We have lots of room for improvement; it's true. No need to get all bitchy about it. Or am I supposed to shout "'MURICA!" here?
My previous post was a "ha ha only serious" sort of thing. I'm not even sure what message you're trying to get across here other than some sarcastic dick-waving.
The invasion of Poland was in fact justified by staging a "Polish invasion" of Germany, so you could actually argue that such deception started the whole war in the first place.
Certainly personal rights are useless if the United States does not exist, so it should be clear even to a 5th grader that protecting the United States takes precedence over individual liberties.
So in order to protect our freedoms, we have to give them up. Beautiful.
That I made up the name of Officer Smith and in fact got the gender wrong of the defendant (?) might have been a tip-off. Although I suppose evidence of my ignorance is not necessarily an acquittal.
In most of the invocations of the script format I've seen on Slashdot, it's been invented dialog.
I guess my reasoning was that other than "basement-dwelling neckbeard fagtards," all of the other things on the list are actually illegal, not commentary on (condemnation of) someone's law-abiding lifestyle.
Okay, maybe not being a "weirdo" in reasonable cases...and being an asshole or troll can get you in trouble if you do it in court...but yeah. Taking the Urban Dictionary definition of "doxing" as "when a person is 'doxed', all their personal information is made available for all users to see," I wouldn't imagine that would be illegal in most cases, but probably be a dickish thing to do.
I've never actually been on 4chan myself, but the idea that it is somewhere where everyone can flagrantly exercise their ability to speak freely sounds like a good bag to me. I might try to point out how your ("you" being generalized Slashdot) arguments are wrong/inconsistent/don't make sense, but I would do nothing to stop you posting them.
I'll end this by saying I sympathize with your viewpoint, but it seemed quite clear he was using the label as an insult rather than an identifier. And there's the "It's proper social conduct, you fagtard" bit parallel to this post that only reinforces that point.
Judge: "Mr. McMillan, you are accused of assaulting a police officer. What do you have to say for yourself?" McMillan: "I didn't do it!" Judge: "Officer Smith, did Mr. McMillan assault you?" Officer: "Yep."
I don't. The answer is: Stop voting for republicans or democrats....So vote for anyone that isn't them.
We've only got 4 options here. 1) Vote D or M, 2) Vote for a third party, 3) Vote write-in/invalid, 4) don't vote.
Are you advocating 2) or 3)? Those are the only possible interpretations of your statement. You can't be simultaneously against and for voting third-party.
If you're saying voting against R/D and voting for someone else are two separate things, that's ideological and kind of immaterial to the discussion. It ends up being the same action.
There have been cases in which we've identified terrorist leaders responsible for horrific bombings on foreign soil but because they were not focused in their ideology on targetting the US specifically deigned not to take them out -even though the countries they're victimizing would have been very happy with that result.
Funny how whenever we use the "these people want us to invade!" excuse, it never seems to pan out.
They had to disable 2 separate automatic systems and then manually retract control rods, but okay, I see your point.
That the SCRAM setup on the reactor ended up basically being the Big Red Button to trigger the meltdown was rather unfortunate. Apparently there's some debate still whether they SCRAM'd it when they realized it was going out of control, or if the SCRAM happened as a part of the routine shutdown of the reactor after the test was finished. Then the rods got stuck a third of the way in and the graphite tips were in the center of the reactor and...bad things. Hell, it took a full 18-20 seconds to even fully insert a rod to begin with. Now they build the control rods so they're held in place by a powerful electromagnet against the force of a spring so if you lose power, both the spring and gravity drive the rod into the reactor without outside intervention.
and the mess will spread to most parts of the country. Including Chernobyl.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here...it sounds like they decommissioned the last reactor back in 2000. And trying to extract useful nuclear material from the destroyed reactor would be hellaciously complicated and expensive, even assuming you don't care whether every person who does the work dies. Portions of the inside of the reactor basically melted into a big glob--nuclear material, moderators, control mechanisms, concrete from the vessel walls...
