Every able-bodied male citizen of Switzerland is conscripted into the military at age 20 for a tour of mandatory duty (women may also volunteer), and soldiers are required to keep their weapons nearby even if they're at home. This is a country where most citizens have ready access to real militarily useful guns, and the training to use them. And they're worried about Doom?
Maybe near-universal access to high-powered firearms is one of the reasons for their worry?
I am not making a judgement call, just that, based on that argument, you could see it either way.
Back in the days when the 'net was a IE-only turf, things were rather ugly, and somewhat hopeless. Then came Mozilla, and slowly things started to change. But really slowly, with some minor accelerations here and there: Chrome kicked up some dust when it appeared, so did the EU's mandate to have multiple browser options in Win7, but the biggest acceleration in removing IE's dominance will come, apparently, from Microsoft itself: the large majority of people still use XP, and there is no sign they're giving up on their trusty OS just yet. Forcing them to upgrade ("If you want IE9, you must get Win7") is a double-edged sword (but then, what isn't?) will certainly force some users to drop IE and get Firefox, Opera or Chrome.
Nobody in power in the world actually cares at all, they just use it to rile up their own people against foreign governments. When push comes to shove stuff will get done and "human rights" will not get in the way.
Repeat that to yourself thousands of times - after a while, even you will believe it. But you know, just because you don't see righteous people and deeds that go beyond pure self-interest, it doesn't mean that they don't exist, and that others can't see it, too.
Go selling your distopian views of humankind to someone else.
Mao launched the Great Leap Forward, in which an estimated 20 million people had died from widespread famine. But Mao and the other lying bastards were saying that the deaths were the result of natural disasters Then of course there were the persecutions of the Cultural Revolution, also Mao and his cronys' brainfart. There 750.000 to 1.500.000 people were killed. The massive destruction of Chinese cultural heritage is just the cherry on top of the cake.
"Unloaded" guns kill people all the time. Unload the gun and keep it out of the reach of toddlers, even if you don't have toddlers living with you. And remember that "the reach of toddlers" is pretty pervasive, so if there is a non-zero probability that a toddler will be in your home, buy a gun safe. If you can't afford so much as a $200, portable, single-pistol safe to keep your guns in, then stop wasting money on guns until you can. (In this case, it sounds like the family had a Nintendo Wii, which costs more than the safe that would have prevented the kid from ever touching the gun, regardless of its having been loaded.)
I agree with you, but didn't you detect a tinge of sarcasm in my post?
Wait a second there: so now law is not the same for everyone? When did we start making exceptions? Especially for such crimes as homicide (from neglect or otherwise)? The life of that toddler is as valuable as mine or yours. Just because it was her parent (or step-parent) that caused it, does not mean that the law should regard her case differently than any other homicide.
Were I a prosecutor, I would push for the jury to see that going through the trouble to find a toy (not regularly distributed commercially here) for your child identical to the loaded handgun that you "happened" to leave on the table one evening is more than suspicious.
Yeah. A stepfather wanting to get rid of his/her stepson or stepdaughter isn't exactly unheard of.
Blame is pointless? Exactly the opposite, this young life will be pointless only if nobody learns from it, only if noting is imporved as a consequence of it. I'd say the blame lays squarely on the person responsible with handling the gun. And it would be better to make a big deal out of the event, so that households where guns are kept (and children live) will pay extra attention to their operating procedures with said weapon.
I'm kinda bummed they got rid of city defection, because "my flavor" was that of cultural conquest.
No stack of doom: I am ambivalent on this one. Frankly, I never understood the huge uproar against the stack. If a player has the industrial muscle to build one, what whine is that of yours? Build your own stack of doom to counter it, or shut up and lose.
Hexes: I love that, and was eagerly awaiting for this feature to be implemented.
No religion: it's OK, I was never too fond of the way it was implemented, anyway. I understand why it was implemented the way it was, and why it was dropped - it's the good-ole political correctness at work. But, it's all fine, peace brother...
I just hope there still will be a "peaceful mode"-option to play the game, like there was for Civ IV.
Well, let us take where you are for example. Sure we here on/. just like IRL have to deal with lamers, and trolls, and lamers that think they are trolls (Note: just saying nigger or Jew is NOT a troll, except maybe on Halo) but we can also have some pretty heavy discussions on a wide range of topics. I have personally had discussions go 10 to 12 posts deep as I debated the advantages or disadvantages of something like OSes or DRM. To have a debate go on that long both you and the one you are debating have to be making decent points worthy of debate, or else you wouldn't feel the need to respond.
