Apparently violence is bad, but shitting and pissing on someone in a porno is A-OK. I could wrong though, perhaps I wasn't watching German porn so much as it was the German version of the School House Rock segment on how the government works.
For those that have no clue about Canada's current political situation, the governing Conversative party holds minority power, less than 50% of the seats in Parliament, and as such requires the votes of the other parties, the NDP, the Liberals or the Bloq Quebecois, to pass any legislation. The Liberals, which have the largest number of seats after the Conservatives, have also just elected a new, dynamic leader to head their party and he is out for blood. So, regardless of the legislation that is introduced it is going to be amended when the bill heads to committee (second reading), if it even gets that far. Once the bill heads to committee look for it to be sliced and diced by the opposition if for no other reason than to earn some political points with the public. A similar situation occured when the Liberals amended the Conservatives much vaunted crime reform bill and watered down or removed key sections of the legislation.
Stephen Dion, the new Liberal leader, has also indicated that he will not co-operate with the Conservatives on any legislative initiatives and has intimated that he will vote to bring down the government on the next confidence motion and force an election. So we may not even make it that far.
Hey motherfuckers at Monster Cable: bigger isn't always better. Those assholes have driven up the price of HDMI and DVI cables to ridiculous levels thanks to arrangements with major electronics retailers to carry or feature their cables exclusively.
You have to remember that many times Jamie and Adam are looking for aggregate effects and not the minute differences that professional scientists are looking to find. A lot of professional science is attmepting to increase the resolution or accuracy of previous experiments. Hurricanes and straw, crashing cars, exploding cell phones, most of these experiments are more concerned with specificity than sensitivity, i.e. whether a particular event does or does not occur rather than to what degree.
Just like science, the methods Jamie and Adam have used over the years have improved as have the certainty of their results.
They may not have all the glamour of a white lab coat and a zillion dollar lab, but Adam and Jamie have put together some rather credible experiments.
For example, with the helium football myth, where a football filled with helium apparently will kick farther than one filled with air, they took a collection of standard footballs into a large indoor room to eliminate the effect of wind and kicked and threw them in customized machines to eliminate any human bias, then took their collected data to a professional statistician to analyze it all. I don't think a professional scientist could have conducted the experiment any better than they did. Besides, when is actually testing a hypothesis and designing an experiment to elimnate bias not science? I agree that Adam and Jamie sometimes take liberties with bias and method, but at least they have the balls to test some of these urban myths and not just yap about them.
Mythbusters has come a long way from their first episodes and while I don't always agree with some of the logical shortcuts they take, I think overall they do a credible job.
...when they said "the next generation doesn't start until we say it does." Well, we're still waiting.
Maybe the next patch will be the start of next generation gaming. Or the patch after that. Hey, somewhere in there the next generation will definitely start.
There is absolutely no question his speech is protected on a public sidewalk, but the question turns on the student's status as under the care and duty of the school or not. Either way, the school will have a tough time justifying the censorship of non-disruptive yet potentially offensive speech
If the court finds that the student was not in the care of the school, well, I think it pretty much ends there as there is absolutely no way the court will allow the school to censor otherwise protected speech, nonsensical or not, made on a student's own time.
I hope the SCOTUS finds that the student was under the care of the school, because then the court will have to examine the issue of student speech, the often critcized Hazelwood decision. Perhaps with a better microscope this time.
Trouble, oh we got trouble, Right here in River City! With a capital "T" That rhymes with "C" And that stands for Cellular, That stands for Cellular. We've surely got trouble! Right here in River City, Right here! Gotta figger out a way To keep those signals away! Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble...
My copy of "Daito Giken Premium PACHISURO Collection Yoshimune" won't work on my new PS3. I am pissed. Um, could anyone tell me what "Daito Giken Premium PACHISURO Collection Yoshimune" translates to in English? Thanks.
A song that sells for $.70 wholesale should not automatically trigger damages of $750 if the same song is "stolen" or misappropriated. If I understand correctly, his Due Process argument is that the damages are grossly disproportionate to the loss, 70 cents or so. Another example would be if a car is valued at $10,000 and is somehow damaged or stolen, the raw value of goods stolen or damaged is $10,000, the cost of the car, not some arbitrary amount set by law.
So there isn't any compelling must have Christmas gadget this year, well, that is readily available (I am talking to you PS3). Boo hoo. How about sitting around the Christmas dinner table with your family and friends and give thanks for your good health, good friends, a place to live, a job and a full stomach?
