Japanese defend the practice as a local custom — and say it is no different to the slaughter of other animals for meat.
Spoken as if it's okay to kill those animals too.
It wasn't so long ago that we cleaned chimneys by sending little boys to climb up and clean them from the inside. It wasn't so long ago that the poor were warehoused in workhouses in horrific conditions. It wasn't so long ago that slavery was widespread and legal in America. We don't do these things anymore because we tend towards building a better society. Our morals evolve.
In one hundred years we'll look back at the practice of eating meat with the same horror that we look upon slavery now.
Single-use zoning ordinances were a major cause of sprawl. Let's partition everything up into nice neat little parcels that look great on a map. Let's ban the corner store. Let's put all the houses in this zone, all the shops in this zone, all the offices in this zone, and all the industry in this zone. Lo-and-behold, suddenly all of your daily needs are out of walking distance. Suddenly everyone is forced to drive cars just to get through the day. And then they wonder why American cities built in the post-war period have so much traffic.
Thank you! I've been saying it for years. If we treated rape the same way we treated murder, we'd hire some pervert to rape, on behalf of the state, anyone convicted of rape.
The US should ban ALL imports from Danish companies, and add a huge tariff to any goods ending up there. Dictating what your customers do with the products they buy from you seems well, unenforceable and ignorant.
Right. Start a trade war with the European Union over your country's shoddy human rights records. You're a real fucking genius aren't you? You should run for office, you'd probably win a GOP primary easily with that level of stupidity.
If we want the death penalty to be a deterrent against crime, potential criminals should have to face a death that's scary, and not expect a painless injection that lets them quietly pass away.
I guess I should be appalled, but.. the dude slaughtered a pregnant girl; I don't care how he died exactly at all. In fact, I'm going to consider this a successful QA test and move on.
Your Nazi rhetoric sure is dramatic, but I won't repeat myself beyond this.
Dear government: Be it tax filing, bridge construction or prisoner execution, please do so efficiently.
Now you're comparing clerical administrative work and civil engineering to the killing of another human being. Looks my invocation of Godwin's Law was entirely appropriate.
Would you fucking dickheads get it into your thick skulls that climate and weather are not the same thing? Jesus H Christ! I learned this in high school geography class when I was 11 years old! What's taking you so long, you knuckle-dragging idiot?
My concern in this particular line of thought isn't about the right or wrong of the situation. Once we decide to execute people, and we know it's expensive, and we do them infrequently and all over the damned place, then we should employ some sort of economy of scale in doing so.
Okay then. How about industrial-scale gas chambers with a railway line going in the front and a crematorium out the back? To ease the minds of the convicts you could just lie to them and tell them it's a work camp, and put a sign on the gate saying "work sets you free." Better build that chimney pretty high though. The locals are sure to complain about the smell of burning human flesh.
Seriously though, do you people ever listen to yourselves?
So, kill them more frequently at centralized locations, and speed the appeal process.
I'm not for debating the right and wrong of situations -- that's for women. I'm a man. I like to fix things.
Screw that, why not just summarily execute them on arrest? That'd be the cheapest solution of all. Who the hell needs due process? Sure a few innocent people might get caught in the crossfire, but since you're so hell bent on proving your manhood then I'm sure you don't care about that.
It ain't just about the victim's family, asshole - it's so that he can never do the same crime again, and we don't have to bear the cost of his remaining days.
Bullshit. LWOP is cheaper than capital punishment. Fact.
It's got nothing to do with public safety and fuck all to with economics. It's about retribution, satisfying the bloodlust of an angry mob. Capital punishment is lynch-mob justice. It's expensive, ineffective, and barbaric. Period.
With GG turning on and off easily, or on its own, there is no way to prove guilt - not without forensic examination of the log. This means that GG is a wide open door to texting and browsing Web from behind the wheel. Mere wearing it proves nothing - until the legislature says something about that.
With regard to having GG off while driving, this is not viable because recording, or taking still pictures, while driving is a valid use (as long as you do it by voice, which GG is designed for.) It's certainly more valid than wearing it in crowd.
I had a cellphone up to my ear and my lips were moving. But I wasn't really using it. It was switched off. Honest, officer.
The consensus in Wisconsin might be that the Packers are the best football team, but that doesn't make it fact. It would simply mean that the majority prefer to remain delusional, rather than change their long-held beliefs.
Your ability to compare peer reviewed scientific papers to loyalty to sports teams is noted.
