Are you crazy? The world is more at danger from disease, warfare, et cetera than we are from meteors. Hell, we get hit by meteors everyday and we're doing just fine. They don't even make the news! Oh wait.. perhaps you meant asteroids. Alright.. sure. But I still think you have your priorities mixed up. I'd say we're more likely to be killed off by disease and such than we are a stray asteroid. As for your close calls.. this planet has been having close calls for billions of years. Only an incredibly small percentage of those have struck Earth. So don't be silly and stop spreading FUD. THanks.
The practice of combining all these things (credit cards, identification, gas card, etc) into one device is a little scary to me. I mean, haven't you ever heard the phrase "don't put all of your eggs ni one basket?" I prefer to keep my important information somewhat dispersed so that an attacker cannot get all of my information in one fell swoop. I'll keep my cards nicely seperated when I can. nice idea, though, I guess.
They are polls, man! Did you ever stop to think that perhaps they polled a disproportionate amount of Kerry supporters? Not every polling place mirrored the overall votes of the county/state/nation. It's statistics. Some error is assumed.
Amen to that!! I voted for Bush but that doesn't mean I agree with all of his policies. You Europeans need to realize that a vote for a man doesn't mean he has carte blanche to run amok and do as he pleases while the nation shuts its eyes. Plenty of us here are watchful and mindful of waht the future may hold. I am pleased by the attitude taken by the parent poster and hope that the rest of us can act smiilarly. If I had mod points I'd definitely give you +1 Insightful!
And I can see the merits of your arguments as well. Even and intelligent discourse is always welcomed and I appreciate that you have obviously thought about your positions. On to the argument..
As far as Elizabeth Dole is concerned.. Personally, I feel that the second quote is suspect and I would need to review the context of the statement. However, one must agree that a very large (perhaps majority?) portion of Americans do wish to define marriage as being between a man and a woman. For this reason alone should it be considerde and debated.. even voted upon. Her first quote, however, is one that I would hope all governments and administrations would support. Mrs. Dole is not saying that she wishes to cram ereligion down the throat of all Americans. She is simply stating that the Republican party (strongly supported by religious Americans) is going to defend the rights of their constituency in light of the recent attacks against Christianity. I speak of such things as removing the Ten Commandments out of court rooms, et cetera. Countless Americans feel they are an integral part of our nation and culture and should not be wiped away from our government, including myself, a very strong atheist (as mentioned in another post). These men and women deserve to have their voices heard and I am glad someone is standing up for them.
Not to flame, but it seems that your major issue is religion. Please realize that no matter who is in office, your right to practice any reigion or none at all WILL be protected. That right will never be taken from you or any other American. So, why it is such a central issue I don not understand. As I said, I am an atheist and feel that religion should not rule a nation. We all know how bad it can be.. We all remember the Taliban. However, I do not feel that GWB is attempting to push legislation amking Christianity or any other religion a recognized religion. Though our leaders tend to have religious backgrounds, our government is generally atheist. In fact, I would argue that the vast majority of politicians do not even think about God when they make decisions. I know how people are.. They say they're religious because they go to church on Sundays and repent for their weekly misdoings. So yeah.. we are in no danger of being forced or even coerced into any particular creed.
As for taxing and spending.. I agree with you that spending has gotten out of hand under Bush. He has increased spending far too much. However, bare in mind that the President does not allocate monies. That job is left up to Congress. (In fact, I think people should be most upset with the legislative branch and not thee xecutive!) What NEEDS to occur is for government to be responsible with money. That means cutting spending, cutting waste and optimizing the daily function of government as much as possible. We all know that the US government is notorious for wasting money. It is inefficient and needs a swift kick in the ass in those regards. I cannot run my life continually in debt. Nor can the government.
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Man.. I wish I had more time to compose a longer, more thorough response. However, other duties call me away. Again, I respect your difference of opinion and am glad you can intelligently argue your points without resorting to mud slinging and rock throwing. Losing some of the swear words would give you even more credibility, though.:-) I understand the frustration and realize that swearing helps illustrate that (I ain't no saint in that department!), but yeah.. I lost where I was going with that.
Oh yeah.. the PATRIOT Act.. I feel it was passed with good intentions, but does allocate too many freedoms to our government. But keep in mind.. the act was sponsored and passed by members of Congress. not GWB. Though he supported it and may have brought the idea up, only Congressmen have the authority to create law (generally speaking). So be mad at them.
