The alternative is to riddle another human being with bullets, [...] Honestly, you über-pacifists are never satisfied. The alternative to the true pacifist is to let the ones without sins throw the first stones or to turn the other cheek.
So, no, high tech whips are not satisfying as an alternative.
any sovereign nation (not just the U.S.) needs a standing military to defend itself when and as needed; the less lethal/destructive we can make those conflicts between nations, the better. Quit your whining, this is a step in the right direction -- a small one, but important nonetheless. Right. This weapon for use in Iraq is a defensive act on the part of the U.S. Seeing how Iraq posed a clear and pressing danger to the U.S. with it's vast arsenal of stokpiled weapons of mass destruction, fittend onto ballistic missiles as they were...
See, we're saying this weapon will be misused. Just like the defensive military was misused. Just like mod points are abused.
Why don't the cops have the balls to start spraying the people with water jets? are they afraid that public outcry would be greater than this invisible weapon?
Everything was fine with Abu Grahib before the pictures got out...
It's like this: Water cannons don't look good. A big shapeless antenna, just sitting there, however... possibly behind a tarp, in a nondescript truck... pictures like that won't cause public outrage.
Maybe this would be a humane and cost-effective way to guard the US-Mexican border against illegal invaders. Establish a DMZ just inside the US. As you cross the border and enter the DMZ, the pain level would increase the farther into the DMZ you go.
I think the hardware, maintenance and power requirements would make it cost-prohibitive.
Do us all a favor and refrain from quoting scriptures you don't understand. [...] Governments are intrinsically evil lol, do us all a favour and never say anything. Ever again.
Even if you have something that starts off as a protest and then becomes a mob or riot, say by virtue of people joining up with the protest whose ends are violent rather than peaceful, then the deterrent system is most effective against the violent hangers-on, rather than the core protesters. So again, it's not ineffective. Don't you know that these people are often police officers in plain clothes, purposefully creating an excuse to use force?
The alternative is to riddle another human being with bullets, [...] Honestly, you über-pacifists are never satisfied. The alternative to the true pacifist is to let the ones without sins throw the first stones or to turn the other cheek.
So, no, high tech whips are not satisfying as an alternative.
any sovereign nation (not just the U.S.) needs a standing military to defend itself when and as needed; the less lethal/destructive we can make those conflicts between nations, the better. Quit your whining, this is a step in the right direction -- a small one, but important nonetheless. Right. This weapon for use in Iraq is a defensive act on the part of the U.S. Seeing how Iraq posed a clear and pressing danger to the U.S. with it's vast arsenal of stokpiled weapons of mass destruction, fittend onto ballistic missiles as they were...
See, we're saying this weapon will be misused. Just like the defensive military was misused.
The intended purpose of this device is for crowd control. The implication of people using "armor" would be that the "mob" is actually somewhat organized. You wouldn't be wearing the armor unless you anticipated being in a place where the millimeter-wave weapon would be used. You wouldn't anticipate being in such a situation unless you were planning to cause a disruption or asked to join in one.
Wearing armor would also imply that the crowd is likely to atack. Try to picture someone putting on armor so they could quietly sit and protest. These are people who'd at least be throwing rocks. So, how about people who show up to protest with all the hardware necessary to chain themselves to immovable objects? Those that bring gas masks to protests?
Try to picture someone who put on chains so they can quietly sit and protest...
Defensive measures are needed to excersise your right to protest when the forces you're protesting are likely to attack you.
I can't see a reason why the Russian government would poison the former spy so long after he defected.
He either knows something that has recently become sensitive, or he long ago pissed off someone who recently got enough power to get a very cold revenge.
Perhaps they're Jewish. Their religion doesn't allow them to write a name for God on anything that may be destroyed (paper, pottery or a computer screen).
Interresting, except that god isn't a name, it's a title. The name's Yaveh, god is his description. So it doesn't make any kind of sense.
If video games and the military make people violent why am I not violent? [...]
The Army is my job, sometimes we engage and fire on the enemy.. but it isn't like my blood is pulsing and i'm out of control. [...] It is just a job and we are good at it, So you aren't violent, you just kill in a cold, detached state. Devoid of emotion or empathy, because it's the job you have chosen. You only kill for profit, never out of passion...
