She is claiming an abuse of process that amounts to legalized extortion, the question is will the judges see it that way. It's highly likely the courts would agree with Jamie in Australia, which is why we don't have this problem.
While I agree with you about the heath system, one decision is merely an anecdote. Over my 50yr lifetime as a non-american, it appears SCOTUS have often come down on the side of the little guy, or the unpopular (but correct) guy. The fact that at different times they piss off different political/economic groups is also an indication of a real court. Kinda sad how so many people write them off as corrupt before they've even decided whether to hear the case or not.
I think every time an officer uses a taser on someone, the officer should receive a taser shot 2x - just to make him evaluate whether the taser is really necessary in a situation.
There are plenty of legitimate uses for tazers and they are preferable to clubs and real guns for the majority of violent confrontations. Cops are already shot with tazers as part of their training BEFORE they are let loose on the public, it simply unreasonable to inflict corporal punishment on a cop for using a tazer appropriately.
Sounds to me like cop #2 just couldn't be bothered dealing with her crap on that particular day. Taking the lazy option is understandable, but it's still inexcusable behavior for that kind of job.
Aussie here, similar tax bracket, similar government services, similar attitude towards taxes. I too forgo the $500 "high earners" rebate for private insurance. I would much rather the public insurance fund got that money than give it to people who encourage you to spend it on "alternative medicine" insurance. I don't think that is an efficient use of my health dollars. Having said that, there are good "creature comfort" reasons to buy it, so it not an intolerable compromise. I just chose to spend mine on the government system because IMHO they offer the biggest bang per rebate buck.
As an Aussie on holiday in the UK I became very ill with a bad throat infection. Went to the local casualty somewhere in Scotland, after waiting about 20 minutes I was seen by a doctor who gave me a course of antibiotics. When I asked him how do I pay for the visit and the drugs, he said "no charge, just show the front desk your passport". Apparently we do the same for pommy tourists.:)
Dunno, but I bet it's pretty close to the number of people who have enough money to make it worthwhile. The taxing of powerful merchants has always been a tricky business (re: Magna Carta), in most countries it's more of a negotiation between opposing accountants than it is a mathematical formula, governments often have tax office reps permanently working in the finance departments of multi-nationals.
I didn't like the idea of a 10% GST in Australia when it came to pass, but having lived with it as both a small business and personally I think a flat tax at the point of sale it's a good way to offset some of the worst side-effects of combining globalized merchants and nationalized jurisdictions. It's not THE solution but it reduced a legal minefield of state and federal sales taxes, levies, duties, etc, into a single form it's part of it. Even if it's made to be revenue neutral from a taxation POV, the red tape savings for everyone are immense. Same goes for what your government laughingly calls a health "system". These things "don't work" in the US, not because of a lack of resources or skills. They "don't work" because the political will to fix the actual core problems does not exist in sufficient strength to break the ideological impasse and just do what others have proven works better than what they've got now.
Up until very recently the votes in the UN that were about either Syria or Israel followed the same lines as they did during the cold war. ie: one half supported Syria without question while the other half did the same for Israel. The veto holding nations are still playing the same "proxy wars" game they got into after winning WW2. Yes, it's Machiavellian insanity, but it's all we have and it's more tolerable (survivable) than a hot war.
Picture a spinning top, if the axis is no absolutely vertical the axis itself will "spin" around a different axis, the point where both axis intersect is where the top is touching the floor. The second axis does not pass through the top, it is at a tangent to the floor end of the tops primary spin axis. I believe it what's known as "procession" and that the Earth also displays the phenomena, but I'm too lazy to google it. If you never had a gyroscope as a kid go out and get one, they are just as "miraculous" as magnets.
Agree, there are thousands of planes flying straight at each other over the N. Hemisphere, we don't leave that to luck, we use traffic control. Why not a similar deal with space?
IIRC there are less than 15 nations who have the capability to launch a satellite and none of them achieved it entirely on their own. Knowing how to build an ICBM is quite different to actually building one, there's a whole host of prerequisite technologies that you need, a huge problem when you're an impoverished hermit nation.
If you think nerds are only interested in computers and math then it's obvious you know nothing about them. There are plenty of hard questions nerds have for fracking proponents, and nerds think science is the ONLY way to answer them. Corruption of an alpha nerd in that scientific process is indeed news for other nerds, ignoring it is not an option for "good nerds".
Gore doesn't personally get a financial benefit from his "green activities", they are not "his" companies they are non-profit organizations and the money is held in trust. Besides, Gore doesn't hide the fact he is associated with those organizations, he advertises it every chance he gets. He does have a personal fortune of ~$100M, that pile existed long before he founded those organizations and I very much doubt that growing it bigger is his primary aim in life.
Like him or loath him, at the end of the day Gore's work on climate change is philanthropy and should be recognized as such.
