That being said, I believe the Kingdom message was focused on the Early Church, prior to His second coming which I believed happened in 70 AD, ending the Age/the Covenant of Abraham and David.
I've never heard anyone claim the second coming happened already... where does this belief come from?
If I have a diesel car, I could trade you some CO2 credits for NOx and particulate credits that you're not using.
So I'll continue to drive my CO2 belching car, you can continue to drive your NOx-and-particulate belching car, and wouldn't the end result of this be that we're both polluting exactly as much as we were before, except now we're playing a cute shell game to make it look like we're more environmentally friendly?
And if you can get a Human/Dwarf or a Human/Elf, but not a Dwarf/Elf, then what are they?
There are examples in nature where Species A and Species B can interbreed, and Species B and Species C can interbreed, but Species A and Species C cannot- apparently they have diverged too far apart.
So I suppose the humans, dwarves, and elves could share a common ancestor, be different species, and have some limited ability to interbreed.
At this point in the movie, I have to ask you something. Are you thinking, "Whoa, that's not cool! Total abuse of power and violation of the 4th!" Or are you thinking, "Go McBain!" Well, what are you thinking, punk?
So basically, if a wuss like George W Bush violated our constitutional rights, that would suck, but if a badass like Arnold Schwarzenegger did it, it would be totally awesome.
* HD-DVD will win because Sony won't license Blu-ray for porn. No exactly true, but oft-cited nonetheless.
as a side-note, I just read an article about how high definition video for porn isn't necessarily a good thing, since it reveals more imperfections (zits, hair, wrinkles, stretch marks, etc.)
I'm a Slashdot nerd and I haven't heard any compelling reasons why I should upgrade to a HD DVD or Blu-Ray. Hell, I've barely heard any mention of them outside of Slashdot.
I would imagine Joe Average has barely even heard of them. That could be part of the reason behind the slow sales.
If you're uneasy with how evil our leaders are becoming, it doesn't really matter whether they develop new technologies or not, does it?
There are degrees of evil. A lot of the objections over this sort of thing come from the fear that this weapon (and other less-lethal weapons) may be used against crowds of peaceful demonstrators.
The somewhat-but-not-completely-evil authorities might not feel entirely comfortable firing lead into a crowd of peaceful demonstrators, but be perfectly fine with using a heat-ray against a crowd.
Of course, the same effect could be achieved with older technologies like fire-hoses, teargas, rubber bullets, etc. These have been used in the past as weapons against peaceful demonstrators in order to silence them, so there's no reason to believe the heat-ray wouldn't be used as well. So, if there are potential dangers to being on the receiving end of this technology, it's probably best that we find them out now, before it is used against large groups of civilians.
Most would be perfectly happy fragmenting it along ethnic lines.
I asked a buddy of mine who had been in Iraq about splitting it up among ethnic lines, and he said a major problem with this would be Baghdad- they'd have to wall the city off like Berlin to keep the peace.
After all, it is impossible for someone to be against the bill if they knew what it was really about, right?????
If someone wants to be against (or for) the bill because they know what it's really about, that's fine. There's nothing wrong with that.
However, a lot of the initial opposition to the bill was based on (perhaps deliberate) misrepresentation of facts due to astroturfing. I've got a problem with that- let the bill be judged by its own merits, good and bad.
No, people have no real representation at the federal level, and more and closer representation at the state and local levels.
I'm familiar with that argument and I actually lean towards it in general.
Usually the reasoning behind giving the states more power is to put more power in the hands of the people, since they have closer representation at the state and local level, as you said.
My main issue was with the OP saying in one sentence that people are idiots and should have less political power, and then immediately stating that the states should have more power, which in my mind, seems to be a contradiction in logic.
The people need to be listened to less, not more. Abortion, gay marriage, all those rights issues need to be moved to the state level and out of federal politics forever,
So people magically become smarter when dealing with state politics, and they're morons when it comes to federal politics?
Based on the rest of your post, I would think you'd be in favor of more power consolidated in the national government- say in the hands of a king. Then we wouldn't have to deal with the opinions of the "mouth breathers" at all.
when I went to a friends house, I would always tell my parents where I was going, who with, and when I was going to be back. I would expect the same from my kids and it doesn't seem like this is an unreasonable thing to ask from kids.
I'm sure these girls didn't tell their parents they went off to the Motel 6 to meet some 40 year old pervert from the internet.
