I don't have anyone on my foes list, but you may be the first, asshole. My oldest daughter was born with the umbilical cord around her neck and the resultant brain damage gives her an IQ of 65. She's 26, the sweetest thing you'll never meet, and wouldn't harm anyone. You would kill my daughter because of a disability no one has control of? If anybody deserves death it's heartless fucking animals like you.
So you condemn him to a painless, humane death when your death will likely be something horrible like cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's, diabetes, or any of the other nasty ways most of us die?
We're all on death row. Most of us will be tortured to death; few die peacefully in their sleep. I say let him rot in prison until God takes him. Let him have the same horrible death you are likely to suffer.
Remember that mine explosion that killed two dozen men last year in Virginia after the mine company was repeatedly cited for the very violations that caused the explosion?
Why isn't anyone in prison for negligent homicide for all those deaths? Corporations can and do get away with murder.
How does somebody's blog count as a citation? Has Murdock been jailed? Fox news is still on the air, you don't think all the other arms of Murdoch's empire are still doing the same shit the Sun did for years while authorities looked the other way?
My only beef with LulSec is they didn't take down Fox News and other Murdoch outlets.
Someone please mod the parent insightful. The real black hats were already in those servers and already had all the data and were using it maliciously. The door was wide open, LulSec just shined a light on it.
Now THAT'S fantasy. How many people have you known personally who have ever been shot or have shot anyone aside from as a soldier? Shut off that TV, son. The GP was almost certainly telling the truth; I had a similar experience in the 7th grade. A bully picked on me for two months and I snapped, bloodied his nose, and pummelled him mercilessly. He never bothered me after that -- and neither did anybody else.
Hacking Sun's servers doesn't come close to deleting messages on a missing person's phone, destroying evidence in a murder investigation, and a myriad of other evils Murdoch's corporation has done. Meanwhile, Murdoch's not in jail. You would be.
If the Murdochs were in jail I'd agree with you, but when the police will do nothing, I can't fault vigilantes. Hooray, LulSec!
Yep! Sideshow Bob (AKA Klutzo the Klown, or was it Krusty?) died in jail after being arrested for kiddie porn and sex tourism when a jailor sat on him, Mayor Quimby committed suicide, and Mr. Burns just retired.
I don't know about Zoloft, but when I was on Paxil, two beers had me bouncing off the walls. Four or five and I was hallucinating; people turned into cartoons (it was actually enjoyable).
I'm sure some are, but I'd wager most are either undermedicated or are in the wrong drug. I knew one guy a couple of decades ago that was totally whacked out, they got him on meds and the next time I saw him was at the poll working as an election judge. On meds he seemed completely normal. I'v known othere, though, that the drugs didn't help at all.
Your experience with the county health department is typical of what others in your position tell me.
Big nasty companies are big nasty companies. Google disabled my gmail account several years ago. I hadn't even used it much, signed up for the sm62704/. account with it, emailed friends and family (no mass emails or even more than one respondent. No clue as to what term of service I allegedly violated, no recourse whatever, just an invitation to sign up for a different user name.
I declined and went to yahoo. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Finally signed up for another gmail account yesterday to post at slashdot, but I'm not going to use it for anywhere I might need it for password recovery. PIA when they yank an email address, annoying when they disable it with no explanation.
Bing? LOL! I just went there wondering if they ever got any better... nope. Actually it was humorous. Greeted by a picture of a newt (not Gingrich, the other lizard). Clicked on "news" and was greeted with nothing but news about Casey Anthony.
Our Fair City is a really funny short silly story (fantasy more than sci-fi) lampooning political corruption. It's in his collection 6xH. Haven't read Stranger in decades, someone borrowed my copy and I never got it back. Heinlein was another of my all-time favorites, although I think I enjoyed his stuff a lot more when I was young. Asimov's still my favorite, but these days Pratchett's my 2nd favorite even though I'm not really into fantasy; the guy's books are hilarious.
Thanks to drug companies' advertising, it seems a lot of drugs of different classes are overprescribed. I'm no M.D. but it doesn't seem that antipsychotics would do much good for depression.
My doctor had me on Paxil for a year or so after my divorce, they were hard to get off of and I'd wished I'd never taken them.
However, it sure seems like there are an awful lot of really crazy people here in Springfield, many of them violent, who should probably be on medication but aren't. I'm 59 and I don't remember very many nutballs when I was young, but there sure seem to be a lot of crazies these days. I often wonder why, but didn't Reagan throw a bunch of lunatics out of the mental institutions back in the eighties?
