They don't need a passage in a book to justify discrimination. They simply need to state it's their religious belief. The problem with the two most recent laws is that it makes this type of discrimination a defense against civil tort and doesn't provide protection for legally protected classes. This is the difference between the federal law and what the states are recently passing.
The important bit here is that when amendments were offered to prevent this discrimination and make the law look and act like the federal law the people behind this have refused because that would void the purpose they are targeting here which is to make discrimination against gay people legal. They don't like that the attitude about gay marriage being legal has changed and want to be able to refuse service to gay people and any attempt to put provisions into these laws making that no longer possible is opposed very heavily.
If someone wants to open a business but exclude groups of the public that they don't even know they should open that business as a private club, not as a public business.
If everyone here is a loser that includes you. That you don't register for a nickname has nothing to do with it because by your definition if you even visit the site you are a loser, well that's you buddy, you should stop being in denial.
Sony has always been evil. I'm always surprised when people complain about some evil sony action as if they are totally surprised by it. Don't be surprised. I stopped buying sony products before 1992 (that's about the time they bent me over and had their way with me) because they are evil and will always be evil. These stories about Sony have been around a LONG time, long before your DVR. You should have known better.
How else do you expect those poor billion dollar corporations to make money?
Sheesh, all these gamers playing a game for years have to stop, and the best way to do that is tie the game to server that you can then shutdown later and force them all to fork out the cash for a newer version.
There out to a be law that forces these gamers to stop playing old games and buy new ones, otherwise these poor defenseless corporations could have flat or falling revenue and that can not be tollerated! These gamers playing games years on end are nothing but thieves! THIEVES!!!
The FTTH NBN wasn't killed because copper was good enough. It was killed to give money to Telstra for partisan political issues. The NBN would have been all new and used none of Telstra's infrastructure which would have made all that copper worthless. So the new politicians decided to help Telstra out and kill the NBN ensuring that any rollout would use telstra's network and keep them in the loop while limiting competition.
It was a huge giveaway of billions of dollars to telstra and I have no doubt the people in the right positions within the Abbott government got their kickbacks from telstra.
What a bunch of hogwash. The problem with lawyers is that for the last 30 years everyone has encouraged their kids to become lawyers. It's in every fucking TV show and movie since the 50's. Since the 50's it has been seen as one of a very short list of professions that would get wealthy and have guaranteed jobs. The vast oversupply is tied to that not your partisan bullshit. Talk about absurd but I can't expect much from someone like you. You are either a conspiracy minded nut or are being paid to spread propaganda. Either of which means your value as a human being is NILL.
The only thing I will be remembering at election time is that BOTH parties serve the same master and that master has interests contrary to my benefit. I will also keep in mind that a lessor evil is better and that I'd rather have a tax and spend democrat in the presidents office than a tax-cut and spend republican who's bent on regulating what I do in my bedroom. Neither party has my interests at heart but the democrats are the lessor evil. The only republican president in the last 30 years that had an ounce of fiscal responsibility was George HW Bush (Bush Senior). Every other president has been a fiscal train wreck with tax-cut and spend. This country is 17 trillion in debt because of the last republican president.
o many of their rules are stupid. Take ramps for example, the rules are TWELVE FEET of distance for every FOOT of rise. That's 1/12... By this logic, half the streets in san francisco are in violation of the ADA... that is the fucking hills have grades that are steeper than that. It is stupid.
As others have said, you don't know what you are talking about. Put yourself in a wheelchair sometime and try it sometime.
The ADA should generally be repealed.
No it shouldn't. I wouldn't have a problem with repealing you though.
Most businesses want customers disabled or otherwise to feel comfortable there and use their services. That alone should be enough to see that most things are accessible.
History proves this absolutely false. Frankly you don't know what you are talking about. Generally the ADA only even applies in the case of NEW construction. Some of the accommodation rules do apply to existing businesses because the only other option would be to either tell the disabled person to go off a die or raise taxes and supply them a government helper to do all their shopping and errands for them. The ADA rules are far cheaper and reasonable.
