Yes, Religion is the one thing that reliably influences people to make moral choices when given huge amounts of power. The thought of being accountable to a higher power is a powerful force keeping humans in line and without it, they would fall into total chaos and anarchy due to lack of values, morals, or compassion.
Also, Jesus send me an email and said you should paypal me as much money as you can spare. Please hurry or Jesus with punch me in the face.
Ah yes, MSNBC's famous leftist news anchors. Which one were you refering to? Joe Scarborough, Chris Matthews, Tucker Carlson, Nancy Grace? MSNBC has Keith Olbermann, who is sick of having a lying sack of shit for President (which I guess makes him Liberal, since conservatives love comfortable lies and base their worldviews around them), and in the last week or so they added Rachel Maddow. Wow, quite the liberal lineup there. Did you always just believe everything a white male authority figure told you to think, or did your parents have to beat that into you?
Uh, LOL. Read up on the methodology of that study. Its pure bunk. Spend 5 minutes actually watching any of the media channels you're talking about and you'll see how far off the thing is.
I don't buy the grey goo story. If there was some way of turning everything into copies of yourself, everything in the universe would be made up of copies of whatever the crap it was that could do that already. I'm slightly more worried about Galactus eating the planet than I am about grey goo.
How about those things we sent out into space without any radiation shielding?
I saw that episode too, though I always thought the prop department could have done better with the probe, it looked like a bunch of hat boxes glued together with a spike down the middle.
People are apprehensive about teaching chimps sign language, because, ya know, if those chimps are released back into the wild they will take over the world!!!
Of course not, it's advanced alien technology so it naturally runs on the most abundant renewable resource available: stupid people.
What, did you think this is the only planet with Intelligent Design Creationists? On some distant planet, they finally figured out why God put them here!
Threating to kill someone isn't covered by the first amendment right to free speech. Neither is making terroristic threats. If you did the things you describe, you would be committing various crimes and opening yourself up to civil penalties should the target of your assaults choose to sue. Not only that, but the person could get a restraining order which, if you violated it, would provide them further civil and criminal options. This falls within the "fire in a crowded theatre" realm, as harm is being done.
Using racist langugage, advocating for different age of consent, or engaging in other protected forms of speech are not the equivalent of the actions you described.
Try again though please. Perhaps you should focus even more tightly then before on how we should just think of the children, that seems to be working like gangbusters for you so far.
Sorry, but there is no way to simply "tax the rich" without catching a few working class in the net.
Better to catch a few working class in the net then to go out fishing for working class people only. Consumer spending drives the economy, put more money in the pockets of working class people and ratchet up the estate tax and remove the cap on social security/fica taxes and you've got yourself a more progressive, solid tax strucutre that helps prevent third generation problems like the Walton kids.
The rest is off base or plain opinion. She, like McCain is hammering the Republican party for letting spending get out of hand. She is very much against big government. The rest was just pure opinion and partisan attacks.
So the question is, do you really believe this, in which case your judgement is in question, or are you knowingly trying to help spread a lie, in which case your morality is in question.
Either way, you're spreading disinformation, which is all McCain seems to have in his playbook.
Special note: Any answer that attempts to address this issue through contrast (the "Bill Clinton did it" defense) is insta-fail on your part.
I disagree. Letting people freely advocate for their insane shit (like Nazis and pedophiles) sure does make it a lot easier to keep track of them. Its the quiet ones who worry me.
Not to mention I'm sure one of the big digital distributors like direct2drive or steam or even impulse would have been happy to distribute the game, as it would have been huge for them to sell a AAA title with that kind of hype on their service.
You know, as a side note to this, when I was working for Dell tech support back in 2000, I got fed up with stupid shit Dell was doing that made things harder for both me and the customer, and I sent an email to Michael Dell's public address. This pissed off the people above me, but I never got in trouble for it or heard anything about it... until mysteriously my suggestions started getting implemented a few months later. I wasn't proposing anything vastly original or groundbreaking, but you never know if that message might have gone over the desk of some third-string secretary who decided to send it to the right department for consideration.
And at least they stopped putting the service tag/ID number on the back of the fucking box.
The problem is that, like it or not, evolution touches on an area of belief where science and religion do intersect. I don't like the idea of creationism being taught in a science class, but I wouldn't mind them both (and other compelling theories) being presented in an "Origins and Development of Life" class.
Uh, it's simple. When religion and government intersect, religion is the one who needs to fuck off and die. Always. Thats how it works. Otherwise, I get to tell you which Jesus to worship, and how to interpret that Jesus using my view of the Koran. Wouldn't you love to roll around in that for a while?
