Sure. However, just as I can't evict the blind guy for falling and breaking my table repeatedly, I can't evict someone in a drug treatment program for slipping (unless they are found guilty criminally, in that case, I can evict them faster than usual).
I realize this. I wasn't defending his actions or saying he is right (I do not think he is, I think he's a fuckin' shell-shocked 'nam vet that still thinks the world owes him something). I was, however, trying to set the record on alcoholism as a disease straight. I don't think there is any other way to define it; alcoholism can rip families and lives apart, and should be treated as a disease.
I do not, however, think that everyone that says they're an alcoholic is. Most of them are lazy drunks whose mouths will always be firmly clenched around the taxpayer's teat.
Actually, yes, they do. If you are a drug addict and seeking treatment, you cannot be fired or evicted from your apartment. In fact, usually the government pays for a large chunk of the treatment, and if you have children, the government would probably give you food stamps and TANF monies too.
Oh, and lets not forget all the maintenance doses of methadone that we're paying for.
And, by the way, congratulations on quitting drinking on your own. I just quit smoking, albeit with the aid of Nicoderm CQ. That does not, however, make it not a disease. I've been diagnosed ADD, but with Word open in one window, a movie on the other screen, book open in front of me, and two research papers in another browser window, I refuse to call it a Disorder, but that doesn't make it so. I can control it, just like you could control your addiction. However, others cannot. Think about it like this: If it's possible for you to be better at math than someone, than it's probably possible to be better at fighting an addiction than others.
I'm a Resident Assistant/Leasing Consultant at the student housing development I live at, and here's the Fair Housing Act standard:
If drug use is current, they are not a protected class. If drug use is current, but they are enrolled in some sort of drug treatment program, they ARE a protected class, and you cannot discriminate on them.
As a law student you should understand that there are many different definitions of "disease". I'm not currently a law student, I'm an undergrad studying human development and psychology, but plan to go on to law school.
The law may not define alcoholism as a disease, however, Merriam Webster defines the word as follows: 2 : a condition of the living animal or plant body or of one of its parts that impairs normal functioning and is typically manifested by distinguishing signs and symptoms : SICKNESS, MALADY 3 : a harmful development (as in a social institution)
As for 2, alcohol is known to encourage the release of endorphins and dopamine, and I'm sure you know the functions of both. At some point, without alcohol, one cannot keep endorphin and dopamine levels high enough during sobriety to function correctly, ie, with a clear mind and without physical tremors.
As for 3, alcoholism causes many problems, what with decreased economic productivity, many many many problems in the family, and increased burden on the health system, regardless of whether the alcoholic has a job or not: If he does, it increases health insurance premiums, if he does not, it increases stress on government- and institutionally-funded health care programs.
Alcoholism IS a disease, being a drunk is not. There is a point of no return for a drunk, however, and THAT is when it becomes a disease.
I don't know if it comes that early any more, but here in PA, they want their children hit in the early morning before people are actually awake. I still remember getting my yellow bus slip in the mail freshman year that said DEPART: 6:35AM.
But that's a different situation. He never had consent to take the photos in the first place, he couldn't have been given consent: The children were legally unable to give it to another.
However this is different: Does a person need to be old enough to legally consent to be photographed nude by another to take photos of themselves?
Motor Vehicle: 1.3 deaths per million miles driven (by all vehicles, that is, if a million cars drove 1 mile, 1.3 drivers would die)
Air Carriers: 1.9 deaths per million miles flown by all aircraft.
Now wait a second! Whatshisface grandparent said planes were SAFER!
Well, OK. There are less planes than cars, but more people, so:
Yearly, 1 out of every 7,700 people die in a car wreck. Yearly, 1 out of every 2,067,000 people die in an airplane wreck, but by that measure, motorcycles are safer than cars.
What, you think Google just went to Time Warner and said yeah, I'd like the 48GBps service, you know, the one that's always connected with unlimited downloads?
