Convicted child rapists are one group of people who shouldn't have been let out of prison in the first place, and for whom I do not particularly care for. Anything that puts them back in prison, where they belong, I have no qualms with... although I'd prefer it was legal.
I still won't cry for them though, and you really shouldn't either. Some people don't deserve our sympathy.
"They can't launch a model rocket because they did something stupid in collage?"
Well that depends, some of those college art classes are havens for subversive types. I mean, all those girls with dark clothing and piercings, you know they're up to something. Probably just creating more body cavities in which to hide rocket fuel for the terrorists.
The IT types are not scientists. Most of them work tech support, some work in data centers, many are consultants. Comparatively few work as engineers in software or hardware. Fewer work at the bleeding edge of their fields.
Slashdot's target audience is, as a whole, uneducated with respect to molecular biology, genetics, and soforth. Most are pretty good with mathematics, but throw some advanced genetics at them and they will get lost in a hurry. It's just the way this site is.
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I'm starting to wonder if there aren't also genetic bases for divorce. This would figure into personality conflicts, counterproductive tendencies, and soforth. Some families seem very, very predisposed to alcoholism, for example, and that's a marriage-wrecker if I've ever known one.
In my experience, selfishness in its many forms is the root cause of relationship breakdown.
In your worst-case scenario, it will put an impetus on us to find a way to clean up the mess we're already making, and ignoring. Hardly a doomsday event.
Open up Google Earth and have a look at: 4122'18.02"N by 129 5'19.85"E
The USGS earthquake location says it has a horizontal error of +- 14.5km. This installation is about 6km north of the calculated site of the earthquake (test). It is composed of uniformly drab small "homes" and several large structures in the mountains, along a river, with no signs of real activity and few roads leading in or out.
Dollars to doughnuts that's where they keep their nuclear scientists.
For reference, the USGS calculated location is: 41 18'41.04"N by 129 6'51.84"E
The 'furor' of the abortion question is almost entirely an American phenomenon. Aside from sporadic and muffled condemnation from the Vatican now and then, Europe doesn't dwell on the issue, and in Canada it's been off the political radar for years.
Maybe someday you guys will see the whole abortion thing for what it really is: a proxy fight over the role of religion in public policymaking.
I say we find the bastard who hit him and make his life a living hell. Pooling the expertise of Slashdot together, we can probably arrange for all his credit cards to be cancelled, his home to be sold out from under him, his wife to leave him after discovering his secret love affair with another man, and much, much more.
You can debate the 'ethics' of this, however China is a sovereign country, and has the right to do just about whatever it likes within its borders, because it can back up its independence through force of arms and international trade.
What's the basis for your claim that they were only living an average of "30 years"?
Recent (last 20 years) research at Pompeii has found that the Romans were living just about as long as you or I. It had then, as it does now, a great deal to do with genetics.
"TiVo is probably better known for their ad zapping technology then their televison advertisements"
And then their television advertisements what? Did they do something after that? Oh, hehe, no, you're trying to make a comparison! For that we use "than". I know they've devolved to homophones in certain english dialects but that's still no excuse. This is such a commonly made and silly mistake that it bears pointing out when it appears on the front page of Slashdot, for heaven's sake.
I think everyone knows what you're trying to say in your sig, but you butchered it pretty badly. In fact, that's some of the worst written Latin I've seen on slashdot so far.
Yes. That's called research. It's how we learn things.
Whether or not you object to something like this, it will continue, because it's funded by vested interests and you have no weight in the debate. And rightly so.
I say let's start renewing my liberty with your blood. Are you volunteering? I'm getting into Biology research and plan on doing vivisections of primates. If anyone tries to molotov my home they'd better be ready to have their car shot up.
Viditur isn't a word. I think you're looking for videtur. Or you could just go with the Latin from the linked article and stop trying to make word mods you don't understand.:)
If everyone got together and it was discussed on a panel of people who dedicate their lives to stopping medical research on animals, and those people got the A-OK from the proper law enforcement authorities to firebomb the mans house, then I'd be OK with that.
