GMHowell's JE had a topic on this today- how our forefathers paid a larger top rate income tax and built the middle class. My generation, Generation X, however, saw this tax rate cut first just as we were being born, and again when we were in our teens, and again when we were in our twenties, and again now that we're in our thirties. Can anybody truthfully say that the middle class is better off for all of these tax cuts? The article asks, sort of, the following question: Was it always like this?
It may always have been like this. I don't believe in "golden age" histories; the past was not always better than the present. But somehow it seems that we have lost an ethic. When your grandfather spoke of building a better world for you than he knew himself, you believed him. And when you look into the eyes of any 1-year-old child, you may understand what he meant.
The reason we believed our grandfathers is because our parents had a better world than they did- but our parents did not return the favor, as the 7 generations of Americans before them did- and thus we've got the mess we have today.
What it IS is fraud; the whole notion of the "pre-emptive strike" is to allege voter intimidation even when there is none.
Read the document again- all it says is to publicize past cases of REAL voter indimidation, not make up new ones. Try NOT to read between the lines- and you'll see that there's NOTHING about reporting events that didn't happen.
It's a ligitimate document, agreed. But what that proactive stance means- is another thing entirely. NOWHERE in the document does it say "make stuff up", it says "publicize what happened in the past". Now true enough- the people doing the publicizing might not be the same people that it originally happened to, but that's another thing entirely to the Drudge assertation that the Democrats are making up fake events.
It's as bad as saying Kerry is a flip-flopper on Iraq when, after looking at the proof, all that really means is Kerry is so smart he *looks* like a flip-flopper when taken out of context. This page is taken out of context.
And water. SuperSoaker makes a nice pressurized water rocket now.
But then again, a model rocket engine isn't very fancy- if you've got a burnt out one for a model, it's not that hard to reload with a sugar/amonium nitrate mixture.
http://www.hackaday.com/ had a mod of a $40 joystick with 2" LCD display for use with a Media Center PC a few days ago (look in the archives)- I bet you could do something with that (and it seems to use standard connectors to boot).
Do you really believe that government can do anything better than private industry?
Given the examples of corruption, mismanagment, and downright short-sightedness on the part of private industry over the last 40 years, culminating in the current job market collapse, I think it would be VERY hard for government to do WORSE than private industry, which has shown itself to be an abject failure at absolutely anything long term.
Do you really believe that not working for the government makes us slaves?
I didn't say that- I said not working for ourselves, in very small corporations, will make us slaves- either to the government or to corporations- and it doesn't really matter which one because either way there won't be enough jobs available until we put taking care of people at a higher value than profit.
What does that say about the first 4 or 5 months of the year that we work to pay taxes?
A tax system driven by corporate interests is not from the government, it's from private industry. We don't have a real government in the United States anymore- just a puppet duopoly with it's strings being pulled by the MNCs. Most of that tax money is going right into the pockets of private industry- with a small kickback to the politicians.
don't mean to have this seem like a flame. I'll admit I'm pretty set in my ways against government all around, but really, it just doesn't compute for me. Government run programs mean waste, fraud(hell, look at out most recently nationalized industry -- TSA), etc.
The problem is- private industry isn't any better, at all.
If so, then that's too fuzzy to be the basis of an law.
Only for Americans- did you read my JE on the Principle of Double Effect? It's quite common in Europe to have laws that are this fuzzy (and worse) and quite normal in Natural Law, Canon Law, and God's Law (the three laws of the Church) to have laws this fuzzy. It's only in America that we try to be legalistic and have our laws written out to cover every situation. And since not every situation is forseeable; such laws often fail.
Imagine if some other illegal act, like buying heroine, was permitted if a doctor certified it as mentally healthful.
I've got no problem with methadone clinics- nor with the use of morphine in hospitals. The key is the opinion of the outside party, here.
Very few women would actually suicide if forced to bear a rape-child... in fact, they'd probably be more likely to blame & punish themselves if the pregnancy was an avoidable accident (and thus genuinely her own fault). Many people can spin vicitimization into social capital.
These days, true enough- in most cases. But it's exactly those outlandish cases that abortion HAS to remain available for. Before abortion was legal, back when an illegal abortion was very much an assisted suicide, we lost MANY young women to the after effects of rape-inspired abortions. What I'm saying is that we don't have to go all the way back to those days- the law doesn't have to be black and white.
