I never have mod points when someone deserves them.
Some people = most people. I'm not for prohibitive driver's licensing costs like Europe has, but I'm not for the if-in-doubt-pass system we have here in the states..
honestly I place a lot of the blame on the police. if traffic cops are there for our safety, they should be doing things to keep the roads safe -- such as driving down them and watching for unsafe drivers. NOT SITTING IN FUCKING SPEED TRAPS THAT DON'T EVEN WORK TO KEEP TRAFFIC DRIVING AT THE SPEED LIMIT ANYWAY.
Honestly, driving is NOT hard -- there's not much to keep track of, if you're keeping track of things. It's all just fucking shapes and colors..
No.. no that does not happen. I don't think even the guvmint propaganda claims that.
I've spoken to thousands of people who have injested hallucinogenic substances. LSD, psilocybin, ketamine, DXM, salvia... not a single one experienced or has ever known anybody who has experienced any radically psychotic or acutely violent reactions, nor any who have become completely insane and perpetually depersonalized.
I don't want people to be able to scrutinize the pr0n I peruse, let alone the laws I break, at their leisure. We already know which laws are ill concieved and which are selectively enforced, we don't need an even-more massive invasion of privacy to figure that out.
The biggest problem with Ketamine, and the primary reason it's rarely used on humans these days, is because it makes you trip balls.
That's really about it. LD-50 is 400mg/kg, so if your average person is 80kg that's a LD-50 of 32000mg... that's way, way way, way way way above the dose you'd need to drop someone into a jibbering ball of WTFness. Sure, they're in a k-hole, they're talking to god, they have no idea what's going on and for some people that's uncomfortable...
But uh, plenty of people do that stuff for fun.
It's SAFE.. it's just UNNERVING. And since society has deemed drug-induced hallucinations to be an awful, terrible, intolerable thing... well, don't expect any fast-acting human tranquilizers to ever be developed, I don't think you could create such a beast that either isn't deadly (ie, causes suppression of circulatory / respiratory systems) or doesn't cause hallucinations.
Let's not quibble legal tidbits. If I witness you in the commission of a crime, you are a criminal. If I think you have committed a crime and have evidence to back it up, you're a suspect. In the former case, I KNOW you've done bad shit and the only way you'd not be convicted is a technicality. In the latter, the evidence against you must be strong.
Oh, and if you fight with the cops you're immediately a criminal. Resisting arrest, assaulting an officer... even if the arrest was unjustified, you are not justified in violently resisting it. Which may or may not be completely fucked up, depending on your opinion, but that's a whole different argument.
Tasing for truancy? I'm not familiar with that case, and on the surface it sounds excessive -- but I'm not familiar with it and it's entirely possible the kid was acting in a threatening manner towards the officer. What, kids don't think they're fucking badasses?
And Don't Tase Me Bro? Fuck that guy. Seriously, fuck him. He caused an unwanted disruption. Your right to free speech does not extend to disrupting the free speech of others. At the point he was tased, he was not cuffed and he was struggling with security -- possible reaching for one of their weapons, the video didn't clearly catch what was going on. Yes, they had him "restrained" on the ground, but he was NOT cuffed and they could NOT transport him away.
Besides that, he was doing everything in his power to turn himself into some kind of fucking martyr for some really jacked up reasons that really didn't work. Nobody cares about what the hell he was saying, all anyone remembers is "DON'T TASE ME BRO!"
And how about the woman who would not get out of her car? I'll grant the second tasing seemed excessive, but if I recall the cop told her she was under arrest before tasing her the first time. How should he have dealt with that situation? She could have fled in her vehicle at any moment. Does he try to physically extract her from the vehicle?
Yes, tasers are NOT nonlethal. They are LESS lethal. They should be used not in place of firearms -- firearms should only be used when there are lives in imminent danger -- but should be used in place of good old fashion beatings.
Tasers ARE overused, and their excessive use SHOULD be punished -- possibly more severely than it is now.
That is not grounds for their removal, that is grounds for more stringent.. well, pardon the word but more stringent policing of their use.
If we have trouble with an animal, we shoot it -- either lethally, or with tranquilizer darts.
Now you might say let's just use tranqs on humans!... but that wouldn't work. The only tranq I know of that would be safe to use on humans would be ketamine, and it's not exactly fast-acting.
So then we're still left with the question of what to do when somebody violently resists police or police need to stop somebody from acting violently towards others.
