I see. The fundamentalist christians who have started think tanks to get criticism of evolution into public schools, often successfully, are just contributing to the problem of people seeing christians as anti-science. The president of the country who says that he thinks creationism should be taught in schools is just a contributing factor. His administration which is attacking science in favor of religion is only a contributing factor.
The REAL cause is not these people... no. Its the people who notice what they are saying and doing. Brilliant.
tell ya what, sparky - if you pro-science christians don't want others to think the anti-science crowd represents all of you, then DO something about it.
Do we hear any christian leaders denouncing this baloney? NO. Do we hear any christians standing up and saying "YOU DON'T SPEAK FOR ME!"
NO.
The anti-science christians are monopolizing the discussion. That is ALL you hear from church-types.
When there were court battles to try to stop the anti-science crowd from ruining school systems, where were the pro-science christian leaders? Were they trying to stop it? No. The only ones fighting it were the people you accuse of CAUSING the problem. The only christian voices we hear are those trying to ruin things, and we are trying to fight their negative influence.
Demand that christian leaders oppose this. Demand of your clergy that they not stay silent and let the only public voice of christianity be anti-science. It's not OUR business to try to save your christianity from them, it's yours. If you can't be bothered, if christian leaders are willing to let the anti-science voice be the ONLY voice of christianity, then don't complain to those who see this bullshit and point it out.
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Well, its all semantics. Pluto, Sedna, and a bunch of others are all a new species of critter - several have been discovered, and many more will be. We probably won't call them planets. Pluto will either be demoted from planethood like the first asteroid Ceres was, or it will retain its title only because of tradition.
Keep poking fun at the 'idiot Christians.' That way, we can put a useful political rift between everything scientific and Christian.
Why would poking fun at the idiot christians cause a rift between science and everything christian? Unless of course you're saying that all christians are idiot christians? I'm not a christian, so I wouldn't know... I presume you are a christian, so I'll have to take your word for it.
Well, the way the market trends were developing, going into 2006 the picture looked fuzzy. The market changes in a flash these days, so they have decided to focus on more stable products.
They fail on everything. Every time the media have reported on something that I happen to be reasonably knowledgable about, I have seen glaring errors. The one time a paper did an article on me, they misquoted me completely and totally misrepresented everything I had said, and this was not on a controversial issue or something where anyone could have a bias.
Once you've had this experience in several different areas of knowledge or interest, you stop believing news stories and instead see them as simply indicators that there may BE a story somewhere, but you will have to do the legwork yourself to actually GET the story.
In the ways that I said - no history, no architecture, no sense of community like you have in a city (it has a different kind) It may be superficially pleasant, but there is no grit, no action, no reality... just sun and sand. Pleasant enough for a short vacation, but after that, boring as hell.
I'll never even get to visit London let alone live there (I'm poor) but I'd give my left nut to be able to live in London, Paris, New York, San Francisco. It may be because I'm a city boy, grew up in a city. Also, I am not a driver.
I'm in a place with weather in the 70s when its winter, beaches everywhere you look, etc. And it sucks.
I'd trade this "tropical paradise" for London any day - give me a place with art, culture, hustle and bustle, architecture, history... Sitting on the beach gets boring FAST.
no shit. I just moved down here and am horrified to learn that people like Brian Blair and Rhonda Storms are trying to set the policies in my nieces' school district - policies based on stupidity, hatred and intolerance.
I've pretty much decided after 6 months that I'm moving out of Florida as soon as I have a chance.
Disney was ad-free, now its not. AMC was ad free, now its not. Except for the handful of movie channels, the vast majority of cable channels (cable-only, non-broadcast) are loaded with commercials. You pay to get them, and they have commercials.
Even with satellite radio, not all of the stations are commercial free. You pay to go see movies, and they have more and more product placement.
Make no mistake - 95% of media companies plans for new revenue streams involve getting people to pay more for what they already have.
