That just means they keep the ballistic CIWS type setups along side the lasers.
"Sir, we've got another disco zodiac inbound."
"Seriously? Fine. Spin up the R2, and put Disco Inferno on the 1MC."
There's a great video clip, that I've never been able to find again, of Cheney, as Bush Sr.'s SecDef I believe, explaining in an interview why, after Gulf War '91, they didn't invade Iraq.
He talked about how it would be at least a 20 year thing, insurgency, blah blah, all the things that came to pass.
Well, I have two main objections to the use of torture as a method of extracting information. And for the purposes of this discussion, 'torture' is a fairly wide net.
The first is moral, and doesn't need a lot of explanation.
The second is that it plain doesn't work. Physiological response to high stress, for starters.
No, there are ways to get information that are a) far more ethical and moral, and b) far more effective.
Besides, as a citizen, you should be damn scared of seeing what your government is willing to do to people. A promise of 'Don't worry, we won't do that to YOU! Pinky swear!' is awfully cold comfort.
Lets have another quote, from an ever so slightly more recent document, with much wider scope.
âoeRepresentatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.â
True. But by the logic of 'torturing some people saves lives,' then lets look at how many Americans died to terrorist attacks since the year 2000, versus how many died due to, say, other drivers being drunk.
Then, applying this logic, anybody pulled over driving, while intoxicated, should be tortured.
In fact the last time I remember a game being shoved out THIS badly broken was Vampire:Bloodlines and that one at least had the excuse of the developer going tits up.
There's a bit more to the story, but yeah. And worth noting that they then worked, unpaid, to put out a patch that fixed the worst of it.
Let's face it, it is a merchandising excuse.
Di$ney will have fresh Star Wars everything on sale.
The movie will be guaranteed to have some cloyingly cute character which can be marketed to kids.
Taco Bell and McDonalds will have special toys.
They'l re-re-re-re-release extended cuts or special editions of the damned movies.
Little children will have R2D2 pyjamas and underpants. And diapers. And sippy cups. And hats. And halloween costumes.
Disney will eventually put out 9 more movies, of ever diminishing artistic merit.
There will be friggin' Ewok porn.
I'm nostalgic about the first series. I mostly liked the second series but it had some issues.
But I tried to watch Episode I with my wife, and within five minutes of Jar Jar Binks appearing on screen she said "if he's in the rest of this film I'm leaving". So now if I want to watch it I'm on my own, and the pod racer scene is mostly how I calibrate my home theater.
I honestly can't decide if I will see this or not.
But let's not for a minute pretend this is being done for any reason besides the zillions of dollars Disney expects to wring from this franchise.
If they were doing a billion a year in merchandising for Cars years after it was released, you won't believe the marketing blitz which will accompany this.
I am plenty white, and the assertion that I am unable to listen to evidence and come to an impartial decision is ridiculous.
For me, I'd say 'you're human, and therefore are unable to listen to evidence and come to an impartial decision.
And that's why lawyers play all sorts of tricks during jury selection, to get people that are likely to be partial on their side. For it to be truly 'fair' and 'random,' they'd have a computer spit out 12 names and 2 alternates, and that would be that. But I'd be willing to guess you'd see hung jury counts skyrocket at that point.
Yes, the PS3 was a wonderful piece of advanced computer engineering.
The 360, on the other hand, was a better gaming platform. And seeing as how both were designed, ostensibly, to be gaming platforms, the 360 won.
The RROD debacle was a straight cost-cutting issue, not a fundamental design issue.
It's the circle of consoles. Nintendo got stupid, and Sony drank their milkshake. Sony got stupid, and Microsoft drank their milkshake. This generation, the PS4 beats the XBONE, but by far less of a margin than the 360 beat the PS3. Hell, a big chunk of it was simply Microsoft making the wrong call on where memory markets would be down the road.
Thought experiment: if the PS3 was so elegant and advanced, why did Sony go back to a 360 style design for the PS4?
You've just said that you simply do not believe in the concept of specialization.
For example, you can't conceive of taking information vital to your needs, say, medical knowledge, and putting it beyond your reach, under the control of other people with different priorities, i.e. doctors.
I went to the hospital, up here in Canuckistan, the other day whilst having a particularly bad bout of gastroenteritis.
Walked in at four, was in an isolation room by 4:15. Walked out several hours later full of Zofran, 2 liters of saline IV, a wave and a smile from the doctor.
It astounds and sickens me that, in America, for so many people, that would have been primarily a financial decision. 'Can my family afford for me to go see a medical professional?
I have faith that physicists have done their work well, and are impartial and not lying to me.
Faith is, at the least, 'belief without evidence.' What you actually have is 'confidence.'
Otherwise, when presented with evidence that the physicists have not done their work well, are not impartial, or are lying to you, you'd continue to believe them, out of faith, rather than altering your opinion and reacting accordingly, which is reason.
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The DMCA was implemented by elected lawmakers.
Those lawmakers have not been removed from office, with new law makers installed with a mandate to remove DMCA.
