I can speak coherently under heavy stress conditions, like getting grilled by Fortune 500 customers CXO level management as to a root cause for an outage.
I know the answer to that: it was someone else's fault.
In my case in the second year of high school when I was forced to endure over 20 hours of classes every week that I had no interest in I lost all will to go to school or do anything with it at all. I went from an A+ overall average to a C because I just did things that interested me outside of school. I was short on time so I sacrificed at-home sleep for sleeping at my desk in school.
This sounds like the beginning of one of the many "I was so fucking brilliant that I was bored at school, which is why I left with no qualifications and was forced to work as a rent boy because of course I was also fantastically good looking and well endowed, then one day one of my Johns gave me a job at Google and now I earn a nine figure salary controlling the internet" stories on slashdot.
I honestly don't understand how anyone can function in life if they're not prepared to do things they're not interested in. How do you ever get a job with that level of self-entitlement?
A man hires three prostitutes and wants to have sex with all three of them. They all might have different sexually transmitted diseases and they all want to use condoms. Unluckily, they have only two condoms. Plus, they are in the forest and canâ(TM)t buy new condoms. Can the man have sex with all three of the women without danger to any of the four?
It's quite useful to be taught English so that you can do things like FUCKING READ AND WRITE. Or do you think that the ability to read and write English (or any other language) is some magic gift from the gods that just appears when you start school?
I'd like to propose a new logical fallacy, the "Fireman Bill [google.com]" fallacy.
That's where you start with a problem and predict a series of possible - but highly unlikely - events which lead to total catastrophe.
Sounds like a version of the slippery slope fallacy to me.
...what about this precious little snowflake's (/s) parents? Why weren't they aware of what their minor daughter was doing on the internet?
You either have no children, or else you're some sort of control freak who monitors their kids 24/7.
Can you imagine the outcry on slashdot/4chan/reddit if a parent suggested banning their children from the internet until they were 18, employing a bodyguard to be with them at school and never allowing them out of the house on their own at weekends/nights?
Because that's what you'd have to do to keep them 100% safe.
"Perp walks" are a classic example of why absolute freedom of speech is a bad idea, despite the howls of outrage this will provoke amongst the libertarians, right wing extremists and absolutists around here.
You try saying "sticks and stones" to someone who's been paraded in public as a rapist or paedophile, then released without charges.
Believe what you like, I don't give a toss. There are plenty of silly naive students on here who seem to think everyone in the UK shares their simpleton left wing views simply because they never mix with anyone outside their young insular little peer groups. It must come as a shock to them when they get a job in the real world and get to hear adult points of view.
The existence of the Daily Mail alone proves your point that there are plenty of extremely right wing, bigoted, racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, reactionary, anti-union, pro-hanging, religious fascists in the UK. It is no surprise to anyone that a lot of people in the "real world" are utter cunts you wouldn't piss on if they were on fire..
Have you ever researched the phrase 'power vacuum'? Look at history - there is always a bully - always. So, who fills that roll if the US is out? China? Sound fun to you?
Just because you are powerful doesn't mean you have to be a bully, genius.
Try looking at the motive, rather than the 'damage done' (which is virtually none anyway, apart from embarrassment maybe). Motive is what counts if we are going to punish or lock up people.
The motive is that he wanted to prove the Pentagon/US government knew about UFOs and were hiding the information in some X Files style conspiracy.
It's about as sinister as a 12 year old girl trying to find the phone number of the curly haired one in One Direction.
How come if you're from the UK you use "liberal" as an insult/description? I've only ever heard that from a US right wing nutbag. UK right wing nutbags tend to use "lefty" as in "trendy lefty". "Liberal" in the UK is more specifically used for membes of the LibDems, or possibly as in classic "liberal" economics.
So either you're not from the UK, or you have been hanging around right wing nutbag websites in the US too long.
The US system of recall elections for judges is perfectly reasonable.
No it isn't. If a judge can't do their job they should be sacked, but this should be following peer review by people who know what they're talking about, not some hysterical lynch mob who think he was too soft on a paedophile by not locking him up for a hundred years after castrating him, something.
On what experience or proof do you fling your crap over the pond on the US Justice system?
