It surely would be a Nice Thing to make a playground on the Internet for kids, but why should Google bother to do it? Go make it yourself if it's such a good idea. "Oh, I don't have the resources to do that," you say. Well... there you go. Google isn't a charity.
Why does google want to do it for adults? Ads, marketing and sales. The browsing habits of a kid are just as valuable as that of an adult. The ethics of it are something else altogether.
I don't agree with the article for mainly one reason. To me, and as far as I can tell Apple, they intend for tablets to be more like appliances. This in opposition to the common laptop which inherits the philosophy of - how can we make a desktop computer portable. In the philosophy of appliance vs. general computing device, Apple has stripped away all the "unnecessary" parts of the A4/5 chipset (for energy saving and maybe speed). Leaving a unitasker, or sorts. Whether I agree or not, it is what it is, take it or leave it.
I wonder what version of Safari was being used (not that it really makes that that much difference) just for completeness sake. That Ars article says
First up, and first to fall, was Safari 5.0.3 on fully-patched Mac OS X 10.6.6.
Then later in the article it says
The successful hack came in spite of a large security patch, Safari 5.0.4, that Apple released ahead of the competition, patching some 60 security holes in the browser.
I am guessing it was really running a 5.0.4 on a fully patched etc...
I agree with everyone that it sounds like a LVAD, one caveat is this with regard to studies and mortality - historically speaking LVADs were used (and still are) and a bridge to transplant, however, they have been explored as "destination therapy". That is, giving them to people who have no real shot had a transplant. The mortality is bad, but consider these people are on their last legs of life, and 6 months, a year etc..is better than certain death. I am not familiar with their use in the pediatric population.
If everybody is making minimum wage with no benefits whatsoever, who can afford services? Thus a service-based economy isn't sustainable in the long run.
This is a point I bring up all the time. You see these talking heads, economists (usually, but not limited to, right leaning, business friendly) and such on television talking about how 2/3rds of the US economy is consumer spending (most recently propped up by cheap money), while at the same time saying that the manufacturing jobs that were the backbone of the middle class dream are "gone forever". All it takes is stopping to think that if those stable good-paying jobs are "gone forever" and the days of cheap credit are "gone forever", then the next logical idea is that a US economy where 2/3rds of the US economy is derived from consumer spending is also "gone forever". No one seems to want to bring that up, and I think the fact is self-evident. Which leads to one or two conclusions, either the US economy as we know it is "gone forever", which means a big, big hit to 2 decades of record profits (which is a whole different discussion as to whether the migration of those jobs was necessary or just a really really great idea, in the short term to boost the bottom line). Or, and I hope this is the outcome, corporate profits come back to a little more realistic goals (mathematically increasing profits by N% quarter to quarter forever is not-sustainable) and those jobs are not "gone forever". Everybody is happy.
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You could have splurged for a magnesium NeXt box. But on the bright side
Any time I see the words magnesium and bright I get the urge to burn something....but you took it a different direction!
I think I can see where we are disagreeing here. I think you are generalizing and I am speaking to Meta/SR of RCTs in medicine. I am not sure what you do for a living, but in terms of medicine and medical education and medical research, which is what I do, the pyramid I provided from the center for evidence based medicine at Duke is the real deal. There are similar concepts from McGill in Canada who were really some of the pioneers in this. Here is a link to the pertinent paper. I don't know enough about the methodology of meta-analysis in other fields to comment on that. I can comment that, again in medicine, the Cochrane Reviews are pretty much the gold standard in medical research. You are right, it is some of the most complicated research to partake in, and you are right again, especially in the field of cancer research most trials still go unpublished. But when done well, and there are many, many, well done reviews, they are without peer.
The reason meta-analyses are often used as a gold standard is that they can (usually) command a sample size that is far beyond that of the usual primary study.
Correct, and therein lies the power....... Come on...you've gotta laugh at that one!
What you are saying can be applied to all scientific endeavor from a Case Study to an RCT. Badly constructed studies are bad, well constructed studies are good. Good research is good research and bad is bad. That does not alter the reality that a Meta-Analysis/Systematic Review of RCTs is the best evidence available.
If anything the diagnostic criteria for some illness have been loosened, if not in print then in practice (depression, ADD, Bipolar, various allergies). Some "ailments" weren't really considered that big of a deal 20-30 years ago, or were at least considered rare (Restless Leg Syndrome, Premenstrual dysphoric disorder, fibromyalgia).
