Or they could just do the sensible thing, cut out all the bullshit "unlimited" advertising (which should be against the law anyways) and start selling customers a set block of gigabytes, with an over-limit charge per gig, just like the dialup ISPs did with time online in the olden days.
I believe I read that Comcast is currently executing a pilot project for metered service. I know TimeWarner is too in their Beaumont, TX market. I'm a TimeWarner customer and I hope they don't implement metered service unless their tiers include lots and lots of gigabytes in transfers. I run eMule in the background and using DUMeter to measure my daily upload/download amounts a typical day where I don't actually download anything on eMule can still mean I transfer (in uploads) almost a gigabyte and that is just 1 day of the month and I limit my eMule upload bandwidth to 10kB/s. When I actually do download stuff the number can be 2 or 3 gigabytes total transfer for a given day. From 2/3/2008 to 2/9/2008 I transferred 50 gigabytes (up and down). Sometimes I download stuff from newsgroups and of course the usual web browsing. So in the end I probably wouldn't like metered usage because they will probably set the tiers very low and it wouldn't surprise me if I'd be in the highest tier and end up going over the limit still and pay extra in addition to probably having to pay more than I do now for whatever their highest tier will be. Or maybe they will do something like Giganews and NewsHosting where you can get an unlimited NNTP transfer per month for only a little more than a capped subscription.
.but we must recognize that there are irrational people out there that believe it's a good idea to shield their kids from having to deal with the world in the hopes that, at some point in the future, thrusting them into said world with a complete lack of practice, understanding, and context will allow them to flourish.
Yes, because *sarcasm on* simple nudity and exploitation of nudity, people, and sex for profit (i.e. porn) are the same thing so kids should be educated early about both without prejudice.*sarcasm off* Obviously one person's irrational ideas of what irrational parenting is is another person's rational parenting when examined properly. Parents will shield their children from porn but they can make the distinction between porn and nudity in and of itself. I have a feeling anyone can make it through the world without being informed of pornography (your complete lack of practice, understanding, and context is fine in this case) and I'm sure many people were able to do so prior to the proliferation of porn via the Net.
I do agree that Google should make it easier for their search capability to be used by children while still making it easy for parents to filter out what they don't want their children to see. Doing it at the domain level would indeed make this easy. This is also why I thought having an entire TLD for porn (.xxx) was a good idea because it would make filtering it easy assuming you could enforce porn sites to only use that TLD. I know some conservative groups thought it a bad idea though because it would lend credence to porn. It would allow easier filtering when desired IMO.
And for search engines to accidentally bypass those filters to display porn isn't their fault. As someone stated, there are ways to prevent search engines from indexing it. Vivid's IT department needs to read up on that before someone complains needlessly. By the way, Porn King? I thought they were talking about me but I guess there is more than 1.
And nope, you won't see people ridiculing the Islamic creation myths, because that's not how the Koran works. Since many scholars believe it embraces evolution and the Big Bang, there's nothing to laugh at (although I bet Fred Hoyle is pissed off)
There are still plenty of other religions which share a Creation history (not myth) but I don't see anyone ridiculing them because of what they believe. However with that said, whether you care to characterize it as such or not, the Big Bang is a moment of Creation because were it not for that explosion we wouldn't be here right now. I'm sure Fred Hoyle is pissed considering he preferred the steady-state model but personal biases (his conviction that a steady-state model avoided a point of Creation) take time to be proven wrong.
Dude, you and the Muslims worship the same God. I'm making fun of them at the same time. And when God made Satan, God knew exactly what he was doing.
Dude, my God doesn't say it is okay to kill people for your own benefit and that by doing so you'll get 72 virgins when you die. Suicide is also a sin based on what my God teaches. Also, God didn't make Satan. Satan is a fallen angel and chose that tract. God just placed him in a certain location away from Heaven because of the choices which were made.
God made the universe 6,000 years ago. If you do not worship him and subjugate yourself to his will, he will torture you forever. He just put in things like dinosaur bones and black holes to mess with your head, to get you to disbelieve in him, so that he can torture you forever without feeling guilty about it.
