.doc doesn't always open fine in Open Office. Too often the formating is all messed up, and sometimes it's completely illegible. Also, if you have an old computer you may be limited to Abiword or something else that isn't a resource hog like OO, and Abi's support for.doc sucks.
The reason Xpdf (and Evince, ect) work so well with PDFs is because Adobe opened the specs for their format. Microsoft hasn't and never will with.doc, so any other word processor trying to use it will never fully work like it would with a native format.
Yes, I have internet access. My personal limits are not the same as everyone else. That said...
I used to play Everquest with my ex-boyfriend. It killed our relationship. Well, no, the fact that he's an ass killed it, but EQ didn't help any. He had more time to play than me, so he was always higher level than me and we could never group, so even when we were "playing together" we were really just ignoring eachother. Then he had this bad habit of "marrying" other girls in-game that he grouped with instead of me. So, our relationship fizzled and burned out.
Now I play Smash Bros. and other (not massively) multiplayer games with my husband. Since we're actually playing together, it bring us closer (and there's no other girls for me to be jealous of), and when we're not together, I get to play all the other RPGs that I missed while playing EQ.
Also, when did EQ go down in price? When I played, it was $10 a month for each of our accounts, totaling $240, and expansions weren't included.
I'm glad you and your wife enjoy EQ and find it cheaper. I didn't.
I personally limit the monthly services I get to a minimum. I don't have cable, I don't have a cell phone, and certainly don't pay a monthly fee for games. It helps me keep track of my finances better to not have tons of different bills to keep track of, and when money's tight it's a lot easy to say that I won't buy a new game this month than try to figure out which bill I can skimp on.
...some people disagree over whether some bits are actually yours. You say "her own body" as if there is universal agreement over what is and isn't "hers". I can say "I own X" as often as I like, but repeating it doesn't make it so.
Do you have any idea what you're saying? The fetus, even if we decide it doesn't belong to the woman, is affecting her body. It sucks nutrition from her and basically parasites off her, taking what it needs irregardless of whether it hurts her or even leads to her death. Sure, it's sweet and wonderful (besides the pain and side effects) if you want to be pregnant, but it's hell if you don't. Women have a right to decide if that's not what they want to do to their bodies.
It's short for a woman's right to choose what she does with her own body. That's kinda long, so we shorten it.
Say stupid shit like you support my right to choose if I get a tattoo or not all you want. Sorry, but my choices over my body are not limited to what you like and what you don't. I don't tell men what to do with their bodies, don't tell me what to do with mine.
Sure, if they're Catholic they probably should believe what the Magisterium says, but not all of them do. My friend's family are all devote Catholics who go to mass once a week, yet when she got pregnant out of wedlock they practically dragged her to an abortion clinic. You might not call them Catholic, but do your statistics count them? How many people go to church or mass every week out of habit and don't really believe what their paster or priest or whoever says? We have no idea. You can't use a survey that doesn't take into account individual beliefs and assume that everyone surveyed believes the way you think they should. Go find a survey that asks people their feelings on abortion and stem cell research (they do have those!) because that's way more useful. Though I bet you'll find that pro-lifers don't have the overwhelming majority you seem to think they have.
I'm not sure why you think UCC stands for Unitarian Universalism, but it actually means United Church of Christ. They're rather different. Anyways, UUism no longer counts as mainline Protestant, because it no longer counts as Protestant. As for the UCC, I don't know. What are you defining as mainline and not mainline?
As for Catholics, I don't care what the magisterium says, there are people who consider themselves Catholic who are pro-choice. Google them, there's lots.
You didn't specify which non-mainline protestant churches you were talking about. I don't believe the UCC is considered mainline, and the RCRC has information about being Catholic and pro-choice. And again, you still can't assume that people who go to a specific church believe everything that church believes, even if you would call them hypocrites for not.
If they profess membership in a church and don't actually agree with the church, then that makes them hypocrites. Seems like quite a problem, don't you think?
First of all, whether they they're hypocrites or not doesn't make them pro-lifers.
