Whatever your opinion is of recreational drugs, this animosity toward people minding their own business in the privacy of their own home is reminiscent of those who think violent video games caused the Columbine massacre and other real-world violence. It is a simple fact that humans generally consumes large amounts of chemicals that alter the way our mind and body work, and our society generally manages to do just fine. And just like some people will be violent psychopaths who just happen to be gamers, some people will self destruct who just happen to use recreational drugs.
Well said. This is how I feel about several social issues.
Those are some great proposals which I can get behind, but unfortunately it's not apparent how any of them could actually gain traction in the US. We'd have to somehow elect people who are willing to change the very process that they took advantage of in order to get elected.
Seriously, how can we get ideas like these to actually happen? Or at least to be considered?
I'm a Michigander just moved to Indiana but jeez am I disappointed with the options on the ballot. More than half the races were a republican candidate running completely unopposed, and most of the ones where there were two parties the only choices were D & R. When I was in Michigan, I voted Libertarian for most of the minor races, but here there aren't any. How disappointing!
That's true, but a reasonable fine there might be $5,000 (ten-fold). In this case the fine for an individual violation is already approximately 10,000 times the value of the the stolen item and then that was multiplied by ten for the number of infractions. I would assert that the $150,000 fine per item (for $1,500,000 total) in this story is ridiculously unreasonable punishment. It seems like this would be easier to enforce in the first place if it were treated more like a speeding ticket -- a fine that is enough to be painful but not enough to destroy you financially. Maybe $150 per incident in this case?
Not sure why they have chosen to group things the way the did in the Insights tab and makes it look suspicious.
I'm not sure if maybe we're not looking at the same thing, but the layout looks to me like a list of topics on the left grouped by which debate or which overall topic they regard, and the corresponding poll data on the right. What is "suspicious" about that?
In addition to what the other replies have said, there have also been new reactors invented in the last 50 years which are much more failsafe in the event of a catastrophe. Pebble-bed reactors, for example, have a failure mode of basically dropping the material into its insulators if there isn't enough power to keep the plant running. You should look into new tech. I turns out we've come a LONG way in 50 years.
Sure. Obviously the problem we'll admit to is "These plants are all 50 years old, we need to be building new ones so this won't happen anymore!" and we'll be correct.
Ya, first we would have to agree that it's actually a crisis. To me it looks more like the R's have tried to make it look like a crisis so they could rile up their base and increase their votes, AKA "Fan Count" -- see how I tied this all back in to the article?
But in the picture, the middle and barrel of the bat are pointed forward. If you draw a line from the handle, the entire bat should be behind where the barrel & middle are, even including the part that is hitting the ball.
In some of the pictures, the bat looks like it is actually bent forward, toward the ball, when the ball hits it. Does anyone have an explanation for that? It's especially evident in the pic of the breaking bat. Is this just a motion thing that the camera doesn't catch well, or is there a physical reason that the bat would bend forward instead of backward?
http://www.wired.com/rawfile/wp-content/gallery/fox-baseball/BROKEN-BAT.jpg
I really don't understand how your reply relates to the parent post, here... nothing he said would, to any degree, claim that the referenced shooting was OK.
Instead of arguing about helmets, could we instead agree that if you're going to ride a bike in the US you should really understand how street laws apply to cyclists here? I've seen WAY too many idiots riding their bikes (never with a helmet btw) down the left side of the road head on to the traffic, which means that traffic can do very little to avoid you -- even if they were to come to a dead stop, you still pose a risk because you're closing the gap. On top of all that, these cyclists do this on the narrowest of roads, where there is a small dirt shoulder which they refuse to ride on. Sometimes, they'll even ride side-by-side in the wrong lane like this and don't even make an effort to steer clear of the cars that they are riding head-on at.
Of course, I never ever see a person wearing a bike helmet do any of these stupid things. This only serves to confirm my long-held belief that a person riding a bike without a helmet has nothing in their head worth protecting.
Oops, forgot to mention that also we have White House staff checking their email on systems used by the military for nuclear commands and clicking on links in emails that say things like "Your order receipt" and have a.zip attachment...
White House sources partly confirmed that U.S. government computers — reportedly including systems used by the military for nuclear commands
Wow, that sounds bad.
None of the White House’s secure, classified computer systems were affected
Wait, so there are only a couple ways that these could both be claimed:
1. Someone is lying
2. Our gov't is actually dumb enough to not classify & secure systems used by the military for nuclear commands
3. Someone is lying
Interestingly enough, that's the same approach shipping companies have been taking with the pirates off the coast of Somalia. A curious analogy, don't you think?
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Well said. This is how I feel about several social issues.
