I could be wrong, but the way he worded that he may mean that in Darwin's paper, "natural selection" was the new theory part. Evolution had been observed and largely accepted before Darwin, but no one had a mechanism for how it happened. Darwin came up with natural selection (remember, genetics wasn't around at the time) as a mechanism, which makes today's political/religious debates even more ironic: people who don't believe in evolution deride Darwin, but he didn't come up with the idea.... yet his concept of natural selection has almost become a mainstay philosophical world view of those same people.
Another coward living in the past, and still with the stupid talking point. Anyone who thinks the republican party of the last 40 years has not been the party of racial repression is a complete fucking idiot. Ultimately, its not a democrat/republican thing... it's a conservative/liberal thing. Conservatives nature is to repress those they disagree with; just look at the gay rights issues the past few years where they attempt to use tyranny of the majority to subjugate gays. Conservatives are less likely to adapt, more likely to want to live in the "good old days," and want nothing to change. It doesn't matter if you call them democrat, republican, or martian... conservatives are where the repression starts.
Then there's people like you, you look back an laud the PROGRESSIVE actions of LIBERALS who happened to be republicans when the GOP was far, far, FAR more liberal, and pick our very conservative people in the Democratic party who were racists. All you're really doing is lying.
Anyone who tried policies on the level and in the direction of Lincoln today would be branded as a flaming radical Marxist, socialist by today's GOP. Even Reagan and Nixon wouldn't be republicans.
Great debate on the Abrahamaic religions, although it seems most everyone is missing a basic point: the old testament didn't start anything except a handful of offshoot cults; all it was was a regurgitation of Sumerian mythology, with some Egyptian added in... and probably a few others we've mostly forgotten about, although when every city has their own God (or gods), you really don't need anything else to pick and choose from. Then, of course, you have the Sumerians God's and beliefs that are are just a distortion of whatever culture was before before them.
Depends on definitions. Speak to much of the US and you'll find a lot of people, a majority, who insist they are Christians very strongly - yet while they go to church, Jesus' teachings don't factor the into any decision they make, have never done more than skim a few verses of the bible and can't state the most fundamental precepts of the faith if questioned. Do you call them Christian or not?
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions
When exactly was the last insurrection or invasion?
Further, it's immaterial what our GDP is, the only reason to compare spending as a percentage of GDP is to hide how significant the percentage of spending your number is. For 2012 DoD's budget was $651B, Veteran's Affairs $124B, and another $47B on DHS... for a rousing direct cost of $822B (22.2% of all spending); NASA's budget was $18B (.49%). Add in non-direct defense spending, and estimates go up to the $1.2-$1.4T range (32%-38%).
So.. back to the big question: When exactly was the last insurrection or invasion? That's what our military is supposed to be for.
Marijn Kroes, a neuroscientist at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, and his colleagues found that by strategically timing ECT bursts, they could target and disrupt patients' memory of a disturbing episode."
.... and give them an entirely new disturbing episode to have mental issues about.
Actually, i use my US DOLLAR based credit card fairly often with a couple UK POUND based businesses, and their carts do the exchange for me. Why? Because US DOLLARS and UK POUNDS have the backing of their countries, as opposed to bitcoin which has the backing of.... what... rabid anti-government idiots, and financially questionable con men looking for the next score?
I'll take society over criminal wanna-be's any day of the week.
Certainly, as long as you don't want economic growth. I suppose we can always resort to the guillotines like France did to weed out some of that over-population when it becomes another problem because of lack of economic growth too.
Again, it's immaterial. It's not a democrat/republican thing... it's a liberal/conservative thing; and conservatives are the ones who end up attached to these bigoted groups like the KKK. Open your eyes and look around.... minorities flock to the liberal groups BECAUSE of the hate and bigotry shown towards them by conservatives. Anyone who can read can see the crap that comes out of these conservative shitheads every day of the week on any news site.
