Since the Republicans had a majority in the legislature and the Executive Branch for quite some time
The Senate was split from 2000 to 2006?, and the House until 2006. The Democrats have controlled Congress for a little over two years.
As far as I am concerned and until shown otherwise, I consider every last one of the Republicans to be incompetents or scumbags. I had hope that the Democrats would show some backbone and make some smart changes. I'm not so far all that impressed. But I still blame the Republicans for causing me to hate politics and politicians. Yeah.. that's why I'm anti-Republican.
Then why are you not anti-Republicrat like the rest of us?:)
Truly, party systems allow too much power to be controlled. Parties should be disallowed in my opinion.
Democrats have generally been better on everything that's come up (habeas corpus, torture, wiretapping, etc.).
Although I was rather hoping that Obama would not win--I consider McCain less Republican than Obama being less Democrat, I thought Obama was going to overturn the warrant-less wiretap executive order. In that regard, I sadly do not see the majority of Democrats being any different than the majority of Republicans.
If you have to lie and decieve to spread the "gospel" of your religion, then it ISN'T THE RIGHT RELIGION. No omnipotent, omniescient being needs a bunch of sychophantic simpering weasels to slip pamphlets about its awesomeness into the lunch boxes of little kids. If it does, then it doesn't deserve to be worshipped.
Hmm. I was thinking the same about science. If you have to hide the weaknesses of a theory from students, then it does not deserve to be taught. I am NOT saying ID should be taught. I am saying science and the scientific method should be taught.
Ignoring weakness/making assumptions blindly should not be taught to children. Personally, I want my children to be able to EXPLORE science not RECITE it. The schools should teach the difference between a theory and a law as well as show the strengths and weaknesses for both. They could even show, by example, why the the theory of evolution was accepted over previous or competing theories of its time.
Precisely, if things were fair...people that HAD kids, would be taxed more to pay for the extra drain on public resources they bring about. But, we do the opposite, and give them tax breaks....essentially making those people who have less or no kids, subsidize the results of them fucking without protection.
Actually, the government is bribing us to have children, so it will have more people to tax later. Ingenious!:)
Here is my personal list of reasons against embryonic stem cell research:
There are a great deal of people that consider this immoral. Personally, I agree with this perspective. If I did not, I can see avoiding conflict with the same results would be beneficial.
Treatment may cause cancer? Hinted by parts of the Wikipedia page on embryonic stem cells.
Adult stem cell treatments do exist and can be used without needing any moral discussions.
Use cord-blood stem cells instead of embryonic. If this is just as effective, then this removes the moral discussion.
I can see a middleman market arising to supply the correct/most effective/well tested embryonic stem cells. Middlemen cost money.
Embryonic stem cells are in less supply than adult stem cells. This costs money.
Treatment requires anti-rejection drugs even if for a short time. This costs money.
Ignoring the moral issues, I strongly oppose a solution that will cost more money. Taking notice of the moral issues, I see no sense in taking the more difficult (moral) and costly ($$$) course to achieve the same results.
Either way, making a treatment more expensive really does not help keep health care costs down and more easily available to people.
I think many pharmaceutical companies went overseas to avoid the moral and/or legal implications of performing the actual testing on patients that they face in the U.S. regardless of this ban.
According to this piece, Microsoft avoided the MIT license for unknown reason(s) and wrote their own code anyway. GPL would not have stopped them at all.
I wish VMWare would consider FreeBSD for host-support, however, I think Qemu is catching up with VMWare. This is referring to Workstation. For servers, FreeBSD jails are advancing quite a bit. If the plan is to run FreeBSD servers, I would prefer jails over VMWare.
Speaking of jails, they now have support for multiple IP's per jail as of revision 185435. It also adds support for IPv6 addresses to jails.
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Actually, stability-conscious people will be running either RELENG_6_4 or RELENG_7_1 (once 7.1 is complete). You may call them the super-stability-conscious people.:) -STABLE branches just refer to the ABI being stable, but they are still development branches. They do tend to be more stable then CURRENT since the code must survive CURRENT for an amount of time before being merged into STABLE.