Probably on the evidence of the crap talked by your legal/political spokesmen about him getting 60 years in jail for a minor offence. That is cruel and unusual punishment, and the fact that people in the US don't realise it is genuinely frightening.
I'm fed up of seeing people abuse provisions that are put in place to protect those with genuine medical/pschological needs and getting away with it.
I've never met the man, have you? Odd how you can diagnose a person as "sane" with no medical background and never having met him. Personally, I tend to believe the medical professionals who actually studied medicine and who actally had face to face contact, rather than from some stupid newspaper reporter.
TLDR: Why do you doubt the diagnosis of a health professional?
Although I am sympathetic towards MacKinnon, I think there is a question as to why it has taken so long to get this whole thing agreed, and a suspicion in people's minds that the medical evidence is being used as a sort of get out of jail free card (by the government rather than MacKinnon himself).
Also, any sort of psychological or medical diagnosis is open to different interpretations. No one in the UK will ever forget Guinness's Ernie Saunders who was "diagnosed" with Alzheimer's, released early from jail and made a miraculous never-seen-before-or-since recovery.
Finally, I think an awful lot of people would feel suicidal at the thought of being shut up in jail in a notoriously brutal prison system until they died
It's an accounting device, like using positive numbers for profit, and negative numbers for losses. That doesn't mean people believe negative money exists.
Of course negative money exists. It's called an overdraft.
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I can speak coherently under heavy stress conditions, like getting grilled by Fortune 500 customers CXO level management as to a root cause for an outage.
I know the answer to that: it was someone else's fault.
In my case in the second year of high school when I was forced to endure over 20 hours of classes every week that I had no interest in I lost all will to go to school or do anything with it at all. I went from an A+ overall average to a C because I just did things that interested me outside of school. I was short on time so I sacrificed at-home sleep for sleeping at my desk in school.
This sounds like the beginning of one of the many "I was so fucking brilliant that I was bored at school, which is why I left with no qualifications and was forced to work as a rent boy because of course I was also fantastically good looking and well endowed, then one day one of my Johns gave me a job at Google and now I earn a nine figure salary controlling the internet" stories on slashdot.
I honestly don't understand how anyone can function in life if they're not prepared to do things they're not interested in. How do you ever get a job with that level of self-entitlement?
Why do I feel an overwhelming desire to read "non-profit executive" as "unemployed douche bag with too much access to a thesaurus"?
What is inherently wrong with being a manager in a non-profit organisation like a charity?
I heard it more like:
A man hires three prostitutes and wants to have sex with all three of them. They all might have different sexually transmitted diseases and they all want to use condoms. Unluckily, they have only two condoms. Plus, they are in the forest and canâ(TM)t buy new condoms. Can the man have sex with all three of the women without danger to any of the four?
Well come on, what's the answer?
It's quite useful to be taught English so that you can do things like FUCKING READ AND WRITE. Or do you think that the ability to read and write English (or any other language) is some magic gift from the gods that just appears when you start school?
I'd like to propose a new logical fallacy, the "Fireman Bill [google.com]" fallacy. That's where you start with a problem and predict a series of possible - but highly unlikely - events which lead to total catastrophe.
Sounds like a version of the slippery slope fallacy to me.
You haven't wired your heart to your modem yet? Quit living in the past, man!
What's a modem?
You should familiarize yourself with the Rule of Funny.
Repeating an inappropriate internet meme does not mean that you are being funny.
...what about this precious little snowflake's (/s) parents? Why weren't they aware of what their minor daughter was doing on the internet?
You either have no children, or else you're some sort of control freak who monitors their kids 24/7.
Can you imagine the outcry on slashdot/4chan/reddit if a parent suggested banning their children from the internet until they were 18, employing a bodyguard to be with them at school and never allowing them out of the house on their own at weekends/nights?
Because that's what you'd have to do to keep them 100% safe.
"Perp walks" are a classic example of why absolute freedom of speech is a bad idea, despite the howls of outrage this will provoke amongst the libertarians, right wing extremists and absolutists around here.
You try saying "sticks and stones" to someone who's been paraded in public as a rapist or paedophile, then released without charges.
