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  1. In other countries, judges must have a law background and are usually experience, well respected lawyers who have practiced for many years. This is to give the judge a healthy respect for how the courts work both in theory and practice.

    The purpose of the courts is not to blindly apply law; it is to provide justice. There is a difference.

    If you just want someone to read from a book and apply its teachings, you want a preacher or a priest, not a judge. Justice is all about interpretation and discretion.

    As Cicero wrote:

    True law is right reason in agreement with nature... The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.

    The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong... The more laws, the less justice.

  2. It's already available for Linux. .deb, .rpm and tarballs.

  3. Re:Card Skimmers? on Wells Fargo: All ATMs Will Take Phone Codes, Not Just Cards (go.com) · · Score: 1

    What's to stop the skimmers from installing a screen + buttons over the regular screen, capturing your code, and then using the underlying machine to then access your account?

  4. Re:I wonder... on Television Needs To Be Reinvented, Says Apple SVP (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why you think that, but no. Here's the documentation

    Each instance of Kodi will use the same database. Updates on one will show up on others regardless of whether or not they are running at the time of the update.

  5. Re:I wonder... on Television Needs To Be Reinvented, Says Apple SVP (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    You can store your media library in a database that can be shared between instances of Kodi fairly easy, no need to run a headless one.

  6. Re:Puts the concept of "natives" into question. on The Irish Not of Celtic Origin? · · Score: 2

    They get special treatment and financial support because they were, quite recently, the victims of terrible human rights violations; and in some cases, still are. Those violations have a trickle-down effect. The current generation, even if not victimized directly, is still disadvantaged by their ancestry.

    Further, on the one hand, you suggest that our standards of decency are wrong-minded (that we should not provide support to these people) but on the other subtly judge their ancestors by those same standards.

    Perhaps you just want to have your cake and eat it too, as long as the pigmented people don't have a slice.

  7. Re: What? on Fake Facebook Emails Deliver Malware Masquerading As Audio Message · · Score: 1

    So use a whitelist, not a blacklist, for your blocking policies.

    Or do the other smart thing and don't allow regular users to have admin privileges.

  8. Does being able to see the actors' pores increase your enjoyment of the dialogue and the story that much?

  9. Re:A different GUI sounds good to me on Microsoft Announces Windows For Raspberry Pi 2 · · Score: 1

    Why do you need a GUI on a server in the first place?

  10. Re:Who knows how long it will last? on Tracking Down How Many (Or How Few) People Actively Use Google+ · · Score: 1

    So roll your own RSS feed aggregator.

    Personally, I find that Selfoss is a fantastic replacement for Google Reader.

  11. Respectfully disagree; see abortion clinic bombings for murder as an expression of Christian faith.

  12. Re: Be the Change You Wish to See in the World on The Students Who Feel They Have the Right To Cheat · · Score: 1

    What happens if the course is no longer offered, or the prof no longer teaches it?

  13. Re:Android version req - long time coming on Google To Require As Many As 20 of Its Apps Preinstalled On Android Devices · · Score: 1

    FYI, Google Play Music, Movies, Books, et al are used to view media as well as portals to the Play store.

  14. Re:Bananas vs Grapes on 'Why Banana Skins Are Slippery' Wins IgNobel · · Score: 1

    Slimier? Gros.

  15. Re:Trailer not HFR? on The Hobbit: the Battle of Five Armies Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    A better comparison yet might be an oil painting vs a digital painting.

  16. Re:Mavericks is free? Hmmm... on Apple Announces iPad Air · · Score: 1

    I'm sticking with SL because Spaces and Expose are much more functional than Mission Control, I'm not coerced into giving my data to Apple's cloud, and it's just faster due to less bloat.

  17. Re:"We have to take all threats seriously" on Student Arrested For Using Phone App To 'Shoot' Classmates · · Score: 1

    Maybe talk to the kid, determine if this GAME represents novelty or intention? Talk to his teachers, see if he remotely poses an actual, tangible threat? Get the teachers to talk to his classmates? Lift one fucking finger before laying criminal charges on a child?

  18. Re:That's fine and dandy on Sony & Panasonic Plan Next-Gen 300 GB Optical Discs By the End of 2015 · · Score: 2

    I imagine multiple lasers can alleviate some I/O concerns. There used to be 72X CD drives that used split lasers to read 7 tracks simultaneously. I imagine with modern tolerances, the same idea could be used for these optical discs.

  19. Re:practicalities make it impossible.. on Why Are Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? · · Score: 1

    I've taken enough evo-psych in University to see right through your bullshit. You're just spewing pseudo-scientific babble. You may as well be comparing the skull shapes of men and women to make your point, while ignoring inconsistencies in your internal logic.

  20. Re:practicalities make it impossible.. on Why Are Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? · · Score: 2

    If this were a matter of race, not gender, would your arguments still hold? Is it socially or morally acceptable to lump an entire demographic of people into one negative category and then refuse to acknowledge them as individuals outside of your bias?

  21. Re:practicalities make it impossible.. on Why Are Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well gee-whiz, if not totally discounting half the people I'll ever meet just because of what's between their legs makes me a feminist, then I guess you win!

  22. Re:practicalities make it impossible.. on Why Are Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? · · Score: 1

    Essentialism, not existentialism. Damn autocorrect.

  23. Re:practicalities make it impossible.. on Why Are Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? · · Score: 1

    Except gender existentialism is and always has been bullshit. Different sex organs doesn't mean different thought processes.

    Contrary to popular belief, both men and women think with their brains. Maybe not AC's though.

  24. Re:practicalities make it impossible.. on Why Are Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? · · Score: 0, Troll

    I just gave up after concluding that women are insane and this do not makes me "superior" to others, just different.

    Right there you're claiming that 50% of the human population is insane. Presumably, you don't count yourself among them.

    I can say - with all certainty - that I am one of the most respectful people you could ever meet.

    Clearly not, since you don't respect women.
    Oh, but wait, they don't want respect apparently, right? How's that working out?

  25. Re:It is protest. on Why Are Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? · · Score: 0

    Whoop dee-do. Opinion pieces and anecdotes are pointless.

    Nearly all my friends are women. They adore me. I've never been treated as "the enemy" by any woman I've ever met. Am I an "Uncle Tim" because I can interact well with 50% of the human population?

    Incidentally, conflating men that are sympathetic to women with slaves that were excessively subservient to slavers is pretty much the most vile thing I've read all day. Thanks for linking that. No wonder you're treated like the enemy?