His pretri detention was done in accordance with military law which differs from civilian in a number of ways
Actually, Article 10 creates a more exacting, more rigorous speedy trial requirement than the 6th amendment. So you are correct, military law differs - and military law in this case favors the defendant even more so than civilians.
Article 10 creates a more exacting, more rigorous requirement for a speedy trial than the 6th Amendment alone. United States v. Thompson, 68 M.J. 308
Mr. Manning has spent nearly 1000 days in pretrial confinement. The UN special rapporteur on torture has also found his treatment to be cruel and inhumane.
The government has broken many rules in their treatment of Mr. Manning (using a dentist as a psychiatrist? LOL!) It would be fair punishment for the government if the charges Mr. Manning has not yet pleaded guilty to are dismissed. Perhaps then the government would remember that it, too, has rules that it must abide by.
They were there during game-modding golden years of Quake/duke/doom/etc that has been smothered
Something tells me you've never tried to mod a game that was written for the Source engine (probably has something to do with your irrational fear of Steam). There is a very large open-source community that regularly mods the ever loving shit out of every Source engine game ever - all with Valve's consent. Source is perhaps the most easily hacked engine ever. I have myself written thousands of lines of code in Sourcemod so that I can customize Left 4 Dead 2 to my liking, and that doesn't count the tens of thousands of lines of other people's plugins. L4D2 launched in 2009 and to this day still gets updated (last update was a week ago)
Valve also has the Steam workshop so that they can pimp user-made mods, and even allow the mod developers to make money off their creations. Valve also endorses custom campaigns for L4D2 and even went so far as to take a community campaign and make it official, releasing it for the XBox as well (which requires significant certification fees). So the idea that game-modding has been smothered is totally bunk, proven such by the very people you are deriding here.
For instance - I cannot tell you what temperature it will be in northern Africa next year. But I can pretty reliably tell you that it will be mostly a desert.
I can't tell you what temperature it will be on Christmas in the northeast US. But I can tell you that it will be colder than it was during the summer time.
As the chair of the committee on science, space, and tech, perhaps he should be qualified to understand and represent the issues that surround science, space, and tech?
A wolf can be put in charge of the hen house, and he will represent wolves, alright. But that doesn't make him qualified to be in charge of the hen house.
Name any "socialist" country with universal health care that has had a fungal meningitis outbreak.
Consider whether the fungal meningitis outbreak had anything to do with the profit motive of corporations who considered making a quick buck more important than ensuring sterile conditions for their drugs.
The President doesn't have the AUTHORITY to change the tax structure
I totally agree with you, the executive doesn't have the constitutional authority to change taxes or issue budgets. So I wonder, why is the Speaker of the House begging Obama to do all of the hard work for his caucus?
House Speaker John Boehner on Friday put the ball in President Obama's court over the so-called "fiscal cliff," calling on the president to step up with a solution to avert the double-whammy of spending cuts and tax hikes that threatens to trigger another recession.
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the same electorate returned who returned Obama also returned a Republican majority in the all important House of Representatives.
As others have mentioned, many state legislatures gerrymandered the ever loving shit out of state districts, packing as many Democrats as possible into a single district that is usually won in excess of 70%, and then spreading the rest of the Democrats thinly enough in other districts that the Republicans will still win.
For example, Obama absolutely crushed Romney in PA, yet only 5 of the 18 districts went for Democrats. Obama also won Ohio, not by as much but he still won, and yet Democrats only won 4 of the 16 districts.
In fact, more people voted for Democratic representatives in the House than Republican representatives. The actual popular vote figure across the country is 48.8% Democrat, 48.5% Republican - and yet the GOP still has a 30+ advantage.
Also, if CO2 is not the limiting factor in plant growth (e.g. nitrogen or sunlight is the limiting factor), then increased concentrations of CO2 will not necessarily lead to more plants.
You make it sound like Hamas is the only faction in the Gaza Strip, but there are actually other even more militant subgroups that Hamas does not have control over. Note how many more rockets are now flying at Israel, and how they're getting close to Tel Aviv. I don't necessarily believe Hamas was endorsing the launching of rockets during ceasefires.
For that matter, I've also heard (with no verification) that Hamas will intentionally shoot rockets into open space in Israel, so that they can satisfy the more militant subgroups while also not pushing Israel too hard to retaliate.
