This stupid ultra-liberal backlash against patriotism is pissing me off. Patriotism != blindly following Dubya and his henchmen.
Liberal?!? Dubya and his cronies are the ones trying to redefine patriotism to mean just that. Anybody with a scrap of patriotism in them is backlashing against those lying traitors as hard as possible.
Cripes how can people be so freaking confused about basic ideas and still able to find their way out of bed in the morning is beyond me.
I've heard it all now. Communist China conservative? What about the Cultural Revolution? What happened to 'no enemies on the left'?
Communism is the most extreme manifestation of loony leftism. They are your ideological cousins, and it is you leftist twits who should be ashamed of your history of making excuses for their wickedness.
Actually, it's more like a circle. The extreme right and the extreme left are essentially indistinguishable. So Chinese communism and Neocon conservatism are very much alike.
Just look at the US right now.
Freedom of information act: Gone. Right to vote for the candidate of your choice: Going fast
The only real difference is that in China, the government owns the businesses ( although they are moving away from that somewhat), so government tells business what to do. In the US businesses own the government and tell it what to do at the expense of the rights of the citizenry.
The differences are real, but the visible affects of these differences are becoming vanishingly small.
You should stop trying to redefine conservatism as anything that pampered Western liberal intellectuals don't like, and vice versa. It's dishonest and despicable.
I define it based on the actions of those leading the movement. They spew hatred, fear, and lies. Much like China. That is completely honest and morally good.
Defending traitors based on a lack of understanding of the political spectrum and your surrender to the filth these traitors spew is hardly an honest or righteous action for you to take.
Don't you dare have the audacity to call yourself a decent American if you can't even be bothered to face reality.
Now think about an upper level Chemistry book--how many people in the US are capable of writing such a book? Writing problems etc, checking facts? This is MUCH more time intensive, and labor intensive
True, but at the undergraduate level math and some science books were written a hundred years ago and the facts haven't changed in the meantime. There is no reason to have new versions released every year or two when the underlying material hasn't changed.
Some competition is nice, and certainly it is possible to write a book which teaches the material better than the existing ones, but the current situation is just ridiculous.
Anyways, evolution should be taught in every certified school as part of the biology curriculum, hard science or not.
Because... you say so? Because you have an unwavering belief that it is the Right Thing To Do?
No. Quite simply because evolution is an absolutely established fact 100% certain with no possibility of ever being proven wrong.
Don't believe it? Have you ever seen a chihuahua? A seedless watermelon? Toy poodle?
There you go.
The actual methods evolution uses and the paths it has followed are up for scientific debate, but the fact that species change over time is indisputable.
That is why it should be taught. Anything else would be betraying the children it is our duty to educate. and the society which will come to depend on them.
Infinity does not have a place on the number line (anyone who wants to say it's at the end is just going to prove their ignorance).
But you can represent the infinite numberline as the unit circle. One point is infinity (positive and negative). With some fairly sophisticated mathematics, it works out very nicely.
It's known as a compactification of the reals. Check it out.
While the former is an ornamental structure which counts in heigh, the latter is a functional structure which is disqualified. It's a foolish rule but is explained well by abde's post above...
That makes sense, I suppose. Taking this to the ridiculous, wouldn't the building itself be functional, hence exempt from measurement?
Since only ornamental features count, I declare that nothing but garden gnomes and lawn flamingos shall ever count for the tallest anything.
At some point in the past, a group of architects (I don't remember the details) agreed that the height of the entire building, including ornamental spires would be used.
If this rule was applied to the Sears tower as well, then it would still be taller than the Kuala Lumpur towers. For whatever reason, the spires are counted on those, but not on the Sears tower.
Surely some of the answers to these and other questions are available because of the Freedom of Information Act.
I think you'll find that one of Bush's first actions in office was to gut the FOIA and tell government employees to fight any requests that slipped through.
I could bind/bin/sh to a port running as root via inetd, and that would be a big problem.
What, you mean you don't do that?!? Sheesh, what if you forget your password and you're away from home where you have it written on a sticky stuck on your monitor?
