That's saying more than I can for any of the other justices, including Roberts and Alito.
Alito has somewhat different principles. With the one, confusing exception of the D.C. handgun law case, he's been pretty clear that he's opposed to judicial review.
"clear and convincing evidence" is FAR lower than the normal standard for incarceration, which is "beyond reasonable doubt"
Are you sure about that? My understanding was that "clear and convincing evidence" was the actual legal standard and "beyond reasonable doubt" was how that was described to juries.
most "receivers" of child pornography are NOT people who are dangerous to society or children.
Yes, the danger is just creating the market for the producers, and that's nowhere near enough to keep someone in jail indefinitely.
I was surprised to hear here that it really is jail. I would have expected a transfer to a mental hospital when the sentence was over.
They changed the name before Enron, as the SEC was pressuring all of the major accounting firms to spin off their consulting businesses. Their position was that wanting to keep the consulting work for a company was too much of an incentive to go easy on that company's audits. Andersen was the first one to actually go along with it.
Personally, I think that incentive is still there as long as companies are allowed to hire their own auditors.
That's just because other people are offended by it, though. You need to take that into account, both for yourself and for your kids, but it's still a mystery.
Stop supporting people who can't take care of themselves and the problem solves itself naturally in short order. Yes, that's cold and heartless, but I would take the loss of the welfare state over the loss of my right to control my own body. Telling me how many kids I'm allowed to have is not compatible with Western notions of freedom and self-determination.
The choice to *not* have a kid is the right to control your own body. The choice to go ahead and have one involves someone else, with a lot bigger stake in the matter.
I'm okay with starving people who choose to have kids they can't afford, but that's the parents, not the kids.
they do not now control any market, with the exception of portable music players. I was just about to post exactly the opposite.
Plenty of people don't consider iPods to be acceptable MP3 players, and still have good options (My dad, my son and I are all happy with our Sansas). They do, however, control the people under contract with their iPhones, and as far as I can tell, an iPod Touch is the last remaining PDA you can buy without signing up for a $30/month data plan.
he sure had a lot of otherwise intelligent slashdotters refusing to face facts. What, that his wife disappeared, and Hans acted strangely and was kind-of a jerk? Yes, it turns out that he did do it, and I don't think anyone denied there was a good chance he did, but there wasn't anything like clear and convincing proof.
When a married person is murdered, there's always a good chance the spouse did it. That doesn't mean the spouse should automatically be convicted if there are no other obvious candidates, but that's pretty much the way things work now.
Phoenix isn't a border town. Neither are L.A., Detroit I live in Detroit and I can go four miles south from my house and be in Canada. It certainly is a border town.
Or it could be that the priesthood attracts pedophiles for the same reason it attracts gay men. If you believe your preferred sexuality is sinful, and you need to spend your life denying it, then a profession where everyone is denying their sexuality (whatever that may be) would sound pretty good.
Doesn't it seem unbalanced that we only talk about the negatives? We pay lip service to no sex until marriage (which I'd call irresponsible) but we don't really push single 30-year-olds not to have sex. Yes, there are risks, but life is full of decisions about what things are worth the risk.
A condom properly used is extremely likely to prevent pregnancy and STD transmission.
for millions of years, getting shit on at birth has meant we evolved with the timing of the introduction of the full spectrum of the mother's gut bacteria at time of birth. For millions of years, a hell of a lot of babies died in their first couple of weeks. I spent my first two weeks in the hospital getting twice-daily antibiotic injections for an e. coli infection after an episiotomy went too far. I was born June 20, 1976 and didn't come home until the bicentennial.
Those immunities mostly come with the first few days of breast milk.
Didn't they tell you not to do that in Driver's Ed? People tend to jam both feet out in emergencies. If you stomp with your left foot on the brake, your right foot is probably stomping on the gas.
That coupled with the fact that most of the time you are half asleep and would die for something else to do and allowing a distraction like a laptop or even a cell phone becomes a really horrible idea. No, that distraction keeps you at only half-asleep, vs. all the way asleep.
Games are a bad idea, though, unless they're turn-based.
Basically, Python can provide all the same benefits as BASIC without the stupid unnecessary crap (Explicit Line numbers? Really? Are we still using punch cards?) that always annoyed me.
I'd consider Python an educational successor to Pascal, since BASIC never deserved consideration apart from being free with DOS. Still, the last version of MS Basic to require line numbers came out in 1988, when punch cards really were still routinely used in some places.
Every high performing private school hires teachers with doctorates. Universities hire people with doctorates. They get paid a lot and because they have tons of knowledge in their subject area they make pretty good teachers.
My son's private elementary school does quite well (especially for being in downtown Detroit), and most of their teachers don't have Ph.D.'s.
Most of my college teachers who were adjuncts with master's degrees were better than most of the professors. (I'm not sure which category Dr. Miller falls in, since he was an MD teaching computer science.)
If she was paired up with the exceeding or average students she would look better on paper
That's because the people who designed the testing systems don't understand computers. It's really not that difficult to track the results of individual students.
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I suspect it is more of a distraction than anything else.
And a way to stay awake.
I figure she is just actor
I haven't seen her acting since she played Cindy Lou Who in The Grinch when she was seven or so. She is, however, a pretty good singer, too.
That's saying more than I can for any of the other justices, including Roberts and Alito.
Alito has somewhat different principles. With the one, confusing exception of the D.C. handgun law case, he's been pretty clear that he's opposed to judicial review.
