But... Our system right now is so paranoid against executing the falsely convicted, that stays of execution are granted when there is the faintest whiff of innocence. Prisoners are kept for decades, just to avoid wrongful execution.
From Wikipedia : "Newly available DNA evidence has allowed the exoneration and release of more than 15 death row inmates since 1992 in the United States, but DNA evidence is available in only a fraction of capital cases."
That's more than one person per year exonerated by DNA evidence. There are far more people on death row who have been convicted for crimes where there is no DNA evidence. There will be many people on death row now, who are innocent, and can't get that evidence to prove it. There will have been many innocent people already executed.
I'd insist (on cruelty grounds) on choosing the method of my execution, and being monitored by a pain specializing neurologist. (There are several supposedly-humane methods that haven't been sufficiently explored.)
You can insist all you like, doesn't make a difference to the justice system.
I'm sympathetic to this line of reasoning; however, by logical extension you must also be against any sort of punishment for criminals at all. For while death is a permanent, irrevocable punishment, so is any form of wrongful incarceration. You can't undo the loss of a portion of a life wrongly spent in prison
No, not in any sense whatsoever. You could continue down the slippery slope and claim that police should not be able to question or detain anyone at all, in any circumstances, because that means that portion of their life is lost. It's a strawman argument, which no one is making.
Ultimately, the answer is yes, some small level of error must be acceptable in the criminal justice system, or we must otherwise let all the accused go free.
Yes, that was the argument. People are going to be convicted for crimes they did not commit, however only in places with the death penalty are innocent people going to be killed by the state.
I am willing to accept this in the death penalty as well.
I'm not, and will not travel to anywhere with the death penalty.
And if you're asking me whether I, as an innocent person, would prefer an overdose of opiod narcotics and tranquilizers (i.e. what this admitted criminal received) vs a lifetime spent incarcerated, then yes I would.
A life sentence is _always_ better than the death penalty. Anyone can commit suicide if they are determined enough, and then it's your choice.
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The UK defense spending is actually stabilising, and is not expected to rise significantly in the next few years. Of course, those in the military spout off about "cuts" everywhere... the fact is, until recently, it was still rising, wages are not increasing significantly in the military, so they must be spending the extra money on something.
Without automation, the average car would cost more than a million dollars, just getting the people in who can repeatedly file a part down to the tolerances needed.
My car's engine is hand finished, and it cost £2,500 second hand a few years back. Admittedly, Honda apparently sold them at a loss, but they weren't that much new (about £20k)... Integra Type R.
My sister has just got her exhaust replaced on her series 2 MR2 (her old one had loads of holes, and fell off on the motorway), and the _cheapest_ place anywhere near us was a 3 man garage with a good reputation that made their own. They didn't make the cat.
Just because it's hand made does not mean it will cost the earth... automation is good for mass produced things - car parts for older models are sometimes much cheaper if someone builds them, rather than going to the dealers.
I think the point GP was making was that the queen doesn't have any actual power, at all. This is a typical misconception - although the queen could in theory veto something, as soon as she did so, the parliament would just pass a law getting rid of her veto, and no one would object.
The UK is a representative democracy, with a monarch as a figurehead, not a true constitutional monarchy.
I'm afraid you're wrong. Police do keep records of arrests, and they can be revealed in enhanced CRB checks.
From here : "the fact that a person has been arrested is very likely to be stored on the person's police record on the Police National Computer. [...] if this is an Enhanced [CRB] check, there is an option for the police to include any other relevant information about the person that is stored on the PNC and that is considered relevant for the application. So if the police believe that the reason for the arrest is in some way relevant to the purpose for the CRB application, they can disclose these details in the 'Additional Information' section."
I'm quite a good example... I've been arrested once for ABH (I was attacked, tried to get away, eventually hit someone in self defence, charges dropped in a day), and once for GBH (wrong person, I was just walking past... released on bail next day, all my clothes went to forensics, no charges brought). These arrests will almost certainly be included by the police on any enhanced CRB check involving working with vulnerable people, so it's very unlikely I'd ever get a job in that sector. I'm completely innocent of these crimes, I'm just lucky I don't have any intention of working in that sector. Others are not so lucky.
