Maybe the people educating our youth shouldn't be basing their opinion of what is and isn't dangerous from Hollywood movies? Just a thought...
I have long been told that people can and do separate fiction from reality. That what we see on TV and in movies is known to be fictional and not real. I have never believed it for one minute.
Building a clock is not a crime. However, bringing a homemade clock to school, in a pencil box and having the alarm go off in class, I think, is something that can be reasonably assumed to cause concern. Inciting panic and causing public disturbances ARE crimes - the clock and its maker did both.
So now it's this kid's fault that everyone around him is fucking hysterical?
In the school's defense, imagine if this were the headline:
"Muslim student detonates bomb in school--school officials said they knew he was carrying a device that looked like a bomb, but didn't say anything because he told them it was a clock."
I bet you would call them stupid then too.
In sanity's defense this is what happens when Dick Cheney's 1% Doctrine is taken to its absurd conclusion. We are a society in the grip of fear. We have lost our collective mind. It's a fool's fantasy to expect the authorities to prevent all negative occurrences.
This kid's clock should have been confiscated and evaluated. Once it was determined to not be a threat, it should have been returned to him. No histrionics were required. Instead we have this kid treated like a criminal and seemingly questioned by police without his parents present. He has been given a lesson in not being White and Christian in America.
We have more to fear from people like Dylan Roof than from anyone Muslim. But we have been so conditioned to fear the Other we can't even do proper threat analysis.
"Some scholars believe, however, that Muhammad did not receive the Quran from heaven, as he claimed during his lifetime, but instead collected texts and scripts that fit his political agenda."
It was also about freedom. I couldn't wait for the day I didn't have to get my Mom to drive me everywhere.
Bicycles have existed for well over hundred years. Public transport is also a thing. I've had very little need for my parents to transport me since I was about 9 years old and didn't buy a car until I was 26, as did most of my friends.
My gosh you're right! Why would anyone want a car when those modes of transportation exist? It's a modern mystery!
When the masses decided on gaming, we went from games like Origin's with new IP every few months, to games that cost ten times as much (if you factor the DLC required) and are the same IP as last year. They decided that waiting a little bit more for a relatively bug-free version of a game isn't worth it, making the game industry with its, "it compiles, ship it!" mantra the de facto standard of today.
Maybe. I think the masses eat what they're fed. The above came about because game publishers wanted a revenue stream. It's like software licensing today. It's all subscriptions because software has outstripped its usefulness (Microsoft Office was a finished product 10 years ago) and companies are rent seeking to keep the money rolling in.
Until I bought a car with HUD, I would have agreed with you. Granted, It's a sports car and is really useful for track days, but it's really nice to not have to glance down at the instrument panel and keep your eyes on the road. I've had to swerve to miss cars on the highway that suddenly veered into my lane when when glancing at my speedometer, gas, etc. Having that extra fraction of a second to react makes it a little less scary. I think it could be a bigger distraction if there's too much information on a HUD though. The largest displayed item on mine is speed. There's a bar graph for the tachometer and a very small one for gas and oil pressure and very small arrows for turn signal indicators.
When i was 12 i couldnt wait to get my driver's licence these days the skinny jeans wearing fairies are more interested in posing selfies while duckfacing than being a man who wants to hone his skills
I remember being a teenager decades ago and everyone dreaming of the day they got their driver's license. It had nothing to do with honing skills. No one was practicing parallel parking and people dreaded drivers-ed even though for many that was the only time they got to actually drive. It wasn't about wanting to just drive, but mostly about being able to impress friends and girls. Some things don't change that much...
It was also about freedom. I couldn't wait for the day I didn't have to get my Mom to drive me everywhere.
And in general "concierge services" fail. There have been countless attempts by credit card companies, dedicated websites, and now Cortana, Siri, etc. You can ask the service to book you a flight, rent you a car, etc. The stats are pretty clear. Nobody uses this stuff, and nobody believes for a nanosecond that these services get you anything close to a good deal.
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Part of the problem is that they aren't ready for prime time. I find even Apple's Siri (which is supposed to be good) to be next to useless. I asked it last night to find restaurants near a location and it came back with stuff 4 miles away (this was a downtown city location with restaurants literally across the street). In a car it's even less useful.
When you give up control, you have no control. The car will do whatever its manufacturer and the powers that be want it to do. I have no interest in a self-driving car. I prefer to remain a self-driven human being.
There are many solutions to this problem. Most of them involve masturbation.
If masturbation were a long-term substitute for sex, we would have died out as a species long ago. It works as a band-aid for immediate urges. But if someone is not getting enough sex in their long-term relationship, masturbation is not a solution.
