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1  Atlas Fantasy Elections / Atlas Fantasy Government / Re: SENATE STANDING COMMITTEE: National Security on: Today at 01:28:41 am
Ben, did you name a fill-in chair yet?

Talking of that, does Judiciary needs one?
2  Atlas Fantasy Elections / Atlas Fantasy Government / Re: SENATE BILL: Rome Statute of International Criminal Court (At Final Vote) on: Today at 01:27:07 am
Aye
3  Atlas Fantasy Elections / Atlas Fantasy Government / Re: SENATE BILL: Resolution to Protect Wildlife (Debating) on: Today at 01:26:18 am
I asked a question, which got no answer.
4  Atlas Fantasy Elections / Atlas Fantasy Government / Re: Senate Protest and Analysis Thread on: Today at 01:24:06 am
I have contacted the Justice committee chair if it's the appropriate committee.    

I answered you on that, but I doubt it's in the Judiciary committee powers anyways, unless it's considered related to regional law enforcement, which I doubt.

Anyways, the committee is busy until next Suday, we already are in the impeachment hearings of the Supreme Court Justices (which weren't my choice).

Is it not a legal matter by nature? As I said, we could possible take over for the Judiciary since we are only minimally engaged at present, provided the members agree of course.

Well, even if it's the job of the Judiciary Committee, I'm not sure it would be worthwhile to study the question. What can we do after that? We can't amend the Pacific Constitution, we can't abroge the degree and I doubt anyone wants to impeach the President over that.
5  Atlas Fantasy Elections / Atlas Fantasy Government / Re: Senate Protest and Analysis Thread on: May 22, 2013, 10:41:53 pm
It is worrying to know one person has the power to decide when a region is dysfunctional.

Well, blame the authors of the Paficic Constitution, then. It's clearly written than the President has that power and we have nothing to do with it. Senate didn't write the Pacific Constitution, nor it has the power to amend it.
6  General Politics / International General Discussion / Re: UK General Discussion on: May 22, 2013, 02:11:47 pm

What the heck ever happened to the BNP? You'd think they'd be all over the press/surging in the polls in the wake of this.

They collapsed due to internal problems. It's quite common on the fringes, everyone wants to leads and that's getting bloody.
7  Forum Community / Off-topic Board / Re: Next Generation Consoles on: May 22, 2013, 01:06:38 pm
I totally lost stream when I entered college and university and won't pick up before getting out of there, If I decide to pick up.
8  Forum Community / Off-topic Board / Re: GeoGuessr on: May 22, 2013, 01:05:13 pm
A good tip is that if the image quality is blurry, it's probably from the US. Most rural US imagery is still from the first StreetView cams which were low quality.

You would have guessed than since it's Google home country, they would have managed to pass again since then (since the first StreetView cams were a couple of years ago).
9  Forum Community / Forum Community / Re: The memphis Memorial Deluge of Absurdity, Ignorance, and Bad Posts on: May 22, 2013, 02:07:40 am
Why doesn't Atlas have women again?

(feel free to put this in the Irony Ore)

You can get a prom date. That's probably farther than half of Atlas has gone. Hell, I went full Bushie and watched the NBA playoffs last year.

I think he is refering more to their absence from Atlas than to people being single.
10  Other Elections - Analysis and Discussion / Congressional Elections / Re: PPP/MN-06: Michele Bachmann (R) in trouble, trails Graves by 2 on: May 22, 2013, 01:24:28 am
I would sacrifice my first-born to get this loon out of Congress.

Believe me, she's not worth it.
11  Forum Community / Off-topic Board / Re: GeoGuessr on: May 22, 2013, 12:50:16 am
For whatever reason I'm getting a ton of locations in Manitoba.

It's huge and as lots of pictures of empty roads.
I feel the pain, I have the same issue, but with rural Montana. Nothing against it, but rural Montana is pretty non-descript.

EDIT: 23645 (here, probably won't ever get better than that, since I got so lucky (a Illinois crossroad with the numbers of the roads and to which city they led, a quarantaine station on the Western Australian border (why they have them? any australian can help? I'm very surprised at that.) and a downtown with an huge sign "Ketchitan, the 1st Alaskan city" or something like that.
12  Forum Community / Off-topic Board / Re: GeoGuessr on: May 22, 2013, 12:26:45 am
You're lucky, I just entered the game and got the middle of a field. There is fields pretty much anywhere in the world (apparently was a bit east of Dusseldorf, Germany).

EDIT: Got 10901 points, with terrible things (a field in Germany with no clue to find it, some university with Korean signage (I mistook it for Japanese, through), some city with an sign ending by .br, some random Russian street and some highway with an Alberta sign (for Leitch Colliery, which I never heard about))
13  Atlas Fantasy Elections / Atlas Fantasy Government / Re: SENATE BILL: ...Mental Health Reform Act of 2013 (Debating) on: May 22, 2013, 12:22:40 am
Yes, stigma is a big problem.
People are afraid of mentally ill people. People around tham think it's their fault, the other are afraid since they aren't like them.

We must insist on mental illness being an illness. If you get bronchitis, you aren't looked like you're wierd. Mental illnesses must not be considered differently than other illnesses in own attitude towards them, Many of them are due to biochimical disbalances, which are like other, non-mental illnesses.

Probably not very clear, through.
14  Atlas Fantasy Elections / Atlas Fantasy Government / Re: Senate Protest and Analysis Thread on: May 22, 2013, 12:16:50 am
I have contacted the Justice committee chair if it's the appropriate committee.    

I answered you on that, but I doubt it's in the Judiciary committee powers anyways, unless it's considered related to regional law enforcement, which I doubt.

