But they don't. SUVs are the most dangerous vehicles on the road according to insurance statistiucs - there are more deaths per 100k miles than any other class of vehicle. The reason is they're too big, too high a center of gravity, don't handle well and don't stop easily.
and so on - its none of YOUR business what their choice is.
I never said they should outlaw the damned things, but it IS my business. I gave to live on this planet, as will my decendants. I'm rational enough to not be a cow and follow the crowd. An SUV is not a nerd vehicle.
Try stopping your vehicle, turning it off, going in, getting food, coming back out and restarting the vehicle. And doing that on a cold day in Minneapolis or Denver.
I do - in Illinois, where it's below zero in the winter and above a hundred in the summer. I also stop my vehicle, turn it off, and go inside the grocery store, inside my work, inside real restaraunts where a waitress brings your food, inside taverns, etc. Or do you have drive-in Best Buys in Mineapolis and Denever?
then if the band are the copyright holders of their own work (a fairly safe assumption)
I'm afraid it is NOT a safe assumption. US copyright law has stated since the 1950s that phonorecords are "works for hire". The record label owns the copyright, not the band.
Want you to sign your contract Want you to sign today Gonna give you lots of money Workin' for MCA
-Lynard Skynard
The Offspring wanted to post MP3s of Original Prankster on the internet when it was first released. Their label wouldn't let them, but finally consented to letting them post one song off the album.
P2P is good marketing, which is why the majors want to kill it. They have radio and empty-v; the indies don't. Destroying P2P is about destroying the competetion.
I am far from a libertarian extremist, and this does not fly with me.
It's a public library. Public. I've had my Constitutional rights violated (caution: strong language) by the FBI and DEA at the same time; I dropped off two friends in the ghetto to collect payment from a slumlord for a vacant hous they had cleaned, and we were searched because the house next door was a dope house.
The local police "had a look around" my garage on Mmorial day, the day we commemorate service people who have died defending our rights.
That's a far cry worse than taking a PUBLIC computer.
The US with its secret police we call "undercover" and "plainclothes" has become a police state. Only a police state needs secret police.
With my experiences of having the cops ignore the constitution, this doesn't even annoy me. Teh water is boiling, the frog is dead.
I'm 56, my two kids are grown, so sterility would be a benefit to me, rather than a detriment. I'd get a vasectomy but frankly the thought of possible malpractice scares the hell out of me.
A batter would greatly benefit from better eyesight. In fact, almost any sport involving a small ball would, particularly one travelling at close to a hundred miles an hour.
It's the baseball hitters who are getting LASIK on their perfectly good eyeballs, but I can see golfers, archers, and sharpshooters as well.
I disagree with the parent's comment, but I can't for the life of me figure out why he was modded "flamebait". Mod points aren't to silence views opposite your own, they're to make outstanding comments stand out and bury the goatse pics, drvel, and whatnot.
To answer the parent's non-inflamatory and on-topic question, " if we can drill on US soil and its environmentally safe then whats the big deal?" The big deal is that it's NOT environmentally safe.
And alternative fuels are here, now. People are fueling their cars with biodiesel made from used cooking oil, propane, e86, etc. Electric cars and hybrids are coming down the pike.
If every SUV on the road was parked and not moved for the next year, that would more than make up for the drilling the Republicans want. Hell, if people would take their foot off the gas when the light ahead was red that would probably do it as well.
There are a lot of things I can think of off the top of my head that local and state governments could do. For instance, make stop signs equal to yield signs; it takes a lot of energy to overcome inertia. Slowing instead of stopping would save gasoline.
Make red lights equal to stop signs; if there's traffic coming you wait, if not you go. You get zero mpg idling at the light.
Outlaw drive-through restaraunts. Again, when you're idling you get 0 mpg.
Place your speed limits better. An example is a NEW road here in Springfield, Stanford Avenue, connecting Wabash with sixth street. The speed limit on the east bound lane drops to 30 halfway down the viaduct that goes over the railroad tracks; move the sign to the very top of the hill. People accellerate to keep the 40mph until the sign, and then brake, converting their kenetic energy to heat. This is wasteful!
Going west the speed goes from 30 to 40 halfway up the hill. This is insanity! Make the spped 40 at the light BEFORE the hill, so momentum is built up on a flat surface rather than when you're going uphill.
I get the feeling out lawmakers don't give much thought to anything.
First, a murderer isn't civilized. Second, I never said "put him in a pound in the ass prison" like so many slashdotters do; I am appalled at the way US prisoners are treated (and I have one friend that was just released from Dwight Correctional last February). Prisons have guards, and there should NEVER be any crime whatever committed in a prison, period. If someone is raped in prison, some guard should have have severe disciplinary action taken against him.
