Which is why our current foreign policy is complete bullshit. Rather than maintaining honest friendships and alliances, we instead seek to keep other countries in the stone age and use diplomacy only when they gain equal technology.
This strategy sounds very familiar... where have I seen it before?
Oh yes, I remember... who knew Sid Meier was Senior Policy Consultant on Technology and Foreign Affairs?
In practical terms, your large gravitational pull is actually counteracted by a natural repulsor beam (also generated by your weight) that keeps women away from you.
So you're saying that if I could project my stench *behind* my target, it would propel them towards me?
Interesting. And as you say, if they try escaping out the sides, that would just put them into orbit (provided I can move my stench projection as needed).
Interesting. You have given me much to ruminate on.
Well, that's the damn point. I can't afford to lose weight until we have a working tractor beam, lest I lose all chances of physical contact with members of the opposite sex.
Although I suppose if I lost enough weight I could simply find some who are large enough to not outrun me, or I could even get swept into their gravitational pull. But I kind of prefer being the Jabba to their Leia.
Meh. This is a repulsor beam, not a tractor beam. Wake me up when I can use this, instead of my own gravitational pull, to bring things within reach of my grasp.
I'm going to drink JaegerMonkey all fokin night. I fokin shower in dat shit.
That's a novel approach. Normally when *I* drink Jaeger all night, I end up shitting in the fucking shower in the morning.
Seriously. That stuff is like using a brass-bristle brush on the inside of your bowels and then using clamps to pry your asshole open to give the residue unimpeded egress.
As if it is possible to worship anything except for an interpretation of him.
That's besides the point, really -- the original question was how people could have absolute faith that the interpretation they were worshiping was flawless and correct, thereby invalidating other interpretations.
The brutal taxes and restrictive laws help even more
Well, it's a tradeoff. Sure, the taxes are brutal, but the public education system is among the best, if not the best, in the country. There are other public services that are also very valuable.
Not to say there's not corruption, graft, and other waste in the cesspool of NJ public administration...
It's also important to note that the higher taxes and higher cost of living in NJ is offset some by the higher wages.
That said, Jersey has some beautiful old towns and semi-rural areas, but you need to be wealthy to live there.
Or live in squalor just next to those nice towns... it's amazing what exists once you get 20 miles from a major highway.
Then there's the easy access to both Philly and Manhattan. It's really nice to be able to get a babysitter and go into the city to see some good jazz at a nice intimate club.
You may want to read up on the subject. Burglary is generally considered a violent crime in the US (a href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_burglary_of_a_habitat_a_violent_crime">see explanation here. This surprised me when I first read it.
Theft, OTOH, is not a violent crime -- but burglary is a different thing than theft.
What if all three religions you mention all worship the same God? And it's only their flawed interpretation of Him that differs?
(Either that or the people who first wrote about him badly misunderstood him).
Exactly. I don't believe in God... but for those that do... how much faith can they have that their interpretation of Him (and only their own!) is flawless, when man is inherently flawed?
Horseshit. It's obvious that you don't understand our founding ideals if you think that.
Rackspace is a private entity, and as such, should have the freedom to do and say what they want. THAT is applying our "founding ideals" to this situation.
If they choose not to do business with someone they disagree with, or someone that they think their other customers will get mad at them for doing business with, that is their choice.
It does not violate any principle that this country was founded on for Rackspace to act on their conscience or in their monetary interests.
I have not yet received my opinion assignment document from those we don't speak of,
Oh, we can speak of them, just not by name.
On one tentacle, anything helping to make photovoltaic material affordable is very good.
He-who-lies-dead-but-dreaming cares little for the affordability of non-fossil-fuel energy sources.
But the other tentacle, harvesting (and likely destroying) scores of jellyfish to do so seems, well, creepy.
Au contraire, mon frere. Jellyfish are but poor representations of Old Ones, and should be scoured from the seas lest we offend those who control the Cosmos.
I think I will need to wait until cable news tells me what to think.
Well that's just circular reasoning. We know that tentacled ones such as yourself control the cable news outlets, why would you need to watch them?
A "Snooki" is a delightful woman from a documentary about typical New Jersey residents
As a NJ native... the cretins on that show are *nothing* like typical NJ residents. They are typical only of a sub-type of seasonal NJ residents (just like the personalities on that show, most of the NJ guidos are from elsewhere).
New Jersey actually has about 6 or 7 culturally distinct regions... and the one region supposedly represented by the show is not like that at all... the BENNYs depicted on that show are despised by shorefolk in New Jersey as a whole.