No, it melted through to the cooling pools, which they drained in order to prevent that exact circumstance. The 3 guys who did that died shortly afterwards since they were basically swimming in highly radioactive water.
The smoldering graphite, fuel and other material above, at more than 1200 C,[67] started to burn through the reactor floor and mixed with molten concrete from the reactor lining, creating corium, a radioactive semi-liquid material comparable to lava.[66][68] If this mixture had melted through the floor into the pool of water, it was feared it could have created a serious steam explosion that would have ejected more radioactive material from the reactor. It became necessary to drain the pool.[69]
The bubbler pool could be drained by opening its sluice gates. Volunteers in diving suits entered the radioactive water and managed to open the gates. These were the engineers Alexei Ananenko (who knew where the valves were) and Valeri Bezpalov, accompanied by a third man, Boris Baranov, who provided them with light from a lamp, though this lamp failed, leaving them to find the valves by feeling their way along a pipe.[70] All of them returned to the surface and according to Ananenko, their colleagues jumped in joy when they heard they had managed to open the valves. Upon emerging from the water, the three were already suffering from radiation sickness and later died.[71] Some sources claim incorrectly that they died in the plant.[70]
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But we can't send in the troops to coerce them to vote our way if they do it online!
Er, I mean, the populace can't vote 107% for breaking away from their oppressive government.
We have lots of room for improvement; it's true. No need to get all bitchy about it. Or am I supposed to shout "'MURICA!" here?
My previous post was a "ha ha only serious" sort of thing. I'm not even sure what message you're trying to get across here other than some sarcastic dick-waving.
Deserving and doing are two separate things.
The invasion of Poland was in fact justified by staging a "Polish invasion" of Germany, so you could actually argue that such deception started the whole war in the first place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
Especially if you have no fear of "being martyred" for your religious beliefs.
Some people have a weird definition of martyrdom. Being self-defenced to death is a far cry from being executed for your beliefs.
Presumably if it was generally known that the authorities weren't going to investigate any suspicious packages, They would start sending more of them.
The real joke is that even though it happened in Canada, the U.S. still clenched its buttcheeks.
(cf. "dumb Americans don't even know where Canada is" etc. etc.)
Certainly personal rights are useless if the United States does not exist, so it should be clear even to a 5th grader that protecting the United States takes precedence over individual liberties.
So in order to protect our freedoms, we have to give them up. Beautiful.
That I made up the name of Officer Smith and in fact got the gender wrong of the defendant (?) might have been a tip-off. Although I suppose evidence of my ignorance is not necessarily an acquittal.
In most of the invocations of the script format I've seen on Slashdot, it's been invented dialog.
I guess my reasoning was that other than "basement-dwelling neckbeard fagtards," all of the other things on the list are actually illegal, not commentary on (condemnation of) someone's law-abiding lifestyle.
Okay, maybe not being a "weirdo" in reasonable cases...and being an asshole or troll can get you in trouble if you do it in court...but yeah. Taking the Urban Dictionary definition of "doxing" as "when a person is 'doxed', all their personal information is made available for all users to see," I wouldn't imagine that would be illegal in most cases, but probably be a dickish thing to do.
I've never actually been on 4chan myself, but the idea that it is somewhere where everyone can flagrantly exercise their ability to speak freely sounds like a good bag to me. I might try to point out how your ("you" being generalized Slashdot) arguments are wrong/inconsistent/don't make sense, but I would do nothing to stop you posting them.
I'll end this by saying I sympathize with your viewpoint, but it seemed quite clear he was using the label as an insult rather than an identifier. And there's the "It's proper social conduct, you fagtard" bit parallel to this post that only reinforces that point.
I was pointing out a general trend in court proceeding, using a handy name. I thought most people could figure out that I was generalizing.
This is /. -- we never read articles anyway.
1) Born in Ukrainian SSR, yes. Doesn't stop it being Ukraine, does it?
2) You brought up her being Russian in the first place.
3) You're telling me to lighten up? You're the one whipping out 3 bullet points.
That there's a presiding judge doesn't imply that it isn't a trial by jury.
