"It'd feel odd to teach a group of old people how to access information about killing themselves."
Old age is hideous. Modern technology allows people to be kept crippled and suffering and mad for decades.
Religion says we must live so Deity can masturbate to our suffering, but for many of us the delectation of imaginary friends is not a reason to prolong the worst part of life. We all die, but are taught we shouldn't choose when and how. That's absurd.
I wish that everyone who objects to giving those who wish it info on how to kill themselves become incompetent, incontinent, and incoherent. Let them linger in hospital or nursing home, trapped, suffering, and unable to grant themselves the release they would deny others.
"I'm willing to bet that the Vatican would be most interested in hearing about/excommunicating those involved. Suffice to say that's not even SLIGHTLY kosher (for lack of a better word)."
Pedophilia isn't technically approved either, yet Church payoffs to shut up victims are totalling around a BILLION dollars in the US alone, the scandal is spreading, and the shell game of hide-the-pedo (as opposed to the duty to instantly turn over such predators to the police for public prosecution) is continually being exposed.
Religion/superstition is obvious utter nonsense and need not be treated with respect. The people who believe in superstition are not worthy of the respect of modern humans. Their drivel should not even be in the marketplace of ideas, deserves nothing but scorn and attack, and is a drag on human progress.
I don't treat people who believe in imaginary friends as if their friends are real or their ideas sane. The only people who want religion respected are superstitionists themselves.
"Meanwhile, the blowhards take advantage of the situation and make us all look like retards.
Thanks a lot Obama.
Thanks a lot Bush.
Thanks a lot Clinton.
Thanks a lot...."
to the vast majority of window-licking sheeple without whose support none of the above would have risen through their political careers to lead the most powerful nation on earth.
In the US, religionists hate sex that isn't rationed according to their superstition. Americans, by and large, are religious, willfully ignorant, and ruled by fear. Any pleasure not rationed by preacher or priest is evil.
Just as most users will never secure their PCs unless Something Very Bad happens, neither will many businesses and government agencies.
Virus and malware attacks provoke some immune response, but if we are to become strong something must weed out the weak.
Parasites, botnets, etc, aren't enough of a threat. The only thing that will provoke intelligent security practice is attacks that disrupt, disable, damage and destroy.
Of course, history shows us that no one else will aspire to that title. all states are rational actors, and the only thing we'd risk by disarmament is invasion by ponies farting rainbows,
John Browning's.50 BMG "Ma Deuce" has been lawfully composting enemy troops for nearly a century. It certainly doesn't cause "unnecessary suffering" as it is much more likely to be immediately fatal.
"However, the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's office has issued a legal opinion that the.50 BMG and even the Raufoss Mk 211 round are legal for use against enemy personnel."
Russia and China are as respected as the US, arguably sometimes more so, because they are willing to use force with less restraint when useful. Moral authority is nonsense, invoked only as propaganda.
"There's international treaties the US has signed that forbid killing people involved in taking care of the wounded."
If they are collecting weapons as well as rendering aid, and not marked appropriately ("medics" wear uniforms, guerillas/partisans/assymetric combatants usually are unmarked) they are fair game i.e. "taking active part in hostilities". One is not to shoot medics, Red Cross/Crescent vehicles, marked installations, etc (unless they are being obviously used for combat). Non-medics attempting to retrieve enemy wounded could be considered combatants in some circumstances, but which I'll leave to the Judge Advocate to determine.
Killing non-combatants by accident has absolutely nothing to do with the "sensibility" or lack thereof of war.
War is awkward, sloppy, a human process, and spendy of flesh. You can't fight wars without being fairly casual about killing.
If you don't like a particular war, by all means protest, but don't ever pretend there are special effeminate duel-ish wars with Hollywood processes and outcomes.
Great troll, except nursing has plenty of rough schedules, doesn't always pay well, and is frequently hectic. Patients are often demanding, not to mention contagious (I'd rather have RSI than MRSA, TYVM!).
Of course it was. Recitation of ancient news is merely a "bitch piece".
"Oh, lookee da bad nukes!" Oh. lookee the clueless fuck who didn't live through the Cold War...
The nuclear deterrent worked, and instead of large conventional wars of the "massive bloodbath" (WWI, WWII) variety the Cold War had few casualties (by comparison) and was fought by proxy in expendable countries.
Whoever produces the first practical, reasonably lifelike fuckbot is going to be very, very rich. Just because the rest of us don't want one doesn't mean they won't sell in droves.
After all, the inconvenient part about sex with another person is that it requires another person. A practical fuckbot would get rid of that barrier to entry.:)
The Swiss have been armed to the teeth for hundreds of years.
