Free speech only means you are protected for action by the government. The protection of free speech in our constitution has never protected you from civil action for what was said, only protection from prosecution by the state. Libel, slander, abuse of copyright, those are all civil violations which the government can't prosecute but that doesn't mean you didn't harm someone else and are liable for what you said.
Personally I think the copyright angle is perfect, he didn't have permission to republish the photo, in fact the guy in question should sue him for statutory copyright damages of $150k.
Please, everyone with brains knows all the biological "research" is done in Dugway Utah.
Can you think of any other reason the military would spend 10 million dollars to build a full passenger jet size (10000+ft long, 100' wide) asphalt runway (in 2006) at a facility with currently around 1000 employees that is in the remote desert of Utah? Keep in mind Dugway is around 100 miles from one of the nations large airforce bases (Hill Airforce Base) so access isn't really an issue. Add to that the runway being constructed in a 2 week period, a no bid contract and no public involvement or press coverage of any kind? Not only that but the military has expanded the base itself with new housing and buildings that quadrupled the staff size of the facility in the last 10 years? And this was a facility that when the major base closing were happening in the 90's scaled down to maybe a couple hundred people total, including all the guards. They don't need to do their illegal research anywhere other than dugway, nor would they. Dugway is the ideal location for this kind of research due to it's remote location, completely shielded from the public and based in a small town where what happens at the base would never become public.
To add to other replies, Redhat offers something you have very little chance of getting with in house support, kernel developers on staff who can fix kernel related issue, create a patch and have it integrated in the next release. On top of that you are very unlikely to have staff with the skill levels of Redhat's people to track down and fix those killer bugs that you encounter when doing something as complex as cloud computing.
And I'm running VMWare workstation on top of Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit. Running on top of 64bit was fixed with the version 6.0 release of Workstation.
It's government. To think like government in implementing something like VPN you have to conceive a solution that involves the user not having to do anything (other than maybe push a button) and this includes anything other than a standard login box. Second you have to implement this in a way that the user themselves can go home and implement this solution without any site help from anyone and zero technical knowledge. (you don't send an IT person to a State Employees home, that's asking from some kind of lawsuit). Fourth the solution must be as expensive as possible, support some local business (preferable if the business owner is connected politically with one of the local leaders) and require very few extra hours from the already overworked staff.
What does that result in? Hardware VPN boxes plugged into the network router, with the users computer plugged directly into the VPN box. Costs a lot, requires pre-configuration of the box but should require no site visits, idiots can usually successfully plug in boxes with phone support only and any reconfiguration likey requires the box to be brought back into the office as the VPN keys on the boxes are likely hard coded into a configuration on the VPN device. Likely a turn key solution so you have a hefty support contract and the vendor would likely assist with deployment and any reconfiguration resulting in a nice contract fee for reprogramming all the boxes.
My guess is some VPN box provider is going to be doing a service call on every box and netting themselves some nice profit under their support agreement.
For all their bluster guns are only accurate under very specific circumstances. The dopler effect and software used in the gun assumes certain things when making it's speed "measurement", the first is that the measurement is head on, a cop shooting your speed from greater than a 5 degree angle can alter the measurement dramatically and greater than 15 degrees and you might as well just disregard whatever it reads as the error will exceed 35mph. Second most guns are calibrated for approaching traffic, if shot from behind, they are extremely inaccurate. Third, unless the gun is a laser based measurement system the gun picks out the fastest object in it's line of site and a typical gun has a 15 to 25 degree measurement window such that if there is a car anywhere near you going faster than you then that car is the one that will get measured. Cops are typically trained such that they know these limitations and abide by the requirements, that doesn't mean all do and it doesn't mean cops don't lie or that your age,sex,ethnicity,clothing and what you are driving plays a greater role in whether you get tickets than just about any other factor including how fast you drive. An 18 year old in gang attire driving a sporty car can drive by a cop going 15mph slower than a station wagon with a 45 year old guy in a suit and the 18 year old will get the ticket and the cop won't look twice at the other guy. Such is life.
