No, I'm saying she should get a fitting punishment rather than a sugar-coated felony. Getting the charges dropped is awesome, and along with an apology and policy reform, should have been the end of the story.
Rather than felony charges and spacecamp, two opposing, exaggerated reactions trying to cancel each other out; how about detention, a reasonable, fitting punishment. Instead of greeting friends with a kiss on the lips and a kick in the balls, why not just shake hands.
Why can nobody understand the subtle, intricate differences between punishment and reward? She was playing with dangerous chemical reactions in the parking lot of her school. What part of that should be rewarded?
I'm all for sending a science-curious young girl to space camp. We should encourage children to experiment. We should also make sure children know they shouldn't carry out dangerous experiments without proper precautions. What if she blinded herself and an handful of classmates? Seems that should be discouraged. In fact, maybe it should even make it against the rules.
I just said she should be punished. Y'know, a stern talking to, maybe detention. Adult felony charges would be overkill. However, just because I think the prosecution is severely overreacting, doesn't mean I should retaliate by severely under-reacting. Doing so compromises your own ideals and might even make you a strawman for the opposition.
What's wrong with the world? Really? As much as I love to fly in the face of authority, I still think rules serve a purpose in society. I broke plenty of rules as a young'n, but I managed to not get caught. If I did get caught, I didn't expect to be sent to camp. She's curious, and that should be encouraged. She blatantly broke rules and got caught, that should be punished. There is a happy medium somewhere between prison and all-expense-paid vacation. Rewarding this girl for breaking rules will only drive her to a life of politics.
Other than astronauts and zombie bunkers, I don't see the appeal. We already pack strange synthetic food into cans that have more than enough shelf life for most occasions. I'd be willing to bet I'd prefer the taste and texture of said canned goods to whatever playdough this thing prints out. The only food that occasionally gets wasted around my house is fresh fruits, vegetables, and meat; none of which would really be replaced by this technology. If you find a way to print something more palatable that what I can already get from a can, then let me know.
1.Make it so that every time you load a new piece of software you invalidate the license of every other piece of software in an endless recursive loop.
2.????
3.Profit
4.goto 1
idk, 25kW doesn't sound like a "little marine radar" to me. It pales in comparison to military applications, but it's nothing to shake a stick at. Since the WHO sets standards for exposure and minimum safe distances, I'd be willing to bet it poses some health concerns.
When I was 16 or so, I was working on my uncle's boat in Alaska. It was a slow day, so we were painting railings and such. I heard my uncle call my name, wondering where I was. I called back that I was on top of the wheelhouse. He went ahead and shut off the radar, but I'd already been standing next to it for and hour or more. I honestly don't mind since pulling out seems so unnatural. I guess if I ever want to have kids I'll just have to try harder and think fertile thoughts.
I don't really see this being that much of an issue, at least not in my neck of the woods. People get dumped in ditches for less. All I ask is that if you're gonna take a picture of my dick, let me fluff first. I'm sure most clubs and such won't let you through the door wearing Google Glass anyway.
explain to me again the parallels between street view and glass. I think we'll avoid a similar privacy breach by not being even remotely the same thing. Aside from that, we're talking about sticking a camera phone to your face. I don't think that really raises any new issues.
Hemp's illegal because weed's illegal. But why's weed illegal; because someone long ago wanted to make hemp illegal. They had controlling share of an opposing market and wanted to eliminate the competition. Here we are decades later wishing to make hemp legal again, but we can't because apparently people still believe jazz musicians are trying to corrupt our white women. Forget the hempen trojan horse; I don't want pot legalized on a technicality. By default, pot should be legal unless someone can give me a valid reason to ban it. The reason it's illegal today is the same root reason it was banned in the first place: there's a powerful industry that makes money from pot being illegal. The paper/textile industries agenda has been replaced (and dwarfed) by our private prison system. "because we'll lose money" is not a good reason to impose regulation. I shouldn't have to defend pot because I've yet to see a valid attack.
We should also standardize around a single food crop. Why are we wasting so much time/money/space with variety. The government should mandate that we all have to eat that protein goop from the Matrix movies.
So are they abandoning the paid, regular updates idea? I thought the point of "Blue" was that they would essentially do away with major releases and just start pushing updates more regularly for a nominal fee. Is 8.1 being offered free in order to lock us into some strange update cycle or is this all just an attempt to save face?
Actually, I do. They're all far too scared that viruses are stealing their internets. They're more likely to pester me with every damn piece of spam they receive.
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I'd wager that you're both right. One need not exclude the other.
No, I'm saying she should get a fitting punishment rather than a sugar-coated felony. Getting the charges dropped is awesome, and along with an apology and policy reform, should have been the end of the story.
Rather than felony charges and spacecamp, two opposing, exaggerated reactions trying to cancel each other out; how about detention, a reasonable, fitting punishment. Instead of greeting friends with a kiss on the lips and a kick in the balls, why not just shake hands.