They have a peaceful society, prosperity, and hot babes. The Swiss experience is THE argument for the classical definition of "militia" as used by the US Founders. Their government dare not become oppressive given a completely armed citizenry. Their traditions and cultural uniformity have combined with this to produce an excellent place to live.
Whatever one thinks of Israel, they are ready to react on-the-spot to attacks and often do. Given that perpetual war (low intensity interrupted by bouts of high intensity combat) is the only way for Israel not to be destroyed, they are as ready as they can be.
The folks who are not deterred by the existing laws against murder, and who smuggle large quantities of drugs across the border, would have no trouble adding weapons to their wares. Of course, making submachine guns is very basic machine shop work (doing Stens from scratch is easy enough) so all that might require smuggling is ammo, Kalashnikovs are commonly made all over the world...
Gun control doesn't disarm people who don't care about the law. It DOES disarm those who have sufficient linkage to society that they can be coerced by law.
Gun confiscation (the goal of "gun control") is desirable to humans who refuse to make the distinction between toxic and non-toxic people. I'm in no danger from my (many) well-armed friends because I will never rob/rape/assault them and hence won't require shooting. I behave myself. So do they. We are a "polite society" in that respect. Other, less polite folks know not to violate our space because we can hurt them. If they don't get the hint, we are prepared to stop them in the way someone with a fire extinguisher is prepared to stop a fire.
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Yes, when it was called Phoenix, eons ago...
"It'd feel odd to teach a group of old people how to access information about killing themselves."
Old age is hideous. Modern technology allows people to be kept crippled and suffering and mad for decades.
Religion says we must live so Deity can masturbate to our suffering, but for many of us the delectation of imaginary friends is not a reason to prolong the worst part of life. We all die, but are taught we shouldn't choose when and how. That's absurd.
I wish that everyone who objects to giving those who wish it info on how to kill themselves become incompetent, incontinent, and incoherent. Let them linger in hospital or nursing home, trapped, suffering, and unable to grant themselves the release they would deny others.
Some people are way too toxic to interact with others. They _should_ stay in the basement with appropriate technology.
More souls for Jeebus. All multiplication is fruitful.
Every birth is a miracle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeavNauY59o
"And what can be said about people who prefer disease and death to sexual freedom?"
Death don' matter when ya be gwine up to Hebbin'!
If bein' sexually ignint was good enough for Maw an' Uncle Dad, who am I to argue?
The less-faithful religionists are more open-minded, but they still support a lie and that support enables the orthodox Christian Taliban.
Just put down the superstition and walk away.
"I'm willing to bet that the Vatican would be most interested in hearing about/excommunicating those involved. Suffice to say that's not even SLIGHTLY kosher (for lack of a better word)."
Pedophilia isn't technically approved either, yet Church payoffs to shut up victims are totalling around a BILLION dollars in the US alone, the scandal is spreading, and the shell game of hide-the-pedo (as opposed to the duty to instantly turn over such predators to the police for public prosecution) is continually being exposed.
http://www.americancatholic.org/News/ClergySexAbuse/
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/europe/Sex-Abuse-Scandal-Threatens-Popes-Focus-on-Europes-Chritian-Roots-90097932.html
http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2010/03/17/sex_scandal_embroiling_catholic_church_in_brazil/
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/opinion/25thur1.html
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/ireland/091126/abuse-report-catholic-church-dublin
I'd like to see all priests get what Father Geoghan got in prison. The enablers are as guilty as the predators.
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/tgr/05/1/gr050107.html
Teen pregnancy has not skyrocketed. The proportion of non-marital births has increased.
Religion/superstition is obvious utter nonsense and need not be treated with respect. The people who believe in superstition are not worthy of the respect of modern humans. Their drivel should not even be in the marketplace of ideas, deserves nothing but scorn and attack, and is a drag on human progress.
I don't treat people who believe in imaginary friends as if their friends are real or their ideas sane. The only people who want religion respected are superstitionists themselves.
"Meanwhile, the blowhards take advantage of the situation and make us all look like retards.
Thanks a lot Obama.
Thanks a lot Bush.
Thanks a lot Clinton.
Thanks a lot...."
to the vast majority of window-licking sheeple without whose support none of the above would have risen through their political careers to
lead the most powerful nation on earth.
In the US, religionists hate sex that isn't rationed according to their superstition. Americans, by and large, are religious, willfully ignorant, and ruled by fear. Any pleasure not rationed by preacher or priest is evil.
Just as most users will never secure their PCs unless Something Very Bad happens, neither will many businesses and government agencies.
