*sigh* I'm aware that there are two separate issues theres.
First, I were to be raped... in order to protect "the people"* I'm forcefully married to him, and him to me.
Second, since he used a condom during the rape, that means that he is guilty of a crime, and is either punished, or put in jail for it.
They wouldn't have really cared that the woman was now married to a convict.. I mean, it's his property, and he's a doofus for having done something to acquire the property that ended up being illegal.
* Note that "the people" here, means "the patriarchal system." If a woman is raped, it's like dropping a glass at a department store, "Hey! You broke it, you buy it!" In the Old Testament, the law was to ensure that a father got a dowry for his daughter, who was now undesirable to anyone else. If she was married, then crap, if she has a kid, whose is it? No way to tell, and so a man might be raising a kid that isn't his... best to just kill her, and then you don't have to deal with potentially bastard children. Modern rape is a violent crime assaulting another recognized person... in old times, it was a non-violent crime of property damage.
You're a sysadmin, you're expected to be browsing/. regularly. lol. If someone came up to you and said, "Hey, did you see XY on slashdot", as a fundamental requirement of being a sysadmin, you have to be able to answer with a confident and firm "yes".
I know what you mean. When I was young, I was an atheist, but then in High School, and into College, I was really having a rough time with depression, and it helped me out a lot to believe as a Christian believes. Unfortunately, it made me rabid, and I ended up biting others and myself far too often. Then, slowly as my depression has been less and less of an issue, it's like "ok, I'm comfortable now, and I don't need the 'church' to support my emotional affect." So, it's back to atheism... is just makes more sense, and doesn't "multiply entities unnecessarily"... we can explain the universe so far without invoking a god, so why invoke one just to invoke one?
Plus, I always love how Christians are so confident, and say they have all these beliefs, and "if you look within yourself, and pray, you'll get an answer, and I did." Yeah, no... that's called "you'll get a reaffirming push in the direction that your conscious mind already wanted to go." "I got called to be a priest." No, you like the idea of being a priest, you wondered if you should be one, and after much time, your subconscious mind told your conscious mind that it's constantly been thinking about it, so go do it, and stop bothering yourself with unnecessary thought and debate.
It may seem callous, but people with such a distorted personality are living on borrowed time, no one can predict which act will cause their death. Of course, it's wrong to make fun of a neurotic teen or giving drinks to an alcoholic, but I don't think these should be classified as homicidal acts, because death couldn't be predicted, it wasn't even the most likely probability, it just happened.
Ah, but this leads to a situation, where, say an assailant attacks a person, but doesn't know that person has extremely weak bones. As a result of the conflict, the person falls down and breaks numerous bones, leading to their death.
The person should be responsible for those consequences, even if they were more severe than they intended.
The person buying drinks for the drunk was not committing something that made them liable for his death. Buying another person a drink is perfectly legal, and typical. That the person's death resulted from it is an "oops".
However, if someone is already committing a crime (like say, harassment) then they are liable for all consequences of their action, no matter how unexpected.
No. She created a fake user, then harassed someone with that fake account, and as a result, that harassed someone killed themselves.
The the harassment was illegal, then she's culpable for the death of the child. Period. The accused should not be able to use the vulnerability of a victim to defend themselves. "If it were anyone else, they wouldn't have killed themselves." Irrelevant. The accused must face the damage and harm they do even if it ends up being far more than they intended to do.
I used ML for a while at school, which is a lot like Haskell (functional programming) and I loved it. Actually, my first naive way of sorting data with ML was a very efficient merge-sort. It's just the way my brain works, I suppose.
lol, well, I don't usually just blog or journal about everyday things... those are typically "meh", usually when I decide to do a journal or a blog, I'm driven to consider something on "paper" from an idea that I heard. So, I usually end up ranting on about something random, obscure and crazy.
