The problem is as soon as you exchange "home" for country it typically involves a minorty rule enforcing its "culture" on the populace. With government enforced culture you cannot break away from certain things. If everyone in the country wants to wear rubber chicken neck ties that is all well and good, when the government enforces it it becomes bad. The people may hate wearing rubber chicken neck ties, but if it is enforced by the government then it will not stop.
Why should a country protect its culture? It seems to me that you are arguing that things like witch hunts, torture, murder, and so on are acceptable to defend as part of the culture. The flat earth, no evolution, germs are lies created by heathen scientists, and so on is more cultural crap that should not be protected. The idea that you should protect culture through government interference is insane. We would all be living in pretty barbaric civilizations if ancienct cultures had been so preserved. I mean really now...slavery was a culture thing too, in numerous cultures even. Cultures should evolve, not stagnate, and governments should absolutely not be involved in the process of either.
I have thought about opening mine up, but the problem is that all of my desktop machines are wireless and I have the thing configured to only accept configuration stuff on the wired interface. As a result I have used the same old WEP key for the better part of 6 years.
I'm a bit lazy about my wireless for the same reasons he argues to open one.
Yes, because we always need more laws to protect culture. See banning gay marriage for example. In fact, cultural beliefs should almost be banned from law for this type of reason. I mean, imagine how great society would be if we banned sex before marriage, maybe even tacked on the death penalty for it. You know, like all of those theological nightmare countries that do that now to protect their culture.
You do understand that our nation is so completely and totally fucked up right now because of people like you demanding that the government "should do something about that". Our society has given up all of its responsibility and demand that someone else (government) take care of them in all aspects of their life. So as long as you will stand there and say government should do something...you have no right to bitch when government does things you don't like. Government was supposed to have limited power and we fucked it up severely.
$5+/gallon gas. Soaring electric bills. The credit crisis (which you don't have to be a dumbass for it to hurt you, I am good with my finances, but the fact that every other moron is willing to swipe plastic and pay higher prices because of that imaginary money it increases the cost of goods I do want to purchase). It isn't all the government's fault (though plenty of it is). The vast majority of the problem is a tremendous lack of consumer education (and voter education goes right along with that in terms of government causing the problems for those same consumers).
There are still lots and lots of ways for the upper class to take your dollars without your decision. I mean you can choose to not pay taxes, but then you wind up in prison, where you become another product for the upper class to profit with. The prison system is a terribly lucrative business for getting government contracts and the like.
What? Are you saying I am supposed to feel sorry for every dumbass that hooks up their credit card to these things for their "one click" shopping experience? Please...that isn't this guys fault that these morons didn't watch what they were doing or that they can't be bothered to be inconvenicned by a password while shopping. I have bought more than a few things on iTunes and I make sure it asks me my password everytime, and I verify my shopping cart before I hit my final purchase button.
No this is not hidden, if anyone "accidentally" buys it it is because they are stupid and deserve that painful lesson. It is not hidden, it is not moving. If you really want to draw comparisons it is that they went to the supermarket and signed an agreement that says "I agree to purchase anything I touch, and you are authorized to immediately make those charges against my account the moment I touch something". Again, only a dumbass would agree to that. Sorry, no sympathy for stupidity.
Forgot to mention...those links talking about surveys no less than 2 years old. And they aren't even surveys, but a guy talking about surveys and not posting the actual survey. So you are citing a guy saying "R surveys are bad, D surveys are good, trust me I have seen them". AND this guy says he is a registered Republican so he clearly can't be trusted right?
So anyways...let me be the first to welcome you into the year 2008. Did you know there are elections this year? Yup, brand new weasles will get jobs in Washington, isn't that exciting? With that, the weasel commities have decided to work really hard on polarizing the unwashed masses into supporting different breeds of weasel. It seems to be working quite well.
And you are a flaming douche, I bet you voted for giant douche! I love how you people just get your panties in a twist and fling mud at anything you percieve to be "evil Republican". This is why noone outside your circle of whiners takes you seriously.
