For the record, you have to really look hard to find "pro abortion" people. There is a substantial difference between that and pro-choice.
Pro "choice" is a misnomer. So called "pro choice" activists are constantly fighting against any measure to increase women's knowledge of choices other than abortion. In Florida the ACLU has filed a lawsuit to prevent the state from issuing "Choose Life" license plates. Why? Because it goes against the pro abortion politics of a certain group of people.
I am a woman, and I will tell you quite clearly that I have not met a woman YET who is pro-choice.
Judging by the rest of your post, I'll assume that you meant to say pro-life. How's this Norma McCorvey, the woman who was Jane Roe in Roe v Wade, is pro LIFE. She has come over from the other side. She now sees how she was used.
Woman have to live with the fear that, if abortion is outlawed, they may one day have to take care of a child, a PERSON, for their entire life.
Bullshit. There are five year waiting lists for people who want to adopt.
Don't you think that having a child changes everything? Maybe not everyone wants to change?
And murdering a defenseless human being doesn't change anything? Once you're pregnant, it's too late. Things have changed. Murdering your child can't undo what was done.
Men don't have to deal with that.
Bullshit. Although I have always taken the necessary precautions to prevent becoming a father, I have several friends who have not. Paternity tests and child support are merely the financial end of all of the changes that occur for these men.
They can make a "mistake" tonight, and walk away tomorrow.
Bullshit. There is a legal system that can, and often does force men to be responsible for their actions.
It's easy for a man to be pro-life, because none of his choices affect him.
Bullshit. Liberal mistake #3 Gender Warfare. Do you think that the physical effects of pregnancy are the only factors involved?
In many ways, abortion is the only way to create equality for men and women.
Not even close. If you want true equality, men should have the ability to legally abort their paternity. If a woman chooses to have a baby and the man does not want to be a part of it, he should be able to legally sever all of his parental rights and responsibilities. That would be equality, not infanticide.
I am sorry that you feel the way you do about so-called "birth-control abortions", but you have a right to think that. Just don't take away the right to abortion for when it is truly needed.
Define "needed". If you're talking about, rape, incest or when an abortion is needed to save your life, then fine. We can be in agreement about those cases. If you define need as "I really NEED to have an abortion before my family finds out that I'm pregnant!" then, you and I are going to be in disagreement. I will do everything in my power, and within the law, to change that. Even if it means voting for someone whom I don't agree 100% with.
As for the thing about more anti-abortionists being male than female, well, I read it somewhere....Of the small number of female leaders in government, it's a tiny percentage of those who are anti-abortion, whereas this isn't quite the case with the men. But I can't find the actual statistic so feel free to disregard it.
Let me hit you with a quote or two...
"Guilty? Yes, no matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits
the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh! thrice guilty is he who, for selfish gratification, heedless of her prayers, indifferent to her fate, drove her to the desperation which impels her to the crime."
Care to guess who? Susan B. Anthony. She even referred to abortion as "child-murder". This is not new. http://www.roevwade.org/women2.html Have a look.
This notion that "all women are pro abortion" is a blatent lie.
You can live in total anarchy - and I know the response will be, "I have guns, I'm safe,"
Actually you DON'T know what the response is. The response is. You can't be both free and safe. Freedom and safety have an inversely proportional relationship. They must be balanced to some degree, but the freedom side of the scale is, by far, the more important one.
but remember a vast majority of Americans are probably poorer and more desperate than you.
Poorer? Probably not. More desperate? Maybe. Makes no difference.
I have no problem with Switzerland. I was short circuiting the arguement that firearms in provatehands lead to murder. There is no better example of the fact that they do not than Switzerland.
Does the constitution provide for the death penalty?
What is more important is does it forbid it?
If you believe in the death penalty you are a hypocrite if you are against abortion (what is the death penalty but delayed "abortion"...maybe we should just call it "abortion"). If you tell me, "oh, it's different, the person is criminal"
If there is no difference in your mind between a defenseless child and a murderer, then the mental defect which causes you to have no opposition to abortion is plainly obvious.
say as long as your qualifying something that is non-constitutional why can't another person qualify abortion?
There is a difference between "nonconstitutional" and "unconstitutional".
The rights, priveliges and opportunities you have were not randomly granted by god on you.
Actually, they were.
I believe it is too arrogant to think one is entirely an island with no duty to country or countryman.
My duties primarily consist of getting a job and supporting myself, providing for my family, no hurting other people, and helping out when an emergency arises.
