3,511 Forum Posts by "JudgeDredd"
At 4/6/11 09:57 AM, FUNKbrs wrote: Sorry, just got to kick the fire a little bit here...
You guys do know that petroleum is a known carcinogen, right? The main problem with nuclear radiation is that small doses can cause cancer.... but so can exposure to gasoline fumes.
Okay, speaking of fire...
When BP had that wee spill in the Gulf, they were forced by the US Govt to pay some 20 BILLION (or more) for cleanup and compensation for lost income to businesses; fishing, tourism, etc.
Is TEPCO going to pay compensation to Japanese fishermen, food producers, house owners, lost tourism, etc?
So far i've only heard that Japan's major banks are gonna LEND TEPCO about 25 BILLION to repair their network and clean up the mess at the Fukushima plant. That's 25 BILLION not being spent on people who have lost everything due the tsunami. TEPCO is something like the 5th biggest Power company in the world. So where's the money? Where's their accident insurance cover? Why do they need to BORROW 25 BILLION the first time they have an accident?
Note: BP made an immediate commitment to compensate people. I haven't heard TEPCO make any such commitment.
In fact most governments (the UK for one) make provisions that nuke power companies should not be held responsible for the costs of cleaning up after an accident, simply because they can't reasonably be expected to handle such a massive expense. This differs with greatly petroleum accidents.
Moreover, for the purposes of cleanup, BP sprayed coagulant to stop the oil surfacing, and of the oil that did surface, they collected or burnt a large proportion of it.
TEPCOs only solution so far is to spill vast amounts highly radioactive water directly into Japan's COASTAL fisheries. That pretty much shows that they have no way of dealing with radioactive waste. They had no procedure for collecting it, and are only now scrambling for a solution. They just weren't prepared for any accident.
So while oil companies are often required to spend large amounts on things like accident insurance and ready procedures for cleanup, the nuke power industry considers such things as a kind of taboo, as if it's best not even thought about.
Right. And the difference between an ounce and a gram is almost 30 times as much.
X-Terrorist's quantity was "under a gram". First and foremost, cops and courts don't give a shit about the quality (or lack thereof) of weed. You could have the weakest shit on earth (male leaf for example) and get same punishment for the most potent shit on earth (and believe me, there's some REAL potent shit out there).
Does it matter if you drink 5 light-beers and drive, versus drinking the same quantity (liquid volume) of high-end spirits? FUCK YEAH! Then why is weed treated so differently?
For example "under a gram" of male leaf will hardly get a person stoned. You'd get a worse physical reaction being a non-smoker and having a whole single cigarette.
At 4/8/11 09:01 PM, poxpower wrote: I mean, seriously, what would happen if my plate said "FUK OFF"? Oh, right, NOTHING. At worst, someone would vandalize your car, at which point you'd be legally required to break their legs with a crow bar.
*puts DAG hat on*
Where do u stand on hate speech, high-school bullying, and sexual harassment?
At 4/7/11 02:15 PM, Iron-Hampster wrote:
Right now, the only people who are taking advantage of the fact that it is illegal are the criminals who make a fortune off of it.
At 4/7/11 11:20 AM, Camarohusky wrote:At 4/7/11 05:45 AM, JudgeDredd wrote: Look, I'm just trying to use American friendly terms. Where i live they have right of entry on "suspicion of drugs". No warrant needed.Same here in the US. If they have probable cause that a crime is being committed, or that evidence being destroyed (and yes, smoking marijuana is destroying it)
Yeah, each country has it's own nuance in the wording for warrantless search.
US is "probable cause".
Aussie is "reasonable suspicion".
NZ is "reasonable grounds".
Quote: "Warrantless powers have developed in a rather haphazard manner, and in some instances it is difficult for the officers exercising those powers to know the basis for them, when they can be exercised and their exact scope."
On the one hand, it might preclude entry when the officer has not personally witnessed an offence. But in recent cases "a smell of cannabis" has been reasonable grounds for entry (as Camarohusky has suggested) believing evidential material is at risk. Problem is, cannabis is VERY smelly, regardless if it's being grown or smoked, and can waft around and linger, such that it's often hard to tell which building it's actually coming from.
Sure, cannabis is very distinctive, but there are also many legal herbal substitutes that try to mimic the smell and appearance such that an untrained officer might not tell the difference.
