Well, actually, his views are almost perfect for politics. He's saying, "Given a choice between two things, we will do both and raise taxes (democrats) or have larger deficits (republicans). That way everybody is happy and will vote for me."
While this seems to be the popular view, you do realize that not only has Bush raised taxes but he's driven the debt to record levels (this is both Bush Sr and Bush Jr). The last real tax cut was by Clinton.
We know virtually nothing about about our seas and oceans? Ms. Braun is stuck in the 1930's somewhere, because we know far from 'virtually nothing'. The ocean and the ocean bottom have been the subject of intensive since the 1950's
Well we know a heck of a lot more about space now than we did in the 1930s too. Does that mean we've learned all there is to know about space and there's no reason to expore it further?
I'd say for both space and our own planet we've barely hit the tip of the iceberg on the knowledge that can be gained.
In fact if we spent more money researching the planet instead of trying to blow each other off of it we'd be much further ahead. Just look at the Republican platforms - everyone has a gun policy but harldy anyone has a science and noone has a space policy. It's opposite for the democratic platforms (more science, less blowing shit up).
Isn't there a repair mission already scheduled for the Hubble? I think it is slated for 2008 and will replace the batteries, gyroscopes, a spectrograph, and the main camera which should put it back in operation until at least 2013.
Actually one of the first things Griffin did was to cancel a near complete robotic program to repair Hubble. He only allowed a shuttle repair after the huge backlash from both the public and scientific community. If he hadn't cancelled the program, Hubble would have been repaired / upgraded right now.
FOX News is to the right of the Left, and to the right of the Center. But it isn't as far to the right (with respect to the Center) as the Left is to the left of the Center--the Center being simple boring neutral news worth reading, without any extra interpretation or spin.
Maybe, but FOX is definitely on the far incompetent side of center and way, way far from good and unbiased, where center is simple boring neutral news.
You mean 'reparations' I assume? I didn't see any of that in the posted lyrics. Unless you mean the part about giving money to the ghettos, and I didn't take that to mean reparations but social programs which the poor areas of the US desparately need.
If the machines are easy to fool, then that's incompetence on the part of the people designing and implementing the machines. How could it not be?
My backup sensors on my truck are very easy to fool. Does that mean the designers are incompetent or is it just a limitation of the technology?
If the machines just randomly malfunction and spread votes around, that's incompetence again. There's simply no way to say irregularities took place and there's nobody to blame.
I see no evidence that the machines are randomly malfunctioning. None at all. Yes there are problems, but I see the problems in the way they are being used and the people running them. The major irregularities in Florida were from votes not being counted (people fault) and voters being denied access (people problem).
You're so sure the entire state of Florida could be bought, and you're applying that to New Hampshire, but you're saying I'm libeling people?
I never said that the entire state of Florida was bought. I did say however that there were major irregularities in Forida that were verified by third party invstigation. Look it up, and more carefully read what others write before you attack them.
Your argument assumes that I'd be buying enough percentage of shares to actually swing the prices. Given that most companies have several million issued stocks and if the stock price is in the typical $20 to $200 range, then as a mere employee I would certainly be unable to buy anywhere near the number that would be necessary to influence the stock price in any way.
So if noone else is affected by my profit, its not really stealing is it?
The statement is most certainly not libel. The statement was made in the context that there were assumptions of something having gone wrong. I stated that had something gone wrong, it was probably not intentional on Diebold's part. How the fuck is that libelous?
Did you read what you wrote? First you said they were incompetent without proof then implied that they were in collusion with crooked officials. What isn't libel about that?
You're the one who said that it'd be easy to commit wholesale bribery of election officials in the state of New Hampshire.
Actually I wasn't specifically limiting it to NH, and I was using the incompetence in the Florida election to prove my point.
Diebold's goiong to sue me for libel for saying they're more likely incompetent and being taken advantage of by crooks than crooked themselves? Goody. Where do I sign up for my winnings for harassment for being targeted with a frivolous and baseless suit?
I never said they were going to sue - I said your statement was likely libel.
Or perhaps you misread, since I was attributing stupidity to the majority of people involved and malice to the minority and you seem to think otherwise. That there's malice involved in fraud is part of the definition of fraud, so if there';s fraud involving Diebold's machines, Hanlon's razor would mean that...
