Mental health is basically the non-physical part of a person's health, although it can be influenced by physical causes. Sort of "quasi- or para- physical", I guess.
The woman would at least be guilty of:
1) Abuse of a minor, 2) Involuntary manslaughter, 3) Harassement, 4) Child endangerment
If she knew that the girl was depressed, yet continued to do what she did, then she'd be guilty of either Voluntary Manslaughter *or* Premeditated Murder.
Technically, bullying is a form of harassment. I'm not talking about the kind that happens a recess, I'm talking about in public life.
This is the the same thing as if someone was to emotionally torment a handicapped child, or any child for that matter.
Let me see if I get this straight:
It's ILLEGAL to:
1) Make a pass at a coworker of the opposite sex, 2) Say, "You've got some nice tits!" to a female coworker, 3) Make suggestive actions to a female, 4) For the military to verbally degrade or insult known terrorists, 5) Create a public disturbance (e.g. screaming through a bullhorn at 4am) 5) Say negative things about muslims (Brigitte Bardot is on trial in France for that), and a hate crime to say negative things about any minority or "Protected Class" (the fact that some people are protected while others aren't is bullshit to begin with).
But it is LEGAL FREE SPEECH to:
1) Harass an individual, with full conscious and knowledgable intent of causing emotional distress to them, to the point that they become mentally infirm and commit suicide.
This is the type of "Double Speak" that liberal extremists practice. If "MySpace Suicide Charges Threaten Free Speech", then so do laws prohibiting:
1) Yelling "Fire!" in a crowded movie theater, 2) Making bogus 911 calls, 3) Telling people to kill the President/Senator/Mayor/Governemnt official, 4) Telling people to kill any member of the public, 5) Giving false information to police, 6) Lying in court, 7) Anything negative degrading to a child, spouse, or individual ("Verbal Assault", "Verbal Harrasement", "Sexual Harassment") 8) Lying on legal documents, 9) Lying on tax returns, 10) Lying to a bank, ll) Commiting slander, 12) Committing libel, 13) Committing consipracy 14) Document forgery 15) or any other kind of deception with the intent to cause physical, financial, mental, or emotional harm.
This is the kind of "Double Speak" that liberal extremists (*NOT liberals in general!*) absolutely LOVE to practice. They believe that their causes are the only true and just causes, regardless of what the law, logic, comon sense, and rationality say.
Free Speech doesn't mean that you can willfully target and harass an individual, with the conscious intent of causing emotional harm, to the point that they become legally insane and commit suicide.
MySpace Suicide Charges don't threaten free speech in any way; They threaten *criminal* actions. Free speech is "I don't like you." or "You suck!". A criminal action is constructing an elaborate scheme to cause emotional harm or distress to an individual.
This *clearly* crossed the line from Free Speech to Criminal Action. Too bad the title's author doesn't understand the concept of Free Speech.
Jason Fortuny is a Greifer. Plain and simple. All anybody would need to do to show that the whole scheme he concoted was out of pure maliciousness, and not the "benevolent social experiment on privacy" that he claims it was, is to let the court research Fortuny's prior antics. The defense really doesn't need to do much with creating a case, since Fortuny's prior history of sociopathic antics has dug his own grave for him.
Anybody with half a brain would immediately notice that he not only has been disowned by his own mother for his 'greifing', but he has a pathologicas and sociopathic lust for harassing people for the sheer joy (yes, I say joy) of causing others emotional distress and harm.
These shitwits are the modern manifestation of "Sensationalistic Journalism", but they are anything but journalists.....
Maybe Fortuny's prior history will finally catch up with him and knock enough sense into him so he finally realizes that just because he has a small penis doesn't mean he has to act like it and make everybody else's life miserable in the process.
Chances are, this source of unburned perchorate is from retro-rockets from either American or Soviet landers. I highly doubt that this is naturally occuring, since there are records of Soviet and American landers that crashed on the surface, presumably with unused or partiall-used retro-rockets.
