IANAL. Except that it's still illegal reguardless of this study. However, if you had already been sued and it was entered as evidence at the trial, you MIGHT be eligible for some kind of reversal of the decision since it would have potentially biased the jury. I would guess though that you would need to prove that they knew it was a flawed study at the time of the trial. IANAL.
How are the actions of their teenage hooligans any more significant than the Neo-nazis / national socialists right here in America? Teenage hooliganism / neo-nazism is a world wide problem, not just a French one. I am sure that equally offensive acts have been committed in the US.
And honestly, if we're getting insulted by a foriegn country campaigning against the use of our words in their own language, we have some serious priority issues.
If any documentation describing the code or at least functions in plain language exists (and for the love of God it always should) start there. If it doesn't, advise that your company start making documentation for any new code (not that you should expect them to listen).
Libral and Conservative are subjective terms that vary in meaning from nation to nation. Hitler was actually more moderate. Many of his programs like the RAD were very Liberal. At the same time, his German imperialistic policies in desiring a reunification of the Reich were at the time very Conservative.
There isn't really any need for a non-secret ballot to allow an individual to audit their own vote. I know in Pennsylvania I receive a numbered ticket when I vote. If this number is not associated with my identity, that ticket number could be used to audit single votes if the cast ballot is identified with the same number.
I think a lot of the government supported xenophobia in Japan is a result of a general lack of societal interest in the government. Sure, almost every democratic style nation has this problem to some degree, but in Japan, it appears to be at an extreme level. No one really seems to care what goes on with the government. I know I'm generalizing a lot here and admit that my research of this topic is shoddy at best, but this is how it appears from my end and talking to friends of mine who have spent a couple years there.
The "Foreigners go home" broadcasts mildly amuse me though. I would venture a guess that it's a private anti-foreigner group doing it that has been attacked in the past or threatened, and thus the police escorts. KKK rallies here in the USA have similar escorts.
Yes because porn in America doesn't at ALL try to choose women who look younger than their age. You don't see it on the magazine racks, but there's a huge market for "barely 18" pornography websites out there. Don't be fooled, the "barely 18" is just another way to say "I want them younger, but I'de be a terrorist under US law if I said so out loud". The low age of consent in Japan prevents teenagers who have sex with eachother from getting put on child sex offender databases like we have here. Sure Japan isn't the utopian society that many people would like to believe it is, but we arn't doing much better in the good ol USA.
And why is it that so many people here seem to think that simplistic drawings and photos of the same thing are on the same pornographic level? There are plenty of fine arts works in small museums out there that are down right pornographic. Yet when we talk about art in a museum, that is somehow different because suddenly people are somehow trying to interpret it.
Not so. iTunes downloads do not violate US copyright, and therefore are worth less than those that do. In light of the RIAA's damage estimates of $9,250 per song, only about 2270 songs will be able to be legally sent out from Antigua without paying the music industry.
You realize of course that you can also blind a pilot with a signal mirror and a powerful flashlight. Granted this is much more difficult to do, but what right do lost people have to create a dangerous situation for pilots. I get what you are saying, and there may be some merrit to it, but your logic is flawed.
It's fairly obvious to me that they are intentionally holding back. They know that the competitors to the Wii do not have anything that's the equivalent to the Wii. The type of interaction is different, the types of games are different, and in many cases, the type of people playing are different. So by setting production to meet nice hefty profit goals each quarter, they can draw out their income and keep the demand going. As long as demand is going, game development won't go stale either, giving them that source of royalties as well. Granted, I'm no business expert, but this makes perfect business sense to me.
While I can't say for sure whether or not Comcast is acting on behalf of other parties, the Japanese anime industry is beginning to feel the pinch. Back in the days when fansubs were on VHS and trading required some exceptional effort, the industry didn't really feel much. But now that mass trading is easy, even those in Japan are beginning to make use of American made fansubs rather than buying the media in Japan. In addition, anime is being licensed much faster in America. Many shows coming out in Japan are licensed in American almost the same day as the pilot episode.
I would not at all be surprised if Japanese companies are making complaints to Comcast.
