It is ironic you call Bill Clinton a fool for supporting social programs when Christianity purports to have a central tentant of generosity to those less fortunate.
The question is does government do a better job of providing charity than religious organisations. Most conservatives would say "no" emphatically. American religious organisations are the most charitable in the world.
Instead, one trait I commonly find amongst Christians is they are extremely greedy. They are aghast at any of their money being given to the impovished [slashdot.org].
You mistake greed for Protestant thrift.
Nevermind that the fundamental reason we form societies is to improve the lives of everyone in the group. The mutual benefit of all participants is the very reason we come together and build cities, states, and nations.
No, it is to give members of society a fair chance at improving their life. That is a big distinction.
It would behoove you to better understand the roots of our civilization [wikipedia.org] and liberalism [wikipedia.org] (in particular, note its origins and the concept of sovereignty of the individual [wikipedia.org]). You will find they pre-date Judeo-Christian culture.
It might behoove you use more diverse sources than the intellectual "gumball machine", wikipedia, you simpleton.
I would further comment that Christianity and similar religions have goals which stand precisely opposite to those of western civilization. We prefer democracy in which the power and purpose of the individual is encouraged and protected.
Tell that to an aborted fetus.
In Christianity, you have an eternal "king" who is the sole decision maker in not only every aspect of each individual life, but the lives of all humanity. This king then appoints a hierarchial order of clergy whom hold great authority over the masses. The former of these is freedom and the latter is absolute tyranny.
Last I noticed I was not being shaken down for 50% of my income by Pope Benedict. Massive liberal taxation is the ultimate tyranny.
In modern American politics, conservatives appear to be of the "new" variety. I surely hope that nobody with any sense would vote for any politician coming from a neo-conservative platform as these people are, if you have been paying attention for the past six years, hell-bent on tearing-down American principles that have taken centuries to build.
It's morning in America.
This includes everything from Women's Rights to civil liberties. Absolutely not. Instead, vote for moderates and centrists who abide by the provisions in the Constitution and recognize the value of our Bill of Rights [wikipedia.org].
I would encourage undecided voters to reject those on the left who choose to frivolously ignore the real enemy.
The Chinese, Greeks, Pre-Christian Rome, Indians and many other civilisations had a lot of the same laws before they became 'judeo/christian'. I think it's time to stop the myth that a bunch of secular laws are based on some magical creature's decree. It's insulting to say that humanity can't figure things out on its own.
The deficiency and depravity of most of these civilizations highlight my point. Secularists like yourself see the law and concepts of freedom as self-evident. They are not. Judeo-Christian values inspire secular law, they do not create it.
Taking your claim at face value, I would respond by stating that he was or they were fools for doing so. Instead, they ought to have revoked tax exempt status for religious organizations (which contribute nothing to human progress and have not done so for thousands of years) and used that revenue to fund science.
Clinton is indeed a fool. But Judeo-Christian ideas are a vital component of western secular law. In that sense religion has contributed much. Your secular liberal ideas did not just spring into being. They evolved from ideas with religious roots. To not acknowledge that is to be ignorant of your own philosophy. The funding of science is not obligatory but should be accomplished through the mechanism of representative democracy. The decision to cancel the supercollider was made in this framework.
Thank you for pointing this out so we can remind ourselves that partisan politics are silly and politicians are deeply fallible. And for that very reason, each and every person ought to be concerned about the doings of their government so that they become educated about and engaged in its proper function.
...and then they should vote for the conservative candidate.
MSFT has a market cap of 230-something billion. Substantial? Not really.
The EU has telegraphed this fine for a year. It could have easily been avoided. Gates and Ballmer may have a large cash hoard. I doubt if their stockholders appreciate them lighting it on fire.
Long story short, you're actually exactly right - we don't want this becoming extremely popular in the area. The simple fact is that we don't have nearly as many cows as we did ten years ago, since it's all done in massive superfarms out west. We've had laws passed that keep the milk prices artifically high just so the few family-owned farms still in business don't go under - they're all operating on razor-thin margins as it is, and many are losing money but stay around out of love for what they do.
You succeeded. You stiffle economic growth with a subsidy ridden, high tax environment and make it impossible for young people to stay in the state. The only new residents of Vermont are New Yorkers with trophy homes that stand empty most of the year or retirees. Vermont has become an anachonism and charactature of an eden it never was. I have lived half of my life in New England and this peculariar "Hooterville" phenomenon makes Maine and Vermont steadily more unlivable. I have no doubt poor rural Vermonters would take big box stores.
