A quick comment about those so called science shows. I was watching a show called something like "The Physics of Sports" or something like that. They were trying to settle the long term debate as to whether it is harder to hit a baseball or a softball.
The voice over guy says "We have a machine to measure the impact of a softball and a baseball hitting the backstop. The harder each hits, the harder it is to hit"
He was referring to the increased mass of a softball compared to a baseball. Um, an 18 wheeler traveling at 2 mph hits harder than either and I guarantee you I will hit it every time. There wouldn't be any, you know, scientists on your science show would there?
I for one am glad to see legislation forcing energy conservation, because without it, there's a significant portion of the US population that will refuse to conserve energy because it requires effort on their part, and another (overlapping) portion that do the opposite of what people suggest that they do, because they're rebels and good 'merkins who'll do the opposite of what people say "because they can". People need to be protected from their own stupidity sometimes. Explain to me why "'merkins" need to conform to your ideal? Should Congress legislate what types of cars we are allowed to buy? Should they dictate the temperature of our house? People that make "bad" decisions pay for them. Maybe they like incandescent bulbs better? If they want to pay more for them they are welcome to do so. I'll continue buying the more economical CFLs.
I think it is very telling that you use the word FORCE to describe this particular gem of legislation. Is liberty is under assault more from the left or the right these days? Hard to say;)
I found people speaking English. I tried with my very meager Japanese first but frequently was able to fall back on the unofficial world language for tourism. It is no where near what it is in Europe however, so if you are thinking it will be just because it too is a 1st world country, wrong, it is considerably worse.
My limited (12 days) experience with the Japanese was exceptionally positive:)
It would be tough with a turk, an arab and a kurd but with large groups I think I could make a guess. Similarly, could you identify a Belgian, Frenchman, German, or Dane just by appearance? Probably not with any degree of certainty, but you can make a reasonably confident selection if you see a group of 100 of them.
I know this comes as a shock for people who have no concept of civics or formal logic but...
If A is "No producer can set a minimum retail value for a particular product" Not A is NOT "A producer MUST set a minimum retail value for a particular product"
All this means is that at the Federal level there is no prohibition against selling goods at a specific price (which incidentally, does not allow for "collusion" between companies; that is still illegal). The State of New York can easily write a law to establish what the Supreme Court struck down.
There are commercials on the talk channels and on the Clear Channel music stations. XM has its own equivalent for each. To me XM is much more about the choice in music than the quality of the reception.
The reason why you see no difference is because you are
a.) borderline socialist b.) ignorant of the positions of Libertarians c.) troll
You could say the same thing about Democrats and Libertarians. Don't believe me? Watch.
If you are a left leaning libertarian then you want to be a left winger that doesn't pay out the nose in taxes. Personally I think it's better if you are a righty who supports tax reform. Stop lying to yourself and thinking that calling yourself a libertarian differentiates you from a Democrat all that much. It doesn't in my eyes.
Libertarians support:
1.) Drug legalization 2.) Prostitution legalization 3.) Strict adherence to the Bill of Rights 4.) Gay marriage 5.) Open borders 6.) Abortion 7.) Abolishing the FCC
I wish you were right that the GOP was libertarian, by the way. Republicans are bending over backwards for the social conservative vote. I am a right leaning libertarian because I support all seven, but not in absolutist terms.
1.) Start with POT 2.) Make it a business like everything else 3.) Pretty much absolute (exceptions for national security) 4.) Call it a Civil Union and you got my support 5.) Guestworker program you betcha! 6.) Prolife after neural activity 7.) Let people watch what they want to watch.
Not murder but a Satanist torched the Fantoft Stavekirke in Norway. Pissed me off that I was seeing a "remake" of a church that hung on the walls of my house since I was born.
I am not sure if your post was serious or not (I am leaning towards not) but just in case:
If you never do anything more / work a minute more than what is expected of you I would like to ask you if you tend to shop at stores that fulfill the simplest of obligations or the ones that have employees which go out of there way to help you?
The only saying that hard work is its own reward might be a little bit bullshit, but let's face it, you feel better when you do a good job over doing a poor one. The people who view the boss-employee relationship as an antagonistic one seem less happy than those of us that want to be productive but realize we aren't family and that yes, no one is irreplaceable.
They are right to think that. Churches that are giving pies away are trying to get their attendance up. Restaurants that give away free samples are hoping you come spend some money there. Linux advocates are usually hoping people will use it and thus increase the OS' influence.
Because they were practicing ancient free markets. Free markets have always been around, it is specifically, socialism that is a relatively new construct (as a governing philosophy)
And just how do you know that was a lie? You are mistaking, he was wrong with he lied. Every major intelligence agency believed that he had WMD (including some Arab state governments). Plus, Saddam was acting guilty as hell. Now unless it was all moved out of Iraq, there wasn't much in the way of WMD or weapons banned by the UN.
