Would you support the distribution of a game where the aim is to brutally rape as many infants as possible? What about one where the aim is to rape as many adults as possible? What about where the aim is to have sex with as many adults as possible?
get the guy out of jail and overrule the Michigan Supreme Court. More power to them.
Wow! that's pretty sad that he got convicted but it does say that he wasn't inside his home so I can at least understand it. I'm glad they got it sorted out in the end and now people aren't required by law to be a victim.
Anyhow, I guess everyone should check their own state's law and make sure they know their rights before some jackass is inside their home at 3am...
For one thing, when someone is shot, the blood tends to spray everywhere.
This is a good pro-tip. Best to use something small and make sure it ends up in a pool of blood, then you make sure you move it a safe distance from the headless intruder since hell you never know, he might have got back up!
The Castle Doctrine," and it's a lot more stringent than people think
Not here in the south, maybe some northern states have laws that say you can't protect yourself in your own home but regardless the court of public opinion is pretty powerful so you would just have to make sure not to look too much like you where waiting with the gun pointed at the door. It helps to do what the cops do and have a gun or knife to plant on the corpse as well..
But regardless non-premeditated murder only gets ya 3 to 5 years, it's not like you're a hacker or pedophile...
I'd hope that any half-ass lawyer could get the guy off. Most of the time they use the "It could be you on trial for trying to protect your wife from being raped by the robber" defense or the "He was a piece of shit and needed killin" defense...
Most of the time the DA won't even bother trying to prosecute such a case since regardless of what the law says no jury likes the idea of a crack heads in their own homes takin their shit or fucking with them.
Well shot-guns are legal everywhere in the US as far as I can figure. (we do have some handgun bans in places) Blowing someone's head off who is inside your home is legal pretty much everywhere in the US as long as you make sure to claim you where afraid for your life and you make sure not to shoot them in the back.
So in the US anyhow his statement works. But it would work better if he was over the age of 40 since the laws here seem to change based on how old you are. If you're a 20 something someone might think you've been playing to many computer games or something.
The Chinese invented gun powder but not the gun so does that somehow mean we take away credit from them? Nope...
My citations all say and mean exactly what my original post did. Hey I even gave references where you just spout off your opinion but I'm full of fail? Me thinks your ego needs a reboot...
Anyway as far as Hero's 'steam engine' just being a temple wonder I'd point out that steam engines have little to no value in today's world outside of being wonders of the 19th century. I guess that means we gotta stop calling them steam engines now or we will anger the great and powerful coaxial of slashdot fame.
Look here Billy, I'm really sorry but your logic is faulty and no one is interested in your personal definitions as to what makes a steam engine, robot, or computer what it is. Your posts are little more than trolls.
Am I the only one that read the submitter's username as Super Rape Commando?
Yes... it's just the guilt manifesting itself from when in 1991, you raped and murdering a teenage girl. Why won't you just come clean already? I mean, we've all been there buddy, at least at some point, so why are you refusing to talk to us about it?
He fucking asked so don't mod me down bro. The site has the exact same quality of material as youtube with a bonus. No over9000, rickrolls or other shitty MEME's...
The aeolipile Hero described is considered to be the first recorded steam engine or reaction steam turbine.[4]
In recognition of the Aeolipile's contribution to steam engineering, the U.S. Navy chose a semblance of the Aeolipile for the Boiler Technician rating badge.
It is not known whether the aeolipile was put to practical use as an 'engine' in ancient times. Hero's drawing shows a stand-alone device, and was presumably intended as a temple 'wonder', like many of the other devices described in Pneumatica. [3]
Vitruvius, on the other hand, mentions use of the aeolipile for demonstrating the physical properties of the weather. He describes the aeolipile as "...a scientific invention [to] discover a divine truth lurking in the laws of the heavens.[5]"
The editors at New Scientist have constructed a replica of what is believed to be the earliest known programmable robot.
In about 60 AD, a Greek engineer called Hero constructed a three-wheeled cart that could carry a group of automata to the front of a stage where they would perform for an audience. Power came from a falling weight that pulled on string wrapped round the cart's drive axle, and Sharkey reckons this string-based control mechanism is exactly equivalent to a modern programming language.
By the way, Noel Sharkey is a computer scientist at the University of Sheffield, UK, who recently discovered that one of Leonardo da Vinci's robotic creations was based on Hero's designs.
The Antikythera mechanism was a glorified lookup table. It was not general purpose, and could not "reprogramed." The Jacquard loom is the generally accepted as the earliest programmable machine.
The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical calculator (also described as the first known mechanical computer)[1][2] designed to calculate astronomical positions.
But hey, I also bet you believe that Archimedes "Heat Ray" was a laser.
Seems like you're the one with the problem here as EVERY word I used was sourced in my original post.
We owe our entire civilization to the Greeks. Without their advanced understanding of the sciences and mathematics, which stood unquestioned for nearly 2000 years, we would not even be having this conversation right now and you sir would be living in a small thatch hut instead of your parents basement.
A spinning wheel is not an engine, no more than a pinwheel is a turbine. A windup toy is not a robot, no more than a top is a robot. A slide rule is not a computer, no more than a t-square is a computer.
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Would you support the distribution of a game where the aim is to brutally rape as many infants as possible?
What about one where the aim is to rape as many adults as possible?
What about where the aim is to have sex with as many adults as possible?
Yes...
Yes...
Yes...
get the guy out of jail and overrule the Michigan Supreme Court. More power to them.
