Consider that menial tasks like sweeping the floor, bagging the fries, and flipping burgers merits nothing like $15 an hour. It's an entry level job in a world where staying at entry level for life is commonly known to be a bad idea. People not able to make it on minimum wage are doing it wrong. This is why the United States doesn't need to bring in (or allow in) any more unskilled Third World labor. There aren't even going to be enough entry level jobs for those already living here.
A lot of people always get fucked up. It's the way the world around us works. It is the way it has always worked and it's quite likely that it will always work that way. Something will replace fossil fuels before we ever reach the alarming states you're worried about just like something replaced that steam engine and all that coal it burned. Sure we still burn coal but not in the same ways and not nearly in as filthy a fashion as we did a hundred years ago. Have a little faith in the progress that got us this far. We're going to work it out.
Nobody really gives a shit what you think about America. You laugh at them, they laugh at you and around it goes. That's a fine broad brush you have there though.
I learned that in the police academy. I went into law enforcement almost thirty years ago but didn't stay in it. I injured my back at home and couldn't continue that career path. I remember though when capital punishment was discussed and how surprised people were to learn that it costs a great deal more to get a person into that death chamber than it does to incarcerate them for the rest of their lives. They also went over how the death penalty doesn't deter anyone at all. Almost without exception prisoners on death row state that the possible consequences of their actions never entered their minds while they were committing the crime for which they faced execution. It might deter you or I but then most likely wouldn't do it to begin with so it's sort of like preaching to the choir. It provides a measure or vengeance or retribution for the survivors and/or victims but it doesn't undo what happened or bring anyone back. The only justification we were given for the death penalty was that it serves as society's ultimate penalty. It is nothing less than the human race saying that you are no longer fit to exist among the rest of us and that society has chosen to rid itself of that person forever. I'm OK with this. I do think that people get so wrapped up in applying this ultimate penalty that they discount the really terrible experience that life without the possibility of parole can be.
Simple and effective, reusable and quite painless if the condemned is first sedated on a gurney with common surgical anesthesia. Do not allow witnesses to view the beheading. Simply allow them to see the body from the shoulders down. Allow him to say his final words, knock him out with the drugs, then wheel him into the device face up so that his head goes through the opening. Begin the countdown and then have a doctor pronounce him dead once everyone sees his body shudder as the blade drops.
Public spectacles were a mistake with the original guillotine and undermine it's simplicity and effectiveness.
Seriously. It's on the internet so it will never be what you want it to be. I can't speak for anyone but myself here but I'm at my most "sane"where anything online is concerned when I don't give a shit about it. Internet things are simultaneously incredibly important and completely worthless. The idea is usually important but as soon as you involve human beings in your holy quest to make a free encyclopedia or a free operating system or anything else you could do online for the betterment of well, "everyone" you bring in some life-crushing assholes who disagree with you. Note, you may very well be someone else's version of a life-crushing asshole. You probably are. You have to be able to walk away from it.
My 2012 MacMini is in much the same boat. It's plenty powerful for my (admittedly simple) needs. It can be upgraded though. Once I upgraded to SSD's and 16GB of RAM I've never had a problem with it's performance. Apple (or Microsoft) can't sell me something if I don't need it and I don't need a new computer. The last one I bought works great.
With all the noise about kids these days having to be handled with kid gloves maybe they're just hoping the extra year might make incoming students a little more mature, maybe a little more thick-skinned?
We've all been to that theater you're alluding to but honestly I haven't been to a theater with the stereotypical sticky floor in years. Maybe I've just been lucky but usually they're pretty clean where my wife and I go.
I like going to the theater. I always have. The home theater is great but for the kind of movies that I think would motivate someone to spend $50 to sit at home and watch I think the giant screen and the crowd add something to the experience. I won't really have much use for this service.
I always thought Pedo's should be "fixed" and then dropped in a "Devil's Island" type place for the rest of their lives. No support. No food. No guards. No doctors. Better get started on that garden if you want to eat something and if bigger and badder bad guys come fuck you up then too bad. Guess you shouldn't have done what you did to children. Hell I'd make a version of "Survivor" out of it. Cameras on big steel poles and a late night time slot or streaming over Netflix would be fine.
I don't know if that's what he thinks but I'm OK with it. Do you know where else he could have a right to be forgotten? In the bottom of an unmarked shallow grave.
Granted and I got into a level of detail that probably wasn't necessary. I really meant to make the point that incarceration is a damned awful thing to do to someone and that they have to live with the consequences of that for the rest of their lives. Thinking of how the government has reacted in the past I could honestly see a 30-40 years without parole sentence happening in a case like this. If they'd brought something down it would be nothing to get that.