He's kinda messed up because he was alone for like, eternity, until he made up some friends in his head, but he's incapable of imagining anything that is actually his peer, so he secretly hates us all for not providing the companionship he needs. That is how the universe works.
If you are going to make fun of people who believe differently than you then you can at least get your facts straight. God isn't the one that tortures you when you go to Hell. Satan has the pleasure of doing that to you.
Oh, and are you going to also make fun of the Muslims and how they view the creation of the universe? I didn't think so.
One fortunate consequence of this is that smaller black holes 'evaporate' more quickly, and the microscopic black holes we'll likely be generating at the Large Hadron Collider will cease to exist before they've even had sufficient time to absorb a neutrino.
Although they do evaporate it can still take billions of years before they reduce to nothing. The black holes the LHC will create are going to evaporate so fast they won't have time to do anything really. They definitely won't have any adverse effects on the planet or the LHC itself.
Best Buy fucking lost this lady's personal machine, and they are not responsible that way for whatever personal data (and illegal porn) she might have had one it.
Huh? Someone has to be. It wasn't her fault. The people who actually lost the laptop are the Best Buy employees. Yes, she put the data on there and she took it to them to fix and in good faith that they would fix it w/o further issue. In the meantime they LOST the laptop. It didn't get up and walk away on it's own. Someone is responsible and Best Buy is the only logical entity to blame.
Had Best Buy notified her immediately about the loss, I could agree with you, but instead, they lied about it -- to the extent of an employee creating a fabricated entry in their systems. It's the delay and lying that makes them responsible IMHO.
Why does it matter how long it took them to lose it, or that they denied it, to be blamed for it? They lost it. 'Nuff said as far as blame is concerned. It only puts salt in the wound that they took so long to 'admit' it and fabricated evidence to the contrary.
Far worse, however, is the media writing that George W. Bush said something when he was obviously only reading something someone else wrote. In class you get disciplined if you present someone else's work as your own. If you are president of the United States, that is considered acceptable.
I've only seen references used for research because most people don't care.
I've just arrived in Japan, which has - following pressure from the US - introduced fingerprinting at the border for all foreigners (including those with residence rights, not just visitors). While the process was relatively smooth (put your index fingers on a little machine), it's been my first contact with the world of paranoid "anti-terrorist" biometrics and for me marks the end of an era where international travel has been an expression of freedom.
I've heard that the border patrol on the US/Mexico border used to only do checks on drivers of vehicles coming into the country (real useful right?) but soon they will be instituting checks on all passengers in each vehicle as well. These checks go against NCIC. NCIC will be getting even more hits every day once that starts on top of the 3+ million queries it gets each day now.
I think the NGI contract the FBI will be awarding very very very soon will redefine what we now hate about how the gov't treats citizens (especially those who have no record; you can thank the new RAP-back feature which will be implemented by the contractor who wins it).
Regardless of your view of foreign policy, I've never really understood this use of the word "coward." Someone who blows himself up to (unjustly) kill his enemy is a murderer, no doubt, but how is dying to achieve your aim cowardly?
Someone who blows himself up excuses himself from punishment by those he hurts. That is cowardly. Of course, in the end those who do that burn in hell but it would still be nice to punish them on Earth first.
My problem is that I'm used to hitting my computer when I hear a slight squeal so when I tried out clit and started hearing weird noises I kept kicking it until the noises stopped. I think I have to call 911 now...brb.
Of course, the problem may also have been known six months ago. Not that that differs from closed source, but I don't see the openness of the code as a particular benefit in this case. The real benefit seems to be that when someone releases something as open source and they put their name on it, they're more inclined to be responsive to problems and provide quick fixes than when it's just some company's product and the developer's reputation is shielded by the company.
The benefit of it being open code is that we aren't reliant upon the maintainer/author to fix the code. Anyone can view it in order to submit a patch. In many cases, the code being open also aids in finding the exploit because of peer review.