An aside.. why should someone making $500,000 be forced to pay a higher percentage than someone making $50,000? Solely because they have more disposable income? Fuck that.. That income is earned and belongs to them.. not the government. Is it their fault that the family making $50,000 is less successful? No, it's not. Therefore they should not be FORCED into helping out under-achievers.
On top of that, why must someone only making $50,000 always try to live like they have $500,000? That's the problem more than anything. People always feel the need to spend more than they make.. especially the so-called "poor." If you don't make the amount of money necessary to have a new H2, DON'T BUY ONE!
What is needed is a flat-tax system and a responsible government that spends LESS (::gasp::) than it brings in. But that's for another thread.
Yes, yes.. John Kerry has magic fingers and will first get a map of Afghanistan and then close his eyes, get spun around three times and then summarily point to bin Laden's precise location. American troops will certainly capture him within weeks of Kerry's inauguration..
You do not seriously think GWB wants everyone to be Christian and is actively enacting policies to make that happen. Your beloved candidate is Christian, too! What? Are you retarded?
And just for the record, I'm an atheist. Therefore I should be President. John Kerry is Catholic and therefore shouldn't be President as he will certainly make the government a puppet of the Pope.
I think that citing the Bible when it comes to creating laws is pushing it.
Whether you like it or not, the Bible has had the largest influence on American law.. more so than any other document the world has ever produced. It is basic religious values that has shaped this nation into what it is. This you must admit.
Second, separation of church and state ONLY means that the government does not endorse any specific religion or nor any general religion. That's it. If you feel that a man with a religious background as President automatically makes that government espouse and support that religion, you have much to learn and need to work on your logic process.
Let me help him out: "No Child Left Behind," Iraq, tax cuts for the rich.
Iraq: okay.. not going super-smooth, but it was the right thing to do. "NCLB:" The problem is not the program and high expectations put in place by this act, it's the lack of interest given by parents. America's public school system is in disarray not because of GW.. Rather its the public's fault. So we'll skip that one.
Taxes for the rich is where I wanna go. Any and all taxes are passed onto the consumer, the middle class. Increase taxes on the rich, they merely raise the prices their businesses charge for a service. Lower taxes for the rich and they can more openly compete in the free market. That means lower prices for the consumers, you and I. The rich do not care if taxes go up or down. They can always make up the difference. So it is in the middle class's best interest for the rich to have lower taxes as that will (hopefully) mean lower prices for goods and services.
Conversely, raise the taxes on the rich and lower taxes on the middle class.. looks good on paper and gets people elected, right? What is never explored is the inflationary effect this has on the free market. The rich business owners raise their prices.. effectively exacting their own tax on the consumer.
This goes without mentioning the fact that those who pay more in tax are going to receive a larger percentage of the kickbacks.
There are other issues I have with your super-long rant above, but I don't have the time to be going into each of them. But please, please, please.. don't be so freakin' short-sighted!
At this point the supreme court is split with 1 judge leaning them towards more liberal views. With republicans you can expect conservative right wing nominations that will challange civil liberties and keep science down in favor of religion.
That's why I need to be president. Atheist with conservative family values.
You see.. that's where I differ from most people. I understand the rules of the game, friend. Should someone make war on me, I make war on them. I won't think they played unfairly. That's is how war is won.. by taking every advantage and exploiting every single weakness. I am not one who doesn't stand behind his rhetoric.
A country must do what is in its best interests. If that means destroying ground-based jammers pre-emptively, that's what that means. If that disturbs your utopian ideal where every nation and person is treated equally, I'm sorry. Don't hate the US for being the big guy on the block. Any other nation would do the same if they had a legitimate chance at success.
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Neocon is not a term used by those described as being so. So, obviously, your time spent on Google was wasted as you are asure to only have received one side of the story. You conspiracy theorists blow my mind.. really.
Because physicists study physics.. not disease and hunger. Not to mention the fact that having a world where veryone is equal, fat and happy is not ideal. Happiness is a relative thing. A major component of happiness is knowing that some other poor soul has things worse than ourselves. There will ALWAYS be winners and losers. Quit being such a bleeding-heart and accept life for what it is. It's been working for a billion years or so. Don't think you know better. Sheeshh..
