What? I never said I was a "Real American" conservative. Who the hell are you to call me that?
And I'm not talking about eminent domain at all. I'm talking about the very act of claiming ownership and rule over undeveloped places. If I land on the moon and built a house can I claim the exact opposite end of the moon my territory even if I don't go near it? Is it legitimately mine if I go and kill anyone who tries to set up shop there?
"if we don't like them niggers, kikes, spics, 'n queers, and if there are more of us them those gosh-darned vermin, then by golly we can treat 'em however we want, GOD BLESS AMERICA (YEE-HAW!)
And what justifies the massive land grabs governments make, claiming ownership and domain of large swathes of land unused, uncultivated, lying bare? Because they said so?
Your paternalistic liberal views can justify anything from genocide to censorship. Your argument could be used to justify Jim Crow laws in the old South. You are living proof of just how thuggish, violent, and controlling democracy can be. Demanding strict obedience and conformity, where the only right is numbers and might. Disgusting.
The person that insisted that ipods were better than some other mp3 players because they lacked microSDHC compatibility because it made things too "complex"?
Oh, please, it's a painful fact that Apple has legions of... fanboys that defend anything Apple does. Apple has some nice (overpriced, but nice) products but some hipsters treat them like a technological godsend, especially (in my experience) the less technically inept people I know that are into gadgets. Apple fans are bought on marketing and come to identify with apple products the same way some people love Nike shoes (and yes, they exist too).
When considering grad school, the most important thing is studying under a professor that is doing research you are interested in--that research will also be your research area. You should already have some topics you are interested in, maybe you have a general interest, if you're not sure, flip through some textbooks for topics that you find interesting and then search through the relevant databases (i.e., PsychInfo for Psychology) for research done on that topic. You'll likely find even more narrow focuses on things related to that topic while doing so, and you'll start to see a repeat of names of certain professors studying a specific topic. You can then look up the work by the professor and see if your interests match (hopefully, of course, they aren't foreigners). Make a list, get to know the topics you are interested in and the research they are doing before you apply.
On the flip side, Steam itself has enabled some games to be sold and created. The creator(s?) of Red Orchestra, for example, say that without Steam, they wouldn't be around.
Just imagine what sort of atrocities and terrible things you can let our leaders get away with, just by putting an even worse guy up as the alternative! It's BRILLIANT!
The biology is much more complex and this issue ties in with philosophy of mind and identity and is not anywhere at all clear-cut. The third trimester is an arbitrary decision of the court. And whether it can survive on its own or not is not a very good argument for whether it being killed is murder when you take away that support--that's a much more contentious point that (of course) the court decided to decide for everyone.
Are you serious? I think abortion is great and opposition to it is silly, but the parent is dead right.
For one, the court's ruling was also based on a right to privacy, not necessarily abortion, to get around the question whether abortion, as killing a fetus, is murder (which a case really can be made for). Tortured logic, in my opinion, but that's the SCOTUS for you.
You're playing with words, as well. They didn't clarify ambiguities by laying out a trimester system. That was completely arbitrary of them; nothing in the laws, ambiguous or not, had anything to do with a trimester system. By ruling on a right to privacy, they also ruled on a trimester system for when abortion is acceptable? What?! The SCOTUS could have gone the other way on abortion and still have had a sensible case (wrong, but sensible) by ruling that a fetus is a protected individual under the constitution. Creating something out of thin air is not settling ambiguities. You may as well claim that Kagan's desired censorship laws are "setting an ambiguity" in the first amendment. You can just claim anything the SCOTUS does is "settle an ambiguity" no matter how much it comes from nowhere or contradicts the Constitution merely by denying that that the common person has no right to interpret the wording of the constitution.
DADT is going away due to congress, not Obama; Iran and Iraq is still completely a toss-up and it's dishonest for you to blindly trust Obama on this yet, and the federal government has gone after pot users in states that allow it DESPITE obama saying otherwise.
The fact that you trust Obama's word enough is proof enough that you blindly trust the man.
Sadly, in my university experience, college students are not likely to fight against it so long as a Democrat, let alone the Obama administration, that supports this.
You're right, commander Dhalka226, we mere plebes, whom exist to obey and do as you wish, whom shall view you as a God, have no right to know these things, for we the people are beneath you and exist only to serve "the machine."
The Civil War was and wasn't about slavery--it was for the south, but it wasn't for the North. For the North, it was mostly about just keeping the states and the territory that they were on in the union.
No, the problem is that "living document" means something -other- than that. It refers not to altering the constitution but reinterpreting the constitution for current times.
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What? I never said I was a "Real American" conservative. Who the hell are you to call me that?
And I'm not talking about eminent domain at all. I'm talking about the very act of claiming ownership and rule over undeveloped places. If I land on the moon and built a house can I claim the exact opposite end of the moon my territory even if I don't go near it? Is it legitimately mine if I go and kill anyone who tries to set up shop there?
Given the number of preteen boys on Xbox live, I believe they already have a word for that.
