Just because someone agrees vehemently in their right to do so, that doesn't mean he has to, in any way, agree with their opinion. He never said someone should stop them. He says they should support their country because he thinks their position is unbelievably wrong. And I can't say I disagree.
Re:How much deeper does this hole get?
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It's not a Canadian term. I used to work for my state Department of Correction here where I live (in the U.S.). They manage the prisons as well as probationers and parolees.
Anyone who expects the Supreme Court (or any court) to actually protect our rights is seriously deluding themselves.
If the legislature and executive branch both ignore the Constitution for the sake of their "principles" and social policies, what in the world makes anyone think that the Supreme Court is any different? The Constitution is simply a piece of paper, not a force of its own. If the justices want to ignore the letter, spirit, and history of the Constitution, what's to stop them?
I'd love to see these "statistics" of which you speak, considering most defensive gun uses (upwards of 90%) don't even involve a shot being fired. And I hope you're not referring to the studies of that shyster Kellerman, whose entire research centered around suicides. Like it or not, guns have no effect on the number of suicides in a society. The nations with the highest suicide rates have some of the strictest gun control.
I'm all for letting any student exercise their right to publish and have free speech until they're blue in the face. But if they do it, they should be prepared to give up attending the school they're badmouthing.
You don't have the first clue about free speech, do you?
I'm all for letting any citizen exercise their right to publish and have free speech until they're blue in the face. But if they do it, they should be prepared to give up freedom in the country they're badmouthing.
Sounds just as reasonable, doesn't it?
Yeah, maybe I'm being a little unfair, there are things we obviously can't allow in school because they cause a disruption. But like it or not, what happened here did not happen at school any more than badmouthing the principle orally on the weekend. Are we going to start suspending students for doing that?
After the Zero Wing animated gif bounced around the internet, a thread began in the Something Awful message boards where people added lines from the game to various images. This started the craze of putting "ALL YOUR BASE" etc. to every picture imaginable that spread across the net. The Laziest Men on Mars, also from Something Awful, even made it into a song, which was later attached to a Flash compendium of sorts.
You're both wrong. You lose some rights, not nearly all. You still have the right to a jury trial for any future infractions. You still have the right to remain silent, and cannot be forced into self-incrimination or subjected to double jeapordy. But you don't have the right to vote, obviously your right to travel may be limited (hard to see the sights while in jail), and sometimes you may lose the right to life.
Basically, this kid's whole future will already be known. Where's the excitement in that kind of life?
*cough*Bullshit*cough*
The only reason you see those "special reports" is because they are the interesting ones, the fascinating twists of fate. What you don't see are the thousands of twins (separated or not) who live their lives the same as any other siblings. I've known identical twins that you would not suspect were identical twins, because they appeared so different. The reason? Placement in the uterus during the pregnancy. In other words, environment, not just genetics, is an important factor in the development of any living creature.
To even suggest that a person can know their "whole future" is ridiculous in the extreme. They may know what they'll look like in 30 years, but personality and ability and even diseases depend substantially upon environment.
Hardcore players, who will do anything to get every last drop of speed out of their cards, never play in 32-bit color mode anyway. The same goes for full-screen anti-aliasing.
These things are nice to look at for a while, but any real player will eventually turn them off to get a little more speed.
Counter-Strike, one of the most popular first-person shooter games/mods is suffering from rampant cheating. The most popular is to replace the player models on your hard drive with ones that have "poles" sticking out in all directions so that not only are your opponents visible when hiding behind a crate or other obstruction, but you can also see where someone is on the other side of a solid wall. Some people have discovered flaws in map designs that let them do all sorts of unexpected and unplanned maneuvers. There are also apparently config files that counteract the recoil effects of weapons in Counter-Strike, resulting in players being a bit more accurate with automatic weapons then they should be. Then there are the firing proxies that now plague CS as well as the old favorites Quake 2 and (for a while) Quake 3.
Cheating has nothing to do with the reward system, in my opinion. As you can see, first-person shooters suffer from it just as much as other games. It's just that some people don't get a thrill out of the challenge, only the winning, no matter how easy it is. Then there are those who don't enjoy the game itself, they just love ruining it for everyone else. These, I've found, are most common on multiplayer RPGs, like Ultima Online.
