Historically, the legal protection against self-incrimination is directly related to the question of torture for extracting information and confessions.[citation needed] The legal shift from widespread use of torture and forced confession dates to turmoil of the late 16th and early 17th centuries in England. Anyone refusing to take the oath ex-officio (confessions or swearing of innocence, usually before hearing any charges) was taken for guilty. Suspected Puritans were pressed to take the oath and then reveal names of other Puritans. Coercion and torture were commonly employed to compel "cooperation." Puritans, who were at the time fleeing to the New World, began a practice of refusing to cooperate with interrogations. In the most famous case, John Lilburne refused, in 1637, to take the oath. His case and his call for "freeborn rights" were rallying points for reforms against forced oaths, forced self-incrimination, and other kinds of coercion. Oliver Cromwell's revolution overturned the practice and incorporated protections, in response to a popular group of English citizens known as the Levellers. The Levellers presented The Humble Petition of Many Thousands to Parliament in 1647 with thirteen demands, of which, the right against self-incrimination (in criminal cases only), was listed at number three. These protections were brought to the American shores by Puritans, and were later incorporated into the United States Constitution through its Bill of Rights.
Add "Web 2.0" to a press release and the idiot press runs it uncritically?!? One can already buy and download Adobe applications from the Adobe site. The applications let users know when an upgrade is available, it then downloads and install said upgrade. I stopped using Adobe's products when they started treating me like a pirate with their online product registration.
The facility was constructed to keep operating in complete isolation mode -- cut off from the rest of the world and all its amenities -- for three months, according to InfoBunker's Web site. and
Also on-site are a 16,000-gallon water supply for fire suppression, a six-day fuel reserve and a backup 750 kW generator. Hmmmm....
And I quote, "IT is not a good substitute for good teaching. Good teachers are good with or without IT and students learn a great deal from them. Poor teachers are poor with or without IT and students learn little from them."
I wonder what kind of ROI universities get out on their IT projects. I visit a lot of universities and I regularly encounter empty computer labs, students ignoring lectures while listening to iPods, texting on mobile phones, and/or playing games on their laptop; lecture times cut short by the professor's lack of understanding of the basic operation of poorly implemented presentation technology.
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
-- Pastor Martin Niemöller
I once interviewed for a job and was told that I would be required to handwrite a statement so it could be analyzed by their "handwriting expert." I promptly got up and left. They looked shocked. Apparently they initially tried polygraphing applicants, but found it to be too expensive. Years later I bumped into the HR person at another job and asked her about the success of the vetting process. She said it didn't work and if anything made things worse.
Well, boys, I reckon this is it - nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies. Now look, boys, I ain't much of a hand at makin' speeches, but I got a pretty fair idea that something doggone important is goin' on back there. And I got a fair idea the kinda personal emotions that some of you fellas may be thinkin'. Heck, I reckon you wouldn't even be human bein's if you didn't have some pretty strong personal feelin's about nuclear combat. I want you to remember one thing, the folks back home is a-countin' on you and by golly, we ain't about to let 'em down. I tell you something else, if this thing turns out to be half as important as I figure it just might be, I'd say that you're all in line for some important promotions and personal citations when this thing's over with. That goes for ever' last one of you regardless of your race, color or your creed. Now let's get this thing on the hump - we got some flyin' to do.
I am not sure about in Canada, but in the US adhesion contracts (contracts that do not allow equal, two-way negotiation between two parties) are a good way for a company to get sued. Did she get competent legal advice as to what the "search" could entail? Did she understand her rights? Did she have an opportunity to propose an alternative arrangement that was satisfactory to both parties?
JIRA runs under Linux. It is not open source, but the cost of the application and support is well worth it. I believe it is free to use for open source projects. They also provide the full source code, which has allowed us to heavily customize the application. When I started evaluating issue tracking systems this page proved to be rather useful http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ticket- tracking_systems.
I agree, space tourism is a bit banal, but given how far, how quick, and how cheap private space ventures have gotten into space one has to question the rationality of continuing to sink money into an unaccountable government agency like NASA. Then again you are only focusing on the getting-to-space part of the equation. What really matters is the payload, and this has been increasingly privately funded, researched, and developed.
