When a former school-mate that is now a
police detective told me that they do not catch the really smart perpetrators, but
that there were plenty of dumb ones around of any level of intelligence, I
first did not believe him. By now I do. This is just one more data point.
To put it in a way that is easier to understand: Int: 18, Wis: dump stat.
Germany - you have to own one, but not carry it on you. Technically you need to report a change of address within 2 weeks and get the address on the card changed. (just a sticker - no charge). I managed to live for almost 20 years without bothering to report my changes of address though the official one was still fine if anybody wanted to contact me. Mainly I did this so I could vote in the community I grew up in, instead of where I currently lived. The state didn't bother smoking me out until a disgruntled in-law reported me. Got off with a small administrative fine due to a) being broke b) official on the case didn't like the squealer either c) having always had at least a valid contact address.
You have to carry the licence when driving but forgetting it is just a small fine and you need to present it at the station within the next few days. Driving without one is very costly.
The ID cards are issued by the municipality, so the country government has no direct access to the data so far. They have tried to make a central DB of all registration data two years or so ago and have met with loud resistance from concerned terrorists^w citizens.
The cards are well accepted by citizens as a form of photo id but are very rarely demanded for anything. The last time I absolutely had to present mine was to change my car registration. The last time I voluntarily showed it was when donating blood as my donors card still has no photo.
Actually - we have no 'papers, please' as every official who has the right to demand such things needs to specify exactly what he wants. Usually: licence and vehicle registration, please. Happens about once every 5 years and I do drive a lot.
The problem starts when you are out so far your body forgets to breathe. Can happen with all downing drugs and is one of the main dangers of OD. You may have been very lucky to survive. If you ate the stuff and your body tried to vomit it out but couldn't due to your being too far out cold, you might even have died suffocating on your own vomit.
As for alcohol poisoning - I doubt it's harder to inflict than grass poisoning or more likely to kill. If you OD, you screwed up, whatever the poison in question is.
Word of advice - decide beforehand on your limit, monitor your own intake and know that if you loose count, it's time to call it a day. If you have to experiment, get a sober minder to stay with you.
Bad example.There's a reason ancient and modern greek are taught as separate languages. You wouldn't speak Latin to a modern Italian and expect them to understand.
You are forgetting something. If you catch the flu and can bear it you are a vector to infect others who might not be able to survive an infection. So if you regularly see your old granny or mother-in-law you might want to get the shot anyway if you'd like to be able to see her again.
Apart from that - flu is one ugly disease to have. It just doesn't put you down flat with 40 fever but the other infections that sneak in while your immune system is overwhelmed will give you trouble for weeks. Of course, if you get pneumococci into your lungs, you won't have to worry about that, you'll just drown in your own mucus.Flu is rarely deadly, but the opportunistic infections that follow are.
Having seen goats chewing happily on pieces of clothing and other garbage, mutating goats to have no sense of taste sounds to me like mutating rabbits to have long ears. (I was planning to write something slightly different but less suited for small children and Americans here.)
Which countries? As far as I'm aware most of the EU have mandatory ID cards. France is the only big exception.
Yeah, but they are not yet linked to any central database. The ID card data in Germany is managed on city level. As yet there is no biometric data on the card except for a photograph. Also, they are mandatory to own, not to carry. If I get stopped by traffic police, they ask for my driving licence and work with that, not my ID card.
Criminal records are tied to name/birthdate not the ID card primary key.
If I was dumb enough to get tricked by these idiots I'd at least have the sense to shut up and not tell anyone.
Not bloody likely as you would have to explain the damages and chaos you caused.
I can understand the fun and feeling of superiority when tricking obviously stupid persons into doing obviously stupid things. We all do this now and then with stupid (l)users but most of us draw the line at causing actual damage. As to inflicting emotional stress of the victim, the prankster's mercy usual correlates directly with the character of the victim. If he/she is an asshole they may be required to take a lot more than someone perceived as nice or harmless. Going for total strangers is very low, though. Where's the challenge in that?
Still the prankster should have to face the consequences for the acts they caused to happen. More so if the damage was intentional.
What a rare punishment is avarice to itself! - Aye, with our help sir. A quote from "Volpone - or the Fox." still going strong in theatres after 400 years with a strong theme of Schadenfreude and abuse of stupidity. Schadenfreude goes a long way - especially in the safety of a theatre audience.
Having succumbed to baser urges, Malik [...] is now stuck dealing with the messy consequences.
I find the messy consequences after succumbing to my baser urges to be quite easily cleaned up, actually. Has this guy not heard of tissues or something?
You are confusing your lower urges with your base urges.
Probably not fancied. He was studying it in his capacity as MdB and trying to break up a childporn ring lone cowboy style without CYA, the idiot.
However, said Zensurula has also been charged with owning and disseminating child porn. She got some of the extremely heavy stuff from the federal police and showed it to journalists to make her point. However, the state attorney very quickly scraped that charge.
