All this may be completely unnecessary, after all the US and perhaps other countries have jury trials without worrying that press coverage might influence the jury.
And that's been working so well. =) I've had the chance to compare the Canadian and U.S. systems now. The trials in Canada really do seem to be more fair, overall, than those in the U.S. I think the publication bans help with that, to a large extent. That said, publication bans make me extremely nervous - but I recognize their usefulness. In some cases they've been over-used, but I think most judges use them, well, judiciously.
I think that the lack of presumption of innocence in the U.S. is really having a deleterious effect on potential jury members, and perhaps the over-publicising of the events and the trial are responsible for that to some extent. I'm sure it's not the only factor, but I think it's a significant one.
However, selective framing is a practice that has been acceptable in photojournalism for a long time. (As a side note, all news is "selectively framed". When they present a story, it's not the whole story - it's a subset of it that they think will be interesting.) Digital manipulation of news photos seems to be limited to what could have been done in processing of film photos. Color manipulation, saturation control, contrast adjustments, that sort of thing. In news photography, the pictures have to be limited to that sort of manipulation. Adding, taking away, editing the image all are verboten and should be so, in my opinion.
On a different level, I've been working on some pictures that I've taken digitally - removing telephone poles from scenic shots, blotting out the distracting speedboat down on the lake, that kind of thing. Because these aren't news photos, it doesn't matter. I'm manipulating the image as I see fit, to make it the way I want it to look. It is "in essence" a representation of what I saw. When I look at a scene, I don't say "Oh, a boat, I should wait for it to go by, it might be a distracting dot in the picture." I'm looking at the mountains and the lake. Some people have a problem with this as well, it's all a matter of perspective.
This seems to be put into a subsection of YRO called "The Courts", but it also comes up in the main YRO section. Maybe just stricter partitioning between the two would work.
Call me crazy, but I'm reasonably certain that many governments already have their citizens' name and address. In order for them not to have this, you would have to not pay taxes, not have a bank account, a job, a residence, any loans, any debt, a library card... it could be done, but you'd really have to be trying.
If they want to come arrest someone in the middle of the night, odds are that they would know who the person was already and where they were at. Being able to ID them by fingerprint after nabbing them is really just a formality.
No, it's not funny. I guess I'm not seeing how she managed to do all of this without your input and collusion. Did she arrange everything herself after drugging you and forging your name to the documents?
The standard "let them eat cake" quote is a good anecdote, but it's a fictional one. From the Wikipedia article:
Louis XVI's coronation took place at Rheims during the height of a bread shortage in Paris. This is the context in which she is incorrectly quoted as joking, "If they have no bread, then let them eat cake!" ("Qu'ils mangent de la brioche.") Cake at this time was a euphemism for a type of French bread, using less flour; however, there is no evidence that this phrase was ever uttered by Marie Antoinette. When Marie Antoinette actually heard about the bread shortage she wrote, "It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness. The king seems to understand this truth; as for myself, I know that in my whole life (even if I live for a hundred years) I shall never forget the day of the coronation."
It's been going on the whole time - those links are all recent because I wanted to show that it was going on right now. The capital is mostly under control, the rest of the country's far from it - and it's been that way. It was that way before the US handed the reigns over to NATO.
The idea that it's primarily a women's rights issue is somewhat simplistic, but the rest of it is spot on. Pregnancy is an excellent example of something that could be tested for that would be of quite a lot of interest to an employer. Knowing what medications a potential employee is taking would be of a lot of interest both to them and to their insurance provider.
This leaves out all of the issues of companies needing to have someone qualified to draw blood, or alternatively to pay hopefully honest labs to draw it for them. This system is open to corruption and error like any other.
The Taliban is still a strong presence in Afghanistan, they're far from being defeated. They're not running the _entire_ country anymore, but they're certainly not gone. The troops still there are trying to build up an infrastructure while defeating the Taliban, and it's not going all that hot. It's NATO troops there now, by the way. This really should be common knowledge - I know Iraq is the "in" country right now, but that certainly doesn't mean Afghanistan's done with.
