We all know murder is wrong, I was talking about killing. Which I would also think is wrong, but apparently it's allowed sometimes, like in self defence as you say. Going into Iraq isnt exactly self defence though, unless I guess you count the whole of humanity as 'self', and then defend yourself when you are oppressed. Or if you count defending your interests (in this case oil) as self defence?
I'm not sure whom you're asking but - I certainly don't consider the invasion of Iraq to be an act of self defense. At the time of the invasion, Iraq posed no overt, imminent threat to the US or any other nation. The Bush Administration may claim that they thought Iraq posed an imminent threat, but 1) the largest intelligence organization in the world should not have made such a mistake, and 2) I don't think it was a mistake; I think Bush just wanted to invade Iraq, plain and simple.
Into which category would you place WWI and WWII, then?
That's a pretty broad question. I'll assume you're talking about US involvement in those wars? If so, then we were aiding in the defense of the Allied nations against German aggression, no? We did not start either war; i.e. we did not initiate the use of force.
You yourself seem to think that killing an enemy soldier is murder, but also agree that murder is "The unlawful killing of one human by another, especially with premeditated malice". The whole idea of a soldier being an enemy soldier is that you are at war, and therefore are legally allowed to kill the enemy (unless they surrender)
Nonsense. Murder is wrong, unless we call it a "war", and makes it okay? No. It is *always* wrong to initiate the use of force against another person. The only time that the use of force is justified is to defend oneself or another against a person who has initiated the use of force.
Yes, discrimination will always be there... but certain kinds of discrimination are illegal because they are incompatible with a free and just society.
How is it compatible with a free and just society to limit and restrict people's freedom to choose?
There is no law that says that you can't refuse to shop in (for example) a Korean-owned grocery store. Why should there be a law that says that a store owner can't refuse to serve (for example) Koreans?
There is no law preventing you from refusing to work for (for example) a woman-owned company. Why should there be a law preventing a (for example) woman-owned company from hiring men?
"Free" should mean free for everybody, shouldn't it?
They were both shocking surprises that shoook the country's confidence and made the world seem more dangerous.
9/11 made the world we live in seem more dangerous. Challenger made space flight seem more dangerous. Now, since most of us are not going to fly in space...
...the article showed a plot of greenhouse gas production to go along with the plot of rising temperatures. How closely do they correlate, and how wide does one's time window need to be to achieve that correlation?
Good: time to tell my goverment to remove all those taxes from on gas and get myself a SUV.
You live in a nominal democracy, don't you? Write your congresscritter/MP/other representative, and get all your friends to do the same. If Europeans didn't want those taxes, they wouldn't have them.
Just think about this. If everyone are going to do what they love, who's going to drive the bus, be the clerk at the mall, wash the floors, etc, etc.
A friend of mine has a father who was a fairly successful engineer, who retired a few years ago. Now he works as a clerk in a drug store (Walgreen's? can't remember), not because he needs the money, but because he doesn't want to sit around the house all day.
Even if it works it won't catch on. Wine is like exotic stereo equipment: people are paying for expensiveness.
There are people who like spending money on exotic stuff; there are many more people looking for decent quality at a good price. Who's to say the same wouldn't be true with regard to wine?
and lets not forget that the mobile CPU in the Centrino package is a 'Celeron M'
Not true; the CPU in the Centrino package is the Pentium M. The Celeron M is a lower-cost hobbled version of the Pentium M - hobbled not only in terms of performance, but also in terms of power-saving abilities as well.
A lot of the people in Upstate want to live the Anti-NYC life. Where they can get up in the morning and look out the window and not see signs of Human Life, there are also many who bought this land for investment, where they can one day sell it for millions from their $50,000 investment.
No one is "entitled" to a view out their window. No one is "entitled" to a huge windfall profit on a piece of land. No one is "entitled" to "the Anti-NYC life". Humans use energy. That energy has to come from somewhere. The people of upstate NY are going to have to suck it up and deal with it, just like the rest of us.
I used to think that all of the inbreeding was occuring in rural states
Most of New York is a rural state. More than half the population lives south of Westchester County. Apart from that, there's Albany, Buffalo, and (I guess) Binghamton, and a whole lot of empty space in between, dotted with lots of little, run-down, toothless, redneck hick towns full of provincial, ultraconservative attitudes and prejudices. (No, I'm not at all bitter from growing up there.) North of Westchester, New York is by and large a "red" state.
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Why bother projecting the image on a wall? Doesn't anyone remember Snow Crash? Just stick that projector in front of your eye...
Back in the real world, does the world now bomb Iran? Real world, pal. Answer? Taking your time to answer means no.
Now? No. Why? What legitimate justification is there?
We all know murder is wrong, I was talking about killing. Which I would also think is wrong, but apparently it's allowed sometimes, like in self defence as you say. Going into Iraq isnt exactly self defence though, unless I guess you count the whole of humanity as 'self', and then defend yourself when you are oppressed. Or if you count defending your interests (in this case oil) as self defence?
I'm not sure whom you're asking but - I certainly don't consider the invasion of Iraq to be an act of self defense. At the time of the invasion, Iraq posed no overt, imminent threat to the US or any other nation. The Bush Administration may claim that they thought Iraq posed an imminent threat, but 1) the largest intelligence organization in the world should not have made such a mistake, and 2) I don't think it was a mistake; I think Bush just wanted to invade Iraq, plain and simple.