I notice that the GP comment (mine) went from +3 insightful to 1 troll. Looks like some moderators have the same reading comprehension and logic problems you do, and jump to unwarranted conclusions. Wikipedia's definition of "troll" is a comment that is offtopic and inflamatory, mine was neither.
I'm astounded sometimes at the modwars some of my comments generate. I'm curious how this one wil turn out.
Is the death penalty an easier way out than spending the rest of their lives in jail?
Yes. If I was given the death penalty I'd push for it to happen as soon as possible. If I was given life in prison without possibility of parole, I'd kill myself.
We all live miserable, pathetic existances; we endure the loss of loved ones, we get sick, we get our hearts broken, we all suffer all sorts of loss and misery. Yes, there are joyous times in anybody's life; I imagine even a prisoner has times of happiness. But as they say, life sucks and then you die.
We're all under a death sentence. A murderer shouldn't get the easy way out.
You conveniently ignore the fact that the law-enforcement system wrongly incarcerates many people
That is indeed another reason to do away with the death penalty. When you find an innocent has been wrongly incarcerated you can free him, and although you can't give him the lost years of his life back you can give him monetary relief. But that wasn't what the comment was about, now was it?
Given the overall tone of your post, may I suggest making some changes in your life to introduce a bit more positive attitude?
1. The guy was joking 2. Most slashdot summaries are all one needs to comment 3. Many links in slashdot summaries lead to stupid blogs, or sites with fifteen one paragraph ad laden pages. Often the summary is superior to the article. 4. Many links in slashdot summaries don't say anything more than the summary does 5. Who the fuck gives an anonymous coward the right to make up rules as to how the rest of us should moderate? If you were a/. admin then you would have identified yourself and put the comment in the FAQ where it belomgs, not in a comment. 6. Moderation is NOT for punishment; it is to weed out weak comments and promote good ones. When I make a weak comment (can't be on-topic and insightful or funny all the time) I appreciate a downmodding. 7. Whoever moderated the above AC as "informative" (probably his own sock puppet) better hope I don't get them metamoderating. It was offtic, flamebait (the wikipedia definition of troll), and posted by an AC to boot.
"No karma bonus" checked, but feel free to mod down further if you wish, as it is no more on-topic than the parent post.
Thing is, steroids aren't exactly without side effects. Forcing every MLB player to take steroids isn't a good solution.
For the money they're getting? Are you serious? Don't make steroids mandatory, if they can win without drugs, fine.
What I'd like to know is why performance enhansing drugs are illegal, but performance enhansing surgery (like LASIK, which can give a person with normal eyesight better than 20/20 vision, albeit with the risk of blindness) is perfectly acceptable?
They say "Babe Ruth did it on hotdogs and beer". How do they know he wasn't coked up? There were no drug tests back then, and cocaine is most certainly a performance enhansing drug for an athelete.
You must not be a couch potato, or you'd have seen the drug commercials on TV.
"Use of our new patented super-expensive drug may cause nausia, headache, weight gain or loss, neuralgia, muscle aches, nosebleeds, sudden blindness, heart attack, liver damage, brain damage, sudden loss of stool, headaches, internal bleeding, or sudden death. Talk to your physician about a prescription today!"
A suicidal man getting the death penalty. If I rob a bank will they give me double the amount of the cash I steal?
When I die it will likely be a horrible death, like most people - cancer, heart disease, accident, violence, falling down in a nursing home, alzheimers, etc.
But a murderer gets euthanized, like a beloved pet is put down.
I want murderers to spend the rest of their lives horribly and end horribly, like most of us non criminals. I don't mind my tax money going to incarceration of violent people, but I do mind my government murdering in my name. We should join the civilized world and stop executing people.
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There are six billion people on this planet, and more than a few of them are batshit crazy.
What is an anti-rocketry, SUV-driving NASCAR redneck doing here? Oh trolling, never mind.
Spoken like a fucking idiot.
Spoken like a fucking coward.
maybe some need their SUV to haul business stuff
Few do.
or larger families,
Minivans are safer and get better mileage.
protect better in crashes,
But they don't. SUVs are the most dangerous vehicles on the road according to insurance statistiucs - there are more deaths per 100k miles than any other class of vehicle. The reason is they're too big, too high a center of gravity, don't handle well and don't stop easily.
and so on - its none of YOUR business what their choice is.
