Exit polls are not entirely scientific, because they depend entirely on whether people are willing to admit publicly, in front friends and family, who they voted for. For example, Kerry got 74% of the Jewish vote. If a certain Jewish family all went to the polls, and say the father liked Bush but the family didn't. He will probably say Kerry to the exit poller to prevent a familial rift. Of course that's just an example.
Also, where are you getting your statistics from? I'd like to see where that's documented.
Actually, except in parts of New England, UU's aren't officially Christian anymore. Some of their members are, but there are also plenty of every other kind. In fact, a lot of the pagan families I know of go there as a church, more for the fellowship and networking than anything else.
That's because, despite popular belief, the Republicans are not the party of small government. They're the party of "government growing at a slower rate than the Democrats would." Economically, Reagan was a Libertarian, the party actually working for less government.
As for Christians hating and being ignorant about non-whites (slavery)... that was not a Christian vs non-Christian thing. That was a cultural and political split.
Yes, that is true. The more I learn about history between reading and going to random lectures around Ann Arbor, the more I realize just about every event is somehow based on money, or economic success, and things like that. i.e. Slavery in the South, England wanting to keep American colonies, Japan expanding in the Pacific, and even the Crusades were economically motivated for some people.
Well, this is a move in the right direction. A final solution (bad wording, I know) would be to declare homo- and hetero-sex unions civil unions and leave marriage up to the church. Of course, to avoid the problems in come Scandinavian countries, there would still have to be incentives to get a union.
www.lp.org
This is how you know someone is from Detroit: Ask them who the Big Three are and see if they say Ford, GM, and Chrysler. Honestly, I was very confused when I saw the headline./Michigander
The reason health care costs are so high in the United States is the extreme amount of regulation placed on the industry, along with the high insurance premiums doctors must pay. America will never go to socialized medicine because Americans value their freedom to choose too much. Also, US$10,000 will go a lot farther in India than it will in the US.
Agreed. Although Hitler was pretty bad in regards to human rights, he was a great leader. He basically brought Germany into the 20th century, and the technological advances made under him are amazing. There's just the whole killing Jews thing and medical experiments... nothing that would ever be done under Bush.
Yea, I've done the same thing... reripped all my cd's and converted the mp3's to AAC format. Even a small percentage smaller can make a big difference when you have 20,000+ songs (around 65 gig). Besides, on p2p networks less people are likely to download from you if it's all in m4a.
If I had a 5-megapixel camera-phone, there'd be two things I'd worry about:
1. Vibration- It always seems I can't keep my hands still when I photograph, and I can't imagine using a monopod or even a tripid with a cellphone.
2. Flash- It always takes a lot of battery, so I can't imagine the life would be very long.
3. Zoom- You're not going to have a very good zoom on something fitting in your pocket.
Of course, with a camera phone you're not trying to take good pictures, just those spur of the moment ones before I get the good one out.
If this kind of thing catches on, i.e. open-source OSes and other software, it could mean huge savings for schools. This might free up funds for like a shop class for geeks, where students learn how to assemble computer hardware, solder things, and resolve hardware conflicts.
This could have some interesting effects eventually on the medical industry at large. The military could use this kind of thing to lower their need for medical personnel, or especially long space flights.
Understandably, SOA Watch is very biased against WHISC. They neglect to mention all of the great humanitarian things graduates have done, along with overthrowing fascist and corrupt governments. Yes, some techniques are questionable, but again, it's not the US doing the foreign work. The hippies that protest there (and it definitely happens more than once a year) see that it has caused some unneeded violence over the years and lobby to close it, ignoring the good that these people can do.
Stop being lemmings. Question your leaders. Listen to Jon Stewart!
By listening to Jon Stewart for all your political commentary make you a lemming too? Just because he may share your views and others don't doest not make others lemmings.
It doesn't because lawyers are crafty and the general public (like you sir) are fucking dumb. COMMERCIAL ENTITIES SHOULD NOT HAVE THE SAME PROTECTIONS AS INDIVIDUALS. When individuals have the same sort of monetary control over government officials that the corporations do then we'll talk.
