The GOP doesn't seek any special powers to expedite that war. There once was a time when American's wouldn't have accepted the idea that you could be jailed for possessing a bag of dry flowers.
Yeah, I'm in San Diego right now but if I was going to relocate somewhere Portland and Seattle would both be on my short list. Hell, Powell's books alone would be reason enough for me to move to Portland! I loved that place.
It's not just the south either. I grew up in Massachusetts and northeast gets it's share of days in the summer with humidity and temperature both around 100. Yeah, absolute hell.
No, it was also bad because the wetlands that act as a natural buffer between the city and the ocean have been severely eroded over the past several decades. What caused them to disappear? The levees.
I think you got it in the other way around. Specialization is result of progress. In the past it was possible to have a strong grasp of science in general, now there is so much to know it just can't be done.
That Air base like most the rest of the US has no real anti-aircraft defense systems it would be very easy to target those planes. I think the perimeter of at least 4000 miles between the US and any potentially threatening nations serves quite well as an anti-aircraft defense system. Or do you think there's actually a chance a North Korean bomber could sneak across the ocean and hit us under cover of darkness?
but does anyone have a better idea to deter and punish some wacko? Yes, don't give the wacko's the attention they want. The media are at least as guilty as the government in turning the ATHF signs into the spectacle it was. The fact that the destruction of the toys by the bomb squad got live coverage on CNN is exactly the sort of thing which will server as inspiration for future hoax's.
Wow, way to oversimplify things. I can do that too! You left out their tendency to try to blow us up. I think that's one of the bigger factors there. Also their tendency to dehumanize us as infidels and what have you. Umm, you seem to miss the key word: differ. They try to blow us up, we try to blow them up. They dehumanize us as infidels, we dehumanize them as terrorists. How are those differences?
Oh yeah, it's different because we claim to have the moral high gro... no wait. They do too. Never mind.
I wonder how Buddhism and Eastern religions fit into all this. They seem pretty relaxed about sex, and tolerant of homosexuality. Buddhist views very quite a bit, but for the most part promiscuity is considered unwholesome behavior but sex within a stable monogamist relationship is fine. I'm not sure what the Buddhist teachings on homosexuality are. I can't imagine it would be strongly condemned however AFAIK it is still not widely accepted in Chinese culture. I think this is more from the Confucian influence then from Buddhism however.
As Churchill once said, when civilization as we know it really was on the brink, "All we have to fear is fear itself." Actually that was FDR at the time of the great Depression I believe. The rest of what you say is right on though. Marxist Hacker has some pretty scary ideas on freedom and security.
He's saying that corps will be evil if it helps them make money, and will not be evil if that helps them make money. Like I said in a comment above, how is that different from what we would consider evil? Only caring about how consequences of your actions directly influence your wellbeing fits squarely into what I would consider evil.
Corporations are many things, but they aren't evil just for the heck of it. They're in it for profit. I'm confused. Are you trying to say corporations are evil, but it's ok since it helps them make money?
That's all very poetic and nice, but it doesn't speak to the question of free will at all.
We can observe our cells and see that they behave in a deterministic way. We can observe the chemical's they are made of and see that they behave in a deterministic way. We can observe the signals sent between our neurons and see that they behave in a deterministic way. Face it, we behave in a deterministic way. There is nothing wrong with that fact. It takes nothing away from the beauty and the complexity of what we are. Most people with a scientific leaning would even thing that being able to understand how we work adds to the beauty of it all.
That was just the first site I found off hand, I've seen others. Candy Lightner, the founder of MADD can't support their cause anymore, I think that says it all.
And I think it's very likely that their statistics are off by at least 50% judging from their methodologies, but that's just a guess. I don't agree it's absurd to downplay their cause since all their reasonable goal's have been met long ago and now it's just a self perpetuating bureaucracy who can only stay relevant by perpetually pushing back the goal posts.
Good choice on the G&T though. I would have loved to have a few of those tonight, but I was driving and all...
