Generally, when a penalty for a crime is lessened it is a lot easier to get your sentence reduced to the new levels. Or, if something is retroactively made legal you are supposed to be released from your punishment. Sometimes the justice system needs a little prodding from lawyers for this to actually work correctly.
s/some guy/an angel s/a voice in your head/the god you've seen do many wonders and miracles during all your life, he's even anticipated the destruction of cities to you (and then it happened, told you you were going to have a son with your ancient wife and then it happened)/
if you are going to criticize a text, take it within it's surrounding context. Picking Abraham's decision to take Isaac to the altar on itself is not rigurous, at all.
Actually, it being an angel makes the story even more reprehensible. Angels, in the mythology, basically have superpowers. They certainly did not require protection from a crowd of people. You can basically substitute modern Superman (or the Sentry, if you prefer Marvel, or Invincible from Image) to get an idea of the power level we're talking about.
So, arguing that your daughters should be gang raped instead of having Superman just laugh off the angry crowd (or that your daughters should be gang raped at all) is about as pathetic and low as you can get.
Those folks typically die before they reach adulthood. If you can get yourself laid, then you can get yourself married. It's not like it's that hard to find somebody that is as desperate as the person who hypothetically isn't ever going to marry because they can't.
The only major exception I can think of is where the law prohibits marriage and those folks usually end up partnering up for life without the documents.
While technically true, in any kind of reasonable context your statement is wrong in the United States.
With the recent deluge of articles on curing aids, cancer and even the common cold, is the future finally here? Are we going Deus Ex in a few years now?
No, because as we cure all of these diseases, we've also created some nice nasty replacements, like MRSA infections that ignore our antibiotics.
I once came across an interesting theory that hinges upon the environment forcing long-term planning. In colder latitudes, you either plan for winter or die. Much of the "primitive" world lives in a location that doesn't force this requirement upon its inhabitants. Who gives a shit about years from now, when you can harvest fruit year-round.
Yes, exactly. The perfect example of this can be seen in the pictures of the snow caps on the Pyramids.
Well, seems to me like the Arab Spring puts the lie to a lot of the interventionist foreign adventures we've had pushed down our throats by jingoistic red white and blind pigs over the years.
Yes, that is what I meant by "completely devalued." Thank you for confirming your reading comprehension to be of the average level for the republican redneck retard fringe.
You, my friend, are a bigot. Re-read your post and replace "republican redneck" with any other slur and maybe then you will understand. You are quick to defend the target a racial slur, but you are too stupid to even recognize that you do the exact same thing. You speak of the "fringe" without realizing that you are on the fringe yourself, so much so that anyone even close to the middle of America is viewed as the "fringe" by you.
Reading your posts and realizing the willful ignorance and raw hatred that contributes to them is depressing.
Discriminating based on self-selected traits is not the same as discriminating based on assigned or natural traits.
They are weak and terrified of confrontation, and they are also trying to pay lip service to good policy while still serving the corporate interests which run our country.
This is basically correct, and just more evidence that the Democrats are too weak to be trusted with governing the country, just as the Republicans are too selfish, greedy, ignorant, and generally evil.
Sadly, things won't change as long as the shelves at Wal-Mart are still stocked, so we're in for a good old gradual decline, punctuated by increasingly severe crisis situations each of which will leave us slightly weaker than the one before, never quite managing to regain our footing before we're knocked out again.
Your gaming machine is still capable of running the latest games because most games are being developed to support cross-platform with the consoles, which haven't upgraded since around the time you got your computer. Expect a huge leap in system requirements when the next generation of consoles finally make it out the door (guessing we'll see some "surprises" at next year's E3).
If could have sworn that in Trek they used the warp engines to partially shift the ship into an alternate universe (subspace) where the speed of light was very different.
The government of the United States, formed under the Constitution, was intended to fulfill the following functions:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
There's more, you can read for yourself on a website provided by the Government.
yeah, tipping the globe in the direction of a mini ice age might be an issue... But you've got to make up your mind: Do you want it hot or do you want it cold.
That's a hard call. At night when I'm trying to sleep I like it cold. But when it's warm all the girls on campus start wearing tank tops and short shorts...
Slashdot Mirror
Lol what?
This is about a printer, presumably printing toys. Thus the reason for "could be the last toy you ever have to buy for your kids?"
There is treatments now for Asperger's that will make your life easier. Just saying.
Generally, when a penalty for a crime is lessened it is a lot easier to get your sentence reduced to the new levels. Or, if something is retroactively made legal you are supposed to be released from your punishment. Sometimes the justice system needs a little prodding from lawyers for this to actually work correctly.
"If such a creator existed, it would be an immoral creator"
Because he doesn't fit *your* definition of morality?
Ah, moral relativism at its finest. One of the sadder results of your particular meme infection.
s/some guy/an angel /
s/a voice in your head/the god you've seen do many wonders and miracles during all your life, he's even anticipated the destruction of cities to you (and then it happened, told you you were going to have a son with your ancient wife and then it happened)
if you are going to criticize a text, take it within it's surrounding context. Picking Abraham's decision to take Isaac to the altar on itself is not rigurous, at all.
