I've never found it very difficult to understand the lawyers and judge's case findings. Yes, they use a little Latin, but you can learn the 100 most used words and look up anything more that comes up on the web. And they cite cases, which you can look up too.
If I didn't make it clear - my point above is that this is not "waving around a PhD". I don't have one anyway. The experts come in, they testify, and the judge or jury decide whether to believe them or not.
At times I have been an expert witness. I look at the evidence, and make a reasoned finding which I explain what I think, in terms a layman can apprehend, to the court reporter. If I can't ethically testify in the customer's favor, I tell them so and end the engagement before there is a chance for me to testify.
My cases rarely have much to do with a judge, because civil cases tend to settle. And then get sealed, so you can't see them.
The Christian Copts (verses the Muslim Copts) probably have it best in Egypt.
Well, I have heard about what the Islamics do to each other there, and it doesn't sound that fun for them either. But I would not say that it's heaven for the Copts. Go search on google news for reports of the church services building that was just demolished by the government. Don't trust me, go right to the sources, there seem to be more than one of them.
So, Schwartz was an nay-sayer on the topic of Open Source for years, and then decided that Open Source would save the company and started promoting it. Open Source is really cool, but it wasn't ever going to save Sun. I can't even begin to wonder how he thought it would.
Well, this is fine for pork that is kept really carefully. You may have noticed that Nieman is no longer in charge of Nieman Ranch. So, where do you buy it?
See Trichinosis fact sheet and the Wikipedia article. Yes, it's really sad that poor people feed garbage (and feces of other animals) to the animals that they are rearing to produce meat for human consumption. But they do it because they're poor, unlike meat-packers in the U.S. who didn't have that excuse. I suspect that social equality where they live would lead to a halt to this practice.
Well, I felt that with Colbert's desire to have multiple things named after him, the list of things is here, there would be a sort of "symmetry" to naming something that he would not want after him.
Obviously a simple influenza virus is insufficient to name after me. I'd want to have named after me an itch that you can't reach and slowly drives you crazy.
There is a real problem in Egypt, which is persecuting its Coptic Christians
by slaughtering their pigs. A minority in Egypt are Christian, the word "Copt"
refers to their Egyptian ethnicity.
Some of the Copts farm pork, which the majority of Egyptian Islamic
citizens (and their powerful clerics) feel are unclean.
The Copts feed the pigs by recycling garbage, compounding their unclean
nature in the eyes of Islamics.
So, the Egyptians
are slaughtering the pigs in the fear that they are influenza vectors.
We don't actually know that
the pig is a vector for the virus at all. Thus, the Egyptian
slaughters are unwarranted. We do know that human-to-human contact is a
problem this time. The pigs are where influenza genes are often mixed,
because they are susceptible to avian, human, and swine viruses. There
probably was one pig-to-human transmission at the beginning of this epidemic,
but there isn't evidence of continuing transmission after that.
The Copts are persecuted like most religious minorities in religious states.
You don't see many of them in government (and none in high positions) or
education. They don't often get government permission to build churches, and
in 2007 there were Islamic riots because the people around the Copts thought
they wanted to build a church. They need government permission to perform
religious services.
The bottom line here is that the Egyptians, by slaughtering the pigs, remove
the livelyhood of the Copts. They aren't promising to restore that livelyhood.
I agree that government is a tool for the administration of injustice, all too often. And I have some libertarian sympathies. But I feel that yes, it is just and right for government to administer control with the (usually unspoken but always there) threat of violence. In recent time we have the example of the perversion of a free market by greed and stupidity - a free market of financial instruments in a large developed nation can only exist under tight control to assure honesty, transparency, and accuracy. And unfortunately one of the key assumptions of libertarianism is a sort of social Darwinism. If your neighbor isn't smart enough to manage his own affairs and keep out of yours, you're going to do everything to him that the worst despot would do.
You have to think about it from the child's perspective. Repetition is really important to them (just live with one and you'll learn). So, here was this thing being repeated for a long time, everywhere they looked, and they didn't understand why, and it was scary.
I am well aware that I am "Bruce Fricken Perens":-)
Well, I see a few problems here.
