The law in this case has done its job, it has found Mr Singh not liable for defamation. Defamation laws are there to make people responsible for what they say and they mostly work.
Bullshit. Libel laws have no place in scientific discourse.
Yeah because two counter examples makes his statement wrong. He didn't say all countries with stricter gun control laws, he said there exist countries.
The laws are more complicated than that. In Maryland (and this is how is should be), you can use lethal force to defend yourself when you're being assaulted and are under immediate threat of grave injury. But you can't defend your property with lethal force. If someone steals your wallet or is trying to make off with your TV at night while you're sleeping, you can't jump them from behind and stab them or hit them in the head with a baseball bat. A wallet or a TV aren't worth the life of a human being.
Except it's impossible to die from a knife slash but if you get shot, even in the leg or something, it's immediately a life-threatening injury. People don't just recover from being shot. It can cause permanent nerve damage, lots of muscle damage that takes years to completely heal, and if you're unlucky enough to be shot in a bone then it might splinter and require implants and reconstructive surgery. A shot to the head is -extremely- dangerous and usually results in death or brain damage.
I don't mean actually arresting those parents. I mean that there should be legislation forbidding having so many kids, so that if they did it anyway they'd be convicted.
When you put kids in a dangerous environment without any food/money, and reject and scorn them as a society so they have to fend for themselves, they don't just die off cleanly. They form gangs.
They would murder people, destroy neighborhoods, have no education and speak an unintelligible street slang, and be generally useless to society. Except instead of being fed with tax money, they're fed by robbing you at knifepoint and taking everything you have.
It's a child protection issue not a financial issue. There's no way that the parents can pay adequate attention to each child. They educate each other (public school is evil etc), take care of each other, and fend for themselves most of the time. There is such a thing as a criminally irresponsible parent (leave your kid in a locked car for example).
It's not pure classism, society does make a substantial (and staggeringly expensive) effort to get poor people the training and resources they need to get out of that rut if they want it. Every citizen gets 13 years of concentrated attention from educators for free. Higher education is often a few thousand dollars away at public universities, and that can be covered with government loans. The point is that intelligence and skill does rise to the top, and the ones with less resources tend to be more useless workers.
This is not a matter of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, this is good old fashioned primitive instinct of I want to live.
Whoa, back up. We're a long way from a survival situation where you eat your friends' baby to stay alive. We're still living in (comparatively) good times. They're not impinging on your ability to stay alive, they're maybe impinging on your ability to have expensive wine or run your AC super cold all the time. Those effects are of course unacceptable if they run indefinitely but you should be careful not to insinuate culling the herd to stay alive. We're still in a society, we're not savages.
The thing is, you can't just refuse to give a hungry child food and rant for 5 paragraphs about politics and the middle ages. These children can't help their parents' stupidity and need to be helped. I'm not sure what the solution is though because you're right, they keep pumping out babies and we keep feeding them. There has to be a penalty for the mother to stop the cycle. Forced abortions are a touchy issue what with China but if you're not willfully breaking the law by having more kids then you have nothing to worry about.
A lot of the problem is due to pervasive Catholicism in latin america. Otherwise good people who work hard think that it's a sin to use birth control, and their children suffer.
He's not completely psycho. Discovery's (TLC's) support of Jon and Kate Plus Eight, 19 Kids and Counting, etc is disgusting. Those parents should be in jail, not rolling in money.
And honestly how often are you going to flip through 10 volumes of 5 point font printed on bible paper so thin you can see through it just to look up the definition of a word?
It sounds like the prosecutor was trying to be helpful but the judge was just looking for some authoritative source to tell him what to think. There's no way the judge would have gone out and bought a copy of the DSM and checked the citation, he was just looking for something official sounding.
Probably just spray a patch of anode and a patch of cathode somewhere else and run some wires. It might be useful for charging very low power devices like aimpoint sights.
It could also be set up to record your location throughout the day at intervals no finer than 1/second. (Civilian GPS refreshes that fast, and there's no way they could get their hands on milspec.)
Are you aware that GPS depends on knowing the time so precisely that it has to compensate for relativistic effects on orbiting satellites?
The only reason tobacco is illegal is cause back in the early 21st century the battery industry stepped in to prevent competition. They ran smear campaigns to try to make tobacco use look immoral and -fffffffff- unhealthy.
It's probably best to just drop it in a river or off a pier or something then. Those things can't be cheap.
(That is, if you can even get it off your car.. it's probably attached with strong magnets. I wouldn't even know what to look for, even if I jacked up my car every day and looked around with a flashlight.)
You could easily just badly document or fail to document passwords and configuration info and stuff. As long as you're around and working with the systems daily, everything runs smoothly. If you get fired, there's confusion with the new guy and your memory fades... it's not like they can really tell exactly what isn't a matter of the new guy not being up to speed for weeks. And you're not responsible for giving them consulting services for free after they fire you. If they can't figure out the non-standard port numbers you used, then that's their problem.
Childs took an idiotic stand where he admitted he knew the passwords and refused to hand them over. That's not the most lenient case, that's the worst case I can think of other than destroying data.
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Bullshit. Libel laws have no place in scientific discourse.
