For the record, I believe euthanasia laws need modernized. But wishing mass deaths on people who don't share your views is just wrong.
That's not how I read what he's saying at all, but maybe I just need more coffee.
It read to me that he is saying that he wants those that voted against euthanasia to go through the experience of it being withheld when you or your family would want it. Not killing them right now, but when your time comes, hoping they get the same experience his father has. As for the watching them bleed out, is contrary to his wish for them die a long slow death, so I take this as him saying he wishes a long slow death for them but would be willing to help them end it quickly when the time comes, but pointing out that the laws prevent him from doing so.
"that we're spending millions of tax dollars catering to a group who a) don't follow the rules of the road and b) feel that the rules don't apply to them"
Funny, one could easily say the same thing about drivers of cars. I see law breaking multiple times on my commute to work by drivers in cars. Perhaps they should be held to the same belief that no money should be spent on infrastructure until there is 100% compliance with the laws.
Having evidence on your hard drive these days is pretty much a guarantee of guilt. However, people seem to forget that should someone want to, it is relatively easy to plant information.
You ever piss off a pscyhopathic computer geek and you're screwed.
You'll turn on your computer one day to find illicit files all over the hard drive with timestamps ranging back through history. It'll look like you've been collecting whatever it is for months.
Or hell, someone doesn't like you, they forge their log files on their computer and claim you were sending nasty IM stuff, when the authorities don't see the matching logs on your computer, they will just assume that you cleared them out to protect yourself.
Yup, those timestamps are obviously immutable written in stone and never lie.
Too true. It usually means more chemicals are used because now they can spray while their plants are growing and not harming them.
Of course then this over spraying causes weeds to develop resistance to the spray, which means they have to spray more, until the spray is useless, then they have to use other sprays and they're back to where they started except with a locked in contract with Monsanto.
More than enough food is produced to feed the world. The west consumes more than they need, and poor plenty of resources such as foods and water into growing beef, poultry and other meats.
You want a humane way of feeding the rest of the world? Eat less, particularily, eat less meat products.
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Affect as a verb: "The man had a strange brand of body language that lent him an odd affect."
I could be wrong here, I'm not grammar star, but your use of affect here isn't a verb but a noun. had and lent are the verbs in this sentence. Affect is the noun that was lent to him.
Simply because the two possible governing parties support something, it does not implicitly imply that the public is for it, or at least not against it. First, there's that matter of battles. You're choosing between parties, you can't approve of everything they do, so you have to pick certain big things and prey the rest die in the house of commons. Second, there's really no other choices. In Canada, the Conservatives and the Liberals will be forming the government unless something stunningly amazing happens. Then our next alternative is the NDP. As much as I like their policies in theory, we'd probably be a poor broke country in a week.
I have, and do vote for alternatives when possible, but you have to convince a few million other people that they have a chance before they have a chance. Kind of a catch-22.
Oh geez, I think I've just added 30 years worth of cynisism onto my age.
I seem to recall that it's because there's a military base. A military base is considered Federal and not State territory, so the road is an interstate since it goes from the base to the state.
At least that's the touristy info they told us. Could be all lies.
I could have sworn I've read this exact thread before...
Anyhow. I think we're on the wrong debate. Everyone is arguing is global warming occuring or not. And if it is agreed that it is, then the argument shifts to, are people to blame or not.
It's all entirely irrelevant. There are two things we should always be doing.
1) Trying to live responsibly on the Earth. This means, minimizing pollutions of all sorts, etc.
2) Figuring out how to adapt to changes in the Earth.
Ultimatly we WILL have an impact. It's the nature of the beast. At best we can try to minimize it, if only to have cleaner air to breath and cleaner water to drink. The Earth will under go changes. Some caused by us perhaps, many not. We simply have to adapt or die out. Short of killing every human on the Earth, we will never remove any impact that we cause. All we can do is try to minimize it.
I'm intrigued. Which one falls into the 0.0001%? Finally, someone that can tell me which diety is real! Oh wait, they all say that. Nevermind, keep your 0.0001% to yourself.
