It's a conundrum, though. If abortion is legal, it has to be legal for everyone, for all reasons.
Why does it have to be "for all reasons"? In the UK abortion is only legal if there are medical grounds for it, and that can include things like psychological harm to the mother due to extreme poverty or having been raped etc. Merely not wanting a girl isn't enough though.
Would you want to be born to a mother that doesn't want you? Not being able to provide an excuse acceptable to uninvolved parties isn't (in my mind) adequate reason to force an unwanted child into being.
[...] Then they abort the females until a male is born first. It's become such an issue that it's now illegal to specify an embryo's gender until the window for legal abortion has passed (I don't remember how many weeks/months that is).
Sounds like an efficient way to wind up with a lot of abused/neglected little girls.
Dude, you have some serious misapprehensions about the right wing. Supporting law enforcement doesn't mean supporting lawbreaking by police or other government agents.
Cops don't need "support" from any wing. Cops support themselves with bribes, beat-downs and bullets.
[T]he argument that the hubristic people make is that Earth is the only planet with complex/intelligent life (because to think they're one of billions in a universe with billions of billions is too much to handle).
What does that even mean? If God is omnipotent, why does he need the glory? And why does he seems to need everyone to love him? If this dude is real, he has one serious inferiority complex.
Parent asks valid questions, and made an observation I tend to agree with. How is this Flamebait? Presuming a believer censored this, wouldn't this be Lightningbait? Or are the flames in this case representative of the eternal damnation Dahamma, myself, and others face for asking forbidden questions?
Reconciling the deity's claimed states of omniscience, omnipotence, timelessness, pure good and pure love with free will, evil, etc., has been a source of absurd twisted logic for quite a long time.
Your ten year old probably doesn't understand the number line. Sure, he can put a few numbers on a line, but ask him to put a million, and a thousand on the line. Try it yourself, you may be surprised.
Done. In order to save time, paper, and ink, I made my number line logarithmic.
Aluminum was very expensive a hundred years ago. Only the most wealthy could afford an Aluminum tea set. Now, a hundred years later, Aluminum cans cost pennies and are infinitely recyclable.
I watched an interesting BBC documentary the other day, Stuff: A Horizon Guide to Materials. In it, Napoleon Bonaparte was said to have owned an aluminum dinner set, which he permitted no one else to use; his guests had to make do with his silverware set.
The Washington Monument is also topped with aluminum. Quoting Wikipedia:
[...] it was finally completed, with the 100 ounce (2.85 kg) aluminum apex/lightning-rod being put in place on December 6, 1884. The apex was the largest single piece of aluminum cast at the time, when aluminum commanded a price comparable to silver. Two years later, the Hall–Héroult process made aluminum easier to produce and the price of aluminum plummeted, making the once-valuable apex nearly worthless, though it still provided a lustrous, non-rusting apex that served as the original lightning rod.
Instead of having your money wasted on hookers and blow by corporate banksters, you get that money in the form of better interest rates. Credit union members are part-owners; you vote for the managers. Quit paying a company to fuck you over and join a credit union.
Our choices are fossil fuels, or a massive nuclear program, probably thorium, to tide us over to fusion. That's it, greenwashing the question doesn't give a realistic third option.
I agree, and I'll take nuclear's probabilistic issues over fossil fuels' deterministic issues any day. I wish we could get past this and move the discussion from "why," to "how," before we dig ourselves into a hole we can't climb back out of; (i.e., before we don't have enough fossil fuels left to construct nuclear infrastructure).
One other issue which I think is too often overlooked: Maybe we should be saving some of our petroleum supply for petrochemical production; burning it all up is madness. We already know how to burn radioisotopes for energy, what we haven't figured out is how to supply humanity's demand for food (via petroleum-derived fertilizers), plastics, pharmaceuticals, and so on without petroleum. That's something that bothers me about "drill, baby, drill;" in USA, we already have relatively inexpensive gasoline; please, let's leave some of our domestic supply alone for when we actually fucking need it, as opposed to when we wanna save a couple of bucks at the pump.
Wow they don't even use a proxy? It's like they *know* nobody will care.
I care.
I think a more accurate characterization would be that it's like they know they won't be held accountable. I believe the lack of accountability and legal repercussions for illegal/improper government/contractor actions emboldens these bad actors to commit even more egregious offenses against both US citizens and foreign nations. Oftentimes we (the public) are at a loss even to definitively determine what agenda(s) motivated the things we've learned about.
