The law actually is far more extreme as it applies to children than it is as it applies to adults.
For example, a grown man molesting a child won't be forced to head to a 1930's style reprogramming center where inhuman nazi-esque reconditioning techniques are used to "cure" them. A child who molests another child will. (ethicaltreatment.org documents this well)
We treat our children horribly. We fuck them by running up the debt, we fuck them by punishing them more than we punish adults, we fuck them by overreacting over 'warning signs' that they're school shooters, we fuck them by forcing discredited experimental treatments on them, we fuck them by allowing judges disproportionate powers to sentence them, as in this case.
We're a nation of closet pedophiles, considering how much we love fucking our children.
I've been doing more research into this, and I have to disagree with you on one point.
Recessions are cased by the end of bubbles which are caused by markets finding the value of their assets. Austrian business cycle theory correctly identifies credit as a major source of this instability, but there are other factors.
The 1857 panic was caused by a similar bubble caused by the federal government selling incredible amounts of land. This led to a speculative frenzy almost identical to the current housing bubble. The cause of the upset was twofold: First, credit was far too loose, so banks were very fragile at the time. They lent far more than they had, resulting in bank runs when the bubble burst. Second, the market didn't know the value of the land yet. Since people had never been burned by a bad land deal during this time, they assumed it was impossible until the crash. No other panic had the same issue, because banks and investors alike realised the value of the land.
Similar conditions caused the 2000 bubble. Y2K caused a huge influx of capital into tech markets, which, paired with the famous availability of easy credit under Alan Greenspan, caused the market to stop knowing what the true value of tech stocks was. This led to a bubble for the same reason that nobody ahd gotten burned, until the crash. Today, investors are far more careful with tech stocks, because they know they can get burned.
This causes problems in some cases because deregulation always causes the markets to go through a bubble/burst cycle to find the true value of assets. Energy deregulation in California, for example, caused an energy bubble which burst with the collapse of Enron. This gives the socialists things to point to "See? The market doesn't work! We deregulated and there was this crash!", not realising that it's a simple function of the business cycle.
There's nothing 'hands off' about the Bush Administration.
The largest inflation adjusted increase in government expenditures in history. The largest expansion of government power in history. The largest expansion of government debt in history.
The Republicans are worse socialists than the Democrats.
I'd have to disagree with your premise. I've been called a "far right wing whackjob", and McCain Palin simply didn't jive.
Bush in 2000 ran on a platform of smaller government, humble foreign policy, reducing spending and taxes. He ended up increasing budgetted spending more than any president in history, adjusting for inflation, and increasing debt mroe than any president in history adjusting for inflation, and increasing the size of government (he doubled the size of the department of education).
McCain and Palin gave lip service to conservative ideals, but never gave any indication that they actually planned to follow through. By contrast, Obama was obviously progressive, was heavily in support of an Keynesian stimulus, and reversing some of the more blatant regressive actions of the Bush administration. Part of the "change" was transparency, not saying one thing and doing another.
The choice was between the socialists who would spend lots but hate ethnic groups and homosexuals, and the socialists who would spend somewhat less and don't hate ethic groups and homosexuals. As a far-right whackjob, my choice would immediately be Obama, because I don't hate ethnic groups and homosexuals, and I'd prefer going with the party history shows will spend less(Remember history? Conservatives used to look to it for answers.), since there was no real conservative party on the bill, just the big socialists who hate minorities and the lesser socialists who don't.
Maybe it's just impossible for you to comprehend my point.
Democracy is good. Freedom is good. Liberty is good. Don't think I'm arguing against that. I won't give an alternative because I'm not saying we need an alternative.
I'm saying that America isn't the only free democracy on the planet, nor is it the most free.
Hell, your government sent a bunch of people from my country to Syria to be tortured for years, with minimal evidence, no trial, no judge, nothing but people in black suits throwing you on a plane to somewhere. I hate to break the news to you, but that's against the principles of liberty and freedom. That's evil.
Comparing yourself favourably to communist China in terms of freedom is disingenuous. There's lots of free democracies in the world. The choice isn't between America with "warts" and China. That's what I said to begin with, yet you continue to pretend that's the choice.
Apparently all other 22 countries you've visited are third world dictatorship shitholes, because America isn't the only democracy on the planet. It certainly seems like you're implying that it is, even after my post.
