The law is getting so intricate that few people understand exactly what it entails anymore. Ideally, the law should be easily understood; written in the vernacular. We shouldn't need lawyers to translate it for us.
Ever read any Thomas Aquinas (St. Thomas, that is)? It is his stance that a rational person is not subject to the law, for positive (that is, written down) laws are just applications of reason and rationality. A rational person wouldn't ever break the law, because that would not be rational! Think about it - you don't get a speeding ticket when your wife is in the back seat in labor, the cop lets you go even though the speeding may have even been an egregious violation, because delaying you getting to the hospital would be irrational!
You'd be correct - that's why he recommends not doing it any longer than 3 hours beforehand. In any event, you're told that the turkey is done when the breast meat, the thickest part of the turkey, is 165F in the center - safe by then!
Ease of use This is what Apple products are all about. They might not have all of the advanced features of Firefox and IE but they excel at simple, easy-to-use interfaces.
There ya go, a rocket strapped to a tricycle is obviously going to go faster than the space shuttle, and not only that, less parts are gonna go flyin' when it crashes.
- I do not need him to defend me from a (dead) dictator. In fact, I need not even risk the draft, however I did register because I need the college money.
- Nobody cares if the car is stolen, unless, of course, I report it stolen, when it is then put in NCIC for up to 90 days - if it is abandoned, or the driver is pulled over in it, I'll be getting my car back. If my kid was riding a bicycle without a helmet, he'd catch a beating from me first before catching a ride home from a cop.
- I will not buckle my seatbelt. In Pennsylvania, you must be stopped for a moving violation (ie, driving unsafely) first, before they ticket you for a seatbelt. Don't want to strap in? Don't drive so as to require it.
- I do not mind being required to prove my age to buy alcohol. Ever seen a bunch of drunk college freshmen? Fuck em, they're not mature enough to handle alcohol, and if they are, they would understand why they cannot purchase it, and would simply continue to consume. You don't get busted for alcohol chillin' in an apartment, you get busted for puking in the hallway and telling the cop to fuck off.
- Driving a car on a public road funded by public money that anyone who meets the requirements is a privilege, because driving like a maniac is going to piss off, well, public. I can, however, buy my own right-of-way and build my own interstate highway if I please, and then go as fast as I like on it. In fact, I'm free to drive the car anywhere I own or anywhere the land owner has given me permission as fast and as detrimentally to my health as I please.
- If I would like to fly in an airplane and not be searched, I am once again, free to get my own pilot's license and fly my own damn plane. Now, if I want to fly with the cattle, I have to be searched like cattle.
- There is no reason to carry a high-powered rifle in a city. If there were an immediate threat to my well-being that ISN'T handled by the cops, it would be nearby, not far away. For that reason, I can carry a concealed weapon, with a permit, of course. In my state, that just means $35 and bringing a 2"x2" pic to the Sheriff's Office.
I realize I took the bait, but realize this: If you choose to live in a country that is lead by the people, you must realize that if you're on the plus side of the bell curve the government is going to be stupider than you. Take a good philosophy of law class, or read some Aquinas. According to him, and I like his argument, any good man is not bound by the law, as the law only dictates proper reason. i.e., if I want to fly safely, I must submit to searches based upon suspicion. However, only Arabs have recently tried to blow up planes. It is unfair to judge all Arabs based on a couple dozen morons with plane tickets, so we must all be searched.
Your liberties cannot be taken away. Nobody can stop you from speaking, nobody can stop you from defending your own body. You choose to give them away.
And I'm young enough that computers had spell check right about the time they stopped giving us spelling tests - I'm still in college, and it drives me up a wall too.:P
Absolute freedom only exists in a State of Nature. What you are willing to call a State of Nature depends on your world view, and I like Hobbes: Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. When you are allowed absolute freedom, you have the freedom to take and do as you want, and that includes murdering your neighbor in order to rape his wife.
You want true freedom? You may have it, you simply must signal your intent to not follow the laws of the land where you are currently at. Want to kill somebody? Go ahead, do it. However, you must understand that those around you who have decided to give up certain freedoms to be safe will treat you as if you are not part of that society, and are free to kill you, rape you, dismember you, torture you, or whatever they see fit.
