I have been following the story since it broke 48 hours ago and looking at the evidence against him that he provides online and the actions of the police make me pretty much convinced these are just a pack of dirty pigs. Police brutality in some areas of the US has decreased but in places like Phoenix it is completely out of control, I have lived there. Have you?
Um, the whole fucking county is crooked and they are bad at their jobs. I would not step foot into that county if you paid me a 1000 bucks, well also because that is where all my ex-gf live.
...to explicitly layout stronger civil and criminal penalties for abuse of office in the US.
Use of the office to start an unjustified war, death and 50 million dollars or 50% of your wealth whichever is greater.
Use of the office to murder, death and 50% of assets.
Use of the office to take bribes, death and repayment of any contracts lost by competing companies.
Use of the office to facilitate violence or cause violence against a person, 25 years to life.
Use of the office to intimidate, threaten or harass, 15 years.
Use of the office to deny someone their constitutional rights, 5 years.
Anyone want to help get this on the ballot in 50 states while we still have the populist fervor going?
Public servants need to be held to a higher standard because of the amount of power they have been given. If we continue allowing politicians and police to be above the law than we have lost our way as a people. We need to remake the laws so that this sort of thing carries penalties that these police officers and district attorneys will be forced to reckon with when they demonstrably are routinely operating as criminals with badges and warrants.
You may not be too far off this guy is defending the founder of NORML against possession. However, it should be noted that he does represent a populist sentiment in regards to the sharing of files through P2P programs and if he were to be able to attempt to show the futility in the RIAA's attempt at reifying every possible rendition of their product in any media for any use as limited they would be forced to define more explicitly what exactly the fair use doctrine means in an age with terabyte drives costing 100 bucks and the Mp3s that would be needed to fill said drive worth millions according to the RIAA.
Are plastics immune to electromagnetic radiation or something? The magnetron gets all the atoms jiggling as Feynman put it. The atoms and molecules that constitute food heat up faster than the plastic or stoneware but not always. I had a coffee cup that looked like all my other coffee cups but would be untouchable for minutes after microwaving. It was the one I insisted my unwelcome house guests use for their morning coffee. Too bad it broke.
I would rather someone be a polymath than a polyglut when hiring for a position. Anyone can learn a few languages if exposed early enough in life, not everyone can learn a few sciences.
How many "Proper Jobs" are there compared to rural workers, forced labor and even child labor in India? How many jobs that are being off-shored there have these benefits? My friend just returned from India after being laid off with only severance and a 401k to get him back to the states. Organized labor sounds like Union Shops in the US and depending on how you read the 2000 statistics less than 10% of India is unionized right now.
The only reason this system works is because of immense and egregious human rights abuses in these countries, lack of pollution and resource depletion/renewal regulation.
India has one of the highest amount of child malnourishment in the world. This has actually increased since engineering offshoring began in earnest so the idea of wealth redistribution occurring between countries raising the standard of living in general is wrong.
China has half of its people living in poverty while allowing kleptocracies in Hong Kong and in mainland China to run rampant. Children in some factory towns are being born with 10x the amount of lead the World Health Organization says can lead to permanent brain damage because mothers in these factories making American crap are forced to work well into their 8th month of preganancy around dangerous chemicals inside the factory and breathe the air and drink the water that is polluted from them when at home.
IF the price of what it is going to cost to clean up these countries after we exploit them for labor and resources and a premium were put upon the human rights of those workers than the US and Europe would like a pretty good deal economically. Instead we have allowed the proponents of free-market capitalism to be treated as if their word was inviolate and any argument against them to be treated as an act of treason against the US way of life. Well maybe the US way of life should0 be held accountable for a lot of the mess we are in today and those whom some would of considered prophets when they made predictions about the way globalization would be hindered if we enforced 1st world environmental, human and worker's rights on 3rd world countries has brought us to this dire impasse where the rights of billions are being ransomed for the privileges of millions.
