Why isn't the bar tender locked up when he says, "Be careful, there is a traffic stop 3 blocks away." I mean technically that is two counts of being an accessory to attempted homicide.
Hyperbole much? Charlie Sheen must be worse than Stalin.
It is common knowledge where I live that certain municipalities stop drivers at checkpoints, and then will not release them until they have found some reason to give them a ticket. They aren't DUI checkpoints. They are the modern version of "highwaymen". A few coins to keep the kings peace....
People often point to extremely socially conservative policies that seem not to work especially well as evidence that said policies are inherently bad ideas.
Just out of curiosity, what exactly does it take to qualify as a "bad idea" then? In my book, solutions that do not work most of the time are bad ideas. I'm sure most (rational) people would agree.
For most poor people, the world is a large and confusing place, and their part of it is often arbitrary and harsh. Faced with a game whose rules they can't understand, it's hardly surprising that so many are kindly disposed to believe in a power larger than themselves that is looking out for them (but who will punish them severely for getting out of line). The alternative is helplessness.
That might be the single most condescending thing I have read all day, and this is Slashdot. Are you really suggesting that birth control is too confusing to poor people? Really? Most of them are poor BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS DID NOT USE BIRTH CONTROL.
There is a HUGE difference between watching a real life adult hit a real life doll, and clicking a mouse. Yes, children will imitate adult behavior. Watching a video game is not the same as watching a real life adult. You'd be shocked (SHOCKED!) to learn that even a 3 year old can tell you Call of Duty is not real life. My 4 year old has been sitting at my side since he was born, playing games. He's watched CoD MW 1 and 2, Black Ops, Dragon Age, Mass Effect 1 and 2, Minecraft...and yes, he does imitate what he sees me do. He is working on his own house in Minecraft, and loves to run the target range in the Spec Ops section of MW2. Children are smarter than you think they are.
Keep telling yourself that. The right wing calls the left "elitist" because in general the left is smarter than the right, and think they know better. Which they do, being smarter. The elitist attack neutralizes the fact that they are obviously smarter - "they may be smarter, but they are out of touch. They don't understand real salt of the earth people like us."
The right wing in this country has gotten very good at convincing people that are not too bright that the debate is about big government versus small government - and indeed that is what the debate is about. When you actually look at what the right does, however, the agenda is clear: transfer as much wealth as possible up the economic ladder. And you know what - good for them. There is nothing wrong with enlightened self-interest. The problem with this country is that the base of the right is neither enlightened nor self-interested. They vote with the wallets they want, not the wallets they have.
Could the US, for example, censor Busboy Productions, Inc. on the grounds it has no first ammendment[sic] rights?
Absolutely. Every time Busboy productions opens its mouth...oh wait, it doesn't have one. Joe CEO does though, and the government can get bent if they think they can shut him up. Rights belong to people. The government can serve its search warrant to the owner of Twitter's servers - the shareholders.
Not if the person who committed said crime went to prison for it. Imagine if every guy who was told to dump toxic waste in our water knew that if the company was caught, he would be going to jail. World would be a better place, wouldn't it?
If the problem only comes up every few weeks, press the damn button again. I see similar mentalities in my little corner of IT - testing automation. Most test automaters want to write test scripts that are robust and will be re-usable from build to build. My experience is that the amount of effort required to make scripts robust enough to last is exponentially greater than just doing the job over again, quick and dirty. I am looked down upon by the serious scripters - but I have three times the productivity. I am not looked down on by management.:)
A lot of times, the instinct to do a job "right" - to the best of you abilities - actually runs counter to the needs of the business. In that case, you are not actually doing the job "right". Doing the job "right" means getting the goal accomplished with the least effort possible over the medium term. If you end up rebuilding the server 5 times over the course of the year, at 2 hours per pop, you have spent less time than if you spent two days to fix the problem permanently.
"Innocent mistakes" like that are well known Fox tactics. I'm so used to hearing them, that whenever I hear someone claiming facts not in evidence, I assume it was because they were deliberately misinformed - as a result of watching Fox - and therefore, an idiot.
