Contrary to popular belief, disabled pacemaker != instant death.
Most pacemakers help people with a reduced cardiac capacity to get an almost normal lifestyle, but not all of them are so grave that without pacemaker they will die. They will feel tired, won't be able to do some things (climbing stairs, v.g.). Of course the risks of death are increased (both due to the absence of pacemaker and the surgery needed to change it), but it is not as immediate as some suggest.
For example, think that all the people who are diagnosed to have a pacemaker implanted and have to wait until the surgery is practiced. If not having a pacemaker was so critical, all pacemaker insertions would be emergency procedures, but most of them are not.
So, it is ok for a group of 12 people to ignore the law? But then... why is 12 the magic number? What if 4 people can ignore the law? Then it is ok for me and 3 buddies to go robbing banks? Or maybe it is true that 12 is the magic number and I only need 11 more associates...
No, the issue is that jury nullification allows every group of 12 people to disregard the laws in accordance to their own preferences (being them racism, being simpathetic of one of the parts and so on). The question should be:
Is a group of 12 people from the same town/country that go into a court room representative enough of the rest of the society that they should have the right to decide to enforce or not the democratically elected laws of the country?
A jury should limit abuse by being more difficult to coerce when deciding about the facts (as in deciding if the evidence presented by the prosecutor is real or bullshit). Once the facts have been stablished, it is the codes that must decide the sentence.
IMHO, nowadays I prefer a judge (whose sentences can be revised if unfair, and that is responsible if he does not do things right) than a jury, granted that there is freedom of information so abuses can be quickly known and spread. I have to concede that a hundred (or two hundred years ago), while things mainly stayed "local" and information of abuses worse, a judge system might have caused judges to be too powerful.
there are no vital organs in the leg, so an injury there is less likely to be lethal.
Organs no, but those arteries are a real bitch.
That's why I just said less lethal. I prefer not to receive any, but if I have to chose I'll go for a cut in the leg or the arm before a cut in the head any day.
I somehow doubt that you can make a representative study of how knights in the Middle Age (you know, the ones whose almost only duty / job was to fight for his lord and who trained during his life for that) by using some modern people, who might be fit but will need a serious training to get used to it. Not to mention all of the know-how about using the armour lost during the centuries.
As a sidenote, the simplest explanation to the fact that the first armor to be eliminated was the armor of the legs may be just that there are no vital organs in the leg, so an injury there is less likely to be lethal.
In Judo one of the higher katas (well, higher than those that I know) simulates(*) wearing japanese armour. And, from looking at the movements, it looks anything but comfortable.
(*)I do not know if somewhere it is actually done while wearing armour, I only saw that with the participants wearing the usual judogi.
I have no doubt that many people speaks English fluently, but there is always a difference between your mother tongue and a foreign language. I somehow doubt that the sheik signs his documents with the western letters...
In opposition to the natural form of writting names on the terrain. Every one knows that when you write names on the ground so you can see them in the map, North is "up", so he should have written it that way.
Imagine that the writting of his name crosses with the writting of his country.
Now without sarcasm, what surprises me is that he chose to write the latin (westerner) form of his name.
If you move it from your home a couple hundred meters to your car and then a couple hundred meters to your office then it is not very important if it weights 4.5.
If you are a road warrior and drag it with you everywhere then 4.5 kgs can be a lot after a couple of hours.
Why is people in/. so obsessed with the "green" issue? It is like showing a red cloth to a bull.
Local (and national) government court bussiness to setup shop in its area. If this company, instead of electric cars, wanted to create some compound toxic to people and wildlife that was to be sold to India, it probably would have get the same investment, as long as they promised to get jobs to the town. And if it would have failed, it would not have been mentioned in/.
Yet here a lot of people seem somehow viscerally scared that new vehicles with better mileage and less oil consumption/CO2 production get to be in the market. Did a Prius hit you when you where young, or what?
Salinas gave this bussiness investment in order to get them to build their factory/HQ there so they get more employment. It happens all the time (either directly or through tax cuts or infrastructure investment) as it is one of the few ways a government can promote bussiness in its area in a capitalistic country. Of course it ends with a "race to the bottom" where every town is ready to outbid its neighbours in order to get some relief / allow politicians the chance to brag about it if it succeeds.
Nothing scares me more than the combination of being unable to read a text critically and mindlessly following a dogma. FTFY.
tax cuts INCREASES private investment, which increases jobs, which adds more TAXPAYERS to the system.
Oh, the infamous Lafffer curve (too lazy to post a link to wikipedia, check it yourself). Too bad it has not been proved, nobody knows where the optimal point is (why they always assume the optimal point is with LESS taxes, and no with more?), and everything else. But it gives some people a good mantra to repeat and repeat.
