The last known use of decimation is during WWI in Italy: on 26 May 1916. This involved the execution of one in ten soldiers of a 120 strong company of the 141st Catanzaro Infantry Brigade. Says Wikipedia. Which is exactly the opposite ratio used in Roman army.
It also says that the actual punishment was not used frequently and in Roman Empire hardly. Learned something new today. Useless but new (to me) and interesting. Modern times appear to be more barbaric than old times - who would have thought.
They will not notice it if they have not experienced anything else in their whole conscious life. I see it with my fellow Germans that live in the West and of whom none saw communism in action. They do not even see a point of protecting privacy after all if you did not do anything wrong you do not have to be afraid I was told. I was also asked if there i anything that I wold be afraid, These are the same people who just cannot believe that anybody in local media or politics can lie to them.
Hey they are even majority here! People that complain are dangerous as we know. Paranoid people are too to be suspected of wrongdoing. Interesting world - only exceptional cases will doubt and object. They are then easy to handle. The only difference between now and the older times is that there is no hardly a place that is not a hellhole where one can find a refuge.
Not sure if I got that right - 25% called expenses in your calculation is actually Uber fee right? So the actual expenses like fuel and car wear and tear are not calculated in.
Nice try tho.
The other thing is that religion indeed has an impact on people's behaviour - there are some studies on so called primitive societies which show that crime rate is lower when a global religion is present in a tribe. There are other studies showing that the life expectancy of gated communities in US is longer for ones that have some sort of religious passages in their statues.
Besides, what difference does that make to you why people do not do things you dislike like raping and killing? It is rather arrogant of you to claim one reason is better than others and you have been lucky you did not encounter anybody schooled and/or just intelligent enough to give you a proper answer. Maybe they were anyway and just did not want to embarrass you? So this is one thing.
There is a reason why people have first got religion and then went on to the rule of law. The personal morality rules as devised by you may be good or bad for you but being personal means they have no bearing on others - everybody having their own means there is constant strife. Religion helped there, it ensured that majority followed these statues. We found out that rule of law with the whole justice system are better but for this you need quite sophisticated state institutions.
One more thing - if you think something is inherently wrong then you are in realm of religion - the world without us does not know good or bad - we have introduced these terms. Some argue that they are just a result of a survival game - societies that developed rule of law at the end were better at surviving. There is of course a good argument for removing religion from main source of justice in a society - too strict application of its rules that come from times past long ago, results in retardation as we can see in almost any society that is predominantly Muslim for instance.
Let us see. There are governments that wholeheartedly cooperate with US on 'security' i.e. war on drugs and war on terrorism and other such - UK for instance. French cooperate because they have a good reason, Swedish cooperate because their ruling class is inbred so much that that affects their brains, the southern flank is corrupt and thus cheap to buy and the eastern flank are so scared of Ruskis (not sure if the Ukraine affair was done on this purpose or just happened this way but either way - well done!) that they do what they are told even if they disagree. Who is left - Germans? They have the Emperor in Berlin who after the wiretapping of her phone came to the public, decided to do nothing, she also refused to reveal the trigger lists because NSA did not let her. Hmmm - how big chances of that do you think there are there? 1%? Besides after the same Merkel invited millions of people to swim and walk to Germany there is an urgent need to eavesdrop everybody now. There are simply too many good reasons why European elites will cooperate. The matters are too complex and if my educated neighbours say to such arguments that they obey the law and have thus nothing to fear I'd say chances of success are null. Admittedly if against all the odds such law would have been passed then indeed the big IT gorillas would try to repeal the laws but quite frankly you do not believe this happens, ever. I do not either.
This shows how fucked up our present Western system is. If you do something that is not harming anybody else but you, then there is no reason to prosecute. Max what can be done is a friendly advice.
Filling up the prisons is done in the name of democracy so I do not see why you object, citizen. Come to think of it, you may have just revoked your citizenship rights. It can be that summary execution of rebellious scum like this was not such a bad idea after all. Body dumps could be useful too in such case.
They could also simplify the whole process and just meta-randomly generate the data without all the fuss of parsing anything. Seems like win-win especially if one can get the subjects of this process to pay a fee influencing the randomness of the data processing.
That something is technically possible does not mean it has to happen or that it will be made legal to happen. There are many techniques to murder people and efficiently dispose of their bodies - yet that is illegal and does not happens much. There are things of course that have been made illegal and they happen on a mass scale anyway (pot smoking etc). Stopping this may be against our nature but this is juts legal and business activity - it can be moderated into something civilized and half way useful without harming too much of our dignity (or what is left of it).
admittedly 2. and 3. is valid for current car 'partners' of car makers. Not sure what google will do but the current level of cars SW quality is dismal and is accepted probably only because nobody looks. But hey there are some airplanes that fell from the sky after sw upgrade so this is not new.
