I didn't realize the US had claim on Indonesia. At the time, the USA claimed legal standing over the Confederacy. As such, he freed every slave there, but was unable to enforce it. That's a minor distinction like the minor distinction between being alive and dead.
What use is a "law" that's unenforcable? Oh yes, it's illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your pocket in North Carolina. Big deal. It's irrelevent, and the point is, that the emancipation is what Lincoln is most remembered for, and it's usually why he's in the top five list of greatest presidents. The Confederacy had drafted, and adopted their own constitution, and they had no representation in Congress with all their senators and reps walking out in protest, as such, they were NOT part of the country anymore, and Lincoln had NO control over them.
The emancipation was a brilliant idea on the Union's part, because it meant that the United Kingdom wouldn't render assistance to the Confederacy, because it made the entire war an issue on slavery.
Do you view Lincoln and Kennedy as good presidents who got shot, or good presidents BECAUSE they got shot?
Lincoln is the one who's responsible for the modern view that the president is allowed to issue edicts which have the full force of law, without consent from Congress. With Johnson following in his footsteps, he was impeached for his actions.
Kennedy was responsible for getting us involved in that fuckwit war in Vietnam, and he's responsible for the embargo that's STILL in place on Cuba to this day. You'd think that after half a century we could get over it, and revitalize their economy.
Now, Kennedy might have signed a couple of laws with regard to segregation, and that's nice, but Lincoln didn't free any slaves. The Emancipation freed the slaves in territories that didn't recognize the President or Congress as their leadership. Would be similar to Obama outlawing child prostitution in Indonesia or something, it just has absolutely no legal merit.
And why does nobody talk about Garfield?
He should have been your first pick for assassinated presidents. He died after only about a year in office, which isn't enough time to do much good or much bad. However, his death DID lead to the invention of the metal detector, or at least the first use of a device to find a bullet.
Nothing complex about adding a little footnote in whatever work you've made that says "As the creator of this work, I hereby release it into the public domain."
The American revolution didn't have a single obvious cause. It was a lot of very, very tiny repressions over a long period of time. Even after the Boston "massacre" the majority of people IN Boston weren't willing to rebel against the king. It took the repercussions of the French-Indian war, with the huge taxes that were applied to the United States, as well as the red coats march to the local armories in Lexington and Concorde, before anything serious happened.
You sound like the guy from Timecube. What do you mean by "symmetrical"? How is the sun's "symmetry" related to a rain drop's? There's no evidence which suggests that the big bang was symmetrical, because there's no reference frame to view it from to grant it symmetry or non-symmetry.
Using the balloon analogy, and trying to fit the Universe into a four dimensional framework, as a three dimensional object wrapped around it, is irrelevent.
We're not fourth dimensional entities, and neither is the physical universe in which we live. Except for the dimension we call "time" of course, but that's not the fourth dimension I'm talking about.
Our physical universe, the one that contains all those stars and planets and galaxies and black holes, and maybe aliens, does not have a center.
However, because of relativity, we could say ANY point in that universe is the center, but there's no one point in the universe with any more significance than any other.
The CO2 could be a big deal, but water? Seriously? Water? It's the second most abundant molecule in the fucking universe, and that's supposed to be a big deal? Am I missing something?
Not quite that far. The galaxy is about 50,000 ly across, and the earth is a bit more than halfway from the center. So, we're only around 25,000 ly away from this beast.
There is no center to the universe. None. Nowhere. It doesn't exist.
Black holes do not output anything, either. There's the massive amount of radiation coming from the shit that's falling in, when a particle falls into a black hole, sometimes the sheering forces of the event horizon produce anti-matter that annihilates the particle, producing x-rays and gamma rays, but the black hole itself, anything inside the event horizon, is gone from the universe.
Unless the "output" black hole you're talking about is a "white hole". Which is just silly. The concept of a white hole violates the first law of thermodynamics, AND it would have to be made out of a material with anti-mass.
The Mythbusters tried the metallic ink in an MRI myth. There isn't enough metal in the ink to have any sort of effect at all. The person with the tattoo who had the MRI said that there was no pain or heat or anything.
Isn't one of the definitions of genocide the act of taking the children away from their families and brainwashing them, as defined by the guy who coined the term back in the late 40's - early 50's?
A few weeks ago I heard an anti-prohibitionist talking about our drug problem. He said that ending the war on drugs won't cure our drug problem, and that once we stop warring on ourselves, we have to turn inward and fix our drug problem. You don't honestly believe that prison is the best place for somebody with a drug problem, do you?
