Until "Neither" appears on the ballots not voing is a perfect valid way to voice your opinion, sadly it hard to tell if people are protesting or being lazy sometimes.
There is no correlation. We have violent video games, and less youth violence than any other point in American history. Correlation does *not* mean one causes the other either.
More frustrating, silverlight sights persist in refusing to try and render in moonlight. All of Microsoft's vaunted talk about compatability and the default setting for silverlight pages seems to be 'refuse to try'.
Why do people persist in believing that there is a difference in Democrats and Republicans? They make *speak* differently, but follow the damned voting records and see how often they actually disagree.
Ok, so applying this standard, lets start censoring things.
Everything in Heinlein's later period is cut, since his views on sex definatley go against the majority view there. No drugs, so Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is right out the window. (And pretty much every other stoner movie, though I'm only able to summon a very weak peotest on those) Unacceptable violence... I guess that means you can't have the Godfather movies or books.
Do these people even *pretend* to think?
(I realize the things I mentioned above are fairly American centric, Aussies can insert their own treasured cultural icons that get banned based on these standards, assuming they ever let you have them in the first place).
This is the new United states, the correct answer is 'how many were deported without trial or simply placed on a 'watch list' in order to prevent them from traveling?'
1. Time, space, and matter came into existence by themselves. 2. Planets and stars formed from space dust. 3. Matter created life by itself.
These first three aren't actually part of evolution. The others I accept are hard to swallow, but how then do you account for the massive evidence that these happened? (Don't claim missing link without giving an example, you'll have a hard time finding one)
The Microevolution thing is a 'no true Scotsman' fallacy, every time we discover a major change the bar for what constitutes microevolution and what constitutes evolution gets changed by the nay sayers.
I'm afraid you lost me on the other stuff? Is it an argument for morality type thing, that the no evolution world view is better than other? Or that evolution is wring because you'll be punished for believing it?
Did you seriously link me to the site of the guy who got sent to prison for swiping millions of dollars out of a 'non profit' and then refusing to pay taxes on it? Also, you didn't answer the question, do you really believe there is a massive conspiracy behind evolution?
Ok, so just to make sure I understand you right, creationists really *do* believe there's a massive conspiracy behind the theory of evolution? Running from every physicist geologist and astronomer who does the experiments to let us date the fossil evidence, to the geneticists lying to us about DNA, the doctors lying to us about diseases developing resistance to drugs (that one I might buy...), every mathematician whose studied mutation+natural selection properties, everyone who ever dig up homo habilis skull, all of these people are lying to us?
Hmm, how do they embed the fossils I've dug up into the rock like that? It's a neat trick.
Do you have any suggestions on how to do things better to back up your claims that these things are a waste of time?
No, they're an ugly solution to an ugly problem. People need tools that will let them do a job at way below the skill level necessary to use the tools that can do the job without issues. Office and its ilk solve this better than most (website design tools are pretty horrendous). And certain tools, like word and powerpoint, need to cater to aesthetics and persuasion, which is a ridiculously twisted part of the human psyche.
I wouldn't be surprised of #3 captured the essential truth of the situation. OOo is one of the worst pieces of OSS I use. I've searched systematically for something better, and haven't found it. At this point, I feel like OOo was a dead end that had the unfortunate effect of killing off interest in competing OSS office software.
While I'm inclined to agree that OO is one of the worst pieces of software out there (open source or otherwise), office suites tend to suck period, OO's crapiness reflects that it is in fact trying to duplicate something which needs to be rebuilt from concept up, or perhaps done away with entirely, except the user base is too firmly entrenched into ideas about what productivity software should do.
Note that I don't lay this blame on Microsoft (which is strange...) the business world expects a lot of things that are either misplaced, or a waste of time. Database like functions from a spreadsheet, fancy document layout tools (not useless, but not really suitable for a program with the primary purpose of writing letters and memos), powerpoint (the whole thing). About the only thing in the entire office suite set that doesn't need a complete rework would be email clients, and even then I've had users complain that the email client doesn't render javascript...
The actual simplest way would be a good solid fence, but there are people who hate that idea with a passion bordering on insanity for some reason (such as, they don't actually WANT the law enforced).
I like having food in the fridge, illegal immigrants were critical to growing and harvesting that food. So no, I *don't* want the law enforced.
They *do* issue speeding tickets with toll booths (EZ pass is not required, just a snapshot of the plate) in some states. The people I know who have been hit by this have always been from out of state when they got hit too.
Isn't the black vote usually heavily democrat anyway? It was far more interesting to see the demographic split in the primaries, when he was running against a nearly identical white woman*. More telling was the way the split happened. At first there was only a little bt of a split, 60/40, but when the campaigns moved into the south, the demographic split ran 80/20 in at least one state (Mississippi I think).
*As opposed to the nearly identical white man with a different brand name.
Turning public opinion against the teachers union would be near impossible, I've watched them spin falsehoods, and successfully sell them to the public, that would make Karl Rove blush.
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Until "Neither" appears on the ballots not voing is a perfect valid way to voice your opinion, sadly it hard to tell if people are protesting or being lazy sometimes.
Write. It. In.
(I'm assuming your state allows this).
There is no correlation. We have violent video games, and less youth violence than any other point in American history. Correlation does *not* mean one causes the other either.
More frustrating, silverlight sights persist in refusing to try and render in moonlight. All of Microsoft's vaunted talk about compatability and the default setting for silverlight pages seems to be 'refuse to try'.
