No thank you, they will just move to our "low tax/low service" states and screw them up like they did theirs. Look at what has happened to North Carolina lately.
It does and they file it under political suicide. What publicly elected official is going to piss off a large number of the voting public (the employees, their friends and family).
Because in the end both sides are looking for the same thing, power over people. Their methods to get there are slightly different, but the end result is the same. Laws that control what you can and cannot do that make you beholden to your politician benefactor.
Just face it, anymore we are just freemen and serfs legally bound to our feudal lords.
So the extremely high tax on cigarettes has stopped all smoking, reducing the income from cigarette taxes to zero? I'm sure you're aware that many people still smoke even with the high tax. Same will be for soda, and the soda tax will be nowhere near as high as the one on cigarettes.
Yeah, we tax addicted people to death because they cannot stop. Effectively we have an enslaved income source, score one for freedom. Now you want to hold that up as a shining example for what to do for other "luxuries". What happens when they implement the "Video Game Tax" or the "World of Warcraft Sales Tax?"
You forgot about using this opportunity to finally gut the last remnants of the UAW. Republicans are trying their best to make that happen and democrats will probably go along.
Don't let the door hit them on the way out either. I don't particularly like paying an extra $2000 on my car just so some lazy, incompetent worker can draw a salary when his job is eliminated. The real value of a Union started to disappear when the government wrote real labor laws.
Luxury, I remember downloading from Q-Link on a 300 baud modem. If I was lucky I would have four pages of encyclopedia reference to print out on the dot matrix. I would then try to write a report with it during the bus ride to school.
Internet, bah, back then we got what they wanted to give you (very, very slowly) and we liked it.
If you truly believe that something like that will make a difference, I want whatever kool-aid you have. They promised you change, but it is not the change you hoped for or one you would willingly ask for if you knew what it was. That is why they were so vague on everything.
If you want to know what is coming down the pipe, pick up "The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Depression" or a good history of the Carter years. You cannot tax yourself to prosperity, nor can you continue to spend more than you make.
I'm fine with the "NT law overwrites OT law" explanation if Christians want to use that. But if they nix OT law, they have to nix all of it, and IIRC all of the anti-gay agenda from the Christians is OT based is it not?
Well, that is simple they are not acting as "Christians" (and boy do I hate that label these days since it has been warped out of context). If they truly believed in Christ, they would do as He asked.
He commanded them to love everyone as themselves and I do not think spewing hatred is being very loving. Christ also commanded us not to judge, but yet they seem to judge everyone on their handy-dandy sin-scale (lying not as bad as cheating, although both are sins and equally bad to God).
A real follower of Christ wouldn't be out there telling you all that you are going to hell, but instead telling you that God loves His creation and wants you to experience life as He intended it, without fear of the curse. A real follower isn't trying to force you to give money buy the pastor $2 million dollar homes and put up $10 million dollar monuments to how successful the church members are, but asking you to take care of those less fortunate (as you would want to be if the situation was reversed).
I could go on, but I think you should be able to figure it out.
P.S. I don't see there being a problem with Creation, if my God is omnipotent, all-powerful, and His ways are a mystery to mankind then who am I (or anyone else) to say that He could not decide to create the universe through evolution?
I'd like to know what flavor of Vista he is running. Vista on my work laptop cannot even survive one hibernate/sleep mode. In the process of starting up it just restarts itself and give me an error. Of course this is an SP1 improvement, since before that it would make me go into system restore before it would reboot.
MS's changes to the file structure creates endless headaches with applications like Lotus Notes where the directory structure used by it is not visible except from within the software. This of course, makes backup up the databases it uses extremely difficult. It also further complicates the process of migrating a user from one machine to another while preserving their local databases.
Not to mention the fact that I have to use "Run As" to use CMD to run even the most basic of networking commands, and even then half the time it wants to tell me my Administrative account doesn't have the necessary access needed. And for no reason Microsoft added twenty steps to access basic settings (Networking being the worst).
But at least it doesn't look like it was designed by Playskool.