I'm pretty sure most dashslot readers have not even been accused of "molesting five children, including his own sisters", become addicted to pornography, AND been unfaithful to their spouse and parent of their children.
I've managed to avoid all of that, and I imagine that most here have managed to avoid most of that.
And you're not even a Quiverfull Christian! How did you manage?
If you will allow me a quote from the Bible, "Put not your trust in princes,"...
And "let he who is without sin cast the first stone." As in, human beings are imperfect creatures, and you'll find many of them that haven't perfectly obeyed every principle they value.
Except the perfect people on/. who ridicule not only the imperfect people who can't manage perfection in following a moral standard, but the moral standard as well because it is followed by those imperfect people.
The thing is, the Duggars are so smug and sanctimonious about their way of life while teaching and preaching a philosophy that is, frankly, abusive. It makes prizes of women and views men as uncontrollable sex maniacs (In the case of Jim Bob and his poor wife, that may be the case). So there is a bit of schadenfreude when someone who proclaims to live some pious existence, that is so much closer to god than the rest of us sinners, turns out to have the same proclivities as we do.
They have metal detectors and police in schools, and there are rumors of Metal detectors and armed guards being set up at movie theatres and malls.
Which probably has less to do with anyone's totalitarian ambitions and more with the seemingly neverending supply of armed domestic terrorists striking there.
Never ending supply? There were 1.27 billion movie tickets sold in the US and Canada in 2014. Let's say, for the sake of ease, that half those were sold to Americans. That's over 600,000,000 tickets. Now how many people were killed at theaters? 100? Probably less than that. So what purpose would metal detectors serve, other than to be a huge pain in the ass for everyone involved?
I think you're right, that this is driven more by irrational fear than totalitarian ambitions. But those ambitions do exist, so it's wise to watch out for them as well.
I wonder if the Feds (or the more reasonable among them) know that the writing is on the wall. They know that pot being illegal is stupid and that public opinion is against it, but they can't come out an say it yet. So they're letting these states take the lead to eventually provide cover for the Feds to officially change their policies.
Growing cannabis in the US is still illegal at fed level. Just because a minority of deadsville states have legalized purchasing it, primarily to stop filling their prisons and ruining people lives for a relatively benign activity, doesn't mean we don't face jail time if caught with it across most of the country affecting the vast majority of the population.
Idiot. The emails were "unmarked." That means not stamped with a classification. More, they reached her on an unclassified network. Clinton had every reason to believe they contained no classified information. Indeed, the claim that they do contain classified information remains unsubstantiated.
WHY THE FUCK WAS SHE CONDUCTING OFFICIAL STATE DEPARTMENT BUSINESS ON A PRIVATE EMAIL SERVER IN THE FIRST PLACE?!?!
Yes, exactly, thank you. From a government records standpoint it is completely improper. Who had secured the server? Was it backed up? How was the backup secured? The State Department has protocols for this, however flawed they may be. But we don't know how Clinton was dealing with this server.
I also could have sworn that we were told that the emails on the server had been deleted, along with the backups, after she chose which emails to release. I guess that story is no longer operational...
In a world where we're just consumers, expected to do as corporations expect, and in which they feel that revenue was their natural right... we're just a natural resource which has suddenly decided it doesn't want to play.
Once the corporatization of the internet happened, this became more about shareholder value.
And in the modern context, shareholder is more important than pretty much anything. Because people like to believe shareholder value drives the economy, instead of being driven by it.
Who cares if there are no jobs as long as they're paying dividends or stock prices keep climbing? The value to the stock market is more important than those pesky humans.
I can't really disagree. We have become myopic, short sighted and greedy, aspiring to false ideals.
"Control" makes it sound almost benign. "Those selfish bastards are trying to control us." That's something you can actually relate to as a human being, even if you oppose it. After all, it happens in the workplace every day.
Unfortunately, the reality is much less human. It's about ownership.
I can dig that. My views on this type of thing are more extreme than I admit in public, even on this board.
What are the odds? How many miles do automobiles travel for each traumatic injury suffered in an accident, as opposed to bicycles? Play the odds, and the bicycle rider is probably coming out ahead.
And, no, I've certainly NOT suggested that a bicyclist has any odds when he collides with an automobile - I've suggested that he's LESS LIKELY to be involved in a serious accident.
As a former cyclist, with my sample of one, I can firmly say that this is not true. I have been driving for 25 years and have never been injured as a result. I rode a bike in the city for 6 months and stopped because I concluded that if I continued I would surely be killed.
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Maybe the people educating our youth shouldn't be basing their opinion of what is and isn't dangerous from Hollywood movies? Just a thought...
I have long been told that people can and do separate fiction from reality. That what we see on TV and in movies is known to be fictional and not real. I have never believed it for one minute.
