Clearly you have not seen star trek, where hordes of silicon-based life-forms inhabit our galaxy. Presumably they eat silicon, and glass contains a lot of that.
I live in San Francisco, voted for Pelosi and Obama, and am quite liberal. And I fully support the death penalty, and am happy to see this guy off the face of the earth.
I live in San Francisco, and live near a number of Asian grocery stores. We get all sorts of interesting fruits and vegetables year round that are hard to find anywhere else, and these stores often import them from Asia, often from China, the Phillippines, Thailand, etc....
Do you have any information on the status of the US relaxing additional import restrictions on fruits and veggies from SE Asia and other parts of the world? For example, now that Burma is supposedly a bit more democratic, can we expect to see that country exporting more and more produce to the US?
This is a baseless assumption on your part, and it is one of the reasons the European model of rehabilitation is stupid. The facts are that a very large percentage of people in prison, especially murderers, are clinical psychopaths. Many of these people cannot be rehabilitated, and it is the height of silliness to believe otherwise.
Fighting for rehabilitation is an insult to the families of the people these murderers have killed, because it ignores the past crime, and instead focuses ONLY on the future. It's as if the state is saying, "Well, yeah that was horrible, you raping and murdering that child, but hey! With some medicine, a few get-togethers with a psychologist, and we'll set you free!" rather than PUNISHING people for their crimes.
It's interesting that the people who did this study have evidence and information that the jury did not hear, nor did the judges hear or choose to believe. Almost as if they know something those other people don't about the case. Or they are making it up.
Because capital punishment is not murder. Here in the real world, not in some comic-book level world, we have different terms for different types of killing. A murder is unjustly killing someone. Capital punishment is the state killing someone because that person committed a murder. They are two different things. here in the real world.
"don't stoop to their level" and "inflicting vengeance on someone makes you no better than they are" are silly tropes that people say to make themselves feel better. It has no bearing in the real world when it comes to how we act towards others.
Justice is not dependent upon "stooping to their level."
They are human beings physically. But in my opinion people who bury alive an innocent woman lose pretty much all rights as a human being once convicted, including the right to life.
Why, because he believes that those who have committed atrocities unjustly on innocent people should experience some level of pain when dying? How does this make one a barbarian or a klansman?
I find it interesting that someone calculated 4% of people on DR are innocent, when not a single Jury or judge found those people innocent. It's amusing to me that the people who have these statistics have information they consider exonerating when the judges nor the jury have it.
I have an MA in History, but I have done tech work ever since getting my degree. Even while getting my MA, I was running the department computer lab. I have worked in tech now for 20 years in San Francisco. Yeah, I still have some debt, but I'm a whole lot happier than I would be if I was welding.
But how is he supposed to get people here to visit soylent without visiting here? Seriously? Ask/. to show banner ads for Soylent? This is asinine; if you want to get people from one site to go to another, you have to GO TO THE SITE THOSE PEOPLE VISIT. Sheesh, how stupid can we be today?
While it might be moored out at sea, it would have to be built in a much different way to avoid the possible dangers from a hurricane tipping it over or making it unstable.
I think you are confusing wisdom for intelligence. Politicians tend to be very wise when it comes to understanding what makes people tick and how to get people to like them enough to vote for them.
Then they get on Senate committees and blabber on about topics they have absolutely no business talking about because they are ignorant on the subject.
The intelligent person knows when it's raining. The wise person knows to get in out of the rain.
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Clearly you have not seen star trek, where hordes of silicon-based life-forms inhabit our galaxy. Presumably they eat silicon, and glass contains a lot of that.
CUTCO for the win! I love those knives. I bought some of them 20 years ago and they are as good as new. Really, really amazing knives.
This makes a mess. A mess that affects other people who have to clean it up, more so than just burying the guy after he dies after an injection.
I live in San Francisco, voted for Pelosi and Obama, and am quite liberal. And I fully support the death penalty, and am happy to see this guy off the face of the earth.
Bumper sticker morality should stay on bumper stickers.
Actually it does, and you have failed to understand what the word justice means.
I live in San Francisco, and live near a number of Asian grocery stores. We get all sorts of interesting fruits and vegetables year round that are hard to find anywhere else, and these stores often import them from Asia, often from China, the Phillippines, Thailand, etc....
Do you have any information on the status of the US relaxing additional import restrictions on fruits and veggies from SE Asia and other parts of the world? For example, now that Burma is supposedly a bit more democratic, can we expect to see that country exporting more and more produce to the US?
This is a baseless assumption on your part, and it is one of the reasons the European model of rehabilitation is stupid. The facts are that a very large percentage of people in prison, especially murderers, are clinical psychopaths. Many of these people cannot be rehabilitated, and it is the height of silliness to believe otherwise.
Fighting for rehabilitation is an insult to the families of the people these murderers have killed, because it ignores the past crime, and instead focuses ONLY on the future. It's as if the state is saying, "Well, yeah that was horrible, you raping and murdering that child, but hey! With some medicine, a few get-togethers with a psychologist, and we'll set you free!" rather than PUNISHING people for their crimes.
I disagree that it is more ethical. i think it is in fact LESS ethical to let a convicted murderer live.
It's interesting that the people who did this study have evidence and information that the jury did not hear, nor did the judges hear or choose to believe. Almost as if they know something those other people don't about the case. Or they are making it up.
Because capital punishment is not murder. Here in the real world, not in some comic-book level world, we have different terms for different types of killing. A murder is unjustly killing someone. Capital punishment is the state killing someone because that person committed a murder. They are two different things. here in the real world.
This is comic book morality.
"don't stoop to their level" and "inflicting vengeance on someone makes you no better than they are" are silly tropes that people say to make themselves feel better. It has no bearing in the real world when it comes to how we act towards others.
Justice is not dependent upon "stooping to their level."
They are human beings physically. But in my opinion people who bury alive an innocent woman lose pretty much all rights as a human being once convicted, including the right to life.
Why, because he believes that those who have committed atrocities unjustly on innocent people should experience some level of pain when dying? How does this make one a barbarian or a klansman?
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
I find it interesting that someone calculated 4% of people on DR are innocent, when not a single Jury or judge found those people innocent. It's amusing to me that the people who have these statistics have information they consider exonerating when the judges nor the jury have it.
Or maybe they are making it up.
No, I actually loved him in Ender's Game. He certainly does still have it.
It is always only entirely pointless.
I have an MA in History, but I have done tech work ever since getting my degree. Even while getting my MA, I was running the department computer lab. I have worked in tech now for 20 years in San Francisco. Yeah, I still have some debt, but I'm a whole lot happier than I would be if I was welding.
Yeah, but to have a contest you have to have another car.
But how is he supposed to get people here to visit soylent without visiting here? Seriously? Ask /. to show banner ads for Soylent? This is asinine; if you want to get people from one site to go to another, you have to GO TO THE SITE THOSE PEOPLE VISIT. Sheesh, how stupid can we be today?
While it might be moored out at sea, it would have to be built in a much different way to avoid the possible dangers from a hurricane tipping it over or making it unstable.
However, strict logic when speaking may make you an asshole, but it tends to make you a great lawyer. Funny how that works.
I think you are confusing wisdom for intelligence. Politicians tend to be very wise when it comes to understanding what makes people tick and how to get people to like them enough to vote for them.
Then they get on Senate committees and blabber on about topics they have absolutely no business talking about because they are ignorant on the subject.
The intelligent person knows when it's raining. The wise person knows to get in out of the rain.
If you havent watched either one in years or decades, how do you know they are boring? Maybe it's you.