Advertised prices in the US never include sales tax because there is no federal sales tax. These taxes are set by the individual states and differ from state to state.
I would think that few if any evolutionists believe the predominance of L-amino acids in living organisms is a chance event. This would be seen, rather, as a clue as to how life evolved from nonlife.
I'm a creationist...
I ask the following question honestly, rather than as a sarcastic remark: Do you consider creationism to be a branch of science?
If you believe that the origin of life is not a subject that is amenable to scientific inquiry, fair enough. But, in my opinion, a believer in "scientific" creationism should expect it to explain the same observations that are so troubling for the evolutionary model. However, I myself am afraid that the answer from scientific creationism will be, "Because God wanted it that way."
As a web user, it's your duty to learn the basics of its structure.
In what other ubiquitous technology is it the duty of the user to learn that technology's underlying framework? Is it a reader's duty to learn what a particular author's writing process is? Or learn bookbinding? Must a driver learn how the internal combustion engine or transmission works? To turn on a light, do you need to know how to wire the circuit?
To blindly make an assumption that an unprofessional sounding domain name linked to a company's competitor was initally created by the first company is foolish.
I would think that Ford's position is that they are paying for another person's foolishness.
Could this mistake still happen? Oh, absolutely! Should a company like Ford waste any time worrying about it? Nope!
Agreed, but for a different reason. How many people would have known about the "fuckgeneralmotors" address had it not been for this lawsuite? A trivial number. And not all of people would have assumed that Ford sponsored it. Had the company merely asked 2600 not to point to there site, the problem would have quietly disappeared. The only obvious advantage a court case has over this solution is that it announces to everyone who had mistakenly assumed that Ford was behind the address that it was not. Of course, only a fraction of this trivial number of people would ever learn about the court case. The disadvantage is that the company's actions show Ford to be a reflexively litigious corporation.
This post has been offered as a humble response to another's humble opinion.
Let's see, according to my US public school education, WW II was almost directly attributable to the harsh sanctions that Britain and France insisted be imposed on Germany after the close of WW I. Had the leaders of those two farsighted and humanitarian nations followed the leadership of the American president, the Second World War might have been avoided.
Additionally, it sounds as if you believe that France and Britain declared war on Germany after the latter's invasion of Poland solely because of a love of the Poles (and humanity in general), rather than a hatred of the Huns and a fear of Germany resurrected as a European power (which would consequentially threaten French and British power in Europe, and potentially the imperial interests of those two countries worldwide). Of course, you are welcome to hold this belief, but you really should provide data to support it in an argurment, especially considering your cynical interpretation of America's involvement in the conflict.
In any case, the point is that Germany's ambitions in Europe in the first half of the last century were threats to the designs of the other European powers of the day, but not (or, at least, not so directly) to those of the United States. Therefore, it was not an urgent matter for the US to spend lives and treasure to thwart those ambitions when war broke out.
Also, don't forget that a significant portion of the population of the US was of German descent, and it was no means certain that these citizens would be more disposed to back France and England rather than Germany in those distant, foreign wars.
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Advertised prices in the US never include sales tax because there is no federal sales tax. These taxes are set by the individual states and differ from state to state.
I would think that few if any evolutionists believe the predominance of L-amino acids in living organisms is a chance event. This would be seen, rather, as a clue as to how life evolved from nonlife.
I'm a creationist...
I ask the following question honestly, rather than as a sarcastic remark: Do you consider creationism to be a branch of science?
If you believe that the origin of life is not a subject that is amenable to scientific inquiry, fair enough. But, in my opinion, a believer in "scientific" creationism should expect it to explain the same observations that are so troubling for the evolutionary model. However, I myself am afraid that the answer from scientific creationism will be, "Because God wanted it that way."
As a web user, it's your duty to learn the basics of its structure.
In what other ubiquitous technology is it the duty of the user to learn that technology's underlying framework? Is it a reader's duty to learn what a particular author's writing process is? Or learn bookbinding? Must a driver learn how the internal combustion engine or transmission works? To turn on a light, do you need to know how to wire the circuit?
To blindly make an assumption that an unprofessional sounding domain name linked to a company's competitor was initally created by the first company is foolish.
I would think that Ford's position is that they are paying for another person's foolishness.
Could this mistake still happen? Oh, absolutely! Should a company like Ford waste any time worrying about it? Nope!
Agreed, but for a different reason. How many people would have known about the "fuckgeneralmotors" address had it not been for this lawsuite? A trivial number. And not all of people would have assumed that Ford sponsored it. Had the company merely asked 2600 not to point to there site, the problem would have quietly disappeared. The only obvious advantage a court case has over this solution is that it announces to everyone who had mistakenly assumed that Ford was behind the address that it was not. Of course, only a fraction of this trivial number of people would ever learn about the court case. The disadvantage is that the company's actions show Ford to be a reflexively litigious corporation.
This post has been offered as a humble response to another's humble opinion.
Revisionist history, hmmm?
Let's see, according to my US public school education, WW II was almost directly attributable to the harsh sanctions that Britain and France insisted be imposed on Germany after the close of WW I. Had the leaders of those two farsighted and humanitarian nations followed the leadership of the American president, the Second World War might have been avoided.
Additionally, it sounds as if you believe that France and Britain declared war on Germany after the latter's invasion of Poland solely because of a love of the Poles (and humanity in general), rather than a hatred of the Huns and a fear of Germany resurrected as a European power (which would consequentially threaten French and British power in Europe, and potentially the imperial interests of those two countries worldwide). Of course, you are welcome to hold this belief, but you really should provide data to support it in an argurment, especially considering your cynical interpretation of America's involvement in the conflict.
In any case, the point is that Germany's ambitions in Europe in the first half of the last century were threats to the designs of the other European powers of the day, but not (or, at least, not so directly) to those of the United States. Therefore, it was not an urgent matter for the US to spend lives and treasure to thwart those ambitions when war broke out.
Also, don't forget that a significant portion of the population of the US was of German descent, and it was no means certain that these citizens would be more disposed to back France and England rather than Germany in those distant, foreign wars.