The abusive husband does not deserve to die. The people that think this way is one of americas problems. Imprisoned yes, sent to a mental institution yes, divorced and relocate yes, kill No, you're a f'ing retard and you deserve to sit in a little jail cell the rest of your life for thinking that you are above the Law.
And what if the husband he went on and murdered someone else? And if the wife had not killed him, the government put him on death row anyways?
I know this is all hypothetical, but I'm just curious why independent killings is worse than government sanctioned killings?
It was more the element of YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO. Like if you wanted to go kill the king with you bare hands, knock yourself out. I just don't see that happening in any sort of online game. EVER.
That was pretty much Ultima Online until they patched player killing into care bear land. Some people didn't like it but I found it to be an interesting game. When you play against people who are out to murder you 24/7 you tend to feel a rush.
Of course no one has made a sand box quit like it since... There was Shadowbane but that was hardly comparable to UO.
Kill someone? You're going down, and really that's how it should be.
Quick philosophical question.
What is the difference between a cop shooting a kid with a toy gun by accident, a soldier shooting an unarmed civilian in Iraq because of language barrier, a man executed by the state who was actually innocent of murder, and a wife killing an abusive husband who also happened to be a pedophile?
And to follow up, of all the people who deserved to die... Would you think it was the abusive husband? Of course there is nothing with this current case that says the husband in question was abusive, but our society has a few paradoxes when answering the question who is allowed to kill and who is allowed to die without recourse.
What makes you think prison has anything to do with rehabilitation?
If it is not, it should be for the sake of society.
Why? Because currently all our prison system is doing now is breeding more crime. For example, if a 18 year old kid gets busted for pot and goes to prison for 2 years, he is going to be hanging with some of the most maladjusted people around. Soon his attitude (on release) will not be one with a favorable view on society and has learned few things from those on the inside.
Considering the only thing he learned in prison was how to be a better criminal, it is safe to say he is not going to change his ways.
What really needs to be done is fix the current system. Give everyone their own private cells. Don't let them congregate outside. Don't let them talk with each other. Don't let them have any communication whatsoever.
Sitting in a cell in silence is for years is a fine punishment, but the current system fails in that it breeds more violence inside which could be hardly punishment at all and is viewed as a badge of honor.
And if they were sitting in silence (like the Japanese prison system mind you) then perhaps you could give them materials to better themselves. If they don't want any they can sit there... No TV no nothing, but forcing them into the madness they have now is just stupid for society since it just makes them more violent.
Can you afford not to patent your dozen inventions and watch as you release your product(s) and Microsoft simply incorporates them into their latest product(s) without paying you dime 1?
Not if you don't have enough money to pay for patent lawyers to outlast their patent lawyers. If it is Microsoft we are talking about, I bet they could drag the case out for years without paying a dime while you're burning away my life savings paying a lawyer. You might win, but then they'll keep appealing and try to get you to settle.
The point of this issue is that when you have that much money to kill you can get your way no matter what.
Or they didn't outright lie, they just didn't even know they had violated company policies.
I don't know how many times a conversation went like this:
Me: Whats your user name? User: Its u2343 and my password is "bobspassword"! Me: Wait! ARRRRRGH! Don't tell me that! I'm not supposed to know your password, I just wanted your user name!
In 99% of all cases, bloggers are not journalists and they should not be given the rights of someone who holds a press card.
Hold on there! What constitutes a journalist and who gets to determine this criteria?
When the bill of rights was written to give the freedom of the press, a journalist was any Joe Sixpack who could read and write and had access to a printing press which were often more slanderous and opinionated than today's blogs. Many of the colonialist pamphlets written against the British were highly opinionated and often written with pseudo names just like blogs today.
There really is no difference other than technology. Letting the government or government sanctioned groups decide who is and who is not a journalist is dangerous.
Oh, and *please* do donate. Wikipedia is the 9th most visited site on the Internet, and the Wikimedia Commons is growing at a rate of 5,000 images a day.
