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From: Wanna-Be Sys Admin on 7 Oct 2009 18:47 Aragorn wrote: > On Thursday 08 October 2009 00:07 in comp.os.linux.misc, somebody > identifying as Aragorn wrote... > >> [...] I would still oppose the execution of Adolf Hitler as the >> consequence of a trial in which he is found guilty. However, I would >> have opposed the assassination of Adolf Hitler [...] > ^^^^ > Should be "not have opposed", of course. > I read it twice in your post and figured that's what you meant. Personally, (not that this is the "other choice"), I think money spent to imprison people of that caliber of evil should instead be spent on people that need it (like starving children) and to snuff the convict out. I mean, that's a pretty extreme example of a criminal and you think he should just be locked up post-trial because killing him doesn't help anyone? Well, if I was a victim, I'd sure feel vindicated. Say you were faced with a choice of executing Hitler and giving the $5M it would cost to house him for life to people that need it to live (and no longer suffer), or housing him because of your moral views when you know what he did and that he is guilty. I'd rather see someone else's life be saved that the money could be used for. Of course, we don't have that choice anyway, so the debate is moot. -- Not really a wanna-be, but I don't know everything.
From: Wanna-Be Sys Admin on 7 Oct 2009 18:50 Aragorn wrote: > I'm not insulting him. I am stating an analysis, which I myself find > to be quite accurate. Please, at least admit you had the intent to insult, discredit, and mock Sid. No one will fault you for it. Otherwise you're doing this (posting your mock-up psych-profile) for what reason (based on some nobody trolling usenet and you want to say it's accurate)? -- Not really a wanna-be, but I don't know everything.
From: Wanna-Be Sys Admin on 7 Oct 2009 18:52 John Hasler wrote: > Wanna-Be Sys Admin writes: >> Faced with that decision, it's cheaper to just get an old discarded >> seringe and some cheap bulk draino liquid and inject the guy, and >> then burn the remains. Or, just save on the draino and set him on >> fire until there's nothing left. > > And then discover that you got the wrong guy (something governments do > with great frequency and the only valid argument against the death > penalty). My view on it, is if there is undeniable evidence, not just a jury that decided they must have done it (but proof in the form of video or something similarly worthy). Otherwise, I honestly don't know what to think about the topic. -- Not really a wanna-be, but I don't know everything.
From: Wanna-Be Sys Admin on 7 Oct 2009 18:52 Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: > But - when everything exists only in his imagination - how comes that > KDE etc. exist at all? The only possible explanation: he has invented > it himself, and now he is displeased by his own invention. Possible > solution: undo Linux and Usenet, and reinvent it so that it behaves as > you want it to behave. Retry as often as you like, until all other > fictive persons agree with you. Don't try to change the misbehaved > world, simply extinct and rebuild it! :-] > That was awesome. -- Not really a wanna-be, but I don't know everything.
From: spike1 on 7 Oct 2009 18:58
And verily, didst Sidney Lambe <sidneylambe(a)nospam.invalid> hastily babble thusly: > These people (there are a lot fewer of them than there seems to > be) are simply not capable of staying on subject. It's you who is incapable of flexibility. We've seen your waffle 500 times now, there is nothing more that needs to be said to trounce your arguments into a messy puddle in the ground, so, whether you like it or not, PREPARE FOR TOPIC DRIFT. -- | spike1(a)freenet.co.uk | | | Andrew Halliwell BSc | "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't | | in | suck is probably the day they start making | | Computer science | vacuum cleaners" - Ernst Jan Plugge | |