If gay marriage bothers you, there is an easy solution: Don't marry someone of the same gender! Other than that, it should have no effect on you. If gay adoption makes you sick there is another easy solution: Don't let a gay couple adopt your kids! Once again you can live your life without it having any effect on you.
Some people care about children who aren't there own.
If you believe that being gay is a choice someone makes then there's no reason why they should have special rights because of this choice (gay marriage, etc.)
What is so special about the right to marry? It seems that almost everyone has it, except gays...
Also, about homosexuality being a choice: Asuming you are a straight guy... Did you choose to not be turned on by men, or did it just happen that way? For me, I just get turned on by women, I didn't choose women, my "divining rod" did, I think the idea of choosing what would turn you on is rather hillarious.
Also, why would anyone choose to be gay in our society? Do you know anyone who feels like they are not hated by enough people, or feels they have too many rights?
Lastly, I have a question for you, and please respond, I have asked it of several people and I have never gotten an answer that makes sence, I hope you can explain the views of your side to me (I really would like to understand your thoughts) How does it hurt you if gay people are aloud to marry? And if you are not personally harmed by them marrying, why work so hard to prevent them from doing so?
The problem is not the drugs, but the fact that they are illegal, if they were legal, none of what you described would have ever happened...
Stories like the one you just told are way too common, and they have been around for a long time, and during prohibition it was alchohol instead of meth. Lawmakers realized that it was causing more problems to have alchohol illegal, than legal, and drugs are the same way, but people are so damn thickheaded that they can't see it...
As an employee of one of the companies that has substaintial amounts of airfoil data, I would feel very confidant telling him to keep dreaming if he was thinking of that...
Sure CFD doesn't use wind tunnel data to get performance characteristics, but the first principles approach used compairs very favorably to data that is available. Try Fluent or CFX if you can get your hands on them, they are pretty easy to use, esp for 2D sections...
Disclamer: I am a former CFD developer turned turbine airfoil designer at a major jet engine company, so I tend to be a bigger fan of CFD than most people...
That said, we depend on CFD very heavily, we often skip rigs, and go straight to test engines with new airfoil designs these days. The major gotcha to watch out for is that it can take a lot of experience to determine when to trust the CFD, particularly if seperated flow or transitional flows are significant effects on the solution...
Realizing we have gone way OT... Some asshole who agrees with me, modded you down, that just isn't right... Your comment is certainly not overrated...
*Most* of our properly educated go to private schools
I think you got it a little backwards... I think *Most* privately educated students get a proper education, but I do not think that most of our properly educated students went private, in fact, I think most of them were publicly educated, but this does not mean that most publicly educated students are properly educated.
I am from an extremely typical midwestern city, so typical that it is viewed as one of the nations best test markets and phrases about how representative of the heartland we are have been coined. That town is Peoria, Ill... We had 4 public high schools, 1 large private HS (about the same size as 1 of our public HSs), and a few small private high schools. In my class, and my little brother's (don't know much about other years...) there were 4 times as many national merit scholars from my school alone as there were in all of the private schools, and about as many again spread out over the other 3 high schools.
All of my roommates (10 over my 4 years) at college (I went to a top 10 engineering school) were publicly educated...
I would also like to encourage you to think about this: Public or private, small classes or large, these all matter very little. By far the most important variable is the parents, and how much they get involved and care. Parents of children in private school are more likely to care, evidence of this is the fact that they pay for something they perceive to be better than what they could get for free, this is the central reason that most privately educated students do well, and it has very little to do with the school itself. Further evidence for this claim can be found by looking at public schools in college towns and wealthy suburbs, where the parents of the children in the schools are more likely to be highly educated and value education.
You're forgetting that you can even take a comfortable night train and sleep while you travel
I am guessing you are short...
I am only 6'1" and I was miserable on the night trains I took when I did the europe thing a few years ago. The beds had walls on both ends, so I couldn't let my feet hang off, and they were so narrow that laying on my side and pulling up my legs left my knees interfering with the railing, and my ass on the wall...
