I would hesitate to categorize athletic capability as "intelligence". As a highly ranked athlete in several disciplines, it takes more of a "lack of intelligence". You have to be able to switch off the analytical mind and allow your body to naturally control itself.
Body awareness and movement memory is not a conscious controllable aspect of the nervous system. Thus categorizing it as intelligence seems a bit of a leap. Do we categorize felines as kinesthetic geniuses because of their sense of balance?
Interestingly you are provably correct in at least one athletic envdeavor. ~1990 when the steroid ban was enacted in the Olympics and thus the World Weightlifting organizations changed the weight classes to prevent the next generation of athletes from competing with _allowed_ steroid records.
Since then only one weightlifter has broken the pre-ban records when the lifters are reorganized into pre-ban weight classes. Halil Mutlu, a bulgarian who changed his name and now lifts for Turkey. He has been suspended for banned substances... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halil_Mutlu/
There are lucky individuals, but life sucks in that way.
I'm not quite a millionaire (total assets worth ~750K) but I know more than a few. Most are first generation. They earned their money through dogged determination, a hard eye toward expenses, and consistently well thought out business practices.
On more than one occasion in athletic, intellectual, and artistic pursuits I have beaten down the more talented opposition with one word: persistence.
So take your sob story and shove it. We (My family) have been around the block a few times, more than once having everything taken away(via Cherokee v. US Govt imbroglios)and we have fought our way up. Don't denigrate me with your cynical pessimistic self-image.
As for the gentleman above. I think it's great that someone wants to help him out. By all means everyone that feels motivated to do so, should give as much as they feel compelled to give.
My uncle was partially debilitated as a part of treatment for mis-diagnosed schizophrenia. We (my extended family) all pitch in to help him and his children out as needed, and that is the essence of the American way as it began. Take responsibility for those immediately around you, because when you surrender that responsibility to the govt, you also relinquish that power.
You relinquish the power to build him a home that suits his personality quirks, because altering govt provided rentals is not an option.
You relinquish the power to find a doctor that suits his particular needs, because the govt appointed dr will just have to do.
I once won the lotto... I had a severe head injury that was operated on by a particularly talented neurosurgeon. He happened to have opened a practice in Tulsa, OK because he liked the town and the people. He did this despite admonitions, on the part of the major hospitals in the area, that he wouldn't have enough business in Tulsa to support himself and his team. Surely, under a govt program he would have been where he was more urgently needed, in denser population center... outside of my 45min survival window.
No wonder that your family is no longer libertarian. I am not Libertarian (mainly because most libertarians don't understand that there is a difference between libertarianism and anarchism.)
The reason that Libertarianism could work in a real world is that the precepts are based on the real world concept that no person or group of people should have any more power than is absolutely necessary. The reason for this failure is the lack of will and education in the people.
Libertarianism is the only sustainable gov't. All others will crumble under their own weight sooner or later. A truly libtertarian gov't is so light that it would float on the tumultuous surface of the populace, providing for law and cleanliness, but lacking the power to deny anyone their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Minor correction. There are no (as in zero) complete vegetable proteins. Unfortunately, for humans protein is most completely absorbed when the amino acids in that protein occur in certain ratios. You can get close by mixing various beans and vegetables (a minimum of seven different varieties if I remember correctly.) However, there are ways to make you meat sources go further, and buy cheaper cuts of meat. For instance, buying whole chickens or just thighs and boiling them down, then making rice with the broth, throw in red(kidney) beans and you have a fairly high protein meal with a good nutrient profile.
Sorry for the hijack.
Oh, and some proteins come in bad packaging that can negatively affect your insulin profile, the first that comes to mind is pure whey. Also, the combination of high carb foods with high protein foods can cause further deleterious effects if not accompanied by loads of fats.For the most part the endocrine system is tuned for a high protein, high fat diet. Luckily, high protein and high fat diets also have a high level of satiety... so you can functionally consume less calories while eating those foods.
(The above probably stems from the scarcity of fruits, vegetables, and grains during the short growing seasons during and coming out of the last Ice Age.)
Perhaps the spectre of data mining would make one ponder the danger of this issue.
Similarly to AT&T handing over calling records, MS hands over records of "suspect" material to the federal prosecution pursuing a case for the RIAA.
Voila!! Mass prosecution resulting in more money for both the RIAA and the US govt.
