When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
He probably doesn't write the prescription for those symptoms. He probably just orders in bulk, and gives them to the family to use and distribute as needed.
And we wonder why superbugs are becoming more and more prevalent.
Yeah, and they provide free shelter too, albeit temporary. But it's great on a hot day and their AC is at full blast. You can just duck inside, pretend to be interested in something, put it back, and repeat several times with the same item or various other items. Then after enough time for you to cool down and for the sweat to dry off your back, you make a mad dash out to the next place, leaving your unsuspecting victims at the cash register lines behind to pay the shelter tax for you.
To clarify, it flew off the bottle and hit the big red button at the top of the main control panel. What does the big red button do, you wonder. Self-destruct.
When you shove them all together in a public school, you get conflicting parental desires for education
More likely, you get parents who don't care, who treat school as a place to drop off their kids while they're at work. These parents are "too busy working" to give a rat's ass about their child's education because that's the school's job and that's what their taxes are supposed to be paying for (not to marginalize or otherwise demean the parents who really are too busy working several jobs a day to make ends meet). Meanwhile, they pay up the nose monthly for a cable subscription with HBO and a DVR to make their TV viewing more convenient--the same cable TV that their kids are hooked on when they're not in school, and that they're hooked on when they're not at work. That and a cell phone plan that has unlimited 3G data, so that their kids can play video games and talk to online predators while they're too busy watching them.
Don't blame the public schools or the public school system. Blame the parents who bring their kids to public school.
chicken sashimi does exist and is safe, if you get it from the right chicken
But don't get it from the left chicken if at all possible. You'll more than likely get a strong tongue lashing and stomach problems, and come out with neither sashimi nor dignity.
No, there's fair, and there's unfair, and people can innately tell what's fair and what's not.
Most people like screwing over companies as much as they like getting screwed over by companies. Most people don't like sticking it to The Man just because he's The Man; they usually do it if The Man sticks it to them first.
No, pieces of truth is not the truth. It's why you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth in a court of law. Pieces of truth may be truthful in and of themselves, but it's easy to pick and choose the pieces of truth to support a conclusion that the whole truth might refute.
It's like saying, somebody attacked me and "I pushed him away and he died of blood loss when bumped his head on a pipe because the ambulance took 15 minutes to arrive after I immediately called 911" versus saying "I pushed him away and he died when he bumped his head on the pipe." One's pretty much manslaughter, the other's not so clear.
Depends. If you're using MD5 to verify the password that protects your stuff, you might be in trouble. Sure, that'd be looking for collisions, but all you have to do is find the right one.
It works both ways. Governments also waste a good deal of taxpayer funds, and corruption in the government makes taxation that much more difficult to justify.
Taxes are supposed to be for the good of the people, to do the things that normal people can't do, but a government can't, for the well being of society. I think if that's all the government did, people wouldn't have an issue with taxation.
But government is not only corrupt at all levels (special interest lobbyists at the most visible, "lobbyists" at the least visible), it's also slow and inefficient when it isn't corrupt. You can say the inefficiencies are a product of corruption, which it is, but inefficiencies will always be there when there's as much red tape as governments have to deal with.
People lose faith in their government to properly spend their money, and want their money back. It's therefore not unjustified necessarily, to call it stealing, when you're pretty sure 75% of your tax money isn't actually being used for the betterment of society.
Now, to say that the government "punishes" by taxation, I would agree with your views on the matter. People who make money do so usually at the expense of government-built or otherwise government-provided infrastructure and services. In fact, the more money you make, the more you're probably using government-provided benefits, even if you don't know it. Heck, anybody who makes money online, or even uses the internet at work is using something created via DARPA funding. But instead of charging a maintenance fee for every service and every little thing the government does, it's more efficient to just take the money up front and automatically. And, for the people who can't manage money well, it's better that the government takes a cut before it gets spent and the person is stuck in their house jobless because they can't walk out onto the sidewalk or drive out of their driveway.
I haven't even started about natural resources and the use of thereof. Taxes is payment to the government to be able to use those resources, to own land, etc. And well, we're a capitalist society, and I'll bet GP's pretty big on capitalism if he doesn't like taxes, so figure out what it means from there.
Chen/Zen Buddhism takes a person's desire for power, and turns it inward. When people want power, they usually want it over others.
Chen Buddhism tries to reflect that inward, to change the focus so that instead of power over others, it's power over oneself. The purpose of all of its teachings is to eventually acquire power over one's own actions, state of mind, and ultimately over one's existence.
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When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Should I go on?
Make sure that bunny's running on energizer batteries.
Death is final. You sort of can make up for your mistakes otherwise.
It might be good for the heart, but only if you start young.
He probably doesn't write the prescription for those symptoms. He probably just orders in bulk, and gives them to the family to use and distribute as needed.
And we wonder why superbugs are becoming more and more prevalent.
Yeah, and they provide free shelter too, albeit temporary. But it's great on a hot day and their AC is at full blast. You can just duck inside, pretend to be interested in something, put it back, and repeat several times with the same item or various other items. Then after enough time for you to cool down and for the sweat to dry off your back, you make a mad dash out to the next place, leaving your unsuspecting victims at the cash register lines behind to pay the shelter tax for you.
