Palin's vote would not have mattered as she is not part of Congress, but the others didn't vote so they can say they had nothing to do with it/can't take the blame for it.
but the US is exceptionally motivated to catch terrorists.
You are partly right with your statement, what your missing is two words: "look" and "like". Admitedly they do catch some but that is not the really important thing. What's really important to them is to make the general public think they are exceptionally motivated to catch terrorists. Very few of the things enacted since 9/11 have actually made us safer, they've only made most of the people feel safer, and making people feel safer will get a politician re-elected. It's also very easy to make people think they are safer by the loss of some of their freedom, because if their liberty is hindered so is those that wish them harm. Witch is a logical fallacy, those that wish harm to law abiding citizens aren't following the same rules. They don't care about what laws are passed.
I work at a dealership and we have customers that have complained about their 2006 F450 being unable to accelerate past 85mph, or people with the new 2008 Lincoln Mark LT(with 20 in rims only statically balanced) complaining of a vibration at 90mph. By the way the top speed in the state of Colorado is 75mph.
On aside note why can't does it only let me post once every 40 minutes?I keep getting this message:"You must wait a little bit before using this resource; please try again later." then this one came up: "This resource is no longer valid. Please return to the beginning and try again."
I grew up in an area where that exact scenario could happen. In that situation you call for the ambulance to meet you at the nearest mile marker, then either transport the injured person there or guide the ambulance back. If the teens are not willing to call an ambulance they were probably breaking a law/rule and didn't want to get caught. I guarantee if an ambulance was called out to the site of an injury at a camp of nothing but teens there will be a cop/ranger/sheriff showing up as well.
My parents would have smacked me upside the head if I got "unbearably annoying about it" and sent me back out to the car. The big problem today is if you did that to your kid, especially in public, you'd probably be thrown in jail for child abuse. I see things on a daily basis that my parents would not have put up with being tolerated by parents. I still don't understand why corporal punishment became so bad, it kept me out of trouble on more than one occasion just from the threat of it.
To be fair, he did more than that, he did his darndest to further the stereotype of lawyers as being rabid, idiotic, greedy, power hungry attack dogs. More significantly, he was tying up a lot of time and wasting a lot of other people's money by using completely frivolous lawsuits as a soapbox. Then he was blatantly disrespectful to everyone else, even those who disagreed with him.
And I thought you had to terminate Dr.Watson manually. Using this method could have save a lot of time on my high school's drafting computers, if we'd known about it. Dr.Watson always seemed to make our autocad programs freeze up so he had to be "Taken Out".
I usually use realplayer with the iPods in my home. Drag and drop usually isn't an issue unless it a song from iTunes itself. Most of that issue is the DRM that is attached to the file. I've had a song that after buying could not be transferred to one of the iPods. Every time I tried to sync the song to the iPod it would use one of the authorized devices. Same goes for trying to play it with anything other that iTunes. I went through all of them in under a half an hour and still couldn't play the song from the iPod. No other files have given me that much trouble.
But San Fransisco was destroyed by the smug cloud that was formed from hybrid owners! It's not possible for someone to drive a hybrid and not be smug about it.
I seriously doubt that the Flat Earthers believe the Earth is flat, but they do like taking the contrarian position and arguing it for the sport value.
You make them sound like a debate team. One side argues for and the other against. What I've seen of their site leads me to the same opinion. These people(minus the true believers) just love to argue, for any reason. You just pick the side you want to argue for and have at it.
Yeah that makes sense. If that link were posted it be giving anyone that wanted it his address and with that a name is not hard to get. That's just what everyone needs. Every anonymous ass on the internet knowing exactly where you live and who you are.
Those "big ole asterisk" that you mention are not anywhere on the original document. They only came into being less than 100 years ago when "Political Correctness" became such a big deal. You mention Hate Speech as not being covered by Freedom of Speech. There you are wrong, the only time that your Freedom of Speech can/should be withheld is if with that speech you incite the violation of another citizens rights, and there is nothing in the Bill of Rights about not getting you're feelings hurt. On the other hand the Bill of Rights also doesn't protect you from the consequences of said speech. If that means you are arrested for disturbing the peace or beat down for offending someone, you still had the right that speech. As for the Right to Bear Arms/*Fully Automatics, that one just doesn't make sense to me. I personally see nothing wrong with people who want or own Full Autos, as long as they have them legally. The Second Amendment gives Law Abiding Citizens the right to own weapons. Every time a ban makes it to the SCOTUS it's been deemed Unconstitutional. What this means is that they can control who has what weapons but cannot ban them. All bans on weapons(guns or otherwise) have done throughout history is create a victim society, mainly due to the fact that the people they are trying to keep from getting said weapons will have them anyways. They aren't going to care that they aren't supposed to have them.
They started getting rid of the "Music" on all of the Music Channels before YouTube showed up. All of the "Music" channels that used to play Music Videos are almost nothing but "Reality TV" now.
