THAT IS A LIE, AND YOU ARE A LIAR. Counterexample: Tamir Rice.
Fair enough - he forgot to mention that a small subset are idiots who went around waving a replica pistol at strangers, and then reached for it when the cops arrived.
I'm not sure that qualifies as a lie so much as a justifiable omission. Such cases do not make up a significant percentage of police shootings, since pretty much everyone with an IQ over 70 knows it's not a good idea to reach for a plastic gun when the police are pointing real ones at you.
Thing is, a cop can take you in for any reason for something like 24-48 hours even without a formal charge. You will be taken in handcuffs, you will be fingerprinted, you will get a DNA swab taken, you will be strip-searched, you will be forced to spread your cheeks and cough in front of a cop... then they let you go after 24 hours with no charges and a have a nice day.
After which you'll sue for false arrest and imprisonment, ask for a ridiculous sum for humiliation / pain and suffering, and have a great life afterwards.
Hell, I wish I could find some of these ass-rapey cops that people like you all seem to know - I'd gladly suffer in jail for 48 hours in exchange for a mil or two.
I can't remember where I saw it, but someone did a study comparing booth babes to trained senior citizens and the senior citizens did MUCH better job, resulting in greater sales and great callbacks.
That's no surprising. While I enjoy looking at the booth babes, I tend to avoid them whenever possible since I know that they'll just subject me to obviously artificial flirtation while attempting to repeat marketing gibberish which they don't actually understand. I'd much rather speak to a sweaty bearded guy in a tracksuit who can actually explain the product and tell me how it can help my business.
Nope. All the fault is comcast. They lied. Plain and simple.
Um, no, they were mistaken.
If you have to go on the assumption that everybody is always lying to you all the time and double and triple check everything then you will get zero things done in your lifetime.
If you have to go through life assuming that anyone who makes a mistake is a liar, you're going to end up a cynical bastard who never gets anything accomplished, yes. If, on the other hand, you always keep in mind that people are fallible, you're much more likely to end up with good results.
I can answer your question: yes, they do. You don't have to look for illegal content, you can:
1. Look for "fantasy stories" published by "child lovers". You'll find plenty that involve female adults with male or female children, indicating a - for lack of a better term - demand for that market. 2. Google "woman charged for creating child porn". You'll find at least a few cases of women who molested young children (preteens) and distributed the resulting material.
You can also look up cases like Karla Homolka, an infamous Canadian woman who was charged and sentenced for helping her husband rape and murder several young girls, including her own sister.
The depravity of the human mind is certainly not limited to the male sex.
Saying God doesn't exist is like saying that lunch time doesn't exist, or money doesn't exist, or the United States doesn't exist.
Complete and utter bullshit. I can take you to have lunch in the United States and pay for it with money. Good luck doing anything useful or at least demonstrable with your "god".
You can't disprove the existence of an idea; and dismissing the real influence of that idea (both good and bad) and the potential influence of that idea (both good and bad) is asinine.
Nobody is dismissing the idea; they're telling you that you're a fucking idiot for believing that the idea represents reality.
Were the people who fought for the creation of the state Israel terrorists?
Yes and no, depending on which ones you're referring to.
Were the people who fought for the creation of the USA terrorists?
Yes and no, depending on which ones you're referring to. Mostly no.
Were the people who fought for the independence of Ireland in the early 20th century terrorists?
Yes and no, depending on which ones you're referring to. Mostly no.
Are the Palestinians who fight against past and future Israeli injustice and encroachment on their land terrorists?
Haven't met any of those, not convinced they exist. If they do, they're not terrorists, just fucking stupid. The ones lobbing rockets into Israel while treading on the faces of their own people, though? Yep.
Was the Saudi national who argued that the US military bases in his country were a form of occupation, and who founded an organisation to fight against this, was he a terrorist?
Yep.
I presume Saudi Arabia falls under your definition of `true nation state'.
Either you're making a suggestion which shows that you don't understand what "unaffiliated with a nation state" means, or this part just makes no sense whatsoever.
We haven't really stopped any such attacks; we've brought attention to attempts which were never going to succeed, but that's it.
Oh, sure. All the attacks which get stopped are "ones which were never going to succeed", and all the ones which succeed are ones which "clearly show the incompetence and futility of the security apparatus", amirite? Nice rhetoric bro; wee bit lacking on the intellectual integrity front.
