I fix it by closing it. It shouldn't exist. If the government needs to supply anything, it should be basic housing and food for those who can't support themselves.
I fully expect to get nothing out of Social Security.
(Clinton did a sneaky cut of Social Security benefits that few noticed - they're now taxed, which is an effective 10-15% reduction.)
Hmmm. 1.5 trillion of the debt is held by the Social Security Trust Fund. If you look at the Debt Site you'll see that over 3 trillion is in by intragovernmental holdings. 4 trillion is held by the Public, of which 1.7 trillion is held by foreign investors.
Want to stop the Ponzi scheme? Stop the greatest one of all time, Social Security.
I took the $2000 plunge, got the PowerBook, and am loving it.
I do agree that if Mac OS X was available for the PC, it wouldn't be as nice as on the Mac, as part of the PC's problems stem from cheap hardware and bad installations.
And that originally comes from typewriters, which have both a "Carriage Return" which returns the typehead to the beginning of the line, and a "Line Feed" which moves the paper one line.:)
1) Roughly what percent of your music collection is unauthorized files from P2P like Kazaa, FTP, etc.?
Maybe 20-30 songs out of 26,000. I buy the entire CD if I like the song, usually. 0.0011%
2) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from sources like iTunes Music Store, eMusic, etc?
Exactly 0.0076%. 200 songs from iTunes.
3) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from shareable sources like Creative Commons-licensed music?
Low but unknown. Probably 20-30 songs max.
4) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from rips of your own CDs?
Over half comes from rips from CDs that I have or have had. I am very bad at keeping CDs in decent condition.
5) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from rips of friends' CDs?
The other half, I'd guess.
Interestingly, of the music I listen to (rated 2 stars or above in iTunes), almost all of it it either from my CDs or from iTunes. (200 songs out of 2000 or so often listened too.)
Not everyone believes that the New Testament requires that you don't defend yourself.
Also, notice what Jesus did in the Temple to the moneychangers - he was willing to give himself up, but did not like the insult to his Father. In some way, I think that is what we are called to do: defend others perhaps even more that we would defend ourselves, especially the weak.
Ah, but as a Catholic you must be opposed to a law declaring Mohammed infallible.
And so as a Catholic you must be opposed to laws that promote abortion, or provide govenment funding for it.
But you could argue that you'll be against laws that prohibit it, but then how do you argue for prohibiting anything?
After all, the Catholic Church teaches that murder is wrong, do you suggest that we repeal laws against murder? Obviously the line has to be drawn somewhere.
What I think should be legal and illegal for other people to do should not, and in the USA can not, be based on what I believe.
What should it be based on? What you think other people believe? Obviously the government has to prohibit some things, and it does. I can't sacrifice virgins, no matter how willing they are. I also can't own automatic weapons, run red lights, or take drugs, even if none of those affect others. Somewhere the line will be drawn, and I think that Catholics have to draw the line on the other side of abortion. Euthanasia is another example.
Catholics, like everyone else, can have different opinions on different subjects.
Correct, if those subjects are not a matter of Church teaching!
Catholics can believe whatever they want about what is on Pluto, but they can't, for example, deny that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, because that's one of the tenets of the Catholic Faith.
Similarly, the Church has decreed that its teachings on the issues of abortion are doctrine and cannot be denied by a Catholic in good standing. In fact, the worst punishment the Catholic Church can level on one of its memebers is excommunication, and there is serious discussion that such punishment should be laid upon Catholics that openly support abortion. It is well known that, according to Church Law, anyone who commits, procures, or assists in an abortion occurs an automatic excommunication (latae sententiae). This means the person is booted out of the Church. For an atheist, this is no problem, it is the same as being kicked out of some club. But for a believing Catholic, it is a major issue. Yes, they can, and must make up their own mind, but if they choose something different than the Church on matters of faith and morals, then they very well may no longer be in the Church.
Note that while the Church may be "anti-this-or-that war", it does not say that anyone participating in any war is excommunicated. The Just War theory says that there can be wars that are necessary, even though the act of killing another human is wrong. But the Church teaches that at no time is the act of killing an unborn child permissible.
I did not mean to imply that many, some, or even any Protestant Churches are pro-abortion. Some no doubt are more pro-life than many Catholics. But the very idea of Protestantism (as a whole) is that you aren't under the rule of the Church in Rome, and can disagree with tenets that the Church holds are true.
An example: Catholics believe that the Pope is the head of Christ's Church on Earth and that when the Pope teaches ex cathedra he is protected from error by the Holy Spirit.
