But yakuza and Mafia are known for their honor code and the Mafia actually did a pretty good job of keeping the streets clean, businesses prosperous, and neighborhood booming.
It is a matter of self-interest. Most religion to some degree is based on "do this or you won't get this", "behave this way or you'll be left out". Some religion like *coughs* Catholicism, shell out "eternal paradise" and "eternal suffering" and "immortal soul" for following their rules strictly.
I was raised Catholic with a heavy hand, I mildly learnt about Judaism, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhism, Shinto, Wiccan, mostly out of curiosity and comparison purposes. Even read through half the bible mostly out of boredom, but parts of it was "required".
Be meek, humble, generous.
Matthew 5 "When he saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him. He began to teach them, saying"
The Beatitudes Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven. Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
It's all about self-interest, our immortal soul, etc. Sure some are zealots taking the word of prophets too far. Sure some self-interest isn't particularly bad, but don't fool yourself into thinking it's not self-interest.
Even the most benevolent, they help the poor and needy because it makes them FEEL good and they want to feel GOOD. That they're doing good, that they're helping others. That's self-interest. It's not particularly selfish or self-centered.
But when you had those "behavior" brow-beat into you for fear of god, or love of god, or who knows what you delude yourself into thinking. It became self-interest.
A nice segway, I like using TV as an example on life. Friends episode with Phoebe and her obsession with a selfless deed.
Why because the journalists are using words and covert activity to instill fear, hate, and subversive actions against the government?
Isn't terrorism isn't just bombs and armed assaults. Cyber-terrorisms. Propaganda terrorism. War-mongering is a form of terrorizing your own citizens. Religious zealotry like the inquisition.
Wow a government that asks "trouble makers" trying to destroy their country to leave their country...shocking really.
I'm so glad we invite domestic and foreign terrorists to destroy everything America holds dear, makes me feel safer knowing terrorist's freedom isn't being hindered.
Granted, China is incredibly strict, like the difference between a parent who beats their child with a belt for misbehaving and a hippie parent with no rules and let their kids run amok. Who's to say which parenting style is better and which parenting style is forbidden?
BOFH who lock their networks down like a jail in hopes of making it secure.
And "mental patients dying from extreme treatment". Not sure how those treatments were suppose to help but America had their share of problems in mental health care. One flew over a cuckoo nest was a good Academy winning movie and book.
Look I'm not saying everything in China is great, or the middle East. But they don't like others, young countries, coming in telling them what to do any more then you would like the government to come into your home and tell you how to raise your children. The Chinese people WORSHIPPED Mao Zedong and Westerners hate his ideals. It's a different culture.
mentally stable...they're addicts, they aren't mental stable. I'd compare some game addicts to the practical functionality outside of games, to mental retardation. There were people who wouldn't shower, go to work, go to classes, sometimes get food, due to gaming addictions.
mentally stable would not be my first choice of words for them. Nor is porn addiction if it costs you your job either.
By the way, I'm not one of those "for the children" fanatics, religious, or actually have high morals either. I just find rape and child molestation to be greedy, selfish, and evil.
Ok I agree with the teenager thing, but there's no reason to take nude pictures of your kids running around or taking a bath. That kind of voyeurism is sick and extreme. Oh my god, I need to capture every minute of my child's life on film (without their consent) and possibly show it later in their life, because by god, a child peeing on a toilet or taking a bath or running around nude is just too precious.
And "Served their debt to society" only applies to certain things. A rapist will always be a rapist, and a true child molester will always be one, and nothing they can do will make up for the harm. Rehabilitation is ludicrous, there was something wrong with the person, they chose to ignore their better sense, they lack the better sense, or they couldn't help themselves, none of which can be fixed. In recent news, a rapist was denied probation because he was a repeat offender and after previously serving his time, he raped again and was tossed back in jail.
It's of little comfort to the new victims when you tell them, the offender deserved another chance to rape again, because he JUST might not if we close our eyes, clap hard enough, and say we believe.
Many schools across the nation have been closing due to the swine flu taking out people. It can be an epic disaster if not treated right, with how it's more contagious than a regular flu, more deadly.
It's a good thing the health governing is taking steps to keep it from becoming a nation crippling disaster.
We live in capitalism. Anything you can do to take money from others is far game as long as it's not illegal. Control the supply and people will pay whatever you deem. Even then, scare tactics and absolute control can get you past the pesky illegal.
Our city hired a private contractor to hand out parking tickets. They're so good at it, they hand them out even if you've done nothing wrong, and you can't contest it. If you don't pay, you lose your license. The city and state attorney general won't do anything about it, the city gets a portion of the proceeds of course.
