1) When life begins is not a question that science can answer. 2) When life begins is a therefore a question of morality. 3) Therefore, the state shouldn't have anything to do with it if it does not interfere with the lives of others.
But, as I keep trying to point out, the Republican party is not leaning towards libertarianism, they're leaning towards corporate anarchy. They are fine with anything as long as their corporate buddies don't have to follow any rules.
I think the social conservatism moniker is bullshit. For most conservatives Abortion is a fig leaf to make them appear that they are "moral." They are, in fact, an amoral bunch (notice their love of Ayn Rand) and their system of views is based on corporate culture.
Their "morality" doesn't match any form of classic New Testament morality. They are fine with letting the poor starve. They're fine with greed. The idea that they are moral people is laughable.
Society is broken. We're a point where a significant number of people believe their opinions are just as valid as scientific proof, even if they don't put it in those exact words.
Something that *never* gets brought up (and ignored in discussions when I bring it up) is this fact: my genetics prof. when I was a freshman in college pointed out that if you believe that conception starts at fertilization then about 3/4 of the people conceived never are even born. This is because of the body's spontaneous abort mechanism that ceases pregnancies that have genetic problems.
I wonder if Akin confused this with his idea that rape victims spontaneously abort. (Given Akin's lack of intelligence this is probably given him too much credit).
Of course this idea sets a lot of the anti-abortion arguments on it's ear, since if you believe it then hell is filled with unbabtised babies.
There is no such thing as good regulation when what you want is corporate anarchy. That's what they end goal is for some of these people and they might not even realize it themselves.
I find the timing of the sex charges too coincidental to pass the smell test.
Of course we are the ones with the biggest guns so what we say goes. That is all this boils down too. Assange pissed the wrong people off and those people want to make an example.
If they pull this kind of language B.S. then they are a disreputable company. I'm glad that it got brought up on slashdot... I'm sure a lot of us will just choose to never use them.
They are clearly playing the "my lawyers and bigger than your lawyers" card. They're the corporation so some dope, powerless individual isn't going to have any power, right?
Several people affected need to get together and pay a lawyer to write a letter...
Freedom of religion comes to this in their eyes: we're free to agree with them. That's it.
The biggest point of ignorance about this is that the freedom to believe what we want benefits THEM the most. If Christianity becomes the "official" religion in the U.S., the question immediately becomes *what* form of Christianity. We seen it this year with all the Babtists crying about Mormonism. Freedom religion is there because that type of battle doesn't end until there are two people.
...I will put my modern values into the past and judge people based on today's criteria story. If it was accepted practice back then you should STFU. You should also not promote it as a model of how to do things today. You can't go back to that exact time and place.
I've had this same situation come up with clients and employers. Folks come to me wanting data to be safe from all* circumstances. It's too expensive to do that.
I can get it up to the situation where if a nuclear bomb exploded over our state they could go somewhere else and set up shop, but for a small business or non-profit would you need to worry about such things if a nuclear bomb exploded over your home and/or business? Probably not.
In the U.S. we're teaching right now that the "ends" are what its all about, whether it is a 100k job or whether it is test scores. The means remain murky and, as far as corporate values go, are often totally justified by the ends.
That isn't "liberal" anything, it's the corporate value system, and the corporate values system isn't a liberal values system.
One of the reason that education sucks in the U.S. right now is because the real value in education come in the journey itself. Learning something that doesn't contribute directly to the bottom line of a corporation doesn't make you money, but it does make you a person with experience, and that experience is worth something. When the ends justify the means and everything is cut out but the stuff that makes you a compliant little cube worker then you've got a system for stamping out robots.
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Even though I agree with 1/2 of this, someone bringing up "teleprompter" deserves all communications flushed down the memory hole.
I posit that ignoring the assholes is what is causing this problem to begin with.
1) When life begins is not a question that science can answer.
2) When life begins is a therefore a question of morality.
3) Therefore, the state shouldn't have anything to do with it if it does not interfere with the lives of others.
But, as I keep trying to point out, the Republican party is not leaning towards libertarianism, they're leaning towards corporate anarchy. They are fine with anything as long as their corporate buddies don't have to follow any rules.
The high end estimate I keep seeing is 8%.
That's not good and larger than the false reporting rates of other crimes, but that is far from a majority as some of trolls around here are implying.
