20 years was the minimum which is why he was asking for the minimum -- so he could have his old age as his middle age was going to be spent in the penitentiary. US justice (or just us) is hardly logical and attempting to apply logic to it will not help you one bit. Judges have discretion but only above the minimums (they can sometimes find the defendant guilty of lesser charges, that is rare, and sentences will be lighter) and the top is the limit -- life in this case but I expect something like 35 years after they appeal the sentencing. He has already been turned down for a new trial. He will almost certainly get to appeal the sentencing phase given the inclusion of hearsay and the judge admitting to using that evidence when considering the penalty. Another thing that Americans seem to miss... You go to prison AS punishment, you do not go to prison FOR punishment. The punishment is your loss of freedom.
Not even remotely true. There are many brilliant people incarcerated. They are just immoral - except for the innocent ones... See, a criminal has to be lucky EVERY time. The police only have to be lucky once. The statistics are heavily weighted in the State's favor.
In Federal court if you get on the train you are a part of the "conspiracy to commit..." for everything. If I go buy an eight ball on your behalf and happen to be part of a Federal sting then I am just as culpable for the 8 ounces the dealers had in the house as I am for the mere eight ball I picked up for you. Gram or pound, you are in for the whole ride not just for your small amount. Fair? Nope. Reality? Yup...
Damn you! I read It's Friday Night. It made me think of Sam Cooke - Another Saturday Night... So off to YouTube, half hour gone, and here I am back but I do not notice the missing time easily... "Another Saturday night and I aint got nobody, I got some money 'cause I just got paid. How I wish I had someone to talk to, I'm in an awful way." i bet I have the earworm for a couple of days.
A weekly prescription in the UK (citation was called for)? I am going to the UK baby! I get Suboxone (buprenorphine) by the ton - I am prescribed 32mg per day which is insane but... I had a rather long love affair with extracting Fentanyl from the mylar patches (easier to regulate the amount than the gel type) and the needle. It was a lovely time. I heard what was killing people (Fentanyl being used as a dope cut) so I went and found some Fentanyl... I bought in bulk (100 to 500 patches) so the price was fantastic. It truly was an enlightening time and I am retired with enough money to cover it so I planned on doing it forever - until I noticed I was 110 pounds and stopping on my own threw me into a long hallucination where I thought I was actually in a rehab but I was at home with vomit in a bunch of buckets and I smelled like ass. Fentanyl is about 80 times stronger than heroin. It is measured in the microgram. It is also very deadly if you are not opiate tolerant and/or try to do a lot of it. For harm reduction sake start small and then work up. You can do another shot, you can not undo a shot. You probably will not be able to self-administer Narcan.
So...
I recently hit a rehab... I am doing a long-term program as soon as I can find one that allows me to bring my own computer and has openings. This I should probably post AC but, I did it - I typed it, I own it and am responsible for it.
Yes I am still pro legalization of drugs, all drugs. I hold that position even if the only outcome is the decreased spending in the War on Drugs.
This... I am a proponent of legalization of all drugs. Anybody that wants drugs can already get them (that is why we have a "drug problem"). Their being illicit makes them attractive to some. Legalization takes away the criminal aspect of drugs themselves which makes the price more reasonable. Nobody is just going to go out and start shooting heroin because it is legal - those who are going to do so are already doing so. The war on drugs is being won - it is being won by the junkies!
These shills, as you call them, can still be pro US government... They are just pro government like it is intended to be - one that is open, honorable, and follows the constitution with ethically sound judgments. A dissenting opinion is probably the most intense form of patriotism. I realize that probably does not fit your narrative but it is true. I am very patriotic but I feel very strongly about the inferior service it has provided in the past forty years.
Wires like these (even for my business - an OC3 in new construction) go and stay fully underground coming up through a chase in the basement/floor, it could be cut inside but that is why internal security of your data is important. If the hospital is doing this they have IT there all the time - and security. It is unlikely (not impossible) that they will have an issue with anything you are worried about. They also use disparate connections with failover built in I suspect.
