Came to this conclusion myself a while back due to how much time I spent in front of a computer compared to my sisters. Definitely has an effect on you.
I think the idea is to spend more time outside rather than in front of your sisters.
In general, embarrassing personal information is already known by the government, because you already told them. This story makes kinda no sense. So the Chinese are going to bribe you with already known things?
Yes, it does, as I've noted. It's a national disgrace that we're still living down.
But your trying to somehow exonerate what the Australians did to the Aborigines by noting that we were nasty to more native Americans makes as much sense as exonerating us because of a nasty little incident in Europe during the late 1930's to mid 1940's. I'm saying they are all bad actions. You apparently have a murricahate based filter.
At what point did I say that there wasn't racism in Australia, or that there wasn't awful things done to people based on race in the past?
Of course you didn't, my Chachalaca - You missed my point.
People outside of 'Murica are so so quick to point out how awful we are. Conveintely omitting their own issues.
Just
Like
You
Did
Yeah, we've fucked up some times. Even with some of the stuff you wrote. I admit it, and you just go on the offensive when I call you on it. That, dear chachalaca, makes you a hypocrite.
Some times, I wish that the US would have remained neutral in the 40's. Don't you agree, tomodachi?
The solution is homeschooling? I thought it was work with your community to improve your schools so that EVERYONE benefits. We've become a society of not only "me first," but "only I matter."
The solution is understanding how humans work, and understanding how schools work, and allowing my children to become a functioning adult without becoming a number in the US criminal system for things that are not actually crimes.
Its also knowing the difference between things you can fix, and things you cannot. The US public school system is unfixably broken. With a quarter of a billion arrests over the last 10-15 years, and school violence still happening, in the "get tough on crime" outlook that so many Americans have, the call is going to be for even more arrests. It doesn't work, but it's a soundbite "cure"
I'm pretty certain that in the next ten years, children will be appearing in front of a judge for serious violations like skirt length and haircut violations. As noted before, there are limits that society can put up with on girl's wearing criminal amounts of perfume. So if we don't get tough on these young criminals, they'll just graduate to worse infractions, like the wrong color nail polish.
And with some corrupt judges sending children to prison for kickbacks for small infractions - like the two in Scranton, PA. I'm going to ask you, do you think so little of your children that you'd be willing to send them to a place where they might easily destroy their future?
Can you tell the difference between an IED and a metal box the kid just plugged into the wall? I don't think you can.
And I can't tell anything at all ever at 100 percent.
Apparently in your world, these students need a daily stripsearch and cavity search, because, well you can't tell if little Tiffany is smuggling some nitroglycerine in some place where the sun don't shine. But then she might have swalloed a ballon of the stuff, so we better do some exploratory surgery.
Because being 100 percent certain that no one has done anything remotely wrong is impossible.
And just because you are inherently so fearful and one tiny step away from panic doesn't mean you can call the shots.
After all, it has worked so well Here's a listing of the incredible success that a quarter billion arrests have had over the last ten years
"It would be because School administrators are stupid reactionary fuckwads "
Oh the irony...
THey were stupid reactionary fuckwads when I went to school years ago, and they were stupid reactionary fuckwads when my son went to school, and they are stupid reactionary fuckwads today.
Nothing at all reactionary about an opinion formed over 40 years of the same thing.
I'd just like to point out that the people involved in this story were teachers. There's nothing magic about having a teaching credential that somehow imbues one with the ability to impart knowledge to others. Give a kid access to the required resources and foster the right attitude about learning and they'll pretty much teach themselves.
Children are natural scientists. But a zero tolerance arrest kids for reasons so trivial that the offense actually isn't a crime anywhere outside of the Gulag called a school they are in will take care of that in short order.
What about social environment?
Sports, boy scouts/girl scouts (find a troop that actually does real backpacking/canoeing), friends, home school group outings.
Versus arrests for too much perfume, failed science fair experiments or disagreeing with teh school commisars - now that's a positive social experience.
