No, he was correct. He did mean "the major University in the state"- not, "major stepping stone to pro-sports in the state". BYU has 32,000 + enrollmen, the other school has 28,933.
And yes, Gordon graduated from that other school is SLC, but Ezra graduated from the Y. As well as Ken Jennings, Orson Scott Card, and the creators of Napolean Dynamite.
Finally, (and most damning of all) my brother-in-law graduated from the U. That should automatically cause any school to lose its accreditation.
In times past, the majority thought slavery was ok, women shouldn't vote, and it was perfectly ok to beat your wife.
Wow. So you just compared hard-core pornography to the emancipation movement, women's suffrage, and domestic violence. So Larry Flint is equal to Harriet Tubman, and Hugh Hefner is equal to Susan B. Anthony. The comment about violence on women is particularly ironic with respect to porn. I have not seen any studies, but I would find it difficult to believe that porn would help one build a stable, functional, happy relationship with one's spouse.
the majority thinks Britney Spears is an artist. You overstate your case. I don't think the "majority" of Americans like Britney Spears. I guess the only way that can be measured is through the percentage of people who have purchased her albums. I know you were merely trying to make a point, but it isn't a good analogy. By the way, Iraq did have WMD's, because they used them against the Kurds. At one point they also a had a nuclear weapons program which was dismantled by us after Deseret Storm. I also think that the 2004 election was more a choice of which Yale C-average student do we dislike least.
I happen to believe pornography is a bad thing. It has destructive effects on families, individuals and societies. I truly hope that I can teach my young son away from this garbage.
When my three year old is old enough to watch the movies, I'll just show him IV through VI and skip the others. Finding out about the family relationsips, (as well as who Yoda is) is just too important, and the whole series suffers way too much. I liked episode III better than I or II, but watching Darth throw out his arms and arch his back screaming "NNNNOOOOOOOOOO" was terrible. As I left the theatre, I thought, "that is the last bit of new Star Wars I'll see. And it ended with a "NOOOOO!!!".
I am pretty sure the KJV is not written in Old English. Old English is pretty much another language then contemporary modern English. If you have ever seen the poem "Beowulf" in the original text you would definitely see the difference as it would be unreadable to you. In some ways it "looks" like German and has many similarities in terms of grammar to German. The KJV is written in early "Modern" English.
Yoda insisted on taking Luke's flashlight out of pure greed
No, he was testing Luke's patience, seeing what he could do with him. He wanted to see how Luke would react to the stolen light and the annoyance. After all, if he gets really upset about a little flashlight, how could he defend himself against both Vader and the Emporer and not get turned to the dark side?
from the article you cited - To the Pentagon, each death is a distinct case, meriting an investigation but not attributable to any single faulty military policy. Pentagon officials point to a number of military investigations which found that no policy condoned abuse.
Defense Department spokesman Lt. Col. John Skinner said the military has taken steps to reduce the chance of violent uprisings at its prisons and the use of excessive force by soldiers, and also has improved the health care available to prisoners.
Prison is not a nice place no matter where you are.
I still reiterate my original position. Restating the quote from your linknot attributable to any single faulty military policy It is not US policy to summarily execute prisoners. Although some of these people are unfairly rounded up, many of the people in these prisons coordinate with others to blow cars up in market places. They would just as soon kill you as tie their shoes, and are really, really bad people. I have relatives and friends in both Afghanistan and Iraq. They say that your freedom-hating, non-good-news-reporting, liberal media (sic) gets it wrong. I trust the people I know more than the people I don't.
Questions this article in my mind raises but doesn't answer. How does this rate compare with the general US prison rate? How does this rate compare with third world prisons? The article states Roughly a quarter of those deaths have been investigated as possible abuse by U.S. personnel not good for the good guys, but coupled with statements like At least 108 people have died . ..most of them violently if only a quarter are due to abuse but most of the deaths are from violence, how they dying? FROM THE OTHER PRISONERS!! So, more Muslims kill other muslims in prison then Americans do. (Please point out where my logic is wrong).
While they also talk about abuse and "excessive force", they also talk about violent uprisings . . . improved . ..health care So, many of these people are taken in combat, from dirty, unsanitary conditions and brought into prison into close contact with other people from dirty situations. My dad caught Spinal Meningitus while in Army Basic Training. It doesn't take much to make people sick.
I've had personal experience with three separate newspaper articles, and they were all wrong in significant ways. One of those papers was the LA times.
So, let's get back to the original question. Che and Castro did execute people for being on the wrong side of their revolution, or at least that is what different accounts state. According to the freedom-hating, non-good-doing, genocide-committing military they don't just shoot people who are in prison.
You are making a very serious charge. Do you have evidence that American troops line up prisoners at Guantanamo Bay or Abu Ghraib and summarily execute them? I am sure that I would have heard about this before, and I did a quick look at Wikipedia at the abuse sections and they did not mention executions.
