The First Amendment is just a guideline, look at the various decisions of the Supreme Court over the years. If the courts took the First seriously your country or Constitution would be much different. Even having a standing army would be next impossible as the UMC is a law passed by Congress which limits soldiers rights to talk back to officers amongst other things such as national security.
Yes, much like shit is plant food. At that when people started suggesting that having shit in our drinking water was bad there was lots of similar opposition. It was called unscientific that invisible things could make people sick and besides it was too expensive to keep the shit out of our water and it was just a conspiracy for more big government, taking peoples freedom away to shit where they wanted.
Most plants are also starved for manure so increasing the amount in the water supply should help those plants and therefore the environment. You wouldn't object to ingesting shit would you? Just remember it is good.
Most types of currency are based on faith. Gold and sea shells both require faith that others are going to value them. Now if we moved to a chicken currency we wouldn't need faith. A chicken produces interest in the form of eggs, can always be turned into a chicken dinner and drives the need for grain.
I live aways out of town (third largest in Canada), about 40 kms with mountains around. Only choice is the phone company and all their bundles involve high speed internet which doesn't exist here. My basic phone has stayed at $30 while various other items have been added, $5 for not making enough long distance calls, call display is $9, my dial-up just went up to $35. Total bill is close to $100 cnd. When I first moved here my bill was $20 + $25 for dial-up. My cell plan has also gone up though not as much with extras going up even faster. Text message is 20 cents, long distance is now 25 cents a minute, used to buy 3 months of time, now it's 1 month and the per second billing went away a long time ago. I could get cheaper cell plans but since I average about 10 minutes a month it is not worth it. Perhaps if we ever get cell service here...
Well most lawyers will agree that a corporate lawyer is so low life that they don't want anything to do with them so the average lawyer does have some morals. As an aside, we had a corporate lawyer running the country for a while. He's the one that started the whole out sourcing thing going.with NAFTA. Destroyed his party and it has only recently came back, now with an economist in charge. Stupid idiot really believes that mono-culture is for the best.
The poster never did say what stage the cancer was at and I assumed a later stage. He also said his dog was 14 which depending on the breed could have been awfully close to end of life so it's hard to judge exactly what he meant and you seem to have interpreted it more optimistically then I did. But yes, the idea of putting my dad down was unthinkable in the earlier stages of cancer even though it was almost guaranteed fatal. (Had a friend who was given 6 months and he survived for over 10 years once he quit medical help so you never know) The best part of the whole thing was that he wanted to die at home and my mom did everything possible to make that happen. Very little hospital time as that is what he really didn't want. Also learned how fast a doctor could make a house call when it came to filling out a death certificate and how the funeral industry tries to take advantage of grieving family. Bastards claiming that you had to spend thousands for a cremation when all that was needed was a cardboard box rather then a fancy casket.
I really wish we could have put my dad down a couple of weeks before he died. Riddled with cancer, those last couple of weeks were not pleasant for him. Why is it that we treat our pets better then our old people?
As the sibling post says, it is much cheaper to catch a flight from an American airport, not just to Europe either but pretty well anywhere. This is (at least partly) due to Canadian airports having to be self-financing and people expect some perks like free WIFI after paying the extra charges.
Selling point to compete with American airports. In Canada the airports are financed by ticket surcharges so many people cross the line to fly out of American airports as the whole airport is free.
Are you claiming that General Jack Ripper is a nutjob conspiracy theorist? Next you'll be claiming that the fluoride in the water isn't affecting you when obviously it is.
We don't know how fertile their offspring were. There have been cases of Mules getting pregnant (only by male donkey) though very rare and there are other hybrids where depending on the sex of parents the young hybrids are more or less fertile. Also to consider is how vigorous the F2 (second generation) offspring is, sometimes breeding happens but all the offspring are very weak. In a human society during plentiful times those offspring may still survive to adulthood. There's also differences in what is found attractive, where 2 different species are capable of breeding but it almost never happens as the sexual cues or even timing aren't there. Probably not true for humans.
There's always the original first proposed amendment awaiting ratification. Not exactly what you propose but along the same lines and just as article the second (original second proposed amendment) finally got ratifiied, article the first could still be ratified no matter what congress thinks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The thing is that it is apparently impossible to say anything about where the universe came from, at least from a scientific view point. The idea of some God[s] creating the universe for the reasons that most religious people put forward just seems so ridiculous.
