Um, having a new trial required that the previous verdict be set aside. There could be a new trial in this case, but the prosecution isn't willing to bring charges again. They can't force there to be a new trial unless the prosecution is willing to press charges again.
They already did create their own news syndication operation. It's the AP. "The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staffers." from Wikipedia
P.S. Her funniest essay is "I Like Babies". It's not what you expect... or, if it is, you are very strange.
Apparently I'm very strange, as I (correctly) expected it to be about eating babies after reading your intro to it. It's sort of the obvious 'unexpected' thing to like about babies. Now if it were about how she liked to use babies for painting, that'd be less expected...
While I don't use twitter, it's downtime is bad enough (or people are obsessed enough) that not only is there IsTwitterDown.com but also IsIsTwitterDownDown.com
Our entire economy, since we've moved from the gold standard in the 70's to a pure fiat based monetary system is still entirely, 100% based on faith. Your money has no value other than what other people think it's worth.
And guess what, gold had value because of what people thought it was worth. Not because it's intrinsically useful (like, say, chickens) but because it's shiny and durable.
Symbolic logic, while it developed out of philosophy and is in some places taught by philosophy departments, isn't philosophy. It's either mathematics or theoretical computer science.
It is however, very useful for people in programming or computer science.
The fact that everyone knows everything about "Joe" just highlights the problem with big government. He dared to question a government official and now all this info about him magically comes out.
Um, not sure how big government is to blame. One candidate (McCain) made him famous on a debate (not organized by the gov't) televized on almost every network (also not gov't). And since then the news media has taken off finding out any and every thing they can about him.
It's one thing to say you want to "tax the rich" to fund the government, it's another when you want to do it to give other people the money, i.e., "Spread the Wealth".
"Funding the government" does "spread the wealth"; it's not like the government throws money in holes. The money goes to gov't employees, contracts, social security, medicare, farming subsidies, corporate bailouts, etc. All of which "spread the wealth" to some segment of the population; it's just a question of what part of the population and under what guise the money is spent.
The lever machines are just as bad as electronic ones. Both have no paper trail, and they're both opaque to the average voter. For that matter, lever machines don't even tell you whether or not your vote was recording, something that electronic machines can at least pretend to do.
Just because it's been used for a long time doesn't mean it's good.
That's meteorology/climate. That could be changing for any of various reasons. Leap years keep the Solstices (which are an astronomical phenomenon) in the same few days in December/July.
While that's good in theory, it truly sucks for the people the law gets enforced against, and they might have a different opinion about whether it should be enforced. Especially if the public takes its time in realizing it's a bad law. E.g. the war on drugs.
More speculation based on one data point of life evolving (Earth), and the fact that we haven't detected any signals from life. Leading to some dubious speculation that there must be some single catastrophic thing ("the Great Filter") that prevents intelligent life from populating the galaxy, and how somehow if life evolved and died out on Mars, it means the Great Filter is more likely to be ahead of us. As opposed to behind, say, near where whatever caused the hypothetical Martian life to die.
Of course, this all assumes there is some Great Filter, and not a series of probabilities that add up to make planet-colonizing life unlikely. And a bunch of other typical assumptions about life being similar to us, etc.
Do you seriously wonder why you question wasn't answered? It isn't so much a question, as an excuse to state your opinion. You could have asked "Why do you only have liberal and conservative choices, when those two descriptions do not capture the entire political spectrum?" (or something concise like that), but instead go on about "illusory groups" and psychology and "meaningless twaddle".
1. Increase funding for the space program 5-fold (or so). A more useful space station and a permanent moon base would be the first goals, along with robotic missions to the outer solar system. 2. Open immigration, and open travel to Canada and Mexico. Allow anyone to become a citizen after a few years in the country, with a test of US history and basic priniciples (Constitution & Ammendments, Declaration of Independence, etc) 3. Legalize most drugs, within reason (ie all except ones with low lethal doses with little other effects). Then they could be regulated for safety and taxed. 4. Institute a national health insurance system 5. End international deployments of the National Guard. Only use them within the US, preferably within their own state. 6. Recall most troops from Iraq. 7. Repeal Patriot Act, REAL ID, end warrantless wiretapping, and disband the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (secret courts? blech) 8. Repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. Require states to recognize all other states marriages and civil unions, and have the federal government recognize them.
And while the federal government couldn't do it feasibly, they could provide incentives to state school systems / universities that do: 9. Require people to have basic knowledge of a language other than English. It's a big world out there, and a lot of it doesn't speak English.
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Um. You do realize that beastiality is illegal in most countries, right?
Its ok though; he'd have a hard time breast feeding since tits don't have tits.
Subatomic physics doesn't give a shit about molecules, cause they're bigger than atoms. Now if you discover a new subatomic particle, however...
According to Wikipedia, China uses year-month-day, which means they'd write it 4/1. So atleast one fifth of the world's population would write 4/1.