Yes, seriously disabled people are going to need help. Let us not pretend that if we cover the world with ramps that such people can live on their own without assistance.
History again proves this as utter nonsense. With appropriate accommodation the disabled can live healthy productive lives without needing others help to survive. With the appropriate ADA accommodations in place a man in a wheelchair can live alone, feed, transport, work and shop all by himself and be a productive member of society. Without those accommodations he will be home bound, rely on government support including someone to go buy his groceries and take him places like the doctor. The cost of the ADA is far out weighed by the cost savings of allowing the disabled to support themselves. It's literally a 10:1 cost/benefit ratio.
Let us not pretend that if we cover the world with ramps that such people can live on their own without assistance. Who bathes them etc? And here you might sight some fellow that winches himself into the tub with pullies. Any such fellow isn't going to need a 1/12 ramp to get into a shop.
With proper accommodation a disabled person can function independently. In fact the vast majority of disabled do, the ones that don't often are mentally handicapped or so severely handicapped they can't. Again you have no concept about what slopes do and what impact they have in a wheelchair, (try one out and walk in their shoes before you start railing about their worthlessness). Though the most important part of ramps is NOT the slope rate but the very existence of a ramp. The legal rate simply sets the standard so the slope is not 1:2. Without the ramp the person in the wheelchair cannot enter the building, whether that is a grocery store or a doctors office. I'd also like to point out the ADA isn't just about wheelchairs, it's about the blind, the deaf and frankly anyone with a disability.
But being disabled is not a license to force everyone in the rest of society to cover the world in bubblewrap.
You are an asshole. You being an asshole is not a license to force everyone else to tolerate you.
The ADA doesn't "wrap the world in bubblewrap" as you claim, what it does is allow the disabled to take care of themselves with dignity. In the 50's someone in a wheelchair would need a co-worker to carry them into the bathroom and put them on toilet (that is if they even had a job because most couldn't even get into the building). Because of the ADA the bathroom door is now wide enough to fit the wheel chair through, there is a stall big enough to get the wheel chair in (while closing the door) and handles and railings to allo
AFAIK the only people that can control closed captioning are the FCC.
It's a voluntary entertainment service, not access to a vital place. For example, the ADA would come into play for a physical store a disabled person might need because they might not be able to function in society without access. But an entertainment system where there is no "place" and no compelling interest for access means it isn't going to be regulated by the ADA. Though the FCC could step in and apply their own regulations I doubt they would even consider it for non-broadcast access.
They are being sued because a lawyer saw a chance to extort money from Netflix. AFAIK this lawyer didn't even have any plaintiffs.
For those that aren't aware we have a HUGE surplus of lawyers in this country. I'd wager better than half the law school graduates these days can't find jobs. What that means in practical terms is that we have a whole lot of lawyers trying to survive by launching lawsuits in "creative" manners. In plain English there are a bunch of sleazy lawyers trying to extort money from anyone they can using their law degrees. You see this in suits like this and the blatant extortion going on in the copyright trolling regime. It doesn't help that the legal profession seems to draw sociopaths to the career.
Expect to see these type of lawsuits all the time for the next decade at least.
Fail spectacularly is a vague term IMO. What were talking about is when the Intel firmware has determined that the SSD is in failure it will allow the drive to boot in a read-only state once. After you shut the power off once receiving the warning the drive commits suicide and will no longer boot or respond, in other words it bricks itself at the firmware layer and there is NO recovery.
What I'd argue is the correct failure mode is boot in read-only and warn that power loss will result in data loss but continue to boot in read-only format with a warning at each boot that files may be corrupt or lost. The intentional bricking aspect is just bad design IMO. The data you need to access could be on a part of the drive that's perfectly fine, in addition you may get the data warning at a time and place where it's simply not feasible to backup everything.
