On the contrary, I learned to ride a bike by copying others eactly "Hmmm 433.72 milliseconds into the ride, that means a 2 degree right turn on the handlebars, and left foot reaches top dead center..."
Hiding court records except on a case by case basis when absolutely necessary is a menace to society.
But an even bigger menace is overturning the "innocent and proven guilty" principle. By that principle, anyone acquitted of a crime should not be penalized in any way or treated differently to any other innocent person.
These searchable court records were causing exactly that to happen - uncovering unfounded allegations has suddenly become practical.
One of the major points of a free society is the openness of courts. The reason is that it's a lot harder to engage in shenanigans if you know that the public has the ability to attend the proceedings or view the record.
But, the courts need to be open primarily so that people can scrutinize the courts and judge it's actions (that's our job), but not necessarily to allow people to scrutinize and judge each other. That's the job of the court.
3rd possiblity: blustery pompous asshat puts laptop in desk drawer before going home. Next morning he comes in and can't see laptop on the desk where "I left it right there" and starts shouting about theft?
Because, after all, the only reason to disagree with any of the things he and his cohorts have done is irrational hatred. It has nothing to do with subverting the Constitution he swore to protect, failing to prevent a major terrorist attack despite warnings, unapologetic law-breaking, stove-piping intelligence to justify a war of aggression and an occupation that's trashing our armed forces and our economy, gutting the balance of powers, alienating long-time allies, making the tax burden even more regressive, hamstringing prosecution of marketplace abuses, blatantly politicizing the Justice Department, rewriting science in the name of ideology, or any other similarly whiny little complaint.
It's the "What have the Romans ever done for us" in reverse:
Yeah, but apart from the subverting of the constitution, the terrorist attacks, the lawbreaking, the fabricated case for war, the economy going down the drain, the imbalance of powers, the alienation, the tax burden, the socially destructive marketplace abuses, the Justice Department and the re-writing of science...
Another explanation is that our speech developed to use the frequencies they use because that's what our ears responded to best.
Isn't that like postulating that giraffes might just happen to have long necks, and that's why they go looking for tall trees to eat?
It is possible that our hearing specialisation occurred for some other purpose, but (as an admitted lay person) I haven't seen any reason to believe that humans have any auditory gifts denied the other mammals.
Well I've almost never had issues with ZA over quite a few years. I'd rather have the malicious probes wasting my fast, underused network bandwith than have the hassle of setting up and maintaining yet another piece of equipment. (Especially anything to do with networks!)
Also, wouldn't it be a bit much to have 3 devices (cable modem, firewall, router) to run a network that has only 2 computers attached? Or even worse to landfill a perfectly adequate router to get one with a firewall that I clearly don't actually need?
You can be convicted for muder without a body. However, you cannot be convicted of murder without proof that a murder was actually committed (at least, beyond reasonable doubt).
E.g. being in a gang and owning a gun that theoretically could be used for the murder of an (unspecified) theoretical victim isn't enough.
Don't be to quick to dismiss PETA, not only are many of their points valid, they also organise hotties in bikinis for the protests. I hope that Jack Thomson doesn't go that far.
"And please, no vegan rants - England looked at a random sampling of 1000 people who reached the age of 100, and only 4 were vegetarians, all the rest ate meat routinely."
Without knowing what proportion of people born in 1908 are/were vegetarian late in life, that "only" is a bit premature.
(Are we going to have a Guitar Hero health scare when we find only 1 in 1,000 octegenarians play Guitar Hero - clearly if you want to live to be 80, don't play it!)
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No. Read the bill; e.g. whilst it is perfectly legal for your girlfriend to put on make up and pretend to be a corpse whilst you have sex with her, photographs of that act (i.e. a "realistic portrayal") would certainly fall under the act and lead to up to three years imprisonment.
IIRC, 3 years is nearly half a rape (7 years) or 20% of a murder (15)
Would legalizing drugs effectively begin the war on stupidity? Nope, that would be a War on Organised Criminals as they would suddenly loose most of their income.
Because, only the stupid would use the drugs, and hopefully remove themselves from the gene pool. In the UK, there are around 180,000 avoidable deaths each year due to tobacco and alcohol. Illegal drugs cause around 100 per year. So the only War on Idiocy that would result from the legalisation of drugs IMHO would be war on the the stupidity in politics to allow this situation to continue, and the stupidity of placing otherwise productive members of society in expensive, tax-paid prisons for possession of small amounts of drugs.
has good medical insurance for my friends who need CPAP machines to sleep well
I can't understand why the majority of US citizens are lining up to put their love spuds on a block and hand their boss a cleaver (metaphorically speaking), by their deep rooted distrust of social medicine.
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On the contrary, I learned to ride a bike by copying others eactly "Hmmm 433.72 milliseconds into the ride, that means a 2 degree right turn on the handlebars, and left foot reaches top dead center..."
http://www.lep.co.uk/news/Councillors-spy-camera-anger.4425535.jp
Politician approves of CCTV - until they put one outside his own house.
Hiding court records except on a case by case basis when absolutely necessary is a menace to society.
