If you can't "fix" them then they NEVER get out; however, measures could be found to "patch" them up in some way, such as a monitoring device or actually effective drugs... A cripple gets devices to help them function in society, a mental "cripple" may also someday have devices that help them function in society.
Detroit fell because their opposition became too powerful and you can't get enough humans to unite - there are limits to how many peasants can work together effectively, the ruler only needs to maintain enough power to counter that... and enough propaganda to divide the peasants among themselves as well as screw up the inner workings of social organizing required for large groups.
A city is too small, a state is too small. A federal government is too weak and if it functioned properly (despite some tampering) even then it might not be strong enough unless you have a self sufficient country powerful enough to oppose multinational economic forces... at which point you have to focus heavily on military threats.
Furthermore, psychopaths NEED to be identified as mental cases and not criminal cases! We lock people up in an overly simplistic system that fails to work with the real world; we never address the root problem: The criminal system needs to deal with mental illnesses (that includes addiction) as disease and not as debts to be paid to society. It is not business nor should it ever be thought of like a business. Pedophiles for example, should be put into mental hospitals and NEVER released until safe... not automatically released after their "debt" has been paid.
H1B workers can be paid the going rates; but the thing that NEEDS MENTION:
H1B workers are deported if fired == indentured servants.
H1B workers are anti-free market. They dilute the market's demand (biz types are only for whatever helps them.)
Driving down wages is only a long term goal; suppressing increased costs is enough to lay the political groundwork. Voter's can't see anything 1 step removed.. and it's already too easy to sneak bye obvious stuff.
Science has severe limitations. The limits of the usefulness of science are tested in the soft sciences. You hard science people need to learn some philosophy of science (it's a college course, see philosophy) and learn some respect for the difficulty involved in those sciences. It's not rocket science kind of difficulty, it another kind of difficulty and nobody is going to be smart enough to solve the problems... The "solutions" are almost as fuzzy as the problems.
A great deal of science is inductive reasoning, it is not all deductive reasoning! This includes the more rigid sciences. Correlation and causation often is only a matter of statistics - you don't always have a clear connection, you take the best answers available and try not to become overly attached to them.
As far as doing poor science or poor soft science (some think those are the same,) that can happen plenty in any area. Genius is another matter. As far as the tribalism inherent to human nature, that's our natural politics at work - the methods of it's expression are quite broad.
It doesn't just happen during wartime - sacrifices must be made in order to assure your sources remain secret. The NSA only works when they are separated from other departments - the FBI for example, would disclose their ability to use your own cell phone as a bug against you when it comes out in the court transcripts (as did actually happen in an organized crime case.) The NSA works best when you don't know how they are doing it or even what they are doing or their limitations. This is why it is a HUGE deal to them when you know anything about them. Most people don't even know that they are much larger in size than the FBI or CIA.
The Attack on the USPS continues by the 2006 law forcing them to fund pensions of the UNBORN immediately. This created the budget problem from which they suffer despite record throughput (packages up, mail down... a threat to FedEx and UPS as they adapt... you connect the dots.)
Killing Saturday delivery and closing offices went too far and was stopped so without that "solution" new remedies are being explored. This one is going to upset even more people, it is unlikely to be allowed to succeed either. So we wait for the next painful solution to be shot down... Until we fund it with taxes (again, as the founders did) or we allow them to go back to the sane pension funding they had or eliminate the pension or... completely privatize the pension? (if they didn't do that one already - in which case, it's not really a pension is it?)
The 2nd only allows for the people to be armed, it doesn't allow you to ever USE those arms in ANY situation. BIG BIG DIFFERENCE. go read it. No self defense, no hunting; only the right to be armed. There is plenty about not attacking the government in there and elsewhere (see definition of Treason, which they wisely put in there... since that is an extremely abused label.)
It works because it allows for the possibility of illegal arms use -- which is just fine when the system is failing... such as during invasions, civil war, and the inevitable fall into despotism (hey, Franklin said it, it's not just me being realistic.)
