Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re:sanctioned???+there are 737k officers (Score 2) 92

However, I think you'd be a lot less smug and confident if it was your car that was stolen

The police aren't going to find your stolen car with or without flock. That's not what they do.

They also don't stop thieves who steal catalytic converters.

There is definitely room to ask, "What exactly are the police accomplishing?"

Comment Re:Bitcoin - victim of its own success (Score 1) 120

Why does demand for bitcoin exist? No government can prevent payments in Bitcoin, that's why it was created. North Korea, Iran, hackers, Wikileaks, etc use Bitcoin. If you want to pay a toll to Iran to transit the strait of Hormuz, you can pay it in Bitcoin. I've heard you can use it to send money over the Russian border to avoid sanctions (I haven't tried).

Comment Re:Bitcoin - victim of its own success (Score 1) 120

To be clear I'm not pretending they are the same. I believe in gold as a store of wealth. Bitcoin mystifies me.i don't understand what the fuck any of it rests on.

Everything has a supply curve and a demand curve, including gold and bitcoin. Where the curves cross, that is the price. This is economics 101, which you never took.

Air is more "innately valuable" than gold, but you don't pay money to breathe.

Comment Re: Nothing of value was added (Score 1) 162

I have 25 years of experience working in codebases good and bad. I have many techniques for handling truly brittle, miserable codebases. These are not bad, are small, and do not give me problems.

This kind of code would give me more problems, but "problems" just means it would take more time. I enjoy working with code that scares other programmers, because I enjoy using the skills I have developed.

Comment Re: Seriously... (Score 1) 371

The argument confuses natural death with intentional killing. Many embryos may be lost spontaneously, but that does not make deliberately killing one morally equivalent to a miscarriage; just as the fact that many infants die naturally does not justify killing infants. The extent of spontaneous embryo loss is itself uncertain, and vulnerability does not make human life expendable.

The relevant question is not whether the child is viable, wanted, or likely to survive, but what the act intentionally does. An embryo is a living human being from conception, and abortion deliberately ends that human life.

“Murder” is commonly a legal term with jurisdiction-specific definitions, so “intentional killing of an innocent human being” may be more precise. But morally, that is exactly how Catholic teaching characterizes direct abortion: the deliberate killing of an innocent human being in utero, regardless of age or stage of development.

This is how Tolkien would have seen it, this is how billions of human see it - because it is true.

Comment Re: Seriously... (Score 1) 371

Your libelous comments aside, what is a fact is that Democrats have presided over the murder of tens of millions of pre-born children. Numbers that would make Sauron blanch.
 
Tolkien would have voted Republican, not out of a love of less than virtuous mean tweet presidents, but because he would abhor the vile demonic practices of the Democrat party.

Slashdot Top Deals

To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so.

Working...