When I got divorced in Cleveland, part of the paperwork said I was to have 'reasonable' visitation. She got custody, of course. Then I lost my job when the factory I worked in closed down 3 months before I would have been vested with a pension. My new job was working 2nd shift at a gas station. The ex's idea of 'reasonable' was scheduling my visitation to coincide with the middle of my shift. My choice was to see my kids and lose my job, or keep my minimum wage job & miss out on my kids.
Then she moved to another county and applied for welfare. The new county wanted to jack my child support up to the point where they would have gotten 80% of my pre-tax income, basically leaving me with a 15% cash shortfall (my taxes were running about 35% at the time). Then the new county got the right to hijack my tax return forever and ever to pay for my ex's 'welfare bill'. Last I looked, they claim I still 'owe' them over 330,000 bucks.
Ohio law says they can decline your child support payment if you are more than $5 short. It also says they can put you in the workhouse for up to 90 days if you miss your child support payments. I left Ohio in '99, and never looked back. They'd just passed a '3 strikes' law saying that if you are incarcerated for the 3rd time for any jailable offense, you now get life in prison. I got the hell out before they decided to apply that to delinquent child support. Imagine going to prison for the rest of your life for $15. Welcome to Ohio.
Personally, I haven't got a clue if he killed them or not. And with all the tainted evidence thrown out in the case it was impossible to get a conviction. So how come he got hauled into civil court for wrongful death? Legally speaking, wasn't that an abuse of the system? His ex's family saying "Our daughter/sister is dead, and we think he had something to do with it, but the criminal court cut him loose, so let's just sue him and get the money' doesn't technically constitute double jeopardy, but it's still an abuse of the system.
The concept was offered by Roman Catholic bishops as an alternative to opening a one-time window for the filing of civil lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse that occurred as long as 35 years ago.
The concept was offered by the Church to protect their priests. Basically, theyr'e throwing the rest of society to the wolves to protect their own, otherwise, the Church could take a serious financial hit covering lawsuits going back 35 years (at least 20 years past the allowable statutes). All they have to do is move their accused priests out of Ohio and they're golden. Since this law isn't in effect anywhere else, the priest is protected.
You mean accused molesters who 'stay out of trouble for 6 years'. Problem with that is, any time there's a sex-crime in the neighborhood, anybody on the register gets rounded up with the Usual Suspects. Any body wanting to bet that this would 'reset' the 6-year clock every time they get hauled in?
To me, this is more of a 'throw everybody to the wolves' by the Catholic Church to protect their errant priests, something to limit their liability in the worst case scenario. How often does the Church whisk away their priests at the mere hint of scandal anymore?
The court are the ones putting your name in that database. FTFA:
A recently enacted law allows county prosecutors, the state attorney general, or, as a last resort, alleged victims to ask judges to civilly declare someone to be a sex offender even when there has been no criminal verdict or successful lawsuit.
The rules spell out how the untried process would work. It would largely treat a person placed on the civil registry the same way a convicted sex offender is treated under Ohio's so-called Megan's Law.
Who was it that said, "how convenient it is when they're all guilty'?
Only if we are lucky. The way things are going, next thing you know NSA will be keeping track on how often you make love to your girlfriend while Google is showing the relevant condom ads.
Fine, you want protection, exercise your Constitutionally-guaranteed right to pack a firearm. When the 'evil terrorists' come out, pop a cap in them.
What? You want to restrict firearms to only the police and miltary? You don't want your neighbors to be able to defend themselves? Really.
For what it's worth, police are NOT there to 'stop crimes', they're there to clean up the mess. You want to stop crime in your neighborhood, organise a Neighborhood Watch. Hell, take the Watch down for weapon safety training (so they don't shoot off their non-existant dicks?), then turn them loose with guns. Trust me, crime in your neighborhood will drop like a rock.
And oh, by the way, your Constitutionally guaranteed rights ARE human rights, up to and including the right to bear arms. I suggest you take the time to read the Constitution someday. You'll find all KINDS of nifty stuff in there, for instance, the concept that any right not given to the Federal government or reserved for the States automatically go to the people. Not Political Party Z, B, C, or X, not Federal Bureacracy XYZ 'in trust' for the people, they go TO THE PEOPLE.
Can we please stop appending critter(s) to the end of words to refer to people who work in the government? Calling them "big dummyheads," for example, would probably be less ridiculous.
Those of us out here in 'the Real World' prefer the term 'natural pop-up target'.
Excuse me, I have a call from somebody offering me a lovely timeshare condo offer at a place called Camp X-Ray...
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Whose country's uniform did these alleged 'soldiers' wear?
Why have we NOT invaded that country?
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Oh, Jesus, your parents made you watch the 'Banana Splits'??? Is it too late to sue them for child abuse????