I can't really say I have any expectations one way or the other.Me neither, I just think it's silly to assume no one's out there because they aren't waving at us. I think the hypothetical Aliens might have watched monty python's "How not to be seen" and learned a lot from it.
Got news for ya. We are as "mature" as we're going to get. That's it. We're human and we are who we are. It's not like the world is gradually approaching a state of more perfect being; we're just retelling the same stories again and again in different settings and different people. If you have an example of how any human civilization is or was ever progressing into maturity I'd love to read about it.In the beginning, a nation warring with another nation would raze the land, rape the women to death, and bring home a few slaves. Then Zarathustra came along, and with him his civilisation learned that it could leave the conquered nations alive and well, even build roads up to them and tax them.
A few thousand years later, the descended civilisations no longer even hold slaves.
Some societies now take care of their sick and wounded. Just a hundred years ago people were left to fend for themselves, or to rely on the few kind souls who dedicated their lives to taking care of others selflessly.
It's happening. Slowly... over thousands of years, but it's happening.
By the same token, the bible never even addresses the issue of evolution, so people who are using it as a basis for believing or not believing in evolution are a bunch of chumps.What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
Is there anything of which one can say,
"Look! This is something new"?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
Meetings and chatter with your neighbors are not good things: they're interruptions. Worse, they're draining. The definition of torture is that you accomplish nothing all day due to constant meetings and chatter. Its exhausting and not in a good way. If you're lucky your music headphones at least let you pretend that your alone so you can occasionally get some work done.
You should write a manifesto.
That just summed up my experienced in cubicles, if I ever got over an hour of consecutive, uninterrupted concentration and productivity, that was a good week!
There is a law in germany banning blood in videogames.
Hence, publishers releasing games in the european market will edit the blood out for the entire multilingual release, since the rule of the smallest common denominator (germany's hemophobia) applies. For games going to europe: Any images of blood are to be logged as critical bugs. Now, in the U.S., however, the same rule applies to nipples (which reminds me, I'm undercafeinated).
So I'm really not surprised that they're taking another step down the slippery slope of censoring games. It's not going to DO anything about real violence, like hiding nipples is not going to stop the desire for nipples, but it's not the actions of a sane mindset, it's a hysterical show, starring a straw man. After all, the waltz will cause wanton sexuality, I mean, rock and roll is the devil's music, no wait, I meant comic books will turn kids into axe murderers... er, no, that's pot: smoking reefers turns kids into violent psychos. Yeah... games are bad, mmm-kay?
Justin Long looks like one of those stereotypical annoying "artistic types" Mac users. He never says anything arrogant in the ads, but most people subconsciously sees him as an elitist asshole because he looks so much like the kind of elitist Mac user everyone has met at least once in their lives.
Funny, I thought he looked like the elitist windows network manager from my old job.
I'm genuinely curious - what makes the Mac guy a "hippie"? You've already dismissed folks who asked
If the "your mom" and the "hippie" hate didn't already clue you in, the fact that he dismisses the rebuttal of others should really cement the notion that you've read what is commonly referred to as a "troll".
I don't know anyone who actually likes those dumb ads, in fact it usually makes them hate Macs even more.
How come everyone you know hates macs?
And, philosophically speaking, if they hate macs, what mac ad wouldn't fuel their hatred?
"PCs are no fun? Don't Macs get like, no games? What a bunch elitist assholes! Who gives a shit about making picture albums!" "Macs are safer? Of course they are, you don't get to do anything with it because there's none of the software I use!"
Don't they realise that they're making asses of themselves? By bashing the product advertised with old, mindless clichés, they show that they clearly have an irrational hatred of this company, it's product, it's advertisements, that has nothing to do with these things themselves. Especially since the content of the ad explains that these clichés are not true. There's a specific ad about games, and another about macs running all the business software you need. What kind of person blindly ignores that and spews hatred of a company's hired actor?
"That Mac guy looks arrogant, not sure why.
Maybe it makes these PC using, mac hating people feel bad about themselves to see the mac user shown as a young, attractive guy, and the PC user as a older, fat and nerdy guy? Since the point of the ad is to show that macs are better, and they clearly have an emotional interest in their indentity being defined by their computer of choice (hence the hate), I could see how he would seem arrogant to them.
As much as I respect Macs for what they are and do, for all of their "We're different" attitude, they just can't seem to stop with the "Me, too!" actions.