I think the social conservatism moniker is bullshit. For most conservatives Abortion is a fig leaf to make them appear that they are "moral." They are, in fact, an amoral bunch (notice their love of Ayn Rand) and their system of views is based on corporate culture.
Their "morality" doesn't match any form of classic New Testament morality. They are fine with letting the poor starve. They're fine with greed. The idea that they are moral people is laughable.
There is a mechanism to prevent pregnancy in the human body, but it is a mechanism that detects genetic defects and his has nothing to do with rape.
Society is broken. We're a point where a significant number of people believe their opinions are just as valid as scientific proof, even if they don't put it in those exact words.
Something that *never* gets brought up (and ignored in discussions when I bring it up) is this fact: my genetics prof. when I was a freshman in college pointed out that if you believe that conception starts at fertilization then about 3/4 of the people conceived never are even born. This is because of the body's spontaneous abort mechanism that ceases pregnancies that have genetic problems.
I wonder if Akin confused this with his idea that rape victims spontaneously abort. (Given Akin's lack of intelligence this is probably given him too much credit).
Of course this idea sets a lot of the anti-abortion arguments on it's ear, since if you believe it then hell is filled with unbabtised babies.
just like we said. Corporate bastards can do anything the fuck they want.
No.. they're just like so many other professionals and too uppity to talk to their own I.T. guys.
Okay... so based on that the DEA's storage capability is about 40 TB.
Well... that's a little bit less than stellar.
Well.. that's a non sequitur if I have ever seen one...
Oh, lovely... the old "na na you're just envious argument."
I'd rather make an honest day's living, thank you.
There is no such thing as good regulation when what you want is corporate anarchy. That's what they end goal is for some of these people and they might not even realize it themselves.
There is a standard for your corporate ivory tower types and there is a standard for the people in the pits doing the work.
You can "overrate" me all you want, but you know that this is true now more than ever.
It's funny how the definition of socialism has turned into "whatever the corporate bozos at the top don't like."
I find the timing of the sex charges too coincidental to pass the smell test.
Of course we are the ones with the biggest guns so what we say goes. That is all this boils down too. Assange pissed the wrong people off and those people want to make an example.
If they pull this kind of language B.S. then they are a disreputable company. I'm glad that it got brought up on slashdot... I'm sure a lot of us will just choose to never use them.
They are clearly playing the "my lawyers and bigger than your lawyers" card. They're the corporation so some dope, powerless individual isn't going to have any power, right?
Several people affected need to get together and pay a lawyer to write a letter...
Freedom of religion comes to this in their eyes: we're free to agree with them. That's it.
The biggest point of ignorance about this is that the freedom to believe what we want benefits THEM the most. If Christianity becomes the "official" religion in the U.S., the question immediately becomes *what* form of Christianity. We seen it this year with all the Babtists crying about Mormonism. Freedom religion is there because that type of battle doesn't end until there are two people.
but we live in a meritocracy, so the system should automatically benefit them because they're better than us!
...I will put my modern values into the past and judge people based on today's criteria story. If it was accepted practice back then you should STFU. You should also not promote it as a model of how to do things today. You can't go back to that exact time and place.
I've had this same situation come up with clients and employers. Folks come to me wanting data to be safe from all* circumstances. It's too expensive to do that.
I can get it up to the situation where if a nuclear bomb exploded over our state they could go somewhere else and set up shop, but for a small business or non-profit would you need to worry about such things if a nuclear bomb exploded over your home and/or business? Probably not.
"liberal view of education"? Wha?
In the U.S. we're teaching right now that the "ends" are what its all about, whether it is a 100k job or whether it is test scores. The means remain murky and, as far as corporate values go, are often totally justified by the ends.
That isn't "liberal" anything, it's the corporate value system, and the corporate values system isn't a liberal values system.
One of the reason that education sucks in the U.S. right now is because the real value in education come in the journey itself. Learning something that doesn't contribute directly to the bottom line of a corporation doesn't make you money, but it does make you a person with experience, and that experience is worth something. When the ends justify the means and everything is cut out but the stuff that makes you a compliant little cube worker then you've got a system for stamping out robots.
Anonymity makes normal persons jackasses. This looks like another aspect of that syndrome.