"Face it, Canada is rapidly rising to be the next dominant superpower, both politically and economically. We're also far smarter than the Europeans and Americans, so we won't repeat their mistakes and we'll be here to stay at the top."
And thanks to global warming, in another century or so it will be a tolerable place to live.
It works instantly, and many merchants don't even realize they have it because the near-fields chip that it uses comes standard on most of the new chip-reader terminals and there is no merchant signup required. Tap your iPhone to the upper right corner of the terminal if it's one of the new chip readers. You and the merchant might both be surprised.
"By Pin, does one mean the One Time Pins that are texted to one's cellphone? I"
No, that would be two-factor authentication. Chip and PIN is: you insert your credit card into the chip reader and instead of signing it, type a 4-digit PIN on the keypad. That's how chop cards work everywhere in the world except the US.
People have sued because they got their hands run over trying to steal hubcaps. (Terrence Dickinson I believe is the name) Saying a lawsuit on record is shady means your misinformed. People sue for anything.
The hubcap guy was a different person. Terrence Dickson was the burglar who cashed in when, after robbing a house, he got himself trapped behind a self-locking door in the attached garage and was locked inside for eight days until the homeowner returned from vacation. Dickson subsisted on canned Pepsi and dry dog food stored in the garage.
Dickson sued the homeowner and won $500,000. Nice work if you can get it.
"The words Liberal, Conservative, Left, Right have pretty must lost all meaning. They've pretty much fallen into "no true scottsman" territory."
These terms have not become meaningless, but what they do mean is dependent on national culture. Even when you can establish a correspondence for a term in different cultures, the specific issues being argued will differ. One example: European "liberal" corresponds generally to American "libertarian" but without guns.
Yes they would be better subjects, but a rotating porcine torus wouldn't fit on the ISS, aside from the whole problem of ferrying up pig feed. The one big advantage to your idea would be the satisfaction of being able to jettison fig feces loads over the Middle East.
'If civil suits required a unanimous jury verdict... and... an evidence standard of "beyond a reasonable doubt"... the junk suits would melt away' -- Correct, as would a very large number of non-junk suits, which is not such a good idea.
I would like to make civil suits more difficult to file without having the government pass judgement on what level of damages are 'good' or not outside the settlement of a given case. This goes beyond individual squabbles: with such a reform, perhaps we could start building large-scale public infrastructure again. My Exhibit A is California high speed rail.
"Well, a government or corporation should never be permitted to use civil procedure against individuals anyway. The government in particular only uses it to circumvent a person's legal rights, like a unanimous jury decision and reasonable doubt, the IRS and civil asset forfeiture being the prime example. "
Good point, but civil asset forfeiture is not an example of civil trial procedure because there is no suit/charge and no trial at all: the cops just take your stuff without any legal recourse at all. They even get to use the loot for themselves, an incredibly obvious conflict of interest. I would rather require that all forfeiture proceedings begin with filing of a criminal charge. The police have to have probable cause to do so, you as an accused have rights, and court action decides whether you are guilty and have to forfeit anything.
There are no circumstances that justify taking property without due process. None whatever.
We need the law's version of universal health care, public defenders for civil cases also. There are too many innocent victims who can't afford to defend themselves from trumped up charges and lawsuits.
I would rather address the same problem by tightening up civil procedure to match the stiffer standards of criminal trial procedure. If civil suits required a unanimous jury verdict rather than a majority and on an evidence standard of "beyond a reasonable doubt" rather than "preponderance of evidence" the junk suits would melt away.
This study could not separate the effect of microgravity from radiation. But a mouse centrifuge on the ISS could be used to test for space radiation at Earth, Mars and lunar gravitation levels. You could even test for all these levels at once with a "three story torus."
Notice how news sites like CNN are gradually going all video? And not the good videos that explain a lot succinctly or put you into a snippet of the news action, but those excruciating new wastes of bandwidth that just display story text, in a giant font, screen after screen, backed by nothing but a musical bed, until you realize that you have spent ten minutes watching one paragraph of text.
It's time for us to stop buying anything from or selling anything to these countries. As soon as they have to apply their remaining capital to growing their own basic necessities, there will be less left over for international terrorism. If Obama's successor lets Canadian oil back in again, we will be 'terrorism free' in that commodity.
"In civilized countries, defendants are innocent until proven guilty "
This does not apply in sexual harassment cases. A man has to quit his job on accusation and then manage whatever legal assistance he can muster from the unemployment line.
Is there any list of specific acts by Applebaum that prompted this controversy? Or is this another nerd clumsily asking women for dates, Clarence Thomas style?
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"Face it, Canada is rapidly rising to be the next dominant superpower, both politically and economically. We're also far smarter than the Europeans and Americans, so we won't repeat their mistakes and we'll be here to stay at the top."
And thanks to global warming, in another century or so it will be a tolerable place to live.
It works instantly, and many merchants don't even realize they have it because the near-fields chip that it uses comes standard on most of the new chip-reader terminals and there is no merchant signup required. Tap your iPhone to the upper right corner of the terminal if it's one of the new chip readers. You and the merchant might both be surprised.
