No government has ever significantly and permanently reduced its power or revenue through the process of democracy! (If someone can point to an actual historical example of this, I'd be very interested.) Wouldn't reduction of power -- or at least a halt to expansion of power -- be the result of vigilance?
I made the same argument (almost verbatim) a year or so ago and the response was Estonia. Estonia currently has a flat tax and is about to lower it even more. Estonia's government is fairly young so I'm not sure it relevant in the larger scale. We already know that government spending can be cut intermittently (Britain under Thatcher).
It will be interesting to see how it works out in a decade or so.
If you didn't manage to use your computer by yourself then someone needs to dictate something...
I set up dual boot with Ubuntu version 5.04 and my knowledge wasn't that great and still isn't (I managed to nuke my install while doing a dist upgrade). I had only read one book about general Linux and GNU history and basic CLI usage. I didn't have a problem googling the information I needed to find out what to do. In my case I had to use partition magic (something else might work) to repartition my harddrive because I didn't have any unpartitioned space and didn't want to nuke my drive. Apart from that the most difficult thing was finding out which partition was which.
It's not exactly rocket science and if you can't figure that stuff out you're not as smart as you think or your google and forum skills are somewhat deficient.
Seeding on one of the better "closed" torrent sites is hard but not impossible. In other words: you're doing it wrong. Get in early on a popular torrent and seed it as much as you can. Also you can't download whatever you want until you've establish a surplus upload.
That aside there is a big problem with sites that don't factor in that the ratio is a zero-sum game. There needs to be some kind of equalizing done from time to time or else there will always be people who get banned without trying to leech. Some sites have torrents that doesn't count against your download but gives you upload points.
Maybe a good system would be an artificial increase to everyone below a ratio of one from everyone that has above a ratio of one but without any subtracting only adding (if you did subtract everyone would have a ratio of one). There also needs to be a system to prevent pure leeching but that's to specific for me. I'm sorry I can't express myself better.
Are you aware that there are older (pre 98?) Mauser mechanisms that also use cock on close?
I also don't understand why some people find them unsafe. Why would you have your fingers even close to the trigger when working the bolt? You would have to do some pretty whacky stuff with your grip to have a finger on the trigger when the bolt is closing. What am I missing?
My computer is currently two years and five months old. It runs CC3 without a hitch. I wouldn't call it top of the line either. More like just under the top of the line.
This doesn't work with modern keyboards or at least not with the pencil and keyboard I used. I had to get conductive silver paint instead and that worked like a charm. It took a while to figure out that the resistance takes a lot of time to drop to nominal levels though (2Mohm? WTF it was only five hundred before I applied this shit).
They DO try to remove them... by making drugs illegal, and getting the dealers arrested!
Without making drug use itself illegal, of course.
But there is a correlation between the absolute numbers. If you have twice as many users, you'll have twice as many abusers. The PERCENTAGE of abusers will be the same, but the number will be twice as much.
No, that ratio is incorrect.
The USA has 25 times the population of the Netherlands.
I am, of course, talking about percentages not absolute numbers.
You said 'legal heroin for a few dollars a pop'. A 'pop' is slang for a usage. Whatever.
Ah, sorry about that. I meant a days worth.
To recap- people who want to get high will do what it takes to get high and stay high. They will still commit crimes to get the money (although, admittedly, fewer crimes, because they need less money).
Of course there will still be people who choose a life of crime but there will be less of them and those that steal will not have to steal as often or as much.
The GP is correct and you are not. If the retailer is still around it's doing something that doesn't need doing and it wastes 200 zorkmids. If the retailer instead went under and found something productive to do then the economy gains whatever zorkmids the former retailer now produces.
The only way you could be correct is if the retailer went under and no parts of it contributed to the economy again.
Have you played Half-Life 2? I don't think you'll find anything wrong with the voice acting in that game. It's one of the few games with good voice acting.
ANd most people (everyone but you, as far as I can tell) don't want to 'use' (read: 'live in') neighborhoods that allow drug dealers.
Then the neighborhoods can try to remove them. The justice system wouldn't even be involved unless they commit a crime. This is, of course, under the premise that currently illegal drugs are legal.
1) If I could get heroin legally, it would be from a drug store. A retail establishment. NOT a street corner dealer. (Do you get asprin, cigarettes, or booze from a guy hanging out on the corner??) Therefore, the 'corner dealer' would be out of business. You seem to assume that he would then magically become gainfully employed, rather than continuing his life of crime.
