I find it interesting that religious belief is blamed for the downfall of education in this country. Especially as this country was mostly founded by deeply religious people. In fact the economic demise of this country started about the same time that religious belief started to decline. The educational system is almost entirely under the control, certainly on the university level, of those that believe there is no God. As the unbelievers took control the sytem started to crumble and yet they almost entirely blame religion. I can see why they wish to do that but tell me Oh great and mighty free thinker, where's the logic and reason in that? Why would those who don't believe in God, after they've pretty much taken over education in this country, banned any mention of God or the Bible from schools and teach in classrooms that man and the universe are just great accidents that happend through some kind of combination of chemistry and luck, NOW want to claim that religion destroyed science and math in our schools? Duh!
Oh well............nice to see logic at work.:)
Ah...but people who simply don't believe are generally just described as unbelievers. The term atheist is generally reserved for the truly outspoken unbelievers that denigrate and protest against religious belief. These generally rail with the same fervor as any Pentecostal Evangelist.
You make an excellent point. Attacks on military targets are legitimate. I think since the attack came from a force that is illegitimate (a group instead of a national milita or military,) the powers that be describe it as terrorism.
The idea is that they are soldiers attempting to win a war and thus are expended in service to their country. You may not agree with this policy but that is what war essentially is. The use of a countries resources, including it's citizenry, in a struggle against another country. There is much waste in war which is why most countries attempt diplomacy to attain their goals. War is what happens when diplomacy fails.
That'd be nice if true. Unfortunately hate has nothing to do with logic. You often end up feeding people who want to kill you. I do hate to see anyone starve to death though when there is so much food in the world. Food is a lot cheaper than bullets.
74 3/4 ton suburban with towing package. Damn that thing would pull anything. It got 11 miles per gallon in town, on the road, pulling a trailer. No matter what it always got 11 miles per gallon. Drive it 35 miles per hour or 85 and it still got 11 miles per gallon. Weird. I miss that big boxy thing. Nothing has that much room anymore.
Yeah....I can see that. At least she wasn't actually charged with a crime, just told not to come to school. After the West Virginia thing I suppose I can see why they're a little on the paranoid side.
Saying "I want to" is not the same as "I'm going to". One signals desire...the other intent.
It's not illegal to wish you could kill someone, only to kill them or say that you are going to kill them. Damn....I think of the dozens of times I've said to people (mostly jokingly) "I'd like to strangle you". I guess to these lunatics that makes me a felon. Jeeeeez!
And she entered with her nice little laptop 'puter with the star of David on it and some stickers about how Allah was a faggot and the Iranian president a ninny. I wonder what would have happened? I wonder when Americans are going to wise up to the fact that in some countries they don't have the sense of humor about criticism that we do here. That it can be dangerous to travel abroad with a smug sense of superiority and invulnerability.
It's not beyond belief that the e-mails were mislabeled when they were archived. That kind of thing happens often enough in more than one business....civil service being what it is I think it highly likely it actually happened the way they say. If Bush and company really wanted the e-mails gone I doubt they would have ever turned up again. It's far too easy to dispose of data...hell....it's difficult to keep it.
I understand the idealism involved. It just seems that in practice things don't work that way. This may be because socialism relies on government to regulate it and government generally does a poor job at this.
Actually my favorite definition of socialism is "The economic system in which everyone is equally broke."
Of course that's not true. There is always, in any system, a group of elites that hold power and live lavishly.
Heh...I pay taxes in return for certain government services. You define that as socialism? Socialism is being taxed because I made too much money and my money given to those who didn't work. It's unfair that I busted my ass getting out of bed and going to work at 4am and getting home 14 hours later every day for days on end including weekends and many holidays......in one case for 211 straight days without a day off. In punishment for making the huge sums of money that I earned that year the government decided they needed to stick me up a few tax brackets so I could help the people that laid around all day suffering in poverty while they watched Jerry Springer. I'm sorry I'm such a rotten evil capitalist who earned the lavish sum of 66 thousand dollars in one single year because I was so greedy that I actually went to work and led a productive life earning obscene amounts of overtime money instead of waiting for my fair share of the pie to be delivered to me by the government that loves me and cares for me. Yeah...I'm a rich evil bastard and I know it.
