I'm completely pro-rehabilitation of criminals including murderers, but still, some criminals are not only too dangerous to be left free, but also took away the life of someone who has never done anything to them. You only have one life - and if somebody took it just because of personal greed, I think that taking that person's life is justified. Murder is nearly always bad, but sometimes, it can be justified, and in that case, the murderers should be placed in therapy and not be killed, but there are people who deserve nothing better than death. Murder committed by the mentally insane is rarely justified though - and also, most of those who killed someone out of insanity have a very, very low chance of being cured.
Well, if you don't believe me, travel to Iraq and ask a few women if they now have better rights than before. Now, Iraq got female Judges, before the Iraq war, girls weren't even allowed to attend schools.
A civilized country doesn't kill their people, period. A civilized country doesn't impose religion on their people, in an way.
I disagree with you here. Do you really think that torture murderers deserve to life, after all they have done to their victims, just to call an example? Sure, it might be a worse punishment to lock somebody up for the rest of his life in a small cell, but it's much more expensive, and do you think your tax money should be spent to keep some mentally insane murderers alive? Shouldn't that money better be spent on something else? The only argument against the Death Penalty I've heard and really find that it has a point is that innocents might be killed.
Sure, one can argue a lot about the aftermath of the Iraq war, but at least you can' deny that the US got rid of Iraqi state terrorism and that human rights are much better there now.
When I speak of "character development", I do not mean stat development. Stats are just a tool, but not roleplaying. Character development is, when you are able to really interact with the game's world as the character you are playing would (yeah, I'm a P&P-roleplayer), unlike in Oblivion where you always just could do what the game devs had in mind four you.
I've played Fallout 2, but in my opinion it wasn't getting close to Baldur's Gate II, but I guess this is personal preference. Thanks for recommending me Planescape: Torment though, I think I'll give it a try.
Well, I think you can't compare them. Oblivion is mainly an action-RPG without much focus on character development etc (doesn't mean it's not fun to play though). Baldur's Gate II was much more - you could, unlike in nearly any CRPG I've seen except maybe KotOR, actually really develop and roleplay your main character, and while you had to follow the given storyline, you nearly always were given multiple ways to accomplish the current task.
That is true, but if one would not die of age, he (or she) might become old enough to achieve "true immortality" through other techniques than anti-aging.
Ew, maybe what I haven't clarified enough what I meant, my fault. It is not that I believe that only a few people based on irrational things deserve to live (like the Nazis, that you mentioned, did), but that anti-aging will just be far too expensive that everyone could have it, and also, that it would be bad in an economical sense if immortality would be cheap. While surely everybody deserves a good life, some people deserve to have a better life than others - because they WORKED hard to achieve this right (and yes, I oppose the fact that some people get rich because they had rich parents).
I disagree here. While anti-aging-solutions for individuals might be already not so far, anti-aging for the masses will take us pretty long, and I think that's good - not everyone deserves immortality, and some may even lead a better life without.
Well, the reason I complain about it isn't that there are ads, but, in the House episode I watched, there really were 5 commercials, 5 minutes from each other. 1 longer (say, 1 minute) ad break would be completely fine with me, but I just think one can't really enjoy an episode if it is interrupted every couple of minutes. On television (I don't know which channel you watch, I can only speak about those I do), there usually are no commercials during the episode or 1 longer ad pause - both are fine, in the latter case, you have some time to go for some food and drinks or check your mails etc..
Hulu? Please not. I've once watched an episode on it, but after all 5 minutes, a commercial appeared. I mean, one is ok, or maybe one every 30 minutes if it's a movie, but I'll certainly won't ever watch something on Hulu again unless they limit the ads shown.
Is it possible to work for the USACEWP as a civilian, like it is possible to work as an civilian engineer at research institutions like Picatinny? Would someone who wants to work at the USAVEWP do background checks to obtain proper clearance?
But their population centers are also much larger than the State's population centers. Yes, more people would die, but for the war, it would be neither more or less effective for the US to nuke China then for China to nuke the US, as long as you only see it from a statistical perspective. Oh, and, if you target a city, there would certainly be a lot more dead people than just 125k.
