Since the airwaves belong to the people and not to the radio stations, I would prefer that, under the Fairness Doctrine, the then-unpopular liberal shows would also be aired.
You could find them all on NPR. Heck, try the evening news or the TV talk shows!
I hate to shock you, but New Jersey is about as blue a state as you can get this side of Taxachusetts. Heavily democratic, heavily left-wing, and it has been that way for decades. They have not had a conservative governor since I've been alive (Whitman and Kean are moderates). Pinning this on Bush proves nothing other than that you're ignorant. If you're really interested in protecting the rights of the people, but constantly trolling the President on Slashdot you're accomplishing nothing.
Disclosure: I was a resident of NJ from 1973-1993.
The point wasn't whether the plastic can stop lightning (obviously it can't), but to address the supposed experts' misconception that a cell phone is a METAL OBJECT making DIRECT, METAL TO SKIN CONTACT with someone's face.
I won't make that admission because you didn't bother to read and comprehend my post. Otherwise, you would gleaned more "nuance" out of it and responded with something other than a repeat of your anti-Christian boilerplate.
Nobody's ever concerned about the fact that caucasians are a huge minority in New Mexico-- but if we find a spot in Utah that has "only" 1 Hispanic person out of 11 (and I'll guess about the same number of Blacks) liberals get in a tizzy. News flash: the national percentage of population made up of Hispanics is only 13% (and about the same for Blacks), so 9% doesn't constitute a Nexus of Indiversity. Of course, once Vincente Fox finishes sending every last Mexican over the border illegally, those figures may change a bit.
It's also news to me that all (you said, "none of the good upper management") good managers are intolerant atheists.
Claiming that stem cells have tiny little souls is as useful in a moral debate as claiming that rocks have then and geology is evil.
This is a straw-man argument as there is general consensus that rocks are not even alive. The argument that embryos are human is based on the observation that embryos are alive and, when properly developed in the mother, become human beings. The debate begins in deciding exactly when that takes place.
Without such an attitude, we'd still consider leeches as the pinnacle of modern medicine. The human body was once considered holy and untouchable, and cutting it open was not something a doctor could even consider without risking to be burned alive.
When was that, exactly? Seems like centuries before modern medicine, we were drilling holes in people's skulls and bleeding them. There was a great advance in the 19th century when we began to observe symptoms, develop treatments, and do a lot less cutting.
What is it with this meme? Is abortion not wholly acceptable among you people? Why not spell it out: "a woman's right to abort her fetus." Or, if you like the "choosing" verb, it's "a woman's right to choose life or death." Simply truncating the statement at "choose" is a weaselly way of suggesting that if I'm anti-abortion that I'm anti-choice, or anti-feminist. I'm not against a woman's right to attend school, pursue a job, get a tattoo, or hack the Linux kernel.
These cells are created and expired all the time in fertility clinics, the religious rightists would prefer that these cells be thrown in the trash rather be used to help cure disease.
Actually, I oppose the use of this kind of in-vitro fertilization for exactly that reason. No contradiction in my beliefs, here.
There is no basis for the rightists assignation of human being status to these cells other than their particular religious belief in the timing of soul creation.
Obviously, abortion and embryonic stem cell research advocates have assigned human status to some other time as well, or there would be no debate whatsoever on the treatment of infants or children. Some place this milestone at the heartbeat, a level of brain activity, or some arbitrary measure such as the third trimester. These are all judgement calls.
Restricting federal funding based on this religious belief is the establishment of religion, anyone who has sworn to uphold the US Constitution should be dismissed for enforcing this religious belief in the United States.
Unless you can prove that embryonic stem cell research is opposed only by a single religious group (hint: it is not) and that it infringes on the free exercise of your own religious beliefs (hint: it cannot), then you would have a hard time justifying this argument.
I believe the funding was restricted due to a debate having arisen in a nontrivially large segment of society. When a large number of constituents have raised an issue, usually it is a sign of economic responsibility to withold funding until such concerns are addressed. I would not like my tax dollars to be thrown at any trendy scientific movement, moral concerns notwithstanding.
Many cultures believe that sex crimes such as rape and incest are morally acceptable, at least in some circumstances. How is it that we have justified legislating against this behavior?
Many, many places are no-kill. I know for sure my vet, definitely not a non-profit org, will accept any cats (they only treat cats) and will keep them until they die or are adopted. I can't say whether they'll put down a cat with extreme trauma (we're talking we-can-rebuild-him-for-six-million-dollars type), but I adopted a cat that was found near death with pneumonia from them.
Salesman's script:
1. Ask what they want to do with the computer.
2. Respond: "Well, if you're going to do a lot of _______, then you're going to want something really fast."
Someday I'm going to walk in and say I want to stare at a blank screen.
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Disclosure: I was a resident of NJ from 1973-1993.
YKK-- they're teh evil!
The point wasn't whether the plastic can stop lightning (obviously it can't), but to address the supposed experts' misconception that a cell phone is a METAL OBJECT making DIRECT, METAL TO SKIN CONTACT with someone's face.
Do tinfoil hats stop lightning?
And apparently, my cell phone's housing is made of a metal that feels JUST LIKE PLASTIC.
Ooh... Shinese!
Alpha sales are ending in October.
I won't make that admission because you didn't bother to read and comprehend my post. Otherwise, you would gleaned more "nuance" out of it and responded with something other than a repeat of your anti-Christian boilerplate.
It's also news to me that all (you said, "none of the good upper management") good managers are intolerant atheists.
DEC was acquired by Compaq was acquired by HP.
That's fine, if you really believe that human life is nothing more than a collection of cells. Maybe we are just "ugly bags of mostly water."
I believe the funding was restricted due to a debate having arisen in a nontrivially large segment of society. When a large number of constituents have raised an issue, usually it is a sign of economic responsibility to withold funding until such concerns are addressed. I would not like my tax dollars to be thrown at any trendy scientific movement, moral concerns notwithstanding.
Many cultures believe that sex crimes such as rape and incest are morally acceptable, at least in some circumstances. How is it that we have justified legislating against this behavior?
"Troll" down-moderation coming in 3 - 2 - 1...
Many, many places are no-kill. I know for sure my vet, definitely not a non-profit org, will accept any cats (they only treat cats) and will keep them until they die or are adopted. I can't say whether they'll put down a cat with extreme trauma (we're talking we-can-rebuild-him-for-six-million-dollars type), but I adopted a cat that was found near death with pneumonia from them.
1. Ask what they want to do with the computer.
2. Respond: "Well, if you're going to do a lot of _______, then you're going to want something really fast."
Someday I'm going to walk in and say I want to stare at a blank screen.
It's a single cylinder, four-cycle engine. Your standard lawn-mower type.
But scrapple does... ahghhhhghhhghh