Let's not get hung up on nature vs nurture vs God's will. There are people, often easily identified at a young age, who are widely known to be trouble and nobody is surprised when they rape/rob/kill others. Whether it was nature, nurture, or God's will is beside the point. The point is that for whatever reason they commit terrible crimes. One can acknowledge that they are simply incapable of ever not hurting others when it suits their needs. Get rid of them. If you aren't willing to kill them find a cheaper way to implement life in prison. But get them out of society for the rest of our sake.
I'm reminded of this nature video where a group of bison isolated a wolf and had him surrounded. Now wolves will kill young bison, but rather than kill the wolf they let him go. That is stupid behavior yet we see our society do it time and time again. So few bad apples make for so much trouble. We need to get better at removing them.
I used to think that this was how the expression was translated and like many in the west I thought that it described the pressures to conform. Then when I used that exact quote a friend of mine who was studying engineering and Japanese corrected me and said that it was more properly translated as "the nail that stand up gets bent over". That the nail was hammered was implied, but since bent over has other meanings these days it made it sound even more severe. I'd stay in my room to if being non-conformist meant getting bent over. Makes getting hammered down look nice.
You do know that he shot and killed his sleeping pregnant stepmother and, by extension, his unborn sibling right? Perhaps you're a typical slashdotter and the unborn means nothing to you. I'm comfortable with bad eggs getting locked up for life.
If you want an interesting idea, make a person have to prove that they have repaid society by doing something useful while incarcerated. Killing time requires no personal growth. Make them show that they have repaid society by some tangible work. Then the life sentence becomes life or until you have repaid the lives you took.
This summed it up. Because vaccines help on the macro scale any questions about them are hushed up or mocked. Unfortunately on the micro scale vaccines kill some people and it appears that little or no effort is being made to reduce this. Which leads to kids who die or have negative effects from vaccines and then parents who then rail against vaccines. Then we ridicule the parents because on the macro scale vaccines help. The parents loss was real, the damage on the micro scale is real, and the advantages on the macro scale are real. Why not work on either improving vaccine safety or work on detecting who might be at risk for a bad result and just keep them from being vaccinated? This is the problem with the vaccination discussion. I'm sure that we could find a better way if we looked, but instead we take the typical American approach of there must be no middle ground or room for compromise. Tragic.
I've seen so many bashing comments that this one was my breaking point. Any "cause" that describes the other side in such insulting terms isn't helping itself. I wonder how angry you would be if someone said "It's the matter of giving the despicable bag of flesh that is [insert famous gay person here] a single fucking dime." where the whole decision was based on the fact that they were [famous gay person]. But perhaps even asking such a non-politically correct question makes me "homophobic".
And Obama / Democratic party majority changed this how? In reality politicians are hostile to freedom of the masses. This applies to both parties. The current administration has extended or maintained just about everything Bush II did. Not that Bush II was justified, but the Democrats have pushed even further with targeted killings and such. We desperately need a third party with more traction to help balance this out.
I would be interested to know from Slashdotters in other countries if their justice systems have penalties that are wildly out of balance relative to the crimes. Anyone care to provide some info?
Actually, other departments perceived value of you can help out quite a bit. It can be that many more people pulling for you if it looks like you might go away. Of course, I'm in engineering not in IT so YMMV.
