I think we shouldn't be fussy about extra enemy casualties as they err on the side of good.
Ideally, prison should turn a profit so we could keep violent predators and other extreme criminals (Bernard Madoff and similar) in prison for life and not be under pressure of crowding to let them out.
"It is only a matter of time before we have another Kent State on our hands. "
The soldiers at Kent State only had lethal weapons. (Rifles don't have an effective non-lethal mode in most cases.) The Kent State protestors faced a real threat of dying in Southeast Asia and had incentive to protest.
"Students around the country are being priced out of an education,"
They want the wrong education. They refuse to change the supplier model and demand different, less expensive, more focused education/job training. The suppliers are taking advantage of customer passivity and ignorance by milking those customers.
Where is the demand for an utterly focused, "frill free" curriculum directed effectively and narrowly at training for employment? Not community college "job training", but professional education without frills like humanities (other than basic communication skills) and sports?
The purpose of going into debt for school is to make a PROFIT afterwards. Anything not laser-focused on that is a "hobby" and may be pursued at leisure.
The technology is interesting, and emergency comms are a bonus if you live where that's likely to matter.
I haven''t bothered becoming a ham though I'm prior avionics because there are plenty of ways to communicate today. I'll eventually hang a mast off my shop (for a variety of antennas including radio) but there isn't much reason to bother unless your other hobbies make doing it very easy.
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Wake me when the hard drive pays annual dividends.
I think we shouldn't be fussy about extra enemy casualties as they err on the side of good.
Ideally, prison should turn a profit so we could keep violent predators and other extreme criminals (Bernard Madoff and similar) in prison for life and not be under pressure of crowding to let them out.
I don't need them. Do you? If so, what for?
"All human lives are valuable, without exception."
The utility of that belief is what, precisely?
What logic supports your position?
Us-vs-them is a logical product of evolution. Even monkeys drive off or kill toxic members of the group.
If we made it here we couldn't afford it.
The reason we have such vast numbers of PCs is the components are made in places like Thailand.
A trivial price increase now and then doesn't matter.
Imaginary friends aren't necessarily "everlasting".
Yes, I "get" all the naive Slashdotian idealism, but to many people (self included) dead convicts are literally "enemy casualties" and no loss at all.
Modern man holds religion in contempt and doesn't care about silly shit like internal superstitionist squabbles.
What do you expect from a country that uses toddlers as speedbumps?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/23/chinese-toddler-death_n_1027153.html
"My biggest concern is that this could be the beginning of the military industrial complex evolving to exist on the internet."
The military industrial complex invented the internet.
Slashdotters rightfully complain about poor government security, but for some reason snivel about destroying hard disks.
Hard disks aren't "expensive" nowadays. Classified data loss OTOH can be VERY expensive.
Shred the fucking drives.
No, the cost of hard disks is trivial. Destroy them as agreed and quit whinging.
Drive destruction requirements should have been forseen and incorporated into the budget.
So what if it's "expensive"? It's a cost of doing business, like toilet paper. The fetish for saving hard disks is silly.
Extra traffic would then jam ongoing traffic. Try again.
"It is only a matter of time before we have another Kent State on our hands. "
The soldiers at Kent State only had lethal weapons. (Rifles don't have an effective non-lethal mode in most cases.) The Kent State protestors faced a real threat of dying in Southeast Asia and had incentive to protest.
OWS is mostly a hobby/party.
It your expectation that those students should be allowed to set up permanent camps there? Yes or no?
If not, describe your ideal peaceful human relocation protocol.
"Students around the country are being priced out of an education,"
They want the wrong education. They refuse to change the supplier model and demand different, less expensive, more focused education/job training. The suppliers are taking advantage of customer passivity and ignorance by milking those customers.
Where is the demand for an utterly focused, "frill free" curriculum directed effectively and narrowly at training for employment? Not community college "job training", but professional education without frills like humanities (other than basic communication skills) and sports?
The purpose of going into debt for school is to make a PROFIT afterwards. Anything not laser-focused on that is a "hobby" and may be pursued at leisure.
I smell bullshit. Given the markup on baked goods selling them at 25-percent of RETAIL should still make money.
Money "not made" /= "net loss".
The technology is interesting, and emergency comms are a bonus if you live where that's likely to matter.
I haven''t bothered becoming a ham though I'm prior avionics because there are plenty of ways to communicate today. I'll eventually hang a mast off my shop (for a variety of antennas including radio) but there isn't much reason to bother unless your other hobbies make doing it very easy.
Most molesters are friends and relatives who have sustained physical access to the victim....
The children should be learning from Church and sports coaches that their innocence may be preserved from the sinful intarwebs.
I'd rather have a trial by my military peers than by whatever losers failed to evade jury duty.
It's not a good idea to be "guilty", however. The folks who want Manning to walk don't have a legal argument, they just object to US policy.
The policy isn't on trial.
The US wasn't built or expanded on ideals, but by war and conquest and political maneuvering. Any contention otherwise is a deliberate lie.
If everyone stuck to their ideals they'd be as dead as the insane Nazarene carpenter who thought he was god.
Maybe THIS will help:
http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm#v
"First off you need a browser on OS install,"
There is more to the court case than that, and as a Slashdotter you should be familiar with it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft
Then I'll assume you don't run a license plate at all.