So North Korea should have a voice equal to England or Germany? Yeah, right. The only thing the "government" of North Korea cares about is maintaining a regular supply of blonde hookers and fine liquor for their esteemed leader. If they have to build nukes and starve their population for that to happen, oh well.
If we're to get this world into any kind of peaceful place for future generations, it's through civilized countries banding together to drag the uncivilized countries kicking and screaming out of the 13th century.
If one of the membership requirements for being in the UN was that you had to be an honest to god democracy, it might be worth a crap.
I didn't realize they were going to make ground chuck out of the telemarketers that lose their jobs. I thought they would be able to go get higher paying jobs at the local McDonalds.
We attacked Iraq because the only real way to address terrorism is for the Arabs to become democracies, and Iraq is the best place to start and is the most likely to suceed. If it means shoving democracy down their fscking throats like we had to with Japan and Germany, well, too bad for them. It'll take several orders of magnitudes fewer deaths than it did for Japan and Germany. That's progress for you.
You suspect wrong; I grew up on a farm. I've lived in the "red" states all my life. And I still don't know anyone who believes Iraq had anything to do with 9/11.
When a nation attacks you, you attack that nation. But a nation didn't attack us. When terrorists attack us, you work to eliminate the reason for terrorism. And terrorism is caused because the tyrannies of the Middle East get the unemployed and repressed and impoverished citizens of their countries to hate the West so they won't hate the tyrants. Who do you think is paying the salaries of the anti-American mullahs?
Why are the young people of Iran fairly pro-America? Because the US and Iran haven't interacted in 25 years. It's impossible for the mullahs running Iran to blame the problems of their country on the US; the people there *know* the mullahs are to blame.
What's your ideas on how to deal with the terrorists? Convert to Islam? Grovel and beg for forgiveness for living in a secular democracy? Harsh language? Or should we never engage in any sort of military operation until we can absolutely, completely guarantee that no innocents are even scratched?
I'd rather the schools teach children things like reading and math, so the kids *earn* their self esteem, rather than spend class time telling them how wonderful they all are.
That appointed judge has that job for the rest of his life if he wants it. He doesn't need to do *anybody* any favors.
And if you think an elected judge, who has to pay for an election campaign every few years, is less likely to be influenced by big business, you either need to stop using illegal drugs, or start using legal ones. Go to south Texas and ask anyone there what they think of elected judges. Candidates spend a lot of money trying to get elected judge, because it's an easy way to get rich.
BTW, how many people do you think would actually pay attention to who they vote for in an Oklahoma judge election? He'd get re-elected just from the votes from the people who work in the telemarketing industry.
If elected officials are so subservient to the will of the people, why did it take so long to get a national do-not-call list? Why are there no decent laws against spam? Why do the laws allow the RIAA to run roughshod over people? The lawmakers are elected, aren't they?
If the industy can't survive without calling people who DO NOT WANT TO BE CALLED, then they deserve to die. There's still tens of millions of people *not* on the list.
I do not do business with telemarketers. I do not give to charities that bother me over the phone. Why would they NOT want to know that they are wasting their time when they call me? I don't pay my phone bill every month so some asswipe can bother me. They can advertise to me through the mail; that way they'll have to use their tiny little brains to figure out who might actually want their product, and I'll have something to use to help start my fireplace.
If you can't see the difference between a "do not call" list and making telemarketing illegal, you're not too bright.
Oh, and BTW, a judge isn't supposed to rule because of how it will affect the industry, (s)he's supposed to rule based on something called the "law".
The telezapper default is the first tone of the "doo-dee-dee" three tone sequence you get when you call an inactive number. You can open it up and flip a little switch to have it do two or all three tones.
I got one about a year ago; I hardly get any telemarketer calls now. The advantage of having a telezapper over recording the tones on your answering machine is you can pick up before the machine starts, and the tones will still be emitted. Every now and then I answer the phone, and there's nobody there - they've hung up already because of the tone, and I've hopefully been put on their list in inactive numbers.
100 IQ is the median of the scores of everyone taking a legitimate IQ test that are the same age.
Google on the "Flynn effect". IQs have been increasing about 3 points per decade since they came up with IQ tests. They're still arguing about what causes it. My guess it's because children are exposed to more stimuli now (radio in the '30s, TV in the '60s, now it's the net).
A couple of centuries of that, and a Starfleet ensign may actually be smart enough to manually reconfigure the phase emitters on the main deflector dish.:)
The main problem with Venus is that it doesn't *have* plate tectonics; its crust is too thick. So CO2 doesn't really have a way to get recycled back into the planetary interior, and will continually build up from volcanic activity. Earth would probably be in the same situation if it hadn't got smacked 4 billion years ago and had most of its crust removed (it's now orbiting about 230,000 miles away). A thermal runaway is far less likely to happen on Earth. During the multiple meltings of "snowball earth" hundreds of millions of years ago, temperatures and CO2 levels were far higher than they'll ever likely to be from human activity, and the earth recovered quite quickly (and that was when the sun was putting out considerably more energy, too).
