I seem to recall hearing that Mary was 13 or 14, the standard child-bearing age (and hence marriage) of the times, when she gave birth to Jesus.
People were old at 35
When I turned 12, I was called an adult and expected to be responsible for my own actions. Maturity doesn't begin to set in until life demands it of you, no matter how old you are.
Yes, and that's why women do the same thing to men. They go out on dates because they want to get laid. They may generally be more careful and judicious in their approach, but the ultimate goal is the same.
(I'll grant you this: one other reason both men and women go out on dates is to find a life partner, even if they are completely asexual, however, finding a life partner is generally tightly coupled with finding a sex partner)
Whooooah there. Wait just one damn minute. You surely can't mean what I think you mean, do you? Please tell me I've misunderstood what you've said.... Having said that, I'd question the wisdom of heading back to a 19-year olds place after dinner and a movie because there's a good chance they've got something quite specific in mind. But bear in mind this is a 14-year old, and they don't always have the life experience to avoid making such a poor decision.
My reply to you would be far, far more vicious if I thought you genuinely meant what you've written. It just seems so far out that I'm hoping you chose your words poorly; please tell me that I've misread your actual intent.
You certainly can't mean what I think you mean, do you?
There's a certain overbearing PC-ness to your post that bugs me; a certain air of assumption on your part that the girl is innocent and that the 19 year old had nefarious intents all along; a certain tone suggesting the populist attitude that fosters our current 'think of the children' mentality coupled with veiled threats that if someone doesn't agree with that line of thinking, there must be something wrong with him, he must be evil, or must be a sexual predator himself even.
I'm hoping you chose your words poorly; please tell me that I've misread your actual intent.
Oh, and don't forget to check your assumptions of 'rape' at the door while you're at it because 'sexual assault' can be consensual at their ages.
I think the detail everyone is overlooking in this discussion is that the term "sexual assault" applies regardless of the nature of the sex simply because of the age difference between them. Everyone says he raped her. I think it could very well have been consensual.
Indeed, the evidence shows everything between them was amicable until the so-called "sexual assault."
I think the girl was really into the guy, thought he was dreamy (like the girls' Dentist in the Brady Bunch) , and was ready to find out what it meant to be an adult.
Then someone (the girl, her mom, or both) regretted it all
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not to mention easier to use large crowds of people as giant LCD screens.
There are a few problems that come up with this attitude.
First, as people have stated, the government can think you are doing something wrong even if you aren't, or they can claim you are. Or other people who bear you ill will can "out" you.
Second, what if you don't morally agree with the laws? If you are seeking to change the laws that you find offensive, it would make you an instant target: "he doesn't agree with the law, therefore it's obvious he's breaking it."
Next, there are so many little laws that no one follows or everyone bends. It's illegal to spit in some places for instance, or certain sex acts are illegal. If the government has something else against you, they can leverage these little laws against you. Or they can simply try to expose some embarrassing part of your life, cornering you into working for them for something or other.
Finally, take something like the speed limit. Most people can drive by a police officer at +10mph over the speed limit and not worry about being pulled over for a ticket. Most people think this is just a case of the officer being flexible and reasonable. Unfortunately, there is no room for flexibility or reason in law enforcement. If something requires 'flexibility' and 'reasonableness' then it means it's FLAWED. Here's why: if someone in a beat up old car with dreads smoking a hand-rolled cigarette drives by a cop at +10mph over the speed limit, he's gonna get pulled over. Yup, therein lies the problem with 'flexibility' and 'reasonability.' Most people become passive sheep in the face of it, thinking, oh, it's a good thing to have a law that restricts dangerous behavior but the police won't nab me for it because they're understanding that it's rush hour and it requires situational enforcement. In reality, such laws empower the police to arrest at will. Everyone is breaking the law all the time. Now you just pick who you want to spy on or target. Racial profiling or any other excuse you need to pick on someone, don't worry, chances are they're already breaking the law in some capacity.
Or we could let them build a two tiered internet so we could pay our providers extra to pay AT+T extra to give WoW preferred bandwidth, which Blizzard also pays extra to AT+T which would be reflected in paying Blizzard extra as well!
