Oh, come on. You've read the Old Testament, right? There's sections there are pretty violent as well, just as unforgiving. I'm not going to find these quotes for you because I don't have the time now. I don't have them conveniently wrapped together in a chain email which I'm guessing you pulled this from.
Please show me where in the Old Testament it says that the Jews are supposed to go out and convert others. That's the difference. It's one thing if you advocate stoning, etc. within your own group, but Islam preaches that everyone must be brought under the thumb of Islam.
Islam preaches that all must become Muslims. Judaism teaches that Jews should not preach nor attempt to convert others. That's the difference.
Cynicism is cool and all, but there's nothing impossible about doing something illegal, getting caught, and deciding upon being released from jail that you won't do it again. I know more than one person who's followed that pattern.
You're right, if we're talking about stealing from stores or cheating on your taxes or even snorting heroin. All the evidence shows that there is no way to reprogram someone's sexual desires. Developing into a pedophile is pretty much a one-way trip.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
So if I'm on a jury but there's an election in two weeks I shouldn't do anything because it's not next in the queue? This is a cute quote, but a silly one. Please try again.
First of all, its not 2^64 addresses, it's 2^128 addresses. To the layman, that is not very much of a difference.
Do you have ANY idea how large 2^128 is? I have heard estimates that it is larger than the number of atoms on earth! I haven't done the math but it does not seem impossible.
For comparison, the number of atoms in the universe is estimated to be 10^80.
A huge point is completely missing: all of the houses were appraised at the values the mortgages were offered. These appraisals were done at market value and were accurate - if you can sell your house for $500,000 today, then it should be appraised at $500,000 today. It's obviously not the appraisers' job to peer into a crystal ball and say "tomorrow, the bubble will pop and this house will only be worth $300,000."
Presented with a house appraised by a third party at $500,000, the banks financed it at that amount. Again, that is their job.
The argument being thrown around is that by lowering credit standards (partly mandated by the government's misguided "give houses to poor people" programs), they inflated demand, which created the bubble. I think that's unproven. There ere real estate bubbles long before the current lending practices.
You may be able to make a case that cheap money (low interest rates) stimulated demand and allowed people to get into houses more affordably...but of course, it's not Wall Street that sets the fundamental rates. And gee, rates haven't gone up, so...
This is not a simple "banks lent to people they shouldn't have" equation.
I first heard about Microsoft Research somewhere around Jan. 2008.
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Fast forward almost 11 years. 11 years ok. Let me say it one more time: 11 YEARS. What exactly has Microsoft Research produced in those 11 years that is truly noteworthy?
Well, I don't know. Unlike you, the rest of us can't skip forward to 2019.
If it were up to "your kind" of conservative, the US would look like India: Extremely wealthy people live in high society and everyone else lives in dirt huts.
Getting the government out of education would put the final nail in the middle-class coffin.
I got to think you just DON'T GET IT.
I got to think that you just DON'T KNOW HOW TO READ. The poster was referring to the Department of Education (Federal), not "getting the government out of education". You do realize that the USDE has only existed since 1979, right? And that lots of liberals refer to the "growing rich/poor divide" and such...which means that the divide was smaller before the USDE existed.
BTW, conservatives are generally for publicly-funded education but not for publicly-provided education.
What's the appropriate term for a far-right sociopolitical system of private industry control over government?
By definition, there is no such thing. The "far right" would never be in favor of the government controlling private industry.
BTW, if you think the Bush administration is "far right" you've missed a huge slice of the American political landscape. Bush is at best weakly moderate.
Horses for courses, mate. There are good arguments in either direction.
Yes. Which is exactly why sweeping generalizations like "don't use stored procedures" are idiotic. There are a wealth of cases where stored procedures are best practice.
Yeah, and law enforcement tracking and harassing peaceful activists is nothing new either.
Unfortunately, they seem to have backed off since the 1970s. Seriously - is there anything more obnoxious than a snot-nosed black-flag-waving peace activist?
Sorry, that's the name for an overused analogy. This isn't 1930 and we aren't in Italy or Germany, nor are we discussing a far-left sociopolitical system of government control of private industry. You'll have to come up with your own terms.