Do you just shoot them? Beat the shit out of them until they stop?
Those both are much more lethal than a taser could ever be.
Try and talk them out of it? Oh, but if you do that now you're valuing the life of the criminal above the life of innocents and the police.
There are most certainly cases where tasers are over-used and abused, but I think that just means the police need to be held more accountable for their use -- not that tasers are an icky nasty evil thing that should be bannzt.
Oh, and it's not unlawful restraint. Where the hell did you even pull that from.
A laser pen won't cause permanent damage to anyone's eyes.
That's all tied to the energy level of the laser. A typical laser pen doesn't put out much energy -- certainly not enough to harm your eyes. At all. That warning? Superfluous. SOME lasers can blind you, but not the one you spent 5-10 bucks for that takes a single teeny tiny little battery. That thing couldn't melt an ice cube if it tried.
Not just one innocent person, not just two. Enough that they can clearly see their little project is horribly flawed and must be abandoned.
Though you've got an interesting idea. This is RIPE for abuse. Got Botnet? Infect your own computer, and have it pop the link for you a good month before the crapstorm begins. Hopefully early enough you'll get into legal hot shit, but late enough that the crapflood hits after you've been charged. Step 3 is profit.
Mod this guy up -- this is EXACTLY what needs to be done.
Somebody needs to man up and crapflood the fuck out of the FBI. This is completely unacceptable practice.
Sure, they mislabel the link to deceive people to click on it who only want to see CP... raise your hand if you have or have ever seen someone click on a goatse or tubgirl or lemonparty after being TOLD not to click on it.
This sort of shit is RIPE for abuse, and WILL be abused, and until it is OVERabused will CONTINUE to be abused. It's just like any other bug in any other MMO, really.:P
I believe you meant to say "beliefs" and instead typed "church".
The Church of Scientology is complete and utter garbage -- all of it.
The BELIEFS of Scientology? Also garbage -- but people can believe garbage if they want. Millions, billions of people believe all kinds of crazy things and call them religion. That's no big deal.
It's just when those crazy beliefs are used to justify awful abuses of people and of the law that it becomes a problem.
That's really pretty amazing -- Reznor has previously encouraged fans to steal his album from stores, but for him to actually own up to that and REALLY let them steal his album? Gotta respect that, no doubt
It would be real life, but with blackwalls and an aimbot and radar. Get things tied in tight enough and your computer power could even help you, say, catch a ball.. since that's so hard for the Stereotypical Geek Of The Future From The 1950s.... but actually and seriously help you catch a ball. Moving object, distance, trajectory, some math, ball will be HERE. If you've got things running casually it may do nothing, if you want to know where it's going you could have an illuminated (somehow) path or just the spot it will hit something. Or... if it's tied in tight enough.. it could be recognized that you want to catch the ball and automagically transmit the required movements in order to catch the ball to your body.
But that's.. that's kind of scary. Giving up our body's autonomy, even a little bit, is.. eek. Even if it's a simple reaction / action process like that -- it's not even a half-step to automated things like your computing power jumping you out of the path of an oncoming car before you actually know WTF is going on.. but at that point who's body IS it, really?
If the errors all trace back to some dude sitting in a cubicle doing data entry, they'd simply have to be chummy with the cop.
Which means basically.. ya piss off someone who has the power to ruin your life and who has no qualms about doing so? you gon' get raped.
there really should be a redundancy check to declare someone DEAD in a national database. I suggest using the exact opposite of what slashdot uses to choose articles.. ZING!
Yes, that's the same state of mind athletes refer to when they say they're in the Zone.
Yes, it's pretty close to a deep meditative state -- varyingly depending on the sport, of course. You can't relax TOO much in very high activity sports, but you CAN stop consciously noting and analyzing things and let the subconscious take over.
No, I'm not lying, yes, it is pretty awesome, but no, video games are not going to make you a zen master.
You should probably amend that to five digits, I've got six and I'm just a huge nerd that likes to yell loudly at people and be generally argumentative.
For example.. perhaps this WAS a case of theft. We're short of details -- it's entirely possible that the picture used was never placed anywhere publicly, and the company may have sent in ninjas in the night to steal it.. and stealing's theft. Yes it is.
Funny story, but once back in the days of high school somebody changed the res on their computer to something.. very not supported. black screened it out. restarting in safe mode's a PITA, it's much simpler to impress all the geeks and ensure you never get a date by sitting down, grabbing the mouse, closing your eyes, and changing the resolution back to what it originally was.
