When the law is in a single place, and people see that the law that pertains to them is tens of thousands of pages long, and changes faster than any human can read it.
"The District of Columbia adopts the International Codes (I-Codes) published by the International Code Council (ICC), and the National Electrical Code (NEC) published by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)"
So the adopted the NEC, but I didn't see a spot on the site to see the NEC as adopted.
The NFPA maintains a "free" repository, but you can't browse it. You can only look up specific ones, after you create an account and jump through hoops. They charge for it in book form, and maintain copyright over all of it, and even manage to DRM cripple the code they do let you see for free.
I saw nothing in the case I pointed to that indicated anything you say is true. I have a link to where a guy was sentenced to life for $2.50 in socks. You've given nothing but unsubstantiated opinion to counter documented fact.
I'm pretty sure all regulations are available on the internet.
Nope. Local building code laws refer to NECA as having force of law, but NECA isn't available online. The law is privately written, privately held, and I must pay money to a company to be able to read the law. NECA isn't making it hard to make the law obfuscated, but is obfuscating the law so DIYers will be scared, and hire a NECA member to do the work. Similar things happen with regulations from the FCC, FAA, IRS and others with force of law, but aren't law. Sure, you can look up most. But it's hard, and "recommendations" are mixed in with "law" in a manner that is hard to differentiate.
it's true the prosecutor gets paid to get convictions. the heart of the justice system is the adversary system.
The state prosecutors are better funded than the state defenders. That, and the adversary system isn't the only system. If we aren't going to do it right, there are other systems that fail more gracefully than ours.
Eliminate mandatory sentencing. Rename it as "suggested". I think one issue is granting smaller sentences to people you "favor", hence why mandatory sentencing perhaps was created?
The point of mandatory sentencing was to remove "undesireables" from society without calling the prisons poor houses. http://www.rollingstone.com/po... A guy sentenced to life for stealing $2.50 in socks. That was the minimum sentence for his situation.
All laws should be in a central repository, unique and complete for each jurisdiction. That would be a technical solution to a very real problem. "Ignorance of the law is not a defense" is a lie. The police get to say it. They can arrest you for something legal, then claim ignorance of the law, and their actions are legal.
Since case law is law in the Common Law system, having all the cases indexed and assigned jurisdictionally, that would help the judges and legal professionals make better decisions. Yes, I'm aware that private companies already perform that action for a profit. But I shouldn't be forced to pay profit to a private company just to find the law that applies to me.
The problem with the system is the system. The prosecutor is paid to get convictions. Not to find the truth. A conviction of an innocent person is a win. Finding the guilty person, but being unable to prove it is a loss. For tech to help our system, the system would have to change. Tech is fact-based. Our judicial system is uninterested in fact.
Nope. ID never required. To do so would be a barrier to using credit, and they want to have no barriers. Visa/MC want every transaction to be on a card.
You can buy content on the PS3 through PSN. But they won't let you play it on anything else (maybe Vita, if you have a PS4, but I have neither of those, so haven't tried the new generation). Why would I pay Sony for something I can't *ever* play on my phone, iPad, or PC?
Maybe it's the 3rd party apps they are using, but that's still their fault.
EMV is going to render a lot of crappy, insecure technologies obsolete (things like Coin, LoopPay, NFC, and many of the smartphone based "wallet" apps.)
The countries that have used EMV for years still have those obsolete and insecure payment options. NFC is growing, not shrinking, even where EMV is used.
When I applied for early admission for my first-choice, I never got a rejection. Or acceptance. I was rejected. No to CM. After the notification period had passed, I had to call them and ask.
The academics I deal with are more worried about doing it "pure" and "right" and less about getting it done. And "right" in the real world is often wrong, for all things. There's a reason why engineers are banned from PE status until after a real-world apprenticeship. They have learned theory in college, then have to learn the real way to do it from the real world before they can be an engineer.
What's the "value" of a college degree from CM? That should be the penalty, lifetime "value" of a CM degree, vs a High School graduate.
These days, if a person makes an error, they are held to it forever, but a corporation makes an error, and they make a non-apology and fight any consequences
So I suspect someone with scrambled egg on their hat took that programmer into a quiet room and said 'you will make an unfortunate error this afternoon, or we'll be sending the boys round'. I'm pretty sure the government suspect the same.
Heads will, I suspect, roll - and I don't think they will be the heads of programmers.
They will be of programmers. It'll be a programmer that logged in, and a programmer that hit the keys.
The programmer should have demanded a signed sheet of paper ordering the "error". If they threaten to fire him for that, he points out that if he's fired, then he'll talk. They'll either kill the programmer (pretty rare, despite what the movies indicate) or work out some paperwork in a mutually-destructive-pact. Not the police, but when I've ever been asked to do something questionable, I've always managed to get it in writing, with nobody really objecting.