That's funny. The interview of Nvidia developer I read recently stated differently. He mentioned many businesses were interested in Nvidia's linux drivers. Something like half the graphics workstations were running linux. I guess those people aren't serious though. And we all know IBM and HP and Intel are just jokes. Yeah...no one serious cares about linux.
I've seen male engineers that can barely tie their shoes and women that can write beautiful essays in perfect grammatical English and yet can not navigate across town without a GPS system. How can you accurately access intelligence when it manifests itself in so many different ways?
Everyone knows it. But this is not piracy and it's also the kind of thing pirates use to justify piracy. Who could possibly feel guilty for stealing from absolute greedy bastards. These people are so easy to hate that it assuages any guilt one might feel about stealing from them.
Yes...you're right of course. The shipping lines should continue to let the pirates take over their ships and pay huge "tribute" to get them back. That's much better. And why do people always bring up the Jews anyway? What the hell kind of twisted logic is that? Comparing the holocaust to ridding the world of pirates. Heh. If that's your idea of "grown up" then leave me out.
Yes...we are that politically correct. It's wrong to kill anyone now...haven't you heard? Especially bad people. Bad people aren't really bad you see...they just have had a bad childhood or are misunderstood. It's even possible that they are actually just trying to make a living off the corporate monsters that own the shipping lines. These evil corporate people make lots and lots of profit and should share it with the pirates so they can buy food and mp3 players for their children. After all, pirates are people too.
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Because they say it is.
I find it interesting that religious belief is blamed for the downfall of education in this country. Especially as this country was mostly founded by deeply religious people. In fact the economic demise of this country started about the same time that religious belief started to decline. The educational system is almost entirely under the control, certainly on the university level, of those that believe there is no God. As the unbelievers took control the sytem started to crumble and yet they almost entirely blame religion. I can see why they wish to do that but tell me Oh great and mighty free thinker, where's the logic and reason in that? Why would those who don't believe in God, after they've pretty much taken over education in this country, banned any mention of God or the Bible from schools and teach in classrooms that man and the universe are just great accidents that happend through some kind of combination of chemistry and luck, NOW want to claim that religion destroyed science and math in our schools? Duh! Oh well............nice to see logic at work. :)
Ah...but people who simply don't believe are generally just described as unbelievers. The term atheist is generally reserved for the truly outspoken unbelievers that denigrate and protest against religious belief. These generally rail with the same fervor as any Pentecostal Evangelist.
You make an excellent point. Attacks on military targets are legitimate. I think since the attack came from a force that is illegitimate (a group instead of a national milita or military,) the powers that be describe it as terrorism.
Doesn't the FedEx price include pickup and delivery?
The idea is that they are soldiers attempting to win a war and thus are expended in service to their country. You may not agree with this policy but that is what war essentially is. The use of a countries resources, including it's citizenry, in a struggle against another country. There is much waste in war which is why most countries attempt diplomacy to attain their goals. War is what happens when diplomacy fails.
That'd be nice if true. Unfortunately hate has nothing to do with logic. You often end up feeding people who want to kill you. I do hate to see anyone starve to death though when there is so much food in the world. Food is a lot cheaper than bullets.
DAMN! no mod points!!! You sir deserve +5 Brilliant
74 3/4 ton suburban with towing package. Damn that thing would pull anything. It got 11 miles per gallon in town, on the road, pulling a trailer. No matter what it always got 11 miles per gallon. Drive it 35 miles per hour or 85 and it still got 11 miles per gallon. Weird. I miss that big boxy thing. Nothing has that much room anymore.