The efficiency decrease from using CNG in a modified gas engine is a result of the engine being tuned to run gasoline. A car designed to run on CNG would be far more efficient because the compression could increase from the 8-10 used in most automobiles to around 12 because the equivalent octane of the CNG is 120 versus 87 for unleaded gasoline. The boost in compression will result in better burning of the fuel.
CNG is bad in automobiles, because it's burned in an engine tuned for gasoline upto 20% of the CNG is unburned and discharged out the tailpipe. In the past this was considered OK because unlike gasoline the CNG doesn't contribute to urban air pollution (gasoline mixes with the atmosphere and produces ozone, a critical urban smog component).
The problem is that atmospheric methane traps 4x more heat than CO2 so all the unburned methane coming out of the tailpipe that would be discharged by automobiles into the atmosphere would quickly outweigh the global warming of the CO2 discharges currently made negating any environmental benefit from switching.
There is a reason it's called reasonable doubt. There was ample evidence that Nina would have NEVER left her kids. There was also ample evidence that the claimed "serial killer" friend was in fact a nutjob who claimed to have killed people that didn't exist and others that were still alive, in fact of all the people he claimed to kill not a single person could be verified and the police wrote him off as crazy after investigating his claims. None of the reasons listed are reasonable doubt. It's not reasonable to assume Nina would have left her Kids and it's not reasonable to assume someone the police have investigated and determined is crazy did it. It's also not reasonable in consideration of all the stuff he did after she disappeared. A car with an inch of standing water in it, a seat thrown away and hidden from the police is a smoking gun of someone trying to cover something up. Anyone that denies otherwise is likely going to be a government conspiracy nut.
The Largest CU mine in the US, Kennecott Copper's Bingham Canyon mine in Utah, in fact the largest open pit mine in the world and the only man made structure visible from space with the naked eye, has roughly 50 years of copper left before they tap out the deposit. Although the amount of work per ton of ore is increasing drastically with every additional foot they excavate the ore deposit itself gets richer the deeper they go. Not only that, but the amount of gold and silver extracted from the same mining operation pays for the entire copper operation making all the copper pure profit.
Says the guy that's never paid a gas heating bill. Natural gas prices have gone up a lot, from almost nothing to a little bit. Natural gas is also locally supplied and has absolutely nothing to do with oil prices. Don't say they are the same because they aren't, it's still far far cheaper to heat a house with gas than it is with electricity.
Linux Weekly News has a comment from an HP developer indicating they aren't putting this out there so it can become a linux file system, but so that the lessons learned and parts of the code that are useful can be incorporated into one of the linux file systems of the future. I took it to mean, take our code and use whatever you can to make ext4 or ext5.
While it would be fine with HP if someone wants to "port" AdvFS to Linux or any other operating system with a GPLv2 compatible license, this contribution is not intended to "compete" with other existing file system projects underway in and around the kernel.org development community.
Rather, our hope is that the algorithms, design documentation, and test suite now available at the AdvFS site... and the active participation of HP engineers in various open-source file system projects who have lots of AdvFS experience... will help to accelerate the inclusion of AdvFS-like enterprise features and capabilities in next-generation file systems for Linux.
Most of the review sites derive all their advertising money from publishers. Providing a bad review results in dollars being pulled. As a result the lowest review you will ever see at an ad supported review site is 6/10 and even that can get ad's pulled and people fired (reference the recent firing for Kayne and Lynch). You will NEVER see a real score on review sites. You MUST look at user opinion, not the review of a paid journalist because they are all in the pockets of publishers. I don't know of a single publisher that would allow real reviews of their games.
Dry Ice requires that temperature at Standard Temperature and Pressure, in other words at Sea Level on the Earth.
What temperature is required for Dry Ice at the temperature and pressure of Mars? I don't doubt the required temperature is different because atmospheric pressure is so much less.
It's too bad they already lost their rights under the GPL. Once the suit is filed the SFLC won't accept just publishing the source. To get distribution rights back is going to cost them some cash to cover SFLC's costs in addition to some punitive costs to make sure they remember never to do it again.
"Animals do not have ego. They never hunt more than they could eat. Period." Citations? Or is this just one of your fantasies made up to support your nonsense?
