But Libya doesn't have that much oil, only about 1% of world production.
I was 100% against the invasion of Iraq, but in this case there is a home grown up rising that needs some help. If all we do is destroy Libyan military forces that are murdering civilians, but otherwise leave the revolution to the locals I support this action.
I did game programming in the 80's. You DON'T want to go back to programming the bare metal. It isn't actually much fun to have to support 8 sound cards and 5 flavours of graphics cards.
DirectX is not the reason PC games lag behind consoles - it is market share and the effort put into ports.
What do you even mean by being Christian? If you can understand that "organized religion" exists to perpetuate itself and is wholly a man made thing is it such a leap to realize that Jesus was just a man and the bible written by men?
The main problem is that the USA is full of cowards. Not sure when that happened, but your country seems obsessed with safety without regard for justice, human rights, or common sense. You're politicians seems particularly adverse to doing anything that might even hint at increasing the risk of a terrorist attack in a media report while making no substantive change to foreign policy.
The USA does have the resource to safely incarcerate everyone at Gitmo on the mainland. The USA does have the resources to safely try the Gitmo prisoners. The USA should accept that some of them may be freed. The USA should start putting its ideals into practice again.
The difference is that there is evidence that can actually be observed for dark matter, the big bang, comet extinction, and evolution. String theory and this multi-verse thing only have some interesting math behind them.
Evolution is a fact. The theory of natural selection is our current best explanation of this fact. Much like the theory of gravity explains the fact that when you drop something it accelerates towards the centre of the earth.
POF has lots of women as it is free, and it has a very simple, useful interface. And a big plus is the number of out right prostitutes is quite low. Depending on what age bracket you are in and your location the quality of available women varies a lot. As you get older the "good ones" really do get taken.
I found on average I got one response per ten emails sent out. Out of that ten maybe half would seem worth a first coffee date after the usual handful of emails followed by a couple of phone calls. DON'T drag out the emails unless you just want a pen pal. Ask for the phone number after 3 or 4 emails. If the phone calls go ok ask for a date after 2 or 3 calls. DON'T drag things out.
Don't lie or exaggerate on your profile. Don't be profane or rude. Spelling and grammar counts. Don't brag about guns or body parts. DO tell all the important stuff: kids, goals, etc...
First dates:
20% out right lied about age, photo, forgot to mention the three kids under age 5, etc...
20% not over the divorce and just complain about ex for an hour
20% gold diggers - this usually is obvious after the first phone call.
30% just no mutual chemistry - that is no ones fault.
10% worth a seconds date.
Took me 6 years to find anyone I wanted to date more than 4 times, but I'm picky and not the typical macho-male many women seem to want. I'm also over 40 so everyone has baggage, myself included. And if a women seems to have read "The Rules" or otherwise playing games - don't see them again.
I'm thinking this would not take as long for younger men as there is a higher percentage of single women available, and I imagine most guys are not quite so picky. Nothing like a failed first marriage to teach you want to look for in a good woman.
Are you saying you think $4 a gallon is expensive? What is that, about $1 a litre? That's cheap! Europe is generally over $2 a lire ($8 or more per gallon), here in Vancouver $1.20 a litre is normal and it hit $1.45 last summer. You guys are spoiled!
Reading is not the key to spelling for everyone. I read a novel a week from the time I was eight until the present, but I found reading and spelling to be two distinct skills. I could sometime tell a word wasn't right or looked odd when writing, but generally all that reading did not help my spelling. This fact did surprise most English teachers as my atrocious spelling generally led them to ask me how much I read so I surmise that for most people more reading does equal better spelling.
My kids who only write in apps that do spell-checking can't see the point of memorizing exact spellings. Get it close enough, pick the right word. They do see that correct spelling speeds up their writing if they are doing more than a quick text message. My boys see getting the right word the first time as a game or challenge.
I disagree. Those 'technicalities' should be mastered if you want to write clear, easily understood prose. I have nothing against bending the rules for effect, but you have to know the rules before you can play with them.
Those are common mistakes made in English writing, BUT, my kids write a lot more because of text messaging and, wait for it, fan fiction. My middle boy never uses internet abbreviations as he thinks they don't actually save any time and make the message harder to read. My daughter loves to write odd little stories involving anime characters.