All my mail comes through spamassassin as well, but I am not having nearly the success you are...
I get about 60-70% of my spam correctly tagged, and about.2-.5% false positive. Don't get me wrong, I am WAY happier now that before spamassassin, but if I could be getting better performace, that would be great...
I second the comment that single cristal blades are everywhere (I am not an aerospace historian, but I believe that every engine we have made for the last 2 decades has used single crystal blades).
Of course, these days you can clean up coal/oil plants to the point that they produce pretty negligable pollution as well
I would rephrase that as saying that they release almost no polution, it all produced, it is just captured from the exhaust stream... Then it is put into the ground somewhere. Certainly better than old coal plants, but I would say, still not better than nuclear.
Yep, some people will die from an increased incidence of cancer...
I don't know if that is the case... Coal, the major alternative to nuclear, has numerous carcinogens among it's combustion byproducts. These carcinogens are not tightly controled like the nuclear ones are, they are simply dumped into the environment surrounding the plant. I would much rather have a nuke in my back yard, than a coal burner...
Fact: There is little or no pollution from an operative reacor.
Fact: Spent fuelrods from reactors are a major enviromental problem.
Fact: The byproducts of all other currently viable forms of energy production are major environmental problems.
I can't think of anyone who would say that nuclear waste is not bad. But I for one, and many others who have researched the topic, believe it is less bad than the alternatives.
I would rather have a small amount of really bad stuff being controled, than a huge amount of pretty bad stuff being spewed into the air I breath every day.
Hence the salary. If I was an hourly employee I don't think I could be made to sign such an agreement, but as a salaried employee I am paid the same amount regardless of how much I work... and in the eyes of employeers and the law, that is 24 hours of thoughts...
Like I said, I don't think it should be this way, but claiming that it isn't is just wishful thinking...
If you are a salaried employee, you don't have your own creative time, you signed an intelectual property agreement that effectively states that you are leasing your creative capacity to your employeer.
I think it is horrible and evil, but I signed one too, because I wanted to eat and have a roof over my head...
One picture is never enough. Having sex once outside of marriage is never enough, nothing is enough. As soon as one desire is fulfilled another comes
Your logic also dictates that sex within marriage once is not enough. After you made love to your spouse, you wanted to do it again, didn't you? How is it that this is OK, but outside of marriage it is not? What about committed relationships that are not marriages, where it can be thought of more as love making than sex?
My point is, unless you want to swear off all sexual fulfillment (no masturbation, no sex, no nothing, regardless of marriage) you are striking a balance between giving in completely, and not giving in at all... And different people have different balances...
I would be interested in knowing your take on different types of sex within marriage... Is missionary the only acceptable position? What about oral sex? Heavy petting? Anal?
I don't know if they stopped selling them for a while or not, but... My first job (besides mowing lawns...) was as an assistant admin on a ~60 PC lan running 2 novell servers, the older one, a 486 was a Gateway. We had 400 days of uptime on that thing once, had to shut it down due to construction in the area...
It is a real shame that gateway started selling crap after that... I could see the work getting shoddier and shoddier with each batch of new machines that arrived for a while... Some of them had to have their cases modded to accept a network card (the back wall of the bock was not perpendicular to the motherboard), returning defective components became a very frequent occurance... A couple of P266s got every part replaced except for the case and power suply over a 2 month period...
What scares me is that the US probably care less about the murders than the DMCA violators, and they will try to get him handed over...
The corporations that influence the government so heavily don't really care when one of the people of the US gets killed, but when their profits are in danger... watch out!
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they work a lot less and make almost as much...
Some people care about children who aren't there own.
Do you think they are better off in an orphanage?
If you believe that being gay is a choice someone makes then there's no reason why they should have special rights because of this choice (gay marriage, etc.)
What is so special about the right to marry? It seems that almost everyone has it, except gays...
