Basement dweller? Several corporations support Linux. I never tried their support so I can't say anything about. However, if Sun can outdo Linux, so be it. Same otherwise. I prefer choice in software but hey, it's captialism at work and may the best product and business model win.
All they have to do is adopt some token moral issues (abortion, gay marriage) and they've instantly got all the Bible thumpers voting for them, despite their other dispicable behavior (war mongering, etc.).
Not all that go along with those issues are Bible thumpers. However, assuming you're right, Bush et al would ignore any demands they'll make of them. Considering Bush doesn't need to run for re-election he may just ignore them.
Look at "Freedom of Religon",speech codes,hostile work enviorment,sexism,racism.diversity,cultural sensitivity and the like.
Diversity and cultural sensitivity are bad? Hell, war wil solve that problem. It's being educated in things that create it. Living in a state with others that are cultural clones of yourself makes for ignorance of the outside world.
Most people-especially the "educated classes" do not understand or believe in the First Amendment.
Without the 1st admendment, we wouldn't have universities thus no educated people. Imagine no physicians.
Why are red staters so angry at colleges they never attended?
Darwinism is a theory. Science is meant to be objective is it not? Should we look at all relevant theories on a subject or should we just scoff at those that don't fit our agenda? Intelligent design is another theory
ID isn't a theory as in it doesn't have a chance in being proven wrong. It's merely religious/philosophical concept. God may or may not exist but it can't be proven with external, non-personal data, so either way so the basic idea of ID is invalid. Evolution can be proven wrong but the evidence points to it. The methods of evolution are better understood but like everything in science, there is anyways uncertainty. Science based on faith and not on external evidence is bunk.
Secularism teaches that there should be no religion taught anywhere. There should be no reference to God in the public life. Honestly, it takes more faith to believe that there is no God, than to believe that there is a God.
Actually, securlarists tend to think that religion should be personal and all religious faiths are equal. What you are pointing out is the mythical persecution fundamentalists like to yell. Despite the fact they can pray, read the Bible, attend church, and even get federal hand-outs for charity work. That isn't persecution. If by persecution you mean people disagree with you, join the club. America is buildt on disagreements.
took an oath of military service to defend and protect my constitution I, for one, thank you.
What exactly have you done besides bitching on Slashdot? Not much. I vote, email/write my Congressmen and Senators for what little good it does, I visited the local Democratic HQ for info on Kerry (he sucked), and may run for represenative in Congress so I can voice the view that offshoring doesn't help most people and all religions need equal treatment and respect (I'm a Buddhist). I'ma slacker.
Conservatives complaining about "liberal bias" again. Doesn't that get old? Why not take personal responsiblity and face the mistakes conservatives have done. Liberals can do it so why can't conservatives? I doubt it. COnservatives love to hide behind corporations when they do anything unethical or illegal.
Revisionist history is telling kids that America was founded by fundies so god can bless them as they force other nations into being Christian or face death from nuclear weapons.
Disclaimer: I'm a Christian, but a liberal (*gasp*) one. (I apologize for our current president who claims to be Christian but doesn't follow most of Jesus' teachings.)
You're a Christian and I'm a Buddhist. By literal you mean you take the Bible literally? Don't apologize for Bush. You're not responsible for his actions. He may say he is a Christian but he does have a business degree....
grouping people like that makes you look less intelligent Too true.
Honestly, who is going to vote for a candidate who comes off as very elitst when all of his supporters act incredibly elitist I never understod this elitist attitude and never encountered it from liberals except APA which is more elitist than any liberal conservatives can point out. I just never seen it and I'm a liberal with liberal friends.
Republicans are bible thumping rednecks Not all are but with Evangicals taking over the Republician party, it does give that impression. Then again, why ignore the Democrat Bible thumpers? I'm surrounded by them.
NASCAR, SCCA, et al aren't true sports as they are competition of skill (driving) and technology (cars). Racers need high cognitive ability to calculate their turns based on their speed and accurately predict how the next car, mere inches or less, next to them may behave. The engineers and tchnicians have to maintain a car that can out perform most if not all sports cars on the market (think F1) and have it perform each and every time then quickly fix it if anything goes wrong. It's all skill, baby.
