comparing serving a prison sentence to buying apples is about the most asinine analogy i've seen in quite some time. and it's not like the original use of the word pay was incorrect in its context.
There is a major difference between going for a piss during an advert break, and actively removing every single advert. I assume that's what he was getting at.
is there...? suppose i got up to get a drink, hit the john, etc. during every commercial. hard for anyone to argue that i shouldn't be doing that (well, hard for me to see much merit in any such argument). now suppose that my buddy is sitting there in front of the tv the whole time, so he can tell me when the commercials are over, so that i can come back and watch. that's ok too, right? what if we had a big group of, say 50 people, watching and all running off to go get drinks and snacks during the commercial, but my buddy was still watching and letting us know when the commercials were over.
you can see where i'm going with this... i'm not so sure it's a big step from avoiding the commercials on your own, vs having some device (tivo et al) screen them for you, or having someone edit the recording (selective vcr-usage in the least technically-advanced case) to effectively remove the commercials. as i see it, they're all the same coin.
hmmm... while generally i'm pretty annoyed with the whole concept of rider amendments, this sounds like one that i can almost support (subject to the ends-justiying-the-means sorts of quandries). i question whether it'll have any real effect though. since violating the spirit of the law (but not the letter!) with respect to torture seems to be acceptable to the powers-that-be, i've no doubt that some other loophole will be exploited to work around this amendment.
drifting a bit off-topic, i wonder what would happen if someone had managed to sneak an amendment onto this bill (or any other MustPassLegislation(TM)) that made it henceforth illegal to attach unrelated amendments to proposed legislation.
"Except, hey, WTF, why is it yellow? And what's that weird red thing next to it? I have searched through my entire house, and I haven't found a single device with that icon on it. On the other hand, I've found paired on/off buttons where a single line (|) means on, and a circle (o) means off. I've always understood those to be switches dedicated to on or off, and the combined broken circle one to be a toggle."
i was just about to agree with this and chime in with a "me too!", but then i noticed that my monitor has the circle/line combo button... i'd never really noticed that until just now.
i've never heard anyone pronounce almond without pronouncing the "l", but upon reading this post, i checked a dictionary. sure enough, the first listing was sans "l". i suppose that makes it legit, but it still sounds wrong to me. same with the mispronunciation of february to drop the "r". it may be generally acceptable now, but i really hate hearing it.
nitpicking a bit, but the indy does have a fan, in the power supply. the design is such that this fan is sufficient for cooling the entire system. also, i think some of the R5000 cpu modules have fans on them. still, it's a pretty well-designed system.
yes! all the standard controllers seem sized for 8 year-olds. if i play for too long with one of those (30 minutes), i find that i can't really use my hands at all for several hours afterwards.
i haven't played much with the xbox controller, but it seemed the right size. i had to buy a two dollar piece of crap controller for the psx, otherwise i just can't really play.
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They helped rebuild japan to ensure a military staging point close to the western european front.
ummm... i'm not particularly interested in debating the merits/motivations for the american government's actions (or lack thereof) throughout the world. but, your statement (quoted above) really leads one to believe that you are merely spouting inflamatory rhetoric or are quite misinformed about a great many things in this world.
put simply, japan is probably one of the last places that anyone would choose as "a military staging point close to the western european front." and i'm afraid that statement is really too far off-base to give you the benefit of the doubt.
Btw, I don't really like your 'biological' way of thinking (reminds me of many nasty things that have been allowed in the past because of 'biological' reasons), in particular:
Woman's "fundamental function of reproduction"...
um... women are fundamentally here for the purpose of reproduction. men are too. essentially all animals exist for the fundamental purpose of reproducing and allowing their species to continue. any purpose beyond that depends on one's answer to the question "why am i here?", but first and foremost we're here for reproduction
you're absolutely correct, but more to the point, if a treaty would violate the Constitution, then it is unconstitutional for the president to negotiate it and for the Senate to ratify it. if either/both of those happen with an unconstitutional treaty, that is grounds for immedaite impeachment for violating the highest law of the land.
And in addition, once a treaty has been ratified it becomes a higher law than the Constitution. Treaties can be used to trump the Bill of Rights, I would expect to see some of this happening soon if it has not already happened.
you're probably basing this on Article VI, paragraph 2 of the Constitution:
"This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding." [emphasis mine]
"under the authority of the United States" means that the federal government cannot ratify treaties which demand the use of powers the government does not have. so, no, treaties are not higher than the Constitution, and no, treaties cannot be used to affect any part of the Bill of Rights.
"A fetus has unique genetics, therefore, it is a unique individual."
Crap! So my identical twin and I are the same individual?
that is not a counter argument. given two different DNA samples, if they are the same you can't prove that they didn't come from identical twins or clones (you're argument). if they are different, you can be 100% certain that they came from different individuals (the previous poster's argument). genetically, scientifically, the unborn child and it's mother are two different individuals.
i have an idea. let's issue national id cards that indicate how wealthy we are, and then charge higher sales/gas/alcohol/tobacco taxes to the wealthier people. this way, we can enforce taxation fairness across the board.
you make $1/hr more than me? that's ok, because the extra 50 cents a gallon you pay will make us even, and life is fair...