First, I have never claimed to have seen the Democratic one, just the Republican one, and I was horrified at it. The notion that insulting information about the Democratic one is an unsupported and highly bashing statement, but my comments about the Republican one were taken without question is quite telling. In fact following those links is "See how childish and stupid the Republicans are!" with fake questions and then "real" questions from the Democratic survey. And yes, linking to other slashdot stories to debunk "the kind of lies on slashdot" seems the typical brainless banter of both parties involved. Thank you for once again showing that the Democratic side is equally guilty.
I have never voted Republican, ever. Course I haven't voted for a Democrat either. Given that every time I am presented the choice between two sheisty lying assholes I figure I shouldn't vote for either. But thank you for so accurately stating my voting habbits, once again, more lefty partisan bullshit. Anyone that doesn't agree with us MUST be an evil Republican. And again, this is why Democrats can't do anything productive, all they do is run and scream and cry and pretend that they have some great solution. If Democrats had any kind of solution they would have done something. Their MO is to let Republicans fuck things up, cry and cry and make a big fuss about how they will fix it, get elected, and then collect any lobby dollars and waste money on their own pet projects. I will give you that Republicans have done FAR more damage to this country in the last 8 years than Democrats. On that we absolutely agree. I just don't have any misguided belief that these assholes will do anything to fix what the Republicans have done rather than take advantage of their newfound government power themselves. The great Dem Obama voted for Telcom immunity (sad really, I actually hoped he was genuine about fixing this trainwreck). At least McCain is honest that he is going to continue to fuck our country up, the Democrats keep saying they don't support that and then continue to vote YES on things. I hope McCain doesn't win, but an honest assholes is better than a dishonest asshole, at least you know what to expect.
By the way, the only reason the Executive branch has the power it does right now is because Congress (first Republican, but now Democrat) has completely and totally walked away from their responsibilities and instead of stopping the out of control Executive (see Checks and Balances) would rather just wimper and blame Republicans to try and better their chances of getting more Democrats elected. Fucking pathetic. Neither of the parties are interested in doing ANYTHING other than getting themselves more seats elected.
Why do I have to agree with Apple yanking it? I don't see any violation here. I fail to see how this is much different than cat shit coffee being the most expensive coffee in the world. This isn't even fraud, he isn't even claiming the app does something that it doesn't. Just that it shows that you are rich, and quite frankly, if you are giong to blow $1k on an "app" that does nothing but show a glowing red thing then you just bought the first $1,000 piece of digital jewelry and probably can be considered "rich". Big deal.
In fact, I applaud this. There are a million ways the rich suck money out of the lower and middle classes. It is nice to see the reverse happen. The amusing part is that the lower and middle classes usually get their money sucked dry through neccesities like gas, water, food, etc. The rich tend to get their money sucked away through frivolous crap like this.
Actually the problem I see with your statement is that you are ready to accept that the Republican survey is crap, but challenge the notion that the Democrat one is. And now you are going on partisan attack the Republicans. This ultimately was my whole point about Democrats getting so full of themselves, thank you for demonstrating so clearly.
For the record I am not a Democrat or a Republican because both parties have precious few differences and have fucked the ever living hell out of this country and do a bang up job of dividing people into Red Dumbasses and Blue Dumbasses with their typical rhetoric.
Also, I saw a physical copy of said survey, I have no idea where it would be online if it even is. I imagine the Democratic survey is about the same. The most mindboggling thing here is that you couldn't be bothered to go look them up yourself and assumed we had links to them. Then you turned it into some kind of anti Republican rant when you weren't provided a link so you could avoid looking for something to "think for yourself". Congratulations you have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt why the modern Democrats are even more worthless than the modern Republican. Like voting in telcom immunity with a Democratic majority. So they support bad Republican ideas and then cry and blame the Republicans for it. Pathetic. I half expect Cheney to walk into the room and shout "Boo" and watch all of the Democrats hide under their desks. I loathe saying this since I hate most of what the Republicans have been up to, but I respect people who take action on their beliefs regardless of how wrong I think they are WAY more than people who just cower, talk a big game, and then cave at the first sign of opposition.