In other words, it's not OK to shoot a burglar until after he stabs one of your kids?
IMO, the burglar initiated the use of force at the point at which he pulled out the knife.
Into which category would you place WWI and WWII, then?
That's a pretty broad question. I'll assume you're talking about US involvement in those wars? If so, then we were aiding in the defense of the Allied nations against German aggression, no? We did not start either war; i.e. we did not initiate the use of force.
You yourself seem to think that killing an enemy soldier is murder, but also agree that murder is "The unlawful killing of one human by another, especially with premeditated malice". The whole idea of a soldier being an enemy soldier is that you are at war, and therefore are legally allowed to kill the enemy (unless they surrender)
Nonsense. Murder is wrong, unless we call it a "war", and makes it okay? No. It is *always* wrong to initiate the use of force against another person. The only time that the use of force is justified is to defend oneself or another against a person who has initiated the use of force.
Yes, discrimination will always be there... but certain kinds of discrimination are illegal because they are incompatible with a free and just society.
How is it compatible with a free and just society to limit and restrict people's freedom to choose?
There is no law that says that you can't refuse to shop in (for example) a Korean-owned grocery store. Why should there be a law that says that a store owner can't refuse to serve (for example) Koreans?
There is no law preventing you from refusing to work for (for example) a woman-owned company. Why should there be a law preventing a (for example) woman-owned company from hiring men?
"Free" should mean free for everybody, shouldn't it?
When I point it at the girl next door?
If she needs "augmenting", why bother to look?
This gives the evolutionaries a problem "why did geckos evolve to stick to things in a vacuum"
They didn't. They evolved in a way that sticks to things in the atmosphere, that also happens to stick to things in a vacuum.
Yeah, but if you squeeze your own lemons too much, you go blind!
Or you may make the juice run down your leg...
They were both shocking surprises that shoook the country's confidence and made the world seem more dangerous.
9/11 made the world we live in seem more dangerous. Challenger made space flight seem more dangerous. Now, since most of us are not going to fly in space...
...the article showed a plot of greenhouse gas production to go along with the plot of rising temperatures. How closely do they correlate, and how wide does one's time window need to be to achieve that correlation?
Good: time to tell my goverment to remove all those taxes from on gas and get myself a SUV.
You live in a nominal democracy, don't you? Write your congresscritter/MP/other representative, and get all your friends to do the same. If Europeans didn't want those taxes, they wouldn't have them.
Just think about this. If everyone are going to do what they love, who's going to drive the bus, be the clerk at the mall, wash the floors, etc, etc.
A friend of mine has a father who was a fairly successful engineer, who retired a few years ago. Now he works as a clerk in a drug store (Walgreen's? can't remember), not because he needs the money, but because he doesn't want to sit around the house all day.
Even if it works it won't catch on. Wine is like exotic stereo equipment: people are paying for expensiveness.
There are people who like spending money on exotic stuff; there are many more people looking for decent quality at a good price. Who's to say the same wouldn't be true with regard to wine?
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>Wait... do you mean like in LA? or more like in NY?
Have you ever actually been to New York City? 'Cause I have, many times, and gee, I don't remember seeing any murderous gangs roaming the streets...
People who truly appreciate fine wines will not buy stuff which breaks from traditional wine making.
Good, then the rest of us will be able to enjoy good-tasting wines for less money.
Maybe the most important thing is not doing what you love, but doing who you love.
And if you can't be with the one you love - honey, love the one you're with!
So how many points of damage does a mag-lev elevator do?
Depending on what floor you punch for, the elevator says things like "Excellent", or "Humiliation", in a deep echoey voice...
I don't know what pre-emptive multitasking is
Um, I'm afraid we're gonna have to ask you to turn in your Slashdot ID...
and lets not forget that the mobile CPU in the Centrino package is a 'Celeron M'
Not true; the CPU in the Centrino package is the Pentium M. The Celeron M is a lower-cost hobbled version of the Pentium M - hobbled not only in terms of performance, but also in terms of power-saving abilities as well.
A lot of the people in Upstate want to live the Anti-NYC life. Where they can get up in the morning and look out the window and not see signs of Human Life, there are also many who bought this land for investment, where they can one day sell it for millions from their $50,000 investment.
No one is "entitled" to a view out their window. No one is "entitled" to a huge windfall profit on a piece of land. No one is "entitled" to "the Anti-NYC life". Humans use energy. That energy has to come from somewhere. The people of upstate NY are going to have to suck it up and deal with it, just like the rest of us.
I used to think that all of the inbreeding was occuring in rural states
Most of New York is a rural state. More than half the population lives south of Westchester County. Apart from that, there's Albany, Buffalo, and (I guess) Binghamton, and a whole lot of empty space in between, dotted with lots of little, run-down, toothless, redneck hick towns full of provincial, ultraconservative attitudes and prejudices. (No, I'm not at all bitter from growing up there.) North of Westchester, New York is by and large a "red" state.
Regardless of how correct it is, I think we all know he meant that 10 will be the factor by which it will raise.
Whereas if he'd said "by an order of magnitude", about 2% of Americans (warning: made-up statistic!) would've known what he meant.
droit du seigneur [wikipedia.org]
What a truly, deeply effed-up world we live in.