Ever watch a mountain lion kill a deer, eat it's fill, then wander off to let the bulk of the deer rot? I have. How about dogs that are not fenced in killing cats for fun, or wildlife? Yep, seen that too...many times. How about the cats killing stuff and bringing it home as a trophy? Yep, all the time again.
You have no clue here on this subject.
To add to what you posted, It's common knowledge among sheep farmers that predatory canines if allowed into a group of sheep will get blood lust and kill every sheep they can grab (sheep are incredibly stupid and will stand around while members of the herd are killed right in front of them) and only eat the tastiest of bits from each sheep till they are full then leave the rest to rot.
The court, throughout history, has allowed the executive leeway to accomplish needed goals while at the same time years down the line coming back and rebuking the executive for violating the constitution. There were many actions during the civil war that were later declared unconstitutional, but only after the situation had been resolved. In one sense this is a good thing, because it allows time for the executive to accomplish a goal but still allow correction of the unconstitutional action.
I bet 100% of the material on the website is the same material that moves around the "have you seen this" emails forwarded on by every unknowing idiot new to the Internet. I recognize the description of the animal video as the one where the drunk guy is trying to get away from the donkey that is trying to mount him. I also know the woman wearing the cow body paint circulated in a similar email. The vague descriptions on the others also sound as if they are the same type of material that gets forwarded around. I wouldn't be surprised if every adult who has ever used the Internet has seen the material in question, that the judge has some online storage with the material in question isn't surprising to me, and certainly not a reason to dismiss him from the case.
At the bare minimum I would suggest the material in question makes him much more applicable to judge a case involving bestiality because he should be able to recognize the difference between protected speech and images (those emails classify as such) and obscene material.
It's not grandstanding when he broke the law and directed others to ignore and break the law. He's more a criminal than Clinton is. All Clinton did is perjure himself, Bush engaged in unlawful actions at the head of the executive, directing the entire executive branch to ignore the law. Many many hero's quietly resigned under his watch rather than the break the law, very very few got any press coverage. He should be impeached, not only that but they should hold the trial and make the world know that even the president isn't above the law.
My only hope is that Obama won't pardon him for his actions and that he can be charged and imprisoned for his actions while president once he's no longer protected by immunity and political action by his fellow future inmates. The Republican party does more harm to themselves by embracing him than they realize. The Dem's are going to woop their butts in November because of everything Bush stands for. The best thing the Republican's could do is stand up and throw Bush out of the party for misrepresenting everything the party stands for. He successfully turned an anti-war, anti-nation building and fiscally conservative party into the worst fiscal, war-mongering and "America as the world police" supporting party the nation has ever seen. He's done significant and hopefully not permanent damage to our economy, he's devalued the American currency to where it's in serious danger of becoming a joke. He's eliminated millions of jobs and he's spent a trillion dollars on a war that when someone in his own administration suggested 100billion as the cost he tossed them out. His ineptitude is probably unmatched in history for the level of damage done.
Attach a bunch of printed gay pornography to your next court submission and see how much the judge likes it. Extra points will be given if the Judge in question is a strictly observant southern baptist. Make sure and not tell the judge it's in there so he's sure to see it in all it's glory. It also needs to be completely unrelated to the case in anyway, use it to insinuate the opposing council is immoral.
What Jack did was beyond stupid. Way way beyond stupid. It's the kind of stuff only people who are clinically insane do. You don't attach pornography to court filings. Ask anyone you know if they think it would be a good idea to attach gay pornography to a public court filing, I'll pay you $100 if someone honestly, without prompting, sarcasm or malice says yes. In fact I bet you could go ask the people at the state mental hospital the same question and would get the same response. That's just how stupid what he did was.
Newsflash: Concrete is batched in high capacity batch plants with rapid speed distribution and mixing systems. It's also comprised of materials that vary dramatically per load. No cubic yard of excavated rock is identical to the last just as no cubic yard of sand is identical to the last. Measuring everything with a computer matters little if the ingredients that comprise the concrete vary so consistently across the spectrum and are measured and mixed so rapidly. Combine in different moisture contents in the aggregates, different chemical compositions of the aggregates and one of load of concrete can vary dramatically from the last in the properties that matter for construction. Having spent 12 years working in the transportation sector and having hand tested more loads of concrete than I care to even estimate I like to think I say this with a fair amount of expertise.
