You express exactly the polarized thinking that a big city produces. Couldn't be that all us fly-overs are thinking individuals that have opinions and values (both valid) that differ from you, could it? No. It's got to be that we are unthinking, stupid, or duped.
Sorry, little man, you need to look for the mass of the iceberg yourself.
Yeah, and only if there were a country that would ignore the complaints and criticisms heaped upon it when it did do things without going through the U.N.
If it's a true story, why only an abstract version? If she was arrested, it's already public. Provide a link or it looks like bullshit on your part.
"so sorry, I'm a patriot.., and I sure as hell don't want people like you...
You do have the privelege to carry in some states. It's not a right because we don't want violent felons carrying, do we?
You do have the right to not incriminate. 5.
The courts only arbitrate when laws have been broken or not, the don't validate each enacted law with their little punch. And they do say the gov has the right on occasion (wire tap).
I don't think your "sure as hell" means what you meant it to mean.
Has another country existed which did not have comparable problems/shortcomings? No? Then get off your abstract horse.
I notice that most of your ignore's are historic, not current. That deflates your point, I think. If a country had those problems in the past and did nothing to correct them, one would have cause for a dim outlook. But, hey, that's not at all what happened, is it?
Shall we continue to bitch and moan about Britian's taxation methods? No? Why? Because it's history, and old at that. And, it's different now.
So, make your much shorter list about current events and we'll discuss how to go about correcting those too. Oh wait, that's already going on. Basically, you just bitched to bitch.
"There are no religious issues inherent to the debate over abortion rights."
Right, let's look further.
"Abortion is the...arbiter of responsibility."
What a load of bullshit. You would have your mother carry to term the offspring of a rape, eh? Nice guy.
By the point:
1) Consideration of - that embryo might have been forced upon the female, chum.
2) As soon as - that right there is a rather religious decision (if you as me). Again, you don't care about a rape victim. You also mention conception, what criteria did you use to arrive at that?
3) danger, decision - which parent bub? The female is not the only one with a say. Or did you mean the male got to choose?
4) mitigation - all problems and dangers are to be mitigated. That just means to lesson, not to get rid of completely. Grandma and pa can't help if they want? You're severe.
5) "The government should not be relied on as arbiter of responsibility."
I quoted that entire sentence because it's so ludicrous. Just who are you going to have as the arbiter, god?
You only gots a couple of choices. Rules and regs handed down as holy script. Or same constructed by man. The first is religion, the second government.
Hear, hear. Pun intended. The overblown phrases sure sound like someone padding the writing so they don't sound like they're explaing the common-sense things we all observe as an infant grows.
I could have used a grant when I was raising my daughter.
Myopic statements. During the Earth's history, it's had cooling and warming. Much cooler and much warmer. Many, many times. This is nothing new. The only new variable is just how much we are contributing and what influence that has. We've been in a warming ramp for the last several decathousands of years. Is it a surprise that this continues just because we're observing and recording this now?
While many of the things you say are true, you missed one point.
"(unless owned by a politician like the ones working for Bush that say global warming is OK..)"
Just for reference, they don't say it's "OK".
What happened to the projection just 20 years ago of global freezing? Made by many of the very same scientists? Scientists who receive grants from the gov's to continue their climate research jobs. As we have seen in the recent past, such scientists are not above scewing their research to further their job security (eg. hockey stick).
Also show me some accurate weather forecasting at all, then I will believe their extremely tenuous long-range forecasts.
As I've stated here before, we can and should capture and reuse all waste we can. But, neither side is above lying and the climate models we have right now are so worthless they couldn't predict next week, much less next century.
"I'd wager MS would not view 'stealing' that led them to a dominant position is wrong."
It's not relevant what MS's view is. And, frankly, it's not relevant what yours is. Theft is theft.
We have a very tired old excuse used here in the U.S. that a poor person is driven to steal.
I would like to point out that each and every time that drivel is used, it demeans the poor person who works their way into success. Why did they do it?
"Look, you can argue that people should be allowed to make copies of software you have and distribute them. That is a defensible alternate view of copyright."
Uh, no. That is not a defensible "alternate view" of copyright. It is not for your personal, archival use. Try again.
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"Switzerland doesn't aid and abet terrorism, does not provide a refuge for wanted criminals, they take care of themselves and expect the rest of the world to do the same."
The same Switzerland who lost a billion(s) settlement to Jews whose wealth was stolen in WWII and stashed in their banks. The same nation that colluded to keep the secret so they could keep the money?
