Except of course that everyone over 4 years of age knows this already. That you think it is a revelation says lots about the quality of your junior high school and nothing about anything else.
Unfortunately, most people DON'T know this. If they did, they wouldn't be calling for taxes on (insert big company type here). People are constantly calling on government to raise taxes on big-whatever, but they don't seem to understand that they are the ones who will be paying those taxes.
Sorry, but that's just stupid. You could as easily say that working people aren't taxed, they just pass the costs to their employers.
You can't pass the cost to your customers if your competitor doesn't. I have no choice in my personal taxes, but I choose whether or not I pay Kraft's taxes.
Ah, but if you don't buy your cheese from Kraft, who do you buy your cheese from? The federal government can't just single out Kraft to tax. If they tax Kraft, they have to tax Kraft's competitors as well. The only way that the government can tax Kraft and not their competitors is if Kraft's competitors are based overseas and not subject to US taxation. Think of it as a reverse tariff.
Corporations do not pay taxes at all. That's economics from junior high school. All corporations do is pass their tax costs on to the price of their goods.
Well, that's a silly argument. You might just as well say individuals don't pay any taxes, it just goes on their wage bill.
It's not an argument. He's pointing out that if you raise taxes on a business, the business passes that tax on to its consumers, meaning everyone pays that tax, regardless of the customer's income. It's basically a sales tax, but one that is levied on selected businesses only, and one that customers don't see. For example, if the government started taxing sodas, people would complain that the greedy PepsiCo is raising their prices, not that they are paying more in taxes.
Rich people use more public services than poor people in support of their activities. So yes, a larger percentage.
Not to mention if you fail to regulate capitalism by tweaking the "score," the inevitable result is slavery.
Really? Please explain how "Rich people use more public services than poor people in support of their activities." I keep hearing this and yet to see any good explanation of this. Most "rich" people I know use private airports, private schools, even private roads in their own neighborhoods, yet they still pay more in taxes than I do. How are these people using more "public services" than us poor people who send our kids to public schools, get groped in public airports and drive on public roads or take public transportation?
So all they did was give even larger incentive for rich people to start playing games with taxes. Remember that tax planning isn't illegal, nor is forming offshore companies. It's unlikely to change as well, because foreign companies are needed too. As long as you keep the money in the offshore company accounts and not your personal ones, you don't need to pay taxes from them. The people making over one million dollars a year have all the means to do this - normal working people don't.
First, companies don't pay taxes. Their customers do. To put it simpler, when you tax a company, they raise prices to pay that tax. Customers pay those higher prices to cover that tax. Companies don't print money. They get paid by their customers.
Next, the best way to eliminate "creative accounting" in regard to taxes is to make the system simple. A national sales tax, for example, would eliminate any benefit from basing your companies off shore. The only way around a sales tax is to buy stuff off the black market or move yourself off shore.
I know that people don't like the idea of everyone having to pay taxes and they balk at the idea that rich people will get to spend all of the money they receive, but a sales tax is the only fair tax. Rich people spend more money, thus pay more in taxes. Poor people spend less money, thus less in taxes. Don't want to pay taxes, don't spend money. I understand that the wealthy can afford to save large sums of money to avoid taxation, but the money will get spent eventually, meaning it will get taxed eventually. All capital gains will be taxes. All bonuses will be taxed. All the money that those greedy fat cats will receive will get taxed. No amount of tax attorneys can get around a sales tax.
Good point. Though, as it stands, the government is more than happy to allow you to spend insane amounts of money on frauds. My mother actually deals with this a lot, as she works with the sickest people, in the worst circumstances, and watches them spend all their money on things such as (these aren't a joke)...... Prayer Circles...
Anyone who spends money on Prayer Circles deserves what they get. I'm not judging the effectiveness of prayer. I'm judging those who would pay for something that so many will gladly do for free. If anyone charges you to pray for them, their prayers will not be heard. "Dear God. (customer's name) has paid me to pray for him, so I'm doing that. Please do what he asks. Amen." If you want prayer, call a real church and ask them to pray for you. They'll not only do it for free, but they'll probably do other things to help out your family. For example, when someone asks my church for prayer, we do that, but we also take food to your family and offer ourselves for other services such as yard work, home repair/cleaning, child care, or even financial assistance. And no, we do not charge for such services. Church membership is not required.
Most Christians do not realize Jesus was pretty cool to the people of different faith than him, allowing them their own beliefs so long as they didn't bother the people of his faith.
Care to provide an example of how Jesus was "pretty cool" in this way?
Parable of the Good Samaritan: Luke 10:25-37 Jesus heals 10 Lepers: Luke 17:11-19
Here are two examples that I found in about 1 minute.
Although, in my one minute of research, I didn't find a whole lot more backing up the GP's claims. I do read where he tells rich man to give away his belonging and follow him if he wanted to get into Heaven. Notice that he didn't say, "be a good person in whatever religion you belong to" to get in to Heaven. He said to follow HIM.
and some of that is to blame on halting embryonic stem cell research but even the Republicans are okay with non-embryonic stem cells [slashdot.org].
Your post is spot on, with one minor common misconception.
