There's 1 dude in the back of an ambulance, why should that 1 dude have the right to endanger the lives of countless motorists and pedestrians just so he can save himself? If that one dude is in the back of an ambulance, he is not in a position to endanger anybody. It is the operators of the ambulance who have the potential to endanger the live of other people. Fortunately they have the sanction of the people to operate that vehicle because they believe that the potential risk to others is outweighed by the certain risk to the person in the back of the ambulance. Of course if you feel so strongly that this is not right and that it represent too great a cost, feel free to contact your government and move to disband all emergency services within your city, or whatever else you may feel is the right choice. I am sure you will be able to find enough like minded people to make this happen.
That would be a perfectly logical response and would make sense. However, I doubt YouTube could escape the wrath of overeager politicians even then. Take for example the plight of Yahoo in regards to France.
To summarize, France has a law against display or auctioning of Nazi memorabilia. Yahoo has an auction site with several listings for Nazi memorabilia, however they do not allow these items to be displayed in the Yahoo France portal fr.auctions.yahoo.com as an attempt to be complaint with French law. Unfortunately, this is not enough for French authorities. They sued to have the items removed from Yahoo's main site auctions.yahoo.com which was hosted in the US and was not in any way, shape or form targeting French users, and won. This means that even if a site tries to appease the local laws of a country by setting up a county specific site that complies with the local laws, they can still be charged for content on another site. Rather sad to be sure.
If we encounter a superior race, are all the jackasses here willing to accept being killed for sport and used in experiments without legal protection? Probably not, but if we encounter a superior species I would bet the question would be moot as that species would be able to do whatever it wished in regards to our treatment and we would not be able to put up much of a resistance, them being the superior species and all.
We'd be pretty annoyed if we were drugged or killed for fighting back. I am not sure the dead feel much annoyance actually. Regardless, the superior species would probably determine our treatment based upon whatever they felt was right, rather than any feelings we may have on the matter. Unless of course we would have the means to successfully fight back. After all, the lion cares not for the cries of the zebra as it is brought down.
Besides the obligatory image of bananas arriving by the bushel at the IRS, that does propose and interesting idea.
What if we did try and extend legal obligations and protections to the animal kingdom. How would we go about enforcing them? Would we imprison violators like we do now with our human criminals? Would a dog that bites someone get 5-10 for assault, which would be a life sentence for the dog? What about animal on animal crimes? Or providing protection for prey from it natural predators, e.g. deer vs wolves? Would we try and rehabilitate a lion by trying to convert it to a vegetarian diet? Humans can make that decision easily, but I am not sure if trying to force an animal to go against it's natural instincts is such a good idea. All in all I think that trying to give legal rights to animals is just going to open a big can of worms, a can which may be outlawed as it constitutes a inhuman living environment for the worms.
Yes but imagine the smell. Remember these critters have been shoveling BS for most of their lives, I can't imagine that is a smell that easily washes off.
Just one problem with that. For the most part, when the animal is killed it is made in to something useful, like clothing, food, or headlights for a 1967 El Dorado. However I can not think of one thing you could derive from a dead lobbyist that would be useful. Who in the hell would want to wear a lobbyist skin coat?
if you don't support your nation during time of war, then, yes, you are unpatriotic.
Patriotism is love of one's country, not blind faith in the elected leaders. Indeed, it is more patriotic to question the direction your country is going in and work to make it better, than to blindly follow the crowd and damn the country to hell. Remember that the US was founded by people who dared question authority.
They are designed to kill or injure other people or other living things. No question about that.
No, a gun is a device designed to launch a high velocity projectile in a relatively flat trajectory, by definition. The intent behind the usage of this device is always determined by the operator.
I really don't have the trunk space to be hauling around a child just to get my car started.
No biggie,
Just stick to the residential neighborhoods and offer the kids some candy to come blow on your tube...wait that didn't sound right.
Really? Well, that might have been true back in the 70's or early 80's. However now, post commander have to abide by USC Title 10 Section 2683 which requires the minimum drinking age on a military installation to be at least equal to the drinking age of the state in which the installation resides. This was further codified in DoD Directive 1015.2,
Well, according to trickle-down theory, I should be getting my own loose-moral intern any day now!
