You don't have to "pay" for tax cuts, any more than anyone has to "pay" for it because a mugger decides not to steal your wallet.
The tax cuts are not the issue. The issue is huge increases in spending. Coupling this with tax cuts only makes the situation worse, but it isn't the initial problem.
Reagan and Bush (and I'm sure others) have both cut taxes, though no one has done it as drastically as Reagan did, IIRC...
Actually, they both drastically raised taxes. They just deferred it a few years down the road. That's what enormous deficits are. It's like when you go out and buy a bunch of crap on your credit card thinking you're getting something for nothing. We'll pay for it sooner or later (or our children will) but with the interest as well.
"The crimes Happened while he was running Halliburton as I said, dipshit."
Try an actual news source sometime, not a wing-nut opinion site. Next...
It's an ongoing criminal matter dipshit. The source is irrelevant when it's a matter of public record.
No WMDs? Then what did he use against the Kurds? Oh. I get it. He didn't use WMDs. He sprayed Cheez-Whiz in their faces.
He used US supplied gas for this. It was well over a decade ago. We're talking about the present. Where are they? That's right, nowhere.
Nukes? There were not supposed to be any. But Saddam was a major terrorist leader who was attempting to make them. Yet. Thankfully, his nuclear war program is now nipped in the bud.
Bullshit. Had you been paying attention you would know that the evidence for this was falsified. This information coming to light is what caused Bush to treasonously out a CIA operative. Typical neocon technique, ignore ugly facts and attack a straw man like:
Ask John Kerry about this one. He is the one who has voted repeatedly to gut intellegence-gathering, and to rarely ever bless his own intelligence committee with his presense.
First off, it's a lie. Second it's irrelevant to actual treason commited by the Bush administration.
"Right, you probably think that it's a centrist viewpoint that dirty pictures"
Who mentioned dirty pictures?
John ashcroft did when he made it his number one priority dropping terrorism to number 8 I believe. Had they not gutted the terrorism investigations, in order to go after dirty pictures, we probably would have caught those bastards.
No. I only believe what is true. Unlike you, I don't give in to lies screamed by wing-nuts.
Oh good lord, the ever present Orwellisms of the neocons. WMDs, nuke programs, al Queda ties only exist in the screamings of wing nuts. Not in the real world. So you've made absolutely clear that that is exactly what you believe.
The rest of your deluded rant has nothing to do with me or my beliefs, so I'll assume you're just repeating more screaming wingnut lies that you neither understand, nor know how to put into a proper context.
Seriously, that bullshit Orwellian doublethink crap only works on idiots, so save it.
I live in Utah, and it's been one of the coldest summers on record. In fact, Salt Lake City hasn't hit 100 degrees F this summer.... Strange coincidence?
I dunno, but the same story in Chicago. Damn global cooling.
This is a perfect example of how you are making up stuff since there are no actual crimes to mention. Cheney QUIT Halliburton long before it went into Iraq.
The crimes Happened while he was running Halliburton as I said, dipshit. Now, maybe you're stupid enough to believe that he doesn't still own huge amounts of stock and isn't still friends with the people currently defrauding the American people. but I'm not.
As for your 2nd lie, the retaliation against Saddam Hussein was started for 100% true reasons, not "pretenses".
Right, like the WMDs, the nukes, the 45 minutes to blow us up, the al Queda ties. What a sorry deluded person you are.
Since Bush's only crime is not being a left-wing extremist, I corrected your wording.
Right, so outing a CIA operative and destroying intelligence networks is ok since the facts her husband presented weren't in line with the fantasy story Bush was spewing. Do you really not see that fucking our intelligence gathering capabilities is bad? Right, you probably think that it's a centrist viewpoint that dirty pictures are worse than fucking terrorists blowing our shit up.
If you actually believe this shit that has been proven absolutely to be false, then wherever you're getting your information from is clearly way the fuck out there.
I can't believe that you are trying to spin holding this truth to be self-evident that all people are created equal, that believing people should take responsibility for their actions, and that criminal organizations should be punished are way left fringe ideas.
