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Utah Governor Signs Net-Porn Bill
All Names Have Been writes "House bill 260 has been signed into law by Utah's governor. It creates a list of websites that are not 'safe for children' and forces ISPs to block these sites for those who request it.
In addition, content providers who host or create content in Utah for profit must now rate their websites or face 3rd degree felony charges.
A similar law in Pennsylvania was struck down last year." (See this earlier story, too.)
I hope you won't home-school your kids...For grammar, as in any subject, it helps to have a knowledgable teacher.
But then, you might learn something.
Thanks for that irrelevant insight. When you want to learn about non-gyrotropic gradient anisotropies feel free to give me a call.
"Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations"
I don't necessarily think an "Overrated" moderation should have been replaced by a reply instead. I don't know what your comment was moderated before the Overrated mod, but the mod probably just thought your post wasn't Insightful or not Insightful enough to warrant the score it had. Doesn't mean he hates you or disagrees with your question or your right to ask it, merely that he didn't think it was a particularly insightful question.
"No, no, no. Don't tug on that. You never know what it might be attached to."
We've gone into an offtopic flamewar now, and it will undoubtably be modded into oblivion, but what the hell...
The guy you were responding to was not trolling, and I doubt you "dont like to post things that are insulting" if you accuse him of such. He stated that telling him that he has to take your word for the existance of a god that answers your prayers was BS. His reasoning, as I understood it, was that if a god was answering your prayers, if there was an "interventionist" god running the universe and responding to you in person, then it should be simple for you to demonstrate this. If you can't prove the existance of a deity that will answer you if asked, then what proof do you have that you aren't just hearing voices in your head?
I am willing to take you at your word that you believe in something above. I can see that your faith in this matter is strong. But the fact that you beleive in it doesn't matter to me and I doubt it mattered to the parent. You can assert that "there is a god and he answers when I pray", I can honestly state that I dont know what powers may exist in the universe, and an aethist can assert that "there is no god". But your assertion required blind faith and your own evidence requires preconceptions about the nature of god. You are certain about a matter that cannot be proved, according to the standard of proof the parent poster demanded. To say that "god answers me" and "I cant prove the existance of god to you" while believing that this god intervenes within our universe is contradictory; either you can prove the matter through prayer, or your god doesn't exist as you've portayed him, or he does exist, but doesn't answer/intervene (in which case you are mistaken in your belief that you have been answered in the past).
Erotic is when you use a feather. Exotic is when you use the whole chicken.
Wrong. He DID use spectacles and then resorted to the rocks (a tool of his profession which was "finding" lost treasures by peering into a hat with rocks in it). For the benefit of those not yet educated, we are talking about Joseph Smith translating the Books of Mormon given to him by the Angel Moroni by peering into a hat containing rocks, sacred rocks at that... Yes, I am not making it up. We are talking about the Joseph Smith that had himself ordained "King on earth!"
Here's a link for you on your church's revisionist history of what Joseph Smith claimed that happened with the Native Americans. There's a lot of historical/archaeological problems with the book of Mormons including elephants in the Western Hemisphere and advanced metal producing capabilities in America before 400 A.D.
This guy is way out there