Christ, what idiot modded that "insightful"? It shows no insight, in fact shows the commenter lives in a fantasy world.
You do realise that 90% of all stolen items are never recovered and 90% of theives get away? And if you do catch the guy who stole your cow, how is he going to compensate you for it after he's eaten it? He wouldn't be stealing unless he was destitute or insane. He's not going to have anything to compensate you with. Also, I see you've never been burglarized or robbed. It's a traumatic experience that nobody should have to go through.
It's a criminal offense to steal because government's primary job is to protect you from me.
What about rape? How are you going to get compensation for a rape victim? I've talked to victims of rape, and can tell you that there is no just compensation short of having the rapist incarcerated... and that's not even enough.
Kid, your anarchist utopia is an unworkable fantasy world. ANARCHY ALWAYS LEADS TO MONARCHY. You may think you're superior to everyone and can do everything with no help from anyone, but that's just delusional. If you were dropped in the middle of the woods with no tools, you'd starve. If someone dropped you in the middle of a ghetto, you'd probably not make it out alive.
That's one thing that's really frustrating about racism -- the people who practice it seem to actually be mentally deficient in addition to being hateful fucks
You have to realize that half the people on the planet have two digit IQs. Racism has one purpose -- to keep poor dumb whites and blacks at each others' throats and blame each other for their poverty and hopelessness (yes, there are more whites on food stamps than blacks) so they won't attack their real enemies, the 1% and their lapdog, the Tea Party.
For children yes, and Conservative Christians would also lump women in with that.
I never could figure out some people's thought processes. I know a woman who doesn't believe in God, but calls herself a Catholic. Likewise, how can someone who follows the conservative agenda call themselves a Christian? Conservatives hate the homeless, Jesus was homeless. They hate poor people (especially black ones), yet jesus said "blessed are the poor". Thay hate taxes, yet Jesus said "render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar's". They are for the death penalty, yet the penalty for adultery in Jesus' time was death by stoning, and Jesus said "let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Lawyers call themselves Christians, yet Jesus had some REALLY harsh words for lawyers. Conservatives all seem to love money, yet the bible says the love of money is the root of all evil.
Do they actually believe that Jesus would be against food stamps and welfare, or for waging war, seing as how conservatives are mostly hawks. I just don't get it.
Far more notable than his skin color is the fact that the inventor of jazz music was a schitzophrenic. But my question is, why are you feeding that troll? He's at -1 and invisible, don't encourage these jerks. Just ignore them.
food for thought as to how to keep the human species going long after the Sun starts going off the main sequence into red giant-hood
How about a little perspective here? Humans won't be around in four billion years. Hell, we haven't been around for two million. We'll either become extinct, or evolve into something else. In fact, I've been writing a little fiction about our descendants ten million years from now, who call us "protohumans".
OTOH, I find myself annoyed by how many things are available only as video these days, so perhaps I should just admit that I'm old
No, you should just admit that you're literate. I saw a figure a few weeks ago (and I don't know how accurate it is) that stated that 97% of people are either illiterate or aliterate; people seem to have stopped reading when TV was invented.
No. Superman, Batman, and Spider man helped me learn to read, but I didn't have much use for comic books after maybe the second grade. The idea of presenting news in cartoon format? Maybe have the TV news folks dressed as clowns, too?
I knew a woman who was concieved as a result of rape, and she wished her mother had aborted her. The poor woman had some terrible mental health problems as a result of how her mother brought her up. I never met another person with lower self-esteem.
Of course, had she been given up for adoption... however, the Republican platform calls for the end of all abortions and says nothing about rape or the mother's health. There was a piece in one of the news outlets yesterday about a woman in Haiti dying as a result of their cruel anti-abortion laws; she had cancer, and the anti-abortion laws wouldn't allow chemo or radio therapy. Not only is the fetus dead, but so is she.
Republicans are heartless. I'm personally against abortion in most cases, but damn it, it's not my business. It should be between the parents (except rape, when it should be up to the mother), and the doctors. Your sins are none of my business, and mine are none of yours.
Aren't Republicans the ones who want government out of our bedrooms and doctor's offices?