Here in Australia there is a subtle difference between a brush fire and a bush fire. A brush fire can help forests grow and indeed some species of trees can't germinate without it. A bushfire can kill a human with radiant heat from 200 meters away and melt a cars windscreen, it can have a column of smoke up to 15km high and can create it's own local weather, which incidentally is why they are sometimes called fire storms. Australia is currently getting the rain from the El-Nina phenomena and S.America is getting the dry. Rain forests don't normally have brush fires let alone bush fires, they are normally wet underfoot because they largely create their own rain.
I work for a large Japanese corporation with >150K employees, they sell indirect access to our corporate in-boxes to spammers. They call it a "social club" and advertisers offer specials "exclusive to company X employees", they are broadcast by HR once or twice a week and tailored to fit the geographical location. Personally I don't mind being paid to delete spam.
But there is a mention of a Pirate Party member being against it. I think this is a good indication that the change is not for the better.
I have nothing against the PP I think they (like many politicians) have genuinely good intentions but the reality is they are single issue ideolgical perfectionists just like their sworn enemies. It's said that "perfection is the enemy of progress", the fact that a PP politician doesn't like this new system does not really indicate that's it's any better or worse, it just indicates it doesn't perfectly align with his ideology. The majority of politicians who actually make the descisions are not single issue politicians, and they're anything but perfectionists.
I'm all for legal guns, I saw what happened in Australia after legal guns were banned and bad guys had a free for all on unarmed citizens.
No, you fell for some of the same type of propoganda you are ranting about. Australia hasn't banned all guns, I have owned guns in the past, my brother in law is a gun collector and has over 30 pistols all in working order, I have been with him to the range and used some of them. NSW recently leaglised the hunting of vermin species such as fox, rabbits, pigs, in National parks!
Specefically what was banned 20-odd years ago was semi-automatic rifles and pump action shot guns, bolt action or two barrels is ok. There was also an overhaul of the licensing regiems, the most symbolic being that "self defense" was no longer a valid reason to apply for a license.
Most of us are smart enough to know that guns are not the problem. Drug dealers use guns in crimes, which is not a "gun" problem but rather a drug problem.
People are the problem, guns are just the way SOME people resolve disputes over resources, especially ANY black market resource.
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"In my court you are guilty until proven innocent, it would be unfair to try an innocent man." - Q from star trek.
Kind of appropriate considering the number of slashdotters who have preemptively convicted SCOTUS in this thread.
She is claiming an abuse of process that amounts to legalized extortion, the question is will the judges see it that way. It's highly likely the courts would agree with Jamie in Australia, which is why we don't have this problem.
While I agree with you about the heath system, one decision is merely an anecdote. Over my 50yr lifetime as a non-american, it appears SCOTUS have often come down on the side of the little guy, or the unpopular (but correct) guy. The fact that at different times they piss off different political/economic groups is also an indication of a real court. Kinda sad how so many people write them off as corrupt before they've even decided whether to hear the case or not.
I think every time an officer uses a taser on someone, the officer should receive a taser shot 2x - just to make him evaluate whether the taser is really necessary in a situation.
There are plenty of legitimate uses for tazers and they are preferable to clubs and real guns for the majority of violent confrontations. Cops are already shot with tazers as part of their training BEFORE they are let loose on the public, it simply unreasonable to inflict corporal punishment on a cop for using a tazer appropriately.
Sounds to me like cop #2 just couldn't be bothered dealing with her crap on that particular day. Taking the lazy option is understandable, but it's still inexcusable behavior for that kind of job.
Aussie here, similar tax bracket, similar government services, similar attitude towards taxes. I too forgo the $500 "high earners" rebate for private insurance. I would much rather the public insurance fund got that money than give it to people who encourage you to spend it on "alternative medicine" insurance. I don't think that is an efficient use of my health dollars. Having said that, there are good "creature comfort" reasons to buy it, so it not an intolerable compromise. I just chose to spend mine on the government system because IMHO they offer the biggest bang per rebate buck.
:)
As an Aussie on holiday in the UK I became very ill with a bad throat infection. Went to the local casualty somewhere in Scotland, after waiting about 20 minutes I was seen by a doctor who gave me a course of antibiotics. When I asked him how do I pay for the visit and the drugs, he said "no charge, just show the front desk your passport". Apparently we do the same for pommy tourists.
Dunno, but I bet it's pretty close to the number of people who have enough money to make it worthwhile. The taxing of powerful merchants has always been a tricky business (re: Magna Carta), in most countries it's more of a negotiation between opposing accountants than it is a mathematical formula, governments often have tax office reps permanently working in the finance departments of multi-nationals.
I didn't like the idea of a 10% GST in Australia when it came to pass, but having lived with it as both a small business and personally I think a flat tax at the point of sale it's a good way to offset some of the worst side-effects of combining globalized merchants and nationalized jurisdictions. It's not THE solution but it reduced a legal minefield of state and federal sales taxes, levies, duties, etc, into a single form it's part of it. Even if it's made to be revenue neutral from a taxation POV, the red tape savings for everyone are immense. Same goes for what your government laughingly calls a health "system". These things "don't work" in the US, not because of a lack of resources or skills. They "don't work" because the political will to fix the actual core problems does not exist in sufficient strength to break the ideological impasse and just do what others have proven works better than what they've got now.