But go on believing that every batch is identical, the testers on the ground will tell you otherwise. Hell, if what you said was true we wouldn't need testers, the very existence of testings refutes your assertion that there are only minor differences. I've also got a newsflash for you, concrete is a highly forgiving material, even with wide disparity in the mix the design of mixes is done with minimum characteristics in mind. Even today 4000psi concrete is the design norm with 98% of all breaks exceeding that number, most by a very large margin. Recent tests of sac-crete (small, poor aggregates) on a project I worked on yielded 6500psi, far in excess of the minimum strength required of 3500psi. You obviously know nothing about the design and use of concrete in the construction industry. Because concrete is so different per lot random statistical sampling is done to ensure the concrete falls within specific minimum parameters. But keep on believing that fancy computer at the batch plant does anything more than speed up the delivery and mixing rather than ensure consistent batching which has and will always be a human task. A simple pound of rock with 15% more sulfer than the rest can change the mix significantly and 0.5% more moisture in the sand can alter the cement/water mixture significantly.
it is concrete - but it isn't your everyday concrete - every brick/slab is made with diffrent mixtures - jsut becauseitis concrete doesn't mean it even remotely resemples what they make bridges out of.
Newsflash: Every mixed batch of concrete is different than the last. Just like a snowflake and humans, every single one might be composed of the same ingredients but will be completely unique. The same applies to concrete. A little more cement powder by weight, aggregate/sand that's a little different, a half a cup more water, and even the cure temperatures or other environmental effects. Regardless of the method of control, every batch is different and unique in composition.
AMD and Intel have both used flash memory as their process "proving" ground. Intel produces tons of flash, but if you look at their profit statements they make very little money on it. Why? Because they use it as the proving ground to bring new process technology to CPU's. AMD's spinning off of their memory division wasn't a good decision IMO. It's going to show up (if you argue it hasn't already) in their process transition. Where before they were 1 year behind Intel on Process technology IMO they will slowly slide that process improvement out. A company with 2-3 fabs simply can't compete against a company with 18 of which 3-4 are a generation ahead on process technology because they produce things like flash memory.
...the most efficient delivery system for capitalism is actually a communist-style police state...
History widely recognizes Facism as the best system for Capitalism. Facism by it's nature is almost uniformly a corporate government where key industrialists make most of the decisions and raw production become paramount above any other economic fact. Communism faces a number of key differences with Facism, such as worker rights (Unions and their leaders are uniformly wiped out under facism because they present a challenge to those in power) which by their very nature are the antithesis of capitalism. Only a fool would say Communism or any socialism where worker rights are the number one political issue (even if ignored by the government, unions are almost mandatory in China) is the best delivery system for Capitalism.
Have truly fascist governments been gone so long that everyone forgets what they are like?
Smart people switch to Microstation and stop using AutoCADD after they have a bad experience. Bentley is a far better company to deal with, a company that produces better software IMO, has better support and actually cares about their customers.
an ex-Mormon in Salt Lake City is going to have a very hard time buying anything, anywhere.
Unfortunately I can't find the parent to this post. As an EX-MORMON Living in Salt Lake Vally (in the actual city of Sandy, but still considered the Salt Lake metropolitan area) I must take serious issue with your supposed statement of fact. Not only are there plenty of Ex-mormon's in Salt Lake, there is an internal name for those that no longer attend church, refered to jokingly as Jack-mormons. But not only that, you might be surprised to find out that Mormon's don't wear tattoo's or have horns that identify them as Mormons. As a result it's nearly impossible to determine Mormon vs. not-Mormon. Even if it were, discrimination based on faith is illegal and would be prosecuted, were someone stupid enough to engage in such behavior. Contrary to your supposed statement of fact I go shopping all the time and purchase whatever I feel like, amazingly, my lack of belief in god is never an issue as a baptized former Mormon.
