JonS

Why the false dilemma to begin with? The entire premise of this question is predicated on the assumption that some physical need must be fulfilled by carrying out a punishment. Will his death really improve the world and society in some way? Will terrorism and fear stop tomorrow because of this verdict? It's all just goes nowhere, and solves nothing. Potentially creates more problems even. 
 
I just think we need to understand that justice is a very narrow concept, essentially just the concept of deterrent (ie: fear of retribution for criminal acts), and more options need to be considered to deal with people who want to lash out at society. 

Something other than killing them maybe? I don't get this leap in logic people come to. You don't have any ideas on how to deal with extremists. So clearly the solution is just kill them?
 
Your listing punishments, not solutions. You'd think that since you are aware that this is a dilemma that has plagued mankind for so long it might also occur to you that the above clearly doesn't work for every problem. So why do we use them so liberally?
 
Which literally no one argues with. I can't imagine where the leap comes from that since the law has a problem clearly I must be saying their is no use for it. How does that come about?
 
 
It's really, really sad that your value for human life is this low.

That you are so confident about feeling that way essentially means no one could explain to you how divorced from reality your perceptions are. I could present an unlimited number of arguments on humanism and empathy penned from a myriad of authors from the Renaissance to this day and you simply would not understand. Responding to the comment "what can be done better about how we as a society see law and order" with "why should I pay for prison meals" is missing the point so tremendously that I cannot describe the gulf between us with the geometry of Euclid.

As they say, it takes a village to raise a child. The corollary is that it takes a society to nurture a criminal, and that's why "you" have to pay for his upkeep.
 
as an example
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks#Legal_proceedings (or, more generally, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment_in_Norway )
 
or this
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/feb/25/norwegian-prison-inmates-treated-like-people
 
 
 
I assume you're talking about the people responsible for the global financial crisis here? I agree they should be segregated from society, and find it frankly astonishing that instead of any of them going to prison they instead have been punished by being handed billions in "bailouts". But, yeah, let's focus instead on the few hundred thou it will cost to maintain a murderer in prison.

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I think it's weird and sad that so many people believe the point of a justice system is to exact revenge. The idea that when someone commits a wrong, they must suffer a comparable wrong, to balance out some cosmic scale or something, as if the only point of being here were to participate in some zero-sum game. It's sad because it's such a low bar. I want a justice system which actually seeks to repair the social fabric, to heal damage and prevent future wrongs. But nobody really believes that this so-called justice system can or will do anything like that. So we just settle for making someone suffer for their crimes. It's like being ruled by warlords or something.
 
And ...
http://www.theonion.com/graphic/tsarnaev-death-penalty-warning-any-other-religious-50451

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I think it's weird and sad that so many people believe the point of a justice system is to exact revenge. The idea that when someone commits a wrong, they must suffer a comparable wrong, to balance out some cosmic scale or something, as if the only point of being here were to participate in some zero-sum game. It's sad because it's such a low bar. I want a justice system which actually seeks to repair the social fabric, to heal damage and prevent future wrongs. But nobody really believes that this so-called justice system can or will do anything like that. So we just settle for making someone suffer for their crimes. It's like being ruled by warlords or something.
 
And ...
http://www.theonion.com/graphic/tsarnaev-death-penalty-warning-any-other-religious-50451

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I think it's weird and sad that so many people believe the point of a justice system is to exact revenge. The idea that when someone commits a wrong, they must suffer a comparable wrong, to balance out some cosmic scale or something, as if the only point of being here were to participate in some zero-sum game. It's sad because it's such a low bar. I want a justice system which actually seeks to repair the social fabric, to heal damage and prevent future wrongs. But nobody really believes that this so-called justice system can or will do anything like that. So we just settle for making someone suffer for their crimes. It's like being ruled by warlords or something.
 
And ...
http://www.theonion.com/graphic/tsarnaev-death-penalty-warning-any-other-religious-50451

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Dynamic can be an adjective or a noun.
 