However, a member of the Anglican Church obviously doesn't hold these to be true - the Anglican Church began when Henry declared himself leader of the Church of England, and denied the Pope's ability to deny him an annulment.
What I was trying to say was that if you take the "Protestant" notion of individual interpertation of the Bible, you can, I guess, believe that abortion is not wrong.
But just as an NRA member who supports repealing the 2nd amendment, or an ACLU member who supports repealing the 1st, a Catholic who supports abortion is no Catholic at all.
Note that, for example, the Catholic Church has no official position on evolution. However, it does hold that Catholics must believe that God created the world, but has no position on how he created it. So Catholics can rightfully discuss and disagree (or agree) both with people who believe the world was made 5,000 years ago and with people who believe that the world evolved from the Big Bang, neither of which necessarily denies that God made everything. But to deny that God made everthing is to deny a very part of being a Catholic.
Fair enough. But then he shouldn't call himself Catholic. Doncha see what the problem is? A Catholic is someone who believes in what the Catholic Church teaches.
Let him make his own decisions, reject what the Church teaches, and join one of the thousands of Protestant churches. There are many ways to believe in Jesus and be pro-abortion. But to claim to be Catholic (which is a very specific, and large portion of Christianity) and support abortion is not honest. Why bother? The only reason I can think of is that he wants to get support from Catholics who don't know more about him.
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Most of the lorries probably have governors, but none of the trucks do! :)
Doing 90 on I-15 to Las Vegas I got almost blown off the road when a semi shot past me; must have been over 100.
If you go to LA before heavy rush hour you'll find 6 - 8 lanes of 70 MPH+ traffic, easily. Kinda scary running that fast with cars so close together.
I fix it by closing it. It shouldn't exist. If the government needs to supply anything, it should be basic housing and food for those who can't support themselves.
I fully expect to get nothing out of Social Security.
(Clinton did a sneaky cut of Social Security benefits that few noticed - they're now taxed, which is an effective 10-15% reduction.)
Hmmm. 1.5 trillion of the debt is held by the Social Security Trust Fund. If you look at the Debt Site you'll see that over 3 trillion is in by intragovernmental holdings. 4 trillion is held by the Public, of which 1.7 trillion is held by foreign investors.
Want to stop the Ponzi scheme? Stop the greatest one of all time, Social Security.
You do NOT need a TV license for a car, DVD player, or a PC.
RTFA! That's exactly what Germany is adding! You pay the "TV Tax" if you have a TV orPC! Maybe the UK isn't the only country in the world.
P.S. Shouldn't your sig, in the Great Gentoo tradition, include:
IBM Model M Space Saver is what you want. But they're worth their weight in gold, and they weigh a ton.
You mean This Story?
Yup. It's an evil Slashdot plot.
Sheesh! Get your bias right! Slashdot is left leaning, so they'd probably eat Badnarik up. Which they did, leaving Nader cold.
I took the $2000 plunge, got the PowerBook, and am loving it.
I do agree that if Mac OS X was available for the PC, it wouldn't be as nice as on the Mac, as part of the PC's problems stem from cheap hardware and bad installations.
But it would still be kinda cool to play with.
90mph, which is *way* faster than most American cars are capable of going.
You've obviously never been in California. I've yet to have a car that couldn't do 90 - the closest is our Mercedes 300D which tops out at 91.
Note that American cars had speedometers that only went to 80 for much of the 1980s due to insurance regulations.
My 1966 Plymouth Fury III still can get over 100 MPH on a good day.
And that originally comes from typewriters, which have both a "Carriage Return" which returns the typehead to the beginning of the line, and a "Line Feed" which moves the paper one line. :)
Kerry's not-so-best selling book!
Hey, we all want free stuff, right?
XM just announced they are at 2.5 million, and should be at 3.15 million before the end of the year.
Sure that's not 3.14159 million?
Here's an answer.
1) Roughly what percent of your music collection is unauthorized files from P2P like Kazaa, FTP, etc.?
Maybe 20-30 songs out of 26,000. I buy the entire CD if I like the song, usually. 0.0011%
2) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from sources like iTunes Music Store, eMusic, etc?
Exactly 0.0076%. 200 songs from iTunes.
3) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from shareable sources like Creative Commons-licensed music?
Low but unknown. Probably 20-30 songs max.
4) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from rips of your own CDs?
Over half comes from rips from CDs that I have or have had. I am very bad at keeping CDs in decent condition.
5) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from rips of friends' CDs?
The other half, I'd guess.
Interestingly, of the music I listen to (rated 2 stars or above in iTunes), almost all of it it either from my CDs or from iTunes. (200 songs out of 2000 or so often listened too.)
You mean something like this?
force homosexuals to have children out of wedlock.
