Teenagers don't need the lecture of Drivers Ed. What they NEED is to be exposed to SCCA (Sports Car Club of America). There, they can learn real effective driving meathods and have fun doing so. Take a kid out on the track and let him/her loose. Once they understand what a car can and cannot handle, they will be better apt to not push an SUV on public roads.
One of the contributors to The Edge touched on the soul thing (and another actually wrote The Physics of Star Trek!). If you could completely dematerialize someone and shoot them across space, would the soul go with him/her?
The soul and human bodies are in two different plains of existence (dimensions). There for, as long as your pattern of matter exists in the universe then it doesn't matter where you are located because the soul will always have access to it.
Think of the human body as just a puppet, and your soul is the puppet master. The soul doesn't reside in the body, but rather controls it from another dimension. Should this body (pattern of matter) be destroyed, your soul can no longer be bound to the physical dimension and thus turns inward on itself. From there, you spiritual disassociation by virtue is in the afterlife.
Most of these items are model specific accessories. Fry Electronics is your best chance if going to a local store. Unless it has quick turn-over in a store, it will cost you money being that it's taking up valuable shelf spaced that could be used for more sellible items. Now given the size of most BestBuy stores, the lack of such items should not suprise you.
Exactly! And when it comes to such big-ticket items, always always ALWAYS get the four year extended warranty if shopping at BestBuy! Lightning stikes DO happen. It's best to be left with a boat anchor in case it does happen.
Yeah, it assumes people will spend money. The argument is specious
Given that consumer debt is very high, I seriously doubt many people are saving money as they should be. I don't know about you, but personally am always having to owe someone something.
Trust me, people will continue to spend money. Simplifying the tax system puts the burden of pressure on the government to ballance the budget with one lump taxable sum. Instead, we got polititians masking their tax-funneling to other schemes and comming up with more stupid taxation laws there by virtually social engineering our entire capitolistic society.
With all the major cities are decimated and most of the populated gone, all you have left are small towns scattered about with only the local communities to lean on for support. As such, past times such as music, festivities and beer is the ONLY thing to keep you sane.
Seriously, we are talking about having to rebuild modern civilization from virtually the ground up on a global scale. Or, what's left of it anyways...
Na, the engine wouldn't blow up. Maybe if it's at redline and under extreme load...but that's a big IF! Not likely to happen unless your drag racing.
However if it's in neutral and you keep redlining the engine, don't expect the engine to blow. The worst that could happen is your radiator fan stops working. By then, expect a check-engine light.
As a side note, some cars will detect the car is in neutral and engage a rev-limiter to stop at 4,500 RPM. I know my 97 Saturn SC2 did when I lef the automatic in neutral or park and stomped on the gas.
Natures solutions comes from trial and error. The solutions that survive the best in an environment of competition will be carried on to the next generation.
Basically, it's called evolution. If you want to call evolution ID, so be it.
Now contrast that with a country (no names) who was founded by extremist religious whack-jobs fleeing incarceration once Europe finally took out the trash, who eagerly embraced slavery, who eliminated pretty much all of the native population, who's Founding Fathers were mainly sozzled drunks beating their manservants and who now comprises 5% of the worlds population but accounts for over 50% of the worlds drug usage and who gun each other down by the tens of thousands in the streets each year. A nation of peaceful, easy to live with honest people or a nation of murdering drug addicts ?..
How about a Quad core CPU. Two cores of Intel, and two cores of AMD technology all packaged togeather. No matter how your program is written, it will take advantage of the best set of cores for its function.
You are correct in that nothing in regards to a single solution will replace the energy needs that we demand from crude oil. However, I suspect it will be a collection of alternative energies ranging from A to Z that will slowly displace our need for oil. This migration will take place naturally through market forces and mankind's lust to capitalize on such solutions.
