Blackhawk wrote on Jun 7, 2013, 20:04:
Because there are many, many fail-safes designed to ensure that innocent people don't get executed by the state.

Of course, those fail-safes sometimes fail, and the process itself is extremely inefficient.

A study by Columbia University professor James Liebman examined thousands of capital sentences that had been reviewed by courts in 34 states from 1973 to 1995. ""An astonishing 82 percent of death row inmates did not deserve to receive the death penalty,"" he said in his conclusion. ""One in twenty death row inmates is later found not guilty.""

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Jivaro wrote on Jun 7, 2013, 11:39:
Marvel Heroes in a nutshell

DangerDog wrote on Jun 6, 2013, 21:32:
pump the breaks guys.

we need to welcome our console brothers to the way PC gaming has been for years now, except you can't sell any of your used games on Steam.

sure there's some DRM free games on the PC but almost none of the triple A stuff is.

Cutter wrote on Jun 6, 2013, 11:20:
Friend o mine is teaching in Japan atm and was talking about some of the crazy food you can get there. She's also posting pics of their English signs which are all fucked up and funny as hell.

“So I need to write faster. The last two books took a really long time, so I’m hoping this one [the Winds of Winter] will go a little faster. But I make no promises. I found out long ago that when you look at the overall task, the cathedral you have to build, it looks so daunting that you just give up and sit down and play a video game.”

The guidelines said that foods advertised to children must provide “a meaningful contribution to a healthful diet.” For example, any food marketed to children must “contain at least 50% by weight one or more of the following: fruit; vegetable; whole grain; fat-free or low-fat milk or yogurt; fish; extra lean meat or poultry; eggs; nuts and seeds; or beans.”

Specifically, according to General Mills, “of the 100 most commonly consumed foods and beverages in America, 88 would fail the IWG’s proposed standards.” So you see? If you people start eating the way the nutrition experts at the CDC and USDA recommend that you eat, that would delegitimize almost 90 percent of the products we produce!

Cutter wrote on Jun 5, 2013, 15:58:

Prez wrote on Jun 5, 2013, 15:24:
You have GOT to get that dog chipped. Just this week we were able to reunite two dogs with their owners at the animal shelter where I work because of their id chips.

Wish I could volunteer in an animal shelter but there's no way I could deal with it. I can't even walk into one without wanting to blubber and set them all free. Nicely done, man. I do however do most of my charity giving to animal related causes because you know, fuck people.

NegaDeath wrote on Jun 5, 2013, 14:33:

BobBob wrote on Jun 5, 2013, 13:38:
I am sure non slave owners were given the same speech by slave owners. Also, I respect 'mother nature' for its beauty, contribution to the ecosystem, and its ability to rip me to shreds. I enjoy watching the animals from a distance. It doesn't need my human interference.

I agree with you when it comes to wild or exotic animals. But domesticated animals have been bred for millenia to work with humans. They have evolved to the point that being with us is their natural state. Until you invent a time machine to go back 10,000 years and stop the first human who fed a wolf that isn't changing.