As I recall, Indian affirmative action for low-caste people began quite some time before American affirmative action so the extension, if anything, goes the other way.
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If you want to see what an unregulated (at least significantly more so than now) free market economy means, it's there in the history books. It's not tremendously pretty. Vicious economic depressions followed by inflationary booms, either way, ordinary people not exactly receiving the benefit of their efforts (one might argue it's the same today, but the magnitude of the swings was greater before government control of the money supply and stabilizing social programs). The excellent Triangle Shirtwaist Fire site, http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/ has a good bit of historical information about what it was like to be an ordinary worker in 1911. Also see: http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title. html "How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York" a web-reproduction of an 1890 book about the living conditions of workers in the New York of the time. The "gilded age", after all, was not gilded for everyone.
Maybe you think you're special and are guaranteed to be the next Rockefeller, but for my own part, I'd rather not go back to those days.
The real logic behind this is that the car rental company/hotel/whatever that requires the credit card can charge for damage at any time just with your credit card number and expiry date. A debit card always requires you to enter your PIN at a terminal so they'd have to get you to agree to pay them. Not surprisingly, they like the credit card better.
No, it didn't actually. George Bush, unfortunately, is no Churchill when it comes to oratory. I wouldn't hold that too strongly against him, though. What's important now are the quality of his decisions, not the quality of his speeches.
Just to clarify, the most recent amendments to that law increased the maximum sentence to six years and it's become more likely that older kids committing serious violent crimes will get transferred to adult court.
There's no parole in the youth system so his eight month sentence really is an eight month sentence. Maybe the kid could have been fined more, but keep in mind that under the law, he's solely responsible for paying the fine (the judge can't make his parents pay) so the judge probably took into account what he could afford to pay. When I was 17, the amount of the fine he got was a lot of money.
Considering that he seems to be a first-time offender, the sentence he got isn't that bad. The judge could have easily have let him off with a lecture and some sort of conditional discharge where he wouldn't be allowed to use a computer except at school.
Yes, I thought it was extremely fortunate that the buildings did fall in the way they did as opposed to tipping over. I wonder if it wasn't intended by the designers that at least if the building should fail, it should fail in safest possible way. If so, they ought to be thanked.
I guess all the Americans who cheered as bombs hit Baghdad ought to get killed too. Yeah, right. Cheering at what happened is wrong, but you've got to pay attention to the context - in this case the belief that the friend of one's enemy is also an enemy.
I'm rather disgusted that this has been moderated up as, of all things, insightful. How can you go blaming an entire group of people for the acts of a few? This is the same sort of insane logic that drives terrorists.
Hit those responsible. Hit them hard. But stop to actually make sure you're acting on good information and not prejudice.
If he really wanted to go back to the Renaissance he'd also have to get rid of that capitalism nonsense, that democracy nonsense, and last but not least, that Italy nonsense.:-P
You present a false dichotomy between civil rights (freedom from) and social rights (freedom to). The provision of civil rights is not cost-free and (rightly, IMHO) imposes on the property and behaviour of all citizens just as social rights do. The courts, police and officials that are empowered to protect property and people do not grow on trees. Their powers involve forcing some people to do what they might not otherwise, according to law. Indeed, the doctors, nurses, teachers, social workers, etc who are hired to provide for people's social rights usually have fewer powers than the providers and protectors of civil rights.
You can, of course, opt to be consistent about all this and be an anarchist rather than claiming that one particular set of rights is cost and coercion-free as opposed to others, something that is demonstratably wrong.
If pi has all conceivable messages, pi must contain all of the US military's secrets, DeCSS, kiddie pr0n, violent and explicit sexual films beyond anyone's imagination and much much more. It must therefore be banned. When you get the death penalty for circle possession, don't say I didn't warn you...
So far as connectivity goes, I've been fairly lucky with Rogers. It seems to work reasonably well almost all the time. The e-mail service, however, has been a different story. There's been times when e-mail hasn't worked for three or four days. I understand that particular problem was with the @home people in California rather than Rogers but still, it was quite annoying.
I'm rather surprised that the judge got taken to collections, actually. I used to work in Rogers customer service and we gave out delays in collection activity like candy, for all sorts of different reasons. She must have really pissed someone off there.
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It seems to work fairly well in Germany where management-labour codetermination is required.
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To serve humanity, eh?
"It's a cookboooook!!!"
As I recall, Indian affirmative action for low-caste people began quite some time before American affirmative action so the extension, if anything, goes the other way.
"Pot? I'm here to serve a summons on you on behalf of our client, Kettle..."
With or without wings?