They haven't stopped taking land. It happens to this day. It gets so bad that (sometimes) the Supreme Court of Israel evicts a settlement or two here and there, when it's particularly egregious.
You should also look into that apartheid fence the Israelis are building around the West Bank. It's kinda funny how the fence doesn't line up with the border, like it's trying to carve even more space out of the West Bank for Israel.
Nice cherry picking. Have any evidence that health care is what caused Greece and Spain their trouble? Because the consensus is that the old Greek government cooked the books and that's why they're in deep shit now.
Let's look at some other countries with universal health care. Are you telling me that ALL of these countries are failing...?
Norway, New Zealand, Japan, Germany, Belgium, United Kingdom, Kuwait, Sweden, Bahrain, Brunei, Canada, Netherlands, Austria, United Arab Emirates, Finland, Slovenia, Denmark, Luxembourg, France, Australia, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Cyprus, South Korea, Iceland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Switzerland, Israel
About that criticism of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (otherwise known as Baucuscare, after Senator Max Baucus of Montana, the man who *actually* wrote the law (or rather, it was Sen. Baucus' aides and lobbyists, but at least Baucuscare is less of a misnomer, since laws are not written by the executive branch))
Mr. John Schnatter, CEO of Papa Johns, estimates that the PPACA will cost his company $5 to $8 million annually.
In September, Papa Johns ran a campaign where they gave out two million free pizzas. The cost of these pizzas would be $24 to $32 million, estimated.
In other words, free pizza advertising gimmicks cost about four times as much as providing health care to your employees.
Any time a "good cop" observes a fellow police officer committing a crime and chooses to do nothing (or worse, publicly campaigns for them to be above the law), then they are no longer a "good cop".
Here's my opinion.
You're a cop, and you get caught breaking the law? You lose your pension.
You know a cop broke the law, and you didn't turn him in? You lose your pension.
You know a cop broke the law, and you *did* turn him in? You get his pension added to yours.
Implement this system and watch how fast the cops begin policing themselves.
So you say that we have no selective pressure for choosing intelligent mates.
But selective pressure is a two-way street. We also have no selective pressure for choosing *against* intelligent mates. It's not like there's a selective sweep that's going through and eliminating all the smart people. In the absence of selection against intelligence, I do not see support for the position that we are getting dumber.
In fact, I can see an argument where extreme intelligence was selected against in the past. If you're super-smart, then you're probably the wuss who would get eaten by the lion. In today's society where there is no selective pressure to be of sufficient physical health, I can see extreme intelligence being allowed to flourish in places where it would have died before (e.g. Dr. Steven Hawking)
when the NYT and Tribute did a recount in Florida in two different ways, they still found for Bush no matter how charitable they were to the ambiguous ballots.
Had Gore managed to trigger a state-wide recount, he would have won.
The stock market was going to tank no matter who won. Everyone was waiting for the election so they knew *what* to sell, not *whether* they would sell.
And when things pick back up - and rest assured they will - all those people who aren't irrationally afraid of Obama will be there to pick up those shares on the cheap.
It's great that Nate called all the states, but I'm more interested in how far off his estimates were.
For instance, he considered Florida very close, but just slightly Obama. Had it been won just slightly by Romney, Nate's model would have still been quite accurate.
However, if Nate's model was off by 10% in California, that would be quite inaccurate.
Has anyone done an analysis to see how far off Nate was on average when calling a state?
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His pretri detention was done in accordance with military law which differs from civilian in a number of ways
Actually, Article 10 creates a more exacting, more rigorous speedy trial requirement than the 6th amendment. So you are correct, military law differs - and military law in this case favors the defendant even more so than civilians.
United States v. Thompson, 68 M.J. 308
You are absolutely right, the UCMJ has rules above and beyond what a civilian population has to deal with.
One of those is Article 10. http://www.armfor.uscourts.gov/newcaaf/digest/VB3.htm
Article 10 creates a more exacting, more rigorous requirement for a speedy trial than the 6th Amendment alone. United States v. Thompson, 68 M.J. 308
Mr. Manning has spent nearly 1000 days in pretrial confinement. The UN special rapporteur on torture has also found his treatment to be cruel and inhumane.
