There is actually solid scientific evidence that whipping your children is a bad idea, and it has been illegal in my country for all of my 30 years and more. "Me daddy" is fortunately not a nutjob.
Even so, the reason a child will keep loving their parents even if hurt by them... is that the child really has no fucking choice in the matter. You only get one set of parents, and there's some serious biological hardwiring into the picture too.
Remember what we're actually speaking of here. How did you propose a government replicate that? Especially with respect to another country's population? This might come as a surprise to you, but Iranians aren't biologically hardwired to love the US. Nor are they utterly emotionally dependent on it. Nor have they been indocrinated with superstitious reverence for it since birth. Seems to me the ways that work with kids aren't going to work with Iranians.
If they know attacking us is a dumb idea they don't attack us so none of our people die, we don't have to kill them so none of them die. Nobody dies.
Yeah, that's probably what Osama bin Laden said as well.
It's a very human thing, to think that punishment will work differently on others than it will work on you. It's also incredibly stupid. Can't you just turn off the computer and go home now?
Machiavelli said a lot of stuff about what an autocratic ruler should do to keep power. But he intended it at least in part as an argument against autocratic rulers. He favored a Roman-style republic with power shared between the social classes (still pretty damn oppressive judging by our standards, but better than "The Prince").
To make people fear you without simultaneously hating you, well, I don't know how you achieve that, but I can't see the US has succeeded noticeably at it in a long time.
Not insightful. In Europe, methadone is a favorite of harm reduction advocates, but has been opposed by much of the treatment industry. They say it's writing off people as lost causes.
It is true junkies do not prefer methadone - over fast-working opiates. But they sure as hell prefer it over no opiates at all, which is why there is a thriving illegal market for methadone in many places where it's used for medication-assisted rehabilitation attempts. Since users build up tolerance to methadone, about the only thing doctors can do to determine how much to prescribe, is to ask the users. The users (the privileged few who have gained access to MAR programs) naturally overstate their need. They sell the excess (to non MAR-recipients), to get money for more preferred drugs. Then they, or their customers, quite often proceed to overdose on free government-provided opiates.
But not surprisingly, it does reduces crime for profit. That's enough to call it a success in many people's eyes. Putting a low value on junkies' lives is not exclusive to the drug warrior approach to narcotics policy.
Actually, half the people who speak in this thread haven't a clue, and are just mindlessly parroting stuff promoted by BBC Horizon's predictably dubious seasonal shows, new age bestsellers, etc.
> many of the traditions such as the trees and candles are co-opted from Saturnalia.
The tree tradition appeared in 16th century Germany. If you think the tradition lived under ground for 1000+ years, you've been listening too much to neopagans. Candles are in general sensible to use in the darkest time of the year - though sure, the Romans invented them (or the first thing that was more candle than torch), and they did also use them in temples.
Have you seen a calendar of saints? Just about every single day belongs to some saint or the other. It would be a miracle if pagans hadn't managed to hit one.
Christmas is not based on a pagan holiday as is so often claimed, rather it's at the end of the (solar) year, a jolly good time for a party. Just like harvest time is, coming of spring is, etc. etc. Farmers are people too, they want to have fun now and then, some days are just better suited than others (although as I said, there was hardly a day that would go by that they would not attach at least some significance to.)
Hardly. They have finally kicked their legacy habits, while maintaining a lot of legacy support, and also done everything Apple did (and more!) to help developers update. Windows 7 is a solid OS (and I say that as someone who's used Linux exclusively on my own computers for 10+ years)
if your code it written in C/C++ then you need to trash it all.
Bindings are always possible. But throwing away the C++ code (which could potentially compile to competitor's platforms), and make you go all in on Apple, was surely what Jobs tried to pressure you to do - just look at iOS.
They gave everyone *years* to move away from Carbon.
That is not how enterprise software works. Most of the time, enterprise software is already legacy software, and believe me, you do not want to be the one rewriting it for the GUI toolkit de jour.
Maybe they count on judges to be iProduct fans, convinced of the boundless genius of Saint Steve. But I don't think that cult transfers to a patent troll sockpuppet - that's more the kind of thing you do when you want to harass and spread FUD (a la SCO), not to win.
The amazing thing is that Twitter became so dominant, despite providing extremely little new, and in no way solving the problems related to spam or DoS attacks like these. As if that wasn't enough, it has uptime unworthy of a top 100 site.
The crisis isn't so unrelated to what the pirate party stands for after all. At the root of the crisis, and the recent Occupy protests, is the fact that political power has been going on auction to corporations. This is also a source of a lot of the pirates' peculiar woes.
