This is something that a lot of pro-choicers have to tell themselves so they feel better about themselves
One can be pro-choice without rationizing their position with moral hair-splitting about the fetus not being a person.
Oh get off your moral high horse. By any reasonable measure, for the first several months after conception, the clump of cells is *not* a human. It sounds more like you're rationalizing the one reason that you agree with the lib'ruls on this case.
You don't call fertilized chicken eggs chickens. You don't call fertilized salmon eggs salmon. But for some reason, even though for much of their development a human embryo isn't all that distinguishable from an elephant embryo, we've got idiots calling them 'people' -- and you're enabling and perpetuating that redefinition. Not to mention that taken to the logical conclusion, you're implying that the women who choose to have an abortion and the doctors who perform them are murderers.
Banks make money through loans, with our without the use of credit cards. That's their whole business.
No, it's not even close to their whole business. Thanks for playing though! And no, I'm not going to look up links for you; there's really no excuse for this kind of ignorance when you have access to the internet.
I hear falsehoods coming from people like Rush Limbaugh, but I also hear falsehoods coming from Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz.
Here's the distinction: nobody in the Democratic party really gives a shit what Maddow and Schultz think. On the other hand, if Limbaugh has a problem with something that a Republican figure does or says, it can have huge repercussions for their political career.
How are the news sites a competitor of Google's? Google is still primarily a search engine company, and the news sites are providing some nominal level of journalism. If Google just dropped every news site, it could be argued that they're engaging in abusive rent-seeking monopolistic behavior, but it's not like Google is abusing their monopoly to promote their own news services.
(yes, there even is a seating area were people with a *go-to-the-hospital* emergency have to sit down to wait until they are attended... *if* they are attended
The precious thing is that you seem to think there are no waiting areas in emergency rooms in the US.
Point to some of these polls. I think you're full of shit.
In fact, sources in Wikipedia seem to agree with me. It's only since the Republican smear campaign against "Obamacare" and the misinformation repeated from easily-led blindly partisan people like yourself who, apparently, are incapable of looking at data from around the globe and seeing just how bad our healthcare system is that support has plummeted.
Hooray. Negative advertising wins again. Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth, because nobody can be bothered to fact check.
Sounds like the problems the opponents to universal health care in the States are always worried about.
And like most of the other 'problems' that these opponents choose to pick nits with, it's a problem that was already present before the Affordable Care Act.
State of the art, best of breed for those who can afford it.
Shitty, expensive, and slow for everybody else. We're the only industrialized country in the world that has a concept of "medical bankruptcy" for a reason.
Your talking points are years old and have been refuted soundly. If you're going to argue against socialized healthcare, at least come up with something that isn't so obviously wrong.
Except the calculator probably takes a couple of AA batteries (or possibly a watch battery of some sort) which is easily procurable and replaceable. You'd be a fool to throw it out and buy a new one when $2 worth of batteries is all you'd need to get it working again. You can't say the same thing for any newer portable electronics devices -- it's all proprietary, custom batteries that likely have to be ordered online and are only useful in a single device.
Apple's devices are some of the worst offenders, of course, because their proprietary, custom batteries aren't even user serviceable.
So buy their CDs and T-shirts instead, or just send them cash. If you want to support them, you can find a way that's compatible with your particular neuroses.
It is another to claim that the theory disproves Biblical teachings and to call those teachings "myths" as I've seen some books directed at children do.
Then leave creationism out of school entirely. If you don't want your myths to be examined critically, keep them out of the public eye -- otherwise, yeah, we'll publicly call them BS just like we call every other creation myth BS.
Also, re: war on Christians... LOL. You realize that Christians make up a super majority in the US, right? Paraphrasing Jon Stewart, "You're confusing 'war' for 'not getting every single thing you want.'"
It's more like you gave something important to someone for them to keep secure for you. They chose to secure it behind a screen door. Anonymous comes by and kicks in the screen door and then says, "hey everybody, all this important stuff isn't really secure."
And who's fault is that? It's not like Sony was still a paragon of virtue and responsibility when the PS3 came out.
You either already knew what you were getting into and didn't care, or you were ignorant if who you were dealing with. In either case, you've got nobody to blame but yourself.
