Andy9o8

In other words, it should be posted in Wind Tunnels.

You lack the humor gene, don't you?

Ooh! I know: "The solution to gun violence is more violence." I should be an ad man.

Fixie.

There's a 3rd option now: combustion engine / compressed air hybrid http://www.psa-peugeot-citroen.com/en/inside-our-industrial-environment/innovation-and-rd/hybrid-air-an-innovative-full-hybrid-gasoline-system-article There's also a 4th option.

I treat them the same... more or less.

Why?

[fade in to courtroom scene] Defendant: Fuck you, Judge. Judge: Your one warning. Cut it out. [fade out]

We're all expert trolls here. That was really bush league. Raise your game.

Sigh. And pay no attention to the kid in the back of the classroom making fart-noises with his armpit.

Lots of free-speech demonstrations block traffic. Gotta balance the interests. Reasonable compromises can be struck. What's that thing the blindfolded lady's holding?

Civil rights and liberties are messy. Suck it up.

The lawful purpose of bail is to guarantee future appearance in court. Prior convictions are relavant to bail, because they affect potential severity of sentence if convicted. The idea is that the greater the potential penalty if convicted, the greater the motivation to jump bail, so that's offset (in theory) by higher bail. Another factor relevant to bail is how many times, if any, the person has failed to appear for court in the past (they track that). However, arrests that did not result in convictions, are not supposed to be considered when setting bail, becuase they're generally not supposed to used as sentence-enhancers.

General observation: Lots of judges are assholes.

I think it's quite reasonable. My wife always does it. I sometimes forget. She always asks me on the way out. If I've forgotten, she calls me an ingrate. Now I remember more often. Operant conditioning.

Hell in a handbasket.

I used to spend a lot of time in the gritty trenches of criminal arraignment courts. Still do, on occasion. Re: both the defendant and the judge, all I can say is: Hoo boy, you have no idea. Yeah, it's pretty typical.

Good point; it's such a waste when they're so high in protein. So you, like billvon, hate children Sad Hate them?? I love them!! Properly prepared, of course.

Good point; it's such a waste when they're so high in protein.

Of course it is. Has been for thousands of years. Better get ready, boy.

And there was no torture So it really does not matter I'm pretty sure he was speaking generally & academically, not re: a specific occuurence. So in that regard, it always matters. We must have these discussions and debates to contribute to the forming of policy as citizens in participatory democracy.

Except, of course, we were torturing people to find out if they knew anything regards whether we knew they did or not. We didn't know. If we did know, there would be know need for torture, which, ironically, is also why torture is ineffective. You can't even know if the person your'e torturing knows AND is telling the truth until much, much later. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't you mean: There is a world of difference between blowing up people who happen to be in an area who might not know anything and the targeted torturing of somebody who admits they are a terrorist. Indeed there is. The first can at least arguably be justified under military combat rules of engagement. The second is either a violation of American law and Constitutional principles, or a violation of the Geneva Convention. And no, no matter how hard the Bush and Obama administrations have argued, there is no legitimate third category that gives Americans a pass to do that, or even to facilitate it being done by proxies.

That's the point right there. When electric cars can fully re-charge as quickly as liquid-fueled cars, and consistently have the same power and range, then they can look to fill the same niche. In the meantime, I'm hoarding dilithium. But I can't tell you why. Yet. Li2 is a lie, too. Yeah, right. Next thing you'll be telling us warp drive is impossible, too. Obviously you're in on it. Does anyone else notice that Hollywood depiction of warp drive and halucinogens are indistinguishable from each other? What do you mean, "Hollywood depiction"?

Every circumstance like that is unique and should be judged on it own particulars, ideally by someone there or with a videotape of everything and everyone. And at the end of the day, there'd still be 2 teams stridently argung each side, like a SC argument. So it goes.

Technically, the sole purpose of bail is to ensure the defendant's appearance at trial. The consideration of severity of charges technically only goes to the risk of flight and failure to appear in court. Arguably, bail is not to be used to prevent separate criminality pending trial; and it may never be used to punish in advance of trial. In reality, if you diss a judge to his face in open court, he'll stick his foot up your ass, and usually get away with it.