Maybe, but Contempt of Court should have a maximum term of 30 days without an independent trial in front of a different judge to determine if it is reasonable. Judges who leave people in contempt of court longer than that without review should be put in an adjacent cell.
A - At the end, there should be no upkeep requirement from one party to the other.
... B -
I.e., if you own five houses, then get married to someone with none, buy two more together then get divorced, you keep six houses (including your original five), they're yours, they get one.
... C -
The only ongoing support should be for children created in the marriage or adopted in the marriage, unless subsequently found out that someone cheated.
... D - A pre-nuptial can override, but maybe a prenuptial should be mandatory anyway.
A - I strongly agree.
B - This is already technically the law, at least in my state.
C1 - By putting in a rule about "cheating" into the law, you'd open a huge loophole, and discriminate against marriages with more relaxed rules about sex, which there are plenty of. It is also religious discrimination in that it implicitly favors religions which support monogamy. Other religions that support polygamy etc.. are discriminated against, which is illegal.
C2 - It's ridiculous to put an exception in for cheating if you don't put exceptions in for other potentially family-harmful actions - drinking to the point where the whole family is ruined, spending all the money on gambling to the point of bankruptcy, refusing to allow the children to attend school, or just deciding they are no longer interested in being part of the family. The only way to cover all these things fairly is to NOT have special rules about them. When it's over, the reason is not important. IF both people want a special cheating rule, they can write it into a pre-nup and it should be respected by the law. But not by default.
C3 - About the child support itself. Child support should only happen when one parent would rather pay the other than to have custody and support them him/herself. In real life right now, this is inappropriately weighted in favor of custody for the mother.
D - Pre-nups can't be required. If there are a common set of changes to the laws governing a particular marriage, they should be check-boxes on the marriage certificate request, both parties sign that and can opt-into the child-support obligation, cheating rules, etc.. that you suggest above. Requiring a separate contract just pays lawyers.
BUT - It didn't help his client. If I were his client in this situation, I'd probably be pretty pissed off. Especially about having my lawyer "joking" about the case and the chances that I might have killed four people.
I'm not sure he should be disbarred for the dare, that might theoretically have been helpful to the client, if no one responded. Calling it a joke though, um, is not funny.
This is not surprising or new behavior for them, *everything* they make puts their interests ahead of the user's Why in hell do people continue to pour money into this monstrosity of a software company?
Is it some kind of learned helplessness? Is it a common misconception that all software companies treat their customers with self-important condescension?
How much abuse must you go through before you leave?
> don't most ad companies only pay the site whenever a user clicks on an ad?
It varies. But they almost always have to pay when you do click. So if you see an ad you hate, click on it and don't buy. Do your small part to lower their conversion ration (purchases over clicks) and their business case for paying money to waste your browser screen space will be reduced.
If just a few million people would spend just 10-20 clicks a day making crappy internet advertising unprofitable, it would decline a lot.
No, my fried, the problem is not allowing the government to provide services. The problem is allowing the government to NOT oversee and regulate monolithic corporate entities.
No.
The really big problem here is not with TWC - there will always be profit maximizing companies that will do nearly anything possible to make a buck.
The really big problem is that there are people in the government in NC who have been corruptible to the extent that they have actually publicly supported TWC in this idiotic move. Worse, they have done the opposite of their jobs and actually WRITTEN POTENTIAL LAWS to favor TWC over their own citizens.
The problem is that there is more public shaming of celebrities who forget to shave than there is of government officials who metaphorically hold down their constituents while TWC metaphorically rapes them.
Lobbyists are just doing their jobs. TWC is just doing it's job*.
The only ones there who are NOT doing their jobs are the corrupted government officials and this story should be about them.
Names should be named, backgrounds explored, everything up to and including office phone numbers should be mentioned. These people are the problem, and they deserve some problems in return.
*But by choosing to do the job that way, they make themselves less important, useful, and relevant to anyone who is not a stockholder. This should upset stockholders, as this type of practice will ultimately destroy TWC.
