You got your apology to a dead man from a man who did not wrong him. I hope you (the petitioners) feel better, because it certainly accomplishes nothing else.
What it accomplishes is setting a new tone.. that the Government (or at least its current leader) has reflected on this subject and identified that the past actions were heinous in nature, that an apology is warranted. Offering the apology will set the precedent that G.B.'s leadership will not condone this treatment and will expect its agents to never commit the same action lest it make the leadership look hypocritical.
This reminds me of a trip I took to Venice, Italy. I was walking around and found myself in the 'Jewish Ghetto' and permanent plaque was put up by the people of Italy apologizing for the way the Jewish people were treated. This plaque helps both the parties involved to not forget history and be doomed to repeat it.
Compared to a missile, this does little to no collateral damage, because most targets don't walk around wearing mirror-covered suits. Do you understand now?
Except for the slashdotters who have invested in mirror grade tin foil hats.
I think Marvel has already done dorky stuff with their trademark properties can you really say Marvel Babies would be any worse than Peter Porker as Spider Ham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Ham
Definitely not, bonuses for cuts is going to gut your department and leave a hollow shell this includes higher paid experienced people who are an obstacle to a managers bonus. Look to Circuit City firing it's experienced sales staff as an example.
A better approach would be zero sum budgeting. Basically your department starts with zero dollars of budget and you have to prove why you need this money. I personally wish the US Congress would go this route.
I pretty much agree with but reading your post I came up with a hypothetical question.. What if desktops of different manufacturers dell/hp/etc. would refuse to talk to each other on the "interwebs"... I'm too young to remember but didn't AOL Online start out not fully integrated with the rest of the internet? I think MS and Sony are hesitant to open up there networks for fear of opening the "Those owners of console X are cheating and the company is failing to do anything about it."
Maybe this is an opportunity for open source to jump into the console market that is fully integrated with PC platforming and as an added bonus will even let XBOX and PS3 connect up (I'm dreaming here). Just my ignorant opinion, but if Linux systems had a little more entertainment they might become more main stream. Maybe a console fork would help get high end card drivers faster for Linux as a whole.
My prediction: Sometime within the next 10 years, laws in the U.S. will be changed to allow jamming of WiFi and cell phone signals in public and private venues, to head off the booming growth of live pirate feeds.
There's already legislation being proposed for blocking cell and wifi signal near prisons.
Urine is waste and has to be disposed of some how. Breast feeding is providing food for an infant. and there is no waste involved until it hits a diaper. I know I just got suckered into responding to a troll post.
Is it in the public's interest for individual officers to have their names, pictures, addresses and photographs of their houses published to the world?
1. Web postings need not serve the public interest. 2. These items were all previously published elsewhere.
Published elsewhere but not in a compiled dossier. Yes 'Joe Pofficer' owns a house that was bought on such and such date. That public record isn't tied to a photo on face book. That record doesn't also state the fact he is a police officer. When you compile a bunch of information it becomes a lot more powerful than individual facts that are publicly available.
I'm by no means an apologists for the officers but I don't think their family should be lit up for a laser guided missile either. The most reasonable thing would be to ask for a court order for her to discontinue monitoring and publishing facts of on going investigations. She fails to comply or win an appeal in court then arrest her.
I watch Bill Maher but I take him with a grain of salt. He wants legalized marijuana but would enjoy legislating what you eat. The reason I watch him is he puts at least one person on either side of the issues being discussed. He actually stopped doing this a couple times this last season, probably guest scheduling problems, but has returned to his regular format. He also calls BS when he sees it which I like but he'll take something insignificant and blow it out of proportion. I'll call it entertainment with some truth sprinkled in. I particularly like when he has the Rolling Stone Journalist on.. now that guy should have his own show.
I respectfully disagree. Owning a computer and owning a gaming computer are two different things. I would argue the less financially off would order the cheapest computer he/she can for e-mail/surfing/facebook/etc. and a game console that can possibly play dvds or other media up to the tv. The less well off only want to buy one system that works and doesn't have to be upgraded.