At 4/7/11 02:02 AM, Korriken wrote: at this point, you're grasping at straws. what are the odds of that even happening? someone leaving their stash behind?
You were the one talking about hiding evidence. Someone else suggested stoners forgetting where they put it. It happens all the time, so not as far fetched as you're imagining, cos yeah, we're always having to hide our stash (hence the name) even in our own homes.
the cops would have no grounds to search your place on suspicion that "someone saw a drug dealer in the area. we need to search your house" would be one of the most lawyer friendly search warrants ever.
Look, I'm just trying to use American friendly terms. Where i live they have right of entry on "suspicion of drugs". No warrant needed.
At 4/7/11 12:47 AM, LazyDrunk wrote:At 4/6/11 06:38 PM, Korriken wrote: I simply follow the law, pursuing my ambitions within the realm of the law, or at least not be dumb enough to leave evidence lying around.So you view pot-smoking as a crime against society? Or just leaving it around? You seem to be arguing two different things, or merely claiming one and accepting another.
He hasn't thought the possibility of moving into a furnished flat, and then have the cops knock on the door some days later ("someone seen selling drugs outside the residence") with a search warrant, and finding some other guys stash under a broken floorboard. Another person's hidden evidence. And sounds like he would diligently check all floors, walls, and ceiling spaces of any hotels he might happen to stay at.
At 4/6/11 06:38 PM, Korriken wrote: you completely miss the point. The law is the law.
You shouldn't be comparing murder with possession of 1 gram of pot. Half the time the law is what a cop, lawyer, or judge says it is. In some countries you pay up and walk. Even diplomatic immunity puts people outside of the law. (as recently happened in Pakistan with murder).
Law is not the law like comparing apples. I bet i could even come up with a scenario where you can't not break the law. What would you do then? Suicide? Oh no, suicide is illegal! Even if i stand perfectly still and simply die of thirst/hunger it's breaking a law! If you find yourself in a situation where you can't not break a law, then your whole argument fails.
Could always pull a Singapore and start hanging drug dealers. I'm all for that.
Like yeah.. ^THAT^ explains everything!
Even drug dealers have families. You're creating victims, and potentially more fucked up lives.
I simply follow the law, pursuing my ambitions within the realm of the law, or at least not be dumb enough to leave evidence lying around.
If you have no evidence, how can you defend false accusations?
I don't see your point. breaking the law won't change it.
Of course it changes it. Cause and effect. Prisions fill up, countries go bankrupt, laws change.
Ever had someone lie against you under oath? No?!ummm. no I stay out of court. Also, how does this play into the current discussion of marijuna law or law in general?
Because X-Terrorist didn't say how he was caught possessing 1 gram of pot in his dorm. He "kept it short" and didn't even admit to smoking it. (haven't checked his older posts, but that's besides the point) He could have been set up! May have decided for whatever reason (blackmail) to take the punishment, but still thinks he got a raw deal. Who knows?! But it's easy to end up in court by false accusation, or perhaps planted evidence. Someone with a grudge against you, and so on and so forth.
Heard of one law for rich, and another law for poor?I don't see how this has anything to do with the marijuana law.
It's saying that the law is one thing to one person, and completely another to another. The consequences of fines and such are absolutely nothing if you're a billionaire, compared say with someone who's forced to do jail time simply cos of unpaid fines.
At 4/6/11 09:57 AM, FUNKbrs wrote: Sorry, just got to kick the fire a little bit here...
OMFG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!
Okay fuck it, let's make nuke rocket ships. Getting off this planet is higher priority than worrying about a little radiation in the atmosphere.
It's not like petroleum is gonna last another 50 years anyhow. We're pretty much fucked unless we start mining the moon of all it's Helium3. Should have a decent war over the moon while we're at it!
*popcorn*
The year is 2050, China & America have sucked the Earth dry...
At 4/6/11 08:44 AM, Korriken wrote: If someone shot a relative of mine and i tracked them down and shot them back..
Dude, he's not revenging someone's death! lol
There are many laws I disagree with. Doesn't mean I have the right to ignore the ones I don't like.
So you moved state? Or do you put up and shut up?
You know how laws change right? Yeah, slavery used to be legal.
Ever had someone lie against you under oath? No?!
Heard of one law for rich, and another law for poor?