That Switzerland?
Make sure your stones are going out an open window if you live in a glass house.
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First, he decided to take up arms against the country, then he lost his citizenship.
Perhaps you missed the cause-and-effect??
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"If the level of civilization is measured by how will it treats the old, sick and poor, then the USA if full of a lot of hot air."
Well, well. You just knocked France down on the list.
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God. Can't you people with political axes to grind keep to forums discussing such. Are your brains so tiny that they cannot conceive that there are other discussions going on dealing with other issues?
"...it might turn out that the speed of light is a hardlimit (no warp?!) and the most intelligent course of action is to disassemble all the planets in your solar system to build an efficient matrioshka brain around your star..."
Don't see how. The speed that matters is the one that we can reach. If that, coupled with the distance to a desired star, is less than the life-span of a sufficient ship, you'll find volunteers.
The Matrioshka Brain idea does leave you at the mercy of the star, however. Perhaps scifi-like super-brains are just that, scifi, because we really just won't want them.
Scattering out into the galaxy would be the "most intelligent" course, because the species will have a greater chance of long-term survival. That is, if you ask me.
In one way, being enthralled with any equation is just self-congratulatory. The world around us is the reality, the equations are just forms of communication that we have invented to talk to each other about it.
1+1=2?? That's just a way to write down on paper what any toddler can show you with two pieces of candy. All else is just higher levels of same.
"(Personally, I find the garish clothes, arrogant demeanour and lack of any interest in speaking local languages enables us to do this pretty easily anyway)."
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Hey! You've just described a lot of tourists I come across in American cities.
What? You think those traits are missing from European/Asian and other cultures? Wah, wah, chum.
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"We might find individuals thinking of themselves as New Yorkers first and Americans second, or Parisiennes first and French second."
That is what is happening now. It is also the reason that New Yorkers and Parisiennes are looked upon so poorly by others in their own countries.
What an ignorant load of tripe off-loaded by a self-presuming intelligencia.
'Neocons' are as advanced and far-sighted as (certainly) you. It's just a different outlook.
Can't be that though, can it? Got to be that you have the clear sight and they are ignorant bumpkins.
Tool.
Excellent.
"...because they think Jesus...."
You express exactly the polarized thinking that a big city produces. Couldn't be that all us fly-overs are thinking individuals that have opinions and values (both valid) that differ from you, could it? No. It's got to be that we are unthinking, stupid, or duped.
Sorry, little man, you need to look for the mass of the iceberg yourself.
Um, no. Nucler fission works, after decades of investment, solar power limps. It's no answer unless it involves space.
Yeah, and only if there were a country that would ignore the complaints and criticisms heaped upon it when it did do things without going through the U.N.
If it's a true story, why only an abstract version? If she was arrested, it's already public. Provide a link or it looks like bullshit on your part.
"so sorry, I'm a patriot.., and I sure as hell don't want people like you...
You do have the privelege to carry in some states. It's not a right because we don't want violent felons carrying, do we?
You do have the right to not incriminate. 5.
The courts only arbitrate when laws have been broken or not, the don't validate each enacted law with their little punch. And they do say the gov has the right on occasion (wire tap).
I don't think your "sure as hell" means what you meant it to mean.
Has another country existed which did not have comparable problems/shortcomings? No? Then get off your abstract horse.
I notice that most of your ignore's are historic, not current. That deflates your point, I think. If a country had those problems in the past and did nothing to correct them, one would have cause for a dim outlook. But, hey, that's not at all what happened, is it?
Shall we continue to bitch and moan about Britian's taxation methods? No? Why? Because it's history, and old at that. And, it's different now.
So, make your much shorter list about current events and we'll discuss how to go about correcting those too. Oh wait, that's already going on. Basically, you just bitched to bitch.
Just so those who still believe the e-mail crap. Both bills introduced by Dems.
"There are no religious issues inherent to the debate over abortion rights."
Right, let's look further.
"Abortion is the...arbiter of responsibility."
What a load of bullshit. You would have your mother carry to term the offspring of a rape, eh? Nice guy.
By the point:
1) Consideration of - that embryo might have been forced upon the female, chum.
2) As soon as - that right there is a rather religious decision (if you as me). Again, you don't care about a rape victim. You also mention conception, what criteria did you use to arrive at that?
3) danger, decision - which parent bub? The female is not the only one with a say. Or did you mean the male got to choose?
