I love Perry's works. They aren't very deep, philosophically, but just like The Hobbit or Fleming's 007 novels, when I want just a fun adventure, they're absolutely perfect. "Comfort books," as some people refer to them.
You're right, just trying to get marriage to conform to 'biblical' standards doesn't make a hate group, which is why I specified 'anti-gay' as well as 'hate groups.' The SPLC guidelines for a 'hate group' are as follows: "Generally, the SPLC’s listings of these groups is based on their propagation of known falsehoods — claims about LGBT people that have been thoroughly discredited by scientific authorities — and repeated, groundless name-calling. Viewing homosexuality as unbiblical does not qualify organizations for listing as hate groups."
Here're some qualifications of one of the hate groups CFA has supported, the Family Research Council:
In a 1999 publication (Homosexual Activists Work to Normalize Sex With Boys) that has since disappeared from its website, the FRC claimed that “one of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of consent laws and to eventually recognize pedophiles as the ‘prophets’ of a new sexual order,” according to unrefuted research by AMERICAblog. The same publication argued that “homosexual activists publicly disassociate themselves from pedophiles as part of a public relations strategy.”
More recently, in March 2008, Sprigg, responding to a question about uniting gay partners during the immigration process, said: “I would much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States than to import them.”
Five years later, on May 17, 2001, Perkins gave a speech to the Louisiana chapter of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), a white supremacist group that has described black people as a “retrograde species of humanity.”
Polls over the last few years show that it is pretty close to 50/50 when the question is "Should gays be allowed to marry?" But when the question is "Should gays be allowed to marry OR have a civil union allowing insurance/adoption/other married rights?" then the response is overwhelmingly positive, usually around 80%.
CFA supports the 20% with millions of dollars of donations to anti-gay and hate groups like the Family Research Council. That's why this is an issue, not because a person in their employ, no matter how high up, is personally a homophobe.
His personal views don't matter, what matters is that CFA donates millions of dollars to anti-gay groups and hate groups like the Family Research Council. Cathy's interview just reminded everyone that they do this.
That's only because he doesn't understand what's going on. It's not about "one person's opinion," like he thinks, it's about the company donating millions of dollars to anti-gay and certified hate groups.
Just goes to show you that being gay doesn't automatically make one enlightened. They aren't special, they're just as human as everyone else.
Yes, it is worth it to me. I only run my PC when I am home for the day, so having the OS boot in a quarter of the time is awesome (ESPECIALLY on the laptop, where I am often trying to pull up something quickly for class), but everything ELSE I do with it runs faster, too, like opening up Office as you said, Paint, Winamp, FRAPS, the control panel, or Firefox. I've never seen Superfetch use more than 2 GB or so of RAM, even on my desktop that has 16 GB and close to a year of data to predict, and Readyboost is only useful if you are running very limited amounts of RAM, i.e. 2 GB or less, and even then, USB and SD cards are a bottleneck to flash performance - putting an SSD into my old netbook (1201N with 4 GB of RAM) made a huge difference, even with a Class 10/8 GB SD card dedicated to Readyboost.
I have 120 GB drives in both my laptop and my desktop, so with a bit of pruning, all of the games I have a reasonable expectation of playing in the near future (Borderlands, Torchlight, L4D, TF2, Path of Exile, Alien Swarm, whatever games I've recently bought) fit on the drives with plenty of space. A few multiplayer games that I don't play often, but do play on occasion on a Friday night when my friends are baby-free, like Counter-Strike, Civ IV, DoD, AvP, I keep installed on my media drive with Steam Mover, so when it does come up every couple of months, I don't have to wait to download it. Most single-player games, like Fallout 3, or Arkham Asylum, I don't bother to keep installed, because they're play-once-and-done kind of games, at least until I decide to revisit them two years down the line, when I just reinstall them (since I've undoubtedly reformatted once or twice since then anyway).
Plus, on my laptop, using Readyboost is a pain, because I have to plug/unplug the SD card every time (full recess SD slots have pretty much gone the way of the dodo).
As to failure rates, I have four SSDs (my first two, 60 GB drives that are now in my HTPC and my stepson's 1201N), and I have not had a problem with any of them, though I have had two of the eight or so HDDs I have purchased since I built my first PC about ten years ago fail. Not comparable sample groups, of course, but in my experience, SSDs are more reliable.
Now, without Steam Mover, I might very well still share your opinion - having Steam tied to a single, small drive was a pain in the ass, and there were several instances in the first few months of my SSD ownership where I missed an hour of gaming with my friends on Friday nights because they were playing something I had deleted to make room for War for Cybertron, or the Ghostbusters game, or whatever I was currently playing. But being able to keep the old favorites on a slow drive for the rare instances when I do need them immediately makes it a superior system.
I actually use FB as an off-site backup, now - since they've added the "high-def" uploads, I find it an excellent resource in addition to my regular backup.
