I live in a country where people have been prosecuted successfully for murder because they killed the driver of a car that had been trying to run them over, and the fatal shot was fired after the car had passed them - by inches.
It's called the rule of law. The judges are compassionate, court cases take into account mitigating factors, the prosecution service can and often do choose not to pursue certain cases.. but people are definitely held to account if they seek to exact extra-judicial revenge.
Comically the BBC is currently getting bashed for supporting a book about assassinating a former British Prime Minister.
But verbal feedback is some way from threatening mass murder. I'm not sure that any movie justifies that, and particularly one that gravely offends some cunt with no sense of humour.
Only to people that lack the wit to differentiate between "they're" and "their".
I'm not even joking. There's a whole class of hollywood comedy based around "stupid people being stupid" that just isn't terribly funny.
I prefer my comedy to be very dark (Old Boy - in Korean) or played straight (Blues Brothers or Monty Python) or situational (Ferris Bueller). Don't be giving me some badly scripted shit based on stupid people doing blatantly stupid things (Dumb and Dumber).
Bull. The majority of pedophiles transition between fantasies to actual rapes
You, err, have actual evidence of this?
The pattern is well known to law enforcement and mental health professionals.
Law enforcement find that people they arrest for raping small children also have fantasies. Big fucking surprise. Still doesn't follow that A causes B.
The only realistic alternative for allowing pedophiles to be free is to force them to have absolutely no contact with children.
This is quite tricky, given most pedophiles come under the category "Parents".
What if Google includes click-through rates by users in its search rankings?
People in Spain wont be clicking through links to Spanish news sites via news.google.es so Google will algorithmically have no choice but to deprioritise those sites in comparison to e.g. Mexican ones.
Of course, we're both assuming that Google are even allowed to link to Spanish news sites in search results - when I search google it shows me an excerpt of the matching text; if Google have to pay the news sites to include that then it's illegal for them to include those sites if they haven't paid.
Personally I take the view that it's Google's website, Google's index and Google that succeed or fail by whether the results they show meet the needs of their users. So let them make the call and not politicians.
If I set up a website that offers direct access to every EU government citizen portal but for Spain merely links to cunts.org how am I breaking the law?
Absolutely - but they can replace software engineers with some cheap as shit grad in India who will deliver _something_, so the choice is simple: Deal with the shit and deliver anyway, or watch the job go offshore.
Just because you have the fortune of regulatory protection doesn't diminish the skills and capabilities of people using the title software engineer, and doesn't mean that their job is as easy as yours. Any cunt can build a sewer, there's been a couple of millenia of practice to learn from.
You deal with the fucking impossible demands placed on software engineers and offer liability.
Built any bridges recently for which the budget was cut halfway, you were forced to use chocolate fudge instead of cement, the location was switched every two weeks and the timescales halved, and delivered a working bridge nonetheless?
No? Fuck off back to your pitiful superiority complex then you egotistical shit.
Don't forget to factor in the intimidating complication that any act of self defence will be used as evidence that the crimes against you were justified, even though they caused the need for self defence.
Permadeath? Did you play fucking pacman? Did you play Centipede? Did you play Frogger? Did you play any of the 48000 games developed between them and Rogue?
Permadeath is an attribute of Rogue and roguelike games but it sure as fuck isn't a class defining feature.
Permadeath is a standard feature of the games of my childhood. Randomisation is done distinctively in roguelikes but a true roguelike combines that randomisation with some common basics and simple game mechanics to deliver a rich and varied top-down RPG.
Clicking ads you're not visiting is fraud. Really.
Sorry but following a HTTP link that's been presented to your browser is not fraud.
It may fall under various anti-denial of service or computer misuse laws, but I can't see how it's fraudulent. You were offered the chance to call a URL, you called it.
The fact that you chose not to render the response to your call on your screen is your choice. If the providers of the URL want to assume that you did then that's their own stupidity.
I still find medium format film to give me the best quality. I then scan my negatives, correct them in Photoshop, and make archival pigment prints
So your highest quality is to archive using an analogue to digital conversion followed by a digital to analogue conversion?
Just fucking buy a medium format digital camera already and store the RAW files.
Large format film has a beauty of its own and there's nothing wrong with sticking with medium format (or any other format) film if that's what you want, but please, don't pretend it's for quality.
Surely a drug dealer has a good grasp of running a business - supply chain logistics, negotiation, customer service, building demand for product, basic book keeping..
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I live in a country where people have been prosecuted successfully for murder because they killed the driver of a car that had been trying to run them over, and the fatal shot was fired after the car had passed them - by inches.
It's called the rule of law. The judges are compassionate, court cases take into account mitigating factors, the prosecution service can and often do choose not to pursue certain cases.. but people are definitely held to account if they seek to exact extra-judicial revenge.
Delightfully I live in a country where beating someone up because you don't like what they've done is illegal.
Maybe you should move.
Comically the BBC is currently getting bashed for supporting a book about assassinating a former British Prime Minister.
But verbal feedback is some way from threatening mass murder. I'm not sure that any movie justifies that, and particularly one that gravely offends some cunt with no sense of humour.
Yes Kim, I mean you.
that's why their so funny
Only to people that lack the wit to differentiate between "they're" and "their".
