Apart from it being a Religious term (in the Bible, it mentions that marriage is between a husband and wife, being man and woman).
That's part of the base scripture. Apparently the word of God.
In case you weren't aware, there have also been marriages outside of the influence of the Judeo-Christian tradition. While people in the Middle East were writing the Bible, there was still stuff going on in the entire rest of the world.
This is so true. It's easy for people to see their own hard work as justification for their position because they never see the hard work that others who never got a chance put in.
Well, they used the line "vulnerabilities and exploits" in Violet Blue's abstract to suggest that the talk would be about how to exploit vulnerable people (Seriously? For a phrase that is THAT common in security circles?).
Even if that had been the topic of her talk, we all know that the best way to defend against an exploit is to just keep it a secret and hope that no one else knows about it.
Except - this story in no way suggests anything that remotely resembles "sane conference policies".
This zany bitch threatened that she would be "triggered" by the lady if she spoke. "Triggered". That is an aggressive word, not a defensive word. She threatened to go postal, if she didn't get her way. She committed an assault on the freedom of speech.
Fixed. The talk was actually being given by a woman, and according to her blog, the only mention of rape was a section on avoiding date rape drugs. So really, by blocking this talk, they kept rape prevention information out of the hands of potential victims.
If you read the SF novels detailing life in Libertopia, you'll find that...
And if you read the science fiction novels depicting life on the planet Arrakis, you'll find that people can rapidly travel through space and see the future by doing drugs. There are also enormous worms that live in the desert and produce said drugs. Some people have also developed an economy based on water. There is a quasi religious order who has an intricate breeding program and can control all of their bodily functions. Sci fi is so crazy, right?
(PS, I am unfamiliar with "Libertopia", but it sounds like something Stephen Colbert would make up.)
As a resident of Tucson, this is alarming. If I lived farther north I'd be used to it, as Sheriff Arpaio has already made Phoenix a Fourth Amendment Free Zone.
Newsflash: Millions of people are going to starve to death with or without GMO crops. It's not like Monsanto or ADM is just going to magnanimously ship all this extra food to Africa out of the goodness of their hearts. Producing more food does absolutely nothing to ensure that the surplus actually gets to the people who need it. One study claims that 40% of food in the US goes to waste (Link). A good chunk of this hypothetical extra GM food will probably just add to that.
I'm going to operate on the assumption that furries can also be into cold blooded animals. If I'm wrong, please, let me live in ignorance.
That said: the "turkey" is actually a person in a feather costume, and the preparation involves the cutting of strategic holes and generous application of lubricant.
Cash takes extra record keeping. Cash takes somebody counting the drawer. Cash requires somebody to drive the deposit to the bank (or an armored car staff to pick it up). These may not be charges per transaction, but they're still things you'll have to pay someone to do when handling cash.
I don't think that there is a clause with Google Wallets (or with any credit/debit/whatever card) that you have to use that form of payment for ALL of your purchases. If he has a transaction he doesn't want recorded, he is perfectly free and able to pay for that transaction with cash.
I like the record keeping functions of my debit card, but there are some things that I still pay for in cash. You don't have to make one or the other a way of life.
There is an extra annoyance factor of having something (or this guy) IN YOUR FACE though. Would you say that a fly buzzing around across the street is just as annoying as a fly buzzing around your face?
To me the very concept of collectivism is as repulsive as for example the idea of murdering 100,000,000 newborn by drowning them all in a tub filled with H2SO4. Do you know what I mean? And that is much fewer deaths and suffering than collectivism actually caused.
It's like one of Ayn Rand's crazy fictional characters came to life!
It sounds to me like the laws do apply pretty equally in Scandinavia. You can ask any number of minorities how equally the law applies in the US and will undoubtedly get a different picture.
... But lets look at Democrats - they have decades of failed social engineering programs under their belt. They're beholden to corrupt corporations. They engage in pointless wars. Yadda yadda.
Wait, those are all flaws that you associate with... Democrats?
