>>>Gotta love the evil conservative hyperbole there.
It's also a mistake to think "conservative" means old fuddy-duddy. Building a nation upon the idea that PEOPLE should rule, not Lords, is anything but conservative. It was so radical an idea that it embroiled America and Europe in revolution for 2 centuries (from the UK revolutions of 1600s through the Napoleonic Wars of the 1800s). I also support the idea of gay marriage or multi-partner marriage. I support doing whatever you want to your own body, including shooting-up drugs and selling your body for sex or temporary indentured servitude. And yet I'm Republican.
Me? Conservative? Hardly. I only call myself "conservative" because you took-away the word "liberal" and used it to describe communism, corporatism, and other top-down tyrannies/monarchies/oligarchies. I am as liberal in my thoughts as Jefferson was, and he was faaar from being an old fuddy-duddy, but I can no longer use that word as Jefferson used it, because it's been redefined. (Think 1984.)
This entire premise is flawed. Evolutionists are not anti-christian. At least I'm not. What I am is anti-tyranny, meaning I don't want you to force your beliefs upon me.
A Christian foundation is laughable? How so? One of the prime leaders of the revolution was Samuel Adams, a christian preacher. The writings of George Washington contain frequent references to "God" and "our Creator". Thomas Jefferson, as president, signed his documents: "on this date 180x, in the year of our lord, Jesus Christ". He even created his own bible called the Jesus Bible which focused on quoting Jesus of Nazareth.
That doesn't mean everyone should be forced to be a Christian. Be whatever you want (I am atheist). BUT at the same time to deny the reality that the founders of this country were Christians who devoutly beloved in God and a Christ/Messiah is ALSO a bias, and that bias has perverted our textbooks for decades.
Why is THAT bias any better? The answer: It isn't.
History is about facts, and getting as close to the truth as possible. To pretend the Founders were not Christians is anti-truth and makes you no better than the Texan book-writers.
Troll? Really? Hardly. He's just expressing his opinion. You don't have to like it, but that's no reason to censor him via subtracting points until his post disappears.
I agree with his sentiment. I was detained in Texas by an "internal security checkpoint" or whatever the hell it's called. I was within 50 miles of the international border, and had never crossed it, but they still wanted to search the trunk of my car. I refused to comply. They made me stand-around while they shined* lights through the window of my car, and then held their ear against the trunk, before finally letting me go an hour later.
Now anyone with common sense could have looked at my Maryland license plus how I was dressed (shorts/Tshirt), and realized I was a tourist not a smuggler. I don't know what they thought they'd find. There's not much room to hide anyone in a two-seater.
Anyway: Rights don't have meaning unless you use them. INSIST upon compliance; refuse to consent to warrantless searches and remain silent.
* * Irregular verbs are illogical. They should be added to the list of obsolete words. IMHO.
Intimidation, even if only temporary, is still intimidation. It's the rise of Neo-feudalism, where sovereign citizens are being demoted to Serfs that must bow before their new Lords in government.
True the new masters are now elected, but an elected Lord is still a Lord and we serfs are still serfs. Our "rights" can be revoked at any time (see the Renewed Patriot Act and revocation of the right to remain silent). Rights come from our Creator (god or nature) and the Neo-feudalists need to be stopped from turning back the clock 400 years.
At the time (late 80s) few BBSes kept messages longer than a month (due to lack of space). As a young teenager I had no idea that someone somewhere would spend thousands of dollars buying hundreds of ~20 megabyte hard drives (the standard size at that time) to store everything.
>>>What if you're asked to provide the IP addresses from which you posted anything in the past?
I don't know my IP address. Can't provide what I don't know. And the ancient ISP I used in the 80s and 90s no longer exists, so you can't ask them either.
The textbooks are ALREADY slanted toward a pro-"government is your friend" viewpoint. So you complain about bias - it's already there and has been there for decades.
As for liberal viewpoints, while some things I agree with (gay marriage, legalize marijuana, et cetera), there are other ideas I find highly objectionable. Like Socialism: - You work your ass off trying to earn money. - I sit and watch TV or internet all day, and then I suck the cash out of your wallet to pay my bills (food stamps, housing, doctors' bills, welfare, and other free handouts,.....)
I call that legalized theft (from your wallet to my pocket), and I am surprised that liberals support it.
