They've made some decent progress, mostly for affordable Asian, especially Thai and sushi. Seem to have made some big strides in the veg/organic/raw arena, if you like that sort of thing.
I'm from "up here" too.
When Dave Hilton was first arrested, it was only said that it was on suspicion of child molestation - it was never stated that it was his daughters, even after he was sentenced.
That fact only came to light when the girls, in their twenties, decided to write a book about it.
At that point, Hilton had been back on the street for several years.
Going back to Judge Rittenbaud, it's not that he refused to accept the plea bargain, which as you rightly pointed out, he's not bound to.
It's that he had accepted and then reversed himself. And, it later came to light that there might have been prosecutorial interference, although now Wells is saying that he was lying then but not lying now. I wonder if he's ever read the perjury statutes.
I take issue with the "we know what's best for you" attitude - it's just a retread of the old parochial attitude.
Rape takes away the victims' power and self-esteem; forced exposure takes away their freedom.
Right, it must have been genetic - those freaks of nature who developed the mutineer gene and the closely-linked child-rape gene.
Good thing they mutineed and fled otherwise, their nasty deviant genes might have contaminated the upper crust who only suffered from the benign flogging gene, press-ganging gene and last and of course least, the colonize-the-bloody-heathen-wogs gene.
It wasn't being dropped and Samantha had already given testimony in a hearing but the object of the plea was to balance punishing Polanski and doing right by Samantha. Even today, we don't deal completely openly with rape when a minor is involved. And yes, the "damaged goods" label still sticks, unfortunately, and this is especially true for many minorities.
The stigma attached to rape is far from dead.
Allowing cops to press charges without the victim's cooperation is largely is good thing but that really doesn't compare to the rape case in question. Guilt was already admitted, the psychiatric evaluation was already completed, the deal had already been accepted by all parties - and then the judge made a unilateral decision that may have involved interference from the prosecutor.
It seems the person with clean hands was Samantha who's understandly reluctant to have to go through this again after 31 ( not 40, by the way) years. Now Samantha has children of her own to worry about - I hope they aren't unpopular adolescents. Based on the cruelty I've seen and experienced growing up, I'm sure they've already heard jeers about "Your mother likes it up the ass" or some such.
He was probably not much worse than the average captain of the time and nowhere near the league of George Vancouver when it comes to being a heavy-handed hardass. But genius or not, he was no saint, never really learned to balance power and personality - witness his time as Governor of New South Wales - and obviously didn't learn enough from Captain Cook about leading men.
"What could be more fair?" How about putting the interest of the victim first? I find considerable irony in this case - it was the murder of Polanksi's wife and the efforts of his mother-in-law that led to the practice of the victim impact statement.
Now, the victim of Polanski's own crime is being ignored.
According to the scant info I can find, a Rorer 714 is a 300mg pill not 500mg as you claim and she only took part of one.
She admitted to having taking Qaaludes once before, and having being drunk before although this was the first time she taken alcohol and Qaaludes together. He took severe advantage of her and I wonder what he was thinking since there were people who knew he was photograhing her.
France rejected the US request for an extradition back then but the States could also have requested he be tried in France. Apparently, this request was never made.
Roman is clearly and fault and he's never denied this but this would never have dragged on if the deal, with which he was complying, had been honored. Also, he's never been accused by anyone else so, pedophile or not, he's not a serial rapist and he was cleared by psychiatric evaluation ( hardly foolproof, I know ) of being a pathological sex offender.
So, if his (sole) victim has not only forgiven him but has been campaiging for 12 years to let the matter drop, what is the problem?
Kindly remove the SuperBanana that is clogging yours up. The fact that he made a statement that's no longer true about Massachusetts doesn't warrant a "head up ass" remark.
Your point would have been made just as well by, for example, "Not True for a long time! See link: "
You're still living in a democracy / constitutional republic, right? Doesn't that give you the ability to change the government? And, aren't the insurance companies already deciding what drugs and procedures you can obtain? At the very worst, you'll be taking the same power that the insurers have and pass it along to the government. At the end of the day your fate is in someone else's hands - based on the experiences of the other western nations, is the government really such a bad choice, compared to the current situation?