There is a reason why so many deal drugs. It's because it's lucrative and fairly easy.
2) Even if I could get drugs legally, crime would not stop. The numbe rof crimes comitted to GET money to buy drugs might go down. But the cheap price and social acceptance would cause drug USE to go up, and therefore more crimes would be committed by people USING drugs.
Drug use will probably go up. Drug abuse is not indicated to go up. There is no strong correlation between legality and use/abuse. The United States have a lot more pot users than Holland even though in holland pot is decriminalized.
3) During the trial, it was mentioned that the street price for heroin was $10 per dose. That's not far off from from the "few dollars a pop" you seem to think will cause all drug crime to disappear. Yet, drug crimes happen all the time.
I'm talking about a days worth of heroin not a dose. Why would you steal if your addiction can be fed easily with panhandling or even (shock horror)working?
It could be useful during a prolonged artillery barrage but I'm not sure you need the actual fear in other situations. If you're doing something that is potentially harmful you don't need fear to be cautious. You don't have to be scared shitless to take cover when fired on.
I looked around on that site and saw some "quick and dirty" recipes and finally found what I would call a decent meal. It was a lasagna that needed one hour in the oven.
Our definitions of what a good meal is seems to differ somewhat. So it's fairly useless to continue our discussion.
It takes several times as long to download Firefox via the windows ftp app. The thing even lacks tab completion. If you're a lightning fast typer and know the path exactly it might be a good alternative if not then it isn't.
I still don't get how you can make a 30 minute meal without using prefabricated stuff or having everything peeled and cut up before hand. I looked at some claimed 30 min recipes and they suppose that you have precooked rice and the like. Just peeling and boiling potatoes takes about 30 minutes. You can of course prepare other parts of the meal during the boiling but it's not 30 minutes.
No- the 'goddamn point' is that it NOT "your book" that determines what is illegal. It is Society's 'book'. And Society has determined that the manufacture and sale of certain substances is illegal. Why? Because it causes other problems, attracts the criminal element who end up committing other crimes. This is NOT a Human Rights issue like Slavery. It is a safety issue. A Quality of Life issue.
That has no bearing on what I'm arguing. Dealing drugs may be a crime according to the law but I disagree and that was the point. Jurors can refuse to convict a person if they think the law is wrong.
Drugs do not cause problems in and of themselves. Remember the prohibition? Remember that it's not there anymore? Care to take a guess as to why?
So, do you think drunk drivers should be let go, too? After all, if they kill someone, then they should be charged with a crime...?
Whether to allow drunk driving is up to the operator of the road. I wouldn't want to use roads that allow drunk driving.
They point is, they aren't the smartest people in the world, or they wouldn't be breaking the law to begin with.
Kind of like Carl Sagan and many other fairly smart persons that break the drug laws? (I'm not saying all drug users or dealers are smart)
That's like saying a person died from lack of oxygenated blood flowing to the brain... the bullet holes in their body weren't the problem. Hello!- one caused the other!
Most of the negative effects are due to the legal status of the drugs not the drugs themselves. If you could get legal heroin for a few dollars a pop you wouldn't need to boost cars.
If you drink alcohol and fall down a flight of stairs is it the alcohols fault? If you don't fall down a flight of stairs when drunk is that also due to alcohol or something different? You would have to be mentally challenged to think that pot or heroin has a causal effect on murder or destruction of property.
What do you mean faster? Is that including travel time? A decent meal for four persons take at least an hour from starting to having it on the table ready to eat.
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Seriously, where the hell would the police get a lice infected blanket?
It will be interesting to see how it works out in a decade or so.
The terminator wouldn't care. It's just an imaginary line.
If you didn't manage to use your computer by yourself then someone needs to dictate something...
I set up dual boot with Ubuntu version 5.04 and my knowledge wasn't that great and still isn't (I managed to nuke my install while doing a dist upgrade). I had only read one book about general Linux and GNU history and basic CLI usage. I didn't have a problem googling the information I needed to find out what to do. In my case I had to use partition magic (something else might work) to repartition my harddrive because I didn't have any unpartitioned space and didn't want to nuke my drive. Apart from that the most difficult thing was finding out which partition was which.