Regardless of whether my post was marked flamebait or not, it was an spot on accurate assessment of what has happened, and what is happening to this very day. That's how conservatives deal with reality, they try to bury it and create a new one where somehow everything bad they've ever done is someone else's fault.
Your point is immaterial, although, again, it confirms my point: today's conservatives are living on the good things the GOP did IN THE PAST when that party was more liberal and progressive, while acting today in a completely opposite way. It's not a republican/democrat thing, it's a liberal/conservative thing. Conservatives have always been the party of hate and bigotry, regardless of what name they're associated with.
But lets be more clear even: look at the most conservative party (GOP), and see how minorities flee from them like the plague. Look at the absolute racists shit the leaders of the party say, especially the teabagger faction that are the most radical and extreme. Only a idiot or a pathological liar would suggest they are the "party of inclusion."
Way to lump everyone together...if you know anything of history you'll realize it's the Democrats who are the party of hate and bigotry.
Actually, if you know anything of history you'd realize it's the conservatives, regardless of the party they're affiliated with at the time. Republicans now days like to try to equate the democrats of Lincolns time with today's democrats, but they fail to realize that back then the democrats were the conservatives. It's too bad we don't have some conservatives with integrity who don't lie constantly, try to rewrite history constantly, and never take responsibility.... or maybe some that aren't home schooled to reinforce their bigoted stupidity.
You obviously need to pull your head out of your ass and take a look around at the current state of affairs: republicans have become the party of old, angry, white men who hate anyone with a different skin color, ethnic background, or religion other than christian.
Nice straw man argument there, dickhead. I didn't say all private companies fail, but as you pointed out, CGI failed...and in this instance, Oracle failed... and once again, these private companies fail, and ideological dumbshits blame it on the government, and make really stupid statements... like you just did... to try to defend the private companies. There is hope for you though... the ACA may cover your Cranial/Rectal Inversion Syndrome.
Once again the abject failure of private companies is blamed on the government, because there are people who are too ideologically head-up-ass to look at the reality of the situation. If privatization was such a boon, all the exchanges would be working incredibly well, and they wouldn't have cost near as much.
I think what we can say is that marriage has been between a man and a woman for thousands of years.
...only if you ignore all the instances of it being some other way. What you can say is that you believe it has been that way, but that is only because you are ignorant of the other way pairings have happened.
There was a greater secret about dorvish...er...dwarvish.... it wasn't actually a language at all. Dwarves would simply scribble lines on things to make the other races think they were intelligent enough to have a language.
Ahh... another full of shit conservative. You need to pull your head out of your ideological ass and take a look at reality.
Once reason the ACA has such low numbers is because there are as many liberals who don't like it as their are teabaggers that don't like ANYTHING associated with Obama (Obama Derangement Syndrome). Liberals are at least intelligent enough to undertsand there's two reasons for not liking the ACA... the conservative reason: it goes too far (even though the Heritage Foundation originally came up with most the crap in it); and the liberal reason: it's not universal healthcare, which is easier to implement, has no loopholes, and would be less costly for taxpayers both publicly and privately. But the ACA doesn't just benefit insurance companies, and only someone devoid of any fucking clue would still be stupid enough to think that.
NSA spying on citizens? Think back, if you will, to the people who were against the PATRIOT Act when the cowardly conservatives rammed it through in 2001. Predominately liberals. Most of those people are still against it, as well as TSA, ad the Homeland Security proliferation. As much as the teabaggers whine about it, when push comes to shove, they're still for it: http://www.nationalmemo.com/house-republicans-hold-a-hearing-to-defend-nsa-surveillance/
Marijuana? Seriously? Are you a fucking idiot as well as illiterate and living in a cave?
