You cant get thrown into jail for enacting Jury Nullification because one of the principles behind a Jury that goes back to the old England times is that a jury cannot be punished for doing their job or rendering a verdict that the judge does not like.
Plus, the defendant would have a great chance for appeal, since he can successfully argue that he would have been acquitted.
If you are on a jury, show up, don't talk about it when you are not supposed to, and don't take bribes. Anything other than that is fair game. (although, try not to fall asleep during the trial)
Jury nullification *always* exists as long a they have a jury system that requires a unanimous verdict.
If the Judge gets a sense that the jury might nullify, he can force a mistrial before the verdict, which gets a new jury. Judges and Prosecutors also routinely excuse anyone who might think for themselves.
When I was called for jury duty at the Federal level, I was told, via the form letter, that the Judge would tell us what the law was, and that was the law. We were specifically told not to think for ourselves about what the law should be, but they didn't mention jury nullification.
I've been told that Judges will punish lawyers that attempt to tell juries about their rights to nullify. I guess it's up the the schools and "Boston Legal" to teach people that.
We really need a principle or law like you Miranda Rights, that juries should be informed about nullification at the beginning of every trial. What we need is a test case where someone was bogusly convicted, and the jury members will testify that they would have acquitted if they had know about nullification.
The jury was presented with the law and most likely told what all juries are told "don't think for yourself, just blindly apply the law as written".
When I was called for jury duty at the Federal level, I was told, via the form letter, that the Judge would tell us what the law was, and that was the law. We were specifically told not to think for ourselves about what the law should be, but they didn't mention jury nullification. (I wasn't selected, since it was a boring case, I didn't mind being dumped)
Anyway, I've been told that Judges will punish lawyers that attempt to tell juries about their rights to nullify. I guess it's up the the schools and "Boston Legal" to teach people that.
Microwave ovens use this space, because water absorbs it very well. Because ovens use it, and atmospheric water absorbs these frequencies, the standards people knew it wouldn't be very useful for communications, so they made the band unlicensed for limited output power. (Microwave ovens are not supposed to leak, but sometimes they do. If your or your neighbor's microwave causes much interference, have it checked out, the leakage could be dangerous.)
Anyway, because this spectrum was unlicensed the free market took over, and tons of devices started to use it.
There's plenty of licensed spectrum that you can use, just get a license.
If an average person's computer works, they will leave it alone. My mom uses a Mac with Mac OS 7.6 on it. It works for her, so why fix it? (She also has an Mac OS X laptop, but doesn't like it as much as OS 7)
This flip side is that when the average person's computer stops working is the only time they will look for something else. If MS makes life more difficult for the average person, then yes, AP's will start looking at other OSes.
More like no attacks are feasible. If you have an N-bit document, an N-bit quantum computer can attack it. Since the largest quantum computer know is like 3 bits, you should be safe for awhile.
Right, almost secure isn't good enough for privacy, where you don't want others to know the contents of a file even after you have passed away.
"Mostly Secure", is good enough for multi-million dollar transactions that will be vapor soon after they are completed. As long as someone can't tamper with them during the transfer, it's ok.
A paradox in that an extremely valuable transaction may need less security than an almost worthless (to anyone else) file.
Professor and student generated content is more valuable than textbooks anyway. I received A's in classes where I didn't open or didn't even buy the textbook.
Advantages to publishers:
No need to preprint, so you never over or under print.
Sell directly to the student w/o giving the middle man a cut.
Disadvantages:
Too easy for students to cut you out, by creating and sharing their own information. (Has Calculus 101 changed in the last 100 years?)
It's more complicated than that. If housing prices are not rising, neither are rents. Work the scenario at the height of the bubble, the owner will face falling value, but the renter will face failing rents. (Although he may have to move to take advantage of them)
Another disadvantage to owning is the "Love Canal" effect. My parents owned the house I grew up in and with a elementary school just up the road, it seemed stable. Then the City incorporated against the wishes of the County, so the County built a prison right next the the City's school. My parents moved before it was completed, before house prices in the immediate are plummeted. (Less than a week after opening, an inmate escaped from the new "Escape Proof Prison")
If you are uncertain, rent. If you find a piece of property that you want to live in for many years, buy. All the math in the world isn't going to a difference.
Actually I was paraphrasing from the TV series "Dinosaurs". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101081/
In that episode, the dinosaurs tried to remove everything from TV that was offensive to anyone and someone opined that he was offended by the name "Sue", so a the newscasters could no longer call each other by name.
