in other words, the Federal Government is not required to follow statutes or the constitution
Anyone here old enough to remember that Newt Gingritch used similar Democrat stupidity (House Bank scandal, House & Senate exempting themselves from following worker safety laws, etc) to sweep into power back in 1994?
Obama voted yes for the telecom immunity bill. He supported the wiretapping program in the Senate, why do you think he'd stop supporting it when he was elected President?
Substance doesn't matter to "Hope And Change" zombies.
Not that it matters much to the "Saddam planned 9/11" crowd, but liberals are supposed to be Sooooo Muuuuch Smarter, Hipper And Rational than Bible-thumping Young Earth Creationist conservatives that you'd think they'd care a smidgen about reality.
Quite a bit of moral variance disappears when you control for access to information and personal liberty.
Access to information?
Except that "personal liberty" is a Western cultural ideal that seems to have started (however imperfectly) with the Brits (Magna Carta, Rights of Englishmen, and whatnot), and wasn't recognized by many Germans until we "reeducated" them after WW2.
By applying anything short of our own standards of justice, we betrayed both these purported goals and showed our true colors.
But but but but, no one culture is any better than any other culture. Who are we to say that the Iraqis shouldn't execute Saddam? Shame on you for being Euro-centric.
Moral relativism is despicable on any day
Where, then, do moral absolutes derive? (Be careful what you say, because "Following one's conscience" is Moral Relativism.)
I'd also disagree with the article that meat is so valuable to their diet. They LOVE meat, but other research suggests that the amount of energy expended on hunting compared to what they gain in protein/food is a net negative. Hunting is also high risk and includes getting injured in the process.
They might need meat for the same reason we do: essential amino acids, vitamins, minerals and fat that their fruit/plant diet either lacks or is deficient in.
The best place of solar panels is on the roof of your house, charging up a battery bank you can use to charge the car when you park it.
Ain't that the frickin' truth! My house's roof has a huge rectangular surface pointing due south that I'd love to do nothing more than cover with solar panels.
But
they are expensive,
I live in hurricane territory, and
I'd have to seriously trim back a couple of trees to eliminate that damage vector, and cutting down CO2-eating, O2-producing, heat-absorbing shade trees just to generate some electricity seems counter-productive.
Sure I do! That way DHS swoops in, rounds them up, and (based on all the left-wing whining and ravings you see in places like/. and dailykos) throws them in Gitmo with thousands, nay, billions of other domestic political prisoners and Belgians.
He may need a teleprompter, but at least when he has one he can talk without sounding like a complete idiot.
You forgot about the "thank you" speech, and "liberty, [looooong pause] egalitie, fraternite" .
The guy might be the smartest man in the known universe, but the guy, a politician no less, so smooth that people swooned over him, can't even memorize the basic outline of a speech (because otherwise he would have noticed that he wasn't reading his own speech).
with a good battery, i.e. hydrogen, you can make power more efficiently at a power plant and the total energy cost can decrease.
Except that we (only in the US, or does it happen all over the world?) lose something like 50% loss from transmission.
What I, IMNSHO, think we need are smaller NG nuke plants closer to population centers. Higher efficiency thru less transmission loss, but more sites to protect from Bad Guys.
And I don't think my entire family will fit either.
Or groceries or luggage, or run on a cloudy day.
Solar auto challenges should be viewed as nothing more than useful engineer training that serves no immediate practical purpose, just as having my CompSci prof give me a large Senior Project, that I haven't used in my professional life, but gave me a solid foundation on which to grow.
"To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made..."
And if that "unarmed" "civilian" has an AK or hand grenade or RPG-7 under his (or her) robes? Or if an armed child is standing next to his unarmed mother and sister?
You've just got to understand that guerrilla warfare will, by definition, cause lots of collateral damage.
So, if you don't want your city destroyed, go fight out in the countryside, and get wiped out by America's superior military. Which is why you fight in the city!
if you generally compare modern wars to each other, you'll notice how western countries take less and less casualties and it's all thanks (to the greater part) to new and improved body armor.
Even in WW2, Guadalcanal to Saipan, the Japan:US kill ratio was mind-bogglingly high.
starts you as civilian, then your little (town) gets invaded by the Russians, many of your friends get executed or die and you end up basically the insurgence fighting back the invasion. You also happen to die at the end.
Wasn't there a movie about that in 1984, with Patrick Swazye and written by the same guy who did Dirty Harry?
It will remain that way, and the battles that are fought will always be won by "the good guys".
You haven't been in a classroom lately, have you? (My 4th grade kids were just yesterday taught that the Spaniards looted Mexico and Peru, which is definitely not what the "winners" would have written.)
No, it's 14 year olds sending cellphone pictures unclothed to each other.
What the hell are 14yo girls doing throwing themselves at boys? Have they no self-respect?
and it's a little boy whose mother took a picture of him when he happened to put his penis though a chain link fence and winds up arrested because the photo developer became freaked out.
Why in the hell is a woman taking a picture of her boy's penis stuck through a fence? That's just stupid. And weird. Really, really weird and disturbing that someone would want to save such a "moment" for posterity and future humiliation.
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Seriously, you cannot be that naive...
Well... his 7-digit uid indicates that he might be young, so yes, he certainly does appear to be brain-drainingly naive.
in other words, the Federal Government is not required to follow statutes or the constitution
Anyone here old enough to remember that Newt Gingritch used similar Democrat stupidity (House Bank scandal, House & Senate exempting themselves from following worker safety laws, etc) to sweep into power back in 1994?