I had the joy of reading the current Republican voter survey thing. HOLY SHIT talk about weighted and loaded questions. It seems to me that the average modern Republican barely has a coherent thought let alone an opinion. (Don't get too full of yourselves you dirty liberals, we are all aware that you have opinions, you whine about them all the time, do precious little productive, and are otherwise full of stupid ideas.)
Actually from what I have seen is that females will do it spread out across more purchases. Guys will typically blow large sums of money on single purchases where gals tend to nickel and dime you to death buying 1000 things they don't need simply because "it was on sale".
STOP! Please please please STOP repeating that nonsense lie. There absolutely IS a right to privacy. That part of the Constitution that mentions how all rights not explicitely enumerated here belong to the people. So right to privacy really does exist because invading our privacy is not a power granted the government without warrant. So the fact that a judge has to stamp a piece of paper for the government to invade my privacy absolutely means that I have a normal right to privacy.
Let me fix this for you "female factor" should be replaced with "people who have a life". I don't understand how this gets attributed to females given that females are just as likely to blow large sums of money on trivial things, and ultimatly that is all this is.
I have a TV capable of doing higher than 480, I have an upconverting DVD player. I don't have a desire to spend $50 on a cable where a $5 cable will do just to get a better picture. I mean...you can make the picture and sound the most amazing quality, even better than the human ear/eye can distinguish. But so long as the content quite consistenlty sucks in the first place what is the point? I like shows with good acting, good story, good concepts, and quite frankly the quality of the picture/sound above reasonably clear has precious little effect. The only dramatic effect this has is on movies that tend to lack in every department other than visual and audio effects. The same way gameplay keeps turning out to be horrible in so many games while they have the latest super rendering mega fast pretty factor engine. I don't care how good it looks if the game sucks, and if it is a good game then stellar graphics are hardly my concern.
Trust me when I say how slimey the pharma companies are. It is not surprising in the least that they pulled this stunt trying to force the mandatory vaccinaiation. I see these assholes delivering truckloads of trinkets, lunches, free coffee, etc to doctors on a daily basis. They set up their "conferences" in nice vacation spots and bring a bunch of docs out to schmooze because the laws changed on the flat out bribery that was going on previously. Then they sit and cry about how it would be horrible to stop them from holding IP rights to all of these drugs and jacking up the price and preventing people who need the meds from getting it because "they need to recoup their R&D!". Fucking bullshit. Almost 40% of their budgets go to marketing while around 20% is R&D. Nevermind that so much of their R&D is funded by the government in the first place.
So no...fuck them...fuck their business model...and fuck their "science". They can and do lie like crazy to get their drugs into the bloodstream of everyone with a dollar to give them and to keep their drugs out of the bloodstreams of anyone with no dollars to spare. They hide side effects, and bring out the lawyer hordes to keep doctors and patients silent. The fact that they bought a local official to force their drug to be a mandatory vaccination for 12yr old school girls with minimal testing should show their true character. I'm sorry, but I am not going to protect my daughter from something that kills 4,000 people a year using something so that untested by a company that sheisty. To put things into perspective there are hundreds of thousands killed per year in alcohol related incidents and I can do a reasonably good job of protecting her from that through simple education and no health risk. The flu shot has had a long history of being tested and helping protect against a disease that kills tens of thousands and infects hundreds of thousands per year. She will get her flu shots.
You are absolutely right, and mother nature does correct this type of thing fairly slowly. For all the fearmongering I don't think earth is really in that much of an immediate danger. HOWEVER, people need to understand earth will not survive as we know it, it never has. The face of earth has been changed many many times over the course of it's history. I agree that the kneejerk stuff is dangerous, but I think the whole "do nothing, it will hurt our economy, its all a myth" stuff is equally dangerous. We can be reasonably sure that earth will correct the problem and life will continue on this planet, there is no gaurontee that humans will remain as part of that life. We are dumping tremendous amounts of crap everywhere and that can only continue for a finite time.
