"Eurekalert reports on 'definitive evidence' for an ancient water lake on Mars. A UC Boulder research team has discovered evidence of a shoreline on Mars of a 3 billion year-old lake 207 square Km in area and 457 m deep (roughly the equivalent of Lake Champlain). Images came from the HiRISE instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Water carved a 48 Km-long canyon that opened up into a valley and forming a large delta during a time when Mars is generally believed to have been cold and dry. The lack of additional, lower shorelines, shows that the lake dried up very quickly. Of particular interest are the deltas adjacent to the lake. ON Earth, deltas rapidly bury organic carbon and other biomarkers of life, making the Martian lake bed and delta a prime target for future searches for past life on the planet."
Maybe if your political system was proportional instead of based in electoral circles, there wouldn't be the duopoly of two parties that alternate in power with no significant difference between them.
By giving no chance to the smaller parties you're automatically excluding any innovation that could shake the political system a bit.
I do want tests run on a potential child, especially at the age I'm getting to, to find out if it is malformed, genetically sick (such at down's syndrome, etc)...so I can get rid of it early, and try again for a normal kid.
Aside from the mental and fiscal headaches a deformed or retarted child would provide...I am getting a bit older, and don't have the time and stamina to take care of a bad seed, and also try to keep having a normal one. I'm getting to the age soon to where I might have only one shot at a kid I'd keep...so, I want to start with the best I can start with.
I don't know how it is in the USA but here in Europe we make a bunch of tests very early during pregnancy to detect all kinds of bad malformations, including Down's syndrome, and the abortion deadline is legally extended in those cases. Nowadays it's extremely rare for a fetus with severe problems to go unnoticed.
Some people, for religious reasons or whatever, choose to have deformed or retarded children, what I consider to be the extreme selfishness and stupidity.
Having worked for some time in an IT department years ago, the worst user I had was a dude from marketing that offered himself to "fix" the users' problems before they called us. Of course, they eventually called us, but what started as a simple problem had already become a major hassle.
It was fun to do for some time, but it's not for me.
I'm not sure if this is just silly or borderline nazi, but I don't like it.
I made my children the usual way, by fucking and waiting. And they look like me. And I like them the way they are. Sure, they have their quirks, but who doesn't?
If you can't breed children, adopt some. There's no lack of children in the planet.
I live in a country with socialised medicine and it's funny, because we also have private medicine and insurances, but people with really bad diseases get sent to the public system because the privates refuse to spend money treating them. And they lack the equipment, anyway. It's expensive.
Don't try to feed me that Republican bullshit. EVERYBODY knows that Bush invaded Iraq because he and his gang of thieves planned on doing that from the beginning. It would make no difference if Saddam was Mother Teresa, they would have done the same.
The Bush government constantly harassed the UN commission in charge of inspecting the WMDs in Iraq. Google Hans Blix and read his statements. They wanted the commission to find something that didn't exist and when reality gets in your delusions, fuck reality, isn't it?
The "evidences" that Powell showed the UN were a laughable pile of crap nobody believed in, including Powell himself. The "connections" to Al Qaeda are complete bullshit. Al Qaeda never set foot in Iraq until you Americans irresponsibly (and criminally) invaded the country and caused all Hell to break loose.
I accept the accusations of UN corruption, but how is YOUR government any less corrupt than UN? Who profited the most with the Iraq invasion? Who took all the pork from "reconstruction" and similar bullshit?
Ethnically, they're the same people. Except for the many Judaism-practicer Europeans that emigrated to Israel. Those have no relation whatsoever with the original inhabitants of the "Holy Land".
Arabs and Jews have been living together for many centuries.
What's the definition of mixed? If you mix a Dane and a Polish you get a tall, milky-white, blue-eyed, blond person. That would be accepted as a pure white American, but it's a mix of 2 very different "races".
What the fuck is a race? What the fuck is "mixed"? If GP doesn't like mixing, go ahead, get a bunch of "pure" whites and make them inbreed for a few decades. Then enjoy the freak show.