I've heard of European countries that found that they could get better overall performance with roughly the same number of total days/hours in class by changing the vacations around - namely no 2 month long summer holiday where far too many students forget a big chunk of what they learned and then need a couple weeks, or longer, at the start of the school year for a refresher ( or maybe to learn it right for the first time )
I should point out that "the ability to sit and do it" may be of considerable value when those students become adults.
It's not like they haven't tried before. The healthcare battle in the US is a long-running one. The Clintons took a shot at it - and lost. The problem is that too many of the politicians are greedy and there are too many lobbyists.
I'm living in your world, sadly. I'm done with both Bell and Rogers, may they roast forever in the hottest corners of hell. But, they're the big players and the CRTC is a stacked deck. I signed the petition and circulated it to all my friends. The thing is, more than half a dozen of them work for Rogers! Can't wait to see what they do.
Disclaimer: I used to work for IBM. Having used MS Office, several OpenOffice.org variants, WordPerfect X* and IBM Lotus Symphony, all in various versions but, typically only for intermediate use ( no really complex docs or fancy macros ), I have to say that Office 2003 would be my first pick if money isn't an issue.
Second, would be the Go variant of OO.o ( http://www.go-oo.org/ ) and Lotus Symphony would be WAAAY at the back.
It's slow at everything, and, for what i do, lacking in features. If money is an issue, then any variant of OO.o plus Gnumeric for really big spreadsheets, (yes, Gnumeric really is that good and George Ou should have done his tests on it before clamoring that an open source app couldn't match Excel 2003)
If the court determined that the verdict was sound but the penalty was too high, why not simply set a "sentencing hearing" to determine a more suitable fine. Sending it back to trial means that it's back to square one.
Just when you think you'd heard it all. I'm sure their licenses will make for interesting reading. I vaguely recall that they'd submitted licenses for review by OSI some years past- what became of that?
Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures doesn't sue people over patents, because that would be patent trolling! No, instead they just threaten to sell the patent to a known litigious patent troll. So that's all right then. Timothy Lee details how using patents to crush profitable innovation works in practice, and concludes: 'In thinking about how to reform the patent system, a good yardstick would be to look for policy changes that would tend to put Myhrvold and his firm out of business.'
Please, summarize without injecting your childish sarcasm; save those for a comment reply. For example:
In order to avoid blatant patent trolling, Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures doesn't sue people over patents; they instead threaten to sell the patent to a known litigious patent troll. Timothy Lee details how using patents to crush profitable innovation works in practice, and concludes: 'In thinking about how to reform the patent system, a good yardstick would be to look for policy changes that would tend to put Myhrvold and his firm out of business.'
I much prefer the latter summary to the former, and I doubt I'm alone.
And, I don't really care, so long as the linked article is interesting and informative, and I doubt I'm alone.
This will have minimal impact on the adoption of SSDs ( well for smart consumers ). What it might do, is reduce the amount of RAM
that gets installed by default. 4-16 GB is ridiculously small as a substitute for mass storage but right up there with volatile RAM.
Also, the best way to speed up a system is to increase the performance of the slowest subsystems ( especially if they're heavily used). Right now, that would be magnetic, rotating hard disks. And, Intel is not so stupid as to undercut one of their own products that's clearly better than any competing product at the moment.
I see we have a volunteer for explaining that to a fuming exec that can't get his email at 5:00 PM.
We suffered through 3 months of 3-times-a-week outages when our outsourced Exchange mail was maintained by a large company with initials similar to Harry Potter. I can only recall about 3 or 4 significant Gmail outages in nearly 5 years and new, mostly useful features keep appearing for free whereas the aforementioned company would nickel, dime and dollar us to death for every damn request.
Not to mention that I can search search my 10,000+ message / 3 Gb Gmail archive 100 times faster than my cached Exchange store that's only 1000 messages / 100 Mb and Gmail doesn't get confused by commas.
If your exec can't see which is a better value for the money he's not spending, he deserves a lead parachute
Slashdot Mirror
They've made some decent progress, mostly for affordable Asian, especially Thai and sushi.
Seem to have made some big strides in the veg/organic/raw arena, if you like that sort of thing.
I've lived in various parts of Montreal, incl Pierrefonds and N.D.G, over the years but now live in T.O.
