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  1. I am completely opposed to the death penalty. Yes, even for murderers. What good does it do?

     

    1. It deters people, making them think twice before murdering someone.

    It deters people who haven't planned the murder out. It doesn't deter people who have already thought twice (evaluated the consequences) and decided to go with it anyway. Most of these murderers feel like their life isn't worth anything anymore anyway, because of whatever the person they're about to murder did to them.

     

    2. Taxpayer's dollars won't be wasted in providing beds for someone that murdered one they might have loved.

    This is a utilitarian argument. It is a good idea, but is it practical? Killing people to save money gives the impression that the government is mean, hedonistic, capitalistic, and oppressive. Let the utilitarians argue about that for a while and see what they come up with.

     

    3. Justice is done. The punishment fits the crime.

    Define "justice". Even the Bible says, "forgive your oppressors". Does the punishment really fit the crime?

     

    4. The crime will no longer be committed.

    The crime wouldn't be committed if the prisoner was on life without parole, even if only for 24 years. Also, if rehab was successful, the crime would also no longer be committed.

     

    5. You throw away your right to life when you commit a crime.

    No, you don't. You may throw away your other rights, but everyone has a right to life. (That is to say, every living human. I support abortion as well, because the fetus is not a living human, in the sense that it is not living.) Just because you've committed a crime doesn't mean you're not a human anymore. It may seem that way, but it isn't.


  2. True words :o
    im fed up with people who take in their duty to ruin other peoples lives. personally i belive if anyone touches my stuff or me in a threatening way i have every right on the universe to strike em down. The law is nothing. So what the bad guy gets caught all the police do is tell them they should do it tell them not to do it again and let them go! Great justice sherlock.

    But i dont think we should kill them, thats too easy. Instead we kill two birds with one stone. Why tyest on INNOCENT (and usually rather cute) animals when we have prisons full of blokes who think it is right to do such things to women and even to men. Prisons full of people who have murdered, tortured, maimed and wrecked other people and their lives. Perform the darn tests on them guys and girls! I dont care about human rights! If you decide to do such a thing you throw your rights away. Like i said zero tollerance, kill em but even better torture them before they die.

    And dont bring up the whole "but then youre as bad as them argument." I'm not a threat to the public if im taking away the threat. Surely that argument would mean that all police offers who have made an arrest should be in jail? All parents who have ever hit their children (if the kids are being a pin in the a** not just hitting them for fun) should also be hit. That argument just doesnt work anymore.


    Yes, rape is a bad thing. But it doesn't have to go too far.

    Performing prototype medical tests on prisoners is a very draconian law. You're basically using a sledgehammer to kill a peanut.

    There prototype medical tests are VERY underdeveloped, and something could go seriously wrong including severe pain for several years followed by death. Sure, you throw your rights away when you commit a crime. But it doesn't mean you're not a human anymore, and it sure doesn't mean that you can't get them back. You can learn from your mistakes and slowly get your rights and your conscience back.

    Zero tolerance doesn't have to mean zero mercy. Just because that person raped one other person, that person's life doesn't have to end. Neither does the rapist's. Someone else advised that they lock a sign on the rapist's head for 2 years in a row, plus community service. I say make the sign have big flashing lights and say "I AM A RAPIST" in big 240-point letters (the kind that you see in cartoons sometimes), and have them do 3 years' worth or 800 hours of community service, whichever comes last.

    I'm completely opposed to death penalty. Seriously, what good does it do? Sure, it gets rid of a murderer who killed your spouse, but it just kills off more people, and the murderer's friends are probably going to avenge them, by killing a police officer or something. In my opinion, the most someone should be able to get is life without parole for 24 years, what we have here in Canada.

  3. I would have to disagree that Xisto would need a wiki page as everything you need to know about trap is in the Xisto read me, it wouldn't make sense to add more work for the admin and moderators to do. Also it would get lost in the millions of articles that wikipedia already has, and I don't know of too many webhosts that actually have a wiki page since most of them are trying to get their hosting site listed in directories and what not.

    So then we would be unique! Wouldn't that be nice...

  4. Well, one relief from work is superconductors - the resistance is zero. This reduces the work needed to try to transfer the object.The density of space is 2 hydrogen particles per cubic metre? That could create friction, but we can find a way to lower that density down to maybe about 0.02 particles per cubic metre, at least in a laboratory. Let's just hope that it doesn't spontaneously implode.


  5. Well, even if the chloroplasts's structure were to be modified, the hydrogen to use as energy in photosynthesis has to come from somewhere, so the plan would only be 50% efficient, as the chloroplast would have to use at least one hydrogen atom from every photolysis reaction to make the sugar needed. (And a lot of hydrogen is needed too. Sugars are 50% hydrogen!)