It's not convenience factor. "Hers" does not have an apostrophe because it is is a pronoun, for example. "Its" does not have an apostrophe because it's also a pronoun. You might as well go putting apostrophes in our's, your's, hi's and her's, too, if you do it in "it's".
It's confusing, admittedly, but it's not there because of the convenience factor.
GP was speaking metaphorically. That have categorically denied some things that were not relevant, but they were not the things they were accused of. Did they get paid $10m by the NSA to use a poor cryptographic solution? Yes, they did, and neither of their categorical statements address this.
No... it's not normal. Governments spy on governments generally, not on citizens.
If you consider it normal for the NSA to spy on EU citizens, then you must consider it normal for GCHQ, MI6, and all the other European agencies to spy on US citizens. Most of the western agencies share a lot of their intelligence, so most of the stuff MI6 knows about you goes straight back to the NSA and other agencies anyway, without them having to spy on you.
Do you consider it normal and acceptable for European agencies to be spying on American citizens? Really?
Just to let you know.... we know you're here, and we know you exist. Lots of us are willing to fight for your ability to be what you are. There are just some wayward slow people who don't get it, and get a lot of press, but do not represent most people.
Or a whole load of other things that are against the law.
The law is an ass - two 15 year olds in the UK having sex are both guilty of paedophilia. I personally don't think they deserve to get locked up for 15 years each, I don't know what you think.
A 50 year old man can have sex with a 16 year old girl, but cannot draw an imagined version of her naked. The law is an ass.
We had this conversation when the government apologised to him, and then people said that was not enough. Now they pardoned him... where are the pardons for people who are living in the UK today who have been convicted under these laws, and still are living with a criminal record?
One question we could have now, with the advent of same sex marriage, is why incest laws should be followed with same sex marriages. There's no logical reason why I should not be able to marry my son, brother, or father, except for people thinking it's weird.
Note : I do _not_ want to marry my father (I don't have a son or brother, and doubt I would want to marry them if I did, besides, he's still married to my mother).
Vista isn't bad... it's just pretty big, and was sold on hardware that couldn't run it. Also, lots of previous Windows software assumed administrator privileges, so failed in unexpected ways. I've had getting on for a year of uptime on my Vista box, which I still use as my main machine. It's about 7 years old now, and has had graphics card and HD replacement, but is still running my E6850 core 2 duo.
FTFS : "If Vista had been more like Windows 7". Windows 7 is basically Vista, like XP was basically win2k. I don't understand the hate really.
From that same page, the Nissan Leaf in California puts out emissions equivalent to a 70 mpg petrol car.
So it should probably be taxed at about half the rate of a 35mpg car. But... it uses the same roads at the same rate, so that probably has to be taken into account too.
Imagine a world in which every car was electric, with our current subsidies. Where does the money come from?
All of the conventional "Western" states have ratified it, that was what I was referring to the rest of the world looking at as a bit odd. It's obviously far from odd that places with dodgy or corrupt regimes and those not as subject to the rule of law have not ratified the treaty. Oceania is not considered "western", except for Aus/NZ, which have ratified it.
The EU is a superpower, too, by any definition, and is more than cohesive enough to act as an entity.
Empathy is feeling the feelings experienced by another human beings[sic]. "Compassion" is the word you are looking for.
No it isn't... I feel something different to compassion when I see someone in severe pain. A lot of it involves "thank god that is not me", which is nothing to do with compassion. If you have a better word for it, go for it. As it is, "empathy" is the best I could find to express what I meant. I know I literally do not feel what other people in pain feel, to claim so would be false, and I did not intend to give that impression. If you actually thought I meant that I was claiming that I was feeling a direct simulacrum to the other person, you misinterpreted me.
This kind of service doesn't help at all with future planning of finances
No, and everyone who uses bitcoin knows that its value is not stable. Anyone who agrees to a contract based on bitcoin and only bitcoin deserves what they get. This is a strawman, since no one is advocating bitcoin being used for future planning of finances.
