That's right, why shouldn't we have a neat and practical new means of making transactions because some people are consumer whores? That's a bullcrap way of thinking, besides, it's no different than a credit card (which are already maxed out for these people anyways).
A new method of payment will not make a difference to those who can't control their spending.
By your line of thought we should also ban guns, I mean, Cheyney wouldn't have shot his friend in the ass if guns weren't available, right? Why don't we ban cigarettes? Heavy smokers kill themselves with those. Might as well ban the internet, I heard that some addicts ruin their lives because they spend too much time online.
This "we gotta protect everyone from everything" mentality has to end. I say let people make their own mistakes, provide help to those who want it and let nature run it's course.
I never said that waterboarding isn't torture, I never said that it was an "ok" thing to do either and I never mentioned "justice".
I'm just presenting the possible argument that the torture used was to gather information and not to punish the prisoners for their crimes. I believe that most were never tried, so theoretically they are innocent and cannot be punished so the torture was not "punishment" and therefore the bit of the Constitution stated by the parent does not apply.
Yes I'm playing with words, and no I'm not condoning this behavior, just fueling discussion.
The use of cruel and unusual punishment is EXPLICITLY FORBIDDEN by the Constitution.
Although this is true, one could argue that torture in this case is not a punishment at all but rather a means to gather intelligence, thus not EXPLICITLY FORBIDDEN. At Gitmo and the other places we don't know about, they don't torture the prisoners in order to punish them for their crimes, they torture them to extract information. Not a punishment, not forbidden by the Constitution.
I'm not saying that's right, I'm just pointing out that the part of the Constitution that you quoted might not apply in this case. Now if that old rag of yours says: "Thyne President shalt not torture peeps cuz that's uncool", then yeah, the prez shouldn't be allowed to do so.
Well, I have this rather thick black book which a lot of people seem to believe is 100% accurate that says we're all going to respawn at some point in the future. So perhaps the dumbass, oops sorry I meant to say kid, thought he could simply have a break from his folks for a little while.
Perhaps if they stopped pushing one hit wonder, talentless without a studio team, pop stars then we'd be more inclined to buy albums. The recording industry has saturated the market with craptastic artists with no staying power (American Idol, I'm looking at you).
Almost everything on mainstream radio these days are one hit wonders, where are the artists that worked hard to get where they are and have to work to stay there? Now the recording industry seems to hang out at beauty pageants and pick up whichever ditz sings for the "talent" portion of the competition.
Too many people got burned buying a 20$ cd for one decent tune.
Who needs anonymity? Instead of posting anonymously, let's all post as "A. Nonymous" or "John Smith" or "Darth Vader" or "I.P. Freely" and so on and so forth.
Completely remove "anonymity" from the internet tomorrow and it won't make a damn change, in fact it'll be worse because people will post as others instead.
Very good point, although for bombs you still have the chemical sniffer thingy.
Also, this new method will not prevent someone from carrying on board a hunting knife (for perfectly valid reasons) with absolutely no intentions of using it. But then while piss drunk that person could get mad, "snap" and kill his snoring passenger next to him.
Although true in the US and Canada, this does not apply to Europe (well, the cities that weren't bombed back to the stoneage and rebuilt from scratch anyways).
We (North America) were colonies built from the ground up, so engineers laid out the plans in a grid fashion because it was easier to manage. Actually, part of Quebec was laid out in some weirdo form which explains the odd shapes of the agricultural fields in the south east of the province, but most cities are grid-like.
In Europe, cities are hundreds, sometimes thousands of years old. They were built by squeezing buildings close together in order to provide safety from attackers. Most cities follow a ring pattern with a few streets interconnecting the rings. Makes it hard to find your bearings when few of the streets follow a North-South or East-West direction.
NASA paid $250M for this??? I'm pretty sure the piss filtering contraption Kevin Costner used in Waterworld could have be bought and adapter for far less!
NASA is wasted ressources on turning waste into ressources...
See, the trick was to create all of those universes 6000 years ago and then nudge science into thinking that because of all of those possibilities, at least one had to sustain life.
I clicked around those sites and there's plenty of copyright infringing material!!
Sure, the users try to hide their illegal activies by calling the offending pictures "vacation photos" and "my daughter's birthday party" but I saw right through they're little scheme! They're sneaky, they focus on an object or person but you can clearly see the vehicle in the background!
Ha ha! You'll have to try harder next time, you can't fool the copyright police that easily!
Before flipping out on whether or not French courts have jurisdiction, I'd ask whether or not this even makes sense in the first place.
Why aren't they suing car companies? People use their products to kill, hurt and maim frequently.
Why aren't they suing weapon manufacturers? People use their products to kill, hurt and maim frequently.
Oh, that's right... nobody important is losing money, there's the state and victim who have to pay healthcare costs and the family who have to pay for a funeral but they might have insurance for this.
Hmmm... I'm confused. I have one of those that I use to scan DVDs into my library so that I can print out a list of eveything I have and browse my collection.