That and book scams don't surprise me. In all reality, it'd make sense to buy a kindle, buy electronic text books, and "unnecessary edition changes" can be less costly. But it's the same resistance as Music CDs to MP3 players.
Odometer doesn't automatically link up to a government database to report your mileage.
So you rely on the honesty of the driver to report it (*coughs out-of-state sales tax*) or to have it reported with your car inspection and having to trust anti-tax hippie car inspection stations not to shaft the government on reporting.
What would be cool would be if every "properly registered" car are lit up, if there was a way to pinpoint unregistered cars (which is a problem in my minority area) and be able to get all those people without registration, insurance, or license, off the road.
Though I think a valid drivers license and proof of insurance should be part of the car inspection.
One big database to force everyone to be obediant.
How is it a lapse in judgement? He accomplished what he intended, emotional, financial, and physical distress to the girl and her family by extension. Only thing lacking was a suicide or actual murder. If I was petty, vindictive, and amoral, I could only wish my plots went so well.
All in all though, whether he misrepresentated himself when he presented the piece to the newspaper or the newspaper published something in someone elses name, knowing she did not submit it, is the question.
A split or curve in the centre causes the problem of reaching farther when you're typing one handed, or you favor one hand over the other because your other hand is multi-tasking on other things, like the numberpad.
I remember the old compact laptop keyboards where the fastest I could type because my fingers were criss-crossing each other, based on the fact that one hand was under-used or closer to the edge of the divider line.
Not to mention how awkward the arms get if you have a curve keyboard. I feel like I'm doing the chicken with my elbows spread out and pointing inwards, and strain muscles in my shoulders I'm didn't know I would need.
I've been doing this for 5 years, and I learned 2 things helped me cope the most while everyone else around me were having breakdowns with each other. Apathy and thick-skin.
The only thing important to me was doing my job, doing it well, and fulfilling my responsibilities.
Unfortunately I let my supervisor take most of my heat, if there's a conflict in projects, I ask him to coordinate with the other department heads and tell me what's my priority and I will do it. But I also hold true to organizational hierarchy like a military. Superiors work it out with superiors. If I have interdepartmental problems, that can't be solved through normal conversation, than it's up to the officers to take care of things.
In a domestic abusive relationship, it is a good tactic to be tender and nurture with one hand while you smack and abuse with the other hand. Not only does it give a person false hope, make them blame themselves, or break their spirit from confusion.
I'll keep my caution with Obama's DoJ for now, lest I be surprised later from the smack to the head.
I find it amusing, that the way to reduce deaths by "excessive speeds" is to suddenly cut power to the vehicle, effectively slamming the breaks without the break lights, on the highway. Yeah lots of lives saved there *two thumbs up* Sad thing is other countries will probably think it's a good idea.
People who play video games and have access to guns doesn't kill people. People who play video games and are mentally unstable or plain ass stupid kill people. If we booby trapped the guns so improper use would kill the attemptee, maybe we can get rid of these stupid people before they go around shooting people we may want to keep alive. Maybe we can enforce the gun laws punishing parents for not properly keeping their guns locked away.
Bluetooth isn't disappointing. I mean sure it's power consumption could be better. But it's used for more than just keyboard, mouse, and headsets. Console controls would be set back without wireless. I even seen bluetooth speakers.
What they need to do is mix wireless power with bluetooth to make it extremely useful.
What's the alternative? It's pretty much improved Radio. IR sucked. And Wireless USB hasn't seen any headway.
This could work like Nader with Bush vs Gore. Nader stole enough votes from Gore to bring Bush into power. This could work the same with the WII bringing in the XBox360 into even higher margin over the others!
How do we pay for everything? How do we bring back Spanish and French to every student.
How do we keep teaching students when their text books are a decade old and they can't afford new ones?
When the buildings are crumbling, the teachers are striking because they're underpaid because of all the additional things?
I don't want to pay more taxes for education. Others don't want to pay more taxes. You know on your taxes, you can offer to pay extra. You can even give more money to the schools directly.
Ok, you say balance is important, all those are important. What would YOU cut. The question isn't what's important and what's not. The question is, what's expendable as mandatory for everyone because something has to go.
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But yakuza and Mafia are known for their honor code and the Mafia actually did a pretty good job of keeping the streets clean, businesses prosperous, and neighborhood booming.
What were you saying about politicians?
