Like many other things the bible is supposed to say, it's only possible to find it if you're already conditioned to look for it. The bible babbles a lot about 'sexual immorality' and how very bad it is. What it never comes out and says is "Having sex before marriage is bad". Seriously, here's the so-called money quote so many will bring up.
Run away from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.
That's supposed to clearly and unequivocally state that premarital sex is bad.
Alternatively, people will throw quotes at you about marriage and how awesome it is. All that tells you is that you shouldn't cheat.
It's amazing the contortions people will go through to try and justify not taking one million dollars. If you're the real deal, you could just make a few billion on the stock market, buy a private island, set up an armored compound on it, and THEN take the James Randi challenge just to prove you can.
The MMORPG A Tale in the Desert can stream new content to users. It can also patch the game or server without even closing the client or rebooting the server.
3. Physical Examination
The FAA is not requiring that a space flight participant obtain a physical examination. The Federation agreed with this decision in its comments. As it discussed in the guidelines and the NPRM, the FAA recommends such an examination./blockquote]
Creationists argue that species never change, and that we are exactly the way God made us.
Some, sure, but the mainstream creationist viewpoint is to accept 'microevolution' and deny 'macroevolution'. Basically, if it's totally undeniable that it happened, that's just microevolution and creationists accept it. If it's something you can deny happened with some fast talk and big words, then it's just an instance of 'macroevolution' and nothing more than a THEORY propogated by evil communist atheist secular humanist materialists.
I am not aware of any widespread rejection of evolution as a scientific theory in any other geographic location, or social group
Allow me to enlighten you.
Bite-sized enlightenment: Modern anti-evolution sentiment always comes back to America.
Beefy Enlightenment: Turkey is currently a hot-bed of Islamic anti-evolution activity. Anti-evolution has only begun to take foot in Turkey in the 80's. Before that, most fundamentalist branches of Islam denied evolution but hadn't put any real effort into their opposition to it. Their argument was simple - Islam is true, evolution is false, The End.
One day, the Muslim clerics woke up and said to themselves "Allah shit! The sheep accept evolution!" and realized they had to do something. But what? So they turned to their friends in America and said to them, "How did you guys deal with those secular-humanist-communist-evilutionists?" and the evangelicals responded, "Well here, take these books and spread the word!"
So they did. Anti-evolution books in Turkey are virtually identical to those we'd find here in the US, with the exception of the whole 'Allah' thing.
Some science people wrote a lot of the stuff Kansas is using to teach kids about science. Anyone who wants to use what the science people wrote can do so because these science people are really nice folks. Unfortunately, Kansas is also trying to bolt some lies onto the stuff the science people wrote. So the science people said "You want to teach lies to kids? Fine, but you can't use what we wrote while you're doing it."
This is their way of discouraging the practice of lying to children. See, if Kansas wants to lie to the kids, it will also have to rewrite everything the smart science people wrote. They don't want to do that because that would suck.
That inbreeding mentioned isn't necessarily just among distant cousins as one would hope. This article in Legal Affairs magazine points out that some of that is from much more direct relations, such as brothers raping their sisters.
6 weeks of the silent treatment doesn't strike me as an appropriate punishment for raping your sister or daughter.
An American, a Russian, and a Pole went up to the ISS.
The American said, "In America we are so rich that we can do afford to do this." The American pulled out a roll of hundred dollar bills and threw them out the airlock.
The Russian said, "In Russia our money is worth so little that we can afford to do this." The Russian pulled out a bunch of rubles and threw them out the airlock.
The Pole checked his pockets and found he had nothing. So he said, "In Poland we have so many of these that we can afford to do this", grabbed the Russian and threw him out the airlock.
He could be an invisible shape-shifting monster that doesn't have to breath, doesn't give off heat, doesn't have to eat, doesn't have to sleep, can move almost as fast as the speed of sound, and connects to the Internet with telepathy and you'd never know he was standing behind you naked.
Because I once read something about this in a book, there must be a grain of truth to it!
You are obviously a close minded bigot that can't conceive of ideas outside of your paradigm. You need to embrace new paradigms and ways of looking at things.
Most people use it in the context of someone who is deliberately screwing things up for other people, similar to the word asshole. For example, "It was working great until the asshats got a hold of it and ruined it."
Another defition of asshat is "One who has their head up their ass. Thus wearing their ass as a hat".
"Show me a cultural relativist at 30,000 feet and I'll show you a hypocrite... If you are flying to an international congress of anthropologists or literary critics, the reason you will probably get there, the reason you don't plummet into a ploughed field, is that a lot of Western scientifically trained engineers have got their sums right." -Richard Dawkins
So, lets make a deal. You find someone who'll jump off a cliff and will fly on faith and I'll happily jump off that same cliff. Only I'll have something stronger than faith - A parachute.
