What if the hospital they wanted to take the child to was highly questionable? Or what if they wanted to get him some "alternative medicine" treatments? Homeopathy? Faith healing? All done in good faith by the parents with the hope of saving the child.
Should there never be a point where the government says 'this is not good for the child, we can't allow this', or are do you just have a problem with where the line has been drawn?
I wonder how atypical it really is. I haven't flown much in recent decades, but I remember sitting on a plane years ago and listening to an airline employee ask for volunteers to leave.
United's Contract of Carriage Section 21 mentions removal of passengers under certain conditions (none of which is an overbooked flight), and Section 25 mentions compensation for passengers who are denied boarding. It doesn't seem to address removal of seated passengers who don't fit in Section 21.
The catalyst for this whole situation was United not handling the seating shortage pre-boarding.
"Outrage jock" might be a more apt description, but it doesn't roll off the tongue as well. He doesn't say shocking things for laughs, his whole shtick is to keep the outrage constantly pegged at 11.
No, I think the cop is being tried because the prosecutors believe there is enough evidence to support the indictment and justify bringing it to trial.
I also think there are a significant number of people who lack confidence that, when cops commit crimes in their communities against people who look like them, the police will be held to the same standards. That lack of confidence, whether you think it justified or not, is dangerous and not enough police departments and elected officials seem to be doing much to address it.
Huh. It's almost as if there's actually not an anti-cop movement in the US, but instead a lack of confidence that police will be held accountable for unjust killings of people from certain groups.
The fact that the cops were arrested before the end of the week and are now on trial for murder in this case doesn't actually help that perception.
I had my own video card ordeal over the past week. I have an Nvidia card (my first in a while) and received notification that there were new drivers available. I clicked to allow Nvidia's software to automatically update my drivers, a practice that's frowned upon by the enthusiast community, but has worked flawlessly for me for a while now. This time, upon rebooting, I was greeted with a BSOD. It sucks, but I thought it'd be easy to get around by booting into safe mode and running the Display Driver Uninstaller utility (which is what the enthusiast crowd generally recommends before every driver installation). Nope. Couldn't get into safe mode, auto-repair, system volume restore, and everything else I could think of failed. Last thing available was the Windows 10 system reset, which is close to a clean install, except you have the option of keeping some of your files. That finally did work, but getting there took some time. In the past, this would have been a single day's effort, but between work and family, it spread out over several days.
Obama was at least partially helped/hindered (depending on your POV) in that department by the unwillingness of Republicans to make many deals with him. He was, for example, apparently willing to make cuts to Medicare and Social Security to complete the Grand Bargain, before it collapsed.
Planescape: Torment also had perhaps the worst box art of all time. I remember seeing it in the store and being turned off by it. It looked to me at the time like some hippy guy with mud caked on his face.
It was somewhere around a decade before I ended up playing it. I did really enjoy it and ended up backing Tides of Numenura on Kickstarter.
I'm only a half-dozen hours in so far and am enjoying it. It definitely has a similar feel to P:T at times.
When daydreaming about the billion dollar Powerball jackpot, it did occur to me that I'd have to pull my daughter out of public elementary school before collecting because I simply couldn't be assured of her safety.
For a relatively modest jackpot of $2 million, I'd spend most of it buying free time for myself. There never seems to be enough time anymore and not having to work for a living would be such an incredible boon that planning for early retirement would be the overriding goal. Other priorities, such as charity, vacations, buying stuff, would all be a distant second.
Not that I wouldn't necessarily work at all, anymore, but it would be purely my terms. Self-employment or perhaps even some part-time work. Still seems like a worthy daydream.
And this is the problem I have with many of my fellow of liberals on immigration. We want to have our cake and eat it, too. We want taxes and regulations and workplace protections and employee rights and minimum wage and guaranteed paid time off... and then we want a whole groups of people to skirt the law.
Democrats should end their tacit acceptance of illegal behavior. If e-Verify is lacking, it should be bolstered, then crack down on employers, and significantly increase work visas, if needed.
It's crazy that Bernie's still trying to hold Trump to his campaign promises. He's been in office over two full weeks already. Hasn't the statute of limitations essentially run out?
Perhaps I'm reading too much into it (a quick Google search suggests not), but I find it ironic that he's trying to associate anthropogenic climate change with false top-down causes, when it's literally the unplanned cumulative effects of the actions of billions of people.
On paper, I wouldn't necessarily be opposed to a high-level religious studies curriculum. Something that compares and contrasts various religions and shows how religious concepts (monotheism, god made flesh, etc.) evolved and spread. It could show the non-concrete nature of religion how some of the major ones changed over time and incorporated outside ideas and traditions.
I say "on paper", because it's not difficult to imagine educators taking offense to something not sufficiently pro-their religion and intentionally or unintentionally biasing the class.
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On “BBC: Doctors can withdraw baby’s life support”
What if the hospital they wanted to take the child to was highly questionable? Or what if they wanted to get him some "alternative medicine" treatments? Homeopathy? Faith healing? All done in good faith by the parents with the hope of saving the child.
Should there never be a point where the government says 'this is not good for the child, we can't allow this', or are do you just have a problem with where the line has been drawn?
On “Do law enforcement officers have agency?”
I wonder how atypical it really is. I haven't flown much in recent decades, but I remember sitting on a plane years ago and listening to an airline employee ask for volunteers to leave.
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United's Contract of Carriage Section 21 mentions removal of passengers under certain conditions (none of which is an overbooked flight), and Section 25 mentions compensation for passengers who are denied boarding. It doesn't seem to address removal of seated passengers who don't fit in Section 21.
The catalyst for this whole situation was United not handling the seating shortage pre-boarding.
