For those who are scientific, you should recognize that sexual abstinence results in the lowest risk of STDs and unplanned pregnancies. No matter how many drugs you use, nothing will beat not being exposed, so attacking those who believe in the most conservative, economical, and environmentally friendly method of prevention is foolish.
You can't inject sexual abstinence. How effective is preaching against STDs? Perhaps you live in a world where kids do everything their parents and teachers tell them. However the rest of us have to live in the real world.
To somebody who believes pre-marital sex is wrong, it's like giving your kid a bullet proof vest for his birthday and saying "you know I don't want you to mug people, but if you do mug people, please wear it."
Except in this case, pretty much every kid is going to mug people, so not giving him the vest is risking his life for no apparent reason. But if you think that dogma is more important than your kids' lives, then don't have them vaccinated.
Had the poster said "football" then the American population would assume the summary was referring to American football
How often are NFL teams referred to as 'clubs' like in the summary? It also says it's in Britain where there are no professional American football teams.
OK, so when the local newspaper puts your picture on the front page saying you're a paedophile, you'll have plenty of time for introspection whilst in hospital.
A really, really bad idea. It's called mob rule, or the tyranny of the majority.
It's also called 'democracy'. What makes you think that tyranny of the minority is better than mob rule? Current 'democracy' resembles a dictatorship more than anything else.
Unpopular, difficult decisions are (occasionally) made by governments.
Who are they to force through decisions that no-one wants? Suppose they tried to pass anti-civil rights legislation when most people wanted civil rights, would you still be crowing about how great the parliament system is?
So you happily pay at least 10-15 times the cost of the BBC to Sky for about half a dozen real channels and about 300 shopping and religious channels - and sky produce virtually *no* content of their own, plus they have wall to wall adverts.
I'll happily pay 10 times the cost of the BBC (it's actually around 3.5 times), considering that Sky has infinity times more content. All the best things are on Sky, the films are all on there first, all the top American programmes, Premiership football, Super league, Rugby union Premiership, England away games, Carling cup, Champions League, Heineken cup, PDC darts (the best one), Spanish football, even NFL! The BBC has none of this. What they do cover, they cover badly, with the cheapest cameramen, directors and commentators.
If it wasn't for government legislation stopping Sky showing certain events, the BBC would have nothing worth watching. Except teletext, which isn't worth the licence fee alone.
The BBC don't do ads. They've never done ads. They never will do ads.
They advertise themselves all the time. They spend around ten minutes an hour showing vomit-enducing ads telling us how great and brilliant they are, and threatening to lock us up if we don't pay their tax.
The BBC is the best media company on the face of the planet
If you like derivative soaps, disastrously bad sitcoms, mind-numbing 'reality' TV, and all the crap sport that none of the commercial channels wanted. Horse-jumping anyone?
It's spent on providing independent and accountable news.
Well, the BBC's latest comedy output doesn't make me laugh, but that sure did. The BBC are accountable only to themselves. They do not have to follow the normal laws of economics, they flush money away then come back begging for more.
Even though he's been given a large pay rise, he's found that everyone else has also received the same raise and all the prices have gone up accordingly, leaving him wondering why he bothered.
The argument requires the mediocrity principle which implies that if there are many other intelligent civilizations many of them would be far more advanced then we are.
That's a load of shit. What makes you think we aren't the most advanced, or that the most advanced civilisations have barely just begun to colonise neighbouring planets?
I don't care if they give the employee of the month a blowjob, how is this news? This is the second article in the last two days that isn't news at all, it's just Google pandering. Tomorrow we'll be seeing: "Google Take Out the Rubbish for Bin Day" "Google Replace Urinal Cakes" "Google Reception Has New Carpet Fitted"
Here's a better analogy: imagine your car is stolen. Then one day you see it on a neighbour's drive. You tell him about it, and he lets you have it back. Then the next day, your TV is stolen. That same neighbour has it in his living room. You go round and he gives you it back. Time after time, things go missing and turn up in your neighbour's house. Are you supposed to have to keep going there day after day asking for your stuff back? Of course not, your neighbour should be arrested for willingly harbouring stolen goods.