For 2006, I see a major national plan to diversify our energy grid so that future technologies can be seamlessly integrated for the cooperation of the entire alternative energy industry and to set into motion a set of standards for electrical grid plug-and-play. So far, it's not very accommodating to the private sector willing to sell unused generated energy such as that of solar and wind.
Missle Defense Because we should not have the right to protect ourselves from rogue nations such as N. Korea and Iran. Am I correct?
drilling in ANWR Because we should not have the right to secure our nations energy demands via tapping into the ground of a frozen desert. Am I correct?
pro-life and pro-death penalty Because it's perfectly OK to end the life of a premature innocent baby/fetus, but it's NOT ok to end the life of an adult that has committed murder.
tying iraq to terror You mean the same terror that is STILL going on to this day? Let me know when the car bombing stops.
no child left behind Why is this program so bad? It may not be the best solution, but it's better than nothing.
get tough on immigration Because we want what happened in France to happen to us as well?
get tough on crime It's based on the concept of "personal responsibility". You know, actually having to face the consequences of our actions in life. I'm sick and tired of all this bullshit retoric of the perpetrator being defended as the "victim" in all of their acts.
christian coalition What's wrong with promoting a solid foundation of morals, ethics, and devotion to a higher being then him? In fact, the promotion of ANY religion that staves of hubris is a positive to humanity as a whole.
anti-gun control Because only the bad guys should have them, correct? I mean, they are going to break the law anyways. So lets just make it that much harder for law abiding citizens the constitutional RIGHT to gun ownership.
pro-business We all make choices in life. If you choose to work for a company or for yourself, fine. But don't punish EVERYONE who wishes to devote their time and effort into a business. I'm sorry, but western civilization around the world has chosen to do something other than hunt and gather for himself. Modern civilization could never have flourished in the way it has without capitalism. It would seem even Russia and China acknowledges this FACT!
Communism is bad, mmmm k?
anti-environment So NOT being overly zealous about the environment = anti-environment? What ever happened to reasonable moderation? Considering our nations consumption of oil (IE the life blood of modern civilization), Id say we are cleaning up our emissions pretty damn well. Until we start reversing our trend of cleaning up after ourselves, please don't preach about anti-environmentalism. Ok?
SENATOR CRAIG: Well, Rush, thank you, and thank you for allowing me on. It is a very important debate, and something that I think has -- certainly by Harry Reid and others -- been dramatically miscast as it relates to the intent of some of us who have constantly worked to assure that the Patriot Act did not tread on the rights, the constitutional rights, of law-abiding American citizens. You know, I've been here a little while, and I remember Janet Reno, and I remember Waco and Ruby Ridge, and I fear the day that we get a president, not this president, who has a very liberal attorney general and sees the opportunity, uh, to leap through the holes that are crafted in the Patriot Act, uh, that could tread on our civil liberties. I say that having once voted for the Patriot Act and -- and will vote for it again, and we're working very hard at this moment. We've been visiting with the White House the last few hours along with Democrats and Republicans to try to resolve this, because there is no question that a majority of the Senate, which includes some Democrats, do not want to see the Patriot Act expire. At the same time, we see this as a once-in-a-two-or-three-year opportunity or four to make sure that it never gets misused. That's permanent law we're talking about, not just something that we keel with on a day-to-day basis.
RUSH: I understand that. Let me focus on something you said at first here. You said that Senator Reid is mischaracterizing some of the loyal opposition on the Republican side of this, or I guess throughout the whole Senate. One of the things I think that bothers people, and I'm sure you've been getting e-mail and phone calls in your office from people who just know that you voted against it, don't understand it. The reason they're upset is because they see a Democratic Party trying to undermine this president and sabotage the ability to wage war against this enemy, and the people who elected Republicans in this country expect them to go to Washington and understand this war is taking place and not side with them on things that hurt the president. So that's the first thing. People see that. They don't understand it, and it makes them wonder: What's the point of electing Republicans?