Hiring an economics teacher and having them fill in as coach is exactly how my local high school operates(I live in St. Louis).
Most of this comes via a newspaper article that was written after the local team won a few games - Sorry, dead tree, no linkage for you. There's a ton of teams - football, basketball, cheerleading, dance, swimming, track, etc at the school. There are a pair of gym teachers who actually teach gym, including weightlifting(Fruitiest class EVER)
The sports teams are lead by other teachers. For example, the guy with his Masters in Sociology and Administration coaches a team while also teaching courses on Psychology and Sociology.
A woman asked me to write my phone number down on my hand. Seeing as how she was 1. Gorgeous and 2. Didn't look like the type to chop my hand off, I dutifilly did so. She asked me to wave at her. Click goes her camera phone.
If that ever happens to you, you'll immediately understand why camera phones are good things.
I'm not going to comment on the others, but I will comment on North Korea.
There isn't any possible solution to North Korea. You have to understand that even if they don't have WMD's, North Korea has an incredible amount of artillery aimed at South Korea. If we invade, we are signing the death warrants for millions of South Koreans. I'm not exaggerating at all, MILLIONS will die. There are over 10 million people living in the city of Seoul, almost 1/4 of South Koreas entire population. They're sitting ducks.
Currently, the policy is "Lets wait for Kim Jong to die or for the North Korean people to revolt". There are no other solutions that don't involve millions of people dying. Kim Jong is batshit insane and unlikely to disarm or back down.
That is why we can attack Iraq but not North Korea.
At my high school, we had three or four options for graduation.
1. College Prep. If you selected this, your coursework would be geared towards fulfilling the requirements of a good college. 4 years of English, 4 years of math, 4 years of science, etc.
2. Get me the fuck out of here. If you selected this, you had a lot more electives and could select fruity classes like "Weightlifting". This was the option of choice for those who knew they were going into the military or had some non-college non-technical school career all lined up. It was also the option of choice for those that just didn't give a shit.
3. Technical School. This was an odd one. You would spend either the morning or the afternoon going to a technical school and the rest of the day in high school. The school paid for it, you'd graduate from the high school and already know a trade skill. In some cases, you'd instead graduate from the technical school, although I don't remember the details.
4. You didn't go to highschool, you went to the Special school. This was your Punks option. They'd send you to a special school called Scope. Scope is where you got sent when you were a total fuckup in highschool, I think in some cases they'd send you straight to Scope from middle school and not even bother seeing if you'd screw up in highschool first because you were such a prick. You might earn a couple days there if you got into a fight to scare you back into line.
Think about it. If a student is surfing at, say, 40 kbps instead of 5 kpbs, he'll be done with his researching 8 times as fast as he otherwise would. Also for downloading windows updates, virus software updates, and other various fun things.
It's pure photoshop. The guy behind it has gotten a number of angry phone calls regarding it. If you really want it confirmed, just do a WHOIS on him and call him yourself.
You know, I never thought of this before. Most people I know do not think of downloading music as wrong.
Now, the first reaction many of you likely have is "Yes but are they all from the same area of life, like Slashdot, IRC, etc?" No, these people run the gamut and it shows. Let me describe a couple of them to you.
The first one is a rich businessman. When I say "rich", I don't mean "Big house in the burbs", I mean "Collects corvettes and sometimes runs raffles of corvettes only to break even, not to make money" rich. He may have made a lot of that money on dotcoms, but he most certainly was an intelligent businessman(Unlike many dotcomtypes. You know who I'm talking about), often coming up with ideas I could've never thought of. I got a glance at his PC before and you know what he had installed? Napster. Tons of mp3s. This wasn't some broke college student, this was a millionaire in his 40's, 50's or 60's(I never asked and his age wasn't easily identifiable) who could have had ANYTHING he wanted. He saw nothing wrong with Napster.
The next is an uncle of mine. This guy's in his 50's perhaps, pretty tech-savvy(Last check, his job was to run the networks at the airports). Has his own 802.11b network at home, burns CDS on a regular basis, just bought a new home. You know what he had installed on his main PC? KazaaLite. I'll let you draw your own conclusions from that but suffice it to say his My Downloads folder wasn't very small.
For my third and final example, my mother. A woman in her late 40's, works for the Government at a not very known but not secret agency, been an aviator in some form almost all of her life. More than once, she's asked me to burn a few CDs for her and mail them her way or bring them over next time I'm over. Mainly stuff from the 60's, 70's, and 80's but the occassional modern country hit.
John and Jane Q. Public doesn't see anything wrong with downloading movies. Interestingly enough, they all think downloading movies is wrong, but don't think the same of music. I've no idea what it means, but I do know that the public thinks these things are as insane as we do. If we took the time to explain the insanity of copyright law, we'd probably have the people behind us in putting it back how it ought to be.
