By a quirk of history, this particular culture won and imposed it customs on everyone else.
There's a societal down-side to polygamy, one that needs STRONG cultural overrides to prevent. If (presumably) richer men are allowed multiple wives, that means that there are fewer wives for the rest of the men. You then end up with an excess of unmarried, non-parental young adult men, and being married and a parent is usually a calming influence. These single men are usually the first in the streets if things take even a tiny down-turn. We still see this in Arabic countries which allow polygamy, as well as countries where there's an imbalance of men and women, such as China and India (one-child policies as well as gender-based abortions responsible.
Up until late 19th century, the age of sexual/marriage majority matched being a biological adult.
That works when age of menarche is around 16-17 as it was in England until about the 1850s. This meant that a woman who was old enough to have children was taller and more experienced. Larger families also meant she was likely to have helped raise and take care of siblings. The average age in the US is currently ~12.5. Not enough time to grow the whole body, and not likely to have a lot of experience raising siblings.
"you don't get a PD if you can't afford a lawyer."
And you wont be able to afford a lawyer because your assets have all just been seized. I have no fondness for drug dealers but this seems like a very dangerous twist to have in the law.
Well, once all your assets have been seized, YOU are destitute and will get the public defender. Your PD will encourage you to take the plea deal being offered, since the DA has likely thrown the book at you and told you to choose your poison.
Your assets, however, will need to pay for their OWN lawyer, and won't be able to since...
The police dept. responsible for the bust usually gets to keep the seized assets, so it's a money-maker for them.
I may be slightly OT, but is there any VALUE to a hearing by Congress? I can see the premise that they need to educate themselves about the facts before writing or voting on a bill, but it seems more and more that they've really only been used for political posturing (at best) or witch hunts at worst. I can understand a hearing for facts in advance of pending legislation, but these "fact findings" expeditions after major events tend to do nothing but stir up the base.
It's interesting. I'm an Ubuntu and Linux Mint user at home, but I can't really see value in having it on a phone. Although it would be nifty if I had a docking station at home and work where I could just drop my phone into it to use it as a more portable computer with a full monitor, keyboard and mouse when available, and the regular phone touch interface when on the go.
Sounds like Ubuntu For Android I've got a regular Galaxy Nexus, so external video isn't for me, but sounds good in principal.
When you're young, don't report the bug to the company in question or the authorities, report it to those that can make "good use" of them...It's just so win-win...
I've read that Google Chrome simply won't play them on Linux because of some recent changes Google made.
Yeah, Ubuntu 13.04 has a weird dependency problem - I think it's Ubuntu's fault because it worked fine in 12.10. Looks like someone found a workaround by downloading a.deb package from 12.10 and dropping it on 13.04.
As a bonus, a really enterprising sysadmin will use the (aggregate) empty desktop disk space as a de-centralized near-term backup solution. Mind you, it should never replace tapes, snapshots, etc, but...
If you can park encrypted copies of critical data around redundantly on every desktop, deny the use of that space to the desktop user, and do it in a way that's automated? Sweet.
Many years ago, a company named "Mangosoft" had a product named "Medley" which would do this.. Each user would allocate a certain amount of their disk drive to the "Medley" drive, and all of the users (up to 25 max) would share a really big drive together. Earlier versions of this technology worked by basically keeping two copies of every file, and moving a copy to the local drive of the last user who accessed it. If a machine holding a file went down (power, etc.) then the list of files it held would be pushed around from other working machines to always ensure duplicates are still around.
Current versions of this would probably be GlusterFS, Coda and Tahoe.
The Democrats are using the excuse that unless they have a filibuster-proof majority, then they can't even think about passing a budget.
A recent judicial nomination, by two Republican senators, had been blocked and sat for 263 days, only to pass 93-0. While not technically a "filibuster", neither was the Hagel delay (wink, wink). We just also confirmed a judge after 300 days, and another guy's been waiting over 330.
When it comes to Senate filibusters, we are no longer playing with rational actors.
Depending on how they implement the "no used games" feature, it may be contrary to European law. There was a ruling against Oracle last year saying it is perfectly fine to resell second-hand software:
However: in these newer cases, they're just making it really damn difficult to re-sell the game. They're not saying "You're not allowed", they're simply making it impossible to do.