Bailouts? Had we not helped the banks and let them crash, you'd look longingly back to the great recession as the nice little slowdown preceding the next Great Depression. Again, only someone without a clue would think letting that large a portion of the entire countries economy collapse into chaos is a good thing. However much liberals realize something had to be done (as opposed to republicans who thought the economy was just fine (think: the GOP platform at the time; McCain specifically saying it out loud), many liberals want to see heads roll. Bankers should be in jail, any bank too big too fail should be broken up and never allowed to grow again, and Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act should be repealed. The problem: even bringing that up nets a rousing chorus of "that'd be socialism" from the fucking idiots on the right that don't understand what the word means, and are too stupid to look it up.
Many liberals disagree with Obama on a lot of little things, and some big things, BUT, he is a hell of a lot better than ANY republicans would ever begin to be. Republicans need to get back to putting this countries needs over their parties politics.... something they haven't done in about 20 years now.
If Obama came out tomorrow saying everyone should keep breathing, 4-8 minutes later every teabagger in this country would be dead, a well as most of the republican politicians who have enabled the fringe Birchers wanna-be's.
Of all countries US is one of the last in the failing list. Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba and most of socialist Latin America, on the other hand are in utter misery. Social Democrat countries in Latin America and Europe, as France, Spain, Portugal, Brazil and Argentina are not that bad but waaay worse than US.
I'd suggest that your intentional cherry picking of specific countries, ones that have shifted the burden of debt from investors to the public in Europe, and ones that are trying to move into the new century (still) in South America, while ignoring the the most socialist democracies in Europe and how exceedingly well their economies are doing... better even than the US... you might be being a bit disingenuous. The biggest problem with most of the European countries that are having serious problems is they bought into the American bullshit way of debt management that Uncle Ronnie started, and Auntie Margret followed (first).
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I could be wrong, but the way he worded that he may mean that in Darwin's paper, "natural selection" was the new theory part. Evolution had been observed and largely accepted before Darwin, but no one had a mechanism for how it happened. Darwin came up with natural selection (remember, genetics wasn't around at the time) as a mechanism, which makes today's political/religious debates even more ironic: people who don't believe in evolution deride Darwin, but he didn't come up with the idea.... yet his concept of natural selection has almost become a mainstay philosophical world view of those same people.
Shocked I say. Shocked.
Too bad there isn't a mod score 6, insightful.
Another coward living in the past, and still with the stupid talking point. Anyone who thinks the republican party of the last 40 years has not been the party of racial repression is a complete fucking idiot. Ultimately, its not a democrat/republican thing... it's a conservative/liberal thing. Conservatives nature is to repress those they disagree with; just look at the gay rights issues the past few years where they attempt to use tyranny of the majority to subjugate gays. Conservatives are less likely to adapt, more likely to want to live in the "good old days," and want nothing to change. It doesn't matter if you call them democrat, republican, or martian... conservatives are where the repression starts.
Then there's people like you, you look back an laud the PROGRESSIVE actions of LIBERALS who happened to be republicans when the GOP was far, far, FAR more liberal, and pick our very conservative people in the Democratic party who were racists. All you're really doing is lying.
Anyone who tried policies on the level and in the direction of Lincoln today would be branded as a flaming radical Marxist, socialist by today's GOP. Even Reagan and Nixon wouldn't be republicans.
This even goes right up to the top of the heap. I've heard premed students complain:
I hate organic chemistry . . . but I need a good grade in it to get into medical school
To be fair, EVERYONE who's taken Ochem has said that at some point, and it has little to do with not wanting to learn.
Great debate on the Abrahamaic religions, although it seems most everyone is missing a basic point: the old testament didn't start anything except a handful of offshoot cults; all it was was a regurgitation of Sumerian mythology, with some Egyptian added in... and probably a few others we've mostly forgotten about, although when every city has their own God (or gods), you really don't need anything else to pick and choose from. Then, of course, you have the Sumerians God's and beliefs that are are just a distortion of whatever culture was before before them.
Religion... the perfect long con.
