You could almost say it's blue ray's answer to DVD's Matrix title - at the time it was the best special effects movie available to show off the detail a DVD could provide over VHS.
Reading your post, it's clear you've never seen a legal process up close, let alone watched court proceedings before. The reason the felonies you see on TV, vs what most cases are actually tried as, shocker - is that they're unusual! Imagine the news showing something new. Imagine that! Actually a very, very large portion of crimes end up getting plead down to misdemeanor, and then wiped out completely upon completion of community service. I dare you to spend a day down at the city court house and see what actually goes on down there.
Clearly you never watched batman, the animated series growing up in the 90's. Department of Motor Vehicles. Here in Texas we have a more obscure name for it - Department of Public Safety, aka the Driver's License Bureau. Either way a 3 second google search will tell you.
I just had a Belgian couple stay with me last night! couchsurfing.com...anyways, your courts may be doing well, but from what they told me, you've been without a federal government for 6+ months now:)
What are the primary differences in the court systems?
So is it illegal to operate state business on a personal email account? I agree that there is some spillover and it's hard to avoid it completely. She does seem to do a good job with separating work and personal email (as others have pointed out), but if it is illegal to conduct state business outside of the review of the public, at what point does it become a worthwhile criminal investigation?
I'm sure my reaction would have been less had it been a democrat - afterall, that's the definition of political bias, isn't it? Can you post the emails where she is discussing things with her aides for us to review? I haven't read her personal email myself, but if you'd like to enlighten us, I'd be happy to discuss it, rather than defend against acrid remarks. I don't see any issue with laying blame on an issue that would never go to court. It's another matter entirely to assign blame based on bias for more serious matters such as theft and murder.
Oh I definitely lean to the left and feel Palin would be grossly unqualified should the qualified (but very old) McCain were to have health issues requiring him to leave office. I missed the part on slashdot where I have to register my political bias! This isn't a newspaper I'm entitled to my opinion on the facts available to me. Also keep reading additional posts to see what else I have to say and why I came to that conclusion (i.e. recieving and responding to emails from Aides of politicalrelevance is activity I would consider official).
Which way do you lean? Left or right? Do you feel it in any way biases your thoughts/comments?
Felony charge would be terrible PR for republicans. If it were any other time but election year they could string him up by his thumbs. Most likely charges won't be filed... if they are it'll be after the winning party is sworn into office, and then plead down to a misdemeanor. You have to be awful poor or kill someone to get a felony charge brought up to you and have it stick... especially with a father heavily invested in state politics.
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I haven't read her email, but what I've heard was she was corresponding with heir aides about how to handle PR on several negative issues. It's a blurry line but I suppose that could be considered personal. Probably best to have made a phone call instead.
Email is a lot easier to record? There's always been a divide between the written and spoken word, from business deals (oral contract is only binding up to $500 in Florida), to courtroom hearings (hearsay, your word vs. mine, etc). You can request copies of government memos; email is electronic mail; it stands to reason that any official written communication should be kept. Lots of meetings are held behind closed doors because there's no written record for public consumption.
There's lots of other cases where emails are available for public consumption; for instance emails back to 1996 for the Seattle metro service are all available for review. On the flip side you have a matter of public record, historical records for data mining, and more. Imagine how boring history would have been if we didn't have access to Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln's personal letters today?
Governors aren't required to record their telephone conversations, although I know Nixon was a fan of doing so - which is partially what got him in trouble in the first place. I'm not sure what the outcome was in court about whether those are considered personal or not. I know in most states both parties have to be aware of the conversation being recorded. In Virginia(?) only one party is required to know that the conversation is being recorded.
I have trouble understanding why we put people with such obvious contempt for the law in positions that are in charge of it.
Brilliant marketing, and the general public's desire to believe what they're told in hopes that it will come true. If the general public were half as smart as we give them credit for the world would have never seen Napoleian, Cesar (well actually the Romans solved that problem on their own), Castro, Hugo Chavez and more. But as the protestants like to point out, people are like sheep and will head in whatever direction the man who speaks softly but carries a big stick says.
