If you're very religious, then your church/instution owns your ass, and most likely for the duration of your life. And, of course, they expect you to pitch in with your time and money. Then, your thoughts should be occupied with the theology constantly, and how to progress further in it. Thats not too much different than how I lusted after some of the rarer unique items in Diablo2. I even had a dream about it, pathetic, yes, but regardless I'm sure I was hooked in a way.
You know, back when I was working on an MA in Theology, I wouldn't even say that I as "occupied with the theology constantly." That was when I was spending several hours a day reading, listening to lectures, writing papers etc.
There is no such thing as a highly religious person that goes to church only once a week, and dosen't think about it between those periods.
Yes, but it doesn't follow that just because someone thinks about God in everyday life is 'obsessed' or 'addicted' to his/her religion
Really? I'm always fascinated by the capacity of the US citizen to vote for any schmuck who promises to lower taxes. Even if said schmuck is dishonest and incompetent, and explicitly says he'll only lower taxes for the upper classes, people don't care
Do you have an example of an elected official in the US who explicitly said that he/she would only cut the taxes for the 'upper classes?'
The fact that the inevitable corresponding destruction of government services will actually end up costing them more in the long run than the alleged tax breaks would save them doesn't seem to register.
Except that there are many economists who would still think that the 'maximum governemnt income tax rate' is lower then the current federal tax rate. I.e. even lower taxes would bring the government more money (due to increased ecconomic production). Many estimates I've heard run in the 15-30% as the top tax bracket.
I notice an often missed point in many hybrid articles. Hybrids derive thier electric power from regenrtve braking and only make use of thier electric motors when crusing and driving around town. If you have a 40 min highway commute the 4cyl gas engine is going to be doing most of the work and you wont even see the improved gas mileage of a hybrid.
This is one reason I really look forward to someone combining Hybrid technology with the cut-some-cylinder technology. You can then have a larger vehicle which can use the battery at very low speeds, bring in the gas engine with full cylinders if needed, and then run on only a few cylinders at freeway speed. That way, people who have need to tow or have other needs can get their v6 hybrid that can do everything their v8 could do, but with less environmental stain (because thee v6 would be able to work in different modes).
It was against policies in his instance. Old Roman Law (dating back from the Roman Republic), on which all law codes of that time were based (religious and secular), allowed torture in a few specific instances.
Many progressives are in favour of wealth redistribution, a greater emphasis on the needs of society as a whole (rather than policies that encourage individualism) etc, but I don't see much advocacy of armed revolution.
Right, because they want to use the government to do the armed revolution for them. They want to use taxes to "redistribute" financial wealth. If someone doesn't pay their taxes, then people with guns come to take you to prison. Their idea of armed revolution is silent, but it's still there.
Libertarians haven't got a lick of common sense when they talk about throwing out government altogether and think that a completely free society will result. Not an ounce of brains among the whole lot.
You seem to be confusing Libertarians with Anarchists. Libertarians believe in minimal government, not no government.
Of course, you'll see arguments among Libertarians over exactly how much government to have, and how to get there...
Hmmm... I seem to have come across some old information Winnie-the-Pooh would have originally been in the public domain in 2001 before the Sonny Bono act.
Yes there is; there's no way to get to other planets in other solarsystems without being years older when you get there. Sure, there time dilation, but that doesn't have the effect you think it has. Einstein got thrown out the window as soon as they reached another solar system and weren't years older.
The trip from Earth to the current 'verse' was generations before Firefly. There is NO FTL travel in Firefly.
Its a shame that the US doesn't increase its nuclear program.... Outside of the Chernobyl accident, nuclear has an extremely safe track record. When you consider the number of deaths caused by coal powered plants in the US[1] [1]10,000/year was one estimate that I found.
The silly part is that it's the enviromentalists who are stopping the nuclear power (well, and the NIMBY crowd). Of course, modern coal plants are very efficient and low-poluting too.
I do think we need more nuclear, but it's tough to get past the special-interests against it.
Oh, and 10K deaths a year for coal in the US? Is that for 1890 or something?
Actually, it said to turn down your water heater when you're going to be gone on vacation. It also recommended that you leave a note for yourself to turn it back on. As long as you return the temperature to bacteria-killing levels, you should be good.
Especially where the government is concerned, satire is more important. There's no prohibition on profiting from satire - the profits enable the satirist to satirize.
I agree, but I think the Onion should satirize the seal itself too. Put a chicken in the place of the eagle or something.
Besides, your arguement would work for the article, but not the seal.
As a fellow Oregonian, I laughed when I read this.
Now if Canada would call the fraud in the election at Champoeg already and demand the US cede Oregon, Idaho and Washington to proper Canadian rule
Canada can call the election at Champoeg whatever the hell they want, the US isn't going to be cedeing nothing to 'em (besides the fact that Oregon, Idaho, and Washington were ceded to the US by Briton).
Do you know how many chemicals it takes in order to keep sliced bread from going stale?
Get real bread (maybe even bake it yourself), and cut what you need, put in a zip-top bag until you cut again.