And, what happens when the spread of American-brand "democracy" is feared? It's only so long before everyone gets tired of having "freedom" bombed into them.
And the US got tired of being attacked by terrorists and having civilians (and military men and women) murdered by cowards. Clinton didn't do anything about terrorist attacks while he was in office: 1) the February 26, 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center 2) the Khobar Towers attack 3) the August 7, 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania 4) and the October 12, 2000, attack on the USS Cole.
Bush, on the other hand, did react. The actions taken by terrorists on 9/11/2001 were a declaration of war. In war civilians do get killed, especially when the aforementioned cowards hide among the civilians, but at least when civilians are killed by the US military it is by accident and not on purpose unlike the cowards who attack the US.
Actually, no one outside the US cares about your constitution. We care more about how you randomly invade countries without reason, how you try to enforce your local laws and policy on weaker nations, and things like that.
I hate to break the news to you but the US had reason to invade Iraq based on intelligence gathered by various agencies. Our laws aren't being enforced over there. Many countries share many basic laws because they are just that, basic. A basic set of laws help keep order from turning into chaos or chaos turning into more chaos. By helping out a weaker country the country becomes stronger. Iraq's economy is much better now than it was 5 years ago. The people are happier, they are safer, and things like that.
In either case, none of this addresses the underlying bloat, bugs, and obviously creaking NT architecture, on an OS version that was allegedly rebuilt from the ground up. With most corporate folks likely holding off now for "Windows 7", and home users nursing XP. Vista likely won't make much difference now in either case...
I think your argument holds up until you consider that many of the installed Vista userbase probably came from users buying new computers and not having a choice as to which OS they wanted on it. I'd wager that is the easiest and biggest method for MS to push Vista onto customers whether they want it or not.
so without evidence that they violated their own policy (which, by the way, is just a policy.. until they charge your credit card no contract exists), they're entitled to the benefit of the doubt.
Valdrax says differently:
Also, a contract of this sort is generally considered to be binding when the site gives you order confirmation, and you submit it. At that point, offer and acceptance has been had (even under the older UCC Article 2). The time at which they charge you or not is irrelevant in this situation.
More of that $3 a gallon gasoline goes to state and federal gov't (via taxes) than to those evil oil companies (via profit).
Well, when oil is priced high it, in theory, hurts oil companies because they have to pay more for it which causes refiners to pay more, which causes distributors to pay more and eventually the average joe feels the effects. In WV, about 50 cents per gallon of gasoline goes to state and federal taxes. WV has one of the highest state taxes on gasoline in the country. I don't know what percentage goes to the oil companies but last year Exxon posted the biggest profit yet. I want to say it was about $40+ billion for 2007. They have huge R&D expenses as well but they still made a tremendous profit despite oil prices being the highest ever during the last quarter of 2007. The price of oil makes up only a portion of the price of gasoline and unfortunately taxes make up a large portion too.
why should marriage definition be a federal issue?
Do you have at least 1 reason why it shouldn't be?
Let South Dakota outlaw abortion and teach biology from the Bible and deal with the consequences of most young women and college graduates leaving the state for California.
Yes, I hear CA is running low on tranvestites, transgenders, and homosexuals these days. They need to raise imports to keep up their quota on minorities.
Let some states decline to criminalize prostitution, internet gambling or smoking pot and learn from their own experience if they are willing to live with the consequences.
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Until that happens, I would rather have some of the federal budget used on social programs and education than to have all of it be channeled into corporate welfare, unnecessary wars and enforcing personal viewpoints of the politicians.
And how is declining to criminalize prostitution, gambling and pot not enforcing personal viewpoints? Law making is exactly that, enforcing viewpoints because some things should be legal and some shouldn't. However the viewpoints that are enforced are largely societal, not personal, unless your respective Congressman ignores his constituents.
I cant think of anyone thats at the head, or close to the head of a business, nevemind a corporation that hasnt lost it at least once...
