Northern Michigan in the 1970s there was no sense of 'dishonorable', just win or lose, and nothing done on their side was ever considered 'cheating'. There were two sets of brothers in my school with their attendant cousins and other hangers-on who made my life a living hell. Worst beatings I ever got in grade school were the days that I fought back and the next several days in a row.
I tried fighting back, several times, and it just made matters worse. Bullies don't fight one-on-one, they come in packs. It wouldn't have mattered if I had trained with Bruce Lee, when there are seven or eight of them you're going down. Then the next day books and homework end up in the snowbank and your pants get ripped, because it's still seven or eight to one and now they're pissed off.
The thing is, bullying is NOT unacceptable for a certain subset of parents. I remember the father of one kid giving his little monster advice on how to beat up my friend, while forcibly holding me back from interfering. Parents of popular and/or rich kids frequently ignored mistreatment of the kids of their 'social inferiors', all the way through high school. I doubt things have changed that much for the better since then.
So some random web site claims that the Taliban, experts in creating car bombs, claims credit for building a car bomb that NYPD calls 'amateurish'. Of course the web site is not named. Wonder if it's the one that sits in the colo in New Jersey, or the one in Vancouver.
Hasan has changed his story again? Is this the third time? Or fourth? I lose track. It's an interesting gambit his lawyer's proposing, I don't really understand the point of it but IANAL.
The US is still harboring and aiding Cuban terrorists in Miami, and refuses to extradite known war criminals with large bank accounts to Central America, Africa and Asia.
I'm really glad that I'm not a school kid today. I remember drawing up plans of my grade school and figuring out where one would have to plant a bomb to bring the whole structure down. In high school we launched a trash can up onto the building roof with a black powder bomb. I've carried a pocket knife every day since my dad bought me the first one for my eighth birthday. There's no way I would ever make it to graduation today.
Can't speak for the UK, but if you look at pretty much every supposed 'terrorist' attack caught by the FBI in the US in the last decade it generally comes out that the FBI informant proposed the attack, planned the attack, and convinced the rest of his group (frequently composed of the mentally ill or recovering drug addicts) that it was a good idea. More often than not the supposed attackers were utterly unable to even perform the very preliminary steps of the plan, much less carry it out. One of the fearsome terrorist teams was composed of six recovering drug addicts living in a halfway house, none of whom had ever handled a gun, none of whom had any money to buy a gun. They were convicted of planning to storm (IIRC) Fort Bragg and seize the armory from a squad of heavily equipped Marines.
Excuse my cynicism, but I think that so far the anti-terrorist forces deserve all the scorn we can heap on them.
Cost, convenience and inertia. Most small businessmen, once they've learned a procedure and are comfortable with it, have no interest in learning an entirely different (and more expensive and less convenient) way of doing the same thing. What they have works, and they're busy running their remodeling or dry cleaning business. Why would they want to change?
Actually wrecking them wasn't hard. The screwdriver blade of a Swiss Army knife smashed the plastic covering the screen, half a beer in the hole took out the screen, a toothpick shoved into the speaker a few times changed the singing Budweiser ad to "mjfmfjvhg". Sounds like the manufacturers have learned a few things over the years. I suspect you live in a more civilized area than northern Michigan, I'm still amazed at the things I've seen drunken rednecks destroy.
There's also asstr.org, the current home of what used to be alt.sex.stories.text.repository (IIRC), probably the largest and oldest online repository of erotica. Quite a few of the stories are book-length, the majority are short stories and many are series.
Censorship has never meant 'only government actions', and you're not going to find that in the definition in the dictionary. Censorship can be done by governments, religions, businesses, or any other organized mob. When the mom-and-pop Christian bookstore doesn't carry books about other religious outlooks they are censoring the choice that their customers have. It's not always a bad thing, either. In that example they're catering to a specific market and reducing choice of reading materials available for purchase makes sense to both them and their customers. On the other hand, a supposed all-purpose bookstore which refuses to carry non-Christian reading material would be damaging their bottom line and their customers' ability to choose.
To be truthful I would have welcomed falling asleep during that travesty of a story line. The continual cascade of stupidity and inaccuracy kept me annoyed enough that I couldn't, unfortunately. It was all I could do not to yell at the screen and piss off my wife.
According to the Libertardians this could never happen, since the holy Free Market would prevent any such thing. This pretty much puts the lie to their entire religion.
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If it had come in over a major military base on either side the assumption would have been a nuclear attack, which worries me a lot more.
Even for a financially-oriented discussion thread this is kind of early to full-on retard.
One of the best reasons for self-driving vehicles.
Northern Michigan in the 1970s there was no sense of 'dishonorable', just win or lose, and nothing done on their side was ever considered 'cheating'. There were two sets of brothers in my school with their attendant cousins and other hangers-on who made my life a living hell. Worst beatings I ever got in grade school were the days that I fought back and the next several days in a row.
I can't even imagine what it would be like to have your kid be a sociopath
For the financially privileged set it frequently feels like success. They're not at the top of the social pyramid because they're nice people.
