How about we really cut to the chase and end the drug war completely? It is the biggest excuse for violating the 4th amendment that the government has. Get rid of the drug war and police will have next to no reasons to search random cars, to bust down doors and trespass into people's private homes, or to stop random black kids in the hopes of ruining their future.
It's senseless, and this is just one permutation of it.
What have I missed here that makes XBMC so impressive?
Being reclined on the couch at 10pm and being able to use the remote with one hand rather than get up and find the wireless mouse beneath the pile of supermarket flyers, takeout menus, and unread magazines on the coffee table.
Kids can see R-rated movies under the law. It's theaters that won't allow them in by policy.
Do we want 8-year olds to save their lunch money and play Grand Theft Auto?
I don't. But there are better ways to prevent this from happening. Parenting. And supporting store policies that don't allow sales of violent games to minors. No need to brandish police force or put people in prison over it.
Right on! Let's tax all those people who cannot afford cars who walk or bike everywhere! The freeloaders! How dare they think they have the right to ride their bicycle on the road that YOUR SUV paid to build!
We ought to impose a tax on their cheap sandals to cover the damage they cost to the road ways as they walk to the local food pantries and shelters!
Sure, you're free to drive a behemoth around if you want. But you have to pay for the externalities that you're currently off-loading to everyone else.
Buses? There is no ridership left on buses for the most part. Buses are difficult to secure, so people are properly afraid of getting robbed and worse... Public transit has pretty much seen its day in the US. Buses aren't going to work without a cop or two on every bus and there just aren't enough cops to do that.
Wow. Are Americans really so afraid of each other they won't even get on a bus unless there's TWO cops on it????
I'm there. HD OTA covers my local football team. But baseball, hockey and basketball tend to be cable-only. I could do MLB.com, but I just don't watch enough games to justify the cost.
So my solution is to use a sporting event I want to see as an excuse to go have a beer with a friend either at their house with their cable tv, or at a local sports bar, or just get a pair of tickets. I mean, I can go to a Bruin's game for $11 some nights. So for the price of cable I can go and see 5 or 6 games a month instead.
While the idea is novel. It's problematic. Because a major game mechanic of an FPS is simply pointing at a space on the screen and pushing a button quickly. And it graduated to navigating a 3d environment and doing the same thing. It's basically a mechanic at the level of popping bubble wrap. i.e. Identify bubble, squeeze, satisfying pop, repeat. Nevermind the overlay that's placed over the mechanic, whether it be aliens, nazis, iraqis, etc.
What you're advocating is not a change in the overlay of the mechanic, but rather, a change in the game mechanic itself. Which is a much bigger challenge that you haven't really solved just by saying, "Make it a peaceful game, navigating a 3d environment." How do the "peaceful" interactions work mechanically? What's fun or skillful about it?
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Nicotine, on its own, isn't a toxin. Except at outrageous dosages that could never realistically be met simply by common usages of tobacco.
From the link: "The currently available literature indicates that nicotine, on its own, does not promote the development of cancer in healthy tissue and has no mutagenic properties."
Oh please! The majority of 70+ year olds I know are far less mature than the teenagers I've met. They're petty, love to gossip, are fearful of absolutely everything and spend most of their energy complaining about what everyone else is or isn't doing despite the fact that they spend the majority of their own time watching day-time tv.
Compare that to the teenagers I know who are winning scholarships, competing in statewide athletic competitions, are excited and optimistic about the future and prefer to talk about government policy, economics and philosophy.
Now if you look, you can find a dead beat 16 year old and an exceptional 75 year old. But if I had to pick between spending an afternoon hanging out with a bunch of teenagers or a bunch of 70+ year olds, I'd take the teenagers every time, the conversation's generally far saner.
Oh please. The majority of 70+ year olds I know are far less mature than the teenagers I've met. They're petty, love to gossip, are fearful of absolutely everything and spend most of their energy complaining about what everyone else is or isn't doing despite the fact that they spend the majority of their own time watching day-time tv.
