Fitness, in this context, is a biological term. It annoys the pedant in me when people take a term, remove it from context, apply a different context's definition to it, then reapply the newly defined term to the old context. You've done it with clones, and you've done it with fitness. Please stop.
Have you looked at the cost of running an election campaign? I couldn't afford to, could you?
My father ran for and was elected to the Bremerton School Board by ~54%. He paid ZERO money on his campaign, and received ZERO campaign contributions (though some people offered). There are ways to get elected to office that don't involve money or corruption.
The legal definition of antique, accoriding to the US customs service, in the US is more than 100 years old. So, all of these bottles made before 1902 would be legal antiques.
It seems to me that H is probably an intermediate. If you're going to be anal about it, you might as well say "Sewage to be Turned into Energy", as H2 + O -> Energy is the final step.
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If enough people/organizations put their focus on it, they could purchase enough stock in these biotech firms to gain seats on the board of directors, or enough stock to manipulate the companies into giving away greatly price-reduced drugs to those unable to afford them.
One big issue with giving away drugs is making sure people are properly monitored as to the effect the drugs are having on them, and how well they are keeping their regimen. These aren't silver bullets, if you let a regimen lapse, for any reason, you are allowing the viruses a chance to mutate into a resistent strain. Such a thing has, and is still, leading to pathogens that cannot be easily or cheaply treated, even in the US. A capable medical infrastructure is at least as important as the drugs themselves.
Your last statement would lead to people dishonestly sneaking "public" money into research institutions in order for the patents to be rendered worthless. And since when should US (or name your state) public money go toward benefitting companies in some other country. If the patent is going to be free, it should only be free for US taxpayers.
The US does accept compulsory International Court of Justice juridiction, though with reservations (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/us.html#Govt).
Micronesia, The Phillipines, etc... Lincoln just had a problem with states seceding, especially with British North America up north, and British support of Southern secession.
You have the mailing address. A quick check of the net for "legal drinking age in XXXX state" should tell you whether it's legal to sell there or not. Even so, you could only be sued for your US assets.
Yes. It's for the Chinese to determine how to build their society; yet certain of the Chinese have taken this "burden" on themselves, thus denying the opportunity to the rest.
I was basing my statement of death on the toll taken by the fascist or autocratic states of Nazi Germany, Communist China (during the Cultural Revolution), the USSR/Russia (under Stalin).
Sure, societies have value systems, but societies can and do change (All of Europe, minus Switzerland and, for a time, The Netherlands, were feudal states up until the last 2-3 hundred years). Most primitive cultures are, with the exception of, sometimes, religion, democratic. Usually much more democratic than is currently possible. They tended to vote in a Clan/extended-family type hierarchy. Yes, they'd put more power to old-age-wisdom, etc..., but it was not all-powerful.
I believe I posited that some autocratic states can function quite well, but overall democratic states are superior (ideally a minimal-government state, as that gives more power to society, but that's just my personal stance). Argentina does suck, I think it has the wrong balance between autocracy and democracy (The currency board and fixed exchange rate were not democratic; a fixed rate is, by definition, autocratic).
No, I'm not. I specifically stated there is more than one kind of democratic government. I acknowledged that certain prerequisites were necessary for a democracy; in Afghanistan, it was order and food. There is equal variety of social and political thought within the US as there is within the world as a whole; this can be said for any country. You cannot draw circles and declare "European Values", "Chinese Values", "American Values", etc.... Autocratic states, around the world, have been responsible for far more death and destruction than any democratically-based states.
What are you talking about? Who are you? I have a few guesses, but am not sure. I don't seek to escape from reality; I just emailed my Rep a few days ago protesting over his pork-barreling.
I had no troubled childhood, merely a troubled early-adulthood. I'm over that now.
As a well-traveled journalist who has witnessed firsthand the enormous scale of suffering that has resulted from instability in many developing nations, Robert Kaplan questioned both the efficacy and desirability of democracy in a December 1997 Atlantic Monthly article he authored entitled "Was Democracy Just A Moment?". Yet what Robert Kaplan and other apologists of authoritarian rule have apparently failed to learn from the costly lessons thrust upon the West this century is that democracy and self-rule initially come with a high price. This is a lesson that is as true today in places like Angola, Indonesia and Turkey as it was during the previous century in our own country, when Americans paid dearly for their democratic ideals by fighting a bloody conflict that took more American lives than any other. It is a costly lesson that journalists, politicians and other power-brokers encountering troubled, developing nations should be mindful of when finding themselves ready to throw in the towel and make a mephistophelean trade for the even costlier quick-fix of authoritarian rule.
Under its authoritarian system China has extinquished the lives of tens of millions of its citizens, as well.
Good god. GERMANS have a terrible historical record of governing themselves. We saw how that turned out (fairly well, the world's third largest economy). Don't let sophistry spin your head. Democracy does take a few decades to jump start (in all situations), but the Chinese have been autocratic for a few decades too long. It is time they started developing the necessary prerequisites to a functional electorally representative government.
Prolonged totalitarianism is far more often detrimental to a people than it is good.
Democracies initiate fewer civil wars than totalitarian states. Would YOU be willing to live in a state that denied you a voice? Why wish it upon others? There are ways to allow democracy that would not fracture China. There is not just ONE size to democracy or republics; some are less effective than others. Effective ones are the only means to avoid the most harmful local effects of economic globalization.
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"Lack of eloquence does not denote lack of intelligence, though they often coincide."
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Written very eloquently.
Who ordered the Jedi (very perceptive ones at that) to guard Amidala? Palpatine (Presumably Darth Siddious)
Who shot the Assassin? Jingo Fett.
