I'm the only constitutional libertarian (long-term view) in the state. Apparently, that makes me a rabid right-wing nutjob to the Democrats, and a communist to the Republicans (and a socialist fascist to the Libertarians), so I must be doing something right.
I like to read your posts and can't remember a single one I've disagreed with (I'm on your fan list); you're doing a lot right, AFAIC.:o)
Regarding AK, I could have sworn you recently said you emigrated...? As for your anesthesia story, I'm sorry, it was so horrible I had to laugh.;o(
It's not about the money; birth control saves money. Can you simple arithmetic? Which costs more: a 25-cent condom or a $100,000+ unwanted child? You are the liar, and your lying serves to deny medical care to women, and bring children into the world whose lives will be miserable, and for whom you won't lift a finger or spend a dime to assist.
My disorientation is that I didn't "wake up" after my knee surgery so much as "get shaken until I threw up" followed by demands that I vacate the premises for the next person. The surgery ran over time due to a routine complication, and the conveyor-belt outpatient hospital didn't have enough recovery beds for me to wake naturally from the extended anesthesia. In the end, they wheeled me into the parking lot, vomiting the whole time.
But the republicans are always scoffing about how terrible the NHS is, and how your "pay $10k to give birth" methods are so much more civilised.
I'm pretty sure AK Marc isn't a Republican, AK notwithstanding.
I had one when i was about 4 (grommets) which was "blink and you miss it", one when I was 12 (appendix) which was followed by hours of vomiting and weeks of feeling really really sick, and one when I was about 30 (correct a deviated nasal septum and fix up some other nasal blockages) which was also followed by lots of unpleasentness. None of those would have had the general marked as "optional".
Pfff... Wuss. I had a triple-bypass with a swig of whiskey and a stick to bite on.
Unless you have an abnormally small just stop being a wimp and leave them in. I'm 50 and I have fully grown wisdom teeth. Never had any issues with them.
See, that means you didn't need to have them removed, you see?
Have also lost consciousness on several occasions due to physical trauma (one was a golf club to the spine, other I hit a wall so hard with my ribs the wall cracked).
My boss used to use me to tee-off. Fucking hate "suits." =(
Aside from that, its an excellent example of why multiculturalism should not exist. My daughter gains nothing by the existence of that culture. Let american consumerism steamroll it out of existence, no substantial loss.
Right, because the American culture is the One True Culture. Your ridiculous statement implies a false choice: American culture vs. poisoning girls who want to go to school. This is, in fact, a great argument for multiculturalism. If Afghanistan were more of an educated multi-cultural society, these nutjobs would have a harder time getting a following. As it is, when everyone only sees one culture (their own), treating women like this is the only "normal" they know.
vlm didn't say that there's anything particularly exceptional about American culture. However, in the context of American entertainment media, I think it's diverse, and it's definitely in demand. In any case, I think exposing Afghans to any culture that isn't so hostile/misogynistic might be beneficial for the advancement of their society. Even if it isn't influential, it's difficult to hurt people while watching a movie, reading a book, etc.
I'm not a supporter of imperialism, American or otherwise; I don't advocate pushing any of the above onto any populace. However, I would support a program that effectively seeks to protect Afghan families from extremist elements. For anyone who's further interested in how Afghanistan is hostile towards families, please watch Frontline's Opium Brides.
Please ignore the authoritarian asshole AC that replied to you. It's clear that you and your wife were wronged by an abusive organization for doing something good, and you have my sympathy.
Based on personal experience and accounts like yours, I've come to regard educational institutions as little more than greed-driven businesses that treat their customers with an level of contempt seldom seen outside of the telecommunications industry.
Perhaps, but it was worth more because it had more shit in it. Also, thank you for the extra spaces you inserted between sentences; you just don't see that kind of attention to cramming extra shit into writing these days.
You have to look at what the parents are doing: having a child at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and getting others to pay to raise and support that child. An awesome reproduction strategy, and one that can propogate if it isn't stopped.
