It seems to me that your being a tad too cynical, It's likely ninety percent of those contributions are given in good faith, i.e. I have money so i give it to the side i think is most virtuous. I'm more wary of donations to groups outside of govt. like the Cato Institute and the "Reason" Foundation, who have recieved funds for there climate change denial from various oil companies, and they are the same groups who tried to deny any harmful heath effects of tobacco smoking, by misrepresenting scientific consensus.
If you choose to look at it this way, but it is completely possible to separate social and economic freedoms. It is certainly possible to run a massive soviet style (without the gulags) of left-wing dictatorship, where the worker bees are free (outside of work hours of course) to sit down, smoke crack and watch gerontophilac scat porn. Likewise it's possible to have a tiny government (just a small death squad really), that simply limits itself to killing anyone who is brown, is gay, or who speaks against it: the taxes could come from those it slaughters.
It's not just pot though, here in New Zealand we have (some would say) serious issues with methamphetamine, but I have yet to come across a single person (even my drug experimenting mates, some of whom have used meth in the past) who would agree that legalization®ulation were the answer, even when I confront them with the appalling law enforcement statistics, the ease (and profitability) of both importation and domestic manufacture. The police here admit it is impossible to put a damper on the trade until the demand ends, so why bother? all they are doing is inflating prices and hurting innocent users.
It's hardly an economic fallacy, if the researchers left the field of biology, and entered the field of wheat (sickle in hand) then they may be able to fill some stomachs.
...on the other hand he is a definite hypocrite for suggesting that people doing science are wasting their time, when he's pissing around on/. all day.
but since when was Iran a dictatorship? I know they had a dodgy election recently, but so did the US in 2004, no one went round calling that a dictatorship did they?
That makes more sense (what you are saying, not the system:)), anyway I think the prison situation still holds as well: More than 1 in 100 American adults were incarcerated at the start of 2008 according to Wikipedia, still not to the extent I believed, otherwise your country would have more serious political issues than red vs blue:).
Your right, but the results don't reflect the popular vote because of the system of zoning. For instance when i was watching the McCain-Obama race, I wondered what the "Electoral College" meant (I'm Antipodean:)), and it's basically the voting power of a state. It's supposed to be based roughly around the population of that state, but in reality it doesn't work like that. One big factor is the prison population of the state, they don't get to vote but they still count towards the total population, and hence the electoral college of that state. Anyway what it amounts to is that a vote in one state can be worth considerably more than a vote in another. I noticed this in the McCain-Obama race, Obama had only a small percentage greater vote than McCain, yet he won by a landslide because these votes happened to be worth more electoral college. A similar thing occurred in the Gore-Bush race, Gore actually got the popular vote by a slim margin, but Bush achieved a higher electoral college.
FYI, Gore actually won the popular vote by 500,000 votes nationwide, not even taking into account the dodgyness that occured in Florida.
Fixed that for you, it's the men their trying to separate, because you know, they're stupid.
But yea, here's some evidence that boy's perform better segregated, and girls integrated. It's a moot point I suppose, because like you suggested it's unethical, and "performance" is only a small aspect of high school performance.
Schools have an agenda to teach, and since evolution is science fact, they have and agenda to teach it.
As GP just mentioned, Biology is a field, ID is not. For the exact same reason there's no transendental meditation or snake oil brewing courses at school, theres no place for ID.
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Sounds like the Random Walk. Which isn't to far from my Post-JÃgermeister dancing style.
Fine, be offended, but I thought that picture was one you were painting of yourself.
To be honest I know where I stand fairly well on the issue of freedom of religion, and I view any tempts to quell it as fascism. (whether those sources are Leninist, Islamofascist, or whatever other fascists there are)
Even if half the UK population were Muslim, the result would be no worse than say, Lebanon, which if it weren't for Israel, would be a damn site nicer place to live than Britain.
If you think Britain's going to get sharia law, then you have been paying to much attention to certain clergy.
The second part of this issue, and i'm the one who's going out on a limb here, is the issue of immigration, I view with some contempt the idea that _anyone_ should have the birthright to anything, let alone to occupy a chunk of land. I think if we opened the floodgates we would solve %90 of the worlds religious, cultural and political problems in one fell swoop.
Did you actually read the Blog? It has jems such as "scale of betrayal of our military by the scum in New Labour", "the central issue - namely that the predominant reason for a booming UK population is due to "foreign born" mothers (Mostly Muslims)", I mean that's going way to far for the Tories, that's BNP territory...
The funny thing is that people don't seem to understand that the BBC charter dictates that they can't biased in their coverage, whereas in practice fox news dictates to their employees that they have to be.
To me fox news is about on a par with Al Manwar, which happens to be banned in the US, fucking hypocrisy.
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Not to mention ~700,000 Iraqi civilian deaths...
It seems to me that your being a tad too cynical, It's likely ninety percent of those contributions are given in good faith, i.e. I have money so i give it to the side i think is most virtuous. I'm more wary of donations to groups outside of govt. like the Cato Institute and the "Reason" Foundation, who have recieved funds for there climate change denial from various oil companies, and they are the same groups who tried to deny any harmful heath effects of tobacco smoking, by misrepresenting scientific consensus.
