My friend's been dreaming of running a certain old dos game on his WinXP system, but all he has is Dosbox which doesn't run it and even if it did, it would be unplayably slow.
Tell your friend to look into something called VDMS. I use it to run DOS games under XP. It does a great job of emulating Sound Blaster hardware in a DOS Box. It is awful for games that heavily use the PC speaker though...
If you're using crypto, the FBI will just break into your house/office and backdoor your computer.
That would be fine. The FBI is not a group of ninjas. Everytime they want to enter a house/office they run the risk of detection. It is also fairly labor intensive for them to do this. So they will only go through the trouble for those people who are likely to yield positive results.
They're not going to enter my house just so that they can hear me talking sweetly to my GF. But they might enter the house a few blocks away because the cocaine dealer inside could be talking to whoever launders his money.
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By your own admission, you don't "know this stuff". He does. I'll take his opinion on the matter over yours.
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That is up to those who know this stuff to decide.
And Dr. Jerome Lejeune, "The Father of Modern Genetics", said "At no time, is the human being a blob of protoplasm. As far as your nature is concerned, I see no difference between the early person that you were at conception and the late person which you are now. You were, and are, a human being."
This is the man who discovered the gene that causes Down's Syndrome. I'd say that he "knows this stuff".
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It is not a child when it's just a lump of cells.
When in your estimation does it stop being "a lump of cells" and start being a child?
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You mean the "unique" genetic code which exists in every single cell in your body?
I mean the child's genetic code that is unique, different and distinct from every other human being who has ever lived.
Do you really think they would put the entire Win32 API in an embedded version of XP? All a gaming/entertainment console needs is the basics, plus DirectX.
Well, YEAH!
Also, this product is clearly designed to compete with the Xbox, and thus Microsoft has more incentive to see it fail than to see it succeed.
Money is money. If they make it on the Xbox or if they make it on licensing embedded XP, it's still money in MS's pocket.
Putting Embedded XP on this console is/will be a huge mistake.
Why? If it falls flat, MS loses nothing. If it takes off, MS gets to claim another victory for their "XP Technology".
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No it isn't. It has no human caracteristics what so ever.
Aside from a unique genetic code, right?
Since the birth of a child has far more wide-reaching consequences than removing it, the father should be heard if he wants an abortion, but he should not be able to force the woman to keep it.
As long as abortion is legal, the father has no say in the decision, but he should still be informed.
Classic video gaming has already been brought to the masses. Years ago. That's part of the reason they're classics. Cuz they're not only really good, but also really old.
I'll say that most people in the US who are over 25 and under 50 have played Pac Man. How many of them have played Pac-Gal? Or how about Crazy Kong? Mame has given me the ability to play games that were not available to me 20 years ago because no arcades in my area had them.
Everything is already accessible to the masses. If they are willing to put forth a modicum of effort.
In a word. Bullshit. It took me countless hours to amass my collection of ROMs.
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Well then, abortion is not murder if it's done within the first few weeks. Glad we sorted that one out.
Not necessarily. The baby is human from the moment of conception, but the question for me is when does that life become protectable under the law?
It is not a child if it's just a lump of cells without human caracteristics.
It is never just a lump of cells. Jerome Lejeune, the "father of modern genetics" once said "At no time, is the human being a blob of protoplasm. As far as your nature is concerned, I see no difference between the early person that you were at conception and the late person which you are now. You were, and are, a human being."
Abortions are performed long after the fetus has obvioulsy developed into a small person.
I agree with you on this. Many countries don't allow abortions after the 12th week, unless the mother's life is in danger, and this is OK.
Somewhere between the 8th and 12th week sounds like a reasonable compromise to me, but the problem is that it can't happen. Abortion opponents don't want any of them to be legal and abortion proponents want all of them to be legal.
Except if it's the partner, in which case he should be let in on the decision. But the final word is the woman's.
As long as abortion is legal, yes the decision is the woman's, but I think that her partner should be notified. Even though I couldn't stop her from doing it if she wanted to, my girlfriend would never see me again if she aborted my child.