How do you teach teamwork?
Sports, boy/girl scouts, homeschool groups (I'd be shocked if there isn't one nearby that does rocketry or robot building or other similar nerdy group projects). Team based online games? Tabletop RPGs with friends? Hell, they can even get involved in an open source project or something.
In our school district, home schooled students are encouraged to got involved with sporting teams. I had a couple of homeschoolers on my son's Ice hockey team. They were as well socialized as any of the kids coming from the Gulag school system, and better than most. I don't really consider an environment where you can be arrested for damn near anything as a good social environment. If someone thinks it is, they can send their children to state prison to get socialized.
Speaking of reactionary, what hard data do you have that you and the home environment is better suited for teaching your child? Are you a teacher yourself and do you have the qualifications needed to give your child a well rounded education? What about social environment? How do you teach teamwork?
I do know that he's less likely to get arrested for something silly
You figure that getting arrested for wearing too much perfume is a good idea?
Or a student in Wisconsin who was arrested for theft when a classmate shared a Chicken nugget with him? The sharing friend was on a food assistance program, so the kid he gave the nugget to was somehow stealing.
All of this business of giving children criminal records for things that teens do every day, that aren't crimes at all, is draconian and horrifying repression - and sounds more like North Korea than the USA.
And perhaps you might answer how well rounded an education a child can get from jail. Or even if it matters, because with the kooks who want all children tried as adults, they will have a very big problem getting good jobs.
With all that, to answer your question - I have no doubt at all that if I educated my own child at home he or she wouldn't be arrested for some dumbass crime like wearing too much perfume, and if a science experiment went wrong, I wouldn't charge them with a felony.
Here's an interesting statistic from the article:
Over the past 20 years, prompted by changing police tactics and a zero-tolerance attitude toward small crimes, authorities have made more than a quarter of a billion arrests, the Federal Bureau of Investigation estimates. Nearly one out of every three American adults are on file in the FBI’s master criminal database.
So in reality, you are asking a really fucking stupid question. In a "school" system designed to turn children in to criminals - I'm saying that the system can't provide any good education at all. I'm not capable of that poor a job.
Australia is way more isolated than the US. It shares no land borders with any other country and its cities are the most remote in the world.
Yet despite that there is nothing like the level of racial or terrorist fear in Australia as there is in the US.
Let's chat a little about the aborgines, shall we?
I mean it's obvious that 'Mjurrica is the absolute worst country that was ever inflicted on the earth - so let's get that out of the way first.
Fortunately Australians realized early on that they needed to force the aboigines to assimilate into Australian haute culture - that only makes sense. Right? hmmm. And I suppose that it was the evul 'Murricans who came over and stole their land, eh? Certainly the superior Australians would never do anything like that. And at least you all waited until 1976 to pass the Aboriginal Land Rights legislation.
And thank heavens your Enlightened Government issued an apology to the aborigines for the "forgotten generation"....... Oh wait, they didn't did they?
And Terra nullius I think that means "Everyone is equal" right? Oh wait... Crap I'm sorry, but remember, I'm a dumb racist 'Murrican. Terra nullius, for those who do not know, was an official Australian doctrine that was only overturned in 1991 - Nineteen hundred and ninety one folks, 24 years ago - that declared the aborigine's land as no one's land.
Shallow indeed, but are the female characteristics that a person finds attractive automatically make them a misogynist?
If you are choosing whether or not to even talk to someone based only on their looks then you are, at the very least, shallow.
But being shallow does not in any way mean he hates women. I have a lady friend who really likes pretty boys. She married two of them, both ended up badly. But she likes men, not hate them. But she's pretty shallow in respect to pairing up.
Not because I don't want them to learn about evolution
Not because I think Jeebuz thinks the road to hell is paved with Global warming or that that allow gay kids in school.
It would be because School administrators are stupid reactionary fuckwads who can't tell the difference between a circuit board and an IED, because little children get arrested for sexual assault for kissing another child, because now that police are patrolling the schools, causing little kids getting arrested for resisting arrest and assault felonies and a million other stupid things.