I remember my last childhood vaccination, and I didn't get sick from it. The only discomfort I had, aside from the needle itself, was some soreness at the injection site for a day or so. I didn't feel run down like I had a cold or anything. Isn't that the whole point of a vaccination? It's only strong enough to get your immune system to recognize it as a threat and stop it, but not strong enough to cause your immune system to do the drastic things like raising your temperature and destroying infected cells.
We've been vaccinating people against disease for what? Forty years? Smallpox has been completely eradicated, polio isn't totally gone but it's certainly nowhere near as big a problem as it used to be. The problem is that we keep living longer, and discovering new problems. I doubt vaccinations will be laughed at in a hundred years, because they have a proven track record. Newton's laws of motion have been adjusted, but nobody would say he was way off the mark, he was just off a little.
Since medicine is becoming more and more scientifically grounded, we'll see more and more reliability in it.
There is no modern method for smallpox. Smallpox has been eradicated from nature, and only survives as two samples on ice. One is in the United States, and I believe the other is in Russia.
There is NO democratic process in the United States when it comes to revoking rights. I own my body, because I am not a slave. Therefore, I can do what I wish to my own body, and if I want to put drugs into it, that's my right to do so.
There is NO legal way of revoking the rights of ANYONE, it doesn't matter how many people are in favor of the idea. The KKK is allowed to protest and march and print up newspapers, but so can I.
How can our black market for cocaine be BETTER than a legal alternative? Tremendous profits mean lethal force to maintain those profits. Make something legal, and the black market no longer gets to set the price, the free market does. You make Big Macs illegal, and McDonalds is going to shift into the black market and charge whatever they want.
Murder isn't deterred by law. People murder without regard to the law. If they murder for profit like organized crime, they know it's illegal, and the lure of the money is more important than the risk the law poses. If somebody snaps and kills all his co-workers during lunch break, he isn't judging the consequences of his actions, because he's snapped. Cops being present can deter a crime, but the law itself is irrelevant.
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If you kept that gaming pc for a century or two, it would become worth a hell of a lot more than you paid for it.
I didn't realize the US had claim on Indonesia. At the time, the USA claimed legal standing over the Confederacy. As such, he freed every slave there, but was unable to enforce it. That's a minor distinction like the minor distinction between being alive and dead.
What use is a "law" that's unenforcable? Oh yes, it's illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your pocket in North Carolina. Big deal. It's irrelevent, and the point is, that the emancipation is what Lincoln is most remembered for, and it's usually why he's in the top five list of greatest presidents. The Confederacy had drafted, and adopted their own constitution, and they had no representation in Congress with all their senators and reps walking out in protest, as such, they were NOT part of the country anymore, and Lincoln had NO control over them.
The emancipation was a brilliant idea on the Union's part, because it meant that the United Kingdom wouldn't render assistance to the Confederacy, because it made the entire war an issue on slavery.
You can't go to jail for libel.
Do you view Lincoln and Kennedy as good presidents who got shot, or good presidents BECAUSE they got shot?
Lincoln is the one who's responsible for the modern view that the president is allowed to issue edicts which have the full force of law, without consent from Congress. With Johnson following in his footsteps, he was impeached for his actions.
Kennedy was responsible for getting us involved in that fuckwit war in Vietnam, and he's responsible for the embargo that's STILL in place on Cuba to this day. You'd think that after half a century we could get over it, and revitalize their economy.
Now, Kennedy might have signed a couple of laws with regard to segregation, and that's nice, but Lincoln didn't free any slaves. The Emancipation freed the slaves in territories that didn't recognize the President or Congress as their leadership. Would be similar to Obama outlawing child prostitution in Indonesia or something, it just has absolutely no legal merit.
And why does nobody talk about Garfield?
He should have been your first pick for assassinated presidents. He died after only about a year in office, which isn't enough time to do much good or much bad. However, his death DID lead to the invention of the metal detector, or at least the first use of a device to find a bullet.
Nothing complex about adding a little footnote in whatever work you've made that says "As the creator of this work, I hereby release it into the public domain."
The American revolution didn't have a single obvious cause. It was a lot of very, very tiny repressions over a long period of time. Even after the Boston "massacre" the majority of people IN Boston weren't willing to rebel against the king. It took the repercussions of the French-Indian war, with the huge taxes that were applied to the United States, as well as the red coats march to the local armories in Lexington and Concorde, before anything serious happened.
