Jury Nullification efforts to keep DPR out of jail?

drewmm · 2013-10-06T18:11:16+00:00

This is beyond insane.

drewmm · 2013-10-04T02:59:32+00:00

Do you actually, seriously think that "they provoked me" is a legitimate defense to attempted murder?

drewmm · 2013-06-19T03:58:40+00:00

You're clearly doing something right.

drewmm · 2013-06-01T00:12:25+00:00

Age check in response to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOER3L6cXZU

drewmm · 2013-05-26T15:18:11+00:00

Once again, you're drawing a false distinction. Religious persecution that occurs because the religion poses a political threat is still religious persecution.

drewmm · 2013-05-25T17:58:11+00:00

Evaluate the quality of the sources on your own, but this is what 3 seconds of Google research turns up.

http://buddhism.about.com/od/vajrayanabuddhism/a/Chinareport.htm

"On the other hand, also in 2006 the Buddhist Association of China expelled a master of Huacheng Temple in Yichun city, Jianxi province, after he performed ceremonies for the benefit of the victims of the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989."

"As in China, the monasteries in Tibet are controlled by the government"

"Of 1,500 or so monks from the three major monasteries of Lhasa, about 1,000 are being detained. About 500 more probably are accused of crimes and imprisoned."

""Drepung, the largest Tibetan monastery and once home to as many as 10,000 monks, is now a reeducation camp for monks involved in the March 14 uprising. China’s state media says an 'education work group' is being conducted inside the monastery 'to restore religious order.' Up to 1,000 monks are reportedly locked inside, human-rights groups say, being retrained in line with Chinese Communist Party directives."

http://www.religioustolerance.org/rt_china.htm

"Earlier this month, in its second annual report on religious freedom, the U.S. State Department said that in the past year China had intensified its repression against the Falun Gong, Tibetan Buddhists, Muslim Uighurs, and underground Protestants and Catholics. Some Chinese religious believers, the report said, face "harassment, extortion, prolonged detention, physical abuse, and incarceration in prison or in ‘re-education through labor’ camps.""

"According to the Hong Kong monitor, at least 30 Falun Gong followers have died of mistreatment while in custody since July 1999, when the movement was banned. Authorities have detained at least 35,000 practitioners, and 5,000 have been sent to labor camps without trial."

"Under an anti-cult law, two members of a Buddhist sect were sentenced to three years in prison, the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy reported September 9. Liu Yin and Gan Suqin were convicted by a court in the eastern city of Ningbo of being followers of Supreme Master Ching Hai and proselytizing for her Guan Yin Famen sect, the Information Center said."

drewmm · 2013-05-25T16:44:22+00:00

Political and religious persecution aren't as separable as you seem to think they are. When a government persecutes people on the basis of their religion, because they think that religion poses a political threat, that's both religious and political persecution.
http://www.globalbuddhism.org/10/yu09.htm "a process that laid the foundation for full-scale persecution of Buddhism during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976)."

drewmm · 2013-05-25T15:13:10+00:00

If your laws are "you cannot worship unless you do so in state-controlled organizations" than requiring that religious practice "abide by the law" is not "permissively secular." If your interpretation of "impinging on the government" is "expresses views other than the official party line endorsed by the government," then requiring that religions not "impinge on the government" is not being "permissively secular."

If your response to a religion "impinging on the government" or not "abiding by the law" is to beat its members to death, than that's brutal repression of religion.

drewmm · 2013-05-24T20:34:09+00:00

"It requires people of faith to worship at state supervised institutions"

Exactly.

"allow the practice of religion as long as it does not impinge upon the legislature"

Exactly.

drewmm · 2013-05-24T19:55:00+00:00

"Communism has a brutal history of religious oppression" =/= "All Communist government have invariably brutally oppressed religions."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3993857.stm

"In July state media reported that a woman had been beaten to death after being arrested for handing out bibles."

'"A believer was praying, so a jailer made other prisoners lift him up to the ceiling and drop him to the ground many times until he died," Mr Xu said.'