You know, I feel more and more hopeful every day that goes by and the McCain people can't come up with anything better than this tired shit. Is that really the best you can do? I especially like how you tried to cram gun issues AND abortion into the same straw man in number 3.
Exactly. Not only are cities extremely diverse, they're also very difficult to lock down. Imagine a civil war battle in Houston, a "city" the size of Rhode Island. You can't control access to something that big.
I think if you really want to get a quick and dirty impression of what civil war would be like in the US, take a gander at the movie "Enemy at the Gates" or any other details about Stalingrad in WW2.
Civil war in the US would be Hell on Earth (as it is anywhere, really). Having a powerful standing army doesn't do you much good when you can't bring your force to bear on the enemy. Its like this fly that got into my house a few days ago and has been buzzing around my head. Compared to the fly, I am monumentally, overwhelmingly powerful, and I could crush the life out of it without any effort, if I could only fucking hit the damn thing. Meanwhile, the thing is nibbling on my discarded skin particles and laying eggs all over my body.
You missed my point and then made it for me. Except that last bit. You underestimate the power of asymetric warfare, I think. It is a common mistake and one that is easily made up until the fighting breaks out. That kind of thinking has lead more than one country into decay and ruin.
Of course, I think any policy based revolution is bound to end up in a failed state, but systemic revolutions seem to be much more healthy. I've discussed a lot of this on my blog, feel free to kick over and read if you like this kind of stuff: Dealing in Lead.
Ok. So what happens when it isn't North vs South, but suburbs vs urban centers, or urban vs rural? If a civil war started in the modern US, it wouldn't be the clear cut situation you seem to imagine. You wouldn't be a neocon would you?
Yeah, when these people are like "your rifle is no good against a tank!!111" I always imagine what some dude is gonna look like after a month in his tank. Someone's gotta get out and pump the gas, ya know? You can't keep an attack helicopter in the air 24 hours a day.
A civil war in the modern US would be hell on earth, and it certainly wouldn't be the army, who would be fighting each other as much as the citizens, doing all the dishing out.
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Yes, Religion is the one thing that reliably influences people to make moral choices when given huge amounts of power. The thought of being accountable to a higher power is a powerful force keeping humans in line and without it, they would fall into total chaos and anarchy due to lack of values, morals, or compassion.
Also, Jesus send me an email and said you should paypal me as much money as you can spare. Please hurry or Jesus with punch me in the face.
I don't know, I'd rather start working on the T-Virus so that eventually we can repopulate the earth with a race of smokin-hot super-clones.
We won't have to talk down to you like a child if you stop acting like one.
Ah yes, MSNBC's famous leftist news anchors. Which one were you refering to? Joe Scarborough, Chris Matthews, Tucker Carlson, Nancy Grace? MSNBC has Keith Olbermann, who is sick of having a lying sack of shit for President (which I guess makes him Liberal, since conservatives love comfortable lies and base their worldviews around them), and in the last week or so they added Rachel Maddow. Wow, quite the liberal lineup there. Did you always just believe everything a white male authority figure told you to think, or did your parents have to beat that into you?
Uh, LOL. Read up on the methodology of that study. Its pure bunk. Spend 5 minutes actually watching any of the media channels you're talking about and you'll see how far off the thing is.
Do no evil, I might have to start calling Larry Page or Sergey Brin (Google founders) the axis of evil.
In that case, would their passwords be the access of evil?
I don't buy the grey goo story. If there was some way of turning everything into copies of yourself, everything in the universe would be made up of copies of whatever the crap it was that could do that already. I'm slightly more worried about Galactus eating the planet than I am about grey goo.
How about those things we sent out into space without any radiation shielding?
I saw that episode too, though I always thought the prop department could have done better with the probe, it looked like a bunch of hat boxes glued together with a spike down the middle.
People are apprehensive about teaching chimps sign language, because, ya know, if those chimps are released back into the wild they will take over the world!!!
Sorry to break it to you, they already did.
Oh who am I kidding, that fucking idiot could never learn sign language.
Elephants can't run. They can walk a bit faster. But to say they are fast is a exaggeration.
Uh, Goatse, is that you? It must be, for you to fit all the stuff you just pulled out of your ass.
Elephants Running.
I hope it doesn't run on oil..... ;)
Of course not, it's advanced alien technology so it naturally runs on the most abundant renewable resource available: stupid people.
What, did you think this is the only planet with Intelligent Design Creationists? On some distant planet, they finally figured out why God put them here!
Something things do go away if ignored.
Like cancer!
Threating to kill someone isn't covered by the first amendment right to free speech. Neither is making terroristic threats. If you did the things you describe, you would be committing various crimes and opening yourself up to civil penalties should the target of your assaults choose to sue. Not only that, but the person could get a restraining order which, if you violated it, would provide them further civil and criminal options. This falls within the "fire in a crowded theatre" realm, as harm is being done.
