Well actually its because such benefits are assumed rather than always in existance. The real problem comes when this is assumed of policies, like the drug laws, which don't even achieve a small portion of their goals (unless you assume those goals are to create middle class jobs in prison and probation systems, in which case, it succeeds like gangbusters)
In fact, its quite possible for these programs to not have any benefits at all.
However a murderer has actually harmed someone in a way that denies him his rights. Hardly a realistic comparison. I would compare it more, to having sex with a man behind closed doors. Seems more appropriate of a comparison to me given the lack of a victim in the simple ownership or posession of an object or substance.
In fact, I would even say, his right to own or put what he wants in his body is likely on the level of his religion.
Actually Crock is making his point for him. Do you know what the really fucking saddest thing about Crock is? Seriously.... do you know?
"Crock" would be safer than most other opiates if it was pharmaceutical grade, because it causes LESS REPIRATORY DISTRESS.
Yes, "Crock" the nasty limb destroying hell on earth drug is itself.... the perfect example of why making drugs illegal doesn't work and causes more problems. Add to this that drug prohibition has failed to change addiction rates and you have....the same rate....consuming less safe drugs..... gee....sounds like a recipe for safety to me!
Yet as a member of the public, I have no interest in this. Why does my opinion that the rights of others matter more than your claim of a so-called "public interest".
I say the public has a public interest in regulating the government and making it justify its interests whenever and wherever possible and restricting those interests as strictly as possible.
Oh I disagree that it has nothing to do with MMOs, its really very similar. Its all about the basic core of game design and, the limitations of a game designed around a single game mechanic with respect to encouraging more and diverse groups of people to play.
Whether its bar trivia or an MMO your bottom line is you need repeat business. It really is, fundamentally about making a more diverse product.
Say what you want about MMOs dying or WOW, it, and others like it (I wont get into the flame war about why EVE was and is clearly superior in every way) they have been in continuous operation for over a decade now, I think they know a thing or two about designing a game to keep an active fanbase going.
I don't think MMOs are going anywhere anytime soon. Hell, I just signed on to eve for the first time in a few years and joined a corp in a big alliance to see what thats about (I was in a very small one before), and it was clear the corp spanned all age ranges, so dying? Maybe not as popular in the news but, theres still 15-30k people on at any given time....even if you figure half of them are the alts of people who take it way to seriously, thats still a small town of people playing at any given time.
I think the reports of their death have been greatly exaggerated, they are just not the hot new thing anymore.
Mostly keys. I got my current keychain in um....1992ish? It was a bit of PCB board (probably factory reject) that was recycled into a keychain and sold at the mall for a buck or two. The PCB is pretty worn now, but still there. Other than keys, I added an LED flashlight in 2002ish, it still works on the original battery (not as bright anymore). Oh and a couple of loyalty cards from the grocery store, at least one of which I just found on the ground and started using because it amused me more than giving them my name and address.
Thats it really... one ring, one small decoration, a light, and keys.
I have a couple auxiliiary keychains (backups and seldom used or keys to unknown locks) they are not much different, one has an mini eifel tower on it, that I got at the real one's gift shop.
This is why I suggest a new system....do away with professional prosecution. Let the DA do what prep work he needs to file charges, then, go to the SAME pool that public defenders are chosen from, and choose a prosecutor at random for the case.
Clearly you then give an appointed prosecutor the ability to file charges that result from facts which came to light from his case, including against the DA if need be.
I was more thinking of other boards than the ones on space equipment, but even then, for each specific board out there, you know there was at least one or more prototypes and possibly a few rejects that got tossed in a scrap heap.
But aside from emotionally loaded, all of them imply something that doesn't make sense... the idea that Voyager has some intention or plan of its own. It is equipment we put out there. Aside from the emptional, there is little difference between collecting it and reeling in a tape measure, with the exception that you will actually reuse a tape measure and the cost of reeling it in is far less than the cost of not doing so in most situations.
Except these are law enforcement professionals. They really should know when they are violating someones rights, and really, should take more than ample precautions to make sure they don't, and frankly, I see little evidence that they are so incentivized.
Also, the theoretical "punishment" of having evidence excluded has proven to be nowhere near enough deterrent. They put other people's skin in the game, their own deserves to be in as much jeapordy. Honestly, I think we should do away with pleas entirely and require a jury for any criminal punishment at all....and require criminal punishment for every charge, if not the charged, then the prosecutor.
The current legal theories this system is working under are clearly so flawed as to be laughable and its time to start making fundamental changes to cut back this human meat grinder.
Though the public is made up of individuals and, I have seen many of them change their tune after running into some debate on the matter.