On “Pitchfork Republic”
Speaking of small, the country with technically the highest rate doesn't even have a population of 100,000.
The US still has ~5% of the world's population, yet ~25% of the world's prison population.
On “The Gateway Pundit Presidency”
All fluff pieces are now the equivalent to the Gateway Pundit?
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I never realized that people took Jeanne Moos any more seriously than Andy Rooney.
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"Outrage jock" might be a more apt description, but it doesn't roll off the tongue as well. He doesn't say shocking things for laughs, his whole shtick is to keep the outrage constantly pegged at 11.
On “Morning Ed: Labor {2017.03.21.T}”
No, I think the cop is being tried because the prosecutors believe there is enough evidence to support the indictment and justify bringing it to trial.
I also think there are a significant number of people who lack confidence that, when cops commit crimes in their communities against people who look like them, the police will be held to the same standards. That lack of confidence, whether you think it justified or not, is dangerous and not enough police departments and elected officials seem to be doing much to address it.
"
Huh. It's almost as if there's actually not an anti-cop movement in the US, but instead a lack of confidence that police will be held accountable for unjust killings of people from certain groups.
The fact that the cops were arrested before the end of the week and are now on trial for murder in this case doesn't actually help that perception.
On “Weekend!”
I had my own video card ordeal over the past week. I have an Nvidia card (my first in a while) and received notification that there were new drivers available. I clicked to allow Nvidia's software to automatically update my drivers, a practice that's frowned upon by the enthusiast community, but has worked flawlessly for me for a while now. This time, upon rebooting, I was greeted with a BSOD. It sucks, but I thought it'd be easy to get around by booting into safe mode and running the Display Driver Uninstaller utility (which is what the enthusiast crowd generally recommends before every driver installation). Nope. Couldn't get into safe mode, auto-repair, system volume restore, and everything else I could think of failed. Last thing available was the Windows 10 system reset, which is close to a clean install, except you have the option of keeping some of your files. That finally did work, but getting there took some time. In the past, this would have been a single day's effort, but between work and family, it spread out over several days.
On “Saturday!”
I actually prefer the original to MOO2. I like the sliders much better than micromanaging buildings.
On “Science and Technology Links 3/9: The Color of Magic Laser Bubbles”
I would seriously consider swearing off steaks for a lab-grown reasonably ground-beef-like substance.
On “Morning Ed: War {2017.03.08.W}”
Where does one even get chainmail stockings?
On “Morning Ed: Media {2017.03.06.M}”
Obama was at least partially helped/hindered (depending on your POV) in that department by the unwillingness of Republicans to make many deals with him. He was, for example, apparently willing to make cuts to Medicare and Social Security to complete the Grand Bargain, before it collapsed.
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“’Tis some Kenyan,” Trump muttered, “tapping my whole tower floor—
Only this and nothing more.”
On “Saturday!”
Planescape: Torment also had perhaps the worst box art of all time. I remember seeing it in the store and being turned off by it. It looked to me at the time like some hippy guy with mud caked on his face.
It was somewhere around a decade before I ended up playing it. I did really enjoy it and ended up backing Tides of Numenura on Kickstarter.
I'm only a half-dozen hours in so far and am enjoying it. It definitely has a similar feel to P:T at times.
On “Weekend!”
When daydreaming about the billion dollar Powerball jackpot, it did occur to me that I'd have to pull my daughter out of public elementary school before collecting because I simply couldn't be assured of her safety.
(No anonymous collecting or trusts in my state.)
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For a relatively modest jackpot of $2 million, I'd spend most of it buying free time for myself. There never seems to be enough time anymore and not having to work for a living would be such an incredible boon that planning for early retirement would be the overriding goal. Other priorities, such as charity, vacations, buying stuff, would all be a distant second.
Not that I wouldn't necessarily work at all, anymore, but it would be purely my terms. Self-employment or perhaps even some part-time work. Still seems like a worthy daydream.
On “Helen Rosner — Actually, How Donald Trump Eats His Steak Matters”
Well-done steak with ketchup.
Pizza with fork and knife.
KFC over Popeyes.
There's a disturbing pattern here that demands a full Congressional investigation.
On “Morning Ed: US Politics {2016.02.08.W}”
And this is the problem I have with many of my fellow of liberals on immigration. We want to have our cake and eat it, too. We want taxes and regulations and workplace protections and employee rights and minimum wage and guaranteed paid time off... and then we want a whole groups of people to skirt the law.
Democrats should end their tacit acceptance of illegal behavior. If e-Verify is lacking, it should be bolstered, then crack down on employers, and significantly increase work visas, if needed.
Everything should be above board.
On “Morning Ed: World Politics {2017.02.06.M}”
And so could Republicans.
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It's crazy that Bernie's still trying to hold Trump to his campaign promises. He's been in office over two full weeks already. Hasn't the statute of limitations essentially run out?
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Democrats do not currently have the power to convene independent investigations into the 2016 elections.
On “The Evolution of Everything”
or for using fossil fuels
Perhaps I'm reading too much into it (a quick Google search suggests not), but I find it ironic that he's trying to associate anthropogenic climate change with false top-down causes, when it's literally the unplanned cumulative effects of the actions of billions of people.
On “A Proposal for Bible Study as Part of K-12 Curriculum”
On paper, I wouldn't necessarily be opposed to a high-level religious studies curriculum. Something that compares and contrasts various religions and shows how religious concepts (monotheism, god made flesh, etc.) evolved and spread. It could show the non-concrete nature of religion how some of the major ones changed over time and incorporated outside ideas and traditions.
I say "on paper", because it's not difficult to imagine educators taking offense to something not sufficiently pro-their religion and intentionally or unintentionally biasing the class.
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