At the risk of sounding like a troll, I find it very hard to believe that someone would get fired for missing "a routine Friday morning meeting which never divulges any useful information what so ever and is pretty much a waste of an hour". I know someone who got fired because of (in his words) "one bad manager who was out to get me" - I later found out that it had more to do with the fact that he was frequently late/unshaven (in a customer service role) despite having had several official warnings about the matter. All I can say is that it's very easy to blame the straw when one should really be examining the whole load....
And as others have stated, there's no way to undo, fix, or survive a murder, hence the harsh punishment
There's no way to undo or fix a rape either, it can leave the victim traumatised and can even lead to suicide.
One of my pet hates is when people have their phones hooked up to an earpiece/microphone so that you can't easily tell if they are talking on a phone or not. Without visual cues I naturally assume that they are talking to me until the content of their speech sets me straight. Then I feel annoyed for having been taken in by it, and for having diverted my attention from whatever I had been doing prior to the interruption. If you are going to talk on a phone, at least make it obvious please!
Has anybody taken five minutes to think about what this is going to do to climate change? If we reduce the number of pirates then surely global warming will increase, the polar ice caps will melt, the sea levels will rise and the ratio of pirates to ocean will further decrease in a runaway process that will result in the ocean completely covering the earth and only one pirate left (who hijacks animals). On the bright side, it only takes forty days and forty nights to do a soft reboot and reduce the planet back to its original state (give or take a few billion people).
Lottery is a tax on those who can't do maths!:-P Seriously though, my father bought me a lottery ticket once for my birthday, and I won back the approximate price of the lottery ticket. I consider that the closest that I'll ever get to being a millionaire by lottery.
Well, actually, in Australia at least I believe that meth producers were convincing elderly people to purchase pseudophenedrine-based drugs on their behalf. Naturally the pharmacist didn't suspect that some kindly old gentleman was going to support an illegal and dangerous drug lab, so they were getting away with it. It is a delicate balance - you need to make the drug available to those who genuinely need it, but there has to be some sort of procedure to make it difficult for the bad guys to get hold of it as well. Tracking who purchases it does seem like a good idea on one level, but then of course you get the whole slippery slope thing going on and that's not so good. In Australia you don't need ID to buy sudafed, but the pharmacists do question you to try and assess whether they think you are going to supply a drug lab or not.
The problem with this is, who bothers to check the cards? A place where I used to work had a policy requiring all employees to have their id card (with photo) on visible display, above waist height at all times. Of course, people would do this for a while, then just go back to sticking the cards in their pockets or on their belts where they can't be seen etc. Management tried to get the security guards to enforce it, but then they got all drunk on power and upset a few people by being too vigorous.
Technological solutions are easy. Finding the right balance between being suspicious of everyone (which is bad for morale) and being welcoming to everyone (which has the risk of "baddies" like Almly coming in) is the first challenge, and getting people to meaningfully follow any security policies that are implemented is the second, even harder one.
Of course, we can solve the security issue for government organisations very easily: all we have to do is sack everybody and then seal the buildings against all human entry. With no people, there will be no security issues, and I predict that very few people will notice the difference in output!
Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Not Universal
HOLLYWOOD - In a shock move, MGM has undercut Universal in its bid for the movie rights to Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine. Insiders had predicted that Universal would make the deal to build on the phenomenal success of Wolfram's 2,2 Turing Machine, but it has since become apparent that Universal failed to include an option for all sequels in the original contract. The exact figure offered by MGM is unknown, but is believed to be approximately x + y, and we can confirm that y is a finite number. More details will follow.
I did all of my schooling in Australia, and graduated from high school in 2000. I attended one high school (that's grades 7-12 in Australia) and about 5 different primary schools. Do you know, in all that time, I was never taught NOT to use an encyclopedia as a primary reference? It was actually/. that taught me this...isn't that bad? By the time I hit university it was all internet internet internet, so it became a non-issue. And of course by then I knew about being discriminatory in what one believes when reading the graffiti written on the inside of the tubes, so this little slice of ignorance never got me into any trouble. Still, it would've been nice to know.