That conspiracy theory is beside the point. Our default should always be less power for large entities and more power to the individual. This preserves liberty and prevents persecution. Corporations should be treated with as much (if not more) distrust as the govt.
heh, my blood caffeine levels must be low... otherwise I wouldn't bother replying to your post.
However, Public Radio is leftist. Period. If you studied political theory at all and then listen objectively to the topics and views presented you could come to no other conclusion.
Being a hardcore right-winger myself (economically speaking) I know what stations are right-wing and what stations are left-wing and I make no bones about it. Each group uses their media outlets to share views and bolster their arguments.
Incidentally, your reference to right-wingers as racist is thoughtless and stereotypical. I myself am of 'minority' heritage and I could give two shits about minority rights. What do I want? A 'green' society. Where everyone is treated according to their ability to earn.
Heartless? Not really, I look to the community to solve the problems that come from non-earners, whether from handicaps or lack of willingness. I have some pretty fscking poor relatives (former poor boy myself). The thing is that no one in my family resorts to welfare, commissary food (available to native americans), or any other sort of gov't hand-out. What do we do? The family helps each other out. Oddly enough we're all better off for it. Funny isn't it? How my grandparents efforts in raising responsible people have paid off in descendants that are capable earning substantial incomes, supporting the poorer members, and maintaining a dignified lifestyle for the older members.
All the things that you leftists want to force down our throats through convoluted and punitive tax codes. Not only that but we did it without the threat of force.
Ever wonder why the New Deal flopped? Or why the Great Society was never that great? Easy answer. It takes a long time to force a rebellious, independent, and individualistic society to break under the yoke of socialism. We lack the cohesive sheepishness to 'take one for the team' as easily as your bastions of socialism (Denmark, Sweden, Canada, et al)
Why try some of the Winders alike window managers? Like XFCE, ICE, JWM, or Equinox (EDE)?
I hate GNOME and KDE. I use Enlightenment 0.16.7 which runs nicely on everything from PII400 to AMD64 3200+.
Another advantage of *nix. Right tool for the task. A long ago discovered lesson by a network-centric weenie who just wanted an OS that facilitated my job rather than inhibiting it.
Actually, if you look at the commentary of the various Bush administration officials around the time that Tenet was 'resigned' you will find that the administration was _not_ fond of the guy.
So, what do you do with a guy that has had access to a great deal of information that can harm your political goals such as pointing to some trivial report or study and standing on it and screaming "THEY KNEW, THEY SCREWED UP!"? You give him a nice talk, a medal, and a bonus check to help him toward writing his memoirs.
We do the same same thing in corporate America (sans medals) and as I remember the process was also alive and well in the military. So, why would you expect the gov't to be any different.
As with most things... including Perl, context is everything.
Not to get pedantic, but the ball does not have to touch the end zone. Currently the rule is that the below must break the vertical plane while in possession before the player is down.
If you watch the replay the ball breaks the plane just before impact of the defensive player's helmet.
The vertical plane rule is newish, I didn't realize it had changed until I saw Roethlisberger pass the ball through the air over the corner of the end zone in a short run where he slid out of bounds. Ruling? Touchdown.
I found it very easy to transition from "Standard Network Guy" to "Standard Network Guy+SAN". Although it is quite painful to not have a sniffer (unless you have a Cisco MDS9000 in which Ethereal works just fine) but you can make do by having verbose logging turned on for the HBAs and keeping track of the FCID s of your devices.
Also the system tends to tell you sooner rather later about issues on your fabric or loop.
Actually, torture properly applied does work. One very publicly known scenario in which torture worked involved an Army Major, a captured terrorist, and an impending ambush.
The Major fired his service sidearm next to the terrorist's head... thus inducing him to elucidate the location and the means of the impending ambush, saving the lives of his men, who would have fallen victim to this ambush.
The job of a professional interrogator is to determine _how_ to get information from an individual. Some people are very easy. Another anecdote, although unpublished, involves trainees at national level Anti-Terrorist SWAT training program. The men that qualify for this program are subject to low-level torture: Sleep dep, starvation, dehydration, "stress positions", and light violent contact. They know that if they offer "restricted" info they wash out of the program and are unceremoniously dropped from the class and sent home. Some still offer that info.
The above exercise is composed by the FBI, CIA, Nat'l Park Service, ICE, and Secret Service.