I know that the Soviets employed landers that collected samples, loaded then into a re-entry capsule, and then launched them back to Earth, where they were recovered. I'm not sure if the Soviet probes landed on Mars used the same method, though. However, I am definitely sure that the source of the perchlorate found on Mars is from retro-rockets that was swept up and widely dispersed by massive Martian sandstorms, and is not naturally occuring.
".....and can scan and run thousands of plates a day through the local Motor Vehicle Administration database".
-----And they say that illegal file sharing sucks up bandwidth?! Once these are deployed, file sharing will *PALE* in comparison to the bandwidth that these things will suck up!
However, alarmists may be making 'Minority Report' comaprisons already, but cops have been doing things like this since modern law enforcement came into being:
First, there was the 'Hot Sheet'. Then there was the two-way radio. After that came the in-car computers where an officer can type in the license plate manually. Now, there are these automated scanners.
It's *much* safer that having the officer manually type in the license plate by hand while trying to drive, which is just as incapacitating as cellular phones.
Creative Capitalism? Like what? Figuring out how much money you can bilk a customer out of? His idea of 'Cell Phone Billing By The Second' seems to follow that route.....
Also, I'm starting to think that QUARANTINE is the quickest and most effective solution for deadly epidemics that are spreading faster that we can control them. Call it insensitive or Politically Incorrect, but you really can't deny it's effectiveness over waiting decades for a medicine that might not really work effectively.
BTW..... Gates' idea of "Multi-mouse Technology" is a class clown's dream.
"Interesting idea - very similar to a goofy idea I came up with a few years back after the phone companies successfully overturned the rules requiring them to lease their wires to competitors."
-----Too bad you didn't patent that idea. You could have made alot of money!:P
" Do you really want city hall responsible for figuring out where to add capacity?"
-----They won't add capacity, at least in our lifetime. They will have to perform a financial analysis, a feasability study, Environmental Impact Report, and since city employees are Union-owned, it means it you will have to pay 5 of them for a full days' work every time you need to reset a router.
"Where do you go for service when they won't stop raising TAXES?!"
-----The same place I go: First their office, then their front door, then the ballot box, then the ammunition dealer. Thankfully, I haven't needed to make it to the last step.
1) Rock N' Roll (it's the Devil's music, and can lead to the downfall of society) 2) Skirts that show women's ankles (wearing anything shorter encourages pornography) 2) Unbuttoned Shirt Collars (shows too much skin on men) 3) Harsh Language (degrades society) 4) Marshmallow "Peeps" (people can choke while playing games with them) 5) Four-letter words in Scrabble (can lead to offensive language and degraes society) 6) Contact sports (can lead to severe injury and/or death) 7) Cheese (can cause cholesterol problems) 8) Personal Opinions (can lead to violent conflicts and social disruptions) 9) Anything Sharp (can cause severe injury and/or death) 10) Self-Defense (can lead to severe injury and/or death of the attacker/criminal) 11) Dirt/soil (since it contains dagerous germs and microbes, such as anthrax and E. Coli) 12) Trees (falling out of them can lead to severe injury and/or death) 13) Bicycles (sice they can cause injury to the user and can be a hazard to other traffic) Better yet, why don't we just lock up everyone under the age of 40 in padded rooms and straight jackets because they might hurt themselves and/or someone else??!
As prestigeous elitist as Georgetown is, they should have realized the lawsuits that they could face from this, since they, and anyone else, cannot prohibit lawful activities taking place within a private dwelling, since dorms, apartments, and student housing are technically private dwellings/residences. It would be the same as banning having sex or playing the Marshmallow Peeps Game in someones apartment/room/housing/etc.
This would be a "losing" legal battle for a campus that tries to prohibit this, but "winning" in the sense that no student can afford to defend themselves.
My school prohibits kegs, since they are considered "Mass Delivery" devices, but that only means you cant have a 'keg' (not counting those 'mini-kegs' you see at 7-11), and you can have as much alcohol as you and your buddies can afford. You can have a truckload of any kind of alcohol, but no kegs. Sorta makes sense, but they are not restricting alcohol or access to it by legal drinkers. If you live in the regular dorms, and have a roomie that is under 21, there must be at least 1 door, not including refrigerator doors (I already tried that) between the alcohol and the person under 21 (the door doesn't have to be locked at all times though). If you live in the student apartments or student housing, you can have any kind of alcohol anywhere. Parties/gatherings of over 15 people require you to fill out a very simple slip stating that you understand and you agree to be responsible for keeping the party under control. Our Police Department even has a shuttle that will take you to and from (until 2am) the downtown bars for free so you don't have to drive drunk.