The question is whether or not it is still appropriate for a modern society.
The Electoral College has evolved, shaping and being shaped by the two-party system, which probably would not survive abandonment of winner-take-all allocation of electoral votes....
By avoiding proportional allocation of electoral votes, America's system... buttresses the dominance of two parties
This is the biggest problem with it, in many people's opinions, and why I don't think it will ever change. Why would the two big parties give up their stranglehold on American politics? And frankly, I think this is why it needs to go.
It really is speculative at this time. It's all based upon people exiting the polls remarking on how confusing it was and they weren't sure they actually voted for the candidate they wanted to.
Here's a hint: if you're confused, try asking someone before you submit the ballot.
No one seems to know what's going on in Palm Beach. Your description doesn't jive with news reports on the subject, which seemed to suggest that it was actually a problem with the visuals of the ballot that confused the elderly, not any kind of mechanical or electronic malfunction.
My own personal belief is that it's merely a last-ditch attempt by Democrats to say to the country, "Well, look, we can still win this." I guess we'll find out what's going on eventually.
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Wake up kids! You are involved in something which you have no clue as to what you are playing with!
Speaking of no clue...
Sorry, but there are no rituals in Dungeons & Dragons. Your position is not "right", it is simply ignorant and grossly uninformed. Your gun analogy would be more appropriate if it was bright yellow water gun that someone fired a real bullet.
Next time before you make a fool of yourself by criticizing something you have no actual knowledge of, try to find out a little something about it first.
It's hard to take you seriously when you obviously don't have any idea what you're talking about.
Not only do your descriptions not accurately reflect any libertarian philosophy (with or without the capital "L"), but your gripe can equally be applied to any political party, including the Republicans and Democrats. Anyone can claim to be a member of any political party (or religion, etc.) and still say whatever they want.
Local news reports that it was, in fact, intentional, as the ad now sports the website and phone number of a company looking for proofreaders. In other words, a gimmick ad.
Could be the.475 Linebaugh, arguably one of the most powerful handgun cartridges in the world. It's based on a cut-down.45-70. While velocities don't achieve the same level as the 475 Wildey Magnum, it's loaded with much heavier bullets so kinetic energy is comparable.
You've sadly neglected one of the more recent uses of titanium: firearms. Smith & Wesson and Taurus are now two of the biggest users of titanium in revolvers. A titanium cylinder greatly reduces weight and is just as strong as steel.
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- Hmm, correct me if I'm wrong (please do), but isn't Myth the single best-selling PC game to date?
Maybe you're confusing Myth with Myst.But... but... Microsoft is all about innovation!!
Just because someone agrees vehemently in their right to do so, that doesn't mean he has to, in any way, agree with their opinion. He never said someone should stop them. He says they should support their country because he thinks their position is unbelievably wrong. And I can't say I disagree.
It's not a Canadian term. I used to work for my state Department of Correction here where I live (in the U.S.). They manage the prisons as well as probationers and parolees.
If the legislature and executive branch both ignore the Constitution for the sake of their "principles" and social policies, what in the world makes anyone think that the Supreme Court is any different? The Constitution is simply a piece of paper, not a force of its own. If the justices want to ignore the letter, spirit, and history of the Constitution, what's to stop them?
I'd love to see these "statistics" of which you speak, considering most defensive gun uses (upwards of 90%) don't even involve a shot being fired. And I hope you're not referring to the studies of that shyster Kellerman, whose entire research centered around suicides. Like it or not, guns have no effect on the number of suicides in a society. The nations with the highest suicide rates have some of the strictest gun control.
- I'm all for letting any student exercise their right to publish and have free speech until they're blue in the face. But if they do it, they should be prepared to give up attending the school they're badmouthing.
You don't have the first clue about free speech, do you?- I'm all for letting any citizen exercise their right to publish and have free speech until they're blue in the face. But if they do it, they should be prepared to give up freedom in the country they're badmouthing.
Sounds just as reasonable, doesn't it?Yeah, maybe I'm being a little unfair, there are things we obviously can't allow in school because they cause a disruption. But like it or not, what happened here did not happen at school any more than badmouthing the principle orally on the weekend. Are we going to start suspending students for doing that?
