Which is why I always think it's funny when I see gay guys that go to traditional church. I'm not trying to oppress anyone, and you're assigning a lot of your own trauma to me.
You know.. I agree with this. A friend of my best friend's wife is gay. I'm simultaneously jealous of this guy and thankful that he is gay, because, he really, is just a guy that really is genetically superior to me. He walks into a room and women start taking their clothes off. He's just that good looking and you wouldn't even know that he was gay if you talked to him. But.... he went through this weird phase where he decided he needed to be a priest.... and I was just like, dude... that's just stupid. It's one thing to be uneasy with your own sexuality. That's not even a gay or ungay thing. But its entirely another to go, due whatever misgivings you have about yourself, go and join an organization that doesn't like you.
Do you think he'd ever tell you?
Yeah he would, because I would tell him before hand that if he did go gay I would still love him and his sexuality is his decision and not mine.
And I know that Foley and Haggard and probably Craig were (and are) in the closet, and nobody could tell.
See, that's the thing. I look at a lot of these right wing baptist preacher types, with the immaculate hair, perfect dress, manicured fingernails and buffed hands, and all I can see is - gay - gay - gay. I honestly would not be surprised if Jerry Falwell got his peanuts packed a few times in his life.
I mean, seriously. The USA is doing the wrong thing with Gitmo (it ought to be closed), and wiretaps without warrants are b.s. I would have, given Europe's left leaning bent, expected Europeans to go the opposite route and promote civil liberties, but it seems that in country after country Europeans going the opposite route. The British are putting cameras in everywhere, the Germans are going crazy with biometric identification, while meanwhile, in the USA, we are working on putting torpedoes into Real ID (with a weird alliance of ultra left ACLU types and ultra right NRA types). I know a lot of Europeans post on slashdot, so, I can only ask, what the heck are Europeans thinking? What's the threat that's driving all of this? Is is it the massive and un-assimilated Islamic population? Is it the threat of crime from the former Soviet bloc states? Is it a fear of the KGB? I just don't understand what Europe would see the threat as that motivates all of this security.
I can see no purpose for someone attacking an epileptic this way other than to be purely sadistic. It's a sadistic assault, pure and simple, and I think in this case it would be entirely within the right of law enforcement to try and track back to the people that made these posts. This just offends just everything I think is fair and right.
I was talking about a retarded minor who accidentally killed another minor while playing. People die from smacking their heads on tables, and it's tragic, but it happens. To quote a wise, wise man:
I'm questioning whether that case actually exists. I've googled for Texas death penalties for retarded minors and all I can find is the case I mentioned, another guy who shot somebody trying to buy coke, a 40 year guy that strangled a 3 year old to death with his underwear... give me a name, let me google the case from both sides, and we'll see.
I keep maintaining that you can hang out with whoever the hell you want. Gays tend to be liberal because of the bashing they get from the conservatives. It's just sound sense.
Has the thought ever occurred to you that this is a two way street? I mean, Maplethorpe didn't exactly do gays any favors with Christians...
Which means you have gay friends and don't know it.
Not really.
What would your opinion be of your son if he turned out to be gay? Do you think he'd ever tell you?
I would be disappointed, because that there would be a lot of cultural stuff that I would miss out on. Its selfish, I know, but I would have liked to see my son have a normal family, grandkids, christmas for them, and so on. But I would still love him and I wouldn't disown him and his boyfriends could hang out at my house and I would make them feel welcome.
I think that the fact that gay people have to hide their sexuality from those they love contributes to their level of deviancy, since they can't have a real relationship without everyone finding out, and the next best thing is fuck buddies and one night stands.
I think homosexuality is a symptom of hypersexuality gone rampant, and not the other way around. So many gays I know are just consumed by sex. It was that which honestly disgusts me more than anything else. But then again, I don't like hypersexual heteros either. It's just the hyper part which is deviant, I think. Life should not be too excess, in anything, and excess is a sign of mental illness.
One more nit: we're only about a third of the continent. Mexico and Canada are part of North America as well, and Canada has a comparable land mass, although I don't know how many Canadians have access to broadband.
If NAFTA keeps up for another 100 years, there will only be the country of North America... there is a -lot- of trade and travel between the three nations.
Typical infrastructure lie. Do you know, factualy, that electrical power supply is far more expensive not only to supply but also to power.
Electrical power lines and water pipes last a long time. A lot of water infrastructure in the USA is decades old, and there are some electrical generators pushing 75 years....
Why are our cities cash-strapped while Denmark's aren't? Why do you make excuses for government's abysmal failures?
Government is doing exactly what it is supposed to do. If people want broadband, they can buy it. If they don't have the money for it, its not the government's problem. You could always move to where there -is- broadband and that reflects on the value of a neighborhood. It's not a failure of government that taxpayers don't want to subsidize something that is a private sector effort.
This is simply another example of the Bush administration engaging in wishful thinking. We're doing well with broadband because we say it's true. The Iraq War has been a huge success because we say it's true. The economy is strong because we say it's true. Global warming is a myth because we say it's true. Sadly the country is full of folks who do not think critically for themselves and believe what they've been told is true. Imagine what's going to be "true" tomorrow.
