I think they're severely degarding the meaning of the phrase "forward thinking" here. Being lauded for playing a computer game is rather pathetic. Computer games are fun, but they're not real life accomplishments. Apparently, marketing is done excreting the words "forward thinking" out of every orifice, so now it's been handed down another level to those who don't even have real jobs (no, playing games for a living is unproductive and not a job).
Guns do make people safer, see a variety of studies on this. Controlled for density, etc., more guns do equal less crime, which is why many parts of Europe have major crime problems, far above other regions.
The very idea of free speech is to protect speech that others find objectionable, so hate/racist speech could be said to be first and foremost what free speech was designed to protect. Either you have free speech or you don't.
You do have far, far higher levels of violent crime per capita than the US does. Do they agree with you? I know the majority supports the death penalty. London is one of the crime capitals of the world now. See UN stats, national stats, I think also a study in Sweden. Anyways, it's been in your newspapers, especially Wales, seeming to be the worst part.
Checks and balances are supposed to limit government authority, not individual freedoms.
Your hate speech against America offends me. I have decided you are strange, nutty and violent. Go directly to jail.
The UK in recent years has been claiming the right to take away the freedoms of its subjects, despite the fact that it was once on the forefront of individual liberty. First, it banned guns, contradicting at least 400 years of common law, and now it's going after people for free speech. The authoritarians can invent a rationale for their tyranny against the people, but they'll never stop going after one freedom after another.
I'm a Jew, and Rabbi Telushkin points out that placing a dash in God is based on a misreading of Torah. See "A Code of Jewish Ethics: Volume 1: You Shall Be Holy." I can't remember the exact passage, as it was from a library book. Although the reason you give is a different reason, partly.
Maybe even living in the housing cost capital of the nation, the Northeast, I don't have a firm grip on real estate prices. Here, in the city, $1,700 per month will get you either a luxury apartment, a plush office apartment, or perhaps even a house rental. $1,700 mortgage = house. So why would anyone in 1998, years before the housing bubble, be paying $1,700 per month for just a garage? That's $20,400 per year, well over half of the nation's average income. Apparently, Google's spendthrift ways started early. Blowing loads of cash on real estate is never a good idea, especially not for start-ups. Sooner or later, Google's unhinged spending spree is going to bite them in the ass, just like it did those during the internet bubble.
There aren't any. Pentium, Pentium MMX, Pentium Pro, AMD K6, Cyrix 6x86MX (PR rating), Cyrix MII (200MHz, PR233) Centaur WinChip ran at 200MHz, not including the 6x86MX PR200.
Space may not be Star Trek's "final frontier," but if humanity is going to start seriously gaining a foot hold there, it will be through private enterprise, not the Enterprise.
After blowing cash on the Froogle brand, which nicely derives cachet from the Google brand while also implying that it is for frugual users, thereby it must save users money, to then run to a product called "Google Base" is stupidity. What does the "Base" mean? It has zero positive associations with shopping and price, and except for its association under the Google umbrella, zero assocation with anything else. Google has to grow up and stop change for the sake of change, when it wastes shareholder's money and ditches valuable brands for senseless no-brands.
I think he's either dim or feigning ignorane for dramatic effect. There are a plethora of freeware and shareware BASIC compilers available for download, the real problem isn't finding BASIC, it's choosing which version and dialect to use.
I know Bush enacted the steel duties, which was one of the first hints he was no conservative. As for Carter, I'm aware of his deregulation policies, which is the only thing I like about the man.
Senator Sununu, Representative Ron Paul. There are others, but I can't think of them off of the top of my head. So you're right, the GOP has certainly not preserved the legacy of President Reagan, but they at least pay lip service to fiscal conservatism and free-market capitalism. The Dems are mostly outright against both, especially with the repudiation of the DLC and the New Democrats, which brought the Democrats a rare two-term President in President Clinton.
I don't think so, because you wouldn't need the full staff for each State. Say, a bit more than 1/50th for each in a worse case scenario. In any case, the scheme would be far more responsive to voters and you'd always have the option of getting out of the thing by moving to another State.
Well, neo-cons are essentially Wilsonian Democrats, and I don't see any theocrats. No one is agitating for placing religious leaders in charge of the government and turning the US into an Iran.
I don't know, to me, anything not Constitutionally mandated is a bigger problem than pork. I think returning the national government to Constitutional legitimacy would mostly take care of the pork issue.
The Founding Fathers stigmatized democracy quite well, I think, and for reasons that have been borne out.
The Party is not President Bush, and President Bush is not the Party. Vote for or against policies. Trying to indirectly slap Bush in the face by voting against someone simply because they are in the same Party is petulant and immature. By voting for advocates of fiscal conservatism and the free-market who are Republican, I can be "voting against" President Bush just as much as someone who votes for a candidate who believes in an even more gargantuan national government and a far greater socialized economy can be "voting against" President Bush.
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For starters, I can spell "revelant."