The only real restrictions we have on alcohol is that you can't make your own, can't have a keg, and can't drink if you are a minor. Smoking is still O.K. as long as you are 25 feet from windows (State law).
Out rules regarding alcohol are simple common sense. As long as someone can care for themselves or is not posing a real danger to others, they are allowed to have fun. The rules (with the exception of kegs) are just the same as any other city or town in California: No open containers in public (except for scheduled events), you must be able to care for yourself, you cannot drive drunk, no underage drinking, and you can't give or buy alcohol for minors.
In the U.S., people who file too many frivolous lawsuits can be temporarily banned from suing other people, as well as being held financially responsible for all costs related to the suits. If someone files too many frivolous suits, they are declared to be either Malicious or Vexatious Litigants.
However, frivolous 911, or in the UK, 999 calls, can be life-threatening to the people in real-life emergencies. So, just as frivolous litigants can be banned from suing, frivolous callers should also be banned from calling.
If the banned individuals are fortunate (for everybody else) to be faced with a real emergency, then the Police and Fire Departments should note the persons previous history of phony calls and err on the side of caution by *not* responding and waiting for an emergency call that is not from a caller with a fraudulent history, since that has a higher probability of being more genuine.
I'm suprised that the UK doesn't have the ability to know the location of the call like Dispatchers here in the U.S. do. Every time a call is recieved, the number, location, and name of the registered owner is diplayed, so even if it is a simple 911 "Hang-Up" call, as happens with most small children fooling around with the telephone, an officer is dispatched to the very location that the call came from to find out what exactly is going on. I'm suprised that a country as Big Brother as the UK doesn't have that ability.
With the exception of small children who don't fully understand the ideas behind Emergency Numbers (911, 999, etc.), fraudulent callers should be treated as harshly as real criminals, with punishments on the order of:
1) Heavy fines 2) Wage garnishment 3) Vehicle Forfeitures / Seizures 4) Jail time 5) Emergency number blocking 6) Public Humiliation (like walking around with a sandwich board declaring them a fraudulent caller) 7) Property forfeiture (real estate or luxury items)
Fraudulent calls are dangerous, illegal acts that are life-threatening to people who really do, or may need, emergency help. The punishments should be VERY SEVERE.
The only people who benefit from this baloney are:
1) Personal Injury attorneys (aka "Ambulance Chasers") 2) Workman's Compensation lawyers 3) People who want a better reason for getting money from a company rather than working for it. 4) Trial lawyers 5) Those idiots who think they are allergic to WiFi and other signals 6) Hypochondriacs 7) Politicians 8) PACs 9) Lawyers in general.
If I were a cell phone manufacturer, I would put an "EMF Hazard" warning on the phone just in case money hungry slimebags try to nail me with a 'Defective Product' lawsuit. Hey, if secondhand smoke is harmful, why not secondhand radiation?
Ten bucks says Dr. Herberman uses a cell phone, despite his own warning.
The so-called "inventors" of this should be locked up for fraud, since they presented themselves as inventors of something that has existed for years, en masse. This is like trying to patent speadsheets 10 years after they began to be used widespread and claim, on a *legal* document, that you created them, and using you claim of having invented it years after they came into existence as a your basis for filing suit.
This action clearly constitutes:
1) Malicious prosecution, 2) Reckless Litigation, 3) Perjury, 4) Fraud, and 5) Conspiracy to commit fraud.
The shitwit patent clerks that approved this should be fired without pay, forced to pay attorney's fees for every defendent listed, and prohibited from ever holding a government job again.
They should at least be liable for attorney's fees, since this was an exceptionally gross, very likely deliberate, misuse of authority and judgement.
THE IDIOTS RESPONSIBLE:
Primary Examiner: Greta Robinson Secondary Examiner: Cheryl Lewis.....sigh..... women.