I bought the thing on ebay for 5$ not knowing what it was (I just wanted a cheap barcode scanner). Since the thing worked out of the bag, can I assume that mine was "declawed" beforehand?
Nah, this isn't pointless. I can see this being extremely useful for "homeland security".
Step 1: Park blacked out van near terrorism suspect's house. Step 2: Take multiple pictures of suspect entering and leaving. Step 3: Duplicate keys Step 4: Use keys to enter house and rifle through stuff looking for "proof".... Step x: Profit!
Minimum wage?!?! HAHAHA! In what third World country do you live in? These underachievers are unionized AND work for the government, they probably make more than you do:P
Go tell your grandmother that she's using version 3.455.125.003.323.23 of her knitting software, will she care? No.
Ask Joe Schmo what a build number is... he won't know or even care.
Ask anyone, a computer engineer, a marketing shrew, a programmer or a VP which version of Microsoft Office Word they're using and they'll all answer 2007 or 2003 or XP or 97, etc... not 11.8202.8202.
You can give whatever version number you want, when someone comes across software that's bugged to hell they only check the version number to make sure they have the latest version installed, they don't check to see if it's a big number.
Not that useless, I'm sure that quite a few plastic surgeons will enjoy showing their patients what they *could* look like after surgery. It'll definately convince a bunch of people to go under the knife. Whether or not that's a good thing is another debate.
Although I think what the IOC is doing is dumb, I think a lot of people seem to misunderstand what it means. You're not going to get sued for singing the anthem or saying the word "winter" or the number 2010; you will get sued if you make t-shirts with those words on it and try to sell them, i.e. if you profit in some way by using those trademarked words. Just like you won't be sued for saying "Nike" but will be sued if you start making and selling your own "Nike" shoes.
One thing I totally disagree with is the IOC suing companies that existed even before there was going to be Olympics in Vancouver just because they have those words in their name. That's wrong. Hell, what's preventing me from trademarking the word "Store" and suing whoever uses that in their business name?
Because you are not Joe Sixpack, the real Joe Sixpacks of the World have no idea what an IP address is, never heard of NAT and don't have a router unless they want to go wireless, hence everything is perpetually connected to the net.
Slashdot Mirror
Research shows that multiple, repeated blows to the head cause brain damage.
In other breaking news, jabbing a railroad spike through your left testicle hurts. More at 11.
That's right, why shouldn't we have a neat and practical new means of making transactions because some people are consumer whores? That's a bullcrap way of thinking, besides, it's no different than a credit card (which are already maxed out for these people anyways).
A new method of payment will not make a difference to those who can't control their spending.
By your line of thought we should also ban guns, I mean, Cheyney wouldn't have shot his friend in the ass if guns weren't available, right? Why don't we ban cigarettes? Heavy smokers kill themselves with those. Might as well ban the internet, I heard that some addicts ruin their lives because they spend too much time online.
This "we gotta protect everyone from everything" mentality has to end. I say let people make their own mistakes, provide help to those who want it and let nature run it's course.
I never said that waterboarding isn't torture, I never said that it was an "ok" thing to do either and I never mentioned "justice".
I'm just presenting the possible argument that the torture used was to gather information and not to punish the prisoners for their crimes. I believe that most were never tried, so theoretically they are innocent and cannot be punished so the torture was not "punishment" and therefore the bit of the Constitution stated by the parent does not apply.
Yes I'm playing with words, and no I'm not condoning this behavior, just fueling discussion.
The use of cruel and unusual punishment is EXPLICITLY FORBIDDEN by the Constitution.
Although this is true, one could argue that torture in this case is not a punishment at all but rather a means to gather intelligence, thus not EXPLICITLY FORBIDDEN. At Gitmo and the other places we don't know about, they don't torture the prisoners in order to punish them for their crimes, they torture them to extract information. Not a punishment, not forbidden by the Constitution.
I'm not saying that's right, I'm just pointing out that the part of the Constitution that you quoted might not apply in this case. Now if that old rag of yours says: "Thyne President shalt not torture peeps cuz that's uncool", then yeah, the prez shouldn't be allowed to do so.
Well, I have this rather thick black book which a lot of people seem to believe is 100% accurate that says we're all going to respawn at some point in the future. So perhaps the dumbass, oops sorry I meant to say kid, thought he could simply have a break from his folks for a little while.
Perhaps if they stopped pushing one hit wonder, talentless without a studio team, pop stars then we'd be more inclined to buy albums. The recording industry has saturated the market with craptastic artists with no staying power (American Idol, I'm looking at you).
Almost everything on mainstream radio these days are one hit wonders, where are the artists that worked hard to get where they are and have to work to stay there? Now the recording industry seems to hang out at beauty pageants and pick up whichever ditz sings for the "talent" portion of the competition.
Too many people got burned buying a 20$ cd for one decent tune.
Who needs anonymity? Instead of posting anonymously, let's all post as "A. Nonymous" or "John Smith" or "Darth Vader" or "I.P. Freely" and so on and so forth.