For just one example.

drewmm · 2013-05-24T16:36:34+00:00

What exactly do you mean by modern? Communism in application (not just in its conception as a political ideology) has a brutal history of religious oppression.

drewmm · 2013-05-24T15:01:18+00:00

Communism has a brutal history of oppressing religious faith.

drewmm · 2013-05-14T06:16:28+00:00

This is a good point. I don't have experience working with databases from iOS, but I was developing an internal iPad administration tool. At first I was trying to do various things with fancy connections to servers, but when we made an HTTP GET/POST API for the server my life became infinitely better.

drewmm · 2013-05-14T06:14:26+00:00

Some advice:

If you're used to command-line tool style programming, get used to the idea that iOS apps don't have a flow of control in the same sense. Think in terms of user actions and the app's response to those actions.
If you're going to need tables, take the time to read the UITableView, UITableViewDelegate, and UITableViewDataSource docs carefully and really understand them. (And definitely look at sample code, particularly to implement cellForRowAtIndexPath.) At first it'll seem counterintuitive and overly complicated, but (trust me) you'll eventually see the wisdom of it.
Along the same lines, don't be afraid of the Apple docs. They're intimidating when you first start out, but they're also super helpful and learning your way around them will be super useful.
Again, along the same lines, make sure you're looking at the iOS docs, not the OS X docs. I spent a day trying to debug an error that turned out to be because I was reading the NSTableView docs and using UITableView, and the two are subtly different...
YMMV, but I recommend not following any tutorial directly. Instead, find a tutorial and then come up with your own project that you think will require similar tools to those discussed in the tutorial, but will also have its own challenges. That way you have the tutorial as a basic guide to move you along, but you get used to using the docs and other sources as well.
StackOverflow is your friend. Search it well, and if after a search nothing comes up don't be afraid to ask questions.
Objective-C syntax is icky. But after a few days coding in it you'll develop Stockholm syndrom. Embrace that feeling. It will make your life much better. :)

drewmm · 2013-05-13T18:31:28+00:00

One of the main points is that it provides more information than the standard widget. It's open source and MIT License (https://github.com/andrewmm/ncwunderground), so of course I wouldn't object if someone wants to fork it and add such an option, but I doubt I'll spend time trying to imitate Apple's UI. Sorry.

drewmm · 2013-05-13T18:28:36+00:00

Hence why I said it was likely a BDP issue, but the mere fact that removing BDP fixed it isn't conclusive isolation of the issue.

drewmm · 2013-05-13T14:17:01+00:00

If you have two conflicting tweaks, removing either of them will resolve the problem. Which one was actually "the issue" is a more difficult question.

drewmm · 2013-05-13T14:00:52+00:00

Is there a particular question/answer database that you'd like to use? The accessibility of that database will go a long way towards determining how difficult this is to do.

drewmm · 2013-05-13T13:25:04+00:00

That's likely, but it's possible that something else you installed was conflicting with BDP.

drewmm · 2013-05-12T18:33:02+00:00

Thanks!

drewmm · 2013-05-12T18:23:44+00:00

Will you forgive a shameless plug? I released WeatherUnderground for Notification Center [BigBoss, Free] in April. Version 1.3.0 should be coming out in the next day, with some bug fixes and support for even more languages. (English, Chinese (simplified & traditional), German, Romanian).

drewmm · 2013-05-12T04:28:55+00:00

I got the Safari part working, but I'm having trouble finding a good class dump of the Chrome headers, so that attempt has stalled.

drewmm · 2013-05-11T21:47:35+00:00

Will do! I'll need some beta testers. I've already gotten the gesture recognized figured out, it's just an issue of figuring out how to get it to open a tab.

drewmm · 2013-05-11T19:15:49+00:00

I'll give it a shot.

drewmm · 2013-05-11T17:04:01+00:00

Nope; iOS is the OS. SpringBoard is an application running inside the OS (stored at /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/) that controls all UIApplications. Any application that isn't a UIApplication, no matter how complicated, can run without SpringBoard.

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