I'm sorry, but unless they clarify their the whole notability issue and crack down on crusading deleters, I don't think I can give them any more money. Personally, I've only written one article from scratch about an obscure Japanese island which eventually got improved greatly and has never been deleted, but I like to read a great deal and found several articles in economics that actually got deleted even though other economic articles were linking to them.
Its gotten pretty bad even for things that aren't that obscure.
Ok, this is going WAY too far! Could you have at lease included some LINKS to actual PROOF that ANY government agency conducted warrantless spying on US citizens?
If they didn't do it, then why are they asking for immunity with the current legislation?
In that instance, it will show you were arrested for "driving while intoxicated" but will not show if you were found guilty or not guilty.
Quick question. About that "driving while intoxicated" issue... Do you really deny people entry based on 10 year old convictions? If so have you ever let Vice President Dick Cheney into the country? *coughs* I'm just saying. When people point complain about DUIs, I just remind them you can still make it to be Vice President someday.
The truth of the matter is that vinyl records are crap compared to CD's in every measurable way - distortion, dynamic range, frequency response, signal to noise ratio, you name it.
At the same time, imperfection in itself can be art. How many CDs have fake vinyl hiss and crackle on them?
When did Magic become a game of skill instead of personal wealth?
Sad as it is, I like Yu-Gi-Oh better for online play. There are no uber cards (well there are banned cards) but they generally try to balance the gameplay to focus on deck themes rather than winning cards.
One good hack from the Russian MAFIA and the game would be over.
What is more likley?
A large company doesn't keep back ups. A person like you or me doesn't keep back ups.
Now this varies from person to person, but I would usually bet a company would have far greater resources into backing up data. Of course, I have been unpleasantly surprised before on this matter.
Or for that matter... Wouldn't it be easier for the Russian Mafia to hack your average unsecured windows computer and blow away your data that way?
How about getting on a soap-box and start raising these issues? How about organising a group, dedicated to spreading the message far and wide? I'd probably donate.
You would do far better donating to an organization like Singularity Institute which would change far more than just politics if they acheive their goals. Otherwise... Playing the political game achieves nothing.
How about actually taking some responsibility for how your democratic republic has turned out? It is still democratic. You still vote. Other people still vote. You have a voice that you can use to convince others. The failing is yours that you have allowed your democracy to become so unrepresentative.
As a kid, I remember being told the Soviets only got to vote for one candidate during elections. We just get to vote for one more.
When was the last time a non-major party candidate elected for president? For a majority in the house or senate?
If you wanted true revolution you need a complete rehaul of the Federal Government into a proportional representation. So what are the chances of that happening without political interference? Even if you could get a movement going, eventually there would be factions inside that party which just brings it down.
Again... You are more likley to change the world through technology than politics.
Although I'm still voting for Ron Paul in the primaries.
Shouldn't market forces be allowed to decide whether
That would requiring the abolishment of the FCC and forcing the Telcos and Cable companies to pay back the millions the government gave them to build their backbones.
Parents should take advantage of any method to get their kid noticed.
I find this rather dubious with using videos solely rather than watching on site performance because as everyone knows, you can pretty much doctor even the worst performance and make it look good with the right sound bites and clips. Then those athletes who may even be better at the sport and who can't afford to make a good production video won't get as much attention.
Of course, one would suspect something if a set of parents spent $50 grand on hiring Pixar to make their son's youtube video.
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The abusive husband does not deserve to die. The people that think this way is one of americas problems. Imprisoned yes, sent to a mental institution yes, divorced and relocate yes, kill No, you're a f'ing retard and you deserve to sit in a little jail cell the rest of your life for thinking that you are above the Law.
And what if the husband he went on and murdered someone else? And if the wife had not killed him, the government put him on death row anyways?
I know this is all hypothetical, but I'm just curious why independent killings is worse than government sanctioned killings?
It was more the element of YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO. Like if you wanted to go kill the king with you bare hands, knock yourself out. I just don't see that happening in any sort of online game. EVER.
