RCA and Polaroid achieved a great level of wealth through introduction of new technologies in media and film, and having done so, spent their energies at the peak of their wealth employing the very finest minds researching and perfecting that "next big thing", that unfortunately for them, nobody wanted. Microsoft seems to be going down the same exact path.
? but please understand that a lot more people than just a few isolated hermits would be negatively impacted by pulling the plug on POTS.
Your web page totally rocks and the big yard hobbies that require space is I want out my life. I'm with you.
I have no problem subsidizing rural buildouts of telco stuff. I'm more of a nationalist than a cheapskate in my right winger ness, so some fed spending is ok by me.
Really? How about using the bible to justify persecution against gays or blacks? The killing of abortion doctors
BTW, even Barrack Obama wrote that, while he was pro-choice, he could see the possibility that abortion doctor murderers might be as right as anti-slavery terrorists (like John Brown) was, in their day. Twas a hell of a book he wrote.
Right and wrong are in the eye of the beholder. Do you think Hitler and the Germans decided 'hey, we're evil!'. No, they thought they were right just as much as we thought we were right.
That's also true, but they certainly knew they were in the minority opinion on things and would have to work for a long time to breed a new ideology into the mainstream. That's why Himmler is on the tape at I think Auschwitz basically exhorting his men to man up and get on with the killing, that what they are doing is brutal, but necessary, and will make for a better world, but must be a secret until some future time.
Truth, science, and technology is what won out. Without the printing press, we'd be a bunch of Catholic/Orthodox fiefdoms fighting the Moors throughout an unending dark age.
Hmmm... seems to me that we are still fighting the Moors...and science and technology is now obsessed with taking back all of the goodies that it gave us, so, like, where's the progress?
ven if there was absolute proof that there was no god, people would still be unhappy about being injured, enslaved, or killed, and would continue to call those things wrong. Morality is a human concept that exists independently of religion.
Yeah, but there would be nothing to stop other people from injuring, enslaving, whatever, as they did for thousands of years with no real problem before the advent of Christianity. I mean, look at how much conservative Romans lamented Christianity, and even how Nietzche hated it for making Romans into sissies.
Really? How about using the bible to justify persecution against gays or blacks? The killing of abortion doctors. The near eradication of the native peoples that were here long before us.
Yes, but you have to remember that Christianity was used to stop slavery and persecution of gays as well. Christianity is a two edged sword, and the edge of Christ the redeemer usually wins out in the long run.
How about the Salem witch trials, or the crusades? Are these all compatible with the 'western' world?
Dude, the Crusades are the most overrated so-called fallacy that ever has been. Hundreds of years before the Crusades were even a thought, Muslim armies were invading every country around Saudi Arabia all the way through northern africa, the levant, up through Europe, and attacking even to India before they had it out with Ghengis Khan and, well lost.
So yeah, the muslims are pissed off about the Crusades, but what about the part that the Levant was actually CHRISTIAN LAND FIRST. Hello, Byzantine Empire, secular Egypt, open Jerusalem, what happened to you? Allah, that's what happened.
.But I am not a biologist so what do I know. I do know in the US the Conservatives will kick the crap out of Liberals unless the liberals start breeding better.
I think you would be right if there were not so many Catholics. Catholics are liberal baby makers. Catholics have big families, tend to be urban, with loads of babies, and so to them, the whole liberal idea of everyone getting along and sharing just makes a lot of sense. Don't believe me? Just look at the demographics.
Catholics would overwhelming be Democrats, if it were not for abortion, and I would expect that trend to continue, with the influx of so many catholic immigrants. People look at Ted Kennedy's career and what he did with immigration don't get it at all - despite his faults, he didn't see the world through a racial prism, but a religious one, and so he was the guy that shifted immigration to tilt to predominantly catholic countries.
Despite the present rap of liberalism and even communism as secular things, there is a huge underpinning of catholicism in both. In particular, because catholicism equates its religion with both an oral tradition and a book tradition, its easier to let go of the bible as a completely inerrant book because catholic doctrine holds that the bible was never actually meant to be the one book that rules them all... its a helper for priests. And, because catholicism borrows the jewish notion of demands deeds to go with the worship, its tough to ignore Christ's teachings to save the poor and all that stuff.
What a ridiculous statement. Why would you say that?
I think your sense of ridiculousness stems from the idea that islam taking over the earth is undesirable. It may be for us, but, what if it is the natural course of things? Like, why does the West have to not get taken over by Islam?
Give or take a percentage point or two, federal taxes have stayed about flat or gone down since the 60's.
