Yes, I'm perfectly OK with that. Our murder rate is less than four times the rate of the UK, so it is pretty obvious they are getting creative with knives, bludgeons, poison, or what have you. I'd rather lose that additional 3 people per 100,000 than lose the ability to kill anyone who breaks into my home. (And our murder rate keeps falling, despite having so many guns readily available.)
Seriously, how could it possibly be a good idea to let *anyone* smith their own sword.
Seriously, how could it possibly be a good idea to let *anyone* carve their own spear.
Seriously, how could it possibly be a good idea to let *anyone* sharpen their own rock.
Seriously, how could it possibly be a good idea to let *anyone* defend themselves from attack.
The stupidity of the gun grabbers simply astounds me. They're all the moral panic of the drug war with all the security theater of the Patriot Act, and yet they would likely be against both. "Ooh, but guns are scary! Thank God some kids were murdered so we have a new excuse to bitch about them!"
Don't pretend you are in a position of power on this, you are completely impotent and all you can do is whine when tragedy gives you the opportunistic rationale.
And besides, I live in a red state. Even if you could by some miracle legally rescind the 2nd Amendment and get a federal gun ban, anyone who goes down South to confiscate them is going to go home in a box. Nearly everyone from the governors to the local cops will be on our side.
as actual libertarians believe, that our rights are innate
What, like souls? You believe in magic?
Did these rights exist when human society was pre-literate, and the only government was tribal strong men? Did these rights exist before we evolved the ability to speak?
When the bear has its mouth around your skull, do you protest about the violation of your natural rights?
You have a right to privacy, and it is the government's remit to protect that right against all who would trample it, just as you can't sell yourself into slavery, enter a contract that obliges your vote, or dictate that an employee or renter go to church. And with your examples, you don't get to put an asterisk and say "except where denied by law" when you say stupid shit like that, it's an absurdity. It's saying "this categorical statement is true, except where it isn't".
And the government didn't give us that right, it exists simply because we demand it of them. It's funny to see the libertarian herp-a-derps get that backward, treating the Constitution like it was a magic freedom fountain from which the rights flow.
If it is between space and keeping old people from dying, space is going to lose, every time. It's pretty stupid of you to frame it this way.
Well, unless, of course, you don't give a fuck about space and just want to sneak your personal wharrgarbl into a thread that has nothing to do with it.
Most people with tablets want them as a passive device, not a machine to replace the one on their desk.
Most people don't know what they want until someone gives it to them. After all, Apple doesn't do focus groups, or so the apocryphal story goes. Funny how you fanboys criticize Microsoft for being more like Apple. And you contradict yourself, in typical fashion...
If you're doing full blown photoshop, WTF would you want to be doing it on a tablet for? Everyone will say "god, I miss my long battery life".
Excusing a UI limitation with technical whining, like the fattest, smelliest, most inept neckbearded open source programmers. I guess you've never seen one of these.
Or, to make it more obvious...
Slashdot have a tendency to say "this is what I want, therefore it's what everybody wants
I use my tablet primarily for entertainment and light web surfing. I'm not remotely interested...
This might also explain why so many of them watch Fox News and buy stupid things on TV. In fact, the association between right wing causes and commercial scams is well known.
Yet it turned out human space travel becomes exponentially difficult with the distance.
No, it becomes somewhat more than linearly but significantly less than exponentially more difficult with time. Because the primary expense is putting material in space, and the longer you want your people to survive there, the more material needs to go up.
Given how Martin "Lord" Rees has been flirting with the god botherers of the Templeton Foundation, it's no surprise that he has jumped on the ME AM PLAY GODS bandwagon.
The primary existential risk is from space, which is why unrestricted technological progress on all fronts is necessary.
Ah, texting while driving - Illegal, socially frowned upon, and done anyway, yet no cop wants to throw you to the grown and send you to rape prison over it.
It's amazing how sensible the laws can be when they aren't attached to ulterior motives and moral panic.
Note that the risk of accident while text messaging is 20+ times higher than normal, about that of someone who is sloppy drunk. My sarcastic police state for controlling cell phone use while driving should be real if the MADD and DARE crowd were consistent with their fear mongering.
But driving while high? A mere two times increase, according to people who want to scare you about pot.
Given how the police have broad surveillance powers to correlate cell phone logs against the mandatory GPS units installed in our cars in order to determine if we were dialing while driving, it is not unreasonable that we demand they have similar powers over knowing when pot smokers inhale their illicitly legal drug.
There's quite a lot of Apple fanboy denial in this thread. All those rationalizations and excuses, sounds quite a bit like Republicans on the last election.
Don't you worry, your walled garden of pure ideology will win the day, eventually, you just gotta have faith.
Seriously. My feed was full of black people calling Romney "cracker-ass cracker", and I had to de-friend people posting racist jokes about him and his dancing horse.
So "reflection and contemplation" create a performance enhancing physiological and perceptual change in the brain similar to drugs? That's what the OP was claiming for meditation, because he claimed it is a suitable replacement. He could have also called it biofeedback and retained some credibility, but he didn't, he couched it mystical hand-wavy bullshit.
Meditiation is an excercise in two things... relaxation and focus (in that order). No "woo" required.
So why call it meditation? There are innumerable ways of relaxing and focusing ones attention on something routine and non-stressful. In fact, some of these ways are enhanced by certain drugs, which of course contradicts the quasi-religious moralizing of the OP.
It's also well known that certain drugs increase creativity, so by the intersection of our unsupported folk wisdom, we can only conclude that drugs make you write brilliant code and sleep with fat chicks.
But this is Slashdot, so drugs have no adverse affect at all.