If an open theater of war comes in earnest, we will have Americans who can remember government prattling and a single attack, versus Arabs who can remember friends and family dying in bombings of coffee shops by Americans across decades.
This is just uneducated white-guilt garbage. Yes, it's Americans who are walking into Arab coffee shops and detonating themselves. Sure it is. It's the small fraction of Arabs killed by Americans which other Arabs will remember; not the much larger fraction killed by the factions within their own borders. Ignore the Iraqis and Kurds all crying for help within a couple years of the US leaving; it's not because they need saving from the same people we've been fighting all along, but rather because those poor bastards must have been so terrorized by the Eevil Amerikkan Pigdogs that they've developed Stockholm Syndrome. They hate the US so much they can't wait to see you again.
To combat this, we basically bomb other countries, call anyone over 18 a soldier ("militant"), and prove to the world that we're the axis of evil that must be removed.
And this is just ignorant anti-American bullshit posing as open-minded progressive thought. Yes, just go ahead and label an entire nation an "axis of evil", based on the demonstrably false claim that they're targeting "anyone over 18". Go ahead and mix lies and hypocrisy, in an attempt to justify bigotry.
I know that you don't actually believe what you're saying; I'm just not sure if that makes it more evil or less. I do, however, know that you are scum, and that I have far more in common with the average Iraqi than I do with a fanatic like you.
It doesn't matter if they're right, it's incredibly easy to rationalize the acts of your side. Just to be certain that you're not one of the bad guys yourself you need to keep your actions way above reproach.
Judging by your example there's no point in trying. You're basically saying:
"people are going to lie about what you did and then hate you based on those lies, so you have to be perfect, which will magically stop them from lying about you"
Waterboarding was regarded by the US as torture and at least a couple of Japanese officers were tried and put to death over applying it to captured US soldiers in WW II.
-5,000, Lying Bastard
Suggesting that what the Japanese did was equivalent to the modern usage of the word "waterboarding" is a bit like suggesting that the Nazis really did just give the Jews a nice shower.
Sure, it satisfies that, but then you lose the moral high ground. And that shit is actually important.
Hah. As if any of the blame-America-first crowd would ever concede any kind of high ground!
"What's that? You're not torturing? Well, err, you're invading. For OIL!" "What's that? Not invading? Err... umm... well, you have too many bases around and the world and that's bad because reasons!" "What's that? No more bases? Well, erm, you're evil because racism! And bad healtchare! And hicks!"
Face it - doesn't matter what the US does or doesn't do; the battle lines are already drawn. Trying to placate those who hate you is asinine. As for those of us who don't hate you, torturing a few scumbags certainly isn't going to push us over the line.
I'm kinda certain that even they KNOW it's unsafe but... well, there's money to be made.
Certain based on what? The zero scientific evidence which shows any risk of harm greater than existing drilling methods?
How can you be certain that someone whom you've never met or spoken to actually knows something which cannot even be shown to be true? This would be like me saying "I'm certain that Obama knows that an alien spaceship was recovered in Roswell, but he's covering it up because there's money to be made". Hilarious, maybe, but completely nonsensical.
This basically says "no effect either way" from my non-expert reading of it
Um no, not exactly. It basically says ChrisMaple was right, and drinkypoo has once again lived up to his name. The article admits that small quakes DO take some of the energy away from larger ones, and do delay them by "temporarily easing stress on the fault line". It merely points out that the massive disparity in energy levels means that a single small quake (or even a hundred small quakes) cannot permanently avert a much larger one. If, however, you keep repeating this "temporary" fix, you end up with a long-term solution.
The rest of your comment is bang-on though. Small quakes are of no concern.
[quote]I'll believe that the moment an oil multi's board moves into the area where they're doing some fracking.[/quote]
That's just silly. Not only is it an absurd thing to ask of them, it would prove absolutely nothing. You know full well that if such a thing DID happen you'd call it a publicity stunt and remain opposed to fracking anway... so why make such a dishonest claim? Hyperbole?
. But I suggest you be very skeptical about the "over 1000 girls" part. The actual number of victims that have been confirmed is... seven... by five different perpetrators. The scandal has a close resemblance to both the Salem witch trials...
Yeah, that was also my take on it, just from the bit of reading I did on it. Kept seeing that "thousands" claim but absolutely no evidence for anything even close to that number. Thanks for the confirmation.
Damn. Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place. Target the perps properly, you're racist. Put on the kidd gloves and you don't care about the poor children. No-win situation.
