"Legitimate executive power"? If you belief imprisoning people indefinitely without charging them with a crime is a legitimate function of the executive, I suggest you go back to Soviet Russia.
Oh wait, you're a Republican, aren't you? I'd modify my suggestion to the right-wing equivalent, but I don't want vindicate Godwin's Law!
They can't really say "No more money" until they say "we didn't authorize that". It's not political feasible to defund military operations, unless they can claim they never authorized them in the first place.
Remember, it's Congress, not the Prez, that has the ability to declare war. We don't usually have formal declarations of war any more, but the Prez still has to go to them for permission to commence hostilities.
RMS is also a crack-pot and his statements must be taken with a grain of salt. Indeed, I rather suspect he's another one of Twitter's sockpuppets. The man is everywhere!
The interesting thing is that all those sockpuppets have really bad karma. Getting himself modded down to -1 status so many times is actually quite an impressive accomplishment!
I'm sorry, what's your point? You going to build a time machine and travel back to 2001 so that Bush can get impeached for the human rights abuses he hasn't committed yet?
Anyway, Congress could force Bush to close Guantanamo any time they want. All they have to do is say that they war powers they gave him after 9-11 don't include the ability to invent a new category of prisoner, denied both the constitutional protections of the accused criminal and the treaty protections of the POW.
Congress is complicit in all of Dubya's excesses. That's the real reason they can't impeach him.
Pity there's no alternatives to the BSA. Maybe some enterprising geeks could start one up, dedicated to environmentalism, conservation, science, and other mildly geeky stuff in addition to the BSA. Like the "Mr. Wizard Brigade" or something. There's more to the scouts than merit badges. Do remember that the movement was founded in a patriotic fervor following the Boer War. Hence the semi-military uniforms.
Baden-Powell borrowed the term "scout" from the military. And come to think of it, scouting, where you have to sneak undetected into unknown territory with a minimum of support from the rest of your service, and deal pretty severely with any enemies that you might meet, is the least childlike of military specialties. But Lord B-P, whose own military career was defined more by his PR than his actual accomplishments, probably didn't know that.
Anyway there are plenty of alternatives to the BSA: Boys and Girls Clubs, and the YMCA, to name two.
Well, as the proverbial card-carrying ACLU member, I certainly support the BSA getting that berth — at a market rate. I'd say the same for any group, including that perennial ACLU client, the American Nazi party.
Oops, I just compared the BSA to the Nazis, didn't I? Godwin strikes again!
I take it you did go out of your way to make waves.
I believe the problem is when you stand up and scream you are an atheist and want everyone else to change what they are doing to do it your way, is when there are problems. Jeez, talk about projecting. A guy talks about having friendly discussions about his beliefs, and you accuse him of "screaming". Dude, you're the one who's screaming.
Your tactic seems to be pretty popular. Talk about an unpopular idea, or cuddle your same-sex partner in public, or whatever, and people start ranting about your "agenda".
But hey, I guess I can't blame you. Time was when you could beat people up when they said or did something that pissed you off. Now "political correctness" has walled off this option. So you have to express your anger somehow. But you should know, it makes you look like a real asshole.
As an AC has already mentioned, your troop leaders were breaking the rules. I sure there are a lot of people involved in Scouting who are like that. Indeed, tolerance and respect for unusual opinions and orientations would seem to be consistent with the whole Scouting ethos.
But officially speaking the rule is no gays or atheists. And as long as that's the rule, a lot of us are just not going to have anything to do with the BSA, no matter how tolerant some of its individual participants are.
While the threaded view in Thunderbird does indeed use Message ID, it only ever shows one half of the conversation (and I'm not sure how or if it handles multiple correspondents in a conversation). Simple solution to that: don't put your outgoing messages in the sent folder. If you go to account setting/copies and folders, you'll notice that the default setting is to put outgoing messages in the sent folder. Change it to put them in your inbox. If you use filters to automatically stick incoming messages in folders, click the "put in folder of message replied to" option.
Funny thing about the Sun: it's remarkably stable in its radiation output, compared to other stars. Which is nice, because it wouldn't take much to move the habitable zone of our solar system in or out, so that the Earth would not just be a little warmer or colder, but too hot or cold to sustain life.
So it's not as obvious as you seem to think that natural variations in solar output are causing global warming. In theory, sunspots could play a role, since they do alter solar output a tad. But sunspots vary in a well-documented 11-year cycle, and climate scientists claim the trend is bigger than that.
I can't evaluate those claims, I don't have the math. But I do have a couple reasons for taking them seriously. First of all, there's the simple fact that we've spent the last century taking huge amounts of carbon out of the ground, where it's been locked up for millions of years, and pumping it into the atmosphere. This is completely separate from any natural carbon cycles (volcanoes seem to be popular with the GW poo-pooers), and it's not that hard to believe that this has some effect on the climate.
