In other news, the accepted use of words can change over the span of 2,700 years. I suppose those hillbillies must also be running all the Math Olympiads and Science Olympiads all over the world?
went on a tour of Alcatraz a few years back, and the guide stopped to explain how the island had been taken over by students/protestors after it had closed as a prison,
Ah, those were the days of REAL protesters when they put THEMSELVES in jail. These spineless wannabe protesters these days want the government to do that for them too.
Yeah. That's what Frys, Best Buy, CompUSA, Tiger Direct, MicroCenter, NewEgg, Target and Walmart mean.... "fragmentation".
Yes, they do mean fragmentation. In fact, fragmentation is exactly what it is. Fragmentation of electronics sales into separate and competing entities. The mistake is believing fragmentation is automatically bad instead of a driving force to present the best, safest and cheapest option.
I mean you can't blame him for basing things on his personal experiences. Every single planet he's EVER been to with these general characteristics has had life on it so it would stand to reason this one would too right?;)
Are you sure you're not taking more into account the stigma of being seen to put little kids at risk of being killed/injured or God forbid it actually happening and that's what keeps you from speeding there more so than the fine/punishment? I think the very real danger, or at least the public perception of that danger is what causes most people to feel the pressure to follow the limit much more closely in school zones, not just the existence of the steeper fine. And if that's the case then what we need is better education about the risk you put everyone in when it comes to texting while driving in order to engender it with the same social stigma/pressure as speeding in a school zone or drunk driving.
You're forgetting hackers like to target people miles away with complete anonymity. Not people they work with that hold sub-machine guns, sign their pay checks, and have their complete life's history on file along with polygraph tests.
If you're putting together an army to fight for freedom and liberty, you can't run it like a democracy. There's a reason why decisive leadership is important in times of crisis.
I'm sorry, are you arguing in favor of Assange or President Bush serving a third term to continue the fight terrorists in Afghanistan? The rhetoric has suddenly become indistinguishable.
Considering how many ridiculous traffic violations I see on my daily drive to work somehow I have a hard time believing many police officers need come up with elaborate schemes and camera angles to make up traffic citations to fill quotas. Especially when cop cars are big ole stupid magnets that seem to just attract people to do stupid things like drive straight into them because they can't help but to stare and drive where they're staring. And it's once in a blue moon that I've ever seen someone come to a full legal stop (includes the "rollback") at a stop-sign (I don't even bother with it, less I KNOW there's a cop watching) so I don't understand why he'd be making that up of all things. That coupled with your claims in absolute terms that ALL cops are corrupt makes me think you're full of crap with this story. So why don't we kill two birds with one stone and say video proof or it didn't happen. Then you can convince us you're not full of shit and solve your problem with the police officer doing corrupt stuff at the same time.
Well, in that case nobody should be giving haircuts, becoming medical doctors, or growing food either. Surely the bastards won't fight when they're starving with nobody to patch up their friends they accidentally shoot because they've got their hair in their eyes.
I think that means it should never be applied to promote rehabilitation. As in, you shouldn't sentence someone to prison to rehabilitate them. This is 100% correct. If rehabilitation is your main goal you send them to counseling or some other form of actual rehab, not prison. Prison is for punishment.
That being said, however; Once an offender IS in prison to serve his punishment he should still be offered a program or help to have a chance to be rehabilitated and functional member of society once his punishment duration is served. It's just he shouldn't be sent there for that express purpose.
A tertiary goal is still a goal. Like I said, it not that rehabilitation isn't important it's just not the entire point of a prison sentence. The GP I'm arguing with says we should just let the criminal go free since we're not going to keep him in our society. If the only point of prison was rehabilitation this would make sense. But punishment and deterrence have always been a factor is sentencing and as far as I'm concerned it should be.
The fact that you don't want jail to be an "easy ride" makes me think that you agree, but maybe you're not comfortable admitting that we're punishing fellow human beings by taking their freedoms away and locking them in a little room. "Rehabilitation" sounds a lot more pleasant, you can sentence someone to a lot of years of that without even feeling guilty and that's why it's dangerous to think that's the central tenant of what we're doing now cause it ain't even close and never has been. Jail is serious punishment, and should not be taken lightly.
Maybe because "Come to our country, commit crimes, and simply get asked nicely to leave" isn't a sign we're interested in putting up? It's called a penal system for a reason. Rehabilitation has always been a tertiary goal behind punishment and deterrence. That doesn't mean it's not important, but you're acting like it's the entire point of a prison sentence, which it absolutely is not.
Perhaps since he isn't getting paid to write the review and likely has neither infinite time nor money like most customers he's probably capable of discerning what is crap before he spends his time and money on it and therefore doesn't? If he was a gaming magazine that was responsible for reviewing ALL games then your parroting the ancient concerns over the media's game reviews would be on target, but since he's only responsible for reviewing the games he wants to play AND review anyways, it's no surprise the games usually register in the upper end of his scale.