There is no such thing a a commercial entity as they cannot be physically defined. This is why the protection vs. protection discussion is baseless. It is really differing forms of personal freedom under attack from government.
For example, if I were to found a company that wanted to hire 25 employees, but the government stepped in to enforce affirmative action, that infringes on my personal right to run my company how I see fit. But it goes both ways. If my same company produced a by-product of massive amounts of toxic waste that I decided to have dumped behind some houses on land I ownm the government would step in again (along with numerous citizens' groups;D). While still infringing on my personal right to run my company as I see fit, it has a good outcome for the great majority of people.
Now, I'm not opening up a can of Libertarianism. I'm just showing that some regulation is good and some is bad. More regulation is generally bad for the economy (look at Europe vs. United States, or China before and after opening up to the United States).
It doesn't because lawyers are crafty and the general public (like you sir) are fucking dumb. COMMERCIAL ENTITIES SHOULD NOT HAVE THE SAME PROTECTIONS AS INDIVIDUALS. When individuals have the same sort of monetary control over government officials that the corporations do then we'll talk.
There is no such thing a a commercial entity as they cannot be physically defined. This is why the protection vs. protection discussion is baseless. It is really differing forms of personal freedom under attack from government.
For example, if I were to found a company that wanted to hire 25 employees, but the government stepped in to enforce affirmative action, that infringes on my personal right to run my company how I see fit. But it goes both ways. If my same company produced a by-product of massive amounts of toxic waste that I decided to have dumped behind some houses on land I ownm the government would step in again (along with numerous citizens' groups;D). While still infringing on my personal right to run my company as I see fit, it has a good outcome for the great majority of people.
Now, I'm not opening up a can of Libertarianism. I'm just showing that some regulation is good and some is bad. More regulation is generally bad for the economy (look at Europe vs. United States, or China before and after opening up to the United States).
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So there's a vast right-wing conspiracy?
Exit polls are not entirely scientific, because they depend entirely on whether people are willing to admit publicly, in front friends and family, who they voted for. For example, Kerry got 74% of the Jewish vote. If a certain Jewish family all went to the polls, and say the father liked Bush but the family didn't. He will probably say Kerry to the exit poller to prevent a familial rift. Of course that's just an example.
Also, where are you getting your statistics from? I'd like to see where that's documented.
Wait wait wait... too geeky for /.???? /pico is superior
Actually, except in parts of New England, UU's aren't officially Christian anymore. Some of their members are, but there are also plenty of every other kind. In fact, a lot of the pagan families I know of go there as a church, more for the fellowship and networking than anything else.
And to think, Tolkien told us this a long time ago... the one Ring survived "through the greed of men."
That's because, despite popular belief, the Republicans are not the party of small government. They're the party of "government growing at a slower rate than the Democrats would." Economically, Reagan was a Libertarian, the party actually working for less government.
As for Christians hating and being ignorant about non-whites (slavery)... that was not a Christian vs non-Christian thing. That was a cultural and political split.
Yes, that is true. The more I learn about history between reading and going to random lectures around Ann Arbor, the more I realize just about every event is somehow based on money, or economic success, and things like that. i.e. Slavery in the South, England wanting to keep American colonies, Japan expanding in the Pacific, and even the Crusades were economically motivated for some people.
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They'll take anyone ^_^
The preview button is right there, but I just choose not to use it =). Also, I need to remember to use the br tags, unlike LJ.
*some Scandinavian countries
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Well, this is a move in the right direction. A final solution (bad wording, I know) would be to declare homo- and hetero-sex unions civil unions and leave marriage up to the church. Of course, to avoid the problems in come Scandinavian countries, there would still have to be incentives to get a union. www.lp.org
This is how you know someone is from Detroit: Ask them who the Big Three are and see if they say Ford, GM, and Chrysler. Honestly, I was very confused when I saw the headline. /Michigander
This is the kind of thing tha keeps pushing me toward libertarian... /In Soviet Russia, (fill in yourself) //Family Guy
The reason health care costs are so high in the United States is the extreme amount of regulation placed on the industry, along with the high insurance premiums doctors must pay. America will never go to socialized medicine because Americans value their freedom to choose too much. Also, US$10,000 will go a lot farther in India than it will in the US.