What joy! Instead of paying my provider $50/m and Blizz $15/m, I wold get to pay them $65/m and $25/m respectively. And that's not counting all the other 'exclusive premium' services I could be taking advantage of.
Yeah, that might eat into my net-news browsing budget and I wouldn't be able to afford decent access to slashdot anymore.
Why do I seem to remember reading in several places.../. even... last year that MS was going to intentionally short-stock the xbox so as to create lots of buzz when they run out of units?
He claims he was only 30 points away from the ceiling for the various skills. Why would anyone bother to be away from the game for that much time and come back and suddenly decide their first course of action would be to give these little used skills a bit of a boost by setting up keyboard macros to fight lower level mobs? He could more easily have just gone around manually fighting stuff for an hour or two, or not even really care about those few points, which would just come automatically over time while doing more fun stuff. It's just not the kind of thing people grind for.
I find it amusing that with each email to Blizzard, he gives away more things he did wrong without them ever actually coming out and identifying any of them. This is classic behavior of someone who was caught but isn't sure which of the things he did he was caught for, so he attempts to come up with one excuse after another for all the possible different things.
In the end, even if all he was doing is exactly as he explains it, it's still counts as using 3rd party technology to automate macro-tasks without being engaged in the game himself. Maybe not worthy of full termination, but even then, still debateable. However, given all the clues, it sounds like there is more to this than he is letting on. Based on just this information and this one story, I am not going to jump to the conclusion that Blizzard did anything wrong in this regard or has bad policies for this stuff.
The farmers drive up prices because the desperate players willing to buy gold are also willing to take that easy money and buy stuff in game no matter what the cost.
This might seem nice because I can put something in the AH and get more than it would otherwise be worth. Unfortunately, since I don't buy gold, even if I too am buoyed by the inflation wave, I'm always behind it and the stuff I want still costs that much more.
I think this is why they are making the best items only obtainable by increasing your rep, and soulbound to boot.
The complete analogy is more like this: the regular lanes in the highway, which are free and presumably completely congested most of the time, let you go anywhere you want.
The premium lanes, which are presumably not congested, only allow you to go to shopping malls that the road's owner also owns. Other establishments can pay huge fees and the road owner will allow you access to their stores as well from the premium lanes. But why would you shop at the competing stores when the fees get passed on to you? So instead, you continue to frequent only the malls the road owners also own.
Unless you're content to put up with congested 'public' access lanes (which you still pay for nonetheless), you'll never have freedom of choice in where to go shopping. You'll be locked in, or forced to pay more just for the privilege of shopping where you like.
What makes this all the worse is the fact that unlike actual roads, there is no scarcity of space for expanding the highway with more and more lanes to more than accommodate for all potential traffic (even during peak times) for the next 5 years.
The only thing keeping them from giving us more bandwidth is, essentially, the cost of building wider roads, but not any practical space limit, and no need to bulldoze houses and towns to make more room. We can only assume since they want to build their own "shopping malls" along these roads, that it is in their own interest to make the roads better regardless.
I have only here-say on this, but I believe this cost has already been taken into account under some agreements the telcos entered in return for being granted exclusivity in markets.
wouldn't that be more accurately labeled as a "mixed metaphor?"
Although, to say a drop in a hat, is really to allude to the metaphor for instantaneous response, "I would do that at the drop of a hat"
A drop in a bucket is the correct metaphor in this case, and his mixed metaphor is made more egregious as a result of mixing it with an inappropriate metaphor.
To me it's obvious once you have the concept of a desktop with folders.
Desk accessories are the same to me as the stapler, the rolodex, the scotch tape dispenser, the notepad, the calculator... you get my drift.
Normal applications are heavy duty tools that go in a toolbox. Desk accessories are those light-duty tools you keep lying around to use without even thinking about where they are or what they do.
>...you could say Konfabulator copied Active Desktop in a more effective way...
YES! I have always thought that active desktop was a great idea with a horrible implementation, and when people showed me Konfabulator, it seemed to me to be a better implementation, but still not good enough.