This is nothing new. Simmon's is well known as an asshole (flamebait me if you desire). If people like his music that's fine, but I don't think too many people are being fooled by his character.
If we didn't have the electoral college, large swaths of the middle of the US would be for the most part ignored. Not only in election campaigns, but also in the candidat's commitment to even consider those sections of the US. This is probably a stretch comparison to illustrate the point, but we see in poor urban areas of a city where the residents hold little to no influence over the city/county wide elections, they are esentially ignored. In order to preserve the US being included as a whole in Washington DC, the electoral college needs to be maintained. On the flip side, the electoral college is in deserate need of being reformed. I believe at the present, the ideal would be an electoral college that is only numbers split based on the state's percentage of the vote. This whole deal with the electoral college being actual people who go and cast their vote as they please is absurd. When you write in a candidate for President, you have to write in the candidate's electors, NOT the candidate.
There is a distinction between personal correspondence and business correspondence. My e-mails sent from my e-mail address given to me by my employer are in no way private. Certain individuals within this company can read them at any time. My personal e-mails sent from my personal e-mail address are private (or so we like to think). Now it's not a far stretch from here to say that I should not be sending personal e-mails from my work address or work related e-mails from my private address. I don't see why our government shouldn't be held to the same industry standard.
The problem is that there are two types of laser eye surgery. The more common LASIK eye surgery cuts open a small flap on the eye to reveal the cornea. It is folded back in place after the surgery, but it is a permanent side effect and is forever present. In intense flight maneuvers there is a chance that this flap will pop back open.
The other option is PRK eye surgery. This is the form that is approved by the Navy (and they usually want to be the ones to do it). I don't know the details about this surgery, but basically it doesn't result in the permanent flap being present that the Navy is concerned about. This surgery also results in a more painful recovery.
The great irony is that if you had never had corrective eye surgery, you still might have a chance at being a Navy pilot.
Without knowing all of the details, I can only make an assumption. Small probes like this typically operate at higher frequencies. With ultrasound, higher frequency means better resolution, but the images dont penetrate as far. Thus for really high resolution images of your insides, the probe must be placed inside the body to get close enough to the target. This would allow the probe to be left in the body with a full panoramic view, so you don't need to worry about it's orientation.
Most people pay nothing for NPR either. I know this isn't exactly comparing apples to apples, but the significance can't be ignored. NPR stations in larger cities cost a lot of money every year to run (in the millions where I am), and most of that is provided by an even smaller fraction of their listeners than the fraction of those who paid for Radiohead's album. With the right situation, the voluntary pay what you can model works and has worked for many years. I would love to see a Drudgereport story on NPR.
There is no such thing as an unbiased news source. NPR is probably the closest I have ever seen, though it does have a slight liberal bias. But that bias is usually more in its subject matter than in its content.
It sucks that we have to rely on news sources to tell us what is going on because we just don't have the time to go read all of the raw information and figure it out on our own. The best we can do is to educate ourselves and get news from multiple sources and always be critical of what the news sources tell you. When you have two versions of the same story, the truth usually lies somewhere inbetween.
"A method that would allow us to choose between more than two players would, of course, be too complicated for us wielders of Ultimate Democratic Power to comprehend"
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court prefers to call it "ballot clutter"
IANAL. If I recall correctly, in Pennsylvania jury nullification is not even allowed. Instructing a jury about jury nullification is grounds for a mistrial. I'm sure that Pennsylvania is not the only state with such a stance on jury nullification. Granted, it still can't stop a well informed jury from still doing it. I think a judge can overturn a guilty verdict in some cases, but never an innocent one. IANAL.
Not to mention cost of malpractice insurance, insurance billing, and cost of managing compliance with government regulatory affairs. I work at a medical device company, and I would guess (and ONLY a guess) that damn near half of the cost of a new device goes into paying for FDA regulatory matters and liability insurance.
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IANAL. Except that it's still illegal reguardless of this study. However, if you had already been sued and it was entered as evidence at the trial, you MIGHT be eligible for some kind of reversal of the decision since it would have potentially biased the jury. I would guess though that you would need to prove that they knew it was a flawed study at the time of the trial. IANAL.
