oh, so apparently now it's just fine to get your facts out of a 2,000-year-old book?
Next thing, you godless eggheads will want to be teaching this Plato in our nation's schools. You people won't stop until every first grader in America has sacrificed a goat to the Pythagorean principle.
So you're taking away the my freedom to have legal anonymous communication in order to catch only the stupid criminals?
Sounds like a bad trade-off to me.
well think of it from congress's point of view: locking up the stupid criminals means less competition for elected office, whereas letting the smart ones run free ensures a continued source of campaign contributions.
I know that's the way it used to work. Have they dumbed down the machines recently?
yes, as a result of the 'no vending machine left behind' policy, all vending machines now house a child left behind by the no child left behind policy, who bites each coin between his teeth to test its authenticity.
Yes. That's why they're called facts. If you want a normal life, it's your job to spend the rest of it convincing everyone that you aren't the person you were. Redemption, not revision.
revision's a great idea actually. let people talk about the crime of Wolfgang Werlé, but then give the criminal the right to call himself Wolfgang Werlé 2.0 once he is let out of jail. Then people can say "aren't you that murderer?" and he can say "no, that was fixed in the current release."
If anything, I support true liberalism, in which there is less government restriction period, and personal liberties are protected as much as possible).
I hate to break it to you, but what you are describing is Libertarianism, not "true liberalism". My condolences.
he might be European, in which case he means free-market liberalism.
... and when your boss gets 150 years, get your ass to a country without an extradition treaty with the US.
Northern Cyprus or Somalia. Marvelous.
Every other country just goes "You think he might have been naughty? Well here he is - any particular kind of metal you'd like the chains made from?"
is that how Polanski lived openly in France for decades? The government was sourcing some obscure iridium alloy for his handcuffs so that he wouldn't escape into the twelfth dimension with his bottle of quaaludes and a box of condoms?
Since it claims objects that size impact Earth about once every 5 years, the damage would be the same that we see every time one of these impacts. If you can't think of the last time that happened or you can't think of a damage report about that, then that should be your answer.
great. the last asteroid hit my car, and now I'm going to get the same damage every 5 years? well, at least now I know which day to take out the rental.
Would it penetrate through to basement depth? If not most people here wouldn't notice till the next meal didn't show up.
that happened to me once. I ordered a pizza from the local Dominoes, but they'd been hit by an asteroid and the building collapsed. So I called the next closest one, but it turned out that every other Dominoes in the country had been sequentially knocked out of commission by that single event. Pretty stupid way to run a business if you ask me.
Never really understood this "3 strikes and you're out" theory. Law enforcement is too complex to be modelled after the rules of a US sports game. Can somebody explain how this idiotic idea came about, the thinking behind it?
What next? You don't go to jail if you say "Simon says" before committing an offence? Police can't arrest you if you're not touching the ground when they catch up with you?
Actually, maybe it should be more closely modeled. They should have 'balls' in there too. Like, say you try to download a torrent of Iron Man, and it turns out to be dubbed into Swedish. If that happens 4 times, the MPAA has to send you a free movie of your choice.
It is in society's interest to allow plenty of free speech that can result in harm, because much harmful speech can also do good. This case is no different. Some advertising doubtlessly increases people's happiness. (Consider, for example, someone who learns about laser-eye surgery through a commercial, who may not have been exposed to this information in another way. Or a book ad in the newspaper for a book that's actually good.)
The fact that there are some justifiable limitations on speech, and that many countries place extreme limitations on speech, does not affect this. Furthermore, fraudulent marketing is already illegal. For example, http://www.miamiherald.com/business/5min/story/1215075.html
You know, there is another class of goods that gets accused of controlling people's actions and making them do harmful things against their will: drugs. We can't even prove that drugs do this, while advertising would not be salable if it didn't. Why are drugs illegal but advertising is legal?
oh please. nobody forces you to go out and gorge on a hardees double cowburger against your goddam will. the idea that a government body should control what can and cannot be said based on the notion that people cannot help themselves is far more distasteful than the wiles of some brilllcremed advertising executive dangling donuts in front of the jiggling masses.
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oh, so apparently now it's just fine to get your facts out of a 2,000-year-old book?
Next thing, you godless eggheads will want to be teaching this Plato in our nation's schools. You people won't stop until every first grader in America has sacrificed a goat to the Pythagorean principle.
he should get P=NP above the four knuckles of one hand, and the strike-through version on the other four knuckles
Maturity isn't defined by the number of years since conception, but by its origins and the development and engineering which has gone into it since.
just keep in mind that this argument sounds a lot more convincing in the back seat of your car than it does when employed by your public defender
I have an impairment called "empathy". That video made me sad, because I could imagine the position that kid was in.
Sucks to be me, I guess.
Sucks to be me, I guess.