How do homosexuals have childen?
That dog don't f*ck.
pro-gun positions.
Not everyone believes that the New Testament requires that you don't defend yourself.
Also, notice what Jesus did in the Temple to the moneychangers - he was willing to give himself up, but did not like the insult to his Father. In some way, I think that is what we are called to do: defend others perhaps even more that we would defend ourselves, especially the weak.
My mountain asplode!
One might argue that never before in history has a father's presidency been used as a springboard for a son's.
Yup. Never before
Ah, we love to call him the Governator, and it makes it all the better when he actually does a good job.
Maybe the answer is that a good Catholic cannot run for office in the U.S.
Ah, but as a Catholic you must be opposed to a law declaring Mohammed infallible.
And so as a Catholic you must be opposed to laws that promote abortion, or provide govenment funding for it.
But you could argue that you'll be against laws that prohibit it, but then how do you argue for prohibiting anything?
After all, the Catholic Church teaches that murder is wrong, do you suggest that we repeal laws against murder? Obviously the line has to be drawn somewhere.
What I think should be legal and illegal for other people to do should not, and in the USA can not, be based on what I believe.
What should it be based on? What you think other people believe? Obviously the government has to prohibit some things, and it does. I can't sacrifice virgins, no matter how willing they are. I also can't own automatic weapons, run red lights, or take drugs, even if none of those affect others. Somewhere the line will be drawn, and I think that Catholics have to draw the line on the other side of abortion. Euthanasia is another example.
Catholics, like everyone else, can have different opinions on different subjects.
Correct, if those subjects are not a matter of Church teaching!
Catholics can believe whatever they want about what is on Pluto, but they can't, for example, deny that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, because that's one of the tenets of the Catholic Faith.
Similarly, the Church has decreed that its teachings on the issues of abortion are doctrine and cannot be denied by a Catholic in good standing. In fact, the worst punishment the Catholic Church can level on one of its memebers is excommunication , and there is serious discussion that such punishment should be laid upon Catholics that openly support abortion. It is well known that, according to Church Law, anyone who commits, procures, or assists in an abortion occurs an automatic excommunication (latae sententiae). This means the person is booted out of the Church. For an atheist, this is no problem, it is the same as being kicked out of some club. But for a believing Catholic, it is a major issue. Yes, they can, and must make up their own mind, but if they choose something different than the Church on matters of faith and morals, then they very well may no longer be in the Church.
Note that while the Church may be "anti-this-or-that war", it does not say that anyone participating in any war is excommunicated. The Just War theory says that there can be wars that are necessary, even though the act of killing another human is wrong. But the Church teaches that at no time is the act of killing an unborn child permissible.
I did not mean to imply that many, some, or even any Protestant Churches are pro-abortion. Some no doubt are more pro-life than many Catholics. But the very idea of Protestantism (as a whole) is that you aren't under the rule of the Church in Rome, and can disagree with tenets that the Church holds are true.
An example: Catholics believe that the Pope is the head of Christ's Church on Earth and that when the Pope teaches ex cathedra he is protected from error by the Holy Spirit.
However, a member of the Anglican Church obviously doesn't hold these to be true - the Anglican Church began when Henry declared himself leader of the Church of England, and denied the Pope's ability to deny him an annulment.
What I was trying to say was that if you take the "Protestant" notion of individual interpertation of the Bible, you can, I guess, believe that abortion is not wrong.
But just as an NRA member who supports repealing the 2nd amendment, or an ACLU member who supports repealing the 1st, a Catholic who supports abortion is no Catholic at all.
Note that, for example, the Catholic Church has no official position on evolution. However, it does hold that Catholics must believe that God created the world, but has no position on how he created it. So Catholics can rightfully discuss and disagree (or agree) both with people who believe the world was made 5,000 years ago and with people who believe that the world evolved from the Big Bang, neither of which necessarily denies that God made everything. But to deny that God made everthing is to deny a very part of being a Catholic.
Fair enough. But then he shouldn't call himself Catholic. Doncha see what the problem is? A Catholic is someone who believes in what the Catholic Church teaches.
Let him make his own decisions, reject what the Church teaches, and join one of the thousands of Protestant churches. There are many ways to believe in Jesus and be pro-abortion. But to claim to be Catholic (which is a very specific, and large portion of Christianity) and support abortion is not honest. Why bother? The only reason I can think of is that he wants to get support from Catholics who don't know more about him.
See OpenSecrets.org for more details. Notice how much more money MoveOn.org has compared to the Swift Boat boys. Wonder at the difference in outcomes.
Huzaah! Look here! Hmmm.