Given the role of the jury as a limit on the judiciary, what would you say are the main points in favour of an elected judiciary?
Because the Judiciary serve in a position to interpret the laws of the land, and set forth opinions that become part of Common Law. Therefore we elect lower level judges so that the people have a say in who it is that is contributing to the laws under which we are governed. Common Law may be the lowest level of law in the US but it is still law never the less.
I for one, wouldn't want to be governed under laws that are inacted in a fashion where the person, or persons, responsible for them are not held accountable for thier decisions by the people.
I believe it is Status of Forces Agreement, not Standard of Forces... At least that is what was stamped in my passport when I was covered under the Status of Forces Agreement in Japan...
I was going to say the same thing. Also if I remember correctly last time my domain came up for renewal again with GoDaddy, they will automatically renew it for you on the date it comes up, so there really isn't any remembering to do, plus you will get like 15 different emails telling you it is about to expire....
Kind of makes me think of Gauntlet... Red Domain Name is about to expire...
You can't buy them ala' cart anymore? I don't know anything about the Satalite providers, but I know that, at least here in Florida, the cable company's at least, and I thought all television signal carriers were required to offer ala' cart prices by law. I always figured that that requirement imposed on cable companies also held for satalite companies.
This isn't flamebait. I'm just annoyed at people who make quick, uninformed judgments. Normally, medical malpractice cases are extremely difficult to vindicate because the average jury, who just like you, hates malpractice lawyers, has to find by a clear preponderance of the evidence that something wrong happened. To convince a jury of this requires expensive medical expert testimony that is rebutted by the other side. The plaintiff has the burden of persuasion just like the prosecution in a criminal case.
Actually I believe that in Tort cases, as with any civil case there doesn't need to be a clear preponderance of the evidence, the jury just needs to be beyond a shadow of a doubt sure.
If your introductory calculus course allowed you to use such technology, you probably didn't learn anything.
At the college I am going to curently, in the Calculus classess, it isn't that you are allowed to use graphing calculators, but you are required to have a specific calculator. I didn't have this problem because I took Calculus 7 years ago, but I couldn't believe that they required a specific calculator...
The first University that I went to, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, you didn't buy any books at all. There was like a $5.00 per semester fee tacked onto your tuition, and then you went to the Book Store, where you gave them your schedule, and they would give you all the books that you needed for the term. Then you had a week following the term to return your books to the book store. If you failed to return your books you were charged the full price of the books.
I always thought that that was a really good wya to do things. You had to spend a lot of time in lines, but it was better then having to buy the books....
Well I can tell you about the voting in the part of Florida where I live. It is touch screen, you sign in at the registration desk, sign by your name, and get a card much like an ATM card. You wait for a available touch screen, you insert your card, and it starts running through the offices and candidates. You select the candidate you want, and select the continue button. After it has run through all the candidates, it displays a list of all the offices up for grabs, and all the choices you made for each office. Then there are two buttons, one for goine back and changing your vote for a particular office, and one to cast the votes you selected. As soon as you select the cast the votes button it gives you the card back, which you then have to give to the guy standing by the door on the way out so they can reuse the cards....
I didn't have a problem with it,and it seemed like it more or less validates in plain English what I voted for, and I get confirmation that I pressed the VOTE button as I wouldn't have been given the card back otherwise....
Even before the 2000 vote I looked at my ballot to make sure the holes are all punched, and no paper is hanging.
Also I remember hearing the a research group investigated all common voting methods and found that punch card ballots are the most dependable voting method when looking at number of votes versus number of spoiled ballots...
Isn't it within my rights as a concerned consumer to test that security?
The way I see it, no it is not within your rights. What would be within your rights is to either make a request to BestBuy.com for a detail of the security precautions they do have in place, so that you can verify the security of the transaction yourself, or simply not use their website at all if you do not trust their security. But it wouldn't be within your rights to hack into their system siply to see if their security is up to snuff prior to you making a transaction.
Would it be within your rights to try to break into a bank in the middle of the night prior to opening an account there?
You know what they should do to give more "value" to the Slashdot subscription, they should give subscribers an email account. Now that would be a truely geeky gift, an email address at slashdot.org....
How about this scenario. For 11 years you are in every news paper and media outlet telling the entire world that you had wepons that you shouldn't have had. You have shown your weapons to the media, and on a few occasions you shot a few animals in your yard to demonstrate that you had those weapons. Now tell me just how the police aren't justified in comming into your house and searching for those weapons.