The idea of having desk accessories, small, one-purpose quick apps handy, is just sooo obvious, you can't give credit to anyone for that. The idea of embedding them in an out-of-the-way-yet-easily-accessible layer of the OS is also really obvious. So Konfabulator can't take credit for much, and neither should Apple, and accusations of copy-cat in either direction are totally ill-founded.
That leaves the only aspect to this whole deal that can be remotely considered 'innovative:' using an html layer in the OS that the user can configure and control to create such apps of any flavor. And as much as I love Apple, credit for that has to go to MS, who unfortunately sought to make the entire OS revolve around some bastardized browser concept, instead of just this one special layer.
What Apple can take credit for is simply for taking the initiative of making this available as part of the OS and supporting it. If you ask me, though, the implementation is still not ideal. I'd still like to access widgets that are embedded in my actual desktop in addition to in the "modal-ish" Dashboard layer, as well as being able to hide widgets behind hotspots around my monitor (like flip the mouse to a corner to bring up the calculator, flip it back to that corner to hide it again).
Finally, Yahoo's decision to name their product Dashboard is really sad. Apple named theirs dashboard because they had no better name handy, and that was the easiest way to effectively communicate what the product is. The people who came up with the name Konfabulator really hit on a gold nugget from a sheer marketing perspective. Who doesn't want to own a 'Konfabulator?' Yahoo should have kept that name and leveraged it. It's akin to Apple buying the iPod from another company and then renaming it to 'MP3 Player.'
Indeed, you guys are right; I misinterpreted what was written; I'm trigger-biased to be skeptical when claims are phrased in what appears to be "shifty"terms... and didn't take the time to read it more carefully.
The "from recent immigrants" part threw me off, because I then went on to somehow parse "born overseas" as being the same thing as "descended from recent immigrants." Sounds ridiculous, but it's true.
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Does my city have a history of sexual predators meeting others around the city?
^^^ post above was directed at kneeslasher (878676) on Tuesday June 20, @06:23AM (#15568459)
I forwent using my mod points on this article so as to post earlier. Otherwise, I would have modded you up.
Wow. +5 Brilliant! Finally someone with the balls to speak some sense.
I seem to recall hearing that Mary was 13 or 14, the standard child-bearing age (and hence marriage) of the times, when she gave birth to Jesus.
People were old at 35
When I turned 12, I was called an adult and expected to be responsible for my own actions. Maturity doesn't begin to set in until life demands it of you, no matter how old you are.
Yes, and that's why women do the same thing to men. They go out on dates because they want to get laid. They may generally be more careful and judicious in their approach, but the ultimate goal is the same.
(I'll grant you this: one other reason both men and women go out on dates is to find a life partner, even if they are completely asexual, however, finding a life partner is generally tightly coupled with finding a sex partner)
Who had a horrible thing happen to their daughter?
What happened to presumption of innocence?
For all we know, she raped him, but it still legally counts as sexual assault on his part.
You certainly can't mean what I think you mean, do you?
There's a certain overbearing PC-ness to your post that bugs me; a certain air of assumption on your part that the girl is innocent and that the 19 year old had nefarious intents all along; a certain tone suggesting the populist attitude that fosters our current 'think of the children' mentality coupled with veiled threats that if someone doesn't agree with that line of thinking, there must be something wrong with him, he must be evil, or must be a sexual predator himself even.
I'm hoping you chose your words poorly; please tell me that I've misread your actual intent.
Oh, and don't forget to check your assumptions of 'rape' at the door while you're at it because 'sexual assault' can be consensual at their ages.
I think the detail everyone is overlooking in this discussion is that the term "sexual assault" applies regardless of the nature of the sex simply because of the age difference between them. Everyone says he raped her. I think it could very well have been consensual.
Indeed, the evidence shows everything between them was amicable until the so-called "sexual assault."
I think the girl was really into the guy, thought he was dreamy (like the girls' Dentist in the Brady Bunch) , and was ready to find out what it meant to be an adult.
Then someone (the girl, her mom, or both) regretted it all
not to mention easier to use large crowds of people as giant LCD screens.
think of the stadium applications!
There are a few problems that come up with this attitude.
First, as people have stated, the government can think you are doing something wrong even if you aren't, or they can claim you are. Or other people who bear you ill will can "out" you.
