Not everyone is a utilitarian who views the lives of others entirely in terms of their use to society, and it's not "brainless drivel" to place a different value on human life than the one you advocate,
Your field of view is way too narrow, assuming just because I assert that "There are a lot of people for whom death... blah blah..." that I must be utilitarian.
Amazingly, there's grey between "We Are The World" and strict utilitarianism.
we don't have to worry about the Left since they are increasingly isolated into small pockets of the world like Cuba.
Shiiit. Obama and his cronies are about as left-wing statist as you can get. They'd love nothing better than to make this country a really big Cuba or Nicaragua.
Look around the world at all the societies that haven't changed a whit in one thousand year. "Progressives" even celebrate the fact: societal progress is seen as "cultural genocide".
I don't understand forced indoctrination of impressionable children into (a socially acceptable) organized cult.
Then, since societies have been transmitting their beliefs and ways of living to their youth since the beginning of organized humanity, you're a complete idiot.
your pecker in your pocket. No worries about broken or slipped condoms, or being overcome by the moment and not using one.
Of course, mentioning this to young, self-righteous members of an incredibly hedonistic and narcissistic society is akin to pissing into the wind, so I fully expect to get modded into oblivion.
If you need an important infrastructure system to be as known-good as possible, there are much better choices. (Ada is even part of the gcc, and so is portable across a wide range of architectures.)
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How many websites do you know that DON'T run Apache?
Many, many, many e-commerce sites (especially in the mountainous plethora of Windows Shops run... well, you can guess that it's not Apache.
this is the attitude that has led to a republican party where if you get two of them in the room the odds are you'll get a criminal conspiracy.
While I'm sure this is true, it's the kind of one-sidedness that led to the creation of FNC.
You would not find him making such comments about a Bush appointee.
He wouldn't have to; a Dem would do it.
Nethack is the only way!
Not everyone is a utilitarian who views the lives of others entirely in terms of their use to society, and it's not "brainless drivel" to place a different value on human life than the one you advocate,
Your field of view is way too narrow, assuming just because I assert that "There are a lot of people for whom death ... blah blah..." that I must be utilitarian.
Amazingly, there's grey between "We Are The World" and strict utilitarianism.
and the shockwave will probably shatter blood vessels and organs anyway.
That's called hydrostatic shock.
Its twice the weight as ceramic plates.
Not only that, but the ceramic is usually boron carbide.
Brings my AC to 15!
Am I the only one to notice that AC 15 is just incredibly disastrous??
Certainly you mean AC -15.
we don't have to worry about the Left since they are increasingly isolated into small pockets of the world like Cuba.
Shiiit. Obama and his cronies are about as left-wing statist as you can get. They'd love nothing better than to make this country a really big Cuba or Nicaragua.
And yep, I got down-moderated for that observation.
Then you should have written something beyond triteness and pablum, which is a specialty of both the far right and far left.
Deep thinking is what this world needs, not "We Are The World" or Sarah Palin.
Not cocky enough to be Good.
Every premature loss of life is a tragedy
I'm getting nauseated just reading this brainless drivel.
There are a lot of people for whom death before their statistically-expected lifespan is a benefit to society.
Anyway, the word tragedy used to have an emotional impact, but now it's tossed around like candy, losing all meaning.
Part of society is that it progresses.
Yagoddabekiddnme.
Look around the world at all the societies that haven't changed a whit in one thousand year. "Progressives" even celebrate the fact: societal progress is seen as "cultural genocide".
I don't understand forced indoctrination of impressionable children into (a socially acceptable) organized cult.
Then, since societies have been transmitting their beliefs and ways of living to their youth since the beginning of organized humanity, you're a complete idiot.
Very young
Middle aged.
Happily married
Relatively happy.
A feminist
Hah!
A religious nut or preacher
Atheist.
Completely without a sex drive for some other reason
Nope...
It was common for strange women to walk up to me in the supermarket and casually say "wanna fuck?"
You must have lived in a big city. Probably coastal.
never heard of the "free love" movement in the 1920s.
How restricted was that to the upper classes (and their hangers-on)?
To say that today's society is more hedonistic than any other time reeks of pure ignorance,
Today's society "started" in the 60s, and it's gotten worse ever sense.
you know what Jesus said about being judgemental.
Yes, I do know. That quote refers to hypocrisy.
Otherwise, Judeo-Christian societies wouldn't have laws, judges and police forces.
Sure, and hormone-soaked teenagers ... always think rationally
So, we let them run wild, and not even try to impart some self-discipline?
No wonder this country is in it's current shit pile state of affairs, sinking even deeper.
This is why abstinence-only education has been such a rousing success everywhere it's been tried.
Re-read my post. Nowhere did I say "Only teach abstinence." It's why there are speed limits and safety belts.
your pecker in your pocket. No worries about broken or slipped condoms, or being overcome by the moment and not using one.
Of course, mentioning this to young, self-righteous members of an incredibly hedonistic and narcissistic society is akin to pissing into the wind, so I fully expect to get modded into oblivion.
Why is this modded funny? It's exceptionally insightful.
A statistic cannot be vacuous
Of course it can.
I don't think that word means what you think it means
Yup...
and an increase of 200-300 per year, just because they are not executing them now does not mean they are not part of the
capital punishment system.
Being in the "capital punishment system" does not, and never will, mean that they will be executed. How can you be so stupid?
plonk.
We execute more people than 90% of the countries that practice capital punishment, I would hardly call that " not many ".
Logic and statistics FAIL!!!.
For one thing, that's a totally vacuous statistic, and another, we don't execute that many people.
Only 52 inmates were executed in 2009, but approximately 10,000 murder convictions per year. That's 1/2 of 1%.
All this in a country of 300,000,000.
Why, well it is a slippery slope from one sex crime to another sex crime and from sex crimes to anything else the populace chooses to label immoral.
Why keep it narrowed to sex crimes?
We deem murder to be immoral, and even though it's a capital crime,
Besides, you're discounting the vigorous anti-capital punishment faction in the country.
Why are you writing it in C/C++??
If you need an important infrastructure system to be as known-good as possible, there are much better choices. (Ada is even part of the gcc, and so is portable across a wide range of architectures.)
That still doesn't answer the question, "Why the heck wasn't BIND fixed a long time ago? You've had TWENTY FIVE YEARS!!!!!"
It seems what you actually want to do is inflict suffering and death on people with this sexual orientation
Yes.
even if they never cause any kind of a problem for any child in their life.
ROTFLMAO. What rock have you been under for the past 30 years?
then you should believe that pedophiles are also not pedophiles because of a choice.
Tough shit. Kill them anyway, along with the rapists.
then there is a monster in the room, and it isn't the pedophiles
You're either a
Your "open, tolerant mind" should be permanently closed for repair.
I've hit 500GB on more than one occasion
Is there a web page with your per-month stats?