If you stop letting people appeal after appeal after appeal it wouldn't cost so much. Criminals like James Holmes where they is zero doubt of who committed the crime. Why keep those people alive? Saying it cost to much is just the system being broken. Killing someone is extremely cheap. Just ask James Holmes.
For some reason though, we would rather waste money on keeping him alive. I guess he's worth our taxes dollars, eh? Surely no other way we could spend that money but instead we let him live.
In extremely cases where there is lots of evidence, there should totally be an option of the death penalty and we really ought to be reforming that system itself. 30 years on death row? That's a miscarriage of justice.
I'm definitely pro-gun but banning bump stocks really didn't seem so bad. Literally anyone that could fire a gun could likely add the bump stock. Modifying a semi-auto rifle to full, while definitely doable, is not something even the typical gun owner can do.
Sure, they could learn to do it and likely it isn't so hard with a little practice and the proper tools but it definitely requires you be determined to buy all the stuff needed, learn to use it and then successfully mod your rifle. That's a big leap from driving to the store to buy your bump stock and away you go.
Besides, it was an easy thing to ban since it really did effectively make semi-auto a full auto. You can get full auto, but requires a lot more paperwork. It's reasonable.
You act like Democrats don't want to take the guns. To present it as such just makes you look dishonest. Be honest. Democrats would love to ban gun ownership. They don't waffle on this unless they are in a contested district.
Look at the strictest gun laws we have in the states and realize they push through more and more each election season.
New York City has a law that's likely to end in the supreme court, which shows just how over the top New York City went.
If some of the Nordic countries are so awesome, why are you still here? Surely your well developed technology skills could find you work there. Have you started the visa process?
Don't most of the population make within like 20% of each others income? And the healthcare is likely good. Sounds nice.
Or Canada. Just move to Canada if you truly feel American is just so terrible.
You could even sponsor your family members to come join you in your new awesome country. Let's get started! No time to waste!
FOMO, or fear of missing out, is a big part of it. I actually didn't start watching GOT until like season 5 started as I wasn't willing to pay for it. Then my friend let me borrow the first season on dvd and I was instantly hooked. HBO became suddenly worth it for a while.
Now I'll definitely be watching it because I'll want to be able to talk with my coworkers who also love the show. If I don't see the show right away, how can I participate in the conversation?
That's exactly what he is saying. I would love to live where I can afford a house no more then two hours from beach, mountains or deserts. Unfortunately the average house in San Diego is around 500k. A bit beyond my wife and I to afford and still have a life.
So I make the trade off of staying in a place with typically amazing weather and many natural environments not far away.
If I had to have a house, I would leave the state but then I would have to live in the middle of no where and likely where it either snows, tornadoes or hurricanes and frankly that just sounds terrible.
I'll just accept that my condo is good enough. It's all what you value most.
Big city doesn't exactly fit either Dakota though. As of the 2010 census not a single city in either state breached 200k people. Neither state breaks 1 million in population. While I'm not saying that is an excuse for poor service but the cost to wire your state spread across the population would cost a lot more then trying to wire California, Texas, New York or Florida. California really has zero excuse considering we have nearly 40 million people.
We all know the government, especially the local and state government, is owned by the corporations. Why else would there be states that ban local communities from setting up their own fiber network? Being Verizon and ATT say so.
I wouldn't say it is preferred. I love that I have a collect of games from the mid 90s to maybe 2014 and I have game discs. It is nice to just pull the disc out and install it on the system. At this point, I have a folder of patches for different games too, though generally I only need these if I have to reinstall my system which is quite rare.
I suppose I could rip all those discs to my computer and then move them over to my backup/file server just encase I need them but I don't want to take the time.
Trusting some company to not go out of business or otherwise decide I don't get to install a game I bought or they went ahead and shutdown the server is not happening to me. I may not get the multiplayer aspect anymore but that's okay. Most of the games I play have tool sets, modding communities and server software to play anyway. I just don't play main stream titles anymore.