"clear and convincing evidence" is FAR lower than the normal standard for incarceration, which is "beyond reasonable doubt"
Are you sure about that? My understanding was that "clear and convincing evidence" was the actual legal standard and "beyond reasonable doubt" was how that was described to juries.
most "receivers" of child pornography are NOT people who are dangerous to society or children.
Yes, the danger is just creating the market for the producers, and that's nowhere near enough to keep someone in jail indefinitely.
I was surprised to hear here that it really is jail. I would have expected a transfer to a mental hospital when the sentence was over.
They changed the name before Enron, as the SEC was pressuring all of the major accounting firms to spin off their consulting businesses. Their position was that wanting to keep the consulting work for a company was too much of an incentive to go easy on that company's audits. Andersen was the first one to actually go along with it.
Personally, I think that incentive is still there as long as companies are allowed to hire their own auditors.
That's just because other people are offended by it, though. You need to take that into account, both for yourself and for your kids, but it's still a mystery.
Stop supporting people who can't take care of themselves and the problem solves itself naturally in short order. Yes, that's cold and heartless, but I would take the loss of the welfare state over the loss of my right to control my own body. Telling me how many kids I'm allowed to have is not compatible with Western notions of freedom and self-determination.
The choice to *not* have a kid is the right to control your own body. The choice to go ahead and have one involves someone else, with a lot bigger stake in the matter.
I'm okay with starving people who choose to have kids they can't afford, but that's the parents, not the kids.
they do not now control any market, with the exception of portable music players.
I was just about to post exactly the opposite.
Plenty of people don't consider iPods to be acceptable MP3 players, and still have good options (My dad, my son and I are all happy with our Sansas).
They do, however, control the people under contract with their iPhones, and as far as I can tell, an iPod Touch is the last remaining PDA you can buy without signing up for a $30/month data plan.
he sure had a lot of otherwise intelligent slashdotters refusing to face facts.
What, that his wife disappeared, and Hans acted strangely and was kind-of a jerk? Yes, it turns out that he did do it, and I don't think anyone denied there was a good chance he did, but there wasn't anything like clear and convincing proof.
When a married person is murdered, there's always a good chance the spouse did it. That doesn't mean the spouse should automatically be convicted if there are no other obvious candidates, but that's pretty much the way things work now.
Phoenix isn't a border town. Neither are L.A., Detroit
I live in Detroit and I can go four miles south from my house and be in Canada. It certainly is a border town.
Or it could be that the priesthood attracts pedophiles for the same reason it attracts gay men. If you believe your preferred sexuality is sinful, and you need to spend your life denying it, then a profession where everyone is denying their sexuality (whatever that may be) would sound pretty good.
I think someone else might have more to say about whether OJ comes to your house.
After all, how do you determine if someone is a civilian when practically everyone is involved in the war effort in one way or another?
When there's conscription on all sides, does it really matter, anyway?
Doesn't it seem unbalanced that we only talk about the negatives? We pay lip service to no sex until marriage (which I'd call irresponsible) but we don't really push single 30-year-olds not to have sex. Yes, there are risks, but life is full of decisions about what things are worth the risk.
A condom properly used is extremely likely to prevent pregnancy and STD transmission.
So is oral.
for millions of years, getting shit on at birth has meant we evolved with the timing of the introduction of the full spectrum of the mother's gut bacteria at time of birth.
For millions of years, a hell of a lot of babies died in their first couple of weeks. I spent my first two weeks in the hospital getting twice-daily antibiotic injections for an e. coli infection after an episiotomy went too far. I was born June 20, 1976 and didn't come home until the bicentennial.
Those immunities mostly come with the first few days of breast milk.
> Yup, thats the danger of working from home. Have to double check that I have pants on before I go out to lunch.
Why would you ever?
That's all C++ had when I learned it, too, although roll-you-own string classes seemed to be popular.
I'm a two-foot automatic driver
Didn't they tell you not to do that in Driver's Ed? People tend to jam both feet out in emergencies. If you stomp with your left foot on the brake, your right foot is probably stomping on the gas.
That coupled with the fact that most of the time you are half asleep and would die for something else to do and allowing a distraction like a laptop or even a cell phone becomes a really horrible idea.
No, that distraction keeps you at only half-asleep, vs. all the way asleep.
Games are a bad idea, though, unless they're turn-based.
Basically, Python can provide all the same benefits as BASIC without the stupid unnecessary crap (Explicit Line numbers? Really? Are we still using punch cards?) that always annoyed me.
I'd consider Python an educational successor to Pascal, since BASIC never deserved consideration apart from being free with DOS. Still, the last version of MS Basic to require line numbers came out in 1988, when punch cards really were still routinely used in some places.
I thought about putting in something about $10/gallon 100 octane leaded aviation gasoline, but decided it weakened the joke.
Every high performing private school hires teachers with doctorates. Universities hire people with doctorates. They get paid a lot and because they have tons of knowledge in their subject area they make pretty good teachers.
My son's private elementary school does quite well (especially for being in downtown Detroit), and most of their teachers don't have Ph.D.'s.
Most of my college teachers who were adjuncts with master's degrees were better than most of the professors. (I'm not sure which category Dr. Miller falls in, since he was an MD teaching computer science.)
If she was paired up with the exceeding or average students she would look better on paper
That's because the people who designed the testing systems don't understand computers. It's really not that difficult to track the results of individual students.
Every teacher I know personally pretty much always has a pile of papers they're slogging through grading.
I'm sorry, I don't know these computers you speak of. Can you put that in a car analogy?
Don't put unleaded in a diesel.
Yeah, but where can you even get leaded gas these days?