...not caving into the repressive, authoritarian Chinese government.
Well if you want to be consistent, maybe they should also stop doing business with and refuse to obey the laws of that country that topples democratic governments and replaces them with despots, invades countries for their natural resources, still uses capital punishment, and holds people without trial in violation of international law at Guantanamo Bay and in other secret locations around the world.
What he really seems to have meant was that for the device to sell, cities would have to be redesigned first. It's too heavy, fast, and unmaneuverable to ue on sidewalks, and it's too slow, unprotected, and unmaneuverable to use on streets. In essence, for the Segway to work, there'd have to be a completely new set of lanes for it. Additionally, it has all the problems of not protecting against the elements or having cargo space that prevent it from truly replacing cars. It's also far too expensive for the average person to justify the limited utility.
To sum up, it costs too much and can't be used in a majority of outdoor situations. It was overhyped when it had commercial flop written all over it. The Segway was brilliant example of promising the world and delivering nothing.
Once someone is "in for life" they are nothing but a drain on society and its resources, so why continue to house them?
So there.
I know the arguments as to why this can happen: the DA was a dumbass, the judge didn't do something right, the rapist's wife wouldn't testify (though she later admitted it). You name all the reasons. It ammounts to a person who should have gone to jail for a year simply for possession walking away scott free.
In other words the justice system, which is administered by humans, is prone to human error. Thanks you for making the point better than I ever could. I'm sure you'll agree that any justice sytem that is error-prone (i.e. just about any justice system you can possibly devise) cannot guarentee that every person convicted actually committed the crime, and thus the possibility remains that innocent people may be executed.
In any case, if you can't see that killing people is wrong then I don't think it's possible to reason with you. I don't know how to communicate with people who can't remove the "let's show everyone that killing people is wrong by killing people" attitude from their thick skulls.
what do you do with an individual who repeatedly commits a violent sex act against others?
what do you do with an individual who repeatedly kills others?
Probably what most civilised countries do, i.e. lock them up for life. Pretty straightforward.
Once someone is "in for life" they are nothing but a drain on society and its resources, so why continue to house them?
Don't give me the "execution is cheaper" argument. It's completely bogus. The death penalty is way more expensive than life imprisonment.
Let me throw a question back at you. If your mother was wrongly convicted of a murder and sentanced to death for it, would you still be in favour of capital punishment?
It may be worth noting that a repeat offender rapist/child ponorgrapher (creater, not consumer), pedophile, and murderer all should recieve a comparable sentence (IMHO). in the case of the sex crimes, whack off their nuts || rip out their overies on the second offence. If that doesn't fix them then make sure they can not harm another soul again.
Why not just bring back crucifixion while you're at it? No American will ever be able to lecture anyone about human rights or civilised behaviour again (not that they can now) but who cares as long as the need for revenge is satisfied?
Easy. If that were true, we would have been free-basing oil from Iraq years ago.
Go back and read the post. Do you understand the meaning of "try?" Your moron president probably had the same thing in mind when he pushed for this disastrous invasion.
Funny, I don't remember Iran being a democracy.
I'm not surprised. Here is the news. It WAS before the democratic government was deposed (by the USA) and replaced by the weak Shah, later to be deposed by the Ayatolla.
The Chinese government has killed thousands of its own citizens in massacres and throws its people into jail without a trial for speaking out against the establishment. They've a record of human rights violations, which is definitely evil by any stretch. I mean, shooting dead protesters and imprisoning and torturing people for speaking out
Oh please! Spare me the bleeding heart "America is a beacon of liberty and justice" speech. You're the only industrialised country that still practices capital punishment. You allow the bloodlust of the mob to enact laws that let you execute mentally retarded people and 75 year old men in cold blood. You invade other peoples' countries and try to take over their energy resources. You topple democratic governments (like in Chile, Iran, Haiti, etc.) and install unelected despots in their place. You squander a quarter of the world's resources and reserve the right to go to war to protect your wasteful, selfish way of life.
Get your own house in order before you start lecturing other people about what's right and what's wrong.
Got any vacation days? Use them up to go job hunting. Failing that, quit this job now and get something convenient (like working in a friend's bar in the evenings) to pay the bills while you spend the mornings interviewing. Or sign up with a temp agency. I did that when I was between jobs once, got me by until I found something permanent, and it had the 'benefit' of not being obliged to work every day in perpetuity. It was a bit nerve-wracking though, my finances were living on the edge, so it depends on how much reserves you have in the bank.