The whole reason Palin is using Yahoo instead of government sponsored email is that any email sent through those channels is archived for a Very Long Time as a matter of public record. Wondering what the clerk at the DMV is REALLY emailing about? Put in a freedom of information act request and it's all yours.
By Palin using yahoo, it's not closely watched and she can conduct official business off the record. It's very poor form to do so and is the real story here.
When they first pitched it, I was excited because they were talking about a $200 price point.
Oh come on, how long have you been following technology trends/news? Seriously? Always add 20% to the price of hardware that has more than 2 months till release. You know that. Marketing spits out a number to the press based on a best case scenario from engineering, and then engineering does their best to match that. You CAN get an Eee for $249 with free shipping, and they DID keep the specs low and stuck with linux. Quitcher Bitchin'.
Of COURSE the higher end Eees are on par with regular notebooks - you expect them to not run with the massive brand recognition the Eee commands? Beyond "Macbook" and "Macbook Pro" Eee is the most well known laptop name in the market right now. Higher end laptops have much more profit built in to them, and profit is ultimately what they're after. For $100 more you get a lot more functionality, but if you absolutely need to the $250 option exists as well.
Agreed. I got marked down in a mock government for being liberal and approving of slackening gun control laws because it wasn't part of the party platform. I think it's just a concession to a very vocal minority and for the most part people just ignore them.
You're either a blatant troll (yes) or you didn't read the article and see the screencaps. The art looks horrifically bad, even compared to TF2s early beta art. TF2 has seen at least one significant engine revamp, multiple physics particle effects and facial animation tweaks since the game was released almost a year ago. I dare you to try out tf2 on a free weekend and tell me that those battlefield screenshots don't look like 3rd rate cheap chinese knockoff artwork of Team Fortress 2. Its not a step above, its two or three steps above battlefield and has moved from a high b level title to a really shining A level title. The fact that they continue to release new, signficant updates maps weapons taunts and more on an almost monthly basis blows any other team based fps out of the water. Battlefield has a lot of ground to make up before it can compete in the big leauges. Fantasia is to the last unicorn. Valve if you need a pr rep I'm free
WERE kids.nowadays we have the 21/22 year olds who grew up with cell phones that text messaged between networks since they were in high school/middle school, who are now entering the workplace ($$$) and now paying for this on their own. The 25 and up crowd only saw txt messaging work across all networks "flawlessly" toward the end of high school/college and have had to pay for/meter their own usage for a lot longer.
I suspect in reality its half greed, half desire to push users onto a fixed txt msging plan ($4.99/ month for 400 msgs, $9.99/ month for unlimited, or whatever). Whever makes the argument that the cost of the service is what's driving the cost up is an idiot. The first thing budget carriers offer is free unlimited txt msging, and most times they're much cheaper than "nationwide carriers".
What? In the four years I was stuck with sprint,at least once a month I'd get a txt msg from some spam company, or have some unneccessary charge. Never once did they remove a charge! Fuck sprint.
let me say that again: fuck sprint
I'm never going back. Got an unlimited txt/data plan with 1000 minutes a month from tmobile on my blackberry plan for $60/month which is cheaper than my sprint plan ever was. I've never used half of that so I consider it essentially an unlimited use plan. I have to pay for mms messages, but when you can email pictures/text for free, mms seems like an expensive crutch. I haven't figured out how to turn off mms on my phone yet so I don't accidentally send one one day... Also fuck sprint. Worst customer service ever. Ever.
This was covered in our high school junior and senior level (Honors Physics and Physics AP) physics classes. We covered very basic wave equasions in honors physics (and had some expensive wave mechanic toys to play with too!)
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Something tells me you don't do anything involving graphics and these details don't concern you, as you can't spell matte correctly.
You could almost say it's blue ray's answer to DVD's Matrix title - at the time it was the best special effects movie available to show off the detail a DVD could provide over VHS.
Check your carpet. Once the DRM gets into the carpet padding, you have to tear everything out and start all over.