Another minor point, not all churches are Christian. Unitarian Universalism used to be a part of Christianity and still call their places of worship churches, but split off and now atheists, pagans, and people with other non-Christian beliefs make up a large part of it. I go to church every week and I'm pro-choice and don't believe in the Bible, yet I am not a hypocrite because my church does not require me to be pro-life and believe in the Bible. Sometimes UUs are still lumped in as Christian, and if the people that did your stastics did that, then there's a whole lot more pro-choicers in your group that you thought were homogenously pro-life.
There's a lot of Christians who don't believe that embryos are people. You can't just look religious affiliation stats and say that all of these people believe this, because they don't.
Also, we're not talking late-term fetuses that look like babies. We're not talking about fetuses like the ones you see on ultrasounds. We're talking about microscopic eggs that have been fertilized for a few days. If they were in a woman, she wouldn't know. If they failed to implant or miscarried, she'd never notice. However, they're not in a woman. Most embryos for stem cell research come from fertility clinics, extras created for backup and then unneeded, so they will never go in a woman and grow into a baby. If they weren't donated to science, they'd be thrown away. I for one, would rather they be used to help people, or even animals, rather than be thrown away.
Did the article say if it was adult stemm cells or embryonic stem cells were used. It seems to me it doesn't need to be a political issue. Use adult stem cells. They've shown much promise in humans.
They used embyronic. Why? Because they're much more usable than adult stem cells. Get over it.
So are they rats or mice? Headline says mice, summary says rats. They're not the same thing. Think before you write!
From the article:
First, Kerr mixed embryonic stem cells from mice with chemicals that caused them to turn into motor neurons. He transplanted them into the spinal cords of partially paralyzed rats.
Uhh, so both then? Or maybe the reporter is confused too?
A lot of medical R&D is done by the government, or with government grants. Also, opening up patents is not "stealing from the rich". It allows competition.
I did a little more reading on the case, and first of all the article he posted is the worst article on the case I could find for arguing that this guy was unjustly sentenced. It focused heavily on the potential rape of Michelle (which, if you'd read the article, you'd know that he had sex with her, too), and barely at all on Tracy's consenting. After reading other articles, I understand why people are upset at the sentence and I think the law is wrong, but the poster could have choosen a better article to get that point across.
The reason Tracy wasn't charged is the same reason that Genarlow wasn't charged with stat rape for Michelle - both Genarlow and Michelle were over the age of consent, which is 16.
That's how a 17 year old in Georgia can be found guilty of "aggravated child molestation" after having consensual oral sex with a 15 year old... and get sentenced to a mandatory minimum 10 year sentence with no allowance for probation and no chance of parole.
What a minute, your article clearly says that the girl says it wasn't consensual. 10 years isn't an unfair sentance for rape.
When I first installed Kubuntu (over Ubuntu, so no, this is not default) whenever I clicked a link in Gaim it would open in in Dillo. That was annoying, since appearently Dillo doesn't work w/ CSS so most of the pages were blank. I fixed that quickly.
Do they take volunteers? Because in 7 years as a registered voter I've never been called. Google searching gives all sorts of suggestions for how to get out of jury duty, but nothing for how to get it.
Appearently you missed my sarcasm. I was mocking the parents for thinking that anything myspace could have done would have been more effective than them simply asking her where she was going. At most, myspace could have privatized her page, but if she had been the one to friend him in the first place that would have been pointless. So we're in agreement, you just need your sarcasm detector checked.;)
An American passport cost $40 the last time I got one (it's probably more now). Now, depending on your income, it may or may not be much money, but I wouldn't pay that just to go on myspace. I imagine that parents of 14 year olds wouldn't be too happy to go buy a passport for their child just so they can go on some stupid ad-covered website, which has a reputation for pedophiles anyways.
I'm pretty sure that most, or at least a large percentage, of myspace's userbase are American, and given that we typically lack passports (and are lazy) I'd imagine people would just stop using myspace if they required passports and myspace would lose a lot of people. Also, getting a system in place that would be able to verify passports from every single country would be a bit of an undertaking, especially just to lose users.
