When a coal plant blows up, you wait for the fire to go out and build a new one. When a nuke plant blows, it makes the area around it (possibly for hundreds of miles) too radioactive for humans to live there.
Listen... if a coal-fired power plan blows up, the area isn't THERE ANYMORE. You underestimate the energy density of coal. Not to mention the pollution of the air will make the area (which is no longer there) uninhabitable for a time. Just ask Centralia.
A mechanical device that sometimes resembles a human and is capable of performing a variety of often complex human tasks on command or by being programmed in advance. A machine or device that operates automatically or by remote control. A person who works mechanically without original thought, especially one who responds automatically to the commands of others.
Source: The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
You just proved my point. You KNOW those things because you have (what you consider) reliable witnesses. As for events in history, no one is alive to provide that evidence. I'm not suggesting you use fundamentalist Christians as witnesses! I'm suggesting that you must evaluate the Bible in the same manner that you would other historical texts, rather than dismissing it summarily as a book full of hogwash.
Except, as expert environmentalist Al Gore told us in his croc^H^H^H^Hdocumentary, increased temperatures cause more glaciers to slide into the ocean. We're putting more ice into the glass. Try again.
I personally despise religios zealots because you cannot reason with them. Some of them kill people because they believe they are acting on behalf of their religion or their god(s), while the masses of moderates passively aid them. Muslims do it, Christians do it, Jews do it. Anyone who doesn't act accordingly hostile with these three asserting themselves is marginalized, stolen from, or killed.
Scientists have known that the earth is not the center of the universe for 500 years and that humans evolved from other animals for about 150 years, yet the fundamentalists still insist on living their lives racked with guilt and fear of a vengeful God.
Another poor, ignorant soul confusing Roman Catholicism with fundamentalist Christianity. The bible teaches that Jesus' sacrifice allows him to stand in our stead. With faith, we have no fear.
"You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say,'You will be made free?' "
Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.
A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever.
If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
"We" must have invented the concept of the Roman Empire, the French Revolution, and the Crusades as well. I have nothing proving that those ever were except written records and maybe a few artifacts buried in the ground-- just like the events in the Bible.
In the end, every fact you haven't personally experienced is based on faith.
Hang on, you're saying that the US is more trustworthy than the likes of France because the US is the only country to have used nukes in anger - on civilians no less. Talk about backwards logic...
No, Captain Reading Comprehension, he is giving examples of countries that have proved they are trustworthy with nuclear weapons. France, USA, UK, etc. have had nuclear arsenals for decades without using them, which is evidence they are trustworthy. It's just that the obvious, that the USA dropped two devices to end WWII, had to be pointed out as well. Maybe that makes France more trustworthy that the USA-- I'll leave that up to you. But Iran certainly has not done anything to establish trust.
The Iraq war is a perfect example of this - the US ignored the UN and started a war on it's own - noone should be allowed to do the same with WMDs.
Deposed a brutal dictator
Eliminated his murderous offspring
Eliminated the head and primary lieutenants of Al Qaeda in Iraq
Helped install a parliamentary republic
Improved health, human services, infrastructure, and education
When was the last time a U.N. action did those things?
Only on Slashdot could working conditions in communist China be blamed on free markets and not cause an implosion of irony, causing a paradoxical singularity to form inside the web server, thereby swallowing up the entire internet.
Yuengling is correct. They have expanded their distribution and are now available from NJ to NC and maybe further. I love the B&T, but if you want a good light "summer" beer, try the light lager. Don't confuse it with the regular light (ale), that stuff is like Coors Light.
Free? Hmph! I just bought a 360 and they only gave me a three-knuckle rebate! It took six months to get it back, and I ended up getting a shot to the groin instead!
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Only on Slashdot must nouveaux-luddite people be instructed how to leave messages on answering machines. It's not 1965, people.
Classifying classical liberalism as "right wing" is like calling anarchists conservatives.
I'm sure a faulty battery or capacitor was involved.
Don't want to be a nag, but it's still a bit weird to call football a sport played with a ball that looks nothing like a foot...
They must be really bored or really frightened of McDowell's book at infidels.org. 209 articles all refuting the same text. Get a new hobby, will ya?
You just proved my point. You KNOW those things because you have (what you consider) reliable witnesses. As for events in history, no one is alive to provide that evidence. I'm not suggesting you use fundamentalist Christians as witnesses! I'm suggesting that you must evaluate the Bible in the same manner that you would other historical texts, rather than dismissing it summarily as a book full of hogwash.
I'm not a religious person. I'm just a follower of Jesus.
As usual, Slashdotters blame GWB for the actions of corporations.
Congratulations! You're an idiot!
Except, as expert environmentalist Al Gore told us in his croc^H^H^H^Hdocumentary, increased temperatures cause more glaciers to slide into the ocean. We're putting more ice into the glass. Try again.
"You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say,'You will be made free?' " Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever. If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
In the end, every fact you haven't personally experienced is based on faith.
Deposed a brutal dictator
Eliminated his murderous offspring
Eliminated the head and primary lieutenants of Al Qaeda in Iraq
Helped install a parliamentary republic
Improved health, human services, infrastructure, and education
When was the last time a U.N. action did those things?
By the way, it's spelled "Qur'an".
How about having your Prime Minister's head chopped off? Would that bother you? I guess Islamic terrorists hate high taxes too!
Only on Slashdot could working conditions in communist China be blamed on free markets and not cause an implosion of irony, causing a paradoxical singularity to form inside the web server, thereby swallowing up the entire internet.
Pantechnicon was my favorite Transformer! Only problem was, you could only rent the action figure at $19.99 a day (local use only).
Yuengling is correct. They have expanded their distribution and are now available from NJ to NC and maybe further. I love the B&T, but if you want a good light "summer" beer, try the light lager. Don't confuse it with the regular light (ale), that stuff is like Coors Light.
UK Beer: warm like piss.
USA Beer: tastes like piss.
Canadian Beer: tastes like moose piss.
Beer in the USA: tastes like piss. *
* Not true for anything that sells for more than $20/case. But I'm just trying to play along.
Free? Hmph! I just bought a 360 and they only gave me a three-knuckle rebate! It took six months to get it back, and I ended up getting a shot to the groin instead!