Using racist langugage, advocating for different age of consent, or engaging in other protected forms of speech are not the equivalent of the actions you described.
Try again though please. Perhaps you should focus even more tightly then before on how we should just think of the children, that seems to be working like gangbusters for you so far.
Sorry, but there is no way to simply "tax the rich" without catching a few working class in the net.
Better to catch a few working class in the net then to go out fishing for working class people only. Consumer spending drives the economy, put more money in the pockets of working class people and ratchet up the estate tax and remove the cap on social security/fica taxes and you've got yourself a more progressive, solid tax strucutre that helps prevent third generation problems like the Walton kids.
The rest is off base or plain opinion. She, like McCain is hammering the Republican party for letting spending get out of hand. She is very much against big government. The rest was just pure opinion and partisan attacks.
So the question is, do you really believe this, in which case your judgement is in question, or are you knowingly trying to help spread a lie, in which case your morality is in question.
Either way, you're spreading disinformation, which is all McCain seems to have in his playbook.
Special note: Any answer that attempts to address this issue through contrast (the "Bill Clinton did it" defense) is insta-fail on your part.
I disagree. Letting people freely advocate for their insane shit (like Nazis and pedophiles) sure does make it a lot easier to keep track of them. Its the quiet ones who worry me.
Not to mention I'm sure one of the big digital distributors like direct2drive or steam or even impulse would have been happy to distribute the game, as it would have been huge for them to sell a AAA title with that kind of hype on their service.
You know, as a side note to this, when I was working for Dell tech support back in 2000, I got fed up with stupid shit Dell was doing that made things harder for both me and the customer, and I sent an email to Michael Dell's public address. This pissed off the people above me, but I never got in trouble for it or heard anything about it... until mysteriously my suggestions started getting implemented a few months later. I wasn't proposing anything vastly original or groundbreaking, but you never know if that message might have gone over the desk of some third-string secretary who decided to send it to the right department for consideration.
And at least they stopped putting the service tag/ID number on the back of the fucking box.
The problem is that, like it or not, evolution touches on an area of belief where science and religion do intersect. I don't like the idea of creationism being taught in a science class, but I wouldn't mind them both (and other compelling theories) being presented in an "Origins and Development of Life" class.
Uh, it's simple. When religion and government intersect, religion is the one who needs to fuck off and die. Always. Thats how it works. Otherwise, I get to tell you which Jesus to worship, and how to interpret that Jesus using my view of the Koran. Wouldn't you love to roll around in that for a while?
You know, I feel more and more hopeful every day that goes by and the McCain people can't come up with anything better than this tired shit. Is that really the best you can do? I especially like how you tried to cram gun issues AND abortion into the same straw man in number 3.
Exactly. Not only are cities extremely diverse, they're also very difficult to lock down. Imagine a civil war battle in Houston, a "city" the size of Rhode Island. You can't control access to something that big.
I think if you really want to get a quick and dirty impression of what civil war would be like in the US, take a gander at the movie "Enemy at the Gates" or any other details about Stalingrad in WW2.
Civil war in the US would be Hell on Earth (as it is anywhere, really). Having a powerful standing army doesn't do you much good when you can't bring your force to bear on the enemy. Its like this fly that got into my house a few days ago and has been buzzing around my head. Compared to the fly, I am monumentally, overwhelmingly powerful, and I could crush the life out of it without any effort, if I could only fucking hit the damn thing. Meanwhile, the thing is nibbling on my discarded skin particles and laying eggs all over my body.
You missed my point and then made it for me. Except that last bit. You underestimate the power of asymetric warfare, I think. It is a common mistake and one that is easily made up until the fighting breaks out. That kind of thinking has lead more than one country into decay and ruin.
Of course, I think any policy based revolution is bound to end up in a failed state, but systemic revolutions seem to be much more healthy. I've discussed a lot of this on my blog, feel free to kick over and read if you like this kind of stuff: Dealing in Lead.
Nobody wants a set of dominoes that large.
Wow, you've never met a human male, have you?
Ok. So what happens when it isn't North vs South, but suburbs vs urban centers, or urban vs rural? If a civil war started in the modern US, it wouldn't be the clear cut situation you seem to imagine. You wouldn't be a neocon would you?
Yeah, when these people are like "your rifle is no good against a tank!!111" I always imagine what some dude is gonna look like after a month in his tank. Someone's gotta get out and pump the gas, ya know? You can't keep an attack helicopter in the air 24 hours a day.
A civil war in the modern US would be hell on earth, and it certainly wouldn't be the army, who would be fighting each other as much as the citizens, doing all the dishing out.