Where? In my state, thrid trimester abortions are illegal except in cases which threaten the life or health of the mother.
This is the devil in the details. Mental health is included in the definition of health. If a woman tells the doctor that the pregnancy is causing her too much stress, she can have the abortion.
If that were the case, the pro-life movement would have nothing to do in my state.
Not true. See above.
How about embryonic stem cell research? Zygotes again!
At one time make a DVD player that could be set to skip over objectionable material in realtime as you watched a movie?
I'm sure that what happens is that the players "created a derivitive work" in realtime, but since the derivitive work was generated on the fly and not distributed to anyone else this ruling might not apply.
he fact is, most people, when it comes right down to it, aren't really ready to accept underdeveloped embryos as fellow citizens.
5 minutes before a child is born, it's a human being but it's still legal to abort it. Even, if everything except the child's head has emerged from the mother, it's legal to abort it. No one is getting worked up over the deaths of zygotes. Those of us who oppose abortion on demand want to see the deaths of viable human beings come to an end.
Which isn't to say that abortion isn't a tough decision. It's a tough one that a lot of women have to make.
If it isn't something that they know is wrong, then why is it tough? Very few woman have to abort their babies. A lot of women do it anyway.
With mail-in they know that only a subset of the customers will actually ever receive the rebate, money saved.
That's fine. I won't buy anything that I wouldn't be willing to pay the "before rebate" price for, but for those of us who can spare 5 minutes to send in a rebate form we are given a bigger rebate precisely because of all of the other people who won't.
I'm going to pull some numbers out of my ass, just to prove the point.
Widget A costs $50 to manufacture, package and ship to a retail outlet. Retailer B sells item for 75$. Retailer C sells item for $90 with a $30 mail in rebate. If out of 100 buyers, only 40 will claim the rebate and retailer C will make $2800 in profit. While for 100 sales, retailer B will make $2500.
It's cost shifting. Lazy people pay more. Just like people who don't shop around for the best price before a purchase.
I don't know if homosexuality is a choice. I didn't choose to be attracted to big breasted women, I have friends who didn't choose to be attracted to small breasted women. We just are. I suppose that it's possible that someone is just attracted to members of the same gender.
None of that changes that there is no such thing as a "same sex" marriage.
It doesn't exist and all of the politicking and lobbying won't change it. What they're doing is the logical equivalent of trying to force the government to legally recognize Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.
If we refer back to a little over a decade ago, the OJ Simpson trial, you'll remember that black Americans and white Americans had completely different views on the merits of the prosecution's case.
As recently as 2004 87% of white Americans believed him to be guilty and 27% of black Americans did.
certainly don't question the boss for giving the driver the vehicle.
If the boss had a track record of giving cars to people who didn't have driver's licenses and or were unqualified to handle them, the repairmen would be justified in asking such questions.
If you want to be abrasive, that's no problem for me.
My problem is that you would exert your will upon me, and for doing so, you are in the wrong.
You're attempting to exert your will upon the rest of society. For that you are as wrong as you accuse me of being. Polygamists, who can claim a long history of existance, have more of a claim of legitimacy than crybaby shitpackers.
What's worse, you haven't even given any sort of reason as to WHY you think we shouldn't have this mystical tax "benefit" or be on our partners health insurance.
Homosexual men are more likely to be sick than the rest of society. Why should we have to subsidize your medical treatment?
Not one person has come up with a good reason to either point (let alone any others that have come up), and I doubt anyone will.
Something tells me that nothing that anyone comes up with will ever be good enough for you. In a free society, you have every right to be a sexual deviant but you don't have the right to be accepted.
I'm one of those evil "right-wingers" that are so often lambasted here on teh intarweb.
Your comment was highly moderated so I saw it before the its parent post. I apologize if these points were raised by someone else.
I don't have a problem at all with gay partners being able to do things like inherit property, make medical decisions, visit a sick or dying partner in the hospital, adopt and live lives of peace and tranquility.
What I do have a problem with is equating a same sex union with a traditional heterosexual marriage. Namely the tax benefit & health insurance. I don't like the possibility of a state like MA or CA being able to force a state like TX or UT to recognize as a "marriage" a homosexual union.
I can't wait for an Ubuntu Dapper repository to be set up, as it's Breezy packages don't work with Dapper, and when compiling the source myself I can't get any of the fancy extra models and graphics installed that the packages did for me in Breezy and Debian:-(
Then why not do both? Extract the packages to get the extra models and graphics and then compile the executables so that it'll run.