Perhaps, and I say this more to be devil's advocate, we are treating people with symptoms, or not, of diseases that they don't have, or don't really exists in the manner we think they exist. At least in terms of treatment. As such, the treatment is wrong (either by lack of disease or bad targeting), and of course would be expected to be no better than placebo.
This person needs to be jailed, fired, drawn and quartered, and disbarred. This is 7th level of hell kind of betrayal of public trust. Yet another reason the for profit prison industry is a bad idea. IMO.
Very sweet solution if you have access to OS X. SubEthaEdit has very nice integration with iChat and will likely do much of what you ask right out of the box including multi-person live editing.
Good luck
The sellers have no implication, aside from the lack of humanity, and as such largely irrevelant to this discussion. African slaves were classified as not-human. They looked different and to this day in portions of the US are treated different. Plus, there is a sociological component to this, people like to be with "their own kind" when choosing groups, by and large. It has been studied and validated. The body of work is quite large and works both ways. It isn't racism per se, it is just a preference in being with people who look like you.
Indentured servants largely were largely, in the US, caucasians. They also obtained their freedom, eventually, and as such the son or daughter of an indentured servant was free. By eventually I mean several years, not several generations. So your analogy is quite poor. But thanks for playing, and using that witty word "diarhetic".
What's next? Decades of institutional ignorance is now classified as a Disease?
What do you think Obama means when he says am I my brothers keeper if not "help your fellow man out when he is in need". No where in anything I said or infer that we just stand on the corner and hand out fifty dollar bills.
Second, slavery was over and done with in most of the states over 200 years ago. It has been gone in all of the other states for at least 160 years.
You've never lived in the South have you? "Asked if they know someone they consider racist, 43 percent of whites and 48 percent of blacks said yes. But just 13 percent of whites and 12 percent of blacks consider themselves racially biased." Opinion Research Corp 2006
BTW, you do understand that 99% or more of the truly poor people in america already have government health care right?
What does that even mean? 1x poverty 1.5x poverty? What is the source?
I haven't seen a doctor for an illness in the last 15 years.
Not a big fan of general medical exams, huh?
Hog wash. people are in that shape because of choices they made.
I think you missed the point. Those are *real* cases of *real* patients that I have seen in the hospital, and by seen I mean I was their *physician*. This isn't sensationalism, this is everyday reality. Come down and visit.
I think you got the just[sic] though
I got the gist, the gist was there is no food bank in the US "running out" of food because college students are taking it all. Were there stories of college student doing this? Yes.
When we educate the public, you and I benefit.
And somehow you don't see the benefit of a couple bucks a month and a yearly eye exam vs. the 50k above the knee (Trans-Femoral) amputation?
I have never understood this idea of giving people things without expecting them to work on becoming productive and slef sufficient
Nor does anyone. I certainly never said it, and no politician in their right mind would.
You quote actually backs my claim up though.
My data backed which said about 50% of eligible people receive food-stamps backed up your made up number that 90% of poor people get food stamps? Huh?
The poor (which are counted in those 44 million people) get the medical card.
Again, WTF are you talking about. What is the "medical card" Medicaid? I suggest you read. Among all poor adults, 45 percent are uninsured, and only 16 percent have employer based insurance. Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of uninsured, poor adults are ineligible for Medicaid and similar public programs. Federal law prohibits state Medicaid programs from covering adultsâ"no matter how poorâ"unless they are pregnant, caring for dependent children, severely disabled, or elderly.
The median state denies Medicaid to working parents if their income is above 69 percent of the FPL, which is currently $901 a month for a family of three.
That last paragraph is just wonderful. Only $1500 AND $2000 deductible? Health savings account. Only $12,000? Remember if you make that much a YEAR with a family of 3 you aren't eligible for most state medicaid (. Do you have any idea how poor some people are? (see the wikipedia article later)
Don't take this the wrong way, but you need to get out a see the US. Some parts pretty much hate african-americans and don't care if it is 1808, 1908 or 2008. Some parts are pretty poor, destitute places, where HSAs and $12k makes you "fancy". These are working people. Not the handout p Please check out this for some perspective. I don't totally disagree with you, permanent handouts, people living beyond their means, etc..But you have not cited on hard piece of data to back yourself up. But it was good hearing your opinion.