I say I'm doing well with broadband because I have FIOS. Bush has never said, as of late, the war is a huge success, and has always said that it would be difficult work. The economy is strong because I sold my house for more than it is worth and have a job that pays a lot more than I made when Bush was sworn in. Many of us have been proposing nuclear power to beat global warming for decades, and yet you refuse it, so I think it is reasonable to think that when various left wing leaders say that they see global warming as not so much an environmental problem as a vehicle to scare the masses into accepting a massive redistribution of wealth, then, I say yes, I think the politics of it are b.s. I mean, even Obama talks about using cap and trade CO2 money to pay for his health care proposals - this isn't a solution to an environmental problem, its a tax increase backed by a body of lies. I think there are still a lot of people that support Bush because they have thought critically, and they are better off, and we tend to view the claims of the left wing that we are being suffering or robbed as so much superstitition.
It seems to me that what you are saying is that you don't have a bandwidth problem, you have a population density problem. So why are you kicking the Mexicans out?
I agree. Lack of density compounds everything - it means we don't have a national rail network, for one, and our highways cost a fortune to maintain. Water, electricity delivery, all are huge problems. There are some places in the USA where water is literally trucked in, because they are so remote. On the other hand, if you don't mind not being on the internet or can live without fast downloads, then, the great outdoors can be alright. The sky is mighty big in the western USA, for sure, but the loneliness is not for everyone.
I don't want to kick the Mexicans out, for sure. I'd like them to learn english and become US citizens, and I'd favor some sort of an amnesty program, for sure.
The gist of the article is the phrase "universal access". What this really means, is that cash strapped cities and suburban areas should again rise to subsidize broadband in rural areas. I think at some point, if you choose to live in the middle of nowhere, you aren't going to get all the benefits. While its great that Denmark has higher broadband penetration, I think its silly to argue that broadband penetration in a country the size of one of our states is the same sort of engineering feet as solving the problem on a continental basis. Broadband for the USA is a much, much, larger problem than broadband for a tiny european country.
Parallelism is just a means to a business feature - performance. If clients want it, then there will be capital for it. If they don't, then it won't matter to them.
Jesus Fucking Christ, man...And they don't, for the most part, say or think that Jesus sucks donkey dick and the virgen mary was a lesbian. You're fucking insane
I'm going to wear my George Bush shirt to my wife's friend's gay wedding. We'll see what they say about Jesus. Most gays I know are militant leftists. And you are blowing things out of proportion, anyway. All I'm saying is, gays are ok, but there are times when I don't want them around. I want to talk to guys that share my social experiences, my values, my history. Gays don't. Why is it so hard to understand that you are different, and that difference has implications. Do I have to excess the experiences of heterosexual marriage, of talking about christianity (even if I haven't gone to church in a decade), all so that people can hang out with me? That's oppressive of me, is it not? When do my rights to associate with whom I want to associate with come into play? There's no malice at all. I just want to be with people like me.
Well, you already tell him to stay away from faggots and other genetically "inferior" people, I don't see why not
What planet are you coming from? Who said gays are genetically inferior? See, there you go, pretending that my mere desire to not be with gay people 24x7 is somehow some form of persecution. It isn't. Go make your own friends and go form your own clubs, and I'll have my friends and my clubs. And we'd be with people that are more like ourselves. Can't you see that this is better? What you are trying to do is oppress everyone by trying to degrade whatever culture you don't want to participate in.
But hey, you seem to the be expert on what homosexuals do. I'll cede this point to your greater experience and knowledge
I certainly do not want to be an expert on what homosexuals do, and that is rather the point of this whole conversation. I want nothing to do with their sexual lives, their relationships, none of it, and I should have none of that imposed on me. I could be a collegue of a gay person in a business relationship or an economic alliance of some sort, and have that as a basis of friendship, but I'm still going to want to hang out with hetero people because they are like me.
No, I'm saying that if someone accidentally kills someone, there's a legal definition for it: manslaughter. And those who commit manslaughter don't get put to death. And again, we shouldn't try minors as adults. It perverts the legal system.
This guy was retarded. He raped and killed some girl. That's not manslaughter. That's not an accident. That's murder.
And now, was this an accident? Does this sound like manslaughter?
"During Texas' last legislative session, in the spring of 2001, supporters of HB236, a bill to ban execution of the mentally retarded, held a public rally at the capital in Austin and invoked the case of Mario Marquez, executed in 1995, as one of those 6 cases and stated that Marquez was exactly that kind of murderer which HB236 was designed to protect. Supporters of that bill could not have provided a better case for Texans to oppose this bill and for Governor Perry to veto it.
Marquez was angry that his wife was leaving him, so, in retaliation, he murdered his wife's 14-year-old niece, Rachel and his 18-year-old estranged wife, Rebecca. They were beaten and raped, orally, anally and vaginally, then strangled to death. Rebecca was sodomized with a large perfume bottle which was forced into her anus. Blood loss from both victims indicated that they were alive during these acts. Marquez then waited for his mother-in-law, to return home, beat and sexually assaulted her -- then presented the two brutalized bodies of the two girls to her -- as trophies for his anger. "
What's comical for Microsoft is that they would go and change the driver models for everyone for their new OS, and then blamed the resultant bugfest from the imposed change over on all of its business partners. Way to go Microsoft! You guys are a bunch of class acts!