Or maybe we can all just enjoy very old games for free and they can profit off of new ventures? Why are you looking to charge yourself for a product the creators dont even care about anymore?
Two things that I refuse to pay for are Porno and old video games, but this is what it'll take to bring classing gaming to the masses. When I fired up Mame32 for my GF's children the looks on their faces were classic. They got a taste of the games that I played when I was their age.
It was those games that helped to make me into the kid ass kicking machine that I am today. Can't beat me at Fuzion Frenzy? Maybe that's because I used to play Tron like it was the law!
That's a shame -- after really being pretty dull for a couple of years, Apple hardware is really fantastic these days. Every tech conference I go to is dominated by Apple PowerBooks running MacOS X. The hardware is better and cheaper than PC laptops, and you get to run MacOS X, which is a thing of beauty.
I lost interest in Apple harware after the Beige G3s. I HATED all of that F'ing clear plastic and happy colors nonsense. X is nice, but the software that I need to run isn't available on X. I like the flexability of building my own machines. Almost 7 years ago I built my first PC. It was a Pentium 100 with 16 Mb of ram and Windoze 95. It cost me about 40% of the price of the Mac that I bought that same year, a Performa 6400/200. The Mac was faster and ran a better OS. It also didn't run Duke Nukem, Quake, Red Alert, or Diablo. I kept using the programs that I needed to on the Mac. Photoshop. Strata Studio Pro and several others. I kept my PC strictly for gaming. Over time when I had a little extra cash, I'd upgrade my machines. More memory for my Mac. A new HDD for my PC. etc... Once I hit a ceiling with my Mac I was looking at much higher costs to upgrade it. I'd have to replace it. My PC was so much easier to upgrade. It was so much cheaper to upgrade. In time I stopped buying upgrades for my Mac.
When I was seriously thinking about replacing my Mac with a beige G3, Apple stopped making them. Apple decided to do away with SCSI and mini din serial, thus making all of my peripherals obsolete. I was NOT going to replace equipment that worked perfectly well just to get a new Mac.
I still have no interest in buying any new Apple hardware. With no control over what kind of hardware is in it, I'd be at Apple's mercy again. The next time they wish to radically change the architecture, me and my peripherals will be left out in the cold. No thank you.
With my PC the closest that I came to this was in having to replace an ISA modem with a PCI modem when I went to my current Athlon XP setup.
I'm with you there. Apple sells more Windows iPods than Mac iPods, which means that they're showing lots of new people that there are better options than Microsoft.
Microsoft gets a C+ for innovation. They get a C- for execution. But they get an A+ for knowing where the market is heading, before it does. I suspect that the iPod/portable MP3 player scene is just a passing fad, but digital music is here to stay. I don't care which company dominates it, as long as there are still viable choices for consumers like you and I.
Good. That and more projects like it are exactly what we need. Enough of this kind of thing will make people stand up and take notice. If 2 or 3 million people show interest in this software that will make people think. "We've made $0.00 on our rights to "Burger Time" since 1984. If we can make 20 cents per copy of the rom sold in this emulator thingie that we don't have to contribute any work for, that might be a good thing."
From Apple's perspective they're looking at an expenditure of engineering resources and marketing resources to gain a slice of 5% more market share for a product that they don't really make money on.
Apple has less than 10% market share right now. Adding even half of that other 5% would be a significant gain.
I don't think that Apple will release Quicktime for Linux any time soon for the same reason that MS won't release IE for Linux. Linux is a competitor. It would add more momentum to that competitor. In the business world that would be foolish.
When Coke introduced their Vanilla variety, they didn't make a Vanilla kit that you could add to Pepsi.
Seriously, I don't think it will take very long at all before some enterprising individual or group of individuals starts homebrewing their own Mame32 CD for this baby. Think about it. It has a special version of WinXP, that means access to the Win32 API. It will also mean standardized hardware.
Something like that will make the system marketable to grandparents and uncles. People who have no interest in Max Payne or GTA VC just might want to play Burger Time or Space Invaders.
Now, we just need for the owners of the copyrights to those old games to come to the table to negotiate licensing. Even if they don't I'm sure that something like this will sping up eventually anyway.