I wonder how many pairs of shoes they got in return for approval.....
If you *really* want to get the Home Solar market to take off, you can start by requiring the power companies to pay customers for the extra power they put back int othe grid:
1: Customer pay for solar panels and installation. 2: Customer generates electricity using private infrastructure and capital. 3: Customer generates excess power that is fed back into the grid, free of charge to power company. 4: Power comapny then turns around and sells power back to other customer for a profit.
Technically, taking something and not paying for it is theft, and selling something that has been stolen is also illegal. Since power companies are allowed to take a customer's surplus, and the customer cannot control how much extra power they generate, an the power comapanies are then allowed to sell the power at a profit (no generating costs) without paying the generators for their trouble, people for the most part feel cheated, and rather than allow themselves to be swindled by Big Electricity, they just don't bother. Plus, solar panels are pretty expensive for the average consumer, making the swindle even more painful.
Paying customers the maket price that they deserve and are entitled to would definitely lessen the sting of the initial solar panel investment.
I wonder if Home Solar generators could get around this by forming a private power-generation company (i.e. a "Home Business") and selling the excess to the Power Co.
If the power companies are stealing from you, level the playing field and steal from them until they pay you what you deserve: Put a magnet next to the meter.
When it comes to systems, you have the problem of Dynamics. Every system is going to change, over time, either due to external forces, internal forces, or conscious change.
When it comes to evidence, it is just that: Evidence. Unless the defendant confesses, or they find the defendant's fingerprints in the victims blood, then there is no proof, only evidence. Defense attorneys must prove why the evidence *is not* convincing, while prosecutors have to prove why evidence *is* convincing.
Technically, it is incorrect to claim a "False Match", since there we several loci that did in fact match.
The question of "# of lucus matches" can work both ways: A prosecutor can use a relatively high locus match to establish a high level of probability, while a defender can use a low locus match count to establish a low level of probability. Instaed of basing accuracy on a threshold, prosecutors and defenders should be treating the number of locus matches as an indicator of how credible the evidence is.
Clearly, Apple has grown quite comfortable with their monopoly of the "Home Unix" -market. (I'm totally in the dark when it comes to programming, and I remember someone telling me Macs were "Unix-based", rather than PCs which are "DOS-based").
I can see where it is illegal to install Apple OS on a clone and then sell it, but there is nothing illegal about selling the computer sans installed OS and then letting the customer install it, post-sale.
What Apple is doing is the same this as if Microsoft were to try to make illegal the installation of a Microsoft OS on any non-Microsoft manufactured or non-Microsoft licensed PC.
In regards to the Macintosh computer and OS market, Apple *clearly* has a monopoly. PsyStar, noticing that consumers have no other alternative to Mac-format PCs is creating an alternative to Apple.
Not only does Apple have a monopoly in this market, the lawsuit could very easily constitute an illegal anti-competitive action in addition to already having and illegal monopoly. Remembering the EU Antitrust circus of a few years ago, Apple could face the same thing, only the monopoly would far more obvious.
Kinda reminds me of the breakup of the California energy giants and the telephone giants back in the day.
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"You can build a better mousetrap" -----Rube Goldberg .....but you'll only be left with mice that are smarter than you.
Will somebody *PLEASE* publicly humiliate the shitwit patent examiners that approved this garbage?
Lately, I've been giving serious thought to starting a website just to put these asshats up for the public humiliation and shaming that they deserve!
The shitwits responsible:
Primary Examiner: Lee; Michael G.
Assistant Examiner: Savusdiphol; Paultep
Somebody, PLEASE, start giving these half-assed clerks the humilitation they so deserve!
Excellent point!
Mental health is basically the non-physical part of a person's health, although it can be influenced by physical causes. Sort of "quasi- or para- physical", I guess.
The woman would at least be guilty of:
1) Abuse of a minor,
2) Involuntary manslaughter,
3) Harassement,
4) Child endangerment
If she knew that the girl was depressed, yet continued to do what she did, then she'd be guilty of either Voluntary Manslaughter *or* Premeditated Murder.
