I am terribly sorry to burst your bubble, but it is extremely normal for a judge to mention when ruling on complex cases that rely on case law that legislation would be welcome. It is not unreasonable that someone at the sharp end should have an opinion on how it should be done.
Pardon the pontificating from a bystanding Brit who is by no means as knowledgeable on your Constitution as he should be, but reading TFWA, I note the test is the usual one of a hypothetical "reasonable person". I might not be reasonable all the time, but I'm pretty sure if I was asked to strip-search a 13 year old girl, loco parentis or not, I would be reasonably sure it would be a bad idea.
And I hate to be a tedious [citation needed] asshat, but I do wonder if there's any chance of a better cite than a three paragraph article on a self-publishing website?
Not quite sure why you got a funny...but never mind. Listening to the sound sample on the NYT site (linked in the comments somewhere above), the player pulled a straight major pentatonic scale out of it. Interestingly, the previously oldest known woodwind instrument (unearthed somewhere near Ur and c.5000 years old was also apparently pentatonic. Given the care that went into constructing these flute, I don't think that's an accident.
Perhaps if this had come on-stream the German atomic project would not have been bombed out of existence at a crucial stage (though I think this happened before this would have become available anyway). Remember the US did not start going all out for nuclear weapons until Pearl Harbour; Germany could have had the bomb and America quite feasibly could have completely sat it out.
That's not a loophole. It's a pretty well established principle of land law that if you maintain exclusive possession of a piece of land for a certain length of time, treating it as your property, you can then claim ownership. This is a good thing - it makes sure someone uses the land instead of letting it lie fallow. Still, the case you describe is rather cheeky.
There are rules about barratry, or vexatious litigation in England and Wales. They are rarely invoked as denying someone access to the legal system is a fairly serious step, for obvious reasons.
Such a government is a truly bad idea. Think about any area you are an expert on, and then think about how much the average person knows about that area.
Democracy's real strength lies not in our ability to choose what we want, but our ability to throw them out of office when we want to. That is what keeps them (minimally) honest.
Could you please fuck off and learn something about Iran before posting your tripe? Iran had a secular, educated, healthy middle class. The West deposed it in favour of the short-term convenience of a theocracy.
Indeed. He was caught pretty simply - on the blog, he mentioned his membership of a police club; a quick call to that club elicited the fact that there ws only one person of his rank. Some Facebook investigation turned up some corroborating comments, not to mention details of specific cases he had worked on. Game over.
Until the mid 1850s, most roads in Britain were privately owned toll roads. It worked perfectly well, as indeed do privately owned toll roads in various parts of Europe today. Rawls has quite a lot to say, most of it worth hearing, about the interface between public goods and private supply.
Tell that to my friend who just lost an entire web design project because he was storing it on a two year old flash drive which died. Dim not to have backups, yes, but flash memory is guaranteed to die after a sufficient number of writes. Mind you, my main desktop head crashed yesterday after seven years, so it's swings and roundabouts, really.
And yet, what better word is there for loquacity? Language is powerful, powerful stuff - to adduce it removes the precision, clarity, and poise you so heartily recommend. Good writers do indeed value neatness of expression, but not at the cost of emasculating their vocabulary.
Western culture is in an intellectual race to the bottom. Frankly, I think we desperately need a better educated citizenry - a generation ago, every politician was as thoughtful as Obama. Now we're lucky if they have any sort of grasp of science and culture at all.
I agree that extra-terrestrial explanations are unlikely and unhelpful here, but a nitpick - by the time a rock has fallen to within 10km of the ground, it is at terminal velocity and is not going to degrade any further.
Indeed. I remember as a fourteen year-old reading something or other by (I think) Martin Gardner and being a pretentious little prick, I wrote a letter to his publisher explaining Occam's Razor. He never wrote back, but I still think I was right. I just find it very hard to believe that the fundamental maths describing the universe will be *that* complicated.
Terminolgy attack, I think:p In the UK pin-tumbler locks are invariably known as Yale locks. By barrel I mean tumbler; apologies if I've offended your locksmithing sensibilities.
It's exactly that stuff that is the most valuable. One of the most valuable sources of documents from antiquity is an Egyptian rubbish dump. When they come to try and pick over the cultural history of the 20th century, receipts and Starbucks cups will be valuable artifacts.
I suspect you will find a court does not have quite as high standards as you think. Provided a police officer testifies that he plugged the device in, it ran, and it flagged up something, I can't really see a court throwing that out - particularly if the device can be independantly audited.
Use a mortice lock. Yale-type barrel locks suck monkey balls. They can be open with a filed down key and a rubber hammer (although typically a boot is just as effective). If you're that concerned about fire, leave a spare key hanging near the door.
