Thank you for telling your story. It is encouraging. I’m a candidate for the same surgery because of a high PVC burden, but I’ve been resisting doing it because of the risk of death and other life-altering complications.
Might as well post the full version, which adds context:
God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change
the courage to change the things I can
and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time,
enjoying one moment at a time.
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace.
Taking, as he did, the sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it.
Trusting that he will make all things right
if I surrender to His will;
that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
and supremely happy with Him forever.
The requirement for murder is typically: 1) You intended serious harm to a person 2) The person died. So yeah, "I wanted to start a big fire" != "Intent of serious harm". Negligent sure, but that's not enough for Murder.
However many US states have a "felony murder rule" which as I understand it says if you did something that resulted in death, and it was in the course of a felony then it can be tried as murder. Most of them rule out some felonies (felony assault + death => murder is a stupid way to apply such a rule and so is usually ruled out) and some only rule in a handful like rape and prison escapes, but felony arson + death => murder might play.
The distinction between murder and manslaughter is malice aforethought. For first degree murder, you must have intended the death of a particular person. For second degree murder, you need only have known that you could kill someone, and did it anyways. This specifically includes things done with extreme recklessness.
So to prove second degree murder you need to show 1) you intentionally did something, 2) you knew (or should have known) it could kill someone, and 3) someone died.
These can be proven for arson. You have to prove the intent to start the forest fire. Everyone knows (or should know) that forest fires can kill people. You have to prove that someone died from the fire.
That is why arson qualifies as second degree murder. Just like, say, failing to maintain the brakes on a fleet of trucks. (True story. My nephew was the unlucky driver of such a truck whose brakes failed...)
The felony murder rule completely sidesteps this. For felony murder, all the prosecution needs to establish is 1) you committed a listed felony (arson is included) and 2) someone died because of your actions.
The textbook example is running someone over while fleeing the scene of a robbery. You didn't have mens rea for murder, the crime you intended to commit was robbery. But you chose to commit a felony, and someone did die because of it. Not only that, it's potentially capital murder, because it was for financial gain (Newsom put a moratorium on felony murder death sentences, so that's not a thing at the moment).
Many crimes violate the law in multiple ways. Arson can be charged as both a felony murder and a second degree murder.
It is easier to prove the felony murder. Was it on the list of felonies? To prove the second degree murder, you have to demonstrate "extreme recklessness". Prosecutors will often pile up multiple charges like this. To give the jury as many options as possible to convict.
I'm not a lawyer. But in this case the fact that he called emergency services could be evidence against extreme recklessness, and therefore second degree murder. But felony murder still fits.
More trivia: OpenFirmware is descended from Sun Microsystems' firmware, OpenBoot. Add-on cards could contain Forth code that would initialize their own hardware and provide a device driver that could be used at boot time (e.g., a network card could initialize itself and provide commands to download and boot an OS off the network).
The article is about college-level education, which is primarily about ranking students in order of who should get the best entry-level jobs. If technology is disrupting the effectiveness of that ordering function, then something needs to change.
There is evidence that the ranking of students in order of who should get the best entry-level jobs is done mainly by the college admissions process which bins students into more or less selective colleges.
Indeed, but a constructive reduction to practice means that the inventor still has to describe how it can be done. And if it's impossible, then it's not a reduction to practice, just an invalid patent.
That's a good reason to sell an extra home when you need/want cash, not to rent where you live. Even if you don't have children to inherit, it's nice to own a home, but I guess it depends on ones lifestyle.
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