You have the right to bear arms, but you'd better not use those arms to commit a crime. Anything armed automatically quadruples your sentence. If you can manage to rob a bank unarmed, then you'll probably only get 2 years.
If the people you are robbing believe that you're armed, you have just committed armed robbery. Even if you have no weapon.
People who use plastic guns or a banana in the pocket are armed robbers.
It was revised in 1949, and with the modified form and name, it was adopted on August 12 of that year by the Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of International Conventions for the Protection of Victims of War, that was held in Geneva from April 21 to August 12, 1949. The Third Geneva Convention entered into force on October 21, 1950.
In case that's not an authoritative enough source for you, I have others.
Our motives weren't quite so altruistic. We agreed to the Geneva Convention because we wanted to recieve like consideration for our troops when they were captured.
No one wanted a repeat of the Bataan Death March.
It was easy for the rest of the "civilized world" to agree not to use them, because it's widely known and accepted that the US acts as the world's police force.
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That's a pretty wierd jurisdiction you live in. Would you care to quote the act under which these things are legal exactly?
It's not an act, it's a court decision. Roe v Wade.
LK
Where? In my state, thrid trimester abortions are illegal except in cases which threaten the life or health of the mother.
This is the devil in the details. Mental health is included in the definition of health. If a woman tells the doctor that the pregnancy is causing her too much stress, she can have the abortion.
If that were the case, the pro-life movement would have nothing to do in my state.
Not true. See above.
How about embryonic stem cell research? Zygotes again!
Embryos, not zygotes.
LK
At one time make a DVD player that could be set to skip over objectionable material in realtime as you watched a movie?
I'm sure that what happens is that the players "created a derivitive work" in realtime, but since the derivitive work was generated on the fly and not distributed to anyone else this ruling might not apply.
LK
Glory... The "clean" script.
Col. Shaw-"You men..."
Pvt. Sharts-"Twelve dollar, lot of money."
Pvt. Trip-"A colored soldier will stop a bullet just as well as a white one, and for less money too!"
Pvt. Trip "Tear 'em up! Tear 'em up!"
Col. Shaw-"If you men will take no pay, non of us will."
Sgt. Maj. Rawlins-"The boy just wanted some shoes, sir."
Col. Shaw-"If this man falls, who will take the flag?"
Cpl. Searles-"I will."
The end.
LK
he fact is, most people, when it comes right down to it, aren't really ready to accept underdeveloped embryos as fellow citizens.
5 minutes before a child is born, it's a human being but it's still legal to abort it. Even, if everything except the child's head has emerged from the mother, it's legal to abort it. No one is getting worked up over the deaths of zygotes. Those of us who oppose abortion on demand want to see the deaths of viable human beings come to an end.
Which isn't to say that abortion isn't a tough decision. It's a tough one that a lot of women have to make.
If it isn't something that they know is wrong, then why is it tough? Very few woman have to abort their babies. A lot of women do it anyway.
LK
Have they started to abide by the license that they obligated themselves to when they chose the linux kernel?
Before I get one of these, I'll probably end up with a Zaurus or some other PDA that I can run linux on.
LK
Have they complied with the GPL yet?
LK
With mail-in they know that only a subset of the customers will actually ever receive the rebate, money saved.
That's fine. I won't buy anything that I wouldn't be willing to pay the "before rebate" price for, but for those of us who can spare 5 minutes to send in a rebate form we are given a bigger rebate precisely because of all of the other people who won't.
I'm going to pull some numbers out of my ass, just to prove the point.
Widget A costs $50 to manufacture, package and ship to a retail outlet. Retailer B sells item for 75$. Retailer C sells item for $90 with a $30 mail in rebate. If out of 100 buyers, only 40 will claim the rebate and retailer C will make $2800 in profit. While for 100 sales, retailer B will make $2500.
It's cost shifting. Lazy people pay more. Just like people who don't shop around for the best price before a purchase.
LK
I don't know if homosexuality is a choice. I didn't choose to be attracted to big breasted women, I have friends who didn't choose to be attracted to small breasted women. We just are. I suppose that it's possible that someone is just attracted to members of the same gender.
None of that changes that there is no such thing as a "same sex" marriage.
It doesn't exist and all of the politicking and lobbying won't change it. What they're doing is the logical equivalent of trying to force the government to legally recognize Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.