Another point is that manufacturers of printers sell the hardware at a subsidised price, trying to get the real income from cartriges. BMW doesn't sell the Mini for $1000 and charges you another $1000 for every oil change (which you'd have to do four time a year)...
Why are you so sure that this isn't exactly what BMW is doing? Not $1000 certainly, but far above what another shop would do it for? Even at the same price, there are businesses making money just doing oil changes, so they would be locking in a revenue stream.
The scenario you painted above would actually work out pretty well for BMW, if the accident was shown to be caused by a faulty third party partt, then that's advertising for genuine BMW parts and service etc.
Another possible reason would be that perhaps a faulty third party part could lead to quicker failure of another system creating greater warranty repair costs.
Some woman saw me loading up my basket with generic meds, thought she'd 'warn' me they weren't safe. Nothing I said managed to puncture the shell that the Brands had erected around her.)
I wish there was anything I could do to convince myself that you were making that up, but I can't. Sad and pathetic.
Taking unemployment while not actually looking for work is fraud. The rest of society pays your bills
I have put far more into unemployment than I will ever be allowed to get out. "Society" isn't paying you unemployment. It's your money that you would have had and earned interest on if it hadn't been taxed away.
There is, however, a marked swing toward imbalance with excessive emphasis on "social welfare" that has already caused problems in energy and healthcare.
Good lord. Are you honestly unaware that the energy problems were caused by private industries like Enron, for example, who produced nothing. They merely found a loophole in the system they could exploit for their own profit at the expense of the citizenry and their own freaking employees. This happened due to the deregulation of the energy industry.
The fact that health care is a business has had almost nothing but negative effects either. What's more profitable, to pay for an expensive operation or to let the person die? Well, those decisions are made all the time by HMOs and they decide based on profit. Sometimes they actually do have to pay out on a claim, but without some government regulation, they wouldn't do it nearly as often.
These are two industries which do not translate well to the private sector.
Some type of national health care system would be the best thing for our society as a whole provided it was run properly.
Women can be cruel bitches about stuff like that (at least if being broke happens on a regular basis).
Some can be, but others can't or won't.
I met my wife about a week after she got laid off from a DotBomb. That was on a Friday. The next Monday the company I worked for went out of business. We ended up moving in together about a month later. Neither of us found a steady job for almost a year. We got by by picking up small-scale jobs for local businesses, and spending a lot of time home together. (It helped that one of her hobbies was couponing. She managed to come home with 10 bags of groceries for like $5.00 one time)
I spent more time with her that one year than I had with girlfriends I had dated for 5 years, which lead us to really know each other better than we ever had anyone else.
The point is that some times stress and hard times bring out the worst in people, but sometimes it brings out the best.
I bet that even if Bush french-kissed RMS while endorsing the GPL, he still wouldn't get the reaction from slashgeeks that Dean does when he uses an open-source CMS.
Well given that Dean hasn't lied for the purpose of sending the country to war, he isn't guilty of going AWOL from his National Guard unit, he didn't fight tooth and nail to prevent an investigation of 9/11 and then try to put a war criminal in charge of the investigation, it is perfectly reasonable to treat the two differently based upon their actions.
How is this a distortion? It is perfectly logical.
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and I work orthogonoly with security systems
That word you're using?
I do not think it means what you think it means.
You work at right angles to security systems?
This stupid ultra-liberal backlash against patriotism is pissing me off. Patriotism != blindly following Dubya and his henchmen.
Liberal?!? Dubya and his cronies are the ones trying to redefine patriotism to mean just that. Anybody with a scrap of patriotism in them is backlashing against those lying traitors as hard as possible.
Cripes how can people be so freaking confused about basic ideas and still able to find their way out of bed in the morning is beyond me.
I've heard it all now. Communist China conservative? What about the Cultural Revolution? What happened to 'no enemies on the left'?
Communism is the most extreme manifestation of loony leftism. They are your ideological cousins, and it is you leftist twits who should be ashamed of your history of making excuses for their wickedness.
Actually, it's more like a circle. The extreme right and the extreme left are essentially indistinguishable. So Chinese communism and Neocon conservatism are very much alike.
Just look at the US right now.
Freedom of information act: Gone.