Slavery, both ancient and modern has been only been successful in places where its implementation is predicated by state sanction and overwhelming force if threatened. China, India and SE Asia are developing the nascent foundations of worker's unions and it would not be surprising if this populist sentiment will rise to the point where they are at the throats of their governments with calls for better working conditions, human rights and a greater sharing in the financial rewards. Currently offshoring in manufacturing works on the premise that you have a person making 1/10th to 1/1000th of the wage of the people who ship, retail, and design the products. Does that sound sustainable to you?
Just because an idea makes immediate quantitative financial sense for a select few be them landholders or shareholders, the long term economic value of a process is something quite different. It is very much like the difference between weather and climate where one can model accurately the weather systems and their effect on a specific locale for a few days but can't extrapolate that knowledge beyond a certain limit either geographically half-way around the world or temporally years or decades into the future.
As these country's workers gain skills and begin automating the manufacturing processes and need less people in manufacturing both for local needs and export and begin to design and manufacture more for the local markets we are going to see less and less of a world populated with crap designed for Americans and built by others. To expect the rest of the world to serve America's aggrandized view of itself for much longer at the rates of slavery is foolish and for IBM to attempt to capitalize upon an idea with 1000's of years of prior art is just bad patent law and needs to be regulated against.
Lol, so what? In a year or two because they locked down their device everyone is going to be going out and buying whatever ebook reader out there that has no DRM. Hell, my Sony Ebook reader reads PDF natively.
Would you be surprised at this point? Israel has nukes and a secret chemical and biological weapons program. Israel has more nukes than France and are 1/10th the size in population. That is the only thing holding back the Arab states from running them over with their combined forces in this day and age. Israel is increasingly an untenable state, for the fact that when anyone who does not like them manages to get nukes (i.e. Iran) a single 100kt nuke would be enough to cripple the country and 10-20 to make the entire country glow like the surface of the sun. Israel is too small to have nukes, they are undeclared and have unknown capabilities in range and destructive power. I am more scared of hard right wingers in Israel coming to power than Iran at this point as the constant disregard for human life in Palestine shows that Israel would do anything to survive and that could mean doing crazy shit like targeting Europe or the United States if we attempt to force a 2-state solution.
Submarines are not invulnerable to attack the Russians have been shadowing our fleet, the British and even the French since the 1950's. The Chinese are working on their own fleet of subs now and it will be only a matter of time till nations like even Iran have subs.
I never argued against stem cell research, read before you reply. I wholeheartedly support advancing adult stem cell research as it has produced viable therapeutic results whereas embryonic stem cells are only useful currently as a research tool, as all embryonic therapies have failed in testing and it is monstrous to use the sacrifice of humans to advance science.
Doctors in aggregate gravitate towards where the grants and higher paying careers are. Fertility treatments are usually preformed on women over 40 years of age by a trained GYN/OB and require intensive treatment for months sometimes for years before they are successful in implementation and gestation. An OB/GYN trained in fertility treatment can make a far greater amount of money than an OB/GYN doing preventive care like pelvic exams, pap smears and the like can. This all started because of laws guaranteeing fertility treatment that started passing in the 1980's in Britain and the US.
As the American population has gotten older more and more money is spent on geriatric medicine and less and less on pediatrics. For the first time since the early 20th century the United States is experiencing a dramatic uptick in stillbirths, maternal death and severe birth defects due to the advanced age of the mothers being increased due to the advancement of fertility treatments.
First off, you are being disingenuous with my rhetoric and replying with straw men and I dismiss your argument as fallacious. Secondly, medically resources as a whole are finite and as spending increases in one field, practice or research regimen it takes money away from others and I do in fact place a higher value on preventing childhood diseases than plastic surgery. If you reply that it is not a zero sum game; well sir, get out your game theory textbook, I will show you it is.
If you are merely some troll, well you should try to find a day job and perhaps familiarize yourself with a more mature style of discourse.
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I have been following the story since it broke 48 hours ago and looking at the evidence against him that he provides online and the actions of the police make me pretty much convinced these are just a pack of dirty pigs. Police brutality in some areas of the US has decreased but in places like Phoenix it is completely out of control, I have lived there. Have you?
Does anyone deserve to be menaced by a gun?
I had a restraining order AGAINST one of my gf, she was an army brat and menaced me with a M14 once. That was enough of that.
Didn't they raid the New Times offices too in the 90's?