At any rate, he's more or less one of the "ignorant hatemongerer(ererer)s" you refer to, a conservative libertarian talk show host on AM radio. In a nutshell, imagine if Rush was against the War on Drugs and in favor of gay marriage.
Given that those are among the most ignorant and hate-mongering stances one can take (Rush's, not your guy's) I'm probably not referring to him as much as you think. Granted I haven't heard him, and while I disagree with some Libertarian policies, at least they seem to be decent people to live around. They aren't peeking in your bedroom window jerking off while calling the cops on you, or whatever the hell those immoral minority type wackos do. They'd probably take you out with a shotgun if they caught you doing that, but then so would I;-)
Damn moron. Fox news themselves have admitted many times that they are totally slanted in favor of the Bush administration. They followed that up by saying, "So what".
You measure from an extremist viewpoint. If there were any centrist news organizations, then Bush would have been hounded out of office for his crimes long ago. Did you notice how they treated a blowjob as actual news and a big deal, but they have largely ignored the various crimes, lies, and fraud committed by the members of the Bush administration?
Explain to me again how a blowjob is more important than a war that has killed a lot of people which we now know for a fact was started on false pretenses? More important than the fact that the VP was committing fraud on a massive scale when he ran a company that is making billions off of this war by not feeding our fucking soldiers properly?
People like you are so far out of touch with reality it's insane.
You're handily forgetting that the actual build quality of American cars also sucked ass, and that was directly attributable to the unions.
No, that was an intentional part of the design. That is called "Planned Obsolescence". That came straight down from the top.
anyone to the right of Trotsky is a "dangerous corporate reactionary"
Uh huh. So the auto execs deciding that they will fleece the American public by selling them intentionally shoddy products and then marketing it as patriotic to "Buy American" while they are betraying the American people is A OK in your book?
Christ, you are way to the right of Reverend Moon, Dude.
However, I'd like to point out that the rise to power of Japanese automobile manufacturers is a perfect example of what happens when American companies try to "play ball" with the unions.
Don't try to blame the rise of the Japanese Automakers on the unions. The primary reason is that the Japanese thought for the long term and the American auto makers thought for the short term. Ever heard the term "planned obsolescence"? American cars were absolute shit for a number of years *by design*. Their thought was that if the car broke down sooner then the customer would have to buy a new one sooner. Obviously, they would buy a new American car because the Japanese cars were crap. Well, lo and behold the Japanese cars were no longer the peices of crap that they once were.
That is why there was a crisis in the US auto industry, and that is why the Japanese auto industry rose.
This short term thinking is rampant in this country and it is almost universally negative for the country. It does make a few people very rich in the short term. At the expense of everybody else and with no long term benefit to anybody.
What on the neo-conservative agenda strikes you as homophobic? or racist?
The NeoCon agenda doesn't care about these things as such, but they are well schooled in using what works to get their anti American anti Freedom aganda pushed through. Historically, hatred has always been used to good effect to push a populace in a direction they would not normally go.
In America, sadly, there are a lot of people who hate people who are not like them far more than they love freedom. Take the current gay marriage controversy. The fact that this is even an issue proves my point. You have a large number of people who are so far out there that this is one of the major issues which they are using as a basis to decide who to vote for. Consider that passing an amendment to restrict freedom like that is as anti everything this country claims to stand for as it is possible to be and you have these people disgracing our flag by wearing it and claming that they love this country.
The neocons also claim loudly to be Christian, yet nothing on their agenda is even remotely consistent with Christianity. Hating gay people because god made them that way is about as unChristian as it is possible to get, yet the vast majority of people pushing this hate based legislation claim to be Christian.
Nothing else on the NeoCon agenda is consistent with Christian values either. Starting wars for profit, lying to make up an excuse to go murder people and take their stuff? This isn't even consistent with being a decent human being let alone a Christian. Yet as history and the current suituation show all too clearly, many people like their hatreds far more than they do their freedom. Because freedom takes the courage and strength to say, "I don't agree with how you live your life, but It's yours to live". The ignorant hate-mongering slime who support hate-based legislation like this are too cowardly to do this.