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That's supposed to clearly and unequivocally state that premarital sex is bad.
Alternatively, people will throw quotes at you about marriage and how awesome it is. All that tells you is that you shouldn't cheat.
It's amazing the contortions people will go through to try and justify not taking one million dollars. If you're the real deal, you could just make a few billion on the stock market, buy a private island, set up an armored compound on it, and THEN take the James Randi challenge just to prove you can.
Come back when you've read the FAQ.
The MMORPG A Tale in the Desert can stream new content to users. It can also patch the game or server without even closing the client or rebooting the server.
You're from Germany, aren't you?
Some, sure, but the mainstream creationist viewpoint is to accept 'microevolution' and deny 'macroevolution'. Basically, if it's totally undeniable that it happened, that's just microevolution and creationists accept it. If it's something you can deny happened with some fast talk and big words, then it's just an instance of 'macroevolution' and nothing more than a THEORY propogated by evil communist atheist secular humanist materialists.
I am not aware of any widespread rejection of evolution as a scientific theory in any other geographic location, or social group
l amic.html and the rest of the papers on that site.
Allow me to enlighten you.
Bite-sized enlightenment: Modern anti-evolution sentiment always comes back to America.
Beefy Enlightenment: Turkey is currently a hot-bed of Islamic anti-evolution activity. Anti-evolution has only begun to take foot in Turkey in the 80's. Before that, most fundamentalist branches of Islam denied evolution but hadn't put any real effort into their opposition to it. Their argument was simple - Islam is true, evolution is false, The End.
One day, the Muslim clerics woke up and said to themselves "Allah shit! The sheep accept evolution!" and realized they had to do something. But what? So they turned to their friends in America and said to them, "How did you guys deal with those secular-humanist-communist-evilutionists?" and the evangelicals responded, "Well here, take these books and spread the word!"
So they did. Anti-evolution books in Turkey are virtually identical to those we'd find here in the US, with the exception of the whole 'Allah' thing.
For a slightly more in-depth look at Islamic Creationism, check out http://www2.truman.edu/~edis/writings/articles/is
Here's the deal:
Some science people wrote a lot of the stuff Kansas is using to teach kids about science. Anyone who wants to use what the science people wrote can do so because these science people are really nice folks. Unfortunately, Kansas is also trying to bolt some lies onto the stuff the science people wrote. So the science people said "You want to teach lies to kids? Fine, but you can't use what we wrote while you're doing it."
This is their way of discouraging the practice of lying to children. See, if Kansas wants to lie to the kids, it will also have to rewrite everything the smart science people wrote. They don't want to do that because that would suck.
That inbreeding mentioned isn't necessarily just among distant cousins as one would hope. This article in Legal Affairs magazine points out that some of that is from much more direct relations, such as brothers raping their sisters.
6 weeks of the silent treatment doesn't strike me as an appropriate punishment for raping your sister or daughter.
An American, a Russian, and a Pole went up to the ISS. The American said, "In America we are so rich that we can do afford to do this." The American pulled out a roll of hundred dollar bills and threw them out the airlock. The Russian said, "In Russia our money is worth so little that we can afford to do this." The Russian pulled out a bunch of rubles and threw them out the airlock. The Pole checked his pockets and found he had nothing. So he said, "In Poland we have so many of these that we can afford to do this", grabbed the Russian and threw him out the airlock.
No you can't.
He could be an invisible shape-shifting monster that doesn't have to breath, doesn't give off heat, doesn't have to eat, doesn't have to sleep, can move almost as fast as the speed of sound, and connects to the Internet with telepathy and you'd never know he was standing behind you naked.
Because I once read something about this in a book, there must be a grain of truth to it!
You are obviously a close minded bigot that can't conceive of ideas outside of your paradigm. You need to embrace new paradigms and ways of looking at things.
Most people use it in the context of someone who is deliberately screwing things up for other people, similar to the word asshole. For example, "It was working great until the asshats got a hold of it and ruined it."
s hat has a few other definitions of Asshat.
Another defition of asshat is "One who has their head up their ass. Thus wearing their ass as a hat".
Go to http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=as
"Show me a cultural relativist at 30,000 feet and I'll show you a hypocrite... If you are flying to an international congress of anthropologists or literary critics, the reason you will probably get there, the reason you don't plummet into a ploughed field, is that a lot of Western scientifically trained engineers have got their sums right." -Richard Dawkins
So, lets make a deal. You find someone who'll jump off a cliff and will fly on faith and I'll happily jump off that same cliff. Only I'll have something stronger than faith - A parachute.
Hiring an economics teacher and having them fill in as coach is exactly how my local high school operates(I live in St. Louis).
