Which, the drivers who get to run into people or the test pedestrians who get hit? I'd pay google to drive if certain people I know volunteered to be the pedestrian.
Every discussion on slashdot that is based on negative coverage regarding any nation ALWAYS devolves into a US comparison and bashfest. It's like Godwin's Law, only I'm not sure what it's called. Slashdot's Law?
Except, of course, capital punishment isn't actually a deterrents.
It's vengeance, pure and simple..
Not vengeance. It's justice. At least, if we're talking about a multi-murdering monster like, say, Ted Bundy, or John Wayne Gacy, then it's removing a piece of living, breathing feces off the planet so it can do no more harm, ever, nor unjustly cost anyone to support. Deterrence/prevention would of course be great but serial murderers aren't exactly in touch with reality anyway. That's not why this is done.
Consider this scenario:
1. Serial murderer lives two lives: has his own small family by day, but at night goes out and regularly preys on and kidnaps girls in their late teens, rapes them, murders them, and hey, maybe rapes them again.
2. Young girls are someone's cherished daughter, or sister, or friend. Her violent and debasing end causes unimaginable amounts of pain, horror, and grief to parents, family, friends, etc...
3. Serial murderer kills several more girls before being caught, tried, and with overwhelming, incontrovertible evidence against him, found guilty.
IMO, here's the difference between justice and revenge:
* Revenge: So that the murder fully feels the extent of the pain and suffering he's caused, in great anger, his own daughter is arrested, and then in front of him, butchered in the same manner as his victims. Weeks pass. Only then is the murderer is executed after having time to process and suffer the loss of his daughter. This is revenge, where an innocent girl (the murder's daughter) has been hurt in the name of an eye for an eye. Unfortunately, in olden days, vigilante mobs might've done something like this.
* Justice: The serial murderer, who has no respect for life (other than his own or maybe his hypothetical daughter, who knows), who has murdered repeatedly, has thus forfeited his own right to live through taking other innocent lives where no provocation was extant; furthermore, he is a clear and present danger to society with no redeeming values and absolutely no chance of true rehabilitation. Instead of rewarding him by giving him 3 decent meals a day, access to a gym to ensure his good health, television rights, and quite possibly a lucrative book deal and media attention, while using tax money to support him, his person is eradicated from the planet so that he can positively never hurt anyone again, nor sponge off of them. The monster is simply gone. There is no joy, but there is relief in the certainty that he can harm no more (should a jail break occur, even).
FWIW, I feel capital punishment should only apply in cases where:
A) the evidence is incontrovertible, and
B) the murderer is not someone who committed murder as, say, a one time act of passion (shit and mistakes happen), but is a proven calculating nutcase who has murdered helpless people repeatedly for the sheer joy of it, and who shows little to no remorse, a hollow shell who is devoid of empathy for his fellow man.
Now go ahead and say I or the executioner in this case is no better than he, and I'll tell you that's absolute nonsense. He, unlike his victims and his own daughter, is NOT innocent of unprovoked murder. I would never, ever, advocate killing someone who was innocent of murder themselves, nor even just a "bad person". Serial murderers, OTOH, do just that, they target innocent people. They are inhuman, irreversibly broken. So in extreme cases, I would support capital punishment though it's still ugly. No, I would not like to be the one who presses the button or flicks the switch. But then I wouldn't want to be a cop either, but someone has to do it.
I do tend to think though that the states that use CP tend to overuse it just because they allow it.
As alternatives go, I'm shocked (heh) that any state would use the electric chair in this day and age. That has got to be one of the more painful, drawn out, gruesome ways to kill someone. Firing squad or drop hanging would be a lot more humane.
If they're going to execute regardless, for the most instant, painless, but messy execution, just put their head in a high power, high speed hydraulic press that slams down with several tons of force. They'd never even know what hit them. I'd hate to be the janitor though.
,,, why if harnessing wind-power can affect the local climate, why harnessing solar power doesn't affect how long the sun is going to continue to burn?
Anyone who seriously asks this won't even understand layman terms, they'll need neanderthal terms. And that's probably denigrating neanderthals. Ook. Grunt.
We're moving from GroupWise to Exchange in a year or two. Believe me, we consider that a step up; other sister departments have made the move already, and they're generally happier, though they say Exchange requires a good deal of preventive maintenance.
Home Edition, Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate edition? Mine never forced the upgrade on me, and my son is still running Win7 despite the occasional nags. We had/have Home (Premium) edition.
I wouldn't be shocked if it has code that slows Windows7 down horribly enough to make you want to upgrade (or reformat). I'd like to think I'm paranoid but my WinXP boxes always ran well until Win7 came out and started getting pushed harder, after a while every update seemed to bring worse performance.