Ditto. And I think we need to be giving people the opportunity to get OFF welfare. I don't see how anybody could expect someone who is uneducated and unskilled to get off welfare magically. The resources and opportunity should be there so people can pull themselves up. Not just take handouts.
At least one thing that you're saying makes sense. I was thinking something along the lines of, when you get welfare you have 6 months to either #1 get a job and take part in the "workfare" system or #2 go to your local community college and work towards an associate degree in some field.
However, in evidence of the injustice of the criminal justice system, and the bias against minorities
Classic liberal mistake #2 race baiting. That's not going to work here. I'm black. You're not using that one against me. October 21, 1979 my father, a black man, was murdered by.....YES you guessed it another black man. Which is typically the case. Criminals stick to their own, so even if there is a disparity among criminals who are executed the majority of them have killed other members of a minority.
BTW, my father's murderer didn't get executed, he didn't even get life. In less than a decade, he was back on the street. He's in jail again for drug dealing. A real stand up guy! It would have been a travesty to execute him.
If you are worried about corporate influence and corruption of government you are *definately* in the wrong party. If anything, join the Libertarian party.
You're voting for 'em. If you're not paying attention to social issues then you should vote Libertarian and not Republican--keeping the gov't out of society.
The libertarians have no opposition to legal infanticide. I can't vote for them because of that.
Or maybe you shouldn't be voting at all, which would be fine with me.
Of course, you'd rather not hear the voice if it's not parroting what you believe.
You've clearly expressed yourself as an economic conservative, which I think is fine, but when you rabidly argue on behalf of the GOP you clearly haven't done your homework and you're really just a tool.
I am also socially conservative. I believe that killing babies is wrong. I believe the the Constitutional protections we're afforded shouldn't be violated just because it's politically expedient.
It's really not as clear-cut as that.
Yes, it is. If you actually believe that the vast majority of abortions are performed for any reason other than birth control, you're deluding yourself.
Rape, incest, mistakes, etc.
Red herring. Rape, incest, life of the woman, those are all valid concerns, but what falls under the "mistakes" and "etc." catagories? "Whoops I didn't mean to get her pregnant"?
Incidentally it should be no surprise that most anti-abortion people are male.
According to whom? Just because you say it doesn't make it so.
ALthough I feel that your choice of who you vote for an be based upon any thing you wish. It very well could have even been "I'm voting for the first guy to wear a grey tie".
I've got to take issue with a few things that you said. What did Clinton know about foreign policy when he got elected? He was governor of Arkansas. Arkansas! At least Texas is the second biggest state. While you may take issue with Bush's grammatical prowess, at least he's not trying to take credit for things that he had nothing to do with (Love Canal, Love Story, The Internet). Lastly, I don't know if GWB is an asshole or not, but what makes you think that he;s "cold hearted"?
We _need_ to _control_ people like you (and me, for sure), else this whole thing will blow up sooner or later.
You and people like you are precicely the reason why I vote the way that I do. I go to work, I pay my taxes, I don't hurt other people, I obey the law. Beyond that, whatever else I do is none of anyone's business. I reject the notion that you have any reason to be concerned with details of my life, even if you think that the good of the planet is at stake. I'll let everyone else choose for themselves what is best for them.
That's why. You just do what you feel like - and caring about the world, the universe and everyting with someone who just does with his guns what he feels like, seems utterly inapropriate to me.
Jeez, this gets easier every time. I knew that I'd either get to the eco-whackos or the hoplophobes with that line. You have a problem with private ownership of firearms? Go complain to Switzerland, we all can see what terrible freedom those things have preserved for them.
Ad hominem, I get the feeling that you're a rabid liberal. Let's see if I'm right.
They're basically trying to put Christianity into schools.
Gee, I musta missed that. Being a pagan and all, I don't really pay close attention to what my Christian buddies are up to.
trying to destroy a woman's right to control her own body.
This is what it's all about isn't it? You just threw in that comment about Chrsitianity in schools to make it sound like you weren't primarily concerned with baby killing. If you want to pretend that it's really about a "woman's right to choose", fine. Delude yourself if you wish. A certain group of men have foisted this rubbish upon women so that they can use them sexually and erase any evidence of what they've done. "You're empowered because you can kill your baby." is just a mask for "I don't want to pay child support, you were just a casual fuck.".
America can steal from the poor, but Republicans try to kill off anyone poor who tries to borrow from the rich.
WHAT? Is that right? Well OUR presidential candidate isn't a slum lord. A certain other pary can't say that.
Can Republicanism pass for INTELLIGENT?
