Prenatal care is a red herring - we have free prenatal care in the US, but it is done on the state level.
Still, it's less comprehensive than in other western/industrialized countries. You don't get an ultrasound everytime you go to the gyn/ob practice, for example.
The founders believed that the states would protect their people against federal tyranny. It's in the Federalist Papers, which are utterly fascinating reading.
Interesting. I might check that out some time.
I had the idea that the founders might grant the states more power than the federal government because if you don't like what's going on in one state, you can still move to another (or, today, just drive to another to avoid some of the blue laws), without leaving the country (which would, at that time, most likely make you the subject of a monarch again).
States can have laws that ratchet freedom further, but they can't decrease your rights any more than the federal government Constitutionally is able to.
Still, one may wonder why only the first amendment contains the words "Congress shall make no law...", while all the other nine amendments of the bill of rights make no such mention. Did the potential loophole elude the original authors ? Or did they put in these words intentionally ?
In all seriousness though, there is little resemblance (the only thing I can think of is that they both are detention centers) between Gitmo and WWII prision camps on any side*, especially the Japs. While we are fairly buddy buddy now, the way our POWs were treated was very very bad.
I think the GP was not talking about POW camps run by the Japanese military (yeah, those were bad), but about the internment camps for civilians of Japanese origin in the US during WWII.
Yes, they stuck random citizens into interment camps out of fear that they might be collaborators. Being of Japanese descent was pretty much the only criterium.
The fact is 99.999+% of those in the service are professionals with the utmost reverence for civility.
I think you've got a few too many digits after the decimal point there. The normal population doesn't have that large a percentage with the utmost reverence for civility (there's waaaaay more than 1 wacko/nutjob/idiot/moron/sicko/psycho/sociopath per 100000 people. Just imagine - the whole US would have only 3000 of them. You'd just have to lock them up and it'd be instant paradise.), and I doubt that the military is that good at eliminating the bad apples. Especially when they've got target numbers to meet in recruiting.
While England doesn't spell out its free speech rights as absolutely as the US,
The first amendment keeps Congress from abridging the freedom of speech and such. What keeps individual states from doing so, if they did not put any similar statements into their constitutions ?
I'll be sending out the scheduled rotation for when you can breathe in about an hour so just hold your breathe in anticipation.
Is that some anti-capitalist liberal commie scheme like economic plans ?! The free market can take care of this, without any schedule (did you say that some government body was going to be in charge of that ?). Just make air a tradeable commodity like real estate, water, and so on, and let the free market decide on who gets to breathe and who doesn't. And there will be absolutely no handouts. You got no cash for your next breath ? Well, make some quickly, and I hope you're good at holding your breath.
The only other explaination is that ancient arabic is so archaic and poorly defined, they can interpret it into whatever you want.
As far as I have heard, anyone who knows modern day Arabic can read the Qu'ran just fine, and that's why not translations are considered valid - learning the language is considered a minor inconvenience compared to having to deal with intentional and unintentional errors in translations.
Also, research has shown that the Qu'ran contains little to no changes that happened over time - todays Qu'rans are basically identical to the very earliest Qu'rans that are known.
Trying to say it's untranslatable and can only be understood in the original language is very much like the catholic church and their latin.
No, because Latin is essentially a dead language, and it has been dead for quite a while. (also, the Latin version of the bible is already a translation). To read the Qu'ran, you need to learn a language that's still very much alive.
It meant death on a public square with a huge, frenzied audience. It's not like ONLY the guy at the top was out for blood, don't downplay the horrors.
Well, that is a tradition that predates Christianity by, what, a couple of millenia ? Disagree with the head honcho and very bad, creative and painful things happen to you.
Christians INVENTED the concept of "heresy", murdering people who believe very slightly differently than the way you do.
Ri-iight.
And there are so many martyrs (saints or otherwise) in Christianity because the Romans did not like the way Christians styled their hair, huh ? The persecutions and murder of Christians before the Roman empire turned Christian by decree had nothing to do with differences in belief ?
Christianity just continued an old pagan tradition, they did not invent the concept of heresy. Just like they did with so many other old pagan traditions.
And I'm sure the Old Testament has some passages about what believers should do to apostates. That was well before that Jesus guy was born and told stories about lost sons, forgiveness and all that.
Actually, I've been inside of quite a number of them in the last 23 years (and back then, the whole procedure took a whopping three-and-a-half hours, during which you were not supposed to move at all except for breathing and (between the 20-minute-measurements) swallowing). I also hold a M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering.
I can assure you that not shielding them off makes it practically impossible to be within a radius of 10 to 20 meters. You would even faint if you were walking too fast in their neighbourhood
I would call that an urban legend. You absolutely don't realize that you're approaching a several-Tesla magnetic field unless you forgot your keys in your pocket, or carry other ferromagnetic objects on your person. Some people have reported the phenomenon of magnetoluminescence while inside the "tube", but I've never experienced it.