I find it strange that you picked a part of the bible where cain was attempting to hide the fact he just killed his own brother
I am no theologian, but the key point in his response is his antipathy toward his brother. The inference in Cain's response is basically "it isn't my job" and "he is big enough to take care of himself". It was a setup. So they say Cain was a murderer and a liar. Moving forward the new testament is littered with indirect references indicating that the core beliefs of Christianity is that we are our brothers keeper. Call it Obama's dog whistle call to evangelicals who have started to take up the cause to help the poor and see it as a responsibility of their faith.
Yes, within respect to their abilities and enterprise. Thomas Jefferson
That is a great quote, and quite idealistic. It assumes that all people are on equal ground and that those on hard times are their due to some flaw in their person or their forefathers. It completely ignores what happens when your job of 20 years gets shipped overseas, it completely ignores 200+ years of slavery and 400+years of institutional racism in the US. It completely ignores seniors who go bankrupt after a catastrophic medical condition.
Society doesn't serve a purpose.
Going all the way back to Hobbes many have concluded that society does indeed serve a purpose. Hobbes argued that the society was a group of selfish individuals that united into a single body in order to maximize their safety-- to protect themselves from one another. Locke proposed that education above everything else was responsible for forging the moral and intellectual character of individuals; he proposed in part an extension of education to every member of society and went on to conclude whenever that authority ceases to care for the welfare, independence, and equality of individual humans, the social contract is broken and it is the duty of the members of society to overthrow that ruler. Sound familiar? Which leads me to my next point, which should have read:
How far does society go?
Why provide public school? Why provide highway services? Why provide ? Simple. The reward to society outweighs the cost of the program. We education our citizens, ideally, to make them better citizens. Many countries provide healthcare for their citizens because it makes them more productive, they live longer, they are productive longer and hence are taxable for longer. Now, is their fraud? Sure, just like in business. But to me it is acceptable to help people in legitimate need, and run the risk of being defrauded.
And if you think that we don't protect people from hunger or disease, you need to wake up.
That is a typical idea throughout the US, and I urge you to challenge it. I challenge you to volunteer in the Emergency Room at your nearest academic medical institution. There you will see how well we protect people from hunger and disease. You will see women with lesions on their breast that look like they were stabbed, but it is really just advanced breast cancer because they have no primary care. You will see the elderly come in dehydrated, malnourished because there medications cost more than they have, so they just don't eat. You will see 40 year olds with limb amputations because of uncontrolled diabetes. 20 year olds dying from complications of sickle cell anemia, again from lack of primary care access. 8 and 10 year olds dying from asthma attacks. Yes you will see me too, because I actually work there.
With respect to food services, again, I would rather help 1 legitimate person and run the risk of being defrauded than not helping at all in fear of fraud.
food panties running out of food because college students....
That is just nonsense. The equivalent of the "Cadillac driving welfare queen"
Ouch... Looks like we get to choose between a police-state and a nanny-state once again.
You do know this is from the bible, and he likely feels it necessary to remind/reaffirm to people he is not a muslim. Ask yourself these questions honestly and and answer them thoughtfully. What is the function of governement? What is the function of society? Should it be every man for himself? If so, what purpose does society serve? Ultimately how far to do you go? Why is it acceptable to provide an army to protect citizens while not protecting, in other ways, those very same citizens against other ills? Hunger? Disease?
Genesis 4:9
Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?"
"I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's keeper?"
...and on top of it, the TMA likes to trot out that tort reform lowered malpractice insurance in TExas but always seem to forget that it was going down before the reform happened, and it was going down in other places that didn't/haven't done any kind of tort reform. I've gone north for the foreseeable future. I really don't miss Texas.
No one ever said there weren't more factors at work here. You are right, the ROI isn't as much of a sure thing as it once was, but I would not be so quick to discount the grassroots aspect of this. I think you would be interested to know that in 2005 there were two new proposed refineries in the US, one is Arizona and one in N. Dakota. Both of these met with substantial local community action. I think the Arizona (Yuma) is going forward, but the N. Dakota is not happening, yet, AFAIK. http://www.refineryreform.org/community_northdakota.htm
The last refinery to be completed in the United States was in 1976, and Mr. McGinnis knows all too well that community and political opposition squashed earlier projects. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/09/business/09refinery.html
Over the last quarter-century, the number of refineries in the United States dropped to 149, less than half the number in 1981. Because companies have upgraded and expanded their aging operations, refining capacity during that time period shrank only 10 percent from its peak of 18.6 million barrels a day. At the same time, gasoline consumption has risen by 45 percent. That is pretty amazing, IMO.