Obama voted yes for the telecom immunity bill. He supported the wiretapping program in the Senate, why do you think he'd stop supporting it when he was elected President?
Substance doesn't matter to "Hope And Change" zombies.
Not that it matters much to the "Saddam planned 9/11" crowd, but liberals are supposed to be Sooooo Muuuuch Smarter, Hipper And Rational than Bible-thumping Young Earth Creationist conservatives that you'd think they'd care a smidgen about reality.
Quite a bit of moral variance disappears when you control for access to information and personal liberty.
By applying anything short of our own standards of justice, we betrayed both these purported goals and showed our true colors.
But but but but, no one culture is any better than any other culture. Who are we to say that the Iraqis shouldn't execute Saddam? Shame on you for being Euro-centric.
Moral relativism is despicable on any day
Where, then, do moral absolutes derive? (Be careful what you say, because "Following one's conscience" is Moral Relativism.)
I'd also disagree with the article that meat is so valuable to their diet. They LOVE meat, but other research suggests that the amount of energy expended on hunting compared to what they gain in protein/food is a net negative. Hunting is also high risk and includes getting injured in the process.
They might need meat for the same reason we do: essential amino acids, vitamins, minerals and fat that their fruit/plant diet either lacks or is deficient in.
Ain't that the frickin' truth... :(
The best place of solar panels is on the roof of your house, charging up a battery bank you can use to charge the car when you park it.
Ain't that the frickin' truth! My house's roof has a huge rectangular surface pointing due south that I'd love to do nothing more than cover with solar panels.
But
nobody wants a PETA riot
Sure I do! That way DHS swoops in, rounds them up, and (based on all the left-wing whining and ravings you see in places like /. and dailykos) throws them in Gitmo with thousands, nay, billions of other domestic political prisoners and Belgians.
that anyone could think otherwise
Except that I never said that W was smarter than B.O.
He may need a teleprompter, but at least when he has one he can talk without sounding like a complete idiot.
You forgot about the "thank you" speech, and "liberty, [looooong pause] egalitie, fraternite" .
The guy might be the smartest man in the known universe, but the guy, a politician no less, so smooth that people swooned over him, can't even memorize the basic outline of a speech (because otherwise he would have noticed that he wasn't reading his own speech).
Now stop misunderestimating me!
- George W.
As compared to the current President who thinks that Austrians speak Austrian, and is totally lost without a teleprompter?
Then he should have charged them with obstruction of justice.
There's nothing to stop him from doing that if enough damning evidence has been gathered by the independent investigator,
with a good battery, i.e. hydrogen, you can make power more efficiently at a power plant and the total energy cost can decrease.
Except that we (only in the US, or does it happen all over the world?) lose something like 50% loss from transmission.
What I, IMNSHO, think we need are smaller NG nuke plants closer to population centers. Higher efficiency thru less transmission loss, but more sites to protect from Bad Guys.
That the use of large-scale weapons against civilian populations will result in civilian casualties?
You need to re-read what I wrote. I'll even highlight the important part:
And I don't think my entire family will fit either.
Or groceries or luggage, or run on a cloudy day.
Solar auto challenges should be viewed as nothing more than useful engineer training that serves no immediate practical purpose, just as having my CompSci prof give me a large Senior Project, that I haven't used in my professional life, but gave me a solid foundation on which to grow.
Yeah, standards change.
But are they changing for the better? I think not.
"To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made..."
And if that "unarmed" "civilian" has an AK or hand grenade or RPG-7 under his (or her) robes? Or if an armed child is standing next to his unarmed mother and sister?
You've just got to understand that guerrilla warfare will, by definition, cause lots of collateral damage.
So, if you don't want your city destroyed, go fight out in the countryside, and get wiped out by America's superior military. Which is why you fight in the city!
if you generally compare modern wars to each other, you'll notice how western countries take less and less casualties and it's all thanks (to the greater part) to new and improved body armor.
Even in WW2, Guadalcanal to Saipan, the Japan:US kill ratio was mind-bogglingly high.
starts you as civilian, then your little (town) gets invaded by the Russians, many of your friends get executed or die and you end up basically the insurgence fighting back the invasion. You also happen to die at the end.
Wasn't there a movie about that in 1984, with Patrick Swazye and written by the same guy who did Dirty Harry?
It will remain that way, and the battles that are fought will always be won by "the good guys".
You haven't been in a classroom lately, have you? (My 4th grade kids were just yesterday taught that the Spaniards looted Mexico and Peru, which is definitely not what the "winners" would have written.)
You don't know a lot of 14 year olds, do you?
I remember. Parents didn't allow girls that age to date, and they (the 8th grade girls) had more of a flirty "catch me if you can" attitude.
Or haven't you looked at the teen pregnancy rates,
Yeah, I have.
tens to hundreds of thousands
That's a pretty ambiguous number. Smells like propaganda to me.
Come back with documentation, or I call BS.
No, it's 14 year olds sending cellphone pictures unclothed to each other.
What the hell are 14yo girls doing throwing themselves at boys? Have they no self-respect?
and it's a little boy whose mother took a picture of him when he happened to put his penis though a chain link fence and winds up arrested because the photo developer became freaked out.
Why in the hell is a woman taking a picture of her boy's penis stuck through a fence? That's just stupid. And weird. Really, really weird and disturbing that someone would want to save such a "moment" for posterity and future humiliation.
Politicians.
Nah, they are too stupid to think of something like that. It's bureaucrats and "compassionate" activists who come up with this idiocy.