Why is it that both parties always sell out for the worst aspects of the opposite party?
Well, the thing is, they don't. Plenty cross over, with politicians from the 'opposite' party voting for an issue you agree with.
How about this. The parties have become carticatures. Very few people are purely 'republican' or 'democrat', 'left' or 'right', 'conservative' or 'liberal'. They simply identify with the 'closest' party.
Heck, there's left/right ratings out there for senators. Some democrats are further 'right' than some republicans.
Texas's (D) Stenholm scored a 45, while Iowa's Leach(R), scored a 55 for their: ADA's rating(a blatently 'liberal' organization) Method for score: 20 votes chosen as the 'most important'. If you voted their way, you got 5 points. If you didn't, you got 0(IE abstinations count as 0 points). I have some serious problems with their methodology.
Govtrack rates Miller(D,GA) as further right than many republicans. Meanwhile, Collins, Chafee, and Snowe could be called 'Rhinos'(Republicans in name only).
I'd tend to say that the cousin part is more along the lines that the odds of producing healthy children are greatly increased if you don't marry your cousin. I mean, look at all the troubles the royalty suffered.
It makes sense, because HD-DVD's, from my understanding, have pretty much the same data capacity as regular DVD's do. It's just that they move from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4, allowing a higher compression rate before artifacts become bad, allowing them to fit an HD movie into the same amount of space the SD version takes today. In the idea that any increased artifacting will be lost in the hugely HD picture(a glitch that takes up 1% of the screen is much more noticable than one that takes up.1% of the screen).
Now, Blue-ray would allow us to keep using MPEG-2, due to increased storage capacity.
Personally, I'd like to see both. From what I've seen, compressing directly to high-bandwith MPEG-4 leaves fewer artifacts than MPEG-2.
Mom used to work somewhat near a clinic that would occasionally provide abortions. The demand for them in the city wasn't enough to provide for a full time clinic. Despite this, it was regularly picketed.
Her standard question, that would shut them up quite effectivly, was: "So how many have you adopted?".
None of the ones protesting, at least there, had adopted a child.
I'd rather a baby be introduced to a loving, caring home, not an institution, not foster homes(temporary). I'd rather that baby not be born in the first place if it's not going to get that.
I'm more of the opinion you put them down like you would a rabid animal. Just do it in an economical, humane fashion.
I saw on the news yesterday about them talking about having caught a man who raped, tortured, and killed a 5 year old girl. My reaction: "That's why we have a death penalty".
I'm concerned about the possibility an innocent person will be executed.
Believe it or not, if I'm actually innocent of a murder, but on trial for it, I'd rather it be a death penalty case than a life imprisonment case. In the death case, I'll get the most benefit of the doubt, the best defense, the most appeals. Prisoners with life sentences are often pro-forma ignored when it comes to appeals.
I generally agree, death penalties shouldn't normally be imposed for cases built around circumstantial evidence. Most states reserve the 'true' death sentence for the worst cases. Bundy, Dahlmer, etc.
Because of the xray she found out that more than likely the baby would be born with birth defects if it survived.
Was this because of things found out from the xray, or because an xray was performed? A standard xray, while not, well, optimal for a baby, at least won't cause a 'likelyhood' of defects.
But yes, this is where I get really iffy on not allowing abortions. It's a little darwinistic, but I feel that if parents find something wrong, having an abortion would be a valid choice. I'll leave 'wrong' loosly defined to mean 'significant chance of being unable to survive or live an unassisted/normal life outside the womb'. Sex doesn't count, but I'll leave the line up to the actual parents. If they want to have the baby with down's syndrome, okay, but if they want to abort, that's okay too.
Another problem is that if you ban abortion, it can be done chemically these days. A significant percentage of pregnancies spontaneously abort now. Would my mother have been investigated for possible murder charges because she had a miscarrage?
I know that they have at least three running into Detroit.
The trick was that they replaced nine undereground power lines, that were already oil-cooled. Basically, the continuing cost for the LN2 is less than the pumps needed to circulate the oil.
The three new cables contain only 250 pounds of superconductor, yet they will be able to carry just as much current as the 18,000 pounds of copper in the nine cables they replace.
The trick is, you don't need to pump the LN2, as it just boils off, you just have to keep it 'topped off'. The cables are heavily insulated, so the boil off rate is actually low, as the cables don't produce any heat, whereas the copper lines did.