Now you could easily read into it that they were intending for state militias and NOT standing armies... they all seemed rather strongly against a military industrial complex... One could interpret the 2nd away from the individualized interpretation and towards communities and states being armed with individuals having no personal right to arms. Due to the necessity of them at that time, a literal statement wasn't made but one could interpret an implied direction without stretching too far (relative to this corrupt activist supreme court, it is hard to stretch further than they have been willing to do.)
Just make me pay when I get new plates. I have to get new plates every X years anyhow. AT LEAST make a special plate for people who pay it all upfront in advance. I should get a discount of all that overhead when I pay upfront.
Too expensive? opt out and pay more because of the processing fees for the stickers. Or they could offer a financing option to pay upfront... for a small fee.
Frankly, I don't see why my car isn't registered with the IRS and they just tax me on it - if I don't use it or junk it, I just tell the DMV and it gets removed... But no, we can't allow integration or anything that makes life easier! We must make people hate government and offer private experts to help us manage the BS...
Carter was proof of the collapse of the peoples' democracy. It happened already, during Nixon (arguably, with the death of JFK.)
Most people don't realize how the system dysfunctions. The president does not have great power, the system is more powerful and when they go with the flow they can appear to have great power - but as soon as they swim upstream they realize they have no actual power. The military will even have generals screw up on purpose if necessary. (Whats dozens of lives vs an agenda?)
Carter didn't play games which became MORE important than governance (always is to some but when it is nearly everything is gaming, it is the beginning of the end.) Carter fought his own party because it had plenty of corruption of it's own. But it is FAR FAR more than just those petty but dominant political games:
We transitioned during Nixon to a P.R. perception machine unlike anything the US had ever seen before and more advanced than Hitler could have dreamed of... all while keeping the pretense of a free press and free speech! It continues to this today. Carter was old-school and the new propaganda system easily defeated reality. Today, they don't even care about even being realistic with their lies on many demographics they control. Nixon and his backers INVENTED the modern "think tank" to do research to counter universities and public research as well as handle propaganda, which dominate the mainstream media today, as well as act as the sole information source for many politicians.
NIXON took us off the GOLD standard, yet Carter was/is blamed to this day by revisionists. That caused low-level problems that the public was never informed about as the symptoms flared up. It put the USA at the mercy of OPEC for starters. It doesn't matter how much OIL the USA has, because if you don't make people buy OIL in US dollars, the money falls flat! That was part of the scheme, replace GOLD with OIL which only could be bought with US dollars. This tied the USA to the middle east more than anything, including our demand for oil! (Carter didn't dare touch the bankers.) It was not possible to go back after that and today it is nearly impossible since we've inflated the value of the dollar so much. Transition planning has been going on.... in think tanks...
Watch "Yes, Minister" because it highlights the power of the support system and the genius of the Nixon era planners at targeting aspects of it. Doesn't matter how smart you are - hundreds of average people combined will eventually beat you overall.
Not to get picky, because I myself tend to over generalize words too. But the context in this case is CLEAR and context is what saves us from having trouble when we take away 1/3 of english vocab to redundancy brought on by simplification of word definitions.
Exploding stars create matter from energy. Literally create. Not produce or make, which vaguely are synonyms for create. You can slap a sticker on something old and call it a new creation, or make it new or produce something new - all the same. but the context was creating new elements from scratch not producing new elements by tweaking old ones. (which have a LOT invested in them already. I could blow a building over using my lungs!...The building would have to be at the edge of collapse, now I could claim credit in one sense and in another it would be comical to make such a claim.)
The CIA's job is NOT to spy and NOT be actively involved in operations, it is to RESEARCH and asses like an actual neutral think tank for elected officials (not that propaganda orgs we call think tanks today.) It was devised during FDR, who had way too much information every day that any single person could ever read fast enough let alone make assessments and decisions-- and staffers are not enough because they lack the expertise. It takes a larger staff. Unfortunately, when it was finally created, FDR was dead and Trueman wasn't the man for the job so it didn't turn out like it should have.
