until the fascists outlaw that. I swear, I have long been a proponent of paying for my music. There are several out of print titles I've paid top dollar for on ebay and in the used section of the local record store. But if this shit becomes the norm, I'll start downloading everything for free, lawsuits be damned. Fuck these sons-of-bitches.
Because we, as voters, elect politicians that promise to deliver us things - which generally involve bringing in money or reduces our taxes.
Not necessarily. Surely, everyone understands that "things" like a military, police force, judicial system, etc. cost money --- money supplied by tax dollars. I actually wouldn't mind a tax increase, if the money is well spent.
Because market forces drive the success and failure of companies; which results in decisions being made on what is fiscally sound (generally) rather than on what will make the CEO most popular.
Decisions on what is fiscally sound for whom? Certainly not we the people. Witness Enron. Corporations are run more like dictatorships than democracies. History has shown the benefit to the people under both types of control. When will people wake up?
Well, since the government is us (in a democracy) you are saying that we can't run things. But if we can't run things as voters or representatives, how can we run them any better as CEO's?
There are many reasons that this episode shouldn't have happened, but people are afraid and over-react to 'err on the side of caution'. For many, better safe than sorry is the catchphrase of the week. They don't stop to think, or try to figure out what might be the level headed way to handle things
If everyone isn't terrified, you can't justify a war on terror.
Well, beer is readily available outside work. Are the laws and rules preventing you from drinking on the job or drinking while drive your car eroding the respect for rule-makers and lawmakers?
Drinking has been proven to impede judgement and depress the CNS. This obviously interferes with performance at work and one's ability to operate machinery. Ergo, the restriction is not arbitrary.
I will tell you what erodes faster, The argument that this is somehow some concerted effort to censor information and people have the right to access it when ever they want to. On your dime, fine. On the companies dime, No and any objections just make you look like a whining little bitch. Why is it such a hard concept to understand. You can do whatever you want with the stuff you buy but you have to follow the rules when using someone else's?
Are we talking about a business, or a public school? In the case of the latter, it isn't someone else's property, it is the public's property. This country as a whole tends to frown on censorship. That should be reflected in the policies of our public schools.
word 1. A sound or a combination of sounds, or its representation in writing or printing, that symbolizes and communicates a meaning and may consist of a single morpheme or of a combination of morphemes.
While virii may not be the plural of virus, it most definitely is a word.
This isn't about the school district doing anything inappropriate. It's about kids doing something that they knew was inappropriate and being punished appropriately.
The Boston Tea Party was inappropriate, according to rulers of England at the time. Maybe they shouldn't teach children about that in schools.
If they're told that these are rules, but you don't *really* have to obey them, what other rules will they choose to ignore? Will they ignore the rules about bringing weapons to school? Will they ignore the rules about bringing drugs to school? Will they chose to ignore the rules about cheating on tests?
That's what happens when there are too many rules --- rules made by one class of people for another class to obey. Furthermore, the students need only watch the news to see that many, many, many people in a position of authority break the rules... regularly... in full view of the public... without being punished. What's the take-home lesson here?
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You are wrong for at least two reasons:
1) The number 1 is excluded explicitly in the hypothesis of the theorem.
2) In taking the product of elements of a group G indexed by a set I, I may be empty, resulting in the empty product, which evaluates to the identity of the group. You confuse I with G.
I'm not going to try and convince you of anything. That would be foolish, because you obviously know it all.
What I will say is that you probably haven't spent much time lurking around the train yards. You're conception of poverty in the USA is a family of 10 huddled around their X-box eating pork skins paid for with food stamps. You don't see actual poverty because you don't look for it --- you don't want to see it.
Poverty is relative to the society you live in. By most standards, as a nation, the US is wealthy. And yet, the official poverty rate here is about 12%, which is to say 30 some odd million people have to do without something they need --- THAT is the definition of poverty.
Any normal person with common sense enough not to be to poor to have medical would just get a bottle of something over the counterand save $150 or so.