Now, before I let my butt-hurt get out of hand...
I don't really mind if people think poorly of NJ; it keeps people from overcrowding the good parts of the state. But let's be honest... the cast of "Jersey Shore" is about as indicative of NJers as the cast of "Rehab: Party at the Hard Rock Hotel" is indicative of addicts in general.
Hurd has shown no loyalty to the American worker for years.
That's an anachronism. No one shows loyalty to an ephemeral concept like "the American worker", except for politicians playing for votes and demagogues playing for eyeballs. Hurd hasn't shown loyalty to HP workers, this is true. By why should he have shown them loyalty? He was paid by HP shareholders to be loyal to them, not to be loyal to workers. CEOs at large companies don't depend on workers for their livelihood -- they depend on the Board of Shareholders. Why would their loyalties lie elsewhere?
It seems fitting the BoD will now suffer the consequences
What's the BoD? Bag of Dicks? And how will they suffer any consequences?
You are given the parachute in return for the non-compete clause.
Maybe a little bit. But I think it's more for not airing dirty laundry that might have bad impacts on the stock price.
But mostly, you're given the golden parachute so that you will return the favor in kind at the corporations where you sit on the board. Isn't that how the game is played?
If this is a representative sample then I'll stick to wikipedia. Can someone decipher that last sentence for me? I've read it several times and I can't seem to grasp what it is saying.
The original:
So in virtue of what is it true that there could have been Aliens when in fact there are none, and when, moreover, nothing that exists in fact could have been an Alien?
My translation: What makes it true that there could be Aliens, when there are none in fact, and they are precluded from existing by the "Laws of Nature" (remember, Aliens exist only because of fundamentally different Laws of Nature)?
But as for sticking to wikipedia... good idea, I think, if you're not a student of philosophy. The SEP isn't really written for the average Joes like you and me (no disrespect if you actually are a philosophy student)... so it's not a good resource for us.
Perchlorate is an ion. You are thinking of potassium or sodium perchlorate. The article reported that perchlorate ions were detected, not necessarily what they were bound to.
So? It's the reduction of the perchlorate that produces the energy needed for propulsion. This is the energy-intensive part of the fuel. Not to say that the cation is unimportant to the fuel characteristics...
And likely he was thinking of ammonium perchlorate, anyway.
It's in the context of the fact that all of BP's wells need to undergo re-certification and re-permitting to continue operating in the gulf. This includes wells that are not yet operating. You were aware of this, right?
Nagel is quite clearly correlating the re-cert process with funding the commitments BP as made.
Either he's bluffing (quite possible) or he's making it clear that funding for those programs is contingent on re-cert.
is what i call over spin/fear mongering.
Why? Nagel is clearly insinuating that BP would discontinue payments on those programs if the wells are not re-certified. How is my restatement of his threat overblown? Just because he minces words means the threat is not there?
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This strategy sounds very familiar... where have I seen it before?
Oh yes, I remember... who knew Sid Meier was Senior Policy Consultant on Technology and Foreign Affairs?
So you're saying that if I could project my stench *behind* my target, it would propel them towards me?
Interesting. And as you say, if they try escaping out the sides, that would just put them into orbit (provided I can move my stench projection as needed).
Interesting. You have given me much to ruminate on.
Well, that's the damn point. I can't afford to lose weight until we have a working tractor beam, lest I lose all chances of physical contact with members of the opposite sex.
Although I suppose if I lost enough weight I could simply find some who are large enough to not outrun me, or I could even get swept into their gravitational pull. But I kind of prefer being the Jabba to their Leia.
Meh. This is a repulsor beam, not a tractor beam. Wake me up when I can use this, instead of my own gravitational pull, to bring things within reach of my grasp.
That's a novel approach. Normally when *I* drink Jaeger all night, I end up shitting in the fucking shower in the morning.
Seriously. That stuff is like using a brass-bristle brush on the inside of your bowels and then using clamps to pry your asshole open to give the residue unimpeded egress.
That's besides the point, really -- the original question was how people could have absolute faith that the interpretation they were worshiping was flawless and correct, thereby invalidating other interpretations.
Well, it's a tradeoff. Sure, the taxes are brutal, but the public education system is among the best, if not the best, in the country. There are other public services that are also very valuable.
Not to say there's not corruption, graft, and other waste in the cesspool of NJ public administration...
It's also important to note that the higher taxes and higher cost of living in NJ is offset some by the higher wages.
Or live in squalor just next to those nice towns... it's amazing what exists once you get 20 miles from a major highway.