If you've never taken an option, how much do you really know about it. I've taken 1 counter offer at my current company, and a second large raise that happened when I mentioned discreetly that I was looking. I enjoy my work and I don't think that my past has hurt my raport with my coworkers. As for layoffs, I think that I'd be the last of engineering if it came to that. Unfortunately, as most people have said companies don't like to shell out $$ until their back is against the wall. Of course, threaten to leave one too many times... It's a fun game if you enjoy job hunting and high stakes gambling:-)
I completely agree. If you had a dollar for every game that had flashy graphics but lame game mechanics and gameplay then you wouldn't need to worry about money. I'm always amazed at the crappy games that get made. You just have to ask - does ANYONE in the entire design team play games!? A good example would be the lamest excuse for an RPG Vampire: The Redemption by Nihilistic. That couldn't have been farther from roleplaying if they tried. Obviously there were no gamers on that team. Maybe that's what happens when people think Magic the Gathering is roleplaying;-)
I haven't been on the internet as long as many of the folks here but I would say that there was a point in maybe '97 give or take a year when the internet lost most of it's coolness. This was about the time that copyrights became more strickly enforced (at the time meaning no more cool Beavis & Butthead clips), more ads popped up, and porn sites started the whole verification thing en masse, and less hobby websites. Yeah there are workarounds to all of these but as a whole I would say that the internet's 'coolness' has declined.
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In reality though Microsoft has already won this case. By dragging the case on for so long the issues are de facto settled. As long as this case is slowly grinding it's way to completion, M$ can do whatever they want without even being bound by a legal agreement.
Go ahead and mod me off topic but many people keep saying that music is crap. Is everyone listening to old music or are we all settling for crap? It's easy to say that the Backdoor Boys _are_ crap but probably a more interesting question is what isn't crap.
I'd cite
anything Metallica (from black album or earlier),Rush (90% anyway),Blink 182, Billy Joel, Bif Naked, among others...
Let me guess, political correctness 101 student;-) A more correct statement would be that any body of people that is led by someone unjust, intolerant, and/or evil will cause bloodshed. For every religious example you could cite, there is a non-religious counter example. Don't take what schools tell you at face value, think for yourself. Take the data and draw your own conclusions. They may suprise you.
The only real solution is to actually go after the people who are pirating the copywritten material (be it music, video, software, etc). The reason that the companies will ignore this option is that if you sue 20 millions people, bad things will follow. If I ever had to pay some amount of $$ to, for example, Sony then I would retaliate in other ways. I would _not_ buy anything Sony related. I would badmouth them at every chance. I would take the time to not merely write my politician but to help the guy who's running against him. The copyright holders know that a very bad PR tarbaby awaits if they sue individuals. That's kinda what makes the arguement of "don't sue Napster (or whoever else takes their place), go after the individuals" so much fun. They really can't. They want us back as customers;-)
The reason that we can't get behind this all American company is that they have done so many unethical things. The older guys, who all want to play it safe, go Microsoft. The younger crowd, more willing to take a chance, don't. Ethics can count. Besides, M$ has plenty of stuff done overseas (China & India that I know of, maybe more) so they really aren't all American.
I recall reading a while ago how Sony being easy to work with while Nintendo was being difficult was the main reason behind so many developers backing the Playstation. We all know how Nintendo has lost most of the main console market. This looks like more of the same, except that MS makes Nintendo look nice.
I don't know that I'd say cool either way. The BSD license seems to encoutrage theft from the people who are willing to release code. To GPL code that you took your precious time developing is great, even noble. To take that same precious time and release code under a BSD license is STUPID.
Do you know any professional musicians? Of the few that I've known who have toured for $$ they all agree on certain points:
1) There is _LITTLE_ money to be made except for a top pop few. Seriously folks, minimum wage is about right.
2) There are other fun perks (women, parties, fans, performing, etc)
3) It's actually hard work and mostly unglamorous
To your point that file sharing hurts musicians, the only way to really make money is to tour. If you want to help a band, buy an official T-shirt. If they are small enough to be making the CDs themselves then sure, buy one. However if they have a record contract, download the music, mention them to your friends, and buy the shirt or other merchandise.
People are funny in their ignorance./. folks saying that Christians are against all or most medical research are as ignorant as the misinformed Christians saying that playing D&D is devil worship. If you don't take the time to educate yourself about an issue yet mock the "other side", you contribute to this.
