I used to say that about Star Wars and then along came Firefly and "space western" stopped being some kind of derogatory remark. I like how others are using "action adventure" to denigrate Star Wars now.
We have a theocracy. Nobody can win a major seat in our government without professing to be a person of faith.
Secondly, what legislation are you thinking of specifically -- I'd like to read it and see if it says what you say it does.
Finally, if it takes a whack job to stop burning people and money around the world, that's a whack job I'd prefer to the scum currently dictating policy.
Only a completely myopic, brainwashed person without a shred of intellect could possibly think that attacking countless civilians day in and day out is anything but institutionalized terrorism.
Cheap beer has its place, but many people are too snobby to drink it. I like Olympia (in cans) when I'm looking for a cheap, cold refreshing beer, for example, after doing something really physical and sweaty in the summer. If it's 80 degrees outside, nothing is quite so nice as a crisp light ice cold cheap bear. The last thing I'd want in that scenario is a porter I have to practically drink with a spoon. In contrast, that aforementioned porter on a cold winter night can be perfect.
And I suppose Obama's "look forward not backward" -- Hey AT&T, here's a nice bit of immunity for past illegal deeds -- that doesn't"represent corporate interests?
To think that Democrats haven't been bought off TOO, is to be naive. Essentially, all that is left is a bunch of corrupt corporate toadies. We'd all be better off if there was a severe earthquake right under DC, one good enough to open a crack, swallowing it whole, turning the whole fetid cesspool and every political occupant into magma.
I have an Android phone, T-Mobile MyTouch 3G and it is OK. No better than OK. Text input trends toward sucking -- the hunt and peck method is awful. Swype makes text entry passable, but not without frustration in normal use. Then there are the abnormal issues -- about a month, Swype decided to randomly lose the English dictionary and only allow me to use Spanish. I don't know Spanish and so it became totally useless. Some googling solved the issue, but it was really frustrating when it happened -- till I could solve the issue typing wasn't even worth trying.
I have never had an iPhone but I've tried the text entry on friends' phones -- it was appreciably better than my android phone even without having any experience. Now, in all liklihood, iPhones also suffer random issues my like my Swype/Spanish issue, but I can see how a person would choose an iPhone over an Android phone after doing a side by side comparison. That doesn't make the person a fanboi.
Man, I was going to mod up the guy who linked to the PDF instead of the stupid scribd thing, but then, right there at the bottom of the page above the "moderate" button, was your post.
Stare Decisis most definitely applies in civil cases. I think where you are getting confused, is the line that says:
The doctrine that holdings have binding precedence value is not valid within most civil law jurisdictions as it is generally understood that this principle interferes with the right of judges to interpret law and the right of the legislature to make law.
The US is not a "civil law jurisdiction" -- it is a common law jurisdiction having derived its legal heritage from England. In contrast, France was (probably still is) a civil law jurisdiction and as I understand it, Louisiana is a civil law jurisdiction because of the substantial French history there (I could be wrong that it still is -- Quebec may also have a similar legal-system history).
Anyway, without a doubt, civil cases can be precedent. Of course, a trial court decision is not precedent as the term is usually thought of (it can be persuasive precedent, meaning other courts can follow it if they want to, or not follow it if they don't). So no matter what, this Spamhaus decision is not precedential in the usual sense, i.e., when people say "precedent" what they usually mean is mandatory precedent, meaning all courts below the deciding court must follow it. The most mandatory would be the US Supreme court decisions. As between two courts of appeals, the decision in one would be merely persuasive precedent in another court of appeals at the same level but in a different jurisdiction. The key is to think about the levels -- equivalent levels can decide the same issues differently if they want to. Precedent (mandatory) only applies to those courts below the deciding court. Nothing is below a trial court.
Oh definitely, altitude makes a huge difference. I heard the Jetsons lost every window on the windward side and Astro almost got blown off the balcony.
Nobody in my local government is wasting trillions on war so I don't have any need to displace them. As for "instructing the hired help in D.C." -- I'm not in the class of people with a few million to drop at a candidates feet, so none of the candidates are my hired help, rather, I'm just one of the annoying proles they can safely ignore and rob.
Thanks. What I take away from that is that both "was" and "were" are correct, with "was" being considered informal and "were" being considered formal. Given that, I'll use "was" and "were" based on numbers because it makes more sense than the arbitrarily using "were" after "if" regardless of count.
I don't really know not being a grammar geek and not even really wanting to be one, so grammar geeks, correct me. Isn't "Taco was around" better than "Taco were around" (assuming there is one and only one CmdrTaco).
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.: 'I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.'
I know my taxes aren't buying any type of civilization in the middle east, despite the trillions going there. In fact, my tax dollars are doing the exact opposite by creating anarchy, pollution, death, and destruction. If those things are the hallmarks of civilization, well, you can keep it.
