Wow. I'm sure that paragraph makes sense, but it could just as well have been in Norwegian for all it meant to me. If you say that stuff out loud, does your tongue hurt?
it's just the same case taken to a higher level because one, or both, of the sides disagree with the decision.
Just out of curiousity, how often do both sides disagree with the decision? "I don't care what the court said -- I'm guilty, damn it!"
On a more serious note, though, I think you're missing something about the American concept of double jeopardy when you say:
i guess you agree with the defendant's possibility to appeal if he/she believes the decision is wrong, and by the same logic the prosecutors can also appeal if they think the law is being interpreted wrongly
The two sides are not symmetrical. The state decides to prosecute, and the defendant is brought to trial. The initiative is entirely with the prosecution. If they haven't prepared a sufficient case, then they should have waited to bring charges until they had a better one. It's their job to, well, do their job.
Looks like milspec gets tougher than screen, judging by this, which describes a honey-comb waveguide approach. (That company also makes welded steel rooms, with no fasteners used in the seams -- just solid steel everywhere.)
More than one room -- I believe every US embassy has such a room, shielded to the extent that only battery power is used inside. No holes in the Faraday cage once the door is closed.
I have no idea what they do about air. Perhaps a baffled air duct can be used, or maybe they just work quickly.:)
Well, I hope not, but the operators of the field are losing money even faster than they're losing clients. As I recall, one has to file explicit flight plans for every flight out of the field, and land elesewhere for a search before flying into College Park, both of which seem rather onerous to weekend pilots. Something like half the planes are moving to other fields a bit further out from DC.
Yes, well, sadly enough you may get your wish. Due to security restrictions, the College Park airfield is teetering on the edge of shutting down. The oldest continiously operated airfield in the US (and maybe the world, come to think of it) may soon be gone.
Yes, well, some of those Frenchmen died because other Frenchmen turned them over to the Germans.
And your choice of Vietnam as a point of contrast is terrific. Did you ever wonder why it used to be called "French Indochina?"
However, that said, you're right in that many Frenchman fought hard and died for their country, and not a few fought for the United States when we were young. That they were fully prepared for the wrong war in 1940 was hardly unique to them, and I'd say it's time we got over all that.
Again, all you've done is raised the bar. Hell, the true state of security is such that I could probably get in by driving a truck through the front door. Does that mean we shouldn't bother with locking the doors at night?
Besides, I'll lay money that there is, in fact, a John Smith living in Cleveland, and a Maple Street.
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Where do you live that they don't have a state ID card available? Here in Maryland the process is the same as that for a driver's license, except that no driving is involved (and they waive the vision test:)), so that the result is just as valid for ID purposes. Hell, it even looks like a DL.
I'm working a cash register these days, and we see these all the time. No fuss, no muss.
Well, I wasn't addressing the issue of whether any security was needed at the food court, just whether or not this was at all an appropriate form of security. My guess (and only a guess) is that other parts of the place may be business offices and other areas visted largely by appointment (I have no idea what goes on at a "Free Trade Center", but I doubt that it's a flea market.)
As for not driving, I know Maryland has ID cards for those who don't drive, and I'm sure other states do as well. "Drivers license" is generally short-hand for "driver's license or other state- or Federally-issued photo ID". Even non-drivers have the option to write checks at the grocery store.
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You're right about 9/11, of course, but suicide bombers are the extreme case. A truck bomb could certainly flatten my house, but I still lock the dead-bolt at night because I'm also concerned with ordinary criminals. I lock my car even though a moderately-skilled thief could still take it, because there are also even less skilled thieves who will be stopped unless I leave the keys in the ignition.
As for what security guards will remember, you never know. Ask one of them sometime. Some of those guys are ex- or off-duty cops, and cops often have remarkable memories. Furthermore, there may be a camera in the ceiling overhead.
Well, God knows that IT has a rich collection of jargon, but "gentoo" and "linux" are simply proper nouns, and theefore have no more need to appear in a dictionary than "Jim" or "Bob" or "General Motors". "Robusticity", on the other hand, is simply mangled, like "embiggen" or "speechify" -- it may have a place in slang or humour, but it would bother me if it came from an evidently serious manager of a service important to my company.