If there is any service on earth that is going to give you close to your theoretical max bandwidth, it's going to be a non-profit service run by the local community to service _just_ the local community. Any larger organization is going to try to spread potential bandwidth over a larger area.
What is up with their logo? My best guess was that the cone is meant to represent that it's still in beta -- under construction.
So assuming this is correct, do they get a new logo when that's no longer true? I know I could just change it myself for my copy but that's a pain, and - it is, imho, one of if not the the ugliest logo of any program I use regularly.
If it's not correct, why would a video player use a traffic / construction cone as it's logo? What's the meaning behind it?
This is not meant to be inflammatory - I honestly don't know what they might have been thinking.
Nausea at the concept of marriage has a very different root cause from nausea at the concept of sex. Your confusion between the two terms is not particularly natural.
the 'indeterminate amount of time' that the image is 'stored' for is likely to be the fraction of a second that the animation is playing. There is no technical reason to think that it's any more likely to be stored longer.
What, does this guy think every iphone has a hidden extra gig of storage for these spy shots? Where else would there be room? This is a mobile device ppl, cmon.
This fool doesn't even present any evidence that this 'screenshot' is -ever- even written to storage. Sure, it has to be in RAM to be shown zooming away, but the same thing applies to showing anything on the screen at all. Just because it saves processing power to capture an image instead of zooming the live app like OS X does, doesn't imply that the image ever leaves volatile RAM.
As long as you are the type to not give up easily, find something athletic-ish that you're interested in doing but seems a bit too difficult, something that happens maybe 4-6 months in the future, and sign up for it. You'll have a financial, emotional, and strategic commitment.
Then train for it not just to 'get fit', but because if you don't, the event will physically kick your ass. When training is not the goal in itself, you are working to get yourself fit for some functional purpose that you can measure the progress toward, and it's much easier.
It's similar to the way headphones can make a particular workout go faster, but on a larger scale.
Powell was pressured by Cheney to announce to the UN that Iraq had WMB's, without any true evidence. Why? because he wanted to have Powell as a fall guy. Why do you think he left almost right after?
The important point is that Powell *gave* *in* to said pressure. He became the fall guy, because he fell for it. He did go to the UN and lie to them in the name of the U.S.
He should have left right BEFORE, he should have spoken out, he should have done his part to try to prevent many thousands of pointless deaths.
Whatever honor or character or positive reputation he might have had before the UN, he threw it all away when he showed that cowering to his bosses was more important than the fate of his country and right and wrong.
Just like Obama did, when he threw away his honor and character when he broke his promise to defend the constitution by voting in favor of universal wiretapping without supervision.
Your automatic assumption that the democrats are the party that is least despised, has been severely weakened by their approval of the republican spying bill. Also, you assume that electing a party that is less despised, but still despised, is an acceptable outcome, something worth helping with and working toward.
I disagree. They had a chance to make a huge difference with the double house control, but they continued to whimper and kowtow to the administration, rarely if ever taking their constitutional powers (and responsibilities) seriously. Prime examples: impeachment being off the table, and continuing to provide funding for the iraq war.
Oh, you hadn't heard yet that The Terrorists are drug dealing to advance their evil terrorist ways?
That's the excuse to cut in the DEA on the unlimited spying. Yes, the original FISA had nothing to do with that clusterfuck, but what it is now is an easy loophole to do whatever the fuck they want. It doesn't take speculation.
It's already been happening, with carnivore, with TIA, with plenty of things without cute media nicknames. Even what's already been done, if not called out as wrong and illegal, is enough to end the presumption of privacy any time you use unencrypted electronic communications.
If you want to call it a myth then it's probably not for you - but it works a hell of a lot better for me. I *need* to be able to type for my job, not to mention argue on slashdot, and a point came where my fingers started hurting so much with QWERTY that I was going to have to find another way to make a living. Switching to DVORAK stopped the hurting. I'm probably faster too but that's waaay secondary.
