Great, now I'm gonna have "Wipe Out" stuck in my head all day. Thanks a lot.
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The Abrams tank can run on just about anything liquid and flammable -- gasoline, diesel, biodiesel, kerosene, jet fuel, alcohol, etc
No, that's the Rhino you're thinking of. All it takes is the proper prayers to the Machine Spirit, and vehicle will convert just about anything into fuel.
For fairness it should be noted that the US had, and has, concentration camps.
Stricly speaking, the Japanese-Americans (some were actual citizens, some weren't) in WW2 were held in internment camps, not concentration camps. There's a world of difference between the two.
That's not to excuse the locking up of those immigrants during WW2, but they weren't (purposefully) worked to death or marched into ovens.
You mean you think a woman can't fake every part of her orgasm, if she chooses too?
Sorry, but guys always who claim "I know if a woman is faking" are pretty pathetic. Go get some female friends whom you aren't dating, so they can give you the lowdown on female sexuality. It might come in handy.
I can't believe you're admitting your sexual incompetence so publicly.
Um, I don't think you get it: it usually takes less time to bring yourself to orgasm than it does with a partner. Mostly because when you're by yourself, you're just after the orgasm, not trying to prolong and enjoy the experience. So when I'm with my girlfriend, it takes much longer than three minutes (usually at least half an hour, but all nighters are pretty common in my bedroom). Reaching orgasm in three minutes, let alone less, is just a step above premature ejactulation.
You're not hearing about all of the Muslims that they're keeping down at Guantanamo without charges or evidence or notification or anything like that.
Right, those would be the ones we captured in Afghanistan, right? The ones shooting at our guys, while not wearing uniforms to seperate themselves from the civilian population (as required by the Geneva Convention)? The ones who were either members of Al-Queda or the Taliban, right? Those are the guys you want to defend and say are champions of liberty?
Remember, you can always judge a man by the company he keeps.
Kerry is no angel, but I really don't see him appointing anyone like Ashcroft, or any of Bush's recent judicial appointments.
What's this? Bush has appointed Federal judges? I thought the Democrats had stone walled every judge he's nominated in the past four years. If Kerry comes in, you can be sure the Republicans will return the favor.
But I've taken a critical look at what the 'Church' has done in the past and to its motives wrt to the peoples they were trying to convert. Don't forget: they were essentially working for the state.
Actually, that's not true at all. At least not for the Catholic Church. One of the causes of the Protestant Reformation was the fact that the Pope kept putting his nose into matters of state, telling kings and princes what they could, or could not, do. Henry VIII is the best example of this, and coincides with the timeline the original poster mentioned (15th Century).
To say the Catholic was working for the state at any time is to ignore much of European history.
surely the Vatican should spend more time thinking about how to truly help the people on this planet rather than speculating about people (in its loosest sense!) much further away!
Let me get this straight: one guy, the Vatican's astromoner, writes a book about the possibilities revolving around alien life as it relates to Christian theology, and suddenly all the vast resources of the Church are tied up until after his book signing at the Rome Barnes&Noble? Do you think it's possible that the Vatican and, by extension, the Church has entire ministries to do things like care for the sick, minister to prisoners, and preach the Word to both the faithful and non-Christians? Or is everything being put behind this guy's book?
"We have learned from our brave adventurers and scientists that people, or what we would roughly call people, exist on a place unbelievably far away. Let's convert them!"
Whether you agree with the Church or not, they believe(d) that their way was the only way to ensure salvation. Given that, it would be inhuman to not convert someone. Granted that their tactics left something to be desired, but you can't blame 'em for why they did it.
The second clip is just as bogus as the first. Clinton didn't influence the advent of HTML and the resulting, massive speculation on the stock market. It's ludicrous to blame a president for that.
Hmm, you sound convincing. Perhaps one shouldn't blame (or credit) a president for flukes in the economy (even if you don't understand what caused the dot-com bubble...hint: it wasn't HTML).
blame Reagan and all the easily fooled people who voted for a Hollywood actor with wonderful, soundbite answers to complex issues.
Wow, hope you didn't injure yourself spinning around that quickly.
The truth of the matter is that Enron and their ilk ignored laws already on the books. New laws would change nothing. Instead, enforcement of existing laws is the real answer, and the lack of enforcement during the Clinton administration was the cause of not just the accounting debacles at Enron and company, but also the dot-com bubble (which were really two sides of the same coin). For more information, see here.