Personally, I run 7-STABLE (RELENG_7) on all my systems with HEAD in a VM or two.
That's a moot point. It still proves that, in her limited "executive" experience, a horrendous misuse of government effort occurred. Additionally, she has failed to take any responsibility for the issue.
Technically, I would not call it misuse (perhaps stupidity) since it is not the use of a proper government action for the wrong reason (i.e., Schwarzenegger in True Lies spying on his wife). It is more improper use of government to do something wrong. Of course, I could be wrong on the proper legal meaning of misuse.
I prefer fact over rumor. Saying that she should face up to letting the sheriff do that under her leadership is very different than saying she signed off on it. Until there is proof of the latter, people should focus on the former and keep quiet about the latter. They should then do more research to prove that she did the latter before attacking the issue from that angle.
I am sure a prosecutor (and maybe the defense attorney) would hate to have me on the jury since I would look at the facts and not the story (s)he tried to write.:)
Regarding your car, you are lucky; they never even bothered to look for finger prints on my car when the stereo was stolen many years ago. Probably trying to cut costs in their department.:(
I am trying to point out the difference between fact and rumor. As you stated, the fact check link does not provide evidence she did not intervene. At this point, there is no evidence she was even aware of it. There is only supposition by a politician of an opposing party that she must have known. Personally, I need more concrete information before deciding on this issue.
I am saying she may not have known of this in total or in part. The sheriff was charging the victims directly or their insurance companies. If she had only known about the insurance company charges and not charges of the victim, would you still dislike her on this particular issue? I would if she approved charging victims directly.
I doubt she knew everything that happened in every crevice of government. She may not have known. This former state representative says she must have known, but to paraphrase him, I find it hard to believe that if it had been widely known that he would not have tried to do something about it by at least speaking to her about it.
Eric Croft, a former Alaska state representative who sponsored the 2000 legislation, told CNN that "I find it hard to believe that for six months a small town, a police chief, would lead the fight against a statewide piece of legislation receiving unanimous support and the mayor not know about it." But Croft, a Democrat, says he does not recall discussing the issue with Palin at the time.
Typical fanboy behavior. Unfortunately, it applies to all aspects of society; Sports teams, cities, nations, ethnicities, OS, and obviously politicians...
You forgot the most vehement categories: editors and shells.:)
I agree with you. While I highly prefer vim and zsh, I have no issue with someone else using Emacs or bash. Another thing to consider is that people are determined to see things in black and white. I am tired of hearing how there are only two options when Congress is deciding something. R's want one thing and D's want another. The two options will of course be (almost) complete opposites. Compromise or another possibility that does not upset either party is not an option.
Maybe the number of options proposed is related to the number of parties present in Congress?
I am getting 6.01% here in the U.S. It have a few requirements to getting it: 10 debit card transactions per month and one direct deposit per month. The size of the transaction does not matter. The rate only covers the first $25,000.
Unfortunately, they waive all ATM costs from other banks.;)
Something such as FreeNAS (http://www.freenas.org/) may work for you, if you purchase your own hardware. A quick rundown of what it provides: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeNAS
If you are not driving your truck back-and-forth to work, you should talk to your insurance agent about getting it reclassified as a pleasure (or whatever it is called) vehicle to save some more money. I had that at one time when I live 0.5 miles from work. Even if I drove it every day, I still did not hit the 10-mile mark that classified it as a pleasure vehicle. When it was nice, I was riding my bike anyway.
I am sorry, but this is NOT an example of conservatism. This is assuming someone has not defined a new type of conservatism to explain it, which happens too often. Spending lots of money on stupid ideas is not a conservative value.