FTFA : "Payments can be used to top up credit or to buy new SIM cards and gift vouchers." This is not a contract. Bitcoin is not a serious alternative to the more stable currencies we have now. However, this proves it is something with value... you can use it to buy stuff. The more stuff you can buy with it, the more stable it will get.
this right now is just a novelty way to pay the odd bill or two for a slim margin of customers
Actually paying bills is not a novelty, it's dull. Bitcoin will soon become dull, hopefully, then it will be a success.
I personally believe that new electric cars are safer than petrol cars generally... they've got less to go wrong badly, and they've been proven.
However, a Nissan leaf gets 40mpg equivalent or so in the US (in terms of carbon emissions), according to here (see Emissions equivalent petrol car). A Tesla will get a lot worse.
That's shit. My parent's car will get almost 50mpg. It's a diesel. My car will get more than 30mpg, and it'll do 0-60 in 6.
The amount the dominant country puts back into an economy as charity is difficult to quantify. The British Empire pumped billions in to all of its colonies. It took out more, or it would not have done it. Pumping money into regimes to make them vaguely stable so that you can economically profit is _not_ charity.
No, UN resolutions aren't binding. But they are a reflection of what governments around the world believe they should be seen supporting.
You mean like the International Criminal Court, which was founded 11 years ago? The US is the only western country not to accept the ICC. Everyone around the world thinks this is odd.
Having a spouse means you're forced to consider another perspective, which in turn makes it easier to understand and empathize with others you're not related to.
Alternatively, having a spouse and family makes it much harder to understand and empathise with those outside of that family. "Old money" refers to this - people preferentially give money to those they are related to, to the detriment of others. Massive family fortunes have been accumulated and held on to this way, and have been influential despite those currently being in control being incompetent.
People who don't have spouses and family are _more_ forced to consider other perspectives, because they actually decide what will happen to their money when they die, rather than just passing it on.
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But... Our system right now is so paranoid against executing the falsely convicted, that stays of execution are granted when there is the faintest whiff of innocence. Prisoners are kept for decades, just to avoid wrongful execution.
From Wikipedia : "Newly available DNA evidence has allowed the exoneration and release of more than 15 death row inmates since 1992 in the United States, but DNA evidence is available in only a fraction of capital cases."
That's more than one person per year exonerated by DNA evidence. There are far more people on death row who have been convicted for crimes where there is no DNA evidence. There will be many people on death row now, who are innocent, and can't get that evidence to prove it. There will have been many innocent people already executed.
I'd insist (on cruelty grounds) on choosing the method of my execution, and being monitored by a pain specializing neurologist. (There are several supposedly-humane methods that haven't been sufficiently explored.)
You can insist all you like, doesn't make a difference to the justice system.
(I'm not GP, btw, but I agree with him)
I'm sympathetic to this line of reasoning; however, by logical extension you must also be against any sort of punishment for criminals at all. For while death is a permanent, irrevocable punishment, so is any form of wrongful incarceration. You can't undo the loss of a portion of a life wrongly spent in prison
No, not in any sense whatsoever. You could continue down the slippery slope and claim that police should not be able to question or detain anyone at all, in any circumstances, because that means that portion of their life is lost. It's a strawman argument, which no one is making.
Ultimately, the answer is yes, some small level of error must be acceptable in the criminal justice system, or we must otherwise let all the accused go free.
Yes, that was the argument. People are going to be convicted for crimes they did not commit, however only in places with the death penalty are innocent people going to be killed by the state.
I am willing to accept this in the death penalty as well.
I'm not, and will not travel to anywhere with the death penalty.
And if you're asking me whether I, as an innocent person, would prefer an overdose of opiod narcotics and tranquilizers (i.e. what this admitted criminal received) vs a lifetime spent incarcerated, then yes I would.
A life sentence is _always_ better than the death penalty. Anyone can commit suicide if they are determined enough, and then it's your choice.
It was the "Kennedy Moment" of my generation.
We know where we were, what we saw, how we felt. Everything is burned into our memories. I can still hear the rattle of the ventilator.
I was 9 years old, and have no memory of the Challenger disaster at all. So, no, it's not burned into our memories.
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The physics of the carburetter seem absolutely stupid to me... Why would they not just squirt a fuel air mix in?
The answer is because it's fucking difficult, and the carburetter lasted for over 100 years in production cars because of this.
