When I was a teenager a guy we all knew turned narc. He called me up and asked if I had any pot. I told him I had a tiny amount left and would smoke with him. He comes to my house and starts begging me to let him take some home. He tells me his stepfather is going to beat him unless he brings some home. After half an hour I get sick of this yoyo bugging me so I give him half a gram just so he'll get out of my house. He didn't even pay for it.
Fast forward a few months and I get pulled over and told I'm being charged with -Possession with intent to distribute narcotics -Sale and delivery of narcotics -Maintaining a vehicle for the purpose of distributing narcotics -Maintaining a dwelling for the purpose of distributing narcotics -Conspiracy to distribute narcotics
On the (bad) advice of my lawyer I plead guilty to 3 out of 5 felonies.
Turns out this was part of our town police's two year long secret undercover investigation. Similar things happened to 8 of my friends, none of whom I would consider "drug dealers." Two years and who knows how much money spent, net result: a bunch of kids who could of had bright futures now with felonies on their records (since you're an adult at 16 in North Carolina).
This is the result of the war on drugs. Police departments need drug busts on a recurring basis to keep getting some of that sweet sweet federal drug enforcement money. What we end up with is a systematic campaign to label casual drug users (usually kids, they don't have the defensive paranoia older users have yet) as dealers and load them up with felonies.
Well, um, I've gone off on a bit of a rant, but the point (I think) was that I was guilty of simple possession, and I was entrapped into distribution that I otherwise was not interested in committing. I guess it's a but blurry considering I was willing to smoke with him... but either way claiming that I was maintaining my house and car for the purpose of conspiring to deal drugs is ludicrous.
TL;DR: A lot of cops suck, the drug war sucks, arresting kids sucks, and entrapment sucks.;-)
I agree, but unfortunately it's never going to happen until the majority of the population stops believing in the invisible sky fairy. You can't have a sane society based on a mass delusion.
You could say they are difficult or maybe even impossible with our current technology, but obviously not impossible in general. Haven't you ever heard a driver say "I almost lost it in that turn." If a human driver can realize he's about to screw up and correct for it then a computer can too.
Unfortunately, what we will probably get is paranoid full auto, boring slow semi auto, and your insurance company has just been notified electronically and your policy cancelled full manual control.
Would you do it if there was a 100% chance of the vessel rupturing a few minutes after takeoff?
I think you just came up with my new business plan: Extreme Assisted Suicide.
Are you a millionaire with a incurable terminal illness? Don't go out like a pussy, quietly in your bed. Be a big man in death like you were in life and ride a GIANT EXPLODING SPACESHIP into the great adventure of your demise! Call now for our exclusive combination euthanasia, cremation, ash spreading and memorial fireworks show!
I would like a combination of both approaches. Full auto for when I want to turn my seat around backwards and play poker with my friends in the back, manual control for when I want to zip though some fun curvy roads, with emergency computer takeover when I forget that I'm not in a formula one car and start to do something stupid.
Alternatively: The server lied to us because she hates Muslims and was just trying to get us to give up and go somewhere else. Because trust me, we asked plenty of questions, and invariably, her response was "it has pork or pork fat in it."
Also, this was close to 10 years ago, which admittedly I failed to mention. I'm sure their menu could have changed significantly in that time.
Totally off topic as to the article but relevant to vegetarian restaurant options. If you don't want to eat any meat products avoid Cracker Barrel. Everything there, from the mac and cheese to the collard greens has ham in it.
We learned this when we stopped there on a family trip with our Muslim brother in law. I think in the end all he dined on was bread-sticks and coke.
if you allow the millitary to run it you will probably be fine for construction and operation but they'll probably take the waste and dump it in an open pit on the side of the reactor.
I know the US military has been running nuclear reactors in their submarines for over 50 years, and I haven't heard of any improper waste disposal yet. Having the military in charge or at least a strict military discipline like environment seems like a workable solution to the human problem here. I won't say it's foolproof, but I think it might be a better idea than letting private corporations run the fission piles.
