Well, it is not like that was our national motto or something. It was just an exerpt from a poem that ended up getting emplazoned in bronze and posted inside the statue of liberty. The poem was by Emma Lazarus who was quite wealthy, incidentally.
I'm not sure why the U.S. gets all the flak for not accepting every person that comes knocking. Somehow we seem to be held to a higher standard than everybody else.
It took me six years of waiting and thousands of dollars in lawyer's fees to adjust my status
Too little too late but you could have just done 6 years of waiting and zero dollars of lawyer's fees. The information on the process is all out there and free. There are filing fees and waiting periods, but the lawyer, despite what they might tell you, doesn't get it done any faster or better.
Religion, being based on faith and not observation, cannot disprove science.
Religion cannot disprove science because science has it's own dogma, ie the Scientific Method.
However, occasionally, perhaps as little as a few hundred thousand times a year, something happens that cannot be explained by science as we know it. For example, somebody who was cancer ridden may suddenly and inexplicably be completely free of cancer cells. Invariably, rather than look into how we can cause this same thing to happen to other cancer sufferers, science turns a blind eye and says that is not possible according to science as we know it and looks no further into the matter.
Same reason we assume geocentrism to be wrong. Even though it seems like an obvious answer ("Look, the sun is going around us in the sky!"), there is simply no scientific evidence to support it's claims (and actually tons and tons of evidence disproving it).
This is a bad example. There is lots of evidence that the sun revolves around the Earth. We can see it day by day. It just so happens that that theory has some shortcomings that are explained better by the theory that the Earth revolves around the sun, for which there is also much evidence. And that theory has some shortcomings as well, which are better explained by the theory that ALL things are attracted to each other through the smallest of the universal forces and thus the Sun and the Earth revolve around each other. There is plenty of evidence for that as well. And yet even that theory doesn't quite explain everything and we will find (or maybe even already have) a theory which even more tightly explains the movements, but every theory will always just get more and more precise while never being exactly right.
it is full of contradictions. Unless you put logic aside it can't be proven 100% correct even if god itself showed evidence.
It is only full of contradictions IF you put logic aside.
Seeing as how none of the clergymen I've seen in my neck of the woods are driving a car that cost less than $50,000, I'd say this is the more likely explanation.
I guess I need to live in a better neck of the woods, because the clergymen I know all seem to have other jobs just to make ends meet.
This is the same country that believes in fan death, btw.
This is also the country with one of the highest literacy rates and one of the highest educational rankings.
The eye is badly designed, but the whole giving birth thing is a disaster. What kind of intelligent designer would have the baby come out through the pelvis?
Interestingly enough, that is specifically addressed in the Bible. After the original sin, God announced that the woman's punishment was that he would greatly increase her pain in childbirth.
Many Christians believe that teaching evolution is responsible for everything bad in our society.
That's odd. They are supposed to believe that Adam and Eve eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is responsible for everything bad in our society.
With cloud storage for save games and small data, and the disks will serve as art distribution mechanisms.
Why would you store your save games in the cloud when you have a 1TB disk on the system?
Other than that, I agree. I won't buy a PS3 that doesn't have an optical drive AND local storage.
You think that breeding excessively is successful, while calculating your ability to support your offspring and the impact on your life - and in the long run, their life - is not?
Yes, apparently that is more successful, if you look at success as being able to stay home and play xbox all day and have the guy who CAN support a family out working hard to support people who stay at home and play xbox.
Well, I guess everyone is different, because I usually suck down two diet sodas at a meal (which probably comes to maybe 16 ounces with all the ice), and if I have been working prior to that, I will sometimes have 4 diet sodas with the meal.
also as inconsistent as it sounds a lot of people get zero calorie/diet drinks... along with the giant bag of popcorn with fake butter or nachos with plastic cheese.
What's the matter with that? I don't see any problem with people cutting calories by drinking soda even if they are taking in a lot of calories in popcorn. It's still better than just wolfing down the popcorn AND a non-diet soda.
The other is that soda pretty much *dissolves your bones*. Google it. It's acidic as hell. Even though it tastes so good.
Not any more acidic than apple juice, and far less acidic than cranberry juice. Lemonade, depending on the strength, can be even worse than cranberry juice.
Prediction: 5 years from now, we will have a large movement to get things off of the cloud and back into the hands of local admins. This cycle has been going back and forth for at least 4 decades. All that changes is the buzzword name for the centralization or decentralization process. If you are a consultant that specializes in both directions, you are set for life.
desktop support is a waste of resources
The desktop support at my company is certainly a waste of resources. The position is staffed only about 20 hours a week, but the office has people in it about 60 hours a week.
No way a cashier would notice, but someone monitoring inventory might
I would think the POS system might notice that today x of these were sold when only x/2 of these were on hand.