I agree with you though... the whole idea that holding your breath, or taking drugs brings you to a higher plane? No, it brings you to a different consciousness, and altered state. It's no better or worse than the other one. However, by comparing altered states with ones natural state, one can oddly experiment upon their own consciousness, and break partly free of the veil of perception... because you now have two (or more) perceptions to look at something, not just one.
Not that I expect most people to use drugs in order to philosophically study consciousness... most people just do it because it feels good. (Nothing wrong with that...)
Unfortunately, it usually takes at least one instance of someone committing a particular type of crime before a law can be crafted against it. Perhaps we should be grateful that most of the population is not horrible enough to think up these crimes in advance.
On a funnier note, there is a law in Alaska prohibiting people from dropping moose out of planes. Someone had to have done that at least once.
I thought the plural of "moose" was "meese"... silly me.
As someone pointed out above, "Eggshell Skull" holds that you're responsible for all consequences of an illegal act.
Harassment being illegal in the first place, (or at least a liable offense in a civil suit) regardless of anything the girl did, she committed suicide as a result of that harassment. So, she's liable for the death of that child.
As one would imagine, I should have a boyfriend already, and I did... then he dumped me, and I had another guy for a while on a rebound, but that's over. So, no, right now, I'm oddly single.:) So, now that you know that, you can rest easy that my pining for you is totally permissible!;)
>_ Yet another thing where someone did something heinous, and can't be charged for it, because there was no law against it.
As sick as what she did, I don't see how faking an identity in order to harass someone until the point that they kill themselves would not be covered under like, involuntary manslaughter at the very least.
At the very least, I'm sure there are laws protecting people against other people sending harassing and intimidating emails. I know it happened at college (almost every other year, there was a story about someone who faked an email address in order to harass someone.)
Unfortunately, if nothing else sticks, then TOO BAD. The protection of "everyone is equal in the eyes of the law" is that laws shouldn't be jury-rigged to punish someone for something that was otherwise something not illegal.
I recall there was a problem in Enumclaw with a man who would film himself having intercourse with a horse, and eventually ended up puncturing his intestines and died from it. As a result, prosecutors tried to get his friend who was filming for something, anything, but there were no real laws against bestiality at the time. So, they had to go with a misdemeanor or something of "animal abuse". Either way, they changed the law to ensure that someone couldn't do it again, or anymore.
So, the state they're in needs to pass a new law, saying that creating a false identity for the express purpose of harassing someone else is illegal. BOOM, problem solved for the future. Does it suck that she gets off? Yeah, it does, but that's how law is supposed to work.
But then, the only way we got Capone in jail was with tax-evasion... so...
Kinoki is a wonderful scam, I agree. (From Wikipedia it looks like it's a white powder that turns brown and icky when wet. ZOMG, I know step 2!. Step 1. Advertise product, Step 2. Chemistry, Step 3. PROFIT!)
Anyways, the one that I want to talk about is the "all natural" homeopathic pain reliever for pets. Of course it's "all natural", by US law, anything homeopathic can't contain anything but water. (seriously! Ok, so milk is another solute.) So, you're paying who-knows how much, for a spray bottle of water, that will make you think that your dog is getting less joint pain. AMAZING! Don't wait, act now, and we'll send you a SECOND bottle for FREE! That's a total value of $80 for just $19.99!
Just about every cosmetic or beauty product marketed to women uses techno-babble and pseudoscience. It's kind of frustrating being a girl, because I can't find any products that do what I want them to do (like, say, clean my face) without there being some special additive that they're all hyping up.
I came across this cart at the mall one day, that had "dead sea salt extracts" in their product. The facial cleanser worked really well, and I wasn't sure what the full ingredient list was or how to make it, so I went ahead and bought it. (Sometimes convenience is worth $20.) However, the hand lotion she first showed me was, I kid you not, "dead sea salt and oil"... I was like, I can buy that at the local grocery store for the same price, but have 6 gallons of it... I know there's nothing "special" about the dead sea salt as opposed to other salt.
Anyways, girls get the brunt of every scammer in the world. It's annoying and it sucks.