Given the denial of reality going on in the USA, one can't see such work being done in collaboration with other nations, or by any other means than by putting it under security or military. I can totally see some Republican opposing anything related to the climate because "man can't change the weather" but completely in support of weaponizing the weather and being unaware of the contradiction.
Even an extremely ignorant leader who doesn't value fact MUST rely upon a large supporting staff and they don't or in many cases can't perform their jobs likewise.
Human made elements are expensive in cost and energy use but as far as I know they never create them legitimately. What we do is take super-nova scale energy investments in existing elements and nudge them into becoming a different element. We don't turn energy into mass yet do we?
The terms in this field are MADE UP and then popularized by people who love new terms so they can sound smart with more jargon to confuse the masses with their "brilliance".
Automated Testing is what it is and it existed before Unit Testing. We really must cut down on the huge number of terms we adopt in this profession and when we do, it should be something that isn't so removed from reality.... like Unit Testing or cookies...
We should shun people who mindlessly go around enforcing these new terms onto others, especially ones as young as Unit Testing.
At least Snowden is a human; they violated the whole thing (Obama was just a disgrace) by awarding the EU the Nobel prize. They could only go lower by awarding MONSANTO the Nobel prize next.
Pick a fight, get hit a couple times; claim fear and shoot. A perfect murder.
Obviously, I wouldn't personally like it if it happened to me. That doesn't matter, it's not relevant. One shouldn't be thinking selfishly when designing policies. Life often sucks and it's not fair, sometimes you are just unlucky.
Most people would rather serve jail time than be dead. To let people just kill for no other reason than their FEAR of serious harm or death-- one can only see a future where paranoid cowards can legally kill many people over their lifetime. A serial killer only has to kill a couple people in a pattern.
Death is a big deal, but somebody else's is not? You seem to think murder is no big deal. Jail SUCKS so does murder/death. Americans love to talk about "debt to society" in regards to crime... well, be consistent and make people pay that debt regardless. Obviously, self defense would get a much lower sentence than premeditated.
I can't wait until a STALKER uses this stuff to kill his victim.
Innocent: no. Not guilty: yes. BIG BIG difference.
Anybody who kills should be required to spend time in jail. period. If his life was so much in risk, then serving years in jail would be a totally worthwhile price FOR LIVING. Seriously, even if you are the hero - serving some jail time is a small price to pay. Think about it.
Every cowardly wimp in the USA can now legitimately shoot somebody BEFORE they are beaten up. This is not far from invading Iraq before they WMDed somebody.
Now with no bullying in school, kids will grow up in fear of an ass whooping... I know what it is like to be beaten up; it really isn't all that horrible. You don't die and you do heal... and any permanent damage comes out of the other guy's ass.
You have never lived near some OCD SOB who sticks his authoritarian face into everybody's business because of his major insecurity problems. 1000x worse than the grammar Nazis.
Police are screened, trained, tested. They get a lot of benefit when in doubt (arguably more than they deserve but at least some of it IS DESERVED.)
Zimmerman wouldn't have made it into the police force; perhaps that is what made him such a wannabe.
To an authoritarian, everything looks like Marxism. I bet you don't even really know anything about Marxism!
You probably hate democracy but love the brand "Democracy" not even grasping just how socialist democracies are. Probably you have a similar misunderstanding of the rule of law. Authoritarians seem to have troubles with these...
Civilized law abiding societies DO NOT JAIL EVIL PEOPLE. That is far more like a theocracy... Civil societies jail criminals who are unfit to be let lose in society. This guy isn't even convicted so he isn't a criminal yet, and as far as the information he gave under extreme torture (extreme by any sane measure) that can't be trusted. His treatment is so illegal that not only should all the people involved be in jail, he should be allowed to go free as punishment to the government. If they can jail people they flagrantly disregard the rule of law on (not to mention morality... or religious beliefs...) then what is to stop them from continuing to trample on people's rights?? (you have noticed the government has been moving in this direction ever since...right?)