Nudity of a human body, whether that body is 60, 16, or 6, is not a crime. Every day (when it's warm) millions of people around the world run-around topless or naked on beaches, or in nudist camps. Many of them even take photos and stick them in their family albums. Civilization has not collapsed.
And even if those "pieces of classical art" were pornographic, that's no reason to censor them. It's not going to harm your little kid. You taught them to read the book "Everybody Poops", a rather disgusting act, so surely you can teach them "everybody procreates" too.
Possession of photos of the nudity is not the crime.
The involuntary sex is the crime, and the man who did the act is the criminal. Get it straight. I'm sick and tired of seeing people get arrested for victimless crimes (like smoking weed while watching Star Trek at home - no victim? No crime).
Judas Priest people. Are you gonna start making pigs wear clothes, and babies cover their nakedness (ohnoes!). "Because God created it, the human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve intact its splendor and its beauty." - Pope John Paul II
THIS is not pornography: (Although it is not safe for work.) It is Homo sapiens in his natural state. And that is all the wikipedia shows - it does Not display pornography. http://www.domai.com/
All you did was reword (and un-necessarily complicate) the Prius transmission. I've noticed Prius owners like to do that, perhaps to feel as if they are driving a space car, but Toyota's design is actually ridiculously simple. It's an automatic transmission, but instead of a clutch, they use an electric motor... thereby providing a variable engine-to-wheel gear ratio. Like most eloquent ideas (F=ma, E=mc^2, etc), it's not complicated at all.
And FYI, an OTTO cycle engine is not most efficient at 2000 rpm. It's most efficient at its horse power peak RPM, and at full throttle. Anything less than that (RPM or throttle), and you lose volumetric efficiency. And when I say efficient, I'm saying the power/fuel use is the maximum. It's all about the intake and exhaust design (you can tune them for maximum efficiency at a particular RPM for a particular engine design). That's why hybrids typically use smaller engines. So that you can run it closer to its peak power for longer (40hp at full throttle would be plenty to cruise on the highway and still be able to charge the batteries without needing to be throttled back).
My Beetle's a Diesel engine, not an Otto. You shouldn't make assumptions, because look what you did - embarrassed yourself. Plus wasted a lot of typing energy.
I'm less worried about Congress and more worried about the voters. Congressmen can be reasoned with, because for the most part they have embarrassing events in their lives too and can understand slips of the tongue. But not the voters. Imagine if you will:
VOTER #1: "OMG! Did you see what Senator Joe Smith posted when he was in college! Quote: Hey roomie: I am going to score some pussy tonight. Can I have the dorm from 8 to 12? thx." VOTER #2: "Woah. He treats women like sex objects!" VOTER #3: "Horrible. Let's protest against this womanizer." VOTER #4: "Yeah! Girl power! Death to chavenists!"
And it spreads from there. It doesn't matter if Senator Smith is now in his 60s and does an annual walk with his wife & daughters to raise money for a breast cancer cure..... the idiot voters will skewer him for a post he made ~40 years earlier.
I think you missed the point. He's saying that nobody can live up to the standard of perfection demanded by voters. Everybody has "skeletons" in their closets, and the internet makes that even more important because it grabs and archives everything, even embarrassing posts.
Look at Senator Specter in Pennsylvania. He said something he should not have said at a Town Meeting. Normally that would disappear into the ether and be forgotten, but now everyone has cameras on their cellphones. It spread from the cellphone to the youtube, and then the national consciousness. Now you might say "Well Specter is an ass and deserves to lose," which I agree with, but I also think EVERYONE is an ass.
We all have said things we regret later. So we're ALL disqualified for the job, if you hold to that standard.
Not really. You still need to have Jobless or underpaid Walmart "victims" to whom your redistribute your socialist wealth (and buy votes). So no, not "everyone" would be working for the government.
Socialism: - You work your ass off trying to earn money. - I sit and watch TV or internet all day, and then I suck the cash out of your wallet to pay my bills (food stamps, housing, doctors' bills, welfare, and other free stuff).
I have posts from BBSes in 1988-91 that are now archived on google. How did they get there? Well the BBS was connected to a nationwide network, so the posts were distributed all across North America (and probably Europe too). While most of those copies disappeared when BBSes died out, some anal retentive BBS Sys-op kept all of his files. He sold or gave his ~10-year-collection of ancient 1980s/90s posts to Google. And now my posts are archived for everyone to see.
