That our ever brave Democratic congresspeople will cave at some point today and give the Bush administration everything they want. Wouldn't want people to think you're "soft on terror", even if that means allowing anyone that has Bush's approval to break whatever laws he says are necessary.
>What drives the rising costs? The for-profit medical "care" model.
Not really, what drives costs is people living longer and advances in medicine and technology. Having a not-for-profit medical system would certainly solve *that* problem.
So then add a 'scam alert' button to the auction that adds a counter to a seller's auctions that only lasts for the length of time you have to add feedback. If you see the scam counter higher than 1 or 2, you don't buy from them.
I have no delusions about his actually winning, but I sure as hell am not going to throw my vote away on some other candidate when I can vote for the guy I actually agree with.
>However, this hasn't translated to him even breaking into the double digits, much less winning ANY of the primaries.
He broke double digits this past weekend in the Maine caucus, getting 19% of the vote. He trounced Huckabee, who only got 6%, yet Paul is supposed to be excluded from this discussion for some bizarre reason.
He's on the ballot here in Ohio, and I'm going to vote for him since I agree with him far more than I agree with any of the other candidates.
Paul disavowed the writings in a response to the New Republic article, saying that the quotations do not represent his beliefs, and that he has "never uttered such words and denounce[s] such small-minded thoughts." He again noted that he accepts "moral responsibility" for not paying closer attention to writings published under his name.[116] In a subsequent interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, he said he did not know who wrote the articles and stated he "[repudiates] everything that is written along those lines." Blitzer told Paul that he was "shocked" by the newsletters, because they did not seem to reflect "the Ron Paul that I've come to know, and the viewers have come to know" over the course of several interviews during the campaign.[117] David Gergen, CNN senior political analyst, commented "I don't think there's an excuse in politics to have something go out under your name and say, 'Oh by the way, I didn't write that'."[117][118]
In the interview with Blitzer, Paul asserted that racism is incompatible with his beliefs and that he sees people as individuals--not as part of collectives. He also dismissed the attack as an attempt to accuse him of racism by proxy, claiming that he has collected more money among African-Americans than any other Republican candidate.[117] Nelson Linder, president of the Austin chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), defended Paul, saying that he has known him for 20 years, saw him as a "free thinker", "very intelligent and very informed", talking about "real issues" that "invite attacks on him", who was "correct in what he's saying", and that knowing his intent, he believes Paul has been misconstrued and taken out of context.[119] Former LA Times editor Andrew Malcolm noted that Paul got second place in the January 19 Nevada Republican caucus despite the recent reports about the newsletters.
>But there is a sizable group of people that won't be happy until our men all have beards, and our women are wearing burkas.
While there are a tiny minority of people who think like this in the Muslim world, they would be considered the crazy people shouting at you on street corners if it weren't for the US occupying their holy lands. Do you really think there is any chance whatsoever that any Muslim country could defeat or overthrow the US? At worst they can piss us off real bad.
Err, no, in Ohio actually. Around here there are a few bars that have taken to scanning the magnetic strip in our drivers license. Lucky for me, I have a few of those super strong neodymium magnets and have completely negated said magnetic strip.
Ok, how about: "A set can be either normal or self-swallowing, which means that it has itself as a member. The question is, is the set of all normal sets self-swallowing or not?"
>I'll never forget my spirit trying to resync with my body as my chest pumped up and down. Two very distinct and separate entities. Surreal to say the least.
I once had a very similar experience after drinking a bottle of Robitussin.
No, it's not that fun. Even when it's really good, it's still a giant waste of money. It lasts about 15-20 minutes and then you just want to do more, but can't really say why. Overall, there are far better drugs out there unless you just like wasting money.
>you are also not free to drive 120 mph on the highway, bceause you put the lives of people other than yourself in jeopardy
Yes, but if you own your own racetrack, you are perfectly free to do so.
>likewise, users of highly addictive substances risk turning themselves into wards of the state that my taxes must feed and clothe
Since this never happens to the vast majority of the users of any drug, why not apply that standard to everything else that has the same probability of making someone into a ward of the state? Like roller skating or skydiving. It's a dumb argument, as just about anything can affect someone else in some convoluted imaginary scenario. Besides, it is far cheaper to treat people who have a problem with drugs than it is to try and keep everyone from doing them at all.
>that you don't understand how pursuing risky pursuits that flirt with drug addiction reduces my freedom is not a valid excuse
That you have an overinflated view of the risks to your freedom is not a valid excuse to keep anyone else from pursuing their happiness. You don't ban cell phones because someone driving a car while talking on one caused an accident, you ban the dangerous act itself. Likewise there is nothing inherently dangerous to others about doing any given drug, but if you misbehave while on one you should be punished. Just like anyone else.
