It failed. Not something that has ever happened before and not something that could have been predicted.
We could conduct offshore drilling for the next hundred years and probably not see another failure via this route.
You sir, are pulling that out of your ass. Cough up a source.
More then likely at least half the people on your jury will have an IQ under 100. It's not a great system, this whole "democracy" thing, but it's the best tried so far.
Anyway, repeat after me: SIZE AND SCOPE. You understand what that means right? It's the number of gays facing the levels of offenses that they do. It would be nice if I could have my turn at the jukebox and not get my face caved in, but that's not really so big of a problem that we need special laws. And you see up above, where I'm laughing at hicks? That's a kind of hate. A low-key in-passing sort of stereotyping. Now, since most slashdotters wouldn't bother with that sort of comment the SIZE of the problem is small. And since it's a just a joke on the internet, the SCOPE is minimal. So there is no need for hate-crime law protecting hicks. IF something crazy happened and the pope declared a christian crusade on science, and that all get settled down, but there remained a LARGE and PERVASIVE unreasonable hatred against christians, then they could qualify for needing special protection.
I'd agree that the the unreasonable hatred against the gays is not of the same SIZE AND SCOPE that the American blacks faced circa 1900. More blacks (percentage and absolute) faced a harsher environment then gays in America do today. No argument.
I put that question forth because, well, I can see the fucking future and knew you'd hate the concept of hate-crimes. SO, baby-steps here, we're establishing the need for hate-crime laws. You're an enlightened northern law-maker and they keep ignoring the laws and lynching blacks down in the south. What do you do to fix it? This is entirely tangent from gays. And this is WAY off topic from the AG. But against culturally imbued unreasonable hatred against a minority that is causing systematic problems, what do you do?
ONE answer that we've tried is to enact hate-crime laws and bring down the federal hammer on the racists. It'd be great to hear alternatives.
And you know, from the 2-3 homosexuals I've known personally and the handful I've known indirectly, they appear to be born with it. But I think the gay culture, you know, flaming/flamboyant, is largely a backlash against the hatred against them. So it's people like you who are making them act like that. Nothing drives a culture like being hated. And oye, so think of it this way: It's a choice like you chose to start liking girls when you hit puberty.
But yeah, long story short: They deserve special protection because they face special persecution.
Because no one randomly kicks the shit out of your just for drinking a few beers on the weekend. It's the size and scope of the hate against gays which causes people to talk about it like they're hate-crimes.
You can probably come up with a few fringe examples of people performing pseudo-hate-crimes against people that drink alcohol, or strippers, or the dutch. But such occurrences don't appear to be a perpetuating culture of hate.
Here's a question though; After slavery ended, and the rich and powerful white men held a big grudge against the black men, and there was obvious persecution, and to such an extent that you couldn't trust the local government, what would you suggest to fix the problem?
Really? You've got creditable evidence that the Obama administration is using personal email to circumvent email logging and conduct official business "off the record"?
That would be fascinating to hear about, tell us more.
And not everyone in the KKK is a bad guy either. Some are just part of it for the potlucks.
But the vast majority of both groups deserve to be tared and feathered.
Whatever the intention or original purpose that lobbists served, there is a systematic problem with them. If they were removed then the majority would be better off.
Well sure, it's flamebait, but it's funny flame. Come on guys:
By building blocks of life I assume they mean dinosaur bones, which were the building blocks of dinosaurs, which we all evolved from.
Really? REALLY? There is no god-damned reason anyone should have this thought pass through their head. This has GOT to be some creationist pusher working on the noise to signal ratio.
I'm sorry, but I thought calling out some bullshit of this magnitude required more then the usual [citiation needed], and I went with some flair.
No, I'm pretty sure he's real. The funny ones don't usually try to defend themselves and the trolls are usually a lot more arrogant. I gave him the benefit of doubt until that. There's really no excuse.
I'm a human and can reason?
But I'm really not making decisions for all. I'm merely making decisions for myself and informing the masses of said decisions. Most of them will recognize the bullshit for themselves.
Well I don't think that anyone is calling these compounds alive. (Except that crazy fucker calling them dinosaur bones). They just have carbon in them. So if this stuff fell to earth and life sprouted from it, it'd still be considered abiogenesis. And if life originated elsewhere and then came to earth, those lifeforms had to start somewhere so abiogenesis is still involved.
