The flaw being that I'm pretty sure there would be no Israeli violence if there were no attacks on them... and I'm sure Israel would be quite happy about that...
Nephilium
He's a mad scientist and I'm his beautiful daughter -- Deety to Zeb in Number of the beast
So... that's why they let non-Jews vote, and hold office, and practice their own religion... it's all part of a plan to make them ethnically pure!
It must be a truly cunning and diabolical Jewish plot... since I can't see how being racially and religeously pure would come from this at all... Especially since I could go to Israel without being under penalty of death...
Why not ask the other countries in the area why they kicked the Palestinians out?
Nephilium... an ordained minister in the UCTAA...
The death rate is the same for us as for anybody...one person, one death sooner or later. -- Ellen in Tunnel in the Sky
The prices aren't just for the cases... they don't sell the cases seperately... only the full blown computers... (of course... that only helps on the fact they're expensive a little...) also realize... they're Canadian, so the prices aren't in USD...
Nephilium
Early rising is a vice, Ira; it'll stunt your growth and shorten your days. -- Lazarus Long in Time Enough For Love
If you OWN the bar... it should be your choice... otherwise it's the OWNER of the bar who should have the decision as to if it should be smoke free or a smoke filled room...
Or does the ownership of the property have nothing to do with it?
Nephilium... smoker... and glad I live where the owners can decide...
"The General spoke again, slowly, using his strength as carefully as an out-of-work show-girl uses her last good pair of stockings." -- The Big Sleep (Chapter 2)
Lets start with this: Terrorism is a problem because a group of individuals have a problem with some of the US foreign policies and will fund or commit acts of violence as venegence or policy inflencing. They have a problem with the US's support of isreal and the US perceived occupation of saudi arabia.. How exactly does an invasion help this problem? In fact isn't a war just adding mroe fuel to the fire? Didn't we just convert 28 million people to the terrorist cause by invading, disrupting any semblance of law and order and then doing nothing to restore order? How did that help? drain the fevered swap? that a really bad anology and a idiotic simplification of the politics of the region.
No... Terrorism is a problem because we do not follow Sharia. It's not a matter of foreign policy (besides the fact we don't want all the Israelis driven into the sea). This is a war based on dogma.
We can start by beefing up national security (which happened), sanctioning the individuals who funded this(has not happened). Possibly convince the countries that have populatiosn that hate us to stop the propaganda that blames the US and Isreal for all the problems in the world. I doubt invading one of their neighbors is a good way to do this.
Another alternative is secure the borders, and just wait them out. since all of this takes money and the oil in the region is expected to dry up in ~40 years, we'll be laughing at them liek we do to theAfricans who have similiar grudges but no money to finance any retaliation.
No matter what we do, we won't stop the propaganda against us from fanatics. We are the Great Satan to some of them, and nothing we do (outside submission) will change that. I do agree that we do need to secure our borders, and for that, both sides are sorely lacking. People need to realize that being against illegal immigration isn't the same thing as being against immigration.
The problem is invading a country doesn't solve the problem. even glassing a country wouldn't solve it. Iraq is a meaningless aside in the "war on terror" and the "war on terror" is a cause celebre with very little real signifigance. It's being used to justify the desprate last gamble of a crumblign empire to retain it's #1 spot int he coming century. It's mostly failed. So why continue the meanigless chirade.
Actually, Iraq is a meaningful theater of war. It has several goals: 1) Focus enemy fire on military personal/targets in the area 2) Remove a dictator who was ignoring UN sanctions 3) Help stop genocide 4) Attempt to install a democraticly elected government 5) Kill/capture/injure some high ranking members of Al'qaeda 6) Attempt to find known caches of biological and chemical weapons. Most of these objectives have been met... so I wouldn't say it's failed. It will fail if we simply pick up and leave. For those who think that changes of these magnitude are quick and simple, look at history, and check our troop levels in Japan and Germany.
Nephilium... really hoping the fact that the rest of this thread hasn't been modbombed is a sign...
"She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight." --- The Little Sister (Chapter 12)
I'm still upset that none of the Jack Chick pamphlet pushers I've met have had a copy of Dark Dungeons with them... I've requested it over and over... and they never have it... bunch of slacking hobos...