Completely remove "anonymity" from the internet tomorrow and it won't make a damn change, in fact it'll be worse because people will post as others instead.
Very good point, although for bombs you still have the chemical sniffer thingy.
Also, this new method will not prevent someone from carrying on board a hunting knife (for perfectly valid reasons) with absolutely no intentions of using it. But then while piss drunk that person could get mad, "snap" and kill his snoring passenger next to him.
No fence? So what's to prevent the young wipper-snappers from other universes from going on our universe's lawn?
Now, if I were I creationist I'd say that God is sitting up front in a rocking chair with a shotgun.
Although true in the US and Canada, this does not apply to Europe (well, the cities that weren't bombed back to the stoneage and rebuilt from scratch anyways).
We (North America) were colonies built from the ground up, so engineers laid out the plans in a grid fashion because it was easier to manage. Actually, part of Quebec was laid out in some weirdo form which explains the odd shapes of the agricultural fields in the south east of the province, but most cities are grid-like.
In Europe, cities are hundreds, sometimes thousands of years old. They were built by squeezing buildings close together in order to provide safety from attackers. Most cities follow a ring pattern with a few streets interconnecting the rings. Makes it hard to find your bearings when few of the streets follow a North-South or East-West direction.
NASA paid $250M for this??? I'm pretty sure the piss filtering contraption Kevin Costner used in Waterworld could have be bought and adapter for far less!
NASA is wasted ressources on turning waste into ressources...
And who created that multiverse, hmmm?
See, the trick was to create all of those universes 6000 years ago and then nudge science into thinking that because of all of those possibilities, at least one had to sustain life.
I say that God is Kaiser Söse.
I clicked around those sites and there's plenty of copyright infringing material!!
Sure, the users try to hide their illegal activies by calling the offending pictures "vacation photos" and "my daughter's birthday party" but I saw right through they're little scheme! They're sneaky, they focus on an object or person but you can clearly see the vehicle in the background!
Ha ha! You'll have to try harder next time, you can't fool the copyright police that easily!
Before flipping out on whether or not French courts have jurisdiction, I'd ask whether or not this even makes sense in the first place.
Why aren't they suing car companies? People use their products to kill, hurt and maim frequently.
Why aren't they suing weapon manufacturers? People use their products to kill, hurt and maim frequently.
Oh, that's right... nobody important is losing money, there's the state and victim who have to pay healthcare costs and the family who have to pay for a funeral but they might have insurance for this.
Actually, it should be Law & Order CPU
Bloody hell, do people actually READ the post before commenting?
Hmmm... you must be new here.
Hmmm... I'm confused. I have one of those that I use to scan DVDs into my library so that I can print out a list of eveything I have and browse my collection.
I bought the thing on ebay for 5$ not knowing what it was (I just wanted a cheap barcode scanner). Since the thing worked out of the bag, can I assume that mine was "declawed" beforehand?
Nah, this isn't pointless. I can see this being extremely useful for "homeland security".
Step 1: Park blacked out van near terrorism suspect's house. ...
Step 2: Take multiple pictures of suspect entering and leaving.
Step 3: Duplicate keys
Step 4: Use keys to enter house and rifle through stuff looking for "proof".
Step x: Profit!
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/14/1341226
This came out last May guys...
Minimum wage?!?! HAHAHA! In what third World country do you live in? These underachievers are unionized AND work for the government, they probably make more than you do :P
Go tell your grandmother that she's using version 3.455.125.003.323.23 of her knitting software, will she care? No.
Ask Joe Schmo what a build number is... he won't know or even care.
Ask anyone, a computer engineer, a marketing shrew, a programmer or a VP which version of Microsoft Office Word they're using and they'll all answer 2007 or 2003 or XP or 97, etc... not 11.8202.8202.
You can give whatever version number you want, when someone comes across software that's bugged to hell they only check the version number to make sure they have the latest version installed, they don't check to see if it's a big number.
Actually, the problem I see is that most poepel cant seem to tyep porperly so the raed back is just going to suk!!
Not that useless, I'm sure that quite a few plastic surgeons will enjoy showing their patients what they *could* look like after surgery. It'll definately convince a bunch of people to go under the knife. Whether or not that's a good thing is another debate.
Although I think what the IOC is doing is dumb, I think a lot of people seem to misunderstand what it means. You're not going to get sued for singing the anthem or saying the word "winter" or the number 2010; you will get sued if you make t-shirts with those words on it and try to sell them, i.e. if you profit in some way by using those trademarked words. Just like you won't be sued for saying "Nike" but will be sued if you start making and selling your own "Nike" shoes.
One thing I totally disagree with is the IOC suing companies that existed even before there was going to be Olympics in Vancouver just because they have those words in their name. That's wrong. Hell, what's preventing me from trademarking the word "Store" and suing whoever uses that in their business name?
Because you are not Joe Sixpack, the real Joe Sixpacks of the World have no idea what an IP address is, never heard of NAT and don't have a router unless they want to go wireless, hence everything is perpetually connected to the net.