But I think disbarment (permanent) is enough. This is a professional failing, probably not criminal except at the level of negligence, and the correct response is for this lawyer to lose his career and try again at something easier like working in a Genius Bar or driving the Geek Squad bug.
Human mucking about with nature has a bad track record, and many creatures depend on mosquitoes for food. It would be a terrible idea to mess with ecosystems on that level.
If government had actual radar contacts with foo fighters that moved in arbitrary directions at high rates of speed, they might want people to stop asking questions until the research divisions could come up with some way of countering the perceived threat.
23. The court has a range of powers to ensure that lawyers comply with their duties to the
court. Where those duties are not complied with, the court’s powers include public
admonition of the lawyer, the imposition of a costs order, the imposition of a wasted
costs order, striking out a case, referral to a regulator, the initiation of contempt
proceedings, and referral to the police.25. In the most egregious cases, deliberately placing false material before the court with
the intention of interfering with the administration of justice amounts to the common
law criminal offence of perverting the course of justice, carrying a maximum sentence
of life imprisonment. There has been one instance (not involving artificial intelligence)
where a member of the Bar was imprisoned for 12 months for perverting the course of
justice after deliberately causing a fake authority to be placed before the court by
another person.
Constitutional law has been botched in this country for some time in my view, but the point of the fourth amendment and other parts of the Bill of Rights was the idea that there would not be dragnets.
That is, if police have probable cause regarding a specific individual, they can investigate, but they cannot investigate an entire neighborhood or city just because laws are being broken. The Constitution gives a nod to the idea that if a behavior does not cause noticeable problems, it should probably be ignored.
In the days of DUI checkpoints, however, the anti-dragnet rule seems to have been weakened, and the use of things like geofencing and stingrays further erodes this prohibition.
In this case, I question the original warrant that allows police to fly over a whole county looking for weed grows. A more traditional interpretation would hold that you can get a warrant to surveil a particular resident or property for weed, but not the whole county.
One wonders what the founders would have thought about marijuana criminalization as well, since under "natural rights" you would be able to do just about anything you could in a state of nature, including growing certain plants.
This is especially dangerous in strict liability crimes like possession, since it is entirely possible to have (on a large property) a patch of marijuana growing without your knowledge.
The war on drugs, like the war on poverty or war on racism, or even the Satanic Panic, is a classic example of a "blank cheque" for the expansion of government power and the police state, and the founding fathers were very clear on not desiring that.
This always seemed to me to be a big influence on the web: the idea of pages/cards which could call up data and interact.
Did the lander bounce on impact?
With every mistake, we must surely be learning... still my guitar gently weeps. - George Harrison
There are no easy answers to the problems that we face, history's a lesson, let us learn by our mistakes. - Kurt Brecht
Your company succeeds, you hire a bunch of people, they hire a bunch of people, and soon you spend most of your time "doing company stuff" and very little doing what made you great. You do not notice for awhile, but then your competition finally get good. The only way out of the spin is to fire everyone but the highly useful and make competitive products. The market has changed and Intel got fat and lazy cranking up marginal improvements in desktop chips but now people want less medium iron and more light cheap gadgets. Intel must adapt or die. It is natural selection.
I know drugs are bad (m'kay) and many of you have known people who have self-destructed with drugs.
However, criminalization clearly is not working, and legalization failed to get rid of the illegal drugs trade because when you tax stuff like a politician, you make it more expensive than what the free market offers.
Yes, I know you want to get off this rock and in the long term, that is a necessary goal for not just humans but other species that humans want to preserve. You want a universe that always has cats and hummingbirds.
But in the meantime, humanity is near the tipping of The Ecocide, which is the displacement of the complexity of life on Earth (biodiversity + internal variation) by human overpopulation and urbanization.
1. It's foreign. This should be enough. It is from a half-Arabic people in the middle east.
2. It's dualistic. Symbolic Heaven plays by different rules than Earth, causing people to reject reality. This is schizophrenia.
3. It's exoteric. The idea that normal people can understand religion forces a constant dumbing down.
4. It's universalist. It rejects hierarchy, except from the church of course.
When the bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking about themselves.