In the 1950's, J Edgar Hoover wanted to arrest over suspected of being disloyal.
Alas, Truman said no.
Oh wait...we're all supposed to subscribe to the same political viewepoint here on freedom, liberty, and civil rights. Sorry. I was thinking for myself for a moment.
What you're essentially wishing for here is that NASA cease to be, and the USA get out of space travel/exploration.
You seem to be implying that one thing causes the other. To my mind, the reverse is true - as long as we have NASA, we won't get to space travel/exploration.
The ACLU subscribes to the belief that it doesn't matter whether the defendant is a low-life scum-fuck or an outstanding citizen; if the system is being abused or civil rights eroded to prosecute them, then they should fight the precedent for the protection of all citizens, scum-fucks or not. Or did you want justice only for yourself and your family?
The American Civil Liberties Union: we don't discriminate against people we don't like. We just discriminate against rights we don't like.
(The ACLU doesn't do 2nd amendment cases, lest they endanger their liberal donations).
I find that scary. Then again I live in an area where public transport actually works, might be different in a country planned with the assumption that everyone has a car...
Indeed. You are blessed by living in a small, densely-populated, urban country. Assuming people have cars is the only thing that works when you have vast areas that are lightly populated. You can drive from, say, Oulu to Helsinki in a workday. That doesn't scale when you're talking about an area 36 times larger.
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The Qur'an is out of copyright by now, so what's the problem?
It was out of copyright, until the Sunni Bono Copyright Extension Act was past.
Oh, come on. You've read the Old Testament, right? There's sections there are pretty violent as well, just as unforgiving. I'm not going to find these quotes for you because I don't have the time now. I don't have them conveniently wrapped together in a chain email which I'm guessing you pulled this from.
Please show me where in the Old Testament it says that the Jews are supposed to go out and convert others. That's the difference. It's one thing if you advocate stoning, etc. within your own group, but Islam preaches that everyone must be brought under the thumb of Islam.
Islam preaches that all must become Muslims. Judaism teaches that Jews should not preach nor attempt to convert others. That's the difference.
Cynicism is cool and all, but there's nothing impossible about doing something illegal, getting caught, and deciding upon being released from jail that you won't do it again. I know more than one person who's followed that pattern.
You're right, if we're talking about stealing from stores or cheating on your taxes or even snorting heroin. All the evidence shows that there is no way to reprogram someone's sexual desires. Developing into a pedophile is pretty much a one-way trip.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
So if I'm on a jury but there's an election in two weeks I shouldn't do anything because it's not next in the queue? This is a cute quote, but a silly one. Please try again.
That's nothing. You want bad math:
Its not just "8" its ie8... and e is around 2.7 and i is the square root of -1... so
Instant classic.
You've served five years and have no inclination toward recidivism.
And there is the impossibility of your scenario.
Umm... Class B is /16. You're thinking of Class C.
Yeah, it's the opposite of bra sizes. Very confusing.
They say that "more than a Class B-ful is wasted..."
First of all, its not 2^64 addresses, it's 2^128 addresses. To the layman, that is not very much of a difference.
Do you have ANY idea how large 2^128 is? I have heard estimates that it is larger than the number of atoms on earth! I haven't done the math but it does not seem impossible.
For comparison, the number of atoms in the universe is estimated to be 10^80.
...because that's where companies are looking for entry-level programmers.
A huge point is completely missing: all of the houses were appraised at the values the mortgages were offered. These appraisals were done at market value and were accurate - if you can sell your house for $500,000 today, then it should be appraised at $500,000 today. It's obviously not the appraisers' job to peer into a crystal ball and say "tomorrow, the bubble will pop and this house will only be worth $300,000."
Presented with a house appraised by a third party at $500,000, the banks financed it at that amount. Again, that is their job.
The argument being thrown around is that by lowering credit standards (partly mandated by the government's misguided "give houses to poor people" programs), they inflated demand, which created the bubble. I think that's unproven. There ere real estate bubbles long before the current lending practices.
