I 'll stipulate these things: Kuwait, a Nation-state with abundant natural resources, was aided militarily by America (and others) because that much of the World's known petroleum reserves (at the time) could not be allowed into the hands of the boy from Tikrit. W was mad cuz the rackies tried to kill his Pa. The Saudis, well, you can always count on them to show up for a plane crash, but America is heavily involved there for much the same reason as Kuwait. The 'stan brothers tolerate American presence like Eastern European Countries used to tolerate the bear. Like a real friend, a real ally answers a phone call from you at two in the morning, even if they're pretty sure you're in the wrong.
There's not a thing wrong with your math, and I live in one of these States, but the question of "better" should certainly be considered from every angle, as better, too, is in the eye of the beholder. If you're a Company looking to settle in an environment conducive to the corporate climate, Texas is your Huckleberry. If you'd prefer a place to raise your family that has the most stringent of environmental standards, California might well be your pick. Some times you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. This is just me talking, but the coexistence of wide differences in opinion in one union is the very thing Country and marriage survive despite.
The prime minister, ambassador, king, el presidente.......whatever you call him to his face, is still a politician in his country of origin and very likely to represent the sentiment of his populace when describing his sentiment for yours. And by the by, there's the answer to your foreign policy question of the demi-decade, "Why do we continue to support Israel, at the expense of relations with every Arabian Middle Eastern Nation?" Because if there was a fight at the bar we all go to, we could be quite certain the Israelis and Brits would get beat up with us (and maybe even the Canadians and the Aussies). After that it gets pretty thin. Whether or not we kick Israel to the curb, no Muslim nation is really in our Alliance for a coon's age.
Mates were taken by the best of the hunters and gatherers for thousands of generations before the cathode ray tube was available. Taken, by the males who could survive and provide. Nature saw fit that the male's predisposition to more muscle mass trumps the females primary responsibility as child-bearer..... different advantages that magnified in a two parent family. Pre-civilized society, the man's physical advantage was a tremendous opportunity to dominate the weaker matriarch. Physically inferior, the woman had to work twice as hard on the intangibles: cunning, strategy, and treachery. That said, a man's reputation as a risk taker is well documented. Consult any insurance industry actuarian.
Space exploration's rapid advancement is only made more viable if we give up this hokey notion of manned flights. Sure, one day suspended animation will be more of a scientific certainty, but these bots can explore and make ready for human exploration a host of off-planet locations.
While you'd have held my interest if your argument was, "In nature's humble opine, there are too many great hominoid's for the balance of present resources and ecosystems." , the convenient renouncing of a former cheerleader falls south of the too-good-to-be-true bar. Npsqiz tbzt, 'if there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.'
Valjean's descent from peasant to yellow card carrying convict, after serving 14 years in the gallows for bread theft & repeated escape attempts, is an odd parallel at first glance. In reflection; Both Schwartz and Valjean intentionally broke the law of the land, both offenses seem rather petty to most of their peers, and both faced draconian punishments. Of course, one man was stealing food for his starving sister and the other gent was engaged in idealistic hactivism, but I can see how prosecutorial discretion has the ability to continue our society's descent to a place where being a felon is so ubiquitous it's no longer a Big Red F.
Well done. The joke, not the pony..... It was still common in South Texas 20 years ago for ranchers to sell old and unwanted horses for shipment to Europe. I think some of it went to feed those welfare-reliant cats at the zoo. Where in the heck are the obligatory, "Where's the beef?" references?
There are those to which the removal of your personal freedoms would be a panacea. They come first for the removal of the most obnoxious, and after awhile it becomes clear that obnoxious is in the eye of the beholder. I will cite the removal of civil liberties for sexual offenders and other felons discussed here previously. Do you know the lifetime sexual offender registration list contains the names of men who biblically knew 15 yr old girls when they were 18? The category for Felon itself has been broadened to such a degree that it could include many of us had the dice landed differently.
What is really interesting is how many of these old hand-me-down tidbits from Grandma wind up being rooted in accuracy, even if the underlying logic is flawed. The existence of recorded information has been a boon to modern medical practices, but prior to the very last few generations, how much accurate medical knowledge one had access to was directly proportionate to the quality of the info passed down through the matriarchal network.
IANA Congressman, already tired from a contested reelection in November, forced into action after another random tragedy the public & media refuse to let go of. But if I was, Really? Don't you damn people r3aliz3 I'm a lowly representative and up for review in 22 months in another election where it's going to be a tough row to hoe without Tea Party support if I have to vote to limit my constituents' rights to cannon possession for recreational purposes? So shit! Now I've got to do SOME....thing or they'll get me in debates with that as well. I should really just be voting and fund raising at this point in the cycle. Hmmm? Violent video games you say? Excellent...