That's why my SSD is a boot/software drive. All my media/photos/papers go on my oldish TB HDD. Plus, it makes reimaging a snap - back up any current game saves, make sure XMarks has synced, slap in the Win7 disc and go to town!
Some kids just wait for a chance to play with things that they've been taught can cause serious damage. And I could force open my dad's tool cabinets with a screwdriver when I was eight.
Now's the point where you say, "But it's evolution in action!"
And that's when I respond with, the smart child picks the lock on the gun cabinet, takes it to the park down the street, and is plinking cans with other neighborhood kids when YOUR child gets removed from the gene pool.
Evolution isn't a perfect process. This is why we shouldn't rely on it.
I have gone through the letter of recommendation process twice (for MS and PhD), and both times, my letters were sent by the authors, they never passed through my hands at all. The second time, though, a few of the applications I filled out had something about choosing (or not) to waive my rights to read the letters. I didn't bother, as the universities would have seen them first anyway.
Yeah, I regularly see a five-mile variance on location with mine when I do anything without GPS turned on (which is any time I am not actively using a navigation app).
And since I live three miles from the Ohio River and my work on the other side of the state line, it often doesn't even know if I'm at work or at home. Which is extra funny, since I don't get a signal inside the plant.
I think it's more that the original is almost always the best. Whether it's a British show remade for Americans, or a film remake like "The Italian Job," a novel to film, or even a film to novelization.
It has increased in price enormously. A good deal at the supermarket these days, at least in Cincinnati, is a quarter per pack - and like you said, in 1999, it was a dime a pack, at least on sale. I'm sure we could find a better price than Amazon's if we tried, but fifteen seconds was about all the effort I was willing to put into that post.
You realize who's going to make a killing manufacturing these nanofactories, right? The pharmaceutical industry. Even more amusingly, look at who funds the facility where most of the research took place. Yes, those Koch Brothers.
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I love Perry's works. They aren't very deep, philosophically, but just like The Hobbit or Fleming's 007 novels, when I want just a fun adventure, they're absolutely perfect. "Comfort books," as some people refer to them.
You're right, just trying to get marriage to conform to 'biblical' standards doesn't make a hate group, which is why I specified 'anti-gay' as well as 'hate groups.' The SPLC guidelines for a 'hate group' are as follows: "Generally, the SPLC’s listings of these groups is based on their propagation of known falsehoods — claims about LGBT people that have been thoroughly discredited by scientific authorities — and repeated, groundless name-calling. Viewing homosexuality as unbiblical does not qualify organizations for listing as hate groups."
Here're some qualifications of one of the hate groups CFA has supported, the Family Research Council:
In a 1999 publication (Homosexual Activists Work to Normalize Sex With Boys) that has since disappeared from its website, the FRC claimed that “one of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of consent laws and to eventually recognize pedophiles as the ‘prophets’ of a new sexual order,” according to unrefuted research by AMERICAblog. The same publication argued that “homosexual activists publicly disassociate themselves from pedophiles as part of a public relations strategy.”
More recently, in March 2008, Sprigg, responding to a question about uniting gay partners during the immigration process, said: “I would much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States than to import them.”
Five years later, on May 17, 2001, Perkins gave a speech to the Louisiana chapter of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), a white supremacist group that has described black people as a “retrograde species of humanity.”
Polls over the last few years show that it is pretty close to 50/50 when the question is "Should gays be allowed to marry?" But when the question is "Should gays be allowed to marry OR have a civil union allowing insurance/adoption/other married rights?" then the response is overwhelmingly positive, usually around 80%.
CFA supports the 20% with millions of dollars of donations to anti-gay and hate groups like the Family Research Council. That's why this is an issue, not because a person in their employ, no matter how high up, is personally a homophobe.
His personal views don't matter, what matters is that CFA donates millions of dollars to anti-gay groups and hate groups like the Family Research Council. Cathy's interview just reminded everyone that they do this.
That's only because he doesn't understand what's going on. It's not about "one person's opinion," like he thinks, it's about the company donating millions of dollars to anti-gay and certified hate groups.
Just goes to show you that being gay doesn't automatically make one enlightened. They aren't special, they're just as human as everyone else.
Just goes to show you how EVERYONE sucks when mob mentality kicks in.
Also, I was really amused by the annoying gay hipster waving his iPhone around while pretending to be polite as he accosted the old black man.
Also those of us that are locked out of our boxes at work, forced into IE6, of all things. *sigh*
Yes, it is worth it to me. I only run my PC when I am home for the day, so having the OS boot in a quarter of the time is awesome (ESPECIALLY on the laptop, where I am often trying to pull up something quickly for class), but everything ELSE I do with it runs faster, too, like opening up Office as you said, Paint, Winamp, FRAPS, the control panel, or Firefox. I've never seen Superfetch use more than 2 GB or so of RAM, even on my desktop that has 16 GB and close to a year of data to predict, and Readyboost is only useful if you are running very limited amounts of RAM, i.e. 2 GB or less, and even then, USB and SD cards are a bottleneck to flash performance - putting an SSD into my old netbook (1201N with 4 GB of RAM) made a huge difference, even with a Class 10/8 GB SD card dedicated to Readyboost.