The government has broken many rules in their treatment of Mr. Manning (using a dentist as a psychiatrist? LOL!) It would be fair punishment for the government if the charges Mr. Manning has not yet pleaded guilty to are dismissed. Perhaps then the government would remember that it, too, has rules that it must abide by.
Something tells me you've never tried to mod a game that was written for the Source engine (probably has something to do with your irrational fear of Steam). There is a very large open-source community that regularly mods the ever loving shit out of every Source engine game ever - all with Valve's consent. Source is perhaps the most easily hacked engine ever. I have myself written thousands of lines of code in Sourcemod so that I can customize Left 4 Dead 2 to my liking, and that doesn't count the tens of thousands of lines of other people's plugins. L4D2 launched in 2009 and to this day still gets updated (last update was a week ago)
Valve also has the Steam workshop so that they can pimp user-made mods, and even allow the mod developers to make money off their creations. Valve also endorses custom campaigns for L4D2 and even went so far as to take a community campaign and make it official, releasing it for the XBox as well (which requires significant certification fees). So the idea that game-modding has been smothered is totally bunk, proven such by the very people you are deriding here.
This one is so easy, it's almost not worth bothering to debunk it.
Weather is not climate. http://www.skepticalscience.com/weather-forecasts-vs-climate-models-predictions.htm
For instance - I cannot tell you what temperature it will be in northern Africa next year. But I can pretty reliably tell you that it will be mostly a desert.
I can't tell you what temperature it will be on Christmas in the northeast US. But I can tell you that it will be colder than it was during the summer time.
As the chair of the committee on science, space, and tech, perhaps he should be qualified to understand and represent the issues that surround science, space, and tech?
A wolf can be put in charge of the hen house, and he will represent wolves, alright. But that doesn't make him qualified to be in charge of the hen house.
I'm surprised that 0.9% has statistical significance
Seems like you don't understand how statistical significance works.
Hint: it has to do with the size of the error bars.
You wanna talk quality?
Name any "socialist" country with universal health care that has had a fungal meningitis outbreak.
Consider whether the fungal meningitis outbreak had anything to do with the profit motive of corporations who considered making a quick buck more important than ensuring sterile conditions for their drugs.
I totally agree with you, the executive doesn't have the constitutional authority to change taxes or issue budgets. So I wonder, why is the Speaker of the House begging Obama to do all of the hard work for his caucus?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/09/days-after-victory-obama-faces-fiscal-cliff-as-budget-office-warns-recession/
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As others have mentioned, many state legislatures gerrymandered the ever loving shit out of state districts, packing as many Democrats as possible into a single district that is usually won in excess of 70%, and then spreading the rest of the Democrats thinly enough in other districts that the Republicans will still win.
For example, Obama absolutely crushed Romney in PA, yet only 5 of the 18 districts went for Democrats. Obama also won Ohio, not by as much but he still won, and yet Democrats only won 4 of the 16 districts.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/11/07/how_ridiculous_gerrymanders_saved_the_house_republican_majority.html
In fact, more people voted for Democratic representatives in the House than Republican representatives. The actual popular vote figure across the country is 48.8% Democrat, 48.5% Republican - and yet the GOP still has a 30+ advantage.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/11/09/democratic-house-candidates-winning-the-popular-vote-despite-big-gop-majority/
Also, if CO2 is not the limiting factor in plant growth (e.g. nitrogen or sunlight is the limiting factor), then increased concentrations of CO2 will not necessarily lead to more plants.
You make it sound like Hamas is the only faction in the Gaza Strip, but there are actually other even more militant subgroups that Hamas does not have control over. Note how many more rockets are now flying at Israel, and how they're getting close to Tel Aviv. I don't necessarily believe Hamas was endorsing the launching of rockets during ceasefires.
For that matter, I've also heard (with no verification) that Hamas will intentionally shoot rockets into open space in Israel, so that they can satisfy the more militant subgroups while also not pushing Israel too hard to retaliate.
They haven't stopped taking land. It happens to this day. It gets so bad that (sometimes) the Supreme Court of Israel evicts a settlement or two here and there, when it's particularly egregious.