Rest assured that those media companies are paying dearly for their thousand mile long piece of glass fiber. The telecommunications companies all just want to double dip.
And electricity works a lot like the internet does now. I pay the local power company for power distribution AND generation. If I switch power companies, I don't have to pay some extra fee for using a different power company. I pay the same rate to the owners of the grid for distribution. Why should my alternative generation company cost me more when they're already connected to the fucking grid?
I don't get a choice in who brings me my power, so if there's a way for me to choose who MAKES my power, why should the distribution company get to make these fun little deals? They already have a monopoly that I helped fund the construction of, and want to keep me from getting my power elsewhere? Can't have your senator and fuck his wife, too, sorry.
As for the telecommunications companies? You can't suck me into a contract by saying unlimited access and then take it away. Actually, you know what? Try me! I don't need no fuckin' wires, I've got an 802.11 card and a Pringles can!
Fairness and accuracy are two very different things.
I can be fair and say that the evidence given to me has no reasonable doubts, and convict, and then find out - 2 years later when some sort of forensic testing gets more/accurate/ - that I was completely wrong.
You know why it works like that? Attachment gets more complicated.
I bet if I took away your computer and replaced it with the same model, just with the default install, you'd miss your old one... or imagine if I did it with your car!
So a little over $8,000 each. Imagine if it was like 10 banks, and the other nine kept quiet.
And remember who did it... Russian programmers. In other words, people without jobs but with an education. $8,000 US over there in a year is going to get you at the very least a living wage. The poverty line is what, $13,000 here? It's Saturday so I refuse to look it up, but if you're poor and cannot find a job, well, bending your morals and stealing some money to just/get by/ seems like a pretty good idea. They probably weren't doing it to get rich, but just to buy some fuckin' hot dogs.
the laser in your head has a wavelength 543nm, and the RPG being launched a foot away from you knows that it's target is a 543nm colored dot in the direction that it was shot.
or, even better: The laser is merely a rangefinder. GPS coordinates are given for both the wearer and the target. The RPG is GPS guided.
It is scientific fact that embryos, from conception onward, are living human organisms.
Wrong. According to what Law? If it's anything less than a law, it's not a fact. Go read a book on existentialism. The line between human and not human is so fuzzy you can't even call it a line. I'm inclined to believe any animal that can feel AND express emotion (and don't say they can't, go talk to a dog for a little while) deserves some of our human rights. An embryo (not a fetus) cannot do that. It is not human. It's a ball of undifferentiated cells. A glorified bacterial colony.
You ARE born with some sense of a personality. However it's very, very rudimentary. You are human because you were raised by beings that defined themselves as such. If you were raised by dogs, you'd be running on all fours, barking and growling and nipping people on the neck. Don't believe me? Go google about "Wild Boy". Hell, there even comes a point in your life around 12-13 where if you don't learn a human language, you will forever be unable to communicate in the ways that seem to define us as human. Don't think for one second that we're concieved - or even born - human.
Ah, but any kid has discovered this the first time he tried to defrost a frozen candy bar. Or warm up something in aluminum. Or boil water in a metal cup. Or left his spoon in the bowl.
Uh, wtf is this story tagged "entrapment"? You're not supposed to shoot a deer out of season. They didn't try to entrap you, they just gave you an opportunity to break the law that you probably would have found another mile or so down the road.
maybe "stupidfuckingpoachers" is more appropriate.
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Sure. However, just as I can't evict the blind guy for falling and breaking my table repeatedly, I can't evict someone in a drug treatment program for slipping (unless they are found guilty criminally, in that case, I can evict them faster than usual).
I realize this. I wasn't defending his actions or saying he is right (I do not think he is, I think he's a fuckin' shell-shocked 'nam vet that still thinks the world owes him something). I was, however, trying to set the record on alcoholism as a disease straight. I don't think there is any other way to define it; alcoholism can rip families and lives apart, and should be treated as a disease.