Just the fact that my kids do write every day makes me think the various text based communication methods are improving their writing.
Fine the companies hiring the illegals and you would stop it over night. They just pretend to enforce those labor laws, and round up a few random illegals now and then.
What a lame cop out. I'm afraid I cannot think of any rational reason why providing health care might be affected by the physical size of your country. you ARE aware that over 80% of USAians live in big cities?
You must be from the USA, as the rest of the civilized western world agrees that you must be insane to think you should have a gun for home defense.
I know people with guns for hunting, but not one of them would think of using them to defend their home - they call the police. One, the guns are locked up, the ammo locked up separately, so the weapon won't be close at hand. Second, the chance of an accident being caused by an improperly stored weapon is a LOT higher than the chance of a n armed home invasion. third, even if there was a home invasion, the worst that is likely to happen is you get tied up and your house robbed.
Except for the Kleck study, most studies show that self-defense is not common. A more typical study found:
During the study interval (12 months in Memphis, 18 months in Seattle, and Galveston) 626 shootings occurred in or around a residence. This total included 54 unintentional shootings, 118 attempted or completed suicides, and 438 assaults/homicides. Thirteen shootings were legally justifiable or an act of self-defense, including three that involved law enforcement officers acting in the line of duty. For every time a gun in the home was used in a self-defense or legally justifiable shooting, there were four unintentional shootings, seven criminal assaults or homicides, and 11 attempted or completed suicides.
I think the main reason there are so many more gun deaths in the usa compared to other countries is the attitude towards firearms. Allowing semi-automatic and automatic weapons makes shooting incidents worse, but the frequency of shootings is mainly due to these ideas:
Guns should be used for self-defense
shooting someone is an ok way to settle an argument
Lethal force is an ok response to property crime, insults, and other situations where your life is not in danger
Canada has a lot of guns, but we have a LOT less shooting deaths. Partly because a lot of the guns are long guns for hunting, but mainly because we think the correct response to a trespasser is to call the police, not shoot them.
But it is not the lawyers fault. It is the lawyers clients fault,plus a lack of "loser pays", laws that favour the filing of lawsuits, and a cultural norm to sue for every trivial thing. The clients are the scumbags, not the lawyers. The lawyers are tools being used to sue, they don't initiate the lawsuits.
What to change this? Ostracize anyone who files a bogus lawsuit. Get tort reform on the political agenda. Loser pays and anti-slap laws are needed.
Actually, the legal consensus is that publishing the wiki leaks does NOT break any USA law. The person that gave the cables to wiki-leaks likely broke the law, but any subsequent publishing is legal. That is why there have been no charges, and why some USA politicians want to pass new laws to make this sort of thing illegal, but such a law most likely would be unconstitutional in the USA.
You don't have to wonder. Through the magic of computers and a discipline know as "modelling and simulation" various scenarios have been simulated and a single line feeding all available wickets is indeed the best.
You would already know this if you had read a few other posts in this thread.
This sort of modelling is in fact one of the earliest uses for computers and is done for airports, traffic lights, and many other situations where you want efficient routing of traffic that arrives randomly (well, not completely random, you have to pick the correct distribution).
Why would the definition of "just" in this context have to be narrow? Why would the every day notion of justice not fit perfectly with the meaning that Marcus is communicating?
I am an atheist, but most of my family are religious to one extent or another. A handful of my family members have told me that it seems unjust to them that I will burn in hell, despite living an obviously good life because I do not believe in god. It seems to me that the ethics and morals that western society have developed over the years, the values we find just, have improved a great deal in the last 2000 years. I would say that even the devout can see that morals based on the writings of a primitive people CAN be improved on.
Some people might be confusing Unemployment Insurance which is based on income, and Welfare/Social Assistance/The Dole which is based on need.
You pay into UI at a rate based on your income, and you get paid out based on your income if you lose your job. UI is generally a short term system meant to tide you over until you get a new job. Like any other insurance scheme there is no means test.
Welfare is money meant to keep body and soul together. Where I live Welfare will just barely pay rent and food. You cannot get it if you have any assets: house, car, savings, a living parent if you are under 25 years old that will take you in. Welfare can run for years. Most people get off after a couple of years.