I don't like RFID because if it becomes widespread I [may] be forced to use it in some way, and by using it I [might] end up placing my privacy in jeopardy, and depending on what that private information is and who detects it, the danger may even extend to my physical person.
Wow, that's a lot of ifs. (Note: some words edited to be more correct. Even if RFID becomes widespread, you still won't be forced to use it any more than you're forced to use UPC codes, you'll just have a harder time avoiding them.)
Interesting. The gp specifically mentioned "producers" of child porn, and said nothing about doing anything to poor old "Jack". In fact, his anecdote implies sympathy for the guy ("The same thing happened to me"). When he, quite rightly, calls for the death penalty on people who rape children, you jump all over him, saying he too should be killed.
On similar tracks of thought, but in the physical world: what happens if american tourist shags, let's say, 17 year old while on vacation in Europe? Is s/he a criminal when returning home.
I think it depends. I've heard of cases where guys were arrested for going to Thailand to have sex with a minor, but in those cases they went to Thailand specifically to have sex with said minor. If you went to Holland and hooked up with a little hot 17 year old whom you met at a club, but it wasn't premeditated, you'd probably get away with it. But crossing a state or national border to commit a crime is itself a Federal offense, so the best idea is to be careful.
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How do you the gp isn't originally from Texas himself, and is simply expressing his sadness over not being in his home village anymore?
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My textbooks still stay that Americans value freedom and free speech more than Canadians, for example... but you wonder.
A lot of textbooks still label that large country that sits between Europe and China as the USSR.
That said, Canada isn't exactly a bastion of freedom these days, either. Not when reading excerpts from the Bible (or Koran) can get you thrown in prison.
you can say stuff, but nobody's sure what you said.
Oh, so it's like French!
Nah, screw that. I want to see a Jedi Yojimbo, starring Mace Windu. Now *that* would be worth my $9.
Great, now I'm gonna have "Wipe Out" stuck in my head all day. Thanks a lot.
The Abrams tank can run on just about anything liquid and flammable -- gasoline, diesel, biodiesel, kerosene, jet fuel, alcohol, etc
No, that's the Rhino you're thinking of. All it takes is the proper prayers to the Machine Spirit, and vehicle will convert just about anything into fuel.
We do, here in Brazil. It is commonplace, you get alcohol in nearly all gasoline stations.
For some reason, I suddenly have images of Carnival in my head.
A pound of beef takes around a gallon of gasoline to produce.
Jesus, man, be careful when you barbeque that beef!
Um, "open source" -ne "Unix-based solutions".
For fairness it should be noted that the US had, and has, concentration camps.
Stricly speaking, the Japanese-Americans (some were actual citizens, some weren't) in WW2 were held in internment camps, not concentration camps. There's a world of difference between the two.
That's not to excuse the locking up of those immigrants during WW2, but they weren't (purposefully) worked to death or marched into ovens.
You mean you think a woman can't fake every part of her orgasm, if she chooses too?
Sorry, but guys always who claim "I know if a woman is faking" are pretty pathetic. Go get some female friends whom you aren't dating, so they can give you the lowdown on female sexuality. It might come in handy.
Both partners reaching orgasm in 30 seconds or less. Does that indicate sexual prowess?
Nope. It indicates a man who loses control too quickly, and a woman who lies to her partner.
I can't believe you're admitting your sexual incompetence so publicly.
Um, I don't think you get it: it usually takes less time to bring yourself to orgasm than it does with a partner. Mostly because when you're by yourself, you're just after the orgasm, not trying to prolong and enjoy the experience. So when I'm with my girlfriend, it takes much longer than three minutes (usually at least half an hour, but all nighters are pretty common in my bedroom). Reaching orgasm in three minutes, let alone less, is just a step above premature ejactulation.
The average sex act lasts three minutes
Oh come on, that's just pathetic. It takes me more than three minutes when I'm by myself!
You're not hearing about all of the Muslims that they're keeping down at Guantanamo without charges or evidence or notification or anything like that.
Right, those would be the ones we captured in Afghanistan, right? The ones shooting at our guys, while not wearing uniforms to seperate themselves from the civilian population (as required by the Geneva Convention)? The ones who were either members of Al-Queda or the Taliban, right? Those are the guys you want to defend and say are champions of liberty?
Remember, you can always judge a man by the company he keeps.