Boston Dynamics came out of MIT IIRC. I would not be totally surprised if they had something to do with it and it just was not mentioned in the summary. I, of course, did not RTFA. That is against the rules.
I have my own personal reasons but MIT, as a whole, almost never fails to impress me. I even appreciate it when they put a car on the roof or make the roof into R2D2.
I have a neckbeard (big one too) and I would drive to the kitchen if I could. (Somehow I am still fairly fit and skinny but I do not ever actively exercise for the sake of health.)
KGIII
(Posting AC because I was too vocal today and/. is run by absolutist ninnies.)
after you're roped in, they start slowly asking for more and more information: give us access to your location at all times. give us access to your contact list. give us access to your email account.
Well dip me in butter and roll me in shit! That is not how it is supposed to be?
Libertarianism != capitalism (in a pure sense and totally) regardless of what you think and what people have stated.
You are confusing Libertarians with the people who were ashamed to be Republican and have co-opted the term without actually knowing what Libertarianism is. A Libertarian is concerned about YOUR freedoms as an individual and there are many ways to go about achieving this. Pure capitalism is not, by any means, an acceptable method to achieve this if one is able to do simple math or has an iota of logic. Nobody sane believes the roads should all be toll roads, libraries should be privately funded, schools should be disbanded, or that the government should not do anything 'socialist.' In fact, many of us support things like Single Payer health-care (cheaper, more efficient, and could be done easily with simple logical legislature). Many of us actually support taxation that reflects income... It is amazing, is it not? Not every Democrat likes or voted for Obama... Imagine that!
I can understand your confusion given the state of media today. It is very much an us vs. them thing and a third party disrupts that so they must be outlandish kooks - all of them AND the people that they get on the ballot.
Most of this has been done in the past ten years or so. A number of vocal people have co-opted the term libertarian but, by no means, ascribe to the actual *isms. They are not in the majority (nor are the libertarians who advocate anarchy) and it behooves one to look into these sort of things rather than accepting what the media tells you or what the vocal minority espouses. You will find that much of what the Democrat beliefs are similar to or held by Libertarians. They are, by nature, concerned with YOUR liberties (and freedoms but let us not confuse the two as they are not the same - I will include a statement about that at the end) and, as such, they have much in common with, and are a member of, the political left - further left than the elected and vocal portions of the Democratic Party.
Libertarians are not about forcing you to do anything but are about ensuring that you can GENERALLY go about your business with your body and your choices so long as you are not harming anyone else. Libertarians do not oppose the EPA on principle, they oppose it because of its overreach beyond its charter or, in some cases, for its lack of applying the regulations evenly or not at all. Equality is key... Liberties are, well, right there in the name - regardless of how many Republicans (we can not just kick them out of the party) are well funded and vocal while they abuse the name Libertarian. They should be spelled with a small "l" while leaving the real folk (who do not believe, worship, or even think remotely like Ayn Rand) capital "L" for those who actually give a shit. Society is greater than one.
Concerning freedom vs. liberty... I will try to make this simple. I am FREE to kill you, I am not at LIBERTY to do so. There is nothing to prevent me from killing you but there are dire repercussions for doing so. It is a bit complex but not fungible like a commodity. We, as a society, put our liberties into a giant basket which we then withdraw the important ones to share equally across the citizenry. That is how it is supposed to work. There is a huge difference between freedom and liberty.
Most all invasions of privacy are couched with excuses like it being for your benefit, ease of access, and simplicity of function even if said function is an invasion of privacy in and of itself.
Upstate or Northern New York? I have been to both and I am assured that there is a difference and that some folks will be quite adamant about it. I am not sure where the line is and I suspect it is a bit of a fuzzy line. Either way, I am curious... I would think that Upstate (say Buffalo) would have Uber but Northern, even as close to Buffalo as Niagara would not have Uber... As an aside, the skyway in Buffalo is awesome... Yes I have an opinion and I think it is valid and authoritative.
It is amazing how many egregious NPOs are out there and even more amazing how many people do not pay attention to this. Chances are that if they are paying a huge sum of money to buy expensive ads and then place those ads then they are not a very good charity. So, if you are seeing them advertise on all the channels during prime slots there is probably no reason to donate to them, they can use the ad money to further their cause. (This is not exactly true in all cases and it may be different as I have not watched television in a number of years.)
