Comment Re:Rare arguement for jury nullification (Score 1) 629
Sometimes, the judge denies the right to jury nullification: http://billmoyers.com/segment/...
Sometimes, the judge denies the right to jury nullification: http://billmoyers.com/segment/...
At yeast he had a point.
when it affects someone in power.
It disappeared after a news crew did a story on it.
I've seen a 4-figure mail-order fraud fail to work because the crook couldn't give the CCV numbers over the phone.
That joke has jumped the shark.
The conservative bias is "don't regulate what you don't have to,"
I don't know, they support regulation disenfranchising the poor quite often... adding red tape to voting, or to accessing federal assistance being a couple examples.
Check out the book "The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives."
You will learn about studies of unconscious racism showing black against black biases, and unconscious racism even from the most left leaning progressives, and a team of psychologists managing racial imagery during a presidential election.
Nice in theory, but has been used in the past to subsidize the running of cable to the remote mansions of the 1%.
It's not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You jest, but this is why we have children instead of just living forever.
An organism that fails to reproduce fails to evolve as fast as competitors. Earth is dominated by fast-evolving, gene-shuffling, sex-having life-forms - not Methuselahs.
oops... fixing a mis-clicked moderation. move along...
Exactly. "Submarine 'out-swims' whale" would be a perfectly clear headline, too. Only on slashdot would a complaint about the word "swim" get +5.
If you have an advantage that delays your death, but don't breed during the respite, then you are irrelevant to that aspect of evolution.
Not if you helped your kids in that time.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