If anything, young people should be privileged by the system. They have to live with the consequences of its collective decisions for longer, after all. Giving all power to a couple of old rich farts who will soon be dead anyway is a recipe for disaster - that's why the US is all screwed up and screwing up the world.
"Liberal" vs. "Conservative" is too broad, there's a special kind of conservatism the activist high court judges favor. I call it power conservatism. It's the idea that a judge's job is to maintain order, and the way to maintain order is to not overturn any established power relationships - always side with those who have power.
Jeffrey Toobin commented in the New Yorker in 2009, that up to then, high court judge Roberts had in every major case before him, sided with power. "The prosecution over the defendant, the state over the condemned, the executive branch over the legislative, and the corporate defendant over the individual plaintiff."
Even if you are a conservative, such an attitude should worry you.
Sadly, HTC's hardware reliability is nothing to call home about either - at least not on the first generation Desires, which is what we used at my company. Everybody had hardware issues, except me who had rooted the thing and installed Cyanogen (it helped performance pretty dramatically). Then I too got hardware issues a few months down the road. Now it gets occasional epileptic seizures, the headphone jack doesn't work, the camera doesn't work, and occasionally booting it takes 15 minutes and it fails to find the battery. Oh, and if it dies from lack of battery, it will occasionally turn itself on and buzz like crazy until the battery is removed.
Still, when it works, it's a good phone. I'm writing this through it, with a wireless-hotspot shared 3g line.
I'm voting for Samsung next time around, especially the Google-blessed models.
Even if they did get iOS5, Apple has deliberately held back some features, such as Siri, that they want to keep as motive for upgrading. So that previous models get iOS5 is a truth with modifications.
They cost more to approve than they bring in in revenue.
Citation needed? The government has a monopoly on assigning patents, so whatever they want for a patent they can take. If they take less than it costs, there must be some good reason why (probably involving some form of corruption, regulatory capture or protectionism)
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There is actually solid scientific evidence that whipping your children is a bad idea, and it has been illegal in my country for all of my 30 years and more. "Me daddy" is fortunately not a nutjob.
Even so, the reason a child will keep loving their parents even if hurt by them... is that the child really has no fucking choice in the matter. You only get one set of parents, and there's some serious biological hardwiring into the picture too.
Remember what we're actually speaking of here. How did you propose a government replicate that? Especially with respect to another country's population? This might come as a surprise to you, but Iranians aren't biologically hardwired to love the US. Nor are they utterly emotionally dependent on it. Nor have they been indocrinated with superstitious reverence for it since birth. Seems to me the ways that work with kids aren't going to work with Iranians.
Ah yes, the trash can, that was where you had to drag the disk icon in order to get the beast to let go of your floppy...
If they know attacking us is a dumb idea they don't attack us so none of our people die, we don't have to kill them so none of them die. Nobody dies.
Yeah, that's probably what Osama bin Laden said as well.
It's a very human thing, to think that punishment will work differently on others than it will work on you. It's also incredibly stupid. Can't you just turn off the computer and go home now?
Machiavelli said a lot of stuff about what an autocratic ruler should do to keep power. But he intended it at least in part as an argument against autocratic rulers. He favored a Roman-style republic with power shared between the social classes (still pretty damn oppressive judging by our standards, but better than "The Prince").
To make people fear you without simultaneously hating you, well, I don't know how you achieve that, but I can't see the US has succeeded noticeably at it in a long time.
This is far from the only time in history it has happened either; usually the drug of choice is liquors.
I hear they are efficient at defrauding would-be drug-experimenting kids out of their money, by selling their byproducts on online auction sites.
For the record, I do not recommend this.
Not insightful. In Europe, methadone is a favorite of harm reduction advocates, but has been opposed by much of the treatment industry. They say it's writing off people as lost causes.
It is true junkies do not prefer methadone - over fast-working opiates. But they sure as hell prefer it over no opiates at all, which is why there is a thriving illegal market for methadone in many places where it's used for medication-assisted rehabilitation attempts. Since users build up tolerance to methadone, about the only thing doctors can do to determine how much to prescribe, is to ask the users. The users (the privileged few who have gained access to MAR programs) naturally overstate their need. They sell the excess (to non MAR-recipients), to get money for more preferred drugs. Then they, or their customers, quite often proceed to overdose on free government-provided opiates.
But not surprisingly, it does reduces crime for profit. That's enough to call it a success in many people's eyes. Putting a low value on junkies' lives is not exclusive to the drug warrior approach to narcotics policy.
