I say this will go to court once, and something comical will happen like a subpoena for a log of every packet across the network to that user, and the sum total of the bandwidth used.
Almost all kids do things that others would frown on. Just because you find nothing about someone online doesn't mean they don't do it -- only that there is no indication of them doing it online.
It leads to the fallacious reasoning "Oh, student xxxx doesn't have any online profiles of him drinking and having sex, and student yyyyy does. That must mean student xxxxx doesn't do those things and student yyyyy does. Therefore, student xxxxx is a better choice."
It sounds like that's the argument, and, even if you agree drinking and having sex is inappropriate behavior for students (HA), the fact that some student don't have pictures of it on the internet is in no way proof they they don't do those things.
I wish I still had mod points, but this is the real question. I'm sure this kind of stuff happens all the time. Does anyone give a damn? No. For anyone to really care about this, especially those who are in an uproar, they've got to be a Grade A hypocrite.
But then again, we already knew that was the case.
I was going to say the exact same thing. Just carry a pencil and some paper. Only a douchebag would boot up a laptop to open notepad and save some little note in a text file.
I think long-term profitability is generally regarded as the best way to make the most profit. A lot of higher-ups don't seem to care anymore, though. They want to make their little fortune, then live the good life.
They could also sponsor some videos that train people in Wizardry. It seems the Wizards always do fine against people with knives, and they also never wear armor. Perhaps a few simple shielding spells should be put up on YouTube UK, and this whole knife problem would go away entirely.
And wouldn't you know, the magical reagent businesses would start to boom like you've never seen. This could be a real boon to the economy as well!
At least until the big corps come run Mum a Poppa out of business as people would rather buy cheap newt from the mega-mart than get the quality stuff from the local witches.
Of course, you know, then we'll see more videos explaining how to enchant your knives to bypass the protection spells, and we're back a square one. To fix things, the government will just outlaw magic all together. This will just create a black market for magical supplies, and you'll have mage-lords bent on wealth and power. People will get so desperate for their "fix" of magic, that they'll be stabbing people left and right looking for money or drugs. I mean spell components.
If they wanted to be responsible, they could sponsor some knife safety videos. Such as the correct way to don and wear platemail or chainmail, how to properly oil it and care for it, and some tips for extended wear scenarios.
I can't shake the image in my head of a CGI rendered Ray Beckerman, dressed as a wizard, standing on a desolate landscape. Intense prog metal plays in the background. Four large, hideous dragons strike at him with breaths of fire, ice, poisons, and lightning. He shields himself from their breath and razor claws with powerful barriers of shimmering force, returning their attacks in kind with purple-black bolts of magical energy.
One swoops low, lashing out his sinuous forceps toward the wizard, striking hard at his shoulder. A flash of light blinds the beast as the wizard draws forth his ancient blade and pieces the dragon deeply. Its deafening cry of pain is heard for miles as the beast plummets to the ground, thrashing wildly. The ground quakes beneath the weight gruesome monster. Raising his staff high, the wizard slams its end into the ground, chating a word of power. The earth splits and the beast is swallowed whole into the fiery depths of the underworld, never to again to menace mortal men.
The wizard turns with a dark grin toward the other three dragons, steeling himself again pain of the flesh. "Come fiends," he yells, "Come so that I may deliver you, too, to your final rest!"
Ah... the imagery just keeps going on and on! My next D&D character is gonna be a badass Wizard named Ray Beckerman.
This is why you shouldn't save money, you should save gold. If the dollar drops, your gold is magically worth more dollars.
I wish there were banks that would save gold on the back end, and let you use checks or VISA or ATMs to pull from it at the current exchange rate plus a small fee.
Nah, you can easily fix myopia with a $99 exam with two free pairs of glasses at LensCrafters.
There are a lot of bad things rampant in the US (including myopia, incidentally), but I don't think myopia is the cause of the problems you indicate. Calling it myopia lets the responsible parties off the hook too easily. I think it's something much worse, and much more insidious. Obviously, I wear a (metaphorical) tin foil hat to protect against such things, but the rest of the public, phew... they're in for it.
My parents, for example, get probably 90% of their political news from Fox, and claim every other new source has a liberal bias, and that the internet is not a credible source of information. This is not uncommon in my experience.
That's not myopia, that's stubborn resolution to not care what the facts are, or what the truth is.
The same is generally true of drug use. Any of the illegal things people COULD do when high are already illegal. But many people argue drug use must also be illegal so people will not get high and do those things. Even though that doesn't really stop anyone from doing anything.