I used beta Vista x64... the lovely operating system used up about 1.2GiB of RAM at idle... no, not system cache. Since I only had 1GiB of RAM, even when I started notepad.exe the system choked and sputtered from massive page thrashing. The product was so unusable that I was basically not working for a whole week while I was waiting for the extra RAM to arrive. Once the RAM arrived, Vista x64 actually ran fairly reasonably... until about a month later or so, and started sucking so bad that I simply went back to Server 2003 SP2 (which is a far better product IMHO).
I gave Vista quite the fair shake, and the initial release sucked; period. When SP1 started to be offered, I actually got a hold of that and put it on my 32-bit machine at work, and it actually ran fairly well, and I told people that honestly, I was happy that Vista stopped sucking so back with SP1, and if they didn't have Vista yet, then to wait for SP1 to come out. I tried to use Server 2008 on my Itanium system, however it was such an old system that Server 2008 didn't support it.:( sad panda.
Actually, that's kind of the weird thing about HIV. It infects its host, then the host "wins", and the HIV is almost unnoticeable at that point. However, enough T-cells have the odd DNA code that HIV inserted into it, and so far, I've only heard it as "mysteriously" the T-cell levels drop, even though the virus is in remission. The virus eventually takes over, because the T-cells aren't in high enough numbers to stop it anymore, but the T-cell levels drop WHILE they're winning against HIV.
I can only think that its high mutation rate is related, in that it infects a human, infects their t-cells, the human host beats off that virus, but there are a number of T-cells that are infected with a piece of inactive virus code that then sabotages them.
Yes, at the quantum scale we can consider something to be flat if the scale is sufficiently small enough to be in the planck scale. At that point, even light can't interact with it any differently than were it flat.
However, the situation doesn't lead to any problems. As the subjunctive is indicating a contrary-to-fact statement, that just happens to be modified such that "were it true, it were definitely true".
The statement still sounds odd to me, however is still grammatical. Your ideolect may disagree. However I was specifically talking about an edge-case condition anyways.
Positronium acts chemically exactly like Hydrogen, because chemistry is based on the electron shell, not the actual atom inside (the different elements are all distinguished by how many electrons they have in orbit, as well how much or little they want to keep electrons.)
The different elements are all distinguished by the number of PROTONS in the nucleus of an atom. This is one of the most basic concepts in chemistry, and is the basis for the periodic table.
Additionally, the differences between hydrogen and deuterium (hydrogen with an extra neutron) can have significant effects on their reactivity. For example, if you drank nothing but D2O instead of H2O, you would die because of their differing physical properties.
"Mammals such as rats given heavy water to drink die after a week, at a time when their body water approaches about 50% deuteration."
A 50% body water weight of deuterium is hardly a significant LD50.
The number of PROTONS in a substance most greatly effects the number of ELECTRONS that the substance will have. Chemically, the ELECTRONS are the acting agents... Nuclear physics deals with properties of atoms at the nucleus. Chemistry only deals with the number of electrons (or more rather, the specific attractions of electrons, thus implying a certain charge.)
"The orbit of the two particles and the set of energy levels is similar to that of the hydrogen atom (electron and proton). However, because of the reduced mass, the frequencies associated with the spectral lines are less than half of those of the corresponding hydrogen lines."
and "The ground state of positronium, like that of hydrogen, has two possible configurations depending on the relative orientations of the spins of the electron and the positron."
Slashdot Mirror
I for one welcome our meme-devising robotic overlords.
*sigh* I'm aware that there are two separate issues theres.
First, I were to be raped... in order to protect "the people"* I'm forcefully married to him, and him to me.
Second, since he used a condom during the rape, that means that he is guilty of a crime, and is either punished, or put in jail for it.
They wouldn't have really cared that the woman was now married to a convict.. I mean, it's his property, and he's a doofus for having done something to acquire the property that ended up being illegal.