Intellect and reason are all that we have, it is liberalism that needs to resort to emotionalism because their theories don't hold water.
Why is it considered selfish to believe that I know best how to lead MY life?
Why is it selfish for me to think that each individual person knows more about how his/her life should be than some would be regulator?
The fact that some people out there are too stupid to productively lead their own lives shouldn't mean that the rest of us should submit to arbitrary regulation of our every day lives.
For the record, I'm not a Libertarian. I'm a Republican. I own several guns, I'm going to vote for George W Bush, I own a gas guzzling Sports car and a big honking SUV. Why? Because I feel like it. That's the only reason any of us should need to give. I believe that Welfare should be a second chance or a leg up, not a way of life. I'm in favor of executing murderers.
I believe all of these things because human history has demonstrated that the biggest threat to individual freedom and liberty is consistantly a government gone awry. Democide (being killed by one's own government) has been the biggest non medical cause of death this century. 56 MILLION people have been killed by their own governments this century alone. As much as I happen to like my form of government, I still see the need to limit it's power. Who knows who will be in charge in 50 years, do you want someone like Jesse Helms with the investigative power to command the intelligence community to start snooping on people? I know that I don't.
People don't care about the erosion of their constitutional rights, but they flip their wigs at the thought of higher ATM fees, or the fact that the FBI might have an easier time reading the dirty email that they just sent to that girl that they met on effnet.
While the average person is being reduced to a semi-literate consumeroid, a profit battery for some giant corporate machine, there must be SOMEONE who cares about the future of the world. Why not us? If there is no other group of people who cares enough to think further ahead that what's for dinner tonight, why then shouldn't it be us who cares about the generations to come?
I've had my visor for about 4 months now, I love it.
It's a little smaller than the Palm VII and, if my understanding is correct, I can add an 8 MB expansion for a total of 16 MB. 16 Megs in a HANDHELD! That's 15 megs more than my first Mac.
I have had very few compatibility issues with Palm OS software. The IR works perfectly with a Palm VII, just about a week ago I did my first "business card" beaming. It went off without a hitch.
I like the springboard module slot. I can add a modem, or MP3 Player when my pocketbook allows.
Dealing with the OS is the burden that all game programmers must endure. I like the fact that I can take a break from my research paper and fire up a 30 minute session of Fallout 2. When I've had some time to relax, I can bring a fresh new perspective to my writing.
If I had to reboot, put the CD, play, take the CD out, reboot and then get back to work, I wouldn't e interested.
Except that we can point out to evidence for the theory of evolution, whereas you cannot point out the first bit of evidence for a divine bioprogrammer.
What can you point out as evidence of evolution's correctness that I can't use to point out the correctness of my God as a programmer theory?
The fact that we share common DNA with other primates? God is just reusing modular code.
Knowledge of who the author is, which company it is, and which software packages in question should be enough to let the author know that you're legit.
In a situation where an employer is pressuring you to take part in illegal activities, in some states (like mine) you have a legitimate reason for quitting that job and forcing the employer to pay to unemployment benefits.
However my principals don't override the fact that I have to eat and find a place to sleep at night so I wouldn't quit my job over something like this, but I would get myself a hushmail account and send the author anonymous tips as to what's going on.
Evolution is just a theory. Natural Selection is a documented fact.
You feel that the only way to account for the genetic similarities between humans and certain other primates is evolution. What if I have a theory that God is just a brilliant bio-programmer who likes to re-use his code? I can no more prove that right than you can prove the theory of evolution to be correct.
Evolution should be taught at a theory, because at this point that's all it is. It may be the best, or most plausible theory to date, but it is still just that. Creation "Science" is just a joke. They can teach that in sunday schools if they want to, but it should NOT be in public education.
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For the record, you have to really look hard to find "pro abortion" people. There is a substantial difference between that and pro-choice.
Pro "choice" is a misnomer. So called "pro choice" activists are constantly fighting against any measure to increase women's knowledge of choices other than abortion. In Florida the ACLU has filed a lawsuit to prevent the state from issuing "Choose Life" license plates. Why? Because it goes against the pro abortion politics of a certain group of people.
I am a woman, and I will tell you quite clearly that I have not met a woman YET who is pro-choice.
Judging by the rest of your post, I'll assume that you meant to say pro-life. How's this Norma McCorvey, the woman who was Jane Roe in Roe v Wade, is pro LIFE. She has come over from the other side. She now sees how she was used.
Woman have to live with the fear that, if abortion is outlawed, they may one day have to take care of a child, a PERSON, for their entire life.