Um, the whole fucking county is crooked and they are bad at their jobs. I would not step foot into that county if you paid me a 1000 bucks, well also because that is where all my ex-gf live.
...to explicitly layout stronger civil and criminal penalties for abuse of office in the US.
Use of the office to start an unjustified war, death and 50 million dollars or 50% of your wealth whichever is greater.
Use of the office to murder, death and 50% of assets.
Use of the office to take bribes, death and repayment of any contracts lost by competing companies.
Use of the office to facilitate violence or cause violence against a person, 25 years to life.
Use of the office to intimidate, threaten or harass, 15 years.
Use of the office to deny someone their constitutional rights, 5 years.
Anyone want to help get this on the ballot in 50 states while we still have the populist fervor going?
Public servants need to be held to a higher standard because of the amount of power they have been given. If we continue allowing politicians and police to be above the law than we have lost our way as a people. We need to remake the laws so that this sort of thing carries penalties that these police officers and district attorneys will be forced to reckon with when they demonstrably are routinely operating as criminals with badges and warrants.
I have no problem with Norml the parent's post was about this being a "pipedream" and this line of argument does seem a bit specious.
Figuring out the Riemann geometry for this was non-trivial and should be lauded not dismissed as some trivial "cutesy video".
You may not be too far off this guy is defending the founder of NORML against possession. However, it should be noted that he does represent a populist sentiment in regards to the sharing of files through P2P programs and if he were to be able to attempt to show the futility in the RIAA's attempt at reifying every possible rendition of their product in any media for any use as limited they would be forced to define more explicitly what exactly the fair use doctrine means in an age with terabyte drives costing 100 bucks and the Mp3s that would be needed to fill said drive worth millions according to the RIAA.
Are plastics immune to electromagnetic radiation or something? The magnetron gets all the atoms jiggling as Feynman put it. The atoms and molecules that constitute food heat up faster than the plastic or stoneware but not always. I had a coffee cup that looked like all my other coffee cups but would be untouchable for minutes after microwaving. It was the one I insisted my unwelcome house guests use for their morning coffee. Too bad it broke.
I would rather someone be a polymath than a polyglut when hiring for a position. Anyone can learn a few languages if exposed early enough in life, not everyone can learn a few sciences.
Yes, and instead of a pension we should sell them into slavery when they are no longer useful.
How many "Proper Jobs" are there compared to rural workers, forced labor and even child labor in India? How many jobs that are being off-shored there have these benefits? My friend just returned from India after being laid off with only severance and a 401k to get him back to the states. Organized labor sounds like Union Shops in the US and depending on how you read the 2000 statistics less than 10% of India is unionized right now.
The only reason this system works is because of immense and egregious human rights abuses in these countries, lack of pollution and resource depletion/renewal regulation.
India has one of the highest amount of child malnourishment in the world. This has actually increased since engineering offshoring began in earnest so the idea of wealth redistribution occurring between countries raising the standard of living in general is wrong.
China has half of its people living in poverty while allowing kleptocracies in Hong Kong and in mainland China to run rampant. Children in some factory towns are being born with 10x the amount of lead the World Health Organization says can lead to permanent brain damage because mothers in these factories making American crap are forced to work well into their 8th month of preganancy around dangerous chemicals inside the factory and breathe the air and drink the water that is polluted from them when at home.
IF the price of what it is going to cost to clean up these countries after we exploit them for labor and resources and a premium were put upon the human rights of those workers than the US and Europe would like a pretty good deal economically. Instead we have allowed the proponents of free-market capitalism to be treated as if their word was inviolate and any argument against them to be treated as an act of treason against the US way of life. Well maybe the US way of life should0 be held accountable for a lot of the mess we are in today and those whom some would of considered prophets when they made predictions about the way globalization would be hindered if we enforced 1st world environmental, human and worker's rights on 3rd world countries has brought us to this dire impasse where the rights of billions are being ransomed for the privileges of millions.