Wow, just wow. I always wondered why there are so many poor people in the world. I thought maybe they just enjoyed doing without good food, clean water, clothing, medical care, etc. But now you inform me that they are just too dumb to know any better. Thanks for the info!
Here is the dirty little secret of capitalism --- it thrives on a huge class of impoverished workers. That's a fact. Couldn't exist without 'em. So, some night when you have nothing better to do, when you are guzzling champagne in the back of your limo, have your driver cruise the poor part of town, roll down your window, and give thanks to the McDonald's retiree for making the world such a beautiful place for you to live. He'll appreciate it.
As long as you use any taxpayer funded service, good luck getting my hand out of your pocket. The thing is (and I'm sure you hate to admit this) to participate in any society, you need people's hands in your pocket. Suck it up.
I also disagree that peoples' healths is priceless -- if it was, people would spend any amount of time or money to stay healthy.
That's a little disingenuous. It sounds to me like the GP meant that peoples' health is important to everyone --- more important than say gaining wealth. I disagree with his statement as well. It is more than obvious that many folks are greedy and selfish.
When I look at teenagers in the US, I see that isn't the case -- they're more likely to be fat than skinny.
Uhhh, neither condition is really healthy --- but I digress. Teenagers as a group aren't exactly known for their ability to weigh (pardon the pun) all the facts and arrive at sound conclusions. Hence, their being excluded from such healthy activities as imbibing alcohol and smoking cigarettes.
When I look at retired folk, I see the same problem. People who don't care for their health in the first place can not consider their health priceless.
Maybe you have a point there. But consider that a lot of health problems arise because of toxins in our food, water, and air --- toxins that maybe wouldn't be there if industry were more heavily (oh sin of sins) regulated.
The majority of health problems in America can be pointed to the fact that the State has destroyed personal responsibility to prevent health issues.
Links please.
Heart disease is greatly worsened by being fat. Many cancers are related to lifestyle choices, including eating and the lack of intelligent decisions in other consumptions. Don't think for a minute that I think my life is not priceless, but I also prove that by eating healthy, exercising, and making wise decisions in putting my money into future concerns rather than spending it today.
To summarize:
If you are unintelligent, you deserve to die.
If your education is substandard, and you can't do enough basic research to determine what is best for you, you deserve to die.
If you have a lousy job and can't afford health care, you deserve to die.
If you are too young to connect the dots, you deserve to die.
If you are lazy, or have made some poor health decisions, you deserve to die.
And the list goes on. What you can't do, if you are in one of the above categories, is count on your neighbor for a little help --- he's too busy feathering his nest. You sir, sound like a Social Darwinist.
If you don't, why should I pay for you?
Why shouldn't you? Everyone already chips in to society for the building and maintenance of roads, schools, fire departments, police force, the court system, and so on. Do you make use of these services? Or are you so self-sufficient that you don't need anything that is funded by a collective? And if you do appreciate and use those services, why choose to exempt medical care?
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Actually, Mr. Pedantic, the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic states that any positive integer greater than one may be written uniquely as a product of primes in nondecreasing order. The theorem does not apply to any number. In particular, it doesn't apply to the number 1.
If it took 28 years to come out and she has been continually rising in both job responsibility and performance (which she has), then why does anyone really care?
Because SOME of us actually place value on ethics. What message does it send to people by overlooking this type of behavior? Dishonesty will become the norm.
She screwed up... twenty... eight... years ago.
So, all is forgiven if enough time passes. Nice philosophy.
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Utah citizen: Look, what is it that you require of us?
Utah legislature: What we, uh, "re-quire" is that you get your god-damn asses up in them woods.
until the fascists outlaw that. I swear, I have long been a proponent of paying for my music. There are several out of print titles I've paid top dollar for on ebay and in the used section of the local record store. But if this shit becomes the norm, I'll start downloading everything for free, lawsuits be damned. Fuck these sons-of-bitches.
Because we, as voters, elect politicians that promise to deliver us things - which generally involve bringing in money or reduces our taxes.
