He should journal his thoughts on the matter. A statement like that without attribution or explanation is the mark of an unenlightened fool (and I am an unenlightened fool for saying so).
There are IMO 2 things wrong with the death penalty. First, it is final. "Oops, my bad, we just found out that the cops planted that evidence. Too bad you're dead." One of the founding fathers iirc (and I may not rc) is that it is better to let ten guilty men go free than to jail one innocent man.
Secondly, all of us are on death row, every one of the six billion inhabitants of this small muddy rock. The difference between us and murderers in the US is that our deaths mostly will be horrible, terrible, agonizing deaths. Cancer, heart disease, accident, fire, drowning, etc. while murderers are "put to sleep" painlessly and humanely as if they were a beloved pet dog. THAT is NOT justice. Let them rot in prison the rest of their lives and die horribly like I surely will when my time comes.
After reading comment answering my comments I'm starting to believ that there is no such bill. I'm glad I haven't sent that letter yet, I would look like a gigantic fool.
I was waiting for a reference to the actual bill. As of now I believe that someone (Soulskill or this "lurker" guy he references) is full of shit. Soulskill, what bill is Illinois touting? I can't find it and neither can anybody else, it seems.
You mean legislators actually care about what their constituents think?
Slashdotters for the most part don't care what I think, but that doesn't stop me from mouthing off.
Rising health care costs -- pretty much everyone cares. Out of sight gas prices? Ditto. War in Iraq? Oh, yeah.
Not to mention American Idol, Britney Spears drug problems and custody battles, baseball steroid "scandals", Paul McCartney's divorce, etc. You know, all that important news.
Somebody posted something from DIGG but its title says it's about U of I vs RIAA. Funny, besides tech sites I read the Tribune, the St Louis Post Dispatch, Springfield State Journal register, and the Illinois Times and none of them has said a peep.
Horizontal scrolls in 1024x768? What a lamer! If that guy wants me to read a web page about technology he'd better learn to code a fucking web page. I mean jesus, HTML ain't exactly assembling machine code by hand.
Does anybody have a javascript snippet to automatically go back a page if the idiot who wrote the page you landed on has a horizontal scroll? I'm too lazy to write the two lines needed (actually you could probably do it in just an anchor tag).
Even though I didn't bother reading the page, It was informative: as it was a page about Ruby, it told me that Ruby users are fucking idiots and I'd better stay the hell away from Ruby. And Twitter.
twitter Audio Help/twtr/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[twit-er] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation -verb (used without object) 1. to utter a succession of small, tremulous sounds, as a bird. 2. to talk lightly and rapidly, esp. of trivial matters; chatter. 3. to titter; giggle. 4. to tremble with excitement or the like; be in a flutter. -verb (used with object) 5. to express or utter by twittering. -noun 6. an act of twittering. 7. a twittering sound. 8. a state of tremulous excitement.
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Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (or "tweets"; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook.
Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and instantly delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends (delivery to everyone is the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, instant messaging, SMS, RSS, email or through an application. For SMS, four gateway numbers are currently available: short codes for the United States, Canada, and India, as well as a United Kingdom number for international use. Several third parties offer posting and receiving updates via email.
Supplies a reason as to why drugs should not be legalized.
On the contrary, McBride is NOT on drugs, but should in fact be on drugs. A suggested drug he possibly should be on might be Haloperidol (sold under the tradenames Aloperidin, Bioperidolo, Brotopon, Dozic, Duraperidol (Germany), Einalon S, Eukystol, Haldol, Halosten, Keselan, Linton, Peluces, Serenace, Serenase, Sigaperidol).
the girl at McDonald's, on the other hand...
-- Slow Down Cowboy! It's been 6 seconds since you last successfully posted a comment. Wanker.
*The linked article refers to Steve Ballmer, president of Microsoft and dancing, mentally deficient, foul-mouthed chair-throwing psychopath. For another dangerously unstable person, see "Tom Cruise".
But how would you do that? If you don't pass the bills he wants passed, next election your opponent gats twice the funding from that contributor and yors is cut or eliminated. He has power over you. All you can do is pass laws, while he has a gun that fires cops, judges, and politicians.
My health care is paid for by my employer and me. My friends' health care is paid for by NOBODY - they have no health care.
Sure, government pays for SOME health care, but they should pay for ALL health care like they do in the more civilized parts of the world (which means "every industrialized country but ours, as well as one or two third world countries).