Yes, but how much of Vista's gain was because they couldn't get the $600 notebook with anything else on it. Which is unfortunate, since the $600 didn't have the true minimum specs to run Vista properly (Hence why it is now stilling at home running Ubuntu).
I suggest that you read the following news story. It is regarding the enforcability of copyleft agreements and will probably have much weight on this matter.
Or they will just label their software correctly and state that the boxed version of OS X is only an upgrade and not valid without a previous copy of OS X.
Personally, I would be happy to have my government return to what it's scope was intended to be. (As little as necessary to function). I do not need a big brother watching out for me, while robbing me blind.
My American Express does something similar, except they take the time to call me and verify the charges first. That way I don't have to deal with the embarrassment of having my card declined at diner.
That the reviewers did not follow the game's instructions and wore shoes on the balance board. I have difficulty listening to a review done by someone who cannot be bothered to follow the maker's instructions.
Doesn't make much sense to have a site called whyfirefoxisblocked.com and not allow Firefox browser users see it. Perhaps had my browser opened anything from their site, I may have changed my mind on my browser choice.
In the end, I chalk this up to a poorly planned Microsoft marketing scheme that is attempting to reclaim browser share artificially. (Hey they all used IE 7 to look at our site so our browser is the best)
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Because lets just face it, 99% of the population does not give a crap if iTunes is tracking your music preferences and then suggesting other music to them. It is part of the machine and they either do not care or have accepted it as part of life.
And that is the problem. Most teachers don't bother to state that theories are developed by scientific process and is not set in stone. In fact, when I was still in high school I was taught that it was fact, period. It wasn't the Theory of Evolution, it was Evolution. Furthermore, the textbooks used experiments that were disproved years before as proof of evolution, and stated that they were scientific fact. Just like now, when I questioned these things I got anger in response and was called an idiot for not blindly believing the textbook.
I don't deny that evolution could happen, but I have yet to read in 4000 years of recorded history an example of macro-evolution. As I have said before, I don't believe radio-active carbon dating due to what happens when applied certain places. I also see far too often the drawings and sketches of dinosaurs and decendants are too often more from the artist's mind than from anything that has been found. For all I know a dinosaur breathed in one nostril and out the other in a continual flow of air, since there is not a dinosaur around to see all we have is what we believe. These are questions that I have had for years regarding evolution, and have yet to hear someone supply a real answer to them.
This is the same science that dates the lava from the last Mount Saint Helens eruption as being 1 million years old. Science is not perfect. History shoes that science one stated that the sun revolved around the earth. That is why we have scientific theories.
Every "THEORY", yes let's stress that again "THEORY" has holes in it, if it did not have those holes it would not be a "THEORY" but a Law, fact, whatever they want to call it these days. The point is that Evolution is just as unprovable as ID, Creationism, or my personal "I pulled it out of my butt last week" theories.
That is the part of all this that bothers me. Evolutionist tend to approach this issue with a "We are absolutely right" attitude, and the fact is you have no more of a clue as the rest of us.
Perhaps it is time that you make the effort to get involved in your government, and do something about what you do not like. Personally, I would like to see a term limit to US Senators and Representatives. I am tired of turning on CSPAN to see half of the Senate either asleep or hooked up to IV's. After 8 or 12 years, I think that the person just might have lost touch with the society he is supposed to be representing. For examples, I present the senators from West Virginia, they have been there longer than I have been alive. Somehow, I doubt they understand the issues that I feel are important yet because they have always been there you cannot get them out of office.
"Sitting down with Xbox's J Allard six months ago, at the 360's unveiling, two things became very quickly apparent. The first was that this was a machine built around a philosophy, not a set of tech specs."
Hmm... odd I seem to remember Microsoft and Sony getting into a peeing contest over their specs, and Nintendo being the only one to state that specs didn't matter three months ago.
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No thank you, they will just move to our "low tax/low service" states and screw them up like they did theirs. Look at what has happened to North Carolina lately.
It does and they file it under political suicide. What publicly elected official is going to piss off a large number of the voting public (the employees, their friends and family).