Agreed. Although Hitler was pretty bad in regards to human rights, he was a great leader. He basically brought Germany into the 20th century, and the technological advances made under him are amazing. There's just the whole killing Jews thing and medical experiments... nothing that would ever be done under Bush.
Actually, Poland is not pulling out. One of their generals was saying to the press that he thought they should, but they're not.
Yea, I've done the same thing... reripped all my cd's and converted the mp3's to AAC format. Even a small percentage smaller can make a big difference when you have 20,000+ songs (around 65 gig). Besides, on p2p networks less people are likely to download from you if it's all in m4a.
If I had a 5-megapixel camera-phone, there'd be two things I'd worry about: 1. Vibration- It always seems I can't keep my hands still when I photograph, and I can't imagine using a monopod or even a tripid with a cellphone. 2. Flash- It always takes a lot of battery, so I can't imagine the life would be very long. 3. Zoom- You're not going to have a very good zoom on something fitting in your pocket. Of course, with a camera phone you're not trying to take good pictures, just those spur of the moment ones before I get the good one out.
If this kind of thing catches on, i.e. open-source OSes and other software, it could mean huge savings for schools. This might free up funds for like a shop class for geeks, where students learn how to assemble computer hardware, solder things, and resolve hardware conflicts.
This could have some interesting effects eventually on the medical industry at large. The military could use this kind of thing to lower their need for medical personnel, or especially long space flights.
Understandably, SOA Watch is very biased against WHISC. They neglect to mention all of the great humanitarian things graduates have done, along with overthrowing fascist and corrupt governments. Yes, some techniques are questionable, but again, it's not the US doing the foreign work. The hippies that protest there (and it definitely happens more than once a year) see that it has caused some unneeded violence over the years and lobby to close it, ignoring the good that these people can do.
Stop being lemmings. Question your leaders. Listen to Jon Stewart!
By listening to Jon Stewart for all your political commentary make you a lemming too? Just because he may share your views and others don't doest not make others lemmings.
>>>Sorry.
;D). While still infringing on my personal right to run my company as I see fit, it has a good outcome for the great majority of people.
It doesn't because lawyers are crafty and the general public (like you sir) are fucking dumb. COMMERCIAL ENTITIES SHOULD NOT HAVE THE SAME PROTECTIONS AS INDIVIDUALS. When individuals have the same sort of monetary control over government officials that the corporations do then we'll talk.
There is no such thing a a commercial entity as they cannot be physically defined. This is why the protection vs. protection discussion is baseless. It is really differing forms of personal freedom under attack from government.
For example, if I were to found a company that wanted to hire 25 employees, but the government stepped in to enforce affirmative action, that infringes on my personal right to run my company how I see fit. But it goes both ways. If my same company produced a by-product of massive amounts of toxic waste that I decided to have dumped behind some houses on land I ownm the government would step in again (along with numerous citizens' groups
Now, I'm not opening up a can of Libertarianism. I'm just showing that some regulation is good and some is bad. More regulation is generally bad for the economy (look at Europe vs. United States, or China before and after opening up to the United States).
It doesn't because lawyers are crafty and the general public (like you sir) are fucking dumb. COMMERCIAL ENTITIES SHOULD NOT HAVE THE SAME PROTECTIONS AS INDIVIDUALS. When individuals have the same sort of monetary control over government officials that the corporations do then we'll talk. There is no such thing a a commercial entity as they cannot be physically defined. This is why the protection vs. protection discussion is baseless. It is really differing forms of personal freedom under attack from government. For example, if I were to found a company that wanted to hire 25 employees, but the government stepped in to enforce affirmative action, that infringes on my personal right to run my company how I see fit. But it goes both ways. If my same company produced a by-product of massive amounts of toxic waste that I decided to have dumped behind some houses on land I ownm the government would step in again (along with numerous citizens' groups ;D). While still infringing on my personal right to run my company as I see fit, it has a good outcome for the great majority of people.
Now, I'm not opening up a can of Libertarianism. I'm just showing that some regulation is good and some is bad. More regulation is generally bad for the economy (look at Europe vs. United States, or China before and after opening up to the United States).
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