That was pretty much Ultima Online until they patched player killing into care bear land. Some people didn't like it but I found it to be an interesting game. When you play against people who are out to murder you 24/7 you tend to feel a rush.
Of course no one has made a sand box quit like it since... There was Shadowbane but that was hardly comparable to UO.
Kill someone? You're going down, and really that's how it should be.
Quick philosophical question.
What is the difference between a cop shooting a kid with a toy gun by accident, a soldier shooting an unarmed civilian in Iraq because of language barrier, a man executed by the state who was actually innocent of murder, and a wife killing an abusive husband who also happened to be a pedophile?
And to follow up, of all the people who deserved to die... Would you think it was the abusive husband? Of course there is nothing with this current case that says the husband in question was abusive, but our society has a few paradoxes when answering the question who is allowed to kill and who is allowed to die without recourse.
What makes you think prison has anything to do with rehabilitation?
If it is not, it should be for the sake of society.
Why? Because currently all our prison system is doing now is breeding more crime. For example, if a 18 year old kid gets busted for pot and goes to prison for 2 years, he is going to be hanging with some of the most maladjusted people around. Soon his attitude (on release) will not be one with a favorable view on society and has learned few things from those on the inside.
Considering the only thing he learned in prison was how to be a better criminal, it is safe to say he is not going to change his ways.
What really needs to be done is fix the current system. Give everyone their own private cells. Don't let them congregate outside. Don't let them talk with each other. Don't let them have any communication whatsoever.
Sitting in a cell in silence is for years is a fine punishment, but the current system fails in that it breeds more violence inside which could be hardly punishment at all and is viewed as a badge of honor.
And if they were sitting in silence (like the Japanese prison system mind you) then perhaps you could give them materials to better themselves. If they don't want any they can sit there... No TV no nothing, but forcing them into the madness they have now is just stupid for society since it just makes them more violent.
Can you afford not to patent your dozen inventions and watch as you release your product(s) and Microsoft simply incorporates them into their latest product(s) without paying you dime 1?
Not if you don't have enough money to pay for patent lawyers to outlast their patent lawyers. If it is Microsoft we are talking about, I bet they could drag the case out for years without paying a dime while you're burning away my life savings paying a lawyer. You might win, but then they'll keep appealing and try to get you to settle.
The point of this issue is that when you have that much money to kill you can get your way no matter what.
Or they didn't outright lie, they just didn't even know they had violated company policies.
I don't know how many times a conversation went like this:
Me: Whats your user name?
User: Its u2343 and my password is "bobspassword"!
Me: Wait! ARRRRRGH! Don't tell me that! I'm not supposed to know your password, I just wanted your user name!
In 99% of all cases, bloggers are not journalists and they should not be given the rights of someone who holds a press card.
Hold on there! What constitutes a journalist and who gets to determine this criteria?
When the bill of rights was written to give the freedom of the press, a journalist was any Joe Sixpack who could read and write and had access to a printing press which were often more slanderous and opinionated than today's blogs. Many of the colonialist pamphlets written against the British were highly opinionated and often written with pseudo names just like blogs today.
There really is no difference other than technology. Letting the government or government sanctioned groups decide who is and who is not a journalist is dangerous.
Review scores are proportional to swag which is calculated on a ratio depending on how much money was in that brown envelope.
Oh, and *please* do donate. Wikipedia is the 9th most visited site on the Internet, and the Wikimedia Commons is growing at a rate of 5,000 images a day.
I'm sorry, but unless they clarify their the whole notability issue and crack down on crusading deleters, I don't think I can give them any more money. Personally, I've only written one article from scratch about an obscure Japanese island which eventually got improved greatly and has never been deleted, but I like to read a great deal and found several articles in economics that actually got deleted even though other economic articles were linking to them.
Its gotten pretty bad even for things that aren't that obscure.
Now if if someone is using a tool in a way you don't like, then just say so, don't try to cast aspersions on the tool itself.
The problem with power is that if it can be abused... It will be.