You cannot build intelligent adults from the hopelessly stupid school teachers and administrators who apparently orgasm when they destroy a child's future.
This guy sounds like a real winner, if winners are shallow misogynists.
Shallow indeed, but are the female characteristics that a person finds attractive automatically make them a misogynist?
My wife thinks Tom Sellick is hot. She thinks that Patrick Swayze and Elvis Stojko have nice butts.
Does this mean she hates men?
So this shallow shit might indeed be shallow, but drawing any opinion on his love or hatred of women is really telling us a lot about you - because you are the one wielding the "misogynist" card like a sledgehammer.
Linux Mint 16 was obsolete early last year? It was released on November 13, 2013 (http://www.tecmint.com/linux-mint-16-installation-guide/). I have no idea what your point is. I installed it last year, then this year (1 year later) updates didn't work. I don't know any other OS which no longer supports updates after 1 year, let alone shows a '404' when this (if it ever) occurred. Do you still not get it? I don't know how else I can explain this to you. It's like talking to a 5 year old child who thinks he knows everything, except I assume (hope) you're older than that.
It's really kind of pathetic, but you just do not take telling, and you are so damn dense that a person that takes the time to educate you, gets nothing but abuse.
Linux Mint 16, code name Petra, package base Ubuntu Saucy, has been officially obsolete since July 2014. Says so right on the Linux Mint website. Go tell them it is still supported.
Anyhow If you can't rake any telling, far be it from me to educate you. I hope you are just a troll. TTFN
The only problem with this is that the Citrate-eating bacteria are still bacteria. The varying mutations of fruit flies, mosquitoes and dogs are still fruit flies, mosquitoes and dogs.
So what you are saying is that if you do not see a species change from one to another in front of you, there is no such thing as one creature speciating?
I've heard this argument before from creationists.
Who oddly enough do not apply the same requirement for the person they say created the universe and life.
Just a few words that were for some reason imparted only to some desert dwellers, trumps all of science. Physics, geology and biology are all wrong.
Are you just using "Trotskyist" as a general term of abuse?
Or are you seriously suggesting that George W Bush's war in Iraq was really part of some attempt at a worldwide workers' revolution?
Neoconservatives, especially in the Bush Doctrine, demand pre-emptive, or preventative war. Which basically pans out to one of the core principles of Trotskyism. Regime change, pre-emptive strikes. And they proved it.
As the conservative icon Andrew Sullivan pouts it:
The closer you examine it, the clearer it is that neoconservatism, in large part, is simply about enabling the most irredentist elements in Israel and sustaining a permanent war against anyone or any country who disagrees with the Israeli right. That's the conclusion I've been forced to these last few years. And to insist that America adopt exactly the same constant-war-as-survival that Israelis have been slowly forced into... But America is not Israel. And once that distinction is made, much of the neoconservative ideology collapses.
Eternal war, is identical to eternal revolution - just on victim countries soil instead of ours.
Francis Fukuyama, a conservative who believes that capitalism will be our final form of government after everyone ends up adopting it, and was an early supporter of neocons, has this to say after comparing neocons with Leninism for crying out loud:
....believed that history can be pushed along with the right application of power and will. Leninism was a tragedy in its Bolshevik version, and it has returned as farce when practiced by the United States. Neoconservatism, as both a political symbol and a body of thought, has evolved into something I can no longer support.
Some of the outlooks are a little different, but the tools are identical.
Soooo, it's up to you to decide if I'm using the term as abuse. I'll only say this - neocons are anything but conservative Social conservatives are anything but conservative. Bellicosity, if you will, is not a conservative principle.
You have no possible way of determining it didn't happen "overnight". You couldn't tell if a geneticist today made an "upgrade" to an organism, and you have unlimited ability to analyze the organism directly. You have nothing like that for all of a species' history. You hope it isn't the case, for some weird worldview reason. That's all you have.
