The programs operate on the recognized fact that some pedophiles will never be rehabilitated and with re-offend at some date and it's simply better to commit them to protect the public. The gentleman in question has molested 4 children in 3 countries for sure and it's doubtful that's the limit of abuse. Frankly you guys can keep him, but you better damn well keep him away from your kids because he is going to molest again, he likely can't help it.
I'm not saying I agree with it mind you. Just pointing out the logic used for civil commitment.
VMWare Workstation isn't too terrible these days. Each iteration gets quite a bit better. I can run flawlessly games from several years ago. Problem is that the GL stack rewrite that will make virtualization work better isn't done. On the other hand it will keep getting better but there will always be a penalty unless they come up with a virtualization specifically for virtualization where the GPU is passed through directly but there is no guarantee Windows would allow that.
And after they evaporate it its extensively washed and redryed if it's for human consumption. If it's for an industrial use they might be able to just use the first run depending on the tolerance for dirt and other containments.
You can dry it and use it if you are very careful about how it's dried and harvested. For the boutique salts the extensive waste and high labor costs of manual harvesting might make a first run possible, but in 99% of cases rewashing the salt is far easier. Even then though you'll find most salt is simply mined from underground salt deposits because it's already fairly clean and free of biological contamination.
Morton Salt in the US is mostly harvested from the Great Salt Lake in Utah where the water is pumped into drying pits, harvested with front end loaders, then pushed into an industrial plant where it's washed, cleaned and redryed to the proper crystal size.
I personally think it's funny that people would even say that (if yoru a professional stuff doesn't happen BS). As someone who works in the infrastructure business I can tell you with 100% certainty that no design, location or setup will be perfect. Regardless of how well you plan you are one natural disaster away from a service interruption and any single point in the system can be taken down by some guy in a backhoe digging where he shouldn't.
Even if you designed a data center with 100 layers of redundancy on power and connectivity there is a damn good chance that all those communication, power and other lines go through a single point somewhere miles away from the data center, probably where they all cross the interstate or a river. Infrastructure just don't have that much redundancy and in the real world there are lots of places where there is a single crossing, be that a river, interstate or any other property or natural feature that restricts access. So one guy in a backhoe digging where he shouldn't can do things like take out a whole cities power and communication lines. It's not common but it does happen.
The US-UK extradition treaty is the only one I know of where the UK will extradite it's own citizens for things that aren't even crimes in the UK. Not only that but the treaty is so one sided the US isn't obligated to reciprocate yet everyone thinks the US wants him in Sweden cause he'll be easier to get?
How is it funny that a prosecutor that makes a career out of charging every famous person she can for sex crimes? This is a prosecutor who ONLY charges rape/sex cases, prefers to go after famous people for the publicity (even if the charges are trumped up and their's no evidence).
There's nothing funny about it. You have a professional prosecutor trying to make hay with a case that will draw publicity. This is so common it's not even close to funny.
I wish you people could see just how silly that is.
The UK has an extradition treaty with the US that causes them to hand their own citizens over for crimes that aren't even crimes in the UK. The only way to avoid this is to prove you're going to be executed or civilly committed for life (that was the new one from a day ago). Yet you people think it's actually going to be easier to extradite him from Sweden, a country with very strong protections, no extradition treaty and a history of standing up to US requests.
And you believe this because it's a conspiracy theory that the US is just that diabolical. For all their bluster the US doesn't want to extradite him because they wouldn't be able to convict him of anything. The only reason they can even do anything to Manning is because they have an oath and the UCMJ to try him under.
This whole argument that they want to extradite him to Sweden so they can extradite him to the US should be insulting to the Swede's. He's going to end up in Sweden and this prosecutor that only charges people for rape and prefers to charge famous people (regardless of merits) for the publicity will likely charge him, he'll beat the charges and it'll be over. He won't be extradited to the US (they won't even ask) and you all will act like the publicity scared the US off and pretend none of this circus and accusations ever happened. It's so bloody silly it's not even funny.
Didn't see the article, but I can tell you from what I've seen of the internals it was not top of the line new software they pulled together. As mentioned the Kernel they used is multiple years old even with the first release. I wouldn't be surprised if the last minute thing is true, but if so they grabbed really old software to build it on.