More than a decade and over 1000 girls in just one damn city.
This sentence is completely meaningless. Do you even cite, bro?
Spend less on computers and more on prosecutions for those cops who let those girls suffer.
Hrm... let's see... do we spend the money on a one-time cost which reduces workload by 90%... OR do we spend the money on the start of a recurring cost to investigate and prosecute a small subset who have little meaningful impact on the end result.
-30 kiddies make up the sample set. -No controls on the experiment. -No prevention on collusion. -12 year old girls in the sample set develop more complex games than 12 year old boys in the sample set. -Arbitrary measure of complexity for measure. -12 year old literacy in the summary.
You forgot:
- Had the "study" somehow concluded that boys were better it would have never seen the light of day, rendering all such studies meaningless due to selection bias.
A RAID can be lost or corrupted, or someone can overwrite or delete a file.
And tapes can be lost or corrupted, or someone can burn the building down.
This is an old argument, and every time it gets revisited RAID starts to look better. Overwriting / deletion might have been a concern prior to modern filesystems which incorporate easy and cheap snapshotting, but nowdays that part of the argument just doesn't fly. Corruption is still a concern but, again, that's a risk you take with any backup solution too.
There's no such thing as a guaranteed backup. If you're very rich and very paranoid, you could certainly rig up a "backup solution" that involves copying your data every 5 minutes to 50 different offsite locations in 50 different countries, plus having some cheap third-world-labour transcribe all the zeros and ones to a paper copy for storage in an underground vault. And even that's not 100% because a really big asteroid will result in unrecoverable corruption. In the end it all comes down to how much you're willing to spend and what level of risk you're willing to accept. For most of us who aren't running IT departments that equation comes down to something like "ZFS RAIDZ2".
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THAT IS A LIE, AND YOU ARE A LIAR. Counterexample: Tamir Rice.
Fair enough - he forgot to mention that a small subset are idiots who went around waving a replica pistol at strangers, and then reached for it when the cops arrived.
I'm not sure that qualifies as a lie so much as a justifiable omission. Such cases do not make up a significant percentage of police shootings, since pretty much everyone with an IQ over 70 knows it's not a good idea to reach for a plastic gun when the police are pointing real ones at you.
Thing is, a cop can take you in for any reason for something like 24-48 hours even without a formal charge. You will be taken in handcuffs, you will be fingerprinted, you will get a DNA swab taken, you will be strip-searched, you will be forced to spread your cheeks and cough in front of a cop... then they let you go after 24 hours with no charges and a have a nice day.
After which you'll sue for false arrest and imprisonment, ask for a ridiculous sum for humiliation / pain and suffering, and have a great life afterwards.
Hell, I wish I could find some of these ass-rapey cops that people like you all seem to know - I'd gladly suffer in jail for 48 hours in exchange for a mil or two.
That is one seriously ugly truck. I hope they do something to the styling before it hits the market.
I can't remember where I saw it, but someone did a study comparing booth babes to trained senior citizens and the senior citizens did MUCH better job, resulting in greater sales and great callbacks.
That's no surprising. While I enjoy looking at the booth babes, I tend to avoid them whenever possible since I know that they'll just subject me to obviously artificial flirtation while attempting to repeat marketing gibberish which they don't actually understand. I'd much rather speak to a sweaty bearded guy in a tracksuit who can actually explain the product and tell me how it can help my business.
Nope. All the fault is comcast. They lied. Plain and simple.
Um, no, they were mistaken.
If you have to go on the assumption that everybody is always lying to you all the time and double and triple check everything then you will get zero things done in your lifetime.
If you have to go through life assuming that anyone who makes a mistake is a liar, you're going to end up a cynical bastard who never gets anything accomplished, yes. If, on the other hand, you always keep in mind that people are fallible, you're much more likely to end up with good results.
I can answer your question: yes, they do. You don't have to look for illegal content, you can:
1. Look for "fantasy stories" published by "child lovers". You'll find plenty that involve female adults with male or female children, indicating a - for lack of a better term - demand for that market.
2. Google "woman charged for creating child porn". You'll find at least a few cases of women who molested young children (preteens) and distributed the resulting material.
You can also look up cases like Karla Homolka, an infamous Canadian woman who was charged and sentenced for helping her husband rape and murder several young girls, including her own sister.
The depravity of the human mind is certainly not limited to the male sex.