Your use of "fagtards" makes me suspect you are yourself a member of the group you're criticizing.
Free speech is messy. Completely free speech is completely messy.
Hail Eris
She's Ukrainian.
Judge: "Mr. McMillan, you are accused of assaulting a police officer. What do you have to say for yourself?"
McMillan: "I didn't do it!"
Judge: "Officer Smith, did Mr. McMillan assault you?"
Officer: "Yep."
*bars slam*
You keep contradicting yourself.
I agree that voting third party is the answer.
I don't. The answer is: Stop voting for republicans or democrats....So vote for anyone that isn't them.
We've only got 4 options here. 1) Vote D or M, 2) Vote for a third party, 3) Vote write-in/invalid, 4) don't vote.
Are you advocating 2) or 3)? Those are the only possible interpretations of your statement. You can't be simultaneously against and for voting third-party.
If you're saying voting against R/D and voting for someone else are two separate things, that's ideological and kind of immaterial to the discussion. It ends up being the same action.
There have been cases in which we've identified terrorist leaders responsible for horrific bombings on foreign soil but because they were not focused in their ideology on targetting the US specifically deigned not to take them out -even though the countries they're victimizing would have been very happy with that result.
Funny how whenever we use the "these people want us to invade!" excuse, it never seems to pan out.
When their citizens keep coming over and trying to kill us, I can kind of see why some people might get confused.
I would point out that since the U.S. also has 6 territories and D.C., you could argue the case for 57 administrative areas.
Puerto Rico
Washington D.C.
Guam
U.S. Virgin Islands
American Samoa
Northern Marianas Islands
Hmmm...wait, that's only 56. Umm...off-by-one error?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Both sides can't be wrong?
I have very little control over what the U.S. does "on my behalf."
They had to disable 2 separate automatic systems and then manually retract control rods, but okay, I see your point.
That the SCRAM setup on the reactor ended up basically being the Big Red Button to trigger the meltdown was rather unfortunate. Apparently there's some debate still whether they SCRAM'd it when they realized it was going out of control, or if the SCRAM happened as a part of the routine shutdown of the reactor after the test was finished. Then the rods got stuck a third of the way in and the graphite tips were in the center of the reactor and...bad things. Hell, it took a full 18-20 seconds to even fully insert a rod to begin with. Now they build the control rods so they're held in place by a powerful electromagnet against the force of a spring so if you lose power, both the spring and gravity drive the rod into the reactor without outside intervention.
and the mess will spread to most parts of the country. Including Chernobyl.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here...it sounds like they decommissioned the last reactor back in 2000. And trying to extract useful nuclear material from the destroyed reactor would be hellaciously complicated and expensive, even assuming you don't care whether every person who does the work dies. Portions of the inside of the reactor basically melted into a big glob--nuclear material, moderators, control mechanisms, concrete from the vessel walls...
No, it melted through to the cooling pools, which they drained in order to prevent that exact circumstance. The 3 guys who did that died shortly afterwards since they were basically swimming in highly radioactive water.
The smoldering graphite, fuel and other material above, at more than 1200 C,[67] started to burn through the reactor floor and mixed with molten concrete from the reactor lining, creating corium, a radioactive semi-liquid material comparable to lava.[66][68] If this mixture had melted through the floor into the pool of water, it was feared it could have created a serious steam explosion that would have ejected more radioactive material from the reactor. It became necessary to drain the pool.[69]
The bubbler pool could be drained by opening its sluice gates. Volunteers in diving suits entered the radioactive water and managed to open the gates. These were the engineers Alexei Ananenko (who knew where the valves were) and Valeri Bezpalov, accompanied by a third man, Boris Baranov, who provided them with light from a lamp, though this lamp failed, leaving them to find the valves by feeling their way along a pipe.[70] All of them returned to the surface and according to Ananenko, their colleagues jumped in joy when they heard they had managed to open the valves. Upon emerging from the water, the three were already suffering from radiation sickness and later died.[71] Some sources claim incorrectly that they died in the plant.[70]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...