Embryonic stem cell research was not "halted". Since there was no federal funding for stem cell research at all, you may not halt something that never existed. President Bush's order forbade federal funding for embryonic stem cell research on new stem cell lines only. Research on embryonic stem cells from lines that existed at that time was to be funded, where it wasn't before, and there was no restrictions on non-embryonic stem cell research.
Could this have anything to do with dodging anti-science policies of the American far right?
No. It has to do with the FDA making absolutely positively sure that a treatment is safe, or at least that we know all the possible risks associated with each treatment. This takes years to complete for each and every treatment, which means that during those years, any treatment under investigation or medical trials will be unavailable in the US.
Of course, don't let the facts stop you from making your anti-Christian remarks. You should blame those dastardly Christians for everything you see wrong in the world. On Slashdot, it will even get you modded "Insightful", even though your comment is based on no facts whatsoever. Kinda like what you accuse Christians of doing.
Overall clocking a CPU the fastest (that we know of) (for right now): cool. Congratulations, dudes. You did something awesome and we all recognize how nifty that is.
Over-clocking a CPU the most: AMD employees ought to be disqualified, at least when they're using AMD chips. For an overclocking record, you shouldn't be connected to the organization that rated the chip in the first place. If I were to make my own 3-GHz-worthy Pentium 4 then I could rate it as a 100 MHz processor and I would win an overclocking record too. How do we really know these aren't 6 GHz Bulldozer chips to begin with, but under-rated, other than AMD's word that they're not? Not that I seriously believe shenanigans are happening, but the potential for it makes it not cool. AMD employees going for an OC record should have to use an Intel chip (or ARM or whatever, but not AMD) and vice-versa.
This isn't necessarily a record for overclocking. This is a record for CLOCKING. It doesn't matter if the chip was rated at 9GHz or 9MHz. The fact is that no chip, regardless of its initial rating has ever reached a clock speed that high.
Sorry, but you have to hold both sides to the same standard. If not, you are just a leftist shill spreading propaganda.
Funny how you spend several dozen paragraphs across far more posts than any democrat or liberal I see here complaining about the right being labeled, and then finish it off by calling someone you disagree with a shill. Bravo: you perfectly illustrate the irony and double standard I was talking about. It's alright for the right, but god forbid if the left complains!
I am complaining about the right being labeled as "terrorists" because some idiot, with no real party affiliation or backing, drives a car into an abortion clinic. Meanwhile, you have the leader of the Teamsters Union, which is organized and has backing from the left, says "Mr. President, we are your army" and "Let's take those son of bitches out". A couple of days before union members take over a rail station, holds guards hostage, destroys equipment, and threatens law enforcement with bats, and you completely ignore it. That's a double standard.
You call one idiot killing a Sikh proof that right wingers are terrorists but completely disregard an left winger killing a peaceful abortion protester. Again, double standard.
See, when you label one entire group something for the acts of a few that may or may not be in that particular group, yet completely ignore or excuse the exact same or worse acts by larger groups of individuals that truly do belong to another group... that makes you a shill.
I'm not complaining about the right being labeled. "The Right" is a label in itself. I'm proving that the label of "terrorist" that you so loosely apply is not correct. If you want to label groups based on their actions, you must apply the same label to all groups that perform those same actions. You won't. That's why you are labeled a shill. The left won't, that's why they are labeled propagandists.
No. You have an ATI card. 3D ATI drivers for anything less than 4 years old are non existent, and barely work for the older stuff.
I certainly agree that drivers are a problem, but 3D works great in native Linux apps. Or, should I say, it works great with the stuff I've run. I don't think I've taxed it too hard or done any benchmarks.
LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha.
Six guards were held hostage for a couple of hours after 500 or more Longshoremen broke down gates about 4:30 a.m. and smashed windows in the guard shack, he said.
So I guess I'll be seeing posts from about how people on the left are terrorists.
You should probably point out that there is not a lot of difference to the observer between OpenGL and DX9 rendering in WoW. At least, there wasn't when I was dual booting and running WoW between Windows XP and Lucid Lynx.
Same hardware, different renderer, faster on Linux, didn't look much different. Shame I play more than just WoW, really.
I don't play WoW, so I can't speak to that. I can tell you, however, that Starcraft 2 is pretty much unplayable on Linux where I can max it out in Windows.
My system: AMD Phenom II 965 (Quad core at 3.4 Ghz) AMD/ATI Radeon HD 6000 series video (drivers directly from AMD. The ones that came with Ubuntu didn't seem to work) 4GB RAM
It will run if I turn everything off... and I mean everything. I don't even see the units shoot or attack everything is so minimal. I'm sure I could tweak it a bit more, but, how much better could it possibly get?
I have not tried BSD, of course. Does anyone know if it actually runs "better" than it would on Windows?
No one has died in an abortion clinic attack in years. For that matter, more pro-life activists have been killed in the past few years than abortion doctors.
However, I'll grant that those that set fire to abortion clinics could be called terrorists. That does NOT mean that "the right" are terrorists. If it does, then you need to say that those on the left are terrorists for the killing I linked to above.
