You should desire to really inform those who are getting taught his crap. Realize that the ID/Creationism movement is from the adults - they just force the (idiotic) ideas on the children who have no say in the matter, and are confused enough as is. Hey, if an adult tells them that's how the world works, the'll believe it. Better that the kids are taught the real-deal so that this stuff isn't propagated to their children's children's children.
If "red state" values dominate, who gets elected? who runs this place? who tells YOU how to live your own life?
I've done similar in the way I graded university level engineering labs. If the student turned in every lab (even piss poor ones) and was always in attendance, they got a 70%. Turn in nothing = 0%.
I disagree on the pass/fail scheme though. True, you have subject mastery or you don't - but the "doesn't have mastery" includes "respectable," "poor," and "absolutely zero" knowledge.
As another SW-PA resident I can tell you that east_coast is absolutely correct. Sadly, it looks like things are only getting worse around here. The local administration is getting closer and closer to joining the City of Pittsburgh and Allegheny county as one. If so, you'll have idiotic policies like this 50% minimum-grading going county wide.
Actually, our state governor Ed Rendell (both looks and) acts a lot like a used car salesman. He seems a great guy until you actually have to deal with what he's sold you. I've met people from out of state who almost idolize the man. If they moved to Pittsburgh, I bet they'd reevaluate that. (Philly not so much. He certainly favors that City more.)
For others' information:
Dan Onorato: Chief Executive of the county - has never lost an election, will most likely run for state governor soon.
Luke Ravenstahl: CoPittsburgh's mayor.
This town can really make you want a drink at times. Perhaps the loss of hope and the 10% drink tax were engineered.
Yes, it would - but then the teachers would be forced to use multiplication on their grades! *gasp!*
Oh, this policy sucks. I'm from and living in Pittsburgh. My mom still teaches in the city. MOST people here are upset with this.
Hrrmm... in regards to the grandparent post: I suppose you could then work this the other way. Get 100%s in the first half and never go back for the 2nd. Voila, 75% average and lots of free time!
Anyone who says they will not vote for a candidate because of a single issue is simply not looking at the big picture.
I think you must be wrong. To some, that "single issue" might trump ALL other issues in that big picture.
I almost Godwined this... no need. What if a candidate has issue-stances that you agree with whole heartedly - except for one: they vow to go to war with CHINA - a country with 4x the population, nukes, is in Asia (never fight a land war in Asia,) and really hasn't done ANYTHING to provoke an attack.
Sometimes "single issues" are all that is needed to disqualify a candidate.
Why? Because IR (or UV, or radio, or gamma rays, etc.) have different wavelengths than visible light. Now, IANAInvisibilityCloakEngineer, but I can guess that the cloak only works at specific tuned frequencies/wavelengths - in this case, those of visible light. The same technology might/should work for other wavelengths, if designed to do that, but then might not cloak the visible spectrum. (But, yes, an IR cloak for nighttime operations would be beneficial.)
Similarly, the Roman Catholic Church basically accepts evolution now (albeit as god's plan to create us,) but I know R.C.s that keep the company of young-earthers -- Because they agree in thinking that the world is ~6500 yo. To judge on denominational affiliation wouldn't be accurate - however, birds of a feather...
I, for one, "feel" that Dubya is a fundamentalist young-earther, one who discounts Darwin and the like, who believes Jeebus talks to him directly, is in preparation for the rapture to occur within his lifetime, etc.
Can anyone post links to things Bush has actually said about his faith that might clear this up? (not that this is really the place for it.)
heh, I'd mod you up as well if I could! A funny retort, even if not accurate.
but TROLL?? (My first?)
That certainly wasn't my intent.
I was actually serious (until the postscript.) Too many times do people think that they need someone to "complete them" or that there's an specific soul-mate waiting for them out there. I really wanted to know what this need is.
"Only a real, responsible relationship with a woman who wants to be true partners will give you what you need as a human."
And what, pray tell, is THAT? What do I NEED that I can't supply myself? Roof/Food are covered by my decent employment - better off than many 2-income couples. I know how to cook, clean, and most everything else.
I'm GUESSING that you mean true companionship - and if so, no thanks, I don't need it. Too often I get the "Why aren't you married yet?" or "Why no kids?" spiels from the divorced and/or burdened folk.
Ok, some of my dear friends WANT exactly that - one can't wait to start a family up. Not me.
