This is the George Carlin argument: It's not the word that's the problem, it's the racist who's saying the word that's the problem. That's why it's much more ok for Paul Mooney to say it than it is for David Duke to say it.
US history is particularly subject to ret-conning, at least in the US. That's because a lot of folks can't stomach the idea that their country was founded on the very intentional and institutionalized genocide of one group of people and the enslavement of another. Particularly those who's ancestors fought and in some cases died for those causes of genocide and slavery have a hard time dealing with it. And yet it happened, and not acknowledging it happens leads to all sorts of trouble today, over a century after the actual evil is over.
For instance, when the press interviewed attendees of the Secession Ball in South Carolina, not one of them acknowledged that the rights that South Carolina was fighting for was the right to own slaves.
I'm not sure they're that confident in their evidence. Nor should they be - they did a study, they publish their findings, lots of other scientists either put down rebuttals (as has already happened), or repeat the study and see if it's accurate enough to be true. That's the way science is supposed to work.
What's not supposed to happen is "Scientist A does an apparently sound study that appears to demonstrate something that scientists B,C, and D consider silly, and scientists B, C, and D stop scientist A's work from ever seeing the light of day."
Skimping on line and generator maintenance in an attempt to boost profits, but which knocks out power for a significant section of the Northeast US and Canada when the chickens come home to roost. (All completely hypothetical, of course)
It's in the final stages of a social networking site: where the investors, including some big outside investment firms, try to "monetize" the user base by pulling out all the stops with ads, apps, and selling people's personal information. All that needs to happen is some plucky college kid making his own social networking site, just for his friends on campus, as a way to stay away from all the sillyness of Facebook, and Facebook will collapse within a couple of years. Just like MySpace did.
No, that's actually a misprint. It's actually The Great Conjugation, an event in which all possible verb forms in all known languages are spelled out and used correctly in a sentence.
It should be pointed out that the various social observations that have often been termed 'Laws' are not always true. For instance, Parkinson's Law states that work expands to fill the time and resources available. It's usually true. But sometimes, it's not, because it's trying to describe something about a system that nobody's been able to fully explain, specifically how an organization / business / bureaucracy actually functions.
That doesn't make them useless, but it does mean you have to treat them as trends rather than absolutes.
The whole reason Google rose to dominance was that 10 years ago it was doing a far better job of hiding the spam results than its now-mostly-defunct major competitors. Since then, spammers, scammers, and pranksters have been trying to game the results, often with noticeable effects.
Hence my parenthetical comment that it can make a difference regarding whether those rights are violated. And I'm fine with disagreeing with SCOTUS on whether civil forfeiture is in fact a violation of constitutional rights, I say yes, because it's depriving somebody of property without due process.
"All suspects are guilty. Period. Otherwise, they wouldn't be suspect!"
That's also why I was wondering about why it at all matters what the defendants are charged with. Your constitutional rights don't change based on what you're accused of (although it can make a difference regarding whether those rights are violated, e.g. terrorism accusations).
It's worth mentioning that wealthy slackers consume far more goods and services than impoverished slackers. A wealthy slacker uses several nice homes, eats lots of fine meals, sees the best entertainment, etc etc. A impoverished slacker uses a small apartment,a bus seat on occasion, and some basic food.
If you think about it in terms of resources rather than dollars, which is more immoral: producing nothing and consuming a great deal, or producing nothing and consuming enough to keep alive?
They can't dump the responsibility on the patient, especially by shoving an informed consent form under his hand in the 15 minutes before surgery.
Oh yes they can (legally speaking), and as long as it's profitable for them to do so they're going to do exactly that. That's the problem with a health care system driven by the profit motive - actually caring for patients well is highly unprofitable.
3 cheers for checklists! My sister is studying nursing right now. Those checklists are life-savers.
I also have friends who are or recently have been medical residents. That kind of pressure, with shifts that last well over 12 hours, is quite simply an abusive labor practice.