Ever experienced a mis-justice? Let us know when you do.
For China and other countries it allows an opportunity to review their Nuclear Energy strategy before barreling into it. For instance, Fukushima's reactors had two types of backup systems, passive in one reactor, and active in the others, yet both failed. So now they're talking about backup diversity in newer reactors, which is more common sense approach, even thou it costs more.
Not to mention putting storage pools of depleted rods right above working reactors. Who's dumb idea was that? Are they doing this just to save money? Is it a complexity issue to have them stored seperately? These questions need answering, cos just saying "don't fret, they're old designs" doesn't really explain why TEPCO continued running such an obsolete configuration some 40 years after they were first designed, and moreover, ignoring warnings of the potential (vindicated) risks of doing so.
At 4/5/11 07:47 PM, X-TERRORIST-X wrote: What is your opinion?
They would prefer for you to sell your PS3 to buy addictive alcohol and killing brain cells whilst chain-smoking tobacco to pay for national health of millions of morbidly obese people or occasional sky-diving and skiing accidents. Then you should die relatively quickly from lung cancer, liver disease, or congestive heart failure, just to save the health system another bob or two. But don't drink/drive causing GBH, cos that'll makes them look like hypocrites.
No one ever dies from pot.. so yeah.. ^that's^ the real reason.
Have you learnt your lesson now?!
At 4/4/11 09:28 PM, Gunner-D wrote: Donald Trump is engaging in the Sarah Palin method of staying on TV.
^By same logic.. Arnie for President!
...** THE PRESIDENTINATOR **
All it needs is constitutional law change.. o_O
At 4/4/11 11:12 PM, Elfer wrote: If we're going to use Fukushima as a benchmark for the safety of nuclear power, it's worth noting that the damage done by the nuclear incidents that occurred there pale in comparison to the disaster that it took to cause them.
It's easier to count missing people, than child deformity caused by radiation. It's easier to count lost homes, than future financial damage caused by people not wanting to live within 100km of Fukushima or some other nuke plant. Ultimately, you're really comparing a natural disaster, with a man-made one, so it's an unfair example, but even if we say "many trillions of yen", then that's what could have been spent on alternative energy.
Furthermore, different types of power work for different countries. On the island of Honshu, you can never be a hundred miles inland. In North America, you can easily be hundreds of miles from the coast.
Japan is fine for wave, wind, geo, bio, and surely lot's of newer solutions to coe. Nuclear is a bit of a soft option for a presently very hi-tech country like Japan, despite their huge population and such difficulties in the past.
At 3/30/11 05:50 PM, FUNKbrs wrote:
Big Oil only got so powerful when S T U P I D H I P P I E S...
Big Oil ...Big Nuclear ...Big Banks funding it. It all leads to corporate greed man.
I think Modern Hippies (Techies) are more about producing power as & where it's needed, and better storage of any power produced.
When is nuclear energy gonna be portable? No time soon.
When is nuclear energy gonna be easily produced at home? Never we hope.
Solar? Already, Improving.
Wind? Possible.
Biofuels? Why Not.
Others? Many. Can't Wait!
Doomsday Prophets (isn't that a band name?) privately hope that great swathes of people die off suddenly, so that they might live in a new world free of rules and useless folk, like money traders. These people should be forced to work in dangerous hazard conditions at space exploration companies. At least when we begin to colonize another planet, they'll have first dibs on cheap tickets, and somewhere to go 'live the dream'. Experimental Space Monkeys!
At 3/29/11 04:17 AM, Friday wrote: Anyone care to inform me?
We talk about noobs/idiots behind their back in our secret hidout...
wha' ya mean it's not secret? HEY, WHO TURNED OFF THE CLOAK DAMMIT!!!
True that current solar panels and wind turbines are still expensive propositions, but the indications are that both these are going nano scale, so that adding solar or wind power to a home/shack/shelter will be no more costly than applying an advanced coat of paint, then we just need devices which run on lower voltage, kinda like smartphones do today.
I like your thinking on transportation. Could see that working really well as an interim solution.
At 3/28/11 09:50 PM, SevenSeize wrote: Shrike has a woman. Hopefully he's keeping her in the kitchen where she belongs.
But every kitchen appliance has the interwebs.. outing a partners overbearing ways is just a tap-tap on a screen away. She should patiently wait until he's rich or famous. Timing is everything.