I remember reading that they actually made money on the replacement, as 18,000 pounds of copper is quite a chunck of change.
A source, the rest I'm working off of remembered articles that aren't easily found on the internet today.
I'll admit, it's going to be a while before they bother running a superconducting line to your neighborhood, but for the main trunks out of power stations, into cities, or other major distibution centers, it makes sense.
I can't think of many non-military organisations which have bigger budgets
I can. 2005 Numbers: Department of Health & Human Services: 584B Department of Education: 56.5B Department of Veterans Affairs: 32.5B Department of Housing & Urban Development: 32B Department of Homeland Security: 29B Department of State: 27.5B Department of Energy: 23.8B Department of Agriculture: 21.4B Department of Justice: 20.2B NASA: 16.1B Cheaper Departments include: Treasury, Transportation, Labor, Interior, Drug Administration, EPA, and Commerce. They generally run 8-15 billion each.
Do you honeslty think Bush had proof of WMD? No, I believe that he had intelligence, considered good at the time, that indicated that while Saddam likely didn't have WMD at the time, he was getting close to having it.
Do you honestly think that they could deliver them to US soil? Two Words: Drug Smuggling
Do you honestly think that gives him the right to invade Iraq? Well, that and the continued violation of the cease-fire agreements, the violation and corruption of UN Sanctions, the continued human rights violations, etc, etc, etc...
If so, why were the 9/11 attacks bad? We have WMD and we've been boming the middle east for the last decade (no fly zones in kurdish iraq).
Of the 9/11 attacks, the majority were against civilians. Attacking the Pentagon was almost an afterthought. And I'm a military member.
Over 25,000 Iraqis have died in the last TWO YEARS from the USA.
The number I read was 10,000, including those killed by the terrorists. Are you saying the USA killed that many? While I don't like it, the average seems to be about 10 a day due to the terrorist's bombs and attacks.
And just like ConsumedByTV, I've been in Iraq. Americans practice target discrimination. This tends to keep unintended casualties down.
And if you think that it's a mess now, it has nothing on what would happen if we pulled out now, before Iraq's own security forces could handle things. Think Afganistan.
Although the sheer backlog and slowdown of throughput
And they're talking about putting TSA style security in for busses and trains?
Am I the only one who thinks that the pile of people before the checkpoint would make a very good target? I mean, people packed cheek to jowl for 20 feet in every direction, the suicide bomber would get more people than he ever could on the train, bus, or probably even the plane*.
Heck, sounds like a good call for equiping and mobilizing the citizen's militia a bit. Give me the training, I already carry a handgun.
*after an explosion in the cabin, there's still a decent chance the pilot could still land.
How many British police are trained in the use of guns, and the decision to shoot?
I'm active on a couple gun boards, and they were posting pictures of the bobbies with their machine pistols/SMG's.
Many of them were being held in what, we in the USA, would consider unsafe(muzzles pointed up) and unuseful positions.
Our general reaction was: "That's scary" and "They need some more training". Not as bad as the picture of the south african officer who was sitting on the muzzle of his shotgun(if it fired, the shot would have exited around his naval), but still...
At least american police officers are trained and used to guns, as often even the meter maids carry them.
While the europeans don't carry guns as much, they're far more likely to skip directly to the full autos, rather than carrying a 'service pistol' like in the states.
Sure, Jesus made a statement about you "turning the other cheek"
But in Luke 22:35-38, he also tells his disciples to get swords, even if they had to sell their mantle(cloak or outer robe) to get one.
So self-defense is considered necessary, at times.
Thus, carrying an arm and defending yourself, while not, perhaps, the highest path, is still not an evil path. Personally, I feel that I'm carrying my weapon not just to defend myself, but so I can be more prepared to defend others as well.
Giving Caesar his due could be an early form of seperation of church and state.
The cast the first stone was more along the lines of 'vigilante justice' even for the time. Way out of line.
This is what happens when you reduce a belief down to a catch phrase. I'd add "of innocents" in there, but that's still a catch phrase. Most christians have a profoundly different view of two to three people more or less arbitrarily deciding to execute an(by definition pretty much) innocent life. They have a different view of the execution of a adult, duly convicted by court of law, their peers, and appeals of commission of particularly heinous sins/crimes against their fellow man.
Like alot of people say: "How can you support abortion, yet decry the death penalty?"
