Most other games you can drop in for a few 5 to 15 minute rounds.
Maybe you can get in a game of speed chess, but how much fun is it to drop in for 5 to 15 minutes of Monopoly? Or Scrabble? Do you get the guys together for 15 minutes of football? If there's no line at the lift, maybe you can get in a short ski run.
I think your assertion is not only false, but irrelevant. Now it's video games or the internet, before that it was golf and television, and before that it was radio.
There are many activities that can take up large chunks of time. And there are many people who engage in those activities without farking up the other aspects of their lives. Conversely, I can smoke some crack for 5 to 15 minutes. Does that mean crack is likely to be less harmful to my relationships than WoW?
Ok, maybe that's a bad example;) Point is, what's wrong with taking responsibility for own life rather than blaming a game?
Think about the _very_worst_thing_ you have ever done. Do you think you should be judged for the rest of your life on that one thing?
Sure. Why not? While I can't say for sure which act is the _very_worst_thing_ I have ever done, none of the nominees is really that bad. None resulting in someone dead. None resulted in anyone (but myself) in hospital.
Let me put it another way, think about the _very_worst_thing_ you have ever done. I think you should be judged until you right the wrong you've done. Hurt someone feelings? Help them feel better. Destroyed property? Make restitution. Done something stupid that resulting in someone dead? Well, you can stop getting judged when that person comes back, and their family gets their son/daughter/mother/father/etc. back.
I think a rational person would try not to go to jail for what he had done.
Covering his tracks would only be sensible. Acting like that doesn't imply that the crime was premeditated. It only shows that, after committing the crime, he doesn't want to go to jail.
Huh?? There is nothing logical or rational about that course of action. While covering your tracks does not imply premeditation, it is evidence of the guilty mind. Intent, motive, frame of mind--all crucial elements to a crime.
Logic should tell you "it was a crime of passion; I was caught up in the moment; I didn't know what I was doing," is a lot harder to prove when you take clear action to demonstrate you knew what you did, you knew it was wrong, and you knew you would get in trouble if people found out. Attempts to cover your tracks prove all three.
Reason should tell you it is very, very difficult to cover up murder, and 100 times more so if you haven't done any planning before hand. There are exceptions, but in this case it sounds like a healthy woman in a settled area suddenly disappears, and you're the last person to see her. You're gonna be a suspect, and unless you've done it (covered up a murder) before, there is zero reason and nothing rational indicating you will destroy all evidence of your involvement.
The logical and reasonable course of action is to call for help. Not the police, but an ambulance. You'll get the same scrutiny as in the case of the attempted cover up, you'll leave behind the same evidence of the actual incident, but you won't be handing the police all the extra evidence of actions you took after the killing, and they won't have evidence of your guilty mind to use against you.
Maybe if you kill a homeless drifter you picked up hitchhiking in the middle of no where, in a place it would be hard to prove you had ever been to, you might have a chance. Maybe you can be confident no one is even looking for the missing person and won't think there had been a crime unless someone finds the body. But your ex-wife disappears after being seen with you--you're a suspect. No logic or reason in helping the cops by showing you know what you did and you know it was wrong.
Study the prison population, study the criminals, about 20% of the prison population are psychopaths, about 20% of prisoners give or take, don't feel any guilt at all for what they have done, and just don't give a fuck about you, me, or themselves.
Sounds like you're comparing apples and carrots. Someone who kills a person, goes to prison, and feels no guilt may very well be a psychopath. Someone who smokes a joint, goes to prison, and feels no guilt may just be someone who is too logical to accept 'beer is ok, oxycotin is ok, marijuana is the devil.'
And there are a lot more people in prison for non-violent drug crimes than for violent someone-ends-up-dead crimes.
You know, even murderers can be rehabilitated. I've met a guy who killed his wife. He spend 8 years in prison and now he's out being a productive member of society. So long as he has a community of support, he won't commit another.
And, without the retailers, they're dead in the water.
And where are you without manufacturers?
I understand your interest in not having manufacturers cut out the middle man, but don't forget that's exactly what you are--a middle man. It sounds like both the manufacturers and your customers are questioning the value you add to the transaction. You'd better have a good answer if you want to stay in business.
So what was you answer? Why should customers bother shopping at your store?
Absolutley! It's just that I've been hearing about that penny rounding scheme since the mid-sixties (yes, I'm that old) and have never been able to trace it to an actual incident.
Of Course. When I^W^WIf someone were to actually pull off such a plan, you'd never hear about. No one would even know the money was missing.
When the best capers are over, no one knows anything is missing.
Interesting how the some of the most popular photos from these missions are pictures of other man-made objects.
Considering how NASA is consistently at the short end of the federal budgeting stick, would the agency do better as a private foundation funded by sending out probes decked out like something out of NASCAR?
