In the US a church is a tax-exempt entity, a charitable organization. If they don't pay taxes for the revenue they bring in, and their members can write off the contributions to the church, doesn't that in effect mean the rest of us are paying money that people paying the church don't?
So if I take a vacation with my family I don't get to write it off. But if I donate the same amount of money to my church, who then sponsors an trip to Europe that we participate in, that money is deducted from my gross income. And I directly benefit from money I "donate" to my church.
If you move a few signs around the equation, isn't that the same as taxing people who don't go to church? Double-time? Because if I donate to Oxfam they don't take me on a field trip to another country. They use the money to help someone else.
I recently read about an experiment where 85 police officers participated in knife fights where they didn't know one would be drawn. 3 of the 85 actually "survived".
Sounds a lot easier just to get out of the storm and head indoors instead. But I suppose wearing a metal building around me with lightning rods on top of it makes me more likely to get struck as well?
I guess someone upstairs finally figured out that it's easy to track people on the net when they don't move. If everyone has their own addresses, no need to ask the isp what it is anymore, huh?
At the same time, dodging servers and going directly to your friends with encrypted comms will get easier too?
Once again I disagree, and your example reaks of extremes. Since you put it as an absolute a single counter-example is all I need, correct. I have an old friend from high school, Derek. He and I hung out with a third guy, Rick. Rick smoked pot, lived in an abandoned apartment, skipped school, got abyssmal grades, etc. Derek has two great parents and I spent a lot of time at his house because my parents were not there. In my book, his parents were great. They were home all the time, engaged in our conversations, gave him room to grow but didn't let him get carried away. My parents were rarely home or available - they had to work pretty hard. So by your example, Derek should have shunned Rick, while I may or may not have. This is exactly opposite to what happened. Derek started up on drugs, blew his time gaming and since then made a career out of cheerleader training. He drank his parents alcohol, stole money from them, and set of fireworks in their house, etc. I paid off all my parents debts and made it so they don't have to work as hard.
The point is, as a parent, your values may or may not stick depending on the myriad of other things going on in the kids life. This makes training them something short of an absolute transfer.
More to the point they are lousy parents for forcing their kid to feel like they have to lie and / or sneak out to do the things they want.
This can be chalked up to a lousy kid too. You pick your own friends when your young, and if you pick stupid peers and start doing stupid things against your parents wishes, that does not make them lousy.
So if a team from Hawaii and Botswana did this I suppose it would have to have a pineapple ring on it as well. If China and Argentina did it, would would it be garnished with? Dirt?
Anything that they don't understand which their doctor has told them cannot help them personally with their problems.
This mentality will be immediately reversed if this type of therapy proved to be successful one hour after any high ranking republican politician suffers a spinal injury or has a stroke.
I can make the entire thing make sense in a matter of seconds!
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Arctic sea level has been falling by a little over 2mm a year - a movement that sets the region against the global trend of rising waters. A Dutch-UK team made the discovery after analysing radar altimetry data gathered by Europe's ERS-2 satellite.
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Europe's ERS-2 satellite has been falling by a little over 2mm a year. A Dutch-UK team made the discovery after analysing radar altimetry data gathered over the Arctic sea level.
There would be a drastic reduction associated with the fact that Atheists do not die for causes. If you believe the life you have is your only one, you tend to take the end of it more seriously.
And pointing to a handful of Atheists in our current society who skydive or cave dive or other crazy crap isn't a legitimate counterexample. A society of people who don't believe in an afterlife is a completely different thing.
Or your skin doesn't match theirs. Have you ever been to a Southern Baptist Funeral? It's frightening that these people believe what they believe and somehow witchery is evil.
go back and read - I don't spray the vegetables, they are drip lines.
And if your entire argument is that I as an individual am affecting a chaotic system driven by the weather and global dynamics I invite you to post your address. I'll mail you a calculator so you can determine what fraction *my* affect on the system has.
