Comment Re:Don't worry. (Score 1) 140
Besides, if they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear.
Besides, if they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear.
Missing option: Until the next honeybee mating season.
Haven't you heard? God said such things are OK now, like shrimp and women's rights.
You want to go after a really bad sin? Try greed -- which is one of the most pervasive violations of the rule "Love your neighbor as yourself". Be a real man, and make your stand against a *popular* sin, rather than one most people can't even be tempted by.
I'm counting "life in prison" as "death sentence without the usual appeals and standards of evidence". None of the extra expense in a death sentence is the execution, it's all the extra scrutiny. If you're innocent, you should hope they're going for a death sentence rather than life in prison, because you have a higher chance of getting your life back.
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Real engineers *get paid to* make things that are reliable, tested, and safe, because the company could be sued into bankruptcy if things go wrong. Some software engineers *get paid to* make things that are reliable, tested, and safe, because the company could be sued into bankruptcy if things go wrong. Other software engineers *get paid to* get it done by tomorrow, because if something goes wrong no one but a few nerds gives a crap. But none of that could possibly be the fault of the managers.
Most humane way to execute someone:
Bullet (or bolt gun) to the head, followed by organ donation to more worthy human beings. This may be ugly, but it is very humane.
Least humane way to execute someone:
Put them in a box till they die, funded by money that could have been spent saving lives.
I'm opposed to the death penalty, but my opposition starts at the most common method -- putting them in a box until they die because someone was too afraid of the automatic appeals process required for a faster death penalty.
Two, some forms of IP crime are used to fund terrorism.
Well, most forms of money are used to fund terrorism. We should ban money!
This being Slashdot, one might say they're waiting on the balls transplant. (Yet if "having balls" works like people say, nerds wouldn't want that anyways.)
Now I'll need to charge my wallet.
Just use your charge card.
What about migratory birds? Has anyone bothered to solve the problem of mass kills during migration season?
Easy, simply replace all coal power plants with wind power. Or do birds killed by carcinogenic particulates, mercury poisoning, strip mining, global warming, all not count because they don't die at the coal plant itself?
Your theory is that eventually a transformer and rectifier and a semiconductor, will be about as cheap as a wire filament? Or that humans are particularly good at spending their money in the present to save more in the future?
The Bible also does not say anything about abortion
Yes it does. It says that abortion is an appropriate response to infidelity (when there are no witnesses as required for the death sentence). See Numbers 5:27. Also, the Bible says that children should not be punished for their parent's sin, but there is nothing that grants pregnant women an exemption from the death sentence.
And the great irony is that, although the whole purpose of IP is to give inventors and artists their due,
The great irony is that the purpose of IP is to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, yet the massive extensions in term and coverage mean the opposite occurs. The inventors and artists can stick their IP where the sun don't shine, the only reason we care about them getting their due is so that they're encouraged to produce and share their work.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.