It is standard practice. Charge as much as you can possibly get away with and plea bargain down from there.
Intent matters, she shouldn't get off scott free but an outcome that leads to many hours of community service with the charges expunged afterword would be appropriate. As far as the expulsion goes, again, 10 days suspended would be more appropriate if this student hadn't ever caused trouble before but the trend toward "zero tolerance" is loved by school administrators because it removes from them any responsibility.
I have lights on timers, light sensors, motion activated. I close and lock my doors at night. I have a small dog that can bark up a storm. I have a fence around my back yard. I have an alarm system that is monitored. If all that isn't a deterrent or one of those fail, I have a gun in a similar type safe mentioned above to fall back on as a last resort but hope it never comes to that.
Complete BS. You know when an article starts out bashing an organization in the headline (NRA), it is a just a hit piece.
Criminals get guns for two reasons, self defense from other criminals and to have power over their prey. In the US they avoid occupied homes in general and really avoid people who are known to be armed because it is like asking to get shot.
Farmers the world over all agree on such things like how they need government protectionism increased for whatever they grow, they need more agriculture subsidies and they need other countries to reduce trade barriers so they can export more.
Do they expect murderers to refrain from loading those last three rounds?
NO. The point is to harass gun owners to the point they give up being gun owners or get caught in some legal trouble after inadvertently running afoul of the law. Once the number of gun owners shrinks some more they wait for the next high profile crime committed with a "military grade caliber" and then ban anything ove.38 caliber and limit magazine capacity to 5 rounds. Rinse and repeat.
I have a S&W pistol with a magazine disconnect and it has no requirement to dry fire to rack the slide or anything. If the magazine is removed, the trigger is just squishy and doesn't do anything (It has a safety which acts as a de-cocker), other than that everything else is the same. You do have to put in an empty magazine to dry fire but I don't see that as a major disadvantage.
"Note: magazine safeties prevent you from clearing the firearm, which means you can't guarantee it's not loaded."
I have a Smith and Wesson model 3913. It has a "magazine safety" which makes it not fire when the magazine is removed. It doesn't prevent someone from racking the slide to eject the round in the chamber. It is a trade off. The use I could see is that in the even that a person gets into a physical struggle over the weapon, rather than fighting for possession of the weapon, one could opt to try to eject the magazine instead, once done you can let the other person take the gun and when they try to use it against you and find it doesn't work, you can use that moment of confusion to take the magazine and do what you will (throw it away, stomp on it to deform it, run away with it, whatever). The disadvantage would be in the case of a tactical reload (reload with a round still in the chamber) the weapon is disabled until the next magazine is installed.
I personally like the magazine disconnect, I think the advantage outweighs the disadvantage in my situation.
I asked an anti-gun friend of mine what he would do if woke up and people had broken into his house. He said he would yell "I have got a gun!" even though he doesn't.
A google search didn't turn up anything useful, but it sounds like you've got a good handle on what's available.
Do they offer the 3-way LED bulbs yet? I'm not talking about dimmable ones (I know they exist), but rather the ones that work in sockets designed for these kinds of incandescent bulbs, providing three levels of light. My floor lamps are all of this kind, and I use each of the settings in different situations.
I have seen them in stores too so they shouldn't be too hard to find. They are just like the incandescent in your link with two sets of intertwined CFLs built into one socket to provide three possible light settings.
The prior poster said it was "acceptable given the other advantages of an electric vehicle" and I would agree on that. If an EV was able to be fulling charged with say, 100 miles in 15 minutes (perhaps at a specialized speed charging station), that would be acceptable given that most other charging could be done during downtime at home or work. It is a trade off I think most would live with since filling up at the quick charge station would be an occasional thing. What makes EVs so impractical is that the limited range makes the vehicle effectively unusable for any driving that would exceed the limited range so even a day trip to another city just out of range becomes problematic (for me, a beach trip is 150 miles, not feasible with a EV100 but quite doable if there were a quick charge option about halfway).
Obviously, the other issues you mentioned, the voltage needed, the limited number of plugs are an issue too but ultimately, to make the EV as flexible as a normal car, the ability to quick charge on trips must be available.