Because regulation artificially narrows the supply, making the profits more lucrative for the incumbents.
Bullshit. I'm damned glad that my CrystaLens had to be approed by the FDA. Regulations ensure that a medical device is effective, that you get the correct amount of the drug you were prescribed, and that the drug is effective, and that its downsides are listed. Drugs aren't expensive because of regulations, they're expensive because you have little choice whether or not to take them and they cost a lot to develop. I don't want to go back to the days of snake oil salesmen. I want my treatments to be scientifically tested for safety and effectiveness.
As to medical apps, it would depend on the app. I think most apps would be fine unregulated, but an app that (for instance) told a diabetic when to take her insulin probably should be.
As another poster noted, there are few vehicle deaths in places with few vehicles and poor sanitation. According to the wikipedia link another commenter posted, auto accidents rank fifth in industrial countries. More people die of vehicle accidents than suicide, and murder wasn't even in the top ten.
Driving to work is the most dangerous thing an office worker do.
Nothing exciting about sitting in a driverless sh1tbox and probably soaking up pre-made entertainment content and a few Google targetted ads.
*sigh* You remind me of the old Pontiac commercials, "we build excitement." I always took that to mean "the brakes are bad and the handling is shit."
If the car is driving itself, you're free to watch the scenery go by, read a book, take a nap.
Would rather drive the thing myself, despite the miniscule chance of me crashing into a people carrier with 6 kids inside
The risk is hardly miniscule, considering that 40,000 people die on American highways every year. Exciting enough for you, son? If you want even more excitement, next time you see a cop, floor it!
George Ryan, now in prison for bribery, outspent his opponent in his Gubanatorial race ten to one, a non-politician (Ryan was SoS and his opponent was an educator who now runs an SIU campus) yet won by only a few hundred votes.
Yeah, you can change the memory or hard drive, but that's about all. Apple is supposedly (I could be wrong, I don't own one) speced out as high end as possible (they're expensive enough!) so you probably shouldn't need upgrades.
Have you ever disassembled a notebook? I have an old IBM Thinkpad someone gave me, and I've been trying to get past a CMOS password, which involves completely disassembling it, powering it up, and shorting two pins on a chip. It's been sitting on a bench, half disassembled, for months. PITA.
So in my view, closed box notebooks are OK (if you can't change the battery that's certainlu NOT ok). OTOH, with a desktop computer, it would be insane to have it sealed up without possibility of upgrading. That would fly in the face of 30 years of how it's been done.
It's been beaten to death (working on a pun here) but those with a drug habit ended up there in a lot of cases because they were already destitute and making crack $1 a hit instead of $10 a hit isn't going to make them less likely to want to steal to get it
Many, perhaps most, of them are mentally ill to begin with.
I think the best approach to the drug problem is twofold -- available treatment for those who want it (forced treatment doesn't work, an addict has to really want badly to quit or they won't) and perhaps more importantly, availability of mental health care. Many if not most addicts are subconsciencely self-medicating pre-existing mental illnesses, yet the drug establishment treats all of them as if the mental illness is the result of the drug use rather than the cause. In some cases this is correct, others not.
We should get politics and law enforcement out of the problem. It belongs in the hands of health professionals.
Seems NASA has mastered the technical hurdles of Mars but rested on its laurels instead, sticking to tried and true approaches.
Where do you get your "information" from? Your crack dealer?
Tried and true?? The two small rovers landed in air bags, that had never been done before. How did you miss the "seven seconds of terror" when Curiosity landed? That thing came down attached to a rocket-propelled sky crane that had never been done before and was impossible to test, because Mars' gravity is lower and it has little atmosphere.
Nothing about the Mars missions were "tried and true".
"Estados Unidos de Mexico" could be translated either way, I guess. Kind of like whatever language is Yoda's native tongue, Spanish comes out backward to us. Word for word it's "States United of Mexico." Maybe Yoda's Hispanic?
Check your hardware. I had a dual boot Mandriva/XP box a few years ago, and Windows got really flaky. Linux quit when the power supply finally went all the way down... it had been bad for quite a while. Linux is incredibly tolerant of hardware faults, Windows not tolerant at all.