No, that's what Silvio wants them to do. His goal is to eliminate major public venues in Italy that can be critical of him, he does most of that by owning the mass media, but he doesn't (and probably can't) buy Google. So if nobody in Italy can access Youtube, from Berlusconi's point of view the problem is solved.
As long as colleges are partially publicly funded (via both direct funding of public universities and colleges, and all the various federal grant and loan programs) there is a public interest here in doing everything we can to make sure students are making the most of the opportunity so that the public is getting its money's worth.
That said, you're depressingly correct that students who don't want to learn won't. My view on that is that we need to get rid of those students as quickly as they can be identified, so that others who could do much more with those learning opportunities will have the chance to show their stuff.
Heck, not only that, but a good portion of the classical Greek literature goes away too. Homer and Hesiod? Gone, because of the sibling incest between Zeus and Hera. Sophocles and Aeschelus? Gone, because of the 2 most famous instances of parent-child incest (Oedipus and Electra) in all of literature.
Yes, anyone who's seriously scared that that scenario will happen should run around flailing their arms. This has 2 major benefits: 1. The non-idiots can identify the idiots more easily. 2. The idiots are too busy flailing their arms to cause any real damage.
The UN would probably not consider short-term solitary to be torture. The alleged torture in this case is that Manning is being held under intentionally stressful conditions for 7 months and counting.
The reason for this is that they're trying to convince him to testify that Julian Assange induced him to give the documents he had access to to Wikileaks. That testimony would be necessary to charge Assange with a crime in the United States, because otherwise Assange's lawyers can pretty much argue "Pentagon Papers case, dismiss" and any reasonable judge would have to go along with it. Floyd Abrams' argument is yet another attempt to get around the clear legal precedent that would protect Wikileaks from prosecution.
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Read the official secession documents, and then tell me that this was about the right to choose more than the right to own slaves.
This is the George Carlin argument: It's not the word that's the problem, it's the racist who's saying the word that's the problem. That's why it's much more ok for Paul Mooney to say it than it is for David Duke to say it.
US history is particularly subject to ret-conning, at least in the US. That's because a lot of folks can't stomach the idea that their country was founded on the very intentional and institutionalized genocide of one group of people and the enslavement of another. Particularly those who's ancestors fought and in some cases died for those causes of genocide and slavery have a hard time dealing with it. And yet it happened, and not acknowledging it happens leads to all sorts of trouble today, over a century after the actual evil is over.
For instance, when the press interviewed attendees of the Secession Ball in South Carolina, not one of them acknowledged that the rights that South Carolina was fighting for was the right to own slaves.
I'm not sure they're that confident in their evidence. Nor should they be - they did a study, they publish their findings, lots of other scientists either put down rebuttals (as has already happened), or repeat the study and see if it's accurate enough to be true. That's the way science is supposed to work.
What's not supposed to happen is "Scientist A does an apparently sound study that appears to demonstrate something that scientists B,C, and D consider silly, and scientists B, C, and D stop scientist A's work from ever seeing the light of day."
Skimping on line and generator maintenance in an attempt to boost profits, but which knocks out power for a significant section of the Northeast US and Canada when the chickens come home to roost. (All completely hypothetical, of course)
Seriously.
It's in the final stages of a social networking site: where the investors, including some big outside investment firms, try to "monetize" the user base by pulling out all the stops with ads, apps, and selling people's personal information. All that needs to happen is some plucky college kid making his own social networking site, just for his friends on campus, as a way to stay away from all the sillyness of Facebook, and Facebook will collapse within a couple of years. Just like MySpace did.
I mean, those guys can do absolutely anything on rails, and I'll bet it only took a few lines of code.
No, that's actually a misprint. It's actually The Great Conjugation, an event in which all possible verb forms in all known languages are spelled out and used correctly in a sentence.
It should be pointed out that the various social observations that have often been termed 'Laws' are not always true. For instance, Parkinson's Law states that work expands to fill the time and resources available. It's usually true. But sometimes, it's not, because it's trying to describe something about a system that nobody's been able to fully explain, specifically how an organization / business / bureaucracy actually functions.
