Sure. How about more traditional things for criminals? Like their freedom, or their life?
My point is that people who DO go out and make their own productive opportunites are getting robbed, stabbed and killed at the hands of those who are taking counterproductive opportunities. Read up on game theory. Sometimes you need to punish a theif to make it unproductive for them to try in the first place.
Actually, I frankly agree with you. The crooks in Wall St and the Wharf I think should be stripped of assets and thrown in jail if reckless endangerment of the economy can be proven. Unfair? Then don't take a position of great responsibility like controlling billions in assets. Why do you think the remunerations for those positions SHOULD be so high? The trouble is not the ability to earn stacks of money for doing the right thing by the economy, but the ability for severe consequences to be directly applied to those that do recklessly deal.
You were in the pilot position at Goldman Sachs? Right. You'd better hand your assets over to the last dime and get your prison jump suit on.
The only flaw here is that to get to that sort of position of power, you have to be smart. It's part of being a sociopath. Thus, these people generally find ways to outsmart the law. Perhaps you can suggest a good set of laws to prevent this happening again? I'm certainly the people of the world will be most grateful to you.
Keep on beating that drum mate. You know what? I had recently had a bit of a chat with one of these kids. He was complaining that society is blocking him from doing anything with his life, and that there's no point in pursuing a career because we now have to pay for university. Blah blah blah. Both my wife and I did our hard graft, got loans, got loads of hard and crap work, paid our dues, and got to our position. All I hear from kids like this is WWAAAAAAAHHHHH!!! I don't wanna do anything that's remotely hard. WAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! I want life handed to me on a silver platter. WWAAAAAAAHHHH!!!! I don't want to work, but I want lots of nice stuff, so I'm going to take yours.
Actually, you are referring to a case where disproportinate force was used by a farmer against a 16 year old burglar. The force was him firing a shotgun into the kid, and the disproportion was that he shot him in the back when he was running away for his life, screaming don't shoot me.
This has been widely misinterpreted in the UK that you can't do anything when someone breaks into your house and threatens your life. According to the westminster system, you have the right to use proportionate force against an intruder. Proportionate being the grey zone. Thankfully, a recent case where a family was help up by knifepoint cleared the waters somewhat, as when the father killed the guys with a knife, he eventually got off on self defence because he had an honest and reasonable fear for the safety of his family. David Cameron, our PM, intervened and said that an investigation of clear disproportionate force should be able to be used against an intruder to remove all doubt, although it has been argued that this would simply cause a spiral of violence. However, the judiciary and the legislate have made it quite clear. If your robber is running away, you can't do anything, but if he's entered your home and you have a genuine fear for your life, smash him in the face with a brick.
The point is to denature the name from the voter. Go to the post office or local shopping center, and have your name crossed off the list. You get your voting token randomly chosen by yourself via a lucky dip. Then at vote time, use the hash number to cast your vote. If you trust your gubbermint enough, have them posted in the mail with the same level of denaturing.
OK pal, you must be snorting the cheap home made acid a bit too much, or you're simply speaking from the comfort of your mom's basement outsie of the UK. I can tell you that I am. Let me definitively tell you that these guys aren't political protestors. They are cheap hooligan thugs who enjoy a bit of the old smashy smashy and in and out.
Monday week ago I was caught between the looters and teh police in Lewisham while returning a car. I had rocks and bricks sailing past my head. Then on Tuesday, one of our neighbours decided to make a stand and stop these little pricks from taking his wheelie bin to transport their ill gotten goods by asking them politely not to do it. Their response? They stabbed him. He's in intensive care and may not live.
Last night, we had 3 thugs breaking in to the place next door to us. We called the police and they responded very quickly and arrested the 3 of them. This is the same kind of "protestor" that everyone is talking about. So you know what? NO. These ARE NOT protestors, they're opportunists. The BBC has given them ample opportunity to present a case, and none have been able to do so. The internet is not rife with reason, but rather rampant stupidity on the topic.
This is not society's fault, nor the fault of the police, or the government, but the fault of a generation of bottom feeding scum sucking opportunists that need a harsh lesson in reality dealt to them.