- being caught speeding by one of these "electronic cops" is no different than being caught speeding by a human cop. Don't want to be ticketed? Than don't speed (or else change the law to eliminate speed limits). You do not have to right to break the laws on a public thoroughfare, and if got caught, then be a man and pay the fine.
It is different when 1. The cameras do not record the entire situation. In the 5 (U.S.) states I've lived in It is legal to be in an intersection on yellow and finish your turn (left/right) or go through straight as it turns to red. These ticket cameras record this action as running a red light and ticket it. A cop can reasonably let you go the camera does not. 2. City's have been caught messing with the yellow light timers too. Shorter yellows = increase revenue and increase risk of drivers.
Or maybe it did occur to them. It may be illegal for them to stop their constituents from going to a website but not illegal for them to tell a website not to serve their constituents.
I hate to say it but the meme that one's right to swing at someone even if you stop before hitting there nose or any other part of their body is patently false. 1. It's called assault if you swing and stop. 2. If you successfully hit someone it's assault and battery. 3. If you swing with intent to hit and miss that is assault and unsuccessful battery. Basically it comes down to if you have the intent of scaring me into thinking you will hit me i.e. swinging at an extremely slow speed won't scare but if you do it fast enough to make me flinch or cower it's another issue
Intent is an essential element of assault. In tort law, it can be specific intentâ"if the assailant intends to cause the apprehension of harmful or offensive contact in the victimâ"or general intentâ"if he or she intends to do the act that causes such apprehension. In addition, the intent element is satisfied if it is substantially certain, to a reasonable person, that the act will cause the result. A defendant who holds a gun to a victim's head possesses the requisite intent, since it is substantially certain that this act will produce an apprehension in the victim. In all cases, intent to kill or harm is irrelevant.
Slashdot Mirror
You got your apology to a dead man from a man who did not wrong him. I hope you (the petitioners) feel better, because it certainly accomplishes nothing else.
What it accomplishes is setting a new tone.. that the Government (or at least its current leader) has reflected on this subject and identified that the past actions were heinous in nature, that an apology is warranted. Offering the apology will set the precedent that G.B.'s leadership will not condone this treatment and will expect its agents to never commit the same action lest it make the leadership look hypocritical.
This reminds me of a trip I took to Venice, Italy. I was walking around and found myself in the 'Jewish Ghetto' and permanent plaque was put up by the people of Italy apologizing for the way the Jewish people were treated. This plaque helps both the parties involved to not forget history and be doomed to repeat it.
just learn people how to type
(Should be "just teach people how to type", or "just learn how to type".)
Nope. In Florida we are fixin' ta learn ya. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHEauiQVAHA
So you'd have to have someone paint the target before hitting it.
http://eve.wikia.com/wiki/Skills:Target_Painting
Compared to a missile, this does little to no collateral damage, because most targets don't walk around wearing mirror-covered suits. Do you understand now?
Except for the slashdotters who have invested in mirror grade tin foil hats.
I think Marvel has already done dorky stuff with their trademark properties can you really say Marvel Babies would be any worse than Peter Porker as Spider Ham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Ham
Don't forget they outright murdered Bambi's mother on screen.
correction: its not it's
A better approach would be zero sum budgeting. Basically your department starts with zero dollars of budget and you have to prove why you need this money. I personally wish the US Congress would go this route.
http://www.ogc.harvard.edu/copyright_docs/copyright_and_fair_use.pdf
Maybe this is an opportunity for open source to jump into the console market that is fully integrated with PC platforming and as an added bonus will even let XBOX and PS3 connect up (I'm dreaming here). Just my ignorant opinion, but if Linux systems had a little more entertainment they might become more main stream. Maybe a console fork would help get high end card drivers faster for Linux as a whole.
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No it's more like a Far East/Daoism and Bushido. See The Seven Samurai and The Tao of Star Wars
My prediction: Sometime within the next 10 years, laws in the U.S. will be changed to allow jamming of WiFi and cell phone signals in public and private venues, to head off the booming growth of live pirate feeds.
