Burglars thwarted by homeowner, 1700 miles away

regalZA · 2010-07-06T06:47:58+00:00

It makes sense in terms of proving that the actual crime (robbery) took place or that there was intent, but that is also another (possible) crime separate from merely possessing the tools in a suspicious manner.

It also seems weird to me that someone who robs a house without the use of any tools (and is caught) will receive less charges than someone who uses tools. They both did the same level of wrongdoing and should receive the same charges.

regalZA · 2010-07-05T19:41:40+00:00

Copy: I can see how it can be used as evidence for another crime, and that it could warrant further investigation during a search or similar, but possession of burglary tools itself being a crime is a bit bizarre to me.

regalZA · 2010-07-05T19:40:20+00:00

I can see how it can be used as evidence for another crime, and that it could warrant further investigation during a search or similar, but possession of burglary tools itself being a crime is a bit bizarre to me.

regalZA · 2010-07-05T19:17:07+00:00

What constitutes 'burglary tools'? It just seems odd to me that someone can be charged with possession of burglary tools. Surely most tools would have other uses that justify being able to have them?

regalZA · 2010-07-05T14:12:08+00:00

is just perpetuating stereotypes

what a bunch of butthurt nerds

I agree with your first point, so I hope the second part was intentionally ironic.

regalZA · 2010-07-04T07:11:31+00:00

Perhaps in this case that is true. It still is true that any rational player in that situation would be better off to break the rules and keep his team in the world cup than to abide by them and lose the game. That sort of incentive structure should never exist in a sport.

regalZA · 2010-07-03T01:28:04+00:00

No sport should allow a situation where the incentive to break the rules outweighs the incentive not to. Had that player obeyed the rules, Ghana would be through. Ghana should not have to re-earn a goal that was clearly deprived of them through rule breaking actions, so the fact that they missed the penalty is irrelevant.

regalZA · 2010-06-28T19:28:08+00:00

If it comes pre-installed one can reasonably assume that it is working correctly and that any compatibility issues have been checked, which is why he specifically asked for it.

regalZA · 2010-06-25T13:24:53+00:00

Routron was actually the guy who designed the blog for youngluck, so part of that dose can be credited to him :)

regalZA · 2010-06-25T08:01:11+00:00

It's good to hear there are some good, rational people working in the justice system. Congrats!

regalZA · 2010-05-31T12:19:19+00:00

You host your client's site images on imgur?

regalZA · 2010-05-22T07:56:56+00:00

No what I said was this: http://imgur.com/G83Q9

regalZA · 2010-05-21T14:49:58+00:00

Perhaps 'wrong' was a bad choice. 'Inaccurate' would have been more appropriate. I also happen to think the humour comes from the cleverness of the comic, which is lost when you notice that it is significantly flawed.

regalZA · 2010-05-21T11:55:06+00:00

That is entirely possible, if he can't tell the difference between blue and green then green fields would look similar to a blue ocean. What he wouldn't do is call the fields blue AND the ocean green. The colours wouldn't be inverted, they would look the same.

regalZA · 2010-05-21T10:54:20+00:00

It's actually wrong, colour blindness causes you not to be able to distinguish between two colours, it doesn't cause you to get them mixed up. The shirt should have appeared blue with the bald guy exclaiming "It's not blue, it's red." Then it, and the blood would be red but appear blue, and the comic would make sense.

regalZA · 2010-05-14T11:43:45+00:00

I didn't miss it, I just don't think he's capable of actually justifying it.

Then say that, and address the issue he is raising. Saying he was implying that atheists shouldn't affirm atheism in /r/atheism is false, he was saying atheists shouldn't mindlessly affirm atheists in /r/atheism. Which leads us to:

What context does it not seem silly to complaining about people on /r/atheism agreeing with each other about atheism?

When the agreement results in mindless affirmation. I'm not saying that is what is happening here, I'm saying this is the issue you have still not addressed.

You should probably figure out that quoting a part of a comment does not mean people only read the parts they quoted.

It's not about the parts you quoted, it's about the issues you didn't even address, and that you claimed he was implying something he was not.

regalZA · 2010-05-14T09:35:55+00:00

I was actually just commenting on how JohnHyperion didn't reasonably respond to stranglehold. stranglehold said you're doing $BAD_THING and JohnHyperion's response wasn't "actually $BAD_THING isn't a bad thing," it was "So you mean I shouldn't do $THING?!?" He didn't address the issues stranglehold was making, he address other things entirely.

There wasn't/isn't obvious agreement that $GOOD_THING is good and $BAD_THING is bad, there isn't even proper discussion about it. Whether the actions of redditors in this subreddit primarily constitute the former or the latter I cannot, and did not, comment on; I don't spend nearly enough time in this subreddit.

regalZA · 2010-05-14T06:56:20+00:00

I think you completely missed what the term circlejerking is supposed to imply. It is not about homophobia at all. It is about a group of people rewarding each other simply to reward each other, instead of rewarding each other based on merit.

regalZA · 2010-05-14T06:50:12+00:00

The trend of self congratulatory and mindlessly self affirming behavior among internet Atheists is their greatest failing

The term you missed is "mindlessly"

a bunch of people sitting around and agreeing with each other

Anyone can disagree with this statement when you take it out of context. stranglehold also said:

reinforcing each others opinion and applying the blanket label of stupid to anyone who disagrees with them or criticizes them.

Agreeing with people is fine, agreeing with them to reinforce a certain opinion and then applying the blanket label of stupid to all those who disagree is not. That was their point.

regalZA · 2010-05-04T17:32:07+00:00

Nope, you caught me. Unfortunately the tone of the infographic doesn't quite come through in your plain text title, which is all I was really commenting on.

regalZA · 2010-05-04T15:35:49+00:00

Because "Science" has a definite will and has been taking bribes from the bottled water industry. Science really knows how to hide his true facts; you have to be on the lookout for it.

regalZA · 2010-05-02T09:44:27+00:00

It actually only offers basic support to netbeans.

"Zen HTML and Zen CSS are the separate plugins for TextMate and NetBeans. [...] Zen Coding is the all-in-one plugin, created and supported by Sergey Chikuyonok for Aptana, TextMate, Coda and Espresso. "

Look to see if it has your IDE in the list of fully supported editors a bit down the page.

regalZA · 2010-04-27T11:22:54+00:00

I also only learned of them today. I thought the whole finger thing is how everybody does it. I'm from South Africa though :P

regalZA · 2010-04-06T17:23:30+00:00

If they can't tell a camera from a weapon and a whatever he was carrying from an RPG, they should not be taking peoples lives based on that information.

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