If you were legally allowed to resell your car, but had to do a one-time calibration of your thumb to start the ignition (never to work again), they would be legally allowing you to resell the car, but physically preventing you from doing it.
It's a fine point, but one which they'll ride as long as they can.
It's true that the Post Office is required to pre-fund its pensions in a burdensome way. That doesn't change the fact that their current setup is not economic.
In a rational world, the post office would be allowed/encouraged to become the source for "all things communication" in a town. Data storage, ISP, public access terminals, fax machines, printers...
The fact that they aren't doing these things is just more evidence that Congress is keeping them in the buggy whip business. For-profit Kinkos/FedEx does some of these, but they aren't as common.
Curiously, it seems that while people who do owe money have certain rights when dealing with collections agencies, people who don't actually owe money don't seem to have quite the same level of protection from harassment.
I once had a Comcast cable running under my backyard. It wasn't very deep, and had surfaced above the lawn for a good three foot stretch. Every time I mowed the lawn, I would either have to get around the thing, or nick it. Sadly, Comcast ignored my calls for five years, essentially since I wasn't a customer or a prospect. Every call would go nowhere because I didn't fit into their system. I finally got results when I saw a Comcast van in the neighbor's driveway and dragged the guy to my yard.
Similarly: I had a coworker once who kept getting the newspaper delivered to their driveway every day - but they weren't paying for it. They found it to be annoying litter (go out every day and throw out the paper) and a security problem as they had to arrange a neighbor to dispose of the paper if they went on vacation. It took them about a year to stop the paper from getting delivered.
The US should have been building the fiber lines based around a munipal/county model much the way most water/sewer systems work
I used to live in a town that brought up such a measure to a referendum. Leading up to the vote, there was so much disinformation (coming in scary, B/W postcards) coming from the entrenched phone and cable companies that they never stood a chance. Something along the lines of "DID YOU KNOW THAT YOUR TOWN WILL STICK YOU WITH A SIX MILLION DOLLAR BILL FOR A RISKY VENTURE?" I don't think they were offering to lease out the lines, but that would be moot since the existing companies had their own lines and didn't want additional competition. What made it worse was that the vote was scheduled during an "off-year" (non-presidential election). Those tend to have smaller turn-out, and older voters.
Keep telling yourself that. You clearly have no idea that "Republican" is not a synonym of "conservative".
Point taken - I had combined the two. To be fair, however, the American Republican party has taken the mantle of "conservative" and wrapped themselves in it, even if they're not all sure what it means, either. I used to think that their goal was to take us back to the '50s, but lately it's seemed more and more like the 1850s.
The bulb backlash is driven mostly by a political divide. The US is very much a two-faction country, politically - the liberals and the conservatives, represented by their respective political parties. Environmental causes have long been seen as a very liberal thing, so those on the conservative faction feel they are obliged to downplay the issue and oppose any solution.
Funny enough, environmental causes USED TO BE a conservative position. The EPA, for example, happened on Nixon's watch. Of course, neither Nixon nor Reagan would survive a Republican primary today. Today's US conservative movement might be more accurately called "reactionary", they're so far to the right. A US liberal would be center-right in Europe.
Funny how these sorts of lawsuits pay to...not those who were damaged....
It could be worse. The usual penalty in similar cases (at least class action suits and settlements) is that current customers are all sent a coupon worth a discount on some future purchase, one that they likely wouldn't make anyway.
Certainly not a disinterested source, but the local bar association usually has a list of the judges and recommendations FOR or AGAINST many of them. I just saw the one from the Chicago Bar Association, and most of the votes were "Yes" (retain) with a few exception.
Since the bar represents the attorneys who deal with the judges on a regular basis, I figure they likely have the most experience with judges. You can usually do a quick Google on their "no" suggestions and find plenty of juicy stories (sleeping, shouting, capricious rulings, etc.)
Generally: in the absence of information on a topic, leave it blank.
I always liked the FITALY keyboard on the old Palm Pilots for single finger/stylus entry. Letters were arranged the common letters in the middle (e, n) and they get progressively less common as you move out. It minimizes the amount of travel of the input device.
A little part of me wants to see it hit a wall, just to keep us guessing.
There was a radio play for "Dimension X" in the 50s that had this as a plot. "No Contact" by Ernest Kinoy.
