Try using a MacBook Pro on an airplane or bus. I have the 17" model because it's a "desktop replacement" that I use for infrequent travel. There's to room to open the screen to a comfortable angle so it can be read without odd body contortioning.
Long Island Cablevision subscribers will have access to the site as part of their cable service, while others will have to pay if they want more than 'limited' news
I can see it now, non-subscribers will see/hear: "Warning! Biohazard detected for the New York area! Do not touch [click A on your remote to subscribe] or visit the following areas [click B on your remote to subscribe]!"
when you take this view with the laws that law enforcement more commonly enforces, and the ones people more commonly go to jail for, you can no longer categorize people with nice convenient labels.
Legalize pot and hash use (yeah, that's likely to happen) and many problems simply go away. I don't use either any more but realize that that one issue is extremely important. Otherwise "upstanding citizens" have to lurk to the dark side to access their preferred recreational substances.
You deny that there are actually "evil" people in the world? I'm not referring to religious beliefs.
people are not either good or evil So, how do you categorize the mass shoot-ups (thankfully there haven't been any lately)? Are these just societal aberrations that can be fixed via social engineering?
In a way I do agree with you, but there's that imminent danger thing. What don't you like about sheepdogs? Are they intimidating to you?
I see the holocaust as Jews (and other so-called "undesireables" like gypsies, homosexuals, etc.) killed as a result of targeted extermination, not total deaths.
As far as I'm concerned the only possible solution is to keep these people from acquiring the weapons that allow them to inflict high numbers of casualties or to allow people carry sufficient protection to put one of these people down when they snap
By LTC (RET) Dave Grossman, author of "On Killing."
"Most of the people in our society are sheep. They are kind, gentle, productive creatures who can only hurt one another by accident. Most citizens are kind, decent people who are not capable of hurting each other, except by accident or under extreme provocation. They are sheep.
I mean nothing negative by calling them sheep. To me it is like the pretty, blue robin's egg. Inside it is soft and gooey but someday it will grow into something wonderful. But the egg cannot survive without its hard blue shell. Police officers, soldiers, and other warriors are like that shell, and someday the civilization they protect will grow into something wonderful.? For now, though, they need warriors to protect them from the predators.
"Then there are the wolves and the wolves feed on the sheep without mercy." Do you believe there are wolves out there who will feed on the flock without mercy? You better believe it. There are evil men in this world and they are capable of evil deeds. The moment you forget that or pretend it is not so, you become a sheep. There is no safety in denial.
"Then there are sheepdogs," he went on, "and I'm a sheepdog. I live to protect the flock and confront the wolf."
If you have no capacity for violence then you are a healthy productive citizen, a sheep. If you have a capacity for violence and no empathy for your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive sociopath, a wolf.
But what if you have a capacity for violence, and a deep love for your fellow citizens? What do you have then? A sheepdog, a warrior, someone who is walking the hero's path. Someone who can walk into the heart of darkness, into the universal human phobia, and walk out unscathed.
Let me expand on this old soldier's excellent model of the sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs. We know that the sheep live in denial, that is what makes them sheep. They do not want to believe that there is evil in the world. They can accept the fact that fires can happen, which is why they want fire extinguishers, fire sprinklers, fire alarms and fire exits throughout their kids' schools.
The sheep generally do not like the sheepdog. He looks a lot like the wolf. He has fangs and the capacity for violence. The difference, though, is that the sheepdog must not, can not and will not ever harm the sheep. Any sheep dog who intentionally harms the lowliest little lamb will be punished and removed. The world cannot work any other way, at least not in a representative democracy or a republic such as ours.
Still, the sheepdog disturbs the sheep. He is a constant reminder that there are wolves in the land. They would prefer that he didn't tell them where to go, or give them traffic tickets, or stand at the ready in our airports in camouflage fatigues holding an M-16. The sheep would much rather have the sheepdog cash in his fangs, spray paint himself white, and go, "Baa."
Until the wolf shows up. Then the entire flock tries desperately to hide behind one lonely sheepdog.
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Try using a MacBook Pro on an airplane or bus. I have the 17" model because it's a "desktop replacement" that I use for infrequent travel. There's to room to open the screen to a comfortable angle so it can be read without odd body contortioning.
So, you're saying, "the enemy is us"? How the fuck did that happen? I know how, by the fall of the wall in Berlin everything was in place already.
Do you think that "our spears" are any worse than others'?
But when it comes to killing, seriously there is no other animal that does it as efficiently as we do
You say that as if it's a bad thing.
Please provide home address; I'm hungry - are there brains available? Whoops, social studies major. Moving on....
Moraelin, who was it that said the best lie is one of global proportions, echoed by everyone and never challenged? Was it Hitler, Stalin or Goebbels?
