Do you believe that Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Mormons should be allowed to practice polygamy?
Yes.
What do you think of Canada's policies on marijuana,
Canada planned to decreminalise simple possession. Drug Czar said "No". Canada shelved the plan.
gay marriage,
The drug czar has no authority on that it seems...
and the international criminal court?
Canada's position is that it does not believe that its citizens should be immune to being convicted of war crime. Therefore implying that they do not intend to commit war crimes and that if one of their citizens ever does he should be prosecuted for it. the U.S.A. has refused to recognize the authority of that court UNLESS its citizens are declared immune from prosecution under it. Clearly, the U.S. doesn't want people to interfere with all the war crimes they intend on carrying in the future or have carried in the past.
What will you do to keep me, successful student, productive citizen, and pot smoker, out of jail?
He (either of them, Bush with more enthusiasm) will throw you in jail, and then point to you as an example of a productive student with a bright future who's life was destroyed by the evil marijuana.
He will not call it pot, and he will not admit that he destroyed your life, not your recreational substance of choice. What? Me, cynical? Nooooo...
But what is the difference between a man marrying a woman, a man marrying a man, and a woman marrying a woman? What real difference is there?
Only one of those serves the real purpose of marriage: Keeping track of patriarchal family trees. Marriage is a contract by which a woman enters into an exclusive sexual relationship with a man in exchange for material gain. If gay people are so desperate to be declared "normal" by emulating the rites and tradition of the patriarchal society that they reject by their lifestyle choice, then they should go see a mental health specialist instead of trying to have laws change to accomodate their insecurities.
P.S. I firmly believe that if people want to be with people of the same sex as theirs, and they find someone with whom to live happily that way, then nobody should get in their way. But marriage isn't for them. You don't need marriage to be with someone, you just need to be with them. Civil unions will give you all the tax breaks you want.
P.P.S. If you are gay and you want to follow the rites and traditions of the patriarchy, then become a priest or a nun. If you want to reject those traditions, don't do it half-assed and demand to be included in the tradition of marriage.
If these corporations and agencies are getting wealthy off of exploiting or poisoning their customers, then what the hell kind of position are they going to be in when they have no more customers left?
Look at the tobacco industry. If it takes long enough to kill you, by the time you do, your kids are their clients.
As long as the damage is long-term, you can profit just fine.
NASA planners "correctly worry a lot about loneliness." [...] the prospect of a Christmas feast for two was depressing until the two astronauts found a solution: Invite some guests. The memorable feast was captured in a photograph showing the two men with their guests, two empty spacesuits carefully propped in dining position.
Yeah, they were a few weeks away from dressing up as their mothers. Maybe they need a few more people up there.
I hope the trend leads to cars with a survival instinct. I'm not interrested in letting the car drive itself (or be driven by remote control), but a car that won't let you tailgate, or drive fast in slippery road conditions would be a great step up.
If the idiots on the road don't have a survival instinct, their cars should.
Who's being naïve here? [...] a situation where the consequences would be far more deterrence than anything the FDA could ever provide.
Just like deregulating energy in California was supposed to have the consequence of competing companies offering better services at lower prices? Instead of the real consequences: Higher prices and rolling brownouts.
Pixar dates back to the mid-early eighties. They are about twice as old as Dreamworks.
Huh, you're right. I just assumed, based on the sheer number of titles, that dreamworks was old. Though, my statement about old guys set in their ways is still my opinion on the matter, I apologise for stating an assumption like that without checking it or declaring it for what it is.
If there was an evacuation order moments before then shouldn't the streets be filled with people evacuating?
The streets in question are filled with GIANT ROBOTS, the cause of the evacuation. I would expect the evacuees to filling other streets, presumably ones less endowed in colossal mechanical monsters.
Polly would run around the streets but no one else is to be seen.
The streets where giant robots are running amok? The streets where we heard the "the city is being evacuated" announcement moments before? Those streets?
Yeah, I wonder why there wasn't anyone just louging around there...
Get "past" it? Do you have to "get past" the zombies in Dawn of the Dead? Or the spaceships in Star Wars? Did you have to "get past" all that fantasy nonsense in LOTR? You had to get past the film itself...sad.
