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- Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:33 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Capital Punishment - again.
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7434
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:02 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Capital Punishment - again.
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7434
If you care more about isolating prisoners than preparing them for healthy social lives, you are building yourself a problem for when the prisoners get out. Drugs will get you sitting in a customs room explaining yourself. Worse may happen in one out of ten thousand or so cases, but dying when your ...
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:49 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Capital Punishment - again.
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7434
- Wed Jun 23, 2010 2:58 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Complete Randomness
- Replies: 2889
- Views: 629836
Oi, Americans, what is WITH some of your states?! To counter, here's a state cutting American history up to and including Lincoln out of the history curriculum. Do you prefer your schools teaching the free market and and downplaying slavery, or that America began with segregation and failed reconst...
- Wed Jun 23, 2010 2:18 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Capital Punishment - again.
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7434
- Wed Jun 23, 2010 1:42 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Movies A - Z
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1007434
- Wed Jun 23, 2010 6:20 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: ender's game characters/maturity
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2547
Children don't think they're immature. Ender's Game is written from the children's perspective, so it's their own reasoning that looks rational and the adults' reasoning that looks muddled and inattentive. Don't you remember a childhood of watching grown-ups ignore things that seemed profound and pr...
- Wed Jun 23, 2010 2:17 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Capital Punishment - again.
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7434
It was a maximalist, obviously exagerated statement >_> i shouldn't even have to explain that. Sorry, I'm bad at judging exaggeration. Did you read the rest of my post, from the 3rd paragraph on, that wasn't about yours? They have power to exert violence to prevent crime inside the prision. Maybe t...
- Wed Jun 23, 2010 1:57 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Movies A - Z
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1007434
I: Ink Anti-recommending Ink , I guess. Ugh. I think I'd recommend Irreversible in it's place. Since it keeps coming up, I gotta ask: which Ink? You probably mean the independent film distributed mostly by torrent and piracy about the war of good and evil fought in our dreams. But IMDB lists 7 othe...
- Wed Jun 23, 2010 1:48 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Capital Punishment - again.
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7434
First step would probably be firing all the staff and guards, and hiring new blood. That's a bigger deal that you might imagine. If you fire everyone in an industry, you're restricting from employment anyone with experience or proven ability in the field. Also, what justice is there in firing the a...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:28 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Capital Punishment - again.
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7434
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:25 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Quotes
- Replies: 365
- Views: 140055
I'm not much for poetry, but since Val brought it up I've always liked The Highwayman. Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky, With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high! Blood-red were his spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat, When ...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:33 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Movies A - Z
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1007434
G: Grave of the Fireflies One of the greatest films ever made. A triumph of cinema. In any genre - animated or not - it ranks among the most potent (anti)-war movies in history. Hard to argue. Better than All Quiet on the Western Front. Though I have to admit, I originally picked it up for the artw...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:30 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Reaction to Enders Game
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10104
Re: reaction
With the right software, an Apple iPad would work pretty well.I would love to have something like the desk that Ender had.
- Mon Jun 21, 2010 1:51 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Capital Punishment - again.
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7434
An especially corrupt form of vigilantism, too. I agree with your motivations, but can anything reasonable be done? Victims don't like to admit to it, prisoners generally know how to avoid detection through daily practice. Apart from universal solitary confinement, I don't know what protections the ...
- Mon Jun 21, 2010 1:35 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Movies A - Z
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1007434
- Mon Jun 21, 2010 10:06 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Movies A - Z
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1007434
- Mon Jun 21, 2010 8:15 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Movies A - Z
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1007434
Some unsolicited recommendations (assuming you haven't seen them yet): F: The Forgotten G: Grave of the Fireflies J: The Journey of Natty Gann T: Treasure Planet Hrm... I like this idea. I think I'll make a list of my own, with a focus on classics. Imagine a list of every move you've ever seen. How ...