Atheists born and raised in the church are quite common in the valley, probably even around 5-10% of the population in the salt lake valley. Ex-mormons would probably be the largest group, comprising at least 20% of the population with Catholics as the largest "other" religion, near the neighborhood of 20% of the total population of the valley. In Salt Lake City proper (actually quite small) Mormon's aren't the dominant relgion (there is no majority religion, both mormon's and catholics are minority religions) and in fact there hasn't been a Mormon Mayor of SLC in about 20 years. Living in the suburbs of SLC about 1/2 my neighbors are non-mormon/ex-mormon.
Before you make some ill-informed false statements about Salt Lake City I suggest you visit and actually take a moment to understand Mormon's. In my experience Mormon's are far easier to deal with than Southern Baptists. Rarely will an ordinary church attending Mormon try to "save" you outside the Mormon church's official recruiting system (missionaries). Rarely with an ordinary church attending Mormon lecture you about the inaccuracies and falseness of evolution or science in general. The same can't be said of the southern baptists I've met.
And for what it's worth the FLDS (the fundamentalist Mormons that still believe in polygamy) are not like what you propose Mormons are like either. They are very much like Mormon's are any other American, but given their history they are very very lacking in trust of non believers due to the persecution they have suffered. The seizing of children in Texas is not the first time some state government claiming to act in the interest of the people has went in and seized their children and wives and moved them out. Given their history they have a well deserved, and needed IMO, distrust of those claiming to act in the interest of their members. The seizing of 400+ children for what were apparently faked abuse claims simply on the basis of beliefs is a tragedy of justice.
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Free speech only means you are protected for action by the government. The protection of free speech in our constitution has never protected you from civil action for what was said, only protection from prosecution by the state. Libel, slander, abuse of copyright, those are all civil violations which the government can't prosecute but that doesn't mean you didn't harm someone else and are liable for what you said.
Personally I think the copyright angle is perfect, he didn't have permission to republish the photo, in fact the guy in question should sue him for statutory copyright damages of $150k.
Please, everyone with brains knows all the biological "research" is done in Dugway Utah.
Can you think of any other reason the military would spend 10 million dollars to build a full passenger jet size (10000+ft long, 100' wide) asphalt runway (in 2006) at a facility with currently around 1000 employees that is in the remote desert of Utah? Keep in mind Dugway is around 100 miles from one of the nations large airforce bases (Hill Airforce Base) so access isn't really an issue. Add to that the runway being constructed in a 2 week period, a no bid contract and no public involvement or press coverage of any kind? Not only that but the military has expanded the base itself with new housing and buildings that quadrupled the staff size of the facility in the last 10 years? And this was a facility that when the major base closing were happening in the 90's scaled down to maybe a couple hundred people total, including all the guards. They don't need to do their illegal research anywhere other than dugway, nor would they. Dugway is the ideal location for this kind of research due to it's remote location, completely shielded from the public and based in a small town where what happens at the base would never become public.
To add to other replies, Redhat offers something you have very little chance of getting with in house support, kernel developers on staff who can fix kernel related issue, create a patch and have it integrated in the next release. On top of that you are very unlikely to have staff with the skill levels of Redhat's people to track down and fix those killer bugs that you encounter when doing something as complex as cloud computing.
And I'm running VMWare workstation on top of Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit. Running on top of 64bit was fixed with the version 6.0 release of Workstation.
It's government. To think like government in implementing something like VPN you have to conceive a solution that involves the user not having to do anything (other than maybe push a button) and this includes anything other than a standard login box. Second you have to implement this in a way that the user themselves can go home and implement this solution without any site help from anyone and zero technical knowledge. (you don't send an IT person to a State Employees home, that's asking from some kind of lawsuit). Fourth the solution must be as expensive as possible, support some local business (preferable if the business owner is connected politically with one of the local leaders) and require very few extra hours from the already overworked staff.
What does that result in? Hardware VPN boxes plugged into the network router, with the users computer plugged directly into the VPN box. Costs a lot, requires pre-configuration of the box but should require no site visits, idiots can usually successfully plug in boxes with phone support only and any reconfiguration likey requires the box to be brought back into the office as the VPN keys on the boxes are likely hard coded into a configuration on the VPN device. Likely a turn key solution so you have a hefty support contract and the vendor would likely assist with deployment and any reconfiguration resulting in a nice contract fee for reprogramming all the boxes.