Especially when you point out to them that despite the fact that 50% of people in burn units are there for accidents involved with making meth; then you point out that addiction rates don't change (they fluctuate but trace a pretty horizontal line).... it really does get hard to justify the benefits of drug policy.
When you have a policy that can be directly linked as a major cause of the first wave of the HIV epidemic, that has skyrocketed prison populations, and created and funded violent gangs across the country.... all while....not even achieving its most basic goal.... most people do come around when presented with the onslaught of evidence that the current strategy is bullshit and bad for everyone.....
Everyone except the cartels, the gangs, and the police unions whose membership lives off hem.
> And because it was easiest (via inertia) to keep it in than to cut it out (even as a do-not-populate > instruction to the board house) that little LED stayed in the design, even though in production no one > would ever see it.
And someday down the line, in a situation he never imagined, someone is going to see that LED and be glad it was there. Possibly after its been scrapped, rescued from the scrap heap, and repurposed to replace the fried control in someone's coffee maker....but appreciated none the less.
This. I wish I was looking at it from the outside but this place is getting scary. Police everywhere you look more often than not in unmarked or barely marked cars. Free speech only exists in "zones" whenever the tyrants decide its advantageous for them, they can deny anyone a trial indefinitely just by uttering the word "terrorist".....and thats hardly even scratching the surface.
We just need to realize this.... EVERY illegal search is depravation of rights under color of law. EVERY time evidence is tossed by a court, there should be felony charges filed against someone for having collected it in the first place....no matter what that evidence is, or why they thought it was ok. No Exceptions.
I don't get to claim I thought my actions were legal, why should they? If my ignorance is no excuse, why is the ignorance of a professional an excuse?
Start locking a few of these rogue agents up for a decade or so and see how privacy rights start getting a bit more respect, and the government itself too....because it will be respecting the promises it made to us in order for us to allow it to exist.
which is why liberty matters so much. Because mob rule has always favored tyranny and enforcement of its will on others, in fact, the only liberty that matters is the liberty to do what others do not approve of, nothing else even deserves be called liberty.
Anything can be called "dual use". I don't rightly give a damn what something CAN be used for. Sell them missles for all I care, they have a right to defend themselves, just like we do.
When a crime has no victim, the criminal is the government, no exceptions.
If it was a theft investigation it would be one matter but, export tyranny? Its sad we live in a country where law makers can make and have laws like that enforced without being in jeopardy of never feeling the sun on their face again.
Hoenstly, I feel the same way about it. But if its any consolation, I don't feel I pay taxes so much as they just take them. Hell, their "share" of my money gets allocated before I even get it....I have to ask for a portion of it back every year.
Yet all they ever want to ask me is which face I like, they never once asked me if stomping on liberty was ok, they never once asked me if I wanted to pay for their oil wars or their torture program. I would gladly pay taxes to put every fucking torturer in prison and keep them their till they die of natural causes, but, nobody wants to give me that opportunity.
Yes its true, people are too busy going around pretending to live in a free country when the truth is, anything some luddite in the government can make a flimsy justification is something you have no freedom to do anymore. free.....to do whats approved by our masters.
Step 1: Install linux with its own/boot partition on/dev/hda1 (adjust as needed) and encrypted root disk Step 2: reboot from live CD Step 3: change encryption key to a random string you don't know Step 4: Go to airport, say "sure you can look at my laptop, the encryption key WAS something like..." now say what it WAS before you wiped it, but sound unsure; insist thats what it was last you knew it. (which is true, that was the last passphase for it you know Step 5: Smile, knowing you just trolled people who deserve it.
You will die off anyway, at least maybe you could do it with some dignity. Frankly, the inability to watch junk is no real loss. They should be clamoring to keep people on the teat, because after a few years of not watching that crap, I don't really miss it.
You know I never actually considered before but, you make a great point here. Maybe I have given freedom of companies too much leeway, maybe there should be more regulation on them if this is considered ok.
Exempt means exempt from overtime not "You work 24/7". They have no right to monitor her 24/7, I would never agree to work for such people if they told me up front what they wanted. Such a massive and invasive change is huge, honestly, I do feel like they do owe her something for making such a large and sudden change to her agreed working conditions. She should have been given ample notice that it was a hard requirement and she should have been given time to find other employment.
These people may be within their rights under the law, but they are fucking assholes that I look down on and, should I see the name of their business anywhere, will attempt to avoid spending my money with them or their affiliates.
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Well actually its because such benefits are assumed rather than always in existance. The real problem comes when this is assumed of policies, like the drug laws, which don't even achieve a small portion of their goals (unless you assume those goals are to create middle class jobs in prison and probation systems, in which case, it succeeds like gangbusters)
In fact, its quite possible for these programs to not have any benefits at all.