There's already legislation being proposed for blocking cell and wifi signal near prisons.
Urine is waste and has to be disposed of some how. Breast feeding is providing food for an infant. and there is no waste involved until it hits a diaper. I know I just got suckered into responding to a troll post.
Is it in the public's interest for individual officers to have their names, pictures, addresses and photographs of their houses published to the world?
1. Web postings need not serve the public interest. 2. These items were all previously published elsewhere.
Published elsewhere but not in a compiled dossier. Yes 'Joe Pofficer' owns a house that was bought on such and such date. That public record isn't tied to a photo on face book. That record doesn't also state the fact he is a police officer. When you compile a bunch of information it becomes a lot more powerful than individual facts that are publicly available.
I'm by no means an apologists for the officers but I don't think their family should be lit up for a laser guided missile either. The most reasonable thing would be to ask for a court order for her to discontinue monitoring and publishing facts of on going investigations. She fails to comply or win an appeal in court then arrest her.
Those that are ahead of the curve usually get burned at the stake.
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200908051805dowjonesdjonline000841
I watch Bill Maher but I take him with a grain of salt. He wants legalized marijuana but would enjoy legislating what you eat. The reason I watch him is he puts at least one person on either side of the issues being discussed. He actually stopped doing this a couple times this last season, probably guest scheduling problems, but has returned to his regular format. He also calls BS when he sees it which I like but he'll take something insignificant and blow it out of proportion.
I'll call it entertainment with some truth sprinkled in. I particularly like when he has the Rolling Stone Journalist on.. now that guy should have his own show.
I respectfully disagree. Owning a computer and owning a gaming computer are two different things. I would argue the less financially off would order the cheapest computer he/she can for e-mail/surfing/facebook/etc. and a game console that can possibly play dvds or other media up to the tv. The less well off only want to buy one system that works and doesn't have to be upgraded.
Soylent Green?
On these town hall health plan disruptions I've been waiting for someone to show up with a sign that says "soylent green is grandma!"
see AFL-CIO's new leader who thinks murder and violence are fine if you can get away with it - or pay it off
care to provide some examples? I would be interested in seeing them.
for Junior to get Dad's debit card number and put the family jewels on the line.
As for street cameras:
- being caught speeding by one of these "electronic cops" is no different than being caught speeding by a human cop. Don't want to be ticketed? Than don't speed (or else change the law to eliminate speed limits). You do not have to right to break the laws on a public thoroughfare, and if got caught, then be a man and pay the fine.
It is different when
1. The cameras do not record the entire situation. In the 5 (U.S.) states I've lived in It is legal to be in an intersection on yellow and finish your turn (left/right) or go through straight as it turns to red. These ticket cameras record this action as running a red light and ticket it. A cop can reasonably let you go the camera does not.
2. City's have been caught messing with the yellow light timers too. Shorter yellows = increase revenue and increase risk of drivers.
citation: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-redlights_27met.ART.State.Edition1.5100182.html
http://xkcd.com/435/
Or maybe it did occur to them. It may be illegal for them to stop their constituents from going to a website but not illegal for them to tell a website not to serve their constituents.
1. It's called assault if you swing and stop.
2. If you successfully hit someone it's assault and battery.
3. If you swing with intent to hit and miss that is assault and unsuccessful battery.
Basically it comes down to if you have the intent of scaring me into thinking you will hit me i.e. swinging at an extremely slow speed won't scare but if you do it fast enough to make me flinch or cower it's another issue
Intent is an essential element of assault. In tort law, it can be specific intentâ"if the assailant intends to cause the apprehension of harmful or offensive contact in the victimâ"or general intentâ"if he or she intends to do the act that causes such apprehension. In addition, the intent element is satisfied if it is substantially certain, to a reasonable person, that the act will cause the result. A defendant who holds a gun to a victim's head possesses the requisite intent, since it is substantially certain that this act will produce an apprehension in the victim. In all cases, intent to kill or harm is irrelevant.
citation: http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Assault