I was modded informative because I actually informed, which was exactly the opposite of what you did. Getting to insult you in the process was just added sugar.
Bullshit. LOTR made more money than God. Harry Potter didn't do quite as well, but still made J. K. Rowling wealthier than the queen. Fantasy is getting made because it makes money, and Sci-Fi doesn't - at least to the same degree. It's all about untapped markets.
Incorrect. Wages only. And what about those unions friendly to Walker? Police and fire? Exempt. This is about punishing political opponents, and if you can't see that, you're an idiot.
The voters of WI got what they asked for. Sounds like you're a teabagger, and should be happy about this. You guys won. Go ahead, be happy. But don't lie. You know what this is really about.
I take Boy Scouts to summer camp every year in Missouri - 90+ degrees, 80+ humidity the entire time. After about 4 days you get used to the heat again; it's not nearly as bad as the first couple of days.
Being a performance tester, I constantly engage in risk analysis. Yes, it may $600,000 to performance test your app. How much does an hour of downtime cost you? Depending on how costly a security breach might be, the $100 keyboard (or whatever it costs) could seem like a bargain, even per employee. Smart idea.
Previous responders have answered more eloquently than I can, but ask yourself - why is the right to trial by jury so important then? The answer is that trial by jury is one more check citizenry have against corrupt government. You really need some history lessons, and badly.
Sorry, it wasn't a good plot. It did not make me think. Pi made me think.
What people fail to realize that for a comic book, Watchmen was brilliant, and pushed the boundaries of the medium. However, take that away, and we have another story about how the private lives of public personae are darker than we imagine. *Yawn*. The story has been done to death. Putting the main characters in capes did not change a fairly boring plot.
Says you. That's easy to say when you are on top. I say the government does have a role in making it fair, and since my vote counts just as much as your does, you can kiss my ass. What a dickhead.
Bullshit. You worked your ass off, AND GOT LUCKY. You didn't get sick, or have to take care of a relative. You had no financial misfortune to overcome. You were born intelligent enough to take advantage of opportunity when it came. I'm also willing to bet you are white, and a native English speaker. Working your ass off is not sufficient. Not everyone is as smart or as lucky as or as white as you, and to suggest that poverty is their fault ignores your own good fortune. Yes, it is possible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. But it is also possible to work just as hard as you did, and have bad things happen to you. The whole "the poor are poor because they are not as good as me" idea was rejected with the rest of Victorian ideology. You sir are a throwback.
The only truly fair tax is a transaction tax. Every time money moves electronically, it is taxed. Exempt cash transactions. This allows the poor to remain free of tax (because you can buy food with cash), the middle class to elect whether or not to be taxed on minor purchases (you can buy your food with cash, but not pay your mortgage), and the rich and corporations pay the most tax because their money moves the most. It's seamless, all done by the banks (so you will never fill out another tax return again) and therefore would reduce costs, and is truly progressive - and no one can argue it isn't fair, because everyone pays the same, no matter what. You can stick your flat tax in your ass. http://www.apttax.com/
Because none of us have ever had to write a convincing 20 page report on some topic that we thought was complete bullshit for our jobs. Dude, that was practically job training for large parts of corporate America. Think I'm joking? Ever had to write an evaluation of software for purchase, even though you know there is no money in the budget?
This all has to do with SEC regulations covering communications with clients. If you are a broker, and you tell a client a stock will go up, you have committed fraud. The SEC requires ALL communication with clients be monitored for this compliance. If you are adding clients to your social network, by Federal law your employer has no choice but to monitor that communication - which is why at my last job for a brokerage firm, IM and webmail were forbidden - even though I was in IT. If my employer did not fully control the communication channel, I was not allowed to use it from work.
It adds nothing and only detracts from the real message.