So, politicians, public mouthpieces, and ignoramuses claim that torture doesn't work. The ground-pounders and hard-chargers know otherwise. This allows for the appearance of civility.
Sort of like not allowing.50 cal machine guns for anti-personnel use, it makes the politicos feel better, but you bet your ass that my Ma-Deuce will pulverize any unlucky soul who approaches my firing zone.
However, don't we see a vastly increased incidence of cancer in AIDS patients?
Perhaps immuno-suppressive drugs also mitigate the propagation of cancer cells?
Also hasn't HAART (Highly Active Retroviral Therapy) been associated with increased incidence of aerodigestive cancers, including squamous anal cell cancer?
So, how would your "blocked ontogeny" hypothesis play out when compared to statistical data and treatment trials that should a good correllation between immune suppression and cancerous growth?
Actually I think that they would be more correctly characterized as functional sociopaths.
They are capable of interacting with and benefiting from the society around but are unable to express reciprocal emotional reactions. They are not generally malevolent. That's good thing.
To me, that is part of the beauty of capitalism. I am not a beautiful snowflake. I am a product. My worth is based on the value that I create.
That's a lovely line of thinking.
Personally, I find most people's existence aberrant. Most people have one of the following conditions:
1. Extreme halitosis or some other disfiguring dental issue.
2. Body odor, or extreme allocations of fragrance to overcome body odor.
3. Flatulence, or horribly extreme #2.
4. Profane language or excruciatingly horrible table manners.
5. Obvious food addiction issues. Obese.
6. Totally lacking in exercise or use of their body for anything other than a clothes rack.
(Thin, pasty, waifish)
All of the above affect my dining experience dramatically. I would rather not put up with their existence. Therefore, I move that we ban all people who do not adhere to the above "norms" from dining in public. Instead, they should be relegated to dining in designated area in the back of the restaurant secluded from view of the rest of the worthy patrons.
For those of you that think this is not relevant to the smoking issue. I argue that sensitivity is a personal issue. If you do not like the smell of tobacco smoke (something I love despite not being a smoker), then do not go to places that allow smoking. Vegans eat at vegan restaurants... or they keep their mouth shut. Do the same, eat at lifestyle fascist restaurants and leave it there. Laws upholding your sensitivities impede the liberty of others and set the precedent for someone to impede your liberty.
The health issues are interesting but hardly as cut and dried as you may expect. For instance, my family has been habitually enjoying tobacco for over 200yrs. Yes, we have a recorded history that extensive. Other than my grandfather (diabetes related blood-clot) no one has died of natural causes at under 80yrs. Other than my grandfather we have all been ridiculously active. My great-grandfather was engineer who tended to a 20 acre "work farm", so he wouldn't be spared the experience of hard work into his old age.
Be tougher, live longer. Be pussy, get fucked.
I agree that religion should neither be banned nor discouraged in schools. In fact, I think that religious participation should be encouraged. I grew in a rather religious section of the country and I got to see a good number of the Christian sects (Nazarene, Charismatic, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Anglican) and I listened to each and attended Sunday school services of each. At school I would occcasionally find myself involved in some sort of prayer service as well. None of these things affected my mindset other than to give me a chance to consider religion before moving on. I have read the Bible w/Apocrypha several(5) times, and the Koran(twice) and to me they are interesting studies into human philosophy. The literature and communal nature of religion should be studied. It espouses true understanding, and will put an end to the contentious and intolerant atheist.
I don't believe all behaviors should be tolerated. However, rejection of and ignorance in a topic that plays a vital role in most people's lives is asinine.
I am sure that someone would ask "How are we to encourage religion w/o 'the Man' forcing religion into our children?" Easy. The same way we handle careers. Most high schools have a night where groups are invited to set up tables and recruit kids into particular fields of study or trades. Do the same thing with religious groups. One baptist church in my home town hosted a sort of town fair with that same goal in mind.
Don't use the "most schools are too small" argument either. My home town was 3600 people with 135 in my graduating class. Community action is what is necessary, not excuses from slack-asses./*Your friendly atheist*/
Actually, I find that people that "believe" themselves to be highly intelligent tend to make statements as "insightful" as yours. Problem is when you query the process by which they arrived at their conclusions you fidn that most often the answer is something along lines of "Can't you see? No reasonable person can doubt my conclusions."