If you bring back any sort of product, even defective, they will open the box, make sure that all of the parts are there, inspect it, and then re-shrinkwrap the box and slap on a 10% off price sticker.
Sounds like Lowes and Home Depot. "Well, someone ran a forklift fork through the front door of this $1,500 refrigerator, so we'll let you have it for $1,449".
I think fraud's a little ore complicated than that. Unless he gained directly from it to the homeowner's detriment it probably isn't.
I'm sure it depends on the jurisdiction. Where I live, if you gained entry to someone's home by pretending to be a meter reader or from the telephone company, for example, you could be charged with a crime, even if you did not use that fraudulent entry in order to cause financial, emotional or bodily harm to the person.
Yes, but the effective surface area of a whitewater river is a lot bigger than the area of land it covers.
Yes, and the effective surface area is increased tremendously by aeration in a white water situation. I would say that it still wouldn't compare to the surface area of a lake formed by damming up that river for years.
They claim the ocean is rising due to increased runoff from human activity, yet it's well known that most of the worlds major rivers are a shadow of their natural self by time they reach the ocean (if they get there at all)
Ah, well you see, it is humans fault that less water finds its way to the oceans AND it is humans fault that more, um...water, uh... finds its way to the oceans.
Isn't the rate at which it leaves the lake the same as if the dam hadn't been there (with maybe the exception of evaporation...)
Surface area is the largest single factor in evaporation.
Well... Hoover Dam doesn't have that much water behind it anymore
Having just last week spent 15 minutes flying over the lake in a commercial jetliner, I am inclined to disagree with you. In fact, it is listed as the 25th largest lake in the United states out of almost a half million lakes.
how many smaller places will be put out of business because of this Walmart?
Ironically, I shop at an IGA (independent grocer), and largely because the items that I buy there are cheaper and/or better than Wal-mart. For instance, I can get generic 3 liters at the IGA for usually $1.25, whereas Wal-mart doesn't carry 3 liters or very few varieties, and the generic two liters are about the same price as the 3 liters at the IGA. Also, the meat at the IGAs tend to be cheaper and better quality. I also discovered that Wal-mart has a poor selection of veggie trays as I discovered the other day when a parade route cut me off from getting to the local IGA. Wal-mart tends to have a lot of things, but a poor selection of those things. IGAs focus on groceries, and as such, tend to have a better selection.
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Well, it is not like that was our national motto or something. It was just an exerpt from a poem that ended up getting emplazoned in bronze and posted inside the statue of liberty. The poem was by Emma Lazarus who was quite wealthy, incidentally.
I'm not sure why the U.S. gets all the flak for not accepting every person that comes knocking. Somehow we seem to be held to a higher standard than everybody else.
It took me six years of waiting and thousands of dollars in lawyer's fees to adjust my status
Too little too late but you could have just done 6 years of waiting and zero dollars of lawyer's fees. The information on the process is all out there and free. There are filing fees and waiting periods, but the lawyer, despite what they might tell you, doesn't get it done any faster or better.
Religion, being based on faith and not observation, cannot disprove science.
Religion cannot disprove science because science has it's own dogma, ie the Scientific Method.
However, occasionally, perhaps as little as a few hundred thousand times a year, something happens that cannot be explained by science as we know it. For example, somebody who was cancer ridden may suddenly and inexplicably be completely free of cancer cells. Invariably, rather than look into how we can cause this same thing to happen to other cancer sufferers, science turns a blind eye and says that is not possible according to science as we know it and looks no further into the matter.
Same reason we assume geocentrism to be wrong. Even though it seems like an obvious answer ("Look, the sun is going around us in the sky!"), there is simply no scientific evidence to support it's claims (and actually tons and tons of evidence disproving it).
This is a bad example. There is lots of evidence that the sun revolves around the Earth. We can see it day by day. It just so happens that that theory has some shortcomings that are explained better by the theory that the Earth revolves around the sun, for which there is also much evidence. And that theory has some shortcomings as well, which are better explained by the theory that ALL things are attracted to each other through the smallest of the universal forces and thus the Sun and the Earth revolve around each other. There is plenty of evidence for that as well. And yet even that theory doesn't quite explain everything and we will find (or maybe even already have) a theory which even more tightly explains the movements, but every theory will always just get more and more precise while never being exactly right.
it is full of contradictions. Unless you put logic aside it can't be proven 100% correct even if god itself showed evidence.
It is only full of contradictions IF you put logic aside.
Seeing as how none of the clergymen I've seen in my neck of the woods are driving a car that cost less than $50,000, I'd say this is the more likely explanation.
I guess I need to live in a better neck of the woods, because the clergymen I know all seem to have other jobs just to make ends meet.
This is the same country that believes in fan death, btw.
