Kind of depends on what you mean by deregulation; it's an incredible vague term. Also, deregulation and allowing businesses to fail would not mutually exclusive. I'm inclined to favour some regulation and oversight of businesses (and markets) who, by virtue of their size, would cause severe economic issues if they were to collapse.
To argue otherwise is like saying that it's fine to let people perform DIY structural alterations of their houses, as they'll learn not to do it if they accidentally knock down a supporting wall. The problem is that people will keep making these dumb mistakes, and they'll affect others. Look at the bullshit in Ireland where people and banks were up to their ears in debt, that was doing just fine if we assumed that property prices would never stop rising. This increase also relied upon the idea that they could just keep building properties and that residents would automagically pop out of nowhere.
This shit is difficult to manage, and risks popular protest. No-one wants to be the finance minister who's the reason why the roller coaster ride to riches slows, but those people don't seem to realise that roller coasters go down as well as up. The market is dumber and more greedy than any individual person or business. The greed is good because it builds wealth, but it's bad when all caution is thrown to the wind. A friend applied for a car loan, to buy a Mondeo for 6 grand or so. The bank tried to talk him up to borrowing 20 grand, which at the time would have been about two thirds of his annual salary being used to buy an asset that was guaranteed to deprecate in value. The monthly payments alone would have been nearly as much as he paid in rent, and then the running costs on top would have been crippling. The bank knew how much he was earning, and should have realised that. He was sensible - he just borrowed what he'd already planned for. Others weren't as sensible, and banks were happy to funnel insane amounts of unsecured credit in to the market. With mortgages, the loans were secured, but based on the incredibly over-valued property. I stayed out of the property market, and I'm reasonably well secured financially. I'm still paying the consequences of these fuck-ups. I'm not entirely blameless - I could have complained to my elected representatives. I could have asked them to stop sleeping at the wheel. Chances are it'd have done little, but still it's something I should have done. Quite a few of us joked about the silly house prices, yet very few people actually tried to do something. That's why we need regulation. While it may slow growth, if done right it would lessen the possibility of these insane booms and crashes that we seem doomed to repeat ad infinitum.
Seems better to try to prevent collapses to begin with than trying to prevent the next collapse through a harsh lesson. Depending on the size of the market or business, the harsh lesson can be pretty indiscriminate. Another thing that should be done is to avoid accelerating issues through misguided attempts at governmental meddling. Making mortgages available to people who should never have qualified in the first place certainly didn't help. Reckless lending for the purposes of social engineering is risky as hell.
I'm not sure you understand what slavery entails. It's not typically about earning a wage in a place where they won't allow you to have an Easy-Bake Oven on your desk, to make biscuits to munch while you browse Slashdot. I'm led to believe it's a little more grim than that.
Okay, I've been using Excel for Mac for about 15 years, and prior to that Excel on Windows for about 5 during college. I'm certainly not someone using Excel as an RDBMS and wondering why it goes slowly with hundreds of thousands of rows of data and thousands of lookups. I know when to switch to something like FileMaker, PostgreSQL, Business Objects or Tableaux. I've been using Macs since the system 7 days. And yes, I do send detailed bug reports and performance suggestions via the MS website. That doesn't mean I'm right, so I'll give you steps to recreate these issues and behaviours. All of the steps are performed in Excel 14.2.5 on Mac OS X 10.8.2.
I can't speak to #1 as I don't have any spreadsheets complex enough to max out the processor long enough for me to notice.
Build something reasonably complex. Doesn't have to be an insane spreadsheet that clearly should be done more efficiently or in another application all together. I see it all of the time, and I'm running a 2.53 i5 with 8GB of RAM. For example, creating 40,000 rows of three columns of random text (no more than 12 characters long), will max out Excel if I select all and copy. A lot of time when I'm scripting Excel, it's the only application where I have to add special delays, or write handlers to monitor its state, so my scripts don't cause Excel to die on me. In fairness to Microsoft, the current version of Excel 2011 is way more stable than the earlier 14.x releases, but still while it's not multi-threaded I'm seeing a lot wasted cycles that could be used to speed up my work. In my example, we're talking about a 1.2 MB xlsx file, with no calculations. That's pretty small.
