No ID required (for good reason), but why sign your name in pencil?
In Cook Country, Illinois, you sign your name so they can compare it with how you signed your name on the voter registration, a copy of which was previously scanned and brought to the polling place in a binder. No photo ID used at all.
Interesting.. I'm metamodding you, but I'll come back and give your args more consideration though. From my pithy knowledge of the world-economy you're right on.
Has more to do with devaluation of the dollar than import tariffs.
As far as your second point, the part about us not being able to sustain free trade with the Third World/Global South, it remains to be seen whether the West will be able to sustain extracting the surplus wealth produced in the Third World/Global South as it has for the past several hundred years. Those who take Marx's position believe such surplus wealth extraction is possible in the long term (although resistance and collapse would eventually result), but Adam Smith's arguments concluded that wealth imbalances would even out. A fair amount of research into this is ongoing [see esp. Giovanni Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century, and Immanuel Wallerstein, Historical Capitalism.
The idea is to distract people with the extravagant unaffordable Mars program while cutting the somewhat affordable shuttle and Hubble programs. In the end, all gets cut, because people realise the Mars program was pipe-dream rhetoric.
You realize that crack cocaine gets several times longer prison sentences in the U.S. than regular cocaine, while the only difference between the two is the rate of use by blacks vs. whites.
There was a newspaper article a few weeks back about how Army truck drivers in Iraq are getting Green Beret-style weapons training.
They have to be able to shoot from behind the wheel while making evasive maneuvers [no joke, that's what it said].
They haven't actually lost any soldiers on the Kuwait-Baghdad route yet, though.
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Well I'm glad to hear your comment. I like Scott Simon a lot [though I'm not a journalist] but he could be dead wrong on this, as journalists sometimes are. Especially on that radar point you mention; either he was wrong, or he and/or I fsked up the details since so much time has elapsed.
I'll look into your arguments.. I believe you though.
I think it sucks that the government would mislead us on things like this, though. The public has a right to know, especially with so many reservists over there [I know people sitting in a guard tower at this minute].
There's a shirt on thinkgeek about the humor of man/woman doc pages
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I saw Scott Simon, reporter for NPR, host of their Saturday morning news program, who was on site in both Iraq wars.
He spoke at our university last year. He told us that the Patriots were crap, mostly used to promote morale.
Apparently most of the pictures shown where the Patriots blew up missles were actually bad Scuds that blew up on their own, and the Patriot honed in on the heat of the explosion.
Let me say again, this is Scott Simon's testimony at the Medill School of Journalism, Evanston IL last winter or so.
I have to mention my great constitutional law professor who is extremely tech able and uses MP3/the internet to promote understanding of a part of the government that is not as understood as much as it is influential: the Supreme Court.
This man has used computers to teach for a long time.. He used to make hypercard stacks with his students, to store key cases and biographical information of justices.
More recently, he's made oyez.org, where users can listen to oral arguments on all these Supreme Court cases that get argued over on/.!
Jerry Goldman got his picture in the NY Times holding his iPod, and he was thinking about its teaching potential way before it was the hip/ubiquitous gadget on campus.
What a great guy. Best thing is, he sends out syllabi in PDF, unlike the idiot PhDs who use Word docs, which bothers me because I'm using an ancient linux laptop.
I am in Politics of Local Justice class taught by a professor who also oversees police discipline as a civilian. The use of these databases comes from Bratton & Maple's Compstat method in NYC. Bratton came in as Guiliani's police chief, and they used computer to map and chart crime statistics in the hundreds of local precincts.
Folks, if you want to worry about police abuse, these databases [the Chicago and NYC ones here] aren't the ones to worry about. They are used to enforce accountability on chiefs who spent all their time staying out of trouble by doing absolutely nothing but the bare minimum police work. Applying accountability and using these stats to test out new policing methods makes a huge difference in crime, like 10-20% annual drops sustained over several years in the New York and Chicago examples. These numbers cannot be explained by gentrification or nationwide crime drops.
If you want to raise alarms, look to the Patriot Act and its variants, but not these efforts.
Rick Pastore is spreading FUD. He has no evidence that the police know where cars are purchased in the database info, and frankly the usefulness in Comstat clone database systems has nothing to do with keeping that kind of personal information! The usefulness comes from being able to check for outstanding warrants and for mapping areas with lots of crime, not from features allowing on the fly police browsing of your credit history, which they can't do anyway!!
On your last point, my limited evidence leads me to disagree. Probably state and federal courts are becoming more lax but state and municipal judges are a lot more likely to accept fabrications from cops than federal judges.
I'm not trying to justify the overly presumptive nature of rural cops--I was trying to explain it. I know police overstep their boundaries in rural areas, as well as here in Chicagoland. However I was trying to add an extra dimension to the debate, so we aren't purely demonizing the cops, but helping to understand the overall structure of the situation so that sensible responses can be formulated.
On the issue of black Americans, you're absolutely right. What went on violated the letter of the Constitution but for various political reasons survived for 100 years until the Voting Rights Act. And still happens today to an extent. But I was trying to distinguish the origins from the structure of Nazi governance, in order that we might reflect on both.
