BlueLancer

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Right but justice is a universal law that must be applicable to everyone. Basing your sense of justice on particulars rather than on the universal is naive and depending on the person, is dangerous. The "instant something bad happened" shows the flaw in your thinking, how rational does it seem to base a universal law on the thoughts of someone acting or thinking completely irrationally? Given the way prisons are in most western societies, is the punishment proportionate to the damage you have caused to a person whose life you destroyed (or even killed)? I nearly puked when I read in the newspaper, that human rights activists had protested against castrating chronic pedophiles (I think it was in Holland) medically. People who have reoffended, nonresponsive to councilation, for their whole lives. What the heck? Just because it's not their child who had his/her life ruined, they can act pretentious and care about these people... What if this guy had creeped in on their kid? Would they still chant for his rights outside the courthouse?

But I still keep wondering: Why a person who has molested children, killed people, robbed... Should be allowed to have any kind of "humane" treatment at all instead of just being thrown at a mob who can evaluate what he has done to other innocent people? It makes sense *only* in some ultra-humanist utopia. Your mind would change in an instant if something bad had happened to your family member that had scarred him/her for life or even lead to his/her death or suicide.

Only got to about 3:00, but then again I'm dead tired right now. :lol: Great find though. I don't really like flash games, but this takes a lot of reflex and staying focused...

Death is actually an easy way out. I have no idea why countries and governments sponsor this as a punishment. Why do you think non-suicidal professional criminals turn the gun on their head if they're about to get caught & know they're looking at 40 years inside the walls? Take China for example, one of the most common punishments for serious crime is labor camps. 40 Years of forced labor in a coal mine... The offender gets punished, and the society benefits & doesn't have to kill a person.

I suggest you get familiar with the term "reoffending rates". :lol: There are more people who renew their crime after getting out, than those who play it clean after they served their sentence. So obviously, nothing is changing in their brains while they spend time in prison. Nothing is deterring them from abusing a child again or mugging people with a large gang when they get out. The reoffending rates are much lower in third world countries than in western ones, and some asian countries such as China. And I don't really even want to know what the other inmates are allowed to do, overlooked by the guards, to the worst offenders such as molestors. I'm a friend of justice, really. So I don't see how it is illegal to punish offenders inhumanely who have treated innocent people inhumanely. If I ever did something stupid such as stealing very valuable property, I would expect to get serious, painful physical punishment. Not 700 days of sitting in a cell and getting free food.

Hi 8-) Post this kind of stuff here: http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=710789

If your parents will not absolutely pay your membership for you, there is also the option of earning $5 by yourself (quite easy at any age) and giving it to your parents.

That thought has been entertained a few times... But no, not necessarily. People have this weird concept that "news article -> instant bad thread" "News" articles aren't made up stories, they are events which have just happened in the world recently. If you can add a point worth discussing to go with the article, it's perfectly fine. As I remember Mercifull pointing out once, "not another news article with no input from the poster". Posting an article and adding nothing yourself is something you should avoid. It destroys the point of 'discussion'. And... We aren't exactly saturated with things to talk about here on off topic. :lol:

I hate to say it, but I'd do the same thing as everyone else in this case. If my friend was beaten brutally for no reason, if I had a child who was abused by a molester, etc... I don't think a prison with 3 warm meals a day, a TV and books for five years is a proper punishment. I'd put my life on a halt and do everything in my power to track down, locate, and make the people responsible suffer as intensely as possible. It's very hard for me to explain. I wouldn't take such action against a robber. I wouldn't do it against a person who nicked my car door. I wouldn't do it against a person who hit me or somebody else in the face. Those people have completely different motives. As far as my memories go, I've always hated, with a passion, people who are cowardly and systematically (with full knowledge of what they are doing) take advantage/assault people who are weak and have absolutely no chance to protect themselves, such as children.

What's reassuring, is that even a small-scale test like this showed that most people are "normal". A person with proper upraising and manners (no matter how tough or badass he might be otherwise) will not steal $2.10 from a wallet which has ID and other information/coupons inside... If I lost my wallet which had only like $20 bucks in it, I wouldn't even dream of getting it back despite having ID inside it. That doesn't mean I would do the same as the thief. Now, if I was poor and had barely anything to live on, and I found a wallet with hundreds of dollars, credit cards, gift cards, etc... I can't say I wouldn't take them. I probably would. But if you can live normally on your own, you have no reason to take something that belongs to another person.

As said... There isn't really a reason to even use .bmp's :) They are huge in filesize, more than tenfold compared to a .png which has the same quality, and about 20x the size of an average .jpg. Especially on forums, the image will take so long to load people wont even see the point you're making with it, because they'll just skip it. Here's a few that are fast and reliable in case Imageshack is down (or if it's too slow for you): http://www.allyoucanupload.webshots.com/ http://www.freeimagehosting.net/ http://www.uploadgeek.com/ http://www.imagevenue.com/

True, but it's a positive advance for those who download music legally (and their ranks are vast... Last I checked most people downloaded it through legal channels) DRM protection is a joke anyways. I only remember ever having 1 product with it, think it was a movie. It was in a weird format, I was unable to burn it, unable to convert it, etc... If I buy a MP3, I expect to use it on any mp3 player, computer, dvd player, etc... Same with a movie. Sure, probably everyone has downloaded MP3's 'off the record'. School teachers. Lawyers. RIAA themselves. Even politicians and ministers. But a lot of people that do that, like the artist so much they'll buy the legal, physical copy.