Also, about homosexuality being a choice:
Asuming you are a straight guy... Did you choose to not be turned on by men, or did it just happen that way? For me, I just get turned on by women, I didn't choose women, my "divining rod" did, I think the idea of choosing what would turn you on is rather hillarious.
Also, why would anyone choose to be gay in our society? Do you know anyone who feels like they are not hated by enough people, or feels they have too many rights?
Lastly, I have a question for you, and please respond, I have asked it of several people and I have never gotten an answer that makes sence, I hope you can explain the views of your side to me (I really would like to understand your thoughts)
How does it hurt you if gay people are aloud to marry? And if you are not personally harmed by them marrying, why work so hard to prevent them from doing so?
The same thing that happens when you have 10 cups of coffee: SplatterBum(tm)
But the bran... I think they would balance out and you would have frequent well formed movements.
Somehow I am rememinded of the road to wellville...
Firstly the grandparent was wrong, and second... The AC did a very good job of explaning why...
I don't think so...
Rebutting Linus, depending on how it is done, could be an attempt at a productive discusion.
Spreading FUD would be what we have seen so far.
That said, I don't see him changing his current behavior, expect more statements of legal fiction intended to frighten corporate linux users...
Read frymaster's last line:
good luck national security association in all your future endeavors!
I think he was worried about insecurity is the security association...
The problem is not the drugs, but the fact that they are illegal, if they were legal, none of what you described would have ever happened...
Stories like the one you just told are way too common, and they have been around for a long time, and during prohibition it was alchohol instead of meth. Lawmakers realized that it was causing more problems to have alchohol illegal, than legal, and drugs are the same way, but people are so damn thickheaded that they can't see it...
As an employee of one of the companies that has substaintial amounts of airfoil data, I would feel very confidant telling him to keep dreaming if he was thinking of that...
Sure CFD doesn't use wind tunnel data to get performance characteristics, but the first principles approach used compairs very favorably to data that is available. Try Fluent or CFX if you can get your hands on them, they are pretty easy to use, esp for 2D sections...
Disclamer: I am a former CFD developer turned turbine airfoil designer at a major jet engine company, so I tend to be a bigger fan of CFD than most people...
That said, we depend on CFD very heavily, we often skip rigs, and go straight to test engines with new airfoil designs these days. The major gotcha to watch out for is that it can take a lot of experience to determine when to trust the CFD, particularly if seperated flow or transitional flows are significant effects on the solution...
Realizing we have gone way OT... Some asshole who agrees with me, modded you down, that just isn't right... Your comment is certainly not overrated...
*Most* of our properly educated go to private schools
I think you got it a little backwards... I think *Most* privately educated students get a proper education, but I do not think that most of our properly educated students went private, in fact, I think most of them were publicly educated, but this does not mean that most publicly educated students are properly educated.
I am from an extremely typical midwestern city, so typical that it is viewed as one of the nations best test markets and phrases about how representative of the heartland we are have been coined. That town is Peoria, Ill...
We had 4 public high schools, 1 large private HS (about the same size as 1 of our public HSs), and a few small private high schools. In my class, and my little brother's (don't know much about other years...) there were 4 times as many national merit scholars from my school alone as there were in all of the private schools, and about as many again spread out over the other 3 high schools.
All of my roommates (10 over my 4 years) at college (I went to a top 10 engineering school) were publicly educated...
I would also like to encourage you to think about this: Public or private, small classes or large, these all matter very little. By far the most important variable is the parents, and how much they get involved and care. Parents of children in private school are more likely to care, evidence of this is the fact that they pay for something they perceive to be better than what they could get for free, this is the central reason that most privately educated students do well, and it has very little to do with the school itself. Further evidence for this claim can be found by looking at public schools in college towns and wealthy suburbs, where the parents of the children in the schools are more likely to be highly educated and value education.
You're forgetting that you can even take a comfortable night train and sleep while you travel
I am guessing you are short...