I also still have a working super nintendo and nintendo 64 with a handful of games for each so I can always bust out the console and play the games. In twenty more years, the equipment will likely still work but people on xbox won't ever get to go back to those memories or if so will be paying yet again to do so. Enjoy that.
P.S. I also use steam for some games and wish I had discs for those games. It would be quite nice to have backup install/patches for M&B: Warband w/ Prophecy of Pendor mod and Wurm unlimited with server software. I have to hope steam doesn't die and I lose access to those titles.
I mean, I got Diablo (yes the first one) out the other day and played that. It had been a decade but yay it was fun.
That you think they are trying to minimize their bias is the gotcha. They have their agenda, their narrative, and anything that doesn't support it will get suppressed as much as possible.
If you read enough different news sources, including fox and cnn, you pick up on their reporting bias quit easily. Certain channels will never even mention something happened because it doesn't fit their narrative.
This is the main thing I hate about pretty much all news sources these days. My local news is usually the best bet because they don't tend to narrate much. They just tell me what happened.
Also, is Hannity considered news? I always thought he was considered a political analysis for the right. The left has time slots for their people too.
He is not saying Trump doesn't lie. That was never said. He said Trump lies about stuff that really doesn't matter and has basically zero effect on my life or people I know.
Obama really did say we could keep our doctor. Clearly that was a bunch of bullshit and it affected a lot of people that really liked their doctor. That may not matter to you and it would not of personally mattered much to me. I rarely go and don't have much of any kind of relationship with my doctor.
Older folks on the other hand that see their doctor monthly or more were greatly affected by not getting to see their same doctor.
Oh and since we are talking about Obama and his super majority blue Congress. Why didn't those fuckers give us government health care single payer in 2010 when they clearly were able to do ANYTHING? If the Democrats love us so fucking much why didn't they just DO IT? They had the vote and that's all they did with it. Copied a Republican health care plan to shackle us with insurance.
It's all about the money and they fucked us. Then Trump and the Republicans fucked us with that tax law. The shit just keeps getting better and it doesn't matter which bunch of crooks is in charge.
Why the fuck should I have to constantly keep relearning the UI layout? It feels like every iteration of Windows buries more of the settings and control panel options while also moving or adds extra categories.
I remember sitting down at my nephews Win 8 box a few years back and just saying, WTF is this terrible interface? It looked like it was designed to be used with a touch screen and that was it. I quickly decided I would just use my phone instead.
I feel sorry for my wife as she is going to have to move to Win10 next January when Win7 stops getting updates. I've already moved onto Linux but I don't have specific applications I must have. She's as married to Adobe as she is to me. Probably more to Adobe and they don't care to release a Linux version.
I'm sure NeoRUR could do that, but why can't this person just leave their computer on with an open web browser and 15 tabs open? If they have the ram and don't mind paying for the power, why not? Seems pretty lame that the computer is restarting without permission.
A user should be able to leave a computer on and a web browser open without ever having to worry about a reboot unless they themselves tell the computer to reboot.
Only if you live to 95+...That's about 18 years past the average life expectancy. Sure people are living longer but I'd still say middle age is about 40, so really 35-60 is middle aged.
Most of human creativity is just a rehash of prior stuff. Go read the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer and you will see how our humor really hasn't changed over the past 1000 years and I suspect it's much like the 1000 years before that too.
Sometimes just mixing things around in a different order can give that same stuff new life and still be entertaining. Just think how much great content we wouldn't have if we didn't do this.
So feel free to proclaim all modern works of art as crap but that's always how it has been. There was never a golden age where crap didn't exist. Instead the crap just faded away while only the cream of the crop is what we remember now.
Funny, I live in San Diego and as long as I'm not out of 4g data for the month, download speeds (aka website load times) are never a problem. The one exception is a particular blog I read, but it's slow on my desktop so that's probably them going with a cheaper hosting option and not my ISP.
