Do you expect the gays who are also the productive people you want breeding to give up and "go straight" and have kids?
Do you expect straight people who are the productive people you want breeding to "give up" and not have kids if gays are allowed to marry?
Please explain how allowing two guys who love each other and live together to formalize their relationship will decrease the number of productive people breeding. Please explain how it can make any difference whatsoever, except with the slight possibility of gay marriage ADVANCING your cause? Because productive gay people might just be more likely to become parents if they are allowed the increased stability and benefits of marriage.
"And please don't pretend I'm not destroying your idiot ass."
I wouldn't pretend. I'm willing to concede that in the given context (one anonymous person on the net versus another anonymous person on the net in a contest of inane banter that nobody will ever read) you have won the prize.
Thing is, as I've said, I post shit on the net without thinking, deliberately being a dumbass, as an idle way of passing time. I'm posting this after playing some stupid games on facebook. I have time to kill as I'm disabled with no life to speak of. None of this matters to me. Its a time killer.:)
I actually find it interesting that it matters to YOU. I mean, after all, all I have to do to see your responses is check my own slashdot profile like I routinely do for comments... whereas you, being "anonymous coward," have to actually keep coming back to this article and search out the comments thread to respond. For me its like checking email. For you it takes effort.
It must be pretty important to you. And "winning" must be pretty important to you for you to trumpet it like that. Congrats - you're winning an argument on the internet with a disabled insomniac mental patient. Hey, here's an idea - print out this comments thread and maybe your mom will post it on her fridge!:)
Nope. I mean, I could have learned that there are pathetic losers who use any excuse to pigfight with strangers on the net - and who do so anonymously because they are even so stupid as to think that a name on the net, like "Jafafa Hots," for example, is something of worth that they have to hide so as not to somehow have that non-entity be embarrassed.
But I already knew that.
I, on the other hand, will pigfight openly, and make stupid comments as I please for my own entertainment without a care, because I realize its just the fucking internet.
In their minds, YES, they are losing money. Because if they force you to pay MORE to transfer it, then its more money for them.
Incidentally, while we're having this little chat, I'd like to remind you to stop stealing from me by breathing without paying me for it. My business model (you paying me for the right to exist) depends on these revenues, and by avoiding my fees - pirating your life, you are depriving me of an income.
Oh wait, you're not? Then you misunderstand the system. THIS is how it works:
* The biometric data is not an exact match. The prosecutor doesn;t know this because the cops haven't informed him because they don't see it as important, or are covering their asses. OR the prosecutor DOES know but doesn't care because he knows in his heart you're his guilty party, OR doesn't care because he knows its an easy conviction and he's not about with screw up his record, OR doesn't care because he know you'll never find out, because they aren't going to tell you.
You never find out because unlike TV, you don't have your own investigative staff to go over everything with a fine-toothed comb and your own experts on biometric data. You have a court-appointed attorney, or at best an average attorney - the best you could afford after mortgaging your house. Your attorney barely has the resources and time to file the proper paperwork to give you a decent defense, let alone investigate matters.
So, as always happens, you are offered a plea bargain. Even though he knows you're innocent, your attorney advises you to take it. You do, and you're somewhat fucked, or you DON'T and you get convicted and truly fucked.
With some luck, you might get off, but only with luck. And the darker your skin, the less lucky you are.
I've often wondered if you could get Charles Manson's prints somewhere, like an old wanted poster. Create some fake prints, like that deal with gummi bears or whatever... make sure to have nice potato chip grease on them to leave good prints, and leave them around the scene of your crime.
Just think - *IF* NASA's back-to-the-moon plan pans out, it will have taken 50 years to go back. But it won't pan out. You can bet the program will be axed.
"There are real and serious differences between the two parties and anyone who tries to marginalize those differences is usually agitating for a 3rd party or giving in to apathy."
The differences:
GOP "We want to government to torture people."
Dems "We're going to write a strongly worded letter explaining our misgivings about our allowing government torture."
GOP "The government needs to spy on its own people, this is a good thing."
Dems "Gosh, its too bad that the government has to spy on its own people."
GOP "The president can't break the law because anything he does is by definition legal."
Dems "The president can't break the law because he's not supposed to. We think he is, but he swears he's not. We sure wish he'd stop, but he says he won't."
Yep. That's why I said "I" wouldn't risk it. Psych meds damaged me permanently and I will never let anyone put me on them again. But I also know others who say they saved their lives.
Merely is the wrong word. Its pretty amazing. Why, what do you believe? That you have a magical life force instilled in you by an all powerful magic space god who loves you and doesn't want you playing with your naughty bits?
If so, then I feel sorry for you. There's nothing sadder than a person so infantile, so narcissistic in their need to be the center of the universe (mommy loves only me!), so insecure as to be unable to accept the reality of their personal insignificance in this vast universe, so unable to face reality and thus see the beauties of that reality that they have to construct a childish, idiotic, two-dimensional comic book fairy tale to hide themselves away into.