In the US, I've never heard an Indian person self-identify as "Asian". South Asia is often referred to as the Indian Subcontinent, so the terms "Indian" and "Asian" aren't necessarily even redundant in that context.
In the UK, I hear the area (the Indian sub-continent) identified as "Asian", and more precision for East Asian.
As for self-identification, nearly everyone I know in the US from South America identifies as "American" for the sole purpose of pretending to be from the US, while not being such. Those not trying to cause confusion identify as the country, not the area. Brazilian or such.
The reason this isn't done in the US for Asia is that we are racist. "Aren't they all Chinese" is a common sentiment. There's towelhead (Middle East), Paki (Indian subcontient), Chink (East Asian), and that's about all that's used for distinguishing amongst them.
Despite defeats in both Iraq and Afghanistan still being dragged out as America's longest running wars in its history,
Hard to take them seriously when we had troops on the ground in Vietnam since Eisenhower sent them in, until Nixon ordered them all out. First US troops on the ground in 1954 (non combat), and first US soldier death in 1959. The last troops out in 1975. 16 years from first US death to last. 21 from first US military personnel officially in country to oppose the North, to the last leaving. Depending on your definitions, that's quite a range, but still longer than the time from 2001 to now, so I have no idea how Iraq and Afghanistan are the longest. Perhaps it's the revisionist history that Kennedy started the Vietnam war, and Nixon ended it, so there was 8 years of the Vietnam war between Kennedy being voted in and Nixon being voted in, even though Nixon only ended it because he knew it wouldn't be what he's most remembered for.
Note, the original use was "Indian and Asian men", which is, in all locations on the planet outside the US the same as saying "Californian and American men". It may be understandable, but it's wrong. "Midwest and Californian men" would have meaning. As would "Indian and East Asian men". But that's not what was said, and why it's incorrect outside the US, and incorrect, but acceptable, within the US.
The best image for the use of locations is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U... where the areas are all labeled and exclusive. Unlike the US definitions, where Near East (archaic), North Africa, and Middle East all include Lybia through Egypt. The US terms are imprecise and mostly worthless, as they change based on who we are including in the Axis of Evil this week.
Internationally, imprecision is generally used only when assembling those groups to regions. For example, APAC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... "On the whole there appears to be no clear cut definition of "Asia Pacific" and the regions included change as per the context."
The American stance is, "why does it matter, there are two classes of people, Americans, and other." And that's clear in the improper use of terms. But of course, letting someone know they used words wrongly is somehow offensive. Reminds me of the racists I knew in the '90s. "Fuck this PC shit. I should be able to call a nigger a nigger."
Most of the data centers I deal with are unmanned. It doesn't matter when you go, unless you call ahead, there is nobody there to meet you. There isn't any staff that hangs around. The security is all automated. The many cameras are monitored by an off-site force.
Especially the scare-mongering over depleted uranium being somehow seen as more toxic than lead is entirely political theater ungrounded in any science.
Will they be blocking Tor for the cheaper service? It's cheaper to opt out with a VPN service than pay AT&T. And how will they capture my search terms on the cheap plan if I use https://www.google.com/ ? Do they have some agreement with Google to pass off search terms from an encrypted session?
It seems like something that would be easy to block, for those that know and care, and those that neither know, nor care, won't care.
I know quite a few Indian and Asian men who are paying through the nose to keep their exes in the styles to which they have become accustomed.
Obviously in the USA, as your wording is distinctly American, distinguishing India (which is Asian) from Asian. Also, have you heard them as vocal in the plight of the punished and downtrodden males? Usually such wording is not given by a minority, as they know how offensive it is to themselves and others. The most self-entitled group in the US is the white males, especially those born in the top 50%.
Extradition and "border" matters when you commit a crime while somewhere, then flee. They don't apply when you rob someone in Brazil, then flee to Madagascar, so Ireland tries to extradite you to have you face charges for speeding. What he's accused of isn't a crime where he is. And he didn't do the crime in the US. So there is no activation of the US extradition treaties. This should be recognized in court, and the case dismissed. But John Key is more interested in getting on the Security Council than following NZ or international law, so Kim is being prosecuted past the fullest extent of the law.
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Because she's not real?
And Wikipedia, and others. I think Civil Law (often given as the "opposite" of Common Law) makes more sense.
When the law is in a single place, and people see that the law that pertains to them is tens of thousands of pages long, and changes faster than any human can read it.
"The District of Columbia adopts the International Codes (I-Codes) published by the International Code Council (ICC), and the National Electrical Code (NEC) published by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)"
So the adopted the NEC, but I didn't see a spot on the site to see the NEC as adopted.