Now, we can modernize this and use other people's views, such as John Locke's. I will not, however, provide you an example, as John Locke's views are the same that our country was founded on. I suggest you read some of his writings, and then come back. Do you have life? Do you have liberty (not license)? Do you have the ability to build estate? Yes? Then sit down, shut up, and quit acting like your rights are being trampled upon.
Furthermore, you cannot make an argument like yours without presenting examples. What can I think that I can do without permission? I can kill a trespasser on my own property, I can do what I like with my land (I'm not an idiot, I don't live in a city), hell, I can do pretty much whatever I like on my land, including many things that most people would consider illegal - after all, the police can't come on my land unless they have reasonable suspicion to obtain a warrant, and as long as my activities stay on my own land, they wouldn't ever know!
We are? They let me shoot high powered rifles as soon as I could hold them, kill shit with them when I was 12, drive a car at 14, drive a car on the roads when I was 16.5, and then let me buy and sell those high powered rifles at 18, without a license!
If we're so concerned with safety, why are my neighbor's keys in his ignition. Why are mine?!
Get the fuck off my lawn, or I'll blow your head off, and call the cops to come clear your dead body off of my grass. I don't need anyone to defend it for me.
Google has about as much choice as China in who sees what results, ie, none at all. If Chinese citizens do not like the results they see on Google's searches, they won't use Google; it's not as if Google can make the search for "fuzzy animals" always come up with furry porn and continue to have a revenue stream.
Are you seriously trying to say it's OK for China to hijack the presence of a company that actually has a presence there?
And that "national security" legislation sure worked great when those Jap fucks started putting Ford out of business.
What's that? Oh, we didn't do that? Shit, I guess you're right.
You may not be a grammar major, but as a gamer you should understand following the rules. Unfortunately, when communicating with people, certain rules must be followed. For instance, it would be a little bit weird if the doctor came up and screamed at you YOU'S GONNA DIE! when you have cancer, or if you tried to ask your friend to check our the woman next to him by screaming.
It is furthermore unfortunate that most of these rules are taught to people before they enter secondary education; breaking the rules simply makes you lazy, unintelligent, or both!
By using the word "fallow" (I'm ignoring the double negative for now), you have indicated that one can expect Hushmail to leave the law undeveloped, ie, would not work to make it better. Please remember that Firefox has a spell checker, and will automatically highlight your typos.
Problem is dude, that the privacy options get goddamn bigger all the time. I got the (very fine grained, which is good) privacy controls all set the way I wanted to, and then after they decided high schoolers were ok.... and then everyone was ok.... they decided it was time to add public search, so I had to go in and change MORE privacy settings!
LSD doses are measured in micrograms, not milligrams. From memory, the minimum clinically observable dose is something around 35 micrograms, and just has a stimulant effect. Hallucinogenic properties are not seen until 75-100 micrograms.
Furthermore, it is not only one of the most potent drugs ever discovered, but one of the most safe. Humans have eaten many many times the normal dose (i've seen 10grams reportedly), but that doesn't necessarily mean the same for an elephant - just ask anyone whose accidentally fed their dog any baker's chocolate.
$12 for 2 tickets? Holy hell man. I my area, the average salary is something like $23,000 a year, and a prime-time ticket is $8.50 for the theater where you're about guaranteed to be stuck to the floor and stuck in the obese-ass seat.
Hah. Those fuckers applied my rebate to my bill one time! I got a text message saying that since I had a positive balance, they were applying the rebate to my bill. I damn near called to cancel my service then and there.
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If you are not operating the OS or application, what is it that you are operating?
Ever read any Thomas Aquinas (St. Thomas, that is)? It is his stance that a rational person is not subject to the law, for positive (that is, written down) laws are just applications of reason and rationality. A rational person wouldn't ever break the law, because that would not be rational! Think about it - you don't get a speeding ticket when your wife is in the back seat in labor, the cop lets you go even though the speeding may have even been an egregious violation, because delaying you getting to the hospital would be irrational!