Considering the amount of good, hard-earned taxpayer money that has been poured into NASA - heck between 1964 and 1968 the Apollo program consumed about.8% of the US' GNP - we could have gotten more for our money had we invested the.8% GNP on monkeys and typewriters. Kidney dialysis machines, CAT scanners, and lousy NASA propaganda to advance your position, you must be a government worker.
I can believe we continue to give money to these jokers. Most of the really innovative stuff is being done by private companies/individuals. Yet we keep pouring money into the NASA black hole.
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Since he likes playing dress-up maybe W should go on a "fact finding" mission to Titan.
Wow a sample of 240 professional employees from an unnamed medium-sized company. One can definitely see a pattern.
Add "Web 2.0" to a press release and the idiot press runs it uncritically?!? One can already buy and download Adobe applications from the Adobe site. The applications let users know when an upgrade is available, it then downloads and install said upgrade. I stopped using Adobe's products when they started treating me like a pirate with their online product registration.
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And I quote, "IT is not a good substitute for good teaching. Good teachers are good with or without IT and students learn a great deal from them. Poor teachers are poor with or without IT and students learn little from them."
I wonder what kind of ROI universities get out on their IT projects. I visit a lot of universities and I regularly encounter empty computer labs, students ignoring lectures while listening to iPods, texting on mobile phones, and/or playing games on their laptop; lecture times cut short by the professor's lack of understanding of the basic operation of poorly implemented presentation technology.
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me. -- Pastor Martin Niemöller
There is no god but the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
I once interviewed for a job and was told that I would be required to handwrite a statement so it could be analyzed by their "handwriting expert." I promptly got up and left. They looked shocked. Apparently they initially tried polygraphing applicants, but found it to be too expensive. Years later I bumped into the HR person at another job and asked her about the success of the vetting process. She said it didn't work and if anything made things worse.
Well, boys, I reckon this is it - nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies. Now look, boys, I ain't much of a hand at makin' speeches, but I got a pretty fair idea that something doggone important is goin' on back there. And I got a fair idea the kinda personal emotions that some of you fellas may be thinkin'. Heck, I reckon you wouldn't even be human bein's if you didn't have some pretty strong personal feelin's about nuclear combat. I want you to remember one thing, the folks back home is a-countin' on you and by golly, we ain't about to let 'em down. I tell you something else, if this thing turns out to be half as important as I figure it just might be, I'd say that you're all in line for some important promotions and personal citations when this thing's over with. That goes for ever' last one of you regardless of your race, color or your creed. Now let's get this thing on the hump - we got some flyin' to do.
Why should I be able to benefit from monetary inheritance and not genetic inheritance?
Why shouldn't an employee get a discount if his/her genes do not predispose them to cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer, etc?
I am not sure about in Canada, but in the US adhesion contracts (contracts that do not allow equal, two-way negotiation between two parties) are a good way for a company to get sued. Did she get competent legal advice as to what the "search" could entail? Did she understand her rights? Did she have an opportunity to propose an alternative arrangement that was satisfactory to both parties?
JIRA runs under Linux. It is not open source, but the cost of the application and support is well worth it. I believe it is free to use for open source projects. They also provide the full source code, which has allowed us to heavily customize the application. When I started evaluating issue tracking systems this page proved to be rather useful http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ticket- tracking_systems.
I agree, space tourism is a bit banal, but given how far, how quick, and how cheap private space ventures have gotten into space one has to question the rationality of continuing to sink money into an unaccountable government agency like NASA. Then again you are only focusing on the getting-to-space part of the equation. What really matters is the payload, and this has been increasingly privately funded, researched, and developed.
Considering the amount of good, hard-earned taxpayer money that has been poured into NASA - heck between 1964 and 1968 the Apollo program consumed about .8% of the US' GNP - we could have gotten more for our money had we invested the .8% GNP on monkeys and typewriters. Kidney dialysis machines, CAT scanners, and lousy NASA propaganda to advance your position, you must be a government worker.
I can believe we continue to give money to these jokers. Most of the really innovative stuff is being done by private companies/individuals. Yet we keep pouring money into the NASA black hole.
Wouldn't everyone, not just immigrants, need an implant for this plan to work?!?