The girls probably told their parents they were going to their friends house, or else they just snuck out of the house after the parents went to sleep. Teenagers lie to their parents all the time.
There's the allegations and the company response. You can make up your own mind about which side you believe....or you could actually weigh the evidence both sides present instead of making a judgement based solely on opening remarks...
yeah, that's what I said.
My original post had a link to the article, which apparently wasn't good enough for the first person who replied. So I included copy-paste text from the article in my second reply. Since I didn't want to be accused of only presenting one side of the story, I included the union complaint and the Coca Cola response, and an encouragement to the reader to decide for themselves what they think happened.
Care to provide an example of Coca Cola rounding someone up and torturing him or her?
I did, but in case you didn't click on the link, here's some text from the article:
In January 2004, the New York City Fact-Finding Delegation on Coca-Cola in Colombia[39] confirmed the workers' allegations. They found:
To date, there have been a total of 179 major human rights violations of Coca-Cola's workers, including nine murders. Family members of union activists have been abducted and tortured. Union members have been fired for attending union meetings. The company has pressured workers to resign their union membership and contractual rights, and fired workers who refused to do so.
Most troubling to the delegation were the persistent allegations that paramilitary violence against workers was done with the knowledge of and likely under the direction of company managers. The physical access that paramilitaries have had to Coca-Cola bottling plants is impossible without company knowledge and/or tacit approval....
The bottler and The Coca-Cola Company deny these allegations. Specifically, The Coca-Cola Company stated in its 2004 proxy[40]
Two different independent inquiries in Colombia--a judicial inquiry by a Colombian Court, and an inquiry by the Colombian Attorney General's office--examined the specific issue of whether managers at a bottling plant were complicit in the murder of a trade unionist. They found no evidence to support the allegation. Further, based on internal investigations conducted by our Company and by our bottling partners, we are confident that allegations the bottlers engaged paramilitaries to intimidate trade unionists are false.
The allegations made against us in Colombia are not merely false; they are repugnant to all of us at The Coca-Cola Company. We agree with the proponents that our Company must clearly demonstrate that we and our bottling partners support human and labor rights and oppose all forms of violence. Our desire is for Coca-Cola to be seen as part of the solution to some of the business issues in Colombia today. We are convinced our current approach will allow for that outcome.
Critics argue that, whatever their source, these assassinations seem to have been helpful to Coca-Cola in eliminating troublemakers from their bottling plants.
There's the allegations and the company response. You can make up your own mind about which side you believe.
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That being said, I believe the Kingdom message was focused on the Early Church, prior to His second coming which I believed happened in 70 AD, ending the Age/the Covenant of Abraham and David.
I've never heard anyone claim the second coming happened already... where does this belief come from?
I applaud anyone who helps push this crap below my viewing threshold.
Check your user preferences... you can change your modifier for "funny" to automatically mod it down, rather than up.
What, you wouldn't want to shower in something like this?
I spent a few weeks in a home in Costa Rica as part of a student program, and these are pretty common there.
Their nickname among us estadounidenses was "widow makers,"
although as far as I know, none of us had any problems with being shocked.
If I have a diesel car, I could trade you some CO2 credits for NOx and particulate credits that you're not using.
So I'll continue to drive my CO2 belching car, you can continue to drive your NOx-and-particulate belching car, and wouldn't the end result of this be that we're both polluting exactly as much as we were before, except now we're playing a cute shell game to make it look like we're more environmentally friendly?
Or am I missing something?
how about "what does this button do?"
And if you can get a Human/Dwarf or a Human/Elf, but not a Dwarf/Elf, then what are they?
There are examples in nature where Species A and Species B can interbreed, and Species B and Species C can interbreed, but Species A and Species C cannot- apparently they have diverged too far apart.
So I suppose the humans, dwarves, and elves could share a common ancestor, be different species, and have some limited ability to interbreed.
but Intelligent Design is as good a theory as any
Actually, it's not.
It's 100% crap and unworthy of even being called "a theory."
At this point in the movie, I have to ask you something. Are you thinking, "Whoa, that's not cool! Total abuse of power and violation of the 4th!" Or are you thinking, "Go McBain!" Well, what are you thinking, punk?
So basically, if a wuss like George W Bush violated our constitutional rights, that would suck,
but if a badass like Arnold Schwarzenegger did it, it would be totally awesome.
But when you can't afford a working car you probably can't afford the ancillary costs of a new car either.
