Are you fucking naive or something? You need people to prove reality to you? Convictions are hard to find links for, because the news covers crimes when they happen, not when the trial is concluded. But anyway, here's 2 examples I found in 5 seconds:
Crap. The other link is dead. Stupid internet. I'll never understand why news organizations take the news down. It doesn't stop being news -- ever. Suffice to say -- many other examples of this exist. That was just me searching my delicious account. If you search google, you'll find more. So take your skepticism elsewhere. You're wasting peoples' time trying to deny reality. Thank you drive through.
and although i haven't bought a camera since 2001, it was my understanding that there are already cameras out that do this. however, you still have to do the HDR mapping later, it just takes 2-3 raw pictures. but couldn't the HDR mapping be auto'ed too? AutoHDR software to use autobracketed RAW files as input?
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Not needing a separate room to use your computer: Priceless (and helps heat bills if you have zoned heat).
Not needing to purchase, maintain, pay electricity for, and replace a separate dedicated player: Priceless.
Double clicking a file you just (legally) downloaded and watching it in 1080p even though you don't have HDCP: Priceless.
[note: when I say Priceless, I'm joking. I know there's a measurable price to all of these things. Buy a Kill-A-Watt unit and measure for yourself.]
Slashdot at 52 inches diagonal: Priceless.
COmputer Desktop able to display 400 randomly generated photos from your collection changing every 2 minutes: Priceless.
It's quite fun, easier to coordinate a "game" with, vs just "fucking around", which can get tiring.. and re-uses a lot of the same skills (none of the fingering skill, but a lot of the plucking and finger placement and rhythm skills). You're really in no position to have a useful opinion about Guitar Hero vs Guitar if you haven't actually played. But thanks for the 2 cents.
only if you make it so that if, when cut back out, you would no longer survive. In otherwords, if you turn yourself into a parasite, then you're not a "person".
And of course if it asked you and it said no, complainers like you would be complaining about how Firefox doesn't properly support JAVA later.
And of course, if you were a dumbass who didn't understand what extensions were, you might say No out of fear, and then later decide you don't like java. And then later decide buying an iPHone isn't that bad, because it doesn't support java, but java never works anyway.
At some point, you have to let the machine work for you. Remember all the people who complained about windows asking your permission before doing anything possibly harmful? Seems like whether you ask people or not, someone is going to whine on either side of the fence.
In a world of whiners, I'd rather have Javascript work on their browsers.
There's enough problems with things BROKEN because people DON'T do automatic updates. Then when updates to happen automatically, people STILL whine.
Except for the "most people who take cannabis smoke it mixed with tobacco". That's not actually true. That's a popular Europoean thing that pretty much zero USAians do.
Unless you mean smoking both, but separately, in which case, never mind, good response:)
Too bad for you that marijuana is a completely non-toxic substance. Chew it 24/7 your entire life and you wont get mouth cancer. Look into it. Find out what an LD50 level is.
If you actually seek and look at the studies that do exist, you will find that most marijuana use is not so impairing as to present a danger. HEAVY use is, but as with anything, there are differences in degrees. Marijuana doesn't physically slow down your reactions like alcohol -- but it may do so mentally. Mental variance is much more than physical. Pot tickles neurotransmitters and people react differently from that. Alcohol is literally a toxin, and the feeling of being drunk is literally your brain cells dying -- something that, if you look into it, you will find out marijuana does NOT do. The physical slowness from alcohol is because you're being poisoned, not because you're high. They are simply apples and oranges, and too many people like to make apples and apples comparisons.
Real scientists have done a much better job at making these comparisons, and come up with a much more accurate conclusion than yours.
I think his point may be that THC helps, but smoking may hurt worse than the THC helps. So if smoking hurts you for a value of -10, and THC helps you for a value of +2, then your choice is: Take THC in non-smoking form (+2), or smoke pot (-10) which has THC (+2) in it -- but that's still -8. Obviously THC without smoke is better than THC with smoke. But nobody has measured the exact amount, obviously.