Compare that to the teenagers I know who are winning scholarships, competing in statewide athletic competitions, are excited and optimistic about the future and prefer to talk about government policy, economics and philosophy.
Now if you look, you can find a dead beat 16 year old and an exceptional 75 year old. But if I had to pick between spending an afternoon hanging out with a bunch of teenagers or a bunch of 70+ year olds, I'd take the teenagers every time, the conversation's generally far saner.
How about discounts for people who never drive cars? They produce zero vehicle emissions AND lower their risk of needing emergency ambulance service and medical care.
Simple fact, the tax on tobacco is dishonest. If it is such a health threat why is it still legal to buy and sell?
The same reason red meat can still be bought and sold. Just because it's mostly unhealthy and there are much better alternatives doesn't mean it ought to be illegal.
Besides, making something illegal doesn't make it go away.
oh please. Who, in an emergency, combs over old slashdot posts to find possible food stashes to pilfer?
Besides, I've got to think it's a lot easier to plant some crops and defend your home than it is to risk an attack on someone else's in the hopes that they have something worth dying for. In a chaotic environment patrolled only by small communities of vigilantes armed to the teeth, do you really want to risk being known as a thief or murderer? It's not like you'd get 5 years in the local county jail, you'd be shot in the head on the spot.
Well that would be nice alternative, but I don't see how NH could afford it and keep taxes as low as they are. Though as it is seems to work well enough.
I don't think asking people to plan their career and financial lives so that they can afford to take a couple of months off once a year for a few years of their life is too much to ask of most people. Do we really want people running our local government who are so bad off with their money/career that they can't afford two months off for a few years of their life? If you really want to serve your government you can find a way to make it work. If you can't, you're probably not really fit for the office anyway.
And I don't think you'll see much lobby money floating around the side avenues of Concord. Even if you did, it would cost quite a bit to sway a 400 member body where each representative only has 3,300 constituents under him. These are people who took time OFF from making money to provide a service to their fellow citizens, not people looking to make a buck.
It's because NH has one of the largest legislative bodies in the world. The representatives aren't career politicians, there's no salary, just a stipend, and they only meet for a few months of the year. They really do have the best interest of their state in mind (at least what they sincerely believe the best interests ought to be) and very few of them have higher ambitions other than to serve a couple of terms in their current office and then getting back to their small business/job/retirement.
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If he was in a union he wouldn't be in such a rush to get the next customer.
If you strutted in to my turf from Mexico selling your barely-skilled labor for $8/hr, willing to take any and all safety risks Mr. Bossman asks of you, and thanking him for your zero benefits and job security at the end of the day, I'd probably make your life tough too.
You take your 40 hr work weeks, vacation days, decent pay and safe working conditions yet give the guys, who actually work hard through collective bargaining to set the minimum standards you start negotiating from, the finger.
You can revoke your permission at any time. Even if they were in the middle of a search and you suddenly realized they might see something you don't want them to, you could tell them to stop. So the fact they have come and gone pretty much means they no longer have permission to search, by any reasonable standard.
But people trying to avoid the drunk moped driver ought to be leaving safe following distances in order to avoid such a scenario.
Wouldn't a prudent driver leave enough following distance between himself and the next driver in order to avoid such a pileup? In which case, if the trucker was not leaving enough space, then the fact that he couldn't avoid an obstacle in the road is actually his own fault. Never mind the 50 cars behind him that didn't leave enough space.
Even if the moped went directly into oncoming traffic it should only result in an accident with one vehicle if everyone behind that vehicle is leaving an appropriate amount of following space.
And again, the person at risk is the one on the moped, if he runs headlong into an SUV there's a good chance the SUV driver wouldn't even notice. Whereas a drunk in a larger vehicle creates a much greater hazard for everyone else, and so ought to be penalized appropriately.
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How about we really cut to the chase and end the drug war completely? It is the biggest excuse for violating the 4th amendment that the government has. Get rid of the drug war and police will have next to no reasons to search random cars, to bust down doors and trespass into people's private homes, or to stop random black kids in the hopes of ruining their future. It's senseless, and this is just one permutation of it.