Death is easy to throw out there as a "Worst thing we could possibly do to them" answer but it really isn't. There are plenty of potentially worse fates.
Watch yourself there man. Questioning charges of terrorism is pretty darn close to terrorism itself.
You trying to start up some kind of term-stretching-jihaad or something boy?
Well, they do make me angry but execution is kind of pointless and unnecessarily expensive. It takes ages to put one of these little assholes down even if it was legal to do so for this crime. People always want to jump to executing those who transgress but I think nobody gives long-term incarceration its due. Say one of these "scamps" was in his early 20's. 40 years without the possibility of parole would be a whole lot cheaper when you take into account all the money spent on appeals and he'd leave prison (assuming he survived it) in his 60's. His life would mostly be over at that point. With no employment history or experience, most likely outdated abilities and a criminal record he'd be pretty much unemployable beyond anything but the most meager of jobs. He'd get to live out his retirement mopping floors at night and (if he was lucky) living on some kind of welfare stipend if he lived in country that gives a crap. If he's American I don't think (but I'm not entirely certain) that people who spend their lives in prison earn any kind of Social Security benefit.
The government should put forth a lot of effort to find these people, drag them to the states kicking and screaming if necessary, and then throw them in jail for the majority of the rest of their lives. Much worse than executing them if you ask me.
That's really been the only thing stopping me from buying at gunbroker.com so I know what you're saying. The fees aren't huge but everything adds up. You buy the gun and the price is most likely not anything special. I mean, maybe it's a little bit cheaper but mostly the prices there are in line with anywhere else you might look. Then you pay shipping for it and if the seller happens to be a business in your state you even pay tax. Finally they ship it to a gun dealer near you and you go pay that guy too. I imagine their channel will work a lot like that too. Not my idea of a good time buying a gun. At least I can use gunbroker for research before I buy locally. I'm not going to watch a cable channel to do that. Probably in no time they'll be selling other shooting related sporting goods and making all their money on that.
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Consider that menial tasks like sweeping the floor, bagging the fries, and flipping burgers merits nothing like $15 an hour. It's an entry level job in a world where staying at entry level for life is commonly known to be a bad idea. People not able to make it on minimum wage are doing it wrong. This is why the United States doesn't need to bring in (or allow in) any more unskilled Third World labor. There aren't even going to be enough entry level jobs for those already living here.
A lot of people always get fucked up. It's the way the world around us works. It is the way it has always worked and it's quite likely that it will always work that way. Something will replace fossil fuels before we ever reach the alarming states you're worried about just like something replaced that steam engine and all that coal it burned. Sure we still burn coal but not in the same ways and not nearly in as filthy a fashion as we did a hundred years ago. Have a little faith in the progress that got us this far. We're going to work it out.
Nobody really gives a shit what you think about America. You laugh at them, they laugh at you and around it goes. That's a fine broad brush you have there though.
I learned that in the police academy. I went into law enforcement almost thirty years ago but didn't stay in it. I injured my back at home and couldn't continue that career path. I remember though when capital punishment was discussed and how surprised people were to learn that it costs a great deal more to get a person into that death chamber than it does to incarcerate them for the rest of their lives. They also went over how the death penalty doesn't deter anyone at all. Almost without exception prisoners on death row state that the possible consequences of their actions never entered their minds while they were committing the crime for which they faced execution. It might deter you or I but then most likely wouldn't do it to begin with so it's sort of like preaching to the choir. It provides a measure or vengeance or retribution for the survivors and/or victims but it doesn't undo what happened or bring anyone back. The only justification we were given for the death penalty was that it serves as society's ultimate penalty. It is nothing less than the human race saying that you are no longer fit to exist among the rest of us and that society has chosen to rid itself of that person forever. I'm OK with this. I do think that people get so wrapped up in applying this ultimate penalty that they discount the really terrible experience that life without the possibility of parole can be.
Simple and effective, reusable and quite painless if the condemned is first sedated on a gurney with common surgical anesthesia. Do not allow witnesses to view the beheading. Simply allow them to see the body from the shoulders down. Allow him to say his final words, knock him out with the drugs, then wheel him into the device face up so that his head goes through the opening. Begin the countdown and then have a doctor pronounce him dead once everyone sees his body shudder as the blade drops. Public spectacles were a mistake with the original guillotine and undermine it's simplicity and effectiveness.
