Not quite. The actual logic is that if we make something legal, everyone will do it. And with this it becomes easy to understand the driving forces behind these laws.
The way the instructions to the jury were written, there was no choice in the outcome.... The judge should have been required to explain to the jury about jury nullification.
How does someone even reach the age where they can be selected for jury duty without understanding the basic principle that the jurors can decide pretty much whatever they please behind those closed doors? I mean, who even needs to be told about "jury nullification"?
Essentially. The actual amount is ~11 hours, there being 43830 hours in 5 years. However, I think it's more instructive to look at the weekly hours.
There are 168 hours in a week, and at this guys claimed rate of play, he would need on average ~76 hours a week in order to rake up that many hours of play. Assuming this guy actually sleeps(say 7 hours a night), there are only 119 hours in the week from which to make those play hours, giving him only 43 free hours for the rest of the week.
So, assuming that weekends are serious Lineage binge time, he's got about 8.6 (43/5) hours every weekday to live what's left of the rest of his life. I think we all know that a full time job is impossible with those hours, but I suppose some kind of part time job might be plausible, but transit and hours won't be able to add up to much. Keeping in mind that eating/hygiene/miscellaneous have all been left aside for now.
Even assuming no job at all, to make up those 76 play hours you'd need something like either 5 days of 16 hour Lineage shifts, or else 6 days of 13 hour shifts if you wanted at least one free day to....use the john I suppose. You could also cut in on sleep by running, say, two 36 hour shifts, which might buy you some additional spare time. Perhaps multitasking could be factored in. But in any case, raking up 20,000 hours in 5 years is going to be a sustained endurance feat I'm not sure even most junkies would be able to maintain for that length of time.
In summary: Craig Smallwood lives in his parents basement, and he's not coming out.
Just look at the Creationist nonsense going on in US schools. This is 2010?!
It certainly is. But unfortunately the science/religion "debate" is an American disease which has unfortunately infected discourse in most other anglophone countries. This kind of tripe coming from Stephen Hawkings himself is a symptom of just how chronic the infection has become.
Call me nostalgic, but I seem to recall that in the 1990's, anyone talking about the place of God or Religion in the sciences or indeed politics was viewed as an outlandish crackpot or a cultist of some kind. People seemed to leave their religion at home (I'm talking about countries outside the US). Nowadays, everyone seems to have no shame dropping out juvenile level inanity about creationism or belief in the divine at the drop of a hat.
In my opinion, all this jawing about religion in virtually any context is a waste of air, and worse has a divisive, and poisonous effect on our society. We're going downhill ever since we caught this bug from US newsfeeds--as well as the internet--and its only going to get worse until we stop allowing backward opinions from conservative America to pollute our airwaves.
Garbage like this is why I find myself turning to sources like Russia Today, Al-Jazzeera and China Daily for news. At least the totalitarian regimes don't cater to this pre-Enlightenment prattle. We may as well start reading horoscopes and celebrity gossip than give credence to this crud.
Your post has at least as much merit as the drawn out, torturous, philosophical arguments that lead to nowhere which infest this discussion and others like it.
One article, a thousand posts and nothing of substance. Welcome to theology 101.
In reality, the offense is that Assange alleged seduced the women, got them to buy stuff or him, and then he refused to call them back. In America, this behavior is par for the course.
It's par for the course when the guy buys the stuff and the woman doesn't ring back. Like most things, when you reverse the sexes it becomes an act of deviancy. Assange may as well have worn a neon dress and high heels.
I can't really blame them since they don't have to compete with anyone for their existing install base,
Are you kidding? PC gaming, Steam, PSN and even the Wii are all free to play online, not to mention handhelds. In effect, even their own Xbox offline play titles are competing against the $60 play online tax.
The Live subscription fee might have made sense in 2003 when online multiplayer was still a novel feature for most players, but as the years go by its becoming more and more difficult to justify paying more for a service everyone else is giving away for free. Indeed, if it weren't for the 30ms ping limits, the XLink Kai crowd would be out-competing MS on their own console. And frankly, the blatant commercialisation of the service even after payment simply adds insult to injury. I'm unable to see the justification for _any_ multiplayer fee, let alone an increase in one as expensive as a Gold account.
The single biggest problem with the Xbox has always been Microsoft's backwards attitude to online play, and increasing this fee in these tougher times is going a step too far in my opinion. I wouldn't be surprised if this move precipitated a sharp decline in Live subscriptions. It's not a good time to release a multiplayer title on the Xbox right now.
When I was learning how to drive, one of the first things the instructor showed me was a diagram of the clutch plate. He explained what the clutch pedal was doing, how it related the wheels to the engine, and why connecting those two components was a delicate operation which could lead to the engine cutting out. He then got me to start the car, and I cut out the engine a few times before I finally got it started. But I did understand _why_ the engine was failing, instead of the entire experience being a frustrating mystery.
Could you explain more about the harm? Overall, Turkey seems to be doing very, very well.