So that is why homophobia and racism are among the core planks of the NeoCon platform. Because they work.
So? Let me repeat: *I* never advocated any specific creation story. Specifically, *I* did not advocate the Judeo-Christian version.
Nor did I say that you did. I was merely explaining what the topic was since you didn't seem to understand that the words you were using and responding to have a very specific meaning in common usage.
Creationism isn't the idea that some thing or other created the universe. Uhhh, it's not? That's news to me.
That's what I thought. That was my whole point in bringing it up. Lot's of cultures have creation myths, but "Creationism" is a specific belief system which takes the Judeo Christian creation myth to extremes. They even attempt to act like they are doing science.
"How it all began" isn't an issue for science.
Oh? Tell that to all the scientists that are researching the topic.
They research it, but nobody that I am aware is doing any serious research into what happened before the big bang because all of the laws of physics break down at that point. Assuming the big bang is where it started, then there is no possible way to determine what went on before. My point was that whether or not there was a god that kicked it off doesn't matter to the pursuit of understanding how it's worked since that instant.
(sorry but I'm not sure if Mozilla has this) such as XML HTTP Posting to create a desktop like environment on the web with server calls behind the scenes to collect/store data.
I've been using Mozilla for this for over 2 years. Below is an example I did 2 years ago (or rather copied from some O'Reilly network article and modified.)
function callSearch(method,params,callback){
try {
netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege ("UniversalBrowserRead");
} catch (e) {
alert(e);
return false;
}
var soapCall = new SOAPCall();
soapCall.transportURI = "http://pc353/cgi-bin/ender/repgen/RepGenSoapDispa tcher.pl";
soapCall.encode(0, method, "RepGen", 0, null, params.length, params);
soapCall.asyncInvoke(
function (response, soapcall, error)
{
var r = handleSOAPResponse(response,soapcall,error); &nbs p; callback(r);
}
);
}
You would then call it like this:
function doSearch()
{
var query = document.forms[0].elements["queryTerms"].value;
var p = new Array();
p[0] = new SOAPParameter(query,"q");
callSearch("nameSearch",p,showResults);
}
Assuming you have a SOAP server listening at the indicated URI dispatching to the indicated method, you will get a SOAP response as a parameter to the function showResults. Neat.
I never advocated any specific creation story. Specifically, I did not advocate the Judeo-Christian version.
Ahh.. but the thread started on that particular topic, since that is what they are trying to teach in Kansas. Creationism isn't the idea that some thing or other created the universe. That is totally orthogonal to the theory of evolution. Those 2 things would never be seen in the same class. One is science, and the other is philosophy, metaphysics, or whatever else you want to call it.
When people bring up Creation versus Evolution, they are talking about something completely different. Specifically they are referring to so caled "Creation Science" which is a complete load of crap. It specifically believes that the earth is ~ 7000 years old and that everything was created exactly as it is now. They then propose these insane theories to try and reconcile their delusions with actual observation. Their usual technique is to argue against something totally different than the scientists are asserting. Another trait most of them seem to share is to continue making arguments which have been debunked long ago.
"How it all began" isn't an issue for science. At least to this point, scientific knowledge only goes so far back. Before that (if there is any such thing) science can't make any predictons since all the rules break down.
There are legitimate evolutionary scientists who believe god created the universe. They just don't believe the "Creationist" line which is complete crap.
Liberalism is not what this country was founded on.
Certainly it is. "We hold these truths to be self evident : That all men are created equal" You can't get more Liberal that that. Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, these are the definitive Liberal Policies.
Don't try to spin your liberal rag of a paper's statisticless chart to me.
Try the US department of labor, dipshit.
I spent four years working for the institution that has produced and had on faculty more Nobel Prize winners in Economics than any other on the planet. In that time I learned that nearly all the great Economic minds come to one conclusion: The economic policies espoused by the American Liberal only produce a race to the bottom.
Yeah, right. Sure you did, and sure they so concluded. What a load of crap.
Your understanding of Liberal economic policy is deluded at best if you think what you said was even sane, let alone correct. Let me guess, you think if somebody falls on hard times for any reason whatsoever, they should be left to starve? If not, then you have a liberal belief. If so, then you are the one espousing a race to the bottom.