Wow! that's pretty sad that he got convicted but it does say that he wasn't inside his home so I can at least understand it. I'm glad they got it sorted out in the end and now people aren't required by law to be a victim.
Anyhow, I guess everyone should check their own state's law and make sure they know their rights before some jackass is inside their home at 3am...
For one thing, when someone is shot, the blood tends to spray everywhere.
This is a good pro-tip. Best to use something small and make sure it ends up in a pool of blood, then you make sure you move it a safe distance from the headless intruder since hell you never know, he might have got back up!
The Castle Doctrine," and it's a lot more stringent than people think
Not here in the south, maybe some northern states have laws that say you can't protect yourself in your own home but regardless the court of public opinion is pretty powerful so you would just have to make sure not to look too much like you where waiting with the gun pointed at the door. It helps to do what the cops do and have a gun or knife to plant on the corpse as well..
But regardless non-premeditated murder only gets ya 3 to 5 years, it's not like you're a hacker or pedophile...
I'd hope that any half-ass lawyer could get the guy off. Most of the time they use the "It could be you on trial for trying to protect your wife from being raped by the robber" defense or the "He was a piece of shit and needed killin" defense...
Most of the time the DA won't even bother trying to prosecute such a case since regardless of what the law says no jury likes the idea of a crack heads in their own homes takin their shit or fucking with them.
Jail for unreasonable use of deadly force?
Well shot-guns are legal everywhere in the US as far as I can figure. (we do have some handgun bans in places) Blowing someone's head off who is inside your home is legal pretty much everywhere in the US as long as you make sure to claim you where afraid for your life and you make sure not to shoot them in the back.
So in the US anyhow his statement works. But it would work better if he was over the age of 40 since the laws here seem to change based on how old you are. If you're a 20 something someone might think you've been playing to many computer games or something.
Where were the steam shovels and trains?
The Chinese invented gun powder but not the gun so does that somehow mean we take away credit from them? Nope...
My citations all say and mean exactly what my original post did. Hey I even gave references where you just spout off your opinion but I'm full of fail? Me thinks your ego needs a reboot...
Anyway as far as Hero's 'steam engine' just being a temple wonder I'd point out that steam engines have little to no value in today's world outside of being wonders of the 19th century. I guess that means we gotta stop calling them steam engines now or we will anger the great and powerful coaxial of slashdot fame.
Look here Billy, I'm really sorry but your logic is faulty and no one is interested in your personal definitions as to what makes a steam engine, robot, or computer what it is. Your posts are little more than trolls.
Which is why we need another new law covering this....
I can't compile what you're trying to say without the ??? and Profit! directives.
Am I the only one that read the submitter's username as Super Rape Commando?
Yes... it's just the guilt manifesting itself from when in 1991, you raped and murdering a teenage girl. Why won't you just come clean already? I mean, we've all been there buddy, at least at some point, so why are you refusing to talk to us about it?
It's also very difficult to kiss with them.
True, one more of the many many reasons why God doesn't want you to use condoms.
"Just don't do it kids, and if you do do it please don't wear protection..." - The Space Pope
don't screw without a condom, fuckhead,
LoL, You're an idiot. Condoms aren't very effective when it comes to herpes.
He fucking asked so don't mod me down bro. The site has the exact same quality of material as youtube with a bonus. No over9000, rickrolls or other shitty MEME's...
What word do you think about to indicate "yes"?
Porn
A steam engine does useful work, the Aeolipile didn't, and was never used for anything beyond "Ooos and Ahhhs".
Here's your Citation -
Heron's wind-up cart, was clockwork, not a robot.
Here's Your Citation
The Antikythera mechanism was a glorified lookup table. It was not general purpose, and could not "reprogramed." The Jacquard loom is the generally accepted as the earliest programmable machine.
AGAIN Your Citation -
But hey, I also bet you believe that Archimedes "Heat Ray" was a laser.
Seems like you're the one with the problem here as EVERY word I used was sourced in my original post.
We owe our entire civilization to the Greeks. Without their advanced understanding of the sciences and mathematics, which stood unquestioned for nearly 2000 years, we would not even be having this conversation right now and you sir would be living in a small thatch hut instead of your parents basement.
NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!
Doping himself was unforgivable. Now if he had doped a young girl and then raped her, the French would be celebrating him as a hero.
You know, I think AC intended this to be a troll but it's honestly kind-of true so pretty damn funny..
Everyone knows computer geeks have less muscle mass and stamina than your average coma patient.
As a current and longtime comatose patient I can indeed attest to this...
A spinning wheel is not an engine, no more than a pinwheel is a turbine.
A windup toy is not a robot, no more than a top is a robot.
A slide rule is not a computer, no more than a t-square is a computer.
You are so totally wrong that it's painful.
Where's Oog the Open Source Caveman when you need him?
He's dead man.. Saber-tooth got-em... sad really..
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Ancient Greeks actually had advanced technology
But the ancient Greeks had advanced technology like steam engines, robots and computers...
I'm afraid it's really been all down hill since then.
my company is hiring. perl + oo programming in sunnyvale, ca. ask me for details.
Uhhh hi... I program in BASIC, and Turbo Pascal 7. Can I have a job?
unhappy life because they don't fit into our society as it stands. Many of them can't breed or drive a car for example.
So then all of /. is disabled??? I wonder if we file for disability or start a non-profit?
Great, now I'm imagining Abby raising a gothic neanderthal kid with tats and piercings.
That's the plot line for our new spin off show? Who the hell told you about this?
what cunt?
I'm sorry this is /. so I think you must have taken a wrong turn on the information super highway...