Since I became an adult I am far less worried about what gifts I receive at Christmas and far more thankful for the gifts I already have. Not all gifts come wrapped in pretty paper and bows.
I was reading an editorial in a trade magazine at work a few months ago on the RIM patent case with NTP and where things would go now that RIM had settled. The article suggested that NTP's next target would be Palm and then went on to explain their rationale and that NTP had stirred the pot perhaps a bit too much as many of their patents were up for re-examination.
I hope for once that NTP gets their ass handed to them when they have no patents left to assert in court, but that's wishful thinking. The Slashdot legal delusion field has me hoping that Palm can counter sue for tortious interference or whatever the legal term is.
As the other poster said, the check on power is that if the judge is making bad decisions, they won't get re-elected.
Therein lies the problem, the decision to keep or unseat a judge is a political decision, not a legal one. If Judge Hardass campaigns on the issue of prayer in schools and everyone elects him and he rules in favor of school prayer in every case, how is that supposed to benefit a supposedly independant judiciary? There is no "check" for a popular judge that continues to be elected and yet ignores the law, other than a reversal of the decision in a higher court.
I've never understood why some jurisdictions of the United States elect local judges. What are the prerequisits, such as a law degree, and what is the justification in politicising the judiciary? What are the checks and balances to a judge who simply rules cases strictly on his personal beliefs and not the law?
Anyway, I don't get it and it seems like system that is ripe for abuse.
You're right it was a basket of some sort. Oops. I recall that it was also featured in a Six Million Dollar Man episode when agents attempted to sabotage a Saturn rocket and they had to evacuate.
Fishermen captured the four-finned dolphin alive off the coast of Wakayama prefecture (state) in western Japan on Oct. 28, and alerted the nearby Taiji Whaling Museum, according to museum director Katsuki Hayashi.
Anyone considered that dolphins are growing hind limbs so they can go ashore to capture a few Japanese to take back to their Hominid Museum?
I couldn't tell you if this system was developed before or after the Apollo 1 fire, but there was a launch tower escape system that consisted of a guy wire to the ground. In an emergency the crew would evac to a tower platform and into a harness, down the guy wire and into a block house. While not as sexy a high tech roller coaster, thanks to its simplicity probably more reliable. Why make things more complex than they need to be? I tried to find some information on the web but came up empty handed.
This system is not to be confused with the Launch Escape System that sat atop the capsule, which was a couple of small rockets intended to pull the capsule away from the main rocket assembly either on the pad or in flight if there was a catastrophic failure.
The first two pages covered the basics of the game. At the bottom of page two they warn you that the next few pages will reveal spoilers for the game. But you know what, the game averages 70 God damn hours of play time. If even if you've read every review and every spoiler for the game there is no way you could not be surprised given the sheer length of the game.
Next time skip the reviews and just buy the fucking game. You're going to buy it anyway.
In Canada ballots have only 3 or 4 party names listed. Its easy to count those.
It depends entirely upon riding (think district in Ameican political speak), but when I lived in Vancouver the particular riding I voted in had 12 parties listed: New Democrat, Christian Heritage, Marijuana Party, etc. Civic elections are just as tedious as some American cities with some 30 or 40 names on the ballot, depending on the city. I completely disagree with your assertion that voting machines are magically more precise than paper ballots and humans. Having worked as a scrutineer (poll worker) during an election here in Canada I can tell you that we have a number of mechanisms to ensure an accurate count including cross checks, but the most important being transparency. Anyone can and often do watch the election workers as they scruntize the votes in the polling place and phone the results into the elections office. Twenty minutes after the polls closed we were on our way home.
There is no reason paper balloting wouldn't work in the U.S. and it only lacks the politcal will. That said, I believe the best technologically sound system, since Americans seem so enamoured with technology, is the scannable paper ballot you mentioned. It retains all of the advantages of paper -- transparency and verifiability -- with the speed of technology. It's a win-win solution.
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It's written 'Mac', not 'MAC'. Writing it as Mac is one of those rediculous typing errors memes that seen to plague teh interweb.
"rediculous". "seen" (sic). "teh"? Oh, the irony of your little diatribe is just killing me.
Apparently violence is bad, but shitting and pissing on someone in a porno is A-OK. I could wrong though, perhaps I wasn't watching German porn so much as it was the German version of the School House Rock segment on how the government works.
