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"We should hold our peace officers to a higher standard of behavior than anyone else in our society. Otherwise, the entire law enforcement system becomes one that is founded on hypocrisy. "
I am not defending jerk cops(I have had my fair share of run-ins with them), but as a society we demand a lot from this fairly low wage job. We want someone who will risk his/her life daily protecting us from scum(murders, thiefs, etc...), but then be completely cordial when WE interact with them. The problem is that I don't think those two personalities can co-exist in the same person.
registration sucks. I usually never mess with products that force me to give real information in order to test it out. From what I have found consumer products just generate some extra spam in your inbox, it's the damn coporate products(high dollar stuff) that gets really annoying. I really don't need some saleman e-mailing me every single day for a month just because I wanted to try out his java database driver!!
I really see this situation as capitalism at work. With the ~$20 "fixed" price point not all the buyers getting satisfied(you could argue most are not), and a black market of sorts has opened up.
Downloading mp3's and writing them to cd is not free. It takes hardware, blanks, and TIME. What the record industry should be doing is figuring out ways to get these people to actually buy the cds. I am not sure how much profit is in each cd sold, so I don't know what is the absolute lowest they can go. BUT, if I could buy cds for around $7-$10, I would buy many more to just see if I like them.
"After all, wtf are you doing, going to bands, listening to their music? What are you doing, going to movies? What are you doing, reading? Same fucking thing: "
Actually your missing the real comparison here. You are right in saying that EQ is just like other forms of entertainment, but the time involved is the real difference. If someone was going to the theatre 8 hours a day 7 days a week most people would think they have a problem.
I agree about moderation in everything. The problem with these games is that you can't play with moderation. They gear the game around everything taking a long time, because they know that the more time you invest the less likely you are to quit the game.
Anyways, I know that I will never pick another MMORPG up off the game shelf again cause I really don't have the time required to play. Guess I will go catch a movie and see a band afterwards tonight;)
"Maybe you're right and people who play the game 6 hours + are just feeding a dependency. But why do you think that?"
I played DAoC for about 6 months(just recently quit). I probably played 4-6 hours a day during the week and more during the weekend. I still don't see it as wasted time, hell I had a good time while I played.
With that said I can see the problems with playing one of these types of games. Only by quitting the game did I see all the things that I let slide in other areas of my life. Gym, going out, reading, etc... all were second string to the game. Thinking about it after the fact scares me because a *game* had become that important in my everyday activities.
The hook(if you can call it that) in games such as DAoC and everquest is that they require time(lots of it) with no real end in sight. You can't just *play* these games, you must *commit* to them. In addition, they never actually end. I think that everyone who plays these types of games ends up being addicted to them at some level. I guess I am lucky that my OC personality is somewhat offset by the fact I get bored with things easily;) The 6 months I spent playing DAoC is still by far the longest amount of time I ever spent playing 1 game.
Hmm, when I order HOT coffee I expect it to be HOT. How is serving your coffee hot a problem? Sounds more like something you do better than your competitors.
Anyway, I just heard on the radio the other day that a judge in Europe laughed a similar case out of court. His comment went something along the lines of you ordered hot coffee, what did you expect it to be?
At least there are some people left with a shred of common sense.
No one really wants to shut down service. Each side is using it as leverage. The cable companies tell @Home that we will just do it ourselves hence your bond holders get next to nothing. @Home OTOH says if we shut you off, then you will lose customers to competitors and may never get them back. ATT called their bluff and looks to be able to switch everyone over with little downtime(plus the 2 day credit for everyday down isn't bad). What I am trying to figure out is how to make some stupid contracts like @Home did and find a judge to let me out of them.
Wouldn't shutting down the service be a bad move for both sides? The bond holders would be left with what could be scavenged out of a sale of the company while the cable companies are left with a lot of unhappy customers. I think at minimum a short term deal will be struck so that they can continue to negotiate.
A minor traffic offense doesn't really hold up here as a analogy b/c in general a police officer needs to witness the act in order to give you a ticket. But, we could make it work by adding that the road in question can only be driven by a few people in the world because of the high toll cost at either end. You have also declared your intention to speed on this road multiple times and have been linked to a previous offense on this same road. Finally, the car the cops heard sounded like a Ferrari, like the one you own.
Now the analogy sounds more like what is going on in the investigation. I don't understand how people say there is no evidence against Bin Ladden. There are links back to him all over the place(style, people, past acts). He is never going to call up and say he planned it, but if that is what it took to convict people our jails would empty.