Nephilium
"The big foreign car drove itself, but I held the wheel for the sake of appearances." -- Farewell, My Lovely (Chapter 9)
'Juvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms, one which gives a clue to their problem and failure to solve it. -- Colonel Dubois in Starship Troopers
One who is a child does need to be instructed on how to behave... the responsibility for this education does not belong to anyone except the parents... it is no one else's responsibility to teach a child how to act well...
The problem is that too many parents now (and most likely in the past as well), think that children can grow up fine with no supervision of their activities... no knowledge of what their kids are doing...
Without a parent/grandparent/aunt/uncle/sibling teaching/raising a child... it's a total crapshoot as to how the kid will turn out... the downside to this is it's actually WORK to raise a child, and not just let the TV turn into a babysitter...
Nephilium
The trouble is that things never get better, they just stay the same, only more so. -- (Terry Pratchett, Eric)
Ok... maybe it's just me... but using OEM to refer to a broken dog (obviously, it hasn't been "fixed")... has to be one of the best things I've seen for the past month...
Nephilium
If anyone ever saluted a third lieutenant, the light must have been bad. -- Johnnie Rico in Starship Troopers
The complaints about paper ballots can be pretty reliably traced back to Florida in 2000, when we were told that the butterfly ballots "were confusing", and then we had the whole fun of chads... I personally still find it hard to believe that the ballots were confusing... I've seen the images of them... they were basically %name% with an arrow to the hole to punch...
Personally... my requirements for a voting system would be fairly simple: Anonymous, Personally verifiable, Auditable, Tamper resistant enough that I can be certain of five nines of accuracy...
Of course... I'm also in favor of a more limited franchise... and getting the 17th amendment repealled...
Nephilium
I drink because I was abused by my parents when I was a kid. They did terrible things, like locking up the liquor cabinet and refusing to buy me wine. --- Renee Dormand, waitress
Personally... when I get a telemarketer, I do my utmost to make their job as uncomfortable as possible... since they initiated the conversation, their time is now mine... If I'm rushed, a simple, "What are you wearing right now?" usually gets them to hang up...
You can also go for the phone-sex line style stuff... and start asking for a credit card number...
Nephilium
Be always drunken. Nothing else matters. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually. -- Charles Baudelaire, French poet
Make sure you get it from each person you talk to as you wend your way up the corporate ladder... it comes in handy when you go to follow up to have the times, dates, and people you talked to documented...
Nephilium
The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards--confidence for the shy, clarity for the uncertain, solace to the wounded and lonely, and above all, the elusive promises of friendship and love. -- Pete Hamill, writer
Ricky, at least as I recall... was Puerto Rican... and there wasn't *as* much hate for hispanics as there was for blacks...
So the Uhura/Kirk kiss was a bit more shocking (to the audience at the time), then Lucy/Ricky kissing...
And it's hard to argue with the fact that Star Trek did start a culture... There are conventions and groups dedicated to it... whereas I don't believe I've ever seen an I Love Lucy convention... (as I try to figure out what the real freaks would wear to that... red wigs?)
Nephilium
People tell me, 'Oh, you just drink to escape your problems.' Well, no shit. I'd eat rat heads if it took away my problems. -- Fred R., panhandler
That's why I love my job... when one of my co-workers (an army reservist), was activated... the female HR person recommended we hire strippers for him... it took the male GM to say NO! for it to be stopped...
Nephilium
I enjoy the craft of it, the art of it. I treat cocktails like a cuisine. -- Robert Hess, writer
As a side literary note... I personally believe that 1984 should not be read without also reading A Brave New World... it provides a balance of the far left wing dystopia with the far right wing dystopia...
Nephilium
I drink because people keep hassling me about my drinking. -- Brandi Belinski, bartender
As I sit here and blow my ability to mod, and get every mod I put on this story rated unfair...
For minimum wage jobs... even the fast food places pay more then minimum wage... When I was 18... several years ago... I worked at McDonald's... at the time I was hired... they payed minimum wage... when I was 18, they raised the starting pay to $7 an hour... $1.85 more then the minimum... why? Because they needed people... and they wouldn't work at McDonald's for $5.15/hour...