See, this is what I find crazy. All a committee does is establish a consensus. It cannot ever decide for real and for all time whether an action is objectively good or bad, worth doing or not. It's essentially the same thing as decisionmaking by referrendum, which is in itself insanity because Jim Bob in his trailer doesn't know shit when it comes to things like genetics and animal testing, yet his vote gets the same weight as someone with a Ph.D. in Biology.
An action is not ok just because a committee says it is, or because 'law enforcement agencies' say it is; one can't even prove an objective 'good' or 'bad' exists in the first place. I say just go with a means test. What kind of society do we want, and will this take us there? If the answer is yes, then go for it, no matter what it is and no matter what the cost.
Violence only spirals if you're not willing to use violence to really end the violence instead of just taking worthless potshots at the problem. If you rounded up every animal rights activist in America and put them against the wall, it would stop. We don't like the negative sentimentals associated with that action, therefore the asymmetrical warfare will favour the guerillas, who can attack us when and where we won't retaliate because it offends our sensibilities.
Surrendering to them by 'stopping the violence cycle' and letting them win just encourages the violence moreso. It is demonstrating weakness and requiescence to a party with the power to hurt you. That's insanity.
Violence has stopped violence throughout history, and has been more successful as a tactic than peacemaking and only comes up second to the spread of materialism as a way to pacify populations. It is only recently that we've lacked the stomach to follow through and actually *kill our enemies* whether or not they hide behind civilians and civilian organizations. I don't think Julius Caesar would have let the Britons march their chariots through his camp just because they were driven by women and children.
The Liberal Arts of today is nothing like the Liberal Arts of the 60s and before which spawned great thinkers, lawyers, and businessmen.
The face of today's Liberal Arts major is a chick with a unisex name like Taylor who leeches off their parents' incomes/RESP/trust fund and dreams of becoming a writer or poet or lawyer, but really just wants to live the university life off daddy's income and have new clothes and lipstick for every term. Oh and she hates math too, and probably has a history as some sort of goth in high school. Not exactly leadership material.
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Convicted child rapists are one group of people who shouldn't have been let out of prison in the first place, and for whom I do not particularly care for. Anything that puts them back in prison, where they belong, I have no qualms with... although I'd prefer it was legal.
I still won't cry for them though, and you really shouldn't either. Some people don't deserve our sympathy.
Well that depends, some of those college art classes are havens for subversive types. I mean, all those girls with dark clothing and piercings, you know they're up to something. Probably just creating more body cavities in which to hide rocket fuel for the terrorists.
The IT types are not scientists. Most of them work tech support, some work in data centers, many are consultants. Comparatively few work as engineers in software or hardware. Fewer work at the bleeding edge of their fields.
Slashdot's target audience is, as a whole, uneducated with respect to molecular biology, genetics, and soforth. Most are pretty good with mathematics, but throw some advanced genetics at them and they will get lost in a hurry. It's just the way this site is.
I'm starting to wonder if there aren't also genetic bases for divorce. This would figure into personality conflicts, counterproductive tendencies, and soforth. Some families seem very, very predisposed to alcoholism, for example, and that's a marriage-wrecker if I've ever known one.
In my experience, selfishness in its many forms is the root cause of relationship breakdown.
Good analysis all-around.
In your worst-case scenario, it will put an impetus on us to find a way to clean up the mess we're already making, and ignoring. Hardly a doomsday event.
Let it happen already. I am sick of this lazy little waiting game.
A lack of open hostilities is not peace. And anyway, what will we get? A few damaged satellites? Oh, the humanity, the destruction...
Open up Google Earth and have a look at: 4122'18.02"N by 129 5'19.85"E
The USGS earthquake location says it has a horizontal error of +- 14.5km. This installation is about 6km north of the calculated site of the earthquake (test). It is composed of uniformly drab small "homes" and several large structures in the mountains, along a river, with no signs of real activity and few roads leading in or out.
Dollars to doughnuts that's where they keep their nuclear scientists.
For reference, the USGS calculated location is: 41 18'41.04"N by 129 6'51.84"E
The 'furor' of the abortion question is almost entirely an American phenomenon. Aside from sporadic and muffled condemnation from the Vatican now and then, Europe doesn't dwell on the issue, and in Canada it's been off the political radar for years.
Maybe someday you guys will see the whole abortion thing for what it really is: a proxy fight over the role of religion in public policymaking.