You could brand that on your forehead but if you are unconscious they are obligated to save your life. DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) orders have to be given to ANYONE that could be called to make decisions, this typically means, spouses, parents, children and filed with every single hospital, clinic, ambulance or EMT service you could be serviced by before they would even consider obeying them.
The immense liability of allowing someone to die absolutely guarantees that unless there is someone there with notarized copy of the DNR AND a family relationship that would grant power of attorney that the order will be ignored. Until you deal with this and an elderly or terminal patient you don't realize how hard it is to get medical personal to honor this request. (I understand why, if the document was fake the medical personal would still be liable).
Thank god someone other than me noticed and got mod'd up, Roberts established a (vague) test on constitutionality of the commerce clause. That's a big step forward IMO.
Bootstrap? Maybe you should read the fucking verdict. Roberts lays out nice little test on the commerce clause that's NEVER existed before. He went out of his fucking way to say the commerce clause has been abused in the past and that the supreme court is going to be reigning its abuse in.
He simply pointed out that regardless of what anyone called it the mandate it is a tax (walks like a duck, quakes like a duck) and the congressional ability to levy taxes is not restricted (the income tax amendment has very liberal language and basically no restrictions on what congress can tax) in the constitution. He also went out of his way to point out that it's not his job (in other words the constitution gives him no power) to revise what congress can do just because people don't like it. That is quoted in a post above yours.
No one under the age of 65 gets Medicare. No one. What you are talking about is Medicaid and it's a completely different system with drastically different rules that are managed by the states. I'm sure there is probably at least one state with Medicaid coverage like you describe, but in many you can't even get on Medicaid unless you have kids (and in some its only the kids not the adult that are covered) or are totally disabled.
Didn't read the bill eh? Not surprising really. The ACA specifically forbids what you say, in fact that's exactly what the preexisting condition was. You couldn't' get coverage for a year on that condition if they would even sell you the insurance. Both conditions are now illegal, there is no waiting period and government will subsidize and manage a high risk pool insurance.
It's funny you mention that because Roberts covered that. He specifically said that the Anti-Injunction act says it HAS to be called a tax for it to apply. So in the very specific case of the Anti-Injunction act it does matter what it is called because the law specifically says that it does. But in regards to the constitutional ability to levy taxes, the constitution says nothing about what it has to to be called. He simply said it doesn't matter what they call it, it's meets previous supreme court precedent for a tax so it's a tax. (walks like a duck quacks like a duck)
It's a very well reasoned opinion and it scratches a very important itch of mine. Roberts has laid down important restrictions on the commerce clause in a majority supreme court precedent that can be cited in future cases! In fact I think this opinion is going to be cited in a whole bunch of future challenges of the commerce clause. He actually establishes a test of when a claim of commerce clause goes to far (though it's a vague test). IMO it would be hard for government to get past that test with a challenge to the drug laws.
Ya know the internet is almost like the real world in that if they ignore your instructions and go into that bad neighborhood they might see things you don't want them to see. So maybe you should treat the internet just like the real world, in that your only solution is to TALK to them about it, educate them on the dangers and then let them learn from your guidance. As long as you don't lie to them they should learn pretty quickly to trust your advice and live mostly within the bounds you set (though just like the real world they are bound to test those limits and discover their own tolerances).
Yes I understand this is something that evolves over time as the children age, but the key to this whole scenario is that you can't lie to your kids because that will betray the trust and cause them to no believe you. You also have to accept that they might not share you views or morals later in life. People want to protect their kids but they often end up doing much more than protection and actually try to shelter their children. That's harmful IMO, kids need to be aware of the world, its dangers, risks and rewards or your attempts to instruct moral lessons will be lost.
It's kinda funny how the people that want government displays of religion (like prayers before meetings and nativity scenes on government property) are never tolerant of anyone but the faith they want making those displays. For example, the destruction of the Wiccan wreath display or the fact that they NEVER let a satanist or non Christian give the prayer.
Personally I don't mind government allowing private individuals to make displays of religious icons or prayers at government events or on government property as long as those displays are non-discriminatory. That means when the city council opens their meetings with a prayer and the satanist wants to give the prayer one week you have to let him.