How are the actions of their teenage hooligans any more significant than the Neo-nazis / national socialists right here in America? Teenage hooliganism / neo-nazism is a world wide problem, not just a French one. I am sure that equally offensive acts have been committed in the US. And honestly, if we're getting insulted by a foriegn country campaigning against the use of our words in their own language, we have some serious priority issues.
If any documentation describing the code or at least functions in plain language exists (and for the love of God it always should) start there. If it doesn't, advise that your company start making documentation for any new code (not that you should expect them to listen).
Libral and Conservative are subjective terms that vary in meaning from nation to nation. Hitler was actually more moderate. Many of his programs like the RAD were very Liberal. At the same time, his German imperialistic policies in desiring a reunification of the Reich were at the time very Conservative.
There isn't really any need for a non-secret ballot to allow an individual to audit their own vote. I know in Pennsylvania I receive a numbered ticket when I vote. If this number is not associated with my identity, that ticket number could be used to audit single votes if the cast ballot is identified with the same number.
Welcome to America. Where we try to preserve a child's innocence until they are 30 years old, or married.
I think a lot of the government supported xenophobia in Japan is a result of a general lack of societal interest in the government. Sure, almost every democratic style nation has this problem to some degree, but in Japan, it appears to be at an extreme level. No one really seems to care what goes on with the government. I know I'm generalizing a lot here and admit that my research of this topic is shoddy at best, but this is how it appears from my end and talking to friends of mine who have spent a couple years there.
The "Foreigners go home" broadcasts mildly amuse me though. I would venture a guess that it's a private anti-foreigner group doing it that has been attacked in the past or threatened, and thus the police escorts. KKK rallies here in the USA have similar escorts.
Yes because porn in America doesn't at ALL try to choose women who look younger than their age. You don't see it on the magazine racks, but there's a huge market for "barely 18" pornography websites out there. Don't be fooled, the "barely 18" is just another way to say "I want them younger, but I'de be a terrorist under US law if I said so out loud". The low age of consent in Japan prevents teenagers who have sex with eachother from getting put on child sex offender databases like we have here. Sure Japan isn't the utopian society that many people would like to believe it is, but we arn't doing much better in the good ol USA. And why is it that so many people here seem to think that simplistic drawings and photos of the same thing are on the same pornographic level? There are plenty of fine arts works in small museums out there that are down right pornographic. Yet when we talk about art in a museum, that is somehow different because suddenly people are somehow trying to interpret it.
So 21 million MP3's
Not so. iTunes downloads do not violate US copyright, and therefore are worth less than those that do. In light of the RIAA's damage estimates of $9,250 per song, only about 2270 songs will be able to be legally sent out from Antigua without paying the music industry.
You realize of course that you can also blind a pilot with a signal mirror and a powerful flashlight. Granted this is much more difficult to do, but what right do lost people have to create a dangerous situation for pilots. I get what you are saying, and there may be some merrit to it, but your logic is flawed.
It's fairly obvious to me that they are intentionally holding back. They know that the competitors to the Wii do not have anything that's the equivalent to the Wii. The type of interaction is different, the types of games are different, and in many cases, the type of people playing are different. So by setting production to meet nice hefty profit goals each quarter, they can draw out their income and keep the demand going. As long as demand is going, game development won't go stale either, giving them that source of royalties as well. Granted, I'm no business expert, but this makes perfect business sense to me.
I know a guy that works the polls. He once had someone ask where the party line vote was on the Primary ballot.
While I can't say for sure whether or not Comcast is acting on behalf of other parties, the Japanese anime industry is beginning to feel the pinch. Back in the days when fansubs were on VHS and trading required some exceptional effort, the industry didn't really feel much. But now that mass trading is easy, even those in Japan are beginning to make use of American made fansubs rather than buying the media in Japan. In addition, anime is being licensed much faster in America. Many shows coming out in Japan are licensed in American almost the same day as the pilot episode. I would not at all be surprised if Japanese companies are making complaints to Comcast.