Kerry is no angel, but I really don't see him appointing anyone like Ashcroft, or any of Bush's recent judicial appointments.
What's this? Bush has appointed Federal judges? I thought the Democrats had stone walled every judge he's nominated in the past four years. If Kerry comes in, you can be sure the Republicans will return the favor.
But I've taken a critical look at what the 'Church' has done in the past and to its motives wrt to the peoples they were trying to convert. Don't forget: they were essentially working for the state.
Actually, that's not true at all. At least not for the Catholic Church. One of the causes of the Protestant Reformation was the fact that the Pope kept putting his nose into matters of state, telling kings and princes what they could, or could not, do. Henry VIII is the best example of this, and coincides with the timeline the original poster mentioned (15th Century).
To say the Catholic was working for the state at any time is to ignore much of European history.
If there has to be a creator for you to exist, then surely the creator must have a creator?
You can't fool me, young man! It's turtles all the way down!
surely the Vatican should spend more time thinking about how to truly help the people on this planet rather than speculating about people (in its loosest sense!) much further away!
Let me get this straight: one guy, the Vatican's astromoner, writes a book about the possibilities revolving around alien life as it relates to Christian theology, and suddenly all the vast resources of the Church are tied up until after his book signing at the Rome Barnes&Noble? Do you think it's possible that the Vatican and, by extension, the Church has entire ministries to do things like care for the sick, minister to prisoners, and preach the Word to both the faithful and non-Christians? Or is everything being put behind this guy's book?
"We have learned from our brave adventurers and scientists that people, or what we would roughly call people, exist on a place unbelievably far away. Let's convert them!"
Whether you agree with the Church or not, they believe(d) that their way was the only way to ensure salvation. Given that, it would be inhuman to not convert someone. Granted that their tactics left something to be desired, but you can't blame 'em for why they did it.
The second clip is just as bogus as the first. Clinton didn't influence the advent of HTML and the resulting, massive speculation on the stock market. It's ludicrous to blame a president for that.
Hmm, you sound convincing. Perhaps one shouldn't blame (or credit) a president for flukes in the economy (even if you don't understand what caused the dot-com bubble...hint: it wasn't HTML).
blame Reagan and all the easily fooled people who voted for a Hollywood actor with wonderful, soundbite answers to complex issues.
Wow, hope you didn't injure yourself spinning around that quickly.
The truth of the matter is that Enron and their ilk ignored laws already on the books. New laws would change nothing. Instead, enforcement of existing laws is the real answer, and the lack of enforcement during the Clinton administration was the cause of not just the accounting debacles at Enron and company, but also the dot-com bubble (which were really two sides of the same coin). For more information, see here.
He ran away from the taxes, poor health care, and constant interference of the government to come to California.
OMG, if he thought California was an improvement on those things, Canada must be truly screwed.
I don't like RFID because if it becomes widespread I [may] be forced to use it in some way, and by using it I [might] end up placing my privacy in jeopardy, and depending on what that private information is and who detects it, the danger may even extend to my physical person.
Wow, that's a lot of ifs. (Note: some words edited to be more correct. Even if RFID becomes widespread, you still won't be forced to use it any more than you're forced to use UPC codes, you'll just have a harder time avoiding them.)
Interesting. The gp specifically mentioned "producers" of child porn, and said nothing about doing anything to poor old "Jack". In fact, his anecdote implies sympathy for the guy ("The same thing happened to me"). When he, quite rightly, calls for the death penalty on people who rape children, you jump all over him, saying he too should be killed.
Truly, idiocy knows no bounds.
Not in Canada. In fact, in Canada, starting with this year's federal election, convicted felons can vote even while they're still in prison.
Hmm, I'm guessing the "tough on crime" politicians won't be scoring well with those voters?
On similar tracks of thought, but in the physical world: what happens if american tourist shags, let's say, 17 year old while on vacation in Europe? Is s/he a criminal when returning home.
I think it depends. I've heard of cases where guys were arrested for going to Thailand to have sex with a minor, but in those cases they went to Thailand specifically to have sex with said minor. If you went to Holland and hooked up with a little hot 17 year old whom you met at a club, but it wasn't premeditated, you'd probably get away with it. But crossing a state or national border to commit a crime is itself a Federal offense, so the best idea is to be careful.
How do you the gp isn't originally from Texas himself, and is simply expressing his sadness over not being in his home village anymore?