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How about muscle atrophy? If I slept for six months straight, you can be damn sure that I'd have a hell of a time getting out of bed in the morning. Astro/Cosmonauts on the ISS have enough trouble as it is when they return to the planet and they're always doing stuff while on their mission to include working out!
I've been doing more downloading here lately than in the past. P2P is certainly alive and kicking! Networks such as DirectConnect, eDonkey, kad, BitTorrent, et cetera all make P2P even easier than it was in the past. Not to mention the fact that a wider and wider vaiety of stuff is available online everyday!
You are correct. It does seem that anything not exactly like any current known species is called a new species. I would like to see anthropologists be a bit more careful with this classification system we've got, but in the end, does it really matter? I mean, whoopety-do.. Some type of hominid that probably didn't lead directly to modern humans is misclassified. Eh.. For some reason I'm a little apathetic to the whole thing.
Anyway.. Perhaps they didn't so much get onto the island as the land broke away from the main island isolating them. Then its plausible they weren't intelligent enough to make it back to the main island. Perhaps that is what will happen to all those folks over in California.
OMG OMG!! Amazing! She is so 1337! If I could onl come up with something as cool and UTTERLY USELESS! Why waste my time posting on Slashdot when I could install a Kenworth engine in my Subaru Brat!
Don't be a twit. It's quite simple to fire a gun from within a building and avoid the IR cameras recording everything from above. I'm not a fan of government doing as it pleases and they very well could have shot first--I have no idea--but if you want the system to work at all, you have to accept that mistakes can and will be made. NOTHING the size of a national government will be without error. Simple as that. And then again, its plausible that the ATF was acting in good faith. If you weren't there yourself--and even if you were--you don't have all of the informatio nand it's silly for you to draw a conclusion in such an ill-informed state.
Exactly.. Protecting the NYSE and multinational corporations are not more important than the citizenry, but the citizenry benefit from protecting said organizations indirectly. You like having a stable economy, right? That relative faith you have in the economy is because of the NYSE and multinational corporations. How short-sited one must be to think that the government does everything for large companies and little for the citizenry.
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Are you crazy? The world is more at danger from disease, warfare, et cetera than we are from meteors. Hell, we get hit by meteors everyday and we're doing just fine. They don't even make the news! Oh wait.. perhaps you meant asteroids. Alright.. sure. But I still think you have your priorities mixed up. I'd say we're more likely to be killed off by disease and such than we are a stray asteroid. As for your close calls.. this planet has been having close calls for billions of years. Only an incredibly small percentage of those have struck Earth. So don't be silly and stop spreading FUD. THanks.
The practice of combining all these things (credit cards, identification, gas card, etc) into one device is a little scary to me. I mean, haven't you ever heard the phrase "don't put all of your eggs ni one basket?" I prefer to keep my important information somewhat dispersed so that an attacker cannot get all of my information in one fell swoop. I'll keep my cards nicely seperated when I can. nice idea, though, I guess.
They are polls, man! Did you ever stop to think that perhaps they polled a disproportionate amount of Kerry supporters? Not every polling place mirrored the overall votes of the county/state/nation. It's statistics. Some error is assumed.
Amen to that!! I voted for Bush but that doesn't mean I agree with all of his policies. You Europeans need to realize that a vote for a man doesn't mean he has carte blanche to run amok and do as he pleases while the nation shuts its eyes. Plenty of us here are watchful and mindful of waht the future may hold. I am pleased by the attitude taken by the parent poster and hope that the rest of us can act smiilarly. If I had mod points I'd definitely give you +1 Insightful!
And I can see the merits of your arguments as well. Even and intelligent discourse is always welcomed and I appreciate that you have obviously thought about your positions. On to the argument..
As far as Elizabeth Dole is concerned.. Personally, I feel that the second quote is suspect and I would need to review the context of the statement. However, one must agree that a very large (perhaps majority?) portion of Americans do wish to define marriage as being between a man and a woman. For this reason alone should it be considerde and debated.. even voted upon. Her first quote, however, is one that I would hope all governments and administrations would support. Mrs. Dole is not saying that she wishes to cram ereligion down the throat of all Americans. She is simply stating that the Republican party (strongly supported by religious Americans) is going to defend the rights of their constituency in light of the recent attacks against Christianity. I speak of such things as removing the Ten Commandments out of court rooms, et cetera. Countless Americans feel they are an integral part of our nation and culture and should not be wiped away from our government, including myself, a very strong atheist (as mentioned in another post). These men and women deserve to have their voices heard and I am glad someone is standing up for them.