Just for background, I support the death penalty for crimes like torture, rape and murder. I also am in support of a woman's choice, though I'll say that I believe that programs to reduce the demand will ultimately be more successful than demonstrations, riots, murders, and ban attempts from the pro-lifers.
I have to agree with you for much of it. My grandfather absolutly hates how this one company pushes those electric chairs. He says it's generally only a few months before they become totally dependant on it(unable to stand up at all), and they generally go quickly downhill.
But still, there are people, not all elderly, who are afflicted with diseases that sap their strength no matter what they do. For these people, it can be a godsend.
Also, if you have an elderly person stuck in a wheelchair, you should be able to adjust the suit to give a limited boost, such that they can start walking again, which is more exercise than they were getting before. Adjust the 'boost' as necessary.
I'd prefer just unplugging my phone at that point. I can close my email & IM down. Growling at others who interupt me while I'm coding has proven effective as well.
Get a do-not-disturb sign. Make it a cute one if you want.
Local OI - 0400 - Call 911 for line check "This is the NCC with a 911 line check, how do you read?" Then make note that police, fire, and medical all respond.
That reminds me of an old webcomic where a developer was demonstrating a program that would 'find' pornographic images in any binary data of over a certain size(10 megs?). They were argueing that since the program didn't contain any porn, but just found it, that it would be unregulated. That was shot down when one of the main characters asked how large the executable for the 'finder' program was(50 meg?). "OMG!!! Is that even possible?" resulted;).
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Um, radical position here, but I think that both parties are rather 'left'.
I think that most in Europe are outright socialists.
Aren't politics fun?
Why is it that both parties always sell out for the worst aspects of the opposite party?
Well, the thing is, they don't. Plenty cross over, with politicians from the 'opposite' party voting for an issue you agree with.
How about this. The parties have become carticatures. Very few people are purely 'republican' or 'democrat', 'left' or 'right', 'conservative' or 'liberal'. They simply identify with the 'closest' party.
Heck, there's left/right ratings out there for senators. Some democrats are further 'right' than some republicans.
Texas's (D) Stenholm scored a 45, while Iowa's Leach(R), scored a 55 for their: ADA's rating(a blatently 'liberal' organization)
Method for score: 20 votes chosen as the 'most important'. If you voted their way, you got 5 points. If you didn't, you got 0(IE abstinations count as 0 points). I have some serious problems with their methodology.
Govtrack rates Miller(D,GA) as further right than many republicans. Meanwhile, Collins, Chafee, and Snowe could be called 'Rhinos'(Republicans in name only).
I'd tend to say that the cousin part is more along the lines that the odds of producing healthy children are greatly increased if you don't marry your cousin. I mean, look at all the troubles the royalty suffered.
It makes sense, because HD-DVD's, from my understanding, have pretty much the same data capacity as regular DVD's do. It's just that they move from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4, allowing a higher compression rate before artifacts become bad, allowing them to fit an HD movie into the same amount of space the SD version takes today. In the idea that any increased artifacting will be lost in the hugely HD picture(a glitch that takes up 1% of the screen is much more noticable than one that takes up .1% of the screen).
Now, Blue-ray would allow us to keep using MPEG-2, due to increased storage capacity.
Personally, I'd like to see both. From what I've seen, compressing directly to high-bandwith MPEG-4 leaves fewer artifacts than MPEG-2.
I take it you must not believe in the physical reincarnation and reformation of earth into heaven after the return of Jesus and the apocolypes?
Meanwhile, I'll keep on going, trying to do my part to make life on earth(and hopefully, eventually beyond), as nice as possible.
Well, it's still in the 'testing' phase. As one article put it, all the power companies are 'eager to be the first to be second'.
They'll embrace the technology wholesale, once it's been tested and proven.
"Those who live by the sword die by the sword"
The problem here, is that history has shown that those who don't live by the sword also die by the sword.
The Jews in WWII, the communist purges in Russia, China. Rowanda, Khimer Rouge, Sudan, etc.
I view the next passage as more of a 'respect the proper authorities' and 'avoid conflict when possible'.
Mom used to work somewhat near a clinic that would occasionally provide abortions. The demand for them in the city wasn't enough to provide for a full time clinic. Despite this, it was regularly picketed.
Her standard question, that would shut them up quite effectivly, was: "So how many have you adopted?".
None of the ones protesting, at least there, had adopted a child.
I'd rather a baby be introduced to a loving, caring home, not an institution, not foster homes(temporary).