Right to vote for the candidate of your choice: Going fast
The only real difference is that in China, the government owns the businesses ( although they are moving away from that somewhat), so government tells business what to do.
In the US businesses own the government and tell it what to do at the expense of the rights of the citizenry.
The differences are real, but the visible affects of these differences are becoming vanishingly small.
You should stop trying to redefine conservatism as anything that pampered Western liberal intellectuals don't like, and vice versa. It's dishonest and despicable.
I define it based on the actions of those leading the movement. They spew hatred, fear, and lies. Much like
China.
That is completely honest and morally good.
Defending traitors based on a lack of understanding of the political spectrum and your surrender to the filth these traitors spew is hardly an honest or righteous action for you to take.
Don't you dare have the audacity to call yourself a decent American if you can't even be bothered to face reality.
Now think about an upper level Chemistry book--how many people in the US are capable of writing such a book? Writing problems etc, checking facts? This is MUCH more time intensive, and labor intensive
True, but at the undergraduate level math and some science books were written a hundred years ago and the facts haven't changed in the meantime.
There is no reason to have new versions released every year or two when the underlying material hasn't changed.
Some competition is nice, and certainly it is possible to write a book which teaches the material better than the existing ones, but the current situation is just ridiculous.
I guess we British students should stop moaning so much.
No, you've still got shithouse weather.
And the bland, gray food.
What are you talking about?
Curry is neither gray nor bland.
Anyways, evolution should be taught in every certified school as part of the biology curriculum, hard science or not.
Because... you say so? Because you have an unwavering belief that it is the Right Thing To Do?
No. Quite simply because evolution is an absolutely established fact 100% certain with no possibility of ever being proven wrong.
Don't believe it?
Have you ever seen a chihuahua? A seedless watermelon? Toy poodle?
There you go.
The actual methods evolution uses and the paths it has followed are up for scientific debate, but the fact that species change over time is indisputable.
That is why it should be taught. Anything else would be betraying the children it is our duty to educate. and the society which will come to depend on them.
don't forgot rope... last time i checked, spammers don't hang well from forks and torches...
I encourage you to check again... and again...and...
Infinity does not have a place on the number line (anyone who wants to say it's at the end is just going to prove their ignorance).
But you can represent the infinite numberline as the unit circle. One point is infinity (positive and negative). With some fairly sophisticated mathematics, it works out very nicely.
It's known as a compactification of the reals.
Check it out.
While the former is an ornamental structure which counts in heigh, the latter is a functional structure which is disqualified. It's a foolish rule but is explained well by abde's post above...
That makes sense, I suppose.
Taking this to the ridiculous, wouldn't the building itself be functional, hence exempt from measurement?
Since only ornamental features count, I declare that nothing but garden gnomes and lawn flamingos shall ever count for the tallest anything.
At some point in the past, a group of architects (I don't remember the details) agreed that the height of the entire building, including ornamental spires would be used.
If this rule was applied to the Sears tower as well, then it would still be taller than the Kuala Lumpur towers. For whatever reason, the spires are counted on those, but not on the Sears tower.
Surely some of the answers to these and other questions are available because of the Freedom of Information Act.
I think you'll find that one of Bush's first actions in office was to gut the FOIA and tell government employees to fight any requests that slipped through.
Sad, but it's true.
yoy mean you don't clean a had drive by sticking it in the dishwasher?????
Don't listen to these people, they're just trying to mess with you.
That is exactly how you clean a hard drive.
Of course there have been more Palestinian casualties. When they keep BLOWING THEMSELVES UP, what do you expect??
I expect that I'd take out more than one on the way out.
I imagine the body count for suicide bombers is lower than that for suicide bomber victims.
This skews the odds the other way than that which you wanted to go.
Kinda ironic: WHAT DO YOU EXPECT WHEN YOU BUILD A MOSQUE ON A SACRED PLACE?
Were I the type to build a mosque, church, temple, etc.,
Then where else would I build the freaking thing?!?
That is actually pretty funny.
- one of my favorite news sources (www.gazeta.ru) sucks in mozilla, at least their news section
I just looked at it it looked fine apart from all the weird letters I don't know how to read.