That taught me a valuable lesson - not everything disappears. So now I only post under fake names. I doubt I'll ever be a political appointee, but the future is always surprising. If I ever do have that kind of job where ALL my life's work becomes relevant, and people start digging through the web, I don't want some ancient Slashdot or Usenet posts to come back and haunt me.
No actually it's more like a JOKE. Jeez. Besides: I've seen stage hypnotists talk people into having orgasms. Is that "rape"??? They never get prosecuted for it.
Speech synthesis and musical ability are not the same thing. The original Mac that I used to use in college sounded worse than my C64's SID and nowhere near as good as the Amiga's Paula chip.
In my opinion the most-efficient car that could ever be built, at least in the near future, would look like this but with a battery to provide extra assist:
The 4 seater version would be identical but twice as wide. Volkswagen did design such a car, with a projected MPG of 150, but then the CEO retired and he was replaced with a new CEO who likes sportscar and gas guzzlers. Oh well.
My automatic in my last car lasted 340,000 miles and never needed service. In contrast doesn't a manual need a clutch replacement every 100,000 miles due to wear during shifting? So that means, at least in my experience, the manual costs more.
I think Toyota already invented this with their Prius hybrid car. It uses a traditional planetary gear, but in addition to the gasoline engine and the wheels, it's also tied to an electric motor. The electric motor spins as different rates (or not at all), thereby choosing an infinite number of engine-to-wheel ratios.
Meanwhile:
I have a VW Beetle with 6 gears automatic. Obviously that's not a CVT, but the huge number of gears keeps my engine hovering at 2000 rpm consistently (between 10 and 60 mph), so it has the same effect as a CVT (keeps the engine at the most efficient spot).
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>>>Gotta love the evil conservative hyperbole there.
It's also a mistake to think "conservative" means old fuddy-duddy. Building a nation upon the idea that PEOPLE should rule, not Lords, is anything but conservative. It was so radical an idea that it embroiled America and Europe in revolution for 2 centuries (from the UK revolutions of 1600s through the Napoleonic Wars of the 1800s). I also support the idea of gay marriage or multi-partner marriage. I support doing whatever you want to your own body, including shooting-up drugs and selling your body for sex or temporary indentured servitude. And yet I'm Republican.
Me? Conservative? Hardly. I only call myself "conservative" because you took-away the word "liberal" and used it to describe communism, corporatism, and other top-down tyrannies/monarchies/oligarchies. I am as liberal in my thoughts as Jefferson was, and he was faaar from being an old fuddy-duddy, but I can no longer use that word as Jefferson used it, because it's been redefined. (Think 1984.)
This entire premise is flawed. Evolutionists are not anti-christian. At least I'm not. What I am is anti-tyranny, meaning I don't want you to force your beliefs upon me.
A Christian foundation is laughable? How so? One of the prime leaders of the revolution was Samuel Adams, a christian preacher. The writings of George Washington contain frequent references to "God" and "our Creator". Thomas Jefferson, as president, signed his documents: "on this date 180x, in the year of our lord, Jesus Christ". He even created his own bible called the Jesus Bible which focused on quoting Jesus of Nazareth.
That doesn't mean everyone should be forced to be a Christian. Be whatever you want (I am atheist). BUT at the same time to deny the reality that the founders of this country were Christians who devoutly beloved in God and a Christ/Messiah is ALSO a bias, and that bias has perverted our textbooks for decades.
Why is THAT bias any better? The answer: It isn't.
History is about facts, and getting as close to the truth as possible. To pretend the Founders were not Christians is anti-truth and makes you no better than the Texan book-writers.
>>>British Commonweal.
Is this the Middle English speeling? Well let me call in me wyf. She war an Anglish taughter.
Troll? Really? Hardly. He's just expressing his opinion. You don't have to like it, but that's no reason to censor him via subtracting points until his post disappears.
I agree with his sentiment. I was detained in Texas by an "internal security checkpoint" or whatever the hell it's called. I was within 50 miles of the international border, and had never crossed it, but they still wanted to search the trunk of my car. I refused to comply. They made me stand-around while they shined* lights through the window of my car, and then held their ear against the trunk, before finally letting me go an hour later.