Anything you can do, I can do better. Anything you can do, I can do too!
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Honestly, you über-pacifists are never satisfied. The alternative to the true pacifist is to let the ones without sins throw the first stones or to turn the other cheek.
So, no, high tech whips are not satisfying as an alternative. any sovereign nation (not just the U.S.) needs a standing military to defend itself when and as needed; the less lethal/destructive we can make those conflicts between nations, the better. Quit your whining, this is a step in the right direction -- a small one, but important nonetheless. Right. This weapon for use in Iraq is a defensive act on the part of the U.S.
Seeing how Iraq posed a clear and pressing danger to the U.S. with it's vast arsenal of stokpiled weapons of mass destruction, fittend onto ballistic missiles as they were...
See, we're saying this weapon will be misused.
Just like the defensive military was misused. Just like mod points are abused.
Everything was fine with Abu Grahib before the pictures got out...
It's like this: Water cannons don't look good.
A big shapeless antenna, just sitting there, however... possibly behind a tarp, in a nondescript truck... pictures like that won't cause public outrage.
Maybe this would be a humane and cost-effective way to guard the US-Mexican border against illegal invaders. Establish a DMZ just inside the US. As you cross the border and enter the DMZ, the pain level would increase the farther into the DMZ you go.
I think the hardware, maintenance and power requirements would make it cost-prohibitive.Honestly, you über-pacifists are never satisfied. The alternative to the true pacifist is to let the ones without sins throw the first stones or to turn the other cheek.
So, no, high tech whips are not satisfying as an alternative. any sovereign nation (not just the U.S.) needs a standing military to defend itself when and as needed; the less lethal/destructive we can make those conflicts between nations, the better. Quit your whining, this is a step in the right direction -- a small one, but important nonetheless. Right. This weapon for use in Iraq is a defensive act on the part of the U.S.
Seeing how Iraq posed a clear and pressing danger to the U.S. with it's vast arsenal of stokpiled weapons of mass destruction, fittend onto ballistic missiles as they were...
See, we're saying this weapon will be misused.
Just like the defensive military was misused.
Wearing armor would also imply that the crowd is likely to atack. Try to picture someone putting on armor so they could quietly sit and protest. These are people who'd at least be throwing rocks. So, how about people who show up to protest with all the hardware necessary to chain themselves to immovable objects? Those that bring gas masks to protests?
Try to picture someone who put on chains so they can quietly sit and protest...
Defensive measures are needed to excersise your right to protest when the forces you're protesting are likely to attack you.
As with all artistic endeavours, it's 10% talent, 90% effort.
Of course, if you don't have talent, all your efforts will never give you better than 90%, but talent isn't enough.
I can't see a reason why the Russian government would poison the former spy so long after he defected.
He either knows something that has recently become sensitive, or he long ago pissed off someone who recently got enough power to get a very cold revenge.
Perhaps they're Jewish. Their religion doesn't allow them to write a name for God on anything that may be destroyed (paper, pottery or a computer screen).
Interresting, except that god isn't a name, it's a title.
The name's Yaveh, god is his description. So it doesn't make any kind of sense.
It's like saying G-d created M-n in his image.
If video games and the military make people violent why am I not violent? [...]
The Army is my job, sometimes we engage and fire on the enemy.. but it isn't like my blood is pulsing and i'm out of control. [...] It is just a job and we are good at it, So you aren't violent, you just kill in a cold, detached state. Devoid of emotion or empathy, because it's the job you have chosen. You only kill for profit, never out of passion...
That does not seem better to me.
I can't really say I have any expectations one way or the other.Me neither, I just think it's silly to assume no one's out there because they aren't waving at us.
I think the hypothetical Aliens might have watched monty python's "How not to be seen" and learned a lot from it.
Got news for ya. We are as "mature" as we're going to get. That's it. We're human and we are who we are.
It's not like the world is gradually approaching a state of more perfect being; we're just retelling the same stories again and again in different settings and different people. If you have an example of how any human civilization is or was ever progressing into maturity I'd love to read about it.In the beginning, a nation warring with another nation would raze the land, rape the women to death, and bring home a few slaves.
Then Zarathustra came along, and with him his civilisation learned that it could leave the conquered nations alive and well, even build roads up to them and tax them.
A few thousand years later, the descended civilisations no longer even hold slaves.