Just because something is fucking difficult, does not mean it will not be done, eventually.
The UK defense spending is actually stabilising, and is not expected to rise significantly in the next few years. Of course, those in the military spout off about "cuts" everywhere... the fact is, until recently, it was still rising, wages are not increasing significantly in the military, so they must be spending the extra money on something.
Without automation, the average car would cost more than a million dollars, just getting the people in who can repeatedly file a part down to the tolerances needed.
My car's engine is hand finished, and it cost £2,500 second hand a few years back. Admittedly, Honda apparently sold them at a loss, but they weren't that much new (about £20k)... Integra Type R.
My sister has just got her exhaust replaced on her series 2 MR2 (her old one had loads of holes, and fell off on the motorway), and the _cheapest_ place anywhere near us was a 3 man garage with a good reputation that made their own. They didn't make the cat.
Just because it's hand made does not mean it will cost the earth... automation is good for mass produced things - car parts for older models are sometimes much cheaper if someone builds them, rather than going to the dealers.
I think the point GP was making was that the queen doesn't have any actual power, at all. This is a typical misconception - although the queen could in theory veto something, as soon as she did so, the parliament would just pass a law getting rid of her veto, and no one would object.
The UK is a representative democracy, with a monarch as a figurehead, not a true constitutional monarchy.
I'm afraid you're wrong. Police do keep records of arrests, and they can be revealed in enhanced CRB checks.
From here : "the fact that a person has been arrested is very likely to be stored on the person's police record on the Police National Computer. [...] if this is an Enhanced [CRB] check, there is an option for the police to include any other relevant information about the person that is stored on the PNC and that is considered relevant for the application. So if the police believe that the reason for the arrest is in some way relevant to the purpose for the CRB application, they can disclose these details in the 'Additional Information' section."
I'm quite a good example... I've been arrested once for ABH (I was attacked, tried to get away, eventually hit someone in self defence, charges dropped in a day), and once for GBH (wrong person, I was just walking past... released on bail next day, all my clothes went to forensics, no charges brought). These arrests will almost certainly be included by the police on any enhanced CRB check involving working with vulnerable people, so it's very unlikely I'd ever get a job in that sector. I'm completely innocent of these crimes, I'm just lucky I don't have any intention of working in that sector. Others are not so lucky.
It's not convenience factor. "Hers" does not have an apostrophe because it is is a pronoun, for example. "Its" does not have an apostrophe because it's also a pronoun. You might as well go putting apostrophes in our's, your's, hi's and her's, too, if you do it in "it's".
It's confusing, admittedly, but it's not there because of the convenience factor.
GP was speaking metaphorically. That have categorically denied some things that were not relevant, but they were not the things they were accused of. Did they get paid $10m by the NSA to use a poor cryptographic solution? Yes, they did, and neither of their categorical statements address this.
No... it's not normal. Governments spy on governments generally, not on citizens.
If you consider it normal for the NSA to spy on EU citizens, then you must consider it normal for GCHQ, MI6, and all the other European agencies to spy on US citizens. Most of the western agencies share a lot of their intelligence, so most of the stuff MI6 knows about you goes straight back to the NSA and other agencies anyway, without them having to spy on you.
Do you consider it normal and acceptable for European agencies to be spying on American citizens? Really?
Just to let you know.... we know you're here, and we know you exist. Lots of us are willing to fight for your ability to be what you are. There are just some wayward slow people who don't get it, and get a lot of press, but do not represent most people.
Internet trolls will always be there, though.
Or a whole load of other things that are against the law.
The law is an ass - two 15 year olds in the UK having sex are both guilty of paedophilia. I personally don't think they deserve to get locked up for 15 years each, I don't know what you think.
A 50 year old man can have sex with a 16 year old girl, but cannot draw an imagined version of her naked. The law is an ass.
We had this conversation when the government apologised to him, and then people said that was not enough. Now they pardoned him... where are the pardons for people who are living in the UK today who have been convicted under these laws, and still are living with a criminal record?
One question we could have now, with the advent of same sex marriage, is why incest laws should be followed with same sex marriages. There's no logical reason why I should not be able to marry my son, brother, or father, except for people thinking it's weird.