The fact that insurance companies have anything whatever do do with health care is a national tragedy and a national shame.
The RIAA is also backing legislation in states such as Illinois and Tennessee that would require schools that get a certain number of notices to begin installing deep packet monitoring equipment on their internet and intranets, according to Luker."
I'll be scribbling a note to my legislators today, and maybe another one to the Illinois Times, too. Oh yeah, the Trib and the St Louis Post Dispatch. Might be nice if someone would post a comprehensive list of states so other slashdotters can slashdot their congresscritters' email servers.
Why is it that we never heard about this crap in the Trib or the Post? Never ascribe to incompetence that which can be explained by malice.
Misery? Our misery is over. SCO can no longer harm us. I for one don't want SCO to get a quick death at the end of a rope when the horse runs away, but a slow agonizing one as it's slowly pulled up, with SCO kicking and slowly strangling.
The reason I consider it a plutocracy is because if you have enough money, you can "contribute" to both major party candidates, and whichever one loses won't matter to you because the winning politician will now be beholden to you. A big enough campaign bribe and you can get any legislation you want passed.
Even though Bill Gates lives in Washington state, he has more pull with my Senators and Congressmen than I, an Illinois resident and voter, do.
And if a monied bigwig from IBM does in fact want McBride in prison, then there's still hope!
There are a few companies out there that are now touting the data center in a shipping container. Sun was one of the first with its Blackbox, now called the Sun MD, while others include Rackable Systems' ICE Cube and Verari's FOREST
No, they weren't the first.
Oh you meant you. Ok then. I guess you innovated that comment!
I'm sure most of us would love to see McBride behind bars (I know I would), but I'm afraid it probably won't happen. In our plutocracy no rich, powerful man goes to prison unless a richer, more powerful man wants him there.
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That's like saying "Who started the war in Iraq, the President, or Bush?"
Somebody please mod that drooling iguana up!
He should journal his thoughts on the matter. A statement like that without attribution or explanation is the mark of an unenlightened fool (and I am an unenlightened fool for saying so).
There are IMO 2 things wrong with the death penalty. First, it is final. "Oops, my bad, we just found out that the cops planted that evidence. Too bad you're dead." One of the founding fathers iirc (and I may not rc) is that it is better to let ten guilty men go free than to jail one innocent man.
Secondly, all of us are on death row, every one of the six billion inhabitants of this small muddy rock. The difference between us and murderers in the US is that our deaths mostly will be horrible, terrible, agonizing deaths. Cancer, heart disease, accident, fire, drowning, etc. while murderers are "put to sleep" painlessly and humanely as if they were a beloved pet dog. THAT is NOT justice. Let them rot in prison the rest of their lives and die horribly like I surely will when my time comes.
After reading comment answering my comments I'm starting to believ that there is no such bill. I'm glad I haven't sent that letter yet, I would look like a gigantic fool.
I was waiting for a reference to the actual bill. As of now I believe that someone (Soulskill or this "lurker" guy he references) is full of shit. Soulskill, what bill is Illinois touting? I can't find it and neither can anybody else, it seems.
You mean legislators actually care about what their constituents think?
Slashdotters for the most part don't care what I think, but that doesn't stop me from mouthing off.
Rising health care costs -- pretty much everyone cares. Out of sight gas prices? Ditto. War in Iraq? Oh, yeah.
Not to mention American Idol, Britney Spears drug problems and custody battles, baseball steroid "scandals", Paul McCartney's divorce, etc. You know, all that important news.
Somebody posted something from DIGG but its title says it's about U of I vs RIAA. Funny, besides tech sites I read the Tribune, the St Louis Post Dispatch, Springfield State Journal register, and the Illinois Times and none of them has said a peep.
HIPPA
Somebody's in some DEEP SHIT over that. Iinm a judge can't order that a federal law be broken unless that law has been deemed unconstitutional.
Horizontal scrolls in 1024x768? What a lamer! If that guy wants me to read a web page about technology he'd better learn to code a fucking web page. I mean jesus, HTML ain't exactly assembling machine code by hand.
Does anybody have a javascript snippet to automatically go back a page if the idiot who wrote the page you landed on has a horizontal scroll? I'm too lazy to write the two lines needed (actually you could probably do it in just an anchor tag).
Even though I didn't bother reading the page, It was informative: as it was a page about Ruby, it told me that Ruby users are fucking idiots and I'd better stay the hell away from Ruby. And Twitter.