Well, thanks for generalizing but there are lots of counterexamples too.
A couple of publicized cases have come down in the last couple years. One said police who find drugs by squeezing soft luggage on busses or trains cannot open the bags. One said infrared on houses for pot lights is an illegal search. So its really a case by case basis thing.
However one thing you must realize is that bad searches happen all the time, because local jurisdictions [captains, the public, DAs] want drug criminals prosecuted because it scores points with the soccer moms.
What they do is perform an illegal search on an ignorant person they suspect, but have no probable cause for. They sometimes find something, and then lie about their rational when they have to justify themselves in court: Your honor, I was talking to this gentleman on the street when the bag just fell out of his pocket.
This doesn't fly in federal courts--judges there will tell you to fuck off, and don't show your face in here again--but state judges buy it because they aren't so removed from the democratic process. The problem is that there are too many incentives in the system for everyone involved to get more prosecutions.
Yes standing up for freedom deserves getting modded up, but so does real perspective.
As a student of the Politics of Local Justice, let me tell you that this kind of event is a lot more common in Humbolt Co., NV or Anytownship, USA than it is in Chicago or San Antonio. The reason is that police in rural jurisdictions are expected by the townsfolk to keep tabs on everything going on in town. If there is a stranger who isn't just passing through, it'd be good to know who he is.
This happens for two reasons: Constitutional rulings keep getting handed down at a VERY rapid rate from the Supremes, and rural cops don't have the time or the training to keep up with them. Also remember they're less well paid and less educated in general than city cops. Second, rural cops have to deal with a lot of weird shit because of how intimately they're tied to the community. If Johnny and Tony get in a fight, cop takes them home to Mother--an extralegal response, but a lot more efficient/practical than prison.
What you guys need to remember is that there's a big difference between policies enacted at the National level in Nazi Germany and power exercised on the "capillary" level, to use Foucault's term, power and authority exercised beyond what is precisely legally ordaned. This second type of overstepping can be called more harmful, because it happens below the radar--blacks in the South got kept down by the man way after the post Civil War constitutional amendments.
But the way our government is set up, it doesn't lead to Naziism. Local police are subject to local constraints on their behavior, what the townsfold consider right, and that restricts them a lot more than state/fed constitution. Basically the slippery slope argument is null here, because when cops pull stunts like these [not this specific case but other similar abuses] in the Big City, judges don't buy it. Federal judges especially will tell prosecutors to fuck off, and don't come back, if they try the "drugs fell out of his pocket" routine in open court.
But the way things work on the ground in rural America is a bit different--but it generally works out okay. If it makes you queasy, move to the city, and you'll be fine. Nevermind the Nazi FUD trolls.
I've had the same issues, and A few weeks ago, I couldn't connect to slashdot.org for hours.
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I was going to critisize you on your political economy argument, but damn if it isn't solid and factual. Well said.
Right now Apple, with the amount of cash it has right now, has no reason to hold debt, so not paying off all debt would have been eating into profits, albeit not horribly...
No. You're wrong. I looked at your link and they don't compare anyone to suicide bombers.. or even mention anything metaphorically similar. You're trolling for mods.
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In Cook Country, Illinois, you sign your name so they can compare it with how you signed your name on the voter registration, a copy of which was previously scanned and brought to the polling place in a binder. No photo ID used at all.
Interesting.. I'm metamodding you, but I'll come back and give your args more consideration though. From my pithy knowledge of the world-economy you're right on.
As far as your second point, the part about us not being able to sustain free trade with the Third World/Global South, it remains to be seen whether the West will be able to sustain extracting the surplus wealth produced in the Third World/Global South as it has for the past several hundred years. Those who take Marx's position believe such surplus wealth extraction is possible in the long term (although resistance and collapse would eventually result), but Adam Smith's arguments concluded that wealth imbalances would even out. A fair amount of research into this is ongoing [see esp. Giovanni Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century, and Immanuel Wallerstein, Historical Capitalism.
On the white hat/traditional western side, I thought High Noon was good but the rest were mostly mediocre.
The idea is to distract people with the extravagant unaffordable Mars program while cutting the somewhat affordable shuttle and Hubble programs. In the end, all gets cut, because people realise the Mars program was pipe-dream rhetoric.
You realize that crack cocaine gets several times longer prison sentences in the U.S. than regular cocaine, while the only difference between the two is the rate of use by blacks vs. whites.
They have to be able to shoot from behind the wheel while making evasive maneuvers [no joke, that's what it said].
They haven't actually lost any soldiers on the Kuwait-Baghdad route yet, though.
I'll look into your arguments.. I believe you though.
I think it sucks that the government would mislead us on things like this, though. The public has a right to know, especially with so many reservists over there [I know people sitting in a guard tower at this minute].
There's a shirt on thinkgeek about the humor of man/woman doc pages
He spoke at our university last year. He told us that the Patriots were crap, mostly used to promote morale.
Apparently most of the pictures shown where the Patriots blew up missles were actually bad Scuds that blew up on their own, and the Patriot honed in on the heat of the explosion.