So it often behooves citizens to keep these tools out of the hands of the government as long as possible.
Not that it will make much difference in the end.
Ok, this is going WAY too far! Could you have at lease included some LINKS to actual PROOF that ANY government agency conducted warrantless spying on US citizens?
If they didn't do it, then why are they asking for immunity with the current legislation?
In that instance, it will show you were arrested for "driving while intoxicated" but will not show if you were found guilty or not guilty.
Quick question. About that "driving while intoxicated" issue... Do you really deny people entry based on 10 year old convictions? If so have you ever let Vice President Dick Cheney into the country? *coughs* I'm just saying. When people point complain about DUIs, I just remind them you can still make it to be Vice President someday.
Bingo. It's up to Canada to decide whether or not to let you in. I noticed that they didn't deny having been arrested.
So I suppose people are just guilty when arrested and not innocent until convicted?
The truth of the matter is that vinyl records are crap compared to CD's in every measurable way - distortion, dynamic range, frequency response, signal to noise ratio, you name it.
At the same time, imperfection in itself can be art. How many CDs have fake vinyl hiss and crackle on them?
Everyone at Rockstar was a Family Guy fan.
By forcing religion upon everyone, you mean the Environmental Earth worshipping Wackos who are foisting the idea of Global Warming, right?
No, because global warming is a fact and cannot be denied.
Whether it is caused by man, god, or pirates is where religion comes in.
Yeah, locking people out of the voting process because they fall below some standard you set makes for a great defence of democracy.
Keep in mind this whole system was setup with the electoral college and 3/5ths votes.
They'll get it eventually, and when they do (given that they are ID), I hope the headline reads "EXCELLENT!....IMPRESSIVE!"
;)
At least the current headlines didn't read "HUMILIATION!"
When did Magic become a game of skill instead of personal wealth?
Sad as it is, I like Yu-Gi-Oh better for online play. There are no uber cards (well there are banned cards) but they generally try to balance the gameplay to focus on deck themes rather than winning cards.
One good hack from the Russian MAFIA and the game would be over.
What is more likley?
A large company doesn't keep back ups.
A person like you or me doesn't keep back ups.
Now this varies from person to person, but I would usually bet a company would have far greater resources into backing up data. Of course, I have been unpleasantly surprised before on this matter.
Or for that matter... Wouldn't it be easier for the Russian Mafia to hack your average unsecured windows computer and blow away your data that way?
My DS is several times more powerful than my old 486sx. (Though still has the same amount of RAM)
How about getting on a soap-box and start raising these issues? How about organising a group, dedicated to spreading the message far and wide? I'd probably donate.
You would do far better donating to an organization like Singularity Institute which would change far more than just politics if they acheive their goals. Otherwise... Playing the political game achieves nothing.
How about actually taking some responsibility for how your democratic republic has turned out? It is still democratic. You still vote. Other people still vote. You have a voice that you can use to convince others. The failing is yours that you have allowed your democracy to become so unrepresentative.
As a kid, I remember being told the Soviets only got to vote for one candidate during elections. We just get to vote for one more.
When was the last time a non-major party candidate elected for president? For a majority in the house or senate?
If you wanted true revolution you need a complete rehaul of the Federal Government into a proportional representation. So what are the chances of that happening without political interference? Even if you could get a movement going, eventually there would be factions inside that party which just brings it down.
Again... You are more likley to change the world through technology than politics.
Although I'm still voting for Ron Paul in the primaries.
Shouldn't market forces be allowed to decide whether
That would requiring the abolishment of the FCC and forcing the Telcos and Cable companies to pay back the millions the government gave them to build their backbones.
Parents should take advantage of any method to get their kid noticed.
I find this rather dubious with using videos solely rather than watching on site performance because as everyone knows, you can pretty much doctor even the worst performance and make it look good with the right sound bites and clips. Then those athletes who may even be better at the sport and who can't afford to make a good production video won't get as much attention.
Of course, one would suspect something if a set of parents spent $50 grand on hiring Pixar to make their son's youtube video.