If we object to illegal aliens coming from Europe, do we still hate "brown people"?
That term "brown people", btw, is most unhelpful... technically it can cover Mexicans, several African subsets, the Asian side of the Middle East, and Italians who work in the summer sun.
In the same vein, "red people" could refer to American Indians, non-Asian Middle East, and many northern subsets of Caucasian who work in the summer sun. "White" describes albinos, and "Black" only comes close to describing a few select African tribes.
Assuming anyone who objects to illegals sneaking over from any country and getting paid under the table must be racist is not only untrue, it's a 'cheap shot'.
Factcheck.org has already covered this. The two of them went through physical therapy together. They divorced several years after both of them completed the therapy. He didn't just decide he didn't love her anymore because she'd been in an accident. She even says so in the article you linked to.
That's because McCain himself does not own any houses at all. They're all under the ownership of Cindy McCain, who has a pre-nup by the way, and at least half of them are investment/rental properties. So unless you expect him to keep up with HER business portfolio...
A: There is absolutely nothing that does not move. The sun is moving at an amazing velocity around the center of the Milky Way galaxy (~2.20Ã--105 m/s), and the galaxy itself is moving relative to other galaxies. See related links.
==Alternate answer==
There is no absolute motion, we can only tell if something is moving and at what speed *relative* to another object.
For instance, lets say only one thing existed in the universe, a single particle. How could you tell how fast it was moving? Or if it was moving at all?You couldn't. But if another particle exists, and it moves towards or away from the first one, you can measure how fast it is going relative to the first particle. But for all you know both could be going a thousand miles an hour and one could be "gaining" on the other, there is no way to know for sure.
Ah see, from my point of view, I grew up with parents who would periodically split a single can of beer with dinner. As you might have guessed, a half a can of beer did not even register on the "barely noticeable" level of drunkenness.:)
I also grew up in a household full of musicians, and we often had cellists and violinists and such from parts of Europe come to play classical music quartets late into the night. One of them, a woman from Norway, didn't understand the point of having an underage drinking law. Her parents had started giving her a small glass of beer with dinner when she was five years old.
Needless to say, problem drinking was practically nonexistent among her peers.
Well, yes. If I have a t-shirt, whether I bought it or had it given to me, and it's in the laundromat, in my sister's bureau, hanging to dry on my friend's clothesline next to her swimming pool, etc. I can pick it up and take it away because it's still mine.
In fact, if I spot my car keys on the ground in the parking lot, yes, it's my right to "steal" them back.
Why are we assuming that drinking = drunk? I thought there was a guideline, like you have to drink a certain amount for it to really start affecting you.
Accuracy depends on region. It's much easier to correctly predict the next five weeks of weather in Arizona than it is to correctly predict the next two days of weather in Connecticut.
Depending on the wording, of course. Last winter we saw a lot of predictions like this: "Snow, sleet, freezing rain, or rain may start sometime after 10am, but probably not much later than 3pm. It'll continue on for several hours, give or take, and might changeover to something else in the duration. When it ends, we may have between 1 and 10 inches of accumulation of some sort."
"I demanded the best insulating EVERYTHING. 6" thick walls instead of 4", stuffed to the gills with insulation. Attic crammed high with almost 3' of insulation."
I made the mistake of playing NWN2 after playing TES: Morrowind and TES: Oblivion. Or I should say "starting to play", as it takes a LOT to truly "finish" either of those games.
Probably as a direct result, I could never 'get into' the NWN way of doing things, and saw the storyline as very tight and controlling. And next to Oblivion, the graphics weren't all that great either...
In Ancient Israel, women, even married women, were allowed to own their own property and benefit financially from their profits through land use and/or manufacturing businesses. When I say "benefit financially", I mean the money would go to that woman and not merely that family.
Seeing that women also had equal rights to petition the judges, become judges themselves, be legal witnesses to criminal and civil actions (even including murder), inherit property and goods from their parents, enter the same areas of the Temple that the non-Levite men were restricted to, and make their own sacrifices and petitions to God there out of their husbands' presences, an argument could be made that they were not treated under property law.
So please list for us some examples of polyandry that are not, in any way, connected to religions?
I would not only agree with the previous poster, but also point out that such religious adherents are also more likely to have the four-or-more children that has been statistically proven to lengthen a man's life and health.
