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 [My Back Pages] Scalia Dissents, Roper v. Simmons: And the conservative justices are largely responsible for destroying these protections. It is simply amazing what a hypocrite guys like Scalia turn out to be. He believes that as states face bigger criminal challenges in the modern society (war on drugs), the constitution should adapt (give way) to meet the challenge.

[1raindrop.typepad.com] 1 Raindrop: A number of Kim Cameron's Laws of Identity deal with usability and psychological acceptability issues, probably the one that applies most directly is the Law of Human Integration. I see this law as being an useful flip side to the traditional security-usability discussions that typically center around "don't make the password too long or people won't remember it or they will tape it to their forehead, etc." This law actually empowers the user by providing unambiguous between the human and user. This is truly the last mile or the last three feet of integration, hope somebody pulls this off soon.

[Theartoftheblog.com] The Art of the Blog Individual Entry Archive: Although it may be that many 17-year-old murderers lack sufficient maturity to deserve the death penalty, some juvenile murderers may be quite mature. Chronological age is not an unfailing measure of psychological development, and common experience suggests that many 17-year-olds are more mature than the average young "adult." In short, the class of offenders exempted from capital punishment by today's decision is too broad and too diverse to warrant a categorical prohibition. Indeed, the age-based line drawn by the Court is indefensibly arbitrary--it quite likely will protect a number of offenders who are mature enough to deserve the death penalty and may well leave vulnerable many who are not.

[Freedomandprosperity.org] The Market Center Blog -- February 2005 Archives: ..legislation that boosted welfare benefits and established other programs for the poor, including Medicaid--created its own form of depression, as women long dependent on welfare became so convinced of their own inferiority that they could hardly present themselves without trembling at a job interview. And, as a far worse psychological consequence, the sense of victimization and of entitlement to government support that the War on Poverty fostered created a corrosive self-pity and resentment among the children of its beneficiaries, and their children's children.

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