Who are the clones of? Jingo Fett.
Who pays Mr. Fett? Siddious or his henchmen.
The bullet used conveniently draws the Jedi to the clone world.
It seems fairly probable that Palpatine was counting on Obi-wan finding the clones when he did.
Palpatine uses his position to very carefully micro-mamage everything that occurs.
*My spelling is probably off on the names, I don't care enough to check them.
The moderation done to the parent AC comment is one of the funniest things I've read today. Thanks!
Fitness, in this context, is a biological term. It annoys the pedant in me when people take a term, remove it from context, apply a different context's definition to it, then reapply the newly defined term to the old context. You've done it with clones, and you've done it with fitness. Please stop.
Have you looked at the cost of running an election campaign? I couldn't afford to, could you?
My father ran for and was elected to the Bremerton School Board by ~54%. He paid ZERO money on his campaign, and received ZERO campaign contributions (though some people offered). There are ways to get elected to office that don't involve money or corruption.
The legal definition of antique, accoriding to the US customs service, in the US is more than 100 years old. So, all of these bottles made before 1902 would be legal antiques.
Great idea. The Car locator button on your keychain could flash your car (or parts thereof) a certain series of colors.
No worries about keying, just paint it back yourself.
It seems to me that H is probably an intermediate. If you're going to be anal about it, you might as well say "Sewage to be Turned into Energy", as H2 + O -> Energy is the final step.
If enough people/organizations put their focus on it, they could purchase enough stock in these biotech firms to gain seats on the board of directors, or enough stock to manipulate the companies into giving away greatly price-reduced drugs to those unable to afford them.
One big issue with giving away drugs is making sure people are properly monitored as to the effect the drugs are having on them, and how well they are keeping their regimen. These aren't silver bullets, if you let a regimen lapse, for any reason, you are allowing the viruses a chance to mutate into a resistent strain. Such a thing has, and is still, leading to pathogens that cannot be easily or cheaply treated, even in the US. A capable medical infrastructure is at least as important as the drugs themselves.
Your last statement would lead to people dishonestly sneaking "public" money into research institutions in order for the patents to be rendered worthless. And since when should US (or name your state) public money go toward benefitting companies in some other country. If the patent is going to be free, it should only be free for US taxpayers.
Or do you actually trust the American government after all? (And if not, doesn't that say something very significant about that government?)
Or it might just say something about the volume of naysayers about said government.
The founder of the first McDonalds restaurant was a member of said clan, and thus had every right in the world to use the name.
I had just finished re-reading "Thief of Time" when I saw this comment. Coincidences abound.
Because it sshouldn't be done by a government. It should be done by a private agency.
To your insurance company; yes, you are liable. Your rates will go up in proportion to the damage caused.
The US does accept compulsory International Court of Justice juridiction, though with reservations (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos /us.html#Govt).
Micronesia, The Phillipines, etc... Lincoln just had a problem with states seceding, especially with British North America up north, and British support of Southern secession.
You have the mailing address. A quick check of the net for "legal drinking age in XXXX state" should tell you whether it's legal to sell there or not. Even so, you could only be sued for your US assets.
If someone shoots you, do you run for a lawyer, or try to disable them? I would seriously like your answer.
Yes. It's for the Chinese to determine how to build their society; yet certain of the Chinese have taken this "burden" on themselves, thus denying the opportunity to the rest.
I was basing my statement of death on the toll taken by the fascist or autocratic states of Nazi Germany, Communist China (during the Cultural Revolution), the USSR/Russia (under Stalin).
Sure, societies have value systems, but societies can and do change (All of Europe, minus Switzerland and, for a time, The Netherlands, were feudal states up until the last 2-3 hundred years). Most primitive cultures are, with the exception of, sometimes, religion, democratic. Usually much more democratic than is currently possible. They tended to vote in a Clan/extended-family type hierarchy. Yes, they'd put more power to old-age-wisdom, etc..., but it was not all-powerful.
I believe I posited that some autocratic states can function quite well, but overall democratic states are superior (ideally a minimal-government state, as that gives more power to society, but that's just my personal stance). Argentina does suck, I think it has the wrong balance between autocracy and democracy (The currency board and fixed exchange rate were not democratic; a fixed rate is, by definition, autocratic).
A stronger, oppositely charged magnet above the floor?
No, I'm not. I specifically stated there is more than one kind of democratic government. I acknowledged that certain prerequisites were necessary for a democracy; in Afghanistan, it was order and food. There is equal variety of social and political thought within the US as there is within the world as a whole; this can be said for any country. You cannot draw circles and declare "European Values", "Chinese Values", "American Values", etc.... Autocratic states, around the world, have been responsible for far more death and destruction than any democratically-based states.
What are you talking about? Who are you? I have a few guesses, but am not sure. I don't seek to escape from reality; I just emailed my Rep a few days ago protesting over his pork-barreling.
I had no troubled childhood, merely a troubled early-adulthood. I'm over that now.
Good god. GERMANS have a terrible historical record of governing themselves. We saw how that turned out (fairly well, the world's third largest economy). Don't let sophistry spin your head. Democracy does take a few decades to jump start (in all situations), but the Chinese have been autocratic for a few decades too long. It is time they started developing the necessary prerequisites to a functional electorally representative government.
Prolonged totalitarianism is far more often detrimental to a people than it is good.
Democracies initiate fewer civil wars than totalitarian states. Would YOU be willing to live in a state that denied you a voice? Why wish it upon others? There are ways to allow democracy that would not fracture China. There is not just ONE size to democracy or republics; some are less effective than others. Effective ones are the only means to avoid the most harmful local effects of economic globalization.