You are using a cute rhetorical device. Please back it up with facts.
You know, I really hope you are being facetious, but since my facetious monitor is turned off today I will respond.
Yes, the US has tried to kill Castro in the past. Yes there is an embargo in place. However, Castro himself is responsible for the great ills within Cuba. Yes, Cuba has a greater percentage of people who can read than other Caribbean countries. What good is that when all you can read are paens to Castro or descriptions of how evil the US is? Yes, Cuba has many trained doctors, but can they stock basic medicines?
Every time I see some goofball walking around with a Che Guevara t-shirt, I want to shake him by the shoulders and say, "Do you know this guy threw people into camps and then had them shot?"
Castro "nationalized" American-owned businesses when he came to power. One may argue that the property was stolen by the Americans from the Cuban people to begin with. I would argue that no business is a charity, and that if Castro really wanted foreign investment he could allow it. But he really doesn't want it, he wants to maintain all power. Besides, who would invest money in a place where the government could seize it at will.
Castro is a terrible leader with a terrible management style. He micromanages everything in the country and, as a result, nothing of any consequence gets done without his approval. So as a consequence nothing gets done. For a time no private enterprise was allowed at all. No private workshops were allowed. So what does this mean in practical terms? As one PBS special put it, "Fixing a toaster became a matter of state."
He looks for silver bullets to "fix" the countries economic problems. He declared, "Cuba will make more cheese than Switzerland" and came up with this goofy, naive, expensive program to turn Cuba into a giant dairy farm. When the cows got sick he moved onto some other program. He decided then that Cuba needed to produce the "Highest Amount of Sugar Cane EVER!!" He pulled kids out of schools and generally disrupted society for a year so that everone could produce sugar, and they didn't meet their goal. He fought and funded a war in Angola. He tried to become the leader of the entire third world instead of fixing the problems in his own country.
Now, after 46 years of rule, if Castro is not responsible for the problems of Cuba then no one is. (oh, and if that guy blew up a plane he should get sent back for trial, the US should not harbor terrorists)
Terrific!! I remember this show but (of course) couldn't remember the guy's name. I've wanted to rewatch that series, but for the life of me I couldn't remember the name James Burke!! I knew that if I surfed Slashdot long enough that name would pop back out! Fantastic!
Interesting. My experience was different. I am an American and used to work in the Netherlands. I got taxed like you would not believe, plus did not get a tax break because I was an American because my boss screwed up. (If I recall correctly that was around $3000.)
Plus while you may have to file in America, you don't have to pay. I think the latest law is that if you stay outside the US for a year the first $80,000 is non-taxable for the IRS. It isn't that hard to do.
I always liked the "McLaughlin" group where instead of the normal journalists and pundits they had Hartman pretending to be Frank Sinatra, with Jan Hooks as Sinead O'Connor, Chris Rock as someone from 2 Live Crew, John Lovitz and what's her face as Steve and Edie and Sting playing Billy Idol. Hilarious. Just Hilarious.
I read the auto-translated editorial into English, so it was a little hard to understand, but I got enough. To me it came across as the standard Anti-American bashing as a sales pitch for government money to have a European equivalent to battle an American company. Sound familiar?
Before you get out your knives please be aware, - I am married to a Spaniard - I call and speak to my wife's family in Europe every week. - I worked for the UN in Vienna for four months - I worked for a translation company in Amsterdam for a year - The guy in the next cubicle is from England - My boss's boss is German - I spoke to clients in Ireland and Denmark today - I speak Spanish fluently (which I learned in Argentina) and spoke German ok (but I'm out of practice now)
Just this week I heard the guy in the next cubicle over talking to his wife about a French guest they were having over for a couple of days. He suggested that they make "freedom fries" but he intended it as a joke.
I can't speak for the other 299,999,997 Americans but as for my wife, my son and I, 95% of the time we simply say "fries".
Actually I remember Chris Rock on HBO doing stand-up saying something exactly like that. I don't know that other guy, or who came up with it first, but Rock did say that.
It had to have been something in the development process. IANAFD (I am not a film developer) Could the film have been somehow kinked? I can't buy the fact that it is a freak astronomical event, even though it must have peaked enough people's interests to make it to NASA's picture of the day.
Funny, I am an American and live in America, but I am married to a European. And you know what, every European that I have met here the first chance they get, they buy the biggest car they can.
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What is the film rated? PG, PG-13 or R?
No, he was correct. He did mean "the major University in the state"- not, "major stepping stone to pro-sports in the state". BYU has 32,000 + enrollmen, the other school has 28,933.
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BYU beat that other school in business. .
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And yes, Gordon graduated from that other school is SLC, but Ezra graduated from the Y. As well as Ken Jennings, Orson Scott Card, and the creators of Napolean Dynamite.