Last year I had a kubuntu/Win 7 notebook with the undesirable trait of hanging under certain circumstances in both OSes (a hardware design fault). I'd have to pull the battery to get it shut down, Windows finally died, kubuntu plugged right along.
Prescription drugs are illegal if you have no presecription, and they actually have cocaine in spray cans for topical use, morphine for hospitals, amphetamines... even Ectasy is produced by legit drug companies. Oh, and since you're trying in vain to be pedantic, there are no "illegal drugs", the terminology used is "controlled substances" which includes everything from Quaaludes (AFAIC only made by a legit company but still illegal) to LSD.
If you sell oxycontin to Rush Limbaugh, it's still an illegal drug, even though it came from a legit pharma company. If you get caught selling your oxycontin that was legally prescribed to you to that old fat bastard, you're still going to jail for "delivery of a controlled substance"; e.g., selling illegal drugs.
Some drugs are more problematic than others. I really don't want someone who's been doing steroids for 3 years to stand in front of my house and ingest PCP.
The law's not stopping him from doing steroids and PCP now, plus the dealer told him that "PCP" was cocaine. That wouldn't happen if those deugs were lagal and regulated. If someone is outside your house in a threatening manner? Call 911 and a cop will be there in five minutes tops (here at least, I've had to call them a few times).
Except it doesn't teach you anything and ignores the fact that zip ties are used far more than handcuffs for restrainng people these days.
As wikipedia says, [citation needed]. Zip ties are only used for those rare occasions that they need to cuff dozens of suspects at once. If you get DUI, they're not going to use zip ties, they'll use plain old reuseable handcuffs. For ordinary arrests, handcuffs are much cheaper, since they're reusable.
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Christ, what idiot modded that "insightful"? It shows no insight, in fact shows the commenter lives in a fantasy world.
You do realise that 90% of all stolen items are never recovered and 90% of theives get away? And if you do catch the guy who stole your cow, how is he going to compensate you for it after he's eaten it? He wouldn't be stealing unless he was destitute or insane. He's not going to have anything to compensate you with. Also, I see you've never been burglarized or robbed. It's a traumatic experience that nobody should have to go through.
It's a criminal offense to steal because government's primary job is to protect you from me.
What about rape? How are you going to get compensation for a rape victim? I've talked to victims of rape, and can tell you that there is no just compensation short of having the rapist incarcerated... and that's not even enough.
Kid, your anarchist utopia is an unworkable fantasy world. ANARCHY ALWAYS LEADS TO MONARCHY. You may think you're superior to everyone and can do everything with no help from anyone, but that's just delusional. If you were dropped in the middle of the woods with no tools, you'd starve. If someone dropped you in the middle of a ghetto, you'd probably not make it out alive.
Your analogy doesn't hold
His analogy was stupid.
Why are you forcing a woman to physically, mentally, and financially take care of the child of her rapist?
Well, I'm completely against outlawing abortion, but she can always give the child up for adoption.
Your [sic] forcing her to go through pregnancy against her will.
BINGO! Nobody should have to undergo pregnancy against their will.
That's one thing that's really frustrating about racism -- the people who practice it seem to actually be mentally deficient in addition to being hateful fucks
You have to realize that half the people on the planet have two digit IQs. Racism has one purpose -- to keep poor dumb whites and blacks at each others' throats and blame each other for their poverty and hopelessness (yes, there are more whites on food stamps than blacks) so they won't attack their real enemies, the 1% and their lapdog, the Tea Party.
For children yes, and Conservative Christians would also lump women in with that.
I never could figure out some people's thought processes. I know a woman who doesn't believe in God, but calls herself a Catholic. Likewise, how can someone who follows the conservative agenda call themselves a Christian? Conservatives hate the homeless, Jesus was homeless. They hate poor people (especially black ones), yet jesus said "blessed are the poor". Thay hate taxes, yet Jesus said "render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar's". They are for the death penalty, yet the penalty for adultery in Jesus' time was death by stoning, and Jesus said "let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Lawyers call themselves Christians, yet Jesus had some REALLY harsh words for lawyers. Conservatives all seem to love money, yet the bible says the love of money is the root of all evil.