Huh? The universe being created implies a creator, which is not a simple solution as it leads to the question of where did the creator come from? With the simplest solution that the creator must of had a creator which leads to... Might just as well say it's turtles all the way down.
I like how you ignore the part of the story where Khaddafi murders tens of thousands of people, because it doesn't fit with your narrative.
Seems like most countries murder tens of thousands of people and yet we pick on the ones who don't want to use American Dollars to trade oil. Gaddafi wanted to use a gold backed currency, Saddam wanted to use Euros, same with Iran and Venezuela. Meanwhile in Syria murder happens like crazy but they're not trading oil for other currency so they get a pass. Same with countless dictatorships in Africa, Asia and S. America. At that often America encourages it, endless right wing dictatorships. America calls Iran bad because they don't treat their woman well and yet supports Saudi Arabia, and various other Arab absolute monarchies. To claim that Libya was about stopping Gaddafi from killing his people is totally dishonest.
Of course there are traces of heavy elements in the Sun, it was formed from the same nebula as the Earth which had been enriched by supernovas. Wiki says that 1.69% (5,600 times the Earths mass) of the Sun is heavier elements including 0.2% iron. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
It's Lunar regolith, bedrock that has been repeatably crushed and stirred up and never having had water to concentrate elements as on the Earth (and perhaps Mars) and the Helium 3 is so thinly dispersed (0.01 ppm to 0.05 ppm) on the surface that it would be easier to mine it from Saturns atmosphere or synthesize it here. There are probably concentrated deposits of iron and such from meteor impacts but other then that most lunar mining is going to be hard to do profitably. BTW, the Moon does not have the same proportions of elements as Earth, for a starts it is missing many volatiles. I think you're thinking of the isotope ratios which are very similar to Earths, so similar that it brings into question the Moon being formed by a collision with the proto-planet Thera as it is estimated as less then 1% chance of Theora being identical to the Earth in isotope ratios..
TFS said it landed on Dec 14th. Assuming it landed at dawn, sunset would have been about the 28th and the sun would have returned about the 11th with its second night starting about the 24th. Since this is the 25th, my numbers are probably slightly off but either way this has to be the second night and it did survive the first night. Not bad for a first attempt, took a few tries for the Americans and Soviets to successfully soft land on the Moon.
It was influential as it gave Jobs the excuse to stop developing the Apple II line and a money sink that almost sank Apple. The IIx could have come out years earlier and when it did come out as the GS it could have been less crippled. A souped up GS was everything the Mac wasn't, colour, fast, expandable, a large existing stock of software with a GUI that was a rewrite of the Mac GUI with many bug fixes. I can still hear Jobs saying users didn't need colour and a computer should be like a toaster, closed and non-expandable.
Actually the invention of the horse collar pretty well ended slavery in most of the civilized world. A horse that wasn't strangling itself is much more productive per unit of food then a human slave. Even in America at the time of the War of Independence, slavery was on the way out with the price of a slave having dropped to $50. England was having court cases where slaves were using habeas corpus to gain their freedom while in the States the cotton gin was invented and the rich landowners people needed cheap labour but did not want more white trash in the form of indentured servants and such and the use of slaves picked up in response to the need for cheap labour with no political rights. Remember that the USA was the last of the western nations to ban slavery, only finally banning it in 1867 though it was on the way out as the slave economy could not compete and the South was failing economically when competing with cotton growers in other regions that were paying a wage for labour, especially as the (mostly English) factory owners considered slavery immoral and preferred buying cotton that was more ethically produced.
It wasn't that long ago that we polluted much like China is now, at least per widget produced, and it took a lot of effort to cleanup and businesses complained, people denied that the pollution even existed and the successful businesses packed up and went somewhere where they didn't have to worry about polluting and could be more profitable. Your right about having a minimum wage/environmental protection duty or tax but it won't happen, businesses won't let it and they have the ear of the lawmakers who run things for their benefit. Heard on the radio the other day about minimum wages in 3rd world countries and how much diplomatic pressure is brought to keep them down even though raising them would barely raise the cost of doing business. One example was Haiti where they were going to put in a minimum wage of $5 a day. The Americans diplomatically threatened them and now the minimum wage is $3 a day. All for the benefit of Haynes.