I tend to donate "in the name of" and oft use the name of the site that I got the idea from. Thus this donation would be in the name of Slashdot members and so I like to ensure such donations go to good causes. Not too many people like them here but I am thinking that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a good cause but I doubt they take BC. EFF is a good cause too but I am not sure how they spend their cash so I will check into that.
Anyhow, do you have a charity in mind that you prefer? It is going to be, sort of, in your name too. They have to accept BC obviously. The total current value is a little over $11,000 (I have 48 of them, I checked) so it is not an insignificant sum to some folks. I think it would make somebody's day to see that message in their inbox. Also I am a bit shocked at how much they are worth. It is less than they were worth the last time I checked but it is still worth a lot more than the time and electricity I put into it. I am sure that this is because I did this within, literally, a month of them coming out with the software and whatnot. And, no, I am not going to give it to Dice.
No, the "are you sure you went to college" part is ad hominem. The spelling errors are very much factual, non-debatable, and are not ad hominem attacks. When, not if, I call you an idiot that is an ad hominem attack, idiot. Are you sure you went to college? If so did you take any Critical Thinking courses? Are you just parroting what you read online because you want to fit in?...
This is why none of us, including you, should be throwing stones like I did above. Not even I *should* be throwing stones - even in jest - even if I did include salient commentary. I do think the commentary here would be much sparser without it, however. But... Rock fights are not beneficial to anybody.
Anyhow... This is the point where you take your toys and go home... Really, no, take your toys and go home.
Slashdot Mirror
If alternative medicine worked then it would not be alternative medicine. It would just be, you know, medicine.
20 years was the minimum which is why he was asking for the minimum -- so he could have his old age as his middle age was going to be spent in the penitentiary. US justice (or just us) is hardly logical and attempting to apply logic to it will not help you one bit. Judges have discretion but only above the minimums (they can sometimes find the defendant guilty of lesser charges, that is rare, and sentences will be lighter) and the top is the limit -- life in this case but I expect something like 35 years after they appeal the sentencing. He has already been turned down for a new trial. He will almost certainly get to appeal the sentencing phase given the inclusion of hearsay and the judge admitting to using that evidence when considering the penalty. Another thing that Americans seem to miss... You go to prison AS punishment, you do not go to prison FOR punishment. The punishment is your loss of freedom.
Not even remotely true. There are many brilliant people incarcerated. They are just immoral - except for the innocent ones... See, a criminal has to be lucky EVERY time. The police only have to be lucky once. The statistics are heavily weighted in the State's favor.
No, it is Swissotel Watergate Hotel, the participants are Congress.
In Federal court if you get on the train you are a part of the "conspiracy to commit..." for everything. If I go buy an eight ball on your behalf and happen to be part of a Federal sting then I am just as culpable for the 8 ounces the dealers had in the house as I am for the mere eight ball I picked up for you. Gram or pound, you are in for the whole ride not just for your small amount. Fair? Nope. Reality? Yup...
Damn you! I read It's Friday Night. It made me think of Sam Cooke - Another Saturday Night... So off to YouTube, half hour gone, and here I am back but I do not notice the missing time easily... "Another Saturday night and I aint got nobody, I got some money 'cause I just got paid. How I wish I had someone to talk to, I'm in an awful way." i bet I have the earworm for a couple of days.
A weekly prescription in the UK (citation was called for)? I am going to the UK baby! I get Suboxone (buprenorphine) by the ton - I am prescribed 32mg per day which is insane but... I had a rather long love affair with extracting Fentanyl from the mylar patches (easier to regulate the amount than the gel type) and the needle. It was a lovely time. I heard what was killing people (Fentanyl being used as a dope cut) so I went and found some Fentanyl... I bought in bulk (100 to 500 patches) so the price was fantastic. It truly was an enlightening time and I am retired with enough money to cover it so I planned on doing it forever - until I noticed I was 110 pounds and stopping on my own threw me into a long hallucination where I thought I was actually in a rehab but I was at home with vomit in a bunch of buckets and I smelled like ass. Fentanyl is about 80 times stronger than heroin. It is measured in the microgram. It is also very deadly if you are not opiate tolerant and/or try to do a lot of it. For harm reduction sake start small and then work up. You can do another shot, you can not undo a shot. You probably will not be able to self-administer Narcan.