There is no button or way to shutdown that I could find. The only way I could figure out how to do it in Win8 was to 3 finger salute, logout and then there was a shutdown button on the login screen. I pity novice users on this steaming pile. You can open the start screen, but if you can't find what you want out of the myriad huge buttons that occupy your screen good luck figuring out how to close it. I can't tell you how absolutely unintuitive I found the entire Win8 experience. I expect win8 to be just a shade under 50% as popular as vista was.
WebOS isn't a spring chicken. Palm had it developed for years but sat on it. Everything about the system is old if you've ever poked around in it. The interface ideas and some other facets are IMO groundbreaking but the actual technical details appear to have been cemented long before release and never updated.
If the warrants are invalid the seizures are invalid. That means he gets all his money that was in NZ back and he can pay lawyers to fight the case in the US. One of things the FBI tries to do is take away your ability to fight the case by seizing assets. If Dotcom has the money to pay fancy lawyers he just might win the US case and the FBI will get one huge black eye.
Large Binary blob, developed for IIRC Kernel 2.6.5. The kernel is so old it predates even Android 2.2 and with WebOS using a more standard kernel and Android having it's modified kernel interfaces its darn near impossible for them to make the port. They only got the mic working because of the one guy that was shipped a touchpad with android 2.2 loaded. It is my understanding from reading the threads that the camera blob will not be easy if it's possible at all. The talk was that it would potentially need a full reverse engineering of the binary blob to get driver written with Android 4 (which is highly unlikely to happen given the amount of effort involved would likely exceed the lifetime of the device).
Personally I think it's child abuse to deny a baby born deaf a cochlear implant for a stupid reason like "deaf culture" (if there is a legitimate medical reason thats a valid reason). If for no other reason (and there are a LOT of other reasons) loss of hearing is a serious safety issue.
The vast majority of children born deaf are receiving cochlear implants before the nerves degrade. This is rapidly degrading the number of deaf children. Over the long term I fully expect enrollment in deaf schools and existence of deaf culture to disappear with the only remaining deaf people being those that were afflicted by the condition later in life. Though even that is not certain, it takes several years of hearing loss before the nerves die and the body re-purposes resources so anyone that is caused to go deaf later in life will probably receive cochlear implants as well. As the technology of cochlear implants improves there will be more and more outlying cases where people are given implants.
The US was actively involved in supporting the nationalist Chinese government (not the communist red army, the group that fled to Taiwan and founded the government of Taiwan) in repelling the Japanese assault. Supplies and planes were ferried from UK controlled India and provided to the Nationalists. There were also US pilots, planes and bombers actively working to destroy Japanese supply lines to assist the nationalists.
Several dozen US service members were killed by the Japanese in mainland China long before Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt knew war was coming with Japan and he was damn well determined to have the US prepared when it happened and that included supporting forces actively fighting the Japanese (China, Philippines, etc). This the basis of the Conspiracy theory that Roosevelt knew in advance of the Pearl harbor attack and choose not to react so he had justification for war with Japan (which I might add is totally silly in that he wanted to be ready to fight them and that wouldn't include putting the pacific fleet on the bottom of pearl harbor, had he known they were coming he likely would have put the entire force out to sea and engaged the jap fleet directly as it still would have been seen as a treacherous sneak attack by US citizens).
So whats your "Food" argument for the fact that organs must be blood and immune typed or they are worthless and will be rejected?
There are organs that go to waste every year because no one on the list matches the blood and immune typing. If you implant an organ that doesn't match these criteria you will kill the organ AND kill the recipient. Not to mention it being a very unpleasant, slow and painful death.
The first thing a commodity organ market does is EXACTLY what happened in China, people paying poor people to give up organs and said poor people dieing of lack of medical care. Organs are not a commodity.
The only way to stop illegal immigration is to go after the businesses that use them. No other solution (including a 100' wall) is going to stop immigration as long as they have jobs if they get here.
This means you have to go after small business owners and run them through court with fines that exceed any benefits of using illegal immigrants. That is something the Republican party will never do and it's something that even the states will never do because small business owners are generally the politicians in office. So they paper over the issue with these "papers please" legislation and calls for a bigger fence or more border control agents. It's all a bunch of horse pucky to distract people from the real issue.