After the Zero Wing animated gif bounced around the internet, a thread began in the Something Awful message boards where people added lines from the game to various images. This started the craze of putting "ALL YOUR BASE" etc. to every picture imaginable that spread across the net. The Laziest Men on Mars, also from Something Awful, even made it into a song, which was later attached to a Flash compendium of sorts.
You're both wrong. You lose some rights, not nearly all. You still have the right to a jury trial for any future infractions. You still have the right to remain silent, and cannot be forced into self-incrimination or subjected to double jeapordy. But you don't have the right to vote, obviously your right to travel may be limited (hard to see the sights while in jail), and sometimes you may lose the right to life.
- Basically, this kid's whole future will already be known. Where's the excitement in that kind of life?
*cough*Bullshit*cough*The only reason you see those "special reports" is because they are the interesting ones, the fascinating twists of fate. What you don't see are the thousands of twins (separated or not) who live their lives the same as any other siblings. I've known identical twins that you would not suspect were identical twins, because they appeared so different. The reason? Placement in the uterus during the pregnancy. In other words, environment, not just genetics, is an important factor in the development of any living creature.
To even suggest that a person can know their "whole future" is ridiculous in the extreme. They may know what they'll look like in 30 years, but personality and ability and even diseases depend substantially upon environment.
- By the time anyone realises that there's a problem, it'd be so old news that nobody would pay attention.
Oh, come on, that's just ridiculous. Can you imagine them trying that at a press conference?- "So how are the astronauts on the Endeavor doing? We haven't heard from them in a while."
They may have their reasons, but that sure isn't one of them."Oh, they died months ago."
"What? And we're just hearing about this now?"
"Come on, it's old news. Next question."
More likely it's to limit public criticism during a catastrophe until it's finally resolved, one way or the other.
Oh, gimme a break. It was a joke. I'm a friggin American.
Oh, come on! That was sooo transparent.
A pill to give us even more overweight Americans!
These things are nice to look at for a while, but any real player will eventually turn them off to get a little more speed.
Cheating has nothing to do with the reward system, in my opinion. As you can see, first-person shooters suffer from it just as much as other games. It's just that some people don't get a thrill out of the challenge, only the winning, no matter how easy it is. Then there are those who don't enjoy the game itself, they just love ruining it for everyone else. These, I've found, are most common on multiplayer RPGs, like Ultima Online.
- The Electoral College has evolved, shaping and being shaped by the two-party system, which probably would not survive abandonment of winner-take-all allocation of electoral votes....
By avoiding proportional allocation of electoral votes, America's system... buttresses the dominance of two parties
This is the biggest problem with it, in many people's opinions, and why I don't think it will ever change. Why would the two big parties give up their stranglehold on American politics? And frankly, I think this is why it needs to go.Here's a hint: if you're confused, try asking someone before you submit the ballot.
I'm not sure why you'd make up something like this.
My own personal belief is that it's merely a last-ditch attempt by Democrats to say to the country, "Well, look, we can still win this." I guess we'll find out what's going on eventually.
- Wake up kids! You are involved in something which you have no clue as to what you are playing with!
Speaking of no clue...Sorry, but there are no rituals in Dungeons & Dragons. Your position is not "right", it is simply ignorant and grossly uninformed. Your gun analogy would be more appropriate if it was bright yellow water gun that someone fired a real bullet.
Next time before you make a fool of yourself by criticizing something you have no actual knowledge of, try to find out a little something about it first.
It's hard to take you seriously when you obviously don't have any idea what you're talking about. Not only do your descriptions not accurately reflect any libertarian philosophy (with or without the capital "L"), but your gripe can equally be applied to any political party, including the Republicans and Democrats. Anyone can claim to be a member of any political party (or religion, etc.) and still say whatever they want.
Local news reports that it was, in fact, intentional, as the ad now sports the website and phone number of a company looking for proofreaders. In other words, a gimmick ad.
Could be the .475 Linebaugh, arguably one of the most powerful handgun cartridges in the world. It's based on a cut-down .45-70. While velocities don't achieve the same level as the 475 Wildey Magnum, it's loaded with much heavier bullets so kinetic energy is comparable.
You've sadly neglected one of the more recent uses of titanium: firearms. Smith & Wesson and Taurus are now two of the biggest users of titanium in revolvers. A titanium cylinder greatly reduces weight and is just as strong as steel.