Correction - he was still in jail when his daughters published the book.
I'm from "up here" too.
When Dave Hilton was first arrested, it was only said that it was on suspicion of child molestation - it was never stated that it was his daughters, even after he was sentenced.
That fact only came to light when the girls, in their twenties, decided to write a book about it.
At that point, Hilton had been back on the street for several years.
Going back to Judge Rittenbaud, it's not that he refused to accept the plea bargain, which as you rightly pointed out, he's not bound to.
It's that he had accepted and then reversed himself. And, it later came to light that there might have been prosecutorial interference, although now Wells is saying that he was lying then but not lying now.
I wonder if he's ever read the perjury statutes.
I take issue with the "we know what's best for you" attitude - it's just a retread of the old parochial attitude.
Rape takes away the victims' power and self-esteem; forced exposure takes away their freedom.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Right, it must have been genetic - those freaks of nature who developed the mutineer gene and the closely-linked child-rape gene.
Good thing they mutineed and fled otherwise, their nasty deviant genes might have contaminated the upper crust who only suffered from the benign flogging gene, press-ganging gene and last and of course least, the colonize-the-bloody-heathen-wogs gene.
It wasn't being dropped and Samantha had already given testimony in a hearing but the object of the plea was to balance punishing Polanski and doing right by Samantha.
Even today, we don't deal completely openly with rape when a minor is involved. And yes, the "damaged goods" label still sticks, unfortunately, and this is especially true for many minorities.
The stigma attached to rape is far from dead.
Allowing cops to press charges without the victim's cooperation is largely is good thing but that really doesn't compare to the rape case in question.
Guilt was already admitted, the psychiatric evaluation was already completed, the deal had already been accepted by all parties - and then the judge made a unilateral decision that may have involved interference from the prosecutor.
It seems the person with clean hands was Samantha who's understandly reluctant to have to go through this again after 31 ( not 40, by the way) years.
Now Samantha has children of her own to worry about - I hope they aren't unpopular adolescents.
Based on the cruelty I've seen and experienced growing up, I'm sure they've already heard jeers about "Your mother likes it up the ass" or some such.
He was probably not much worse than the average captain of the time and nowhere near the league of George Vancouver when it
comes to being a heavy-handed hardass. But genius or not, he was no saint, never really learned to balance power and personality - witness his
time as Governor of New South Wales - and obviously didn't learn enough from Captain Cook about leading men.
"What could be more fair?" How about putting the interest of the victim first?
I find considerable irony in this case - it was the murder of Polanksi's wife and the efforts of his mother-in-law that led to the practice of the victim impact statement.
Now, the victim of Polanski's own crime is being ignored.
Here's what Samantha Gailey's testimony says:
That, a couple years before, she'd taken part of a Qaalude and that the pill Polanski had was a Rorer 714, broken into 3 pieces.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/polanskib2.html
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/polanskib3.html
According to the scant info I can find, a Rorer 714 is a 300mg pill not 500mg as you claim and she only took part of one.
She admitted to having taking Qaaludes once before, and having being drunk before although this was the first time she taken alcohol and Qaaludes together.
He took severe advantage of her and I wonder what he was thinking since there were people who knew he was photograhing her.
The link below, a transcript of his plea hearing, says that he admitted to knowing she was 13, although it also says that, before answering,
he consulted twice with his lawyer.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0928091polanskiplea10.html
However, looking at a picture that is supposed to be one of Samantha in 1977, I can't see how he could think she was 17 so he must have known.
Samantha's lawyer urged the judge to accept the plea: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0928091polanskiplea17.html
France rejected the US request for an extradition back then but the States could also have requested he be tried in France. Apparently, this request was never made.
Roman is clearly and fault and he's never denied this but this would never have dragged on if the deal, with which he was complying, had been honored. Also, he's never been accused by anyone else so, pedophile or not, he's not a serial rapist and he was cleared by psychiatric evaluation ( hardly foolproof, I know ) of being a pathological sex offender.
So, if his (sole) victim has not only forgiven him but has been campaiging for 12 years to let the matter drop, what is the problem?
Kindly remove the SuperBanana that is clogging yours up.