I have no doubt Bush will win. However, I think it'd be funny to see Kerry win and screw things up even worse...resulting in all the liberals having to eat their words (oh, right, they never do...it's always the Republicans fault somehow).
If this was a likely outcome, then why is it that for at least the last 50 years, the economy has *always* been better under Democratic presidents? The stock market does better. Job growth has always been better. The gap between the rich and the poor has shrunk due to everyone doing better. Contrast this to the situation under Republicans where the rich get richer at the expense of the poor and the middle class shrinks due to them becoming poorer.
The simple fact is that given this track record it is the fault of the Republicans that the Republicans' policies never work as well as the Democrats' policies. Were it a one off thing, it would be debatable, but it is absolutely consistent.
Trickle Down/Voodoo/Supply side economics is an absolutely failed theory that only a few crank economists ever believed in in the first place. It just so happened that they tend to benefit the already rich at the expense of everybody else.
Those are the facts.
The only people fighting for Bush are freedom hating traitors. How would it be possible for anybody else to support him? His policies of deceit and fascism (Yes, fascism. Look it up, that is what he whole heartedly supports. Enron writing our energy policy? That is a canonical example of fascism at work.) are ruining our economy, our reputation and our country.
So, no, we won't have to eat our words, because liberal policies are what created America, they are the basis of what this country stands for and they have consistently proven to be a good way to grow an economy.
Sin is inherent to every human being created by God. If you did not sin (hence be perfect) then you would be equal to God.
That's pretty far out. So If I had never broken one of the ten commandments then I'd be able to create new planets and stuff out of nothingness? Wow.
I fail to see how the lack of sin (for whatever specific definition of that you use which is different from everybody else's) is supposed to grant super powers.
Where does it even say that in the bible (or any of the other writings that could well have been part of the bible save for the choices of the human editors)?
So what test does Americans have to pass to get a Marriage license?
Blood.
Nope.
You need ID. That's it. YMMV depending on the jurisdiction, but as an American, you can go anywhere in America to get your license and get married.
When I got married (in Vegas) we flew in, went to the courthouse got a license (took about 5-10 minutes), went to the hotel got ready ( I had time to spare (obviously) so my friends took me to a strip club) then I left from there to the Chapel, where we got hitched.
No test of any sort blood or otherwise. She is even a UK citizen.
I'll explain: if your app uses triggers to insert to another table once a row is updated, why can't you code all of that into your SPs as well?
I'm sure that there are at least a few different reasons, but let's address the obvious:
Update a row. (through any of the craploads of methods possible which isn't a stored procedure).
Oh holy crap. Nothing triggered and it wasn't taken into account that something ( Anything at all.) happened in one row of one table which required something (Anything at all, remember we are talking about anything at all that could ever happen at any company in any industry) to update somewhere else.
Oops, it didn't happen. 6 months down the road during an audit it turns out that you have lost the integrity of your database. Doh! Well, if you can polish a turd you can polish a resume
We are, of course, talking about the real world where you don't actually have to know SQL (or anything about DBAing) to interact with a database.
Oh, but we saved an hour over that 6 months ( divided by the, say, 30 employees ) Neat.
Sounds like you've been exposed to quite a bit of violence on television. The surgeon general recommends you begin reading books.
I rarely watch TV and I do read a lot. It's sad when somebody is as dumb as the OP, but when they have the audacity to have children and not have the basic respect and decency to take some responsibility for them, then that is about as evil as you can get IMHO
Damn near every network - including allegedly liberal networks like CNN
CNN or any other network is only alleged to have even a hint of a liberal bias by extremist right wing wackos like Rush, Hannity, and other evil hate mongering bastards.
Anybody with a scrap of sense knows that they are all sucking up to the government.
Sadly, they suck up far more to the Neo cons because they make no bones about the fact that they want the news sanitized and they will punish the fuck out of whoever doesn't do it.
As to the rest of your comment: Absofuckinglutely.