No, you are wrong. With the new "Recoil & Jam" model mice you can train kids to be violent killers. You see...these new mice actually recoil with each shot and can occasionally jam and even will backfire and injure/kill the operator sometimes!
I rather think our (German) minister of families and youth did invent child porn on the net.
She seems to be the only one who ever saw any, even the police say child porn in distributed mainly via other channels. Still we are getting the same kind of filters on August 1st; nevermind they are not constitutional and there was a massive backlash in parts of the press and people, as well a record-breaking petition with for than 100k signatures.
Funny thing, she got some extremely ugly images of child porn from the police and showed them to the press. Of course she was indicted for possession and distribution, but the (local equivalent) of the DA didn't take up the case citing she had official reasons to do so.
Say, les mecs. You've got Bastille Day over in France today, haven't you? Could we send her over for a little re-enactment? We'll gladly take your Sarkozy on our national holiday and bore him to death with depressive speeches.
Sorry, the point I was trying to make was that the injunction stopping the friend from carrying out the murder grows successively weaker with each ultra-realistic simulated murder, to the point where when the opportunity arises, he's already desensitised himself to it.
It's still not realistic. The murder victim does not exist prior to the game, the corpse will not exist after the game. The victim will exist again at the beginning of the next game. No consequences extent past the actual game.
It's nothing but playing cowboys and indians. Someone calls: Next round and all the corpses rise again and switch places. Any kid can understand that.
A rather more interesting variety: Let's say you could make your friend believe he was in a simulation and get him to kill someone for you. Be careful and you can commit a nice murder by proxy. The idea is not new, try reading Curtains, by Agatha Christie.
Slashdot Mirror
When a former school-mate that is now a police detective told me that they do not catch the really smart perpetrators, but that there were plenty of dumb ones around of any level of intelligence, I first did not believe him. By now I do. This is just one more data point.
To put it in a way that is easier to understand: Int: 18, Wis: dump stat.
Germany - you have to own one, but not carry it on you. Technically you need to report a change of address within 2 weeks and get the address on the card changed. (just a sticker - no charge). I managed to live for almost 20 years without bothering to report my changes of address though the official one was still fine if anybody wanted to contact me. Mainly I did this so I could vote in the community I grew up in, instead of where I currently lived. The state didn't bother smoking me out until a disgruntled in-law reported me. Got off with a small administrative fine due to a) being broke b) official on the case didn't like the squealer either c) having always had at least a valid contact address.
You have to carry the licence when driving but forgetting it is just a small fine and you need to present it at the station within the next few days. Driving without one is very costly.
The ID cards are issued by the municipality, so the country government has no direct access to the data so far. They have tried to make a central DB of all registration data two years or so ago and have met with loud resistance from concerned terrorists^w citizens.
The cards are well accepted by citizens as a form of photo id but are very rarely demanded for anything. The last time I absolutely had to present mine was to change my car registration. The last time I voluntarily showed it was when donating blood as my donors card still has no photo.
Actually - we have no 'papers, please' as every official who has the right to demand such things needs to specify exactly what he wants. Usually: licence and vehicle registration, please. Happens about once every 5 years and I do drive a lot.
Yeah the SS did not commit any crimes either, being part of the govt.
Interesting note: They didn't. Those deeds only became crimes in a legal sense when another government took over.
Actually the opposite of a cat is not a cat.
a Zombie creeps up from behind ... ...your character fails a Will throw .... ...o shit!
I'm sure going to put a few more points in perception next time.
WoW has the assets stored on the client side. The server just controls the mobs and manages the communication between clients.
For a free WoW server they mostly had to work out the protocols No hacking or cracking of servers was involved.
"Us vegetative types have been doing that for years on World of Warcraft."
Hell, I was thinking more along terms of my current management.
You must be wrong. Management doesn't communicate.
Examples of things to NOT do with friends at 3am after too many Red Bulls and vodka shots:
l
You, sir, have either an exceptionally capable bladder or exceptionally repulsive pants.
The problem starts when you are out so far your body forgets to breathe. Can happen with all downing drugs and is one of the main dangers of OD. You may have been very lucky to survive. If you ate the stuff and your body tried to vomit it out but couldn't due to your being too far out cold, you might even have died suffocating on your own vomit.
As for alcohol poisoning - I doubt it's harder to inflict than grass poisoning or more likely to kill. If you OD, you screwed up, whatever the poison in question is.
Word of advice - decide beforehand on your limit, monitor your own intake and know that if you loose count, it's time to call it a day. If you have to experiment, get a sober minder to stay with you.
Bad example.There's a reason ancient and modern greek are taught as separate languages. You wouldn't speak Latin to a modern Italian and expect them to understand.