That is not to suggest that ManBearPig is not real, but it takes more "6 out of 10 scientists believe ManBearPig is real and will kill everyone" to convince the rational mind.
It's a bit more than 6 out of 10. It's more like 13,926 out of 13,950. And it's not about "belief." It's about reaching a conclusion after rigorous research.
While I'm not debating that the climate is changing, let's also not pretend that this is not all about $$$..
The article you have linked shows that there are business opportunities created as a result of dealing with climate change. It does not show how climate scientists benefit from the results of their studies going one way or the other, as is often alleged by climate change deniers.
get the tinfoil hats on, here come the climate changers!!
I think you'll find the tinfoil hat wearers are those who think that the scientific community are all conspiring to earn big bucks from climate change, although quite how they earn this money is never spelled out. Odd, that. Then the climate-change deniers have no trouble believing the industry-sponsored pseudo-science of the global warming denial industry that actually does have big money behind it from the likes of Exxon of Exxon Valdez fame. Yeah, you have no trouble believing the polluters, do you?
Get a fucking grip. The scientific consensus is that anthropogenic global warming is a fact. Out of thousands of peer-reviewed papers you'd be doing well if you can find one single paper that says otherwise.
Thanks for posting. Very interesting. Asimov wrote of similar trends in his Foundation series, when ignorance and superstition would make cyclical gains and losses. He talked of an age in which ignorance was so widespread that doctors just referred to medicine as "magic food" rather than try to get it into the people's thick skulls that it was good for them.
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Japanese defend the practice as a local custom — and say it is no different to the slaughter of other animals for meat.
Spoken as if it's okay to kill those animals too.
It wasn't so long ago that we cleaned chimneys by sending little boys to climb up and clean them from the inside. It wasn't so long ago that the poor were warehoused in workhouses in horrific conditions. It wasn't so long ago that slavery was widespread and legal in America. We don't do these things anymore because we tend towards building a better society. Our morals evolve.
In one hundred years we'll look back at the practice of eating meat with the same horror that we look upon slavery now.
You are one sick, twisted, psychopathic motherfucker.
If the climate scientists have a model that accurately predicted the past 16 years then we can talk about the future.
Until then the predictions of gloom and doom are about as believable as the heavens-gate cult.
For fuck's sake.
Single-use zoning ordinances were a major cause of sprawl. Let's partition everything up into nice neat little parcels that look great on a map. Let's ban the corner store. Let's put all the houses in this zone, all the shops in this zone, all the offices in this zone, and all the industry in this zone. Lo-and-behold, suddenly all of your daily needs are out of walking distance. Suddenly everyone is forced to drive cars just to get through the day. And then they wonder why American cities built in the post-war period have so much traffic.
That depends, is it a reasonable demand? Do we agree with it? If so, then yes we do that.
In this case, I'm on the side of crucifixion. Fuck that guy. We couldn't even think of things bad enough to do to that guy.
Go live in Saudi Arabia then. I hear they chop heads off in public. A sick, twisted psycho like you would love it there.
No, capital punishment IS the lynchmob.
We're more humane now that he's gone.
No we're not.
Thank you! I've been saying it for years. If we treated rape the same way we treated murder, we'd hire some pervert to rape, on behalf of the state, anyone convicted of rape.
The US should ban ALL imports from Danish companies, and add a huge tariff to any goods ending up there. Dictating what your customers do with the products they buy from you seems well, unenforceable and ignorant.
Right. Start a trade war with the European Union over your country's shoddy human rights records. You're a real fucking genius aren't you? You should run for office, you'd probably win a GOP primary easily with that level of stupidity.
If we want the death penalty to be a deterrent against crime, potential criminals should have to face a death that's scary, and not expect a painless injection that lets them quietly pass away.
Bring back crucifixion then. Go on...
I guess I should be appalled, but.. the dude slaughtered a pregnant girl; I don't care how he died exactly at all.
In fact, I'm going to consider this a successful QA test and move on.
Well then you're a fucking barbarian.
Your Nazi rhetoric sure is dramatic, but I won't repeat myself beyond this.
Dear government: Be it tax filing, bridge construction or prisoner execution, please do so efficiently.
Now you're comparing clerical administrative work and civil engineering to the killing of another human being. Looks my invocation of Godwin's Law was entirely appropriate.
Would you fucking dickheads get it into your thick skulls that climate and weather are not the same thing? Jesus H Christ! I learned this in high school geography class when I was 11 years old! What's taking you so long, you knuckle-dragging idiot?