An intriguing idea... Can you imagine if these cuckoo-kids began adapting by dumping the parents' own children out of the "nest?"
... which helps those already infected or dead because of non-vaccinations of others exactly how?
The problem is that your system only starts kicking in when the catastrophe has already happened.
The may be, but the wisdom of his system is that it doesn't impinge upon the civil liberties of the individual. It also doesn't preemptively punish individuals for taking risks and managing those risks and/or remaining fortuitous in avoiding their natural, probabilistic consequences. Finally, it provides a legal motivation (in addition to extant or potential motivators, e.g., societal, medical, ethical, financial, etc.) to do what is beneficial for society, without purposefully engaging in the catastrophe that is the rapid, wholesale destruction our civil liberties.
Franklin's quote on security and liberty needn't only be applied in the context of state bogeymen de jour. I find the concept of criminalizing actions due to (real or perceived) risks to be morally questionable, authoritarian, and ripe expansion and abuse with no end in sight. The popular target for legislation these days is driving, and what we may or may not do in our vehicles. Perhaps medicine will be the next target for a while.
As a liberal, it concerns me that so few on the left see a problem with this, let alone get on board with some of these ideas.
He went into hiding, probably depressed. Didn't stay in touch with his lawyers. Then, worst mistake, he called the DA and talked to them without a lawyer present. He's screwed.
My god, he's even an asshole when dealing with his own damn self! This guy just doesn't know when to quit.
That's fucking crazy... I hypothesize that the police probably didn't want to arrest him because they couldn't stand to listen to any more of that man-child's lunatic cry-wolf bullshit. Who would've thought; calling 911 for years as a "cry for help." The "emergency" he was constantly calling about... that's right, it was himself.
So, he was all: "Hire me! or arrest me! Just pay attention to me goddamnit, before somebody loses an eye!"
Hm. I wonder if the police realized that Deputy Dipshit was running around with a real gun and live ammunition that whole time.
The 27" Trinitrons from around that time supported anamorphic enhancement DVD's (one of the few 4:3 TV's you could buy in the U.S. which supported that) and had much better tubes than any SDTV on the market. They were probably one of the few products Sony every produced that were a good deal. And they were way better than the Panasonics.
I agree. After I got my first Trinitron monitor (with my third machine, a Pentium 133MHz, ca. 1996), I couldn't go back to the convex "bubble screens," as my best friend and I called them. My last CRT was Sony's $1600 FD500R, a 21" with 0.22mm stripe-pitch and 5xBNC+D15.
It (and its warranty replacements) suffered from a nasty design flaw; occasionally, a very loud (electrical arc?) bang would sound, immediately after which the display would become badly unfocused until power-cycled, but with the blurring increasing in permanence with each occurrence. Interestingly, that was Sony's last CRT model; the remainder of their offerings was comprised of already-released, mediocre models as they whittled down their catalog in favor of (also mediocre) LCDs.
There's still a few Trinitron CRT SDTVs in my family, all working fine.
(All of this occurred before Sony's rootkit debacle, etcetera, so please don't hold my previous admiration for Sony's products against me. Also, sorry for straying off topic. I want to post my Best Buy horror shockers, but I need more composition time for that).;o)
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...you guys act like it's some big deal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP4_MuBugFo
This can't be real... it must be some kinda trick.
I'm the only constitutional libertarian (long-term view) in the state. Apparently, that makes me a rabid right-wing nutjob to the Democrats, and a communist to the Republicans (and a socialist fascist to the Libertarians), so I must be doing something right.
I like to read your posts and can't remember a single one I've disagreed with (I'm on your fan list); you're doing a lot right, AFAIC. :o)
Regarding AK, I could have sworn you recently said you emigrated...? As for your anesthesia story, I'm sorry, it was so horrible I had to laugh. ;o(
It's not about the money; birth control saves money. Can you simple arithmetic? Which costs more: a 25-cent condom or a $100,000+ unwanted child? You are the liar, and your lying serves to deny medical care to women, and bring children into the world whose lives will be miserable, and for whom you won't lift a finger or spend a dime to assist.