It's important not so much for the super old stuff, but for the massive amounts of hardware that aren't obsolete performance-wise, but aren't supported by Windows Vista or 7.
A late Athlon-era PC will run anything anyone cares about today, but will be completely incompatible with Windows Vista or 7, but completely compatible with Linux.
I agree completely that there needs to be a complete attitude change in Washington, and Obama isn't it.
I'm just happy for what I can get. I haven't visited the US in years, because I'm literally afraid of you guys. You've been taking my countrymen and sending them to Syria to be tortured. Any improvement is a welcome one.
He's signed executive orders to close all the illegal secret prisons, completely denounced torture, gone on Arab TV and extended an olive branch, and advocates a more open foreign policy, rather than "Do what we want or you're worse than garbage".
Issues of fundamental human rights and foreign policy come long before anything the RIAA has ever done. "Are you monsters who cause people you disagree with politically to 'disappear'?" is a more important question than "Is a corporation getting away with abusing copyright law slightly?"
Not everyone is out to kill the Romans. Some people just want to keep using their favourite OS. Personally, I'm excited about the day Haiku "gets there" and I can run a small, fast, powerful OS again.
There's no way that's constitutional. Or enforceable. What, is Bush going to drive a tank onto Bob's lawn and demand to know who is pretending to be him?
Thankfully, it doesn't matter because I live in a slightly more sane country (not by much).
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You damn kids, you're not even worth talking to until you hit 120.
The law actually is far more extreme as it applies to children than it is as it applies to adults.
For example, a grown man molesting a child won't be forced to head to a 1930's style reprogramming center where inhuman nazi-esque reconditioning techniques are used to "cure" them. A child who molests another child will. (ethicaltreatment.org documents this well)
We treat our children horribly. We fuck them by running up the debt, we fuck them by punishing them more than we punish adults, we fuck them by overreacting over 'warning signs' that they're school shooters, we fuck them by forcing discredited experimental treatments on them, we fuck them by allowing judges disproportionate powers to sentence them, as in this case.
We're a nation of closet pedophiles, considering how much we love fucking our children.
This is America we're talking about. They won't raise taxes, they'll just take out debt.
In America, it's a not a matter of whether we're going to fuck our kids. It's just a matter of when.
I've been doing more research into this, and I have to disagree with you on one point.
Recessions are cased by the end of bubbles which are caused by markets finding the value of their assets. Austrian business cycle theory correctly identifies credit as a major source of this instability, but there are other factors.
The 1857 panic was caused by a similar bubble caused by the federal government selling incredible amounts of land. This led to a speculative frenzy almost identical to the current housing bubble. The cause of the upset was twofold: First, credit was far too loose, so banks were very fragile at the time. They lent far more than they had, resulting in bank runs when the bubble burst. Second, the market didn't know the value of the land yet. Since people had never been burned by a bad land deal during this time, they assumed it was impossible until the crash. No other panic had the same issue, because banks and investors alike realised the value of the land.
Similar conditions caused the 2000 bubble. Y2K caused a huge influx of capital into tech markets, which, paired with the famous availability of easy credit under Alan Greenspan, caused the market to stop knowing what the true value of tech stocks was. This led to a bubble for the same reason that nobody ahd gotten burned, until the crash. Today, investors are far more careful with tech stocks, because they know they can get burned.
This causes problems in some cases because deregulation always causes the markets to go through a bubble/burst cycle to find the true value of assets. Energy deregulation in California, for example, caused an energy bubble which burst with the collapse of Enron. This gives the socialists things to point to "See? The market doesn't work! We deregulated and there was this crash!", not realising that it's a simple function of the business cycle.
There's nothing 'hands off' about the Bush Administration.
The largest inflation adjusted increase in government expenditures in history. The largest expansion of government power in history. The largest expansion of government debt in history.
The Republicans are worse socialists than the Democrats.
Yeah, Those torrent sites are horrible. Don't they know it's the publisher's job to fuck the artists?
I'd have to disagree with your premise. I've been called a "far right wing whackjob", and McCain Palin simply didn't jive.
Bush in 2000 ran on a platform of smaller government, humble foreign policy, reducing spending and taxes. He ended up increasing budgetted spending more than any president in history, adjusting for inflation, and increasing debt mroe than any president in history adjusting for inflation, and increasing the size of government (he doubled the size of the department of education).