Crap, I knew I forgot something in that script I sent him.
I say we find the bastard who hit him and make his life a living hell. Pooling the expertise of Slashdot together, we can probably arrange for all his credit cards to be cancelled, his home to be sold out from under him, his wife to leave him after discovering his secret love affair with another man, and much, much more.
Who's with me?
You can debate the 'ethics' of this, however China is a sovereign country, and has the right to do just about whatever it likes within its borders, because it can back up its independence through force of arms and international trade.
To paraphrase an old saying, he who funds everything funds nothing. (Apologies to Frederick II)
It *is* better to have 10% excellence than 100% mediocrity, you know.
What's the basis for your claim that they were only living an average of "30 years"?
Recent (last 20 years) research at Pompeii has found that the Romans were living just about as long as you or I. It had then, as it does now, a great deal to do with genetics.
1) The period ends the entire sentence, not the sentence in the quote, so it stays outside the quote. Read the MLA format summary sometime.
2) I don't believe in God.
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And then their television advertisements what? Did they do something after that? Oh, hehe, no, you're trying to make a comparison! For that we use "than". I know they've devolved to homophones in certain english dialects but that's still no excuse. This is such a commonly made and silly mistake that it bears pointing out when it appears on the front page of Slashdot, for heaven's sake.
I think everyone knows what you're trying to say in your sig, but you butchered it pretty badly. In fact, that's some of the worst written Latin I've seen on slashdot so far.
Yes. That's called research. It's how we learn things.
Whether or not you object to something like this, it will continue, because it's funded by vested interests and you have no weight in the debate. And rightly so.
I say let's start renewing my liberty with your blood. Are you volunteering? I'm getting into Biology research and plan on doing vivisections of primates. If anyone tries to molotov my home they'd better be ready to have their car shot up.
Viditur isn't a word. I think you're looking for videtur. Or you could just go with the Latin from the linked article and stop trying to make word mods you don't understand. :)
See, this is what I find crazy. All a committee does is establish a consensus. It cannot ever decide for real and for all time whether an action is objectively good or bad, worth doing or not. It's essentially the same thing as decisionmaking by referrendum, which is in itself insanity because Jim Bob in his trailer doesn't know shit when it comes to things like genetics and animal testing, yet his vote gets the same weight as someone with a Ph.D. in Biology.
An action is not ok just because a committee says it is, or because 'law enforcement agencies' say it is; one can't even prove an objective 'good' or 'bad' exists in the first place. I say just go with a means test. What kind of society do we want, and will this take us there? If the answer is yes, then go for it, no matter what it is and no matter what the cost.
Violence only spirals if you're not willing to use violence to really end the violence instead of just taking worthless potshots at the problem. If you rounded up every animal rights activist in America and put them against the wall, it would stop. We don't like the negative sentimentals associated with that action, therefore the asymmetrical warfare will favour the guerillas, who can attack us when and where we won't retaliate because it offends our sensibilities.
Surrendering to them by 'stopping the violence cycle' and letting them win just encourages the violence moreso. It is demonstrating weakness and requiescence to a party with the power to hurt you. That's insanity.
Violence has stopped violence throughout history, and has been more successful as a tactic than peacemaking and only comes up second to the spread of materialism as a way to pacify populations. It is only recently that we've lacked the stomach to follow through and actually *kill our enemies* whether or not they hide behind civilians and civilian organizations. I don't think Julius Caesar would have let the Britons march their chariots through his camp just because they were driven by women and children.
The Liberal Arts of today is nothing like the Liberal Arts of the 60s and before which spawned great thinkers, lawyers, and businessmen.
The face of today's Liberal Arts major is a chick with a unisex name like Taylor who leeches off their parents' incomes/RESP/trust fund and dreams of becoming a writer or poet or lawyer, but really just wants to live the university life off daddy's income and have new clothes and lipstick for every term. Oh and she hates math too, and probably has a history as some sort of goth in high school. Not exactly leadership material.
If they needed to work that hard to get mob bosses in prison, then the burden of proof was/is too high. Lower it.
So you're telling me you're no more likely to get stabbed or shot in a bar than walking down the street? I call bullshit.
Hang around bad people and bad things happen. I'm sorry you live in a free country and still decide to make stupid choices.