And because applying laws however you feel ends up with "good" and "evil" happening the idea is that the laws we create are supposed to be just, and they are supposed to be applied impartialy, not with prjudice. If the laws are unjust work to change them. Your idea of what is just in a case may be construed as a grave injustice by someone else.
Hmmm. To be a check against abuses of the legal system against the professionals that work within that system? They are not so a juror can say, "I think this guy did the right thing, so I won't convict him even if he did break the law." Juries are so a prosecutor and a judje can't simply get together and say "We both know he's guilty even if we don't have evidence. How 'bout you give him 30 to life and we just end this thing." With a jury the prosecution has to convince 12 people that the person broke the laws they are accused of. That's tough to do. It's SUPPOSED to be tough to do.
Ok. As pointed out before, the Adams quote applied to when the colonists were living under British law with no representative recourse. Secondly I read the Hamilton quote as that if a law is applied incorrectly, or the chage devolves from the incorrect law, that you should acquit. The last two don't apply as far as I can see. One is stating that he believes that trial by jury is a powerful tool to keep the government from abusing its power, and the last is simply stating that too many laws is a stupid thing. Can't argue with either of those, but not sure how they apply.
I love that your quote applies to when Mr. Adams was living under British law with no representation in either Commons or Lords rather than under American law.
No, that is not what juries are for. Juries are a mechanism to make sure that laws are enforced and that abuses of legal system by the profesionals in the system are minimized.
If you don't like the laws and find them unjust it is your job to vote for politicians that you believe will work to change the laws and end the injustices. Our legal system isn't here for justice, it is here to allow society to continue to function without devolving into anarchy.
What makes you think that a juries job is to ensure that justice is done? A juries job is to decide if a defendant is guilty of a crime. The crime is defined by a law.
Well, It's American for the parents in America to take responsability for raising their children. I monitor, as well as I can, the activities of my children, whether it's their time on the web, or what movie they go see with their friends. I don't care what other adults do together. They can watch what they want. I would rather explain to my son what that lady was doing to that pig rather than explain why he had such a hard time researching breast cancer online for his health report.
Not sure about IR signature, but those spinning props show up wonderfully on radar. Yes, even wooden props have a reasonable radar cross section from what I've heard from people who worked in ATC in the 70's and 80's.
Where in the world did you hear that mail was much more resistant ito peircing than plate armor? Mail was replaced with plate in most cases because it was more resistant to both peircing and blunt attacks.
Sorry this is so late. I was out of town for a few days.
The article you mentioned was as vague as the original. I am willing to bet that his "closed system" is something as simple as a counterflow heat exchanger that transfers the heat of the condenser coil to the distilate. Yes, as I said, that saves you some energy by making the fresh distilate hot, but not nearly hot enough to initiate a state change, and that is by far the most energy intensive part. I believe that Kamen is a very intelegent person, but he can't revoke the laws of nature. He can make the machine more efficient, but he can't make them ignore the laws of thermodynamics.
Anyone know what the energy density of cow dung is? I assume it takes a few cow patties to fule a sterling engine powered generator that puts out 1kW. Bet it takes a lot more to boil enough dirty water to produce 1000L a day of distilled water.
Nice way to intentionally misconstrue what was said. Just to clarify in case you actually didn't understand. CDs are physical property. The songs on them are intellectual property. Currency is physical property. The important thing is that currency is the property of the government.
I figure you were going for cynicism there, but currency is physical property, not intellectual property. The laws treat them differently, and for a very good reason.
Um, minor correction to your fourth point. Since a politician, whose campaign was most likely financed by the {MP|RI}AA, the fourth point should read "It was designed to create a large public corporate bottom line to advance the stock price and dividends of the corporations."
No idea what the model was, but in the late 1970's my buddy and I built a heathkit that had 4 lines of LED display and 4k(?) of memory. Little thing with a membreane keyboard like a Sinclair. We soldered that little beast together and played with it for a while, but it wasn't very useful. My next was a TI99/4a followed by a C64 which is still in my basement. At the moment my basement has 4 IBM PC compatables, 2 SUN workstations, 1 AIX box, and an old Mac. I need bigger circuit breakes so I can get more compute power.