Most everything you list is a local function BTW. Maybe the world be a better and safer place if government was not allowed to be so large. The scale of death and destruction my county could cause is a mere fraction of that my country is causing, and my county could still build roads and put out fires (I live in a donor state BTW, without the Feds, we'd have MORE money for these things than we do now).
I can't recall where I heard this, though I spent some time trying to tease that out with google the other day, but it's really a great tool for understanding what happens anymore:
The poor and middle class live under the rule of law, while the rich rule by law.
I remember when I was kid, the power would go out for days at a time in the winter occasionally. Granted, rural area in the Pacific NW (70s), and we just cooked on our woodstove (*), and I realize not everyone can have that sort of setup, but I sort of cringe at all the people going out and buying generators and such as if they'd die should the TV or computer not function. Honestly, power outages always seemed kind of fun, and I miss them. The grid seems much less likely to have outages, and those we have rarely last more than 10 minutes, at least here in town rather than out in the county.
(*) While I realize that one can consider a woodstove to be an energy generator akin to an electricity generator, the big difference is that people pile up enough wood for winter, but (hopefully) people don't store enough gas for winter. So even with a generator, you're going to be running out for gas in any long term outage.
There are a couple kinds of pre-paid. In one you buy a phone and then a card for minutes -- this is indeed an expensive way to get service.
Another kind of prepaid plan requires that you pay for your monthly service upfront, i.e., you pay your fee and then get a month of service. With most contract plans, you get your month of service and then pay for it. These prepaid plans typically have no contract -- you pay and get service, or don't and don't get service. You do have to buy a phone.
I had Boost Mobile for a while till I wanted to get an android phone. If you can get over the whole hiphoppy baloney, it's a good deal. Unlimited voice and text for $50/mo with reductions for ontime payments. It was also "unlimited" data, but at that time, it was modem speed. Now it goes up to edge speed apparently.
I currently have Tmobile and pay $60/mo (a prepaid MTM no contract plan) for unlimited texting, 1000 minutes, and unlimited network (3G), although their plans have changed recently, they're still a good deal.... Certainly that will change when AT&T takes over at which point
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I used to say that about Star Wars and then along came Firefly and "space western" stopped being some kind of derogatory remark. I like how others are using "action adventure" to denigrate Star Wars now.
Yeah -- it's already two years old but I never saw it till last night. I suspect there are others who haven't seen it but really should.
We have a theocracy. Nobody can win a major seat in our government without professing to be a person of faith.
Secondly, what legislation are you thinking of specifically -- I'd like to read it and see if it says what you say it does.
Finally, if it takes a whack job to stop burning people and money around the world, that's a whack job I'd prefer to the scum currently dictating policy.
And Obama is just expanding what Bush started. You can't blame this on one party or the other -- it is the fault of BOTH.
Unfair troll mod requires correction.
Only a completely myopic, brainwashed person without a shred of intellect could possibly think that attacking countless civilians day in and day out is anything but institutionalized terrorism.
Maybe he'll come back with some humanitarian understanding, as Mike Prysner. This is, or should be, an iconic speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akm3nYN8aG8
retard.
Cheap beer has its place, but many people are too snobby to drink it. I like Olympia (in cans) when I'm looking for a cheap, cold refreshing beer, for example, after doing something really physical and sweaty in the summer. If it's 80 degrees outside, nothing is quite so nice as a crisp light ice cold cheap bear. The last thing I'd want in that scenario is a porter I have to practically drink with a spoon. In contrast, that aforementioned porter on a cold winter night can be perfect.
AT&T says: Now that we have immunity for the all illegal stuff we did for you back when, we might be inclined to tattle.
And I suppose Obama's "look forward not backward" -- Hey AT&T, here's a nice bit of immunity for past illegal deeds -- that doesn't"represent corporate interests?
To think that Democrats haven't been bought off TOO, is to be naive. Essentially, all that is left is a bunch of corrupt corporate toadies. We'd all be better off if there was a severe earthquake right under DC, one good enough to open a crack, swallowing it whole, turning the whole fetid cesspool and every political occupant into magma.
oops, now that I've gotten around to looking at the PDF of the decision, I see it is a Court of Appeals decision so it is precedential in 7th Circuit.
I have an Android phone, T-Mobile MyTouch 3G and it is OK. No better than OK. Text input trends toward sucking -- the hunt and peck method is awful. Swype makes text entry passable, but not without frustration in normal use. Then there are the abnormal issues -- about a month, Swype decided to randomly lose the English dictionary and only allow me to use Spanish. I don't know Spanish and so it became totally useless. Some googling solved the issue, but it was really frustrating when it happened -- till I could solve the issue typing wasn't even worth trying.