I don't deny that being any CxO of a company doesn't come with its own set of stressors but some people are better at handling those stressors than others. Some children handle stress at home by being bullies at school while some kids when they grow up will take up boxing instead of beating up on an innocent bystandard. There are ways to deal with anger and many people that have issues with it express it physically (throwing chairs anyone?). But there are verbal ways to express it as well and obviously Ballmer has issues with that too. Unless you just don't care you can control your anger and what you say in public as opposed to a private business meeting, as opposed to how you talk to your wife and kids at home (or in public for that matter). It is called decorum. Some people have it and some don't. Those who are in the public spotlight should have more than most people because they are representing a company. Shareholdres, customers and employees (both existing and potential) take notice of those things.
Everyone talks about creationists trying to have the government force their views on society (e.g. teaching creationism in schools). I agree with that.
And teaching evolution (whethered viewed as science or not) could be argued as teaching an atheistic view of the world and thus still has a religions slant, that being atheism, which is being forced onto society. How can you argue otherwise? Quit pushing your atheistic religious views on society.
I don't want an anti-science creationist. I don't want a pro-science eugenicist. I want separation of science and state.
Remember, there is a difference between the government in religion/science and religion/science in government. The US has a government that has a religion so religion is in the government. They do not, even by teaching Creation in schools, do anything to cross the line of having themselves in religion. It is just another class or subject in an existing class and just as if anyone objected to being taught that the Germans were the cause of the Holocaust (despite it being the truth) and fought to be taken out of the class because it offended them, so can too a child whose parents are offended by the child learning about Creation. Of course, whether the parents win the fight is a different issue but they have the right to try to remove the child for whatever reason they so choose to use to complain about it. The bottom line is that no child is forced to accept any fact concerning any topic when being taught those facts in school. A child can grow up and make up their own mind as to whether or not what they were taught was the truth so I don't understand why a particular subject should be singled out because it could be considered forcing a particular mindset in children when the same argument could be made for ANY topic.
Creationists aren't anti-science despite what you may think. Science is a result of how the universe was created. The Laws that students learn about were set in place in the first few billionths of a second after Creation. Whatever caused Creation to occur (the Big Bang, for those who deny religious accounting) also put in place the properties of the Universe we now study in various sub-disciplines under the science discipline. Teaching Creation is the same as teaching evolution. When you choose to state that Creation is being preached (to make it sound like it isn't science) while evolution is being taught you are just employing a spin you have to use in order to win based on a weaker argument. If the Bible can be used on college campuses for purposes of literary study then it can also be used for purposes of scientific study because in both cases the subject matter is being taught, not preached. Any church goer will tell you that even when they are voluntarily preached to they are not forced to do anything they do not want to do but I'm sure you already knew that preaching does not imply force of any kind.
Sure, or course. The circling money vultures who could not really care any less about Yahoo! or it's business will flee to other more tasty rotting Interweb meat. And Yahoo will live another day.
This also explains why oil is currently at $90 a barrel and why it jumped ~$20 in a few weeks time. Even though the poor are having trouble getting to work to make money the high and mighty rich investors are making profits on oil. Just another day of work for them.
At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Ballmer then said: "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google."....
Just goes to show me that even on the off chance I would want to work for MS, had an interview, and was offered a position that I would not take it after hearing that. To have a CEO who can't use professional language is just showing that the company needs to look elsewhere for a CEO, not to mention it shows his lack of variety and knowledge of the English language. But maybe they have the cream of the crop already. After all, how many CEOs have morals and ethics?
because having tax values online makes it easier to buy a house. I'm in the market for a house in north-central WV and I've tried to use http://www.zillow.com/ to compare the assessed value of a house with the list price to be an informed buyer. The data isn't always accurate or it can be missing. Publishing these maps may not help the situation but it shouldn't hurt it either.
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I did no such thing. I swear. Oh, whew, this must have been glitch #1.