Maybe you live somewhere ultra-populated that there just isn't enough spectrum to properly serve all the customers.
I'm on Verizon for what its worth. They cost to much but I pretty much always have a signal, even on vacation out of state, so it is worth it. It's not worth it for an unlimited data plan though.
5g literally offers me nothing as I don't even "need" 4g. Even on "safety mode" (verizon's out of data mode) you can browse the Internet. It's obviously slower but still very doable. Especially if it's just news sites or Slashdot.
Of course, I don't need to video chat or live stream music either.
When you are caught red-handed with the bag of coke, a scale and some more baggies, how much "justice" were you hoping to evade? Maybe when you were caught with that stolen car and they tried to flee with it, you expected a slap on the wrist?
You mean that armed robbery just wasn't suppose to end up in homicide, say it ain't so.
The vast majority of defendants are very much guilty. You may disagree with the law but the criminal justice system doesn't write the law so best complain to your Congresscritter.
Really, probably should just move to Canada if you hate the USA so much. Or better yet, just move to China. They are awesome right?
They think they are siding with them. Wait until Russia decides to invade and the Chinese just sit back and watch.
But the Europeans are just so sophisticated and smart that I'm sure they will handle everything just fine. Kind of how they handled WWI and WWII. Totally didn't need us stupid Yankies.
The whole idea behind the E.C. was to ensure a few big cities didn't decide who the President would be every four years.
If we really want to talk about how unfair the E.C. is, we can talk about how most states are winner take all. So you get 51% of the vote in a given state and you get EVERYTHING. It's one of numerous reasons why people would like to break up California and Texas as well.
The popular vote would change that but then the politicians would change how they run for office. If they knew it was popular vote they would just blow sunshine at the huge cities and ignore half the country due simply to numbers.
Which brings us right back to the founding fathers didn't want a handful of cities deciding the election every four years.
But it was completely novel to the battery makers. The people who's business it was to make batteries and in theory best situated to make improvements in the battery field. If putting it in a can was dead obvious, then why did these companies spend years trying to figure it out? It clearly was no obvious to them.
I agree with the judge's ruling because it was a novel idea for that specific industry.
With the mail case, if it was so obvious then why didn't the postal service come up with it first? They are stealing his idea because they don't want to pay for something they should of figured out for themselves, but clearly did not.
The whole of society doesn't want to start the fucking day a 10am. The little bastards need to go to bed at night instead of staying up late. I know, I was one of those little bastards not long ago.
I would stay up on my computer until midnight or worse and gee, wonder why 1st period was always so difficult.
Now as an adult, I work at 5:30am. I know that if I don't go to bed by 9 that I won't have much sleep and will basically be putting my next day on hard mode.
Want kids to do better in school? Then they need to fucking go to bed at the right time and not when THEY want to go to bed. Children clearly do not know what is best for them otherwise they wouldn't be children. For that matter, many adults do a poor job at it.
As we all quickly realize, the world does not revolve around your sensibilities.
If that owner doesn't want to pay at least minimum wage to their workers, they can't do all the work themselves. The tip really should go to the server, which is the only reason the customer left it in the first place.
If the owner is pooling all the tips, then dishing out just enough to each worker to cover minimum wage and pocketing the rest, that's stealing a tip.
If the owner is pooling the tips and then dividing them out per each employees share, that's at least fair to the workers. The business owner should charge more for food and drink if they want to make more. Not take the tips.
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If you stop letting people appeal after appeal after appeal it wouldn't cost so much. Criminals like James Holmes where they is zero doubt of who committed the crime. Why keep those people alive? Saying it cost to much is just the system being broken. Killing someone is extremely cheap. Just ask James Holmes.
For some reason though, we would rather waste money on keeping him alive. I guess he's worth our taxes dollars, eh? Surely no other way we could spend that money but instead we let him live.
