Let's say you knew ahead of time that a terrorist attack will kill your parents or your wife or your kid daughter, or all of them.
Let's say you knew ahead of time that a drunk driver will kill your family. Would you outlaw alcohol? Would you outlaw cars? We accept risky devices and behaviors that we know will kill people. It's part of being free.
This example is much better than yours, seeing as how drunk drivers kill about 20,000 Americans every year. Terrorists in the US killed about 3,000 people 4 years ago. Where is the $21B "War on Drunk Driving"?
Because the Libertarians have an aura of wingnut whackjob in general.
I agree. I have friends who are Libertarian, including one who ran for State Legislature on the LP ticket. I don't know every detail about the official LP platform, but this person who got his parties nod, has views that seem kind of extreme. Such as "There should be no public education. Children should get the education that their families can afford." "There should be no laws preventing the dumping of toxic waste in rivers. Every square foot of every river should be privately owned, and the owners can sue polluters in civil court for damages." I sleep better at night by assuming that the Libertarians will never be a serious player in US government.
Are you a Libertarian? Here's a test; finish this phrase: An ounce of prevention is...
1) worth a pound of cure.
2) government tyranny and an assault on human dignity.
Actually, it looks like Oklahoma passed a law in 2002 outlawing cockfights, but a judge suspended the law from being enforced. I don't know whether it is currently legal, illegal and enforced, or illegal and not enforced.
Educational item for non-Americans: The U.S. does not have federal laws against animal cruelty, and the state laws vary widely. I would expect that California has strong laws against animal cruelty, but some states (Oklahoma and Arkansas IIRC) still have very active and legal cockfighting circuits.
Thanks the new 'War on Christmas' meme, Christmas is now about body armor and vitriol.
Buy your Christian geek an E-Tool. No, that's not a trendy electronic gadget, it is an 'entrenching tool' (folding shovel). Once they're firmly entrenched, no amount of logic or compassion can dislodge them.
I never knew that, thanks. It seems that 'dwarves' has passed into common usage, especially for mythological dwarves (rather than humans with dwarfism). In either case, the verb 'to dwarf' should not be conjugated as 'dwarves'.
The Internet provides everyone with a "virtual library" that dwarves anything that we are likely to be able to access elsewhere.
While 'dwarves' (rather than 'dwarfs') is the proper plural for the noun 'dwarf', the correct conjugation for the verb 'to dwarf' would have been 'dwarfs'.
So you're confirming that statement that "Windows is buggy". It doesn't matter that the bugginess can be excused by MS having to accomodate hardware complexity; the end result is what we are talking about.
I worked for a company that 'seemed' to have a policy that once you had given notice, they didn't want you around. I had observed that people were quickly gone, and nobody had hung around during their two-week-notice period. I figured that the company didn't trust outgoing employees, or maybe such employees are bad for morale.
So, when I found a new job here's what I did: I told the new HR department that of course I had to give two weeks notice to my old employer, but that I thought that they had a policy of just letting people go as soon as notice was given. So I arranged with the new HR person that I would have a start date of either two weeks from now or tomorrow morning, depending on my old employer. Fortunately, the new HR person was willing and able to do this.
It turns out that either the old company trusted me to an unsual degree, or they had been especially distrustful of the employees who had been told to leave.
On the off-chance that you are not trolling: Anything that the company is paying you to write (emails, source code, music, etc) is considered a "work for hire", and the copyright belongs to the company not to you. If you keep a copy that they have not authorized, then you are violating their copyright.
That's why we have a representative republic in the U.S. and not a democracy.
The fact that America is a Republic does not protect our rights from the stupidity of the masses. Look at the representatives that the peepul put into Washington. Do you think that those representatives are unlikely to strip as many rights as they can?
Your rights are protected because we are a Constitutional Republic. Neither the peepul directly, nor their elected lackeys, are allowed to remove the rights that are guaranteed by the Constitution. Of course, this only works until the majority of the Supreme Court has been appointed by Presidents who also want to see your civil rights go bye bye.
Warning to intelligent people: there is a campaign being waged against the very idea of intelligence. Attacking IQ is just one part of it. There is an attempt to 'redefine' intelligence out of existence by making the term meaningless. Do you remember 'Emotional Intelligence' (aka people skills), 'Musical Intelligence' (aka talent), 'Sports Intelligence' (aka athletic prowess)? The goal behind calling these things 'intelligence' is to deny that some people are smarter than others. If you've ever known (or worked for) an idiot, you should not fall for this!
I've heard that a bunch of librarians are trying to convince each other to move to the same state so that they can form a voting block. That will be one very well read place (where do I sign?)
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Oops, that should have $2.1T (if you use one years worth of stats), or $24T is you want to scale proportionally over the deaths of all 4 years.