Hey, someone who has one or access to one - please tell me if my one dealbreaker issue is fixed.
Is dvorak one of the new available keyboard layouts?
note {
Yes, I know it's possible to hack an old-style
iPhone to use dvorak by messing with another
layout file. My question is whether it's
available WITHOUT having to jailbreak / hack it. )
If not, it's really ironic that the only keyboards Apple makes that can't be easily re-arranged to your liking are software-based.
The whole lesser of two evils argument is more evil than both evils combined. There are more than two candidates running and Obama just made it clear that yet again, there's no trustworthy candidate on the democratic side.
I'm not saying to vote for Skeletor, the greater of two evils argument is even stupider. But if someone betrays you there MUST be a price or you will keep being betrayed forever. Stop doing your part to continue this cycle, YOU and others making this argument are the real problem.
I'm voting Libertarian because I would trust my civil liberties and country with someone who believes that freedom is paramount. You can't fight for freedom by making your own country closer to facist.
Obama had my vote, and threw it away. You can still throw yours away if you want and bend over to the democrats just like they bend over for the republicans, but it will make as little difference as you surely think my libertarian vote will.
Same here. I can't believe this is the best the democratic party thinks it has to offer. If he didn't agree with it, he shouldn't have voted for it. He lost a lot and gained nothing except a reputation for lying and breaking promises.
He should be denied the nomination, those who supported him when he promised to oppose this sick bill should sue to get their money back.
What does it matter who gets elected now? Everything he said is meaningless.
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Maybe, but Contempt of Court should have a maximum term of 30 days without an independent trial in front of a different judge to determine if it is reasonable. Judges who leave people in contempt of court longer than that without review should be put in an adjacent cell.
A - At the end, there should be no upkeep requirement from one party to the other.
B -
I.e., if you own five houses, then get married to someone with none, buy two more together then get divorced, you keep six houses (including your original five), they're yours, they get one.
C -
The only ongoing support should be for children created in the marriage or adopted in the marriage, unless subsequently found out that someone cheated.
D - A pre-nuptial can override, but maybe a prenuptial should be mandatory anyway.
A - I strongly agree.
B - This is already technically the law, at least in my state.
C1 - By putting in a rule about "cheating" into the law, you'd open a huge loophole, and discriminate against marriages with more relaxed rules about sex, which there are plenty of. It is also religious discrimination in that it implicitly favors religions which support monogamy. Other religions that support polygamy etc.. are discriminated against, which is illegal.
C2 - It's ridiculous to put an exception in for cheating if you don't put exceptions in for other potentially family-harmful actions - drinking to the point where the whole family is ruined, spending all the money on gambling to the point of bankruptcy, refusing to allow the children to attend school, or just deciding they are no longer interested in being part of the family. The only way to cover all these things fairly is to NOT have special rules about them. When it's over, the reason is not important. IF both people want a special cheating rule, they can write it into a pre-nup and it should be respected by the law. But not by default.
C3 - About the child support itself. Child support should only happen when one parent would rather pay the other than to have custody and support them him/herself. In real life right now, this is inappropriately weighted in favor of custody for the mother.
D - Pre-nups can't be required. If there are a common set of changes to the laws governing a particular marriage, they should be check-boxes on the marriage certificate request, both parties sign that and can opt-into the child-support obligation, cheating rules, etc.. that you suggest above. Requiring a separate contract just pays lawyers.
BUT - It didn't help his client. If I were his client in this situation, I'd probably be pretty pissed off. Especially about having my lawyer "joking" about the case and the chances that I might have killed four people.
I'm not sure he should be disbarred for the dare, that might theoretically have been helpful to the client, if no one responded. Calling it a joke though, um, is not funny.
This is not surprising or new behavior for them, *everything* they make puts their interests ahead of the user's
Why in hell do people continue to pour money into this monstrosity of a software company?