As long as we send the RIAA to some other planet to receive payment. While it would be an interesting physics problem to see what one of those things landing on earth would do, I'd rather not see it happen first hand.
Man, this whole thread could have been avoided if drinky had just stuck a ":-P " in his spelling correction. Internationally recognized symbol for "I'm being a snarky douche, but don't take it too seriously.":-P
Also: A Soyuz isn't exactly a yacht. I can see some billionaire getting claustrophobic or stir crazy and deciding to go for a long walk out a small hatch...
More seriously, I know a few women scientists and I can confirm that in many, many cases, the old adage "Beauty * Brains = Constant" is false. Personally, I think smart girls are sexy - end of story.
That's true enough, but unfortunately the few exceptions to "beautiful, intelligent, sane; pick two" that I've found are already taken.:-X
Just because you do not understand someones motivation, does not mean that that motivation is stupid. Not everybody picks their major with dollar signs in their eyes.
If I hit the other guys sword and I don't feel my elbow trying to tear itself apart when my sword hits resistance I'll still feel like I'm waving flashlights at my kid brother going "I got you! No seriously!"
E-gads, this far into the thread and nobody has mentioned that 666 and 616 are the numbers you get when you take the two most popular spellings of Nero (the roman emperor in charge at the time of writing) and use the then popular Jewish numerological practice of deriving a number from a persons name. 666 (616) wasn't the number of the devil, it was the number of the beast, and the beast was Nero.
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When I was a teenager a guy we all knew turned narc. He called me up and asked if I had any pot. I told him I had a tiny amount left and would smoke with him. He comes to my house and starts begging me to let him take some home. He tells me his stepfather is going to beat him unless he brings some home. After half an hour I get sick of this yoyo bugging me so I give him half a gram just so he'll get out of my house. He didn't even pay for it.
Fast forward a few months and I get pulled over and told I'm being charged with
-Possession with intent to distribute narcotics
-Sale and delivery of narcotics
-Maintaining a vehicle for the purpose of distributing narcotics
-Maintaining a dwelling for the purpose of distributing narcotics
-Conspiracy to distribute narcotics
On the (bad) advice of my lawyer I plead guilty to 3 out of 5 felonies.
Turns out this was part of our town police's two year long secret undercover investigation. Similar things happened to 8 of my friends, none of whom I would consider "drug dealers." Two years and who knows how much money spent, net result: a bunch of kids who could of had bright futures now with felonies on their records (since you're an adult at 16 in North Carolina).
This is the result of the war on drugs. Police departments need drug busts on a recurring basis to keep getting some of that sweet sweet federal drug enforcement money. What we end up with is a systematic campaign to label casual drug users (usually kids, they don't have the defensive paranoia older users have yet) as dealers and load them up with felonies.
Well, um, I've gone off on a bit of a rant, but the point (I think) was that I was guilty of simple possession, and I was entrapped into distribution that I otherwise was not interested in committing. I guess it's a but blurry considering I was willing to smoke with him... but either way claiming that I was maintaining my house and car for the purpose of conspiring to deal drugs is ludicrous.
TL;DR: A lot of cops suck, the drug war sucks, arresting kids sucks, and entrapment sucks. ;-)
I agree, but unfortunately it's never going to happen until the majority of the population stops believing in the invisible sky fairy. You can't have a sane society based on a mass delusion.
You could say they are difficult or maybe even impossible with our current technology, but obviously not impossible in general. Haven't you ever heard a driver say "I almost lost it in that turn." If a human driver can realize he's about to screw up and correct for it then a computer can too.
Unfortunately, what we will probably get is paranoid full auto, boring slow semi auto, and your insurance company has just been notified electronically and your policy cancelled full manual control.
Would you do it if there was a 100% chance of the vessel rupturing a few minutes after takeoff?
I think you just came up with my new business plan: Extreme Assisted Suicide.