Depends on definitions. Speak to much of the US and you'll find a lot of people, a majority, who insist they are Christians very strongly - yet while they go to church, Jesus' teachings don't factor the into any decision they make, have never done more than skim a few verses of the bible and can't state the most fundamental precepts of the faith if questioned. Do you call them Christian or not?
Section 8:
The Congress shall have Power To....
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions
When exactly was the last insurrection or invasion?
Further, it's immaterial what our GDP is, the only reason to compare spending as a percentage of GDP is to hide how significant the percentage of spending your number is. For 2012 DoD's budget was $651B, Veteran's Affairs $124B, and another $47B on DHS... for a rousing direct cost of $822B (22.2% of all spending); NASA's budget was $18B (.49%). Add in non-direct defense spending, and estimates go up to the $1.2-$1.4T range (32%-38%).
So.. back to the big question: When exactly was the last insurrection or invasion? That's what our military is supposed to be for.
Marijn Kroes, a neuroscientist at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, and his colleagues found that by strategically timing ECT bursts, they could target and disrupt patients' memory of a disturbing episode."
Actually, i use my US DOLLAR based credit card fairly often with a couple UK POUND based businesses, and their carts do the exchange for me. Why? Because US DOLLARS and UK POUNDS have the backing of their countries, as opposed to bitcoin which has the backing of.... what... rabid anti-government idiots, and financially questionable con men looking for the next score?
I'll take society over criminal wanna-be's any day of the week.
Certainly, as long as you don't want economic growth. I suppose we can always resort to the guillotines like France did to weed out some of that over-population when it becomes another problem because of lack of economic growth too.
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/09/17/why-conservatives-spin-fairytales-about-the-gold-standard/
Again, it's immaterial. It's not a democrat/republican thing... it's a liberal/conservative thing; and conservatives are the ones who end up attached to these bigoted groups like the KKK. Open your eyes and look around.... minorities flock to the liberal groups BECAUSE of the hate and bigotry shown towards them by conservatives. Anyone who can read can see the crap that comes out of these conservative shitheads every day of the week on any news site.
Regardless of whether my post was marked flamebait or not, it was an spot on accurate assessment of what has happened, and what is happening to this very day. That's how conservatives deal with reality, they try to bury it and create a new one where somehow everything bad they've ever done is someone else's fault.
Your point is immaterial, although, again, it confirms my point: today's conservatives are living on the good things the GOP did IN THE PAST when that party was more liberal and progressive, while acting today in a completely opposite way. It's not a republican/democrat thing, it's a liberal/conservative thing. Conservatives have always been the party of hate and bigotry, regardless of what name they're associated with.
But lets be more clear even: look at the most conservative party (GOP), and see how minorities flee from them like the plague. Look at the absolute racists shit the leaders of the party say, especially the teabagger faction that are the most radical and extreme. Only a idiot or a pathological liar would suggest they are the "party of inclusion."
Way to lump everyone together...if you know anything of history you'll realize it's the Democrats who are the party of hate and bigotry.
Actually, if you know anything of history you'd realize it's the conservatives, regardless of the party they're affiliated with at the time. Republicans now days like to try to equate the democrats of Lincolns time with today's democrats, but they fail to realize that back then the democrats were the conservatives. It's too bad we don't have some conservatives with integrity who don't lie constantly, try to rewrite history constantly, and never take responsibility.... or maybe some that aren't home schooled to reinforce their bigoted stupidity.
You obviously need to pull your head out of your ass and take a look around at the current state of affairs: republicans have become the party of old, angry, white men who hate anyone with a different skin color, ethnic background, or religion other than christian.
Nice straw man argument there, dickhead. I didn't say all private companies fail, but as you pointed out, CGI failed...and in this instance, Oracle failed... and once again, these private companies fail, and ideological dumbshits blame it on the government, and make really stupid statements... like you just did... to try to defend the private companies. There is hope for you though... the ACA may cover your Cranial/Rectal Inversion Syndrome.