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It surely would be a Nice Thing to make a playground on the Internet for kids, but why should Google bother to do it? Go make it yourself if it's such a good idea. "Oh, I don't have the resources to do that," you say. Well... there you go. Google isn't a charity.
Why does google want to do it for adults? Ads, marketing and sales. The browsing habits of a kid are just as valuable as that of an adult. The ethics of it are something else altogether.
I don't agree with the article for mainly one reason. To me, and as far as I can tell Apple, they intend for tablets to be more like appliances. This in opposition to the common laptop which inherits the philosophy of - how can we make a desktop computer portable. In the philosophy of appliance vs. general computing device, Apple has stripped away all the "unnecessary" parts of the A4/5 chipset (for energy saving and maybe speed). Leaving a unitasker, or sorts. Whether I agree or not, it is what it is, take it or leave it.
First up, and first to fall, was Safari 5.0.3 on fully-patched Mac OS X 10.6.6.
Then later in the article it says
The successful hack came in spite of a large security patch, Safari 5.0.4, that Apple released ahead of the competition, patching some 60 security holes in the browser.
I am guessing it was really running a 5.0.4 on a fully patched etc...
I have never personally been a fan of the split screen co-op play. I agree that proper co-op should be one screen.
I agree with everyone that it sounds like a LVAD, one caveat is this with regard to studies and mortality - historically speaking LVADs were used (and still are) and a bridge to transplant, however, they have been explored as "destination therapy". That is, giving them to people who have no real shot had a transplant. The mortality is bad, but consider these people are on their last legs of life, and 6 months, a year etc..is better than certain death. I am not familiar with their use in the pediatric population.
If everybody is making minimum wage with no benefits whatsoever, who can afford services? Thus a service-based economy isn't sustainable in the long run.
This is a point I bring up all the time. You see these talking heads, economists (usually, but not limited to, right leaning, business friendly) and such on television talking about how 2/3rds of the US economy is consumer spending (most recently propped up by cheap money), while at the same time saying that the manufacturing jobs that were the backbone of the middle class dream are "gone forever". All it takes is stopping to think that if those stable good-paying jobs are "gone forever" and the days of cheap credit are "gone forever", then the next logical idea is that a US economy where 2/3rds of the US economy is derived from consumer spending is also "gone forever". No one seems to want to bring that up, and I think the fact is self-evident. Which leads to one or two conclusions, either the US economy as we know it is "gone forever", which means a big, big hit to 2 decades of record profits (which is a whole different discussion as to whether the migration of those jobs was necessary or just a really really great idea, in the short term to boost the bottom line). Or, and I hope this is the outcome, corporate profits come back to a little more realistic goals (mathematically increasing profits by N% quarter to quarter forever is not-sustainable) and those jobs are not "gone forever". Everybody is happy.
Any time I see the words magnesium and bright I get the urge to burn something....but you took it a different direction!
I think I can see where we are disagreeing here. I think you are generalizing and I am speaking to Meta/SR of RCTs in medicine. I am not sure what you do for a living, but in terms of medicine and medical education and medical research, which is what I do, the pyramid I provided from the center for evidence based medicine at Duke is the real deal. There are similar concepts from McGill in Canada who were really some of the pioneers in this. Here is a link to the pertinent paper. I don't know enough about the methodology of meta-analysis in other fields to comment on that. I can comment that, again in medicine, the Cochrane Reviews are pretty much the gold standard in medical research. You are right, it is some of the most complicated research to partake in, and you are right again, especially in the field of cancer research most trials still go unpublished. But when done well, and there are many, many, well done reviews, they are without peer.
The reason meta-analyses are often used as a gold standard is that they can (usually) command a sample size that is far beyond that of the usual primary study.
Correct, and therein lies the power....... Come on...you've gotta laugh at that one!
Here are some interesting articles that discuss your concerns.
What you are saying can be applied to all scientific endeavor from a Case Study to an RCT. Badly constructed studies are bad, well constructed studies are good. Good research is good research and bad is bad. That does not alter the reality that a Meta-Analysis/Systematic Review of RCTs is the best evidence available.