The NFPA maintains a "free" repository, but you can't browse it. You can only look up specific ones, after you create an account and jump through hoops. They charge for it in book form, and maintain copyright over all of it, and even manage to DRM cripple the code they do let you see for free.
I saw nothing in the case I pointed to that indicated anything you say is true. I have a link to where a guy was sentenced to life for $2.50 in socks. You've given nothing but unsubstantiated opinion to counter documented fact.
I'm pretty sure all regulations are available on the internet.
Nope. Local building code laws refer to NECA as having force of law, but NECA isn't available online. The law is privately written, privately held, and I must pay money to a company to be able to read the law. NECA isn't making it hard to make the law obfuscated, but is obfuscating the law so DIYers will be scared, and hire a NECA member to do the work. Similar things happen with regulations from the FCC, FAA, IRS and others with force of law, but aren't law. Sure, you can look up most. But it's hard, and "recommendations" are mixed in with "law" in a manner that is hard to differentiate.
it's true the prosecutor gets paid to get convictions. the heart of the justice system is the adversary system.
The state prosecutors are better funded than the state defenders. That, and the adversary system isn't the only system. If we aren't going to do it right, there are other systems that fail more gracefully than ours.
Eliminate mandatory sentencing. Rename it as "suggested". I think one issue is granting smaller sentences to people you "favor", hence why mandatory sentencing perhaps was created?
The point of mandatory sentencing was to remove "undesireables" from society without calling the prisons poor houses. http://www.rollingstone.com/po... A guy sentenced to life for stealing $2.50 in socks. That was the minimum sentence for his situation.
All laws should be in a central repository, unique and complete for each jurisdiction. That would be a technical solution to a very real problem. "Ignorance of the law is not a defense" is a lie. The police get to say it. They can arrest you for something legal, then claim ignorance of the law, and their actions are legal.
Since case law is law in the Common Law system, having all the cases indexed and assigned jurisdictionally, that would help the judges and legal professionals make better decisions. Yes, I'm aware that private companies already perform that action for a profit. But I shouldn't be forced to pay profit to a private company just to find the law that applies to me.
The problem with the system is the system. The prosecutor is paid to get convictions. Not to find the truth. A conviction of an innocent person is a win. Finding the guilty person, but being unable to prove it is a loss. For tech to help our system, the system would have to change. Tech is fact-based. Our judicial system is uninterested in fact.
Oh, and plea bargains are torture.
Nope. ID never required. To do so would be a barrier to using credit, and they want to have no barriers. Visa/MC want every transaction to be on a card.
You can buy content on the PS3 through PSN. But they won't let you play it on anything else (maybe Vita, if you have a PS4, but I have neither of those, so haven't tried the new generation). Why would I pay Sony for something I can't *ever* play on my phone, iPad, or PC?
Maybe it's the 3rd party apps they are using, but that's still their fault.
EMV is going to render a lot of crappy, insecure technologies obsolete (things like Coin, LoopPay, NFC, and many of the smartphone based "wallet" apps.)
The countries that have used EMV for years still have those obsolete and insecure payment options. NFC is growing, not shrinking, even where EMV is used.
When I applied for early admission for my first-choice, I never got a rejection. Or acceptance. I was rejected. No to CM. After the notification period had passed, I had to call them and ask.
The academics I deal with are more worried about doing it "pure" and "right" and less about getting it done. And "right" in the real world is often wrong, for all things. There's a reason why engineers are banned from PE status until after a real-world apprenticeship. They have learned theory in college, then have to learn the real way to do it from the real world before they can be an engineer.
What's the "value" of a college degree from CM? That should be the penalty, lifetime "value" of a CM degree, vs a High School graduate.
These days, if a person makes an error, they are held to it forever, but a corporation makes an error, and they make a non-apology and fight any consequences
So I suspect someone with scrambled egg on their hat took that programmer into a quiet room and said 'you will make an unfortunate error this afternoon, or we'll be sending the boys round'. I'm pretty sure the government suspect the same.
Heads will, I suspect, roll - and I don't think they will be the heads of programmers.
They will be of programmers. It'll be a programmer that logged in, and a programmer that hit the keys.
The programmer should have demanded a signed sheet of paper ordering the "error". If they threaten to fire him for that, he points out that if he's fired, then he'll talk. They'll either kill the programmer (pretty rare, despite what the movies indicate) or work out some paperwork in a mutually-destructive-pact. Not the police, but when I've ever been asked to do something questionable, I've always managed to get it in writing, with nobody really objecting.
Ingested uranium was even used in the treatment of diabetes before the discovery of insulin.
Arsenic was used to treat syphilis. Doesn't mean it worked. It was more a case of:
"Does your finger hurt?"
"yes"
*smashes toe with sledgehammer*
"How about now?"
