I don't really think it's for me to say. And I don't think your comment was trollish in the least. You were cautioning people against retaining a lawyer just based on the fact that they like him. And when I said "agreed", I meant it.
How do we know that you are not just agreeing with Rycross to trick people into thinking you are a good lawyer when in fact you are not? And which goblet has the iocane powder?
The highlander, or anybody with Wikipedia! I imagine such a list was much harder to compile back when people still learned things off thin pieces of wood.
I had already seen the photos a long time ago on the Ogrish forum (http://www.ogrishforum.com). It's tagline is "reality uncovered". If you want to fully understand the impact of war, or road accidents, or suicide, you should go have a look through the pictures or videos threads.
I disagree with your generalisation (all generalisations are incorrect, right?). I have seen many pictures of road accidents and I have to say that it does make me drive more carefully. I don't want some poor guy to have to pick bits of my brains off the road because I was being an idiot.
You think that's fast? I just googled it and I got your reply, my reply, and a reply to this comment saying "Wow, I can't believe google invented time travel!"
>>How this handle security? If the signature is sent remotely, it is >>possible to store ones signature to reproduce it several times afterwards.
That's easily fixed. Just make it a requirement that the signer must also sign a second document to indicate that they are not using a pre-recorded signature.
Let me tell you a story about the University I went to in Australia. The IT faculty was divided into "Schools", each school focussing on a particular IT area. The dean in charge of my school was very clever with the budget and managed to save up some extra money in case times got tough. So what did the university do? They took all that extra money and gave it to the science faculty. A year or two later, enrollments were down in my school, and the rainy day budget was all gone. The end result was that my school got completely absorbed into another one. The lesson: Never try and accumulate budget, just spend every cent you have got as soon as you can get it.
>>I have seen chefs put lobsters in the freezer so they (presumably) >>go to sleep and die quietly. >> >>Is this more or less humane I wonder.
I would argue that it is probably not humane. My mother-in-law once put a fresh crab in the freezer, based on the same logic. However the next day when she retrieved it (I was a witness to this; I am vegetarian whereas she is not) the crab was still moving. It was still alive, and whilst the extremities were frozen, it was clearly awake and presumably in some level of pain (I've never had frostbite, but according to wikipedia there is some level of pain involved).
I was not able to gauge how much pain (if any) it was in, but if crustaceans do suffer from pain due to frostbite then this would be a very cruel way to treat them since they appear to remain "awake" for some time as the extremities freeze up.
The difference is that when you pirate music, you are doing it for your own personal entertainment. When a business pirates software, they are basically using it commercially to generate profits. If I had written a software package and someone else was using it to earn money, and weren't paying me anything for spending my time developing and supporting the software, I'd be pretty upset. Same way if I wrote and recorded a song, and some random stranger downloaded and listened to it without paying me, I wouldn't mind so much. Bit if I wrote and recorded a song and someone started using it to earn money, I would be very annoyed since I did all the work and they got all the profits.
>>that "Zero Tolerance" policies are absurd. There is a reason why we have judge and juries.
>>Laws do not apply evenly. Regardless of the policy, any reasonable person would see how 3
>>stupid it was to trust another student's accusations and then harass a student with a good
>>record over one pill of OTC pain relief.
A zero tolerance policy on zero tolerance policies? Don't try to enforce it - you'll end up beating yourself to death.
I have experienced personally the effect video games have on real life. I actually wound up in hospital and with a criminal record after my last visit to the zoo where I:
Jumped on several turtles
Ate a mushroom
Ate a flower
Swam in the shark tank
Climbed on the roof of the building and jumped to the flagpole in an attempt to steal the flag (I missed)
>>High energy physics has a rich history of spinoff technologies. Ever had an MRI?
>>The superconducting magnets used in an MRI machine come out of particle accelerators.
I can't count the number of times people have stolen the super-conducting magnets from my particle accelerator to make MRI machines. Right now I'm stuck with a backlog of stationary particles in a jar in my back shed. I tried accelerating them by putting them in the passenger seat and driving down the road really fast, but it just wasn't the same:-(
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Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You downloaded my album. Prepare to die.
I don't really think it's for me to say. And I don't think your comment was trollish in the least. You were cautioning people against retaining a lawyer just based on the fact that they like him. And when I said "agreed", I meant it.
How do we know that you are not just agreeing with Rycross to trick people into thinking you are a good lawyer when in fact you are not? And which goblet has the iocane powder?
The highlander, or anybody with Wikipedia! I imagine such a list was much harder to compile back when people still learned things off thin pieces of wood.
It's handy if you have alzheimers. Just check your email each day for a daily reminder about which relatives have snuffed it!