I agree with you, but remember that this applies to smoking bans as well. Consenting adults. Privately owned establishment. If I own the bar, and I smoke, and I want to smoke in the bar I own, and I want smokers to be able to smoke in the bar I own -- don't pass an ordinance outlawing it in the name of public safety. It's exactly the same mentality that criminalizes pot, strip clubs, swinger clubs, bdsm clubs, or anywhere else where multiple adults get together and do something people think may be harmful -- have sex with strangers, get flogged on a bondage cross, take it up the ass from a gay man, or smoke a fucking cigarette.
No, usage individually will not increase. People who smoke pot will smoke the same amount whether it's legal or not - the law didn't stop them. The law has no influence. People are already doing what they want at the levels they want. Your comment is ignorant in a smart way:)
That's not what's happening. Nobody's driving a truck bomb to the middle of a crowd. In my example, the Native Americans live in a walled city, and shoot arrows randomly over the wall. THAT is what is happening here. Thousands of Quassam rockets fired, and only 13 Israelis killed (only 3 civilians) during the past few weeks? You are trying to depict an act of purely random violence as being a specific type of violence that it's not. Israel is attacking because of Quassam rocket attacks. The fatality rate for those rockets is something low, like 1 per 100 fires. And last I checked, Israel is the only one bombing UN hospitals and schools, actually.
And again: Not great-grandparents. Even American citizen children who were born to Palestinian parents are oppressed by being denied their family wealth.
I assume most people on slashdot were college educated, and bought their computer with money they earned on the job. I also assume most people had some assistance from family in paying for their education, as the average person just can't do it on their own. It's nice that most of us on here can depend on our family wealth without someone literally taking the deed from our family house away.
Not great-grandparents - most people who had land taken away from them or their parents are STILL alive. At least, not counting the 1,000 that have been killed in the past 2 weeks.
Fancy that that most of the world sides against the country killing more people. Isreal in Gaza is the same thing as USA in Iraq. Except at least for Israel, the threat is *somewhat* real. For us, it's made up. Iraq never threatened us.
Either way, I'd be willing to bet that car accidents kill more people in Israel than terrorism. But they aren't bombing car factories and refusing to let people drive. (well, unless your palestinian, anyway. The ones that became Isreal citizens and surrendered in the 1940s had to live under 17 years of martial law where you had to ask govt permission to go to work. Which is exactly why you NEVER SURRENDER TO AN OCCUPYING POWER.)
Bad economy, increasing nationalism. Sound familiar?
And actually, the Arabs have taken part in plenty of cease-fires. DO you think if america was attacked, we would be able to control every last redneck militia and stop them from fighting for america? Like hell we couldn't, we can barely control our more militant aspects during peacetime with a good economy and nobody attacking us! The FBI watches those groups closely!
And the Arabs who lived peacefully and became Israeli citizens? 17 years of martial law, and other forms of oppression to this day. They're like black or native americans in America. That's hardly a shining example of why people should sit down and let aggressors force them into a ghetto...
Okay. You sealed your fate there. You have no idea who you are talking about. You talk about things in the singular but then it turns out you're talking about everyone. And then you call me a 13-year-old? Hah. (I'm 35.) I guess the real problem is you apparently don't understand how to clearly communicate in the english language. There's something called The Test For Standard Written English that they make you take before entering into American colleges. I scored the maximum score possible both times I took it. You obviously failed that.
Another good class? Knowledge & Reason, a philosophy class. I suggest you study logical fallacies and learn how to properly induce critical thought.
Your post almost makes it sound like you're saying the european Jews started their whole "take over Israel" thing because the Arabs there attacked them. They didn't. The arabs fought on the allied side in both world wars, in exchange for land they were promised. Instead we reneged our deal, and to add insult to energy, did the very opposite and took land away. This isn't a matter of "shit happens when you enter a war", this is a matter of promises not being made. This goes back to WW1. They didn't enter a war vs Israel, they entered the war vs the ottoman empire at our behest... We kind of screwed several countries, not just the Palestinian people.