Make them an offer they can't refuse.
Yeah....I can see that. At least she wasn't actually charged with a crime, just told not to come to school. After the West Virginia thing I suppose I can see why they're a little on the paranoid side.
Saying "I want to" is not the same as "I'm going to". One signals desire...the other intent. It's not illegal to wish you could kill someone, only to kill them or say that you are going to kill them. Damn....I think of the dozens of times I've said to people (mostly jokingly) "I'd like to strangle you". I guess to these lunatics that makes me a felon. Jeeeeez!
I can understand not being able to say "I'm going to kill you." I'm not so sure that "I would like to kill you," is the same thing.
And she entered with her nice little laptop 'puter with the star of David on it and some stickers about how Allah was a faggot and the Iranian president a ninny. I wonder what would have happened? I wonder when Americans are going to wise up to the fact that in some countries they don't have the sense of humor about criticism that we do here. That it can be dangerous to travel abroad with a smug sense of superiority and invulnerability.
It's not beyond belief that the e-mails were mislabeled when they were archived. That kind of thing happens often enough in more than one business....civil service being what it is I think it highly likely it actually happened the way they say. If Bush and company really wanted the e-mails gone I doubt they would have ever turned up again. It's far too easy to dispose of data...hell....it's difficult to keep it.
I understand the idealism involved. It just seems that in practice things don't work that way. This may be because socialism relies on government to regulate it and government generally does a poor job at this.
Actually my favorite definition of socialism is "The economic system in which everyone is equally broke." Of course that's not true. There is always, in any system, a group of elites that hold power and live lavishly.
Heh...I pay taxes in return for certain government services. You define that as socialism? Socialism is being taxed because I made too much money and my money given to those who didn't work. It's unfair that I busted my ass getting out of bed and going to work at 4am and getting home 14 hours later every day for days on end including weekends and many holidays......in one case for 211 straight days without a day off. In punishment for making the huge sums of money that I earned that year the government decided they needed to stick me up a few tax brackets so I could help the people that laid around all day suffering in poverty while they watched Jerry Springer. I'm sorry I'm such a rotten evil capitalist who earned the lavish sum of 66 thousand dollars in one single year because I was so greedy that I actually went to work and led a productive life earning obscene amounts of overtime money instead of waiting for my fair share of the pie to be delivered to me by the government that loves me and cares for me. Yeah...I'm a rich evil bastard and I know it.
That's funny. The interview of Nvidia developer I read recently stated differently. He mentioned many businesses were interested in Nvidia's linux drivers. Something like half the graphics workstations were running linux. I guess those people aren't serious though. And we all know IBM and HP and Intel are just jokes. Yeah...no one serious cares about linux.
I've seen male engineers that can barely tie their shoes and women that can write beautiful essays in perfect grammatical English and yet can not navigate across town without a GPS system. How can you accurately access intelligence when it manifests itself in so many different ways?
You value human life above money? You sick puppy!
Everyone knows it. But this is not piracy and it's also the kind of thing pirates use to justify piracy. Who could possibly feel guilty for stealing from absolute greedy bastards. These people are so easy to hate that it assuages any guilt one might feel about stealing from them.
Yes...you're right of course. The shipping lines should continue to let the pirates take over their ships and pay huge "tribute" to get them back. That's much better. And why do people always bring up the Jews anyway? What the hell kind of twisted logic is that? Comparing the holocaust to ridding the world of pirates. Heh. If that's your idea of "grown up" then leave me out.
Yes...we are that politically correct. It's wrong to kill anyone now...haven't you heard? Especially bad people. Bad people aren't really bad you see...they just have had a bad childhood or are misunderstood. It's even possible that they are actually just trying to make a living off the corporate monsters that own the shipping lines. These evil corporate people make lots and lots of profit and should share it with the pirates so they can buy food and mp3 players for their children. After all, pirates are people too. arrr!
They would probably die.