My guess is some VPN box provider is going to be doing a service call on every box and netting themselves some nice profit under their support agreement.
Likely operator error.
For all their bluster guns are only accurate under very specific circumstances. The dopler effect and software used in the gun assumes certain things when making it's speed "measurement", the first is that the measurement is head on, a cop shooting your speed from greater than a 5 degree angle can alter the measurement dramatically and greater than 15 degrees and you might as well just disregard whatever it reads as the error will exceed 35mph. Second most guns are calibrated for approaching traffic, if shot from behind, they are extremely inaccurate. Third, unless the gun is a laser based measurement system the gun picks out the fastest object in it's line of site and a typical gun has a 15 to 25 degree measurement window such that if there is a car anywhere near you going faster than you then that car is the one that will get measured. Cops are typically trained such that they know these limitations and abide by the requirements, that doesn't mean all do and it doesn't mean cops don't lie or that your age,sex,ethnicity,clothing and what you are driving plays a greater role in whether you get tickets than just about any other factor including how fast you drive. An 18 year old in gang attire driving a sporty car can drive by a cop going 15mph slower than a station wagon with a 45 year old guy in a suit and the 18 year old will get the ticket and the cop won't look twice at the other guy. Such is life.
The efficiency decrease from using CNG in a modified gas engine is a result of the engine being tuned to run gasoline. A car designed to run on CNG would be far more efficient because the compression could increase from the 8-10 used in most automobiles to around 12 because the equivalent octane of the CNG is 120 versus 87 for unleaded gasoline. The boost in compression will result in better burning of the fuel.
CNG is bad in automobiles, because it's burned in an engine tuned for gasoline upto 20% of the CNG is unburned and discharged out the tailpipe. In the past this was considered OK because unlike gasoline the CNG doesn't contribute to urban air pollution (gasoline mixes with the atmosphere and produces ozone, a critical urban smog component).
The problem is that atmospheric methane traps 4x more heat than CO2 so all the unburned methane coming out of the tailpipe that would be discharged by automobiles into the atmosphere would quickly outweigh the global warming of the CO2 discharges currently made negating any environmental benefit from switching.
There is a reason it's called reasonable doubt. There was ample evidence that Nina would have NEVER left her kids. There was also ample evidence that the claimed "serial killer" friend was in fact a nutjob who claimed to have killed people that didn't exist and others that were still alive, in fact of all the people he claimed to kill not a single person could be verified and the police wrote him off as crazy after investigating his claims. None of the reasons listed are reasonable doubt. It's not reasonable to assume Nina would have left her Kids and it's not reasonable to assume someone the police have investigated and determined is crazy did it. It's also not reasonable in consideration of all the stuff he did after she disappeared. A car with an inch of standing water in it, a seat thrown away and hidden from the police is a smoking gun of someone trying to cover something up. Anyone that denies otherwise is likely going to be a government conspiracy nut.
The Largest CU mine in the US, Kennecott Copper's Bingham Canyon mine in Utah, in fact the largest open pit mine in the world and the only man made structure visible from space with the naked eye, has roughly 50 years of copper left before they tap out the deposit. Although the amount of work per ton of ore is increasing drastically with every additional foot they excavate the ore deposit itself gets richer the deeper they go. Not only that, but the amount of gold and silver extracted from the same mining operation pays for the entire copper operation making all the copper pure profit.
Says the guy that's never paid a gas heating bill. Natural gas prices have gone up a lot, from almost nothing to a little bit. Natural gas is also locally supplied and has absolutely nothing to do with oil prices. Don't say they are the same because they aren't, it's still far far cheaper to heat a house with gas than it is with electricity.
Linux Weekly News has a comment from an HP developer indicating they aren't putting this out there so it can become a linux file system, but so that the lessons learned and parts of the code that are useful can be incorporated into one of the linux file systems of the future. I took it to mean, take our code and use whatever you can to make ext4 or ext5.
You are wrong.