And no, a fraction of it doesn't make it back. An excess does - because of me, there is MORE water. I compost vegetables including those that I get from the grocery store - water in those. I have a septic tank which spreads out into a leeching field - water coming out of that. I have rain barrels that store water instead of letting it evaporate - look, more water!
In fact, using your fallable arguments, I am actually adding more water because the square footage of the roof of my house isn't covered with weeds that would steal the precious ground water. Instead it collects it and aggressively stores it, then pushes it closer to the creek then it otherwise would have been.
I think he has a bug because religions have evolved to recognize that in order to survive they must assert themselves over people who don't believe (conversion/missionaries, etc) or children. Self-deterministic people do not need to do this.
I personally despise religios zealots because you cannot reason with them. Some of them kill people because they believe they are acting on behalf of their religion or their god(s), while the masses of moderates passively aid them. Muslims do it, Christians do it, Jews do it. Anyone who doesn't act accordingly hostile with these three asserting themselves is marginalized, stolen from, or killed.
yeah, I must really suck for pumping irrigation water from the creek beside my house and letting the water run back down into the creek! What a bastard!
So I'm not carelessly taking treated water from my drinking water supply, & what's more I'm putting it back in the ground. I use drip lines on all bushes instead of area sprays and I water in the early mornings.
Lastly, I have a small patch of grass and the rest are plants and vegetables. So you're welcome to end your self-serving arguments anytime. BTW, do you re-use the water from your shower in your commodes? Do you have a leeching field and put the water back on the land? what about ultra low flow shower heads?
but but but, the watershed in my yard isn't in the water shed for the reservior. So my drinking water isn't the same as my water table. And what's more, suggesting that I should stop using water for the plants on the land so I can drink it is a little different from a paper mill drinking up the water.
nice dramatic response though - I was almost scared that you had a point.
I live in north atlanta ga, so the water comes from lake Allatoona - north of me and higher than me. It's the whole water pressure/dam thing.
capillary action. I'm guessing since they didn't declare it that they are good researchers - don't say it's so until you know it's so.
Water is an incredible molecule. It's affinity for weak bonding at boundary layers is legendary and might prove to be what is occurring here as well. Think about the edge of the water in your glass - it curves upward. You get the two edges together and it races up the glass.
The way that isn't mentioned in the article is to use a warm climate, moderately warm salt water, and relatively cold salt water to get the warmer water to condense from the air into a collection well. A half filled tank of warm water with cold water lines running over the water reservior will cause fresh water to condense on the lines, where it can then be collected.
If you compare this to the initial costs of replacing nano-tube filters, I bet it is competitive, if not better.
Can you forward your cell phone to another number? I wonder if this system will take into account the notion that the personing answering the forwarded call can be in a different location than the phone itself.
One more fun condensation of this idea: Are the phone companies seriously getting in on the competition against kid's libidos? In the immortal words of the last english speaking fella to see Custer - Good luck!
If they charged by the individual security flaw then yes, they would deserve to be slandered. If they charged for security flaws in their current top of line OS (i.e., WinXP for now) then again, they would deserve it.
However, if they are distributing security patches for old software, that is a service offering that could not be reasonably expected for free.
Even if they shopped it out to smaller partner that did bug fixes for older OS's I think they would be on to something.
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yes. if fact, speakeasy would help you set up billing if you wanted to charge.
He should have posted this to the public domain instead. Now he doesn't even have the tape anymore if I read correctly.
This is a fascist country. Why do people insist on trying to use the system to help *them*? They aren't companies.
In the US a church is a tax-exempt entity, a charitable organization. If they don't pay taxes for the revenue they bring in, and their members can write off the contributions to the church, doesn't that in effect mean the rest of us are paying money that people paying the church don't?
So if I take a vacation with my family I don't get to write it off. But if I donate the same amount of money to my church, who then sponsors an trip to Europe that we participate in, that money is deducted from my gross income. And I directly benefit from money I "donate" to my church.