Um, having a new trial required that the previous verdict be set aside. There could be a new trial in this case, but the prosecution isn't willing to bring charges again. They can't force there to be a new trial unless the prosecution is willing to press charges again.
Why does it say I have 11 achievements, but then only show 7 of them? If I had the numbers, it comes out to 10...
(Also, I want my April Fools one)
Woo, achievement!
(perhaps even creating their own)
They already did create their own news syndication operation. It's the AP. "The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staffers." from Wikipedia
P.S. Her funniest essay is "I Like Babies". It's not what you expect... or, if it is, you are very strange.
Apparently I'm very strange, as I (correctly) expected it to be about eating babies after reading your intro to it. It's sort of the obvious 'unexpected' thing to like about babies. Now if it were about how she liked to use babies for painting, that'd be less expected...
While I don't use twitter, it's downtime is bad enough (or people are obsessed enough) that not only is there IsTwitterDown.com but also IsIsTwitterDownDown.com
The government (e.g. the ratings board) making it illegal to sell a video game (e.g. by refusing to rate it) is, by definition, censorship.
Our entire economy, since we've moved from the gold standard in the 70's to a pure fiat based monetary system is still entirely, 100% based on faith. Your money has no value other than what other people think it's worth.
And guess what, gold had value because of what people thought it was worth. Not because it's intrinsically useful (like, say, chickens) but because it's shiny and durable.
Actually, he's 85, as of Tuesday.
Symbolic logic, while it developed out of philosophy and is in some places taught by philosophy departments, isn't philosophy. It's either mathematics or theoretical computer science. It is however, very useful for people in programming or computer science.
The fact that everyone knows everything about "Joe" just highlights the problem with big government. He dared to question a government official and now all this info about him magically comes out.
Um, not sure how big government is to blame. One candidate (McCain) made him famous on a debate (not organized by the gov't) televized on almost every network (also not gov't). And since then the news media has taken off finding out any and every thing they can about him.
It's one thing to say you want to "tax the rich" to fund the government, it's another when you want to do it to give other people the money, i.e., "Spread the Wealth".
"Funding the government" does "spread the wealth"; it's not like the government throws money in holes. The money goes to gov't employees, contracts, social security, medicare, farming subsidies, corporate bailouts, etc. All of which "spread the wealth" to some segment of the population; it's just a question of what part of the population and under what guise the money is spent.
The lever machines are just as bad as electronic ones. Both have no paper trail, and they're both opaque to the average voter. For that matter, lever machines don't even tell you whether or not your vote was recording, something that electronic machines can at least pretend to do. Just because it's been used for a long time doesn't mean it's good.
That's meteorology/climate. That could be changing for any of various reasons. Leap years keep the Solstices (which are an astronomical phenomenon) in the same few days in December/July.
While that's good in theory, it truly sucks for the people the law gets enforced against, and they might have a different opinion about whether it should be enforced. Especially if the public takes its time in realizing it's a bad law. E.g. the war on drugs.
Then you get things like Is isTwitterDown.com down?
"Intercourse the penguins, I need to microwave my popcorn."
How is penguin sex going to help microwave your popcorn?
More speculation based on one data point of life evolving (Earth), and the fact that we haven't detected any signals from life. Leading to some dubious speculation that there must be some single catastrophic thing ("the Great Filter") that prevents intelligent life from populating the galaxy, and how somehow if life evolved and died out on Mars, it means the Great Filter is more likely to be ahead of us. As opposed to behind, say, near where whatever caused the hypothetical Martian life to die.
Of course, this all assumes there is some Great Filter, and not a series of probabilities that add up to make planet-colonizing life unlikely. And a bunch of other typical assumptions about life being similar to us, etc.
Do you seriously wonder why you question wasn't answered? It isn't so much a question, as an excuse to state your opinion. You could have asked "Why do you only have liberal and conservative choices, when those two descriptions do not capture the entire political spectrum?" (or something concise like that), but instead go on about "illusory groups" and psychology and "meaningless twaddle".
In no particular order
1. Increase funding for the space program 5-fold (or so). A more useful space station and a permanent moon base would be the first goals, along with robotic missions to the outer solar system.
2. Open immigration, and open travel to Canada and Mexico. Allow anyone to become a citizen after a few years in the country, with a test of US history and basic priniciples (Constitution & Ammendments, Declaration of Independence, etc)
3. Legalize most drugs, within reason (ie all except ones with low lethal doses with little other effects). Then they could be regulated for safety and taxed.
4. Institute a national health insurance system
5. End international deployments of the National Guard. Only use them within the US, preferably within their own state.
6. Recall most troops from Iraq.
7. Repeal Patriot Act, REAL ID, end warrantless wiretapping, and disband the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (secret courts? blech)
8. Repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. Require states to recognize all other states marriages and civil unions, and have the federal government recognize them.
And while the federal government couldn't do it feasibly, they could provide incentives to state school systems / universities that do:
9. Require people to have basic knowledge of a language other than English. It's a big world out there, and a lot of it doesn't speak English.