You win the day! Collect your prize at the door.
Locked away in a dungeon behind raid mobs.
Those are some great proposals which I can get behind, but unfortunately it's not apparent how any of them could actually gain traction in the US. We'd have to somehow elect people who are willing to change the very process that they took advantage of in order to get elected.
Seriously, how can we get ideas like these to actually happen? Or at least to be considered?
Wow, this democracy must have been hell back before cameras were invented, eh?
I'm a Michigander just moved to Indiana but jeez am I disappointed with the options on the ballot. More than half the races were a republican candidate running completely unopposed, and most of the ones where there were two parties the only choices were D & R. When I was in Michigan, I voted Libertarian for most of the minor races, but here there aren't any. How disappointing!
That's true, but a reasonable fine there might be $5,000 (ten-fold). In this case the fine for an individual violation is already approximately 10,000 times the value of the the stolen item and then that was multiplied by ten for the number of infractions. I would assert that the $150,000 fine per item (for $1,500,000 total) in this story is ridiculously unreasonable punishment. It seems like this would be easier to enforce in the first place if it were treated more like a speeding ticket -- a fine that is enough to be painful but not enough to destroy you financially. Maybe $150 per incident in this case?
Especially when you can already get an endless supply of it legally for free on the internet...
Yes, that's correct. Humans make enough mistakes, we don't need machines making them for us when we manage to get things right.
I'm not sure if maybe we're not looking at the same thing, but the layout looks to me like a list of topics on the left grouped by which debate or which overall topic they regard, and the corresponding poll data on the right. What is "suspicious" about that?
In addition to what the other replies have said, there have also been new reactors invented in the last 50 years which are much more failsafe in the event of a catastrophe. Pebble-bed reactors, for example, have a failure mode of basically dropping the material into its insulators if there isn't enough power to keep the plant running. You should look into new tech. I turns out we've come a LONG way in 50 years.
Sure. Obviously the problem we'll admit to is "These plants are all 50 years old, we need to be building new ones so this won't happen anymore!" and we'll be correct.
Black is not a color, yet you can see it.
Silence is not a sound, yet you can hear it.
Atheism is not a religion, yet you can proselytize for it.
Ya, first we would have to agree that it's actually a crisis. To me it looks more like the R's have tried to make it look like a crisis so they could rile up their base and increase their votes, AKA "Fan Count" -- see how I tied this all back in to the article?
But in the picture, the middle and barrel of the bat are pointed forward. If you draw a line from the handle, the entire bat should be behind where the barrel & middle are, even including the part that is hitting the ball.
The barrel of the bat is pointed FORWARD from where the handle is in most of the pictures.
In some of the pictures, the bat looks like it is actually bent forward, toward the ball, when the ball hits it. Does anyone have an explanation for that? It's especially evident in the pic of the breaking bat. Is this just a motion thing that the camera doesn't catch well, or is there a physical reason that the bat would bend forward instead of backward? http://www.wired.com/rawfile/wp-content/gallery/fox-baseball/BROKEN-BAT.jpg
I really don't understand how your reply relates to the parent post, here... nothing he said would, to any degree, claim that the referenced shooting was OK.
You win 23 internets.
Instead of arguing about helmets, could we instead agree that if you're going to ride a bike in the US you should really understand how street laws apply to cyclists here? I've seen WAY too many idiots riding their bikes (never with a helmet btw) down the left side of the road head on to the traffic, which means that traffic can do very little to avoid you -- even if they were to come to a dead stop, you still pose a risk because you're closing the gap. On top of all that, these cyclists do this on the narrowest of roads, where there is a small dirt shoulder which they refuse to ride on. Sometimes, they'll even ride side-by-side in the wrong lane like this and don't even make an effort to steer clear of the cars that they are riding head-on at.
Of course, I never ever see a person wearing a bike helmet do any of these stupid things. This only serves to confirm my long-held belief that a person riding a bike without a helmet has nothing in their head worth protecting.
Right, of course! How could I have missed that? :)
Oops, forgot to mention that also we have White House staff checking their email on systems used by the military for nuclear commands and clicking on links in emails that say things like "Your order receipt" and have a .zip attachment...
Wow, that sounds bad.
Wait, so there are only a couple ways that these could both be claimed:
1. Someone is lying
2. Our gov't is actually dumb enough to not classify & secure systems used by the military for nuclear commands
3. Someone is lying
I'm guessing it's either 1 or 3.
Yes. I was pretty obviously equating them to pirates.
Interestingly enough, that's the same approach shipping companies have been taking with the pirates off the coast of Somalia. A curious analogy, don't you think?