2)#2 is false.
Command A is the keyboard shortcut for "select all". This is true in the vast majority of applications, and indeed Excel uses this in most places. Try, it. Open a spreadsheet and press Command+A. Okay, now press Command+F to open a find dialogue. Type something in to the box and press Command+A. Yeah, it selects all the text - just as we'd expect. Now press the Replace button, then click back to the text box and press Command+A. Oh, it doesn't select all. Command+A in that context is a shortcut to replace all. That's one example. Now return to your spreadsheet and click in to a cell. Type some text, then press Command+A.
#3 is false.
Connect an external display, with a resolution different to your main display. I generally use the 15" built-in (1490x900), with a 20" external display at 1680 Ã-- 1050. Open two spreadsheets, and place one spreadsheet on each screen (ensuring they don't overlap). Resize the spreadsheet on one display so it occupies maybe a third of the screen. Do the same to the other sheet. Now press the green button to maximise one of the sheets, and then go back and click in to the other sheet. Notice how it then either gathers the documents in to one screen, or resizes the other document in some nonsensical way. Okay, another test. While the spreadsheet on the external display is active, open an existing Excel document that had previously been saved while open on the main display. Note the loading progress bar is appearing towards the top left of your screen?
Also, open a spreadsheet on your secondary display and press Command+F. The find dialogue will probably appear on the primary display. I've seen the same happening for pivot table builder windows. One other annoyance of the find is that it's modal, so if I'm sweeping through a file to find things and change them, I have to close the find window to make changes. If performing the same find, I can of course use Command+G, but to a different find I must re-open the find window. Modal dialogues are so 90s, and really should only be used when changes made elsewhere would break the function being performed in the dialogue.
I'm guessing Excel handles it poorly because it does things its own way, which just happens to be a wrong way. It has the resize bug, it places pop-up windows on the main display when the invoking window is on the secondary display, and the progress window for opening files is squished in to the top left corner because it doesn't know how to centre its position. My guess is that it gets confused when trying to manually determine screen sizes, which it really shouldn't have to do anyway on its own. It's as like as if Valve decided to include their own HFS+ driver with L4D2, so it can load support files. It's as pointless as it is dangerous.
Aside from only being able to the menu bar on one display, Mac support for multiple displays works very nicely. It's not the fault of the system when a bunch of cowboys ignore APIs in favour of using their own botched approach.
Oh, and modal dialogues for find operations? Batshit crazy!
1) No multi-threading, which is a problem when the application pretty easily maxes out a core. 2) Bizarre keyboard shortcuts that don't match the standard ones used in most applications 3) Piss poor support for multiple displays, with a resizing bug that's been around for way too long 4) Excel documents don't show up in recent items in Finder 5) Excel addresses files using a path - not a reference to the file, meaning that it doesn't notice when open files are renamed or moved. It also gets confused if you have two mounted volumes (including the home folder) with the same name. 6) Very buggy AppleScript support. I know of no other application that so easily crashes while scripted to do fairly mundane things. 7) Uses its own internal clipboard, meaning that copying and pasting can be pretty bizarre. Copying something, and then closing a document alters the contents of the clipboard. It's also slow as hell. It's not unusual for me to sit there waiting 5 seconds to put a value from a cell in to the clipboard. I could understand this if it's pasting in to a cell that is referenced in heavy calculations, but for just copying a value?
iMovie 3.0 was pretty bad. I'd take Steam of that any day.
The quality of the Steam client is the biggest issue I'd have with Valve. On the Mac I've found the following:
1) It's not uncommon for it to crash on quit. 2) Online/offline mode is flakey. On most launches it fails first time to go online, but on second try will. No other games or applications have issues here. 3) Initially the UI was buggy as hell. I think it's improved, or I just got used to a UI that appears to have been modelled on tacky MP3 player software from the 90s, or a game mods website. Another example is in how it does weird things when flicking between sections. I go to Greenlight and begin playing a trailer. If I switch to Library the audio continues, and if I return to Greenlight I see the trailer playing away. If I click on News, and then go to Greenlight it returns to the main Greenlight page. That's typical of the odd quirks of Steam.
