Israel was granted its existence by the UN in 1947
So? That makes it ok? The Arab countries didn't recognize the right of the UN to steal land and give it to others and I'm not sure why they should have. That's not a power the UN should have.
That being said, Israelis have had the land long enough that their claims over it are vastly stronger than anyone else's. It was BS to give them the land back in the 40s because I give no value to their ancestors having the land, just as today I hold the Arab/Islamic claims today in little regard because 70 years ago someone else had the land. The same rationale works both ways.
Netflix is a great service -- offline. I subscribe, I get lots of DVDs and Blu-Rays delivered that way.
But for streaming, they're shit. So is Amazon. So is Hulu. It's not really their fault, it's the content providers charging an arm and a leg, and insisting on the models of pay-per-view or buy-it-now, and different prices for different movies models.
One of my biggest regrets over the last election I would love to have been able to say we elected "President Mittens." What a great name.
Sure, this was all a fantasy, and in that fantasy he wasn't killing kittens and seniors and jobs and such. I know it wouldn't have worked out well, but still, it was a cute fantasy.
It was perfectly apparent. Don't believe everything you hear on television; do a bit of research yourself.
Again, voting for evil is never advisable, even if the opposition is even more evil.
Unfortunately when the other side throws around a huge amount of bullshit ("born in Kenya!" "his friends are terrorists!" "ACORN conducted massive voter fraud!") digging down and finding out the real story while discarding right-wing BS and left-wing BS can be a difficult and frustrating experience.
It's difficult to actually find non-partisan, non-nonsense political sites. I guess that sort of thing doesn't sell as well. It certainly doesn't whip people into a frenzy as easily.
> And all of you clueless Obama-loving lberal weenies will still vote for her next election,
With alternatives like Palin and Romney one is left with little choice. One does not have to "love" Obama at all in order to realize just how TRULY BAD the alternatives are.
Obama is in office because of that fact.
I will reprhase that: Obama is in office because neocons refuse to stop drinking their own kool-aid and acknowledge that they are a minority in the electorate.
The nation has always been divided by 2 extremist minorities with a large middle that dislikes both of them.
This is because the large middle doesn't care to familiarize himself/herself with the candidates in the primary and vote in the primary. It's the radical elements who vote in the primaries, so it's the radical candidates who make it to the general election.
$75k is starting salary for a first-year assistant professor in America. Senior professors make two or three times that.
Meh, starting salary numbers aren't terribly useful unless you factor in cost-of-living numbers at the same time. That being said, I can't believe that Israel wouldn't have a fairly high cost of living.
Although they will not admit it, Israel is very convenient for the leaders of Middle Eastern countries. Why take the blame for your country's problems when you can rally the people around dislike for Israel instead?
There are no bad rulings, only correct and incorrect ones.
I consider it a bad, but correct ruling. The 'goodness' and 'correctness' of rulings can be totally orthogonal if you suspect the law itself is bad or immoral. I feel law and morality are separate, though ideally laws are supposed to be a reflection of ethics.
"Bad" is a bit of a subjective term, the GP probably meant 'bad' as in this lack or loss of free speech is bad for people as a whole, while I think you meant 'correct' as in "the justices applied the law correctly, they couldn't have ruled any other way."
Anyone remember the diablo III launch? Somewhere on the order of 1-2 million people trying to log in all at once and blizzard still managed to make everything work right within hours of bringing the system live
If by "within hours" you meant that "a few people were able to play the day it came out," you'd be more accurate.
I just cannot fathom the notion that $6/user would somehow be considered a good deal, or that over a half billion dollars for a website is anything other than the symptom of incredible waste and inefficiency. Maybe it would be a good deal if the various ACA costs were all rolled up into that number, but it's not.
He asked where I lived, so I referred him to my drivers license address. That was a trick question. If I said anything but what it said on my license, that's a civil infraction here.
Really? I had called the DMV asking for a new license after I moved and they refused, saying that it didn't matter if the address on my license wasn't correct. I don't know what it costs to reprint a driver's license, but they didn't want to be bothered and didn't think it was against the vehicle code.
Indeed, I had a lawyer decline to represent me in court because of what I had said to the cop when stopped (basically a confession of a lesser offense than what the ticket was for).
Good lord, what did you actually do? Was he pulling you over because you ran over a pedestrian? The reason I ask is that unless it's a big case, most lawyers will decline to represent you in court for a simple traffic ticket. It's just not worth their time.