That answer is bunk. If you believe yourself to be intelligent and reasonable, follow up your argument with reason. Postulate a theory and back it up with facts or tenable philosophical ideals.
For instance the post by weiserfireman is a good argument. If you studied a little bit o history and looked at the progressive evolution of our modern democracy from the theological democracy of the Scottish Kirk you would find that the federal/local (urban/rural) argument is rooted in that exact sort of sense of distrust in centralized government power. Rural people have a sense of natural order and familial loyalties and independence that I anecdotally find atrophied in suburban and urban dwelling people. This sense of independence naturally opposes the current platform of the left.
Any mandate of religion, for or against. BAD for independence. Why? Tyranny starts at behavioral modification in the public life. For instance, if no public official is allowed to speak about their religion in a public forum without fear of retribution what you have just done is promote the atheist political agenda(I am an atheist BTW). You have made it easier for atheists to maintain office without fear of retribution, therefore setting up a bias in the government.
So... by banning something that you, "the enlightened", find unacceptable you are enabling the sort of bigotry and tyranny that the word liberal is meant to stand against. This is one example of the latent effect of overly zealous and slanted interpretation of the Constitution.
Incidentally, I don't have a college education, and I don't intend to attain one. As far as I have experienced it grants you no further insights than can be obtained by studious manner and observation of natural order. In fact, I believe it currently espouses narrow-minded dogmatic thinking, and from the arguments that I have read within various university forums... I am not far off. If you choose to pursue higher education look for titles and frames of thought that your teacher does not explore fully. You may truly become enlightened.
Wow. Nice example of using anecdotal evidence to draw large and erroneous decisions. Now leaving Canada, entering the land of synecdoche.
I am 6'1", blonde haired, blue eyed, and I have a very plainly Scots-Irish name. I travel frequently, either for business or pleasure. I have been searched rather regularly, mostly when I bought a one-way last moment ticket. So, maybe it wasn't random. Maybe some of those searches were triggered by security parameters without regard to race.
I am not against racial profiling. It is a means of attempting to short-circuit a resource. Especially, when an enemy is motivated by ethnic differences. Including random searches will pacify the unreasonable and discourage the enemy from attempting to reach outside their circle of trust to recruit attackers of other ethnic backgrounds.
"Getting to recompile Apache is a hack, not a feature"
Huh?! I think of compile-time control as a feature. What's better than figuring out exactly what you need from a system and then cutting out the non-useful bits via recompile? Or take advantage of some oddball feature that is not incuded in the default binary?
That's one of the big sells that got me to dump Win95 for Slackware. Haven't looked back since.
Although I do Windows use in VM and/or lab servers to deepen my knowledge. That's because I am chicken to dump supporting Windows servers. They are my most often recurring clients.
That line of thought would make you horribly wrong. Free-range beef has high levels of Omega-3 fatty acids (EPA/DHA) that are present in much lower levels in corn-finished slaughterhouse meat. Also the free-range meat will be leaner which results in higher, protein, iron, and B vitamin concentration per ounce.
Personally, the fact that our bodies cannot make certain amino acids and the fact that the absorption of amino acids is contingent on their relative concentration in the food that you are eating. A relative concentration that can be simulated but not replicated by vegetarian dishes. For instance five bean dishes are absorbed more efficiently with a little added chicken or fish.
That makes me a meat eater. As far as the whole health BS. Hrmmm... my family has been in the US for 200yrs and we've all been avid meat eaters and our avg lifespan is 95yrs.
On a more scientific level, lean and active meat eaters gain and retain more muscle mass, and endurance than lean active vegetarians.
I believe this meat-shell is good for a lot more activity than most give it. I am a Highland Games athlete and avid weightlifter. I have friends who are heavy weightlifting athletes who are vegetarians (in fact one is a vegan). They have to supplement their protein sources heavily with soy or pea derived proteins. Neither of which taste remotely like something I'd like to eat.
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I would hesitate to categorize athletic capability as "intelligence". As a highly ranked athlete in several disciplines, it takes more of a "lack of intelligence". You have to be able to switch off the analytical mind and allow your body to naturally control itself.
Body awareness and movement memory is not a conscious controllable aspect of the nervous system. Thus categorizing it as intelligence seems a bit of a leap. Do we categorize felines as kinesthetic geniuses because of their sense of balance?