I completely disagree with Intel's failure model and think it's beyond stupid. It should warn the user of corruption and data loss but continue to boot. That way if the person is off somewhere they can backup critical files to either the cloud or a thumb drive and try to recover the non-critical data when they get back. Intentional bricking is just stupid.
Hate to break it to you but the US is still the only nation to ever spend the money to build a facility to collect helium and remains the only source of helium. It would be nice if someone else did so as well but good luck getting anyone to care.
As others have noted the newer atoms aren't the same as the old under powered garbage. I've actually got a server running one of the new Atom server chips. It's a good low power processor with some strong capabilities for the power envelope it uses.
Though there is one exception, there are some under powered Atom chips. They are smaller and use even less power and generally aren't intended for a PC type install. But they do exist because Intel is still trying to figure out how to sell chips in this space without totally cannibalizing desktop sales with chips they lose money on.
Which chip Microsoft chose (or whatever one Intel let them use) is going to determine whether the surface 3 is garbage or a reasonable balance of CPU and power use. It's entirely possible it's going to be way to slow for use in anything CPU intensive because Intel is still making Atoms that aren't very good, even if they are better than the previous Atoms.
It's interesting to me that Microsoft isn't saying WHICH Atom they used.
Because the supreme court under pressure from the Reagan administration, that was promising to only use it against drug dealers in the drug war, convinced the court to carve out an exception. The only problem is the exception is now the rule. These exceptions were created to fight the "drug war". And like every exception the government has been given they've turned around and used it against everyone they can.
Take for example the expanded penalties that were passed after 9/11 for using a weapon of mass destruction. The problem is that the definition in the law applies to ANY explosive device. So now people that made a pipe bomb without even the intent to harm someone are being charged with using weapons of mass destruction. Even though this was against the very intent of the law it's now been used so many times in court that's it IS the precedent.
Civil Forfeiture isn't the only "exception" that was carved out during the war on drugs and it might not even be the most egregious depending on your view. The root of the problem is the war on drugs. End the "war" and the exception carved out around it should fall like dominoes. Prohibition doesn't work, version 1.0 or version 2.0.
Horseshit. Anyone with proof that they didn't commit the crime should be able to go into court and show that evidence. Actual innocence should ALWAYS be a legitimate claim and entitled to review, it would be trivial to punish those that abuse the process with frivolous claims.
There is nothing more damning to a justice system then the incarceration of innocent people. We recognize that the system isn't perfect and there needs to be policies put in place for challenges where there is evidence of actual innocence to allow those that were harmed by the imperfect system to have their lives righted.
The suggestion that evidence of innocence isn't a valid claim is just complete and utter lawyer horseshit where the process is more important than the very purpose of the system. Lawyers or Judges that are so obsessed with the process that innocence, of lack of it isn't relevant to them anymore shouldn't be judges or lawyers anymore. Process bound dweebs like Scalia are what is wrong with the American justice system.
Turkey is no longer what you sarcastically try to claim it is. Edrogan is actively working to turn that country back into the Ottoman shithole it was by eroding the very democracy and secular principles that's made it strong. He's destroyed the independent judiciary. He's about 80% destroyed local governments and NGOs and he's begun the press and free association clamp down. Free speech has also been targeted, directly and indirectly and he's putting religion back into the public school with state control and corruption is rampant.
By the time he's dead Turkey is going to be the same Islamic shithole the rest of the middle east is. Free thinking and acting people don't show proper "respect" to the theology and that can't be allowed. All over the middle east secular leaders and advocates are being murdered (often without consequences for the murderer) publicly and often very violently. Once the people that favor a secular government are scared into silence the Imams can make a directly play for power and take their seat at the head of society, as the believe they are entitled. Turkey is rapidly moving in this direction and it won't be long before people speaking out for secular principles are jailed or murdered for insulting either the leadership or Islam. It's already illegal to "insult" Erdogan.
Never mind, it's in one of the last paragraphs. It's an ATOM processor. Depending on the version and clock speed it could be ok or a total piece of crap running full windows.
