Really? As a Libertarian, I don't like the gov't telling people what to do, even when I agree with what the end result is. Slippery slope and all that...
>>Regardless, I figure anyone who believes in a theistic god to be delusional.
That's awfully insulting to Muslims and Jews. I think you committed a crime in about a dozen countries. Iran is getting your ISP records as we speak:-)
By definition, you can't do bad things and be a Christian. The moment a bad thing happens, one is no longer a Christian.
Or, let's put it in Slashdot terms. You've got to stick to each clause of the GPL to make your code GPL-compatible.
I'm pretty sure none of the really bad things happened in the Christian Testament. Most of the fire and brimstone stuff happened in the Jewish Testament. Why aren't you decrying the Jews?
And how, exactly, are they (KKK, IRA, etc.) following Christ? Don't you have to follow Him to be a Christian? I'm pretty sure He never went around blowing shit up.
Jesus never did any such thing, and He's the only Christian to ever walk the earth.
Other people may claim to be Christian, but if they don't do Christian-like things, they're not following Christ. It's like saying, "I'm a billionaire" but not having a billion dollars to back it up.
The Constitution prohibits the federal gov't for paying for healthcare, like it prohibits the gov't paying for education and a whole host of social programs we currently have.
Of course sex is worse. Sex caused Nazism. No sex, no people, no people, no nazis. Sex is the number one cause of death for people across all races and ethnicities. It's clearly a causational problem.
Naaahhh, I just just trolling until I can skip the commercials on a Discovery Channel show. I like the Commonwealth countries quite a bit.
What people seem to be missing here, though, is that this was an AZ prosecutor, not a federal one. You can't rip on the USA because this isn't a coutry-wide law. States have very, very different laws on a whole host of subjects. For instance, my state has no sales or income tax, while the states the border mine have very high state taxes. My state doesn't register firearms; the state to the south registers handguns... if they let you buy one at all.
I'd imagine Oz has different laws in different states.
I thought Judaism brought us the weekend: "And on the seventh day He rested."
Unions seem to get a screwjob a lot: they're either not doing enough to protect the employee or their protection is so good it makes it nearly impossible to be rid of bad ones or improve business processes that result in pink slips.
I didn't know Latin America had electricity, let alone the Internet. I thought the old Spanish aristocracy wouldn't allow their serfs to see the freedom of the outside world.
Unlike Europe, where you can go to prison for debating how many Jews were killed in WWII. Say the real number, you're A-OK. Say a lesser number, and you're thrown in the dock. Pot, kettle, kettle, pot.
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In what ways is the US "low for liberty?"
Yeah, but we can still vote :-)
Voting for a bunch of bad choices is still infinitely better than not voting at all.
Really? As a Libertarian, I don't like the gov't telling people what to do, even when I agree with what the end result is. Slippery slope and all that...
Ahhh, ok. I misunderstood. Thank you for clarifying.
>>An other difference is the absence of overhead lines in Europe
Nothing to do with the little tussle in the late '30s to mid '40s, right?
>>If population density is the only problem, how come high-speed internet access costs so much more in New York City than Tokyo?
Easy: unionized telco workers. How many unions are in Japan?
Is it subsidized by the gov't? If so, how much? If not, which ISP? The local telco monopoly or someone who competes in the open market?
So, because they don't see the world as you do, they have brain disorders?
Sounds like the pseudo-Christians that began this thread...
>>Regardless, I figure anyone who believes in a theistic god to be delusional.
:-)
That's awfully insulting to Muslims and Jews. I think you committed a crime in about a dozen countries. Iran is getting your ISP records as we speak
By definition, you can't do bad things and be a Christian. The moment a bad thing happens, one is no longer a Christian.
Or, let's put it in Slashdot terms. You've got to stick to each clause of the GPL to make your code GPL-compatible.
I'm pretty sure none of the really bad things happened in the Christian Testament. Most of the fire and brimstone stuff happened in the Jewish Testament. Why aren't you decrying the Jews?
And how, exactly, are they (KKK, IRA, etc.) following Christ? Don't you have to follow Him to be a Christian? I'm pretty sure He never went around blowing shit up.
Jesus never did any such thing, and He's the only Christian to ever walk the earth.
Other people may claim to be Christian, but if they don't do Christian-like things, they're not following Christ. It's like saying, "I'm a billionaire" but not having a billion dollars to back it up.
The Constitution prohibits the federal gov't for paying for healthcare, like it prohibits the gov't paying for education and a whole host of social programs we currently have.
But sex causes violence, and violence doesn't cause sex. Which is worse?
Besides, Christ never said anything about sex in the Bible, and he's the only Christian the world has ever seen.
So, prove them wrong, don't ban their speech. Let people say what they'd like. Nobody's ever been hurt from words.
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Off the top of my head, Germany:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Zundel
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I didn't say every European country. Europe is full of countries with different laws like the US is full of states with different laws.
Of course sex is worse. Sex caused Nazism. No sex, no people, no people, no nazis. Sex is the number one cause of death for people across all races and ethnicities. It's clearly a causational problem.
It's also the most fun around.
Wasn't there a guy just released from prison in the UK, where he served a term for denying the Holocaust?
Civics 101: freedom of speech is about protecting speech WE DON'T LIKE!
Naaahhh, I just just trolling until I can skip the commercials on a Discovery Channel show. I like the Commonwealth countries quite a bit.
What people seem to be missing here, though, is that this was an AZ prosecutor, not a federal one. You can't rip on the USA because this isn't a coutry-wide law. States have very, very different laws on a whole host of subjects. For instance, my state has no sales or income tax, while the states the border mine have very high state taxes. My state doesn't register firearms; the state to the south registers handguns... if they let you buy one at all.
I'd imagine Oz has different laws in different states.
I thought Judaism brought us the weekend: "And on the seventh day He rested."
Unions seem to get a screwjob a lot: they're either not doing enough to protect the employee or their protection is so good it makes it nearly impossible to be rid of bad ones or improve business processes that result in pink slips.
I didn't know Latin America had electricity, let alone the Internet. I thought the old Spanish aristocracy wouldn't allow their serfs to see the freedom of the outside world.
Unlike Europe, where you can go to prison for debating how many Jews were killed in WWII. Say the real number, you're A-OK. Say a lesser number, and you're thrown in the dock. Pot, kettle, kettle, pot.
Yeah, but none of the other countries count. Most are third world nations and the one that's not still has a monarch as head of state.
Living in Oz must mean you're a criminal, right? I mean, is it still a requirement?
Napoleon was Corsican, not French. And if I recall, Corsicans were treated as second class citizens. And he still lost.
It's like the misnomer of Hitler being German... he was Austrian.