I had a second phone line for a while, just for Internet usage. It wasn't that much extra. Modems had their charm I suppose, but I'm glad things moved on.
I first saw Doom when a coworker was playing it after hours. When I saw that, I thought, now that was a game I could get into. Plus the first level was free to download! I remember playing the crap out of Doom2 when I was sick with a particularly bad cold, it took my mind off my misery and sore throat. I usually played single player, I thought the multiplayer looked a bit silly, as the Marine just sort of glided around (that was actually pretty funny), but I did a little bit of the multiplayer too. Still, there were enough mods around to keep single player mode interesting. I loved blasting the hell out of Barney: "I love you, You lov-" Blam Blam Blam "Aauughh!.." That was so soul satisfying.
My main memory though is building a huge custom wad I called Incubatr, which I uploaded to to CompuServe, where it got about 90 downloads or so. I still have it around, my son played through it last year using DOSbox.
I'd have to admit that Quake was my all time favorite FPS, however.
Well, that's not technically copying or downloading a consciousness, per se, that's just hooking up a brain to electrodes and reattaching nerve pathways. I say "just", but it is impressive; it's just not on the same level of understanding and manipulating the phenomenon of consciousness itself.
For some places with 24 hour coverage this could workout great, but for others, the employer might simply institute shifts. Right now where I'm working, we're basically a daytime shop, though we respond to emergencies at any time (and they're really not infrequent). I really wouldn't want to start having to work nights, especially the graveyard shift, and just because something *might* go down.
It's only microwaved if it's sat around and cooled down too much.
Last time I looked, McDs, BurgerKing, Wendys, et al. all used grills and deep fryers, with mics to warm it up a bit if necessary. Then again, I don't do fast food anymore really and haven't checked in years, the grease made me gag.
So . much . grease.
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Which, the drivers who get to run into people or the test pedestrians who get hit? I'd pay google to drive if certain people I know volunteered to be the pedestrian.
Every discussion on slashdot that is based on negative coverage regarding any nation ALWAYS devolves into a US comparison and bashfest. It's like Godwin's Law, only I'm not sure what it's called. Slashdot's Law?
Sounds like a good name for a band, or a rapper.
Except, of course, capital punishment isn't actually a deterrents.
It's vengeance, pure and simple..
Not vengeance. It's justice. At least, if we're talking about a multi-murdering monster like, say, Ted Bundy, or John Wayne Gacy, then it's removing a piece of living, breathing feces off the planet so it can do no more harm, ever, nor unjustly cost anyone to support. Deterrence/prevention would of course be great but serial murderers aren't exactly in touch with reality anyway. That's not why this is done.
Consider this scenario:
1. Serial murderer lives two lives: has his own small family by day, but at night goes out and regularly preys on and kidnaps girls in their late teens, rapes them, murders them, and hey, maybe rapes them again.
2. Young girls are someone's cherished daughter, or sister, or friend. Her violent and debasing end causes unimaginable amounts of pain, horror, and grief to parents, family, friends, etc...
3. Serial murderer kills several more girls before being caught, tried, and with overwhelming, incontrovertible evidence against him, found guilty.
IMO, here's the difference between justice and revenge:
* Revenge: So that the murder fully feels the extent of the pain and suffering he's caused, in great anger, his own daughter is arrested, and then in front of him, butchered in the same manner as his victims. Weeks pass. Only then is the murderer is executed after having time to process and suffer the loss of his daughter. This is revenge, where an innocent girl (the murder's daughter) has been hurt in the name of an eye for an eye. Unfortunately, in olden days, vigilante mobs might've done something like this.
* Justice: The serial murderer, who has no respect for life (other than his own or maybe his hypothetical daughter, who knows), who has murdered repeatedly, has thus forfeited his own right to live through taking other innocent lives where no provocation was extant; furthermore, he is a clear and present danger to society with no redeeming values and absolutely no chance of true rehabilitation. Instead of rewarding him by giving him 3 decent meals a day, access to a gym to ensure his good health, television rights, and quite possibly a lucrative book deal and media attention, while using tax money to support him, his person is eradicated from the planet so that he can positively never hurt anyone again, nor sponge off of them. The monster is simply gone. There is no joy, but there is relief in the certainty that he can harm no more (should a jail break occur, even).
FWIW, I feel capital punishment should only apply in cases where:
A) the evidence is incontrovertible, and
B) the murderer is not someone who committed murder as, say, a one time act of passion (shit and mistakes happen), but is a proven calculating nutcase who has murdered helpless people repeatedly for the sheer joy of it, and who shows little to no remorse, a hollow shell who is devoid of empathy for his fellow man.