What have I missed here that makes XBMC so impressive?
Being reclined on the couch at 10pm and being able to use the remote with one hand rather than get up and find the wireless mouse beneath the pile of supermarket flyers, takeout menus, and unread magazines on the coffee table.
Kids can see R-rated movies under the law. It's theaters that won't allow them in by policy.
Do we want 8-year olds to save their lunch money and play Grand Theft Auto?
I don't. But there are better ways to prevent this from happening. Parenting. And supporting store policies that don't allow sales of violent games to minors. No need to brandish police force or put people in prison over it.
Right, because GPS trackers can't be hacked.
Right on! Let's tax all those people who cannot afford cars who walk or bike everywhere! The freeloaders! How dare they think they have the right to ride their bicycle on the road that YOUR SUV paid to build!
We ought to impose a tax on their cheap sandals to cover the damage they cost to the road ways as they walk to the local food pantries and shelters!
I'd absolutely vote for this.
Sure, you're free to drive a behemoth around if you want. But you have to pay for the externalities that you're currently off-loading to everyone else.
Just tax tires. Problem solved. Let's move on.
Buses? There is no ridership left on buses for the most part. Buses are difficult to secure, so people are properly afraid of getting robbed and worse... Public transit has pretty much seen its day in the US. Buses aren't going to work without a cop or two on every bus and there just aren't enough cops to do that.
Wow. Are Americans really so afraid of each other they won't even get on a bus unless there's TWO cops on it????
Exactly how afraid of life are you?
I'm there. HD OTA covers my local football team. But baseball, hockey and basketball tend to be cable-only. I could do MLB.com, but I just don't watch enough games to justify the cost.
So my solution is to use a sporting event I want to see as an excuse to go have a beer with a friend either at their house with their cable tv, or at a local sports bar, or just get a pair of tickets. I mean, I can go to a Bruin's game for $11 some nights. So for the price of cable I can go and see 5 or 6 games a month instead.
While the idea is novel. It's problematic. Because a major game mechanic of an FPS is simply pointing at a space on the screen and pushing a button quickly. And it graduated to navigating a 3d environment and doing the same thing. It's basically a mechanic at the level of popping bubble wrap. i.e. Identify bubble, squeeze, satisfying pop, repeat. Nevermind the overlay that's placed over the mechanic, whether it be aliens, nazis, iraqis, etc. What you're advocating is not a change in the overlay of the mechanic, but rather, a change in the game mechanic itself. Which is a much bigger challenge that you haven't really solved just by saying, "Make it a peaceful game, navigating a 3d environment." How do the "peaceful" interactions work mechanically? What's fun or skillful about it?
Nicotine, on its own, isn't a toxin. Except at outrageous dosages that could never realistically be met simply by common usages of tobacco. From the link: "The currently available literature indicates that nicotine, on its own, does not promote the development of cancer in healthy tissue and has no mutagenic properties."
Oh please! The majority of 70+ year olds I know are far less mature than the teenagers I've met. They're petty, love to gossip, are fearful of absolutely everything and spend most of their energy complaining about what everyone else is or isn't doing despite the fact that they spend the majority of their own time watching day-time tv.
Compare that to the teenagers I know who are winning scholarships, competing in statewide athletic competitions, are excited and optimistic about the future and prefer to talk about government policy, economics and philosophy.
Now if you look, you can find a dead beat 16 year old and an exceptional 75 year old. But if I had to pick between spending an afternoon hanging out with a bunch of teenagers or a bunch of 70+ year olds, I'd take the teenagers every time, the conversation's generally far saner.
Oh please. The majority of 70+ year olds I know are far less mature than the teenagers I've met. They're petty, love to gossip, are fearful of absolutely everything and spend most of their energy complaining about what everyone else is or isn't doing despite the fact that they spend the majority of their own time watching day-time tv.
