Good thing the constitution forbids double jeopardy.
But, unfortunately, not final jeopardy.
Besides that pesky Constitution thing is going away with PATRIOT III:The (Rights) Terminator!
PATRIOT III, This time it's personal!
PATRIOT III, filmed in Camp X-Ray-o-Vision!
PATRIOT III, the beatings will continue until moral improves!!!
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Answers to your questions....
1. We will remove it for you sir, but that will cost you 50c
Forget about it, I'll shop somewhere else.
2. Why do you want to remove it sir, what have you got to hide?
See answer to question 1
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I think trying to find a store that won't charge to remove them will be like trying to find an ATM that doesn't charge a service fee. Hint, they all do, they just differ in how much they charge you.
Did you read my post at all? A terrorist, by definition uses terror to further their aims. I quoted Winston Churchill who said the bombing was, "...to increase the terror..."!
D'oh! Yes, and I also forgot that he did play the Doctor in a short spoof called, "The Curse of the Fatal Death" which also ended with a female Doctor.
Still, I'd like to see him do it on a regular basis anyway.
The PLO recognizes Israel's right to exist, according to the Oslo Agreements, and was signed by Yassar Arafat. Here's the relevant text:
A letter on key issues of the PLO and Israel, addressed to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, was signed by Yasser Arafat on September 9, 1993. The letter says specifically that:
* The PLO recognizes the right of the State of Israel to exist in peace and security.
* The PLO accepts United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338
* The PLO commits itself to the Middle East peace process... all outstanding issues... will be resolved through negotiations
*... the PLO renounces the use of terrorism and other acts of violence and will assume responsibility over all PLO elements and personnel in order to assure their compliance, prevent violations and discipline violators
*... those articles of the Palestinian Covenant which deny Israel's right to exist, and the provisions of the Covenant which are inconsistent with the commitments of this letter are now inoperative and no longer valid
*... the PLO undertakes to submit to the Palestinian National Council for formal approval the necessary changes in regard to the Palestinian Covenant.
Rabin gave a letter in exchange to Arafat, also dated September 9, saying:
*... Israel has decided to recognize the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people and commence negotiations with the PLO within the Middle East peace process"
Legitimizing those attacks as a military campaign wouldn't make it any less terrorism - they're non-combatants (as under the Geneva Convention) carrying out a pseudo-military mission of genocide.
Funny how this definition isn't applied to the bombings conducted by the US and Britian during World War II which were specifically targeted against civilians. This was known as the "Hayes campaign", named after General Hayes who came up with the idea of murdering civilians in order to "reduce the enemy's desire to wage war".
Here's a quote from Winston Churchill which timidly criticises this policy a few weeks before the war ended:
'It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, [my emphasis] though under other pretexts, should be reviewed... The destruction of Dresden remains a serious query against the conduct of Allied bombing.
Funny how neither Churchill nor Roosevelt had any problems with bombing civilians up to this point. Now, of course, anyone who does so is a terrorist. But given this historical fact can't we say that both Britian and the US are terrorist nations too?
Actually Slashdot is a blog, only instead of Commander Taco posting his personal opinions on stories in the news he gets us to submit them.
Blah, blah, blah, whine, whine, whine...
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Let me guess, you'd also complain about MSNBC had the story been about a bunch of notoriously right-wing Americans publishing the same deck of cards with various French officials' pictures on it, right Mr. "Fair & Objective"?
...basically your all hung up because you can't say nigger, right? You really must feel the need to say it or otherwise you wouldn't be so upset about it, now would you?
Frankly, outside of a few Los Angeles and San Francisco schools the big, bad, "left" boggie man
has had absolutely no effect on school books. If you go anywhere else in the US you'll see the right and religious fundamentalists having far more impact than any other group.
But according to pinheads such as yourself, that's the way it should be.
Oh, by the way, what part of 200 years of slavery, Native American genocide, an additional 100 years of black apartide, support of dictatorships and neo-colonialism in Central and South American and the backing of brutual dictatorships around the world for the last fifty years shouldn't be considered demonic?
Global Warming is a contentcious issue (but so is the moon landing and the holocaust.. both of which I tend to believe actually occured...)
I quite agree, those who deny the human influence in global warming are indeed just like the holocaust and moon landing deniers.
About fifteen or so years ago these same people denied that there was any global warming occuring. They also cloaked themselves in the mantle of science (but without any real science to back themselves up) and mocked those who disagreed as being unscientific.