Or digitally remove a item from a certain scene on each screener that is sent out, removing a different item for each screener. Something silly like that that wouldn't be noticed by someone that hasn't seen more then one screener copy and is looking for suttle differences.
I read an article on the Hindenburg long time ago, and I remember that the fabric was doped with Alliminum(sp.) powder, iron Oxide, (as someone else pointed out, this alone is the thermite reaction) and also a chemical compound that was pretty much gun powder.
You still have unemployment problems and the biggest deficit ever.
Yes you do still have unemployment, but as I said, jobs are the LAST part of the recovery that will occur. You also don't know you are in a recession, or a recovery for that matter, untill after you are already in one. And you are right, one quarter of growth does not make a recovery, but it is a sign that we are in a recovery.
What I am saying is that one sure thing that leads to strength in the economy is tax cuts, it happened for Kennedy, Regan, and Bush Jr.
I do not believe that I said that Iraq supported Al Queada, or that Iraq planned September 11, I did however say that Saddam is and was a terrorist. Al Queada is just one sect of terrorists. Saddam is a terrorist of epic proportions, who has had Weapons of Mass Destruction. I am sure you are probably going to say that He didn't, and that they haven't been able to find any so it must be made up. I laugh that the entire world gave Sadddam over 11 years to hide the weapons, that he admitted to having, and theat everyone knew he had. But now the entire world immediatly upon the US knocking Saddam off his throne expect us to find these weapons immediately, or else they must have never existed.
And Isreal might be occuping territory that is not part of thier proper, but even if Isreal gave that stetch up, Pallistinian terrorism against Isreal would not stop, the Pallistinians do not even want Isreal to exist! The Pallistinians are the biggest threat to world peace, not Isreal.
Yeah, that's what it would do, it would cripple the US. I guess that's the kind of thing that the Clinton administration would have negotiated, the bastards. You remember, back when the US economy wasn't in a tailspin? When people had jobs? Yep, no idea about the economy, that slick Willie. He probably signed you on to pay an annual tribute to China or something.
Umm, I suppose that it is that you just do not understand the economy. First of all, the economy is heading back up. It is up over 7% in the last quarter. Secondly Jobs are the LAST part of an economic recession to recover, this is absolutly normal. Please don't delute yourself into thinking that this recession is somehow a freak event that occured because some evil Republican is in office. Economies are cyclical in nature and are always going up and down. Also the majority of economists tribute the upturn of the economy to the Tax Cuts. I am sure you thought those tax cuts were pretty evil also, huh?
Do you really think that the entire economy of the United States is something so viotile that it can be changed immediatley? The chain of cause and effects that percipitate up to a major change in the economy take time, this recession was probably brewing since before Bush was in office. It is just now starting to show recovery, and the tax cuts that HELPed it to start recovering are more then 2 years old...
And you can rant on and on about some mythical "war of aggression" by the US in Iraq, but the facts are that the weather you want to admit it or not, Saddam activly supported terrorism. The same terrorism that has directly attacked The United States and her citizens on more then a couple occasions. And Isreal is only tring to survive on a stretch of land that is by all rights thiers, yet noone around them wants them there. It is no different then if you owned your house, and your nieghbors didn't wnat you there so they kept breaking into your house and robbing you, so one day you shot back WHILE THEY ARE IN YOUR HOUSE, and people saying that it is your fault. It is absurd.
You can hunt with a handgun. It is done all the time. And there shouldn't be any restrictions for owning firearms other then the ones that are currently in place, and even most of those I disagree with. I don't think felons or the mentally unstable should own guns, but that is already illegal. Other then that there shouldn't be any other restrictions...
I believe that would be true if the copy of Win95 that you have was originally built for the COmmador64. However if your copy was built for the PC, which is more likely, then I believe these exceptions do not cover making the program run on a machine that it was not intended for.
However, I would think that if you could get the copy of Win95 running on a Commador64, I would be surprised if Microsoft did anything but laugh....
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Given the role of the jury as a limit on the judiciary, what would you say are the main points in favour of an elected judiciary?
Because the Judiciary serve in a position to interpret the laws of the land, and set forth opinions that become part of Common Law. Therefore we elect lower level judges so that the people have a say in who it is that is contributing to the laws under which we are governed. Common Law may be the lowest level of law in the US but it is still law never the less.
I for one, wouldn't want to be governed under laws that are inacted in a fashion where the person, or persons, responsible for them are not held accountable for thier decisions by the people.