You'd be correct - that's why he recommends not doing it any longer than 3 hours beforehand. In any event, you're told that the turkey is done when the breast meat, the thickest part of the turkey, is 165F in the center - safe by then!
There ya go, a rocket strapped to a tricycle is obviously going to go faster than the space shuttle, and not only that, less parts are gonna go flyin' when it crashes.
Let's run the gambut:
- I do not need him to defend me from a (dead) dictator. In fact, I need not even risk the draft, however I did register because I need the college money.
- Nobody cares if the car is stolen, unless, of course, I report it stolen, when it is then put in NCIC for up to 90 days - if it is abandoned, or the driver is pulled over in it, I'll be getting my car back. If my kid was riding a bicycle without a helmet, he'd catch a beating from me first before catching a ride home from a cop.
- I will not buckle my seatbelt. In Pennsylvania, you must be stopped for a moving violation (ie, driving unsafely) first, before they ticket you for a seatbelt. Don't want to strap in? Don't drive so as to require it.
- I do not mind being required to prove my age to buy alcohol. Ever seen a bunch of drunk college freshmen? Fuck em, they're not mature enough to handle alcohol, and if they are, they would understand why they cannot purchase it, and would simply continue to consume. You don't get busted for alcohol chillin' in an apartment, you get busted for puking in the hallway and telling the cop to fuck off.
- Driving a car on a public road funded by public money that anyone who meets the requirements is a privilege, because driving like a maniac is going to piss off, well, public. I can, however, buy my own right-of-way and build my own interstate highway if I please, and then go as fast as I like on it. In fact, I'm free to drive the car anywhere I own or anywhere the land owner has given me permission as fast and as detrimentally to my health as I please.
- If I would like to fly in an airplane and not be searched, I am once again, free to get my own pilot's license and fly my own damn plane. Now, if I want to fly with the cattle, I have to be searched like cattle.
- There is no reason to carry a high-powered rifle in a city. If there were an immediate threat to my well-being that ISN'T handled by the cops, it would be nearby, not far away. For that reason, I can carry a concealed weapon, with a permit, of course. In my state, that just means $35 and bringing a 2"x2" pic to the Sheriff's Office.
I realize I took the bait, but realize this: If you choose to live in a country that is lead by the people, you must realize that if you're on the plus side of the bell curve the government is going to be stupider than you. Take a good philosophy of law class, or read some Aquinas. According to him, and I like his argument, any good man is not bound by the law, as the law only dictates proper reason. i.e., if I want to fly safely, I must submit to searches based upon suspicion. However, only Arabs have recently tried to blow up planes. It is unfair to judge all Arabs based on a couple dozen morons with plane tickets, so we must all be searched.
Your liberties cannot be taken away. Nobody can stop you from speaking, nobody can stop you from defending your own body. You choose to give them away.
I hear ya. I know this is /.
:P
And I'm young enough that computers had spell check right about the time they stopped giving us spelling tests - I'm still in college, and it drives me up a wall too.
Absolute freedom only exists in a State of Nature. What you are willing to call a State of Nature depends on your world view, and I like Hobbes: Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. When you are allowed absolute freedom, you have the freedom to take and do as you want, and that includes murdering your neighbor in order to rape his wife.
You want true freedom? You may have it, you simply must signal your intent to not follow the laws of the land where you are currently at. Want to kill somebody? Go ahead, do it. However, you must understand that those around you who have decided to give up certain freedoms to be safe will treat you as if you are not part of that society, and are free to kill you, rape you, dismember you, torture you, or whatever they see fit.
Now, we can modernize this and use other people's views, such as John Locke's. I will not, however, provide you an example, as John Locke's views are the same that our country was founded on. I suggest you read some of his writings, and then come back. Do you have life? Do you have liberty (not license)? Do you have the ability to build estate? Yes? Then sit down, shut up, and quit acting like your rights are being trampled upon.
Furthermore, you cannot make an argument like yours without presenting examples. What can I think that I can do without permission? I can kill a trespasser on my own property, I can do what I like with my land (I'm not an idiot, I don't live in a city), hell, I can do pretty much whatever I like on my land, including many things that most people would consider illegal - after all, the police can't come on my land unless they have reasonable suspicion to obtain a warrant, and as long as my activities stay on my own land, they wouldn't ever know!