Really, why do mainstream encyclopedias have to focus on almost primarily out-of-date events? The answer is not "because that's a good way of doing things," the answer is "because otherwise the lengthy editing/publishing cycles would result in an out-of-date encyclopedia." Or maybe it's because if you are trying to give thorough and balanced coverage of all the notable people, places, and events in history then naturally the vast majority of them will be from the three or four thousand years of recorded history and not from the past five years of current events.
You might want to consider your sources. MADD is far from an unbiased source.
In their stats, an alcohol-related crash includes crashes when anyone in the car has been drinking so if you have a designated driver who hasn't had a single drink and he gets in an accident on the way home from the bar then it would be an alcohol related accident. Also, accidents are counted as alcohol related even if the driver had a drink but is below the legal limit.
In other words, I wouldn't trust them. The longterm goal of the current MADD leadership is a return to prohibition and they will gladly wildly inflate statistics to the point of meaninglessness if it will help them.
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Yeah, I'm in San Diego right now but if I was going to relocate somewhere Portland and Seattle would both be on my short list. Hell, Powell's books alone would be reason enough for me to move to Portland! I loved that place.
It's not just the south either. I grew up in Massachusetts and northeast gets it's share of days in the summer with humidity and temperature both around 100. Yeah, absolute hell.
Ummm, maybe he was talking about slashdot. You know that American website you are on right now where we all linked to the article from?
Of course if he was trying to point out an anti-global warming bias in slashdot I imagine he'll have some trouble making the case.
I think you'll find the unpleasantness of Houston has little to do with the temperature at any given time.
No, it was also bad because the wetlands that act as a natural buffer between the city and the ocean have been severely eroded over the past several decades. What caused them to disappear? The levees.
I think you got it in the other way around. Specialization is result of progress. In the past it was possible to have a strong grasp of science in general, now there is so much to know it just can't be done.
RTFC dude, it's in there: "Government officials were unavailable for comment, having been immediately arrested upon passage of the bill."
Fair enough. You came across as if you were oversimplifying the situation in an "we good - they bad" sort of way. Thank you for the clarification.
Oh yeah, it's different because we claim to have the moral high gro... no wait. They do too. Never mind.
So doing whatever benefits them regardless of the consequences to anyone or anything else. How is that behavior distinguishable from "evil"?
As evidence of your claim you post a link that says the opposite is true? You might want to brush up on your rhetorical skills.
My Motorola uses mini USB for power. I understand that is fairly common for their other models too.
How does reloading the firmware decrypt encrypted data?
That's all very poetic and nice, but it doesn't speak to the question of free will at all.
We can observe our cells and see that they behave in a deterministic way. We can observe the chemical's they are made of and see that they behave in a deterministic way. We can observe the signals sent between our neurons and see that they behave in a deterministic way. Face it, we behave in a deterministic way. There is nothing wrong with that fact. It takes nothing away from the beauty and the complexity of what we are. Most people with a scientific leaning would even thing that being able to understand how we work adds to the beauty of it all.
That was just the first site I found off hand, I've seen others. Candy Lightner, the founder of MADD can't support their cause anymore, I think that says it all.
And I think it's very likely that their statistics are off by at least 50% judging from their methodologies, but that's just a guess. I don't agree it's absurd to downplay their cause since all their reasonable goal's have been met long ago and now it's just a self perpetuating bureaucracy who can only stay relevant by perpetually pushing back the goal posts.
Good choice on the G&T though. I would have loved to have a few of those tonight, but I was driving and all...
You might want to consider your sources. MADD is far from an unbiased source.
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In their stats, an alcohol-related crash includes crashes when anyone in the car has been drinking so if you have a designated driver who hasn't had a single drink and he gets in an accident on the way home from the bar then it would be an alcohol related accident. Also, accidents are counted as alcohol related even if the driver had a drink but is below the legal limit.
In other words, I wouldn't trust them. The longterm goal of the current MADD leadership is a return to prohibition and they will gladly wildly inflate statistics to the point of meaninglessness if it will help them.
http://www.alcoholfacts.org/CrashCourseOnMADD.htm