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throwaway_law
7y ago
>But you can't split hairs on the intricacies between civil and criminal law (when for immigration, they're highly interwoven) Its not splitting hairs, its how the law and courts work. There is a difference between civil and c
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throwaway_law
7y ago
>People get arrested for crimes they are never charged for all the time. Yes and the point is we don't call those folks "illegals." You responded to my comment, specifically: >This group can't wrap their mind aroun
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throwaway_law
7y ago
Yes it does seem criminal...but its not. Thats my point Immigrants in detention centers/immigration proceedings are treated like criminals, but they aren't (certainly a immigrant could be a criminal, but thats separate from anyth
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throwaway_law
7y ago
What I said is "status is not a crime." Illegal entry into the Country is a crime, whether you are a citizen or not, its a crime. Nevertheless, these people were not charged with a crime or illegally entering the Country, nor doe
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throwaway_law
7y ago
>Illegal entry (8 usc 1325) This is/was generally waived as a matter of policy for a first offence. That isn't an Immigration Law, that is a criminal law. An Immigration Court wouldn't have jurisdiction over those cases.
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throwaway_law
7y ago
>It's only civil for a first infraction No. As a preliminary matter there is no such thing as an immigration infraction. >Disobeying any immigration order... There is nothing special about an "immigration order" its a
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7y ago
>By breaking the law, these travellers got sorted into the "criminals" bin and are now treated like shit. Only its immigration law so its civil not criminal law. That's the biggest mental divide I come across, there is a c
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throwaway_law
7y ago
Like all things in physics on its face its easily acceptable, but when you think about the concept looking at a particle closer up when that particle takes up no space (I think saying infinitely small is wrong) its hard to wrap the mind aro
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7y ago
In theory by accepting and graduating students on merit, who then become successful and donate back to their institutions. Not by using their tax exempt status to solicit beneficial tax deductions from the rich in exchange for accepting th
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7y ago
>but your pay is roughly correlated with the value of your labour. It should be but employee efficiency and revenue per employee has increased (in fact more than doubled on average in the last 20 years), but salary has roughly stayed the
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throwaway_law
7y ago
Yep, so now the US government is providing the following helpful formula 33% of salary goes to taxes; 33% to housing and 33% to student loans. You better be good at budget because everything else must be covered by that 1%
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throwaway_law
7y ago
>How is "your research is not into the topic of this journal" a "political" opinion? Are you familiar at all with the 8 papers that were rejected and went on to win the Nobel Prize? Example: Fermi's paper on weak
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7y ago
To the best of my knowledge 8 papers were rejected that ultimately won the prize...over 500 Nobel Prizes have been awarded so I am not sure why you expect papers to get rejected at least once. Again the basis of these rejections were not on
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throwaway_law
7y ago
>Rejection is usually a case of 'I'm not sufficiently sure this is good enough given the information I have in front of me' Last week there were a few articles about the rejection of numerous articles/papers that woul
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7y ago
>- Should this become some sort of right? It is a right under international laws, customs and norms. The same is even codified in Article 1 of the UN Charter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination
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7y ago
>A 50% chance of recovery in 6 months is still a drastic improvement over a 0% chance of recovery if you lost money in stocks. Not from a taxation standpoint. And investors shouldn't get better tax rates than workers because their
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7y ago
>Facebook would not have unilateral control by any stretch of the imagination. At minimum they are the registered owner the Libra federal trademarks...that's a funny first step for a "decentralized" project. Satoshi Nakamo
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7y ago
Yes, but to couch Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division as a phone number you call to get your money is not how it works. Nearly 50% are denied after a 6 month process on average. Like disability claims or VA claims or immigrat
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throwaway_law
7y ago
>you can generally call up a government agency and get them to make your employer pay up. Thats not how it works, you can pay out of pocket for a lawyer to help you, but people in this position can't generally afford a lawyer. Take
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7y ago
>I think that capital gains should be taxed at a lower rate because people are putting their own wealth on the line. Its a luxury to have wealth you can invest and grow without actually having to work for a wage. Plus you are overstatin
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7y ago
>I wonder what people thought about lightning in earlier ages. Before humans could "make" fire, they were dependent on fires occurring naturally, lightning would have been the main source. I'm assuming they simply focused
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7y ago
>The question is: Conspiracy or incompetence? Or both. As is often the case with industry leaders and regulators, the tail wags the dog. Meaning usually the regulator is totally incompetent and defers to the very people they are suppos
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throwaway_law
7y ago
I don't disagree with you at all. One thing that struck me was that her rTMS I think was for concussive syndrome/symptoms. Whereas I thought rTMS was primarily marketed for depression and anxiety (seems some of the other posters
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throwaway_law
7y ago
There is a female MMA fighter, Cat Zingano, who is vocal about her Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) treatments. She did a Joe Rogan podcast and spoke about it very positively. Very anecdotal but very interesting.
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7y ago
I believe the prevailing thought on the audible cracking is that it is the bubbles in the fluid between cartilage and nothing to do with the cartilage itself.
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throwaway_law
7y ago
>t's all about long-term vs short-term state of mind. I think the point is the "state of mind" is a product of everything else going on in the body. It will be infinitely more difficult to have a positive state of mind wh
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>I'd bet even money that the third group would have been less depressed too. Maybe, but certainly their biomarkers would continue to show chronic (dietary) inflammation and otherwise they would have no improvement in seratonin produ
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7y ago
Even though you answer your own questions, those answers are wrong. Yes, you see that type of hate and violence everyday (well maybe you don't), and its not killing because you have an Apple Watch and someone doesn't like Apple (
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throwaway_law
7y ago
It all sounds the same to me...the economic power structure you reference is just as tribal, made of the haves and have nots, with the have nots further dividing themselves into tribes so they don't unite against the haves. There is n
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7y ago
>Nasty tribalism in that part of the world is holding everyone there back. Hasn't that same "tribalism" always existed? Isn't this the same people of the World who both carried and advanced math and engineering while
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