@EinsteinsGrandson Then he doesn't have to do it. If you're rich, important or otherwise a busy member of society, you don't have to do the punishments
@OliverSalzburg Essentially, yeah, I imagine if it's light enough for community service and you're rich you could just say "Yo judge, I ain't got tha time. How much I gotta pay?"
At which point, you (or your lawyer, assuming you're rich) could say "That doesn't work, can we just pay a massive fine and get out of it?"
There ya go. I just know how it works from a laymen's point of view. ;)
Gragh I went to traffic court once for an incomplete stop at a stop sign. Guy before me totaled somebody's car by failing to yield. I get sent to traffic safety school; he got his deferred because he's a doctor's kid that helped pay for the judge's campaign... Good stuff.
Prosecutors had not recommended jail time, citing the 70-year-old Republican's age and health. He has back and urinary problems. Sweeney, however, said a message needed to be sent that misconduct in office carries serious consequences to deter politicians from abusing power after recurring cases in Maryland.
so he's going to spend 30 days in an actual jail (but probably pampered, made comfortable, given clothes and TV and probably internet), 30 days of essentially house arrest, and then community service, whatever that means
for asking a staff aide to empty his catheter
I heard a story about a homeless guy who stole a $100 VCR and got life in prison and was still serving his sentence at 74
and probably in much worse living conditions than Leopold will get
...thujone content regulations, which specify that finished food and beverages that contain Artemisia species must be thujone free.[108] In this context, the TTB considers a product to be thujone-free if the thujone content is less than 10 ppm (equal to 10 mg/kg).
@OliverSalzburg it's also illegal in France, and I learned that from Broken Sword II (the game)
in the game you put a couple drops of real, actual absinthe into an art critic's wine and he falls over and crashes into a display case of Mayan pottery and creates a distraction for you
I was talking to someone in Canada (where apparently Absinthe is legal) who was having some, and they had this tiny little silver spoon they used to take it, and they got really funny then passed out
The word "absinthe" can neither be the brand name nor stand alone on the label, and The packaging cannot "project images of hallucinogenic, psychotropic or mind-altering effects." Absinthe imported in violation of these regulations is subject to seizure at the discretion of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.[112][113]
If I encrypt my data, I need to turn over my passwords or I'm arrested. If they "misplace" my expensive i-something or tablet, too bad so sad. If I drive through the border, they can strip my car down to find whatever they accuse me of hiding, then I have to put it back together myself, even if they don't find anything incriminating
@Tanner didn't Customs or Homeland Security steal somebody's boat recently with no justification? they just hopped on board and were like, I'm homeland security and I'm seizing this boat?
the democrats are too, but both parties are doing this nice "cooperation" and "bipartisanism" on working together to collaboratively draft and pass legislation to further erode rights
whenever the subject at hand is taking away rights from the public, both parties are on board, at least enough to reach majority
I wager that that site can actually provide real test PDFs, but I have no doubt that the site is "illegitimate" in the sense that they are copying copyrighted content without permission in the very least
"is this a scam" is a different question than "is this company operating legally"
a company can give you what you paid for without operating legally, and vice versa
I would surmise that that company will give you what you paid for, but that they are not operating legally
Certifications are useless if I don't have the knowledge/experience to back it up, it would be just a meaningless piece of paper that would allow me to land a job way over my head.
However I might not mind taking a real "practice" test before shelling out a couple grand for cert tests...
the $150 would likely be worth the investment to make sure I'm ready to pass it.
getting your hands on an actual certifiable test that was used in an actual exam would only ensure that they aren't pulling any punches in the practice test, which, if they are, you can probably find that info online before even bothering with the certification
for instance you might be able to read that XYZ company-that-does-certification is an idiot because they give easy peasy practice tests then hammer you on the real test to make you fail and pay to take it again and again
if you find that info then maybe looking at a real exam could be worthwhile
but don't assume from the outset that they're doing it that way, because a reasonable agency whose whole purpose is to certify people would probably not be that much of a scumbag
make the training classes cost money (they already do, heh, but raise their prices or whatever to compensate if needed), but make the actual process of taking the exam free, as in $0
step 1: pay the company/agency to take the class step 2: sign up to take the exam and provide some proof (online account, etc) that "I took the class so I'm eligible to take the exam" step 3: allow the student to re-take the exam as many times as they need to pass the class, for $0 per exam attempt
this dis-incentivizes the company/agency from making a profit on intentionally pulling punches on the practice test to make people fail
it also incentivizes making the training good, so that people will pass the test and stop coming in and taking up seats/paper/time
the student could of course retake the class if they want, but it wouldn't be mandatory
It comes down to a concept called entropy. See Wikipedia.
The basic idea is that, if there existed a compression operation that could always make a file smaller, then logic dictates that said compression operation would be able to reduce any file to 0 bytes and still retain all the data. But thi...
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it takes high entropy data (hot air) and makes it lower entropy (cold air)
but if you put very cold air into a refrigerator, it'll expand until it's no colder than the refrigerator can compress to
if you put very hot air into a refrigerator it will cool down (compress) until it's as cold as the refrigerator can freeze to, but it can only go down to a certain amount, it can't go on forever
otherwise, it could compress the air that it's already compressed and make it colder and colder until there's no energy in your refrigerator at all
which would probably create a quantum singularity or something ;p
the reason your refrigerator doesn't cool the air inside down to absolute zero is the same reason why 7-zip can't compress any file down to 1 or 0 bits and in fact will make some files larger
the files that get made larger by compression are like the "really cold air"
@EinsteinsGrandson yes, but you need a very powerful heat exchanger to do so... you know, if you had a compression codec with an infinite dictionary size, you could compress any file data into a size just long enough to pick the right item out of your dictionary table, so you could theoretically compress N bytes to log(N) assuming a balanced hash table
right, but you're taking the analogy too literally -- the only thing I was comparing is that a refrigerator can only compress to a fixed amount of entropy; if the input air is colder than that, it will heat up; if it is hotter, it will cool down until it reaches that amount of entropy (temperature and entropy being roughly equated here for simplicity)
@EinsteinsGrandson There's actually a compression algorithm that compresses with LZMA first, then puts the whole data into the filename, leaving the file empty. So it's a 0 byte file
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