It's almost Catch-22: a woman not wanting a child for social or economic reasons would be incentivized to appear unstable, so she can have an abortion for mental health... but not wanting to raise an unaffordable child is a sign of sanity... so you can only have an abortion if you don't want one...
Exactly! That's the point. There are very real cases where abortion is unavoidable- and must remain legal for those cases. BTW- back to the UDHR- if we'd actually implement ALL of the UDHR, Article 25 makes sure that such economic circumstances SIMPLY DON'T EXIST. It's another place where the laws of the United States as currently written fail women- this time in a conspiracy with private industry.
All abortion is birth control, by definition.
No- it isn't. That's the point I'm trying to get at. Yes, the majority of abortion as currently practiced is indeed birth control- but it doesn't have to be that way. The reason given in Roe V. Wade for legalizing abortion has nothing to do with birth control at all- it has to do with saving women's lives. In fact, if we ever get to the point where it is proveable that abortion is more dangerous than pregnancy- which it already is in some cases- Roe V. Wade does NOT stand in the way of regulating such abortions at all.
That you called it "common" suggests that you're unaware of what you actually wrote (or what the words actually mean). It's not "triage" by any stretch of definition. If it's truely common, you'd be able to provide a citation of it ever happening.
Sure- in the 1996 SF Earthquake it happened when a surgeon had to do a field surgery on a man whose chest had been pierced with a rebar. The competing patient, while still technically alive, had his head crushed by a falling chunk of concrete. It was the surgeon's duty to save the man that he could- and let the other one die. That's the very DEFINITION of triage- and the same case holds true even if abortion is held to be murder when an ER surgeon is faced with a woman who didn't know she had an ectopic pregnancy and whose fallopian tube has already burst. Yes- he has two patients, the woman and the fetus. NO, he doesn't have the ability to save the fetus- but if he works fast enough, does a cesarian abortion, he can save the woman.
Note that the USA has not engaged in any large-scale battles conducive to extensive triage since the surgical technique for aortic grafting was invented...
Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War I, Gulf War II, the invasions
What I can't figure out (living three quarters of a century down the road) is what was so scary about replacing private industry with governmnet? And then I realize- the end result was to replace government with private industry- making slaves of us all.
:-). Oppression is oppression- and death is death. Sure, Bush hasn't found his scapegoat yet- or has he? He's certainly been working hard to herd the middle class into lower levels of housing (ghettos) and the poor towards homelessness. Even Hitler took a few years before the death camps started.
But you're very right as far as it goes- my point is more that the military industrial complex and the House UnAmerican Activities Committee was like Hitler. W is several generations down the path from there.
its far harder to lose 2 tons of paper ballots than press a secret key combo on a computer and poof all those votes have gone without trace or record
Obviously you've never seen a professional document shredding truck. They're all the rage here in the States as of late. Which may just be another point in your favor....
Locally, the violence is much more from both sides for me- Portland, OR has seen it's share of broken windows in campaign headquarters of both major parties, missing and defaced yard signs (one guy in Lake Oz actually purchased 186 Kerry signs and a camera to catch the pro-Bush kids), missing computers, etc.
But you've missed one group of pro-Bushites; those who are actually making money off of the war on terror (mainly weapons and other war materiel sales people) and off of the recession (just about any businessman who can replace his American workforce with an East Asian one is raking in the dough).
Which is why I directed my comments not to the AC, but hypothetically towards David Brin (not that I can actually get to the Salon.com article to read the original- I hate websense). But it's an important point- so I created a more generalized journal entry out of it.
I still deny that they really did it on their own. The respesct and protection co-religionists afford to monastics should not be underestimated. Suppose some brigands did, hypothetically, attack a monestary: everyone who heard of it would be out for their blood.
At that time in history, there were few co-religionists about. In fact, Augustine of Hippo wrote City of God because most of the more influential people in society were blaming the monastics for removing soldiers from the Roman Army thus causing the fall of Rome.
Thus, even if the monestary had some means of protection, it's like the night-watchman at a warehouse: he's not an effective defense on his own, but crooks are deterred by the tremendously more-powerful response if he were harmed.