Long Island Cablevision subscribers will have access to the site as part of their cable service, while others will have to pay if they want more than 'limited' news
I can see it now, non-subscribers will see/hear: "Warning! Biohazard detected for the New York area! Do not touch [click A on your remote to subscribe] or visit the following areas [click B on your remote to subscribe]!"
I was conceived during a drive-in movie, you inconsiderate clod!
You'd pretty much want a bunch of dwarves(transporting mass out of a gravity well is very expensive)
For God's sake man, are you seriously considering some advanced form of dwarf-tossing? Have you no ethics?
Smash a rock and a clock with a hammer, and what are the chances you get something useful of either things?
I dunno, but if you smash a hard drive with a hammer you get some pretty cool magnets. And broken ones and zeros all over the table.
A sound bullshit detector might also be useful...
Those aren't people, they're ants. We haven't left the runway yet.
I wear black lace panties on Tuesdays. It's OK because I oh shit
when you take this view with the laws that law enforcement more commonly enforces, and the ones people more commonly go to jail for, you can no longer categorize people with nice convenient labels.
Legalize pot and hash use (yeah, that's likely to happen) and many problems simply go away. I don't use either any more but realize that that one issue is extremely important. Otherwise "upstanding citizens" have to lurk to the dark side to access their preferred recreational substances.
You deny that there are actually "evil" people in the world? I'm not referring to religious beliefs.
people are not either good or evil So, how do you categorize the mass shoot-ups (thankfully there haven't been any lately)? Are these just societal aberrations that can be fixed via social engineering?
In a way I do agree with you, but there's that imminent danger thing. What don't you like about sheepdogs? Are they intimidating to you?
Wasn't there some sort of non-aggression pact between Russia and Germany? Why did Hitler turn on Russia?
Good thing the Yanks did the bomb or it would have been much worse.
I see the holocaust as Jews (and other so-called "undesireables" like gypsies, homosexuals, etc.) killed as a result of targeted extermination, not total deaths.
And wear water wings while eating soup.
Thanks
As far as I'm concerned the only possible solution is to keep these people from acquiring the weapons that allow them to inflict high numbers of casualties or to allow people carry sufficient protection to put one of these people down when they snap
By LTC (RET) Dave Grossman, author of "On Killing."
"Most of the people in our society are sheep. They are kind, gentle, productive creatures who can only hurt one another by accident. Most citizens are kind, decent people who are not capable of hurting each other, except by accident or under extreme provocation. They are sheep.
I mean nothing negative by calling them sheep. To me it is like the pretty, blue robin's egg. Inside it is soft and gooey but someday it will grow into something wonderful. But the egg cannot survive without its hard blue shell. Police officers, soldiers, and other warriors are like that shell, and someday the civilization they protect will grow into something wonderful.? For now, though, they need warriors to protect them from the predators.
"Then there are the wolves and the wolves feed on the sheep without mercy." Do you believe there are wolves out there who will feed on the flock without mercy? You better believe it. There are evil men in this world and they are capable of evil deeds. The moment you forget that or pretend it is not so, you become a sheep. There is no safety in denial.
"Then there are sheepdogs," he went on, "and I'm a sheepdog. I live to protect the flock and confront the wolf."
If you have no capacity for violence then you are a healthy productive citizen, a sheep. If you have a capacity for violence and no empathy for your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive sociopath, a wolf.
But what if you have a capacity for violence, and a deep love for your fellow citizens? What do you have then? A sheepdog, a warrior, someone who is walking the hero's path. Someone who can walk into the heart of darkness, into the universal human phobia, and walk out unscathed.
Let me expand on this old soldier's excellent model of the sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs. We know that the sheep live in denial, that is what makes them sheep. They do not want to believe that there is evil in the world. They can accept the fact that fires can happen, which is why they want fire extinguishers, fire sprinklers, fire alarms and fire exits throughout their kids' schools.
The sheep generally do not like the sheepdog. He looks a lot like the wolf. He has fangs and the capacity for violence. The difference, though, is that the sheepdog must not, can not and will not ever harm the sheep. Any sheep dog who intentionally harms the lowliest little lamb will be punished and removed. The world cannot work any other way, at least not in a representative democracy or a republic such as ours.
Still, the sheepdog disturbs the sheep. He is a constant reminder that there are wolves in the land. They would prefer that he didn't tell them where to go, or give them traffic tickets, or stand at the ready in our airports in camouflage fatigues holding an M-16. The sheep would much rather have the sheepdog cash in his fangs, spray paint himself white, and go, "Baa."
Until the wolf shows up. Then the entire flock tries desperately to hide behind one lonely sheepdog.
Break down that number - are you including Stalin?
(which, by normal human physiology, is necessary to reproduction)
This is Slashdot. Parent-child conditions, spawning and replication happens all the time here without ever having to bump uglies.
There is no reason to argue with conservatives
Shooting them on sight is always an option.
I fail to understand why a laptop would be not carried on-board.