Thats funny. I thought the huge push to get everyone vaccinated had to do with the company that produces the stuff having the local decision maker in that little Texas area in their pocket. He had the power to mandate that everyone pay them a couple hundred bucks per girlchild they were going to send to school. I mean why else would they try to make something mandatory to inject into your kids at a couple hundred dollars a shot when it had barely been tested yet. Good thing they get to use that panic "cancer" word to help push the legitimacy of that scam.
Or maybe the two guys just wanted two free computers. Seems like two guys only requesting two computers could easily have something to do with the difficulty in getting away with hauling off multiple PCs. Either way, I think you are right on the money.
I have often wondered why I am supposed to feel guilty about racism/slavery myself. My family didn't show up here until well after that whole slavery business was over. Nevermind that the Irish were treated like shit in the US for a long time in the early days. Cops, Coalminers, Firemen, and anything else that could possibly get us killed. There is a reason that Irish Cop stereotype exists. Then you can also toss in the years of abuse in Europe as well. Really, the only thing that happened is that the bigots continued to become more ignorant and eventually forgot we were Irish and different because we are white. On top of that, while there are plenty of bigots running around making life suck for people, I have never seen any black guys picking cotton in fields. I'm sorry, but (crying minority of the day) has tremendous opportunity here and I don't remember anyone promising an easy time. Seems to me that people crying about how hard it is for a (crying minority member) to get ahead takes away from the accomplishments of minority members of great accomplishments.
Something like that. If you are convicted of violating a federal law then you will go to a federal prison, if you are convicted of violating a state law then you will go to a state prison. Typically it does deal with whether or not state borders were crossed, but it isn't necessarily a strict rule.
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The problem is as soon as you exchange "home" for country it typically involves a minorty rule enforcing its "culture" on the populace. With government enforced culture you cannot break away from certain things. If everyone in the country wants to wear rubber chicken neck ties that is all well and good, when the government enforces it it becomes bad. The people may hate wearing rubber chicken neck ties, but if it is enforced by the government then it will not stop.
Why should a country protect its culture? It seems to me that you are arguing that things like witch hunts, torture, murder, and so on are acceptable to defend as part of the culture. The flat earth, no evolution, germs are lies created by heathen scientists, and so on is more cultural crap that should not be protected. The idea that you should protect culture through government interference is insane. We would all be living in pretty barbaric civilizations if ancienct cultures had been so preserved. I mean really now...slavery was a culture thing too, in numerous cultures even. Cultures should evolve, not stagnate, and governments should absolutely not be involved in the process of either.
I have thought about opening mine up, but the problem is that all of my desktop machines are wireless and I have the thing configured to only accept configuration stuff on the wired interface. As a result I have used the same old WEP key for the better part of 6 years.
I'm a bit lazy about my wireless for the same reasons he argues to open one.
Yes, because we always need more laws to protect culture. See banning gay marriage for example. In fact, cultural beliefs should almost be banned from law for this type of reason. I mean, imagine how great society would be if we banned sex before marriage, maybe even tacked on the death penalty for it. You know, like all of those theological nightmare countries that do that now to protect their culture.
You do understand that our nation is so completely and totally fucked up right now because of people like you demanding that the government "should do something about that". Our society has given up all of its responsibility and demand that someone else (government) take care of them in all aspects of their life. So as long as you will stand there and say government should do something...you have no right to bitch when government does things you don't like. Government was supposed to have limited power and we fucked it up severely.
Given the tremendous pain in the ass X09 locks are I am confident that it will keep threats out at LEAST as well as it keeps legitimate users out.
I would hate to be the Secret Service guy that has to tell the President he can't have his Shrinky Dinks anymore.
$5+/gallon gas. Soaring electric bills. The credit crisis (which you don't have to be a dumbass for it to hurt you, I am good with my finances, but the fact that every other moron is willing to swipe plastic and pay higher prices because of that imaginary money it increases the cost of goods I do want to purchase). It isn't all the government's fault (though plenty of it is). The vast majority of the problem is a tremendous lack of consumer education (and voter education goes right along with that in terms of government causing the problems for those same consumers).