I always held the light speed limit coupled with the vast size of the universe to be a more probable reason why we haven't run into ET yet,
I would be willing to bet, too that, when you do stack up all the things that can possibly go wrong, from local nova, to supernova, to large body impacts, to being placed too far, or too close from a star, without enough radioactive elements to keep a planetary core hot, but with not so many as to make it unlivable, and to somehow manage an oxygen carbon chemistry that doesn't just plop into a big carbon dioxide blob and allows for very energetic organic molecules to form and thus life, you just keep stacking up those odds, and suddenly, like factoring a large number, the weight of probabilities goes increasingly against you, no matter how many stars you have to throw at it.
If we are alone in the universe, or even the galaxy, it is kinda cool, because it means that the WHOLE THING IS OURS. While physics rules out a vast interstellar empire, there's nothing that rules out one way trips leapfrogging across the galaxy. In a few million years, we might be able to consume the whole thing.
We'll be speaking about Bush for many years to come.. just not the way you would hope
If Obama and Co start a trade war, then Bush's misgivings will seem like the chump change and people will miss the guy. If Iraq remains "tied" to the USA and starts to pump a mountain of oil, then Bush will seem like a God.
What the hell makes these UIUC people think that they know how to make a browser? You'd think they'd leave this kind of thing to people who've done it before. Sheesh!:)
It's amazing how few people on/. seem to have gotten this joke.
Right, and what you do based on this fact determines whether or not you're a bigot No, it determines if I want to waste my time with someone who is determined to be opposed to my value systems. The term of bigotry only applies when there is common, productive ground that is ignored. If there isn't, then, its ok. If some gay guy runs around saying that Jesus sucks donkey dick and the virgin mary was a lesbian, I am within every right to say, well, all faggits will burn in hell, and I certainly don't have to hang out with one.
16 is not an adult. And I think that brain development is one of the key factors in adulthood, so that a mentally handicapped 16-year old is indeed a child. In any case, he should have been tried as a minor.
Crimes of minors are childrens games gotten out of hand. Stealing candy from a grocery store, snarfing a few video games, egging the principal's house. Those are crimes of minors. Killing someone is an adult decision and should suffer adult consequences. If someone killed my kid, I'd want them dead. I think that is fair. And really, to bring this back to the whole moral relativism point, you argue that it is ok to kill an unborn child because it has a high probability of being defective due to being born into poor circumstances, and yet, here you have, what you claim, is a defective golemlike thing that isn't even human enough to know if it is murdering a child, and you want that thing to live? What do I tell my son? Stay away from retards because they might kill you?
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I think you are basically trumping up a lot of nonsense to score political points.
The fact of the matter is that on the one issue that counts, more than any other, Bush is on the right side of history, and what we are going to get out of Obama and Clinton (whichever wins), will be unfettered national disaster. I'm not even talking about the cheering of the Islamic world as Obama pulls out the troops in total defeat and Iraq goes up in flames. I'm not even talking about every muslim nation suddenly embolded to try and get the bomb because of perceived American weakness. That's just a little show on the cake.
You say that Bush has destroyed the good will of the world towards the USA by his actions? Well, I would be willing to bet that you have not seen the world pissed off at the USA like you will when Democrats pull the plug on free trade. Seriously. The world may not like what has happened in Iraq, but, I guarantee you that when factory workers in Glasgow, Liverpool, Paris, Essen, Krakow, Dubai, Hyperborad, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Shanghai, Taiwan, Manila, Tijuana and Detroit and more all start getting fired because Obama touches off a trade war, then you will see more world unrest than you could ever imagine. I mean Obama hasn't even been elected yet, and he's already picking a trade war with Canada and Mexico.
In the worst case of Bush evil / stupidity, take your pick, we have the USA going the route of the Roman Empire, and honestly, that at least has some upside to it economically for us and in terms of spreading civilization throughout the world, before we go belly up.
In the worst case of Obama / Clinton evil / stupidity, we have a global trade war, followed by a massive depression, followed by the rise of tyrants around the globe, and then World War III.
When you look at it that way, its kinda hard to imagine why we are even having a presidential election. Can we amend the constitution and have Bush run for a third term!
Try using facts next time and stay within the bounds of reality....There is no other possible set of qualities you could possess that would cause you to be a Bush supporter long time or short time....Or just do the only decent thing left to you after the massive damage you've willfully aided and kill yourself.
The reality is, you need to be building a statue to me. I'd like mine in marble please. You don't have to start right away though. I allow you to finish, right after you finish carving George Bush's face into Mt. Rushmore. I'm trying to think, now, should we call Bush, Bush the GREAT, or Bush the WONDERFUL champion. I just don't know. Lot's of big decisions to make.
It's wrong to say that Edison invented a way to record sound, when what he did was use a French design that does that, and modified it for playback
I'd say independently invented. Edison couldn't speak French. He didn't have a formal education. And, the way he thought, about transforming one thing to another, from mechanical to electrical energy and back, probably made it easier for him to see the phonograph independently than it would be to steal someone else's idea.
