Well, I think the point is there really isn't anything super about them.. they are just people in costume. Also, why do you care if they show graphic sex but not graphic violence? People have sex... just like people hurt each other. Sex is a part of everyone's life... always excluding it seems more odd to me.
I can ask your same questions; why do we have to see the violence, why can't they just imply it? Should they just have implied rape, or was it ok that they showed that because it was violent enough for you? For me it was the violence that ruined it for me, because I wasn't expecting it.
I'd have a hard time believing that there are cultures without similar taboos
Well, that just shows how little you know of the world. There's even a tribe, somewhere in Brazil I think, where you are SUPPOSED to share you wife with all the other men in the tribe. If you try to keep her to yourself, you're dishonoring her and your tribe.
I didn't; I knew it was R, but thought it was still a superhero movie (and my wife and I never heard of watchmen before). We were taken off guard with how graphic the violence was. Of course if we had gone it expecting that, it would be a different story.
Oh, and what's your point? Do you think your experience makes a trend? Especially when it looks like you specifically picked machines you knew wouldn't have problems?
That's arguing in a circle. The universe doesn't HAVE to exist at all, much less be hospitable. It is not trivial that both of these are true, no more than it would be trivial for me to find myself alive, having somehow dodged every bullet from a firing squad.
Yet it does exist, and is hospitable. Maybe it's unlikely, but here we are. It's also likely life can exist in a vastly different form than here on earth... so maybe our numbers are off because we're only considering life like us. And it's unlikely you can dodge every bullet from a firing squad... but I'm sure it's statistcially possible.
And also you've missed my point: these fine tuning arguments aren't talking about possibility of life forming somewhere. They're talking about the fine tuning required for life to form anywhere. For example, the universe has not collapsed on itself, atoms can form, as can stars - all of these would be prerequisites for any kind of life to form anywhere, and require incredible fine tuning, but these are not explained by the Atheist account.
It doesn't require any tuning; there's just enough matter and time that it did happen. No natural laws we know of rule it out.. and it seems to have happened. Why is something exteremly unlikely ruled impossible?
It's also quite a leap to go from "we don't know" to "therefore a God must exist.. and somehow we have ALOT of detail on him." Please. We used to not know why the sun rose... so someone made up the idea of a god they named Ra to explain it. Now we know... making up that story didn't really help us find what's actually going on though, did it?
Please explain your attitude that just because we don't have an explaination now, that proves it must have been some kind of god. What kind of logic is that?
Oh, don't get me wrong, I don't believe the steaming pile of BS that is the bible... but if you're going to argue about a fictional story, at least get the story right.
I'm criminally misinformed??? 90% OF ALL DIABETES CASES ARE TYPE II, WHICH IS RELATED TO OBESITY. The other 10% have type I. NINTY PERCENT DID IT TO THEMSELVES. So piss off with your rant, because a overwhelming majority DID bring it onto themselves.
I would think that my inclusion of lifestyle changes would make it clear (especially to you, the self professed expert) that its type 2 I was commenting on.
I know I was not clear, but please try to think. Most people with diabetes (90%) have type 2, which is lifestyle related (i.e., it shows up because the person is obese).
I don't care that insurance pays for YOUR medication. I care when the other 90% of people with the disease are running up HUGE tabs because they can't stop eating crap.
I know.. and most people with diabetes are type II, which is brought about by lifestyle. You're talking about type I diabetes, and I have no problems there. They are a huge minority.. my problem is the huge majority for which they brought about the condition themselves.
"There are an estimated 23.6 million people in the U.S. (7.8% of the population) with diabetes with 17.9 million being diagnosed[2], 90% of whom are type 2."
Yup, it is. Either you're exaggating the problem, or you never actually timed the lights. You also don't know if 30MPH is actually the appropriate speed limit for the road. Given that 85% of ALL roads in the US have limits lower than enginneing standards would dictate (by 8 - 12 MPH, on average), I'd say the speed limit for your road is likely too low, and as what always happens when engineering principals aren't followed, people are going more than 30MPH, and so the light timing is set too low because the speed limit is set too low. Speed also isn't the only factor in setting yellow light time: http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/reports/rlcreport5.asp
Here's the interesting thing; engineers say the speed limits should be set according to what almost everyone will do anyway on that road. That's the safest speed limit. So you're faulting people for violating laws which are incorrectly implemented for political reasons... you're part of the problem, I'm afraid. Until you demand that states and cities follow engineering guidelines and stop passing laws which just happen to make a lot of people money, you're part of the problem. Please, do your research and come back.
So this is what you'd be advocating; the light is green, but you must stop and wait at the line before the car preceeding you completely clears. Even if you're the 5th car in the line.
Federal law already does that. It also dictates how speed limits must be set, and how often they must be re-evaluated. Then VT has a law that says if the speed limit hasn't been challenged within three years, you can't challege it... even if the Federal re-evaluation period has elasped or a study has NEVER been done.
You assume you can see and or know that traffic ahead won't clear enough for you to clear the intersection. Yes, sometimes you can tell... sometimes you can't though, and you end up stuck.