It's colour with a "u", you unutterable oaf.
In the UK we have a lot of Muslims who want to destroy our society and impose Sharia law.
I bet they're vastly outnumbered by the micro-genitaled fascists like you though.
Believe what you like, I don't give a toss. There are plenty of silly naive students on here who seem to think everyone in the UK shares their simpleton left wing views simply because they never mix with anyone outside their young insular little peer groups. It must come as a shock to them when they get a job in the real world and get to hear adult points of view.
The existence of the Daily Mail alone proves your point that there are plenty of extremely right wing, bigoted, racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, reactionary, anti-union, pro-hanging, religious fascists in the UK. It is no surprise to anyone that a lot of people in the "real world" are utter cunts you wouldn't piss on if they were on fire..
Have you ever researched the phrase 'power vacuum'? Look at history - there is always a bully - always. So, who fills that roll if the US is out? China? Sound fun to you?
Just because you are powerful doesn't mean you have to be a bully, genius.
Try looking at the motive, rather than the 'damage done' (which is virtually none anyway, apart from embarrassment maybe). Motive is what counts if we are going to punish or lock up people.
The motive is that he wanted to prove the Pentagon/US government knew about UFOs and were hiding the information in some X Files style conspiracy.
It's about as sinister as a 12 year old girl trying to find the phone number of the curly haired one in One Direction.
How come if you're from the UK you use "liberal" as an insult/description? I've only ever heard that from a US right wing nutbag. UK right wing nutbags tend to use "lefty" as in "trendy lefty". "Liberal" in the UK is more specifically used for membes of the LibDems, or possibly as in classic "liberal" economics.
So either you're not from the UK, or you have been hanging around right wing nutbag websites in the US too long.
Just sayin'.
The US system of recall elections for judges is perfectly reasonable.
No it isn't. If a judge can't do their job they should be sacked, but this should be following peer review by people who know what they're talking about, not some hysterical lynch mob who think he was too soft on a paedophile by not locking him up for a hundred years after castrating him, something.
On what experience or proof do you fling your crap over the pond on the US Justice system?
Probably on the evidence of the crap talked by your legal/political spokesmen about him getting 60 years in jail for a minor offence. That is cruel and unusual punishment, and the fact that people in the US don't realise it is genuinely frightening.
A crime is a crime is a crime, regardless of how hard to have to work to perpetrate it.
Yes, but some crimes are more serious than others and not all crimes deserve the same punishment.
What's the problem? Put him in isolation room with constant suicide watch for duration of sentence. Just like did for Bradley Manning.
For sixty years? What sort of a fucking sadist are you?
I'm fed up of seeing people abuse provisions that are put in place to protect those with genuine medical/pschological needs and getting away with it.
I've never met the man, have you? Odd how you can diagnose a person as "sane" with no medical background and never having met him. Personally, I tend to believe the medical professionals who actually studied medicine and who actally had face to face contact, rather than from some stupid newspaper reporter.
TLDR: Why do you doubt the diagnosis of a health professional?
Although I am sympathetic towards MacKinnon, I think there is a question as to why it has taken so long to get this whole thing agreed, and a suspicion in people's minds that the medical evidence is being used as a sort of get out of jail free card (by the government rather than MacKinnon himself).
Also, any sort of psychological or medical diagnosis is open to different interpretations. No one in the UK will ever forget Guinness's Ernie Saunders who was "diagnosed" with Alzheimer's, released early from jail and made a miraculous never-seen-before-or-since recovery.
Finally, I think an awful lot of people would feel suicidal at the thought of being shut up in jail in a notoriously brutal prison system until they died
What is the point of billionaires?
No, I don't know either.
If you get dirty doing dressage, you're not doing it right.
It's not so much the dressage as the rough horse-sex afterwards in the stalls that gets most horsemen and women dirty. Apparently.
don't forget that Vanilla Ice is (was?) a professional jet ski racer
Further proof that no one apart from complete and utter wankers ever used a jet ski.
It's an accounting device, like using positive numbers for profit, and negative numbers for losses. That doesn't mean people believe negative money exists.
Of course negative money exists. It's called an overdraft.