War crimes and human rights crimes NEED to have repercussions; it is MOST important for the winners, not just the side that loses that the law be followed equally (FYI equality is a necessary part of justice.)
Seems to me the economists that get into pop culture largely are cheerleaders for ideology... You mean to say that there are economists who actually practice honest economics? Wonder why they aren't allowed on TV? (sarcasm)
I tested out of Calc in highschool. I took it in college anyhow. It was a huge shock (mostly because it was 7am) because the AP targeted high school class was a total joke that lacked any understanding and skipped everything not on the AP exam.
America has a culture of fear which is promoted by the marketplace because that is good for business. The free market has downsides as well as upsides. Rose colored glasses don't change reality.
Why is it that Americans always defend themselves by falling back to their PAST accomplishments? The greatest generation has been long out of the picture.
America has money and good higher level educational institutions and that attracts smart people; that continues with little decline. Nobel Prizes are no indication of the populace - why do you think citing one of the most elite awards would mean anything about the culture?
LOL! Yeah, the British speak English because America made them learn it.
You are the one oversimplifying things, my self-centered American friend. 1% of lawyers are nice but that doesn't mean we can't say they belong at the bottom of the sea. Americans are ignorant propaganda fed consumers with little to no concept of civics - NOT EVERYBODY just far too many of them.
I'm a natural born American. Lived in the USA all my life too. I'm so flattered that I'd be mistaken for a European!;-) I've been in the working poor in America too. They are nowhere near what passes for poor in other parts of the world. The unemployed poor have it bad and the illegals can have it even worse.
Americans, being so proud of their "democracy" have to take crap about what THEIR government does. You are not innocent. There is more than just voting in another rigged election (and I mean rigged in most interpretations too.)
You need to listen to foreigners who have legitimate gripes and ARE doing more than you by confronting the people who are part of the problem-- even if it is just one citizen. Taking on American tourists and trying to open some eyes (or just encouraging Americans to travel outside their bubble) is doing more than your single vote for candidate Arsenic or candidate Nicotine.
I start the post BEFORE it was modded funny and before the above post. Does everybody write their posts externally and paste them it quickly or what?? a phone call or two and... whatever.
You need to read more. The Dept. of Education? It is a political punching bag and not much more. Dept of Commerce? They are just redundant, as most the government works for the forces of commerce.
The worst isn't a static thing:
FEMA wins for 2006. (you don't need department in your name)
Interior Department. Especially before the BP oil spill (and it's no better today.) They are captured by the industries.
TSA. EVERYBODY complains about the TSA and their illusion of security since it's inception- and more so since they became pedophiles.
FCC: A public resource management dept beating a dead horse when LITERALLY millions said to STOP media consolidation. Not many years passed and here we are again... but without public comment.
FDA. Captured by industry, must be near the worst of the captured (or undemocratic, you pick.) You have to prove many people died to take something off the market; NOT prove it is safe before putting it on the market. They also don't even test things but let the corps do the testing-- EVEN when people died... There was a recent news story on just that common practice. Unfit shit used to be sold to the world at their risk, but now we accept more risk... the EU can test it out on us, unless it's cheap then it can go to Africa...
NSA. it's in the news. Effective? yes. worst by another measure.
The State Dept. could be considered the worst depending on what you mean by worst... effectiveness? no, they are most effective. evil? Worlds biggest corporate lobbyist... In that case they'd be near the top all the time. They task things to other depts too, set policies - they make decisions that make others look bad.
The Military / Pentagon Depts since WW2 when it changed from the "Dept of War" to "Dept of Defense" and ever since. "military intelligence" is a wide spread joke! Losing billions in their budgets every year... multiple overlapping sub-depts / branches... etc. Not to mention the corruption...
CIA. It's charter is solely about processing information for decision makers but it deviated so far one could say it is the worst - because it doesn't follow it's job description. Plus they also made some big mistakes in recent history (or just took the blame.)
IRS: Always resented. People will imagine new ways to hate them.
