Sorry but that's why I said "genuinely threatening hostile action". A vehicle barreling towards a checkpoint is a genuine threat, people digging up UXO are a genuine threat not just to you but to themselves and everyone nearby.
You can try to weasel it all you want, the simple truth is that the legitimate ambiguity in the middle east is being abused far too much as an excuse to mistreat civilians.
No, you're just too ignorant to realise that freedom does not equate to infringing on OTHER people's freedom, which is what the police and government are there to stop.
The responsibility (ie price) of freedom is not giving UP that freedom it is accepting that life comes with a certain degree of danger and uncertainty, and that if you give up your freedom in the name of safety you will wind up with neither.
And yet that never seems to stop the police from charging people with all sorts of things when you record THEM doing their jobs outside. Especially when they do their job repeatedly, with great force.
If they take (genuinely threatening) hostile action against you they aren't civilians. If they don't... well that means you just shot unarmed people who weren't attacking you so that's a pretty straightforward situation.
Its just a shame that too many times too many soldiers don't refuse.
I've always thought the simple solution would be to create a standing military order that anyone who orders civilians be fired on should themselves be shot on the spot. It would certainly make people think twice about giving that order.
Yknow what? Enough of this "disproportionate force" bullshit. When someone wants you dead its not disproportionate to fucking curbstomp them before they have a chance to kill you.
How do you think wars are won? Do you think that we keep careful records of how many casualties we inflict so we can go and execute some of our own guys to even it up if we do to well?
We're not nuking cities to take out a single bread thief, we're dealing only with people who are explicitly combatants. Blowing them straight to whatever god they worship right off the bat instead of making sure that the violence is "proportional" is not only perfectly acceptable but in fact generally the whole freaking idea of combat.
There's a reasonable compromise if you have a substantial enough forum population: impliment thread rating and when a thread gets righted highly enough by enough people go take a look at it.
the FIRST 6 hours? I think that in and of itself explains a lot. The whole game including forced-wait-times took me less time to complete than some old MODS used to WITHOUT them.
Politics can best be mapped to a conical pyramid with the center being on it's flat face. The further away from the center you get in ANY direction the closer you come to meeting at the end point in "Batshit Insane Land".
Fox's target audience doesn't have political beliefs, they have a Faith.
In a sane and rational world, yes. In a school? The instant the business flags someone the school is going to treat that as the voice of god himself coming down from the heavens to demand blood and expulsion.
That's not even getting into the blindingly obvious conflict of interest here. Just like turnitin these guys are a business that relies on there always being cheaters to catch, it's in their interest to produce as many "catches" as possible without losing credibility. Hell at least with turnitin you're dealing with something you can prove, with these guys the student literally has no defense.
It's a witch hunt, pure and simple. If they're not failing they must be cheating somehow, if they are failing obviously they're innocent. No matter what the student is fucked.
Romeo and Juliet: Angsty teen gets laid, thinks he's in love, kills himself after trying to elope because their daddies don't get along. Fill liberally with sex jokes, puns, and slapstick.
Imho thats the real difference between this and other "solutions" the first world throws at africa. Infrastructure solutions like these solar panels can actually be installed, maintained, and used readily with minimal outside help.
Dumping a bunch of unmaintainable infrastructure down there won't ever get anywhere, but if everyone got together and made a bunch of really durable "just good enough" solar panels with really simple and easily repairable parts and just flooded the place with them then a whole lot more could be accomplished.
According to TFA we're talking about China selling directly to Africa. Aside from the lack of safety concerns I think they also have an advantage in that they aren't being held back by a billion patents and trolls.
"In late 2010 the last act of the democratic congress was to pass a massive legislative coup giving the FCC all the authority it required to enforce Net Neutrality and a mandate to bring america's infrastructure up to par with the rest of the first world.
Over the next two years the FCC rolled out a series of reforms which led to the end of the stagnation and abuses of the monopolies and duopolies in charge of access to the internet in america, began a campaign to run fiber straight to the home in all major american cities creating a massive number of public works jobs, and singlehandedly raised speeds, lowered prices, and improved the quality of american internet connectivity."
See? I can play the "lets make up a fantasy scenario that perfectly supports my position" game too.
Link Shell Extension makes it as easy to do as it is in linux, just right click in the right places and you're good to go. The only real trick is getting your head around the way they work.
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Sorry but that's why I said "genuinely threatening hostile action". A vehicle barreling towards a checkpoint is a genuine threat, people digging up UXO are a genuine threat not just to you but to themselves and everyone nearby.
You can try to weasel it all you want, the simple truth is that the legitimate ambiguity in the middle east is being abused far too much as an excuse to mistreat civilians.
No, you're just too ignorant to realise that freedom does not equate to infringing on OTHER people's freedom, which is what the police and government are there to stop.