Actually, it being an angel makes the story even more reprehensible. Angels, in the mythology, basically have superpowers. They certainly did not require protection from a crowd of people. You can basically substitute modern Superman (or the Sentry, if you prefer Marvel, or Invincible from Image) to get an idea of the power level we're talking about.
So, arguing that your daughters should be gang raped instead of having Superman just laugh off the angry crowd (or that your daughters should be gang raped at all) is about as pathetic and low as you can get.
Iraq debacle? You mean the successful invasion of Iraq for the purpose of deposing the convicted mass murderer and general crackpot Saddam Hussein
Oh, was that the lie they eventually settled on? I lost track after the fifth time they changed the pretext for Bush and Cheney's Excellent Adventure.
Those folks typically die before they reach adulthood. If you can get yourself laid, then you can get yourself married. It's not like it's that hard to find somebody that is as desperate as the person who hypothetically isn't ever going to marry because they can't.
The only major exception I can think of is where the law prohibits marriage and those folks usually end up partnering up for life without the documents.
While technically true, in any kind of reasonable context your statement is wrong in the United States.
With the recent deluge of articles on curing aids, cancer and even the common cold, is the future finally here? Are we going Deus Ex in a few years now?
No, because as we cure all of these diseases, we've also created some nice nasty replacements, like MRSA infections that ignore our antibiotics.
I once came across an interesting theory that hinges upon the environment forcing long-term planning. In colder latitudes, you either plan for winter or die. Much of the "primitive" world lives in a location that doesn't force this requirement upon its inhabitants. Who gives a shit about years from now, when you can harvest fruit year-round.
Yes, exactly. The perfect example of this can be seen in the pictures of the snow caps on the Pyramids.
Well, seems to me like the Arab Spring puts the lie to a lot of the interventionist foreign adventures we've had pushed down our throats by jingoistic red white and blind pigs over the years.
Sounds great, want to get married so I can have citizenship?
Or we can just buy some Falcon launches from SpaceX. :)
Wow, I didn't know Rick Perry read slashdot!
Yes, that is what I meant by "completely devalued." Thank you for confirming your reading comprehension to be of the average level for the republican redneck retard fringe.
You, my friend, are a bigot. Re-read your post and replace "republican redneck" with any other slur and maybe then you will understand. You are quick to defend the target a racial slur, but you are too stupid to even recognize that you do the exact same thing. You speak of the "fringe" without realizing that you are on the fringe yourself, so much so that anyone even close to the middle of America is viewed as the "fringe" by you.
Reading your posts and realizing the willful ignorance and raw hatred that contributes to them is depressing.
Discriminating based on self-selected traits is not the same as discriminating based on assigned or natural traits.
They are weak and terrified of confrontation, and they are also trying to pay lip service to good policy while still serving the corporate interests which run our country.
This is basically correct, and just more evidence that the Democrats are too weak to be trusted with governing the country, just as the Republicans are too selfish, greedy, ignorant, and generally evil.
Sadly, things won't change as long as the shelves at Wal-Mart are still stocked, so we're in for a good old gradual decline, punctuated by increasingly severe crisis situations each of which will leave us slightly weaker than the one before, never quite managing to regain our footing before we're knocked out again.
Your gaming machine is still capable of running the latest games because most games are being developed to support cross-platform with the consoles, which haven't upgraded since around the time you got your computer. Expect a huge leap in system requirements when the next generation of consoles finally make it out the door (guessing we'll see some "surprises" at next year's E3).
You need to hand yours in as well... the technobabble you are thinking of is the chroniton particle.
Yes, but don't chronitons decay into energons and megatrons?
Maybe it's not that neutrinos DO travel faster than light, just that they CAN travel faster than light.
I can drive my car in a school zone and on the highway.
You can not defeat my car analogy.
If could have sworn that in Trek they used the warp engines to partially shift the ship into an alternate universe (subspace) where the speed of light was very different.
Read the first paragraph again. I even bold part of it as a hint.
1. Do you really think that Big Oil influencing government is a bigger threat than Big Green doing the same?
"Big Green?" Seriously?
Certain types of false equivalence fallacies are central to right wing thought. It's the scaffolding that supports their delusions.
The government of the United States, formed under the Constitution, was intended to fulfill the following functions:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
There's more, you can read for yourself on a website provided by the Government.
yeah, tipping the globe in the direction of a mini ice age might be an issue... But you've got to make up your mind: Do you want it hot or do you want it cold.
That's a hard call. At night when I'm trying to sleep I like it cold. But when it's warm all the girls on campus start wearing tank tops and short shorts...
This is a hard one!
Pun intended only post-facto.
(1) "It's supposed to be a secret that CO2 accounts for less than 10% of greenhouse gases"
Perhaps he got Wikipedia and Wikileaks mixed up in his head again?
More like wikipedia and conservapedia.
Well, Firefox 8 will probably be released first. why don't we wait and see?
Actually, Firefox 8, 9, 10, and the beta for 11 were all released while I was typing this message.