Sun's UltraSPARC T1 had 8 cores and a total of 32 concurrent threads, since 4 years ago. Best of all, that CPU is very low-power. Even better, it's completely open-source. You can download everything: ISA specification Verilog RTL source code of the design Verification environment, diagnostics tests and simulation images
This very interesting story has jack-all to do with YRO.
But anyhow, there were two perpetrators, who tried to flee with a car with darkened windows. A black BMW, IIRC. When the police caught them, the small(er) guy was trying to protect his sumo-wwrestling friend, saying that he didn't know this was a crime, that he has been conned by the little guy into thinking this was just an attempt at getting the little guy's money back - but the police didn't buy it and arrested both of them.
Well, cut me some slack: I'm at home with a flu, and so is the wife and our 4 month-old baby boy. It's easy to miss some tiny detail from this end of the business.
Anyhow, this thread keeps on giving and is awesome, even if I'm the butt of the joke.
On the off-chance you're not just pulling our legs: which rover did you control/which team did you belong to? And why the past tense? Both programs have received a grant for continuation, no?
(due to the huge communication lag between Mars and Earth, rovers are controlled by giving a set of commands, and then checking the result the next day (or next Sol, to be exact))
That line should probably read "Not Everyone can be a Manager or a Lawyer or an Accountant.
Correct. The US has exported a lot of engineering jobs to China as well. A lot of technology is now lost to the US, and rebuilding the plants and the technology will take a lot more time than it took for the corporate psychopaths to enrich themselves while destroying the technological and industrial capacity of the US (and Europe).
What the OP had in mind (I assume) is that lawyers often defend people whom they know to be guilty to the bone, just for the buck. That's where this joke comes comes from: "How do you tell when a lawyer is lying? His lips are moving.".
So the OP wasn't saying that lawyers shouldn't defend people accused of murder, just those that are clearly (known to the lawyer himself) guilty.
I, for one, think his idea warrants some attention, at least.
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Every able-bodied male citizen of Switzerland is conscripted into the military at age 20 for a tour of mandatory duty (women may also volunteer), and soldiers are required to keep their weapons nearby even if they're at home. This is a country where most citizens have ready access to real militarily useful guns, and the training to use them. And they're worried about Doom?
Maybe near-universal access to high-powered firearms is one of the reasons for their worry?
I am not making a judgement call, just that, based on that argument, you could see it either way.
Back in the days when the 'net was a IE-only turf, things were rather ugly, and somewhat hopeless. Then came Mozilla, and slowly things started to change. But really slowly, with some minor accelerations here and there: Chrome kicked up some dust when it appeared, so did the EU's mandate to have multiple browser options in Win7, but the biggest acceleration in removing IE's dominance will come, apparently, from Microsoft itself: the large majority of people still use XP, and there is no sign they're giving up on their trusty OS just yet. Forcing them to upgrade ("If you want IE9, you must get Win7") is a double-edged sword (but then, what isn't?) will certainly force some users to drop IE and get Firefox, Opera or Chrome.
It outputs 42. It helps to read TFA sometimes.
Get a man that haven't had sex in 6 years and give him a girlfriend and analize what happens.
The word you were looking for is analyze (US spelling of analyse). Analize has a very different meaning, but all the more on-topic, I'd say.
iLitigiousBastards
Nobody in power in the world actually cares at all, they just use it to rile up their own people against foreign governments. When push comes to shove stuff will get done and "human rights" will not get in the way.
Repeat that to yourself thousands of times - after a while, even you will believe it. But you know, just because you don't see righteous people and deeds that go beyond pure self-interest, it doesn't mean that they don't exist, and that others can't see it, too.
Go selling your distopian views of humankind to someone else.
did mao kill more than 10 million chinese ?
Mao launched the Great Leap Forward, in which an estimated 20 million people had died from widespread famine. But Mao and the other lying bastards were saying that the deaths were the result of natural disasters
Then of course there were the persecutions of the Cultural Revolution, also Mao and his cronys' brainfart. There 750.000 to 1.500.000 people were killed. The massive destruction of Chinese cultural heritage is just the cherry on top of the cake.
"Unloaded" guns kill people all the time. Unload the gun and keep it out of the reach of toddlers, even if you don't have toddlers living with you. And remember that "the reach of toddlers" is pretty pervasive, so if there is a non-zero probability that a toddler will be in your home, buy a gun safe. If you can't afford so much as a $200, portable, single-pistol safe to keep your guns in, then stop wasting money on guns until you can. (In this case, it sounds like the family had a Nintendo Wii, which costs more than the safe that would have prevented the kid from ever touching the gun, regardless of its having been loaded.)
I agree with you, but didn't you detect a tinge of sarcasm in my post?