Also... check the stats on how many people are actually raising a family on minimum wage, as well as how long people stay at minimum wage...
Despite what some people believe, it isn't hard to get a job that pays more then the minimum wage, as long as you can either count, clean, or use tools... (Working for an inventory service, Janitorial, Construction/Landscaping), you may thing the job is "beneath you", but it'll pay you, as well as keep food on your table...
Asking for the government to get you a job is as smart as asking for the government to take care of your health, retirement, or investments... Why is it that no one trusts the government... but wishes they would make most of the important decisions in their lives?
Nephilium
"I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts," said Brutha. "That way, everyone's happy." -- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
I know that there's one in Columbus, Ohio... not exactly East coast... but definitely not West coast...
Personally, I'm just a fan of beer and cigarettes at an arcade... I didn't outgrow the Chuck E. Cheese mindset... I've just changed my tastes from cardboard pizza to pints of Guinness...
If you start looking at the statistics, and not just listening to the groups like MADD (who has gone the way of prohibitionists)... You don't start seeing real impairment until you reach levels of.2-.3(depending on tolerance)... All the lower BAC laws do is cause an increase in arrests, no decrease in accidents, and cost a lot of people a big pile of money.
Pretty much all of the "Impairment" laws are ridiculous. In some states, you can now be arrested if you fail a drug test... doesn't matter if you have any psychotropic agents in your blood, just finding the residue of your body metabolizing them will get you arrested. And these laws are being pushed to make it "safer to drive"... because, who could be against safer roads?
Just a quick aside... I notice you specify MD in the doctor classification... but there's a whole slew of other people who can be called doctor... namely anyone with a PhD...
Not exactly the best of protected titles...:)
Nephilium
It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far much greater than Hell, the radio or the antacid tablet. -- H.L. Mencken, columnist, biographer
Note... the Great grandparent post did specify public place... which would disqualify your home as a location...
I'm pretty sure that in general, the knee-jerk reaction against cameras in public places is the fear of the slippery slope...
Personally... cameras in public that people could be watching don't bother me that much... cameras that point into a private area that I own... that's an issue... (which leads to the whole "is the interior of my car public or private space?" argument)...
Slashdot Mirror
No one has seen the obvious... the judge is a gamer, and wants to play it pre-release!
Brilliant!
Nephilium
"I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it." -- The Big Sleep (Chapter 1)
The flaw being that I'm pretty sure there would be no Israeli violence if there were no attacks on them... and I'm sure Israel would be quite happy about that...
Nephilium
He's a mad scientist and I'm his beautiful daughter -- Deety to Zeb in Number of the beast
So... that's why they let non-Jews vote, and hold office, and practice their own religion... it's all part of a plan to make them ethnically pure!
It must be a truly cunning and diabolical Jewish plot... since I can't see how being racially and religeously pure would come from this at all... Especially since I could go to Israel without being under penalty of death...
Why not ask the other countries in the area why they kicked the Palestinians out?
Nephilium... an ordained minister in the UCTAA...
The death rate is the same for us as for anybody...one person, one death sooner or later. -- Ellen in Tunnel in the Sky
The prices aren't just for the cases... they don't sell the cases seperately... only the full blown computers... (of course... that only helps on the fact they're expensive a little...) also realize... they're Canadian, so the prices aren't in USD...
Nephilium
Early rising is a vice, Ira; it'll stunt your growth and shorten your days. -- Lazarus Long in Time Enough For Love
If you OWN the bar... it should be your choice... otherwise it's the OWNER of the bar who should have the decision as to if it should be smoke free or a smoke filled room...
Or does the ownership of the property have nothing to do with it?
Nephilium... smoker... and glad I live where the owners can decide...
"The General spoke again, slowly, using his strength as carefully as an out-of-work show-girl uses her last good pair of stockings." -- The Big Sleep (Chapter 2)
No... Terrorism is a problem because we do not follow Sharia. It's not a matter of foreign policy (besides the fact we don't want all the Israelis driven into the sea). This is a war based on dogma.
