No, the death penalty isn't a deterrent.... It's about the sweet satisfaction you get from raw vengeance. It's not about the convict; nothing, and I mean nothing, is as cathartic for us as frying them in the chair.
You say this as if it's a bad thing. There are people in this world who need to die.
Personally, I'd like to see my former neighbor take the long walk. She was stealing pain meds from her own mother who was in the process of painfully dying of cancer. Got that? She was partying it up with drugs that were supposed to be easing her own mother's suffering in her final days. She didn't even get sent to jail.
So you honestly believe that fewer than 1000 American women with breast cancer go without medications that could prolong their lives?
I never said that. I said you didn't back up your numbers. I also pointed out that you are apparently incapable of disagreeing with someone without resorting to petty name calling. A pity. Apparently you also can't argue with them without inserting made up insinuations about their personal habits. I do not own any sort of SUV, thank you very much. I drive a sedan which gets fairly reasonable gas mileage and take public transportation whenever I can get away with it.
Disagreeing with someone without being a schmuck - it's a valuable skill. Learn it.
Ah, you can't come up with real numbers so you resort to name calling. Tch tch. Personally I think that both private and socialized health care systems have advantages and serious flaws. But hey, far be it from me to get in the way of your "You're a boogerhead so there!" style of repartee.
You say he's got three stories there. But just clicking one of them (the 2nd one) I see this:
The drug Herceptin is said to improve survival rates and quality of life for women with advanced breast cancer - but, according to the charity, around 1,000 women in the UK who could benefit from it are not being given access to it.
Sounds more like 1000 stories to me. And that's just one of the links.
Public servants are not employees of each citizen. No, but they are employees of the government, our elected representatives, and therefore the public as a whole. Yeah, yeah. I'll tell you what I told the last person who pulled the "You work for the state, I pay your salary!" line on me.
"Yes ma'am, you pay my salary. Based on the most recent census you pay roughly $0.008 of my annual salary. Here's a penny. Keep the change and shut the fuck up."
People who are pro-2nd amendment tend to be conservative, by and large Republican with a smattering of Libertarians, more Democrats than you'd likely believe, and plenty of us who consider ourselves unaffiliated with any party.
We do not, however, just go out and "do it." A lot more heated rhetoric gets thrown around than bullets. We're not so different than others in that.
Where's all these constitution loving guns nuts I'm always hearing about?
I heard about this four days ago on a firearms discussion board I frequent. It was brought up in the Legal & Political forum on said board. We don't run around casually threatening to shoot government officials, despite what you may think. There was some rather strong language. The consensus was that the AG is no friend of ours with opinions like that. You may be surprised to learn that being pro-2nd Amendment does not necessarily equate to being a Republican and definitely does not equate to supporting the current administration.
This little tidbit from the blog of a LEO (sheriff). And yes, his boss knows about it and he doesn't say anything in it that he wouldn't want the whole world to know.
Had a young gentleman put in an application at work last month. Looked sharp! Sounded sharp! Folks everywhere were all sorts of happy.
Unfortunately, the officer doing the background checks put the applicants name into Google and came up with his MySpace account.
Tip for the Wise: if you're going to apply at a Law Enforcement agency, take the paean to the Mighty Marijuana Plant off your MySpace page, along with the albums dedicated to photos of you imbibing the Wonder Weed in various... interesting... locations, hmm-'kay?
Who has the right to say to readers, "This is crap, read something better," especially to budding readers who are already at an age when young boys begin dropping off from reading as it becomes "uncool."
I've tried to make this point repeatedly. I've always got a book of some sort with me and I've had people ask me how they can get their kids to be lifelong readers. "Let them read something they like" is usually my reply. I started out with comic books and graduated to a box of old "Doc Savage" 1930's pulp novels my dad had lying around. "Hey! This book has a guy on the cover with big muscles, a submachine gun and... DINOSAURS! COOL!" From there I moved on to Robert Heinlein juveniles, and so on from there.
It can be a problem to get parents to understand that even if their kids never go on to read "great literature", simply being a constant reader of *something* will serve them well later in life.
I know I get a lot of enjoyment target shooting with the AR-15 (civilian legal semi-automatic version of an M-16) I built from a stripped bare receiver. It was a fun project too.
It also doubles as a dandy home defense weapon, but I prefer a shotgun for that.
Because you're supposed to have to make hard choices. I knew I wanted my mount the instant I hit 40. Therefore I saved my gold as I levelled. You didn't and as such you should have just suffered. Instead you contributed to the inflation of the in-game economy. Personally I hope they finally start banning the accounts of people who buy gold, not just the farmers/sellers.