If you want to see what an unregulated (at least significantly more so than now) free market economy means, it's there in the history books. It's not tremendously pretty. Vicious economic depressions followed by inflationary booms, either way, ordinary people not exactly receiving the benefit of their efforts (one might argue it's the same today, but the magnitude of the swings was greater before government control of the money supply and stabilizing social programs). The excellent Triangle Shirtwaist Fire site, http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/ has a good bit of historical information about what it was like to be an ordinary worker in 1911. Also see: http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title. html "How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York" a web-reproduction of an 1890 book about the living conditions of workers in the New York of the time. The "gilded age", after all, was not gilded for everyone.
Maybe you think you're special and are guaranteed to be the next Rockefeller, but for my own part, I'd rather not go back to those days.
75 windows ought to be enough for anyone. :-)
And this has something to do with LCDs? Get a clue.
87 times the speed of light ought to be enough for anyone.
The real logic behind this is that the car rental company/hotel/whatever that requires the credit card can charge for damage at any time just with your credit card number and expiry date. A debit card always requires you to enter your PIN at a terminal so they'd have to get you to agree to pay them. Not surprisingly, they like the credit card better.
The CIA will just hire all the retired secretaries. Good luck having stenography done then. :-P
And I can only imagine the fun in explaining to little kids that you're eating Barney.
It's when your voice sounds like Leonard Cohen singing, I suppose.
No, it didn't actually. George Bush, unfortunately, is no Churchill when it comes to oratory. I wouldn't hold that too strongly against him, though. What's important now are the quality of his decisions, not the quality of his speeches.
Just to clarify, the most recent amendments to that law increased the maximum sentence to six years and it's become more likely that older kids committing serious violent crimes will get transferred to adult court.
There's no parole in the youth system so his eight month sentence really is an eight month sentence. Maybe the kid could have been fined more, but keep in mind that under the law, he's solely responsible for paying the fine (the judge can't make his parents pay) so the judge probably took into account what he could afford to pay. When I was 17, the amount of the fine he got was a lot of money.
Considering that he seems to be a first-time offender, the sentence he got isn't that bad. The judge could have easily have let him off with a lecture and some sort of conditional discharge where he wouldn't be allowed to use a computer except at school.
Yes, I thought it was extremely fortunate that the buildings did fall in the way they did as opposed to tipping over. I wonder if it wasn't intended by the designers that at least if the building should fail, it should fail in safest possible way. If so, they ought to be thanked.
I guess all the Americans who cheered as bombs hit Baghdad ought to get killed too. Yeah, right. Cheering at what happened is wrong, but you've got to pay attention to the context - in this case the belief that the friend of one's enemy is also an enemy.
I'm rather disgusted that this has been moderated up as, of all things, insightful. How can you go blaming an entire group of people for the acts of a few? This is the same sort of insane logic that drives terrorists.
Hit those responsible. Hit them hard. But stop to actually make sure you're acting on good information and not prejudice.
This technologies could work well with other "tunnels" though. Teledildonics, anyone? :-P
If he really wanted to go back to the Renaissance he'd also have to get rid of that capitalism nonsense, that democracy nonsense, and last but not least, that Italy nonsense. :-P
You present a false dichotomy between civil rights (freedom from) and social rights (freedom to). The provision of civil rights is not cost-free and (rightly, IMHO) imposes on the property and behaviour of all citizens just as social rights do. The courts, police and officials that are empowered to protect property and people do not grow on trees. Their powers involve forcing some people to do what they might not otherwise, according to law. Indeed, the doctors, nurses, teachers, social workers, etc who are hired to provide for people's social rights usually have fewer powers than the providers and protectors of civil rights.
You can, of course, opt to be consistent about all this and be an anarchist rather than claiming that one particular set of rights is cost and coercion-free as opposed to others, something that is demonstratably wrong.
If pi has all conceivable messages, pi must contain all of the US military's secrets, DeCSS, kiddie pr0n, violent and explicit sexual films beyond anyone's imagination and much much more. It must therefore be banned. When you get the death penalty for circle possession, don't say I didn't warn you...
Really? I could have sworn I saw it at the LCBO, but I could be wrong. Oh well, it's not like there aren't a ton of other similar drinks.
So far as connectivity goes, I've been fairly lucky with Rogers. It seems to work reasonably well almost all the time. The e-mail service, however, has been a different story. There's been times when e-mail hasn't worked for three or four days. I understand that particular problem was with the @home people in California rather than Rogers but still, it was quite annoying. I'm rather surprised that the judge got taken to collections, actually. I used to work in Rogers customer service and we gave out delays in collection activity like candy, for all sorts of different reasons. She must have really pissed someone off there.
It seems to work fairly well in Germany where management-labour codetermination is required.
I guess we'd find out then if the Blue Man Group are blue all the way down.