1. eliminate fair-use 2. introduce new tech regularly to obsolete old, requiring you to re-buy everything 3. DRM, so you have to buy the same thing repeatedly for different devices. 4. DRM introduced to over the air broadcasts so you cant record even though the law permits it 5. increases in length of copyright of already produced works - stealing from public domain so they can charge long for work created in 1929 4. reinterpretation of copyright law to disallow fair use of music snippets even a fraction of a second long - people have to pay to sample a simple "bleep." 5. locking down cell phones plus #4, so you have to buy the 3 seconds of your favorite tune for a buck a second for a ringtone rather than xfering it yourself. 6. self-destructing DVDs 7. fighting google's indexing of books (even though it wouldnt enable you to read the whole thing) because publishers plan to introduce a pay-per-page program of their own. 8. attempts to ban sales of used CDs and books.
The list goes on and on. The head of the RIAA even admitted several years ago that their goal is pay-per-play - you will no longer buy an album, you will pay every single time you listen to a song.
EVERYTHING is moving towards a subscription-based model, simply because it increases the eventual cost to consumers a hundredfold, yet is relatively easy to pass off to consumers.
All case modding is silly. Neon lights? Gimme a break. Case mods like that are for the trailer trash of hi-tech. The guys who would put little blue lights in the rear axle of their Ford Bronco.
The only case mods that make any sense to me are either the highly artistic and whimsical - just as a joke, or something to blend with your home decor, like for instance mission oak or something.
I like wikipedia and find myself using it more and more, and have contributed when able - but its not without its flaws... One look at the page for bigfoot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot will show you that - THEN look at the discussion page for bigfoot and its even more disturbing.
They're not trying to influence you. The character is manipulating humans, particularly Baltar, and using their human instincts to do it.
Ah, gotcha. It has NOTHING to do with getting ratings from the drooling crowd. Nothing at all. The producers are frankly, shocked... SHOCKED that anyone would think otherwise. Viewers were enjoying the sex objects on screen?!?!?! Oh those morons, they just don't GET IT!
And by the way, those Girls Gone Wild videos are social commentary.
Well, of course. But he was arguing that by not following OUR system and beliefs re: intellectual property that they are somehow immoral, bad, violating our rights, etc.
If we want to try to get a treaty where they recognize our laws on IP, and they think it's in their interest or to our mutual benefit, then fine - but if they decide its not in their interest and/or that its incompatible with their social structure, then its just too effing bad for us, and to act like they are violating some natural law is stupid.
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tell ya what, sparky - if you pro-science christians don't want others to think the anti-science crowd represents all of you, then DO something about it. Do we hear any christian leaders denouncing this baloney? NO. Do we hear any christians standing up and saying "YOU DON'T SPEAK FOR ME!" NO.
The anti-science christians are monopolizing the discussion. That is ALL you hear from church-types.
When there were court battles to try to stop the anti-science crowd from ruining school systems, where were the pro-science christian leaders? Were they trying to stop it? No. The only ones fighting it were the people you accuse of CAUSING the problem. The only christian voices we hear are those trying to ruin things, and we are trying to fight their negative influence.
Demand that christian leaders oppose this. Demand of your clergy that they not stay silent and let the only public voice of christianity be anti-science. It's not OUR business to try to save your christianity from them, it's yours. If you can't be bothered, if christian leaders are willing to let the anti-science voice be the ONLY voice of christianity, then don't complain to those who see this bullshit and point it out.
Well, its all semantics. Pluto, Sedna, and a bunch of others are all a new species of critter - several have been discovered, and many more will be. We probably won't call them planets. Pluto will either be demoted from planethood like the first asteroid Ceres was, or it will retain its title only because of tradition.
Why would poking fun at the idiot christians cause a rift between science and everything christian? Unless of course you're saying that all christians are idiot christians? I'm not a christian, so I wouldn't know... I presume you are a christian, so I'll have to take your word for it.
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dignity?
I had 19x.net and I couldn't even get $50 for it. Feh.
Well, the way the market trends were developing, going into 2006 the picture looked fuzzy. The market changes in a flash these days, so they have decided to focus on more stable products.
They fail on everything. Every time the media have reported on something that I happen to be reasonably knowledgable about, I have seen glaring errors. The one time a paper did an article on me, they misquoted me completely and totally misrepresented everything I had said, and this was not on a controversial issue or something where anyone could have a bias.
Once you've had this experience in several different areas of knowledge or interest, you stop believing news stories and instead see them as simply indicators that there may BE a story somewhere, but you will have to do the legwork yourself to actually GET the story.
