For the most part computer games and LSD don't go together very well. The only one I ever enjoyed playing while tripping was Defender: the black background lent itself to wonderful tracers.
Just out of curiosity, has anyone been able to FIND any lately? I haven't run across any in many moons. I seem to recall reading about a rather large bust a few years ago or so, and ever since then no one has been able to find any.
Names sell, so individuals who are dedicated to Apple and it's products will most likley purchase this type of phone/service.
While that is certainly true, it also helps that Apple has a history of making high-quality hardware. Apple got their name not just because of clever marketing and lucky breaks, although there was certainly some of that. Apple is respected because people for the most part feel that the products Apple sells are high quality *and* beautiful. (In fact, I seem to remember reading somewhere that Jobs believes those two things to be largely inseparable.)
Over the past few months I've come to believe that the largest groups of stupid people on Slashdot are far and away the hardcore zealot libertarians. They wouldn't be so annoying except that there are so freakin' many of them.
I'm sure that will help tremendously when it comes to protecting soldiers and civilians from getting blown to smithereens by roadside bombs and/or suicide bombers.
Your politics is showing. Do you seriously believe that the amount of money that the government of the Philippines devotes to embryonic stem cell research exceeds the amount of money allocated to researchers in the United States by private corporations and foundations?
Well, yes.
Government programs cannot solve every problem either.
Where did you get the implication that I thought they could? Some != all. The primary libertarian strawman is that those who do not believe the free market can solve every problem think that government can. It's ridiculous.
But other nations have no such proscriptions against federal funds (China, Philippines, EU, etc.) and are bypassing us as a result. Private enterprise cannot solve every problem.
Your claim that Bush is a psychopath is unconvincing. He may be to a certian extent, the question of how severe a psychopath he is remains unanswered.
Left side of mouth: "He's not a psychopath." Right side of mouth: "He is a little bit of a psychopath."
Umm... Ok.
And by the way: not only did Clinton apologize, but he apologized ON NATIONAL TELEVISION for his mistake. Nor did Clinton start wars based on lies and propaganda. And etc., etc. I don't think Bush has apologized for anything, ever, including sending thousands of our soldiers to die in some godforsaken ME country for no fucking reason whatsoever.
"Now, government IS the solution to many problems..."
Dude, your funny. Spend 3 paragraphs denying you believe that government is the solution to every problem, or most problems....oh but you do believe it is the solution to many problems. LOL!!!
1) "You're". If you're going to speak English at least to it properly. 2) Many To be honest I can't think of anything the Federal government has done for me my entire life except bleed me white with taxes.
Open a window. Hell, don't even do that. Everything you see has come about because of a market that has been enabled by legislation and regulation. Government enables capitalism. Without it the free market always has and always will devolve into anarchy and feudalism. This has been recognized by economists and philosophers for centuries from Thomas Hobbes and Adam Smith to Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. See: medeval Europe, China, or that libertarian paradise that is modern-day Somalia.
Without "government interference" there would be no:
40-hour work weeks
Workplace safety regulations
Child labor laws
Minimum wage
Stock market
Protection from indentured servitude and/or slavery
Protection from "might makes right"
Protection from racially or religiously discriminatory hiring/firing practices
FDIC
Environmental protections, such as forbidding carcinogenic agents such as DDT or lead being put into the water supply
Consumer protection and redress from fraudulent, negligent, or harmful products
Fire stations
Industry standards such as ASCII characters, check clearing mechanisms, credit reporting and dispute resolution, and how much a gallon really is
National parks
Arbiter in property disputes
Single universally agreed upon currency
Unbiased keeper of record for wills, auto titles, property boundaries and ownership, and other contracts
Education system
Buffers against inflation such as those provided by the Federal Reserve
401k's, keoghs, and other legislatively created financial mechanisms
Democracy
Civil and criminal justice system
It would be nice to have universal health care but you can't do it without a huge percentage of people abusing it, and running up huge tabs searching for phantom illnesses. Thats all one of my elder inlaws uses Medicare for, to go to a new doctor once a week, demanding expensive tests to find out whats wrong with her, when her dominant problem is she is old. You just can't offer people something that is expensive for free without people squandering it and ruining it for everyone.
