Utterly and completely wrong. You need to apply for Permission to Give Birth for your first child. Otherwise how will they know if you've already had one? Duh. It's a standard step. Doesn't matter if one parent is a foreigner or not. I've never been to Singapore so obviously I can't be confusing things.
Tell me it's not hilarious to make people run out and purchase music by crappy performers? If "Anonymous" somehow pulled it off, once, it would be a source of merriment for years. Marketroids do it regularly, and make a mint doing it. What's not to admire?
Ahmadinejad is just a figurehead with little real power. The Guardian Council rules the country.
You know, it's funny how the leftists have no problem with the Islamic Republic of Iran, a functional fascist theocracy, getting nukes. Remember CND, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament? They were against all nuclear weapons, anywhere, by anybody. Now, religious fanatics want them, and suddenly we have articles in The Atlantic saying that it's not a big deal, after all Iran needs them to resist invasion by Israel. Go figure, huh? 180 degree about-face, with no recognition whatsoever of the old point of view. We have always been friends with Oceania.
Nuclear deterrence is based on the fact that your adversary is as rational as you are. Islamists, Sunni or Shiite, believe that life is just a long test and the afterlife is what really matters. What do you do when your adversary loves death more than you love life?
"Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious."
-- Ayatollah Khomeini, 1979
When I first got to China in 2004, summer blackouts were just part of life. From 10am until 4pm, the power at my apartment just went off. I had to go find a cafe or something and sit around until the heat of the day had passed and the power came back on. It only happened sometimes, not every day. I found out later that there was a schedule for such things, but I couldn't read Chinese back then so there was no way for me to know. I haven't been in a residential blackout for years now. Obviously, things have gotten better. A big nuclear plant went online near here a few years back and I'm sure that ended the power problem permanently. It must be nice having your society run by scientists and engineers, and treating the environuts as the Luddites that they are.
Factories were on a schedule of blackouts, too. There was not enough power to go around, so one or two days per week there would be no electricity. This delayed production and caused all kinds of problems, particularly when the factory failed to inform the customer that this was the case. Factories could get diesel generators to pick up the slack, but generally the factory owners were too cheap to invest in this sort of thing.
Well, that's where we are now. The actual science has been hopelessly muddied by trying to use this for political ends. The climate alarmists want to use the science to implement a wish list of leftist dreams that have been around forever (but THIS time, you have to do it because it's SCIENTIFIC) and the climate denialists want to use the science to support their side of the argument so they can continue polluting. It's the Kobiyashi Maru all over again.
And yet, if marketroids were geeks, they'd be hailed as successful culture hackers. But they're not part of Us, so they are reviled among Polite Company[tm]
Here's another thought: maybe some people out there are different from you, and prefer different forms of entertainment. Nah, crazy idea. We all love NPR, don't we? Every last one of us. I mean, if you don't love Peruvian hick music...I mean folk music...then you're hardly a person, eh?
In other words, people have freedom of choice...until they make the Wrong Decision[tm]*. This freedom you speak of, I do not think it means what you think it means.
* Wrong Decision to be determined by a committee of your betters, the committee is guaranteed not to be stuffed with SWPLs.
Nice try. For a country where you still need to apply for a "permission to give birth"...how can anyone say that tyranny is not still there? Yes, China has this, it's alive and well, and yes it applies when one parent is a foreigner. To say nothing of Americans who think that "breeders" are a huge problem and dream of implementing a similar program here to control the number of new Americans born to the natives. They exist.
Wow, you're TOTALLY going out of your way to avoid the word "American", aren't you? It's ok, the word won't turn you into a commie. The rest of the world uses it to describe us, you can too.
19th century America's music was made by a bunch of hillbillies, rednecks, and other country idiots. Today's music is made by Creatives, the best people our society can produce. It's much more damning when Creatives keep cranking out the same garbage. When a hick adds two notes to the end of a jig and changes some of the words - well, that's what we expect from those kind of decidedly UNcreative people.