As other post has already put, everyone is willing to make sacrifices and cut costs... unless it is in something that benefits them.
At least some people is honest and choses consequently "I want good public services and I'll pay the taxes needed to/I do not want good public services but I want less taxes instead". Others just say"If I pay less taxes then everything will magically solve". With the first people one can try to get to a common point, arguing with the later ones is just a waste of time.
I remember a documentary about civil rights activists in the Israeli Army. One of them was formerly commander of a checkpoint, and one day received the new that a friend of hers had been killed. He stopped all palestinians there and made them stand in the sun for hours, just because she wanted to.
When she finally got to her senses, the most shocking thing to her was that nobody in her platoon did anything to get her back to normal. They all assumed that it was "bussines as usual".
Also, read how palestinians are evicted from their homes every time a new colony wants a piece of land. I do not know what the books say about the rights of palestinians, but they must not read them often.
Ah, and since "but there are others worse out there" is a valid defense? "Yes your honour, my client killed all of his family cruelly and in cool blood, but in his behalf I have to say that it is better than killing six millions jews"
Well, as it was divided between states, they were mostly warrying between them.... If you only use for the state, then it is another modern creation (and with 3-4 wars with pakistan, at least one with China and with guerrillas, it has a pretty good record for 60 years).
And if you are publicly showing your intentions there is no need for espionage.
A few years ago it was in the news that a drug dealer was arrested after leaving leaflets explaining what he was, what he was offering or how to get to him. Somehow, I doubt that the lawyer claimed that the police had been using its "spying machine".
The world has changed a lot since the '50 and '60, do you know? With the exception of Siria and several factions of Libano, Israel is doing very well with the government of its neighbours.
What could they do? Avoid expansion beyond their recognized borders, finish the apartheid against palestinians. You know, the things everybody has been asking them to do for years (and which they do occasionally comply when they have to good look for a time, but then dismiss).
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Contrary to popular belief, disabled pacemaker != instant death.
Most pacemakers help people with a reduced cardiac capacity to get an almost normal lifestyle, but not all of them are so grave that without pacemaker they will die. They will feel tired, won't be able to do some things (climbing stairs, v.g.). Of course the risks of death are increased (both due to the absence of pacemaker and the surgery needed to change it), but it is not as immediate as some suggest.
For example, think that all the people who are diagnosed to have a pacemaker implanted and have to wait until the surgery is practiced. If not having a pacemaker was so critical, all pacemaker insertions would be emergency procedures, but most of them are not.
So, it is ok for a group of 12 people to ignore the law? But then... why is 12 the magic number? What if 4 people can ignore the law? Then it is ok for me and 3 buddies to go robbing banks? Or maybe it is true that 12 is the magic number and I only need 11 more associates...
No, the issue is that jury nullification allows every group of 12 people to disregard the laws in accordance to their own preferences (being them racism, being simpathetic of one of the parts and so on). The question should be:
Is a group of 12 people from the same town/country that go into a court room representative enough of the rest of the society that they should have the right to decide to enforce or not the democratically elected laws of the country?
A jury should limit abuse by being more difficult to coerce when deciding about the facts (as in deciding if the evidence presented by the prosecutor is real or bullshit). Once the facts have been stablished, it is the codes that must decide the sentence.
IMHO, nowadays I prefer a judge (whose sentences can be revised if unfair, and that is responsible if he does not do things right) than a jury, granted that there is freedom of information so abuses can be quickly known and spread. I have to concede that a hundred (or two hundred years ago), while things mainly stayed "local" and information of abuses worse, a judge system might have caused judges to be too powerful.
there are no vital organs in the leg, so an injury there is less likely to be lethal.
Organs no, but those arteries are a real bitch.
That's why I just said less lethal. I prefer not to receive any, but if I have to chose I'll go for a cut in the leg or the arm before a cut in the head any day.
I somehow doubt that you can make a representative study of how knights in the Middle Age (you know, the ones whose almost only duty / job was to fight for his lord and who trained during his life for that) by using some modern people, who might be fit but will need a serious training to get used to it. Not to mention all of the know-how about using the armour lost during the centuries.
As a sidenote, the simplest explanation to the fact that the first armor to be eliminated was the armor of the legs may be just that there are no vital organs in the leg, so an injury there is less likely to be lethal.
In Judo one of the higher katas (well, higher than those that I know) simulates(*) wearing japanese armour. And, from looking at the movements, it looks anything but comfortable.
(*)I do not know if somewhere it is actually done while wearing armour, I only saw that with the participants wearing the usual judogi.
I have no doubt that many people speaks English fluently, but there is always a difference between your mother tongue and a foreign language. I somehow doubt that the sheik signs his documents with the western letters...