They are poor and reproduce too much because they are stupid. Giving them more money doesn't solve the underlying problem.
Yeah because two counter examples makes his statement wrong. He didn't say all countries with stricter gun control laws, he said there exist countries.
The laws are more complicated than that. In Maryland (and this is how is should be), you can use lethal force to defend yourself when you're being assaulted and are under immediate threat of grave injury. But you can't defend your property with lethal force. If someone steals your wallet or is trying to make off with your TV at night while you're sleeping, you can't jump them from behind and stab them or hit them in the head with a baseball bat. A wallet or a TV aren't worth the life of a human being.
Except it's impossible to die from a knife slash but if you get shot, even in the leg or something, it's immediately a life-threatening injury. People don't just recover from being shot. It can cause permanent nerve damage, lots of muscle damage that takes years to completely heal, and if you're unlucky enough to be shot in a bone then it might splinter and require implants and reconstructive surgery. A shot to the head is -extremely- dangerous and usually results in death or brain damage.
Did it ever occur to you that cities with very bad crime problems like DC and Chicago had to enact those strict laws to fight crime?
I should also add that Switzerland has compulsory military service for all males.
I don't mean actually arresting those parents. I mean that there should be legislation forbidding having so many kids, so that if they did it anyway they'd be convicted.
When you put kids in a dangerous environment without any food/money, and reject and scorn them as a society so they have to fend for themselves, they don't just die off cleanly. They form gangs.
They would murder people, destroy neighborhoods, have no education and speak an unintelligible street slang, and be generally useless to society. Except instead of being fed with tax money, they're fed by robbing you at knifepoint and taking everything you have.
It's a child protection issue not a financial issue. There's no way that the parents can pay adequate attention to each child. They educate each other (public school is evil etc), take care of each other, and fend for themselves most of the time. There is such a thing as a criminally irresponsible parent (leave your kid in a locked car for example).
In case you haven't seen it already, the Idiocracy intro makes that point perfectly.
It's not pure classism, society does make a substantial (and staggeringly expensive) effort to get poor people the training and resources they need to get out of that rut if they want it. Every citizen gets 13 years of concentrated attention from educators for free. Higher education is often a few thousand dollars away at public universities, and that can be covered with government loans. The point is that intelligence and skill does rise to the top, and the ones with less resources tend to be more useless workers.
Whoa, back up. We're a long way from a survival situation where you eat your friends' baby to stay alive. We're still living in (comparatively) good times. They're not impinging on your ability to stay alive, they're maybe impinging on your ability to have expensive wine or run your AC super cold all the time. Those effects are of course unacceptable if they run indefinitely but you should be careful not to insinuate culling the herd to stay alive. We're still in a society, we're not savages.
The thing is, you can't just refuse to give a hungry child food and rant for 5 paragraphs about politics and the middle ages. These children can't help their parents' stupidity and need to be helped. I'm not sure what the solution is though because you're right, they keep pumping out babies and we keep feeding them. There has to be a penalty for the mother to stop the cycle. Forced abortions are a touchy issue what with China but if you're not willfully breaking the law by having more kids then you have nothing to worry about.
A lot of the problem is due to pervasive Catholicism in latin america. Otherwise good people who work hard think that it's a sin to use birth control, and their children suffer.
He's not completely psycho. Discovery's (TLC's) support of Jon and Kate Plus Eight, 19 Kids and Counting, etc is disgusting. Those parents should be in jail, not rolling in money.
Passing one dictionary around? It would get boring quickly when playing with all the words between maven and maw.
And honestly how often are you going to flip through 10 volumes of 5 point font printed on bible paper so thin you can see through it just to look up the definition of a word?
It sounds like the prosecutor was trying to be helpful but the judge was just looking for some authoritative source to tell him what to think. There's no way the judge would have gone out and bought a copy of the DSM and checked the citation, he was just looking for something official sounding.
You mean with that caveat?
Probably just spray a patch of anode and a patch of cathode somewhere else and run some wires. It might be useful for charging very low power devices like aimpoint sights.
Are you aware that GPS depends on knowing the time so precisely that it has to compensate for relativistic effects on orbiting satellites?
The only reason tobacco is illegal is cause back in the early 21st century the battery industry stepped in to prevent competition. They ran smear campaigns to try to make tobacco use look immoral and -fffffffff- unhealthy.
It's probably best to just drop it in a river or off a pier or something then. Those things can't be cheap.
(That is, if you can even get it off your car.. it's probably attached with strong magnets. I wouldn't even know what to look for, even if I jacked up my car every day and looked around with a flashlight.)
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I cannot emphasize the dot dot dot impatience enough.
You could easily just badly document or fail to document passwords and configuration info and stuff. As long as you're around and working with the systems daily, everything runs smoothly. If you get fired, there's confusion with the new guy and your memory fades... it's not like they can really tell exactly what isn't a matter of the new guy not being up to speed for weeks. And you're not responsible for giving them consulting services for free after they fire you. If they can't figure out the non-standard port numbers you used, then that's their problem.
Childs took an idiotic stand where he admitted he knew the passwords and refused to hand them over. That's not the most lenient case, that's the worst case I can think of other than destroying data.