Unfortunately, it does seem a lot of "fiscal conservatives" have stolen the title from the real fiscal conservatives. Too bad that truth in advertising is outlawed in politics.;)
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Since the Republicans had a majority in the legislature and the Executive Branch for quite some time
The Senate was split from 2000 to 2006?, and the House until 2006. The Democrats have controlled Congress for a little over two years.
As far as I am concerned and until shown otherwise, I consider every last one of the Republicans to be incompetents or scumbags. I had hope that the Democrats would show some backbone and make some smart changes. I'm not so far all that impressed. But I still blame the Republicans for causing me to hate politics and politicians. Yeah.. that's why I'm anti-Republican.
Then why are you not anti-Republicrat like the rest of us? :)
Truly, party systems allow too much power to be controlled. Parties should be disallowed in my opinion.
Democrats have generally been better on everything that's come up (habeas corpus, torture, wiretapping, etc.).
Although I was rather hoping that Obama would not win--I consider McCain less Republican than Obama being less Democrat, I thought Obama was going to overturn the warrant-less wiretap executive order. In that regard, I sadly do not see the majority of Democrats being any different than the majority of Republicans.
This feels more like indentured servitude. Unfortunately, both have prior art.
If you have to lie and decieve to spread the "gospel" of your religion, then it ISN'T THE RIGHT RELIGION. No omnipotent, omniescient being needs a bunch of sychophantic simpering weasels to slip pamphlets about its awesomeness into the lunch boxes of little kids. If it does, then it doesn't deserve to be worshipped.
Hmm. I was thinking the same about science. If you have to hide the weaknesses of a theory from students, then it does not deserve to be taught. I am NOT saying ID should be taught. I am saying science and the scientific method should be taught.
Ignoring weakness/making assumptions blindly should not be taught to children. Personally, I want my children to be able to EXPLORE science not RECITE it. The schools should teach the difference between a theory and a law as well as show the strengths and weaknesses for both. They could even show, by example, why the the theory of evolution was accepted over previous or competing theories of its time.
I personally use Old Location Bar. It works better for me than oldbar did.
Precisely, if things were fair...people that HAD kids, would be taxed more to pay for the extra drain on public resources they bring about. But, we do the opposite, and give them tax breaks....essentially making those people who have less or no kids, subsidize the results of them fucking without protection.
Actually, the government is bribing us to have children, so it will have more people to tax later. Ingenious! :)
Here is my personal list of reasons against embryonic stem cell research:
Ignoring the moral issues, I strongly oppose a solution that will cost more money. Taking notice of the moral issues, I see no sense in taking the more difficult (moral) and costly ($$$) course to achieve the same results.
Either way, making a treatment more expensive really does not help keep health care costs down and more easily available to people.
I think many pharmaceutical companies went overseas to avoid the moral and/or legal implications of performing the actual testing on patients that they face in the U.S. regardless of this ban.
According to this piece, Microsoft avoided the MIT license for unknown reason(s) and wrote their own code anyway. GPL would not have stopped them at all.
I have not tried openmeetings, but it looks promising for a Webex replacement.
I wish VMWare would consider FreeBSD for host-support, however, I think Qemu is catching up with VMWare. This is referring to Workstation. For servers, FreeBSD jails are advancing quite a bit. If the plan is to run FreeBSD servers, I would prefer jails over VMWare.
Speaking of jails, they now have support for multiple IP's per jail as of revision 185435. It also adds support for IPv6 addresses to jails.
For a nice front-end to Qemu, I recommend AQemu.
Actually, stability-conscious people will be running either RELENG_6_4 or RELENG_7_1 (once 7.1 is complete). You may call them the super-stability-conscious people. :) -STABLE branches just refer to the ABI being stable, but they are still development branches. They do tend to be more stable then CURRENT since the code must survive CURRENT for an amount of time before being merged into STABLE.
Personally, I run 7-STABLE (RELENG_7) on all my systems with HEAD in a VM or two.
That's a moot point. It still proves that, in her limited "executive" experience, a horrendous misuse of government effort occurred. Additionally, she has failed to take any responsibility for the issue.