Why, with all that money we could have afforded over a three-thousandth of an Iraq war!
It may be superficially pleasant, but there is no grit, no action, no reality... just sun and sand. Pleasant enough for a short vacation, but after that, boring as hell.
I'll never even get to visit London let alone live there (I'm poor) but I'd give my left nut to be able to live in London, Paris, New York, San Francisco. It may be because I'm a city boy, grew up in a city. Also, I am not a driver.
I'm in a place with weather in the 70s when its winter, beaches everywhere you look, etc. And it sucks.
I'd trade this "tropical paradise" for London any day - give me a place with art, culture, hustle and bustle, architecture, history...
Sitting on the beach gets boring FAST.
...for non-whites (i.e. sub-human), or a cheap supplier for millions of Happy Meal toys?!?!
no shit. I just moved down here and am horrified to learn that people like Brian Blair and Rhonda Storms are trying to set the policies in my nieces' school district - policies based on stupidity, hatred and intolerance.
I've pretty much decided after 6 months that I'm moving out of Florida as soon as I have a chance.
How can the very first post be REDUNDANT?
Disney was ad-free, now its not. AMC was ad free, now its not. Except for the handful of movie channels, the vast majority of cable channels (cable-only, non-broadcast) are loaded with commercials. You pay to get them, and they have commercials.
Even with satellite radio, not all of the stations are commercial free.
You pay to go see movies, and they have more and more product placement.
Make no mistake - 95% of media companies plans for new revenue streams involve getting people to pay more for what they already have.
1. eliminate fair-use
2. introduce new tech regularly to obsolete old, requiring you to re-buy everything
3. DRM, so you have to buy the same thing repeatedly for different devices.
4. DRM introduced to over the air broadcasts so you cant record even though the law permits it
5. increases in length of copyright of already produced works - stealing from public domain so they can charge long for work created in 1929
4. reinterpretation of copyright law to disallow fair use of music snippets even a fraction of a second long - people have to pay to sample a simple "bleep."
5. locking down cell phones plus #4, so you have to buy the 3 seconds of your favorite tune for a buck a second for a ringtone rather than xfering it yourself.
6. self-destructing DVDs
7. fighting google's indexing of books (even though it wouldnt enable you to read the whole thing) because publishers plan to introduce a pay-per-page program of their own.
8. attempts to ban sales of used CDs and books.
The list goes on and on. The head of the RIAA even admitted several years ago that their goal is pay-per-play - you will no longer buy an album, you will pay every single time you listen to a song.
EVERYTHING is moving towards a subscription-based model, simply because it increases the eventual cost to consumers a hundredfold, yet is relatively easy to pass off to consumers.
Red rain is pouring down Pouring down all over me
And since it's a felony, if he does this twice more they'll sentence him to life in prison.
'cause if it were just some piddling amount like, say just ONE billion, he would just pay and laugh it off.
All case modding is silly. Neon lights? Gimme a break.
Case mods like that are for the trailer trash of hi-tech. The guys who would put little blue lights in the rear axle of their Ford Bronco.
The only case mods that make any sense to me are either the highly artistic and whimsical - just as a joke, or something to blend with your home decor, like for instance mission oak or something.
don't you have to have a first one, first?
One look at the page for bigfoot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot will show you that - THEN look at the discussion page for bigfoot and its even more disturbing.
I haven't dared to look up UFO yet.
Green magic marker.
"we hold these truths to be self-evident..."
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Ah, gotcha. It has NOTHING to do with getting ratings from the drooling crowd. Nothing at all. The producers are frankly, shocked... SHOCKED that anyone would think otherwise. Viewers were enjoying the sex objects on screen?!?!?! Oh those morons, they just don't GET IT!
And by the way, those Girls Gone Wild videos are social commentary.
yeah.
Well, of course. But he was arguing that by not following OUR system and beliefs re: intellectual property that they are somehow immoral, bad, violating our rights, etc.
If we want to try to get a treaty where they recognize our laws on IP, and they think it's in their interest or to our mutual benefit, then fine - but if they decide its not in their interest and/or that its incompatible with their social structure, then its just too effing bad for us, and to act like they are violating some natural law is stupid.