I had already seen the photos a long time ago on the Ogrish forum (http://www.ogrishforum.com). It's tagline is "reality uncovered". If you want to fully understand the impact of war, or road accidents, or suicide, you should go have a look through the pictures or videos threads.
I disagree with your generalisation (all generalisations are incorrect, right?). I have seen many pictures of road accidents and I have to say that it does make me drive more carefully. I don't want some poor guy to have to pick bits of my brains off the road because I was being an idiot.
Whilst I agree with most of what you are saying, I would not recommend not using a rifle to drive a nail.
Hey, I'm a prison snitch. Mod me informative too!
>>You do realize that there are snide believers in evolution, also...right?
It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide!
I'll just leave this here.
Wow, I can't believe google invented time travel!
You think that's fast? I just googled it and I got your reply, my reply, and a reply to this comment saying "Wow, I can't believe google invented time travel!"
So tell me again, what's a Grecian Urn? You probably need at least two of them, because one good urn deserves another.
>>How this handle security? If the signature is sent remotely, it is
>>possible to store ones signature to reproduce it several times afterwards.
That's easily fixed. Just make it a requirement that the signer must also sign a second document to indicate that they are not using a pre-recorded signature.
Let me tell you a story about the University I went to in Australia. The IT faculty was divided into "Schools", each school focussing on a particular IT area. The dean in charge of my school was very clever with the budget and managed to save up some extra money in case times got tough. So what did the university do? They took all that extra money and gave it to the science faculty. A year or two later, enrollments were down in my school, and the rainy day budget was all gone. The end result was that my school got completely absorbed into another one. The lesson: Never try and accumulate budget, just spend every cent you have got as soon as you can get it.
Don't anthropomorphise the carving, he hates it when you do that.
>>I have seen chefs put lobsters in the freezer so they (presumably)
>>go to sleep and die quietly.
>>
>>Is this more or less humane I wonder.
I would argue that it is probably not humane. My mother-in-law once put a fresh crab in the freezer, based on the same logic. However the next day when she retrieved it (I was a witness to this; I am vegetarian whereas she is not) the crab was still moving. It was still alive, and whilst the extremities were frozen, it was clearly awake and presumably in some level of pain (I've never had frostbite, but according to wikipedia there is some level of pain involved).
I was not able to gauge how much pain (if any) it was in, but if crustaceans do suffer from pain due to frostbite then this would be a very cruel way to treat them since they appear to remain "awake" for some time as the extremities freeze up.
>>Ignorance and apathy are two of the most dangerous diseases of our time, and very difficult to cure. Take the Red pill.
Q. What's the difference between ignorance and apathy?
A. I don't know and I don't care.
>>Pretty much nobody has ever "won" in Afghanistan in any meaningful sense of the word, and that's if you go back 500+ years in history.
All the more reason to fight - we are due for a win any day now!
The difference is that when you pirate music, you are doing it for your own personal entertainment. When a business pirates software, they are basically using it commercially to generate profits. If I had written a software package and someone else was using it to earn money, and weren't paying me anything for spending my time developing and supporting the software, I'd be pretty upset. Same way if I wrote and recorded a song, and some random stranger downloaded and listened to it without paying me, I wouldn't mind so much. Bit if I wrote and recorded a song and someone started using it to earn money, I would be very annoyed since I did all the work and they got all the profits.
>>that "Zero Tolerance" policies are absurd. There is a reason why we have judge and juries.
>>Laws do not apply evenly. Regardless of the policy, any reasonable person would see how 3
>>stupid it was to trust another student's accusations and then harass a student with a good
>>record over one pill of OTC pain relief.
A zero tolerance policy on zero tolerance policies? Don't try to enforce it - you'll end up beating yourself to death.
I'm going to burn in hell for this, but someone has to do it:
Pics or it didn't happen!
How appropriate, the captcha was "hologram".
>>I would say something about violence in Germany, but I am afraid someone might call Godwin's Law [wikipedia.org].
:-P
Thanks for including the wikipedia link, because like the vast majority of slashdotters I have never heard of that law before!
I have experienced personally the effect video games have on real life. I actually wound up in hospital and with a criminal record after my last visit to the zoo where I:
>>High energy physics has a rich history of spinoff technologies. Ever had an MRI?
:-(
>>The superconducting magnets used in an MRI machine come out of particle accelerators.
I can't count the number of times people have stolen the super-conducting magnets from my particle accelerator to make MRI machines. Right now I'm stuck with a backlog of stationary particles in a jar in my back shed. I tried accelerating them by putting them in the passenger seat and driving down the road really fast, but it just wasn't the same