It's OK with me if my surgeon says that he'll "put his foots in gear and locomote" down to the bar for a drink after work, but if he sits in his office and tells me that he's going to "surgify that malignancicity" I'm looking for new doc.
Only if the contraceptive method produces a bonus. Using a diaphragm, for instance, avoids pregancy, but that's eaxactly what it's supposed to do, so there's no leverage involved. Using a bumpy latex condom, on the other hand, may increase your partner's pleasure, and prevents STD's as well as pregnancy -- that's leverage.
Having a driver's license proves that you aren't dangerous!
No, of course not, but showing a DL makes you somewhat accountable -- would you rather chase "Caucasion male between 5'6" and 6', with brownish-blondish hair and average build", or "John Smith, 123 Maple Sreet, Clevland OH"?
Sure, credentials can be forged, but at least you've raised the bar.
Ah, but Forth wouldn't have those superfluous words "in" and "the". "Foot yourself in the shoot" is just bass-ackwards English. "Foot yourself shoot" seems closer to an actual fragment (strictly, I suppose, "FOOT YOURSELF SHOOT")
Yes, of course I do. But let's face it -- "resin" is a polite for "plastic", and "fiberglass" is, in fact, plastic reinforced with glass. (Well, strictly speaking, fiberglass is the glass part, so calling the Corvette "fiberglass" is like calling a reinforced concrete wall "rebar")
It's a matter of context. I might think that Natalie Portman's belly is much more attractive than paint, and you might agree, but you still might not want to buy a car covered in synthetic skin.
I suspect that car buyers are often somewhat conservative. For most people this is the second-most expensive thing they own, and wacky new ideas don't always go over right away. There's a reason Tucker doesn't make cars any more.:)
Of course, I never really have paid much attention to the bonus. I don't particularly use it -- it's just there, and I don't bother to turn it off anymore than I worked to get it.
Maybe somebody should lobby for a reversal of the default, a checkbox to use the bonus rather than a checkbox to disable it.
For this post, at any rate, I'll turn it off, although I suppose that might mean that you'll never see it. Sigh.
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You know, I've heard that there are applications for RADAR besides speed traps. Some people have even suggested that it could be useful with aircraft, perhaps even in the military.
I don't recall seeing license plates on the B-2, but maybe it was a dealer plane.:)
Jeez! Look, moderators, "Off-topic" is for interjections having little or nothing to do with the conversation, like "BSD is dying" posts in the middle of a Natalie Portman / hot grits discussion. The nature of Slashdot is such that it is a conversation, and as such it roams a bit.
You've only got what, 5 mod points? You just threw away 20% of them to spank me, instead of using them to commend somebody who was informative or funny, or to spank somebody who got really ofensive (and in a discussion involving the word "black", that's damned near inevitable.)
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Wow. I'm sure that paragraph makes sense, but it could just as well have been in Norwegian for all it meant to me. If you say that stuff out loud, does your tongue hurt?
Just out of curiousity, how often do both sides disagree with the decision? "I don't care what the court said -- I'm guilty, damn it!"
On a more serious note, though, I think you're missing something about the American concept of double jeopardy when you say:
The two sides are not symmetrical. The state decides to prosecute, and the defendant is brought to trial. The initiative is entirely with the prosecution. If they haven't prepared a sufficient case, then they should have waited to bring charges until they had a better one. It's their job to, well, do their job.
Looks like milspec gets tougher than screen, judging by this, which describes a honey-comb waveguide approach. (That company also makes welded steel rooms, with no fasteners used in the seams -- just solid steel everywhere.)
I have no idea what they do about air. Perhaps a baffled air duct can be used, or maybe they just work quickly. :)
Assembler. We were gods back then, but not idiots. :)
Well, I hope not, but the operators of the field are losing money even faster than they're losing clients. As I recall, one has to file explicit flight plans for every flight out of the field, and land elesewhere for a search before flying into College Park, both of which seem rather onerous to weekend pilots. Something like half the planes are moving to other fields a bit further out from DC.
