Politics & Government - 4 December 2007

AT LEAST

PRESIDENT LULA IS TURNING INTO A KIND OF
ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN BRAZIL

2007-12-04 09:07:13 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

After joining the army am i likely to loose touch with my family and friends? How much freedom are you alowed?
I'm looking at going in as a sapper.

2007-12-04 09:05:27 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

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2007-12-04 09:04:35 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I have design a new type of algorithm for software applications that could turn out to be a prettty good invention

My question is: is it possible to patent or get the rights somehow to an algorithm so that other people can't take advantage of it?

Thanks!

2007-12-04 09:02:56 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

why not the district of Argentina? or Mexico?

2007-12-04 09:00:56 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2007-12-04 09:00:22 · 6 answers · asked by fochtup1 1 in Law & Ethics

Each time the police have arrived, they have not heard noise. She even called them on me while I was asleep! I have invited her into my home one incident and showed her that all I was doing was studying and caring for my 2 year old son and 5 month old daughter. We live in a condo so the walls are paper thin. But it's not my music or tv that bothers her. She says it's the 'bumping around' that she cant stand. I have to go to court tomorrow to plead my case and I pray that it goes in my favor. If it does, will I have grounds to sue her for nuisance or harrassment? Please help me someone. I'm not a bad neighbor. My other neighbor has never complained about any noise from my residence. Please, I need advice.

2007-12-04 08:59:58 · 31 answers · asked by AJ 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

For example Democratic, Dictator, etc. Why?


Thank You!

2007-12-04 08:54:20 · 18 answers · asked by Stefy! 4 in Government

Someone would have a fit if it were Christian views being pushed on them.

2007-12-04 08:51:58 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I just turned 18 in October. My girlfriend is 16. She is a sophomore and Im a senior. I was just wondering; If we have sex, is it illegal, and can I be charged with statutory rape?

2007-12-04 08:50:10 · 8 answers · asked by Musical Buff 2 in Law & Ethics

after recently passin my drivin test, i bought a car and was stopped by police who said my number plates were illegal (i had no idea) was given a fine without a warning can i not prove my innocence

2007-12-04 08:48:35 · 8 answers · asked by Hayley W 1 in Law & Ethics

my precious 12 year old Labrador Retriever named Horst. What should I do Criminally and Civilly?

2007-12-04 08:47:27 · 13 answers · asked by ? 3 in Law Enforcement & Police

Over one millions served in Viet Nam and 59,000 died there with 87% of those being caucasions. None of us wanted to go to Nam and possible die but it was the law at the time. We could have avoided military service but ruin our lives. Clay made millions in the ring and then put down his country and bad mouthed it. I think he was a low down coward.

2007-12-04 08:47:10 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

My speeding ticket is 61 mph on 35 mph zone. There are the law firms I know: Sullo & Sullo, Villasana and Citizen law firms.

2007-12-04 08:45:35 · 3 answers · asked by ? 2 in Law & Ethics

I mean like the social welfare programs and health care and what not. I mean you should have to do honest work to make money.

2007-12-04 08:44:08 · 20 answers · asked by Rocketman 6 in Politics

im going to jail for murder and if i hand over 1million dollars i can get out is anyone willing to give me the money for bail

2007-12-04 08:37:03 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

As a resident of Vermont I opposed the civil union law that was passed in 2000, and now oppose the gay marriage legislation that is in the early stages of it's public review. There is a very well organized and vocal minority in our state that is pushing for it's passage, but the majority of residents are opposed to it. The legislature is currently conducting public meetings, and has convened a panel to administrate and review the process, but both the legislature itself and the review board are heavily, if not totally, pro-GM. I believe this is due to the politicians not wanting to commit political suicide and be labelled homophobic by accurately representing their constituents, and similarly the majority has been cowed into silence by the aforementioned vocal pro-GM minority. How does one effectively stand up and fight for their side when politically this seems to have become a foregone conclusion? I am asking respectfully, and for answers from those in similar situations.

2007-12-04 08:35:51 · 11 answers · asked by majiq_handz 1 in Civic Participation

Mom and dad once implied to me that if I dont surrender my ability to think rationally in favor of a monotheism with a bloody history than I am somehow an awful person.

What they where teaching me was cult indoctrination to a group that wants money, as its constistent hypocrisy shows?

^was it Islam or Christianity I am speaking of? You cant tell because the psychology is the same.

