But you didn't type rm *.* in your home directory and hit return, did you? It is still currently salvagable. Not a dummy. Just damp.
A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend.
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 31 But Looks 29
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Jan 11, 2005 10:52:46 am PST #4847 of 10002
Topic!Cindy - Jan 11, 2005 10:52:59 am PST #4848 of 10002
What is even happening?
What can be done to her that's as bad as what she's got to live with?
If I kill someone and feel really bad, I don't need any other punishment?No, that's why I also said I have no problem with her being charged with something. The post was in response to someone saying they didn't know what she'd be charged with, if anything.
That's the thing. If she drove into the water with another adult who wound up dead, no one would think twice about charging her with something.I don't think that this has anything to do with it being a child. I think it's just like, "Oh, shit, we don't have a stupidity and arrogance charge. What fits?" I have no more or less problem with her being charged with anything because it was a kid, I just think it is bound to pale in comparison. I know three people who were driving cars involved in fatal accidents. Not one of them had been drinking, or high, or anything, and none had bad driving records. They all had to be charged. The legal charges were like getting bapped with a nerf ball, compared to the lead pipe beating about the head, of knowing they'd killed someone--in two cases, someone (an adult) they loved.
aurelia - Jan 11, 2005 10:53:18 am PST #4849 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I read they're thinking of fining drivers who drove past barricades. Making them pay for the rescue effort.
It seems like every year they talk about doing this to people who get stranded on ice out in the lake.
Nutty - Jan 11, 2005 10:53:36 am PST #4850 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Somebody mistakenly sent out an email which went out Firmwide. Thousands of people.
Could be worse. My last job was still winceing from the global email flamewar that somebody started -- she sent out a personal, inflammatory reaction to Sept. 11 to the whole multinational, eleventy-hundred-subsidiary, yes-we-have-an-office-in-Singapore company. And every single reply was Reply All. And people argued back and forth for more than a week before someone in the tech office called up each one personally to tell them to shut the hell up. Before it all ended, it crashed the server. Rumor has it she got fired, but I've never been able to verify that.
brenda m - Jan 11, 2005 10:54:19 am PST #4851 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Jesus Fucking Christ.
Somebody mistakenly sent out an email which went out Firmwide. Thousands of people.
And NOW dozebns of people are replying ALSO FIRMWIDE that they got the email in error. How fucking stupid do you have to be to add your "me too" to the mistake?
Morons at my former BigInternationalCompany managed to shut down our entire email system for two days doing that.
tommyrot - Jan 11, 2005 10:55:35 am PST #4852 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
In some European country, they started charging to rescue mountain climbers who climbed the mountain despite weather warnings. IIRC the average charge is $50,000.
Cashmere - Jan 11, 2005 10:58:26 am PST #4853 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
I think it's just like, "Oh, shit, we don't have a stupidity and arrogance charge. What fits?"
I'm not saying I'd like to see her in jail. She'll certainly suffer enough for her arrogance/stupidity without jail. But I think society needs the nerf babs--if only to serve as a warning to others to THINK before they do something incredibly stupid. It probably has the same deterrent effect the death penalty has on murderers but it helps ease society's outrage.
Nilly - Jan 11, 2005 10:58:28 am PST #4854 of 10002
Swouncing
-t, thank you for making me feel not alone.
Pencil usually survives those accidents pretty well
It's practically unreadable. Oh, well. I wanted to go over my answers again anyway. t /silver-lining-are-us
sara, yup, taking things in perspective.
Sorry for being such a whiner. It's night already, nobody's here (which is good, considering I actually shouted at myself out loud when I watered my exercise (no, silly, the answers won't grow longer when watered. And now I know that for a fact)), and I just wanted to share.
Allyson - Jan 11, 2005 10:58:54 am PST #4855 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Some dude here went hiking out in the storm the other day. And of course, got trapped when the water rose.
I think he should get a bill from the state for his own damn rescue.
Or not be rescued, so Darwin can remove him from the gene pool most righteously.
Wolfram - Jan 11, 2005 10:59:53 am PST #4856 of 10002
Visilurking
In some European country, they started charging to rescue mountain climbers who climbed the mountain despite weather warnings. IIRC the average charge is $50,000.
I think people should be required to sign DNRs (Do Not Rescue waivers) before taking stupid risks like that. As a taxpayer, I don't want to have to foot that bill. Does that sound harsh?