I do not, however, think that everyone that says they're an alcoholic is. Most of them are lazy drunks whose mouths will always be firmly clenched around the taxpayer's teat.
Actually, yes, they do. If you are a drug addict and seeking treatment, you cannot be fired or evicted from your apartment. In fact, usually the government pays for a large chunk of the treatment, and if you have children, the government would probably give you food stamps and TANF monies too.
Oh, and lets not forget all the maintenance doses of methadone that we're paying for.
And, by the way, congratulations on quitting drinking on your own. I just quit smoking, albeit with the aid of Nicoderm CQ. That does not, however, make it not a disease. I've been diagnosed ADD, but with Word open in one window, a movie on the other screen, book open in front of me, and two research papers in another browser window, I refuse to call it a Disorder, but that doesn't make it so. I can control it, just like you could control your addiction. However, others cannot. Think about it like this: If it's possible for you to be better at math than someone, than it's probably possible to be better at fighting an addiction than others.
I'm a Resident Assistant/Leasing Consultant at the student housing development I live at, and here's the Fair Housing Act standard:
If drug use is current, they are not a protected class.
If drug use is current, but they are enrolled in some sort of drug treatment program, they ARE a protected class, and you cannot discriminate on them.
As a law student you should understand that there are many different definitions of "disease". I'm not currently a law student, I'm an undergrad studying human development and psychology, but plan to go on to law school.
The law may not define alcoholism as a disease, however, Merriam Webster defines the word as follows:
2 : a condition of the living animal or plant body or of one of its parts that impairs normal functioning and is typically manifested by distinguishing signs and symptoms : SICKNESS, MALADY
3 : a harmful development (as in a social institution)
As for 2, alcohol is known to encourage the release of endorphins and dopamine, and I'm sure you know the functions of both. At some point, without alcohol, one cannot keep endorphin and dopamine levels high enough during sobriety to function correctly, ie, with a clear mind and without physical tremors.
As for 3, alcoholism causes many problems, what with decreased economic productivity, many many many problems in the family, and increased burden on the health system, regardless of whether the alcoholic has a job or not: If he does, it increases health insurance premiums, if he does not, it increases stress on government- and institutionally-funded health care programs.
Alcoholism IS a disease, being a drunk is not. There is a point of no return for a drunk, however, and THAT is when it becomes a disease.
I don't know if it comes that early any more, but here in PA, they want their children hit in the early morning before people are actually awake. I still remember getting my yellow bus slip in the mail freshman year that said DEPART: 6:35AM.
I have mod points, but I'm not modding your post back up.
What you said is the same as replying to an article about a homicide and saying "Well why don't we lock up all the murderers?"
Don't state the obvious in a discussion and expect not to be squelched.
Saddam gassing Kurds doesn't have much to do with defending the constitution.
But that's a different situation. He never had consent to take the photos in the first place, he couldn't have been given consent: The children were legally unable to give it to another.
However this is different: Does a person need to be old enough to legally consent to be photographed nude by another to take photos of themselves?
Ah, statistics:
Motor Vehicle: 1.3 deaths per million miles driven (by all vehicles, that is, if a million cars drove 1 mile, 1.3 drivers would die)
Air Carriers: 1.9 deaths per million miles flown by all aircraft.
Now wait a second! Whatshisface grandparent said planes were SAFER!
Well, OK. There are less planes than cars, but more people, so:
Yearly, 1 out of every 7,700 people die in a car wreck.
Yearly, 1 out of every 2,067,000 people die in an airplane wreck, but by that measure, motorcycles are safer than cars.
Stats let anyone say whatever they want to say
What, you think Google just went to Time Warner and said yeah, I'd like the 48GBps service, you know, the one that's always connected with unlimited downloads?
Rest assured that those media companies are paying dearly for their thousand mile long piece of glass fiber. The telecommunications companies all just want to double dip.