Because in the end both sides are looking for the same thing, power over people. Their methods to get there are slightly different, but the end result is the same. Laws that control what you can and cannot do that make you beholden to your politician benefactor.
Just face it, anymore we are just freemen and serfs legally bound to our feudal lords.
So the extremely high tax on cigarettes has stopped all smoking, reducing the income from cigarette taxes to zero? I'm sure you're aware that many people still smoke even with the high tax. Same will be for soda, and the soda tax will be nowhere near as high as the one on cigarettes.
Yeah, we tax addicted people to death because they cannot stop. Effectively we have an enslaved income source, score one for freedom. Now you want to hold that up as a shining example for what to do for other "luxuries". What happens when they implement the "Video Game Tax" or the "World of Warcraft Sales Tax?"
You forgot about using this opportunity to finally gut the last remnants of the UAW. Republicans are trying their best to make that happen and democrats will probably go along.
Don't let the door hit them on the way out either. I don't particularly like paying an extra $2000 on my car just so some lazy, incompetent worker can draw a salary when his job is eliminated. The real value of a Union started to disappear when the government wrote real labor laws.
I think they tried that over in Russia once. Can't quite remember how that worked out....
Except they tax those too. TN charges a use tax when you purchase with a gift card on iTunes.
Luxury, I remember downloading from Q-Link on a 300 baud modem. If I was lucky I would have four pages of encyclopedia reference to print out on the dot matrix. I would then try to write a report with it during the bus ride to school.
Internet, bah, back then we got what they wanted to give you (very, very slowly) and we liked it.
If you truly believe that something like that will make a difference, I want whatever kool-aid you have. They promised you change, but it is not the change you hoped for or one you would willingly ask for if you knew what it was. That is why they were so vague on everything.
If you want to know what is coming down the pipe, pick up "The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Depression" or a good history of the Carter years. You cannot tax yourself to prosperity, nor can you continue to spend more than you make.
I'm fine with the "NT law overwrites OT law" explanation if Christians want to use that. But if they nix OT law, they have to nix all of it, and IIRC all of the anti-gay agenda from the Christians is OT based is it not?
Well, that is simple they are not acting as "Christians" (and boy do I hate that label these days since it has been warped out of context). If they truly believed in Christ, they would do as He asked.
He commanded them to love everyone as themselves and I do not think spewing hatred is being very loving. Christ also commanded us not to judge, but yet they seem to judge everyone on their handy-dandy sin-scale (lying not as bad as cheating, although both are sins and equally bad to God).
A real follower of Christ wouldn't be out there telling you all that you are going to hell, but instead telling you that God loves His creation and wants you to experience life as He intended it, without fear of the curse. A real follower isn't trying to force you to give money buy the pastor $2 million dollar homes and put up $10 million dollar monuments to how successful the church members are, but asking you to take care of those less fortunate (as you would want to be if the situation was reversed).
I could go on, but I think you should be able to figure it out.
P.S. I don't see there being a problem with Creation, if my God is omnipotent, all-powerful, and His ways are a mystery to mankind then who am I (or anyone else) to say that He could not decide to create the universe through evolution?
I'd like to know what flavor of Vista he is running. Vista on my work laptop cannot even survive one hibernate/sleep mode. In the process of starting up it just restarts itself and give me an error. Of course this is an SP1 improvement, since before that it would make me go into system restore before it would reboot.
MS's changes to the file structure creates endless headaches with applications like Lotus Notes where the directory structure used by it is not visible except from within the software. This of course, makes backup up the databases it uses extremely difficult. It also further complicates the process of migrating a user from one machine to another while preserving their local databases.
Not to mention the fact that I have to use "Run As" to use CMD to run even the most basic of networking commands, and even then half the time it wants to tell me my Administrative account doesn't have the necessary access needed. And for no reason Microsoft added twenty steps to access basic settings (Networking being the worst).
But at least it doesn't look like it was designed by Playskool.
