Messages

16

General Discussion / Re: Marijuana

« on: December 21, 2006, 08:22:53 pm »

When you spend your money on drugs, you do realize that you're wasting your money and throwing money into corrupt circulations where it should not be.

I realize the same when I spend money on gas for my car.

17

General Discussion / Re: Dear Europe, DIAF

« on: December 19, 2006, 07:38:04 pm »

IIRC, the last hanging was done over ten years ago and is only currently legal in two out of the fifty states, which have both dismantled their facilities for performing them.

They've cut all their trees down? 

No, but they have destroyed all of their gallows, which were the official places of execution.

Man, I'm glad you have a sence of humor. :p

... as long as I have the last word.  ;p

18

General Discussion / Re: Dear Europe, DIAF

« on: December 19, 2006, 07:29:39 pm »

IIRC, the last hanging was done over ten years ago and is only currently legal in two out of the fifty states, which have both dismantled their facilities for performing them.

They've cut all their trees down? 

No, but they have destroyed all of their gallows, which were the official places of execution.

19

General Discussion / Re: Dear Europe, DIAF

« on: December 19, 2006, 06:31:17 pm »

Joe, you didn't read the article.  FL stopped the death penalty because lethal injections aren't always 100% effective the first time through.


Sidoh, since when did "gruesome" have anything to do with justice?
Hangings are still legal in some states, why shouldn't the guillotine be?  It is quicker, more efficient, and more effective than hanging or lethal injections.

How it involves less struggle:
-Dude in FL was administered lethal injection, didn't die so they had to shoot him up again.  Because it didn't work right away, he suffered for something like 30 minutes IIRC
-Had he been guillotined he would been dead in a matter of seconds.

Seems like less struggling & suffering to me

IIRC, the last hanging was done over ten years ago and is only currently legal in two out of the fifty states, which have both dismantled their facilities for performing them.

20

General Discussion / Re: Possesion

« on: December 15, 2006, 07:48:37 pm »

The acceptance of the Holy Spirit (see: Holy Trinity) is a form of possession, not by demons or angels, but by of God himself.  This possession is said to have strange affects on human behaviors and belief structures, and make capable the practice of extra-human abilities.  This form of possession is actually encouraged by numerous fundamentalist groups and is still seen frequently today.

Edit: Why didn't you mention that part, Joe?

21

General Discussion / Re: Make firefox faster.

« on: November 28, 2006, 07:45:10 pm »

FireFox has web page prefetching enabled by default (which some consider a security risk).

Setting the process as high priority is an obvious performance tip, but will only provide minimal difference in the time it takes pages to load and could wreak havoc on your computer's performance if a webpage contained media.

22

Entertainment District / Death of a President (2006)

« on: November 20, 2006, 02:55:17 am »

Death of a President was an independently made British film that first aired at a Canadian film festival earlier this year.  The movie is done in a documentary style, taking place in October of 2007 following the events that take place before, during, and after the assassination of President Bush.  The movie uses actual footage of the president to create his appearances throughout the film and during his assassination.  It does look quite believable; however, the actual assassination and removal of the president occurs very rapidly, as it would in reality.  The feelings one gets when seeing such an event, even in an artificial setting such as this, seem eerily similar to that of which those who witnessed the Kennedy assassination must have felt.

The movie doesn't focus so much on the actual assassination of the president, as the media purports, but more so on the events taking place before and after his death.  The movie begins with a focus on a large number of protest groups who follow the president on his journey through Chicago for his speech on the economy and the current stance against North Korea.  The shooting occurs proceeding this speech and following thereafter, the authorities began rounding up large groups of citizens who were in the area at the time of the shooting.  Conspiracy theories were spread, and allegations of terrorists acts with an initial focus on Syria began.  Cheney's claiming of the presidency leads to "Patriot 3," the revival of the Patriot Act, which gives the term "terrorist" a much broader definition.  The movie begins tackling the issues of privacy and civil liberty as the film progresses.

All in all, this is a great movie.  It is definitely a film worth the watch.

23

Joe's Bunker of Pie / You gave up on JoeOS development for Ubuntu?!

« on: November 12, 2006, 03:06:19 am »

Click.

24

General Discussion / Re: My Beliefs..

« on: November 11, 2006, 11:17:17 pm »

Social Control Theory.

25

General Discussion / Re: Zune won't be the "iPod Killer"...

« on: November 11, 2006, 04:19:26 pm »

What a surprise...

I want to make an MP3 player where you can share anything with anybody near you, and they get it for keeps.  That'd be fun

The RIAA would love that.  MP3 players are already iffy with them as is.  That would be awesome via wifi, however.

26

Entertainment District / Re: Saw III

« on: November 04, 2006, 08:11:19 pm »

I don't think it's "safe to say" there won't be a Saw IV. I mean, there were plenty of questions left unanswered like what happened to Jeff and his daughter. Jigsaw said only he holds the location of his daugter, maybe it's physically inside him or something.

I noticed.  I'm just hoping that was adding to the somber ending discouraging revenge.  Am I imagining something, or did Jeff get locked in?

By killing him, Jeff has failed the final test, and learned nothing in his ordeal. For living a life consumed by vengeance and hatred, he must now be punished. Lynn's collar light starts to flash red. The doors of the warehouse all latch shut (seemingly also monitored by Jigsaw's heart rate).

Thinking back, when Jigsaw was trying to convince Amanda that she shouldn't kill Jeff's wife, he said that if she killed her, four people would die here today.  It is possible that it is set up to prevent his escape in any event, considering that he has already failed his test.

27

General Discussion / Re: New computer thoughts?

« on: October 17, 2006, 04:15:01 pm »

Also, please stow the AMD stuff.  I've had 2 AMD processors and I'll never get another one.

Sadly, at the moment, intel processors are the better buy. (this coming from an AMD fanboy)

But then again, AMD should be shipping it's first 65nm processors soon, so things may change

Why is that?

28

General Discussion / Re: Sacramento Teen Question by Secret Service

« on: October 14, 2006, 09:12:15 pm »

what do you mean not really?

or that Congress can pass any law "necessary & proper" to carry out their roles
cruel & unusual isnt vague?...how is that not vague language?

I'm aware of the ambiguity.

I still think that the rights are pretty clearly defined.  Arguing over what is a cruel and unusual punishment (which seems pretty intuitive to me) is not the same as arguing what should be a consitutional right.

You do realize that what you may personally feel to be "cruel and unusual punishment" in our present-day environment may have been substantially different to those in the seventeenth century, correct?  What you may perceive as a general consensus must cross ethnic, economic, and religious boundaries not only of the present, but of the past as well.  This concept is generally taught to any first-year philosophy student...

29

General Discussion / Re: Windows network.

« on: September 22, 2006, 08:01:36 pm »

You don't even need to use the network setup wizard or the network setup CD.

30

General Discussion / Re: We didn't evolve

« on: August 16, 2006, 05:35:59 pm »

Scientific theory can rarely be proven.  This simple fact alone, however, does not disprove a theory.  The purpose of science is not always to find proof, but rather to find logical order in the universe or in other words, God did it is simply not good enough.  This being said, I don't understand why some theories can be widely accepted by both religious and non-religious people (e.g. gravity), but other theories are disgarded simply because they're theory (evolution).