Here's my website. [taoriver.net]
Great. I now know far more about you than I ever wanted to. You're into some really freaky cult-like shit ...
Saying God doesn't exist is like saying that lunch time doesn't exist, or money doesn't exist, or the United States doesn't exist.
Complete and utter bullshit. I can take you to have lunch in the United States and pay for it with money. Good luck doing anything useful or at least demonstrable with your "god".
You can't disprove the existence of an idea; and dismissing the real influence of that idea (both good and bad) and the potential influence of that idea (both good and bad) is asinine.
Nobody is dismissing the idea; they're telling you that you're a fucking idiot for believing that the idea represents reality.
Will they laugh about our superstitions about GMO foods, or why we had all these different diets?
Non-idiots have been laughing at both of those things for years now.
Perhaps we have a better method then science to understand the universe.
As soon as you find one, please, let us know! That would be the biggest boon to science in history.
Were the people who fought for the creation of the state Israel terrorists?
Yes and no, depending on which ones you're referring to.
Were the people who fought for the creation of the USA terrorists?
Yes and no, depending on which ones you're referring to. Mostly no.
Were the people who fought for the independence of Ireland in the early 20th century terrorists?
Yes and no, depending on which ones you're referring to. Mostly no.
Are the Palestinians who fight against past and future Israeli injustice and encroachment on their land terrorists?
Haven't met any of those, not convinced they exist. If they do, they're not terrorists, just fucking stupid. The ones lobbing rockets into Israel while treading on the faces of their own people, though? Yep.
Was the Saudi national who argued that the US military bases in his country were a form of occupation, and who founded an organisation to fight against this, was he a terrorist?
Yep.
I presume Saudi Arabia falls under your definition of `true nation state'.
Either you're making a suggestion which shows that you don't understand what "unaffiliated with a nation state" means, or this part just makes no sense whatsoever.
We haven't really stopped any such attacks; we've brought attention to attempts which were never going to succeed, but that's it.
Oh, sure. All the attacks which get stopped are "ones which were never going to succeed", and all the ones which succeed are ones which "clearly show the incompetence and futility of the security apparatus", amirite? Nice rhetoric bro; wee bit lacking on the intellectual integrity front.
If an open theater of war comes in earnest, we will have Americans who can remember government prattling and a single attack, versus Arabs who can remember friends and family dying in bombings of coffee shops by Americans across decades.
This is just uneducated white-guilt garbage. Yes, it's Americans who are walking into Arab coffee shops and detonating themselves. Sure it is. It's the small fraction of Arabs killed by Americans which other Arabs will remember; not the much larger fraction killed by the factions within their own borders. Ignore the Iraqis and Kurds all crying for help within a couple years of the US leaving; it's not because they need saving from the same people we've been fighting all along, but rather because those poor bastards must have been so terrorized by the Eevil Amerikkan Pigdogs that they've developed Stockholm Syndrome. They hate the US so much they can't wait to see you again.
To combat this, we basically bomb other countries, call anyone over 18 a soldier ("militant"), and prove to the world that we're the axis of evil that must be removed.
And this is just ignorant anti-American bullshit posing as open-minded progressive thought. Yes, just go ahead and label an entire nation an "axis of evil", based on the demonstrably false claim that they're targeting "anyone over 18". Go ahead and mix lies and hypocrisy, in an attempt to justify bigotry.
I know that you don't actually believe what you're saying; I'm just not sure if that makes it more evil or less. I do, however, know that you are scum, and that I have far more in common with the average Iraqi than I do with a fanatic like you.
It doesn't matter if they're right, it's incredibly easy to rationalize the acts of your side. Just to be certain that you're not one of the bad guys yourself you need to keep your actions way above reproach.
Judging by your example there's no point in trying. You're basically saying:
"people are going to lie about what you did and then hate you based on those lies, so you have to be perfect, which will magically stop them from lying about you"
Waterboarding was regarded by the US as torture and at least a couple of Japanese officers were tried and put to death over applying it to captured US soldiers in WW II.
-5,000, Lying Bastard
Suggesting that what the Japanese did was equivalent to the modern usage of the word "waterboarding" is a bit like suggesting that the Nazis really did just give the Jews a nice shower.
So, so according to you, the US used to give guards the death penalty for performing a rectal exam?
Sure, it satisfies that, but then you lose the moral high ground. And that shit is actually important.
Hah. As if any of the blame-America-first crowd would ever concede any kind of high ground!