Whoops! An embarrassing mistake!
Boy is my face red.....and so are my accounting books!
So *that* explains it!
Technically, bullying is a form of harassment. I'm not talking about the kind that happens a recess, I'm talking about in public life.
This is the the same thing as if someone was to emotionally torment a handicapped child, or any child for that matter.
Let me see if I get this straight:
It's ILLEGAL to:
1) Make a pass at a coworker of the opposite sex,
2) Say, "You've got some nice tits!" to a female coworker,
3) Make suggestive actions to a female,
4) For the military to verbally degrade or insult known terrorists,
5) Create a public disturbance (e.g. screaming through a bullhorn at 4am)
5) Say negative things about muslims (Brigitte Bardot is on trial in France for that),
and a hate crime to say negative things about any minority or "Protected Class" (the fact that some people are protected while others aren't is bullshit to begin with).
But it is LEGAL FREE SPEECH to:
1) Harass an individual, with full conscious and knowledgable intent of causing emotional distress to them, to the point that they become mentally infirm and commit suicide.
This is the type of "Double Speak" that liberal extremists practice. If "MySpace Suicide Charges Threaten Free Speech", then so do laws prohibiting:
1) Yelling "Fire!" in a crowded movie theater,
2) Making bogus 911 calls,
3) Telling people to kill the President/Senator/Mayor/Governemnt official,
4) Telling people to kill any member of the public,
5) Giving false information to police,
6) Lying in court,
7) Anything negative degrading to a child, spouse, or individual ("Verbal Assault", "Verbal Harrasement", "Sexual Harassment")
8) Lying on legal documents,
9) Lying on tax returns,
10) Lying to a bank,
ll) Commiting slander,
12) Committing libel,
13) Committing consipracy
14) Document forgery
15) or any other kind of deception with the intent to cause physical, financial, mental, or emotional harm.
This is the kind of "Double Speak" that liberal extremists (*NOT liberals in general!*) absolutely LOVE to practice. They believe that their causes are the only true and just causes, regardless of what the law, logic, comon sense, and rationality say.
Free Speech doesn't mean that you can willfully target and harass an individual, with the conscious intent of causing emotional harm, to the point that they become legally insane and commit suicide.
MySpace Suicide Charges don't threaten free speech in any way; They threaten *criminal* actions. Free speech is "I don't like you." or "You suck!". A criminal action is constructing an elaborate scheme to cause emotional harm or distress to an individual.
This *clearly* crossed the line from Free Speech to Criminal Action. Too bad the title's author doesn't understand the concept of Free Speech.
Jason Fortuny is a Greifer. Plain and simple. All anybody would need to do to show that the whole scheme he concoted was out of pure maliciousness, and not the "benevolent social experiment on privacy" that he claims it was, is to let the court research Fortuny's prior antics. The defense really doesn't need to do much with creating a case, since Fortuny's prior history of sociopathic antics has dug his own grave for him.
Anybody with half a brain would immediately notice that he not only has been disowned by his own mother for his 'greifing', but he has a pathologicas and sociopathic lust for harassing people for the sheer joy (yes, I say joy) of causing others emotional distress and harm.
These shitwits are the modern manifestation of "Sensationalistic Journalism", but they are anything but journalists.....
Maybe Fortuny's prior history will finally catch up with him and knock enough sense into him so he finally realizes that just because he has a small penis doesn't mean he has to act like it and make everybody else's life miserable in the process.
Wow.....Insider Trading just got much, much easier!
1) Buy large amounts of stock.
2) Disclose bad outlook in obscure web posting at 12:00 PM
3) Sell stock at 12:01 PM
4) ???
5) Profit!
Chances are, this source of unburned perchorate is from retro-rockets from either American or Soviet landers. I highly doubt that this is naturally occuring, since there are records of Soviet and American landers that crashed on the surface, presumably with unused or partiall-used retro-rockets.
I know that the Soviets employed landers that collected samples, loaded then into a re-entry capsule, and then launched them back to Earth, where they were recovered. I'm not sure if the Soviet probes landed on Mars used the same method, though. However, I am definitely sure that the source of the perchlorate found on Mars is from retro-rockets that was swept up and widely dispersed by massive Martian sandstorms, and is not naturally occuring.
