The problem, in general, is that it's only a relatively small number of people. If you want to change the minds of elected representatives, you have to have sufficient support to make them feel that there are consequences. A few letters on a topic isn't going to be enough to convince the representative that your side on any given issue is important. A few thousand letters, however, would tell the representative that this is an issue that may in fact be key for him to be on the right side of.
It takes a special kind of fool to equate what Israel does to the execution of six million Jews. The Palestinians are in no risk of becoming extinct. One does not have to approve of everything Israel does, but when you frame things the way you do, well, it just makes look either like an evil fucking bastard or a plain worthless brainless moron.
Where UN sits is not US territory. To attempt to take it back would be like US troops marching across the Ambassador Bridge and seizing Windsor, Ontario. The US cannot "re-establish" jurisdiction over the UN anymore than it could any foreign nation's embassy. In both cases it would be an act of war.
Some countries, like Canada, have been running paper ballots for decades without any of the substantial problems you invoke. Frankly, I think the fans of electronic voting do everything they can to make paper ballots seem insecure and inaccurate, even as more and more evidence comes to light of how shaky their own systems are.
Huge parts of the world run on paper ballots, and have, for the most part, well-run elections. Let's not overstate the problems here.
My problem is that I don't really trust my vote to any product. I know that ballots can become obscenely complicated, but paper ballots, in general, are more secure. A system that actually produces a printed receipt, regardless of who manufactures it or produces the software, would seem the appropriate intermediary.
I know in the case of prostate cancers, there are fast-growing tumors and there are slow-growing tumors. My father-in-law was diagnosed with a slow-growing tumor in his mid-70s and his doctor advised him to basically live with it, because something else would kill him first, and six or seven years later he died after a stroke.
Wilson's chief failure was in being unable to convince Congress to deliver what he promised to the other Great Powers. And FDR certainly did more to help the American people at a time of great hardship than his predecessor did, and did a helluva lot to save the world to. I'll take the word of a man like Churchill on his assessment of FDR than some GOP asswipe.
They can't afford to be. The War on Drugs employs too many cops and gives too many excuses for projection of force into foreign lands (who also are the beneficaries of War on Drugs' largess). Having the Gong Sh... er the Republican candidates, making rude noises at you is acceptable, but have very cop in the land shouting for your head, well, no candidate can bear the thought of that.
That's largely what Obama is counting on, that whoever gets the Republican nod will be so damaged and/or tied up with the Tea Party that the only sensible alternative is Obama. It's cynical and brilliant, "vote for me, at least you know what kind fucking bastard I am."
Well, that's the real problem. Higher education is basically a business concept that amounts to using students to gain access to the vast tub of money available for student loans.
Ron Paul talks about lots of things. There are few things he talks about for which he makes much sense, or shows any capacity to understand the issues. In fact, I'd say the only thing that is a bigger waste of time than listening to Ron Paul prattle on about and invoke his sociopathic ideology is his mentally deficient supporters who actually seem to believe this guy has a fucking clue about fucking anything.
Societies are supposed to take care of those less capable of doing so. Even in Medieval times rulers gave the Church land and from that land incomes that, in part, the Church used to fund hospitals and charity.
I don't hate your freedom of speech, you vicious vile repugnant soulless coward, I hate your speech. I really do hope your death is horrific by the standards of any culture in our species' history, and as you linger in mind-destroying agony, the only human being that comforts you as you beg for your life to end is black.
What exactly doesn't complexity have to do with this? And fitness is a measure within an environment. The environment in this case are these bodies of water with high levels of PCBs. Your post is so fucking muddled, as typical of Creationist bullshit, that you can't even keep the point straight. What does "weakness" have to do with complexity? What is complexity in this situation?
Well this Slashdotter thinks it's damn cool and is planning on picking up a couple of them and maybe a third to give a try at work to test out to see if it could replace our aging public-use computers (we have about 20 such computers, all early to mid-2000s Dells). For years I was running a Pentium III with 256mb of RAM and using OpenOffice, Firefox and mplayer without a hitch. This wee beastie has to be faster than that machine. My thoughts were to retire the Dells, toss these fellers in, which gives our clients basic surfing and document editing, which is all they need. If a Samba client can run on them, so much the better, and then I can use a central document repository.
And at home, well, I've got a few spare USB WiFi adapters, and will get a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and plug the damned thing into my TV for general surfing and the like.
I have a hard time sorting out how I was modded a troll. I can see Overrated, certainly, but troll? Just what kind of simpering fucktards are getting mod points these days?
If you create minimalistic governments, then power is simply there to be taken. There is a balance of interests that must be maintained. Simply cutting down the government to nothing would not solve the problem.
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The problem, in general, is that it's only a relatively small number of people. If you want to change the minds of elected representatives, you have to have sufficient support to make them feel that there are consequences. A few letters on a topic isn't going to be enough to convince the representative that your side on any given issue is important. A few thousand letters, however, would tell the representative that this is an issue that may in fact be key for him to be on the right side of.
It takes a special kind of fool to equate what Israel does to the execution of six million Jews. The Palestinians are in no risk of becoming extinct. One does not have to approve of everything Israel does, but when you frame things the way you do, well, it just makes look either like an evil fucking bastard or a plain worthless brainless moron.