We lost power for almost two weeks after Hurricane Isabel and cell service was mostly down, cable TV was down and the POTS line worked intermittently
I think it depends on where you live; what natural disasters you're subject to. Two tornados tore through my town in March 2006 (I lournaled about it)*. There weren't many utility poles left standing, and the entire electrical infrastructure of my part of town had to be completely rebuilt. Power was out for a week, POTS was down for three weeks, the cell phone service didn't stop once.
I'm sure the service provider has a lot to do with it as well. The city owns the power company, so if service suffers the mayor won't get re-elected. A much weaker tornado hit the St Louis area a few months later. I visited a friend down there a month after his tornado, and the only evidence there had even been a tornado was that he was still without electricity (Amerin is a particularly bad company; I have them for natural gas). Meanwhile, it was a full year before all the mess was cleaned up in Springfield
* The journal is a rambling essay; hurricane and tornados are toward the end)
Um, you might want to read more than the headline before posting. Dawn is alive and well; the title was a nod to my favorite writer, a science fiction writer who was also a scientist (PhD in biochemistry, did cancer research and taught at Boston University before dying of AIDS).
Dawn's next stop - Ceres! (the second story Asimov wrote and the oldest still existing).
Well, that was Asimov's first published title and I've been an Asimov fan for half a century. Should I have titled the submission The Robot of Dawn?
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Not sure about the ample gravity, a 200 pound man would weight four pounds. A sneeze might be enough to escape its gravity. Ceres, otoh, would be better (Dawn visits Ceres next).;
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/. editors get a lot of flak (and I'm guilty myself sometimes), but I have to point out that the summary is far superior to what I submitted. Soulskill not only added relevant copy, but he also added all the links except the one to TFA. He did more work than I on it, and I'm pleased with what he did. Good job, sir!
The nod to Asimov was for two reasons. First, I've been a rabid Asimov fan for half a century, and second, the Dawn spacecraft is man's first visit to Vesta, and Marooned off Vesta was Asimov's first published story.
I see only 27 comments have been posted, and I hope the title isn't the reason for the lack of commentary, with people thinking it's some of my bad sci-fi.
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I don't have anyone on my foes list, but you may be the first, asshole. My oldest daughter was born with the umbilical cord around her neck and the resultant brain damage gives her an IQ of 65. She's 26, the sweetest thing you'll never meet, and wouldn't harm anyone. You would kill my daughter because of a disability no one has control of? If anybody deserves death it's heartless fucking animals like you.
You're feeding a troll. Please stop.
So you condemn him to a painless, humane death when your death will likely be something horrible like cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's, diabetes, or any of the other nasty ways most of us die?
We're all on death row. Most of us will be tortured to death; few die peacefully in their sleep. I say let him rot in prison until God takes him. Let him have the same horrible death you are likely to suffer.
Vigilante justice is the result of those in charge of the rule of law not doing their jobs. Murdoch belongs in prison.
The "four boxes" are from Heinlein's Star Ship Troopers for those of you who haven't read it.
Remember that mine explosion that killed two dozen men last year in Virginia after the mine company was repeatedly cited for the very violations that caused the explosion?
Why isn't anyone in prison for negligent homicide for all those deaths? Corporations can and do get away with murder.
How does somebody's blog count as a citation? Has Murdock been jailed? Fox news is still on the air, you don't think all the other arms of Murdoch's empire are still doing the same shit the Sun did for years while authorities looked the other way?
My only beef with LulSec is they didn't take down Fox News and other Murdoch outlets.
Someone please mod the parent insightful. The real black hats were already in those servers and already had all the data and were using it maliciously. The door was wide open, LulSec just shined a light on it.
Now THAT'S fantasy. How many people have you known personally who have ever been shot or have shot anyone aside from as a soldier? Shut off that TV, son. The GP was almost certainly telling the truth; I had a similar experience in the 7th grade. A bully picked on me for two months and I snapped, bloodied his nose, and pummelled him mercilessly. He never bothered me after that -- and neither did anybody else.
Hacking Sun's servers doesn't come close to deleting messages on a missing person's phone, destroying evidence in a murder investigation, and a myriad of other evils Murdoch's corporation has done. Meanwhile, Murdoch's not in jail. You would be.
If the Murdochs were in jail I'd agree with you, but when the police will do nothing, I can't fault vigilantes. Hooray, LulSec!
Yep! Sideshow Bob (AKA Klutzo the Klown, or was it Krusty?) died in jail after being arrested for kiddie porn and sex tourism when a jailor sat on him, Mayor Quimby committed suicide, and Mr. Burns just retired.
I don't know about Zoloft, but when I was on Paxil, two beers had me bouncing off the walls. Four or five and I was hallucinating; people turned into cartoons (it was actually enjoyable).
