For you to say 'Europe's ever-leftward growing interests' means that you have no clue about European politics.
There is a very strong right wing revival in Europe in full swing as you write this and it is a source of some concern.
As they say, 'education has a left wing bias', unfortunately the US of A does not even have a left wing to speak of. Nader, maybe... Not that he stands a chance of ever getting elected.
Winner takes all is the American way, this disenfranchises a very large part of the population, coalition government is the european way and it seems to work a lot better in getting some actual representation.
sorry, but by the looks of it from the outside in you might as well have a dictator. Your president is ignoring the laws of his own country as though they did not exist (or at least do not apply to him), let's not even get started about the vice president.
That he has a lot of people enabling him goes without saying but it is a very serious situation nonetheless.
I think the legal profession is a bit like a priesthood, it actually thrives on obscure interpretations of language and on serious consequences of failing such interpretations. It's like an arms race, if your opponent has a lawyer then you'd better get one yourself and so on. The end result is a legal system that is well beyond the average smart persons capability to interpret.
It should have never ever gotten this far.
If you simply removed all lawyers and let the parties argue their own cases exclusively we'd see two things:
- a significant drop in caseload - a return to reasonable verdicts instead of verdicts on technicalities
Of course it's a pipe dream (especially in criminal law) but like with most extreme positions it has a grain of truth in it somewhere and it would be nice to be able to shift the 'middle ground' to the point where lay people would stand a chance against a seasoned lawyer, and where verdicts would actually make sense to an informed outsider.
I look at it slightly different, whoever wins, we all win (but not the Americans...)
If mcCain wins then he'll wreck America beyond recovery during our lifetimes with a continuation of the disastrous policies of Bush the younger, if mcCain wins and dies then sockpuppet will wreck America beyond recovery in a century (or two) simply because she's not quite qualified to run a state, let a alone a very large country. Her lack of preparation displayed in unscripted interviews is astounding. Both are bad for Americans but to a limited extent good for the world. A lot of festering stuff has been held back for the longest time because of the US's status.
If Obama wins then he will quite probably restore some of America's respect and stature abroad, at a fair expense to the American taxpayer (simply because it will cost a lot of $ to right so many wrongs). This will stave off economic collapse (for a while, probably not indefinitely) and will boost the world economy considerably.
So, either way, we all win, but Americans will pay the price. Simply because the last 8 years have been like a loan, and it will need to be paid back somehow.
whoever modded you insightful should be banned from getting mod points for life, if a problem has already happened to the first shuttle then:
- the next shuttle developing a problem is as likely as it was before, namely 1:100 (assuming the model is correct) - the model is likely incorrect, so the chance could be *MUCH* higher
The problem has at least happened once so the model needs re-evaluation, and most likely the rescue shuttle is operating under a much higher chance of failure unless the cause of the original failure is determined and fixed.
Otherwise you will possibly lose your *ONLY* chance to fix things.
It's absolutely amazing that someone would think that a failure would not have any impact on the evaluation of the odds for the future as well.
Obviously if there is a 1:100 perceived chance for a problem to occur and it occurs in a relatively short series as opposed to somewhere in the middle of a series then it's high time to re-evaluate the model to make sure the original estimate was correct, since the evidence shows that there is a good chance that the original estimate was too optimistic. With infrequent events such estimates can be wildly off anyway (both to the positive and to the negative side).
If you have the proof of the situation in your hand (failed shuttle launch, crew stranded) it would be absolutely stupid to risk another vehicle and another crew becoming stranded in the same way without a thorough and not too time constrained evaluation of the cause so that the chance of the event happening during the rescue mission decreases to the point where the risk becomes acceptable.
If you still don't get any of this then you should study Bayes theorem for a bit.
that makes some sense but because the two craft are equal in design the chances that the second shuttle would develop the same problem are actually higher than if the first one did not have a problem...
I really don't get the logic behind this, but presumably nasa has some very smart people working for them and they know their stuff.
Collect the bits in case the original craft explodes ?
This makes very little sense to me, admittedly I don't know very much about rocketry but the few times that things went wrong a rescue vehicle would have only compounded the problem, not mitigated it. If there still is enough of the original craft left to do something about the astronauts then sending up a similar craft sounds like a pretty dumb idea, first you'd need to figure out the cause of the problem before sending up an identical craft.