Not necessarily. Surely, everyone understands that "things" like a military, police force, judicial system, etc. cost money --- money supplied by tax dollars. I actually wouldn't mind a tax increase, if the money is well spent.
Because market forces drive the success and failure of companies; which results in decisions being made on what is fiscally sound (generally) rather than on what will make the CEO most popular.
Decisions on what is fiscally sound for whom? Certainly not we the people. Witness Enron. Corporations are run more like dictatorships than democracies. History has shown the benefit to the people under both types of control. When will people wake up?
Well, since the government is us (in a democracy) you are saying that we can't run things. But if we can't run things as voters or representatives, how can we run them any better as CEO's?
There are many reasons that this episode shouldn't have happened, but people are afraid and over-react to 'err on the side of caution'. For many, better safe than sorry is the catchphrase of the week. They don't stop to think, or try to figure out what might be the level headed way to handle things
If everyone isn't terrified, you can't justify a war on terror.
Not much better than the world where you have superior rights to everyone else because you are rich.
We have two words for that --- copyright infringement. But, that expression isn't quite as politically charged as "theft".
The fact that a lot of people willfully ignore the law and take what isn't there's
What are they taking? What isn't theirs? Who are they taking it from?
Well, beer is readily available outside work. Are the laws and rules preventing you from drinking on the job or drinking while drive your car eroding the respect for rule-makers and lawmakers?
Drinking has been proven to impede judgement and depress the CNS. This obviously interferes with performance at work and one's ability to operate machinery. Ergo, the restriction is not arbitrary.
I will tell you what erodes faster, The argument that this is somehow some concerted effort to censor information and people have the right to access it when ever they want to. On your dime, fine. On the companies dime, No and any objections just make you look like a whining little bitch. Why is it such a hard concept to understand. You can do whatever you want with the stuff you buy but you have to follow the rules when using someone else's?
Are we talking about a business, or a public school? In the case of the latter, it isn't someone else's property, it is the public's property. This country as a whole tends to frown on censorship. That should be reflected in the policies of our public schools.
Which highlights the fact that the restriction is arbitrary. Arbitrary rules erode respect for rule-makers and for rules in general.
word 1. A sound or a combination of sounds, or its representation in writing or printing, that symbolizes and communicates a meaning and may consist of a single morpheme or of a combination of morphemes.
While virii may not be the plural of virus, it most definitely is a word.
This isn't about the school district doing anything inappropriate. It's about kids doing something that they knew was inappropriate and being punished appropriately.
... regularly ... in full view of the public ... without being punished. What's the take-home lesson here?
The Boston Tea Party was inappropriate, according to rulers of England at the time. Maybe they shouldn't teach children about that in schools.
If they're told that these are rules, but you don't *really* have to obey them, what other rules will they choose to ignore? Will they ignore the rules about bringing weapons to school? Will they ignore the rules about bringing drugs to school? Will they chose to ignore the rules about cheating on tests?
That's what happens when there are too many rules --- rules made by one class of people for another class to obey. Furthermore, the students need only watch the news to see that many, many, many people in a position of authority break the rules
You are wrong for at least two reasons:
1) The number 1 is excluded explicitly in the hypothesis of the theorem.
2) In taking the product of elements of a group G indexed by a set I, I may be empty, resulting in the empty product, which evaluates to the identity of the group. You confuse I with G.
If they start encasing circuit boards in epoxy then there is little doubt that people will soon be taking hammers and chisels to their HD-DVD players.
Then they really will be cracking them.
I'm not going to try and convince you of anything. That would be foolish, because you obviously know it all.
What I will say is that you probably haven't spent much time lurking around the train yards. You're conception of poverty in the USA is a family of 10 huddled around their X-box eating pork skins paid for with food stamps. You don't see actual poverty because you don't look for it --- you don't want to see it.
You know, you're right. I just saw several hobos the other day helping each other load their widescreen tv's onto a train. Idiot.