I used to work in a build-to-order computer store, and we always had some old monitors on the shop machines. When one of them would start to go bad, I'd be tearing around the store trying to track it down and turn it off... none of the older guys could hear a thing.
There are a lot of pitches that aren't heard well by older people. The flash on my folks' old camera would make a high-pitched noise when you turned it on. When you didn't hear that, it meant the batteries were dead. One Christmas, they were trying to get it to come on, and I asked if it had made the little noise it always makes. "What noise? It doesn't make a noise." I had to go get my brother and sister to back me up - my parents just couldn't hear it.
Kind of freaky, when you think about it. I kind of hope technology will come up with some way to allow older people to hear those frequencies, but admittedly I don't know a lot about how high frequency hearing loss works physiologically.
Ah, I finally figured it out. It's just a really poorly-written sentence. He's trying to say that attacks are coming from sites you wouldn't expect, unlike the usual ones, ie porn/pirate sites.
I've always found that head to head games are more fun, with a partner. I suppose it depends on your personalities, though. I think I enjoy the ability to sit down and play a few rounds here and there without the levels to work through or the extended involvement you get with co-op games.
This works great in Soulcalibur 3, especially if you're playing with someone who doesn't find it ego-crushing to have the difficulty imbalanced. My guy and I switch the handicap around depending on who has played the most lately, and readjust when someone starts winning all the time. I think it works great, and it allows you to continue doing complex moves while still giving the other person a fair chance.
The difficulty for my family overall is that no one wants to admit needing the occasional handicap. =) Personally, I find it makes the game loads more fun because everyone's on par with everyone else. Beating the heck out of someone over and over is just as boring as being beaten over and over. It means that play time can go from a few rounds to tons of rounds because we don't get tired of it as fast.
That team is among a number of groups around the world that have gained ethical approval to develop implants that can monitor and influence the behaviour of animals, from sharks and tuna to rats and monkeys.
Um... from whom, exactly? I'm pretty hesitant about it, and I can't imagine most ethics committees green-lighting anything of the sort.
2) If I have bought the right to listen to the music, then I should be allowed to replace it if lost, stolen, destroyed or otherwise unusable to me for a nominal replacement fee. I should not be forced to buy a new CD at full retail simply because my daughter broke the old one.
Why? This has never been the case with cassettes that the tape broke in or with LPs that got scratched. To some extent, the purchase of music has always been limited to the viable life of the media it is sold on. I don't think that's entirely unreasonable, either - it's the way consumer goods work. If you break something, you replace it... it's not the company's responsibility. (Barring, of course, warranty situations - which frequently don't cover damage you do to an item.) I'd say in this case, there's no difference between scratching a CD and trashing your hard drive. If the company wants to be nice and replace it for free, good for them. It shouldn't be expected, though.
Botany, ornithology and mycology are some other fields that amateurs do a lot of good work in. From what I understand the amateur scientist idea is much more common in Europe than in the U.S. I think the common thing among all of these fields is their observability - in most of these fields, the things you're observing stay put. Because of this, most of them don't require specialized equipment to explore, simply time and focus.
More scientific organizations are making use of these amateurs through things like eBird, which works with Audubon and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. People input data about their observations and this info can be used to track all sorts of things.
*grins* My Dad and I would play Quake with everyone after work at the computer place. Awesome times. We're still hunting for a good game to play long-distance, but his connection's not so hot. Well, that and my brother always skins him alive when we play Warcraft, so that's out. =)
When we're all at home, we play Soulcalibur. The version depends on whose house we're at, but it's something almost all of us can get into. I play, my guy plays, my brother plays, my sister and her guy play, and Dad plays. Mom... plays solitaire on her laptop, but she does it in the room while we're playing, so she's still pretty sociable.