I find most people have trouble making distinctions. It's a really big problem, IMO. It's one of the most important critical thinking skills, and so few people can do it well.
When you start considering the idea of computer-generated pornography, the points you bring up become especially valid. Why would a photo realistic rendering of anything be illegal? I thought child porn was illegal because it took advantage of children.
As I understand the term "crook" in common parlance, it means someone who uses corrupt or unethical methods to acquire money -- either stealing, cheating, or accepting checks from lobbyists. That's why most politicians get called crooks, even though they don't usually break the law. (Though some of them do skirt around the edges of it.)
In general, I don't think most people consider selling drugs particularly corrupt or particularly unethical; just illegal. Obviously there are exceptions.
What you describe is called "Intelligent Design", and that idea has already been kicked around enough on both sides.
The age-old quandary still remains, how can an all-loving and all-powerful god allow evil things to happen? If he just stands by as you suggest, and allows them to happen, and he created the universe, knowing every detail of its existence even before he created it -- then truly, he is responsible for all evil.
I've always said, I don't know of god exists, but if he does, he's a supreme asshole, and I'd like to give him an earful.
Thought I think in backrooms, a lot of christians -- even if they wouldn't actually bomb a clinic -- probably take the mindset that the bombings were justified. If you don't want to be killed, you shouldn't be killing babies. Or, "well, god works in mysterious ways." Or maybe "it was wrong, but they shouldn't have been killing those babies." Or "the bible says an eye for an eye," and so on. Of course, they won't come right out and support the bombings, but ONLY because they know they can't get away with it.
It's not so far fetched. Most conservative christians support the death pentalty, and want abortion to be illegal. So what is the "penalty" they'd suggest be given to the people who violate the anti-abortion laws? I wouldn't be shocked if a lot of them said their beloved death penalty. Even if it's just a harsh jail sentence, is that really much better?
Similarly, I think a lot of muslims, even if they wouldn't set off bombs, probably in their backrooms think it's justified, just like the christians do.
By "a lot" I don't meant most. Just a significant total number.
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I say this will go to court once, and something comical will happen like a subpoena for a log of every packet across the network to that user, and the sum total of the bandwidth used.
Almost all kids do things that others would frown on. Just because you find nothing about someone online doesn't mean they don't do it -- only that there is no indication of them doing it online.
It leads to the fallacious reasoning "Oh, student xxxx doesn't have any online profiles of him drinking and having sex, and student yyyyy does. That must mean student xxxxx doesn't do those things and student yyyyy does. Therefore, student xxxxx is a better choice."
It sounds like that's the argument, and, even if you agree drinking and having sex is inappropriate behavior for students (HA), the fact that some student don't have pictures of it on the internet is in no way proof they they don't do those things.
DING DING DING.
I wish I still had mod points, but this is the real question. I'm sure this kind of stuff happens all the time. Does anyone give a damn? No. For anyone to really care about this, especially those who are in an uproar, they've got to be a Grade A hypocrite.
But then again, we already knew that was the case.
I was going to say the exact same thing. Just carry a pencil and some paper. Only a douchebag would boot up a laptop to open notepad and save some little note in a text file.
Except we crazy Americans -- you know, we already did this once. So we'd like to reserve to try to at least try to do it again if we need to.
I think long-term profitability is generally regarded as the best way to make the most profit. A lot of higher-ups don't seem to care anymore, though. They want to make their little fortune, then live the good life.
They could also sponsor some videos that train people in Wizardry. It seems the Wizards always do fine against people with knives, and they also never wear armor. Perhaps a few simple shielding spells should be put up on YouTube UK, and this whole knife problem would go away entirely.
And wouldn't you know, the magical reagent businesses would start to boom like you've never seen. This could be a real boon to the economy as well!
At least until the big corps come run Mum a Poppa out of business as people would rather buy cheap newt from the mega-mart than get the quality stuff from the local witches.
Of course, you know, then we'll see more videos explaining how to enchant your knives to bypass the protection spells, and we're back a square one. To fix things, the government will just outlaw magic all together. This will just create a black market for magical supplies, and you'll have mage-lords bent on wealth and power. People will get so desperate for their "fix" of magic, that they'll be stabbing people left and right looking for money or drugs. I mean spell components.
If they wanted to be responsible, they could sponsor some knife safety videos. Such as the correct way to don and wear platemail or chainmail, how to properly oil it and care for it, and some tips for extended wear scenarios.
I thought they invented platemail for this very reason.