I tried fighting back, several times, and it just made matters worse. Bullies don't fight one-on-one, they come in packs. It wouldn't have mattered if I had trained with Bruce Lee, when there are seven or eight of them you're going down. Then the next day books and homework end up in the snowbank and your pants get ripped, because it's still seven or eight to one and now they're pissed off.
The thing is, bullying is NOT unacceptable for a certain subset of parents. I remember the father of one kid giving his little monster advice on how to beat up my friend, while forcibly holding me back from interfering. Parents of popular and/or rich kids frequently ignored mistreatment of the kids of their 'social inferiors', all the way through high school. I doubt things have changed that much for the better since then.
Neither one had anything to do with my point, BTW.
So some random web site claims that the Taliban, experts in creating car bombs, claims credit for building a car bomb that NYPD calls 'amateurish'. Of course the web site is not named. Wonder if it's the one that sits in the colo in New Jersey, or the one in Vancouver.
Hasan has changed his story again? Is this the third time? Or fourth? I lose track. It's an interesting gambit his lawyer's proposing, I don't really understand the point of it but IANAL.
The US is still harboring and aiding Cuban terrorists in Miami, and refuses to extradite known war criminals with large bank accounts to Central America, Africa and Asia.
I'm really glad that I'm not a school kid today. I remember drawing up plans of my grade school and figuring out where one would have to plant a bomb to bring the whole structure down. In high school we launched a trash can up onto the building roof with a black powder bomb. I've carried a pocket knife every day since my dad bought me the first one for my eighth birthday. There's no way I would ever make it to graduation today.
Can't speak for the UK, but if you look at pretty much every supposed 'terrorist' attack caught by the FBI in the US in the last decade it generally comes out that the FBI informant proposed the attack, planned the attack, and convinced the rest of his group (frequently composed of the mentally ill or recovering drug addicts) that it was a good idea. More often than not the supposed attackers were utterly unable to even perform the very preliminary steps of the plan, much less carry it out. One of the fearsome terrorist teams was composed of six recovering drug addicts living in a halfway house, none of whom had ever handled a gun, none of whom had any money to buy a gun. They were convicted of planning to storm (IIRC) Fort Bragg and seize the armory from a squad of heavily equipped Marines.
Excuse my cynicism, but I think that so far the anti-terrorist forces deserve all the scorn we can heap on them.
Does your fire brigade generally show up BEFORE a fire? I'm impressed.
Part of that is simple demographics:
Population of the United Kingdom - 63,705,000
Population of the United States - 316,862,000
I thin that you'd frequently find, at least here in the US, that the spree murder's "suicide" is actually a police homicide.
Cost, convenience and inertia. Most small businessmen, once they've learned a procedure and are comfortable with it, have no interest in learning an entirely different (and more expensive and less convenient) way of doing the same thing. What they have works, and they're busy running their remodeling or dry cleaning business. Why would they want to change?
Technology has now gotten good enough that amateur and university groups can do this type of work. You don't think that's cool? I do.
Actually wrecking them wasn't hard. The screwdriver blade of a Swiss Army knife smashed the plastic covering the screen, half a beer in the hole took out the screen, a toothpick shoved into the speaker a few times changed the singing Budweiser ad to "mjfmfjvhg". Sounds like the manufacturers have learned a few things over the years. I suspect you live in a more civilized area than northern Michigan, I'm still amazed at the things I've seen drunken rednecks destroy.
Well, I don't go to the bars any more, so patrons' tolerance for intrusive media may be higher today than in the late-'80s/early-'90s.
It just became a lot harder for customers to find authors that are not widely known, and a lot more expensive for those authors to sell their books.
There's also asstr.org, the current home of what used to be alt.sex.stories.text.repository (IIRC), probably the largest and oldest online repository of erotica. Quite a few of the stories are book-length, the majority are short stories and many are series.
Censorship has never meant 'only government actions', and you're not going to find that in the definition in the dictionary. Censorship can be done by governments, religions, businesses, or any other organized mob. When the mom-and-pop Christian bookstore doesn't carry books about other religious outlooks they are censoring the choice that their customers have. It's not always a bad thing, either. In that example they're catering to a specific market and reducing choice of reading materials available for purchase makes sense to both them and their customers. On the other hand, a supposed all-purpose bookstore which refuses to carry non-Christian reading material would be damaging their bottom line and their customers' ability to choose.
To be truthful I would have welcomed falling asleep during that travesty of a story line. The continual cascade of stupidity and inaccuracy kept me annoyed enough that I couldn't, unfortunately. It was all I could do not to yell at the screen and piss off my wife.
According to the Libertardians this could never happen, since the holy Free Market would prevent any such thing. This pretty much puts the lie to their entire religion.
A bar I used to go to put little monitors above the urinals, displaying advertising. They didn't even last a full night.
Yes, it does. I think it was Rob Malda that requested that feature from the captcha vendor.