Yep, we've got a live one here people. Please see the fundie alert up above.
(seriously, where do you people come from? What's your background? How were you raised? and why the hell are you here spewing your bullshit?)
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"perfect form"?
"dinosaur bones"?
WTF are you smoking? Are you some sort of deep insertion wedge-pushing creationist spinning a distorted view of this or are you just ignorant of what "organic compounds" include?
Usually it's called "Abiogenesis", life from non-life. And it would be the start of evolution as parent had said.
Different concepts and it's important to keep them straight.
But yes, agreed.
Now, I'm not a cosmologist or anything, but I think Mr. Scientists isn't mentioning that "earth already had plenty" because the Earth did not become conducive to water or organic molecules until relatively recently.
And I care about this news because it lends weight to the idea that life can be more abundant in the universe. Which would be awesome. This might be the best news I've heard all week.
because of the proximity to federal government centers
Seriously? This is an issue? Government man can't be bothered with people he'd have to call long-distance? I understand there's some overhead with moving costs, and some issues with family roots, but there is no way that the physical location of the school should have that big of impact.
Are you saying the French are better then us at something?
Well, sadly, yes. Nearly every nuclear power plant in America is it's own thing. The engineers in charge of developing and building them tried something new, innovative, and different for each one. Usually this lead to going over budget. It also means maintaining the power plants here each needs their own custom parts, and engineers familiar with how that particular plant works.
France, on the other hand, have more standardized nukey plants.
But at least they'd be doing something constructive with the money.:)
Without that little smiley in there I'd assume you were serious and that you considered giving money to Ann Fucking Coulter to buy bullets to kill muslims with to be a constructive activity. I'd call you a war-mongerer and one of the best examples of modern-day evil that America has to offer. I'd lambaste you for the blowback that would come back to bite both of us. I'd curse a pox upon you and all your house.
So, why did leaving the state and withdrawing $10K matter so much?
Obviously because it's the first step in skipping town and running for the hills, but that's not what you found him guilty of. From what you've said, he sounds really paranoid, and this fits that description. But being paranoid isn't criminal, and the city really was out to get him. Is there something about getting ready to run that contributed to the DOS charge?
If it was a reflection on his character that he was going to run, then what about that whole feeling bad for him thing?
It's like you're channeling Robert A. Heinlein's civics teacher out of Starship Troopers.
>Middle-aged
Sure, with the over-18 requirement, and the baby-boomers getting up there, middle-aged is a probable median.
>Middle-class
That would only be true if we had a uniform wealth distribution. That ain't nowhere near the case. So the median American is probably either lower-middle to low-class. Blue-collar. As the apparent trend is to exclude the informed and educated, the median juror drops even lower. It's looking like it's rare to get a single person on the jury that knows their shit when it comes to technology. Of course it largely depends on where the trial is held. This would be some fascinating data.
>small-C conservative
You know, that might be true. They're also big D Democrats. At least for now. Remember, we're talking about the median here. If 50%+ vote democrat, the median is democrat.
>Mature. Responsible. Committed.
That is a fantastically optimistic view. You have a little more faith in your fellow man then I. Remember that most of them have an IQ under 100. Most of them watch, and enjoy, Dancing with the Stars and reality TV.
>Men and women have chosen to live up to an ideal they have taught their kids.
Whose patriotic ass did you pull this one out of? I hope that most people TRY to live up to some sort of ideal. And it's not necessarily a good ideal. It may simple be "rich" or "full of coke". I'm not sure 50%+ even try.
>They are as smart, tough, resilent and dangerous an adversary as you will ever have to face. Play them as fools and they will pound your sorry ass into the marble flooring.
I'm pretty sure the bailiff will, you know, do something before that comes to pass. Perhaps you strayed off the topic for a while. But I don't think that small-C conservatives don't "pound ass" in any form. They're kinda conservative like that. At most they will get in a huff.
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I think I'd trust the lawyers even less.
It failed. Not something that has ever happened before and not something that could have been predicted. We could conduct offshore drilling for the next hundred years and probably not see another failure via this route.
You sir, are pulling that out of your ass. Cough up a source.