Second, what if you don't morally agree with the laws? If you are seeking to change the laws that you find offensive, it would make you an instant target: "he doesn't agree with the law, therefore it's obvious he's breaking it."
Next, there are so many little laws that no one follows or everyone bends. It's illegal to spit in some places for instance, or certain sex acts are illegal. If the government has something else against you, they can leverage these little laws against you. Or they can simply try to expose some embarrassing part of your life, cornering you into working for them for something or other.
Finally, take something like the speed limit. Most people can drive by a police officer at +10mph over the speed limit and not worry about being pulled over for a ticket. Most people think this is just a case of the officer being flexible and reasonable. Unfortunately, there is no room for flexibility or reason in law enforcement. If something requires 'flexibility' and 'reasonableness' then it means it's FLAWED. Here's why: if someone in a beat up old car with dreads smoking a hand-rolled cigarette drives by a cop at +10mph over the speed limit, he's gonna get pulled over. Yup, therein lies the problem with 'flexibility' and 'reasonability.' Most people become passive sheep in the face of it, thinking, oh, it's a good thing to have a law that restricts dangerous behavior but the police won't nab me for it because they're understanding that it's rush hour and it requires situational enforcement. In reality, such laws empower the police to arrest at will. Everyone is breaking the law all the time. Now you just pick who you want to spy on or target. Racial profiling or any other excuse you need to pick on someone, don't worry, chances are they're already breaking the law in some capacity.
Or we could let them build a two tiered internet so we could pay our providers extra to pay AT+T extra to give WoW preferred bandwidth, which Blizzard also pays extra to AT+T which would be reflected in paying Blizzard extra as well!
What joy! Instead of paying my provider $50/m and Blizz $15/m, I wold get to pay them $65/m and $25/m respectively. And that's not counting all the other 'exclusive premium' services I could be taking advantage of.
Yeah, that might eat into my net-news browsing budget and I wouldn't be able to afford decent access to slashdot anymore.
Why do I seem to remember reading in several places... /. even... last year that MS was going to intentionally short-stock the xbox so as to create lots of buzz when they run out of units?
Isn't that what really happened?
I call BS on this assertion.
He claims he was only 30 points away from the ceiling for the various skills. Why would anyone bother to be away from the game for that much time and come back and suddenly decide their first course of action would be to give these little used skills a bit of a boost by setting up keyboard macros to fight lower level mobs? He could more easily have just gone around manually fighting stuff for an hour or two, or not even really care about those few points, which would just come automatically over time while doing more fun stuff. It's just not the kind of thing people grind for.
I find it amusing that with each email to Blizzard, he gives away more things he did wrong without them ever actually coming out and identifying any of them. This is classic behavior of someone who was caught but isn't sure which of the things he did he was caught for, so he attempts to come up with one excuse after another for all the possible different things.
In the end, even if all he was doing is exactly as he explains it, it's still counts as using 3rd party technology to automate macro-tasks without being engaged in the game himself. Maybe not worthy of full termination, but even then, still debateable. However, given all the clues, it sounds like there is more to this than he is letting on. Based on just this information and this one story, I am not going to jump to the conclusion that Blizzard did anything wrong in this regard or has bad policies for this stuff.
The farmers drive up prices because the desperate players willing to buy gold are also willing to take that easy money and buy stuff in game no matter what the cost.
This might seem nice because I can put something in the AH and get more than it would otherwise be worth. Unfortunately, since I don't buy gold, even if I too am buoyed by the inflation wave, I'm always behind it and the stuff I want still costs that much more.
I think this is why they are making the best items only obtainable by increasing your rep, and soulbound to boot.
Brilliant. Absolutely spot-on post. I wish I had mod points x10
I am in 100% agreement. This stuff should be taught in grade school, afaic
Richard Dawkins, get in the classroom!
The complete analogy is more like this: the regular lanes in the highway, which are free and presumably completely congested most of the time, let you go anywhere you want.