Oh, and I use Trillian at home because I have different groups of friends on different networks (oddly enough, nobody uses MSN, but that's what we use at work).
Food TV and The History Channel come to mind -- throw ads for other shows, books, other various offers right over the program you're watching. While it isn't the end of the world, it's fscking annoying when they cover up [text|important details|subtitles] in the program
ARGH! I hate this. Especially when they block the text on Good Eats to say "hey, they'll be two more shows of this at 10." (My DVR records all episodes of that show).
I mean, they know what show they have on, and they can choose when to put that stuff up. At least choose a good spot!
My favorite was when looking up some Latin grammar, I got a valid add for a Latin grammar company. I also got a web site for "date sexy latin singles."
Hot damn, I can find sexy women who speak Latin online!
Yeah, I ran into a similar scam. You put your card in, asks for your pin number, and then says "oh, by the way... we're going to charge you $1.50 just to get your money out of me."
Man, they must have made millions off of the suckers who didn't have their own bank nearby.
Since the US started to enact laws that enforce some forms of ethics and morals for the whole society, it seems like americans started to confuse a moral or ethical and lawful behavior.
All laws enforce some form of ethics or morals for the whole society.
However, I think you have the cause and effect mixed up. We started thinking "if it's legal, it must be moral" and then the opposite, and then people started trying to use that.
Vocational schooling in many other countries still includes more 'hard academics' then many high school programs in the US.
And I agree that 'no child left behind' as a Federal program is STUPID because education should be a LOCAL issue. If we allowed school districts to do what the local community wants, and then different communities can look to 'models' that are actually DOING something RIGHT, well then we'll finally have a good system.
The first thing to do, as we both agree, is to get all the 'experts' to shut up and stop trying to impose stupid top-down touchy-feely crap on America's schools. Now.
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If you're very religious, then your church/instution owns your ass, and most likely for the duration of your life. And, of course, they expect you to pitch in with your time and money. Then, your thoughts should be occupied with the theology constantly, and how to progress further in it. Thats not too much different than how I lusted after some of the rarer unique items in Diablo2. I even had a dream about it, pathetic, yes, but regardless I'm sure I was hooked in a way.
You know, back when I was working on an MA in Theology, I wouldn't even say that I as "occupied with the theology constantly." That was when I was spending several hours a day reading, listening to lectures, writing papers etc.
There is no such thing as a highly religious person that goes to church only once a week, and dosen't think about it between those periods.
Yes, but it doesn't follow that just because someone thinks about God in everyday life is 'obsessed' or 'addicted' to his/her religion
Really? I'm always fascinated by the capacity of the US citizen to vote for any schmuck who promises to lower taxes. Even if said schmuck is dishonest and incompetent, and explicitly says he'll only lower taxes for the upper classes, people don't care
Do you have an example of an elected official in the US who explicitly said that he/she would only cut the taxes for the 'upper classes?'
The fact that the inevitable corresponding destruction of government services will actually end up costing them more in the long run than the alleged tax breaks would save them doesn't seem to register.
Except that there are many economists who would still think that the 'maximum governemnt income tax rate' is lower then the current federal tax rate. I.e. even lower taxes would bring the government more money (due to increased ecconomic production). Many estimates I've heard run in the 15-30% as the top tax bracket.
I notice an often missed point in many hybrid articles. Hybrids derive thier electric power from regenrtve braking and only make use of thier electric motors when crusing and driving around town. If you have a 40 min highway commute the 4cyl gas engine is going to be doing most of the work and you wont even see the improved gas mileage of a hybrid.
This is one reason I really look forward to someone combining Hybrid technology with the cut-some-cylinder technology. You can then have a larger vehicle which can use the battery at very low speeds, bring in the gas engine with full cylinders if needed, and then run on only a few cylinders at freeway speed. That way, people who have need to tow or have other needs can get their v6 hybrid that can do everything their v8 could do, but with less environmental stain (because thee v6 would be able to work in different modes).
Homers The Iliad
You know that the Trojan Horse isn't in the Illiad, right?
It was against policies in his instance. Old Roman Law (dating back from the Roman Republic), on which all law codes of that time were based (religious and secular), allowed torture in a few specific instances.
Galileo Galilei, June 22, 1633 after being tortured by the Inquisition.
Galileo was never tortured. It would be against the policies of the Inquisition, and it would have been recorded.
What got Galileo in trouble was saying that the Earth's rotation was what caused tides to work, and that God could have made them work any other way.
Many progressives are in favour of wealth redistribution, a greater emphasis on the needs of society as a whole (rather than policies that encourage individualism) etc, but I don't see much advocacy of armed revolution.
Right, because they want to use the government to do the armed revolution for them. They want to use taxes to "redistribute" financial wealth. If someone doesn't pay their taxes, then people with guns come to take you to prison. Their idea of armed revolution is silent, but it's still there.
Libertarians haven't got a lick of common sense when they talk about throwing out government altogether and think that a completely free society will result. Not an ounce of brains among the whole lot.
You seem to be confusing Libertarians with Anarchists. Libertarians believe in minimal government, not no government.