As for the Sikh thing, yeah, some people are stupid, but there was nothing in the article you mentioned that said this guy was supported by or even belonged to any right-leaning organization. The same could be said for your abortion clinic attacks. While these people may be right leaning, they are not representatives of "the right" no more than the 9-11 terrorists are representative of Muslims or the Black Panthers are representative of African Americans. Do I really need to break out links showing union "terrorism" to prove that the left is full of terrorists?
As for your "question", I assume you are referring to this: Why is it the right always believes themselves victimized for the slightest resistance after centuries of victimization of all those around them?
Yeah, that's a question like "Why do you hate America?" or "Do you still beat your wife?". It's a question that assumes a false premise. I could just as easily point to Communism and ask the same question about the left. Better yet, I could point out that the last KKK member in congress was NOT on the right. I could also point out that this Klan member was held with VERY high regard by the Democrat party and the left as a whole. He was elected and reelected by the left and placed on powerful committees and stayed in congress until he died. "The right" does not praise or elect abortion clinic bombers to congress and place them on committees.
So let me ask you these: Why would you support a political philosophy that is so eager to accept KKK members in its ranks and even promote them to the highest level of government possible. More importantly, how can you accuse "the right" of such heinous acts while the left accepted and promoted KKK members?
In the early 1940s, a politically ambitious butcher from West Virginia named Bob Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to form a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. After Byrd had collected the $10 joining fee and $3 charge for a robe and hood from every applicant, the "Grand Dragon" for the mid-Atlantic states came down to tiny Crab Orchard, W.Va., to officially organize the chapter.
As Byrd recalls now, the Klan official, Joel L. Baskin of Arlington, Va., was so impressed with the young Byrd's organizational skills that he urged him to go into politics. "The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation," Baskin said.
Sorry, but you have to hold both sides to the same standard. If not, you are just a leftist shill spreading propaganda.
The other is in say 30 years, we find a small colony of life, we need to be sure that it is truly native to Mars, not something we left there
How do you intend to study those bacteria without, you know, going to Mars?
Of all the retarded navel gazing non-arguments I've ever heard, the ecomental self flagellation over contaminating dead environments with our wicked imperialist Terrarist organisms must be the saddest and most pathetic.
We're up against the Fermi paradox here. We can either own the galaxy, or die silently and alone on our tiny little globe. I know which one I choose.
I never said that exporting life to Mars is a bad idea. However, before we do, we need to be sure that life doesn't already exist there, or if it does exist, we need to be able to study it BEFORE we export life to Mars to get a better understanding of how life can form outside our planet.
Conservatives murder Sikhs for wearing turbans and firebomb abortion clinics
Really? Citation needed. You know, something from the past 5 years or so.
not to mention the age old racial violence and the violence against gays and atheists, and the best you can find against the left is an egging, a bunch of people with picket signs making claims, someone having coffee spilled on them, and the drunken asshat Etheridge?
Sorry, but I've conservatives do not own the patent on bigotry. I've met more bigoted Democrats in my time than Republicans. Although, it's primarily because Democrats can get away with it.
Why is it the right always believes themselves victimized for the slightest resistance after centuries of victimization of all those around them?
So I should be punished for the actions of people over a century ago? Should we jail German children for the Holocaust? Oh, and I should also mention that Lincoln was a Republican. George Wallace was a Democrat. Given that, why are you NOT a Republican. Why is that Democrats believe themselves victimized for the slightest resistance after centuries of victimization of all those around them?
You have to look at the big picture and the political rhetoric being generated. I know you don't want to believe this can happen here. But we haven't seen the last of it by far. It's only warming up.
First, Rachel Maddow is NOT a reliable source. Would you believe a source from Rush Limbaugh?
Next, they took the site down because they were getting flack from liberal commentators like Rachel Maddow and idiots like you were buying into it. People were trying to blame Palin for this early on, just like the Austin TX IRS bomber, but when the facts came out, they found that both assailants were not "right-wingers". (Here is an article trying to link Joe Stack to the TEA Party. Again, Stack quoted the Communist Manifesto in his online post. Hardly the sign of a TEA Partier.)
I know you really, REALLY REALLY want this to be Sara Palin's or some other right winger's fault, but the fact is, it wasn't. The fact that you can make yourself believe it when it's been proven to you that it is not true just shows how delusional you, and people like you are. You want to believe something so bad, you actually reject truth and reason to support what you want to believe.