There is a famous argument by Judith Jarvis Thomson that suggests that even GRANTING that a fetus is a full-fledged person with the same rights as everyone else, that STILL they do not have the right to infringe on the rights of the mother:
You wake up in the morning and find yourself back to back in bed with an unconscious violinist. A famous unconscious violinist. He has been found to have a fatal kidney ailment, and the Society of Music Lovers has canvassed all the available medical records and found that you alone have the right blood type to help. They have therefore kidnapped you, and last night the violinist's circulatory system was plugged into yours, so that your kidneys can be used to extract poisons from his blood as well as your own. [If he is unplugged from you now, he will die; but] in nine months he will have recovered from his ailment, and can safely be unplugged from you.
Do you have a moral obligation to spend nine months hooked up to this person to keep them alive because you were selected to loan out your kidneys by a third party?
The simple answer would be that you have no obligation because you were forced into the situation that is described. With the exception of Rape, the pregnant woman chose to engage in activity that could lead to pregnancy, one could call that consent given for what ever pregnancy may result.
Is indexing it to inflation the right method? When you consider that many items are much cheaper today, in inflation adjusted dollars, than they were back in 1965.
Bread in 1965 was about 21 cents per loaf or about $1.45 in today's dollars. I found bread for less than $1 today.
Canned peaches, about 2$ per can in todays dollars can be bought for $1.50
Flour, $3.50 adjusted while it is $2.69 today.
Dozen eggs, just over $4.00 then, less than $3.00 today.
A two slot toaster, around $75 then, less than $20 today.
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It is standard practice. Charge as much as you can possibly get away with and plea bargain down from there.
Intent matters, she shouldn't get off scott free but an outcome that leads to many hours of community service with the charges expunged afterword would be appropriate. As far as the expulsion goes, again, 10 days suspended would be more appropriate if this student hadn't ever caused trouble before but the trend toward "zero tolerance" is loved by school administrators because it removes from them any responsibility.
Defense in depth.
I have lights on timers, light sensors, motion activated. I close and lock my doors at night. I have a small dog that can bark up a storm. I have a fence around my back yard. I have an alarm system that is monitored. If all that isn't a deterrent or one of those fail, I have a gun in a similar type safe mentioned above to fall back on as a last resort but hope it never comes to that.
Complete BS. You know when an article starts out bashing an organization in the headline (NRA), it is a just a hit piece.
Criminals get guns for two reasons, self defense from other criminals and to have power over their prey. In the US they avoid occupied homes in general and really avoid people who are known to be armed because it is like asking to get shot.
Farmers the world over all agree on such things like how they need government protectionism increased for whatever they grow, they need more agriculture subsidies and they need other countries to reduce trade barriers so they can export more.
Blacks make up about 13% of the US population and I wouldn't call them a "tiny minority" and 10% is not too much less, hardly a tiny minority either.
It is always a good thing to have some earth between your solar panels and the sun when it is night time.
Aren't most taxes and fees fixed for a residence? If so, then they shouldn't factor in since the residence pays the fixed fees/taxes anyway.
We only just got caffienated Mt. Dew recently in Australia. Why do you guys like it so much? It's terrible...
Nectar of the gods!
We should nationalize the legal profession. If you get charged with a crime, the government pays your lawyers the same amount it pays prosecutors.
Do they expect murderers to refrain from loading those last three rounds?
NO. The point is to harass gun owners to the point they give up being gun owners or get caught in some legal trouble after inadvertently running afoul of the law. Once the number of gun owners shrinks some more they wait for the next high profile crime committed with a "military grade caliber" and then ban anything ove .38 caliber and limit magazine capacity to 5 rounds. Rinse and repeat.
Without GPS, how do they know when you leave the state? And with GPS isn't that a serious privacy issue?
Here in Washington State, they are planning a $100 / year fee for these types of vehicles.
Similar issue with a gas tax. If you drive out of state, you could buy gas out of state. The government wants it's money.
I have a S&W pistol with a magazine disconnect and it has no requirement to dry fire to rack the slide or anything. If the magazine is removed, the trigger is just squishy and doesn't do anything (It has a safety which acts as a de-cocker), other than that everything else is the same. You do have to put in an empty magazine to dry fire but I don't see that as a major disadvantage.
"Note: magazine safeties prevent you from clearing the firearm, which means you can't guarantee it's not loaded."