And there's still the small matter of the being no evidence confirming Afganistan or Bin laden's hand
No evidence seems a little extreme to me. It seems that many of the people that were part of the attacks have links back to Bin Ladden. The thing about Bin Ladden is that has motive, the means, and we know that he trains terrorists. Is it that far of a jump to think that at some level he was involved? How much evidence is needed? Do we need a video of him handing over secret plans to one of the hijackers before you will believe that he was part of it?
On a side note, I am surprised that we have not seen more information about where the hijackers got their money from. The money trail should be one of the easiest leads to track, and I think it will get us to one of the primary planners of the attack.
We went and found the guy that did it and put him to death.
Go to Oklahoma and start killing this guys family and frinds, and the guy who rented him the truck, and the guy who sold him the fertilizer?
If his friends and family started shooting at the police officers when they went to arrest him then they probably would have been shot back at, and tried as accessories to the crime.
The evidence that we have is pointing to Bin Ladden and his group. The Taliban are making it clear that they are willing to go to war to protect Bin Ladden. I personally think that the U.S. should give the Taliban 48-72 hours to produce Bin Ladden for extradition. If they refuse then we make it clear that we will go in and retrieve him. This puts the fate of the Taliban/Afghanistan in their own hands.
Re:Time for some highly unpopular opinion...
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The deal is that a lot of people just don't like the U.S. because it is the U.S. Some of the U.S. basic rights go against these terrorists beliefs. Things such as letting women work and allowing people freedom of religion are enough to make many of these terrorists hate the U.S. How do we appease people this unrational?
Re:What you must NOT do!
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I never said to go in with guns blazing. I would much rather see all terrorists arrested then convicted and tossed into solitary confinement for the rest of their lives. I think right now is an exellent time to go after all known terrorists since most of the terrorists harboring countries are trying to keep from getting leveled by the U.S. This U.S. is in a power position right now and if used properly we could probably get more than just the terrorists that did this most recent act.
Re:What you must NOT do!
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In October 1993, 18 U.S. servicemen involved in the U.S. humanitarian relief effort in Somalia were killed during an operation in Mogadishu. Their bodies were dragged through the streets.
Bin Laden was indicted in 1996 on charges of training the people involved in the attack and in a 1997 interview with CNN, bin Laden said his followers, together with local Muslims, killed those troops.
I couldn't find the thing I read that said he admitted to the embassy bombings so we will assume that he didn't. In looking for info I came across the above. To say that you can't prove that bin Ladden has ever done anything is ignoring all of the facts.
When person A breaks into your house and escapes you do go and get person B if you have the opportunity to because he has been indicted for raping your wife, killing your kids, and is likely the same person as A.
I do think we should give the Taliban a chance to produce Bin Ladden before going in with guns blazing. That way the Taliban bascially control thier countries on fate.
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The problem is that it has not and never been proved that they are actually guilty of this.
Um... the Taliban is known to harbor and protect Bin Laden. Bin Laden has *claimed* to be responsible for at least 2 embassy bombings and is linked to the ship bombing in Yemen. He sounds pretty guilty to me.
Re:What can be done about terrorism?
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I saw a show on discovery awhile back that said that air marshals are already on many international flights. I want to say that the program said that if you fly internationally with any frequency that you have probably sat next to an air marshal. From the training that they showed, it looked that one marshal could easily take out 5-6 terrorists with eactly that many bullets. The program said that the primary reason that air marshals fail the qualification test is that they don't score 100% on the marksmanship test. I don't see a problem with funding placing these guys randomly on domestic flights.
How about we change our policy on terrorism. We have been tip toeing around this issue for too long. Now that something has happened on U.S. soil(and not half way around the world) maybe we will now set a strong policy against terrorism that the rest of the world can look to.
The U.S. needs to show that terrorism will not be tolerated and that nations who harbor terrorists will also not be tolerated. Let's take Bin Ladden as an example(regardless if he has behind this latest act). He is a known terrorist. He has admitted this fact and we have proof linking him to many acts. The U.S. needs to pressure Afghanistan into turning him over or if they refuse let them know that they then will also be held accountable for his acts.