I like to think upper end of the spectrum intelligence is a required attribute in many of our science, engineering, mathematics, and problem-solving vocations. There are positions in industry, however, that are seemingly best suited to those with no moral compass at all. It is not that these two conditions are mutually exclusive, merely that a complete lack of ethics is the most decisive trait in determining who will Captain our industry. Very often intelligence is burdened with that pesky human condition known as empathy, and that will slow your roll at Goldman Sachs faster than a bestiality addiction.
1. A few people break the law many times a day. Most people break the law a few times. The accumulated man-hours for administering to every offense would logjam the courts, however, fortuitously only a fraction of offenders & offences are discovered, uncovered, and indicted.
2. Regarding prosecutorial discretion: in practice, even the fraction of offences that get the Grand Jury stamp of 'Proceed' are massive in number. Those Law & Order District Attorney-types do an order of magnitude more plea agreement drudgery than the crafty courtroom closing arguments. Whether that is at their discretion or the only way to stem the tide is debatable.
3. Right on target here and I can't add anything constructive except it probably does weaken the "Peoples' Case" a variable degree in an attempted murder when the victim and/or witnesses recant.
Mittnick rode the bus for free and flouted all manner of law enforcement... achieving folk hero stature in the circles to which some us are known to frequent. Hell, the contemporaries of Jesse James & Dillinger often rooted for the little bad guy versus the big evil carpetbagger/banker/economic situation. But when you hunt King William's deer you do so at night for a reason. Fair is in the eye of the beholder.
This is not a commentary on right or wrong. We're not talking about a young man with an IQ of 65 on death row for a crime he may not understand. Aaron Schwartz was by every reckoning a very smart man. He must have at least considered there could be consequences and repercussions for his actions. Imagine the idea that zealously prosecuting famous people publicly is a career maker...the Giuliani Axiom, if you will. 35 years? IANAL, but you never see these white collar cases serving or being sentenced to anything close to the maximum of all the charges stacked together. Mr Schwartz was intelligent enough to realize these things. It is highly likely, given his incredible success at such a young age, that he was ill prepared to deal with bad things happening to him. ______________Feel free to mod this down without conscience: I was born poor, stayed that way for a good while, and bad things and I are not at all strangers.
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I 'll stipulate these things: Kuwait, a Nation-state with abundant natural resources, was aided militarily by America (and others) because that much of the World's known petroleum reserves (at the time) could not be allowed into the hands of the boy from Tikrit. W was mad cuz the rackies tried to kill his Pa. The Saudis, well, you can always count on them to show up for a plane crash, but America is heavily involved there for much the same reason as Kuwait. The 'stan brothers tolerate American presence like Eastern European Countries used to tolerate the bear. Like a real friend, a real ally answers a phone call from you at two in the morning, even if they're pretty sure you're in the wrong.
There's not a thing wrong with your math, and I live in one of these States, but the question of "better" should certainly be considered from every angle, as better, too, is in the eye of the beholder. If you're a Company looking to settle in an environment conducive to the corporate climate, Texas is your Huckleberry. If you'd prefer a place to raise your family that has the most stringent of environmental standards, California might well be your pick. Some times you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. This is just me talking, but the coexistence of wide differences in opinion in one union is the very thing Country and marriage survive despite.
The prime minister, ambassador, king, el presidente.......whatever you call him to his face, is still a politician in his country of origin and very likely to represent the sentiment of his populace when describing his sentiment for yours. And by the by, there's the answer to your foreign policy question of the demi-decade, "Why do we continue to support Israel, at the expense of relations with every Arabian Middle Eastern Nation?" Because if there was a fight at the bar we all go to, we could be quite certain the Israelis and Brits would get beat up with us (and maybe even the Canadians and the Aussies). After that it gets pretty thin. Whether or not we kick Israel to the curb, no Muslim nation is really in our Alliance for a coon's age.
Mates were taken by the best of the hunters and gatherers for thousands of generations before the cathode ray tube was available. Taken, by the males who could survive and provide. Nature saw fit that the male's predisposition to more muscle mass trumps the females primary responsibility as child-bearer ..... different advantages that magnified in a two parent family. Pre-civilized society, the man's physical advantage was a tremendous opportunity to dominate the weaker matriarch. Physically inferior, the woman had to work twice as hard on the intangibles: cunning, strategy, and treachery. That said, a man's reputation as a risk taker is well documented. Consult any insurance industry actuarian.
Space exploration's rapid advancement is only made more viable if we give up this hokey notion of manned flights. Sure, one day suspended animation will be more of a scientific certainty, but these bots can explore and make ready for human exploration a host of off-planet locations.
While you'd have held my interest if your argument was, "In nature's humble opine, there are too many great hominoid's for the balance of present resources and ecosystems." , the convenient renouncing of a former cheerleader falls south of the too-good-to-be-true bar. Npsqiz tbzt, 'if there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.'
"When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."