I think Bush I should have finished the job in Gulf War I. I wouldn't have minded Clinton finishing the job.
You talk about two cases: If Bush is wrong, and if we had done nothing. What happened to the possibility that Bush is right? What would happen to the Middle East if Iraq (and eventually Iran) become halfway-decent democracies? Or do you think having nothing but tyrannies in that part of the world is in the West's best interest?
A century ago an overwhelming majority of physicists believed in the ether. So what's your point?
We should reduce fossil fuel consumption, but not necessarily for that reason.
And I'm continually baffled by the polls that say 70% of all Americans think Saddam had something to do with 9/11. I don't know *anybody* who thinks that.
BTW, 3000 people died at Pearl Harbor. Do you think the US should have just let that slide, too?
From what I read about the "snowball earth" theories, the main factor was that, at the time, most of the land mass was concentrated at the Equator. This allowed the ice caps to grow to a large size without having it cover significant amounts of land, which would allow continued removal of CO2 from the atmosphere by absorption by exposed rock. By the time the ice caps reached land, the Earth's albedo was low enough to keep the process going until the planet was an iceball. Then CO2 would build up from volcanic activity until the ice melted down.
Now, with much of the landmass fairly close to the poles, there's a negative feedback. Receding icepack will expose land, which will absorb CO2 via weathering, and increasing icepack will cover land, reducing the amount of CO2 absorbed.
You live in Antarctica? That's where the ozone hole is (or was; it's gotten better).
It's more likely that 15 years ago you spent a lot more time outside, and were tan, and you could spend all day outside. Now you spend too much time online and indoors, and when you go out you burn easily.
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Well, if you've ever read "The Prize", you'd know why the Allies beat the Axis. The Allies had access to oil. The Axis didn't.
Oil was one of the main reasons Germany invaded the USSR. It was the reason Japan attacked the US.
Something to consider when you watch the news...
I think he's talking about the H-Bomb, chief. We've been doing uncontrolled fusion for fifty years.
Wow, what horrible timing. The planet's 4 billion years old and all the uranium is going to decay in the next 150 years.
Half life for U-235 is 700 million years.
Half life for U-238 is 4.5 billion years.
So North Korea should have a voice equal to England or Germany? Yeah, right. The only thing the "government" of North Korea cares about is maintaining a regular supply of blonde hookers and fine liquor for their esteemed leader. If they have to build nukes and starve their population for that to happen, oh well. If we're to get this world into any kind of peaceful place for future generations, it's through civilized countries banding together to drag the uncivilized countries kicking and screaming out of the 13th century. If one of the membership requirements for being in the UN was that you had to be an honest to god democracy, it might be worth a crap.
The nice thing about added scenes like that is you can rip the DVD to hard drive and edit them out :).
Since Lucas won't sell me the version I saw when I was thirteen, I guess I'll just have to make it myself.
I didn't realize they were going to make ground chuck out of the telemarketers that lose their jobs. I thought they would be able to go get higher paying jobs at the local McDonalds.
No, the Libertarian solution would be for phone companies to offer services to prevent telemarketers from making your phone ring.
Or smoking the rope.
We attacked Iraq because the only real way to address terrorism is for the Arabs to become democracies, and Iraq is the best place to start and is the most likely to suceed. If it means shoving democracy down their fscking throats like we had to with Japan and Germany, well, too bad for them. It'll take several orders of magnitudes fewer deaths than it did for Japan and Germany. That's progress for you.
You suspect wrong; I grew up on a farm. I've lived in the "red" states all my life. And I still don't know anyone who believes Iraq had anything to do with 9/11.
When a nation attacks you, you attack that nation. But a nation didn't attack us. When terrorists attack us, you work to eliminate the reason for terrorism. And terrorism is caused because the tyrannies of the Middle East get the unemployed and repressed and impoverished citizens of their countries to hate the West so they won't hate the tyrants. Who do you think is paying the salaries of the anti-American mullahs?
Why are the young people of Iran fairly pro-America? Because the US and Iran haven't interacted in 25 years. It's impossible for the mullahs running Iran to blame the problems of their country on the US; the people there *know* the mullahs are to blame.
What's your ideas on how to deal with the terrorists? Convert to Islam? Grovel and beg for forgiveness for living in a secular democracy? Harsh language? Or should we never engage in any sort of military operation until we can absolutely, completely guarantee that no innocents are even scratched?
I'd rather the schools teach children things like reading and math, so the kids *earn* their self esteem, rather than spend class time telling them how wonderful they all are.
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Unrealistically high self esteem is bad:
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That appointed judge has that job for the rest of his life if he wants it. He doesn't need to do *anybody* any favors.
And if you think an elected judge, who has to pay for an election campaign every few years, is less likely to be influenced by big business, you either need to stop using illegal drugs, or start using legal ones. Go to south Texas and ask anyone there what they think of elected judges. Candidates spend a lot of money trying to get elected judge, because it's an easy way to get rich.