There are still lots and lots of ways for the upper class to take your dollars without your decision. I mean you can choose to not pay taxes, but then you wind up in prison, where you become another product for the upper class to profit with. The prison system is a terribly lucrative business for getting government contracts and the like.
What? Are you saying I am supposed to feel sorry for every dumbass that hooks up their credit card to these things for their "one click" shopping experience? Please...that isn't this guys fault that these morons didn't watch what they were doing or that they can't be bothered to be inconvenicned by a password while shopping. I have bought more than a few things on iTunes and I make sure it asks me my password everytime, and I verify my shopping cart before I hit my final purchase button.
No this is not hidden, if anyone "accidentally" buys it it is because they are stupid and deserve that painful lesson. It is not hidden, it is not moving. If you really want to draw comparisons it is that they went to the supermarket and signed an agreement that says "I agree to purchase anything I touch, and you are authorized to immediately make those charges against my account the moment I touch something". Again, only a dumbass would agree to that. Sorry, no sympathy for stupidity.
Forgot to mention...those links talking about surveys no less than 2 years old. And they aren't even surveys, but a guy talking about surveys and not posting the actual survey. So you are citing a guy saying "R surveys are bad, D surveys are good, trust me I have seen them". AND this guy says he is a registered Republican so he clearly can't be trusted right?
So anyways...let me be the first to welcome you into the year 2008. Did you know there are elections this year? Yup, brand new weasles will get jobs in Washington, isn't that exciting? With that, the weasel commities have decided to work really hard on polarizing the unwashed masses into supporting different breeds of weasel. It seems to be working quite well.
And you are a flaming douche, I bet you voted for giant douche! I love how you people just get your panties in a twist and fling mud at anything you percieve to be "evil Republican". This is why noone outside your circle of whiners takes you seriously.
First, I have never claimed to have seen the Democratic one, just the Republican one, and I was horrified at it. The notion that insulting information about the Democratic one is an unsupported and highly bashing statement, but my comments about the Republican one were taken without question is quite telling. In fact following those links is "See how childish and stupid the Republicans are!" with fake questions and then "real" questions from the Democratic survey. And yes, linking to other slashdot stories to debunk "the kind of lies on slashdot" seems the typical brainless banter of both parties involved. Thank you for once again showing that the Democratic side is equally guilty.
I have never voted Republican, ever. Course I haven't voted for a Democrat either. Given that every time I am presented the choice between two sheisty lying assholes I figure I shouldn't vote for either. But thank you for so accurately stating my voting habbits, once again, more lefty partisan bullshit. Anyone that doesn't agree with us MUST be an evil Republican. And again, this is why Democrats can't do anything productive, all they do is run and scream and cry and pretend that they have some great solution. If Democrats had any kind of solution they would have done something. Their MO is to let Republicans fuck things up, cry and cry and make a big fuss about how they will fix it, get elected, and then collect any lobby dollars and waste money on their own pet projects. I will give you that Republicans have done FAR more damage to this country in the last 8 years than Democrats. On that we absolutely agree. I just don't have any misguided belief that these assholes will do anything to fix what the Republicans have done rather than take advantage of their newfound government power themselves. The great Dem Obama voted for Telcom immunity (sad really, I actually hoped he was genuine about fixing this trainwreck). At least McCain is honest that he is going to continue to fuck our country up, the Democrats keep saying they don't support that and then continue to vote YES on things. I hope McCain doesn't win, but an honest assholes is better than a dishonest asshole, at least you know what to expect.
By the way, the only reason the Executive branch has the power it does right now is because Congress (first Republican, but now Democrat) has completely and totally walked away from their responsibilities and instead of stopping the out of control Executive (see Checks and Balances) would rather just wimper and blame Republicans to try and better their chances of getting more Democrats elected. Fucking pathetic. Neither of the parties are interested in doing ANYTHING other than getting themselves more seats elected.
