The problem with gambling is the number of people who AREN'T personally responsible. A few too many people gamble with money they "can't afford to lose," and the rest of us have to pay through our tax dollars for their mistakes.
I'm not against gambling per se, but it's one of things like drug use - the rest of us pay for the screwups.
Lying *not* inherently bad? According to what standard?
I understand the whole thing that House MD spouts off about "everybody lies," it doesn't mean that it's ever the right thing to do - it just shows how screwed up humanity is.
Attention hard(er) (than me) righties and hard lefties, and whoever complains about the modding...quit complaining. Yes, there may be a few things to fight for, but we DON'T see this in America. People are NOT jailed for radically opposing views and speaking out. Simply having difficulty getting your message out, or not having people listen or care, is NOT censorship.
I've always had similar opinions of Whedon - how often has he had series (Firefly, Dollhouse) that should have gone straight to SciFi for 3-5-7 seasons and instead floundered on networks for 1-2? He's had his run with Buffy/Angel to be sure, but needs to make sure of his venues better.
That being said, I applaud this pick. Whedon tends to actually care about Geek-genre characters.
Payola is a rare, and occasionally illegal, occurrence. The point is that the songs aren't heard for free - the money changes hands, even if it isn't yours.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you about the end result - it's just that at worst your argument appeared to be assuming that songs were heard freely over the radio when that has rarely - if ever - been the case.
One, radio isn't free - stations sell advertising time to companies, and then use that money to purchase the rights to play the music (or whatever) to draw you into listening to their station so you can hear the ads.
Republican pols aren't doing a whole lot of this, but the voice from the blogosphere and talk radio has been pretty strong - sometimes from both sides.
"Privately owned firearms in the U.S.: Approaching 300 million, including nearly 100 million handguns. The number of firearms rises over 4 million annually.
Gun owners in the U.S.: 70-80 million; 40-45 million own handguns.
You'd have to go a LONG way toward showing otherwise...
If you knew history, you'd know that there's a good chunk of reliability in the Bible.
Yeah, there's a few hiccups, but as recorded history, there hasn't been much to go against it and its consistency hasn't changed all that much.
Also, one argument I like to point out is that it's got a lot of not very flattering points as a basis for religion - check out some of the Pentateuch and Judges. Not exactly what most people would want to build a religion upon...
There is, sort of. The Supreme Court sometimes acts like a court of appeals, telling another court "you can't do that" and remanding a case, or whatever it's called.
One reform that would help - not completely, because deep pockets would still win out a lot - is the idea of "loser pays." One of the few decent legal ideas out of Europe, and helps prevent frivolous suits...
What has ALREADY been done as discipline against the troops? Has there already been court martials? In many situations like this, it may just be a media blackout with the troops discharged and not allowed back to active duty. It wouldn't surprise me if the pilot was grounded and lost his wings the minute he landed.
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The problem with gambling is the number of people who AREN'T personally responsible. A few too many people gamble with money they "can't afford to lose," and the rest of us have to pay through our tax dollars for their mistakes.
I'm not against gambling per se, but it's one of things like drug use - the rest of us pay for the screwups.
Lying *not* inherently bad? According to what standard?
I understand the whole thing that House MD spouts off about "everybody lies," it doesn't mean that it's ever the right thing to do - it just shows how screwed up humanity is.
Stupid self-reply.
Quick addendum to my parent: Some things can be wrong whether or not we believe in "wrong."
And, of course, there's quite a few things that are out there that are BOTH illegal *and* wrong.
That is, of course, if you believe that there is such a thing as "wrong."
This is REAL censorship.
Attention hard(er) (than me) righties and hard lefties, and whoever complains about the modding...quit complaining. Yes, there may be a few things to fight for, but we DON'T see this in America. People are NOT jailed for radically opposing views and speaking out. Simply having difficulty getting your message out, or not having people listen or care, is NOT censorship.
I've always had similar opinions of Whedon - how often has he had series (Firefly, Dollhouse) that should have gone straight to SciFi for 3-5-7 seasons and instead floundered on networks for 1-2? He's had his run with Buffy/Angel to be sure, but needs to make sure of his venues better.
That being said, I applaud this pick. Whedon tends to actually care about Geek-genre characters.
I completely get that, but you can't treat the situation as a vacuum. Free to the consumer still means that money has to change hands somewhere else.
Payola is a rare, and occasionally illegal, occurrence. The point is that the songs aren't heard for free - the money changes hands, even if it isn't yours. I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you about the end result - it's just that at worst your argument appeared to be assuming that songs were heard freely over the radio when that has rarely - if ever - been the case.
Bad theory.
One, radio isn't free - stations sell advertising time to companies, and then use that money to purchase the rights to play the music (or whatever) to draw you into listening to their station so you can hear the ads.
Republican pols aren't doing a whole lot of this, but the voice from the blogosphere and talk radio has been pretty strong - sometimes from both sides.
This chart http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/extra/nearest.html lists the closest objects to earth. The brown dwarf (being a failed brown dwarf and found recently...howzabout calling it FAIL) is about the 12th closest object to our solar system.
Whining about censorship when censorship isn't the debate means you lost the argument. It's a bit like racism.
I don't have to read spam to be annoyed by it being in my inbox.
On top of which, how is it NOT attempting to influence the judge in a case?
Math, math, blah, blah. Post your record people.
24 turns, but I'm a beginner.
Sounds like the Democrats to me. Nonwhite racists find a good home there.
All the ones that don't commit crimes with them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States
44 million gun owners.
10,100 homicides, give or take.
You do the math.
Seriously? Common sense doesn't tell you this?
http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?id=83&issue=010
"Privately owned firearms in the U.S.: Approaching 300 million, including nearly 100 million handguns. The number of firearms rises over 4 million annually.
Gun owners in the U.S.: 70-80 million; 40-45 million own handguns.
You'd have to go a LONG way toward showing otherwise...
Maybe it could do the same thing for policies of the conniving, stealing, irresponsible democrats.
If you knew history, you'd know that there's a good chunk of reliability in the Bible.
Yeah, there's a few hiccups, but as recorded history, there hasn't been much to go against it and its consistency hasn't changed all that much.
Also, one argument I like to point out is that it's got a lot of not very flattering points as a basis for religion - check out some of the Pentateuch and Judges. Not exactly what most people would want to build a religion upon...
Actually, states with CCW and more free gun laws have less crime.
No it doesn't. Just about every gun-owning American is a responsible gun owner WITHOUT the need for careful regulation.
No one's hacked it yet?
Come on people, get on the ball...
There is, sort of. The Supreme Court sometimes acts like a court of appeals, telling another court "you can't do that" and remanding a case, or whatever it's called.
One reform that would help - not completely, because deep pockets would still win out a lot - is the idea of "loser pays." One of the few decent legal ideas out of Europe, and helps prevent frivolous suits...
Some questions we're not asking...
What has ALREADY been done as discipline against the troops? Has there already been court martials? In many situations like this, it may just be a media blackout with the troops discharged and not allowed back to active duty. It wouldn't surprise me if the pilot was grounded and lost his wings the minute he landed.