That doesn't make them useless, but it does mean you have to treat them as trends rather than absolutes.
"I've lost the bleeps, I've lost the creeps, and I've lost the sweeps!"
(or watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXKOsajNZY4)
The whole reason Google rose to dominance was that 10 years ago it was doing a far better job of hiding the spam results than its now-mostly-defunct major competitors. Since then, spammers, scammers, and pranksters have been trying to game the results, often with noticeable effects.
Hence my parenthetical comment that it can make a difference regarding whether those rights are violated. And I'm fine with disagreeing with SCOTUS on whether civil forfeiture is in fact a violation of constitutional rights, I say yes, because it's depriving somebody of property without due process.
Prices of durable consumer goods drop off dramatically directly after the biggest month for sale of durable consumer goods. Film at 11.
Specifically, it could easily be confused with BitTorrent in this context.
"All suspects are guilty. Period. Otherwise, they wouldn't be suspect!"
That's also why I was wondering about why it at all matters what the defendants are charged with. Your constitutional rights don't change based on what you're accused of (although it can make a difference regarding whether those rights are violated, e.g. terrorism accusations).
How is Diana Ross going to help?
It's worth mentioning that wealthy slackers consume far more goods and services than impoverished slackers. A wealthy slacker uses several nice homes, eats lots of fine meals, sees the best entertainment, etc etc. A impoverished slacker uses a small apartment,a bus seat on occasion, and some basic food.
If you think about it in terms of resources rather than dollars, which is more immoral: producing nothing and consuming a great deal, or producing nothing and consuming enough to keep alive?
They can't dump the responsibility on the patient, especially by shoving an informed consent form under his hand in the 15 minutes before surgery.
Oh yes they can (legally speaking), and as long as it's profitable for them to do so they're going to do exactly that. That's the problem with a health care system driven by the profit motive - actually caring for patients well is highly unprofitable.
3 cheers for checklists! My sister is studying nursing right now. Those checklists are life-savers.
I also have friends who are or recently have been medical residents. That kind of pressure, with shifts that last well over 12 hours, is quite simply an abusive labor practice.
No, that's what Silvio wants them to do. His goal is to eliminate major public venues in Italy that can be critical of him, he does most of that by owning the mass media, but he doesn't (and probably can't) buy Google. So if nobody in Italy can access Youtube, from Berlusconi's point of view the problem is solved.
As long as colleges are partially publicly funded (via both direct funding of public universities and colleges, and all the various federal grant and loan programs) there is a public interest here in doing everything we can to make sure students are making the most of the opportunity so that the public is getting its money's worth.
That said, you're depressingly correct that students who don't want to learn won't. My view on that is that we need to get rid of those students as quickly as they can be identified, so that others who could do much more with those learning opportunities will have the chance to show their stuff.
Heck, not only that, but a good portion of the classical Greek literature goes away too. Homer and Hesiod? Gone, because of the sibling incest between Zeus and Hera. Sophocles and Aeschelus? Gone, because of the 2 most famous instances of parent-child incest (Oedipus and Electra) in all of literature.
You have the wrong clip, there, mate. What you're actually looking for is this.
Yes, anyone who's seriously scared that that scenario will happen should run around flailing their arms. This has 2 major benefits:
1. The non-idiots can identify the idiots more easily.
2. The idiots are too busy flailing their arms to cause any real damage.
The UN would probably not consider short-term solitary to be torture. The alleged torture in this case is that Manning is being held under intentionally stressful conditions for 7 months and counting.
The reason for this is that they're trying to convince him to testify that Julian Assange induced him to give the documents he had access to to Wikileaks. That testimony would be necessary to charge Assange with a crime in the United States, because otherwise Assange's lawyers can pretty much argue "Pentagon Papers case, dismiss" and any reasonable judge would have to go along with it. Floyd Abrams' argument is yet another attempt to get around the clear legal precedent that would protect Wikileaks from prosecution.