One arrogant christian accused agnostics and atheists of "self-serving denial".Yes he was accusing them of exactly what some very haughty, arrogant religion fanatics do. But thats the point, the pot calls the kettle black to take the edge off.
Freud called it "projection".

So is the monotheism of both christians and muslims so similar that their hostility towards the Realist or the Rationalist is equally so ostentatious?

And yes, I know I'm a scumbag for not believing in you god (so your preacher can get my money). Now do your patriotic duty and hate me,lemmings!

2007-12-04 08:35:36 · 6 answers · asked by Zinger! 3 in Politics

I am renting the upstairs of a house (apartment #2). The downstairs is Apartment #1. We have one mailbox outside with NO name, just house number. When I go to get mail, the neighbors mail is in there. When I ask her to give us a separate one, she doesn't listen to me, talks about something else like how high her bills are.

2007-12-04 08:33:44 · 4 answers · asked by rocksteady_gina 1 in Law & Ethics

Can't he back down gracefully? Is he so determined to start a war with Iran, too? Evidence says they stopped four years ago, with the nuclear plans.
He claims they are still a potential threat! I think he is getting paranoid.
Is he going to claim that Libia, or Syria is doing it next?
He won't say anything to Saudi Arabia, about their justice system, as far as that rape victim, but he still wants to plan an attack on Iran.
How much more damage is he going to do to his own administration, before the Republican put a gag on him.?
He is an embarrassment to the United States, every time he opens his mouth.
When will he stop? He won't be happy, until we are embroiled in World War Three?

2007-12-04 08:31:39 · 15 answers · asked by cassandra 3 in Politics

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zT-ouQPgMmI
Watch how he takes away the mic from these city workers and calls them morons.

2007-12-04 08:28:17 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Civic Participation

Last week I called Bin Laden a punk= violation
2 days ago I said Bush was dumb=violation
Yesterday I asked if Mormonism is a cult=violation
Today I said the rich recruit the poor and minorities to fight in foreign countries=violation.
Is their a "reporting war" going on and I missed the memo? LoL

2007-12-04 08:26:51 · 20 answers · asked by CaesarLives 5 in Politics

2007-12-04 08:26:39 · 10 answers · asked by dezi (:<3:) 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-12-04 08:26:22 · 11 answers · asked by STAND2 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

I've been in Atlanta on business for two weeks now (with a rental car) and have noticed that nearly everyone in Atlanta who drive vehicles do not use their turn signals - not on the highway, not in town, not in the smaller neighborhoods - nothing! Even the police, buses, municipal vehicles, etc.

Is there a reason for this - or is it just idiocy and lack of police enforcement.

2007-12-04 08:25:39 · 7 answers · asked by RockC 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

admit his doubts, or will it take them with him to the grave?

2007-12-04 08:20:41 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Marijuana is currently listed as a Schedule I Dangerous Drug. Drugs must meet all three of the following criteria in order to qualify for this scheduling:
(A) The drug or other substance has high potential for abuse.
(B) The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
(C) There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.

Since the evidence, both scientific and anecdotal, overwhelmingly shows that marijauna, while not completely harmless, has a lower risk of abuse than does alcohol, caffeine, or nicotine; has many accepted medical uses; and has a lower level of toxicity than drugs many of us allow our children to ingest (caffeine), why won't the government admit it is scheduled improperly?

Who stands to profit the most from keeping marijuana in its current status? Big medicine? Big tobacco? Big alcohol? Drug cartels?

2007-12-04 08:18:23 · 5 answers · asked by jobel 3 in Law & Ethics

2007-12-04 08:17:26 · 2 answers · asked by bklyn2089 2 in Government

Those lively minds over at the (always capitalized) Intelligence Community have given us yet another of their entertaining Estimates, this time about the Iranian nuclear-weapons program. You know, the one the Iranians stoutly deny exists, the one they refuse to let inspectors examine, and the one they sometimes acknowledge when on or another of their leaders has a slip of the tongue. They now favor us with slightly more than two pages of “Key Judgments” on this important subject.

Two years ago, the IC — the same IC that claimed to have detailed information about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction, that famously missed the boat on al-Qaeda, and that has had at least two spy networks inside Iran rolled up in the past couple of decades — told us it was all but certain that Iran was “determined to develop nuclear weapons.”

