It's about breaking a person so badly that when they get out their family has too look after them full time and is less of a threat. An extra mouth to feed is one less soldier or bandit from that family bothering the imprisoner. That's the medieval idea (used a lot by Tsar and Soviets too), a bit of social control. Pity it's got so much traction today. It's not too hard to think of some places where the original social control idea hasn't been forgotten.
Which is a bit strange since the Constitution has a bit about "cruel and unusual" punishment designed to curb the dark side of the Puritans. However selective interpretation of the Bible and the Constitution is very popular.
The death penalty was very much finished in the USA in the late '60s, but then in the late 70's some clown had the audacity to kill a lot of people in Washington D.C. so it became a foaming at the mouth political issue. A politician can pretend to be a very tough man if they have the "guts" to kill someone already behind bars.
Can't be innocent, the state said he was guilty. That applies more in China where trials have a 99%+ conviction rate, but in crimes where there is a lot of political pressure to find a person guilty (eg. the GITMO stuff where some new crimes were even invented so that some people could be guilty) it can head that way if we are not careful. As soon as the word "terrorism" was mentioned this case became one of those, and I very much pity (and respect) his defence team who pushed on despite that pressure and did their bit to stop the slide towards a Chinese style "justice" system.
The reason I have a Model M at home, one in the server room and not one at my work desk is the noise pisses nearby people off. It just goes to show, those keyboards are a hell of a lot quieter than a mechanical or electric typewriter so the noise was not a big deal when they were designed.
Yes but you are not the problem here because you wrote a reasoned post instead of foaming at the mouth and calling me a SJW just because I think rape is a crime.
The desktop publishing software I used on an Atari ST back in the day is far better suited to the task than even the current MS Word. While it's gone halfway to being DTP software the real thing has a few differences in the way things are done that avoids the massive time sink you get if you try to treat MS Word like DTP software.
Some of those files are just an XML wrapper around a binary format for which the documentation is not available outside of Microsoft. The wrapper meets the legal obligations but the file format in such cases is ultimately useless in the long term. Meanwhile I can import seismic data from the early 1970s into current software without any conversion - simply because the file format is documented instead of Microsoft's later step backwards.
Yes but some of the "one world government conspiracy" freaks would really think that there was some sort of feminist weights and measures gestapo that had to be complied with. Some of my students with an all boys school background were like that even up until their second year at University.
The alarming frequency of how much I hear about how women in tech need to be helped because OMG sexism!!!
Every Friday here like clockwork. Your anger is generating ad views. The weekly MRA vs SJW fight (neither really fits most commenters but they get cast into the role) gets a lot of attention and a lot of comments.
What makes it incredibly funny is most of the arguments are about how woman are unsuitable for staying indoors and typing while men are - your grandpas in their youth would have called you all sissies for doing woman's work.
Once again, too many will take your stupid joke at face value and not bother to call your bluff and use google. And yes, I did play his stupid game and nothing related came up in the search.
This is the wrong place to put stupid jokes like that because there are a lot of people here who have too little life experience to know not to take you seriously.
Yes, bring out the popcorn for the Friday night fight where the "Men's Rights Association" guys tell us how bitter they are because they didn't get the free supermodel to play with that they think they deserve.
We both know your "they are off by x2 or x3 or x10" is utter fucking bullshit so why persist with the charade? You just come off as a cargo cult idiot that loves technology and hates science, so you are just making yourself look stupid for the sake of toeing the party line with your politics. Take it from me, you don't have to try very hard to be smarter than some kid intern that's the source of the bullshit you are parroting, so please try to be yourself instead of just getting fed lines by a stupid wet behind the ears kid.
and no one would doubt the plain evidence of their own eyes
That's what the current state of science denial is all about. Blatant lies and pretending stuff never happened, all in the the same spirit as the "San Francisco fire" because talk of an earthquake would scare off investors.
I hear your point, but it's still not valid to force people into this.
Actually it is. Like it or not your government has you by the balls and has the right to execute you if it wants to. However since it has to listen to the majority if it wants to remain in control it has to pick its fights if it's going to keep control. "But nobody can squeeze my balls at the airport if I don't want them too" or "not valid to force people into this" is merely the cry of the naive who just doesn't get that for a society to function it has to do stuff that's going to get in the way of what some individuals want to do - and it's not just a desire to point guns at the faces of other individuals that it gets in the way of. Civilisation is a team effort.
I had a fever that bad from measles, about the same from mumps and I was one of the lucky ones with no lasting effects. I would have been very happy to go through what your daughter did instead if I'd had the chance.
I also look forward to the day when childhood vaccinations are no longer necessary (almost certainly within my daughter's lifetime).
Very unlikely at this point. Some stuff like TB is even making a comeback.
Some of the data was real, just completely useless because it pretended to be the general case instead of the specific. He bussed in autism sufferers from a wide area to skew the results and hoped nobody would notice and that everyone would buy the vaccine preservative that he had patented instead of the one he was pretending had problems. So kids, it's like looking at the activity in the USA at midnight on a Wednesday night and drawing the conclusion that with so many people sleeping then everyone must be lazy at noon as well.