Well, I suppose that Ataturk's obsequious deferring to Western cultural, social and political imperialism/franchisism did confer some benefits on Turkey. The question is do these benefits outweigh the loss of native culture, history, language and pride? I'm sure from the perspective of an outside westerner, this "civilising" and "modernisation" of Turkey is both splendid and favourable. But Joe Turk might have a different opinion when he sees his children and grandchildren dressed up in unnatural garb and aping smirking foreigners while they exploit what's left of his country. But what do I know? I grew up after the wall went down; I know no other social system except the corporate one.
Let me put this another way. When the Native American's sent their ambassadors to Washington, they voluntarily wore business suits. And after their defeat, when they were forced into various institutions, they were forced to wear western attire. Free or note, the result was the same; they "assimilated", and gained nothing for it.
And I know you may well find these notions ridiculous. After all the Turks "chose" this right. No-one forced them to Speak White; right?
You seem to be assuming that their is a distinction between those two concepts. The only important factor here is how many lawyers each side can afford and how much money will be at stake.
These electric engines are just so boring, they make no noises with water steam smoke etc like cars used to.
Go do a deserted road with a small incline, park the car, and let the handbrake off. Better yet, do with someone else and watch and listen to the car as it glides along. Realise that when electric vehicles become truly efficient, streets will be filled with such silent floating bricks.
People tend to view the internet as this vast bazaar of millions of sites and voices. But images like this show just how homogeneous and centralised the majority of the net really is. Over a third of this images is taken up by perhaps 50 sites/conglomerates. That's less than the amount of channels you get on subscription television.
Faced with this image, the net neutrality debate is brought into focus. This is the image Telcos see when they think of the internet. All they care about is what happens with these large icons, and how much these icons are paying. What happens to the dotted paste in the background is of least concern to them. If their actions change the consistency, quality or effect of that paste, they won't care. Only the top 1000 or so companies actually matter in the scheme of things. This is the same image Advertisers see as well.
And in a sense, they are right if this image is to be believed. At least, if your thinking is centred on the actions of mass populations over individuals. Personally, I feel this image is getting more homogenised as time goes by and that if we look at the same image ten years from now that dotted paste will have shrunk to a thin layer surrounding perhaps less than 200 large icons. And of course, Google will take up 2/3 of it.
OK. The major difference is that the Russians by and large know when their country is a basket case and will in fact offer the odd joke or two. Americans meanwhile remain entirely oblivious as their country falls to pieces before their eyes.
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And therefore one of the most powerful and influential people in a modern democracy.
Just introduce regulation. Government regulation. Of food and food additives. It works, and it doesn't lead to a totalitarian nightmare.
However it will affect corporate profits in the short term. There's your problem right there.
Sounds like the diet of a Sumo wrestler.
Not quite. The actual logic is that if we make something legal, everyone will do it. And with this it becomes easy to understand the driving forces behind these laws.
For the present... .
How does someone even reach the age where they can be selected for jury duty without understanding the basic principle that the jurors can decide pretty much whatever they please behind those closed doors? I mean, who even needs to be told about "jury nullification"?
I wish you would reconsider your position by imagining juries bursting with bible bashing evangelical volunteers.
Essentially. The actual amount is ~11 hours, there being 43830 hours in 5 years. However, I think it's more instructive to look at the weekly hours.
There are 168 hours in a week, and at this guys claimed rate of play, he would need on average ~76 hours a week in order to rake up that many hours of play. Assuming this guy actually sleeps(say 7 hours a night), there are only 119 hours in the week from which to make those play hours, giving him only 43 free hours for the rest of the week.
So, assuming that weekends are serious Lineage binge time, he's got about 8.6 (43/5) hours every weekday to live what's left of the rest of his life. I think we all know that a full time job is impossible with those hours, but I suppose some kind of part time job might be plausible, but transit and hours won't be able to add up to much. Keeping in mind that eating/hygiene/miscellaneous have all been left aside for now.
Even assuming no job at all, to make up those 76 play hours you'd need something like either 5 days of 16 hour Lineage shifts, or else 6 days of 13 hour shifts if you wanted at least one free day to....use the john I suppose. You could also cut in on sleep by running, say, two 36 hour shifts, which might buy you some additional spare time. Perhaps multitasking could be factored in. But in any case, raking up 20,000 hours in 5 years is going to be a sustained endurance feat I'm not sure even most junkies would be able to maintain for that length of time.
In summary: Craig Smallwood lives in his parents basement, and he's not coming out.
It certainly is. But unfortunately the science/religion "debate" is an American disease which has unfortunately infected discourse in most other anglophone countries. This kind of tripe coming from Stephen Hawkings himself is a symptom of just how chronic the infection has become.
Call me nostalgic, but I seem to recall that in the 1990's, anyone talking about the place of God or Religion in the sciences or indeed politics was viewed as an outlandish crackpot or a cultist of some kind. People seemed to leave their religion at home (I'm talking about countries outside the US). Nowadays, everyone seems to have no shame dropping out juvenile level inanity about creationism or belief in the divine at the drop of a hat.