In extremely cases where there is lots of evidence, there should totally be an option of the death penalty and we really ought to be reforming that system itself. 30 years on death row? That's a miscarriage of justice.
I'm definitely pro-gun but banning bump stocks really didn't seem so bad. Literally anyone that could fire a gun could likely add the bump stock. Modifying a semi-auto rifle to full, while definitely doable, is not something even the typical gun owner can do.
Sure, they could learn to do it and likely it isn't so hard with a little practice and the proper tools but it definitely requires you be determined to buy all the stuff needed, learn to use it and then successfully mod your rifle. That's a big leap from driving to the store to buy your bump stock and away you go.
Besides, it was an easy thing to ban since it really did effectively make semi-auto a full auto. You can get full auto, but requires a lot more paperwork. It's reasonable.
You act like Democrats don't want to take the guns. To present it as such just makes you look dishonest. Be honest. Democrats would love to ban gun ownership. They don't waffle on this unless they are in a contested district.
Look at the strictest gun laws we have in the states and realize they push through more and more each election season.
New York City has a law that's likely to end in the supreme court, which shows just how over the top New York City went.
Funny, I got a tax break which I put into my 401k. Worked out nicely. You must make more then me. That's with me owning property too.
I was under the impression liberals like paying taxes. Is this not correct?
If some of the Nordic countries are so awesome, why are you still here? Surely your well developed technology skills could find you work there. Have you started the visa process?
Don't most of the population make within like 20% of each others income? And the healthcare is likely good. Sounds nice.
Or Canada. Just move to Canada if you truly feel American is just so terrible.
You could even sponsor your family members to come join you in your new awesome country. Let's get started! No time to waste!
FOMO, or fear of missing out, is a big part of it. I actually didn't start watching GOT until like season 5 started as I wasn't willing to pay for it. Then my friend let me borrow the first season on dvd and I was instantly hooked. HBO became suddenly worth it for a while.
Now I'll definitely be watching it because I'll want to be able to talk with my coworkers who also love the show. If I don't see the show right away, how can I participate in the conversation?
That's exactly what he is saying. I would love to live where I can afford a house no more then two hours from beach, mountains or deserts. Unfortunately the average house in San Diego is around 500k. A bit beyond my wife and I to afford and still have a life.
So I make the trade off of staying in a place with typically amazing weather and many natural environments not far away.
If I had to have a house, I would leave the state but then I would have to live in the middle of no where and likely where it either snows, tornadoes or hurricanes and frankly that just sounds terrible.
I'll just accept that my condo is good enough. It's all what you value most.
Big city doesn't exactly fit either Dakota though. As of the 2010 census not a single city in either state breached 200k people. Neither state breaks 1 million in population. While I'm not saying that is an excuse for poor service but the cost to wire your state spread across the population would cost a lot more then trying to wire California, Texas, New York or Florida. California really has zero excuse considering we have nearly 40 million people.
We all know the government, especially the local and state government, is owned by the corporations. Why else would there be states that ban local communities from setting up their own fiber network? Being Verizon and ATT say so.
I wouldn't say it is preferred. I love that I have a collect of games from the mid 90s to maybe 2014 and I have game discs. It is nice to just pull the disc out and install it on the system. At this point, I have a folder of patches for different games too, though generally I only need these if I have to reinstall my system which is quite rare.
I suppose I could rip all those discs to my computer and then move them over to my backup/file server just encase I need them but I don't want to take the time.
Trusting some company to not go out of business or otherwise decide I don't get to install a game I bought or they went ahead and shutdown the server is not happening to me. I may not get the multiplayer aspect anymore but that's okay. Most of the games I play have tool sets, modding communities and server software to play anyway. I just don't play main stream titles anymore.
I also still have a working super nintendo and nintendo 64 with a handful of games for each so I can always bust out the console and play the games. In twenty more years, the equipment will likely still work but people on xbox won't ever get to go back to those memories or if so will be paying yet again to do so. Enjoy that.