I was interested in the visuals, after reading about the filming method.
Oh, that's why you went to see it. Not to see a movie, but to see the result of a technological process. Well, then...
you could tell that the actors were acting by themselves in many of the scenes.
Really? Are you sure? You're not just, you know, looking for flaws, even if you have to make them up are you?
It was a neat idea, but it got really distracting for me after a bit. I think for a short film, it would have been pretty cool, but a full-length feature? I was bored out of my mind by the end of the movie.
You went to see a special effects demonstration, and you got annoyed that they were showing you a movie. I just saw it. Its not perfect, but I wasn't looking for a demonstration of technological achievements, I was looking for a movie, so I got what I wanted.
I guess its a question of expectations and of the frame of mind you're in when you go see it.
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Do you believe that Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Mormons should be allowed to practice polygamy?
Yes.
What do you think of Canada's policies on marijuana,
Canada planned to decreminalise simple possession. Drug Czar said "No". Canada shelved the plan.
gay marriage,
The drug czar has no authority on that it seems...
and the international criminal court?
Canada's position is that it does not believe that its citizens should be immune to being convicted of war crime. Therefore implying that they do not intend to commit war crimes and that if one of their citizens ever does he should be prosecuted for it.
the U.S.A. has refused to recognize the authority of that court UNLESS its citizens are declared immune from prosecution under it. Clearly, the U.S. doesn't want people to interfere with all the war crimes they intend on carrying in the future or have carried in the past.
Mr. President, why do you think the Democrats think you're such a bad leader?
[...] so many people hate you.
So, that's a rhetorical question then?
Do you believe fellatio is sex?
Not in the context of a sexual harassment inquiry if the fellation was initiated by the woman.
Context people, context.
What will you do to keep me, successful student, productive citizen, and pot smoker, out of jail?
He (either of them, Bush with more enthusiasm) will throw you in jail, and then point to you as an example of a productive student with a bright future who's life was destroyed by the evil marijuana.
He will not call it pot, and he will not admit that he destroyed your life, not your recreational substance of choice.
What? Me, cynical? Nooooo...
Both of my wives agree that the government shouldn't decide!
Freedom of religion!
Unless you're from a polygamist religion.
Or a rasta, etc.
Frankly, I don't give a damn if people want more than one wife. I don't see why not.
But what is the difference between a man marrying a woman, a man marrying a man, and a woman marrying a woman? What real difference is there?
Only one of those serves the real purpose of marriage: Keeping track of patriarchal family trees.
Marriage is a contract by which a woman enters into an exclusive sexual relationship with a man in exchange for material gain. If gay people are so desperate to be declared "normal" by emulating the rites and tradition of the patriarchal society that they reject by their lifestyle choice, then they should go see a mental health specialist instead of trying to have laws change to accomodate their insecurities.
P.S. I firmly believe that if people want to be with people of the same sex as theirs, and they find someone with whom to live happily that way, then nobody should get in their way. But marriage isn't for them. You don't need marriage to be with someone, you just need to be with them. Civil unions will give you all the tax breaks you want.
P.P.S. If you are gay and you want to follow the rites and traditions of the patriarchy, then become a priest or a nun. If you want to reject those traditions, don't do it half-assed and demand to be included in the tradition of marriage.
if people still do it on their own, voluntarily, you can't complain
1- Addictive.
2- Second hand smoke.
If these corporations and agencies are getting wealthy off of exploiting or poisoning their customers, then what the hell kind of position are they going to be in when they have no more customers left?
Look at the tobacco industry. If it takes long enough to kill you, by the time you do, your kids are their clients.
As long as the damage is long-term, you can profit just fine.
NASA planners "correctly worry a lot about loneliness."
[...] the prospect of a Christmas feast for two was depressing until the two astronauts found a solution: Invite some guests. The memorable feast was captured in a photograph showing the two men with their guests, two empty spacesuits carefully propped in dining position.
Yeah, they were a few weeks away from dressing up as their mothers.