If you can afford to take a day off of work to go watch Oprah in person, you can probably afford the ancillary costs of the new car.
I'm a Slashdot nerd and I haven't heard any compelling reasons why I should upgrade to a HD DVD or Blu-Ray.
Hell, I've barely heard any mention of them outside of Slashdot.
I would imagine Joe Average has barely even heard of them.
That could be part of the reason behind the slow sales.
So these terrorists hate America and try and kill coalition soldiers and we respond by giving them a free suntan. This makes me sick.
If it makes you feel any better, most of the "free suntans" will likely be given to civilians, not terrorists.
If you're uneasy with how evil our leaders are becoming, it doesn't really matter whether they develop new technologies or not, does it?
There are degrees of evil.
A lot of the objections over this sort of thing come from the fear that this weapon (and other less-lethal weapons) may be used against crowds of peaceful demonstrators.
The somewhat-but-not-completely-evil authorities might not feel entirely comfortable firing lead into a crowd of peaceful demonstrators, but be perfectly fine with using a heat-ray against a crowd.
Of course, the same effect could be achieved with older technologies like fire-hoses, teargas, rubber bullets, etc. These have been used in the past as weapons against peaceful demonstrators in order to silence them, so there's no reason to believe the heat-ray wouldn't be used as well.
So, if there are potential dangers to being on the receiving end of this technology, it's probably best that we find them out now, before it is used against large groups of civilians.
Most would be perfectly happy fragmenting it along ethnic lines.
I asked a buddy of mine who had been in Iraq about splitting it up among ethnic lines, and
he said a major problem with this would be Baghdad- they'd have to wall the city off
like Berlin to keep the peace.
After all, it is impossible for someone to be against the bill if they knew what it was really about, right?????
If someone wants to be against (or for) the bill because they know what it's really about, that's fine. There's nothing wrong with that.
However, a lot of the initial opposition to the bill was based on (perhaps deliberate) misrepresentation of facts due to astroturfing. I've got a problem with that- let the bill be judged by its own merits, good and bad.
No, people have no real representation at the federal level, and more and closer representation at the state and local levels.
I'm familiar with that argument and I actually lean towards it in general.
Usually the reasoning behind giving the states more power is to put more power in the hands of the people, since they have closer representation at the state and local level, as you said.
My main issue was with the OP saying in one sentence that people are idiots and should have less political power, and then immediately stating that the states should have more power, which in my mind, seems to be a contradiction in logic.
The people need to be listened to less, not more. Abortion, gay marriage, all those rights issues need to be moved to the state level and out of federal politics forever,
So people magically become smarter when dealing with state politics, and they're morons when it comes to federal politics?
Based on the rest of your post, I would think you'd be in favor of more power consolidated in the national government- say in the hands of a king. Then we wouldn't have to deal with the opinions of the "mouth breathers" at all.
Kinda funny that the bill to try to prevent astroturfing was defeated largely by astroturfing.
Touche'... coconut milk and soy milk do not contain lactose.
arrggg.. my smartass reply has backfired.
you got me there.
The sugar in milk is lactose and it is found only in the milk of mammals.
Mammal milk you say? As opposed to what, bird milk?
when I went to a friends house, I would always tell my parents where I was going, who with, and when I was going to be back. I would expect the same from my kids and it doesn't seem like this is an unreasonable thing to ask from kids.
I'm sure these girls didn't tell their parents they went off to the Motel 6 to meet some 40 year old pervert from the internet.
The girls probably told their parents they were going to their friends house, or else they just snuck out of the house after the parents went to sleep.
Teenagers lie to their parents all the time.
What? Roofs are typically dark anyway.
How dare you question the strawman attack on "Greens" ?
So the question is do you not pass a good law for fear in the future it will be twisted into a bad law? This is a very hard question indeed.
Not really, it isn't.
Any "good" law can potentially be twisted into a "bad" law.
Therefore should we only pass bad laws to prevent the twisting?
yeah, that's what I said.
My original post had a link to the article, which apparently wasn't good enough for the first person who replied. So I included copy-paste text from the article in my second reply. Since I didn't want to be accused of only presenting one side of the story, I included the union complaint and the Coca Cola response, and an encouragement to the reader to decide for themselves what they think happened.
What more do you people want from me?
I did, but in case you didn't click on the link, here's some text from the article:
There's the allegations and the company response.
You can make up your own mind about which side you believe.