Earth had sent out multiple manned ships to interstellar space to investigate and pass a weird barrier which bounces back radio signals; each ship before the story had dropped from communication once they crossed the barrier. The ship ("lead-lined") in the tale passes through the barrier without a problem, only to discover that an alien race has capturing the ships passing the barrier; they had already thoroughly infiltrated Earth and blended in, and were busy sabotaging the ships crossing the barrier as well as intercepting communications Earth-side.
However: this Saturday is "National Free Comic Book Day" in the US and parts of the world. Be sure to visit a local comic book store. Or a library - some have special events. One year, our local library actually had some of the Top Shelf authors/artists on-site. They made recommendations based on interests and age, and even signed the issues they were handing out.
That is true, however politicians and bureaucrats really like having a way to receive bribes that don't leave a paper trail. Which impulse will win out in the end?
I think the "yes, paper trail" will win. The fact is, the laws don't apply to them anyway, and this will be another one. If the former minority leader (current majority leader) of US Congress can hand out checks from tobacco companies to members right there on the floor before a vote, then a little thing like a "bribe trail" won't matter.
But: up against the wall for you if you decide to barter a little computer repair work to get your lawn mowed.
Mankind was always a bunch of horny perverts, it's just you were a blind fool before. The internet makes us better people, in part by showing moralistic fools that they are wrong about what most people do.
The contrary to that argument that I've heard is that the internet has led to an INCREASE in whack-a-doodles, for a similar reason.
In days of old, if you were a nutter who believed that the President of the US was a radical Christian-Muslim-Socialist, or that he wasn't born in this country contrary to every shred of evidence to the contrary (or any other crazy, conspiracy theory out there in general), you were often alone in your town in those beliefs. You may have held those thoughts, but usually kept them to yourself as nobody shared them with you.
But, with the advent of everyone getting a soap box, you can find like-minded folks everywhere in the world. You are no longer alone in your beliefs and you are suddenly validated. You may even find a gang of crazies in a basement (or compound) not too far from your house. Meetings on Tuesdays!
Yes, the fact that we now have this nearly instant, world-wide communication means we can see the extremes that are happening around us and shun them, whereas they were previously in the 'dark corners', but it also cuts both ways.
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By a quirk of history, this particular culture won and imposed it customs on everyone else.
There's a societal down-side to polygamy, one that needs STRONG cultural overrides to prevent. If (presumably) richer men are allowed multiple wives, that means that there are fewer wives for the rest of the men. You then end up with an excess of unmarried, non-parental young adult men, and being married and a parent is usually a calming influence. These single men are usually the first in the streets if things take even a tiny down-turn. We still see this in Arabic countries which allow polygamy, as well as countries where there's an imbalance of men and women, such as China and India (one-child policies as well as gender-based abortions responsible.
Up until late 19th century, the age of sexual/marriage majority matched being a biological adult.
That works when age of menarche is around 16-17 as it was in England until about the 1850s. This meant that a woman who was old enough to have children was taller and more experienced. Larger families also meant she was likely to have helped raise and take care of siblings. The average age in the US is currently ~12.5. Not enough time to grow the whole body, and not likely to have a lot of experience raising siblings.
"you don't get a PD if you can't afford a lawyer."
And you wont be able to afford a lawyer because your assets have all just been seized. I have no fondness for drug dealers but this seems like a very dangerous twist to have in the law.
Well, once all your assets have been seized, YOU are destitute and will get the public defender. Your PD will encourage you to take the plea deal being offered, since the DA has likely thrown the book at you and told you to choose your poison.
Your assets, however, will need to pay for their OWN lawyer, and won't be able to since ...
The police dept. responsible for the bust usually gets to keep the seized assets, so it's a money-maker for them.
I may be slightly OT, but is there any VALUE to a hearing by Congress? I can see the premise that they need to educate themselves about the facts before writing or voting on a bill, but it seems more and more that they've really only been used for political posturing (at best) or witch hunts at worst. I can understand a hearing for facts in advance of pending legislation, but these "fact findings" expeditions after major events tend to do nothing but stir up the base.
It's interesting. I'm an Ubuntu and Linux Mint user at home, but I can't really see value in having it on a phone. Although it would be nifty if I had a docking station at home and work where I could just drop my phone into it to use it as a more portable computer with a full monitor, keyboard and mouse when available, and the regular phone touch interface when on the go.
