I have no motivation to "control" or to "dominate", I am not "pleasure" oriented, sure I like to have fun but as I've grown older I've understood that what matters most in life is not how much "pleasure" you get, what really matters in the long term is having people around you who care about you, who give a shit about you, and who you care about.
One can argue that you get off on having people around you, that is what pleasure is for you. It's not just sex, drugs and rock-n-roll necessarily.
Real world, of course, being football games and The Gap.
Not that I mind either of those, but really, D&D has this "weird" rep, right, and bunch of people watching other people toss a ball around does not. Blablabla.
tape to protect your family from that noxious gas oxygen,
Oxygen can be used to make deadly dihydrogen monoxide, so we have to be careful. In fact, we should perhaps implement a strict accountability system and only dispense it to those who passed background checks.
But you CAN go to a library and browse newspapers. Also, newspapers are cheap, and if you really have no 50 cents, you can find one lying around on the street, or in a cafe, or on a bus all the time.
But the drawback is that it will be much harder for little guys to sue big corporations, who may win because of big gun lawyers - and then the little guy will be stuck with their $500/hr bills to add insult to injury?
There's a slippery slope from "secondary" to "butterfly flapping its wings".
Here's the example, and I want my million: I found the seeds, I grow my pot and sell it to my friends (to make it interesting, my friends live in another state, so we'll make it a fed.crime in teh US), and we get together and smoke it somewhere in the woods. What secondary criminal activity this creates?
Besides, the original poster did not say "illegal activity". What was specified was violating other people's rights.
when I was talking about breaking the law, I was refering to felons...and if you can name on efelony that does not take the rights away from another person then I will give you a million dollors.
I would argue that insecure systems deserve to be broken in to.
So if I have a puny lock on my house, opened by a credit card, I deserve to be broken into? But what if you have a super-duper security system, but I am some kind of super-duper pro able to circumvent your protection with about the same effort as you spend on opening my lock with a credit card? Do you deserve it?
In fact, this typical elitist geek "deserves" bullshit really pisses off a lot of "non-geeks." Who are you to decide who deserves what? Just because someone can do something to you, does it mean you deserve it? What if I am able to beat you senseless? Do you deserve that too, because you didn't study enough kung-fu or don't employ an army of bodyguards?
Since they already hired you, and it doesn't look like it was conditional on that check, can they now just fire you for refusing to provide this info, or maybe you can sue their ass off?
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That's enough, my son. I absolve you.
Analogies are crap.
You can test drive a car.
Can you test drive a CD?
One can argue that you get off on having people around you, that is what pleasure is for you. It's not just sex, drugs and rock-n-roll necessarily.
When you understand that you can have
18 intelligence and 10 wisdom, and vice
versa... Your wisdom increases
"Escape from real world."
Real world, of course, being football games and The Gap.
Not that I mind either of those, but really,
D&D has this "weird" rep, right, and bunch of people watching other people toss a ball around does not. Blablabla.
Although one has to wonder why being obsessed with Star Trek is any worse than being obsessed with football...
Oxygen can be used to make deadly dihydrogen monoxide, so we have to be careful. In fact, we should perhaps implement a strict accountability system and only dispense it to those who passed background checks.
Or Francisco Domingo Carlos Andres Sebastian d'Anconia? :)
SOAP?
But you CAN go to a library and browse newspapers. Also, newspapers are cheap, and if you really have no 50 cents, you can find one lying around on the street, or in a cafe, or on a bus all the time.
Sure they do. In the next election, Verizon
contributes a shitload of money to
But the drawback is that it will be much
harder for little guys to sue big corporations, who may win because of big gun lawyers - and
then the little guy will be stuck with their
$500/hr bills to add insult to injury?
3 hours to write "Hello World" in Perl is normal?
There's a slippery slope from "secondary"
to "butterfly flapping its wings".
Here's the example, and I want my million:
I found the seeds, I grow my pot and sell
it to my friends (to make it interesting,
my friends live in another state, so we'll
make it a fed.crime in teh US), and we
get together and smoke it somewhere in the
woods. What secondary criminal activity this
creates?
Besides, the original poster did not say
"illegal activity". What was specified was
violating other people's rights.
Although you can make the same argument for
many other agreements, like you credit card
or bank contract, etc., etc.
when I was talking about breaking the law, I was refering to felons...and if you can name on efelony that does not take the rights away from another person then I will give you a million dollors.
Dope dealing.
So if I have a puny lock on my house, opened
by a credit card, I deserve to be broken into?
But what if you have a super-duper security
system, but I am some kind of super-duper
pro able to circumvent your protection with
about the same effort as you spend on opening
my lock with a credit card? Do you deserve it?
In fact, this typical elitist geek "deserves"
bullshit really pisses off a lot of "non-geeks."
Who are you to decide who deserves what? Just
because someone can do something to you, does
it mean you deserve it? What if I am able to
beat you senseless? Do you deserve that too,
because you didn't study enough kung-fu or
don't employ an army of bodyguards?
They sure can find a lot of reasons,
but the court may still find it to be wrongful
termination.
Yes, the cleaning ladies really cashed out
on that Enron thing!
Since they already hired you, and it doesn't
look like it was conditional on that check,
can they now just fire you for refusing to
provide this info, or maybe you can sue
their ass off?
I hope you appreciate it for the kitsch value :)
Why can't the Feds? Looks like interstate
commerce to me, which Constitution explicitly
says is in the purview of the Feds...
Also, everyone should consider writing a letter
to their Senators and Congressmen pointing
out the lies on which some are trying to base
the law.
Not like that's the first time, of course.
I don't believe you can convince him.
But if you send such a letter to Harvard Political
Review, it may get printed and have some
influence.
is the fact that the interviewer didn't
challenge him AT ALL!