- Fri Jun 18, 2010 8:37 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: I, for one, welcome our new gelatinous overlords...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1649
- Fri Jun 18, 2010 10:58 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Capital Punishment - again.
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7434
- Fri Jun 18, 2010 10:29 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Capital Punishment - again.
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7434
- Fri Jun 18, 2010 9:54 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Clean Cup, Move Down!
- Replies: 35
- Views: 9234
Unlike Voltaire or Dawkins (or Carl Sagan, who I also considered), Ayn Rand thinks she is God. =] More seriously, she's said some interesting things about what she'd say to God if she met Him. Not ask. Say. You know that's gonna be good entertainment. I suppose it's possible to make a list of atheis...
- Fri Jun 18, 2010 8:44 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Summer Reading
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12242
- Fri Jun 18, 2010 8:41 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: I, for one, welcome our new gelatinous overlords...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1649
But I thought global warming just killed everything indiscriminately, and the only way to stop it was to burn cash instead of fossil fuels. =] neo-dragon : The description of a jellyfish repeatedly returning to it's childhood stage and aging all over again sounds quite a bit like Magneto's reoccurri...
- Fri Jun 18, 2010 8:34 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: The Race Relations/Diversity/Equality Thread
- Replies: 586
- Views: 124742
Looks like I have lots to answer to. Because my understanding of the actuality of the melting pot metaphor is assimilation That's how it's commonly used, yes. But the use of the metaphor doesn't match the physical event it actually describes. I like the metaphor as said better than as intended. I do...
- Fri Jun 18, 2010 7:43 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Capital Punishment - again.
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7434
- Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:57 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Clean Cup, Move Down!
- Replies: 35
- Views: 9234
- Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:51 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: I, for one, welcome our new gelatinous overlords...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1649
- Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:47 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: Capital Punishment - again.
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7434
Making people work and depriving them of the financial rewards of their work is indistinguishable from slavery, which we've decided is universally immoral. Execution is distinguishable from murder in that first there's an orderly trial based on laws, evidence, and logic in which the accused are allo...
- Tue Jun 15, 2010 3:21 pm
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Reaction to Enders Game
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10104
I know a guy that's very much like Peter: he ranges from indifferent to abusive in his treatment of people generally, but he is completely brilliant (smartest guy I know, and I know a Ph.D. astrophysicist and a rocket scientist), is absolutely obsessive in his career, and is very adept at leadership...
- Tue Jun 15, 2010 12:21 pm
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: The Race Relations/Diversity/Equality Thread
- Replies: 586
- Views: 124742
I know what the melting pot refers to. I'm saying it doesn't fit. There is no alloy. The cultures are always going to be separate. The different metals are still indestructibly there in the alloy. It's not like the atoms become different elements. An alloy is a sum, not a blend. I don't see where t...
- Tue Jun 15, 2010 10:33 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: The Race Relations/Diversity/Equality Thread
- Replies: 586
- Views: 124742
I'm here late, so it'll be a big post while I catch up. I know a number of black mothers (and it's always mothers. Fathers don't seem to care) who encourage their children to marry a white person. Why? I can sum it up with one quote that I've heard pass through the lips of many black mothers, someti...
- Tue Jun 15, 2010 3:28 am
- Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Topic: Would the FPE work in real life?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 17445
The bugger invasions always reminded me of Watchmen, and vice-versa. Not sure which came first. The first Watchmen comic was published in September of 1986. The novel Ender's Game was published in 1985, based on the short story of the same name published in August 1977. Ender's Game came first. FPE...
- Fri Jun 11, 2010 7:40 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: You Can't Hide from a Supernova
- Replies: 51
- Views: 14224
- Wed Jun 09, 2010 7:13 am
- Forum: Milagre Town Square
- Topic: YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10011
If an act of violence is in progress and the violent effects can be prevented with a lesser use of violence, the lesser use of violence is justified. For example, it is acceptable to kill one person to prevent that person's murder of two others. It is a net reduction in the violation of rights. It i...