".....and can scan and run thousands of plates a day through the local Motor Vehicle Administration database".
-----And they say that illegal file sharing sucks up bandwidth?! Once these are deployed, file sharing will *PALE* in comparison to the bandwidth that these things will suck up!
However, alarmists may be making 'Minority Report' comaprisons already, but cops have been doing things like this since modern law enforcement came into being:
First, there was the 'Hot Sheet'. Then there was the two-way radio. After that came the in-car computers where an officer can type in the license plate manually. Now, there are these automated scanners.
It's *much* safer that having the officer manually type in the license plate by hand while trying to drive, which is just as incapacitating as cellular phones.
Creative Capitalism? Like what? Figuring out how much money you can bilk a customer out of? His idea of 'Cell Phone Billing By The Second' seems to follow that route.....
Also, I'm starting to think that QUARANTINE is the quickest and most effective solution for deadly epidemics that are spreading faster that we can control them. Call it insensitive or Politically Incorrect, but you really can't deny it's effectiveness over waiting decades for a medicine that might not really work effectively.
BTW..... Gates' idea of "Multi-mouse Technology" is a class clown's dream.
I found this out a long time ago.....when I took color photographs of fossils!
Did they clarify that "Potential or life" does not mean that Marvin The Martian is real?
"Apparent Suicide In Anthrax Case"
-----As if the motives behind death caused by swallowing a *MASSIVE* dose of Tylenol With Codeine weren't obvious enough.....
"Interesting idea - very similar to a goofy idea I came up with a few years back after the phone companies successfully overturned the rules requiring them to lease their wires to competitors."
-----Too bad you didn't patent that idea. You could have made alot of money! :P
" Do you really want city hall responsible for figuring out where to add capacity?"
-----They won't add capacity, at least in our lifetime. They will have to perform a financial analysis, a feasability study, Environmental Impact Report, and since city employees are Union-owned, it means it you will have to pay 5 of them for a full days' work every time you need to reset a router.
"Where do you go for service when they won't stop raising TAXES?!"
-----The same place I go: First their office, then their front door, then the ballot box, then the ammunition dealer. Thankfully, I haven't needed to make it to the last step.
Next up on the "To Ban/Outlaw" list:
1) Rock N' Roll (it's the Devil's music, and can lead to the downfall of society)
2) Skirts that show women's ankles (wearing anything shorter encourages pornography)
2) Unbuttoned Shirt Collars (shows too much skin on men)
3) Harsh Language (degrades society)
4) Marshmallow "Peeps" (people can choke while playing games with them)
5) Four-letter words in Scrabble (can lead to offensive language and degraes society)
6) Contact sports (can lead to severe injury and/or death)
7) Cheese (can cause cholesterol problems)
8) Personal Opinions (can lead to violent conflicts and social disruptions)
9) Anything Sharp (can cause severe injury and/or death)
10) Self-Defense (can lead to severe injury and/or death of the attacker/criminal)
11) Dirt/soil (since it contains dagerous germs and microbes, such as anthrax and E. Coli)
12) Trees (falling out of them can lead to severe injury and/or death)
13) Bicycles (sice they can cause injury to the user and can be a hazard to other traffic)
Better yet, why don't we just lock up everyone under the age of 40 in padded rooms and straight jackets because they might hurt themselves and/or someone else??!
As prestigeous elitist as Georgetown is, they should have realized the lawsuits that they could face from this, since they, and anyone else, cannot prohibit lawful activities taking place within a private dwelling, since dorms, apartments, and student housing are technically private dwellings/residences. It would be the same as banning having sex or playing the Marshmallow Peeps Game in someones apartment/room/housing/etc.
This would be a "losing" legal battle for a campus that tries to prohibit this, but "winning" in the sense that no student can afford to defend themselves.