Nor do I have any idea that the world wasn't created 5 minutes ago by a puckish god or ancient aliens, and a pre-made database of everything up to 5 minutes ago just put in there for fun.
Nothing is ever 100 percent.
But too many things line up, too many things confirm, and more importantly, nothing contradicts. And as we learn more and more - it meshes. Still no contradiction.
And would only take one contradictory finding to upset the whole evolution wheelbarrow,
That's why we hear about strange conjectures, odd hypotheses like a speed of light that miraculously speeds up and slows down, or even ones about variable time (not relativistic) that try to debunk physics. Otrthings like radiohalos http://www.talkorigins.org/faq... which are interesting, but wrong because the basic underlying principle requires that you believe that the original bedrock that the earth was made from is granite - as well as a number of other fatal issues.
The big irony in all this, is that creationists unwittingly provide a good deal of the impetus to debunk their pet guesses. They provide their reasons for disbelief, and the scientists prove why they are wrong.
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Came to this conclusion myself a while back due to how much time I spent in front of a computer compared to my sisters. Definitely has an effect on you.
I think the idea is to spend more time outside rather than in front of your sisters.
Josh Duggar disagrees.
http://www.people.com/article/...
I respect your priorities.
As all television, movies and porn show, she automatically lost 50 IQ points when she threw away the glasses.
The "always look at the thing in your hand" generation is completely screwed...
Well in slashdot users case, they at least know what their pecker looks like.
they know it on a ....... first hand basis.
In general, embarrassing personal information is already known by the government, because you already told them. This story makes kinda no sense. So the Chinese are going to bribe you with already known things?
I would home school him or her.
If you can't even determine your own child's gender, maybe you shouldn't be the one providing their education?
psst, dear coward - read the subject, and what I wrote after that. I'll do it for you, since sometimes it is hard to keep attention
If I had a child now I would home school him or her
You know, a hypothetical offspring?
Terrible what we did to the Indians
India was the Brits, man. Didn't you read Gunga Din?
You mean - to be precise - the Bharat? My bad. Worse than that, when we bother to use metric, we measure in Meters. Go figure.
Truth hurts, huh ?
Yes, it does, as I've noted. It's a national disgrace that we're still living down.
But your trying to somehow exonerate what the Australians did to the Aborigines by noting that we were nasty to more native Americans makes as much sense as exonerating us because of a nasty little incident in Europe during the late 1930's to mid 1940's. I'm saying they are all bad actions. You apparently have a murricahate based filter.
Is the cognitive dissonance that strong in you?
At what point did I say that there wasn't racism in Australia, or that there wasn't awful things done to people based on race in the past?
Of course you didn't, my Chachalaca - You missed my point.
People outside of 'Murica are so so quick to point out how awful we are. Conveintely omitting their own issues.
Just
Like
You
Did
Yeah, we've fucked up some times. Even with some of the stuff you wrote. I admit it, and you just go on the offensive when I call you on it. That, dear chachalaca, makes you a hypocrite.
Some times, I wish that the US would have remained neutral in the 40's. Don't you agree, tomodachi?
The solution is homeschooling? I thought it was work with your community to improve your schools so that EVERYONE benefits. We've become a society of not only "me first," but "only I matter."
The solution is understanding how humans work, and understanding how schools work, and allowing my children to become a functioning adult without becoming a number in the US criminal system for things that are not actually crimes.
Its also knowing the difference between things you can fix, and things you cannot. The US public school system is unfixably broken. With a quarter of a billion arrests over the last 10-15 years, and school violence still happening, in the "get tough on crime" outlook that so many Americans have, the call is going to be for even more arrests. It doesn't work, but it's a soundbite "cure"
I'm pretty certain that in the next ten years, children will be appearing in front of a judge for serious violations like skirt length and haircut violations. As noted before, there are limits that society can put up with on girl's wearing criminal amounts of perfume. So if we don't get tough on these young criminals, they'll just graduate to worse infractions, like the wrong color nail polish.