HUH?!?!?!?!? Meta-analysis and Systematic reviews of RCTs are the top of the EBM pyramid. It is the best*** type of evidence there is.
Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Resources
***: Meta-analysis and Systematic reviews of RCTs fall squarely under the garbage in/garbage out principle.
If anything the diagnostic criteria for some illness have been loosened, if not in print then in practice (depression, ADD, Bipolar, various allergies). Some "ailments" weren't really considered that big of a deal 20-30 years ago, or were at least considered rare (Restless Leg Syndrome, Premenstrual dysphoric disorder, fibromyalgia). Perhaps, and I say this more to be devil's advocate, we are treating people with symptoms, or not, of diseases that they don't have, or don't really exists in the manner we think they exist. At least in terms of treatment. As such, the treatment is wrong (either by lack of disease or bad targeting), and of course would be expected to be no better than placebo.
It is good to see they are keeping the memory of TSR alive, or at least the They Sue Readily, part.
This person needs to be jailed, fired, drawn and quartered, and disbarred. This is 7th level of hell kind of betrayal of public trust. Yet another reason the for profit prison industry is a bad idea. IMO.
Man! I played FieryMud. Good times! I recently popped back by and it is still there, pretty amazing.
Very sweet solution if you have access to OS X. SubEthaEdit has very nice integration with iChat and will likely do much of what you ask right out of the box including multi-person live editing. Good luck
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The sellers have no implication, aside from the lack of humanity, and as such largely irrevelant to this discussion. African slaves were classified as not-human. They looked different and to this day in portions of the US are treated different. Plus, there is a sociological component to this, people like to be with "their own kind" when choosing groups, by and large. It has been studied and validated. The body of work is quite large and works both ways. It isn't racism per se, it is just a preference in being with people who look like you.
Indentured servants largely were largely, in the US, caucasians. They also obtained their freedom, eventually, and as such the son or daughter of an indentured servant was free. By eventually I mean several years, not several generations. So your analogy is quite poor. But thanks for playing, and using that witty word "diarhetic".
What's next? Decades of institutional ignorance is now classified as a Disease?
I think thats called the DSM IV
What do you think Obama means when he says am I my brothers keeper if not "help your fellow man out when he is in need". No where in anything I said or infer that we just stand on the corner and hand out fifty dollar bills.
You've never lived in the South have you? "Asked if they know someone they consider racist, 43 percent of whites and 48 percent of blacks said yes. But just 13 percent of whites and 12 percent of blacks consider themselves racially biased." Opinion Research Corp 2006
BTW, you do understand that 99% or more of the truly poor people in america already have government health care right?
What does that even mean? 1x poverty 1.5x poverty? What is the source?
I haven't seen a doctor for an illness in the last 15 years.
Not a big fan of general medical exams, huh?
Hog wash. people are in that shape because of choices they made.
I think you missed the point. Those are *real* cases of *real* patients that I have seen in the hospital, and by seen I mean I was their *physician*. This isn't sensationalism, this is everyday reality. Come down and visit.
I think you got the just[sic] though
I got the gist, the gist was there is no food bank in the US "running out" of food because college students are taking it all. Were there stories of college student doing this? Yes.
When we educate the public, you and I benefit.
And somehow you don't see the benefit of a couple bucks a month and a yearly eye exam vs. the 50k above the knee (Trans-Femoral) amputation?
I have never understood this idea of giving people things without expecting them to work on becoming productive and slef sufficient
Nor does anyone. I certainly never said it, and no politician in their right mind would.
You quote actually backs my claim up though.
My data backed which said about 50% of eligible people receive food-stamps backed up your made up number that 90% of poor people get food stamps? Huh?
The poor (which are counted in those 44 million people) get the medical card.
Again, WTF are you talking about. What is the "medical card" Medicaid? I suggest you read. Among all poor adults, 45 percent are uninsured, and only 16 percent have employer based insurance. Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of uninsured, poor adults are ineligible for Medicaid and similar public programs. Federal law prohibits state Medicaid programs from covering adultsâ"no matter how poorâ"unless they are pregnant, caring for dependent children, severely disabled, or elderly.
The median state denies Medicaid to working parents if their income is above 69 percent of the FPL, which is currently $901 a month for a family of three.