"Pedophile"
And if the majority wanted to amend the constitution to persecute these groups, and did so, they'd have your blessing.
To summarize spun's viewpoint,
"if we don't like them niggers, kikes, spics, 'n queers, and if there are more of us them those gosh-darned vermin, then by golly we can treat 'em however we want, GOD BLESS AMERICA (YEE-HAW!)
And what justifies the massive land grabs governments make, claiming ownership and domain of large swathes of land unused, uncultivated, lying bare? Because they said so?
Your paternalistic liberal views can justify anything from genocide to censorship. Your argument could be used to justify Jim Crow laws in the old South. You are living proof of just how thuggish, violent, and controlling democracy can be. Demanding strict obedience and conformity, where the only right is numbers and might. Disgusting.
I've never seen a more breathless defense of the lynch mob.
The person that insisted that ipods were better than some other mp3 players because they lacked microSDHC compatibility because it made things too "complex"?
Oh, please, it's a painful fact that Apple has legions of... fanboys that defend anything Apple does. Apple has some nice (overpriced, but nice) products but some hipsters treat them like a technological godsend, especially (in my experience) the less technically inept people I know that are into gadgets. Apple fans are bought on marketing and come to identify with apple products the same way some people love Nike shoes (and yes, they exist too).
NWN may have worse graphics and its own share of problems, but if you ask me, it has way more depth.
BTW, Since you don't tell us your research interests, there's not much more we can help you with.
When considering grad school, the most important thing is studying under a professor that is doing research you are interested in--that research will also be your research area. You should already have some topics you are interested in, maybe you have a general interest, if you're not sure, flip through some textbooks for topics that you find interesting and then search through the relevant databases (i.e., PsychInfo for Psychology) for research done on that topic. You'll likely find even more narrow focuses on things related to that topic while doing so, and you'll start to see a repeat of names of certain professors studying a specific topic. You can then look up the work by the professor and see if your interests match (hopefully, of course, they aren't foreigners). Make a list, get to know the topics you are interested in and the research they are doing before you apply.
Did slashdot gets scientologists or other cranks to mark this as "itsnotscience" because he brings up psychology?
Either slashdot is growing a scientologist population, or people here don't know what constitutes a science.
Doesn't matter if he starts it, the biggest hurdle is getting people to even contribute.
On the flip side, Steam itself has enabled some games to be sold and created. The creator(s?) of Red Orchestra, for example, say that without Steam, they wouldn't be around.
Just imagine what sort of atrocities and terrible things you can let our leaders get away with, just by putting an even worse guy up as the alternative! It's BRILLIANT!
What kind of hokey socialistic-teleological version of evolution do you subscribe to? Evolution doesn't infer anything like "progress."
The biology is much more complex and this issue ties in with philosophy of mind and identity and is not anywhere at all clear-cut. The third trimester is an arbitrary decision of the court. And whether it can survive on its own or not is not a very good argument for whether it being killed is murder when you take away that support--that's a much more contentious point that (of course) the court decided to decide for everyone.
Are you serious? I think abortion is great and opposition to it is silly, but the parent is dead right.
For one, the court's ruling was also based on a right to privacy, not necessarily abortion, to get around the question whether abortion, as killing a fetus, is murder (which a case really can be made for). Tortured logic, in my opinion, but that's the SCOTUS for you.
You're playing with words, as well. They didn't clarify ambiguities by laying out a trimester system. That was completely arbitrary of them; nothing in the laws, ambiguous or not, had anything to do with a trimester system. By ruling on a right to privacy, they also ruled on a trimester system for when abortion is acceptable? What?! The SCOTUS could have gone the other way on abortion and still have had a sensible case (wrong, but sensible) by ruling that a fetus is a protected individual under the constitution. Creating something out of thin air is not settling ambiguities. You may as well claim that Kagan's desired censorship laws are "setting an ambiguity" in the first amendment. You can just claim anything the SCOTUS does is "settle an ambiguity" no matter how much it comes from nowhere or contradicts the Constitution merely by denying that that the common person has no right to interpret the wording of the constitution.
DADT is going away due to congress, not Obama; Iran and Iraq is still completely a toss-up and it's dishonest for you to blindly trust Obama on this yet, and the federal government has gone after pot users in states that allow it DESPITE obama saying otherwise.
The fact that you trust Obama's word enough is proof enough that you blindly trust the man.
Sadly, in my university experience, college students are not likely to fight against it so long as a Democrat, let alone the Obama administration, that supports this.
A slight correction. It's the DMCA, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Sounds a lot like the mafia.
You're right, commander Dhalka226, we mere plebes, whom exist to obey and do as you wish, whom shall view you as a God, have no right to know these things, for we the people are beneath you and exist only to serve "the machine."
The Civil War was and wasn't about slavery--it was for the south, but it wasn't for the North. For the North, it was mostly about just keeping the states and the territory that they were on in the union.
No, the problem is that "living document" means something -other- than that. It refers not to altering the constitution but reinterpreting the constitution for current times.