The only flaw to your ideological position is a pretty simple one. "Christians" (and i'm speaking from the perspective of living in the US) do not live like Christ taught; well, maybe the Amish do, but most do not. Evangelicals are so far away from Christ's teaching that they're more in line with the money-changers, and then you have the ones preaching "God wants you to be a rich SOB" group even farther out than them. There are NO mainstream "Christian" groups in the US that do anything more than give lip service to Jesus as a way to: 1) get material wealth, or 2) build social influence (to gain material wealth).
Christ taught a lot of things, many very decent things. Christians have FAILED in such an epic way to live up to those teachings, that they shouldn't even call themselves Christians.
I'm sure there are, and i suggest a codename for them: ZOMBIES. That would be a military intelligence adopted acronym for "put a bullet in their brainpan to make sure."
I just typed military intelligence without laughing outloud....will wonders never cease.
With a chip system, even if the government by some miracle of fortune managed to keep their database secure (which is highly unlikely,) it wouldn't be long before someone realizes that the encrypted message itself is necessarily unique, and therefore could easily be used to start generated an (effectively unencrypted) database without even bothering to break the encryption.
Except it won't be the government, it'll be some private company that the government is forced to outsource to because republicans hate spending 100 billion in money for the government to do something that a private company will charge them 150 billion to do, and the private company will most likely be even less capable of securing the data than a government system (because that, in reality, is how it works out more often than not).
The whole "if you don't have anything to hide" bullshit, is so contrived it's ridiculous as well. Take the teabaggers for instance. They've been screaming recently that they don't want the survey that's taken with the census because it's "too intrusive," yet these are the mooks that use the "if you don't have anything to hide" bullshit the most. Government is always bad, always intrusive to them.. unless it's climbing inside every woman in the countries vagina, and stripping them of the basic right to choose their medical treatments as they want.
Study? In college? WTF were you smoking back then?
But on a more serious note, prepping for a test is one thing, being taught only the test, in lieu of critical thinking, is huge waste of potential, assuming one has potential:
... because the fortune teller trade has always before been a bastion of honesty and integrity, and has never been the butt of scurrilous rumors of fraud.
To use your logic, over 97% of scientists that work in the climate fields agree humans are causing/contributing to climate change... therefor, your piddly ass opinion doesn't mean shit.
...of climate change deniers will never crumble because it is the bastion of infantile fantasy, bred by greed, and paid for with the blood money of the oil industry that wants to maintain the status quo of their product being used, even if it means the end of the human species as we know it.
Perhaps the point should be: wanting power is not part of the definition of socialism, nor was FDR a socialist. Is wanting power was a trait exclusively of "socialists," then EVERY SINGLE person in power wou;d be a socialist...every business leader, every politician, everyone in any position of authority. Too many not so bright Americans seem to think that doing something that helps people (or the country) is socialism, it's not.
I would suggest that he was less worried about Stalin's flaws than Churchill because the US was half a world away, England was basically right next door. Proximity did make a difference because there wasn't a communication/information system in place like there is now, especially given that the bad parts of what Stalin did didn't even start come out until the 1950's, and the worst ones we're still finding out about.
Way to make a reasonable discussion thread into a political bullshit thread by promoting stupid fucking ideology.
He may have the right to walk around his own neighborhood with a gun, he doesn't have the right to kill someone with it.
I am amazed by the idiots that will defend a murder purely because they think a gun is THE ULTIMATE RIGHT IN THE FUCKING WORLD.
He WAS working with the neighborhood watch. He WAS NOT ALLOWED to carry a weapon while working for them. He WAS NOT ALLOWED to approach someone he was suspected of doing something. He WAS supposed to report things to the police (THE ONLY THING HE DID DO RIGHT). He WAS TOLD TO STOP FOLLOWING THE INDIVIDUAL; HE DIDN'T. Then.. he killed someone.
Anyone who defends that is a sociopathic son of a bitch that needs to put in jail, because they are clearly a threat to society.
It's because it hasn't cleared it's neighborhood of other objects (not including it's moons). Pluto is basically one of the largest objects in a debris disk. Had it accreted that disk, we'd still call it to planet.
You're still trying to live on past glories, and hold up past examples of negatives. The plain and simple truth is, the republicans of today are NOTHING like the republicans of 40 years ago, nor are the democrats the same as they were.