... and mucking up their sense of direction.
When using these type of technically specific science terms, you should really specify the degree of mucking and define the term for the laymen.
Agreed. As a resident of New York, I'd also appreciate the fuck_up:muck_up conversion ratio being specified.
My disorientation is that I didn't "wake up" after my knee surgery so much as "get shaken until I threw up" followed by demands that I vacate the premises for the next person. The surgery ran over time due to a routine complication, and the conveyor-belt outpatient hospital didn't have enough recovery beds for me to wake naturally from the extended anesthesia. In the end, they wheeled me into the parking lot, vomiting the whole time.
But the republicans are always scoffing about how terrible the NHS is, and how your "pay $10k to give birth" methods are so much more civilised.
I'm pretty sure AK Marc isn't a Republican, AK notwithstanding.
I had one when i was about 4 (grommets) which was "blink and you miss it", one when I was 12 (appendix) which was followed by hours of vomiting and weeks of feeling really really sick, and one when I was about 30 (correct a deviated nasal septum and fix up some other nasal blockages) which was also followed by lots of unpleasentness. None of those would have had the general marked as "optional".
Pfff... Wuss. I had a triple-bypass with a swig of whiskey and a stick to bite on.
[...] I had my toenails removed [...]
'Nam?
Unless you have an abnormally small just stop being a wimp and leave them in. I'm 50 and I have fully grown wisdom teeth. Never had any issues with them.
See, that means you didn't need to have them removed, you see?
Have also lost consciousness on several occasions due to physical trauma (one was a golf club to the spine, other I hit a wall so hard with my ribs the wall cracked).
My boss used to use me to tee-off. Fucking hate "suits." =(
Aside from that, its an excellent example of why multiculturalism should not exist. My daughter gains nothing by the existence of that culture. Let american consumerism steamroll it out of existence, no substantial loss.
Right, because the American culture is the One True Culture. Your ridiculous statement implies a false choice: American culture vs. poisoning girls who want to go to school. This is, in fact, a great argument for multiculturalism. If Afghanistan were more of an educated multi-cultural society, these nutjobs would have a harder time getting a following. As it is, when everyone only sees one culture (their own), treating women like this is the only "normal" they know.
vlm didn't say that there's anything particularly exceptional about American culture. However, in the context of American entertainment media, I think it's diverse, and it's definitely in demand. In any case, I think exposing Afghans to any culture that isn't so hostile/misogynistic might be beneficial for the advancement of their society. Even if it isn't influential, it's difficult to hurt people while watching a movie, reading a book, etc.
I'm not a supporter of imperialism, American or otherwise; I don't advocate pushing any of the above onto any populace. However, I would support a program that effectively seeks to protect Afghan families from extremist elements. For anyone who's further interested in how Afghanistan is hostile towards families, please watch Frontline's Opium Brides.
Please ignore the authoritarian asshole AC that replied to you. It's clear that you and your wife were wronged by an abusive organization for doing something good, and you have my sympathy.
Based on personal experience and accounts like yours, I've come to regard educational institutions as little more than greed-driven businesses that treat their customers with an level of contempt seldom seen outside of the telecommunications industry.
Ugh wow. That was a bit rambling.
Perhaps, but it was worth more because it had more shit in it. Also, thank you for the extra spaces you inserted between sentences; you just don't see that kind of attention to cramming extra shit into writing these days.
I think you'll find that ENGLish comes from ENGLand. The clue is in the name.
It's you that's deleted a necessary u from colour, because you can't spell properly.
Well, at least we know the alphabet. Come on, "Zed?" Zed's dead.
As an American I'd love to hear where the hell in the States you are buying a gallon milk for a buck ninety-nine [...]
You mean cow milk? Eww, gross. You keep that.
[...] it sure as shit ain't that cheap anywhere around here.