I never said they should outlaw the damned things, but it IS my business. I gave to live on this planet, as will my decendants. I'm rational enough to not be a cow and follow the crowd. An SUV is not a nerd vehicle.
Try stopping your vehicle, turning it off, going in, getting food, coming back out and restarting the vehicle. And doing that on a cold day in Minneapolis or Denver.
I do - in Illinois, where it's below zero in the winter and above a hundred in the summer. I also stop my vehicle, turn it off, and go inside the grocery store, inside my work, inside real restaraunts where a waitress brings your food, inside taverns, etc. Or do you have drive-in Best Buys in Mineapolis and Denever?
"Scotty! Do! something! Now!"
"He can't."
"Why? Can't? He?"
"He's dead, Jim."
then if the band are the copyright holders of their own work (a fairly safe assumption)
I'm afraid it is NOT a safe assumption. US copyright law has stated since the 1950s that phonorecords are "works for hire". The record label owns the copyright, not the band.
-Lynard Skynard
The Offspring wanted to post MP3s of Original Prankster on the internet when it was first released. Their label wouldn't let them, but finally consented to letting them post one song off the album.
P2P is good marketing, which is why the majors want to kill it. They have radio and empty-v; the indies don't. Destroying P2P is about destroying the competetion.
I am far from a libertarian extremist, and this does not fly with me.
It's a public library. Public. I've had my Constitutional rights violated (caution: strong language) by the FBI and DEA at the same time; I dropped off two friends in the ghetto to collect payment from a slumlord for a vacant hous they had cleaned, and we were searched because the house next door was a dope house.
The local police "had a look around" my garage on Mmorial day, the day we commemorate service people who have died defending our rights.
That's a far cry worse than taking a PUBLIC computer.
The US with its secret police we call "undercover" and "plainclothes" has become a police state. Only a police state needs secret police.
With my experiences of having the cops ignore the constitution, this doesn't even annoy me. Teh water is boiling, the frog is dead.
I'm 56, my two kids are grown, so sterility would be a benefit to me, rather than a detriment. I'd get a vasectomy but frankly the thought of possible malpractice scares the hell out of me.
A batter would greatly benefit from better eyesight. In fact, almost any sport involving a small ball would, particularly one travelling at close to a hundred miles an hour.
It's the baseball hitters who are getting LASIK on their perfectly good eyeballs, but I can see golfers, archers, and sharpshooters as well.
I disagree with the parent's comment, but I can't for the life of me figure out why he was modded "flamebait". Mod points aren't to silence views opposite your own, they're to make outstanding comments stand out and bury the goatse pics, drvel, and whatnot.
To answer the parent's non-inflamatory and on-topic question, " if we can drill on US soil and its environmentally safe then whats the big deal?" The big deal is that it's NOT environmentally safe.
And alternative fuels are here, now. People are fueling their cars with biodiesel made from used cooking oil, propane, e86, etc. Electric cars and hybrids are coming down the pike.
If every SUV on the road was parked and not moved for the next year, that would more than make up for the drilling the Republicans want. Hell, if people would take their foot off the gas when the light ahead was red that would probably do it as well.
There are a lot of things I can think of off the top of my head that local and state governments could do. For instance, make stop signs equal to yield signs; it takes a lot of energy to overcome inertia. Slowing instead of stopping would save gasoline.
Make red lights equal to stop signs; if there's traffic coming you wait, if not you go. You get zero mpg idling at the light.
Outlaw drive-through restaraunts. Again, when you're idling you get 0 mpg.
Place your speed limits better. An example is a NEW road here in Springfield, Stanford Avenue, connecting Wabash with sixth street. The speed limit on the east bound lane drops to 30 halfway down the viaduct that goes over the railroad tracks; move the sign to the very top of the hill. People accellerate to keep the 40mph until the sign, and then brake, converting their kenetic energy to heat. This is wasteful!
Going west the speed goes from 30 to 40 halfway up the hill. This is insanity! Make the spped 40 at the light BEFORE the hill, so momentum is built up on a flat surface rather than when you're going uphill.
I get the feeling out lawmakers don't give much thought to anything.
Was that a McCarthyism? ;)
by Reverend528 (585549) * on Friday August 01, @01:59PM (#24437215) Homepage
I've long been an advocate of bringing back crucifixion.
Seldom do I see a topic match a user's name so well!
First, a murderer isn't civilized. Second, I never said "put him in a pound in the ass prison" like so many slashdotters do; I am appalled at the way US prisoners are treated (and I have one friend that was just released from Dwight Correctional last February). Prisons have guards, and there should NEVER be any crime whatever committed in a prison, period. If someone is raped in prison, some guard should have have severe disciplinary action taken against him.