You're an idiot. I don't care if I get modded down.
Reading your post, it's clear you've never seen a legal process up close, let alone watched court proceedings before. The reason the felonies you see on TV, vs what most cases are actually tried as, shocker - is that they're unusual! Imagine the news showing something new. Imagine that! Actually a very, very large portion of crimes end up getting plead down to misdemeanor, and then wiped out completely upon completion of community service. I dare you to spend a day down at the city court house and see what actually goes on down there.
Clearly you never watched batman, the animated series growing up in the 90's. Department of Motor Vehicles. Here in Texas we have a more obscure name for it - Department of Public Safety, aka the Driver's License Bureau. Either way a 3 second google search will tell you.
I just had a Belgian couple stay with me last night! couchsurfing.com ...anyways, your courts may be doing well, but from what they told me, you've been without a federal government for 6+ months now :)
What are the primary differences in the court systems?
So is it illegal to operate state business on a personal email account? I agree that there is some spillover and it's hard to avoid it completely. She does seem to do a good job with separating work and personal email (as others have pointed out), but if it is illegal to conduct state business outside of the review of the public, at what point does it become a worthwhile criminal investigation?
I'm sure my reaction would have been less had it been a democrat - afterall, that's the definition of political bias, isn't it? Can you post the emails where she is discussing things with her aides for us to review? I haven't read her personal email myself, but if you'd like to enlighten us, I'd be happy to discuss it, rather than defend against acrid remarks. I don't see any issue with laying blame on an issue that would never go to court. It's another matter entirely to assign blame based on bias for more serious matters such as theft and murder.
Oh I definitely lean to the left and feel Palin would be grossly unqualified should the qualified (but very old) McCain were to have health issues requiring him to leave office. I missed the part on slashdot where I have to register my political bias! This isn't a newspaper I'm entitled to my opinion on the facts available to me. Also keep reading additional posts to see what else I have to say and why I came to that conclusion (i.e. recieving and responding to emails from Aides of politicalrelevance is activity I would consider official).
Which way do you lean? Left or right? Do you feel it in any way biases your thoughts/comments?
Felony charge would be terrible PR for republicans. If it were any other time but election year they could string him up by his thumbs. Most likely charges won't be filed... if they are it'll be after the winning party is sworn into office, and then plead down to a misdemeanor. You have to be awful poor or kill someone to get a felony charge brought up to you and have it stick... especially with a father heavily invested in state politics.
I haven't read her email, but what I've heard was she was corresponding with heir aides about how to handle PR on several negative issues. It's a blurry line but I suppose that could be considered personal. Probably best to have made a phone call instead.
Email is a lot easier to record? There's always been a divide between the written and spoken word, from business deals (oral contract is only binding up to $500 in Florida), to courtroom hearings (hearsay, your word vs. mine, etc). You can request copies of government memos; email is electronic mail; it stands to reason that any official written communication should be kept. Lots of meetings are held behind closed doors because there's no written record for public consumption.
There's lots of other cases where emails are available for public consumption; for instance emails back to 1996 for the Seattle metro service are all available for review. On the flip side you have a matter of public record, historical records for data mining, and more. Imagine how boring history would have been if we didn't have access to Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln's personal letters today?
Governors aren't required to record their telephone conversations, although I know Nixon was a fan of doing so - which is partially what got him in trouble in the first place. I'm not sure what the outcome was in court about whether those are considered personal or not. I know in most states both parties have to be aware of the conversation being recorded. In Virginia(?) only one party is required to know that the conversation is being recorded.
I have trouble understanding why we put people with such obvious contempt for the law in positions that are in charge of it.
Brilliant marketing, and the general public's desire to believe what they're told in hopes that it will come true. If the general public were half as smart as we give them credit for the world would have never seen Napoleian, Cesar (well actually the Romans solved that problem on their own), Castro, Hugo Chavez and more. But as the protestants like to point out, people are like sheep and will head in whatever direction the man who speaks softly but carries a big stick says.