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If you can't "fix" them then they NEVER get out; however, measures could be found to "patch" them up in some way, such as a monitoring device or actually effective drugs... A cripple gets devices to help them function in society, a mental "cripple" may also someday have devices that help them function in society.
Detroit fell because their opposition became too powerful and you can't get enough humans to unite - there are limits to how many peasants can work together effectively, the ruler only needs to maintain enough power to counter that ... and enough propaganda to divide the peasants among themselves as well as screw up the inner workings of social organizing required for large groups.
A city is too small, a state is too small. A federal government is too weak and if it functioned properly (despite some tampering) even then it might not be strong enough unless you have a self sufficient country powerful enough to oppose multinational economic forces... at which point you have to focus heavily on military threats.
Furthermore, psychopaths NEED to be identified as mental cases and not criminal cases! We lock people up in an overly simplistic system that fails to work with the real world; we never address the root problem: The criminal system needs to deal with mental illnesses (that includes addiction) as disease and not as debts to be paid to society. It is not business nor should it ever be thought of like a business. Pedophiles for example, should be put into mental hospitals and NEVER released until safe... not automatically released after their "debt" has been paid.
H1B workers can be paid the going rates; but the thing that NEEDS MENTION:
H1B workers are deported if fired == indentured servants.
H1B workers are anti-free market. They dilute the market's demand (biz types are only for whatever helps them.)
Driving down wages is only a long term goal; suppressing increased costs is enough to lay the political groundwork. Voter's can't see anything 1 step removed.. and it's already too easy to sneak bye obvious stuff.
Science has severe limitations. The limits of the usefulness of science are tested in the soft sciences. You hard science people need to learn some philosophy of science (it's a college course, see philosophy) and learn some respect for the difficulty involved in those sciences. It's not rocket science kind of difficulty, it another kind of difficulty and nobody is going to be smart enough to solve the problems... The "solutions" are almost as fuzzy as the problems.
A great deal of science is inductive reasoning, it is not all deductive reasoning! This includes the more rigid sciences. Correlation and causation often is only a matter of statistics - you don't always have a clear connection, you take the best answers available and try not to become overly attached to them.
As far as doing poor science or poor soft science (some think those are the same,) that can happen plenty in any area. Genius is another matter. As far as the tribalism inherent to human nature, that's our natural politics at work - the methods of it's expression are quite broad.
It doesn't just happen during wartime - sacrifices must be made in order to assure your sources remain secret. The NSA only works when they are separated from other departments - the FBI for example, would disclose their ability to use your own cell phone as a bug against you when it comes out in the court transcripts (as did actually happen in an organized crime case.) The NSA works best when you don't know how they are doing it or even what they are doing or their limitations. This is why it is a HUGE deal to them when you know anything about them. Most people don't even know that they are much larger in size than the FBI or CIA.
The Attack on the USPS continues by the 2006 law forcing them to fund pensions of the UNBORN immediately. This created the budget problem from which they suffer despite record throughput (packages up, mail down... a threat to FedEx and UPS as they adapt... you connect the dots.)
Killing Saturday delivery and closing offices went too far and was stopped so without that "solution" new remedies are being explored. This one is going to upset even more people, it is unlikely to be allowed to succeed either. So we wait for the next painful solution to be shot down... Until we fund it with taxes (again, as the founders did) or we allow them to go back to the sane pension funding they had or eliminate the pension or... completely privatize the pension? (if they didn't do that one already - in which case, it's not really a pension is it?)
The 2nd only allows for the people to be armed, it doesn't allow you to ever USE those arms in ANY situation. BIG BIG DIFFERENCE. go read it. No self defense, no hunting; only the right to be armed. There is plenty about not attacking the government in there and elsewhere (see definition of Treason, which they wisely put in there... since that is an extremely abused label.)
It works because it allows for the possibility of illegal arms use -- which is just fine when the system is failing... such as during invasions, civil war, and the inevitable fall into despotism (hey, Franklin said it, it's not just me being realistic.)