Interestingly you are provably correct in at least one athletic envdeavor. ~1990 when the steroid ban was enacted in the Olympics and thus the World Weightlifting organizations changed the weight classes to prevent the next generation of athletes from competing with _allowed_ steroid records.
Since then only one weightlifter has broken the pre-ban records when the lifters are reorganized into pre-ban weight classes. Halil Mutlu, a bulgarian who changed his name and now lifts for Turkey. He has been suspended for banned substances...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halil_Mutlu/
Doesn't baka mean stupid or some such in Japanese?
Luck has very little to do with accomplishment.
There are lucky individuals, but life sucks in that way.
I'm not quite a millionaire (total assets worth ~750K) but I know more than a few. Most are first generation. They earned their money through dogged determination, a hard eye toward expenses, and consistently well thought out business practices.
On more than one occasion in athletic, intellectual, and artistic pursuits I have beaten down the more talented opposition with one word: persistence.
So take your sob story and shove it. We (My family) have been around the block a few times, more than once having everything taken away(via Cherokee v. US Govt imbroglios)and we have fought our way up. Don't denigrate me with your cynical pessimistic self-image.
As for the gentleman above. I think it's great that someone wants to help him out. By all means everyone that feels motivated to do so, should give as much as they feel compelled to give.
My uncle was partially debilitated as a part of treatment for mis-diagnosed schizophrenia. We (my extended family) all pitch in to help him and his children out as needed, and that is the essence of the American way as it began. Take responsibility for those immediately around you, because when you surrender that responsibility to the govt, you also relinquish that power.
You relinquish the power to build him a home that suits his personality quirks, because altering govt provided rentals is not an option.
You relinquish the power to find a doctor that suits his particular needs, because the govt appointed dr will just have to do.
I once won the lotto... I had a severe head injury that was operated on by a particularly talented neurosurgeon. He happened to have opened a practice in Tulsa, OK because he liked the town and the people. He did this despite admonitions, on the part of the major hospitals in the area, that he wouldn't have enough business in Tulsa to support himself and his team. Surely, under a govt program he would have been where he was more urgently needed, in denser population center... outside of my 45min survival window.
No wonder that your family is no longer libertarian. I am not Libertarian (mainly because most libertarians don't understand that there is a difference between libertarianism and anarchism.)
The reason that Libertarianism could work in a real world is that the precepts are based on the real world concept that no person or group of people should have any more power than is absolutely necessary. The reason for this failure is the lack of will and education in the people.
Libertarianism is the only sustainable gov't. All others will crumble under their own weight sooner or later. A truly libtertarian gov't is so light that it would float on the tumultuous surface of the populace, providing for law and cleanliness, but lacking the power to deny anyone their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Minor correction. There are no (as in zero) complete vegetable proteins. Unfortunately, for humans protein is most completely absorbed when the amino acids in that protein occur in certain ratios. You can get close by mixing various beans and vegetables (a minimum of seven different varieties if I remember correctly.) However, there are ways to make you meat sources go further, and buy cheaper cuts of meat. For instance, buying whole chickens or just thighs and boiling them down, then making rice with the broth, throw in red(kidney) beans and you have a fairly high protein meal with a good nutrient profile.
Sorry for the hijack.
Oh, and some proteins come in bad packaging that can negatively affect your insulin profile, the first that comes to mind is pure whey. Also, the combination of high carb foods with high protein foods can cause further deleterious effects if not accompanied by loads of fats.For the most part the endocrine system is tuned for a high protein, high fat diet. Luckily, high protein and high fat diets also have a high level of satiety... so you can functionally consume less calories while eating those foods.
(The above probably stems from the scarcity of fruits, vegetables, and grains during the short growing seasons during and coming out of the last Ice Age.)
Perhaps the spectre of data mining would make one ponder the danger of this issue.
Similarly to AT&T handing over calling records, MS hands over records of "suspect" material to the federal prosecution pursuing a case for the RIAA.
Voila!! Mass prosecution resulting in more money for both the RIAA and the US govt.
That conspiracy theory is beside the point. Our default should always be less power for large entities and more power to the individual. This preserves liberty and prevents persecution. Corporations should be treated with as much (if not more) distrust as the govt.
My Dad does it every day. He lives on QuikTrip Cappucino.
Of course he smokes like a chimney and has had two surgeries to reconstruct his esophagus.