I wonder why he hasn't looked at 4e...maybe because buying the same rulebooks over and over again because they changed the phrasing on Hold Person is kind of...ooops, sounds like MtG or something.
It's the only TV you can watch where the outcome is not known in advance. After watching enough TV shows (and reading TVtropes), you can pretty much predict what's going to happen next. Writers are generally lazy folk. On any given Sunday, anything can happen.
Every year, is, in fact, different from every other year. I would have thought this is basic common sense, but there we are. Players retire, get traded, get injured, and new players take their place. It's like a giant drama with a cast of thousands.
Another thing is how the same game (basically) has been played for a long time and still, new strategies are being formed. Does Go suck just because it's hundreds of years old? How many ways can you lay a stone, anyway? And most Go players are douchenozzles (goes double for Chess players).
TV actors are douchenozzles too. Does it really affect your enjoyment of "Scrubs" if you know the actors have sleazy personal lives?
I'm not trolling; this is a serious question. Are you one of those "I don't own a TV" people who likes to show up and complain? How can you honestly give a rat's ass about a bunch of whiners complaining that other people are enjoying something?
It was no utopia. It sickens me to see major journalists - in Vanity Fair, even! - spout this nonsense. In 1997, Microsoft was an (illegal) monopoly, and could do whatever it wanted. In 2012, they actually have competitors the same size as them, and surprise, they're losing.
You must read this article. What I Learned At Dartmouth. It's way too long, but I'll quote the beginning. It is impossible to comment intelligently on this article without reading this link to the full. Rebut it, if you can.
"One of the freshmenâ"or âoefirst yearsâ, as they were beginning to be knownâ"was accused by another first year of sexual assault and harassment. In the hot-house political environment at the timeâ"product of the Thomas/Hill hearings, which revolved around workplace sexual harassmentâ"these were serious allegations."
Where in the Constitution does it mention marriage, dogs, or cars? It is a right, equal to all the other ones like freedom of religion or freedom of the press.
Let's pretend for a moment that the Second Amendment: said "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to have an abortion, shall not be infringed".
Would there be any restrictions on abortions at all? "Shall not be infringed." Hard to imagine bans on partial-birth abortion then, eh? Much less a license being needed to have one. Funny how things work when they're turned around to your own treasured ideals, isn't it?
No gun license required? Why would anyone need a license to exercise a right guaranteed by the law of the land? Do you need a license to vote? Do you need a license to be safe from being enslaved? Do you need a license to own a printing press and open a newspaper? I'm totally lost here. What sort of brain structure causes this mental vomit to occur?
Nobody's talking about that. You're talking about yourself - much like the elderly in the UK, you can't see societal problems and can only think on a selfish basis. We're talking about society as a whole - and how society can best achieve goals laid out by the government. If you're living in a 5 bedroom house with your wife and people are living in tents elsewhere, it benefits more people for you to move to an apartment and allow the government to apportion the vacant housing to more deserving members of society.
Likewise, it's selfish to consume healthcare resources like a privileged person when so many go without. Do a search on "bed blockers" to see the problems that the elderly cause. Can you really say that few deserve to live at tremendous cost, only to allow many others to suffer due to the fact that resources are not available for their care? People with high dependency indices, low cognitive function, and high rates of disease? How would you best allocate healthcare resources if you worked for the government?
Again, not my thinking, not a -1 Troll, these are the conclusions that highly qualified government workers - people with Ph.Ds - have reached. Ignore them at your peril. Do you honestly think you have the qualifications to argue, much less contradict them? Indeed, your entire post seems to be entirely selfish, as it refers to your own situation and totally ignores the less fortunate. In America, healthcare depends on ability to pay, which you seem to have. In other civilized countries, healthcare is apportioned fairly.
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Utterly and completely wrong. You need to apply for Permission to Give Birth for your first child. Otherwise how will they know if you've already had one? Duh. It's a standard step. Doesn't matter if one parent is a foreigner or not. I've never been to Singapore so obviously I can't be confusing things.