You've got that wrong. the only absolute way to protect the children is to ban children. If it's illegal to have children or to be a child then no children will be hurt.
I may be reading your statement wrong, but wasn't being a terrorist activities(planning mass murder, committing murder, destruction of public/private property, ect.) against existing law already? If so, why would we need to make emergency laws to deal with it? Seems to me that things like the Patriot Act and other reactionary laws like it are just to make people feel safer, not actually make them safer. That's what it all comes down to, making people "Feel Safe". Would any of the things from the Patriot Act have made a difference for 9/11? Maybe, maybe not. All any of these laws that are "supposedly" keeping us safe are like DRM, it makes things harder for all of the legitimate law abiding people to do what they have a right to do.
More like prairie dogs. We can't seem to get the terrorist leaders that we want, but the dogs will just keep sticking there heads out of the hole until they can't fit through it anymore.
You both bring up very good points, but what it comes down to is this: Will teaching it, whether as philosophy, science, religion or any other subject, affect how it is viewed in the rest of the world? Check here Intelligent design - Wikipidia It's about half way down that these quotes come from;
In June 2007 the Council of Europe's "Committee on Culture, Science and Education" issued a report, The dangers of creationism in education, which states "Creationism in any of its forms, such as 'intelligent design', is not based on facts, does not use any scientific reasoning and its contents are pathetically inadequate for science classes".
The status of intelligent design in Australia is somewhat similar to that in the UK. When the former Australian Federal Education Minister, Brendan Nelson, raised the notion of intelligent design being taught in science classes, the public outcry caused the minister to quickly concede that the correct forum for intelligent design, if it were to be taught, is in religious or philosophy classes.
What I get from that is that Most of the world does not see ID as science, and other than Muslim Countries and religious organizations/followers that feel threatened by any thing that might question the word of leadership(religious or otherwise), it is seen as religion/philosophy. I haven't found anything about how most Asian Countries view it and it would be interesting to see, mainly because as far as I know they are leading the world in Math and Science Education. Maybe, just maybe we should try and regain our spot at the top by following their example.
It's not even that we have a disproportionate amount, it's just that they are the loudest ones. No body else gives a damn so says nothing. Then a politician hears that one load person complain and, all of the sudden, something must be done. These things are offending everyone.
They get 4 complaints so that means there must be 4000 people that are offended but just aren't saying anything.
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Palin's vote would not have mattered as she is not part of Congress, but the others didn't vote so they can say they had nothing to do with it/can't take the blame for it.
but the US is exceptionally motivated to catch terrorists.
You are partly right with your statement, what your missing is two words: "look" and "like". Admitedly they do catch some but that is not the really important thing. What's really important to them is to make the general public think they are exceptionally motivated to catch terrorists. Very few of the things enacted since 9/11 have actually made us safer, they've only made most of the people feel safer, and making people feel safer will get a politician re-elected. It's also very easy to make people think they are safer by the loss of some of their freedom, because if their liberty is hindered so is those that wish them harm. Witch is a logical fallacy, those that wish harm to law abiding citizens aren't following the same rules. They don't care about what laws are passed.
On aside note why can't does it only let me post once every 40 minutes?I keep getting this message:"You must wait a little bit before using this resource; please try again later." then this one came up: "This resource is no longer valid. Please return to the beginning and try again."
I grew up in an area where that exact scenario could happen. In that situation you call for the ambulance to meet you at the nearest mile marker, then either transport the injured person there or guide the ambulance back. If the teens are not willing to call an ambulance they were probably breaking a law/rule and didn't want to get caught. I guarantee if an ambulance was called out to the site of an injury at a camp of nothing but teens there will be a cop/ranger/sheriff showing up as well.
My parents would have smacked me upside the head if I got "unbearably annoying about it" and sent me back out to the car. The big problem today is if you did that to your kid, especially in public, you'd probably be thrown in jail for child abuse. I see things on a daily basis that my parents would not have put up with being tolerated by parents. I still don't understand why corporal punishment became so bad, it kept me out of trouble on more than one occasion just from the threat of it.
To be fair, he did more than that, he did his darndest to further the stereotype of lawyers as being rabid, idiotic, greedy, power hungry attack dogs. More significantly, he was tying up a lot of time and wasting a lot of other people's money by using completely frivolous lawsuits as a soapbox. Then he was blatantly disrespectful to everyone else, even those who disagreed with him.
Sounds like a lot of career politicians.
And I thought you had to terminate Dr.Watson manually. Using this method could have save a lot of time on my high school's drafting computers, if we'd known about it. Dr.Watson always seemed to make our autocad programs freeze up so he had to be "Taken Out".
And what would be so wrong with trying to market a Son of Burger?
Either the moderators don't recognize sarcasm or you scare the heel out of me.
It's all about how safe people feel, not how safe they actually are. Look at airport security.