You may be able to make a case that cheap money (low interest rates) stimulated demand and allowed people to get into houses more affordably...but of course, it's not Wall Street that sets the fundamental rates. And gee, rates haven't gone up, so...
This is not a simple "banks lent to people they shouldn't have" equation.
I first heard about Microsoft Research somewhere around Jan. 2008.
[...]
Fast forward almost 11 years. 11 years ok. Let me say it one more time: 11 YEARS. What exactly has Microsoft Research produced in those 11 years that is truly noteworthy?
Well, I don't know. Unlike you, the rest of us can't skip forward to 2019.
If it were up to "your kind" of conservative, the US would look like India: Extremely wealthy people live in high society and everyone else lives in dirt huts.
Getting the government out of education would put the final nail in the middle-class coffin.
I got to think you just DON'T GET IT.
I got to think that you just DON'T KNOW HOW TO READ. The poster was referring to the Department of Education (Federal), not "getting the government out of education". You do realize that the USDE has only existed since 1979, right? And that lots of liberals refer to the "growing rich/poor divide" and such...which means that the divide was smaller before the USDE existed.
BTW, conservatives are generally for publicly-funded education but not for publicly-provided education.
While this may seem very partisan I think it's timely and as such I'm going to risk getting modded down by right wing zealots.
The GOP has increasingly become a huge fan of this 'dumb is good' type of culture.
You seem to be implying that the GOP is somehow right-wing or conservative...
You are quite correct, this is 2008.
What's the appropriate term for a far-right sociopolitical system of private industry control over government?
By definition, there is no such thing. The "far right" would never be in favor of the government controlling private industry.
BTW, if you think the Bush administration is "far right" you've missed a huge slice of the American political landscape. Bush is at best weakly moderate.
Don't use stored procedures. They concentrate ...
You obviously have very little experience ...
Horses for courses, mate. There are good arguments in either direction.
Yes. Which is exactly why sweeping generalizations like "don't use stored procedures" are idiotic. There are a wealth of cases where stored procedures are best practice.
Yeah, and law enforcement tracking and harassing peaceful activists is nothing new either.
Unfortunately, they seem to have backed off since the 1970s. Seriously - is there anything more obnoxious than a snot-nosed black-flag-waving peace activist?
There's a name for this ideology: fascism.
Sorry, that's the name for an overused analogy. This isn't 1930 and we aren't in Italy or Germany, nor are we discussing a far-left sociopolitical system of government control of private industry. You'll have to come up with your own terms.
In the 1950's, J Edgar Hoover wanted to arrest over suspected of being disloyal.
Alas, Truman said no.
Oh wait...we're all supposed to subscribe to the same political viewepoint here on freedom, liberty, and civil rights. Sorry. I was thinking for myself for a moment.
What you're essentially wishing for here is that NASA cease to be, and the USA get out of space travel/exploration.
You seem to be implying that one thing causes the other. To my mind, the reverse is true - as long as we have NASA, we won't get to space travel/exploration.
How do you know they are "boys"
Because they're physicists.
The ACLU subscribes to the belief that it doesn't matter whether the defendant is a low-life scum-fuck or an outstanding citizen; if the system is being abused or civil rights eroded to prosecute them, then they should fight the precedent for the protection of all citizens, scum-fucks or not. Or did you want justice only for yourself and your family?
The American Civil Liberties Union: we don't discriminate against people we don't like. We just discriminate against rights we don't like.
(The ACLU doesn't do 2nd amendment cases, lest they endanger their liberal donations).
Indeed, it's a perfect win-win.
Everyone benefits.
I find that scary. Then again I live in an area where public transport actually works, might be different in a country planned with the assumption that everyone has a car...
Indeed. You are blessed by living in a small, densely-populated, urban country. Assuming people have cars is the only thing that works when you have vast areas that are lightly populated. You can drive from, say, Oulu to Helsinki in a workday. That doesn't scale when you're talking about an area 36 times larger.
Either you were born an adult, or you completely forget being a teenager.
Good point...we shouldn't be issuing driver's licenses to those under age 21.
Free speech being restricted in a Muslim dictatorship? I'm shocked. Just completely shocked.