He's hard headed like that.
PS. He works in construction/rehab/remodeling. I have no idea how he does it.
heh, my blood caffeine levels must be low... otherwise I wouldn't bother replying to your post.
However, Public Radio is leftist. Period. If you studied political theory at all and then listen objectively to the topics and views presented you could come to no other conclusion.
Being a hardcore right-winger myself (economically speaking) I know what stations are right-wing and what stations are left-wing and I make no bones about it. Each group uses their media outlets to share views and bolster their arguments.
Incidentally, your reference to right-wingers as racist is thoughtless and stereotypical. I myself am of 'minority' heritage and I could give two shits about minority rights. What do I want? A 'green' society. Where everyone is treated according to their ability to earn.
Heartless? Not really, I look to the community to solve the problems that come from non-earners, whether from handicaps or lack of willingness. I have some pretty fscking poor relatives (former poor boy myself). The thing is that no one in my family resorts to welfare, commissary food (available to native americans), or any other sort of gov't hand-out. What do we do? The family helps each other out. Oddly enough we're all better off for it. Funny isn't it? How my grandparents efforts in raising responsible people have paid off in descendants that are capable earning substantial incomes, supporting the poorer members, and maintaining a dignified lifestyle for the older members.
All the things that you leftists want to force down our throats through convoluted and punitive tax codes. Not only that but we did it without the threat of force.
Ever wonder why the New Deal flopped? Or why the Great Society was never that great?
Easy answer. It takes a long time to force a rebellious, independent, and individualistic society to break under the yoke of socialism. We lack the cohesive sheepishness to 'take one for the team' as easily as your bastions of socialism (Denmark, Sweden, Canada, et al)
Why try some of the Winders alike window managers? Like XFCE, ICE, JWM, or Equinox (EDE)?
I hate GNOME and KDE. I use Enlightenment 0.16.7 which runs nicely on everything from PII400 to AMD64 3200+.
Another advantage of *nix. Right tool for the task. A long ago discovered lesson by a network-centric weenie who just wanted an OS that facilitated my job rather than inhibiting it.
I suppose the similarity of the Y chromosome across species spanning some 350 million years has escaped your notice?
If so, please peruse:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_chromosome
Get a grip!
I like KFC, especially after a 4hr workout throwing hammers and weights.
I just had my BF% measured using water displacement at 12% at a bodyweight if 252lbs.
Don't bitch even if you eat like one.
Actually, if you look at the commentary of the various Bush administration officials around the time that Tenet was 'resigned' you will find that the administration was _not_ fond of the guy.
So, what do you do with a guy that has had access to a great deal of information that can harm your political goals such as pointing to some trivial report or study and standing on it and screaming "THEY KNEW, THEY SCREWED UP!"? You give him a nice talk, a medal, and a bonus check to help him toward writing his memoirs.
We do the same same thing in corporate America (sans medals) and as I remember the process was also alive and well in the military. So, why would you expect the gov't to be any different.
As with most things... including Perl, context is everything.
Not to get pedantic, but the ball does not have to touch the end zone. Currently the rule is that the below must break the vertical plane while in possession before the player is down.
If you watch the replay the ball breaks the plane just before impact of the defensive player's helmet.
The vertical plane rule is newish, I didn't realize it had changed until I saw Roethlisberger pass the ball through the air over the corner of the end zone in a short run where he slid out of bounds.
Ruling? Touchdown.
I found it very easy to transition from "Standard Network Guy" to "Standard Network Guy+SAN". Although it is quite painful to not have a sniffer (unless you have a Cisco MDS9000 in which Ethereal works just fine) but you can make do by having verbose logging turned on for the HBAs and keeping track of the FCID s of your devices.
Also the system tends to tell you sooner rather later about issues on your fabric or loop.
And even in that limited address space performance can get a bit spotty after 30 or so devices...
YMMV and is highly dependent on the hardware vendor.
Actually, torture properly applied does work. One very publicly known scenario in which torture worked involved an Army Major, a captured terrorist, and an impending ambush.
.50 cal machine guns for anti-personnel use, it makes the politicos feel better, but you bet your ass that my Ma-Deuce will pulverize any unlucky soul who approaches my firing zone.
The Major fired his service sidearm next to the terrorist's head... thus inducing him to elucidate the location and the means of the impending ambush, saving the lives of his men, who would have fallen victim to this ambush.