Note : I do _not_ want to marry my father (I don't have a son or brother, and doubt I would want to marry them if I did, besides, he's still married to my mother).
Vista isn't bad... it's just pretty big, and was sold on hardware that couldn't run it. Also, lots of previous Windows software assumed administrator privileges, so failed in unexpected ways. I've had getting on for a year of uptime on my Vista box, which I still use as my main machine. It's about 7 years old now, and has had graphics card and HD replacement, but is still running my E6850 core 2 duo.
FTFS : "If Vista had been more like Windows 7". Windows 7 is basically Vista, like XP was basically win2k. I don't understand the hate really.
From that same page, the Nissan Leaf in California puts out emissions equivalent to a 70 mpg petrol car.
So it should probably be taxed at about half the rate of a 35mpg car. But... it uses the same roads at the same rate, so that probably has to be taken into account too.
Imagine a world in which every car was electric, with our current subsidies. Where does the money come from?
All of the conventional "Western" states have ratified it, that was what I was referring to the rest of the world looking at as a bit odd. It's obviously far from odd that places with dodgy or corrupt regimes and those not as subject to the rule of law have not ratified the treaty. Oceania is not considered "western", except for Aus/NZ, which have ratified it.
The EU is a superpower, too, by any definition, and is more than cohesive enough to act as an entity.
Empathy is feeling the feelings experienced by another human beings[sic]. "Compassion" is the word you are looking for.
No it isn't... I feel something different to compassion when I see someone in severe pain. A lot of it involves "thank god that is not me", which is nothing to do with compassion. If you have a better word for it, go for it. As it is, "empathy" is the best I could find to express what I meant. I know I literally do not feel what other people in pain feel, to claim so would be false, and I did not intend to give that impression. If you actually thought I meant that I was claiming that I was feeling a direct simulacrum to the other person, you misinterpreted me.
This kind of service doesn't help at all with future planning of finances
No, and everyone who uses bitcoin knows that its value is not stable. Anyone who agrees to a contract based on bitcoin and only bitcoin deserves what they get. This is a strawman, since no one is advocating bitcoin being used for future planning of finances.
FTFA : "Payments can be used to top up credit or to buy new SIM cards and gift vouchers." This is not a contract. Bitcoin is not a serious alternative to the more stable currencies we have now. However, this proves it is something with value... you can use it to buy stuff. The more stuff you can buy with it, the more stable it will get.
this right now is just a novelty way to pay the odd bill or two for a slim margin of customers
Actually paying bills is not a novelty, it's dull. Bitcoin will soon become dull, hopefully, then it will be a success.
I personally believe that new electric cars are safer than petrol cars generally... they've got less to go wrong badly, and they've been proven.
However, a Nissan leaf gets 40mpg equivalent or so in the US (in terms of carbon emissions), according to here (see Emissions equivalent petrol car). A Tesla will get a lot worse.
That's shit. My parent's car will get almost 50mpg. It's a diesel. My car will get more than 30mpg, and it'll do 0-60 in 6.
The amount the dominant country puts back into an economy as charity is difficult to quantify. The British Empire pumped billions in to all of its colonies. It took out more, or it would not have done it. Pumping money into regimes to make them vaguely stable so that you can economically profit is _not_ charity.
No, UN resolutions aren't binding. But they are a reflection of what governments around the world believe they should be seen supporting.
You mean like the International Criminal Court, which was founded 11 years ago? The US is the only western country not to accept the ICC. Everyone around the world thinks this is odd.
Having a spouse means you're forced to consider another perspective, which in turn makes it easier to understand and empathize with others you're not related to.
Alternatively, having a spouse and family makes it much harder to understand and empathise with those outside of that family. "Old money" refers to this - people preferentially give money to those they are related to, to the detriment of others. Massive family fortunes have been accumulated and held on to this way, and have been influential despite those currently being in control being incompetent.
People who don't have spouses and family are _more_ forced to consider other perspectives, because they actually decide what will happen to their money when they die, rather than just passing it on.
Googling 'stamen Rosa' results in pron.
No, it doesn't. When did you last try it?