Think just of the _millions_ (literally, and we even have the records) who confessed to flying on broomsticks...
We don't, actually, have records of millions. We have records of a few thousand and the reasonable assumption that the true number is higher. The diverse lot of higher numbers not directly correlated to the records are guesses.
As Ronald Knox put it, we should be cautious, "lest we should wander interminably in a wilderness of comparative atrocity statistics." In fact, no one knows exactly how many people perished through the various Inquisitions. We can determine for certain, though, one thing about numbers given by Fundamentalists [and, I would add, many others with anti-Catholic and anti-Christian biases]: They are far too large. One book... claims that 95 million people died under the Inquisition.
...Not until modern times did the population of those countries where the Inquisitions existed approach 95 million.
...
Furthermore, the plague, which killed a third of Europe's population, is credited by historians with major changes in the social structure. The Inquisition is credited with few -- precisely because the number of its victims was comparitively small. In fact, recent studies indicate that at most there were only a few thousand capital sentences carried out for heresy in Spain, and these were over the course of several centuries. http://www.catholic.com/library/inquisition.asp
Dan Bern touched on this question in a song, "Planet with Two Sons". It's a funnier listen than it is a read, but here's the relevant bit:
I understand Jesus visited you
2,000 years ago
He came to us more recently
Six hundred and twenty-five years ago
Don't feel sorry that you treated him bad,
Everybody does
Don't feel bad that you put him on a cross
We flushed him down a black hole!
I have an '04 Prius in which I commute 80 miles a day, 77 miles of that being highway. In the coldest weeks of winter my mpg was never below 50. Usually I could keep it just about 55mpg. Now that it's warmed up a bit, 55mpg is my minimum (like when I let my wife drive it) and I keep it above 60mpg. Thus far my best tank was 73mpg a few months ago. And this is primarily highway driving! I can only conjecture what I'd be getting if most of my commute was city driving. You just have to understand how the car works, pay attention to the indicators, and adjust your driving accordingly.
While I expected "Mutant X" to be science fiction, watching it proved that clearly erroneous.
The "evil"villian was clearly Andy Warhol, while the so-called heroes were Gap-clad Abercrombie models.
I took the show to be about the struggle between Waholian pop culture and the modern mass market commodification of beauty that may be traced, in part, back to that artistic movement.
"Knowing and sometimes sweetly funny, director/co-writer Daisy von Scherler Mayer's [1995] debut ['Party Girl', starring Parker Posey,] made online history by being the first feature film to be sneak-previewed in its entirety (albeit in short, jerky segments) on the Internet."
Nor is it really "little", I would posit. Such characterization is divisive and does not contribute to orderly discussion.
And yes, the government could well ban it, though the US is apparently more lenient about tissue sample sales, as it allows women to sell their harvested eggs, men to sell their sperm, and both to sell their blood. Should such a case as I have described occur, though, I imagine there would be those willing to bypass legality.
I was unaware that South Park had broached this issue.
Getting paid is, as always, a matter of supply and demand. I agree that the supply is not likely to fall to miniscule levels. As for the demand, I readily admit I am not qualified to predict.
If the existing however many (60?) stem cell lines are insufficient for America's research purposes, what is a suitable number? Admittedly, I can't imagine a day when the number of researchers will far outnumber that of the available fetuses, but should some use for the original fetal stem cells be discovered perhaps the cost of buying them would be less than that of cloning them.
All pure conjecture, admittedly. I was simply trying to suggest a case in which this could be a factor in the mother's decision.
Similarly with gay marriages quite a number of officials from the Catholic church said that any politicians who allowed gay marriages would burn in hell.
Not true. The Catholic Church does not tell people they will burn in Hell; quite the contrary, it decrees that the afterlife is entirely up to God and entirely unknowable by the living (short of that rare divine revelation where God appears to tell you personally that you're going to burn).
What the Church said was that (A) Catholics should take it upon themselves to understand their belief system well enough to comprehend the validity of its arguments for why homosexuality is a disordered state and (B) Catholic politicians have an obligation to vote their conscience and not according to popular opinion. The implication being, obviously, that a Catholic politician will not vote to advance same-sex marriage.
As for the seperation of church and state, the Church views it as a complete non-issue, unrelated, because Catholic theology in such matters (it claims) is based on "a right understanding" of the universe derived from examining life rather than from scripture. For the Church, then, its anti-SSM stance can be expressed as purely philosophical.
I gurantee that it rarely if ever enters the mind of someone contemplating an abortion themselves. That is going to be the least of things on a woman's mind when she is considering an abortion.
It does not now, as fetal stem cells cannot be harvested with government money. But if the government did away with this ban, as you advocate, and then researchers began paying people for their otherwise-discarded fetal stem cells?
That there are women who are willing to be surrogate wombs for money and actually go to all the trouble of bearing children suggests to me that there are (likely even more) women willing to have abortions for money. Abortion would become the birth control that pays you back.
The board that Paul Allen has assembled sounds excellent, but one name was missing from the article. He has *got* to get Harlan on board. The man is not only entertaining as hell, but has a real passion for the history of SF. (Just don't let him hear you call it "sci-fi", or he'll rail at you about "skiffy".)
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Think just of the _millions_ (literally, and we even have the records) who confessed to flying on broomsticks...
... claims that 95 million people died under the Inquisition.
...Not until modern times did the population of those countries where the Inquisitions existed approach 95 million.
...