However a murderer has actually harmed someone in a way that denies him his rights. Hardly a realistic comparison. I would compare it more, to having sex with a man behind closed doors. Seems more appropriate of a comparison to me given the lack of a victim in the simple ownership or posession of an object or substance.
In fact, I would even say, his right to own or put what he wants in his body is likely on the level of his religion.
Actually Crock is making his point for him. Do you know what the really fucking saddest thing about Crock is? Seriously.... do you know?
"Crock" would be safer than most other opiates if it was pharmaceutical grade, because it causes LESS REPIRATORY DISTRESS.
Yes, "Crock" the nasty limb destroying hell on earth drug is itself.... the perfect example of why making drugs illegal doesn't work and causes more problems. Add to this that drug prohibition has failed to change addiction rates and you have....the same rate....consuming less safe drugs..... gee....sounds like a recipe for safety to me!
Yes lets keep creating these situations.
Yet as a member of the public, I have no interest in this. Why does my opinion that the rights of others matter more than your claim of a so-called "public interest".
I say the public has a public interest in regulating the government and making it justify its interests whenever and wherever possible and restricting those interests as strictly as possible.
> But the problem is that picking a good president is like putting a good head on a rotting fish. It's not going to do the job by itself.
This. We would do better to pick every single one of their positions by lot
Oh I disagree that it has nothing to do with MMOs, its really very similar. Its all about the basic core of game design and, the limitations of a game designed around a single game mechanic with respect to encouraging more and diverse groups of people to play.
Whether its bar trivia or an MMO your bottom line is you need repeat business. It really is, fundamentally about making a more diverse product.
Say what you want about MMOs dying or WOW, it, and others like it (I wont get into the flame war about why EVE was and is clearly superior in every way) they have been in continuous operation for over a decade now, I think they know a thing or two about designing a game to keep an active fanbase going.
I don't think MMOs are going anywhere anytime soon. Hell, I just signed on to eve for the first time in a few years and joined a corp in a big alliance to see what thats about (I was in a very small one before), and it was clear the corp spanned all age ranges, so dying? Maybe not as popular in the news but, theres still 15-30k people on at any given time....even if you figure half of them are the alts of people who take it way to seriously, thats still a small town of people playing at any given time.
I think the reports of their death have been greatly exaggerated, they are just not the hot new thing anymore.
Mostly keys. I got my current keychain in um....1992ish? It was a bit of PCB board (probably factory reject) that was recycled into a keychain and sold at the mall for a buck or two. The PCB is pretty worn now, but still there. Other than keys, I added an LED flashlight in 2002ish, it still works on the original battery (not as bright anymore). Oh and a couple of loyalty cards from the grocery store, at least one of which I just found on the ground and started using because it amused me more than giving them my name and address.
Thats it really... one ring, one small decoration, a light, and keys.
I have a couple auxiliiary keychains (backups and seldom used or keys to unknown locks) they are not much different, one has an mini eifel tower on it, that I got at the real one's gift shop.
This is why I suggest a new system....do away with professional prosecution. Let the DA do what prep work he needs to file charges, then, go to the SAME pool that public defenders are chosen from, and choose a prosecutor at random for the case.
Clearly you then give an appointed prosecutor the ability to file charges that result from facts which came to light from his case, including against the DA if need be.
I was more thinking of other boards than the ones on space equipment, but even then, for each specific board out there, you know there was at least one or more prototypes and possibly a few rejects that got tossed in a scrap heap.
But aside from emotionally loaded, all of them imply something that doesn't make sense... the idea that Voyager has some intention or plan of its own. It is equipment we put out there. Aside from the emptional, there is little difference between collecting it and reeling in a tape measure, with the exception that you will actually reuse a tape measure and the cost of reeling it in is far less than the cost of not doing so in most situations.
Except these are law enforcement professionals. They really should know when they are violating someones rights, and really, should take more than ample precautions to make sure they don't, and frankly, I see little evidence that they are so incentivized.
Also, the theoretical "punishment" of having evidence excluded has proven to be nowhere near enough deterrent. They put other people's skin in the game, their own deserves to be in as much jeapordy. Honestly, I think we should do away with pleas entirely and require a jury for any criminal punishment at all....and require criminal punishment for every charge, if not the charged, then the prosecutor.
The current legal theories this system is working under are clearly so flawed as to be laughable and its time to start making fundamental changes to cut back this human meat grinder.
Though the public is made up of individuals and, I have seen many of them change their tune after running into some debate on the matter.
