"The real criminals are, all too often, stupid and/or ill educated and/or have mental health problems and/or addiction problems."
Those, being not reliably curable, should simply be incarcerated permanently as Habitual Offenders, and the system should be designed to turn a profit for the good citizen taxpayers.
The rehabilitation model has failed utterly, "periodic storage" doesn't work, so lock them up and throw away the key. Mental defectives were once treated this way, but the model used was too expensive (though it left lots of cool Kirkbride architecture around the country).
There is only one problem. Keep them away from those of us who are good. What is done to them, so long as it serves those of us who are good, doesn't matter because violent criminals and mental defectives are worthless. If enough of society endorses this, we can live in a peaceful, orderly society.
"If someone wants to make a copy of some secret document, they will quickly learn that the copiers have this software installed and will use a different machine. "
Or a digital camera, which can fit nicely in a cigarette pack...
For my short commute I keep my long-paid-for trucks and don't pay enough on fuel to care much. They can easily last 30 years, and my '76 F250 is ready for another three decades.
I could afford a hybrid for a toy, but for what they cost it had better give me head and cup the balls.
"if they cost 1% of the price of the real thing, they are in the same price range as the weapons aimed at them, plus they still need soldiers and support." They are much less expensive than an (accurate) enemy airstrike. A sortie that hits a tanker, perhaps two or three times, delivers ordnance on the dummy target, then returns to base eats up fuel, resources and MANY man-hours that could be used elsewhere.
We can nationalize their assets if they begin economic warfare. We can do anything we have the physical power to do, and that bears reminding. Laws are technical conveniences for maintaining social stability during ordinary conditions.
If laws are inconvenient, we can change or ignore them because force trumps law. Law is not a suicide pact. Enemies don't deserve protection of law, so we can choose not to protect them if there is sufficient public support. We can do anything enough of us want to do within the limits of our economic, military, and other capabilities.
We restrain ourselves with law (ALL law = restraint) because we expect benefit from doing that.
It's absurdly easy to try new versions by installing them in VMs. VirtualBox = my friend.
I really don't get all the angst about new/different distros or different OSs.
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Spewbuntu, what's the big deal when trying them is only a VM away?
It wasn't much of an asspain in the days of dual-booting, separate hds, etc. Now it's dead easy, and dead easy to delete the VM if you don't like the distro.
The NRA is not a gun manufacturers lobby. Your politics are showing. The NRA is a Second Amendment lobby, has had very broad support for more than one hundred years, and BTW ranks legislators without regard to political party (though the Teapublicans bitch about it).
"If the ACLU stood up for all of our civil liberties and not a hand picked list, the NRA would fade to become a normal lobby group like orange growers or car makers."
Bullshit. The NRA is committed for the very long haul. The ACLU will never defend the Second Amendment because of their inherent bias against armed self-defense.
defend the Left (at a time when Communism and Anarchism were violent threats worldwide) and that remains its obvious purpose despite attention-whoring when it defends cherry-picked radical right cases.
It's worth pointing out that in those days, there were no non-lethal weapons that were very effective. A rifle and a bayonet deter only by credible threat of use, and when that doesn't work, the operator either loses the field or uses the weapons.
There isn't much way to distinguish caliber that precisely (unless the same ammo is fired AT you from a distance day after day).
Further,.38 Special RIFLES have been available for many years before Kent State. It's an OLD (1899) cartridge. If you hear the report, and it's not outgoing, it's not unreasonable to assume it's incoming.
"Get all the terrorists stoned, and they'll most likely be far too demotivated and/or tranquilised to carry out terrorist acts."
The attraction of non-religious pleasures is one reason violent religions, who historically need violence to compete, disapprove of intoxicants (and regulate sexual liasons).
If you can get a spiritual experience (which has nothing to do with imaginary celestial friends and everything to do with manipulation of the mind) off-the-shelf, you don't need to enslave yourself to people who pretend to represent imaginary celestial friends.
A good rule of thumb if you like freedom, is that anyone who would dominate your mind and/or your genitals needs killing.
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"The real criminals are, all too often, stupid and/or ill educated and/or have mental health problems and/or addiction problems."
Those, being not reliably curable, should simply be incarcerated permanently as Habitual Offenders, and the system should be designed to turn a profit for the good citizen taxpayers.
The rehabilitation model has failed utterly, "periodic storage" doesn't work, so lock them up and throw away the key. Mental defectives were once treated this way, but the model used was too expensive (though it left lots of cool Kirkbride architecture around the country).
There is only one problem. Keep them away from those of us who are good. What is done to them, so long as it serves those of us who are good, doesn't matter because violent criminals and mental defectives are worthless. If enough of society endorses this, we can live in a peaceful, orderly society.
"You should have thought ahead and built in panels so you can use the toilet."
I'm in Soviet Russia. Toilet uses me.
I'm being as merciful as Nature, which kills the vast majority of life forms. Nature is far more ruthless than any human.
"You'll be sorry in 10 years, when your daughter is the one screwing all the guys because she's bored."