Now anyone with common sense could have looked at my Maryland license plus how I was dressed (shorts/Tshirt), and realized I was a tourist not a smuggler. I don't know what they thought they'd find. There's not much room to hide anyone in a two-seater.
Anyway: Rights don't have meaning unless you use them. INSIST upon compliance; refuse to consent to warrantless searches and remain silent.
*
* Irregular verbs are illogical. They should be added to the list of obsolete words. IMHO.
Intimidation, even if only temporary, is still intimidation. It's the rise of Neo-feudalism, where sovereign citizens are being demoted to Serfs that must bow before their new Lords in government.
True the new masters are now elected, but an elected Lord is still a Lord and we serfs are still serfs. Our "rights" can be revoked at any time (see the Renewed Patriot Act and revocation of the right to remain silent). Rights come from our Creator (god or nature) and the Neo-feudalists need to be stopped from turning back the clock 400 years.
Barak Obama won because Bush was president. The end. The Democrats could have run Jimmy Carter and still won in 2008.
At the time (late 80s) few BBSes kept messages longer than a month (due to lack of space). As a young teenager I had no idea that someone somewhere would spend thousands of dollars buying hundreds of ~20 megabyte hard drives (the standard size at that time) to store everything.
>>>What if you're asked to provide the IP addresses from which you posted anything in the past?
I don't know my IP address. Can't provide what I don't know. And the ancient ISP I used in the 80s and 90s no longer exists, so you can't ask them either.
The textbooks are ALREADY slanted toward a pro-"government is your friend" viewpoint. So you complain about bias - it's already there and has been there for decades.
As for liberal viewpoints, while some things I agree with (gay marriage, legalize marijuana, et cetera), there are other ideas I find highly objectionable. Like Socialism: .....)
- You work your ass off trying to earn money.
- I sit and watch TV or internet all day, and then I suck the cash out of your wallet to pay my bills (food stamps, housing, doctors' bills, welfare, and other free handouts,
I call that legalized theft (from your wallet to my pocket), and I am surprised that liberals support it.
Nudity of a human body, whether that body is 60, 16, or 6, is not a crime. Every day (when it's warm) millions of people around the world run-around topless or naked on beaches, or in nudist camps. Many of them even take photos and stick them in their family albums. Civilization has not collapsed.
And even if those "pieces of classical art" were pornographic, that's no reason to censor them. It's not going to harm your little kid. You taught them to read the book "Everybody Poops", a rather disgusting act, so surely you can teach them "everybody procreates" too.
Nudity is not the crime.
Possession of photos of the nudity is not the crime.
The involuntary sex is the crime, and the man who did the act is the criminal. Get it straight. I'm sick and tired of seeing people get arrested for victimless crimes (like smoking weed while watching Star Trek at home - no victim? No crime).
Judas Priest people. Are you gonna start making pigs wear clothes, and babies cover their nakedness (ohnoes!). "Because God created it, the human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve intact its splendor and its beauty." - Pope John Paul II
THIS is not pornography: (Although it is not safe for work.) It is Homo sapiens in his natural state. And that is all the wikipedia shows - it does Not display pornography.
http://www.domai.com/
All you did was reword (and un-necessarily complicate) the Prius transmission. I've noticed Prius owners like to do that, perhaps to feel as if they are driving a space car, but Toyota's design is actually ridiculously simple. It's an automatic transmission, but instead of a clutch, they use an electric motor... thereby providing a variable engine-to-wheel gear ratio. Like most eloquent ideas (F=ma, E=mc^2, etc), it's not complicated at all.
And FYI, an OTTO cycle engine is not most efficient at 2000 rpm. It's most efficient at its horse power peak RPM, and at full throttle. Anything less than that (RPM or throttle), and you lose volumetric efficiency. And when I say efficient, I'm saying the power/fuel use is the maximum. It's all about the intake and exhaust design (you can tune them for maximum efficiency at a particular RPM for a particular engine design). That's why hybrids typically use smaller engines. So that you can run it closer to its peak power for longer (40hp at full throttle would be plenty to cruise on the highway and still be able to charge the batteries without needing to be throttled back).
