Of course they also believed you were a witch if they tried to drown you via 'dunking' and it failed, at which point they would then burn you at the stake, or stone you, or murder you via some other barbaric means. Obviously if you drowned you were innocent, but still dead.
There's also the psychological dominance factor, and suppression of a population via fear, but yeah, sadism looks to be a big part. There are people that have actually studied the subject. (I don't know how they got their data, but apparently they did.)
Talk to professional interrogators, or the people that have actually studied the subject.
According to them, torture is worse than worthless because the 'intelligence' you gather is far more likely to be false than anything else. So again, stop believing hollywood, they make shit up for a living.
It's not actually a Geneva Convention issue, that's a separate agreement that covers torture as a no-no. The US is a signatory of certain international agreements on human rights that ban, among other things, torture, and those are not limited to any specific time or circumstances.
Actually 9/11 did a lot more damage to the US economy than killing of a hundred CEOs or Billionaires ever would. You have no idea how many companies had very important servers in those buildings. I spend weeks helping numerous admins trying to get things working again after that major hardware failure event. (Ok, it wasn't the hardwares fault, an entire building, a skyscraper in fact, fell on them.)
The bequests in his will are public knowledge, and it's not going to the government. In fact, it pretty much won't change the economic situation in the US in the slightest, except maybe the 7-11 he goes to won't carry that one flavor anymore...
Nope, alqueda is the ones that told isis to chill, they are too radical and will piss off all their potential allies. Well, isis didn't chill, and no longer has the support of a whole chunk of the terrorist enablement system apparently. Or at least that's what I've seen reported as personally I have no idea wtf goes on over there. I suspect the heat and sun has baked too many brains too much.
Why do people keep making those kinds of statements? Nobody at slashdot cares and won't change what they feel like putting up just because somebody is going to question whether it should be there or not. It's even more lame than firsties.
You're going off topic here. This has nothing to do with lgbt or any of that. In fact, I believe I've seen something saying that they are jailed or executed in Iran, but that isn't the subject. It's the Iranian government fining or arresting people for posting pictures of women without head coverings. Try to stay on subject, and not blasting out your own personal political rants on other topics. It's not a 'feminism' thread, it's a 'Iran is Violating Human Rights of Women' thread.
Though I highly suspect it is a large decrease of what they used to have, especially during the time period when women could go to real colleges and get actual education instead of the advanced homebody crud they force them into now.
Since laws are enacted but do not expire in this country, sometimes one that was perfectly reasonable for an issue at that time becomes nonsensical to later generations. You can bet the whole banning of shooting animals from moving vehicles unless it's a whale is a leftover from the age of whaling when they wanted to shut down stupid yahoos hunting from cars because they shot up some peoples houses by accident or something similar.
In the city I'm in, it's illegal to hang the wash out to dry on one particular day of the week. Sounds pretty stupid, doesn't it. Back when it was made, that day was the official trash burning days as it was before landfills and the recycling centers. Some idiots kept hanging their laundry out to dry on that day, and then raised hell over it getting dirty from the soot & ashes of burning trash. Well they couldn't ban the public from dealing with the garbage in the only way available to them, so they banned the idiots from doing the same stupid thing they kept doing every week.
Again, there are often good reasons behind laws that now seem really stupid. Though the sunshine guarantee needs more explanation to me, along with the house coat, but the automated vehicles limited to 60mph is based on flawed reasoning to begin with if it's the one I think it is. So yes, there really are stupid laws that were made for or by stupid people, but you can't just assume that was the case right off the bat.
Actually comparing trumps current bid for power to the one hitler used shows a lot of scary point of similarity. Also trumps statements of goals are eerily the same, though in English. Comparing him to hitler may not be right, but it is definitely too close for comfort. I guess the only way we'll know for sure is if he wins the election and we see what happens. Assuming that the secret service doesn't take care of him about 2 weeks in.
If you don't see the similarities, go study some history, it's all recorded there in black and white. Including a few audio and video recordings. And yes, I'm talking about the rise to power, not the whole WW2 thing.
We tried leaving the software issues to the software, but most of it had nothing to do and just stopped running. The few that took up the task were MCP and Skynet, and of course that went completely off the rails so we had to terminate that process and reboot the timeline.
Democracy is for people, software are tools, and though some people are tools, they are allowed to participate not because they are tools but only because they are people. Any tools that are not people don't care about it in the first place.
Geek or not, the technical stuff actually is technical and norms usually don't even come close to having the necessary knowledge to understand even the basics. Then there's the whole brain factor. Simply put, we think differently than they do. We tend to think using more reason and logic than they do, and unlike the common misconception, we have just as much emotion and humor which makes us unlike the Mr Spock they think of us as, at least when they aren't thinking of us as raging drunk/stoned hippies at a movie stereotype college frat party.
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Of course they also believed you were a witch if they tried to drown you via 'dunking' and it failed, at which point they would then burn you at the stake, or stone you, or murder you via some other barbaric means.
Obviously if you drowned you were innocent, but still dead.
There's also the psychological dominance factor, and suppression of a population via fear, but yeah, sadism looks to be a big part.
There are people that have actually studied the subject. (I don't know how they got their data, but apparently they did.)
Talk to professional interrogators, or the people that have actually studied the subject.