The whole reason Palin is using Yahoo instead of government sponsored email is that any email sent through those channels is archived for a Very Long Time as a matter of public record. Wondering what the clerk at the DMV is REALLY emailing about? Put in a freedom of information act request and it's all yours.
By Palin using yahoo, it's not closely watched and she can conduct official business off the record. It's very poor form to do so and is the real story here.
When they first pitched it, I was excited because they were talking about a $200 price point.
Oh come on, how long have you been following technology trends/news? Seriously? Always add 20% to the price of hardware that has more than 2 months till release. You know that. Marketing spits out a number to the press based on a best case scenario from engineering, and then engineering does their best to match that. You CAN get an Eee for $249 with free shipping, and they DID keep the specs low and stuck with linux. Quitcher Bitchin'.
Of COURSE the higher end Eees are on par with regular notebooks - you expect them to not run with the massive brand recognition the Eee commands? Beyond "Macbook" and "Macbook Pro" Eee is the most well known laptop name in the market right now. Higher end laptops have much more profit built in to them, and profit is ultimately what they're after. For $100 more you get a lot more functionality, but if you absolutely need to the $250 option exists as well.
Agreed. I got marked down in a mock government for being liberal and approving of slackening gun control laws because it wasn't part of the party platform. I think it's just a concession to a very vocal minority and for the most part people just ignore them.
You're either a blatant troll (yes) or you didn't read the article and see the screencaps. The art looks horrifically bad, even compared to TF2s early beta art. TF2 has seen at least one significant engine revamp, multiple physics particle effects and facial animation tweaks since the game was released almost a year ago. I dare you to try out tf2 on a free weekend and tell me that those battlefield screenshots don't look like 3rd rate cheap chinese knockoff artwork of Team Fortress 2. Its not a step above, its two or three steps above battlefield and has moved from a high b level title to a really shining A level title. The fact that they continue to release new, signficant updates maps weapons taunts and more on an almost monthly basis blows any other team based fps out of the water. Battlefield has a lot of ground to make up before it can compete in the big leauges. Fantasia is to the last unicorn. Valve if you need a pr rep I'm free
I like how they only reference TF2 once. The visual style is a cheap knock off of TF2 among other things.
Pretty sure the patent app is only to satisfy their branding agreement with Nike.
Or that Audacity has had a cocoa native version since at least 2004.
WERE kids.nowadays we have the 21/22 year olds who grew up with cell phones that text messaged between networks since they were in high school/middle school, who are now entering the workplace ($$$) and now paying for this on their own. The 25 and up crowd only saw txt messaging work across all networks "flawlessly" toward the end of high school/college and have had to pay for/meter their own usage for a lot longer.
I suspect in reality its half greed, half desire to push users onto a fixed txt msging plan ($4.99/ month for 400 msgs, $9.99/ month for unlimited, or whatever). Whever makes the argument that the cost of the service is what's driving the cost up is an idiot. The first thing budget carriers offer is free unlimited txt msging, and most times they're much cheaper than "nationwide carriers".
Whoops forgot to close my (b) bold tag. Well that's embarrassing. Almost as embarrassing as sprint's customer service! Zing!
What? In the four years I was stuck with sprint,at least once a month I'd get a txt msg from some spam company, or have some unneccessary charge. Never once did they remove a charge! Fuck sprint.
let me say that again: fuck sprint
I'm never going back. Got an unlimited txt/data plan with 1000 minutes a month from tmobile on my blackberry plan for $60/month which is cheaper than my sprint plan ever was. I've never used half of that so I consider it essentially an unlimited use plan. I have to pay for mms messages, but when you can email pictures/text for free, mms seems like an expensive crutch. I haven't figured out how to turn off mms on my phone yet so I don't accidentally send one one day... Also fuck sprint. Worst customer service ever. Ever.
This was covered in our high school junior and senior level (Honors Physics and Physics AP) physics classes. We covered very basic wave equasions in honors physics (and had some expensive wave mechanic toys to play with too!)