The police have weapons to defend the values of society. To enforce the laws. Those things usually don't change very rapidly because of democratic conservatism.
Individuals are given weapons to protect themselves and by all logic since pre-historic age I should get to defend my own, right?
The problem here is that individuals will fluctuate much more in their values than the government.
Your argument that he should be put in jail doesn't work because that doesn't revive his wife. She is DEAD. No extra-ups. Guns are so diffrent from other weapons because it is so easy to make mistakes with them. Example:
You are agressive and drunk. Something went wrong and you:
1. Got your hands on a knife. Your friend sees it when fighting and runs away.
2. Got your hands on a gun. Your friend sees it and tries to run away but you just lift your arm and pull the trigger. You hit his back and puncture his liver and he dies.
Think about this: Why are guns used in wars and not swords? Because each side tries to be better at killing the other. Now that is pretty natural in WAR but I don't want to live in the society where people try to be better at killing each other.
PS. I don't actually believe you would ever kill someone. Just easier to write it that way.
The way you cite those statistics is as close to lying you can get without crossing the line.
Guns for protection are wrong because they are based upon the idea that each person should get to defend their own. Then what happens when someone feels that it is much more important to kill his(sadly, yes) wife than to do anything the gun was originally intended for?
Oh that must've sucked. It's amazing I leave in Sweden and my connection never resets. I can send data without reset and it can be pure garbage. I mean I could send anything ridiculously stupid and it wouldn't matter. It could be sentence after sentence repeating the same thing indefinately and no one would be bothered. Well, of course apart from the poor saps reading som web forum. But hey! It doesn't matter because their connections will reset neway. Wow I really could send something sloppy out there. It's a big power that I have. I could abuse free-speech to say unnecessary stuff creating noise for the insightful posts. But man I'd need to have a lot of time on my hands. Though that shouldn't really be a problem since
[OKEJ helvete nu får du ta och ge dig!]
[poof]
I would say Linux makes up for one pretty bad-ass basket.
Also you confused the analogy a little bit. You see we only have a infinite number of baskets but a finite number of eggs. So no making up eggs.;)
The serious note::|
I think the main problem is not the flawed windows but rather the profit based update process. If updates were released like with kUbuntu for example there would be more fortifying and less chipping around the countryside trying to minimize the amount of raped churches and burned women.
While at vacation set up a program at your home computer that automatically changes your password when you send an email to it. That way you can use one time passwords and screw anyone trying to screw you.;)
While the critical mass moved away a small portion of the community had already become a part of the system. They spend all their time in the chat rooms answering the same trivia questions for all eternity.
I could probably hack for 24 hours non-stop but I wouldn't be able to work on a serious project for 24h non-stop
Obviously I am referring to the diffrence between a hack and a serious application built with continued developement in mind.
No Darwin only explained why ANIMALS fall downwards.
Animals that would fall upwards disappeared out into space and couldn't breed on earth. This of course, only applies to animals living in the northern hemisphere. A animal from the southern hemisphere that is brought to the northern hemisphere would disappear into space.
I would like someone to make a website with gravitation so that everything will be sucked down to the bottom of the browser. Then you have to drag one item up at the time to look at it. Articles with the most comments would be the heaviest and be at the bottom of the pile.
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int main () {
int democrats=0, republicans=0;
if (VMAPI.VoteMachineClick=="democrats") {
democrats+=rand()%2;
} else {
republicans+=rand%2;
}
if (republicans>democrats)
return 0;
else
return -1;
}
Mod parent informative!
The police have weapons to defend the values of society. To enforce the laws. Those things usually don't change very rapidly because of democratic conservatism.
Individuals are given weapons to protect themselves and by all logic since pre-historic age I should get to defend my own, right?
The problem here is that individuals will fluctuate much more in their values than the government.