No- the defenses on most fourth to sixth century monasteries were more natural than that- cliffs, moats, and inaccessibility. This was for two reasons- one, because society was collapsing around them, and two, because communalism in an obscure or isolated location provided religious benefits (for instance, St. Jerome, who translated the Bible and the Mass from the Greek into Vulgar Latin, was a hermit). No contact with regular society was seen as a blessing.
I really don't think so. It seems that very few of the public would deny a rape victim the right to an abortion. (As I already mentioned) The thought of the rapist being (Darwinistcally) rewarded as the woman is forced to bear his child is basically repugnant.
But it's covered under MENTAL reasons for a medical abortion- preventing the suicide of the mother.
That's certainly not a medical reason. And anyone who takes that viewpoint has already moved away from the "abortion is murder" position, and agreed that sometimes it is acceptable only according to the desire of the mother. Then it's a question of degree, not kind.
I originally said physical and mental medical reasons- but not economic. An abortion in response to a rape is a non-economic and non-birth control reason; it's a response to the mother's mental stability.
That is absolutely not allowed in the USA today. It's just as illegal as euthanasia (which is to say, some doctors can and do get away with it)
Euthanasia is not illegal in the USA today (unfortuneately) but also, conversely, this form of triage isn't illegal either- in fact it's quite common in accident, natural disaster, and battle medicine. I see NO difference between an abortion to save the life of the mother (whether due to a mental condition caused by rape or incest, or a physical condition such as ectopic pregnancy) and this form of triage. The abortion is still an objective evil and objectively murder; but no blame can be assigned to either the woman or the doctor for saving the mother's life, for not saving that life is a greater objective evil.
No. It's not up to him anymore. He would allow his daughters (and their male counterparts, and their doctor+priest) to make that decision, even though he'd advocate against it himself. Arguing against is separate from disallowing.
He's stated that he will pay anything, make any sacrifice, to see the baby born- that's a great deal more than arguing.
However, I doubt he'd hold to that position in every possible case. As always, there is the example of his daughter becoming impregated by a rapist.
Depends on the mental stability of the daughter- many Catholic families choose to raise the child themselves in rape cases, seeing the child as a separate moral entity from the rapist. If it was my daughter, I'd take a very carefull look at how she was handling the rape first though- lest we lose both her and the baby to suicide.
I wish we had proof of that. But he's too well-respected in certain circles for such evidence to survive.
Yes, sadly. All witnesses seem to have been threatened into submission at this point (but not the journalists).
However, Bush's supporters have demonstrated a willingness to ignore any non-recent behavior, especially if it's before his Christian awakening. (Then again, they ignore actions during his time in office too...)
With their form of Christianity (Once Saved Always Saved, Health and Wealth is proof of Faith, and Faith Alone will see us through any trial) what he has done in office has been in keeping with that mutant sect of Christianity. Unfortuneately, I see that form of Christianity as being the equivalent of the Islamic Death Cults. Which makes 20% of Americans into terrorists from my point of view.
Ok, so the mod part of the modem consists of a printer, and the dem part of a scanner, with duct tape and paper in between. With a maximum weight of duct tape and paper of 256 mg, what does that translate to for an MTU in bytes? And how many birds worth of datagrams would it take to transmit the standard slashdot main page?
We're prolly 300k in debt (welcome to homeownership) and I guess I'm unclear as to why this is bad. We're paying less in a mortgage payment on our house than we were paying in rent on a smaller place plus we are building equity.
Well, if you add in my mortgage, we're $195,000 in debt- but I was subtracting out the value of the house ($175,000) and the value of the other items we own ($10,000), because theoretically if I had to pay off the majority of the debt tomorrow I could sell everything off and pay off $185,000 of it.
Regarding your business... GROW! Get some peons er..sorry.. subcontractors.. under you. Start marketing solutions instead of skills. Grow that business! There are two types of businesses: those that are growing and those that are dying. Which one is yours?
Dying- because I'm paying out my entire income in interest payments on that extra debt and then some. (Cash outflow is negative). I tried the subcontractors. I tried the peons. It didn't work because my competitors work for 1/10th the amount that I can higher peons for.