Now that global warming is undeniable they've retreated to claiming, "But it isn't human activity that caused it!" with the same lack of scientific evidence.
. No clear definition of the mentor-postdoc relationship: basically, your mentor makes or breaks your career. About the only thing you can make complaints on your mentor is sexual harassment. In all other regards of your postdoc training, you are essentially at your P.I.'s mercy. If you have a personality clash with him/her, they can screw you big time. If you have a personality clash with someone else in the lab and they get along better with the P.I., you can get screwed big time. If your experimental results , even if they are indisputably correct, do not jive with their pet theories, they can decide not to publish your work, and you get screwed big time. Heck, they can turn out to be simply assholes, and you are screwed big time. The bottom line is, they answer to no one but their grant reviewers, who are not particularly concerned with postdoc welfare. While most departments have scientific advisory boards and undergo yearly reviews, those reviews are scientitfic in nature and do not really address personnel issues. It is my understanding in most professional fields (law, medicine, etc.) there are standards of behavior that are upheld by professional organizations (state bar, medical review board, etc.). There is no such accountability with regards to personnel, especially postdocs, in science.
To be honest, this also true of the private sector. Just substitute PHB for PI and you have an exact description of the way things work in the Fortune 500.
So, why did the US politicians put in place a minimum wage and labor laws?
Well, if you were familiar at all with history you would know it was because of a combination of union activity, 'muckracker' journalists like Upton Sinclair, liberal/leftist politicians, and general public outcry about the fact that workers were being killed, mutilated, poisoned, and worked to death for starvation wages all the while the owners of capital lived lives no different in decadence, greed, and ignorance than the French aristocracy of Marie Antoniete.
But you go ahead continue to kiss the ass of the wealthy while they suck the life out of the US. I'll never understand apologists, such as yourself, who will lie in the gutter defending those who put them there.
Read the comments to the "Backlash" article. In one of them a person describes how x-rays and other medical test data are being off-shored to India where it's interpreted saving the cost of having a local doctor interpret the results. Sorry, but there isn't an industry that isn't going off-shore.
Anyway, not that I really think that I'll ever have one attached to my car... But given that I'm a radical, i.e., I believe in a constitutionally limited government and that people have inalienable rights that can be inconvienient to fascists like Asscroft, I might be targeted for such a device in the future. Any tips on searching one's car for such devices?
For example, imagine if the police were in a high speed chase. Rather than risking bystanders, if the police had a good picture of the driver, then tagged the car with a tracking device and let the car go. In such cases, the tracking device is not really gathering evidence but simplifying the act of catching a person who committed a crime.
No warrent would be needed for this because the officer(s) are present while the crime is being conducted, high speed chase, et al.
Just to let you know that the police on this side of the pond are just as useless as well. Let me give you a poignant example.
I went to a local bar with a female friend of mine (yeah, just friends). Anyway, the bar in question is a biker bar, but the bikers are a friendly lot and a good friend of mine was playing in the band that night.
When I mentioned the bar name she got nervous because a guy who used to stalk her hung out there. She had a court order for the guy to stay away from her but it had expired a few months before. I told her that if he was there we could leave if she felt uncomfortable. She said that was o.k. and so we went there.
About halfway through the night the guy shows up. I asked her if she wanted to leave, but she said no because he was hanging out with some other female in the back of the place.
Everything seemed to go o.k. until the end of the night when the band stopped and the bar was closing. All of a sudden the stalker lunges at her screaming, "Hi Elaine! Hi Elaine!" (neither she nor I have no idea why he was saying this). Anyway the bouncer tackles the guy and has to drag him out of the place. She says that she needed to go to the police because the court said to report anytime he tried anything.
Well we got there and spent forty-five minutes with an officer who did his best to explain why they couldn't do anything. This despite the fact that the guy:
Had previously been convicted of stalking her.
Had caused such a commotion that the bouncer at the bar had to physically drag the guy out.
Had done this in front of dozens of witnesses
But it was to no avail and the cops weren't even going to bother to question the bouncer at the bar. "We don't know where to find him." the office complained. "He fucking works at such-and-such bar every day! He's not exactly hard to find!" was my reply to this lame ass excuse. But the cop refused to do anything.
This is not the only example of police malfeance that I personally have withnessed, just the most recent.
Rubberhose is FAR more clever than that. I wish all the critical posts (and not just the one I'm responding to) would check out the damn link out rather than stupidly arguing about something that you admit you have no idea about.