Second, there was no potential to use the tragedy for political gain Bush did exactly what I'd have expected---he sized up how much political capital he could get out of it, concluded that the South would always be firmly in the Republican camp because of the religious right
Well, no, because, of two reasons.
1) The opportunities for political gains were enormous. If Republicans could get 20% of the black vote, instead of 5%, that's enough to consistently win a general election. 2) The south as a whole may tend to vote Republican, but, at a statewide level, Louisiana is a Democratic bastion. They may go for Republican presidents, but there's a long family tradition of southern democratic governors and representatives from that state. Only David Vitter broke that mold there, but, then he had to go and get himself a hookah!
I hope the people of the South see this for what it is and vote Democrat (or better yet, Independent) in the next presidential election....
Well, there's more to it than God in the south that keeps the south in the Republican columns. There is an aweful lot of manufacturing in the south that used to be in the north, because Republicans broke the northern unions so that those jobs could move to the south. AS it is, Republican economic policies under the Bush administration have actually benefited those states that tended to vote for him. Mining states in the west are making out, because the price of commodities is high. In some states they are re-opening gold mines or drilling for new gold largely because of high gold prices. Similarly, high oil prices might hurt us in the urban areas, but if you are living in oil country like hmm, Texas, you could be making out rather well for the first time in 30 years. And, if you are doing export manufacturing, you can be making out rather well. And, as much as you might bemoan the price of corn products, if you are in a corn state or really, any farming state, the higher food prices could be a godsend for a family that, during the 90s, had the best option of selling out the farm cheap to tract housing developers.
Edison was the man, because, unlike this inventor, his device allowed people to play back sounds. It wasn't even possible to play back the recording this other guy made until they could scan the paper and convert the signal to a waveform. As a side note, I'd have to ask: this is what passes for research these days? I'm unimpressed.
Newton beat Leibniz to calculus. Really, the whole thing with Newton was that, he wrote the principia while trying to hide the calculus that he used to invent. It's pretty difficult for someone to come out with a volume like that, unless they have calculus. I might even start using Newton's fluxion notation....
As for Einstein, while we was off about quantum physics, he did predict the appearance of stars -behind- the sun during a solar eclipse, which is really outrageous when you think about it.
OK, dumbshit. Judging a person based on their draw in a genetic lottery makes you an intellectual midget. Grok me?
You are just wrong. The most intelligent course of action is to judge a person based upon their utility to you. Whether or not that utility is influenced by genetics is of no consequence and behavior is all that matters. If the relationship is a working one, then one considers their economic contribution weighed by the costs imposed by dealing with social differences. If the relationship is a personal one, then, one considers the entertainment value or other utility of the relationship. Sometimes cultural differences are enriching, and sometimes they are not. Like, sometimes it is just simpler, and easier, and therefor, more intelligent, for a hetero male with a christian heritage to seek to associate with other hetero males of a christian heritage, just so you can say "merry christmas", and talk about families and other common things without the complications and discord caused by the consideration of behaviorial differences. In the end, biological differences do not matter. Either you act the way I act, or you don't.
Actually, in several documented cases, they were retarded black children (16ish) that were play-fighting with children that were younger than them, and accidentally killed them.
16 is not a child.
No baby existed, so apparently I didn't fuck up.
Well, that's like saying that you shot at someone and missed. The intent was certainly there, on your part.
This is horse shit. You don't get to define morality, either. Which I'm sure is very frustrating for you. Thanks for putting a guy in office that has caused more damage to this country than anyone in my lifetime. Thanks for putting someone into office that protects child molestors.
What damage has Bush caused? Or rather, how would you reverse this so-called damage and call it an improvement? See, here's the thing. The country is not -damaged- as a whole. Farmers are doing well, because of higher food prices. People that work in the mining and petroleum industries are doing well, because of higher commodity prices. I bet if I was an Iowa corn farmer, I'd be thankful that for the first time in decades I'm not looking at losing my farm because of a good harvest. I bet if I lived in some parts of Texas, I'd be happy that there's money in oil, for the first time in decades. If I worked for a manufacturing company that did well exporting, I'd bet I'd be happy that the falling dollar has exports booming. Now, when your guys get in, once again the economy will be wrenched from a manufacturing and resource extraction economy and into a financial / intellectual property economy. The banks will do good and Wall Street will do ok, but, everyone working corn fields, working in the mines, working the oil wells, will be out of a job, just like they were when the economy was "good." Everyone complains now, about how much Exxon Mobil makes, but I bet we could dig up more than a few articles from the 1990s that predicted that both of those companies were going to go belly up and take a few million jobs with them.
But hey, I'm not the one that doesn't believe in grey areas....
Have you seriously considered taking the only possible course open to you to gain a scrap of integrity and put a bullet in your cowardly, deluded traitor's brain?
I think actually that you should be building a statue to my genius, and worshipping me. I would be pleased if you named your children all after me, but, if you only could name one after me, than you might still be eligible for my blessings.
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Which is why I always think it's funny when I see gay guys that go to traditional church. I'm not trying to oppress anyone, and you're assigning a lot of your own trauma to me.
