Politics & Government - 8 August 2007

The death penalty is a right form of punnishment for the most serious crimes like murder.
How then can most european countries just have life imprisonment without parole as the punnishment for the most serious of crimes? I think the european union should reinstate the death penalty for all of its member states kinda of how america uses it for serious crimes over there.

We still can have a great human rights record like the usa and still impose the death penalty in serious crimes commited.

The european parliament should reconsider their issue on the death penalty and should pass a law having capital punishment
as a legal form of punishment.

2007-08-08 10:10:48 · 16 answers · asked by Alan A 2 in Law & Ethics

My friend married a Mexican woman a little over 3 years ago. She's not legal, but has been trying to become legal for a long time. He has spent amazing amounts of money trying to "do the right thing".

Her father died a while back and they both went to Mexico to pay respects and such and now she can not cross back to come home. Her kids can (not their kids together, but born here) and he can. She can not. They told her it could be up to 10 years before she can regain access to her family.

Does anyone know of any organization, or have any advice I could pass along to aid him in getting his wife back and putting his family back together?

2007-08-08 10:09:14 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

My husband will have 7 years of active duty service in July 2009. He is thinking of getting out after this next deployment, and going to school full-time to try and get his bachelor's degree. He plans to stay in either national guard or reserves during the 2 years it will probably take to complete the degree.He then plans to go to OCS and go back in as an officer in Army. He was 17 when he joined.Instead of age 37, around what age would it be with about 2 years reserves/NG?(in other words, how is retirement computed as a reservist/combined with active duty?). Thanks.

2007-08-08 10:09:03 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Wasn't before Minneapolis! But now she can gain votes from others misfortune...and imagine that she was the first to mention it and use it in her campaign. I'm sorry but DOT's everywhere have been saying roads and bridges are in serious need of attention for a long time. She never stepped up till it is national news about a bridge collapsing. Just my opinion but she shouldn't use this as campaign hype. I'm not saying she cannot mention it b/c it does need dealt with, but she will use this to no end!! sad

2007-08-08 10:04:42 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

If something has been posted in the public domain at some point (eg a podcast), is it then legal to offer it for download?

2007-08-08 10:02:21 · 3 answers · asked by snife 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-08-08 10:01:09 · 5 answers · asked by mr g 2 in Politics

2007-08-08 09:59:18 · 8 answers · asked by Naruto 1 in Politics

Do you think there should be a guilty but insane sentence instead of innocent due to insanity? If they are insane does that mean they are not guilty? Can they be guilty and Crazy? Shouldn't any person even the insane be Punished and kept off the street to prevent them commiting more crime and Harm?

2007-08-08 09:59:02 · 3 answers · asked by spidermonkeyfingers 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-08-08 09:58:35 · 8 answers · asked by Half-pint 5 in Politics

Recenty I bought a branded watch ( cost - Rs.11000 ) from a reputed dealer, with this watch i recieved a apple ipod as a gift. After using it i came to know that its a fake ( it was chinese copy of apple Ipod, which apple service center identified as not a geniun ipod).
on these grounds what can be done. Plz advise.

Tarun
New delhi

2007-08-08 09:53:38 · 8 answers · asked by Tarun 1 in Law & Ethics

Links...
http://www.physics911.net/faketerror
http://www.physics911.net/kevinbarrett
http://www.physics911.net/ivashov

2007-08-08 09:50:02 · 7 answers · asked by Honey Girl 3 in Politics

Aren't they are hoping for failure in Iraq to try and win the '08 election.

2007-08-08 09:48:47 · 14 answers · asked by Dude #2369™ 4 in Politics

Im thinking about joining the Airforce, and have been doing some research!

Also, my husband is also in the Airforce in the maintenence field, and I will probably go in as a general career!

Anyways...I asked a recruiter about getting stationed together, and they said that they have a join spouse program, and you have to either be based at the same base....or witing 50 miles of eachother. Also, there i no base within 50 miles, so wouldn;t that mean we would be based together??