I've been speaking about orbital bombardment. A mass driver on the moon isn't too effective against satellites, that's true, but you could easily destroy underground bunkers with it (given you know their location and use the right projectiles). Oh, and I don't think that you could see the laser even after launched, unless you use special vision helps, but I doubt that concealment would be an advantage of a laser over a mass driver, since I think that by around 2024 (when the NASA's moon base should be completed according to their plans), most governments would try to monitor what the US government (shame on me for being US-centric, I know that other nations want to build a moon base too) is doing up there.
For the laser, I don't know, but maybe an advanced version of THEL might help. It is pretty effective at destroying rockets (though extremely expensive, due to the hazardous, rare chemicals being used), so with some tweaks, it might be able to destroy satellites as well, but I think that it would be pretty hard to get it working in space.
Actually, you don't need a laser to turn the moon into a weapons platform; a mass driver (or anything other capable of shooting things down to Earth on a high velocity) would be enough, since the kinetic energy of the impact is more than sufficient to destroy a lot of things. Orbital bombardment should be pretty effective, since it's WAY harder to defend yourself against those than against ICBMs. Also, with the upcoming new forms of warfare involving satellites, the moon will possibly become pretty effective against them as well, although I don't know if it isn't more cost effective to just shoot up anti-satellite-missiles.
Laser beams and sharks together are still awesome, though.
While it's certainly true that that AC's statement is of rather low quality, it doesn't make the quality of your response better. Flaming a troll is still flaming, sorry.
Actually, there really will be a grave for Vista, since some Microsoft employee named his daughter after the OS (unlike she changes her name or becomes a transhumanist [or both], of course). Just hope she won't become a person who'd deserve the name - there are already more than enough nice-looking but otherwise crappy girls around.
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I'm completely pro-rehabilitation of criminals including murderers, but still, some criminals are not only too dangerous to be left free, but also took away the life of someone who has never done anything to them. You only have one life - and if somebody took it just because of personal greed, I think that taking that person's life is justified. Murder is nearly always bad, but sometimes, it can be justified, and in that case, the murderers should be placed in therapy and not be killed, but there are people who deserve nothing better than death. Murder committed by the mentally insane is rarely justified though - and also, most of those who killed someone out of insanity have a very, very low chance of being cured.
Well, if you don't believe me, travel to Iraq and ask a few women if they now have better rights than before. Now, Iraq got female Judges, before the Iraq war, girls weren't even allowed to attend schools.
A civilized country doesn't kill their people, period. A civilized country doesn't impose religion on their people, in an way.
I disagree with you here. Do you really think that torture murderers deserve to life, after all they have done to their victims, just to call an example? Sure, it might be a worse punishment to lock somebody up for the rest of his life in a small cell, but it's much more expensive, and do you think your tax money should be spent to keep some mentally insane murderers alive? Shouldn't that money better be spent on something else? The only argument against the Death Penalty I've heard and really find that it has a point is that innocents might be killed.
Apostasy is saying "Islam is a pile of shit, the 'prophet' of Islam was a mass murderer, multiple rapist, and a paedophile".
Actually, for his time, Muhammad was very progressive, and far from being that what you claim him to be. And no, I'm not a Muslim, I'm Atheist.
Sure, one can argue a lot about the aftermath of the Iraq war, but at least you can' deny that the US got rid of Iraqi state terrorism and that human rights are much better there now.
When I speak of "character development", I do not mean stat development. Stats are just a tool, but not roleplaying. Character development is, when you are able to really interact with the game's world as the character you are playing would (yeah, I'm a P&P-roleplayer), unlike in Oblivion where you always just could do what the game devs had in mind four you.
I've played Fallout 2, but in my opinion it wasn't getting close to Baldur's Gate II, but I guess this is personal preference. Thanks for recommending me Planescape: Torment though, I think I'll give it a try.
Well, I think you can't compare them. Oblivion is mainly an action-RPG without much focus on character development etc (doesn't mean it's not fun to play though). Baldur's Gate II was much more - you could, unlike in nearly any CRPG I've seen except maybe KotOR, actually really develop and roleplay your main character, and while you had to follow the given storyline, you nearly always were given multiple ways to accomplish the current task.
