Har- Batman, you are not going to do well here with your consistantly well reasoned posts.
Anyway, there have been conflicting reports, as I have read that the French and others say that Russia does not really have this weapon.
And my question is this- If there were one or two ICBMs headed towards us, wouldn't some brave air force pilots go on a mission and fly their planes right into the missiles over the ocean, bringing them down?
I won't belive that Russia really has these weapons until Putin bangs his shoe on the table and tells us he will bury us.
Your internet is transmitted over subsidised lines- May I intercept your traffic? You drive on subsidised roads- may I look in your trunk? etc etc etc. You make no sense. I am done feeding the troll.
The field may become richer, but that is clearly not what they want at the firm. Yes, being anti-abortion may make the field of politics richer, but you likely won't keep a job at an abortion clinic. Yes, You may believe in gun control, but you aren't going to keep a job at the NRA. And on and on.
I usually don't feed trolls, but I will respond.
Once again, you have a bit of knowledge of the constitution, however you have no understanding of the law. Do you know what makes up laws? Common Law etc? You are trying to argue about what the Constitution says, when the issue is really the breadth of the interpretation of it....
Seriously- why does everything have to be PC? If you dont like what happened here 300 years ago, then give your land to a native American and move to Europe.
What if there was a game about indians fighting each other? Would that be okay?
Hmm- listening to someone with no kids tell me how to raise them? Well thats like someone with no penis telling me how to wash my scrotum. You are a troll. A troll with a subscription, but still a troll.
I am guessing they make about 99 cents off Bill Gates, because, you know, the rich don't like pay any taxes man. They are always sticking it to the working man, dude.
You sound like a prison lawyer... Look, I know that you think you know something about gov't and the constitution, but clearly you have no legal training. Rather than feed a troll, I will simply let you research something called the necessary and proper clause.
This has to be BS. There are very lareg corporations with financials much more complex than Gates' taxes.
This sounds ridiculous. Do Warren Buffet's taxes need the special computer also?
Um, and its even more than that- When someone with a gun, handcuffs, and the power to arrest you and make your life miserable "warns" you, he is telling you what to do IMHO.
"Railfans" i.e.e people who love Trains and Railroads and take a lot of pictures have had this problem since Sept. 11. I wish I wasn't at work (for a lot of reasons) because at home I have an article from Trains Magazine about how some railfans have had their photo equipment confiscated. Some have even been arrested (but later had charges dropped). These arrested railfans were photographing from public places, and not trespassing.
Police need to use common sense- if people are wearing dark clothing, and hiding in the woods taking long range telephoto lens pics of stuff, then maybe they are suspicious. But my friends who are railfans are at least as non threatening and gee geeky as my tech friends, and when asked by police they always tell them that what they are doing.
What's next- banning tourists from taking pictures in Washington D.C.?
And by the way, what about maps.google.com????
WTF!?!?!?! How is parent not modded offtopic? Offtopic has nothing to do with whether you agree or not, it has to do with being, well, OFFTOPIC! What does Osteopathic medicine have to do with Steve Jobs?
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Hmm- I think that we focus too much on weight and not enough on health. If someone is rail thin because they crash diet and are malnourished, that is not healthy...
But eating fresh non processed foods and getting daily exercise is healthy for anyone.
Obesity in the US is becoming a public health emergency. Did you see the 6 day series in the New York Times about Type II diabetes? It showed some people who couldn't stop eating junk food, even though it would mean they would lose a foot or go blind...
Beer yes, if Obesity is a sexually transmitted disease
I imagine most of have had a roll in the old hay with a "pleasantly plump" female after one too many brewskis...
Not to be an ass, but of course there are still users who will open attachments. Do you watch the news? There are still kids who drive 100 mph over RR tracks, and die. There are still people who will open legs, at the promise of pleasure, and catch AIDS. There are still people who don't change the oil in their cars. and on and on and on... Your post basicaly pointed out that people do stupid things, and you act surprised by that fact....
I wouldn't argue with you, but I would say that the two examples that you cite are "niche" companies. They cater to the type of people who see themselves as socially responsible. (I say see themselves as socially responsible, because I frequent the starbucks that I can actually see from my porch, and often times women will giggle with glee about their recycled paper coffee cups and then get in their Escalades)
YEs someone who shops at Whole Foods wouild likely appreciate the social responsibility. But in general, would a Wal mart customer? Would the average Wal Mart customer be willing to pay more for items if the company was socially responsible? To bring the argument full circle, the types of people who hate wal mart are often wealthy people who shop at Whole Foods, and would never ever shop at Wal Mart...
