interstate highway speed limits in a state where 150+ mph would be safe and prudent is now no higher than 75.

Thanks, Nazis.

http://www.mdt.mt.gov/travinfo/speed_limit.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer-Tropsch

I bring this up every time hydrogen as a fuel source is discussed, but for some reason it never gets any love.

The short of it is, this process produces synthetic fuels (that we can use in our cars now) and hydrogen (that we can use in cars in the near future) and allows for a bridge between the two fuel sources.

It also has the potential to be carbon neutral, although currently the main source of material for the process is coal.

From wiki "biomass gasification technology offers a carbon-neutral alternative. Biomass-powered synthetic fuel plants are one of the most technologically and economically convincing energy possibilities for a carbon-neutral economy, according to the paper Carbon cycle management with increased photo-synthesis and long-term sinks, from a recent climate change conference sponsored by the Royal Society Of New Zealand."

The Governor of Montana proposed building a refinery a couple years ago as well, but I don't think it wen anywhere.

http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2006/10/ 05/news/wyoming/a1e43e1a89d9fab0872571fc00012378.t xt
http://governor.mt.gov/hottopics/faqsynthetic.asp

Did you guys read that? You should:

http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/mca/45/7/45-7-302.htm

"It is no defense to a prosecution under this section that the peace officer was acting in an illegal manner, provided that the peace officer was acting under the peace officer's official authority."

What???

So, if the police are acting illegally by not having a warrant to search my house and asking to search it anyway, I'm obstructing and this law makes it legal?

Ohhh - but they were acting under official authority. That's so comforting.

What is the "new law" in Pennsylvania that criminalizes photographing police? Please cite it. This seems to be part of a national push. In Montana it extends beynd photography. I have recently been threatened with being charged with "Obstructing" for not yielding to a warrantless search of my property, so I looked it up. See http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/mca/45/7/45-7-302.htm especially paragraph (2). !! Our general defense in Montana is insisting on trial by jury--provided one represents himself; otherwise it invites rapid bankruptcy--but trial by jury is not guaranteed by all states' consitutions for all crimes.

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