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You don't have to "pay" for tax cuts, any more than anyone has to "pay" for it because a mugger decides not to steal your wallet.
The tax cuts are not the issue.
The issue is huge increases in spending. Coupling this with tax cuts only makes the situation worse, but it isn't the initial problem.
Reagan and Bush (and I'm sure others) have both cut taxes, though no one has done it as drastically as Reagan did, IIRC...
Actually, they both drastically raised taxes. They just deferred it a few years down the road.
That's what enormous deficits are.
It's like when you go out and buy a bunch of crap on your credit card thinking you're getting something for nothing.
We'll pay for it sooner or later (or our children will) but with the interest as well.
"The crimes Happened while he was running Halliburton as I said, dipshit."
Try an actual news source sometime, not a wing-nut opinion site. Next...
It's an ongoing criminal matter dipshit. The source is irrelevant when it's a matter of public record.
No WMDs? Then what did he use against the Kurds? Oh. I get it. He didn't use WMDs. He sprayed Cheez-Whiz in their faces.
He used US supplied gas for this. It was well over a decade ago. We're talking about the present. Where are they? That's right, nowhere.
Nukes? There were not supposed to be any. But Saddam was a major terrorist leader who was attempting to make them. Yet. Thankfully, his nuclear war program is now nipped in the bud.
Bullshit.
Had you been paying attention you would know that the evidence for this was falsified. This information coming to light is what caused Bush to treasonously out a CIA operative. Typical neocon technique, ignore ugly facts and attack a straw man like:
Ask John Kerry about this one. He is the one who has voted repeatedly to gut intellegence-gathering, and to rarely ever bless his own intelligence committee with his presense.
First off, it's a lie.
Second it's irrelevant to actual treason commited by the Bush administration.
"Right, you probably think that it's a centrist viewpoint that dirty pictures"
Who mentioned dirty pictures?
John ashcroft did when he made it his number one priority dropping terrorism to number 8 I believe.
Had they not gutted the terrorism investigations, in order to go after dirty pictures, we probably would have caught those bastards.
No. I only believe what is true. Unlike you, I don't give in to lies screamed by wing-nuts.
Oh good lord, the ever present Orwellisms of the neocons.
WMDs, nuke programs, al Queda ties only exist in the screamings of wing nuts. Not in the real world. So you've made absolutely clear that that is exactly what you believe.
The rest of your deluded rant has nothing to do with me or my beliefs, so I'll assume you're just repeating more screaming wingnut lies that you neither understand, nor know how to put into a proper context.
Seriously, that bullshit Orwellian doublethink crap only works on idiots, so save it.
I live in Utah, and it's been one of the coldest summers on record. In fact, Salt Lake City hasn't hit 100 degrees F this summer.... Strange coincidence?
I dunno, but the same story in Chicago.
Damn global cooling.
This is a perfect example of how you are making up stuff since there are no actual crimes to mention. Cheney QUIT Halliburton long before it went into Iraq.
The crimes Happened while he was running Halliburton as I said, dipshit.
Now, maybe you're stupid enough to believe that he doesn't still own huge amounts of stock and isn't still friends with the people currently defrauding the American people. but I'm not.
As for your 2nd lie, the retaliation against Saddam Hussein was started for 100% true reasons, not "pretenses".
Right, like the WMDs, the nukes, the 45 minutes to blow us up, the al Queda ties.
What a sorry deluded person you are.
Since Bush's only crime is not being a left-wing extremist, I corrected your wording.
Right, so outing a CIA operative and destroying intelligence networks is ok since the facts her husband presented weren't in line with the fantasy story Bush was spewing. Do you really not see that fucking our intelligence gathering capabilities is bad?
Right, you probably think that it's a centrist viewpoint that dirty pictures are worse than fucking terrorists blowing our shit up.
If you actually believe this shit that has been proven absolutely to be false, then wherever you're getting your information from is clearly way the fuck out there.
I can't believe that you are trying to spin holding this truth to be self-evident that all people are created equal, that believing people should take responsibility for their actions, and that criminal organizations should be punished are way left fringe ideas.
What sort of hell would your ideal world be?