It depends upon which view of business ethics you follow. Some of the models popularized in the 70s and beyond say that a business should be socially responsible. (Some may say this is because of an inate responsibility, others may say that it is due to the fact that being 'socially responsible" is good for shareholders and other stakeholders because it helps the bottom line) The truth is, businesses, especially publicly traded ones, have a fiduciary responsibility to make moeny for shareholders.
I have one question for all the high and mighty people who say that businesses should be "socially responsible" at the expens of shareholders:
How would you feel if your 401K (or other investments) lost half of their value because the companies in your portfolio were being "socially resoponsible?
Sereiously, not to impune anyone, but businesses exist to make $$$. To think otherwise is Hippy wishful thinking.
Without interjecting any opinion about wiretapping into this, I would like to say that this poll is questionable. Why? The question. You can pretty much get any answer you want in a poll.
For example, if you asked Should the government have the absolute right to listen in on calls being made by known al queda members to people in the united states>
you would get a totally different answer than if you asked Should the government be able to listen it to calls being made by anyone remotely suspected of being a terrorist?
As far as the wiretapping goes, I don't feel qualified to offer an opinion without knowing all the details of the program. Without all the details, any opinion is speculation and conjecture.
They should print out the entire code of the game, and present it to the attorney and ask him tom point out the objectionable scene...
In order to view the Hot Coffee, a grainy, non detailed cartoon fellatio scene, didn't you have to go onto the internet and download the code? If someone has access to the internet, couldn't they download non graing, non cartoon fellation? Isn't this somewhat akin to walking past nude women and Hustler mags to get to the SI Swimsuit issue?
Lawyers sue- it is what they do. You can't get mad at a lawyer for suing any more than you can get mad at a dog for barking....
Not to be an ass, but you just proved my point: That being said, life depends on a certain level of chemical activity (I.E no thinking rocks) and a large degree of predictable organization (I.E. no intelligent vapor). Anything else requires repealing the laws of physics and chemistry as they currently understood. (The former is possible on the cosmic and subatomic scale, I.E. outside the realms of life. The latter is unlikely in the extreme.)
With your rigid (and in my opinion intelligent) view of life, you may be overlooking other forms of intelligence or even life...
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Har- Batman, you are not going to do well here with your consistantly well reasoned posts.
Anyway, there have been conflicting reports, as I have read that the French and others say that Russia does not really have this weapon.
And my question is this- If there were one or two ICBMs headed towards us, wouldn't some brave air force pilots go on a mission and fly their planes right into the missiles over the ocean, bringing them down?
I won't belive that Russia really has these weapons until Putin bangs his shoe on the table and tells us he will bury us.
Your internet is transmitted over subsidised lines- May I intercept your traffic? You drive on subsidised roads- may I look in your trunk? etc etc etc. You make no sense. I am done feeding the troll.
The field may become richer, but that is clearly not what they want at the firm. Yes, being anti-abortion may make the field of politics richer, but you likely won't keep a job at an abortion clinic. Yes, You may believe in gun control, but you aren't going to keep a job at the NRA. And on and on.
I usually don't feed trolls, but I will respond.
Once again, you have a bit of knowledge of the constitution, however you have no understanding of the law. Do you know what makes up laws? Common Law etc? You are trying to argue about what the Constitution says, when the issue is really the breadth of the interpretation of it....
Seriously- why does everything have to be PC? If you dont like what happened here 300 years ago, then give your land to a native American and move to Europe.
What if there was a game about indians fighting each other? Would that be okay?
Hmm- listening to someone with no kids tell me how to raise them? Well thats like someone with no penis telling me how to wash my scrotum. You are a troll. A troll with a subscription, but still a troll.
I am guessing they make about 99 cents off Bill Gates, because, you know, the rich don't like pay any taxes man. They are always sticking it to the working man, dude.
You sound like a prison lawyer... Look, I know that you think you know something about gov't and the constitution, but clearly you have no legal training. Rather than feed a troll, I will simply let you research something called the necessary and proper clause.
This has to be BS. There are very lareg corporations with financials much more complex than Gates' taxes.
This sounds ridiculous. Do Warren Buffet's taxes need the special computer also?
Too bad there is no +5 ironic.... But basicly what you are saying is that public pics are illegal, while pubic pics are okay?
Um, and its even more than that- When someone with a gun, handcuffs, and the power to arrest you and make your life miserable "warns" you, he is telling you what to do IMHO.
"Railfans" i.e.e people who love Trains and Railroads and take a lot of pictures have had this problem since Sept. 11. I wish I wasn't at work (for a lot of reasons) because at home I have an article from Trains Magazine about how some railfans have had their photo equipment confiscated. Some have even been arrested (but later had charges dropped). These arrested railfans were photographing from public places, and not trespassing.