Compare that to the teenagers I know who are winning scholarships, competing in statewide athletic competitions, are excited and optimistic about the future and prefer to talk about government policy, economics and philosophy.
Now if you look, you can find a dead beat 16 year old and an exceptional 75 year old. But if I had to pick between spending an afternoon hanging out with a bunch of teenagers or a bunch of 70+ year olds, I'd take the teenagers every time, the conversation's generally far saner.
How about discounts for people who never drive cars? They produce zero vehicle emissions AND lower their risk of needing emergency ambulance service and medical care.
Simple fact, the tax on tobacco is dishonest. If it is such a health threat why is it still legal to buy and sell?
The same reason red meat can still be bought and sold. Just because it's mostly unhealthy and there are much better alternatives doesn't mean it ought to be illegal.
Besides, making something illegal doesn't make it go away.
oh please. Who, in an emergency, combs over old slashdot posts to find possible food stashes to pilfer?
Besides, I've got to think it's a lot easier to plant some crops and defend your home than it is to risk an attack on someone else's in the hopes that they have something worth dying for. In a chaotic environment patrolled only by small communities of vigilantes armed to the teeth, do you really want to risk being known as a thief or murderer? It's not like you'd get 5 years in the local county jail, you'd be shot in the head on the spot.
Well that would be nice alternative, but I don't see how NH could afford it and keep taxes as low as they are. Though as it is seems to work well enough.
I don't think asking people to plan their career and financial lives so that they can afford to take a couple of months off once a year for a few years of their life is too much to ask of most people. Do we really want people running our local government who are so bad off with their money/career that they can't afford two months off for a few years of their life? If you really want to serve your government you can find a way to make it work. If you can't, you're probably not really fit for the office anyway.
And I don't think you'll see much lobby money floating around the side avenues of Concord. Even if you did, it would cost quite a bit to sway a 400 member body where each representative only has 3,300 constituents under him. These are people who took time OFF from making money to provide a service to their fellow citizens, not people looking to make a buck.
It's because NH has one of the largest legislative bodies in the world. The representatives aren't career politicians, there's no salary, just a stipend, and they only meet for a few months of the year. They really do have the best interest of their state in mind (at least what they sincerely believe the best interests ought to be) and very few of them have higher ambitions other than to serve a couple of terms in their current office and then getting back to their small business/job/retirement.
If he was in a union he wouldn't be in such a rush to get the next customer.
Although my dad would have been the guy installing/replacing a meter not reading it.
So fuck the other guy.
If you strutted in to my turf from Mexico selling your barely-skilled labor for $8/hr, willing to take any and all safety risks Mr. Bossman asks of you, and thanking him for your zero benefits and job security at the end of the day, I'd probably make your life tough too.
You take your 40 hr work weeks, vacation days, decent pay and safe working conditions yet give the guys, who actually work hard through collective bargaining to set the minimum standards you start negotiating from, the finger.
You can revoke your permission at any time. Even if they were in the middle of a search and you suddenly realized they might see something you don't want them to, you could tell them to stop. So the fact they have come and gone pretty much means they no longer have permission to search, by any reasonable standard.
But how are they going to get it back if you refuse and just offer them cash? Kick you in the nads and grab it?
One drunk driver, and 37 bad drivers who were following too closely.
But people trying to avoid the drunk moped driver ought to be leaving safe following distances in order to avoid such a scenario.
Wouldn't a prudent driver leave enough following distance between himself and the next driver in order to avoid such a pileup? In which case, if the trucker was not leaving enough space, then the fact that he couldn't avoid an obstacle in the road is actually his own fault. Never mind the 50 cars behind him that didn't leave enough space.
Even if the moped went directly into oncoming traffic it should only result in an accident with one vehicle if everyone behind that vehicle is leaving an appropriate amount of following space.
And again, the person at risk is the one on the moped, if he runs headlong into an SUV there's a good chance the SUV driver wouldn't even notice. Whereas a drunk in a larger vehicle creates a much greater hazard for everyone else, and so ought to be penalized appropriately.