Today, if Reagan ran for office, he'd have to run as a democrat, and would be called a Marxist socialist by everyone in the republican hierarchy. I'd like to see any leader of the republican party today say they need to raise taxes 11 times over 8 years to reduce the deficit. IT WOULDN'T HAPPEN.
And this bullshit about democrats restricting our liberties... talk to that dickless wonder Santorum about that, or hell, ANY other republican candidate other than Paul. Everyone of those fucking idiots want to relegate women to second class citizen status. These people are the ones seeking to change this county into a theocratic dictatorship.
Fucking conservatives and their sheep talking points.
.... the smell of a religious debate (or is that debauchery) in the morning.... it smells like, a clusterfuck.
Whatever merits, whenever, and where ever.... i simply had to comment on something i found particularly amusing in the leading: "There's a unity among Bible translators and publishers that stands in stark contrast to the fractured, fratricidal smartphone industry."
Seriously?
New International Version, New Living Translation, English Standard Version, New American Standard Version, King James Bible, International Standard Version, Aramaic Bible in Plain English, GOD'S WORD Translation, King James 2000 Bible, American King James Version, American Standard Version, Douay-Rheims Bible, Darby Bible Translation, English Revised Version, Webster's Bible Translation, Weymouth New Testament, World English Bible, Young's Literal Translation.......and on.... and on..... and on.....
His letter was in response to the question about his feelings on the death of the rebels, which is he was talking about. He understood that rebellions like Shay's were inevitable, especially given there was no strong central government to react to the issue promptly (he did not associate it with the lack of a strong central government until after he was elected president though; his earlier feelings were that they were simply an eventuality of society). He wording does imply that we might "need" such a thing once in a while, but you have to realize that he didn't feel that the event was as important as some did.
His overall jist of the letter was that he didn't feel the killing and wounding of the rebels was significant, and that it actually was governments place to kill them.... kind of like having two actors on the stage each playing their role.... the rebels role is to rebel, the governments is to put the rebels down.
Now, for perhaps the bigger point of the whole incident, Shay's Rebellion was the catalyst for the laying down of the constitution, empowering a strong central government that could handle events like this... among others. That's quite a bit of irony in itself when given the bent of the groups that use his quote out of context.
Unfortunately, using this quote really means is that in this age of half the people not being able to comprehend anything past a soundbite, that anyone who strings a few pretty words together can have their ideas taken entirely out of context to mean absolutely anything; something that for the past couple years, with this specific quote, is actually hilarious when you consider what Jefferson was really saying... as in: in context.
Jefferson wasn't suggesting that people rise up every so often to keep their government on it's toes. He was replying to concern of the deaths during Shay's rebellion. He cited that these men had risen up because they were ignorant and uninformed of what was happening, and that on occasion, the government will have to kill rebels who rise up to do the country harm.... and that's acceptable, and a normal process.
Too many people who want to try to make a point with fake authority take things out of context using old quotes like this, and this one in particular was often seen at teabagger rallies. The people exhibiting them clearly didn't have the first clue what Jefferson was actually saying. For them to exhibit it, they were actually saying "I'm an ignorant rebel, please kill me."
A cohesive beam that would do damage would have an incredible power requirement over any real distance.
A laser pointer we can make the size of a pen; throw in a few electronics for range finding and a sat upload.. and you could do it in something the size of a beer can (or smaller). Obviously the military's are probably bigger (still), given that private industry likes to make things that are mostly crap for the government before raping them for costs.
U.S. Code Title 22, Ch.38, Para. 2656f(d)
(2) the term “terrorism” means premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents;
What's too bad is the world doesn't treat politically motivated fear-mongering as terrorism.
... they won't make some of the glaringly horrid mistakes they made in the LoTR movies. Seriously, they start running though Moria (sorry... Khazad-Dum.... feking dorfs and their names), trying to get away from every goblin in the entire world it looked like.. and not a one of them had the decency to yell "TRAIN TO ZONE!" Damn N00bs and their screw ups.
You really opened up a can of worms with that. In the responses I see a confusing mixture of the ideas of entropy, disorder and chaos, stellar fusion, and universal heat death, and apparently some people who think these are the same thing? Entropy alone is a huge confusing subject, but to conflate it with these others... well.. that's a whole new ball game.
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The only flaw to your ideological position is a pretty simple one. "Christians" (and i'm speaking from the perspective of living in the US) do not live like Christ taught; well, maybe the Amish do, but most do not. Evangelicals are so far away from Christ's teaching that they're more in line with the money-changers, and then you have the ones preaching "God wants you to be a rich SOB" group even farther out than them. There are NO mainstream "Christian" groups in the US that do anything more than give lip service to Jesus as a way to: 1) get material wealth, or 2) build social influence (to gain material wealth).