There are ways around such things, and it seems to work quite well in every other industrialized nation on the planet. Americans pay more for health care than p
eople with socialized medicine do. The free market doesn't work with health care. Socialism does. Claiming that free market capitalism works everywhere, all the time, and is the best solution to every single economic problem known to man is quite simply stupid, and borders on religious fanaticism. Capitalism works very well sometimes. But sometimes it is a magnificent failure.
Libertarianism looks great on paper. But like the communism to which it was a response, it fails utterly in the real world.
The thing that is funny is that I think most people's reaction is going to be the same upon reading this article: namely, that Bush is a psychopath. All of the descriptors are applicable to Bush with absolutely no stretching, and partisan loyalty aside it's hard not to agree with the conclusion.
I really object to Slashdot posting this kind of partisan story. This is obviously thinly-veiled flamebait for the anti-Bush brigades, and has no place in a supposedly unbiased forum, and the fact that Bush may actually be a psychopath really shouldn't change that. I mean, come ON. Glib and superficially charming?
Increased self-worth? Lacking in remorse or guilt? Callous and lacking in empathy? PLEASE. These are all just regurgitated Democratic talking points! What's next?
Posting the script to Fahrehnheit 9/11? Raising money for MoveOn.org?
If/. can't do better than this I may just have to write about it on my blog and begin an organized character assassination campaign against ScuttleMonkey.
I consider them traitors. The Constitution may have a specific legal definition for it, but if someone tries to undermine the nation from within, then I do not consider them any less of a traitor.
Instead of just getting rid of the subsidies they then have the temptation and momentum to overcorrect and start banning birth control and abortion all together.
They want to do that ANYWAY. Religious conservatives have ALWAYS hated the right to privacy, and have felt it to largely be a legal fiction. Whether they are energize or no, they will always seek ways to inject their morality into the society as a whole.
Liberals are held in such increasingly low regard because you can never stop yourselves from coming up with new ways to use government to force people to do things "for their own good", things many people find detestable especially when imposed on them by government, especially Federal government, against their will.
Like what? Learn about birth control options? Oh shit! We're forcing people to learn! The horror! My God won't someone please think of the children!
Oh wait we are thinking about the children. Namely, giving them the ability to make informed choices in their sexual beings. Fuck me, that's just fascism right there. Telling people facts that *shudder* make some people uncomfortable! AII the tragedy of it all.
Oh, wait! I think I get it! You think "information about birth control = encouragement to go boink your neighbor." Is that it? Cuz, no offense but that's just stupid right there.
When you delve in to sexual practice, birth control and especially abortion unfortunately your facts tread heavily on religious faith and family moral values.
Who said anything about sexual practice? We're not talking about "here is the definition of teabagging, and it's kinda funny to do to your drunk pals." We're talking about "you may choose to have sex. If you do, here's how to be smart about it." You have a problem with that?
Liberals are held in such increasingly low regard because you can never stop yourselves from coming up with new ways to use government to force people to do things "for their own good", things many people find detestable especially when imposed on them by government, especially Federal government, against their will. You are your own worst enemies.
What? What is being forced upon whom? Education? Facts? That AIDS kills and that if you don't either abstain or use protection that sex could kill you? That's forcing people to do what, exactly? Have sex? Worship Satan?
I'd probably be arguing your side half the time here on ole/. but I really have no use for the concept more government is the solution to every problem.
God, you just can't get over your strawmen, can you? Here's the deal: NO ONE THINKS GOVERNMENT IS THE ANSWER TO EVERY PROBLEM. NO ONE. NO LIBERAL, NO CONSERVATIVE, NO ONE. The population of the city Those Who Think Government Can Solve Every Problem is -=-= 0 =-=-. Zee. Roe.
Let me repeat that, because you seem a little bit brainwashed: I, a liberal democrat, DO NOT BELIEVE GOVERNMENT IS THE BEST SOLUTION TO EVERY, OR EVEN MOST, PROBLEMS. Further, and this is the really important part, this belief is common throughout the Democratic party. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and all the other government propagandists LIE-lie-LIElielie when they claim otherwise. Every time you hear Rush say "Friends, this is just another example of far left socialist liberals thinking the government is the answer to every problem," he's lying.
Are you getting this? I, nor anyone else, not even within the Democratic party, thinks government is the solution to every problem. I hope this is clear.
