I thought the financial problems were due to folks being idiots with their money, not being risky with it. I think there's a difference between 'Let's see how this turns out' and 'All aboard the bubble!'
If we're lucky. If they can make an affordable, practical, electric car, more power to them, and if they really sell 10,000 next year, I guess we'll find out.
More so than killing them. By your logic, genocide in the third world is a good thing. I for one think it is a bad thing when innocent people are killed, regardless of the justification (and don't kid yourself, that's all it is), but I guess we can't all be progressives.
You cannot even support something like Plan B without being labeled a "murderer" or "baby killer".
If you steal, don't be surprised if you're labeled a thief. If you support the right to steal, don't be surprised if you also receive a label. That's just telling it like it is.
I do not recognize a fetus so deserving of rights that the rights and freedoms of free women should be taken away. The latter are more important than the former, by far.
We give rights based on humanity, not various qualities, and certainly not when those qualities are temporary. We tried basing rights on qualities once or twice, wasn't pretty. Well, let me put that another way. It wasn't pretty for moral people and the people on the forced end of it. It worked out fairly well for the people who were convenienced by it (and that's all it was, convenience) . Abortion works the same way. You're taking a demographic, and because it conveniences people with more power than said demographic, forcing something on them. In this case death, which is, by definition, murder (hence the euphemism 'abortion').
And yes, I do recognize that sometimes medical complication arise that require someone to choose between the mother dying and the baby + mother dying, and that in those instances a choice must be made, and I don't blame people for their decisions given those circumstances. However, that is a minority of cases, so that common pro-choice retort is a just another strawman.
I don't see how less people is a bad thing when our planet is so overpopulated already that we're seriously looking at running out of important resources within the next decade.
Yes, wouldn't it be nice if we had some sort of skill that would enable humanity to constantly expand, evolve, and overcome limitations? If such a thing existed, I would call it science, and it would probably be very useful, especially when the doom-sayers and scare-mongers came out of the woodwork.
I, personally, am proud to be pro-abortion. Babies may be cute, but some day they'll grow up.
If you really believed that, you wouldn't be posting here. Oh, you believe it for other people? What's that called again? Oh right, hypocrisy. Nice.
What pisses me off is that for every person you list, there's another group, like roadbuilders, teachers, or researchers, who could make so much more of the money being thrown at the drug war.
First off, it probably is not necessary to legalize brain meltingly hard drugs, just stuff like marijuana that is, contrary to popular belief, pretty much harmless.
Second off, yes, we should give help to the 'potted plant' people. Civilization is not about letting people die because they die something dumb to themselves, and if they keep doing it, they should simply be restrained for their own good.
It would be kind of funny to watch the people in the anti-drug states try to keep it out if there were states with legal drugs. We can't even keep it out of the country, what hope will a state have? Then again, governments shouldn't be telling law abiding citizens what they can and can not smoke anyway.
I think the problem is that it isn't about morality at this point, it's just a weird social phenomenon. A lot of people hear someone talking about legalizing it, and they just say *GASP* marijuana! There's such a large social stigma on it at this point, lots of people don't think about the subject logically, so if someone tries to legalize it, they meet resistance without reason from so many people that most career politicians don't want to be bothered.
Why not meet deliberate failure to vaccinate a child with, say, a charge of child endangerment?
The conspiracy nuts would really come out of the woodwork then. They'd say the government is in bed with big pharma to sell useless and/or harmful drugs ect. and force them on the poor children who would be perfectly healthy without any advanced medical science. Homeopathic/holistic 'medicine' sales would rise, scientist would be largely ignored.
Of course, that still doesn't mean you don't have a very good point, just that a shitload of people would be very much so against it and would make such a law very hard to pass.
I wouldn't necessarily say this is problemless. I've gotten some of my favorite games form a place that buys goods with damaged boxes or whatever. If this is stuff comes prepackaged with the games, it's going to be kinda annoying when customer support tells me I shouldn't have stolen the game I just bought.
I'd like to know when internet piracy and shoplifting became the same thing. It's not like someone swipes a legit copy of the shelves somewhere everytime you download a game.
Do programmers also loose karma for being fast and lose with their spelling?
/irony
They can be docked karma that way, but when they're not sure about something, they can cover their asses and submit anonymously. That way, if something totally whooshes over their heads, they're in the clear. They can later correct their own dumbass mistakes unanonymously and whore karma instead of losing it. What a perfect system!
I do agree there. As the other person who replied to this said, harassment charges (followed by a new law to explicitly outlaw this brand of harassment) would have been a better way to handle it than getting her on something computer related.
I don't entirely disagree, but this was more than a calling someone a name. This was a long and thought out harassment on a minor that resulted in the minor's death. Bit of a difference.
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I thought the financial problems were due to folks being idiots with their money, not being risky with it. I think there's a difference between 'Let's see how this turns out' and 'All aboard the bubble!'
This should be good, lol.
If we're lucky. If they can make an affordable, practical, electric car, more power to them, and if they really sell 10,000 next year, I guess we'll find out.
Why is this filtering into my regular slashdot now?
The second case of someone using the internet while asleep?
(well unless perhaps you consider quantum mechanics - I'd call that stuff wacky)
-Hey Electron, what are you doing? You'd better not be eating my Christmas cookies!
-Nope, I'm over here!
-Hey, my cookies are gone! Damn it Heisenberg, isn't there any way to compensate?
-Judging by the size of your microscope, I'd say someone's compensating!
Yep, the Subatomic Sitcom practically writes itself.
