By requiring remorse, they punish those who maintain their innocence in the face of a guilty verdict, thus teaching people to accept the infallibility of the system or else.
Kafka explored this further in his exploration of contemporary justice systems, "The Trial".
I like Charles Stross's description of it: "a privileged white male from California, a notoriously exclusionary state, trying to understand American racism in the pre-Martin Luther King era. And getting it wrong for facepalm values of wrong, so wrong he wasn't even on the right map... but at least he wasn't ignoring it."
Because a white man from the UK, born only 4 years before King's assassination, has a better perspective on it. Right.
I read Frankenstein a while ago, and yeah, it's pretty bad. It's still a "classic"; its influence on SF is unmistakable. So is R.U.R, even if few today (not me) have read it. Gulliver's Travels, on the other hand, is quite readable (though like Dante's Inferno, you miss all the contemporary references), as is Brave New World. Doyle's "The Lost World" is readable but I'm not sure it's all that influential; it seems to me it was pretty much forgotten until about 10 years ago.
The Worlds Without End list is pretty terrible at the beginning (The Handmaiden's Tale, really? That theme was well-trodden in SF when Atwood wrote it. Hyperion and the Doomsday Book are odd choices as well). The Classics list is a better list, though it's quite influenced by the age of the work (not surprising for a 'Classics' list).
A better list, IMO, would break the genre up into periods and subgenres and assign key works from each; for instance there's no need for both "Left Hand of Darkness" and "The Dispossessed", and Neuromancer probably should be higher up as an early cyberpunk work. The emphasis on novels also handicaps the lists; Heinlein's Future History and Asimov's robot stories (collected in I, Robot, which was included) probably should be higher up.
I doubt you could make a good list purely statistically.
He did a job and provided them with photographs on given terms. They used the photographs beyond those terms. I'm sure there's some justification for the $2M figure based on a bunch of ridiculous assumptions, but it's not like he's actually going to get that.
A demand to produce the body would still fall under the scope of the Fifth, because knowing where the body is would be incriminating in and of itself.
Not a problem; they can give immunity on that particular point. This was the case in United States v. Hubbell, 530 U.S. 27 (2000). There were particular incriminating documents that Hubbell produced under a grant of immunity which covered only the act of production, not the information on the documents. The Supreme Court did not accept this; the information on the documents could not be used to prosecute Hubbell.
SCOTUS hasn't ruled on this one way or the other, so it remains to be seen.
SCOTUS appears to view it as settled law that one cannot be forced to reveal a combination to a wall safe, which is as close an analogy as you're going to get (that's also in the majority opinion in Hubbell, though it first appears in a dissent in a 1988 case; the majority did not dispute the analogy in that case, only how it applied) If you get any more mechanistic, you find that the documents do not exist until the encrypted data is combined with the decryption key; that view provides even an even stronger case for fifth amendment protection, as in this view the defendant is being required to _create_ the evidence against him.
Fortunately this sort of extremely limited view of the Fifth Amendment -- which would allow not a compelled confession to a murder, but a compelled demand to produce the body of the victim -- is not endorsed by the Supreme Court.
Prosecutor: "Oh my, we suspect you of having child porn on this hard drive. Unlock it or go to jail."
You: "I ain't saying or doing shit until I talk to my lawyer".
Lawyer: "My client isn't doing shit to assist in his own prosecution. WTF is this, a goddamn star chamber?" (of course the lawyer says this in legalese).
If you already wrote one and put it in a safe, they can compel you to give them the combination to the safe.
No, they can't, if the combination is only in your mind. They can compel you to give them the safe and they can crack it, but they can't force you to give them the combination.
You mean wasn't. And that's right. Which made it ultimately a boring and trivial plot detail, with no real meaning or depth to it.
The fact that Athos was a colony of all men, where homosexuality was the norm (the only alternative being asexuality) and children were conceived using artificial wombs and disembodied ova, struck you as a "trivial plot detail"?
Then again, there was precious little in the way of human relationships in the story.
Did you miss the relationship between Ethan and Ellie Quinn? Including the point that they were _attracted_ to one another?