Building a clock is not a crime. However, bringing a homemade clock to school, in a pencil box and having the alarm go off in class, I think, is something that can be reasonably assumed to cause concern. Inciting panic and causing public disturbances ARE crimes - the clock and its maker did both.
So now it's this kid's fault that everyone around him is fucking hysterical?
In the school's defense, imagine if this were the headline:
"Muslim student detonates bomb in school--school officials said they knew he was carrying a device that looked like a bomb, but didn't say anything because he told them it was a clock."
I bet you would call them stupid then too.
In sanity's defense this is what happens when Dick Cheney's 1% Doctrine is taken to its absurd conclusion. We are a society in the grip of fear. We have lost our collective mind. It's a fool's fantasy to expect the authorities to prevent all negative occurrences.
This kid's clock should have been confiscated and evaluated. Once it was determined to not be a threat, it should have been returned to him. No histrionics were required. Instead we have this kid treated like a criminal and seemingly questioned by police without his parents present. He has been given a lesson in not being White and Christian in America.
We have more to fear from people like Dylan Roof than from anyone Muslim. But we have been so conditioned to fear the Other we can't even do proper threat analysis.
Chop off Hands.
Kill atheists.
Overtax Jews and Christians, then kill them.
Kill Buddhists.
Kill Hinduists.
All the "relgion of peace".
It seems the Media have done their job and you are appropriately terrified of the Other.
So it's more like the Bible, then?
It was also about freedom. I couldn't wait for the day I didn't have to get my Mom to drive me everywhere.
Bicycles have existed for well over hundred years. Public transport is also a thing. I've had very little need for my parents to transport me since I was about 9 years old and didn't buy a car until I was 26, as did most of my friends.
My gosh you're right! Why would anyone want a car when those modes of transportation exist? It's a modern mystery!
Siri didn't realize you were not only stupid but blind.
I wasn't at the location at the time, you idiot.
When the masses decided on gaming, we went from games like Origin's with new IP every few months, to games that cost ten times as much (if you factor the DLC required) and are the same IP as last year. They decided that waiting a little bit more for a relatively bug-free version of a game isn't worth it, making the game industry with its, "it compiles, ship it!" mantra the de facto standard of today.
Maybe. I think the masses eat what they're fed. The above came about because game publishers wanted a revenue stream. It's like software licensing today. It's all subscriptions because software has outstripped its usefulness (Microsoft Office was a finished product 10 years ago) and companies are rent seeking to keep the money rolling in.
Until I bought a car with HUD, I would have agreed with you. Granted, It's a sports car and is really useful for track days, but it's really nice to not have to glance down at the instrument panel and keep your eyes on the road. I've had to swerve to miss cars on the highway that suddenly veered into my lane when when glancing at my speedometer, gas, etc. Having that extra fraction of a second to react makes it a little less scary. I think it could be a bigger distraction if there's too much information on a HUD though. The largest displayed item on mine is speed. There's a bar graph for the tachometer and a very small one for gas and oil pressure and very small arrows for turn signal indicators.
Corvette?
When i was 12 i couldnt wait to get my driver's licence these days the skinny jeans wearing fairies are more interested in posing selfies while duckfacing than being a man who wants to hone his skills
I remember being a teenager decades ago and everyone dreaming of the day they got their driver's license. It had nothing to do with honing skills. No one was practicing parallel parking and people dreaded drivers-ed even though for many that was the only time they got to actually drive. It wasn't about wanting to just drive, but mostly about being able to impress friends and girls. Some things don't change that much...
It was also about freedom. I couldn't wait for the day I didn't have to get my Mom to drive me everywhere.
And in general "concierge services" fail. There have been countless attempts by credit card companies, dedicated websites, and now Cortana, Siri, etc. You can ask the service to book you a flight, rent you a car, etc. The stats are pretty clear. Nobody uses this stuff, and nobody believes for a nanosecond that these services get you anything close to a good deal.
s Part of the problem is that they aren't ready for prime time. I find even Apple's Siri (which is supposed to be good) to be next to useless. I asked it last night to find restaurants near a location and it came back with stuff 4 miles away (this was a downtown city location with restaurants literally across the street). In a car it's even less useful.
When you give up control, you have no control. The car will do whatever its manufacturer and the powers that be want it to do. I have no interest in a self-driving car. I prefer to remain a self-driven human being.
I'd hope -whether you love hate or are indifferent- that sticking a cigar in an ugly chick's poop chute was the least of your concerns.
Poop chute? I had always assumed they put it in her vagina.
There are many solutions to this problem. Most of them involve masturbation.
If masturbation were a long-term substitute for sex, we would have died out as a species long ago. It works as a band-aid for immediate urges. But if someone is not getting enough sex in their long-term relationship, masturbation is not a solution.