The premium lanes, which are presumably not congested, only allow you to go to shopping malls that the road's owner also owns. Other establishments can pay huge fees and the road owner will allow you access to their stores as well from the premium lanes. But why would you shop at the competing stores when the fees get passed on to you? So instead, you continue to frequent only the malls the road owners also own.
Unless you're content to put up with congested 'public' access lanes (which you still pay for nonetheless), you'll never have freedom of choice in where to go shopping. You'll be locked in, or forced to pay more just for the privilege of shopping where you like.
What makes this all the worse is the fact that unlike actual roads, there is no scarcity of space for expanding the highway with more and more lanes to more than accommodate for all potential traffic (even during peak times) for the next 5 years.
The only thing keeping them from giving us more bandwidth is, essentially, the cost of building wider roads, but not any practical space limit, and no need to bulldoze houses and towns to make more room. We can only assume since they want to build their own "shopping malls" along these roads, that it is in their own interest to make the roads better regardless.
I have only here-say on this, but I believe this cost has already been taken into account under some agreements the telcos entered in return for being granted exclusivity in markets.
wouldn't that be more accurately labeled as a "mixed metaphor?"
Although, to say a drop in a hat, is really to allude to the metaphor for instantaneous response, "I would do that at the drop of a hat"
A drop in a bucket is the correct metaphor in this case, and his mixed metaphor is made more egregious as a result of mixing it with an inappropriate metaphor.
The name PowerBook precedes the PowerPC chip by a long time.
To me it's obvious once you have the concept of a desktop with folders.
Desk accessories are the same to me as the stapler, the rolodex, the scotch tape dispenser, the notepad, the calculator... you get my drift.
Normal applications are heavy duty tools that go in a toolbox. Desk accessories are those light-duty tools you keep lying around to use without even thinking about where they are or what they do.
This is a stupendous development. Now we have Digg to take down sites for us. So we no longer have to bother with TFA anymore.
On with the comments!
> ...you could say Konfabulator copied Active Desktop in a more effective way...
YES! I have always thought that active desktop was a great idea with a horrible implementation, and when people showed me Konfabulator, it seemed to me to be a better implementation, but still not good enough.
The idea of having desk accessories, small, one-purpose quick apps handy, is just sooo obvious, you can't give credit to anyone for that. The idea of embedding them in an out-of-the-way-yet-easily-accessible layer of the OS is also really obvious. So Konfabulator can't take credit for much, and neither should Apple, and accusations of copy-cat in either direction are totally ill-founded.
That leaves the only aspect to this whole deal that can be remotely considered 'innovative:' using an html layer in the OS that the user can configure and control to create such apps of any flavor. And as much as I love Apple, credit for that has to go to MS, who unfortunately sought to make the entire OS revolve around some bastardized browser concept, instead of just this one special layer.
What Apple can take credit for is simply for taking the initiative of making this available as part of the OS and supporting it. If you ask me, though, the implementation is still not ideal. I'd still like to access widgets that are embedded in my actual desktop in addition to in the "modal-ish" Dashboard layer, as well as being able to hide widgets behind hotspots around my monitor (like flip the mouse to a corner to bring up the calculator, flip it back to that corner to hide it again).
Finally, Yahoo's decision to name their product Dashboard is really sad. Apple named theirs dashboard because they had no better name handy, and that was the easiest way to effectively communicate what the product is. The people who came up with the name Konfabulator really hit on a gold nugget from a sheer marketing perspective. Who doesn't want to own a 'Konfabulator?' Yahoo should have kept that name and leveraged it. It's akin to Apple buying the iPod from another company and then renaming it to 'MP3 Player.'
Indeed, you guys are right; I misinterpreted what was written; I'm trigger-biased to be skeptical when claims are phrased in what appears to be "shifty"terms... and didn't take the time to read it more carefully.
The "from recent immigrants" part threw me off, because I then went on to somehow parse "born overseas" as being the same thing as "descended from recent immigrants." Sounds ridiculous, but it's true.
Anyway, my apologies to the OP.
The overwhelming majority ... nearly a quarter of Australians living today ...
hmmm, is this the "new math?"
Someone please mod this guy all the way to 5+++++
It's about time someone got to the bottom of this stupid nonsense in a scientific manner.
nothing's changed, it seems :)