I believe I read that Comcast is currently executing a pilot project for metered service. I know TimeWarner is too in their Beaumont, TX market. I'm a TimeWarner customer and I hope they don't implement metered service unless their tiers include lots and lots of gigabytes in transfers. I run eMule in the background and using DUMeter to measure my daily upload/download amounts a typical day where I don't actually download anything on eMule can still mean I transfer (in uploads) almost a gigabyte and that is just 1 day of the month and I limit my eMule upload bandwidth to 10kB/s. When I actually do download stuff the number can be 2 or 3 gigabytes total transfer for a given day. From 2/3/2008 to 2/9/2008 I transferred 50 gigabytes (up and down). Sometimes I download stuff from newsgroups and of course the usual web browsing. So in the end I probably wouldn't like metered usage because they will probably set the tiers very low and it wouldn't surprise me if I'd be in the highest tier and end up going over the limit still and pay extra in addition to probably having to pay more than I do now for whatever their highest tier will be. Or maybe they will do something like Giganews and NewsHosting where you can get an unlimited NNTP transfer per month for only a little more than a capped subscription.
.but we must recognize that there are irrational people out there that believe it's a good idea to shield their kids from having to deal with the world in the hopes that, at some point in the future, thrusting them into said world with a complete lack of practice, understanding, and context will allow them to flourish.Yes, because *sarcasm on* simple nudity and exploitation of nudity, people, and sex for profit (i.e. porn) are the same thing so kids should be educated early about both without prejudice.*sarcasm off* Obviously one person's irrational ideas of what irrational parenting is is another person's rational parenting when examined properly. Parents will shield their children from porn but they can make the distinction between porn and nudity in and of itself. I have a feeling anyone can make it through the world without being informed of pornography (your complete lack of practice, understanding, and context is fine in this case) and I'm sure many people were able to do so prior to the proliferation of porn via the Net.
I do agree that Google should make it easier for their search capability to be used by children while still making it easy for parents to filter out what they don't want their children to see. Doing it at the domain level would indeed make this easy. This is also why I thought having an entire TLD for porn (.xxx) was a good idea because it would make filtering it easy assuming you could enforce porn sites to only use that TLD. I know some conservative groups thought it a bad idea though because it would lend credence to porn. It would allow easier filtering when desired IMO.
And for search engines to accidentally bypass those filters to display porn isn't their fault. As someone stated, there are ways to prevent search engines from indexing it. Vivid's IT department needs to read up on that before someone complains needlessly. By the way, Porn King? I thought they were talking about me but I guess there is more than 1.
There are still plenty of other religions which share a Creation history (not myth) but I don't see anyone ridiculing them because of what they believe. However with that said, whether you care to characterize it as such or not, the Big Bang is a moment of Creation because were it not for that explosion we wouldn't be here right now. I'm sure Fred Hoyle is pissed considering he preferred the steady-state model but personal biases (his conviction that a steady-state model avoided a point of Creation) take time to be proven wrong.
Dude, my God doesn't say it is okay to kill people for your own benefit and that by doing so you'll get 72 virgins when you die. Suicide is also a sin based on what my God teaches. Also, God didn't make Satan. Satan is a fallen angel and chose that tract. God just placed him in a certain location away from Heaven because of the choices which were made.
Correct link for the Kerr effect is here.
If you are going to make fun of people who believe differently than you then you can at least get your facts straight. God isn't the one that tortures you when you go to Hell. Satan has the pleasure of doing that to you.
Oh, and are you going to also make fun of the Muslims and how they view the creation of the universe? I didn't think so.
Although they do evaporate it can still take billions of years before they reduce to nothing. The black holes the LHC will create are going to evaporate so fast they won't have time to do anything really. They definitely won't have any adverse effects on the planet or the LHC itself.
Huh? Someone has to be. It wasn't her fault. The people who actually lost the laptop are the Best Buy employees. Yes, she put the data on there and she took it to them to fix and in good faith that they would fix it w/o further issue. In the meantime they LOST the laptop. It didn't get up and walk away on it's own. Someone is responsible and Best Buy is the only logical entity to blame.