* Note that "the people" here, means "the patriarchal system." If a woman is raped, it's like dropping a glass at a department store, "Hey! You broke it, you buy it!" In the Old Testament, the law was to ensure that a father got a dowry for his daughter, who was now undesirable to anyone else. If she was married, then crap, if she has a kid, whose is it? No way to tell, and so a man might be raising a kid that isn't his... best to just kill her, and then you don't have to deal with potentially bastard children. Modern rape is a violent crime assaulting another recognized person... in old times, it was a non-violent crime of property damage.
You're a sysadmin, you're expected to be browsing /. regularly. lol. If someone came up to you and said, "Hey, did you see XY on slashdot", as a fundamental requirement of being a sysadmin, you have to be able to answer with a confident and firm "yes".
I know what you mean. When I was young, I was an atheist, but then in High School, and into College, I was really having a rough time with depression, and it helped me out a lot to believe as a Christian believes. Unfortunately, it made me rabid, and I ended up biting others and myself far too often. Then, slowly as my depression has been less and less of an issue, it's like "ok, I'm comfortable now, and I don't need the 'church' to support my emotional affect." So, it's back to atheism... is just makes more sense, and doesn't "multiply entities unnecessarily"... we can explain the universe so far without invoking a god, so why invoke one just to invoke one?
Plus, I always love how Christians are so confident, and say they have all these beliefs, and "if you look within yourself, and pray, you'll get an answer, and I did." Yeah, no... that's called "you'll get a reaffirming push in the direction that your conscious mind already wanted to go." "I got called to be a priest." No, you like the idea of being a priest, you wondered if you should be one, and after much time, your subconscious mind told your conscious mind that it's constantly been thinking about it, so go do it, and stop bothering yourself with unnecessary thought and debate.
It may seem callous, but people with such a distorted personality are living on borrowed time, no one can predict which act will cause their death. Of course, it's wrong to make fun of a neurotic teen or giving drinks to an alcoholic, but I don't think these should be classified as homicidal acts, because death couldn't be predicted, it wasn't even the most likely probability, it just happened.
Ah, but this leads to a situation, where, say an assailant attacks a person, but doesn't know that person has extremely weak bones. As a result of the conflict, the person falls down and breaks numerous bones, leading to their death.
The person should be responsible for those consequences, even if they were more severe than they intended.
The person buying drinks for the drunk was not committing something that made them liable for his death. Buying another person a drink is perfectly legal, and typical. That the person's death resulted from it is an "oops".
However, if someone is already committing a crime (like say, harassment) then they are liable for all consequences of their action, no matter how unexpected.
No. She created a fake user, then harassed someone with that fake account, and as a result, that harassed someone killed themselves.
The the harassment was illegal, then she's culpable for the death of the child. Period. The accused should not be able to use the vulnerability of a victim to defend themselves. "If it were anyone else, they wouldn't have killed themselves." Irrelevant. The accused must face the damage and harm they do even if it ends up being far more than they intended to do.
I used ML for a while at school, which is a lot like Haskell (functional programming) and I loved it. Actually, my first naive way of sorting data with ML was a very efficient merge-sort. It's just the way my brain works, I suppose.
lol, well, I don't usually just blog or journal about everyday things... those are typically "meh", usually when I decide to do a journal or a blog, I'm driven to consider something on "paper" from an idea that I heard. So, I usually end up ranting on about something random, obscure and crazy.
I agree with you though... the whole idea that holding your breath, or taking drugs brings you to a higher plane? No, it brings you to a different consciousness, and altered state. It's no better or worse than the other one. However, by comparing altered states with ones natural state, one can oddly experiment upon their own consciousness, and break partly free of the veil of perception... because you now have two (or more) perceptions to look at something, not just one.
Not that I expect most people to use drugs in order to philosophically study consciousness... most people just do it because it feels good. (Nothing wrong with that...)
Unfortunately, it usually takes at least one instance of someone committing a particular type of crime before a law can be crafted against it. Perhaps we should be grateful that most of the population is not horrible enough to think up these crimes in advance.