The Paxil was hard to get off of.
I'm sure some are, but I'd wager most are either undermedicated or are in the wrong drug. I knew one guy a couple of decades ago that was totally whacked out, they got him on meds and the next time I saw him was at the poll working as an election judge. On meds he seemed completely normal. I'v known othere, though, that the drugs didn't help at all.
Your experience with the county health department is typical of what others in your position tell me.
I don't think you have much to worry about. It would most likely require brain damage.
Big nasty companies are big nasty companies. Google disabled my gmail account several years ago. I hadn't even used it much, signed up for the sm62704 /. account with it, emailed friends and family (no mass emails or even more than one respondent. No clue as to what term of service I allegedly violated, no recourse whatever, just an invitation to sign up for a different user name.
I declined and went to yahoo. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Finally signed up for another gmail account yesterday to post at slashdot, but I'm not going to use it for anywhere I might need it for password recovery. PIA when they yank an email address, annoying when they disable it with no explanation.
No research, just personal observation.
Bing? LOL! I just went there wondering if they ever got any better... nope. Actually it was humorous. Greeted by a picture of a newt (not Gingrich, the other lizard). Clicked on "news" and was greeted with nothing but news about Casey Anthony.
Bing's still laughably amateurish and childish.
Our Fair City is a really funny short silly story (fantasy more than sci-fi) lampooning political corruption. It's in his collection 6xH. Haven't read Stranger in decades, someone borrowed my copy and I never got it back. Heinlein was another of my all-time favorites, although I think I enjoyed his stuff a lot more when I was young. Asimov's still my favorite, but these days Pratchett's my 2nd favorite even though I'm not really into fantasy; the guy's books are hilarious.
Thanks to drug companies' advertising, it seems a lot of drugs of different classes are overprescribed. I'm no M.D. but it doesn't seem that antipsychotics would do much good for depression.
My doctor had me on Paxil for a year or so after my divorce, they were hard to get off of and I'd wished I'd never taken them.
However, it sure seems like there are an awful lot of really crazy people here in Springfield, many of them violent, who should probably be on medication but aren't. I'm 59 and I don't remember very many nutballs when I was young, but there sure seem to be a lot of crazies these days. I often wonder why, but didn't Reagan throw a bunch of lunatics out of the mental institutions back in the eighties?
We lost power for almost two weeks after Hurricane Isabel and cell service was mostly down, cable TV was down and the POTS line worked intermittently
I think it depends on where you live; what natural disasters you're subject to. Two tornados tore through my town in March 2006 (I lournaled about it)*. There weren't many utility poles left standing, and the entire electrical infrastructure of my part of town had to be completely rebuilt. Power was out for a week, POTS was down for three weeks, the cell phone service didn't stop once.
I'm sure the service provider has a lot to do with it as well. The city owns the power company, so if service suffers the mayor won't get re-elected. A much weaker tornado hit the St Louis area a few months later. I visited a friend down there a month after his tornado, and the only evidence there had even been a tornado was that he was still without electricity (Amerin is a particularly bad company; I have them for natural gas). Meanwhile, it was a full year before all the mess was cleaned up in Springfield
* The journal is a rambling essay; hurricane and tornados are toward the end)
Um, you might want to read more than the headline before posting. Dawn is alive and well; the title was a nod to my favorite writer, a science fiction writer who was also a scientist (PhD in biochemistry, did cancer research and taught at Boston University before dying of AIDS).
Dawn's next stop - Ceres! (the second story Asimov wrote and the oldest still existing).
Whoa! I just DLed that and it looks legit. Is it legal or a pirate copy? Karma whore or not, somebody mod parent up!
Well, that was Asimov's first published title and I've been an Asimov fan for half a century. Should I have titled the submission The Robot of Dawn?
Not sure about the ample gravity, a 200 pound man would weight four pounds. A sneeze might be enough to escape its gravity. Ceres, otoh, would be better (Dawn visits Ceres next).;
/. editors get a lot of flak (and I'm guilty myself sometimes), but I have to point out that the summary is far superior to what I submitted. Soulskill not only added relevant copy, but he also added all the links except the one to TFA. He did more work than I on it, and I'm pleased with what he did. Good job, sir!
The nod to Asimov was for two reasons. First, I've been a rabid Asimov fan for half a century, and second, the Dawn spacecraft is man's first visit to Vesta, and Marooned off Vesta was Asimov's first published story.
I see only 27 comments have been posted, and I hope the title isn't the reason for the lack of commentary, with people thinking it's some of my bad sci-fi.