We must begin deploying DWARF (Designated Warfare Advance Recon Forces) to defend against the hobgoblin menace. The best part is that all we need to send seven of them out with just a pickaxe and an axe and they are quite adept at constructing fortresses to defend against the hobgoblin menace. With a little bit of oversight we can make sure to avoid the lava cataclysm events that DWARF is prone to causing.
No no no. That's too much effort. The normal procedure is to now change your relationship status on face book from "In a relationship with " to "Single".
At 800 liters a day I'm wondering how many of these can operate without severely upsetting the desert ecosystem. If they're sucking out moister in the day, how much moisture will remain in the air to condense during the night for wildlife?
If they can carve out huge underground chambers to descend entire cities into during attacks by foreign entities, I'm pretty sure they can build underground reactors.
I apologize, but I must simply parse this most excellent post.
They should be working on fucking planes that go into fucking space!
Thanks to the wonderful diversity of the word fuck, I believe there are at least three acceptable interpretations of this sentence.
1. The engineers should be fucking planes that go into space. 2. The engineers should be creating planes that are capable of going into space and are capable of fucking people or things. 3. The engineers should be creating planes that go into space.
I think the jury will have the option to convict on a lesser crime, at least that's how it worked when my friend was shot. This is like asking for $60K/yr because you want to make $50K/yr.
Make no doubt. A Manslaughter conviction is what the prosecution is seeking. Bringing the higher charge of 2nd degree, which they probably don't have the evidence to secure a conviction, if for two purposes.
1. Plea bargain. 2. Due to people generally trusting authority figures, bringing the 2nd degree charge increases the probability of securing manslaughter through the jury rather than if they brought the manslaughter charge up.
Personally, I despise both of those since neither is seeking justice. They're conviction seeking behaviors.
Contrary to what you may think, it is not possible for someone to accurately assess the damage one has received as well as practically impossible to accurately assess what damage one will receive in the future. Self defense is usually based on the latter.
Considering Martin was shot by Zimmerman, this condition may have been met before any altercation started.
Having a gun in a holster is not brandishing a weapon. There's not been anything released that suggested that Zimmerman had the weapon out prior to the confrontation.
That's an article posted after it had been announced that there was going to be a charge. It's also not uncommon to find situations in the US where the prosecution doesn't have evidence for the reasonable charge and will elevate it in order to bring pressure down on the defendant to accept a lesser charge in a plea bargain.
The old DA probably didn't think he had the evidence to go after a Manslaughter charge. The new DA probably agrees that she can't guarantee a conviction for manslaughter, let alone 2nd degree. Additionally, the higher charge can make juries inclined towards lowering a judgment to a lesser charge even if the prosecution didn't adequately prove their case.
I've thought this too. That's why I think the 2nd degree murder charge is never intended to see a conviction. Between the severity of the conviction, the fact that an impartial jury will take a long time, and the fact there exists a possibility that Zimmerman will not get bail you have a very compelling case to suggest that the prosecution is aiming for Zimmerman to accept a plea bargain for manslaughter.
Figure that it takes 10 months to find a jury and that he would be serving time against his eventual sentencing if he did accept the plea bargain, it becomes more desirable to take the bargain.
Now it seems the prosecutor has collected enough facts that she thinks she can convict Zimmerman for breaking the law. A panel of Zimmerman's peers will determine whether or not he really is guilty. If he is guilty, I hope the trial is the least of his discomforts. If he is innocent, the trial will probably not be any worse than how the media and race baiters have already ruined his life, but having to battle false charges certainly wouldn't make things any easier. Whether he is guilty or innocent, let justice prevail.
I don't think the evidence is there to get a 2nd degree murder conviction. I think there may be yet unreleased evidence that would lead to a manslaughter conviction. Bringing the 2nd degree charge is pretty much designed to achieve a manslaughter plea bargain or use as leverage by the prosecution to make manslaughter look like a valid conviction and have them drop the severity.
I don't consider either of those cases to be justice. In the first, the state is using its power to intimidate the defendant with the costs of the trial to achieve a conviction. The second case is using the higher charge to influence the jury to sympathize with the prosecution even if they don't have the evidence to conclusively prove the lesser charge.
But Zimmerman's version is that he lost Martin, which legally ends that confrontation.
From Martin's point of view, how would that be possible?
Some guy is pursuing you. You run and hide. You look out and see the guy. How can the guy legally shoot you now?
Remember to ignore the "little kid" image being projected in the press. Martin was 17 years old and 6'2" tall, easily able to be a real physical threat to Zimmerman.
And he weighed either 140 or 160 pounds. That does not sound like much of a threat. Particularly when Zimmerman has a GUN!
If Martin's fingerprints are NOT on the gun then Zimmerman has not excuse for killing Martin.