I think the parents wanted myspace to verify their daughter's age, and then protect her from people they appearently can't. Myspace could have made her page private (which they do for those that say they're under 13) so she'd have to friend the sexual-assualting 19 year olds, they couldn't friend her first. Clearly that would be much more effective than them having a conversation with her. "Where are you going?" "Uh, uuhh, to Suzy's house?" "Why don't we drive you to Suzy's house?" Yeah, that wouldn't have worked at all. Myspace could have solved all of this by merely verifying her age, which she probably told them anyways.
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Of course they'll find another way to feed their addiction, but there's no reason you should feed it. There's much better uses of your money.
.doc doesn't always open fine in Open Office. Too often the formating is all messed up, and sometimes it's completely illegible. Also, if you have an old computer you may be limited to Abiword or something else that isn't a resource hog like OO, and Abi's support for .doc sucks.
The reason Xpdf (and Evince, ect) work so well with PDFs is because Adobe opened the specs for their format. Microsoft hasn't and never will with .doc, so any other word processor trying to use it will never fully work like it would with a native format.
Yes, I have internet access. My personal limits are not the same as everyone else. That said...
I used to play Everquest with my ex-boyfriend. It killed our relationship. Well, no, the fact that he's an ass killed it, but EQ didn't help any. He had more time to play than me, so he was always higher level than me and we could never group, so even when we were "playing together" we were really just ignoring eachother. Then he had this bad habit of "marrying" other girls in-game that he grouped with instead of me. So, our relationship fizzled and burned out.
Now I play Smash Bros. and other (not massively) multiplayer games with my husband. Since we're actually playing together, it bring us closer (and there's no other girls for me to be jealous of), and when we're not together, I get to play all the other RPGs that I missed while playing EQ.
Also, when did EQ go down in price? When I played, it was $10 a month for each of our accounts, totaling $240, and expansions weren't included.
I'm glad you and your wife enjoy EQ and find it cheaper. I didn't.
I personally limit the monthly services I get to a minimum. I don't have cable, I don't have a cell phone, and certainly don't pay a monthly fee for games. It helps me keep track of my finances better to not have tons of different bills to keep track of, and when money's tight it's a lot easy to say that I won't buy a new game this month than try to figure out which bill I can skimp on.
Wow, someone's touchy.
It's short for a woman's right to choose what she does with her own body. That's kinda long, so we shorten it.
Say stupid shit like you support my right to choose if I get a tattoo or not all you want. Sorry, but my choices over my body are not limited to what you like and what you don't. I don't tell men what to do with their bodies, don't tell me what to do with mine.
Sure, if they're Catholic they probably should believe what the Magisterium says, but not all of them do. My friend's family are all devote Catholics who go to mass once a week, yet when she got pregnant out of wedlock they practically dragged her to an abortion clinic. You might not call them Catholic, but do your statistics count them? How many people go to church or mass every week out of habit and don't really believe what their paster or priest or whoever says? We have no idea. You can't use a survey that doesn't take into account individual beliefs and assume that everyone surveyed believes the way you think they should. Go find a survey that asks people their feelings on abortion and stem cell research (they do have those!) because that's way more useful. Though I bet you'll find that pro-lifers don't have the overwhelming majority you seem to think they have.
I'm not sure why you think UCC stands for Unitarian Universalism, but it actually means United Church of Christ. They're rather different. Anyways, UUism no longer counts as mainline Protestant, because it no longer counts as Protestant. As for the UCC, I don't know. What are you defining as mainline and not mainline?
As for Catholics, I don't care what the magisterium says, there are people who consider themselves Catholic who are pro-choice. Google them, there's lots.
You didn't specify which non-mainline protestant churches you were talking about. I don't believe the UCC is considered mainline, and the RCRC has information about being Catholic and pro-choice. And again, you still can't assume that people who go to a specific church believe everything that church believes, even if you would call them hypocrites for not.
Second of all, not all churches are against abortion and stem cell research. The United Church of Christ very much supports a woman's right to choose, and The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice has information on being pro-choice within other faith traditions.