I believe it is Status of Forces Agreement, not Standard of Forces... At least that is what was stamped in my passport when I was covered under the Status of Forces Agreement in Japan...
I was going to say the same thing. Also if I remember correctly last time my domain came up for renewal again with GoDaddy, they will automatically renew it for you on the date it comes up, so there really isn't any remembering to do, plus you will get like 15 different emails telling you it is about to expire....
Kind of makes me think of Gauntlet...
Red Domain Name is about to expire...
You can't buy them ala' cart anymore? I don't know anything about the Satalite providers, but I know that, at least here in Florida, the cable company's at least, and I thought all television signal carriers were required to offer ala' cart prices by law. I always figured that that requirement imposed on cable companies also held for satalite companies.
This isn't flamebait. I'm just annoyed at people who make quick, uninformed judgments. Normally, medical malpractice cases are extremely difficult to vindicate because the average jury, who just like you, hates malpractice lawyers, has to find by a clear preponderance of the evidence that something wrong happened. To convince a jury of this requires expensive medical expert testimony that is rebutted by the other side. The plaintiff has the burden of persuasion just like the prosecution in a criminal case.
Actually I believe that in Tort cases, as with any civil case there doesn't need to be a clear preponderance of the evidence, the jury just needs to be beyond a shadow of a doubt sure.
Electronic Petre Dish maybe?
I will have to agree with you here...
It didn't take long to gather a crap load of spyware on my PC and I didn't even realize it was getting put on...
We don't just have employees from follett running the buy back at our book store, our book store is completely ran by follett....
If your introductory calculus course allowed you to use such technology, you probably didn't learn anything.
At the college I am going to curently, in the Calculus classess, it isn't that you are allowed to use graphing calculators, but you are required to have a specific calculator. I didn't have this problem because I took Calculus 7 years ago, but I couldn't believe that they required a specific calculator...
The first University that I went to, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, you didn't buy any books at all. There was like a $5.00 per semester fee tacked onto your tuition, and then you went to the Book Store, where you gave them your schedule, and they would give you all the books that you needed for the term. Then you had a week following the term to return your books to the book store. If you failed to return your books you were charged the full price of the books.
I always thought that that was a really good wya to do things. You had to spend a lot of time in lines, but it was better then having to buy the books....
Well I can tell you about the voting in the part of Florida where I live. It is touch screen, you sign in at the registration desk, sign by your name, and get a card much like an ATM card. You wait for a available touch screen, you insert your card, and it starts running through the offices and candidates. You select the candidate you want, and select the continue button. After it has run through all the candidates, it displays a list of all the offices up for grabs, and all the choices you made for each office. Then there are two buttons, one for goine back and changing your vote for a particular office, and one to cast the votes you selected. As soon as you select the cast the votes button it gives you the card back, which you then have to give to the guy standing by the door on the way out so they can reuse the cards....
I didn't have a problem with it,and it seemed like it more or less validates in plain English what I voted for, and I get confirmation that I pressed the VOTE button as I wouldn't have been given the card back otherwise....
EXACTLY!!!!!!
Even before the 2000 vote I looked at my ballot to make sure the holes are all punched, and no paper is hanging.
Also I remember hearing the a research group investigated all common voting methods and found that punch card ballots are the most dependable voting method when looking at number of votes versus number of spoiled ballots...
Isn't it within my rights as a concerned consumer to test that security?
The way I see it, no it is not within your rights. What would be within your rights is to either make a request to BestBuy.com for a detail of the security precautions they do have in place, so that you can verify the security of the transaction yourself, or simply not use their website at all if you do not trust their security. But it wouldn't be within your rights to hack into their system siply to see if their security is up to snuff prior to you making a transaction.
Would it be within your rights to try to break into a bank in the middle of the night prior to opening an account there?
Here is my count, I am still higher then the 364 listed though....
12 partridges
12 pear trees
22 turtle doves
30 french hens
36 calling birds
40 golden rings
42 geese
42 swans
40 maids
36 ladies
30 lords
22 pipers
12 drummers
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376 total
If you watch the flash presentation (or read the article closely), they mention this:
;)
"The price tag for the 364 items this holiday season is $65,264, up from 2002's true cost of $54,951."
Their total number of items is higher than yours, but I'm too lazy to see if you're wrong or they are.
His number cound is lower because he missed a day, he only had 11 gifts listed....
You know what they should do to give more "value" to the Slashdot subscription, they should give subscribers an email account. Now that would be a truely geeky gift, an email address at slashdot.org....