FWIW, Democrats are equally pissy. My mother (a registered Dem) sent out the photo of the troops holding the banner saying "HALP US JON CARRY WE R STUK N IRAK" and she received a note from a woman that shows how devoid of humor she is.
All of this of course, assumes that all days are equally likely. If the verdict is ready now, what are the odds it will be announced on August 12th 2007? Well, very unlikely. The trial has been prescheduled. Without the delays this would have been read in October.
If the court had read it the day after Election Day, there would have been people saying, "AHA! Bush is trying to make people forget about Iraq"
In other words, there is a permanent part of the electorate that thinks everything is an elaborate ruse to stay in power. When voter turn out is low, few people will be swayed by this.
If a fetus is not a person, then as the baby is exiting the mother, you should be able to beat its head in with a baseball bat.
If a fetus is a person and life begins at conception, a woman who er, cleans, certain crevices should be charged with attempted murder.
If you don't agree with either of those two statements you are probably among the many of us that do not view the abortion matter in binary terms. Congratulations.
Because in America, libertarians are right-wing. They identify more with Ronald Reagan than Bill Clinton.
I am not sure that makes them right wing. Plus I tend to think that most people approach libertarianism from the left or the right. I tend to approach from the right, because I view fiscal issues as being more important than social ones. I may not be a Libertarian but I am libertarian and registered as a Republican.
I didn't address the democracy republic issue because I think it is unnecessary to expound on it.
Actually I think the emmissions in the 1st world have decreased (at least on a per capita basis). The problem is the world has a lot more people on it, and a lot more of those people are no longer impoverished.
Since any time politics comes up there will be some inevitable Bush bashing, let us be clear that the US Senate (of which there are 100 members) voted 95-0 for a bill that said that
(1) the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol to, or other agreement regarding, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992, at negotiations in Kyoto in December 1997, or thereafter, which would--
(A) mandate new commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the Annex I Parties, unless the protocol or other agreement also mandates new specific scheduled commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for Developing Country Parties within the same compliance period, or
(B) would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States; and
(2) any such protocol or other agreement which would require the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification should be accompanied by a detailed explanation of any legislation or regulatory actions that may be required to implement the protocol or other agreement and should also be accompanied by an analysis of the detailed financial costs and other impacts on the economy of the United States which would be incurred by the implementation of the protocol or other agreement.
The fact that developing nations were exempted made it tough to swallow.
How are libertarians right wing? Is it because they aren't left wing? In the standard compass of political beliefs, North is Libertarian, East is Conservative, South is Totalitarianism, and West is Liberal.
I want people to have power, but I don't want people confused by what we have either. By the way, for American readers, early voting is probably starting this coming week/weekend. There is no excuse to not vote:)
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A quick comment about those so called science shows. I was watching a show called something like "The Physics of Sports" or something like that. They were trying to settle the long term debate as to whether it is harder to hit a baseball or a softball.
The voice over guy says "We have a machine to measure the impact of a softball and a baseball hitting the backstop. The harder each hits, the harder it is to hit"
He was referring to the increased mass of a softball compared to a baseball. Um, an 18 wheeler traveling at 2 mph hits harder than either and I guarantee you I will hit it every time. There wouldn't be any, you know, scientists on your science show would there?
--Joey
I think it is very telling that you use the word FORCE to describe this particular gem of legislation. Is liberty is under assault more from the left or the right these days? Hard to say
--Joey
I found people speaking English. I tried with my very meager Japanese first but frequently was able to fall back on the unofficial world language for tourism. It is no where near what it is in Europe however, so if you are thinking it will be just because it too is a 1st world country, wrong, it is considerably worse.
:)
My limited (12 days) experience with the Japanese was exceptionally positive
--Joey
Way to respond to something I didn't say.
I am not saying that this means that a producer can't set a floor, they can, but the assumption that they will is wrong. That is what I was arguing!
--Joey
It would be tough with a turk, an arab and a kurd but with large groups I think I could make a guess. Similarly, could you identify a Belgian, Frenchman, German, or Dane just by appearance? Probably not with any degree of certainty, but you can make a reasonably confident selection if you see a group of 100 of them.
--Joey
I know this comes as a shock for people who have no concept of civics or formal logic but...
If A is "No producer can set a minimum retail value for a particular product"
Not A is NOT "A producer MUST set a minimum retail value for a particular product"
All this means is that at the Federal level there is no prohibition against selling goods at a specific price (which incidentally, does not allow for "collusion" between companies; that is still illegal). The State of New York can easily write a law to establish what the Supreme Court struck down.
--Joey
X is less than Y is less than Z for X != Z there are infinite Ys
X = 0.9999....
Z = 1
Give me a Y.
--Joey
There are commercials on the talk channels and on the Clear Channel music stations. XM has its own equivalent for each. To me XM is much more about the choice in music than the quality of the reception.