Then there's the easy access to both Philly and Manhattan. It's really nice to be able to get a babysitter and go into the city to see some good jazz at a nice intimate club.
Well, it seems the question then is whether they are worshiping God, or they are worshiping an interpretation of Him.
Seems to me if they're worshiping an interpretation of Him, then that's idolatry.
You may want to read up on the subject. Burglary is generally considered a violent crime in the US (a href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_burglary_of_a_habitat_a_violent_crime">see explanation here. This surprised me when I first read it.
Theft, OTOH, is not a violent crime -- but burglary is a different thing than theft.
Exactly. I don't believe in God... but for those that do... how much faith can they have that their interpretation of Him (and only their own!) is flawless, when man is inherently flawed?
Horseshit. It's obvious that you don't understand our founding ideals if you think that.
Rackspace is a private entity, and as such, should have the freedom to do and say what they want. THAT is applying our "founding ideals" to this situation.
If they choose not to do business with someone they disagree with, or someone that they think their other customers will get mad at them for doing business with, that is their choice.
It does not violate any principle that this country was founded on for Rackspace to act on their conscience or in their monetary interests.
The parts of Joisey that can't be referred to by their exit, since they are not close to the TP or the GSP.
Oh, we can speak of them, just not by name.
He-who-lies-dead-but-dreaming cares little for the affordability of non-fossil-fuel energy sources.
Au contraire, mon frere. Jellyfish are but poor representations of Old Ones, and should be scoured from the seas lest we offend those who control the Cosmos.
Well that's just circular reasoning. We know that tentacled ones such as yourself control the cable news outlets, why would you need to watch them?
As a NJ native... the cretins on that show are *nothing* like typical NJ residents. They are typical only of a sub-type of seasonal NJ residents (just like the personalities on that show, most of the NJ guidos are from elsewhere).
New Jersey actually has about 6 or 7 culturally distinct regions... and the one region supposedly represented by the show is not like that at all... the BENNYs depicted on that show are despised by shorefolk in New Jersey as a whole.
Now, before I let my butt-hurt get out of hand...
I don't really mind if people think poorly of NJ; it keeps people from overcrowding the good parts of the state. But let's be honest... the cast of "Jersey Shore" is about as indicative of NJers as the cast of "Rehab: Party at the Hard Rock Hotel" is indicative of addicts in general.
They are by definition; this is what makes them Aliens as per the sentences preceding the sentence I "translated".
That's an anachronism. No one shows loyalty to an ephemeral concept like "the American worker", except for politicians playing for votes and demagogues playing for eyeballs. Hurd hasn't shown loyalty to HP workers, this is true. By why should he have shown them loyalty? He was paid by HP shareholders to be loyal to them, not to be loyal to workers. CEOs at large companies don't depend on workers for their livelihood -- they depend on the Board of Shareholders. Why would their loyalties lie elsewhere?
What's the BoD? Bag of Dicks? And how will they suffer any consequences?
What, in the netbeans?
Maybe a little bit. But I think it's more for not airing dirty laundry that might have bad impacts on the stock price.
But mostly, you're given the golden parachute so that you will return the favor in kind at the corporations where you sit on the board. Isn't that how the game is played?
The original:
My translation: What makes it true that there could be Aliens, when there are none in fact, and they are precluded from existing by the "Laws of Nature" (remember, Aliens exist only because of fundamentally different Laws of Nature)?
But as for sticking to wikipedia... good idea, I think, if you're not a student of philosophy. The SEP isn't really written for the average Joes like you and me (no disrespect if you actually are a philosophy student)... so it's not a good resource for us.
So? It's the reduction of the perchlorate that produces the energy needed for propulsion. This is the energy-intensive part of the fuel. Not to say that the cation is unimportant to the fuel characteristics...
And likely he was thinking of ammonium perchlorate, anyway.
Nagel is quite clearly correlating the re-cert process with funding the commitments BP as made.
Either he's bluffing (quite possible) or he's making it clear that funding for those programs is contingent on re-cert.
Why? Nagel is clearly insinuating that BP would discontinue payments on those programs if the wells are not re-certified. How is my restatement of his threat overblown? Just because he minces words means the threat is not there?
Just like Joseph Smith, and countless other charlatans, con-men, and demagogues through the ages.
It's Nazis all the way down.
Ah. That explains it... thanks for clearing that up.
That's scary... it would take some special kind of crazy for that to be true.
I don't think he really buys it... I think he's like a modern-day Joseph Smith... or at least wants to be.