That statement of confounded logic would put Vizzini in tears.
Insider trading does harm others. You are very literally stealing money from other people.
If I knew my company was going to make a major transaction before it became public, then bought a number of shares before the announcement and made money on the resul, how exactly am I stealing money from anyone?
This scenario is insider trading as I'm acting on information not generally known, but I'm not stealing money from anyone as the stocks I bought were already up for sale...
It's a fundamental principle. If you are not hurting anyone why should it be proscribed? (e.g. smoking pot, gay sex in Texas, watching/selling porn, etc.) BTW someone not turning a profit for lack of artificial laws is not being "hurt".
Lets find more examples where there shouldn't be a law if no one else is hurt - helmets! No... Seatbelts! No umm.. Speeding at 3am when noone else is on the road!.. Wait I got one.. Insider trading!...
Yes and some fish lay eggs while others have live birth. And these fish aren't completely different either - they are similar size and live in similar conditions.
Yeah, because election judges by default don't care about the process and nobody ever turned down a bribe and turned over the briber to officials. What a bunch of anti-human bullshit.
No, the problem is people care too much. Florida is very Republican, so it makes sense that a majority of the counters would be Republican. Doesn't even have to be outright bribery, its human nature to protect the things you care about and reject the things you dont. A slight smudge outside the box would likely be rejected if it was for a Democrat but allowed to be counted for a Republican. This is seen time and time again in many elections, and the concept is verified in psychology studies.
By Hanlon's razor, the majority of the problem would be the gross incompetence of Diebold and officials who certify their machines with just a few truly crooked people.
That statement's unprovable and likely libelous. Besides you got the adage backwards, its "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity". You are assuming malice not stupidity by the Diebold company by saying they are crooked.
This may be off topic and moderated as such, but why is it that Diebold can make ATM machines that don't seem to get hacked, but can't manage to prevent hacking in their e-voting machines? Call me crazy, but wouldn't there be just as much motivation (if not more) to hack ATM machines as there is to hack e-voting machines? Something smells fishy.
One could easily argue that there is little if anything wrong with the machines, and it's actually the hand counting methods that are suspect due to human biases. If you want to help swing an election it is quite easy to bribe a bunch of the counters to reject the ballots of whomever they don't like. Or they may get rejected just due to human personal biases. That's why Florida was such a mess and Bush is an illegitimate president.
And if an O.J company wrote on their boxes that by buying their juice you agree to not sharing it with your friends you stick to that integrity?
You bought it, it's yours, you can do what you please with it.
That's completely ridiculous. OJ is a tangible commodity - an ISP sells a service.
Following your line of logic, if you go on a toll road you can do whatever you like (speeding, crashing into cars) simply because you paid for it and you think it is yours.
Just becuase you are leasing a line does not mean you own it.
First, life has gone through BILLIONS of years, not just million. Secondly, mammals and reptiles are very closely related. And finaly, (almost ?) all multicellular species that existed in the last 2 billion years use collagen to make their cells stick together.
That's a little misleading. Yes life has been around for billions of years but only primitive celled organisms and bacteria. Thefirst complex life including the first fishes, corals, trilobites and shellfish only appeared in the Cabrian period which started about 570 million years ago. Mammals and dinosaurs came much later.
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Of course not because we'd all be dead by now.
Geez. The LAST thing society needs is a bunch of synthesized clones running around with hacked up spaghetti code for genes.
While this seems to be the popular view, you do realize that not only has Bush raised taxes but he's driven the debt to record levels (this is both Bush Sr and Bush Jr). The last real tax cut was by Clinton.
Well we know a heck of a lot more about space now than we did in the 1930s too. Does that mean we've learned all there is to know about space and there's no reason to expore it further?
I'd say for both space and our own planet we've barely hit the tip of the iceberg on the knowledge that can be gained.
In fact if we spent more money researching the planet instead of trying to blow each other off of it we'd be much further ahead. Just look at the Republican platforms - everyone has a gun policy but harldy anyone has a science and noone has a space policy. It's opposite for the democratic platforms (more science, less blowing shit up).