Do you just think that the corporations that the Republican party is beholden to aren't corrupt, Republican wars aren't pointless, and Republican social engineering programs haven't failed?
A bicycle is mainly for recreational exercise....and the US is hurting for money for the infrastructure we need for commerce and basic needs...we don't have the spare cash to build bicycle additions to our roads.
If money for infrastructure is the problem, then we should be creating more bike infrastructure, not less. Bike lanes and paths cost less to build than roads, require less maintenance, create more jobs than road projects, and provide more economic stimulus to the areas they serve.
If you'll glance back up to the synopsis above, you'll not that the researcher states "Yes, there are studies that show that if you fall off a bicycle at a certain speed and hit your head, a helmet can reduce your risk of serious head injury" but that such falls are "exceedingly rare". I'm going to postulate, based on her statement, that getting hit by a car is not one of the scenarios where a helmet would be helpful (since it wouldn't be that rare). I'd also be willing to bet that with an accident caused by a sudden lateral impact, like a cyclist getting hit by a car, that neck injuries would be more common. I might also guess that having extra weight on top of your head (you know, like a helmet), might actually make the neck injuries even more likely.
How about we instead make the government quit screwing around with things that make meat prices (and energy, housing, clothing, healthcare, education, etc etc) increase as a way for them to increase their power and control over the population?
More freedom, more meat.
Just sayin'
Strat
You realize that the "government screwing around" is what keeps meat prices as LOW as they are, right? Meat would already be a lot more expensive if not for corn and grain subsidies...
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Apart from it being a Religious term (in the Bible, it mentions that marriage is between a husband and wife, being man and woman). That's part of the base scripture. Apparently the word of God.
In case you weren't aware, there have also been marriages outside of the influence of the Judeo-Christian tradition. While people in the Middle East were writing the Bible, there was still stuff going on in the entire rest of the world.
This is so true. It's easy for people to see their own hard work as justification for their position because they never see the hard work that others who never got a chance put in.
HFCS in your eyes and on your fingers is such a waste though. It was designed to be used in your digestive tract.
They don't. If you register a username, you also get all dotted variations of that user name.
Wishing I had some mod points...
Well, they used the line "vulnerabilities and exploits" in Violet Blue's abstract to suggest that the talk would be about how to exploit vulnerable people (Seriously? For a phrase that is THAT common in security circles?).
Even if that had been the topic of her talk, we all know that the best way to defend against an exploit is to just keep it a secret and hope that no one else knows about it.
Except - this story in no way suggests anything that remotely resembles "sane conference policies".
This zany bitch threatened that she would be "triggered" by the lady if she spoke. "Triggered". That is an aggressive word, not a defensive word. She threatened to go postal, if she didn't get her way. She committed an assault on the freedom of speech.
Fixed. The talk was actually being given by a woman, and according to her blog, the only mention of rape was a section on avoiding date rape drugs. So really, by blocking this talk, they kept rape prevention information out of the hands of potential victims.
If you read the SF novels detailing life in Libertopia, you'll find that...
And if you read the science fiction novels depicting life on the planet Arrakis, you'll find that people can rapidly travel through space and see the future by doing drugs. There are also enormous worms that live in the desert and produce said drugs. Some people have also developed an economy based on water. There is a quasi religious order who has an intricate breeding program and can control all of their bodily functions. Sci fi is so crazy, right?
(PS, I am unfamiliar with "Libertopia", but it sounds like something Stephen Colbert would make up.)
As a resident of Tucson, this is alarming. If I lived farther north I'd be used to it, as Sheriff Arpaio has already made Phoenix a Fourth Amendment Free Zone.
So buy stuff that does tell you. Problem solved.
The FDA is making it increasingly hard for companies to label product as NOT having GMOs as well (Source).