LK
If we refer back to a little over a decade ago, the OJ Simpson trial, you'll remember that black Americans and white Americans had completely different views on the merits of the prosecution's case.
As recently as 2004 87% of white Americans believed him to be guilty and 27% of black Americans did.
Experience shapes perception.
LK
Have to resort to name calling because you don't really have any point to make?
I didn't "have to", I wanted to as a response to your "tough shit" line.
You seemed quite anxious to make this a rancorous confrontation, I merely obliged you.
I'd feel sad for you, however, one of these days you'll probably do something stupid and end up dead. Chlorine in the gene pool, and all that.
I smoke 10-13 cigarettes per day, I'll probably die sooner than I otherwise would have. I'm sure that's comforting to you.
LK
certainly don't question the boss for giving the driver the vehicle.
If the boss had a track record of giving cars to people who didn't have driver's licenses and or were unqualified to handle them, the repairmen would be justified in asking such questions.
LK
Being an unexpectedly bad Mo' Fo' might take him pretty far.
Didn't you ever kick anyone's ass in high school?
LK
If you want to be abrasive, that's no problem for me.
My problem is that you would exert your will upon me, and for doing so, you are in the wrong.
You're attempting to exert your will upon the rest of society. For that you are as wrong as you accuse me of being. Polygamists, who can claim a long history of existance, have more of a claim of legitimacy than crybaby shitpackers.
What's worse, you haven't even given any sort of reason as to WHY you think we shouldn't have this mystical tax "benefit" or be on our partners health insurance.
Homosexual men are more likely to be sick than the rest of society. Why should we have to subsidize your medical treatment?
Not one person has come up with a good reason to either point (let alone any others that have come up), and I doubt anyone will.
Something tells me that nothing that anyone comes up with will ever be good enough for you. In a free society, you have every right to be a sexual deviant but you don't have the right to be accepted.
LK
He says the trick is: kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's bitch.
The first option sounds a lot more pleasant.
LK
Apparently you've missed my point. I'm talking Ménage à trois.
LK
So what exactly is marriage? Can you define it without specifically stating it is between a man and a woman?
How nonsensical can you get? You're asking him to define a word without using it's definition.
Can you define dictionary without saying "word" or "book"?
LK
I'm one of those evil "right-wingers" that are so often lambasted here on teh intarweb.
Your comment was highly moderated so I saw it before the its parent post. I apologize if these points were raised by someone else.
I don't have a problem at all with gay partners being able to do things like inherit property, make medical decisions, visit a sick or dying partner in the hospital, adopt and live lives of peace and tranquility.
What I do have a problem with is equating a same sex union with a traditional heterosexual marriage. Namely the tax benefit & health insurance. I don't like the possibility of a state like MA or CA being able to force a state like TX or UT to recognize as a "marriage" a homosexual union.
LK
I can't wait for an Ubuntu Dapper repository to be set up, as it's Breezy packages don't work with Dapper, and when compiling the source myself I can't get any of the fancy extra models and graphics installed that the packages did for me in Breezy and Debian :-(
Then why not do both? Extract the packages to get the extra models and graphics and then compile the executables so that it'll run.
LK
In 1993, I was a college freshman. I paid over 2,000 for a Mac Performa 550. At the time it was a nice machine.
For under 1,0000 today, I could get a nice commodity PC & Monitor.
This is a pretty good deal from Apple, but it's not unheard of.
LK
Dude, you claim to live with a hot babe AND to have an understanding girlfriend...
How understanding is she?
Do I really need to spell it out for you?
LK
You have the right to bear arms, but you'd better not use those arms to commit a crime. Anything armed automatically quadruples your sentence. If you can manage to rob a bank unarmed, then you'll probably only get 2 years.
If the people you are robbing believe that you're armed, you have just committed armed robbery. Even if you have no weapon.
People who use plastic guns or a banana in the pocket are armed robbers.
LK
From the almighty WikiPedia.
In case that's not an authoritative enough source for you, I have others.
LK
Our motives weren't quite so altruistic. We agreed to the Geneva Convention because we wanted to recieve like consideration for our troops when they were captured.
No one wanted a repeat of the Bataan Death March.
It was easy for the rest of the "civilized world" to agree not to use them, because it's widely known and accepted that the US acts as the world's police force.
LK
I don't have to convince you. The people who prosecute the wars are in agreement about them.
The Geneva Conventions mandate certain treatment for POWs. We don't kill them, not only because it's barbaric but because we agreed not to.
LK