Of course, you'll see arguments among Libertarians over exactly how much government to have, and how to get there...
Hmmm... I seem to have come across some old information Winnie-the-Pooh would have originally been in the public domain in 2001 before the Sonny Bono act.
Winnie-the-Pooh,... [is[ part of public knowledge and are "public domain" in every sense except that of copyright.
Actually, the original Winnie-the-Pooh books are in public domain, the movie version isn't.
The first Pooh movie from Disney that I could find on IMDB was from 1966 - so under the old system it would be under copyright until 2022.
Under the Berne Convention, the United States is required to recognize foreign copyrights for at least life plus 50.
Yes, but the US can change the requirements for domestic copyrights to whatever it wants.
Which, of course, would make some oddities, and get major companies to start registering their copyrights overseas...
Yes there is; there's no way to get to other planets in other solarsystems without being years older when you get there. Sure, there time dilation, but that doesn't have the effect you think it has. Einstein got thrown out the window as soon as they reached another solar system and weren't years older.
The trip from Earth to the current 'verse' was generations before Firefly. There is NO FTL travel in Firefly.
I'm fairly certain that this is what the writers had in mind.
I'm fairly scertain that the writers said "hey, 'warp' would be a cool word to use for our spaceship engine-things."
Its a shame that the US doesn't increase its nuclear program. ...
Outside of the Chernobyl accident, nuclear has an extremely safe track record. When you consider the number of deaths caused by coal powered plants in the US[1]
[1]10,000/year was one estimate that I found.
The silly part is that it's the enviromentalists who are stopping the nuclear power (well, and the NIMBY crowd). Of course, modern coal plants are very efficient and low-poluting too.
I do think we need more nuclear, but it's tough to get past the special-interests against it.
Oh, and 10K deaths a year for coal in the US? Is that for 1890 or something?
Actually, it said to turn down your water heater when you're going to be gone on vacation. It also recommended that you leave a note for yourself to turn it back on. As long as you return the temperature to bacteria-killing levels, you should be good.
Especially where the government is concerned, satire is more important. There's no prohibition on profiting from satire - the profits enable the satirist to satirize.
I agree, but I think the Onion should satirize the seal itself too. Put a chicken in the place of the eagle or something.
Besides, your arguement would work for the article, but not the seal.
Glad I got my education in Oregon instead.
As a fellow Oregonian, I laughed when I read this.
Now if Canada would call the fraud in the election at Champoeg already and demand the US cede Oregon, Idaho and Washington to proper Canadian rule
Canada can call the election at Champoeg whatever the hell they want, the US isn't going to be cedeing nothing to 'em (besides the fact that Oregon, Idaho, and Washington were ceded to the US by Briton).
it's the best thing since sliced bread
Do you know how many chemicals it takes in order to keep sliced bread from going stale?
Get real bread (maybe even bake it yourself), and cut what you need, put in a zip-top bag until you cut again.
Oh, and I use Trillian at home because I have different groups of friends on different networks (oddly enough, nobody uses MSN, but that's what we use at work).
And digitalsurgeon demonstrates the apparent intelligence of a 4th grader failing English while writing his post. No wonder he's on MSN...
Don't insult the 4th graders, it takes several more years of schooling in America to get that bad at English.
there is already a device the stations can buy that throw away single frames of video here and there to create another 2 minute ad block per half hour
In syndication, many shows cut time to have more adds. I'd rather not loose the plot points and have this.
Food TV and The History Channel come to mind -- throw ads for other shows, books, other various offers right over the program you're watching. While it isn't the end of the world, it's fscking annoying when they cover up [text|important details|subtitles] in the program
ARGH! I hate this. Especially when they block the text on Good Eats to say "hey, they'll be two more shows of this at 10." (My DVR records all episodes of that show).
I mean, they know what show they have on, and they can choose when to put that stuff up. At least choose a good spot!
My favorite was when looking up some Latin grammar, I got a valid add for a Latin grammar company. I also got a web site for "date sexy latin singles."
Hot damn, I can find sexy women who speak Latin online!
Yeah, I ran into a similar scam. You put your card in, asks for your pin number, and then says "oh, by the way... we're going to charge you $1.50 just to get your money out of me."
Man, they must have made millions off of the suckers who didn't have their own bank nearby.
Since the US started to enact laws that enforce some forms of ethics and morals for the whole society, it seems like americans started to confuse a moral or ethical and lawful behavior.
All laws enforce some form of ethics or morals for the whole society.
However, I think you have the cause and effect mixed up. We started thinking "if it's legal, it must be moral" and then the opposite, and then people started trying to use that.
Vocational schooling in many other countries still includes more 'hard academics' then many high school programs in the US.
And I agree that 'no child left behind' as a Federal program is STUPID because education should be a LOCAL issue. If we allowed school districts to do what the local community wants, and then different communities can look to 'models' that are actually DOING something RIGHT, well then we'll finally have a good system.
The first thing to do, as we both agree, is to get all the 'experts' to shut up and stop trying to impose stupid top-down touchy-feely crap on America's schools. Now.