Aren't Judges supposed to remove themselves from a case if there is a known conflict of interest or an arguable bias? Don't they get in trouble for presiding over cases with this bias?
I would like to think all the civilized world would think like that, but don't count on it.
If the trial were held in the UK, USA, Canada, and a few others I have experience with, then the answer would be that the judge would recuse his/her self.
Hell, in some jurisdictions, if a prosecutor has a conflict, they'd do the same.
But, there are countries where this does not happen.
I see God sitting down with Stephen, winking and then saying something like, "Hey, did you get what I did with that 10 dimension thing and how it really changes when you look at it in 11 dimensions. Trippy, right?"
Children, the ancient Nevadans were a race of people known for their great engineering skills and their faith in the God Roulette, a god that they believed would judge people, punishing them or rewarding them. It is said that with a wave of the hand, the King of the Nevadans could cause a great temple to crash to the ground and then raise a new one up that very day.
The Nevadan culture built this clock, it will run out in 3 years. They were known for their prophecy. They must have known something we don't. The world will end in the year 12,012. This is off course, a significant number...
Taken from a lecture at the Art Bell Elementary School in the year 12,009.
This is awful. US is refusing to train Al Qaida. Oh the injustice, the inequality.
You know, I think someone missed your point when they modded you down.
Someone either has no critical thought skills, or, so insecure about the superiority of one OS over the other that they must mod down comments that fly against their preconceived notions.
See my comment to see that these processes and procedures are in place to protect the innocent from being railroaded, harassed, and driven into debt unjustly. The types of abuses that occured before in the U.S. and occur in other countries to this day.
It does mean that the occassional sleeze bucket goes free, murderous teens get out after a few months, and scum balls can make deals. But, it is there so you don't thrown in jail by the local La Costa Nostra-wannabe Sheriff with a grudge.
Now, the process that have freed this sleeze-ball are also the processes that help in preventing the innocent from being railroaded. I'd rather free an occasional sleeze than see a lot of innocents convicted unjustly.
For a second I thought you were quoting a scripture about Obama, teh Chosen One, Messiah, Holiness to His Name, leader of the Free World®, Defender of the Fa...etc, etc, etc.
Seriously. I thought all financial institutions had given up on using Perl for their back-end systems. One misplaced _$ and suddenly everyone is swimming in money.
Hahaha, surely, thou art on the highway to Hell.
Ducketh thou, the swine that thou hast cast your perl before will rise up and smiteth thee.
He isn't naive. Nobody is gonna get rid of their nukes, especially the USA, and he knows it.
So, you are saying he is a "liar"? Or, at best, you are calling him a "cynic"? The call is naive. This is like the trade agreements of the 90's, full of promise and goodwill, but when you make a move like this, ALL sides must participate honorably. Instead what we got was a great big sucking sound as US jobs were off-shored. Now, imagine that on a war level. Can you see how bad that would be? Had the calls for unilateral disarming of the 80's been heeded, I think we would have seen greater tyrannies emerging.
It puts international pressure on countries who really have no business with them. It is just good politics.
And, as we've seen with Iran, totally unenforceable if a country wants them. And, who is the arbiter of who has "no business" owning nukes?
I submit that a world without nukes would be one with much larger standing armies.
It would also be a hell of a lot less safe too. People know this too.
Naive in the utmost, the GP and your follow-on. Number one, standing armies are anathema to most freedom loving people. This is why the founders of the U.S. were so against them. When you have a standing army, it is very hard for leadership to avoid using them for something. If they can't find something external to use them for, they usually use them for something internal, and those cases are not usually benign.
We might say "down with nuclear weapons" in public, but if you put it to a vote, I promise you a large majority would vote to keep every nuke we own.
I suspect you are right. While a lot of folks like to talk about reducing arms, on the global scale or more locally when talking about firearms, they usually come down on the side of keeping defense options open.
My local "Josh" is a genius, has gone from Athiest to American Indian to Christian to converted Jew (the last because he doesn't believe the miracles that Christians talk about), has a habit of telling the most inappropriate jokes, shows up when he wants, leaves when he wants, cannot/will not explain his code, will not code with others, insists the DB be designed to his standards, and produces code that does the job very well, but is utterly unmaintainable.
He also collects the bonuses and gets the trips and training money. (The last, training trips and seminars that he usually ends up walking out of because they don't go along his lines of thinking.)
When the USA weaponizes space (I'm not sure whether to be happy or sad, but it's coming) then battleships are going to be a sad joke.
Then we just put the battleships in space, you dolt! Strap a star drive to the Missouri to counter some other ship of the era, and launch the puppy.
The USAF and USN are currently working on a technology to allow space-bourne Battleships and Carriers to transform into giant man shaped fighting machines as well.
Now, if you want to decry a weaponized space, how do you think we are going to deal with extra-terrestial enemies? Oh, I know, you'll want to sing them to death with your love songs.