I think they're severely degarding the meaning of the phrase "forward thinking" here. Being lauded for playing a computer game is rather pathetic. Computer games are fun, but they're not real life accomplishments. Apparently, marketing is done excreting the words "forward thinking" out of every orifice, so now it's been handed down another level to those who don't even have real jobs (no, playing games for a living is unproductive and not a job).
I'm not sure where you live. In the US, conservatism is what you call liberalism in Europe.
The very idea of free speech is to protect speech that others find objectionable, so hate/racist speech could be said to be first and foremost what free speech was designed to protect. Either you have free speech or you don't.
Checks and balances are supposed to limit government authority, not individual freedoms.
Your hate speech against America offends me. I have decided you are strange, nutty and violent. Go directly to jail.
The UK in recent years has been claiming the right to take away the freedoms of its subjects, despite the fact that it was once on the forefront of individual liberty. First, it banned guns, contradicting at least 400 years of common law, and now it's going after people for free speech. The authoritarians can invent a rationale for their tyranny against the people, but they'll never stop going after one freedom after another.
Rabbi Telushkin is an Orthodox Rabbi, though.
I'm a Jew, and Rabbi Telushkin points out that placing a dash in God is based on a misreading of Torah. See "A Code of Jewish Ethics: Volume 1: You Shall Be Holy." I can't remember the exact passage, as it was from a library book. Although the reason you give is a different reason, partly.
There's only one reason I've seen for the dash before. What reason did you put the dash in there for?
Most scientists are not atheists.
Putting a dash for the "o" in "God" is a misinterpretation of Scripture.
Maybe even living in the housing cost capital of the nation, the Northeast, I don't have a firm grip on real estate prices. Here, in the city, $1,700 per month will get you either a luxury apartment, a plush office apartment, or perhaps even a house rental. $1,700 mortgage = house. So why would anyone in 1998, years before the housing bubble, be paying $1,700 per month for just a garage? That's $20,400 per year, well over half of the nation's average income. Apparently, Google's spendthrift ways started early. Blowing loads of cash on real estate is never a good idea, especially not for start-ups. Sooner or later, Google's unhinged spending spree is going to bite them in the ass, just like it did those during the internet bubble.
There aren't any. Pentium, Pentium MMX, Pentium Pro, AMD K6, Cyrix 6x86MX (PR rating), Cyrix MII (200MHz, PR233) Centaur WinChip ran at 200MHz, not including the 6x86MX PR200.
Space may not be Star Trek's "final frontier," but if humanity is going to start seriously gaining a foot hold there, it will be through private enterprise, not the Enterprise.
After blowing cash on the Froogle brand, which nicely derives cachet from the Google brand while also implying that it is for frugual users, thereby it must save users money, to then run to a product called "Google Base" is stupidity. What does the "Base" mean? It has zero positive associations with shopping and price, and except for its association under the Google umbrella, zero assocation with anything else. Google has to grow up and stop change for the sake of change, when it wastes shareholder's money and ditches valuable brands for senseless no-brands.
I think he's either dim or feigning ignorane for dramatic effect. There are a plethora of freeware and shareware BASIC compilers available for download, the real problem isn't finding BASIC, it's choosing which version and dialect to use.
I know Bush enacted the steel duties, which was one of the first hints he was no conservative. As for Carter, I'm aware of his deregulation policies, which is the only thing I like about the man.
What do you mean by this? Certainly Democrats were closer to those beliefs in the past, but not since the late 19th century.
Senator Sununu, Representative Ron Paul. There are others, but I can't think of them off of the top of my head. So you're right, the GOP has certainly not preserved the legacy of President Reagan, but they at least pay lip service to fiscal conservatism and free-market capitalism. The Dems are mostly outright against both, especially with the repudiation of the DLC and the New Democrats, which brought the Democrats a rare two-term President in President Clinton.
Oh, it's you. Lower your prices for Democracy already. :-P
I don't think so, because you wouldn't need the full staff for each State. Say, a bit more than 1/50th for each in a worse case scenario. In any case, the scheme would be far more responsive to voters and you'd always have the option of getting out of the thing by moving to another State.
How can it have an economy of scale? It doesn't do anything, it just recycles money with no actual product or economic output.
Well, I live in NH, so I suppose my vote is slightly magnified for the Presidential primaries.
Well, neo-cons are essentially Wilsonian Democrats, and I don't see any theocrats. No one is agitating for placing religious leaders in charge of the government and turning the US into an Iran.
I don't know, to me, anything not Constitutionally mandated is a bigger problem than pork. I think returning the national government to Constitutional legitimacy would mostly take care of the pork issue.
The Party is not President Bush, and President Bush is not the Party. Vote for or against policies. Trying to indirectly slap Bush in the face by voting against someone simply because they are in the same Party is petulant and immature. By voting for advocates of fiscal conservatism and the free-market who are Republican, I can be "voting against" President Bush just as much as someone who votes for a candidate who believes in an even more gargantuan national government and a far greater socialized economy can be "voting against" President Bush.