Actually it has the fewest flaws found because the thing cant stay running long enough to become infected.
Actually one of the first things Griffin did was to cancel a near complete robotic program to repair Hubble. He only allowed a shuttle repair after the huge backlash from both the public and scientific community. If he hadn't cancelled the program, Hubble would have been repaired / upgraded right now.
Extolling the virtues of 21th century technology has got to be up there as one of the most retarded things ever said on Slashdot.
Maybe, but FOX is definitely on the far incompetent side of center and way, way far from good and unbiased, where center is simple boring neutral news.
Exactly. Even $150 is too much to pay for a paperweight.
You mean 'reparations' I assume? I didn't see any of that in the posted lyrics. Unless you mean the part about giving money to the ghettos, and I didn't take that to mean reparations but social programs which the poor areas of the US desparately need.
No I don't. Again you demonstrate your inability to read my posts and even your own.
Out of curiosity - which points?
My backup sensors on my truck are very easy to fool. Does that mean the designers are incompetent or is it just a limitation of the technology?
I see no evidence that the machines are randomly malfunctioning. None at all. Yes there are problems, but I see the problems in the way they are being used and the people running them. The major irregularities in Florida were from votes not being counted (people fault) and voters being denied access (people problem).
I never said that the entire state of Florida was bought. I did say however that there were major irregularities in Forida that were verified by third party invstigation. Look it up, and more carefully read what others write before you attack them.
Honestly I can't ever recall thinking that any of our IT people are 'bitches'.
Your argument assumes that I'd be buying enough percentage of shares to actually swing the prices. Given that most companies have several million issued stocks and if the stock price is in the typical $20 to $200 range, then as a mere employee I would certainly be unable to buy anywhere near the number that would be necessary to influence the stock price in any way.
So if noone else is affected by my profit, its not really stealing is it?
Did you read what you wrote? First you said they were incompetent without proof then implied that they were in collusion with crooked officials. What isn't libel about that?
Actually I wasn't specifically limiting it to NH, and I was using the incompetence in the Florida election to prove my point.
I never said they were going to sue - I said your statement was likely libel.
That statement of confounded logic would put Vizzini in tears.
If I knew my company was going to make a major transaction before it became public, then bought a number of shares before the announcement and made money on the resul, how exactly am I stealing money from anyone?
This scenario is insider trading as I'm acting on information not generally known, but I'm not stealing money from anyone as the stocks I bought were already up for sale...
Lets find more examples where there shouldn't be a law if no one else is hurt - helmets! No... Seatbelts! No umm.. Speeding at 3am when noone else is on the road! .. Wait I got one.. Insider trading! ...
Yes and some fish lay eggs while others have live birth. And these fish aren't completely different either - they are similar size and live in similar conditions.
No, the problem is people care too much. Florida is very Republican, so it makes sense that a majority of the counters would be Republican. Doesn't even have to be outright bribery, its human nature to protect the things you care about and reject the things you dont. A slight smudge outside the box would likely be rejected if it was for a Democrat but allowed to be counted for a Republican. This is seen time and time again in many elections, and the concept is verified in psychology studies.
That statement's unprovable and likely libelous. Besides you got the adage backwards, its "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity". You are assuming malice not stupidity by the Diebold company by saying they are crooked.
One could easily argue that there is little if anything wrong with the machines, and it's actually the hand counting methods that are suspect due to human biases. If you want to help swing an election it is quite easy to bribe a bunch of the counters to reject the ballots of whomever they don't like. Or they may get rejected just due to human personal biases. That's why Florida was such a mess and Bush is an illegitimate president.
The point was that complex life has NOT been around for billions of years...
That's completely ridiculous. OJ is a tangible commodity - an ISP sells a service.
Following your line of logic, if you go on a toll road you can do whatever you like (speeding, crashing into cars) simply because you paid for it and you think it is yours.
Just becuase you are leasing a line does not mean you own it.
That's a little misleading. Yes life has been around for billions of years but only primitive celled organisms and bacteria. Thefirst complex life including the first fishes, corals, trilobites and shellfish only appeared in the Cabrian period which started about 570 million years ago. Mammals and dinosaurs came much later.