I think that this VR thing will be bringing us the desired form of erotic pleasure without nasty health, financial or legal consequences sooner than the said dolls ever will.
7.2b human apes and all barred the demented or still not developed ones are believing something that being religion or some other shit like computer simulation - these all ideas have one thing in common and that is they are not verifiable which means they amount to mental masturbation. Looking at the bright side some of those are less lethal than others so we have a chance to develop this simulation Eons is blathering about. Still chance that something real bad happens before are I think bigger - it does not have to be big rock from the skies, if technology is developing this fast we will soon have one that allows to wipe out majority or all by accident or malfeasance of some moron.
That we are developing games so fast as to be able to produce realistic simulation of reality for all is one big assumption but I take that may even be. This however does not have bearing on whether we live in a simulation or not. Mr Musk is just fallacing around.
Probably true and when one thinks that coding an app and an embedded application with high availability and robustness requirements is not exactly the same even if both were to be written in some version of java, then there one may realize that there is no chance in the world you can make a coder that can do all this within the given limitations. Hence this must be understood as just giving an idea, getting to know a bit and move along or for some dig into it. What the world urgently needs is not a wave of 'coders' but a systematic spread of analytical skills and ability to argue and recognize fallacy. This is aiming too high already I guess but what about trying to solve world's problems and try to see that democratic systems get less efficient with size. But that is OT here.
You seem to be at anger. Accept it - it is lost. You accept it the pain will cease. Maybe even this will be a (security) robot that will hand over a pill to you to achieve the level 5.
why would that be so - I do not think being this fat is health or sexy but I a sure as hell there are people that do. There are also people that like to be disgusted and there are many things that I consider normal and they think is disgusting and thus exciting too. Humans - they are all weird.
Forcing people to do something looks illegal to me yet I do not see any statement about the criminals doing that being charged. Maybe they will be, maybe not. I have my doubts.
Yes I know. What I wanted to say is that legalizing it does not remove neither pimps nor the trafficking problem.
I think it is a valid argument that legalizing it would help sex workers. But celebrating legalization because now all problems are 'solved' is rather inappropriate.
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The last known use of decimation is during WWI in Italy: on 26 May 1916. This involved the execution of one in ten soldiers of a 120 strong company of the 141st Catanzaro Infantry Brigade. Says Wikipedia. Which is exactly the opposite ratio used in Roman army. It also says that the actual punishment was not used frequently and in Roman Empire hardly.
Learned something new today. Useless but new (to me) and interesting. Modern times appear to be more barbaric than old times - who would have thought.
only if you pay a fee...
They will not notice it if they have not experienced anything else in their whole conscious life. I see it with my fellow Germans that live in the West and of whom none saw communism in action. They do not even see a point of protecting privacy after all if you did not do anything wrong you do not have to be afraid I was told. I was also asked if there i anything that I wold be afraid, These are the same people who just cannot believe that anybody in local media or politics can lie to them. Hey they are even majority here! People that complain are dangerous as we know. Paranoid people are too to be suspected of wrongdoing. Interesting world - only exceptional cases will doubt and object. They are then easy to handle. The only difference between now and the older times is that there is no hardly a place that is not a hellhole where one can find a refuge.
I suppose if you have to work for Uber than you are just a temporarily embarrassed capitalist waiting to go at it again.
Not sure if I got that right - 25% called expenses in your calculation is actually Uber fee right? So the actual expenses like fuel and car wear and tear are not calculated in.
Nice try tho.
but uber, new economy, sharing etc - and besides it is still better than nail polishing business.
Or uranium ore mine in some free market country.
The other thing is that religion indeed has an impact on people's behaviour - there are some studies on so called primitive societies which show that crime rate is lower when a global religion is present in a tribe. There are other studies showing that the life expectancy of gated communities in US is longer for ones that have some sort of religious passages in their statues.
Besides, what difference does that make to you why people do not do things you dislike like raping and killing? It is rather arrogant of you to claim one reason is better than others and you have been lucky you did not encounter anybody schooled and/or just intelligent enough to give you a proper answer. Maybe they were anyway and just did not want to embarrass you? So this is one thing.
There is a reason why people have first got religion and then went on to the rule of law. The personal morality rules as devised by you may be good or bad for you but being personal means they have no bearing on others - everybody having their own means there is constant strife. Religion helped there, it ensured that majority followed these statues. We found out that rule of law with the whole justice system are better but for this you need quite sophisticated state institutions.
One more thing - if you think something is inherently wrong then you are in realm of religion - the world without us does not know good or bad - we have introduced these terms. Some argue that they are just a result of a survival game - societies that developed rule of law at the end were better at surviving. There is of course a good argument for removing religion from main source of justice in a society - too strict application of its rules that come from times past long ago, results in retardation as we can see in almost any society that is predominantly Muslim for instance.