I see not one thing that says this is an x86. If it's not x86 it's still ARM and still windows RT even if they don't call it RT anymore. The result being you can only run software from the windows store, no legacy apps.
It didn't surprise me that one of the accused agents is DEA. Talk about a department with all kinds of untraceable money and seized property floating around and I wouldn't be surprised in the least if more than half the agents were skimming off the top.
Good Luck on that. The supreme court ruling on actual innocence was split down the middle and absolutely blasted by Scalia as a "shiny new right". Yes you heard that right, being actually innocent of the crime isn't the courts job according to him.
Ah the old show me the wording argument. How tired.
You can't have freedom of religion if the state itself is religious. If the state itself is Baptist there is no longer any freedom to be anything other that Baptist because the state will act as an arm of the Baptist church in passing and enforcing laws. And more importantly as the religious often like to point out Atheism is a belief and for that atheist to have freedom of religion he cannot be subjected to religiously inspired action by his government. This is a recognized principle that the supreme court has upheld numerous times.
The state itself must be free of religious motivation and action, without that there can be no freedom of religion. Any law or action that's driven solely by religion is unconstitutional. This is why laws allowing only nativity scenes on public property are illegal but laws allowing religious displays of any kind on public property are fine.
As with all our rights the devil's in the details. And you simply can't have true freedom of religion if the government is acting as the arm of a church. A freedom of religion that says you are only free to be baptist or X version of Christian isn't freedom of religion.
Thorium is a free by-product of rare-earth mining.
Power is a free byproduct of plutonium generation for the military. Well, until it's not anymore then the rate payers get stuck with power costs that are twice the rate payed elsewhere because the original free money scheme went away.
It's very dangerous to base your economic model on the existence of another business. Thorium may very well be a byproduct of *current* rare-earth production but there is no guarantee it will be in the future. How does that economic model change if the thorium needs to be mined on it's own? Because if you are suggesting the investment be made to spend billions and back it with tax payer money your assumption should be that thorium isn't a waste product and that it will need to be mined. I'd wager that having to mine specifically for thorium would change the economic calculations significantly.
Then get your local government to change their policies. In my state user costs (how long your commute takes) are as high a priority as project cost. I've seen projects do things that added 30% to the cost (huge time restrictions on lane impacts) to limit the impact to the public's lives. More than half the projects my state issues these days don't even allow lane closures during any hours were it will impact traffic. I'm about to issue a job where the only work hours are between 8pm and 6am M-Sat (they can work all day Sunday), in other words it's ALL night work.
Your state simply doesn't care about user costs, and that's YOUR fault. If you want them to care you need to make that known, frequently and to as many people as possible. You need to make clear that you don't care if it costs more.
He had the gall to question Obama's citizenship (born in Hawaii to an American woman and Kenyan father), when Cruz was born in Canada (to an American woman) and has a Cuban father.
But now it's crazy to question his ability to run for the presidency because his mother was American, ya know just like Obama which he claimed meant Obama didn't meet the requirements because the birth certificate is a forgery and he was actually born in Indonesia, a foreign country, just like Canada. But most of the birthers will leave him alone because he's not Black. Though I can't wait to see how he defends all the crazy shit his Dad has said over the years. His Dad would fit in with the west-borough baptist church with some of the shit he's spewed.
All politicians are emissaries of Satan but Hillary Clinton is only a 1st level Imp while all of the Republican candidates are first level commanders right below the Great Satan himself with a direct link to the orders of the dark lord.
I'd rather have GW Bush back in office again for 8 years rather than ANY of the republicans running for office these days.
But if a Clinton get's elected again, I know at least one thing for sure, that is that she won't start approving tax cuts while boosting spending (gotta boost that Military industrial complex or they might not get their checks at election time) like the Republicans want. You know Tax-cut and spend, the new Republican Motto since the NeoCons took over the party. I'll take a tax and spend Democrat over a tax-cut and spend Republican any day of the week.