I notice that the GP comment (mine) went from +3 insightful to 1 troll. Looks like some moderators have the same reading comprehension and logic problems you do, and jump to unwarranted conclusions. Wikipedia's definition of "troll" is a comment that is offtopic and inflamatory, mine was neither.
I'm astounded sometimes at the modwars some of my comments generate. I'm curious how this one wil turn out.
Is the death penalty an easier way out than spending the rest of their lives in jail?
Yes. If I was given the death penalty I'd push for it to happen as soon as possible. If I was given life in prison without possibility of parole, I'd kill myself.
We all live miserable, pathetic existances; we endure the loss of loved ones, we get sick, we get our hearts broken, we all suffer all sorts of loss and misery. Yes, there are joyous times in anybody's life; I imagine even a prisoner has times of happiness. But as they say, life sucks and then you die.
We're all under a death sentence. A murderer shouldn't get the easy way out.
Now mod this comment down too.
If you dessicate the patsy, powder the remains and store them in a klien bottle, does that mean...
You conveniently ignore the fact that the law-enforcement system wrongly incarcerates many people
That is indeed another reason to do away with the death penalty. When you find an innocent has been wrongly incarcerated you can free him, and although you can't give him the lost years of his life back you can give him monetary relief. But that wasn't what the comment was about, now was it?
Given the overall tone of your post, may I suggest making some changes in your life to introduce a bit more positive attitude?
I would say the same to you.
How is this that different from stimulants
Stimulants like cocaine or amphetamines take away hunger. They will not only cause loss of fat weight, but muscle mass as well.
Check out your average crack whore - she looks like an anorexic, with no fat but no muscle either.
There are two good ways to gain muscle mass: Steroids and stair-oids.
You must be new here.
1. The guy was joking /. admin then you would have identified yourself and put the comment in the FAQ where it belomgs, not in a comment.
2. Most slashdot summaries are all one needs to comment
3. Many links in slashdot summaries lead to stupid blogs, or sites with fifteen one paragraph ad laden pages. Often the summary is superior to the article.
4. Many links in slashdot summaries don't say anything more than the summary does
5. Who the fuck gives an anonymous coward the right to make up rules as to how the rest of us should moderate? If you were a
6. Moderation is NOT for punishment; it is to weed out weak comments and promote good ones. When I make a weak comment (can't be on-topic and insightful or funny all the time) I appreciate a downmodding.
7. Whoever moderated the above AC as "informative" (probably his own sock puppet) better hope I don't get them metamoderating. It was offtic, flamebait (the wikipedia definition of troll), and posted by an AC to boot.
"No karma bonus" checked, but feel free to mod down further if you wish, as it is no more on-topic than the parent post.
Your server got slashdotted again, Rick? better buy more gerbil wheels for that generator!
I found a photograph of one of the mice used in this study.
There's a pharmacy here in Springfield that delivers. Now, how to get the front door open for them to hand it to you is another problem entirely.
Yeah, but give the mice a break, they built the earth to figure out what "42" meant.
Thing is, steroids aren't exactly without side effects. Forcing every MLB player to take steroids isn't a good solution.
For the money they're getting? Are you serious? Don't make steroids mandatory, if they can win without drugs, fine.
What I'd like to know is why performance enhansing drugs are illegal, but performance enhansing surgery (like LASIK, which can give a person with normal eyesight better than 20/20 vision, albeit with the risk of blindness) is perfectly acceptable?
They say "Babe Ruth did it on hotdogs and beer". How do they know he wasn't coked up? There were no drug tests back then, and cocaine is most certainly a performance enhansing drug for an athelete.
You must not be a couch potato, or you'd have seen the drug commercials on TV.
"Use of our new patented super-expensive drug may cause nausia, headache, weight gain or loss, neuralgia, muscle aches, nosebleeds, sudden blindness, heart attack, liver damage, brain damage, sudden loss of stool, headaches, internal bleeding, or sudden death. Talk to your physician about a prescription today!"
A suicidal man getting the death penalty. If I rob a bank will they give me double the amount of the cash I steal?
When I die it will likely be a horrible death, like most people - cancer, heart disease, accident, violence, falling down in a nursing home, alzheimers, etc.
But a murderer gets euthanized, like a beloved pet is put down.
I want murderers to spend the rest of their lives horribly and end horribly, like most of us non criminals. I don't mind my tax money going to incarceration of violent people, but I do mind my government murdering in my name. We should join the civilized world and stop executing people.