Except that the purpose of having an email address is to give out so people can email you. Really, if you have an email address like
gibblyJoe2fsTDance4You@yahoo.ca and someone asks for your email address, you'll have a fun time letting them know what it is, or you'll have to give them your spam account which will probably be easier to remember. Then, once you've given out your spam account you must now monitor it in case people have sent you legitimate emails, and you're back at square one in that you have to sift through spam to find a legitimate email.
The, of course, even if you did give our your gibblyJoe email successfully, dumb people love to sign their friends up to receive funny emails, etc, and now you're on a spam list again.
And no, giving people a list of acceptable uses for your email address will not help when a friend is practically computer illiterate and stumbles across a humourous website they want to share.
However, what you've forgotten is that relative to any observer, the speed of light is constant.
So if I travel at the speed of light and shine my headlights out. They travel at the speed of light away from me. At the same time, and external viewer sees them travel at the speed of light.
I'm hazy here, but my understanding is that because I'm travelling at the speed of light, I have condensed distance around me to infinitely small. So while I'm moving quickly, don't have far to go, so the light shoots out at the speed of light.
Funny, I'm 25 and I'd much rather read a book on paper then on a computer screen. Guess a lot happened on those 3 years.
Really though imagine this:
"aww crap, my book's battery died" or "dammit, there's no way to change the battery on my iNovel and it's life is now only about 5 minutes, I'll have to pay $60 to fix it or tear into and maybe break it."
Besides, I think a bookshelf filled with books (preferably ones the owner as read!) is a nice sight.
Don't get me wrong, I fully support books in digital format. Great for looking up passages, quotes, and things like that. But if I'm going to sit down and read a 500 page novel, or a 700 page text, it's paper for me. Though digital would work great for some people, animations and examples and stuff for text books.
We'll just have to wait and see how the technology progresses.
I'm not grammer expert, but I think those uses of affect and effect are correct. Then again, I'm usually wrong on these things.
affect1 Audio pronunciation of "affect" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-fkt) tr.v. affected, affecting, affects
1. To have an influence on or effect a change in: Inflation affects the buying power of the dollar.
2. To act on the emotions of; touch or move.
3. To attack or infect, as a disease: Rheumatic fever can affect the heart.
effect Audio pronunciation of "effect" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-fkt) n.
1. Something brought about by a cause or agent; a result.
2. The power to produce an outcome or achieve a result; influence: The drug had an immediate effect on the pain. The government's action had no effect on the trade imbalance.
3. A scientific law, hypothesis, or phenomenon: the photovoltaic effect.
4. Advantage; avail: used her words to great effect in influencing the jury.
5. The condition of being in full force or execution: a new regulation that goes into effect tomorrow.
6.
1. Something that produces a specific impression or supports a general design or intention: The lighting effects emphasized the harsh atmosphere of the drama.
2. A particular impression: large windows that gave an effect of spaciousness.
3. Production of a desired impression: spent lavishly on dinner just for effect.
7. The basic or general meaning; import: He said he was greatly worried, or words to that effect.
8. effects Movable belongings; goods.
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For the record, I believe euthanasia laws need modernized. But wishing mass deaths on people who don't share your views is just wrong.
That's not how I read what he's saying at all, but maybe I just need more coffee.
It read to me that he is saying that he wants those that voted against euthanasia to go through the experience of it being withheld when you or your family would want it. Not killing them right now, but when your time comes, hoping they get the same experience his father has.
As for the watching them bleed out, is contrary to his wish for them die a long slow death, so I take this as him saying he wishes a long slow death for them but would be willing to help them end it quickly when the time comes, but pointing out that the laws prevent him from doing so.
"that we're spending millions of tax dollars catering to a group who a) don't follow the rules of the road and b) feel that the rules don't apply to them"
Funny, one could easily say the same thing about drivers of cars. I see law breaking multiple times on my commute to work by drivers in cars. Perhaps they should be held to the same belief that no money should be spent on infrastructure until there is 100% compliance with the laws.
but if a = b, then a^2 - ab must by definition = 0.