I'd rather that baby not be born in the first place if it's not going to get that.
I'm more of the opinion you put them down like you would a rabid animal. Just do it in an economical, humane fashion.
I saw on the news yesterday about them talking about having caught a man who raped, tortured, and killed a 5 year old girl. My reaction: "That's why we have a death penalty".
I'm concerned about the possibility an innocent person will be executed.
Believe it or not, if I'm actually innocent of a murder, but on trial for it, I'd rather it be a death penalty case than a life imprisonment case. In the death case, I'll get the most benefit of the doubt, the best defense, the most appeals. Prisoners with life sentences are often pro-forma ignored when it comes to appeals.
I generally agree, death penalties shouldn't normally be imposed for cases built around circumstantial evidence. Most states reserve the 'true' death sentence for the worst cases. Bundy, Dahlmer, etc.
Because of the xray she found out that more than likely the baby would be born with birth defects if it survived.
Was this because of things found out from the xray, or because an xray was performed? A standard xray, while not, well, optimal for a baby, at least won't cause a 'likelyhood' of defects.
But yes, this is where I get really iffy on not allowing abortions. It's a little darwinistic, but I feel that if parents find something wrong, having an abortion would be a valid choice. I'll leave 'wrong' loosly defined to mean 'significant chance of being unable to survive or live an unassisted/normal life outside the womb'. Sex doesn't count, but I'll leave the line up to the actual parents. If they want to have the baby with down's syndrome, okay, but if they want to abort, that's okay too.
Another problem is that if you ban abortion, it can be done chemically these days. A significant percentage of pregnancies spontaneously abort now. Would my mother have been investigated for possible murder charges because she had a miscarrage?
I know that they have at least three running into Detroit.
The trick was that they replaced nine undereground power lines, that were already oil-cooled. Basically, the continuing cost for the LN2 is less than the pumps needed to circulate the oil.
The three new cables contain only 250 pounds of superconductor, yet they will be able to carry just as much current as the 18,000 pounds of copper in the nine cables they replace.
The trick is, you don't need to pump the LN2, as it just boils off, you just have to keep it 'topped off'. The cables are heavily insulated, so the boil off rate is actually low, as the cables don't produce any heat, whereas the copper lines did.
I remember reading that they actually made money on the replacement, as 18,000 pounds of copper is quite a chunck of change.
A source, the rest I'm working off of remembered articles that aren't easily found on the internet today.
I'll admit, it's going to be a while before they bother running a superconducting line to your neighborhood, but for the main trunks out of power stations, into cities, or other major distibution centers, it makes sense.
Nah, not quite that easy. It'd be more like those bike locks(~$50) that turned out to be openable by a ball point pen.
Temporary solution: Disable the USB ports.
The problem with this is that hydro is already about the cheapest power out there, easily beating out solar and wind.
Both have a long way to go to compete or be considered 'equivalent' to hydro.
I can't think of many non-military organisations which have bigger budgets
I can. 2005 Numbers:
Department of Health & Human Services: 584B
Department of Education: 56.5B
Department of Veterans Affairs: 32.5B
Department of Housing & Urban Development: 32B
Department of Homeland Security: 29B
Department of State: 27.5B
Department of Energy: 23.8B
Department of Agriculture: 21.4B
Department of Justice: 20.2B
NASA: 16.1B
Cheaper Departments include: Treasury, Transportation, Labor, Interior, Drug Administration, EPA, and Commerce. They generally run 8-15 billion each.
Source: Washington Post
Not to mention that the coal plant can be hundreds of miles away, especially if you run a superconducting powerline to the city.
Problem: Hydro's pretty much at 100% exploitation. If you don't think so, try building one somewhere.
Do you honeslty think Bush had proof of WMD?
No, I believe that he had intelligence, considered good at the time, that indicated that while Saddam likely didn't have WMD at the time, he was getting close to having it.
Do you honestly think that they could deliver them to US soil?
Two Words: Drug Smuggling
Do you honestly think that gives him the right to invade Iraq?
Well, that and the continued violation of the cease-fire agreements, the violation and corruption of UN Sanctions, the continued human rights violations, etc, etc, etc...
If so, why were the 9/11 attacks bad? We have WMD and we've been boming the middle east for the last decade (no fly zones in kurdish iraq).
Of the 9/11 attacks, the majority were against civilians. Attacking the Pentagon was almost an afterthought. And I'm a military member.