And with some corrupt judges sending children to prison for kickbacks for small infractions - like the two in Scranton, PA. I'm going to ask you, do you think so little of your children that you'd be willing to send them to a place where they might easily destroy their future?
Can you tell the difference between an IED and a metal box the kid just plugged into the wall? I don't think you can.
And I can't tell anything at all ever at 100 percent.
Apparently in your world, these students need a daily stripsearch and cavity search, because, well you can't tell if little Tiffany is smuggling some nitroglycerine in some place where the sun don't shine. But then she might have swalloed a ballon of the stuff, so we better do some exploratory surgery.
Because being 100 percent certain that no one has done anything remotely wrong is impossible.
And just because you are inherently so fearful and one tiny step away from panic doesn't mean you can call the shots.
After all, it has worked so well Here's a listing of the incredible success that a quarter billion arrests have had over the last ten years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results.
And arresting a young lady because she was wearing too much perfume is having exactly what diminishing effect upon violence in schools?
"It would be because School administrators are stupid reactionary fuckwads "
Oh the irony...
THey were stupid reactionary fuckwads when I went to school years ago, and they were stupid reactionary fuckwads when my son went to school, and they are stupid reactionary fuckwads today.
Nothing at all reactionary about an opinion formed over 40 years of the same thing.
I'd just like to point out that the people involved in this story were teachers. There's nothing magic about having a teaching credential that somehow imbues one with the ability to impart knowledge to others. Give a kid access to the required resources and foster the right attitude about learning and they'll pretty much teach themselves.
Children are natural scientists. But a zero tolerance arrest kids for reasons so trivial that the offense actually isn't a crime anywhere outside of the Gulag called a school they are in will take care of that in short order.
What about social environment?
Sports, boy scouts/girl scouts (find a troop that actually does real backpacking/canoeing), friends, home school group outings.
Versus arrests for too much perfume, failed science fair experiments or disagreeing with teh school commisars - now that's a positive social experience.
How do you teach teamwork?
Sports, boy/girl scouts, homeschool groups (I'd be shocked if there isn't one nearby that does rocketry or robot building or other similar nerdy group projects). Team based online games? Tabletop RPGs with friends? Hell, they can even get involved in an open source project or something.
In our school district, home schooled students are encouraged to got involved with sporting teams. I had a couple of homeschoolers on my son's Ice hockey team. They were as well socialized as any of the kids coming from the Gulag school system, and better than most. I don't really consider an environment where you can be arrested for damn near anything as a good social environment. If someone thinks it is, they can send their children to state prison to get socialized.
Speaking of reactionary, what hard data do you have that you and the home environment is better suited for teaching your child? Are you a teacher yourself and do you have the qualifications needed to give your child a well rounded education? What about social environment? How do you teach teamwork?
I do know that he's less likely to get arrested for something silly
http://www.wsj.com/articles/fo...
You figure that getting arrested for wearing too much perfume is a good idea?
Or a student in Wisconsin who was arrested for theft when a classmate shared a Chicken nugget with him? The sharing friend was on a food assistance program, so the kid he gave the nugget to was somehow stealing.
All of this business of giving children criminal records for things that teens do every day, that aren't crimes at all, is draconian and horrifying repression - and sounds more like North Korea than the USA.
And perhaps you might answer how well rounded an education a child can get from jail. Or even if it matters, because with the kooks who want all children tried as adults, they will have a very big problem getting good jobs.
With all that, to answer your question - I have no doubt at all that if I educated my own child at home he or she wouldn't be arrested for some dumbass crime like wearing too much perfume, and if a science experiment went wrong, I wouldn't charge them with a felony.
Here's an interesting statistic from the article:
Over the past 20 years, prompted by changing police tactics and a zero-tolerance attitude toward small crimes, authorities have made more than a quarter of a billion arrests, the Federal Bureau of Investigation estimates. Nearly one out of every three American adults are on file in the FBI’s master criminal database.