I actually read the book. 911 is not centrally featured, it's just one of a number of disasters. There are also fires, floods, etc. And there is a really nice talk, at a child's level, on how to be prepared. Now, a child who knows how to be prepared is going to be more confident of getting through an emergency.
I had a big demonstration of this during a dinner-time earthquake a few years ago. Valerie and I just looked at each other in shock across the table, and it was Stanley, then 7 years old, who said "duck and cover!" and got us moving. He'd been well trained in school.
So, I'm bothered that this resource has been removed just because it had photos of the world trade center burning and being hit by an airplane that a child could color in. That's how you get a child to think about things. Most children would draw in people either running, or helping others, or catching the bad guys. Or all three. That's how they think, and that's how they tell others what they are thinking, which a parent can use as a cue to talk things through further. I downloaded the PDF. My kid is a bit old for this now (he's 9) but he is pretty well trained in self-reliance anyway.
I am also disturbed that some over-sensitive people get to tell our government how to give all of us services. That sounds undemocratic to me.
Calling this censorship is simply hyperbole, and a knee-jerk attempt at whipping up some anti-government, anti-PC hysteria.
Well, that's funny, because I am a supporter of the current administration, and took time off of work to help Obama be elected.
I am pro-government. I am also pro full-disclosure, transparency, and full discussion. I am not so pro-government that I take everything they do as good, and am very relieved that Obama just hinted he would revisit the state secrets issue. I think government only works when it is of the people, by the people, and for the people.
As you can see from my
recent article, I have an interest in emergency preparedness. I looked through the FEMA coloring book and, first, it's not by FEMA. It's by a local emergency preparedness team. Second, it's a really good job. I'd show it to any child. It would help the child understand how to cope with an emergency by being prepared.
So, hyperbole, knee-jerk, and hysteria on you, sir.
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I've never found it very difficult to understand the lawyers and judge's case findings. Yes, they use a little Latin, but you can learn the 100 most used words and look up anything more that comes up on the web. And they cite cases, which you can look up too.
Are you talking about contracts?
If I didn't make it clear - my point above is that this is not "waving around a PhD". I don't have one anyway. The experts come in, they testify, and the judge or jury decide whether to believe them or not.
Install noscript and flashblock. This is assuming you run firefox, which you probably should. Slashdot still works with javascript disabled.
At times I have been an expert witness. I look at the evidence, and make a reasoned finding which I explain what I think, in terms a layman can apprehend, to the court reporter. If I can't ethically testify in the customer's favor, I tell them so and end the engagement before there is a chance for me to testify.
My cases rarely have much to do with a judge, because civil cases tend to settle. And then get sealed, so you can't see them.
Does this mean that if a defendant presents a copy of Bruner's exhibits, he's likely to get the go-ahead in that state?
Well, I have heard about what the Islamics do to each other there, and it doesn't sound that fun for them either. But I would not say that it's heaven for the Copts. Go search on google news for reports of the church services building that was just demolished by the government. Don't trust me, go right to the sources, there seem to be more than one of them.
It sounds like there's real oppression.
So, Schwartz was an nay-sayer on the topic of Open Source for years, and then decided that Open Source would save the company and started promoting it. Open Source is really cool, but it wasn't ever going to save Sun. I can't even begin to wonder how he thought it would.
Well, this is fine for pork that is kept really carefully. You may have noticed that Nieman is no longer in charge of Nieman Ranch. So, where do you buy it?
I was astonished that in an early Obama meeting, a woman demanded that he meet with Colbert. Some people really don't get the joke.
Oops, the fact sheet is here.
See Trichinosis fact sheet and the Wikipedia article. Yes, it's really sad that poor people feed garbage (and feces of other animals) to the animals that they are rearing to produce meat for human consumption. But they do it because they're poor, unlike meat-packers in the U.S. who didn't have that excuse. I suspect that social equality where they live would lead to a halt to this practice.
It's not the lack of an upgrade path, but no end-of-life date.
Well, I felt that with Colbert's desire to have multiple things named after him, the list of things is here, there would be a sort of "symmetry" to naming something that he would not want after him.
Obviously a simple influenza virus is insufficient to name after me. I'd want to have named after me an itch that you can't reach and slowly drives you crazy.
See my post regarding The Plight of the Copts.