According to them, torture is worse than worthless because the 'intelligence' you gather is far more likely to be false than anything else.
So again, stop believing hollywood, they make shit up for a living.
Criminals, idiots, and mistook hollywood fictional creations as being representative of reality.
It's not actually a Geneva Convention issue, that's a separate agreement that covers torture as a no-no. The US is a signatory of certain international agreements on human rights that ban, among other things, torture, and those are not limited to any specific time or circumstances.
Actually 9/11 did a lot more damage to the US economy than killing of a hundred CEOs or Billionaires ever would.
You have no idea how many companies had very important servers in those buildings. I spend weeks helping numerous admins trying to get things working again after that major hardware failure event. (Ok, it wasn't the hardwares fault, an entire building, a skyscraper in fact, fell on them.)
Larry Ellison? Yeah, it'll make things a tad more sane and stable.
The bequests in his will are public knowledge, and it's not going to the government. In fact, it pretty much won't change the economic situation in the US in the slightest, except maybe the 7-11 he goes to won't carry that one flavor anymore...
Vista?! No, it's probably more like Windows ME, and they're just now finding out what kind of hellspawn nightmare that version of #### was.
Terrorists aren't exactly known for intelligence or thinking rationally.
To both,unfortunately :(
Nope, alqueda is the ones that told isis to chill, they are too radical and will piss off all their potential allies. Well, isis didn't chill, and no longer has the support of a whole chunk of the terrorist enablement system apparently. Or at least that's what I've seen reported as personally I have no idea wtf goes on over there. I suspect the heat and sun has baked too many brains too much.
Not sure if that applies to alqaeda. Maybe you should go with crimes against humanity.
Why do people keep making those kinds of statements? Nobody at slashdot cares and won't change what they feel like putting up just because somebody is going to question whether it should be there or not. It's even more lame than firsties.
I know for a fact that it's specifically legal in my city when it's warm/hot out.
Of course, nobody wants to go topless when it's freezing.
It's a lot more than half. They repress more than just the females.
You're going off topic here. This has nothing to do with lgbt or any of that. In fact, I believe I've seen something saying that they are jailed or executed in Iran, but that isn't the subject. It's the Iranian government fining or arresting people for posting pictures of women without head coverings.
Try to stay on subject, and not blasting out your own personal political rants on other topics. It's not a 'feminism' thread, it's a 'Iran is Violating Human Rights of Women' thread.
Stop giving them ideas!
Nope, Pleasantville is WAY too liberal for them. :(
I wish I was joking.
Though I highly suspect it is a large decrease of what they used to have, especially during the time period when women could go to real colleges and get actual education instead of the advanced homebody crud they force them into now.
Since laws are enacted but do not expire in this country, sometimes one that was perfectly reasonable for an issue at that time becomes nonsensical to later generations. You can bet the whole banning of shooting animals from moving vehicles unless it's a whale is a leftover from the age of whaling when they wanted to shut down stupid yahoos hunting from cars because they shot up some peoples houses by accident or something similar.
In the city I'm in, it's illegal to hang the wash out to dry on one particular day of the week. Sounds pretty stupid, doesn't it. Back when it was made, that day was the official trash burning days as it was before landfills and the recycling centers. Some idiots kept hanging their laundry out to dry on that day, and then raised hell over it getting dirty from the soot & ashes of burning trash. Well they couldn't ban the public from dealing with the garbage in the only way available to them, so they banned the idiots from doing the same stupid thing they kept doing every week.
Again, there are often good reasons behind laws that now seem really stupid.
Though the sunshine guarantee needs more explanation to me, along with the house coat, but the automated vehicles limited to 60mph is based on flawed reasoning to begin with if it's the one I think it is.
So yes, there really are stupid laws that were made for or by stupid people, but you can't just assume that was the case right off the bat.
Actually comparing trumps current bid for power to the one hitler used shows a lot of scary point of similarity.
Also trumps statements of goals are eerily the same, though in English.
Comparing him to hitler may not be right, but it is definitely too close for comfort.
I guess the only way we'll know for sure is if he wins the election and we see what happens.
Assuming that the secret service doesn't take care of him about 2 weeks in.
If you don't see the similarities, go study some history, it's all recorded there in black and white. Including a few audio and video recordings.
And yes, I'm talking about the rise to power, not the whole WW2 thing.
We tried leaving the software issues to the software, but most of it had nothing to do and just stopped running. The few that took up the task were MCP and Skynet, and of course that went completely off the rails so we had to terminate that process and reboot the timeline.
Democracy is for people, software are tools, and though some people are tools, they are allowed to participate not because they are tools but only because they are people. Any tools that are not people don't care about it in the first place.
Geek or not, the technical stuff actually is technical and norms usually don't even come close to having the necessary knowledge to understand even the basics.
Then there's the whole brain factor. Simply put, we think differently than they do. We tend to think using more reason and logic than they do, and unlike the common misconception, we have just as much emotion and humor which makes us unlike the Mr Spock they think of us as, at least when they aren't thinking of us as raging drunk/stoned hippies at a movie stereotype college frat party.
I don't know about that.
In my opinion, Larry Ellison is a rather unstable nut job, and that's from a long time before Java was ever written.