I put my computer on a rolling cart and took it to prom!:D
I'm fully capable of buying a new graphics card and installing it in my windows machine, and it runs all nice and shiny.. heck, I've even formatted and reinstalled windows in the past. But install something by hand? Text mode? Now my eyes are glazing over.
You know, you might have a point if the movies were made this year. That would be more than 50 years after they were created, and I could maybe see a point there.
Unfortunately for you the trilogy was released in 2001/2/3, and filming began in October of '99.
That's pretty far short of 50 years after the work was created, and only 26 years after the death of Tolkien himself.
Oh -- and according to Wikipedia the gross revenue of the films was $871,368,364... 7.5% of that is a hair over $6.5 million. Which means NewLine payed them less than 1% of what they were actually owed. Which, whether you think the copyright law is proper or not, when there's a contractual agreement to pay a certain amount for something and you decide "LOL FUCKIT" and actually pay less than 1% of what you said you would, well.. you're probably a giant dick and deserve to be sued for 25 times how much the original agreement was for.
I'm just sad that this means we probably won't see a Hobbit movie.. but I guess we CAN all look forward to The Hibbot?
Thing here is they're afraid of BASELESS LITIGATION
the same reason none of us want the RIAA knocking on our door
Baseless litigation, with sufficient money behind it and directed at a target with vastly lesser funds and legal power, can DESTROY lives. Even if it's completely and utterly false and obviously so, given enough money and force behind it your life will be ruined for quite a long while.
It amounts to abuse of the legal system, but hell, the RIAA's not really gotten in trouble for it yet (yet..). The CoS certainly won't.
[geekhat] actually, I believe it was Heretics of Dune, when Sheeana was on the rooftop of the Priesthood of Rakis's building, and was saved by a Bene Gesserit who I *believe* wound up cut up by the shigawire.. but it's been a little bit since I've read the series, it might've been someone in the Priesthood who got cut up [/geekhat]
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I never have mod points when someone deserves them.
Some people = most people. I'm not for prohibitive driver's licensing costs like Europe has, but I'm not for the if-in-doubt-pass system we have here in the states..
honestly I place a lot of the blame on the police. if traffic cops are there for our safety, they should be doing things to keep the roads safe -- such as driving down them and watching for unsafe drivers. NOT SITTING IN FUCKING SPEED TRAPS THAT DON'T EVEN WORK TO KEEP TRAFFIC DRIVING AT THE SPEED LIMIT ANYWAY.
Honestly, driving is NOT hard -- there's not much to keep track of, if you're keeping track of things. It's all just fucking shapes and colors..
No.. no that does not happen. I don't think even the guvmint propaganda claims that.
I've spoken to thousands of people who have injested hallucinogenic substances. LSD, psilocybin, ketamine, DXM, salvia... not a single one experienced or has ever known anybody who has experienced any radically psychotic or acutely violent reactions, nor any who have become completely insane and perpetually depersonalized.
That shit does not happen.
Reefer Madness was a lie.
Bad troll is bad.
You've got to be out of your mind.
I don't want people to be able to scrutinize the pr0n I peruse, let alone the laws I break, at their leisure. We already know which laws are ill concieved and which are selectively enforced, we don't need an even-more massive invasion of privacy to figure that out.
The biggest problem with Ketamine, and the primary reason it's rarely used on humans these days, is because it makes you trip balls. That's really about it. LD-50 is 400mg/kg, so if your average person is 80kg that's a LD-50 of 32000mg... that's way, way way, way way way above the dose you'd need to drop someone into a jibbering ball of WTFness. Sure, they're in a k-hole, they're talking to god, they have no idea what's going on and for some people that's uncomfortable... But uh, plenty of people do that stuff for fun. It's SAFE.. it's just UNNERVING. And since society has deemed drug-induced hallucinations to be an awful, terrible, intolerable thing... well, don't expect any fast-acting human tranquilizers to ever be developed, I don't think you could create such a beast that either isn't deadly (ie, causes suppression of circulatory / respiratory systems) or doesn't cause hallucinations.