Especially when you point out to them that despite the fact that 50% of people in burn units are there for accidents involved with making meth; then you point out that addiction rates don't change (they fluctuate but trace a pretty horizontal line).... it really does get hard to justify the benefits of drug policy.
When you have a policy that can be directly linked as a major cause of the first wave of the HIV epidemic, that has skyrocketed prison populations, and created and funded violent gangs across the country.... all while....not even achieving its most basic goal.... most people do come around when presented with the onslaught of evidence that the current strategy is bullshit and bad for everyone.....
Everyone except the cartels, the gangs, and the police unions whose membership lives off hem.
> And because it was easiest (via inertia) to keep it in than to cut it out (even as a do-not-populate
> instruction to the board house) that little LED stayed in the design, even though in production no one
> would ever see it.
And someday down the line, in a situation he never imagined, someone is going to see that LED and be glad it was there. Possibly after its been scrapped, rescued from the scrap heap, and repurposed to replace the fried control in someone's coffee maker....but appreciated none the less.
This. I wish I was looking at it from the outside but this place is getting scary. Police everywhere you look more often than not in unmarked or barely marked cars. Free speech only exists in "zones" whenever the tyrants decide its advantageous for them, they can deny anyone a trial indefinitely just by uttering the word "terrorist".....and thats hardly even scratching the surface.
We just need to realize this.... EVERY illegal search is depravation of rights under color of law. EVERY time evidence is tossed by a court, there should be felony charges filed against someone for having collected it in the first place....no matter what that evidence is, or why they thought it was ok. No Exceptions.
I don't get to claim I thought my actions were legal, why should they? If my ignorance is no excuse, why is the ignorance of a professional an excuse?
Start locking a few of these rogue agents up for a decade or so and see how privacy rights start getting a bit more respect, and the government itself too....because it will be respecting the promises it made to us in order for us to allow it to exist.
which is why liberty matters so much. Because mob rule has always favored tyranny and enforcement of its will on others, in fact, the only liberty that matters is the liberty to do what others do not approve of, nothing else even deserves be called liberty.
Anything can be called "dual use". I don't rightly give a damn what something CAN be used for. Sell them missles for all I care, they have a right to defend themselves, just like we do.
When a crime has no victim, the criminal is the government, no exceptions.
If it was a theft investigation it would be one matter but, export tyranny? Its sad we live in a country where law makers can make and have laws like that enforced without being in jeopardy of never feeling the sun on their face again.
At least you know you would be costing them, and thats worth something. Let our domestic enemies waste their resources.
Hoenstly, I feel the same way about it. But if its any consolation, I don't feel I pay taxes so much as they just take them. Hell, their "share" of my money gets allocated before I even get it....I have to ask for a portion of it back every year.
Yet all they ever want to ask me is which face I like, they never once asked me if stomping on liberty was ok, they never once asked me if I wanted to pay for their oil wars or their torture program. I would gladly pay taxes to put every fucking torturer in prison and keep them their till they die of natural causes, but, nobody wants to give me that opportunity.
Yes its true, people are too busy going around pretending to live in a free country when the truth is, anything some luddite in the government can make a flimsy justification is something you have no freedom to do anymore. free.....to do whats approved by our masters.
empty? No fuck that.
Step 1: Install linux with its own /boot partition on /dev/hda1 (adjust as needed) and encrypted root disk
Step 2: reboot from live CD
Step 3: change encryption key to a random string you don't know
Step 4: Go to airport, say "sure you can look at my laptop, the encryption key WAS something like..." now say what it WAS before you wiped it, but sound unsure; insist thats what it was last you knew it. (which is true, that was the last passphase for it you know
Step 5: Smile, knowing you just trolled people who deserve it.
yup, 93% sure you are going to die, whether you think the people who make the rules give a shit about you or not (hint: they don't)
You will die off anyway, at least maybe you could do it with some dignity. Frankly, the inability to watch junk is no real loss. They should be clamoring to keep people on the teat, because after a few years of not watching that crap, I don't really miss it.
Unlike on land where we only have to deal with occasional tree-cum for part of the year.
You know I never actually considered before but, you make a great point here. Maybe I have given freedom of companies too much leeway, maybe there should be more regulation on them if this is considered ok.
Exempt means exempt from overtime not "You work 24/7". They have no right to monitor her 24/7, I would never agree to work for such people if they told me up front what they wanted. Such a massive and invasive change is huge, honestly, I do feel like they do owe her something for making such a large and sudden change to her agreed working conditions. She should have been given ample notice that it was a hard requirement and she should have been given time to find other employment.
These people may be within their rights under the law, but they are fucking assholes that I look down on and, should I see the name of their business anywhere, will attempt to avoid spending my money with them or their affiliates.