For starters, medical reasons are _always_ justified. I'm sure there's plenty of ppl with Down's Syndrome, cerebral palsy, spina bifida, sickle-cell anaemia, etc who would say that they're leading perfectly fulfilling lives, but I'm equally sure that given the option, they'd all like to be able to wipe out the disease they're suffering from.
except that these procedures don't "cure" the affected embryo of whatever affliction they might have (down's syndrome, cerebral palsy, et. al.), they select different embryos which aren't afflicted. so i doubt many people with any sort of affliction would think: hey, i wish my parents had screened for... whatever. because if their parents had, they wouldn't exist at all.
the different twisting rates is to minimize crosstalk. it doesn't matter which color pairs you use. there are no situations where the pair chosen affects anything. none.
now, if you don't use a single color pair for your corresponding data pair, you might have crosstalk issues. apologies if this was what you were refering to.
didn't read the previous comment closely enough. if the system uses whitelists, then sites probably wouldn't get filtered out based on keywords. but, either way it's pretty stupid
i only looked at the republican and democrats sites, but i noticed that the democrats used a keywords meta-tag that indicates "questionable" content on the site... this could be a case where the www.democrats.org is blacklisted because of keywords. doesn't excuse it, but it could be a simple explanation.
Did you know they outed the Snuffelupagus because they felt teaching children that sometimes they are right when the whole world doubts them was dangerous?
whoa! what are you talking about here? they took mr. snuffelupagus (sp?) off sesame street!? arggghhh!!! he was the coolest chacter on the show. what the hell...?
sigh... the original comment of this thread wasn't about pc's competing with the ps2 in terms of performance, but rather longevity.
the point was made that current n64 software (ie games) looks/runs better than those when the platform was first released. the n64 hasn't changed. current pc software does not run better than software from several years ago on a computer from several years ago. essentially pcs become outdated much faster than game consoles. that's all. i wasn't arguing performance figures.
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comparing serving a prison sentence to buying apples is about the most asinine analogy i've seen in quite some time. and it's not like the original use of the word pay was incorrect in its context.
There is a major difference between going for a piss during an advert break, and actively removing every single advert. I assume that's what he was getting at.
is there...? suppose i got up to get a drink, hit the john, etc. during every commercial. hard for anyone to argue that i shouldn't be doing that (well, hard for me to see much merit in any such argument). now suppose that my buddy is sitting there in front of the tv the whole time, so he can tell me when the commercials are over, so that i can come back and watch. that's ok too, right? what if we had a big group of, say 50 people, watching and all running off to go get drinks and snacks during the commercial, but my buddy was still watching and letting us know when the commercials were over.
you can see where i'm going with this... i'm not so sure it's a big step from avoiding the commercials on your own, vs having some device (tivo et al) screen them for you, or having someone edit the recording (selective vcr-usage in the least technically-advanced case) to effectively remove the commercials. as i see it, they're all the same coin.
hmmm... while generally i'm pretty annoyed with the whole concept of rider amendments, this sounds like one that i can almost support (subject to the ends-justiying-the-means sorts of quandries). i question whether it'll have any real effect though. since violating the spirit of the law (but not the letter!) with respect to torture seems to be acceptable to the powers-that-be, i've no doubt that some other loophole will be exploited to work around this amendment.
drifting a bit off-topic, i wonder what would happen if someone had managed to sneak an amendment onto this bill (or any other MustPassLegislation(TM)) that made it henceforth illegal to attach unrelated amendments to proposed legislation.
"Except, hey, WTF, why is it yellow? And what's that weird red thing next to it? I have searched through my entire house, and I haven't found a single device with that icon on it. On the other hand, I've found paired on/off buttons where a single line (|) means on, and a circle (o) means off. I've always understood those to be switches dedicated to on or off, and the combined broken circle one to be a toggle."
i was just about to agree with this and chime in with a "me too!", but then i noticed that my monitor has the circle/line combo button... i'd never really noticed that until just now.
i've never heard anyone pronounce almond without pronouncing the "l", but upon reading this post, i checked a dictionary. sure enough, the first listing was sans "l". i suppose that makes it legit, but it still sounds wrong to me. same with the mispronunciation of february to drop the "r". it may be generally acceptable now, but i really hate hearing it.
nitpicking a bit, but the indy does have a fan, in the power supply. the design is such that this fan is sufficient for cooling the entire system. also, i think some of the R5000 cpu modules have fans on them. still, it's a pretty well-designed system.
yes! all the standard controllers seem sized for 8 year-olds. if i play for too long with one of those (30 minutes), i find that i can't really use my hands at all for several hours afterwards.
i haven't played much with the xbox controller, but it seemed the right size. i had to buy a two dollar piece of crap controller for the psx, otherwise i just can't really play.