I'm from Southern Europe and everytime I travel to Northern Europe or the USA everybody mistakes me for an Arab or Jew, and I'm neither. And I look just like any other guy in my country, a 1st World, EU country.
If you read Marx you will know that he hated the State as much as you.
He said that, in Socialism, the bourgeois State would have to be completely destroyed and replaced by "government by the people". He proposed that common people from the working class would be chosen by his peers to occupy management positions, with reasonable pay, mandates limited in time and revocable at any time by popular will.
This contrasts heavily with the bourgeois State which is the model in all current Capitalist democracies. Elected people belong to the wealthy classes, they make a shitload of money, and they can just stay there forever, with the exception of the President and government members.
The Marx ideas about a "government by the people" were implemented just as much in the Socialist countries as in the Capitalist ones. I mean, close to zero.
The greatest artists of the past, Mozart, Bach, Shakespeare, worked for a pittance comapred to what artists make nowadays
The vast majority of artists don't make any money. A great number of them makes enough for living. There is an elite of very, very few that are millionaires. Most of them are industrial products with no talent whatsoever.
Things don't simply "work" or not. Human history is a continuum of change. Communism worked for some time in some places, Capitalism is working for some time in some places. There is no definitive solution, because there isn't a definitive problem.
The real nutjobs are the ones that claim to have found the "End of History". And both commies and cappies are guilty of such arrogance.
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No, these are really standard.
scientists or countries that don't use the imperial system
Oh, you mean the whole world? The imperial system was abandoned decades ago.
"Eurekalert reports on 'definitive evidence' for an ancient water lake on Mars. A UC Boulder research team has discovered evidence of a shoreline on Mars of a 3 billion year-old lake 207 square Km in area and 457 m deep (roughly the equivalent of Lake Champlain). Images came from the HiRISE instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Water carved a 48 Km-long canyon that opened up into a valley and forming a large delta during a time when Mars is generally believed to have been cold and dry. The lack of additional, lower shorelines, shows that the lake dried up very quickly. Of particular interest are the deltas adjacent to the lake. ON Earth, deltas rapidly bury organic carbon and other biomarkers of life, making the Martian lake bed and delta a prime target for future searches for past life on the planet."
The only explanation for this is that they must have been drinking heavily.
Maybe if your political system was proportional instead of based in electoral circles, there wouldn't be the duopoly of two parties that alternate in power with no significant difference between them.
By giving no chance to the smaller parties you're automatically excluding any innovation that could shake the political system a bit.
I do want tests run on a potential child, especially at the age I'm getting to, to find out if it is malformed, genetically sick (such at down's syndrome, etc)...so I can get rid of it early, and try again for a normal kid.
Aside from the mental and fiscal headaches a deformed or retarted child would provide...I am getting a bit older, and don't have the time and stamina to take care of a bad seed, and also try to keep having a normal one. I'm getting to the age soon to where I might have only one shot at a kid I'd keep...so, I want to start with the best I can start with.
I don't know how it is in the USA but here in Europe we make a bunch of tests very early during pregnancy to detect all kinds of bad malformations, including Down's syndrome, and the abortion deadline is legally extended in those cases. Nowadays it's extremely rare for a fetus with severe problems to go unnoticed.
Some people, for religious reasons or whatever, choose to have deformed or retarded children, what I consider to be the extreme selfishness and stupidity.
Having worked for some time in an IT department years ago, the worst user I had was a dude from marketing that offered himself to "fix" the users' problems before they called us. Of course, they eventually called us, but what started as a simple problem had already become a major hassle.
It was fun to do for some time, but it's not for me.
I'm not sure if this is just silly or borderline nazi, but I don't like it.
I made my children the usual way, by fucking and waiting. And they look like me. And I like them the way they are. Sure, they have their quirks, but who doesn't?
If you can't breed children, adopt some. There's no lack of children in the planet.
Because we would be the nation most punished by the Kyoto. Duh!
America is many things. Being sadomasicistic isn't one of them.