Finally, (and most damning of all) my brother-in-law graduated from the U. That should automatically cause any school to lose its accreditation.
In times past, the majority thought slavery was ok, women shouldn't vote, and it was perfectly ok to beat your wife.
Wow. So you just compared hard-core pornography to the emancipation movement, women's suffrage, and domestic violence. So Larry Flint is equal to Harriet Tubman, and Hugh Hefner is equal to Susan B. Anthony. The comment about violence on women is particularly ironic with respect to porn. I have not seen any studies, but I would find it difficult to believe that porn would help one build a stable, functional, happy relationship with one's spouse.
the majority thinks Britney Spears is an artist. You overstate your case. I don't think the "majority" of Americans like Britney Spears. I guess the only way that can be measured is through the percentage of people who have purchased her albums. I know you were merely trying to make a point, but it isn't a good analogy. By the way, Iraq did have WMD's, because they used them against the Kurds. At one point they also a had a nuclear weapons program which was dismantled by us after Deseret Storm. I also think that the 2004 election was more a choice of which Yale C-average student do we dislike least.
I happen to believe pornography is a bad thing. It has destructive effects on families, individuals and societies. I truly hope that I can teach my young son away from this garbage.
I'm Mormon. You are forgetting abortion and gambling.
Wow, the Vader on wheel of fortune was the funniest thing I've seen in a month. Thanks for the links!
When my three year old is old enough to watch the movies, I'll just show him IV through VI and skip the others. Finding out about the family relationsips, (as well as who Yoda is) is just too important, and the whole series suffers way too much. I liked episode III better than I or II, but watching Darth throw out his arms and arch his back screaming "NNNNOOOOOOOOOO" was terrible. As I left the theatre, I thought, "that is the last bit of new Star Wars I'll see. And it ended with a "NOOOOO!!!".
Yes, I could tell he was from ASU when he used the phrase "is plenty doable" in the article.
Disclaimer: I live in Tucson.
I am pretty sure the KJV is not written in Old English. Old English is pretty much another language then contemporary modern English. If you have ever seen the poem "Beowulf" in the original text you would definitely see the difference as it would be unreadable to you. In some ways it "looks" like German and has many similarities in terms of grammar to German. The KJV is written in early "Modern" English.
Yoda insisted on taking Luke's flashlight out of pure greed
No, he was testing Luke's patience, seeing what he could do with him. He wanted to see how Luke would react to the stolen light and the annoyance. After all, if he gets really upset about a little flashlight, how could he defend himself against both Vader and the Emporer and not get turned to the dark side?
from the article you cited -
.most of them violently if only a quarter are due to abuse but most of the deaths are from violence, how they dying? FROM THE OTHER PRISONERS!! So, more Muslims kill other muslims in prison then Americans do. (Please point out where my logic is wrong).
.health care So, many of these people are taken in combat, from dirty, unsanitary conditions and brought into prison into close contact with other people from dirty situations. My dad caught Spinal Meningitus while in Army Basic Training. It doesn't take much to make people sick.
To the Pentagon, each death is a distinct case, meriting an investigation but not attributable to any single faulty military policy. Pentagon officials point to a number of military investigations which found that no policy condoned abuse.
Defense Department spokesman Lt. Col. John Skinner said the military has taken steps to reduce the chance of violent uprisings at its prisons and the use of excessive force by soldiers, and also has improved the health care available to prisoners.
Prison is not a nice place no matter where you are.
I still reiterate my original position. Restating the quote from your linknot attributable to any single faulty military policy It is not US policy to summarily execute prisoners. Although some of these people are unfairly rounded up, many of the people in these prisons coordinate with others to blow cars up in market places. They would just as soon kill you as tie their shoes, and are really, really bad people. I have relatives and friends in both Afghanistan and Iraq. They say that your freedom-hating, non-good-news-reporting, liberal media (sic) gets it wrong. I trust the people I know more than the people I don't.
Questions this article in my mind raises but doesn't answer. How does this rate compare with the general US prison rate? How does this rate compare with third world prisons? The article states Roughly a quarter of those deaths have been investigated as possible abuse by U.S. personnel not good for the good guys, but coupled with statements like At least 108 people have died . .
While they also talk about abuse and "excessive force", they also talk about violent uprisings . . . improved . .
I've had personal experience with three separate newspaper articles, and they were all wrong in significant ways. One of those papers was the LA times.
So, let's get back to the original question. Che and Castro did execute people for being on the wrong side of their revolution, or at least that is what different accounts state. According to the freedom-hating, non-good-doing, genocide-committing military they don't just shoot people who are in prison.
You are making a very serious charge. Do you have evidence that American troops line up prisoners at Guantanamo Bay or Abu Ghraib and summarily execute them? I am sure that I would have heard about this before, and I did a quick look at Wikipedia at the abuse sections and they did not mention executions.