Do they actually believe that Jesus would be against food stamps and welfare, or for waging war, seing as how conservatives are mostly hawks. I just don't get it.
Nonsense. They came up with jazz
Far more notable than his skin color is the fact that the inventor of jazz music was a schitzophrenic. But my question is, why are you feeding that troll? He's at -1 and invisible, don't encourage these jerks. Just ignore them.
food for thought as to how to keep the human species going long after the Sun starts going off the main sequence into red giant-hood
How about a little perspective here? Humans won't be around in four billion years. Hell, we haven't been around for two million. We'll either become extinct, or evolve into something else. In fact, I've been writing a little fiction about our descendants ten million years from now, who call us "protohumans".
OTOH, I find myself annoyed by how many things are available only as video these days, so perhaps I should just admit that I'm old
No, you should just admit that you're literate. I saw a figure a few weeks ago (and I don't know how accurate it is) that stated that 97% of people are either illiterate or aliterate; people seem to have stopped reading when TV was invented.
"Would you read a cartoon version of Slashdot?"
No. Superman, Batman, and Spider man helped me learn to read, but I didn't have much use for comic books after maybe the second grade. The idea of presenting news in cartoon format? Maybe have the TV news folks dressed as clowns, too?
Stupid idea IMO.
I knew a woman who was concieved as a result of rape, and she wished her mother had aborted her. The poor woman had some terrible mental health problems as a result of how her mother brought her up. I never met another person with lower self-esteem.
Of course, had she been given up for adoption... however, the Republican platform calls for the end of all abortions and says nothing about rape or the mother's health. There was a piece in one of the news outlets yesterday about a woman in Haiti dying as a result of their cruel anti-abortion laws; she had cancer, and the anti-abortion laws wouldn't allow chemo or radio therapy. Not only is the fetus dead, but so is she.
Republicans are heartless. I'm personally against abortion in most cases, but damn it, it's not my business. It should be between the parents (except rape, when it should be up to the mother), and the doctors. Your sins are none of my business, and mine are none of yours.
Aren't Republicans the ones who want government out of our bedrooms and doctor's offices?
Because regulation artificially narrows the supply, making the profits more lucrative for the incumbents.
Bullshit. I'm damned glad that my CrystaLens had to be approed by the FDA. Regulations ensure that a medical device is effective, that you get the correct amount of the drug you were prescribed, and that the drug is effective, and that its downsides are listed. Drugs aren't expensive because of regulations, they're expensive because you have little choice whether or not to take them and they cost a lot to develop. I don't want to go back to the days of snake oil salesmen. I want my treatments to be scientifically tested for safety and effectiveness.
As to medical apps, it would depend on the app. I think most apps would be fine unregulated, but an app that (for instance) told a diabetic when to take her insulin probably should be.
As another poster noted, there are few vehicle deaths in places with few vehicles and poor sanitation. According to the wikipedia link another commenter posted, auto accidents rank fifth in industrial countries. More people die of vehicle accidents than suicide, and murder wasn't even in the top ten.
Driving to work is the most dangerous thing an office worker do.
Nothing exciting about sitting in a driverless sh1tbox and probably soaking up pre-made entertainment content and a few Google targetted ads.
*sigh* You remind me of the old Pontiac commercials, "we build excitement." I always took that to mean "the brakes are bad and the handling is shit."
If the car is driving itself, you're free to watch the scenery go by, read a book, take a nap.
Would rather drive the thing myself, despite the miniscule chance of me crashing into a people carrier with 6 kids inside
The risk is hardly miniscule, considering that 40,000 people die on American highways every year. Exciting enough for you, son? If you want even more excitement, next time you see a cop, floor it!
George Ryan, now in prison for bribery, outspent his opponent in his Gubanatorial race ten to one, a non-politician (Ryan was SoS and his opponent was an educator who now runs an SIU campus) yet won by only a few hundred votes.
Yeah, you can change the memory or hard drive, but that's about all. Apple is supposedly (I could be wrong, I don't own one) speced out as high end as possible (they're expensive enough!) so you probably shouldn't need upgrades.
