Eh, so far its basically exactly the reverse as the last gen was. Watching the xbox presentation was like going back in time and watching the PS3 reveal (only with more RRRRIDGE RRRACER! and less attacking the weak point for massive damage) The PS3 managed to stage a comeback from that, I'm sure Microsoft can too.
It doesn't matter whether there's a few more or less millimeters of water if you lose an inch of land per year. For NY, it looks like this study says 40% of the change in New York's sea level is due to New York sinking.
It'd be awesome if people could arrange it without being arrested. Imagine if even thousands showed up along Pennsylvania Ave shouting at the top of their lungs "CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW"
It's he-said-she-said, but pretty much the events in order are:
1) guy tells stock holders he landed awesome government contract and states contract as income up front. 2) guy tells government not to listen to everyone's phone calls. 3) government cancels awesome contract, Qwest suddenly "loses" all that money they "had" in step 1. 4) government arrests guy for lying to stockholders in step 1.
The government's not entirely at fault here, if he hadn't stated the future contract as present income in step 1, the government would have had a much shorter lever on moving him, but that's how it is.
If I'm innocent, I don't consider it a huge burden to take the stand and say, "No, I didn't do it," since I'm already in court anyway.
Then it's added to the list of crimes you're guilty of when the prosecutor's DNA analyst lies on the stand to prove you did. Going to prison for just murder is objectively better than murder plus X more days for perjury. This meets all of the bullet points except for the one where you've gone off the deep end and demanded that we eliminate all the corruption that has existed for millenia and will continue to exist long after we're all dead.
2) How does rolling a die and acquitting whenever it comes up 6 benefit all defendants equally? Assuming a 20-sided die, I'd say that system would benefit about 5% of defendants more than it benefits the rest.
Ding ding ding. "Benefiting everyone" is not the same as giving everyone a random chance! One of many purposes of this rule is to make sure the government does their job correctly. If the only way you can prove someone is guilty is to get the person to say they're guilty, then perhaps just maybe you've got nothing and you're wasting everyone's time. Do the job right and EVERYONE benefits. And despite Bennett's insistence, everyone benefiting is not a bad thing.
Agreed. Why not demand that arguments are only valid if presented by someone wearing a banana on their head?
The "benefit" can't be something that benefits all suspects equally, whether they're innocent, guilty of violating a just law, or guilty of violating an unjust law
Seriously? God forbid that everyone benefit from controls on the government.
The "benefit" can't be something that exists separately from the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. I've had it suggested to me that without the Fifth Amendment, the police would just beat people into confessing. But of course the right not to be beaten by the police is separate from the right to remain silent.
Is it really? You have a constitutional amendment that says so, or are you just hoping against all chance that people know what the 9th amendment means?
but realize that it implies we're living under a criminal justice system that can't find its ass with both hands, and perhaps that's the larger problem that should be addressed.
If our argument applies to the world as it actually is rather than the ideal perfect world, it doesn't count?
The key isn't to actually catch anything, the key is to convince people you can, then snow over gullible juries in court with tales of how you have super secret evidence that proves you're a pedophile terrorist drug pusher but if they told them they'd have to kill them, so they find you guilty.
Randomly stopping someone and planting evidence doesn't happen. Targeting people and planting evidence probably does happen. I was referring to the former, not the latter.
Oh, ok.
Perez alleges that CRASH officers carried spare guns in their "war bags" to plant on suspects.
The problem is that now that tort reform has taken hold and failed to curb excessive costs, insurers and governments have gotten wise to the fact that this testing is a huge profit center for docs and hospitals. "Gotta test everything because I make $50 per test!" replaced "Gotta test everything or I'll be sued!" So now they're pushing the doctors to do less testing.
The obvious solution would be to establish prerequisites for a given course of treatment but DEATH PANELLLLLSSSSS!
they can get a warrant to search your house for the gun.
And when they show up, they're free to rip the sheetrock off the walls, tear apart your upholstery and dump out all of your potted plants, but they can't make you tell them you taped the gun to the inside of the chimney.
I could go on, but you can read the results of searching for cops planting drugs on google yourself rather than plugging your ears and screaming at the top of your lungs how it can't be happening.
Not that much different than current housing developments where everything is custom made small runs from someone's nephew and replacing a piece of trim even just couple of years later is impossible.
We replaced our front door and had to get one custom made because the door was roughly a quarter-inch narrower than the front doors you can just walk into home depot and buy, and I've learned a lot about how to use a completely different kind of router just to make trim that looks somewhat like what's on the rest of the house.
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it'll probably be too late for the XBone.
Eh, so far its basically exactly the reverse as the last gen was. Watching the xbox presentation was like going back in time and watching the PS3 reveal (only with more RRRRIDGE RRRACER! and less attacking the weak point for massive damage) The PS3 managed to stage a comeback from that, I'm sure Microsoft can too.
the Nazi party did introduce national healthcare
Did they? The nazi party came around in 1920. Meanwhile Germany had the world's oldest national social health insurance system dating from around 1890.
cereal movements
Thanks to my big bowl of fiber every morning, I can move mountains!
Word of the day: subsidence.