1/ don't speed and there's no picture taken so no invasion of your privacy
These cameras have nothing to do with speeding. They are red light cameras, taking pictures when the yellow light time was shorted below state and or federal times.
2/ unfairly ticketed ? if there's a picture as proof I'd say it's fair you get a ticket..
Right, because no city would ever illegally shorten yellow light time to raise funds. Even though it's been, you know, documented that they have.
Finally, I'd like to add this; if an overwhelming majority of people don't want red light cameras, I'd argue that the government doesn't have a right to use public money to install and operate them, regardless of any supposed benefits. In this case though, the cameras create more problems then they solve, which is why they shouldn't have been installed in the first place.
Lenghtening yellow light times has been proven to decrease ALL accident types, where-as red light cameras trade t-bone type accidents for rear-end collisions.
Well, the Gandos ARE "real" people. Just controlled by a parasite. I was hoping RE5 would go back to the T-virus, I can't see why they couldn't. I've played 1-3 on the Wii (as GameCube games), and I don't recall anything that said the world was safe from the t-virus.
Hmm... I tried playing on the Wii (maybe that was my problem?), but when you're posioned and the cure isn't where it's supposed to be, I just gave up and haven't played since.
Why, as one of the millions that are now own 80% of AIG, would I want to RETAIN the people that created this nightmare? I don't want them retained, I want them fired at least, arrested at best.
Innocents? You mean the idiots that bought multiple insurance policies in case the sub-prime mortgages failed? Please, I could give a fuck about them. It wouldn't create some huge unending domino effect.. the healthy banks and insurance companies will love to have new customers.
Even more expensive since it's covering conditions like diabetes that could be controlled by life style changes.. but instead money is spent on medication.
If someone alters your password not through the normal password change process (i.e. an Administrator uses 'reset password'), you lose access to your private keys, and thus your encrypted files.
You can mitigate this though by backing up your EFS certificate, which is recommended.
Organic food has a very well defined meaning; that is food that hasn't been coated in chemicals, injected with yet more chemicals and growth hormones, and then coated in yet more chemicals (perservatives).
Ahh.. the watchmaker argument. Of course it couldn't be that the universe HAS to exist as it does, or it couldn't exist at all. It's a matter of statistics; there's a lot of matter in the universe, so it only makes sense that somewhere in it life started, randomly.
Nieschze has a good theory that explains it... without the need for a god.
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Well, I think the point is there really isn't anything super about them.. they are just people in costume. Also, why do you care if they show graphic sex but not graphic violence? People have sex... just like people hurt each other. Sex is a part of everyone's life... always excluding it seems more odd to me.
I can ask your same questions; why do we have to see the violence, why can't they just imply it? Should they just have implied rape, or was it ok that they showed that because it was violent enough for you? For me it was the violence that ruined it for me, because I wasn't expecting it.
Could be you were picking up that they were uncomfortable. Or haven't you noticed it's uncomfortable to be around people how are uncomfortable?
I'd have a hard time believing that there are cultures without similar taboos
Well, that just shows how little you know of the world. There's even a tribe, somewhere in Brazil I think, where you are SUPPOSED to share you wife with all the other men in the tribe. If you try to keep her to yourself, you're dishonoring her and your tribe.
I didn't; I knew it was R, but thought it was still a superhero movie (and my wife and I never heard of watchmen before). We were taken off guard with how graphic the violence was. Of course if we had gone it expecting that, it would be a different story.
Oh, and what's your point? Do you think your experience makes a trend? Especially when it looks like you specifically picked machines you knew wouldn't have problems?
That's arguing in a circle. The universe doesn't HAVE to exist at all, much less be hospitable. It is not trivial that both of these are true, no more than it would be trivial for me to find myself alive, having somehow dodged every bullet from a firing squad.
Yet it does exist, and is hospitable. Maybe it's unlikely, but here we are. It's also likely life can exist in a vastly different form than here on earth... so maybe our numbers are off because we're only considering life like us. And it's unlikely you can dodge every bullet from a firing squad... but I'm sure it's statistcially possible.
And also you've missed my point: these fine tuning arguments aren't talking about possibility of life forming somewhere. They're talking about the fine tuning required for life to form anywhere. For example, the universe has not collapsed on itself, atoms can form, as can stars - all of these would be prerequisites for any kind of life to form anywhere, and require incredible fine tuning, but these are not explained by the Atheist account.
It doesn't require any tuning; there's just enough matter and time that it did happen. No natural laws we know of rule it out.. and it seems to have happened. Why is something exteremly unlikely ruled impossible?
It's also quite a leap to go from "we don't know" to "therefore a God must exist.. and somehow we have ALOT of detail on him." Please. We used to not know why the sun rose... so someone made up the idea of a god they named Ra to explain it. Now we know... making up that story didn't really help us find what's actually going on though, did it?
Please explain your attitude that just because we don't have an explaination now, that proves it must have been some kind of god. What kind of logic is that?
Oh, don't get me wrong, I don't believe the steaming pile of BS that is the bible... but if you're going to argue about a fictional story, at least get the story right.