Perhaps, but the actions taken with the fraudulently used identity do constitute theft. Whether it be the theft of money from a bank account or misuse of credit, thereby stealing from the credit card company and devaluing the credit rating of the person whose identity has been defrauded.
You wouldn't. Unless you live in a state that makes other types of guns and ammunition illegal.
New Jersey, if memory serves, has said that they will require "Smart Gun" technology in the future. Yet another reason I refuse to live in certain states (NJ, NY, MA, CA, IL et al)
Oh, and states such as CA and NJ have stated that police will be exempt from smart gun laws.
Not really true. There are some shops so enamored with Novell (mostly because of bosses stuck in the stoneage) that the idea of purchasing Exchange or using a full out ActiveDirectory system with a Windows only network storage share were unheard of.
Translation: "There are these guys who are like, in their late thirties who insist on using this weird old networking system I don't like. I mean, it works and all, and yeah they can do stuff with 5 or 6 servers that AD can't do with an entire server farm, but where's the pretty GUI?"
Before you ask I'm 37, I admin Novell and Windows servers, and have to deal with both NDS/eDirectory and AD. If I have to come to work at some goddawful hour it's usually because of a Windows/AD problem. If it's a Novell server giving me fits then it's almost always a hardware problem. And yet I have to deal with PHB's who want to move away from Novell and towards MS.
It sounds like plenty if the cost of living in your area is significantly lower. I make about 50K in IT in middle Tennessee (my wife makes about the same as an RN). It's a very nice area to live and expenses are fairly low.
No. If you are using a VCR or PVR to record a copy from your own cable/satellite service then you are paying HBO for their service and hence for the show. If you are downloading it via a torrent that is not necessarily true.
I'm not sure why I'm responding to an obvious flamebait post, but what the hell.
why would *anyone* live in the US voluntarily?
Spoken like someone who gets all his information about the US from other Slashdot posters, various bloggers and crappy Hollywood movies.
I've lived in various countries in Europe (3 years total) and Asia (4 years total). They were great and I wouldn't hestitate to visit any of them again, but as a place to live and work I'll keep the US.
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No, the death penalty isn't a deterrent. ... It's about the sweet satisfaction you get from raw vengeance. It's not about the convict; nothing, and I mean nothing, is as cathartic for us as frying them in the chair.
You say this as if it's a bad thing. There are people in this world who need to die.
Personally, I'd like to see my former neighbor take the long walk. She was stealing pain meds from her own mother who was in the process of painfully dying of cancer. Got that? She was partying it up with drugs that were supposed to be easing her own mother's suffering in her final days. She didn't even get sent to jail.
So you honestly believe that fewer than 1000 American women with breast cancer go without medications that could prolong their lives?
I never said that. I said you didn't back up your numbers. I also pointed out that you are apparently incapable of disagreeing with someone without resorting to petty name calling. A pity. Apparently you also can't argue with them without inserting made up insinuations about their personal habits. I do not own any sort of SUV, thank you very much. I drive a sedan which gets fairly reasonable gas mileage and take public transportation whenever I can get away with it.
Disagreeing with someone without being a schmuck - it's a valuable skill. Learn it.
Ah, you can't come up with real numbers so you resort to name calling. Tch tch. Personally I think that both private and socialized health care systems have advantages and serious flaws. But hey, far be it from me to get in the way of your "You're a boogerhead so there!" style of repartee.
You say he's got three stories there. But just clicking one of them (the 2nd one) I see this:
The drug Herceptin is said to improve survival rates and quality of life for women with advanced breast cancer - but, according to the charity, around 1,000 women in the UK who could benefit from it are not being given access to it.
Sounds more like 1000 stories to me. And that's just one of the links.
"Yes ma'am, you pay my salary. Based on the most recent census you pay roughly $0.008 of my annual salary. Here's a penny. Keep the change and shut the fuck up."
*looks down at his waistline*
It would appear I have no problem metabolizing fatty acids. I'm definitely safe.
People who are pro-2nd amendment tend to be conservative, by and large Republican with a smattering of Libertarians, more Democrats than you'd likely believe, and plenty of us who consider ourselves unaffiliated with any party.
We do not, however, just go out and "do it." A lot more heated rhetoric gets thrown around than bullets. We're not so different than others in that.
Where's all these constitution loving guns nuts I'm always hearing about?
I heard about this four days ago on a firearms discussion board I frequent. It was brought up in the Legal & Political forum on said board. We don't run around casually threatening to shoot government officials, despite what you may think. There was some rather strong language. The consensus was that the AG is no friend of ours with opinions like that. You may be surprised to learn that being pro-2nd Amendment does not necessarily equate to being a Republican and definitely does not equate to supporting the current administration.