Or he's just a loud-mouthed moron. There are plenty of that type around.
Where UN sits is not US territory. To attempt to take it back would be like US troops marching across the Ambassador Bridge and seizing Windsor, Ontario. The US cannot "re-establish" jurisdiction over the UN anymore than it could any foreign nation's embassy. In both cases it would be an act of war.
Some countries, like Canada, have been running paper ballots for decades without any of the substantial problems you invoke. Frankly, I think the fans of electronic voting do everything they can to make paper ballots seem insecure and inaccurate, even as more and more evidence comes to light of how shaky their own systems are.
Huge parts of the world run on paper ballots, and have, for the most part, well-run elections. Let's not overstate the problems here.
My problem is that I don't really trust my vote to any product. I know that ballots can become obscenely complicated, but paper ballots, in general, are more secure. A system that actually produces a printed receipt, regardless of who manufactures it or produces the software, would seem the appropriate intermediary.
I know in the case of prostate cancers, there are fast-growing tumors and there are slow-growing tumors. My father-in-law was diagnosed with a slow-growing tumor in his mid-70s and his doctor advised him to basically live with it, because something else would kill him first, and six or seven years later he died after a stroke.
Yes, all those climatologists are super-rich, taking on poor little oil companies.
Do you know what a fucking moron you sound like?
Wilson's chief failure was in being unable to convince Congress to deliver what he promised to the other Great Powers. And FDR certainly did more to help the American people at a time of great hardship than his predecessor did, and did a helluva lot to save the world to. I'll take the word of a man like Churchill on his assessment of FDR than some GOP asswipe.
Anything so long as you don't have to change your behavior.
They can't afford to be. The War on Drugs employs too many cops and gives too many excuses for projection of force into foreign lands (who also are the beneficaries of War on Drugs' largess). Having the Gong Sh... er the Republican candidates, making rude noises at you is acceptable, but have very cop in the land shouting for your head, well, no candidate can bear the thought of that.
That's largely what Obama is counting on, that whoever gets the Republican nod will be so damaged and/or tied up with the Tea Party that the only sensible alternative is Obama. It's cynical and brilliant, "vote for me, at least you know what kind fucking bastard I am."
Did you really pay your own way? What I mean by that is that if you had, say, been born in Somalia, would you have been able to accomplish the same?
Despite what you may think, a helluva lot of other people contributed to where you got. You actually didn't do it on your own at all.
Well, that's the real problem. Higher education is basically a business concept that amounts to using students to gain access to the vast tub of money available for student loans.
Ron Paul talks about lots of things. There are few things he talks about for which he makes much sense, or shows any capacity to understand the issues. In fact, I'd say the only thing that is a bigger waste of time than listening to Ron Paul prattle on about and invoke his sociopathic ideology is his mentally deficient supporters who actually seem to believe this guy has a fucking clue about fucking anything.
Societies are supposed to take care of those less capable of doing so. Even in Medieval times rulers gave the Church land and from that land incomes that, in part, the Church used to fund hospitals and charity.
I do love how Libertarians just sort of invoke these things out of thin air. They really do believe in some sort of natural law of sociopathy.
People have paid taxes since the beginning of civilization. Get over you selfish leacher.
I don't hate your freedom of speech, you vicious vile repugnant soulless coward, I hate your speech. I really do hope your death is horrific by the standards of any culture in our species' history, and as you linger in mind-destroying agony, the only human being that comforts you as you beg for your life to end is black.
"Kind" has no biological meaning at all. What is a "fish" kind? Is a shark a "fish" kind?
Evolution, simply put, is change in the genetic makeup of a population over time.
And as to your infantile attack on abiogenesis, well, that, I suppose is just thrown in there for good measure.
What exactly doesn't complexity have to do with this? And fitness is a measure within an environment. The environment in this case are these bodies of water with high levels of PCBs. Your post is so fucking muddled, as typical of Creationist bullshit, that you can't even keep the point straight. What does "weakness" have to do with complexity? What is complexity in this situation?
Hopefully you never evolve any immunity to a number of horrible infectious diseases.
Well this Slashdotter thinks it's damn cool and is planning on picking up a couple of them and maybe a third to give a try at work to test out to see if it could replace our aging public-use computers (we have about 20 such computers, all early to mid-2000s Dells). For years I was running a Pentium III with 256mb of RAM and using OpenOffice, Firefox and mplayer without a hitch. This wee beastie has to be faster than that machine. My thoughts were to retire the Dells, toss these fellers in, which gives our clients basic surfing and document editing, which is all they need. If a Samba client can run on them, so much the better, and then I can use a central document repository.
And at home, well, I've got a few spare USB WiFi adapters, and will get a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and plug the damned thing into my TV for general surfing and the like.
Look, mate, you could be detained for spreading a rumor like that.
I have a hard time sorting out how I was modded a troll. I can see Overrated, certainly, but troll? Just what kind of simpering fucktards are getting mod points these days?
If you create minimalistic governments, then power is simply there to be taken. There is a balance of interests that must be maintained. Simply cutting down the government to nothing would not solve the problem.