Not very, but he's always free to institute a civil suit to receive recompense for unjust takings under either the 5th or the 14th Amendment (depending on if it was state police or federal police who took his property). The law provides the remedies; the problem is that 99% of the people who are victims don't know the law, and most of them (thanks to successful media campaigns) don't like lawyers, when lawyers are the only ones who are willing to help them through this and see that justice is done. Sad situation, huh?
Thankfully, there are lots of "Access to Justice" programs springing up to make sure that people who wouldn't otherwise know about their legal rights to a remedy learn about them and can pursue them.
Most constitutional rights aren't supposed to come with criminal penalties for their violation. Look, the Bill of Rights acts as a set of restraints on "the sovereign," or the embodiment of the will of the people in a constitutional republic -- the "feds," so to speak. But just because it's on the law books and there's a violation of it doesn't make it criminal. There is always a remedy available to the wronged party, even if there's not a criminal process for adressing that remedy. In this case, the remedy for 4th Amendment violations is exclusion of the fruit of a poisonous tree. The reason there's no criminal punishment is because it's a procedural, not a criminal, violation.
Of course, you're free to lobby your state lawmakers to produce criminal sanctions for 4th Amendment violations. The States can provide (and routinely do) more civil liberties protection than the federal Constitution does.
Right; cops try to cover stuff up. But judges tend to be more fair about it and not always pro-police. That's the beautiful thing about suppression hearings -- no jury. No testimony to sway the jury. Just the judge applying the constitutional standards set by the Supreme Court. And if the judge rules wrong, he gets overturned on appeal -- and that's what judges hate the most.
1. I don't know; it should be. The Supreme Court has generally been good about upholding these basic constitutional principles like the exclusionary rule. I guess we'll just have to wait and see on the test case.
2. It's an awful piece of legislation however you slice it; getting someone with standing to challenge it, though, is the problem.
Think of it this way -- if the cops search you in violation of your 4th amendment rights, then they've performed an "illegal" search. But they don't get a criminal penalty. The sanction is that they can't use any of that evidence that is a fruit of that illegal search at trial to try and convict you.
What this means is that information seized illegally, outside of the bounds of the statute, will not be available to federal prosecutors, not that anyone in the FBI will be prosecuted, because they may not have violated a specific criminal statute in doing so.
I think you meant to say that the poster forgot a comma. While it is entirely possible that the poster has forgotten someone, somewhere in a comatose state, it is not directly relevant to the grammatical snafu at hand.
Nah, you could always sue the board (at least under mandamus) if nothing else avails you. It doesn't take away your right to an Art. III or state court, and there's nothing that says you can't subject a cyber-bully to criminal proceedings, school punishment and a civil suit in tort (IIED, probably, but I suppose if there was any physical contact or apprehension of it assault and battery as well).
In other words, you're not losing out on the prosecution and punishment by the local authorities; you're just providing another avenue. In the big scheme of things, that's all good juju. The more causes you have, the better.
It is; what these laws attempt to do is to give the schools greater leeway to punish these infractions. You have to understand how the criminal justice system works -- prosecutors are overworked, underfunded, and have "bigger fish to fry." By statutorily authorizing schools to deal with these problems, it provides for a more fitting scholastic punishment for the bullies while freeing up the regular criminal justice system to deal with other crimes.
I thought the processor architectures were so different to make this difficult... IIRC, this would seem to indicate that it would make sense for game developers to jump ship altogether if they can -- the X360 has similar capabilities and a familiar architecture, which should keep overhead down and maximize profits.
Most games I've seen on Gamespot and IGN that I am interest in are listed as coming out for the PS3 have X360 versions as well (Armored Core 4, Bladestorm, etc.). In fact, if Square will move Final Fantasy XIII to the X360 (or even the Wii) then I would have absolutely zero reason to buy a PS3. A developer shift to other platforms would devastate Sony in the console market.
This assumes a relative uniformity of the evolution and technical development of life, though. Therein lies the rub. So many factors have to be present to develop the sorts of technology necessary for colonization of other worlds. We don't even have the technology possible to colonize planets within our own solar system, let alone other systems. Then, there's the problem of communication. Currently, our information transfers are limited to light speed, which, while fast, is far too slow for any sort of widespread communication among colonies. We'd have to assume that given similar technologies to our own, any "colony" of life elsewhere in the galaxy isn't really a "colony" so much as it is a seed of a new planet. In such a case, it might be extermely difficult for life to maintain its current technological level, devolving into a more primitive state within a few generations.
The simple fact is that given the wide disparity of planet-types, distances between stars, availability of raw materials, and the ever-present physical problems with interstellar travel and communication, not to mention the "x" factor that we do not know how life has evolved elsewhere, or whether we'd even recognize it as "life" in our terrestrial sense, Fermi's paradox presents an interesting false trilemma.
Different races get different stat bonuses! When I want to make a good warrior, I go with a Dwarf. When it's a mage I need, I go for some sort of Elf. Jeez, was this question really necessary?:)
What movie companies need to do is create the movie equivalent of the book. I like paperbacks because (1) they're inexpensive and (2) they're amazingly resilient and I can take them with me everywhere I go, require no power (only light) and can provide me hours of entertainment and stimulation.
In order movies to be of the same quality, I'd need some way to make cheap, reasonably-good quality videos easily available, highly portable, and very power-effective. What we need is a decent-sized, fairly tough, fairly high-capacity video player and I'd have the book equivalent of a movie. Then, we'd need stores where I could go, plug in, and transfer an entire movie to my personal player in seconds.
