The article overestimates the effectiveness of this kind of monitoring. That's not to say it won't help to make the election fair, but it can only deal with certain kinds of problems, such as overt intimidation of voters at the polls. It has no effect on what takes place out of view: tampering with voting machines, throwing out ballots, false counting, false reporting of the count, intimidation of voters away from the polls, and intimidation of candidates.
In addition to the good will, I suspect that the people who take advantage of this will also spend more than they otherwise would have on room service, liquor, and other extras, so the hotel will probably make up part of the loss that way.
Lulu has several plans, one of which does allow you to use your own ISBN. In that case, you're pretty much just using them as a printer, and possibly using their services to sell from your "store", but they don't do much distribution work for you. If you want more services from them, they have to be the publisher, which includes using their ISBN.
Sometimes doing part of the project yourself will shame the utility company into finishing the job. Here in northern British Columbia, BC Hydro was very slow to bring electricity to Stony Creek, an Indian village about 12km outside of the town of Vanderhoof. The way that they got electricity was that the people of the village went out and cut down the trees and made the poles themselves, then set them up along the road. This shamed BC Hydro into adding the wiring.
I hate to tell you this, but federal district judges do not work with or control the FBI. If you suspect corruption on the part of a federal district judge, it is quite reasonable to go to the FBI.
Thanks, very informative. One question, though. For books on computer science and related areas, how important are brick-and-mortar sales these days? For books on some topics they're probably very important, but for CS I would think that they wouldn't be, provided that you can get sufficient publicity for the book, via, say, a positive/. review.
Does anyone have any idea what typical sales for technical books are? I have no idea what it means numerically to be a technical best seller, or what the sales of an ordinary book that is not a dud are like. And yes, I've googled. Sales figures appear generally not to be public.
A related option is to have an outfit like Lulu publish the book and sell it for you. You upload a PDF. They take orders and process them, print the book on demand, and send it out. They take a fixed cost (based on number of pages, binding, etc.) and you set the margin added to that, which goes to you. You get an ISBN, which gets the book into Books in Print, and they have arrangements for listing the book with Amazon.com and some other distributors. It looks attractive if you don't need the editing or marketing that a regular publisher provides.
The proper course of action is to obtain a warrant from a court. The article indicates that the state courts have refused him access. Either the state court system itself is corrupt, which is possible but not that likely, or he's wrong. In any case, corruption in the justice system usually involves federal offenses as well as state ones (since, e.g., they are violating somebody's civil rights), so if the state courts don't work, he could try a federal court.
Okay, tracked it down. The column you quote is by the late Alan Stang. He was a right-wing extremist, not a lawyer, not an expert on law or government. He's not a reliable source.
Since it is certainly false that the Sheriff can kick federal officers out of his county, I would take the rest of the content of that article with a large grain of salt.
Incidentally, you might want to read the Arizona constitution. It certainly does deal with prison. It contains a prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment just like the federal constitution does. Just because it doesn't contain the magic word "prison" doesn't mean that it is irrelevant.
Not from you. Nothing you've said is inconsistent with what I said. The prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment in the US Constitution plays a larger role than its three words might suggest. And by the way, the clause doesn't have to mention the word "prison" to be relevant. Due process rights, for example, play an important role in determining what prison officials can and cannot do. And the people who have those rights reserved to the people include prisoners.
Penal philosophy is irrelevant to the treatment of the many prisoners who are awaiting trial, held as material witnesses, or otherwise not convicted of anything. In any case, what beyond small details, the purpose and nature of jail are determined by the state and federal constitutions in the first instance and the state legislature in the second instance, not by Joe Arpaio or even the voters of Maricopa County.
There's a difference between not "coddling" prisoners and abuse, not to mention the fact that the jail houses not only people convicted of crimes but those awaiting trial, who have not been convicted of anything and should not give up any rights except to the extent necessary to keep them from leaving the jurisdiction. In any case, although he is Mr. Law-and-Order when it comes to immigration, as this case shows he is power hungry and doesn't abide by the law unless it suits him. If you've got a civil dispute with another branch of government, you don't resolve it by sending armed thugs to take control by force.
This raid looks pretty outrageous. The court is probably the least politicized and most appropriate agency to take control until the situation can be resolved. The silver lining to this is that it is so outrageous that it may finally get that madman Arpaio removed from office.
Because in many cases the person experienced in the field has only his or her own limited, personal experience to go by, whereas the researcher is able to draw on a large number of examples in a wide variety of situations, which gives him or her a better picture of what is really going on. The person experienced in the field may indeed have valuable information and insights, but at the same time, he or she may have a narrow perspective or limited information. And of course researchers are usually people with special aptitude, training, skills, and resources for doing research, which is not true of the person in the field.
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Yes. Of course, capitalist countries without a health care system manage this without bribes.
With all the trouble Microsoft has been having recently, they'd probably be smart to hire these guys.