And it isn't like homo-sapiens is a genetically monogamous critter. Alpha-males SHOULD get more women - and simultaneously.
Please - tell me what it is that a woman can give me as a human that I need?
PS -- if any women are reading this: I think you're a piece of shit. Don't i look handsome tonight. Let's go skydiving! oh, there's an opening in my harem - the "application" doesn't take long to fill out.
They don't do things like quake in terror and get shocked like I a saw a elderly French woman do when she suddenly saw a dummy dressed in an SS uniform during an exhibition once.
Actually, you must not know what a girl in a certain metal-bikini costume can do to some of these people.
But what animals realize that they are mortal? Only one that I can think of.
AFAIK, man is the only creature with morals and ethics. I've never seen anything that could be considered inherently evil that was not the product of man.
Similarly, slight off topic: there are many beautiful things in this world, some created by man - but the only "ugly" things I see are created by man alone.
My point was that you can't come back.
Unless you are THE special one, right?
My point was that there is absolutely ZERO evidence that Jesus ever existed (let alone was the Christ.) Biblical scholars agree that the New Testament was written years after any of the alleged events took place, all by people that never met the man, mostly by people not even alive during the same time, and them heavily edited and translated however someone finds it convinient. There were plenty of Roman historians around, yet they don't mention these crazy events happening. OK, one almost does - Josephus would have been concurrent- however it has been shown that his writings were manipulated by the early Church. (Regardless, Josephus wrote more about Hercules and seems to have considered him a historical figure.) Furthermore, the Jewish Scribes were tasked at keeping a record (written and oral) of events relating to the Jewish people of the time - yet they never mention the events or man. (Since Jesus was supposedly a Jew, and performed feats for the Scribes, you think they might have mentioned him at least once.)
Would the above "prove" Jesus existed - of course not, but it would lend SOME credence to the events.
As for the moon landings: There are MANY accounts of the rockets lifting off. There is the testimony of the scientists and astronauts actually involved. There should be evidence on the moon itself that we were there. Build a big enough telescope and look - or a ship and go yourself. There is evidence. By your reasoning, ANYTHING at all is a fairy tale.
A moon "hoax" would be a lie - but at least one corroborated by evidence.
The four gospels are hearsay with no evidence.
If you are accused of a crime, there is absolutely zero evidence of it, and the only people to testify that you did it are friends of friends of neighbors of people that heard you did it (hearsay)... should you be found guilty?
By that reasoning then, if it was a choice, why wouldn't MANY come/speak back from the afterlife? Especially the scientific or well respected types.
One DID come back? Oh wait, you mean Geebus? I don't see a problem with most of the world's population not wanting to hear about mythical stories told as if they were factual.
(Show ANY evidence that he actually existed other than that most famous collection of short fiction or works derived directly from it.)
Again, just one supposedly came back? It'd be a tad bit believable if others came back - especially to say "Whoops! I was wrong!"
However, what rationale is there for screwing up a perfectly good market just to make Microsoft happy, when they weren't a player to begin with?
The rationale is Microsoft's. Hasn't their not-being-a-player in a certain market always been their modus operandi? OS, Office suites, Servers, Web browser, Music services, Music players, etc. Generally, they aren't happy UNTIL they satisfy their "Me too!" wants. (Which tends to muck up already well functioning markets.)
Did you bother to read TFA?
File sharing? DRM circumvention? hollywood/music industry??
The only thing that the FA mentions is child pornography, molestation, rape, abuse, etc. Not once do they speak about any of the illegal things you've mentioned.
I'll admit that I've a fear of a legitimate child-porn-tracking system being used to combat other activities, esp. for people in no way involved in such horrific fetishes, but that isn't the point of the system (as stated) that Biden wants.
Further more, you mention why you don't like the two big parties, but in no way explain why you do support another candidate (who, afaik, isn't even running.)
There are, in fact, Republicans that think GW and the rest of the administration are doing a completely shitty job. Heck, some of these will continue to vote Republican anyways. (I'm thinking of Ron Paul here.)
A good US patriot should always monitor/question the elected leaders, regardless of political bias.
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You should desire to really inform those who are getting taught his crap. Realize that the ID/Creationism movement is from the adults - they just force the (idiotic) ideas on the children who have no say in the matter, and are confused enough as is. Hey, if an adult tells them that's how the world works, the'll believe it. Better that the kids are taught the real-deal so that this stuff isn't propagated to their children's children's children.