In all, I find the benefits outweighing the issues.
I'm generally fine with the DRM encountered with Steam. Only issue has been the Steam client frequently crashing on quit, which in the past meant it won't allow offline mode when I relaunch it. That's been a pain when I'm travelling and would fancy a quick bout of zombie hunting before my battery dies, and have no Internet access.
Overall the balance between usability and DRM has been pretty good.
I agree, they broke the law and should be dealt with. Five years though? Seems to be something that really should be dealt with through financial punishments, and perhaps a pretty light custodial/supervisory sentence. Five years in prison, followed by three years of supervision, seems way over the top for even wilful copyright infringement of the kind they were engaged in.
Any idea what the motive was here? Were they making money out of this, or was it just for bragging rights?
You do know that the more Catholic areas of Africa have less AIDS than places where the cure for AIDS is to rape a baby?
I'm not saying that Catholicism leads to an AIDS-driven apocalypse. Encouraging people to be responsible with sex is good. Where I disagree is in using some supernatural enforcer's hang-ups on sex as justification. Also, the Catholic stance on condoms is utterly outmoded and silly. I live in a country where condoms were it took until 1985 before condoms were legally available over-the-counter. And now with the ready availability of them, I can't help but notice that a lot of Catholics here seem to have far smaller families. Maybe some are following the advice of an elderly virgin in a funny hat, in that they only use natural methods. Perhaps some are only having sex when they intend to have children? Sure. I'm thinking that the majority are happily using condoms, despite their "immoral" nature.
Tackling AIDS is about changing cultures and providing physical protections. Having condoms is only going to reduce the risks. it won't make it perfectly safe to have indiscriminate sex with heroin addicts. By at least allowing access to contraceptives the risks are substantially reduced in most cases.
And why do they think that sex with a baby or young virgin will cure AIDS? Bogus thinking based on superstition, which isn't a world away from believing that some imaginary being is offering us immortality, but to obtain it we must engage in mysterious rituals and repetitive mumbling over beads, presided over by a bunch of guys in funny robes.
Drunk driving should come with an attempted murder charge, as that's what it is. I completely fail to understand US laws where they allow such an asshole to drive, even just "from home to work". Quite a few people around here lobby for a lifetime driving ban -- I disagree with them about length (if you were an idiot in your 20s, you may have learned in your 40s), but I'm all for such a ban being strict.
I think that's a dangerous idea. This belongs more under reckless endangerment laws. Repeated offenders are certainly candidates for lifetime bans, as anyone caught once really should become so paranoid afterwards that they'll not touch a drop if they know they'll be driving. It also depends on severity, i.e. how far over the limit they were, and other charges could cover injuries and property damage that happened as a result of their drunk driving. Being the equivalent of one beer over the limit, and not hitting anyone isn't the same as some crazy fuck who necks a bottle of vodka and goes for a drunken spin up the wrong way of a motorway. The latter would definitely seem a good candidate for a lifetime ban.
Except if he actually goes to jail he is far more likely to become a repeat criminal or get physiological issues form the sodomy. I do not think their is any scenario where going to jail does not increase your likelihood of death.
If he does get a custodial sentence it'll be pretty light, and it's unlikely he'd be spending it in maximum security Federal "ass pounding" Prison. I'd think him likely a to receive a fine/suspended sentence/driving ban if he's got no prior form and doesn't act like a complete dick in court.
His being drunk is a very real part of the story. The problem is that the police can't establish his blood alcohol level at the time, so they're sticking with charges they can reasonably substantiate.
The boy was acting like a reckless idiot, and it's not just himself at risk. I agree with what his friends did.
