I went to [school in]...Texas. There's your problem there.
All jesting aside, a lot of people don't think too much of the primary and secondary education system in some (read: most) of the Southern states (especially Mississippi).
that still wouldn't demonstrate that evolution is the origin of life Nothing will ever demonstrate that evolution is the origin of life as it never claims to be.
Fine. Give one example where this has happened. I don't know if it has. It was supposed to be an example of an extreme...
In very rare circumstances you can get a three way split, but the 66% of the population who lose such elections How does anyone lose in a three way split?
Ah, yes, I was confused as to what you meant - I apologize.
But as to 4th/5th, I did mean the 5th. I disagree that the Constitution does not give us a right to privacy from individuals. The 5th amendment says that "No person shall be...deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..." Given that the Supreme Court has said that Due Process gives you a right to privacy, it sounds like the 5th should prevent ANYONE from invading your privacy. It says "no person" and makes no conditions as to the perpetrator of the act.
and almost every one of them is dominated by either two parties, or two stable coalitions The first is just plain wrong. The second one is irrelevant; if two parties regularly act together that does not let you count them as one party for the purposes of pushing your own viewpoint.
There are *none* where power regularly changes hands between three, or more, parties or coalitions. Power does not need to change hands to be a multiparty system. If you have three stable parties, with each having achieved 33.33333% of the votes for the last 100 years, it's still a multiparty system.
Many Obama supporters I talked to on primary day mentioned that they were planning to support Ron Paul or vote against a candidate in the Republican party because they didn't believe Obama needed their support. This is sad because it shows that these people did not know how the primaries worked. What matters is not who wins or loses, what matters is the % of votes they get. If Obama had won by 1% he gets much fewer delegates than he would had he won by 30%, though he won either way.
That's not what the 4th amendment says. Right.
that right...is not expressly surrendered to the government in the Constitution [and] is reserved to the states and the people via the 10th amendment. Wrong, and doesn't make a lot of sense - he was never saying the our right to privacy was surrendered to the government, rather, that it was protected from the government. However, the 5th amendment grants us a right to privacy in regards to the federal government and the 14th amendment grants us a right to privacy in regards to the state government (see Due Process).
It's always fun(ny) to see what will get +5 merely for the act of sounding authoritative. It only sometimes correlates to actual merit.
The US is a multi-party democracy in which two parties dominate. It is only multi-party in the sense that it's legal for there to be other parties. However, they have no real power. Our winner-take-all system of elections makes it very unlikely that a third party will ever win. Second, even when a third party does manage to get a seat in Congress, they are at the whim of the Democratic party and the Republican party as to how much power they have. They must ask to be able to "join" their party or they cannot participate in Committees, where all the important work happens.
two parties dominate...in almost all democracies. [Citation needed]. Argentina,
Australia,
Austria,
Belgium,
Bolivia,
Brazil,
Bulgaria,
Burkina Faso,
Burundi,
Cambodia,
Cape Verde,
Chile,
Colombia,
Costa Rica,
Cyprus,
Czech Republic,
Denmark,
Dominican Republic,
Equatorial Guinea,
Estonia,
Finland,
France,
Germany,
Greece,
Greenland,
Guinea-Bissau,
Guyana,
Iceland,
India,
Indonesia,
Ireland,
Israel,
Italy,
Latvia,
Lesotho,
Liberia,
Liechtenstein,
Luxembourg,
Malta,
Mexico,
Moldova,
Namibia,
Netherlands,
New Caledonia,
New Zealand,
Nicaragua,
Norway,
Paraguay,
Peru,
Poland,
Portugal,
Romania,
San Marino,
Sao Tome and Principe,
Scotland,
Slovakia,
Slovenia,
South Africa,
Spain,
Sri Lanka,
Suriname,
Sweden,
Switzerland,
Turkey,
Uruguay,
Venezuela, and
Wales all are multiparty systems, as are many more that I did not list.
For anyone keeping track, that is most of mainland Europe and South America. Currently, there are roughly 4.2 billion people living in a Democracy (63% of the world). India alone makes up 1/4 of the people living in a Democracy, and they're a multiparty system. Obviously, by percentage of population, the multiparty system is ahead (I WAS adding up populations but stopped once I passed the 55% mark).
Now, there are 67 countries on that list that I just typed in and there are more living in a multiparty system not on there. There are 121 countries that are Democracies. That means, at the bare minimum, 55% of Democracies are using a multiparty system, putting the multiparty system ahead by percentage of countries, too.
Democracies tend to develop into two party (or two coalition) systems. Uhh... where were you during your high school government course? A two-party democracy is a minority, one in which the US participates. Multi-party democracies are much more common.
Give the ladies a shot at steering the ship for once. You realize that voting FOR Clinton just because she's a woman is equally as bad as voting AGAINST her just because she's a woman, right?
Congress's approval ratings have been just as dismal Congress almost always has a dismal rating. There's a noted paradox where voters think that " is great, it's just the rest are corrupt." If that were true, all of Congress would be great.
US military spending as a percent of GDP has fallen over 100% It's extremely ironic that you say something like this in a post lecturing someone else about his math ability. What, is military spending NEGATIVE now?
Yeah, you don't see alot of people converting to a religion they never hear of... You know, I'm going to create my own religion, based on the worship of SCIENCE. I'll call it... Scientology! Wait, what's that you tell me, Scientology already exists? Well, I'm sure it can't be too different from what I envisioned... where do I sign up?
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This is positively Final Fantasy 7-esque!
All jesting aside, a lot of people don't think too much of the primary and secondary education system in some (read: most) of the Southern states (especially Mississippi).
Ah, yes, I was confused as to what you meant - I apologize.
But as to 4th/5th, I did mean the 5th. I disagree that the Constitution does not give us a right to privacy from individuals. The 5th amendment says that "No person shall be...deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..." Given that the Supreme Court has said that Due Process gives you a right to privacy, it sounds like the 5th should prevent ANYONE from invading your privacy. It says "no person" and makes no conditions as to the perpetrator of the act.
it's almost impossible to pin him down on a lot of issues Someone obviously has not looked very hard... why, there's a whole Wikipedia page devoted to his political positions, as with all the candidates.
It's always fun(ny) to see what will get +5 merely for the act of sounding authoritative. It only sometimes correlates to actual merit.
For anyone keeping track, that is most of mainland Europe and South America. Currently, there are roughly 4.2 billion people living in a Democracy (63% of the world). India alone makes up 1/4 of the people living in a Democracy, and they're a multiparty system. Obviously, by percentage of population, the multiparty system is ahead (I WAS adding up populations but stopped once I passed the 55% mark).
Now, there are 67 countries on that list that I just typed in and there are more living in a multiparty system not on there. There are 121 countries that are Democracies. That means, at the bare minimum, 55% of Democracies are using a multiparty system, putting the multiparty system ahead by percentage of countries, too.
...giant penguin robot... ...someone call the japanese... Wouldn't the Japanese be much more likely to build a giant octopus robot?Did anybody else read this as "Heathcliff Reincarnates the Hero Robot"? I had imagined some bastard child of Wuthering Heights and Snow Crash...
Heathcliff: "Wait a minute, Cathy. Make up your mind. This Love thing--is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" Cathy shrugs. "What's the difference?"
Or, alternatively:
Y.T.: My love for Hiro resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Juanita, I AM Hiro!
"Something needs to change" != "Anarchy is a good idea"
I'm perfectly willing to admit that something needs to change, but anarchy is, always has been, and always will be a terrible idea.
All joking aside (and that WAS a joke - NOT a troll) anarchy is a terrible idea.
That's what I just said...
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