Now go ahead and say I or the executioner in this case is no better than he, and I'll tell you that's absolute nonsense. He, unlike his victims and his own daughter, is NOT innocent of unprovoked murder. I would never, ever, advocate killing someone who was innocent of murder themselves, nor even just a "bad person". Serial murderers, OTOH, do just that, they target innocent people. They are inhuman, irreversibly broken. So in extreme cases, I would support capital punishment though it's still ugly. No, I would not like to be the one who presses the button or flicks the switch. But then I wouldn't want to be a cop either, but someone has to do it.
I do tend to think though that the states that use CP tend to overuse it just because they allow it.
As alternatives go, I'm shocked (heh) that any state would use the electric chair in this day and age. That has got to be one of the more painful, drawn out, gruesome ways to kill someone. Firing squad or drop hanging would be a lot more humane.
If they're going to execute regardless, for the most instant, painless, but messy execution, just put their head in a high power, high speed hydraulic press that slams down with several tons of force. They'd never even know what hit them. I'd hate to be the janitor though.
Death by enema? Wow, now that's a death without dignity.
,,, why if harnessing wind-power can affect the local climate, why harnessing solar power doesn't affect how long the sun is going to continue to burn?
Anyone who seriously asks this won't even understand layman terms, they'll need neanderthal terms. And that's probably denigrating neanderthals. Ook. Grunt.
There are quite a few dicks who write code.
Nonsense, they all they need are lots of Facebook "likes", that cures starvation and everything!
We're moving from GroupWise to Exchange in a year or two. Believe me, we consider that a step up; other sister departments have made the move already, and they're generally happier, though they say Exchange requires a good deal of preventive maintenance.
Home Edition, Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate edition? Mine never forced the upgrade on me, and my son is still running Win7 despite the occasional nags. We had/have Home (Premium) edition.
I wouldn't be shocked if it has code that slows Windows7 down horribly enough to make you want to upgrade (or reformat). I'd like to think I'm paranoid but my WinXP boxes always ran well until Win7 came out and started getting pushed harder, after a while every update seemed to bring worse performance.
They have some. :) TOE
Don't forget to factor in increasing amounts of automation and computerization, that accounts for, well, some of it.
Oops, I read your sig!
This. But man, did the 3DFX card make Quake look sweet!
I had a second phone line for a while, just for Internet usage. It wasn't that much extra. Modems had their charm I suppose, but I'm glad things moved on.
I first saw Doom when a coworker was playing it after hours. When I saw that, I thought, now that was a game I could get into. Plus the first level was free to download! I remember playing the crap out of Doom2 when I was sick with a particularly bad cold, it took my mind off my misery and sore throat. I usually played single player, I thought the multiplayer looked a bit silly, as the Marine just sort of glided around (that was actually pretty funny), but I did a little bit of the multiplayer too. Still, there were enough mods around to keep single player mode interesting. I loved blasting the hell out of Barney: "I love you, You lov-" Blam Blam Blam "Aauughh!.." That was so soul satisfying.
My main memory though is building a huge custom wad I called Incubatr, which I uploaded to to CompuServe, where it got about 90 downloads or so. I still have it around, my son played through it last year using DOSbox.
I'd have to admit that Quake was my all time favorite FPS, however.
Is that what I said? No. Not remotely.
Well, that's not technically copying or downloading a consciousness, per se, that's just hooking up a brain to electrodes and reattaching nerve pathways. I say "just", but it is impressive; it's just not on the same level of understanding and manipulating the phenomenon of consciousness itself.
I guess it depends. I like to spend time with my small family, and especially being home at night. For a single guy though, it might work out well.
For some places with 24 hour coverage this could workout great, but for others, the employer might simply institute shifts. Right now where I'm working, we're basically a daytime shop, though we respond to emergencies at any time (and they're really not infrequent). I really wouldn't want to start having to work nights, especially the graveyard shift, and just because something *might* go down.
It's only microwaved if it's sat around and cooled down too much.
Last time I looked, McDs, BurgerKing, Wendys, et al. all used grills and deep fryers, with mics to warm it up a bit if necessary. Then again, I don't do fast food anymore really and haven't checked in years, the grease made me gag.
So . much . grease.
That's a semantic argument over the meaning of "tell"; in your case, it means, "express your opinion"; in the parent's case, "command" or force.
One of these days I'm going to try Buzzword Bingo. I hate that pompous, trendy nonsense.
Curious: how does a Tesla compare to a Pinto ? If you'd pointed to an early electric car flop, I'd see an analogy, but the Pinto was an ICE vehicle.