Tell me it's not hilarious to make people run out and purchase music by crappy performers? If "Anonymous" somehow pulled it off, once, it would be a source of merriment for years. Marketroids do it regularly, and make a mint doing it. What's not to admire?
Ahmadinejad is just a figurehead with little real power. The Guardian Council rules the country.
You know, it's funny how the leftists have no problem with the Islamic Republic of Iran, a functional fascist theocracy, getting nukes. Remember CND, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament? They were against all nuclear weapons, anywhere, by anybody. Now, religious fanatics want them, and suddenly we have articles in The Atlantic saying that it's not a big deal, after all Iran needs them to resist invasion by Israel. Go figure, huh? 180 degree about-face, with no recognition whatsoever of the old point of view. We have always been friends with Oceania.
Nuclear deterrence is based on the fact that your adversary is as rational as you are. Islamists, Sunni or Shiite, believe that life is just a long test and the afterlife is what really matters. What do you do when your adversary loves death more than you love life?
"Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious."
-- Ayatollah Khomeini, 1979
When I first got to China in 2004, summer blackouts were just part of life. From 10am until 4pm, the power at my apartment just went off. I had to go find a cafe or something and sit around until the heat of the day had passed and the power came back on. It only happened sometimes, not every day. I found out later that there was a schedule for such things, but I couldn't read Chinese back then so there was no way for me to know. I haven't been in a residential blackout for years now. Obviously, things have gotten better. A big nuclear plant went online near here a few years back and I'm sure that ended the power problem permanently. It must be nice having your society run by scientists and engineers, and treating the environuts as the Luddites that they are.
Factories were on a schedule of blackouts, too. There was not enough power to go around, so one or two days per week there would be no electricity. This delayed production and caused all kinds of problems, particularly when the factory failed to inform the customer that this was the case. Factories could get diesel generators to pick up the slack, but generally the factory owners were too cheap to invest in this sort of thing.
Well, that's where we are now. The actual science has been hopelessly muddied by trying to use this for political ends. The climate alarmists want to use the science to implement a wish list of leftist dreams that have been around forever (but THIS time, you have to do it because it's SCIENTIFIC) and the climate denialists want to use the science to support their side of the argument so they can continue polluting. It's the Kobiyashi Maru all over again.
Why'd you get offended? Are you a hillbilly, too? My condolences. Move out of the sticks. There is a life beyond buggering your sister.
Anecdotal evidence. Look it up.
Here's another thought: maybe some people out there are different from you, and prefer different forms of entertainment. Nah, crazy idea. We all love NPR, don't we? Every last one of us. I mean, if you don't love Peruvian hick music...I mean folk music...then you're hardly a person, eh?
In other words, people have freedom of choice...until they make the Wrong Decision[tm]*. This freedom you speak of, I do not think it means what you think it means.
* Wrong Decision to be determined by a committee of your betters, the committee is guaranteed not to be stuffed with SWPLs.
Nice try. For a country where you still need to apply for a "permission to give birth"...how can anyone say that tyranny is not still there? Yes, China has this, it's alive and well, and yes it applies when one parent is a foreigner. To say nothing of Americans who think that "breeders" are a huge problem and dream of implementing a similar program here to control the number of new Americans born to the natives. They exist.
Wow, you're TOTALLY going out of your way to avoid the word "American", aren't you? It's ok, the word won't turn you into a commie. The rest of the world uses it to describe us, you can too.
So, you attempt to refute an argument by presenting a single anecdote? Math, you fail at it.
19th century America's music was made by a bunch of hillbillies, rednecks, and other country idiots. Today's music is made by Creatives, the best people our society can produce. It's much more damning when Creatives keep cranking out the same garbage. When a hick adds two notes to the end of a jig and changes some of the words - well, that's what we expect from those kind of decidedly UNcreative people.
That's not being a "sports fan". That's being a "sports player". The question specifically asked about it. There's no debate but in your mind.