Well, if we assume that life on other planets evolves at relatively the same rate as it does on our world (and I think this is a safe assumption), we have to assume a more or less uniform distribution of technology around similar planets. Unless we want to posit that alien life has grown up in an environment different than a terrestrial planet orbiting a similar star to our sun, we should expect alien technology to be roughly the same as ours, give or take a century or so.
Plus, they have to life with the same laws of physics we do. Space (like they say) is big, really big, and it takes a lot of fuel and a lot of energy to move things around, not to mention lots of time.
If what we're worrying about is kiddos getting their hands on a violent game where they take up a gun and kill people, then we should be doubly worried about signing them up for the real thing.
I could list check stocks, check weather forecast, do anything else a widget does, sends SMS, watch videos, play music, take pictures, view pictures, store my contacts, store my daily calendars and to-dos (which will sync through.Mac, no doubt) and so on. But I figure that none of you read my comments because of my urbane wit or dashingly clever prose, and thought I'd shorten the list a bit so you got to more substantive parts of my little argument.:)
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Yeah... that pink DS Lite was a drain on all our wallets, friend.
There's aid out there for people who can't afford attorneys; you've just got to know where to look (legal aid, ACLU, public defender's offices).
Thankfully, there are lots of "Access to Justice" programs springing up to make sure that people who wouldn't otherwise know about their legal rights to a remedy learn about them and can pursue them.
Of course, you're free to lobby your state lawmakers to produce criminal sanctions for 4th Amendment violations. The States can provide (and routinely do) more civil liberties protection than the federal Constitution does.
Right; cops try to cover stuff up. But judges tend to be more fair about it and not always pro-police. That's the beautiful thing about suppression hearings -- no jury. No testimony to sway the jury. Just the judge applying the constitutional standards set by the Supreme Court. And if the judge rules wrong, he gets overturned on appeal -- and that's what judges hate the most.
2. It's an awful piece of legislation however you slice it; getting someone with standing to challenge it, though, is the problem.
What this means is that information seized illegally, outside of the bounds of the statute, will not be available to federal prosecutors, not that anyone in the FBI will be prosecuted, because they may not have violated a specific criminal statute in doing so.
Galactic Overlord Xenu??!?
I think you meant to say that the poster forgot a comma. While it is entirely possible that the poster has forgotten someone, somewhere in a comatose state, it is not directly relevant to the grammatical snafu at hand.
RTFA. Parents can opt-out of the program on behalf of their daughters if they want. No one is being forced to do anything.
In other words, you're not losing out on the prosecution and punishment by the local authorities; you're just providing another avenue. In the big scheme of things, that's all good juju. The more causes you have, the better.
It is; what these laws attempt to do is to give the schools greater leeway to punish these infractions. You have to understand how the criminal justice system works -- prosecutors are overworked, underfunded, and have "bigger fish to fry." By statutorily authorizing schools to deal with these problems, it provides for a more fitting scholastic punishment for the bullies while freeing up the regular criminal justice system to deal with other crimes.
Nor should you, for sanitary reasons.
The mechanics of sex, how to talk to women, proper diet and exercise... need I go on?
I thought the processor architectures were so different to make this difficult... IIRC, this would seem to indicate that it would make sense for game developers to jump ship altogether if they can -- the X360 has similar capabilities and a familiar architecture, which should keep overhead down and maximize profits.
Most games I've seen on Gamespot and IGN that I am interest in are listed as coming out for the PS3 have X360 versions as well (Armored Core 4, Bladestorm, etc.). In fact, if Square will move Final Fantasy XIII to the X360 (or even the Wii) then I would have absolutely zero reason to buy a PS3. A developer shift to other platforms would devastate Sony in the console market.
The simple fact is that given the wide disparity of planet-types, distances between stars, availability of raw materials, and the ever-present physical problems with interstellar travel and communication, not to mention the "x" factor that we do not know how life has evolved elsewhere, or whether we'd even recognize it as "life" in our terrestrial sense, Fermi's paradox presents an interesting false trilemma.
I would think that the poor spelling and grammar in Pdtp's post would be an indication of his or her ability to discern fact from fantasy.
Different races get different stat bonuses! When I want to make a good warrior, I go with a Dwarf. When it's a mage I need, I go for some sort of Elf. Jeez, was this question really necessary? :)
In order movies to be of the same quality, I'd need some way to make cheap, reasonably-good quality videos easily available, highly portable, and very power-effective. What we need is a decent-sized, fairly tough, fairly high-capacity video player and I'd have the book equivalent of a movie. Then, we'd need stores where I could go, plug in, and transfer an entire movie to my personal player in seconds.
Mod parent up, +1 Disclosure.
Plus, they have to life with the same laws of physics we do. Space (like they say) is big, really big, and it takes a lot of fuel and a lot of energy to move things around, not to mention lots of time.
If this was something you'd show off on the first date, you're not the kind of person that gets dates.
I could list check stocks, check weather forecast, do anything else a widget does, sends SMS, watch videos, play music, take pictures, view pictures, store my contacts, store my daily calendars and to-dos (which will sync through .Mac, no doubt) and so on. But I figure that none of you read my comments because of my urbane wit or dashingly clever prose, and thought I'd shorten the list a bit so you got to more substantive parts of my little argument. :)