Wait a minute. Huckleberry Finn is a book about a white boy who risks life and freedom to help an escaped slave. Nigger Jim was a slave because people thought he was less than human. "Slave" is not a dehumanizing word. "Nigger" is. Just like "raghead", "paki", "sand nigger", or any of the other words we use to rob someone of their humanity that we might do inhuman things to them. You'll notice that Huck also refers to Jim as Nigger Jim, which illustrates his motivation throughout the entire book - he helps Jim because the paradigm he has been taught (that niggers are not people) and what his eyes tell him (that Jim is the only decent human being he knows) are in conflict. Without it, the book is just about a boy helping a man down on his luck. With it, it is a book about a boy going against everything he has been taught to do what he knows in his heart is right. Those are two very different books, and it all hinges on a single word.
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Why isn't the bar tender locked up when he says, "Be careful, there is a traffic stop 3 blocks away." I mean technically that is two counts of being an accessory to attempted homicide.
Hyperbole much? Charlie Sheen must be worse than Stalin.
Unclench, and get a grip.
It is common knowledge where I live that certain municipalities stop drivers at checkpoints, and then will not release them until they have found some reason to give them a ticket. They aren't DUI checkpoints. They are the modern version of "highwaymen". A few coins to keep the kings peace....
People often point to extremely socially conservative policies that seem not to work especially well as evidence that said policies are inherently bad ideas.
Just out of curiosity, what exactly does it take to qualify as a "bad idea" then? In my book, solutions that do not work most of the time are bad ideas. I'm sure most (rational) people would agree.
For most poor people, the world is a large and confusing place, and their part of it is often arbitrary and harsh. Faced with a game whose rules they can't understand, it's hardly surprising that so many are kindly disposed to believe in a power larger than themselves that is looking out for them (but who will punish them severely for getting out of line). The alternative is helplessness.
That might be the single most condescending thing I have read all day, and this is Slashdot. Are you really suggesting that birth control is too confusing to poor people? Really? Most of them are poor BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS DID NOT USE BIRTH CONTROL.
There is a HUGE difference between watching a real life adult hit a real life doll, and clicking a mouse. Yes, children will imitate adult behavior. Watching a video game is not the same as watching a real life adult. You'd be shocked (SHOCKED!) to learn that even a 3 year old can tell you Call of Duty is not real life. My 4 year old has been sitting at my side since he was born, playing games. He's watched CoD MW 1 and 2, Black Ops, Dragon Age, Mass Effect 1 and 2, Minecraft...and yes, he does imitate what he sees me do. He is working on his own house in Minecraft, and loves to run the target range in the Spec Ops section of MW2. Children are smarter than you think they are.
Bullshit. Sorry, that is a flat out lie.
It's a big goddamned turnip. How would you feel about restoring the tax rate back to where it was under Reagan? Would that work for you?
You could raise taxes. Just a thought. The wealthiest top 1% are paying less tax than at any time in American history.
The right wing in this country has gotten very good at convincing people that are not too bright that the debate is about big government versus small government - and indeed that is what the debate is about. When you actually look at what the right does, however, the agenda is clear: transfer as much wealth as possible up the economic ladder. And you know what - good for them. There is nothing wrong with enlightened self-interest. The problem with this country is that the base of the right is neither enlightened nor self-interested. They vote with the wallets they want, not the wallets they have.
Absolutely. Every time Busboy productions opens its mouth...oh wait, it doesn't have one. Joe CEO does though, and the government can get bent if they think they can shut him up. Rights belong to people. The government can serve its search warrant to the owner of Twitter's servers - the shareholders.
Not if the person who committed said crime went to prison for it. Imagine if every guy who was told to dump toxic waste in our water knew that if the company was caught, he would be going to jail. World would be a better place, wouldn't it?
A lot of times, the instinct to do a job "right" - to the best of you abilities - actually runs counter to the needs of the business. In that case, you are not actually doing the job "right". Doing the job "right" means getting the goal accomplished with the least effort possible over the medium term. If you end up rebuilding the server 5 times over the course of the year, at 2 hours per pop, you have spent less time than if you spent two days to fix the problem permanently.
