Bingo. In a perfect world the punishment would fit the crime. That, however, has not been the case in the US for far too long.
The biggest problems with the American legal system, as I see them, are that it's adversarial, and that it's a 'legal' system, not really a 'justice' system. The Judge in a trial is there to make sure both sides behave as they compete to win for their side, not to win for the truth, insofar as it can be determined, and to pronounce judgment at the end. It's a system of who has the best legal representation and loopholes. The prison system is also now a large industry, and a for-profit influence on the legal system is guaranteed to corrupt. Combine badly-designed 'three strikes' laws, and badly-thought out sentence requirements and judgeship-for-life, and you've got one big steaming pile.
But only the USA gets these kinds of attacks. Only the USA getting the Blame.
Dude, the jealousy is inevitable. We have the best fast food franchises in the WORLD, and everybody knows it. I'm sorry, Philippines, but Jollibee? Seriously? Something is way wrong with that 'spaghetti'.
Bradley Manning, the disgruntled private who was demoted from the rank of Sergeant prior to leaking this information, should be given the harshest penalty possible (excessive prison sentence) for the sole purpose of discouraging this type of behavior in the future.
Noone should ever be punished more harshly 'as an example', but only on the merits of what they deserve. If you want to send a message, write a letter.
I am looking to build a 2D application for personal use and I will need to use a canvas to paint custom objects.
Not enough info, really, but I'm wondering if you've considered making this a web app; then it would be compatible with anything with a modern browser.
That's just under 3 micrograms of arsenic. According to our trusted interwebs source, wikipedia: "The acute minimal lethal dose of arsenic in adults is estimated to be 70 to 200 mg". In other words, each chip contains about 1/25,000th of the lethal dose, in a non-soluble form.
Yeah, but if a child eats 25,000 of those chips, they could die! Won't anyone think of the children?!
Yeah, but if we need layers of about 10nm, I'm quite sure we have enough Indium to make a cpu that's larger than the entire surface of the Earth.
Wow. With a CPU that big, we'd have enough computational ability to figure out what the question of 'Life, the Universe and Everything' is. We should be able to speed that up, since we can work backwards from the answer. That'd be spiffy.
... new legislation in Arizona is already being written to address the issues of extragalactic planets mixing and mingling with our stars, taking orbits that could be used for native planets.
Pft. Double Down is for wusses! Wait for their new Triple Down, soon to be superceded by their new Mach 5 Down xTreme! (Brought to you by a partnership between KFC and Gillette).
You'd think that with all of the genetically altered and engineered food out there, they would have it altering our DNA so that
That was the interesting part of your post. Here's how I would've continued it......it only has to serve one drink, thus maximizing profit for the vending machine owner.
Today while I was filling up my 2003 Corolla with gas, a guy drove up to the next pump in his 1952 MG convertible. Which gets 30MPG. My Corolla gets 27MPG.
I was at a car show today, marveling over the newest crop of hybrids that get up to 41mpg. Wow! My 2001 Jetta TDI (diesel) just delivered 46mpg on a road trip a few weeks ago, and my car is in _rough_ shape.
> Marijuana and gays are harmless, already here, and are actually useful in many ways. In what ways are gays useful?
In the same ways any other human being is useful. Lots of very skilled talent has been kicked out of the military simply because they're gay. Plus, you know, if you want teh gay sex, gays tend to have much more experience. And when you need someone with a wide stance, you should totally ask a gay politician, though it's okay for Republican politicians to be gay, as long as they deny it.
Gee, I wonder why a beta browser from Microsoft isn't gaining market share. Don't predict any death knells for the browser until it's actually, you know, released. Geez.
Japanese is typed using a more-or-less standard QWERTY keyboard.
The three commonly-used character sets used in Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji) are hardly a _good_ example of how to do written communication. They actually only *need* one of them (Hiragana or Katakana). The argument that in written communication, you can use the others for various things neatly sidesteps the fact that in spoken Japanese, there is no such distinction.
In the early discussions between Prof, Manny and Wyo in Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Prof poses a question that is the inverse of this. Manny replies that there is nothing the state can do that overrides Manny's best interests. I don't have the book at hand right now, but it's a great discussion, and should be on the required reading list of every student and prospective political candidate.