"It's fine, can I go now?"
We used to treat headaches with leaches. Doesn't mean there's any actual science behind the treatment.
In the US, I've never heard an Indian person self-identify as "Asian". South Asia is often referred to as the Indian Subcontinent, so the terms "Indian" and "Asian" aren't necessarily even redundant in that context.
In the UK, I hear the area (the Indian sub-continent) identified as "Asian", and more precision for East Asian.
As for self-identification, nearly everyone I know in the US from South America identifies as "American" for the sole purpose of pretending to be from the US, while not being such. Those not trying to cause confusion identify as the country, not the area. Brazilian or such.
The reason this isn't done in the US for Asia is that we are racist. "Aren't they all Chinese" is a common sentiment. There's towelhead (Middle East), Paki (Indian subcontient), Chink (East Asian), and that's about all that's used for distinguishing amongst them.
Despite defeats in both Iraq and Afghanistan still being dragged out as America's longest running wars in its history,
Hard to take them seriously when we had troops on the ground in Vietnam since Eisenhower sent them in, until Nixon ordered them all out. First US troops on the ground in 1954 (non combat), and first US soldier death in 1959. The last troops out in 1975. 16 years from first US death to last. 21 from first US military personnel officially in country to oppose the North, to the last leaving. Depending on your definitions, that's quite a range, but still longer than the time from 2001 to now, so I have no idea how Iraq and Afghanistan are the longest. Perhaps it's the revisionist history that Kennedy started the Vietnam war, and Nixon ended it, so there was 8 years of the Vietnam war between Kennedy being voted in and Nixon being voted in, even though Nixon only ended it because he knew it wouldn't be what he's most remembered for.
Is this really a US phenomenon? I thought it was pretty common to distinguish South Asians and Middle Easterners from East Asians.
Where are you? Given your questioning of whether it's a US phenomenon without saying that you've seen it otherwise would lead me to think that you are in the US, and have only seen it the US way I mentioned, but don't have any real idea what's used elsewhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Note, the original use was "Indian and Asian men", which is, in all locations on the planet outside the US the same as saying "Californian and American men". It may be understandable, but it's wrong. "Midwest and Californian men" would have meaning. As would "Indian and East Asian men". But that's not what was said, and why it's incorrect outside the US, and incorrect, but acceptable, within the US.
The best image for the use of locations is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U... where the areas are all labeled and exclusive. Unlike the US definitions, where Near East (archaic), North Africa, and Middle East all include Lybia through Egypt. The US terms are imprecise and mostly worthless, as they change based on who we are including in the Axis of Evil this week.
Internationally, imprecision is generally used only when assembling those groups to regions. For example, APAC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... "On the whole there appears to be no clear cut definition of "Asia Pacific" and the regions included change as per the context."
The American stance is, "why does it matter, there are two classes of people, Americans, and other." And that's clear in the improper use of terms. But of course, letting someone know they used words wrongly is somehow offensive. Reminds me of the racists I knew in the '90s. "Fuck this PC shit. I should be able to call a nigger a nigger."
Most of the data centers I deal with are unmanned. It doesn't matter when you go, unless you call ahead, there is nobody there to meet you. There isn't any staff that hangs around. The security is all automated. The many cameras are monitored by an off-site force.
Especially the scare-mongering over depleted uranium being somehow seen as more toxic than lead is entirely political theater ungrounded in any science.
Not all heavy metal poisoning is the same.
So Indians aren't Asian? Would that mean Brazilians aren't South American?
Will they be blocking Tor for the cheaper service? It's cheaper to opt out with a VPN service than pay AT&T. And how will they capture my search terms on the cheap plan if I use https://www.google.com/ ? Do they have some agreement with Google to pass off search terms from an encrypted session?
It seems like something that would be easy to block, for those that know and care, and those that neither know, nor care, won't care.
I know quite a few Indian and Asian men who are paying through the nose to keep their exes in the styles to which they have become accustomed.
Obviously in the USA, as your wording is distinctly American, distinguishing India (which is Asian) from Asian. Also, have you heard them as vocal in the plight of the punished and downtrodden males? Usually such wording is not given by a minority, as they know how offensive it is to themselves and others. The most self-entitled group in the US is the white males, especially those born in the top 50%.
Extradition and "border" matters when you commit a crime while somewhere, then flee. They don't apply when you rob someone in Brazil, then flee to Madagascar, so Ireland tries to extradite you to have you face charges for speeding. What he's accused of isn't a crime where he is. And he didn't do the crime in the US. So there is no activation of the US extradition treaties. This should be recognized in court, and the case dismissed. But John Key is more interested in getting on the Security Council than following NZ or international law, so Kim is being prosecuted past the fullest extent of the law.