Here, don't take my word for it. Check the Wiki site for Jared Lee Loughner:
In the initial aftermath of the 2011 Tucson shooting, many speculated that Loughner's political views had been fueled by extremist rhetoric.[citation needed] Records show that Loughner was registered as an independent voter and voted in 2006 and 2008, but not in 2010.[21][22] A YouTube channel under an account called "Classitup10" was linked to Loughner.[23][24] Loughner had also posted a video on YouTube in which he described his school, Pima Community College, as "one of the biggest scams in America". This video led to Loughner being suspended from the school.[25] One classmate stated that Loughner had laughed at a young woman and likened her to a terrorist after she read a poem about getting an abortion.[26][27] [26][28] An old friend, Bryce Tierney, discussed several of Loughner's views. According to him, Loughner had exhibited a longstanding dislike for Gabrielle Giffords, a Blue Dog Democrat, and he repeatedly derided her as a "fake". This grudge intensified when he attended her August 25, 2007, event and she did not, in his view, sufficiently answer his question: "What is government if words have no meaning?"[20] Loughner kept Giffords' form letter, which thanked him for attending the 2007 event. An envelope in the same box as the letter was scrawled with phrases like "die bitch" and "assassination plans have been made."[29] Loughner was known to believe, and to say, that women should not hold positions of power.[30][31] Loughner's best friend, Zach Osler, disputed speculation by media commentators that Loughner's actions were fueled by partisan politics and rhetoric, insisting, "He did not watch TV, he disliked the news, he didn't listen to political radio, he didn't take sides, he wasn't on the Left, he wasn't on the Right," and instead conspiracy theories had a profound effect on him.[10] Another friend, Zane Gutierrez, later told the New York Times that Loughner's anger would also "well up at the sight of President George W. Bush or in discussing what he considered to be the nefarious designs of government."[31]
By the way, you satisfy the first [CITATION NEEDED].
I'm not into partisan politics. You might recall that real estate bubble [nytimes.com] which we're still dealing with. Bailouts [wordpress.com] (1.6 trillian). Or tax cuts for the wealthy [nytimes.com] (which I expect to be extended) plus massive spending over seas. This isn't just a Bush issue and we're still feeling the effects of shit done during his reign like the fucking patriot act [wikipedia.org].Obama is no winner either. This was just off of the top of my head.
Tea Party violence is amazing to research. I watched one video of a woman getting her head stomped on at one incident. Only blind political partisanship will ignore the signs of where this movement is going. It's symptomatic of a bigger picture though; which is a serious step towards Fascism. All the piece of this puzzle are here if you look.
I watched your video and the TEA Party was never mentioned. The guy just assumed that he was rammed because he had an Obama sticker on his car. Sorry, that is not evidence of "TEA Party terrorism".
Oh, and I have been personally attacked by a "peace activist" at an anti-war rally. He didn't see the irony. The police men that were standing behind him from the start did.
"President Obama this is your army. We are ready to march. And president Obama we want one thing: Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. That's what we’re going to tell him. He’s going to be—and when he sees what we’re doing here he will be inspired. But he needs help and you know what? Everybody here's got to vote. If we go back and keep the eye on the prize, let's take these sons of a bitches out and give America back to America where we belong! Thank you very much!"
Kinda different sounding when you include the context...
The guy I was replying to was trying to blame Rep Giffords attempted murder on Sara Palin's web page that had targets on a friggin map, "targeting" elections that could be won by Republicans.
Kinda different sounding when you include the context of the post I was responding to...
People seem to forget about the shooting in Arizona, where a Rightwing nut job shot up a Congresswoman and part of a crowd. People forget how Sara Palin had "Gun Cross hairs" literally on her web site that had that Congresswoman targeted. Her people made changes to that site immediately after the shooting. The Tea Party has a history of violence to it that isn't making national news yet
Here is another hint as to who is responsible: In Jan 2007, the unemployment rate was 4.7% and $2.18 a gallon. Can you tell me what changed in Jan of 2007?
Do tell. Obama didn't take office til Jan '09. In Jan '07 there were still 2yrs of Bush Jr left.
BZZZZZTTTTT! Try again. Here's another hint:
Who actually writes the laws, including the budget?
I have not patience for tea partiers who want to destroy this country by dismantling the federal government and putting into law Christian theocratic policies. NO THANK YOU.
The TEA Party just wants the 10th Amendment followed and all extraConstitutional programs eliminated and turned into state's responsibilities. What does "Christian theocratic policies" have to do with the 10th Amendment?
Peacefully? In your dreams. Tea baggers are terrorists because they use scare tactics to get their way. Take health care town hall meetings of 2008. Retired tea baggers with drugged, crazy eyes yelling "Government hands off of my Medicare" and lunging at congressmen and opponents with their fists. Using these imbecile but scary tactics they managed to force many seniors to oppose health care reform even though most of those seniors already use government-provided Medicare.
Want another one? Debt ceiling âoecrisisâ, entirely manufactured by tea bagger faction. This was non-issue for decades, extended automatically. This year, tea baggers yelled hysterically for months about âoecountry going bankruptâ, âoedollar becoming worthlessâ and similar utter nonsense to scare many people into opposing raising the limit, which was tea bagger goal for ideological reasons.
Thus, tea baggers use scare tactics to reach their political goals. That, by definition, means they are terrorists.
Is there a (-1 Too stupid to walk in public without a helmet) mod?
Senior citizens at a town hall meeting are terrorists? Not wanting to raise the debt ceiling is a terrorist act?
Wait! Are you trolling and I just had a whoosh moment?
HERE are some videos of REAL violence by someone other than those militant "senior citizens" you spoke of.
Well put and well thought out. I hope you don't mind if I simply link to that as a rebuttal because it's better can do when dealing with such idiocy and bigotry.
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No shit sherlock. You are a smart one!
Except of course that everyone over 4 years of age knows this already. That you think it is a revelation says lots about the quality of your junior high school and nothing about anything else.