No matter what we do, we won't stop the propaganda against us from fanatics. We are the Great Satan to some of them, and nothing we do (outside submission) will change that. I do agree that we do need to secure our borders, and for that, both sides are sorely lacking. People need to realize that being against illegal immigration isn't the same thing as being against immigration.
Actually, Iraq is a meaningful theater of war. It has several goals: 1) Focus enemy fire on military personal/targets in the area 2) Remove a dictator who was ignoring UN sanctions 3) Help stop genocide 4) Attempt to install a democraticly elected government 5) Kill/capture/injure some high ranking members of Al'qaeda 6) Attempt to find known caches of biological and chemical weapons. Most of these objectives have been met... so I wouldn't say it's failed. It will fail if we simply pick up and leave. For those who think that changes of these magnitude are quick and simple, look at history, and check our troop levels in Japan and Germany.
Nephilium... really hoping the fact that the rest of this thread hasn't been modbombed is a sign...
"She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight." --- The Little Sister (Chapter 12)
I'm still upset that none of the Jack Chick pamphlet pushers I've met have had a copy of Dark Dungeons with them... I've requested it over and over... and they never have it... bunch of slacking hobos...
Nephilium
"The big foreign car drove itself, but I held the wheel for the sake of appearances." -- Farewell, My Lovely (Chapter 9)
And of course... an appropriate quote to refute:
One who is a child does need to be instructed on how to behave... the responsibility for this education does not belong to anyone except the parents... it is no one else's responsibility to teach a child how to act well...
The problem is that too many parents now (and most likely in the past as well), think that children can grow up fine with no supervision of their activities... no knowledge of what their kids are doing...
Without a parent/grandparent/aunt/uncle/sibling teaching/raising a child... it's a total crapshoot as to how the kid will turn out... the downside to this is it's actually WORK to raise a child, and not just let the TV turn into a babysitter...
Nephilium
The trouble is that things never get better, they just stay the same, only more so. -- (Terry Pratchett, Eric)
We prefer the term drunkards... then we don't have to go to meetings...
Well... besides the strong desire to go to the Lost Weekend...
Nephilium
Drink heightens feeling. When I drink, it heightens my emotions and I put it in a story. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, American author
If you want more things like that to make you feel old... check out the mindset lists...
Nephilium
"The voice got as cool as a cafeteria dinner." -- Farewell, My Lovely (Chapter 15)
I'm pretty sure that the Phantom gaming console has that business model patented...
Nephilium
It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy. -- (Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)
Ok... maybe it's just me... but using OEM to refer to a broken dog (obviously, it hasn't been "fixed")... has to be one of the best things I've seen for the past month...
Nephilium
If anyone ever saluted a third lieutenant, the light must have been bad. -- Johnnie Rico in Starship Troopers
The complaints about paper ballots can be pretty reliably traced back to Florida in 2000, when we were told that the butterfly ballots "were confusing", and then we had the whole fun of chads... I personally still find it hard to believe that the ballots were confusing... I've seen the images of them... they were basically %name% with an arrow to the hole to punch...
Personally... my requirements for a voting system would be fairly simple: Anonymous, Personally verifiable, Auditable, Tamper resistant enough that I can be certain of five nines of accuracy...
Of course... I'm also in favor of a more limited franchise... and getting the 17th amendment repealled...
Nephilium
I drink because I was abused by my parents when I was a kid. They did terrible things, like locking up the liquor cabinet and refusing to buy me wine. --- Renee Dormand, waitress
Personally... when I get a telemarketer, I do my utmost to make their job as uncomfortable as possible... since they initiated the conversation, their time is now mine... If I'm rushed, a simple, "What are you wearing right now?" usually gets them to hang up...
You can also go for the phone-sex line style stuff... and start asking for a credit card number...
Nephilium
Be always drunken. Nothing else matters. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually. -- Charles Baudelaire, French poet
Never forget the companion to that statement:
And what is your name and badge number?
Make sure you get it from each person you talk to as you wend your way up the corporate ladder... it comes in handy when you go to follow up to have the times, dates, and people you talked to documented...
Nephilium
The culture of drink endures because it offers so many rewards--confidence for the shy, clarity for the uncertain, solace to the wounded and lonely, and above all, the elusive promises of friendship and love. -- Pete Hamill, writer
As an aside on the inter-racial aspect...
