I'm opposed to the idea of coercing a poor and uneducated population into doing our dirty work. That's an entirely different idea than voluntarily sacrificing part of your time for others. If you're willing to sign up for it, then we can probably find some opportunities for medical studies for you in the near future.
So, are you willing to bite the bullet and take one for humanity? If not, you shouldn't expect anyone else too. This is another example of countries in Europe and North America benefitting from someone else's suffering.
So, basically, he wanted to find out about life in Communist China, and got a pretty good lesson about what life was like in Communist China. You read something off the government's unapproved list, and the government comes calling. Wake up folks, it's happening here, right now.
Forget the cereal aisle. What's the magazine aisle going to look like?
With enough processing power, you could have a magazine cover that flashes samples of the articles (on those you would buy for the articles) to subliminal shots of the centerfold (for those whose articles you don't care about.)
Also, you could see magazines selling ads on the front cover, to alternate with the cover art.
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I'm single and childless, so this isn't a real problem for me. However, a friend of mine from college will not even let her children go to the supermarket with them. She stays at home with the kids, and sends her husband to pick up the groceries. That way, the kids can't beg the parents to buy things on impulse.
It was a joke, and yes I know that Hymnals are copyrighted. Also, our choir has to pay license fees on all of the music they use which isn't in the public domain.
In this case, the professional thing to do is wish them a good day, and then take the money and run.
You met your obligations for professional courtesy by offering two weeks notice. This is not a requirement, you can quit with no notice if you wish. (You shouldn't, but you can.) They've met their obligation by offering to pay you for those two weeks.
Enjoy your vacation, and good luck at the new job.
I hold the lenders who practice this kind of lending in the same disdain I hold for payday loan places. They extend credit on extortionate terms to those who don't have the money to repay it, and then use the victim's poverty to extort money from them forever. These predatory lending practices are bad for communities, and can destroy families.
While some would argue that these services provide money so people can "get by", they really help people buy things they can't afford, and probably don't need in the first place.
Since I think that most popular music sucks, I don't think this will affect me too much. I'll just keep downloading songs from obscure groups, and paying my $.99.
I think they did this study just to get mentioned in next years prize ceremony.
Still, it makes you wonder if the tin-foil hat thing is itself a government conspiracy to amplify the effects of their mind control rays. After all THEY must have known.
"We can't have a generation of children grow up with unrealistic expectations about their rights. In the interests of an efficient national economy, we need the school system to teach students to respect authority at all times for their own good."
For the love of God, I hope you're being sarcastic. If not, we're going to have an entire generation who would vote an idiot into the White House, sell their children to Haliburton, and think that it's their God-given right to drive huge SUVs.
There are different ways to be right. The Bible can be seperated into several types of writings. There are the histories, many of which started from an oral tradition of a particular tribe in the Middle East about four or five thousand years ago. Some of these may not be exactly the way they happened. There are some stories, such as Job, and possibly Jonah, which are parables about the relationship between God and Man. There are the poetic and the wisdom writings, such as Psalms, Proverbs, and a few others. And there is Prophecy, which does not necessarily mean telling the future. Most of the prophetic books dealt with events which were happening at the time they were written. (Jim Wallis gives an excellent treatment of these in "God's Politics".
As for which part is literally true, and which is a fable or parable, we have to rely on our own reason. As for what I believe, I think every word of the Bible tells us something about God. God doesn't fit in a book though, so even through the most careful reading, I can't get the full picture of what He is like. I think we have to rely on our own insights and experience to be the final arbiter for what is true and what is not.
That's what I'm talking about. It actually records that Moses died and was buried in an unknown place. It's an argument that it was at least ammended by those who followed Moses, or that it was committed to writing after (possibly long after) his death.
Never mind the fact that it (The Pentateuch) ends with Moses' death.
A preacher I know once told me that the Bible doesn't have to be literally true for us to have faith in God. He believed that those who hinge everything on the absolute truth of every word of Scripture are those who really lacked faith. They need something outside themselves to justify what they believe.
The Bible tells us about God, in the best way the authors knew how, and it represents an evolving view of our relationship to him. The creation story tells of God's ultimate power, and doesn't imply a final result. The ideas of justice evolve throughout the Old Testament. In several place in the Hebrew Scriptures, it is stated that God's judgement would pass to the third generation. In Ezekial, the prophet proclaims that we were each responsible for our own actions, and that a son would not be held responsible for his father's actions. If nothing, this shows that we still have a lot of room to grow as a species, and that God's not done with us yet.
"Diane Feinstein is introducing a bill calling for the registration of these 'deadly high-powered instruments of death'. The bill would also limit toasters to two slots, and eliminate the four-slot 'high-capacity models'."
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The potential for playing practical jokes on your friends is also pretty good.
They'd better hurry up and get this produced. The actor they'd tapped to play Ender just died of old age.
I'm opposed to the idea of coercing a poor and uneducated population into doing our dirty work. That's an entirely different idea than voluntarily sacrificing part of your time for others. If you're willing to sign up for it, then we can probably find some opportunities for medical studies for you in the near future.