Let's not quibble legal tidbits. If I witness you in the commission of a crime, you are a criminal. If I think you have committed a crime and have evidence to back it up, you're a suspect. In the former case, I KNOW you've done bad shit and the only way you'd not be convicted is a technicality. In the latter, the evidence against you must be strong. Oh, and if you fight with the cops you're immediately a criminal. Resisting arrest, assaulting an officer... even if the arrest was unjustified, you are not justified in violently resisting it. Which may or may not be completely fucked up, depending on your opinion, but that's a whole different argument. Tasing for truancy? I'm not familiar with that case, and on the surface it sounds excessive -- but I'm not familiar with it and it's entirely possible the kid was acting in a threatening manner towards the officer. What, kids don't think they're fucking badasses? And Don't Tase Me Bro? Fuck that guy. Seriously, fuck him. He caused an unwanted disruption. Your right to free speech does not extend to disrupting the free speech of others. At the point he was tased, he was not cuffed and he was struggling with security -- possible reaching for one of their weapons, the video didn't clearly catch what was going on. Yes, they had him "restrained" on the ground, but he was NOT cuffed and they could NOT transport him away. Besides that, he was doing everything in his power to turn himself into some kind of fucking martyr for some really jacked up reasons that really didn't work. Nobody cares about what the hell he was saying, all anyone remembers is "DON'T TASE ME BRO!" And how about the woman who would not get out of her car? I'll grant the second tasing seemed excessive, but if I recall the cop told her she was under arrest before tasing her the first time. How should he have dealt with that situation? She could have fled in her vehicle at any moment. Does he try to physically extract her from the vehicle? Yes, tasers are NOT nonlethal. They are LESS lethal. They should be used not in place of firearms -- firearms should only be used when there are lives in imminent danger -- but should be used in place of good old fashion beatings. Tasers ARE overused, and their excessive use SHOULD be punished -- possibly more severely than it is now. That is not grounds for their removal, that is grounds for more stringent.. well, pardon the word but more stringent policing of their use.
If we have trouble with an animal, we shoot it -- either lethally, or with tranquilizer darts. Now you might say let's just use tranqs on humans! ... but that wouldn't work. The only tranq I know of that would be safe to use on humans would be ketamine, and it's not exactly fast-acting.
So then we're still left with the question of what to do when somebody violently resists police or police need to stop somebody from acting violently towards others.
Do you just shoot them? Beat the shit out of them until they stop?
Those both are much more lethal than a taser could ever be.
Try and talk them out of it? Oh, but if you do that now you're valuing the life of the criminal above the life of innocents and the police.
There are most certainly cases where tasers are over-used and abused, but I think that just means the police need to be held more accountable for their use -- not that tasers are an icky nasty evil thing that should be bannzt.
Oh, and it's not unlawful restraint. Where the hell did you even pull that from.
If it has a wick, it'll light
A laser pen won't cause permanent damage to anyone's eyes. That's all tied to the energy level of the laser. A typical laser pen doesn't put out much energy -- certainly not enough to harm your eyes. At all. That warning? Superfluous. SOME lasers can blind you, but not the one you spent 5-10 bucks for that takes a single teeny tiny little battery. That thing couldn't melt an ice cube if it tried.
Not just one innocent person, not just two. Enough that they can clearly see their little project is horribly flawed and must be abandoned.
Though you've got an interesting idea. This is RIPE for abuse. Got Botnet? Infect your own computer, and have it pop the link for you a good month before the crapstorm begins. Hopefully early enough you'll get into legal hot shit, but late enough that the crapflood hits after you've been charged. Step 3 is profit.
Back when slapping a woman because she was acting crazy was in fact established medical procedure!
Mod this guy up -- this is EXACTLY what needs to be done.
:P
Somebody needs to man up and crapflood the fuck out of the FBI. This is completely unacceptable practice.
Sure, they mislabel the link to deceive people to click on it who only want to see CP... raise your hand if you have or have ever seen someone click on a goatse or tubgirl or lemonparty after being TOLD not to click on it.
This sort of shit is RIPE for abuse, and WILL be abused, and until it is OVERabused will CONTINUE to be abused. It's just like any other bug in any other MMO, really.
The church IS the organization.
I believe you meant to say "beliefs" and instead typed "church".
The Church of Scientology is complete and utter garbage -- all of it.
The BELIEFS of Scientology? Also garbage -- but people can believe garbage if they want. Millions, billions of people believe all kinds of crazy things and call them religion. That's no big deal.
It's just when those crazy beliefs are used to justify awful abuses of people and of the law that it becomes a problem.
That's really pretty amazing -- Reznor has previously encouraged fans to steal his album from stores, but for him to actually own up to that and REALLY let them steal his album? Gotta respect that, no doubt
No, he's right.