Yes, but unfortunately dogs can't call the police and since they are the only animal which believes the operation of a vacuum cleaner is a sinister act worth alerting authorities for the thieves plan is pretty foolproof.
People can already construe whatever they want as aggression, North Korea does it all the time, so what difference would it really make? The only thing that really matters is if at the end of the day your willing to start shooting and I don't think some treaty about talking is going to factor very strongly into that. Plus theres no way in hell countries like the US are gonna sign onto it.
Yes, they have. Especially if they think calling said person and asking them if they're sure they really are who they say they are a 2nd time is a better way of accomplishing that then calling someone else to get independent verification.
Well, I'm not a Doctor, but I assume you'd just plug it in. Considering the ubiquity of laptops in college these days a lot of classrooms have power outlets built into the desks themselves, and I've never heard a student complain they couldn't do their work because their laptop didn't have power. That and how often do you really use a textbook in class anyways? Usually class is lecture time and the textbook is used back at the dorm at night with reading/problems assigned.
Hunting to sell food is not legal, hunting FOR food is. And there are plenty of sustenance hunters in rural North Carolina who do literally have to hunt to put food on the table and they have no qualms about using dogs to push deer to a semi circle of pickup trucks with swivel bass seats mounted in em.
Jesus Christ this thread is painful, both parties in it need to learn how to read. Neither side said anything about the other limiting choice, the religious dude said any reasonable atheist wouldn't restrict that choice, and then the atheist dude made a comment like the christian dude said atheists were restricting choice and then the religious dude instead of explaining decided to be snippy back and now theres been like 8 replies over a non issue that everyone is in agreement over: Aliens can do whatever the fuck they want. Especially once they harvest our delicious kidneys.
I find the dichotomy of trusting someone enough to provide clean and safe items to ingest into your body but not trusting them enough to handle your credit card for 3 minutes w/o stealing it (even though you'd get the money back) interesting. I'm not saying it's wrong or I don't often feel the same way, it's just when you step back and think about it that seems kind fo backwards doesn't it?
Ouch, you're really going to go with car lot shopping as your definition of a good user experience and what people like/want? I mean, I want to root for your overall point but...DAMN!! Average people HATE shopping for cars on the lot, if that's the model for choosing a linux distro no wonder it has such a low home-user base.
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In other news, the accepted use of words can change over the span of 2,700 years. I suppose those hillbillies must also be running all the Math Olympiads and Science Olympiads all over the world?
went on a tour of Alcatraz a few years back, and the guide stopped to explain how the island had been taken over by students/protestors after it had closed as a prison,
Ah, those were the days of REAL protesters when they put THEMSELVES in jail. These spineless wannabe protesters these days want the government to do that for them too.
Yeah. That's what Frys, Best Buy, CompUSA, Tiger Direct, MicroCenter, NewEgg, Target and Walmart mean.... "fragmentation".
Yes, they do mean fragmentation. In fact, fragmentation is exactly what it is. Fragmentation of electronics sales into separate and competing entities. The mistake is believing fragmentation is automatically bad instead of a driving force to present the best, safest and cheapest option.
I mean you can't blame him for basing things on his personal experiences. Every single planet he's EVER been to with these general characteristics has had life on it so it would stand to reason this one would too right? ;)
Are you sure you're not taking more into account the stigma of being seen to put little kids at risk of being killed/injured or God forbid it actually happening and that's what keeps you from speeding there more so than the fine/punishment? I think the very real danger, or at least the public perception of that danger is what causes most people to feel the pressure to follow the limit much more closely in school zones, not just the existence of the steeper fine. And if that's the case then what we need is better education about the risk you put everyone in when it comes to texting while driving in order to engender it with the same social stigma/pressure as speeding in a school zone or drunk driving.
You're forgetting hackers like to target people miles away with complete anonymity. Not people they work with that hold sub-machine guns, sign their pay checks, and have their complete life's history on file along with polygraph tests.
If you're putting together an army to fight for freedom and liberty, you can't run it like a democracy. There's a reason why decisive leadership is important in times of crisis.
I'm sorry, are you arguing in favor of Assange or President Bush serving a third term to continue the fight terrorists in Afghanistan? The rhetoric has suddenly become indistinguishable.
Considering how many ridiculous traffic violations I see on my daily drive to work somehow I have a hard time believing many police officers need come up with elaborate schemes and camera angles to make up traffic citations to fill quotas. Especially when cop cars are big ole stupid magnets that seem to just attract people to do stupid things like drive straight into them because they can't help but to stare and drive where they're staring. And it's once in a blue moon that I've ever seen someone come to a full legal stop (includes the "rollback") at a stop-sign (I don't even bother with it, less I KNOW there's a cop watching) so I don't understand why he'd be making that up of all things. That coupled with your claims in absolute terms that ALL cops are corrupt makes me think you're full of crap with this story. So why don't we kill two birds with one stone and say video proof or it didn't happen. Then you can convince us you're not full of shit and solve your problem with the police officer doing corrupt stuff at the same time.