I am not a NASCAR fan but that is what I get from it as many in my family are huge fans of it.
2nd Admendment anyone? No one can ban guns. Gun control is legal, yet stupid and doesn't work, but Democrats aren't the ones sending jobs to other nations so corporations can get tax breaks. Republicians are comunists but only for corporations.
Neocons is everyone's fault for taking Christ out of Christmas, preventing fundies from forcing kids to pray to their god, stopping them from teaching creationism (intelligent design) in science classes, and forcing non-fundies to convert under threat of death or harm.
I blame Bush and Neocons. Also, Halliburton... I blame them for everything that is wrong everywhere. If only Redstaters were such dumb walmart shopping, nascar watching dummies.
Truely creative. You're a poet, no? Why is it that bluestaters make the rest of us look bad? Same can be said for redstaters. Why must we turn against each other? Let's live and let live and try to solve our problems.
The role of public schools isn't to produce free thinkers and speakers. It is to get the masses to submit to the government.
You're forgetting that they have to submit to captialists who need uneducated folks to agree with them that sending jobs overseas will make them more money then lay them off. Captialism works best with an uneducated population.
Here, here! Our educational system is a joke. It puts too much focus on sports. Teachers complain about pay yet they don't want to work for it. No one teaches the essentials, just enough for a fatory job at best. Hardly any college prep unless they went to private school or have wealthy parents. Our nation will suffer from it. Look at our last election.
It was an attempt to short-circuit political and academic debate in favour of a single point of view, sometimes through repressive means.
More "liberal bias" Fox News keeps yelling. I hve noticed that conservatives tend to arm wave a lot while liberlas use big words. Makes me wonder what our gov has degenrated to?
Bush is backed by Evangical Christians who believe that creating "kingdom of god" on Earth would cause Jesus to return. In other words, a Christian theocracy with literal interpritation of the Bible would require non-Christians to convert or die for stopping Jesus from returning. That is why he gets support and they took over the Republician party.
I doubt it. Rest of the world is mostly captialist so a communist nation would have to isolate itself from international trade just to maintain a pure communist economy. That and communism would require us to remove private property which none of us will do. Afterall, we worked hard for our Playboy collections.
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Basement dweller? Several corporations support Linux. I never tried their support so I can't say anything about. However, if Sun can outdo Linux, so be it. Same otherwise. I prefer choice in software but hey, it's captialism at work and may the best product and business model win.
I'm a human, not a bird.
Neither can "moral values" and Republician.
Not all that go along with those issues are Bible thumpers. However, assuming you're right, Bush et al would ignore any demands they'll make of them. Considering Bush doesn't need to run for re-election he may just ignore them.
My bad. Have pity, I have a psych degree.
Giving up attachment to worldly careers means not to base my identity on my job.
Diversity and cultural sensitivity are bad? Hell, war wil solve that problem. It's being educated in things that create it. Living in a state with others that are cultural clones of yourself makes for ignorance of the outside world. Most people-especially the "educated classes" do not understand or believe in the First Amendment.
Without the 1st admendment, we wouldn't have universities thus no educated people. Imagine no physicians.
Why are red staters so angry at colleges they never attended?
You have posted this sevaral times. Please stop repeating yourself. You sound like the Bush administration.
ID isn't a theory as in it doesn't have a chance in being proven wrong. It's merely religious/philosophical concept. God may or may not exist but it can't be proven with external, non-personal data, so either way so the basic idea of ID is invalid. Evolution can be proven wrong but the evidence points to it. The methods of evolution are better understood but like everything in science, there is anyways uncertainty. Science based on faith and not on external evidence is bunk.
Secularism teaches that there should be no religion taught anywhere. There should be no reference to God in the public life. Honestly, it takes more faith to believe that there is no God, than to believe that there is a God.