You seem to think that requesting exile in Ecuador is some sort of implicit endorsement, by Assange, of their freedom of the press.
I'm not sure where you get this idea. I see a guy scared for his life, escaping to somewhere he feels will be safe, and it has nothing to do with political motivations. The only consideration in play seems to be "will you let me stay here and not give me up to another country?" Ecuador said "yes".
Wait, so you're claiming that in Sweden, if you're able to avoid a formal questioning, then the authorities are unable to charge you with a crime? If they haven't charged you with a crime, then they presumably can't legally obligate you to come anywhere for *anything*, so why would anyone ever agree to this "formal" questioning?
What if you're at the proper place for a "formal" questioning, but refuse to answer questions?
What constitutes "formal" questioning? Does it have to be in a courthouse? Just face-to-face? If so, why can't they do this questioning in the UK?
This line of reasoning raises so many questions that I have to assume that it's bullshit.
It's amazing to me how you "I distrust the government to do anything" types become utter bootlickers as soon as somebody from a perceived out-group does something to offend that government.
If you have a conflict of interest (which you clearly do), it should be disclosed.
It's ok, though -- you're not the only one working for the government or in a position of power that doesn't understand and/or recognize conflicts of interest when they arise.
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This is something that a lot of pro-choicers have to tell themselves so they feel better about themselves
One can be pro-choice without rationizing their position with moral hair-splitting about the fetus not being a person.
Oh get off your moral high horse. By any reasonable measure, for the first several months after conception, the clump of cells is *not* a human. It sounds more like you're rationalizing the one reason that you agree with the lib'ruls on this case.
You don't call fertilized chicken eggs chickens. You don't call fertilized salmon eggs salmon. But for some reason, even though for much of their development a human embryo isn't all that distinguishable from an elephant embryo, we've got idiots calling them 'people' -- and you're enabling and perpetuating that redefinition. Not to mention that taken to the logical conclusion, you're implying that the women who choose to have an abortion and the doctors who perform them are murderers.
--Jeremy
and have taken a bunch of cough meds and antihistamines?
You mean the kind that have warning labels that say, "do not drive when taking this medication"?
But your false dichotomy is irrelevant anyway: I'd rather have neither group on the road with me.
--Jeremy
Its not as if this is a story that needed to be brought to light.
I don't see you or other Apple fans saying that about stories covering "possible iPhone 5 specs!" or "iPad mini imminent!" rumors.
--Jeremy
Banks make money through loans, with our without the use of credit cards. That's their whole business.
No, it's not even close to their whole business. Thanks for playing though! And no, I'm not going to look up links for you; there's really no excuse for this kind of ignorance when you have access to the internet.
--Jeremy
I hear falsehoods coming from people like Rush Limbaugh, but I also hear falsehoods coming from Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz.
Here's the distinction: nobody in the Democratic party really gives a shit what Maddow and Schultz think. On the other hand, if Limbaugh has a problem with something that a Republican figure does or says, it can have huge repercussions for their political career.
--Jeremy
How are the news sites a competitor of Google's? Google is still primarily a search engine company, and the news sites are providing some nominal level of journalism. If Google just dropped every news site, it could be argued that they're engaging in abusive rent-seeking monopolistic behavior, but it's not like Google is abusing their monopoly to promote their own news services.
--Jeremy
(yes, there even is a seating area were people with a *go-to-the-hospital* emergency have to sit down to wait until they are attended... *if* they are attended
The precious thing is that you seem to think there are no waiting areas in emergency rooms in the US.
--Jeremy
Point to some of these polls. I think you're full of shit.
In fact, sources in Wikipedia seem to agree with me. It's only since the Republican smear campaign against "Obamacare" and the misinformation repeated from easily-led blindly partisan people like yourself who, apparently, are incapable of looking at data from around the globe and seeing just how bad our healthcare system is that support has plummeted.
Hooray. Negative advertising wins again. Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth, because nobody can be bothered to fact check.
--Jeremy
Sounds like the problems the opponents to universal health care in the States are always worried about.
And like most of the other 'problems' that these opponents choose to pick nits with, it's a problem that was already present before the Affordable Care Act.