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Why not do it like the professionals and use anti-aircraft guns?
It's about breaking a person so badly that when they get out their family has too look after them full time and is less of a threat. An extra mouth to feed is one less soldier or bandit from that family bothering the imprisoner. That's the medieval idea (used a lot by Tsar and Soviets too), a bit of social control. Pity it's got so much traction today. It's not too hard to think of some places where the original social control idea hasn't been forgotten.
Which is a bit strange since the Constitution has a bit about "cruel and unusual" punishment designed to curb the dark side of the Puritans. However selective interpretation of the Bible and the Constitution is very popular.
The death penalty was very much finished in the USA in the late '60s, but then in the late 70's some clown had the audacity to kill a lot of people in Washington D.C. so it became a foaming at the mouth political issue. A politician can pretend to be a very tough man if they have the "guts" to kill someone already behind bars.
Can't be innocent, the state said he was guilty.
That applies more in China where trials have a 99%+ conviction rate, but in crimes where there is a lot of political pressure to find a person guilty (eg. the GITMO stuff where some new crimes were even invented so that some people could be guilty) it can head that way if we are not careful. As soon as the word "terrorism" was mentioned this case became one of those, and I very much pity (and respect) his defence team who pushed on despite that pressure and did their bit to stop the slide towards a Chinese style "justice" system.
The reason I have a Model M at home, one in the server room and not one at my work desk is the noise pisses nearby people off. It just goes to show, those keyboards are a hell of a lot quieter than a mechanical or electric typewriter so the noise was not a big deal when they were designed.
All?
Now where do I say that?
Yes but you are not the problem here because you wrote a reasoned post instead of foaming at the mouth and calling me a SJW just because I think rape is a crime.
A lot of growing up this one must do.
The desktop publishing software I used on an Atari ST back in the day is far better suited to the task than even the current MS Word. While it's gone halfway to being DTP software the real thing has a few differences in the way things are done that avoids the massive time sink you get if you try to treat MS Word like DTP software.
Some of those files are just an XML wrapper around a binary format for which the documentation is not available outside of Microsoft. The wrapper meets the legal obligations but the file format in such cases is ultimately useless in the long term.
Meanwhile I can import seismic data from the early 1970s into current software without any conversion - simply because the file format is documented instead of Microsoft's later step backwards.
Yes but some of the "one world government conspiracy" freaks would really think that there was some sort of feminist weights and measures gestapo that had to be complied with. Some of my students with an all boys school background were like that even up until their second year at University.
Not really because I knew it would be bullshit, but if I didn't check some dickhead would ask how could I be sure.
Every Friday here like clockwork. Your anger is generating ad views.
The weekly MRA vs SJW fight (neither really fits most commenters but they get cast into the role) gets a lot of attention and a lot of comments.
What makes it incredibly funny is most of the arguments are about how woman are unsuitable for staying indoors and typing while men are - your grandpas in their youth would have called you all sissies for doing woman's work.
You forgot
- for being whiny virgins who feel they should have got a free supermodel.
That's the real problem. The rest of the long whiny list is not relevant.
Once again, too many will take your stupid joke at face value and not bother to call your bluff and use google.
And yes, I did play his stupid game and nothing related came up in the search.
This is the wrong place to put stupid jokes like that because there are a lot of people here who have too little life experience to know not to take you seriously.
Wow - you must be pretty far down the tree kid if you really think that.
Yes, bring out the popcorn for the Friday night fight where the "Men's Rights Association" guys tell us how bitter they are because they didn't get the free supermodel to play with that they think they deserve.
That's what the current state of science denial is all about. Blatant lies and pretending stuff never happened, all in the the same spirit as the "San Francisco fire" because talk of an earthquake would scare off investors.
Actually it is. Like it or not your government has you by the balls and has the right to execute you if it wants to. However since it has to listen to the majority if it wants to remain in control it has to pick its fights if it's going to keep control. "But nobody can squeeze my balls at the airport if I don't want them too" or "not valid to force people into this" is merely the cry of the naive who just doesn't get that for a society to function it has to do stuff that's going to get in the way of what some individuals want to do - and it's not just a desire to point guns at the faces of other individuals that it gets in the way of.
Civilisation is a team effort.
Very unlikely at this point. Some stuff like TB is even making a comeback.
Some of the data was real, just completely useless because it pretended to be the general case instead of the specific. He bussed in autism sufferers from a wide area to skew the results and hoped nobody would notice and that everyone would buy the vaccine preservative that he had patented instead of the one he was pretending had problems.
So kids, it's like looking at the activity in the USA at midnight on a Wednesday night and drawing the conclusion that with so many people sleeping then everyone must be lazy at noon as well.
Not at all. When new management, especially inexperienced management, comes in there are often a lot of changes made merely to assert authority.
As is clear from the summary the terms have changed and "what he always had" is not possible under the new contract.