Why are we so often the target of terrorism, and not other countries? How come Canada doesn't have to worry about terrorist attacks in their country, despite their defense budget being miniscule compared to ours and their equally (if not more) free and open atmosphere?
Do you think Palestinians simply have a genetic defect which compels 17 year-old girls who once aspired to be journalists or teachers to strap bombs to their chest and blow up Israelis? Why would a nation with no standing army want to purposely instigate war with the second most well-armed nation in the world--thanks to the billions of dollars of annual defense aid from the U.S.? Because they've got some sort of terrorist gene and the Israeli government just isn't doing enough to protect its citizens?
Here are some reasons the Palestinian Arabs commit acts of terror:
They are proxies for a wider Arab world who will not tolerate a Jewish state in lands perceived to be Arab and Muslim
They are victims of a philosophy of hate and death (Wahabism) and are goaded by spiritual leaders
They cannot successfully wage conventional war against a powerful enemy
Stalemate with Israel is still preferable to them than capitulation
They know they cannot be annihilated by Israel because of world opinion so they don't fear reprisals
There is no indigenious economic opportunity in the West Bank
The Palestinians have received billions in direct US aid, as do Eqypt and Israel
The fact that the military industrial complex exerts enormous influence over our government and is exploiting our position as the world's superpower for its financial interests has nothing to do with the creation of terrorists, I'm sure.
And so it should! Did you see the way the MIC lullabied Zarqawi's ass? Wow!
WxPython has been growing in popularity by leaps and bounds in recent years but has been hampered by a comparative lack of good, comprehensive documentation
That could be said about any of the 100's of shity half-finished Python wrappers that clog my Gentoo system. What a scourge. To anyone who thinks it would be nice to wrapper C/C++ library , don't do it! I would advise anyone who wants to use wXWidgets to do so in C++. The event abstraction is a lot nicer that Qt and the library is just as portable.
Nice to see our government is looking out for the interests of all and protecting the freedom of all to access govt. publications by putting these in a proprietary format like Windows Media Video.
The camera supplier has a history of offering these amazing videos in MPEG format. Lets hope the new Discovery videos will be added to the last. The image of the orbiter/ET accelerating from the spent boosters is some of the most spectacular aerospace footage I have ever seen.
A simple google search reveals, "Nizar Hindawi, an Abu Nidal operative who was caught while trying, by means of a pregnant Irish girlfriend, to place a bomb on an El Al plane leaving London's Heathrow to Tel-Aviv."
Simple search for a simple person. Did you see that the attempt was made in 1986? If you have to go back 20 years you just stengthen my argument.
Okay, new rule: The First Person To Bring Up 9/11 Loses The Argument.
Umm, isn't that the root cause of the controversy?
You've been listening to way too much Republican propaganda.
More like I write it;)
But let's repeat the important part again, so that it has a better chance of being recorded in your brain: The various different intelligence and investigative agencies already had all of the pieces of the plot in different datasets necessary to detect and stop the 9/11 attacks. In other words, the "openness and freedom" that existed before the 9/11 attacks still managed to tell us everything we needed to know about the attacks.
Oh, that is a real consolation! Liberals are amusing. Your point is irrelevent. Prevention is all that matters. What good is the ability to reconstruct the plot after 3000 people are disintegrated? Could you imagine running for office with such a policy. "Yes, the Sears tower was destroyed but hey, we identified the terror cell of the attackers." That'll sure to get you reelected, not! It would probably land you in jail.
LOL! Flush out your brain, it had everything to do with it.
The chance of a "terrorist" killing you is LESS than the chance of someone in your own family killing you. It is LESS likely than you being killed on the highways.
I am sure the 9/11 victim's families are comforted by that ridiculous sentiment. By your bizarre reasoning we should leave Kim Jong Il alone because one of his missiles will miss most of us. If I were you I would be embarrassed making these statement. You seem willing to pretend 9/11 had never happened and allow Al Qaida to cause mayhem undisturbed within our borders. Thank God the vast majority of Americans do not hold this inexplicably foolish opinion.
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
Has the memory of 9/11 faded that much? You are outright wrong. Facism was born of Germany's humiliation in WWI, weak democractic institutions, and a widespread, simmering hatred of Jews, not of government "inefficiency". Prior to 9/11 the cockroaches to plotted to attack the US did so in the kind of open environment you seem to want to restore. They used our openness and their freedom to be anonymous as a weapon. Terrorism starts when the government neglects its responsibilities to protect citizens.