So in reality, you are asking a really fucking stupid question. In a "school" system designed to turn children in to criminals - I'm saying that the system can't provide any good education at all. I'm not capable of that poor a job.
Australia is way more isolated than the US. It shares no land borders with any other country and its cities are the most remote in the world.
Yet despite that there is nothing like the level of racial or terrorist fear in Australia as there is in the US.
Let's chat a little about the aborgines, shall we?
I mean it's obvious that 'Mjurrica is the absolute worst country that was ever inflicted on the earth - so let's get that out of the way first.
Fortunately Australians realized early on that they needed to force the aboigines to assimilate into Australian haute culture - that only makes sense. Right? hmmm. And I suppose that it was the evul 'Murricans who came over and stole their land, eh? Certainly the superior Australians would never do anything like that. And at least you all waited until 1976 to pass the Aboriginal Land Rights legislation.
And thank heavens your Enlightened Government issued an apology to the aborigines for the "forgotten generation". ...... Oh wait, they didn't did they?
And Terra nullius I think that means "Everyone is equal" right? Oh wait... Crap I'm sorry, but remember, I'm a dumb racist 'Murrican. Terra nullius, for those who do not know, was an official Australian doctrine that was only overturned in 1991 - Nineteen hundred and ninety one folks, 24 years ago - that declared the aborigine's land as no one's land.
Pretty handy shit when you want to steal someone's land. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yeah, we 'murricans are pretty bad. We've done some bad things in our time.
Most of us even admit it. Terrible what we did to the Indians, and race problems are a disgrace that may take another century to get over.
But don't get all high and mighty about how y'all are somehow enlightened - y'all have your own dirty laundry.
Shallow indeed, but are the female characteristics that a person finds attractive automatically make them a misogynist?
If you are choosing whether or not to even talk to someone based only on their looks then you are, at the very least, shallow.
But being shallow does not in any way mean he hates women. I have a lady friend who really likes pretty boys. She married two of them, both ended up badly. But she likes men, not hate them. But she's pretty shallow in respect to pairing up.
Not because I don't want them to learn about evolution
Not because I think Jeebuz thinks the road to hell is paved with Global warming or that that allow gay kids in school.
It would be because School administrators are stupid reactionary fuckwads who can't tell the difference between a circuit board and an IED, because little children get arrested for sexual assault for kissing another child, because now that police are patrolling the schools, causing little kids getting arrested for resisting arrest and assault felonies and a million other stupid things.
You cannot build intelligent adults from the hopelessly stupid school teachers and administrators who apparently orgasm when they destroy a child's future.
This guy sounds like a real winner, if winners are shallow misogynists.
Shallow indeed, but are the female characteristics that a person finds attractive automatically make them a misogynist?
My wife thinks Tom Sellick is hot. She thinks that Patrick Swayze and Elvis Stojko have nice butts.
Does this mean she hates men?
So this shallow shit might indeed be shallow, but drawing any opinion on his love or hatred of women is really telling us a lot about you - because you are the one wielding the "misogynist" card like a sledgehammer.
Linux Mint 16 was obsolete early last year? It was released on November 13, 2013 (http://www.tecmint.com/linux-mint-16-installation-guide/). I have no idea what your point is. I installed it last year, then this year (1 year later) updates didn't work. I don't know any other OS which no longer supports updates after 1 year, let alone shows a '404' when this (if it ever) occurred. Do you still not get it? I don't know how else I can explain this to you. It's like talking to a 5 year old child who thinks he knows everything, except I assume (hope) you're older than that.
It's really kind of pathetic, but you just do not take telling, and you are so damn dense that a person that takes the time to educate you, gets nothing but abuse.
Thes are the supported versions of Linux Mint:
http://www.linuxmint.com/downl...
That would be 2, 13, 17, 17.1, and 17.2
Not that Linux Mint 16 is not on that web page
Now go here:
http://www.linuxmint.com/oldre...