More then likely at least half the people on your jury will have an IQ under 100. It's not a great system, this whole "democracy" thing, but it's the best tried so far.
instead of country
HAHAHAHAHA, aahhhhh, hicks.
Anyway, repeat after me: SIZE AND SCOPE. You understand what that means right? It's the number of gays facing the levels of offenses that they do. It would be nice if I could have my turn at the jukebox and not get my face caved in, but that's not really so big of a problem that we need special laws. And you see up above, where I'm laughing at hicks? That's a kind of hate. A low-key in-passing sort of stereotyping. Now, since most slashdotters wouldn't bother with that sort of comment the SIZE of the problem is small. And since it's a just a joke on the internet, the SCOPE is minimal. So there is no need for hate-crime law protecting hicks. IF something crazy happened and the pope declared a christian crusade on science, and that all get settled down, but there remained a LARGE and PERVASIVE unreasonable hatred against christians, then they could qualify for needing special protection.
I'd agree that the the unreasonable hatred against the gays is not of the same SIZE AND SCOPE that the American blacks faced circa 1900. More blacks (percentage and absolute) faced a harsher environment then gays in America do today. No argument.
I put that question forth because, well, I can see the fucking future and knew you'd hate the concept of hate-crimes. SO, baby-steps here, we're establishing the need for hate-crime laws. You're an enlightened northern law-maker and they keep ignoring the laws and lynching blacks down in the south. What do you do to fix it? This is entirely tangent from gays. And this is WAY off topic from the AG. But against culturally imbued unreasonable hatred against a minority that is causing systematic problems, what do you do?
ONE answer that we've tried is to enact hate-crime laws and bring down the federal hammer on the racists. It'd be great to hear alternatives.
And you know, from the 2-3 homosexuals I've known personally and the handful I've known indirectly, they appear to be born with it. But I think the gay culture, you know, flaming/flamboyant, is largely a backlash against the hatred against them. So it's people like you who are making them act like that. Nothing drives a culture like being hated. And oye, so think of it this way: It's a choice like you chose to start liking girls when you hit puberty.
But yeah, long story short: They deserve special protection because they face special persecution.
Because no one randomly kicks the shit out of your just for drinking a few beers on the weekend. It's the size and scope of the hate against gays which causes people to talk about it like they're hate-crimes.
You can probably come up with a few fringe examples of people performing pseudo-hate-crimes against people that drink alcohol, or strippers, or the dutch. But such occurrences don't appear to be a perpetuating culture of hate.
Here's a question though; After slavery ended, and the rich and powerful white men held a big grudge against the black men, and there was obvious persecution, and to such an extent that you couldn't trust the local government, what would you suggest to fix the problem?
Really? You've got creditable evidence that the Obama administration is using personal email to circumvent email logging and conduct official business "off the record"?
That would be fascinating to hear about, tell us more.
And not everyone in the KKK is a bad guy either. Some are just part of it for the potlucks.
But the vast majority of both groups deserve to be tared and feathered.
Whatever the intention or original purpose that lobbists served, there is a systematic problem with them. If they were removed then the majority would be better off.
By building blocks of life I assume they mean dinosaur bones, which were the building blocks of dinosaurs, which we all evolved from.
Really? REALLY? There is no god-damned reason anyone should have this thought pass through their head. This has GOT to be some creationist pusher working on the noise to signal ratio.
I'm sorry, but I thought calling out some bullshit of this magnitude required more then the usual [citiation needed], and I went with some flair.
No, I'm pretty sure he's real. The funny ones don't usually try to defend themselves and the trolls are usually a lot more arrogant. I gave him the benefit of doubt until that. There's really no excuse.
I'm a human and can reason?
But I'm really not making decisions for all. I'm merely making decisions for myself and informing the masses of said decisions. Most of them will recognize the bullshit for themselves.
Well I don't think that anyone is calling these compounds alive. (Except that crazy fucker calling them dinosaur bones). They just have carbon in them. So if this stuff fell to earth and life sprouted from it, it'd still be considered abiogenesis. And if life originated elsewhere and then came to earth, those lifeforms had to start somewhere so abiogenesis is still involved.
As for the other points, yeah, ok.
Yep, we've got a live one here people. Please see the fundie alert up above.
(seriously, where do you people come from? What's your background? How were you raised? and why the hell are you here spewing your bullshit?)