Your trivial example ignores the problem by not enveloping the entire acting mass with a Gaussian surface. You have made no point. My original post simply states well known result of Gauss's law that says the gravitational or electric field within a hollow sphere is 0. Jackass.
Oh boy, all those New Yorkers going on Spring Break with their college buddies are gonna be in for a rough time at the airport then. Behavior is going to give you way way way too many false positives.
Compared to the total population of travelers such groups are rare and are easily identified.
Besides, if you take the Israeli examples, you just get your girlfriend to carry the package on the plane, since they profile Arabs.
I was not aware the Israelis committed airplane hijackings/bombings. El Al is pretty inpenetrable at this point. As for the nuances of sneaking explosives onto planes, you seem to know a lot more than I. But I applaud the steps that the Bush Administration has taken to keep the Islamists from terrorising the US.
But the forces at Lpoints aren't perfectly balanced - there is always variation from the minute changes in orbits and masses of the primary bodies, small effects from other bodies, particle and photon impacts, etc
The forces are certainly not perfectly balanced. I am sure Jupiter and Venus significantly perturb the L4/L5 points. Over the amazingly small scale of the experiment though I sure it can be subtracted out. I have always wondered how large a mass would be for me to observe gravitational motion in a little experiment apparatis. It is surprisingly small.
Gauss's Law says that the gravitational acceleration of a body anywhere in an enclosed sphere is 0. At L4, L5 Earth and Sun graviational forces are balanced. The only accelerations that don't cancel out are the two body accelerations of interest. It is surprising to me that the bodies orbit as fast as 10 times per day. I wonder why they don't use heavier Uranium as the mass. It is an interesting side note that a body can stably orbit one of these points. They orbit with no body (!) at the focus. The Genesis Probe and WMAP missions have already taken advantage of this.
Names are useful filters, as are age (20-30), traveling group (alone or with males with the same profile), affiliation with one of 50 or so mosques who preach hatred in Europe or the US, or from one of the muslim countries. Guys like Richard Reid stick out like a sore thumb. They are very easily profiled. That is very fortunate for the US that they are. For those who are inconvenienced traveling: sorry, nothing personal. The US must try to prevent another coordinated terror attack. Hope you understand. Have a nice day.
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The question is does government do a better job of providing charity than religious organisations. Most conservatives would say "no" emphatically. American religious organisations are the most charitable in the world.
You mistake greed for Protestant thrift.
No, it is to give members of society a fair chance at improving their life. That is a big distinction.
It might behoove you use more diverse sources than the intellectual "gumball machine", wikipedia, you simpleton.
Tell that to an aborted fetus.
Last I noticed I was not being shaken down for 50% of my income by Pope Benedict. Massive liberal taxation is the ultimate tyranny.
It's morning in America.
I would encourage undecided voters to reject those on the left who choose to frivolously ignore the real enemy.
The deficiency and depravity of most of these civilizations highlight my point. Secularists like yourself see the law and concepts of freedom as self-evident. They are not. Judeo-Christian values inspire secular law, they do not create it.
Clinton is indeed a fool. But Judeo-Christian ideas are a vital component of western secular law. In that sense religion has contributed much. Your secular liberal ideas did not just spring into being. They evolved from ideas with religious roots. To not acknowledge that is to be ignorant of your own philosophy. The funding of science is not obligatory but should be accomplished through the mechanism of representative democracy. The decision to cancel the supercollider was made in this framework.
...and then they should vote for the conservative candidate.
The Clinton Administration, not known for its religious fundementalism, killed the Supercollider to divert funds to social programs.
The EU has telegraphed this fine for a year. It could have easily been avoided. Gates and Ballmer may have a large cash hoard. I doubt if their stockholders appreciate them lighting it on fire.
You succeeded. You stiffle economic growth with a subsidy ridden, high tax environment and make it impossible for young people to stay in the state. The only new residents of Vermont are New Yorkers with trophy homes that stand empty most of the year or retirees. Vermont has become an anachonism and charactature of an eden it never was. I have lived half of my life in New England and this peculariar "Hooterville" phenomenon makes Maine and Vermont steadily more unlivable. I have no doubt poor rural Vermonters would take big box stores.
Its a mystery to me. Chuckle.
Here are some reasons the Palestinian Arabs commit acts of terror:
The Palestinians have received billions in direct US aid, as do Eqypt and Israel
And so it should! Did you see the way the MIC lullabied Zarqawi's ass? Wow!