SENATOR CRAIG: Well, you've made a very good point, and I don't deny that. The reality is that we are at war, and we're at war with a very formidable enemy -- and, you know, my votes historically along with a lot of others have demonstrated that. I know --
RUSH: Well, what are you primarily opposed to in the Patriot Act?
SENATOR CRAIG: I'm opposed very simply, Rush, for the right of our government secretly to break into a home and to take computer files and other files and never tell the homeowner. I'm talking about a US citizen. Now, I'm willing to blink, and a lot of us are willing to blink, and we said, "Okay, you can go ahead and do that." This is under the FISA law, the federal -- the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. "We'll let you do that without telling the homeowner." That's a major step.
RUSH: Wait a second --
SENATOR CRAIG: Now, wait a moment. Within seven days after you've done it, if you find that you found nothing, and it will not damage your investigation, then you need to tell them. And if you do find something, and it will damage your investigation, then you've got to do like you do in civil or criminal law, you've got to go before a judge and say, "We have reason to believe, and here are all the facts," and the judge says, "Go forth. Be silent. Continue to investigate." That is a simple, simple request, and it is clearly a protection of our civil liberties.
RUSH: Wait a minute. I'm confused. You're coupling the Patriot Act with the FISA controversy?
SENATOR CRAIG: You bet I am because it's a major provision within the Patriot Act.
RUSH: Well, but there's been no illegality within the president in regards to any of this. This is pure propaganda, senator.
SENATOR CRAIG: No, no, no. No, no. We're talking two separate things here. You'r
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including sections 302 and 303 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ("Act") (50 U.S.C. 1801, et seq.), as amended by Public Law 103- 359, and in order to provide for the authorization of physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes as set forth in the Act, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Pursuant to section 302(a)(1) of the Act, the Attorney General is authorized to approve physical searches, without a court order, to acquire foreign intelligence information for periods of up to one year, if the Attorney General makes the certifications required by that section.
Sec. 2. Pursuant to section 302(b) of the Act, the Attorney General is authorized to approve applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court under section 303 of the Act to obtain orders for physical searches for the purpose of collecting foreign intelligence information.
Sec. 3. Pursuant to section 303(a)(7) of the Act, the following officials, each of whom is employed in the area of national security or defense, is designated to make the certifications required by section 303(a)(7) of the Act in support of applications to conduct physical searches:
(a) Secretary of State;
(b) Secretary of Defense;
(c) Director of Central Intelligence;
(d) Director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation;
(e) Deputy Secretary of State;
(f) Deputy Secretary of Defense; and
(g) Deputy Director of Central Intelligence.
None of the above officials, nor anyone officially acting in that capacity, may exercise the authority to make the above certifications, unless that official has been appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
This never happens with Rush Limbaugh though. There's really no self correction as anyone expressing disent it filtered out by his lackeys working the call in phones.
Sounds like you've got a mission calling you. If you really want to "correct" anything Rush Limbaugh has been wrong or miss informed about, may I suggest you create a website and provide a transcript. Along with the transcript, break it and provide a rebuttal for all to read AND comment on.
Just one problem though. This would actually require you to listen to his program. Given your utter disdain of the guy, I doubt you can make it this far. Of course, I've given you the challenge to prove how wrong he is. Care to run with it?
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Teenagers don't need the lecture of Drivers Ed. What they NEED is to be exposed to SCCA (Sports Car Club of America). There, they can learn real effective driving meathods and have fun doing so. Take a kid out on the track and let him/her loose. Once they understand what a car can and cannot handle, they will be better apt to not push an SUV on public roads.
http://www.scca.org/
One of the contributors to The Edge touched on the soul thing (and another actually wrote The Physics of Star Trek!). If you could completely dematerialize someone and shoot them across space, would the soul go with him/her?
The soul and human bodies are in two different plains of existence (dimensions). There for, as long as your pattern of matter exists in the universe then it doesn't matter where you are located because the soul will always have access to it.