Explain how what happened to his family home was NOT theft, please?
Until then, I'm proud to have known two people on both sides of the conflict, my grandmother from the labor camp, and my Palestinian friend who shared my dormroom hall in 1992. Out of the two of them and you, you are the one I don't believe when you say, "No theft occurred."
So there's the parallel. It's okay to deny this theft, but it's not okay to deny the holocaust. Two idiotic viewpoints I would never agree with.
You asked for parralels? The parallel is simple: The jews became the new nazis (to a much lesser degree, *obviously*, but possibly to a greater number of total-human-years-of-suffering since this has gone on for a long, long time), and palestinians became the new jews. It's a shitty metaphor but that's kind of what's happening here. They took they're land, and now they exterminate them -- just very slowly so it's not very "holocausty".
Note that my disdain of the situation is not a zero sum game. I'd just a soon put a bullet in the hole of the head of a terrorist with my own 2 hands if given the chance. But that's not really a judgment you can make from a military aircraft dropping bombs from the sky...
It's funny how denying the holocaust will get you put in prison in so-called democratic states that support free speech (you'd have to be an idiot to deny the holocaust, but I defend your right to be an idiot), but that denying that any theft happened with the Palestinian people allows YOU to tell ME that I'm not seeing the parallel here. There is a definite parallel: this time around, the jews are the nazis, and the palestinians are the jews. I guess turnabout is fair play.
I'm glad to have known two good people on both sides of the fight to gain some true perspective in things.
Heh - that's a good point. My favorite of all of yours (not being sarcastic). But they would do so through judicial process, not by dropping bombs on him from faceless airplanes that are so large they kill innocent people at a greater rate than the serial killer himself. I'm also against the death penalty (in favor of legalized personal honor killings; you kill my wife, I get to kill you. Nobody else deserves that honor.)
Compare black slavery in america. We still have affirmative action 150 years after it stopped. People are indeed more greatly affected by something in a short (50-150) period of time. Actually, extend 150 to 250. The American Indians are still given a piss-poor deal, and if the ones that finally signed peace accords with us saw their treatment now, they would not sign such accords and would probably fight instead (where possible; they kind of didn't have a chance -- just like the Palestinians now). So I don't think I'm saying it's okay if it's a few hundred years. Maybe if it's 500 or 1000, it's time to not bring it up anymore. But when it's 400 (colonization of american to now) there still stand to be direct repercussions. In this case the time is still very short. I'm only 35, and my college buddy who lived in my hall had a place he lived taken away from his parents. They had a Jewish tenant because they weren't racists, and he was granted deed to their house. A house they had built one floor at a time over decades and decades of hard work. The Jew felt rightfully guilty, but Israel wouldn't allow him to sign it back. So he sold it and tried to give them all the money, but taking the money is basically concluding the deal and they refused to acknowledge the confiscation. Now most americans would have taken the cowardly easy way out and taken the money, but these people have a different cultural sense of pride than we do, and that is not a crime. So yes. Plenty of people affected directly still there today. Does that help? Any questions?:)
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You don't seem to understand that these terrorists do not operate in a vacuum. They are a result of us-driven policy. That doesn't make it right, but if I beat the shit out of my kid every day and he becomes a serial killer -- am I blameless for his victims?
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Crap. The other link is dead. Stupid internet. I'll never understand why news organizations take the news down. It doesn't stop being news -- ever. Suffice to say -- many other examples of this exist. That was just me searching my delicious account. If you search google, you'll find more. So take your skepticism elsewhere. You're wasting peoples' time trying to deny reality. Thank you drive through.
Actually, here's a google search to more: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sexting+charged+possession&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=
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and although i haven't bought a camera since 2001, it was my understanding that there are already cameras out that do this. however, you still have to do the HDR mapping later, it just takes 2-3 raw pictures. but couldn't the HDR mapping be auto'ed too? AutoHDR software to use autobracketed RAW files as input?