Your argument that he should be put in jail doesn't work because that doesn't revive his wife. She is DEAD. No extra-ups. Guns are so diffrent from other weapons because it is so easy to make mistakes with them. Example:
You are agressive and drunk. Something went wrong and you:
1. Got your hands on a knife. Your friend sees it when fighting and runs away.
2. Got your hands on a gun. Your friend sees it and tries to run away but you just lift your arm and pull the trigger. You hit his back and puncture his liver and he dies.
Think about this: Why are guns used in wars and not swords? Because each side tries to be better at killing the other. Now that is pretty natural in WAR but I don't want to live in the society where people try to be better at killing each other. PS. I don't actually believe you would ever kill someone. Just easier to write it that way.
The way you cite those statistics is as close to lying you can get without crossing the line.
Guns for protection are wrong because they are based upon the idea that each person should get to defend their own. Then what happens when someone feels that it is much more important to kill his(sadly, yes) wife than to do anything the gun was originally intended for?
I was about to say that you were NOT allowed to link to XKCD in response to this article. It would be too obvious. I guess I'll just mod you down.
oh wait..
Oh that must've sucked. It's amazing I leave in Sweden and my connection never resets. I can send data without reset and it can be pure garbage. I mean I could send anything ridiculously stupid and it wouldn't matter. It could be sentence after sentence repeating the same thing indefinately and no one would be bothered. Well, of course apart from the poor saps reading som web forum. But hey! It doesn't matter because their connections will reset neway. Wow I really could send something sloppy out there. It's a big power that I have. I could abuse free-speech to say unnecessary stuff creating noise for the insightful posts. But man I'd need to have a lot of time on my hands. Though that shouldn't really be a problem since
[OKEJ helvete nu får du ta och ge dig!]
[poof]
I would say Linux makes up for one pretty bad-ass basket.
;)
:|
Also you confused the analogy a little bit. You see we only have a infinite number of baskets but a finite number of eggs. So no making up eggs.
The serious note:
I think the main problem is not the flawed windows but rather the profit based update process. If updates were released like with kUbuntu for example there would be more fortifying and less chipping around the countryside trying to minimize the amount of raped churches and burned women.
That is kind of off-topic since this is the Russian Federation we are talking about.
The real question is:
Would that be illegal?
Say no to VB on your lawn!
While at vacation set up a program at your home computer that automatically changes your password when you send an email to it. That way you can use one time passwords and screw anyone trying to screw you. ;)
~europe: mv $intelligentdesign /dev/null
remove the mob wars application!
While the critical mass moved away a small portion of the community had already become a part of the system.
They spend all their time in the chat rooms answering the same trivia questions for all eternity.
"I know some PHBs that would consider the boom in registrations as a positive thing."
Since we changed the interface our website has become 1051% more popular. It's sticking.
I could probably hack for 24 hours non-stop but I wouldn't be able to work on a serious project for 24h non-stop
Obviously I am referring to the diffrence between a hack and a serious application built with continued developement in mind.
Does the container have a toilet?
Probably the best single-line comment I have ever seen on Slashdot. Funny/Informative/Insightful on one line.
1. Collect ridiculous amounts of data. 2. Store data. 3. ???? 4. Profit!
No Darwin only explained why ANIMALS fall downwards. Animals that would fall upwards disappeared out into space and couldn't breed on earth. This of course, only applies to animals living in the northern hemisphere. A animal from the southern hemisphere that is brought to the northern hemisphere would disappear into space.
I would be pretty disturbed if my kid told me that he'd be working on a "Bill of Rights" for me.
I would like someone to make a website with gravitation so that everything will be sucked down to the bottom of the browser. Then you have to drag one item up at the time to look at it. Articles with the most comments would be the heaviest and be at the bottom of the pile.
So you are saying that he is anti-democratic?
Couldn't anyone who gets sued because of this claim that the previously rejected patent is prior art?
"By changing the word 'a' to 'the' and adding the phrase 'purchasable through a shopping cart model"
Clearly they would have needed an expert on the english language.