Note to readers: MIGHT is important here. If we know the danger of the dark side- like David Brin pointed out- then our future isn't set in stone. We don't have to choose either branch of the flawed family- we can strike out on our own and build something new.
But then, in "Return of the Jedi," Lucas takes this basic wisdom and perverts it, saying -- "If you get angry -- even at injustice and murder -- it will automatically and immediately transform you into an unalloyedly evil person! All of your opinions and political beliefs will suddenly and magically reverse. Every loyalty will be forsaken and your friends won't be able to draw you back. You will instantly join your sworn enemy as his close pal or apprentice. All because you let yourself get angry at his crimes."
Not WILL- MIGHT. Examples abound- The Bolshevik revolution is my favorite expample. Human rebels have a tendency to imitate the worst in what they are fighting against- WWII is another example. A primary feature of facism was the joining together of governmental and corporate power to oppress the citizenry- and here in the United States we created the Military-Industrial Complex to fight the Nazis, which eventually grew up to oppress the citizenry.
In other words, getting angry at Adolf Hitler will cause you to rush right out and join the Nazi Party? Excuse me, George. Could you come up with a single example of that happening? Ever?
Not quite right- more that getting angry at Adolf Hitler will cause you to rush out, create a military industrial complex, and then eventually create the House Unamerican Activities Comittee to silence the voices that are complaining by labeling them "communists". It happened. Right here in the United States. George W. Bush himself is the inheritor of Adolf Hitler's fascism- through a lot of twists and turns.
I agree with everything else you had to say- but like your book The Postman you irk me with the stuff you did not know. (The Postman irked me because I was going to school in Klamath Falls at the time- and I knew you got the order of towns on Hwy 58 completely fouled up). Oakridge is EAST of Springfield, damnit).
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GMHowell's JE had a topic on this today- how our forefathers paid a larger top rate income tax and built the middle class. My generation, Generation X, however, saw this tax rate cut first just as we were being born, and again when we were in our teens, and again when we were in our twenties, and again now that we're in our thirties. Can anybody truthfully say that the middle class is better off for all of these tax cuts? The article asks, sort of, the following question: Was it always like this?
It may always have been like this. I don't believe in "golden age" histories; the past was not always better than the present. But somehow it seems that we have lost an ethic. When your grandfather spoke of building a better world for you than he knew himself, you believed him. And when you look into the eyes of any 1-year-old child, you may understand what he meant.
The reason we believed our grandfathers is because our parents had a better world than they did- but our parents did not return the favor, as the 7 generations of Americans before them did- and thus we've got the mess we have today.
What it IS is fraud; the whole notion of the "pre-emptive strike" is to allege voter intimidation even when there is none.
Read the document again- all it says is to publicize past cases of REAL voter indimidation, not make up new ones. Try NOT to read between the lines- and you'll see that there's NOTHING about reporting events that didn't happen.
It's a ligitimate document, agreed. But what that proactive stance means- is another thing entirely. NOWHERE in the document does it say "make stuff up", it says "publicize what happened in the past". Now true enough- the people doing the publicizing might not be the same people that it originally happened to, but that's another thing entirely to the Drudge assertation that the Democrats are making up fake events.
It's as bad as saying Kerry is a flip-flopper on Iraq when, after looking at the proof, all that really means is Kerry is so smart he *looks* like a flip-flopper when taken out of context. This page is taken out of context.
Parent is very insightful, but the senior positions won't move, unless entire projects are moved overseas.
Entire projects ARE being moved overseas- it's much cheaper to have your data center in Bangalore than it is to have it in Chicago.
Get some fear- the H-1b can work for HALF what you do, because they can be labeled as beginners now that you're experienced.
And water. SuperSoaker makes a nice pressurized water rocket now.
But then again, a model rocket engine isn't very fancy- if you've got a burnt out one for a model, it's not that hard to reload with a sugar/amonium nitrate mixture.
http://www.hackaday.com/ had a mod of a $40 joystick with 2" LCD display for use with a Media Center PC a few days ago (look in the archives)- I bet you could do something with that (and it seems to use standard connectors to boot).
It's obvious once you say it! Karl Rove is Emperor Palpatine! Now, who is the Trade Federation? The WTO!
Do you really believe that government can do anything better than private industry?