I posit that the width and positioning of the "uncanny valley" is individual and depends on the sensitivity of the person. I am very sensitive, distinguishing colors and musical tones to a surprising subtlety, and synesthetic as well.
Personally, for me, taxidermy crosses the line, and so do fur-covered or "skin"-covered animatronics. Yes, if I go to Chuck E Cheese, I don't like to sit with my back turned to the stage creatures...
Ya but a higher percentage of those billionaires are taxed more heavily than ever so that the government can decide the most politically correct group to try to fund research.
Not to mention so that the government can give out a variety of handouts to whoever the politicians want to vote for them next election year... ^.^
I agree about not understanding the last statement.
I recently installed my old copy of Age of Empires on my laptop, as well as my old Simcity 2000 (both legally owned for the past nearly 10 years, thank you). I had to do a little bit of compatibility settings to get SC2000 animations working properly under XP, granted.
But once I'd done that, guess what! The games were exactly, precisely as good now as they were when they were first installed on my 133MHz Pentium. The graphics were just as clear, the music just as realistic as the day they were produced. And much to my amusement, I had just as much fun producing a Phoenician Nuke Trooper as I did when I was a good deal younger.
A good game, like a good book, like a good movie, like a good piece of music, is always as good now as when it was written and produced.
Cavemen could remember hundreds of years of history accurately.
I think a case could be made that people like the ancient Egyptian pyramid-builders and the oral-history passers-on had more raw intelligence than someone who's learned how to sit down at a computer and type "Seven Year War" into a Wikipedia search.
After all, we might create huge buildings, but how many people know their highschool geometry? We might be able to inscribe our history into multiple formats, but how many people remember it from day to day? We have computers, but how many people know how they're designed? Or how to repair a clock? Or figure out your best friend's phone number without looking it up on your cell?
We aren't necessarily more intelligent. We've just got better technology.
It's funny that you mention nVidia/Intel. For the past five to seven years or so, I've consistently found I could build a more stable machine by teaming AMD with ATI and Intel with nVidia.
My current ultra-gaming/3D generation/video editing/video compression workhorse is an nVidia 680i equipped with an Intel quad-core, twin 7900 GS's, and four sticks of Corsair dual-channel RAM. It's (knock on wood) rock-solid stable and has been for nearly a year, and it still plays any game I buy brand new off-the-shelf (including UT3 around Christmastime) at full video settings with no slowdown whatsoever. "Give me a REAL challenge!"
To be fair, it does appear that evolutionary science is completely rewritten every few years such that even what you're taught in elementary school about the ages of the Earth is different by the time you hit college geology.
Meanwhile parts of modern medicine have persisted unchanged since 400BC (thinking right now of willow bark/aspirin in particular) and though newer machinery works faster/longer, older machinery still functions as well as it did when it was made.
It's hard to take something as truth when it's being erased and rewritten every time a new discovery comes along.
2000 B.C. - Here, eat this root.
1000 A.D. - That root is heathen. Here, say this prayer.
1850 A.D. - That prayer is superstition. Here, drink this potion.
1940 A.D. - That potion is snake oil. Here, swallow this pill.
1985 A.D. - That pill is ineffective. Here, take this antibiotic.
2000 A.D. - That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root
I don't see any other instance in society in which people are justifying illegal activity by claiming that it's a pain to do it legally. Do we justifying stealing TV sets because they're expensive and it improves the quality of your life a great deal to be able to turn on the evening news? Do we justify embezzlement on the grounds that 50% of citizens are below the median income level?
If this is to be a country with laws that are enforced and obeyed, let us bend our energy on those laws.
I have a couple friends in other countries who would love to come here and can't, because they haven't the skills or the money. I don't encourage them to come illegally. At times I've sent one of them money, food, and clothing in care packages to help him make it to another day. But as I said, I wouldn't bring him into the country illegally.
I find it interesting that somebody thinks my statement above, about loving different cultures and enjoying learning new things, is flamebait. Flamebait for racists/xenophobes?
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If we object to illegal aliens coming from Europe, do we still hate "brown people"?
That term "brown people", btw, is most unhelpful... technically it can cover Mexicans, several African subsets, the Asian side of the Middle East, and Italians who work in the summer sun.
In the same vein, "red people" could refer to American Indians, non-Asian Middle East, and many northern subsets of Caucasian who work in the summer sun. "White" describes albinos, and "Black" only comes close to describing a few select African tribes.