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Let's not get hung up on nature vs nurture vs God's will. There are people, often easily identified at a young age, who are widely known to be trouble and nobody is surprised when they rape/rob/kill others. Whether it was nature, nurture, or God's will is beside the point. The point is that for whatever reason they commit terrible crimes. One can acknowledge that they are simply incapable of ever not hurting others when it suits their needs. Get rid of them. If you aren't willing to kill them find a cheaper way to implement life in prison. But get them out of society for the rest of our sake. I'm reminded of this nature video where a group of bison isolated a wolf and had him surrounded. Now wolves will kill young bison, but rather than kill the wolf they let him go. That is stupid behavior yet we see our society do it time and time again. So few bad apples make for so much trouble. We need to get better at removing them.
I used to think that this was how the expression was translated and like many in the west I thought that it described the pressures to conform. Then when I used that exact quote a friend of mine who was studying engineering and Japanese corrected me and said that it was more properly translated as "the nail that stand up gets bent over". That the nail was hammered was implied, but since bent over has other meanings these days it made it sound even more severe. I'd stay in my room to if being non-conformist meant getting bent over. Makes getting hammered down look nice.
Don't be such a drama Queen
You do know that he shot and killed his sleeping pregnant stepmother and, by extension, his unborn sibling right? Perhaps you're a typical slashdotter and the unborn means nothing to you. I'm comfortable with bad eggs getting locked up for life. If you want an interesting idea, make a person have to prove that they have repaid society by doing something useful while incarcerated. Killing time requires no personal growth. Make them show that they have repaid society by some tangible work. Then the life sentence becomes life or until you have repaid the lives you took.
This summed it up. Because vaccines help on the macro scale any questions about them are hushed up or mocked. Unfortunately on the micro scale vaccines kill some people and it appears that little or no effort is being made to reduce this. Which leads to kids who die or have negative effects from vaccines and then parents who then rail against vaccines. Then we ridicule the parents because on the macro scale vaccines help. The parents loss was real, the damage on the micro scale is real, and the advantages on the macro scale are real. Why not work on either improving vaccine safety or work on detecting who might be at risk for a bad result and just keep them from being vaccinated? This is the problem with the vaccination discussion. I'm sure that we could find a better way if we looked, but instead we take the typical American approach of there must be no middle ground or room for compromise. Tragic.
I've seen so many bashing comments that this one was my breaking point. Any "cause" that describes the other side in such insulting terms isn't helping itself. I wonder how angry you would be if someone said "It's the matter of giving the despicable bag of flesh that is [insert famous gay person here] a single fucking dime." where the whole decision was based on the fact that they were [famous gay person]. But perhaps even asking such a non-politically correct question makes me "homophobic".
Nothing breeds lack of funding like failure.
If only that were true for "War on terror", "War on Drugs", and a host of "Great Society" programs.
As long as cable TV remains there won't be a revolution of "the masses".
Citation Needed. Where are these pockets of Christians in the world today that want to kill people over cartoons or anything else labeled blasphemy?
And Obama / Democratic party majority changed this how? In reality politicians are hostile to freedom of the masses. This applies to both parties. The current administration has extended or maintained just about everything Bush II did. Not that Bush II was justified, but the Democrats have pushed even further with targeted killings and such. We desperately need a third party with more traction to help balance this out.
I would be interested to know from Slashdotters in other countries if their justice systems have penalties that are wildly out of balance relative to the crimes. Anyone care to provide some info?
Actually, other departments perceived value of you can help out quite a bit. It can be that many more people pulling for you if it looks like you might go away. Of course, I'm in engineering not in IT so YMMV.