I'm criminally misinformed??? 90% OF ALL DIABETES CASES ARE TYPE II, WHICH IS RELATED TO OBESITY. The other 10% have type I. NINTY PERCENT DID IT TO THEMSELVES. So piss off with your rant, because a overwhelming majority DID bring it onto themselves.
I would think that my inclusion of lifestyle changes would make it clear (especially to you, the self professed expert) that its type 2 I was commenting on.
I know I was not clear, but please try to think. Most people with diabetes (90%) have type 2, which is lifestyle related (i.e., it shows up because the person is obese).
I don't care that insurance pays for YOUR medication. I care when the other 90% of people with the disease are running up HUGE tabs because they can't stop eating crap.
I know.. and most people with diabetes are type II, which is brought about by lifestyle. You're talking about type I diabetes, and I have no problems there. They are a huge minority.. my problem is the huge majority for which they brought about the condition themselves.
"There are an estimated 23.6 million people in the U.S. (7.8% of the population) with diabetes with 17.9 million being diagnosed[2], 90% of whom are type 2."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes_mellitus_type_2
Yup, it is. Either you're exaggating the problem, or you never actually timed the lights. You also don't know if 30MPH is actually the appropriate speed limit for the road. Given that 85% of ALL roads in the US have limits lower than enginneing standards would dictate (by 8 - 12 MPH, on average), I'd say the speed limit for your road is likely too low, and as what always happens when engineering principals aren't followed, people are going more than 30MPH, and so the light timing is set too low because the speed limit is set too low. Speed also isn't the only factor in setting yellow light time: http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/reports/rlcreport5.asp
Here's the interesting thing; engineers say the speed limits should be set according to what almost everyone will do anyway on that road. That's the safest speed limit. So you're faulting people for violating laws which are incorrectly implemented for political reasons... you're part of the problem, I'm afraid. Until you demand that states and cities follow engineering guidelines and stop passing laws which just happen to make a lot of people money, you're part of the problem. Please, do your research and come back.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limit#85th_percentile_rule
So this is what you'd be advocating; the light is green, but you must stop and wait at the line before the car preceeding you completely clears. Even if you're the 5th car in the line.
Isn't that called a stop sign?
Sounds like something wrong with the yellow light timing. Perhaps you should petition to increase yellow light time.
http://www.motorists.org/photoenforce/home/regulating-red-light-cameras/
Federal law already does that. It also dictates how speed limits must be set, and how often they must be re-evaluated. Then VT has a law that says if the speed limit hasn't been challenged within three years, you can't challege it... even if the Federal re-evaluation period has elasped or a study has NEVER been done.
You assume you can see and or know that traffic ahead won't clear enough for you to clear the intersection. Yes, sometimes you can tell... sometimes you can't though, and you end up stuck.
1/ don't speed and there's no picture taken so no invasion of your privacy
These cameras have nothing to do with speeding. They are red light cameras, taking pictures when the yellow light time was shorted below state and or federal times.
2/ unfairly ticketed ? if there's a picture as proof I'd say it's fair you get a ticket..
Right, because no city would ever illegally shorten yellow light time to raise funds. Even though it's been, you know, documented that they have.
Finally, I'd like to add this; if an overwhelming majority of people don't want red light cameras, I'd argue that the government doesn't have a right to use public money to install and operate them, regardless of any supposed benefits. In this case though, the cameras create more problems then they solve, which is why they shouldn't have been installed in the first place.
Lenghtening yellow light times has been proven to decrease ALL accident types, where-as red light cameras trade t-bone type accidents for rear-end collisions.
Well, the Gandos ARE "real" people. Just controlled by a parasite. I was hoping RE5 would go back to the T-virus, I can't see why they couldn't. I've played 1-3 on the Wii (as GameCube games), and I don't recall anything that said the world was safe from the t-virus.
Hmm... I tried playing on the Wii (maybe that was my problem?), but when you're posioned and the cure isn't where it's supposed to be, I just gave up and haven't played since.
Why, as one of the millions that are now own 80% of AIG, would I want to RETAIN the people that created this nightmare? I don't want them retained, I want them fired at least, arrested at best.
Innocents? You mean the idiots that bought multiple insurance policies in case the sub-prime mortgages failed? Please, I could give a fuck about them. It wouldn't create some huge unending domino effect.. the healthy banks and insurance companies will love to have new customers.
Even more expensive since it's covering conditions like diabetes that could be controlled by life style changes.. but instead money is spent on medication.
If someone alters your password not through the normal password change process (i.e. an Administrator uses 'reset password'), you lose access to your private keys, and thus your encrypted files.
You can mitigate this though by backing up your EFS certificate, which is recommended.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc756891.aspx
Organic food has a very well defined meaning; that is food that hasn't been coated in chemicals, injected with yet more chemicals and growth hormones, and then coated in yet more chemicals (perservatives).
Ahh.. the watchmaker argument. Of course it couldn't be that the universe HAS to exist as it does, or it couldn't exist at all. It's a matter of statistics; there's a lot of matter in the universe, so it only makes sense that somewhere in it life started, randomly.
Nieschze has a good theory that explains it... without the need for a god.
Limbo was made up. There's no reference to it anywhere in the bible. Even our catholic school teachers taught us as much.