Not needing a separate room to use your computer: Priceless (and helps heat bills if you have zoned heat).
Not needing to purchase, maintain, pay electricity for, and replace a separate dedicated player: Priceless.
Double clicking a file you just (legally) downloaded and watching it in 1080p even though you don't have HDCP: Priceless.
[note: when I say Priceless, I'm joking. I know there's a measurable price to all of these things. Buy a Kill-A-Watt unit and measure for yourself.]
Slashdot at 52 inches diagonal: Priceless.
COmputer Desktop able to display 400 randomly generated photos from your collection changing every 2 minutes: Priceless.
Observe. This is how it's done: http://www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/3253972437/.
Additional cost past tv and computer most of us already own: $15.
It's quite fun, easier to coordinate a "game" with, vs just "fucking around", which can get tiring.. and re-uses a lot of the same skills (none of the fingering skill, but a lot of the plucking and finger placement and rhythm skills). You're really in no position to have a useful opinion about Guitar Hero vs Guitar if you haven't actually played. But thanks for the 2 cents.
only if you make it so that if, when cut back out, you would no longer survive. In otherwords, if you turn yourself into a parasite, then you're not a "person".
That's got to be the douchiest comment I've read in ... maybe months. No... americans are too stupid. I'll say.. days.
And of course, if you were a dumbass who didn't understand what extensions were, you might say No out of fear, and then later decide you don't like java. And then later decide buying an iPHone isn't that bad, because it doesn't support java, but java never works anyway.
At some point, you have to let the machine work for you. Remember all the people who complained about windows asking your permission before doing anything possibly harmful? Seems like whether you ask people or not, someone is going to whine on either side of the fence.
In a world of whiners, I'd rather have Javascript work on their browsers.
There's enough problems with things BROKEN because people DON'T do automatic updates. Then when updates to happen automatically, people STILL whine.
Can't win.
Unless you mean smoking both, but separately, in which case, never mind, good response :)
You are a hilarious person! Too bad you exist.
Too bad for you that marijuana is a completely non-toxic substance. Chew it 24/7 your entire life and you wont get mouth cancer. Look into it. Find out what an LD50 level is.
Real scientists have done a much better job at making these comparisons, and come up with a much more accurate conclusion than yours.
I think his point may be that THC helps, but smoking may hurt worse than the THC helps. So if smoking hurts you for a value of -10, and THC helps you for a value of +2, then your choice is: Take THC in non-smoking form (+2), or smoke pot (-10) which has THC (+2) in it -- but that's still -8. Obviously THC without smoke is better than THC with smoke. But nobody has measured the exact amount, obviously.
I agree with you, but remember that this applies to smoking bans as well. Consenting adults. Privately owned establishment. If I own the bar, and I smoke, and I want to smoke in the bar I own, and I want smokers to be able to smoke in the bar I own -- don't pass an ordinance outlawing it in the name of public safety. It's exactly the same mentality that criminalizes pot, strip clubs, swinger clubs, bdsm clubs, or anywhere else where multiple adults get together and do something people think may be harmful -- have sex with strangers, get flogged on a bondage cross, take it up the ass from a gay man, or smoke a fucking cigarette.
No, usage individually will not increase. People who smoke pot will smoke the same amount whether it's legal or not - the law didn't stop them. The law has no influence. People are already doing what they want at the levels they want. Your comment is ignorant in a smart way :)
And again: Not great-grandparents. Even American citizen children who were born to Palestinian parents are oppressed by being denied their family wealth.
I assume most people on slashdot were college educated, and bought their computer with money they earned on the job. I also assume most people had some assistance from family in paying for their education, as the average person just can't do it on their own. It's nice that most of us on here can depend on our family wealth without someone literally taking the deed from our family house away.
Not great-grandparents - most people who had land taken away from them or their parents are STILL alive. At least, not counting the 1,000 that have been killed in the past 2 weeks.
