You are basing your argument on the classical philosophy that a vote, when cast for a person, essentially places trust in that person to serve as he or she sees fit, for the duration of his term.
I call that position bullshit and reject it in principle. I refuse to place unconditional trust in a politician, or be so naive as to believe that he is indeed there to serve his constituency. Politicians will always do what is in their self interest (wow, just like the rest of us).
What? You vote for a person, not a political party. Where in the Constitution of the United States does it even mention a political party? You are under some kind of out of your mind if you think you are voting for a person to represent a party.
So you refuse to place unconditional trust in one politician (1/550th power) because you want to put unconditional trust in one party (1/2 power)? That makes sense...
No one person can drive policies. In a two party system, a party can drive policies. Which one can be more damaging?
I am very libertarian leaning, so I am not saying fiscal conservatism is a religion. I was using the term "religion" in an alternate way. I am saying that many of the GOP members are believing in fiscal conservatism with faith and not really understanding what it is truly all about.
3. This could lead to someone like Snowe defecting as well, which would really bury the Republican part, possibly for good, as it could split between the Bible Thumping retard faction and the neocon fascist faction, which would work to the benefit of the Democrats.
Actually, the bible thumping and neocon fascists are pretty much the same set of people. It is more likely that the rational ones will go Democrat or Independent and the Democratic party (then an overwhelming majority) will eventually split.
This just goes to show that the neo-cons have brought the Republican party to its knees. When are they going to learn. They now have the "fiscal conservative" religion, but there is a lot of doubt whether they can follow through with what they can say.
Fiscal policies aside, their doom was being so darn war driven. Not that the Dems aren't, but they took it to a new level.
Specter would have been smarter to have went independent. Does he really need a party? He has the name recognition.
I think you missed the point. The parent poster was arguing that the grandparent's post has nothing to do with the article.
Article: barefoot is better than shoes Grandparent: article wrong, new/good shoes are better than old/bad shoes Parent: article not wrong, your argument is irrelevant You: Parent wrong; Grandparent right Me: What are you talking about?
Yes, but it is only natural for the warmest year in the last 130 years to be surrounded by other years that are among the warmest. Whether looking at the last 130 years, 1000 years, or 100,000 years, we are due for a few decades of cooling. The CO2 theory just supposes that the next minimum will be higher than it "should" be. Some extremists say that the minimum will actually be higher than the previous maximum (we likely just passed it).
(1) it is pretty cold on Mars, which requires battery power for heat to prevent electronics from breaking (2) if there is sand on the solar panels, you can't get power to wipe the sand off (3) the rovers were designed to last 90 days. they have lasted several years.
It's not about hated their dad. It is about whether the RIAA is selectively enforcing their copyrights; and the Bush twins are high profile collateral damage. I don't know about copyrights, but if you know someone is infringing on your trademark and you do nothing about it, you lose that trademark. The lawyer is letting them know about an infringement of copyright.
It looks like they used the opportunity to take a hit at public schools. Large public schools are far better than 99% of the private schools out there. Look at what the large public schools of the major athletic conferences do for the country and world. These are major research Universities, many of which are only outdone by MIT.
You can go with a slower speed and higher data integrity by switching from MyISAM to InnoDB tables. The choice is there, so I would use the term "always sacrifice".
Do you know anything about current nuclear technologies. You couldn't have a nuclear meltdown if you tried anymore. Plus, with pebble bed reactors, nuclear plants can be practically anywhere.
Many people are against Nuclear plants because of Chernobyl. Did you know that a coal plant releases more radiation outside its walls than a nuclear plant?
I guess it's people like you that are the reason no new plants (in the U.S.) have been built in decades.
I worked on a FEMA website contract, and it couldn't use (1) javascript or (2) cookies. They were anal about it. They also wanted it to be cross browser, which is how we wrote sites anyhow.
The web interface of Lotus Notes is IE-only. I found it hilarious that IBM is telling people how to migrate from IE-only to firefox when they haven't done it themselves.
But in the US, we have states. In fact, one of the amendments to the constitution states that any rights/laws not stated here-in are up to the individual states.
This is why Vegas has legalized gambling and prostitution. This is why Nebraska has a speed limit of 75, Pennsylvania 65, WV 70, and a few years ago Montana had no speed limit (during the daylight).
Many people don't realize that the federal law makes the legal drinking age 18. "But why is it 21 in every state?" They deny funding to states that don't make it 21. It works the same way with many rules so the federal government can extert control over the states (including the speed limit).
Now they are going to extert control over state IDs and make them federal. Now you will have a US drivers license...basically. That means most of the traffic rules will need to be merged.
The US was founded on state rights, hence "The United States of America". If you don't like a state's rules, move to another state. The federal government is heading toward "monoculturing" the US. Pretty soon we'll be "Former United States of America".
No, we, or at least I, use Linux because it is better than Windows in 90% of the things I do. There is no idealogical reason. That's like voting for a presidential candidate because they are in your political party. It's stupid reasoning.
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You are basing your argument on the classical philosophy that a vote, when cast for a person, essentially places trust in that person to serve as he or she sees fit, for the duration of his term.
I call that position bullshit and reject it in principle. I refuse to place unconditional trust in a politician, or be so naive as to believe that he is indeed there to serve his constituency. Politicians will always do what is in their self interest (wow, just like the rest of us).
What? You vote for a person, not a political party. Where in the Constitution of the United States does it even mention a political party? You are under some kind of out of your mind if you think you are voting for a person to represent a party.