My school prohibits kegs, since they are considered "Mass Delivery" devices, but that only means you cant have a 'keg' (not counting those 'mini-kegs' you see at 7-11), and you can have as much alcohol as you and your buddies can afford. You can have a truckload of any kind of alcohol, but no kegs. Sorta makes sense, but they are not restricting alcohol or access to it by legal drinkers. If you live in the regular dorms, and have a roomie that is under 21, there must be at least 1 door, not including refrigerator doors (I already tried that) between the alcohol and the person under 21 (the door doesn't have to be locked at all times though). If you live in the student apartments or student housing, you can have any kind of alcohol anywhere. Parties/gatherings of over 15 people require you to fill out a very simple slip stating that you understand and you agree to be responsible for keeping the party under control. Our Police Department even has a shuttle that will take you to and from (until 2am) the downtown bars for free so you don't have to drive drunk.
The only real restrictions we have on alcohol is that you can't make your own, can't have a keg, and can't drink if you are a minor. Smoking is still O.K. as long as you are 25 feet from windows (State law).
Out rules regarding alcohol are simple common sense. As long as someone can care for themselves or is not posing a real danger to others, they are allowed to have fun. The rules (with the exception of kegs) are just the same as any other city or town in California: No open containers in public (except for scheduled events), you must be able to care for yourself, you cannot drive drunk, no underage drinking, and you can't give or buy alcohol for minors.
Q: "How Do Geeks Excercise?"
A: Nintendo Wii.
I finally have a reason to justify my owning a pair of those polarized, reflective shades from the 1980's!
Slap a pair of those rad-fashion babies on a missile and will not only be laser proof, but it'll look *cool* at the same time!
To quote The Great M.C. Hammer: "Can't touch this!"
In the U.S., people who file too many frivolous lawsuits can be temporarily banned from suing other people, as well as being held financially responsible for all costs related to the suits. If someone files too many frivolous suits, they are declared to be either Malicious or Vexatious Litigants.
However, frivolous 911, or in the UK, 999 calls, can be life-threatening to the people in real-life emergencies. So, just as frivolous litigants can be banned from suing, frivolous callers should also be banned from calling.
If the banned individuals are fortunate (for everybody else) to be faced with a real emergency, then the Police and Fire Departments should note the persons previous history of phony calls and err on the side of caution by *not* responding and waiting for an emergency call that is not from a caller with a fraudulent history, since that has a higher probability of being more genuine.
I'm suprised that the UK doesn't have the ability to know the location of the call like Dispatchers here in the U.S. do. Every time a call is recieved, the number, location, and name of the registered owner is diplayed, so even if it is a simple 911 "Hang-Up" call, as happens with most small children fooling around with the telephone, an officer is dispatched to the very location that the call came from to find out what exactly is going on. I'm suprised that a country as Big Brother as the UK doesn't have that ability.
With the exception of small children who don't fully understand the ideas behind Emergency Numbers (911, 999, etc.), fraudulent callers should be treated as harshly as real criminals, with punishments on the order of:
1) Heavy fines
2) Wage garnishment
3) Vehicle Forfeitures / Seizures
4) Jail time
5) Emergency number blocking
6) Public Humiliation (like walking around with a sandwich board declaring them a fraudulent caller)
7) Property forfeiture (real estate or luxury items)
Fraudulent calls are dangerous, illegal acts that are life-threatening to people who really do, or may need, emergency help. The punishments should be VERY SEVERE.
"Drug Halts Decline In Alzheimer's Patients"
Um... isn't the point of treatment to INCREASE the decline in the number of patients?
The only people who benefit from this baloney are:
1) Personal Injury attorneys (aka "Ambulance Chasers")
2) Workman's Compensation lawyers
3) People who want a better reason for getting money from a company rather than working for it.
4) Trial lawyers
5) Those idiots who think they are allergic to WiFi and other signals
6) Hypochondriacs
7) Politicians
8) PACs
9) Lawyers in general.
If I were a cell phone manufacturer, I would put an "EMF Hazard" warning on the phone just in case money hungry slimebags try to nail me with a 'Defective Product' lawsuit. Hey, if secondhand smoke is harmful, why not secondhand radiation?
Ten bucks says Dr. Herberman uses a cell phone, despite his own warning.