I'm not even joking. There's a whole class of hollywood comedy based around "stupid people being stupid" that just isn't terribly funny.
I prefer my comedy to be very dark (Old Boy - in Korean) or played straight (Blues Brothers or Monty Python) or situational (Ferris Bueller). Don't be giving me some badly scripted shit based on stupid people doing blatantly stupid things (Dumb and Dumber).
Hmm. Does that mean that literal translations are
Seppuku : Ritual disembowelment
Hara-Kiri: Stupid posh bloke killing himself
Oh, no. We'd spank you for being naughty.
Of course, everybody would laugh at all my secrets too. The police would arrest me. I'd get spanked too.
Spankings all round I guess. But you breaking in doesn't mean everyone should ignore my bad behaviour.
What, like picking up a gun off the shelf in Walmart, or committing the terrible crime of "being a child with a toy"?
Now they're guilty of assault but at least they don't have a family to miss while they're in prison.
Zero for 6.
erm. 6 for 6, given he was quoting 'harmful assumptions'.
Why, to the shadowy figure stood behind you with a beautifully crafted knife to your throat of course.
Bull. The majority of pedophiles transition between fantasies to actual rapes
You, err, have actual evidence of this?
The pattern is well known to law enforcement and mental health professionals.
Law enforcement find that people they arrest for raping small children also have fantasies. Big fucking surprise. Still doesn't follow that A causes B.
The only realistic alternative for allowing pedophiles to be free is to force them to have absolutely no contact with children.
This is quite tricky, given most pedophiles come under the category "Parents".
What if Google includes click-through rates by users in its search rankings?
People in Spain wont be clicking through links to Spanish news sites via news.google.es so Google will algorithmically have no choice but to deprioritise those sites in comparison to e.g. Mexican ones.
Of course, we're both assuming that Google are even allowed to link to Spanish news sites in search results - when I search google it shows me an excerpt of the matching text; if Google have to pay the news sites to include that then it's illegal for them to include those sites if they haven't paid.
Personally I take the view that it's Google's website, Google's index and Google that succeed or fail by whether the results they show meet the needs of their users. So let them make the call and not politicians.
On what grounds?
If I set up a website that offers direct access to every EU government citizen portal but for Spain merely links to cunts.org how am I breaking the law?
Absolutely - but they can replace software engineers with some cheap as shit grad in India who will deliver _something_, so the choice is simple: Deal with the shit and deliver anyway, or watch the job go offshore.
Just because you have the fortune of regulatory protection doesn't diminish the skills and capabilities of people using the title software engineer, and doesn't mean that their job is as easy as yours. Any cunt can build a sewer, there's been a couple of millenia of practice to learn from.
You deal with the fucking impossible demands placed on software engineers and offer liability.
Built any bridges recently for which the budget was cut halfway, you were forced to use chocolate fudge instead of cement, the location was switched every two weeks and the timescales halved, and delivered a working bridge nonetheless?
No? Fuck off back to your pitiful superiority complex then you egotistical shit.
Don't forget to factor in the intimidating complication that any act of self defence will be used as evidence that the crimes against you were justified, even though they caused the need for self defence.
You appear to be trying to legitimise rape.
Learn to work as part of a team. Go on. You can do it.
Fucking creative artists work in open plan offices.
Scientists work in open plan labs.
You are not a precious snowflake. Learn to fucking talk.
Permadeath? Did you play fucking pacman? Did you play Centipede? Did you play Frogger? Did you play any of the 48000 games developed between them and Rogue?
Permadeath is an attribute of Rogue and roguelike games but it sure as fuck isn't a class defining feature.
I'm even stricter on the definition.
Permadeath is a standard feature of the games of my childhood. Randomisation is done distinctively in roguelikes but a true roguelike combines that randomisation with some common basics and simple game mechanics to deliver a rich and varied top-down RPG.
My ISP host their recommended speedtest service.
What impresses me is that a several gigabyte game download on Steam matches the download rates reported by the speedtest service.
It's still more consistently quicker during off-peak hours, but the speedtest isn't rigged.
Clicking ads you're not visiting is fraud. Really.
Sorry but following a HTTP link that's been presented to your browser is not fraud.
It may fall under various anti-denial of service or computer misuse laws, but I can't see how it's fraudulent. You were offered the chance to call a URL, you called it.
The fact that you chose not to render the response to your call on your screen is your choice. If the providers of the URL want to assume that you did then that's their own stupidity.
I still find medium format film to give me the best quality. I then scan my negatives, correct them in Photoshop, and make archival pigment prints
So your highest quality is to archive using an analogue to digital conversion followed by a digital to analogue conversion?
Just fucking buy a medium format digital camera already and store the RAW files.
Large format film has a beauty of its own and there's nothing wrong with sticking with medium format (or any other format) film if that's what you want, but please, don't pretend it's for quality.
BlackPignouf, you're a fair-trade pussy.
But I'm with you on not wanting to support the sex trade, as too many participants would prefer other means of earning a living.
Surely a drug dealer has a good grasp of running a business - supply chain logistics, negotiation, customer service, building demand for product, basic book keeping..
Lots of useful skills there.