No, actually, total federal taxation as a % of GDP has been around the same. The problem is that, the base has shifted so that the code is too progressive and now the federal revenues are essentially tied to how wealthy people do. If they have a bad year, there's no revenues for the gov't, like how revenues fell off of a cliff in 2008.
I'm pretty sure the CBO scores the final bills, too.
They do the best they can and are certainly better than nothing.
If I had a reliable VOIP service, I would be happy, but the most reliable thing is POTS. It's simple and it works. I know some people that are just VOIP or just cell phone, but neither is reliable enough to replace my dedicated line - I've tried it, twice, and its just not enough. Plus land lines are dirt cheap.
. She was built like a tractor and had shoulders of a linebacker. A very enjoyable person, but in no way hot. --
Just think of her as a baby making machine. You got to sometimes let yourself be a total man-pig and look at women for the efficacy as breeding machines. I mean, there's no better sex then when you think you might get a woman pregnant. If it was not for social mores about father hood and my own religious sensibilities, I'd have a 100 kids at least simply because knocking up a chick is great.
I think the better story to link to is about the giant snake they just found in a mine in South America. 40+ feet long, weighing in at over a ton, lived about 60 Million years ago... indicating that the temperature
Either that, or the snake got lost, and wound up in a cold spot, and that's why it died.
"evolution doesn't have a goal, so there's no way to say which entity is more and which less evolved".
Well evolution is a concept, but organisms have a goal of survival, and species of passing on their genes, so therefor, the better organism does more of it. So, you have to swallow your pride and admit that some cultures and people are just better than you. For example, we may deplore Islamic sexual repression of women, but evolutionarily speaking, unless we nuke them, they are going to take over the earth. Therefor, from an evolutionary perspective, Islam is better than liberal western culture, and women that have less babies and men that father less babies are not as good as ones that do.
Unfortunately for Boskops, he may have had a 150 IQ, but only had a little dick. So chicks dumped Boskops for neathanderthal, who was not only bigger and stronger, but better in bed. Thus, the old adage is proven. Darwin was a sexist - women really are to blame for everything.
Not any more. Since the nonpartisan CBO has been doing the cost scoring there have been zero cases of legislation costing more than Congressional Budget Office said it would.
No, all they do is change the underlying assumptions in conference, or, hit on some technical snag, and you either get the "it's a different bill", or, "it costs more than we thought it would." Either way, taxpayers watch their stuff go up. Or, better still, they try and make things seem less expensive by using mandates rather than government programs. Like, Republicans used to say, "we don't want a new government program and spending", and then pass legislation demanding the states take action on state budgets.
I thought World War II empirically proved that the master race is not all its cracked up to be. American mutts and Soviet subhumans kicked the living shit out of the master aryan race. The whole concept of NAZI ideology was that they were the master race, they were not only deserving of victory, but destined, thus, by the most racist rules there are, they proved themselves inferior.
PS. Polish women are the hottest of all European women.
Nonsense. Relatively free trade is one of the things that's kept us afloat for this long. Our financial problems are our government's doing, and selling us what we're willing to buy is not an act of aggression.
Free trade has gutted the economy. All it is a proxy for slave labor. It's a total failure. All you have to do is look at all the shuttered manufacturing plants and all the loss of industrial know how to see that. Maybe its just me, but I thought being able to do it yourself was a civic value. Republicans and free traders just want us to be a sell insurance to each other walmart state that can't do anything. Why the hell not have national insurance, that way, we wouldn't even have to do anything at all?
There is a difference between a) improving infrastructure, providing support for people so that they don't go into foreclosure/bankruptcy (costing *more* money), and other things that can facilitate growth an
Bush gave everyone a check, which allowed them to pay bills. The stimulus package did what again?
Which is why the US would never tax the citizens of its own capital and deny them a vote in Congress...oh...wait...
I would almost agree with you, but, um, who actually is NOT on welfare in Washington DC? There's not a soul that actually works in that town. IT's the crack capital of the world.
I've been fascinated how, in the medieval world, everyone seemed to have some sort of dress appropriate to their function. We should have different uniforms we should wear, depending on what do. If we are single, that would make for good ice breakers.. "so, I see you are a botanist, level 2", is a lot better of an opener, then, "hey baby, what's your sign."
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RCA and Polaroid achieved a great level of wealth through introduction of new technologies in media and film, and having done so, spent their energies at the peak of their wealth employing the very finest minds researching and perfecting that "next big thing", that unfortunately for them, nobody wanted. Microsoft seems to be going down the same exact path.