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But Libya doesn't have that much oil, only about 1% of world production. I was 100% against the invasion of Iraq, but in this case there is a home grown up rising that needs some help. If all we do is destroy Libyan military forces that are murdering civilians, but otherwise leave the revolution to the locals I support this action.
I did game programming in the 80's. You DON'T want to go back to programming the bare metal. It isn't actually much fun to have to support 8 sound cards and 5 flavours of graphics cards.
DirectX is not the reason PC games lag behind consoles - it is market share and the effort put into ports.
You ARE superior if you have the intellect to distinguish fairy tails from real life.
So why are you still a Christian?
What do you even mean by being Christian? If you can understand that "organized religion" exists to perpetuate itself and is wholly a man made thing is it such a leap to realize that Jesus was just a man and the bible written by men?
The main problem is that the USA is full of cowards. Not sure when that happened, but your country seems obsessed with safety without regard for justice, human rights, or common sense. You're politicians seems particularly adverse to doing anything that might even hint at increasing the risk of a terrorist attack in a media report while making no substantive change to foreign policy.
The USA does have the resource to safely incarcerate everyone at Gitmo on the mainland. The USA does have the resources to safely try the Gitmo prisoners. The USA should accept that some of them may be freed. The USA should start putting its ideals into practice again.
The difference is that there is evidence that can actually be observed for dark matter, the big bang, comet extinction, and evolution. String theory and this multi-verse thing only have some interesting math behind them.
Evolution is a fact. The theory of natural selection is our current best explanation of this fact. Much like the theory of gravity explains the fact that when you drop something it accelerates towards the centre of the earth.
POF has lots of women as it is free, and it has a very simple, useful interface. And a big plus is the number of out right prostitutes is quite low. Depending on what age bracket you are in and your location the quality of available women varies a lot. As you get older the "good ones" really do get taken.
I found on average I got one response per ten emails sent out. Out of that ten maybe half would seem worth a first coffee date after the usual handful of emails followed by a couple of phone calls. DON'T drag out the emails unless you just want a pen pal. Ask for the phone number after 3 or 4 emails. If the phone calls go ok ask for a date after 2 or 3 calls. DON'T drag things out.
Don't lie or exaggerate on your profile. Don't be profane or rude. Spelling and grammar counts. Don't brag about guns or body parts. DO tell all the important stuff: kids, goals, etc...
First dates:
Took me 6 years to find anyone I wanted to date more than 4 times, but I'm picky and not the typical macho-male many women seem to want. I'm also over 40 so everyone has baggage, myself included. And if a women seems to have read "The Rules" or otherwise playing games - don't see them again.
I'm thinking this would not take as long for younger men as there is a higher percentage of single women available, and I imagine most guys are not quite so picky. Nothing like a failed first marriage to teach you want to look for in a good woman.
Are you saying you think $4 a gallon is expensive? What is that, about $1 a litre? That's cheap! Europe is generally over $2 a lire ($8 or more per gallon), here in Vancouver $1.20 a litre is normal and it hit $1.45 last summer. You guys are spoiled!
Reading is not the key to spelling for everyone. I read a novel a week from the time I was eight until the present, but I found reading and spelling to be two distinct skills. I could sometime tell a word wasn't right or looked odd when writing, but generally all that reading did not help my spelling. This fact did surprise most English teachers as my atrocious spelling generally led them to ask me how much I read so I surmise that for most people more reading does equal better spelling.
My kids who only write in apps that do spell-checking can't see the point of memorizing exact spellings. Get it close enough, pick the right word. They do see that correct spelling speeds up their writing if they are doing more than a quick text message. My boys see getting the right word the first time as a game or challenge.
I disagree. Those 'technicalities' should be mastered if you want to write clear, easily understood prose. I have nothing against bending the rules for effect, but you have to know the rules before you can play with them.
Those are common mistakes made in English writing, BUT, my kids write a lot more because of text messaging and, wait for it, fan fiction. My middle boy never uses internet abbreviations as he thinks they don't actually save any time and make the message harder to read. My daughter loves to write odd little stories involving anime characters.
Just the fact that my kids do write every day makes me think the various text based communication methods are improving their writing.
Fine the companies hiring the illegals and you would stop it over night. They just pretend to enforce those labor laws, and round up a few random illegals now and then.
