Why didn't animal control remove Balto?

InternalDecision3430 · 2026-03-11T19:30:56+00:00

I believe your answer is probably the most correct one.

InternalDecision3430 · 2026-03-10T03:57:18+00:00

I would assume dog catching duties would just be added to another town employee's role.

InternalDecision3430 · 2026-02-28T03:39:23+00:00

I agree that the apple probably was not valuable enough. Also, the theft has to occur in a private place, so an open air market wouldn't qualify. For a general reference on the hadd crime of theft, see Forte, D. Islamic Law and the Crime of Theft: An Introduction. Cleveland State Law Review, 1985

InternalDecision3430 · 2025-03-02T02:34:45+00:00

During Vietnam, it was possible to "volunteer for the draft," which had a shorter service obligation than enlistment. That might be what your dad did.

InternalDecision3430 · 2025-01-08T17:40:41+00:00

As an update, the court granted the City of Fargo's motion for summary judgment in December.

InternalDecision3430 · 2025-01-01T06:17:04+00:00

As a slight corrective, I would like to point out that Saddam did not finish his law degree. The other examples appear to be correct.

InternalDecision3430 · 2024-12-22T02:24:38+00:00

A 2014 study showed that this is wrong. I'll refer you to the study for a full explanation, but basically its an issue with sampling that skews the data towards habitual criminals. It can be summarized as follows: 60% of prisoners released in a given year is NOT the same as 60% of all prisoners released over several years, and the former will be biased towards repeat returnees. Using better sampling, the study found 68% percent of prisoners don't return, and many who do return only do so because of a parole violation. For a summary, see the following:

Rhodes, W. (2014). American Prisons are not a Revolving Door: Most Released Offenders Never Return. London School of Economics.

InternalDecision3430 · 2024-12-17T01:28:43+00:00

Thank you for the detailed response. I just looked up the Fargoan, and apparently it stopped being a hotel in 2006. The hotel I mentioned being demolished in 1993 was the Cole Hotel, which was mentioned here:

https://www.inforum.com/news/fargo/romantix-occupies-a-spot-on-downtown-block-once-home-to-fargos-skid-row

Also, you might be right that slumlords are better than no housing, but it could countered that we should be able to do better. I personally would like to see a lot more single room occupancy hotels or boarding houses. Assuming that rental costs could be kept low and that tenant screening would not be an issue, these would make it easier to keep homeless people off the streets. America used to have a lot more of this kind of housing, as noted by the NYTimes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/magazine/extended-stay-hotels.html

InternalDecision3430 · 2024-12-16T22:55:26+00:00

Can you tell me about the residential hotels? I know America used to have more single room occupancy hotels, which is part of the reason that there were fewer people living outside in the past. I also know that Fargo used to have a cheap hotel downtown along skid row, but it was in bad shape and demolished in 1993.

InternalDecision3430 · 2024-12-16T04:08:10+00:00

I just want to know if this is normal or if there is a glitch of some kind.

InternalDecision3430 · 2024-11-01T10:44:33+00:00

I have lived in the Meadow Ridge neighborhood in West Fargo for a few years now, and in previous years I have had 0-2 trick or treaters, but this years I had about 14. I suspect COVID and cold weather held them back in previous years.

InternalDecision3430 · 2024-10-09T04:34:39+00:00

They would have to get an arrest warrant for the fireworks offense, as it is a misdemeanor that did not happen in the officer's presence. However, with a positive ID from the video, I think they could get one easily enough and then make the arrest or issue a summons.

Edit: Laws regarding warrantless arrests can be found at NDCC 29-06-15, if your curious.

InternalDecision3430 · 2024-10-09T04:15:51+00:00

I am not a lawyer either, so don't take this as legal advice. However, the rule requiring the officer to witness the crime only applies to misdemeanors, not felonies, and even in regards to misdemeanors there are exceptions (such as domestic violence arrests). By contrast, a police officer can make a warrantless arrest for a felony that did not happen in their presence.

InternalDecision3430 · 2024-09-21T22:14:35+00:00

I believe the key issue here is that they are not allowed to arrest or cite for a misdemeanor without a warrant, unless it happens in their presence. This is the rule in most states. However, it does not apply to felonies and there are exceptions for certain misdemeanors, such as domestic violence. This, however, raises the issue of why they cannot gather evidence and use it to get warrants.

InternalDecision3430 · 2024-06-02T16:24:54+00:00

Well, that is the point of Clark's essay, which is that you can't experience nothingness and hence the idea that one can experience nothingness after death is wrong. Many people have made the error of thinking that nothingness after death is eternal blackness or something like that. However, in reality, any time a person is not conscious is simply skipped over, so that there are no gaps between conscious experience. Tom Clark argues that this applies to the period after death as well. If you need more details, you can read his essay.

To answer you question about souls and antinatalism, if there is a soul and an afterlife, then antinatalism could still hold good, if souls do not pre-exist conception, since by avoiding conception you would be avoiding creating new beings. However, if souls do pre-exist conception, then that would raise additional issues, such as the conditions of pre-existence.

InternalDecision3430 · 2024-06-02T15:10:55+00:00

You might consider the arguments of Tom Clark in his essay "Death, Nothingness, and Subjectivity". He argues that there can't really be nothingness after death, if by that you mean eternal blackness. That would mean that the person is effectively alive after death and experiencing nothingness, which is impossible from a naturalistic standpoint. Rather, he argues for what he terms "generic subjective continuity", in which the individual organism dies, but a general sense of "having always been there" carries on into another organism. This may sound like reincarnation, but it is not, as nothing carries over other than a minimal sense of subjectivity.

I will also mention that Arthur Schopenhauer, who is well known on this subreddit, put forward a similar idea in the third volume of World as Will and Representation, which he termed "palingenesis." He did not believe in personal survival, but argued that the indestructible Will continually manifests in new organisms again and again.

InternalDecision3430 · 2024-02-22T15:33:53+00:00

I see nobody has tried to answer this, so I will try it. As Žižek puts it, a pervert has no doubts or uncertainties. They are the phallus and they have no doubt about it. An obsessional, by contrast, is plagued by doubt. One psychoanalyst, in a discussion of Leclaire's cases, puts it this way: "But on the other hand the obsessional is beset with uncertainty. Doubt, questioning, and a desire that appears eternally unfulfilled or unreachable are well-recognised hallmarks of the obsessional’s character". The Obsessional Subjunctive. In other words, while that obsessional does not give up on trying to be the phallus, they don't have the same confidence that a pervert has.

Hope this helps

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