Okay, time for some education. This person was SENTENCED to jail for 18 months. For killing someone - that's light to me. Especially since they couldn't be bothered to hit the brakes.
The kid filming the movie was ARRESTED. The statute he's charged under allows for jail time up to 1 year, if convicted, and/or up to a $2,500 fine.
See those key words - up to. Yeah, he might, MIGHT get that for the first offense. Unlikely. Probably a fine and probation. Get busted a couple of times, that's when more severe penalties get applied.
To tie this back to this discussion, the driver was probably facing up to a couple of years. His lawyer considers this a "very, very severe" sentence. Yeah - 18 months for killing a kid while travelling 3 times the speed limit and not hitting the brakes and having the car floored is light.
There is a big difference, though, between a reciept and an audit trail. Under no circumstances should a voter be able to leave a poll with an official piece of paper indicating how they voted. Can you saw enabling vote selling?
An audit trail that remains in the custody of election officials is a good and needed thing. A reciept - Bad Thing (tm)
An organization (political, commercial or other), could print out the ballots. People looking for a few bucks could pick one up, fill it out while the entity makes sure the proper votes are collected. A provided shuttle bus then takes people to the polling place where the vote is dropped off. The receipt you so generously provided is then given to the entity who pays you off.
"What: "we know there's a problem with these votes, but we won't recount them because we can't work out how to"? Sure, sounds fair to me. I just hope your vote wasn't one of them, because if it was, you just lost everything that gives democracy its name."
No - it was more of: we won't recount them because the state can't figure out what to do.
It wasn't the job of the SC to figure out how to do the recount, just to see if, under Florida's law and guidelines from the Sec. of State, a recount would be fair throughout the state.
Blame Florida legislatures and the Sec. of State who couldn't figure out how to do her job right.
I would like to see a vote system where a printed copy is always made, with only a voter id number (created by the machine using some algorithm to prevent cheating). This paper is then given to the people managing the site.
If there is a question about the electronic counts, a manual count of the paper ballots can be done.
Of course, this does require that the source code be trusted. Right now, open source is the only mechanism I can imagine that would result in trusted source.
You bought a DirecTivo. Assuming you were somewhat intelligent, you looked on the DirecTV website to determine what, if any, additional charges you might have. You then would have found that they charge $5 for each receiver beyond the first, and $5 for the Tivo.
If you didn't bother to actually some some relatively trivial research, you're a fool.
But that's the idea of the courts, and the division of responsibilities established.
Generally, the courts only make law in the gray areas, where the law is vague or doesn't exist yet. I'm pretty sure that the Supreme Court justices would be very happy if Congress would legislate some of the issues they deal with, and give clear rules for everyone.
Let's say your friend is out joy-riding, and sideswipes a car on the highway 'cause he's not paying attention. He gets scared, and drives away. Unfortunately, the guy who got hit get the plate number.
The cops are going to come to you, and you will be the suspect at first. All you've got to do is turn your friend over to the cops and you are clean. If you don't, it's all on your head.
So what gives you the right to take that music, and create a copy of it, and give, or sell, that copy to someone else? C'mon - that BS and you (ought) to know it.
Now if they try to tell me that I can't create a copy of a CD for personal use - whole different story.
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Here's the hint - perhaps the story behind the song wasn't just Peart's imagination. Maybe, just maybe, there was a basis for this story.
Not for me. The whole point was to play and host modules other people have created. I know my own limits - I couldn't create a decent module if I tried! But I can run someone else's effort.
Unfortunately, it's become a "fad" diagnosis. I have several friends who are special needs teachers for the local district. They have had parents push, cajole, beg even threaten to get their child classified as ADHD. All of this pressure, and the large number of people diagnosed by psychologists pushed the district into accepting only neurological reports.
ADHD isn't fun, and has caused me innummerable problems. I'm a stubborn person who refuses to believe that I cannot beat something without outside assistance. I'm now resigned to taking medication for probably the rest of my life. The difference on and off the medication is dramatic.
My personal diagnosis was from a pyschologist, and has not been confirmed by a neurologist. I'm an adult, and don't need such confirmation.
Slashdot Mirror
The site could plan ahead, and block any request with a referer of slashdot. You know, just in case.
-- Ravensfire
Hang on - you wanted them to ADMIT their mistake, without a court order? Right ....
Good grief - what hill have you been living under?!?
-- Ravensfire
Blah, blah, blah.
Okay, time for some education. This person was SENTENCED to jail for 18 months. For killing someone - that's light to me. Especially since they couldn't be bothered to hit the brakes.
The kid filming the movie was ARRESTED. The statute he's charged under allows for jail time up to 1 year, if convicted, and/or up to a $2,500 fine.
See those key words - up to. Yeah, he might, MIGHT get that for the first offense. Unlikely. Probably a fine and probation. Get busted a couple of times, that's when more severe penalties get applied.
To tie this back to this discussion, the driver was probably facing up to a couple of years. His lawyer considers this a "very, very severe" sentence. Yeah - 18 months for killing a kid while travelling 3 times the speed limit and not hitting the brakes and having the car floored is light.