The article overestimates the effectiveness of this kind of monitoring. That's not to say it won't help to make the election fair, but it can only deal with certain kinds of problems, such as overt intimidation of voters at the polls. It has no effect on what takes place out of view: tampering with voting machines, throwing out ballots, false counting, false reporting of the count, intimidation of voters away from the polls, and intimidation of candidates.
Reminds me of the adage:
In addition to the good will, I suspect that the people who take advantage of this will also spend more than they otherwise would have on room service, liquor, and other extras, so the hotel will probably make up part of the loss that way.
Lulu has several plans, one of which does allow you to use your own ISBN. In that case, you're pretty much just using them as a printer, and possibly using their services to sell from your "store", but they don't do much distribution work for you. If you want more services from them, they have to be the publisher, which includes using their ISBN.
Sometimes doing part of the project yourself will shame the utility company into finishing the job. Here in northern British Columbia, BC Hydro was very slow to bring electricity to Stony Creek, an Indian village about 12km outside of the town of Vanderhoof. The way that they got electricity was that the people of the village went out and cut down the trees and made the poles themselves, then set them up along the road. This shamed BC Hydro into adding the wiring.
While he's still got a pretty good margin, it is interesting that the percentage of the vote he has received has been consistently declining.
I hate to tell you this, but federal district judges do not work with or control the FBI. If you suspect corruption on the part of a federal district judge, it is quite reasonable to go to the FBI.
Hey, you were supposed to put that in a mailto link so that people could email him with just "One Click".
Thanks, very informative. One question, though. For books on computer science and related areas, how important are brick-and-mortar sales these days? For books on some topics they're probably very important, but for CS I would think that they wouldn't be, provided that you can get sufficient publicity for the book, via, say, a positive /. review.
Does anyone have any idea what typical sales for technical books are? I have no idea what it means numerically to be a technical best seller, or what the sales of an ordinary book that is not a dud are like. And yes, I've googled. Sales figures appear generally not to be public.
A related option is to have an outfit like Lulu publish the book and sell it for you. You upload a PDF. They take orders and process them, print the book on demand, and send it out. They take a fixed cost (based on number of pages, binding, etc.) and you set the margin added to that, which goes to you. You get an ISBN, which gets the book into Books in Print, and they have arrangements for listing the book with Amazon.com and some other distributors. It looks attractive if you don't need the editing or marketing that a regular publisher provides.
The proper course of action is to obtain a warrant from a court. The article indicates that the state courts have refused him access. Either the state court system itself is corrupt, which is possible but not that likely, or he's wrong. In any case, corruption in the justice system usually involves federal offenses as well as state ones (since, e.g., they are violating somebody's civil rights), so if the state courts don't work, he could try a federal court.
How does Arpaio saddle journalists with FAIO requests? Such requests are made to the government. Journalists are not the government.
Okay, tracked it down. The column you quote is by the late Alan Stang. He was a right-wing extremist, not a lawyer, not an expert on law or government. He's not a reliable source.
Since it is certainly false that the Sheriff can kick federal officers out of his county, I would take the rest of the content of that article with a large grain of salt.
Incidentally, you might want to read the Arizona constitution. It certainly does deal with prison. It contains a prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment just like the federal constitution does. Just because it doesn't contain the magic word "prison" doesn't mean that it is irrelevant.
Not from you. Nothing you've said is inconsistent with what I said. The prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment in the US Constitution plays a larger role than its three words might suggest. And by the way, the clause doesn't have to mention the word "prison" to be relevant. Due process rights, for example, play an important role in determining what prison officials can and cannot do. And the people who have those rights reserved to the people include prisoners.
Penal philosophy is irrelevant to the treatment of the many prisoners who are awaiting trial, held as material witnesses, or otherwise not convicted of anything. In any case, what beyond small details, the purpose and nature of jail are determined by the state and federal constitutions in the first instance and the state legislature in the second instance, not by Joe Arpaio or even the voters of Maricopa County.
There's a difference between not "coddling" prisoners and abuse, not to mention the fact that the jail houses not only people convicted of crimes but those awaiting trial, who have not been convicted of anything and should not give up any rights except to the extent necessary to keep them from leaving the jurisdiction. In any case, although he is Mr. Law-and-Order when it comes to immigration, as this case shows he is power hungry and doesn't abide by the law unless it suits him. If you've got a civil dispute with another branch of government, you don't resolve it by sending armed thugs to take control by force.
This raid looks pretty outrageous. The court is probably the least politicized and most appropriate agency to take control until the situation can be resolved. The silver lining to this is that it is so outrageous that it may finally get that madman Arpaio removed from office.
Because in many cases the person experienced in the field has only his or her own limited, personal experience to go by, whereas the researcher is able to draw on a large number of examples in a wide variety of situations, which gives him or her a better picture of what is really going on. The person experienced in the field may indeed have valuable information and insights, but at the same time, he or she may have a narrow perspective or limited information. And of course researchers are usually people with special aptitude, training, skills, and resources for doing research, which is not true of the person in the field.
Just wait till they discover that the best material for cleaning your weapon isn't moist towlettes but "feminine hygiene products".
The downside is, after you visit, they have to kill you.