According to Martin's girlfriend, Martin told her he lost him. It's pretty clear that contact between the two was lost so it's a matter of whether or not Zimmerman's claim that he was returning to his car is true or whether he was searching for Martin.
And in those fights you know you are going to be fighting. Both combatants are on even ground. There's also clear rules on what is considered valid moves. The weight differences start to fade away when one side gets the element of surprise. Punching someone in the face can stun them long enough to knock them to the ground.
I weight 140lbs, but if I kick a guy a 230lb guy in junk he's going to go down.
Scenario 1 Martin: Why are you following me? Zimmerman: What are you doing here? Zimmerman attacks Martin
Scenario 2 Martin: Why are you following me? Zimmerman: What are you doing here? Martin attacks Zimmerman
The first scenario isn't supported by the funeral director's comment. He mentioned there was no signs of struggle on Martin's body. He was probably trying to counter Zimmerman's claim with that but had Zimmerman attacked Martin first there should have been -some- sign on Martin beyond the gunshot wound.
*cough*bullshit*cough* What the police have is a dead body, no witnesses to the start of the altercation(You cannot be penalized for a self defense claim when doing something legal), the only witness to see part of the altercation itself agrees completely with Zimmerman's story, wounds entirely consistent with his story unless you assume the arresting officers, paramedics, and lead investigator are all lying, and a self defense claim. Given that evidence, no prosecutor in their right mind is going to arrest because they don't have a snowflakes chance in hell of conviction.
Hell, even the girlfriend's story has Martin confronting Zimmerman.
I sense irony. you malign NBC for misrepresenting the truth yet you intentional use terminology to misrepresent the truth by
* Calling Zimmerman a murderer without any sort of charge let alone conviction. * Referencing Martin as a child which is going to invoke a protective instinct rather than using a more age appropriate word like adolescent, teenager, or minor. * Utilizing the word hunt, which holds the intent to kill, despite no evidence that suggests that was the intent.
Allergy shot treatment is nothing like homeopathy.
It ups the dosage of the shot, over time, to build up resistance without triggering a potentially lethal allergic reaction.
It's a shot and not an ingested cocktail. With a shot you bypass all the bodies normal filtering mechanics and submit it directly to the allergen and in a concentrated area.
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No no.
No no no.
We must begin deploying DWARF (Designated Warfare Advance Recon Forces) to defend against the hobgoblin menace. The best part is that all we need to send seven of them out with just a pickaxe and an axe and they are quite adept at constructing fortresses to defend against the hobgoblin menace. With a little bit of oversight we can make sure to avoid the lava cataclysm events that DWARF is prone to causing.
geeks fighting over their favorite Star Trek series (which we all know is DS9, anyway).
Bullshit. Everyone knows Enterprise is the best.
There are some multi-platform games that aren't given the shit treatment on the PC.
Battlefield three has an elevated experience compared to the console versions.
No no no. That's too much effort. The normal procedure is to now change your relationship status on face book from "In a relationship with " to "Single".
A new account means you don't get all your previously earned cheevios linked to it.
Most people could retire on 200m without careful planning.
At 800 liters a day I'm wondering how many of these can operate without severely upsetting the desert ecosystem. If they're sucking out moister in the day, how much moisture will remain in the air to condense during the night for wildlife?
If they can carve out huge underground chambers to descend entire cities into during attacks by foreign entities, I'm pretty sure they can build underground reactors.
I apologize, but I must simply parse this most excellent post.
They should be working on fucking planes that go into fucking space!
Thanks to the wonderful diversity of the word fuck, I believe there are at least three acceptable interpretations of this sentence.
1. The engineers should be fucking planes that go into space.
2. The engineers should be creating planes that are capable of going into space and are capable of fucking people or things.
3. The engineers should be creating planes that go into space.
No.
I think the jury will have the option to convict on a lesser crime, at least that's how it worked when my friend was shot. This is like asking for $60K/yr because you want to make $50K/yr.
Make no doubt. A Manslaughter conviction is what the prosecution is seeking. Bringing the higher charge of 2nd degree, which they probably don't have the evidence to secure a conviction, if for two purposes.
1. Plea bargain.
2. Due to people generally trusting authority figures, bringing the 2nd degree charge increases the probability of securing manslaughter through the jury rather than if they brought the manslaughter charge up.
Personally, I despise both of those since neither is seeking justice. They're conviction seeking behaviors.
Contrary to what you may think, it is not possible for someone to accurately assess the damage one has received as well as practically impossible to accurately assess what damage one will receive in the future. Self defense is usually based on the latter.
barring the brandishing of a weapon
Considering Martin was shot by Zimmerman, this condition may have been met before any altercation started.
Having a gun in a holster is not brandishing a weapon. There's not been anything released that suggested that Zimmerman had the weapon out prior to the confrontation.