2007-08-08 09:46:35 · 13 answers · asked by Nicole S 1 in Military

Please refrain from replying with answers such as these:
"because they are"
"look at Hilary"
"if you don't know then you are blind"
Thanks!

2007-08-08 09:44:40 · 20 answers · asked by Liberal City 6 in Politics

2007-08-08 09:43:58 · 7 answers · asked by jonsekerka0355 1 in Government

have written a bad check and got a letter today sayn that in 10 days the merchant may chose to pursue etheir criminal or civil action against me.... what does each onre of these mean and does it mean im gonna have a warrant for me in 10 days?

2007-08-08 09:40:16 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

explain your answer.

2007-08-08 09:36:10 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Unlike most apparently intractable problems, which have a tendency to go away when examined closely and analytically, the climate change predicament just seems to get bigger and scarier the more we learn about it.

Now we discover that not only are the oceans and the atmosphere conspiring against us, bringing baking temperatures, more powerful storms, floods and ever-climbing sea levels, but the crust beneath our feet seems likely to join in too.

Looking back to other periods in our planet's history when the climate was swinging about wildly, most notably during the last ice age, it appears that far more than the weather was affected. The solid earth also became restless, with an increase in volcanic activity, earthquakes, giant submarine landslides and tsunamis. At the rate climate change is accelerating, there is every prospect that we will see a similar response from the planet, heralding not just a warmer future but also a fiery one.

Several times in the past couple of million years the ice left its polar fastnesses
and headed towards the equator, covering much of the world's continents in ice sheets over a kilometre thick, and sucking water from the oceans in order to do so. As a consequence, at times when the ice was most dominant, global sea levels were as much as 130m lower than they are today; sufficient to expose land bridges between the UK and the continent and Alaska and Russia.

Each time the ice retreated, sea levels shot up again, sometimes at rates as high as several metres a century. In the mid 1990s, as part of a study funded by the European Union, we discovered that in the Mediterranean region there was a close correlation between how quickly sea levels went up and down during the last ice age and the level of explosive activity at volcanoes in Italy and Greece.

The link was most obvious following the retreat of the glaciers around 18,000 years ago, after which sea levels jumped back up to where they are today, triggering a 300% increase in explosive volcanic activity in the Mediterranean in doing so. Further evidence for a flurry of volcanic action at this time comes from cores extracted from deep within the Greenland ice sheet, which yield increased numbers of volcanic dust and sulphate layers from eruptions across the northern hemisphere, if not the entire planet.

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But how can rising sea levels cause volcanoes to erupt? The answer lies in the enormous mass of the water pouring into the ocean basins from the retreating ice sheets. The addition of over a hundred metres depth of water to the continental margins and marine island chains, where over 60% of the world's active volcanoes reside, seems to be sufficient to load and bend the underlying crust.

This in turn squeezes out any magma that happens to be hanging around waiting for an excuse to erupt. It may well be that a much smaller rise can trigger an eruption if a volcano is critically poised and ready to blow.

Eruptions of Pavlof volcano in Alaska, for example, tend to occur during the winter months when, for meteorological reasons, the regional sea level is barely 30cm (12in) higher than during the summer. If other volcanic systems are similarly sensitive then we could be faced with an escalating burst of volcanic activity as anthropogenic climate change drives sea levels ever upwards.

Notwithstanding the recent prediction by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that sea levels in 2100 will be a measly 18-59cm (7-23in) higher, Jim Hansen – eminent climate scientist and director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies – warns that we could see a one to two metre rise this century and several more in the next. Other climate scientists too, forecast substantially greater rises than the IPCC, whose prediction excludes any consideration of future changes in polar ice sheet behaviour. A worst-case scenario could see a return to conditions that prevailed around 14,000 years ago, when sea levels rose 13.5 metres (44ft) - the height of a three-storey house - in the space of about 300 years.