Now you could easily read into it that they were intending for state militias and NOT standing armies... they all seemed rather strongly against a military industrial complex... One could interpret the 2nd away from the individualized interpretation and towards communities and states being armed with individuals having no personal right to arms. Due to the necessity of them at that time, a literal statement wasn't made but one could interpret an implied direction without stretching too far (relative to this corrupt activist supreme court, it is hard to stretch further than they have been willing to do.)
Just make me pay when I get new plates. I have to get new plates every X years anyhow. AT LEAST make a special plate for people who pay it all upfront in advance. I should get a discount of all that overhead when I pay upfront.
Too expensive? opt out and pay more because of the processing fees for the stickers. Or they could offer a financing option to pay upfront... for a small fee.
Frankly, I don't see why my car isn't registered with the IRS and they just tax me on it - if I don't use it or junk it, I just tell the DMV and it gets removed... But no, we can't allow integration or anything that makes life easier! We must make people hate government and offer private experts to help us manage the BS...
Carter was proof of the collapse of the peoples' democracy. It happened already, during Nixon (arguably, with the death of JFK.)
Most people don't realize how the system dysfunctions. The president does not have great power, the system is more powerful and when they go with the flow they can appear to have great power - but as soon as they swim upstream they realize they have no actual power. The military will even have generals screw up on purpose if necessary. (Whats dozens of lives vs an agenda?)
Carter didn't play games which became MORE important than governance (always is to some but when it is nearly everything is gaming, it is the beginning of the end.) Carter fought his own party because it had plenty of corruption of it's own. But it is FAR FAR more than just those petty but dominant political games:
We transitioned during Nixon to a P.R. perception machine unlike anything the US had ever seen before and more advanced than Hitler could have dreamed of... all while keeping the pretense of a free press and free speech! It continues to this today. Carter was old-school and the new propaganda system easily defeated reality. Today, they don't even care about even being realistic with their lies on many demographics they control. Nixon and his backers INVENTED the modern "think tank" to do research to counter universities and public research as well as handle propaganda, which dominate the mainstream media today, as well as act as the sole information source for many politicians.
NIXON took us off the GOLD standard, yet Carter was/is blamed to this day by revisionists. That caused low-level problems that the public was never informed about as the symptoms flared up. It put the USA at the mercy of OPEC for starters. It doesn't matter how much OIL the USA has, because if you don't make people buy OIL in US dollars, the money falls flat! That was part of the scheme, replace GOLD with OIL which only could be bought with US dollars. This tied the USA to the middle east more than anything, including our demand for oil! (Carter didn't dare touch the bankers.) It was not possible to go back after that and today it is nearly impossible since we've inflated the value of the dollar so much. Transition planning has been going on.... in think tanks...
Watch "Yes, Minister" because it highlights the power of the support system and the genius of the Nixon era planners at targeting aspects of it.
Doesn't matter how smart you are - hundreds of average people combined will eventually beat you overall.
Not to get picky, because I myself tend to over generalize words too. But the context in this case is CLEAR and context is what saves us from having trouble when we take away 1/3 of english vocab to redundancy brought on by simplification of word definitions.
Exploding stars create matter from energy. Literally create. Not produce or make, which vaguely are synonyms for create. You can slap a sticker on something old and call it a new creation, or make it new or produce something new - all the same. but the context was creating new elements from scratch not producing new elements by tweaking old ones. (which have a LOT invested in them already. I could blow a building over using my lungs! ...The building would have to be at the edge of collapse, now I could claim credit in one sense and in another it would be comical to make such a claim.)
The CIA's job is NOT to spy and NOT be actively involved in operations, it is to RESEARCH and asses like an actual neutral think tank for elected officials (not that propaganda orgs we call think tanks today.) It was devised during FDR, who had way too much information every day that any single person could ever read fast enough let alone make assessments and decisions-- and staffers are not enough because they lack the expertise. It takes a larger staff. Unfortunately, when it was finally created, FDR was dead and Trueman wasn't the man for the job so it didn't turn out like it should have.
