That means the same thing. You just used more words to say it. The technicality of whether you did or did not do something has no bearing if everyone pretends like you didn't. The outcome is the desired effect,not the means by which you achieved it. Your spin-fu is weak.
Hun, I can't put in to words how delectable the irony is that someone sporting the moniker Attila would have this outlook! Please, keep it up. It sustains me!
I think this whole thing is fucked up. I'm pretty sure we're on the same side here but your post seems to be looking at this from a technical point of view and I'd like to point out a flaw, from my perspective, in your argument. If there was no evidence against him, why waste the resources trying him? Someone breaks into your house and comes at you with a ninja sword. You yell for them to stop or you'll shoot but they don't and they come charging. You blow their head off. All of this was caught on your home security camera and you happily hand it over to the cops when they get there. They view it, show it to the DA, and they say "clearly self defense, no charges will be filed". If I get what you're saying, you think they should go ahead and drag you through the courts even though you know you're innocent and you'll win the case. I'd not want to waste my resources defending myself from an obviously frivolous case.
Crooks, big-time AND small? Please! Don't leave a guy hanging here. Share with us what underlying conspiracy is hiding here that only you have managed to decipher?
Sometimes people don't take you seriously and won't change their ways until you start breaking some shit. What does everyone say about bullies? Eventually if you stand up to them and whip their ass for once, they'll leave you the hell alone and go on to easier pickings. Don't act like this is all bullshit either, those crying about this are the first ones to stand up and want to exercise their second amendment rights. They'll get out all of those precious 4 boxes and open em up. Well obviously the Jury box didn't satisfy their desires and they've just opened up the Ammo box instead since, ya know, the cops opened that one years ago. Why is it ok when the white rednecks open theirs but it's Armageddon when the "niggers" do it? I live in the South. This is what I get to hear all day. The poor folks are finally standing up to the bullies and all the white folks are locking the doors and hiding their daughters. It's pathetic.
But you just supported the pro-gov argument. How will giving it over to a corporation not end up with it being legislated and enforced by the government? Cut out the middle man already.
What! Sweden doesn't criminalize trivial things? Like maybe having sex without a condom....ask Julian Assange how that worked out for him. Oh wait, you can't because he's in hiding.
Because it is the least shitty of the shitty DRM platforms. Your sentiment is noble and I agree in principle, but the rest of the world has realized that this is the way things are going to be and if you want a game to play, you're going to buy it this way and play it this way. There is little to "get" about this thing. Steam appears to be the lesser of 4 evils- nothing more.
It appears fine for the automobile industry and the small custom guys can still build their low production run cars. I, however, am not arguing for the need to do any of the stuff Khyber mentioned. I am just pointing out that the results are not all either/or like you suggest. Both things can exist in the same ecosystem.
This problem is already solved. I know, I've used it. When you get attacked by your bully the first time, you simply haul their ass into real court under assault and/or harassment charges. When the little fuckers piss their pants in front of the judge, they tend to leave you alone. The dumb ones can pick the retaliation route but then you've already got them setup for a some real jail time. I agree totally that zero tolerance rules are stupid but if you want to get down to the truth of who is at fault in every school confrontation so you don't persecute the victims, you're advocating for a little court to be setup within every school. How is that gonna work?
Hey now! He watched that scene in Game of Thrones where the guy hauling all the knights watch recruits to the wall, tells that guys he's gonna knick his thigh artery. See, now he's a goddamned expert! If you would have watched it, like he keeps telling us all, then you'd know it too.....*rollseyes*
I don't like obscenity laws anymore than you do but your argument is flawed. When you say "rather than interpreting it as they're supposed to" what one is usually trying to imply is that it's not being interpreted the way they want it to be. If you aren't trying to imply anything, which I'm sure you'll claim, then "interpreting it as they're supposed to" would require a literal interpretation and that makes your argument fail as well. The only literal interpretation is actual speech. So dancing, expression, painting a billboard, donating your money, etc are not physical speech. A literal interpretation says you have the freedom to physically say whatever you want along with gathering for grievances and printing it in newspaper. Nothing else. I, for one, am glad that judges can from time to time, realize that sticking to a literal interpretation is stupid and entirely too anal retentive.
What a shitty website. It's like Windows 8 threw up all over it. I'm sure these are probably neat devices but I'll be damned if I could tell anything from that website. It's unusable!
You are stating the way it should be and not the way it is. I believe in your ideal, but I have to live in the real world so...
If I sit on a bench and write a letter to someone, I do my best to obscure it from view or at least write about something mundane that I wouldn't care that got read
If I whisper into someone's ear in PUBLIC, I assume someone could be using a high sensitivity directional mic to capture what I say- so I don't say important shit.
If I wear a skirt in public, I assume someone is trying to look up my skirt and wear appropriately hilarious underwear.
Don't think I'm arguing against what you're preachin but I also don't want to subject myself to victim blaming so I take as many precautions as I find reasonable. If I want to do sneaky shit, I don't do it in public because there just isn't a "reasonable expectation of privacy" no matter how much we might wish it.
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Sounds like the righty got a blister from jacking his AR15 off :(
That means the same thing. You just used more words to say it. The technicality of whether you did or did not do something has no bearing if everyone pretends like you didn't. The outcome is the desired effect,not the means by which you achieved it. Your spin-fu is weak.
Hun, I can't put in to words how delectable the irony is that someone sporting the moniker Attila would have this outlook! Please, keep it up. It sustains me!