Not to flame, but it seems that your major issue is religion. Please realize that no matter who is in office, your right to practice any reigion or none at all WILL be protected. That right will never be taken from you or any other American. So, why it is such a central issue I don not understand. As I said, I am an atheist and feel that religion should not rule a nation. We all know how bad it can be.. We all remember the Taliban. However, I do not feel that GWB is attempting to push legislation amking Christianity or any other religion a recognized religion. Though our leaders tend to have religious backgrounds, our government is generally atheist. In fact, I would argue that the vast majority of politicians do not even think about God when they make decisions. I know how people are.. They say they're religious because they go to church on Sundays and repent for their weekly misdoings. So yeah.. we are in no danger of being forced or even coerced into any particular creed.
As for taxing and spending.. I agree with you that spending has gotten out of hand under Bush. He has increased spending far too much. However, bare in mind that the President does not allocate monies. That job is left up to Congress. (In fact, I think people should be most upset with the legislative branch and not thee xecutive!) What NEEDS to occur is for government to be responsible with money. That means cutting spending, cutting waste and optimizing the daily function of government as much as possible. We all know that the US government is notorious for wasting money. It is inefficient and needs a swift kick in the ass in those regards. I cannot run my life continually in debt. Nor can the government.
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Man.. I wish I had more time to compose a longer, more thorough response. However, other duties call me away. Again, I respect your difference of opinion and am glad you can intelligently argue your points without resorting to mud slinging and rock throwing. Losing some of the swear words would give you even more credibility, though. :-) I understand the frustration and realize that swearing helps illustrate that (I ain't no saint in that department!), but yeah.. I lost where I was going with that.
Oh yeah.. the PATRIOT Act.. I feel it was passed with good intentions, but does allocate too many freedoms to our government. But keep in mind.. the act was sponsored and passed by members of Congress. not GWB. Though he supported it and may have brought the idea up, only Congressmen have the authority to create law (generally speaking). So be mad at them.
An aside.. why should someone making $500,000 be forced to pay a higher percentage than someone making $50,000? Solely because they have more disposable income? Fuck that.. That income is earned and belongs to them.. not the government. Is it their fault that the family making $50,000 is less successful? No, it's not. Therefore they should not be FORCED into helping out under-achievers.
On top of that, why must someone only making $50,000 always try to live like they have $500,000? That's the problem more than anything. People always feel the need to spend more than they make.. especially the so-called "poor." If you don't make the amount of money necessary to have a new H2, DON'T BUY ONE!
What is needed is a flat-tax system and a responsible government that spends LESS (::gasp::) than it brings in. But that's for another thread.
Yes, yes.. John Kerry has magic fingers and will first get a map of Afghanistan and then close his eyes, get spun around three times and then summarily point to bin Laden's precise location. American troops will certainly capture him within weeks of Kerry's inauguration..
Dumbass.. seriously.
You do not seriously think GWB wants everyone to be Christian and is actively enacting policies to make that happen. Your beloved candidate is Christian, too! What? Are you retarded?
And just for the record, I'm an atheist. Therefore I should be President. John Kerry is Catholic and therefore shouldn't be President as he will certainly make the government a puppet of the Pope.
I think that citing the Bible when it comes to creating laws is pushing it.
Whether you like it or not, the Bible has had the largest influence on American law.. more so than any other document the world has ever produced. It is basic religious values that has shaped this nation into what it is. This you must admit.
Second, separation of church and state ONLY means that the government does not endorse any specific religion or nor any general religion. That's it. If you feel that a man with a religious background as President automatically makes that government espouse and support that religion, you have much to learn and need to work on your logic process.
Let me help him out: "No Child Left Behind," Iraq, tax cuts for the rich.
Iraq: okay.. not going super-smooth, but it was the right thing to do. "NCLB:" The problem is not the program and high expectations put in place by this act, it's the lack of interest given by parents. America's public school system is in disarray not because of GW.. Rather its the public's fault. So we'll skip that one.