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The programs operate on the recognized fact that some pedophiles will never be rehabilitated and with re-offend at some date and it's simply better to commit them to protect the public. The gentleman in question has molested 4 children in 3 countries for sure and it's doubtful that's the limit of abuse. Frankly you guys can keep him, but you better damn well keep him away from your kids because he is going to molest again, he likely can't help it.
I'm not saying I agree with it mind you. Just pointing out the logic used for civil commitment.
VMWare Workstation isn't too terrible these days. Each iteration gets quite a bit better. I can run flawlessly games from several years ago. Problem is that the GL stack rewrite that will make virtualization work better isn't done. On the other hand it will keep getting better but there will always be a penalty unless they come up with a virtualization specifically for virtualization where the GPU is passed through directly but there is no guarantee Windows would allow that.
And after they evaporate it its extensively washed and redryed if it's for human consumption. If it's for an industrial use they might be able to just use the first run depending on the tolerance for dirt and other containments.
You can dry it and use it if you are very careful about how it's dried and harvested. For the boutique salts the extensive waste and high labor costs of manual harvesting might make a first run possible, but in 99% of cases rewashing the salt is far easier. Even then though you'll find most salt is simply mined from underground salt deposits because it's already fairly clean and free of biological contamination.
Morton Salt in the US is mostly harvested from the Great Salt Lake in Utah where the water is pumped into drying pits, harvested with front end loaders, then pushed into an industrial plant where it's washed, cleaned and redryed to the proper crystal size.
I personally think it's funny that people would even say that (if yoru a professional stuff doesn't happen BS). As someone who works in the infrastructure business I can tell you with 100% certainty that no design, location or setup will be perfect. Regardless of how well you plan you are one natural disaster away from a service interruption and any single point in the system can be taken down by some guy in a backhoe digging where he shouldn't.
Even if you designed a data center with 100 layers of redundancy on power and connectivity there is a damn good chance that all those communication, power and other lines go through a single point somewhere miles away from the data center, probably where they all cross the interstate or a river. Infrastructure just don't have that much redundancy and in the real world there are lots of places where there is a single crossing, be that a river, interstate or any other property or natural feature that restricts access. So one guy in a backhoe digging where he shouldn't can do things like take out a whole cities power and communication lines. It's not common but it does happen.
The US-UK extradition treaty is the only one I know of where the UK will extradite it's own citizens for things that aren't even crimes in the UK. Not only that but the treaty is so one sided the US isn't obligated to reciprocate yet everyone thinks the US wants him in Sweden cause he'll be easier to get?
How is it funny that a prosecutor that makes a career out of charging every famous person she can for sex crimes? This is a prosecutor who ONLY charges rape/sex cases, prefers to go after famous people for the publicity (even if the charges are trumped up and their's no evidence).
There's nothing funny about it. You have a professional prosecutor trying to make hay with a case that will draw publicity. This is so common it's not even close to funny.
I wish you people could see just how silly that is.
The UK has an extradition treaty with the US that causes them to hand their own citizens over for crimes that aren't even crimes in the UK. The only way to avoid this is to prove you're going to be executed or civilly committed for life (that was the new one from a day ago). Yet you people think it's actually going to be easier to extradite him from Sweden, a country with very strong protections, no extradition treaty and a history of standing up to US requests.
And you believe this because it's a conspiracy theory that the US is just that diabolical. For all their bluster the US doesn't want to extradite him because they wouldn't be able to convict him of anything. The only reason they can even do anything to Manning is because they have an oath and the UCMJ to try him under.
This whole argument that they want to extradite him to Sweden so they can extradite him to the US should be insulting to the Swede's. He's going to end up in Sweden and this prosecutor that only charges people for rape and prefers to charge famous people (regardless of merits) for the publicity will likely charge him, he'll beat the charges and it'll be over. He won't be extradited to the US (they won't even ask) and you all will act like the publicity scared the US off and pretend none of this circus and accusations ever happened. It's so bloody silly it's not even funny.
Didn't see the article, but I can tell you from what I've seen of the internals it was not top of the line new software they pulled together. As mentioned the Kernel they used is multiple years old even with the first release. I wouldn't be surprised if the last minute thing is true, but if so they grabbed really old software to build it on.