Most popular things are useless
Yeah, like cars, telephones, computers radios, houses, food, utensils, tools, books, clothing, water, the internet...
Supplies a reason as to why drugs should not be legalized.
On the contrary, McBride is NOT on drugs, but should in fact be on drugs. A suggested drug he possibly should be on might be Haloperidol (sold under the tradenames Aloperidin, Bioperidolo, Brotopon, Dozic, Duraperidol (Germany), Einalon S, Eukystol, Haldol, Halosten, Keselan, Linton, Peluces, Serenace, Serenase, Sigaperidol).
the girl at McDonald's, on the other hand...
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Slow Down Cowboy! It's been 6 seconds since you last successfully posted a comment. Wanker.
No worries! This is a bench trial, so there is no jury. Just judge Kimball.
"And I find the bench guilty as charged!" -Steve Ballmer (throws bench across room)
I'm not sure which is worse; a mindless zealot, or a flaming hypocrite.
I just had visions of Darl McBride on fire.
Wow, mods. You guys are really good!. I would have never guessed that an anonymous coward could bait users into an emotional response[1] or generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion[2] with two words (three if you count the subject). This has to be the shortest troll ever posted at slashdot.
My hat's off to you! Proof positive that slashdot's moderation system is da verry bestast on earth!
You go, girl!
(Note: I'm stupid, of course. I would have moderated the post as offtopic.)
Darl McBride and Steve Ballmer* have the same motto:
"No gnus is good gnus".
-mcgrew
*The linked article refers to Steve Ballmer, president of Microsoft and dancing, mentally deficient, foul-mouthed chair-throwing psychopath. For another dangerously unstable person, see "Tom Cruise".
But how would you do that? If you don't pass the bills he wants passed, next election your opponent gats twice the funding from that contributor and yors is cut or eliminated. He has power over you. All you can do is pass laws, while he has a gun that fires cops, judges, and politicians.
My health care is paid for by my employer and me. My friends' health care is paid for by NOBODY - they have no health care.
Sure, government pays for SOME health care, but they should pay for ALL health care like they do in the more civilized parts of the world (which means "every industrialized country but ours, as well as one or two third world countries).
The fact that insurance companies have anything whatever do do with health care is a national tragedy and a national shame.
Ewe muss bee knew hear.
Also, it's 50% off the purchase of a new player. "Please don't throw me into the briar patch, brer fox" say brer Creative.
Only a corporation can make money by losing a lawsuit!
The RIAA is also backing legislation in states such as Illinois and Tennessee that would require schools that get a certain number of notices to begin installing deep packet monitoring equipment on their internet and intranets, according to Luker."
I'll be scribbling a note to my legislators today, and maybe another one to the Illinois Times, too. Oh yeah, the Trib and the St Louis Post Dispatch. Might be nice if someone would post a comprehensive list of states so other slashdotters can slashdot their congresscritters' email servers.
Why is it that we never heard about this crap in the Trib or the Post? Never ascribe to incompetence that which can be explained by malice.
-mcgrew
Misery? Our misery is over. SCO can no longer harm us. I for one don't want SCO to get a quick death at the end of a rope when the horse runs away, but a slow agonizing one as it's slowly pulled up, with SCO kicking and slowly strangling.
Besides, my popcorn isn't done popping.
The reason I consider it a plutocracy is because if you have enough money, you can "contribute" to both major party candidates, and whichever one loses won't matter to you because the winning politician will now be beholden to you. A big enough campaign bribe and you can get any legislation you want passed.
Even though Bill Gates lives in Washington state, he has more pull with my Senators and Congressmen than I, an Illinois resident and voter, do.
And if a monied bigwig from IBM does in fact want McBride in prison, then there's still hope!
I'm a gay man, you insensitive clod!
You could take the opportunity to link goa... er, never mind.
There are a few companies out there that are now touting the data center in a shipping container. Sun was one of the first with its Blackbox, now called the Sun MD, while others include Rackable Systems' ICE Cube and Verari's FOREST
No, they weren't the first.
Oh you meant you. Ok then. I guess you innovated that comment!
Mmmmmm, that's some good perjury!
I'm sure most of us would love to see McBride behind bars (I know I would), but I'm afraid it probably won't happen. In our plutocracy no rich, powerful man goes to prison unless a richer, more powerful man wants him there.