Another minor point, not all churches are Christian. Unitarian Universalism used to be a part of Christianity and still call their places of worship churches, but split off and now atheists, pagans, and people with other non-Christian beliefs make up a large part of it. I go to church every week and I'm pro-choice and don't believe in the Bible, yet I am not a hypocrite because my church does not require me to be pro-life and believe in the Bible. Sometimes UUs are still lumped in as Christian, and if the people that did your stastics did that, then there's a whole lot more pro-choicers in your group that you thought were homogenously pro-life.
There's a lot of Christians who don't believe that embryos are people. You can't just look religious affiliation stats and say that all of these people believe this, because they don't.
Also, we're not talking late-term fetuses that look like babies. We're not talking about fetuses like the ones you see on ultrasounds. We're talking about microscopic eggs that have been fertilized for a few days. If they were in a woman, she wouldn't know. If they failed to implant or miscarried, she'd never notice. However, they're not in a woman. Most embryos for stem cell research come from fertility clinics, extras created for backup and then unneeded, so they will never go in a woman and grow into a baby. If they weren't donated to science, they'd be thrown away. I for one, would rather they be used to help people, or even animals, rather than be thrown away.
Did the article say if it was adult stemm cells or embryonic stem cells were used. It seems to me it doesn't need to be a political issue. Use adult stem cells. They've shown much promise in humans. They used embyronic. Why? Because they're much more usable than adult stem cells. Get over it.
A lot of medical R&D is done by the government, or with government grants. Also, opening up patents is not "stealing from the rich". It allows competition.
I did a little more reading on the case, and first of all the article he posted is the worst article on the case I could find for arguing that this guy was unjustly sentenced. It focused heavily on the potential rape of Michelle (which, if you'd read the article, you'd know that he had sex with her, too), and barely at all on Tracy's consenting. After reading other articles, I understand why people are upset at the sentence and I think the law is wrong, but the poster could have choosen a better article to get that point across.
The reason Tracy wasn't charged is the same reason that Genarlow wasn't charged with stat rape for Michelle - both Genarlow and Michelle were over the age of consent, which is 16.
When I first installed Kubuntu (over Ubuntu, so no, this is not default) whenever I clicked a link in Gaim it would open in in Dillo. That was annoying, since appearently Dillo doesn't work w/ CSS so most of the pages were blank. I fixed that quickly.
Is it Debian's default or just one of many options?
Do they take volunteers? Because in 7 years as a registered voter I've never been called. Google searching gives all sorts of suggestions for how to get out of jury duty, but nothing for how to get it.
Since when have you seen a distro include Epiphany (Gnome's browser) as the default?
KDE and Gnome aren't distros, and you can get distros without Epiphany or Konqueror. Can you get a version of Windows without IE?
Appearently you missed my sarcasm. I was mocking the parents for thinking that anything myspace could have done would have been more effective than them simply asking her where she was going. At most, myspace could have privatized her page, but if she had been the one to friend him in the first place that would have been pointless. So we're in agreement, you just need your sarcasm detector checked. ;)
An American passport cost $40 the last time I got one (it's probably more now). Now, depending on your income, it may or may not be much money, but I wouldn't pay that just to go on myspace. I imagine that parents of 14 year olds wouldn't be too happy to go buy a passport for their child just so they can go on some stupid ad-covered website, which has a reputation for pedophiles anyways.
I'm pretty sure that most, or at least a large percentage, of myspace's userbase are American, and given that we typically lack passports (and are lazy) I'd imagine people would just stop using myspace if they required passports and myspace would lose a lot of people. Also, getting a system in place that would be able to verify passports from every single country would be a bit of an undertaking, especially just to lose users.
I think the parents wanted myspace to verify their daughter's age, and then protect her from people they appearently can't. Myspace could have made her page private (which they do for those that say they're under 13) so she'd have to friend the sexual-assualting 19 year olds, they couldn't friend her first. Clearly that would be much more effective than them having a conversation with her. "Where are you going?" "Uh, uuhh, to Suzy's house?" "Why don't we drive you to Suzy's house?" Yeah, that wouldn't have worked at all. Myspace could have solved all of this by merely verifying her age, which she probably told them anyways.