? but please understand that a lot more people than just a few isolated hermits would be negatively impacted by pulling the plug on POTS.
Your web page totally rocks and the big yard hobbies that require space is I want out my life. I'm with you.
I have no problem subsidizing rural buildouts of telco stuff. I'm more of a nationalist than a cheapskate in my right winger ness, so some fed spending is ok by me.
Really? How about using the bible to justify persecution against gays or blacks? The killing of abortion doctors
BTW, even Barrack Obama wrote that, while he was pro-choice, he could see the possibility that abortion doctor murderers might be as right as anti-slavery terrorists (like John Brown) was, in their day. Twas a hell of a book he wrote.
Right and wrong are in the eye of the beholder. Do you think Hitler and the Germans decided 'hey, we're evil!'. No, they thought they were right just as much as we thought we were right.
That's also true, but they certainly knew they were in the minority opinion on things and would have to work for a long time to breed a new ideology into the mainstream. That's why Himmler is on the tape at I think Auschwitz basically exhorting his men to man up and get on with the killing, that what they are doing is brutal, but necessary, and will make for a better world, but must be a secret until some future time.
Truth, science, and technology is what won out. Without the printing press, we'd be a bunch of Catholic/Orthodox fiefdoms fighting the Moors throughout an unending dark age.
Hmmm... seems to me that we are still fighting the Moors...and science and technology is now obsessed with taking back all of the goodies that it gave us, so, like, where's the progress?
ven if there was absolute proof that there was no god, people would still be unhappy about being injured, enslaved, or killed, and would continue to call those things wrong. Morality is a human concept that exists independently of religion.
Yeah, but there would be nothing to stop other people from injuring, enslaving, whatever, as they did for thousands of years with no real problem before the advent of Christianity. I mean, look at how much conservative Romans lamented Christianity, and even how Nietzche hated it for making Romans into sissies.
The third world would be liquidated.
Thats the problem with trying to interpret and do what God wants when God isn't actually telling anyone to do anything.
But that's the thing, if there is in fact, no God, then none of the atrocities religions are accused of are actually wrong.
Then who would grow the food that you eat?
I would think that if you wanted to live out where there were no people, why would you want to be online with them.
Really? How about using the bible to justify persecution against gays or blacks? The killing of abortion doctors. The near eradication of the native peoples that were here long before us.
Yes, but you have to remember that Christianity was used to stop slavery and persecution of gays as well. Christianity is a two edged sword, and the edge of Christ the redeemer usually wins out in the long run.
How about the Salem witch trials, or the crusades? Are these all compatible with the 'western' world?
Dude, the Crusades are the most overrated so-called fallacy that ever has been. Hundreds of years before the Crusades were even a thought, Muslim armies were invading every country around Saudi Arabia all the way through northern africa, the levant, up through Europe, and attacking even to India before they had it out with Ghengis Khan and, well lost.
So yeah, the muslims are pissed off about the Crusades, but what about the part that the Levant was actually CHRISTIAN LAND FIRST. Hello, Byzantine Empire, secular Egypt, open Jerusalem, what happened to you? Allah, that's what happened.
.But I am not a biologist so what do I know. I do know in the US the Conservatives will kick the crap out of Liberals unless the liberals start breeding better.
I think you would be right if there were not so many Catholics. Catholics are liberal baby makers. Catholics have big families, tend to be urban, with loads of babies, and so to them, the whole liberal idea of everyone getting along and sharing just makes a lot of sense. Don't believe me? Just look at the demographics.
Catholics would overwhelming be Democrats, if it were not for abortion, and I would expect that trend to continue, with the influx of so many catholic immigrants. People look at Ted Kennedy's career and what he did with immigration don't get it at all - despite his faults, he didn't see the world through a racial prism, but a religious one, and so he was the guy that shifted immigration to tilt to predominantly catholic countries.
Despite the present rap of liberalism and even communism as secular things, there is a huge underpinning of catholicism in both. In particular, because catholicism equates its religion with both an oral tradition and a book tradition, its easier to let go of the bible as a completely inerrant book because catholic doctrine holds that the bible was never actually meant to be the one book that rules them all... its a helper for priests. And, because catholicism borrows the jewish notion of demands deeds to go with the worship, its tough to ignore Christ's teachings to save the poor and all that stuff.
What a ridiculous statement. Why would you say that?
I think your sense of ridiculousness stems from the idea that islam taking over the earth is undesirable. It may be for us, but, what if it is the natural course of things? Like, why does the West have to not get taken over by Islam?
Give or take a percentage point or two, federal taxes have stayed about flat or gone down since the 60's.