This is a party that has made "no new spending without offsetting reductions elsewhere" their party platform under Obama but they get control of both houses and the first thing they do is write a bill to boost Defense spending 200 billion and don't pay for it. You also have the duplicity of groups like the Koch brothers that scream and yell about competition and free market but the first chance they get they get a law passed in Florida barring people from using any power that they didn't buy from the power company (because ideals don't count if it hurts the bottom line).
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They don't need a passage in a book to justify discrimination. They simply need to state it's their religious belief. The problem with the two most recent laws is that it makes this type of discrimination a defense against civil tort and doesn't provide protection for legally protected classes. This is the difference between the federal law and what the states are recently passing.
The important bit here is that when amendments were offered to prevent this discrimination and make the law look and act like the federal law the people behind this have refused because that would void the purpose they are targeting here which is to make discrimination against gay people legal. They don't like that the attitude about gay marriage being legal has changed and want to be able to refuse service to gay people and any attempt to put provisions into these laws making that no longer possible is opposed very heavily.
If someone wants to open a business but exclude groups of the public that they don't even know they should open that business as a private club, not as a public business.
If everyone here is a loser that includes you. That you don't register for a nickname has nothing to do with it because by your definition if you even visit the site you are a loser, well that's you buddy, you should stop being in denial.
Sony has always been evil. I'm always surprised when people complain about some evil sony action as if they are totally surprised by it. Don't be surprised. I stopped buying sony products before 1992 (that's about the time they bent me over and had their way with me) because they are evil and will always be evil. These stories about Sony have been around a LONG time, long before your DVR. You should have known better.
How else do you expect those poor billion dollar corporations to make money?
Sheesh, all these gamers playing a game for years have to stop, and the best way to do that is tie the game to server that you can then shutdown later and force them all to fork out the cash for a newer version.
There out to a be law that forces these gamers to stop playing old games and buy new ones, otherwise these poor defenseless corporations could have flat or falling revenue and that can not be tollerated! These gamers playing games years on end are nothing but thieves! THIEVES!!!
The FTTH NBN wasn't killed because copper was good enough. It was killed to give money to Telstra for partisan political issues. The NBN would have been all new and used none of Telstra's infrastructure which would have made all that copper worthless. So the new politicians decided to help Telstra out and kill the NBN ensuring that any rollout would use telstra's network and keep them in the loop while limiting competition.
It was a huge giveaway of billions of dollars to telstra and I have no doubt the people in the right positions within the Abbott government got their kickbacks from telstra.
What a bunch of hogwash. The problem with lawyers is that for the last 30 years everyone has encouraged their kids to become lawyers. It's in every fucking TV show and movie since the 50's. Since the 50's it has been seen as one of a very short list of professions that would get wealthy and have guaranteed jobs. The vast oversupply is tied to that not your partisan bullshit. Talk about absurd but I can't expect much from someone like you. You are either a conspiracy minded nut or are being paid to spread propaganda. Either of which means your value as a human being is NILL.
The only thing I will be remembering at election time is that BOTH parties serve the same master and that master has interests contrary to my benefit. I will also keep in mind that a lessor evil is better and that I'd rather have a tax and spend democrat in the presidents office than a tax-cut and spend republican who's bent on regulating what I do in my bedroom. Neither party has my interests at heart but the democrats are the lessor evil. The only republican president in the last 30 years that had an ounce of fiscal responsibility was George HW Bush (Bush Senior). Every other president has been a fiscal train wreck with tax-cut and spend. This country is 17 trillion in debt because of the last republican president.
As others have said, you don't know what you are talking about. Put yourself in a wheelchair sometime and try it sometime.
No it shouldn't. I wouldn't have a problem with repealing you though.
History proves this absolutely false. Frankly you don't know what you are talking about. Generally the ADA only even applies in the case of NEW construction. Some of the accommodation rules do apply to existing businesses because the only other option would be to either tell the disabled person to go off a die or raise taxes and supply them a government helper to do all their shopping and errands for them. The ADA rules are far cheaper and reasonable.