Don't think so. The so-called "little guys" don't charge 100$+ for their books (or, if they do, they usually deserve being one of those).
That is true, but if one would not die of age, he (or she) might become old enough to achieve "true immortality" through other techniques than anti-aging.
Ew, maybe what I haven't clarified enough what I meant, my fault. It is not that I believe that only a few people based on irrational things deserve to live (like the Nazis, that you mentioned, did), but that anti-aging will just be far too expensive that everyone could have it, and also, that it would be bad in an economical sense if immortality would be cheap. While surely everybody deserves a good life, some people deserve to have a better life than others - because they WORKED hard to achieve this right (and yes, I oppose the fact that some people get rich because they had rich parents).
I disagree here. While anti-aging-solutions for individuals might be already not so far, anti-aging for the masses will take us pretty long, and I think that's good - not everyone deserves immortality, and some may even lead a better life without.
...shouldn't this rather be tagged !newsfornerds? Yeah, it's interesting, but probably not something that should be on Slashdot.
Ew, it was about time for those classic-mail carrying animals to strike back at us evil e-mail-users for getting them out of business.
Well, the reason I complain about it isn't that there are ads, but, in the House episode I watched, there really were 5 commercials, 5 minutes from each other. 1 longer (say, 1 minute) ad break would be completely fine with me, but I just think one can't really enjoy an episode if it is interrupted every couple of minutes. On television (I don't know which channel you watch, I can only speak about those I do), there usually are no commercials during the episode or 1 longer ad pause - both are fine, in the latter case, you have some time to go for some food and drinks or check your mails etc..
Hulu? Please not. I've once watched an episode on it, but after all 5 minutes, a commercial appeared. I mean, one is ok, or maybe one every 30 minutes if it's a movie, but I'll certainly won't ever watch something on Hulu again unless they limit the ads shown.
No, but there are enough people who have. If there would have been spyware in Firefox, someone of it's legions of users would have found it.
Is it possible to work for the USACEWP as a civilian, like it is possible to work as an civilian engineer at research institutions like Picatinny? Would someone who wants to work at the USAVEWP do background checks to obtain proper clearance?
But their population centers are also much larger than the State's population centers. Yes, more people would die, but for the war, it would be neither more or less effective for the US to nuke China then for China to nuke the US, as long as you only see it from a statistical perspective. Oh, and, if you target a city, there would certainly be a lot more dead people than just 125k.
I've been speaking about orbital bombardment. A mass driver on the moon isn't too effective against satellites, that's true, but you could easily destroy underground bunkers with it (given you know their location and use the right projectiles). Oh, and I don't think that you could see the laser even after launched, unless you use special vision helps, but I doubt that concealment would be an advantage of a laser over a mass driver, since I think that by around 2024 (when the NASA's moon base should be completed according to their plans), most governments would try to monitor what the US government (shame on me for being US-centric, I know that other nations want to build a moon base too) is doing up there.
For the laser, I don't know, but maybe an advanced version of THEL might help. It is pretty effective at destroying rockets (though extremely expensive, due to the hazardous, rare chemicals being used), so with some tweaks, it might be able to destroy satellites as well, but I think that it would be pretty hard to get it working in space.
Actually, you don't need a laser to turn the moon into a weapons platform; a mass driver (or anything other capable of shooting things down to Earth on a high velocity) would be enough, since the kinetic energy of the impact is more than sufficient to destroy a lot of things. Orbital bombardment should be pretty effective, since it's WAY harder to defend yourself against those than against ICBMs. Also, with the upcoming new forms of warfare involving satellites, the moon will possibly become pretty effective against them as well, although I don't know if it isn't more cost effective to just shoot up anti-satellite-missiles. Laser beams and sharks together are still awesome, though.
Does that really matter?
While it's certainly true that that AC's statement is of rather low quality, it doesn't make the quality of your response better. Flaming a troll is still flaming, sorry.
Actually, there really will be a grave for Vista, since some Microsoft employee named his daughter after the OS (unlike she changes her name or becomes a transhumanist [or both], of course). Just hope she won't become a person who'd deserve the name - there are already more than enough nice-looking but otherwise crappy girls around.
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