Not all the guns come the USA, but certainly the lions share of the drugs are sold to the USA market.
Making drugs illegal has:
Legalize and regulate all drugs.
What a lame cop out. I'm afraid I cannot think of any rational reason why providing health care might be affected by the physical size of your country. you ARE aware that over 80% of USAians live in big cities?
You must be from the USA, as the rest of the civilized western world agrees that you must be insane to think you should have a gun for home defense.
I know people with guns for hunting, but not one of them would think of using them to defend their home - they call the police. One, the guns are locked up, the ammo locked up separately, so the weapon won't be close at hand. Second, the chance of an accident being caused by an improperly stored weapon is a LOT higher than the chance of a n armed home invasion. third, even if there was a home invasion, the worst that is likely to happen is you get tied up and your house robbed.
Except for the Kleck study, most studies show that self-defense is not common. A more typical study found:
During the study interval (12 months in Memphis, 18 months in Seattle, and Galveston) 626 shootings occurred in or around a residence. This total included 54 unintentional shootings, 118 attempted or completed suicides, and 438 assaults/homicides. Thirteen shootings were legally justifiable or an act of self-defense, including three that involved law enforcement officers acting in the line of duty. For every time a gun in the home was used in a self-defense or legally justifiable shooting, there were four unintentional shootings, seven criminal assaults or homicides, and 11 attempted or completed suicides.
I think the main reason there are so many more gun deaths in the usa compared to other countries is the attitude towards firearms. Allowing semi-automatic and automatic weapons makes shooting incidents worse, but the frequency of shootings is mainly due to these ideas:
Canada has a lot of guns, but we have a LOT less shooting deaths. Partly because a lot of the guns are long guns for hunting, but mainly because we think the correct response to a trespasser is to call the police, not shoot them.
You guys need tort reform. Frivolous lawsuits just allow you to pay the other parties lawyers in Canada.
But it is not the lawyers fault. It is the lawyers clients fault,plus a lack of "loser pays", laws that favour the filing of lawsuits, and a cultural norm to sue for every trivial thing. The clients are the scumbags, not the lawyers. The lawyers are tools being used to sue, they don't initiate the lawsuits.
What to change this? Ostracize anyone who files a bogus lawsuit. Get tort reform on the political agenda. Loser pays and anti-slap laws are needed.
Actually, the legal consensus is that publishing the wiki leaks does NOT break any USA law. The person that gave the cables to wiki-leaks likely broke the law, but any subsequent publishing is legal. That is why there have been no charges, and why some USA politicians want to pass new laws to make this sort of thing illegal, but such a law most likely would be unconstitutional in the USA.
You don't have to wonder. Through the magic of computers and a discipline know as "modelling and simulation" various scenarios have been simulated and a single line feeding all available wickets is indeed the best.
You would already know this if you had read a few other posts in this thread.
This sort of modelling is in fact one of the earliest uses for computers and is done for airports, traffic lights, and many other situations where you want efficient routing of traffic that arrives randomly (well, not completely random, you have to pick the correct distribution).
Haven't the felons "paid their debt to society"? Why is the USA continuing to punish them? I've heard you don't let felons vote.
Why would the definition of "just" in this context have to be narrow? Why would the every day notion of justice not fit perfectly with the meaning that Marcus is communicating?
I am an atheist, but most of my family are religious to one extent or another. A handful of my family members have told me that it seems unjust to them that I will burn in hell, despite living an obviously good life because I do not believe in god. It seems to me that the ethics and morals that western society have developed over the years, the values we find just, have improved a great deal in the last 2000 years. I would say that even the devout can see that morals based on the writings of a primitive people CAN be improved on.
This post needs to go somewhere where a wider audience can enjoy it.
Some people might be confusing Unemployment Insurance which is based on income, and Welfare/Social Assistance/The Dole which is based on need.
You pay into UI at a rate based on your income, and you get paid out based on your income if you lose your job. UI is generally a short term system meant to tide you over until you get a new job. Like any other insurance scheme there is no means test.
Welfare is money meant to keep body and soul together. Where I live Welfare will just barely pay rent and food. You cannot get it if you have any assets: house, car, savings, a living parent if you are under 25 years old that will take you in. Welfare can run for years. Most people get off after a couple of years.