i have said this before when this terribly stupid reasoning comes up: what the hell am i going to do when the plane starts doing cartwheels on takeoff? paying attention is not going to help me survive.

i would much rather be listening to headphones in a crash though, rather than the screams of people burning to death in an aluminum tube.

she wasn't protesting she was refusing. they told she had to submit to a search and she still refused. if you don't resist what you feel to be an infringement of your rights at the time it is happening, when the hell should you?

yeah that is not a great plan to avoid having your data lost due to a natural disaster. flooding, wildfires, tornadoes, or hurricanes usually will not be localized to just your house in the neighborhood. off-site needs to be miles away at minimum, and ideally in another region.

it is funny how often it happens on slashdot that i agree with the first half of a comment and the second half makes me despise the commenter on a personal level.

I also have several steak knives. I sharpen them often to ensure they don't butcher the meat and thereby ruin the eating experience.

i find that trying to eat unbutchered meat ruins the experience for me

and we will see if anyone can afford food if gas gets to be "USD$100 a litre"

Interesting response, but you might want to do some more research on the rules of conflict or provide a citation if I am wrong here. What I found was that there is an explicit ban on attacking a wounded combatant that is 'out of the fight' and there also is a prohibition on punishment or reprisals upon civilians for rendering medical aide to the wounded. I do not think that rendering medical aid to a combatant makes a civilian a combatant in any way, from anything that i read in the law of armed conflict. I believe that the #3 from your list is geared towards giving military aid to a combatant. I also think that both points I raised make the second attack an illegal use of force.

In general I find your comment to be troubling in its lack of empathy. A reporter misidentified as being an armed combatant, because of the failure to distinguish a telephoto lens from a gun, and was killed. The pilot watched him crawling, dying, and was verbally hoping for a chance to shoot again. A family was then fired upon for rendering aide and comfort to the dying journalist. This kind of indiscriminate killing is happening in someone's neighborhood, and to a civilian on the ground we would not appear to be in the right.

citation for #2, all reports are the van and kids were on the way to school and saw wounded people in the street, stopped to render aid.

no the stopwatch is part of the custom software that samsung puts on the galaxy phones. i have a nexus and there is no stopwatch.

fleet farm

that's not what the verizon rep told me yesterday. you only will be placed on a new plan if you buy a new phone with the upgrade discount, that has always required you sign a new contract. you can buy ebay/amazon phones forever and keep your old plan.

retribution for the indiscriminate bombing and rocket attacks on England

i once found a harbor in some asian city, wooden fishing skiffs intermingled with heavy cargo ships. they were using an off-the-shelf camera to monitor traffic from a bridge, no passwords, and pan/tilt/zoom were enabled. i moved the camera over to watch people on the bridge, and the actual operator kept moving it back. he/she must have thought the thing was possessed.

the connection between AGW denier and holocaust denier exists only in your head. other people should not have to change their use of language because of your misinterpretation of a commonly used word.

thanks for eliminating any doubt that i had about you being a troll

btw, i work in tech not food service, idiot.