I can't remember who said it, but there is a line that goes something like "you should leave your children enough money to do anything but not enough money to do nothing".
This is a brilliant plan by the terrorists. See, what they do is blow up a building or something so that everyone screams "OMG TERRORISTS!!!!". Then everyone diverts all their money into "anti-terrorism" measures which are mostly just for show anyway. And while you are so busy making sure that people don't bring sippy-cups onto aeroplanes, you completely forget to cure cancer or make the roads safer.
I can easily explain string theory in less than two minutes, but the explanation can only be heard in 6 tiny dimensions that nothing larger than a small flea can fit into. And the fleas didn't seem all that interested.
Shhh! Don't say "death" penalty! Or other nasty words like "murder", or "kill"! Let's stick to nicer sounding words like "abortion" and "termination" so people don't have to face up to what is actually happening. Now, where's my coathanger, I have to get back to work!
The problem with pre-natal abortion is that you don't know how the child would've turned out...what if you aborted the next Hugh Laurie, or Hank Azaria? I say we should implement a policy of post-natal abortion...let the child live for a few years, and if he/she starts demonstrating "evil" tendencies (such as strangling the neighbours' cats or making too much noise when the parents are trying to sleep) then the parents can just get out a pair of scissors or something and recycle the baby into pet food, or perhaps compost for the garden. Of course, all of those crazy right-to-lifers will probably go up in arms over this, but if we were allowed to post-natally abort them too then that wouldn't be an issue.
You were close...well, had the hemisphere right at least. I'm a dinki-di Aussie, with a rather morbid sense of humour. The way I figure it, there's can be a funny side to anything when it happens to someone you don't know. Since I don't know all that many people, it always leaves me with plenty to chuckle about.
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That's why I like to do silly and unconventional things. I may be no smarter than an ant, but at least I look a little different to the other ants.
The pilot and co-pilot of the cable-car-crashers got away with it too - they were found guilty of obstruction of justice because they destroyed some evidence, but didn't get into any trouble for killing 20 people.
At the risk of sounding like a troll, I find it very hard to believe that someone would get fired for missing "a routine Friday morning meeting which never divulges any useful information what so ever and is pretty much a waste of an hour". I know someone who got fired because of (in his words) "one bad manager who was out to get me" - I later found out that it had more to do with the fact that he was frequently late/unshaven (in a customer service role) despite having had several official warnings about the matter. All I can say is that it's very easy to blame the straw when one should really be examining the whole load....
I tried the date-rape drug once. It didn't work, nobody raped me :-(
And as others have stated, there's no way to undo, fix, or survive a murder, hence the harsh punishment
There's no way to undo or fix a rape either, it can leave the victim traumatised and can even lead to suicide.
One of my pet hates is when people have their phones hooked up to an earpiece/microphone so that you can't easily tell if they are talking on a phone or not. Without visual cues I naturally assume that they are talking to me until the content of their speech sets me straight. Then I feel annoyed for having been taken in by it, and for having diverted my attention from whatever I had been doing prior to the interruption. If you are going to talk on a phone, at least make it obvious please!
Has anybody taken five minutes to think about what this is going to do to climate change? If we reduce the number of pirates then surely global warming will increase, the polar ice caps will melt, the sea levels will rise and the ratio of pirates to ocean will further decrease in a runaway process that will result in the ocean completely covering the earth and only one pirate left (who hijacks animals). On the bright side, it only takes forty days and forty nights to do a soft reboot and reduce the planet back to its original state (give or take a few billion people).
Well, in Australia you can get charged with "unlawful wounding", which always led me to wonder what the procedure was for lawfully wounding someone.
Lottery is a tax on those who can't do maths! :-P Seriously though, my father bought me a lottery ticket once for my birthday, and I won back the approximate price of the lottery ticket. I consider that the closest that I'll ever get to being a millionaire by lottery.
Well, actually, in Australia at least I believe that meth producers were convincing elderly people to purchase pseudophenedrine-based drugs on their behalf. Naturally the pharmacist didn't suspect that some kindly old gentleman was going to support an illegal and dangerous drug lab, so they were getting away with it. It is a delicate balance - you need to make the drug available to those who genuinely need it, but there has to be some sort of procedure to make it difficult for the bad guys to get hold of it as well. Tracking who purchases it does seem like a good idea on one level, but then of course you get the whole slippery slope thing going on and that's not so good. In Australia you don't need ID to buy sudafed, but the pharmacists do question you to try and assess whether they think you are going to supply a drug lab or not.
