They included Tipper Gore (wife of Senator and later Vice President Al Gore); Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker; and Nancy Thurmond, wife of Senator Strom Thurmond.
So 1 democrat + 2 republicans = democratic project?
Bzzt. Thanks for playing. First off, to say that someone is just a liberal commentator doesn't make them so. I'll take the two you mentioned, even though neither has a regular show on Fox but what about Juan Williams? If you listen to his reporting on NPR, he's anything but a liberal. How about liberal think tanks he's associated with? Maybe a list of liberal books he's written? On the opposite side of these three you mention on Fox, there's:
Sean Hannity Brit Hume Neal Cavuto Bill O'Reilly Oliver North Dick Morris
So just off the top of my head, I've names twice as many conservatives that appear regularly on Fox than the three 'liberals' you mentioned.
Saying there are no conservatives on the broadcast TV and the major cable news stations is just a fallacy, especially when they're run by conservatives. Maybe they're not as conservative as you wish them to be, but they're still right-of-center. It's really fun to see Ann Coulter go on CBS, NBC, CNN, ABC, MSNBC, FOX, get her books reviewed in just about every major newspaper in the country, and watch her bemoan (whine?) the fact that conservatives never get their voices heard.
If MA passes this, then all the cell providers in MA should pull out of the state and stop service. Period. How long do you think this "bill of rights" would last if there were suddenly no service? I give it about 2 days maximum before lawmakers reverse their decision, although it'll probably be a matter of only hours.
They tried that with car insurance a while back (before I moved here about 9 years ago). The state regulates car insurance premiums. Every year, the insurance companies want a double-digit increase, and the state asks for a single-digit increase. An independent comission then sets the rate, usually closer to what the state wants.
This year, both the state and insurance companies agreed that premiums should go down as a result of reduced costs to the insurance companies. The state is asking for ~10% decrease, the insurance companies.1%. I'll let you know how it turns out in two months when the rate gets set.
BTW, my car insurance is about 1/2 that of each of my brothers who live in different states and we're all pretty good drivers.
I did the initial FOIA releases on CD back in 1993-1994. Most of my time was spent converting Word for Mac documentation to Word for Windows, RTF, and PS (and plain text IIRC). The easy stuff was actually getting the routines on a CD and burning it at 1x on a CD burner about the size of your desk. I think I still have a few releases kicking around my house.
At the time, the idea was that companies would take the FOIA release (which had everything except encryption routines) and create their own release they would sell to hospitals.
I remember getting some bloodwork a few months ago and seeing a computer screen with the familiar login screen for a MUMPS system.
They are one of these "astroturfed" interest groups formed mainly to censor those they do not like, such as the Sinclair Group.
Please define Astroturf and why you think that is so. Their actions and leadership are out in the open for anyone (such as yourself) to see.
The actions of the Sinclair group were clearly partisan and not in the interest of the public airwaves. In that regard, they have broken the 'deal' they made to get the airwaves in the first place. MMFA has the right and responsibility to ensure the public airwaves are used for the public good.
Except, you know. Not. You started with something I said, then claimed I was saying something I did not say, in order to try to discredit what I did say.
I took two statements of yours. VERBATIM. I followed those thoughts through to the logical conclusion.
liver=not independent, but alive fetus=not independent, but alive
therefore liver=not independent, but alive=fetus therefore liver=fetus
Or did you not take discrete mathematics?
Normally your comments seem to make sense. In this article you've just gone what I would consider "around the bend". You don't like abortion? Fine. I can deal with that. I'm just trying to figure out how your mind works.
Am I alive? Yes. Is my liver alive? Well, it's not an independent organism, but it's alive, sure. If you cut off its blood flow, it dies, so yes, it's clearly alive.
Is an embryo alive? Yes, obviously. It's not independent, but it's alive. If you cut off its blood flow, it dies. The cells that compose it cease to function, and it dies. So yes, an embryo is alive.
So what you're saying is that an abortion is akin to having your liver, kidney, appendix, gall bladder, etc. removed.
I don't seem to remember protesters outside the hospital where my wife had her gall bladder removed two years ago.
What is your definition of price competitive? Your value of some service may lead you to believe it is overpriced, but someone who values said service differently may feel it is a fair price. These companies are competing, and they sometimes do it on price.
My town has a contract with Comcast as the sole provider of cable TV. If I go about 100 yards down the road, I'm in the next town which has both Comcast and RCN as a choice. The price for Comcast the next town over about aboutg 2/3 the price of what I'm paying, meaning I'm paying 50% more because there's no competition.
A better comparison would be to compare all of MSFT's offerings that run under W2k3 server: MTA, web server, compilers, etc. These items (or their equivalents) are included in RHEL and SuSE.
RHEL 3 comes on 4 CDs. AFAIK, W2k3 comes on 1 CD. That would equate to 15 bugs/CD for Windows and 8.5 bugs/CD for RHEL. I don't know how many CDs SuSE comes on, but it's probably more than 4.
MGM is offering me $7.10 per DVD or a replacement from an as-yet-vaporware list of DVDs, which may or may not contain the DVD title I'm sending them.
