but what if the courts as a whole have a liberal/conservative/plaintiff/defendant bias?
Then there is no advantage to having information on the differences in bias because there are none. On the other hand, if one judge consistently rules one way, and another the opposite way, then having that information is useful.
I agree we the earlier poster who said that the problem, at least in this example, is the lack of dissemination of this information, not that the information is available. If the information is available to both sides in the case, then both sides can try to use it to their advantage.
I've often wondered why they don't have something similar to this mounted on the bottom of attack helicopters. Perhaps it could be programmed to shoot two shots at every target below that looks like a human. Wouldn't that be an efficient way of taking out enemies who have hand-held rockets and similar weapons?
If you know where there are a group of hostiles, you just turn the mechanism on and fly over.
Not according to the W3C (world wide web consortium) validity checker http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer! It finds a number of errors on all the Slashdot pages I've checked. The CSS passes as valid though.
Since HTML 4.01 strict and XHTML 1.0 Transitional are so close, only minor differences really, you could easily make Slashdot XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
The hurricane's strength and general area of landfall were known days in advance. As with any chaotic high energy system you can't do absolute predictions, but you know what, the meteorologists did an incredible job, stated that it was going to nail New Orleans and surrounding areas of the Gulf Coast. It's the politicians who screwed up.
So with this accurate information, we told the people of New Orleans that there was a mandatory evacuation. The people of New Orleans didn't leave, and they shot at the people that we're trying to help them, and they looted businesses stealing things like DVD players and X-boxes. How is that the politicians' fault?
And now we're going to rebuild this wonderful city that is below sea level... Sounds like a good idea to me! That will be the politician's fault.
outch I instantly imagined a handfull of painful (or realy painful) way of misusing this gadget..:P
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That's why the Pepsi taste test ads for example refer to 'another well known brand of cola' rather than coke (OTOH I think in their case that do that because the 'other' cola is just a cheap supermarket brand).
The Pepsi side-by-side taste test ads that I've seen (in the US) refer to Coke.
There are also other Pepsi ads that refer to Coke, like the one where they keep changing the Coke vending machine sitting beside the Pepsi machine, and everyone keeps buying from the Pepsi machine.
(Off Topic bit) The power of advertising: In blind side-by-side taste tests, Pepsi always overwhelmingly beats Coke -- but everyone keeps buying Coke anyway.
These "autocorrections" will be the death of diversity as anyone who uses UK or Australian english will know full-well the annoyance of spell checkers telling them their spelling is "wrong" and telling them to use the american ones.
Hmmmm... Microsoft Windows XP lets you set your language preference, and has thirteen different flavors of English, including "English (Austrailia)", and "English (United Kingdom)". No need to use the "English (United States)" preference.
And you don't see inequity in a social system in which it is overwhelmingly the woman of a couple who is expected to sacrifice her career to be the primary caregiver?
I tried to breast feed my son, but he lost weight.
I don't think it is a social system, that forces women to be child bearers. I notice that those in day-care, teaching, and pediatrics, are overwhelmingly women. I'm sure this is just because our social system forces them into those areas, not because women are more nurturing than men.
Women often choose to stay home and take care of their children, because they are more suited to it, physically and mentally.
It's a well known FACT that women and minorities tend to be paid less than a white male doing the same job.
It is certainly a well known misinterpretation of the statistics. The government statistics sited tell us that, in the U.S., when it comes to income, women earn about 75% of what men earn. Does it suprise you that a manager earns more than a secretary? That a construction worker earns more than a hair stylist? That Bill Gates earns more than his wife? Generally, men don't take jobs as secretaries or hair stylists, because those jobs pay less.
In the U.S., gender discrimination is illegal. If you know of a woman that is being paid less than a man for doing the same job, you should advise her to sue. She'll soon have a very nice nest-egg without having to do any work.
A woman doing the same job as a man will be paid the same. And if not, lawsuits quickly pay her much more for not doing any job. Gender discrimination in the workplace is illegal.
The differences in pay for men and women are that men and women tend to work in different types of jobs. Not many men would take a job as a secretary or hair stylist, not because those jobs are "typical women's jobs", but because they don't pay enough. Until fairly recently, this was true of school teaching positions too, but now that teachers are getting paid much better, more and more men are taking school teaching positions.
As soon as they start paying secretaries the same thing as an engineer, I'll be a wonderful secretary.
Seriously, with quality services such as iTunes out there, what legitimate reasons do people have to download mass quantities of music they haven't paid for?
Perhaps because it is less expensive than paying for it.
Personally, I'm not going to buy music, whether I can download it for free or not. I don't download from p-to-p networks because I don't wish to break the law. I already have a good sized collection of CDs that please my diverse musical tastes. Why should I pay for music? If it is legally available for free, yes, I'll download and listen to things in which I'm interested. But if it isn't free, then I'm not buying it. Nobody would lose any money from me if I could freely download music from p-to-p networks, nor do they gain any money from me by making it illegal to download free music from p-to-p networks.
Uhhh.. doesn't anyone remember the draft? I don't think it's bad that military recruiters call those that are of age. Would you prefer that they reinstate the draft? You can tell a recruiter "no". But dodge the draft, and they might make you president.
My cell phone $14.95 a month. I only get 50 minutes, but I don't talk all the time. I've only gone over my minutes once.