How about this scenario. For 11 years you are in every news paper and media outlet telling the entire world that you had wepons that you shouldn't have had. You have shown your weapons to the media, and on a few occasions you shot a few animals in your yard to demonstrate that you had those weapons. Now tell me just how the police aren't justified in comming into your house and searching for those weapons.
Well just so that people can know,
The two cosponsors of this bill are
Sen. John Cornyn from Texas
Sen. Dianne Feinstein from California
Or digitally remove a item from a certain scene on each screener that is sent out, removing a different item for each screener. Something silly like that that wouldn't be noticed by someone that hasn't seen more then one screener copy and is looking for suttle differences.
I read an article on the Hindenburg long time ago, and I remember that the fabric was doped with Alliminum(sp.) powder, iron Oxide, (as someone else pointed out, this alone is the thermite reaction) and also a chemical compound that was pretty much gun powder.
You still have unemployment problems and the biggest deficit ever.
Yes you do still have unemployment, but as I said, jobs are the LAST part of the recovery that will occur. You also don't know you are in a recession, or a recovery for that matter, untill after you are already in one. And you are right, one quarter of growth does not make a recovery, but it is a sign that we are in a recovery.
What I am saying is that one sure thing that leads to strength in the economy is tax cuts, it happened for Kennedy, Regan, and Bush Jr.
I do not believe that I said that Iraq supported Al Queada, or that Iraq planned September 11, I did however say that Saddam is and was a terrorist. Al Queada is just one sect of terrorists. Saddam is a terrorist of epic proportions, who has had Weapons of Mass Destruction. I am sure you are probably going to say that He didn't, and that they haven't been able to find any so it must be made up. I laugh that the entire world gave Sadddam over 11 years to hide the weapons, that he admitted to having, and theat everyone knew he had. But now the entire world immediatly upon the US knocking Saddam off his throne expect us to find these weapons immediately, or else they must have never existed.
And Isreal might be occuping territory that is not part of thier proper, but even if Isreal gave that stetch up, Pallistinian terrorism against Isreal would not stop, the Pallistinians do not even want Isreal to exist! The Pallistinians are the biggest threat to world peace, not Isreal.
Yeah, that's what it would do, it would cripple the US. I guess that's the kind of thing that the Clinton administration would have negotiated, the bastards. You remember, back when the US economy wasn't in a tailspin? When people had jobs? Yep, no idea about the economy, that slick Willie. He probably signed you on to pay an annual tribute to China or something.
Umm, I suppose that it is that you just do not understand the economy. First of all, the economy is heading back up. It is up over 7% in the last quarter. Secondly Jobs are the LAST part of an economic recession to recover, this is absolutly normal. Please don't delute yourself into thinking that this recession is somehow a freak event that occured because some evil Republican is in office. Economies are cyclical in nature and are always going up and down. Also the majority of economists tribute the upturn of the economy to the Tax Cuts. I am sure you thought those tax cuts were pretty evil also, huh?
Do you really think that the entire economy of the United States is something so viotile that it can be changed immediatley? The chain of cause and effects that percipitate up to a major change in the economy take time, this recession was probably brewing since before Bush was in office. It is just now starting to show recovery, and the tax cuts that HELPed it to start recovering are more then 2 years old...
And you can rant on and on about some mythical "war of aggression" by the US in Iraq, but the facts are that the weather you want to admit it or not, Saddam activly supported terrorism. The same terrorism that has directly attacked The United States and her citizens on more then a couple occasions. And Isreal is only tring to survive on a stretch of land that is by all rights thiers, yet noone around them wants them there. It is no different then if you owned your house, and your nieghbors didn't wnat you there so they kept breaking into your house and robbing you, so one day you shot back WHILE THEY ARE IN YOUR HOUSE, and people saying that it is your fault. It is absurd.
According to the US Department of Education, Ketchuop and Salsa are both vegtables....
You can hunt with a handgun. It is done all the time. And there shouldn't be any restrictions for owning firearms other then the ones that are currently in place, and even most of those I disagree with. I don't think felons or the mentally unstable should own guns, but that is already illegal. Other then that there shouldn't be any other restrictions...
I believe that would be true if the copy of Win95 that you have was originally built for the COmmador64. However if your copy was built for the PC, which is more likely, then I believe these exceptions do not cover making the program run on a machine that it was not intended for.
However, I would think that if you could get the copy of Win95 running on a Commador64, I would be surprised if Microsoft did anything but laugh....