Well, in that case nobody should be giving haircuts, becoming medical doctors, or growing food either. Surely the bastards won't fight when they're starving with nobody to patch up their friends they accidentally shoot because they've got their hair in their eyes.
And yet people will probably continue to misuse the word as expected despite your efforts. Ironic isn't it?
I think that means it should never be applied to promote rehabilitation. As in, you shouldn't sentence someone to prison to rehabilitate them. This is 100% correct. If rehabilitation is your main goal you send them to counseling or some other form of actual rehab, not prison. Prison is for punishment.
That being said, however; Once an offender IS in prison to serve his punishment he should still be offered a program or help to have a chance to be rehabilitated and functional member of society once his punishment duration is served. It's just he shouldn't be sent there for that express purpose.
A tertiary goal is still a goal. Like I said, it not that rehabilitation isn't important it's just not the entire point of a prison sentence. The GP I'm arguing with says we should just let the criminal go free since we're not going to keep him in our society. If the only point of prison was rehabilitation this would make sense. But punishment and deterrence have always been a factor is sentencing and as far as I'm concerned it should be.
The fact that you don't want jail to be an "easy ride" makes me think that you agree, but maybe you're not comfortable admitting that we're punishing fellow human beings by taking their freedoms away and locking them in a little room. "Rehabilitation" sounds a lot more pleasant, you can sentence someone to a lot of years of that without even feeling guilty and that's why it's dangerous to think that's the central tenant of what we're doing now cause it ain't even close and never has been. Jail is serious punishment, and should not be taken lightly.
Maybe because "Come to our country, commit crimes, and simply get asked nicely to leave" isn't a sign we're interested in putting up? It's called a penal system for a reason. Rehabilitation has always been a tertiary goal behind punishment and deterrence. That doesn't mean it's not important, but you're acting like it's the entire point of a prison sentence, which it absolutely is not.
Perhaps since he isn't getting paid to write the review and likely has neither infinite time nor money like most customers he's probably capable of discerning what is crap before he spends his time and money on it and therefore doesn't? If he was a gaming magazine that was responsible for reviewing ALL games then your parroting the ancient concerns over the media's game reviews would be on target, but since he's only responsible for reviewing the games he wants to play AND review anyways, it's no surprise the games usually register in the upper end of his scale.
Yes, but unfortunately dogs can't call the police and since they are the only animal which believes the operation of a vacuum cleaner is a sinister act worth alerting authorities for the thieves plan is pretty foolproof.
I was all about to go all candlemaker's petition on you until I caught the emoticon at the end, lol
People can already construe whatever they want as aggression, North Korea does it all the time, so what difference would it really make? The only thing that really matters is if at the end of the day your willing to start shooting and I don't think some treaty about talking is going to factor very strongly into that. Plus theres no way in hell countries like the US are gonna sign onto it.
Have people gone stupid?
Yes, they have. Especially if they think calling said person and asking them if they're sure they really are who they say they are a 2nd time is a better way of accomplishing that then calling someone else to get independent verification.
The greatest hypocrites always accuse others of what they themselves are guilty of.
The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club.
What to do when the battery dies?
Well, I'm not a Doctor, but I assume you'd just plug it in. Considering the ubiquity of laptops in college these days a lot of classrooms have power outlets built into the desks themselves, and I've never heard a student complain they couldn't do their work because their laptop didn't have power. That and how often do you really use a textbook in class anyways? Usually class is lecture time and the textbook is used back at the dorm at night with reading/problems assigned.
Hunting to sell food is not legal, hunting FOR food is. And there are plenty of sustenance hunters in rural North Carolina who do literally have to hunt to put food on the table and they have no qualms about using dogs to push deer to a semi circle of pickup trucks with swivel bass seats mounted in em.
Jesus Christ this thread is painful, both parties in it need to learn how to read. Neither side said anything about the other limiting choice, the religious dude said any reasonable atheist wouldn't restrict that choice, and then the atheist dude made a comment like the christian dude said atheists were restricting choice and then the religious dude instead of explaining decided to be snippy back and now theres been like 8 replies over a non issue that everyone is in agreement over: Aliens can do whatever the fuck they want. Especially once they harvest our delicious kidneys.
I find the dichotomy of trusting someone enough to provide clean and safe items to ingest into your body but not trusting them enough to handle your credit card for 3 minutes w/o stealing it (even though you'd get the money back) interesting. I'm not saying it's wrong or I don't often feel the same way, it's just when you step back and think about it that seems kind fo backwards doesn't it?
Ouch, you're really going to go with car lot shopping as your definition of a good user experience and what people like/want? I mean, I want to root for your overall point but...DAMN!! Average people HATE shopping for cars on the lot, if that's the model for choosing a linux distro no wonder it has such a low home-user base.
Well if the mayor of Google isn't properly protecting our user data then I'm certainly not voting for him again!!