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I am terribly sorry to burst your bubble, but it is extremely normal for a judge to mention when ruling on complex cases that rely on case law that legislation would be welcome. It is not unreasonable that someone at the sharp end should have an opinion on how it should be done.
Pardon the pontificating from a bystanding Brit who is by no means as knowledgeable on your Constitution as he should be, but reading TFWA, I note the test is the usual one of a hypothetical "reasonable person". I might not be reasonable all the time, but I'm pretty sure if I was asked to strip-search a 13 year old girl, loco parentis or not, I would be reasonably sure it would be a bad idea.
And I hate to be a tedious [citation needed] asshat, but I do wonder if there's any chance of a better cite than a three paragraph article on a self-publishing website?
Not quite sure why you got a funny...but never mind. Listening to the sound sample on the NYT site (linked in the comments somewhere above), the player pulled a straight major pentatonic scale out of it. Interestingly, the previously oldest known woodwind instrument (unearthed somewhere near Ur and c.5000 years old was also apparently pentatonic. Given the care that went into constructing these flute, I don't think that's an accident.
Perhaps if this had come on-stream the German atomic project would not have been bombed out of existence at a crucial stage (though I think this happened before this would have become available anyway). Remember the US did not start going all out for nuclear weapons until Pearl Harbour; Germany could have had the bomb and America quite feasibly could have completely sat it out.
That's not a loophole. It's a pretty well established principle of land law that if you maintain exclusive possession of a piece of land for a certain length of time, treating it as your property, you can then claim ownership. This is a good thing - it makes sure someone uses the land instead of letting it lie fallow. Still, the case you describe is rather cheeky.
There are rules about barratry, or vexatious litigation in England and Wales. They are rarely invoked as denying someone access to the legal system is a fairly serious step, for obvious reasons.
Democracy's real strength lies not in our ability to choose what we want, but our ability to throw them out of office when we want to. That is what keeps them (minimally) honest.
Could you please fuck off and learn something about Iran before posting your tripe? Iran had a secular, educated, healthy middle class. The West deposed it in favour of the short-term convenience of a theocracy.
Indeed. He was caught pretty simply - on the blog, he mentioned his membership of a police club; a quick call to that club elicited the fact that there ws only one person of his rank. Some Facebook investigation turned up some corroborating comments, not to mention details of specific cases he had worked on. Game over.
Until the mid 1850s, most roads in Britain were privately owned toll roads. It worked perfectly well, as indeed do privately owned toll roads in various parts of Europe today. Rawls has quite a lot to say, most of it worth hearing, about the interface between public goods and private supply.
Tell that to my friend who just lost an entire web design project because he was storing it on a two year old flash drive which died. Dim not to have backups, yes, but flash memory is guaranteed to die after a sufficient number of writes. Mind you, my main desktop head crashed yesterday after seven years, so it's swings and roundabouts, really.
Police officers aren't employed; they are appointed. And they don't have contracts.
Western culture is in an intellectual race to the bottom. Frankly, I think we desperately need a better educated citizenry - a generation ago, every politician was as thoughtful as Obama. Now we're lucky if they have any sort of grasp of science and culture at all.
Specifically, it's so dangerous that the Hudson crash was the first and only successful landing of a wide-bodied jet airliner on open water.
Really?
I agree that extra-terrestrial explanations are unlikely and unhelpful here, but a nitpick - by the time a rock has fallen to within 10km of the ground, it is at terminal velocity and is not going to degrade any further.
Indeed. I remember as a fourteen year-old reading something or other by (I think) Martin Gardner and being a pretentious little prick, I wrote a letter to his publisher explaining Occam's Razor. He never wrote back, but I still think I was right. I just find it very hard to believe that the fundamental maths describing the universe will be *that* complicated.
Terminolgy attack, I think :p In the UK pin-tumbler locks are invariably known as Yale locks. By barrel I mean tumbler; apologies if I've offended your locksmithing sensibilities.
It's exactly that stuff that is the most valuable. One of the most valuable sources of documents from antiquity is an Egyptian rubbish dump. When they come to try and pick over the cultural history of the 20th century, receipts and Starbucks cups will be valuable artifacts.
Most of them? Is there anywhere that doesn't continue to issue mag stripes as a precaution against chip failures (~1% per annum)?
I suspect you will find a court does not have quite as high standards as you think. Provided a police officer testifies that he plugged the device in, it ran, and it flagged up something, I can't really see a court throwing that out - particularly if the device can be independantly audited.
Use a mortice lock. Yale-type barrel locks suck monkey balls. They can be open with a filed down key and a rubber hammer (although typically a boot is just as effective). If you're that concerned about fire, leave a spare key hanging near the door.
I think I just found my next entry for Schneier's movie plot contest.
Mmm. And while I'm no expert, I'm fairly sure the hotline is not the purview of the USSS.