Given the denial of reality going on in the USA, one can't see such work being done in collaboration with other nations, or by any other means than by putting it under security or military. I can totally see some Republican opposing anything related to the climate because "man can't change the weather" but completely in support of weaponizing the weather and being unaware of the contradiction.
Even an extremely ignorant leader who doesn't value fact MUST rely upon a large supporting staff and they don't or in many cases can't perform their jobs likewise.
Human made elements are expensive in cost and energy use but as far as I know they never create them legitimately. What we do is take super-nova scale energy investments in existing elements and nudge them into becoming a different element. We don't turn energy into mass yet do we?
The terms in this field are MADE UP and then popularized by people who love new terms so they can sound smart with more jargon to confuse the masses with their "brilliance".
Automated Testing is what it is and it existed before Unit Testing. We really must cut down on the huge number of terms we adopt in this profession and when we do, it should be something that isn't so removed from reality.... like Unit Testing or cookies...
We should shun people who mindlessly go around enforcing these new terms onto others, especially ones as young as Unit Testing.
At least Snowden is a human; they violated the whole thing (Obama was just a disgrace) by awarding the EU the Nobel prize. They could only go lower by awarding MONSANTO the Nobel prize next.
Pick a fight, get hit a couple times; claim fear and shoot. A perfect murder.
Obviously, I wouldn't personally like it if it happened to me. That doesn't matter, it's not relevant. One shouldn't be thinking selfishly when designing policies. Life often sucks and it's not fair, sometimes you are just unlucky.
Most people would rather serve jail time than be dead. To let people just kill for no other reason than their FEAR of serious harm or death-- one can only see a future where paranoid cowards can legally kill many people over their lifetime. A serial killer only has to kill a couple people in a pattern.
Death is a big deal, but somebody else's is not? You seem to think murder is no big deal. Jail SUCKS so does murder/death. Americans love to talk about "debt to society" in regards to crime... well, be consistent and make people pay that debt regardless. Obviously, self defense would get a much lower sentence than premeditated.
I can't wait until a STALKER uses this stuff to kill his victim.
Innocent: no.
Not guilty: yes.
BIG BIG difference.
Anybody who kills should be required to spend time in jail. period. If his life was so much in risk, then serving years in jail would be a totally worthwhile price FOR LIVING. Seriously, even if you are the hero - serving some jail time is a small price to pay. Think about it.
Every cowardly wimp in the USA can now legitimately shoot somebody BEFORE they are beaten up. This is not far from invading Iraq before they WMDed somebody.
Now with no bullying in school, kids will grow up in fear of an ass whooping... I know what it is like to be beaten up; it really isn't all that horrible. You don't die and you do heal... and any permanent damage comes out of the other guy's ass.
You have never lived near some OCD SOB who sticks his authoritarian face into everybody's business because of his major insecurity problems. 1000x worse than the grammar Nazis.
Police are screened, trained, tested. They get a lot of benefit when in doubt (arguably more than they deserve but at least some of it IS DESERVED.)
Zimmerman wouldn't have made it into the police force; perhaps that is what made him such a wannabe.
To an authoritarian, everything looks like Marxism. I bet you don't even really know anything about Marxism!
You probably hate democracy but love the brand "Democracy" not even grasping just how socialist democracies are. Probably you have a similar misunderstanding of the rule of law. Authoritarians seem to have troubles with these...
Civilized law abiding societies DO NOT JAIL EVIL PEOPLE. That is far more like a theocracy... Civil societies jail criminals who are unfit to be let lose in society. This guy isn't even convicted so he isn't a criminal yet, and as far as the information he gave under extreme torture (extreme by any sane measure) that can't be trusted. His treatment is so illegal that not only should all the people involved be in jail, he should be allowed to go free as punishment to the government. If they can jail people they flagrantly disregard the rule of law on (not to mention morality... or religious beliefs...) then what is to stop them from continuing to trample on people's rights?? (you have noticed the government has been moving in this direction ever since...right?)