Unfortunately, most people DON'T know this. If they did, they wouldn't be calling for taxes on (insert big company type here). People are constantly calling on government to raise taxes on big-whatever, but they don't seem to understand that they are the ones who will be paying those taxes.
Sorry, but that's just stupid. You could as easily say that working people aren't taxed, they just pass the costs to their employers.
You can't pass the cost to your customers if your competitor doesn't. I have no choice in my personal taxes, but I choose whether or not I pay Kraft's taxes.
Ah, but if you don't buy your cheese from Kraft, who do you buy your cheese from? The federal government can't just single out Kraft to tax. If they tax Kraft, they have to tax Kraft's competitors as well. The only way that the government can tax Kraft and not their competitors is if Kraft's competitors are based overseas and not subject to US taxation. Think of it as a reverse tariff.
Corporations do not pay taxes at all.
That's economics from junior high school.
All corporations do is pass their tax costs on to the price of their goods.
Well, that's a silly argument. You might just as well say individuals don't pay any taxes, it just goes on their wage bill.
It's not an argument. He's pointing out that if you raise taxes on a business, the business passes that tax on to its consumers, meaning everyone pays that tax, regardless of the customer's income. It's basically a sales tax, but one that is levied on selected businesses only, and one that customers don't see. For example, if the government started taxing sodas, people would complain that the greedy PepsiCo is raising their prices, not that they are paying more in taxes.
Rich people use more public services than poor people in support of their activities. So yes, a larger percentage.
Not to mention if you fail to regulate capitalism by tweaking the "score," the inevitable result is slavery.
Really? Please explain how "Rich people use more public services than poor people in support of their activities." I keep hearing this and yet to see any good explanation of this. Most "rich" people I know use private airports, private schools, even private roads in their own neighborhoods, yet they still pay more in taxes than I do. How are these people using more "public services" than us poor people who send our kids to public schools, get groped in public airports and drive on public roads or take public transportation?
So all they did was give even larger incentive for rich people to start playing games with taxes. Remember that tax planning isn't illegal, nor is forming offshore companies. It's unlikely to change as well, because foreign companies are needed too. As long as you keep the money in the offshore company accounts and not your personal ones, you don't need to pay taxes from them. The people making over one million dollars a year have all the means to do this - normal working people don't.
You know what, maybe start looking if the huge companies pay taxes? For example Google does a insane amount ($60 BILLION) of tax dodging.
First, companies don't pay taxes. Their customers do. To put it simpler, when you tax a company, they raise prices to pay that tax. Customers pay those higher prices to cover that tax. Companies don't print money. They get paid by their customers.
Next, the best way to eliminate "creative accounting" in regard to taxes is to make the system simple. A national sales tax, for example, would eliminate any benefit from basing your companies off shore. The only way around a sales tax is to buy stuff off the black market or move yourself off shore.
I know that people don't like the idea of everyone having to pay taxes and they balk at the idea that rich people will get to spend all of the money they receive, but a sales tax is the only fair tax. Rich people spend more money, thus pay more in taxes. Poor people spend less money, thus less in taxes. Don't want to pay taxes, don't spend money. I understand that the wealthy can afford to save large sums of money to avoid taxation, but the money will get spent eventually, meaning it will get taxed eventually. All capital gains will be taxes. All bonuses will be taxed. All the money that those greedy fat cats will receive will get taxed. No amount of tax attorneys can get around a sales tax.
Good point. Though, as it stands, the government is more than happy to allow you to spend insane amounts of money on frauds. My mother actually deals with this a lot, as she works with the sickest people, in the worst circumstances, and watches them spend all their money on things such as (these aren't a joke)... ... ...
Prayer Circles
Anyone who spends money on Prayer Circles deserves what they get. I'm not judging the effectiveness of prayer. I'm judging those who would pay for something that so many will gladly do for free. If anyone charges you to pray for them, their prayers will not be heard. "Dear God. (customer's name) has paid me to pray for him, so I'm doing that. Please do what he asks. Amen." If you want prayer, call a real church and ask them to pray for you. They'll not only do it for free, but they'll probably do other things to help out your family. For example, when someone asks my church for prayer, we do that, but we also take food to your family and offer ourselves for other services such as yard work, home repair/cleaning, child care, or even financial assistance. And no, we do not charge for such services. Church membership is not required.
Most Christians do not realize Jesus was pretty cool to the people of different faith than him, allowing them their own beliefs so long as they didn't bother the people of his faith.
Care to provide an example of how Jesus was "pretty cool" in this way?
Parable of the Good Samaritan: Luke 10:25-37
Jesus heals 10 Lepers: Luke 17:11-19
Here are two examples that I found in about 1 minute.
Although, in my one minute of research, I didn't find a whole lot more backing up the GP's claims. I do read where he tells rich man to give away his belonging and follow him if he wanted to get into Heaven. Notice that he didn't say, "be a good person in whatever religion you belong to" to get in to Heaven. He said to follow HIM.
and some of that is to blame on halting embryonic stem cell research but even the Republicans are okay with non-embryonic stem cells [slashdot.org].
Your post is spot on, with one minor common misconception.
