I like the joke, but honestly if you don't inch forward every opportunity you get, often you can coast in first or second and shift neutral to gear a lot less often. At least in a car which has enough torque that in first it won't stall without any gas, but creep forward.
Keeping one's hand on the shifter when not shifting puts unnecessary stress on the fork which leads to premature mechanical failure.
If you keep your hand on the shifter, you're doing it wrong.
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You of course have a right to plead guilty up front and take your sentence, what they shouldn't have the right to do is bully you into thinking the sentence you are getting from them is any worse than you would at jury trial.
No, I didn't ignore it. Read what I wrote again. I do not believe it's an actual benefit and I explained why.
Plea deals have no benefit. A remorseful criminal that pleads guilty have a lot of benefit. A guilty person who pleas into a lighter sentence and has no remorse does not lead to justice being served. An innocent person who fears they might lose despite their innocence and takes a plea deal into any sentence feels let down by the system and does not lead to justice being served. A guilty person who feels remorse and pleads guilty and takes their just sentence is what you're looking for, and those rarely come out of one side using threats and bargains to get them.
Gee, an officer replied to a DV call of a man beating his wife, comes in and sees a woman with a black eye and a dude that smells of whiskey* -- do we really need a jury to decide that one? Or grand theft auto where the perp is caught in the stolen car
Yes, we do. We have a right to a trial by a jury. Every one of us. That includes stupid criminals. The alternative, where an officer or a lawyer or anyone else that decides a persons fate without due process is ripe for abuse. Really nasty and bad abuse.
So in the case of rape we should just find the accused guilty without a 'pointless' trial rather than permit them the right to have their crimes proven? We're not talking about accused that are going to plead guilty on their own free will, we're talking about accused that are being strong armed into a guilty plea, innocent or not, because it's cheaper.
That's not showing that downloading is illegal.
I fail to see how receiving an encrypted stream, decrypting it, then drawing the decrypted frames to a framebuffer, possibly re-encrypting them before they hit the HDMI/DVI/DisplayPort port, constitutes "giving control of [your] computer to somebody else."
It doesn't until they get into hardware being made to support such things in ways to preclude you making modifications to your own hardware and software because they fear their system is breakable. That's the path they are on now and the sooner we take a stand against it the better.
Did you suppose that a teenager who hasn't even graduated high school yet is in a good position to take on the full responsibility of parenting?
That depends on the person. While you are perfectly fine making assumptions about this particular individual, I ask you to consider that perhaps you don't know this individual and not everyone conforms to your generalizations. I knew women in my high school that were perfectly capable in raising children, but I also recognize that it's not the norm.
Have you seen the statistics for children (especially boys) who are raised by such people?
It's not clear to me who you mean by 'such people'. Do you mean fathers that would do what the father in the anecdote did? Do you mean people like me that recognize that not everyone conforms to my worldview and it's sort of arrogant to assume everyone does? Remember, you don't know this girl like you might know your daughter(s), if any.
Do you think that's the ideal environment for the child?
That would depend on the child.
Or do you think she just wanted to get her rocks off and didn't consider pregnancy?
I don't know her and I'm not comfortable assuming I know her motivations due to statistics. That gets into really scary territory.
Oh, and a responsible father would think of these things even if the mother didn't. This isn't a responsible father. This is a horny teenager who wanted to get his rocks off too. It's so bleedin' obvious, it's as though none of you were ever in high school...
You are saying that her father is a horny teenager?! I don't understand that logic, sorry. I've been to high school and there were all sorts of people there, from the irresponsible horny teenager to the multi-millionaire self-made business-women at 17.
Other than this phony sense of "I'm offended by your certainty!" there is no good reason I should have to explain this.
I am offended by your certainty because that's the kind of reasoning that says "well, she's Asian, she's 17, she lives in Burbank, she drives a BMW, hence she is X, Y, and Z for certain because statistically that's most likely". Let people be themselves, not a statistic.
If you really, really love your children, then you prepare as best as you can to provide them a quality upbringing. This person could do better, if only it were important enough to her.
I don't have any children.
I overlooked in my preview that Slashdot ate the less-than sign before the '10%'. I meant of course 'down to < 10%'.
Just look out for those that will automate generation of junk low-priority issues to get that percent of high-priority issues down to 10% so they can file their high-priority issue.
Sorry, I meant Artraze not apatheon.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