Why sneak around when it's cheaper, easier and faster to operate in "broad daylight," (so to speak)? br00tus's comment suggests to me that the sheer volume of impropriety may be a defensive strategy in its own right; that is to say, (in the words of bad actors,) "what are they going to do, put us all in jail? LOL," What are we going to do? Nothing; crime is legal for those who are "more equal" than the rest of us.
Typically my stance on "see something, say something" is "mind your own fucking business." However, I think an exception is appropriate (in that it isn't harmful to our liberty) when the seen "something" involves a government or corporate entity. Although I've suggested that there's little we can do to protect ourselves, or effectively respond to these things, I still think it's important to stay informed. My thanks go to br00tus and others who report their experiences.
So treat it like a school / uni essay. You know the "marker" will spend ~30 seconds reading it, so make sure it's "well structured", so a busy reader can get the gist of your argument with next to no effort..
But make sure it's well padded, so they know you put some effort in.
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It's a conundrum, though. If abortion is legal, it has to be legal for everyone, for all reasons.
Why does it have to be "for all reasons"? In the UK abortion is only legal if there are medical grounds for it, and that can include things like psychological harm to the mother due to extreme poverty or having been raped etc. Merely not wanting a girl isn't enough though.
Would you want to be born to a mother that doesn't want you? Not being able to provide an excuse acceptable to uninvolved parties isn't (in my mind) adequate reason to force an unwanted child into being.
[...] Then they abort the females until a male is born first. It's become such an issue that it's now illegal to specify an embryo's gender until the window for legal abortion has passed (I don't remember how many weeks/months that is).
Sounds like an efficient way to wind up with a lot of abused/neglected little girls.
(Score:5, Tinfoil)
1984 called. They want their dystopia back.
1909 called. They want their foil back.
Now what are the odds of that? Replying to a comment and coming up with the same heading as the comment above it?
In this case? 1:1. ;o)
Dude, you have some serious misapprehensions about the right wing. Supporting law enforcement doesn't mean supporting lawbreaking by police or other government agents.
Cops don't need "support" from any wing. Cops support themselves with bribes, beat-downs and bullets.
Bring a video camera next time, and a friend.
Cop will simply smash both.
[T]he argument that the hubristic people make is that Earth is the only planet with complex/intelligent life (because to think they're one of billions in a universe with billions of billions is too much to handle).
I think this may likely be (partially) due to the weakness* of the human mind in its ability to handle/visualize large numbers. I have found the pages in the following Wikipedia category somewhat helpful in this regard: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Category:Orders_of_magnitude
* Relative to machines; not other known minds.
Can man \harness electricity needs to be asked before we could have cell phones.
My cell phone runs purely on clockwork, you insensitive clod!
Unless we really are in a magical fantasy world made by some bored deity playing Sims Universe.
It'd be hilarious if this were the case... More so when the DRM wipes us out. ;o)
Better linky: https://torrent.zoink.it/The.Daily.Show.2012.04.25.(HDTV-FQM)%5BVTV%5D.torrent
Given that the universe is made for God's glory
What does that even mean? If God is omnipotent, why does he need the glory? And why does he seems to need everyone to love him? If this dude is real, he has one serious inferiority complex.
Parent asks valid questions, and made an observation I tend to agree with. How is this Flamebait? Presuming a believer censored this, wouldn't this be Lightningbait? Or are the flames in this case representative of the eternal damnation Dahamma, myself, and others face for asking forbidden questions?
Read:
"Uh," you want me to read some unlinked URLs to a book retailer's product pages?
If you're going to tell me to read something, at least give me a working link to a working .torrent or .pdf.
Reconciling the deity's claimed states of omniscience, omnipotence, timelessness, pure good and pure love with free will, evil, etc., has been a source of absurd twisted logic for quite a long time.
"Irreconcilable Complexity" ;o)
I'm all for protecting our civil liberties, but I'm perfectly fine with TSA pat downs and screening.
You're a very smart person, but you're actually a fucking imbecile.
Your ten year old probably doesn't understand the number line. Sure, he can put a few numbers on a line, but ask him to put a million, and a thousand on the line. Try it yourself, you may be surprised.
Done. In order to save time, paper, and ink, I made my number line logarithmic.