"By Pin, does one mean the One Time Pins that are texted to one's cellphone? I"
No, that would be two-factor authentication. Chip and PIN is: you insert your credit card into the chip reader and instead of signing it, type a 4-digit PIN on the keypad. That's how chop cards work everywhere in the world except the US.
People have sued because they got their hands run over trying to steal hubcaps. (Terrence Dickinson I believe is the name) Saying a lawsuit on record is shady means your misinformed. People sue for anything.
The hubcap guy was a different person. Terrence Dickson was the burglar who cashed in when, after robbing a house, he got himself trapped behind a self-locking door in the attached garage and was locked inside for eight days until the homeowner returned from vacation. Dickson subsisted on canned Pepsi and dry dog food stored in the garage.
Dickson sued the homeowner and won $500,000. Nice work if you can get it.
"The words Liberal, Conservative, Left, Right have pretty must lost all meaning. They've pretty much fallen into "no true scottsman" territory."
These terms have not become meaningless, but what they do mean is dependent on national culture. Even when you can establish a correspondence for a term in different cultures, the specific issues being argued will differ. One example: European "liberal" corresponds generally to American "libertarian" but without guns.
Hey, looka that!
Dark matter turns out to be a lot of dim matter. Thanks for shining a light on this subject.
Dark Galaxies Matter, you insensitive clod!
#BlackMatterLives
Would that be Linux Orange?
And get it put on every spam list.
"Surely pigs would be better anyway."
Yes they would be better subjects, but a rotating porcine torus wouldn't fit on the ISS, aside from the whole problem of ferrying up pig feed. The one big advantage to your idea would be the satisfaction of being able to jettison fig feces loads over the Middle East.
'If civil suits required a unanimous jury verdict ... and ... an evidence standard of "beyond a reasonable doubt" ... the junk suits would melt away'
-- Correct, as would a very large number of non-junk suits, which is not such a good idea.
I would like to make civil suits more difficult to file without having the government pass judgement on what level of damages are 'good' or not outside the settlement of a given case. This goes beyond individual squabbles: with such a reform, perhaps we could start building large-scale public infrastructure again. My Exhibit A is California high speed rail.
"Disagree. How is my company going to recover damages from an employee who stole a pallet of paperclips if they can't file civil suit?"
Theft is a criminal offense. If you believe you have evidence that will stand up in criminal procedure, file charges.
"Well, a government or corporation should never be permitted to use civil procedure against individuals anyway. The government in particular only uses it to circumvent a person's legal rights, like a unanimous jury decision and reasonable doubt, the IRS and civil asset forfeiture being the prime example. "
Good point, but civil asset forfeiture is not an example of civil trial procedure because there is no suit/charge and no trial at all: the cops just take your stuff without any legal recourse at all. They even get to use the loot for themselves, an incredibly obvious conflict of interest. I would rather require that all forfeiture proceedings begin with filing of a criminal charge. The police have to have probable cause to do so, you as an accused have rights, and court action decides whether you are guilty and have to forfeit anything.
There are no circumstances that justify taking property without due process. None whatever.
There's no need to turn this into a hatefest on young people. When my generation was that age, we mostly drooled around being stoned.
We need the law's version of universal health care, public defenders for civil cases also. There are too many innocent victims who can't afford to defend themselves from trumped up charges and lawsuits.
I would rather address the same problem by tightening up civil procedure to match the stiffer standards of criminal trial procedure. If civil suits required a unanimous jury verdict rather than a majority and on an evidence standard of "beyond a reasonable doubt" rather than "preponderance of evidence" the junk suits would melt away.
Edit: test for gravitation at...
Aha! Got a Canadian here!
This study could not separate the effect of microgravity from radiation. But a mouse centrifuge on the ISS could be used to test for space radiation at Earth, Mars and lunar gravitation levels. You could even test for all these levels at once with a "three story torus."
Notice how news sites like CNN are gradually going all video? And not the good videos that explain a lot succinctly or put you into a snippet of the news action, but those excruciating new wastes of bandwidth that just display story text, in a giant font, screen after screen, backed by nothing but a musical bed, until you realize that you have spent ten minutes watching one paragraph of text.
It's time for us to stop buying anything from or selling anything to these countries. As soon as they have to apply their remaining capital to growing their own basic necessities, there will be less left over for international terrorism. If Obama's successor lets Canadian oil back in again, we will be 'terrorism free' in that commodity.
Stieglitz wanted to have the numbers for us, but his Windows spreadsheet keeps crashing.
"In civilized countries, defendants are innocent until proven guilty "
This does not apply in sexual harassment cases. A man has to quit his job on accusation and then manage whatever legal assistance he can muster from the unemployment line.
Is there any list of specific acts by Applebaum that prompted this controversy? Or is this another nerd clumsily asking women for dates, Clarence Thomas style?
Looking forward to the post-Brexit return to Fahrenheit, are you?
No, the British will stay with the current bizarre mixture of imperial and metric units in common use.
"Most air-cooled AC condensing units in the US are rated at 95F outside temperature."
In Arizona we call that "April."
....just like the Segway did.
It's going to carry mall cops to Cinnabon at 960 km/hr? Saul is not going to like this.