Go ahead and make your spaceship captain a lesbian, if you think your take on such a character would interest the target audience.
I recently read a book that did indeed make a spaceship captain a lesbian. For no apparent reason other than to make pirate queen jokes as far as I can tell.
Who was it by? Mike Kupari... a Baen author and Larry "International Lord of Hate" Correia's co-author on _Dead Six_. But you'll never see the puppy-kickers mention it or him favorably, that's for sure.
I haven't read a lot of Baen stuff, but the authors I have read (Larry Correia, John Ringo, David Weber) write stuff that's basically B-movie fare. Lots of wish-fulfillment violence and military fetishism. There's nothing wrong with that, but none of them had a female protagonist, and the majority of the female representation was there merely to provide a love interest or motivation for the male lead.
Both Ringo and Weber have had female protagonists (Ringo with a female co-author in the Cally's War series). Weber has had several in the Honor Harrington series alone, including at least two who were the major focus of a novel (the eponymous Harrington, and Michele Henke). There's also Shannon Foraker, Eloise Pritchart, Alice Truman, and many others.
Correia writes a good range of B-movie fare, at least; Grimnoir to Dead Six to Monster Hunter. Certainly better than "Sharknado", but if you prefer your SF to be heavy, this ain't it.
Ringo isn't really to my taste; I'm not really into BDSM porn mixed with my SF (Ghost series), and the rest of his stuff gets really repetitive (Posleen and March to the... especially), it's almost as if he's being paid to crank out... oh, right, he is.
Last year's Sad Puppies had women on it too (and also some women removed at their own request). Annie Bellet, who is certainly not right-wing. Toni Weisskopf, Anne Sowards, Sheila Gilbert, Jennifer Brozek, Amanda green, Cedar Sanderson, Kary English.
But yes, it's a different group this year; different organizers, different methods.
This is one of the few reasons it is good to live in New Jersey. Some newbie legislator proposes a plastic bag ban, claims it's good for the environment. The legislature has a little chuckle and one of his colleagues takes him aside and says "Look, I know you mean well, but this is New Jersey. Have you SEEN the environment? Covering the place with plastic bags could only be an improvement".
Then you put a few black pipes on the roof, run water through them on the way to your actual water heater, and call it a tax. First time it leaks it gets bypassed.
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Did the SCSI chain work thereafter? I always used chickens, but you had to renew it at least weekly. Not a big problem, I had a deep fryer.
By requiring remorse, they punish those who maintain their innocence in the face of a guilty verdict, thus teaching people to accept the infallibility of the system or else.
Kafka explored this further in his exploration of contemporary justice systems, "The Trial".
It was never built in the first place, so it can't be "reconstructed".
When you do it in a real court, it's not "rules-lawyering", it's just "lawyering".
Because a white man from the UK, born only 4 years before King's assassination, has a better perspective on it. Right.
I read Frankenstein a while ago, and yeah, it's pretty bad. It's still a "classic"; its influence on SF is unmistakable. So is R.U.R, even if few today (not me) have read it. Gulliver's Travels, on the other hand, is quite readable (though like Dante's Inferno, you miss all the contemporary references), as is Brave New World. Doyle's "The Lost World" is readable but I'm not sure it's all that influential; it seems to me it was pretty much forgotten until about 10 years ago.
The Worlds Without End list is pretty terrible at the beginning (The Handmaiden's Tale, really? That theme was well-trodden in SF when Atwood wrote it. Hyperion and the Doomsday Book are odd choices as well). The Classics list is a better list, though it's quite influenced by the age of the work (not surprising for a 'Classics' list).
A better list, IMO, would break the genre up into periods and subgenres and assign key works from each; for instance there's no need for both "Left Hand of Darkness" and "The Dispossessed", and Neuromancer probably should be higher up as an early cyberpunk work. The emphasis on novels also handicaps the lists; Heinlein's Future History and Asimov's robot stories (collected in I, Robot, which was included) probably should be higher up.
I doubt you could make a good list purely statistically.
He did a job and provided them with photographs on given terms. They used the photographs beyond those terms. I'm sure there's some justification for the $2M figure based on a bunch of ridiculous assumptions, but it's not like he's actually going to get that.