Why do I have to agree with Apple yanking it? I don't see any violation here. I fail to see how this is much different than cat shit coffee being the most expensive coffee in the world. This isn't even fraud, he isn't even claiming the app does something that it doesn't. Just that it shows that you are rich, and quite frankly, if you are giong to blow $1k on an "app" that does nothing but show a glowing red thing then you just bought the first $1,000 piece of digital jewelry and probably can be considered "rich". Big deal.
In fact, I applaud this. There are a million ways the rich suck money out of the lower and middle classes. It is nice to see the reverse happen. The amusing part is that the lower and middle classes usually get their money sucked dry through neccesities like gas, water, food, etc. The rich tend to get their money sucked away through frivolous crap like this.
Actually the problem I see with your statement is that you are ready to accept that the Republican survey is crap, but challenge the notion that the Democrat one is. And now you are going on partisan attack the Republicans. This ultimately was my whole point about Democrats getting so full of themselves, thank you for demonstrating so clearly.
For the record I am not a Democrat or a Republican because both parties have precious few differences and have fucked the ever living hell out of this country and do a bang up job of dividing people into Red Dumbasses and Blue Dumbasses with their typical rhetoric.
Also, I saw a physical copy of said survey, I have no idea where it would be online if it even is. I imagine the Democratic survey is about the same. The most mindboggling thing here is that you couldn't be bothered to go look them up yourself and assumed we had links to them. Then you turned it into some kind of anti Republican rant when you weren't provided a link so you could avoid looking for something to "think for yourself". Congratulations you have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt why the modern Democrats are even more worthless than the modern Republican. Like voting in telcom immunity with a Democratic majority. So they support bad Republican ideas and then cry and blame the Republicans for it. Pathetic. I half expect Cheney to walk into the room and shout "Boo" and watch all of the Democrats hide under their desks. I loathe saying this since I hate most of what the Republicans have been up to, but I respect people who take action on their beliefs regardless of how wrong I think they are WAY more than people who just cower, talk a big game, and then cave at the first sign of opposition.
I had the joy of reading the current Republican voter survey thing. HOLY SHIT talk about weighted and loaded questions. It seems to me that the average modern Republican barely has a coherent thought let alone an opinion. (Don't get too full of yourselves you dirty liberals, we are all aware that you have opinions, you whine about them all the time, do precious little productive, and are otherwise full of stupid ideas.)
Actually from what I have seen is that females will do it spread out across more purchases. Guys will typically blow large sums of money on single purchases where gals tend to nickel and dime you to death buying 1000 things they don't need simply because "it was on sale".
STOP! Please please please STOP repeating that nonsense lie. There absolutely IS a right to privacy. That part of the Constitution that mentions how all rights not explicitely enumerated here belong to the people. So right to privacy really does exist because invading our privacy is not a power granted the government without warrant. So the fact that a judge has to stamp a piece of paper for the government to invade my privacy absolutely means that I have a normal right to privacy.
Treatment for Cancer = Customer for life. The longer you can extend that the more money you get.
Cure for Cancer = Loss of customer.
Simple economics. Science isn't what is stopping cures from being discovered, it is the economic disaster that curing a cash cow disease would cause.
Let me fix this for you "female factor" should be replaced with "people who have a life". I don't understand how this gets attributed to females given that females are just as likely to blow large sums of money on trivial things, and ultimatly that is all this is.
I have a TV capable of doing higher than 480, I have an upconverting DVD player. I don't have a desire to spend $50 on a cable where a $5 cable will do just to get a better picture. I mean...you can make the picture and sound the most amazing quality, even better than the human ear/eye can distinguish. But so long as the content quite consistenlty sucks in the first place what is the point? I like shows with good acting, good story, good concepts, and quite frankly the quality of the picture/sound above reasonably clear has precious little effect. The only dramatic effect this has is on movies that tend to lack in every department other than visual and audio effects. The same way gameplay keeps turning out to be horrible in so many games while they have the latest super rendering mega fast pretty factor engine. I don't care how good it looks if the game sucks, and if it is a good game then stellar graphics are hardly my concern.
