To hell with the poor! Intelligent people, not idiot slugs, got us where we are today. Enough with the tiresome worship of poor people, who by and large are poor because of personal defects. The poor, and the backwardness they wallow in, are not worthy of anything but scorn and contempt.
A memorial to the accomplishments of determined and intelligent people funded by a the stupid is fine with me.
"Of course, it always helps when you completely rebuild your infrastructure after it being decimated after a war."
Decimation is the loss of ten percent. It is tolerable casualties for a military unit, let alone infrastructure. Japan was far more devastated, giving it nearly a blank slate on which to rebuild.
"How many people ACTUALLY have hunting dogs? Really? What percentage?"
That depends on where you live. Many people in rural and semi-rural areas ("flyover country" to the Slashdotian Urban Sophisticates) have hunting dogs. I don't hunt with dogs so I don't have a "percentage" figure, but packs are quite common in the Southeast.
"Sure, animals should be for food, and skins, but killing them for shits and giggles is kind of dubious."
We don't need the skins for survival and meat is optional, so why exempt those uses? Bossy is just as dead when the pneumatic bolt shatters her skull as Bambi is when the broadhead crashes through her heart.
Why, exactly, should we as apex predators not hunt if it we wish to do so?
If you prefer not to hunt, then don't. It is that simple. There are cities, where those who like urban life should stay so as not to be confronted with anything different. There are other areas for those who like a different lifestyle. We need never meet or affect each other.
"without zinc world wide shipping will come to a halt a decade later."
Increased drydock and replacement intervals/= "halt". Ships are easy enough to produce in quantity, (examples being the Liberty and other mass-produced hulls of WWII) and there will never be a shortage of iron.
"Just because Bush is worse than Nixon doesn't mean Nixon wasn't really bad. He was."
I'll forgive Nixon for detente with China (vastly more important than any crimes his underlings committed, and we can't blame any POTUS for Hoover...) and getting us out of Viet Nam.
Nixon was not nice, but he was shrewd and tough (with enough street cred to negotiate with Mao). I'd take him over Shrub any day.
"Don't think George W. Bush and a few hundred terror suspects at Gitmo. Think Stalin's gulags and Hitler's gestapo. That is what the second amendment is there to prevent."
Precisely. When no major PEACEFUL demonstrations are happening, it's far from time for armed revolt to be considered supportable.
We don't care about the victims because they are not us, and they are unlikely to BE most of us, ever. (No Niemoller quotes, please, they are tiresome.:) )
My "feelings" are not relevant to the facts, which I noted above. While it is the duty of law enforcement to try to avoid punishing the wrong people, it is not rational to expect that it will never happen.
I would be trying everything I could to get any wrongful conviction reversed, but I would still understand that ALL processes have an error rate which, while it can be reduced, cannot always be reduced to zero.
At what age cutoff do "kids" in your mind become adults and responsible for their actions? He is a legal adult, and was smart enough to plan his repeated crimes.
That's not punishment, and from his demonstrated attitude he'd make a poor example as a teacher.
He needs to be in an orange jumpsuit raking up litter where his former schoolmates can see him and he can be subject to appropriate ridicule. He is not valuable. Those who do their work and earn their grades are valuable. Punishment emphasizes that difference.
He doesn't matter except an an example. The point of prison is to deter others and stop the criminal for the time he is locked up. Better if it breaks him so he behaves, but if not he can go back. We all know he isn't going to do 38 years, but a few is a nice reminder to other punks to behave themselves.
He has proven his worthlessness, and a nice long dose of slammer time can be used as an example to others.
He hasn't been SENTENCED. Sentencing usually is not to the maximum, but it pays to have that maximum available for people who aren't going to get the hint.
"That being said, it is far worse to convict an innocent individual than to let a guilty man go free."
At a one/one ratio, but some friendly casualties are inevitable. We accept a certain baseline of victims and injured/KIA police as the cost of fighting crime. We also tacitly accept a few wrongful convictions...
"From my experience girls really want nice guys but confidence takes priority and confidence is found easily in jerkfaces."
Do note that being an asshole can get you wanted results in MANY social situations. Shy, retiring, and just plain polite folks can get steamrollered by assholes, and being a bigger asshole is one very effective way to deal with other assholes!
I have plenty of experience of using the deliberate technique of being an arrogant overbearing dick to overcome opposition. IT WORKS, especially if done with some wit. Social interaction is a GAME. Geeks should understand that then learn to play it.
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"So we have green cars but half of the world will starve to death."
It's OUR corn.
Other-nation failure to make decisions that would make them self-sufficient in food is not my concern or problem.
Do you write scripts for the Lifetime channel?
4. Telling Westboro Baptist Church members that God doesn't hate fags, She hate _them_.
"We can't let those French Canadians have nuclear weapons!"
Don't worry. Intel says they've hired Newfies to weaponize it and yellowcake cannon balls aren't much threat...
To hell with the poor! Intelligent people, not idiot slugs, got us where we are today. Enough with the tiresome worship of poor people, who by and large are poor because of personal defects. The poor, and the backwardness they wallow in, are not worthy of anything but scorn and contempt.