Wait a second there: so now law is not the same for everyone? When did we start making exceptions? Especially for such crimes as homicide (from neglect or otherwise)? The life of that toddler is as valuable as mine or yours. Just because it was her parent (or step-parent) that caused it, does not mean that the law should regard her case differently than any other homicide.
There is a reason why Justitia, the patron and symbol of justice, is blindfolded
Were I a prosecutor, I would push for the jury to see that going through the trouble to find a toy (not regularly distributed commercially here) for your child identical to the loaded handgun that you "happened" to leave on the table one evening is more than suspicious.
Yeah. A stepfather wanting to get rid of his/her stepson or stepdaughter isn't exactly unheard of.
Blame is pointless? Exactly the opposite, this young life will be pointless only if nobody learns from it, only if noting is imporved as a consequence of it.
I'd say the blame lays squarely on the person responsible with handling the gun. And it would be better to make a big deal out of the event, so that households where guns are kept (and children live) will pay extra attention to their operating procedures with said weapon.
Don't leave guns in the reach of toddlers, especially if you have a toddler living with you. And if you do, remove the ammo from it.
I'm excited about the removal of "stacks of doom" for the increase in strategy with battles,
I think you confuse strategy with tactics.
I'm kinda bummed they got rid of city defection, because "my flavor" was that of cultural conquest.
No stack of doom: I am ambivalent on this one. Frankly, I never understood the huge uproar against the stack. If a player has the industrial muscle to build one, what whine is that of yours? Build your own stack of doom to counter it, or shut up and lose.
Hexes: I love that, and was eagerly awaiting for this feature to be implemented.
No religion: it's OK, I was never too fond of the way it was implemented, anyway. I understand why it was implemented the way it was, and why it was dropped - it's the good-ole political correctness at work. But, it's all fine, peace brother...
I just hope there still will be a "peaceful mode"-option to play the game, like there was for Civ IV.
Well, let us take where you are for example. Sure we here on /. just like IRL have to deal with lamers, and trolls, and lamers that think they are trolls (Note: just saying nigger or Jew is NOT a troll, except maybe on Halo) but we can also have some pretty heavy discussions on a wide range of topics. I have personally had discussions go 10 to 12 posts deep as I debated the advantages or disadvantages of something like OSes or DRM. To have a debate go on that long both you and the one you are debating have to be making decent points worthy of debate, or else you wouldn't feel the need to respond.
Not having a life is likely a prerequisite, too.
Sun's UltraSPARC T1 had 8 cores and a total of 32 concurrent threads, since 4 years ago. Best of all, that CPU is very low-power. Even better, it's completely open-source. You can download everything:
ISA specification
Verilog RTL source code of the design
Verification environment, diagnostics tests and simulation images
This very interesting story has jack-all to do with YRO.
But anyhow, there were two perpetrators, who tried to flee with a car with darkened windows. A black BMW, IIRC. When the police caught them, the small(er) guy was trying to protect his sumo-wwrestling friend, saying that he didn't know this was a crime, that he has been conned by the little guy into thinking this was just an attempt at getting the little guy's money back - but the police didn't buy it and arrested both of them.
Maybe he just didn't see it.
He is, after all...
The blind biker.
Well, cut me some slack: I'm at home with a flu, and so is the wife and our 4 month-old baby boy. It's easy to miss some tiny detail from this end of the business.
Anyhow, this thread keeps on giving and is awesome, even if I'm the butt of the joke.
I know, I know, I tried to reply with a corrected comment immediately after, but Slashdot wouldn't let me.
Anyhow... well played JokeExplainerXplainer.
On the off-chance you're not just pulling our legs: which rover did you control/which team did you belong to? And why the past tense? Both programs have received a grant for continuation, no?
"OK guys, where the F*** are we now?"
(due to the huge communication lag between Mars and Earth, rovers are controlled by giving a set of commands, and then checking the result the next day (or next Sol, to be exact))
Embarrassing.
That link is right smack in the submission!
This must be the most redundant post in Slashdot history, and yet it got modded up.
That line should probably read "Not Everyone can be a Manager or a Lawyer or an Accountant.
Correct. The US has exported a lot of engineering jobs to China as well. A lot of technology is now lost to the US, and rebuilding the plants and the technology will take a lot more time than it took for the corporate psychopaths to enrich themselves while destroying the technological and industrial capacity of the US (and Europe).
What the OP had in mind (I assume) is that lawyers often defend people whom they know to be guilty to the bone, just for the buck. That's where this joke comes comes from: "How do you tell when a lawyer is lying? His lips are moving.".
So the OP wasn't saying that lawyers shouldn't defend people accused of murder, just those that are clearly (known to the lawyer himself) guilty.
I, for one, think his idea warrants some attention, at least.