adjective adjective: dynamic (of a process or system) characterized by constant change, activity, or progress. "a dynamic economy" Physics relating to forces producing motion. Linguistics (of a verb) expressing an action, activity, event, or process. denoting or relating to web pages that update frequently or are generated according to an individual's search terms. "the dynamic content of these sites keeps their audience informed and up to date" (of a person) positive in attitude and full of energy and new ideas.
"a dynamic young advertising executive" synonyms: energetic, spirited, active, lively, zestful, vital, vigorous, strong, forceful, powerful, potent, positive, effective, effectual, high-powered, aggressive, driving, pushing, bold, enterprising; More electric, magnetic, flamboyant, passionate, fiery; informalgo-getting, zippy, peppy, sparky, high-octane, full of get-up-and-go, full of vim and vigour, full of beans, gutsy, spunky, ballsy, feisty, have-a-go, go-ahead; informalgo-go "he was eclipsed by his more dynamic colleagues" antonyms: half-hearted, lethargic Electronics (of a memory device) needing to be refreshed by the periodic application of a voltage. Music relating to the volume of sound produced by an instrument, voice, or recording. noun noun: dynamic; plural noun: dynamics a force that stimulates change or progress within a system or process. "evaluation is part of the basic dynamic of the project"   Music
the varying levels of volume of sound in different parts of a musical performance.  
In the case of the example sentence, I think it's being used as a noun rahter than an adjective. The definition used by Col_Dead is the adjective one. But I mostly think it's just another example of sh!tty buzz-word-bingo, so common in biz-speak. I interpret the sentence as either "Going from traditional employee reviews to peer reviews changed the way we do work at our office." or "Going from traditional employee reviews to peer reviews changed the way we interacted at our office." In otherwords, it manages to be both wrong (as in, uses the word to mean something different to the definition, ambiguous, and meaningless, all at the same time.

Sweet baby jebus. You really are a clueless mong.

To add to that wonderful rant, Balikpapan is not exactly well known for it's infantry-armour confrontations. In other words, if the infantry took that many bombs going into a fight where they knew there'd be no enemy armour, imagine how many they'd have carted about in Europe.

To add to that wonderful rant, Balikpapan is not exactly well known for it's infantry-armour confrontations. In other words, if the infantry took that many bombs going into a fight where they knew there'd be no enemy armour, imagine how many they'd have carted about in Europe.

http://oglaf.com/moonshine/

http://oglaf.com/moonshine/

http://oglaf.com/moonshine/

http://oglaf.com/moonshine/

Nice work. That gives XO teams another use: inter-formation comms. Keep 1Bttn XO with 2Bttn Actual, and 2Bttn XO with 1Bttn Actual. They might need a radio jeep to sit in...
 
It's surprising that the Battalion HQs don't have either direct or indirect (via an abstracted Brigade HQ) info sharing, even at a glacial pace.

While I'm not going to defend the work of the 'we wuz robbed!' crowd, I wouldn't set too much store in Gehlen's work either. He was, after all, the guy who was constantly wrong footed by the Russians. I suppose you could say Gehlen had a great deal of personal familiarity with the Russian's tricks ... because he'd fallen for all of them. But that doesn't really seem like a ringing endorsement

Boredom, perhaps? Or maybe a sense of fairplay?

Boredom, perhaps? Or maybe a sense of fairplay?

Glad you like Katusha!!! (I'm the publisher)
 
We just made a trailer for Katusha Book Two, which is the book that has the most tank battles (until Book Three comes out later this year).  There's over 150 drawings of tanks, battles, and other action on the Eastern Front packed in with a killer rendition of the classic Soviet anthem "Katyusha" as the soundtrack:
 
https://youtu.be/KMUUNs3UkoU

For an upcoming scenario, I did quite a bit of research into the way Allied paradrops were scheduled and organised in 1944. Taking into account the limitations of the editor, I decided that the arrival location was essentially fixed, but the arrival timing can be messed about with, and organisation of the arriving forces could be heavily degraded. What I came up with was splitting a battalion drop into four company 'waves' (three rifle companies and one HQ/spt wave), each nominally 5 minutes apart. The later waves are - IIRC - more like 10 mins apart (to reflect mounting friction in the air), and all the waves are variable_5. I also used a fifth 'wave' of stragglers.
 
Don't forget to factor in how fast the a/c is traveling, and how quickly men can get out the door. The guys do not arrive in a nice compact blob. Typically, each a/c platoon-stick would be split into teams and stretched out over 3-500m along the flightline, with just a little bit of lateral dispersion. That, in turn, means that the LZ on your map has to be really freaking large. Also, the alignment of the various platoon sticks probably shouldn't all be perfectly parallel, but they should all conform to roughly the same approach and departure route (say, up to about +/-15° in orientation? A bit more for the Brits whose a/c flew individually within the stream, a bit less for the US who flew in formations. A bit more by night, a bit less by day).
 
Edit: oh, and don't forget the detachment of pathfinders who'll arrive 10-15 minutes before the first wave to set up the Eureka beacons and visual markers ...
Edit2: the various 3-500m strings of dropped troops within each wave should NOT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyaLZHiJJnE. 'Why' is left as an exercise for the reader
Edit3: each of the strings of dropped troops within each wave should be separated laterally by about 100m. The 'Why' is basically the same as in Edit2 above

When it's Kettler linking to the article.

He's still around?  Yeah, why would anyone want to dig that fossil up and ask him to comment on anything.

Doesn't seem very insightful to me. The chance probably doubled or even trebled in the last year. From 0.1% to 0.3%.