You know.. I agree with this. A friend of my best friend's wife is gay. I'm simultaneously jealous of this guy and thankful that he is gay, because, he really, is just a guy that really is genetically superior to me. He walks into a room and women start taking their clothes off. He's just that good looking and you wouldn't even know that he was gay if you talked to him. But.... he went through this weird phase where he decided he needed to be a priest.... and I was just like, dude... that's just stupid. It's one thing to be uneasy with your own sexuality. That's not even a gay or ungay thing. But its entirely another to go, due whatever misgivings you have about yourself, go and join an organization that doesn't like you.
Do you think he'd ever tell you?
Yeah he would, because I would tell him before hand that if he did go gay I would still love him and his sexuality is his decision and not mine.
And I know that Foley and Haggard and probably Craig were (and are) in the closet, and nobody could tell.
See, that's the thing. I look at a lot of these right wing baptist preacher types, with the immaculate hair, perfect dress, manicured fingernails and buffed hands, and all I can see is - gay - gay - gay. I honestly would not be surprised if Jerry Falwell got his peanuts packed a few times in his life.
I mean, seriously. The USA is doing the wrong thing with Gitmo (it ought to be closed), and wiretaps without warrants are b.s. I would have, given Europe's left leaning bent, expected Europeans to go the opposite route and promote civil liberties, but it seems that in country after country Europeans going the opposite route. The British are putting cameras in everywhere, the Germans are going crazy with biometric identification, while meanwhile, in the USA, we are working on putting torpedoes into Real ID (with a weird alliance of ultra left ACLU types and ultra right NRA types). I know a lot of Europeans post on slashdot, so, I can only ask, what the heck are Europeans thinking? What's the threat that's driving all of this? Is is it the massive and un-assimilated Islamic population? Is it the threat of crime from the former Soviet bloc states? Is it a fear of the KGB? I just don't understand what Europe would see the threat as that motivates all of this security.
I can see no purpose for someone attacking an epileptic this way other than to be purely sadistic. It's a sadistic assault, pure and simple, and I think in this case it would be entirely within the right of law enforcement to try and track back to the people that made these posts. This just offends just everything I think is fair and right.
We invade a sovereign nation for oil and you think Bush would seem like a God? Absolutely pitiful
If gas in the USA were 30 cents a gallon, people would be making statues to the guy.
Wow, FireFox jumps the shark...
time to check out Opera.
I was talking about a retarded minor who accidentally killed another minor while playing. People die from smacking their heads on tables, and it's tragic, but it happens. To quote a wise, wise man:
I'm questioning whether that case actually exists. I've googled for Texas death penalties for retarded minors and all I can find is the case I mentioned, another guy who shot somebody trying to buy coke, a 40 year guy that strangled a 3 year old to death with his underwear... give me a name, let me google the case from both sides, and we'll see.
I keep maintaining that you can hang out with whoever the hell you want. Gays tend to be liberal because of the bashing they get from the conservatives. It's just sound sense.
Has the thought ever occurred to you that this is a two way street? I mean, Maplethorpe didn't exactly do gays any favors with Christians...
Which means you have gay friends and don't know it.
Not really.
What would your opinion be of your son if he turned out to be gay? Do you think he'd ever tell you?
I would be disappointed, because that there would be a lot of cultural stuff that I would miss out on. Its selfish, I know, but I would have liked to see my son have a normal family, grandkids, christmas for them, and so on. But I would still love him and I wouldn't disown him and his boyfriends could hang out at my house and I would make them feel welcome.
I think that the fact that gay people have to hide their sexuality from those they love contributes to their level of deviancy, since they can't have a real relationship without everyone finding out, and the next best thing is fuck buddies and one night stands.
I think homosexuality is a symptom of hypersexuality gone rampant, and not the other way around. So many gays I know are just consumed by sex. It was that which honestly disgusts me more than anything else. But then again, I don't like hypersexual heteros either. It's just the hyper part which is deviant, I think. Life should not be too excess, in anything, and excess is a sign of mental illness.
One more nit: we're only about a third of the continent. Mexico and Canada are part of North America as well, and Canada has a comparable land mass, although I don't know how many Canadians have access to broadband.
If NAFTA keeps up for another 100 years, there will only be the country of North America... there is a -lot- of trade and travel between the three nations.
Typical infrastructure lie. Do you know, factualy, that electrical power supply is far more expensive not only to supply but also to power.
Electrical power lines and water pipes last a long time. A lot of water infrastructure in the USA is decades old, and there are some electrical generators pushing 75 years....
Why are our cities cash-strapped while Denmark's aren't? Why do you make excuses for government's abysmal failures?
Government is doing exactly what it is supposed to do. If people want broadband, they can buy it. If they don't have the money for it, its not the government's problem. You could always move to where there -is- broadband and that reflects on the value of a neighborhood. It's not a failure of government that taxpayers don't want to subsidize something that is a private sector effort.
This is simply another example of the Bush administration engaging in wishful thinking. We're doing well with broadband because we say it's true. The Iraq War has been a huge success because we say it's true. The economy is strong because we say it's true. Global warming is a myth because we say it's true. Sadly the country is full of folks who do not think critically for themselves and believe what they've been told is true. Imagine what's going to be "true" tomorrow.