Given the examples of corruption, mismanagment, and downright short-sightedness on the part of private industry over the last 40 years, culminating in the current job market collapse, I think it would be VERY hard for government to do WORSE than private industry, which has shown itself to be an abject failure at absolutely anything long term.
Do you really believe that not working for the government makes us slaves?
I didn't say that- I said not working for ourselves, in very small corporations, will make us slaves- either to the government or to corporations- and it doesn't really matter which one because either way there won't be enough jobs available until we put taking care of people at a higher value than profit.
What does that say about the first 4 or 5 months of the year that we work to pay taxes?
A tax system driven by corporate interests is not from the government, it's from private industry. We don't have a real government in the United States anymore- just a puppet duopoly with it's strings being pulled by the MNCs. Most of that tax money is going right into the pockets of private industry- with a small kickback to the politicians.
don't mean to have this seem like a flame. I'll admit I'm pretty set in my ways against government all around, but really, it just doesn't compute for me. Government run programs mean waste, fraud(hell, look at out most recently nationalized industry -- TSA), etc.
The problem is- private industry isn't any better, at all.
If so, then that's too fuzzy to be the basis of an law.
Only for Americans- did you read my JE on the Principle of Double Effect? It's quite common in Europe to have laws that are this fuzzy (and worse) and quite normal in Natural Law, Canon Law, and God's Law (the three laws of the Church) to have laws this fuzzy. It's only in America that we try to be legalistic and have our laws written out to cover every situation. And since not every situation is forseeable; such laws often fail.
Imagine if some other illegal act, like buying heroine, was permitted if a doctor certified it as mentally healthful.
I've got no problem with methadone clinics- nor with the use of morphine in hospitals. The key is the opinion of the outside party, here.
Very few women would actually suicide if forced to bear a rape-child... in fact, they'd probably be more likely to blame & punish themselves if the pregnancy was an avoidable accident (and thus genuinely her own fault). Many people can spin vicitimization into social capital.
These days, true enough- in most cases. But it's exactly those outlandish cases that abortion HAS to remain available for. Before abortion was legal, back when an illegal abortion was very much an assisted suicide, we lost MANY young women to the after effects of rape-inspired abortions. What I'm saying is that we don't have to go all the way back to those days- the law doesn't have to be black and white.
It's almost Catch-22: a woman not wanting a child for social or economic reasons would be incentivized to appear unstable, so she can have an abortion for mental health... but not wanting to raise an unaffordable child is a sign of sanity... so you can only have an abortion if you don't want one...
Exactly! That's the point. There are very real cases where abortion is unavoidable- and must remain legal for those cases. BTW- back to the UDHR- if we'd actually implement ALL of the UDHR, Article 25 makes sure that such economic circumstances SIMPLY DON'T EXIST. It's another place where the laws of the United States as currently written fail women- this time in a conspiracy with private industry.
All abortion is birth control, by definition.
No- it isn't. That's the point I'm trying to get at. Yes, the majority of abortion as currently practiced is indeed birth control- but it doesn't have to be that way. The reason given in Roe V. Wade for legalizing abortion has nothing to do with birth control at all- it has to do with saving women's lives. In fact, if we ever get to the point where it is proveable that abortion is more dangerous than pregnancy- which it already is in some cases- Roe V. Wade does NOT stand in the way of regulating such abortions at all.
That you called it "common" suggests that you're unaware of what you actually wrote (or what the words actually mean). It's not "triage" by any stretch of definition. If it's truely common, you'd be able to provide a citation of it ever happening.
Sure- in the 1996 SF Earthquake it happened when a surgeon had to do a field surgery on a man whose chest had been pierced with a rebar. The competing patient, while still technically alive, had his head crushed by a falling chunk of concrete. It was the surgeon's duty to save the man that he could- and let the other one die. That's the very DEFINITION of triage- and the same case holds true even if abortion is held to be murder when an ER surgeon is faced with a woman who didn't know she had an ectopic pregnancy and whose fallopian tube has already burst. Yes- he has two patients, the woman and the fetus. NO, he doesn't have the ability to save the fetus- but if he works fast enough, does a cesarian abortion, he can save the woman.
Note that the USA has not engaged in any large-scale battles conducive to extensive triage since the surgical technique for aortic grafting was invented...
Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War I, Gulf War II, the invasions
What I can't figure out (living three quarters of a century down the road) is what was so scary about replacing private industry with governmnet? And then I realize- the end result was to replace government with private industry- making slaves of us all.
Wasn't it Thomas Jefferson who advised that we have a new revolution every 20 years or so- just to keep the government on it's toes?
I'd also point out that I was comparing the FASCISM of Hitler with the FASCISM of Bush, not the evil or the stupidity.
:-). Oppression is oppression- and death is death. Sure, Bush hasn't found his scapegoat yet- or has he? He's certainly been working hard to herd the middle class into lower levels of housing (ghettos) and the poor towards homelessness. Even Hitler took a few years before the death camps started.
But you're very right as far as it goes- my point is more that the military industrial complex and the House UnAmerican Activities Committee was like Hitler. W is several generations down the path from there.
its far harder to lose 2 tons of paper ballots than press a secret key combo on a computer and poof all those votes have gone without trace or record
Obviously you've never seen a professional document shredding truck. They're all the rage here in the States as of late. Which may just be another point in your favor....
Locally, the violence is much more from both sides for me- Portland, OR has seen it's share of broken windows in campaign headquarters of both major parties, missing and defaced yard signs (one guy in Lake Oz actually purchased 186 Kerry signs and a camera to catch the pro-Bush kids), missing computers, etc.
But you've missed one group of pro-Bushites; those who are actually making money off of the war on terror (mainly weapons and other war materiel sales people) and off of the recession (just about any businessman who can replace his American workforce with an East Asian one is raking in the dough).
Which is why I directed my comments not to the AC, but hypothetically towards David Brin (not that I can actually get to the Salon.com article to read the original- I hate websense). But it's an important point- so I created a more generalized journal entry out of it.
Left Link? Is that anything like a left value (lvalue) or a left user (luser)?
I still deny that they really did it on their own. The respesct and protection co-religionists afford to monastics should not be underestimated. Suppose some brigands did, hypothetically, attack a monestary: everyone who heard of it would be out for their blood.
At that time in history, there were few co-religionists about. In fact, Augustine of Hippo wrote City of God because most of the more influential people in society were blaming the monastics for removing soldiers from the Roman Army thus causing the fall of Rome.
Thus, even if the monestary had some means of protection, it's like the night-watchman at a warehouse: he's not an effective defense on his own, but crooks are deterred by the tremendously more-powerful response if he were harmed.
No- the defenses on most fourth to sixth century monasteries were more natural than that- cliffs, moats, and inaccessibility. This was for two reasons- one, because society was collapsing around them, and two, because communalism in an obscure or isolated location provided religious benefits (for instance, St. Jerome, who translated the Bible and the Mass from the Greek into Vulgar Latin, was a hermit). No contact with regular society was seen as a blessing.
I really don't think so. It seems that very few of the public would deny a rape victim the right to an abortion. (As I already mentioned) The thought of the rapist being (Darwinistcally) rewarded as the woman is forced to bear his child is basically repugnant.
But it's covered under MENTAL reasons for a medical abortion- preventing the suicide of the mother.
That's certainly not a medical reason. And anyone who takes that viewpoint has already moved away from the "abortion is murder" position, and agreed that sometimes it is acceptable only according to the desire of the mother. Then it's a question of degree, not kind.
I originally said physical and mental medical reasons- but not economic. An abortion in response to a rape is a non-economic and non-birth control reason; it's a response to the mother's mental stability.
That is absolutely not allowed in the USA today. It's just as illegal as euthanasia (which is to say, some doctors can and do get away with it)
Euthanasia is not illegal in the USA today (unfortuneately) but also, conversely, this form of triage isn't illegal either- in fact it's quite common in accident, natural disaster, and battle medicine. I see NO difference between an abortion to save the life of the mother (whether due to a mental condition caused by rape or incest, or a physical condition such as ectopic pregnancy) and this form of triage. The abortion is still an objective evil and objectively murder; but no blame can be assigned to either the woman or the doctor for saving the mother's life, for not saving that life is a greater objective evil.
No. It's not up to him anymore. He would allow his daughters (and their male counterparts, and their doctor+priest) to make that decision, even though he'd advocate against it himself. Arguing against is separate from disallowing.