  6. I've also noted something:(1) 1 = 1(11) 1 + 1 = 2(21) 2 + 1 = 3(1211) 1 + 2 + 1 + 1 = 5(111221) 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 1 = 8It's too bad 312211 breaks the sequence (10), because this would have been pretty cool as the Fibonacci sequence. Actually, if we disallow 3's and say that 111 must be written as 2111 instead, the next sequence number would be 21112211, which adds up to 11. Still missing a few. If 22 must be written as 1212, then we come up with 2111121211, which is 13, but that's kind of pushing the envelope. After that would be 12212112111221, which is 20, which is still not enough.Anyway, here's something to do: try to prove that if the sequence starts with 1, it is impossible for the digit 4 to appear in this sequence.EDIT: If we say that "1111....1" must be written as 21 and then one "11" for every trailing 1, we get 1221111112111221, which is equal to 21. After that would be 1112122111111111122111121211, which is 35. It just doesn't work, for some reason.


  7. If you can do online shopping, I'd suggest going to TigerDirect to look for a bundle. Their computers are pretty cheap, if only refurbished.The computer I have now cost $549 (currently about ?275) plus tax on a Midnight Madness event (it's $609 without the discount). Here are the specs:Manufacturer: GatewayMotherboard: ?!? (I have no idea where to check for this information.)Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (3.0 Ghz, 2 cores)Hard drive: 500GB SCSI drive (Something about "WDC WDMA 00AAKS-00TMA".)RAM: 2046 MB (1.99 GB, close enough to 2)OS included: Vista (:o)Graphics card: nVIDIA GeForce 8500GT, 256 MB, which is pretty much enough to play games with.It pretty much meets all your requirements. Now the only thing is to try to find one like it. With shipping, i'd say it's about $650 (?325) total.


  8. I dont think we need Xisto on wiki. If people want to find out about Xisto there is always Xisto.com. I dont think we'll be included in wiki because we are a very small community IMO. Sure we have almost 40,000 members but only a small percentage of us are active. Who knows maybe if they have time they will include us in there but I doubt that because I'm sure theres still more popular things out there that are inline to be added still.

    I see. About how many people do you think are actually active on here? I might not be as much, since there are no real topics here that I can comment about.

  9. If the universe is infinite, then there would also be an infinite number of kinds of worlds, no?

     

    Also, there is also the multiverse theory, which states that there are multiple universes outside of our own that are exploding and crunching, etc. and only in this world would we find another Xisto or whatever it is. This would be the cosmologist's defense of nonbelief, because the cosmologist states that because there are an infinite number of universes out there, at least one, the one we live in now, should have some sort of viable life in it, according to Drake's equation.


  10. I am not an American, but am answering this reply as an observer of American Football. My choice is the Canadian Football League where the Rules of Football have not yet been altered to provide a better Television Experience. Canadian Football is played with a Wider field, 3 downs only, Deeper End-zones, 12 players on the field (1 more than American), Motion allowed in the backfield towards the 'line', etcetara.Truly a better game... :o


    Not to mention that American football is a spinoff of Canadian football; they just chipped off 10 yards and a player and threw in a down so that the game would be easier. (Or at least that's what my health textbook tells me. I have yet to see the truth.)

  11. Okay I'll do that. Of course, I did just install it from scratch when the error came up... I'll try again.*bump* EDIT: Okay, I found a support answer on the WordPress docs page. It says: The headers sent errors are probably syntax errors in the text files.It must be something wrong with the text editor then...because it works now.


  12. Hotmail for me, hotmails just an easier option rather than. With hotmail Im able to chat to my friend who all use hotmail. I hardly ever use Gmail apart from my work. Gmail is cool because your able to change the @ address but hotmails just better I guess.

    Really? You can change the @ address?

    And IMO, Gmail is better. (XD)

    Hotmail is called Windows Live Mail now. It has 2 GB of storage, compared to about 6 GB with GMail.

    Gmail has POP3 support; only Hotmail Plus accounts have such a feature.

    Um... not sure about anything else, those are the only things I really care about.

  13. Hey there guys, I've tried to register on Qupis on 25. January, but my package has still the status "pending" and I've heard form other guys their was activated almost instantly. I've also sent an email to the crew of Qupis, but got no reply? Should I open another account or wait, because it looks like nothing is going to move...
    Thanks for any info..

    Oh, I almost forgot if any of the admins will take a look there - my domain is markdebeljak.qupis.com!

    Cheers


    Maybe it's because you're already hosted here at Xisto? Just my 2 cents.
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