Most of this comes via a newspaper article that was written after the local team won a few games - Sorry, dead tree, no linkage for you. There's a ton of teams - football, basketball, cheerleading, dance, swimming, track, etc at the school. There are a pair of gym teachers who actually teach gym, including weightlifting(Fruitiest class EVER)
The sports teams are lead by other teachers. For example, the guy with his Masters in Sociology and Administration coaches a team while also teaching courses on Psychology and Sociology.
A woman asked me to write my phone number down on my hand. Seeing as how she was 1. Gorgeous and 2. Didn't look like the type to chop my hand off, I dutifilly did so. She asked me to wave at her. Click goes her camera phone.
If that ever happens to you, you'll immediately understand why camera phones are good things.
It's abbreviated NGA, not NGI.
The reason for the name change was so they could be taken more seriously in the intelligence community. 3 letter agencys > 4 letter agencys.
No, I'm not making this up.
I'm not going to comment on the others, but I will comment on North Korea.
There isn't any possible solution to North Korea. You have to understand that even if they don't have WMD's, North Korea has an incredible amount of artillery aimed at South Korea. If we invade, we are signing the death warrants for millions of South Koreans. I'm not exaggerating at all, MILLIONS will die. There are over 10 million people living in the city of Seoul, almost 1/4 of South Koreas entire population. They're sitting ducks.
Currently, the policy is "Lets wait for Kim Jong to die or for the North Korean people to revolt". There are no other solutions that don't involve millions of people dying. Kim Jong is batshit insane and unlikely to disarm or back down.
That is why we can attack Iraq but not North Korea.
At my high school, we had three or four options for graduation.
1. College Prep. If you selected this, your coursework would be geared towards fulfilling the requirements of a good college. 4 years of English, 4 years of math, 4 years of science, etc.
2. Get me the fuck out of here. If you selected this, you had a lot more electives and could select fruity classes like "Weightlifting". This was the option of choice for those who knew they were going into the military or had some non-college non-technical school career all lined up. It was also the option of choice for those that just didn't give a shit.
3. Technical School. This was an odd one. You would spend either the morning or the afternoon going to a technical school and the rest of the day in high school. The school paid for it, you'd graduate from the high school and already know a trade skill. In some cases, you'd instead graduate from the technical school, although I don't remember the details.
4. You didn't go to highschool, you went to the Special school. This was your Punks option. They'd send you to a special school called Scope. Scope is where you got sent when you were a total fuckup in highschool, I think in some cases they'd send you straight to Scope from middle school and not even bother seeing if you'd screw up in highschool first because you were such a prick. You might earn a couple days there if you got into a fight to scare you back into line.
The same reason most home users have broadband.
Faster surfing.
Think about it. If a student is surfing at, say, 40 kbps instead of 5 kpbs, he'll be done with his researching 8 times as fast as he otherwise would. Also for downloading windows updates, virus software updates, and other various fun things.
It's pure photoshop. The guy behind it has gotten a number of angry phone calls regarding it. If you really want it confirmed, just do a WHOIS on him and call him yourself.
That's not how it works. You have to be continually connected to their servers while you play.
Now, the first reaction many of you likely have is "Yes but are they all from the same area of life, like Slashdot, IRC, etc?" No, these people run the gamut and it shows. Let me describe a couple of them to you.
The first one is a rich businessman. When I say "rich", I don't mean "Big house in the burbs", I mean "Collects corvettes and sometimes runs raffles of corvettes only to break even, not to make money" rich. He may have made a lot of that money on dotcoms, but he most certainly was an intelligent businessman(Unlike many dotcomtypes. You know who I'm talking about), often coming up with ideas I could've never thought of. I got a glance at his PC before and you know what he had installed? Napster. Tons of mp3s. This wasn't some broke college student, this was a millionaire in his 40's, 50's or 60's(I never asked and his age wasn't easily identifiable) who could have had ANYTHING he wanted. He saw nothing wrong with Napster.
The next is an uncle of mine. This guy's in his 50's perhaps, pretty tech-savvy(Last check, his job was to run the networks at the airports). Has his own 802.11b network at home, burns CDS on a regular basis, just bought a new home. You know what he had installed on his main PC? KazaaLite. I'll let you draw your own conclusions from that but suffice it to say his My Downloads folder wasn't very small.
For my third and final example, my mother. A woman in her late 40's, works for the Government at a not very known but not secret agency, been an aviator in some form almost all of her life. More than once, she's asked me to burn a few CDs for her and mail them her way or bring them over next time I'm over. Mainly stuff from the 60's, 70's, and 80's but the occassional modern country hit.
John and Jane Q. Public doesn't see anything wrong with downloading movies. Interestingly enough, they all think downloading movies is wrong, but don't think the same of music. I've no idea what it means, but I do know that the public thinks these things are as insane as we do. If we took the time to explain the insanity of copyright law, we'd probably have the people behind us in putting it back how it ought to be.