Maybe they need a few more people up there.
cars becoming more like semi-intelligent robots
I hope the trend leads to cars with a survival instinct.
I'm not interrested in letting the car drive itself (or be driven by remote control), but a car that won't let you tailgate, or drive fast in slippery road conditions would be a great step up.
If the idiots on the road don't have a survival instinct, their cars should.
It's my opinion that the equipment in places like hospitals should design themselves
Working on AI nanotech, are we?
Who is going to buy their food if we're all dead or dying?
Who's going to make the link to their product when you get sick months or years later?
Why should I trust the same government that has conducted secret syphilis and radiation studies to watch over the food I eat?
Who else could garantee you that your food is both syphilis AND radiation free?
seems to me that there were so many loose ends at the end of Cryptonomicon
Stephenson never ends a book, he just stops writing them.
I always end up turning the last page and being surprised that there's nothing else...
Half the fun of a Neal Stephenson novel is knowing that all the characters he abruptly kills off get to come back to life in the next series.
;-)
I like the mounting tension as you wonder who'll get the diarrhea in this book.
Bonus points if the same guy gets covered in shit.
Who's being naïve here? [...] a situation where the consequences would be far more deterrence than anything the FDA could ever provide.
Just like deregulating energy in California was supposed to have the consequence of competing companies offering better services at lower prices?
Instead of the real consequences: Higher prices and rolling brownouts.
People should stop having faith in capitalism.
the Horseshoe Crab, which isn't actually a crab, but a 350 million year old ancestor of spiders. It's blood is actually based on copper
;-)
The most logical of all crabs...
I think Halle Berry (2002 Best Actress Academy Award) could've done it better. Just look how well she did in Catwoman.
"Do you know what happens to a toad when it gets hit by lightning?"
Pixar dates back to the mid-early eighties. They are about twice as old as Dreamworks.
Huh, you're right. I just assumed, based on the sheer number of titles, that dreamworks was old.
Though, my statement about old guys set in their ways is still my opinion on the matter, I apologise for stating an assumption like that without checking it or declaring it for what it is.
If there was an evacuation order moments before then shouldn't the streets be filled with people evacuating?
The streets in question are filled with GIANT ROBOTS, the cause of the evacuation.
I would expect the evacuees to filling other streets, presumably ones less endowed in colossal mechanical monsters.
The graphics in PoP are very good.
t -a crobatics, rinse, repeat.
Its superficially very well done. But it was a repetitive chore to play through.
Fight-puzzle-fight-acrobatics-fight-puzzle-figh
And the fights?
Red enemy = hit, jump, hit.
Blue enemy = hit, freeze, wait until it hits the ground, drain sand.
Damn good use of voice narration. And I liked the rewind function. But the game was repetitive and had a HORRIBLE camera.
Where were you when all the terrorist "dirty bomb" talk was happening?
you don't want this baby try to prove it's own existance.
;-)
Yeah, nukes are scary enough without being self-aware...
Polly would run around the streets but no one else is to be seen.
The streets where giant robots are running amok? The streets where we heard the "the city is being evacuated" announcement moments before?
Those streets?
Yeah, I wonder why there wasn't anyone just louging around there...
I could get past the 30'-style campiness
Get "past" it?
Do you have to "get past" the zombies in Dawn of the Dead? Or the spaceships in Star Wars?
Did you have to "get past" all that fantasy nonsense in LOTR?
You had to get past the film itself...sad.
I was interested in the visuals, after reading about the filming method.
Oh, that's why you went to see it. Not to see a movie, but to see the result of a technological process. Well, then...
you could tell that the actors were acting by themselves in many of the scenes.
Really? Are you sure?
You're not just, you know, looking for flaws, even if you have to make them up are you?
It was a neat idea, but it got really distracting for me after a bit. I think for a short film, it would have been pretty cool, but a full-length feature? I was bored out of my mind by the end of the movie.
You went to see a special effects demonstration, and you got annoyed that they were showing you a movie. I just saw it. Its not perfect, but I wasn't looking for a demonstration of technological achievements, I was looking for a movie, so I got what I wanted.
I guess its a question of expectations and of the frame of mind you're in when you go see it.