The fact that he made a statement that's no longer true about
Massachusetts doesn't warrant a "head up ass" remark.
Your point would have been made just as well by, for example,
"Not True for a long time! See link: "
You're still living in a democracy / constitutional republic, right? Doesn't that give you the ability to change the government?
And, aren't the insurance companies already deciding
what drugs and procedures you can obtain?
At the very worst, you'll be taking the same power that the insurers have and pass it along to the government.
At the end of the day your fate is in someone else's hands - based on the experiences of the other western nations, is the government really such a bad choice, compared to the current situation?
I've heard of European countries that found that they could get better overall performance with roughly the same
number of total days/hours in class by changing the vacations around - namely no 2 month long summer holiday where
far too many students forget a big chunk of what they learned and then need a couple weeks, or longer, at the
start of the school year for a refresher ( or maybe to learn it right for the first time )
I should point out that "the ability to sit and do it" may be of considerable value when those students become adults.
It's not like they haven't tried before. The healthcare battle in the US is a long-running one.
The Clintons took a shot at it - and lost. The problem is that too many of the politicians
are greedy and there are too many lobbyists.
I'm living in your world, sadly. I'm done with both Bell and Rogers, may they roast forever in the hottest corners
of hell. But, they're the big players and the CRTC is a stacked deck. I signed the petition and circulated
it to all my friends.
The thing is, more than half a dozen of them work for Rogers! Can't wait to see what they do.
If only I had mod points
Disclaimer: I used to work for IBM. Having used MS Office, several OpenOffice.org variants, WordPerfect X* and IBM Lotus Symphony, all in various versions
but, typically only for intermediate use ( no really complex docs or fancy macros ), I have to say that Office 2003 would be my first pick if money isn't an issue.
Second, would be the Go variant of OO.o ( http://www.go-oo.org/ ) and Lotus Symphony would be WAAAY at the back.
It's slow at everything, and, for what i do, lacking in features. If money is an issue, then any variant of OO.o plus Gnumeric for really big spreadsheets,
(yes, Gnumeric really is that good and George Ou should have done his tests on it before clamoring that an open source app couldn't match Excel 2003)
Bet it wouldn't take long for them to change that to Algae Y'oil
If the court determined that the verdict was sound but the penalty was too high, why not simply set a "sentencing hearing" to
determine a more suitable fine. Sending it back to trial means that it's back to square one.
Just when you think you'd heard it all. I'm sure their licenses will make for interesting reading. I vaguely recall that they'd submitted
licenses for review by OSI some years past- what became of that?
What about browsing from a VMware image running inside the corporate desktop template? I've been doing that for years.
My apologies for the typo in the subject line; I was rushing to head for home.
Please, summarize without injecting your childish sarcasm; save those for a comment reply. For example:
I much prefer the latter summary to the former, and I doubt I'm alone.
And, I don't really care, so long as the linked article is interesting and informative, and I doubt I'm alone.
Despite his considerable intellect, he didn't accomplish much of note at M$ and now has sunk even lower. He should stick to cooking
and taking photos.
This will have minimal impact on the adoption of SSDs ( well for smart consumers ). What it might do, is reduce the amount of RAM
that gets installed by default. 4-16 GB is ridiculously small as a substitute for mass storage but right up there with volatile RAM.
Also, the best way to speed up a system is to increase the performance of the slowest subsystems ( especially if they're heavily used).
Right now, that would be magnetic, rotating hard disks. And, Intel is not so stupid as to undercut one of their own products that's
clearly better than any competing product at the moment.
I see we have a volunteer for explaining that to a fuming exec that can't get his email at 5:00 PM.
We suffered through 3 months of 3-times-a-week outages when our outsourced Exchange mail was maintained by a
large company with initials similar to Harry Potter. I can only recall about 3 or 4 significant Gmail outages in nearly 5 years
and new, mostly useful features keep appearing for free whereas the aforementioned company would nickel, dime and dollar
us to death for every damn request.
Not to mention that I can search search my 10,000+ message / 3 Gb Gmail archive 100 times faster than my cached Exchange
store that's only 1000 messages / 100 Mb and Gmail doesn't get confused by commas.
If your exec can't see which is a better value for the money he's not spending, he deserves a lead parachute