You could brand that on your forehead but if you are unconscious they are obligated to save your life. DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) orders have to be given to ANYONE that could be called to make decisions, this typically means, spouses, parents, children and filed with every single hospital, clinic, ambulance or EMT service you could be serviced by before they would even consider obeying them.
The immense liability of allowing someone to die absolutely guarantees that unless there is someone there with notarized copy of the DNR AND a family relationship that would grant power of attorney that the order will be ignored. Until you deal with this and an elderly or terminal patient you don't realize how hard it is to get medical personal to honor this request. (I understand why, if the document was fake the medical personal would still be liable).
Thank god someone other than me noticed and got mod'd up, Roberts established a (vague) test on constitutionality of the commerce clause. That's a big step forward IMO.
Bootstrap? Maybe you should read the fucking verdict. Roberts lays out nice little test on the commerce clause that's NEVER existed before. He went out of his fucking way to say the commerce clause has been abused in the past and that the supreme court is going to be reigning its abuse in.
He simply pointed out that regardless of what anyone called it the mandate it is a tax (walks like a duck, quakes like a duck) and the congressional ability to levy taxes is not restricted (the income tax amendment has very liberal language and basically no restrictions on what congress can tax) in the constitution. He also went out of his way to point out that it's not his job (in other words the constitution gives him no power) to revise what congress can do just because people don't like it. That is quoted in a post above yours.
No one under the age of 65 gets Medicare. No one. What you are talking about is Medicaid and it's a completely different system with drastically different rules that are managed by the states. I'm sure there is probably at least one state with Medicaid coverage like you describe, but in many you can't even get on Medicaid unless you have kids (and in some its only the kids not the adult that are covered) or are totally disabled.
Didn't read the bill eh? Not surprising really. The ACA specifically forbids what you say, in fact that's exactly what the preexisting condition was. You couldn't' get coverage for a year on that condition if they would even sell you the insurance. Both conditions are now illegal, there is no waiting period and government will subsidize and manage a high risk pool insurance.
It's funny you mention that because Roberts covered that. He specifically said that the Anti-Injunction act says it HAS to be called a tax for it to apply. So in the very specific case of the Anti-Injunction act it does matter what it is called because the law specifically says that it does. But in regards to the constitutional ability to levy taxes, the constitution says nothing about what it has to to be called. He simply said it doesn't matter what they call it, it's meets previous supreme court precedent for a tax so it's a tax. (walks like a duck quacks like a duck)
It's a very well reasoned opinion and it scratches a very important itch of mine. Roberts has laid down important restrictions on the commerce clause in a majority supreme court precedent that can be cited in future cases! In fact I think this opinion is going to be cited in a whole bunch of future challenges of the commerce clause. He actually establishes a test of when a claim of commerce clause goes to far (though it's a vague test). IMO it would be hard for government to get past that test with a challenge to the drug laws.
Ya know the internet is almost like the real world in that if they ignore your instructions and go into that bad neighborhood they might see things you don't want them to see. So maybe you should treat the internet just like the real world, in that your only solution is to TALK to them about it, educate them on the dangers and then let them learn from your guidance. As long as you don't lie to them they should learn pretty quickly to trust your advice and live mostly within the bounds you set (though just like the real world they are bound to test those limits and discover their own tolerances).
Yes I understand this is something that evolves over time as the children age, but the key to this whole scenario is that you can't lie to your kids because that will betray the trust and cause them to no believe you. You also have to accept that they might not share you views or morals later in life. People want to protect their kids but they often end up doing much more than protection and actually try to shelter their children. That's harmful IMO, kids need to be aware of the world, its dangers, risks and rewards or your attempts to instruct moral lessons will be lost.
It's kinda funny how the people that want government displays of religion (like prayers before meetings and nativity scenes on government property) are never tolerant of anyone but the faith they want making those displays. For example, the destruction of the Wiccan wreath display or the fact that they NEVER let a satanist or non Christian give the prayer.
Personally I don't mind government allowing private individuals to make displays of religious icons or prayers at government events or on government property as long as those displays are non-discriminatory. That means when the city council opens their meetings with a prayer and the satanist wants to give the prayer one week you have to let him.
Don't worry, they got rid of that. Seriously.