Better to rely on the russians for a rescue mission. Of course that would not do, to depend on a foreign power in times of distress...
I'm guessing you're a Canadian national, I'm dutch and that makes quite a bit of a difference when crossing the border, on top of that I have crossed the US border many many times (and a good bit of those were without trouble, it's the times that I was treated bad (make that very bad) that stand out).
I'm pretty sure if European border guards would display such attitude they would be out of a job pronto.
I think there were at least 5 such rewrites, the idea for the movie was already quite well developed by 1985 there was a pre-production screenplay, Douglas Adams rewrote it several times over the next 15 years, the last rewrite was done after Adams died in 2002/2003 by Karey Kirkpatrick and a bunch of others.
There are some ways of turning a sentence around so that it becomes a joke that I'm pretty sure Pratchett lifted from Adams, but that does not make him a bad writer.
I have most of his books and really enjoy the way he manages to fit things into the discworld universe.
If anybody could do an emulation of Adams it probably would be Pratchett, but I personally think that it is not 'nice' to go and take over the universe of a dead author while trying to claim some kind of association.
Let's be happy with what Douglas Adams left us and leave it at that, without wondering how it might have turned out if he had lived longer, he didn't. The world is a more empty place for it, but besides all the works that Bach didn't compose and the books Douglas Adams didn't write I'm sure that there is room enough for original work by new authors that do not claim to be linked in some way to a deceased composer or author.
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right, so right now we have a bias towards money, whoever can hire the most/best lawyers often wins the case.
It seems to be very hard to have a system without bias (including the one where you simply buy the judge, sure that *NEVER* happens...).
For you to say 'Europe's ever-leftward growing interests' means that you have no clue about European politics.
There is a very strong right wing revival in Europe in full swing as you write this and it is a source of some concern.
As they say, 'education has a left wing bias', unfortunately the US of A does not even have a left wing to speak of. Nader, maybe... Not that he stands a chance of ever getting elected.
Winner takes all is the American way, this disenfranchises a very large part of the population, coalition government is the european way and it seems to work a lot better in getting some actual representation.
sorry, but by the looks of it from the outside in you might as well have a dictator. Your president is ignoring the laws of his own country as though they did not exist (or at least do not apply to him), let's not even get started about the vice president.
That he has a lot of people enabling him goes without saying but it is a very serious situation nonetheless.
I think the legal profession is a bit like a priesthood, it actually thrives on obscure interpretations of language and on serious consequences of failing such interpretations. It's like an arms race, if your opponent has a lawyer then you'd better get one yourself and so on. The end result is a legal system that is well beyond the average smart persons capability to interpret.
It should have never ever gotten this far.
If you simply removed all lawyers and let the parties argue their own cases exclusively we'd see two things:
- a significant drop in caseload
- a return to reasonable verdicts instead of verdicts on technicalities
Of course it's a pipe dream (especially in criminal law) but like with most extreme positions it has a grain of truth in it somewhere and it would be nice to be able to shift the 'middle ground' to the point where lay people would stand a chance against a seasoned lawyer, and where verdicts would actually make sense to an informed outsider.
I look at it slightly different, whoever wins, we all win (but not the Americans...)
If mcCain wins then he'll wreck America beyond recovery during our lifetimes with a continuation of the disastrous policies of Bush the younger, if mcCain wins and dies then sockpuppet will wreck America beyond recovery in a century (or two) simply because she's not quite qualified to run a state, let a alone a very large country. Her lack of preparation displayed in unscripted interviews is astounding. Both are bad for Americans but to a limited extent good for the world. A lot of festering stuff has been held back for the longest time because of the US's status.
If Obama wins then he will quite probably restore some of America's respect and stature abroad, at a fair expense to the American taxpayer (simply because it will cost a lot of $ to right so many wrongs). This will stave off economic collapse (for a while, probably not indefinitely) and will boost the world economy considerably.
So, either way, we all win, but Americans will pay the price. Simply because the last 8 years have been like a loan, and it will need to be paid back somehow.
spot on. But to overcome the current apathy a lot more is needed than another round of voting.
true enough, but I would prefer a world without lawyers to one with 'good' lawyers and 'bad' lawyers.