Why do people persist in believing that there is a difference in Democrats and Republicans? They make *speak* differently, but follow the damned voting records and see how often they actually disagree.
Since when does *any* country pay attention to UN resolutions they don't like?
Ok, so applying this standard, lets start censoring things.
Everything in Heinlein's later period is cut, since his views on sex definatley go against the majority view there. No drugs, so Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is right out the window. (And pretty much every other stoner movie, though I'm only able to summon a very weak peotest on those) Unacceptable violence... I guess that means you can't have the Godfather movies or books.
Do these people even *pretend* to think?
(I realize the things I mentioned above are fairly American centric, Aussies can insert their own treasured cultural icons that get banned based on these standards, assuming they ever let you have them in the first place).
This is the new United states, the correct answer is 'how many were deported without trial or simply placed on a 'watch list' in order to prevent them from traveling?'
1. Time, space, and matter came into existence by themselves. 2. Planets and stars formed from space dust. 3. Matter created life by itself.
These first three aren't actually part of evolution. The others I accept are hard to swallow, but how then do you account for the massive evidence that these happened? (Don't claim missing link without giving an example, you'll have a hard time finding one)
The Microevolution thing is a 'no true Scotsman' fallacy, every time we discover a major change the bar for what constitutes microevolution and what constitutes evolution gets changed by the nay sayers.
I'm afraid you lost me on the other stuff? Is it an argument for morality type thing, that the no evolution world view is better than other? Or that evolution is wring because you'll be punished for believing it?
Did you seriously link me to the site of the guy who got sent to prison for swiping millions of dollars out of a 'non profit' and then refusing to pay taxes on it? Also, you didn't answer the question, do you really believe there is a massive conspiracy behind evolution?
Ok, so just to make sure I understand you right, creationists really *do* believe there's a massive conspiracy behind the theory of evolution? Running from every physicist geologist and astronomer who does the experiments to let us date the fossil evidence, to the geneticists lying to us about DNA, the doctors lying to us about diseases developing resistance to drugs (that one I might buy...), every mathematician whose studied mutation+natural selection properties, everyone who ever dig up homo habilis skull, all of these people are lying to us?
Hmm, how do they embed the fossils I've dug up into the rock like that? It's a neat trick.
Do you have any suggestions on how to do things better to back up your claims that these things are a waste of time?
No, they're an ugly solution to an ugly problem. People need tools that will let them do a job at way below the skill level necessary to use the tools that can do the job without issues. Office and its ilk solve this better than most (website design tools are pretty horrendous). And certain tools, like word and powerpoint, need to cater to aesthetics and persuasion, which is a ridiculously twisted part of the human psyche.
The first paragraph was supposed to have quotes...
I wouldn't be surprised of #3 captured the essential truth of the situation. OOo is one of the worst pieces of OSS I use. I've searched systematically for something better, and haven't found it. At this point, I feel like OOo was a dead end that had the unfortunate effect of killing off interest in competing OSS office software.
While I'm inclined to agree that OO is one of the worst pieces of software out there (open source or otherwise), office suites tend to suck period, OO's crapiness reflects that it is in fact trying to duplicate something which needs to be rebuilt from concept up, or perhaps done away with entirely, except the user base is too firmly entrenched into ideas about what productivity software should do.
Note that I don't lay this blame on Microsoft (which is strange...) the business world expects a lot of things that are either misplaced, or a waste of time. Database like functions from a spreadsheet, fancy document layout tools (not useless, but not really suitable for a program with the primary purpose of writing letters and memos), powerpoint (the whole thing). About the only thing in the entire office suite set that doesn't need a complete rework would be email clients, and even then I've had users complain that the email client doesn't render javascript...
Where the hell do you even get system boards with firmware like that?
This is Gates we're talking about, it should go
1. Start a company ...?
3. Profit
3.
4 Spend massive amounts of money.
The actual simplest way would be a good solid fence, but there are people who hate that idea with a passion bordering on insanity for some reason (such as, they don't actually WANT the law enforced).
I like having food in the fridge, illegal immigrants were critical to growing and harvesting that food. So no, I *don't* want the law enforced.
They *do* issue speeding tickets with toll booths (EZ pass is not required, just a snapshot of the plate) in some states. The people I know who have been hit by this have always been from out of state when they got hit too.
Isn't the black vote usually heavily democrat anyway? It was far more interesting to see the demographic split in the primaries, when he was running against a nearly identical white woman*. More telling was the way the split happened. At first there was only a little bt of a split, 60/40, but when the campaigns moved into the south, the demographic split ran 80/20 in at least one state (Mississippi I think).
*As opposed to the nearly identical white man with a different brand name.
Yes, cause the locally elected government is sooo much more of a puppet than the one controlled by fringe elements of Pakistan.
You're right, outlawing pro fascist statements is completely and totally different than outlawing pro communist ones.
There was the shoebomber, though touch anti terrorism laws did jack shit to stop him the people on the plane did that.
To create an ever expanding list of things that are not criminal unless you've already committed a crime.
There are people in this country who haven't committed one of the ~27000* crimes on the books? Shit, the politicians need to work harder.
*Federal crimes only, I can't say how many additional crimes a given state adds.
X recently integrated a touch screen interface, so yes, things are a bit different. I can't say how well it works though.
Interplay, when they sold the rights to Fallout, kept the right for an MMO, at least according to the articles at the time.
Turning public opinion against the teachers union would be near impossible, I've watched them spin falsehoods, and successfully sell them to the public, that would make Karl Rove blush.