On a funnier note, there is a law in Alaska prohibiting people from dropping moose out of planes. Someone had to have done that at least once.
I thought the plural of "moose" was "meese"... silly me.
As someone pointed out above, "Eggshell Skull" holds that you're responsible for all consequences of an illegal act.
Harassment being illegal in the first place, (or at least a liable offense in a civil suit) regardless of anything the girl did, she committed suicide as a result of that harassment. So, she's liable for the death of that child.
a raped woman could be forced to marry their raper (as depicted in the movie "sedotta e abbandonata)"
contraception was strictly forbidden.
Great... so if some guy raped me with a condom, then I'd be forced to marry a convict serving time in prison for wearing a condom during?
"We don't care about the rape, but by God, we won't have him wearing a condom!"
As one would imagine, I should have a boyfriend already, and I did... then he dumped me, and I had another guy for a while on a rebound, but that's over. So, no, right now, I'm oddly single. :) So, now that you know that, you can rest easy that my pining for you is totally permissible! ;)
>_ Yet another thing where someone did something heinous, and can't be charged for it, because there was no law against it.
As sick as what she did, I don't see how faking an identity in order to harass someone until the point that they kill themselves would not be covered under like, involuntary manslaughter at the very least.
At the very least, I'm sure there are laws protecting people against other people sending harassing and intimidating emails. I know it happened at college (almost every other year, there was a story about someone who faked an email address in order to harass someone.)
Unfortunately, if nothing else sticks, then TOO BAD. The protection of "everyone is equal in the eyes of the law" is that laws shouldn't be jury-rigged to punish someone for something that was otherwise something not illegal.
I recall there was a problem in Enumclaw with a man who would film himself having intercourse with a horse, and eventually ended up puncturing his intestines and died from it. As a result, prosecutors tried to get his friend who was filming for something, anything, but there were no real laws against bestiality at the time. So, they had to go with a misdemeanor or something of "animal abuse". Either way, they changed the law to ensure that someone couldn't do it again, or anymore.
So, the state they're in needs to pass a new law, saying that creating a false identity for the express purpose of harassing someone else is illegal. BOOM, problem solved for the future. Does it suck that she gets off? Yeah, it does, but that's how law is supposed to work.
But then, the only way we got Capone in jail was with tax-evasion... so...
Kinoki is a wonderful scam, I agree. (From Wikipedia it looks like it's a white powder that turns brown and icky when wet. ZOMG, I know step 2!. Step 1. Advertise product, Step 2. Chemistry, Step 3. PROFIT!)
Anyways, the one that I want to talk about is the "all natural" homeopathic pain reliever for pets. Of course it's "all natural", by US law, anything homeopathic can't contain anything but water. (seriously! Ok, so milk is another solute.) So, you're paying who-knows how much, for a spray bottle of water, that will make you think that your dog is getting less joint pain. AMAZING! Don't wait, act now, and we'll send you a SECOND bottle for FREE! That's a total value of $80 for just $19.99!
Just about every cosmetic or beauty product marketed to women uses techno-babble and pseudoscience. It's kind of frustrating being a girl, because I can't find any products that do what I want them to do (like, say, clean my face) without there being some special additive that they're all hyping up.
I came across this cart at the mall one day, that had "dead sea salt extracts" in their product. The facial cleanser worked really well, and I wasn't sure what the full ingredient list was or how to make it, so I went ahead and bought it. (Sometimes convenience is worth $20.) However, the hand lotion she first showed me was, I kid you not, "dead sea salt and oil"... I was like, I can buy that at the local grocery store for the same price, but have 6 gallons of it... I know there's nothing "special" about the dead sea salt as opposed to other salt.
Anyways, girls get the brunt of every scammer in the world. It's annoying and it sucks.