I usually use realplayer with the iPods in my home. Drag and drop usually isn't an issue unless it a song from iTunes itself. Most of that issue is the DRM that is attached to the file. I've had a song that after buying could not be transferred to one of the iPods. Every time I tried to sync the song to the iPod it would use one of the authorized devices. Same goes for trying to play it with anything other that iTunes. I went through all of them in under a half an hour and still couldn't play the song from the iPod. No other files have given me that much trouble.
But San Fransisco was destroyed by the smug cloud that was formed from hybrid owners! It's not possible for someone to drive a hybrid and not be smug about it.
They had something on Kotaku about the "ADULT" themed peripherals that at least one company is making.
I seriously doubt that the Flat Earthers believe the Earth is flat, but they do like taking the contrarian position and arguing it for the sport value.
You make them sound like a debate team. One side argues for and the other against. What I've seen of their site leads me to the same opinion. These people(minus the true believers) just love to argue, for any reason. You just pick the side you want to argue for and have at it.
Yeah that makes sense. If that link were posted it be giving anyone that wanted it his address and with that a name is not hard to get. That's just what everyone needs. Every anonymous ass on the internet knowing exactly where you live and who you are.
Those "big ole asterisk" that you mention are not anywhere on the original document. They only came into being less than 100 years ago when "Political Correctness" became such a big deal. You mention Hate Speech as not being covered by Freedom of Speech. There you are wrong, the only time that your Freedom of Speech can/should be withheld is if with that speech you incite the violation of another citizens rights, and there is nothing in the Bill of Rights about not getting you're feelings hurt. On the other hand the Bill of Rights also doesn't protect you from the consequences of said speech. If that means you are arrested for disturbing the peace or beat down for offending someone, you still had the right that speech. As for the Right to Bear Arms/*Fully Automatics, that one just doesn't make sense to me. I personally see nothing wrong with people who want or own Full Autos, as long as they have them legally. The Second Amendment gives Law Abiding Citizens the right to own weapons. Every time a ban makes it to the SCOTUS it's been deemed Unconstitutional. What this means is that they can control who has what weapons but cannot ban them. All bans on weapons(guns or otherwise) have done throughout history is create a victim society, mainly due to the fact that the people they are trying to keep from getting said weapons will have them anyways. They aren't going to care that they aren't supposed to have them.
They started getting rid of the "Music" on all of the Music Channels before YouTube showed up. All of the "Music" channels that used to play Music Videos are almost nothing but "Reality TV" now.
You've got that wrong. the only absolute way to protect the children is to ban children. If it's illegal to have children or to be a child then no children will be hurt.
I may be reading your statement wrong, but wasn't being a terrorist activities(planning mass murder, committing murder, destruction of public/private property, ect.) against existing law already? If so, why would we need to make emergency laws to deal with it? Seems to me that things like the Patriot Act and other reactionary laws like it are just to make people feel safer, not actually make them safer. That's what it all comes down to, making people "Feel Safe". Would any of the things from the Patriot Act have made a difference for 9/11? Maybe, maybe not. All any of these laws that are "supposedly" keeping us safe are like DRM, it makes things harder for all of the legitimate law abiding people to do what they have a right to do.
Someone should make one of these for it.
More like prairie dogs. We can't seem to get the terrorist leaders that we want, but the dogs will just keep sticking there heads out of the hole until they can't fit through it anymore.
In June 2007 the Council of Europe's "Committee on Culture, Science and Education" issued a report, The dangers of creationism in education, which states "Creationism in any of its forms, such as 'intelligent design', is not based on facts, does not use any scientific reasoning and its contents are pathetically inadequate for science classes".
The status of intelligent design in Australia is somewhat similar to that in the UK. When the former Australian Federal Education Minister, Brendan Nelson, raised the notion of intelligent design being taught in science classes, the public outcry caused the minister to quickly concede that the correct forum for intelligent design, if it were to be taught, is in religious or philosophy classes.
What I get from that is that Most of the world does not see ID as science, and other than Muslim Countries and religious organizations/followers that feel threatened by any thing that might question the word of leadership(religious or otherwise), it is seen as religion/philosophy. I haven't found anything about how most Asian Countries view it and it would be interesting to see, mainly because as far as I know they are leading the world in Math and Science Education. Maybe, just maybe we should try and regain our spot at the top by following their example.
It's not even that we have a disproportionate amount, it's just that they are the loudest ones. No body else gives a damn so says nothing. Then a politician hears that one load person complain and, all of the sudden, something must be done. These things are offending everyone.
They get 4 complaints so that means there must be 4000 people that are offended but just aren't saying anything.
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Why can I only post a comment/reply every 20 minutes? I keep getting the message that I need to wait before I can use this function, whether I'm posting AC or not.
I happen to find RTFA to be offensive, but that doesn't stop me from doing it some times.
Rule 34 anybody?