What's the problem?
I could bind /bin/sh to a port running as root via inetd, and that would be a big problem.
What, you mean you don't do that?!?
Sheesh, what if you forget your password and you're away from home where you have it written on a sticky stuck on your monitor?
What are you gonna do then, Smart Guy?
Another point is that manufacturers of printers sell the hardware at a subsidised price, trying to get the real income from cartriges. BMW doesn't sell the Mini for $1000 and charges you another $1000 for every oil change (which you'd have to do four time a year)...
Why are you so sure that this isn't exactly what BMW is doing? Not $1000 certainly, but far above what another shop would do it for? Even at the same price, there are businesses making money just doing oil changes, so they would be locking in a revenue stream.
The scenario you painted above would actually work out pretty well for BMW, if the accident was shown to be caused by a faulty third party partt, then that's advertising for genuine BMW parts and service etc.
Another possible reason would be that perhaps a faulty third party part could lead to quicker failure of another system creating greater warranty repair costs.
Some woman saw me loading up my basket with generic meds, thought she'd 'warn' me they weren't safe. Nothing I said managed to puncture the shell that the Brands had erected around her.)
I wish there was anything I could do to convince myself that you were making that up, but I can't. Sad and pathetic.
I can just imagine a hip-hop Bill Gates (Billy G for short),
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Actually, to blatantly rip off someone's
Jennifer Lopez => J. Lo
Bill Gates => B. Gay
Taking unemployment while not actually looking for work is fraud. The rest of society pays your bills
I have put far more into unemployment than I will ever be allowed to get out.
"Society" isn't paying you unemployment. It's your money that you would have had and earned interest on if it hadn't been taxed away.
There is, however, a marked swing toward imbalance with excessive emphasis on "social welfare" that has already caused problems in energy and healthcare.
Good lord. Are you honestly unaware that the energy problems were caused by private industries like Enron, for example, who produced nothing. They merely found a loophole in the system they could exploit for their own profit at the expense of the citizenry and their own freaking employees. This happened due to the deregulation of the energy industry.
The fact that health care is a business has had almost nothing but negative effects either. What's more profitable, to pay for an expensive operation or to let the person die?
Well, those decisions are made all the time by HMOs and they decide based on profit. Sometimes they actually do have to pay out on a claim, but without some government regulation, they wouldn't do it nearly as often.
These are two industries which do not translate well to the private sector.
Some type of national health care system would be the best thing for our society as a whole provided it was run properly.
That is the catch, of course.
Women can be cruel bitches about stuff like that (at least if being broke happens on a regular basis).
Some can be, but others can't or won't.
I met my wife about a week after she got laid off from a DotBomb. That was on a Friday. The next Monday the company I worked for went out of business. We ended up moving in together about a month later. Neither of us found a steady job for almost a year. We got by by picking up small-scale jobs for local businesses, and spending a lot of time home together. (It helped that one of her hobbies was couponing. She managed to come home with 10 bags of groceries for like $5.00 one time)
I spent more time with her that one year than I had with girlfriends I had dated for 5 years, which lead us to really know each other better than we ever had anyone else.
The point is that some times stress and hard times bring out the worst in people, but sometimes it brings out the best.
I bet that even if Bush french-kissed RMS while endorsing the GPL, he still wouldn't get the reaction from slashgeeks that Dean does when he uses an open-source CMS.
Well given that Dean hasn't lied for the purpose of sending the country to war, he isn't guilty of going AWOL from his National Guard unit, he didn't fight tooth and nail to prevent an investigation of 9/11 and then try to put a war criminal in charge of the investigation, it is perfectly reasonable to treat the two differently based upon their actions.
How is this a distortion? It is perfectly logical.
Each dependent (child) is an additional $5,000 before taxes kick in.
Forget it.
Why should I subsidize your choice to have children?
By making that choice you are using more services, costing more tax dollars than I am and you want to pay less?!?
Sorry. I have no interest in that. How about All ambidextrous people pay no taxes no matter how much they make? Benefits me nicely.
If you want to make a fair system, than try to make it fair, rather than beneficial to you at the expense of others.