Let us see. There are governments that wholeheartedly cooperate with US on 'security' i.e. war on drugs and war on terrorism and other such - UK for instance. French cooperate because they have a good reason, Swedish cooperate because their ruling class is inbred so much that that affects their brains, the southern flank is corrupt and thus cheap to buy and the eastern flank are so scared of Ruskis (not sure if the Ukraine affair was done on this purpose or just happened this way but either way - well done!) that they do what they are told even if they disagree. Who is left - Germans? They have the Emperor in Berlin who after the wiretapping of her phone came to the public, decided to do nothing, she also refused to reveal the trigger lists because NSA did not let her. Hmmm - how big chances of that do you think there are there? 1%? Besides after the same Merkel invited millions of people to swim and walk to Germany there is an urgent need to eavesdrop everybody now. There are simply too many good reasons why European elites will cooperate. The matters are too complex and if my educated neighbours say to such arguments that they obey the law and have thus nothing to fear I'd say chances of success are null. Admittedly if against all the odds such law would have been passed then indeed the big IT gorillas would try to repeal the laws but quite frankly you do not believe this happens, ever. I do not either.
This is just about the only thing that can help - big butt.
This shows how fucked up our present Western system is. If you do something that is not harming anybody else but you, then there is no reason to prosecute. Max what can be done is a friendly advice.
Filling up the prisons is done in the name of democracy so I do not see why you object, citizen. Come to think of it, you may have just revoked your citizenship rights. It can be that summary execution of rebellious scum like this was not such a bad idea after all.
Body dumps could be useful too in such case.
So what you say is that they want to have more easy arrests? Seems plausible to me.
They could also simplify the whole process and just meta-randomly generate the data without all the fuss of parsing anything. Seems like win-win especially if one can get the subjects of this process to pay a fee influencing the randomness of the data processing.
That something is technically possible does not mean it has to happen or that it will be made legal to happen. There are many techniques to murder people and efficiently dispose of their bodies - yet that is illegal and does not happens much. There are things of course that have been made illegal and they happen on a mass scale anyway (pot smoking etc). Stopping this may be against our nature but this is juts legal and business activity - it can be moderated into something civilized and half way useful without harming too much of our dignity (or what is left of it).
admittedly 2. and 3. is valid for current car 'partners' of car makers. Not sure what google will do but the current level of cars SW quality is dismal and is accepted probably only because nobody looks. But hey there are some airplanes that fell from the sky after sw upgrade so this is not new.
What happened to the elephants? and the tits on which the elephants stood?
I think that this VR thing will be bringing us the desired form of erotic pleasure without nasty health, financial or legal consequences sooner than the said dolls ever will.
7.2b human apes and all barred the demented or still not developed ones are believing something that being religion or some other shit like computer simulation - these all ideas have one thing in common and that is they are not verifiable which means they amount to mental masturbation. Looking at the bright side some of those are less lethal than others so we have a chance to develop this simulation Eons is blathering about. Still chance that something real bad happens before are I think bigger - it does not have to be big rock from the skies, if technology is developing this fast we will soon have one that allows to wipe out majority or all by accident or malfeasance of some moron.
That we are developing games so fast as to be able to produce realistic simulation of reality for all is one big assumption but I take that may even be. This however does not have bearing on whether we live in a simulation or not. Mr Musk is just fallacing around.
Just out o curiosity - why boosting general aviation is a benefit? I am not sure I see much myself.
Zes it is OK to hate nayis (that is intended spelling - guess why).
Probably true and when one thinks that coding an app and an embedded application with high availability and robustness requirements is not exactly the same even if both were to be written in some version of java, then there one may realize that there is no chance in the world you can make a coder that can do all this within the given limitations. Hence this must be understood as just giving an idea, getting to know a bit and move along or for some dig into it.
What the world urgently needs is not a wave of 'coders' but a systematic spread of analytical skills and ability to argue and recognize fallacy. This is aiming too high already I guess but what about trying to solve world's problems and try to see that democratic systems get less efficient with size. But that is OT here.
There are 5 levels of grief:
You seem to be at anger. Accept it - it is lost. You accept it the pain will cease. Maybe even this will be a (security) robot that will hand over a pill to you to achieve the level 5.
why would that be so - I do not think being this fat is health or sexy but I a sure as hell there are people that do. There are also people that like to be disgusted and there are many things that I consider normal and they think is disgusting and thus exciting too. Humans - they are all weird.
Forcing people to do something looks illegal to me yet I do not see any statement about the criminals doing that being charged. Maybe they will be, maybe not. I have my doubts.
Yes I know. What I wanted to say is that legalizing it does not remove neither pimps nor the trafficking problem.
I think it is a valid argument that legalizing it would help sex workers. But celebrating legalization because now all problems are 'solved' is rather inappropriate.