Assuming anyone who objects to illegals sneaking over from any country and getting paid under the table must be racist is not only untrue, it's a 'cheap shot'.
Factcheck.org has already covered this. The two of them went through physical therapy together. They divorced several years after both of them completed the therapy. He didn't just decide he didn't love her anymore because she'd been in an accident. She even says so in the article you linked to.
Or it gives her several years in the Executive Branch, and him several years in the Legislative Branch. Which office is he running for, again?
That's because McCain himself does not own any houses at all. They're all under the ownership of Cindy McCain, who has a pre-nup by the way, and at least half of them are investment/rental properties. So unless you expect him to keep up with HER business portfolio...
Q: Does the sun move?
A: There is absolutely nothing that does not move. The sun is moving at an amazing velocity around the center of the Milky Way galaxy (~2.20Ã--105 m/s), and the galaxy itself is moving relative to other galaxies. See related links.
==Alternate answer==
There is no absolute motion, we can only tell if something is moving and at what speed *relative* to another object.
For instance, lets say only one thing existed in the universe, a single particle. How could you tell how fast it was moving? Or if it was moving at all?You couldn't. But if another particle exists, and it moves towards or away from the first one, you can measure how fast it is going relative to the first particle. But for all you know both could be going a thousand miles an hour and one could be "gaining" on the other, there is no way to know for sure.
Ah see, from my point of view, I grew up with parents who would periodically split a single can of beer with dinner. As you might have guessed, a half a can of beer did not even register on the "barely noticeable" level of drunkenness. :)
I also grew up in a household full of musicians, and we often had cellists and violinists and such from parts of Europe come to play classical music quartets late into the night. One of them, a woman from Norway, didn't understand the point of having an underage drinking law. Her parents had started giving her a small glass of beer with dinner when she was five years old.
Needless to say, problem drinking was practically nonexistent among her peers.
Do you think they'd have objected to the tea tax if it hasn't been hurting their wallets? :)
Well, yes. If I have a t-shirt, whether I bought it or had it given to me, and it's in the laundromat, in my sister's bureau, hanging to dry on my friend's clothesline next to her swimming pool, etc. I can pick it up and take it away because it's still mine.
In fact, if I spot my car keys on the ground in the parking lot, yes, it's my right to "steal" them back.
I think your example is flawed.
Why are we assuming that drinking = drunk? I thought there was a guideline, like you have to drink a certain amount for it to really start affecting you.
Accuracy depends on region. It's much easier to correctly predict the next five weeks of weather in Arizona than it is to correctly predict the next two days of weather in Connecticut.
Depending on the wording, of course. Last winter we saw a lot of predictions like this: "Snow, sleet, freezing rain, or rain may start sometime after 10am, but probably not much later than 3pm. It'll continue on for several hours, give or take, and might changeover to something else in the duration. When it ends, we may have between 1 and 10 inches of accumulation of some sort."
"Uncomfortable, slow, tough to start, stinky"...
Ever owned and/or ridden a real horse?
"I demanded the best insulating EVERYTHING. 6" thick walls instead of 4", stuffed to the gills with insulation. Attic crammed high with almost 3' of insulation."
:)
Ever heard of "sick building syndrome"?
Wow, talk about a misleading post title.
I made the mistake of playing NWN2 after playing TES: Morrowind and TES: Oblivion. Or I should say "starting to play", as it takes a LOT to truly "finish" either of those games.
Probably as a direct result, I could never 'get into' the NWN way of doing things, and saw the storyline as very tight and controlling. And next to Oblivion, the graphics weren't all that great either...
You know, I keep hearing this. Let me throw a few examples back about why it irks me.
That isn't a vehicle, it's a Chevrolet.
That isn't a fruit, it's a strawberry.
That's not clothing, it's a shirt.
That's not polygamy, it's polygyny.
In Ancient Israel, women, even married women, were allowed to own their own property and benefit financially from their profits through land use and/or manufacturing businesses. When I say "benefit financially", I mean the money would go to that woman and not merely that family.
Seeing that women also had equal rights to petition the judges, become judges themselves, be legal witnesses to criminal and civil actions (even including murder), inherit property and goods from their parents, enter the same areas of the Temple that the non-Levite men were restricted to, and make their own sacrifices and petitions to God there out of their husbands' presences, an argument could be made that they were not treated under property law.