Sounds like Ubuntu For Android I've got a regular Galaxy Nexus, so external video isn't for me, but sounds good in principal.
When you're young, don't report the bug to the company in question or the authorities, report it to those that can make "good use" of them...It's just so win-win...
Yes, this comment was by the "Opportunist".
Yeah, Ubuntu 13.04 has a weird dependency problem - I think it's Ubuntu's fault because it worked fine in 12.10. Looks like someone found a workaround by downloading a .deb package from 12.10 and dropping it on 13.04.
As a bonus, a really enterprising sysadmin will use the (aggregate) empty desktop disk space as a de-centralized near-term backup solution. Mind you, it should never replace tapes, snapshots, etc, but...
If you can park encrypted copies of critical data around redundantly on every desktop, deny the use of that space to the desktop user, and do it in a way that's automated? Sweet.
Many years ago, a company named "Mangosoft" had a product named "Medley" which would do this.. Each user would allocate a certain amount of their disk drive to the "Medley" drive, and all of the users (up to 25 max) would share a really big drive together. Earlier versions of this technology worked by basically keeping two copies of every file, and moving a copy to the local drive of the last user who accessed it. If a machine holding a file went down (power, etc.) then the list of files it held would be pushed around from other working machines to always ensure duplicates are still around.
Current versions of this would probably be GlusterFS, Coda and Tahoe.
PROTIP: It isn't a "very special case" to get 3 coplanar bodies.
Right, it's impossible. In the real world, nothing lines up that perfectly. PROTIP: Don't be an asshole and others won't treat you like one.
GP's point is that three bodies DEFINE a plane. They're always coplanar. It's the fourth body that gets you in trouble.
A recent judicial nomination, by two Republican senators, had been blocked and sat for 263 days, only to pass 93-0. While not technically a "filibuster", neither was the Hagel delay (wink, wink). We just also confirmed a judge after 300 days, and another guy's been waiting over 330.
When it comes to Senate filibusters, we are no longer playing with rational actors.
Depending on how they implement the "no used games" feature, it may be contrary to European law. There was a ruling against Oracle last year saying it is perfectly fine to resell second-hand software:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-09-16/second-hand-software-sales-set-to-soar-on-oracle-ruling
However: in these newer cases, they're just making it really damn difficult to re-sell the game. They're not saying "You're not allowed", they're simply making it impossible to do.
If you were legally allowed to resell your car, but had to do a one-time calibration of your thumb to start the ignition (never to work again), they would be legally allowing you to resell the car, but physically preventing you from doing it.
It's a fine point, but one which they'll ride as long as they can.
It's true that the Post Office is required to pre-fund its pensions in a burdensome way. That doesn't change the fact that their current setup is not economic.
In a rational world, the post office would be allowed/encouraged to become the source for "all things communication" in a town. Data storage, ISP, public access terminals, fax machines, printers...
The fact that they aren't doing these things is just more evidence that Congress is keeping them in the buggy whip business. For-profit Kinkos/FedEx does some of these, but they aren't as common.
I once had a Comcast cable running under my backyard. It wasn't very deep, and had surfaced above the lawn for a good three foot stretch. Every time I mowed the lawn, I would either have to get around the thing, or nick it. Sadly, Comcast ignored my calls for five years, essentially since I wasn't a customer or a prospect. Every call would go nowhere because I didn't fit into their system. I finally got results when I saw a Comcast van in the neighbor's driveway and dragged the guy to my yard.
Similarly: I had a coworker once who kept getting the newspaper delivered to their driveway every day - but they weren't paying for it. They found it to be annoying litter (go out every day and throw out the paper) and a security problem as they had to arrange a neighbor to dispose of the paper if they went on vacation. It took them about a year to stop the paper from getting delivered.
I used to live in a town that brought up such a measure to a referendum. Leading up to the vote, there was so much disinformation (coming in scary, B/W postcards) coming from the entrenched phone and cable companies that they never stood a chance. Something along the lines of "DID YOU KNOW THAT YOUR TOWN WILL STICK YOU WITH A SIX MILLION DOLLAR BILL FOR A RISKY VENTURE?" I don't think they were offering to lease out the lines, but that would be moot since the existing companies had their own lines and didn't want additional competition. What made it worse was that the vote was scheduled during an "off-year" (non-presidential election). Those tend to have smaller turn-out, and older voters.