At any rate, he's more or less one of the "ignorant hatemongerer(ererer)s" you refer to, a conservative libertarian talk show host on AM radio. In a nutshell, imagine if Rush was against the War on Drugs and in favor of gay marriage.
;-)
Given that those are among the most ignorant and hate-mongering stances one can take (Rush's, not your guy's) I'm probably not referring to him as much as you think.
Granted I haven't heard him, and while I disagree with some Libertarian policies, at least they seem to be decent people to live around. They aren't peeking in your bedroom window jerking off while calling the cops on you, or whatever the hell those immoral minority type wackos do.
They'd probably take you out with a shotgun if they caught you doing that, but then so would I
Anyhow, thanks for the info.
Fox News is centrist.
Damn moron.
Fox news themselves have admitted many times that they are totally slanted in favor of the Bush administration. They followed that up by saying, "So what".
You measure from an extremist viewpoint.
If there were any centrist news organizations, then Bush would have been hounded out of office for his crimes long ago. Did you notice how they treated a blowjob as actual news and a big deal, but they have largely ignored the various crimes, lies, and fraud committed by the members of the Bush administration?
Explain to me again how a blowjob is more important than a war that has killed a lot of people which we now know for a fact was started on false pretenses? More important than the fact that the VP was committing fraud on a massive scale when he ran a company that is making billions off of this war by not feeding our fucking soldiers properly?
People like you are so far out of touch with reality it's insane.
I listen to Neal Boortz........a famous talk show host
I'm sure I'm not alone when i say, Who?
You're handily forgetting that the actual build quality of American cars also sucked ass, and that was directly attributable to the unions.
No, that was an intentional part of the design. That is called "Planned Obsolescence". That came straight down from the top.
anyone to the right of Trotsky is a "dangerous corporate reactionary"
Uh huh. So the auto execs deciding that they will fleece the American public by selling them intentionally shoddy products and then marketing it as patriotic to "Buy American" while they are betraying the American people is A OK in your book?
Christ, you are way to the right of Reverend Moon, Dude.
However, I'd like to point out that the rise to power of Japanese automobile manufacturers is a perfect example of what happens when American companies try to "play ball" with the unions.
Don't try to blame the rise of the Japanese Automakers on the unions.
The primary reason is that the Japanese thought for the long term and the American auto makers thought for the short term.
Ever heard the term "planned obsolescence"?
American cars were absolute shit for a number of years *by design*. Their thought was that if the car broke down sooner then the customer would have to buy a new one sooner. Obviously, they would buy a new American car because the Japanese cars were crap.
Well, lo and behold the Japanese cars were no longer the peices of crap that they once were.
That is why there was a crisis in the US auto industry, and that is why the Japanese auto industry rose.
This short term thinking is rampant in this country and it is almost universally negative for the country. It does make a few people very rich in the short term. At the expense of everybody else and with no long term benefit to anybody.
The Vic in Chicago has Brew and View when there isn't a concert on.
What on the neo-conservative agenda strikes you as homophobic? or racist?
The NeoCon agenda doesn't care about these things as such, but they are well schooled in using what works to get their anti American anti Freedom aganda pushed through.
Historically, hatred has always been used to good effect to push a populace in a direction they would not normally go.
In America, sadly, there are a lot of people who hate people who are not like them far more than they love freedom. Take the current gay marriage controversy. The fact that this is even an issue proves my point. You have a large number of people who are so far out there that this is one of the major issues which they are using as a basis to decide who to vote for.
Consider that passing an amendment to restrict freedom like that is as anti everything this country claims to stand for as it is possible to be and you have these people disgracing our flag by wearing it and claming that they love this country.
The neocons also claim loudly to be Christian, yet nothing on their agenda is even remotely consistent with Christianity.
Hating gay people because god made them that way is about as unChristian as it is possible to get, yet the vast majority of people pushing this hate based legislation claim to be Christian.
Nothing else on the NeoCon agenda is consistent with Christian values either. Starting wars for profit, lying to make up an excuse to go murder people and take their stuff? This isn't even consistent with being a decent human being let alone a Christian. Yet as history and the current suituation show all too clearly, many people like their hatreds far more than they do their freedom. Because freedom takes the courage and strength to say, "I don't agree with how you live your life, but It's yours to live".