The job of a professional interrogator is to determine _how_ to get information from an individual. Some people are very easy. Another anecdote, although unpublished, involves trainees at national level Anti-Terrorist SWAT training program. The men that qualify for this program are subject to low-level torture: Sleep dep, starvation, dehydration, "stress positions", and light violent contact. They know that if they offer "restricted" info they wash out of the program and are unceremoniously dropped from the class and sent home. Some still offer that info.
The above exercise is composed by the FBI, CIA, Nat'l Park Service, ICE, and Secret Service.
So, politicians, public mouthpieces, and ignoramuses claim that torture doesn't work. The ground-pounders and hard-chargers know otherwise. This allows for the appearance of civility.
Sort of like not allowing
However, don't we see a vastly increased incidence of cancer in AIDS patients?
Perhaps immuno-suppressive drugs also mitigate the propagation of cancer cells?
Also hasn't HAART (Highly Active Retroviral Therapy) been associated with increased incidence of aerodigestive cancers, including squamous anal cell cancer?
So, how would your "blocked ontogeny" hypothesis play out when compared to statistical data and treatment trials that should a good correllation between immune suppression and cancerous growth?
Actually I think that they would be more correctly characterized as functional sociopaths.
They are capable of interacting with and benefiting from the society around but are unable to express reciprocal emotional reactions. They are not generally malevolent. That's good thing.
To me, that is part of the beauty of capitalism. I am not a beautiful snowflake. I am a product. My worth is based on the value that I create.
So get back to work.
That's a lovely line of thinking. Personally, I find most people's existence aberrant. Most people have one of the following conditions: 1. Extreme halitosis or some other disfiguring dental issue. 2. Body odor, or extreme allocations of fragrance to overcome body odor. 3. Flatulence, or horribly extreme #2. 4. Profane language or excruciatingly horrible table manners. 5. Obvious food addiction issues. Obese. 6. Totally lacking in exercise or use of their body for anything other than a clothes rack. (Thin, pasty, waifish) All of the above affect my dining experience dramatically. I would rather not put up with their existence. Therefore, I move that we ban all people who do not adhere to the above "norms" from dining in public. Instead, they should be relegated to dining in designated area in the back of the restaurant secluded from view of the rest of the worthy patrons. For those of you that think this is not relevant to the smoking issue. I argue that sensitivity is a personal issue. If you do not like the smell of tobacco smoke (something I love despite not being a smoker), then do not go to places that allow smoking. Vegans eat at vegan restaurants... or they keep their mouth shut. Do the same, eat at lifestyle fascist restaurants and leave it there. Laws upholding your sensitivities impede the liberty of others and set the precedent for someone to impede your liberty. The health issues are interesting but hardly as cut and dried as you may expect. For instance, my family has been habitually enjoying tobacco for over 200yrs. Yes, we have a recorded history that extensive. Other than my grandfather (diabetes related blood-clot) no one has died of natural causes at under 80yrs. Other than my grandfather we have all been ridiculously active. My great-grandfather was engineer who tended to a 20 acre "work farm", so he wouldn't be spared the experience of hard work into his old age. Be tougher, live longer. Be pussy, get fucked.
I agree that religion should neither be banned nor discouraged in schools. In fact, I think that religious participation should be encouraged. I grew in a rather religious section of the country and I got to see a good number of the Christian sects (Nazarene, Charismatic, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Anglican) and I listened to each and attended Sunday school services of each. At school I would occcasionally find myself involved in some sort of prayer service as well. None of these things affected my mindset other than to give me a chance to consider religion before moving on. I have read the Bible w/Apocrypha several(5) times, and the Koran(twice) and to me they are interesting studies into human philosophy. The literature and communal nature of religion should be studied. It espouses true understanding, and will put an end to the contentious and intolerant atheist.
/*Your friendly atheist*/
I don't believe all behaviors should be tolerated. However, rejection of and ignorance in a topic that plays a vital role in most people's lives is asinine.
I am sure that someone would ask "How are we to encourage religion w/o 'the Man' forcing religion into our children?" Easy. The same way we handle careers. Most high schools have a night where groups are invited to set up tables and recruit kids into particular fields of study or trades. Do the same thing with religious groups. One baptist church in my home town hosted a sort of town fair with that same goal in mind.