Police need to use common sense- if people are wearing dark clothing, and hiding in the woods taking long range telephoto lens pics of stuff, then maybe they are suspicious. But my friends who are railfans are at least as non threatening and gee geeky as my tech friends, and when asked by police they always tell them that what they are doing.
What's next- banning tourists from taking pictures in Washington D.C.?
And by the way, what about maps.google.com????
WTF!?!?!?! How is parent not modded offtopic? Offtopic has nothing to do with whether you agree or not, it has to do with being, well, OFFTOPIC! What does Osteopathic medicine have to do with Steve Jobs?
MOD PARENT UP! The poster is clearly not a troll!
Hmm- I think that we focus too much on weight and not enough on health. If someone is rail thin because they crash diet and are malnourished, that is not healthy...
But eating fresh non processed foods and getting daily exercise is healthy for anyone.
Obesity in the US is becoming a public health emergency. Did you see the 6 day series in the New York Times about Type II diabetes? It showed some people who couldn't stop eating junk food, even though it would mean they would lose a foot or go blind...
Beer yes, if Obesity is a sexually transmitted disease
I imagine most of have had a roll in the old hay with a "pleasantly plump" female after one too many brewskis...
Not to be an ass, but of course there are still users who will open attachments. Do you watch the news? There are still kids who drive 100 mph over RR tracks, and die. There are still people who will open legs, at the promise of pleasure, and catch AIDS. There are still people who don't change the oil in their cars. and on and on and on... Your post basicaly pointed out that people do stupid things, and you act surprised by that fact....
I though it was from the mother watching the people's court during pregnancy... Gotta Watch Wapner, Gotta Watch Wapner....
Rimshot
So basically, we are looking at a don't ask, don't tell kind of thing?
Rimshot
The head of Bill Gates Charity is Mr. Gates ie Billy's father.
I wouldn't argue with you, but I would say that the two examples that you cite are "niche" companies. They cater to the type of people who see themselves as socially responsible. (I say see themselves as socially responsible, because I frequent the starbucks that I can actually see from my porch, and often times women will giggle with glee about their recycled paper coffee cups and then get in their Escalades)
YEs someone who shops at Whole Foods wouild likely appreciate the social responsibility. But in general, would a Wal mart customer? Would the average Wal Mart customer be willing to pay more for items if the company was socially responsible? To bring the argument full circle, the types of people who hate wal mart are often wealthy people who shop at Whole Foods, and would never ever shop at Wal Mart...
It depends upon which view of business ethics you follow. Some of the models popularized in the 70s and beyond say that a business should be socially responsible. (Some may say this is because of an inate responsibility, others may say that it is due to the fact that being 'socially responsible" is good for shareholders and other stakeholders because it helps the bottom line) The truth is, businesses, especially publicly traded ones, have a fiduciary responsibility to make moeny for shareholders.
I have one question for all the high and mighty people who say that businesses should be "socially responsible" at the expens of shareholders:
How would you feel if your 401K (or other investments) lost half of their value because the companies in your portfolio were being "socially resoponsible?
Sereiously, not to impune anyone, but businesses exist to make $$$. To think otherwise is Hippy wishful thinking.
Without interjecting any opinion about wiretapping into this, I would like to say that this poll is questionable. Why? The question. You can pretty much get any answer you want in a poll.
For example, if you asked Should the government have the absolute right to listen in on calls being made by known al queda members to people in the united states>
you would get a totally different answer than if you asked
Should the government be able to listen it to calls being made by anyone remotely suspected of being a terrorist?
As far as the wiretapping goes, I don't feel qualified to offer an opinion without knowing all the details of the program. Without all the details, any opinion is speculation and conjecture.
They should print out the entire code of the game, and present it to the attorney and ask him tom point out the objectionable scene...
In order to view the Hot Coffee, a grainy, non detailed cartoon fellatio scene, didn't you have to go onto the internet and download the code? If someone has access to the internet, couldn't they download non graing, non cartoon fellation? Isn't this somewhat akin to walking past nude women and Hustler mags to get to the SI Swimsuit issue?
Lawyers sue- it is what they do. You can't get mad at a lawyer for suing any more than you can get mad at a dog for barking....
Not to be an ass, but you just proved my point:
That being said, life depends on a certain level of chemical activity (I.E no thinking rocks) and a large degree of predictable organization (I.E. no intelligent vapor). Anything else requires repealing the laws of physics and chemistry as they currently understood. (The former is possible on the cosmic and subatomic scale, I.E. outside the realms of life. The latter is unlikely in the extreme.)
With your rigid (and in my opinion intelligent) view of life, you may be overlooking other forms of intelligence or even life...