Now, government IS the solution to many problems, of which health care, education, and health education are really GREAT examples, provable in their effectiveness and benefits for society as a whole. If you oppose abortion, which I have a feeling you do, then you should support sex education.
Maybe. I'm certain it exists, I'm not so certain it is fully intentional. I see it as extremely plausible that our nation's current (and future?) sorry state is due to the mostly accidental teaming up of anti-government forces like Norquist's Club for Growth, and evangelicals who are sympathetic to "anti-socialist" groups, and who would like to see a nation that is clearly and legally Christian. There are many who would like to see a Christian nation in place. I don't think it's so tinfoil hat-ish as to be ridiculous.
There is much dissent within the GOP as well, as the small government faction is dismayed with Bush-the-spender. You just don't see those arguments publically among the politicians, mostly because there was no 2004 GOP predisdential primary as a venue for them.
It has nothing to do with the lack of a primary, and everything to do with the desire to, as Grover Norquist put it, "drown the federal government in the bathtub." This ties in nicely with the evangelical crowd, who would be quite happy with the federal government going bankrupt, allowing them to replace the current constitution with one more to their liking. The current government is an inherently socialist enterprise, after all, and that is evil and worthy of destruction.
And you want the government to hand out birth control, condoms and abortions to all comers at tax payers expense. Just say it, everyone knew thats what you wanted 5 posts back.
Um, no, because I believe no such thing and think it's a silly idea. I think that having cheap, easy access to birth control is important. I said nor implied anything about "hand outs." That's you bringing your OWN internalized strawmen into play.
Although now that I think about it that just might be a very good idea. I'm a big proponent of socialized medicine, for the simple reasons that capitalism doesn't work with health care. So I'm sure that ties in there somewhere. Have to think about it.
Like I said, you want to force you're sexual views on everyone in mandatory classes everyone has to attend.
Yeah, it's called a "school." Being a liberal I support making children go to school, and imposing "education" on them and "forcing" "views" on them, although I prefer to call them "facts". Things like "condoms help prevent STDs", or "here are different birth control options available to you, how they work, and what their effects are", or "abstinence is the most effective form of birth control." And "Now that you have this information, make the intelligent choice, whatever you believe that is."
I'm pretty radical. I even support *forcing* people to pay taxes to pay for this.
Religions are a pain but the beauty of our Consitutution is the state isn't supposed to endorse or sponsor them, nor is it supposed to trample them.
Telling kids in health class that condoms decrease the chances of HIV infection prevents no man from going to church this coming Sunday. If they don't like it, homeschool them.
You sound dangerous so I think I better not play with matches near you anymore because you are about to explode.
Do not confuse Hillary Clinton's recent foray into the debate about GTA with support from the Democratic grassroots. Much of the grassroots has serious problems with the DC "establishment" Democrats, but the rise of Howard Dean and Wesley Clark as well as the influence of blogs like Daily Kos are starting to shift power away from the Washington establishment and into the grassroots.
Unlike the GOP, there are many groups within the Democratic party who sometimes hold opposing beliefs. I am a partisan Democrat, but I do not agree with what Hillary did. It's needless pandering, and I think that in the long run it hurts the party more than helps it.
Don't paint the party with too wide of a brush, that's all I'm saying. While Hillary is a Democrat, she is not the Democratic party.
But president's can and do set the course of the agencies they control, which can have the effect of law. Or, as in the current case, they can just ignore the law when they choose because they do not have to fear Congressional reproach.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but judging by their history over the past 20 years or so I don't see Republicans really caring about the First Amendment. They pay lip service to opposing "judicial activism", but that seems to be a euphemism for "supports church/state separation." There is a large swath of people who believe their interpretation of the Bible trumps the law, and I think this is just another effort by that group.
More insightful policymaking from the Bush administration. I know I'm going to get modded down for this, but what exactly is the point of social conservatives objecting to this? It seems if anything this would be in the social conservative's best interest, because by delegating porn to a particular TLD you can more easily shut it down.
Yes, it's unlikely to ever occur. The prominence of.com porn sites will probably never go away. But if your goal is to rid the world of pornography, or at the very least reduce it, wouldn't you want to at least move in the direction of having it all in a centralized, easily controllable place?
Access is great. You used the word "education" which has two paths. One you sponsor a voluntary class which no one attends, or two you want to inject it in to schools or otherwise force it on people through less than voluntary classes on the subject or maybe you want some bleeding heart liberals or civil servants going door to door forcing it on people handing out pamphlets, free condoms, etc.