Quite a few people protested against going into Iraq this time around. In fact, they were the biggest protests since Vietnam. For some reason, you didn't hear much about them in the media. Hell, there were even some large ones in 2005 yet somehow they were marginalized to the point that people don't even seem to remember they happened. After all, supporting our troops means agreeing with whatever stupid situation our president puts them into.
It could also be true that all configurations of physical laws would ultimately lead to life forming in one way or another. They can say that changing the charge of the electron by 2% would make life impossible, but we cannot truly know the macroscopic effects that such a change would have. Yes, the universe would be different, but to say that life couldn't form there is hugely arrogant IMHO.
While it doesn't do this exact type of analysis, Rolling Stone make a pretty convincing case that there was some serious meddling going on in the Ohio election in 2004.
Bad advice. Eating fish is extremely good for the development of the brain and the dangers of mercury from the same is overblown.
Quoting the article:
Pregnant women who eat fish containing low levels of mercury every day apparently do not harm their babies, as many had feared, according to a major new study.... "Specifically, our data do not compel us to conclude that the many benefits of fish consumption during pregnancy are reduced by fetal effects," the main NeuroToxicology article said.
The women in the Seychelles test, who ate an average of 12 fish meals a week, averaged about 7 parts per million of mercury in their hair, but some had levels as high as 36 parts per million.... "These kids are healthy." said Thomas Clarkson, a co-author of the study. "They're doing well. And that's encouraging."
No, since they have already distributed many copies of the game, they are legally liable for each copy. It is like if some big media company, Sony maybe, caught you violating copyright by distributing files on bittorrent. Would you be off the hook by simply stopping use of the program?
>Are you are against the idea of people who create having control over the copying of that material. That is not the current legal status quo in most of the world.
I'm all for the people who create new material having control over it for the limited time that was the original bargain, around 20 years seems fair. You get to make money off of it for a while, and then society gets the benefits of using it as a base for more creation. A lifetime plus 70 years is such a joke that I feel no remorse ignoring copyright laws completely.
I do this too. I have one of the linux-based linksys routers with traffic shaping built in so that all of my pcs get first priority and anyone else using my bandwitdth gets whatever is left over. I honestly never even notice if anyone else is on or not.
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That our ever brave Democratic congresspeople will cave at some point today and give the Bush administration everything they want. Wouldn't want people to think you're "soft on terror", even if that means allowing anyone that has Bush's approval to break whatever laws he says are necessary.
>What drives the rising costs? The for-profit medical "care" model.
Not really, what drives costs is people living longer and advances in medicine and technology. Having a not-for-profit medical system would certainly solve *that* problem.
So then add a 'scam alert' button to the auction that adds a counter to a seller's auctions that only lasts for the length of time you have to add feedback. If you see the scam counter higher than 1 or 2, you don't buy from them.
Have a time limit of 60 days to leave feedback. If you haven't left any by that point, all feedback left will show up and you can't retaliate.
Honestly, what the hell is Ebay thinking with these changes?
I have no delusions about his actually winning, but I sure as hell am not going to throw my vote away on some other candidate when I can vote for the guy I actually agree with.
>However, this hasn't translated to him even breaking into the double digits, much less winning ANY of the primaries.
He broke double digits this past weekend in the Maine caucus, getting 19% of the vote. He trounced Huckabee, who only got 6%, yet Paul is supposed to be excluded from this discussion for some bizarre reason.
He's on the ballot here in Ohio, and I'm going to vote for him since I agree with him far more than I agree with any of the other candidates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul#Newsletter_controversy
Paul disavowed the writings in a response to the New Republic article, saying that the quotations do not represent his beliefs, and that he has "never uttered such words and denounce[s] such small-minded thoughts." He again noted that he accepts "moral responsibility" for not paying closer attention to writings published under his name.[116] In a subsequent interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, he said he did not know who wrote the articles and stated he "[repudiates] everything that is written along those lines." Blitzer told Paul that he was "shocked" by the newsletters, because they did not seem to reflect "the Ron Paul that I've come to know, and the viewers have come to know" over the course of several interviews during the campaign.[117] David Gergen, CNN senior political analyst, commented "I don't think there's an excuse in politics to have something go out under your name and say, 'Oh by the way, I didn't write that'."[117][118]
In the interview with Blitzer, Paul asserted that racism is incompatible with his beliefs and that he sees people as individuals--not as part of collectives. He also dismissed the attack as an attempt to accuse him of racism by proxy, claiming that he has collected more money among African-Americans than any other Republican candidate.[117] Nelson Linder, president of the Austin chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), defended Paul, saying that he has known him for 20 years, saw him as a "free thinker", "very intelligent and very informed", talking about "real issues" that "invite attacks on him", who was "correct in what he's saying", and that knowing his intent, he believes Paul has been misconstrued and taken out of context.[119] Former LA Times editor Andrew Malcolm noted that Paul got second place in the January 19 Nevada Republican caucus despite the recent reports about the newsletters.