Next victim please...
That could be said about any of the 100's of shity half-finished Python wrappers that clog my Gentoo system. What a scourge. To anyone who thinks it would be nice to wrapper C/C++ library , don't do it! I would advise anyone who wants to use wXWidgets to do so in C++. The event abstraction is a lot nicer that Qt and the library is just as portable.
That's harsh!
Is their a PNG or video formats? OGG?
The camera supplier has a history of offering these amazing videos in MPEG format. Lets hope the new Discovery videos will be added to the last. The image of the orbiter/ET accelerating from the spent boosters is some of the most spectacular aerospace footage I have ever seen.
The tendency for self-loathing among liberals is too much to fathom. Thanks goodness that your kind does not hold power.
Simple search for a simple person. Did you see that the attempt was made in 1986? If you have to go back 20 years you just stengthen my argument.
Umm, isn't that the root cause of the controversy?
More like I write it ;)
Oh, that is a real consolation! Liberals are amusing. Your point is irrelevent. Prevention is all that matters. What good is the ability to reconstruct the plot after 3000 people are disintegrated? Could you imagine running for office with such a policy. "Yes, the Sears tower was destroyed but hey, we identified the terror cell of the attackers." That'll sure to get you reelected, not! It would probably land you in jail.
Well enough to apply it and simply answer original parent's question. Why you are jacking off on tangents I don't know.
LOL! Flush out your brain, it had everything to do with it.
I am sure the 9/11 victim's families are comforted by that ridiculous sentiment. By your bizarre reasoning we should leave Kim Jong Il alone because one of his missiles will miss most of us. If I were you I would be embarrassed making these statement. You seem willing to pretend 9/11 had never happened and allow Al Qaida to cause mayhem undisturbed within our borders. Thank God the vast majority of Americans do not hold this inexplicably foolish opinion.
Has the memory of 9/11 faded that much? You are outright wrong. Facism was born of Germany's humiliation in WWI, weak democractic institutions, and a widespread, simmering hatred of Jews, not of government "inefficiency". Prior to 9/11 the cockroaches to plotted to attack the US did so in the kind of open environment you seem to want to restore. They used our openness and their freedom to be anonymous as a weapon. Terrorism starts when the government neglects its responsibilities to protect citizens.
I guess you were asleep in AP physics then N00b. Gauss's law is a relationsip for any conservative field, G or E with mass (m) or charge (q).
Your trivial example ignores the problem by not enveloping the entire acting mass with a Gaussian surface. You have made no point. My original post simply states well known result of Gauss's law that says the gravitational or electric field within a hollow sphere is 0. Jackass.
Compared to the total population of travelers such groups are rare and are easily identified.
I was not aware the Israelis committed airplane hijackings/bombings. El Al is pretty inpenetrable at this point. As for the nuances of sneaking explosives onto planes, you seem to know a lot more than I. But I applaud the steps that the Bush Administration has taken to keep the Islamists from terrorising the US.
The forces are certainly not perfectly balanced. I am sure Jupiter and Venus significantly perturb the L4/L5 points. Over the amazingly small scale of the experiment though I sure it can be subtracted out. I have always wondered how large a mass would be for me to observe gravitational motion in a little experiment apparatis. It is surprisingly small.
I found this. You're right about Uranium. Platinum seems to be a good candidate. Maybe Tungsten is cheaper. Thanks.
Gauss's Law says that the gravitational acceleration of a body anywhere in an enclosed sphere is 0. At L4, L5 Earth and Sun graviational forces are balanced. The only accelerations that don't cancel out are the two body accelerations of interest. It is surprising to me that the bodies orbit as fast as 10 times per day. I wonder why they don't use heavier Uranium as the mass. It is an interesting side note that a body can stably orbit one of these points. They orbit with no body (!) at the focus. The Genesis Probe and WMAP missions have already taken advantage of this.
Names are useful filters, as are age (20-30), traveling group (alone or with males with the same profile), affiliation with one of 50 or so mosques who preach hatred in Europe or the US, or from one of the muslim countries. Guys like Richard Reid stick out like a sore thumb. They are very easily profiled. That is very fortunate for the US that they are. For those who are inconvenienced traveling: sorry, nothing personal. The US must try to prevent another coordinated terror attack. Hope you understand. Have a nice day.
The Holland Tunnel conspirator's name is Assem Hammoud. Not exactly Joe Smith is it?