Actually I take back my comment and apologise. I replied too early in the morning and kind of missed the joke. Should never post before morning coffee.
It makes you wonder if we technicians aren't creating a new class of 'codeless' people -like the 'homeless'- those who fall through the gaps of the system, in this case because they have their digital ID revoked. They wouldn't have a way to get in the system again, because lacking an identification they wouldn't be able to use even the basic communication tools.
As was prophesied by Sandra Bullock's The Net; Arguably one of the most unintentionally funny screwball comedies, doing for computing what Weird Science did for biology. Except Weird Science was intentionally ridiculous and funny. The only thing missing was Bullock's character being physically attacked by her a mouse infected with a trojan virus installed via a hacker by sending AOL internets to her modem browser by firing a bullet at her bathtub. A silly and contrived explanation when everyone knows opening a command line and typing "hack password", which will either open a 3D game in which the user navigates through firewalls or send a load of random characters scrolling up the screen, is all that's necessary for the hacking of webs.
Heh, I didn't even consider the connotations of "role reversal". Good point. I wonder if increasing independence of both genders that contributes to both partners being inclined to work? This is guesswork when I say that I'd struggle to effectively be living out of some else's pockets. I like the idea that I can decide to put away a few hundred each month towards treating myself to a new computer, or being able to save up for a holiday. Even accepting that the person staying at home is playing a valuable role, still money is what's needed outside of the home.
so who is responsible if the rocket crashes into someone's home?
It seems to be more about liability for accidents affecting passengers. Reading the article and various ones linked from it, I didn't see any mention of general immunity for any kind of accident. They compare it to the waivers given for bungee jumping and similar. To use that comparison, I assume that a bungee jump operator could be sued if they sent a customer crashing in to somebody's house.
I'd be more worried by the deaths due to their rather odd stance on contraception. I think it's a miracle, if you pardon the pun, that Ratzinger even went so far as to offer a very tentative acceptance of condoms where AIDS is a risk, but still it's obviously a sin to deny the natural order of things - says a man who jets around the world and enjoys the benefits of advanced medical care.
The scene with the photocopier repair guy was particularly good - with a fine slap bass soundtrack that went in time with his thrusting motions. Very educational!
It's because feminism has completely failed to address this part of the gender double-standard. They wanted equality, but on their own terms without any risk of role reversal. In the end, it's an Orwellian thing where all genders are equal but some genders and more equal than other genders.
Er, no. Feminism in its general sense doesn't specifically tackle this. Individuals and some groups might, and I'd strongly disagree with any who'd want this kind of double standard. Don't invoke Orwell so lightly. Role reversal is rare, yet it does happen. I know two guys who stay at home to take care of the kids. With the latter, the guy's pretty much sponging off of her. She earns good money, yet still comes home to cook his dinner. With the former, while the two of them had good careers, hers had substantially better prospects. He stays at home, takes care of the kids. Knowing the kind of guy he was to work with, I doubt very much he'd be sitting on his arse all day. Such a role reversal wouldn't work in my case, because I enjoy my work and it pays well, and she has fairly conservative views on such things.
As the father of a young, smart daughter, this makes me sad. It means most likely, if my daughter wants to have a family she's going to have to accept some low-life college dropout because he didn't find the energy to figure out learning and education were worthwhile before it was too late.
Well, yes if her search for a man will centre on prison visiting rooms and sleazy bars, and if her deciding factors would be, among other things, the ability to put a lit cigarette inside his mouth and flip it over while avoiding child support payments on the 6 kids he already had with 5 different women. I think you should talk to her.
I don't see why. Games could be moved from one account to another. Plenty of games already allow in-game trading, and Steam lets me gift games to fellow users. They could stay away from the reasons for trading. IP has long been licensed, not sold, so our binding it to physical discs makes no sense.
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Kind of depends on what you mean by deregulation; it's an incredible vague term. Also, deregulation and allowing businesses to fail would not mutually exclusive. I'm inclined to favour some regulation and oversight of businesses (and markets) who, by virtue of their size, would cause severe economic issues if they were to collapse.