Tada! You're dead. Now you can't be tracked (unless you specified where you were going to be).
Actually, this is dupe-ja-vu-vu. The articles must be about the same thing, notice that they both have the word "on" in the title? :-P
The problem with this is, who bothers to check the cards? A place where I used to work had a policy requiring all employees to have their id card (with photo) on visible display, above waist height at all times. Of course, people would do this for a while, then just go back to sticking the cards in their pockets or on their belts where they can't be seen etc. Management tried to get the security guards to enforce it, but then they got all drunk on power and upset a few people by being too vigorous.
Technological solutions are easy. Finding the right balance between being suspicious of everyone (which is bad for morale) and being welcoming to everyone (which has the risk of "baddies" like Almly coming in) is the first challenge, and getting people to meaningfully follow any security policies that are implemented is the second, even harder one.
Of course, we can solve the security issue for government organisations very easily: all we have to do is sack everybody and then seal the buildings against all human entry. With no people, there will be no security issues, and I predict that very few people will notice the difference in output!
Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Not Universal
HOLLYWOOD - In a shock move, MGM has undercut Universal in its bid for the movie rights to Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine. Insiders had predicted that Universal would make the deal to build on the phenomenal success of Wolfram's 2,2 Turing Machine, but it has since become apparent that Universal failed to include an option for all sequels in the original contract. The exact figure offered by MGM is unknown, but is believed to be approximately x + y, and we can confirm that y is a finite number. More details will follow.
Don't feel bad for me monster, I'm the bed that hides you from the child :-P
I did all of my schooling in Australia, and graduated from high school in 2000. I attended one high school (that's grades 7-12 in Australia) and about 5 different primary schools. Do you know, in all that time, I was never taught NOT to use an encyclopedia as a primary reference? It was actually /. that taught me this...isn't that bad? By the time I hit university it was all internet internet internet, so it became a non-issue. And of course by then I knew about being discriminatory in what one believes when reading the graffiti written on the inside of the tubes, so this little slice of ignorance never got me into any trouble. Still, it would've been nice to know.
I can't remember who said it, but there is a line that goes something like "you should leave your children enough money to do anything but not enough money to do nothing".
This is a brilliant plan by the terrorists. See, what they do is blow up a building or something so that everyone screams "OMG TERRORISTS!!!!". Then everyone diverts all their money into "anti-terrorism" measures which are mostly just for show anyway. And while you are so busy making sure that people don't bring sippy-cups onto aeroplanes, you completely forget to cure cancer or make the roads safer.
I can easily explain string theory in less than two minutes, but the explanation can only be heard in 6 tiny dimensions that nothing larger than a small flea can fit into. And the fleas didn't seem all that interested.
Shhh! Don't say "death" penalty! Or other nasty words like "murder", or "kill"! Let's stick to nicer sounding words like "abortion" and "termination" so people don't have to face up to what is actually happening. Now, where's my coathanger, I have to get back to work!
P = 0. Another solution! Where's my million dollars?
The problem with pre-natal abortion is that you don't know how the child would've turned out...what if you aborted the next Hugh Laurie, or Hank Azaria? I say we should implement a policy of post-natal abortion...let the child live for a few years, and if he/she starts demonstrating "evil" tendencies (such as strangling the neighbours' cats or making too much noise when the parents are trying to sleep) then the parents can just get out a pair of scissors or something and recycle the baby into pet food, or perhaps compost for the garden. Of course, all of those crazy right-to-lifers will probably go up in arms over this, but if we were allowed to post-natally abort them too then that wouldn't be an issue.
You were close...well, had the hemisphere right at least. I'm a dinki-di Aussie, with a rather morbid sense of humour. The way I figure it, there's can be a funny side to anything when it happens to someone you don't know. Since I don't know all that many people, it always leaves me with plenty to chuckle about.