I am only 6'1" and I was miserable on the night trains I took when I did the europe thing a few years ago. The beds had walls on both ends, so I couldn't let my feet hang off, and they were so narrow that laying on my side and pulling up my legs left my knees interfering with the railing, and my ass on the wall...
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I thought that they wore the wedding ring on the right hand in europe...
Anyone over there care to confirm (either way...)?
All my mail comes through spamassassin as well, but I am not having nearly the success you are...
.2-.5% false positive. Don't get me wrong, I am WAY happier now that before spamassassin, but if I could be getting better performace, that would be great...
I get about 60-70% of my spam correctly tagged, and about
I participated in the design of this engine...
I second the comment that single cristal blades are everywhere (I am not an aerospace historian, but I believe that every engine we have made for the last 2 decades has used single crystal blades).
But it is not titanium, it is a nickel alloy...
Of course, these days you can clean up coal/oil plants to the point that they produce pretty negligable pollution as well
I would rephrase that as saying that they release almost no polution, it all produced, it is just captured from the exhaust stream... Then it is put into the ground somewhere. Certainly better than old coal plants, but I would say, still not better than nuclear.
Yep, some people will die from an increased incidence of cancer...
I don't know if that is the case... Coal, the major alternative to nuclear, has numerous carcinogens among it's combustion byproducts. These carcinogens are not tightly controled like the nuclear ones are, they are simply dumped into the environment surrounding the plant. I would much rather have a nuke in my back yard, than a coal burner...
Fact: There is little or no pollution from an operative reacor.
Fact: Spent fuelrods from reactors are a major enviromental problem.
Fact: The byproducts of all other currently viable forms of energy production are major environmental problems.
I can't think of anyone who would say that nuclear waste is not bad. But I for one, and many others who have researched the topic, believe it is less bad than the alternatives.
I would rather have a small amount of really bad stuff being controled, than a huge amount of pretty bad stuff being spewed into the air I breath every day.
Hence the salary. If I was an hourly employee I don't think I could be made to sign such an agreement, but as a salaried employee I am paid the same amount regardless of how much I work... and in the eyes of employeers and the law, that is 24 hours of thoughts...
Like I said, I don't think it should be this way, but claiming that it isn't is just wishful thinking...
If you are a salaried employee, you don't have your own creative time, you signed an intelectual property agreement that effectively states that you are leasing your creative capacity to your employeer.
I think it is horrible and evil, but I signed one too, because I wanted to eat and have a roof over my head...
One picture is never enough. Having sex once outside of marriage is never enough, nothing is enough. As soon as one desire is fulfilled another comes
Your logic also dictates that sex within marriage once is not enough. After you made love to your spouse, you wanted to do it again, didn't you? How is it that this is OK, but outside of marriage it is not? What about committed relationships that are not marriages, where it can be thought of more as love making than sex?
My point is, unless you want to swear off all sexual fulfillment (no masturbation, no sex, no nothing, regardless of marriage) you are striking a balance between giving in completely, and not giving in at all... And different people have different balances...
I would be interested in knowing your take on different types of sex within marriage... Is missionary the only acceptable position? What about oral sex? Heavy petting? Anal?
I don't know if they stopped selling them for a while or not, but... My first job (besides mowing lawns...) was as an assistant admin on a ~60 PC lan running 2 novell servers, the older one, a 486 was a Gateway. We had 400 days of uptime on that thing once, had to shut it down due to construction in the area...
It is a real shame that gateway started selling crap after that... I could see the work getting shoddier and shoddier with each batch of new machines that arrived for a while... Some of them had to have their cases modded to accept a network card (the back wall of the bock was not perpendicular to the motherboard), returning defective components became a very frequent occurance... A couple of P266s got every part replaced except for the case and power suply over a 2 month period...
You just made my day, that was great...
Heck, even murderers often don't get handed over
What scares me is that the US probably care less about the murders than the DMCA violators, and they will try to get him handed over...
The corporations that influence the government so heavily don't really care when one of the people of the US gets killed, but when their profits are in danger... watch out!