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'Civilization on Mars' Claims Debunked
StarEmperor writes "Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait has finally taken some time to
debunk conspiracy theorist Richard Hoagland's claims about life on Mars. There's also a CNN story about this here."
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Three words, "Moderators on Crack."
They also seem to think that talking about moderation is -1 Offtopic DoublePlusUnGood. (Yes, I'm talking about you! Put down the pipe!)
There, that ought to burn off some of this cumbersome Karma.
One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny.
Why do you lump all Christians together as nutty liberal haters that love big oil?
He didn't?
born-again evangelican christians
Some people have NO SENSE OF HUMOR. Apparently the mods are pretty anal today. Pull that pole out of your ass and laugh dammit. ;P
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Your .sig, Iraq: war to save the USA, points at an intriguing argument, but contains fallacies. For example,
"But the more dollars there are circulating outside the US, or invested by foreign owners in American assets, the more the rest of the world has had to provide the US with goods and services in exchange for these dollars. The dollars cost the US next to nothing to produce, so the fact that the world uses the currency in this way means that the US is importing vast quantities of goods and services virtually for free."
Of course the "dollars" cost nothing to produce (or we'd use something that did), but they are exchangable for American goods/services that do cost to produce, including the labor and profit. That argument ignores the fundamental principle of finance, that the symbol has negligible cost, but merely refers to the value of the product, which has real cost.
The US economy benefits from vast efficiencies with dollar-valued global oil (and other) markets. The Federal Reserve derives its global power from its control of that currency supply. The anti-inflation rhetoric, if not practice, of Greenspan's Fed is specifically driven by the simple truth that belies the Feasta fallacy. I agree that Iraq's move to trade in Euros was a threat to BushCo, which survives Saddam in the sleazy Europe/OPEC waltz that clouded the moral clarity of European opposition to the Iraq Jr War. But the other, more solid economics of Feasta's argument are diluted by their misinterpretation of the capital cost of currency.
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make install -not war
I don't think what you say is true at all.
Wishing someone a nice day is simply that: noboody wants to have a day thats not nice. On the other hand, performing the ritual of a "blessing" is a different story. I know a lot of christians would have trouble with someone praying over them "May satan ovverpower and guide you. Zorbit" or whatever it is that satanists may say, so why should this be any different? On the other hand, 'I hope you have a good day" is something completely different.
I see a clear difference there, maybe I'm the only one.
Yes.
A cheerful little bird is sitting here singing.