Why the hell would you start smoking when you were 24?
I started smoking when I was 15 or so (21 now), and I curse myself for it. Good luck with that in 6 years or so!
Ah yes, but his sig has not one, but two typos!
We are? They let me shoot high powered rifles as soon as I could hold them, kill shit with them when I was 12, drive a car at 14, drive a car on the roads when I was 16.5, and then let me buy and sell those high powered rifles at 18, without a license!
If we're so concerned with safety, why are my neighbor's keys in his ignition. Why are mine?!
Get the fuck off my lawn, or I'll blow your head off, and call the cops to come clear your dead body off of my grass. I don't need anyone to defend it for me.
Google has about as much choice as China in who sees what results, ie, none at all. If Chinese citizens do not like the results they see on Google's searches, they won't use Google; it's not as if Google can make the search for "fuzzy animals" always come up with furry porn and continue to have a revenue stream.
Are you seriously trying to say it's OK for China to hijack the presence of a company that actually has a presence there?
And that "national security" legislation sure worked great when those Jap fucks started putting Ford out of business.
What's that? Oh, we didn't do that? Shit, I guess you're right.
You may not be a grammar major, but as a gamer you should understand following the rules. Unfortunately, when communicating with people, certain rules must be followed. For instance, it would be a little bit weird if the doctor came up and screamed at you YOU'S GONNA DIE! when you have cancer, or if you tried to ask your friend to check our the woman next to him by screaming.
It is furthermore unfortunate that most of these rules are taught to people before they enter secondary education; breaking the rules simply makes you lazy, unintelligent, or both!
By using the word "fallow" (I'm ignoring the double negative for now), you have indicated that one can expect Hushmail to leave the law undeveloped, ie, would not work to make it better. Please remember that Firefox has a spell checker, and will automatically highlight your typos.
ROT-13 smoke signals.
Oh you're already paying for people's telephone service. What do you think the Universal Service Fee is for? It pays for a service called LifeLine =)
Na way man, Jill never needs flowers or taken out to dinner. She's better than authentic!
So how's the gummint gonna pay for itself?
No taxation without representation, remember that one?
They already got the brown note. Next time you see a sign that says "Center Line Rumble Strips", give it a try.
:P
Probably as close to brown note as is possible
or the convenient eject button on the drive!
Thank God for sterling engine refrigerators!
Problem is dude, that the privacy options get goddamn bigger all the time. I got the (very fine grained, which is good) privacy controls all set the way I wanted to, and then after they decided high schoolers were ok.... and then everyone was ok.... they decided it was time to add public search, so I had to go in and change MORE privacy settings!
Fuckers.
Hobbes says:
-Ignorance of promulgated, just law is no excuse.
-Ignorance of the law-making body is no excuse.
-Ignorance of the penalty is no excuse.
Fuck em. I go to a state school (PSU) because I didn't worry about my grades. They shouldn't get a life they don't deserve, I say life their asses.
Wikipedia is, once again, on crack.
LSD doses are measured in micrograms, not milligrams. From memory, the minimum clinically observable dose is something around 35 micrograms, and just has a stimulant effect. Hallucinogenic properties are not seen until 75-100 micrograms.
Furthermore, it is not only one of the most potent drugs ever discovered, but one of the most safe. Humans have eaten many many times the normal dose (i've seen 10grams reportedly), but that doesn't necessarily mean the same for an elephant - just ask anyone whose accidentally fed their dog any baker's chocolate.
$12 for 2 tickets? Holy hell man. I my area, the average salary is something like $23,000 a year, and a prime-time ticket is $8.50 for the theater where you're about guaranteed to be stuck to the floor and stuck in the obese-ass seat.
It's because schools like my own Penn State raise the tuition to buy everyone at the school a subscription so we don't pirate music.
Then, after you get a decent collection, they shut it off at the end of May.
Hah. Those fuckers applied my rebate to my bill one time! I got a text message saying that since I had a positive balance, they were applying the rebate to my bill. I damn near called to cancel my service then and there.