-- Ravensfire
Nah - the state tried you first, then the federal government tries you if you're found innocent by a state jury.
-- Ravensfire
But we WANT to slashdot your site!
16,183 - pictures taken at the Super Bowl
1,028,000 - pictures taken in the year
That's an insane amount of images - and all in RAW format? That's a pretty big database to store and catalog them.
-- Ravensfire
There is a big difference, though, between a reciept and an audit trail. Under no circumstances should a voter be able to leave a poll with an official piece of paper indicating how they voted. Can you saw enabling vote selling?
An audit trail that remains in the custody of election officials is a good and needed thing. A reciept - Bad Thing (tm)
-- Ravensfire
Immediate problem with receipts - vote selling.
An organization (political, commercial or other), could print out the ballots. People looking for a few bucks could pick one up, fill it out while the entity makes sure the proper votes are collected. A provided shuttle bus then takes people to the polling place where the vote is dropped off. The receipt you so generously provided is then given to the entity who pays you off.
-- Ravensfire
Price of carboard, price of typesetting, price of expensive, glossy inks, price of art
Let's put a bit more effort into the thought next time, m'kay?
Do you really want THIS government deciding what music should be produced?
-- Ravensfire
"What: "we know there's a problem with these votes, but we won't recount them because we can't work out how to"? Sure, sounds fair to me. I just hope your vote wasn't one of them, because if it was, you just lost everything that gives democracy its name."
No - it was more of: we won't recount them because the state can't figure out what to do.
It wasn't the job of the SC to figure out how to do the recount, just to see if, under Florida's law and guidelines from the Sec. of State, a recount would be fair throughout the state.
Blame Florida legislatures and the Sec. of State who couldn't figure out how to do her job right.
-- Ravensfire
True.
I would like to see a vote system where a printed copy is always made, with only a voter id number (created by the machine using some algorithm to prevent cheating). This paper is then given to the people managing the site.
If there is a question about the electronic counts, a manual count of the paper ballots can be done.
Of course, this does require that the source code be trusted. Right now, open source is the only mechanism I can imagine that would result in trusted source.
-- Ravensfire
Let's see,
You bought a DirecTivo. Assuming you were somewhat intelligent, you looked on the DirecTV website to determine what, if any, additional charges you might have. You then would have found that they charge $5 for each receiver beyond the first, and $5 for the Tivo.
If you didn't bother to actually some some relatively trivial research, you're a fool.
-- Ravensfire
Sorry, but there is a shortage of teachers, especially in inner-city and rural environments. The shortage is projected to get worse.
-- Ravensfire
But this is an odd numbered day, so we like AOL.
But that's the idea of the courts, and the division of responsibilities established.
Generally, the courts only make law in the gray areas, where the law is vague or doesn't exist yet. I'm pretty sure that the Supreme Court justices would be very happy if Congress would legislate some of the issues they deal with, and give clear rules for everyone.
-- Ravensfire
You could potentially be liable.
Let's say your friend is out joy-riding, and sideswipes a car on the highway 'cause he's not paying attention. He gets scared, and drives away. Unfortunately, the guy who got hit get the plate number.
The cops are going to come to you, and you will be the suspect at first. All you've got to do is turn your friend over to the cops and you are clean. If you don't, it's all on your head.
Yes.
So what gives you the right to take that music, and create a copy of it, and give, or sell, that copy to someone else? C'mon - that BS and you (ought) to know it.
Now if they try to tell me that I can't create a copy of a CD for personal use - whole different story.
Here's the hint - perhaps the story behind the song wasn't just Peart's imagination. Maybe, just maybe, there was a basis for this story.
...
Maybe
-- Ravensfire
Along those lines - I just want good, high-quality beer for free.
Instead I'm paying 3 bucks for a Bud Light.
Bah, screwed twice.
Not for me. The whole point was to play and host modules other people have created. I know my own limits - I couldn't create a decent module if I tried! But I can run someone else's effort.
People like you are why we have to deal with Sen. Hatch and the RIAA assholes.
Thanks a lot.
In this case - ADHD is measurable, and treatable.
Unfortunately, it's become a "fad" diagnosis. I have several friends who are special needs teachers for the local district. They have had parents push, cajole, beg even threaten to get their child classified as ADHD. All of this pressure, and the large number of people diagnosed by psychologists pushed the district into accepting only neurological reports.
ADHD isn't fun, and has caused me innummerable problems. I'm a stubborn person who refuses to believe that I cannot beat something without outside assistance. I'm now resigned to taking medication for probably the rest of my life. The difference on and off the medication is dramatic.
My personal diagnosis was from a pyschologist, and has not been confirmed by a neurologist. I'm an adult, and don't need such confirmation.
Sorry, but ADHD is not a psychological illness. It's a neurological condition, an imbalance of certain chemicals in the brain.
In my local school district, they will not accept an ADHD diagnosis from anyone other than a neurologist.
-- Ravensfire