The ignorant hate-mongering slime who support hate-based legislation like this are too cowardly to do this.
So that is why homophobia and racism are among the core planks of the NeoCon platform.
Because they work.
If you're thrown in jail for criticizing President Bush, that's censorshp. That is not what's happening here.
Actually, you clearly have your head buried in the sand. That is exactly what is happenning here.
People *are* being put in jail for criticizing Bush.
That is censorship, and it is fascism at work. Please wake up.
So? Let me repeat: *I* never advocated any specific creation story. Specifically, *I* did not advocate the Judeo-Christian version.
Nor did I say that you did. I was merely explaining what the topic was since you didn't seem to understand that the words you were using and responding to have a very specific meaning in common usage.
Creationism isn't the idea that some thing or other created the universe.
Uhhh, it's not? That's news to me.
That's what I thought. That was my whole point in bringing it up.
Lot's of cultures have creation myths, but "Creationism" is a specific belief system which takes the Judeo Christian creation myth to extremes. They even attempt to act like they are doing science.
"How it all began" isn't an issue for science.
Oh? Tell that to all the scientists that are researching the topic.
They research it, but nobody that I am aware is doing any serious research into what happened before the big bang because all of the laws of physics break down at that point.
Assuming the big bang is where it started, then there is no possible way to determine what went on before. My point was that whether or not there was a god that kicked it off doesn't matter to the pursuit of understanding how it's worked since that instant.
I've been using Mozilla for this for over 2 years.
Below is an example I did 2 years ago (or rather copied from some O'Reilly network article and modified.)You would then call it like this:Assuming you have a SOAP server listening at the indicated URI dispatching to the indicated method, you will get a SOAP response as a parameter to the function showResults.
Neat.
I never advocated any specific creation story. Specifically, I did not advocate the Judeo-Christian version.
Ahh.. but the thread started on that particular topic, since that is what they are trying to teach in Kansas. Creationism isn't the idea that some thing or other created the universe. That is totally orthogonal to the theory of evolution. Those 2 things would never be seen in the same class.
One is science, and the other is philosophy, metaphysics, or whatever else you want to call it.
When people bring up Creation versus Evolution, they are talking about something completely different. Specifically they are referring to so caled "Creation Science" which is a complete load of crap. It specifically believes that the earth is ~ 7000 years old and that everything was created exactly as it is now. They then propose these insane theories to try and reconcile their delusions with actual observation.
Their usual technique is to argue against something totally different than the scientists are asserting.
Another trait most of them seem to share is to continue making arguments which have been debunked long ago.
"How it all began" isn't an issue for science. At least to this point, scientific knowledge only goes so far back. Before that (if there is any such thing) science can't make any predictons since all the rules break down.
There are legitimate evolutionary scientists who believe god created the universe. They just don't believe the "Creationist" line which is complete crap.
Liberalism is not what this country was founded on.
Certainly it is.
"We hold these truths to be self evident : That all men are created equal"
You can't get more Liberal that that.
Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, these are the definitive Liberal Policies.
Don't try to spin your liberal rag of a paper's statisticless chart to me.
Try the US department of labor, dipshit.
I spent four years working for the institution that has produced and had on faculty more Nobel Prize winners in Economics than any other on the planet. In that time I learned that nearly all the great Economic minds come to one conclusion: The economic policies espoused by the American Liberal only produce a race to the bottom.
Yeah, right.
Sure you did, and sure they so concluded. What a load of crap.
Your understanding of Liberal economic policy is deluded at best if you think what you said was even sane, let alone correct. Let me guess, you think if somebody falls on hard times for any reason whatsoever, they should be left to starve?
If not, then you have a liberal belief. If so, then you are the one espousing a race to the bottom.
I have no doubt Bush will win. However, I think it'd be funny to see Kerry win and screw things up even worse...resulting in all the liberals having to eat their words (oh, right, they never do...it's always the Republicans fault somehow).