Wow, that was quite a sentence! Chock full of run-on goodness and fallacies a-plenty! Strawmen! False dichotomies! Lions tigers and bears! Oh my!
How about this, flapjack: let's tell kids in health classes "if'n you don't wanna have a baby, here's what ya do." Oh! But you're a moderate, so that means you ALREADY SUPPORT THAT. Unless, of course, you are a lying sack of shit. I'm betting on the latter. Oh maybe you prefer people remain stupid! Perhaps *shock*you don't think people should even have ACCESS to that information!
You really didn't say which route you wanted. Since we were talking about a Federal program, space exploration, you wanted to replace with your birth control "education" program the inference is you wanted a Federal program to hand out pamphlets and run classes.
Or, you know, do what every other industrialized nation on the planet does and tell kids not to fuck, and if they do fuck then to use a condom. I know. It's whacked, but the even MORE whacked thing is that it works really fucking well.
Believe it or not I wager most people know at an early age what a condom is and how to use it.
Judging by the rates of teen pregnancies and abortions in districts with abstinence only sex education, you are approximately 195% wrong.
Of course the other implication is for all the poor people who can't afford condoms or the pill I'm assuming you want the government to buy it for them.
Know what's cheaper than paying for somebody to have a baby? Paying for condoms. People have always fucked, continue to fuck, and will always fuck. It's kinda a basic fact of nature. Stick your fingers in your ears and LA-LA-LA all you want. That's not going to change, no matter how much religion is forced on people. And so long as it's true someone is going to have to pay the bills. Having cheap, easy access to birth control is in your financial best interest.
Maybe buy them abortions, why stop there why don't you go the China route and place mandatory caps on the number of children people have if you really want to fix your problem.
Do you think you're clever? I mean, really? Do you hit submit and then smirk at your wittiness, your clever rhetoric? Cuz if you do you're a moron. But I think
that's been pretty well established already.
I just thought of something. I bet a million dollars you're one of those people that think that if gays get married that it'll be OK for people to marry dogs.
As for all your ranting, foul language and slinging "Fascist" ever third world all you did was prove my point, rabid bleeding heart liberals like yourself are just as nuts as right wing wackos.
You are goddamn right. Crazy as a fucking loon, *rabid* Constitional -- including the 2nd -- supporter, and righteously pissed off. Do not fuck with us.
Your embarrassing man, your why people are embarrassed to be called liberal these days, and why people don't want to vote your way any more.
A) At least I can tell the difference between "your" and "you're", and
B) I could give a rat fuck how embarrasing you say I look. I'd rather be right and ugly than wrong and gorgeous.
This is totally OT, but how do you like Unity? I'm a Java developer, and ran across Unity not long ago, and have been fascinated with it ever since. It seems to be quite a tool, but this is an area of the industry that I am not that familiar with.
You have zero right to try to force people to abandon their religious beliefs because you dislike their consequences.
Wow, that's amazing. I had no idea that I said or implied any such thing. Mainly beacuse I didn't.
I may not like it either but I dislike people who think they can trample a basic civil liberty even more.
What civil liberty? The right to access information about birth control, and even use it whenever you want? Yeah man. I'm a big fascist, what with me advocating people be able to make choices about birth control unhindered by legal restraints. GodDAMN if that ain't the most fascist bullshit I've ever heard. People! Being legally able to make their OWN DECISIONS! Fuck! What's next? Bible burning?
In fact you are going so far as to advocate a behavior modification program up to and including overriding personal religious beliefs. Thats pretty bleeding heart liberal.
Fuck you. That's a pathetic goddamned lie and you know it, you spineless sack of shit. "Behavior modification program". Ooooh scary scary liberal liberal. I advocate personal choice for all Americans. They want a condom, go buy one. Want to go on the pill? More power to you. Want an abortion? Here's the telephone number. Want EDUCATION about it? Here's a website/brochure.
My key point here was singling out rural Americans for your behavior modification program is misguided at best, prejudiced at worst.
Or based on facts. Fact #1: Meth mostly affects rural America. Fact #2: Rural residents tend to have worse health care due to both a lack of access, funding, and high costs. Prejudice has nothing to do with it, moran. It's statistics and experience. You got facts to disprove it, spit em out. Until then, take your fake little persecution fantasies, fold them up into something with sharp corners, shove them directly up your ass, and shut the fuck up.