Had Best Buy notified her immediately about the loss, I could agree with you, but instead, they lied about it -- to the extent of an employee creating a fabricated entry in their systems. It's the delay and lying that makes them responsible IMHO.Why does it matter how long it took them to lose it, or that they denied it, to be blamed for it? They lost it. 'Nuff said as far as blame is concerned. It only puts salt in the wound that they took so long to 'admit' it and fabricated evidence to the contrary.
I've only seen references used for research because most people don't care.
I've heard that the border patrol on the US/Mexico border used to only do checks on drivers of vehicles coming into the country (real useful right?) but soon they will be instituting checks on all passengers in each vehicle as well. These checks go against NCIC. NCIC will be getting even more hits every day once that starts on top of the 3+ million queries it gets each day now.
I think the NGI contract the FBI will be awarding very very very soon will redefine what we now hate about how the gov't treats citizens (especially those who have no record; you can thank the new RAP-back feature which will be implemented by the contractor who wins it).
Someone who blows himself up excuses himself from punishment by those he hurts. That is cowardly. Of course, in the end those who do that burn in hell but it would still be nice to punish them on Earth first.
My problem is that I'm used to hitting my computer when I hear a slight squeal so when I tried out clit and started hearing weird noises I kept kicking it until the noises stopped. I think I have to call 911 now...brb.
The benefit of it being open code is that we aren't reliant upon the maintainer/author to fix the code. Anyone can view it in order to submit a patch. In many cases, the code being open also aids in finding the exploit because of peer review.
And the US got tired of being attacked by terrorists and having civilians (and military men and women) murdered by cowards. Clinton didn't do anything about terrorist attacks while he was in office:
1) the February 26, 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center
2) the Khobar Towers attack
3) the August 7, 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania
4) and the October 12, 2000, attack on the USS Cole.
Bush, on the other hand, did react. The actions taken by terrorists on 9/11/2001 were a declaration of war. In war civilians do get killed, especially when the aforementioned cowards hide among the civilians, but at least when civilians are killed by the US military it is by accident and not on purpose unlike the cowards who attack the US.
I hate to break the news to you but the US had reason to invade Iraq based on intelligence gathered by various agencies. Our laws aren't being enforced over there. Many countries share many basic laws because they are just that, basic. A basic set of laws help keep order from turning into chaos or chaos turning into more chaos. By helping out a weaker country the country becomes stronger. Iraq's economy is much better now than it was 5 years ago. The people are happier, they are safer, and things like that.
I think your argument holds up until you consider that many of the installed Vista userbase probably came from users buying new computers and not having a choice as to which OS they wanted on it. I'd wager that is the easiest and biggest method for MS to push Vista onto customers whether they want it or not.
Valdrax says differently:
Also, a contract of this sort is generally considered to be binding when the site gives you order confirmation, and you submit it. At that point, offer and acceptance has been had (even under the older UCC Article 2). The time at which they charge you or not is irrelevant in this situation.So should we believe an AC or Valdrax?
Well, when oil is priced high it, in theory, hurts oil companies because they have to pay more for it which causes refiners to pay more, which causes distributors to pay more and eventually the average joe feels the effects. In WV, about 50 cents per gallon of gasoline goes to state and federal taxes. WV has one of the highest state taxes on gasoline in the country. I don't know what percentage goes to the oil companies but last year Exxon posted the biggest profit yet. I want to say it was about $40+ billion for 2007. They have huge R&D expenses as well but they still made a tremendous profit despite oil prices being the highest ever during the last quarter of 2007. The price of oil makes up only a portion of the price of gasoline and unfortunately taxes make up a large portion too.
Do you have at least 1 reason why it shouldn't be?
Let South Dakota outlaw abortion and teach biology from the Bible and deal with the consequences of most young women and college graduates leaving the state for California.Yes, I hear CA is running low on tranvestites, transgenders, and homosexuals these days. They need to raise imports to keep up their quota on minorities.