4) mitigation - all problems and dangers are to be mitigated. That just means to lesson, not to get rid of completely. Grandma and pa can't help if they want? You're severe.
5) "The government should not be relied on as arbiter of responsibility."
I quoted that entire sentence because it's so ludicrous. Just who are you going to have as the arbiter, god?
You only gots a couple of choices. Rules and regs handed down as holy script. Or same constructed by man. The first is religion, the second government.
Hear, hear. Pun intended. The overblown phrases sure sound like someone padding the writing so they don't sound like they're explaing the common-sense things we all observe as an infant grows.
I could have used a grant when I was raising my daughter.
Myopic statements. During the Earth's history, it's had cooling and warming. Much cooler and much warmer. Many, many times. This is nothing new. The only new variable is just how much we are contributing and what influence that has. We've been in a warming ramp for the last several decathousands of years. Is it a surprise that this continues just because we're observing and recording this now?
While many of the things you say are true, you missed one point.
"(unless owned by a politician like the ones working for Bush that say global warming is OK..)"
Just for reference, they don't say it's "OK".
What happened to the projection just 20 years ago of global freezing? Made by many of the very same scientists? Scientists who receive grants from the gov's to continue their climate research jobs. As we have seen in the recent past, such scientists are not above scewing their research to further their job security (eg. hockey stick).
Also show me some accurate weather forecasting at all, then I will believe their extremely tenuous long-range forecasts.
As I've stated here before, we can and should capture and reuse all waste we can. But, neither side is above lying and the climate models we have right now are so worthless they couldn't predict next week, much less next century.
"I'd wager MS would not view 'stealing' that led them to a dominant position is wrong."
It's not relevant what MS's view is. And, frankly, it's not relevant what yours is. Theft is theft.
We have a very tired old excuse used here in the U.S. that a poor person is driven to steal.
I would like to point out that each and every time that drivel is used, it demeans the poor person who works their way into success. Why did they do it?
Because it is the right thing.
"Look, you can argue that people should be allowed to make copies of software you have and distribute them. That is a defensible alternate view of copyright."
Uh, no. That is not a defensible "alternate view" of copyright. It is not for your personal, archival use. Try again.
"Switzerland doesn't aid and abet terrorism, does not provide a refuge for wanted criminals, they take care of themselves and expect the rest of the world to do the same."
The same Switzerland who lost a billion(s) settlement to Jews whose wealth was stolen in WWII and stashed in their banks. The same nation that colluded to keep the secret so they could keep the money?
That Switzerland?
Make sure your stones are going out an open window if you live in a glass house.
First, he decided to take up arms against the country, then he lost his citizenship.
Perhaps you missed the cause-and-effect??
"If the level of civilization is measured by how will it treats the old, sick and poor, then the USA if full of a lot of hot air."
Well, well. You just knocked France down on the list.
I noticed you did not answer the question.
This is not insightful, this is OT.
"The same line of thinking leads to the conclusion that people without allergies have improperly functioning immune systems."
Which would explain how I, with no allergies, have been sick very few days in my life and get over flues more rapidly than most, right?
God. Can't you people with political axes to grind keep to forums discussing such. Are your brains so tiny that they cannot conceive that there are other discussions going on dealing with other issues?
Naw. That'd be too much to ask.
"...it might turn out that the speed of light is a hardlimit (no warp?!) and the most intelligent course of action is to disassemble all the planets in your solar system to build an efficient matrioshka brain around your star..."
Don't see how. The speed that matters is the one that we can reach. If that, coupled with the distance to a desired star, is less than the life-span of a sufficient ship, you'll find volunteers.
The Matrioshka Brain idea does leave you at the mercy of the star, however. Perhaps scifi-like super-brains are just that, scifi, because we really just won't want them.
Scattering out into the galaxy would be the "most intelligent" course, because the species will have a greater chance of long-term survival. That is, if you ask me.
What makes you think they would not rather have us implode?
In one way, being enthralled with any equation is just self-congratulatory. The world around us is the reality, the equations are just forms of communication that we have invented to talk to each other about it.
1+1=2?? That's just a way to write down on paper what any toddler can show you with two pieces of candy. All else is just higher levels of same.
"(Personally, I find the garish clothes, arrogant demeanour and lack of any interest in speaking local languages enables us to do this pretty easily anyway)."
\ Hey! You've just described a lot of tourists I come across in American cities.
What? You think those traits are missing from European/Asian and other cultures? Wah, wah, chum.