Bullshit, man. I "live" is the US, and I get all the milk I want for free (minus expenses for feed and presents) from my girlfriend.
You have to look at what the parents are doing: having a child at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and getting others to pay to raise and support that child. An awesome reproduction strategy, and one that can propogate if it isn't stopped.
An intriguing idea... Can you imagine if these cuckoo-kids began adapting by dumping the parents' own children out of the "nest?"
This is unexpected. I have to wonder if this is an effort to deflect scrutiny from his own outfit.
Cue the corporation-worshiping consumers willing to abandon human dignity in defense of a non-living multinational corporate person.
That this guy can make a little joke from a bad situation is no reason to deny him karma with Funny mods.
... which helps those already infected or dead because of non-vaccinations of others exactly how?
The problem is that your system only starts kicking in when the catastrophe has already happened.
The may be, but the wisdom of his system is that it doesn't impinge upon the civil liberties of the individual. It also doesn't preemptively punish individuals for taking risks and managing those risks and/or remaining fortuitous in avoiding their natural, probabilistic consequences. Finally, it provides a legal motivation (in addition to extant or potential motivators, e.g., societal, medical, ethical, financial, etc.) to do what is beneficial for society, without purposefully engaging in the catastrophe that is the rapid, wholesale destruction our civil liberties.
Franklin's quote on security and liberty needn't only be applied in the context of state bogeymen de jour. I find the concept of criminalizing actions due to (real or perceived) risks to be morally questionable, authoritarian, and ripe expansion and abuse with no end in sight. The popular target for legislation these days is driving, and what we may or may not do in our vehicles. Perhaps medicine will be the next target for a while.
As a liberal, it concerns me that so few on the left see a problem with this, let alone get on board with some of these ideas.
He went into hiding, probably depressed. Didn't stay in touch with his lawyers.
Then, worst mistake, he called the DA and talked to them without a lawyer present.
He's screwed.
My god, he's even an asshole when dealing with his own damn self! This guy just doesn't know when to quit.
He called 911 46 times in 8 years.
That's fucking crazy... I hypothesize that the police probably didn't want to arrest him because they couldn't stand to listen to any more of that man-child's lunatic cry-wolf bullshit. Who would've thought; calling 911 for years as a "cry for help." The "emergency" he was constantly calling about... that's right, it was himself.
So, he was all: "Hire me! or arrest me! Just pay attention to me goddamnit, before somebody loses an eye!"
Hm. I wonder if the police realized that Deputy Dipshit was running around with a real gun and live ammunition that whole time.
Right, because OJ got what he deserved /sarcasm
I'm not sure. What sort of top was the vic wearing?
The 27" Trinitrons from around that time supported anamorphic enhancement DVD's (one of the few 4:3 TV's you could buy in the U.S. which supported that) and had much better tubes than any SDTV on the market. They were probably one of the few products Sony every produced that were a good deal. And they were way better than the Panasonics.
I agree. After I got my first Trinitron monitor (with my third machine, a Pentium 133MHz, ca. 1996), I couldn't go back to the convex "bubble screens," as my best friend and I called them. My last CRT was Sony's $1600 FD500R, a 21" with 0.22mm stripe-pitch and 5xBNC+D15.
It (and its warranty replacements) suffered from a nasty design flaw; occasionally, a very loud (electrical arc?) bang would sound, immediately after which the display would become badly unfocused until power-cycled, but with the blurring increasing in permanence with each occurrence. Interestingly, that was Sony's last CRT model; the remainder of their offerings was comprised of already-released, mediocre models as they whittled down their catalog in favor of (also mediocre) LCDs.
There's still a few Trinitron CRT SDTVs in my family, all working fine.
(All of this occurred before Sony's rootkit debacle, etcetera, so please don't hold my previous admiration for Sony's products against me. Also, sorry for straying off topic. I want to post my Best Buy horror shockers, but I need more composition time for that). ;o)
What would you do, if copyright were so strongly time-limited?
Celebrate.
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