Newsflash: Millions of people are going to starve to death with or without GMO crops. It's not like Monsanto or ADM is just going to magnanimously ship all this extra food to Africa out of the goodness of their hearts. Producing more food does absolutely nothing to ensure that the surplus actually gets to the people who need it. One study claims that 40% of food in the US goes to waste (Link). A good chunk of this hypothetical extra GM food will probably just add to that.
I'm going to operate on the assumption that furries can also be into cold blooded animals. If I'm wrong, please, let me live in ignorance.
That said: the "turkey" is actually a person in a feather costume, and the preparation involves the cutting of strategic holes and generous application of lubricant.
Gold? Enjoy your totalitarian future! Real Luddites barter.
Cash takes extra record keeping. Cash takes somebody counting the drawer. Cash requires somebody to drive the deposit to the bank (or an armored car staff to pick it up). These may not be charges per transaction, but they're still things you'll have to pay someone to do when handling cash.
Have you ever had refuse-smoked pigeon? Cook it low and slow, so the beer-soaked newspaper smoke can really get into the meat... nothing like it.
I don't think that there is a clause with Google Wallets (or with any credit/debit/whatever card) that you have to use that form of payment for ALL of your purchases. If he has a transaction he doesn't want recorded, he is perfectly free and able to pay for that transaction with cash.
I like the record keeping functions of my debit card, but there are some things that I still pay for in cash. You don't have to make one or the other a way of life.
There is an extra annoyance factor of having something (or this guy) IN YOUR FACE though. Would you say that a fly buzzing around across the street is just as annoying as a fly buzzing around your face?
To me the very concept of collectivism is as repulsive as for example the idea of murdering 100,000,000 newborn by drowning them all in a tub filled with H2SO4. Do you know what I mean? And that is much fewer deaths and suffering than collectivism actually caused.
It's like one of Ayn Rand's crazy fictional characters came to life!
It sounds to me like the laws do apply pretty equally in Scandinavia. You can ask any number of minorities how equally the law applies in the US and will undoubtedly get a different picture.
... But lets look at Democrats - they have decades of failed social engineering programs under their belt. They're beholden to corrupt corporations. They engage in pointless wars. Yadda yadda.
Wait, those are all flaws that you associate with ... Democrats?
Do you just think that the corporations that the Republican party is beholden to aren't corrupt, Republican wars aren't pointless, and Republican social engineering programs haven't failed?
And yet traffic laws pretty much everywhere classify bicycles as vehicles.
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A bicycle is mainly for recreational exercise....and the US is hurting for money for the infrastructure we need for commerce and basic needs...we don't have the spare cash to build bicycle additions to our roads.
If money for infrastructure is the problem, then we should be creating more bike infrastructure, not less. Bike lanes and paths cost less to build than roads, require less maintenance, create more jobs than road projects, and provide more economic stimulus to the areas they serve.
http://grist.org/list/2011-06-27-bike-lanes-create-jobs/
http://www.bikeleague.org/resources/reports/pdfs/economic_benefits_bicycle_infrastructure_report.pdf
If you'll glance back up to the synopsis above, you'll not that the researcher states "Yes, there are studies that show that if you fall off a bicycle at a certain speed and hit your head, a helmet can reduce your risk of serious head injury" but that such falls are "exceedingly rare". I'm going to postulate, based on her statement, that getting hit by a car is not one of the scenarios where a helmet would be helpful (since it wouldn't be that rare). I'd also be willing to bet that with an accident caused by a sudden lateral impact, like a cyclist getting hit by a car, that neck injuries would be more common. I might also guess that having extra weight on top of your head (you know, like a helmet), might actually make the neck injuries even more likely.
I guess that's what makes it a "fake iPhone 5".
How about we instead make the government quit screwing around with things that make meat prices (and energy, housing, clothing, healthcare, education, etc etc) increase as a way for them to increase their power and control over the population?
More freedom, more meat.
Just sayin'
Strat
You realize that the "government screwing around" is what keeps meat prices as LOW as they are, right? Meat would already be a lot more expensive if not for corn and grain subsidies...