History again proves this as utter nonsense. With appropriate accommodation the disabled can live healthy productive lives without needing others help to survive. With the appropriate ADA accommodations in place a man in a wheelchair can live alone, feed, transport, work and shop all by himself and be a productive member of society. Without those accommodations he will be home bound, rely on government support including someone to go buy his groceries and take him places like the doctor. The cost of the ADA is far out weighed by the cost savings of allowing the disabled to support themselves. It's literally a 10:1 cost/benefit ratio.
With proper accommodation a disabled person can function independently. In fact the vast majority of disabled do, the ones that don't often are mentally handicapped or so severely handicapped they can't. Again you have no concept about what slopes do and what impact they have in a wheelchair, (try one out and walk in their shoes before you start railing about their worthlessness). Though the most important part of ramps is NOT the slope rate but the very existence of a ramp. The legal rate simply sets the standard so the slope is not 1:2. Without the ramp the person in the wheelchair cannot enter the building, whether that is a grocery store or a doctors office. I'd also like to point out the ADA isn't just about wheelchairs, it's about the blind, the deaf and frankly anyone with a disability.
You are an asshole. You being an asshole is not a license to force everyone else to tolerate you.
The ADA doesn't "wrap the world in bubblewrap" as you claim, what it does is allow the disabled to take care of themselves with dignity. In the 50's someone in a wheelchair would need a co-worker to carry them into the bathroom and put them on toilet (that is if they even had a job because most couldn't even get into the building). Because of the ADA the bathroom door is now wide enough to fit the wheel chair through, there is a stall big enough to get the wheel chair in (while closing the door) and handles and railings to allo
Naturally occurring terrain isn't regulated by the ADA. Access to a business is.
AFAIK the only people that can control closed captioning are the FCC.
It's a voluntary entertainment service, not access to a vital place. For example, the ADA would come into play for a physical store a disabled person might need because they might not be able to function in society without access. But an entertainment system where there is no "place" and no compelling interest for access means it isn't going to be regulated by the ADA. Though the FCC could step in and apply their own regulations I doubt they would even consider it for non-broadcast access.
They are being sued because a lawyer saw a chance to extort money from Netflix. AFAIK this lawyer didn't even have any plaintiffs.
For those that aren't aware we have a HUGE surplus of lawyers in this country. I'd wager better than half the law school graduates these days can't find jobs. What that means in practical terms is that we have a whole lot of lawyers trying to survive by launching lawsuits in "creative" manners. In plain English there are a bunch of sleazy lawyers trying to extort money from anyone they can using their law degrees. You see this in suits like this and the blatant extortion going on in the copyright trolling regime. It doesn't help that the legal profession seems to draw sociopaths to the career.
Expect to see these type of lawsuits all the time for the next decade at least.
Fail spectacularly is a vague term IMO. What were talking about is when the Intel firmware has determined that the SSD is in failure it will allow the drive to boot in a read-only state once. After you shut the power off once receiving the warning the drive commits suicide and will no longer boot or respond, in other words it bricks itself at the firmware layer and there is NO recovery.
What I'd argue is the correct failure mode is boot in read-only and warn that power loss will result in data loss but continue to boot in read-only format with a warning at each boot that files may be corrupt or lost. The intentional bricking aspect is just bad design IMO. The data you need to access could be on a part of the drive that's perfectly fine, in addition you may get the data warning at a time and place where it's simply not feasible to backup everything.
I completely disagree with Intel's failure model and think it's beyond stupid. It should warn the user of corruption and data loss but continue to boot. That way if the person is off somewhere they can backup critical files to either the cloud or a thumb drive and try to recover the non-critical data when they get back. Intentional bricking is just stupid.
Hate to break it to you but the US is still the only nation to ever spend the money to build a facility to collect helium and remains the only source of helium. It would be nice if someone else did so as well but good luck getting anyone to care.