Isn't water vapor a greenhouse gas?
You sound like the guy from Timecube. What do you mean by "symmetrical"? How is the sun's "symmetry" related to a rain drop's? There's no evidence which suggests that the big bang was symmetrical, because there's no reference frame to view it from to grant it symmetry or non-symmetry.
Martha Jones was The Doctor's companion in the third season, and the redhead is his fourth season companion, yes.
What about ludicrous speed?
Using the balloon analogy, and trying to fit the Universe into a four dimensional framework, as a three dimensional object wrapped around it, is irrelevent.
We're not fourth dimensional entities, and neither is the physical universe in which we live. Except for the dimension we call "time" of course, but that's not the fourth dimension I'm talking about.
Our physical universe, the one that contains all those stars and planets and galaxies and black holes, and maybe aliens, does not have a center.
However, because of relativity, we could say ANY point in that universe is the center, but there's no one point in the universe with any more significance than any other.
The CO2 could be a big deal, but water? Seriously? Water? It's the second most abundant molecule in the fucking universe, and that's supposed to be a big deal? Am I missing something?
A good programmer should be able to use butterflies
Not quite that far. The galaxy is about 50,000 ly across, and the earth is a bit more than halfway from the center. So, we're only around 25,000 ly away from this beast.
There is no center to the universe. None. Nowhere. It doesn't exist.
Black holes do not output anything, either. There's the massive amount of radiation coming from the shit that's falling in, when a particle falls into a black hole, sometimes the sheering forces of the event horizon produce anti-matter that annihilates the particle, producing x-rays and gamma rays, but the black hole itself, anything inside the event horizon, is gone from the universe.
Unless the "output" black hole you're talking about is a "white hole". Which is just silly. The concept of a white hole violates the first law of thermodynamics, AND it would have to be made out of a material with anti-mass.
The Mythbusters tried the metallic ink in an MRI myth. There isn't enough metal in the ink to have any sort of effect at all. The person with the tattoo who had the MRI said that there was no pain or heat or anything.
A metal plate might do something, though.
Isn't one of the definitions of genocide the act of taking the children away from their families and brainwashing them, as defined by the guy who coined the term back in the late 40's - early 50's?
A few weeks ago I heard an anti-prohibitionist talking about our drug problem. He said that ending the war on drugs won't cure our drug problem, and that once we stop warring on ourselves, we have to turn inward and fix our drug problem. You don't honestly believe that prison is the best place for somebody with a drug problem, do you?
I remember my last childhood vaccination, and I didn't get sick from it. The only discomfort I had, aside from the needle itself, was some soreness at the injection site for a day or so. I didn't feel run down like I had a cold or anything. Isn't that the whole point of a vaccination? It's only strong enough to get your immune system to recognize it as a threat and stop it, but not strong enough to cause your immune system to do the drastic things like raising your temperature and destroying infected cells.
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Yes, it's a perfectly rational sentence.
We've been vaccinating people against disease for what? Forty years? Smallpox has been completely eradicated, polio isn't totally gone but it's certainly nowhere near as big a problem as it used to be. The problem is that we keep living longer, and discovering new problems. I doubt vaccinations will be laughed at in a hundred years, because they have a proven track record. Newton's laws of motion have been adjusted, but nobody would say he was way off the mark, he was just off a little.
Since medicine is becoming more and more scientifically grounded, we'll see more and more reliability in it.
There is no modern method for smallpox. Smallpox has been eradicated from nature, and only survives as two samples on ice. One is in the United States, and I believe the other is in Russia.
There is NO democratic process in the United States when it comes to revoking rights. I own my body, because I am not a slave. Therefore, I can do what I wish to my own body, and if I want to put drugs into it, that's my right to do so.
There is NO legal way of revoking the rights of ANYONE, it doesn't matter how many people are in favor of the idea. The KKK is allowed to protest and march and print up newspapers, but so can I.
How can our black market for cocaine be BETTER than a legal alternative? Tremendous profits mean lethal force to maintain those profits. Make something legal, and the black market no longer gets to set the price, the free market does. You make Big Macs illegal, and McDonalds is going to shift into the black market and charge whatever they want.
Murder isn't deterred by law. People murder without regard to the law. If they murder for profit like organized crime, they know it's illegal, and the lure of the money is more important than the risk the law poses. If somebody snaps and kills all his co-workers during lunch break, he isn't judging the consequences of his actions, because he's snapped. Cops being present can deter a crime, but the law itself is irrelevant.