Anyways, the committee is busy until next Suday, we already are in the impeachment hearings of the Supreme Court Justices (which weren't my choice).
15  Atlas Fantasy Elections / Atlas Fantasy Government / Re: SENATE BILL: The On Second Thought, We Do Have Expectations Amendment (VoA) on: May 21, 2013, 07:30:38 pm
Aye.

I do not support automatically removing an elected official of his office.
16  Atlas Fantasy Elections / Atlas Fantasy Government / Re: SENATE BILL: Rome Statute of International Criminal Court (Debating) on: May 21, 2013, 07:29:32 pm
Averroës: I said nothing because I support this and nobody defended the other side, so.
17  Forum Community / Off-topic Board / Re: Massive tornado devastates Moore, Oklahoma on: May 21, 2013, 12:56:25 am
Saw images on TV. Truly dreadful, looks like a war zone.
My thoughts with victims and their families.
18  Forum Community / Off-topic Board / Re: how do you pronounce massachusetts? on: May 20, 2013, 11:05:14 pm
Ma-sha-tchu-sets, so 1, I think.
19  Atlas Fantasy Elections / Atlas Fantasy Elections / Re: Averroës & DemPGH for Atlasia: Reforming Public Education feat. NE Gov Scott on: May 20, 2013, 10:58:40 pm
     Senator Nix and I stridently oppose gender and race-based discrimination, and would like to see repealed the remnants of the slave clause found in VI.4 of the Atlasian Constitution.


Wouldn't that forbid any use of "community work" as a penalty used by the justice system?
One can easily see community work as "involuntary servitude". You're forced to do it and are not paid.

I personally do not equate the two, MaxQue, because of the context, but if most do, then perhaps a change of language would better suit to make that distinction clear. While I'm not a big fan of community work, I don't really consider it "slavery."

Neither I do, bu we are writing laws, so the important is what words are meaning, not our opinions of what words ought to mean.
20  Atlas Fantasy Elections / Atlas Fantasy Government / Re: SENATE BILL: Genetic Privacy Act (Debating) on: May 20, 2013, 10:38:26 pm
I'm not either. I'm open to not including the exceptions, but it's worth talking about. I mean... if someone has a history of heart disease and a high chance of experiencing a cardiac event, do we want that person rushing into burning buildings? "Firefighter down" are some of the worst words a crew could ever hear... they've got to spend resources rescuing their teammate and still try to put out a fire or save whoever else might be trapped inside. It ain't good.

I don't think we are having the same definition of "generic informations"
You think it means disclosing information about the familial health history, I think it's about genetical testing to find which illnesses the person is likely to develop (a bit like that star which got her breasts removed because she had a gene raising sharply the odds of breast cancer).
21  Atlas Fantasy Elections / Atlas Fantasy Government / Re: SENATE BILL: Genetic Privacy Act (Debating) on: May 20, 2013, 09:47:49 pm
I'll let Senator Sbane say his piece, but I'd want to consider including exceptions for the military, fire departments, and other similar employers.

Are any of those employers (or any employers) are currently using them? I must say I'm not very aware of practices in hiring.
22  Other Elections - Analysis and Discussion / International Elections / Re: French legislative by-elections, March 17-24 2013 on: May 20, 2013, 03:11:24 pm
LH2 poll in Lot-et-Garonne's 3rd

Jean Louis Costes (UMP) 30%
Bernard Barral (PS) 23%
Étienne Bousquet-Cassagne (FN) 21%
Lionel Feuillas (EELV) 5%

Jean Louis Costes (UMP) 27%
Étienne Bousquet-Cassagne (FN) 22%
Bernard Barral (PS) 19%
Swiss Bank Accounts 11%
Lionel Feuillas (EELV) 4%

http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2013/05/17/1628504-sondages-legislative-partielle-villeneuve-lot-jerome-cahuzac-donne-perdant.html



11%!!!!! I'm shocked!

Considering than people like Balkany got reelected despite being condemned for corruption, is that really surprising (Carignon, etc...)
23  Atlas Fantasy Elections / Atlas Fantasy Elections / Re: Averroës & DemPGH for Atlasia: Reforming Public Education feat. NE Gov Scott on: May 20, 2013, 02:46:54 pm
     Senator Nix and I stridently oppose gender and race-based discrimination, and would like to see repealed the remnants of the slave clause found in VI.4 of the Atlasian Constitution.


Wouldn't that forbid any use of "community work" as a penalty used by the justice system?
One can easily see community work as "involuntary servitude". You're forced to do it and are not paid.
24  Atlas Fantasy Elections / Atlas Fantasy Government / Re: SENATE STANDING COMMITTEE: Judiciary (JUSTICES' IMPEACHMENT HEARING) on: May 20, 2013, 02:34:48 pm
Talking of political activity, I do think then given the subject of this game, that's inevitable.

I just think as long it's reasonable, there is no problem (what is unreasonable for me: running for office, being in the leadership of a party).

I however think than if a Justice involved into lobbying/public campaign for or against a bill or an idea (like bgwah with dog meat), he should recuse himself should a case about that law reach the Court.

Are the Justices are in agreement with my statement?
25  Atlas Fantasy Elections / Atlas Fantasy Government / Re: SENATE STANDING COMMITTEE: Judiciary (JUSTICES' IMPEACHMENT HEARING) on: May 20, 2013, 12:39:36 am
I have a simple question.
Are long delays like in NCYankee vs. Atlasia are expected to happen again or it was a one-off occurence due to various concurring issues which shouldn't normally happen again?
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