Go to the safe celibate City, where her purity will be preserved, nay, NOURISHED, by the wholesome and caring young men who abide there.
"clean water and untainted women are NOT its strong suit."
AVAILABLE women ARE it's strong suit. If you have a decent job and your own teeth, it's a sexual amusement part.
Enjoy the rides, but don't buy one to own. :)
Simple solution:
Leave an open pan of glycol antifreeze out for a chaser. :)
"but the number of references to rabbits as rodents is quite offensive."
I'd have posted a similar comment, but got stuck getting out of my fursuit.
"Now *there's* a fetish!"
And he's not alone...
"If someone wants to make a copy of some secret document, they will quickly learn that the copiers have this software installed and will use a different machine. "
Or a digital camera, which can fit nicely in a cigarette pack...
For my short commute I keep my long-paid-for trucks and don't pay enough on fuel to care much. They can easily last 30 years, and my '76 F250 is ready for another three decades.
I could afford a hybrid for a toy, but for what they cost it had better give me head and cup the balls.
"As such, it is perfect for getting heavy loads moving"
Hence its use in locomotives.
"if they cost 1% of the price of the real thing, they are in the same price range as the weapons aimed at them, plus they still need soldiers and support."
They are much less expensive than an (accurate) enemy airstrike. A sortie that hits a tanker, perhaps two or three times, delivers ordnance on the dummy target, then returns to base eats up fuel, resources and MANY man-hours that could be used elsewhere.
"He died because they killed him!!!"
"Natural Sharia causes".
"Can't we just cooperate with everyone?"
Why should we? Prove the benefit.
Because realpolitik is more important to grownups that what barbarians do to other barbarians in their own kingdoms.
It is also more convenient to punish the weak than the strong.
"Water is essential for all life and should not be commoditized. If this is the direction we are headed in, man-kind is doomed."
Don't confuse the doom of the weak with the doom of all. Nature doesn't.
Why does this continue to come up?
We can nationalize their assets if they begin economic warfare. We can do anything we have the physical power to do, and that bears reminding. Laws are technical conveniences for maintaining social stability during ordinary conditions.
If laws are inconvenient, we can change or ignore them because force trumps law. Law is not a suicide pact. Enemies don't deserve protection of law, so we can choose not to protect them if there is sufficient public support. We can do anything enough of us want to do within the limits of our economic, military, and other capabilities.
We restrain ourselves with law (ALL law = restraint) because we expect benefit from doing that.
"I upgraded to the beta"
Did you try booting a live CD\DVD before upgrading to see what worked? Try it in a VM?
"beta" is called "beta" for good reason.
It's absurdly easy to try new versions by installing them in VMs. VirtualBox = my friend.
I really don't get all the angst about new/different distros or different OSs.
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Spewbuntu, what's the big deal when trying them is only a VM away?
It wasn't much of an asspain in the days of dual-booting, separate hds, etc. Now it's dead easy, and dead easy to delete the VM if you don't like the distro.
The NRA is not a gun manufacturers lobby. Your politics are showing. The NRA is a Second Amendment lobby, has had very broad support for more than one hundred years, and BTW ranks legislators without regard to political party (though the Teapublicans bitch about it).
"If the ACLU stood up for all of our civil liberties and not a hand picked list, the NRA would fade to become a normal lobby group like orange growers or car makers."
Bullshit. The NRA is committed for the very long haul. The ACLU will never defend the Second Amendment because of their inherent bias against armed self-defense.
The ACLU sprang up specifically
http://www.aclu.org/aclu-history
defend the Left (at a time when Communism and Anarchism were violent threats worldwide) and that remains its obvious purpose despite attention-whoring when it defends cherry-picked radical right cases.
"Should I be surprised that the usual suspects in DC aren't pitching a fit about selling our water to foreigners?"
No.
Inconvenient customers can be cut off, and water dependency is even stronger than a military umbilical cord. :)
"I do believe the science suggesting Marijuana can lead to mental illness,"
Citation needed.
It's worth pointing out that in those days, there were no non-lethal weapons that were very effective. A rifle and a bayonet deter only by credible threat of use, and when that doesn't work, the operator either loses the field or uses the weapons.
There isn't much way to distinguish caliber that precisely (unless the same ammo is fired AT you from a distance day after day).
Further, .38 Special RIFLES have been available for many years before Kent State. It's an OLD (1899) cartridge. If you hear the report, and it's not outgoing, it's not unreasonable to assume it's incoming.
"Get all the terrorists stoned, and they'll most likely be far too demotivated and/or tranquilised to carry out terrorist acts."
The attraction of non-religious pleasures is one reason violent religions, who historically need violence to compete, disapprove of intoxicants (and regulate sexual liasons).
If you can get a spiritual experience (which has nothing to do with imaginary celestial friends and everything to do with manipulation of the mind) off-the-shelf, you don't need to enslave yourself to people who pretend to represent imaginary celestial friends.
A good rule of thumb if you like freedom, is that anyone who would dominate your mind and/or your genitals needs killing.