Are you a millionaire with a incurable terminal illness? Don't go out like a pussy, quietly in your bed. Be a big man in death like you were in life and ride a GIANT EXPLODING SPACESHIP into the great adventure of your demise! Call now for our exclusive combination euthanasia, cremation, ash spreading and memorial fireworks show!
I would like a combination of both approaches. Full auto for when I want to turn my seat around backwards and play poker with my friends in the back, manual control for when I want to zip though some fun curvy roads, with emergency computer takeover when I forget that I'm not in a formula one car and start to do something stupid.
Alternatively: The server lied to us because she hates Muslims and was just trying to get us to give up and go somewhere else. Because trust me, we asked plenty of questions, and invariably, her response was "it has pork or pork fat in it."
Also, this was close to 10 years ago, which admittedly I failed to mention. I'm sure their menu could have changed significantly in that time.
Totally off topic as to the article but relevant to vegetarian restaurant options. If you don't want to eat any meat products avoid Cracker Barrel. Everything there, from the mac and cheese to the collard greens has ham in it.
We learned this when we stopped there on a family trip with our Muslim brother in law. I think in the end all he dined on was bread-sticks and coke.
Well, it is pretty much using a user interface to increase a value until an upper boundary is reached...
There is a bit of a difference between "I'm taking taking this persons side" and "the fact that you're both in court over this at all is stupid."
Actually you could make glass cubes and then drop the wasted into the deepest parts of the ocean.
Today's waste is tomorrow's fuel. I think we should keep this stuff where we can easily get to it when we want to.
if you allow the millitary to run it you will probably be fine for construction and operation but they'll probably take the waste and dump it in an open pit on the side of the reactor.
I know the US military has been running nuclear reactors in their submarines for over 50 years, and I haven't heard of any improper waste disposal yet. Having the military in charge or at least a strict military discipline like environment seems like a workable solution to the human problem here. I won't say it's foolproof, but I think it might be a better idea than letting private corporations run the fission piles.
As long as we send the RIAA to some other planet to receive payment. While it would be an interesting physics problem to see what one of those things landing on earth would do, I'd rather not see it happen first hand.
Yeah, I don't see how anybody can talk shit about a man who is doing Carl Sagan's job just by twitching his cheek...
Wouldn't you kind of, you know, explode like a bunch of photons if you were made mass-less?
I could see anti-grav and reduced inertia by modifying the field maybe, but not totally free of inertia.
Did anybody else think of nanohives from Shadowrun when they read the title?
So, how low of an orbit would you have to be in to pop the hatch, jump towards the surface, and have your corpse end up on the moon?
I mean, yeah, you'd be dead, but you'd be a legend. Most epic suicide ever.
Man, this whole thread could have been avoided if drinky had just stuck a " :-P " in his spelling correction. Internationally recognized symbol for "I'm being a snarky douche, but don't take it too seriously." :-P
Also: A Soyuz isn't exactly a yacht. I can see some billionaire getting claustrophobic or stir crazy and deciding to go for a long walk out a small hatch...
Better yet, root for a meteor to hit the courtroom when all concerned parties are in it.
More seriously, I know a few women scientists and I can confirm that in many, many cases, the old adage "Beauty * Brains = Constant" is false. Personally, I think smart girls are sexy - end of story.
That's true enough, but unfortunately the few exceptions to "beautiful, intelligent, sane; pick two" that I've found are already taken. :-X
I keep insisting I have lots of complex friends, but my wife says they're imaginary.
Just because you do not understand someones motivation, does not mean that that motivation is stupid. Not everybody picks their major with dollar signs in their eyes.
If I hit the other guys sword and I don't feel my elbow trying to tear itself apart when my sword hits resistance I'll still feel like I'm waving flashlights at my kid brother going "I got you! No seriously!"
E-gads, this far into the thread and nobody has mentioned that 666 and 616 are the numbers you get when you take the two most popular spellings of Nero (the roman emperor in charge at the time of writing) and use the then popular Jewish numerological practice of deriving a number from a persons name. 666 (616) wasn't the number of the devil, it was the number of the beast, and the beast was Nero.
All religion is old politics.