War crimes and human rights crimes NEED to have repercussions; it is MOST important for the winners, not just the side that loses that the law be followed equally (FYI equality is a necessary part of justice.)
Seems to me the economists that get into pop culture largely are cheerleaders for ideology... You mean to say that there are economists who actually practice honest economics? Wonder why they aren't allowed on TV? (sarcasm)
I tested out of Calc in highschool. I took it in college anyhow. It was a huge shock (mostly because it was 7am) because the AP targeted high school class was a total joke that lacked any understanding and skipped everything not on the AP exam.
America has a culture of fear which is promoted by the marketplace because that is good for business. The free market has downsides as well as upsides. Rose colored glasses don't change reality.
Why is it that Americans always defend themselves by falling back to their PAST accomplishments? The greatest generation has been long out of the picture.
America has money and good higher level educational institutions and that attracts smart people; that continues with little decline. Nobel Prizes are no indication of the populace - why do you think citing one of the most elite awards would mean anything about the culture?
LOL! Yeah, the British speak English because America made them learn it.
You are the one oversimplifying things, my self-centered American friend. 1% of lawyers are nice but that doesn't mean we can't say they belong at the bottom of the sea. Americans are ignorant propaganda fed consumers with little to no concept of civics - NOT EVERYBODY just far too many of them.
I'm a natural born American. Lived in the USA all my life too. I'm so flattered that I'd be mistaken for a European! ;-)
I've been in the working poor in America too. They are nowhere near what passes for poor in other parts of the world. The unemployed poor have it bad and the illegals can have it even worse.
Americans, being so proud of their "democracy" have to take crap about what THEIR government does. You are not innocent. There is more than just voting in another rigged election (and I mean rigged in most interpretations too.)
You need to listen to foreigners who have legitimate gripes and ARE doing more than you by confronting the people who are part of the problem-- even if it is just one citizen. Taking on American tourists and trying to open some eyes (or just encouraging Americans to travel outside their bubble) is doing more than your single vote for candidate Arsenic or candidate Nicotine.
I start the post BEFORE it was modded funny and before the above post. Does everybody write their posts externally and paste them it quickly or what?? a phone call or two and... whatever.
You need to read more. The Dept. of Education? It is a political punching bag and not much more. Dept of Commerce? They are just redundant, as most the government works for the forces of commerce.
The worst isn't a static thing:
FEMA wins for 2006. (you don't need department in your name)
Interior Department. Especially before the BP oil spill (and it's no better today.) They are captured by the industries.
TSA. EVERYBODY complains about the TSA and their illusion of security since it's inception- and more so since they became pedophiles.
FCC: A public resource management dept beating a dead horse when LITERALLY millions said to STOP media consolidation. Not many years passed and here we are again... but without public comment.
FDA. Captured by industry, must be near the worst of the captured (or undemocratic, you pick.) You have to prove many people died to take something off the market; NOT prove it is safe before putting it on the market. They also don't even test things but let the corps do the testing-- EVEN when people died... There was a recent news story on just that common practice. Unfit shit used to be sold to the world at their risk, but now we accept more risk... the EU can test it out on us, unless it's cheap then it can go to Africa...
NSA. it's in the news. Effective? yes. worst by another measure.
The State Dept. could be considered the worst depending on what you mean by worst... effectiveness? no, they are most effective. evil? Worlds biggest corporate lobbyist... In that case they'd be near the top all the time. They task things to other depts too, set policies - they make decisions that make others look bad.
The Military / Pentagon Depts since WW2 when it changed from the "Dept of War" to "Dept of Defense" and ever since. "military intelligence" is a wide spread joke! Losing billions in their budgets every year... multiple overlapping sub-depts / branches... etc. Not to mention the corruption...
CIA. It's charter is solely about processing information for decision makers but it deviated so far one could say it is the worst - because it doesn't follow it's job description. Plus they also made some big mistakes in recent history (or just took the blame.)
IRS: Always resented. People will imagine new ways to hate them.