I'm impressed how you used the Democrat's use of the filibuster to block three of Bush's judicial nominee's as an incisive criticism of the party's leadership.
Too bad you ignore the fact that the Republican's were far worse when Clinton was in office.
In less than three years, the Senate has confirmed 160 judges nominated by President George W. Bush. Three controversial nominees have been blocked, just 1.8 percent of President Bush's nominees. During six years of control of the Senate under the Clinton Administration, Republicans confirmed 248 judges nominated by President Clinton. However, 63 nominees were blocked - 20.3 percent of President Clinton's nominees.
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You're point would be made much stronger if it wasn't completely hypocritical.
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I disagree about the radar in Halo, maybe cause it's not actually radar. You would expect the cyborg's of halo to have excellent hearing, and that's what it is. I like the fact that if you're quiet and move carefully, your opponent's can't locate you. Conversly, if another player is right around the corner from you, and you're running and jumping around like a fool then they should definatly be able to hear where you are and blow you the hell up.
I think you should try a real arguement as opposed to your ad hominem attack on a certain not necessarily representative subset of the people who criticise walmart.
So what if some people who think walmart sucks wear Nike® sneakers. The can throw on a Nike® windbreaker too. It doesn't change anything, Walmart still sucks.
making money hand over fist -> must not be doing anything unethical
Am I getting you right, is that what you're saying? So DeBeers, MS, Exxon, R.J Reynolds, we know those guys aren't doing anything wrong because they have lots of money? That's the most bizarre argument i've heard in a very long time.
Anyway, as for a good argument why WalMart isn't the greatest thing since sliced bread, despite their impressive wealth you can try this article: http://www.alternet.org/story/12962
You can refer to the book No Logo also for more information.
Really, there's a wealth of damning evidence out there. I don't think you've been looking.
Just take a look at what the average american produces (see national income) and where they live (less densely populated areas). I mean if we are going to look at the "obvious" starting points.
Your post explains part of the reason why American's are responsible for more pollution, however I'm confused about the intent of your post. The impression I get is that you are trying to pass off an explanation for our polluting as a justification for our polluting. Apologies in advance if that is a wrong impression. The problem with your argument should be obvious. It's akin to saying "But have you seen the street price of crack lately?" when someone points out that crack addicts are more likely to be robbers.
The truth is that American's (myself definatly included) live exceedingly comfortable lives compared to the vast majority of the world's population. Are you arguing that we shouldn't be willing to give up having our 3 ton, 15 MPG SUV's and our 25 acres of land miles from the closest convienience store just to bring our nations's per capita pollution output more in line with those of the (clearly primitive) Western European nations? If that's so I do hope you would reconsider your priorities. With privilege comes responsibility, and us American's are among the most privileged people on the planet.
Others have pointed out that some users may use ~ or their desktop as their download directory. That may not be a smart thing to do but that's really beside the point.
The rest of your post was very good, but I'm curious why you would say it may not be a smart thing to download stuff to ~? It may not be the best way to organise your downloads, but aside from personal preference, what would you say makes it a bad idea?
You should install the Plain Text Links extension too. With that you select the url then right click and you have an option to open it. The nice thing is this extension filters out white spaces, so it even works for long URL's broken up by slashcode.
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Wouldn't that somewhat butcher the flow of a thread if the first post was displayed in the middle since later posts got more mod points?
Beef? Not directly, but will it hurt if McDonald's can't call them hamburgers any more?
I'm sure that McDonald's woudln't be hurt one bit if they couldn't call their products hamburgers anymore since they've already been branded. Mcd's can just go along advertising Big Mac's as they already have. There smaller basic sandwitches will just be renamed to play off the Big Mac's mindshare. "Junior Big Mac", "Li'l Mac" or something like that.
If each van got at least 10-20 trucks, we'd have a serious problem.
Definatly. But where the hell would they find all the trucks with hazardous payloads? I drive on the highway over 3 hours a day, 5 days a week and I see maybe 2 or 3 trucks a week with that sort of cargo. Even if they were in an area where their were signifigantly more trucks of that sort, the van wouldn't make it far after they bomb their first target. Sure, lots of real life car chases can be very long and drawn out, but that's only because retaliation with stinger missles isn't normally justified.
Straw man. Different branch of government. Entirely different concept. A judgement in a civil suit is not a mandate.