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Actually, militarily, we did win Vietnam. The politicians gave it all back. For all intents and purposes, the Vietcong didn't exist after the Tet Offensive, having shot their wad in one swell foop.
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The military I don't have a problem with. Hell, my family's been in every war since the Revolution (although NOT necessarily on the 'winning' side...) We're proud that we answered the call.
What I DO have serious problems with is the way the military is used these days. The last time I looked at the Constitution, it said only Congress could declare war. Not some political hack that happens to reside at 1600 Pennsylvania. Congress. Period. By passing a resolution allowing the president to instigate military action for a 'maximum of 90 days', Congress openned up the door to widespread military adventurism by the US on a global scale, and by damn, an idiot at 1600 Pennsylvania took advantage of it. Where's our withdrawl plan? WHAT withdrawl plan? We're not going to withdrawl. We're there to stay, and that severely burns my ass.
IMNSFBHO, this invalidates everything America meant to me growing up in the 50s and 60s, that America was supposed to be this shining beacon of democracy. What it did to me this time around was make me ashamed to be an American, and made me want to roll back the Constitutional clock all the way back to 1791 and get rid of the political hacks who find it 'an inconvenient goddamned piece of paper'. The longer I live, the more I realise the Founders had the right idea: restrict the hell out of the federal government, keep it on a short leash, and DON'T feed it too damned much.
AFAIK, Yum wasn't invented at Red Hat either. The name, Yellow Dog Updater Modified suggests that it was created for the Yellow Dog Linux distribution.
Noted, but YellowDog is a Redhat fork to work on PPC machines, IIRC. Kinda like Mandrake forked off Back In The Day...
AFAIK, nor yast nor RedHat eq. is not as powerful and stable as apt-get, so no, it is not just about features, but it is about features done WELL.
Fedora and SUSE still feels very old - because of rpm usage - against Debian and Ubuntu. And that is my expierence after 7 years of using Linux in work and home.
I used to use the RPM style of apt in my older RH/Fedora machines. Loved it. But it's just not supported anymore with FC5. Apt/Synaptic beats out Yum/Yumex in my book any day, hands down. Guess which one FC5 supports? Yup, good old 'Not Invented Here' syndrome.
Cows already provide evidence of this. If a cow and a bull are born as twins, the cow will have a virilized (masculine) brain, and attempt to mount other cows once it reaches sexual maturity, otherwise, it appears the same as any other cow.
According to a leaked memo from the HR department, during his annual evaluation God was found to be a huge control freak, who doesn't work well in teams, doesn't always communicate clearly, can be a bit too harsh when meting out punishment, and perhaps worst of all, has a serious God complex. They had to let him go.
Sounds like some of the better coders I've known. When they get on a coding roll, they get downright antisocial, nay, testy when somebody jogs their elbow. And they usually freak out when the original client calls in last minute revisions...
I'm not trying to start an argument with this response, but this statement reminded me of something I heard a couple months ago: Bush's cronies have a proposal already drummed up to repeal the 22nd amendment and have been trying to get congress to grease it up and push it through for a couple of years now.
Actually, they tried to push through a repeal of the 22nd Amendment during the Clinton years. The Republicans spiked it down saying it was a bad idea. Strange how that bad idea suddenly became a GOOD idea once the Republicans gained control of the Federal government.
I'm not sure anybody that can float to the highest ranks of our system has anything but contempt for the constitution these days. Why have 50 small countries when you can have an empire?
Well, our constitutionally elected 'leadership' has to take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies domestic and foreign.
Maybe, if we're lucky, someday they'll actuall break down and READ the document they swore to protect...
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When I got divorced in Cleveland, part of the paperwork said I was to have 'reasonable' visitation. She got custody, of course. Then I lost my job when the factory I worked in closed down 3 months before I would have been vested with a pension. My new job was working 2nd shift at a gas station. The ex's idea of 'reasonable' was scheduling my visitation to coincide with the middle of my shift. My choice was to see my kids and lose my job, or keep my minimum wage job & miss out on my kids.
Then she moved to another county and applied for welfare. The new county wanted to jack my child support up to the point where they would have gotten 80% of my pre-tax income, basically leaving me with a 15% cash shortfall (my taxes were running about 35% at the time). Then the new county got the right to hijack my tax return forever and ever to pay for my ex's 'welfare bill'. Last I looked, they claim I still 'owe' them over 330,000 bucks.
Ohio law says they can decline your child support payment if you are more than $5 short. It also says they can put you in the workhouse for up to 90 days if you miss your child support payments. I left Ohio in '99, and never looked back. They'd just passed a '3 strikes' law saying that if you are incarcerated for the 3rd time for any jailable offense, you now get life in prison. I got the hell out before they decided to apply that to delinquent child support. Imagine going to prison for the rest of your life for $15. Welcome to Ohio.