Think of the human body as just a puppet, and your soul is the puppet master. The soul doesn't reside in the body, but rather controls it from another dimension. Should this body (pattern of matter) be destroyed, your soul can no longer be bound to the physical dimension and thus turns inward on itself. From there, you spiritual disassociation by virtue is in the afterlife.
Arrrrr...that's right me matey! It's for us one-eyed software pirates. ...arrrrr
Most of these items are model specific accessories. Fry Electronics is your best chance if going to a local store. Unless it has quick turn-over in a store, it will cost you money being that it's taking up valuable shelf spaced that could be used for more sellible items. Now given the size of most BestBuy stores, the lack of such items should not suprise you.
Exactly! And when it comes to such big-ticket items, always always ALWAYS get the four year extended warranty if shopping at BestBuy! Lightning stikes DO happen. It's best to be left with a boat anchor in case it does happen.
Yeah, it assumes people will spend money. The argument is specious
Given that consumer debt is very high, I seriously doubt many people are saving money as they should be. I don't know about you, but personally am always having to owe someone something.
Trust me, people will continue to spend money. Simplifying the tax system puts the burden of pressure on the government to ballance the budget with one lump taxable sum. Instead, we got polititians masking their tax-funneling to other schemes and comming up with more stupid taxation laws there by virtually social engineering our entire capitolistic society.
The door swings both ways. As such, why not expand your shop to include online sales to get out of state revenue too?
How about a flat tax system and just dump the bloated IRS all togeather?
http://www.fairtax.org/
With all the major cities are decimated and most of the populated gone, all you have left are small towns scattered about with only the local communities to lean on for support. As such, past times such as music, festivities and beer is the ONLY thing to keep you sane.
Seriously, we are talking about having to rebuild modern civilization from virtually the ground up on a global scale. Or, what's left of it anyways...
Spread the LOVE! ...we need more panda pr0n! The Chinese just aren't giving it up :(
GTA: A Call for Censorship
You know, that would make for an awsome tile for their next game.
Na, the engine wouldn't blow up. Maybe if it's at redline and under extreme load...but that's a big IF! Not likely to happen unless your drag racing.
However if it's in neutral and you keep redlining the engine, don't expect the engine to blow. The worst that could happen is your radiator fan stops working. By then, expect a check-engine light.
As a side note, some cars will detect the car is in neutral and engage a rev-limiter to stop at 4,500 RPM. I know my 97 Saturn SC2 did when I lef the automatic in neutral or park and stomped on the gas.
Natures solutions comes from trial and error. The solutions that survive the best in an environment of competition will be carried on to the next generation.
Basically, it's called evolution. If you want to call evolution ID, so be it.
Now contrast that with a country (no names) who was founded by extremist religious whack-jobs fleeing incarceration once Europe finally took out the trash, who eagerly embraced slavery, who eliminated pretty much all of the native population, who's Founding Fathers were mainly sozzled drunks beating their manservants and who now comprises 5% of the worlds population but accounts for over 50% of the worlds drug usage and who gun each other down by the tens of thousands in the streets each year.
A nation of peaceful, easy to live with honest people or a nation of murdering drug addicts ?..
wow, tough choice....
blow me
...and it draws far less power.
Intel, you botched up yet again. *sigh*
How about a Quad core CPU. Two cores of Intel, and two cores of AMD technology all packaged togeather. No matter how your program is written, it will take advantage of the best set of cores for its function.
Ya... I can dream can't I?
You are correct in that nothing in regards to a single solution will replace the energy needs that we demand from crude oil. However, I suspect it will be a collection of alternative energies ranging from A to Z that will slowly displace our need for oil. This migration will take place naturally through market forces and mankind's lust to capitalize on such solutions.
For 2006, I see a major national plan to diversify our energy grid so that future technologies can be seamlessly integrated for the cooperation of the entire alternative energy industry and to set into motion a set of standards for electrical grid plug-and-play. So far, it's not very accommodating to the private sector willing to sell unused generated energy such as that of solar and wind.