Second, all this doubt-mongering is really beside the point. Your reference to Jupiter is idiotic (Jupiter's a frigging gas giant; if it were a little bigger it would be a star) but sure, climate change does happen naturally, as any hairy mastodon will tell you. The issue is not whether nature can cause climate change, the issue is whether nature is causing this climate change. And the climate scientists seem to have a lot evidence that it's not.
And it's not enough just to raise doubt. (Even if most doubts weren't as lame as your Jupiter example.) Because you can't just claim that it's more likely than not that human-induced climate change is bunk. You pretty much have to prove it. Because even if the odds were on your side, you'd still have a significant probability that the problem is real.
You're entitled to take stupid, dangerous risks when only your own neck is on the line. But "probably safe" isn't good enough when other people's safety is at risk. And this even worse: we're talking the end of human civilization here.
Yeah, everybody knows that it's sunspots that cause climate change. Or maybe its absence of sunspots. Yeah, must be that, cause that's what we've got. It certainly isn't my SUV!
I get plain text phishing messages all the time. It isn't eye candy that makes phishing work, it's people's gullibility. I know somebody who gave her credit card number to somebody who claimed to be from her ISP's tech support department, even though he misspelled the name of the company he supposedly worked for!
Twitter, enough with the online masturbation! Just pick an identify with decent karma and stick to it, instead of using a dozen sockpuppets to dominate a discussion. Your tactics tends to destroy the conversation, which hardly helps to get any of your points across.
Assuming you have any. There's a reason you keep getting downmodded, and it has nothing to do with an evil M$ conspiracy.
OK, actual discussion begins here:
The headline makes perfect sense. Outlook has many good features worth copying, but the overall product is a mess. People who write open source alternatives to MS products often make the mistake of copying everything, even the mistakes.
People want to feel safe. That's not the same as being safe, but hey, that's an unachievable goal anyway. So you strut and fret with your sniffer dogs and your M-16s, and everybody feels better!
Hey, did you know that California state employees are still required to sign loyalty oaths? These were invented 50 years ago to keep subversive elements out of government employ. I don't suppose they accomplished that purpose ("Sorry, my KGB control says I can't sign this!") but they do weed out the odd Quaker.
I can't take cranky old Paul seriously, with his repressed homosexuality and his "visions" that were probably epileptic fits. Besides, he was the only Apostle that wasn't Jewish!
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"Legitimate executive power"? If you belief imprisoning people indefinitely without charging them with a crime is a legitimate function of the executive, I suggest you go back to Soviet Russia.
Oh wait, you're a Republican, aren't you? I'd modify my suggestion to the right-wing equivalent, but I don't want vindicate Godwin's Law!
They can't really say "No more money" until they say "we didn't authorize that". It's not political feasible to defund military operations, unless they can claim they never authorized them in the first place.
Remember, it's Congress, not the Prez, that has the ability to declare war. We don't usually have formal declarations of war any more, but the Prez still has to go to them for permission to commence hostilities.
The interesting thing is that all those sockpuppets have really bad karma. Getting himself modded down to -1 status so many times is actually quite an impressive accomplishment!
Excuse me, what's your point? That we should build a time machine and go back to 2001 so there will be pre-facto evidence of Dubya's future crimes?
I'm sorry, what's your point? You going to build a time machine and travel back to 2001 so that Bush can get impeached for the human rights abuses he hasn't committed yet?
Anyway, Congress could force Bush to close Guantanamo any time they want. All they have to do is say that they war powers they gave him after 9-11 don't include the ability to invent a new category of prisoner, denied both the constitutional protections of the accused criminal and the treaty protections of the POW.
Congress is complicit in all of Dubya's excesses. That's the real reason they can't impeach him.
Baden-Powell borrowed the term "scout" from the military. And come to think of it, scouting, where you have to sneak undetected into unknown territory with a minimum of support from the rest of your service, and deal pretty severely with any enemies that you might meet, is the least childlike of military specialties. But Lord B-P, whose own military career was defined more by his PR than his actual accomplishments, probably didn't know that.
Anyway there are plenty of alternatives to the BSA: Boys and Girls Clubs, and the YMCA, to name two.
Dude, you can't charge somebody with crimes they haven't committed yet.
Well, as the proverbial card-carrying ACLU member, I certainly support the BSA getting that berth — at a market rate. I'd say the same for any group, including that perennial ACLU client, the American Nazi party.
Oops, I just compared the BSA to the Nazis, didn't I? Godwin strikes again!
I believe the problem is when you stand up and scream you are an atheist and want everyone else to change what they are doing to do it your way, is when there are problems. Jeez, talk about projecting. A guy talks about having friendly discussions about his beliefs, and you accuse him of "screaming". Dude, you're the one who's screaming.