Such a dramatic rise in coming centuries would clearly spell catastrophe for our civilisation, with low-lying regions across the planet vanishing rapidly beneath the waves. Just a one metre (3.28ft) rise would threaten one third of the world's agricultural land, two metres (6.56ft) would make the Thames flood barrier redundant and four metres (13.12ft) would drown the city of Miami, leaving it 37 miles (60km) off the US coast.

As sea levels climb higher so a response from the world's volcanoes becomes ever more likely, and perhaps not just from volcanoes. Loading of the continental margins could activate faults, triggering increased numbers of earthquakes, which in turn could spawn giant submarine landslides. Such a scenario is believed to account for the gigantic Storegga Slide, which sloughed off the Norwegian coast around 8,000 years ago, sending a tsunami more than 20 metres (66ft) high in places across the Shetland Isles and onto the east coast of Scotland. Should Greenland be released from its icy carapace, the underlying crust will start to bob back up, causing earthquakes well capable of shaking off the huge piles of glacial sediment that have accumulated around its margins and sending tsunamis across the North Atlantic.

The Earth is responding as a single, integrated system to climate change driven by human activities. Global warming is not just a matter of warmer weather, more floods or stronger hurricanes, but is also a wake-up call to Terra Firma. It may be no coincidence that one outcome of increased volcanic activity is likely to be a period of falling temperatures, as a veil of volcanic dust and gas reduces the amount of solar radiation reaching the surface. Maybe the Earth is trying to tell us something. It really would be worth listening before it is too late.

2007-08-08 09:36:02 · 12 answers · asked by GREAT_AMERICAN 1 in Politics

Rock on gun lovers! It's our right. Keep the government out our homes! Protect yourself!

2007-08-08 09:34:27 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

It just seems strange that Clinton didn't take any kind of action when this thing had been in the planning for years.

2007-08-08 09:32:58 · 14 answers · asked by 2BFree 4 in Politics

2007-08-08 09:32:55 · 5 answers · asked by The Chosen One 3 in Military

2007-08-08 09:32:35 · 7 answers · asked by Olivia M 1 in Law & Ethics

I got fired from a job. Now every ******* person on earth and there mother wants to know why I got fired and I hate ******* explaining that **** to them, and now I have to explain it to potential employers? Should I just tell them I quit or got laid off?

2007-08-08 09:31:55 · 1 answers · asked by NONAME 2 in Law & Ethics

Don't they (teachers, staff, administrators) realize how difficult this is for the child to witness? The secondary parent is not treated equally. Joint, shared custody. The secondary parent lives in another city due to job. The child goes back and forth between both households.

2007-08-08 09:31:42 · 1 answers · asked by annswers 6 in Law & Ethics

My brother, 14 years old, stole a bike from a garage and then lied to the police about it!!!! :( I've looked on the internet for anything that can help me find out what will happen to him but i haven't found anything!! Please help!!!

2007-08-08 09:31:13 · 3 answers · asked by maria 4 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-08-08 09:30:27 · 5 answers · asked by Nickie S 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-08-08 09:28:30 · 14 answers · asked by jeter2 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

As awful as Al Gore tells us oil companies are, wouldn't you think that he would have a hard time rationalizing his own family's fortune, gained through dealings with Occidental Petrolium? Why does he believe he can live off of fat oil profits, while telling the rest of us how the oil industry is damaging the environment?

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_43_16/ai_72274771

I found that article a FASCINATING read.

2007-08-08 09:27:50 · 10 answers · asked by goldspider79 3 in Politics

I have a personal problem here and don't know any lawyers in my town. I see lots of answers in this section, but some of them seem wrong. Can you trust lawyers on yahoo answers?

2007-08-08 09:26:16 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-08-08 09:25:50 · 3 answers · asked by cmj8503 1 in Law & Ethics