I know one of the very few Americans who has ever actually gotten a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity verdict. Treating the florid paranoid schizophrenia that led him to kill his parents and one of his siblings is a very fine line: if it's undertreated, he becomes incredibly violent, but if it's overtreated, he becomes cognizant of what he did and rapidly becomes suicidal. He has to be left slightly insane in order to live.
This is crap. It's ineffective at best and profoundly evil at worst.
Is there a secret conspiracy to mod down every intelligent comment on this site? hedwards and I are about as politically opposite as they come, but s/he's damn smart and deserves to be paid attention to.
They're the successful remains of the British Empire, although at this point the US provides most of the grunts, tech, and money, and the other countries provide access and some seriously badass special forces (they're all good fighters, they just don't have enough numbers to matter). Pretty interesting lesson for the future, though: if you want your small island nation to develop lasting hegemony, be sure that you kill (almost) all the natives whenever you colonize a place.
She looks like a boy. A very attractive boy, of the sort that could almost make you want to... well, you see what I mean about being gay and liking Ann Hathaway.
She looks like the kind of woman that other women always describe as "so beautiful" but that most men are very "meh" about, which is probably why so many women feel comfortable talking about how beautiful she is - they don't perceive her as a threat.
You're engaging in bridge-and-tunnel vision. Top 15 states in the US by estimated 2012 population are CA, TX, NY, FL, IL, PA, OH, GA, MI, NC, NJ, VA, WA, MA, and AZ.Of those, the ones with max speed limits > 65 MPH have a combined population of 146,153,938, while those whose max speeds are 65 MPH or slower add up to 60,719,786. If you want to add MD (#19) and WI (#20) to the total of the slower states, you're going to have to add IN, TN, and MO to the fast ones. Adding little states, you maybe can get to 75-80 million people living in a slow state, out of >310 million Americans. If something is the case for 75% of people that live somewhere, I call it typical. If you don't think so, well, then I suppose we'll just have to disagree.
Oh, the war on photography is awful, but OTOH there's been some decent pushback by the courts and I think ubiquity will eventually trump the cops. I hope.
I'm in favor of legalizing drugs and prostitution, but neither of those is free speech. People in other countries enjoy a great many freedoms that are curtailed in the USA, but I'm not talking about those. Just speech. Ask someone trying to be a Nazi in Germany, or getting sued in Britain by a libel tourist.
The US is also the only country that has ever had the option to use it in a world where nobody else possessed it. I somehow doubt Stalin would have blanched from nuking the Germans.
There is no way we can morally demand countries like North Korea and Iran not develop nuclear weapons unless we do all in our power to eliminate all nuclear weapons.
Spare us the bullshit. NK and Iran are totalitarian pits. The US, for all its faults, is a representative democracy with the strongest free-speech protections on the planet (the one area, IMHO, in which the USA is far, far ahead of every other country on earth).
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I know one of the very few Americans who has ever actually gotten a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity verdict. Treating the florid paranoid schizophrenia that led him to kill his parents and one of his siblings is a very fine line: if it's undertreated, he becomes incredibly violent, but if it's overtreated, he becomes cognizant of what he did and rapidly becomes suicidal. He has to be left slightly insane in order to live.
This is crap. It's ineffective at best and profoundly evil at worst.
Hitler was charismatic, but nobody thought he was "normal". They just thought they could use him longer than he could use them.
Is there a secret conspiracy to mod down every intelligent comment on this site? hedwards and I are about as politically opposite as they come, but s/he's damn smart and deserves to be paid attention to.
They're the successful remains of the British Empire, although at this point the US provides most of the grunts, tech, and money, and the other countries provide access and some seriously badass special forces (they're all good fighters, they just don't have enough numbers to matter). Pretty interesting lesson for the future, though: if you want your small island nation to develop lasting hegemony, be sure that you kill (almost) all the natives whenever you colonize a place.
She looks like a boy. A very attractive boy, of the sort that could almost make you want to ... well, you see what I mean about being gay and liking Ann Hathaway.
She looks like the kind of woman that other women always describe as "so beautiful" but that most men are very "meh" about, which is probably why so many women feel comfortable talking about how beautiful she is - they don't perceive her as a threat.
Probably. Why not sign in? For all you know, we're neighbors.
You're engaging in bridge-and-tunnel vision. Top 15 states in the US by estimated 2012 population are CA, TX, NY, FL, IL, PA, OH, GA, MI, NC, NJ, VA, WA, MA, and AZ.Of those, the ones with max speed limits > 65 MPH have a combined population of 146,153,938, while those whose max speeds are 65 MPH or slower add up to 60,719,786. If you want to add MD (#19) and WI (#20) to the total of the slower states, you're going to have to add IN, TN, and MO to the fast ones. Adding little states, you maybe can get to 75-80 million people living in a slow state, out of >310 million Americans. If something is the case for 75% of people that live somewhere, I call it typical. If you don't think so, well, then I suppose we'll just have to disagree.
Oh, the war on photography is awful, but OTOH there's been some decent pushback by the courts and I think ubiquity will eventually trump the cops. I hope.
You're going to have a stroke by age 40 if you don't learn to lighten up a little.
I'm in favor of legalizing drugs and prostitution, but neither of those is free speech. People in other countries enjoy a great many freedoms that are curtailed in the USA, but I'm not talking about those. Just speech. Ask someone trying to be a Nazi in Germany, or getting sued in Britain by a libel tourist.
Huh? Porn trolling law firm... it's a problem but not a First Amendment one. Sorry, I'm missing your point.
Nope. Nice try, though.
The US is also the only country that has ever had the option to use it in a world where nobody else possessed it. I somehow doubt Stalin would have blanched from nuking the Germans.
Superpower doesn't guarantee safety from all threats, but it does handle some - there is no fear of submarine warfare in the Atlantic, for example.
Your points are all well made, but ask someone who's been sued for libel whether they'd rather litigate in British or American courts.
Have AC's gotten dumber lately? Seems that way.
Okey dokey. Thanks for the update.
Then your state's freeways are not typical of the US as a whole. There's a reason I said "typical", not "universal".
Totally right. The USA-UK-Canada-Australia alliance is the only superpower in the world.
And the USA is the king of SLBM's.
There is no way we can morally demand countries like North Korea and Iran not develop nuclear weapons unless we do all in our power to eliminate all nuclear weapons.
Spare us the bullshit. NK and Iran are totalitarian pits. The US, for all its faults, is a representative democracy with the strongest free-speech protections on the planet (the one area, IMHO, in which the USA is far, far ahead of every other country on earth).
Yeah, it's bizarre.
If you like musicals, you're gay. If you like Ann Hathaway, you're either female or gay. Nothing wrong with that, but they're pretty clear tells.
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