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Yes, I'm perfectly OK with that. Our murder rate is less than four times the rate of the UK, so it is pretty obvious they are getting creative with knives, bludgeons, poison, or what have you. I'd rather lose that additional 3 people per 100,000 than lose the ability to kill anyone who breaks into my home. (And our murder rate keeps falling, despite having so many guns readily available.)
And besides, those ASBOs aren't working out for them.
America may have a culture of violence, but that is better than a culture of subservience and weakness in the face of violence.
Seriously, how could it possibly be a good idea to let *anyone* smith their own sword.
Seriously, how could it possibly be a good idea to let *anyone* carve their own spear.
Seriously, how could it possibly be a good idea to let *anyone* sharpen their own rock.
Seriously, how could it possibly be a good idea to let *anyone* defend themselves from attack.
The stupidity of the gun grabbers simply astounds me. They're all the moral panic of the drug war with all the security theater of the Patriot Act, and yet they would likely be against both. "Ooh, but guns are scary! Thank God some kids were murdered so we have a new excuse to bitch about them!"
Don't pretend you are in a position of power on this, you are completely impotent and all you can do is whine when tragedy gives you the opportunistic rationale.
And besides, I live in a red state. Even if you could by some miracle legally rescind the 2nd Amendment and get a federal gun ban, anyone who goes down South to confiscate them is going to go home in a box. Nearly everyone from the governors to the local cops will be on our side.
I, for one, would kill anyone who tries to take away my right of self-defense, and I am hardly alone in this stance.
Your proposal would be civil war. I dare you to bring it.
What, like souls? You believe in magic?
Did these rights exist when human society was pre-literate, and the only government was tribal strong men? Did these rights exist before we evolved the ability to speak?
When the bear has its mouth around your skull, do you protest about the violation of your natural rights?
That is so much bullshit.
You have a right to privacy, and it is the government's remit to protect that right against all who would trample it, just as you can't sell yourself into slavery, enter a contract that obliges your vote, or dictate that an employee or renter go to church. And with your examples, you don't get to put an asterisk and say "except where denied by law" when you say stupid shit like that, it's an absurdity. It's saying "this categorical statement is true, except where it isn't".
And the government didn't give us that right, it exists simply because we demand it of them. It's funny to see the libertarian herp-a-derps get that backward, treating the Constitution like it was a magic freedom fountain from which the rights flow.
If it is between space and keeping old people from dying, space is going to lose, every time. It's pretty stupid of you to frame it this way.
Well, unless, of course, you don't give a fuck about space and just want to sneak your personal wharrgarbl into a thread that has nothing to do with it.
Most people don't know what they want until someone gives it to them. After all, Apple doesn't do focus groups, or so the apocryphal story goes. Funny how you fanboys criticize Microsoft for being more like Apple. And you contradict yourself, in typical fashion...
Excusing a UI limitation with technical whining, like the fattest, smelliest, most inept neckbearded open source programmers. I guess you've never seen one of these.
Or, to make it more obvious...
Bless your heart.
This might also explain why so many of them watch Fox News and buy stupid things on TV. In fact, the association between right wing causes and commercial scams is well known.
Successful professional troll is successful.
After this, the first researcher bowed down his head, and didn't answer back.
The second researcher's name was ALBERT EINSTEIN.
No, it becomes somewhat more than linearly but significantly less than exponentially more difficult with time. Because the primary expense is putting material in space, and the longer you want your people to survive there, the more material needs to go up.
Given how Martin "Lord" Rees has been flirting with the god botherers of the Templeton Foundation, it's no surprise that he has jumped on the ME AM PLAY GODS bandwagon.
The primary existential risk is from space, which is why unrestricted technological progress on all fronts is necessary.
Ah, texting while driving - Illegal, socially frowned upon, and done anyway, yet no cop wants to throw you to the grown and send you to rape prison over it.
It's amazing how sensible the laws can be when they aren't attached to ulterior motives and moral panic.
Note that the risk of accident while text messaging is 20+ times higher than normal, about that of someone who is sloppy drunk. My sarcastic police state for controlling cell phone use while driving should be real if the MADD and DARE crowd were consistent with their fear mongering.
But driving while high? A mere two times increase, according to people who want to scare you about pot.
Oh dear, that's almost as dangerous as dialing a phone.
Given how the police have broad surveillance powers to correlate cell phone logs against the mandatory GPS units installed in our cars in order to determine if we were dialing while driving, it is not unreasonable that we demand they have similar powers over knowing when pot smokers inhale their illicitly legal drug.
There's quite a lot of Apple fanboy denial in this thread. All those rationalizations and excuses, sounds quite a bit like Republicans on the last election.
Don't you worry, your walled garden of pure ideology will win the day, eventually, you just gotta have faith.
Seriously. My feed was full of black people calling Romney "cracker-ass cracker", and I had to de-friend people posting racist jokes about him and his dancing horse.
Or consulting for the most murderous dictators of Latin America....
nevermind, someone else beat them to it.
So "reflection and contemplation" create a performance enhancing physiological and perceptual change in the brain similar to drugs? That's what the OP was claiming for meditation, because he claimed it is a suitable replacement. He could have also called it biofeedback and retained some credibility, but he didn't, he couched it mystical hand-wavy bullshit.
So why call it meditation? There are innumerable ways of relaxing and focusing ones attention on something routine and non-stressful. In fact, some of these ways are enhanced by certain drugs, which of course contradicts the quasi-religious moralizing of the OP.
It's also well known that certain drugs increase creativity, so by the intersection of our unsupported folk wisdom, we can only conclude that drugs make you write brilliant code and sleep with fat chicks.
But this is Slashdot, so drugs have no adverse affect at all.
So does the Eastern mystical woo you're selling.
So you expect him to hold on to an expired license before the law to require it was even drafted?
Jesus, you people are dense.
Or it means he threw it away because it has been useless for most of the last seven years.