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Consider what happens to code development shipped offshore.
It would be easy for someone to slip in a virus to round off the fractions of a cent in the interest computations and put the remainders in an account.
You just need someone who knows the credit union software to install it.
I won't even repeat such hog wash by quoting the parent post. Poor/poorly paid people don't break the law because they're poor/poorly paid. If it were that simple, why do rich people break the law also?
Wages should be based on the value of the work, not relative to those the worker deals with, or relative to the worker's self-esteem.
As even the parent admits, we're not talking about people on the edge of existence--someone stealing a crust of bread just to survive another day. We're talking about people that have some and want some more. Someone with $10 who decides to break the law to get $100 doesn't suddenly become enlightened. They typically become with $100 who will break the law to get $1000.
Notebooks are better for security for a non tech savy user.
Huh? That makes no sense. Have you not noticed all the news stories about notebooks disappearing from homes, cars, etc?
A notebook in a locked cabinet may be marginally more secure than a workstation at a desk (if your office isn't physically secure, how much more secure is a cabinet in that office?), however a workstation at a desk in the office is much more secure than a notebook on public transportation, or in the back seat of a parked car, or at some employee's home connected to the internet without benefit of the corporate firewall.
And if you're giving them notebooks just so they can be locked up at night and not taking advantage of the portability in any other way, gee, all the pains of working with a notebook without any of the advantages. Do you really hate lawyers that much?
(And of course you have the extra security personel to make sure no one is leaving the office with these notebooks and do a count on the cabinet before and after each business day to make sure no notebooks were missing. Otherwise there'd be no security whatsoever.)
But Netcraft is reporting that their website runs Windows Server 2003. Yeah, they wont use free market leading webserver Apache.
Huh? Apache is a weberver. Windows Server is an OS. I could understand, "They run Windows Server. Why not use Linux?" Or, "Their website is on IIS. They don't use Apache."
But you're saying, they drive a Volvo. Why not wear blue jeans?
Technically, all of your clones would have to die for you to remove yourself from the gene pool..
I don't see how that's any more true than saying all of your relatives with whom you have any shared genetic material have to die for you to remove yourself from the gene pool.
Maybe if all your relatives are identical twins of yourself. Or you're from Kentucky. The rest of us have a little more genetic diversity in our families.
One thing I don't believe any other government, or people, have done throughout history is to insist other governments should be more like their own and encouraging change with a very large military.
You don't believe in the British Empire? (And by 'be more like their own' I mean run by the British for the betterment of the Bristish, to the exclusion of all others.)
The exception to this argument being that Europe isn't doing anything with it's militaries anymore.
So if the Europeans only try to advance their economic interests through diplomatic, rather than military means, then there should be no issue in this case of the USA trying to advance its economic interest through diplomatic means.
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I don't think the boycott is going to work. How do I not see those movies any more than I was already not seeing them?
And the longest is, "I do."
In Soviet Russia...the worm eats you?
Maybe you can get in a game of speed chess, but how much fun is it to drop in for 5 to 15 minutes of Monopoly? Or Scrabble? Do you get the guys together for 15 minutes of football? If there's no line at the lift, maybe you can get in a short ski run.
I think your assertion is not only false, but irrelevant. Now it's video games or the internet, before that it was golf and television, and before that it was radio.
There are many activities that can take up large chunks of time. And there are many people who engage in those activities without farking up the other aspects of their lives. Conversely, I can smoke some crack for 5 to 15 minutes. Does that mean crack is likely to be less harmful to my relationships than WoW?
Ok, maybe that's a bad example ;) Point is, what's wrong with taking responsibility for own life rather than blaming a game?
The left, or sinister, cow is always the evil one.
Sure. Why not? While I can't say for sure which act is the _very_worst_thing_ I have ever done, none of the nominees is really that bad. None resulting in someone dead. None resulted in anyone (but myself) in hospital.
Let me put it another way, think about the _very_worst_thing_ you have ever done. I think you should be judged until you right the wrong you've done. Hurt someone feelings? Help them feel better. Destroyed property? Make restitution. Done something stupid that resulting in someone dead? Well, you can stop getting judged when that person comes back, and their family gets their son/daughter/mother/father/etc. back.
Huh?? There is nothing logical or rational about that course of action. While covering your tracks does not imply premeditation, it is evidence of the guilty mind. Intent, motive, frame of mind--all crucial elements to a crime.
Logic should tell you "it was a crime of passion; I was caught up in the moment; I didn't know what I was doing," is a lot harder to prove when you take clear action to demonstrate you knew what you did, you knew it was wrong, and you knew you would get in trouble if people found out. Attempts to cover your tracks prove all three.