Embryonic stem cell research was not "halted". Since there was no federal funding for stem cell research at all, you may not halt something that never existed. President Bush's order forbade federal funding for embryonic stem cell research on new stem cell lines only. Research on embryonic stem cells from lines that existed at that time was to be funded, where it wasn't before, and there was no restrictions on non-embryonic stem cell research.
Could this have anything to do with dodging anti-science policies of the American far right?
No. It has to do with the FDA making absolutely positively sure that a treatment is safe, or at least that we know all the possible risks associated with each treatment. This takes years to complete for each and every treatment, which means that during those years, any treatment under investigation or medical trials will be unavailable in the US.
Of course, don't let the facts stop you from making your anti-Christian remarks. You should blame those dastardly Christians for everything you see wrong in the world. On Slashdot, it will even get you modded "Insightful", even though your comment is based on no facts whatsoever. Kinda like what you accuse Christians of doing.
Overall clocking a CPU the fastest (that we know of) (for right now): cool. Congratulations, dudes. You did something awesome and we all recognize how nifty that is.
Over-clocking a CPU the most: AMD employees ought to be disqualified, at least when they're using AMD chips. For an overclocking record, you shouldn't be connected to the organization that rated the chip in the first place. If I were to make my own 3-GHz-worthy Pentium 4 then I could rate it as a 100 MHz processor and I would win an overclocking record too. How do we really know these aren't 6 GHz Bulldozer chips to begin with, but under-rated, other than AMD's word that they're not? Not that I seriously believe shenanigans are happening, but the potential for it makes it not cool. AMD employees going for an OC record should have to use an Intel chip (or ARM or whatever, but not AMD) and vice-versa.
This isn't necessarily a record for overclocking. This is a record for CLOCKING. It doesn't matter if the chip was rated at 9GHz or 9MHz. The fact is that no chip, regardless of its initial rating has ever reached a clock speed that high.
Funny how you spend several dozen paragraphs across far more posts than any democrat or liberal I see here complaining about the right being labeled, and then finish it off by calling someone you disagree with a shill. Bravo: you perfectly illustrate the irony and double standard I was talking about. It's alright for the right, but god forbid if the left complains!
I am complaining about the right being labeled as "terrorists" because some idiot, with no real party affiliation or backing, drives a car into an abortion clinic. Meanwhile, you have the leader of the Teamsters Union, which is organized and has backing from the left, says "Mr. President, we are your army" and "Let's take those son of bitches out". A couple of days before union members take over a rail station, holds guards hostage, destroys equipment, and threatens law enforcement with bats, and you completely ignore it. That's a double standard.
You call one idiot killing a Sikh proof that right wingers are terrorists but completely disregard an left winger killing a peaceful abortion protester. Again, double standard.
See, when you label one entire group something for the acts of a few that may or may not be in that particular group, yet completely ignore or excuse the exact same or worse acts by larger groups of individuals that truly do belong to another group... that makes you a shill.
I'm not complaining about the right being labeled. "The Right" is a label in itself. I'm proving that the label of "terrorist" that you so loosely apply is not correct. If you want to label groups based on their actions, you must apply the same label to all groups that perform those same actions. You won't. That's why you are labeled a shill. The left won't, that's why they are labeled propagandists.
No. You have an ATI card. 3D ATI drivers for anything less than 4 years old are non existent, and barely work for the older stuff.
I certainly agree that drivers are a problem, but 3D works great in native Linux apps. Or, should I say, it works great with the stuff I've run. I don't think I've taxed it too hard or done any benchmarks.
Oh! And look here. Fresh from today!
LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha.
Six guards were held hostage for a couple of hours after 500 or more Longshoremen broke down gates about 4:30 a.m. and smashed windows in the guard shack, he said.
So I guess I'll be seeing posts from about how people on the left are terrorists.
You should probably point out that there is not a lot of difference to the observer between OpenGL and DX9 rendering in WoW. At least, there wasn't when I was dual booting and running WoW between Windows XP and Lucid Lynx.
Same hardware, different renderer, faster on Linux, didn't look much different. Shame I play more than just WoW, really.
I don't play WoW, so I can't speak to that. I can tell you, however, that Starcraft 2 is pretty much unplayable on Linux where I can max it out in Windows.
My system:
AMD Phenom II 965 (Quad core at 3.4 Ghz)
AMD/ATI Radeon HD 6000 series video (drivers directly from AMD. The ones that came with Ubuntu didn't seem to work)
4GB RAM
It will run if I turn everything off... and I mean everything. I don't even see the units shoot or attack everything is so minimal. I'm sure I could tweak it a bit more, but, how much better could it possibly get?
I have not tried BSD, of course. Does anyone know if it actually runs "better" than it would on Windows?
No one has died in an abortion clinic attack in years. For that matter, more pro-life activists have been killed in the past few years than abortion doctors.
However, I'll grant that those that set fire to abortion clinics could be called terrorists. That does NOT mean that "the right" are terrorists. If it does, then you need to say that those on the left are terrorists for the killing I linked to above.
As for the Sikh thing, yeah, some people are stupid, but there was nothing in the article you mentioned that said this guy was supported by or even belonged to any right-leaning organization. The same could be said for your abortion clinic attacks. While these people may be right leaning, they are not representatives of "the right" no more than the 9-11 terrorists are representative of Muslims or the Black Panthers are representative of African Americans. Do I really need to break out links showing union "terrorism" to prove that the left is full of terrorists?