At 2/27/11 07:27 PM, MrPercie wrote: you make it sound like america will go from world power nation to a shit hole just overnight.
Compounding debt generally gives the appearance of something being not what it really is. Until the debt stops climbing, no one can say what's hidden beneath the pile of IOUs.
At 3/28/11 02:44 PM, FUNKbrs wrote: What I don't think people have been informed about is the "ocean effect" on nuclear radiation.
What people haven't been wised up to is the "singularity" of systems evolution, and the distribution system that has spread combustion engines so far and wide that they almost outnumber people on Earth. (including all those lead acid batteries)
Luckily I grew up with a dad who was a reactor operator on the boomer sub the Von Steuben.
Luckily those Nuke subs haven't caught on or we'd all have one by now.
Radiation works in terms of half life.
If what you say is true, then why do they still bury stuff in Idaho, instead of dumping it into ocean chasms like they used to do?
Here's what i'm trying to say. Technology is evolving exponentially, and i'd say that in 20 years we'll have the whole power problem solved, but it takes 15 to 20 years to develop nuke reactors, and perhaps 50 to 100 years to clean up afterwards. The smaller the production system, the faster it can evolve. Nuke power plants are like toxic dinosaurs, compared with scurrying mice that evolved into humans.
Even if we evolve nuclear power into a "small and safe" breeder scale reactors, then every decent sized city on Earth will want one, which means many THOUSANDS of smaller reactors! That's not a road we want to go down with the likely future we're now heading for. If we invested even half that money on evolving wave/solar/wind/geo/hydro/recapture/refu se/etc/etc/etc, then we'd be developing real solutions for living, put into the hands of end users, and not by pushing people into poverty/riots thru government & big business monopolies constantly upping the cost of petro/power on futures trading based on global conflicts, leaving citizens with not much energy alternatives just as we have today.
At 3/28/11 12:18 PM, FUNKbrs wrote: Zombies, the lot of them.
Transfixus sed non mortuus.. ;O)
I saw'em, properly eating brains and all that.
nom nom..
Facebook? What's that?!? :P
How's things in NZ? Heard they dropped a firewall on you.
Firewall, more like a brickwall. Japan = 9.0, ours was 11,000 times smaller (6.3) but still turned our city into a post-apocolyptic movie scene. Army cordons and all that shit.
Also, played a gig with Kiwis To Byrne (I think that's how it's spelled). A cool bunch of guys from NZ with a sort of folky-punk acoustic pub music sound.
*rubs grizzly chin*
I should know them ..but i don't. Flight of the Concord's Rhys Darby doin' the robot is more likely. Did i say i gotta get out this fu*kn island cuntry b4 i goe totallly nuts.. oops too L8! heh. =)
At 3/14/11 11:46 AM, animehater wrote: Nothing truly great happens without some risk involved. Besides, its not like a huge earthquake/tsunami damaging nuclear reactors is a common occurrence, so I think we're still good..
A tiny rock (200m~300m meteorite) hitting the ocean might kill a few million directly, but could also trigger dozens of Nuclear meltdowns. Are you suggesting we have an adequate defense for something like that?
At 3/15/11 02:13 PM, Grammer wrote: Also, whatever happened to fli, Maus, SevenSeize, Proteas, cd6, avie, Begoner, and a bunch of other regulars who I can't remember andihopetheywonthatemefornotrememberingt heirnames?
And what about; Funkbr, Rmd, Red, Befell, Gooie, Illustrious, Grim, DrArbitrary, Shrike, Shih, BWS, MrPopnFresh, Cannibal, True-lies, PunkDisease, Nitro... to name a few more. :)
At 12/17/08 04:29 PM, morefngdbs wrote: I just won an e-bay auction for 3- 100 Billion Zimbabwean Dollar notes.
Think i'll hold back until there's a 1 Google Zimbabwe-note. At this rate it'll be sometime in 2010.
Hey, speaking of big numbers.. we're pretty due for the 6th Annual NG Poli Awards.
Previously...
2003 Awards by Dredd
2004 Awards by JOS
2005 Awards by Redskunk
2006 Awards by IllustriousPotentate
2007 Awards by Reviewer-general
Rule recap:
"Not to be run by a Mod"
"Not to be run by same person twice"
A volunteer host not going on jolidays, leave ya name.
