Tojo had been deposed as prime Minister in July 1944, otherwise I think your comment's probably right. On a personal note, my father was serving in the British Army, 2 Parachute Regiment in 1945, and I'm pretty sure he would have been sent to Japan at some stage if the Invasion went ahead. So I'm reasonably comfortable with the US use of nuclear weapons on that occasion.
Purely from a selfish point of view of course.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, which is similar, but less likely to work, as a bunch of independent minded Asians are involved, Has similar proposals. Corporations will be able to sue governments if new regulations interfere with business.
Not sure I voted for that.
Pretty sure I won't get the chance to.
Of course it means that she won't be a force for good. She'll be exactly what every member of the American ruling class is: a force for whatever is good for the American ruling class.
I was pleased when my boys started at an all boy school. The Headmaster is a man, and about 3/4 of the teachers are men too. Boys are expected to be boys, and a bit of rough and tumble is considered normal. Beware if it looks like bullying though, my oldest boy was given a detention for what was seen as bullying, (I punished him also). But my boys come home occasionaly with a ripped shirt, or covered in dirt, and it's usually because of some game they've been playing. It all seems really healthy to me.
You're looking at this the wrong way around.
How rich is the complainant?
How rich is the defendant?
The value of the property is of secondary interest.
"Self-represented defendants are not bound by lawyers' ethical codes. This means that a defendant who represents himself can delay proceedings and sometimes wreak havoc on an already overloaded system by repeatedly filing motions."
You can ask a judge to make some reasonable allowances for your ignorance of proper procedure.
But don't for one minute think that you can play him for a fool.
You can ask a Judge to make allowances, and they will too. My sister has never paid a traffic fine, ever. She always chooses to plead not guilty, and has only once had the cop turn up at court. She explained to the judge that she was representing herself, and was ready to go right now. The judge gave her a quick over view of what to expect, and was really helpful. The cop made the mistake of asking for an adjournment, and the whole thing was thrown out.
Yes, just hang in there. My daughter figured out out her Mother was a weirdo when she was about 10, and moved in with me when she was about 14, against the court's decision. Fortunately where I live the court doesn't really involve itself if it people can sort things out themselves. My daughter told the case worker she wanted to live with me, and that seemed to be the end of it. I can't really remember the details now as it was a while ago, but I think threats were made but nothing came of them. I never did get any child support money though.
Yeah, I noticed that too. They've also lumped us in with Australia in the article as having very tall eucalyptus forests, whcih we don't really have. (Apart from the odd commercial forest).
Maybe they mean Southern Beech: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothofagus_fusca
They seem to grow to 35 metres.
I suspect it's really because the majority of the public are well fed and sheltered. Sure they're being milked financially by the corporate elite, but the situation isn't quite bad enough to provoke actual violence yet.
Maybe if people are going hungry they'll start shooting.
I wonder if there are parallels with the revolutions of 1848 here?
Yes, and all the knowledgable, friendly staff must have moved to Jaycar as well. The staff at Dick Smith are friendly enough, but they seem to know nothing.
Most of the CEO's I've worked for either create or attempt to create exactly the same reality distortion field. Their success or failure in this determined their length of service.
It might be a quite common thing, to keep the location of unique botanical specimens secret. My mother is a botanist, and about twenty years ago she rediscovered a thought-to-be-extict native* orchid. She has been sworn to secrecy by our Department of Conservation as to exactly where.
* To New Zealand
Stupid article makes stupid claims like "Wilderness is not renewable once roads and power-line corridors fragment it." Which is stupid. Don't trees grow back? All the bush I've seen with power lines through are regenerating nicely.
Stupid article.
You're probably right about revolutions not usually turning out too well, but I can see a day when there will be popular support for some sort of revolt, or anyway, a big enough minority willing to shoot people to advance their goals. From outside the US it does seem like the ordinary person has no one in power to represent them.
I wonder how many predicted the US Civil war in 1825?
That sounds more like a Civil War than a Revolution. I would imagine that there would be armed opposition to any attempt at an overthrow of the government. Might even wind up worse that the last one, if it turned into state v state again.
I can't believe I'm seeing a reference to Tuff Darts. I bought a copy of Tuff Darts! for $1 in a second hand record store donkey's years ago and I thought I must be the only person in the world who had heard of them. Awesome.
As someone who lives outside the US and has no dog in this fight (as it were), I'm really hoping she stands for the Republican nomination, purely for the entertainment factor. Every time I see her on TV and hear the latest buffoonery that spills from her mouth, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Still its not my government she potentially could be heading, so I guess I can afford to laugh.
Although now I think about it, she will be in charge of a big bunch of nukes, so maybe I ought to worry more. On the other hand she can't see New Zealand from her house so we should be safe.
You're right. The copyright industries do want the police to enforce ip laws. Other industries will take that approach, as they decide they need to. Its just a matter of campaign contributions in the right places, and you can get the right laws written.
That is how fascism works.
Any Liberal Judges appointed by Obama, (or any other President) would probably rule along similar lines. The various branches of the US Government are just not there to represent you. They are there to represent the people who pay them. This is mostly large corporations.
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Tojo had been deposed as prime Minister in July 1944, otherwise I think your comment's probably right. On a personal note, my father was serving in the British Army, 2 Parachute Regiment in 1945, and I'm pretty sure he would have been sent to Japan at some stage if the Invasion went ahead. So I'm reasonably comfortable with the US use of nuclear weapons on that occasion. Purely from a selfish point of view of course.