Ford always denied that assertion.
Unlike every President since him, he had such a reputation for honesty that most took him at his word for it.
This little tidbit from the blog of a LEO (sheriff). And yes, his boss knows about it and he doesn't say anything in it that he wouldn't want the whole world to know.
... interesting ... locations, hmm-'kay?
Had a young gentleman put in an application at work last month. Looked sharp! Sounded sharp! Folks everywhere were all sorts of happy.
Unfortunately, the officer doing the background checks put the applicants name into Google and came up with his MySpace account.
Tip for the Wise: if you're going to apply at a Law Enforcement agency, take the paean to the Mighty Marijuana Plant off your MySpace page, along with the albums dedicated to photos of you imbibing the Wonder Weed in various
Who has the right to say to readers, "This is crap, read something better," especially to budding readers who are already at an age when young boys begin dropping off from reading as it becomes "uncool."
... DINOSAURS! COOL!" From there I moved on to Robert Heinlein juveniles, and so on from there.
I've tried to make this point repeatedly. I've always got a book of some sort with me and I've had people ask me how they can get their kids to be lifelong readers. "Let them read something they like" is usually my reply. I started out with comic books and graduated to a box of old "Doc Savage" 1930's pulp novels my dad had lying around. "Hey! This book has a guy on the cover with big muscles, a submachine gun and
It can be a problem to get parents to understand that even if their kids never go on to read "great literature", simply being a constant reader of *something* will serve them well later in life.
I know I get a lot of enjoyment target shooting with the AR-15 (civilian legal semi-automatic version of an M-16) I built from a stripped bare receiver. It was a fun project too.
It also doubles as a dandy home defense weapon, but I prefer a shotgun for that.
Rumor has it that OJ Simpson has volunteered to help Hans in his search for the real killers.
Because you're supposed to have to make hard choices. I knew I wanted my mount the instant I hit 40. Therefore I saved my gold as I levelled. You didn't and as such you should have just suffered. Instead you contributed to the inflation of the in-game economy. Personally I hope they finally start banning the accounts of people who buy gold, not just the farmers/sellers.
Perhaps, but the actions taken with the fraudulently used identity do constitute theft. Whether it be the theft of money from a bank account or misuse of credit, thereby stealing from the credit card company and devaluing the credit rating of the person whose identity has been defrauded.
You wouldn't. Unless you live in a state that makes other types of guns and ammunition illegal.
New Jersey, if memory serves, has said that they will require "Smart Gun" technology in the future. Yet another reason I refuse to live in certain states (NJ, NY, MA, CA, IL et al)
Oh, and states such as CA and NJ have stated that police will be exempt from smart gun laws.
Map a different letter for the user's home directory. I have it map the H: drive and tell them "H for Home."
*sniff* *sniff* *sniff*
... vapor.
I smell
Nah. We husbands die before our wives for one simple reason.
We want to.
I long for the peace that death will bring.
(just kidding honey - still love ya!)
Not really true. There are some shops so enamored with Novell (mostly because of bosses stuck in the stoneage) that the idea of purchasing Exchange or using a full out ActiveDirectory system with a Windows only network storage share were unheard of.
Translation: "There are these guys who are like, in their late thirties who insist on using this weird old networking system I don't like. I mean, it works and all, and yeah they can do stuff with 5 or 6 servers that AD can't do with an entire server farm, but where's the pretty GUI?"
Before you ask I'm 37, I admin Novell and Windows servers, and have to deal with both NDS/eDirectory and AD. If I have to come to work at some goddawful hour it's usually because of a Windows/AD problem. If it's a Novell server giving me fits then it's almost always a hardware problem. And yet I have to deal with PHB's who want to move away from Novell and towards MS.
It sounds like plenty if the cost of living in your area is significantly lower. I make about 50K in IT in middle Tennessee (my wife makes about the same as an RN). It's a very nice area to live and expenses are fairly low.
No. If you are using a VCR or PVR to record a copy from your own cable/satellite service then you are paying HBO for their service and hence for the show. If you are downloading it via a torrent that is not necessarily true.
Go for the eyes Boo! Go for the eyes!
Yep. To put it in perspective, most of the mainframe people where I work came here from NASA after the Apollo program shut down.
No, I'm not one of them. At 36 I was a kid when most of them came to work here.
I'm not sure why I'm responding to an obvious flamebait post, but what the hell.
why would *anyone* live in the US voluntarily?
Spoken like someone who gets all his information about the US from other Slashdot posters, various bloggers and crappy Hollywood movies.
I've lived in various countries in Europe (3 years total) and Asia (4 years total). They were great and I wouldn't hestitate to visit any of them again, but as a place to live and work I'll keep the US.