Backpacking is the way to go. Backpacking is a system where instead of the government giving the local school and telling your kid where to go the money follows your kid. It could be used at one of the local public schools or a private one. This way public schools are forced to get better by competing with each other and the private schools.
So if there is an outbreak of measles, you think the state should be rendered impotent, that the lives of others who, for a number of reasons, do not have the luxury of choice over vaccinations (the very young and immuno-compromised people) should be sacrificed on your altar of absolute liberties?
Nope. As a libertarian and a physician I have absolutely no problems with government quarantining people who are infected or may be infected. I have no problem with the government offering free vaccines for epidemic diseases (not STDs) for people who can't afford it, and it's one of the few areas I don't mind the government spending taxes to help foreign nations.
I do have a problem with the government telling me what kind of medicine I have to take and by extension what kinds I have to give my kids. I get a vaccine for pretty much everything I can just because I can, but I will be the one to decide what I do and don't put into my body. From a moral and ethical stand point I have no problems with people opting out.
In addition anything the government mandates runs the risk of abuse. Who chooses what immunizations make the cut? MMR? Smallpox? Chicken Pox? What about HPV? How much rigging the system will the pharmaceutical companies do to get the new canker sore vaccine included or include something that's not nearly as effective as they claim?
Or, to put things more simply, you should be allowed to be a carrier of harmful diseases, and anyone that objects can go get fucked, and if any of them are harmed via your decision, well, too fucking bad.
If by your actions you knowingly put others at risk you should be criminally and civilly liable. It's the same a people who know they have AIDS then go have bare back sex with others without telling them. Those people go to jail for attempted murder. You take your kid who you know has to Disney? I have no problem with arresting them for that. I also don't have a problem with them facing other consequences like if you don't vaccinate your kid he/she can't go to a public school.
Your characterizations of Libertarians is way off base. You might want to try to speak with a few before you claim us all as heretics.
NASA is almost out of Plutonium. With the end of the cold war the US stopped refining uranium and producing plutonium. There's not much left and it's becoming a real problem for the designers of long term space missions, especially ones that are far enough that solar power isn't a viable option.
I agree with you totally. I speak English, Chinese and Japanese. If I have to go E->J or E->C I can usually go a while translating, but if it's more than an hour I get a headache. If I have to go J C I'll get a headache within fifteen minutes since neither are my native language.
If I'm just speaking Japanese or Chinese the English part of my brain just shuts off and the other language takes over. I've months between times when I'd speak English without any problems.
She orders two more online (and gets them shipped to the store instead of her home, I don't know why) and goes to pick them up
Since she's Chinese I'd guess it's because she didn't want to pay for shipping. Same reason I have to go to the Mapple store tomorrow to pick up some iPads. *sigh*
A bajillion years ago when I went to college we had an intro to computer course that was the same kind of thing. How to send e-mail, use word and maybe something else like that. I ended up failing the class because I was so bored I never went.
I went to the head of my department, explained what happened and asked if I could take a higher level course and count that as the Intro to Computing credits. He took a look at the course description of the new class I wanted to take, he approved it, I got an A, credits satisfied, case closed.
Actually she wouldn't have to buy Photoshop and whatever video processing software for Windows again. You just need to call up Adobe and they'll give you new serial codes for the Mac version of a product you've legally registered.
True, but for the first two years of his presidency he had a super majority in congress meaning his party could pass any legislation they wanted no matter what the opposition wanted. What happened with that?
- continued the Bush bailout policy
- stayed in the Bush started wars, later started new ones
- continued Bush violations of civil rights, and started new programs to curtail rights
- continued Bush's tactic of screaming terrorist to take away those rights
- continued torture and "secret" prisons started under bush
- not only took no steps to reduce the deficit but ramped it up.
They will get rid of the cool colors and go with 1970's beige and bland lighting. And what ever else they can think of to make sure flying isn't enjoyable.
Nah, the lights will stay. These days most trans-pacific flights have those multi-colored lights. Having blue or red lights instead of the white let people adjust to "night time" conditions, like the red lights on a sub. This helps peoples' circadian rhythm from getting messed up too much.
Is a real problem for Swedish daycares? How many Swedish children go missing from daycare every year? Wouldn't it be more cost effective to, you know, hire attentive teachers to watch the kids in the first place so they don't escape?
Usually you have some legal protections when using a debit card. Paypal has a habit of ignoring disputed transactions until it's legally too late to get your money back. I had a problem with them a few years back where they kept telling me to talk to the merchant to resolve the issue, but if the merchant never shipped my stuff and won't give my money back what else can I do? If I used a debit or credit card it would have been much easier to dispute the charges and get my money back.
He must be from Beijing. I found the price (of many things, DVDs included) increased with proximity to Beijing. Shenzhen/Guangzhou was cheaper on the south end, then more expensive north. Even Shanghai was cheaper then Beijing for the illegal DVDs. And in Beijing, I didn't see any street vendors with them. They'd stand on the street with signs and show you to the shop in an unmarked store. I think that they do enforce the rules slightly in Beijing, or maybe it was just because the olympics were less than a year away and they were getting ready for the expected crackdown.
Nope I live in Beijing. They're all over the place here for 5RMB a piece. If you go into stores they're a lot more expensive.
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If it's fusion as opposed to fissions wouldn't the fuel be some hydrogen isotope?
Backpacking is the way to go. Backpacking is a system where instead of the government giving the local school and telling your kid where to go the money follows your kid. It could be used at one of the local public schools or a private one. This way public schools are forced to get better by competing with each other and the private schools.
Didn't I say that?