I'm pretty sure most dashslot readers have not even been accused of "molesting five children, including his own sisters", become addicted to pornography, AND been unfaithful to their spouse and parent of their children.
I've managed to avoid all of that, and I imagine that most here have managed to avoid most of that.
And you're not even a Quiverfull Christian! How did you manage?
If you will allow me a quote from the Bible, "Put not your trust in princes," ...
And "let he who is without sin cast the first stone." As in, human beings are imperfect creatures, and you'll find many of them that haven't perfectly obeyed every principle they value.
Except the perfect people on /. who ridicule not only the imperfect people who can't manage perfection in following a moral standard, but the moral standard as well because it is followed by those imperfect people.
The thing is, the Duggars are so smug and sanctimonious about their way of life while teaching and preaching a philosophy that is, frankly, abusive. It makes prizes of women and views men as uncontrollable sex maniacs (In the case of Jim Bob and his poor wife, that may be the case). So there is a bit of schadenfreude when someone who proclaims to live some pious existence, that is so much closer to god than the rest of us sinners, turns out to have the same proclivities as we do.
I doubt the TSA is very effective, but I'm sick of the progressives chanting bullshit that they should be able to realize is complete horseshit.
Progressives? Like there aren't plenty of right-wing "patriots" who disapprove of the TSA as well?
Which probably has less to do with anyone's totalitarian ambitions and more with the seemingly neverending supply of armed domestic terrorists striking there.
Never ending supply? There were 1.27 billion movie tickets sold in the US and Canada in 2014. Let's say, for the sake of ease, that half those were sold to Americans. That's over 600,000,000 tickets. Now how many people were killed at theaters? 100? Probably less than that. So what purpose would metal detectors serve, other than to be a huge pain in the ass for everyone involved?
I think you're right, that this is driven more by irrational fear than totalitarian ambitions. But those ambitions do exist, so it's wise to watch out for them as well.
I wonder if the Feds (or the more reasonable among them) know that the writing is on the wall. They know that pot being illegal is stupid and that public opinion is against it, but they can't come out an say it yet. So they're letting these states take the lead to eventually provide cover for the Feds to officially change their policies.
Growing cannabis in the US is still illegal at fed level. Just because a minority of deadsville states have legalized purchasing it, primarily to stop filling their prisons and ruining people lives for a relatively benign activity, doesn't mean we don't face jail time if caught with it across most of the country affecting the vast majority of the population.
FTFY
That is a bit more accurate, yes.
Idiot. The emails were "unmarked." That means not stamped with a classification. More, they reached her on an unclassified network. Clinton had every reason to believe they contained no classified information. Indeed, the claim that they do contain classified information remains unsubstantiated.
WHY THE FUCK WAS SHE CONDUCTING OFFICIAL STATE DEPARTMENT BUSINESS ON A PRIVATE EMAIL SERVER IN THE FIRST PLACE?!?!
Yes, exactly, thank you. From a government records standpoint it is completely improper. Who had secured the server? Was it backed up? How was the backup secured? The State Department has protocols for this, however flawed they may be. But we don't know how Clinton was dealing with this server.
I also could have sworn that we were told that the emails on the server had been deleted, along with the backups, after she chose which emails to release. I guess that story is no longer operational...
In a world where we're just consumers, expected to do as corporations expect, and in which they feel that revenue was their natural right ... we're just a natural resource which has suddenly decided it doesn't want to play.
Once the corporatization of the internet happened, this became more about shareholder value.
And in the modern context, shareholder is more important than pretty much anything. Because people like to believe shareholder value drives the economy, instead of being driven by it.
Who cares if there are no jobs as long as they're paying dividends or stock prices keep climbing? The value to the stock market is more important than those pesky humans.
I can't really disagree. We have become myopic, short sighted and greedy, aspiring to false ideals.
"Control" makes it sound almost benign. "Those selfish bastards are trying to control us." That's something you can actually relate to as a human being, even if you oppose it. After all, it happens in the workplace every day.
Unfortunately, the reality is much less human. It's about ownership.
I can dig that. My views on this type of thing are more extreme than I admit in public, even on this board.
What are the odds? How many miles do automobiles travel for each traumatic injury suffered in an accident, as opposed to bicycles? Play the odds, and the bicycle rider is probably coming out ahead.
And, no, I've certainly NOT suggested that a bicyclist has any odds when he collides with an automobile - I've suggested that he's LESS LIKELY to be involved in a serious accident.
As a former cyclist, with my sample of one, I can firmly say that this is not true. I have been driving for 25 years and have never been injured as a result. I rode a bike in the city for 6 months and stopped because I concluded that if I continued I would surely be killed.