To argue otherwise is like saying that it's fine to let people perform DIY structural alterations of their houses, as they'll learn not to do it if they accidentally knock down a supporting wall. The problem is that people will keep making these dumb mistakes, and they'll affect others. Look at the bullshit in Ireland where people and banks were up to their ears in debt, that was doing just fine if we assumed that property prices would never stop rising. This increase also relied upon the idea that they could just keep building properties and that residents would automagically pop out of nowhere.
This shit is difficult to manage, and risks popular protest. No-one wants to be the finance minister who's the reason why the roller coaster ride to riches slows, but those people don't seem to realise that roller coasters go down as well as up. The market is dumber and more greedy than any individual person or business. The greed is good because it builds wealth, but it's bad when all caution is thrown to the wind. A friend applied for a car loan, to buy a Mondeo for 6 grand or so. The bank tried to talk him up to borrowing 20 grand, which at the time would have been about two thirds of his annual salary being used to buy an asset that was guaranteed to deprecate in value. The monthly payments alone would have been nearly as much as he paid in rent, and then the running costs on top would have been crippling. The bank knew how much he was earning, and should have realised that.
He was sensible - he just borrowed what he'd already planned for. Others weren't as sensible, and banks were happy to funnel insane amounts of unsecured credit in to the market. With mortgages, the loans were secured, but based on the incredibly over-valued property. I stayed out of the property market, and I'm reasonably well secured financially. I'm still paying the consequences of these fuck-ups. I'm not entirely blameless - I could have complained to my elected representatives. I could have asked them to stop sleeping at the wheel. Chances are it'd have done little, but still it's something I should have done. Quite a few of us joked about the silly house prices, yet very few people actually tried to do something. That's why we need regulation. While it may slow growth, if done right it would lessen the possibility of these insane booms and crashes that we seem doomed to repeat ad infinitum.
Seems better to try to prevent collapses to begin with than trying to prevent the next collapse through a harsh lesson. Depending on the size of the market or business, the harsh lesson can be pretty indiscriminate. Another thing that should be done is to avoid accelerating issues through misguided attempts at governmental meddling. Making mortgages available to people who should never have qualified in the first place certainly didn't help. Reckless lending for the purposes of social engineering is risky as hell.
I'm not sure you understand what slavery entails. It's not typically about earning a wage in a place where they won't allow you to have an Easy-Bake Oven on your desk, to make biscuits to munch while you browse Slashdot. I'm led to believe it's a little more grim than that.
The person you're replying too is trolling.
Okay, I've been using Excel for Mac for about 15 years, and prior to that Excel on Windows for about 5 during college. I'm certainly not someone using Excel as an RDBMS and wondering why it goes slowly with hundreds of thousands of rows of data and thousands of lookups. I know when to switch to something like FileMaker, PostgreSQL, Business Objects or Tableaux. I've been using Macs since the system 7 days. And yes, I do send detailed bug reports and performance suggestions via the MS website. That doesn't mean I'm right, so I'll give you steps to recreate these issues and behaviours. All of the steps are performed in Excel 14.2.5 on Mac OS X 10.8.2.
I can't speak to #1 as I don't have any spreadsheets complex enough to max out the processor long enough for me to notice.
Build something reasonably complex. Doesn't have to be an insane spreadsheet that clearly should be done more efficiently or in another application all together. I see it all of the time, and I'm running a 2.53 i5 with 8GB of RAM. For example, creating 40,000 rows of three columns of random text (no more than 12 characters long), will max out Excel if I select all and copy. A lot of time when I'm scripting Excel, it's the only application where I have to add special delays, or write handlers to monitor its state, so my scripts don't cause Excel to die on me. In fairness to Microsoft, the current version of Excel 2011 is way more stable than the earlier 14.x releases, but still while it's not multi-threaded I'm seeing a lot wasted cycles that could be used to speed up my work. In my example, we're talking about a 1.2 MB xlsx file, with no calculations. That's pretty small.