Fido's cell phone customer service in Canada is a great example of this. It's not outsourced, either... all Canadian CS. The vast majority of their CS reps seem to be poorly trained and they don't really care whether they give a correct answer or solve your problem. Oh, and they won't transfer you to a supervisor. If you have an issue they can't solve immediately, they'll just repeat what they've said before over and over ad infinitum. It's actually well-known among many customers that the only way to get good CS at Fido is to assess the skills of the person you're speaking to and if they're not helpful fast, hang up. Call back, try the next rep. Oh, and always get the ID of the person you're speaking to, even if they seem to be helpful. You'll need it later, when you find out that they a) lied, and b) didn't do what they said they would.
Outsourced service does not have the corner on the complete incompetence market. =)
(Fido does have some good reps. In fact, I've gotten excellent reps twice... out of literally months-long issues.)
It's hardly all one way. The US heavily subsidizes almost all agriculture and is rapidly taking over the Canadian legume market because of these subsidies. Then of course there's the softwood tariffs... and that's only two examples. The US has massive barriers up to free trade, and has a record of ignoring both WTO and NAFTA rulings against it. So Canada has a wheat board.
If you're okay with children starving in China, then it's fine to oppose this leveling. But if you actually want the world to be a better place, outsourcing is a good thing. Leveling the labor playing field is a good thing. Why is it that it's better for someone in the U.S. to prosper than someone in India? Think about it.
Well, the thing for me is that we are not responsible for making sure the people in China and India are prospering. I'm not fond of protectionism, but realistically we do need to look after our own people. It's not like people in India are saying "Well, sure, this job is good... but what about the kids in the US?" There has to be some effort to make sure that while we are improving things in the rest of the world, that we're not burning ourselves too badly in the process.
General word was that the production schedule was really demanding. I don't think Eccleston planned on staying for a long time when he signed on, and the filming issues just clinched it.
It's always so hard to lose a good Doctor. Watching the transformation is just painful... "Aigh! He's going to be terrible!" But, on the other hand, the new Doctor seems to be a decent actor and given how well Eccleston did, I should probably just relax. He'll be a very tough act to follow, but I think the strong supporting cast will help there.
I think there's a definite advantage to casting the role of the Doctor now in that people are vying for the role. Overall, the actors mentioned in connection with trying for the role are all ones that I think would have a great deal to bring to it. Personally, I think Tom Baker's suggestion of Eddie Izzard would be a really interesting choice, but I'm happy with what we've got so far. I'm only sorry I missed the Christmas episode due to being down in the States over the holidays.
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And that's been working so well. =) I've had the chance to compare the Canadian and U.S. systems now. The trials in Canada really do seem to be more fair, overall, than those in the U.S. I think the publication bans help with that, to a large extent. That said, publication bans make me extremely nervous - but I recognize their usefulness. In some cases they've been over-used, but I think most judges use them, well, judiciously.
I think that the lack of presumption of innocence in the U.S. is really having a deleterious effect on potential jury members, and perhaps the over-publicising of the events and the trial are responsible for that to some extent. I'm sure it's not the only factor, but I think it's a significant one.
However, selective framing is a practice that has been acceptable in photojournalism for a long time. (As a side note, all news is "selectively framed". When they present a story, it's not the whole story - it's a subset of it that they think will be interesting.) Digital manipulation of news photos seems to be limited to what could have been done in processing of film photos. Color manipulation, saturation control, contrast adjustments, that sort of thing. In news photography, the pictures have to be limited to that sort of manipulation. Adding, taking away, editing the image all are verboten and should be so, in my opinion.
On a different level, I've been working on some pictures that I've taken digitally - removing telephone poles from scenic shots, blotting out the distracting speedboat down on the lake, that kind of thing. Because these aren't news photos, it doesn't matter. I'm manipulating the image as I see fit, to make it the way I want it to look. It is "in essence" a representation of what I saw. When I look at a scene, I don't say "Oh, a boat, I should wait for it to go by, it might be a distracting dot in the picture." I'm looking at the mountains and the lake. Some people have a problem with this as well, it's all a matter of perspective.