You're supposed to raise your kids to minimize the chance of getting hit by a car.
the wisest parenting, in fact, suggests that teenage children need their own private social space in which to develop their own identity.
That for normal, well adjusted kids. If your kid has a mental illness, yes, take away the computer, take away TV, take away any reading material that might send her over the edge. Worst case scenario, commit your child *before* she offs herself. Suicidal people are a special case, and the rest of society shouldn't have to adjust, just because some people are unstable.
Yes, they do care, *if* they feel what you think alters their chance for getting re-elected. Because it's always close to election day. Use to be pols started the re-election campaign the day after the election, now it's started several months before.
his is what happened to meier: she was mentally and emotionally unstable
Instead of stopping anyone's free speech, perhaps the courts should appoint a protector for mentally unstable minors. That protector could be call something like a "Guardian", or "Parent".
The hell you say. I consider any word with "bacca" in it to be offensive, hostile, and ugly. I also don't like the name "Sue". If I, or anyone like me, get to be a judge, you're toast.
It doesn't matter what the content of your blog is, someone will be offended by it.
Censorship anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.
Most of Issac Asimov's science fact works are as interesting in his science fiction. I read "Realm of Algebra" right before taking algebra in school and I sailed through the class. It hasn't been in print for awhile, but you can find used copies on eBay and Amazon.
As I said, any teacher in their first 3 years at a school in Indiana can fail to have their contract renewed and the union won't do anything about it.
Fixed that for you.
The Indiana teachers union will backstab any small group they think they can get away will. Since they have compusory membership dues (or had back in the 1980's when I lived in IN) they don't have to care about anybody but the majority. If the school boards want to fire all the art teachers, the art teachers are going to get the shaft. Since young teachers are in a minority, they also have no say in the union.
Did you know that civil war-era bureaucrats argued vehemently against the introduction of repeating rifles?
My dad told me that General Custer and his men died a little bighorn because he refused to bring the Gatling gun. Some WWI general died after saying that a machine gun could never stop a Calvary charge.
Here's an anecdote for you: I would've rather swiped a card that had my info on it and been admitted to the hospital rather than have to explain to an incompetent nurse that I couldn't fill out her forms because I had second degree burns on my right arm from the knuckles to the elbow.
Absolutely. But the worst case is that you have to swipe your card, *and* explain to an incompetent nurse that I couldn't fill out her form... I think that was the point of the original author.
The local hospitals around here are using electronic medical records, and so far things always go better when they do. At least one, Winchester Medical Center in Winchester VA, a triage nurse determines your condition, then after you are in an exam room, someone else comes in a works on the forms/insurance. When I took my daughter in for breathing problems (similar to the author), they took her right back and started treatment. This is a teaching hospital, so it's up on the latest techniques.
I'll try that on my work machine, but my home machine, an Inspiron 1100 laptop, doesn't have a Windows key, and neither does the Model M plugged into it.
I'll check the manual. Perhaps some combination of Ctrl, Fn, and Alt will stand in for the Windows key.
That was one of Dr. McCoy's objections to being transported on Trek TOS.
Pierre Boulle (sp?) wrote a story about a transporter system that destroyed the original person, saying them to tape. Then the tape was electronically transmitted to the moon, where the person was reassembled. If that person had an accident, they would just rerun the tape, and poof!, reincarnation. (minus intervening memories of course)
Namely: It's about legalized organlegging [wikipedia.org]. As treatments emerge, we'll find out whether they're willing to sacrifice other human beings for their own health & longevity.
That's a no-brainer. The answer is "Yes, They are willing to sacrifice other human beings for their own health & longevity", for every country that ever started a war. <cynic mode> Us, them, we're all the same. </cynic mode>
If a natural embryo splits in the womb, it becomes identical twins. If a researcher takes a embryo, splits off several ESCs, then implants that embryo so that it can go to full term producing a living, breathing human being, does that fix the ethical argument?
You could take a natural embryo, remove a few ESCs and save them. Then after the person is born and dies, you use a saved ESC to produce another person, is that ok? If the original person that was produced by the embryo gets cancer, can you use their ESCs to fix the cancer and keep them alive?
(All this is science fiction today, but will be available 15 minutes into the future...)
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You cant get thrown into jail for enacting Jury Nullification because one of the principles behind a Jury that goes back to the old England times is that a jury cannot be punished for doing their job or rendering a verdict that the judge does not like.