I wonder why he hasn't looked at 4e...maybe because buying the same rulebooks over and over again because they changed the phrasing on Hold Person is kind of...ooops, sounds like MtG or something.
It's the only TV you can watch where the outcome is not known in advance. After watching enough TV shows (and reading TVtropes), you can pretty much predict what's going to happen next. Writers are generally lazy folk. On any given Sunday, anything can happen.
Every year, is, in fact, different from every other year. I would have thought this is basic common sense, but there we are. Players retire, get traded, get injured, and new players take their place. It's like a giant drama with a cast of thousands.
Another thing is how the same game (basically) has been played for a long time and still, new strategies are being formed. Does Go suck just because it's hundreds of years old? How many ways can you lay a stone, anyway? And most Go players are douchenozzles (goes double for Chess players).
TV actors are douchenozzles too. Does it really affect your enjoyment of "Scrubs" if you know the actors have sleazy personal lives?
I'm not trolling; this is a serious question. Are you one of those "I don't own a TV" people who likes to show up and complain? How can you honestly give a rat's ass about a bunch of whiners complaining that other people are enjoying something?
It was no utopia. It sickens me to see major journalists - in Vanity Fair, even! - spout this nonsense. In 1997, Microsoft was an (illegal) monopoly, and could do whatever it wanted. In 2012, they actually have competitors the same size as them, and surprise, they're losing.
What's with the racist comment? +4 Insightful?
Racism is never funny. People who crack racist jokes are racists. This includes you.
You must read this article. What I Learned At Dartmouth. It's way too long, but I'll quote the beginning. It is impossible to comment intelligently on this article without reading this link to the full. Rebut it, if you can.
"One of the freshmenâ"or âoefirst yearsâ, as they were beginning to be knownâ"was accused by another first year of sexual assault and harassment. In the hot-house political environment at the timeâ"product of the Thomas/Hill hearings, which revolved around workplace sexual harassmentâ"these were serious allegations."
Where in the Constitution does it mention marriage, dogs, or cars? It is a right, equal to all the other ones like freedom of religion or freedom of the press.
Let's pretend for a moment that the Second Amendment: said "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to have an abortion, shall not be infringed".
Would there be any restrictions on abortions at all? "Shall not be infringed." Hard to imagine bans on partial-birth abortion then, eh? Much less a license being needed to have one. Funny how things work when they're turned around to your own treasured ideals, isn't it?
No gun license required? Why would anyone need a license to exercise a right guaranteed by the law of the land? Do you need a license to vote? Do you need a license to be safe from being enslaved? Do you need a license to own a printing press and open a newspaper? I'm totally lost here. What sort of brain structure causes this mental vomit to occur?
Nobody's talking about that. You're talking about yourself - much like the elderly in the UK, you can't see societal problems and can only think on a selfish basis. We're talking about society as a whole - and how society can best achieve goals laid out by the government. If you're living in a 5 bedroom house with your wife and people are living in tents elsewhere, it benefits more people for you to move to an apartment and allow the government to apportion the vacant housing to more deserving members of society.
Likewise, it's selfish to consume healthcare resources like a privileged person when so many go without. Do a search on "bed blockers" to see the problems that the elderly cause. Can you really say that few deserve to live at tremendous cost, only to allow many others to suffer due to the fact that resources are not available for their care? People with high dependency indices, low cognitive function, and high rates of disease? How would you best allocate healthcare resources if you worked for the government?
Again, not my thinking, not a -1 Troll, these are the conclusions that highly qualified government workers - people with Ph.Ds - have reached. Ignore them at your peril. Do you honestly think you have the qualifications to argue, much less contradict them? Indeed, your entire post seems to be entirely selfish, as it refers to your own situation and totally ignores the less fortunate. In America, healthcare depends on ability to pay, which you seem to have. In other civilized countries, healthcare is apportioned fairly.
Greens have little power in the US
Greens shut down nuclear plants with lawsuits
Power. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.