That last paragraph is just wonderful. Only $1500 AND $2000 deductible? Health savings account. Only $12,000? Remember if you make that much a YEAR with a family of 3 you aren't eligible for most state medicaid (. Do you have any idea how poor some people are? (see the wikipedia article later)
Don't take this the wrong way, but you need to get out a see the US. Some parts pretty much hate african-americans and don't care if it is 1808, 1908 or 2008. Some parts are pretty poor, destitute places, where HSAs and $12k makes you "fancy". These are working people. Not the handout p Please check out this for some perspective. I don't totally disagree with you, permanent handouts, people living beyond their means, etc..But you have not cited on hard piece of data to back yourself up. But it was good hearing your opinion.
I find it strange that you picked a part of the bible where cain was attempting to hide the fact he just killed his own brother
I am no theologian, but the key point in his response is his antipathy toward his brother. The inference in Cain's response is basically "it isn't my job" and "he is big enough to take care of himself". It was a setup. So they say Cain was a murderer and a liar. Moving forward the new testament is littered with indirect references indicating that the core beliefs of Christianity is that we are our brothers keeper. Call it Obama's dog whistle call to evangelicals who have started to take up the cause to help the poor and see it as a responsibility of their faith.
Yes, within respect to their abilities and enterprise. Thomas Jefferson
That is a great quote, and quite idealistic. It assumes that all people are on equal ground and that those on hard times are their due to some flaw in their person or their forefathers. It completely ignores what happens when your job of 20 years gets shipped overseas, it completely ignores 200+ years of slavery and 400+years of institutional racism in the US. It completely ignores seniors who go bankrupt after a catastrophic medical condition.
Society doesn't serve a purpose.
Going all the way back to Hobbes many have concluded that society does indeed serve a purpose. Hobbes argued that the society was a group of selfish individuals that united into a single body in order to maximize their safety-- to protect themselves from one another. Locke proposed that education above everything else was responsible for forging the moral and intellectual character of individuals; he proposed in part an extension of education to every member of society and went on to conclude whenever that authority ceases to care for the welfare, independence, and equality of individual humans, the social contract is broken and it is the duty of the members of society to overthrow that ruler. Sound familiar? Which leads me to my next point, which should have read:
How far does society go?
Why provide public school? Why provide highway services? Why provide ? Simple. The reward to society outweighs the cost of the program. We education our citizens, ideally, to make them better citizens. Many countries provide healthcare for their citizens because it makes them more productive, they live longer, they are productive longer and hence are taxable for longer. Now, is their fraud? Sure, just like in business. But to me it is acceptable to help people in legitimate need, and run the risk of being defrauded.
And if you think that we don't protect people from hunger or disease, you need to wake up.
That is a typical idea throughout the US, and I urge you to challenge it. I challenge you to volunteer in the Emergency Room at your nearest academic medical institution. There you will see how well we protect people from hunger and disease. You will see women with lesions on their breast that look like they were stabbed, but it is really just advanced breast cancer because they have no primary care. You will see the elderly come in dehydrated, malnourished because there medications cost more than they have, so they just don't eat. You will see 40 year olds with limb amputations because of uncontrolled diabetes. 20 year olds dying from complications of sickle cell anemia, again from lack of primary care access. 8 and 10 year olds dying from asthma attacks. Yes you will see me too, because I actually work there.
With respect to food services, again, I would rather help 1 legitimate person and run the risk of being defrauded than not helping at all in fear of fraud.
food panties running out of food because college students....
That is just nonsense. The equivalent of the "Cadillac driving welfare queen"
90% or more of the actual poor people ge
Ouch... Looks like we get to choose between a police-state and a nanny-state once again.
You do know this is from the bible, and he likely feels it necessary to remind/reaffirm to people he is not a muslim. Ask yourself these questions honestly and and answer them thoughtfully. What is the function of governement? What is the function of society? Should it be every man for himself? If so, what purpose does society serve? Ultimately how far to do you go? Why is it acceptable to provide an army to protect citizens while not protecting, in other ways, those very same citizens against other ills? Hunger? Disease?
Genesis 4:9
...and on top of it, the TMA likes to trot out that tort reform lowered malpractice insurance in TExas but always seem to forget that it was going down before the reform happened, and it was going down in other places that didn't/haven't done any kind of tort reform. I've gone north for the foreseeable future. I really don't miss Texas.
Read about it here
car runs on water
being fooled is never fun
want to buy a bridge?
In all honesty, I hope this turns into a bloody fight, I am not sure if Verizon wants to go at Google like this.