And why shouldn't they? My dry cleaners son got the hell beaten out of him because some looters wanted to steal their commercial sewing machine. What, did the looter want to be considerate and grab something for his mum? We had an incident right on our doorstep that didn't make the news here in London where a middle aged gent didn't want his wheelie bin stolen to be used by the looters to transport their ill gotten goods, so he went out and told them not to take it. Their response? They stabbed him. He's in hospital in intensive care right now and may not live.
So make the bastards pay for their own bullet? Absolutely.
Incidently, Looter != Protester
2 days of Looting happened before the government was confident to make the decision that it was Looting, rather than a protest against the police shooting a guy who pulled a gun on them. Tottenham burned on the Saturday, and the police thought it was an unfortunate situation where a protest got out of hand.
I have lived in several countries, and I can definitely say that even with all the cameras etc, the UK is more considerate of human rights and people's freedom than the good ol' US of A.
If anything, the police here are hamstrung by the law, and it should be loosened somewhat to let them do their job.
Yes it does. If you lock the GUI in the flash player for longer than 60 seconds, (the longest period you can set in Flash), it will give you a #1502 Error: A script has executed for longer than the default timeout period of 15 seconds, (which can be set to a maximum of 60 seconds without updating the error message).
Now using greenthreads or something similar, there are of course ways to get around this, but my point is, that it IS possible to get a script timeout error.
Don't believe me? Create a new flex project, and put a creation complete handler function with the following code:
public function onCreationComplete(event:Event):void
{
while(true)
{
trace("tick");
}
}
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I seriously read that as China Unicorn.
it has come to my attention that a few of you "bad eggs" have been smoking mari-hu-juana i have news for you thats illegal not cool!
Establishment! Establishment! You always know what's best!
Did you watch the safety video? Man, it felt like I was being doused with Kool-Aid.
Funny thing is that when we were his age, we heard exactly the same thing, but we did it anyway.
I agree, but at some point you put away the carrot and pull out the stick.
Sure. How about more traditional things for criminals? Like their freedom, or their life?
My point is that people who DO go out and make their own productive opportunites are getting robbed, stabbed and killed at the hands of those who are taking counterproductive opportunities. Read up on game theory. Sometimes you need to punish a theif to make it unproductive for them to try in the first place.
Actually, I frankly agree with you. The crooks in Wall St and the Wharf I think should be stripped of assets and thrown in jail if reckless endangerment of the economy can be proven. Unfair? Then don't take a position of great responsibility like controlling billions in assets. Why do you think the remunerations for those positions SHOULD be so high? The trouble is not the ability to earn stacks of money for doing the right thing by the economy, but the ability for severe consequences to be directly applied to those that do recklessly deal.
You were in the pilot position at Goldman Sachs? Right. You'd better hand your assets over to the last dime and get your prison jump suit on.
The only flaw here is that to get to that sort of position of power, you have to be smart. It's part of being a sociopath. Thus, these people generally find ways to outsmart the law. Perhaps you can suggest a good set of laws to prevent this happening again? I'm certainly the people of the world will be most grateful to you.
It is not up to society to make your opportunities, it is up to YOU.
Keep on beating that drum mate. You know what? I had recently had a bit of a chat with one of these kids. He was complaining that society is blocking him from doing anything with his life, and that there's no point in pursuing a career because we now have to pay for university. Blah blah blah. Both my wife and I did our hard graft, got loans, got loads of hard and crap work, paid our dues, and got to our position. All I hear from kids like this is WWAAAAAAAHHHHH!!! I don't wanna do anything that's remotely hard. WAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! I want life handed to me on a silver platter. WWAAAAAAAHHHH!!!! I don't want to work, but I want lots of nice stuff, so I'm going to take yours.
Actually, you are referring to a case where disproportinate force was used by a farmer against a 16 year old burglar. The force was him firing a shotgun into the kid, and the disproportion was that he shot him in the back when he was running away for his life, screaming don't shoot me.
