Monday, October 14, 2019

has trump admitted he is a criminal?

here inoctober 2019, presumably on the advice of council   trump is fervently asserting that he has a right to: "to be confronted with the witnesses against him in connection with the possible impeachment process;  that right is in the 6th amendment , of the bill of 
rights
http://constitutionus.com/#rbillofrights but that right, by its terms only arises in the context of  criminal law.

i myself never practiced criminal law, and only studied it just enough to pass the bar, and i think, but don't know for sure that it's possible to accidentally waive constitutional  rights,(for example, if you assert your right to remain silent, but start talking anyway, you might be deemed to have waived that right, i wonder if trump has accidentally waived his right, if any, to avoid criminal indictment, or even investigation, as a sitting president.

along the same line, do you remember when republicans strenuously asserted, "judges are not supposed to make law," but seem perfectly content to accept "law made by an unelected staff lawyer" somewhere.(BTW,we are a common law legal system, judges(not staff attorneys)  have been making law for centuries

i've got a million of them. (do i sound like andy rooney?

(if a conservative lawyer says "judges shouldn't  make law, ask him or her why he or she spent so much time in law school with the "restatements of the law(thick volumes in every area of law which seek to explain the thousands of cases in which judges made law over the centuries!)


Thursday, October 10, 2013

Amusing

I find it amusing that today's self-proclaimed federalists quote anti-federalist Thmas Jeffesrson

Monday, July 12, 2010

My Blimp Project


I've got an idea for using a scale model blimp which I would like to construct and i am looking for information whether I can use a die-cutter for fabricating/cutting the gores.

Each gore will look like: (see right)

I'm wondering if
  1. I can use a scrapbooker's die cutter - either full length (each gore will be about 6' long) or in 1' lengths,
  2. Either cutting very thin plastic sheets (the thickness of mylar balloons) or heavish paper to use as a cutting pattern
I'm also wondering if I need a formula for the curves, or if I can use co-ordinates:


I have coordinates for the gores, which read, in part, like:

coordinates for the pattern:
0,0000 0,0000
0,0121 0,0047
0,0254 0,0094
0,0407 0,0142
0,0587 0,0191
0,0796 0,0241
0,1036 0,0291
0,1305 0,0342
0,1605 0,0393
0,1933 0,0442
0,2289 0,0490
0,2671 0,0535
0,3079 0,0576
0,3511 0,0613
0,3966 0,0646
0,4441 0,0674
0,4937 0,0697
0,5452 0,0714
0,5984 0,0727
0,6531 0,0736
0,7092 0,0742
0,7664 0,0744
0,8245 0,0745
0,8833 0,0744
0,9426 0,0742
1,0021 0,0740

ETC