I can't shake the image in my head of a CGI rendered Ray Beckerman, dressed as a wizard, standing on a desolate landscape. Intense prog metal plays in the background. Four large, hideous dragons strike at him with breaths of fire, ice, poisons, and lightning. He shields himself from their breath and razor claws with powerful barriers of shimmering force, returning their attacks in kind with purple-black bolts of magical energy.
One swoops low, lashing out his sinuous forceps toward the wizard, striking hard at his shoulder. A flash of light blinds the beast as the wizard draws forth his ancient blade and pieces the dragon deeply. Its deafening cry of pain is heard for miles as the beast plummets to the ground, thrashing wildly. The ground quakes beneath the weight gruesome monster. Raising his staff high, the wizard slams its end into the ground, chating a word of power. The earth splits and the beast is swallowed whole into the fiery depths of the underworld, never to again to menace mortal men.
The wizard turns with a dark grin toward the other three dragons, steeling himself again pain of the flesh. "Come fiends," he yells, "Come so that I may deliver you, too, to your final rest!"
Ah... the imagery just keeps going on and on! My next D&D character is gonna be a badass Wizard named Ray Beckerman.
This is why you shouldn't save money, you should save gold. If the dollar drops, your gold is magically worth more dollars.
I wish there were banks that would save gold on the back end, and let you use checks or VISA or ATMs to pull from it at the current exchange rate plus a small fee.
With with fractional reserve banking, it DOES make money.
You just aren't paranoid enough.
People who understand words well enough to know that likely aren't going to get offended by them.
Maybe the context and purpose for which they are used would be offensive, but not the word itself.
Nah, you can easily fix myopia with a $99 exam with two free pairs of glasses at LensCrafters.
There are a lot of bad things rampant in the US (including myopia, incidentally), but I don't think myopia is the cause of the problems you indicate. Calling it myopia lets the responsible parties off the hook too easily. I think it's something much worse, and much more insidious. Obviously, I wear a (metaphorical) tin foil hat to protect against such things, but the rest of the public, phew... they're in for it.
My parents, for example, get probably 90% of their political news from Fox, and claim every other new source has a liberal bias, and that the internet is not a credible source of information. This is not uncommon in my experience.
That's not myopia, that's stubborn resolution to not care what the facts are, or what the truth is.
You can just sign up as an expert. You don't ever have to post answers, but you can still read them all without it costing anything.
The same is generally true of drug use. Any of the illegal things people COULD do when high are already illegal. But many people argue drug use must also be illegal so people will not get high and do those things. Even though that doesn't really stop anyone from doing anything.
I find most people have trouble making distinctions. It's a really big problem, IMO. It's one of the most important critical thinking skills, and so few people can do it well.
When you start considering the idea of computer-generated pornography, the points you bring up become especially valid. Why would a photo realistic rendering of anything be illegal? I thought child porn was illegal because it took advantage of children.
As I understand the term "crook" in common parlance, it means someone who uses corrupt or unethical methods to acquire money -- either stealing, cheating, or accepting checks from lobbyists. That's why most politicians get called crooks, even though they don't usually break the law. (Though some of them do skirt around the edges of it.)
In general, I don't think most people consider selling drugs particularly corrupt or particularly unethical; just illegal. Obviously there are exceptions.
What you describe is called "Intelligent Design", and that idea has already been kicked around enough on both sides.
The age-old quandary still remains, how can an all-loving and all-powerful god allow evil things to happen? If he just stands by as you suggest, and allows them to happen, and he created the universe, knowing every detail of its existence even before he created it -- then truly, he is responsible for all evil.
I've always said, I don't know of god exists, but if he does, he's a supreme asshole, and I'd like to give him an earful.
Sounds like you should run for Congress.
Boss? Is that you?
Thought I think in backrooms, a lot of christians -- even if they wouldn't actually bomb a clinic -- probably take the mindset that the bombings were justified. If you don't want to be killed, you shouldn't be killing babies. Or, "well, god works in mysterious ways." Or maybe "it was wrong, but they shouldn't have been killing those babies." Or "the bible says an eye for an eye," and so on. Of course, they won't come right out and support the bombings, but ONLY because they know they can't get away with it.
It's not so far fetched. Most conservative christians support the death pentalty, and want abortion to be illegal. So what is the "penalty" they'd suggest be given to the people who violate the anti-abortion laws? I wouldn't be shocked if a lot of them said their beloved death penalty. Even if it's just a harsh jail sentence, is that really much better?
Similarly, I think a lot of muslims, even if they wouldn't set off bombs, probably in their backrooms think it's justified, just like the christians do.
By "a lot" I don't meant most. Just a significant total number.
It's not about biology. It's about culture.
I think I'd try being blue for a while.