If "red state" values dominate, who gets elected? who runs this place? who tells YOU how to live your own life?
Think of the children?
I've done similar in the way I graded university level engineering labs. If the student turned in every lab (even piss poor ones) and was always in attendance, they got a 70%. Turn in nothing = 0%.
I disagree on the pass/fail scheme though. True, you have subject mastery or you don't - but the "doesn't have mastery" includes "respectable," "poor," and "absolutely zero" knowledge.
As another SW-PA resident I can tell you that east_coast is absolutely correct. Sadly, it looks like things are only getting worse around here. The local administration is getting closer and closer to joining the City of Pittsburgh and Allegheny county as one. If so, you'll have idiotic policies like this 50% minimum-grading going county wide.
Actually, our state governor Ed Rendell (both looks and) acts a lot like a used car salesman. He seems a great guy until you actually have to deal with what he's sold you. I've met people from out of state who almost idolize the man. If they moved to Pittsburgh, I bet they'd reevaluate that. (Philly not so much. He certainly favors that City more.)
For others' information:
Dan Onorato: Chief Executive of the county - has never lost an election, will most likely run for state governor soon.
Luke Ravenstahl: CoPittsburgh's mayor.
This town can really make you want a drink at times. Perhaps the loss of hope and the 10% drink tax were engineered.
Yes, it would - but then the teachers would be forced to use multiplication on their grades! *gasp!*
Oh, this policy sucks. I'm from and living in Pittsburgh. My mom still teaches in the city. MOST people here are upset with this.
Hrrmm... in regards to the grandparent post: I suppose you could then work this the other way. Get 100%s in the first half and never go back for the 2nd. Voila, 75% average and lots of free time!
I think you must be wrong. To some, that "single issue" might trump ALL other issues in that big picture.
I almost Godwined this ... no need. What if a candidate has issue-stances that you agree with whole heartedly - except for one: they vow to go to war with CHINA - a country with 4x the population, nukes, is in Asia (never fight a land war in Asia,) and really hasn't done ANYTHING to provoke an attack.
Sometimes "single issues" are all that is needed to disqualify a candidate.
I've known of her for years, and always thought her to be a GILF.
(Governor, you sickos!)
A: No.
Why? Because IR (or UV, or radio, or gamma rays, etc.) have different wavelengths than visible light. Now, IANAInvisibilityCloakEngineer, but I can guess that the cloak only works at specific tuned frequencies/wavelengths - in this case, those of visible light. The same technology might/should work for other wavelengths, if designed to do that, but then might not cloak the visible spectrum. (But, yes, an IR cloak for nighttime operations would be beneficial.)
Similarly, the Roman Catholic Church basically accepts evolution now (albeit as god's plan to create us,) but I know R.C.s that keep the company of young-earthers -- Because they agree in thinking that the world is ~6500 yo. To judge on denominational affiliation wouldn't be accurate - however, birds of a feather...
I, for one, "feel" that Dubya is a fundamentalist young-earther, one who discounts Darwin and the like, who believes Jeebus talks to him directly, is in preparation for the rapture to occur within his lifetime, etc.
Can anyone post links to things Bush has actually said about his faith that might clear this up? (not that this is really the place for it.)
When did Blackwater get the upgrades?
ah, bollocks.
heh, I'd mod you up as well if I could! A funny retort, even if not accurate.
but TROLL?? (My first?) That certainly wasn't my intent.
I was actually serious (until the postscript.) Too many times do people think that they need someone to "complete them" or that there's an specific soul-mate waiting for them out there. I really wanted to know what this need is.
"Only a real, responsible relationship with a woman who wants to be true partners will give you what you need as a human."
And what, pray tell, is THAT? What do I NEED that I can't supply myself? Roof/Food are covered by my decent employment - better off than many 2-income couples. I know how to cook, clean, and most everything else.
I'm GUESSING that you mean true companionship - and if so, no thanks, I don't need it. Too often I get the "Why aren't you married yet?" or "Why no kids?" spiels from the divorced and/or burdened folk.
Ok, some of my dear friends WANT exactly that - one can't wait to start a family up. Not me.
And it isn't like homo-sapiens is a genetically monogamous critter. Alpha-males SHOULD get more women - and simultaneously.
Please - tell me what it is that a woman can give me as a human that I need?