Technically, I would not call it misuse (perhaps stupidity) since it is not the use of a proper government action for the wrong reason (i.e., Schwarzenegger in True Lies spying on his wife). It is more improper use of government to do something wrong. Of course, I could be wrong on the proper legal meaning of misuse.
I prefer fact over rumor. Saying that she should face up to letting the sheriff do that under her leadership is very different than saying she signed off on it. Until there is proof of the latter, people should focus on the former and keep quiet about the latter. They should then do more research to prove that she did the latter before attacking the issue from that angle.
I am sure a prosecutor (and maybe the defense attorney) would hate to have me on the jury since I would look at the facts and not the story (s)he tried to write. :)
Regarding your car, you are lucky; they never even bothered to look for finger prints on my car when the stereo was stolen many years ago. Probably trying to cut costs in their department. :(
I am trying to point out the difference between fact and rumor. As you stated, the fact check link does not provide evidence she did not intervene. At this point, there is no evidence she was even aware of it. There is only supposition by a politician of an opposing party that she must have known. Personally, I need more concrete information before deciding on this issue.
I am saying she may not have known of this in total or in part. The sheriff was charging the victims directly or their insurance companies. If she had only known about the insurance company charges and not charges of the victim, would you still dislike her on this particular issue? I would if she approved charging victims directly.
I doubt she knew everything that happened in every crevice of government. She may not have known. This former state representative says she must have known, but to paraphrase him, I find it hard to believe that if it had been widely known that he would not have tried to do something about it by at least speaking to her about it.
Eric Croft, a former Alaska state representative who sponsored the 2000 legislation, told CNN that "I find it hard to believe that for six months a small town, a police chief, would lead the fight against a statewide piece of legislation receiving unanimous support and the mayor not know about it." But Croft, a Democrat, says he does not recall discussing the issue with Palin at the time.
I guess they are mistaken: Did Sarah Palin make rape victims pay...?
Typical fanboy behavior. Unfortunately, it applies to all aspects of society; Sports teams, cities, nations, ethnicities, OS, and obviously politicians...
You forgot the most vehement categories: editors and shells. :)
I agree with you. While I highly prefer vim and zsh, I have no issue with someone else using Emacs or bash. Another thing to consider is that people are determined to see things in black and white. I am tired of hearing how there are only two options when Congress is deciding something. R's want one thing and D's want another. The two options will of course be (almost) complete opposites. Compromise or another possibility that does not upset either party is not an option.
Maybe the number of options proposed is related to the number of parties present in Congress?
Hopefully, she can find Sanctuary somewhere.
I am getting 6.01% here in the U.S. It have a few requirements to getting it: 10 debit card transactions per month and one direct deposit per month. The size of the transaction does not matter. The rate only covers the first $25,000.
Unfortunately, they waive all ATM costs from other banks. ;)
I must not be awesome; I use the Old Location Bar.
Something such as FreeNAS (http://www.freenas.org/) may work for you, if you purchase your own hardware. A quick rundown of what it provides: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeNAS
If you are not driving your truck back-and-forth to work, you should talk to your insurance agent about getting it reclassified as a pleasure (or whatever it is called) vehicle to save some more money. I had that at one time when I live 0.5 miles from work. Even if I drove it every day, I still did not hit the 10-mile mark that classified it as a pleasure vehicle. When it was nice, I was riding my bike anyway.
I am sorry, but this is NOT an example of conservatism. This is assuming someone has not defined a new type of conservatism to explain it, which happens too often. Spending lots of money on stupid ideas is not a conservative value.
;)
Unfortunately, it does seem a lot of "fiscal conservatives" have stolen the title from the real fiscal conservatives. Too bad that truth in advertising is outlawed in politics.
Might make it the ideal OS for my needs (I now have Linux on the desktop and FreeBSD on the servers).
You may want to wait for FreeBSD 7 before making the switch. It also has some pretty nice schedulers coming: SCHED_SMP and SCHED_ULE