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"We should hold our peace officers to a higher standard of behavior than anyone else in our society. Otherwise, the entire law enforcement system becomes one that is founded on hypocrisy. "
I am not defending jerk cops(I have had my fair share of run-ins with them), but as a society we demand a lot from this fairly low wage job. We want someone who will risk his/her life daily protecting us from scum(murders, thiefs, etc...), but then be completely cordial when WE interact with them. The problem is that I don't think those two personalities can co-exist in the same person.
registration sucks. I usually never mess with products that force me to give real information in order to test it out. From what I have found consumer products just generate some extra spam in your inbox, it's the damn coporate products(high dollar stuff) that gets really annoying. I really don't need some saleman e-mailing me every single day for a month just because I wanted to try out his java database driver!!
I really see this situation as capitalism at work. With the ~$20 "fixed" price point not all the buyers getting satisfied(you could argue most are not), and a black market of sorts has opened up.
Downloading mp3's and writing them to cd is not free. It takes hardware, blanks, and TIME. What the record industry should be doing is figuring out ways to get these people to actually buy the cds. I am not sure how much profit is in each cd sold, so I don't know what is the absolute lowest they can go. BUT, if I could buy cds for around $7-$10, I would buy many more to just see if I like them.
"After all, wtf are you doing, going to bands, listening to their music? What are you doing, going to movies? What are you doing, reading? Same fucking thing: "
Actually your missing the real comparison here. You are right in saying that EQ is just like other forms of entertainment, but the time involved is the real difference. If someone was going to the theatre 8 hours a day 7 days a week most people would think they have a problem.
I agree about moderation in everything. The problem with these games is that you can't play with moderation. They gear the game around everything taking a long time, because they know that the more time you invest the less likely you are to quit the game.
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Anyways, I know that I will never pick another MMORPG up off the game shelf again cause I really don't have the time required to play. Guess I will go catch a movie and see a band afterwards tonight
"Maybe you're right and people who play the game 6 hours + are just feeding a dependency. But why do you think that?"
;) The 6 months I spent playing DAoC is still by far the longest amount of time I ever spent playing 1 game.
I played DAoC for about 6 months(just recently quit). I probably played 4-6 hours a day during the week and more during the weekend. I still don't see it as wasted time, hell I had a good time while I played.
With that said I can see the problems with playing one of these types of games. Only by quitting the game did I see all the things that I let slide in other areas of my life. Gym, going out, reading, etc... all were second string to the game. Thinking about it after the fact scares me because a *game* had become that important in my everyday activities.
The hook(if you can call it that) in games such as DAoC and everquest is that they require time(lots of it) with no real end in sight. You can't just *play* these games, you must *commit* to them. In addition, they never actually end. I think that everyone who plays these types of games ends up being addicted to them at some level. I guess I am lucky that my OC personality is somewhat offset by the fact I get bored with things easily
Hmm, when I order HOT coffee I expect it to be HOT. How is serving your coffee hot a problem? Sounds more like something you do better than your competitors.
Anyway, I just heard on the radio the other day that a judge in Europe laughed a similar case out of court. His comment went something along the lines of you ordered hot coffee, what did you expect it to be?
At least there are some people left with a shred of common sense.
I submitted this story 2 days ago when it occured and was rejected. I guess I am not cool enough to submit good stories...
No one really wants to shut down service. Each side is using it as leverage. The cable companies tell @Home that we will just do it ourselves hence your bond holders get next to nothing. @Home OTOH says if we shut you off, then you will lose customers to competitors and may never get them back. ATT called their bluff and looks to be able to switch everyone over with little downtime(plus the 2 day credit for everyday down isn't bad). What I am trying to figure out is how to make some stupid contracts like @Home did and find a judge to let me out of them.
AT&T uses @Home, but they also have thier own network of cable users.
Wouldn't shutting down the service be a bad move for both sides? The bond holders would be left with what could be scavenged out of a sale of the company while the cable companies are left with a lot of unhappy customers. I think at minimum a short term deal will be struck so that they can continue to negotiate.
This just killed my high from ordering a 1.4Gig Athlon with a gig of RAM :-( I was hoping to be a stud at least for a day...
A minor traffic offense doesn't really hold up here as a analogy b/c in general a police officer needs to witness the act in order to give you a ticket. But, we could make it work by adding that the road in question can only be driven by a few people in the world because of the high toll cost at either end. You have also declared your intention to speed on this road multiple times and have been linked to a previous offense on this same road. Finally, the car the cops heard sounded like a Ferrari, like the one you own.
Now the analogy sounds more like what is going on in the investigation. I don't understand how people say there is no evidence against Bin Ladden. There are links back to him all over the place(style, people, past acts). He is never going to call up and say he planned it, but if that is what it took to convict people our jails would empty.