As for your "question", I assume you are referring to this: Why is it the right always believes themselves victimized for the slightest resistance after centuries of victimization of all those around them?
Yeah, that's a question like "Why do you hate America?" or "Do you still beat your wife?". It's a question that assumes a false premise. I could just as easily point to Communism and ask the same question about the left. Better yet, I could point out that the last KKK member in congress was NOT on the right. I could also point out that this Klan member was held with VERY high regard by the Democrat party and the left as a whole. He was elected and reelected by the left and placed on powerful committees and stayed in congress until he died. "The right" does not praise or elect abortion clinic bombers to congress and place them on committees.
So let me ask you these: Why would you support a political philosophy that is so eager to accept KKK members in its ranks and even promote them to the highest level of government possible. More importantly, how can you accuse "the right" of such heinous acts while the left accepted and promoted KKK members?
In the early 1940s, a politically ambitious butcher from West Virginia named Bob Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to form a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. After Byrd had collected the $10 joining fee and $3 charge for a robe and hood from every applicant, the "Grand Dragon" for the mid-Atlantic states came down to tiny Crab Orchard, W.Va., to officially organize the chapter.
As Byrd recalls now, the Klan official, Joel L. Baskin of Arlington, Va., was so impressed with the young Byrd's organizational skills that he urged him to go into politics. "The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation," Baskin said.
Sorry, but you have to hold both sides to the same standard. If not, you are just a leftist shill spreading propaganda.
How do you intend to study those bacteria without, you know, going to Mars?
Of all the retarded navel gazing non-arguments I've ever heard, the ecomental self flagellation over contaminating dead environments with our wicked imperialist Terrarist organisms must be the saddest and most pathetic.
We're up against the Fermi paradox here. We can either own the galaxy, or die silently and alone on our tiny little globe. I know which one I choose.
I never said that exporting life to Mars is a bad idea. However, before we do, we need to be sure that life doesn't already exist there, or if it does exist, we need to be able to study it BEFORE we export life to Mars to get a better understanding of how life can form outside our planet.
Conservatives murder Sikhs for wearing turbans and firebomb abortion clinics
Really? Citation needed. You know, something from the past 5 years or so.
not to mention the age old racial violence and the violence against gays and atheists, and the best you can find against the left is an egging, a bunch of people with picket signs making claims, someone having coffee spilled on them, and the drunken asshat Etheridge?
Sorry, but I've conservatives do not own the patent on bigotry. I've met more bigoted Democrats in my time than Republicans. Although, it's primarily because Democrats can get away with it.
Why is it the right always believes themselves victimized for the slightest resistance after centuries of victimization of all those around them?
So I should be punished for the actions of people over a century ago? Should we jail German children for the Holocaust? Oh, and I should also mention that Lincoln was a Republican. George Wallace was a Democrat. Given that, why are you NOT a Republican. Why is that Democrats believe themselves victimized for the slightest resistance after centuries of victimization of all those around them?
Keep sticking your head in the sand.
http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/08/5793248-after-rep-giffords-shot-in-arizona-palins-take-back-the-20-goes-down
You have to look at the big picture and the political rhetoric being generated. I know you don't want to believe this can happen here. But we haven't seen the last of it by far. It's only warming up.
First, Rachel Maddow is NOT a reliable source. Would you believe a source from Rush Limbaugh?
Next, they took the site down because they were getting flack from liberal commentators like Rachel Maddow and idiots like you were buying into it. People were trying to blame Palin for this early on, just like the Austin TX IRS bomber, but when the facts came out, they found that both assailants were not "right-wingers". (Here is an article trying to link Joe Stack to the TEA Party. Again, Stack quoted the Communist Manifesto in his online post. Hardly the sign of a TEA Partier.)
I know you really, REALLY REALLY want this to be Sara Palin's or some other right winger's fault, but the fact is, it wasn't. The fact that you can make yourself believe it when it's been proven to you that it is not true just shows how delusional you, and people like you are. You want to believe something so bad, you actually reject truth and reason to support what you want to believe.
Here, don't take my word for it. Check the Wiki site for Jared Lee Loughner :
In the initial aftermath of the 2011 Tucson shooting, many speculated that Loughner's political views had been fueled by extremist rhetoric.[citation needed] Records show that Loughner was registered as an independent voter and voted in 2006 and 2008, but not in 2010.[21][22] A YouTube channel under an account called "Classitup10" was linked to Loughner.[23][24] Loughner had also posted a video on YouTube in which he described his school, Pima Community College, as "one of the biggest scams in America". This video led to Loughner being suspended from the school.[25] One classmate stated that Loughner had laughed at a young woman and likened her to a terrorist after she read a poem about getting an abortion.[26][27] [26][28] An old friend, Bryce Tierney, discussed several of Loughner's views. According to him, Loughner had exhibited a longstanding dislike for Gabrielle Giffords, a Blue Dog Democrat, and he repeatedly derided her as a "fake". This grudge intensified when he attended her August 25, 2007, event and she did not, in his view, sufficiently answer his question: "What is government if words have no meaning?"[20] Loughner kept Giffords' form letter, which thanked him for attending the 2007 event. An envelope in the same box as the letter was scrawled with phrases like "die bitch" and "assassination plans have been made."[29] Loughner was known to believe, and to say, that women should not hold positions of power.[30][31] Loughner's best friend, Zach Osler, disputed speculation by media commentators that Loughner's actions were fueled by partisan politics and rhetoric, insisting, "He did not watch TV, he disliked the news, he didn't listen to political radio, he didn't take sides, he wasn't on the Left, he wasn't on the Right," and instead conspiracy theories had a profound effect on him.[10] Another friend, Zane Gutierrez, later told the New York Times that Loughner's anger would also "well up at the sight of President George W. Bush or in discussing what he considered to be the nefarious designs of government."[31]
By the way, you satisfy the first [CITATION NEEDED].