This seems to be put into a subsection of YRO called "The Courts", but it also comes up in the main YRO section. Maybe just stricter partitioning between the two would work.
Call me crazy, but I'm reasonably certain that many governments already have their citizens' name and address. In order for them not to have this, you would have to not pay taxes, not have a bank account, a job, a residence, any loans, any debt, a library card... it could be done, but you'd really have to be trying.
If they want to come arrest someone in the middle of the night, odds are that they would know who the person was already and where they were at. Being able to ID them by fingerprint after nabbing them is really just a formality.
No, it's not funny. I guess I'm not seeing how she managed to do all of this without your input and collusion. Did she arrange everything herself after drugging you and forging your name to the documents?
It's been going on the whole time - those links are all recent because I wanted to show that it was going on right now. The capital is mostly under control, the rest of the country's far from it - and it's been that way. It was that way before the US handed the reigns over to NATO.
Ah, I was unaware that "laying dormant" was a synonym for "engaging in battles". My mistake.
The idea that it's primarily a women's rights issue is somewhat simplistic, but the rest of it is spot on. Pregnancy is an excellent example of something that could be tested for that would be of quite a lot of interest to an employer. Knowing what medications a potential employee is taking would be of a lot of interest both to them and to their insurance provider.
This leaves out all of the issues of companies needing to have someone qualified to draw blood, or alternatively to pay hopefully honest labs to draw it for them. This system is open to corruption and error like any other.
What do you mean, "what remained of them"?
The Taliban is still a strong presence in Afghanistan, they're far from being defeated. They're not running the _entire_ country anymore, but they're certainly not gone. The troops still there are trying to build up an infrastructure while defeating the Taliban, and it's not going all that hot. It's NATO troops there now, by the way. This really should be common knowledge - I know Iraq is the "in" country right now, but that certainly doesn't mean Afghanistan's done with.
Excellent idea, I think it's the best one I've seen! Sadly, my internet service is through Telus, so the odds are against me but I'll give it a shot.
I used to work in a build-to-order computer store, and we always had some old monitors on the shop machines. When one of them would start to go bad, I'd be tearing around the store trying to track it down and turn it off... none of the older guys could hear a thing.
There are a lot of pitches that aren't heard well by older people. The flash on my folks' old camera would make a high-pitched noise when you turned it on. When you didn't hear that, it meant the batteries were dead. One Christmas, they were trying to get it to come on, and I asked if it had made the little noise it always makes. "What noise? It doesn't make a noise." I had to go get my brother and sister to back me up - my parents just couldn't hear it.
Kind of freaky, when you think about it. I kind of hope technology will come up with some way to allow older people to hear those frequencies, but admittedly I don't know a lot about how high frequency hearing loss works physiologically.
Ah, I finally figured it out. It's just a really poorly-written sentence. He's trying to say that attacks are coming from sites you wouldn't expect, unlike the usual ones, ie porn/pirate sites.
I've always found that head to head games are more fun, with a partner. I suppose it depends on your personalities, though. I think I enjoy the ability to sit down and play a few rounds here and there without the levels to work through or the extended involvement you get with co-op games.
This works great in Soulcalibur 3, especially if you're playing with someone who doesn't find it ego-crushing to have the difficulty imbalanced. My guy and I switch the handicap around depending on who has played the most lately, and readjust when someone starts winning all the time. I think it works great, and it allows you to continue doing complex moves while still giving the other person a fair chance.
The difficulty for my family overall is that no one wants to admit needing the occasional handicap. =) Personally, I find it makes the game loads more fun because everyone's on par with everyone else. Beating the heck out of someone over and over is just as boring as being beaten over and over. It means that play time can go from a few rounds to tons of rounds because we don't get tired of it as fast.
