Typically when krages gets mentioned on photography forums this http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/05/541.asp gets mentioned next. In summary the linked article announces that compensatory and punitive damages have been award to a man arrested for video tapping the three PA state troopers. The citizen (Allen Robinson) in question felt the PA state police were conducting there truck inspections in an unsafe way along PA highway 41. He was video taping the inspections at the request of his state representative who he had been in contact with about the situation. Despite the fact that he was 1) 30 feet away from the troopers, 2) on private property (with the permission of the property owner, and 3) in no way interfering with the troopers inspections, he was arrested on two separate occasions. The first time Mr. Robinson let the police and the local magistrate walk all over him. The second time he stood up and contest the harassment charges (they were eventually dismissed) and filed a civil suite against the state troopers (individuals not the state patrol as an agency).
I wish more citizens would follow Mr. Robinson's example and use the laws already at hand to stand up to police officers who abuse there power. I also wish this case were better publicized as a deterrent for the police (I ddon't know about you, but a ~$14,000 bite out of my own wallet would sure get my attention.)
The main problem with using house districts is gerrymandering. If you think Gerrymandering is bad now, under this system it would be absolutely cut throat. If you must use a proportional system, the Colorado proposal would better, because it be more difficult for the politicans to game.
The article fails to consider the Australian Aborigines, who crossed into Australia via a land bridge from Asia around 40,000 - 50,000 years ago. It's an interesting mathematical trick, but their result is so obviously empirically false, so I doubt their research even after excluding the Aborigines and other populations known to have been isolated from the rest of the world for many thousands of years.
The parent gets the time period for the arrival of Aborigines in Australia correct, but is incorrect in asserting that they walked there over a land bridge. A no time during hominid history would you have been able to walk to Australia. The deep water trench between Bali and Lombock and between Borneo and Sulawesi (the so-called Wallace Line) marks fartherest you could have walked from Asia. Given there's generally been deep water between Timor and the rest of the eastern Indonesia archepelago and between Timor and Australia, the original Aborginies probably had to make three pretty sizeable water-borne leaps at a long before there is any archelogical evidence anywhere that people are using boats. This makes the mere existence of Aborigines in the Australia for that length of time is pretty astounding.
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Typically when krages gets mentioned on photography forums this http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/05/541.asp gets mentioned next. In summary the linked article announces that compensatory and punitive damages have been award to a man arrested for video tapping the three PA state troopers. The citizen (Allen Robinson) in question felt the PA state police were conducting there truck inspections in an unsafe way along PA highway 41. He was video taping the inspections at the request of his state representative who he had been in contact with about the situation. Despite the fact that he was 1) 30 feet away from the troopers, 2) on private property (with the permission of the property owner, and 3) in no way interfering with the troopers inspections, he was arrested on two separate occasions. The first time Mr. Robinson let the police and the local magistrate walk all over him. The second time he stood up and contest the harassment charges (they were eventually dismissed) and filed a civil suite against the state troopers (individuals not the state patrol as an agency).
I wish more citizens would follow Mr. Robinson's example and use the laws already at hand to stand up to police officers who abuse there power. I also wish this case were better publicized as a deterrent for the police (I ddon't know about you, but a ~$14,000 bite out of my own wallet would sure get my attention.)
He's a link to the ruling http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/docs/05-videotape
The main problem with using house districts is gerrymandering. If you think Gerrymandering is bad now, under this system it would be absolutely cut throat. If you must use a proportional system, the Colorado proposal would better, because it be more difficult for the politicans to game.
Actually wouldn't this be a case of "unintelligent design"...atleast on mircosoft's part.
I know I've seen it written here before, but there's an old chemistry saw that certainly rings true.
"The are two types of chemists: Those who have never worked with Lithium, and those who are scared to death of it."
Wow. The brain is without doubt the most interesting part of the (male) human body.
I think somebody's confused the little head with the big one.
The article fails to consider the Australian Aborigines, who crossed into Australia via a land bridge from Asia around 40,000 - 50,000 years ago. It's an interesting mathematical trick, but their result is so obviously empirically false, so I doubt their research even after excluding the Aborigines and other populations known to have been isolated from the rest of the world for many thousands of years. The parent gets the time period for the arrival of Aborigines in Australia correct, but is incorrect in asserting that they walked there over a land bridge. A no time during hominid history would you have been able to walk to Australia. The deep water trench between Bali and Lombock and between Borneo and Sulawesi (the so-called Wallace Line) marks fartherest you could have walked from Asia. Given there's generally been deep water between Timor and the rest of the eastern Indonesia archepelago and between Timor and Australia, the original Aborginies probably had to make three pretty sizeable water-borne leaps at a long before there is any archelogical evidence anywhere that people are using boats. This makes the mere existence of Aborigines in the Australia for that length of time is pretty astounding.
snip e) Ties - in the US it's all about winning and losing, ties are worse than losses. /snip
Vic: You know Kenny, they say a tie is like kissing your sister.
Kenny: I think in some parts of the country that actually counts as win.