Is it some kind of learned helplessness?
Is it a common misconception that all software companies treat their customers with self-important condescension?
How much abuse must you go through before you leave?
XCode is the best I've used, and I use it every day.
> don't most ad companies only pay the site whenever a user clicks on an ad?
It varies. But they almost always have to pay when you do click. So if you see an ad you hate, click on it and don't buy. Do your small part to lower their conversion ration (purchases over clicks) and their business case for paying money to waste your browser screen space will be reduced.
If just a few million people would spend just 10-20 clicks a day making crappy internet advertising unprofitable, it would decline a lot.
I know that was sorta meant as a joke, but seriously, that is what it will come to.
No, my fried, the problem is not allowing the government to provide services. The problem is allowing the government to NOT oversee and regulate monolithic corporate entities.
No.
The really big problem here is not with TWC - there will always be profit maximizing companies that will do nearly anything possible to make a buck.
The really big problem is that there are people in the government in NC who have been corruptible to the extent that they have actually publicly supported TWC in this idiotic move. Worse, they have done the opposite of their jobs and actually WRITTEN POTENTIAL LAWS to favor TWC over their own citizens.
The problem is that there is more public shaming of celebrities who forget to shave than there is of government officials who metaphorically hold down their constituents while TWC metaphorically rapes them.
Lobbyists are just doing their jobs. TWC is just doing it's job*.
The only ones there who are NOT doing their jobs are the corrupted government officials and this story should be about them.
Names should be named, backgrounds explored, everything up to and including office phone numbers should be mentioned. These people are the problem, and they deserve some problems in return.
*But by choosing to do the job that way, they make themselves less important, useful, and relevant to anyone who is not a stockholder. This should upset stockholders, as this type of practice will ultimately destroy TWC.
If there is any service on earth that is going to give you close to your theoretical max bandwidth, it's going to be a non-profit service run by the local community to service _just_ the local community. Any larger organization is going to try to spread potential bandwidth over a larger area.
What is up with their logo? My best guess was that the cone is meant to represent that it's still in beta -- under construction.
So assuming this is correct, do they get a new logo when that's no longer true? I know I could just change it myself for my copy but that's a pain, and - it is, imho, one of if not the the ugliest logo of any program I use regularly.
If it's not correct, why would a video player use a traffic / construction cone as it's logo? What's the meaning behind it?
This is not meant to be inflammatory - I honestly don't know what they might have been thinking.
Nausea at the concept of marriage has a very different root cause from nausea at the concept of sex. Your confusion between the two terms is not particularly natural.
the 'indeterminate amount of time' that the image is 'stored' for is likely to be the fraction of a second that the animation is playing. There is no technical reason to think that it's any more likely to be stored longer.
What, does this guy think every iphone has a hidden extra gig of storage for these spy shots? Where else would there be room? This is a mobile device ppl, cmon.
This fool doesn't even present any evidence that this 'screenshot' is -ever- even written to storage. Sure, it has to be in RAM to be shown zooming away, but the same thing applies to showing anything on the screen at all. Just because it saves processing power to capture an image instead of zooming the live app like OS X does, doesn't imply that the image ever leaves volatile RAM.
- written from my iphone.
As long as you are the type to not give up easily, find something athletic-ish that you're interested in doing but seems a bit too difficult, something that happens maybe 4-6 months in the future, and sign up for it. You'll have a financial, emotional, and strategic commitment.
Then train for it not just to 'get fit', but because if you don't, the event will physically kick your ass. When training is not the goal in itself, you are working to get yourself fit for some functional purpose that you can measure the progress toward, and it's much easier.
It's similar to the way headphones can make a particular workout go faster, but on a larger scale.
Powell was pressured by Cheney to announce to the UN that Iraq had WMB's, without any true evidence. Why? because he wanted to have Powell as a fall guy. Why do you think he left almost right after?