I'll bet you drive a big truck too.
A Nissan Leaf.
I'm a full of delicious contradictions.
My concern in this particular line of thought isn't about the right or wrong of the situation. Once we decide to execute people, and we know it's expensive, and we do them infrequently and all over the damned place, then we should employ some sort of economy of scale in doing so.
Okay then. How about industrial-scale gas chambers with a railway line going in the front and a crematorium out the back? To ease the minds of the convicts you could just lie to them and tell them it's a work camp, and put a sign on the gate saying "work sets you free." Better build that chimney pretty high though. The locals are sure to complain about the smell of burning human flesh.
Seriously though, do you people ever listen to yourselves?
So, kill them more frequently at centralized locations, and speed the appeal process.
I'm not for debating the right and wrong of situations -- that's for women. I'm a man. I like to fix things.
Screw that, why not just summarily execute them on arrest? That'd be the cheapest solution of all. Who the hell needs due process? Sure a few innocent people might get caught in the crossfire, but since you're so hell bent on proving your manhood then I'm sure you don't care about that.
I'll bet you drive a big truck too.
It ain't just about the victim's family, asshole - it's so that he can never do the same crime again, and we don't have to bear the cost of his remaining days.
Bullshit. LWOP is cheaper than capital punishment. Fact.
It's got nothing to do with public safety and fuck all to with economics. It's about retribution, satisfying the bloodlust of an angry mob. Capital punishment is lynch-mob justice. It's expensive, ineffective, and barbaric. Period.
If the victim's family demand that the person who was convicted of the killing be publicly flogged and crucified, do we grant that wish?
You fucking barbarians make me sick.
... for the torture fetishist psychos to bombard this conversation, fantasizing about torturing someone to death in 5-4-3-2-1.
Congratulations, America. You're up there with Saudi Arabia and Iran in how the rest of the world views your claims to be a "civilized" country.
And spaceflight requires you to subscribe to the theory that the Earth is not flat. Point...?
With GG turning on and off easily, or on its own, there is no way to prove guilt - not without forensic examination of the log. This means that GG is a wide open door to texting and browsing Web from behind the wheel. Mere wearing it proves nothing - until the legislature says something about that.
With regard to having GG off while driving, this is not viable because recording, or taking still pictures, while driving is a valid use (as long as you do it by voice, which GG is designed for.) It's certainly more valid than wearing it in crowd.
I had a cellphone up to my ear and my lips were moving. But I wasn't really using it. It was switched off. Honest, officer.
The consensus in Wisconsin might be that the Packers are the best football team, but that doesn't make it fact. It would simply mean that the majority prefer to remain delusional, rather than change their long-held beliefs.
Your ability to compare peer reviewed scientific papers to loyalty to sports teams is noted.
That is not to suggest that ManBearPig is not real, but it takes more "6 out of 10 scientists believe ManBearPig is real and will kill everyone" to convince the rational mind.
It's a bit more than 6 out of 10. It's more like 13,926 out of 13,950. And it's not about "belief." It's about reaching a conclusion after rigorous research.
to earn big bucks from climate change, although quite how they earn this money is never spelled out
Climate Change Is the Next $10 Trillion Opportunity
While I'm not debating that the climate is changing, let's also not pretend that this is not all about $$$. .
The article you have linked shows that there are business opportunities created as a result of dealing with climate change. It does not show how climate scientists benefit from the results of their studies going one way or the other, as is often alleged by climate change deniers.
stop living in the desert.
What if the desert comes to you?
get the tinfoil hats on, here come the climate changers!!
I think you'll find the tinfoil hat wearers are those who think that the scientific community are all conspiring to earn big bucks from climate change, although quite how they earn this money is never spelled out. Odd, that. Then the climate-change deniers have no trouble believing the industry-sponsored pseudo-science of the global warming denial industry that actually does have big money behind it from the likes of Exxon of Exxon Valdez fame. Yeah, you have no trouble believing the polluters, do you?
Get a fucking grip. The scientific consensus is that anthropogenic global warming is a fact. Out of thousands of peer-reviewed papers you'd be doing well if you can find one single paper that says otherwise.
Thanks for posting. Very interesting. Asimov wrote of similar trends in his Foundation series, when ignorance and superstition would make cyclical gains and losses. He talked of an age in which ignorance was so widespread that doctors just referred to medicine as "magic food" rather than try to get it into the people's thick skulls that it was good for them.