( ) Technical innovation in a developing country (*) Product shipped to a developing market ( ) General discussion about IT in the devbeloping world
The location is:
( ) Africa ( ) India ( ) Bangladesh ( ) China ( ) Somewhere else in Asia ( ) South America ( ) Central America (*) Other unspecified
You're objecting to it on the basis that:
(*) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in that country yet ( ) American jobs will be lost
Your argument is bogus because:
( ) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in the developed world either, that doesn't mean we should halt all technological research (*) This will not adversely affect any efforts to alleviate poverty (*) This will help to alleviate poverty ( ) Poverty in that country isn't as widespread as you say it is ( ) The US does not have a divine right to keep all the cool jobs
China is not democratic, and thus its government doesn't represent the will of the majority.
Neither does the government of Saudi Arabia.
Neither does the government of Pakistan.
Neither does the government of manys a country that the US does business with. If you want to preach to the rest of the world about the value of democracy then knock yourself out. Just because a country doesn't use your system to appoint its leaders doesn't mean you don't recognise their right to govern. The government of China is the one recognised by just about every soveriegn state in the world. You don't like them? Well neither do I, but that doesn't strip them of their sovereignty.
In all seriousness to the excellent gentlemen who insist on calling every new product "X's killer," has anything that has been labelled so ever amounted to anything? Have any of these purported "killers" actually killed? Seriously though, can someone provide a concrete example of this happening?
I'm just wondering when this iPod killer is going to come out. I think it's due around about the time Apple goes bankrupt.
I entirely agree. While they're at it, I hope they kill that gif image format too. It's only ever used for annoying animations and tacky envelopes folding up to represent a link to an email address. Never did anything useful in its life, only was abused. All the fault of the technology.
Simple solution to the size problem: Watch it in iTunes rather than just your iPod. Hit the maximise button and watch it in full screen mode. It's a bit lossy as you say, but only on blank parts of the screen that you're not focussed on. Besides, BSG is such a good show that you soon get into it and forget about the picture quality.
People in the UK exchange their fat for goods and services based on how much they weigh? Weird.
Some bore will probably mod me 'off-topic' for this but the British pound gets its name from the time before the Bank of England started issuing fidicuary (sp?) money and when a pound note was representative of a pound of gold held by the BoE.
Yeah but with broadband on a flight you open up the possibility of people using Skype, then you're potentially back to the same problem of "HELLO? I'M ON THE PLANE!" being scramed into your ear whether you like it or not.
( ) Technical innovation in a developing country (*) Product shipped to a developing market ( ) General discussion about IT in the devbeloping world
The location is:
( ) Africa ( ) India ( ) Bangladesh ( ) China ( ) Somewhere else in Asia ( ) South America ( ) Central America (*) Other __ Not Specified_
You're objecting to it on the basis that:
(*) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in that country yet ( ) American jobs will be lost
Your argument is bogus because:
( ) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in the developed world either, that doesn't mean we should halt all technological research (*) This will not adversely affect any efforts to alleviate poverty (*) This will help to alleviate poverty ( ) Poverty in that country isn't as widespread as you say it is ( ) The US does not have a divine right to keep all the cool jobs
I think that's part of the problem the guy's trying to overcome. It's almost impossible for anyone in authority to have a serious discussion about this without being laughed at. It's like a teacher trying to get the message about teenage pregnancy through to a classroom full of giggling teenagers who won't take it seriously.
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Yes you did. You said:
Once someone is "in for life" they are nothing but a drain on society and its resources, so why continue to house them?
So there.
I know the arguments as to why this can happen: the DA was a dumbass, the judge didn't do something right, the rapist's wife wouldn't testify (though she later admitted it). You name all the reasons. It ammounts to a person who should have gone to jail for a year simply for possession walking away scott free.
In other words the justice system, which is administered by humans, is prone to human error. Thanks you for making the point better than I ever could. I'm sure you'll agree that any justice sytem that is error-prone (i.e. just about any justice system you can possibly devise) cannot guarentee that every person convicted actually committed the crime, and thus the possibility remains that innocent people may be executed.
In any case, if you can't see that killing people is wrong then I don't think it's possible to reason with you. I don't know how to communicate with people who can't remove the "let's show everyone that killing people is wrong by killing people" attitude from their thick skulls.
Probably what most civilised countries do, i.e. lock them up for life. Pretty straightforward.
Once someone is "in for life" they are nothing but a drain on society and its resources, so why continue to house them?
Don't give me the "execution is cheaper" argument. It's completely bogus. The death penalty is way more expensive than life imprisonment.
Let me throw a question back at you. If your mother was wrongly convicted of a murder and sentanced to death for it, would you still be in favour of capital punishment?
Yeah, they used it about once in forty years and even then it was for mass murder. Hardly Texas.
Why not just bring back crucifixion while you're at it? No American will ever be able to lecture anyone about human rights or civilised behaviour again (not that they can now) but who cares as long as the need for revenge is satisfied?