You have succeeded in proving that you have a mental health problem.
Once again the abject failure of private companies is blamed on the government, because there are people who are too ideologically head-up-ass to look at the reality of the situation. If privatization was such a boon, all the exchanges would be working incredibly well, and they wouldn't have cost near as much.
Well, typically i write it as dorf... or footstool... or stumpy.... but i figured not everyone would get it.
I think what we can say is that marriage has been between a man and a woman for thousands of years.
There was a greater secret about dorvish...er...dwarvish.... it wasn't actually a language at all. Dwarves would simply scribble lines on things to make the other races think they were intelligent enough to have a language.
....floats your boat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JNGI1dI-e8
Ahh... another full of shit conservative. You need to pull your head out of your ideological ass and take a look at reality.
Once reason the ACA has such low numbers is because there are as many liberals who don't like it as their are teabaggers that don't like ANYTHING associated with Obama (Obama Derangement Syndrome). Liberals are at least intelligent enough to undertsand there's two reasons for not liking the ACA... the conservative reason: it goes too far (even though the Heritage Foundation originally came up with most the crap in it); and the liberal reason: it's not universal healthcare, which is easier to implement, has no loopholes, and would be less costly for taxpayers both publicly and privately. But the ACA doesn't just benefit insurance companies, and only someone devoid of any fucking clue would still be stupid enough to think that.
NSA spying on citizens? Think back, if you will, to the people who were against the PATRIOT Act when the cowardly conservatives rammed it through in 2001. Predominately liberals. Most of those people are still against it, as well as TSA, ad the Homeland Security proliferation. As much as the teabaggers whine about it, when push comes to shove, they're still for it: http://www.nationalmemo.com/house-republicans-hold-a-hearing-to-defend-nsa-surveillance/
Marijuana? Seriously? Are you a fucking idiot as well as illiterate and living in a cave?
Bailouts? Had we not helped the banks and let them crash, you'd look longingly back to the great recession as the nice little slowdown preceding the next Great Depression. Again, only someone without a clue would think letting that large a portion of the entire countries economy collapse into chaos is a good thing. However much liberals realize something had to be done (as opposed to republicans who thought the economy was just fine (think: the GOP platform at the time; McCain specifically saying it out loud), many liberals want to see heads roll. Bankers should be in jail, any bank too big too fail should be broken up and never allowed to grow again, and Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act should be repealed. The problem: even bringing that up nets a rousing chorus of "that'd be socialism" from the fucking idiots on the right that don't understand what the word means, and are too stupid to look it up.
Many liberals disagree with Obama on a lot of little things, and some big things, BUT, he is a hell of a lot better than ANY republicans would ever begin to be. Republicans need to get back to putting this countries needs over their parties politics.... something they haven't done in about 20 years now.
If Obama came out tomorrow saying everyone should keep breathing, 4-8 minutes later every teabagger in this country would be dead, a well as most of the republican politicians who have enabled the fringe Birchers wanna-be's.
And now we know the HOW of Skynet realizing humans were the problem.
Of all countries US is one of the last in the failing list. Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba and most of socialist Latin America, on the other hand are in utter misery. Social Democrat countries in Latin America and Europe, as France, Spain, Portugal, Brazil and Argentina are not that bad but waaay worse than US.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/09/12/best-economies-in-the-world/2802701/
http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21570835-nordic-countries-are-probably-best-governed-world-secret-their
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model
I'd suggest that your intentional cherry picking of specific countries, ones that have shifted the burden of debt from investors to the public in Europe, and ones that are trying to move into the new century (still) in South America, while ignoring the the most socialist democracies in Europe and how exceedingly well their economies are doing... better even than the US... you might be being a bit disingenuous. The biggest problem with most of the European countries that are having serious problems is they bought into the American bullshit way of debt management that Uncle Ronnie started, and Auntie Margret followed (first).