This is very insightful. You may also be interested to know that it was mostly Jews that created the Atom Bomb. War, hatred and destruction are clearly an invention of the evil heebs.
Speaking as a Sci Fi femail - Battlestart galactica is fucking awesome, and Atlantis is painfully lame. If they didn't wedge it between SG1 and Battlestar Galactica, I'd probabaly never watch it. As it is, I skip over it in favor of dinner.
Ah.... thinking like this are why little fan boys like you don't get laid.
I'm gong to second that. Pornographers are NOT trying to lure Barbie/Furbie-searching-aged children into seeing porn. They are not some conven of cackling witches - they are trying to make money - the kind that 10-yr-olds don't have!
Of course, this way they all get to SAY that they helped stop the spread of porn to chilren on the internet, without actually doing anything useful.
The thing is, you say "stop" and "child" and "porn" in the same sentance, and what stays with a person, is that you stopped child porn - a much bigger nad more real issue that this "legislation" does nothing about.
i agree with the way you describe Henlain, and with the way you categorise the Libertarian Capitalists of today. I have never before seen the definition of left as worker and rigth as owner - this does tend to put libertarians on the right. To clarify why I'd said what I'd said, my PHI teacher, or so long ago wrote on The Spectrum on a board for us...
R reactionary, faschist, other stuff I quickly forgot, generic conservative Moderate Libertarian (Ala Locke, i suppose) generic liberal, anarchist, socialist communist L
Actually, I dont recall who was more left, socialists or anarchist. I knew I landed a few wobbly steps to the right of the commies, somewhere between sicialists and anarchists, depending on my mood.
Aaaaaanyways, given my understanding that Locke = Libertarian (and given that back then, I actually remmbered what the heck they'd all said - all I remember now is "Government sucks but is kinda needed, so lets have the minimum possible amount of it") Heinlein would kind of fall into that, and therefore to the slightly left
'Sides, Heilein may not have been much of a tree hugger, but that hardly makes him a true conservative as we see today. Libertarianism, regardless of the clueless palitical parties who espouse it, was on the left wing of the spectrum teh last I checked.
i have to agree. We follow (or are expected to follow) the guidelines for what fuel our cars are designed to run on, what voltage our electronics should be plugged into, and we completely neglect the fact that over the course of generations, our modies adapted to processing certain materials. Instead we eat things we barely metabolize and make normal things weird by eating ridiculous quantites of them (i.e. corn-everything).
...re-grow lost kidneys, lungs, even limbs, as we can already regrow liver tissue. That's a wonderful bit of evolution that we lost, I can't possibly imagine why.
On why we may not have that ability - I am not a biologist in the least, but would hypothesise it has to do with the risk of out-of-control tissue growth, what tissue types there is less risk of it with, and highly structured, non-homogenous organs. For example, in re-growing an arm, it is not just one tissue type/organ which needs to be replicated. Bone has to be grown in appropriate ratios to blood vessels, muscle, etc. The kidneys are full of those concentric structures which I would guess need to be done right in order for the organ to work, so it's not just a matter of "make more meat"
If sexual intercourse caused a woman to develop an infant-sized egg that she had to lay three days later, we would probably see a lot fewer teen pregnancies. In addition, a fetus developing in the egg would allow much more flexibility in prenatal care.
I am a little puzzled by the conclusions you drew here. On the pre-natal care, I think the opposite is true. If the egg has a hard, impenerable shell, additional care during the gestation would be impossible. Furthermore, the nutrients available to the developing creature would be limited to those which were in the mother's body for a short, and likely unmanaged, period of time.
As for discouraging teem pregnancy, I am again lost... do you mean that if they just layed an egg they wouldn't be "pregnant" in the common sense of the word? If anything, I rather imagine these eggs would be a lost easier to dispose of than an internally embedded fetus...
Dude, it's only on their actual page - if it bothers you so much, read their blogs from your friends page, or don;t read it. It's not like LJ plastered ads all over your blog or kicked you off because you werent viewing the ads...
Have you done some work in advertising? I'm sorry to bother you, but I am scrambling trying to do some research showing that internet customers are actually more knowlegable/responsive than other nedia. Or maybe the reverse. Hoping perrhaps I've found someone who can point me in the right direction.... (Please?)
We have a local do-not-call for our state. Whenever I've gotten calls of this nature, I'd just petend I am interested so they start telling me who they are and such, and then I kindly inform them that my number is on the list and they are about to get fined.
You both make interesting points, but I'm skeptical about how much of an effect additional political parties will have on corruption via corporate contributions. Admittedly, there would be more people to bribe - but the wealthier corporations would not likely consider that too big a problem.
You claim that a multi-party system would be effective because
"they all would need to be more careful about where they accept money from or lose votes to a more cleanly-financed party,"
but this brings up a whole other issue, thatof disclosure.