Christ taught a lot of things, many very decent things. Christians have FAILED in such an epic way to live up to those teachings, that they shouldn't even call themselves Christians.
I'm sure there are, and i suggest a codename for them: ZOMBIES. That would be a military intelligence adopted acronym for "put a bullet in their brainpan to make sure."
I just typed military intelligence without laughing outloud....will wonders never cease.
.... because that always works, right?
I used to know an Elizabeth that i certainly would have liked to go....wait... that's not what you meant. Nevermind.
With a chip system, even if the government by some miracle of fortune managed to keep their database secure (which is highly unlikely,) it wouldn't be long before someone realizes that the encrypted message itself is necessarily unique, and therefore could easily be used to start generated an (effectively unencrypted) database without even bothering to break the encryption.
Except it won't be the government, it'll be some private company that the government is forced to outsource to because republicans hate spending 100 billion in money for the government to do something that a private company will charge them 150 billion to do, and the private company will most likely be even less capable of securing the data than a government system (because that, in reality, is how it works out more often than not).
The whole "if you don't have anything to hide" bullshit, is so contrived it's ridiculous as well. Take the teabaggers for instance. They've been screaming recently that they don't want the survey that's taken with the census because it's "too intrusive," yet these are the mooks that use the "if you don't have anything to hide" bullshit the most. Government is always bad, always intrusive to them.. unless it's climbing inside every woman in the countries vagina, and stripping them of the basic right to choose their medical treatments as they want.
In the US military, anyone that requires a clearance is fingerprinted for background checks.
Study? In college? WTF were you smoking back then?
But on a more serious note, prepping for a test is one thing, being taught only the test, in lieu of critical thinking, is huge waste of potential, assuming one has potential:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/revealed-school-board-member-who-took-standardized-test/2011/12/06/gIQAbIcxZO_blog.html
... because the fortune teller trade has always before been a bastion of honesty and integrity, and has never been the butt of scurrilous rumors of fraud.
To use your logic, over 97% of scientists that work in the climate fields agree humans are causing/contributing to climate change... therefor, your piddly ass opinion doesn't mean shit.
...of climate change deniers will never crumble because it is the bastion of infantile fantasy, bred by greed, and paid for with the blood money of the oil industry that wants to maintain the status quo of their product being used, even if it means the end of the human species as we know it.
Perhaps the point should be: wanting power is not part of the definition of socialism, nor was FDR a socialist. Is wanting power was a trait exclusively of "socialists," then EVERY SINGLE person in power wou;d be a socialist...every business leader, every politician, everyone in any position of authority. Too many not so bright Americans seem to think that doing something that helps people (or the country) is socialism, it's not.
I would suggest that he was less worried about Stalin's flaws than Churchill because the US was half a world away, England was basically right next door. Proximity did make a difference because there wasn't a communication/information system in place like there is now, especially given that the bad parts of what Stalin did didn't even start come out until the 1950's, and the worst ones we're still finding out about.
Way to make a reasonable discussion thread into a political bullshit thread by promoting stupid fucking ideology.
He may have the right to walk around his own neighborhood with a gun, he doesn't have the right to kill someone with it. I am amazed by the idiots that will defend a murder purely because they think a gun is THE ULTIMATE RIGHT IN THE FUCKING WORLD.
He WAS working with the neighborhood watch. He WAS NOT ALLOWED to carry a weapon while working for them. He WAS NOT ALLOWED to approach someone he was suspected of doing something. He WAS supposed to report things to the police (THE ONLY THING HE DID DO RIGHT). He WAS TOLD TO STOP FOLLOWING THE INDIVIDUAL; HE DIDN'T. Then.. he killed someone.
Anyone who defends that is a sociopathic son of a bitch that needs to put in jail, because they are clearly a threat to society.
It's because it hasn't cleared it's neighborhood of other objects (not including it's moons). Pluto is basically one of the largest objects in a debris disk. Had it accreted that disk, we'd still call it to planet.
You're still trying to live on past glories, and hold up past examples of negatives. The plain and simple truth is, the republicans of today are NOTHING like the republicans of 40 years ago, nor are the democrats the same as they were.
Today, if Reagan ran for office, he'd have to run as a democrat, and would be called a Marxist socialist by everyone in the republican hierarchy. I'd like to see any leader of the republican party today say they need to raise taxes 11 times over 8 years to reduce the deficit. IT WOULDN'T HAPPEN.