Your tactic seems to be pretty popular. Talk about an unpopular idea, or cuddle your same-sex partner in public, or whatever, and people start ranting about your "agenda".
But hey, I guess I can't blame you. Time was when you could beat people up when they said or did something that pissed you off. Now "political correctness" has walled off this option. So you have to express your anger somehow. But you should know, it makes you look like a real asshole.
As an AC has already mentioned, your troop leaders were breaking the rules. I sure there are a lot of people involved in Scouting who are like that. Indeed, tolerance and respect for unusual opinions and orientations would seem to be consistent with the whole Scouting ethos.
But officially speaking the rule is no gays or atheists. And as long as that's the rule, a lot of us are just not going to have anything to do with the BSA, no matter how tolerant some of its individual participants are.
Funny thing about the Sun: it's remarkably stable in its radiation output, compared to other stars. Which is nice, because it wouldn't take much to move the habitable zone of our solar system in or out, so that the Earth would not just be a little warmer or colder, but too hot or cold to sustain life.
So it's not as obvious as you seem to think that natural variations in solar output are causing global warming. In theory, sunspots could play a role, since they do alter solar output a tad. But sunspots vary in a well-documented 11-year cycle, and climate scientists claim the trend is bigger than that.
I can't evaluate those claims, I don't have the math. But I do have a couple reasons for taking them seriously. First of all, there's the simple fact that we've spent the last century taking huge amounts of carbon out of the ground, where it's been locked up for millions of years, and pumping it into the atmosphere. This is completely separate from any natural carbon cycles (volcanoes seem to be popular with the GW poo-pooers), and it's not that hard to believe that this has some effect on the climate.
Second, all this doubt-mongering is really beside the point. Your reference to Jupiter is idiotic (Jupiter's a frigging gas giant; if it were a little bigger it would be a star) but sure, climate change does happen naturally, as any hairy mastodon will tell you. The issue is not whether nature can cause climate change, the issue is whether nature is causing this climate change. And the climate scientists seem to have a lot evidence that it's not.
And it's not enough just to raise doubt. (Even if most doubts weren't as lame as your Jupiter example.) Because you can't just claim that it's more likely than not that human-induced climate change is bunk. You pretty much have to prove it. Because even if the odds were on your side, you'd still have a significant probability that the problem is real.
You're entitled to take stupid, dangerous risks when only your own neck is on the line. But "probably safe" isn't good enough when other people's safety is at risk. And this even worse: we're talking the end of human civilization here.
Yeah, everybody knows that it's sunspots that cause climate change. Or maybe its absence of sunspots. Yeah, must be that, cause that's what we've got. It certainly isn't my SUV!
Quite right. Plus those little yellow notepad windows with no scrollbars. Who needs scrollbars, anyway? Scrollbars are for wimps!
What exactly do you mean by "convesation-style view"? How is that different from simple threading?
Right you are. If T/S had a builtin SyncML server, it could be used with pretty much every smartphone out there.
I get plain text phishing messages all the time. It isn't eye candy that makes phishing work, it's people's gullibility. I know somebody who gave her credit card number to somebody who claimed to be from her ISP's tech support department, even though he misspelled the name of the company he supposedly worked for!
Twitter, enough with the online masturbation! Just pick an identify with decent karma and stick to it, instead of using a dozen sockpuppets to dominate a discussion. Your tactics tends to destroy the conversation, which hardly helps to get any of your points across.
Assuming you have any. There's a reason you keep getting downmodded, and it has nothing to do with an evil M$ conspiracy.
OK, actual discussion begins here:
The headline makes perfect sense. Outlook has many good features worth copying, but the overall product is a mess. People who write open source alternatives to MS products often make the mistake of copying everything, even the mistakes.
People want to feel safe. That's not the same as being safe, but hey, that's an unachievable goal anyway. So you strut and fret with your sniffer dogs and your M-16s, and everybody feels better!
Hey, did you know that California state employees are still required to sign loyalty oaths? These were invented 50 years ago to keep subversive elements out of government employ. I don't suppose they accomplished that purpose ("Sorry, my KGB control says I can't sign this!") but they do weed out the odd Quaker.
Everybody here is a trekkie, so of course it's a Holodeck. Never mind that it's not fully immersive, and can't simulate actual physical objects.
Sorry, you're right. I just remembered that Paul was "Apostle to the Gentiles" and took that to mean he was one himself.
Nuclear plants don't go "kaboom". They just emit a pleasant glow.
I can't take cranky old Paul seriously, with his repressed homosexuality and his "visions" that were probably epileptic fits. Besides, he was the only Apostle that wasn't Jewish!
I don't see how a game that's running ten years behind schedule can have any expectations at all!