Yes, but how much of Vista's gain was because they couldn't get the $600 notebook with anything else on it. Which is unfortunate, since the $600 didn't have the true minimum specs to run Vista properly (Hence why it is now stilling at home running Ubuntu).
until we get to see the footage of their fake moon landing. I hope it is better than ours since they have the advantage of digital technology.
I suggest that you read the following news story. It is regarding the enforcability of copyleft agreements and will probably have much weight on this matter.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080813-court-violating-copyleft-copyright-infringement.html
Or they will just label their software correctly and state that the boxed version of OS X is only an upgrade and not valid without a previous copy of OS X.
Personally, I would be happy to have my government return to what it's scope was intended to be. (As little as necessary to function). I do not need a big brother watching out for me, while robbing me blind.
My American Express does something similar, except they take the time to call me and verify the charges first. That way I don't have to deal with the embarrassment of having my card declined at diner.
Hold the power button down until the computer shuts off when Windows/Dos crashes?
That the reviewers did not follow the game's instructions and wore shoes on the balance board. I have difficulty listening to a review done by someone who cannot be bothered to follow the maker's instructions.
Doesn't make much sense to have a site called whyfirefoxisblocked.com and not allow Firefox browser users see it. Perhaps had my browser opened anything from their site, I may have changed my mind on my browser choice.
In the end, I chalk this up to a poorly planned Microsoft marketing scheme that is attempting to reclaim browser share artificially. (Hey they all used IE 7 to look at our site so our browser is the best)
Because lets just face it, 99% of the population does not give a crap if iTunes is tracking your music preferences and then suggesting other music to them. It is part of the machine and they either do not care or have accepted it as part of life.
And that is the problem. Most teachers don't bother to state that theories are developed by scientific process and is not set in stone. In fact, when I was still in high school I was taught that it was fact, period. It wasn't the Theory of Evolution, it was Evolution. Furthermore, the textbooks used experiments that were disproved years before as proof of evolution, and stated that they were scientific fact. Just like now, when I questioned these things I got anger in response and was called an idiot for not blindly believing the textbook.
I don't deny that evolution could happen, but I have yet to read in 4000 years of recorded history an example of macro-evolution. As I have said before, I don't believe radio-active carbon dating due to what happens when applied certain places. I also see far too often the drawings and sketches of dinosaurs and decendants are too often more from the artist's mind than from anything that has been found. For all I know a dinosaur breathed in one nostril and out the other in a continual flow of air, since there is not a dinosaur around to see all we have is what we believe. These are questions that I have had for years regarding evolution, and have yet to hear someone supply a real answer to them.
This is the same science that dates the lava from the last Mount Saint Helens eruption as being 1 million years old. Science is not perfect. History shoes that science one stated that the sun revolved around the earth. That is why we have scientific theories.
Every "THEORY", yes let's stress that again "THEORY" has holes in it, if it did not have those holes it would not be a "THEORY" but a Law, fact, whatever they want to call it these days. The point is that Evolution is just as unprovable as ID, Creationism, or my personal "I pulled it out of my butt last week" theories.
That is the part of all this that bothers me. Evolutionist tend to approach this issue with a "We are absolutely right" attitude, and the fact is you have no more of a clue as the rest of us.
Perhaps it is time that you make the effort to get involved in your government, and do something about what you do not like. Personally, I would like to see a term limit to US Senators and Representatives. I am tired of turning on CSPAN to see half of the Senate either asleep or hooked up to IV's. After 8 or 12 years, I think that the person just might have lost touch with the society he is supposed to be representing. For examples, I present the senators from West Virginia, they have been there longer than I have been alive. Somehow, I doubt they understand the issues that I feel are important yet because they have always been there you cannot get them out of office.
"Sitting down with Xbox's J Allard six months ago, at the 360's unveiling, two things became very quickly apparent. The first was that this was a machine built around a philosophy, not a set of tech specs."
Hmm... odd I seem to remember Microsoft and Sony getting into a peeing contest over their specs, and Nintendo being the only one to state that specs didn't matter three months ago.