For those that have no clue about Canada's current political situation, the governing Conversative party holds minority power, less than 50% of the seats in Parliament, and as such requires the votes of the other parties, the NDP, the Liberals or the Bloq Quebecois, to pass any legislation. The Liberals, which have the largest number of seats after the Conservatives, have also just elected a new, dynamic leader to head their party and he is out for blood. So, regardless of the legislation that is introduced it is going to be amended when the bill heads to committee (second reading), if it even gets that far. Once the bill heads to committee look for it to be sliced and diced by the opposition if for no other reason than to earn some political points with the public. A similar situation occured when the Liberals amended the Conservatives much vaunted crime reform bill and watered down or removed key sections of the legislation.
Stephen Dion, the new Liberal leader, has also indicated that he will not co-operate with the Conservatives on any legislative initiatives and has intimated that he will vote to bring down the government on the next confidence motion and force an election. So we may not even make it that far.
Don't hold your breath on this passing.
Hey motherfuckers at Monster Cable: bigger isn't always better. Those assholes have driven up the price of HDMI and DVI cables to ridiculous levels thanks to arrangements with major electronics retailers to carry or feature their cables exclusively.
Anyway, suck it.
You have to remember that many times Jamie and Adam are looking for aggregate effects and not the minute differences that professional scientists are looking to find. A lot of professional science is attmepting to increase the resolution or accuracy of previous experiments. Hurricanes and straw, crashing cars, exploding cell phones, most of these experiments are more concerned with specificity than sensitivity, i.e. whether a particular event does or does not occur rather than to what degree.
Just like science, the methods Jamie and Adam have used over the years have improved as have the certainty of their results.
They may not have all the glamour of a white lab coat and a zillion dollar lab, but Adam and Jamie have put together some rather credible experiments.
For example, with the helium football myth, where a football filled with helium apparently will kick farther than one filled with air, they took a collection of standard footballs into a large indoor room to eliminate the effect of wind and kicked and threw them in customized machines to eliminate any human bias, then took their collected data to a professional statistician to analyze it all. I don't think a professional scientist could have conducted the experiment any better than they did. Besides, when is actually testing a hypothesis and designing an experiment to elimnate bias not science? I agree that Adam and Jamie sometimes take liberties with bias and method, but at least they have the balls to test some of these urban myths and not just yap about them.
Mythbusters has come a long way from their first episodes and while I don't always agree with some of the logical shortcuts they take, I think overall they do a credible job.
...when they said "the next generation doesn't start until we say it does." Well, we're still waiting.
Maybe the next patch will be the start of next generation gaming. Or the patch after that. Hey, somewhere in there the next generation will definitely start.
There is absolutely no question his speech is protected on a public sidewalk, but the question turns on the student's status as under the care and duty of the school or not. Either way, the school will have a tough time justifying the censorship of non-disruptive yet potentially offensive speech
If the court finds that the student was not in the care of the school, well, I think it pretty much ends there as there is absolutely no way the court will allow the school to censor otherwise protected speech, nonsensical or not, made on a student's own time.
I hope the SCOTUS finds that the student was under the care of the school, because then the court will have to examine the issue of student speech, the often critcized Hazelwood decision. Perhaps with a better microscope this time.
Trouble, oh we got trouble,
Right here in River City!
With a capital "T"
That rhymes with "C"
And that stands for Cellular,
That stands for Cellular.
We've surely got trouble!
Right here in River City,
Right here!
Gotta figger out a way
To keep those signals away!
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble...
except you're having it.
You're sure you're not confusing it with that game you play with your next door neighbor, Mrs. Stifler?
My copy of "Daito Giken Premium PACHISURO Collection Yoshimune" won't work on my new PS3. I am pissed. Um, could anyone tell me what "Daito Giken Premium PACHISURO Collection Yoshimune" translates to in English? Thanks.
You mean 40,000 happy customers, 40,000 happy eBay sellers and 40,000 happy, although poorer, eBay purchasers.
A song that sells for $.70 wholesale should not automatically trigger damages of $750 if the same song is "stolen" or misappropriated. If I understand correctly, his Due Process argument is that the damages are grossly disproportionate to the loss, 70 cents or so. Another example would be if a car is valued at $10,000 and is somehow damaged or stolen, the raw value of goods stolen or damaged is $10,000, the cost of the car, not some arbitrary amount set by law.