Bullshit. There are five year waiting lists for people who want to adopt.
Don't you think that having a child changes everything? Maybe not everyone wants to change?
And murdering a defenseless human being doesn't change anything? Once you're pregnant, it's too late. Things have changed. Murdering your child can't undo what was done.
Men don't have to deal with that.
Bullshit. Although I have always taken the necessary precautions to prevent becoming a father, I have several friends who have not. Paternity tests and child support are merely the financial end of all of the changes that occur for these men.
They can make a "mistake" tonight, and walk away tomorrow.
Bullshit. There is a legal system that can, and often does force men to be responsible for their actions.
It's easy for a man to be pro-life, because none of his choices affect him.
Bullshit. Liberal mistake #3 Gender Warfare. Do you think that the physical effects of pregnancy are the only factors involved?
In many ways, abortion is the only way to create equality for men and women.
Not even close. If you want true equality, men should have the ability to legally abort their paternity. If a woman chooses to have a baby and the man does not want to be a part of it, he should be able to legally sever all of his parental rights and responsibilities. That would be equality, not infanticide.
I am sorry that you feel the way you do about so-called "birth-control abortions", but you have a right to think that. Just don't take away the right to abortion for when it is truly needed.
Define "needed". If you're talking about, rape, incest or when an abortion is needed to save your life, then fine. We can be in agreement about those cases. If you define need as "I really NEED to have an abortion before my family finds out that I'm pregnant!" then, you and I are going to be in disagreement. I will do everything in my power, and within the law, to change that. Even if it means voting for someone whom I don't agree 100% with.
LK
All laws are based in morlity on some level.
And wouldn't you also disagree with the de-facto ban on abortion imposed by extremist?
Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice.
LK
As for the thing about more anti-abortionists being male than female, well, I read it somewhere. ...Of the small number of female leaders in government, it's a tiny percentage of those who are anti-abortion, whereas this isn't quite the case with the men. But I can't find the actual statistic so feel free to disregard it.
Let me hit you with a quote or two...
"Guilty? Yes, no matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits
the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh! thrice guilty is he who, for selfish gratification, heedless of her prayers, indifferent to her fate, drove her to the desperation which impels her to the crime."
Care to guess who? Susan B. Anthony. She even referred to abortion as "child-murder". This is not new. http://www.roevwade.org/women2.html Have a look.
This notion that "all women are pro abortion" is a blatent lie.
LK
Still not nazi-friendly, anti-semitic, or anti-minority.
LK
Draw the line where the medical community draws the line for the end of life. Brain waves. If brainwaves are present, it's a person.
It's not that hard to figure out, but then again I guess that straddling the line serves you better.
LK
A woman who has an abortion is not infringing on anybody else's rights
"No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property withough due process of law."
I'd say that she is.
LK
You can live in total anarchy - and I know the response will be, "I have guns, I'm safe,"
Actually you DON'T know what the response is. The response is. You can't be both free and safe. Freedom and safety have an inversely proportional relationship. They must be balanced to some degree, but the freedom side of the scale is, by far, the more important one.
but remember a vast majority of Americans are probably poorer and more desperate than you.
Poorer? Probably not. More desperate? Maybe. Makes no difference.
I have no problem with Switzerland. I was short circuiting the arguement that firearms in provatehands lead to murder. There is no better example of the fact that they do not than Switzerland.
Hitler didn't overlook Switzerland by accident.
LK
blah...blah...blah...with a nazi-friendly, anti-semitic, anti-minority, blah...blah...blah...
Can you provide any quotes, from the person in question, to back up your assertions?
LK
He can be opposed to it, but he doesn't want to use Federal power to end it, he'd prefer education.
That's nonsensical. If you believe that abortion is murder, how can it not be within the power of government to outlaw murder?
LK
Does the constitution provide for the death penalty?
What is more important is does it forbid it?
If you believe in the death penalty you are a hypocrite if you are against abortion (what is the death penalty but delayed "abortion"...maybe we should just call it "abortion"). If you tell me, "oh, it's different, the person is criminal"
If there is no difference in your mind between a defenseless child and a murderer, then the mental defect which causes you to have no opposition to abortion is plainly obvious.
say as long as your qualifying something that is non-constitutional why can't another person qualify abortion?
There is a difference between "nonconstitutional" and "unconstitutional".
LK
The rights, priveliges and opportunities you have were not randomly granted by god on you.
Actually, they were.
I believe it is too arrogant to think one is entirely an island with no duty to country or countryman.
