Comment Re:My biggest fear (Score 2) 170
I mean if you are going to imagine something at least make it interesting.
Perhaps his imaginations refuses to wildly defy the laws of physics?
I mean if you are going to imagine something at least make it interesting.
Perhaps his imaginations refuses to wildly defy the laws of physics?
So, any group that calls themselves something... it's ok for everyone else to call them that too.
Gotcha.
On the face of it that sounds down right, reasonable. I'm not sure why someone would call themselves something so derogatory that they themselves would be insulted by it?
I do actually. When I take the float plane from Victoria to Seattle/Vancouver they have strict 24lb baggage limit. I weigh 160lbs and my girlfriend weighs 110lbs. When carefully packing our 24lb bag we always gripe. We are paying the same price and have the same baggage estrictions as the 220lbs guy!
Look at the number of hairdryer in the shower deaths we have prevented.
I know you are being sarcastic but the update to the building code to require GFCI plugs in the bathroom has saved thousands of lives. Deaths by electric shock in the US have dropped from about 500 a year in 1960s to around 150 now days despite a population increase.
You can readily find the stats online or just google "gfci saved my life" for some anecdotes.
It's popular to spout the meme that government regulation is unnecessary and unhelpful but there are countless examples of problems solved by government action. Nobody has to worry about their young children dying from small pox anymore, or polio or consumption. If you house catches fire the fire department will show up. And if you buy a new house you don't have to worry about your four year old electrocuting themselves while playing dress up in the bathroom with the hairdryer, even if you have no clue what a GFCI is or how it works. A GFCI costs significantly more than a standard plug and without the government regulation developers would not install them. You also don't have to worry about your house coming down in a earthquake, like houses in Haiti (government solved that problem too).
What do you mean walked all over? This isn't lord of the flies. If someone is jerk I don't include them in my social circle and they certainly wouldn't be employed where I work. If they act violent I call the police. If they try and harm me in some other way I call a lawyer.
Can you give me an example of how someone with balls can "walk all over" a soft person in modern western society? (Without ending up in jail or the defendant in a lawsuit)
Exactly. But your problem is largely due to inconsistent tax regimes in neighbouring states. Nobody is manufacturing cigarettes - that would be much more difficult. In Canada we have much higher taxes on alcohol and cigarettes than the US does, however, smuggling for resale is almost nonexistent.
7. The price of the drugs will be 5-10x lower, making the theft crime needed for unemployed addicts to support their habits will be proportionally lower.
I agree with everything except point 7. Introduce it at a low enough cost to put all of the illegal avenues out of business. Then slowly increase the price and make it more expensive that it used to be. Just like alcohol and tobacco. Overall usage will decrease dramatically and the government will make money in the form of taxes that can be used to fund rehab, abstinence campaigns and hospitals.
For clarification GP means this type of AA Battery:
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Not this type:
Still not funny though.
Your argument seemed to be that he was emitting radiation and therefore he has no right of privacy. I said- what if we are all giving of some information that can be used to determine what we are doing (in the form of gravity waves) then should we all be exposed? (See how that works? I made the information given off by EM radiation equivalent to the information given off by gravity waves and then used that parallel to pose a new question!) .
Since you can seem to connect the dots you must be a dumble fucker
Captcha's on Slashdot should be replaced with a simple IQ test; it would keep people like you from posting much to the benefit of everyone else.
Also, look up straw-man dumb fuck. Responding to opinion with a hypothetical question doesn't make a straw man fallacy, bumble bee fucker.
Whether the EM waves you are emitting are visible or not makes no difference.
Yes it does. What if a device is invented that can detect the minute changes in gravity that occur when an object moves about. Lets assume that by using this device the police could reconstruct a 3d rendering of an entire city include all the people in it and what they are doing. Does that sound like a good idea?
Whether your cellphone signal can be tracked without a warrant is not a technical issue. It's a philosophical, moral, societal, political and legal question.
Yes, the GP was saying let him go to Sweden first then give him asylum. I am saying that won't really work.
Offering someone asylum doesn't magically transport them out of jail and into Ecuador. Once the Swedish authorities have their hands on him I would imagine that it would be difficult to give him asylum. Even if he is found not guilty of the charges in Sweden they may very well hand him straight to the US without releasing him.
The only problem I have with two factor authentication for Gmail is if I lose my phone how to I access my email? I don't want to be locked out of my email, ever.
Here you go, a list of fatwa's calling for the death of ordinary individuals who speakout or say something negative about islam. It is one of the negative things about fundamentalist islam.
Salman Rushdie
Main article: The Satanic Verses controversy
One of the first well-known fatwas was proclaimed in 1989 by the Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, against Salman Rushdie over his novel The Satanic Verses. The reason was an allegedly blasphemous statement taken from an early biography of the Prophet Muhammad, regarding the incorporation of pagan goddesses into Islam’s strongly monotheistic structure. Khomeini died shortly after issuing the fatwa. In 1998 Iran stated it is no longer pursuing Rushdie’s death; however, that decree was again reversed in early 2005 by the present theocrat, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
In 1991, Rushdie's Japanese translator, Hitoshi Igarashi, was stabbed to death in Tokyo, and his Italian translator was beaten and stabbed in Milan. In 1993, Rushdie's Norwegian publisher William Nygaard was shot and severely injured in an attack outside his house in Oslo. Thirty-seven guests died when their hotel in Sivas, Turkey was torched by locals protesting against Aziz Nesin, Rushdie's Turkish translator.
Shahin Najafi
An Iranian rapper who raps in Persian language has been forced into hiding after hardline clerics offered a $100,000 reward for his murder, incensed by his song (Naghi) which is satirising the Tehran regime and making allegedly irreverent remarks about the tenth Islamic imam (Naghi).
Geert Wilders
Possibly the most internationally well-known politician, Geert Wilders, is one of many Dutch politicians who have had a fatwa issued against them. In 2008 Wilders received 285 death threats, with a further 264 aimed at all Dutch politicians. There were a total of 145 protection orders for Wilders in 2006; in 2005 there were 110. An Australian imam named Feiz Muhammad has issued a fatwa calling for the Dutch politician’s beheading, as of 2010.
Jerry Falwell
In an interview given on September 30, 2002, for the October 6 edition of 60 Minutes, American Christian minister Jerry Falwell said: "I think Muhammad was a terrorist. I read enough by both Muslims and non-Muslims, [to decide] that he was a violent man, a man of war."
The following Friday, Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, the spokesman of Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a fatwa calling for Falwell's death, saying Falwell was a "mercenary and must be killed." He added, "The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community."
Taslima Nasreen
Fundamentalists in Bangladesh proclaimed a similar fatwa against Taslima Nasreen in 1993, against a series of newspaper columns in which she was critical of the treatment of women under Islam. The next year she wrote Lajja (Shame) which described the abuse of women and minorities. Again there were calls for her death, and her passport was confiscated. Within the legal system, she felt that she might have faced a jail term of up to two years, where she was likely to be murdered. She managed to escape the country via Calcutta, was granted asylum in Sweden, and then lived in Paris, and finally came to India. Even in India, she had to flee the city of Calcutta and move to Delhi under Indian government's strict orders following riots in Calcutta.
FYI- Bear spray can cause serious injury or death to humans. It is far more potent that pepper spray designed for us on humans.
Going the speed of light is bad for your age.