Let's say you knew ahead of time that a drunk driver will kill your family. Would you outlaw alcohol? Would you outlaw cars? We accept risky devices and behaviors that we know will kill people. It's part of being free.
This example is much better than yours, seeing as how drunk drivers kill about 20,000 Americans every year. Terrorists in the US killed about 3,000 people 4 years ago. Where is the $21B "War on Drunk Driving"?
Or they are peace activists with no intention of committing violence, who don't want to be red-flagged next time they try to fly somewhere.
And for Civilation:Call To Power fans, "America has emerged from Anarchy is in now a Corporate Republic."
I agree. I have friends who are Libertarian, including one who ran for State Legislature on the LP ticket. I don't know every detail about the official LP platform, but this person who got his parties nod, has views that seem kind of extreme. Such as "There should be no public education. Children should get the education that their families can afford." "There should be no laws preventing the dumping of toxic waste in rivers. Every square foot of every river should be privately owned, and the owners can sue polluters in civil court for damages." I sleep better at night by assuming that the Libertarians will never be a serious player in US government.
Are you a Libertarian? Here's a test; finish this phrase: An ounce of prevention is...
1) worth a pound of cure.
2) government tyranny and an assault on human dignity.
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/11/26/cf. opinion.cockfighting/
Educational item for non-Americans: The U.S. does not have federal laws against animal cruelty, and the state laws vary widely. I would expect that California has strong laws against animal cruelty, but some states (Oklahoma and Arkansas IIRC) still have very active and legal cockfighting circuits.
Dead people aren't guaranteed the right to vote anonymously.
Hail Eris!
Are you going to sell tickets to this sporting event, or only take wagers?
After reading the summary, my first thought was that chimps have a healthy disrespect for process.
Caveat Lector. Let the reader beware ('buyer' just doesn't seem to fit.)
No, but you can make a mirror from an old CD.
There's a lot to be said for a "you won't love it, but you won't hate it either" option. This is especially true when travelling.
You do know that books had Indices before databases, right?
Thanks the new 'War on Christmas' meme, Christmas is now about body armor and vitriol.
Buy your Christian geek an E-Tool. No, that's not a trendy electronic gadget, it is an 'entrenching tool' (folding shovel). Once they're firmly entrenched, no amount of logic or compassion can dislodge them.
I never knew that, thanks. It seems that 'dwarves' has passed into common usage, especially for mythological dwarves (rather than humans with dwarfism). In either case, the verb 'to dwarf' should not be conjugated as 'dwarves'.
While 'dwarves' (rather than 'dwarfs') is the proper plural for the noun 'dwarf', the correct conjugation for the verb 'to dwarf' would have been 'dwarfs'.
So you're confirming that statement that "Windows is buggy". It doesn't matter that the bugginess can be excused by MS having to accomodate hardware complexity; the end result is what we are talking about.
So, when I found a new job here's what I did: I told the new HR department that of course I had to give two weeks notice to my old employer, but that I thought that they had a policy of just letting people go as soon as notice was given. So I arranged with the new HR person that I would have a start date of either two weeks from now or tomorrow morning, depending on my old employer. Fortunately, the new HR person was willing and able to do this.
It turns out that either the old company trusted me to an unsual degree, or they had been especially distrustful of the employees who had been told to leave.
On the off-chance that you are not trolling: Anything that the company is paying you to write (emails, source code, music, etc) is considered a "work for hire", and the copyright belongs to the company not to you. If you keep a copy that they have not authorized, then you are violating their copyright.
The fact that America is a Republic does not protect our rights from the stupidity of the masses. Look at the representatives that the peepul put into Washington. Do you think that those representatives are unlikely to strip as many rights as they can?
Your rights are protected because we are a Constitutional Republic. Neither the peepul directly, nor their elected lackeys, are allowed to remove the rights that are guaranteed by the Constitution. Of course, this only works until the majority of the Supreme Court has been appointed by Presidents who also want to see your civil rights go bye bye.
Warning to intelligent people: there is a campaign being waged against the very idea of intelligence. Attacking IQ is just one part of it. There is an attempt to 'redefine' intelligence out of existence by making the term meaningless. Do you remember 'Emotional Intelligence' (aka people skills), 'Musical Intelligence' (aka talent), 'Sports Intelligence' (aka athletic prowess)? The goal behind calling these things 'intelligence' is to deny that some people are smarter than others. If you've ever known (or worked for) an idiot, you should not fall for this!
I've heard that a bunch of librarians are trying to convince each other to move to the same state so that they can form a voting block. That will be one very well read place (where do I sign?)
It's more like getting a flu shot, and then complaining that you don't get to use all of your sick days.