You are forgetting something. If you catch the flu and can bear it you are a vector to infect others who might not be able to survive an infection. So if you regularly see your old granny or mother-in-law you might want to get the shot anyway if you'd like to be able to see her again.
Apart from that - flu is one ugly disease to have. It just doesn't put you down flat with 40 fever but the other infections that sneak in while your immune system is overwhelmed will give you trouble for weeks. Of course, if you get pneumococci into your lungs, you won't have to worry about that, you'll just drown in your own mucus.Flu is rarely deadly, but the opportunistic infections that follow are.
Having seen goats chewing happily on pieces of clothing and other garbage, mutating goats to have no sense of taste sounds to me like mutating rabbits to have long ears. (I was planning to write something slightly different but less suited for small children and Americans here.)
I... don't get it.
Of course not - you're on Slashdot.
Which countries? As far as I'm aware most of the EU have mandatory ID cards. France is the only big exception.
Yeah, but they are not yet linked to any central database. The ID card data in Germany is managed on city level. As yet there is no biometric data on the card except for a photograph. Also, they are mandatory to own, not to carry. If I get stopped by traffic police, they ask for my driving licence and work with that, not my ID card.
Criminal records are tied to name/birthdate not the ID card primary key.
It makes you wonder if they're doin the same thing with MMORPG's such as WoW and the likes...
No, they don't. I still see other players.
If I was dumb enough to get tricked by these idiots I'd at least have the sense to shut up and not tell anyone.
Not bloody likely as you would have to explain the damages and chaos you caused.
I can understand the fun and feeling of superiority when tricking obviously stupid persons into doing obviously stupid things. We all do this now and then with stupid (l)users but most of us draw the line at causing actual damage. As to inflicting emotional stress of the victim, the prankster's mercy usual correlates directly with the character of the victim. If he/she is an asshole they may be required to take a lot more than someone perceived as nice or harmless. Going for total strangers is very low, though. Where's the challenge in that?
Still the prankster should have to face the consequences for the acts they caused to happen. More so if the damage was intentional.
What a rare punishment is avarice to itself! - Aye, with our help sir. A quote from "Volpone - or the Fox." still going strong in theatres after 400 years with a strong theme of Schadenfreude and abuse of stupidity. Schadenfreude goes a long way - especially in the safety of a theatre audience.
Having succumbed to baser urges, Malik [...] is now stuck dealing with the messy consequences.
I find the messy consequences after succumbing to my baser urges to be quite easily cleaned up, actually. Has this guy not heard of tissues or something?
You are confusing your lower urges with your base urges.
Probably not fancied. He was studying it in his capacity as MdB and trying to break up a childporn ring lone cowboy style without CYA, the idiot.
However, said Zensurula has also been charged with owning and disseminating child porn. She got some of the extremely heavy stuff from the federal police and showed it to journalists to make her point. However, the state attorney very quickly scraped that charge.
No, you are wrong. With the new "Recoil & Jam" model mice you can train kids to be violent killers. You see...these new mice actually recoil with each shot and can occasionally jam and even will backfire and injure/kill the operator sometimes!
They are not new. I've had one of these for ages.
Let him produce better porn, then.
Takes a while, but there it is.
I just wish the server was a tad quicker.
Hmm - did we slashdot Paypal? There's no history of the transaction in my account. Odd.
Did we slashdot their e-sales partner? I ordered the game a few minutes ago and am still waiting for a confirmation email from the shop.
I rather think our (German) minister of families and youth did invent child porn on the net.
She seems to be the only one who ever saw any, even the police say child porn in distributed mainly via other channels. Still we are getting the same kind of filters on August 1st; nevermind they are not constitutional and there was a massive backlash in parts of the press and people, as well a record-breaking petition with for than 100k signatures.
Funny thing, she got some extremely ugly images of child porn from the police and showed them to the press. Of course she was indicted for possession and distribution, but the (local equivalent) of the DA didn't take up the case citing she had official reasons to do so.
Say, les mecs. You've got Bastille Day over in France today, haven't you? Could we send her over for a little re-enactment? We'll gladly take your Sarkozy on our national holiday and bore him to death with depressive speeches.
Outlaw roofs.
Sorry, the point I was trying to make was that the injunction stopping the friend from carrying out the murder grows successively weaker with each ultra-realistic simulated murder, to the point where when the opportunity arises, he's already desensitised himself to it.
It's still not realistic. The murder victim does not exist prior to the game, the corpse will not exist after the game. The victim will exist again at the beginning of the next game. No consequences extent past the actual game.
It's nothing but playing cowboys and indians. Someone calls: Next round and all the corpses rise again and switch places. Any kid can understand that.
A rather more interesting variety: Let's say you could make your friend believe he was in a simulation and get him to kill someone for you. Be careful and you can commit a nice murder by proxy. The idea is not new, try reading Curtains, by Agatha Christie.