And electricity works a lot like the internet does now. I pay the local power company for power distribution AND generation. If I switch power companies, I don't have to pay some extra fee for using a different power company. I pay the same rate to the owners of the grid for distribution. Why should my alternative generation company cost me more when they're already connected to the fucking grid?
I don't get a choice in who brings me my power, so if there's a way for me to choose who MAKES my power, why should the distribution company get to make these fun little deals? They already have a monopoly that I helped fund the construction of, and want to keep me from getting my power elsewhere? Can't have your senator and fuck his wife, too, sorry.
As for the telecommunications companies? You can't suck me into a contract by saying unlimited access and then take it away. Actually, you know what? Try me! I don't need no fuckin' wires, I've got an 802.11 card and a Pringles can!
Fairness and accuracy are two very different things.
/accurate/ - that I was completely wrong.
I can be fair and say that the evidence given to me has no reasonable doubts, and convict, and then find out - 2 years later when some sort of forensic testing gets more
It does that because microwaves are centimeter waves, and will heat a hell up a of a lot more than just your skin.
In the US, at least, 667 would be the Across the Street Neighbor of the Beast. 668 would be right next door.
You know why it works like that? Attachment gets more complicated.
I bet if I took away your computer and replaced it with the same model, just with the default install, you'd miss your old one... or imagine if I did it with your car!
So a little over $8,000 each. Imagine if it was like 10 banks, and the other nine kept quiet.
/get by/ seems like a pretty good idea. They probably weren't doing it to get rich, but just to buy some fuckin' hot dogs.
And remember who did it... Russian programmers. In other words, people without jobs but with an education. $8,000 US over there in a year is going to get you at the very least a living wage. The poverty line is what, $13,000 here? It's Saturday so I refuse to look it up, but if you're poor and cannot find a job, well, bending your morals and stealing some money to just
the laser in your head has a wavelength 543nm, and the RPG being launched a foot away from you knows that it's target is a 543nm colored dot in the direction that it was shot.
or, even better: The laser is merely a rangefinder. GPS coordinates are given for both the wearer and the target. The RPG is GPS guided.
dude, please dont link content-stealing blogs that just links to ANOTHER blog that stole its content from another site. Useless.
Not necessarily. Wild Boy ran on all fours, like a dog.
It is scientific fact that embryos, from conception onward, are living human organisms.
Wrong.
According to what Law? If it's anything less than a law, it's not a fact. Go read a book on existentialism. The line between human and not human is so fuzzy you can't even call it a line. I'm inclined to believe any animal that can feel AND express emotion (and don't say they can't, go talk to a dog for a little while) deserves some of our human rights. An embryo (not a fetus) cannot do that. It is not human. It's a ball of undifferentiated cells. A glorified bacterial colony.
You ARE born with some sense of a personality. However it's very, very rudimentary. You are human because you were raised by beings that defined themselves as such. If you were raised by dogs, you'd be running on all fours, barking and growling and nipping people on the neck. Don't believe me? Go google about "Wild Boy". Hell, there even comes a point in your life around 12-13 where if you don't learn a human language, you will forever be unable to communicate in the ways that seem to define us as human. Don't think for one second that we're concieved - or even born - human.
Ah, but any kid has discovered this the first time he tried to defrost a frozen candy bar. Or warm up something in aluminum. Or boil water in a metal cup. Or left his spoon in the bowl.
Duh.
sure, if the projectile is 200% the size of the target! :P
Dude, the player doesn't cost $150. It costs minimum $450 if you dont have a 360.
I don't see that working too good, BlueTooth has a rather limited range (20 feet or so).
Uh, wtf is this story tagged "entrapment"? You're not supposed to shoot a deer out of season. They didn't try to entrap you, they just gave you an opportunity to break the law that you probably would have found another mile or so down the road.
maybe "stupidfuckingpoachers" is more appropriate.