He's stated that he will pay anything, make any sacrifice, to see the baby born- that's a great deal more than arguing.
However, I doubt he'd hold to that position in every possible case. As always, there is the example of his daughter becoming impregated by a rapist.
Depends on the mental stability of the daughter- many Catholic families choose to raise the child themselves in rape cases, seeing the child as a separate moral entity from the rapist. If it was my daughter, I'd take a very carefull look at how she was handling the rape first though- lest we lose both her and the baby to suicide.
I wish we had proof of that. But he's too well-respected in certain circles for such evidence to survive.
Yes, sadly. All witnesses seem to have been threatened into submission at this point (but not the journalists).
However, Bush's supporters have demonstrated a willingness to ignore any non-recent behavior, especially if it's before his Christian awakening. (Then again, they ignore actions during his time in office too...)
With their form of Christianity (Once Saved Always Saved, Health and Wealth is proof of Faith, and Faith Alone will see us through any trial) what he has done in office has been in keeping with that mutant sect of Christianity. Unfortuneately, I see that form of Christianity as being the equivalent of the Islamic Death Cults. Which makes 20% of Americans into terrorists from my point of view.
Ok, so the mod part of the modem consists of a printer, and the dem part of a scanner, with duct tape and paper in between. With a maximum weight of duct tape and paper of 256 mg, what does that translate to for an MTU in bytes? And how many birds worth of datagrams would it take to transmit the standard slashdot main page?
We're prolly 300k in debt (welcome to homeownership) and I guess I'm unclear as to why this is bad. We're paying less in a mortgage payment on our house than we were paying in rent on a smaller place plus we are building equity.
Well, if you add in my mortgage, we're $195,000 in debt- but I was subtracting out the value of the house ($175,000) and the value of the other items we own ($10,000), because theoretically if I had to pay off the majority of the debt tomorrow I could sell everything off and pay off $185,000 of it.
Regarding your business... GROW! Get some peons er..sorry.. subcontractors.. under you. Start marketing solutions instead of skills. Grow that business! There are two types of businesses: those that are growing and those that are dying. Which one is yours?
Dying- because I'm paying out my entire income in interest payments on that extra debt and then some. (Cash outflow is negative). I tried the subcontractors. I tried the peons. It didn't work because my competitors work for 1/10th the amount that I can higher peons for.
Note to readers: MIGHT is important here. If we know the danger of the dark side- like David Brin pointed out- then our future isn't set in stone. We don't have to choose either branch of the flawed family- we can strike out on our own and build something new.
I was with this up until this point:
But then, in "Return of the Jedi," Lucas takes this basic wisdom and perverts it, saying -- "If you get angry -- even at injustice and murder -- it will automatically and immediately transform you into an unalloyedly evil person! All of your opinions and political beliefs will suddenly and magically reverse. Every loyalty will be forsaken and your friends won't be able to draw you back. You will instantly join your sworn enemy as his close pal or apprentice. All because you let yourself get angry at his crimes."
Not WILL- MIGHT. Examples abound- The Bolshevik revolution is my favorite expample. Human rebels have a tendency to imitate the worst in what they are fighting against- WWII is another example. A primary feature of facism was the joining together of governmental and corporate power to oppress the citizenry- and here in the United States we created the Military-Industrial Complex to fight the Nazis, which eventually grew up to oppress the citizenry.
In other words, getting angry at Adolf Hitler will cause you to rush right out and join the Nazi Party? Excuse me, George. Could you come up with a single example of that happening? Ever?
Not quite right- more that getting angry at Adolf Hitler will cause you to rush out, create a military industrial complex, and then eventually create the House Unamerican Activities Comittee to silence the voices that are complaining by labeling them "communists". It happened. Right here in the United States. George W. Bush himself is the inheritor of Adolf Hitler's fascism- through a lot of twists and turns.
I agree with everything else you had to say- but like your book The Postman you irk me with the stuff you did not know. (The Postman irked me because I was going to school in Klamath Falls at the time- and I knew you got the order of towns on Hwy 58 completely fouled up). Oakridge is EAST of Springfield, damnit).
If Carrier Pidgeons is the answer for internet connectivity, what does the modem look like?