This has been widely misinterpreted in the UK that you can't do anything when someone breaks into your house and threatens your life. According to the westminster system, you have the right to use proportionate force against an intruder. Proportionate being the grey zone. Thankfully, a recent case where a family was help up by knifepoint cleared the waters somewhat, as when the father killed the guys with a knife, he eventually got off on self defence because he had an honest and reasonable fear for the safety of his family. David Cameron, our PM, intervened and said that an investigation of clear disproportionate force should be able to be used against an intruder to remove all doubt, although it has been argued that this would simply cause a spiral of violence. However, the judiciary and the legislate have made it quite clear. If your robber is running away, you can't do anything, but if he's entered your home and you have a genuine fear for your life, smash him in the face with a brick.
The point is to denature the name from the voter. Go to the post office or local shopping center, and have your name crossed off the list. You get your voting token randomly chosen by yourself via a lucky dip. Then at vote time, use the hash number to cast your vote. If you trust your gubbermint enough, have them posted in the mail with the same level of denaturing.
OK pal, you must be snorting the cheap home made acid a bit too much, or you're simply speaking from the comfort of your mom's basement outsie of the UK. I can tell you that I am. Let me definitively tell you that these guys aren't political protestors. They are cheap hooligan thugs who enjoy a bit of the old smashy smashy and in and out.
Monday week ago I was caught between the looters and teh police in Lewisham while returning a car. I had rocks and bricks sailing past my head. Then on Tuesday, one of our neighbours decided to make a stand and stop these little pricks from taking his wheelie bin to transport their ill gotten goods by asking them politely not to do it. Their response? They stabbed him. He's in intensive care and may not live.
Last night, we had 3 thugs breaking in to the place next door to us. We called the police and they responded very quickly and arrested the 3 of them. This is the same kind of "protestor" that everyone is talking about. So you know what? NO. These ARE NOT protestors, they're opportunists. The BBC has given them ample opportunity to present a case, and none have been able to do so. The internet is not rife with reason, but rather rampant stupidity on the topic.
This is not society's fault, nor the fault of the police, or the government, but the fault of a generation of bottom feeding scum sucking opportunists that need a harsh lesson in reality dealt to them.
No, it's I before E except when at sea. Which totally explains the barge.
And why shouldn't they? My dry cleaners son got the hell beaten out of him because some looters wanted to steal their commercial sewing machine. What, did the looter want to be considerate and grab something for his mum? We had an incident right on our doorstep that didn't make the news here in London where a middle aged gent didn't want his wheelie bin stolen to be used by the looters to transport their ill gotten goods, so he went out and told them not to take it. Their response? They stabbed him. He's in hospital in intensive care right now and may not live.
So make the bastards pay for their own bullet? Absolutely.
Incidently, Looter != Protester
2 days of Looting happened before the government was confident to make the decision that it was Looting, rather than a protest against the police shooting a guy who pulled a gun on them. Tottenham burned on the Saturday, and the police thought it was an unfortunate situation where a protest got out of hand.
I have lived in several countries, and I can definitely say that even with all the cameras etc, the UK is more considerate of human rights and people's freedom than the good ol' US of A.
If anything, the police here are hamstrung by the law, and it should be loosened somewhat to let them do their job.
whooosh
Didn't you RTFA? It's 2030. It's the same goal, just accounting for the progress made so far.
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I need a neuroport like I need a hole in my head!
umm....
It IS a hole in your head.
Like Churchill said, I never believe any statistics I didn't make up myself.
So then 1.44 Trillion Obamas are worth 5.44 Trillion under Bush?
Yes, and both played Chess, which is a board game, which obviously is a primitive version of video games! Burn them!
I would it imagine during victorian times, it would have been equivalent to a wanton display of ankle. Quite the racy event.
Turned out to be a duck instead.
Yes it does. If you lock the GUI in the flash player for longer than 60 seconds, (the longest period you can set in Flash), it will give you a #1502 Error: A script has executed for longer than the default timeout period of 15 seconds, (which can be set to a maximum of 60 seconds without updating the error message).
Now using greenthreads or something similar, there are of course ways to get around this, but my point is, that it IS possible to get a script timeout error.
Don't believe me? Create a new flex project, and put a creation complete handler function with the following code:
public function onCreationComplete(event:Event):void
{
while(true)
{
trace("tick");
}
}
And watch it 'splode!
Has anyone else consider how old this guy must be by now?