I used beta Vista x64... the lovely operating system used up about 1.2GiB of RAM at idle... no, not system cache. Since I only had 1GiB of RAM, even when I started notepad.exe the system choked and sputtered from massive page thrashing. The product was so unusable that I was basically not working for a whole week while I was waiting for the extra RAM to arrive. Once the RAM arrived, Vista x64 actually ran fairly reasonably... until about a month later or so, and started sucking so bad that I simply went back to Server 2003 SP2 (which is a far better product IMHO).
I gave Vista quite the fair shake, and the initial release sucked; period. When SP1 started to be offered, I actually got a hold of that and put it on my 32-bit machine at work, and it actually ran fairly well, and I told people that honestly, I was happy that Vista stopped sucking so back with SP1, and if they didn't have Vista yet, then to wait for SP1 to come out. I tried to use Server 2008 on my Itanium system, however it was such an old system that Server 2008 didn't support it. :( sad panda.
Actually, that's kind of the weird thing about HIV. It infects its host, then the host "wins", and the HIV is almost unnoticeable at that point. However, enough T-cells have the odd DNA code that HIV inserted into it, and so far, I've only heard it as "mysteriously" the T-cell levels drop, even though the virus is in remission. The virus eventually takes over, because the T-cells aren't in high enough numbers to stop it anymore, but the T-cell levels drop WHILE they're winning against HIV.
I can only think that its high mutation rate is related, in that it infects a human, infects their t-cells, the human host beats off that virus, but there are a number of T-cells that are infected with a piece of inactive virus code that then sabotages them.
Yes, at the quantum scale we can consider something to be flat if the scale is sufficiently small enough to be in the planck scale. At that point, even light can't interact with it any differently than were it flat.
I agree. This "thing" definitely is less of a "real atom" than positronium. At least with positronium, there's like... SOMETHING there.
No, I'm a she... so it is "what SHE said".
"If I definitely were a bird"...
However, the situation doesn't lead to any problems. As the subjunctive is indicating a contrary-to-fact statement, that just happens to be modified such that "were it true, it were definitely true".
The statement still sounds odd to me, however is still grammatical. Your ideolect may disagree. However I was specifically talking about an edge-case condition anyways.
hehe :) cute :)
Still... the question is, where is this homeopath making positronium?
I can't decide whether you're serious or not.
Yes.
hell, it won't even MAKE it to the proving phase where you bang it...
That's what SHE said!
Your mom, I mean. But she was wrong. Zing!
Yes.... yes, it is what I said.
Positronium acts chemically exactly like Hydrogen, because chemistry is based on the electron shell, not the actual atom inside (the different elements are all distinguished by how many electrons they have in orbit, as well how much or little they want to keep electrons.)
The different elements are all distinguished by the number of PROTONS in the nucleus of an atom. This is one of the most basic concepts in chemistry, and is the basis for the periodic table.
Additionally, the differences between hydrogen and deuterium (hydrogen with an extra neutron) can have significant effects on their reactivity. For example, if you drank nothing but D2O instead of H2O, you would die because of their differing physical properties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water
"Mammals such as rats given heavy water to drink die after a week, at a time when their body water approaches about 50% deuteration."
A 50% body water weight of deuterium is hardly a significant LD50.
The number of PROTONS in a substance most greatly effects the number of ELECTRONS that the substance will have. Chemically, the ELECTRONS are the acting agents... Nuclear physics deals with properties of atoms at the nucleus. Chemistry only deals with the number of electrons (or more rather, the specific attractions of electrons, thus implying a certain charge.)
Since you pointed me to Wikipedia, I'll point you to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positronium
"The orbit of the two particles and the set of energy levels is similar to that of the hydrogen atom (electron and proton). However, because of the reduced mass, the frequencies associated with the spectral lines are less than half of those of the corresponding hydrogen lines."
and "The ground state of positronium, like that of hydrogen, has two possible configurations depending on the relative orientations of the spins of the electron and the positron."
Retroviruses do this DNA-mutation on the fly all the time.
That's why they end up as part of our lineage's DNA.
No, not zombies, corpses.
So... pre-zombies?