I say I'm doing well with broadband because I have FIOS. Bush has never said, as of late, the war is a huge success, and has always said that it would be difficult work. The economy is strong because I sold my house for more than it is worth and have a job that pays a lot more than I made when Bush was sworn in. Many of us have been proposing nuclear power to beat global warming for decades, and yet you refuse it, so I think it is reasonable to think that when various left wing leaders say that they see global warming as not so much an environmental problem as a vehicle to scare the masses into accepting a massive redistribution of wealth, then, I say yes, I think the politics of it are b.s. I mean, even Obama talks about using cap and trade CO2 money to pay for his health care proposals - this isn't a solution to an environmental problem, its a tax increase backed by a body of lies. I think there are still a lot of people that support Bush because they have thought critically, and they are better off, and we tend to view the claims of the left wing that we are being suffering or robbed as so much superstitition.
It seems to me that what you are saying is that you don't have a bandwidth problem, you have a population density problem.
So why are you kicking the Mexicans out?
I agree. Lack of density compounds everything - it means we don't have a national rail network, for one, and our highways cost a fortune to maintain. Water, electricity delivery, all are huge problems. There are some places in the USA where water is literally trucked in, because they are so remote. On the other hand, if you don't mind not being on the internet or can live without fast downloads, then, the great outdoors can be alright. The sky is mighty big in the western USA, for sure, but the loneliness is not for everyone.
I don't want to kick the Mexicans out, for sure. I'd like them to learn english and become US citizens, and I'd favor some sort of an amnesty program, for sure.
The gist of the article is the phrase "universal access". What this really means, is that cash strapped cities and suburban areas should again rise to subsidize broadband in rural areas. I think at some point, if you choose to live in the middle of nowhere, you aren't going to get all the benefits. While its great that Denmark has higher broadband penetration, I think its silly to argue that broadband penetration in a country the size of one of our states is the same sort of engineering feet as solving the problem on a continental basis. Broadband for the USA is a much, much, larger problem than broadband for a tiny european country.
Parallelism is just a means to a business feature - performance. If clients want it, then there will be capital for it. If they don't, then it won't matter to them.
Jesus Fucking Christ, man...And they don't, for the most part, say or think that Jesus sucks donkey dick and the virgen mary was a lesbian. You're fucking insane
I'm going to wear my George Bush shirt to my wife's friend's gay wedding. We'll see what they say about Jesus. Most gays I know are militant leftists. And you are blowing things out of proportion, anyway. All I'm saying is, gays are ok, but there are times when I don't want them around. I want to talk to guys that share my social experiences, my values, my history. Gays don't. Why is it so hard to understand that you are different, and that difference has implications. Do I have to excess the experiences of heterosexual marriage, of talking about christianity (even if I haven't gone to church in a decade), all so that people can hang out with me? That's oppressive of me, is it not? When do my rights to associate with whom I want to associate with come into play? There's no malice at all. I just want to be with people like me.
Well, you already tell him to stay away from faggots and other genetically "inferior" people, I don't see why not
What planet are you coming from? Who said gays are genetically inferior? See, there you go, pretending that my mere desire to not be with gay people 24x7 is somehow some form of persecution. It isn't. Go make your own friends and go form your own clubs, and I'll have my friends and my clubs. And we'd be with people that are more like ourselves. Can't you see that this is better? What you are trying to do is oppress everyone by trying to degrade whatever culture you don't want to participate in.
But hey, you seem to the be expert on what homosexuals do. I'll cede this point to your greater experience and knowledge
I certainly do not want to be an expert on what homosexuals do, and that is rather the point of this whole conversation. I want nothing to do with their sexual lives, their relationships, none of it, and I should have none of that imposed on me. I could be a collegue of a gay person in a business relationship or an economic alliance of some sort, and have that as a basis of friendship, but I'm still going to want to hang out with hetero people because they are like me.
No, I'm saying that if someone accidentally kills someone, there's a legal definition for it: manslaughter. And those who commit manslaughter don't get put to death. And again, we shouldn't try minors as adults. It perverts the legal system.
This guy was retarded. He raped and killed some girl. That's not manslaughter. That's not an accident. That's murder.
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/LAW/08/09/texas.double.execution.03/
And now, was this an accident? Does this sound like manslaughter?
"During Texas' last legislative session, in the spring of 2001, supporters of HB236, a bill to ban execution of the mentally retarded, held a public rally at the capital in Austin and invoked the case of Mario Marquez, executed in 1995, as one of those 6 cases and stated that Marquez was exactly that kind of murderer which HB236 was designed to protect. Supporters of that bill could not have provided a better case for Texans to oppose this bill and for Governor Perry to veto it.
Marquez was angry that his wife was leaving him, so, in retaliation, he murdered his wife's 14-year-old niece, Rachel and his 18-year-old estranged wife, Rebecca. They were beaten and raped, orally, anally and vaginally, then strangled to death. Rebecca was sodomized with a large perfume bottle which was forced into her anus. Blood loss from both victims indicated that they were alive during these acts. Marquez then waited for his mother-in-law, to return home, beat and sexually assaulted her -- then presented the two brutalized bodies of the two girls to her -- as trophies for his anger.