Trust me when I say how slimey the pharma companies are. It is not surprising in the least that they pulled this stunt trying to force the mandatory vaccinaiation. I see these assholes delivering truckloads of trinkets, lunches, free coffee, etc to doctors on a daily basis. They set up their "conferences" in nice vacation spots and bring a bunch of docs out to schmooze because the laws changed on the flat out bribery that was going on previously. Then they sit and cry about how it would be horrible to stop them from holding IP rights to all of these drugs and jacking up the price and preventing people who need the meds from getting it because "they need to recoup their R&D!". Fucking bullshit. Almost 40% of their budgets go to marketing while around 20% is R&D. Nevermind that so much of their R&D is funded by the government in the first place.
So no...fuck them...fuck their business model...and fuck their "science". They can and do lie like crazy to get their drugs into the bloodstream of everyone with a dollar to give them and to keep their drugs out of the bloodstreams of anyone with no dollars to spare. They hide side effects, and bring out the lawyer hordes to keep doctors and patients silent. The fact that they bought a local official to force their drug to be a mandatory vaccination for 12yr old school girls with minimal testing should show their true character. I'm sorry, but I am not going to protect my daughter from something that kills 4,000 people a year using something so that untested by a company that sheisty. To put things into perspective there are hundreds of thousands killed per year in alcohol related incidents and I can do a reasonably good job of protecting her from that through simple education and no health risk. The flu shot has had a long history of being tested and helping protect against a disease that kills tens of thousands and infects hundreds of thousands per year. She will get her flu shots.
You are absolutely right, and mother nature does correct this type of thing fairly slowly. For all the fearmongering I don't think earth is really in that much of an immediate danger. HOWEVER, people need to understand earth will not survive as we know it, it never has. The face of earth has been changed many many times over the course of it's history. I agree that the kneejerk stuff is dangerous, but I think the whole "do nothing, it will hurt our economy, its all a myth" stuff is equally dangerous. We can be reasonably sure that earth will correct the problem and life will continue on this planet, there is no gaurontee that humans will remain as part of that life. We are dumping tremendous amounts of crap everywhere and that can only continue for a finite time.
Thats funny. I thought the huge push to get everyone vaccinated had to do with the company that produces the stuff having the local decision maker in that little Texas area in their pocket. He had the power to mandate that everyone pay them a couple hundred bucks per girlchild they were going to send to school. I mean why else would they try to make something mandatory to inject into your kids at a couple hundred dollars a shot when it had barely been tested yet. Good thing they get to use that panic "cancer" word to help push the legitimacy of that scam.
In other news, everyone eventually dies.
Or maybe the two guys just wanted two free computers. Seems like two guys only requesting two computers could easily have something to do with the difficulty in getting away with hauling off multiple PCs. Either way, I think you are right on the money.
Clearly that is the alcohol talking you mick!
I have often wondered why I am supposed to feel guilty about racism/slavery myself. My family didn't show up here until well after that whole slavery business was over. Nevermind that the Irish were treated like shit in the US for a long time in the early days. Cops, Coalminers, Firemen, and anything else that could possibly get us killed. There is a reason that Irish Cop stereotype exists. Then you can also toss in the years of abuse in Europe as well. Really, the only thing that happened is that the bigots continued to become more ignorant and eventually forgot we were Irish and different because we are white. On top of that, while there are plenty of bigots running around making life suck for people, I have never seen any black guys picking cotton in fields. I'm sorry, but (crying minority of the day) has tremendous opportunity here and I don't remember anyone promising an easy time. Seems to me that people crying about how hard it is for a (crying minority member) to get ahead takes away from the accomplishments of minority members of great accomplishments.
Nothing. It just means there was life on Titan!
Someone should kill you for that. Seriously... And NO there will be no Stairway to Heaven after your death!
Something like that. If you are convicted of violating a federal law then you will go to a federal prison, if you are convicted of violating a state law then you will go to a state prison. Typically it does deal with whether or not state borders were crossed, but it isn't necessarily a strict rule.