My duties primarily consist of getting a job and supporting myself, providing for my family, no hurting other people, and helping out when an emergency arises.
Ditto. And I think we need to be giving people the opportunity to get OFF welfare. I don't see how anybody could expect someone who is uneducated and unskilled to get off welfare magically. The resources and opportunity should be there so people can pull themselves up. Not just take handouts.
At least one thing that you're saying makes sense. I was thinking something along the lines of, when you get welfare you have 6 months to either #1 get a job and take part in the "workfare" system or #2 go to your local community college and work towards an associate degree in some field.
However, in evidence of the injustice of the criminal justice system, and the bias against minorities
Classic liberal mistake #2 race baiting. That's not going to work here. I'm black. You're not using that one against me. October 21, 1979 my father, a black man, was murdered by.....YES you guessed it another black man. Which is typically the case. Criminals stick to their own, so even if there is a disparity among criminals who are executed the majority of them have killed other members of a minority.
BTW, my father's murderer didn't get executed, he didn't even get life. In less than a decade, he was back on the street. He's in jail again for drug dealing. A real stand up guy! It would have been a travesty to execute him.
If you are worried about corporate influence and corruption of government you are *definately* in the wrong party. If anything, join the Libertarian party.
They have the wrong position on abortion.
LK
Of the only two real choices that we have, I have to vote for Bush.
I'd rather deal with someone who is concerned about what goes on in my bedroom, than someone who wants to control what I do everywhere else.
I'd like to see a Keyes/Buchannan ticket. I'd vote for that. However that just "ain't gonna happen".
LK
You're voting for 'em. If you're not paying attention to social issues then you should vote Libertarian and not Republican--keeping the gov't out of society.
The libertarians have no opposition to legal infanticide. I can't vote for them because of that.
Or maybe you shouldn't be voting at all, which would be fine with me.
Of course, you'd rather not hear the voice if it's not parroting what you believe.
You've clearly expressed yourself as an economic conservative, which I think is fine, but when you rabidly argue on behalf of the GOP you clearly haven't done your homework and you're really just a tool.
I am also socially conservative. I believe that killing babies is wrong. I believe the the Constitutional protections we're afforded shouldn't be violated just because it's politically expedient.
It's really not as clear-cut as that.
Yes, it is. If you actually believe that the vast majority of abortions are performed for any reason other than birth control, you're deluding yourself.
Rape, incest, mistakes, etc.
Red herring. Rape, incest, life of the woman, those are all valid concerns, but what falls under the "mistakes" and "etc." catagories? "Whoops I didn't mean to get her pregnant"?
Incidentally it should be no surprise that most anti-abortion people are male.
According to whom? Just because you say it doesn't make it so.
"Fuck da bitches!"
The ones who want to kill their babies, yes.
Did I ever say I was voting for Gore?
All the better.
ALthough I feel that your choice of who you vote for an be based upon any thing you wish. It very well could have even been "I'm voting for the first guy to wear a grey tie".
I've got to take issue with a few things that you said. What did Clinton know about foreign policy when he got elected? He was governor of Arkansas. Arkansas! At least Texas is the second biggest state. While you may take issue with Bush's grammatical prowess, at least he's not trying to take credit for things that he had nothing to do with (Love Canal, Love Story, The Internet). Lastly, I don't know if GWB is an asshole or not, but what makes you think that he;s "cold hearted"?
LK
We _need_ to _control_ people like you (and me, for sure), else this whole thing will blow up sooner or later.
You and people like you are precicely the reason why I vote the way that I do. I go to work, I pay my taxes, I don't hurt other people, I obey the law. Beyond that, whatever else I do is none of anyone's business. I reject the notion that you have any reason to be concerned with details of my life, even if you think that the good of the planet is at stake. I'll let everyone else choose for themselves what is best for them.
That's why. You just do what you feel like - and caring about the world, the universe and everyting with someone who just does with his guns what he feels like, seems utterly inapropriate to me.
Jeez, this gets easier every time. I knew that I'd either get to the eco-whackos or the hoplophobes with that line. You have a problem with private ownership of firearms? Go complain to Switzerland, we all can see what terrible freedom those things have preserved for them.
LK
You're a nut.
Ad hominem, I get the feeling that you're a rabid liberal. Let's see if I'm right.
They're basically trying to put Christianity into schools.
Gee, I musta missed that. Being a pagan and all, I don't really pay close attention to what my Christian buddies are up to.
trying to destroy a woman's right to control her own body.
