i would doubt that. during the inquisition, yes, but not so much now. there are obviously some who think that such methods work - right or wrong, plus some that are simply sadistic (particularly the ones that do "real torture" as the US defines it).
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I dunno, I think those people in government who sanction torture, whether we are talking torture light, or torture decaff, should undergo two week course on the receiving end. McCain at least was consistent in saying torture is torture and governments shouldn't do it, he didn't have any trouble with the definitions either.
I missed my one liner, you bastard. It's funny how Fox thinks they are being controversial, and in reality Jack Bauer has turned into caricature of himself. I still remember when that show was good.
The threat of torture and being 'disappeared' is probably very effective in ensuring cooperation.
Actually pealing off nails and electrocuting genitals, I don't believe that gets you anywhere other than getting the subject to admit to whatever you want, being a witch, communist, al qaeda cell leader, part of the martian invasion recon force.
One thing that has befuddled me is how the mini navigator you get when you open a file from within an application, for instance VLC player, you can't locate the physical drives, all you get is the file system where you can open a 'my documents' type folder.
It's all in the battery. It needs to be able to run a set of popper headphones. Those earplug things suck big time. Not only do they hurt my hears if I use them too long because of the way they fit. You aren't supposed to stick anything into your ears as it will interfere with the natural ear gunk balance and make your ears clog up.
I'm seasonably fat. I gain about 10 kilograms in the winter and lose it again in the summer.
right now I'm 96 kg, which would be around my normal non lardass weigh, I'm taller than most trees though.
This time what i was trying to install was the danish language version of open office on ubuntu. I got this : OOo_3.0.1_LinuxIntel_install_da_deb.tar.gz
It's an archive, unzipping it presents you with a bunch of folders. I don't know what to do with those.
My personal favourite is he chicken cannon. That's not even unique to the show, they rebuilt what they use to test ****pit windows on commercial planes.
That would be attributed to the jury system, which reflects society, so it would be society and not the legal system which is sexist, and racist. No surprise there.
Who's next, google.
It's been pretty one sided so far with the copyright holders doing little more than throwing the odd sandbag in the general direction of a deluge. I dunno, I hope they don't win too big. I like the intarweb mostly lawless and wild as opposed to a neatly trimmed suburbia.
It's pretty predictable though, whenever a file sharing initiative becomes too popular it inevitably dies. The massive popularity of The Pirate Bay is what generated the pressure for the Swedish government to do something about it.
I think we can all agree they were evil, but well dressed evil surely. This is a bit remicient of when prince ginger dressed up as Rommel for a campus party.
No one would have complained if it had been Nero or Genghis Khan.
To all you military buffs, this is a seriously cool hat, yes I know it would look out of place anywhere else than perhaps on a dominatrix stripper, but the Nazis won the costume contest hands down.