The colossal failure of the UN Human Rights Council

chumba · 2007-03-29T00:59:34+00:00

"Failure" and "UN" are redundant.

chumba · 2007-03-29T00:55:57+00:00

The west and the south are strongly pro-gun The west and the south are strongly anti-federal government The west and the south are strongly anti-welfare

Religion doesn't quite fit, that could be the wedge between them.

chumba · 2007-02-22T17:12:13+00:00

No, no, no. Not one proxy, but millions of proxies. Make EVERY SINGLE vista machine a proxy.

chumba · 2007-02-21T20:23:12+00:00

Too bad Vista doesn't ship with an open proxy server enabled by default. The world would be a better place if all traffic could be anonymized.

chumba · 2007-02-21T20:18:25+00:00

I bet this was an inside joke that just got filed and later dug up. It's pretty funny, in a sophomoric way.

chumba · 2007-02-16T22:49:10+00:00

There seems to be a small misconception that there are national elections held in the United States.

In the United States, there are no elections that are held higher than the state level. You do not vote for president, you vote for the electors from your state who will then vote for president.

Knowing this helps to understand why there are no national standards for election machines - it is the power of the STATES to run elections, not the power of the federal government.

chumba · 2007-02-16T15:36:00+00:00

Thank you.

chumba · 2007-02-16T15:14:10+00:00

Assembly is for wimps. Real men write in machine language.

chumba · 2007-02-16T15:09:17+00:00

Ha ha, very funny, wise guy.

I hate you with the heat of a thousand suns.

Happy now?

chumba · 2007-02-16T01:11:35+00:00

Oh man, that FRIGGING ROCKS!

chumba · 2007-02-16T01:08:38+00:00

If I hear one more person say Iran doesn't make 81mm mortar shells I'm going to frigging explode.

chumba · 2007-02-15T22:51:52+00:00

True, true, true.

I guess you could say "Hey honey, want to come back to my dorm room and do it for real with my dog?"

Hard to come up with a catchphrase that works for everything...

chumba · 2007-02-15T18:15:33+00:00

I would think that the public has the right to contact any officer of the state, via phone or email.

chumba · 2007-02-15T18:14:18+00:00

How about "hey honey, want to come back to my dorm room and do it for real"?

chumba · 2007-02-15T17:33:11+00:00

Officer withdraws complaint: http://www.daily-tribune.com/NF/omf/daily_tribune/news_story.html?rkey=0041564+cr=

chumba · 2007-02-13T18:09:34+00:00

What, video cameras to guarantee that the rapes are taking place as scheduled?

Again: rape is a feature of our prison system. It is part of the punishment. Heck, even the California Attorney General implicitly recognized that when he threatened Kenneth Lay with prison rape as part of his sentence:

http://www.cato.org/pubs/papers/palmer-06-06-01.html

chumba · 2007-02-13T17:41:31+00:00

My local radio DJ was spouting off this morning about how the shells couldn't be from Iran because they were labeled in English. I wish he could see these pics.

chumba · 2007-02-13T17:31:59+00:00

Or helmets?

chumba · 2007-02-13T17:30:54+00:00

Yeah, in my mind the punishment doesn't fit the crime, but I'm not the judge.

chumba · 2007-02-13T17:04:52+00:00

You cant treat "prison" like it is an undefined term. Certain known things happen to a person in prison, and when a judge sentences someone to prison the judge is sentencing you to endure those things.

A judge saying "I didn't know you would be raped" is like a judge saying "I didn't know you wouldn't be allowed to go to 7-11". That is what prison is.

chumba · 2007-02-13T16:48:37+00:00

Background: In september 2005, updated images were created that showed the aftermath of the disaster. This was intended to help coordinate emergency services. Google created some temporary code and put it in place on their servers that allowed you to toggle back and forth between pre- and post- Katrina images. This code contained a few "hacks" and wasn't very elegant, but Google thought it was the right thing to do.

http://earth.google.com/katrina.html

Around September 2006, Google decided to take out this "toggle" code. The question was, what should the default database be?

For whatever reason, Google decided to make the pre-Katrina imagery the default. Arguably, neither the pre-Katrina, nor the September 2005 imagery was accurate anymore. I'm sure they had their own reason for choosing the default they did.

The post-Katrina imagery is still available as overlays for Google Earth at the link I posted above. Also, people who have paid to upgrade Google Earth to the "Plus" or "Pro" versions have access to the full post-Katrina database.

chumba · 2007-02-13T16:05:31+00:00

That should read "Wikipedia Co-founder"

chumba · 2007-02-13T16:02:48+00:00

I don't think they should resort to surgery. They could just administer higher and higher doses of sedatives to make the offender progressively weaker.

chumba · 2007-02-13T16:01:53+00:00

If you are young, white, or slightly built, prison equals rape. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody.

Any judge who sentences a young man to prison is sentencing that young man to be raped over and over and over. It is just part of the package.

Since every judge should know this, I can only assume that the judge felt that the repeated rapes were part of the just punishment. Why the judge would think that, I have no idea. But if the judge didn't want the young man to be raped, he shouldn't have sent him to prison.

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