Yes, well, sadly enough you may get your wish. Due to security restrictions, the College Park airfield is teetering on the edge of shutting down. The oldest continiously operated airfield in the US (and maybe the world, come to think of it) may soon be gone.
Clearly you're not on dial-up. By the time I've downloaded 100 spams, half the annoyance is over.
Now if you used a system running gentoo to keep track of gentoo migration data, well, that would be a whole different kettle of herring. :)
And your choice of Vietnam as a point of contrast is terrific. Did you ever wonder why it used to be called "French Indochina?"
However, that said, you're right in that many Frenchman fought hard and died for their country, and not a few fought for the United States when we were young. That they were fully prepared for the wrong war in 1940 was hardly unique to them, and I'd say it's time we got over all that.
Besides, I'll lay money that there is, in fact, a John Smith living in Cleveland, and a Maple Street.
I'm working a cash register these days, and we see these all the time. No fuss, no muss.
As for not driving, I know Maryland has ID cards for those who don't drive, and I'm sure other states do as well. "Drivers license" is generally short-hand for "driver's license or other state- or Federally-issued photo ID". Even non-drivers have the option to write checks at the grocery store.
As for what security guards will remember, you never know. Ask one of them sometime. Some of those guys are ex- or off-duty cops, and cops often have remarkable memories. Furthermore, there may be a camera in the ceiling overhead.
It's OK with me if my surgeon says that he'll "put his foots in gear and locomote" down to the bar for a drink after work, but if he sits in his office and tells me that he's going to "surgify that malignancicity" I'm looking for new doc.
Only if the contraceptive method produces a bonus. Using a diaphragm, for instance, avoids pregancy, but that's eaxactly what it's supposed to do, so there's no leverage involved. Using a bumpy latex condom, on the other hand, may increase your partner's pleasure, and prevents STD's as well as pregnancy -- that's leverage.
No, of course not, but showing a DL makes you somewhat accountable -- would you rather chase "Caucasion male between 5'6" and 6', with brownish-blondish hair and average build", or "John Smith, 123 Maple Sreet, Clevland OH"?
Sure, credentials can be forged, but at least you've raised the bar.
Ah, but Forth wouldn't have those superfluous words "in" and "the". "Foot yourself in the shoot" is just bass-ackwards English. "Foot yourself shoot" seems closer to an actual fragment (strictly, I suppose, "FOOT YOURSELF SHOOT")
The FORTH "yourself foot shoot" has "bumper-sticker" written all over it (along with, wasn't it, "FORTH LOVE IF HONK THEN"?)
Yes, of course I do. But let's face it -- "resin" is a polite for "plastic", and "fiberglass" is, in fact, plastic reinforced with glass. (Well, strictly speaking, fiberglass is the glass part, so calling the Corvette "fiberglass" is like calling a reinforced concrete wall "rebar")
I suspect that car buyers are often somewhat conservative. For most people this is the second-most expensive thing they own, and wacky new ideas don't always go over right away. There's a reason Tucker doesn't make cars any more. :)
Well, if 1953 is your idea of the early seventies, sure. So far as I know, Corvettes have always been plastic.
Of course, I never really have paid much attention to the bonus. I don't particularly use it -- it's just there, and I don't bother to turn it off anymore than I worked to get it.
Maybe somebody should lobby for a reversal of the default, a checkbox to use the bonus rather than a checkbox to disable it.
For this post, at any rate, I'll turn it off, although I suppose that might mean that you'll never see it. Sigh.
I don't recall seeing license plates on the B-2, but maybe it was a dealer plane. :)
You've only got what, 5 mod points? You just threw away 20% of them to spank me, instead of using them to commend somebody who was informative or funny, or to spank somebody who got really ofensive (and in a discussion involving the word "black", that's damned near inevitable.)
Save your ammunitin for real targets.