Go back and read the post. Do you understand the meaning of "try?" Your moron president probably had the same thing in mind when he pushed for this disastrous invasion.
Funny, I don't remember Iran being a democracy.
I'm not surprised. Here is the news. It WAS before the democratic government was deposed (by the USA) and replaced by the weak Shah, later to be deposed by the Ayatolla.
Oh they just can't get it into their heads that foreign countries are governed by foreign people and not by the US.
Oh please! Spare me the bleeding heart "America is a beacon of liberty and justice" speech. You're the only industrialised country that still practices capital punishment. You allow the bloodlust of the mob to enact laws that let you execute mentally retarded people and 75 year old men in cold blood. You invade other peoples' countries and try to take over their energy resources. You topple democratic governments (like in Chile, Iran, Haiti, etc.) and install unelected despots in their place. You squander a quarter of the world's resources and reserve the right to go to war to protect your wasteful, selfish way of life.
Get your own house in order before you start lecturing other people about what's right and what's wrong.
Got any vacation days? Use them up to go job hunting. Failing that, quit this job now and get something convenient (like working in a friend's bar in the evenings) to pay the bills while you spend the mornings interviewing. Or sign up with a temp agency. I did that when I was between jobs once, got me by until I found something permanent, and it had the 'benefit' of not being obliged to work every day in perpetuity. It was a bit nerve-wracking though, my finances were living on the edge, so it depends on how much reserves you have in the bank.
Dunno. Can't remember the context of the previous discussion.
You're responding to a post about a:
( ) Technical innovation in a developing country
(*) Product shipped to a developing market
( ) General discussion about IT in the devbeloping world
The location is:
( ) Africa
( ) India
( ) Bangladesh
( ) China
( ) Somewhere else in Asia
( ) South America
( ) Central America
(*) Other unspecified
You're objecting to it on the basis that:
(*) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in that country yet
( ) American jobs will be lost
Your argument is bogus because:
( ) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in the developed world either, that doesn't mean we should halt all technological research
(*) This will not adversely affect any efforts to alleviate poverty
(*) This will help to alleviate poverty
( ) Poverty in that country isn't as widespread as you say it is
( ) The US does not have a divine right to keep all the cool jobs
Neither does the government of Saudi Arabia.
Neither does the government of Pakistan.
Neither does the government of manys a country that the US does business with. If you want to preach to the rest of the world about the value of democracy then knock yourself out. Just because a country doesn't use your system to appoint its leaders doesn't mean you don't recognise their right to govern. The government of China is the one recognised by just about every soveriegn state in the world. You don't like them? Well neither do I, but that doesn't strip them of their sovereignty.
I'm just wondering when this iPod killer is going to come out. I think it's due around about the time Apple goes bankrupt.
I entirely agree. While they're at it, I hope they kill that gif image format too. It's only ever used for annoying animations and tacky envelopes folding up to represent a link to an email address. Never did anything useful in its life, only was abused. All the fault of the technology.
Simple solution to the size problem: Watch it in iTunes rather than just your iPod. Hit the maximise button and watch it in full screen mode. It's a bit lossy as you say, but only on blank parts of the screen that you're not focussed on. Besides, BSG is such a good show that you soon get into it and forget about the picture quality.
Some bore will probably mod me 'off-topic' for this but the British pound gets its name from the time before the Bank of England started issuing fidicuary (sp?) money and when a pound note was representative of a pound of gold held by the BoE.
Yeah but with broadband on a flight you open up the possibility of people using Skype, then you're potentially back to the same problem of "HELLO? I'M ON THE PLANE!" being scramed into your ear whether you like it or not.
In 1869 they had something like this. The Avitor can now be seen in the Hiller Aviation Museum near San Francisco.
Kirk said it, then McCoy asked him what he was doing and said "you don't ask the almighty for his ID!"
You're responding to a post about a:
( ) Technical innovation in a developing country
(*) Product shipped to a developing market
( ) General discussion about IT in the devbeloping world
The location is:
( ) Africa
( ) India
( ) Bangladesh
( ) China
( ) Somewhere else in Asia
( ) South America
( ) Central America
(*) Other __ Not Specified_
You're objecting to it on the basis that:
(*) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in that country yet
( ) American jobs will be lost
Your argument is bogus because:
( ) Poverty hasn't been eliminated in the developed world either, that doesn't mean we should halt all technological research
(*) This will not adversely affect any efforts to alleviate poverty
(*) This will help to alleviate poverty
( ) Poverty in that country isn't as widespread as you say it is
( ) The US does not have a divine right to keep all the cool jobs
Chris Patten a 'wacko?' Why?