I have 120 GB drives in both my laptop and my desktop, so with a bit of pruning, all of the games I have a reasonable expectation of playing in the near future (Borderlands, Torchlight, L4D, TF2, Path of Exile, Alien Swarm, whatever games I've recently bought) fit on the drives with plenty of space. A few multiplayer games that I don't play often, but do play on occasion on a Friday night when my friends are baby-free, like Counter-Strike, Civ IV, DoD, AvP, I keep installed on my media drive with Steam Mover, so when it does come up every couple of months, I don't have to wait to download it. Most single-player games, like Fallout 3, or Arkham Asylum, I don't bother to keep installed, because they're play-once-and-done kind of games, at least until I decide to revisit them two years down the line, when I just reinstall them (since I've undoubtedly reformatted once or twice since then anyway).
Plus, on my laptop, using Readyboost is a pain, because I have to plug/unplug the SD card every time (full recess SD slots have pretty much gone the way of the dodo).
As to failure rates, I have four SSDs (my first two, 60 GB drives that are now in my HTPC and my stepson's 1201N), and I have not had a problem with any of them, though I have had two of the eight or so HDDs I have purchased since I built my first PC about ten years ago fail. Not comparable sample groups, of course, but in my experience, SSDs are more reliable.
Now, without Steam Mover, I might very well still share your opinion - having Steam tied to a single, small drive was a pain in the ass, and there were several instances in the first few months of my SSD ownership where I missed an hour of gaming with my friends on Friday nights because they were playing something I had deleted to make room for War for Cybertron, or the Ghostbusters game, or whatever I was currently playing. But being able to keep the old favorites on a slow drive for the rare instances when I do need them immediately makes it a superior system.
I actually use FB as an off-site backup, now - since they've added the "high-def" uploads, I find it an excellent resource in addition to my regular backup.
That's why my SSD is a boot/software drive. All my media/photos/papers go on my oldish TB HDD. Plus, it makes reimaging a snap - back up any current game saves, make sure XMarks has synced, slap in the Win7 disc and go to town!
And an easy way to guard against "shit happening" is to get easily-defeated gun safes off the market.
Some kids just wait for a chance to play with things that they've been taught can cause serious damage. And I could force open my dad's tool cabinets with a screwdriver when I was eight.
Now's the point where you say, "But it's evolution in action!"
And that's when I respond with, the smart child picks the lock on the gun cabinet, takes it to the park down the street, and is plinking cans with other neighborhood kids when YOUR child gets removed from the gene pool.
Evolution isn't a perfect process. This is why we shouldn't rely on it.
Wikipedia knows what a discer is, unless EJ quickly put a redirect up to fool non-farmers like me.
(It makes discs, right?)
I have gone through the letter of recommendation process twice (for MS and PhD), and both times, my letters were sent by the authors, they never passed through my hands at all. The second time, though, a few of the applications I filled out had something about choosing (or not) to waive my rights to read the letters. I didn't bother, as the universities would have seen them first anyway.
Oh, how about the one that sodomizes young children as part of a millennia-long tribal tradition?
What are you talking about? The Penn State football program is only a century old!
It worked great. They found him with a conventional wiretap.
Yeah, I regularly see a five-mile variance on location with mine when I do anything without GPS turned on (which is any time I am not actively using a navigation app).
And since I live three miles from the Ohio River and my work on the other side of the state line, it often doesn't even know if I'm at work or at home. Which is extra funny, since I don't get a signal inside the plant.
I think it's more that the original is almost always the best. Whether it's a British show remade for Americans, or a film remake like "The Italian Job," a novel to film, or even a film to novelization.
I always hate "your momma" jokes, but I have to admit, that one made me chuckle.
He's just showing us how he's 29 years ahead of the curve by adopting Instagram into his "professional" work.
How does that matter when you have 20% of the population underemployed and below the garnishment threshold?
It has increased in price enormously. A good deal at the supermarket these days, at least in Cincinnati, is a quarter per pack - and like you said, in 1999, it was a dime a pack, at least on sale. I'm sure we could find a better price than Amazon's if we tried, but fifteen seconds was about all the effort I was willing to put into that post.
Right. Because the last sub-prime loan speculations treated us so very well.
Most of us that claim to support their efforts do so by running SETI@Home.
Or sometimes SETI@WorkAfterHoursAndUnauthorized.
You realize who's going to make a killing manufacturing these nanofactories, right? The pharmaceutical industry. Even more amusingly, look at who funds the facility where most of the research took place. Yes, those Koch Brothers.
Go pander your conspiracies somewhere else.