This is also the country with one of the highest literacy rates and one of the highest educational rankings.
The eye is badly designed, but the whole giving birth thing is a disaster. What kind of intelligent designer would have the baby come out through the pelvis?
Interestingly enough, that is specifically addressed in the Bible. After the original sin, God announced that the woman's punishment was that he would greatly increase her pain in childbirth.
Many Christians believe that teaching evolution is responsible for everything bad in our society.
That's odd. They are supposed to believe that Adam and Eve eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is responsible for everything bad in our society.
With cloud storage for save games and small data, and the disks will serve as art distribution mechanisms.
Why would you store your save games in the cloud when you have a 1TB disk on the system?
Other than that, I agree. I won't buy a PS3 that doesn't have an optical drive AND local storage.
Oh, I agree with that point completely. My first thought was "what about diet drinks".
You think that breeding excessively is successful, while calculating your ability to support your offspring and the impact on your life - and in the long run, their life - is not?
Yes, apparently that is more successful, if you look at success as being able to stay home and play xbox all day and have the guy who CAN support a family out working hard to support people who stay at home and play xbox.
Well, I guess everyone is different, because I usually suck down two diet sodas at a meal (which probably comes to maybe 16 ounces with all the ice), and if I have been working prior to that, I will sometimes have 4 diet sodas with the meal.
also as inconsistent as it sounds a lot of people get zero calorie/diet drinks... along with the giant bag of popcorn with fake butter or nachos with plastic cheese. What's the matter with that? I don't see any problem with people cutting calories by drinking soda even if they are taking in a lot of calories in popcorn. It's still better than just wolfing down the popcorn AND a non-diet soda.
The other is that soda pretty much *dissolves your bones*. Google it. It's acidic as hell. Even though it tastes so good.
Not any more acidic than apple juice, and far less acidic than cranberry juice. Lemonade, depending on the strength, can be even worse than cranberry juice.
Prediction: 5 years from now, we will have a large movement to get things off of the cloud and back into the hands of local admins. This cycle has been going back and forth for at least 4 decades. All that changes is the buzzword name for the centralization or decentralization process. If you are a consultant that specializes in both directions, you are set for life.
desktop support is a waste of resources
The desktop support at my company is certainly a waste of resources. The position is staffed only about 20 hours a week, but the office has people in it about 60 hours a week.
No way a cashier would notice, but someone monitoring inventory might
I would think the POS system might notice that today x of these were sold when only x/2 of these were on hand.
If you bring back any sort of product, even defective, they will open the box, make sure that all of the parts are there, inspect it, and then re-shrinkwrap the box and slap on a 10% off price sticker.
Sounds like Lowes and Home Depot. "Well, someone ran a forklift fork through the front door of this $1,500 refrigerator, so we'll let you have it for $1,449".
I think fraud's a little ore complicated than that. Unless he gained directly from it to the homeowner's detriment it probably isn't.
I'm sure it depends on the jurisdiction. Where I live, if you gained entry to someone's home by pretending to be a meter reader or from the telephone company, for example, you could be charged with a crime, even if you did not use that fraudulent entry in order to cause financial, emotional or bodily harm to the person.
Yes, but the effective surface area of a whitewater river is a lot bigger than the area of land it covers.
Yes, and the effective surface area is increased tremendously by aeration in a white water situation. I would say that it still wouldn't compare to the surface area of a lake formed by damming up that river for years.
They claim the ocean is rising due to increased runoff from human activity, yet it's well known that most of the worlds major rivers are a shadow of their natural self by time they reach the ocean (if they get there at all)
Ah, well you see, it is humans fault that less water finds its way to the oceans AND it is humans fault that more, um...water, uh... finds its way to the oceans.
Isn't the rate at which it leaves the lake the same as if the dam hadn't been there (with maybe the exception of evaporation...)
Surface area is the largest single factor in evaporation.
Well... Hoover Dam doesn't have that much water behind it anymore
Having just last week spent 15 minutes flying over the lake in a commercial jetliner, I am inclined to disagree with you. In fact, it is listed as the 25th largest lake in the United states out of almost a half million lakes.
how many smaller places will be put out of business because of this Walmart?
Ironically, I shop at an IGA (independent grocer), and largely because the items that I buy there are cheaper and/or better than Wal-mart. For instance, I can get generic 3 liters at the IGA for usually $1.25, whereas Wal-mart doesn't carry 3 liters or very few varieties, and the generic two liters are about the same price as the 3 liters at the IGA. Also, the meat at the IGAs tend to be cheaper and better quality. I also discovered that Wal-mart has a poor selection of veggie trays as I discovered the other day when a parade route cut me off from getting to the local IGA. Wal-mart tends to have a lot of things, but a poor selection of those things. IGAs focus on groceries, and as such, tend to have a better selection.