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The First Amendment is just a guideline, look at the various decisions of the Supreme Court over the years. If the courts took the First seriously your country or Constitution would be much different. Even having a standing army would be next impossible as the UMC is a law passed by Congress which limits soldiers rights to talk back to officers amongst other things such as national security.
They're also my municipal and provincial police force so they're more then just the equivalent of the FBI.
Yes, much like shit is plant food. At that when people started suggesting that having shit in our drinking water was bad there was lots of similar opposition. It was called unscientific that invisible things could make people sick and besides it was too expensive to keep the shit out of our water and it was just a conspiracy for more big government, taking peoples freedom away to shit where they wanted.
Most plants are also starved for manure so increasing the amount in the water supply should help those plants and therefore the environment.
You wouldn't object to ingesting shit would you? Just remember it is good.
Most types of currency are based on faith. Gold and sea shells both require faith that others are going to value them. Now if we moved to a chicken currency we wouldn't need faith. A chicken produces interest in the form of eggs, can always be turned into a chicken dinner and drives the need for grain.
I live aways out of town (third largest in Canada), about 40 kms with mountains around. Only choice is the phone company and all their bundles involve high speed internet which doesn't exist here. My basic phone has stayed at $30 while various other items have been added, $5 for not making enough long distance calls, call display is $9, my dial-up just went up to $35. Total bill is close to $100 cnd. When I first moved here my bill was $20 + $25 for dial-up.
My cell plan has also gone up though not as much with extras going up even faster. Text message is 20 cents, long distance is now 25 cents a minute, used to buy 3 months of time, now it's 1 month and the per second billing went away a long time ago.
I could get cheaper cell plans but since I average about 10 minutes a month it is not worth it. Perhaps if we ever get cell service here...
Well most lawyers will agree that a corporate lawyer is so low life that they don't want anything to do with them so the average lawyer does have some morals.
As an aside, we had a corporate lawyer running the country for a while. He's the one that started the whole out sourcing thing going.with NAFTA. Destroyed his party and it has only recently came back, now with an economist in charge. Stupid idiot really believes that mono-culture is for the best.
The poster never did say what stage the cancer was at and I assumed a later stage. He also said his dog was 14 which depending on the breed could have been awfully close to end of life so it's hard to judge exactly what he meant and you seem to have interpreted it more optimistically then I did.
But yes, the idea of putting my dad down was unthinkable in the earlier stages of cancer even though it was almost guaranteed fatal. (Had a friend who was given 6 months and he survived for over 10 years once he quit medical help so you never know)
The best part of the whole thing was that he wanted to die at home and my mom did everything possible to make that happen. Very little hospital time as that is what he really didn't want.
Also learned how fast a doctor could make a house call when it came to filling out a death certificate and how the funeral industry tries to take advantage of grieving family. Bastards claiming that you had to spend thousands for a cremation when all that was needed was a cardboard box rather then a fancy casket.
I really wish we could have put my dad down a couple of weeks before he died. Riddled with cancer, those last couple of weeks were not pleasant for him. Why is it that we treat our pets better then our old people?
As the sibling post says, it is much cheaper to catch a flight from an American airport, not just to Europe either but pretty well anywhere. This is (at least partly) due to Canadian airports having to be self-financing and people expect some perks like free WIFI after paying the extra charges.
Selling point to compete with American airports. In Canada the airports are financed by ticket surcharges so many people cross the line to fly out of American airports as the whole airport is free.
Are you claiming that General Jack Ripper is a nutjob conspiracy theorist? Next you'll be claiming that the fluoride in the water isn't affecting you when obviously it is.
We don't know how fertile their offspring were. There have been cases of Mules getting pregnant (only by male donkey) though very rare and there are other hybrids where depending on the sex of parents the young hybrids are more or less fertile. Also to consider is how vigorous the F2 (second generation) offspring is, sometimes breeding happens but all the offspring are very weak. In a human society during plentiful times those offspring may still survive to adulthood.
There's also differences in what is found attractive, where 2 different species are capable of breeding but it almost never happens as the sexual cues or even timing aren't there. Probably not true for humans.
There's always the original first proposed amendment awaiting ratification. Not exactly what you propose but along the same lines and just as article the second (original second proposed amendment) finally got ratifiied, article the first could still be ratified no matter what congress thinks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The thing is that it is apparently impossible to say anything about where the universe came from, at least from a scientific view point. The idea of some God[s] creating the universe for the reasons that most religious people put forward just seems so ridiculous.