It's not exactly rocket science and if you can't figure that stuff out you're not as smart as you think or your google and forum skills are somewhat deficient.
That seems really retarded. Are you sure you were limited from the get go and not a few days after joining?
Seeding on one of the better "closed" torrent sites is hard but not impossible. In other words: you're doing it wrong. Get in early on a popular torrent and seed it as much as you can. Also you can't download whatever you want until you've establish a surplus upload.
That aside there is a big problem with sites that don't factor in that the ratio is a zero-sum game. There needs to be some kind of equalizing done from time to time or else there will always be people who get banned without trying to leech. Some sites have torrents that doesn't count against your download but gives you upload points.
Maybe a good system would be an artificial increase to everyone below a ratio of one from everyone that has above a ratio of one but without any subtracting only adding (if you did subtract everyone would have a ratio of one). There also needs to be a system to prevent pure leeching but that's to specific for me. I'm sorry I can't express myself better.
Are you aware that there are older (pre 98?) Mauser mechanisms that also use cock on close?
I also don't understand why some people find them unsafe. Why would you have your fingers even close to the trigger when working the bolt? You would have to do some pretty whacky stuff with your grip to have a finger on the trigger when the bolt is closing. What am I missing?
My computer is currently two years and five months old. It runs CC3 without a hitch. I wouldn't call it top of the line either. More like just under the top of the line.
If you read the article you would see that the emitter measures the distance to the target and adjusts the light pulse accordingly.
Brillant. Just brilliant. I'm still chuckling.
This doesn't work with modern keyboards or at least not with the pencil and keyboard I used. I had to get conductive silver paint instead and that worked like a charm. It took a while to figure out that the resistance takes a lot of time to drop to nominal levels though (2Mohm? WTF it was only five hundred before I applied this shit).
Anymore?
Most people have never done anything at any time in history. It's not a new thing.
Yes, but the production capacity or efficiency is lower in the case where you pay the big retailer.
Are you also under the delusion that wars are good for the economy?
The GP is correct and you are not. If the retailer is still around it's doing something that doesn't need doing and it wastes 200 zorkmids. If the retailer instead went under and found something productive to do then the economy gains whatever zorkmids the former retailer now produces.
The only way you could be correct is if the retailer went under and no parts of it contributed to the economy again.
Have you played Half-Life 2? I don't think you'll find anything wrong with the voice acting in that game. It's one of the few games with good voice acting.
It could be useful during a prolonged artillery barrage but I'm not sure you need the actual fear in other situations. If you're doing something that is potentially harmful you don't need fear to be cautious. You don't have to be scared shitless to take cover when fired on.
Kickass spoof. Kudos.
I looked around on that site and saw some "quick and dirty" recipes and finally found what I would call a decent meal. It was a lasagna that needed one hour in the oven.
Our definitions of what a good meal is seems to differ somewhat. So it's fairly useless to continue our discussion.
It takes several times as long to download Firefox via the windows ftp app. The thing even lacks tab completion. If you're a lightning fast typer and know the path exactly it might be a good alternative if not then it isn't.
Maybe I should've said I'm not an american...
I still don't get how you can make a 30 minute meal without using prefabricated stuff or having everything peeled and cut up before hand. I looked at some claimed 30 min recipes and they suppose that you have precooked rice and the like. Just peeling and boiling potatoes takes about 30 minutes. You can of course prepare other parts of the meal during the boiling but it's not 30 minutes.
Drugs do not cause problems in and of themselves. Remember the prohibition? Remember that it's not there anymore? Care to take a guess as to why?Whether to allow drunk driving is up to the operator of the road. I wouldn't want to use roads that allow drunk driving. Kind of like Carl Sagan and many other fairly smart persons that break the drug laws? (I'm not saying all drug users or dealers are smart) Most of the negative effects are due to the legal status of the drugs not the drugs themselves. If you could get legal heroin for a few dollars a pop you wouldn't need to boost cars.
If you drink alcohol and fall down a flight of stairs is it the alcohols fault? If you don't fall down a flight of stairs when drunk is that also due to alcohol or something different? You would have to be mentally challenged to think that pot or heroin has a causal effect on murder or destruction of property.
What do you mean faster? Is that including travel time? A decent meal for four persons take at least an hour from starting to having it on the table ready to eat.
OK, now try all the organic compounds and minerals.