Unlike liquor or tobacco, cannabis allows the smoker to force anybody else to get high by blowing smoke in the victim's face. Getting a "contact high" from secondhand marijuana smoke can make it impossible for one to safely operate a motor vehicle or other heavy machinery.
uhhh... yeah. Because if all you had to do to get high is just let it hit your face, bongs'd look a whole lot different.
I mean, come on. Do you actually believe this? And, more to the point, can you prove it?
Case in point- I worked a music festival, for three days. The smoke from a thousand joints was causing a visible fog backstage. I don't imbibe these days. Absolutley no measurable effect, borne out by a compulsory drugs test (army) a week later. (And we know how long weed stays in the system compared to heroin)
Less about critical thinking and more about not knowing the fundamentals. Hell, if you told me, now, the properities a shoelace knot needed to hold, I'd just look blank. The example assumes that you already have a solid grounding in knot lore.
In fact, critical thinking would only becom useful when the child is presented with a range of knots and told to choose which one would be best.
Bulldog being the first. And with LLU, they won't be the last. I can't be the only person to ponder buying a used dslam off ebay in order to "pimp my line" (tm!)
The one place the US can't dominate is cyberspace. Sorry to burst your bubble, but it just 'aint happening.
Why? Corporations. You can't ddos if your net connections aren't peered with anyone. Guess who owns the connections in europe? not the US. US decides that a ddos is the way forwards, then the packets just get null-routed. Pax Corporation reigns, I can continue to browse porn and you get all worked up 'cause you the fundy god-botherers have banned everything vaugely stimulating and you can't get out of your intranet without expensive satellite connections...
Indeed.
At first glance, the military should be an ideal place for psychopaths to thrive, but the very nature of the leadership taught in modern, western armies means that a psychopath will be weeded out *very* quickly. Possibly even before basic training has been completed, simply because their personality traits are would not allow them to function in a closely knit team where disloyalty and a disregard for others would prevent the unit functioning.
Not anymore. You could shut down access to the north american intranet, but beyond that you'd be relying on the isps with lucrative peering arrangements.
In fact, the only thing we'd notice is the lack of spam...
then you are responsible for providing them the tools
So, at worst, you'd be aiding and abetting, which I (IANAL, otherwise I'd be able to afford to go out and not be posting on slashdot!) don't believe would fall under the scope of a civil suit.
My conjecture to the presence of special forces is:
No warning to the suspect before firing
Massively inappropriate (for the police) use of force. The suspect is on the ground and is subsequently shot eight times.
The courts have shown, in northern ireland, that running in spite of a warning does not justify the use of deadly force. In the UK, anyway.
The ends justify the means? Well, that's alright then. Good job he wasn't able to detonate that non-existant bomb.
The key question is: If the police/intelligence services/special forces/GNAA suspected that he had a bomb and was about to carry out a suicide mission, then why was he allowed to board a bus?
If you're deploying special forces into your capital city, to carry out a police function and there hasn't been a miltary coup, there had better be a damn good reason.
So, a man was, to all intents and purposes, murdered in front of a train load of commuters.
Said man was, authorities admitted later, nowt to do with the attacks.
Not muslim, not arabic and almost certainly not al qaeda. Off topic? not 'alf.
If by plain clothes police you mean (more likely) special forces, who followed him two miles on a bus, chased him onto a train and, once he was on the floor, shot him eight (8) times?
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uhhh... yeah. Because if all you had to do to get high is just let it hit your face, bongs'd look a whole lot different.
I mean, come on. Do you actually believe this? And, more to the point, can you prove it?
Case in point- I worked a music festival, for three days. The smoke from a thousand joints was causing a visible fog backstage. I don't imbibe these days. Absolutley no measurable effect, borne out by a compulsory drugs test (army) a week later. (And we know how long weed stays in the system compared to heroin)
Amazing what you can find out just by being a grumpy pedant! (I did stick a /facetious tag as the end, but it got stripped...
I think you'll find that it's a 3.5mm stero jack plug...
I'll second that. Just don't expect to sleep well for a couple of days afterwards.
It terrified me.
and the top speed of the computer's operations would be the speed of light. But it still wouldn't be able run Duke Nukem Forever...
And that's another mystery cleared up. Now, about those pyramids...
"Sir, I resemble that comment!"
Less about critical thinking and more about not knowing the fundamentals. Hell, if you told me, now, the properities a shoelace knot needed to hold, I'd just look blank. The example assumes that you already have a solid grounding in knot lore.
In fact, critical thinking would only becom useful when the child is presented with a range of knots and told to choose which one would be best.
And charlie don't surf!
If it seems reasonable to the man on the Clapham Omnibus, then it is, apparently.
No, please don't. We have enough trouble with our own.
Bulldog being the first. And with LLU, they won't be the last. I can't be the only person to ponder buying a used dslam off ebay in order to "pimp my line" (tm!)
Wow.
Korea?
h2 0? a greenhouse gas? You sure?
The one place the US can't dominate is cyberspace. Sorry to burst your bubble, but it just 'aint happening.
Why? Corporations. You can't ddos if your net connections aren't peered with anyone. Guess who owns the connections in europe? not the US. US decides that a ddos is the way forwards, then the packets just get null-routed. Pax Corporation reigns, I can continue to browse porn and you get all worked up 'cause you the fundy god-botherers have banned everything vaugely stimulating and you can't get out of your intranet without expensive satellite connections...
Considered running for government?
Indeed.
At first glance, the military should be an ideal place for psychopaths to thrive, but the very nature of the leadership taught in modern, western armies means that a psychopath will be weeded out *very* quickly. Possibly even before basic training has been completed, simply because their personality traits are would not allow them to function in a closely knit team where disloyalty and a disregard for others would prevent the unit functioning.
Not anymore. You could shut down access to the north american intranet, but beyond that you'd be relying on the isps with lucrative peering arrangements.
In fact, the only thing we'd notice is the lack of spam...
An who'll enforce these? US government? France? UK? UN?
Or is this the mythical US only intranet again?
Constructive dismissal is your friend. We're undergoing a transfer under TUPE, and this discussion is coming up a lot...
So, at worst, you'd be aiding and abetting, which I (IANAL, otherwise I'd be able to afford to go out and not be posting on slashdot!) don't believe would fall under the scope of a civil suit.
Now, where'd I put my pipe and slippers... pesky kids on my lawn again... muttergrumblemutter
No warning to the suspect before firing
Massively inappropriate (for the police) use of force. The suspect is on the ground and is subsequently shot eight times.
The courts have shown, in northern ireland, that running in spite of a warning does not justify the use of deadly force. In the UK, anyway.
The ends justify the means? Well, that's alright then. Good job he wasn't able to detonate that non-existant bomb.
The key question is: If the police/intelligence services/special forces/GNAA suspected that he had a bomb and was about to carry out a suicide mission, then why was he allowed to board a bus?
If you're deploying special forces into your capital city, to carry out a police function and there hasn't been a miltary coup, there had better be a damn good reason.
So, a man was, to all intents and purposes, murdered in front of a train load of commuters.
Said man was, authorities admitted later, nowt to do with the attacks.
Not muslim, not arabic and almost certainly not al qaeda. Off topic? not 'alf.
[daily mail reader] At least it demonstrates a solution to these pesky illegal immigrants[/dmr]