I think that even at $199 a 2 GB iPod could really excite people. $150 would be pretty amazing, but then Apple's margins would be pretty low (relative to the current iPods) so it'd have to be a volume play.
I have sworn off Apple hardware. I am a former Mac user who just isn't interested anymore. But a $100-$150 2GB iPod would probably be enough to get me to buy at least one more Apple product. I'm sure that there are tens of thousands of people like me who can't stand Apple, but would snap up those babies at that price.
I'm also thinking that people who currently own iPods might buy new model on the cheap so that they can have one in the car, and one in their pocket.
Also a low cost iPod is the kind of thing that people would be very willing to buy others as gifts. I'm not going to spend $400 for an iPod to give away, but I might scoop up one for $150 to use as a present.
In all honesty, introducing a cheap iPod would be one of the smartest things that Apple has ever done.
Ahhh a Centris. The poor man's Quadra. In 1993 I paid $350 or so for an 8MB stick of FP ram for my Performa 550. Oh to be in college again.
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Every time I boil water, I murder thousands or millions of microbes. Animals are murdered to become meat on our plates. We even murder trees to create paper, etc.
It's only murder when you kill a human.
What worries me is when you want to make choices for someone else.
But it's OK with you for someone to decide if someone else is born or not.
You want to decide that a woman is not allowed to have an abortion because you have raised one cell above other cells for some reason.
No. I have raised her child's right to life above her right to choose.
If it's all right to murder a pig to eat it, then why can't you murder a single cell or a small lump of cells inside a pregnant woman?
You can't murder a pig. I don't have a problem with a "morning after" pill. If you prevent the pregnancy from occuring, then we are talking about a single cell. My problem is with the fact that an abortion can be obtained up until the moment of birth. You can abort a child after it is capable of living on its own.
I take it you are a man. Then it's easy to pass judgement when you will never carry a child yourself, isn't it?
So all of those men who pressure women to have abortions are "pro-woman"?
Well, at least your arguing instead of just saying feminism is over, or complaining about my spelling.
I make enough typos of my own to spend a lot of time complaining about when other people make them.
But fighting the right is important, because if you don't believe there are far right wing religious groups who want to roll women's rights back 100 years, you're deluding yourself.
Ok, let's play your game on this one. Where is your proof of this claim?
As such he should be promoting the rule of law and the importance of the government and the constitution, over and above the rules of any particular god he happens to favor. If that's beyond his ability he shouldn't be the fucking Attorney General.
His job is to enforce the law and to comply with any ethical and legal order he is given by the president of the US. He is also a private citizen, he can have any beliefs he chooses.
His statement essentially says that he believes that freedom is a gift from god and doesn't have to do with the will of the people or the constitution. That's pretty god damned scary.
If that is scary to you, I'd hate to see how you'd react to a good horror movie.
Before there were countries, before there were governments, before there were laws, people were here. People had freedoms long before they were codified into any constitution or law. Where did those freedoms come from? The sky? It is not unreasonable for a religious person to believe that freedom is a gift from God.
Ashcroft is right on this one. A person's rights can not be denied just because it is the will of the majority of the people that they be denied.
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If you shoot your grandmother, everyone agrees its murder.
What if I didn't believe it was murder? Would that make it different? Of course not!
But if my wife has an abortion, some people think its murder, some people think it isn't.
If it isn't to save her life, it's murder.
At any rate, murder is the unlawful killing of people. Abortion is legal, so legally its not murder.
The unlawful killing of one human being by another is ONE definition of murder. There are others, such as "To kill brutally or inhumanly." or "To put an end to; destroy:" and " To kill with premediated malice".
One of my favorite examples of a legal crime is this, I am in the state of Pennsylvania. In this state, up until the late 1980s a man could not be charged with raping a woman that he was married to or living with. He could beat her into unconsiousness and force sex upon her and it was not considered rape under the laws of this state. Would that have been acceptable to you?
In point of fact, I don't believe there's anything wrong with abortion.
That's your right. Just as if you wanted to believe that the moon was made of green cheese, that would be your right as well.