No, actually, total federal taxation as a % of GDP has been around the same. The problem is that, the base has shifted so that the code is too progressive and now the federal revenues are essentially tied to how wealthy people do. If they have a bad year, there's no revenues for the gov't, like how revenues fell off of a cliff in 2008.
I'm pretty sure the CBO scores the final bills, too.
They do the best they can and are certainly better than nothing.
If I had a reliable VOIP service, I would be happy, but the most reliable thing is POTS. It's simple and it works. I know some people that are just VOIP or just cell phone, but neither is reliable enough to replace my dedicated line - I've tried it, twice, and its just not enough. Plus land lines are dirt cheap.
. She was built like a tractor and had shoulders of a linebacker. A very enjoyable person, but in no way hot.
--
Just think of her as a baby making machine. You got to sometimes let yourself be a total man-pig and look at women for the efficacy as breeding machines. I mean, there's no better sex then when you think you might get a woman pregnant. If it was not for social mores about father hood and my own religious sensibilities, I'd have a 100 kids at least simply because knocking up a chick is great.
I think the better story to link to is about the giant snake they just found in a mine in South America. 40+ feet long, weighing in at over a ton, lived about 60 Million years ago... indicating that the temperature
Either that, or the snake got lost, and wound up in a cold spot, and that's why it died.
"evolution doesn't have a goal, so there's no way to say which entity is more and which less evolved".
Well evolution is a concept, but organisms have a goal of survival, and species of passing on their genes, so therefor, the better organism does more of it. So, you have to swallow your pride and admit that some cultures and people are just better than you. For example, we may deplore Islamic sexual repression of women, but evolutionarily speaking, unless we nuke them, they are going to take over the earth. Therefor, from an evolutionary perspective, Islam is better than liberal western culture, and women that have less babies and men that father less babies are not as good as ones that do.
Unfortunately for Boskops, he may have had a 150 IQ, but only had a little dick. So chicks dumped Boskops for neathanderthal, who was not only bigger and stronger, but better in bed. Thus, the old adage is proven. Darwin was a sexist - women really are to blame for everything.
Not any more. Since the nonpartisan CBO has been doing the cost scoring there have been zero cases of legislation costing more than Congressional Budget Office said it would.
No, all they do is change the underlying assumptions in conference, or, hit on some technical snag, and you either get the "it's a different bill", or, "it costs more than we thought it would." Either way, taxpayers watch their stuff go up. Or, better still, they try and make things seem less expensive by using mandates rather than government programs. Like, Republicans used to say, "we don't want a new government program and spending", and then pass legislation demanding the states take action on state budgets.
So, when reality is racist, you change it?
I thought World War II empirically proved that the master race is not all its cracked up to be. American mutts and Soviet subhumans kicked the living shit out of the master aryan race. The whole concept of NAZI ideology was that they were the master race, they were not only deserving of victory, but destined, thus, by the most racist rules there are, they proved themselves inferior.
PS. Polish women are the hottest of all European women.
What you really don't want are the jobs where you have to wear a uniform AND exhibit no expressiveness.
What's wrong with that? Maybe some of us just want to be cogs.
Nonsense. Relatively free trade is one of the things that's kept us afloat for this long. Our financial problems are our government's doing, and selling us what we're willing to buy is not an act of aggression.
Free trade has gutted the economy. All it is a proxy for slave labor. It's a total failure. All you have to do is look at all the shuttered manufacturing plants and all the loss of industrial know how to see that. Maybe its just me, but I thought being able to do it yourself was a civic value. Republicans and free traders just want us to be a sell insurance to each other walmart state that can't do anything. Why the hell not have national insurance, that way, we wouldn't even have to do anything at all?
There is a difference between a) improving infrastructure, providing support for people so that they don't go into foreclosure/bankruptcy (costing *more* money), and other things that can facilitate growth an
Bush gave everyone a check, which allowed them to pay bills. The stimulus package did what again?
Which is why the US would never tax the citizens of its own capital and deny them a vote in Congress...oh...wait...
I would almost agree with you, but, um, who actually is NOT on welfare in Washington DC? There's not a soul that actually works in that town. IT's the crack capital of the world.
So essentially, Microsoft got sued for, putting extra data in a file. What a joke.
I've been fascinated how, in the medieval world, everyone seemed to have some sort of dress appropriate to their function. We should have different uniforms we should wear, depending on what do. If we are single, that would make for good ice breakers.. "so, I see you are a botanist, level 2", is a lot better of an opener, then, "hey baby, what's your sign."