Roosters don't lay eggs?
Right... and President's don't write laws.
I'm not into partisan politics. You might recall that real estate bubble [nytimes.com] which we're still dealing with. Bailouts [wordpress.com] (1.6 trillian). Or tax cuts for the wealthy [nytimes.com] (which I expect to be extended) plus massive spending over seas. This isn't just a Bush issue and we're still feeling the effects of shit done during his reign like the fucking patriot act [wikipedia.org].Obama is no winner either. This was just off of the top of my head.
Fair enough.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5pdwTQ4xA8 [youtube.com]
Tea Party violence is amazing to research. I watched one video of a woman getting her head stomped on at one incident. Only blind political partisanship will ignore the signs of where this movement is going. It's symptomatic of a bigger picture though; which is a serious step towards Fascism. All the piece of this puzzle are here if you look.
I watched your video and the TEA Party was never mentioned. The guy just assumed that he was rammed because he had an Obama sticker on his car. Sorry, that is not evidence of "TEA Party terrorism".
Here are some videos of TEA Partiers being assaulted and liberal violence and intimidation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtX2ljeicnE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AteV2L9pc-U&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjU8psjeHIQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8xapgE-nGE&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLC67298C7611A9D85
Oh, and I have been personally attacked by a "peace activist" at an anti-war rally. He didn't see the irony. The police men that were standing behind him from the start did.
"President Obama this is your army. We are ready to march. And president Obama we want one thing: Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. That's what we’re going to tell him. He’s going to be—and when he sees what we’re doing here he will be inspired. But he needs help and you know what? Everybody here's got to vote. If we go back and keep the eye on the prize, let's take these sons of a bitches out and give America back to America where we belong! Thank you very much!"
Kinda different sounding when you include the context...
The guy I was replying to was trying to blame Rep Giffords attempted murder on Sara Palin's web page that had targets on a friggin map, "targeting" elections that could be won by Republicans.
Kinda different sounding when you include the context of the post I was responding to...
People seem to forget about the shooting in Arizona, where a Rightwing nut job shot up a Congresswoman and part of a crowd. People forget how Sara Palin had "Gun Cross hairs" literally on her web site that had that Congresswoman targeted. Her people made changes to that site immediately after the shooting. The Tea Party has a history of violence to it that isn't making national news yet
Here is another hint as to who is responsible: In Jan 2007, the unemployment rate was 4.7% and $2.18 a gallon. Can you tell me what changed in Jan of 2007?
Do tell. Obama didn't take office til Jan '09. In Jan '07 there were still 2yrs of Bush Jr left.
BZZZZZTTTTT! Try again. Here's another hint:
Who actually writes the laws, including the budget?
I have not patience for tea partiers who want to destroy this country by dismantling the federal government and putting into law Christian theocratic policies. NO THANK YOU.
The TEA Party just wants the 10th Amendment followed and all extraConstitutional programs eliminated and turned into state's responsibilities. What does "Christian theocratic policies" have to do with the 10th Amendment?
Peacefully? In your dreams. Tea baggers are terrorists because they use scare tactics to get their way. Take health care town hall meetings of 2008. Retired tea baggers with drugged, crazy eyes yelling "Government hands off of my Medicare" and lunging at congressmen and opponents with their fists. Using these imbecile but scary tactics they managed to force many seniors to oppose health care reform even though most of those seniors already use government-provided Medicare.
Want another one? Debt ceiling âoecrisisâ, entirely manufactured by tea bagger faction. This was non-issue for decades, extended automatically. This year, tea baggers yelled hysterically for months about âoecountry going bankruptâ, âoedollar becoming worthlessâ and similar utter nonsense to scare many people into opposing raising the limit, which was tea bagger goal for ideological reasons.
Thus, tea baggers use scare tactics to reach their political goals. That, by definition, means they are terrorists.
Is there a (-1 Too stupid to walk in public without a helmet) mod?
Senior citizens at a town hall meeting are terrorists? Not wanting to raise the debt ceiling is a terrorist act?
Wait! Are you trolling and I just had a whoosh moment?
HERE are some videos of REAL violence by someone other than those militant "senior citizens" you spoke of.
Bravo!!!
Well put and well thought out. I hope you don't mind if I simply link to that as a rebuttal because it's better can do when dealing with such idiocy and bigotry.