PS -- if any women are reading this: I think you're a piece of shit. Don't i look handsome tonight. Let's go skydiving! oh, there's an opening in my harem - the "application" doesn't take long to fill out.
"Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go."
~ e.e.cummings
A cult is a small, unpopular religion.
A religion is a large, popular cult.
(credit for the above goes to someone else.)
But what animals realize that they are mortal? Only one that I can think of.
AFAIK, man is the only creature with morals and ethics. I've never seen anything that could be considered inherently evil that was not the product of man.
Similarly, slight off topic: there are many beautiful things in this world, some created by man - but the only "ugly" things I see are created by man alone.
Numbers also are meaningless to many; if one would report 3000 people being killed, noone would react.
Then explain the "reaction" of 9/11.
Agreeing with the OP: What percentage of North Americans truly care about the x-mas tsunami, the Myanmar cyclone, or Chinese earthquake?
My point was that you can't come back.
... should you be found guilty?
Unless you are THE special one, right?
My point was that there is absolutely ZERO evidence that Jesus ever existed (let alone was the Christ.) Biblical scholars agree that the New Testament was written years after any of the alleged events took place, all by people that never met the man, mostly by people not even alive during the same time, and them heavily edited and translated however someone finds it convinient. There were plenty of Roman historians around, yet they don't mention these crazy events happening. OK, one almost does - Josephus would have been concurrent- however it has been shown that his writings were manipulated by the early Church. (Regardless, Josephus wrote more about Hercules and seems to have considered him a historical figure.) Furthermore, the Jewish Scribes were tasked at keeping a record (written and oral) of events relating to the Jewish people of the time - yet they never mention the events or man. (Since Jesus was supposedly a Jew, and performed feats for the Scribes, you think they might have mentioned him at least once.)
Would the above "prove" Jesus existed - of course not, but it would lend SOME credence to the events.
As for the moon landings: There are MANY accounts of the rockets lifting off. There is the testimony of the scientists and astronauts actually involved. There should be evidence on the moon itself that we were there. Build a big enough telescope and look - or a ship and go yourself. There is evidence. By your reasoning, ANYTHING at all is a fairy tale.
A moon "hoax" would be a lie - but at least one corroborated by evidence.
The four gospels are hearsay with no evidence.
If you are accused of a crime, there is absolutely zero evidence of it, and the only people to testify that you did it are friends of friends of neighbors of people that heard you did it (hearsay)
By that reasoning then, if it was a choice, why wouldn't MANY come/speak back from the afterlife? Especially the scientific or well respected types.
One DID come back? Oh wait, you mean Geebus? I don't see a problem with most of the world's population not wanting to hear about mythical stories told as if they were factual.
(Show ANY evidence that he actually existed other than that most famous collection of short fiction or works derived directly from it.)
Again, just one supposedly came back? It'd be a tad bit believable if others came back - especially to say "Whoops! I was wrong!"
So he should have phrased it differently?
"A mythical invisible bearded man does not play dice with the universe."
That's bad logic. We agree on the idea that he is, in fact, dead.
If there is no afterlife, he certainly cannot tell us.
It there is an afterlife, although he may not be able to tell us, he may actually have that ability and is actively choosing not to tell us.
The rationale is Microsoft's. Hasn't their not-being-a-player in a certain market always been their modus operandi? OS, Office suites, Servers, Web browser, Music services, Music players, etc. Generally, they aren't happy UNTIL they satisfy their "Me too!" wants. (Which tends to muck up already well functioning markets.)
Did you bother to read TFA?
File sharing? DRM circumvention? hollywood/music industry??
The only thing that the FA mentions is child pornography, molestation, rape, abuse, etc. Not once do they speak about any of the illegal things you've mentioned.
I'll admit that I've a fear of a legitimate child-porn-tracking system being used to combat other activities, esp. for people in no way involved in such horrific fetishes, but that isn't the point of the system (as stated) that Biden wants.
Further more, you mention why you don't like the two big parties, but in no way explain why you do support another candidate (who, afaik, isn't even running.)
So then, Why is it that you do support Ventura?
I recognize the sarcasm, however:
There are, in fact, Republicans that think GW and the rest of the administration are doing a completely shitty job. Heck, some of these will continue to vote Republican anyways. (I'm thinking of Ron Paul here.)
A good US patriot should always monitor/question the elected leaders, regardless of political bias.