If this was a likely outcome, then why is it that for at least the last 50 years, the economy has *always* been better under Democratic presidents?
The stock market does better.
Job growth has always been better.
The gap between the rich and the poor has shrunk due to everyone doing better. Contrast this to the situation under Republicans where the rich get richer at the expense of the poor and the middle class shrinks due to them becoming poorer.
See the chart?
The simple fact is that given this track record it is the fault of the Republicans that the Republicans' policies never work as well as the Democrats' policies. Were it a one off thing, it would be debatable, but it is absolutely consistent.
Trickle Down/Voodoo/Supply side economics is an absolutely failed theory that only a few crank economists ever believed in in the first place. It just so happened that they tend to benefit the already rich at the expense of everybody else.
Those are the facts.
The only people fighting for Bush are freedom hating traitors. How would it be possible for anybody else to support him? His policies of deceit and fascism (Yes, fascism. Look it up, that is what he whole heartedly supports. Enron writing our energy policy? That is a canonical example of fascism at work.) are ruining our economy, our reputation and our country.
So, no, we won't have to eat our words, because liberal policies are what created America, they are the basis of what this country stands for and they have consistently proven to be a good way to grow an economy.
Sin is inherent to every human being created by God. If you did not sin (hence be perfect) then you would be equal to God.
That's pretty far out.
So If I had never broken one of the ten commandments then I'd be able to create new planets and stuff out of nothingness?
Wow.
I fail to see how the lack of sin (for whatever specific definition of that you use which is different from everybody else's) is supposed to grant super powers.
Where does it even say that in the bible (or any of the other writings that could well have been part of the bible save for the choices of the human editors)?
So what test does Americans have to pass to get a Marriage license?
Blood.
Nope.
You need ID. That's it.
YMMV depending on the jurisdiction, but as an American, you can go anywhere in America to get your license and get married.
When I got married (in Vegas) we flew in, went to the courthouse got a license (took about 5-10 minutes), went to the hotel got ready ( I had time to spare (obviously) so my friends took me to a strip club) then I left from there to the Chapel, where we got hitched.
No test of any sort blood or otherwise.
She is even a UK citizen.
"drives a Ferrari" ...
Where the hell did that come from?
It's a song called "The Ballad of Jerry Curlan" by the Angry Samoans, an old school hardcore band.
They also have such gems as "They Saved Hitler's Cock" and the like.
I'll explain: if your app uses triggers to insert to another table once a row is updated, why can't you code all of that into your SPs as well?
I'm sure that there are at least a few different reasons, but let's address the obvious:
Update a row. (through any of the craploads of methods possible which isn't a stored procedure).
Oh holy crap.
Nothing triggered and it wasn't taken into account that something ( Anything at all.) happened in one row of one table which required something (Anything at all, remember we are talking about anything at all that could ever happen at any company in any industry) to update somewhere else.
Oops, it didn't happen.
6 months down the road during an audit it turns out that you have lost the integrity of your database.
Doh!
Well, if you can polish a turd you can polish a resume
We are, of course, talking about the real world where you don't actually have to know SQL (or anything about DBAing) to interact with a database.
Oh, but we saved an hour over that 6 months ( divided by the, say, 30 employees )
Neat.
Sounds like you've been exposed to quite a bit of violence on television. The surgeon general recommends you begin reading books.
I rarely watch TV and I do read a lot.
It's sad when somebody is as dumb as the OP, but when they have the audacity to have children and not have the basic respect and decency to take some responsibility for them, then that is about as evil as you can get IMHO
Damn near every network - including allegedly liberal networks like CNN
CNN or any other network is only alleged to have even a hint of a liberal bias by extremist right wing wackos like Rush, Hannity, and other evil hate mongering bastards.
Anybody with a scrap of sense knows that they are all sucking up to the government.
Sadly, they suck up far more to the Neo cons because they make no bones about the fact that they want the news sanitized and they will punish the fuck out of whoever doesn't do it.
As to the rest of your comment:
Absofuckinglutely.
Ill-guided or not, we got Saddam. That means we win.
So if I come into your home and kill you, does that mean that I win?