I can't see a single valid non-religious based argument against it in fact.
A man who has claimed to have been abducted since June 1975 has an MRI done and he has a foreign object somehow embedded in his brain. Not proof, but evidence.
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If you simply never plan to have an abortion, fine. If you think others shouldn't be allowed to, well then there could be a case for calling you 'anti-woman'.
That's such bullshit. If you believe that abortion is wrong, if you believe that abortion is murder, then why in the fuck would you think it's OK for other people to do it?
Would you find it acceptable for someone to say "I'd never blow my grandmother's face off with a shotgun when her medical bills get to high for me to pay, but I won't tell you that you can't"?
Of course not because, like I said before, it's bullshit. I have more respect for people who don't think that there is anything wrong with abortion.
Here's a quote from their site Right-wing religious groups have an agenda of promoting marriage without regard for the welfare of women and children (and such groups would be eligible to receive funds under this bill).
Yeah, because we all know how well most single mothersand their children have it in this country.
NOW says that this quote from John Ashcroft is 'Scary'"Civilized people ? Muslims, Christians and Jews ? all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator. Civilized people of all religious faiths are called to the defense of His creation. We are a nation called to defend freedom ? a freedom that is not the grant of any government or document, but is our endowment from God."
If you remember your history, you'll remember that NOW supported Anita Hill from the beginning when she accused Justice Thomas of sexual harassment. Where was that support for Paula Jones?
NOW is about as mainstream as Fred Phelps, the only difference is that 35 years ago NOW actually did some positive things.
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My friend's been dreaming of running a certain old dos game on his WinXP system, but all he has is Dosbox which doesn't run it and even if it did, it would be unplayably slow.
Tell your friend to look into something called VDMS. I use it to run DOS games under XP. It does a great job of emulating Sound Blaster hardware in a DOS Box. It is awful for games that heavily use the PC speaker though...
If you're using crypto, the FBI will just break into your house/office and backdoor your computer.
That would be fine. The FBI is not a group of ninjas. Everytime they want to enter a house/office they run the risk of detection. It is also fairly labor intensive for them to do this. So they will only go through the trouble for those people who are likely to yield positive results.
They're not going to enter my house just so that they can hear me talking sweetly to my GF. But they might enter the house a few blocks away because the cocaine dealer inside could be talking to whoever launders his money.
LK
By your own admission, you don't "know this stuff". He does. I'll take his opinion on the matter over yours.
That is up to those who know this stuff to decide.
And Dr. Jerome Lejeune, "The Father of Modern Genetics", said "At no time, is the human being a blob of protoplasm. As far as your nature is concerned, I see no difference between the early person that you were at conception and the late person which you are now. You were, and are, a human being."
This is the man who discovered the gene that causes Down's Syndrome. I'd say that he "knows this stuff".
LK
It is not a child when it's just a lump of cells.
When in your estimation does it stop being "a lump of cells" and start being a child?
LK
You mean the "unique" genetic code which exists in every single cell in your body?
I mean the child's genetic code that is unique, different and distinct from every other human being who has ever lived.
LK
Do you really think they would put the entire Win32 API in an embedded version of XP? All a gaming/entertainment console needs is the basics, plus DirectX.
Well, YEAH!
Also, this product is clearly designed to compete with the Xbox, and thus Microsoft has more incentive to see it fail than to see it succeed.
Money is money. If they make it on the Xbox or if they make it on licensing embedded XP, it's still money in MS's pocket.
Putting Embedded XP on this console is/will be a huge mistake.
Why? If it falls flat, MS loses nothing. If it takes off, MS gets to claim another victory for their "XP Technology".
LK
No it isn't. It has no human caracteristics what so ever.
Aside from a unique genetic code, right?
Since the birth of a child has far more wide-reaching consequences than removing it, the father should be heard if he wants an abortion, but he should not be able to force the woman to keep it.
As long as abortion is legal, the father has no say in the decision, but he should still be informed.
LK
Classic video gaming has already been brought to the masses. Years ago. That's part of the reason they're classics. Cuz they're not only really good, but also really old.