This is what it's all about isn't it? You just threw in that comment about Chrsitianity in schools to make it sound like you weren't primarily concerned with baby killing. If you want to pretend that it's really about a "woman's right to choose", fine. Delude yourself if you wish. A certain group of men have foisted this rubbish upon women so that they can use them sexually and erase any evidence of what they've done. "You're empowered because you can kill your baby." is just a mask for "I don't want to pay child support, you were just a casual fuck.".
America can steal from the poor, but Republicans try to kill off anyone poor who tries to borrow from the rich.
WHAT? Is that right? Well OUR presidential candidate isn't a slum lord. A certain other pary can't say that.
Can Republicanism pass for INTELLIGENT?
Intellect and reason are all that we have, it is liberalism that needs to resort to emotionalism because their theories don't hold water.
LK
Why is it considered selfish to believe that I know best how to lead MY life?
Why is it selfish for me to think that each individual person knows more about how his/her life should be than some would be regulator?
The fact that some people out there are too stupid to productively lead their own lives shouldn't mean that the rest of us should submit to arbitrary regulation of our every day lives.
For the record, I'm not a Libertarian. I'm a Republican. I own several guns, I'm going to vote for George W Bush, I own a gas guzzling Sports car and a big honking SUV. Why? Because I feel like it. That's the only reason any of us should need to give. I believe that Welfare should be a second chance or a leg up, not a way of life. I'm in favor of executing murderers.
I believe all of these things because human history has demonstrated that the biggest threat to individual freedom and liberty is consistantly a government gone awry. Democide (being killed by one's own government) has been the biggest non medical cause of death this century. 56 MILLION people have been killed by their own governments this century alone. As much as I happen to like my form of government, I still see the need to limit it's power. Who knows who will be in charge in 50 years, do you want someone like Jesse Helms with the investigative power to command the intelligence community to start snooping on people? I know that I don't.
People don't care about the erosion of their constitutional rights, but they flip their wigs at the thought of higher ATM fees, or the fact that the FBI might have an easier time reading the dirty email that they just sent to that girl that they met on effnet.
While the average person is being reduced to a semi-literate consumeroid, a profit battery for some giant corporate machine, there must be SOMEONE who cares about the future of the world. Why not us? If there is no other group of people who cares enough to think further ahead that what's for dinner tonight, why then shouldn't it be us who cares about the generations to come?
LK
I've had my visor for about 4 months now, I love it.
It's a little smaller than the Palm VII and, if my understanding is correct, I can add an 8 MB expansion for a total of 16 MB. 16 Megs in a HANDHELD! That's 15 megs more than my first Mac.
I have had very few compatibility issues with Palm OS software. The IR works perfectly with a Palm VII, just about a week ago I did my first "business card" beaming. It went off without a hitch.
I like the springboard module slot. I can add a modem, or MP3 Player when my pocketbook allows.
All in all, it's a great value for the money.
LK
Dealing with the OS is the burden that all game programmers must endure. I like the fact that I can take a break from my research paper and fire up a 30 minute session of Fallout 2. When I've had some time to relax, I can bring a fresh new perspective to my writing.
If I had to reboot, put the CD, play, take the CD out, reboot and then get back to work, I wouldn't e interested.
LK
Except that we can point out to evidence for the theory of evolution, whereas you cannot point out the first bit of evidence for a divine bioprogrammer.
What can you point out as evidence of evolution's correctness that I can't use to point out the correctness of my God as a programmer theory?
The fact that we share common DNA with other primates? God is just reusing modular code.
Natural selection? Beta testing.
"Junk DNA"? Bloat.
LK
Knowledge of who the author is, which company it is, and which software packages in question should be enough to let the author know that you're legit.
LK
In a situation where an employer is pressuring you to take part in illegal activities, in some states (like mine) you have a legitimate reason for quitting that job and forcing the employer to pay to unemployment benefits.
However my principals don't override the fact that I have to eat and find a place to sleep at night so I wouldn't quit my job over something like this, but I would get myself a hushmail account and send the author anonymous tips as to what's going on.
Evolution is just a theory. Natural Selection is a documented fact.
You feel that the only way to account for the genetic similarities between humans and certain other primates is evolution. What if I have a theory that God is just a brilliant bio-programmer who likes to re-use his code? I can no more prove that right than you can prove the theory of evolution to be correct.
Evolution should be taught at a theory, because at this point that's all it is. It may be the best, or most plausible theory to date, but it is still just that. Creation "Science" is just a joke. They can teach that in sunday schools if they want to, but it should NOT be in public education.
LK