Actually, half the people who speak in this thread haven't a clue, and are just mindlessly parroting stuff promoted by BBC Horizon's predictably dubious seasonal shows, new age bestsellers, etc.
> many of the traditions such as the trees and candles are co-opted from Saturnalia.
The tree tradition appeared in 16th century Germany. If you think the tradition lived under ground for 1000+ years, you've been listening too much to neopagans. Candles are in general sensible to use in the darkest time of the year - though sure, the Romans invented them (or the first thing that was more candle than torch), and they did also use them in temples.
Have you seen a calendar of saints? Just about every single day belongs to some saint or the other. It would be a miracle if pagans hadn't managed to hit one.
Christmas is not based on a pagan holiday as is so often claimed, rather it's at the end of the (solar) year, a jolly good time for a party. Just like harvest time is, coming of spring is, etc. etc. Farmers are people too, they want to have fun now and then, some days are just better suited than others (although as I said, there was hardly a day that would go by that they would not attach at least some significance to.)
Hardly. They have finally kicked their legacy habits, while maintaining a lot of legacy support, and also done everything Apple did (and more!) to help developers update. Windows 7 is a solid OS (and I say that as someone who's used Linux exclusively on my own computers for 10+ years)
Bindings are always possible. But throwing away the C++ code (which could potentially compile to competitor's platforms), and make you go all in on Apple, was surely what Jobs tried to pressure you to do - just look at iOS.
They gave everyone *years* to move away from Carbon.
That is not how enterprise software works. Most of the time, enterprise software is already legacy software, and believe me, you do not want to be the one rewriting it for the GUI toolkit de jour.
Maybe they count on judges to be iProduct fans, convinced of the boundless genius of Saint Steve. But I don't think that cult transfers to a patent troll sockpuppet - that's more the kind of thing you do when you want to harass and spread FUD (a la SCO), not to win.
The amazing thing is that Twitter became so dominant, despite providing extremely little new, and in no way solving the problems related to spam or DoS attacks like these. As if that wasn't enough, it has uptime unworthy of a top 100 site.
The crisis isn't so unrelated to what the pirate party stands for after all. At the root of the crisis, and the recent Occupy protests, is the fact that political power has been going on auction to corporations. This is also a source of a lot of the pirates' peculiar woes.
If anything, young people should be privileged by the system. They have to live with the consequences of its collective decisions for longer, after all. Giving all power to a couple of old rich farts who will soon be dead anyway is a recipe for disaster - that's why the US is all screwed up and screwing up the world.
> I favor letting each zipcode vote
That would open the door to gerrymandered zipcodes, I would think.
> The American voter wants a clear decision.
I hope not. If you're sufficiently enamored of strong leadership at the expense of representation, only the führer principle will do.
No they didn't, they just said "Shut up, you idiots, you're not allowed to say that!".
"Liberal" vs. "Conservative" is too broad, there's a special kind of conservatism the activist high court judges favor. I call it power conservatism. It's the idea that a judge's job is to maintain order, and the way to maintain order is to not overturn any established power relationships - always side with those who have power.
Jeffrey Toobin commented in the New Yorker in 2009, that up to then, high court judge Roberts had in every major case before him, sided with power. "The prosecution over the defendant, the state over the condemned, the executive branch over the legislative, and the corporate defendant over the individual plaintiff."
Even if you are a conservative, such an attitude should worry you.
Sadly, HTC's hardware reliability is nothing to call home about either - at least not on the first generation Desires, which is what we used at my company. Everybody had hardware issues, except me who had rooted the thing and installed Cyanogen (it helped performance pretty dramatically). Then I too got hardware issues a few months down the road. Now it gets occasional epileptic seizures, the headphone jack doesn't work, the camera doesn't work, and occasionally booting it takes 15 minutes and it fails to find the battery. Oh, and if it dies from lack of battery, it will occasionally turn itself on and buzz like crazy until the battery is removed.
Still, when it works, it's a good phone. I'm writing this through it, with a wireless-hotspot shared 3g line.
I'm voting for Samsung next time around, especially the Google-blessed models.
Even if they did get iOS5, Apple has deliberately held back some features, such as Siri, that they want to keep as motive for upgrading. So that previous models get iOS5 is a truth with modifications.
Citation needed? The government has a monopoly on assigning patents, so whatever they want for a patent they can take. If they take less than it costs, there must be some good reason why (probably involving some form of corruption, regulatory capture or protectionism)