Let me say again, this is Scott Simon's testimony at the Medill School of Journalism, Evanston IL last winter or so.
So you can get back to swork?
Braudel is amazing. I haven't heard of those other guys though.
Apple's doing a great job of all three, and now the iPod is expanding their exposure for the rest of their products.
This man has used computers to teach for a long time.. He used to make hypercard stacks with his students, to store key cases and biographical information of justices.
More recently, he's made oyez.org, where users can listen to oral arguments on all these Supreme Court cases that get argued over on /.!
Jerry Goldman got his picture in the NY Times holding his iPod, and he was thinking about its teaching potential way before it was the hip/ubiquitous gadget on campus.
What a great guy. Best thing is, he sends out syllabi in PDF, unlike the idiot PhDs who use Word docs, which bothers me because I'm using an ancient linux laptop.
Sounds about how we defend the Earth from Peace.
Folks, if you want to worry about police abuse, these databases [the Chicago and NYC ones here] aren't the ones to worry about. They are used to enforce accountability on chiefs who spent all their time staying out of trouble by doing absolutely nothing but the bare minimum police work. Applying accountability and using these stats to test out new policing methods makes a huge difference in crime, like 10-20% annual drops sustained over several years in the New York and Chicago examples. These numbers cannot be explained by gentrification or nationwide crime drops.
If you want to raise alarms, look to the Patriot Act and its variants, but not these efforts.
Rick Pastore is spreading FUD. He has no evidence that the police know where cars are purchased in the database info, and frankly the usefulness in Comstat clone database systems has nothing to do with keeping that kind of personal information! The usefulness comes from being able to check for outstanding warrants and for mapping areas with lots of crime, not from features allowing on the fly police browsing of your credit history, which they can't do anyway!!
On your last point, my limited evidence leads me to disagree. Probably state and federal courts are becoming more lax but state and municipal judges are a lot more likely to accept fabrications from cops than federal judges.
On the issue of black Americans, you're absolutely right. What went on violated the letter of the Constitution but for various political reasons survived for 100 years until the Voting Rights Act. And still happens today to an extent. But I was trying to distinguish the origins from the structure of Nazi governance, in order that we might reflect on both.
A couple of publicized cases have come down in the last couple years. One said police who find drugs by squeezing soft luggage on busses or trains cannot open the bags. One said infrared on houses for pot lights is an illegal search. So its really a case by case basis thing.
However one thing you must realize is that bad searches happen all the time, because local jurisdictions [captains, the public, DAs] want drug criminals prosecuted because it scores points with the soccer moms.
What they do is perform an illegal search on an ignorant person they suspect, but have no probable cause for. They sometimes find something, and then lie about their rational when they have to justify themselves in court: Your honor, I was talking to this gentleman on the street when the bag just fell out of his pocket .
This doesn't fly in federal courts--judges there will tell you to fuck off, and don't show your face in here again--but state judges buy it because they aren't so removed from the democratic process. The problem is that there are too many incentives in the system for everyone involved to get more prosecutions.
As a student of the Politics of Local Justice, let me tell you that this kind of event is a lot more common in Humbolt Co., NV or Anytownship, USA than it is in Chicago or San Antonio. The reason is that police in rural jurisdictions are expected by the townsfolk to keep tabs on everything going on in town. If there is a stranger who isn't just passing through, it'd be good to know who he is.
This happens for two reasons: Constitutional rulings keep getting handed down at a VERY rapid rate from the Supremes, and rural cops don't have the time or the training to keep up with them. Also remember they're less well paid and less educated in general than city cops. Second, rural cops have to deal with a lot of weird shit because of how intimately they're tied to the community. If Johnny and Tony get in a fight, cop takes them home to Mother--an extralegal response, but a lot more efficient/practical than prison.
What you guys need to remember is that there's a big difference between policies enacted at the National level in Nazi Germany and power exercised on the "capillary" level, to use Foucault's term, power and authority exercised beyond what is precisely legally ordaned. This second type of overstepping can be called more harmful, because it happens below the radar--blacks in the South got kept down by the man way after the post Civil War constitutional amendments.
But the way our government is set up, it doesn't lead to Naziism. Local police are subject to local constraints on their behavior, what the townsfold consider right, and that restricts them a lot more than state/fed constitution. Basically the slippery slope argument is null here, because when cops pull stunts like these [not this specific case but other similar abuses] in the Big City, judges don't buy it. Federal judges especially will tell prosecutors to fuck off, and don't come back, if they try the "drugs fell out of his pocket" routine in open court.
But the way things work on the ground in rural America is a bit different--but it generally works out okay. If it makes you queasy, move to the city, and you'll be fine. Nevermind the Nazi FUD trolls.
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Right now Apple, with the amount of cash it has right now, has no reason to hold debt, so not paying off all debt would have been eating into profits, albeit not horribly...
So your numbers are a bit off :D
No. You're wrong. I looked at your link and they don't compare anyone to suicide bombers.. or even mention anything metaphorically similar. You're trolling for mods.
lynx is simply the best for reading text on a bad old computer, like /. or nytimes or anything without javascript. It just rocks.