2)#2 is false.
Command A is the keyboard shortcut for "select all". This is true in the vast majority of applications, and indeed Excel uses this in most places. Try, it. Open a spreadsheet and press Command+A. Okay, now press Command+F to open a find dialogue. Type something in to the box and press Command+A. Yeah, it selects all the text - just as we'd expect. Now press the Replace button, then click back to the text box and press Command+A. Oh, it doesn't select all. Command+A in that context is a shortcut to replace all. That's one example. Now return to your spreadsheet and click in to a cell. Type some text, then press Command+A.
#3 is false.
Connect an external display, with a resolution different to your main display. I generally use the 15" built-in (1490x900), with a 20" external display at 1680 Ã-- 1050. Open two spreadsheets, and place one spreadsheet on each screen (ensuring they don't overlap). Resize the spreadsheet on one display so it occupies maybe a third of the screen. Do the same to the other sheet. Now press the green button to maximise one of the sheets, and then go back and click in to the other sheet. Notice how it then either gathers the documents in to one screen, or resizes the other document in some nonsensical way. Okay, another test. While the spreadsheet on the external display is active, open an existing Excel document that had previously been saved while open on the main display. Note the loading progress bar is appearing towards the top left of your screen?
Also, open a spreadsheet on your secondary display and press Command+F. The find dialogue will probably appear on the primary display. I've seen the same happening for pivot table builder windows. One other annoyance of the find is that it's modal, so if I'm sweeping through a file to find things and change them, I have to close the find window to make changes. If performing the same find, I can of course use Command+G, but to a different find I must re-open the find window. Modal dialogues are so 90s, and really should only be used when changes made elsewhere would break the function being performed in the dialogue.
#4 is false, his system is fucked if thats the
I'm guessing Excel handles it poorly because it does things its own way, which just happens to be a wrong way. It has the resize bug, it places pop-up windows on the main display when the invoking window is on the secondary display, and the progress window for opening files is squished in to the top left corner because it doesn't know how to centre its position. My guess is that it gets confused when trying to manually determine screen sizes, which it really shouldn't have to do anyway on its own. It's as like as if Valve decided to include their own HFS+ driver with L4D2, so it can load support files. It's as pointless as it is dangerous.
Aside from only being able to the menu bar on one display, Mac support for multiple displays works very nicely. It's not the fault of the system when a bunch of cowboys ignore APIs in favour of using their own botched approach.
Oh, and modal dialogues for find operations? Batshit crazy!
You obviously haven't used Excel for Mac.
1) No multi-threading, which is a problem when the application pretty easily maxes out a core.
2) Bizarre keyboard shortcuts that don't match the standard ones used in most applications
3) Piss poor support for multiple displays, with a resizing bug that's been around for way too long
4) Excel documents don't show up in recent items in Finder
5) Excel addresses files using a path - not a reference to the file, meaning that it doesn't notice when open files are renamed or moved. It also gets confused if you have two mounted volumes (including the home folder) with the same name.
6) Very buggy AppleScript support. I know of no other application that so easily crashes while scripted to do fairly mundane things.
7) Uses its own internal clipboard, meaning that copying and pasting can be pretty bizarre. Copying something, and then closing a document alters the contents of the clipboard. It's also slow as hell. It's not unusual for me to sit there waiting 5 seconds to put a value from a cell in to the clipboard. I could understand this if it's pasting in to a cell that is referenced in heavy calculations, but for just copying a value?
iMovie 3.0 was pretty bad. I'd take Steam of that any day.
The quality of the Steam client is the biggest issue I'd have with Valve. On the Mac I've found the following:
1) It's not uncommon for it to crash on quit.
2) Online/offline mode is flakey. On most launches it fails first time to go online, but on second try will. No other games or applications have issues here.
3) Initially the UI was buggy as hell. I think it's improved, or I just got used to a UI that appears to have been modelled on tacky MP3 player software from the 90s, or a game mods website. Another example is in how it does weird things when flicking between sections. I go to Greenlight and begin playing a trailer. If I switch to Library the audio continues, and if I return to Greenlight I see the trailer playing away. If I click on News, and then go to Greenlight it returns to the main Greenlight page. That's typical of the odd quirks of Steam.