As others have noted the newer atoms aren't the same as the old under powered garbage. I've actually got a server running one of the new Atom server chips. It's a good low power processor with some strong capabilities for the power envelope it uses.
Though there is one exception, there are some under powered Atom chips. They are smaller and use even less power and generally aren't intended for a PC type install. But they do exist because Intel is still trying to figure out how to sell chips in this space without totally cannibalizing desktop sales with chips they lose money on.
Which chip Microsoft chose (or whatever one Intel let them use) is going to determine whether the surface 3 is garbage or a reasonable balance of CPU and power use. It's entirely possible it's going to be way to slow for use in anything CPU intensive because Intel is still making Atoms that aren't very good, even if they are better than the previous Atoms.
It's interesting to me that Microsoft isn't saying WHICH Atom they used.
Because the supreme court under pressure from the Reagan administration, that was promising to only use it against drug dealers in the drug war, convinced the court to carve out an exception. The only problem is the exception is now the rule. These exceptions were created to fight the "drug war". And like every exception the government has been given they've turned around and used it against everyone they can.
Take for example the expanded penalties that were passed after 9/11 for using a weapon of mass destruction. The problem is that the definition in the law applies to ANY explosive device. So now people that made a pipe bomb without even the intent to harm someone are being charged with using weapons of mass destruction. Even though this was against the very intent of the law it's now been used so many times in court that's it IS the precedent.
Civil Forfeiture isn't the only "exception" that was carved out during the war on drugs and it might not even be the most egregious depending on your view. The root of the problem is the war on drugs. End the "war" and the exception carved out around it should fall like dominoes. Prohibition doesn't work, version 1.0 or version 2.0.
Horseshit. Anyone with proof that they didn't commit the crime should be able to go into court and show that evidence. Actual innocence should ALWAYS be a legitimate claim and entitled to review, it would be trivial to punish those that abuse the process with frivolous claims.
There is nothing more damning to a justice system then the incarceration of innocent people. We recognize that the system isn't perfect and there needs to be policies put in place for challenges where there is evidence of actual innocence to allow those that were harmed by the imperfect system to have their lives righted.
The suggestion that evidence of innocence isn't a valid claim is just complete and utter lawyer horseshit where the process is more important than the very purpose of the system. Lawyers or Judges that are so obsessed with the process that innocence, of lack of it isn't relevant to them anymore shouldn't be judges or lawyers anymore. Process bound dweebs like Scalia are what is wrong with the American justice system.
Turkey is no longer what you sarcastically try to claim it is. Edrogan is actively working to turn that country back into the Ottoman shithole it was by eroding the very democracy and secular principles that's made it strong. He's destroyed the independent judiciary. He's about 80% destroyed local governments and NGOs and he's begun the press and free association clamp down. Free speech has also been targeted, directly and indirectly and he's putting religion back into the public school with state control and corruption is rampant.
By the time he's dead Turkey is going to be the same Islamic shithole the rest of the middle east is. Free thinking and acting people don't show proper "respect" to the theology and that can't be allowed. All over the middle east secular leaders and advocates are being murdered (often without consequences for the murderer) publicly and often very violently. Once the people that favor a secular government are scared into silence the Imams can make a directly play for power and take their seat at the head of society, as the believe they are entitled. Turkey is rapidly moving in this direction and it won't be long before people speaking out for secular principles are jailed or murdered for insulting either the leadership or Islam. It's already illegal to "insult" Erdogan.
Never mind, it's in one of the last paragraphs. It's an ATOM processor. Depending on the version and clock speed it could be ok or a total piece of crap running full windows.
The netbook is reborn!
I see not one thing that says this is an x86. If it's not x86 it's still ARM and still windows RT even if they don't call it RT anymore. The result being you can only run software from the windows store, no legacy apps.
It didn't surprise me that one of the accused agents is DEA. Talk about a department with all kinds of untraceable money and seized property floating around and I wouldn't be surprised in the least if more than half the agents were skimming off the top.