There is no button or way to shutdown that I could find. The only way I could figure out how to do it in Win8 was to 3 finger salute, logout and then there was a shutdown button on the login screen. I pity novice users on this steaming pile. You can open the start screen, but if you can't find what you want out of the myriad huge buttons that occupy your screen good luck figuring out how to close it. I can't tell you how absolutely unintuitive I found the entire Win8 experience. I expect win8 to be just a shade under 50% as popular as vista was.
WebOS isn't a spring chicken. Palm had it developed for years but sat on it. Everything about the system is old if you've ever poked around in it. The interface ideas and some other facets are IMO groundbreaking but the actual technical details appear to have been cemented long before release and never updated.
If the warrants are invalid the seizures are invalid. That means he gets all his money that was in NZ back and he can pay lawyers to fight the case in the US. One of things the FBI tries to do is take away your ability to fight the case by seizing assets. If Dotcom has the money to pay fancy lawyers he just might win the US case and the FBI will get one huge black eye.
Large Binary blob, developed for IIRC Kernel 2.6.5. The kernel is so old it predates even Android 2.2 and with WebOS using a more standard kernel and Android having it's modified kernel interfaces its darn near impossible for them to make the port. They only got the mic working because of the one guy that was shipped a touchpad with android 2.2 loaded. It is my understanding from reading the threads that the camera blob will not be easy if it's possible at all. The talk was that it would potentially need a full reverse engineering of the binary blob to get driver written with Android 4 (which is highly unlikely to happen given the amount of effort involved would likely exceed the lifetime of the device).
Yes, I've read about them.
Personally I think it's child abuse to deny a baby born deaf a cochlear implant for a stupid reason like "deaf culture" (if there is a legitimate medical reason thats a valid reason). If for no other reason (and there are a LOT of other reasons) loss of hearing is a serious safety issue.
Deaf "Culture" will be gone in a generation.
The vast majority of children born deaf are receiving cochlear implants before the nerves degrade. This is rapidly degrading the number of deaf children. Over the long term I fully expect enrollment in deaf schools and existence of deaf culture to disappear with the only remaining deaf people being those that were afflicted by the condition later in life. Though even that is not certain, it takes several years of hearing loss before the nerves die and the body re-purposes resources so anyone that is caused to go deaf later in life will probably receive cochlear implants as well. As the technology of cochlear implants improves there will be more and more outlying cases where people are given implants.
The US was actively involved in supporting the nationalist Chinese government (not the communist red army, the group that fled to Taiwan and founded the government of Taiwan) in repelling the Japanese assault. Supplies and planes were ferried from UK controlled India and provided to the Nationalists. There were also US pilots, planes and bombers actively working to destroy Japanese supply lines to assist the nationalists.
Several dozen US service members were killed by the Japanese in mainland China long before Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt knew war was coming with Japan and he was damn well determined to have the US prepared when it happened and that included supporting forces actively fighting the Japanese (China, Philippines, etc). This the basis of the Conspiracy theory that Roosevelt knew in advance of the Pearl harbor attack and choose not to react so he had justification for war with Japan (which I might add is totally silly in that he wanted to be ready to fight them and that wouldn't include putting the pacific fleet on the bottom of pearl harbor, had he known they were coming he likely would have put the entire force out to sea and engaged the jap fleet directly as it still would have been seen as a treacherous sneak attack by US citizens).
So whats your "Food" argument for the fact that organs must be blood and immune typed or they are worthless and will be rejected?
There are organs that go to waste every year because no one on the list matches the blood and immune typing. If you implant an organ that doesn't match these criteria you will kill the organ AND kill the recipient. Not to mention it being a very unpleasant, slow and painful death.
The first thing a commodity organ market does is EXACTLY what happened in China, people paying poor people to give up organs and said poor people dieing of lack of medical care. Organs are not a commodity.
The only way to stop illegal immigration is to go after the businesses that use them. No other solution (including a 100' wall) is going to stop immigration as long as they have jobs if they get here.
This means you have to go after small business owners and run them through court with fines that exceed any benefits of using illegal immigrants. That is something the Republican party will never do and it's something that even the states will never do because small business owners are generally the politicians in office. So they paper over the issue with these "papers please" legislation and calls for a bigger fence or more border control agents. It's all a bunch of horse pucky to distract people from the real issue.