What do you mean because of people like me? I'm not AGAINST it, in fact I think its important research. I'm only trying to point out that doctors often are unwilling to admit to themselves (or so it seems) that what we do know is a tiny amount compared to what we don't know.
I'm not saying don't research or learn, quite the opposite. And I'm not saying there's an alternative to western medicine - there isn't. the other stuff is mythology and bullshit.
I'm merely saying that oftentimes it seems that if you have symptoms or a malady that doctor's can't explain, they ignore it as if it didnt exist - or worse, they chalk it up to your imagination.
I also have Meniere's Disease, a so-called rare disorder (but after you know you have it, suddenly you find many others with it too.)
It's not THAT hard to diagnose, and if the doctor is familiar with it its pretty easy to diagnose. But yet mine went undiagnosed for a long time and through several doctors. But its not the lack of diagnosis that bothered me most, it's the way my concerns were dismissed by these doctors simply because they didnt have an explanation.
I was suffering, and I got the brush off until I found a doctor who knew what was wrong when he saw me staggering in to his office being held on my feet by other people. MANY people experience the same thing, I know one woman who suffers from constant debilitating dizziness and is so distraught after continually getting the brush off from doctors that she has become suicidal - she can't take it anymore. I was in the same boat as her until my diagnosis.
Of all of the many doctors I've had, only ONE ever was straightforward about this sort of thing. I have some strange symptoms that apparently are related to my head injury, and he flat-out told me that medical science hasn't progressed far enough to be able to determine the exact cause, and all he can do is offer some things that might help the symptoms.
THAT, I appreciated, but it seems all too rare.
I hope, however, that since the doctors involved with this are of course cognizant of the fact that they are breaking new ground, that the will be more attuned to what they DON'T know, and not brush off symptoms and observations and feelings of the patients out of hand as insignificant.
I agree, its promising research, I just think we have to be careful that we're treating the patient, not the patient's family, or the doctor's. I CAN think of worse things that not being able to remember, not having much self-awareness. Not saying this would always be the case, or even often, but its possible that the patient may have damage to areas of their brain other than those involved with memory that their lack of cognitive function mercifully makes them "not experience."
That's just one possible scenario. Another is that the patient may recover just enough cognitive ability to be able to recognize what a miserable state they're in. Wonderful for the family, Mom can now recognize them again. Horrible for Mom - instead of happily staring at the TV or eating pudding, she now knows that she soils herself several times a day and is stuck in a crappy place.
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Or print your final documents at a Kinkos. Pay in cash.
Do you expect the gays who are also the productive people you want breeding to give up and "go straight" and have kids?
Do you expect straight people who are the productive people you want breeding to "give up" and not have kids if gays are allowed to marry?
Please explain how allowing two guys who love each other and live together to formalize their relationship will decrease the number of productive people breeding. Please explain how it can make any difference whatsoever, except with the slight possibility of gay marriage ADVANCING your cause? Because productive gay people might just be more likely to become parents if they are allowed the increased stability and benefits of marriage.
I wouldn't pretend. I'm willing to concede that in the given context (one anonymous person on the net versus another anonymous person on the net in a contest of inane banter that nobody will ever read) you have won the prize.
Thing is, as I've said, I post shit on the net without thinking, deliberately being a dumbass, as an idle way of passing time. I'm posting this after playing some stupid games on facebook. I have time to kill as I'm disabled with no life to speak of. None of this matters to me. Its a time killer. :)
I actually find it interesting that it matters to YOU. I mean, after all, all I have to do to see your responses is check my own slashdot profile like I routinely do for comments... whereas you, being "anonymous coward," have to actually keep coming back to this article and search out the comments thread to respond. For me its like checking email. For you it takes effort.
It must be pretty important to you. And "winning" must be pretty important to you for you to trumpet it like that. Congrats - you're winning an argument on the internet with a disabled insomniac mental patient. Hey, here's an idea - print out this comments thread and maybe your mom will post it on her fridge! :)
That's it? Come on now, you can do better than that. I'll give you a do-over.
But I already knew that.
I, on the other hand, will pigfight openly, and make stupid comments as I please for my own entertainment without a care, because I realize its just the fucking internet.
Have a nice day.
says the anonymous coward, too afraid to risk looking like ANYTHING.
Well, that's all well and good, but YOU read the fucking ARTICLE.
Incidentally, while we're having this little chat, I'd like to remind you to stop stealing from me by breathing without paying me for it. My business model (you paying me for the right to exist) depends on these revenues, and by avoiding my fees - pirating your life, you are depriving me of an income.
The reson we are doing this is obvious - to demonstrate to the world (and the Chinese) that was have functional ASAT capability.
It's been at least 100 years since copyright law has had anything to do with what's good for the populace, unfortunately.
And my response to both is the same: "tough fucking shit."