Of course they do. This is just someone trying very hard to cover their arse. Not a very good attempt I would say.
Designed and made by Hugo Boss.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, which is similar, but less likely to work, as a bunch of independent minded Asians are involved, Has similar proposals. Corporations will be able to sue governments if new regulations interfere with business. Not sure I voted for that. Pretty sure I won't get the chance to.
I was not aware of that, but I'm not surprised.
it's written in College Student I think. Hard to translate, even for native Speakers.
Of course it means that she won't be a force for good. She'll be exactly what every member of the American ruling class is: a force for whatever is good for the American ruling class.
I kind of assumed that once the Myspace guys got the millions from the mark that bought them out, their job was done and could kick back. Seemed like quite a clever business model really. Couldn't remember who the mark was, but google did: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/06/doing-the-math-on-news-corps-disastrous-myspace-years/
No, I didn't, but I did notice the huuuuge gap between Alaska and The USSR.
I was pleased when my boys started at an all boy school. The Headmaster is a man, and about 3/4 of the teachers are men too. Boys are expected to be boys, and a bit of rough and tumble is considered normal. Beware if it looks like bullying though, my oldest boy was given a detention for what was seen as bullying, (I punished him also). But my boys come home occasionaly with a ripped shirt, or covered in dirt, and it's usually because of some game they've been playing. It all seems really healthy to me.
You're looking at this the wrong way around. How rich is the complainant? How rich is the defendant? The value of the property is of secondary interest.
"Self-represented defendants are not bound by lawyers' ethical codes. This means that a defendant who represents himself can delay proceedings and sometimes wreak havoc on an already overloaded system by repeatedly filing motions."
You can ask a judge to make some reasonable allowances for your ignorance of proper procedure.
But don't for one minute think that you can play him for a fool.
You can ask a Judge to make allowances, and they will too. My sister has never paid a traffic fine, ever. She always chooses to plead not guilty, and has only once had the cop turn up at court. She explained to the judge that she was representing herself, and was ready to go right now. The judge gave her a quick over view of what to expect, and was really helpful. The cop made the mistake of asking for an adjournment, and the whole thing was thrown out.
Yes, just hang in there. My daughter figured out out her Mother was a weirdo when she was about 10, and moved in with me when she was about 14, against the court's decision. Fortunately where I live the court doesn't really involve itself if it people can sort things out themselves. My daughter told the case worker she wanted to live with me, and that seemed to be the end of it. I can't really remember the details now as it was a while ago, but I think threats were made but nothing came of them. I never did get any child support money though.
Yeah, I noticed that too. They've also lumped us in with Australia in the article as having very tall eucalyptus forests, whcih we don't really have. (Apart from the odd commercial forest). Maybe they mean Southern Beech: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothofagus_fusca They seem to grow to 35 metres.
I suspect it's really because the majority of the public are well fed and sheltered. Sure they're being milked financially by the corporate elite, but the situation isn't quite bad enough to provoke actual violence yet. Maybe if people are going hungry they'll start shooting. I wonder if there are parallels with the revolutions of 1848 here?
Yes, and all the knowledgable, friendly staff must have moved to Jaycar as well. The staff at Dick Smith are friendly enough, but they seem to know nothing.
Most of the CEO's I've worked for either create or attempt to create exactly the same reality distortion field. Their success or failure in this determined their length of service.
It might be a quite common thing, to keep the location of unique botanical specimens secret. My mother is a botanist, and about twenty years ago she rediscovered a thought-to-be-extict native* orchid. She has been sworn to secrecy by our Department of Conservation as to exactly where. * To New Zealand
Stupid article makes stupid claims like "Wilderness is not renewable once roads and power-line corridors fragment it." Which is stupid. Don't trees grow back? All the bush I've seen with power lines through are regenerating nicely. Stupid article.
You're probably right about revolutions not usually turning out too well, but I can see a day when there will be popular support for some sort of revolt, or anyway, a big enough minority willing to shoot people to advance their goals. From outside the US it does seem like the ordinary person has no one in power to represent them. I wonder how many predicted the US Civil war in 1825?
That sounds more like a Civil War than a Revolution. I would imagine that there would be armed opposition to any attempt at an overthrow of the government. Might even wind up worse that the last one, if it turned into state v state again.
I can't believe I'm seeing a reference to Tuff Darts. I bought a copy of Tuff Darts! for $1 in a second hand record store donkey's years ago and I thought I must be the only person in the world who had heard of them. Awesome.
As someone who lives outside the US and has no dog in this fight (as it were), I'm really hoping she stands for the Republican nomination, purely for the entertainment factor. Every time I see her on TV and hear the latest buffoonery that spills from her mouth, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Still its not my government she potentially could be heading, so I guess I can afford to laugh. Although now I think about it, she will be in charge of a big bunch of nukes, so maybe I ought to worry more. On the other hand she can't see New Zealand from her house so we should be safe.
You're right. The copyright industries do want the police to enforce ip laws. Other industries will take that approach, as they decide they need to. Its just a matter of campaign contributions in the right places, and you can get the right laws written. That is how fascism works.
Any Liberal Judges appointed by Obama, (or any other President) would probably rule along similar lines. The various branches of the US Government are just not there to represent you. They are there to represent the people who pay them. This is mostly large corporations.