Ricky, at least as I recall... was Puerto Rican... and there wasn't *as* much hate for hispanics as there was for blacks...
So the Uhura/Kirk kiss was a bit more shocking (to the audience at the time), then Lucy/Ricky kissing...
And it's hard to argue with the fact that Star Trek did start a culture... There are conventions and groups dedicated to it... whereas I don't believe I've ever seen an I Love Lucy convention... (as I try to figure out what the real freaks would wear to that... red wigs?)
Nephilium
People tell me, 'Oh, you just drink to escape your problems.' Well, no shit. I'd eat rat heads if it took away my problems. -- Fred R., panhandler
Also... Windows + E opens Explorer; Windows + R opens the run dialog; Windows + D goes to the desktop; Windows + F opens the search dialog...
Now... if games would just disable the damned thing... I'd be a happier person then I am now...
Nephilium
Wow... that's what I call a Freudian Typo... or just a bad pun...
Nephilium
That's why I love my job... when one of my co-workers (an army reservist), was activated... the female HR person recommended we hire strippers for him... it took the male GM to say NO! for it to be stopped...
Nephilium
I enjoy the craft of it, the art of it. I treat cocktails like a cuisine. -- Robert Hess, writer
As a side literary note... I personally believe that 1984 should not be read without also reading A Brave New World... it provides a balance of the far left wing dystopia with the far right wing dystopia...
Nephilium
I drink because people keep hassling me about my drinking. -- Brandi Belinski, bartender
As I sit here and blow my ability to mod, and get every mod I put on this story rated unfair...
For minimum wage jobs... even the fast food places pay more then minimum wage... When I was 18... several years ago... I worked at McDonald's... at the time I was hired... they payed minimum wage... when I was 18, they raised the starting pay to $7 an hour... $1.85 more then the minimum... why? Because they needed people... and they wouldn't work at McDonald's for $5.15/hour...
Also... check the stats on how many people are actually raising a family on minimum wage, as well as how long people stay at minimum wage...
Despite what some people believe, it isn't hard to get a job that pays more then the minimum wage, as long as you can either count, clean, or use tools... (Working for an inventory service, Janitorial, Construction/Landscaping), you may thing the job is "beneath you", but it'll pay you, as well as keep food on your table...
Asking for the government to get you a job is as smart as asking for the government to take care of your health, retirement, or investments... Why is it that no one trusts the government... but wishes they would make most of the important decisions in their lives?
Nephilium
"I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts," said Brutha. "That way, everyone's happy." -- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
I know that there's one in Columbus, Ohio... not exactly East coast... but definitely not West coast...
Personally, I'm just a fan of beer and cigarettes at an arcade... I didn't outgrow the Chuck E. Cheese mindset... I've just changed my tastes from cardboard pizza to pints of Guinness...
Nephilium
Disclaimer: I have been convicted of an OVI
If you start looking at the statistics, and not just listening to the groups like MADD (who has gone the way of prohibitionists)... You don't start seeing real impairment until you reach levels of .2-.3(depending on tolerance)... All the lower BAC laws do is cause an increase in arrests, no decrease in accidents, and cost a lot of people a big pile of money.
Pretty much all of the "Impairment" laws are ridiculous. In some states, you can now be arrested if you fail a drug test... doesn't matter if you have any psychotropic agents in your blood, just finding the residue of your body metabolizing them will get you arrested. And these laws are being pushed to make it "safer to drive"... because, who could be against safer roads?
Nephilium
Just a quick aside... I notice you specify MD in the doctor classification... but there's a whole slew of other people who can be called doctor... namely anyone with a PhD...
Not exactly the best of protected titles... :)
Nephilium
It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far much greater than Hell, the radio or the antacid tablet. -- H.L. Mencken, columnist, biographer
Note... the Great grandparent post did specify public place... which would disqualify your home as a location...
I'm pretty sure that in general, the knee-jerk reaction against cameras in public places is the fear of the slippery slope...
Personally... cameras in public that people could be watching don't bother me that much... cameras that point into a private area that I own... that's an issue... (which leads to the whole "is the interior of my car public or private space?" argument)...
Nephilium