That's an article posted after it had been announced that there was going to be a charge. It's also not uncommon to find situations in the US where the prosecution doesn't have evidence for the reasonable charge and will elevate it in order to bring pressure down on the defendant to accept a lesser charge in a plea bargain.
The old DA probably didn't think he had the evidence to go after a Manslaughter charge. The new DA probably agrees that she can't guarantee a conviction for manslaughter, let alone 2nd degree. Additionally, the higher charge can make juries inclined towards lowering a judgment to a lesser charge even if the prosecution didn't adequately prove their case.
I've thought this too. That's why I think the 2nd degree murder charge is never intended to see a conviction. Between the severity of the conviction, the fact that an impartial jury will take a long time, and the fact there exists a possibility that Zimmerman will not get bail you have a very compelling case to suggest that the prosecution is aiming for Zimmerman to accept a plea bargain for manslaughter.
Figure that it takes 10 months to find a jury and that he would be serving time against his eventual sentencing if he did accept the plea bargain, it becomes more desirable to take the bargain.
Now it seems the prosecutor has collected enough facts that she thinks she can convict Zimmerman for breaking the law. A panel of Zimmerman's peers will determine whether or not he really is guilty. If he is guilty, I hope the trial is the least of his discomforts. If he is innocent, the trial will probably not be any worse than how the media and race baiters have already ruined his life, but having to battle false charges certainly wouldn't make things any easier. Whether he is guilty or innocent, let justice prevail.
I don't think the evidence is there to get a 2nd degree murder conviction. I think there may be yet unreleased evidence that would lead to a manslaughter conviction. Bringing the 2nd degree charge is pretty much designed to achieve a manslaughter plea bargain or use as leverage by the prosecution to make manslaughter look like a valid conviction and have them drop the severity.
I don't consider either of those cases to be justice. In the first, the state is using its power to intimidate the defendant with the costs of the trial to achieve a conviction. The second case is using the higher charge to influence the jury to sympathize with the prosecution even if they don't have the evidence to conclusively prove the lesser charge.
Admiral eh?
Would you have voted for Mitch Daniels?
From Martin's point of view, how would that be possible?
Some guy is pursuing you.
You run and hide.
You look out and see the guy.
How can the guy legally shoot you now?
And he weighed either 140 or 160 pounds. That does not sound like much of a threat. Particularly when Zimmerman has a GUN!
If Martin's fingerprints are NOT on the gun then Zimmerman has not excuse for killing Martin.
According to Martin's girlfriend, Martin told her he lost him. It's pretty clear that contact between the two was lost so it's a matter of whether or not Zimmerman's claim that he was returning to his car is true or whether he was searching for Martin.
And in those fights you know you are going to be fighting. Both combatants are on even ground. There's also clear rules on what is considered valid moves. The weight differences start to fade away when one side gets the element of surprise. Punching someone in the face can stun them long enough to knock them to the ground.
I weight 140lbs, but if I kick a guy a 230lb guy in junk he's going to go down.
Which seems more likely?
Scenario 1
Martin: Why are you following me?
Zimmerman: What are you doing here?
Zimmerman attacks Martin
Scenario 2
Martin: Why are you following me?
Zimmerman: What are you doing here?
Martin attacks Zimmerman
The first scenario isn't supported by the funeral director's comment. He mentioned there was no signs of struggle on Martin's body. He was probably trying to counter Zimmerman's claim with that but had Zimmerman attacked Martin first there should have been -some- sign on Martin beyond the gunshot wound.
*cough*bullshit*cough* What the police have is a dead body, no witnesses to the start of the altercation(You cannot be penalized for a self defense claim when doing something legal), the only witness to see part of the altercation itself agrees completely with Zimmerman's story, wounds entirely consistent with his story unless you assume the arresting officers, paramedics, and lead investigator are all lying, and a self defense claim. Given that evidence, no prosecutor in their right mind is going to arrest because they don't have a snowflakes chance in hell of conviction.
Hell, even the girlfriend's story has Martin confronting Zimmerman.
Or you assume that he gave himself the injuries.
I sense irony. you malign NBC for misrepresenting the truth yet you intentional use terminology to misrepresent the truth by
* Calling Zimmerman a murderer without any sort of charge let alone conviction.
* Referencing Martin as a child which is going to invoke a protective instinct rather than using a more age appropriate word like adolescent, teenager, or minor.
* Utilizing the word hunt, which holds the intent to kill, despite no evidence that suggests that was the intent.
Allergy shot treatment is nothing like homeopathy.
It ups the dosage of the shot, over time, to build up resistance without triggering a potentially lethal allergic reaction.
It's a shot and not an ingested cocktail. With a shot you bypass all the bodies normal filtering mechanics and submit it directly to the allergen and in a concentrated area.