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Well, Wikimedia servers are experiencing trouble at the moment. I believe you may have slashdotted them. I know that the Isle of Man, Falkland Islands, and the Channel Islands are crown protectorates, but beyond them and the members of the U.K. I had no idea that there were that many places that had allegience to the Queen. I assume that Australia and Canada are part of them since they are still considered to be part of the Commonwealth, but I thought they were independent countries bound to the comonwealth by treaty.
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Actually they don't have any kings at the moment, just to let you know. But, the Queen rules over several kingdoms. England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Places like that. Combined they are the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
In response to your first paragraph, "Thank you, Captain Obvious."
In reply to your second paragraph, I don't see any relief from abusive patents just because Microsoft says they will indemnify the device manufacturer for costs if the code they licensed from Microsoft is accused of be infringing.
In the first election you mention, it was truly a toss up. Neither side could win without the electoral votes from Florida, and the election was so close we could still be here deciding what was a hanging chad and whether certain individual ballots could be considered valid. Bush was declared the winner in Florida, and the Supreme Court validated that the actions used were legal. As to the second election, once again there were several close races, but Bush won.
I do not like the man. I wish he had not been elected, but the laws were followed, and he was. Bitching that elections don't work because your candidate doesn't win is pointless. If you want your candidates elected in the next election, get off your ass and campaign for them.
p.s. If checks and balanced no longer worked, then there wouldn't be any hue and cry raised by the legislative branch over the domestic surveillance issues right now, and the administrative branch wouldn't be , finally, briefing the intelligence committees of the United States Congress.
We shouldn't have to revolt. That's what elections, and checks and balances are for. Changing the behavior of the government. As long as we elect these fools and puppets to office, we are simply getting what we deserve. Pissed that politicians are serving the desires of corporations rather than the citizens of the U.S.? Vote the bastards out. If they don't get voted out then most of the people in the districts that they represent must like what the politicians they elect are doing. They may be fools for electing the politicians they do, but they are fools that are free to ruin their lives as they see fit.
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And because applying laws however you feel ends up with "good" and "evil" happening the idea is that the laws we create are supposed to be just, and they are supposed to be applied impartialy, not with prjudice. If the laws are unjust work to change them. Your idea of what is just in a case may be construed as a grave injustice by someone else.
Hmmm. To be a check against abuses of the legal system against the professionals that work within that system? They are not so a juror can say, "I think this guy did the right thing, so I won't convict him even if he did break the law." Juries are so a prosecutor and a judje can't simply get together and say "We both know he's guilty even if we don't have evidence. How 'bout you give him 30 to life and we just end this thing." With a jury the prosecution has to convince 12 people that the person broke the laws they are accused of. That's tough to do. It's SUPPOSED to be tough to do.
Ok. As pointed out before, the Adams quote applied to when the colonists were living under British law with no representative recourse. Secondly I read the Hamilton quote as that if a law is applied incorrectly, or the chage devolves from the incorrect law, that you should acquit. The last two don't apply as far as I can see. One is stating that he believes that trial by jury is a powerful tool to keep the government from abusing its power, and the last is simply stating that too many laws is a stupid thing. Can't argue with either of those, but not sure how they apply.
I love that your quote applies to when Mr. Adams was living under British law with no representation in either Commons or Lords rather than under American law.
No, that is not what juries are for. Juries are a mechanism to make sure that laws are enforced and that abuses of legal system by the profesionals in the system are minimized.
If you don't like the laws and find them unjust it is your job to vote for politicians that you believe will work to change the laws and end the injustices. Our legal system isn't here for justice, it is here to allow society to continue to function without devolving into anarchy.
Mr Nicotine,
What makes you think that a juries job is to ensure that justice is done? A juries job is to decide if a defendant is guilty of a crime. The crime is defined by a law.
Well, It's American for the parents in America to take responsability for raising their children. I monitor, as well as I can, the activities of my children, whether it's their time on the web, or what movie they go see with their friends. I don't care what other adults do together. They can watch what they want. I would rather explain to my son what that lady was doing to that pig rather than explain why he had such a hard time researching breast cancer online for his health report.
Not sure about IR signature, but those spinning props show up wonderfully on radar. Yes, even wooden props have a reasonable radar cross section from what I've heard from people who worked in ATC in the 70's and 80's.