Keep telling yourself that. You clearly have no idea that "Republican" is not a synonym of "conservative".
Point taken - I had combined the two. To be fair, however, the American Republican party has taken the mantle of "conservative" and wrapped themselves in it, even if they're not all sure what it means, either. I used to think that their goal was to take us back to the '50s, but lately it's seemed more and more like the 1850s.
The new number is so easy to remember! It's a dandy jingle, 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
Thanks for that. Now I'm stuck with the song in my head and will have to watch the vid.
The bulb backlash is driven mostly by a political divide. The US is very much a two-faction country, politically - the liberals and the conservatives, represented by their respective political parties. Environmental causes have long been seen as a very liberal thing, so those on the conservative faction feel they are obliged to downplay the issue and oppose any solution.
Funny enough, environmental causes USED TO BE a conservative position. The EPA, for example, happened on Nixon's watch. Of course, neither Nixon nor Reagan would survive a Republican primary today. Today's US conservative movement might be more accurately called "reactionary", they're so far to the right. A US liberal would be center-right in Europe.
Funny how these sorts of lawsuits pay to...not those who were damaged....
It could be worse. The usual penalty in similar cases (at least class action suits and settlements) is that current customers are all sent a coupon worth a discount on some future purchase, one that they likely wouldn't make anyway.
Certainly not a disinterested source, but the local bar association usually has a list of the judges and recommendations FOR or AGAINST many of them. I just saw the one from the Chicago Bar Association, and most of the votes were "Yes" (retain) with a few exception.
Since the bar represents the attorneys who deal with the judges on a regular basis, I figure they likely have the most experience with judges. You can usually do a quick Google on their "no" suggestions and find plenty of juicy stories (sleeping, shouting, capricious rulings, etc.)
Generally: in the absence of information on a topic, leave it blank.
I always liked the FITALY keyboard on the old Palm Pilots for single finger/stylus entry. Letters were arranged the common letters in the middle (e, n) and they get progressively less common as you move out. It minimizes the amount of travel of the input device.
Ah, but will the insurance companies deny these claims like they have in the past?
There was a radio play for "Dimension X" in the 50s that had this as a plot. "No Contact" by Ernest Kinoy.
Earth had sent out multiple manned ships to interstellar space to investigate and pass a weird barrier which bounces back radio signals; each ship before the story had dropped from communication once they crossed the barrier. The ship ("lead-lined") in the tale passes through the barrier without a problem, only to discover that an alien race has capturing the ships passing the barrier; they had already thoroughly infiltrated Earth and blended in, and were busy sabotaging the ships crossing the barrier as well as intercepting communications Earth-side.
However: this Saturday is "National Free Comic Book Day" in the US and parts of the world. Be sure to visit a local comic book store. Or a library - some have special events. One year, our local library actually had some of the Top Shelf authors/artists on-site. They made recommendations based on interests and age, and even signed the issues they were handing out.
I think the "yes, paper trail" will win. The fact is, the laws don't apply to them anyway, and this will be another one. If the former minority leader (current majority leader) of US Congress can hand out checks from tobacco companies to members right there on the floor before a vote, then a little thing like a "bribe trail" won't matter.
But: up against the wall for you if you decide to barter a little computer repair work to get your lawn mowed.
I foresee a market it downloadable "engine-tunes". Make your car sound like a V8, an I4, or even a Harley.
Personally, I'd still go for "silent", but I DID get a kick out of the roar of the engine in the Taurus that RoboCop drove.
The contrary to that argument that I've heard is that the internet has led to an INCREASE in whack-a-doodles, for a similar reason.
In days of old, if you were a nutter who believed that the President of the US was a radical Christian-Muslim-Socialist, or that he wasn't born in this country contrary to every shred of evidence to the contrary (or any other crazy, conspiracy theory out there in general), you were often alone in your town in those beliefs. You may have held those thoughts, but usually kept them to yourself as nobody shared them with you.
But, with the advent of everyone getting a soap box, you can find like-minded folks everywhere in the world. You are no longer alone in your beliefs and you are suddenly validated. You may even find a gang of crazies in a basement (or compound) not too far from your house. Meetings on Tuesdays!
Yes, the fact that we now have this nearly instant, world-wide communication means we can see the extremes that are happening around us and shun them, whereas they were previously in the 'dark corners', but it also cuts both ways.