Why can nobody understand the subtle, intricate differences between punishment and reward? She was playing with dangerous chemical reactions in the parking lot of her school. What part of that should be rewarded?
I'm all for sending a science-curious young girl to space camp. We should encourage children to experiment. We should also make sure children know they shouldn't carry out dangerous experiments without proper precautions. What if she blinded herself and an handful of classmates? Seems that should be discouraged. In fact, maybe it should even make it against the rules.
I just said she should be punished. Y'know, a stern talking to, maybe detention. Adult felony charges would be overkill. However, just because I think the prosecution is severely overreacting, doesn't mean I should retaliate by severely under-reacting. Doing so compromises your own ideals and might even make you a strawman for the opposition.
What's wrong with the world? Really? As much as I love to fly in the face of authority, I still think rules serve a purpose in society. I broke plenty of rules as a young'n, but I managed to not get caught. If I did get caught, I didn't expect to be sent to camp. She's curious, and that should be encouraged. She blatantly broke rules and got caught, that should be punished. There is a happy medium somewhere between prison and all-expense-paid vacation. Rewarding this girl for breaking rules will only drive her to a life of politics.
Other than astronauts and zombie bunkers, I don't see the appeal. We already pack strange synthetic food into cans that have more than enough shelf life for most occasions. I'd be willing to bet I'd prefer the taste and texture of said canned goods to whatever playdough this thing prints out. The only food that occasionally gets wasted around my house is fresh fruits, vegetables, and meat; none of which would really be replaced by this technology. If you find a way to print something more palatable that what I can already get from a can, then let me know.
1.Make it so that every time you load a new piece of software you invalidate the license of every other piece of software in an endless recursive loop.
2.????
3.Profit
4.goto 1
I've been doing my part by uploading inane videos of myself eating at my desk in silence.
the Backdoor Internet is my favorite Internet.
idk, 25kW doesn't sound like a "little marine radar" to me. It pales in comparison to military applications, but it's nothing to shake a stick at. Since the WHO sets standards for exposure and minimum safe distances, I'd be willing to bet it poses some health concerns.
Yea, because we were obviously going to blame IP for the result.
When I was 16 or so, I was working on my uncle's boat in Alaska. It was a slow day, so we were painting railings and such. I heard my uncle call my name, wondering where I was. I called back that I was on top of the wheelhouse. He went ahead and shut off the radar, but I'd already been standing next to it for and hour or more. I honestly don't mind since pulling out seems so unnatural. I guess if I ever want to have kids I'll just have to try harder and think fertile thoughts.
I don't really see this being that much of an issue, at least not in my neck of the woods. People get dumped in ditches for less. All I ask is that if you're gonna take a picture of my dick, let me fluff first.
I'm sure most clubs and such won't let you through the door wearing Google Glass anyway.
explain to me again the parallels between street view and glass. I think we'll avoid a similar privacy breach by not being even remotely the same thing.
Aside from that, we're talking about sticking a camera phone to your face. I don't think that really raises any new issues.
You can start with your senators, representatives, and all their lobbyists.
Hemp's illegal because weed's illegal. But why's weed illegal; because someone long ago wanted to make hemp illegal. They had controlling share of an opposing market and wanted to eliminate the competition. Here we are decades later wishing to make hemp legal again, but we can't because apparently people still believe jazz musicians are trying to corrupt our white women. Forget the hempen trojan horse; I don't want pot legalized on a technicality. By default, pot should be legal unless someone can give me a valid reason to ban it. The reason it's illegal today is the same root reason it was banned in the first place: there's a powerful industry that makes money from pot being illegal. The paper/textile industries agenda has been replaced (and dwarfed) by our private prison system. "because we'll lose money" is not a good reason to impose regulation. I shouldn't have to defend pot because I've yet to see a valid attack.
If Linux is truly superior, then why isn't everyone using it? Surely Microsoft would jump all over that bandwagon.
And when you make them into hot dogs, they all taste relatively the same.
We should also standardize around a single food crop. Why are we wasting so much time/money/space with variety. The government should mandate that we all have to eat that protein goop from the Matrix movies.
I've already patented the process you're alluding to.
They're the same species, so yeah, probably close enough.
So are they abandoning the paid, regular updates idea? I thought the point of "Blue" was that they would essentially do away with major releases and just start pushing updates more regularly for a nominal fee. Is 8.1 being offered free in order to lock us into some strange update cycle or is this all just an attempt to save face?
Actually, I do. They're all far too scared that viruses are stealing their internets. They're more likely to pester me with every damn piece of spam they receive.
Maybe all those Bitcoins are being mined in Redmond. Nobody else was dumb enough to click the link.
Why would I care if my neighbors knew I pirate episodes of Animal Planet?
+1 Woosh!
Sarcasm was so prevalent and readily recognized when I was growing up. How many generations before we're all autistic?