In my opinion, all this jawing about religion in virtually any context is a waste of air, and worse has a divisive, and poisonous effect on our society. We're going downhill ever since we caught this bug from US newsfeeds--as well as the internet--and its only going to get worse until we stop allowing backward opinions from conservative America to pollute our airwaves.
Garbage like this is why I find myself turning to sources like Russia Today, Al-Jazzeera and China Daily for news. At least the totalitarian regimes don't cater to this pre-Enlightenment prattle. We may as well start reading horoscopes and celebrity gossip than give credence to this crud.
Your post has at least as much merit as the drawn out, torturous, philosophical arguments that lead to nowhere which infest this discussion and others like it.
One article, a thousand posts and nothing of substance. Welcome to theology 101.
Says whom?
It's par for the course when the guy buys the stuff and the woman doesn't ring back. Like most things, when you reverse the sexes it becomes an act of deviancy. Assange may as well have worn a neon dress and high heels.
...On the internet with the credulous media.
Are you kidding? PC gaming, Steam, PSN and even the Wii are all free to play online, not to mention handhelds. In effect, even their own Xbox offline play titles are competing against the $60 play online tax.
The Live subscription fee might have made sense in 2003 when online multiplayer was still a novel feature for most players, but as the years go by its becoming more and more difficult to justify paying more for a service everyone else is giving away for free. Indeed, if it weren't for the 30ms ping limits, the XLink Kai crowd would be out-competing MS on their own console. And frankly, the blatant commercialisation of the service even after payment simply adds insult to injury. I'm unable to see the justification for _any_ multiplayer fee, let alone an increase in one as expensive as a Gold account.
The single biggest problem with the Xbox has always been Microsoft's backwards attitude to online play, and increasing this fee in these tougher times is going a step too far in my opinion. I wouldn't be surprised if this move precipitated a sharp decline in Live subscriptions. It's not a good time to release a multiplayer title on the Xbox right now.
When I was learning how to drive, one of the first things the instructor showed me was a diagram of the clutch plate. He explained what the clutch pedal was doing, how it related the wheels to the engine, and why connecting those two components was a delicate operation which could lead to the engine cutting out. He then got me to start the car, and I cut out the engine a few times before I finally got it started. But I did understand _why_ the engine was failing, instead of the entire experience being a frustrating mystery.
Well, I suppose that Ataturk's obsequious deferring to Western cultural, social and political imperialism/franchisism did confer some benefits on Turkey. The question is do these benefits outweigh the loss of native culture, history, language and pride? I'm sure from the perspective of an outside westerner, this "civilising" and "modernisation" of Turkey is both splendid and favourable. But Joe Turk might have a different opinion when he sees his children and grandchildren dressed up in unnatural garb and aping smirking foreigners while they exploit what's left of his country. But what do I know? I grew up after the wall went down; I know no other social system except the corporate one.
Let me put this another way. When the Native American's sent their ambassadors to Washington, they voluntarily wore business suits. And after their defeat, when they were forced into various institutions, they were forced to wear western attire. Free or note, the result was the same; they "assimilated", and gained nothing for it.
And I know you may well find these notions ridiculous. After all the Turks "chose" this right. No-one forced them to Speak White; right?
You seem to be assuming that their is a distinction between those two concepts. The only important factor here is how many lawyers each side can afford and how much money will be at stake.
This is an advertisement we're talking about. It would just get louder.
Go do a deserted road with a small incline, park the car, and let the handbrake off. Better yet, do with someone else and watch and listen to the car as it glides along. Realise that when electric vehicles become truly efficient, streets will be filled with such silent floating bricks.
The speakers are a good idea.
People tend to view the internet as this vast bazaar of millions of sites and voices. But images like this show just how homogeneous and centralised the majority of the net really is. Over a third of this images is taken up by perhaps 50 sites/conglomerates. That's less than the amount of channels you get on subscription television.
Faced with this image, the net neutrality debate is brought into focus. This is the image Telcos see when they think of the internet. All they care about is what happens with these large icons, and how much these icons are paying. What happens to the dotted paste in the background is of least concern to them. If their actions change the consistency, quality or effect of that paste, they won't care. Only the top 1000 or so companies actually matter in the scheme of things. This is the same image Advertisers see as well.
And in a sense, they are right if this image is to be believed. At least, if your thinking is centred on the actions of mass populations over individuals. Personally, I feel this image is getting more homogenised as time goes by and that if we look at the same image ten years from now that dotted paste will have shrunk to a thin layer surrounding perhaps less than 200 large icons. And of course, Google will take up 2/3 of it.
Gentlemen, I inquire; Who hath released the hounds?
OK. The major difference is that the Russians by and large know when their country is a basket case and will in fact offer the odd joke or two. Americans meanwhile remain entirely oblivious as their country falls to pieces before their eyes.
You wish. Most credulous people are actually quite cunning when it comes to selecting facts.
Top Gear.
Be aware though, that the motivation required to write a Slashdot post is pretty low.