It should be on issues that affect Montana. Pure democracy doesn't actually work all that well, tyranny of the majority, etc. That's why there are so many checks and balances in the system.
Well, one of the opposition parties in question is devoted to breaking up the country. The biggest of the rest got their asses handed to them in an election less than 2 months before this decision. And the third would easily get 75% of the country voting "anybody but them", given the choice. So, yeah, it's not exactly black and white to say that keeping them out of power is undemocratic.
And, clearly, open source is kicking their ass so bad that they've gotten desperate enough to get their ISVs to start running these underhanded campaigns to fight it. They're probably paying them to do it, too.
More like tens of thousands of talented, hard working people who spent the last 20 years dreaming up more and more ways to steal money from the rest of the world. I'm sure there are lots of "good" people in there, but their industry has managed to engineer the biggest financial crisis since 1929 (which, by the way, was also caused by Wall Street). They only "contributed" so much to GDP because they are so good at creaming off big chunks of other peoples' work.
Selling sub-prime and alt-A mortgages to anyone with a pulse and then packaging them up, fraudulently arranging for AAA credit ratings on the packages, and then selling them off for obscene profits is not contributing to the nation. Enabling leveraged buyouts where the debt ends up back on the books of the purchased company, while investment bankers take home millions, is not contributing to the nation. Paying off politicians to change the rules that were put in place after 1929 to prevent a repeat, is not contributing to the nation.
And lining up for taxpayer-sponsored bailouts when it all falls apart is just adding insult to injury. You think people are mad now? Give it another year.
GDP is almost entirely fictitious. Seriously, look into how it's calculated. It will astonish you.
Think about this, though. In 1960 an average middle class family in North America could have one person employed, live in a decent home, send their kids to college, and save for retirement. Can you seriously say that average people can expect that same standard of living or better today?
Most of these donations came from Wall Street. I don't know if you noticed, but today that means it was all tax dollars. Well, National Debt dollars anyway. Tax dollars ran out in July.
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If you're being really fair, you have to consider that all the vast weight of the evidence available is in favour of that conclusion.
And since there are no competing scientific theories, one might be hard pressed to continue denying all that evidence, even if one really, really doesn't want to believe that one's remotest ancestor was something even less complex than a bacteria.
But, of course, ID proponents don't want to be fair.
No, that's because they mistakenly believe that complexity is extremely hard to evolve, when it in fact can be demonstrated to be fairly simple, given enough time.
If the Founding Fathers saw what the Federal Government was doing today, they would have shot themselves in the head and not bothered rebelling at all.
It's a tad worse than the new world. No air and no food. Dust that will corrode anything. Poor mineral deposits. No open water. Basically, complete alien and inhospitable environment. Being second best in the solar system is a pretty low bar.
There are plenty of applicable laws, many 30+ years old. The feds are just too busy wiretapping innocent people and putting pot smokers in jail to have time to enforce them.
The new quests and instances seem pretty well done, from what I've seen so far. *shrug*. I'm in it to raid and spend time with friends. If you don't like it, don't play.
Nazis called themselves socialists like China calls itself a Republic. Its just words. The Nazis were fascists, pure and simple, which are generally regarded as "right-wing" (as meaningless as that term itself has become).
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I'm pretty sure a civil conviction for libel wouldn't get you thrown into juvie.
It should be on issues that affect Montana. Pure democracy doesn't actually work all that well, tyranny of the majority, etc. That's why there are so many checks and balances in the system.
Well, one of the opposition parties in question is devoted to breaking up the country. The biggest of the rest got their asses handed to them in an election less than 2 months before this decision. And the third would easily get 75% of the country voting "anybody but them", given the choice. So, yeah, it's not exactly black and white to say that keeping them out of power is undemocratic.
And, clearly, open source is kicking their ass so bad that they've gotten desperate enough to get their ISVs to start running these underhanded campaigns to fight it. They're probably paying them to do it, too.
The odd time the real McCain got to peak out from behind his Republican bullshit handlers, he was still pretty likable, yep.
Also glad he lost, though.
More like tens of thousands of talented, hard working people who spent the last 20 years dreaming up more and more ways to steal money from the rest of the world. I'm sure there are lots of "good" people in there, but their industry has managed to engineer the biggest financial crisis since 1929 (which, by the way, was also caused by Wall Street). They only "contributed" so much to GDP because they are so good at creaming off big chunks of other peoples' work.
Selling sub-prime and alt-A mortgages to anyone with a pulse and then packaging them up, fraudulently arranging for AAA credit ratings on the packages, and then selling them off for obscene profits is not contributing to the nation. Enabling leveraged buyouts where the debt ends up back on the books of the purchased company, while investment bankers take home millions, is not contributing to the nation. Paying off politicians to change the rules that were put in place after 1929 to prevent a repeat, is not contributing to the nation.
And lining up for taxpayer-sponsored bailouts when it all falls apart is just adding insult to injury. You think people are mad now? Give it another year.
GDP is almost entirely fictitious. Seriously, look into how it's calculated. It will astonish you.
Think about this, though. In 1960 an average middle class family in North America could have one person employed, live in a decent home, send their kids to college, and save for retirement. Can you seriously say that average people can expect that same standard of living or better today?
If you can't prove it in a court of law, then they're innocent.
Although, if they were taken on a battlefield, then they're prisoners of war. Let Osama come collect them.
Most of these donations came from Wall Street. I don't know if you noticed, but today that means it was all tax dollars. Well, National Debt dollars anyway. Tax dollars ran out in July.
The US has as many oil wells as the entire rest of the planet. Your oil reserves are more developed than anyone's.
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If you're being really fair, you have to consider that all the vast weight of the evidence available is in favour of that conclusion.
And since there are no competing scientific theories, one might be hard pressed to continue denying all that evidence, even if one really, really doesn't want to believe that one's remotest ancestor was something even less complex than a bacteria.
But, of course, ID proponents don't want to be fair.
No, that's because they mistakenly believe that complexity is extremely hard to evolve, when it in fact can be demonstrated to be fairly simple, given enough time.
The total bailout is well over 7.5 trillion, so far. And counting.
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Mod parent up. If a cop comes here and tells me to do something I don't want to do, I'll show him the door.
Well, probably I'll get tasered. But I'm still not wiretapping someone just because some thug wants me to.
Not trying to insult the natives.
How about, pluses for no indigenous intelligent beings to compete with, exploit, exterminate, war with and against, and eventually displace?
Geez.
If the Founding Fathers saw what the Federal Government was doing today, they would have shot themselves in the head and not bothered rebelling at all.
It's a tad worse than the new world. No air and no food. Dust that will corrode anything. Poor mineral deposits. No open water. Basically, complete alien and inhospitable environment. Being second best in the solar system is a pretty low bar.
Pluses for no hostile natives, though.
Technically speaking .... you're the product.
If your P2P program starts filling up my inbox, I'll start complaining about it, too. Until then, STFU about copyright.
It's called suppressive fire.
There are plenty of applicable laws, many 30+ years old. The feds are just too busy wiretapping innocent people and putting pot smokers in jail to have time to enforce them.
All the raid content in WOTLK can be played in either 10-man or 25-man versions. So, yeah, they are trying to do this.
Of course the loot is better in the 25-man versions ...
The new quests and instances seem pretty well done, from what I've seen so far. *shrug*. I'm in it to raid and spend time with friends. If you don't like it, don't play.
Nazis called themselves socialists like China calls itself a Republic. Its just words. The Nazis were fascists, pure and simple, which are generally regarded as "right-wing" (as meaningless as that term itself has become).