BTW, how many people do you think would actually pay attention to who they vote for in an Oklahoma judge election? He'd get re-elected just from the votes from the people who work in the telemarketing industry.
If elected officials are so subservient to the will of the people, why did it take so long to get a national do-not-call list? Why are there no decent laws against spam? Why do the laws allow the RIAA to run roughshod over people? The lawmakers are elected, aren't they?
If the industy can't survive without calling people who DO NOT WANT TO BE CALLED, then they deserve to die. There's still tens of millions of people *not* on the list.
I do not do business with telemarketers. I do not give to charities that bother me over the phone. Why would they NOT want to know that they are wasting their time when they call me? I don't pay my phone bill every month so some asswipe can bother me. They can advertise to me through the mail; that way they'll have to use their tiny little brains to figure out who might actually want their product, and I'll have something to use to help start my fireplace.
If you can't see the difference between a "do not call" list and making telemarketing illegal, you're not too bright.
Oh, and BTW, a judge isn't supposed to rule because of how it will affect the industry, (s)he's supposed to rule based on something called the "law".
The telezapper default is the first tone of the "doo-dee-dee" three tone sequence you get when you call an inactive number. You can open it up and flip a little switch to have it do two or all three tones.
I got one about a year ago; I hardly get any telemarketer calls now. The advantage of having a telezapper over recording the tones on your answering machine is you can pick up before the machine starts, and the tones will still be emitted. Every now and then I answer the phone, and there's nobody there - they've hung up already because of the tone, and I've hopefully been put on their list in inactive numbers.
If you've got extra minutes, call from your cell. Or a pay phone. Or from an empty cube at work. Or from your boss's cube when (s)he is out.
Please try not to operate heavy machinery until the drugs wear off.
100 IQ is the median of the scores of everyone taking a legitimate IQ test that are the same age.
:)
Google on the "Flynn effect". IQs have been increasing about 3 points per decade since they came up with IQ tests. They're still arguing about what causes it. My guess it's because children are exposed to more stimuli now (radio in the '30s, TV in the '60s, now it's the net).
A couple of centuries of that, and a Starfleet ensign may actually be smart enough to manually reconfigure the phase emitters on the main deflector dish.
The main problem with Venus is that it doesn't *have* plate tectonics; its crust is too thick. So CO2 doesn't really have a way to get recycled back into the planetary interior, and will continually build up from volcanic activity. Earth would probably be in the same situation if it hadn't got smacked 4 billion years ago and had most of its crust removed (it's now orbiting about 230,000 miles away). A thermal runaway is far less likely to happen on Earth. During the multiple meltings of "snowball earth" hundreds of millions of years ago, temperatures and CO2 levels were far higher than they'll ever likely to be from human activity, and the earth recovered quite quickly (and that was when the sun was putting out considerably more energy, too).
I think Bush I should have finished the job in Gulf War I. I wouldn't have minded Clinton finishing the job.
You talk about two cases: If Bush is wrong, and if we had done nothing. What happened to the possibility that Bush is right? What would happen to the Middle East if Iraq (and eventually Iran) become halfway-decent democracies? Or do you think having nothing but tyrannies in that part of the world is in the West's best interest?
A century ago an overwhelming majority of physicists believed in the ether. So what's your point?
We should reduce fossil fuel consumption, but not necessarily for that reason.
And I'm continually baffled by the polls that say 70% of all Americans think Saddam had something to do with 9/11. I don't know *anybody* who thinks that.
BTW, 3000 people died at Pearl Harbor. Do you think the US should have just let that slide, too?
So, what did they use to kill the Kurds? Harsh language?
From what I read about the "snowball earth" theories, the main factor was that, at the time, most of the land mass was concentrated at the Equator. This allowed the ice caps to grow to a large size without having it cover significant amounts of land, which would allow continued removal of CO2 from the atmosphere by absorption by exposed rock. By the time the ice caps reached land, the Earth's albedo was low enough to keep the process going until the planet was an iceball. Then CO2 would build up from volcanic activity until the ice melted down.
Now, with much of the landmass fairly close to the poles, there's a negative feedback. Receding icepack will expose land, which will absorb CO2 via weathering, and increasing icepack will cover land, reducing the amount of CO2 absorbed.
I live in Texas; my power comes from the Glen Rose nukular power plant. And wind power is growing really fast in this state.
Why would we use our own oil and gas when we can make a fortune selling it to Californians? They sure ain't going nuclear any time soon.
You live in Antarctica? That's where the ozone hole is (or was; it's gotten better).
It's more likely that 15 years ago you spent a lot more time outside, and were tan, and you could spend all day outside. Now you spend too much time online and indoors, and when you go out you burn easily.
I think you mean "not even 5%", not 0.5%.
And he kills the guy with the samurai sword first.
Why, because he's an officer?
No, because he's got a fscking samurai sword !!!