And what has he exactly done to earn your condemnation? :lol: (Note to kids: Iran hasn't, does not, and will not have capacity to make nuclear warhead-level enriched uranium for many decades) I'd like to hear...

It's a human life lost, but I just can't feel sorry for him. What the heck was he thinking, squeezing through a hole 8 times smaller than your body? :shock: I seriously hope there was 'more to it'...

I just don't believe in making a difference through voting. Individual's opinions mean jack in modern democracies. The real votes come from communities, universities, churches, etc. where politicians have multiple speeches a year and convince thousands of people at once to vote for the same party/candidate, which they eventually will under peer pressure. Quite on the opposite, if I wanted to make a difference... I'd just take the $1M for life & not vote, then pay a thousand people $1K if they vote for a candidate of my choosing. :lol: There wont be even a hundred elections in my lifetime, so the vote-profit is massive... Isn't the world an ugly place.

That's a sad illusion of "democracy", genders are such wide concepts you can't fit 6.5 billion people into 2 categories. "Women" includes all females from the bodybuilder to the skinny short one who can barely lift a jar of water, from those with genetic inclination towards alcohol, to those who serve as nuns due to religious devotion. It's very unrealistic, and also a lie, to think all people, men and women, were created with equal opportunities. Men can't do things women can. Women can't do something men can. Why don't men brestfeed their children or insist they are the one to stay at home while the mother works? And yes, turning out to be "evil" or "good" (though the world isn't even nearly that simple, more like 'grey' and 'grey'...) has a lot to do with your environment, but it also has a lot to do with your genes. A family that has a tradition of alcoholism, criminality, violence, etc. since their history has been recorded for hundreds of years, will inevitably influence their child born in 2007 to have some of those traits. Even if his current parents are absolute pacifists. Genes have a *lot* to do with your personality.

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That's the basic idea of bruteforcing, nothing new on that :P Except sadly, in this case it's an embedded trojan. They don't even need to use a bruteforce attack, they just gather logs from all your keystrokes and mouse clicks, and will find out which user & pass you use for a game. That's pretty worrying, because there is absolutely no way to know if a HD is "genuine" when you buy it from a store (or if you buy a new PC). Subcontractors in China don't make all that much money, they have a lot of incentives to take bribes from the triad and organized crime who will steal anything that can be re-sold... In exchange for a ridiculously easy-to-mass-produce custom trojan on all their HD's. This is very bad publicity for them though, hopefully that will deter them at least slightly :?

It's not exactly new. Search here in the future: http://forum.tip.it/search.php

Yeah, if you eat it for the nutrition value (steak), I don't see why vegetarians/animal right activists have an issue about it. I *never* bring up the fact that non-meat products such as soy still produce numerous animal deaths while being produced. :) The only thing that comes to my mind is using traps instead of hunting yourself. That's cowardly. The animal could suffer there in a cold forest for days until it bleeds out and other predators come to feast on it while it's still alive. Or, torturing animals just for the entertainment value. That's so grossly unfair and sick towards the animal who can't defend itself, it's prohibited by law in every western country and in some countries, you don't just get fined, you could go to jail for that kind of animal abuse. Not just that, but you know what they say about how 'small animal torturers turn out as adults'...

Just like not blaming the mayor of New Orleans for dismissing the calls to build a new dam 'nonsense' and 'waste of money'? If I were a citizen in there right now with 3 kids and nowhere to sleep, I wouldn't frankly give a rat's behind about the mayor's feelings. The citizens elected him and pay him his salary in the first place. If I'm in a position like that, my life becomes secondary to those I'm serving. Read this. I have nothing more to say. The man wasn't even a politician, he utilized his own business property to save over a thousand human lives because they needed the shelter to stay alive. "It gets to you" Is that seriously all a mayor with political power can say and do?

Maybe Mr. pretentious Mayor could share his palace and suspend activities in the cityhall to provide shelter for his own citizens who don't have a place to sleep in, rather than puffing his cigar and saying things he doesn't even mean.

Hi, It depends on when you made the account/played on RSC... It'd have to be within a few months after they quit letting people without previous RSC logins into those servers. As the site says Very few people have access to the RSC servers now. Even if you buy P2P, you wont be able to login, if you haven't played it previously within the last 6 months. :(

The study is by the British CRR (Centre for Retail Sesearch), so at least for the brits, that figure is quite accurate. The value of items stolen by females is more than by males. And another point... I'd think 'accessories' and makeup would be worth a lot more than food. :lol: If it can't be identified, it's definitely not stealing. If you find only money on the street; I don't see any moral obstacle... Who would you return it to? The police station? Any random person could show up and say "I dropped money, has anyone brought some here?" If the wallet has credit cards, phone numbers, identification... It's 100% stealing if you don't attempt to contact the owner, or just steal the money/contents and dump the wallet. If you have the chance to return a wallet but you steal the contents, it's a criminal act. Just because the owner had an accident and dropped it, doesn't make it 'public property'. If you find an abandoned car with no gas, with the keys still in because the person had to rush to a hospital to save a friend/etc, does that justify you filling the tank with gas and stealing the car+selling it?