"What's that? You're not torturing? Well, err, you're invading. For OIL!" ... umm ... well, you have too many bases around and the world and that's bad because reasons!"
"What's that? Not invading? Err
"What's that? No more bases? Well, erm, you're evil because racism! And bad healtchare! And hicks!"
Face it - doesn't matter what the US does or doesn't do; the battle lines are already drawn. Trying to placate those who hate you is asinine. As for those of us who don't hate you, torturing a few scumbags certainly isn't going to push us over the line.
I'm kinda certain that even they KNOW it's unsafe but ... well, there's money to be made.
Certain based on what? The zero scientific evidence which shows any risk of harm greater than existing drilling methods?
How can you be certain that someone whom you've never met or spoken to actually knows something which cannot even be shown to be true? This would be like me saying "I'm certain that Obama knows that an alien spaceship was recovered in Roswell, but he's covering it up because there's money to be made". Hilarious, maybe, but completely nonsensical.
This basically says "no effect either way" from my non-expert reading of it
Um no, not exactly. It basically says ChrisMaple was right, and drinkypoo has once again lived up to his name. The article admits that small quakes DO take some of the energy away from larger ones, and do delay them by "temporarily easing stress on the fault line". It merely points out that the massive disparity in energy levels means that a single small quake (or even a hundred small quakes) cannot permanently avert a much larger one. If, however, you keep repeating this "temporary" fix, you end up with a long-term solution.
The rest of your comment is bang-on though. Small quakes are of no concern.
The problem is that fracking is not a bad thing either.
It's amazing to me that this single statement can get modded "troll" on a website dedicated to people who supposedly are tech fans / experts.
[quote]I'll believe that the moment an oil multi's board moves into the area where they're doing some fracking.[/quote]
That's just silly. Not only is it an absurd thing to ask of them, it would prove absolutely nothing. You know full well that if such a thing DID happen you'd call it a publicity stunt and remain opposed to fracking anway ... so why make such a dishonest claim? Hyperbole?
. But I suggest you be very skeptical about the "over 1000 girls" part. The actual number of victims that have been confirmed is ... seven ... by five different perpetrators. The scandal has a close resemblance to both the Salem witch trials ...
Yeah, that was also my take on it, just from the bit of reading I did on it. Kept seeing that "thousands" claim but absolutely no evidence for anything even close to that number. Thanks for the confirmation.
Damn. Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place. Target the perps properly, you're racist. Put on the kidd gloves and you don't care about the poor children. No-win situation.
More than a decade and over 1000 girls in just one damn city.
This sentence is completely meaningless. Do you even cite, bro?
Spend less on computers and more on prosecutions for those cops who let those girls suffer.
Hrm ... let's see ... do we spend the money on a one-time cost which reduces workload by 90% ... OR do we spend the money on the start of a recurring cost to investigate and prosecute a small subset who have little meaningful impact on the end result.
Yeah, no, totally, your idea rocks.
So to summarize:
-30 kiddies make up the sample set.
-No controls on the experiment.
-No prevention on collusion.
-12 year old girls in the sample set develop more complex games than 12 year old boys in the sample set.
-Arbitrary measure of complexity for measure.
-12 year old literacy in the summary.
You forgot:
- Had the "study" somehow concluded that boys were better it would have never seen the light of day, rendering all such studies meaningless due to selection bias.
Some people dislike systemd because they can see where it is headed. Here is your sign [0pointer.de].
Systemd is headed towards a horrible slide-show inexplicably created as a PDF?
A RAID can be lost or corrupted, or someone can overwrite or delete a file.
And tapes can be lost or corrupted, or someone can burn the building down.
This is an old argument, and every time it gets revisited RAID starts to look better. Overwriting / deletion might have been a concern prior to modern filesystems which incorporate easy and cheap snapshotting, but nowdays that part of the argument just doesn't fly. Corruption is still a concern but, again, that's a risk you take with any backup solution too.
There's no such thing as a guaranteed backup. If you're very rich and very paranoid, you could certainly rig up a "backup solution" that involves copying your data every 5 minutes to 50 different offsite locations in 50 different countries, plus having some cheap third-world-labour transcribe all the zeros and ones to a paper copy for storage in an underground vault. And even that's not 100% because a really big asteroid will result in unrecoverable corruption. In the end it all comes down to how much you're willing to spend and what level of risk you're willing to accept. For most of us who aren't running IT departments that equation comes down to something like "ZFS RAIDZ2".