I tried to feel bad for you, but I just ended up laughing.
define overpaid.
makes as much as or more money than I do
if they want my windows, they're going to have to pry it out of my warm, living, delicately moisturized hands
Steve Jobs...he's more like Emperor Ming
no wonder he hates Flash
So you're taking away the my freedom to have legal anonymous communication in order to catch only the stupid criminals?
Sounds like a bad trade-off to me.
well think of it from congress's point of view: locking up the stupid criminals means less competition for elected office, whereas letting the smart ones run free ensures a continued source of campaign contributions.
I actually do pay use tax, and the fact that no one else does really makes me feel like a chump.
I hope you're paying the chump tax, otherwise you're nothing but a scofflaw.
I know that's the way it used to work. Have they dumbed down the machines recently?
yes, as a result of the 'no vending machine left behind' policy, all vending machines now house a child left behind by the no child left behind policy, who bites each coin between his teeth to test its authenticity.
hm, although if you meet someone named Wolfgang Werlé 8.0, you probably ought to start worrying.
Yes. That's why they're called facts. If you want a normal life, it's your job to spend the rest of it convincing everyone that you aren't the person you were. Redemption, not revision.
revision's a great idea actually. let people talk about the crime of Wolfgang Werlé, but then give the criminal the right to call himself Wolfgang Werlé 2.0 once he is let out of jail. Then people can say "aren't you that murderer?" and he can say "no, that was fixed in the current release."
IDEA: When you're that big a company you should review all of your code as much as you think the patent office should review others patents.
so I should just stamp 'REJECTED' on the first page and call it a day?
If anything, I support true liberalism, in which there is less government restriction period, and personal liberties are protected as much as possible).
I hate to break it to you, but what you are describing is Libertarianism, not "true liberalism". My condolences.
he might be European, in which case he means free-market liberalism.
Northern Cyprus or Somalia. Marvelous. Every other country just goes "You think he might have been naughty? Well here he is - any particular kind of metal you'd like the chains made from?"
is that how Polanski lived openly in France for decades? The government was sourcing some obscure iridium alloy for his handcuffs so that he wouldn't escape into the twelfth dimension with his bottle of quaaludes and a box of condoms?
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Since it claims objects that size impact Earth about once every 5 years, the damage would be the same that we see every time one of these impacts. If you can't think of the last time that happened or you can't think of a damage report about that, then that should be your answer.
great. the last asteroid hit my car, and now I'm going to get the same damage every 5 years? well, at least now I know which day to take out the rental.
Would it penetrate through to basement depth? If not most people here wouldn't notice till the next meal didn't show up.
that happened to me once. I ordered a pizza from the local Dominoes, but they'd been hit by an asteroid and the building collapsed. So I called the next closest one, but it turned out that every other Dominoes in the country had been sequentially knocked out of commission by that single event. Pretty stupid way to run a business if you ask me.
Reasonable accommodations are in the eye of the beholder.
and if the beholder is blind? then what? some blind person ought to sue whoever wrote the reasonable accommodations clause.
My Macbook has been running slowly lately. How do I defag it?
sell it to somebody else
Never really understood this "3 strikes and you're out" theory. Law enforcement is too complex to be modelled after the rules of a US sports game. Can somebody explain how this idiotic idea came about, the thinking behind it?
What next? You don't go to jail if you say "Simon says" before committing an offence? Police can't arrest you if you're not touching the ground when they catch up with you?
Actually, maybe it should be more closely modeled. They should have 'balls' in there too. Like, say you try to download a torrent of Iron Man, and it turns out to be dubbed into Swedish. If that happens 4 times, the MPAA has to send you a free movie of your choice.
Very good point. I've run out of gas twice
Once is unlucky. Twice is incompetent.
Thrice is enemy action.
They could have made the reward $100,003 instead...
yeah, brilliant idea. next day's headline would be "Five Mathematicians Slain in Argument Over Division of Prize Money"
It is in society's interest to allow plenty of free speech that can result in harm, because much harmful speech can also do good. This case is no different. Some advertising doubtlessly increases people's happiness. (Consider, for example, someone who learns about laser-eye surgery through a commercial, who may not have been exposed to this information in another way. Or a book ad in the newspaper for a book that's actually good.)
The fact that there are some justifiable limitations on speech, and that many countries place extreme limitations on speech, does not affect this. Furthermore, fraudulent marketing is already illegal. For example, http://www.miamiherald.com/business/5min/story/1215075.html
You know, there is another class of goods that gets accused of controlling people's actions and making them do harmful things against their will: drugs. We can't even prove that drugs do this, while advertising would not be salable if it didn't. Why are drugs illegal but advertising is legal?
oh please. nobody forces you to go out and gorge on a hardees double cowburger against your goddam will. the idea that a government body should control what can and cannot be said based on the notion that people cannot help themselves is far more distasteful than the wiles of some brilllcremed advertising executive dangling donuts in front of the jiggling masses.