My wife actually got the rate, the phone was costing us around $40 a month a couple of years ago. She called Sprint and said she wanted to cancel the service. They kept offering her different plans until they said they didn't have any more plans. So she said, "Okay, guess I'll have to cancel". Then the Sprint lady says "Well, we do have this one other plan...". And we ended up with the $14.95 a month deal. And I never transferred the phone from my wife's name to mine, because I'm afraid I'll lose the plan and not be able to get it back.
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Everyone knows that Batman doesn't fly -- this warning would be much more appropriate on a Superman cape...
Then there is no advantage to having information on the differences in bias because there are none. On the other hand, if one judge consistently rules one way, and another the opposite way, then having that information is useful.
I agree we the earlier poster who said that the problem, at least in this example, is the lack of dissemination of this information, not that the information is available. If the information is available to both sides in the case, then both sides can try to use it to their advantage.
If you know where there are a group of hostiles, you just turn the mechanism on and fly over.
Since HTML 4.01 strict and XHTML 1.0 Transitional are so close, only minor differences really, you could easily make Slashdot XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
So with this accurate information, we told the people of New Orleans that there was a mandatory evacuation. The people of New Orleans didn't leave, and they shot at the people that we're trying to help them, and they looted businesses stealing things like DVD players and X-boxes. How is that the politicians' fault?
And now we're going to rebuild this wonderful city that is below sea level... Sounds like a good idea to me! That will be the politician's fault.
Yeah, that's an idea, lets make hurricanes radio-active, maybe then people will believe it when we tell them that this is a "mandatory evacuation" !!
Hey!!! I'm 47...
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You can download Internet Explorer for free any time!!
Interesting, I read it and thought "James Carville".
The Pepsi side-by-side taste test ads that I've seen (in the US) refer to Coke.
There are also other Pepsi ads that refer to Coke, like the one where they keep changing the Coke vending machine sitting beside the Pepsi machine, and everyone keeps buying from the Pepsi machine.
(Off Topic bit) The power of advertising: In blind side-by-side taste tests, Pepsi always overwhelmingly beats Coke -- but everyone keeps buying Coke anyway.
What's morally wrong is anyone arbitrarily dictating what you can and cannot do with your personal property.
Lets see, I bought this nice music CD, I paid for it, so I own it, or do I? Can I share it with a few friends?
Actually, "distrust".
Hmmmm... Microsoft Windows XP lets you set your language preference, and has thirteen different flavors of English, including "English (Austrailia)", and "English (United Kingdom)". No need to use the "English (United States)" preference.
I tried to breast feed my son, but he lost weight.
I don't think it is a social system, that forces women to be child bearers. I notice that those in day-care, teaching, and pediatrics, are overwhelmingly women. I'm sure this is just because our social system forces them into those areas, not because women are more nurturing than men.
Women often choose to stay home and take care of their children, because they are more suited to it, physically and mentally.
It is certainly a well known misinterpretation of the statistics. The government statistics sited tell us that, in the U.S., when it comes to income, women earn about 75% of what men earn. Does it suprise you that a manager earns more than a secretary? That a construction worker earns more than a hair stylist? That Bill Gates earns more than his wife? Generally, men don't take jobs as secretaries or hair stylists, because those jobs pay less.
In the U.S., gender discrimination is illegal. If you know of a woman that is being paid less than a man for doing the same job, you should advise her to sue. She'll soon have a very nice nest-egg without having to do any work.
The differences in pay for men and women are that men and women tend to work in different types of jobs. Not many men would take a job as a secretary or hair stylist, not because those jobs are "typical women's jobs", but because they don't pay enough. Until fairly recently, this was true of school teaching positions too, but now that teachers are getting paid much better, more and more men are taking school teaching positions.
As soon as they start paying secretaries the same thing as an engineer, I'll be a wonderful secretary.
I went blind playing that game!
Perhaps because it is less expensive than paying for it.
Personally, I'm not going to buy music, whether I can download it for free or not. I don't download from p-to-p networks because I don't wish to break the law. I already have a good sized collection of CDs that please my diverse musical tastes. Why should I pay for music? If it is legally available for free, yes, I'll download and listen to things in which I'm interested. But if it isn't free, then I'm not buying it. Nobody would lose any money from me if I could freely download music from p-to-p networks, nor do they gain any money from me by making it illegal to download free music from p-to-p networks.
I'm an American, and, strangely enough, I don't pay to receive calls on my cell phone.
It depends on what company and plan you use.
I don't know why anyone anywhere would put up with it.
Uhhh.. doesn't anyone remember the draft? I don't think it's bad that military recruiters call those that are of age. Would you prefer that they reinstate the draft? You can tell a recruiter "no". But dodge the draft, and they might make you president.
My wife actually got the rate, the phone was costing us around $40 a month a couple of years ago. She called Sprint and said she wanted to cancel the service. They kept offering her different plans until they said they didn't have any more plans. So she said, "Okay, guess I'll have to cancel". Then the Sprint lady says "Well, we do have this one other plan...". And we ended up with the $14.95 a month deal. And I never transferred the phone from my wife's name to mine, because I'm afraid I'll lose the plan and not be able to get it back.
Actually, I occasionally like to play a little game. I see how long I can keep them on the phone without ever buying anything from them.
And I have caller ID and screen my calls. I don't generally answer numbers that I don't recognize, I let them go to the answering machine.
Smells Forskin?
It's only 4 meters away from the telescope, and we still can't resolve it?!