Let some states decline to criminalize prostitution, internet gambling or smoking pot and learn from their own experience if they are willing to live with the consequences.and
Until that happens, I would rather have some of the federal budget used on social programs and education than to have all of it be channeled into corporate welfare, unnecessary wars and enforcing personal viewpoints of the politicians.And how is declining to criminalize prostitution, gambling and pot not enforcing personal viewpoints? Law making is exactly that, enforcing viewpoints because some things should be legal and some shouldn't. However the viewpoints that are enforced are largely societal, not personal, unless your respective Congressman ignores his constituents.
I don't deny that being any CxO of a company doesn't come with its own set of stressors but some people are better at handling those stressors than others. Some children handle stress at home by being bullies at school while some kids when they grow up will take up boxing instead of beating up on an innocent bystandard. There are ways to deal with anger and many people that have issues with it express it physically (throwing chairs anyone?). But there are verbal ways to express it as well and obviously Ballmer has issues with that too. Unless you just don't care you can control your anger and what you say in public as opposed to a private business meeting, as opposed to how you talk to your wife and kids at home (or in public for that matter). It is called decorum. Some people have it and some don't. Those who are in the public spotlight should have more than most people because they are representing a company. Shareholdres, customers and employees (both existing and potential) take notice of those things.
And teaching evolution (whethered viewed as science or not) could be argued as teaching an atheistic view of the world and thus still has a religions slant, that being atheism, which is being forced onto society. How can you argue otherwise? Quit pushing your atheistic religious views on society.
I don't want an anti-science creationist. I don't want a pro-science eugenicist. I want separation of science and state.Remember, there is a difference between the government in religion/science and religion/science in government. The US has a government that has a religion so religion is in the government. They do not, even by teaching Creation in schools, do anything to cross the line of having themselves in religion. It is just another class or subject in an existing class and just as if anyone objected to being taught that the Germans were the cause of the Holocaust (despite it being the truth) and fought to be taken out of the class because it offended them, so can too a child whose parents are offended by the child learning about Creation. Of course, whether the parents win the fight is a different issue but they have the right to try to remove the child for whatever reason they so choose to use to complain about it. The bottom line is that no child is forced to accept any fact concerning any topic when being taught those facts in school. A child can grow up and make up their own mind as to whether or not what they were taught was the truth so I don't understand why a particular subject should be singled out because it could be considered forcing a particular mindset in children when the same argument could be made for ANY topic.
Creationists aren't anti-science despite what you may think. Science is a result of how the universe was created. The Laws that students learn about were set in place in the first few billionths of a second after Creation. Whatever caused Creation to occur (the Big Bang, for those who deny religious accounting) also put in place the properties of the Universe we now study in various sub-disciplines under the science discipline. Teaching Creation is the same as teaching evolution. When you choose to state that Creation is being preached (to make it sound like it isn't science) while evolution is being taught you are just employing a spin you have to use in order to win based on a weaker argument. If the Bible can be used on college campuses for purposes of literary study then it can also be used for purposes of scientific study because in both cases the subject matter is being taught, not preached. Any church goer will tell you that even when they are voluntarily preached to they are not forced to do anything they do not want to do but I'm sure you already knew that preaching does not imply force of any kind.
This also explains why oil is currently at $90 a barrel and why it jumped ~$20 in a few weeks time. Even though the poor are having trouble getting to work to make money the high and mighty rich investors are making profits on oil. Just another day of work for them.
Just goes to show me that even on the off chance I would want to work for MS, had an interview, and was offered a position that I would not take it after hearing that. To have a CEO who can't use professional language is just showing that the company needs to look elsewhere for a CEO, not to mention it shows his lack of variety and knowledge of the English language. But maybe they have the cream of the crop already. After all, how many CEOs have morals and ethics?
because having tax values online makes it easier to buy a house. I'm in the market for a house in north-central WV and I've tried to use http://www.zillow.com/ to compare the assessed value of a house with the list price to be an informed buyer. The data isn't always accurate or it can be missing. Publishing these maps may not help the situation but it shouldn't hurt it either.