There is a real problem in Egypt, which is persecuting its Coptic Christians by slaughtering their pigs. A minority in Egypt are Christian, the word "Copt" refers to their Egyptian ethnicity.
Some of the Copts farm pork, which the majority of Egyptian Islamic citizens (and their powerful clerics) feel are unclean. The Copts feed the pigs by recycling garbage, compounding their unclean nature in the eyes of Islamics. So, the Egyptians are slaughtering the pigs in the fear that they are influenza vectors.
We don't actually know that the pig is a vector for the virus at all. Thus, the Egyptian slaughters are unwarranted. We do know that human-to-human contact is a problem this time. The pigs are where influenza genes are often mixed, because they are susceptible to avian, human, and swine viruses. There probably was one pig-to-human transmission at the beginning of this epidemic, but there isn't evidence of continuing transmission after that.
The Copts are persecuted like most religious minorities in religious states. You don't see many of them in government (and none in high positions) or education. They don't often get government permission to build churches, and in 2007 there were Islamic riots because the people around the Copts thought they wanted to build a church. They need government permission to perform religious services.
The bottom line here is that the Egyptians, by slaughtering the pigs, remove the livelyhood of the Copts. They aren't promising to restore that livelyhood.
I agree that government is a tool for the administration of injustice, all too often. And I have some libertarian sympathies. But I feel that yes, it is just and right for government to administer control with the (usually unspoken but always there) threat of violence. In recent time we have the example of the perversion of a free market by greed and stupidity - a free market of financial instruments in a large developed nation can only exist under tight control to assure honesty, transparency, and accuracy. And unfortunately one of the key assumptions of libertarianism is a sort of social Darwinism. If your neighbor isn't smart enough to manage his own affairs and keep out of yours, you're going to do everything to him that the worst despot would do.
Oooh, I really feel bad about being insulted by someone who admits to being a smoker. We are bringing up children to be adults, moron.
You have to think about it from the child's perspective. Repetition is really important to them (just live with one and you'll learn). So, here was this thing being repeated for a long time, everywhere they looked, and they didn't understand why, and it was scary.
I'll have him check it out and see what he thinks. He's really smart.
Olmstead indicates that people have been taking the book the wrong way. That's enough for you to connect the dots.
I am going by the Olmstead quotes in the article. He states that people have been taking the book the wrong way.
I am well aware that I am "Bruce Fricken Perens" :-)
Well, I see a few problems here.
I actually read the book. 911 is not centrally featured, it's just one of a number of disasters. There are also fires, floods, etc. And there is a really nice talk, at a child's level, on how to be prepared. Now, a child who knows how to be prepared is going to be more confident of getting through an emergency.
I had a big demonstration of this during a dinner-time earthquake a few years ago. Valerie and I just looked at each other in shock across the table, and it was Stanley, then 7 years old, who said "duck and cover!" and got us moving. He'd been well trained in school.
So, I'm bothered that this resource has been removed just because it had photos of the world trade center burning and being hit by an airplane that a child could color in. That's how you get a child to think about things. Most children would draw in people either running, or helping others, or catching the bad guys. Or all three. That's how they think, and that's how they tell others what they are thinking, which a parent can use as a cue to talk things through further. I downloaded the PDF. My kid is a bit old for this now (he's 9) but he is pretty well trained in self-reliance anyway.
I am also disturbed that some over-sensitive people get to tell our government how to give all of us services. That sounds undemocratic to me.
The Coloring Book.
Read it and then tell me it's in bad taste. I think they did a really good job.
Well, that's funny, because I am a supporter of the current administration, and took time off of work to help Obama be elected.
I am pro-government. I am also pro full-disclosure, transparency, and full discussion. I am not so pro-government that I take everything they do as good, and am very relieved that Obama just hinted he would revisit the state secrets issue. I think government only works when it is of the people, by the people, and for the people.
As you can see from my recent article, I have an interest in emergency preparedness. I looked through the FEMA coloring book and, first, it's not by FEMA. It's by a local emergency preparedness team. Second, it's a really good job. I'd show it to any child. It would help the child understand how to cope with an emergency by being prepared.
So, hyperbole, knee-jerk, and hysteria on you, sir.