Reality is at most 96 ppi.
So it uses a surface of 2000 meter*miles... amazing! Or was it 20 KW/J/Amp?
In opposition to the natural form of writting names on the terrain. Every one knows that when you write names on the ground so you can see them in the map, North is "up", so he should have written it that way.
Imagine that the writting of his name crosses with the writting of his country.
Now without sarcasm, what surprises me is that he chose to write the latin (westerner) form of his name.
If you move it from your home a couple hundred meters to your car and then a couple hundred meters to your office then it is not very important if it weights 4.5.
If you are a road warrior and drag it with you everywhere then 4.5 kgs can be a lot after a couple of hours.
... it is okay if anyone bugs the judge's house?
Because until you actually record/hear anything, "it is purely conjecture that someone will use the micros to remote access of personal information".
This is /. Talking about green issues (and more of failed green projects) is like moving a red cloth in front of a bull.
My guess is that a guy in a Prius stole their lunch when they were in pre-school.
Yes, it is difficult to create new technologies that have the capabilities of older ones plus a few extra benefits.
Thank you for stating that out.
Why is people in /. so obsessed with the "green" issue? It is like showing a red cloth to a bull.
Local (and national) government court bussiness to setup shop in its area. If this company, instead of electric cars, wanted to create some compound toxic to people and wildlife that was to be sold to India, it probably would have get the same investment, as long as they promised to get jobs to the town. And if it would have failed, it would not have been mentioned in /.
Yet here a lot of people seem somehow viscerally scared that new vehicles with better mileage and less oil consumption/CO2 production get to be in the market. Did a Prius hit you when you where young, or what?
Not socialism, mind you.
Salinas gave this bussiness investment in order to get them to build their factory/HQ there so they get more employment. It happens all the time (either directly or through tax cuts or infrastructure investment) as it is one of the few ways a government can promote bussiness in its area in a capitalistic country. Of course it ends with a "race to the bottom" where every town is ready to outbid its neighbours in order to get some relief / allow politicians the chance to brag about it if it succeeds.
Nothing scares me more than the combination of being unable to read a text critically and mindlessly following a dogma. FTFY.
Churchill and Stalin did write down the partition of East Europe in a napkin.
Sadly, the final script was also written in a napkin.
Disclaimer: I love the visuals of the film but seriously it has not much of an story.
No, we should go for the base of all of it. Napkin technology is just an spin-off from Bistromatics.
Oh, the infamous Lafffer curve (too lazy to post a link to wikipedia, check it yourself). Too bad it has not been proved, nobody knows where the optimal point is (why they always assume the optimal point is with LESS taxes, and no with more?), and everything else. But it gives some people a good mantra to repeat and repeat.
As other post has already put, everyone is willing to make sacrifices and cut costs... unless it is in something that benefits them.
At least some people is honest and choses consequently "I want good public services and I'll pay the taxes needed to/I do not want good public services but I want less taxes instead". Others just say"If I pay less taxes then everything will magically solve". With the first people one can try to get to a common point, arguing with the later ones is just a waste of time.
I remember a documentary about civil rights activists in the Israeli Army. One of them was formerly commander of a checkpoint, and one day received the new that a friend of hers had been killed. He stopped all palestinians there and made them stand in the sun for hours, just because she wanted to.
When she finally got to her senses, the most shocking thing to her was that nobody in her platoon did anything to get her back to normal. They all assumed that it was "bussines as usual".
Also, read how palestinians are evicted from their homes every time a new colony wants a piece of land. I do not know what the books say about the rights of palestinians, but they must not read them often.
Ah, and since "but there are others worse out there" is a valid defense? "Yes your honour, my client killed all of his family cruelly and in cool blood, but in his behalf I have to say that it is better than killing six millions jews"
Well, as it was divided between states, they were mostly warrying between them.... If you only use for the state, then it is another modern creation (and with 3-4 wars with pakistan, at least one with China and with guerrillas, it has a pretty good record for 60 years).
And if you are publicly showing your intentions there is no need for espionage.
A few years ago it was in the news that a drug dealer was arrested after leaving leaflets explaining what he was, what he was offering or how to get to him. Somehow, I doubt that the lawyer claimed that the police had been using its "spying machine".
You could say the same about India, China, Persia. You could not about England of the USA, but only because these are "moden" creation.
The world has changed a lot since the '50 and '60, do you know? With the exception of Siria and several factions of Libano, Israel is doing very well with the government of its neighbours.
What could they do? Avoid expansion beyond their recognized borders, finish the apartheid against palestinians. You know, the things everybody has been asking them to do for years (and which they do occasionally comply when they have to good look for a time, but then dismiss).