So...
I recently hit a rehab... I am doing a long-term program as soon as I can find one that allows me to bring my own computer and has openings. This I should probably post AC but, I did it - I typed it, I own it and am responsible for it.
Yes I am still pro legalization of drugs, all drugs. I hold that position even if the only outcome is the decreased spending in the War on Drugs.
The reason it took so long to get marijuana legalized is because we all kept forgetting where we put the petition.
This... I am a proponent of legalization of all drugs. Anybody that wants drugs can already get them (that is why we have a "drug problem"). Their being illicit makes them attractive to some. Legalization takes away the criminal aspect of drugs themselves which makes the price more reasonable. Nobody is just going to go out and start shooting heroin because it is legal - those who are going to do so are already doing so. The war on drugs is being won - it is being won by the junkies!
Go team Junkie!
I did not check but I recall someone posting that CNN has disable their comments section entirely.
These shills, as you call them, can still be pro US government... They are just pro government like it is intended to be - one that is open, honorable, and follows the constitution with ethically sound judgments. A dissenting opinion is probably the most intense form of patriotism. I realize that probably does not fit your narrative but it is true. I am very patriotic but I feel very strongly about the inferior service it has provided in the past forty years.
Wires like these (even for my business - an OC3 in new construction) go and stay fully underground coming up through a chase in the basement/floor, it could be cut inside but that is why internal security of your data is important. If the hospital is doing this they have IT there all the time - and security. It is unlikely (not impossible) that they will have an issue with anything you are worried about. They also use disparate connections with failover built in I suspect.
Stop putting so many people in prison?
I blame Digital. They had no business selling themselves, whores... Really, they should not have sold their dirty, sexy, selves...
Boston Dynamics came out of MIT IIRC. I would not be totally surprised if they had something to do with it and it just was not mentioned in the summary. I, of course, did not RTFA. That is against the rules.
I have my own personal reasons but MIT, as a whole, almost never fails to impress me. I even appreciate it when they put a car on the roof or make the roof into R2D2.
Heh! Cool, it let me post with my moniker. I probably should have (not entirely sure how) checked that... Oh well.
I have a neckbeard (big one too) and I would drive to the kitchen if I could. (Somehow I am still fairly fit and skinny but I do not ever actively exercise for the sake of health.)
KGIII
(Posting AC because I was too vocal today and /. is run by absolutist ninnies.)
Also, that is not a colloquialism but it should be.
after you're roped in, they start slowly asking for more and more information: give us access to your location at all times. give us access to your contact list. give us access to your email account.
Well dip me in butter and roll me in shit! That is not how it is supposed to be?
IOW - Good post.
*sighs*
Libertarianism != capitalism (in a pure sense and totally) regardless of what you think and what people have stated.
You are confusing Libertarians with the people who were ashamed to be Republican and have co-opted the term without actually knowing what Libertarianism is. A Libertarian is concerned about YOUR freedoms as an individual and there are many ways to go about achieving this. Pure capitalism is not, by any means, an acceptable method to achieve this if one is able to do simple math or has an iota of logic. Nobody sane believes the roads should all be toll roads, libraries should be privately funded, schools should be disbanded, or that the government should not do anything 'socialist.' In fact, many of us support things like Single Payer health-care (cheaper, more efficient, and could be done easily with simple logical legislature). Many of us actually support taxation that reflects income... It is amazing, is it not? Not every Democrat likes or voted for Obama... Imagine that!
I can understand your confusion given the state of media today. It is very much an us vs. them thing and a third party disrupts that so they must be outlandish kooks - all of them AND the people that they get on the ballot.