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Sounds like the death penalty to me.
What's comical for Microsoft is that they would go and change the driver models for everyone for their new OS, and then blamed the resultant bugfest from the imposed change over on all of its business partners. Way to go Microsoft! You guys are a bunch of class acts!
I always held the light speed limit coupled with the vast size of the universe to be a more probable reason why we haven't run into ET yet,
I would be willing to bet, too that, when you do stack up all the things that can possibly go wrong, from local nova, to supernova, to large body impacts, to being placed too far, or too close from a star, without enough radioactive elements to keep a planetary core hot, but with not so many as to make it unlivable, and to somehow manage an oxygen carbon chemistry that doesn't just plop into a big carbon dioxide blob and allows for very energetic organic molecules to form and thus life, you just keep stacking up those odds, and suddenly, like factoring a large number, the weight of probabilities goes increasingly against you, no matter how many stars you have to throw at it.
If we are alone in the universe, or even the galaxy, it is kinda cool, because it means that the WHOLE THING IS OURS. While physics rules out a vast interstellar empire, there's nothing that rules out one way trips leapfrogging across the galaxy. In a few million years, we might be able to consume the whole thing.
We'll be speaking about Bush for many years to come.. just not the way you would hope
If Obama and Co start a trade war, then Bush's misgivings will seem like the chump change and people will miss the guy. If Iraq remains "tied" to the USA and starts to pump a mountain of oil, then Bush will seem like a God.
What the hell makes these UIUC people think that they know how to make a browser? You'd think they'd leave this kind of thing to people who've done it before. Sheesh!
It's amazing how few people on
Right, and what you do based on this fact determines whether or not you're a bigot
No, it determines if I want to waste my time with someone who is determined to be opposed to my value systems. The term of bigotry only applies when there is common, productive ground that is ignored. If there isn't, then, its ok. If some gay guy runs around saying that Jesus sucks donkey dick and the virgin mary was a lesbian, I am within every right to say, well, all faggits will burn in hell, and I certainly don't have to hang out with one.
16 is not an adult. And I think that brain development is one of the key factors in adulthood, so that a mentally handicapped 16-year old is indeed a child. In any case, he should have been tried as a minor.
Crimes of minors are childrens games gotten out of hand. Stealing candy from a grocery store, snarfing a few video games, egging the principal's house. Those are crimes of minors. Killing someone is an adult decision and should suffer adult consequences. If someone killed my kid, I'd want them dead. I think that is fair. And really, to bring this back to the whole moral relativism point, you argue that it is ok to kill an unborn child because it has a high probability of being defective due to being born into poor circumstances, and yet, here you have, what you claim, is a defective golemlike thing that isn't even human enough to know if it is murdering a child, and you want that thing to live? What do I tell my son? Stay away from retards because they might kill you?
Stock anti-Bush issues (snipped)
I think you are basically trumping up a lot of nonsense to score political points.
The fact of the matter is that on the one issue that counts, more than any other, Bush is on the right side of history, and what we are going to get out of Obama and Clinton (whichever wins), will be unfettered national disaster. I'm not even talking about the cheering of the Islamic world as Obama pulls out the troops in total defeat and Iraq goes up in flames. I'm not even talking about every muslim nation suddenly embolded to try and get the bomb because of perceived American weakness. That's just a little show on the cake.
You say that Bush has destroyed the good will of the world towards the USA by his actions? Well, I would be willing to bet that you have not seen the world pissed off at the USA like you will when Democrats pull the plug on free trade. Seriously. The world may not like what has happened in Iraq, but, I guarantee you that when factory workers in Glasgow, Liverpool, Paris, Essen, Krakow, Dubai, Hyperborad, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Shanghai, Taiwan, Manila, Tijuana and Detroit and more all start getting fired because Obama touches off a trade war, then you will see more world unrest than you could ever imagine. I mean Obama hasn't even been elected yet, and he's already picking a trade war with Canada and Mexico.
In the worst case of Bush evil / stupidity, take your pick, we have the USA going the route of the Roman Empire, and honestly, that at least has some upside to it economically for us and in terms of spreading civilization throughout the world, before we go belly up.
In the worst case of Obama / Clinton evil / stupidity, we have a global trade war, followed by a massive depression, followed by the rise of tyrants around the globe, and then World War III.
When you look at it that way, its kinda hard to imagine why we are even having a presidential election. Can we amend the constitution and have Bush run for a third term!
Try using facts next time and stay within the bounds of reality....There is no other possible set of qualities you could possess that would cause you to be a Bush supporter long time or short time....Or just do the only decent thing left to you after the massive damage you've willfully aided and kill yourself.
The reality is, you need to be building a statue to me. I'd like mine in marble please. You don't have to start right away though. I allow you to finish, right after you finish carving George Bush's face into Mt. Rushmore. I'm trying to think, now, should we call Bush, Bush the GREAT, or Bush the WONDERFUL champion. I just don't know. Lot's of big decisions to make.