Reason should tell you it is very, very difficult to cover up murder, and 100 times more so if you haven't done any planning before hand. There are exceptions, but in this case it sounds like a healthy woman in a settled area suddenly disappears, and you're the last person to see her. You're gonna be a suspect, and unless you've done it (covered up a murder) before, there is zero reason and nothing rational indicating you will destroy all evidence of your involvement.
The logical and reasonable course of action is to call for help. Not the police, but an ambulance. You'll get the same scrutiny as in the case of the attempted cover up, you'll leave behind the same evidence of the actual incident, but you won't be handing the police all the extra evidence of actions you took after the killing, and they won't have evidence of your guilty mind to use against you.
Maybe if you kill a homeless drifter you picked up hitchhiking in the middle of no where, in a place it would be hard to prove you had ever been to, you might have a chance. Maybe you can be confident no one is even looking for the missing person and won't think there had been a crime unless someone finds the body. But your ex-wife disappears after being seen with you--you're a suspect. No logic or reason in helping the cops by showing you know what you did and you know it was wrong.
Sounds like you're comparing apples and carrots. Someone who kills a person, goes to prison, and feels no guilt may very well be a psychopath. Someone who smokes a joint, goes to prison, and feels no guilt may just be someone who is too logical to accept 'beer is ok, oxycotin is ok, marijuana is the devil.'
And there are a lot more people in prison for non-violent drug crimes than for violent someone-ends-up-dead crimes.
And how's his wife doing?
And where are you without manufacturers?
I understand your interest in not having manufacturers cut out the middle man, but don't forget that's exactly what you are--a middle man. It sounds like both the manufacturers and your customers are questioning the value you add to the transaction. You'd better have a good answer if you want to stay in business.
So what was you answer? Why should customers bother shopping at your store?
Of Course. When I^W^WIf someone were to actually pull off such a plan, you'd never hear about. No one would even know the money was missing.
When the best capers are over, no one knows anything is missing.
If so, what was our planned operational lifetime? And will we exceed expectations?
Considering how NASA is consistently at the short end of the federal budgeting stick, would the agency do better as a private foundation funded by sending out probes decked out like something out of NASCAR?
It would be easy for someone to slip in a virus to round off the fractions of a cent in the interest computations and put the remainders in an account.
You just need someone who knows the credit union software to install it.
B.S.
I won't even repeat such hog wash by quoting the parent post. Poor/poorly paid people don't break the law because they're poor/poorly paid. If it were that simple, why do rich people break the law also?
Wages should be based on the value of the work, not relative to those the worker deals with, or relative to the worker's self-esteem.
As even the parent admits, we're not talking about people on the edge of existence--someone stealing a crust of bread just to survive another day. We're talking about people that have some and want some more. Someone with $10 who decides to break the law to get $100 doesn't suddenly become enlightened. They typically become with $100 who will break the law to get $1000.
Huh? That makes no sense. Have you not noticed all the news stories about notebooks disappearing from homes, cars, etc?
A notebook in a locked cabinet may be marginally more secure than a workstation at a desk (if your office isn't physically secure, how much more secure is a cabinet in that office?), however a workstation at a desk in the office is much more secure than a notebook on public transportation, or in the back seat of a parked car, or at some employee's home connected to the internet without benefit of the corporate firewall.
And if you're giving them notebooks just so they can be locked up at night and not taking advantage of the portability in any other way, gee, all the pains of working with a notebook without any of the advantages. Do you really hate lawyers that much?
(And of course you have the extra security personel to make sure no one is leaving the office with these notebooks and do a count on the cabinet before and after each business day to make sure no notebooks were missing. Otherwise there'd be no security whatsoever.)
Huh? Apache is a weberver. Windows Server is an OS. I could understand, "They run Windows Server. Why not use Linux?" Or, "Their website is on IIS. They don't use Apache."
But you're saying, they drive a Volvo. Why not wear blue jeans?
You're mixing apples and volvos. A proof that the Laws of Thermodynamics hold true is a different bird than the proof on why they must hold true.
*For large values of 'now'
So now are all /.ers complaining about the 1 game that comes with the Wiii going to bitch about the one song that comes with the iPod?
Maybe if all your relatives are identical twins of yourself. Or you're from Kentucky. The rest of us have a little more genetic diversity in our families.
The face of imperialism has changed, but don't kid yourself. In place of 'for $deity and country', we have shareholders and market penetration.
Microsoft, ADM, Sony are every bit building empires as the British and Spanish of ye olde times.
You don't believe in the British Empire? (And by 'be more like their own' I mean run by the British for the betterment of the Bristish, to the exclusion of all others.)
So if the Europeans only try to advance their economic interests through diplomatic, rather than military means, then there should be no issue in this case of the USA trying to advance its economic interest through diplomatic means.