Guidelines range was not truly mandatory. So even under the mandatory guidelines which for sixth amendment purposes were treated as if they established elements of the offense, for the purposes that were looking at here, they are not mandatory in the same way. So booker brought about a procedural change. What is the substantive difference to pardon the use of the word between your formulation and petitioners formulation that says this is substantive because it did away with mandatory life imprisonment . Youre articulating it slightly different. Tell me what you see as the difference and why your articulation. Justice sotomayor. I dont think there is substantive day light between. Petitioners use and ours. It meant in treating it as a category. I think sums up the reality of what is happening. We broke it out into its Component Parts because i think it facilitates the analysis of it to understand that miller does have a procedural component. Sentencing courts must now consider the mitig
That they currently exist in, were just going to have weaker product delivered later. I think we need to have some reform as the next round. And i think theres enormous potential there, not just in the military departments but between the military departments and osd, within osd, and further out into the headquarters in the field. Well, i thank you for that. And you are uniquely situated now to play a key role. And i agree with you. Just flatout reductions is just the first step. You have to its a little bit like sequestration in that its a meat ax when we need a scalpel and so i would look forward to having you play a role there given your unique background. Finally, the source of great frustration this committee, all of us members, is this continued cost overruns on weapons systems. Weve made some reforms. Were putting the Service Chiefs more involved. You are aware. But it still seems to go on. And every time we really need something, we use that expedited process, which we used for
Thank you, guys. At this point, ill turn it over to q a from the audience. As you ask your question, a gentle reminder, please ask, if you have a panelist, please let us know who it is and please ask a question. Thank you. Okay, my question will be about database sets. My names peter gisele, i work in a hospital laboratory, im not a computer geek. As a military veteran, i was interested in a bill that was in the congress a long time ago. My frustration is that 99 of the people i contact i never get feedback from. What i want to create is a website, a viewer easily available database that has database sets in it of like the members of congress, people in the executive branch, but also governors and that. But also academic professors so that i could, over my retirement years, contact these people and try to get feedback, but at least document on this website that contact has been attempted and no response has been given. Database sets are very expensive and i just dont understand why the
Speak further on the relationship of false consciousness to consciousness. You alluded to that. I wonder if you could speak briefly on the qualifying word quasi when you corrected yourself from saying evolutionary processes in the brain to cause the evolutionary process is in the brain. There is a lovely book by Peter Godfrey smith, darwinian populations and Natural Selection. That is the title, where he introduces some elegant diagrams which let you see in addition to the pure cases of Natural Selection, the sort of parade cases of Natural Selection, there are lots of processes which are like Natural Selection in one or two or three features but are not classic cases. The development of the nervous system in the individual brain is very much a matter of generation, lots of extra neurons which compete and only some of them get to survive and populate the region and the rest are absorbed and lead to another generation. The very building of a brain is the clause i evolutionary process. O