Dude, WTF does the branch of government have to do with anything? It certainly has nothing to do with your statement "Government mandated payment = tax". And how is a judgement in a civil suit not a mandate? Is it just a helpful suggestion by the court that you pay?
True, you didn't advocate the Judeo-Christian creation story, but assuming we are both talking about American schools, what other possible version would we be talking about? That is the Creation theory that Creationists want taught in schools. In fact, I think that is the only creation theory that I've ever heard advocated by creation "scientists".
Also, though it's true the Bible never gives the age of the universe. However, all the most popular Christian scientists believe in Young Earth creationism. This means they believe that everything was created in six literal days and that the age of the earth can be roughly estimated based on the lineage given in the bible.
Yes, not all creationists are Young Earther's. There are creationists who believe in intelligent design, which means that God guided evolution. They don't deny evolution at all, so I have no problem whatsoever with them. Sure, it's not scientific, but it's not anti-scientific so it does no harm in my opinion. The Christians who belive in this also tend to believe in the seperation of church and state, so you won't typically hear of them trying to get this taugh in our schools.
Anyway, I realise you aren't a Creationist, but that doesn't make the discussion any more interesting from my perspective. I know a lot of young earth creationists from growing up in a Baptist church, so the topic is not just academic to me:)
Real science doesn't prove anything. We create the best theories that we can given the information that is available to us, but we never know when some new fact will be revealed that will require us to rething our ideas.
That said, anything that can't be disproven is not science. This is where creationism fails. Consider, astronomers have observed events out in space that have occured 12 billion years ago. Really though we don't need the HST to effectively disprove creation. Creationism says the universe is only ~7000 years old. Capella, the brightest star in Auriga (slightly NW of Gemini) is 7824 light years away. The Andromedia Galaxy at 2.2 million light years is the most distant object visible to the human eye.
If creationism was a science, these observations would invalidate it immediatly. To its adherants however creationism must be right, since the Bible says it. Therefore, instead of changing the theory when contrary observations are made, they create ad hoc explanations of why the observations are incorrect.
People can believe what they want, but not all theory's are equal. Creationism is not science and so I maintain it has no place in the science class room.
And, back to the original topic, if you don't allow the teaching of Creationism, how is that not censorship?
It's not censorchip because Creationism is not a scientifically accepted theory. Teaching Creationism in a science class is no more appropriate then teaching about free energy, perpetual motion, cold fusion and Time Cube theory would be.
The class room is for real science. The kids can learn about that other stuff from Sunday school or kranks on the internet.
The problem is clearly with Microsoft's developer relations. Does MS give beta releases of their upcoming updates to all the trojan and spyware authors on a regular bases? I think not! How can they expect these poor developers to update their warez to run with the new service pack? You can't release a new OS and expect all the spyware to just work.
As mentioned by others, RFC 822 does specify case sensitive addresses. This only makes sense since it is legal (though dumb) to specify two different users on a machine with names only differing by case. Applicable execerpts from the text:
The only syntactic units which requires preservation of case information are:... - local-part, except "Postmaster"
addr-spec = local-part "@" domain ; global address
local-part = word *("." word) ; uninterpreted case-preserved
Note: The reserved local-part address unit, "Postmaster", is an exception. When the value "Postmaster" is being interpreted, it must be accepted in any mixture of case, including "POSTMASTER", and "postmaster".
Note: This reserved local-part must be matched without sensitivity to alphabetic case, so that "POSTMASTER", "postmaster", and even "poStmASteR" is to be accepted.
Well put! I was thinking along similiar lines while reading all these comments. The reason all the tube lovers don't like DSP is because the DSP doesn't reproduce the sound of a tube accuratly. So what? Why are you trying to emulate the sound of a tube? The point of an amp is to emulate the sound of the instruments and voices. If the amp can raise the level of the music evenly and without clipping or distortion then it's doing it's job perfectly.
That's a really good idea, however I would change the username to webmaster or one of the other required usernames. root will resolve on any unix box, but what about all those IIS servers harvesting email addresses? You don't want to leave them out, do you?
The oil analogy doesn't work. People only know that there are various brands of oil to choose from because when they change their oil either they go to the store and see all the brands, or the local Jiffy Lube guy asks them if they want to use they cheap stuff or the more expensive stuff.