Most of the review sites derive all their advertising money from publishers. Providing a bad review results in dollars being pulled. As a result the lowest review you will ever see at an ad supported review site is 6/10 and even that can get ad's pulled and people fired (reference the recent firing for Kayne and Lynch). You will NEVER see a real score on review sites. You MUST look at user opinion, not the review of a paid journalist because they are all in the pockets of publishers. I don't know of a single publisher that would allow real reviews of their games.
Dry Ice requires that temperature at Standard Temperature and Pressure, in other words at Sea Level on the Earth.
What temperature is required for Dry Ice at the temperature and pressure of Mars? I don't doubt the required temperature is different because atmospheric pressure is so much less.
It's too bad they already lost their rights under the GPL. Once the suit is filed the SFLC won't accept just publishing the source. To get distribution rights back is going to cost them some cash to cover SFLC's costs in addition to some punitive costs to make sure they remember never to do it again.
The court, throughout history, has allowed the executive leeway to accomplish needed goals while at the same time years down the line coming back and rebuking the executive for violating the constitution. There were many actions during the civil war that were later declared unconstitutional, but only after the situation had been resolved. In one sense this is a good thing, because it allows time for the executive to accomplish a goal but still allow correction of the unconstitutional action.
I bet 100% of the material on the website is the same material that moves around the "have you seen this" emails forwarded on by every unknowing idiot new to the Internet. I recognize the description of the animal video as the one where the drunk guy is trying to get away from the donkey that is trying to mount him. I also know the woman wearing the cow body paint circulated in a similar email. The vague descriptions on the others also sound as if they are the same type of material that gets forwarded around. I wouldn't be surprised if every adult who has ever used the Internet has seen the material in question, that the judge has some online storage with the material in question isn't surprising to me, and certainly not a reason to dismiss him from the case.
At the bare minimum I would suggest the material in question makes him much more applicable to judge a case involving bestiality because he should be able to recognize the difference between protected speech and images (those emails classify as such) and obscene material.
It's not grandstanding when he broke the law and directed others to ignore and break the law. He's more a criminal than Clinton is. All Clinton did is perjure himself, Bush engaged in unlawful actions at the head of the executive, directing the entire executive branch to ignore the law. Many many hero's quietly resigned under his watch rather than the break the law, very very few got any press coverage. He should be impeached, not only that but they should hold the trial and make the world know that even the president isn't above the law.
My only hope is that Obama won't pardon him for his actions and that he can be charged and imprisoned for his actions while president once he's no longer protected by immunity and political action by his fellow future inmates. The Republican party does more harm to themselves by embracing him than they realize. The Dem's are going to woop their butts in November because of everything Bush stands for. The best thing the Republican's could do is stand up and throw Bush out of the party for misrepresenting everything the party stands for. He successfully turned an anti-war, anti-nation building and fiscally conservative party into the worst fiscal, war-mongering and "America as the world police" supporting party the nation has ever seen. He's done significant and hopefully not permanent damage to our economy, he's devalued the American currency to where it's in serious danger of becoming a joke. He's eliminated millions of jobs and he's spent a trillion dollars on a war that when someone in his own administration suggested 100billion as the cost he tossed them out. His ineptitude is probably unmatched in history for the level of damage done.
Attach a bunch of printed gay pornography to your next court submission and see how much the judge likes it. Extra points will be given if the Judge in question is a strictly observant southern baptist. Make sure and not tell the judge it's in there so he's sure to see it in all it's glory. It also needs to be completely unrelated to the case in anyway, use it to insinuate the opposing council is immoral.
What Jack did was beyond stupid. Way way beyond stupid. It's the kind of stuff only people who are clinically insane do. You don't attach pornography to court filings. Ask anyone you know if they think it would be a good idea to attach gay pornography to a public court filing, I'll pay you $100 if someone honestly, without prompting, sarcasm or malice says yes. In fact I bet you could go ask the people at the state mental hospital the same question and would get the same response. That's just how stupid what he did was.