I was modded informative because I actually informed, which was exactly the opposite of what you did. Getting to insult you in the process was just added sugar.
Bullshit. LOTR made more money than God. Harry Potter didn't do quite as well, but still made J. K. Rowling wealthier than the queen. Fantasy is getting made because it makes money, and Sci-Fi doesn't - at least to the same degree. It's all about untapped markets.
The voters of WI got what they asked for. Sounds like you're a teabagger, and should be happy about this. You guys won. Go ahead, be happy. But don't lie. You know what this is really about.
I take Boy Scouts to summer camp every year in Missouri - 90+ degrees, 80+ humidity the entire time. After about 4 days you get used to the heat again; it's not nearly as bad as the first couple of days.
Being a performance tester, I constantly engage in risk analysis. Yes, it may $600,000 to performance test your app. How much does an hour of downtime cost you? Depending on how costly a security breach might be, the $100 keyboard (or whatever it costs) could seem like a bargain, even per employee. Smart idea.
Previous responders have answered more eloquently than I can, but ask yourself - why is the right to trial by jury so important then? The answer is that trial by jury is one more check citizenry have against corrupt government. You really need some history lessons, and badly.
What people fail to realize that for a comic book, Watchmen was brilliant, and pushed the boundaries of the medium. However, take that away, and we have another story about how the private lives of public personae are darker than we imagine. *Yawn*. The story has been done to death. Putting the main characters in capes did not change a fairly boring plot.
Says you. That's easy to say when you are on top. I say the government does have a role in making it fair, and since my vote counts just as much as your does, you can kiss my ass. What a dickhead.
Bullshit. You worked your ass off, AND GOT LUCKY. You didn't get sick, or have to take care of a relative. You had no financial misfortune to overcome. You were born intelligent enough to take advantage of opportunity when it came. I'm also willing to bet you are white, and a native English speaker. Working your ass off is not sufficient. Not everyone is as smart or as lucky as or as white as you, and to suggest that poverty is their fault ignores your own good fortune. Yes, it is possible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. But it is also possible to work just as hard as you did, and have bad things happen to you. The whole "the poor are poor because they are not as good as me" idea was rejected with the rest of Victorian ideology. You sir are a throwback.
http://www.apttax.com/ This is the way and the light. Check it out.
The only truly fair tax is a transaction tax. Every time money moves electronically, it is taxed. Exempt cash transactions. This allows the poor to remain free of tax (because you can buy food with cash), the middle class to elect whether or not to be taxed on minor purchases (you can buy your food with cash, but not pay your mortgage), and the rich and corporations pay the most tax because their money moves the most. It's seamless, all done by the banks (so you will never fill out another tax return again) and therefore would reduce costs, and is truly progressive - and no one can argue it isn't fair, because everyone pays the same, no matter what. You can stick your flat tax in your ass. http://www.apttax.com/
Because none of us have ever had to write a convincing 20 page report on some topic that we thought was complete bullshit for our jobs. Dude, that was practically job training for large parts of corporate America. Think I'm joking? Ever had to write an evaluation of software for purchase, even though you know there is no money in the budget?
Nothing to see here, move along.
Wait a minute. Huckleberry Finn is a book about a white boy who risks life and freedom to help an escaped slave. Nigger Jim was a slave because people thought he was less than human. "Slave" is not a dehumanizing word. "Nigger" is. Just like "raghead", "paki", "sand nigger", or any of the other words we use to rob someone of their humanity that we might do inhuman things to them. You'll notice that Huck also refers to Jim as Nigger Jim, which illustrates his motivation throughout the entire book - he helps Jim because the paradigm he has been taught (that niggers are not people) and what his eyes tell him (that Jim is the only decent human being he knows) are in conflict. Without it, the book is just about a boy helping a man down on his luck. With it, it is a book about a boy going against everything he has been taught to do what he knows in his heart is right. Those are two very different books, and it all hinges on a single word.