So please list for us some examples of polyandry that are not, in any way, connected to religions?
I would not only agree with the previous poster, but also point out that such religious adherents are also more likely to have the four-or-more children that has been statistically proven to lengthen a man's life and health.
I posit that the width and positioning of the "uncanny valley" is individual and depends on the sensitivity of the person. I am very sensitive, distinguishing colors and musical tones to a surprising subtlety, and synesthetic as well.
Personally, for me, taxidermy crosses the line, and so do fur-covered or "skin"-covered animatronics. Yes, if I go to Chuck E Cheese, I don't like to sit with my back turned to the stage creatures...
Ya but a higher percentage of those billionaires are taxed more heavily than ever so that the government can decide the most politically correct group to try to fund research.
Not to mention so that the government can give out a variety of handouts to whoever the politicians want to vote for them next election year... ^.^
I agree about not understanding the last statement.
I recently installed my old copy of Age of Empires on my laptop, as well as my old Simcity 2000 (both legally owned for the past nearly 10 years, thank you). I had to do a little bit of compatibility settings to get SC2000 animations working properly under XP, granted.
But once I'd done that, guess what! The games were exactly, precisely as good now as they were when they were first installed on my 133MHz Pentium. The graphics were just as clear, the music just as realistic as the day they were produced. And much to my amusement, I had just as much fun producing a Phoenician Nuke Trooper as I did when I was a good deal younger.
A good game, like a good book, like a good movie, like a good piece of music, is always as good now as when it was written and produced.
Cavemen could remember hundreds of years of history accurately.
I think a case could be made that people like the ancient Egyptian pyramid-builders and the oral-history passers-on had more raw intelligence than someone who's learned how to sit down at a computer and type "Seven Year War" into a Wikipedia search.
After all, we might create huge buildings, but how many people know their highschool geometry? We might be able to inscribe our history into multiple formats, but how many people remember it from day to day? We have computers, but how many people know how they're designed? Or how to repair a clock? Or figure out your best friend's phone number without looking it up on your cell?
We aren't necessarily more intelligent. We've just got better technology.
It's funny that you mention nVidia/Intel. For the past five to seven years or so, I've consistently found I could build a more stable machine by teaming AMD with ATI and Intel with nVidia.
My current ultra-gaming/3D generation/video editing/video compression workhorse is an nVidia 680i equipped with an Intel quad-core, twin 7900 GS's, and four sticks of Corsair dual-channel RAM. It's (knock on wood) rock-solid stable and has been for nearly a year, and it still plays any game I buy brand new off-the-shelf (including UT3 around Christmastime) at full video settings with no slowdown whatsoever. "Give me a REAL challenge!"
To be fair, it does appear that evolutionary science is completely rewritten every few years such that even what you're taught in elementary school about the ages of the Earth is different by the time you hit college geology.
Meanwhile parts of modern medicine have persisted unchanged since 400BC (thinking right now of willow bark/aspirin in particular) and though newer machinery works faster/longer, older machinery still functions as well as it did when it was made.
It's hard to take something as truth when it's being erased and rewritten every time a new discovery comes along.
2000 B.C. - Here, eat this root.
1000 A.D. - That root is heathen. Here, say this prayer.
1850 A.D. - That prayer is superstition. Here, drink this potion.
1940 A.D. - That potion is snake oil. Here, swallow this pill.
1985 A.D. - That pill is ineffective. Here, take this antibiotic.
2000 A.D. - That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root
Then let's change the immigration laws.
I don't see any other instance in society in which people are justifying illegal activity by claiming that it's a pain to do it legally. Do we justifying stealing TV sets because they're expensive and it improves the quality of your life a great deal to be able to turn on the evening news? Do we justify embezzlement on the grounds that 50% of citizens are below the median income level?
If this is to be a country with laws that are enforced and obeyed, let us bend our energy on those laws.
I have a couple friends in other countries who would love to come here and can't, because they haven't the skills or the money. I don't encourage them to come illegally. At times I've sent one of them money, food, and clothing in care packages to help him make it to another day. But as I said, I wouldn't bring him into the country illegally.
I find it interesting that somebody thinks my statement above, about loving different cultures and enjoying learning new things, is flamebait. Flamebait for racists/xenophobes?