It is a matter of self-interest. Most religion to some degree is based on "do this or you won't get this", "behave this way or you'll be left out". Some religion like *coughs* Catholicism, shell out "eternal paradise" and "eternal suffering" and "immortal soul" for following their rules strictly.
I was raised Catholic with a heavy hand, I mildly learnt about Judaism, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhism, Shinto, Wiccan, mostly out of curiosity and comparison purposes. Even read through half the bible mostly out of boredom, but parts of it was "required".
Be meek, humble, generous.
Matthew 5
"When he saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him. He began to teach them, saying"
The Beatitudes
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.
Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
It's all about self-interest, our immortal soul, etc. Sure some are zealots taking the word of prophets too far. Sure some self-interest isn't particularly bad, but don't fool yourself into thinking it's not self-interest.
Even the most benevolent, they help the poor and needy because it makes them FEEL good and they want to feel GOOD. That they're doing good, that they're helping others. That's self-interest. It's not particularly selfish or self-centered.
But when you had those "behavior" brow-beat into you for fear of god, or love of god, or who knows what you delude yourself into thinking. It became self-interest.
A nice segway, I like using TV as an example on life. Friends episode with Phoebe and her obsession with a selfless deed.
Why because the journalists are using words and covert activity to instill fear, hate, and subversive actions against the government?
Isn't terrorism isn't just bombs and armed assaults. Cyber-terrorisms. Propaganda terrorism. War-mongering is a form of terrorizing your own citizens. Religious zealotry like the inquisition.
Wow a government that asks "trouble makers" trying to destroy their country to leave their country...shocking really.
I'm so glad we invite domestic and foreign terrorists to destroy everything America holds dear, makes me feel safer knowing terrorist's freedom isn't being hindered.
Granted, China is incredibly strict, like the difference between a parent who beats their child with a belt for misbehaving and a hippie parent with no rules and let their kids run amok. Who's to say which parenting style is better and which parenting style is forbidden?
BOFH who lock their networks down like a jail in hopes of making it secure.
And "mental patients dying from extreme treatment". Not sure how those treatments were suppose to help but America had their share of problems in mental health care. One flew over a cuckoo nest was a good Academy winning movie and book.
Look I'm not saying everything in China is great, or the middle East. But they don't like others, young countries, coming in telling them what to do any more then you would like the government to come into your home and tell you how to raise your children. The Chinese people WORSHIPPED Mao Zedong and Westerners hate his ideals. It's a different culture.
mentally stable...they're addicts, they aren't mental stable. I'd compare some game addicts to the practical functionality outside of games, to mental retardation. There were people who wouldn't shower, go to work, go to classes, sometimes get food, due to gaming addictions.
mentally stable would not be my first choice of words for them. Nor is porn addiction if it costs you your job either.
By the way, I'm not one of those "for the children" fanatics, religious, or actually have high morals either. I just find rape and child molestation to be greedy, selfish, and evil.
Ok I agree with the teenager thing, but there's no reason to take nude pictures of your kids running around or taking a bath. That kind of voyeurism is sick and extreme. Oh my god, I need to capture every minute of my child's life on film (without their consent) and possibly show it later in their life, because by god, a child peeing on a toilet or taking a bath or running around nude is just too precious.
And "Served their debt to society" only applies to certain things. A rapist will always be a rapist, and a true child molester will always be one, and nothing they can do will make up for the harm. Rehabilitation is ludicrous, there was something wrong with the person, they chose to ignore their better sense, they lack the better sense, or they couldn't help themselves, none of which can be fixed. In recent news, a rapist was denied probation because he was a repeat offender and after previously serving his time, he raped again and was tossed back in jail.
It's of little comfort to the new victims when you tell them, the offender deserved another chance to rape again, because he JUST might not if we close our eyes, clap hard enough, and say we believe.
Many schools across the nation have been closing due to the swine flu taking out people. It can be an epic disaster if not treated right, with how it's more contagious than a regular flu, more deadly.
It's a good thing the health governing is taking steps to keep it from becoming a nation crippling disaster.
We live in capitalism. Anything you can do to take money from others is far game as long as it's not illegal. Control the supply and people will pay whatever you deem. Even then, scare tactics and absolute control can get you past the pesky illegal.
Our city hired a private contractor to hand out parking tickets. They're so good at it, they hand them out even if you've done nothing wrong, and you can't contest it. If you don't pay, you lose your license. The city and state attorney general won't do anything about it, the city gets a portion of the proceeds of course.