Plus, the defendant would have a great chance for appeal, since he can successfully argue that he would have been acquitted.
If you are on a jury, show up, don't talk about it when you are not supposed to, and don't take bribes. Anything other than that is fair game. (although, try not to fall asleep during the trial)
Jury nullification *always* exists as long a they have a jury system that requires a unanimous verdict.
If the Judge gets a sense that the jury might nullify, he can force a mistrial before the verdict, which gets a new jury. Judges and Prosecutors also routinely excuse anyone who might think for themselves.
When I was called for jury duty at the Federal level, I was told, via the form letter, that the Judge would tell us what the law was, and that was the law. We were specifically told not to think for ourselves about what the law should be, but they didn't mention jury nullification.
I've been told that Judges will punish lawyers that attempt to tell juries about their rights to nullify. I guess it's up the the schools and "Boston Legal" to teach people that.
We really need a principle or law like you Miranda Rights, that juries should be informed about nullification at the beginning of every trial. What we need is a test case where someone was bogusly convicted, and the jury members will testify that they would have acquitted if they had know about nullification.
The jury was presented with the law and most likely told what all juries are told "don't think for yourself, just blindly apply the law as written".
When I was called for jury duty at the Federal level, I was told, via the form letter, that the Judge would tell us what the law was, and that was the law. We were specifically told not to think for ourselves about what the law should be, but they didn't mention jury nullification. (I wasn't selected, since it was a boring case, I didn't mind being dumped)
Anyway, I've been told that Judges will punish lawyers that attempt to tell juries about their rights to nullify. I guess it's up the the schools and "Boston Legal" to teach people that.
Great lawyers are expensive. Even good lawyers will set you back several thousand. (Of course, having no lawyer can be *really* expensive.)
Ack, I can't tell if you are joking or not.
Microwave ovens use this space, because water absorbs it very well. Because ovens use it, and atmospheric water absorbs these frequencies, the standards people knew it wouldn't be very useful for communications, so they made the band unlicensed for limited output power. (Microwave ovens are not supposed to leak, but sometimes they do. If your or your neighbor's microwave causes much interference, have it checked out, the leakage could be dangerous.)
Anyway, because this spectrum was unlicensed the free market took over, and tons of devices started to use it.
There's plenty of licensed spectrum that you can use, just get a license.
If an average person's computer works, they will leave it alone. My mom uses a Mac with Mac OS 7.6 on it. It works for her, so why fix it? (She also has an Mac OS X laptop, but doesn't like it as much as OS 7)
This flip side is that when the average person's computer stops working is the only time they will look for something else. If MS makes life more difficult for the average person, then yes, AP's will start looking at other OSes.
More like no attacks are feasible. If you have an N-bit document, an N-bit quantum computer can attack it. Since the largest quantum computer know is like 3 bits, you should be safe for awhile.
OTP and physical security are the only way to go.
Right, almost secure isn't good enough for privacy, where you don't want others to know the contents of a file even after you have passed away. "Mostly Secure", is good enough for multi-million dollar transactions that will be vapor soon after they are completed. As long as someone can't tamper with them during the transfer, it's ok.
A paradox in that an extremely valuable transaction may need less security than an almost worthless (to anyone else) file.
So we should all keep a machine around for Y2010 testing that we constantly move the clock around, creating and deleting files in the past and future?
Advantages to publishers:
Disadvantages:
It's more complicated than that. If housing prices are not rising, neither are rents. Work the scenario at the height of the bubble, the owner will face falling value, but the renter will face failing rents. (Although he may have to move to take advantage of them)
Another disadvantage to owning is the "Love Canal" effect. My parents owned the house I grew up in and with a elementary school just up the road, it seemed stable. Then the City incorporated against the wishes of the County, so the County built a prison right next the the City's school. My parents moved before it was completed, before house prices in the immediate are plummeted. (Less than a week after opening, an inmate escaped from the new "Escape Proof Prison")
If you are uncertain, rent. If you find a piece of property that you want to live in for many years, buy. All the math in the world isn't going to a difference.
Yep.
Actually I was paraphrasing from the TV series "Dinosaurs". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101081/ In that episode, the dinosaurs tried to remove everything from TV that was offensive to anyone and someone opined that he was offended by the name "Sue", so a the newscasters could no longer call each other by name.
the wisest parenting, in fact, suggests that teenage children need their own private social space in which to develop their own identity.