Poverty is relative to the society you live in. By most standards, as a nation, the US is wealthy. And yet, the official poverty rate here is about 12%, which is to say 30 some odd million people have to do without something they need --- THAT is the definition of poverty.
Yeah, right. Everything would be sooooo afordable if there were no government.
Any normal person with common sense enough not to be to poor to have medical would just get a bottle of something over the counterand save $150 or so.
Wow, just wow. I always wondered why there are so many poor people in the world. I thought maybe they just enjoyed doing without good food, clean water, clothing, medical care, etc. But now you inform me that they are just too dumb to know any better. Thanks for the info!
Here is the dirty little secret of capitalism --- it thrives on a huge class of impoverished workers. That's a fact. Couldn't exist without 'em. So, some night when you have nothing better to do, when you are guzzling champagne in the back of your limo, have your driver cruise the poor part of town, roll down your window, and give thanks to the McDonald's retiree for making the world such a beautiful place for you to live. He'll appreciate it.
As long as you use any taxpayer funded service, good luck getting my hand out of your pocket. The thing is (and I'm sure you hate to admit this) to participate in any society, you need people's hands in your pocket. Suck it up.
I also disagree that peoples' healths is priceless -- if it was, people would spend any amount of time or money to stay healthy.
That's a little disingenuous. It sounds to me like the GP meant that peoples' health is important to everyone --- more important than say gaining wealth. I disagree with his statement as well. It is more than obvious that many folks are greedy and selfish.
When I look at teenagers in the US, I see that isn't the case -- they're more likely to be fat than skinny.
Uhhh, neither condition is really healthy --- but I digress. Teenagers as a group aren't exactly known for their ability to weigh (pardon the pun) all the facts and arrive at sound conclusions. Hence, their being excluded from such healthy activities as imbibing alcohol and smoking cigarettes.
When I look at retired folk, I see the same problem. People who don't care for their health in the first place can not consider their health priceless.
Maybe you have a point there. But consider that a lot of health problems arise because of toxins in our food, water, and air --- toxins that maybe wouldn't be there if industry were more heavily (oh sin of sins) regulated.
The majority of health problems in America can be pointed to the fact that the State has destroyed personal responsibility to prevent health issues.
Links please.
Heart disease is greatly worsened by being fat. Many cancers are related to lifestyle choices, including eating and the lack of intelligent decisions in other consumptions. Don't think for a minute that I think my life is not priceless, but I also prove that by eating healthy, exercising, and making wise decisions in putting my money into future concerns rather than spending it today.
To summarize:
If you are unintelligent, you deserve to die.
If your education is substandard, and you can't do enough basic research to determine what is best for you, you deserve to die.
If you have a lousy job and can't afford health care, you deserve to die.
If you are too young to connect the dots, you deserve to die.
If you are lazy, or have made some poor health decisions, you deserve to die.
And the list goes on. What you can't do, if you are in one of the above categories, is count on your neighbor for a little help --- he's too busy feathering his nest. You sir, sound like a Social Darwinist.
If you don't, why should I pay for you?
Why shouldn't you? Everyone already chips in to society for the building and maintenance of roads, schools, fire departments, police force, the court system, and so on. Do you make use of these services? Or are you so self-sufficient that you don't need anything that is funded by a collective? And if you do appreciate and use those services, why choose to exempt medical care?
Actually, Mr. Pedantic, the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic states that any positive integer greater than one may be written uniquely as a product of primes in nondecreasing order. The theorem does not apply to any number. In particular, it doesn't apply to the number 1.
Mercury and water are immiscible. As others have pointed out, the liquid metal is fairly innocuous. If it is vaporized or ionized, it is quite toxic.
If it took 28 years to come out and she has been continually rising in both job responsibility and performance (which she has), then why does anyone really care?
Because SOME of us actually place value on ethics. What message does it send to people by overlooking this type of behavior? Dishonesty will become the norm.
She screwed up... twenty... eight... years ago.
So, all is forgiven if enough time passes. Nice philosophy.