But an even bigger menace is overturning the "innocent and proven guilty" principle. By that principle, anyone acquitted of a crime should not be penalized in any way or treated differently to any other innocent person. These searchable court records were causing exactly that to happen - uncovering unfounded allegations has suddenly become practical.
One of the major points of a free society is the openness of courts. The reason is that it's a lot harder to engage in shenanigans if you know that the public has the ability to attend the proceedings or view the record.
But, the courts need to be open primarily so that people can scrutinize the courts and judge it's actions (that's our job), but not necessarily to allow people to scrutinize and judge each other. That's the job of the court.
3rd possiblity: blustery pompous asshat puts laptop in desk drawer before going home. Next morning he comes in and can't see laptop on the desk where "I left it right there" and starts shouting about theft?
Six line post? When you could have just written "B-b-but Clinton..."?
Because, after all, the only reason to disagree with any of the things he and his cohorts have done is irrational hatred. It has nothing to do with subverting the Constitution he swore to protect, failing to prevent a major terrorist attack despite warnings, unapologetic law-breaking, stove-piping intelligence to justify a war of aggression and an occupation that's trashing our armed forces and our economy, gutting the balance of powers, alienating long-time allies, making the tax burden even more regressive, hamstringing prosecution of marketplace abuses, blatantly politicizing the Justice Department, rewriting science in the name of ideology, or any other similarly whiny little complaint.
It's the "What have the Romans ever done for us" in reverse:
Yeah, but apart from the subverting of the constitution, the terrorist attacks, the lawbreaking, the fabricated case for war, the economy going down the drain, the imbalance of powers, the alienation, the tax burden, the socially destructive marketplace abuses, the Justice Department and the re-writing of science...
... what have Bushes ever done to us?
You are a very public spirited person and you gave that jerk a lot more of your time than he deserves.
My favourite bit was that he was in too much of a hurry to read the tutorial, but he had plenty of time to be a jerk in his long, long postings
Though most policemen are good people... Most of these abuses are not reported by other cops because of guaranteed retribution
In my book, that makes those "other cops" bad policemen.
We need the anonymous blogs...
Or more Policemen that respect their badges and what they stand for?
While the odds of a false match are supposed to be only 1 in 113 BILLION, a search over only 65,000 records turned up 122 matches! About 1 in 533!!
FTA
"Troyer compared all 65,000 profiles in Arizona's database to each other, resulting in about 2 billion comparisons."
Another explanation is that our speech developed to use the frequencies they use because that's what our ears responded to best.
Isn't that like postulating that giraffes might just happen to have long necks, and that's why they go looking for tall trees to eat? It is possible that our hearing specialisation occurred for some other purpose, but (as an admitted lay person) I haven't seen any reason to believe that humans have any auditory gifts denied the other mammals.
Well I've almost never had issues with ZA over quite a few years. I'd rather have the malicious probes wasting my fast, underused network bandwith than have the hassle of setting up and maintaining yet another piece of equipment. (Especially anything to do with networks!)
Also, wouldn't it be a bit much to have 3 devices (cable modem, firewall, router) to run a network that has only 2 computers attached? Or even worse to landfill a perfectly adequate router to get one with a firewall that I clearly don't actually need?
Why not count the number of wars in Europe BEFORE and AFTER the introduction of color TV?
I don't know... maybe because the stated goal of introducing color TV wasn't to make warfare between the Western European nations impossible?
"Can you be convicted of murder without a body?"
Not the same thing.
You can be convicted for muder without a body. However, you cannot be convicted of murder without proof that a murder was actually committed (at least, beyond reasonable doubt).
E.g. being in a gang and owning a gun that theoretically could be used for the murder of an (unspecified) theoretical victim isn't enough.
Don't be to quick to dismiss PETA, not only are many of their points valid, they also organise hotties in bikinis for the protests. I hope that Jack Thomson doesn't go that far.
Kind of like the duck that dances on top of an inverted kettle... it doesn't work if you forget to put the candle under the kettle!
It actually works for most animals, although you need to scale up from kettle to tin roof to do it with a cat
:)
Well, I have a policy that if you're visiting my house and you have a bag of dog pooh, you have to leave that outside. Is that thuggery?
Without knowing what proportion of people born in 1908 are/were vegetarian late in life, that "only" is a bit premature.
(Are we going to have a Guitar Hero health scare when we find only 1 in 1,000 octegenarians play Guitar Hero - clearly if you want to live to be 80, don't play it!)
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Yeah, nothing gives a kid a great start in life like having unhappy workaholic parents.
I think talk about "providing for the family" is often more about pride and materialistic fetishism than about child welfare.
Sexy outfits?
IIRC, 3 years is nearly half a rape (7 years) or 20% of a murder (15)
Are you saying that Middle Earth could have managed without a Jar Jar Binks?
I can't understand why the majority of US citizens are lining up to put their love spuds on a block and hand their boss a cleaver (metaphorically speaking), by their deep rooted distrust of social medicine.
DSThen the patent applicant can fight its way through the court system to show ... [its patent] has no prior art.
And you prove that exactly how?