What are you trying to tell us here? Do you resent your parents for having you? What is up with your antagonism towards heterosexuals? Why do you hate them so much? Why do you hate the traditional family? Have you considered seeking out a therapist to work out your issues? Were you from a single parent home?
Boy, you love the strawmen and ad hominem arguments.
I don't know what kind of activities you engage in with your partner, but that's pretty much what sexuality means. Ergo, people who have homosexual partners will perform, or desire to perform, homosexual acts. Otherwise, it's no different that having a close friend. So yeah, people should be obsessed with the intercourse and intimacy aspects because that's all of sexuality.
Now I know you've never had a serious significant other. No one who has would say it's just a "close friendship" with sex.
The whole idea of moral relativism and multicultuaralism is that every culture is just as valid as the next.
Multiculturalism just means that different cultures can exist in the same society, nothing more. It doesn't believe that the beliefs of any one culture are inherently moral or not.
How about you come out and say it: you think Saudi Arabians have an inferior culture.
Of course they have an inferior culture. Why would this even a point of discussion?
BTW Silverman actually says what she thinks then hides behind the badge of commedy so she is beyond reproach. Few white people get such a golden pass to say racial slurs that much.
White and black and hispanic comedians get a pretty free pass to make racial humor, I've found. I think white people like it as much (or more) than black people.
And I've found the Daily Show hides behind the "haha, we're just comedy, don't take it seriously" a little too often. I thought it was pretty hypocritical, and I haven't heard them use that defence recently, fortunately.
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Israel was granted its existence by the UN in 1947
So? That makes it ok? The Arab countries didn't recognize the right of the UN to steal land and give it to others and I'm not sure why they should have. That's not a power the UN should have.
That being said, Israelis have had the land long enough that their claims over it are vastly stronger than anyone else's. It was BS to give them the land back in the 40s because I give no value to their ancestors having the land, just as today I hold the Arab/Islamic claims today in little regard because 70 years ago someone else had the land. The same rationale works both ways.
Netflix is a great service -- offline. I subscribe, I get lots of DVDs and Blu-Rays delivered that way.
But for streaming, they're shit. So is Amazon. So is Hulu.
It's not really their fault, it's the content providers charging an arm and a leg, and insisting on the models of pay-per-view or buy-it-now, and different prices for different movies models.
One of my biggest regrets over the last election I would love to have been able to say we elected "President Mittens." What a great name.
Sure, this was all a fantasy, and in that fantasy he wasn't killing kittens and seniors and jobs and such. I know it wouldn't have worked out well, but still, it was a cute fantasy.
It was perfectly apparent. Don't believe everything you hear on television; do a bit of research yourself.
Again, voting for evil is never advisable, even if the opposition is even more evil.
Unfortunately when the other side throws around a huge amount of bullshit ("born in Kenya!" "his friends are terrorists!" "ACORN conducted massive voter fraud!") digging down and finding out the real story while discarding right-wing BS and left-wing BS can be a difficult and frustrating experience.
It's difficult to actually find non-partisan, non-nonsense political sites. I guess that sort of thing doesn't sell as well. It certainly doesn't whip people into a frenzy as easily.
If Sarah Palin was a liberal, and said the same statements you wish to demonize here with now, you would be extolling her virtues
If she was a liberal, she wouldn't have made most of the statements that she made.
Liberals have their crazies too, Al Sharpton isn't too well respected, even in liberal circles.
> And all of you clueless Obama-loving lberal weenies will still vote for her next election,
With alternatives like Palin and Romney one is left with little choice. One does not have to "love" Obama at all in order to realize just how TRULY BAD the alternatives are.
Obama is in office because of that fact.
I will reprhase that: Obama is in office because neocons refuse to stop drinking their own kool-aid and acknowledge that they are a minority in the electorate.
The nation has always been divided by 2 extremist minorities with a large middle that dislikes both of them.
This is because the large middle doesn't care to familiarize himself/herself with the candidates in the primary and vote in the primary. It's the radical elements who vote in the primaries, so it's the radical candidates who make it to the general election.
islam-bashing again? isnt that so 2009?
Uh well... Islam didn't go anywhere, and it hasn't really changed in the four years since, so.. no?
$75k is starting salary for a first-year assistant professor in America. Senior professors make two or three times that.
Meh, starting salary numbers aren't terribly useful unless you factor in cost-of-living numbers at the same time.