Yesterday it reversed field. It said that in fact, two years before the 2005 report, the Iranians had “halted its (covert) nuclear weapons program,” and that the “halt lasted at least several years” and (although the IC is less certain about this) is still in force. There is some disagreement within the IC on this point, however. The Energy Department and the National Intelligence Council apparently agree that something was stopped, but have at least some doubt as to whether the “halt” encompasses Iran’s “entire nuclear weapons program.”

In short, some IC analysts think there is no covert nuclear-arms program at all, while others aren’t so sure. In a moment of candor at a briefing Monday, these gentlemen stressed that Iran has a “latent goal” to develop a nuclear weapon, that “gaps remain” in our information, and that Iran is “probably the hardest intelligence target there is.” And they warn us, in one of their Key Judgments, that the odds are that Iran will develop nuclear weapons. Parse this: “only an Iranian political decision to abandon a nuclear weapons objective would plausibly keep Iran from eventually producing nuclear weapons — and such a decision is inherently reversible.” This seems to imply that the “halt” was a tactical move, not a strategic decision.

You certainly can’t criticize them for failing to cover their derrieres.

Nonetheless, despite the “gaps in intelligence,” and despite the Islamic Republic’s well-earned reputation for being one of the most deceptive on earth, the IC goes right ahead and predicts that Iran is quite a long way away from being able to field nukes. The earliest possible — albeit “highly unlikely” — date at which Iran could produce enough highly enriched uranium for a weapon is late 2009, but it’s more reasonable to look to the 2010-2015 timeframe. Interestingly enough, this pretty much corresponds to their 2005 forecast, when they said that if Iran’s technical progress increased, they might have enough weapons-grade uranium “by the end of this decade.” And the IC stresses that Iran has “the scientific, technical and industrial capacity...to produce nuclear weapons if it decides to do so.

All this deals with the Iranians’ ability to enrich uranium on their own. Of course, they could have obtained some from abroad, and the IC admits that they cannot rule out the possibility that Iran has obtained an actual weapon “or enough fissile material for a weapon.”

More derriere protection. And there is still more. After all, the Iranians excel at deception, and we’ve been fooled about the nuclear programs of countries from the Soviet Union to India and Pakistan. Maybe we’ve been fooled again. The IC doesn’t think so, although, in its usual “on the one hand yes, on the other hand maybe” routine, the officials responded to the question in yesterday’s press briefing by reassuring the press that “We gamed more than half a dozen such scenarios,” ...But the analysts reached the conclusion such a scenario was “plausible but not likely.”

Tom Joscelyn has wisely warned us to be skeptical about anything that comes from the IC, and he rightly asks about the sources for the new conclusion. There is no point guessing about this, and without such knowledge it’s very difficult to assess the quality of the analysis. But whatever the spooks think they know has to be evaluated in the light of common sense, the views of other countries, and the history of nuclear proliferation. WMD programs are easier to hide than one imagines. After the First Gulf War we were astonished to discover how far Saddam’s Iraq had advanced, for example. To claim we “know” that Iran no longer has a covert nuclear-weapons program is quite a statement. (Remember how we used to say that you can’t prove a negative? The IC seems to know better.)

Moreover, there’s the old smell test. We went from zero to bomb in four years leading up to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, at a time when nobody even knew if the thing was doable. On the IC’s account, the Iranians have been at this since “at least the late 1980’s.” (I actually think it didn’t get into gear until 1991, but let’s not quibble.) During that time, almost everything was for sale (and Iran has lots of money), A.Q. Khan was running his bazaar, Soviet nuclear physicists were hired by Tehran, and the Iranians themselves are very smart. Is it likely, that Iran hasn’t been able to build nukes in two decades? No way.

If this NIE is true, the evidence would have to be awfully good. And evidence of that quality has been in famously short supply. These are the same guys who have been telling us for years that Sunnis and Shiites can’t work together, when they should have known that Iranian Revolutionary Guards (Shiites) were trained in the early 1970s by Yasser Arafat’s al Fatah (Sunnis).

Color me an unbeliever.

2007-12-04 08:16:17 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

My brother-in-law recently started as a police officer in my city. There was a report on CNN about the possibility of the draft, and he said that he couldnt be drafted because police are considered part of homeland security. Is this true? i believe the part about not being drafted because they are providing a service, but wouldnt you have to be a federal officer to be considered part of DHS?

thanks for your help in advance.

2007-12-04 08:15:10 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police