The traitors of the British Empire who founded, on paper, the greatest democracy the World had ever seen did not foresee the simple language of their simple how-to manual being perverted for motive. I'll bet some of them were lawyers themselves.
I see by your entirely plausible explanation that you could write yourself out of a plotting corner if your trade was as a novelist, but if we can introduce any eventuality into our calculation process, I would like to be a lottery winner in a world where 3D printed organs are available the way plastic surgery is today.
Indeed. Religion mixed into your point of view, indeed your politics, is like living today with rules crafted 2000 years ago.
And that's real. Just plain old real.
Even the authors of the US constitution hadn't a clue what we'd become in a mere quarter millennium, and since they weren't all devout, I would defer to their collective expertise over the divinely inspired biblical authors.
Is anyone actually surprised by these poll results?
If by that you mean, mathematically, how 33% of Democrats and 57% of Republicans could be one third of a total number of polling participants unless no Republicans were selected....
You know that intelligence (or the lack thereof) is a handy scapegoat for lack of a penchant for the obvious.
Most of the really smart people are aware God and Santa aren't real, but beneath a certain still pretty smart threshold, many seemingly very sharp people believe in a divinity.
It can be so ingrained culturally that you can't sort it out of yourself.
Only extremists would argue for no government, and fanatics on either side of the political spectrum are to be discounted. Obviously we are too fragile a creature (nature's sacrifice for the big brain?) to be left completely without a few rules and regulations, but it would be sweet if the government could be a little bit less evil.
If you're going to apply to work for the government, and be their subcontractor, it is acceptable to imagine they'll be telling you what to do in exchange for the checks they hand you. That's what the people who write the paychecks do. (In my experience)
Perhaps we don't want objective news.
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Perhaps our tidy little lives are less likely to experience upset if we only read or listen to what we already agree with.
Ivan Boesky gave the SEC Drexel Burnham Lambert's prodigal son. Then, Michael Milkin paid a $600 million dollar fine in 1989 for 'irregularities' in the junk bond market, serving two years at Club Fed after a ten year sentence was reduced for his cooperative efforts. He was listed in the Forbes 2010 list at #488 with a net worth of about $two $billion.
So yeah, It's fair to say one receives a fair amount of justice relative to one's resources.
Do you really think an ability to pay egregious fines is not a sentencing factor?
But they'll catch him eventually. As many people have pointed out recently in many posts on many topics, it's hard to remain anonymous and hide in plain sight these days.
You know, it's really not.
Quasi-legitimate identities are available to anyone with resources. Sure, your freedom run is dependent upon avoiding arrest & the entire fingerprinting process, leaving people/your old life completely behind, and beginning anew in Kalamazoo... but maybe you're not well-suited for prison and you figure you'd be giving all those luxuries up anyways.
Yes. This and he desires the limelight a successful escape will bask him in.
Federal time is pretty cake(lots of money, good control, decent food), and minimum security is where the token Wall Street felon goes once a generation.
He's not running from that at 48 years young with 24 months to do unless he just got some bad news on the biopsy.
heh heh... If i was, and it was on or around the time of the previous post, it probably wasn't a tire failure. We were going downhill too fast on the backside of Ballmer Peak.
Most people care more about the status symbol of the new shiney, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it used in a series of Dodge/Chevy ads. "Silverado, tough as steel" or some such.
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Yep, he's jumping around like a five year old on Christmas morning.
The traitors of the British Empire who founded, on paper, the greatest democracy the World had ever seen did not foresee the simple language of their simple how-to manual being perverted for motive. I'll bet some of them were lawyers themselves.
Don't IQ tests suffer from a sort of bias in that their complexity and validity is limited by those creating the tests?
Certainly. They are, nonetheless, a measure of an individual's ability to process, store, and recall information.
An ability as taken for granted as 20/20 vision, or even vision itself, for those who've never known it.
I see by your entirely plausible explanation that you could write yourself out of a plotting corner if your trade was as a novelist, but if we can introduce any eventuality into our calculation process, I would like to be a lottery winner in a world where 3D printed organs are available the way plastic surgery is today.
God and Santa are both metaphors.
They're both real. Sort of.
Indeed. Religion mixed into your point of view, indeed your politics, is like living today with rules crafted 2000 years ago.
And that's real. Just plain old real.
Even the authors of the US constitution hadn't a clue what we'd become in a mere quarter millennium, and since they weren't all devout, I would defer to their collective expertise over the divinely inspired biblical authors.
An admittedly small sampling, but anyone I would phone from the stage of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" for advice on the final question.
A 'sure sign' is an absolute, and thus, statistically unlikely.
Tests that measure isolated skills, IQ for brains & track for athleticism, are certainly relevant for at least part of the total grade.
The ability to troll proves you've arrived where you are with a damaged psyche.
I am sorry about your bad luck.
Is anyone actually surprised by these poll results?
If by that you mean, mathematically, how 33% of Democrats and 57% of Republicans could be one third of a total number of polling participants unless no Republicans were selected....
Most of the really smart people are aware God and Santa aren't real, but beneath a certain still pretty smart threshold, many seemingly very sharp people believe in a divinity.
It can be so ingrained culturally that you can't sort it out of yourself.
Only extremists would argue for no government, and fanatics on either side of the political spectrum are to be discounted. Obviously we are too fragile a creature (nature's sacrifice for the big brain?) to be left completely without a few rules and regulations, but it would be sweet if the government could be a little bit less evil.
If you're going to apply to work for the government, and be their subcontractor, it is acceptable to imagine they'll be telling you what to do in exchange for the checks they hand you. That's what the people who write the paychecks do. (In my experience)
Perhaps our tidy little lives are less likely to experience upset if we only read or listen to what we already agree with.
You know, strive to become the honorable leader of the Free World, making others better for having known us.
So yeah, It's fair to say one receives a fair amount of justice relative to one's resources.
Do you really think an ability to pay egregious fines is not a sentencing factor?
I love that term. Previously, I described the identical phenomenon with "Six of one or half a dozen".
But they'll catch him eventually. As many people have pointed out recently in many posts on many topics, it's hard to remain anonymous and hide in plain sight these days.
You know, it's really not.
Quasi-legitimate identities are available to anyone with resources. Sure, your freedom run is dependent upon avoiding arrest & the entire fingerprinting process, leaving people/your old life completely behind, and beginning anew in Kalamazoo... but maybe you're not well-suited for prison and you figure you'd be giving all those luxuries up anyways.
Federal time is pretty cake(lots of money, good control, decent food), and minimum security is where the token Wall Street felon goes once a generation.
He's not running from that at 48 years young with 24 months to do unless he just got some bad news on the biopsy.
This is verbiage of the initial Target press release. It sounds like my government talking to me.
Likely your scientific evaluation missed salt's inherent ability to retard bacterial feeding.
Yeah, but if you mod him down it'll all appear together on one line.
Things like the Myer's web site?
heh heh... If i was, and it was on or around the time of the previous post, it probably wasn't a tire failure. We were going downhill too fast on the backside of Ballmer Peak.
Ah padawan, you appreciate your karma more if you gamble with it from time to time.
And Ford collisions with mercury will take on a whole new meaning.
Most people care more about the status symbol of the new shiney, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it used in a series of Dodge/Chevy ads. "Silverado, tough as steel" or some such.