My resolutions are to find the woman of my dreams, win three Nobel Prizes (I don't much care which one, but medicine would be fave) and save the world twice.
Son of the Righteous Fool
Seek for the Sword that was Broken In Imladris it dwells There shall be counsels taken Stronger than Morgul Spells
My resolutions are to find the woman of my dreams, win three Nobel Prizes (I don't much care which one, but medicine would be fave) and save the world twice. Son of the Righteous Fool Seek for the Sword that was Broken In Imladris it dwells There shall be counsels taken Stronger than Morgul Spells
They're all part of my don'ts - currently I don't use the first, listen to the second or watch the third. Grin Time was, time is, but time will be no more.
It seems to me that this is actually part of a wider trend, which is that larger countries, (in terms of their population size rather than their geographical area, although the latter can also be significant) tend of necessity to be less liberal than smaller but equally advanced ones. This tendency has been born out through history, by for example the rigid rules imposed by the Roman, British, and many other empires. Their smaller neighbours usually tended to enjoy greater freedoms. The trend I am describing concerns me primarily because the world's population is still on the increase, and so the world's nations are likely to become more rigid to save their systems from freedoms which though permissible in a smaller structure could fragment a larger one.
Capital Punishment is, to my mind, an ineffective policy that causes needless suffering. This is merely a case of it being used for an exceptionally petty crime. The principle, however, holds true whatever the offence. The flaws with capital punishment are basically as follows: Vital evidence may not come to light until after the individual has been executed, therefore making the jurisdiction guilty of killing innocent people. Even with the US's hugely complex and drawn out appeals system, this has been shown to occur over there with a significant frequency, and most other countries take less time and effort over it. Capital Punishment has yet to be shown to limit the offences which it punishes upon institution. Therefore it is just as effective to lock the felons up, and killing them is wholely unnecessary. Somebody has to be employed to execute the condemned man/woman. Basically, the legal system paying people to kill defenseless individuals. In the US, where extensive appeals procedures are in place, it often costs more to kill the criminal than to lock him/her up. Juries might be more likely to find guilty people innocent if they know that by finding them guilty they may be killing them. To sum up, capital punishment is unethical, expensive and unfair. In my firmly held opinion, it serves only to satisfy the bloodlust of those who consider themselves 'righteous'.
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Thanks - at the time, I couldn't remember the 7th line so I just put in the first four as a stand alone verse.
Tar and grit - do you realise how hot you have to get grits for them to boil? The subject would die almost instantly, which would be much less fun.
I stand corrected.
Get lost, trekkie. Do you know what we do to your kind round here? HOT GRIT!
Will you shut up about the hot grit? It keeps giving me flashbacks... Servant of the grail Not all those who wander are lost,
Sick. Very sick. Exorcist sick. I kinda like it. But who is Lacey Chabert?
A servant of the grail
All that glitters is not gold,
It was a little overstated for irony, so I'd call it sarcasm, but say what you like.
Sorry, I should have used Plain Old Text. See the next one down if you'd like it clearer.
If every code writer this pernickety, there might be a few less mistakes, hmm?
Grail-worshipper
For Isildur's Bane shall waken,
And the halfling forth shall stand.
Nice aspirations, but what's so exciting about being able to vote? Your vote alone will never throw the balance.
The Swan Knight
There shall be shown a token
That Doom is near at hand;
My resolutions are to find the woman of my dreams, win three Nobel Prizes (I don't much care which one, but medicine would be fave) and save the world twice.
Son of the Righteous Fool
Seek for the Sword that was Broken
In Imladris it dwells
There shall be counsels taken
Stronger than Morgul Spells
My resolutions are to find the woman of my dreams, win three Nobel Prizes (I don't much care which one, but medicine would be fave) and save the world twice. Son of the Righteous Fool Seek for the Sword that was Broken In Imladris it dwells There shall be counsels taken Stronger than Morgul Spells
They're all part of my don'ts - currently I don't use the first, listen to the second or watch the third. Grin Time was, time is, but time will be no more.
It seems to me that this is actually part of a wider trend, which is that larger countries, (in terms of their population size rather than their geographical area, although the latter can also be significant) tend of necessity to be less liberal than smaller but equally advanced ones. This tendency has been born out through history, by for example the rigid rules imposed by the Roman, British, and many other empires. Their smaller neighbours usually tended to enjoy greater freedoms. The trend I am describing concerns me primarily because the world's population is still on the increase, and so the world's nations are likely to become more rigid to save their systems from freedoms which though permissible in a smaller structure could fragment a larger one.
Capital Punishment is, to my mind, an ineffective policy that causes needless suffering. This is merely a case of it being used for an exceptionally petty crime. The principle, however, holds true whatever the offence. The flaws with capital punishment are basically as follows: Vital evidence may not come to light until after the individual has been executed, therefore making the jurisdiction guilty of killing innocent people. Even with the US's hugely complex and drawn out appeals system, this has been shown to occur over there with a significant frequency, and most other countries take less time and effort over it. Capital Punishment has yet to be shown to limit the offences which it punishes upon institution. Therefore it is just as effective to lock the felons up, and killing them is wholely unnecessary. Somebody has to be employed to execute the condemned man/woman. Basically, the legal system paying people to kill defenseless individuals. In the US, where extensive appeals procedures are in place, it often costs more to kill the criminal than to lock him/her up. Juries might be more likely to find guilty people innocent if they know that by finding them guilty they may be killing them. To sum up, capital punishment is unethical, expensive and unfair. In my firmly held opinion, it serves only to satisfy the bloodlust of those who consider themselves 'righteous'.