Where in the world did you hear that mail was much more resistant ito peircing than plate armor? Mail was replaced with plate in most cases because it was more resistant to both peircing and blunt attacks.
Sorry this is so late. I was out of town for a few days.
The article you mentioned was as vague as the original. I am willing to bet that his "closed system" is something as simple as a counterflow heat exchanger that transfers the heat of the condenser coil to the distilate. Yes, as I said, that saves you some energy by making the fresh distilate hot, but not nearly hot enough to initiate a state change, and that is by far the most energy intensive part. I believe that Kamen is a very intelegent person, but he can't revoke the laws of nature. He can make the machine more efficient, but he can't make them ignore the laws of thermodynamics.
Read the article. Less waste energy doesn't change the fact that it takes a lot of energy to state change that much water. No way around that fact.
Anyone know what the energy density of cow dung is? I assume it takes a few cow patties to fule a sterling engine powered generator that puts out 1kW. Bet it takes a lot more to boil enough dirty water to produce 1000L a day of distilled water.
So do I. Even durring blackout conditions when I didn't have any candles, I had a nighttime. It was a wonderful time to sleep.
Nice way to intentionally misconstrue what was said. Just to clarify in case you actually didn't understand. CDs are physical property. The songs on them are intellectual property. Currency is physical property. The important thing is that currency is the property of the government.
I figure you were going for cynicism there, but currency is physical property, not intellectual property. The laws treat them differently, and for a very good reason.
Um, minor correction to your fourth point. Since a politician, whose campaign was most likely financed by the {MP|RI}AA, the fourth point should read "It was designed to create a large public corporate bottom line to advance the stock price and dividends of the corporations."
Just thought I'd be helpful.
No idea what the model was, but in the late 1970's my buddy and I built a heathkit that had 4 lines of LED display and 4k(?) of memory. Little thing with a membreane keyboard like a Sinclair. We soldered that little beast together and played with it for a while, but it wasn't very useful. My next was a TI99/4a followed by a C64 which is still in my basement. At the moment my basement has 4 IBM PC compatables, 2 SUN workstations, 1 AIX box, and an old Mac. I need bigger circuit breakes so I can get more compute power.
Well, Wikimedia servers are experiencing trouble at the moment. I believe you may have slashdotted them. I know that the Isle of Man, Falkland Islands, and the Channel Islands are crown protectorates, but beyond them and the members of the U.K. I had no idea that there were that many places that had allegience to the Queen. I assume that Australia and Canada are part of them since they are still considered to be part of the Commonwealth, but I thought they were independent countries bound to the comonwealth by treaty.
Actually they don't have any kings at the moment, just to let you know. But, the Queen rules over several kingdoms. England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Places like that. Combined they are the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
In response to your first paragraph, "Thank you, Captain Obvious."
In reply to your second paragraph, I don't see any relief from abusive patents just because Microsoft says they will indemnify the device manufacturer for costs if the code they licensed from Microsoft is accused of be infringing.
Oooohh. That would probibly be illegal under current U.S. law. ;)
The ones mentioned are just the ones they got subpoenas for.
In the first election you mention, it was truly a toss up. Neither side could win without the electoral votes from Florida, and the election was so close we could still be here deciding what was a hanging chad and whether certain individual ballots could be considered valid. Bush was declared the winner in Florida, and the Supreme Court validated that the actions used were legal. As to the second election, once again there were several close races, but Bush won.
I do not like the man. I wish he had not been elected, but the laws were followed, and he was. Bitching that elections don't work because your candidate doesn't win is pointless. If you want your candidates elected in the next election, get off your ass and campaign for them.
p.s. If checks and balanced no longer worked, then there wouldn't be any hue and cry raised by the legislative branch over the domestic surveillance issues right now, and the administrative branch wouldn't be , finally, briefing the intelligence committees of the United States Congress.
We shouldn't have to revolt. That's what elections, and checks and balances are for. Changing the behavior of the government. As long as we elect these fools and puppets to office, we are simply getting what we deserve. Pissed that politicians are serving the desires of corporations rather than the citizens of the U.S.? Vote the bastards out. If they don't get voted out then most of the people in the districts that they represent must like what the politicians they elect are doing. They may be fools for electing the politicians they do, but they are fools that are free to ruin their lives as they see fit.
Orwellian thought crime was thoughts in your head, not an expressed opinion.