Shoot! I'll take that over tax breaks any day. Go Dems!
A brief Bio of the guy:here
and the course work offered at the London School of Economics: here
He is apparently a researcher for the Evolutionary Moral Psychology Group at LSE.
The group doesn't seem too keen on actual biology or evolutionary research, just extrapolating biological theory into philosophical concepts so his prediction should be taken with a rather large grain of salt.
avi is spported by WMP and in fact avi is defined by MS, however you may not have the correct codec for the video or audio files in the *.avi. Check out the MS support page for further info.
"I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?" Chief Harold Hurtt told reporters Wednesday at a regular briefing.
Ok Chief, let me clue you in. In this country people are innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around. People should not be required to repeatedly prove their innocence to your satisfaction by being subjected to 24/7 monitoring.
It is your job as a police officer to respond to criminal complaints, protect the innocent, and arrest the persons reasonably suspected of committing those crimes. Police officers have been performing those tasks long before you came along and they did it without the benefit of modern investigative technology. And they also did it without subjecting the entire citizenry to invasive monitoring such as what you are proposing. If you and your officers are not up to the task, you may want to consider a career change because you are obviously not going to live up to the level of you predecessors.
The only other alternative I could suggest is a reeducation camp, with the purpose of instructing you and yours in the finer aspects of our US constitution and criminal investigation procedures. Perhaps Guantanamo is free for a few months?
1) Find flaw 2) Report to iDefense 3) Sign Non Disclosure Agreement as a condition for receiving payment 4) iDefense reports info to MS 5) MS never publishes flaw 6) ???....WTF!
SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY! Be at the Pennsylvania state fairgrounds!
As the Deadly duo
The Pittsburgh Professors challenge the Father of Modern Biology
Charles Darwin to a handicap grudge match in the steel cage.
It promises to be a match the world will never forget as high flying theories and hard core evidence are used to bash each others skulls in. The Violence! The Pain! The pure Savagery! This match is not for the faint of heart, only come if you want pure action. Ticket are on sale RIGHT NOW! So go get some, and we'll see you sunday!
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It is the operators of the ambulance who have the potential to endanger the live of other people. Fortunately they have the sanction of the people to operate that vehicle because they believe that the potential risk to others is outweighed by the certain risk to the person in the back of the ambulance. Of course if you feel so strongly that this is not right and that it represent too great a cost, feel free to contact your government and move to disband all emergency services within your city, or whatever else you may feel is the right choice. I am sure you will be able to find enough like minded people to make this happen.
That would be a perfectly logical response and would make sense. However, I doubt YouTube could escape the wrath of overeager politicians even then. Take for example the plight of Yahoo in regards to France.
To summarize, France has a law against display or auctioning of Nazi memorabilia. Yahoo has an auction site with several listings for Nazi memorabilia, however they do not allow these items to be displayed in the Yahoo France portal fr.auctions.yahoo.com as an attempt to be complaint with French law. Unfortunately, this is not enough for French authorities. They sued to have the items removed from Yahoo's main site auctions.yahoo.com which was hosted in the US and was not in any way, shape or form targeting French users, and won.
This means that even if a site tries to appease the local laws of a country by setting up a county specific site that complies with the local laws, they can still be charged for content on another site. Rather sad to be sure.
Besides the obligatory image of bananas arriving by the bushel at the IRS, that does propose and interesting idea.
What if we did try and extend legal obligations and protections to the animal kingdom. How would we go about enforcing them? Would we imprison violators like we do now with our human criminals? Would a dog that bites someone get 5-10 for assault, which would be a life sentence for the dog? What about animal on animal crimes? Or providing protection for prey from it natural predators, e.g. deer vs wolves? Would we try and rehabilitate a lion by trying to convert it to a vegetarian diet? Humans can make that decision easily, but I am not sure if trying to force an animal to go against it's natural instincts is such a good idea. All in all I think that trying to give legal rights to animals is just going to open a big can of worms, a can which may be outlawed as it constitutes a inhuman living environment for the worms.
Dude!
Your not supposed to drink the bong water.
Sheesh, damn n00b.
Yes but imagine the smell. Remember these critters have been shoveling BS for most of their lives, I can't imagine that is a smell that easily washes off.
