Parent is insightful? Whether Josh was talking from his cell or from the phone in the hall or from an interrogation chamber is moot. While I'd like to give props to our system that at least lets the incarcerated communicate with the rest of is . . . I'll also have to condemn the same system for jailing Mr. Wolf in the first place. I think it would be nice if we could retain the ability to criticize other countries (China? Cuba?) for suppressing free speech while staying far from hypocrisy. As long as we have political prisoners behind bars we tarnish our much touted reputation for freedom and liberty.
As stated in TFA by Mr. Wolf's lawyer, our courts are for investigating innocence and guilt in committed crimes . . . not for finding out if a crime was committed in the first place.
Mod me down for ranting. Mod parent off-topic (or funny, I suppose) please.
My dad got his math degree in the 70s and has been a successful local professional photographer (elementary schools and basketball teams, mostly) ever since. Don't give up hope!
China would do the same if it had the technical capabilities to do so.
You're saying that China doesn't have any airplanes to bother us with? Sure they do, but if they did we'd have them destroyed before they got within sight of our coast. and if they were spy planes, they probably wouldn't be allowed to leave China. Everyone speaks of international standards and international airspace and that's fine, but the US holds a double standard. I think it's time that the Chinese and our other worldly competetors did start flying spy missions over the US. We've been doing it for decades.
I just talked to an anthropologist friend of mine who said that it isn't uncommon for people to 'discover' new genuses or species just to get press and more funding.
"the "intellectual father" of these people discovered the following hominids:
Austropithicus Africanas
Austropithicus Aferensi
Paranthrapus Robustus
Paranthrapus Boisi
these have now been collapsed into the following hoinids:
Austropithicus Africanas and
Austropithicus Robustus"
so it could turn out to be something big...but it's probably no-big-deal.
oh yeah...we have too much CO2 so we should try to clean it up. That makes sense...but why do we have too much CO2? (All together now) WE'RE CUTTING DOWN ALL OUR TREES AND BURNING ALL OUR PETROLIUM. Fix the cause, not the symptom. Duh.
Maybe robots could render humans obsolete, but if you've read any Azimov you will know that robots could be beneficial to the human race too. And for fun, check out this.
Face it, Stranger in a Strange Land is the new bible. The old story of a cult leader turned martyr was getting old, Heinlein took that and mixed it with the right blend of Sci-Fi to bring us the greatest book of the century. Read it, live it, worship it. Only then will you truly grok your existance.
I didn't imply anything about capitalism. I'm just as against it as you are, but I don't think that anarchy is order. Without organization, people organize themselves. That is true, and the result is called government. I don't support abusive or bad governments in any way, but organization (government) in very necessary.
you have a point about shooting stupid people, Darwinian evolution is fine, but government is generally a good thing. Anarchy has always been a bad idea.
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strawman much?
You can learn more about this from today's DemocracyNow! broadcast: http://www.democracynow.org/index.pl?issue=2007062 2
Parent is insightful? Whether Josh was talking from his cell or from the phone in the hall or from an interrogation chamber is moot. While I'd like to give props to our system that at least lets the incarcerated communicate with the rest of is . . . I'll also have to condemn the same system for jailing Mr. Wolf in the first place. I think it would be nice if we could retain the ability to criticize other countries (China? Cuba?) for suppressing free speech while staying far from hypocrisy. As long as we have political prisoners behind bars we tarnish our much touted reputation for freedom and liberty.
As stated in TFA by Mr. Wolf's lawyer, our courts are for investigating innocence and guilt in committed crimes . . . not for finding out if a crime was committed in the first place.
Mod me down for ranting. Mod parent off-topic (or funny, I suppose) please.
slashdot his tires?
sorry . . . had to be said.
My dad got his math degree in the 70s and has been a successful local professional photographer (elementary schools and basketball teams, mostly) ever since. Don't give up hope!
Was The Command Line, by Neal Stephenson.
santarosa.edu is the page of "the harvard of the west," or the Santa Rosa Junior College...a great two year school. Check out gracie.santarosa.edu.
China would do the same if it had the technical capabilities to do so.
You're saying that China doesn't have any airplanes to bother us with? Sure they do, but if they did we'd have them destroyed before they got within sight of our coast. and if they were spy planes, they probably wouldn't be allowed to leave China. Everyone speaks of international standards and international airspace and that's fine, but the US holds a double standard. I think it's time that the Chinese and our other worldly competetors did start flying spy missions over the US. We've been doing it for decades.
Thank you. In your post I finally see true intelligence.
I just talked to an anthropologist friend of mine who said that it isn't uncommon for people to 'discover' new genuses or species just to get press and more funding. "the "intellectual father" of these people discovered the following hominids: Austropithicus Africanas Austropithicus Aferensi Paranthrapus Robustus Paranthrapus Boisi these have now been collapsed into the following hoinids: Austropithicus Africanas and Austropithicus Robustus" so it could turn out to be something big...but it's probably no-big-deal.
oh yeah...we have too much CO2 so we should try to clean it up. That makes sense...but why do we have too much CO2? (All together now) WE'RE CUTTING DOWN ALL OUR TREES AND BURNING ALL OUR PETROLIUM. Fix the cause, not the symptom. Duh.
Maybe robots could render humans obsolete, but if you've read any Azimov you will know that robots could be beneficial to the human race too. And for fun, check out this.
Never! My ideals are rockhard and invincible! They will never die!
Face it, Stranger in a Strange Land is the new bible. The old story of a cult leader turned martyr was getting old, Heinlein took that and mixed it with the right blend of Sci-Fi to bring us the greatest book of the century. Read it, live it, worship it. Only then will you truly grok your existance.
I didn't imply anything about capitalism. I'm just as against it as you are, but I don't think that anarchy is order. Without organization, people organize themselves. That is true, and the result is called government. I don't support abusive or bad governments in any way, but organization (government) in very necessary.
you have a point about shooting stupid people, Darwinian evolution is fine, but government is generally a good thing. Anarchy has always been a bad idea.