My Beetle's a Diesel engine, not an Otto. You shouldn't make assumptions, because look what you did - embarrassed yourself. Plus wasted a lot of typing energy.
I'm less worried about Congress and more worried about the voters. Congressmen can be reasoned with, because for the most part they have embarrassing events in their lives too and can understand slips of the tongue. But not the voters. Imagine if you will:
VOTER #1: "OMG! Did you see what Senator Joe Smith posted when he was in college! Quote: Hey roomie: I am going to score some pussy tonight. Can I have the dorm from 8 to 12? thx."
VOTER #2: "Woah. He treats women like sex objects!"
VOTER #3: "Horrible. Let's protest against this womanizer."
VOTER #4: "Yeah! Girl power! Death to chavenists!"
And it spreads from there. It doesn't matter if Senator Smith is now in his 60s and does an annual walk with his wife & daughters to raise money for a breast cancer cure..... the idiot voters will skewer him for a post he made ~40 years earlier.
I think you missed the point. He's saying that nobody can live up to the standard of perfection demanded by voters. Everybody has "skeletons" in their closets, and the internet makes that even more important because it grabs and archives everything, even embarrassing posts.
Look at Senator Specter in Pennsylvania. He said something he should not have said at a Town Meeting. Normally that would disappear into the ether and be forgotten, but now everyone has cameras on their cellphones. It spread from the cellphone to the youtube, and then the national consciousness. Now you might say "Well Specter is an ass and deserves to lose," which I agree with, but I also think EVERYONE is an ass.
We all have said things we regret later. So we're ALL disqualified for the job, if you hold to that standard.
Not really. You still need to have Jobless or underpaid Walmart "victims" to whom your redistribute your socialist wealth (and buy votes). So no, not "everyone" would be working for the government.
Socialism:
- You work your ass off trying to earn money.
- I sit and watch TV or internet all day, and then I suck the cash out of your wallet to pay my bills (food stamps, housing, doctors' bills, welfare, and other free stuff).
"Yes Congressman, I was a horny 14 year old that wanted to score pussy. Your secretary tells me you are *still* like that."
I have posts from BBSes in 1988-91 that are now archived on google. How did they get there? Well the BBS was connected to a nationwide network, so the posts were distributed all across North America (and probably Europe too). While most of those copies disappeared when BBSes died out, some anal retentive BBS Sys-op kept all of his files. He sold or gave his ~10-year-collection of ancient 1980s/90s posts to Google. And now my posts are archived for everyone to see.
That taught me a valuable lesson - not everything disappears. So now I only post under fake names. I doubt I'll ever be a political appointee, but the future is always surprising. If I ever do have that kind of job where ALL my life's work becomes relevant, and people start digging through the web, I don't want some ancient Slashdot or Usenet posts to come back and haunt me.
Still sounds like what I would describe as a "technician" in my workplace. i.e. The guys who get to have the REAL fun.
No actually it's more like a JOKE. Jeez. Besides: I've seen stage hypnotists talk people into having orgasms. Is that "rape"??? They never get prosecuted for it.
Speech synthesis and musical ability are not the same thing. The original Mac that I used to use in college sounded worse than my C64's SID and nowhere near as good as the Amiga's Paula chip.
In my opinion the most-efficient car that could ever be built, at least in the near future, would look like this but with a battery to provide extra assist:
~250 MPG - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_1-litre_car
The 4 seater version would be identical but twice as wide. Volkswagen did design such a car, with a projected MPG of 150, but then the CEO retired and he was replaced with a new CEO who likes sportscar and gas guzzlers. Oh well.
My automatic in my last car lasted 340,000 miles and never needed service. In contrast doesn't a manual need a clutch replacement every 100,000 miles due to wear during shifting? So that means, at least in my experience, the manual costs more.
I think Toyota already invented this with their Prius hybrid car. It uses a traditional planetary gear, but in addition to the gasoline engine and the wheels, it's also tied to an electric motor. The electric motor spins as different rates (or not at all), thereby choosing an infinite number of engine-to-wheel ratios.
Meanwhile:
I have a VW Beetle with 6 gears automatic. Obviously that's not a CVT, but the huge number of gears keeps my engine hovering at 2000 rpm consistently (between 10 and 60 mph), so it has the same effect as a CVT (keeps the engine at the most efficient spot).