Over 25,000 Iraqis have died in the last TWO YEARS from the USA.
The number I read was 10,000, including those killed by the terrorists. Are you saying the USA killed that many? While I don't like it, the average seems to be about 10 a day due to the terrorist's bombs and attacks.
And just like ConsumedByTV, I've been in Iraq. Americans practice target discrimination. This tends to keep unintended casualties down.
And if you think that it's a mess now, it has nothing on what would happen if we pulled out now, before Iraq's own security forces could handle things. Think Afganistan.
Although the sheer backlog and slowdown of throughput
And they're talking about putting TSA style security in for busses and trains?
Am I the only one who thinks that the pile of people before the checkpoint would make a very good target? I mean, people packed cheek to jowl for 20 feet in every direction, the suicide bomber would get more people than he ever could on the train, bus, or probably even the plane*.
Heck, sounds like a good call for equiping and mobilizing the citizen's militia a bit. Give me the training, I already carry a handgun.
*after an explosion in the cabin, there's still a decent chance the pilot could still land.
How many British police are trained in the use of guns, and the decision to shoot?
I'm active on a couple gun boards, and they were posting pictures of the bobbies with their machine pistols/SMG's.
Many of them were being held in what, we in the USA, would consider unsafe(muzzles pointed up) and unuseful positions.
Our general reaction was: "That's scary" and "They need some more training". Not as bad as the picture of the south african officer who was sitting on the muzzle of his shotgun(if it fired, the shot would have exited around his naval), but still...
At least american police officers are trained and used to guns, as often even the meter maids carry them.
While the europeans don't carry guns as much, they're far more likely to skip directly to the full autos, rather than carrying a 'service pistol' like in the states.
Sure, Jesus made a statement about you "turning the other cheek"
But in Luke 22:35-38, he also tells his disciples to get swords, even if they had to sell their mantle(cloak or outer robe) to get one.
So self-defense is considered necessary, at times.
Thus, carrying an arm and defending yourself, while not, perhaps, the highest path, is still not an evil path. Personally, I feel that I'm carrying my weapon not just to defend myself, but so I can be more prepared to defend others as well.
Giving Caesar his due could be an early form of seperation of church and state.
The cast the first stone was more along the lines of 'vigilante justice' even for the time. Way out of line.
we believe in the right to life
This is what happens when you reduce a belief down to a catch phrase. I'd add "of innocents" in there, but that's still a catch phrase. Most christians have a profoundly different view of two to three people more or less arbitrarily deciding to execute an(by definition pretty much) innocent life. They have a different view of the execution of a adult, duly convicted by court of law, their peers, and appeals of commission of particularly heinous sins/crimes against their fellow man.
Like alot of people say: "How can you support abortion, yet decry the death penalty?"
Just for background, I support the death penalty for crimes like torture, rape and murder. I also am in support of a woman's choice, though I'll say that I believe that programs to reduce the demand will ultimately be more successful than demonstrations, riots, murders, and ban attempts from the pro-lifers.
I doubt that 'mecha' per say will make an appearance.
Battlesuits, yes. But mechs that you pilot? Not a good shape for them, actually. Treads are better.
I have to agree with you for much of it. My grandfather absolutly hates how this one company pushes those electric chairs. He says it's generally only a few months before they become totally dependant on it(unable to stand up at all), and they generally go quickly downhill.
But still, there are people, not all elderly, who are afflicted with diseases that sap their strength no matter what they do. For these people, it can be a godsend.
Also, if you have an elderly person stuck in a wheelchair, you should be able to adjust the suit to give a limited boost, such that they can start walking again, which is more exercise than they were getting before. Adjust the 'boost' as necessary.
I'd prefer just unplugging my phone at that point. I can close my email & IM down. Growling at others who interupt me while I'm coding has proven effective as well.
Get a do-not-disturb sign. Make it a cute one if you want.
Nope.
Local OI -
0400 - Call 911 for line check
"This is the NCC with a 911 line check, how do you read?" Then make note that police, fire, and medical all respond.
That reminds me of an old webcomic where a developer was demonstrating a program that would 'find' pornographic images in any binary data of over a certain size(10 megs?). They were argueing that since the program didn't contain any porn, but just found it, that it would be unregulated. That was shot down when one of the main characters asked how large the executable for the 'finder' program was(50 meg?). "OMG!!! Is that even possible?" resulted ;).