I can't hear you! I'm still washing my hands and this fountain is loud!
I think this whole thing is fucked up. I'm pretty sure we're on the same side here but your post seems to be looking at this from a technical point of view and I'd like to point out a flaw, from my perspective, in your argument. If there was no evidence against him, why waste the resources trying him? Someone breaks into your house and comes at you with a ninja sword. You yell for them to stop or you'll shoot but they don't and they come charging. You blow their head off. All of this was caught on your home security camera and you happily hand it over to the cops when they get there. They view it, show it to the DA, and they say "clearly self defense, no charges will be filed". If I get what you're saying, you think they should go ahead and drag you through the courts even though you know you're innocent and you'll win the case. I'd not want to waste my resources defending myself from an obviously frivolous case.
Crooks, big-time AND small? Please! Don't leave a guy hanging here. Share with us what underlying conspiracy is hiding here that only you have managed to decipher?
Sometimes people don't take you seriously and won't change their ways until you start breaking some shit. What does everyone say about bullies? Eventually if you stand up to them and whip their ass for once, they'll leave you the hell alone and go on to easier pickings. Don't act like this is all bullshit either, those crying about this are the first ones to stand up and want to exercise their second amendment rights. They'll get out all of those precious 4 boxes and open em up. Well obviously the Jury box didn't satisfy their desires and they've just opened up the Ammo box instead since, ya know, the cops opened that one years ago. Why is it ok when the white rednecks open theirs but it's Armageddon when the "niggers" do it? I live in the South. This is what I get to hear all day. The poor folks are finally standing up to the bullies and all the white folks are locking the doors and hiding their daughters. It's pathetic.
But you just supported the pro-gov argument. How will giving it over to a corporation not end up with it being legislated and enforced by the government? Cut out the middle man already.
What! Sweden doesn't criminalize trivial things? Like maybe having sex without a condom....ask Julian Assange how that worked out for him. Oh wait, you can't because he's in hiding.
Because it is the least shitty of the shitty DRM platforms. Your sentiment is noble and I agree in principle, but the rest of the world has realized that this is the way things are going to be and if you want a game to play, you're going to buy it this way and play it this way. There is little to "get" about this thing. Steam appears to be the lesser of 4 evils- nothing more.
It appears fine for the automobile industry and the small custom guys can still build their low production run cars. I, however, am not arguing for the need to do any of the stuff Khyber mentioned. I am just pointing out that the results are not all either/or like you suggest. Both things can exist in the same ecosystem.
*sigh*.....because the Judge said I wasn't allowed to think of the children anymore....
This problem is already solved. I know, I've used it. When you get attacked by your bully the first time, you simply haul their ass into real court under assault and/or harassment charges. When the little fuckers piss their pants in front of the judge, they tend to leave you alone. The dumb ones can pick the retaliation route but then you've already got them setup for a some real jail time. I agree totally that zero tolerance rules are stupid but if you want to get down to the truth of who is at fault in every school confrontation so you don't persecute the victims, you're advocating for a little court to be setup within every school. How is that gonna work?
You have obviously never seen my laptop!
Hey now! He watched that scene in Game of Thrones where the guy hauling all the knights watch recruits to the wall, tells that guys he's gonna knick his thigh artery. See, now he's a goddamned expert! If you would have watched it, like he keeps telling us all, then you'd know it too.....*rollseyes*
I don't like obscenity laws anymore than you do but your argument is flawed. When you say "rather than interpreting it as they're supposed to" what one is usually trying to imply is that it's not being interpreted the way they want it to be. If you aren't trying to imply anything, which I'm sure you'll claim, then "interpreting it as they're supposed to" would require a literal interpretation and that makes your argument fail as well. The only literal interpretation is actual speech. So dancing, expression, painting a billboard, donating your money, etc are not physical speech. A literal interpretation says you have the freedom to physically say whatever you want along with gathering for grievances and printing it in newspaper. Nothing else. I, for one, am glad that judges can from time to time, realize that sticking to a literal interpretation is stupid and entirely too anal retentive.
One simply cannot stop being old...now get off my lawn! Take yer hula hoops and yer pet rocks with ya too!
What a shitty website. It's like Windows 8 threw up all over it. I'm sure these are probably neat devices but I'll be damned if I could tell anything from that website. It's unusable!
When you say "rigged" what do you mean? Did you just use linear actuators like these or was there a more MacGyver type solution?
Holy shit! That stuff is hella expensive! Have you personally used it?
I do this regularly and nothing of mine has ever been stolen. Perhaps it's because I don't live in a shithole.
But YOU have to pay for it....
You left out the most pertinent part: How long did it last before it was pulled due to "lack of funding" or is it still in use today?
Thanks for the info! VSP is my vision insurance provider. I wasn't aware that they were so forward thinking.
You are stating the way it should be and not the way it is. I believe in your ideal, but I have to live in the real world so...
If I sit on a bench and write a letter to someone, I do my best to obscure it from view or at least write about something mundane that I wouldn't care that got read
If I whisper into someone's ear in PUBLIC, I assume someone could be using a high sensitivity directional mic to capture what I say- so I don't say important shit.
If I wear a skirt in public, I assume someone is trying to look up my skirt and wear appropriately hilarious underwear.
Don't think I'm arguing against what you're preachin but I also don't want to subject myself to victim blaming so I take as many precautions as I find reasonable. If I want to do sneaky shit, I don't do it in public because there just isn't a "reasonable expectation of privacy" no matter how much we might wish it.