It's wrong to say that Edison invented a way to record sound, when what he did was use a French design that does that, and modified it for playback
I'd say independently invented. Edison couldn't speak French. He didn't have a formal education. And, the way he thought, about transforming one thing to another, from mechanical to electrical energy and back, probably made it easier for him to see the phonograph independently than it would be to steal someone else's idea.
Second, there was no potential to use the tragedy for political gain
Bush did exactly what I'd have expected---he sized up how much political capital he could get out of it, concluded that the South would always be firmly in the Republican camp because of the religious right
Well, no, because, of two reasons.
1) The opportunities for political gains were enormous. If Republicans could get 20% of the black vote, instead of 5%, that's enough to consistently win a general election.
2) The south as a whole may tend to vote Republican, but, at a statewide level, Louisiana is a Democratic bastion. They may go for Republican presidents, but there's a long family tradition of southern democratic governors and representatives from that state. Only David Vitter broke that mold there, but, then he had to go and get himself a hookah!
I hope the people of the South see this for what it is and vote Democrat (or better yet, Independent) in the next presidential election....
Well, there's more to it than God in the south that keeps the south in the Republican columns. There is an aweful lot of manufacturing in the south that used to be in the north, because Republicans broke the northern unions so that those jobs could move to the south. AS it is, Republican economic policies under the Bush administration have actually benefited those states that tended to vote for him. Mining states in the west are making out, because the price of commodities is high. In some states they are re-opening gold mines or drilling for new gold largely because of high gold prices. Similarly, high oil prices might hurt us in the urban areas, but if you are living in oil country like hmm, Texas, you could be making out rather well for the first time in 30 years. And, if you are doing export manufacturing, you can be making out rather well. And, as much as you might bemoan the price of corn products, if you are in a corn state or really, any farming state, the higher food prices could be a godsend for a family that, during the 90s, had the best option of selling out the farm cheap to tract housing developers.
Edison was the man, because, unlike this inventor, his device allowed people to play back sounds. It wasn't even possible to play back the recording this other guy made until they could scan the paper and convert the signal to a waveform. As a side note, I'd have to ask: this is what passes for research these days? I'm unimpressed.
Newton beat Leibniz to calculus. Really, the whole thing with Newton was that, he wrote the principia while trying to hide the calculus that he used to invent. It's pretty difficult for someone to come out with a volume like that, unless they have calculus. I might even start using Newton's fluxion notation....
As for Einstein, while we was off about quantum physics, he did predict the appearance of stars -behind- the sun during a solar eclipse, which is really outrageous when you think about it.
OK, dumbshit. Judging a person based on their draw in a genetic lottery makes you an intellectual midget. Grok me?
You are just wrong. The most intelligent course of action is to judge a person based upon their utility to you. Whether or not that utility is influenced by genetics is of no consequence and behavior is all that matters. If the relationship is a working one, then one considers their economic contribution weighed by the costs imposed by dealing with social differences. If the relationship is a personal one, then, one considers the entertainment value or other utility of the relationship. Sometimes cultural differences are enriching, and sometimes they are not. Like, sometimes it is just simpler, and easier, and therefor, more intelligent, for a hetero male with a christian heritage to seek to associate with other hetero males of a christian heritage, just so you can say "merry christmas", and talk about families and other common things without the complications and discord caused by the consideration of behaviorial differences. In the end, biological differences do not matter. Either you act the way I act, or you don't.
Actually, in several documented cases, they were retarded black children (16ish) that were play-fighting with children that were younger than them, and accidentally killed them.
16 is not a child.
No baby existed, so apparently I didn't fuck up.
Well, that's like saying that you shot at someone and missed. The intent was certainly there, on your part.
This is horse shit. You don't get to define morality, either. Which I'm sure is very frustrating for you. Thanks for putting a guy in office that has caused more damage to this country than anyone in my lifetime. Thanks for putting someone into office that protects child molestors.
What damage has Bush caused? Or rather, how would you reverse this so-called damage and call it an improvement? See, here's the thing. The country is not -damaged- as a whole. Farmers are doing well, because of higher food prices. People that work in the mining and petroleum industries are doing well, because of higher commodity prices. I bet if I was an Iowa corn farmer, I'd be thankful that for the first time in decades I'm not looking at losing my farm because of a good harvest. I bet if I lived in some parts of Texas, I'd be happy that there's money in oil, for the first time in decades. If I worked for a manufacturing company that did well exporting, I'd bet I'd be happy that the falling dollar has exports booming. Now, when your guys get in, once again the economy will be wrenched from a manufacturing and resource extraction economy and into a financial / intellectual property economy. The banks will do good and Wall Street will do ok, but, everyone working corn fields, working in the mines, working the oil wells, will be out of a job, just like they were when the economy was "good." Everyone complains now, about how much Exxon Mobil makes, but I bet we could dig up more than a few articles from the 1990s that predicted that both of those companies were going to go belly up and take a few million jobs with them.
But hey, I'm not the one that doesn't believe in grey areas....
Have you seriously considered taking the only possible course open to you to gain a scrap of integrity and put a bullet in your cowardly, deluded traitor's brain?
I think actually that you should be building a statue to my genius, and worshipping me. I would be pleased if you named your children all after me, but, if you only could name one after me, than you might still be eligible for my blessings.