Huh? The universe being created implies a creator, which is not a simple solution as it leads to the question of where did the creator come from? With the simplest solution that the creator must of had a creator which leads to... Might just as well say it's turtles all the way down.
I like how you ignore the part of the story where Khaddafi murders tens of thousands of people, because it doesn't fit with your narrative.
Seems like most countries murder tens of thousands of people and yet we pick on the ones who don't want to use American Dollars to trade oil. Gaddafi wanted to use a gold backed currency, Saddam wanted to use Euros, same with Iran and Venezuela. Meanwhile in Syria murder happens like crazy but they're not trading oil for other currency so they get a pass. Same with countless dictatorships in Africa, Asia and S. America. At that often America encourages it, endless right wing dictatorships.
America calls Iran bad because they don't treat their woman well and yet supports Saudi Arabia, and various other Arab absolute monarchies.
To claim that Libya was about stopping Gaddafi from killing his people is totally dishonest.
Of course there are traces of heavy elements in the Sun, it was formed from the same nebula as the Earth which had been enriched by supernovas. Wiki says that 1.69% (5,600 times the Earths mass) of the Sun is heavier elements including 0.2% iron. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
It's Lunar regolith, bedrock that has been repeatably crushed and stirred up and never having had water to concentrate elements as on the Earth (and perhaps Mars) and the Helium 3 is so thinly dispersed (0.01 ppm to 0.05 ppm) on the surface that it would be easier to mine it from Saturns atmosphere or synthesize it here. There are probably concentrated deposits of iron and such from meteor impacts but other then that most lunar mining is going to be hard to do profitably.
BTW, the Moon does not have the same proportions of elements as Earth, for a starts it is missing many volatiles. I think you're thinking of the isotope ratios which are very similar to Earths, so similar that it brings into question the Moon being formed by a collision with the proto-planet Thera as it is estimated as less then 1% chance of Theora being identical to the Earth in isotope ratios..
TFS said it landed on Dec 14th. Assuming it landed at dawn, sunset would have been about the 28th and the sun would have returned about the 11th with its second night starting about the 24th. Since this is the 25th, my numbers are probably slightly off but either way this has to be the second night and it did survive the first night. Not bad for a first attempt, took a few tries for the Americans and Soviets to successfully soft land on the Moon.
It was influential as it gave Jobs the excuse to stop developing the Apple II line and a money sink that almost sank Apple.
The IIx could have come out years earlier and when it did come out as the GS it could have been less crippled. A souped up GS was everything the Mac wasn't, colour, fast, expandable, a large existing stock of software with a GUI that was a rewrite of the Mac GUI with many bug fixes.
I can still hear Jobs saying users didn't need colour and a computer should be like a toaster, closed and non-expandable.
I stand corrected though the point still stands that America supported slavery much longer then most of the civilized world
Actually the invention of the horse collar pretty well ended slavery in most of the civilized world. A horse that wasn't strangling itself is much more productive per unit of food then a human slave. Even in America at the time of the War of Independence, slavery was on the way out with the price of a slave having dropped to $50.
England was having court cases where slaves were using habeas corpus to gain their freedom while in the States the cotton gin was invented and the rich landowners people needed cheap labour but did not want more white trash in the form of indentured servants and such and the use of slaves picked up in response to the need for cheap labour with no political rights.
Remember that the USA was the last of the western nations to ban slavery, only finally banning it in 1867 though it was on the way out as the slave economy could not compete and the South was failing economically when competing with cotton growers in other regions that were paying a wage for labour, especially as the (mostly English) factory owners considered slavery immoral and preferred buying cotton that was more ethically produced.
It wasn't that long ago that we polluted much like China is now, at least per widget produced, and it took a lot of effort to cleanup and businesses complained, people denied that the pollution even existed and the successful businesses packed up and went somewhere where they didn't have to worry about polluting and could be more profitable.
Your right about having a minimum wage/environmental protection duty or tax but it won't happen, businesses won't let it and they have the ear of the lawmakers who run things for their benefit. Heard on the radio the other day about minimum wages in 3rd world countries and how much diplomatic pressure is brought to keep them down even though raising them would barely raise the cost of doing business. One example was Haiti where they were going to put in a minimum wage of $5 a day. The Americans diplomatically threatened them and now the minimum wage is $3 a day. All for the benefit of Haynes.
You don't pay taxes on foreign merchandise?