Even worse, I cannot use the back-button in IE. It's an ego-webpage-trap.
I am annoyed with...
Missle Defense
Because we should not have the right to protect ourselves from rogue nations such as N. Korea and Iran. Am I correct?
drilling in ANWR
Because we should not have the right to secure our nations energy demands via tapping into the ground of a frozen desert. Am I correct?
pro-life and pro-death penalty
Because it's perfectly OK to end the life of a premature innocent baby/fetus, but it's NOT ok to end the life of an adult that has committed murder.
tying iraq to terror
You mean the same terror that is STILL going on to this day? Let me know when the car bombing stops.
no child left behind Why is this program so bad? It may not be the best solution, but it's better than nothing.
get tough on immigration
Because we want what happened in France to happen to us as well?
get tough on crime
It's based on the concept of "personal responsibility". You know, actually having to face the consequences of our actions in life. I'm sick and tired of all this bullshit retoric of the perpetrator being defended as the "victim" in all of their acts.
christian coalition
What's wrong with promoting a solid foundation of morals, ethics, and devotion to a higher being then him? In fact, the promotion of ANY religion that staves of hubris is a positive to humanity as a whole.
anti-gun control
Because only the bad guys should have them, correct? I mean, they are going to break the law anyways. So lets just make it that much harder for law abiding citizens the constitutional RIGHT to gun ownership.
pro-business
We all make choices in life. If you choose to work for a company or for yourself, fine. But don't punish EVERYONE who wishes to devote their time and effort into a business. I'm sorry, but western civilization around the world has chosen to do something other than hunt and gather for himself. Modern civilization could never have flourished in the way it has without capitalism. It would seem even Russia and China acknowledges this FACT!
Communism is bad, mmmm k?
anti-environment
So NOT being overly zealous about the environment = anti-environment? What ever happened to reasonable moderation? Considering our nations consumption of oil (IE the life blood of modern civilization), Id say we are cleaning up our emissions pretty damn well. Until we start reversing our trend of cleaning up after ourselves, please don't preach about anti-environmentalism. Ok?
SENATOR CRAIG: Well, Rush, thank you, and thank you for allowing me on. It is a very important debate, and something that I think has -- certainly by Harry Reid and others -- been dramatically miscast as it relates to the intent of some of us who have constantly worked to assure that the Patriot Act did not tread on the rights, the constitutional rights, of law-abiding American citizens. You know, I've been here a little while, and I remember Janet Reno, and I remember Waco and Ruby Ridge, and I fear the day that we get a president, not this president, who has a very liberal attorney general and sees the opportunity, uh, to leap through the holes that are crafted in the Patriot Act, uh, that could tread on our civil liberties. I say that having once voted for the Patriot Act and -- and will vote for it again, and we're working very hard at this moment. We've been visiting with the White House the last few hours along with Democrats and Republicans to try to resolve this, because there is no question that a majority of the Senate, which includes some Democrats, do not want to see the Patriot Act expire. At the same time, we see this as a once-in-a-two-or-three-year opportunity or four to make sure that it never gets misused. That's permanent law we're talking about, not just something that we keel with on a day-to-day basis.
RUSH: I understand that. Let me focus on something you said at first here. You said that Senator Reid is mischaracterizing some of the loyal opposition on the Republican side of this, or I guess throughout the whole Senate. One of the things I think that bothers people, and I'm sure you've been getting e-mail and phone calls in your office from people who just know that you voted against it, don't understand it. The reason they're upset is because they see a Democratic Party trying to undermine this president and sabotage the ability to wage war against this enemy, and the people who elected Republicans in this country expect them to go to Washington and understand this war is taking place and not side with them on things that hurt the president. So that's the first thing. People see that. They don't understand it, and it makes them wonder: What's the point of electing Republicans?
