Bidding war!
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Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
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.
Tamara - Jul 16, 2008 10:53:20 am PDT #8130 of 10003
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Theodosia - Jul 16, 2008 10:56:22 am PDT #8131 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Hmmm... if I go to an all-you-can-eat restaurant that has a policy about no doggie bags, yet I try to pocket some food, I wouldn't be too surprised if they called the cops. So I extend the principle to the distribution of Communion wafers.
shrift - Jul 16, 2008 11:01:32 am PDT #8132 of 10003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I have my fingers and toes crossed. And I'm thinking about ritual vegetable sacrifice. And trying to figure out what the hell I'm going to wear.
brenda m - Jul 16, 2008 11:02:15 am PDT #8133 of 10003
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
How much are you paying the church for your communion wafers, Theo?
Glamcookie - Jul 16, 2008 11:13:30 am PDT #8134 of 10003
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I'm so jealous of your Google interview, shrift! I hope you get the job. What type of job is it?
tommyrot - Jul 16, 2008 11:14:31 am PDT #8135 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
What type of job is it?
Something in the Google Death Ray department?
Fred Pete - Jul 16, 2008 11:20:03 am PDT #8136 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
who is the victim?
I'd been thinking that the church was the victim. It's a fair point as to whether there was a theft and, therefore, a crime. And since it's been 20 years since I studied any criminal law that wasn't white collar, I'll let others argue the point.
As to cheapening the idea of a hate crime, I think of a "hate crime" as (1) a crime where (2) the motive is hatred of a group. Which means, if something is stolen from a Catholic church because it belongs to a Catholic church, the motive could be seen as religious bias.
So, any theft here would be at least arguably a hate crime. Which doesn't mean that a sensible D.A. would necessarily choose to prosecute anything that way.
Calli - Jul 16, 2008 11:21:08 am PDT #8137 of 10003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
What type of job is it?
A Troll-be-gone Google api, I bet. You use Google Earth to locate them, and then you use Google Magic Wand to take away their web access.
Jesse - Jul 16, 2008 11:21:58 am PDT #8138 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And trying to figure out what the hell I'm going to wear.
Something smart, yet interesting, and long-lasting. Aren't their processes supposed to be hellish? (Not Hellish.)
I thought I had picked up a second wind from doing a little stupid computer training for my team (it was An Accomplishment! And easy!), but sadly, it only lasted about 15 minutes. I am so done.
megan walker - Jul 16, 2008 11:28:45 am PDT #8139 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
As to cheapening the idea of a hate crime, I think of a "hate crime" as (1) a crime where (2) the motive is hatred of a group. Which means, if something is stolen from a Catholic church because it belongs to a Catholic church, the motive could be seen as religious bias. So, any theft here would be at least arguably a hate crime.
Which is exactly my problem with the concept of "hate crime." Theft is theft.