Fancy that that most of the world sides against the country killing more people. Isreal in Gaza is the same thing as USA in Iraq. Except at least for Israel, the threat is *somewhat* real. For us, it's made up. Iraq never threatened us.
Either way, I'd be willing to bet that car accidents kill more people in Israel than terrorism. But they aren't bombing car factories and refusing to let people drive. (well, unless your palestinian, anyway. The ones that became Isreal citizens and surrendered in the 1940s had to live under 17 years of martial law where you had to ask govt permission to go to work. Which is exactly why you NEVER SURRENDER TO AN OCCUPYING POWER.)
And actually, the Arabs have taken part in plenty of cease-fires. DO you think if america was attacked, we would be able to control every last redneck militia and stop them from fighting for america? Like hell we couldn't, we can barely control our more militant aspects during peacetime with a good economy and nobody attacking us! The FBI watches those groups closely!
And the Arabs who lived peacefully and became Israeli citizens? 17 years of martial law, and other forms of oppression to this day. They're like black or native americans in America. That's hardly a shining example of why people should sit down and let aggressors force them into a ghetto...
Another good class? Knowledge & Reason, a philosophy class. I suggest you study logical fallacies and learn how to properly induce critical thought.
Your post almost makes it sound like you're saying the european Jews started their whole "take over Israel" thing because the Arabs there attacked them. They didn't. The arabs fought on the allied side in both world wars, in exchange for land they were promised. Instead we reneged our deal, and to add insult to energy, did the very opposite and took land away. This isn't a matter of "shit happens when you enter a war", this is a matter of promises not being made. This goes back to WW1. They didn't enter a war vs Israel, they entered the war vs the ottoman empire at our behest... We kind of screwed several countries, not just the Palestinian people.
Explain how what happened to his family home was NOT theft, please?
Until then, I'm proud to have known two people on both sides of the conflict, my grandmother from the labor camp, and my Palestinian friend who shared my dormroom hall in 1992. Out of the two of them and you, you are the one I don't believe when you say, "No theft occurred."
So there's the parallel. It's okay to deny this theft, but it's not okay to deny the holocaust. Two idiotic viewpoints I would never agree with.
You asked for parralels? The parallel is simple: The jews became the new nazis (to a much lesser degree, *obviously*, but possibly to a greater number of total-human-years-of-suffering since this has gone on for a long, long time), and palestinians became the new jews. It's a shitty metaphor but that's kind of what's happening here. They took they're land, and now they exterminate them -- just very slowly so it's not very "holocausty".
Note that my disdain of the situation is not a zero sum game. I'd just a soon put a bullet in the hole of the head of a terrorist with my own 2 hands if given the chance. But that's not really a judgment you can make from a military aircraft dropping bombs from the sky...
It's funny how denying the holocaust will get you put in prison in so-called democratic states that support free speech (you'd have to be an idiot to deny the holocaust, but I defend your right to be an idiot), but that denying that any theft happened with the Palestinian people allows YOU to tell ME that I'm not seeing the parallel here. There is a definite parallel: this time around, the jews are the nazis, and the palestinians are the jews. I guess turnabout is fair play.
I'm glad to have known two good people on both sides of the fight to gain some true perspective in things.
So which terrorist are you talking about anyway? Everyone in Gaza?
Heh - that's a good point. My favorite of all of yours (not being sarcastic). But they would do so through judicial process, not by dropping bombs on him from faceless airplanes that are so large they kill innocent people at a greater rate than the serial killer himself. I'm also against the death penalty (in favor of legalized personal honor killings; you kill my wife, I get to kill you. Nobody else deserves that honor.)
Paragraph breaks lost when I had to repaste it after shitty slashcode "resource not available".
You don't seem to understand that these terrorists do not operate in a vacuum. They are a result of us-driven policy. That doesn't make it right, but if I beat the shit out of my kid every day and he becomes a serial killer -- am I blameless for his victims?