All you've done is said 2 * 0 = 1 * 0 then divided both sides by 0.
So this one "proof" can prove 2 = 1, 0 = 0, infinity = infinity and indeterminate = indeterminate.
AHH MY HEAD HURTS!!
Now to go on and prove that black is white and get killed in the next zebra crossing.
sit in a cubicle for 8 hours a day, 200 days a year and function
Man, I wish I got as much vacation time as you!
Having evidence on your hard drive these days is pretty much a guarantee of guilt. However, people seem to forget that should someone want to, it is relatively easy to plant information.
You ever piss off a pscyhopathic computer geek and you're screwed.
You'll turn on your computer one day to find illicit files all over the hard drive with timestamps ranging back through history. It'll look like you've been collecting whatever it is for months.
Or hell, someone doesn't like you, they forge their log files on their computer and claim you were sending nasty IM stuff, when the authorities don't see the matching logs on your computer, they will just assume that you cleared them out to protect yourself.
Yup, those timestamps are obviously immutable written in stone and never lie.
Too true. It usually means more chemicals are used because now they can spray while their plants are growing and not harming them.
Of course then this over spraying causes weeds to develop resistance to the spray, which means they have to spray more, until the spray is useless, then they have to use other sprays and they're back to where they started except with a locked in contract with Monsanto.
Ain't it great?
Here's an easy solution. Stop eating so much.
More than enough food is produced to feed the world. The west consumes more than they need, and poor plenty of resources such as foods and water into growing beef, poultry and other meats.
You want a humane way of feeding the rest of the world? Eat less, particularily, eat less meat products.
Affect as a verb: "The man had a strange brand of body language that lent him an odd affect."
;)
I could be wrong here, I'm not grammar star, but your use of affect here isn't a verb but a noun. had and lent are the verbs in this sentence. Affect is the noun that was lent to him.
Now... mark me off topic... I DARE YOU!!
Fido is owned by Rogers, not Telus.
Oh to still be that naive...
Simply because the two possible governing parties support something, it does not implicitly imply that the public is for it, or at least not against it.
First, there's that matter of battles. You're choosing between parties, you can't approve of everything they do, so you have to pick certain big things and prey the rest die in the house of commons.
Second, there's really no other choices. In Canada, the Conservatives and the Liberals will be forming the government unless something stunningly amazing happens. Then our next alternative is the NDP. As much as I like their policies in theory, we'd probably be a poor broke country in a week.
I have, and do vote for alternatives when possible, but you have to convince a few million other people that they have a chance before they have a chance. Kind of a catch-22.
Oh geez, I think I've just added 30 years worth of cynisism onto my age.
I seem to recall that it's because there's a military base. A military base is considered Federal and not State territory, so the road is an interstate since it goes from the base to the state.
At least that's the touristy info they told us. Could be all lies.
Anyhow. I think we're on the wrong debate. Everyone is arguing is global warming occuring or not. And if it is agreed that it is, then the argument shifts to, are people to blame or not.
It's all entirely irrelevant. There are two things we should always be doing.
1) Trying to live responsibly on the Earth. This means, minimizing pollutions of all sorts, etc.
2) Figuring out how to adapt to changes in the Earth.
Ultimatly we WILL have an impact. It's the nature of the beast. At best we can try to minimize it, if only to have cleaner air to breath and cleaner water to drink. The Earth will under go changes. Some caused by us perhaps, many not. We simply have to adapt or die out. Short of killing every human on the Earth, we will never remove any impact that we cause. All we can do is try to minimize it.
Hey, don't complain, it's one less tax.
:)
Now up here in Canada if we could get rid of this "temporary wartime tax" from WWII that we call "Income Tax"...
I'm intrigued. Which one falls into the 0.0001%? Finally, someone that can tell me which diety is real! Oh wait, they all say that. Nevermind, keep your 0.0001% to yourself.
However, what happens if John is repeating something that someone else said? This is where the elusive single quote comes in:
John said, "Peter told me, 'I like peanuts.'"