I'll say that most people in the US who are over 25 and under 50 have played Pac Man. How many of them have played Pac-Gal? Or how about Crazy Kong? Mame has given me the ability to play games that were not available to me 20 years ago because no arcades in my area had them.
Everything is already accessible to the masses. If they are willing to put forth a modicum of effort.
In a word. Bullshit. It took me countless hours to amass my collection of ROMs.
Well then, abortion is not murder if it's done within the first few weeks. Glad we sorted that one out.
Not necessarily. The baby is human from the moment of conception, but the question for me is when does that life become protectable under the law?
It is not a child if it's just a lump of cells without human caracteristics.
It is never just a lump of cells. Jerome Lejeune, the "father of modern genetics" once said "At no time, is the human being a blob of protoplasm. As far as your nature is concerned, I see no difference between the early person that you were at conception and the late person which you are now. You were, and are, a human being."
Abortions are performed long after the fetus has obvioulsy developed into a small person.
I agree with you on this. Many countries don't allow abortions after the 12th week, unless the mother's life is in danger, and this is OK.
Somewhere between the 8th and 12th week sounds like a reasonable compromise to me, but the problem is that it can't happen. Abortion opponents don't want any of them to be legal and abortion proponents want all of them to be legal.
Except if it's the partner, in which case he should be let in on the decision. But the final word is the woman's.
As long as abortion is legal, yes the decision is the woman's, but I think that her partner should be notified. Even though I couldn't stop her from doing it if she wanted to, my girlfriend would never see me again if she aborted my child.
Or maybe we can all just enjoy very old games for free and they can profit off of new ventures? Why are you looking to charge yourself for a product the creators dont even care about anymore?
Two things that I refuse to pay for are Porno and old video games, but this is what it'll take to bring classing gaming to the masses. When I fired up Mame32 for my GF's children the looks on their faces were classic. They got a taste of the games that I played when I was their age.
It was those games that helped to make me into the kid ass kicking machine that I am today. Can't beat me at Fuzion Frenzy? Maybe that's because I used to play Tron like it was the law!
LK
That's a shame -- after really being pretty dull for a couple of years, Apple hardware is really fantastic these days. Every tech conference I go to is dominated by Apple PowerBooks running MacOS X. The hardware is better and cheaper than PC laptops, and you get to run MacOS X, which is a thing of beauty.
I lost interest in Apple harware after the Beige G3s. I HATED all of that F'ing clear plastic and happy colors nonsense. X is nice, but the software that I need to run isn't available on X. I like the flexability of building my own machines. Almost 7 years ago I built my first PC. It was a Pentium 100 with 16 Mb of ram and Windoze 95. It cost me about 40% of the price of the Mac that I bought that same year, a Performa 6400/200. The Mac was faster and ran a better OS. It also didn't run Duke Nukem, Quake, Red Alert, or Diablo. I kept using the programs that I needed to on the Mac. Photoshop. Strata Studio Pro and several others. I kept my PC strictly for gaming. Over time when I had a little extra cash, I'd upgrade my machines. More memory for my Mac. A new HDD for my PC. etc... Once I hit a ceiling with my Mac I was looking at much higher costs to upgrade it. I'd have to replace it. My PC was so much easier to upgrade. It was so much cheaper to upgrade. In time I stopped buying upgrades for my Mac.
When I was seriously thinking about replacing my Mac with a beige G3, Apple stopped making them. Apple decided to do away with SCSI and mini din serial, thus making all of my peripherals obsolete. I was NOT going to replace equipment that worked perfectly well just to get a new Mac.
I still have no interest in buying any new Apple hardware. With no control over what kind of hardware is in it, I'd be at Apple's mercy again. The next time they wish to radically change the architecture, me and my peripherals will be left out in the cold. No thank you.
With my PC the closest that I came to this was in having to replace an ISA modem with a PCI modem when I went to my current Athlon XP setup.
I'm with you there. Apple sells more Windows iPods than Mac iPods, which means that they're showing lots of new people that there are better options than Microsoft.