How do I get anything out of this? Why should I send MGM my DVDs? Why should I fill this thing out at all? At least with the RIAA price fixing lawsuits I could keep the CDs I bought during that timeframe.
(I work at a major research university in the US, but I'm IT)
My understanding is that NO federal funds be used to research stem cells. So here's a professor who wants to research stem cells along with his other research he is doing.
But his students get their funding from an NIH grant. Either have to find private funding for them part time, or hire someone new to do it (and find the money).
Same with his equipment. Most came from a federal grant. But some came from private grants. Have to sort out all that paperwork.
Oh right. His desktop machine, where he reads his e-mail, came from the same NIH grant. He has to buy another machine in order to write his papers.
What about the high performance cluster that the university offers? If any of its money came from a grant from the US govt, can't do any kind of biocomputing on it. Have to buy his own cluster if he needs it.
Many instituions that do basic research in the US get a lot of money from the US Govt. to support their research. If the US Govt says "you can't do this with our money", then there's a lot of duplication of effort going on if you want to cut yourself off from it.
This was mentioned back in the Presidential debates. Bush said we have X Stem Cell Lines available, while Kerry said that the available lines are contaiminated with mouse DNA and probably other DNA.
Granted, it's a few more than "The Simpsons" and a few less than "West Wing", but c'mon! A typical season is 24 episodes. This is about the middle of the season, so there should be more available.
All that being said, the last season (and this one) aren't bad. The mini-arcs (3 episode stories) is a great idea and allow you to miss a few episodes without feeling completely left out.
Well, assuming trucks sit stopped in traffic one hour per trip now, that adds up to a lot of fuel and greenhouse gasses emitted over the number of cars and trucks on the highway.
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So 1 democrat + 2 republicans = democratic project?
Bzzt. Thanks for playing. First off, to say that someone is just a liberal commentator doesn't make them so. I'll take the two you mentioned, even though neither has a regular show on Fox but what about Juan Williams? If you listen to his reporting on NPR, he's anything but a liberal. How about liberal think tanks he's associated with? Maybe a list of liberal books he's written? On the opposite side of these three you mention on Fox, there's:
Sean Hannity
Brit Hume
Neal Cavuto
Bill O'Reilly
Oliver North
Dick Morris
So just off the top of my head, I've names twice as many conservatives that appear regularly on Fox than the three 'liberals' you mentioned.
Saying there are no conservatives on the broadcast TV and the major cable news stations is just a fallacy, especially when they're run by conservatives. Maybe they're not as conservative as you wish them to be, but they're still right-of-center. It's really fun to see Ann Coulter go on CBS, NBC, CNN, ABC, MSNBC, FOX, get her books reviewed in just about every major newspaper in the country, and watch her bemoan (whine?) the fact that conservatives never get their voices heard.
They aren't, but neither are Susan Estrich, Ellis Hennican or Juan Williams. They are, however, openly left-wing.
Proof please? And working for NPR/PBS isn't proof.
If MA passes this, then all the cell providers in MA should pull out of the state and stop service. Period. How long do you think this "bill of rights" would last if there were suddenly no service? I give it about 2 days maximum before lawmakers reverse their decision, although it'll probably be a matter of only hours.
.1%. I'll let you know how it turns out in two months when the rate gets set.
They tried that with car insurance a while back (before I moved here about 9 years ago). The state regulates car insurance premiums. Every year, the insurance companies want a double-digit increase, and the state asks for a single-digit increase. An independent comission then sets the rate, usually closer to what the state wants.
This year, both the state and insurance companies agreed that premiums should go down as a result of reduced costs to the insurance companies. The state is asking for ~10% decrease, the insurance companies
BTW, my car insurance is about 1/2 that of each of my brothers who live in different states and we're all pretty good drivers.
You know times are strange when liberal states are the ones that want to save money.
Taxawhaaaa?
My taxes (property, income, and sales) are lower than when I lived in NY.
I can get 'em for $.99 up to 90 watt equivalent.
Many power companies will get you a coupon for the compact fluorescent bulbs. Bought a torchiere last year for $5 with CF bulb.
I did the initial FOIA releases on CD back in 1993-1994. Most of my time was spent converting Word for Mac documentation to Word for Windows, RTF, and PS (and plain text IIRC). The easy stuff was actually getting the routines on a CD and burning it at 1x on a CD burner about the size of your desk. I think I still have a few releases kicking around my house.
At the time, the idea was that companies would take the FOIA release (which had everything except encryption routines) and create their own release they would sell to hospitals.
I remember getting some bloodwork a few months ago and seeing a computer screen with the familiar login screen for a MUMPS system.
He sure has an eye for the spotlight, though - almost as good as John "Mad Dog" "Never Done Much But Show Up For the Victory Parade" Hall.
You don't know maddog then. Sad.
Yea, and the Democrats that voted against said bills switched parties. Remember the Dixiecrats?
They are one of these "astroturfed" interest groups formed mainly to censor those they do not like, such as the Sinclair Group.