Up until very recently the votes in the UN that were about either Syria or Israel followed the same lines as they did during the cold war. ie: one half supported Syria without question while the other half did the same for Israel. The veto holding nations are still playing the same "proxy wars" game they got into after winning WW2. Yes, it's Machiavellian insanity, but it's all we have and it's more tolerable (survivable) than a hot war.
Picture a spinning top, if the axis is no absolutely vertical the axis itself will "spin" around a different axis, the point where both axis intersect is where the top is touching the floor. The second axis does not pass through the top, it is at a tangent to the floor end of the tops primary spin axis. I believe it what's known as "procession" and that the Earth also displays the phenomena, but I'm too lazy to google it. If you never had a gyroscope as a kid go out and get one, they are just as "miraculous" as magnets.
Agree, there are thousands of planes flying straight at each other over the N. Hemisphere, we don't leave that to luck, we use traffic control. Why not a similar deal with space?
IIRC there are less than 15 nations who have the capability to launch a satellite and none of them achieved it entirely on their own. Knowing how to build an ICBM is quite different to actually building one, there's a whole host of prerequisite technologies that you need, a huge problem when you're an impoverished hermit nation.
Free and open are two different things.
Hitler is the attorney general for Belize now?
If you think nerds are only interested in computers and math then it's obvious you know nothing about them. There are plenty of hard questions nerds have for fracking proponents, and nerds think science is the ONLY way to answer them. Corruption of an alpha nerd in that scientific process is indeed news for other nerds, ignoring it is not an option for "good nerds".
Gore doesn't personally get a financial benefit from his "green activities", they are not "his" companies they are non-profit organizations and the money is held in trust. Besides, Gore doesn't hide the fact he is associated with those organizations, he advertises it every chance he gets. He does have a personal fortune of ~$100M, that pile existed long before he founded those organizations and I very much doubt that growing it bigger is his primary aim in life.
Like him or loath him, at the end of the day Gore's work on climate change is philanthropy and should be recognized as such.
Here in Australia there is a subtle difference between a brush fire and a bush fire. A brush fire can help forests grow and indeed some species of trees can't germinate without it. A bushfire can kill a human with radiant heat from 200 meters away and melt a cars windscreen, it can have a column of smoke up to 15km high and can create it's own local weather, which incidentally is why they are sometimes called fire storms. Australia is currently getting the rain from the El-Nina phenomena and S.America is getting the dry. Rain forests don't normally have brush fires let alone bush fires, they are normally wet underfoot because they largely create their own rain.
I work for a large Japanese corporation with >150K employees, they sell indirect access to our corporate in-boxes to spammers. They call it a "social club" and advertisers offer specials "exclusive to company X employees", they are broadcast by HR once or twice a week and tailored to fit the geographical location. Personally I don't mind being paid to delete spam.
The two worlds are not mutually exclusive, that paradox pretty much describes the general trend in global development since at least WW2.
Put them in a space ship with phone sanitizers and blast them to another planet.
Technically brilliant and socially incompetent. I'm surprised he doesn't have a slashdot account. ;)
I think you have the wrong thread.....and possibly the wrong medication.
Too young to remember the space race, eh?
Devil's advocate: Life expectancy has doubled under the practice you have no name for..
But there is a mention of a Pirate Party member being against it. I think this is a good indication that the change is not for the better.
I have nothing against the PP I think they (like many politicians) have genuinely good intentions but the reality is they are single issue ideolgical perfectionists just like their sworn enemies. It's said that "perfection is the enemy of progress", the fact that a PP politician doesn't like this new system does not really indicate that's it's any better or worse, it just indicates it doesn't perfectly align with his ideology. The majority of politicians who actually make the descisions are not single issue politicians, and they're anything but perfectionists.
I'm all for legal guns, I saw what happened in Australia after legal guns were banned and bad guys had a free for all on unarmed citizens.
No, you fell for some of the same type of propoganda you are ranting about. Australia hasn't banned all guns, I have owned guns in the past, my brother in law is a gun collector and has over 30 pistols all in working order, I have been with him to the range and used some of them. NSW recently leaglised the hunting of vermin species such as fox, rabbits, pigs, in National parks!
Specefically what was banned 20-odd years ago was semi-automatic rifles and pump action shot guns, bolt action or two barrels is ok. There was also an overhaul of the licensing regiems, the most symbolic being that "self defense" was no longer a valid reason to apply for a license.
Most of us are smart enough to know that guns are not the problem. Drug dealers use guns in crimes, which is not a "gun" problem but rather a drug problem.
People are the problem, guns are just the way SOME people resolve disputes over resources, especially ANY black market resource.