--Joey
The reason why you see no difference is because you are
a.) borderline socialist
b.) ignorant of the positions of Libertarians
c.) troll
You could say the same thing about Democrats and Libertarians. Don't believe me? Watch.
If you are a left leaning libertarian then you want to be a left winger that doesn't pay out the nose in taxes. Personally I think it's better if you are a righty who supports tax reform. Stop lying to yourself and thinking that calling yourself a libertarian differentiates you from a Democrat all that much. It doesn't in my eyes.
Libertarians support:
1.) Drug legalization
2.) Prostitution legalization
3.) Strict adherence to the Bill of Rights
4.) Gay marriage
5.) Open borders
6.) Abortion
7.) Abolishing the FCC
I wish you were right that the GOP was libertarian, by the way. Republicans are bending over backwards for the social conservative vote. I am a right leaning libertarian because I support all seven, but not in absolutist terms.
1.) Start with POT
2.) Make it a business like everything else
3.) Pretty much absolute (exceptions for national security)
4.) Call it a Civil Union and you got my support
5.) Guestworker program you betcha!
6.) Prolife after neural activity
7.) Let people watch what they want to watch.
--Joey
Not murder but a Satanist torched the Fantoft Stavekirke in Norway. Pissed me off that I was seeing a "remake" of a church that hung on the walls of my house since I was born.
--Joey
I am not sure if your post was serious or not (I am leaning towards not) but just in case:
If you never do anything more / work a minute more than what is expected of you I would like to ask you if you tend to shop at stores that fulfill the simplest of obligations or the ones that have employees which go out of there way to help you?
The only saying that hard work is its own reward might be a little bit bullshit, but let's face it, you feel better when you do a good job over doing a poor one. The people who view the boss-employee relationship as an antagonistic one seem less happy than those of us that want to be productive but realize we aren't family and that yes, no one is irreplaceable.
--Joey
They are right to think that. Churches that are giving pies away are trying to get their attendance up. Restaurants that give away free samples are hoping you come spend some money there. Linux advocates are usually hoping people will use it and thus increase the OS' influence.
--Joey
Because they were practicing ancient free markets. Free markets have always been around, it is specifically, socialism that is a relatively new construct (as a governing philosophy)
Did you not read what I wrote? I didn't say Bush misspoke, I said it was possible he was wrong.
--Joey
You and I have very different definitions of Carte Blanche. He sent inspectors packing on more than one occasion.
--Joey
And just how do you know that was a lie? You are mistaking, he was wrong with he lied. Every major intelligence agency believed that he had WMD (including some Arab state governments). Plus, Saddam was acting guilty as hell. Now unless it was all moved out of Iraq, there wasn't much in the way of WMD or weapons banned by the UN.
--Joey
FWIW, Democrats are equally pissy. My mother (a registered Dem) sent out the photo of the troops holding the banner saying "HALP US JON CARRY WE R STUK N IRAK" and she received a note from a woman that shows how devoid of humor she is.
--Joey
All of this of course, assumes that all days are equally likely. If the verdict is ready now, what are the odds it will be announced on August 12th 2007? Well, very unlikely. The trial has been prescheduled. Without the delays this would have been read in October.
If the court had read it the day after Election Day, there would have been people saying, "AHA! Bush is trying to make people forget about Iraq"
In other words, there is a permanent part of the electorate that thinks everything is an elaborate ruse to stay in power. When voter turn out is low, few people will be swayed by this.
--Joey
If a fetus is not a person, then as the baby is exiting the mother, you should be able to beat its head in with a baseball bat.
If a fetus is a person and life begins at conception, a woman who er, cleans, certain crevices should be charged with attempted murder.
If you don't agree with either of those two statements you are probably among the many of us that do not view the abortion matter in binary terms. Congratulations.
--Joey
It was 12/25 (or at least, that is when I heard about it...)
I am not sure that makes them right wing. Plus I tend to think that most people approach libertarianism from the left or the right. I tend to approach from the right, because I view fiscal issues as being more important than social ones. I may not be a Libertarian but I am libertarian and registered as a Republican.
I didn't address the democracy republic issue because I think it is unnecessary to expound on it.
--Joey
Make us exempt from reducing carbob emmissions and the US and our Aussie friends will be happy to sign on.
--Joey
Actually I think the emmissions in the 1st world have decreased (at least on a per capita basis). The problem is the world has a lot more people on it, and a lot more of those people are no longer impoverished.
The fact that developing nations were exempted made it tough to swallow.
How are libertarians right wing? Is it because they aren't left wing? In the standard compass of political beliefs, North is Libertarian, East is Conservative, South is Totalitarianism, and West is Liberal.
:)
I want people to have power, but I don't want people confused by what we have either. By the way, for American readers, early voting is probably starting this coming week/weekend. There is no excuse to not vote
--Joey