That for normal, well adjusted kids. If your kid has a mental illness, yes, take away the computer, take away TV, take away any reading material that might send her over the edge. Worst case scenario, commit your child *before* she offs herself. Suicidal people are a special case, and the rest of society shouldn't have to adjust, just because some people are unstable.
"No snowflake in an avalanche feels responsible"
That quote applies to mobs and elections.
Yes, they do care, *if* they feel what you think alters their chance for getting re-elected. Because it's always close to election day. Use to be pols started the re-election campaign the day after the election, now it's started several months before.
Disagree with a law all you want, but your only recourse, if this thing were to pass, would be to challenge its constitutionality.
How about we disagree with it enough to our congressbeings that they don't pass it in the first place, m'kay?
his is what happened to meier: she was mentally and emotionally unstable
Instead of stopping anyone's free speech, perhaps the courts should appoint a protector for mentally unstable minors. That protector could be call something like a "Guardian", or "Parent".
The hell you say. I consider any word with "bacca" in it to be offensive, hostile, and ugly. I also don't like the name "Sue". If I, or anyone like me, get to be a judge, you're toast.
It doesn't matter what the content of your blog is, someone will be offended by it.
Censorship anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.
Most of Issac Asimov's science fact works are as interesting in his science fiction. I read "Realm of Algebra" right before taking algebra in school and I sailed through the class. It hasn't been in print for awhile, but you can find used copies on eBay and Amazon.
As I said, any teacher in their first 3 years at a school in Indiana can fail to have their contract renewed and the union won't do anything about it.
Fixed that for you.
The Indiana teachers union will backstab any small group they think they can get away will. Since they have compusory membership dues (or had back in the 1980's when I lived in IN) they don't have to care about anybody but the majority. If the school boards want to fire all the art teachers, the art teachers are going to get the shaft. Since young teachers are in a minority, they also have no say in the union.
Did you know that civil war-era bureaucrats argued vehemently against the introduction of repeating rifles?
My dad told me that General Custer and his men died a little bighorn because he refused to bring the Gatling gun. Some WWI general died after saying that a machine gun could never stop a Calvary charge.
Here's an anecdote for you: I would've rather swiped a card that had my info on it and been admitted to the hospital rather than have to explain to an incompetent nurse that I couldn't fill out her forms because I had second degree burns on my right arm from the knuckles to the elbow.
Absolutely. But the worst case is that you have to swipe your card, *and* explain to an incompetent nurse that I couldn't fill out her form... I think that was the point of the original author.
The local hospitals around here are using electronic medical records, and so far things always go better when they do. At least one, Winchester Medical Center in Winchester VA, a triage nurse determines your condition, then after you are in an exam room, someone else comes in a works on the forms/insurance. When I took my daughter in for breathing problems (similar to the author), they took her right back and started treatment. This is a teaching hospital, so it's up on the latest techniques.
I'll try that on my work machine, but my home machine, an Inspiron 1100 laptop, doesn't have a Windows key, and neither does the Model M plugged into it.
I'll check the manual. Perhaps some combination of Ctrl, Fn, and Alt will stand in for the Windows key.
That was one of Dr. McCoy's objections to being transported on Trek TOS.
Pierre Boulle (sp?) wrote a story about a transporter system that destroyed the original person, saying them to tape. Then the tape was electronically transmitted to the moon, where the person was reassembled. If that person had an accident, they would just rerun the tape, and poof!, reincarnation. (minus intervening memories of course)
Right, but that brings up the "Standby, Turnoff, Restart" menu. If you press Enter after that, you go into standby.
I've seen her bang on the keyboard, and the machine just shut down, gracefully, with no prompting. More than once...
Namely: It's about legalized organlegging [wikipedia.org]. As treatments emerge, we'll find out whether they're willing to sacrifice other human beings for their own health & longevity.
That's a no-brainer. The answer is "Yes, They are willing to sacrifice other human beings for their own health & longevity", for every country that ever started a war. <cynic mode> Us, them, we're all the same. </cynic mode>
If a natural embryo splits in the womb, it becomes identical twins. If a researcher takes a embryo, splits off several ESCs, then implants that embryo so that it can go to full term producing a living, breathing human being, does that fix the ethical argument?
You could take a natural embryo, remove a few ESCs and save them. Then after the person is born and dies, you use a saved ESC to produce another person, is that ok? If the original person that was produced by the embryo gets cancer, can you use their ESCs to fix the cancer and keep them alive?
(All this is science fiction today, but will be available 15 minutes into the future...)