According to the FBI, Lauri Love and his co-conspirators caused in excess of $5,000,000 in damages in the U.S.. Even allowing for likely exaggeration, that's more than several average people combined would earn in a lifetime.
Had Love acted with government sanction, what he did would be considered an act of war. It is not reasonable to have him protected from the consequences of his actions.
I just did jury service. We were instructed quite specifically that the state bringing a case against someone is not to be considered as any indication of guilt.
Speed bumps are often used in places where idiot children run out into traffic. The speed bumps will slow some drivers and save some lives, and break some suspension components. They're a dandy way to discourage people from buying cars with two inches of ground clearance.
Sail-only propulsion for the main part of the voyage could be wildly variable. That shipment that was supposed to arrive a week after departure but comes in after 5 weeks instead? Not so good.
FDIC has protected all relevant checking and savings accounts since its founding. Why are you trying to claim otherwise?
When it can, the FDIC does try to pressure other banks to buy up a failed bank, and have the bank making the purchase make good the accounts. If that doesn't work, the FDIC pays.
When I first learned that unsterilized female ferrets would die if they didn't mate, I thought of The Mote In God's Eye. Then I learned that the ferrets could be saved with the proper chemical treatment, and realized that Mote had an incurable flaw. I suggest that the flaw was recognized by the authors, and deliberately ignored because it would have destroyed the plot.
Pournelle came from a time when United States patriotism was understood to be a good thing, and rightly so. He was brought up Roman Catholic, and that formed another base for his views. Like many with that combination of views, he did not understand the inherent conflict, and that showed up as holes in his arguments that he could not recognize.
Pournelle was extraordinarily intelligent. Many extraordinarily intelligent people learn early on that people who disagree with them are usually wrong, and for the sake of efficiency should be ignored or their arguments discarded without due consideration. However, his knowledge of many areas of history and current events was deep, wide, and insightful, resulting in his conclusions being much better than most people's.
If sexual orientation correlates highly with physical appearance, then I think this conclusively proves that sexual orientation is not a "decision."
Your statement is based on the assumption that all homosexuality is caused by the same thing. (Or all male homosexuality is based on one thing, and all female homosexuality is based on another single thing.) There's also an assumption that sexuality is all-or-nothing, that there aren't people who want sex with anyone, regardless of gender. The second assumption is false by counterexample. The first is unproven, and in my opinion unlikely.
A technological civilization is good for humans. Maintaining and improving it requires the expenditure of energy, which inevitably causes pollution.
Pollution can be reduced, and it's being worked on. Screaming, like you, that We're all gonna die doesn't help make things better, it makes you look like an Al Gore fool.
People deny the claims of anthropogenic global warming fraudsters because the case for AGW is far from proved, and the proposed "solutions" cause immense harm to freedom and human well-being.
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But the coal has to want to reform.
According to the FBI, Lauri Love and his co-conspirators caused in excess of $5,000,000 in damages in the U.S.. Even allowing for likely exaggeration, that's more than several average people combined would earn in a lifetime.
Had Love acted with government sanction, what he did would be considered an act of war. It is not reasonable to have him protected from the consequences of his actions.
I just did jury service. We were instructed quite specifically that the state bringing a case against someone is not to be considered as any indication of guilt.
The long ones are commonly called humps instead of bumps.
A four inch high speed bump will damage s bumper with three inch road clearance regardless of speed.
Speed bumps are often used in places where idiot children run out into traffic. The speed bumps will slow some drivers and save some lives, and break some suspension components. They're a dandy way to discourage people from buying cars with two inches of ground clearance.
Philosophers has been abusing words like "purpose" and "cause" for more than 2 millennia.
Fredric Brown has answered that controversy, http://www.roma1.infn.it/~anzel/answer.html
Perpendicular (90 degrees) is at least 20 degrees.
Sail-only propulsion for the main part of the voyage could be wildly variable. That shipment that was supposed to arrive a week after departure but comes in after 5 weeks instead? Not so good.
Kindly show your calculations.
FDIC has protected all relevant checking and savings accounts since its founding. Why are you trying to claim otherwise?
When it can, the FDIC does try to pressure other banks to buy up a failed bank, and have the bank making the purchase make good the accounts. If that doesn't work, the FDIC pays.
Try again. Your units make no sense.
Robert Tinney.
When I first learned that unsterilized female ferrets would die if they didn't mate, I thought of The Mote In God's Eye. Then I learned that the ferrets could be saved with the proper chemical treatment, and realized that Mote had an incurable flaw. I suggest that the flaw was recognized by the authors, and deliberately ignored because it would have destroyed the plot.
If we go nowhere, it truly will be the end.
So you completely ignored his warnings about excess CO2?
The left explicitly rejects logic. At least the right tries to be logical.
Pournelle came from a time when United States patriotism was understood to be a good thing, and rightly so. He was brought up Roman Catholic, and that formed another base for his views. Like many with that combination of views, he did not understand the inherent conflict, and that showed up as holes in his arguments that he could not recognize.
Pournelle was extraordinarily intelligent. Many extraordinarily intelligent people learn early on that people who disagree with them are usually wrong, and for the sake of efficiency should be ignored or their arguments discarded without due consideration. However, his knowledge of many areas of history and current events was deep, wide, and insightful, resulting in his conclusions being much better than most people's.
Here's a use: marketing.
Your statement is based on the assumption that all homosexuality is caused by the same thing. (Or all male homosexuality is based on one thing, and all female homosexuality is based on another single thing.) There's also an assumption that sexuality is all-or-nothing, that there aren't people who want sex with anyone, regardless of gender. The second assumption is false by counterexample. The first is unproven, and in my opinion unlikely.
I'm sure you spend all your spare time making the world a better place.
Oh, wait! You're making sarcastic and degrading posts on slashdot.
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A raised middle finger.
Last sentence in your citation: "But I'd need to see more evidence."
A technological civilization is good for humans. Maintaining and improving it requires the expenditure of energy, which inevitably causes pollution.
Pollution can be reduced, and it's being worked on. Screaming, like you, that We're all gonna die doesn't help make things better, it makes you look like an Al Gore fool.
People deny the claims of anthropogenic global warming fraudsters because the case for AGW is far from proved, and the proposed "solutions" cause immense harm to freedom and human well-being.