The so-called "inventors" of this should be locked up for fraud, since they presented themselves as inventors of something that has existed for years, en masse. This is like trying to patent speadsheets 10 years after they began to be used widespread and claim, on a *legal* document, that you created them, and using you claim of having invented it years after they came into existence as a your basis for filing suit.
This action clearly constitutes:
1) Malicious prosecution,
2) Reckless Litigation,
3) Perjury,
4) Fraud,
and
5) Conspiracy to commit fraud.
The shitwit patent clerks that approved this should be fired without pay, forced to pay attorney's fees for every defendent listed, and prohibited from ever holding a government job again.
They should at least be liable for attorney's fees, since this was an exceptionally gross, very likely deliberate, misuse of authority and judgement.
THE IDIOTS RESPONSIBLE:
Primary Examiner: Greta Robinson .....sigh..... women.
Secondary Examiner: Cheryl Lewis
I wonder how many pairs of shoes they got in return for approval.....
If you *really* want to get the Home Solar market to take off, you can start by requiring the power companies to pay customers for the extra power they put back int othe grid:
1: Customer pay for solar panels and installation.
2: Customer generates electricity using private infrastructure and capital.
3: Customer generates excess power that is fed back into the grid, free of charge to power company.
4: Power comapny then turns around and sells power back to other customer for a profit.
Technically, taking something and not paying for it is theft, and selling something that has been stolen is also illegal. Since power companies are allowed to take a customer's surplus, and the customer cannot control how much extra power they generate, an the power comapanies are then allowed to sell the power at a profit (no generating costs) without paying the generators for their trouble, people for the most part feel cheated, and rather than allow themselves to be swindled by Big Electricity, they just don't bother. Plus, solar panels are pretty expensive for the average consumer, making the swindle even more painful.
Paying customers the maket price that they deserve and are entitled to would definitely lessen the sting of the initial solar panel investment.
I wonder if Home Solar generators could get around this by forming a private power-generation company (i.e. a "Home Business") and selling the excess to the Power Co.
If the power companies are stealing from you, level the playing field and steal from them until they pay you what you deserve: Put a magnet next to the meter.
Simple.....Cheap.....and Effective.
When it comes to systems, you have the problem of Dynamics. Every system is going to change, over time, either due to external forces, internal forces, or conscious change.
When it comes to evidence, it is just that: Evidence. Unless the defendant confesses, or they find the defendant's fingerprints in the victims blood, then there is no proof, only evidence. Defense attorneys must prove why the evidence *is not* convincing, while prosecutors have to prove why evidence *is* convincing.
Technically, it is incorrect to claim a "False Match", since there we several loci that did in fact match.
The question of "# of lucus matches" can work both ways: A prosecutor can use a relatively high locus match to establish a high level of probability, while a defender can use a low locus match count to establish a low level of probability. Instaed of basing accuracy on a threshold, prosecutors and defenders should be treating the number of locus matches as an indicator of how credible the evidence is.
"What Does It Take To Get a PC With XP?"
-A better title:
"WINDOWS USERS WANT XP- NOT CRAPPY VISTA!"
Clearly, Apple has grown quite comfortable with their monopoly of the "Home Unix" -market. (I'm totally in the dark when it comes to programming, and I remember someone telling me Macs were "Unix-based", rather than PCs which are "DOS-based"). I can see where it is illegal to install Apple OS on a clone and then sell it, but there is nothing illegal about selling the computer sans installed OS and then letting the customer install it, post-sale. What Apple is doing is the same this as if Microsoft were to try to make illegal the installation of a Microsoft OS on any non-Microsoft manufactured or non-Microsoft licensed PC. In regards to the Macintosh computer and OS market, Apple *clearly* has a monopoly. PsyStar, noticing that consumers have no other alternative to Mac-format PCs is creating an alternative to Apple. Not only does Apple have a monopoly in this market, the lawsuit could very easily constitute an illegal anti-competitive action in addition to already having and illegal monopoly. Remembering the EU Antitrust circus of a few years ago, Apple could face the same thing, only the monopoly would far more obvious. Kinda reminds me of the breakup of the California energy giants and the telephone giants back in the day.