Taxes for the rich is where I wanna go. Any and all taxes are passed onto the consumer, the middle class. Increase taxes on the rich, they merely raise the prices their businesses charge for a service. Lower taxes for the rich and they can more openly compete in the free market. That means lower prices for the consumers, you and I. The rich do not care if taxes go up or down. They can always make up the difference. So it is in the middle class's best interest for the rich to have lower taxes as that will (hopefully) mean lower prices for goods and services.
Conversely, raise the taxes on the rich and lower taxes on the middle class.. looks good on paper and gets people elected, right? What is never explored is the inflationary effect this has on the free market. The rich business owners raise their prices.. effectively exacting their own tax on the consumer.
This goes without mentioning the fact that those who pay more in tax are going to receive a larger percentage of the kickbacks.
There are other issues I have with your super-long rant above, but I don't have the time to be going into each of them. But please, please, please.. don't be so freakin' short-sighted!
At this point the supreme court is split with 1 judge leaning them towards more liberal views. With republicans you can expect conservative right wing nominations that will challange civil liberties and keep science down in favor of religion.
That's why I need to be president. Atheist with conservative family values.
You see.. that's where I differ from most people. I understand the rules of the game, friend. Should someone make war on me, I make war on them. I won't think they played unfairly. That's is how war is won.. by taking every advantage and exploiting every single weakness. I am not one who doesn't stand behind his rhetoric.
A little paranoid, eh? Seriously.. you tin-foil hat guys need to give it a rest.
A country must do what is in its best interests. If that means destroying ground-based jammers pre-emptively, that's what that means. If that disturbs your utopian ideal where every nation and person is treated equally, I'm sorry. Don't hate the US for being the big guy on the block. Any other nation would do the same if they had a legitimate chance at success.
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Neocon is not a term used by those described as being so. So, obviously, your time spent on Google was wasted as you are asure to only have received one side of the story. You conspiracy theorists blow my mind.. really.
Flaimbait..?! BAH! He's right. Disease is a driving force in evolution. Weed out the weak and make for a stronger species! Stop curing cancer now!
Because physicists study physics.. not disease and hunger. Not to mention the fact that having a world where veryone is equal, fat and happy is not ideal. Happiness is a relative thing. A major component of happiness is knowing that some other poor soul has things worse than ourselves. There will ALWAYS be winners and losers. Quit being such a bleeding-heart and accept life for what it is. It's been working for a billion years or so. Don't think you know better. Sheeshh..
How about muscle atrophy? If I slept for six months straight, you can be damn sure that I'd have a hell of a time getting out of bed in the morning. Astro/Cosmonauts on the ISS have enough trouble as it is when they return to the planet and they're always doing stuff while on their mission to include working out!
I've been doing more downloading here lately than in the past. P2P is certainly alive and kicking! Networks such as DirectConnect, eDonkey, kad, BitTorrent, et cetera all make P2P even easier than it was in the past. Not to mention the fact that a wider and wider vaiety of stuff is available online everyday!
You are correct. It does seem that anything not exactly like any current known species is called a new species. I would like to see anthropologists be a bit more careful with this classification system we've got, but in the end, does it really matter? I mean, whoopety-do.. Some type of hominid that probably didn't lead directly to modern humans is misclassified. Eh.. For some reason I'm a little apathetic to the whole thing.
Anyway.. Perhaps they didn't so much get onto the island as the land broke away from the main island isolating them. Then its plausible they weren't intelligent enough to make it back to the main island. Perhaps that is what will happen to all those folks over in California.
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OMG OMG!! Amazing! She is so 1337! If I could onl come up with something as cool and UTTERLY USELESS! Why waste my time posting on Slashdot when I could install a Kenworth engine in my Subaru Brat!
Don't be a twit. It's quite simple to fire a gun from within a building and avoid the IR cameras recording everything from above. I'm not a fan of government doing as it pleases and they very well could have shot first--I have no idea--but if you want the system to work at all, you have to accept that mistakes can and will be made. NOTHING the size of a national government will be without error. Simple as that. And then again, its plausible that the ATF was acting in good faith. If you weren't there yourself--and even if you were--you don't have all of the informatio nand it's silly for you to draw a conclusion in such an ill-informed state.
Exactly.. Protecting the NYSE and multinational corporations are not more important than the citizenry, but the citizenry benefit from protecting said organizations indirectly. You like having a stable economy, right? That relative faith you have in the economy is because of the NYSE and multinational corporations. How short-sited one must be to think that the government does everything for large companies and little for the citizenry.