So if there is an outbreak of measles, you think the state should be rendered impotent, that the lives of others who, for a number of reasons, do not have the luxury of choice over vaccinations (the very young and immuno-compromised people) should be sacrificed on your altar of absolute liberties?
Nope. As a libertarian and a physician I have absolutely no problems with government quarantining people who are infected or may be infected. I have no problem with the government offering free vaccines for epidemic diseases (not STDs) for people who can't afford it, and it's one of the few areas I don't mind the government spending taxes to help foreign nations.
I do have a problem with the government telling me what kind of medicine I have to take and by extension what kinds I have to give my kids. I get a vaccine for pretty much everything I can just because I can, but I will be the one to decide what I do and don't put into my body. From a moral and ethical stand point I have no problems with people opting out.
In addition anything the government mandates runs the risk of abuse. Who chooses what immunizations make the cut? MMR? Smallpox? Chicken Pox? What about HPV? How much rigging the system will the pharmaceutical companies do to get the new canker sore vaccine included or include something that's not nearly as effective as they claim?
Or, to put things more simply, you should be allowed to be a carrier of harmful diseases, and anyone that objects can go get fucked, and if any of them are harmed via your decision, well, too fucking bad.
If by your actions you knowingly put others at risk you should be criminally and civilly liable. It's the same a people who know they have AIDS then go have bare back sex with others without telling them. Those people go to jail for attempted murder. You take your kid who you know has to Disney? I have no problem with arresting them for that. I also don't have a problem with them facing other consequences like if you don't vaccinate your kid he/she can't go to a public school.
Your characterizations of Libertarians is way off base. You might want to try to speak with a few before you claim us all as heretics.
NASA is almost out of Plutonium. With the end of the cold war the US stopped refining uranium and producing plutonium. There's not much left and it's becoming a real problem for the designers of long term space missions, especially ones that are far enough that solar power isn't a viable option.
tea party? The tea party has major corporate backers.
try being an occupy supporter.
So Soros isn't a major corporate backer?
I agree with you totally. I speak English, Chinese and Japanese. If I have to go E->J or E->C I can usually go a while translating, but if it's more than an hour I get a headache. If I have to go J C I'll get a headache within fifteen minutes since neither are my native language. If I'm just speaking Japanese or Chinese the English part of my brain just shuts off and the other language takes over. I've months between times when I'd speak English without any problems.
I hate to burst your bubble but I lived in Beijing for four years and there were plenty of fatties all over the place.
She orders two more online (and gets them shipped to the store instead of her home, I don't know why) and goes to pick them up
Since she's Chinese I'd guess it's because she didn't want to pay for shipping. Same reason I have to go to the Mapple store tomorrow to pick up some iPads. *sigh*
Could be worse. She could have picked a huntard.
A bajillion years ago when I went to college we had an intro to computer course that was the same kind of thing. How to send e-mail, use word and maybe something else like that. I ended up failing the class because I was so bored I never went.
I went to the head of my department, explained what happened and asked if I could take a higher level course and count that as the Intro to Computing credits. He took a look at the course description of the new class I wanted to take, he approved it, I got an A, credits satisfied, case closed.
Actually most museums will let you take photos, but you can't use a flash or tripod.
Actually she wouldn't have to buy Photoshop and whatever video processing software for Windows again. You just need to call up Adobe and they'll give you new serial codes for the Mac version of a product you've legally registered.
It's summer so they're all repeats anyways.
True, but for the first two years of his presidency he had a super majority in congress meaning his party could pass any legislation they wanted no matter what the opposition wanted. What happened with that?
So the upside of Bush's 3rd term has been?
First check for free porn, then call New Egg about it.
They will get rid of the cool colors and go with 1970's beige and bland lighting. And what ever else they can think of to make sure flying isn't enjoyable.
Nah, the lights will stay. These days most trans-pacific flights have those multi-colored lights. Having blue or red lights instead of the white let people adjust to "night time" conditions, like the red lights on a sub. This helps peoples' circadian rhythm from getting messed up too much.
Is a real problem for Swedish daycares? How many Swedish children go missing from daycare every year? Wouldn't it be more cost effective to, you know, hire attentive teachers to watch the kids in the first place so they don't escape?
Usually you have some legal protections when using a debit card. Paypal has a habit of ignoring disputed transactions until it's legally too late to get your money back. I had a problem with them a few years back where they kept telling me to talk to the merchant to resolve the issue, but if the merchant never shipped my stuff and won't give my money back what else can I do? If I used a debit or credit card it would have been much easier to dispute the charges and get my money back.
Ok, some posting problems here. I meant to say: Great now we'll get: Grand Theft Auto: Detroit. Now with real hooker smell!
Great now we'll get
Where was Hollywood respect when they were talking about dwarf tossing?
Hollywood only cares about making money so they can throw some ewoks into a movie to sell some extra toys to kids they will.
Sounds like a cheap new form of birth control to me!
When I broke my hand I learned to use my off hand. Never worked as well but it got the job done until I got my cast off.
He must be from Beijing. I found the price (of many things, DVDs included) increased with proximity to Beijing. Shenzhen/Guangzhou was cheaper on the south end, then more expensive north. Even Shanghai was cheaper then Beijing for the illegal DVDs. And in Beijing, I didn't see any street vendors with them. They'd stand on the street with signs and show you to the shop in an unmarked store. I think that they do enforce the rules slightly in Beijing, or maybe it was just because the olympics were less than a year away and they were getting ready for the expected crackdown.
Nope I live in Beijing. They're all over the place here for 5RMB a piece. If you go into stores they're a lot more expensive.