(estimate bout 1 week for voting)
At 12/11/08 11:54 PM, Proteas wrote: I want one of these (preferably gas powered if at all possible) and I want to bone the chick wearing the juclesia costume.
Waa, sugoi daiyo!
That Mai Shiranui render looks as hawt as the chick in the actual photos..
At 12/8/08 12:40 PM, Korriken wrote: someone can steal my ideas for money, I'll just come back after they've made millions and sue em.
They'll spend more than you can afford on lawyers keeping the case delayed in court proceedures until you're bankrupt and homeless ..nice try.
At 12/8/08 02:09 PM, poxpower wrote:At 12/8/08 11:16 AM, FUNKbrs wrote:So you'd put it in a heavily armed kill-bot to ensure it got to it's destination!? AWESOME!!!I'd rather go for a toy plane.
Hmm.. where have i heard that recently...?
At 12/8/08 07:58 AM, JudgeDredd wrote:But... mad also in the "LOL I'M CRAZY FOR KILLBOTS!!" kind of way. US vernacular=mad=angry. Yeah, I know, I know. Stupid yanks...
What can i say? Kill Bots and Deadly Aliens are certainly tied to the American psyche. It's therefore not surprising fighting robots is the main focus for such enthusiasts.. it makes for better television.
Ach, the Unabomber got away with it for a LOOOOOONG time, and if a hairy dude living in a shack in the middle of nowhere isn't "Captain Watchlist"..
And was he tracked down because of the wires he used? I think we're talking something just a tad more 21st century, yanno.. with a chip in it.
Let's face it, anything more complicated than a remote controlled toy needs coding, and anything coded is like reading the autobiography of teh hacker.Hmmm... explain? I'm uneducated on this.
Well, task oriented technology off-the-shelf is not going to be seek & destroy, unless it's ex-military, and that stuff is not sold thru ebay. We're talking perhaps a million lines of code minimum. Even if you patchwork a bunch of scripts from a pirated version of Mech Warrior 5, it's still gonna leave ALOT of work to do. Anyone THAT good is definately gonna be all LOL on the net about how awesome they are and generally bragging about it.
Heck. Just posting on a topic like this puts me ALOT higher on the "teh list" :-P
dun Dun DUNN!!!!!
DOH!
Oh yeah, and i think this topic is futher evidence why Japan is not yet selling CareBots%u2122 to the worlds most eager haxxorz.
You can't trust the internet hate machine... >:(
Internet hasn't come very far in the AI department. Seek and destory on the internet..? Well now, there's another topic altogether.
At 12/8/08 09:35 AM, Der-Lowe wrote:At 12/7/08 07:47 PM, Zeistro wrote: Allow the free market to run its course.Yeah, credit crunch, deflation and depression.
With the alternative being; unmanageable debt, printing money, hyper-inflation, world war aka total economic collapse.
At 12/7/08 01:50 PM, FUNKbrs wrote:At 12/5/08 02:14 PM, poxpower wrote: Plus, imagine what you'd ACTUALLY need to make a robot yourself. The list of parts would be traced right back to you in 5 minutes.It's really not that high tech of a concept.
quote from the same post.. "THE PERSON MAKING IT, THEREFORE, IS A MAD SCIENTIST."
Mwhaahahaa! "MAD SCIENTIST" in CAPS!!1 ..."MAD" being a synonym for crazed genius. LoL &-)
Not to mention you'd need to be a genius and part of a pretty small list of people who could do that.
If you can buy a fucking Roomba for a couple hundred, you can get parts for a bot without popping up on the crystal meth watchlist..... The list is not short.
Sure.. the list is not that short. Infact the "troubled techno-dweeb" list is about as long as lists come, simply because everything they do is digitally logged. But it also wouldn't take a fellow techno-wiz working for "the man" about 60ms to shortlist the culprit on his or her bluegenie connected lapdog.
Let's face it, anything more complicated than a remote controlled toy needs coding, and anything coded is like reading the autobiography of teh hacker.
Heck. Just posting on a topic like this puts me ALOT higher on the "teh list" :-P
Oh yeah, and i think this topic is futher evidence why Japan is not yet selling CareBots%u2122 to the worlds most eager haxxorz.
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