"You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes." ...A.A. Milne
Valjean's descent from peasant to yellow card carrying convict, after serving 14 years in the gallows for bread theft & repeated escape attempts, is an odd parallel at first glance. In reflection; Both Schwartz and Valjean intentionally broke the law of the land, both offenses seem rather petty to most of their peers, and both faced draconian punishments. Of course, one man was stealing food for his starving sister and the other gent was engaged in idealistic hactivism, but I can see how prosecutorial discretion has the ability to continue our society's descent to a place where being a felon is so ubiquitous it's no longer a Big Red F.
Well done. The joke, not the pony..... It was still common in South Texas 20 years ago for ranchers to sell old and unwanted horses for shipment to Europe. I think some of it went to feed those welfare-reliant cats at the zoo. Where in the heck are the obligatory, "Where's the beef?" references?
Well put. Of course,which experiences are causation and which are correlation are still in the eye of the observing matriarch. I hope mine is logical.
There are those to which the removal of your personal freedoms would be a panacea. They come first for the removal of the most obnoxious, and after awhile it becomes clear that obnoxious is in the eye of the beholder. I will cite the removal of civil liberties for sexual offenders and other felons discussed here previously. Do you know the lifetime sexual offender registration list contains the names of men who biblically knew 15 yr old girls when they were 18? The category for Felon itself has been broadened to such a degree that it could include many of us had the dice landed differently.
What is really interesting is how many of these old hand-me-down tidbits from Grandma wind up being rooted in accuracy, even if the underlying logic is flawed. The existence of recorded information has been a boon to modern medical practices, but prior to the very last few generations, how much accurate medical knowledge one had access to was directly proportionate to the quality of the info passed down through the matriarchal network.
Bam. Nail hit right on head.
IANA Congressman, already tired from a contested reelection in November, forced into action after another random tragedy the public & media refuse to let go of. But if I was, Really? Don't you damn people r3aliz3 I'm a lowly representative and up for review in 22 months in another election where it's going to be a tough row to hoe without Tea Party support if I have to vote to limit my constituents' rights to cannon possession for recreational purposes? So shit! Now I've got to do SOME....thing or they'll get me in debates with that as well. I should really just be voting and fund raising at this point in the cycle. Hmmm? Violent video games you say? Excellent...
I like to think upper end of the spectrum intelligence is a required attribute in many of our science, engineering, mathematics, and problem-solving vocations. There are positions in industry, however, that are seemingly best suited to those with no moral compass at all. It is not that these two conditions are mutually exclusive, merely that a complete lack of ethics is the most decisive trait in determining who will Captain our industry. Very often intelligence is burdened with that pesky human condition known as empathy, and that will slow your roll at Goldman Sachs faster than a bestiality addiction.
1. A few people break the law many times a day. Most people break the law a few times. The accumulated man-hours for administering to every offense would logjam the courts, however, fortuitously only a fraction of offenders & offences are discovered, uncovered, and indicted. 2. Regarding prosecutorial discretion: in practice, even the fraction of offences that get the Grand Jury stamp of 'Proceed' are massive in number. Those Law & Order District Attorney-types do an order of magnitude more plea agreement drudgery than the crafty courtroom closing arguments. Whether that is at their discretion or the only way to stem the tide is debatable. 3. Right on target here and I can't add anything constructive except it probably does weaken the "Peoples' Case" a variable degree in an attempted murder when the victim and/or witnesses recant.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress...
There does seem to be a social/emotional penalty associated with receiving ten good alleles.
Indeed. If challenging the status quo is the aim of your activism, you will be deemed effective when the PTB take notice and begin your persecution.
I have been reading and reading, waiting for the feather reference....WIKI says no!
Mittnick rode the bus for free and flouted all manner of law enforcement... achieving folk hero stature in the circles to which some us are known to frequent. Hell, the contemporaries of Jesse James & Dillinger often rooted for the little bad guy versus the big evil carpetbagger/banker/economic situation. But when you hunt King William's deer you do so at night for a reason. Fair is in the eye of the beholder.
Fine. No Penny for you.
This is not a commentary on right or wrong. We're not talking about a young man with an IQ of 65 on death row for a crime he may not understand. Aaron Schwartz was by every reckoning a very smart man. He must have at least considered there could be consequences and repercussions for his actions. Imagine the idea that zealously prosecuting famous people publicly is a career maker...the Giuliani Axiom, if you will. 35 years? IANAL, but you never see these white collar cases serving or being sentenced to anything close to the maximum of all the charges stacked together. Mr Schwartz was intelligent enough to realize these things. It is highly likely, given his incredible success at such a young age, that he was ill prepared to deal with bad things happening to him. ______________Feel free to mod this down without conscience: I was born poor, stayed that way for a good while, and bad things and I are not at all strangers.
One of the many Poe addenda...yup, I tried addendums first but spell-check, which will let you misspell almost anything if you insert a hyphen, insisted I reconsider.