Most of this has been done in the past ten years or so. A number of vocal people have co-opted the term libertarian but, by no means, ascribe to the actual *isms. They are not in the majority (nor are the libertarians who advocate anarchy) and it behooves one to look into these sort of things rather than accepting what the media tells you or what the vocal minority espouses. You will find that much of what the Democrat beliefs are similar to or held by Libertarians. They are, by nature, concerned with YOUR liberties (and freedoms but let us not confuse the two as they are not the same - I will include a statement about that at the end) and, as such, they have much in common with, and are a member of, the political left - further left than the elected and vocal portions of the Democratic Party.
Libertarians are not about forcing you to do anything but are about ensuring that you can GENERALLY go about your business with your body and your choices so long as you are not harming anyone else. Libertarians do not oppose the EPA on principle, they oppose it because of its overreach beyond its charter or, in some cases, for its lack of applying the regulations evenly or not at all. Equality is key... Liberties are, well, right there in the name - regardless of how many Republicans (we can not just kick them out of the party) are well funded and vocal while they abuse the name Libertarian. They should be spelled with a small "l" while leaving the real folk (who do not believe, worship, or even think remotely like Ayn Rand) capital "L" for those who actually give a shit. Society is greater than one.
Concerning freedom vs. liberty... I will try to make this simple. I am FREE to kill you, I am not at LIBERTY to do so. There is nothing to prevent me from killing you but there are dire repercussions for doing so. It is a bit complex but not fungible like a commodity. We, as a society, put our liberties into a giant basket which we then withdraw the important ones to share equally across the citizenry. That is how it is supposed to work. There is a huge difference between freedom and liberty.
Most all invasions of privacy are couched with excuses like it being for your benefit, ease of access, and simplicity of function even if said function is an invasion of privacy in and of itself.
Upstate or Northern New York? I have been to both and I am assured that there is a difference and that some folks will be quite adamant about it. I am not sure where the line is and I suspect it is a bit of a fuzzy line. Either way, I am curious... I would think that Upstate (say Buffalo) would have Uber but Northern, even as close to Buffalo as Niagara would not have Uber... As an aside, the skyway in Buffalo is awesome... Yes I have an opinion and I think it is valid and authoritative.
Thank you very much. The only sites I knew of were:
http://www.charitynavigator.or...
https://www.charitywatch.org/
It is amazing how many egregious NPOs are out there and even more amazing how many people do not pay attention to this. Chances are that if they are paying a huge sum of money to buy expensive ads and then place those ads then they are not a very good charity. So, if you are seeing them advertise on all the channels during prime slots there is probably no reason to donate to them, they can use the ad money to further their cause. (This is not exactly true in all cases and it may be different as I have not watched television in a number of years.)
I tend to donate "in the name of" and oft use the name of the site that I got the idea from. Thus this donation would be in the name of Slashdot members and so I like to ensure such donations go to good causes. Not too many people like them here but I am thinking that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a good cause but I doubt they take BC. EFF is a good cause too but I am not sure how they spend their cash so I will check into that.
Anyhow, do you have a charity in mind that you prefer? It is going to be, sort of, in your name too. They have to accept BC obviously. The total current value is a little over $11,000 (I have 48 of them, I checked) so it is not an insignificant sum to some folks. I think it would make somebody's day to see that message in their inbox. Also I am a bit shocked at how much they are worth. It is less than they were worth the last time I checked but it is still worth a lot more than the time and electricity I put into it. I am sure that this is because I did this within, literally, a month of them coming out with the software and whatnot. And, no, I am not going to give it to Dice.
No, the "are you sure you went to college" part is ad hominem. The spelling errors are very much factual, non-debatable, and are not ad hominem attacks. When, not if, I call you an idiot that is an ad hominem attack, idiot. Are you sure you went to college? If so did you take any Critical Thinking courses? Are you just parroting what you read online because you want to fit in? ...
This is why none of us, including you, should be throwing stones like I did above. Not even I *should* be throwing stones - even in jest - even if I did include salient commentary. I do think the commentary here would be much sparser without it, however. But... Rock fights are not beneficial to anybody.
Anyhow... This is the point where you take your toys and go home... Really, no, take your toys and go home.