If you move a few signs around the equation, isn't that the same as taxing people who don't go to church? Double-time? Because if I donate to Oxfam they don't take me on a field trip to another country. They use the money to help someone else.
Yeah, but I don't know an American(r) teenager that cannot flip a burger with a mean spin on it.
should have kept a fake vcr and some fake tapes too. As my ex-girlfriend always said, if your gonna fake it, go Texas style.
nah, first person to draw usually wins in knife fights - despite hollywood, you don't pull a knife until your ready to use it in reality.
The solution, carry a knife instead:
I recently read about an experiment where 85 police officers participated in knife fights where they didn't know one would be drawn. 3 of the 85 actually "survived".
Let's look at all of the other things I should discard in the event of a thunderstorm.
1. eye glasses
2. change
3. belt buckle
4. keys
5. ipod and ear buds.
6. umbrella
7. pda
8. blackberry
Sounds a lot easier just to get out of the storm and head indoors instead. But I suppose wearing a metal building around me with lightning rods on top of it makes me more likely to get struck as well?
I guess someone upstairs finally figured out that it's easy to track people on the net when they don't move. If everyone has their own addresses, no need to ask the isp what it is anymore, huh?
At the same time, dodging servers and going directly to your friends with encrypted comms will get easier too?
Once again I disagree, and your example reaks of extremes. Since you put it as an absolute a single counter-example is all I need, correct. I have an old friend from high school, Derek. He and I hung out with a third guy, Rick. Rick smoked pot, lived in an abandoned apartment, skipped school, got abyssmal grades, etc. Derek has two great parents and I spent a lot of time at his house because my parents were not there. In my book, his parents were great. They were home all the time, engaged in our conversations, gave him room to grow but didn't let him get carried away. My parents were rarely home or available - they had to work pretty hard. So by your example, Derek should have shunned Rick, while I may or may not have. This is exactly opposite to what happened. Derek started up on drugs, blew his time gaming and since then made a career out of cheerleader training. He drank his parents alcohol, stole money from them, and set of fireworks in their house, etc. I paid off all my parents debts and made it so they don't have to work as hard.
The point is, as a parent, your values may or may not stick depending on the myriad of other things going on in the kids life. This makes training them something short of an absolute transfer.
More to the point they are lousy parents for forcing their kid to feel like they have to lie and / or sneak out to do the things they want.
This can be chalked up to a lousy kid too. You pick your own friends when your young, and if you pick stupid peers and start doing stupid things against your parents wishes, that does not make them lousy.
So if a team from Hawaii and Botswana did this I suppose it would have to have a pineapple ring on it as well. If China and Argentina did it, would would it be garnished with? Dirt?
Anything that they don't understand which their doctor has told them cannot help them personally with their problems.
This mentality will be immediately reversed if this type of therapy proved to be successful one hour after any high ranking republican politician suffers a spinal injury or has a stroke.
I can make the entire thing make sense in a matter of seconds!
Change
Arctic sea level has been falling by a little over 2mm a year - a movement that sets the region against the global trend of rising waters. A Dutch-UK team made the discovery after analysing radar altimetry data gathered by Europe's ERS-2 satellite.
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Europe's ERS-2 satellite has been falling by a little over 2mm a year. A Dutch-UK team made the discovery after analysing radar altimetry data gathered over the Arctic sea level.
Even if everyone was athiest tomorrow
There would be a drastic reduction associated with the fact that Atheists do not die for causes. If you believe the life you have is your only one, you tend to take the end of it more seriously.
And pointing to a handful of Atheists in our current society who skydive or cave dive or other crazy crap isn't a legitimate counterexample. A society of people who don't believe in an afterlife is a completely different thing.
Or your skin doesn't match theirs. Have you ever been to a Southern Baptist Funeral? It's frightening that these people believe what they believe and somehow witchery is evil.
go back and read - I don't spray the vegetables, they are drip lines.