Virus and malware attacks provoke some immune response, but if we are to become strong something must weed out the weak.
Parasites, botnets, etc, aren't enough of a threat. The only thing that will provoke intelligent security practice is attacks that disrupt, disable, damage and destroy.
"The US is crazy dynamite monkey."
Of course, history shows us that no one else will aspire to that title. all states are rational actors, and the only thing we'd risk by disarmament is invasion by ponies farting rainbows,
He was propagating a popular myth. :)
John Browning's .50 BMG "Ma Deuce" has been lawfully composting enemy troops for nearly a century. It certainly doesn't cause "unnecessary suffering" as it is much more likely to be immediately fatal.
Some general background on similar myths:
http://www.thegunzone.com/hague.html
More info. The ICRC, being anti-US, objects to API variants on a technicality:
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/522209
"However, the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's office has issued a legal opinion that the .50 BMG and even the Raufoss Mk 211 round are legal for use against enemy personnel."
"That's what it takes."
Takes to do what?
Russia and China are as respected as the US, arguably sometimes more so, because they are willing to use force with less restraint when useful. Moral authority is nonsense, invoked only as propaganda.
"There's international treaties the US has signed that forbid killing people involved in taking care of the wounded."
If they are collecting weapons as well as rendering aid, and not marked appropriately ("medics" wear uniforms, guerillas/partisans/assymetric combatants usually are unmarked) they are fair game i.e. "taking active part in hostilities". One is not to shoot medics, Red Cross/Crescent vehicles, marked installations, etc (unless they are being obviously used for combat). Non-medics attempting to retrieve enemy wounded could be considered combatants in some circumstances, but which I'll leave to the Judge Advocate to determine.
Killing non-combatants by accident has absolutely nothing to do with the "sensibility" or lack thereof of war.
War is awkward, sloppy, a human process, and spendy of flesh. You can't fight wars without being fairly casual about killing.
If you don't like a particular war, by all means protest, but don't ever pretend there are special effeminate duel-ish wars with Hollywood processes and outcomes.
Great troll, except nursing has plenty of rough schedules, doesn't always pay well, and is frequently hectic. Patients are often demanding, not to mention contagious (I'd rather have RSI than MRSA, TYVM!).
"Women are like canaries in coal mines."
If I find them passed out or dead around the office, I'll be sure to evacuate!
Of course it was. Recitation of ancient news is merely a "bitch piece".
"Oh, lookee da bad nukes!" Oh. lookee the clueless fuck who didn't live through the Cold War...
The nuclear deterrent worked, and instead of large conventional wars of the "massive bloodbath" (WWI, WWII) variety the Cold War had few casualties (by comparison) and was fought by proxy in expendable countries.
That would conflict with your nic.
That's hardly a Troll.
Whoever produces the first practical, reasonably lifelike fuckbot is going to be very, very rich. Just because the rest of us don't want one doesn't mean they won't sell in droves.
After all, the inconvenient part about sex with another person is that it requires another person. A practical fuckbot would get rid of that barrier to entry. :)
The gun dealers aren't the source for silencers, but they are very easy to make with basic tools.
Criminals are lazy, and usually don't bother carrying silencers/suppressors and using subsonic ammo.
The Swiss have been armed to the teeth for hundreds of years.
They have a peaceful society, prosperity, and hot babes. The Swiss experience is THE argument for the classical definition of "militia" as used by the US Founders. Their government dare not become oppressive given a completely armed citizenry. Their traditions and cultural uniformity have combined with this to produce an excellent place to live.
Whatever one thinks of Israel, they are ready to react on-the-spot to attacks and often do. Given that perpetual war (low intensity interrupted by bouts of high intensity combat) is the only way for Israel not to be destroyed, they are as ready as they can be.
The folks who are not deterred by the existing laws against murder, and who smuggle large quantities of drugs across the border, would have no trouble adding weapons to their wares. Of course, making submachine guns is very basic machine shop work (doing Stens from scratch is easy enough) so all that might require smuggling is ammo, Kalashnikovs are commonly made all over the world...
Gun control doesn't disarm people who don't care about the law. It DOES disarm those who have sufficient linkage to society that they can be coerced by law.
Gun confiscation (the goal of "gun control") is desirable to humans who refuse to make the distinction between toxic and non-toxic people. I'm in no danger from my (many) well-armed friends because I will never rob/rape/assault them and hence won't require shooting. I behave myself. So do they. We are a "polite society" in that respect. Other, less polite folks know not to violate our space because we can hurt them. If they don't get the hint, we are prepared to stop them in the way someone with a fire extinguisher is prepared to stop a fire.