It doesn't matter whether there's a few more or less millimeters of water if you lose an inch of land per year. For NY, it looks like this study says 40% of the change in New York's sea level is due to New York sinking.
You forgot "tea party".
It'd be awesome if people could arrange it without being arrested. Imagine if even thousands showed up along Pennsylvania Ave shouting at the top of their lungs "CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW"
Never fear, Rand Paul is going to take the fight to the Supreme Court!
Just as soon as he gets Congress to repeal all the laws they passed to prevent anyone from challenging this shit when Bush was doing it.
fewer democrats are speaking out when said democrat abusing his power
Yeah, all we hear about these days are Republicans like Al Gore decrying obama's regime.
Well then, we just have to hold verizon and other participating telcos responsible for viola... oh wait.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_for_NSA_spying
It's he-said-she-said, but pretty much the events in order are:
1) guy tells stock holders he landed awesome government contract and states contract as income up front.
2) guy tells government not to listen to everyone's phone calls.
3) government cancels awesome contract, Qwest suddenly "loses" all that money they "had" in step 1.
4) government arrests guy for lying to stockholders in step 1.
The government's not entirely at fault here, if he hadn't stated the future contract as present income in step 1, the government would have had a much shorter lever on moving him, but that's how it is.
How'd that work for the CEO of Qwest when he refused to let Bush listen in on everything?
If I'm innocent, I don't consider it a huge burden to take the stand and say, "No, I didn't do it," since I'm already in court anyway.
Then it's added to the list of crimes you're guilty of when the prosecutor's DNA analyst lies on the stand to prove you did. Going to prison for just murder is objectively better than murder plus X more days for perjury. This meets all of the bullet points except for the one where you've gone off the deep end and demanded that we eliminate all the corruption that has existed for millenia and will continue to exist long after we're all dead.
Ding ding ding. "Benefiting everyone" is not the same as giving everyone a random chance! One of many purposes of this rule is to make sure the government does their job correctly. If the only way you can prove someone is guilty is to get the person to say they're guilty, then perhaps just maybe you've got nothing and you're wasting everyone's time. Do the job right and EVERYONE benefits. And despite Bennett's insistence, everyone benefiting is not a bad thing.
Agreed. Why not demand that arguments are only valid if presented by someone wearing a banana on their head?
Seriously? God forbid that everyone benefit from controls on the government.
Is it really? You have a constitutional amendment that says so, or are you just hoping against all chance that people know what the 9th amendment means?
If our argument applies to the world as it actually is rather than the ideal perfect world, it doesn't count?
The key isn't to actually catch anything, the key is to convince people you can, then snow over gullible juries in court with tales of how you have super secret evidence that proves you're a pedophile terrorist drug pusher but if they told them they'd have to kill them, so they find you guilty.
Reminds me of after 9/11 when there were so many feds abusing wiretaps they couldn't afford to pay the bills and were getting them shut off.
Randomly stopping someone and planting evidence doesn't happen. Targeting people and planting evidence probably does happen. I was referring to the former, not the latter.
Oh, ok.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampart_scandal#CRASH_culture
it takes a bit of explanation as to why they were banned across so much of the world, if they're genuinely safe.
Nobody knows if they're safe or not, they made people feel funny therefore they needed to be banned because mommy government knows best.
The problem is that now that tort reform has taken hold and failed to curb excessive costs, insurers and governments have gotten wise to the fact that this testing is a huge profit center for docs and hospitals. "Gotta test everything because I make $50 per test!" replaced "Gotta test everything or I'll be sued!" So now they're pushing the doctors to do less testing.
The obvious solution would be to establish prerequisites for a given course of treatment but DEATH PANELLLLLSSSSS!
they can get a warrant to search your house for the gun.
And when they show up, they're free to rip the sheetrock off the walls, tear apart your upholstery and dump out all of your potted plants, but they can't make you tell them you taped the gun to the inside of the chimney.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/oak-cliff/headlines/20130301-firing-and-arrests-of-dallas-police-officers-could-be-opening-salvo-in-another-departmental-scandal.ece
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704720804576009812869266014.html
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-04-15/news/chi-schaumburg-drug-conviction-dropped-20130415_1_john-cichy-hudak-drug-conspiracy
http://theweek.com/article/index/220367/planting-drugs-on-innocent-people-nypds-shocking-scandal
I could go on, but you can read the results of searching for cops planting drugs on google yourself rather than plugging your ears and screaming at the top of your lungs how it can't be happening.
Just because you weren't smart enough to request the results of the rape kit
They'll have the results back just as soon as you provide some DNA to them, which they're now authorized to collect on your arrest.
Their concerns aren't valid, they're just casting 200,000 letters out and hoping to get a fish.
Not that much different than current housing developments where everything is custom made small runs from someone's nephew and replacing a piece of trim even just couple of years later is impossible.
We replaced our front door and had to get one custom made because the door was roughly a quarter-inch narrower than the front doors you can just walk into home depot and buy, and I've learned a lot about how to use a completely different kind of router just to make trim that looks somewhat like what's on the rest of the house.
There's a silkroad app?