I'll have to disagree with geometric proofs. I remember first taking that class in highschool, and I can think of no other class that has had as much an effect on the way I think -- you start with a problem and some facts, and you take multiple logical steps to reach a logical conclusion. Sounds simple but from what I can tell, a lot of people have problem doing this (they could probably make 1 logical step, but if that doesn't reach a conclusion or a problem arises, they are stumped).
While congratulations are in order for your ability to make something as useless (to the average person) as geometric proof useful in real life, I think most people would be FAR better served by taking at least one course in logic, rather than hoping they can glean something like that out of abstract geometry.
Even if this is ALL they take away from it, at least they develop the notion that reality can be modeled. What if they weren't exposed to the concept at all, ever? They'd be intellectually much, much weaker. Calculus plants an embryo of scientific thinking. It's hard to learn for most people because they're not used to thinking abstractly.
Most people AREN'T exposed to the concept, ever. Most people (in the U.S., anyway) never take take any calculus, and it's not really been my experience that calculus as a math course is ever taught in a way that lets the student understand most of the useful purposes one can put calculus to. I didn't understand anywhere near what calculus could be used FOR until I took physics. And while you could easily make the case (and I would) that those courses aren't generally taught in a way that makes them useful in real-world situations, I think more general, non-math-intensive ways of teaching the concepts you're talking about would be more useful, and better-understood and more applicable than having people take math and science courses they're never going to have any other use for. Though I'd _really_ like for more people to have a basic grounding in math and physics, and especially evolutionary biology. *shrug*
If you think teaching people chemistry will prevent them from mixing dangerous chemicals or teaching people physics will teach them from reacting jackass the I purpose you need to take a few classes in sociology and or psychology. People do stupid things because they don't think about the consequences. Teaching someone that that kinetic energy goes up with square of velocity isn't going to make someone pull out a calculator before tying their skateboard to the back of a car. That's just not the way humans work.
I'm a HUGE proponent of understanding human nature, and I understand what you're saying, but I think a better idea is to teach those courses in a way that the practical, real-world applications are apparent. The way chemistry and calculus and physics were taught to me was pretty horrible, all things considered, and I wasn't lumped in with the dumb kids (hence the taking of chemistry, calculus and physics). The WAY something is taught is easily as important as what is taught in the first place. If you take a class like the three I'm mentioning and have no idea what the practical applications of them are, the teacher should be fired.
However, that comment suggests that it may be you who is confused about the origin of the term 'Separation of Church and State,' as it appears in no law or other official document related to the US Constitution or the founding of the United States of America.
Your comment suggests your reading comprehension skills are... suboptimal. I said the CONCEPT of Separation of Church and State. The concept flows from the part of the First Amendment which reads, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" and is the result of a Supreme Court decision from a long time ago. You just made the exact same mistake that TEA Party super-star/wacko Christine O'Donnell made during a debate recently. Congratulations on feeling superior through your ignorance. You now qualify as a TEA Party candidate! It really IS just that easy.
I will personally beat to death the first Stoner that injures one of my family members because they were driving while stoned.
Yeah, good thing that would never happen unless someone legalizes marijuana!
It's statements like this that make me really shake my head. It's like assuming there aren't any gays in the military because of DADT. Worries about unit cohesion? They're already there! The people already know who is and isn't gay in most cases. There IS no unit cohesion problem.
Marijuana and gays are harmless, already here, and are actually useful in many ways. There are actually things that ARE harmful and already legal that people should be worried about.
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Bingo. In a perfect world the punishment would fit the crime. That, however, has not been the case in the US for far too long.
The biggest problems with the American legal system, as I see them, are that it's adversarial, and that it's a 'legal' system, not really a 'justice' system. The Judge in a trial is there to make sure both sides behave as they compete to win for their side, not to win for the truth, insofar as it can be determined, and to pronounce judgment at the end. It's a system of who has the best legal representation and loopholes. The prison system is also now a large industry, and a for-profit influence on the legal system is guaranteed to corrupt. Combine badly-designed 'three strikes' laws, and badly-thought out sentence requirements and judgeship-for-life, and you've got one big steaming pile.