I have a Smith and Wesson model 3913. It has a "magazine safety" which makes it not fire when the magazine is removed. It doesn't prevent someone from racking the slide to eject the round in the chamber. It is a trade off. The use I could see is that in the even that a person gets into a physical struggle over the weapon, rather than fighting for possession of the weapon, one could opt to try to eject the magazine instead, once done you can let the other person take the gun and when they try to use it against you and find it doesn't work, you can use that moment of confusion to take the magazine and do what you will (throw it away, stomp on it to deform it, run away with it, whatever). The disadvantage would be in the case of a tactical reload (reload with a round still in the chamber) the weapon is disabled until the next magazine is installed.
I personally like the magazine disconnect, I think the advantage outweighs the disadvantage in my situation.
People don't generally try to do this at places known to be full of armed individuals.
I asked an anti-gun friend of mine what he would do if woke up and people had broken into his house. He said he would yell "I have got a gun!" even though he doesn't.
Time for rectal scanners!
They should pass a law that mandates that anyone who broadcasts a debate must include Libertarians.
A google search didn't turn up anything useful, but it sounds like you've got a good handle on what's available.
Do they offer the 3-way LED bulbs yet? I'm not talking about dimmable ones (I know they exist), but rather the ones that work in sockets designed for these kinds of incandescent bulbs, providing three levels of light. My floor lamps are all of this kind, and I use each of the settings in different situations.
I did a google search and had no problem finding 3 way CFL bulbs.
https://www.google.com/search?q=three%20way%20compact%20florescent&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&source=hp&channel=np
I have seen them in stores too so they shouldn't be too hard to find. They are just like the incandescent in your link with two sets of intertwined CFLs built into one socket to provide three possible light settings.
15-20 mins is not competitive;
The prior poster said it was "acceptable given the other advantages of an electric vehicle" and I would agree on that. If an EV was able to be fulling charged with say, 100 miles in 15 minutes (perhaps at a specialized speed charging station), that would be acceptable given that most other charging could be done during downtime at home or work. It is a trade off I think most would live with since filling up at the quick charge station would be an occasional thing. What makes EVs so impractical is that the limited range makes the vehicle effectively unusable for any driving that would exceed the limited range so even a day trip to another city just out of range becomes problematic (for me, a beach trip is 150 miles, not feasible with a EV100 but quite doable if there were a quick charge option about halfway).
Obviously, the other issues you mentioned, the voltage needed, the limited number of plugs are an issue too but ultimately, to make the EV as flexible as a normal car, the ability to quick charge on trips must be available.
There is a famous argument by Judith Jarvis Thomson that suggests that even GRANTING that a fetus is a full-fledged person with the same rights as everyone else, that STILL they do not have the right to infringe on the rights of the mother:
You wake up in the morning and find yourself back to back in bed with an unconscious violinist. A famous unconscious violinist. He has been found to have a fatal kidney ailment, and the Society of Music Lovers has canvassed all the available medical records and found that you alone have the right blood type to help. They have therefore kidnapped you, and last night the violinist's circulatory system was plugged into yours, so that your kidneys can be used to extract poisons from his blood as well as your own. [If he is unplugged from you now, he will die; but] in nine months he will have recovered from his ailment, and can safely be unplugged from you.
Do you have a moral obligation to spend nine months hooked up to this person to keep them alive because you were selected to loan out your kidneys by a third party?
The simple answer would be that you have no obligation because you were forced into the situation that is described. With the exception of Rape, the pregnant woman chose to engage in activity that could lead to pregnancy, one could call that consent given for what ever pregnancy may result.
A lot of times the gun buy backs are "no questions asked" affairs where people usually turn in ratty old weapons that barely work.
Is indexing it to inflation the right method? When you consider that many items are much cheaper today, in inflation adjusted dollars, than they were back in 1965.
Bread in 1965 was about 21 cents per loaf or about $1.45 in today's dollars. I found bread for less than $1 today.
Canned peaches, about 2$ per can in todays dollars can be bought for $1.50
Flour, $3.50 adjusted while it is $2.69 today.
Dozen eggs, just over $4.00 then, less than $3.00 today.
A two slot toaster, around $75 then, less than $20 today.
(OK, I exaggerate a little, not all the British TV programs are old.)
It just seems so because of production quality that makes is appear as if they were filmed 25 years ago.
Yeah but those all have names that start with random numbers while Pluto is just Pluto. Having a cool name should count for something.
In short, the first time someone uses this and gets in a wreck, there will be a traffic jam of lawsuits.