Slavery, both ancient and modern has been only been successful in places where its implementation is predicated by state sanction and overwhelming force if threatened. China, India and SE Asia are developing the nascent foundations of worker's unions and it would not be surprising if this populist sentiment will rise to the point where they are at the throats of their governments with calls for better working conditions, human rights and a greater sharing in the financial rewards. Currently offshoring in manufacturing works on the premise that you have a person making 1/10th to 1/1000th of the wage of the people who ship, retail, and design the products. Does that sound sustainable to you?
Just because an idea makes immediate quantitative financial sense for a select few be them landholders or shareholders, the long term economic value of a process is something quite different. It is very much like the difference between weather and climate where one can model accurately the weather systems and their effect on a specific locale for a few days but can't extrapolate that knowledge beyond a certain limit either geographically half-way around the world or temporally years or decades into the future.
As these country's workers gain skills and begin automating the manufacturing processes and need less people in manufacturing both for local needs and export and begin to design and manufacture more for the local markets we are going to see less and less of a world populated with crap designed for Americans and built by others. To expect the rest of the world to serve America's aggrandized view of itself for much longer at the rates of slavery is foolish and for IBM to attempt to capitalize upon an idea with 1000's of years of prior art is just bad patent law and needs to be regulated against.
You mean the iphone does not have a command line, weak! BTW, does android have a CLI?
Lol, so what? In a year or two because they locked down their device everyone is going to be going out and buying whatever ebook reader out there that has no DRM. Hell, my Sony Ebook reader reads PDF natively.
I like the salty language. Every programmer I know speaks fluent fuck you to at least 3 different compilers.
They were smarmy political as they faced similar problems with apartheid. Israel liked them so much they gave them nukes.
The pro-Israeli taint is appalling. Israeli apologists use the same lines of reasoning they used for South Africa and that should tell you something.
Would you be surprised at this point? Israel has nukes and a secret chemical and biological weapons program. Israel has more nukes than France and are 1/10th the size in population. That is the only thing holding back the Arab states from running them over with their combined forces in this day and age. Israel is increasingly an untenable state, for the fact that when anyone who does not like them manages to get nukes (i.e. Iran) a single 100kt nuke would be enough to cripple the country and 10-20 to make the entire country glow like the surface of the sun. Israel is too small to have nukes, they are undeclared and have unknown capabilities in range and destructive power. I am more scared of hard right wingers in Israel coming to power than Iran at this point as the constant disregard for human life in Palestine shows that Israel would do anything to survive and that could mean doing crazy shit like targeting Europe or the United States if we attempt to force a 2-state solution.
Submarines are not invulnerable to attack the Russians have been shadowing our fleet, the British and even the French since the 1950's. The Chinese are working on their own fleet of subs now and it will be only a matter of time till nations like even Iran have subs.
Do you really think they only engineered a stealth bomber and 'fighter'? They retired the SR-71 because they have something better.
I never argued against stem cell research, read before you reply. I wholeheartedly support advancing adult stem cell research as it has produced viable therapeutic results whereas embryonic stem cells are only useful currently as a research tool, as all embryonic therapies have failed in testing and it is monstrous to use the sacrifice of humans to advance science.
Doctors in aggregate gravitate towards where the grants and higher paying careers are. Fertility treatments are usually preformed on women over 40 years of age by a trained GYN/OB and require intensive treatment for months sometimes for years before they are successful in implementation and gestation. An OB/GYN trained in fertility treatment can make a far greater amount of money than an OB/GYN doing preventive care like pelvic exams, pap smears and the like can. This all started because of laws guaranteeing fertility treatment that started passing in the 1980's in Britain and the US.
As the American population has gotten older more and more money is spent on geriatric medicine and less and less on pediatrics. For the first time since the early 20th century the United States is experiencing a dramatic uptick in stillbirths, maternal death and severe birth defects due to the advanced age of the mothers being increased due to the advancement of fertility treatments.
First off, you are being disingenuous with my rhetoric and replying with straw men and I dismiss your argument as fallacious. Secondly, medically resources as a whole are finite and as spending increases in one field, practice or research regimen it takes money away from others and I do in fact place a higher value on preventing childhood diseases than plastic surgery. If you reply that it is not a zero sum game; well sir, get out your game theory textbook, I will show you it is.
If you are merely some troll, well you should try to find a day job and perhaps familiarize yourself with a more mature style of discourse.