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There has never been a death from overdose of lysergic acid diethylamide.
Just out of curiosity, has anyone been able to FIND any lately? I haven't run across any in many moons. I seem to recall reading about a rather large bust a few years ago or so, and ever since then no one has been able to find any.
Just curious. Not really looking.
Names sell, so individuals who are dedicated to Apple and it's products will most likley purchase this type of phone/service.
While that is certainly true, it also helps that Apple has a history of making high-quality hardware. Apple got their name not just because of clever marketing and lucky breaks, although there was certainly some of that. Apple is respected because people for the most part feel that the products Apple sells are high quality *and* beautiful. (In fact, I seem to remember reading somewhere that Jobs believes those two things to be largely inseparable.)
Over the past few months I've come to believe that the largest groups of stupid people on Slashdot are far and away the hardcore zealot libertarians. They wouldn't be so annoying except that there are so freakin' many of them.
I'm sure that will help tremendously when it comes to protecting soldiers and civilians from getting blown to smithereens by roadside bombs and/or suicide bombers.
Your politics is showing. Do you seriously believe that the amount of money that the government of the Philippines devotes to embryonic stem cell research exceeds the amount of money allocated to researchers in the United States by private corporations and foundations?
Well, yes.
Government programs cannot solve every problem either.
Where did you get the implication that I thought they could? Some != all. The primary libertarian strawman is that those who do not believe the free market can solve every problem think that government can. It's ridiculous.
But other nations have no such proscriptions against federal funds (China, Philippines, EU, etc.) and are bypassing us as a result. Private enterprise cannot solve every problem.
Your claim that Bush is a psychopath is unconvincing. He may be to a certian extent, the question of how severe a psychopath he is remains unanswered.
Left side of mouth: "He's not a psychopath." Right side of mouth: "He is a little bit of a psychopath."
Umm... Ok.
And by the way: not only did Clinton apologize, but he apologized ON NATIONAL TELEVISION for his mistake. Nor did Clinton start wars based on lies and propaganda. And etc., etc. I don't think Bush has apologized for anything, ever, including sending thousands of our soldiers to die in some godforsaken ME country for no fucking reason whatsoever.
Dude, your funny. Spend 3 paragraphs denying you believe that government is the solution to every problem, or most problems....oh but you do believe it is the solution to many problems. LOL!!!
1) "You're". If you're going to speak English at least to it properly. 2) Many To be honest I can't think of anything the Federal government has done for me my entire life except bleed me white with taxes.
Open a window. Hell, don't even do that. Everything you see has come about because of a market that has been enabled by legislation and regulation. Government enables capitalism. Without it the free market always has and always will devolve into anarchy and feudalism. This has been recognized by economists and philosophers for centuries from Thomas Hobbes and Adam Smith to Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. See: medeval Europe, China, or that libertarian paradise that is modern-day Somalia.
Without "government interference" there would be no:
- 40-hour work weeks
- Workplace safety regulations
- Child labor laws
- Minimum wage
- Stock market
- Protection from indentured servitude and/or slavery
- Protection from "might makes right"
- Protection from racially or religiously discriminatory hiring/firing practices
- FDIC
Environmental protections, such as forbidding carcinogenic agents such as DDT or lead being put into the water supply
- Consumer protection and redress from fraudulent, negligent, or harmful products
- Fire stations
- Industry standards such as ASCII characters, check clearing mechanisms, credit reporting and dispute resolution, and how much a gallon really is
- National parks
- Arbiter in property disputes
- Single universally agreed upon currency
- Unbiased keeper of record for wills, auto titles, property boundaries and ownership, and other contracts
- Education system
- Buffers against inflation such as those provided by the Federal Reserve
- 401k's, keoghs, and other legislatively created financial mechanisms
- Democracy
- Civil and criminal justice system
It would be nice to have universal health care but you can't do it without a huge percentage of people abusing it, and running up huge tabs searching for phantom illnesses. Thats all one of my elder inlaws uses Medicare for, to go to a new doctor once a week, demanding expensive tests to find out whats wrong with her, when her dominant problem is she is old. You just can't offer people something that is expensive for free without people squandering it and ruining it for everyone.There are ways around such things, and it seems to work quite well in every other industrialized nation on the planet. Americans pay more for health care than p eople with socialized medicine do. The free market doesn't work with health care. Socialism does. Claiming that free market capitalism works everywhere, all the time, and is the best solution to every single economic problem known to man is quite simply stupid, and borders on religious fanaticism. Capitalism works very well sometimes. But sometimes it is a magnificent failure.