Fool him once, shame..shame on...you. Fool him twice...won't get shamed again.
So there isn't any compelling must have Christmas gadget this year, well, that is readily available (I am talking to you PS3). Boo hoo. How about sitting around the Christmas dinner table with your family and friends and give thanks for your good health, good friends, a place to live, a job and a full stomach?
Since I became an adult I am far less worried about what gifts I receive at Christmas and far more thankful for the gifts I already have. Not all gifts come wrapped in pretty paper and bows.
Merry Christmas!
I was reading an editorial in a trade magazine at work a few months ago on the RIM patent case with NTP and where things would go now that RIM had settled. The article suggested that NTP's next target would be Palm and then went on to explain their rationale and that NTP had stirred the pot perhaps a bit too much as many of their patents were up for re-examination.
I hope for once that NTP gets their ass handed to them when they have no patents left to assert in court, but that's wishful thinking. The Slashdot legal delusion field has me hoping that Palm can counter sue for tortious interference or whatever the legal term is.
As the other poster said, the check on power is that if the judge is making bad decisions, they won't get re-elected.
Therein lies the problem, the decision to keep or unseat a judge is a political decision, not a legal one. If Judge Hardass campaigns on the issue of prayer in schools and everyone elects him and he rules in favor of school prayer in every case, how is that supposed to benefit a supposedly independant judiciary? There is no "check" for a popular judge that continues to be elected and yet ignores the law, other than a reversal of the decision in a higher court.
I've never understood why some jurisdictions of the United States elect local judges. What are the prerequisits, such as a law degree, and what is the justification in politicising the judiciary? What are the checks and balances to a judge who simply rules cases strictly on his personal beliefs and not the law?
Anyway, I don't get it and it seems like system that is ripe for abuse.
and did anyone tell the blind dude? They can just move their operation to the VLA in New Mexico, I guess.
You're right it was a basket of some sort. Oops. I recall that it was also featured in a Six Million Dollar Man episode when agents attempted to sabotage a Saturn rocket and they had to evacuate.
Fishermen captured the four-finned dolphin alive off the coast of Wakayama prefecture (state) in western Japan on Oct. 28, and alerted the nearby Taiji Whaling Museum, according to museum director Katsuki Hayashi.
Anyone considered that dolphins are growing hind limbs so they can go ashore to capture a few Japanese to take back to their Hominid Museum?
I couldn't tell you if this system was developed before or after the Apollo 1 fire, but there was a launch tower escape system that consisted of a guy wire to the ground. In an emergency the crew would evac to a tower platform and into a harness, down the guy wire and into a block house. While not as sexy a high tech roller coaster, thanks to its simplicity probably more reliable. Why make things more complex than they need to be? I tried to find some information on the web but came up empty handed.
This system is not to be confused with the Launch Escape System that sat atop the capsule, which was a couple of small rockets intended to pull the capsule away from the main rocket assembly either on the pad or in flight if there was a catastrophic failure.
The first two pages covered the basics of the game. At the bottom of page two they warn you that the next few pages will reveal spoilers for the game. But you know what, the game averages 70 God damn hours of play time. If even if you've read every review and every spoiler for the game there is no way you could not be surprised given the sheer length of the game.
Next time skip the reviews and just buy the fucking game. You're going to buy it anyway.
In Canada ballots have only 3 or 4 party names listed. Its easy to count those.
It depends entirely upon riding (think district in Ameican political speak), but when I lived in Vancouver the particular riding I voted in had 12 parties listed: New Democrat, Christian Heritage, Marijuana Party, etc. Civic elections are just as tedious as some American cities with some 30 or 40 names on the ballot, depending on the city. I completely disagree with your assertion that voting machines are magically more precise than paper ballots and humans. Having worked as a scrutineer (poll worker) during an election here in Canada I can tell you that we have a number of mechanisms to ensure an accurate count including cross checks, but the most important being transparency. Anyone can and often do watch the election workers as they scruntize the votes in the polling place and phone the results into the elections office. Twenty minutes after the polls closed we were on our way home.
There is no reason paper balloting wouldn't work in the U.S. and it only lacks the politcal will. That said, I believe the best technologically sound system, since Americans seem so enamoured with technology, is the scannable paper ballot you mentioned. It retains all of the advantages of paper -- transparency and verifiability -- with the speed of technology. It's a win-win solution.