Have you ever disassembled a notebook? I have an old IBM Thinkpad someone gave me, and I've been trying to get past a CMOS password, which involves completely disassembling it, powering it up, and shorting two pins on a chip. It's been sitting on a bench, half disassembled, for months. PITA.
So in my view, closed box notebooks are OK (if you can't change the battery that's certainlu NOT ok). OTOH, with a desktop computer, it would be insane to have it sealed up without possibility of upgrading. That would fly in the face of 30 years of how it's been done.
It's been beaten to death (working on a pun here) but those with a drug habit ended up there in a lot of cases because they were already destitute and making crack $1 a hit instead of $10 a hit isn't going to make them less likely to want to steal to get it
Many, perhaps most, of them are mentally ill to begin with.
I think the best approach to the drug problem is twofold -- available treatment for those who want it (forced treatment doesn't work, an addict has to really want badly to quit or they won't) and perhaps more importantly, availability of mental health care. Many if not most addicts are subconsciencely self-medicating pre-existing mental illnesses, yet the drug establishment treats all of them as if the mental illness is the result of the drug use rather than the cause. In some cases this is correct, others not.
We should get politics and law enforcement out of the problem. It belongs in the hands of health professionals.
Seems NASA has mastered the technical hurdles of Mars but rested on its laurels instead, sticking to tried and true approaches.
Where do you get your "information" from? Your crack dealer?
Tried and true?? The two small rovers landed in air bags, that had never been done before. How did you miss the "seven seconds of terror" when Curiosity landed? That thing came down attached to a rocket-propelled sky crane that had never been done before and was impossible to test, because Mars' gravity is lower and it has little atmosphere.
Nothing about the Mars missions were "tried and true".
"Estados Unidos de Mexico" could be translated either way, I guess. Kind of like whatever language is Yoda's native tongue, Spanish comes out backward to us. Word for word it's "States United of Mexico." Maybe Yoda's Hispanic?
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Man does not live by bread alone.
Interesting, that's something I'd never heard before. Thank you for the education!
Check your hardware. I had a dual boot Mandriva/XP box a few years ago, and Windows got really flaky. Linux quit when the power supply finally went all the way down... it had been bad for quite a while. Linux is incredibly tolerant of hardware faults, Windows not tolerant at all.
Last year I had a kubuntu/Win 7 notebook with the undesirable trait of hanging under certain circumstances in both OSes (a hardware design fault). I'd have to pull the battery to get it shut down, Windows finally died, kubuntu plugged right along.
FUCK YOU, OCCUTARDS!
Eat shit and die, Koch, you goddamned evil son of a bitch.
There is no such thing as bad knowledge, only bad uses for knowledge.
Prescription drugs are illegal if you have no presecription, and they actually have cocaine in spray cans for topical use, morphine for hospitals, amphetamines... even Ectasy is produced by legit drug companies. Oh, and since you're trying in vain to be pedantic, there are no "illegal drugs", the terminology used is "controlled substances" which includes everything from Quaaludes (AFAIC only made by a legit company but still illegal) to LSD.
If you sell oxycontin to Rush Limbaugh, it's still an illegal drug, even though it came from a legit pharma company. If you get caught selling your oxycontin that was legally prescribed to you to that old fat bastard, you're still going to jail for "delivery of a controlled substance"; e.g., selling illegal drugs.
Some drugs are more problematic than others. I really don't want someone who's been doing steroids for 3 years to stand in front of my house and ingest PCP.
The law's not stopping him from doing steroids and PCP now, plus the dealer told him that "PCP" was cocaine. That wouldn't happen if those deugs were lagal and regulated. If someone is outside your house in a threatening manner? Call 911 and a cop will be there in five minutes tops (here at least, I've had to call them a few times).
Except it doesn't teach you anything and ignores the fact that zip ties are used far more than handcuffs for restrainng people these days.
As wikipedia says, [citation needed]. Zip ties are only used for those rare occasions that they need to cuff dozens of suspects at once. If you get DUI, they're not going to use zip ties, they'll use plain old reuseable handcuffs. For ordinary arrests, handcuffs are much cheaper, since they're reusable.