P.S. I also use steam for some games and wish I had discs for those games. It would be quite nice to have backup install/patches for M&B: Warband w/ Prophecy of Pendor mod and Wurm unlimited with server software. I have to hope steam doesn't die and I lose access to those titles.
I mean, I got Diablo (yes the first one) out the other day and played that. It had been a decade but yay it was fun.
So because you disagree with their dribble means they shouldn't get to say it?
How am I suppose to start my own social network when this can happen?
https://www.knoxnews.com/story...
Hardly seems fair. Hosting companies shouldn't be able to discriminate but clearly they are allowed to do so.
Since the hosting company is a private company, that must be okay, right?
If the hosting companies are allowed to decide who to host, it effectively means they get to censor us based on whatever they want. That's bullshit.
No one forces you to read extremist websites and get offended. The same assholes get to have parades too. Bet that drives you nuts eh?
The Internet is such a cornerstone to our society that it needs to be treated as a utility. We all know why it's not. Corruption.
That you think they are trying to minimize their bias is the gotcha. They have their agenda, their narrative, and anything that doesn't support it will get suppressed as much as possible.
If you read enough different news sources, including fox and cnn, you pick up on their reporting bias quit easily. Certain channels will never even mention something happened because it doesn't fit their narrative.
This is the main thing I hate about pretty much all news sources these days. My local news is usually the best bet because they don't tend to narrate much. They just tell me what happened.
Also, is Hannity considered news? I always thought he was considered a political analysis for the right. The left has time slots for their people too.
He is not saying Trump doesn't lie. That was never said. He said Trump lies about stuff that really doesn't matter and has basically zero effect on my life or people I know.
Obama really did say we could keep our doctor. Clearly that was a bunch of bullshit and it affected a lot of people that really liked their doctor. That may not matter to you and it would not of personally mattered much to me. I rarely go and don't have much of any kind of relationship with my doctor.
Older folks on the other hand that see their doctor monthly or more were greatly affected by not getting to see their same doctor.
Oh and since we are talking about Obama and his super majority blue Congress. Why didn't those fuckers give us government health care single payer in 2010 when they clearly were able to do ANYTHING? If the Democrats love us so fucking much why didn't they just DO IT? They had the vote and that's all they did with it. Copied a Republican health care plan to shackle us with insurance.
It's all about the money and they fucked us. Then Trump and the Republicans fucked us with that tax law. The shit just keeps getting better and it doesn't matter which bunch of crooks is in charge.
Why the fuck should I have to constantly keep relearning the UI layout? It feels like every iteration of Windows buries more of the settings and control panel options while also moving or adds extra categories.
I remember sitting down at my nephews Win 8 box a few years back and just saying, WTF is this terrible interface? It looked like it was designed to be used with a touch screen and that was it. I quickly decided I would just use my phone instead.
I feel sorry for my wife as she is going to have to move to Win10 next January when Win7 stops getting updates. I've already moved onto Linux but I don't have specific applications I must have. She's as married to Adobe as she is to me. Probably more to Adobe and they don't care to release a Linux version.
I'm sure NeoRUR could do that, but why can't this person just leave their computer on with an open web browser and 15 tabs open? If they have the ram and don't mind paying for the power, why not? Seems pretty lame that the computer is restarting without permission.
A user should be able to leave a computer on and a web browser open without ever having to worry about a reboot unless they themselves tell the computer to reboot.
All the more reason to stop using Windows.
Only if you live to 95+...That's about 18 years past the average life expectancy. Sure people are living longer but I'd still say middle age is about 40, so really 35-60 is middle aged.
Most of human creativity is just a rehash of prior stuff. Go read the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer and you will see how our humor really hasn't changed over the past 1000 years and I suspect it's much like the 1000 years before that too.