Could be worse. You could make it all they way to the bottom and then die.
Now I can learn all the secrets of a highly successful political campaign!
That's easy.
1) Tell people how great things are going to be if you're elected.
2) Keep telling people how great things are going to be if you're elected.
3) Tell them how great things are going to be some more.
4) ???
5) Profit!
More so than killing them. By your logic, genocide in the third world is a good thing. I for one think it is a bad thing when innocent people are killed, regardless of the justification (and don't kid yourself, that's all it is), but I guess we can't all be progressives.
You cannot even support something like Plan B without being labeled a "murderer" or "baby killer".
If you steal, don't be surprised if you're labeled a thief. If you support the right to steal, don't be surprised if you also receive a label. That's just telling it like it is.
I do not recognize a fetus so deserving of rights that the rights and freedoms of free women should be taken away. The latter are more important than the former, by far.
We give rights based on humanity, not various qualities, and certainly not when those qualities are temporary. We tried basing rights on qualities once or twice, wasn't pretty. Well, let me put that another way. It wasn't pretty for moral people and the people on the forced end of it. It worked out fairly well for the people who were convenienced by it (and that's all it was, convenience) . Abortion works the same way. You're taking a demographic, and because it conveniences people with more power than said demographic, forcing something on them. In this case death, which is, by definition, murder (hence the euphemism 'abortion').
And yes, I do recognize that sometimes medical complication arise that require someone to choose between the mother dying and the baby + mother dying, and that in those instances a choice must be made, and I don't blame people for their decisions given those circumstances. However, that is a minority of cases, so that common pro-choice retort is a just another strawman.
I don't see how less people is a bad thing when our planet is so overpopulated already that we're seriously looking at running out of important resources within the next decade.
Yes, wouldn't it be nice if we had some sort of skill that would enable humanity to constantly expand, evolve, and overcome limitations? If such a thing existed, I would call it science, and it would probably be very useful, especially when the doom-sayers and scare-mongers came out of the woodwork.
I, personally, am proud to be pro-abortion. Babies may be cute, but some day they'll grow up.
If you really believed that, you wouldn't be posting here. Oh, you believe it for other people? What's that called again? Oh right, hypocrisy. Nice.
I guess some people prefer euphemisms to morality. Whatever, I suppose civilized behavior ain't for everyone.
What pisses me off is that for every person you list, there's another group, like roadbuilders, teachers, or researchers, who could make so much more of the money being thrown at the drug war.
First off, it probably is not necessary to legalize brain meltingly hard drugs, just stuff like marijuana that is, contrary to popular belief, pretty much harmless.
Second off, yes, we should give help to the 'potted plant' people. Civilization is not about letting people die because they die something dumb to themselves, and if they keep doing it, they should simply be restrained for their own good.
It would be kind of funny to watch the people in the anti-drug states try to keep it out if there were states with legal drugs. We can't even keep it out of the country, what hope will a state have? Then again, governments shouldn't be telling law abiding citizens what they can and can not smoke anyway.
I think the problem is that it isn't about morality at this point, it's just a weird social phenomenon. A lot of people hear someone talking about legalizing it, and they just say *GASP* marijuana! There's such a large social stigma on it at this point, lots of people don't think about the subject logically, so if someone tries to legalize it, they meet resistance without reason from so many people that most career politicians don't want to be bothered.
Why not meet deliberate failure to vaccinate a child with, say, a charge of child endangerment?
The conspiracy nuts would really come out of the woodwork then. They'd say the government is in bed with big pharma to sell useless and/or harmful drugs ect. and force them on the poor children who would be perfectly healthy without any advanced medical science. Homeopathic/holistic 'medicine' sales would rise, scientist would be largely ignored.
Of course, that still doesn't mean you don't have a very good point, just that a shitload of people would be very much so against it and would make such a law very hard to pass.
The Bible does describe racists incidents yet it itself is not racist.
Unfortunately, most people don't realize that depict != condone
Racism is a lot like the Bible code: if you look hard enough, you can find it anywhere.
I don't pay taxes for the school I already went to. My parents paid that.
Must be nice to just shirk off financial responsibility like that.
Public school sucks.
But it is better than an entirely private based one (see caste system).
Yeah, that's so much worse than an illiterate, uneducated, barely industrialized, probably starving society. Where do I sign up?
Japanese cars seem to go for this. The most blatant example is the Miata.
And then there are badass cars like this. To misquote Firefly, 'A man drives down the street in that, people know he's not afraid of anything.'
I wouldn't necessarily say this is problemless. I've gotten some of my favorite games form a place that buys goods with damaged boxes or whatever. If this is stuff comes prepackaged with the games, it's going to be kinda annoying when customer support tells me I shouldn't have stolen the game I just bought.
I'd like to know when internet piracy and shoplifting became the same thing. It's not like someone swipes a legit copy of the shelves somewhere everytime you download a game.
Do programmers also loose karma for being fast and lose with their spelling?
/irony
They can be docked karma that way, but when they're not sure about something, they can cover their asses and submit anonymously. That way, if something totally whooshes over their heads, they're in the clear. They can later correct their own dumbass mistakes unanonymously and whore karma instead of losing it. What a perfect system!
I do agree there. As the other person who replied to this said, harassment charges (followed by a new law to explicitly outlaw this brand of harassment) would have been a better way to handle it than getting her on something computer related.
I don't entirely disagree, but this was more than a calling someone a name. This was a long and thought out harassment on a minor that resulted in the minor's death. Bit of a difference.