If each car came with 10 cases of Oil, they would never need to buy oil, so the only oil they would ever know about is the stuff in the cases in their garage.
No, these help their business. The percentage of people that overclock their machines is probably very small. However, the people that are willing to spend money upgrading their hardware are much more common. So Intel capitalizes on the fact that more people are willing to spend money on upgrades than to overclock.
I can't imagine this will do anything but hurt them. The people who were going to spend the money to get a faster intel chip before are still going to. The people who were going to buy an intel chip and overclock it are now just going to buy an AMD. How is this possibly going to get them any new sales?
Very few people will "not buy into" Intel because there are mechanisms like this in place... because most people don't know that overclocking exists, and many of the people who do aren't going to overclock anyway. No loss for Intel.
Sure, very few people will "not buy into" Intel because of this, but ZERO people will buy Intel just because of this. few > ZERO, thus it's a net loss for Intel.
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Too bad you ignore the fact that the Republican's were far worse when Clinton was in office. You're point would be made much stronger if it wasn't completely hypocritical.
I disagree about the radar in Halo, maybe cause it's not actually radar. You would expect the cyborg's of halo to have excellent hearing, and that's what it is. I like the fact that if you're quiet and move carefully, your opponent's can't locate you. Conversly, if another player is right around the corner from you, and you're running and jumping around like a fool then they should definatly be able to hear where you are and blow you the hell up.
You aren't the people. You're a person. Big difference.
I think you should try a real arguement as opposed to your ad hominem attack on a certain not necessarily representative subset of the people who criticise walmart.
So what if some people who think walmart sucks wear Nike® sneakers. The can throw on a Nike® windbreaker too. It doesn't change anything, Walmart still sucks.
making money hand over fist -> must not be doing anything unethical
Am I getting you right, is that what you're saying? So DeBeers, MS, Exxon, R.J Reynolds, we know those guys aren't doing anything wrong because they have lots of money? That's the most bizarre argument i've heard in a very long time.
Anyway, as for a good argument why WalMart isn't the greatest thing since sliced bread, despite their impressive wealth you can try this article: http://www.alternet.org/story/12962
You can refer to the book No Logo also for more information.
Really, there's a wealth of damning evidence out there. I don't think you've been looking.
Just take a look at what the average american produces (see national income) and where they live (less densely populated areas). I mean if we are going to look at the "obvious" starting points.
Your post explains part of the reason why American's are responsible for more pollution, however I'm confused about the intent of your post. The impression I get is that you are trying to pass off an explanation for our polluting as a justification for our polluting. Apologies in advance if that is a wrong impression. The problem with your argument should be obvious. It's akin to saying "But have you seen the street price of crack lately?" when someone points out that crack addicts are more likely to be robbers.
The truth is that American's (myself definatly included) live exceedingly comfortable lives compared to the vast majority of the world's population. Are you arguing that we shouldn't be willing to give up having our 3 ton, 15 MPG SUV's and our 25 acres of land miles from the closest convienience store just to bring our nations's per capita pollution output more in line with those of the (clearly primitive) Western European nations? If that's so I do hope you would reconsider your priorities. With privilege comes responsibility, and us American's are among the most privileged people on the planet.
Others have pointed out that some users may use ~ or their desktop as their download directory. That may not be a smart thing to do but that's really beside the point.
The rest of your post was very good, but I'm curious why you would say it may not be a smart thing to download stuff to ~? It may not be the best way to organise your downloads, but aside from personal preference, what would you say makes it a bad idea?
You should install the Plain Text Links extension too. With that you select the url then right click and you have an option to open it. The nice thing is this extension filters out white spaces, so it even works for long URL's broken up by slashcode.
Wouldn't that somewhat butcher the flow of a thread if the first post was displayed in the middle since later posts got more mod points?
Beef? Not directly, but will it hurt if McDonald's can't call them hamburgers any more?
I'm sure that McDonald's woudln't be hurt one bit if they couldn't call their products hamburgers anymore since they've already been branded. Mcd's can just go along advertising Big Mac's as they already have. There smaller basic sandwitches will just be renamed to play off the Big Mac's mindshare. "Junior Big Mac", "Li'l Mac" or something like that.
Stupid? How so? They didn't need that stuff after they immolated themselves in the towers.
If each van got at least 10-20 trucks, we'd have a serious problem.