"The Sweet Smell of Space" sounds like something Heinlein would have written.
It was misheard. They said "Don't be weavils." They were vowing to protect cotton crops.
Hey, facebook has prolific (boggle clone). Only thing good about it, but it keeps me coming back every day.
Ha. Just shows how much YOU know about globalization, creeping fascism and politics. Monday Night Football doesn't even exist anymore.
well gosh, if that's what you believe, then we'd better tell all of the doctors and scientists that they're wrong.
Oh wait, you're not? Then you misunderstand the system. THIS is how it works:
* The biometric data is not an exact match. The prosecutor doesn;t know this because the cops haven't informed him because they don't see it as important, or are covering their asses. OR the prosecutor DOES know but doesn't care because he knows in his heart you're his guilty party, OR doesn't care because he knows its an easy conviction and he's not about with screw up his record, OR doesn't care because he know you'll never find out, because they aren't going to tell you.
You never find out because unlike TV, you don't have your own investigative staff to go over everything with a fine-toothed comb and your own experts on biometric data. You have a court-appointed attorney, or at best an average attorney - the best you could afford after mortgaging your house. Your attorney barely has the resources and time to file the proper paperwork to give you a decent defense, let alone investigate matters.
So, as always happens, you are offered a plea bargain. Even though he knows you're innocent, your attorney advises you to take it. You do, and you're somewhat fucked, or you DON'T and you get convicted and truly fucked.
With some luck, you might get off, but only with luck. And the darker your skin, the less lucky you are.
I've often wondered if you could get Charles Manson's prints somewhere, like an old wanted poster. Create some fake prints, like that deal with gummi bears or whatever... make sure to have nice potato chip grease on them to leave good prints, and leave them around the scene of your crime.
Just think - *IF* NASA's back-to-the-moon plan pans out, it will have taken 50 years to go back. But it won't pan out. You can bet the program will be axed.
Nope, I just said *I* wouldnt do it. My personal motto.
"There are real and serious differences between the two parties and anyone who tries to marginalize those differences is usually agitating for a 3rd party or giving in to apathy." The differences: GOP "We want to government to torture people." Dems "We're going to write a strongly worded letter explaining our misgivings about our allowing government torture." GOP "The government needs to spy on its own people, this is a good thing." Dems "Gosh, its too bad that the government has to spy on its own people." GOP "The president can't break the law because anything he does is by definition legal." Dems "The president can't break the law because he's not supposed to. We think he is, but he swears he's not. We sure wish he'd stop, but he says he won't."
Yep. That's why I said "I" wouldn't risk it. Psych meds damaged me permanently and I will never let anyone put me on them again. But I also know others who say they saved their lives.
If so, then I feel sorry for you. There's nothing sadder than a person so infantile, so narcissistic in their need to be the center of the universe (mommy loves only me!), so insecure as to be unable to accept the reality of their personal insignificance in this vast universe, so unable to face reality and thus see the beauties of that reality that they have to construct a childish, idiotic, two-dimensional comic book fairy tale to hide themselves away into.
I'm not saying don't research or learn, quite the opposite. And I'm not saying there's an alternative to western medicine - there isn't. the other stuff is mythology and bullshit.
I'm merely saying that oftentimes it seems that if you have symptoms or a malady that doctor's can't explain, they ignore it as if it didnt exist - or worse, they chalk it up to your imagination.
I also have Meniere's Disease, a so-called rare disorder (but after you know you have it, suddenly you find many others with it too.)
It's not THAT hard to diagnose, and if the doctor is familiar with it its pretty easy to diagnose. But yet mine went undiagnosed for a long time and through several doctors. But its not the lack of diagnosis that bothered me most, it's the way my concerns were dismissed by these doctors simply because they didnt have an explanation.
I was suffering, and I got the brush off until I found a doctor who knew what was wrong when he saw me staggering in to his office being held on my feet by other people. MANY people experience the same thing, I know one woman who suffers from constant debilitating dizziness and is so distraught after continually getting the brush off from doctors that she has become suicidal - she can't take it anymore. I was in the same boat as her until my diagnosis.
Of all of the many doctors I've had, only ONE ever was straightforward about this sort of thing. I have some strange symptoms that apparently are related to my head injury, and he flat-out told me that medical science hasn't progressed far enough to be able to determine the exact cause, and all he can do is offer some things that might help the symptoms.
THAT, I appreciated, but it seems all too rare.
I hope, however, that since the doctors involved with this are of course cognizant of the fact that they are breaking new ground, that the will be more attuned to what they DON'T know, and not brush off symptoms and observations and feelings of the patients out of hand as insignificant.
That's just one possible scenario. Another is that the patient may recover just enough cognitive ability to be able to recognize what a miserable state they're in. Wonderful for the family, Mom can now recognize them again. Horrible for Mom - instead of happily staring at the TV or eating pudding, she now knows that she soils herself several times a day and is stuck in a crappy place.
Just sayin'.