Seriously. It's on the internet so it will never be what you want it to be. I can't speak for anyone but myself here but I'm at my most "sane"where anything online is concerned when I don't give a shit about it. Internet things are simultaneously incredibly important and completely worthless. The idea is usually important but as soon as you involve human beings in your holy quest to make a free encyclopedia or a free operating system or anything else you could do online for the betterment of well, "everyone" you bring in some life-crushing assholes who disagree with you. Note, you may very well be someone else's version of a life-crushing asshole. You probably are. You have to be able to walk away from it.
My 2012 MacMini is in much the same boat. It's plenty powerful for my (admittedly simple) needs. It can be upgraded though. Once I upgraded to SSD's and 16GB of RAM I've never had a problem with it's performance. Apple (or Microsoft) can't sell me something if I don't need it and I don't need a new computer. The last one I bought works great.
With all the noise about kids these days having to be handled with kid gloves maybe they're just hoping the extra year might make incoming students a little more mature, maybe a little more thick-skinned?
Which I've always found entertaining since they so often end up trying to accomplish the same things for different reasons.
He's right.
Truth.
Has it already been 15 years? Wow. Seems like it was just yesterday..... And the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before....
We've all been to that theater you're alluding to but honestly I haven't been to a theater with the stereotypical sticky floor in years. Maybe I've just been lucky but usually they're pretty clean where my wife and I go.
I like going to the theater. I always have. The home theater is great but for the kind of movies that I think would motivate someone to spend $50 to sit at home and watch I think the giant screen and the crowd add something to the experience. I won't really have much use for this service.
I always thought Pedo's should be "fixed" and then dropped in a "Devil's Island" type place for the rest of their lives. No support. No food. No guards. No doctors. Better get started on that garden if you want to eat something and if bigger and badder bad guys come fuck you up then too bad. Guess you shouldn't have done what you did to children. Hell I'd make a version of "Survivor" out of it. Cameras on big steel poles and a late night time slot or streaming over Netflix would be fine.
I don't know if that's what he thinks but I'm OK with it. Do you know where else he could have a right to be forgotten? In the bottom of an unmarked shallow grave.
Granted and I got into a level of detail that probably wasn't necessary. I really meant to make the point that incarceration is a damned awful thing to do to someone and that they have to live with the consequences of that for the rest of their lives. Thinking of how the government has reacted in the past I could honestly see a 30-40 years without parole sentence happening in a case like this. If they'd brought something down it would be nothing to get that. Death is easy to throw out there as a "Worst thing we could possibly do to them" answer but it really isn't. There are plenty of potentially worse fates.
Watch yourself there man. Questioning charges of terrorism is pretty darn close to terrorism itself. You trying to start up some kind of term-stretching-jihaad or something boy?
Well, they do make me angry but execution is kind of pointless and unnecessarily expensive. It takes ages to put one of these little assholes down even if it was legal to do so for this crime. People always want to jump to executing those who transgress but I think nobody gives long-term incarceration its due. Say one of these "scamps" was in his early 20's. 40 years without the possibility of parole would be a whole lot cheaper when you take into account all the money spent on appeals and he'd leave prison (assuming he survived it) in his 60's. His life would mostly be over at that point. With no employment history or experience, most likely outdated abilities and a criminal record he'd be pretty much unemployable beyond anything but the most meager of jobs. He'd get to live out his retirement mopping floors at night and (if he was lucky) living on some kind of welfare stipend if he lived in country that gives a crap. If he's American I don't think (but I'm not entirely certain) that people who spend their lives in prison earn any kind of Social Security benefit. The government should put forth a lot of effort to find these people, drag them to the states kicking and screaming if necessary, and then throw them in jail for the majority of the rest of their lives. Much worse than executing them if you ask me.
Because some of us aren't hoarding it like that.
"City Government in South American Country Wants a Piece of The Action"? So they're saying everything is working as usual in Brazil?
All Hail the Job Creators! Sounds like a win-win to me.
I did not know that. Thank you for posting that information!
Get off my lawn you hippie!
That's really been the only thing stopping me from buying at gunbroker.com so I know what you're saying. The fees aren't huge but everything adds up. You buy the gun and the price is most likely not anything special. I mean, maybe it's a little bit cheaper but mostly the prices there are in line with anywhere else you might look. Then you pay shipping for it and if the seller happens to be a business in your state you even pay tax. Finally they ship it to a gun dealer near you and you go pay that guy too. I imagine their channel will work a lot like that too. Not my idea of a good time buying a gun. At least I can use gunbroker for research before I buy locally. I'm not going to watch a cable channel to do that. Probably in no time they'll be selling other shooting related sporting goods and making all their money on that.