For this to work, it would be necessary for people to 1) want to to and 2) have a means of finding out about campain contributions. This could be as much of a problem with multiple parties as it is with two. There is no reason that laws could not be instituted under our current system to require full disclosure of all conributions, or, better yet all communications involved, such as seating requests at fund-raisers. Having instituted such, there would still be a problem of how to communicate them to the public.
TV stations and newspapers are owned by the very same corporations whom these would effect. Personally, I belive this issue ties in closely to the problems with mass media. Take as an exapmle FNN - its the official republican propaganda network, hardly an example of free press. I'm sure similar otulets for other parties exist (being a liberal, I willingly close my eyes to that side of the story;-) ). The point is that the media isnt doing its job. Theres so many conflicting stories, the public has nowhere to get its information from. Thats an issue you would need to address.
What were you expecting, Ocean's 11 in space??
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Solaris is one of the most poignantly beautiful movies that I have seen in a long time. Yes, it is about a man mourning his dead wife. It is also about confronting the unknown, and towards the end, about embracing the unknown. The latter is a characteristic of sci fi films, and also, the aspect of this movie that our reviewer has failed to note. It is utterly irrelevant to this film what action movies the actors have previously starred in, or what thrillers the director previously brought forth. Anyone going to this film expecting chases, chills and flashy fight scenes should go see a James Bond movie. This is a love story in a sci fi setting, beautifully set, and conveying accurately the spirit of Stanislaw Lem's novel.
On the otherer hand, if they launch a few pounds of gravel into space before the nuclear attack, they will disable the "interceptior system" much the same way that the unmonitored debris will soon be disabling celphone sattelites.
And who, in this modern world, is truly liable to launch "a few" nukes at the US??
I want to offer my support to what you've said. Some of the reactions that I have seen here and on other forums disgust me. It is the same unthinking desire for violence that drives these attacks on arabs that drove those extremists to commit acts of terrorism. No I am not muslim, I am simply trying to defend a nifty little thing called CIVILIZATION.
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...... ok, i give up. GP = ?
This is very insightful. You may also be interested to know that it was mostly Jews that created the Atom Bomb. War, hatred and destruction are clearly an invention of the evil heebs.
I only say this as a Jewish woman, of course.
For the record - I wasn't offering you any
Speaking as a Sci Fi femail - Battlestart galactica is fucking awesome, and Atlantis is painfully lame. If they didn't wedge it between SG1 and Battlestar Galactica, I'd probabaly never watch it. As it is, I skip over it in favor of dinner.
Ah.... thinking like this are why little fan boys like you don't get laid.
I'm gong to second that. Pornographers are NOT trying to lure Barbie/Furbie-searching-aged children into seeing porn. They are not some conven of cackling witches - they are trying to make money - the kind that 10-yr-olds don't have!
Of course, this way they all get to SAY that they helped stop the spread of porn to chilren on the internet, without actually doing anything useful.
The thing is, you say "stop" and "child" and "porn" in the same sentance, and what stays with a person, is that you stopped child porn - a much bigger nad more real issue that this "legislation" does nothing about.
i agree with the way you describe Henlain, and with the way you categorise the Libertarian Capitalists of today. I have never before seen the definition of left as worker and rigth as owner - this does tend to put libertarians on the right. To clarify why I'd said what I'd said, my PHI teacher, or so long ago wrote on The Spectrum on a board for us...
R reactionary, faschist, other stuff I quickly forgot, generic conservative Moderate Libertarian (Ala Locke, i suppose) generic liberal, anarchist, socialist communist L
Actually, I dont recall who was more left, socialists or anarchist. I knew I landed a few wobbly steps to the right of the commies, somewhere between sicialists and anarchists, depending on my mood.
Aaaaaanyways, given my understanding that Locke = Libertarian (and given that back then, I actually remmbered what the heck they'd all said - all I remember now is "Government sucks but is kinda needed, so lets have the minimum possible amount of it") Heinlein would kind of fall into that, and therefore to the slightly left
'Sides, Heilein may not have been much of a tree hugger, but that hardly makes him a true conservative as we see today. Libertarianism, regardless of the clueless palitical parties who espouse it, was on the left wing of the spectrum teh last I checked.
i have to agree. We follow (or are expected to follow) the guidelines for what fuel our cars are designed to run on, what voltage our electronics should be plugged into, and we completely neglect the fact that over the course of generations, our modies adapted to processing certain materials. Instead we eat things we barely metabolize and make normal things weird by eating ridiculous quantites of them (i.e. corn-everything).
In Soviet Russia, email is shoe!
Eeeeeeew, you discect things, gross!! I only discect ideas!
Hm... I set my journal to show everything in my format, so I havn't seen any of it...
...re-grow lost kidneys, lungs, even limbs, as we can already regrow liver tissue. That's a wonderful bit of evolution that we lost, I can't possibly imagine why.