Libertarianism looks great on paper. But like the communism to which it was a response, it fails utterly in the real world.
The thing that is funny is that I think most people's reaction is going to be the same upon reading this article: namely, that Bush is a psychopath. All of the descriptors are applicable to Bush with absolutely no stretching, and partisan loyalty aside it's hard not to agree with the conclusion.
Increased self-worth? Lacking in remorse or guilt? Callous and lacking in empathy? PLEASE. These are all just regurgitated Democratic talking points! What's next? Posting the script to Fahrehnheit 9/11? Raising money for MoveOn.org?
If /. can't do better than this I may just have to write about it on my blog and begin an organized character assassination campaign against ScuttleMonkey.
Do you think they are?
Instead of just getting rid of the subsidies they then have the temptation and momentum to overcorrect and start banning birth control and abortion all together.
They want to do that ANYWAY. Religious conservatives have ALWAYS hated the right to privacy, and have felt it to largely be a legal fiction. Whether they are energize or no, they will always seek ways to inject their morality into the society as a whole.
Liberals are held in such increasingly low regard because you can never stop yourselves from coming up with new ways to use government to force people to do things "for their own good", things many people find detestable especially when imposed on them by government, especially Federal government, against their will.
Like what? Learn about birth control options? Oh shit! We're forcing people to learn! The horror! My God won't someone please think of the children!
Oh wait we are thinking about the children. Namely, giving them the ability to make informed choices in their sexual beings. Fuck me, that's just fascism right there. Telling people facts that *shudder* make some people uncomfortable! AII the tragedy of it all.
Oh, wait! I think I get it! You think "information about birth control = encouragement to go boink your neighbor." Is that it? Cuz, no offense but that's just stupid right there.
When you delve in to sexual practice, birth control and especially abortion unfortunately your facts tread heavily on religious faith and family moral values.
Who said anything about sexual practice? We're not talking about "here is the definition of teabagging, and it's kinda funny to do to your drunk pals." We're talking about "you may choose to have sex. If you do, here's how to be smart about it." You have a problem with that?
Liberals are held in such increasingly low regard because you can never stop yourselves from coming up with new ways to use government to force people to do things "for their own good", things many people find detestable especially when imposed on them by government, especially Federal government, against their will. You are your own worst enemies.
What? What is being forced upon whom? Education? Facts? That AIDS kills and that if you don't either abstain or use protection that sex could kill you? That's forcing people to do what, exactly? Have sex? Worship Satan?
I'd probably be arguing your side half the time here on ole /. but I really have no use for the concept more government is the solution to every problem.
God, you just can't get over your strawmen, can you? Here's the deal: NO ONE THINKS GOVERNMENT IS THE ANSWER TO EVERY PROBLEM. NO ONE. NO LIBERAL, NO CONSERVATIVE, NO ONE. The population of the city Those Who Think Government Can Solve Every Problem is -=-= 0 =-=-. Zee. Roe.
Let me repeat that, because you seem a little bit brainwashed: I, a liberal democrat, DO NOT BELIEVE GOVERNMENT IS THE BEST SOLUTION TO EVERY, OR EVEN MOST, PROBLEMS. Further, and this is the really important part, this belief is common throughout the Democratic party. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and all the other government propagandists LIE-lie-LIElielie when they claim otherwise. Every time you hear Rush say "Friends, this is just another example of far left socialist liberals thinking the government is the answer to every problem," he's lying.
Are you getting this? I, nor anyone else, not even within the Democratic party, thinks government is the solution to every problem. I hope this is clear.
Now, government IS the solution to many problems, of which health care, education, and health education are really GREAT examples, provable in their effectiveness and benefits for society as a whole. If you oppose abortion, which I have a feeling you do, then you should support sex education.
Yeah, the small government crowd ties in real nice with the evangelicals.
They do if they have the mutual goal of destroying the "nanny state", i.e. the majority of the federal apparatus.
