Nightingale

The criteria of Geneva is that you have to be a national of a country party to the convention. Example: If I'm a US citizen, and I go to Ireland and help out the IRA, that doesn't make me now unprotected, even though the IRA is not a party, because I'm still a US citizen. What matters is where you are from, not what you're doing or who you're doing it for.

This is rare, as the list of parties to the convention is very long. While the captured person would not have geneva protections, they would still have the protections of the convention against torture and other treaties and customary international law. Edit: there are 192 parties to Geneva, including Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Brunei, Burundi, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lybia, Pakistan, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Lione, Singapore, and Sudan.

How about the Sudan? There were insurgents captured from all over the place who went to Afghanistan for Jihad. Sudan has been a party to the conventions since 1980.

So, with your understanding of the Geneva Convention, what is the US doing wrong here? "Protected persons are entitled, in all circumstances, to respect for their persons, their honour, their family rights, their religious convictions and practices, and their manners and customs. They shall at all times be humanely treated, and shall be protected especially against all acts of violence or threats thereof and against insults and public curiosity." -Geneva 4, Art. 27 "No physical or moral coercion shall be exercised against protected persons, in particular to obtain information from them or from third parties." -Geneva 4, Art. 31 "Contracting Parties specifically agree that each of them is prohibited from taking any measure of such a character as to cause the physical suffering or extermination of protected persons in their hands. This prohibition applies not only to murder, torture, corporal punishments, mutilation and medical or scientific experiments not necessitated by the medical treatment of a protected person, but also to any other measures of brutality whether applied by civilian or military agents." -Geneva 4, Art. 32 "persons held in the CIA interrogation center at Bagram air base in Afghanistan are being subject to “stress and duress” techniques, including “standing or kneeling for hours” and being “held in awkward, painful positions." -HRW.org "Red Cross investigators had found a system devised to break the will of prisoners through "humiliating acts, solitary confinement, temperature extremes, use of forced positions." The construction of such a system, whose stated purpose is the production of intelligence, cannot be considered other than an intentional system of cruel, unusual and degrading treatment and a form of torture," -AP quoting Red Cross report on Guantanamo conditions

International courts are really slow. There are people from the Rwanda genocide in 1994 that are still waiting for an international tribunal.

No. They just have to be a national of a country party to the convention (both Iraq and Afghanistan are) and held captive by another party to the convention (the US is also a party). edited for clarity.

Yes. However, doing something in the name of a deity doesn't preclude having your own reasons behind your actions.

Um... no. Have you read the conventions? The third Geneva Convention, signed and ratified by the US, covers soldiers and militias. The fourth Geneva Convention, signed and ratified by the US, covers everyone not covered by the third. "Persons protected by the Convention are those who, at a given moment and in any manner whatsoever, find themselves, in case of a conflict or occupation, in the hands of a Party to the conflict or Occupying Power of which they are not nationals." -Geneva 4, Art. 4 Pretty clear, yes?

Honestly, if you can afford it, go for the one bedroom. The biggest problem in apartments is storage space. Studio apartments are very tiny, and they look a lot smaller once you've got your stuff inside.

Her action is not justified and I think it would be accurate to state that she has broken the 6th Commandment. Remember, my basis is from God's moral law. His standard. Not what you're studying in school. You can't plead temporary insanity in God's courtroom. He knows your heart. But you just defined murder as premeditated. She didn't know she was going to do it.

Murder is wrong. Define murder. Premeditated, unjustified, intentional killing without cause. So a wife who kills her husband's lover in the heat of the moment has not committed murder?

Murder is wrong. Define murder.

Did I somehow convey that I do not understand that difference? I was agreeing with you. There is a difference between keeping an open mind and letting your brain ooze out your ears.

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Ok... How do you figure out what's truth and what's metaphor? Or is it that when it's something that you agree with, it's truth, and if it's something you disagree with, it's hyperbole or about something else? I'm not picking on you, Paj, I just see this a lot. People pick and choose what's literally true and what's metaphor. For example, most christians don't follow the dietary requirements of the old testament, saying that they were there to protect ancient peoples from foodborne illnesses and are no longer needed. How do we know there isn't something morally wrong about a cheeseburger? Should it really be for us to decide that part of the bible doesn't apply?

Hehe. Yup. You just managed to use fewer words than me.

You bring up a good point... the role of family in a kid's life. If that kid's going to be surrounded by brothers and sisters and nieces and nephews and cousins, even if the parents do die when the kid is young, he'll probably turn out just fine.

Well, there's a difference between keeping an open mind and believing everything you hear. It's one of the reasons that teaching critical thinking in school is so crucial.

I'm in SoCal too. I still want my vote to be counted.

Squiers can be decent, but their quality is spotty and inconsistent. When you buy an american made strat, you know what you're going to get. When you buy a squier, it could be great, it could suck. You take your chances. I've always believed that when you start to play an instrument, you need to get the best one you can afford. If you get something that isn't great, you don't have the experience to know whether the lousy sound is your playing or the instrument, and it can be very, very frustrating. Minimizing frustration is one of the keys to sticking to music lessons.

Honestly, the Nazis picked a scapegoat. Hitler, while insane, was intelligent and knew how to manipulate human nature. The Nazis picked an easily identifiable, numerically significant, section of the population and through a propaganda campaign, encouraged others to blame their problems on that group. It's human nature to want someone else to blame for everything that's gone wrong. The Jews were easy to spot. They didn't celebrate the same holidays as the christians. They went to synagogues, had a different manner of dress and ate different foods in different ways. Hitler did the same thing to the Roma. The Roma were just as easily identifiable, but we don't hear much about that aspect of the holocaust, as there are far fewer Roma and until very recently, it was still socially acceptible to look down on gypsies. Hitler realized that if you give someone somebody to blame, and then remove the subject of that blame, people will think you're doing something that will help them, and they will support you.

No. I don't think that anyone other than Republicans should have a voice in the Republican primary, or Democrats in the Democratic primary. Primaries are a chance for people of that party to select who that party will present to the nation as a candidate. Even states (as far as I know) who do have so-called "open primaries" do not require the party to actually count the votes of anyone other than the members of that party. My comment was on the lack of security measures taken by Diebold. I've registered absentee this year because I've researched how easy it is to tamper with those machines, and the machines do not leave a paper trail at all, only an electronic one, so there is no way to dispute the vote count.

You're welcome. I learned some stuff while I was trying to get your info. =)

Ok. I was a bit stumped, because the T serial number stands for Tribute series. Looking at it, it looks like a Japanese 1995 Floyd Rose Standard Stratocaster. I called the fender museum (about 2 blocks from my house) and asked them, and they thought the same. they said you should take it to a dealer to confirm, but it's probably worth about $400.

More pics would be helpful, so would a posted version of the serial number. There's a bit of a glare on it, so I can't read the whole thing. Without being able to see the first few digits, I can't tell you much about the guitar. Also, do you know the year it was made?