--Jeremy
State of the art, best of breed for those who can afford it.
Shitty, expensive, and slow for everybody else. We're the only industrialized country in the world that has a concept of "medical bankruptcy" for a reason.
Your talking points are years old and have been refuted soundly. If you're going to argue against socialized healthcare, at least come up with something that isn't so obviously wrong.
--Jeremy
Except the calculator probably takes a couple of AA batteries (or possibly a watch battery of some sort) which is easily procurable and replaceable. You'd be a fool to throw it out and buy a new one when $2 worth of batteries is all you'd need to get it working again. You can't say the same thing for any newer portable electronics devices -- it's all proprietary, custom batteries that likely have to be ordered online and are only useful in a single device.
Apple's devices are some of the worst offenders, of course, because their proprietary, custom batteries aren't even user serviceable.
--Jeremy
Yes, he is.
--Jeremy
The guy equating taxes to theft by gunpoint is claiming strawman. That's rich.
--Jeremy
Eventually you run out of other people's money, and then what?
Give it a rest with this tired "other people's money" line. You're not fooling anybody but yourself.
And I've never been in an organization, public or private, that didn't waste *some* money/time/other resources. It's nearly impossible not to.
--Jeremy
GP said computing, not gaming. WoW and EQ players don't rent the computers that run their game clients.
--Jeremy
He hasn't been charged with anything, and he doesn't become a criminal until after he is convicted.
I'm glad that your understanding of due process isn't how the civilized world works.
--Jeremy
So buy their CDs and T-shirts instead, or just send them cash. If you want to support them, you can find a way that's compatible with your particular neuroses.
--Jeremy
It is another to claim that the theory disproves Biblical teachings and to call those teachings "myths" as I've seen some books directed at children do.
Then leave creationism out of school entirely. If you don't want your myths to be examined critically, keep them out of the public eye -- otherwise, yeah, we'll publicly call them BS just like we call every other creation myth BS.
Also, re: war on Christians ... LOL. You realize that Christians make up a super majority in the US, right? Paraphrasing Jon Stewart, "You're confusing 'war' for 'not getting every single thing you want.'"
--Jeremy
Bad analogy.
It's more like you gave something important to someone for them to keep secure for you. They chose to secure it behind a screen door. Anonymous comes by and kicks in the screen door and then says, "hey everybody, all this important stuff isn't really secure."
--Jeremy
I'm effectively stuck with Sony
And who's fault is that? It's not like Sony was still a paragon of virtue and responsibility when the PS3 came out.
You either already knew what you were getting into and didn't care, or you were ignorant if who you were dealing with. In either case, you've got nobody to blame but yourself.
--Jeremy
The next option is to claim that the embassy is already in violation of the conventions, since it harbors criminals.
Actually, they can't make that claim, because Assange has not been charged with any crime.
--Jeremy
You seem to think that requesting exile in Ecuador is some sort of implicit endorsement, by Assange, of their freedom of the press.
I'm not sure where you get this idea. I see a guy scared for his life, escaping to somewhere he feels will be safe, and it has nothing to do with political motivations. The only consideration in play seems to be "will you let me stay here and not give me up to another country?" Ecuador said "yes".
--Jeremy
Wait, so you're claiming that in Sweden, if you're able to avoid a formal questioning, then the authorities are unable to charge you with a crime? If they haven't charged you with a crime, then they presumably can't legally obligate you to come anywhere for *anything*, so why would anyone ever agree to this "formal" questioning?
What if you're at the proper place for a "formal" questioning, but refuse to answer questions?
What constitutes "formal" questioning? Does it have to be in a courthouse? Just face-to-face? If so, why can't they do this questioning in the UK?
This line of reasoning raises so many questions that I have to assume that it's bullshit.
--Jeremy
* for some less-inclusive definitions of torture
It's amazing to me how you "I distrust the government to do anything" types become utter bootlickers as soon as somebody from a perceived out-group does something to offend that government.
--Jeremy
If you have a conflict of interest (which you clearly do), it should be disclosed.
It's ok, though -- you're not the only one working for the government or in a position of power that doesn't understand and/or recognize conflicts of interest when they arise.
--Jeremy