Maybe. I'm certain it exists, I'm not so certain it is fully intentional. I see it as extremely plausible that our nation's current (and future?) sorry state is due to the mostly accidental teaming up of anti-government forces like Norquist's Club for Growth, and evangelicals who are sympathetic to "anti-socialist" groups, and who would like to see a nation that is clearly and legally Christian. There are many who would like to see a Christian nation in place. I don't think it's so tinfoil hat-ish as to be ridiculous.
There is much dissent within the GOP as well, as the small government faction is dismayed with Bush-the-spender. You just don't see those arguments publically among the politicians, mostly because there was no 2004 GOP predisdential primary as a venue for them.
It has nothing to do with the lack of a primary, and everything to do with the desire to, as Grover Norquist put it, "drown the federal government in the bathtub." This ties in nicely with the evangelical crowd, who would be quite happy with the federal government going bankrupt, allowing them to replace the current constitution with one more to their liking. The current government is an inherently socialist enterprise, after all, and that is evil and worthy of destruction.
And you want the government to hand out birth control, condoms and abortions to all comers at tax payers expense. Just say it, everyone knew thats what you wanted 5 posts back.
Um, no, because I believe no such thing and think it's a silly idea. I think that having cheap, easy access to birth control is important. I said nor implied anything about "hand outs." That's you bringing your OWN internalized strawmen into play.
Although now that I think about it that just might be a very good idea. I'm a big proponent of socialized medicine, for the simple reasons that capitalism doesn't work with health care. So I'm sure that ties in there somewhere. Have to think about it.
Like I said, you want to force you're sexual views on everyone in mandatory classes everyone has to attend.
Yeah, it's called a "school." Being a liberal I support making children go to school, and imposing "education" on them and "forcing" "views" on them, although I prefer to call them "facts". Things like "condoms help prevent STDs", or "here are different birth control options available to you, how they work, and what their effects are", or "abstinence is the most effective form of birth control." And "Now that you have this information, make the intelligent choice, whatever you believe that is."
I'm pretty radical. I even support *forcing* people to pay taxes to pay for this.
Religions are a pain but the beauty of our Consitutution is the state isn't supposed to endorse or sponsor them, nor is it supposed to trample them.
Telling kids in health class that condoms decrease the chances of HIV infection prevents no man from going to church this coming Sunday. If they don't like it, homeschool them.
You sound dangerous so I think I better not play with matches near you anymore because you are about to explode.
Fear is the mind killer.
Unlike the GOP, there are many groups within the Democratic party who sometimes hold opposing beliefs. I am a partisan Democrat, but I do not agree with what Hillary did. It's needless pandering, and I think that in the long run it hurts the party more than helps it.
Don't paint the party with too wide of a brush, that's all I'm saying. While Hillary is a Democrat, she is not the Democratic party.
But president's can and do set the course of the agencies they control, which can have the effect of law. Or, as in the current case, they can just ignore the law when they choose because they do not have to fear Congressional reproach.
Their objective, if I may venture a guess, is to eradicate pornography, not merely to control it.
That makes a lot of sense, actually. I'll ponder it somemore, but I can't see any objections to it. Thanks.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but judging by their history over the past 20 years or so I don't see Republicans really caring about the First Amendment. They pay lip service to opposing "judicial activism", but that seems to be a euphemism for "supports church/state separation." There is a large swath of people who believe their interpretation of the Bible trumps the law, and I think this is just another effort by that group.
More insightful policymaking from the Bush administration. I know I'm going to get modded down for this, but what exactly is the point of social conservatives objecting to this? It seems if anything this would be in the social conservative's best interest, because by delegating porn to a particular TLD you can more easily shut it down.
Yes, it's unlikely to ever occur. The prominence of .com porn sites will probably never go away. But if your goal is to rid the world of pornography, or at the very least reduce it, wouldn't you want to at least move in the direction of having it all in a centralized, easily controllable place?
Access is great. You used the word "education" which has two paths. One you sponsor a voluntary class which no one attends, or two you want to inject it in to schools or otherwise force it on people through less than voluntary classes on the subject or maybe you want some bleeding heart liberals or civil servants going door to door forcing it on people handing out pamphlets, free condoms, etc.
Wow, that was quite a sentence! Chock full of run-on goodness and fallacies a-plenty! Strawmen! False dichotomies! Lions tigers and bears! Oh my!