Some societies now take care of their sick and wounded. Just a hundred years ago people were left to fend for themselves, or to rely on the few kind souls who dedicated their lives to taking care of others selflessly.
It's happening. Slowly... over thousands of years, but it's happening.
G-d
Why do you spell god that way?
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
Is there anything of which one can say,
"Look! This is something new"?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
...just saying.
eventually (i.e., in less than a few million years), they'd find Earth - we wouldn't need to find them.
And we're to assume that once they found us, they'd say hi?
So, a teacher does something stupid and gets caught on tape... the response of the school district?
1. Leave (probably paid) for the teacher
2. disciplinary action for the kids doing the filming
3. ban of personal electronic devices in classrooms
Uuuuh, can I be the first to say: WTF!?!!
Can I be the first to say: "This is the exact response to the Abu Grahib pictures incident"?
Immediate ban of cameras in all army prisons, court martial for the ones caught on film, higher ups run free. Creepy, huh?
Teachers unions should be happy we are doing this. As we weed out the scum and the freeloaders
Why would the union leaders be happy to be weeded out?
Meetings and chatter with your neighbors are not good things: they're interruptions. Worse, they're draining. The definition of torture is that you accomplish nothing all day due to constant meetings and chatter. Its exhausting and not in a good way. If you're lucky your music headphones at least let you pretend that your alone so you can occasionally get some work done.
You should write a manifesto.
That just summed up my experienced in cubicles, if I ever got over an hour of consecutive, uninterrupted concentration and productivity, that was a good week!
There is a law in germany banning blood in videogames.
Hence, publishers releasing games in the european market will edit the blood out for the entire multilingual release, since the rule of the smallest common denominator (germany's hemophobia) applies. For games going to europe: Any images of blood are to be logged as critical bugs.
Now, in the U.S., however, the same rule applies to nipples (which reminds me, I'm undercafeinated).
So I'm really not surprised that they're taking another step down the slippery slope of censoring games. It's not going to DO anything about real violence, like hiding nipples is not going to stop the desire for nipples, but it's not the actions of a sane mindset, it's a hysterical show, starring a straw man.
After all, the waltz will cause wanton sexuality, I mean, rock and roll is the devil's music, no wait, I meant comic books will turn kids into axe murderers... er, no, that's pot: smoking reefers turns kids into violent psychos. Yeah... games are bad, mmm-kay?
Justin Long looks like one of those stereotypical annoying "artistic types" Mac users. He never says anything arrogant in the ads, but most people subconsciously sees him as an elitist asshole because he looks so much like the kind of elitist Mac user everyone has met at least once in their lives.
Funny, I thought he looked like the elitist windows network manager from my old job.
I'm genuinely curious - what makes the Mac guy a "hippie"? You've already dismissed folks who asked
If the "your mom" and the "hippie" hate didn't already clue you in, the fact that he dismisses the rebuttal of others should really cement the notion that you've read what is commonly referred to as a "troll".
I don't know anyone who actually likes those dumb ads, in fact it usually makes them hate Macs even more.
How come everyone you know hates macs?
And, philosophically speaking, if they hate macs, what mac ad wouldn't fuel their hatred?
"PCs are no fun? Don't Macs get like, no games? What a bunch elitist assholes! Who gives a shit about making picture albums!"
"Macs are safer? Of course they are, you don't get to do anything with it because there's none of the software I use!"
Don't they realise that they're making asses of themselves?
By bashing the product advertised with old, mindless clichés, they show that they clearly have an irrational hatred of this company, it's product, it's advertisements, that has nothing to do with these things themselves. Especially since the content of the ad explains that these clichés are not true. There's a specific ad about games, and another about macs running all the business software you need. What kind of person blindly ignores that and spews hatred of a company's hired actor?
"That Mac guy looks arrogant, not sure why.
Maybe it makes these PC using, mac hating people feel bad about themselves to see the mac user shown as a young, attractive guy, and the PC user as a older, fat and nerdy guy?
Since the point of the ad is to show that macs are better, and they clearly have an emotional interest in their indentity being defined by their computer of choice (hence the hate), I could see how he would seem arrogant to them.
As much as I respect Macs for what they are and do, for all of their "We're different" attitude, they just can't seem to stop with the "Me, too!" actions.
Anything you can do, I can do better.
Anything you can do, I can do too!