But only the USA gets these kinds of attacks. Only the USA getting the Blame.
Dude, the jealousy is inevitable. We have the best fast food franchises in the WORLD, and everybody knows it. I'm sorry, Philippines, but Jollibee? Seriously? Something is way wrong with that 'spaghetti'.
Bradley Manning, the disgruntled private who was demoted from the rank of Sergeant prior to leaking this information, should be given the harshest penalty possible (excessive prison sentence) for the sole purpose of discouraging this type of behavior in the future.
Noone should ever be punished more harshly 'as an example', but only on the merits of what they deserve. If you want to send a message, write a letter.
I am looking to build a 2D application for personal use and I will need to use a canvas to paint custom objects.
Not enough info, really, but I'm wondering if you've considered making this a web app; then it would be compatible with anything with a modern browser.
Where have all the true grammar NAZIs gone?
They're hiding out in South America.
That's just under 3 micrograms of arsenic. According to our trusted interwebs source, wikipedia: "The acute minimal lethal dose of arsenic in adults is estimated to be 70 to 200 mg". In other words, each chip contains about 1/25,000th of the lethal dose, in a non-soluble form.
Yeah, but if a child eats 25,000 of those chips, they could die! Won't anyone think of the children?!
Yeah, but if we need layers of about 10nm, I'm quite sure we have enough Indium to make a cpu that's larger than the entire surface of the Earth.
Wow. With a CPU that big, we'd have enough computational ability to figure out what the question of 'Life, the Universe and Everything' is. We should be able to speed that up, since we can work backwards from the answer. That'd be spiffy.
Maybe we could run the Hurd on it, too.
IOW, typo's are not a big deal, and life moves on.
Well, that depends on if you're using draconian error handling or not.
... new legislation in Arizona is already being written to address the issues of extragalactic planets mixing and mingling with our stars, taking orbits that could be used for native planets.
Yeah, we don't want any 'anchor planets'!
1) I'm pretty sure The Black Hole came out in 1979, so this story is a year old. Way to go, Slashdot editors!
2) That's overstating things a bit about Duke Nuke 'Em Forever.
3) Another story about the Hurd?
Please, please, no applause; just throw money. I'll be here all week...
We're not that far from fried chicken in a can.
Pft. Double Down is for wusses! Wait for their new Triple Down, soon to be superceded by their new Mach 5 Down xTreme! (Brought to you by a partnership between KFC and Gillette).
You'd think that with all of the genetically altered and engineered food out there, they would have it altering our DNA so that
That was the interesting part of your post. Here's how I would've continued it... ...it only has to serve one drink, thus maximizing profit for the vending machine owner.
Today while I was filling up my 2003 Corolla with gas, a guy drove up to the next pump in his 1952 MG convertible. Which gets 30MPG. My Corolla gets 27MPG.
I was at a car show today, marveling over the newest crop of hybrids that get up to 41mpg. Wow! My 2001 Jetta TDI (diesel) just delivered 46mpg on a road trip a few weeks ago, and my car is in _rough_ shape.
Mentioned FORTRAN to a student the other day and he thought I was talking about 4chan.
Definitely Not. The. Same.
Yeah, one of those is full of people writing something that looks really perverted and gross, in all caps, and the other is 4chan.
the BIG YELLOW one is the SUN!!
It's not yellow.
Yes, let's come up with a definition that excludes Pluto - that way we can exclude Pluto. Makes sense.
> Marijuana and gays are harmless, already here, and are actually useful in many ways.
In what ways are gays useful?
In the same ways any other human being is useful. Lots of very skilled talent has been kicked out of the military simply because they're gay. Plus, you know, if you want teh gay sex, gays tend to have much more experience. And when you need someone with a wide stance, you should totally ask a gay politician, though it's okay for Republican politicians to be gay, as long as they deny it.
Gee, I wonder why a beta browser from Microsoft isn't gaining market share. Don't predict any death knells for the browser until it's actually, you know, released. Geez.