Three words come to mind. 'Rape Shield Law'.
Personally, I haven't got a clue if he killed them or not. And with all the tainted evidence thrown out in the case it was impossible to get a conviction. So how come he got hauled into civil court for wrongful death? Legally speaking, wasn't that an abuse of the system? His ex's family saying "Our daughter/sister is dead, and we think he had something to do with it, but the criminal court cut him loose, so let's just sue him and get the money' doesn't technically constitute double jeopardy, but it's still an abuse of the system.
The concept was offered by the Church to protect their priests. Basically, theyr'e throwing the rest of society to the wolves to protect their own, otherwise, the Church could take a serious financial hit covering lawsuits going back 35 years (at least 20 years past the allowable statutes). All they have to do is move their accused priests out of Ohio and they're golden. Since this law isn't in effect anywhere else, the priest is protected.
To me, this is more of a 'throw everybody to the wolves' by the Catholic Church to protect their errant priests, something to limit their liability in the worst case scenario. How often does the Church whisk away their priests at the mere hint of scandal anymore?
Who was it that said, "how convenient it is when they're all guilty'?
For what it's worth, police are NOT there to 'stop crimes', they're there to clean up the mess. You want to stop crime in your neighborhood, organise a Neighborhood Watch. Hell, take the Watch down for weapon safety training (so they don't shoot off their non-existant dicks?), then turn them loose with guns. Trust me, crime in your neighborhood will drop like a rock.
And oh, by the way, your Constitutionally guaranteed rights ARE human rights, up to and including the right to bear arms. I suggest you take the time to read the Constitution someday. You'll find all KINDS of nifty stuff in there, for instance, the concept that any right not given to the Federal government or reserved for the States automatically go to the people. Not Political Party Z, B, C, or X, not Federal Bureacracy XYZ 'in trust' for the people, they go TO THE PEOPLE.
How's next Tuesday for you? I don't have anything planned I can't move around...
Those of us out here in 'the Real World' prefer the term 'natural pop-up target'.
Excuse me, I have a call from somebody offering me a lovely timeshare condo offer at a place called Camp X-Ray...
Whose country's uniform did these alleged 'soldiers' wear? Why have we NOT invaded that country?
Oh, Jesus, your parents made you watch the 'Banana Splits'??? Is it too late to sue them for child abuse????
Actually, militarily, we did win Vietnam. The politicians gave it all back. For all intents and purposes, the Vietcong didn't exist after the Tet Offensive, having shot their wad in one swell foop.
What I DO have serious problems with is the way the military is used these days. The last time I looked at the Constitution, it said only Congress could declare war. Not some political hack that happens to reside at 1600 Pennsylvania. Congress. Period. By passing a resolution allowing the president to instigate military action for a 'maximum of 90 days', Congress openned up the door to widespread military adventurism by the US on a global scale, and by damn, an idiot at 1600 Pennsylvania took advantage of it. Where's our withdrawl plan? WHAT withdrawl plan? We're not going to withdrawl. We're there to stay, and that severely burns my ass.
IMNSFBHO, this invalidates everything America meant to me growing up in the 50s and 60s, that America was supposed to be this shining beacon of democracy. What it did to me this time around was make me ashamed to be an American, and made me want to roll back the Constitutional clock all the way back to 1791 and get rid of the political hacks who find it 'an inconvenient goddamned piece of paper'. The longer I live, the more I realise the Founders had the right idea: restrict the hell out of the federal government, keep it on a short leash, and DON'T feed it too damned much.
Noted, but YellowDog is a Redhat fork to work on PPC machines, IIRC. Kinda like Mandrake forked off Back In The Day...
I used to use the RPM style of apt in my older RH/Fedora machines. Loved it. But it's just not supported anymore with FC5. Apt/Synaptic beats out Yum/Yumex in my book any day, hands down. Guess which one FC5 supports? Yup, good old 'Not Invented Here' syndrome.
Lesbian cow porn, at a warez server near you!!!
He must be new here...
Sounds like some of the better coders I've known. When they get on a coding roll, they get downright antisocial, nay, testy when somebody jogs their elbow. And they usually freak out when the original client calls in last minute revisions...
Actually, they tried to push through a repeal of the 22nd Amendment during the Clinton years. The Republicans spiked it down saying it was a bad idea. Strange how that bad idea suddenly became a GOOD idea once the Republicans gained control of the Federal government.
More importantly, WHO gets to DRAW that line???
Well, our constitutionally elected 'leadership' has to take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies domestic and foreign.
Maybe, if we're lucky, someday they'll actuall break down and READ the document they swore to protect...
Naw. We're not THAT lucky...
On top of my head, covered in fur. Oh, wait, you said WHAT's my point, not WHERE. My bad.
Good point. I sit corrected.
I have the strangest feeling that asn't what Larry was thinking about...