And if your entire argument is that I as an individual am affecting a chaotic system driven by the weather and global dynamics I invite you to post your address. I'll mail you a calculator so you can determine what fraction *my* affect on the system has.
And no, a fraction of it doesn't make it back. An excess does - because of me, there is MORE water. I compost vegetables including those that I get from the grocery store - water in those. I have a septic tank which spreads out into a leeching field - water coming out of that. I have rain barrels that store water instead of letting it evaporate - look, more water!
In fact, using your fallable arguments, I am actually adding more water because the square footage of the roof of my house isn't covered with weeds that would steal the precious ground water. Instead it collects it and aggressively stores it, then pushes it closer to the creek then it otherwise would have been.
I think he has a bug because religions have evolved to recognize that in order to survive they must assert themselves over people who don't believe (conversion/missionaries, etc) or children. Self-deterministic people do not need to do this.
I personally despise religios zealots because you cannot reason with them. Some of them kill people because they believe they are acting on behalf of their religion or their god(s), while the masses of moderates passively aid them. Muslims do it, Christians do it, Jews do it. Anyone who doesn't act accordingly hostile with these three asserting themselves is marginalized, stolen from, or killed.
yeah, I must really suck for pumping irrigation water from the creek beside my house and letting the water run back down into the creek! What a bastard!
btw, here's the watershed I'm in:
http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/huc.cfm?huc_code=031501
and here's the watershed I get fresh water from:
http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/huc.cfm?huc_code=031501
So I'm not carelessly taking treated water from my drinking water supply, & what's more I'm putting it back in the ground. I use drip lines on all bushes instead of area sprays and I water in the early mornings.
Lastly, I have a small patch of grass and the rest are plants and vegetables. So you're welcome to end your self-serving arguments anytime. BTW, do you re-use the water from your shower in your commodes? Do you have a leeching field and put the water back on the land? what about ultra low flow shower heads?
You guys are such hippocrites.
but but but, the watershed in my yard isn't in the water shed for the reservior. So my drinking water isn't the same as my water table. And what's more, suggesting that I should stop using water for the plants on the land so I can drink it is a little different from a paper mill drinking up the water.
nice dramatic response though - I was almost scared that you had a point.
I live in north atlanta ga, so the water comes from lake Allatoona - north of me and higher than me. It's the whole water pressure/dam thing.
capillary action. I'm guessing since they didn't declare it that they are good researchers - don't say it's so until you know it's so.
Water is an incredible molecule. It's affinity for weak bonding at boundary layers is legendary and might prove to be what is occurring here as well. Think about the edge of the water in your glass - it curves upward. You get the two edges together and it races up the glass.
That's my hypothesis anyway.
I wonder how it compares to Condensation?
The way that isn't mentioned in the article is to use a warm climate, moderately warm salt water, and relatively cold salt water to get the warmer water to condense from the air into a collection well. A half filled tank of warm water with cold water lines running over the water reservior will cause fresh water to condense on the lines, where it can then be collected.
If you compare this to the initial costs of replacing nano-tube filters, I bet it is competitive, if not better.
How does not watering my lawn from a well affect my drinking water shortage?
Can you forward your cell phone to another number? I wonder if this system will take into account the notion that the personing answering the forwarded call can be in a different location than the phone itself.
One more fun condensation of this idea: Are the phone companies seriously getting in on the competition against kid's libidos? In the immortal words of the last english speaking fella to see Custer - Good luck!
If they charged by the individual security flaw then yes, they would deserve to be slandered.
If they charged for security flaws in their current top of line OS (i.e., WinXP for now) then again, they would deserve it.
However, if they are distributing security patches for old software, that is a service offering that could not be reasonably expected for free.
Even if they shopped it out to smaller partner that did bug fixes for older OS's I think they would be on to something.