That being said, I can't believe that Israel wouldn't have a fairly high cost of living.
No, it does work that way.
Although they will not admit it, Israel is very convenient for the leaders of Middle Eastern countries. Why take the blame for your country's problems when you can rally the people around dislike for Israel instead?
AC that posted offending comment ought to be responsible. Can not find him? Oh well...
The answer is no longer "Oh well." Now it's "can't find him? Then whomever allowed for AC comments is responsible."
There are no bad rulings, only correct and incorrect ones.
I consider it a bad, but correct ruling. The 'goodness' and 'correctness' of rulings can be totally orthogonal if you suspect the law itself is bad or immoral. I feel law and morality are separate, though ideally laws are supposed to be a reflection of ethics.
"Bad" is a bit of a subjective term, the GP probably meant 'bad' as in this lack or loss of free speech is bad for people as a whole, while I think you meant 'correct' as in "the justices applied the law correctly, they couldn't have ruled any other way."
Anyone remember the diablo III launch? Somewhere on the order of 1-2 million people trying to log in all at once and blizzard still managed to make everything work right within hours of bringing the system live
If by "within hours" you meant that "a few people were able to play the day it came out," you'd be more accurate.
I just cannot fathom the notion that $6/user would somehow be considered a good deal, or that over a half billion dollars for a website is anything other than the symptom of incredible waste and inefficiency. Maybe it would be a good deal if the various ACA costs were all rolled up into that number, but it's not.
In short, working from home is for single people without kids.
Spoken like a true Libertarian.
I was going to say "Objectivist" myself. There's a bit of an overlap, but one is not necessarily the same as the other.
He asked where I lived, so I referred him to my drivers license address. That was a trick question. If I said anything but what it said on my license, that's a civil infraction here.
Really? I had called the DMV asking for a new license after I moved and they refused, saying that it didn't matter if the address on my license wasn't correct.
I don't know what it costs to reprint a driver's license, but they didn't want to be bothered and didn't think it was against the vehicle code.
Indeed, I had a lawyer decline to represent me in court because of what I had said to the cop when stopped (basically a confession of a lesser offense than what the ticket was for).
Good lord, what did you actually do? Was he pulling you over because you ran over a pedestrian?
The reason I ask is that unless it's a big case, most lawyers will decline to represent you in court for a simple traffic ticket. It's just not worth their time.
What are you trying to tell us here? Do you resent your parents for having you? What is up with your antagonism towards heterosexuals? Why do you hate them so much? Why do you hate the traditional family? Have you considered seeking out a therapist to work out your issues? Were you from a single parent home?
Boy, you love the strawmen and ad hominem arguments.
This was scored -1, but it should really be +1 funny, insightful.
Mother Theresa exhibited deviant behavior.
I think she exhibited deviant behavior too, but a lot more disturbing than most people were aware of.
I don't know what kind of activities you engage in with your partner, but that's pretty much what sexuality means. Ergo, people who have homosexual partners will perform, or desire to perform, homosexual acts. Otherwise, it's no different that having a close friend. So yeah, people should be obsessed with the intercourse and intimacy aspects because that's all of sexuality.
Now I know you've never had a serious significant other.
No one who has would say it's just a "close friendship" with sex.
Are you fucking blind, or illiterate?
I think you're just getting trolled, especially considering his follow-up.
The whole idea of moral relativism and multicultuaralism is that every culture is just as valid as the next.
Multiculturalism just means that different cultures can exist in the same society, nothing more. It doesn't believe that the beliefs of any one culture are inherently moral or not.
How about you come out and say it: you think Saudi Arabians have an inferior culture.
Of course they have an inferior culture. Why would this even a point of discussion?
BTW Silverman actually says what she thinks then hides behind the badge of commedy so she is beyond reproach. Few white people get such a golden pass to say racial slurs that much.
White and black and hispanic comedians get a pretty free pass to make racial humor, I've found. I think white people like it as much (or more) than black people.
And I've found the Daily Show hides behind the "haha, we're just comedy, don't take it seriously" a little too often. I thought it was pretty hypocritical, and I haven't heard them use that defence recently, fortunately.
Morality is what you believe to be good or bad, as dictated by some higher power.
It does not have to be a higher power. Morality comes from philosophy, and there is such a thing as non-theistic moral philosophy.
Those people cannot judge Texas, how long have they been States? (Fat people and south America don't count)
This is... one of the weirder questions I've seen on Slashdot for some time. What does it even mean?