Linux and Wireless Networks
Hi.
I've written a page that contains a lot of information on how to set up a wireless network running under Linux. It includes hardware, software, and step-by-step instructions. There's also a networking script you can run. The article has been known to work with both Mandrake and SUSE.
Linux Wireless Network
posted by Dave @ 11:00 PM
1 Comments:
Thanks for your post on my website.
I too share your concerns about the purpose of punishment in this country. For example, if a person is truly rehabilitated after prison, why must they state that they were guilty of a felon? Esp. if it is a victimless crime (which is your case with said person that you wanted to see pardoned).
I realize the nature of young people not being able to make ethical decisions based on the biological growth of their brains until age 21 or so.
I realize that to take a life for a life is hypocritical.
I realize that nobody can bring back the life taken or undo that act that is done.
The question in these cases is that we have 2 people under 18 who have both committed deplorable acts. In the case of the latter, he laughs at punishment, escapes and does it again. We're not dealing with someone smoking pot recreationally. We're dealing with drug gangs that are willing to control and conquer by any means necessary.
In the case of the former (to repeat Hawthorne's phrasing (Ethan Brand)), we have someone, however young, who has "murdered the human heart". We can't pass it off as misunderstanding or whatever. We're dealing with clear anti-social behavior. Can the person be retaught how to do things right? can the person find God and therefore everything is better? Will the person have their manhood scared back into their pants forever? We're not even talking about something that just happened once and was a drunken or whatever mistake - we're talking about half a dozen times that he scarred people in such a way that not only are they hurt, but they have to walk around with their hurt for the rest of their lives.
To believe that the death penalty is a deterrent, may scare some people straight or whatever seems a bit far fetched, but somehow, our society has to look out for itself. The point of the debate here is this: is the death penalty better in these 2 cases, or do we A) put them in jail till they're not minors anymore (in the case of the latter, do the Hondurans put said kid in jail till 18) and hope that they're rehabilitated.
B) lock them up forever and think by keeping them alive in a cell that we have done something more noble than by removing them from society permanently.
C) execute them as un-rehabilitatable.
If one is to have an ethical argument about the subject, I don't know if there is a good argument. After all, I'm the same guy who argued against the war in Iraq (on the grounds that we would be there forever) and Afghanistan (in that we weren't going after the right guys and we were just waging retribution). However, even for someone as left-leaning as me, to think of leaving people of any age out on the street or to be wards of the state (and in turn its citizens) seems pretty scary and ridiculous to me.
Thanks again for your comment.
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