That and book scams don't surprise me. In all reality, it'd make sense to buy a kindle, buy electronic text books, and "unnecessary edition changes" can be less costly. But it's the same resistance as Music CDs to MP3 players.
He can move closer to work and get 8 hours back a week.
Leave it to a slashdotter to take focus away from the benefits of daily sex.
Odometer doesn't automatically link up to a government database to report your mileage.
So you rely on the honesty of the driver to report it (*coughs out-of-state sales tax*) or to have it reported with your car inspection and having to trust anti-tax hippie car inspection stations not to shaft the government on reporting.
What would be cool would be if every "properly registered" car are lit up, if there was a way to pinpoint unregistered cars (which is a problem in my minority area) and be able to get all those people without registration, insurance, or license, off the road.
Though I think a valid drivers license and proof of insurance should be part of the car inspection.
One big database to force everyone to be obediant.
How is it a lapse in judgement? He accomplished what he intended, emotional, financial, and physical distress to the girl and her family by extension. Only thing lacking was a suicide or actual murder. If I was petty, vindictive, and amoral, I could only wish my plots went so well.
All in all though, whether he misrepresentated himself when he presented the piece to the newspaper or the newspaper published something in someone elses name, knowing she did not submit it, is the question.
A split or curve in the centre causes the problem of reaching farther when you're typing one handed, or you favor one hand over the other because your other hand is multi-tasking on other things, like the numberpad.
I remember the old compact laptop keyboards where the fastest I could type because my fingers were criss-crossing each other, based on the fact that one hand was under-used or closer to the edge of the divider line.
Not to mention how awkward the arms get if you have a curve keyboard. I feel like I'm doing the chicken with my elbows spread out and pointing inwards, and strain muscles in my shoulders I'm didn't know I would need.
I've been doing this for 5 years, and I learned 2 things helped me cope the most while everyone else around me were having breakdowns with each other. Apathy and thick-skin.
The only thing important to me was doing my job, doing it well, and fulfilling my responsibilities.
Unfortunately I let my supervisor take most of my heat, if there's a conflict in projects, I ask him to coordinate with the other department heads and tell me what's my priority and I will do it. But I also hold true to organizational hierarchy like a military. Superiors work it out with superiors. If I have interdepartmental problems, that can't be solved through normal conversation, than it's up to the officers to take care of things.
In a domestic abusive relationship, it is a good tactic to be tender and nurture with one hand while you smack and abuse with the other hand. Not only does it give a person false hope, make them blame themselves, or break their spirit from confusion.
I'll keep my caution with Obama's DoJ for now, lest I be surprised later from the smack to the head.
I find it amusing, that the way to reduce deaths by "excessive speeds" is to suddenly cut power to the vehicle, effectively slamming the breaks without the break lights, on the highway. Yeah lots of lives saved there *two thumbs up* Sad thing is other countries will probably think it's a good idea.
People who play video games and have access to guns doesn't kill people. People who play video games and are mentally unstable or plain ass stupid kill people. If we booby trapped the guns so improper use would kill the attemptee, maybe we can get rid of these stupid people before they go around shooting people we may want to keep alive. Maybe we can enforce the gun laws punishing parents for not properly keeping their guns locked away.
The critics were probably offended that each Neanderthal dish had too much on the plate, not in keeping with traditional French cuisine style.
Bluetooth isn't disappointing. I mean sure it's power consumption could be better. But it's used for more than just keyboard, mouse, and headsets. Console controls would be set back without wireless. I even seen bluetooth speakers.
What they need to do is mix wireless power with bluetooth to make it extremely useful.
What's the alternative? It's pretty much improved Radio. IR sucked. And Wireless USB hasn't seen any headway.
work in a non-competitive position.....if the company wants you bad enough, they'll pay you to sit on your ass for a year. Been done.
This could work like Nader with Bush vs Gore. Nader stole enough votes from Gore to bring Bush into power. This could work the same with the WII bringing in the XBox360 into even higher margin over the others!
I think a 3,000 pound airbag traveling at 45 mph will hurt at impact.....forget secondary effects.
How do we pay for everything? How do we bring back Spanish and French to every student.
How do we keep teaching students when their text books are a decade old and they can't afford new ones?
When the buildings are crumbling, the teachers are striking because they're underpaid because of all the additional things?
I don't want to pay more taxes for education. Others don't want to pay more taxes. You know on your taxes, you can offer to pay extra. You can even give more money to the schools directly.
Ok, you say balance is important, all those are important. What would YOU cut. The question isn't what's important and what's not. The question is, what's expendable as mandatory for everyone because something has to go.