My issue with S3M is that it doesn't support new-note-actions like IT does, meaning you have to use a ridiculous amount of channels to make things sound smooth.
The unwashed masses can just install Ubuntu. I was a doubter until I tried it a month ago -- it installed in 10 minutes painlessly and everything Just Works.
All you Liberals out there need to stop excusing their evil and open your eyes.
Nobody's making an excuse for evil fundamentalist Muslims. No true "liberal" excuses senseless murder. Sensible liberals just think that trying to blow them all to smithereens, or countering fundamentalist Islam with fundamentalist Christianity, is the wrong way to address the problem.
I don't agree with a ban on marijuana for recreational use, but there are certainly justifications for it.
There are no justifications for banning marijuana that don't also require the banning of alcohol, however: if we're going to ban mind-altering drugs, why not start with one that actually causes crime? (People don't get stoned and beat their wives.)
There are no justifications at all for banning the medical use of marijuana. Saying "it's not really effective" is for a patient and her doctor to decide; banning it because it's also a recreational drug that we don't like is absurd. If we're going to do that, let's ban morphine too, right?
I stumbled upon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_eye recently -- gives a bunch of steps in the evolution of complex eyes, and how every step along the way provides the organism with something that's more useful than what came before.
Evolution is not an article of faith. It's a matter of fact, something you can walk around and see in organisms that change quickly (bacteria, insects).
I have. Have you, or do you let your pastor think for you?
"Theory" is just a term for "scientific idea that has some measure of acceptance and support." The theory of evolution has a huge amount of support, and is tested every day.
Nobody's shouting down the Pope; they're denying him an invitation to come give a talk.
The Pope is not obligated to let me come to the Vatican and give a talk on evolutionary biology. The physics department of the university in question is not obligated to let the Pope come and talk about religion.
We rational scientists are quite happy to let the Pope say anything he damn well pleases. If we weren't we'd get CERN to DoS the Vatican website.
1. The establishment clause only applies in the USA. 2. The establishment clause only prohibits the government from opposing religion. As long as their actions are otherwise legal, people can criticize the Church all they want. 3. If someone says grass is blue, it is within societal norms to laugh at them. But mysteriously it's not okay to do so if they say the world is 6000 years old.
Saying "Black people are inferior" is bigoted. Saying "Statistically, black people in the USA are more likely to commit robbery" isn't, since it's a statement of fact.
Saying that the Bible is two-thousand year old fiction produced by goat herders is a statement of fact. It is verifiably not true.
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So the majority of people who don't have legs use wheelchairs?
My issue with S3M is that it doesn't support new-note-actions like IT does, meaning you have to use a ridiculous amount of channels to make things sound smooth.
People have died driving on Oxycontin too, but we still prescribe it.
The unwashed masses can just install Ubuntu. I was a doubter until I tried it a month ago -- it installed in 10 minutes painlessly and everything Just Works.
I agree; that's a bad idea.
Nobody's making an excuse for evil fundamentalist Muslims. No true "liberal" excuses senseless murder. Sensible liberals just think that trying to blow them all to smithereens, or countering fundamentalist Islam with fundamentalist Christianity, is the wrong way to address the problem.
I don't agree with a ban on marijuana for recreational use, but there are certainly justifications for it.
There are no justifications for banning marijuana that don't also require the banning of alcohol, however: if we're going to ban mind-altering drugs, why not start with one that actually causes crime? (People don't get stoned and beat their wives.)
There are no justifications at all for banning the medical use of marijuana. Saying "it's not really effective" is for a patient and her doctor to decide; banning it because it's also a recreational drug that we don't like is absurd. If we're going to do that, let's ban morphine too, right?
He could have said that he did support medical marijuana, which is the only sane position to hold.
You can make a pretty good lightweight video camera, especially if you mainly want to use it outdoors.
Like it's that hard.
sudo apt-get install apache2
cp -R ~/music/* $DEFAULT_PATH_TO_APACHE_DIRECTORY
But what about all those courthouses that have stairs?
Nope -- if they were a consortium of Daleks, they'd write better dialogue.
The trouble is, Microsoft does "aid" projects like this, and then wants to be treated as though they've just committed some great act of charity.
They can't have it both ways.
Humans are apes.
Nice troll, though.
I think that the product that Gamespot sells most effectively is... ... Firefox Adblock.
Botnets may have the same number of CPU's, but they don't have anywhere near the bandwidth or latency between them.
I stumbled upon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_eye recently -- gives a bunch of steps in the evolution of complex eyes, and how every step along the way provides the organism with something that's more useful than what came before.
... I'm sure our Swedish friends would be glad to host it for them.
Evolution is not an article of faith. It's a matter of fact, something you can walk around and see in organisms that change quickly (bacteria, insects).
Think about it.
I have. Have you, or do you let your pastor think for you?
"Theory" is just a term for "scientific idea that has some measure of acceptance and support." The theory of evolution has a huge amount of support, and is tested every day.
Nobody's shouting down Ann Coulter; we're just disagreeing with her.
Opposing someone's speech with volume is "shouting down".
Opposing someone's speech with logic is "debate".
Ann Coulter doesn't have a First Amendment right to be correct; she just has a right to speak. Nobody's violating her rights by proving her wrong.
People study reason at Universities.
Catholicism is a fundamental opponent of reason.
Nobody's shouting down the Pope; they're denying him an invitation to come give a talk.
The Pope is not obligated to let me come to the Vatican and give a talk on evolutionary biology. The physics department of the university in question is not obligated to let the Pope come and talk about religion.
We rational scientists are quite happy to let the Pope say anything he damn well pleases. If we weren't we'd get CERN to DoS the Vatican website.
1. The establishment clause only applies in the USA.
2. The establishment clause only prohibits the government from opposing religion. As long as their actions are otherwise legal, people can criticize the Church all they want.
3. If someone says grass is blue, it is within societal norms to laugh at them. But mysteriously it's not okay to do so if they say the world is 6000 years old.
Saying "Black people are inferior" is bigoted. Saying "Statistically, black people in the USA are more likely to commit robbery" isn't, since it's a statement of fact.
Saying that the Bible is two-thousand year old fiction produced by goat herders is a statement of fact. It is verifiably not true.
Then those conclusions weren't rational. They might have been correct, but they weren't rational.
How is rejecting something that does fit together in favor of something that doesn't fit together rational?