I have never had an iPhone but I've tried the text entry on friends' phones -- it was appreciably better than my android phone even without having any experience. Now, in all liklihood, iPhones also suffer random issues my like my Swype/Spanish issue, but I can see how a person would choose an iPhone over an Android phone after doing a side by side comparison. That doesn't make the person a fanboi.
Stare Decisis most definitely applies in civil cases. I think where you are getting confused, is the line that says:
The US is not a "civil law jurisdiction" -- it is a common law jurisdiction having derived its legal heritage from England. In contrast, France was (probably still is) a civil law jurisdiction and as I understand it, Louisiana is a civil law jurisdiction because of the substantial French history there (I could be wrong that it still is -- Quebec may also have a similar legal-system history).
Anyway, without a doubt, civil cases can be precedent. Of course, a trial court decision is not precedent as the term is usually thought of (it can be persuasive precedent, meaning other courts can follow it if they want to, or not follow it if they don't). So no matter what, this Spamhaus decision is not precedential in the usual sense, i.e., when people say "precedent" what they usually mean is mandatory precedent, meaning all courts below the deciding court must follow it. The most mandatory would be the US Supreme court decisions. As between two courts of appeals, the decision in one would be merely persuasive precedent in another court of appeals at the same level but in a different jurisdiction. The key is to think about the levels -- equivalent levels can decide the same issues differently if they want to. Precedent (mandatory) only applies to those courts below the deciding court. Nothing is below a trial court.
Oh definitely, altitude makes a huge difference. I heard the Jetsons lost every window on the windward side and Astro almost got blown off the balcony.
Nobody in my local government is wasting trillions on war so I don't have any need to displace them. As for "instructing the hired help in D.C." -- I'm not in the class of people with a few million to drop at a candidates feet, so none of the candidates are my hired help, rather, I'm just one of the annoying proles they can safely ignore and rob.
great ... a superfluous "the" in a grammar post. ;-)
Thanks. What I take away from that is that both "was" and "were" are correct, with "was" being considered informal and "were" being considered formal. Given that, I'll use "was" and "were" based on numbers because it makes more sense than the arbitrarily using "were" after "if" regardless of count.
He is, they are; he was, they were
I don't really know not being a grammar geek and not even really wanting to be one, so grammar geeks, correct me. Isn't "Taco was around" better than "Taco were around" (assuming there is one and only one CmdrTaco).
I know my taxes aren't buying any type of civilization in the middle east, despite the trillions going there. In fact, my tax dollars are doing the exact opposite by creating anarchy, pollution, death, and destruction. If those things are the hallmarks of civilization, well, you can keep it.
Most everything you list is a local function BTW. Maybe the world be a better and safer place if government was not allowed to be so large. The scale of death and destruction my county could cause is a mere fraction of that my country is causing, and my county could still build roads and put out fires (I live in a donor state BTW, without the Feds, we'd have MORE money for these things than we do now).
I can't recall where I heard this, though I spent some time trying to tease that out with google the other day, but it's really a great tool for understanding what happens anymore:
The poor and middle class live under the rule of law, while the rich rule by law.
"deposits ... not backed by actual money"
You realize that banks do this daily -- all our money is loaned into existence and deposited in the borrower's account.
Ha! Karma!
oh wait ...
I remember when I was kid, the power would go out for days at a time in the winter occasionally. Granted, rural area in the Pacific NW (70s), and we just cooked on our woodstove (*), and I realize not everyone can have that sort of setup, but I sort of cringe at all the people going out and buying generators and such as if they'd die should the TV or computer not function. Honestly, power outages always seemed kind of fun, and I miss them. The grid seems much less likely to have outages, and those we have rarely last more than 10 minutes, at least here in town rather than out in the county.
(*) While I realize that one can consider a woodstove to be an energy generator akin to an electricity generator, the big difference is that people pile up enough wood for winter, but (hopefully) people don't store enough gas for winter. So even with a generator, you're going to be running out for gas in any long term outage.
No -- the prepaid monthly plans have no contract term. You can quit them anytime you want without penalty or other BS.
There are a couple kinds of pre-paid. In one you buy a phone and then a card for minutes -- this is indeed an expensive way to get service.
Another kind of prepaid plan requires that you pay for your monthly service upfront, i.e., you pay your fee and then get a month of service. With most contract plans, you get your month of service and then pay for it. These prepaid plans typically have no contract -- you pay and get service, or don't and don't get service. You do have to buy a phone.
I had Boost Mobile for a while till I wanted to get an android phone. If you can get over the whole hiphoppy baloney, it's a good deal. Unlimited voice and text for $50/mo with reductions for ontime payments. It was also "unlimited" data, but at that time, it was modem speed. Now it goes up to edge speed apparently.
I currently have Tmobile and pay $60/mo (a prepaid MTM no contract plan) for unlimited texting, 1000 minutes, and unlimited network (3G), although their plans have changed recently, they're still a good deal. ... Certainly that will change when AT&T takes over at which point