And there's still the small matter of the being no evidence confirming Afganistan or Bin laden's hand
No evidence seems a little extreme to me. It seems that many of the people that were part of the attacks have links back to Bin Ladden. The thing about Bin Ladden is that has motive, the means, and we know that he trains terrorists. Is it that far of a jump to think that at some level he was involved? How much evidence is needed? Do we need a video of him handing over secret plans to one of the hijackers before you will believe that he was part of it?
On a side note, I am surprised that we have not seen more information about where the hijackers got their money from. The money trail should be one of the easiest leads to track, and I think it will get us to one of the primary planners of the attack.
What did you do after the Oklahoma bombing?
We went and found the guy that did it and put him to death.
Go to Oklahoma and start killing this guys family and frinds, and the guy who rented him the truck, and the guy who sold him the fertilizer?
If his friends and family started shooting at the police officers when they went to arrest him then they probably would have been shot back at, and tried as accessories to the crime.
The evidence that we have is pointing to Bin Ladden and his group. The Taliban are making it clear that they are willing to go to war to protect Bin Ladden. I personally think that the U.S. should give the Taliban 48-72 hours to produce Bin Ladden for extradition. If they refuse then we make it clear that we will go in and retrieve him. This puts the fate of the Taliban/Afghanistan in their own hands.
Well said.
Exactly, the U.S. forgave all of those debts.
Plus you refuse to pay up your UN dues, and then figure you still have a voice in the UN.
How about the U.S. will pay it's UN debts when all of Europe pays back the debts from WWI/II.
The deal is that a lot of people just don't like the U.S. because it is the U.S. Some of the U.S. basic rights go against these terrorists beliefs. Things such as letting women work and allowing people freedom of religion are enough to make many of these terrorists hate the U.S. How do we appease people this unrational?
I never said to go in with guns blazing. I would much rather see all terrorists arrested then convicted and tossed into solitary confinement for the rest of their lives. I think right now is an exellent time to go after all known terrorists since most of the terrorists harboring countries are trying to keep from getting leveled by the U.S. This U.S. is in a power position right now and if used properly we could probably get more than just the terrorists that did this most recent act.
This is cut from CNN here.
In October 1993, 18 U.S. servicemen involved in the U.S. humanitarian relief effort in Somalia were killed during an operation in Mogadishu. Their bodies were dragged through the streets.
Bin Laden was indicted in 1996 on charges of training the people involved in the attack and in a 1997 interview with CNN, bin Laden said his followers, together with local Muslims, killed those troops.
I couldn't find the thing I read that said he admitted to the embassy bombings so we will assume that he didn't. In looking for info I came across the above. To say that you can't prove that bin Ladden has ever done anything is ignoring all of the facts.
When person A breaks into your house and escapes you do go and get person B if you have the opportunity to because he has been indicted for raping your wife, killing your kids, and is likely the same person as A.
I do think we should give the Taliban a chance to produce Bin Ladden before going in with guns blazing. That way the Taliban bascially control thier countries on fate.
The problem is that it has not and never been proved that they are actually guilty of this.
Um... the Taliban is known to harbor and protect Bin Laden. Bin Laden has *claimed* to be responsible for at least 2 embassy bombings and is linked to the ship bombing in Yemen. He sounds pretty guilty to me.
I saw a show on discovery awhile back that said that air marshals are already on many international flights. I want to say that the program said that if you fly internationally with any frequency that you have probably sat next to an air marshal. From the training that they showed, it looked that one marshal could easily take out 5-6 terrorists with eactly that many bullets. The program said that the primary reason that air marshals fail the qualification test is that they don't score 100% on the marksmanship test. I don't see a problem with funding placing these guys randomly on domestic flights.
How about we change our policy on terrorism. We have been tip toeing around this issue for too long. Now that something has happened on U.S. soil(and not half way around the world) maybe we will now set a strong policy against terrorism that the rest of the world can look to.
The U.S. needs to show that terrorism will not be tolerated and that nations who harbor terrorists will also not be tolerated. Let's take Bin Ladden as an example(regardless if he has behind this latest act). He is a known terrorist. He has admitted this fact and we have proof linking him to many acts. The U.S. needs to pressure Afghanistan into turning him over or if they refuse let them know that they then will also be held accountable for his acts.
These are people who believe that America is an evil and terrible nation.
Maybe we should be an evil and terrible nation for a few weeks and show these people who *think* we are what an evil U.S. can do.