And this bullshit about democrats restricting our liberties... talk to that dickless wonder Santorum about that, or hell, ANY other republican candidate other than Paul. Everyone of those fucking idiots want to relegate women to second class citizen status. These people are the ones seeking to change this county into a theocratic dictatorship.
Fucking conservatives and their sheep talking points.
.... the smell of a religious debate (or is that debauchery) in the morning.... it smells like, a clusterfuck.
Whatever merits, whenever, and where ever.... i simply had to comment on something i found particularly amusing in the leading: "There's a unity among Bible translators and publishers that stands in stark contrast to the fractured, fratricidal smartphone industry."
Seriously?
New International Version, New Living Translation, English Standard Version, New American Standard Version, King James Bible, International Standard Version, Aramaic Bible in Plain English, GOD'S WORD Translation, King James 2000 Bible, American King James Version, American Standard Version, Douay-Rheims Bible, Darby Bible Translation, English Revised Version, Webster's Bible Translation, Weymouth New Testament, World English Bible, Young's Literal Translation.......and on.... and on..... and on.....
Seriously?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002355/
For some fun and tasty reading.
His letter was in response to the question about his feelings on the death of the rebels, which is he was talking about. He understood that rebellions like Shay's were inevitable, especially given there was no strong central government to react to the issue promptly (he did not associate it with the lack of a strong central government until after he was elected president though; his earlier feelings were that they were simply an eventuality of society). He wording does imply that we might "need" such a thing once in a while, but you have to realize that he didn't feel that the event was as important as some did.
His overall jist of the letter was that he didn't feel the killing and wounding of the rebels was significant, and that it actually was governments place to kill them.... kind of like having two actors on the stage each playing their role.... the rebels role is to rebel, the governments is to put the rebels down.
Now, for perhaps the bigger point of the whole incident, Shay's Rebellion was the catalyst for the laying down of the constitution, empowering a strong central government that could handle events like this... among others. That's quite a bit of irony in itself when given the bent of the groups that use his quote out of context.
Weeeeerrrryyyyy carrrrfuwwwwyyy.
Unfortunately, using this quote really means is that in this age of half the people not being able to comprehend anything past a soundbite, that anyone who strings a few pretty words together can have their ideas taken entirely out of context to mean absolutely anything; something that for the past couple years, with this specific quote, is actually hilarious when you consider what Jefferson was really saying... as in: in context.
Jefferson wasn't suggesting that people rise up every so often to keep their government on it's toes. He was replying to concern of the deaths during Shay's rebellion. He cited that these men had risen up because they were ignorant and uninformed of what was happening, and that on occasion, the government will have to kill rebels who rise up to do the country harm.... and that's acceptable, and a normal process.
Too many people who want to try to make a point with fake authority take things out of context using old quotes like this, and this one in particular was often seen at teabagger rallies. The people exhibiting them clearly didn't have the first clue what Jefferson was actually saying. For them to exhibit it, they were actually saying "I'm an ignorant rebel, please kill me."
Context is everything.
A cohesive beam that would do damage would have an incredible power requirement over any real distance.
A laser pointer we can make the size of a pen; throw in a few electronics for range finding and a sat upload.. and you could do it in something the size of a beer can (or smaller). Obviously the military's are probably bigger (still), given that private industry likes to make things that are mostly crap for the government before raping them for costs.
If you're not hunting grizzly with a 6 inch knife wearing a loincloth, you're a wimp.
U.S. Code Title 22, Ch.38, Para. 2656f(d)
(2) the term “terrorism” means premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents;
What's too bad is the world doesn't treat politically motivated fear-mongering as terrorism.
You just want to see Legolam doing unmentionable things to the small furry woodland creatures.... admit it.
... they won't make some of the glaringly horrid mistakes they made in the LoTR movies. Seriously, they start running though Moria (sorry... Khazad-Dum.... feking dorfs and their names), trying to get away from every goblin in the entire world it looked like.. and not a one of them had the decency to yell "TRAIN TO ZONE!" Damn N00bs and their screw ups.
You really opened up a can of worms with that. In the responses I see a confusing mixture of the ideas of entropy, disorder and chaos, stellar fusion, and universal heat death, and apparently some people who think these are the same thing? Entropy alone is a huge confusing subject, but to conflate it with these others... well.. that's a whole new ball game.