Or heat, or sunlight, or good ol' chemistry. Really, there's plenty of sources of energy to power this.
Yep, ok, that'll do.
FUNDIE ALERT!
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Don't fear things you don't know about, it's a hard way to go through life. That goes double for things that exist only in theory.
"perfect form"?
"dinosaur bones"?
WTF are you smoking? Are you some sort of deep insertion wedge-pushing creationist spinning a distorted view of this or are you just ignorant of what "organic compounds" include?
Different concepts and it's important to keep them straight.
But yes, agreed.
Now, I'm not a cosmologist or anything, but I think Mr. Scientists isn't mentioning that "earth already had plenty" because the Earth did not become conducive to water or organic molecules until relatively recently.
And I care about this news because it lends weight to the idea that life can be more abundant in the universe. Which would be awesome. This might be the best news I've heard all week.
because of the proximity to federal government centers
Seriously? This is an issue? Government man can't be bothered with people he'd have to call long-distance? I understand there's some overhead with moving costs, and some issues with family roots, but there is no way that the physical location of the school should have that big of impact.
Are you saying the French are better then us at something?
Well, sadly, yes. Nearly every nuclear power plant in America is it's own thing. The engineers in charge of developing and building them tried something new, innovative, and different for each one. Usually this lead to going over budget. It also means maintaining the power plants here each needs their own custom parts, and engineers familiar with how that particular plant works.
France, on the other hand, have more standardized nukey plants.
Bloody nuclear frogs.
as long as their built far away, say, in Arizona or South Carolina, where radiation can't do too much damage.
Ah, even with a stout supporter, the ugly head of NIMBY rears it's ugly head.
Unless that was a cheap dig at SoCarol and Arizona.
That's da joke!
So it mattered to the police and the decision to arrest him, but not to the court and the conviction. Alright.
But why does it matter to you?
But at least they'd be doing something constructive with the money. :)
Without that little smiley in there I'd assume you were serious and that you considered giving money to Ann Fucking Coulter to buy bullets to kill muslims with to be a constructive activity. I'd call you a war-mongerer and one of the best examples of modern-day evil that America has to offer. I'd lambaste you for the blowback that would come back to bite both of us. I'd curse a pox upon you and all your house.
:)
But hey, you were just joking.
So, why did leaving the state and withdrawing $10K matter so much?
Obviously because it's the first step in skipping town and running for the hills, but that's not what you found him guilty of. From what you've said, he sounds really paranoid, and this fits that description. But being paranoid isn't criminal, and the city really was out to get him. Is there something about getting ready to run that contributed to the DOS charge?
If it was a reflection on his character that he was going to run, then what about that whole feeling bad for him thing?
It's like you're channeling Robert A. Heinlein's civics teacher out of Starship Troopers.
>Middle-aged
Sure, with the over-18 requirement, and the baby-boomers getting up there, middle-aged is a probable median.
>Middle-class
That would only be true if we had a uniform wealth distribution. That ain't nowhere near the case. So the median American is probably either lower-middle to low-class. Blue-collar. As the apparent trend is to exclude the informed and educated, the median juror drops even lower. It's looking like it's rare to get a single person on the jury that knows their shit when it comes to technology. Of course it largely depends on where the trial is held. This would be some fascinating data.
>small-C conservative
You know, that might be true. They're also big D Democrats. At least for now. Remember, we're talking about the median here. If 50%+ vote democrat, the median is democrat.
>Mature. Responsible. Committed.
That is a fantastically optimistic view. You have a little more faith in your fellow man then I. Remember that most of them have an IQ under 100. Most of them watch, and enjoy, Dancing with the Stars and reality TV.
>Men and women have chosen to live up to an ideal they have taught their kids.
Whose patriotic ass did you pull this one out of? I hope that most people TRY to live up to some sort of ideal. And it's not necessarily a good ideal. It may simple be "rich" or "full of coke". I'm not sure 50%+ even try.
>They are as smart, tough, resilent and dangerous an adversary as you will ever have to face. Play them as fools and they will pound your sorry ass into the marble flooring.
I'm pretty sure the bailiff will, you know, do something before that comes to pass. Perhaps you strayed off the topic for a while. But I don't think that small-C conservatives don't "pound ass" in any form. They're kinda conservative like that. At most they will get in a huff.