Microsoft gets a C+ for innovation. They get a C- for execution. But they get an A+ for knowing where the market is heading, before it does. I suspect that the iPod/portable MP3 player scene is just a passing fad, but digital music is here to stay. I don't care which company dominates it, as long as there are still viable choices for consumers like you and I.
LK
Good. That and more projects like it are exactly what we need. Enough of this kind of thing will make people stand up and take notice. If 2 or 3 million people show interest in this software that will make people think. "We've made $0.00 on our rights to "Burger Time" since 1984. If we can make 20 cents per copy of the rom sold in this emulator thingie that we don't have to contribute any work for, that might be a good thing."
LK
From Apple's perspective they're looking at an expenditure of engineering resources and marketing resources to gain a slice of 5% more market share for a product that they don't really make money on.
Apple has less than 10% market share right now. Adding even half of that other 5% would be a significant gain.
I don't think that Apple will release Quicktime for Linux any time soon for the same reason that MS won't release IE for Linux. Linux is a competitor. It would add more momentum to that competitor. In the business world that would be foolish.
When Coke introduced their Vanilla variety, they didn't make a Vanilla kit that you could add to Pepsi.
LK
MAME CONSOLE BITCH!
Seriously, I don't think it will take very long at all before some enterprising individual or group of individuals starts homebrewing their own Mame32 CD for this baby. Think about it. It has a special version of WinXP, that means access to the Win32 API. It will also mean standardized hardware.
Something like that will make the system marketable to grandparents and uncles. People who have no interest in Max Payne or GTA VC just might want to play Burger Time or Space Invaders.
Now, we just need for the owners of the copyrights to those old games to come to the table to negotiate licensing. Even if they don't I'm sure that something like this will sping up eventually anyway.
LK
Hmm, I'd rather listen to a hard drive spinning than Bob Seger.
I would rather listen to you describing the sound of a spinning hard drive than listen to Bob Seger.
LK
I think that even at $199 a 2 GB iPod could really excite people. $150 would be pretty amazing, but then Apple's margins would be pretty low (relative to the current iPods) so it'd have to be a volume play.
I have sworn off Apple hardware. I am a former Mac user who just isn't interested anymore. But a $100-$150 2GB iPod would probably be enough to get me to buy at least one more Apple product. I'm sure that there are tens of thousands of people like me who can't stand Apple, but would snap up those babies at that price.
I'm also thinking that people who currently own iPods might buy new model on the cheap so that they can have one in the car, and one in their pocket.
Also a low cost iPod is the kind of thing that people would be very willing to buy others as gifts. I'm not going to spend $400 for an iPod to give away, but I might scoop up one for $150 to use as a present.
In all honesty, introducing a cheap iPod would be one of the smartest things that Apple has ever done.
LK
Ahhh a Centris. The poor man's Quadra. In 1993 I paid $350 or so for an 8MB stick of FP ram for my Performa 550. Oh to be in college again.
LK
Every time I boil water, I murder thousands or millions of microbes. Animals are murdered to become meat on our plates. We even murder trees to create paper, etc.
It's only murder when you kill a human.
What worries me is when you want to make choices for someone else.
But it's OK with you for someone to decide if someone else is born or not.
You want to decide that a woman is not allowed to have an abortion because you have raised one cell above other cells for some reason.
No. I have raised her child's right to life above her right to choose.
If it's all right to murder a pig to eat it, then why can't you murder a single cell or a small lump of cells inside a pregnant woman?
You can't murder a pig. I don't have a problem with a "morning after" pill. If you prevent the pregnancy from occuring, then we are talking about a single cell. My problem is with the fact that an abortion can be obtained up until the moment of birth. You can abort a child after it is capable of living on its own.
I take it you are a man. Then it's easy to pass judgement when you will never carry a child yourself, isn't it?
So all of those men who pressure women to have abortions are "pro-woman"?
LK
Well, at least your arguing instead of just saying feminism is over, or complaining about my spelling.
I make enough typos of my own to spend a lot of time complaining about when other people make them.
But fighting the right is important, because if you don't believe there are far right wing religious groups who want to roll women's rights back 100 years, you're deluding yourself.