>But there is a sizable group of people that won't be happy until our men all have beards, and our women are wearing burkas.
While there are a tiny minority of people who think like this in the Muslim world, they would be considered the crazy people shouting at you on street corners if it weren't for the US occupying their holy lands. Do you really think there is any chance whatsoever that any Muslim country could defeat or overthrow the US? At worst they can piss us off real bad.
Err, no, in Ohio actually. Around here there are a few bars that have taken to scanning the magnetic strip in our drivers license. Lucky for me, I have a few of those super strong neodymium magnets and have completely negated said magnetic strip.
They usually give up after about 15 swipes.
Ok, how about: "A set can be either normal or self-swallowing, which means that it has itself as a member. The question is, is the set of all normal sets self-swallowing or not?"
"This statement is written in this document." :)
>I'll never forget my spirit trying to resync with my body as my chest pumped up and down. Two very distinct and separate entities. Surreal to say the least.
I once had a very similar experience after drinking a bottle of Robitussin.
No, it's not that fun. Even when it's really good, it's still a giant waste of money. It lasts about 15-20 minutes and then you just want to do more, but can't really say why. Overall, there are far better drugs out there unless you just like wasting money.
>you are also not free to drive 120 mph on the highway, bceause you put the lives of people other than yourself in jeopardy
Yes, but if you own your own racetrack, you are perfectly free to do so.
>likewise, users of highly addictive substances risk turning themselves into wards of the state that my taxes must feed and clothe
Since this never happens to the vast majority of the users of any drug, why not apply that standard to everything else that has the same probability of making someone into a ward of the state? Like roller skating or skydiving. It's a dumb argument, as just about anything can affect someone else in some convoluted imaginary scenario. Besides, it is far cheaper to treat people who have a problem with drugs than it is to try and keep everyone from doing them at all.
>that you don't understand how pursuing risky pursuits that flirt with drug addiction reduces my freedom is not a valid excuse
That you have an overinflated view of the risks to your freedom is not a valid excuse to keep anyone else from pursuing their happiness. You don't ban cell phones because someone driving a car while talking on one caused an accident, you ban the dangerous act itself. Likewise there is nothing inherently dangerous to others about doing any given drug, but if you misbehave while on one you should be punished. Just like anyone else.
Quite a few people protested against going into Iraq this time around. In fact, they were the biggest protests since Vietnam. For some reason, you didn't hear much about them in the media. Hell, there were even some large ones in 2005 yet somehow they were marginalized to the point that people don't even seem to remember they happened. After all, supporting our troops means agreeing with whatever stupid situation our president puts them into.
It could also be true that all configurations of physical laws would ultimately lead to life forming in one way or another. They can say that changing the charge of the electron by 2% would make life impossible, but we cannot truly know the macroscopic effects that such a change would have. Yes, the universe would be different, but to say that life couldn't form there is hugely arrogant IMHO.
What makes you think we haven't?
They did it so that their party would have the necessary 2/3 of the votes needed to amend the Russian constitution.
While it doesn't do this exact type of analysis, Rolling Stone make a pretty convincing case that there was some serious meddling going on in the Ohio election in 2004.
There was no soft tissue found with this dinosaur, only very well preserved imprints of the soft tissue.
>stay the hell away from tuna fish sandwiches
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Bad advice. Eating fish is extremely good for the development of the brain and the dangers of mercury from the same is overblown.
Quoting the article:
Pregnant women who eat fish containing low levels of mercury every day apparently do not harm their babies, as many had feared, according to a major new study.
"Specifically, our data do not compel us to conclude that the many benefits of fish consumption during pregnancy are reduced by fetal effects," the main NeuroToxicology article said.
The women in the Seychelles test, who ate an average of 12 fish meals a week, averaged about 7 parts per million of mercury in their hair, but some had levels as high as 36 parts per million.
"These kids are healthy." said Thomas Clarkson, a co-author of the study. "They're doing well. And that's encouraging."
No, since they have already distributed many copies of the game, they are legally liable for each copy. It is like if some big media company, Sony maybe, caught you violating copyright by distributing files on bittorrent. Would you be off the hook by simply stopping use of the program?
>Are you are against the idea of people who create having control over the copying of that material. That is not the current legal status quo in most of the world.
I'm all for the people who create new material having control over it for the limited time that was the original bargain, around 20 years seems fair. You get to make money off of it for a while, and then society gets the benefits of using it as a base for more creation. A lifetime plus 70 years is such a joke that I feel no remorse ignoring copyright laws completely.
I do this too. I have one of the linux-based linksys routers with traffic shaping built in so that all of my pcs get first priority and anyone else using my bandwitdth gets whatever is left over. I honestly never even notice if anyone else is on or not.
That's a pretty reasonable price for GHB.