... but actually and seriously help you catch a ball. Moving object, distance, trajectory, some math, ball will be HERE. If you've got things running casually it may do nothing, if you want to know where it's going you could have an illuminated (somehow) path or just the spot it will hit something. Or... if it's tied in tight enough.. it could be recognized that you want to catch the ball and automagically transmit the required movements in order to catch the ball to your body.
Incomprehensibly.
It would be real life, but with blackwalls and an aimbot and radar. Get things tied in tight enough and your computer power could even help you, say, catch a ball.. since that's so hard for the Stereotypical Geek Of The Future From The 1950s.
But that's.. that's kind of scary. Giving up our body's autonomy, even a little bit, is.. eek. Even if it's a simple reaction / action process like that -- it's not even a half-step to automated things like your computing power jumping you out of the path of an oncoming car before you actually know WTF is going on.. but at that point who's body IS it, really?
And THAT.. is what is incomprehensible.
If the errors all trace back to some dude sitting in a cubicle doing data entry, they'd simply have to be chummy with the cop.
Which means basically.. ya piss off someone who has the power to ruin your life and who has no qualms about doing so? you gon' get raped.
there really should be a redundancy check to declare someone DEAD in a national database. I suggest using the exact opposite of what slashdot uses to choose articles.. ZING!
Welcome to the Zone.
Yes, that's the same state of mind athletes refer to when they say they're in the Zone.
Yes, it's pretty close to a deep meditative state -- varyingly depending on the sport, of course. You can't relax TOO much in very high activity sports, but you CAN stop consciously noting and analyzing things and let the subconscious take over.
No, I'm not lying, yes, it is pretty awesome, but no, video games are not going to make you a zen master.
More likely it's the M16, not the haircut.
You should probably amend that to five digits, I've got six and I'm just a huge nerd that likes to yell loudly at people and be generally argumentative.
For example.. perhaps this WAS a case of theft. We're short of details -- it's entirely possible that the picture used was never placed anywhere publicly, and the company may have sent in ninjas in the night to steal it.. and stealing's theft. Yes it is.
Funny story, but once back in the days of high school somebody changed the res on their computer to something.. very not supported. black screened it out. restarting in safe mode's a PITA, it's much simpler to impress all the geeks and ensure you never get a date by sitting down, grabbing the mouse, closing your eyes, and changing the resolution back to what it originally was.
:D
I put my computer on a rolling cart and took it to prom!
I'm fully capable of buying a new graphics card and installing it in my windows machine, and it runs all nice and shiny.. heck, I've even formatted and reinstalled windows in the past. But install something by hand? Text mode? Now my eyes are glazing over.
You know, you might have a point if the movies were made this year. That would be more than 50 years after they were created, and I could maybe see a point there.
Unfortunately for you the trilogy was released in 2001/2/3, and filming began in October of '99.
That's pretty far short of 50 years after the work was created, and only 26 years after the death of Tolkien himself.
Oh -- and according to Wikipedia the gross revenue of the films was $871,368,364... 7.5% of that is a hair over $6.5 million. Which means NewLine payed them less than 1% of what they were actually owed. Which, whether you think the copyright law is proper or not, when there's a contractual agreement to pay a certain amount for something and you decide "LOL FUCKIT" and actually pay less than 1% of what you said you would, well.. you're probably a giant dick and deserve to be sued for 25 times how much the original agreement was for.
I'm just sad that this means we probably won't see a Hobbit movie.. but I guess we CAN all look forward to The Hibbot?
Thing here is they're afraid of BASELESS LITIGATION
the same reason none of us want the RIAA knocking on our door
Baseless litigation, with sufficient money behind it and directed at a target with vastly lesser funds and legal power, can DESTROY lives. Even if it's completely and utterly false and obviously so, given enough money and force behind it your life will be ruined for quite a long while.
It amounts to abuse of the legal system, but hell, the RIAA's not really gotten in trouble for it yet (yet..). The CoS certainly won't.
[geekhat]
actually, I believe it was Heretics of Dune, when Sheeana was on the rooftop of the Priesthood of Rakis's building, and was saved by a Bene Gesserit who I *believe* wound up cut up by the shigawire.. but it's been a little bit since I've read the series, it might've been someone in the Priesthood who got cut up
[/geekhat]
I'm sorry, but your OS has caught teh A1DZ
I.. I don't know... I just.. don't know.