I realize we need laws but the very large majority of the lawyers is simply parasitic to society.
It should be possible to get by with far far less of them then there currently are.
whoever modded you insightful should be banned from getting mod points for life, if a problem has already happened to the first shuttle then:
- the next shuttle developing a problem is as likely as it was before, namely 1:100 (assuming the model is correct)
- the model is likely incorrect, so the chance could be *MUCH* higher
The problem has at least happened once so the model needs re-evaluation, and most likely the rescue shuttle is operating under a much higher chance of failure unless the cause of the original failure is determined and fixed.
Otherwise you will possibly lose your *ONLY* chance to fix things.
exactly.
It's absolutely amazing that someone would think that a failure would not have any impact on the evaluation of the odds for the future as well.
Obviously if there is a 1:100 perceived chance for a problem to occur and it occurs in a relatively short series as opposed to somewhere in the middle of a series then it's high time to re-evaluate the model to make sure the original estimate was correct, since the evidence shows that there is a good chance that the original estimate was too optimistic. With infrequent events such estimates can be wildly off anyway (both to the positive and to the negative side).
If you have the proof of the situation in your hand (failed shuttle launch, crew stranded) it would be absolutely stupid to risk another vehicle and another crew becoming stranded in the same way without a thorough and not too time constrained evaluation of the cause so that the chance of the event happening during the rescue mission decreases to the point where the risk becomes acceptable.
If you still don't get any of this then you should study Bayes theorem for a bit.
that makes some sense but because the two craft are equal in design the chances that the second shuttle would develop the same problem are actually higher than if the first one did not have a problem...
I really don't get the logic behind this, but presumably nasa has some very smart people working for them and they know their stuff.
Hook up and pull them if they get stranded ?
Collect the bits in case the original craft explodes ?
This makes very little sense to me, admittedly I don't know very much about rocketry but the few times that things went wrong a rescue vehicle would have only compounded the problem, not mitigated it. If there still is enough of the original craft left to do something about the astronauts then sending up a similar craft sounds like a pretty dumb idea, first you'd need to figure out the cause of the problem before sending up an identical craft.
Better to rely on the russians for a rescue mission. Of course that would not do, to depend on a foreign power in times of distress...
I'm guessing you're a Canadian national, I'm dutch and that makes quite a bit of a difference when crossing the border, on top of that I have crossed the US border many many times (and a good bit of those were without trouble, it's the times that I was treated bad (make that very bad) that stand out).
I'm pretty sure if European border guards would display such attitude they would be out of a job pronto.
correction, that was Air France to Columbia, not Panama.
I'm happy to hear there are now direct flights to Panama, I have to go there at the end of this year.
KLM flew via paris, not a direct flight (at least it wasn't when I was flying that route)
opengl part of glibc ?????
that didn't stop them from patenting it.
the voltage drop on such low voltage high amperage wires would mean that your hardware would receive voltages wildly out of spec.
Also the transients would be wicked.
And you'd better *really* not drop your screwdriver.
you could run linux ;)
For the humor impaired I'm aware that vmware does not run on CE.
good point :)
Have you found the long dark teatime of the soul yet ?
Just make sure you don't step on any bits of whale...
and it isn't even thursday...
I think there were at least 5 such rewrites, the idea for the movie was already quite well developed by 1985 there was a pre-production screenplay, Douglas Adams rewrote it several times over the next 15 years, the last rewrite was done after Adams died in 2002/2003 by Karey Kirkpatrick and a bunch of others.
The 'pushed through' is quite apt...
There are some ways of turning a sentence around so that it becomes a joke that I'm pretty sure Pratchett lifted from Adams, but that does not make him a bad writer.
I have most of his books and really enjoy the way he manages to fit things into the discworld universe.
If anybody could do an emulation of Adams it probably would be Pratchett, but I personally think that it is not 'nice' to go and take over the universe of a dead author while trying to claim some kind of association.
Let's be happy with what Douglas Adams left us and leave it at that, without wondering how it might have turned out if he had lived longer, he didn't. The world is a more empty place for it, but besides all the works that Bach didn't compose and the books Douglas Adams didn't write I'm sure that there is room enough for original work by new authors that do not claim to be linked in some way to a deceased composer or author.
That's just milking the cash cow.
mod parent to high heaven please :)