Japanese is typed using a more-or-less standard QWERTY keyboard.
The three commonly-used character sets used in Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji) are hardly a _good_ example of how to do written communication. They actually only *need* one of them (Hiragana or Katakana). The argument that in written communication, you can use the others for various things neatly sidesteps the fact that in spoken Japanese, there is no such distinction.
In the early discussions between Prof, Manny and Wyo in Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Prof poses a question that is the inverse of this. Manny replies that there is nothing the state can do that overrides Manny's best interests. I don't have the book at hand right now, but it's a great discussion, and should be on the required reading list of every student and prospective political candidate.
I'll have to disagree with geometric proofs. I remember first taking that class in highschool, and I can think of no other class that has had as much an effect on the way I think -- you start with a problem and some facts, and you take multiple logical steps to reach a logical conclusion. Sounds simple but from what I can tell, a lot of people have problem doing this (they could probably make 1 logical step, but if that doesn't reach a conclusion or a problem arises, they are stumped).
While congratulations are in order for your ability to make something as useless (to the average person) as geometric proof useful in real life, I think most people would be FAR better served by taking at least one course in logic, rather than hoping they can glean something like that out of abstract geometry.
Even if this is ALL they take away from it, at least they develop the notion that reality can be modeled. What if they weren't exposed to the concept at all, ever? They'd be intellectually much, much weaker. Calculus plants an embryo of scientific thinking. It's hard to learn for most people because they're not used to thinking abstractly.
Most people AREN'T exposed to the concept, ever. Most people (in the U.S., anyway) never take take any calculus, and it's not really been my experience that calculus as a math course is ever taught in a way that lets the student understand most of the useful purposes one can put calculus to. I didn't understand anywhere near what calculus could be used FOR until I took physics. And while you could easily make the case (and I would) that those courses aren't generally taught in a way that makes them useful in real-world situations, I think more general, non-math-intensive ways of teaching the concepts you're talking about would be more useful, and better-understood and more applicable than having people take math and science courses they're never going to have any other use for. Though I'd _really_ like for more people to have a basic grounding in math and physics, and especially evolutionary biology. *shrug*
If you think teaching people chemistry will prevent them from mixing dangerous chemicals or teaching people physics will teach them from reacting jackass the I purpose you need to take a few classes in sociology and or psychology.
People do stupid things because they don't think about the consequences. Teaching someone that that kinetic energy goes up with square of velocity isn't going to make someone pull out a calculator before tying their skateboard to the back of a car. That's just not the way humans work.
I'm a HUGE proponent of understanding human nature, and I understand what you're saying, but I think a better idea is to teach those courses in a way that the practical, real-world applications are apparent. The way chemistry and calculus and physics were taught to me was pretty horrible, all things considered, and I wasn't lumped in with the dumb kids (hence the taking of chemistry, calculus and physics). The WAY something is taught is easily as important as what is taught in the first place. If you take a class like the three I'm mentioning and have no idea what the practical applications of them are, the teacher should be fired.
However, that comment suggests that it may be you who is confused about the origin of the term 'Separation of Church and State,' as it appears in no law or other official document related to the US Constitution or the founding of the United States of America.
Your comment suggests your reading comprehension skills are ... suboptimal. I said the CONCEPT of Separation of Church and State. The concept flows from the part of the First Amendment which reads, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" and is the result of a Supreme Court decision from a long time ago. You just made the exact same mistake that TEA Party super-star/wacko Christine O'Donnell made during a debate recently. Congratulations on feeling superior through your ignorance. You now qualify as a TEA Party candidate! It really IS just that easy.
I will personally beat to death the first Stoner that injures one of my family members because they were driving while stoned.
Yeah, good thing that would never happen unless someone legalizes marijuana!
It's statements like this that make me really shake my head. It's like assuming there aren't any gays in the military because of DADT. Worries about unit cohesion? They're already there! The people already know who is and isn't gay in most cases. There IS no unit cohesion problem.
Marijuana and gays are harmless, already here, and are actually useful in many ways. There are actually things that ARE harmful and already legal that people should be worried about.