Ok, let's play your game on this one. Where is your proof of this claim?
As such he should be promoting the rule of law and the importance of the government and the constitution, over and above the rules of any particular god he happens to favor. If that's beyond his ability he shouldn't be the fucking Attorney General.
His job is to enforce the law and to comply with any ethical and legal order he is given by the president of the US. He is also a private citizen, he can have any beliefs he chooses.
His statement essentially says that he believes that freedom is a gift from god and doesn't have to do with the will of the people or the constitution. That's pretty god damned scary.
If that is scary to you, I'd hate to see how you'd react to a good horror movie.
Before there were countries, before there were governments, before there were laws, people were here. People had freedoms long before they were codified into any constitution or law. Where did those freedoms come from? The sky? It is not unreasonable for a religious person to believe that freedom is a gift from God.
Ashcroft is right on this one. A person's rights can not be denied just because it is the will of the majority of the people that they be denied.
LK
If you shoot your grandmother, everyone agrees its murder.
What if I didn't believe it was murder? Would that make it different? Of course not!
But if my wife has an abortion, some people think its murder, some people think it isn't.
If it isn't to save her life, it's murder.
At any rate, murder is the unlawful killing of people. Abortion is legal, so legally its not murder.
The unlawful killing of one human being by another is ONE definition of murder. There are others, such as "To kill brutally or inhumanly." or "To put an end to; destroy:" and " To kill with premediated malice".
One of my favorite examples of a legal crime is this, I am in the state of Pennsylvania. In this state, up until the late 1980s a man could not be charged with raping a woman that he was married to or living with. He could beat her into unconsiousness and force sex upon her and it was not considered rape under the laws of this state. Would that have been acceptable to you?
In point of fact, I don't believe there's anything wrong with abortion.
That's your right. Just as if you wanted to believe that the moon was made of green cheese, that would be your right as well.
I can't see a single valid non-religious based argument against it in fact.
Only if you equate ethics with religion.
LK
See the story behind the MRIs here.
If someone has one of these, why are they only documented with blurry photos on fringe websites
Just because it isn't on CNN.COM or the New York Times it isn't credible?
Remember it was fringe journalist Matt Drudge who broke the Lewinski story.
there are hundreds of scientists who'd kill to get their hands on one of these and publish analyses.
If they did, people like you would find a reason not to believe anyway.
LK
YOU DON'T HAVE ANY EVIDENCE. All you have is testimony unsupported by any physical evidence.
MRI anyone?
How about this one?
A man who has claimed to have been abducted since June 1975 has an MRI done and he has a foreign object somehow embedded in his brain. Not proof, but evidence.
How about a closeup of a different implant?
Not proof, but evidence.
LK
If you simply never plan to have an abortion, fine. If you think others shouldn't be allowed to, well then there could be a case for calling you 'anti-woman'.
That's such bullshit. If you believe that abortion is wrong, if you believe that abortion is murder, then why in the fuck would you think it's OK for other people to do it?
Would you find it acceptable for someone to say "I'd never blow my grandmother's face off with a shotgun when her medical bills get to high for me to pay, but I won't tell you that you can't"?
Of course not because, like I said before, it's bullshit. I have more respect for people who don't think that there is anything wrong with abortion.
LK
In what world?
Take a look at their "issues" page.
Here's a quote from their site Right-wing religious groups have an agenda of promoting marriage without regard for the welfare of women and children (and such groups would be eligible to receive funds under this bill).
Yeah, because we all know how well most single mothersand their children have it in this country.
NOW has come out against joint custody of children.
NOW says that this quote from John Ashcroft is 'Scary' "Civilized people ? Muslims, Christians and Jews ? all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator. Civilized people of all religious faiths are called to the defense of His creation. We are a nation called to defend freedom ? a freedom that is not the grant of any government or document, but is our endowment from God."
If you remember your history, you'll remember that NOW supported Anita Hill from the beginning when she accused Justice Thomas of sexual harassment. Where was that support for Paula Jones?
NOW is about as mainstream as Fred Phelps, the only difference is that 35 years ago NOW actually did some positive things.
LK