We don't, actually, have records of millions. We have records of a few thousand and the reasonable assumption that the true number is higher. The diverse lot of higher numbers not directly correlated to the records are guesses.
As Ronald Knox put it, we should be cautious, "lest we should wander interminably in a wilderness of comparative atrocity statistics." In fact, no one knows exactly how many people perished through the various Inquisitions. We can determine for certain, though, one thing about numbers given by Fundamentalists [and, I would add, many others with anti-Catholic and anti-Christian biases]: They are far too large. One book
Furthermore, the plague, which killed a third of Europe's population, is credited by historians with major changes in the social structure. The Inquisition is credited with few -- precisely because the number of its victims was comparitively small. In fact, recent studies indicate that at most there were only a few thousand capital sentences carried out for heresy in Spain, and these were over the course of several centuries.
http://www.catholic.com/library/inquisition.asp
Dan Bern touched on this question in a song, "Planet with Two Sons". It's a funnier listen than it is a read, but here's the relevant bit:
I understand Jesus visited you
2,000 years ago
He came to us more recently
Six hundred and twenty-five years ago
Don't feel sorry that you treated him bad,
Everybody does
Don't feel bad that you put him on a cross
We flushed him down a black hole!
I have an '04 Prius in which I commute 80 miles a day, 77 miles of that being highway. In the coldest weeks of winter my mpg was never below 50. Usually I could keep it just about 55mpg. Now that it's warmed up a bit, 55mpg is my minimum (like when I let my wife drive it) and I keep it above 60mpg. Thus far my best tank was 73mpg a few months ago. And this is primarily highway driving! I can only conjecture what I'd be getting if most of my commute was city driving. You just have to understand how the car works, pay attention to the indicators, and adjust your driving accordingly.
No, "sort" is singular. There _is_ not really the same sort of expectations. versus There are not really the same sort_s_ of expectations.
If it's the second dupe, that would make it 'tripe', yes?
While I expected "Mutant X" to be science fiction, watching it proved that clearly erroneous. The "evil" villian was clearly Andy Warhol, while the so-called heroes were Gap-clad Abercrombie models. I took the show to be about the struggle between Waholian pop culture and the modern mass market commodification of beauty that may be traced, in part, back to that artistic movement.
Of all the Macromedia suite, Flash MX is what I use the least.
"Knowing and sometimes sweetly funny, director/co-writer Daisy von Scherler Mayer's [1995] debut ['Party Girl', starring Parker Posey,] made online history by being the first feature film to be sneak-previewed in its entirety (albeit in short, jerky segments) on the Internet."
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In Soviet Russia, your mobile phone probes YOU.
Nor is it really "little", I would posit. Such characterization is divisive and does not contribute to orderly discussion.
And yes, the government could well ban it, though the US is apparently more lenient about tissue sample sales, as it allows women to sell their harvested eggs, men to sell their sperm, and both to sell their blood. Should such a case as I have described occur, though, I imagine there would be those willing to bypass legality.
I was unaware that South Park had broached this issue.
Getting paid is, as always, a matter of supply and demand. I agree that the supply is not likely to fall to miniscule levels. As for the demand, I readily admit I am not qualified to predict.
If the existing however many (60?) stem cell lines are insufficient for America's research purposes, what is a suitable number? Admittedly, I can't imagine a day when the number of researchers will far outnumber that of the available fetuses, but should some use for the original fetal stem cells be discovered perhaps the cost of buying them would be less than that of cloning them.
All pure conjecture, admittedly. I was simply trying to suggest a case in which this could be a factor in the mother's decision.
Similarly with gay marriages quite a number of officials from the Catholic church said that any politicians who allowed gay marriages would burn in hell.
Not true. The Catholic Church does not tell people they will burn in Hell; quite the contrary, it decrees that the afterlife is entirely up to God and entirely unknowable by the living (short of that rare divine revelation where God appears to tell you personally that you're going to burn).
What the Church said was that (A) Catholics should take it upon themselves to understand their belief system well enough to comprehend the validity of its arguments for why homosexuality is a disordered state and (B) Catholic politicians have an obligation to vote their conscience and not according to popular opinion. The implication being, obviously, that a Catholic politician will not vote to advance same-sex marriage.
As for the seperation of church and state, the Church views it as a complete non-issue, unrelated, because Catholic theology in such matters (it claims) is based on "a right understanding" of the universe derived from examining life rather than from scripture. For the Church, then, its anti-SSM stance can be expressed as purely philosophical.
I gurantee that it rarely if ever enters the mind of someone contemplating an abortion themselves. That is going to be the least of things on a woman's mind when she is considering an abortion. It does not now, as fetal stem cells cannot be harvested with government money. But if the government did away with this ban, as you advocate, and then researchers began paying people for their otherwise-discarded fetal stem cells? That there are women who are willing to be surrogate wombs for money and actually go to all the trouble of bearing children suggests to me that there are (likely even more) women willing to have abortions for money. Abortion would become the birth control that pays you back.
Wasn't there a squeeky penguin in one of the Toy Story movies?
I am befuddled that one could consistently spell Dijkstra correctly and yet err in spelling 'speech'.
"Meerly a typo." Merely another typo.
(The F-bomb in the middle is silent.)
The board that Paul Allen has assembled sounds excellent, but one name was missing from the article. He has *got* to get Harlan on board. The man is not only entertaining as hell, but has a real passion for the history of SF. (Just don't let him hear you call it "sci-fi", or he'll rail at you about "skiffy".)