Um... from whom, exactly? I'm pretty hesitant about it, and I can't imagine most ethics committees green-lighting anything of the sort.
Why? This has never been the case with cassettes that the tape broke in or with LPs that got scratched. To some extent, the purchase of music has always been limited to the viable life of the media it is sold on. I don't think that's entirely unreasonable, either - it's the way consumer goods work. If you break something, you replace it... it's not the company's responsibility. (Barring, of course, warranty situations - which frequently don't cover damage you do to an item.) I'd say in this case, there's no difference between scratching a CD and trashing your hard drive. If the company wants to be nice and replace it for free, good for them. It shouldn't be expected, though.
Botany, ornithology and mycology are some other fields that amateurs do a lot of good work in. From what I understand the amateur scientist idea is much more common in Europe than in the U.S. I think the common thing among all of these fields is their observability - in most of these fields, the things you're observing stay put. Because of this, most of them don't require specialized equipment to explore, simply time and focus.
More scientific organizations are making use of these amateurs through things like eBird, which works with Audubon and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. People input data about their observations and this info can be used to track all sorts of things.
*grins* My Dad and I would play Quake with everyone after work at the computer place. Awesome times. We're still hunting for a good game to play long-distance, but his connection's not so hot. Well, that and my brother always skins him alive when we play Warcraft, so that's out. =)
When we're all at home, we play Soulcalibur. The version depends on whose house we're at, but it's something almost all of us can get into. I play, my guy plays, my brother plays, my sister and her guy play, and Dad plays. Mom... plays solitaire on her laptop, but she does it in the room while we're playing, so she's still pretty sociable.
My mistake, I meant offshored.
Fido's cell phone customer service in Canada is a great example of this. It's not outsourced, either... all Canadian CS. The vast majority of their CS reps seem to be poorly trained and they don't really care whether they give a correct answer or solve your problem. Oh, and they won't transfer you to a supervisor. If you have an issue they can't solve immediately, they'll just repeat what they've said before over and over ad infinitum. It's actually well-known among many customers that the only way to get good CS at Fido is to assess the skills of the person you're speaking to and if they're not helpful fast, hang up. Call back, try the next rep. Oh, and always get the ID of the person you're speaking to, even if they seem to be helpful. You'll need it later, when you find out that they a) lied, and b) didn't do what they said they would.
Outsourced service does not have the corner on the complete incompetence market. =)
(Fido does have some good reps. In fact, I've gotten excellent reps twice... out of literally months-long issues.)
It's hardly all one way. The US heavily subsidizes almost all agriculture and is rapidly taking over the Canadian legume market because of these subsidies. Then of course there's the softwood tariffs... and that's only two examples. The US has massive barriers up to free trade, and has a record of ignoring both WTO and NAFTA rulings against it. So Canada has a wheat board.
Well, the thing for me is that we are not responsible for making sure the people in China and India are prospering. I'm not fond of protectionism, but realistically we do need to look after our own people. It's not like people in India are saying "Well, sure, this job is good... but what about the kids in the US?" There has to be some effort to make sure that while we are improving things in the rest of the world, that we're not burning ourselves too badly in the process.
General word was that the production schedule was really demanding. I don't think Eccleston planned on staying for a long time when he signed on, and the filming issues just clinched it.
It's always so hard to lose a good Doctor. Watching the transformation is just painful... "Aigh! He's going to be terrible!" But, on the other hand, the new Doctor seems to be a decent actor and given how well Eccleston did, I should probably just relax. He'll be a very tough act to follow, but I think the strong supporting cast will help there.
I think there's a definite advantage to casting the role of the Doctor now in that people are vying for the role. Overall, the actors mentioned in connection with trying for the role are all ones that I think would have a great deal to bring to it. Personally, I think Tom Baker's suggestion of Eddie Izzard would be a really interesting choice, but I'm happy with what we've got so far. I'm only sorry I missed the Christmas episode due to being down in the States over the holidays.