Linux Mint 16, code name Petra, package base Ubuntu Saucy, has been officially obsolete since July 2014. Says so right on the Linux Mint website. Go tell them it is still supported.
Anyhow If you can't rake any telling, far be it from me to educate you. I hope you are just a troll. TTFN
Do you even know what a "theory" means? A theory means a proven hypothesis.
Nope. Proofs are for mathematicians.
Or distilled spirits.
The only problem with this is that the Citrate-eating bacteria are still bacteria. The varying mutations of fruit flies, mosquitoes and dogs are still fruit flies, mosquitoes and dogs.
So what you are saying is that if you do not see a species change from one to another in front of you, there is no such thing as one creature speciating?
I've heard this argument before from creationists.
Who oddly enough do not apply the same requirement for the person they say created the universe and life.
Just a few words that were for some reason imparted only to some desert dwellers, trumps all of science. Physics, geology and biology are all wrong.
Pretty good gig, that.
Why Do Kids Love the Taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
Because choosy moms choose Jif!
Are you just using "Trotskyist" as a general term of abuse?
Or are you seriously suggesting that George W Bush's war in Iraq was really part of some attempt at a worldwide workers' revolution?
Neoconservatives, especially in the Bush Doctrine, demand pre-emptive, or preventative war. Which basically pans out to one of the core principles of Trotskyism. Regime change, pre-emptive strikes. And they proved it.
As the conservative icon Andrew Sullivan pouts it:
The closer you examine it, the clearer it is that neoconservatism, in large part, is simply about enabling the most irredentist elements in Israel and sustaining a permanent war against anyone or any country who disagrees with the Israeli right. That's the conclusion I've been forced to these last few years. And to insist that America adopt exactly the same constant-war-as-survival that Israelis have been slowly forced into... But America is not Israel. And once that distinction is made, much of the neoconservative ideology collapses.
Eternal war, is identical to eternal revolution - just on victim countries soil instead of ours.
Francis Fukuyama, a conservative who believes that capitalism will be our final form of government after everyone ends up adopting it, and was an early supporter of neocons, has this to say after comparing neocons with Leninism for crying out loud:
Some of the outlooks are a little different, but the tools are identical.
Soooo, it's up to you to decide if I'm using the term as abuse. I'll only say this - neocons are anything but conservative Social conservatives are anything but conservative. Bellicosity, if you will, is not a conservative principle.
Barry Goldwater is a conservative.
You could have stopped there. The rest was babbling, and of no scientific worth.
Reply with the scientific assessment of the babble, coward.
Care to discuss radiohalos?
I really want to see what a coward of your scientific chops will do to elevate the conversation, and bring scientific worth ....
I agree with a lot of what you say, but having been raised around fundies, I gotta say they have a remarkable capacity for hatred.
You have no possible way of determining it didn't happen "overnight". You couldn't tell if a geneticist today made an "upgrade" to an organism, and you have unlimited ability to analyze the organism directly. You have nothing like that for all of a species' history. You hope it isn't the case, for some weird worldview reason. That's all you have.
Nor do I have any idea that the world wasn't created 5 minutes ago by a puckish god or ancient aliens, and a pre-made database of everything up to 5 minutes ago just put in there for fun.
Nothing is ever 100 percent.
But too many things line up, too many things confirm, and more importantly, nothing contradicts. And as we learn more and more - it meshes. Still no contradiction.
And would only take one contradictory finding to upset the whole evolution wheelbarrow,
That's why we hear about strange conjectures, odd hypotheses like a speed of light that miraculously speeds up and slows down, or even ones about variable time (not relativistic) that try to debunk physics. Otrthings like radiohalos http://www.talkorigins.org/faq... which are interesting, but wrong because the basic underlying principle requires that you believe that the original bedrock that the earth was made from is granite - as well as a number of other fatal issues.
The big irony in all this, is that creationists unwittingly provide a good deal of the impetus to debunk their pet guesses. They provide their reasons for disbelief, and the scientists prove why they are wrong.