So, are you willing to bite the bullet and take one for humanity? If not, you shouldn't expect anyone else too. This is another example of countries in Europe and North America benefitting from someone else's suffering.
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Story's a dupe.
So, basically, he wanted to find out about life in Communist China, and got a pretty good lesson about what life was like in Communist China. You read something off the government's unapproved list, and the government comes calling. Wake up folks, it's happening here, right now.
Forget the cereal aisle. What's the magazine aisle going to look like?
With enough processing power, you could have a magazine cover that flashes samples of the articles (on those you would buy for the articles) to subliminal shots of the centerfold (for those whose articles you don't care about.)
Also, you could see magazines selling ads on the front cover, to alternate with the cover art.
I'm single and childless, so this isn't a real problem for me. However, a friend of mine from college will not even let her children go to the supermarket with them. She stays at home with the kids, and sends her husband to pick up the groceries. That way, the kids can't beg the parents to buy things on impulse.
It was a joke, and yes I know that Hymnals are copyrighted. Also, our choir has to pay license fees on all of the music they use which isn't in the public domain.
That's in the nineth ring. In the eighth, they just use Visual Studio.
It's not the Perl that's hell, it's using it under Windows, which is hell in itself.
I was going to do this, but the bastards have had my camera order tied up for three months.
In this case, the professional thing to do is wish them a good day, and then take the money and run.
You met your obligations for professional courtesy by offering two weeks notice. This is not a requirement, you can quit with no notice if you wish. (You shouldn't, but you can.) They've met their obligation by offering to pay you for those two weeks.
Enjoy your vacation, and good luck at the new job.
They're also confiscating all of the Hymnals at Church.
I hold the lenders who practice this kind of lending in the same disdain I hold for payday loan places. They extend credit on extortionate terms to those who don't have the money to repay it, and then use the victim's poverty to extort money from them forever. These predatory lending practices are bad for communities, and can destroy families.
While some would argue that these services provide money so people can "get by", they really help people buy things they can't afford, and probably don't need in the first place.
Are you sure the kid's yours? Unless he's quoting Star Trek and writing Perl scripts, I might have my doubts.
Since I think that most popular music sucks, I don't think this will affect me too much. I'll just keep downloading songs from obscure groups, and paying my $.99.
I think they did this study just to get mentioned in next years prize ceremony.
Still, it makes you wonder if the tin-foil hat thing is itself a government conspiracy to amplify the effects of their mind control rays. After all THEY must have known.
Where's the library at, asshole
Never, ever, ever post the ammount of your liability policy on a public forum. It's like an invitation to frivolous lawsuits.
"We can't have a generation of children grow up with unrealistic expectations about their rights. In the interests of an efficient national economy, we need the school system to teach students to respect authority at all times for their own good."
For the love of God, I hope you're being sarcastic. If not, we're going to have an entire generation who would vote an idiot into the White House, sell their children to Haliburton, and think that it's their God-given right to drive huge SUVs.
There are different ways to be right. The Bible can be seperated into several types of writings. There are the histories, many of which started from an oral tradition of a particular tribe in the Middle East about four or five thousand years ago. Some of these may not be exactly the way they happened. There are some stories, such as Job, and possibly Jonah, which are parables about the relationship between God and Man. There are the poetic and the wisdom writings, such as Psalms, Proverbs, and a few others. And there is Prophecy, which does not necessarily mean telling the future. Most of the prophetic books dealt with events which were happening at the time they were written. (Jim Wallis gives an excellent treatment of these in "God's Politics".
As for which part is literally true, and which is a fable or parable, we have to rely on our own reason. As for what I believe, I think every word of the Bible tells us something about God. God doesn't fit in a book though, so even through the most careful reading, I can't get the full picture of what He is like. I think we have to rely on our own insights and experience to be the final arbiter for what is true and what is not.
That's what I'm talking about. It actually records that Moses died and was buried in an unknown place. It's an argument that it was at least ammended by those who followed Moses, or that it was committed to writing after (possibly long after) his death.
Never mind the fact that it (The Pentateuch) ends with Moses' death.
A preacher I know once told me that the Bible doesn't have to be literally true for us to have faith in God. He believed that those who hinge everything on the absolute truth of every word of Scripture are those who really lacked faith. They need something outside themselves to justify what they believe.
The Bible tells us about God, in the best way the authors knew how, and it represents an evolving view of our relationship to him. The creation story tells of God's ultimate power, and doesn't imply a final result. The ideas of justice evolve throughout the Old Testament. In several place in the Hebrew Scriptures, it is stated that God's judgement would pass to the third generation. In Ezekial, the prophet proclaims that we were each responsible for our own actions, and that a son would not be held responsible for his father's actions. If nothing, this shows that we still have a lot of room to grow as a species, and that God's not done with us yet.
"it allows the free market to operate more broadly, but only for employers."
It's not a free market unless all sides have equal access.
"Diane Feinstein is introducing a bill calling for the registration of these 'deadly high-powered instruments of death'. The bill would also limit toasters to two slots, and eliminate the four-slot 'high-capacity models'."