Just one problem with that. For the most part, when the animal is killed it is made in to something useful, like clothing, food, or headlights for a 1967 El Dorado. However I can not think of one thing you could derive from a dead lobbyist that would be useful. Who in the hell would want to wear a lobbyist skin coat?
In Soviet Slashdot, mods troll you?
Patriotism is love of one's country, not blind faith in the elected leaders. Indeed, it is more patriotic to question the direction your country is going in and work to make it better, than to blindly follow the crowd and damn the country to hell. Remember that the US was founded by people who dared question authority.
No, a gun is a device designed to launch a high velocity projectile in a relatively flat trajectory, by definition. The intent behind the usage of this device is always determined by the operator.
No biggie,
Just stick to the residential neighborhoods and offer the kids some candy to come blow on your tube...wait that didn't sound right.
Really? Well, that might have been true back in the 70's or early 80's. However now, post commander have to abide by USC Title 10 Section 2683 which requires the minimum drinking age on a military installation to be at least equal to the drinking age of the state in which the installation resides. This was further codified in DoD Directive 1015.2,
Well, according to trickle-down theory, I should be getting my own loose-moral intern any day now!
Shoot!
I'll take that over tax breaks any day. Go Dems!
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Or maybe MS likes pissing of it's customers...nah that can't be it!
Death.
A brief Bio of the guy:here
and the course work offered at the London School of Economics: here
He is apparently a researcher for the Evolutionary Moral Psychology Group at LSE. The group doesn't seem too keen on actual biology or evolutionary research, just extrapolating biological theory into philosophical concepts so his prediction should be taken with a rather large grain of salt.
For a counterpoint I would like you to consider these stats:s /sp.html .13% Pop Growths /it.html .04% Pop Growth
s /us.html .91% Pop Growth
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geo
Spain: 94% Roman Catholic,
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geo
Italy: 90% Roman Catholic,
In contrast:
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geo
US: 24% Roman Catholic,
The facts do not seem to support your conclusion
Grammer Nazi, I choose you!
Special Attack: Clean up the parent post.
avi is spported by WMP and in fact avi is defined by MS, however you may not have the correct codec for the video or audio files in the *.avi. Check out the MS support page for further info.
Sounds like you might have some clogged tubes in your area. Have you tried sending a Powerball Packet through to clean them out?
Bit-torrent related traffic for movies starring Jet Li has dropped to zero,
while "American Idol" episodes have been climbing at an alarming rate.
Yeah, but imagine power-leveling a hooker.
MA rating here we come.
"I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?" Chief Harold Hurtt told reporters Wednesday at a regular briefing.
Ok Chief, let me clue you in. In this country people are innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around. People should not be required to repeatedly prove their innocence to your satisfaction by being subjected to 24/7 monitoring.
It is your job as a police officer to respond to criminal complaints, protect the innocent, and arrest the persons reasonably suspected of committing those crimes. Police officers have been performing those tasks long before you came along and they did it without the benefit of modern investigative technology. And they also did it without subjecting the entire citizenry to invasive monitoring such as what you are proposing. If you and your officers are not up to the task, you may want to consider a career change because you are obviously not going to live up to the level of you predecessors.
The only other alternative I could suggest is a reeducation camp, with the purpose of instructing you and yours in the finer aspects of our US constitution and criminal investigation procedures. Perhaps Guantanamo is free for a few months?
1) Find flaw
2) Report to iDefense
3) Sign Non Disclosure Agreement as a condition for receiving payment
4) iDefense reports info to MS
5) MS never publishes flaw
6) ???....WTF!
Or perhaps I am just being too cynical.
SUNDAY! SUNDAY! SUNDAY!
Be at the Pennsylvania state fairgrounds!
As the Deadly duo
The Pittsburgh Professors
challenge the
Father of Modern Biology
Charles Darwin
to a handicap grudge match in the steel cage.
It promises to be a match the world will never forget as high flying theories and hard core evidence are used to bash each others skulls in.
The Violence! The Pain! The pure Savagery! This match is not for the faint of heart, only come if you want pure action.
Ticket are on sale RIGHT NOW! So go get some, and we'll see you sunday!