Definatly. But where the hell would they find all the trucks with hazardous payloads? I drive on the highway over 3 hours a day, 5 days a week and I see maybe 2 or 3 trucks a week with that sort of cargo. Even if they were in an area where their were signifigantly more trucks of that sort, the van wouldn't make it far after they bomb their first target. Sure, lots of real life car chases can be very long and drawn out, but that's only because retaliation with stinger missles isn't normally justified.
Straw man. Different branch of government. Entirely different concept. A judgement in a civil suit is not a mandate.
Dude, WTF does the branch of government have to do with anything? It certainly has nothing to do with your statement "Government mandated payment = tax". And how is a judgement in a civil suit not a mandate? Is it just a helpful suggestion by the court that you pay?
True, you didn't advocate the Judeo-Christian creation story, but assuming we are both talking about American schools, what other possible version would we be talking about? That is the Creation theory that Creationists want taught in schools. In fact, I think that is the only creation theory that I've ever heard advocated by creation "scientists".
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Also, though it's true the Bible never gives the age of the universe. However, all the most popular Christian scientists believe in Young Earth creationism. This means they believe that everything was created in six literal days and that the age of the earth can be roughly estimated based on the lineage given in the bible.
Yes, not all creationists are Young Earther's. There are creationists who believe in intelligent design, which means that God guided evolution. They don't deny evolution at all, so I have no problem whatsoever with them. Sure, it's not scientific, but it's not anti-scientific so it does no harm in my opinion. The Christians who belive in this also tend to believe in the seperation of church and state, so you won't typically hear of them trying to get this taugh in our schools.
Anyway, I realise you aren't a Creationist, but that doesn't make the discussion any more interesting from my perspective. I know a lot of young earth creationists from growing up in a Baptist church, so the topic is not just academic to me
Real science doesn't prove anything. We create the best theories that we can given the information that is available to us, but we never know when some new fact will be revealed that will require us to rething our ideas.
That said, anything that can't be disproven is not science. This is where creationism fails. Consider, astronomers have observed events out in space that have occured 12 billion years ago. Really though we don't need the HST to effectively disprove creation. Creationism says the universe is only ~7000 years old. Capella, the brightest star in Auriga (slightly NW of Gemini) is 7824 light years away. The Andromedia Galaxy at 2.2 million light years is the most distant object visible to the human eye.
If creationism was a science, these observations would invalidate it immediatly. To its adherants however creationism must be right, since the Bible says it. Therefore, instead of changing the theory when contrary observations are made, they create ad hoc explanations of why the observations are incorrect.
People can believe what they want, but not all theory's are equal. Creationism is not science and so I maintain it has no place in the science class room.
And, back to the original topic, if you don't allow the teaching of Creationism, how is that not censorship?
It's not censorchip because Creationism is not a scientifically accepted theory. Teaching Creationism in a science class is no more appropriate then teaching about free energy, perpetual motion, cold fusion and Time Cube theory would be.
The class room is for real science. The kids can learn about that other stuff from Sunday school or kranks on the internet.
The problem is clearly with Microsoft's developer relations. Does MS give beta releases of their upcoming updates to all the trojan and spyware authors on a regular bases? I think not! How can they expect these poor developers to update their warez to run with the new service pack? You can't release a new OS and expect all the spyware to just work.
Well put! I was thinking along similiar lines while reading all these comments. The reason all the tube lovers don't like DSP is because the DSP doesn't reproduce the sound of a tube accuratly. So what? Why are you trying to emulate the sound of a tube? The point of an amp is to emulate the sound of the instruments and voices. If the amp can raise the level of the music evenly and without clipping or distortion then it's doing it's job perfectly.
That's a really good idea, however I would change the username to webmaster or one of the other required usernames. root will resolve on any unix box, but what about all those IIS servers harvesting email addresses? You don't want to leave them out, do you?
The oil analogy doesn't work. People only know that there are various brands of oil to choose from because when they change their oil either they go to the store and see all the brands, or the local Jiffy Lube guy asks them if they want to use they cheap stuff or the more expensive stuff.
If each car came with 10 cases of Oil, they would never need to buy oil, so the only oil they would ever know about is the stuff in the cases in their garage.
Hey! Do you think the politicians would give NASA more money if NASA would arrange for some photos of them flying through space clinging to the probe?
That would be awesome, everyone comes out a winner!
Some times. Not always. It's ambiguous.