In all, I find the benefits outweighing the issues.
I'm generally fine with the DRM encountered with Steam. Only issue has been the Steam client frequently crashing on quit, which in the past meant it won't allow offline mode when I relaunch it. That's been a pain when I'm travelling and would fancy a quick bout of zombie hunting before my battery dies, and have no Internet access.
Overall the balance between usability and DRM has been pretty good.
I agree, they broke the law and should be dealt with. Five years though? Seems to be something that really should be dealt with through financial punishments, and perhaps a pretty light custodial/supervisory sentence. Five years in prison, followed by three years of supervision, seems way over the top for even wilful copyright infringement of the kind they were engaged in.
Any idea what the motive was here? Were they making money out of this, or was it just for bragging rights?
You do know that the more Catholic areas of Africa have less AIDS than places where the cure for AIDS is to rape a baby?
I'm not saying that Catholicism leads to an AIDS-driven apocalypse. Encouraging people to be responsible with sex is good. Where I disagree is in using some supernatural enforcer's hang-ups on sex as justification. Also, the Catholic stance on condoms is utterly outmoded and silly. I live in a country where condoms were it took until 1985 before condoms were legally available over-the-counter. And now with the ready availability of them, I can't help but notice that a lot of Catholics here seem to have far smaller families. Maybe some are following the advice of an elderly virgin in a funny hat, in that they only use natural methods. Perhaps some are only having sex when they intend to have children? Sure. I'm thinking that the majority are happily using condoms, despite their "immoral" nature.
Tackling AIDS is about changing cultures and providing physical protections. Having condoms is only going to reduce the risks. it won't make it perfectly safe to have indiscriminate sex with heroin addicts. By at least allowing access to contraceptives the risks are substantially reduced in most cases.
And why do they think that sex with a baby or young virgin will cure AIDS? Bogus thinking based on superstition, which isn't a world away from believing that some imaginary being is offering us immortality, but to obtain it we must engage in mysterious rituals and repetitive mumbling over beads, presided over by a bunch of guys in funny robes.
Drunk driving should come with an attempted murder charge, as that's what it is. I completely fail to understand US laws where they allow such an asshole to drive, even just "from home to work". Quite a few people around here lobby for a lifetime driving ban -- I disagree with them about length (if you were an idiot in your 20s, you may have learned in your 40s), but I'm all for such a ban being strict.
I think that's a dangerous idea. This belongs more under reckless endangerment laws. Repeated offenders are certainly candidates for lifetime bans, as anyone caught once really should become so paranoid afterwards that they'll not touch a drop if they know they'll be driving. It also depends on severity, i.e. how far over the limit they were, and other charges could cover injuries and property damage that happened as a result of their drunk driving. Being the equivalent of one beer over the limit, and not hitting anyone isn't the same as some crazy fuck who necks a bottle of vodka and goes for a drunken spin up the wrong way of a motorway. The latter would definitely seem a good candidate for a lifetime ban.
Except if he actually goes to jail he is far more likely to become a repeat criminal or get physiological issues form the sodomy.
I do not think their is any scenario where going to jail does not increase your likelihood of death.
If he does get a custodial sentence it'll be pretty light, and it's unlikely he'd be spending it in maximum security Federal "ass pounding" Prison. I'd think him likely a to receive a fine/suspended sentence/driving ban if he's got no prior form and doesn't act like a complete dick in court.
His being drunk is a very real part of the story. The problem is that the police can't establish his blood alcohol level at the time, so they're sticking with charges they can reasonably substantiate.
The boy was acting like a reckless idiot, and it's not just himself at risk. I agree with what his friends did.
Actually I take back my comment and apologise. I replied too early in the morning and kind of missed the joke. Should never post before morning coffee.