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Besides that pesky Constitution thing is going away with PATRIOT III:The (Rights) Terminator!
PATRIOT III, This time it's personal!
PATRIOT III, filmed in Camp X-Ray-o-Vision!
PATRIOT III, the beatings will continue until moral improves!!!
I think trying to find a store that won't charge to remove them will be like trying to find an ATM that doesn't charge a service fee. Hint, they all do, they just differ in how much they charge you.
Q fucking E D!
Still, I'd like to see him do it on a regular basis anyway.
Here's a quote from Winston Churchill which timidly criticises this policy a few weeks before the war ended:
You can read more about it here.Funny how neither Churchill nor Roosevelt had any problems with bombing civilians up to this point. Now, of course, anyone who does so is a terrorist. But given this historical fact can't we say that both Britian and the US are terrorist nations too?
Let me guess, you'd also complain about MSNBC had the story been about a bunch of notoriously right-wing Americans publishing the same deck of cards with various French officials' pictures on it, right Mr. "Fair & Objective"?
Although he's definitely my favorite. I propose Rowan Atkins!
"Anything that can be abused, WILL BE abused."
Just asking...
Frankly, outside of a few Los Angeles and San Francisco schools the big, bad, "left" boggie man has had absolutely no effect on school books. If you go anywhere else in the US you'll see the right and religious fundamentalists having far more impact than any other group.
But according to pinheads such as yourself, that's the way it should be.
Oh, by the way, what part of 200 years of slavery, Native American genocide, an additional 100 years of black apartide, support of dictatorships and neo-colonialism in Central and South American and the backing of brutual dictatorships around the world for the last fifty years shouldn't be considered demonic?
"Maternity"
About fifteen or so years ago these same people denied that there was any global warming occuring. They also cloaked themselves in the mantle of science (but without any real science to back themselves up) and mocked those who disagreed as being unscientific.
Now that global warming is undeniable they've retreated to claiming, "But it isn't human activity that caused it!" with the same lack of scientific evidence.
(sound of uncontrolled sobbing)
But you go ahead continue to kiss the ass of the wealthy while they suck the life out of the US. I'll never understand apologists, such as yourself, who will lie in the gutter defending those who put them there.
Read the comments to the "Backlash" article. In one of them a person describes how x-rays and other medical test data are being off-shored to India where it's interpreted saving the cost of having a local doctor interpret the results. Sorry, but there isn't an industry that isn't going off-shore.
Anyway, not that I really think that I'll ever have one attached to my car... But given that I'm a radical, i.e., I believe in a constitutionally limited government and that people have inalienable rights that can be inconvienient to fascists like Asscroft, I might be targeted for such a device in the future. Any tips on searching one's car for such devices?
I think the grandparent post was joking...maybe...
I went to a local bar with a female friend of mine (yeah, just friends). Anyway, the bar in question is a biker bar, but the bikers are a friendly lot and a good friend of mine was playing in the band that night.
When I mentioned the bar name she got nervous because a guy who used to stalk her hung out there. She had a court order for the guy to stay away from her but it had expired a few months before. I told her that if he was there we could leave if she felt uncomfortable. She said that was o.k. and so we went there.
About halfway through the night the guy shows up. I asked her if she wanted to leave, but she said no because he was hanging out with some other female in the back of the place.
Everything seemed to go o.k. until the end of the night when the band stopped and the bar was closing. All of a sudden the stalker lunges at her screaming, "Hi Elaine! Hi Elaine!" (neither she nor I have no idea why he was saying this). Anyway the bouncer tackles the guy and has to drag him out of the place. She says that she needed to go to the police because the court said to report anytime he tried anything.
Well we got there and spent forty-five minutes with an officer who did his best to explain why they couldn't do anything. This despite the fact that the guy:
But it was to no avail and the cops weren't even going to bother to question the bouncer at the bar. "We don't know where to find him." the office complained. "He fucking works at such-and-such bar every day! He's not exactly hard to find!" was my reply to this lame ass excuse. But the cop refused to do anything.
This is not the only example of police malfeance that I personally have withnessed, just the most recent.
Rubberhose is FAR more clever than that. I wish all the critical posts (and not just the one I'm responding to) would check out the damn link out rather than stupidly arguing about something that you admit you have no idea about.
SARS isn't as infectious, but it's actually more deadly than the 1918 influenza.