Therefore, the market has voted (with votes, rather than dollars) for the DMCA.
If only the Navy had hundreds of years of experience with dealing with saltwater. If only somebody could invent covers.
Ah well. Scrap the whole project.
That just means they keep the ballistic CIWS type setups along side the lasers. "Sir, we've got another disco zodiac inbound." "Seriously? Fine. Spin up the R2, and put Disco Inferno on the 1MC."
There's a great video clip, that I've never been able to find again, of Cheney, as Bush Sr.'s SecDef I believe, explaining in an interview why, after Gulf War '91, they didn't invade Iraq.
He talked about how it would be at least a 20 year thing, insurgency, blah blah, all the things that came to pass.
That's kinda my point. The US, unfortunately, has a long history of institutional racism, from the Alien and Sedition acts to WW2 internment camps.
Though I wouldn't go so far as to call them hypocrites, as products of their time.
My other point is that one doesn't need 200+ year old quotes to establish that torture is, wholly and unequivocally, wrong.
Well, I have two main objections to the use of torture as a method of extracting information. And for the purposes of this discussion, 'torture' is a fairly wide net.
The first is moral, and doesn't need a lot of explanation.
The second is that it plain doesn't work. Physiological response to high stress, for starters.
No, there are ways to get information that are a) far more ethical and moral, and b) far more effective.
Besides, as a citizen, you should be damn scared of seeing what your government is willing to do to people. A promise of 'Don't worry, we won't do that to YOU! Pinky swear!' is awfully cold comfort.
Lets have another quote, from an ever so slightly more recent document, with much wider scope.
âoeRepresentatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.â
True. But by the logic of 'torturing some people saves lives,' then lets look at how many Americans died to terrorist attacks since the year 2000, versus how many died due to, say, other drivers being drunk.
Then, applying this logic, anybody pulled over driving, while intoxicated, should be tortured.
Reminds me of techniques used in asylums and sanitariums in the Victorian era. In fact, several of them are *exactly* techniques used in that era.
There's 'another side' to the use of torture?
How does the fact that the author used a language he knew invalidate the language being successfully used on a large and busy site?
Do you advocate that all projects be written in a language completely new to the authors, to avoid 'bias?'
Boy, it's a good thing Linux avoids this kinda bullshit entirely!
Now, which Python distribution did I need to install for this app versus that app again....?
Wall Street, Congress and the Senate, and the American law enforcement system all seem to disagree with you.
There's a bit more to the story, but yeah. And worth noting that they then worked, unpaid, to put out a patch that fixed the worst of it.
Fantastic game, even though.
So, EXACTLY like the original trilogy?
Really? I wasn't aware of that. That's definitely a start.
For me, I'd say 'you're human, and therefore are unable to listen to evidence and come to an impartial decision.
And that's why lawyers play all sorts of tricks during jury selection, to get people that are likely to be partial on their side. For it to be truly 'fair' and 'random,' they'd have a computer spit out 12 names and 2 alternates, and that would be that. But I'd be willing to guess you'd see hung jury counts skyrocket at that point.
Yes, the PS3 was a wonderful piece of advanced computer engineering.
The 360, on the other hand, was a better gaming platform. And seeing as how both were designed, ostensibly, to be gaming platforms, the 360 won.
The RROD debacle was a straight cost-cutting issue, not a fundamental design issue.
It's the circle of consoles. Nintendo got stupid, and Sony drank their milkshake. Sony got stupid, and Microsoft drank their milkshake. This generation, the PS4 beats the XBONE, but by far less of a margin than the 360 beat the PS3. Hell, a big chunk of it was simply Microsoft making the wrong call on where memory markets would be down the road.
Thought experiment: if the PS3 was so elegant and advanced, why did Sony go back to a 360 style design for the PS4?
Point of Order: The 360 will output 1080p quite happily, but that's not what the game you're playing is actually being rendered at.
Amazing piece of hardware, don't get me wrong.
You've just said that you simply do not believe in the concept of specialization.
For example, you can't conceive of taking information vital to your needs, say, medical knowledge, and putting it beyond your reach, under the control of other people with different priorities, i.e. doctors.
I went to the hospital, up here in Canuckistan, the other day whilst having a particularly bad bout of gastroenteritis.
Walked in at four, was in an isolation room by 4:15. Walked out several hours later full of Zofran, 2 liters of saline IV, a wave and a smile from the doctor.
It astounds and sickens me that, in America, for so many people, that would have been primarily a financial decision. 'Can my family afford for me to go see a medical professional?
Faith is, at the least, 'belief without evidence.' What you actually have is 'confidence.'
Otherwise, when presented with evidence that the physicists have not done their work well, are not impartial, or are lying to you, you'd continue to believe them, out of faith, rather than altering your opinion and reacting accordingly, which is reason.
Time for a sequal!
He did. Why do you think 3PO's parts were delivered to Chewie after 3PO wandered somewhere he shouldn't have and got blowed up?
How the fuck can you do that?
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