UPI - Crow Agency, WYOMING - The Federal Environmental Protection Agency has issued a crackdown order on a traditional method of communication and possible free public access to the Internet. The method utilizes traditional Native American techniques with a modern twist. Computer signals called packets are translated into smoke signals and released into the atmosphere. The first message sent using this technique contained the message, "The casino is now open. $3 Black Jack and Texas Hold 'em. Smokey Robinson for 3 nights starting next full moon."
EPA spokesman Harvy Jamal Foshizelmeyer explained the crackdown, "This is hardly a carbon neutral means of communication."...
LOC is a nice measurement, I want the technology to progress to the point we can digitize an entire colonization team, load them onto a ship with equipment necessary to reconstruct them and then send that ship to the farthest reaches. It's all about saving the evils of man so we can propagate.
Growing up in southern California, there were a lot of Mormons in the neighborhood and at school. I always wondered at the need for validation as they would trot up and say, "Did you know the guy that created 'Battlestar Galatica' is a Mormon, and the guy that plays the boss on 'WKRP' is one, and guess who else is...?" and so it went. There were rumors that Bill Cosby was secretly baptized and that Michael Jackson was "taking the discussion" (bet you they are glad they dodge that bullet and he went JW).
It seemed every new rumor provided further vindication that they were right.
Off topic? No, completely on topic.
It seems that at least once a week, someone trots out the breathless news that government agency X from country Y is looking at Open Source/*nix/or is taking the RMS Holy Discussions of Conversion.
Face it, it's as obnoxious as all those little Mormon Missionary Wannabes.
Although our movement is not actually For or against Microsoft (While we have opposing view on software licensing and distribution) but most of our members really don't like them, because we had to buy their product once.
Damn it. This post might actually make me change my status with you from "foe" to "friend". Jeez, I like people to stay in the classification I give them. Live up to my predjudices, damn you!
But, on topic, when I heard this on the radio in Seattle today, I knew/. was going to be full of snarky anti-MS tripe. It's gotten to the point that its just a bunch of "follow the crowd, so many people hate MS, it must be cool" think.
Look, I don't like the store front idea. IBM has tried it a number of times, didn't work. Apple has done it, but it's not like it caught fire. Gateway, a few good years, then bust. I really like the idea of working with major retailers and getting a "Microsoft" section of the store, like some camera and other electronic stores do.
Of course, if I was going to be snarky, I'd say, "Make that deal with Radio Shack."
Why settle for a +3 mace when you can sit next to a +5 WMD? Really, you were thinking small. To conquer, one must think larger. Bwaahaahaahaa, bwaahaahaa, bwa...
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I would like to think all the civilized world would think like that, but don't count on it.
If the trial were held in the UK, USA, Canada, and a few others I have experience with, then the answer would be that the judge would recuse his/her self.
Hell, in some jurisdictions, if a prosecutor has a conflict, they'd do the same.
But, there are countries where this does not happen.
Since some theories hold that when you die you become one with the Universe, I see god getting a whole lot smarter when Stephen finally joins him.
I see God sitting down with Stephen, winking and then saying something like, "Hey, did you get what I did with that 10 dimension thing and how it really changes when you look at it in 11 dimensions. Trippy, right?"
Children, the ancient Nevadans were a race of people known for their great engineering skills and their faith in the God Roulette, a god that they believed would judge people, punishing them or rewarding them. It is said that with a wave of the hand, the King of the Nevadans could cause a great temple to crash to the ground and then raise a new one up that very day.
The Nevadan culture built this clock, it will run out in 3 years. They were known for their prophecy. They must have known something we don't. The world will end in the year 12,012. This is off course, a significant number...
Taken from a lecture at the Art Bell Elementary School in the year 12,009.
You know, I think someone missed your point when they modded you down.
Someone either has no critical thought skills, or, so insecure about the superiority of one OS over the other that they must mod down comments that fly against their preconceived notions.
Your pick.
See my comment to see that these processes and procedures are in place to protect the innocent from being railroaded, harassed, and driven into debt unjustly. The types of abuses that occured before in the U.S. and occur in other countries to this day.
It does mean that the occassional sleeze bucket goes free, murderous teens get out after a few months, and scum balls can make deals. But, it is there so you don't thrown in jail by the local La Costa Nostra-wannabe Sheriff with a grudge.
Why is this YRO?
Now, the process that have freed this sleeze-ball are also the processes that help in preventing the innocent from being railroaded. I'd rather free an occasional sleeze than see a lot of innocents convicted unjustly.
For a second I thought you were quoting a scripture about Obama, teh Chosen One, Messiah, Holiness to His Name, leader of the Free World®, Defender of the Fa...etc, etc, etc.
Whooosh!
Whooosh!
Whooosh!
Whooosh!
A whole flock of them went right over your head. Check for droppings.
Hahaha, surely, thou art on the highway to Hell.
Ducketh thou, the swine that thou hast cast your perl before will rise up and smiteth thee.