If you choose to look at it this way, but it is completely possible to separate social and economic freedoms. It is certainly possible to run a massive soviet style (without the gulags) of left-wing dictatorship, where the worker bees are free (outside of work hours of course) to sit down, smoke crack and watch gerontophilac scat porn. Likewise it's possible to have a tiny government (just a small death squad really), that simply limits itself to killing anyone who is brown, is gay, or who speaks against it: the taxes could come from those it slaughters.
It's not just pot though, here in New Zealand we have (some would say) serious issues with methamphetamine, but I have yet to come across a single person (even my drug experimenting mates, some of whom have used meth in the past) who would agree that legalization®ulation were the answer, even when I confront them with the appalling law enforcement statistics, the ease (and profitability) of both importation and domestic manufacture. The police here admit it is impossible to put a damper on the trade until the demand ends, so why bother? all they are doing is inflating prices and hurting innocent users.
...on the other hand he is a definite hypocrite for suggesting that people doing science are wasting their time, when he's pissing around on /. all day.
but since when was Iran a dictatorship? I know they had a dodgy election recently, but so did the US in 2004, no one went round calling that a dictatorship did they?
Didn't Sony win the format war?
Why not, one law for all they say..
Fuck Ron Paul, we all want Dennis Kucinich.
That makes more sense (what you are saying, not the system:)), anyway I think the prison situation still holds as well: More than 1 in 100 American adults were incarcerated at the start of 2008 according to Wikipedia, still not to the extent I believed, otherwise your country would have more serious political issues than red vs blue :).
In New Zealand a thousand million is a billion.
Your right, but the results don't reflect the popular vote because of the system of zoning. For instance when i was watching the McCain-Obama race, I wondered what the "Electoral College" meant (I'm Antipodean:)), and it's basically the voting power of a state. It's supposed to be based roughly around the population of that state, but in reality it doesn't work like that. One big factor is the prison population of the state, they don't get to vote but they still count towards the total population, and hence the electoral college of that state. Anyway what it amounts to is that a vote in one state can be worth considerably more than a vote in another. I noticed this in the McCain-Obama race, Obama had only a small percentage greater vote than McCain, yet he won by a landslide because these votes happened to be worth more electoral college. A similar thing occurred in the Gore-Bush race, Gore actually got the popular vote by a slim margin, but Bush achieved a higher electoral college.
FYI, Gore actually won the popular vote by 500,000 votes nationwide, not even taking into account the dodgyness that occured in Florida.
Obama won the popular vote by ~9,000,000
Both of those things are wrong, but people don't see them as being as bad as "driving under the influence".
But By God, It Might Just Work With Boys.
Fixed that for you, it's the men their trying to separate, because you know, they're stupid. But yea, here's some evidence that boy's perform better segregated, and girls integrated. It's a moot point I suppose, because like you suggested it's unethical, and "performance" is only a small aspect of high school performance.
Schools have an agenda to teach, and since evolution is science fact, they have and agenda to teach it.
As GP just mentioned, Biology is a field, ID is not. For the exact same reason there's no transendental meditation or snake oil brewing courses at school, theres no place for ID.
Sounds like the Random Walk. Which isn't to far from my Post-JÃgermeister dancing style.
Taupo's worse, last time that shit went off the Romans saw it.
Fine, be offended, but I thought that picture was one you were painting of yourself.
To be honest I know where I stand fairly well on the issue of freedom of religion, and I view any tempts to quell it as fascism. (whether those sources are Leninist, Islamofascist, or whatever other fascists there are) Even if half the UK population were Muslim, the result would be no worse than say, Lebanon, which if it weren't for Israel, would be a damn site nicer place to live than Britain. If you think Britain's going to get sharia law, then you have been paying to much attention to certain clergy.
The second part of this issue, and i'm the one who's going out on a limb here, is the issue of immigration, I view with some contempt the idea that _anyone_ should have the birthright to anything, let alone to occupy a chunk of land. I think if we opened the floodgates we would solve %90 of the worlds religious, cultural and political problems in one fell swoop.
This Monty Python sketch.
I interviewed with them at a college job fair in 1990, only to get told that they were looking for someone with experience.
Yeah I hate that, why were they at a graduates job fair looking for people with industry experience?
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fascist.
Did you actually read the Blog? It has jems such as "scale of betrayal of our military by the scum in New Labour", "the central issue - namely that the predominant reason for a booming UK population is due to "foreign born" mothers (Mostly Muslims)", I mean that's going way to far for the Tories, that's BNP territory...
The funny thing is that people don't seem to understand that the BBC charter dictates that they can't biased in their coverage, whereas in practice fox news dictates to their employees that they have to be.
To me fox news is about on a par with Al Manwar, which happens to be banned in the US, fucking hypocrisy.
And awesomely i just noticed Mosaic :0, shows my blender ignorance.