Not a problem; they can give immunity on that particular point. This was the case in United States v. Hubbell, 530 U.S. 27 (2000). There were particular incriminating documents that Hubbell produced under a grant of immunity which covered only the act of production, not the information on the documents. The Supreme Court did not accept this; the information on the documents could not be used to prosecute Hubbell.
SCOTUS appears to view it as settled law that one cannot be forced to reveal a combination to a wall safe, which is as close an analogy as you're going to get (that's also in the majority opinion in Hubbell, though it first appears in a dissent in a 1988 case; the majority did not dispute the analogy in that case, only how it applied) If you get any more mechanistic, you find that the documents do not exist until the encrypted data is combined with the decryption key; that view provides even an even stronger case for fifth amendment protection, as in this view the defendant is being required to _create_ the evidence against him.
So, 2?
The problem with independent bookstores is they never have a large enough spot for my horse.
Fortunately this sort of extremely limited view of the Fifth Amendment -- which would allow not a compelled confession to a murder, but a compelled demand to produce the body of the victim -- is not endorsed by the Supreme Court.
You: "I ain't saying or doing shit until I talk to my lawyer".
Lawyer: "My client isn't doing shit to assist in his own prosecution. WTF is this, a goddamn star chamber?" (of course the lawyer says this in legalese).
No, they can't, if the combination is only in your mind. They can compel you to give them the safe and they can crack it, but they can't force you to give them the combination.
The fact that Athos was a colony of all men, where homosexuality was the norm (the only alternative being asexuality) and children were conceived using artificial wombs and disembodied ova, struck you as a "trivial plot detail"?
Did you miss the relationship between Ethan and Ellie Quinn? Including the point that they were _attracted_ to one another?
I recently read a book that did indeed make a spaceship captain a lesbian. For no apparent reason other than to make pirate queen jokes as far as I can tell.
Who was it by? Mike Kupari... a Baen author and Larry "International Lord of Hate" Correia's co-author on _Dead Six_. But you'll never see the puppy-kickers mention it or him favorably, that's for sure.
(Book was _Her Brother's Keeper_)
Ringo prefers messing with the Romance awards; he got one for "Ghost", his military porn/actual BDSM porn novel.
Both Ringo and Weber have had female protagonists (Ringo with a female co-author in the Cally's War series). Weber has had several in the Honor Harrington series alone, including at least two who were the major focus of a novel (the eponymous Harrington, and Michele Henke). There's also Shannon Foraker, Eloise Pritchart, Alice Truman, and many others.
Correia writes a good range of B-movie fare, at least; Grimnoir to Dead Six to Monster Hunter. Certainly better than "Sharknado", but if you prefer your SF to be heavy, this ain't it.
Ringo isn't really to my taste; I'm not really into BDSM porn mixed with my SF (Ghost series), and the rest of his stuff gets really repetitive (Posleen and March to the... especially), it's almost as if he's being paid to crank out... oh, right, he is.
Yes, wrongfen having wrongfun. Ask George R.R. Martin, who claimed that the Puppies crashed someone else's party.
"Conspiracy" is an odd thing to call a campaign run on the public Internet.
It's an obvious response to "If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love". I imagine a lot of the Sads joined in the vote for it for that reason.
Last year's Sad Puppies had women on it too (and also some women removed at their own request). Annie Bellet, who is certainly not right-wing. Toni Weisskopf, Anne Sowards, Sheila Gilbert, Jennifer Brozek, Amanda green, Cedar Sanderson, Kary English.
But yes, it's a different group this year; different organizers, different methods.
Best I can tell, the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers coined it.
There is no middle. We've spent 16 years destroying it.
This is one of the few reasons it is good to live in New Jersey. Some newbie legislator proposes a plastic bag ban, claims it's good for the environment. The legislature has a little chuckle and one of his colleagues takes him aside and says "Look, I know you mean well, but this is New Jersey. Have you SEEN the environment? Covering the place with plastic bags could only be an improvement".
Then you put a few black pipes on the roof, run water through them on the way to your actual water heater, and call it a tax. First time it leaks it gets bypassed.