You are using a cute rhetorical device. Please back it up with facts.
You know, I really hope you are being facetious, but since my facetious monitor is turned off today I will respond.
Yes, the US has tried to kill Castro in the past. Yes there is an embargo in place. However, Castro himself is responsible for the great ills within Cuba. Yes, Cuba has a greater percentage of people who can read than other Caribbean countries. What good is that when all you can read are paens to Castro or descriptions of how evil the US is? Yes, Cuba has many trained doctors, but can they stock basic medicines?
Every time I see some goofball walking around with a Che Guevara t-shirt, I want to shake him by the shoulders and say, "Do you know this guy threw people into camps and then had them shot?"
Castro "nationalized" American-owned businesses when he came to power. One may argue that the property was stolen by the Americans from the Cuban people to begin with. I would argue that no business is a charity, and that if Castro really wanted foreign investment he could allow it. But he really doesn't want it, he wants to maintain all power. Besides, who would invest money in a place where the government could seize it at will.
Castro is a terrible leader with a terrible management style. He micromanages everything in the country and, as a result, nothing of any consequence gets done without his approval. So as a consequence nothing gets done. For a time no private enterprise was allowed at all. No private workshops were allowed. So what does this mean in practical terms? As one PBS special put it, "Fixing a toaster became a matter of state."
He looks for silver bullets to "fix" the countries economic problems. He declared, "Cuba will make more cheese than Switzerland" and came up with this goofy, naive, expensive program to turn Cuba into a giant dairy farm. When the cows got sick he moved onto some other program. He decided then that Cuba needed to produce the "Highest Amount of Sugar Cane EVER!!" He pulled kids out of schools and generally disrupted society for a year so that everone could produce sugar, and they didn't meet their goal. He fought and funded a war in Angola. He tried to become the leader of the entire third world instead of fixing the problems in his own country.
Now, after 46 years of rule, if Castro is not responsible for the problems of Cuba then no one is.
(oh, and if that guy blew up a plane he should get sent back for trial, the US should not harbor terrorists)
Bob, is that you?
Terrific!! I remember this show but (of course) couldn't remember the guy's name. I've wanted to rewatch that series, but for the life of me I couldn't remember the name James Burke!! I knew that if I surfed Slashdot long enough that name would pop back out! Fantastic!
Interesting. My experience was different. I am an American and used to work in the Netherlands. I got taxed like you would not believe, plus did not get a tax break because I was an American because my boss screwed up. (If I recall correctly that was around $3000.)
Plus while you may have to file in America, you don't have to pay. I think the latest law is that if you stay outside the US for a year the first $80,000 is non-taxable for the IRS. It isn't that hard to do.
I always liked the "McLaughlin" group where instead of the normal journalists and pundits they had Hartman pretending to be Frank Sinatra, with Jan Hooks as Sinead O'Connor, Chris Rock as someone from 2 Live Crew, John Lovitz and what's her face as Steve and Edie and Sting playing Billy Idol. Hilarious. Just Hilarious.
I read the auto-translated editorial into English, so it was a little hard to understand, but I got enough. To me it came across as the standard Anti-American bashing as a sales pitch for government money to have a European equivalent to battle an American company. Sound familiar?
Before you get out your knives please be aware,
- I am married to a Spaniard
- I call and speak to my wife's family in Europe every week.
- I worked for the UN in Vienna for four months
- I worked for a translation company in Amsterdam for a year
- The guy in the next cubicle is from England
- My boss's boss is German
- I spoke to clients in Ireland and Denmark today
- I speak Spanish fluently (which I learned in Argentina) and spoke German ok (but I'm out of practice now)
Just this week I heard the guy in the next cubicle over talking to his wife about a French guest they were having over for a couple of days. He suggested that they make "freedom fries" but he intended it as a joke.
I can't speak for the other 299,999,997 Americans but as for my wife, my son and I, 95% of the time we simply say "fries".
I do know for a fact that France is the only country to have such an institution.
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Really? Are you sure?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Academia_Espa
Oh, why can't I have mod points today? You made me laugh out loud. Thanks!
Actually I remember Chris Rock on HBO doing stand-up saying something exactly like that. I don't know that other guy, or who came up with it first, but Rock did say that.
It had to have been something in the development process. IANAFD (I am not a film developer) Could the film have been somehow kinked? I can't buy the fact that it is a freak astronomical event, even though it must have peaked enough people's interests to make it to NASA's picture of the day.
Pablo Picasso died on April 8th, 1973.
Funny, I am an American and live in America, but I am married to a European. And you know what, every European that I have met here the first chance they get, they buy the biggest car they can.
As someone who lives on the wrong side of the world from the best sources of information and shopping
No WAY!! You live in Tucson too?