SENATOR CRAIG: Well, you've made a very good point, and I don't deny that. The reality is that we are at war, and we're at war with a very formidable enemy -- and, you know, my votes historically along with a lot of others have demonstrated that. I know --
RUSH: Well, what are you primarily opposed to in the Patriot Act?
SENATOR CRAIG: I'm opposed very simply, Rush, for the right of our government secretly to break into a home and to take computer files and other files and never tell the homeowner. I'm talking about a US citizen. Now, I'm willing to blink, and a lot of us are willing to blink, and we said, "Okay, you can go ahead and do that." This is under the FISA law, the federal -- the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. "We'll let you do that without telling the homeowner." That's a major step.
RUSH: Wait a second --
SENATOR CRAIG: Now, wait a moment. Within seven days after you've done it, if you find that you found nothing, and it will not damage your investigation, then you need to tell them. And if you do find something, and it will damage your investigation, then you've got to do like you do in civil or criminal law, you've got to go before a judge and say, "We have reason to believe, and here are all the facts," and the judge says, "Go forth. Be silent. Continue to investigate." That is a simple, simple request, and it is clearly a protection of our civil liberties.
RUSH: Wait a minute. I'm confused. You're coupling the Patriot Act with the FISA controversy?
SENATOR CRAIG: You bet I am because it's a major provision within the Patriot Act.
RUSH: Well, but there's been no illegality within the president in regards to any of this. This is pure propaganda, senator.
SENATOR CRAIG: No, no, no. No, no. We're talking two separate things here. You'r
EXECUTIVE ORDER 12949
- - - - - - -
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PHYSICAL SEARCHES
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution
and the laws of the United States, including sections 302 and 303 of the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ("Act") (50 U.S.C. 1801,
et seq.), as amended by Public Law 103- 359, and in order to provide for
the authorization of physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes
as set forth in the Act, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Pursuant to section 302(a)(1) of the Act, the
Attorney General is authorized to approve physical searches, without a
court order, to acquire foreign intelligence information for periods of
up to one year, if the Attorney General makes the certifications
required by that section.
Sec. 2. Pursuant to section 302(b) of the Act, the Attorney
General is authorized to approve applications to the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court under section 303 of the Act to obtain
orders for physical searches for the purpose of collecting foreign
intelligence information.
Sec. 3. Pursuant to section 303(a)(7) of the Act, the following
officials, each of whom is employed in the area of national security or
defense, is designated to make the certifications required by section
303(a)(7) of the Act in support of applications to conduct physical
searches:
(a) Secretary of State;
(b) Secretary of Defense;
(c) Director of Central Intelligence;
(d) Director of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation;
(e) Deputy Secretary of State;
(f) Deputy Secretary of Defense; and
(g) Deputy Director of Central Intelligence.
None of the above officials, nor anyone officially acting in that
capacity, may exercise the authority to make the above certifications,
unless that official has been appointed by the President, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON
THE WHITE HOUSE,
February 9, 1995.
I call dibs on the fur! I need new racing seat covers for my sports car...and I know just what to make them out of.
By the way, anyone want to go baby seal clubbing with me? *grin*
This never happens with Rush Limbaugh though. There's really no self correction as anyone expressing disent it filtered out by his lackeys working the call in phones.
Sounds like you've got a mission calling you. If you really want to "correct" anything Rush Limbaugh has been wrong or miss informed about, may I suggest you create a website and provide a transcript. Along with the transcript, break it and provide a rebuttal for all to read AND comment on.
Just one problem though. This would actually require you to listen to his program. Given your utter disdain of the guy, I doubt you can make it this far. Of course, I've given you the challenge to prove how wrong he is. Care to run with it?
Wwooooooo. Your such bad boy! And I thought I was top dog around town when I rape young girls.
Seriously, our legal priorities in this country are FUCKED UP! Can we please reserve harsh punishments for the true "scum of the earth" type people?
Politburo is correct. The issue resides in Economies of Scale.