Sometimes just mixing things around in a different order can give that same stuff new life and still be entertaining. Just think how much great content we wouldn't have if we didn't do this.
So feel free to proclaim all modern works of art as crap but that's always how it has been. There was never a golden age where crap didn't exist. Instead the crap just faded away while only the cream of the crop is what we remember now.
Funny, I live in San Diego and as long as I'm not out of 4g data for the month, download speeds (aka website load times) are never a problem. The one exception is a particular blog I read, but it's slow on my desktop so that's probably them going with a cheaper hosting option and not my ISP.
Maybe you live somewhere ultra-populated that there just isn't enough spectrum to properly serve all the customers.
I'm on Verizon for what its worth. They cost to much but I pretty much always have a signal, even on vacation out of state, so it is worth it. It's not worth it for an unlimited data plan though.
5g literally offers me nothing as I don't even "need" 4g. Even on "safety mode" (verizon's out of data mode) you can browse the Internet. It's obviously slower but still very doable. Especially if it's just news sites or Slashdot.
Of course, I don't need to video chat or live stream music either.
When you are caught red-handed with the bag of coke, a scale and some more baggies, how much "justice" were you hoping to evade? Maybe when you were caught with that stolen car and they tried to flee with it, you expected a slap on the wrist?
You mean that armed robbery just wasn't suppose to end up in homicide, say it ain't so.
The vast majority of defendants are very much guilty. You may disagree with the law but the criminal justice system doesn't write the law so best complain to your Congresscritter.
Really, probably should just move to Canada if you hate the USA so much. Or better yet, just move to China. They are awesome right?
They think they are siding with them. Wait until Russia decides to invade and the Chinese just sit back and watch.
But the Europeans are just so sophisticated and smart that I'm sure they will handle everything just fine. Kind of how they handled WWI and WWII. Totally didn't need us stupid Yankies.
The whole idea behind the E.C. was to ensure a few big cities didn't decide who the President would be every four years.
If we really want to talk about how unfair the E.C. is, we can talk about how most states are winner take all. So you get 51% of the vote in a given state and you get EVERYTHING. It's one of numerous reasons why people would like to break up California and Texas as well.
The popular vote would change that but then the politicians would change how they run for office. If they knew it was popular vote they would just blow sunshine at the huge cities and ignore half the country due simply to numbers.
Which brings us right back to the founding fathers didn't want a handful of cities deciding the election every four years.
But it was completely novel to the battery makers. The people who's business it was to make batteries and in theory best situated to make improvements in the battery field. If putting it in a can was dead obvious, then why did these companies spend years trying to figure it out? It clearly was no obvious to them.
I agree with the judge's ruling because it was a novel idea for that specific industry.
With the mail case, if it was so obvious then why didn't the postal service come up with it first? They are stealing his idea because they don't want to pay for something they should of figured out for themselves, but clearly did not.
The whole of society doesn't want to start the fucking day a 10am. The little bastards need to go to bed at night instead of staying up late. I know, I was one of those little bastards not long ago.
I would stay up on my computer until midnight or worse and gee, wonder why 1st period was always so difficult.
Now as an adult, I work at 5:30am. I know that if I don't go to bed by 9 that I won't have much sleep and will basically be putting my next day on hard mode.
Want kids to do better in school? Then they need to fucking go to bed at the right time and not when THEY want to go to bed. Children clearly do not know what is best for them otherwise they wouldn't be children. For that matter, many adults do a poor job at it.
As we all quickly realize, the world does not revolve around your sensibilities.
If that owner doesn't want to pay at least minimum wage to their workers, they can't do all the work themselves. The tip really should go to the server, which is the only reason the customer left it in the first place.
If the owner is pooling all the tips, then dishing out just enough to each worker to cover minimum wage and pocketing the rest, that's stealing a tip.
If the owner is pooling the tips and then dividing them out per each employees share, that's at least fair to the workers. The business owner should charge more for food and drink if they want to make more. Not take the tips.