How about this, flapjack: let's tell kids in health classes "if'n you don't wanna have a baby, here's what ya do." Oh! But you're a moderate, so that means you ALREADY SUPPORT THAT. Unless, of course, you are a lying sack of shit. I'm betting on the latter. Oh maybe you prefer people remain stupid! Perhaps *shock*you don't think people should even have ACCESS to that information!
You really didn't say which route you wanted. Since we were talking about a Federal program, space exploration, you wanted to replace with your birth control "education" program the inference is you wanted a Federal program to hand out pamphlets and run classes.
Or, you know, do what every other industrialized nation on the planet does and tell kids not to fuck, and if they do fuck then to use a condom. I know. It's whacked, but the even MORE whacked thing is that it works really fucking well.
Believe it or not I wager most people know at an early age what a condom is and how to use it.
Judging by the rates of teen pregnancies and abortions in districts with abstinence only sex education, you are approximately 195% wrong.
Of course the other implication is for all the poor people who can't afford condoms or the pill I'm assuming you want the government to buy it for them.
Know what's cheaper than paying for somebody to have a baby? Paying for condoms. People have always fucked, continue to fuck, and will always fuck. It's kinda a basic fact of nature. Stick your fingers in your ears and LA-LA-LA all you want. That's not going to change, no matter how much religion is forced on people. And so long as it's true someone is going to have to pay the bills. Having cheap, easy access to birth control is in your financial best interest.
Maybe buy them abortions, why stop there why don't you go the China route and place mandatory caps on the number of children people have if you really want to fix your problem.
Do you think you're clever? I mean, really? Do you hit submit and then smirk at your wittiness, your clever rhetoric? Cuz if you do you're a moron. But I think that's been pretty well established already.
I just thought of something. I bet a million dollars you're one of those people that think that if gays get married that it'll be OK for people to marry dogs.
As for all your ranting, foul language and slinging "Fascist" ever third world all you did was prove my point, rabid bleeding heart liberals like yourself are just as nuts as right wing wackos.
You are goddamn right. Crazy as a fucking loon, *rabid* Constitional -- including the 2nd -- supporter, and righteously pissed off. Do not fuck with us.
Your embarrassing man, your why people are embarrassed to be called liberal these days, and why people don't want to vote your way any more.
A) At least I can tell the difference between "your" and "you're", and B) I could give a rat fuck how embarrasing you say I look. I'd rather be right and ugly than wrong and gorgeous.
This is totally OT, but how do you like Unity? I'm a Java developer, and ran across Unity not long ago, and have been fascinated with it ever since. It seems to be quite a tool, but this is an area of the industry that I am not that familiar with.
You have zero right to try to force people to abandon their religious beliefs because you dislike their consequences.
Wow, that's amazing. I had no idea that I said or implied any such thing. Mainly beacuse I didn't.
I may not like it either but I dislike people who think they can trample a basic civil liberty even more.
What civil liberty? The right to access information about birth control, and even use it whenever you want? Yeah man. I'm a big fascist, what with me advocating people be able to make choices about birth control unhindered by legal restraints. GodDAMN if that ain't the most fascist bullshit I've ever heard. People! Being legally able to make their OWN DECISIONS! Fuck! What's next? Bible burning?
In fact you are going so far as to advocate a behavior modification program up to and including overriding personal religious beliefs. Thats pretty bleeding heart liberal.
Fuck you. That's a pathetic goddamned lie and you know it, you spineless sack of shit. "Behavior modification program". Ooooh scary scary liberal liberal. I advocate personal choice for all Americans. They want a condom, go buy one. Want to go on the pill? More power to you. Want an abortion? Here's the telephone number. Want EDUCATION about it? Here's a website/brochure.
Fascism. Behavior modification programs. Fuck you.
My key point here was singling out rural Americans for your behavior modification program is misguided at best, prejudiced at worst.
Or based on facts. Fact #1: Meth mostly affects rural America. Fact #2: Rural residents tend to have worse health care due to both a lack of access, funding, and high costs. Prejudice has nothing to do with it, moran. It's statistics and experience. You got facts to disprove it, spit em out. Until then, take your fake little persecution fantasies, fold them up into something with sharp corners, shove them directly up your ass, and shut the fuck up.