Actually, securlarists tend to think that religion should be personal and all religious faiths are equal. What you are pointing out is the mythical persecution fundamentalists like to yell. Despite the fact they can pray, read the Bible, attend church, and even get federal hand-outs for charity work. That isn't persecution. If by persecution you mean people disagree with you, join the club. America is buildt on disagreements.
What exactly have you done besides bitching on Slashdot? Not much. I vote, email/write my Congressmen and Senators for what little good it does, I visited the local Democratic HQ for info on Kerry (he sucked), and may run for represenative in Congress so I can voice the view that offshoring doesn't help most people and all religions need equal treatment and respect (I'm a Buddhist). I'ma slacker.
Conservatives complaining about "liberal bias" again. Doesn't that get old? Why not take personal responsiblity and face the mistakes conservatives have done. Liberals can do it so why can't conservatives? I doubt it. COnservatives love to hide behind corporations when they do anything unethical or illegal.
Revisionist history is telling kids that America was founded by fundies so god can bless them as they force other nations into being Christian or face death from nuclear weapons.
You're a Christian and I'm a Buddhist. By literal you mean you take the Bible literally? Don't apologize for Bush. You're not responsible for his actions. He may say he is a Christian but he does have a business degree....
Just what we need, more worthless law suits. Too bad lawyers run our nation, if they didn't we wouldn't sue each other over anything and everything.
Honestly, who is going to vote for a candidate who comes off as very elitst when all of his supporters act incredibly elitist I never understod this elitist attitude and never encountered it from liberals except APA which is more elitist than any liberal conservatives can point out. I just never seen it and I'm a liberal with liberal friends.
Republicans are bible thumping rednecks Not all are but with Evangicals taking over the Republician party, it does give that impression. Then again, why ignore the Democrat Bible thumpers? I'm surrounded by them.
NASCAR, SCCA, et al aren't true sports as they are competition of skill (driving) and technology (cars). Racers need high cognitive ability to calculate their turns based on their speed and accurately predict how the next car, mere inches or less, next to them may behave. The engineers and tchnicians have to maintain a car that can out perform most if not all sports cars on the market (think F1) and have it perform each and every time then quickly fix it if anything goes wrong. It's all skill, baby.
I am not a NASCAR fan but that is what I get from it as many in my family are huge fans of it.
2nd Admendment anyone? No one can ban guns. Gun control is legal, yet stupid and doesn't work, but Democrats aren't the ones sending jobs to other nations so corporations can get tax breaks. Republicians are comunists but only for corporations.
Neocons is everyone's fault for taking Christ out of Christmas, preventing fundies from forcing kids to pray to their god, stopping them from teaching creationism (intelligent design) in science classes, and forcing non-fundies to convert under threat of death or harm.
Truely creative. You're a poet, no? Why is it that bluestaters make the rest of us look bad? Same can be said for redstaters. Why must we turn against each other? Let's live and let live and try to solve our problems.
You're forgetting that they have to submit to captialists who need uneducated folks to agree with them that sending jobs overseas will make them more money then lay them off. Captialism works best with an uneducated population.
Here, here! Our educational system is a joke. It puts too much focus on sports. Teachers complain about pay yet they don't want to work for it. No one teaches the essentials, just enough for a fatory job at best. Hardly any college prep unless they went to private school or have wealthy parents. Our nation will suffer from it. Look at our last election.
More "liberal bias" Fox News keeps yelling. I hve noticed that conservatives tend to arm wave a lot while liberlas use big words. Makes me wonder what our gov has degenrated to?
Bush is backed by Evangical Christians who believe that creating "kingdom of god" on Earth would cause Jesus to return. In other words, a Christian theocracy with literal interpritation of the Bible would require non-Christians to convert or die for stopping Jesus from returning. That is why he gets support and they took over the Republician party.
I doubt it. Rest of the world is mostly captialist so a communist nation would have to isolate itself from international trade just to maintain a pure communist economy. That and communism would require us to remove private property which none of us will do. Afterall, we worked hard for our Playboy collections.
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