The burden of preventing copyright infringement lies with the rights holder.
No, it lies with the infringers, in this case youtube and its users. No copyright holder can possibly police the entire Internet. If a website cannot keep itself free of illegal material then it should be closed down until it can.
Right, and a homeowner should have to do business with every potential burglar to stop them breaking into their house? Where I come from, that's called extortion.
The burden of responsibility here falls entirely on youtube's shoulders. If they don't like it they should vet videos rather than let any idiot upload something.
Dude, if I could get safe gasoline piped into my house then I would be happy to use a hose to get it all the way out to my car. Consider the convenience of fueling up without waiting in line for the pump, without worry that some asshole on a celphone will run you over when you walk in to pay, without waiting in line while some dickhead screws with writing a paper check to pay for his one pack of smokes, without getting short changed by the clerk or involved in a hold up.
Maybe I go to the wrong places, but I've never had to wait at a petrol station, nor been run over, no had a queue whilst inside, or been held up.
A cable going across a road is pretty dangerous as well. Imagine if you only managed to park 100 yards away, across two streets! You'd also have your window open all night to get the cable out, not very useful in the winter.
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I think I've just discovered why Linux can't get on the desktop.
Not to mention Linux can often need more expensive hardware, as there is a lot of cheap hardware that only works with Windows.
Then how come Europeans managed to settle and build cities almost immediately?
People currently to poor to pay much income tax would be absolutely hammered by this.
The costs of doing business would skyrocket, many would go bust, meaning many people would end up unemployed.
Meanwhile the rich would just go abroad and spend their money where there's less sales tax.
I don't think this is a good idea.
You can't inject sexual abstinence. How effective is preaching against STDs? Perhaps you live in a world where kids do everything their parents and teachers tell them. However the rest of us have to live in the real world.
If you need 'support' for a word processor, you shouldn't be at university.
OK, so when the local newspaper puts your picture on the front page saying you're a paedophile, you'll have plenty of time for introspection whilst in hospital.
The idiots are the people who gave two different universities near-identical names.
If it wasn't for government legislation stopping Sky showing certain events, the BBC would have nothing worth watching. Except teletext, which isn't worth the licence fee alone.
Even though he's been given a large pay rise, he's found that everyone else has also received the same raise and all the prices have gone up accordingly, leaving him wondering why he bothered.
Surgery requires a steady hand and precise movements, computer games let you clumsily hold the controller and just mash the buttons.
And you can't do surgery via trial and error.
You don't actually own the road in front of your house. They should increase the speed limit by 20mph to show this couple who's in charge.
Having watched Top Gear last week, I'm wondering why anyone would want to even visit Alabama, let alone live there.
I don't care if they give the employee of the month a blowjob, how is this news? This is the second article in the last two days that isn't news at all, it's just Google pandering. Tomorrow we'll be seeing:
"Google Take Out the Rubbish for Bin Day"
"Google Replace Urinal Cakes"
"Google Reception Has New Carpet Fitted"
Is Google paying Slashdot for all this publicity?
Here's a better analogy: imagine your car is stolen. Then one day you see it on a neighbour's drive. You tell him about it, and he lets you have it back. Then the next day, your TV is stolen. That same neighbour has it in his living room. You go round and he gives you it back. Time after time, things go missing and turn up in your neighbour's house. Are you supposed to have to keep going there day after day asking for your stuff back? Of course not, your neighbour should be arrested for willingly harbouring stolen goods.
Right, and a homeowner should have to do business with every potential burglar to stop them breaking into their house? Where I come from, that's called extortion.
The burden of responsibility here falls entirely on youtube's shoulders. If they don't like it they should vet videos rather than let any idiot upload something.
Yeah well most houses don't have garages, there's no room for them.
A cable going across a road is pretty dangerous as well. Imagine if you only managed to park 100 yards away, across two streets! You'd also have your window open all night to get the cable out, not very useful in the winter.