Don't use the "most schools are too small" argument either. My home town was 3600 people with 135 in my graduating class. Community action is what is necessary, not excuses from slack-asses.
Actually, I find that people that "believe" themselves to be highly intelligent tend to make statements as "insightful" as yours. Problem is when you query the process by which they arrived at their conclusions you fidn that most often the answer is something along lines of "Can't you see? No reasonable person can doubt my conclusions."
That answer is bunk. If you believe yourself to be intelligent and reasonable, follow up your argument with reason. Postulate a theory and back it up with facts or tenable philosophical ideals.
For instance the post by weiserfireman is a good argument. If you studied a little bit o history and looked at the progressive evolution of our modern democracy from the theological democracy of the Scottish Kirk you would find that the federal/local (urban/rural) argument is rooted in that exact sort of sense of distrust in centralized government power. Rural people have a sense of natural order and familial loyalties and independence that I anecdotally find atrophied in suburban and urban dwelling people. This sense of independence naturally opposes the current platform of the left.
Any mandate of religion, for or against. BAD for independence. Why? Tyranny starts at behavioral modification in the public life. For instance, if no public official is allowed to speak about their religion in a public forum without fear of retribution what you have just done is promote the atheist political agenda(I am an atheist BTW). You have made it easier for atheists to maintain office without fear of retribution, therefore setting up a bias in the government.
So... by banning something that you, "the enlightened", find unacceptable you are enabling the sort of bigotry and tyranny that the word liberal is meant to stand against. This is one example of the latent effect of overly zealous and slanted interpretation of the Constitution.
Incidentally, I don't have a college education, and I don't intend to attain one. As far as I have experienced it grants you no further insights than can be obtained by studious manner and observation of natural order. In fact, I believe it currently espouses narrow-minded dogmatic thinking, and from the arguments that I have read within various university forums... I am not far off. If you choose to pursue higher education look for titles and frames of thought that your teacher does not explore fully. You may truly become enlightened.
Wow. Nice example of using anecdotal evidence to draw large and erroneous decisions. Now leaving Canada, entering the land of synecdoche.
I am 6'1", blonde haired, blue eyed, and I have a very plainly Scots-Irish name. I travel frequently, either for business or pleasure. I have been searched rather regularly, mostly when I bought a one-way last moment ticket. So, maybe it wasn't random. Maybe some of those searches were triggered by security parameters without regard to race.
I am not against racial profiling. It is a means of attempting to short-circuit a resource. Especially, when an enemy is motivated by ethnic differences. Including random searches will pacify the unreasonable and discourage the enemy from attempting to reach outside their circle of trust to recruit attackers of other ethnic backgrounds.
"Getting to recompile Apache is a hack, not a feature"
Huh?! I think of compile-time control as a feature. What's better than figuring out exactly what you need from a system and then cutting out the non-useful bits via recompile? Or take advantage of some oddball feature that is not incuded in the default binary?
That's one of the big sells that got me to dump Win95 for Slackware. Haven't looked back since.
Although I do Windows use in VM and/or lab servers to deepen my knowledge. That's because I am chicken to dump supporting Windows servers. They are my most often recurring clients.
That line of thought would make you horribly wrong. Free-range beef has high levels of Omega-3 fatty acids (EPA/DHA) that are present in much lower levels in corn-finished slaughterhouse meat. Also the free-range meat will be leaner which results in higher, protein, iron, and B vitamin concentration per ounce.
Personally, the fact that our bodies cannot make certain amino acids and the fact that the absorption of amino acids is contingent on their relative concentration in the food that you are eating. A relative concentration that can be simulated but not replicated by vegetarian dishes.
For instance five bean dishes are absorbed more efficiently with a little added chicken or fish.
That makes me a meat eater. As far as the whole health BS. Hrmmm... my family has been in the US for 200yrs and we've all been avid meat eaters and our avg lifespan is 95yrs.
On a more scientific level, lean and active meat eaters gain and retain more muscle mass, and endurance than lean active vegetarians.
I believe this meat-shell is good for a lot more activity than most give it. I am a Highland Games athlete and avid weightlifter. I have friends who are heavy weightlifting athletes who are vegetarians (in fact one is a vegan). They have to supplement their protein sources heavily with soy or pea derived proteins. Neither of which taste remotely like something I'd like to eat.