Yes, because we all know you're not being punished by global warming, not a little bit.
You're in the Titanic too, dude. Just travelling 1st class.
Such big balls and no brain... What a shame.
Pure FUD.
I live in a country with socialised medicine and it's funny, because we also have private medicine and insurances, but people with really bad diseases get sent to the public system because the privates refuse to spend money treating them. And they lack the equipment, anyway. It's expensive.
Grades reflect all sorts of things that have nothing to do with education, like dedication and the ability to brown nose the teacher.
So, what's the problem? It's just preparing them for the real life.
Don't try to feed me that Republican bullshit. EVERYBODY knows that Bush invaded Iraq because he and his gang of thieves planned on doing that from the beginning. It would make no difference if Saddam was Mother Teresa, they would have done the same.
The Bush government constantly harassed the UN commission in charge of inspecting the WMDs in Iraq. Google Hans Blix and read his statements. They wanted the commission to find something that didn't exist and when reality gets in your delusions, fuck reality, isn't it?
The "evidences" that Powell showed the UN were a laughable pile of crap nobody believed in, including Powell himself. The "connections" to Al Qaeda are complete bullshit. Al Qaeda never set foot in Iraq until you Americans irresponsibly (and criminally) invaded the country and caused all Hell to break loose.
I accept the accusations of UN corruption, but how is YOUR government any less corrupt than UN? Who profited the most with the Iraq invasion? Who took all the pork from "reconstruction" and similar bullshit?
Ethnically, they're the same people. Except for the many Judaism-practicer Europeans that emigrated to Israel. Those have no relation whatsoever with the original inhabitants of the "Holy Land".
Arabs and Jews have been living together for many centuries.
What's the definition of mixed? If you mix a Dane and a Polish you get a tall, milky-white, blue-eyed, blond person. That would be accepted as a pure white American, but it's a mix of 2 very different "races".
What the fuck is a race? What the fuck is "mixed"? If GP doesn't like mixing, go ahead, get a bunch of "pure" whites and make them inbreed for a few decades. Then enjoy the freak show.
I'm from Southern Europe and everytime I travel to Northern Europe or the USA everybody mistakes me for an Arab or Jew, and I'm neither. And I look just like any other guy in my country, a 1st World, EU country.
UN oil-for-food scams that more or less forced the US into it's position of war
I want some of what you're smoking.
Yes, we all know how un-corrupt the US government is.
If you read Marx you will know that he hated the State as much as you.
He said that, in Socialism, the bourgeois State would have to be completely destroyed and replaced by "government by the people". He proposed that common people from the working class would be chosen by his peers to occupy management positions, with reasonable pay, mandates limited in time and revocable at any time by popular will.
This contrasts heavily with the bourgeois State which is the model in all current Capitalist democracies. Elected people belong to the wealthy classes, they make a shitload of money, and they can just stay there forever, with the exception of the President and government members.
The Marx ideas about a "government by the people" were implemented just as much in the Socialist countries as in the Capitalist ones. I mean, close to zero.
The greatest artists of the past, Mozart, Bach, Shakespeare, worked for a pittance comapred to what artists make nowadays
The vast majority of artists don't make any money. A great number of them makes enough for living. There is an elite of very, very few that are millionaires. Most of them are industrial products with no talent whatsoever.
I'm not sure about feet, but I wouldn't like to be 43 metres below the surface.
Animals will get hooked on any addictive drug, including alcohol and nicotine.
Here, take 2 spoonfulls of it:
Francis Fukuyama
Marx
Ever heard of Google?
What you say applies to any politicians. We just "elect" ours.
Things don't simply "work" or not. Human history is a continuum of change. Communism worked for some time in some places, Capitalism is working for some time in some places. There is no definitive solution, because there isn't a definitive problem.
The real nutjobs are the ones that claim to have found the "End of History". And both commies and cappies are guilty of such arrogance.
Why must people play with fucking weapons? Why don't they play with their balls, instead? Nobody's harmed that way.