Please define Astroturf and why you think that is so. Their actions and leadership are out in the open for anyone (such as yourself) to see.
The actions of the Sinclair group were clearly partisan and not in the interest of the public airwaves. In that regard, they have broken the 'deal' they made to get the airwaves in the first place. MMFA has the right and responsibility to ensure the public airwaves are used for the public good.
The Republican Noise Machine by David Brock is pretty good.
In case you aren't aware, Brock used to be part of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy(tm) and now runs Media Matters for America.
Except, you know. Not. You started with something I said, then claimed I was saying something I did not say, in order to try to discredit what I did say.
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Read: http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-ma
I did not distort what you said, I quoted it verbatim. Or did I quote you incorrectly? Maybe my X server has a broken cut-and-paste function?
You do realize that this is not a math problem, right?
Well, that proves you really don't know what you're talking about. *plonk*
I took two statements of yours. VERBATIM. I followed those thoughts through to the logical conclusion.
liver=not independent, but alive
fetus=not independent, but alive
therefore liver=not independent, but alive=fetus
therefore liver=fetus
Or did you not take discrete mathematics?
Normally your comments seem to make sense. In this article you've just gone what I would consider "around the bend". You don't like abortion? Fine. I can deal with that. I'm just trying to figure out how your mind works.
You're the one that made the comparison. I'm just taking it to its logical conclusion. Ad hominem attacks don't help you either.
Am I alive? Yes. Is my liver alive? Well, it's not an independent organism, but it's alive, sure. If you cut off its blood flow, it dies, so yes, it's clearly alive.
Is an embryo alive? Yes, obviously. It's not independent, but it's alive. If you cut off its blood flow, it dies. The cells that compose it cease to function, and it dies. So yes, an embryo is alive.
So what you're saying is that an abortion is akin to having your liver, kidney, appendix, gall bladder, etc. removed.
I don't seem to remember protesters outside the hospital where my wife had her gall bladder removed two years ago.
IBM's server hardware BIOS can be flashed from Linux.
What is your definition of price competitive? Your value of some service may lead you to believe it is overpriced, but someone who values said service differently may feel it is a fair price. These companies are competing, and they sometimes do it on price.
My town has a contract with Comcast as the sole provider of cable TV. If I go about 100 yards down the road, I'm in the next town which has both Comcast and RCN as a choice. The price for Comcast the next town over about aboutg 2/3 the price of what I'm paying, meaning I'm paying 50% more because there's no competition.
Is that a fair price?
A better comparison would be to compare all of MSFT's offerings that run under W2k3 server: MTA, web server, compilers, etc. These items (or their equivalents) are included in RHEL and SuSE.
RHEL 3 comes on 4 CDs. AFAIK, W2k3 comes on 1 CD. That would equate to 15 bugs/CD for Windows and 8.5 bugs/CD for RHEL. I don't know how many CDs SuSE comes on, but it's probably more than 4.
MGM is offering me $7.10 per DVD or a replacement from an as-yet-vaporware list of DVDs, which may or may not contain the DVD title I'm sending them.
How do I get anything out of this? Why should I send MGM my DVDs? Why should I fill this thing out at all? At least with the RIAA price fixing lawsuits I could keep the CDs I bought during that timeframe.
Usenet died not long after Canter and Siegel. The amount of spam and crossposting just made the signal-to-noise ratio too much.
*sigh* I remember the days where I could catch up on 50 newsgroups in under an hour, reading most of the threads too.
If I need information now, I hit google. If I want to ask a question, I find the appropriate mailing list and send it.
(I work at a major research university in the US, but I'm IT)
My understanding is that NO federal funds be used to research stem cells. So here's a professor who wants to research stem cells along with his other research he is doing.
But his students get their funding from an NIH grant. Either have to find private funding for them part time, or hire someone new to do it (and find the money).
Same with his equipment. Most came from a federal grant. But some came from private grants. Have to sort out all that paperwork.
Oh right. His desktop machine, where he reads his e-mail, came from the same NIH grant. He has to buy another machine in order to write his papers.
What about the high performance cluster that the university offers? If any of its money came from a grant from the US govt, can't do any kind of biocomputing on it. Have to buy his own cluster if he needs it.
Many instituions that do basic research in the US get a lot of money from the US Govt. to support their research. If the US Govt says "you can't do this with our money", then there's a lot of duplication of effort going on if you want to cut yourself off from it.
This was mentioned back in the Presidential debates. Bush said we have X Stem Cell Lines available, while Kerry said that the available lines are contaiminated with mouse DNA and probably other DNA.
..when you only show 7 episodes this season?
Granted, it's a few more than "The Simpsons" and a few less than "West Wing", but c'mon! A typical season is 24 episodes. This is about the middle of the season, so there should be more available.
All that being said, the last season (and this one) aren't bad. The mini-arcs (3 episode stories) is a great idea and allow you to miss a few episodes without feeling completely left out.
Well, assuming trucks sit stopped in traffic one hour per trip now, that adds up to a lot of fuel and greenhouse gasses emitted over the number of cars and trucks on the highway.