They helped rebuild japan to ensure a military staging point close to the western european front.
ummm... i'm not particularly interested in debating the merits/motivations for the american government's actions (or lack thereof) throughout the world. but, your statement (quoted above) really leads one to believe that you are merely spouting inflamatory rhetoric or are quite misinformed about a great many things in this world.
put simply, japan is probably one of the last places that anyone would choose as "a military staging point close to the western european front." and i'm afraid that statement is really too far off-base to give you the benefit of the doubt.
At work, I get 4x rate on the mp3 creation, and at home I get 12x.
4x and 12x compared to what?
make up your mind. cuba or succession...? or are you going to be ambitious and try to do both?
Btw, I don't really like your 'biological' way of thinking (reminds me of many nasty things that have been allowed in the past because of 'biological' reasons), in particular:
Woman's "fundamental function of reproduction"...
um... women are fundamentally here for the purpose of reproduction. men are too. essentially all animals exist for the fundamental purpose of reproducing and allowing their species to continue. any purpose beyond that depends on one's answer to the question "why am i here?", but first and foremost we're here for reproduction
it's called fsn and was an experimental file manager developed by a team at sgi.
you're absolutely correct, but more to the point, if a treaty would violate the Constitution, then it is unconstitutional for the president to negotiate it and for the Senate to ratify it. if either/both of those happen with an unconstitutional treaty, that is grounds for immedaite impeachment for violating the highest law of the land.
And in addition, once a treaty has been ratified it becomes a higher law than the Constitution. Treaties can be used to trump the Bill of Rights, I would expect to see some of this happening soon if it has not already happened.
you're probably basing this on Article VI, paragraph 2 of the Constitution: "This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding." [emphasis mine]
"under the authority of the United States" means that the federal government cannot ratify treaties which demand the use of powers the government does not have. so, no, treaties are not higher than the Constitution, and no, treaties cannot be used to affect any part of the Bill of Rights.
"A fetus has unique genetics, therefore, it is a unique individual."
Crap! So my identical twin and I are the same individual?
that is not a counter argument. given two different DNA samples, if they are the same you can't prove that they didn't come from identical twins or clones (you're argument). if they are different, you can be 100% certain that they came from different individuals (the previous poster's argument). genetically, scientifically, the unborn child and it's mother are two different individuals.
"The system is not currently working for everyone as it is promised to"
when and where was anything along the lines of "you will not live in poverty" promised to anyone in this country?
i have an idea. let's issue national id cards that indicate how wealthy we are, and then charge higher sales/gas/alcohol/tobacco taxes to the wealthier people. this way, we can enforce taxation fairness across the board.
you make $1/hr more than me? that's ok, because the extra 50 cents a gallon you pay will make us even, and life is fair...
carrying your argument to the extreme:
taxes should be such that everyone's net, after-tax income is the same. why, because then everyone is equal, and everything would be fair...
For starters, medical reasons are _always_ justified. I'm sure there's plenty of ppl with Down's Syndrome, cerebral palsy, spina bifida, sickle-cell anaemia, etc who would say that they're leading perfectly fulfilling lives, but I'm equally sure that given the option, they'd all like to be able to wipe out the disease they're suffering from.
except that these procedures don't "cure" the affected embryo of whatever affliction they might have (down's syndrome, cerebral palsy, et. al.), they select different embryos which aren't afflicted. so i doubt many people with any sort of affliction would think: hey, i wish my parents had screened for... whatever. because if their parents had, they wouldn't exist at all.
the different twisting rates is to minimize crosstalk. it doesn't matter which color pairs you use. there are no situations where the pair chosen affects anything. none.
now, if you don't use a single color pair for your corresponding data pair, you might have crosstalk issues. apologies if this was what you were refering to.
i was thinking gay and lesbian might have triggered such a filter. and i put the word questionable in quotes for a reason...
yea! replying to myself...
didn't read the previous comment closely enough. if the system uses whitelists, then sites probably wouldn't get filtered out based on keywords. but, either way it's pretty stupid
i only looked at the republican and democrats sites, but i noticed that the democrats used a keywords meta-tag that indicates "questionable" content on the site... this could be a case where the www.democrats.org is blacklisted because of keywords. doesn't excuse it, but it could be a simple explanation.
Did you know they outed the Snuffelupagus because they felt teaching children that sometimes they are right when the whole world doubts them was dangerous?
whoa! what are you talking about here? they took mr. snuffelupagus (sp?) off sesame street!? arggghhh!!! he was the coolest chacter on the show. what the hell...?
sigh... the original comment of this thread wasn't about pc's competing with the ps2 in terms of performance, but rather longevity.
the point was made that current n64 software (ie games) looks/runs better than those when the platform was first released. the n64 hasn't changed. current pc software does not run better than software from several years ago on a computer from several years ago. essentially pcs become outdated much faster than game consoles. that's all. i wasn't arguing performance figures.