Good Luck on that. The supreme court ruling on actual innocence was split down the middle and absolutely blasted by Scalia as a "shiny new right". Yes you heard that right, being actually innocent of the crime isn't the courts job according to him.
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Ah the old show me the wording argument. How tired.
You can't have freedom of religion if the state itself is religious. If the state itself is Baptist there is no longer any freedom to be anything other that Baptist because the state will act as an arm of the Baptist church in passing and enforcing laws. And more importantly as the religious often like to point out Atheism is a belief and for that atheist to have freedom of religion he cannot be subjected to religiously inspired action by his government. This is a recognized principle that the supreme court has upheld numerous times.
The state itself must be free of religious motivation and action, without that there can be no freedom of religion. Any law or action that's driven solely by religion is unconstitutional. This is why laws allowing only nativity scenes on public property are illegal but laws allowing religious displays of any kind on public property are fine.
As with all our rights the devil's in the details. And you simply can't have true freedom of religion if the government is acting as the arm of a church. A freedom of religion that says you are only free to be baptist or X version of Christian isn't freedom of religion.
Power is a free byproduct of plutonium generation for the military. Well, until it's not anymore then the rate payers get stuck with power costs that are twice the rate payed elsewhere because the original free money scheme went away.
It's very dangerous to base your economic model on the existence of another business. Thorium may very well be a byproduct of *current* rare-earth production but there is no guarantee it will be in the future. How does that economic model change if the thorium needs to be mined on it's own? Because if you are suggesting the investment be made to spend billions and back it with tax payer money your assumption should be that thorium isn't a waste product and that it will need to be mined. I'd wager that having to mine specifically for thorium would change the economic calculations significantly.
Then get your local government to change their policies. In my state user costs (how long your commute takes) are as high a priority as project cost. I've seen projects do things that added 30% to the cost (huge time restrictions on lane impacts) to limit the impact to the public's lives. More than half the projects my state issues these days don't even allow lane closures during any hours were it will impact traffic. I'm about to issue a job where the only work hours are between 8pm and 6am M-Sat (they can work all day Sunday), in other words it's ALL night work.
Your state simply doesn't care about user costs, and that's YOUR fault. If you want them to care you need to make that known, frequently and to as many people as possible. You need to make clear that you don't care if it costs more.
Portray as a nut? He IS a nut.
He had the gall to question Obama's citizenship (born in Hawaii to an American woman and Kenyan father), when Cruz was born in Canada (to an American woman) and has a Cuban father.
But now it's crazy to question his ability to run for the presidency because his mother was American, ya know just like Obama which he claimed meant Obama didn't meet the requirements because the birth certificate is a forgery and he was actually born in Indonesia, a foreign country, just like Canada. But most of the birthers will leave him alone because he's not Black. Though I can't wait to see how he defends all the crazy shit his Dad has said over the years. His Dad would fit in with the west-borough baptist church with some of the shit he's spewed.
All politicians are emissaries of Satan but Hillary Clinton is only a 1st level Imp while all of the Republican candidates are first level commanders right below the Great Satan himself with a direct link to the orders of the dark lord.
I'd rather have GW Bush back in office again for 8 years rather than ANY of the republicans running for office these days.
But if a Clinton get's elected again, I know at least one thing for sure, that is that she won't start approving tax cuts while boosting spending (gotta boost that Military industrial complex or they might not get their checks at election time) like the Republicans want. You know Tax-cut and spend, the new Republican Motto since the NeoCons took over the party. I'll take a tax and spend Democrat over a tax-cut and spend Republican any day of the week.
This is a party that has made "no new spending without offsetting reductions elsewhere" their party platform under Obama but they get control of both houses and the first thing they do is write a bill to boost Defense spending 200 billion and don't pay for it. You also have the duplicity of groups like the Koch brothers that scream and yell about competition and free market but the first chance they get they get a law passed in Florida barring people from using any power that they didn't buy from the power company (because ideals don't count if it hurts the bottom line).