McCain and Palin gave lip service to conservative ideals, but never gave any indication that they actually planned to follow through. By contrast, Obama was obviously progressive, was heavily in support of an Keynesian stimulus, and reversing some of the more blatant regressive actions of the Bush administration. Part of the "change" was transparency, not saying one thing and doing another.
The choice was between the socialists who would spend lots but hate ethnic groups and homosexuals, and the socialists who would spend somewhat less and don't hate ethic groups and homosexuals. As a far-right whackjob, my choice would immediately be Obama, because I don't hate ethnic groups and homosexuals, and I'd prefer going with the party history shows will spend less(Remember history? Conservatives used to look to it for answers.), since there was no real conservative party on the bill, just the big socialists who hate minorities and the lesser socialists who don't.
Maybe it's just impossible for you to comprehend my point.
Democracy is good. Freedom is good. Liberty is good. Don't think I'm arguing against that. I won't give an alternative because I'm not saying we need an alternative.
I'm saying that America isn't the only free democracy on the planet, nor is it the most free.
Hell, your government sent a bunch of people from my country to Syria to be tortured for years, with minimal evidence, no trial, no judge, nothing but people in black suits throwing you on a plane to somewhere. I hate to break the news to you, but that's against the principles of liberty and freedom. That's evil.
Comparing yourself favourably to communist China in terms of freedom is disingenuous. There's lots of free democracies in the world. The choice isn't between America with "warts" and China. That's what I said to begin with, yet you continue to pretend that's the choice.
Apparently all other 22 countries you've visited are third world dictatorship shitholes, because America isn't the only democracy on the planet. It certainly seems like you're implying that it is, even after my post.
Your problem is a common one: You seem to think the only choices are "Chinese sweatshop" and "America".
Your buddy Winston wasn't the prime minister of America.
Yeah, you should quit proselytizing your lack of beliefs. Begone, quit preaching.
I was thinking Thunderbird 1400MHz, where you could expect chipset incompatibilities and video compatibilities as a given.
It's important not so much for the super old stuff, but for the massive amounts of hardware that aren't obsolete performance-wise, but aren't supported by Windows Vista or 7.
A late Athlon-era PC will run anything anyone cares about today, but will be completely incompatible with Windows Vista or 7, but completely compatible with Linux.
Almost all paper mills are failing. Every week brings news of another mill closing down, and it's been this way for years.
I do agree it's a silly idea buying that mill for making paper, but let's not pretend the paper industry is healthy.
I'd say it depends on what sort of hardware it is.
Any network adapter has double the drivers on Linux, since you can just use NDISWrapper to install the windows driver, or you can use native drivers.
Considering Windows 7 won't run on a machine half its age, I'd say it speaks -- as I said -- of the greater driver availability.
I agree completely that there needs to be a complete attitude change in Washington, and Obama isn't it.
I'm just happy for what I can get. I haven't visited the US in years, because I'm literally afraid of you guys. You've been taking my countrymen and sending them to Syria to be tortured. Any improvement is a welcome one.
The BeOS user experience is fundamentally different from the Windows and Linux experience.
The difference is like driving a Porsche 911 after driving a pickup truck all your life.
You're on crack if you think a modern Linux is behind Windows Vista/Windows 7 in terms of sheer driver availability.
You can still run Linux 2.6 on a 386.
He's signed executive orders to close all the illegal secret prisons, completely denounced torture, gone on Arab TV and extended an olive branch, and advocates a more open foreign policy, rather than "Do what we want or you're worse than garbage".
Issues of fundamental human rights and foreign policy come long before anything the RIAA has ever done. "Are you monsters who cause people you disagree with politically to 'disappear'?" is a more important question than "Is a corporation getting away with abusing copyright law slightly?"
Because they want to?
Not everyone is out to kill the Romans. Some people just want to keep using their favourite OS. Personally, I'm excited about the day Haiku "gets there" and I can run a small, fast, powerful OS again.
There's no way that's constitutional. Or enforceable. What, is Bush going to drive a tank onto Bob's lawn and demand to know who is pretending to be him?
Thankfully, it doesn't matter because I live in a slightly more sane country (not by much).
The United States, until very recently, was no better than Egypt.
You have no idea how much Obama is increasing the world's opinion of y'all.
Only since January 20th. Before that it was a nice thing to do.