I believe in the UK it's like this:
John said, 'I like peanuts.'
John said, 'Peter told me, "I like peanuts."'
This, however, is wrong:
John said, "Peter told me, "I like peanuts.""
Except that the purpose of having an email address is to give out so people can email you. Really, if you have an email address like
gibblyJoe2fsTDance4You@yahoo.ca and someone asks for your email address, you'll have a fun time letting them know what it is, or you'll have to give them your spam account which will probably be easier to remember. Then, once you've given out your spam account you must now monitor it in case people have sent you legitimate emails, and you're back at square one in that you have to sift through spam to find a legitimate email.
The, of course, even if you did give our your gibblyJoe email successfully, dumb people love to sign their friends up to receive funny emails, etc, and now you're on a spam list again.
And no, giving people a list of acceptable uses for your email address will not help when a friend is practically computer illiterate and stumbles across a humourous website they want to share.
However, what you've forgotten is that relative to any observer, the speed of light is constant.
:)
So if I travel at the speed of light and shine my headlights out. They travel at the speed of light away from me. At the same time, and external viewer sees them travel at the speed of light.
I'm hazy here, but my understanding is that because I'm travelling at the speed of light, I have condensed distance around me to infinitely small. So while I'm moving quickly, don't have far to go, so the light shoots out at the speed of light.
or something like that
The answer to this is, in fact YES.
The real question is, will the person survive?
crap. So because of my high metabolism, I may not be able to put on weight, but I'm going to die by 40.
You just can't win!
Funny, I'm 25 and I'd much rather read a book on paper then on a computer screen. Guess a lot happened on those 3 years.
Really though imagine this:
"aww crap, my book's battery died"
or
"dammit, there's no way to change the battery on my iNovel and it's life is now only about 5 minutes, I'll have to pay $60 to fix it or tear into and maybe break it."
Besides, I think a bookshelf filled with books (preferably ones the owner as read!) is a nice sight.
Don't get me wrong, I fully support books in digital format. Great for looking up passages, quotes, and things like that. But if I'm going to sit down and read a 500 page novel, or a 700 page text, it's paper for me. Though digital would work great for some people, animations and examples and stuff for text books.
We'll just have to wait and see how the technology progresses.
I forgot to post "effected" which gives this:
tr.v. effected, effecting, effects
1. To bring into existence.
2. To produce as a result.
3. To bring about. See Usage Note at affect1.
affect1 is posted earlier. So it seems to me that effected can be like affect.
I should have also noted this:
effected, effecting, effects
1. To bring into existence.
2. To produce as a result.
3. To bring about. See Usage Note at affect1.
I'm not grammer expert, but I think those uses of affect and effect are correct. Then again, I'm usually wrong on these things.
affect1 Audio pronunciation of "affect" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-fkt)
tr.v. affected, affecting, affects
1. To have an influence on or effect a change in: Inflation affects the buying power of the dollar.
2. To act on the emotions of; touch or move.
3. To attack or infect, as a disease: Rheumatic fever can affect the heart.
effect Audio pronunciation of "effect" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-fkt)
n.
1. Something brought about by a cause or agent; a result.
2. The power to produce an outcome or achieve a result; influence: The drug had an immediate effect on the pain. The government's action had no effect on the trade imbalance.
3. A scientific law, hypothesis, or phenomenon: the photovoltaic effect.
4. Advantage; avail: used her words to great effect in influencing the jury.
5. The condition of being in full force or execution: a new regulation that goes into effect tomorrow.
6.
1. Something that produces a specific impression or supports a general design or intention: The lighting effects emphasized the harsh atmosphere of the drama.
2. A particular impression: large windows that gave an effect of spaciousness.
3. Production of a desired impression: spent lavishly on dinner just for effect.
7. The basic or general meaning; import: He said he was greatly worried, or words to that effect.
8. effects Movable belongings; goods.
A lot of posts referring to balls in response to your post.
interesting...
I wish I had looked in the mirrordot... I would have been all that much better for it... *shiver*