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RIP Memoriam thread?

#401 User is online   Cyberyeti 

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Posted 2016-January-19, 11:08

The new celestial supergroup just gained a drummer http://www.bbc.co.uk...t-arts-35342699

What with Lemmy on bass/vocals, Frey on guitar and Bowie on vocals could be good.
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Posted 2016-January-26, 14:14

Marvin Minsky, one of the pioneers in the field of Artificial Intelligence, died on Sunday at the age of 89.

I think this is the first person in this thread who I knew personally, although not very well. When I was a freshman at MIT, I think I once went to a party at his home.

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Posted 2016-January-29, 23:03

My good friend and BBO player BozoBus lost his heroic battle with pancreatic cancer on Feb. 25 2015..Not a day goes by that I do not remember him. Next month will be the one year anniversary of his passing. He loved to play bridge and taught me a lot.
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Posted 2016-February-09, 08:50

Artur Fischer, Inventor With More Patents Than Edison, Dies at 96
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Posted 2016-February-13, 16:43

Justice Antonin Scalia, Who Led a Conservative Renaissance on the Supreme Court, Is Dead at 79
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Posted 2016-February-13, 18:13

It is hard to stop smiling at this somber occasion.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Black Lives Matter. / "I need ammunition, not a ride." Zelensky
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Posted 2016-February-13, 19:23

View PostWinstonm, on 2016-February-13, 18:13, said:

It is hard to stop smiling at this somber occasion.


It is said that his best friend was Ruth Ginsberg; most ahve said he was a fine person. You are a bucket of spit.
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Posted 2016-February-13, 22:12

This looks as if it has legs, maybe it could be moved? I think in RIP it may be fair to indicate bad qualities as well as good, but a political debate should go elsewhere.
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Posted 2016-February-13, 22:38

Too soon for this discussion, too soon.

jShocking and sad and yes many political factors but too soon.
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Posted 2016-February-14, 04:44

A friend of mine posted this on FB in answer to some of the discussions above.

https://www.facebook...8926045/?type=3

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I had someone ask why I could not give condolences or respect for Justice Scalia upon his passing. This decision, and his opinion on it, is the reason why. In that moment, he demonstrated that he did not warrant nor deserve sympathy upon his passing - for he actively sought to deny that to others.


I think this sums the argument up fairly well.
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Posted 2016-February-14, 07:10

When remembering Scalia, the following quote seems apropos: "And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you — where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast — man's laws, not God's — and if you cut them down — and you're just the man to do it — d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?"

Scalia had no respect for precedence or stare decisis. In turn, this is why his own decisions are built on sand...
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Posted 2016-February-14, 11:02

View Posthrothgar, on 2016-February-14, 07:10, said:

In turn, this is why his own decisions are built on sand...

Hrothgar, I don't care whether his decisions were built on jello. The man just past away. IMNSHO, this is neither the place nor the time.

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Posted 2016-February-14, 11:14

View PostCyberyeti, on 2016-February-14, 04:44, said:

A friend of mine posted this on FB in answer to some of the discussions above.

https://www.facebook...8926045/?type=3

with the comment

I think this sums the argument up fairly well.


For those who don't follow links, the quotation, attributed to Scalia, is: "Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached."

Interesting that I cannot find any source for this supposed quotation, let alone a context for it. Some say a speech, but no one knows where or when. Maybe your friend can solve the problem?

Also interesting that the statement, whether Scalia's or imaginary, could reasonably turn up in a rarified discussion of the law of criminal appellate procedure and /or SCOTUS' responsibility to promulgate the FRCr.P.
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Posted 2016-February-14, 12:23

View PostFlem72, on 2016-February-14, 11:14, said:

For those who don't follow links, the quotation, attributed to Scalia, is: "Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached."

Interesting that I cannot find any source for this supposed quotation, let alone a context for it. Some say a speech, but no one knows where or when. Maybe your friend can solve the problem?

Also interesting that the statement, whether Scalia's or imaginary, could reasonably turn up in a rarified discussion of the law of criminal appellate procedure and /or SCOTUS' responsibility to promulgate the FRCr.P.


It looks like it's a paraphrasing of a longer judgment. To me having read the original, I think the paraphrasing is fair, but it could do with a bit of context.
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Posted 2016-February-14, 12:41

View PostFlem72, on 2016-February-14, 11:14, said:

For those who don't follow links, the quotation, attributed to Scalia, is: "Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached."

Interesting that I cannot find any source for this supposed quotation, let alone a context for it. Some say a speech, but no one knows where or when. Maybe your friend can solve the problem?

Also interesting that the statement, whether Scalia's or imaginary, could reasonably turn up in a rarified discussion of the law of criminal appellate procedure and /or SCOTUS' responsibility to promulgate the FRCr.P.

This is from the 1993 case Herrera v. Collins, and the actual text of Scalia's concurring opinion, provided by SCOTUS, can be found here: http://www.supremeco...lumes/506bv.pdf .
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Posted 2016-February-14, 12:43

View Postkenberg, on 2016-February-13, 22:12, said:

This looks as if it has legs, maybe it could be moved? I think in RIP it may be fair to indicate bad qualities as well as good, but a political debate should go elsewhere.

I've moved the posts about SCOTUS, but not specifically about Scalia, to a new thread.

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Posted 2016-February-14, 14:31

View PostBbradley62, on 2016-February-14, 12:41, said:

This is from the 1993 case Herrera v. Collins, and the actual text of Scalia's concurring opinion, provided by SCOTUS, can be found here: http://www.supremeco...lumes/506bv.pdf .


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Posted 2016-February-19, 12:11

Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Black Lives Matter. / "I need ammunition, not a ride." Zelensky
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Posted 2016-February-19, 19:09

Umberto Eco. I am not a fiction reader but "The name of the rose" made me make an exception. A truly great author.
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Posted 2016-February-20, 03:50

View Posthelene_t, on 2016-February-19, 19:09, said:

Umberto Eco. I am not a fiction reader but "The name of the rose" made me make an exception. A truly great author.


ugh :( He was more than a fiction writer, one of my favorites if not THE

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