The important point is that Powell *gave* *in* to said pressure. He became the fall guy, because he fell for it. He did go to the UN and lie to them in the name of the U.S.
He should have left right BEFORE, he should have spoken out, he should have done his part to try to prevent many thousands of pointless deaths.
Whatever honor or character or positive reputation he might have had before the UN, he threw it all away when he showed that cowering to his bosses was more important than the fate of his country and right and wrong.
Just like Obama did, when he threw away his honor and character when he broke his promise to defend the constitution by voting in favor of universal wiretapping without supervision.
Dude, you are missing the point.
Your automatic assumption that the democrats are the party that is least despised, has been severely weakened by their approval of the republican spying bill. Also, you assume that electing a party that is less despised, but still despised, is an acceptable outcome, something worth helping with and working toward.
I disagree. They had a chance to make a huge difference with the double house control, but they continued to whimper and kowtow to the administration, rarely if ever taking their constitutional powers (and responsibilities) seriously. Prime examples: impeachment being off the table, and continuing to provide funding for the iraq war.
Oh, you hadn't heard yet that The Terrorists are drug dealing to advance their evil terrorist ways?
That's the excuse to cut in the DEA on the unlimited spying. Yes, the original FISA had nothing to do with that clusterfuck, but what it is now is an easy loophole to do whatever the fuck they want. It doesn't take speculation.
It's already been happening, with carnivore, with TIA, with plenty of things without cute media nicknames. Even what's already been done, if not called out as wrong and illegal, is enough to end the presumption of privacy any time you use unencrypted electronic communications.
I care about that.
Pull your hair out then.
If you want to call it a myth then it's probably not for you - but it works a hell of a lot better for me. I *need* to be able to type for my job, not to mention argue on slashdot, and a point came where my fingers started hurting so much with QWERTY that I was going to have to find another way to make a living. Switching to DVORAK stopped the hurting. I'm probably faster too but that's waaay secondary.
Hey, someone who has one or access to one - please tell me if my one dealbreaker issue is fixed.
Is dvorak one of the new available keyboard layouts?
note {
Yes, I know it's possible to hack an old-style
iPhone to use dvorak by messing with another
layout file. My question is whether it's
available WITHOUT having to jailbreak / hack it.
)
If not, it's really ironic that the only keyboards Apple makes that can't be easily re-arranged to your liking are software-based.
> You aren't voting for who you want to win, you're voting for who you want that can win.
Maybe you are, buddy, but I only vote for those who I would actually want to win.
The whole lesser of two evils argument is more evil than both evils combined. There are more than two candidates running and Obama just made it clear that yet again, there's no trustworthy candidate on the democratic side.
I'm not saying to vote for Skeletor, the greater of two evils argument is even stupider. But if someone betrays you there MUST be a price or you will keep being betrayed forever. Stop doing your part to continue this cycle, YOU and others making this argument are the real problem.
I'm voting Libertarian because I would trust my civil liberties and country with someone who believes that freedom is paramount. You can't fight for freedom by making your own country closer to facist.
Obama had my vote, and threw it away. You can still throw yours away if you want and bend over to the democrats just like they bend over for the republicans, but it will make as little difference as you surely think my libertarian vote will.
civil liberties are much more precious than law enforcement tools.
law enforcement is doing just fine, we imprison more people per capita than anyone.
this vote just dramatically lowered the value of being american, much of which is supposedly freedom-based.
and this fool helped them. he voted yes!
there was no need to, no excuse to. no gain whatsoever.
Idiot.
Same here. I can't believe this is the best the democratic party thinks it has to offer. If he didn't agree with it, he shouldn't have voted for it. He lost a lot and gained nothing except a reputation for lying and breaking promises.
He should be denied the nomination, those who supported him when he promised to oppose this sick bill should sue to get their money back.
What does it matter who gets elected now? Everything he said is meaningless.
The title of this story should read: "G8 Summit Aims To Kill International Privacy".
Are you sure you know what the word "literally" means?