This is nothing new. Simmon's is well known as an asshole (flamebait me if you desire). If people like his music that's fine, but I don't think too many people are being fooled by his character.
If we didn't have the electoral college, large swaths of the middle of the US would be for the most part ignored. Not only in election campaigns, but also in the candidat's commitment to even consider those sections of the US. This is probably a stretch comparison to illustrate the point, but we see in poor urban areas of a city where the residents hold little to no influence over the city/county wide elections, they are esentially ignored. In order to preserve the US being included as a whole in Washington DC, the electoral college needs to be maintained. On the flip side, the electoral college is in deserate need of being reformed. I believe at the present, the ideal would be an electoral college that is only numbers split based on the state's percentage of the vote. This whole deal with the electoral college being actual people who go and cast their vote as they please is absurd. When you write in a candidate for President, you have to write in the candidate's electors, NOT the candidate.
There is a distinction between personal correspondence and business correspondence. My e-mails sent from my e-mail address given to me by my employer are in no way private. Certain individuals within this company can read them at any time. My personal e-mails sent from my personal e-mail address are private (or so we like to think). Now it's not a far stretch from here to say that I should not be sending personal e-mails from my work address or work related e-mails from my private address. I don't see why our government shouldn't be held to the same industry standard.
The problem is that there are two types of laser eye surgery. The more common LASIK eye surgery cuts open a small flap on the eye to reveal the cornea. It is folded back in place after the surgery, but it is a permanent side effect and is forever present. In intense flight maneuvers there is a chance that this flap will pop back open.
The other option is PRK eye surgery. This is the form that is approved by the Navy (and they usually want to be the ones to do it). I don't know the details about this surgery, but basically it doesn't result in the permanent flap being present that the Navy is concerned about. This surgery also results in a more painful recovery.
The great irony is that if you had never had corrective eye surgery, you still might have a chance at being a Navy pilot.
Without knowing all of the details, I can only make an assumption. Small probes like this typically operate at higher frequencies. With ultrasound, higher frequency means better resolution, but the images dont penetrate as far. Thus for really high resolution images of your insides, the probe must be placed inside the body to get close enough to the target. This would allow the probe to be left in the body with a full panoramic view, so you don't need to worry about it's orientation.
Most people pay nothing for NPR either. I know this isn't exactly comparing apples to apples, but the significance can't be ignored. NPR stations in larger cities cost a lot of money every year to run (in the millions where I am), and most of that is provided by an even smaller fraction of their listeners than the fraction of those who paid for Radiohead's album. With the right situation, the voluntary pay what you can model works and has worked for many years. I would love to see a Drudgereport story on NPR.
There is no such thing as an unbiased news source. NPR is probably the closest I have ever seen, though it does have a slight liberal bias. But that bias is usually more in its subject matter than in its content.
It sucks that we have to rely on news sources to tell us what is going on because we just don't have the time to go read all of the raw information and figure it out on our own. The best we can do is to educate ourselves and get news from multiple sources and always be critical of what the news sources tell you. When you have two versions of the same story, the truth usually lies somewhere inbetween.
"A method that would allow us to choose between more than two players would, of course, be too complicated for us wielders of Ultimate Democratic Power to comprehend" The Pennsylvania Supreme Court prefers to call it "ballot clutter"
IANAL. If I recall correctly, in Pennsylvania jury nullification is not even allowed. Instructing a jury about jury nullification is grounds for a mistrial. I'm sure that Pennsylvania is not the only state with such a stance on jury nullification. Granted, it still can't stop a well informed jury from still doing it. I think a judge can overturn a guilty verdict in some cases, but never an innocent one. IANAL.
In Pennsylvania, talking about jury nulification also makes you a terrorist
Not to mention cost of malpractice insurance, insurance billing, and cost of managing compliance with government regulatory affairs. I work at a medical device company, and I would guess (and ONLY a guess) that damn near half of the cost of a new device goes into paying for FDA regulatory matters and liability insurance.
No, leave the glasses on please.