If you've never taken an option, how much do you really know about it. I've taken 1 counter offer at my current company, and a second large raise that happened when I mentioned discreetly that I was looking. I enjoy my work and I don't think that my past has hurt my raport with my coworkers. As for layoffs, I think that I'd be the last of engineering if it came to that. Unfortunately, as most people have said companies don't like to shell out $$ until their back is against the wall. Of course, threaten to leave one too many times ... It's a fun game if you enjoy job hunting and high stakes gambling :-)
I completely agree. If you had a dollar for every game that had flashy graphics but lame game mechanics and gameplay then you wouldn't need to worry about money. I'm always amazed at the crappy games that get made. You just have to ask - does ANYONE in the entire design team play games!? A good example would be the lamest excuse for an RPG Vampire: The Redemption by Nihilistic. That couldn't have been farther from roleplaying if they tried. Obviously there were no gamers on that team. Maybe that's what happens when people think Magic the Gathering is roleplaying ;-)
I haven't been on the internet as long as many of the folks here but I would say that there was a point in maybe '97 give or take a year when the internet lost most of it's coolness. This was about the time that copyrights became more strickly enforced (at the time meaning no more cool Beavis & Butthead clips), more ads popped up, and porn sites started the whole verification thing en masse, and less hobby websites. Yeah there are workarounds to all of these but as a whole I would say that the internet's 'coolness' has declined. $0.02
In reality though Microsoft has already won this case. By dragging the case on for so long the issues are de facto settled. As long as this case is slowly grinding it's way to completion, M$ can do whatever they want without even being bound by a legal agreement.
Go ahead and mod me off topic but many people keep saying that music is crap. Is everyone listening to old music or are we all settling for crap? It's easy to say that the Backdoor Boys _are_ crap but probably a more interesting question is what isn't crap. I'd cite anything Metallica (from black album or earlier),Rush (90% anyway),Blink 182, Billy Joel, Bif Naked, among others...
Let me guess, political correctness 101 student ;-) A more correct statement would be that any body of people that is led by someone unjust, intolerant, and/or evil will cause bloodshed. For every religious example you could cite, there is a non-religious counter example. Don't take what schools tell you at face value, think for yourself. Take the data and draw your own conclusions. They may suprise you.
The only real solution is to actually go after the people who are pirating the copywritten material (be it music, video, software, etc). The reason that the companies will ignore this option is that if you sue 20 millions people, bad things will follow. If I ever had to pay some amount of $$ to, for example, Sony then I would retaliate in other ways. I would _not_ buy anything Sony related. I would badmouth them at every chance. I would take the time to not merely write my politician but to help the guy who's running against him. The copyright holders know that a very bad PR tarbaby awaits if they sue individuals. That's kinda what makes the arguement of "don't sue Napster (or whoever else takes their place), go after the individuals" so much fun. They really can't. They want us back as customers ;-)
The reason that we can't get behind this all American company is that they have done so many unethical things. The older guys, who all want to play it safe, go Microsoft. The younger crowd, more willing to take a chance, don't. Ethics can count. Besides, M$ has plenty of stuff done overseas (China & India that I know of, maybe more) so they really aren't all American.
I recall reading a while ago how Sony being easy to work with while Nintendo was being difficult was the main reason behind so many developers backing the Playstation. We all know how Nintendo has lost most of the main console market. This looks like more of the same, except that MS makes Nintendo look nice.
I don't know that I'd say cool either way. The BSD license seems to encoutrage theft from the people who are willing to release code. To GPL code that you took your precious time developing is great, even noble. To take that same precious time and release code under a BSD license is STUPID.
Do you know any professional musicians? Of the few that I've known who have toured for $$ they all agree on certain points: 1) There is _LITTLE_ money to be made except for a top pop few. Seriously folks, minimum wage is about right. 2) There are other fun perks (women, parties, fans, performing, etc) 3) It's actually hard work and mostly unglamorous To your point that file sharing hurts musicians, the only way to really make money is to tour. If you want to help a band, buy an official T-shirt. If they are small enough to be making the CDs themselves then sure, buy one. However if they have a record contract, download the music, mention them to your friends, and buy the shirt or other merchandise.
We would need to heold an election immediately, nobody would be left after the corporate whores went away ;-)
People are funny in their ignorance. /. folks saying that Christians are against all or most medical research are as ignorant as the misinformed Christians saying that playing D&D is devil worship. If you don't take the time to educate yourself about an issue yet mock the "other side", you contribute to this.