You should also look into that apartheid fence the Israelis are building around the West Bank. It's kinda funny how the fence doesn't line up with the border, like it's trying to carve even more space out of the West Bank for Israel.
Yes, it's very hard to code PSes but once you get the hang of it, it's very efficient.
Do you really end up coding PS in assembly, though? Shouldn't the compiler take care of all those problems for you?
S3 owner here. Pre-ordered mine so I could keep my Verizon unlimited on 4G. No problem with my battery at all.
So you think voluntary charity is enough to support all of the poor, homeless, and starving?
I wish that were true, but people are just too damn selfish.
Nice cherry picking. Have any evidence that health care is what caused Greece and Spain their trouble? Because the consensus is that the old Greek government cooked the books and that's why they're in deep shit now.
Let's look at some other countries with universal health care. Are you telling me that ALL of these countries are failing...?
Norway, New Zealand, Japan, Germany, Belgium, United Kingdom, Kuwait, Sweden, Bahrain, Brunei, Canada, Netherlands, Austria, United Arab Emirates, Finland, Slovenia, Denmark, Luxembourg, France, Australia, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Cyprus, South Korea, Iceland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Switzerland, Israel
Follow the money.
If Mr. Schnatter is swimming in money (multiple swimming pools, 22 car garage, private golf course), where do you think he gets that money?
By squeezing the franchise owners.
About that criticism of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (otherwise known as Baucuscare, after Senator Max Baucus of Montana, the man who *actually* wrote the law (or rather, it was Sen. Baucus' aides and lobbyists, but at least Baucuscare is less of a misnomer, since laws are not written by the executive branch))
Mr. John Schnatter, CEO of Papa Johns, estimates that the PPACA will cost his company $5 to $8 million annually.
In September, Papa Johns ran a campaign where they gave out two million free pizzas. The cost of these pizzas would be $24 to $32 million, estimated.
In other words, free pizza advertising gimmicks cost about four times as much as providing health care to your employees.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/calebmelby/2012/11/12/breaking-down-centi-millionaire-papa-john-schnatters-obamacare-math/
If you find the site via Google, scroll down to the bottom and you can read all the answers.
Any time a "good cop" observes a fellow police officer committing a crime and chooses to do nothing (or worse, publicly campaigns for them to be above the law), then they are no longer a "good cop".
Here's my opinion.
You're a cop, and you get caught breaking the law? You lose your pension.
You know a cop broke the law, and you didn't turn him in? You lose your pension.
You know a cop broke the law, and you *did* turn him in? You get his pension added to yours.
Implement this system and watch how fast the cops begin policing themselves.
So you say that we have no selective pressure for choosing intelligent mates.
But selective pressure is a two-way street. We also have no selective pressure for choosing *against* intelligent mates. It's not like there's a selective sweep that's going through and eliminating all the smart people. In the absence of selection against intelligence, I do not see support for the position that we are getting dumber.
In fact, I can see an argument where extreme intelligence was selected against in the past. If you're super-smart, then you're probably the wuss who would get eaten by the lion. In today's society where there is no selective pressure to be of sufficient physical health, I can see extreme intelligence being allowed to flourish in places where it would have died before (e.g. Dr. Steven Hawking)
Had Gore managed to trigger a state-wide recount, he would have won.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12623-2001Nov11.html
The stock market was going to tank no matter who won. Everyone was waiting for the election so they knew *what* to sell, not *whether* they would sell.
And when things pick back up - and rest assured they will - all those people who aren't irrationally afraid of Obama will be there to pick up those shares on the cheap.
It's great that Nate called all the states, but I'm more interested in how far off his estimates were.
For instance, he considered Florida very close, but just slightly Obama. Had it been won just slightly by Romney, Nate's model would have still been quite accurate.
However, if Nate's model was off by 10% in California, that would be quite inaccurate.
Has anyone done an analysis to see how far off Nate was on average when calling a state?
In my experience, third-party candidates fall much farther to the left or to the right of their Democratic or Republican counterparts,
Or in the case of Libertarians, they somehow fall much farther to the left and to the right of their Democratic and Republican counterparts.
Mind showing the left side of that package, or would such honesty interfere with your agenda?
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Same exact packaging you show. Except in these pictures you can see the left side of the packaging more easily. The warning is pretty obvious to me.