To clarify, it flew off the bottle and hit the big red button at the top of the main control panel. What does the big red button do, you wonder. Self-destruct.
all they've really done is cross the streams.
Which was enough to send Gozer and a giant marshmallow man back to where they came from.
There's a very good solution to the problem of illegals getting taxpayer-funded healthcare:
Make them pay taxes!
How does one do that, I wonder...
Why don't we start with manners and common decency. Like, don't spit, cover your nose when you sneeze, cover your mouth when you cough, etc.
When you shove them all together in a public school, you get conflicting parental desires for education
More likely, you get parents who don't care, who treat school as a place to drop off their kids while they're at work. These parents are "too busy working" to give a rat's ass about their child's education because that's the school's job and that's what their taxes are supposed to be paying for (not to marginalize or otherwise demean the parents who really are too busy working several jobs a day to make ends meet). Meanwhile, they pay up the nose monthly for a cable subscription with HBO and a DVR to make their TV viewing more convenient--the same cable TV that their kids are hooked on when they're not in school, and that they're hooked on when they're not at work. That and a cell phone plan that has unlimited 3G data, so that their kids can play video games and talk to online predators while they're too busy watching them.
Don't blame the public schools or the public school system. Blame the parents who bring their kids to public school.
There were a million bad ways to die back then. Now there's only 999,999.
Nah. The educated will just flock to greener pastures.
Or maybe the educated should just breed more...
chicken sashimi does exist and is safe, if you get it from the right chicken
But don't get it from the left chicken if at all possible. You'll more than likely get a strong tongue lashing and stomach problems, and come out with neither sashimi nor dignity.
No, there's fair, and there's unfair, and people can innately tell what's fair and what's not.
Most people like screwing over companies as much as they like getting screwed over by companies. Most people don't like sticking it to The Man just because he's The Man; they usually do it if The Man sticks it to them first.
No, pieces of truth is not the truth. It's why you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth in a court of law. Pieces of truth may be truthful in and of themselves, but it's easy to pick and choose the pieces of truth to support a conclusion that the whole truth might refute.
It's like saying, somebody attacked me and "I pushed him away and he died of blood loss when bumped his head on a pipe because the ambulance took 15 minutes to arrive after I immediately called 911" versus saying "I pushed him away and he died when he bumped his head on the pipe." One's pretty much manslaughter, the other's not so clear.
Leave Joe Lieberman alone!
Depends. If you're using MD5 to verify the password that protects your stuff, you might be in trouble. Sure, that'd be looking for collisions, but all you have to do is find the right one.
Stormtroopers sitting around an office conference table with happy looks on their faces.
You must've been watching the polish version.
Wasn't Slashdot supposed to be for a semi-technical audience?
Yeah. This article falls into the other half.
I can't resist the urge to ask: How many libraries of congress would fit into the computer, and how many cat brains are in a human brain?
It works both ways. Governments also waste a good deal of taxpayer funds, and corruption in the government makes taxation that much more difficult to justify.
Taxes are supposed to be for the good of the people, to do the things that normal people can't do, but a government can't, for the well being of society. I think if that's all the government did, people wouldn't have an issue with taxation.
But government is not only corrupt at all levels (special interest lobbyists at the most visible, "lobbyists" at the least visible), it's also slow and inefficient when it isn't corrupt. You can say the inefficiencies are a product of corruption, which it is, but inefficiencies will always be there when there's as much red tape as governments have to deal with.
People lose faith in their government to properly spend their money, and want their money back. It's therefore not unjustified necessarily, to call it stealing, when you're pretty sure 75% of your tax money isn't actually being used for the betterment of society.
Now, to say that the government "punishes" by taxation, I would agree with your views on the matter. People who make money do so usually at the expense of government-built or otherwise government-provided infrastructure and services. In fact, the more money you make, the more you're probably using government-provided benefits, even if you don't know it. Heck, anybody who makes money online, or even uses the internet at work is using something created via DARPA funding. But instead of charging a maintenance fee for every service and every little thing the government does, it's more efficient to just take the money up front and automatically. And, for the people who can't manage money well, it's better that the government takes a cut before it gets spent and the person is stuck in their house jobless because they can't walk out onto the sidewalk or drive out of their driveway.
I haven't even started about natural resources and the use of thereof. Taxes is payment to the government to be able to use those resources, to own land, etc. And well, we're a capitalist society, and I'll bet GP's pretty big on capitalism if he doesn't like taxes, so figure out what it means from there.
I guess there'll be a sudden demand for Hollywood accountants.
He's gotta come out of the closet first.
Chen/Zen Buddhism takes a person's desire for power, and turns it inward. When people want power, they usually want it over others.
Chen Buddhism tries to reflect that inward, to change the focus so that instead of power over others, it's power over oneself. The purpose of all of its teachings is to eventually acquire power over one's own actions, state of mind, and ultimately over one's existence.