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If you read the article it's more a point that the judge is ex-military and has a good undertanding of the background to the issues, a matter of specialist knowledge and experience.
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Why then not an ex-banker to judge Ackermann, an ex-manager to judge Jeffrey Skilling?
As I understand, anything that's not a federal offense is in the jurisdication of the state / county / city - so technically, L.A. could say "veterans walk free, no matter what"?
I agree that a court "run" by an ex-military would work exceptionally well on an ex-military defendant who fell through the holes, more than in most other professions. Still, if this court ends up with significantly different rulings than "normal" ones, something's wrong.
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peterchen wrote: That's a can of worms to open up.
 
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peterchen wrote: but shouldn't these be supported
Yes, and just like body armour they were ignored until it was too late.
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I believe the model is the drug courts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_court
If it actually reduces recidivism then it is doing what it should.
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And often the army have broken their own rules by not treating diagnosed cases when they come back - there was a very good documnetary a few weeks ago and it showed soliders who suffered from all kinds of disorders and they were given one drug for each symptom.
There was one ex-soldier who had been given six different drugs, four of which were for short periods and he was on them for nine months. Then when he returned to the US after a failed attempt to kill himself (gun jammed) he was thrown onto the streets despite army regs. about mandatory treatment.
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Conclusion: you need to look after your gun. Come on, your life depends on your gun, you can't let spiders to inhabit it.
Trust is a weakness.
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I hate it when orgs break their own rules like that. When the corporate culture supports that kind of BS it tends to be pernicious (in the insidious sense of the word).
I don't believe the whole mass of the Army is bad, though. I think its like any large group. And a documentary like that would and should show the worst cases. Hopefully they did.
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Sadly it did. The officer representing the US Army kept giving the prepared answers in order to defend the indefensible kept it up until near the end of the programme.
Then he stopped talking and tears ran down his face because he couldn't continue with the lies someone else had ordered him to give.
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"Just right in size, speed, and price."
There must not have been any women in the group that came up with that.  Reads more like an ad for certain pay-as-you-go evening activities.
Marc
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..pay for every dance, sellin' each romance...
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So I just discovered something. I've been using Tortoise SVN, and it has been bother me for a year now (and this might not be exclusive to W7) that sometimes when I right click on a folder to do a commit from the popup menu, W7 doesn't select the folder that I right-clicked on. But sometimes it would, so WTF?
Well, I finally figured out how to repeat the problem consistently. Turns out, if I right-click on the white space to the right of the folder name, W7 doesn't select the folder, it only gives me some weird transparent rectangle, and the currently selected folder stays the same.
However, if I right-click anywhere on the name of the folder, then OMG, it selects the folder first and then brings up the popup menu appropriate for that folder, which is what I want.
And of course, left-click works all the time, regardless of whether I click on the whitespace or the folder name.
God Almighty. I wonder if they actually coded for this behavior, and is it something the OS is doing or something that's built into the tree view? Although, frankly, I don't give damn. I'd just like it if it worked correctly, and right now, it's broken, IMO.
Marc
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You are seeing list view control behavior that has existed since at least Windows 95. By default, you can make a selection only by selecting the name in the list. If you right click anywhere else, it brings up a context menu for the entire list view.
The tree control is somewhat similar, but Microsoft modified it in at least XP to behave as expected. That is, if you right click on the line of an item, that item is selected.
So, under XP, the behavior of the tree view on the left and list control on the right is different. One reason for this is that only the details view has this full line concept; all other views are centric around only the icon and/or name. Moreover, if the list view is full and you always selected the entire row, you wouldn't be able to get to the right click context menu for the entire view.
Most shell extensions don't insert themselves in this latter context menu, but a few do. WinMerge does and it's not immediately obvious when I'm clicking way to the right what context it's picking up.
The question then is, has the right context menu handling changed with Windows 7 or is the Tortoise SVN shell extension buggy?
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Tortoise SVN shell extension buggy?
No, this is in bringing up the popup itself, regardless of the whether Tortoise SVN has been installed or not.
Joe Woodbury wrote: the details view has this full line concept;
Yeah, I always use explorer in the details mode.
Joe Woodbury wrote: you wouldn't be able to get to the right click context menu for the entire view.
Interesting. Thanks for pointing that out. That harks back to the days when I was learning Windows and one day made the discovery that if I right-clicked on something, interesting options would pop up. I think I had accidentally right-clicked, lol!
Marc
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Sounds about right. If you had full-row right-click selection, how would you get the context menu for the folder itself, if, for example, you want to use it to copy more than one file?
Mind you, there's probably a full-row-selection option somewhere, but it would probably depend on what view is active.
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On several occasions I've pressed delete on the keyboard and ended up deleting an entire folder as opposed to the file inside the folder I had selected. Maybe its when I last scrolled in the tree view since selecting the file, changing the focus to the treeview or something I'm not sure but something seems to have changed from XP anyway. I'm just extra careful now.
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So, I just installed openSUSE 11.3 on one of my machines (of course, the hard drive I had in it wasn't big enough and it never bothered to tell me this until AFTER it got to about 99% and even then it was only a "Installation Failed" it was only guesswork that I figured out why it was failing).
After that, it starts to update... but to update I have to accept the Microsoft EULA. WTF.
The unofficial awesome history of Code Project's Bob!
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
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So Microsoft hijacked Linux too!? That must be those secret agreement with the CIA!
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Lloyd Atkinson wrote: but to update I have to accept the Microsoft EULA. WTF
A wild guess - it is trying to install Microsoft's TTF fonts.
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That's what happens when you copy and paste RevEng-ed code into your own application.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'd like to take this opportunity to remember all who fought during the Battle Of Britain 70 years ago. Those who died, and those who survived, we remember and honour you.![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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For all those from the Observer Corp, the WAAAFS and ground crews who didn't get the glory but did their bit.
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God bless em
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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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