On why we may not have that ability - I am not a biologist in the least, but would hypothesise it has to do with the risk of out-of-control tissue growth, what tissue types there is less risk of it with, and highly structured, non-homogenous organs. For example, in re-growing an arm, it is not just one tissue type/organ which needs to be replicated. Bone has to be grown in appropriate ratios to blood vessels, muscle, etc. The kidneys are full of those concentric structures which I would guess need to be done right in order for the organ to work, so it's not just a matter of "make more meat"
If sexual intercourse caused a woman to develop an infant-sized egg that she had to lay three days later, we would probably see a lot fewer teen pregnancies. In addition, a fetus developing in the egg would allow much more flexibility in prenatal care.
I am a little puzzled by the conclusions you drew here. On the pre-natal care, I think the opposite is true. If the egg has a hard, impenerable shell, additional care during the gestation would be impossible. Furthermore, the nutrients available to the developing creature would be limited to those which were in the mother's body for a short, and likely unmanaged, period of time.
As for discouraging teem pregnancy, I am again lost... do you mean that if they just layed an egg they wouldn't be "pregnant" in the common sense of the word? If anything, I rather imagine these eggs would be a lost easier to dispose of than an internally embedded fetus...
Dude, it's only on their actual page - if it bothers you so much, read their blogs from your friends page, or don;t read it. It's not like LJ plastered ads all over your blog or kicked you off because you werent viewing the ads...
We've already got comment scores ;o)
Have you done some work in advertising? I'm sorry to bother you, but I am scrambling trying to do some research showing that internet customers are actually more knowlegable/responsive than other nedia. Or maybe the reverse. Hoping perrhaps I've found someone who can point me in the right direction.... (Please?)
We have a local do-not-call for our state. Whenever I've gotten calls of this nature, I'd just petend I am interested so they start telling me who they are and such, and then I kindly inform them that my number is on the list and they are about to get fined.
Its so much fun, too!
You both make interesting points, but I'm skeptical about how much of an effect additional political parties will have on corruption via corporate contributions. Admittedly, there would be more people to bribe - but the wealthier corporations would not likely consider that too big a problem.
;-) ). The point is that the media isnt doing its job. Theres so many conflicting stories, the public has nowhere to get its information from. Thats an issue you would need to address.
You claim that a multi-party system would be effective because
"they all would need to be more careful about where they accept money from or lose votes to a more cleanly-financed party," but this brings up a whole other issue, thatof disclosure.
For this to work, it would be necessary for people to 1) want to to and 2) have a means of finding out about campain contributions. This could be as much of a problem with multiple parties as it is with two. There is no reason that laws could not be instituted under our current system to require full disclosure of all conributions, or, better yet all communications involved, such as seating requests at fund-raisers. Having instituted such, there would still be a problem of how to communicate them to the public.
TV stations and newspapers are owned by the very same corporations whom these would effect. Personally, I belive this issue ties in closely to the problems with mass media. Take as an exapmle FNN - its the official republican propaganda network, hardly an example of free press. I'm sure similar otulets for other parties exist (being a liberal, I willingly close my eyes to that side of the story
Solaris is one of the most poignantly beautiful movies that I have seen in a long time. Yes, it is about a man mourning his dead wife. It is also about confronting the unknown, and towards the end, about embracing the unknown. The latter is a characteristic of sci fi films, and also, the aspect of this movie that our reviewer has failed to note. It is utterly irrelevant to this film what action movies the actors have previously starred in, or what thrillers the director previously brought forth. Anyone going to this film expecting chases, chills and flashy fight scenes should go see a James Bond movie. This is a love story in a sci fi setting, beautifully set, and conveying accurately the spirit of Stanislaw Lem's novel.
And thats all I've got to say.
But I think that its simply adorable!! I'd like to walk around with a webserver in my pocket!
And to those who already did this a year ago: Should've made a post about it! Then it would be you we're all complementing. See?
Its not impressive, its cute. Just imagine it,
Hey baby, I've got a web server in my pocket, wanna see???? [eybrow wiggle]
Do people not have a sense of cute anymore? Yeesh!
War is peace. Yay.
love the way you prioritize......
On the otherer hand, if they launch a few pounds of gravel into space before the nuclear attack, they will disable the "interceptior system" much the same way that the unmonitored debris will soon be disabling celphone sattelites.
And who, in this modern world, is truly liable to launch "a few" nukes at the US??
I want to offer my support to what you've said. Some of the reactions that I have seen here and on other forums disgust me. It is the same unthinking desire for violence that drives these attacks on arabs that drove those extremists to commit acts of terrorism. No I am not muslim, I am simply trying to defend a nifty little thing called CIVILIZATION.
Woo Hoo! thank you, I was waiting for someone to say that!