A memorial to the accomplishments of determined and intelligent people funded by a the stupid is fine with me.
"Of course, it always helps when you completely rebuild your infrastructure after it being decimated after a war."
Decimation is the loss of ten percent. It is tolerable casualties for a military unit, let alone infrastructure.
Japan was far more devastated, giving it nearly a blank slate on which to rebuild.
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"How many people ACTUALLY have hunting dogs? Really? What percentage?"
That depends on where you live. Many people in rural and semi-rural areas ("flyover country" to the Slashdotian Urban Sophisticates) have hunting dogs. I don't hunt with dogs so I don't have a "percentage" figure, but packs are quite common in the Southeast.
"Sure, animals should be for food, and skins, but killing them for shits and giggles is kind of dubious."
We don't need the skins for survival and meat is optional, so why exempt those uses? Bossy is just as dead when the pneumatic bolt shatters her skull as Bambi is when the broadhead crashes through her heart.
Why, exactly, should we as apex predators not hunt if it we wish to do so?
If you prefer not to hunt, then don't. It is that simple. There are cities, where those who like urban life should stay so as not to be confronted with anything different. There are other areas for those who like a different lifestyle. We need never meet or affect each other.
"I never clean my laptop."
UNF!
Neither do I...
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
The two are not mutually exclusive!
"without zinc world wide shipping will come to a halt a decade later."
Increased drydock and replacement intervals /= "halt". Ships are easy enough to produce in quantity, (examples being the Liberty and other mass-produced hulls of WWII) and there will never be a shortage of iron.
"Just because Bush is worse than Nixon doesn't mean Nixon wasn't really bad. He was."
I'll forgive Nixon for detente with China (vastly more important than any crimes his underlings committed, and we can't blame any POTUS for Hoover...) and getting us out of Viet Nam.
Nixon was not nice, but he was shrewd and tough (with enough street cred to negotiate with Mao). I'd take him over Shrub any day.
And we thought "product placement" was only for the movies. :)
"Both should be equally taught and both should be equally questioned."
Teach science in schools and religion in church. Problem solved.
"Don't think George W. Bush and a few hundred terror suspects at Gitmo. Think Stalin's gulags and Hitler's gestapo. That is what the second amendment is there to prevent."
Precisely. When no major PEACEFUL demonstrations are happening, it's far from time for armed revolt to be considered supportable.
We don't care about the victims because they are not us, and they are unlikely to BE most of us, ever. (No Niemoller quotes, please, they are tiresome. :) )
"But that only begs the question...who would go to Delaware for a vacation?"
Someone (on a budget...) fleeing the horror that is New Jersey.
My "feelings" are not relevant to the facts, which I noted above. While it is the duty of law enforcement to try to avoid punishing the wrong people, it is not rational to expect that it will never happen.
I would be trying everything I could to get any wrongful conviction reversed, but I would still understand that ALL processes have an error rate which, while it can be reduced, cannot always be reduced to zero.
"Shit, I *DO* support that kid. "
At what age cutoff do "kids" in your mind become adults and responsible for their actions?
He is a legal adult, and was smart enough to plan his repeated crimes.
That's not punishment, and from his demonstrated attitude he'd make a poor example as a teacher.
He needs to be in an orange jumpsuit raking up litter where his former schoolmates can see him and he can be subject to appropriate ridicule. He is not valuable. Those who do their work and earn their grades are valuable. Punishment emphasizes that difference.
He doesn't matter except an an example. The point of prison is to deter others and stop the criminal for the time he is locked up. Better if it breaks him so he behaves, but if not he can go back. We all know he isn't going to do 38 years, but a few is a nice reminder to other punks to behave themselves.
He has proven his worthlessness, and a nice long dose of slammer time can be used as an example to others.
"Wake up! Jail time for changing grades, man. Snap out of it."
What would you be saying if you lost a medical school scholarship to someone who altered grades?
Grade alteration is essentially forgery.
If we want to stop people from doing this, we need to make it painful when they are caught.
If he wasn't eager to be punished he wouldn't have done the deed. He is an adult, and should
be treated like one.
He hasn't been SENTENCED. Sentencing usually is not to the maximum, but it pays to have that maximum available for people who aren't going to get the hint.
He's an adult, not a "kid".
He knew what he was doing.
"That being said, it is far worse to convict an innocent individual than to let a guilty man go free."
At a one/one ratio, but some friendly casualties are inevitable. We accept a certain baseline of victims and injured/KIA police as the cost of fighting crime. We also tacitly accept a few wrongful convictions...
"From my experience girls really want nice guys but confidence takes priority and confidence is found easily in jerkfaces."
Do note that being an asshole can get you wanted results in MANY social situations. Shy, retiring, and just plain polite folks can get steamrollered by assholes, and being a bigger asshole is one very effective way to deal with other assholes!
I have plenty of experience of using the deliberate technique of being an arrogant overbearing dick to overcome opposition. IT WORKS, especially if done with some wit. Social interaction is a GAME. Geeks should understand that then learn to play it.