It makes you wonder if we technicians aren't creating a new class of 'codeless' people -like the 'homeless'- those who fall through the gaps of the system, in this case because they have their digital ID revoked. They wouldn't have a way to get in the system again, because lacking an identification they wouldn't be able to use even the basic communication tools.
As was prophesied by Sandra Bullock's The Net; Arguably one of the most unintentionally funny screwball comedies, doing for computing what Weird Science did for biology. Except Weird Science was intentionally ridiculous and funny. The only thing missing was Bullock's character being physically attacked by her a mouse infected with a trojan virus installed via a hacker by sending AOL internets to her modem browser by firing a bullet at her bathtub. A silly and contrived explanation when everyone knows opening a command line and typing "hack password", which will either open a 3D game in which the user navigates through firewalls or send a load of random characters scrolling up the screen, is all that's necessary for the hacking of webs.
Congratulations. You're the cancer.
Heh, I didn't even consider the connotations of "role reversal". Good point. I wonder if increasing independence of both genders that contributes to both partners being inclined to work? This is guesswork when I say that I'd struggle to effectively be living out of some else's pockets. I like the idea that I can decide to put away a few hundred each month towards treating myself to a new computer, or being able to save up for a holiday. Even accepting that the person staying at home is playing a valuable role, still money is what's needed outside of the home.
so who is responsible if the rocket crashes into someone's home?
It seems to be more about liability for accidents affecting passengers. Reading the article and various ones linked from it, I didn't see any mention of general immunity for any kind of accident. They compare it to the waivers given for bungee jumping and similar. To use that comparison, I assume that a bungee jump operator could be sued if they sent a customer crashing in to somebody's house.
*Cough* Crusades *Cough*
I'd be more worried by the deaths due to their rather odd stance on contraception. I think it's a miracle, if you pardon the pun, that Ratzinger even went so far as to offer a very tentative acceptance of condoms where AIDS is a risk, but still it's obviously a sin to deny the natural order of things - says a man who jets around the world and enjoys the benefits of advanced medical care.
The scene with the photocopier repair guy was particularly good - with a fine slap bass soundtrack that went in time with his thrusting motions. Very educational!
It's because feminism has completely failed to address this part of the gender double-standard. They wanted equality, but on their own terms without any risk of role reversal. In the end, it's an Orwellian thing where all genders are equal but some genders and more equal than other genders.
Er, no. Feminism in its general sense doesn't specifically tackle this. Individuals and some groups might, and I'd strongly disagree with any who'd want this kind of double standard. Don't invoke Orwell so lightly. Role reversal is rare, yet it does happen. I know two guys who stay at home to take care of the kids. With the latter, the guy's pretty much sponging off of her. She earns good money, yet still comes home to cook his dinner. With the former, while the two of them had good careers, hers had substantially better prospects. He stays at home, takes care of the kids. Knowing the kind of guy he was to work with, I doubt very much he'd be sitting on his arse all day. Such a role reversal wouldn't work in my case, because I enjoy my work and it pays well, and she has fairly conservative views on such things.
As the father of a young, smart daughter, this makes me sad. It means most likely, if my daughter wants to have a family she's going to have to accept some low-life college dropout because he didn't find the energy to figure out learning and education were worthwhile before it was too late.
Well, yes if her search for a man will centre on prison visiting rooms and sleazy bars, and if her deciding factors would be, among other things, the ability to put a lit cigarette inside his mouth and flip it over while avoiding child support payments on the 6 kids he already had with 5 different women. I think you should talk to her.
I don't see why. Games could be moved from one account to another. Plenty of games already allow in-game trading, and Steam lets me gift games to fellow users. They could stay away from the reasons for trading. IP has long been licensed, not sold, so our binding it to physical discs makes no sense.
If memory serves, that's in John, in which case it's consistent with John's Christ being of divine origins.
Thanks for clarifying things. By Christ being part of god, with the link to Isaiah, you mean the "I am" response from Christ?
Having multiple words to describe the same thing is not comparable. The trinity is more than having a bunch of names for the one guy.