So you refuse to place unconditional trust in one politician (1/550th power) because you want to put unconditional trust in one party (1/2 power)? That makes sense...
No one person can drive policies. In a two party system, a party can drive policies. Which one can be more damaging?
I am very libertarian leaning, so I am not saying fiscal conservatism is a religion. I was using the term "religion" in an alternate way. I am saying that many of the GOP members are believing in fiscal conservatism with faith and not really understanding what it is truly all about.
3. This could lead to someone like Snowe defecting as well, which would really bury the Republican part, possibly for good, as it could split between the Bible Thumping retard faction and the neocon fascist faction, which would work to the benefit of the Democrats.
Actually, the bible thumping and neocon fascists are pretty much the same set of people. It is more likely that the rational ones will go Democrat or Independent and the Democratic party (then an overwhelming majority) will eventually split.
This just goes to show that the neo-cons have brought the Republican party to its knees. When are they going to learn. They now have the "fiscal conservative" religion, but there is a lot of doubt whether they can follow through with what they can say.
Fiscal policies aside, their doom was being so darn war driven. Not that the Dems aren't, but they took it to a new level.
Specter would have been smarter to have went independent. Does he really need a party? He has the name recognition.
that post was +5 insightful, +5 informative, and +5 funny at the same time. kudos
I think you missed the point. The parent poster was arguing that the grandparent's post has nothing to do with the article.
Article: barefoot is better than shoes
Grandparent: article wrong, new/good shoes are better than old/bad shoes
Parent: article not wrong, your argument is irrelevant
You: Parent wrong; Grandparent right
Me: What are you talking about?
Yes, but it is only natural for the warmest year in the last 130 years to be surrounded by other years that are among the warmest. Whether looking at the last 130 years, 1000 years, or 100,000 years, we are due for a few decades of cooling. The CO2 theory just supposes that the next minimum will be higher than it "should" be. Some extremists say that the minimum will actually be higher than the previous maximum (we likely just passed it).
Where do you think the vent gets its energy? Where do you think the core gets its energy?
What if the ISP, having the server's (Apache HTTPD) code, recomputes the hash in the same manner.
Browser sees content. Browser sees hash. Browser compares the two...gets an OK.
(1) it is pretty cold on Mars, which requires battery power for heat to prevent electronics from breaking
(2) if there is sand on the solar panels, you can't get power to wipe the sand off
(3) the rovers were designed to last 90 days. they have lasted several years.
It's not about hated their dad. It is about whether the RIAA is selectively enforcing their copyrights; and the Bush twins are high profile collateral damage. I don't know about copyrights, but if you know someone is infringing on your trademark and you do nothing about it, you lose that trademark. The lawyer is letting them know about an infringement of copyright.
It looks like they used the opportunity to take a hit at public schools. Large public schools are far better than 99% of the private schools out there. Look at what the large public schools of the major athletic conferences do for the country and world. These are major research Universities, many of which are only outdone by MIT.
Excellent article about this very issue
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http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warmin
He was also parodied on "The Police Squad!" series and "The Naked Gun!" series.
You can go with a slower speed and higher data integrity by switching from MyISAM to InnoDB tables. The choice is there, so I would use the term "always sacrifice".
What if an aircraft carrier or submarine was destroyed? Well, it seems that those are taken care of. I think the engineers have somewhat of a brain.
Do you know anything about current nuclear technologies. You couldn't have a nuclear meltdown if you tried anymore. Plus, with pebble bed reactors, nuclear plants can be practically anywhere.
Many people are against Nuclear plants because of Chernobyl. Did you know that a coal plant releases more radiation outside its walls than a nuclear plant?
I guess it's people like you that are the reason no new plants (in the U.S.) have been built in decades.
Exactly. Aircraft carriers and submarines have been nuclear powered for ages....and they certainly aren't walking on the ground.
I worked on a FEMA website contract, and it couldn't use (1) javascript or (2) cookies. They were anal about it. They also wanted it to be cross browser, which is how we wrote sites anyhow.
The web interface of Lotus Notes is IE-only. I found it hilarious that IBM is telling people how to migrate from IE-only to firefox when they haven't done it themselves.
But in the US, we have states. In fact, one of the amendments to the constitution states that any rights/laws not stated here-in are up to the individual states.
This is why Vegas has legalized gambling and prostitution. This is why Nebraska has a speed limit of 75, Pennsylvania 65, WV 70, and a few years ago Montana had no speed limit (during the daylight).
Many people don't realize that the federal law makes the legal drinking age 18. "But why is it 21 in every state?" They deny funding to states that don't make it 21. It works the same way with many rules so the federal government can extert control over the states (including the speed limit).
Now they are going to extert control over state IDs and make them federal. Now you will have a US drivers license...basically. That means most of the traffic rules will need to be merged.
The US was founded on state rights, hence "The United States of America". If you don't like a state's rules, move to another state. The federal government is heading toward "monoculturing" the US. Pretty soon we'll be "Former United States of America".
It looks like your post isn't running on IIS.
No, we, or at least I, use Linux because it is better than Windows in 90% of the things I do. There is no idealogical reason. That's like voting for a presidential candidate because they are in your political party. It's stupid reasoning.
Noatun and Kaboodle are not the same. Noatun is a continous player (playlist, tray icon) while Kaboodle is a lighter weight media player.
It's like the difference between playing WAV files in Window's 'Sound Recorder' app or 'Media Player' app.
I've never used the other two apps, but maybe the goal of one of them is to be more gimp-like with features, while the other like Window's Paint.
We use that in a backend application at our company. You just have to remember to distribute the gzip library with the application.