Newsflash: Concrete is batched in high capacity batch plants with rapid speed distribution and mixing systems. It's also comprised of materials that vary dramatically per load. No cubic yard of excavated rock is identical to the last just as no cubic yard of sand is identical to the last. Measuring everything with a computer matters little if the ingredients that comprise the concrete vary so consistently across the spectrum and are measured and mixed so rapidly. Combine in different moisture contents in the aggregates, different chemical compositions of the aggregates and one of load of concrete can vary dramatically from the last in the properties that matter for construction. Having spent 12 years working in the transportation sector and having hand tested more loads of concrete than I care to even estimate I like to think I say this with a fair amount of expertise.
But go on believing that every batch is identical, the testers on the ground will tell you otherwise. Hell, if what you said was true we wouldn't need testers, the very existence of testings refutes your assertion that there are only minor differences. I've also got a newsflash for you, concrete is a highly forgiving material, even with wide disparity in the mix the design of mixes is done with minimum characteristics in mind. Even today 4000psi concrete is the design norm with 98% of all breaks exceeding that number, most by a very large margin. Recent tests of sac-crete (small, poor aggregates) on a project I worked on yielded 6500psi, far in excess of the minimum strength required of 3500psi. You obviously know nothing about the design and use of concrete in the construction industry. Because concrete is so different per lot random statistical sampling is done to ensure the concrete falls within specific minimum parameters. But keep on believing that fancy computer at the batch plant does anything more than speed up the delivery and mixing rather than ensure consistent batching which has and will always be a human task. A simple pound of rock with 15% more sulfer than the rest can change the mix significantly and 0.5% more moisture in the sand can alter the cement/water mixture significantly.
Newsflash: Every mixed batch of concrete is different than the last. Just like a snowflake and humans, every single one might be composed of the same ingredients but will be completely unique. The same applies to concrete. A little more cement powder by weight, aggregate/sand that's a little different, a half a cup more water, and even the cure temperatures or other environmental effects. Regardless of the method of control, every batch is different and unique in composition.
AMD and Intel have both used flash memory as their process "proving" ground. Intel produces tons of flash, but if you look at their profit statements they make very little money on it. Why? Because they use it as the proving ground to bring new process technology to CPU's. AMD's spinning off of their memory division wasn't a good decision IMO. It's going to show up (if you argue it hasn't already) in their process transition. Where before they were 1 year behind Intel on Process technology IMO they will slowly slide that process improvement out. A company with 2-3 fabs simply can't compete against a company with 18 of which 3-4 are a generation ahead on process technology because they produce things like flash memory.
Have truly fascist governments been gone so long that everyone forgets what they are like?
Smart people switch to Microstation and stop using AutoCADD after they have a bad experience. Bentley is a far better company to deal with, a company that produces better software IMO, has better support and actually cares about their customers.
Atheists born and raised in the church are quite common in the valley, probably even around 5-10% of the population in the salt lake valley. Ex-mormons would probably be the largest group, comprising at least 20% of the population with Catholics as the largest "other" religion, near the neighborhood of 20% of the total population of the valley. In Salt Lake City proper (actually quite small) Mormon's aren't the dominant relgion (there is no majority religion, both mormon's and catholics are minority religions) and in fact there hasn't been a Mormon Mayor of SLC in about 20 years. Living in the suburbs of SLC about 1/2 my neighbors are non-mormon/ex-mormon.
Before you make some ill-informed false statements about Salt Lake City I suggest you visit and actually take a moment to understand Mormon's. In my experience Mormon's are far easier to deal with than Southern Baptists. Rarely will an ordinary church attending Mormon try to "save" you outside the Mormon church's official recruiting system (missionaries). Rarely with an ordinary church attending Mormon lecture you about the inaccuracies and falseness of evolution or science in general. The same can't be said of the southern baptists I've met.
And for what it's worth the FLDS (the fundamentalist Mormons that still believe in polygamy) are not like what you propose Mormons are like either. They are very much like Mormon's are any other American, but given their history they are very very lacking in trust of non believers due to the persecution they have suffered. The seizing of children in Texas is not the first time some state government claiming to act in the interest of the people has went in and seized their children and wives and moved them out. Given their history they have a well deserved, and needed IMO, distrust of those claiming to act in the interest of their members. The seizing of 400+ children for what were apparently faked abuse claims simply on the basis of beliefs is a tragedy of justice.