Aluminum was very expensive a hundred years ago. Only the most wealthy could afford an Aluminum tea set. Now, a hundred years later, Aluminum cans cost pennies and are infinitely recyclable.
I watched an interesting BBC documentary the other day, Stuff: A Horizon Guide to Materials . In it, Napoleon Bonaparte was said to have owned an aluminum dinner set, which he permitted no one else to use; his guests had to make do with his silverware set.
The Washington Monument is also topped with aluminum. Quoting Wikipedia:
[...] it was finally completed, with the 100 ounce (2.85 kg) aluminum apex/lightning-rod being put in place on December 6, 1884. The apex was the largest single piece of aluminum cast at the time, when aluminum commanded a price comparable to silver. Two years later, the Hall–Héroult process made aluminum easier to produce and the price of aluminum plummeted, making the once-valuable apex nearly worthless, though it still provided a lustrous, non-rusting apex that served as the original lightning rod.
Fuck banks.
Find yourself a credit union.
Instead of having your money wasted on hookers and blow by corporate banksters, you get that money in the form of better interest rates. Credit union members are part-owners; you vote for the managers. Quit paying a company to fuck you over and join a credit union.
Our choices are fossil fuels, or a massive nuclear program, probably thorium, to tide us over to fusion. That's it, greenwashing the question doesn't give a realistic third option.
I agree, and I'll take nuclear's probabilistic issues over fossil fuels' deterministic issues any day. I wish we could get past this and move the discussion from "why," to "how," before we dig ourselves into a hole we can't climb back out of; (i.e., before we don't have enough fossil fuels left to construct nuclear infrastructure).
One other issue which I think is too often overlooked: Maybe we should be saving some of our petroleum supply for petrochemical production; burning it all up is madness. We already know how to burn radioisotopes for energy, what we haven't figured out is how to supply humanity's demand for food (via petroleum-derived fertilizers), plastics, pharmaceuticals, and so on without petroleum. That's something that bothers me about "drill, baby, drill;" in USA, we already have relatively inexpensive gasoline; please, let's leave some of our domestic supply alone for when we actually fucking need it, as opposed to when we wanna save a couple of bucks at the pump.
Wow they don't even use a proxy? It's like they *know* nobody will care.
I care.
I think a more accurate characterization would be that it's like they know they won't be held accountable. I believe the lack of accountability and legal repercussions for illegal/improper government/contractor actions emboldens these bad actors to commit even more egregious offenses against both US citizens and foreign nations. Oftentimes we (the public) are at a loss even to definitively determine what agenda(s) motivated the things we've learned about.
Why sneak around when it's cheaper, easier and faster to operate in "broad daylight," (so to speak)? br00tus's comment suggests to me that the sheer volume of impropriety may be a defensive strategy in its own right; that is to say, (in the words of bad actors,) "what are they going to do, put us all in jail? LOL," What are we going to do? Nothing; crime is legal for those who are "more equal" than the rest of us.
Typically my stance on "see something, say something" is "mind your own fucking business." However, I think an exception is appropriate (in that it isn't harmful to our liberty) when the seen "something" involves a government or corporate entity. Although I've suggested that there's little we can do to protect ourselves, or effectively respond to these things, I still think it's important to stay informed. My thanks go to br00tus and others who report their experiences.
These two devices solve literally every problem you are trying to solve.
Then by that reasoning, chiseled stone tablets ought to carry a lot more weight!
Yes, but one should use tablets of embossed, steel-reinforced concrete if they're to literally carry more weight.
PROTIP: Include some of your favorite radioisotopes as aggregate to ensure a rapid response.
So treat it like a school / uni essay. You know the "marker" will spend ~30 seconds reading it, so make sure it's "well structured", so a busy reader can get the gist of your argument with next to no effort..
But make sure it's well padded, so they know you put some effort in.
Kinda like this? ;o)
Last time the olympics came around, I tried to watch them online. No deal.
I assume pirate bay will help me if I want to watch them this time around.
They will. In 2010, all events and tryouts were available in SD and 720p.
If you [...] on [...] Facebook [...] you get what you deserve.
Here's a succinct version with a wider margin of safety.
all words are made up. Muggle is a valid word. It is in the dictionary because people use it.
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/muggle?q=muggle
Haha I love Oxford's example: "she’s a muggle: no IT background, understanding, or aptitude at all"
[T]hey don't just toss these things in the boneyard with working instruments.
But sometimes pilots do... Just need to beat NTSB to the scene.