So, you are saying he is a "liar"? Or, at best, you are calling him a "cynic"? The call is naive. This is like the trade agreements of the 90's, full of promise and goodwill, but when you make a move like this, ALL sides must participate honorably. Instead what we got was a great big sucking sound as US jobs were off-shored. Now, imagine that on a war level. Can you see how bad that would be? Had the calls for unilateral disarming of the 80's been heeded, I think we would have seen greater tyrannies emerging.
And, as we've seen with Iran, totally unenforceable if a country wants them. And, who is the arbiter of who has "no business" owning nukes?
Naive in the utmost, the GP and your follow-on. Number one, standing armies are anathema to most freedom loving people. This is why the founders of the U.S. were so against them. When you have a standing army, it is very hard for leadership to avoid using them for something. If they can't find something external to use them for, they usually use them for something internal, and those cases are not usually benign.
I suspect you are right. While a lot of folks like to talk about reducing arms, on the global scale or more locally when talking about firearms, they usually come down on the side of keeping defense options open.
Willing to bet the /. editor let this through thinking it was real as well.
I am patenting a method for obfuscating then posting story summaries. I plan to take down /. in one swell foop...fell swoop.
Bwahahahahahhaahahahahaha.
My local "Josh" is a genius, has gone from Athiest to American Indian to Christian to converted Jew (the last because he doesn't believe the miracles that Christians talk about), has a habit of telling the most inappropriate jokes, shows up when he wants, leaves when he wants, cannot/will not explain his code, will not code with others, insists the DB be designed to his standards, and produces code that does the job very well, but is utterly unmaintainable.
He also collects the bonuses and gets the trips and training money. (The last, training trips and seminars that he usually ends up walking out of because they don't go along his lines of thinking.)
Can we say, "Too soon to tell" if this is going to be on a release schedule?
Then we just put the battleships in space, you dolt! Strap a star drive to the Missouri to counter some other ship of the era, and launch the puppy.
The USAF and USN are currently working on a technology to allow space-bourne Battleships and Carriers to transform into giant man shaped fighting machines as well.
Now, if you want to decry a weaponized space, how do you think we are going to deal with extra-terrestial enemies? Oh, I know, you'll want to sing them to death with your love songs.
Now, get off my lawn you damned dirty ape.
UPI - Crow Agency, WYOMING - The Federal Environmental Protection Agency has issued a crackdown order on a traditional method of communication and possible free public access to the Internet. The method utilizes traditional Native American techniques with a modern twist. Computer signals called packets are translated into smoke signals and released into the atmosphere. The first message sent using this technique contained the message, "The casino is now open. $3 Black Jack and Texas Hold 'em. Smokey Robinson for 3 nights starting next full moon."
EPA spokesman Harvy Jamal Foshizelmeyer explained the crackdown, "This is hardly a carbon neutral means of communication."...
LOC is a nice measurement, I want the technology to progress to the point we can digitize an entire colonization team, load them onto a ship with equipment necessary to reconstruct them and then send that ship to the farthest reaches. It's all about saving the evils of man so we can propagate.
I was agreeing with your sarcastic tone.
No knot-holes to put it in.
Didn't think I'd catch that, did you?
Growing up in southern California, there were a lot of Mormons in the neighborhood and at school. I always wondered at the need for validation as they would trot up and say, "Did you know the guy that created 'Battlestar Galatica' is a Mormon, and the guy that plays the boss on 'WKRP' is one, and guess who else is...?" and so it went. There were rumors that Bill Cosby was secretly baptized and that Michael Jackson was "taking the discussion" (bet you they are glad they dodge that bullet and he went JW).
It seemed every new rumor provided further vindication that they were right.
Off topic? No, completely on topic.
It seems that at least once a week, someone trots out the breathless news that government agency X from country Y is looking at Open Source/*nix/or is taking the RMS Holy Discussions of Conversion.
Face it, it's as obnoxious as all those little Mormon Missionary Wannabes.
Find your validation from within.
Damn it. This post might actually make me change my status with you from "foe" to "friend". Jeez, I like people to stay in the classification I give them. Live up to my predjudices, damn you!
But, on topic, when I heard this on the radio in Seattle today, I knew /. was going to be full of snarky anti-MS tripe. It's gotten to the point that its just a bunch of "follow the crowd, so many people hate MS, it must be cool" think.
Look, I don't like the store front idea. IBM has tried it a number of times, didn't work. Apple has done it, but it's not like it caught fire. Gateway, a few good years, then bust. I really like the idea of working with major retailers and getting a "Microsoft" section of the store, like some camera and other electronic stores do.
Of course, if I was going to be snarky, I'd say, "Make that deal with Radio Shack."
Why settle for a +3 mace when you can sit next to a +5 WMD? Really, you were thinking small. To conquer, one must think larger. Bwaahaahaahaa, bwaahaahaa, bwa...
Sweet historical slam on an FP troll. Sweet. Just wish I could have used my mod points on you.
You do know that with the historical reference you would have gotten modded up if you hadn't posted AC?
God damn it! I wish I had my mod points. Thanks for that one.
But, you do know you're going to Hell for lampooning the Chosen One, right?