The responsibility (ie price) of freedom is not giving UP that freedom it is accepting that life comes with a certain degree of danger and uncertainty, and that if you give up your freedom in the name of safety you will wind up with neither.
And yet that never seems to stop the police from charging people with all sorts of things when you record THEM doing their jobs outside. Especially when they do their job repeatedly, with great force.
If they take (genuinely threatening) hostile action against you they aren't civilians. If they don't... well that means you just shot unarmed people who weren't attacking you so that's a pretty straightforward situation.
Its just a shame that too many times too many soldiers don't refuse.
I've always thought the simple solution would be to create a standing military order that anyone who orders civilians be fired on should themselves be shot on the spot. It would certainly make people think twice about giving that order.
How often do games have sewers? Gore? Imagine what Doom's zombies would smell like. Or Quake 4's Meat-Factory levels.
The thought had crossed my mind but I think the whole shooting at you thing is a good giveaway.
Don't be stupid. There's no room next to the laser, it'll have to go on one of the fins.
I've started countering that argument with "No but I do expect to be able to use any shaving cream I want".
You're right, how could I ever make such a terrible mistake. Obviously a criminal AK47 or RPG will kill me less dead than a military one!
Yknow what? Enough of this "disproportionate force" bullshit. When someone wants you dead its not disproportionate to fucking curbstomp them before they have a chance to kill you.
How do you think wars are won? Do you think that we keep careful records of how many casualties we inflict so we can go and execute some of our own guys to even it up if we do to well?
We're not nuking cities to take out a single bread thief, we're dealing only with people who are explicitly combatants. Blowing them straight to whatever god they worship right off the bat instead of making sure that the violence is "proportional" is not only perfectly acceptable but in fact generally the whole freaking idea of combat.
There's a reasonable compromise if you have a substantial enough forum population: impliment thread rating and when a thread gets righted highly enough by enough people go take a look at it.
the FIRST 6 hours? I think that in and of itself explains a lot. The whole game including forced-wait-times took me less time to complete than some old MODS used to WITHOUT them.
Politics can best be mapped to a conical pyramid with the center being on it's flat face. The further away from the center you get in ANY direction the closer you come to meeting at the end point in "Batshit Insane Land".
Fox's target audience doesn't have political beliefs, they have a Faith.
More people = more total player hours. PC players accomplished this with 55k player hours compared to the ~90 that each the consoles currently have.
Do you not remember turnitin starting basically the same way?
In a sane and rational world, yes. In a school? The instant the business flags someone the school is going to treat that as the voice of god himself coming down from the heavens to demand blood and expulsion.
That's not even getting into the blindingly obvious conflict of interest here. Just like turnitin these guys are a business that relies on there always being cheaters to catch, it's in their interest to produce as many "catches" as possible without losing credibility. Hell at least with turnitin you're dealing with something you can prove, with these guys the student literally has no defense.
It's a witch hunt, pure and simple. If they're not failing they must be cheating somehow, if they are failing obviously they're innocent. No matter what the student is fucked.
Romeo and Juliet: Angsty teen gets laid, thinks he's in love, kills himself after trying to elope because their daddies don't get along. Fill liberally with sex jokes, puns, and slapstick.
Imho thats the real difference between this and other "solutions" the first world throws at africa. Infrastructure solutions like these solar panels can actually be installed, maintained, and used readily with minimal outside help.
Dumping a bunch of unmaintainable infrastructure down there won't ever get anywhere, but if everyone got together and made a bunch of really durable "just good enough" solar panels with really simple and easily repairable parts and just flooded the place with them then a whole lot more could be accomplished.
According to TFA we're talking about China selling directly to Africa. Aside from the lack of safety concerns I think they also have an advantage in that they aren't being held back by a billion patents and trolls.
Especially if you live in a place where you can broil something by putting it in a tinfoil U or black box at noon...
"In late 2010 the last act of the democratic congress was to pass a massive legislative coup giving the FCC all the authority it required to enforce Net Neutrality and a mandate to bring america's infrastructure up to par with the rest of the first world.
Over the next two years the FCC rolled out a series of reforms which led to the end of the stagnation and abuses of the monopolies and duopolies in charge of access to the internet in america, began a campaign to run fiber straight to the home in all major american cities creating a massive number of public works jobs, and singlehandedly raised speeds, lowered prices, and improved the quality of american internet connectivity."
See? I can play the "lets make up a fantasy scenario that perfectly supports my position" game too.
Link Shell Extension makes it as easy to do as it is in linux, just right click in the right places and you're good to go. The only real trick is getting your head around the way they work.
The word "let" used to mean to hinder or delay hence why passports say "without let or hindrance".
Incidentally this is also the nuclear argument against people who bitch about using the phrase "begs the question".