I've had the opportunity to play around with a key inside the scanner room (courtesy of the radiologist who was showing us around, but we had to promise not to open our hand while holding it), and you need to be fairly close (well under 10m) to feel the pull of the magnetic field, but then it is very impressive.
Of course, without doubt, those being interrogated will cooperate and will not move their heads more than 3 millimeters when being interrogated and scanned.
That's easily fixed by liberal application of duct tape. Remember to leave the two important facial orifices uncovered, though.
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Huh ? The rules of acquisition say:
Peace is good for business.
and
War is good for business.
This is slightly better than the Bush let's invade two countries foreign policy.
I would guess there are several companies that profit hugely from this policy ...
Still, it's less comprehensive than in other western/industrialized countries. You don't get an ultrasound everytime you go to the gyn/ob practice, for example.
You've done it once, you can do it again.
Just imagine how few works of classical music we would have if they had had "copyright" back then. Mozart could have written a few pieces and retired.
So ? You're not being charged for the use of the library, even though you may (or may not) be paying for it with your taxes.
Interesting. I might check that out some time.
I had the idea that the founders might grant the states more power than the federal government because if you don't like what's going on in one state, you can still move to another (or, today, just drive to another to avoid some of the blue laws), without leaving the country (which would, at that time, most likely make you the subject of a monarch again).
Still, one may wonder why only the first amendment contains the words "Congress shall make no law
Funny how people just love a free market
Actually it is due to market economics, if anything military actions in the mid-east make oil prices go up.
Funny how the oil companies are reporting record profits despite the price of their raw material going up.
I think the GP was not talking about POW camps run by the Japanese military (yeah, those were bad), but about the internment camps for civilians of Japanese origin in the US during WWII.
Yes, they stuck random citizens into interment camps out of fear that they might be collaborators. Being of Japanese descent was pretty much the only criterium.
I think you've got a few too many digits after the decimal point there. The normal population doesn't have that large a percentage with the utmost reverence for civility (there's waaaaay more than 1 wacko/nutjob/idiot/moron/sicko/psycho/sociopath per 100000 people. Just imagine - the whole US would have only 3000 of them. You'd just have to lock them up and it'd be instant paradise.), and I doubt that the military is that good at eliminating the bad apples. Especially when they've got target numbers to meet in recruiting.
The first amendment keeps Congress from abridging the freedom of speech and such. What keeps individual states from doing so, if they did not put any similar statements into their constitutions ?
Is that some anti-capitalist liberal commie scheme like economic plans ?! The free market can take care of this, without any schedule (did you say that some government body was going to be in charge of that ?). Just make air a tradeable commodity like real estate, water, and so on, and let the free market decide on who gets to breathe and who doesn't. And there will be absolutely no handouts. You got no cash for your next breath ? Well, make some quickly, and I hope you're good at holding your breath.
Hate to break this to you, but
Find some way to vent 20% of the planets atmosphere into space. That should get rid of enough CO2.
As far as I have heard, anyone who knows modern day Arabic can read the Qu'ran just fine, and that's why not translations are considered valid - learning the language is considered a minor inconvenience compared to having to deal with intentional and unintentional errors in translations.
Also, research has shown that the Qu'ran contains little to no changes that happened over time - todays Qu'rans are basically identical to the very earliest Qu'rans that are known.
Trying to say it's untranslatable and can only be understood in the original language is very much like the catholic church and their latin.
No, because Latin is essentially a dead language, and it has been dead for quite a while. (also, the Latin version of the bible is already a translation). To read the Qu'ran, you need to learn a language that's still very much alive.
Hm, where I'm from, protestant pastors statistically have the largest families.
It's not like ONLY the guy at the top was out for blood, don't downplay the horrors.
Well, that is a tradition that predates Christianity by, what, a couple of millenia ? Disagree with the head honcho and very bad, creative and painful things happen to you.
Even better - for quite a while after 1AD, it was the Christians who were getting killed for their beliefs.
Oh
Ri-iight.
And there are so many martyrs (saints or otherwise) in Christianity because the Romans did not like the way Christians styled their hair, huh ? The persecutions and murder of Christians before the Roman empire turned Christian by decree had nothing to do with differences in belief ?
Christianity just continued an old pagan tradition, they did not invent the concept of heresy. Just like they did with so many other old pagan traditions.
And I'm sure the Old Testament has some passages about what believers should do to apostates. That was well before that Jesus guy was born and told stories about lost sons, forgiveness and all that.
It's not misleading once you understand basic thermodynamics. (Usable) Energy is stored by increasing a temperature difference.
Crap man ... would you want to play with eight minutes of lag ?
Actually, I've been inside of quite a number of them in the last 23 years (and back then, the whole procedure took a whopping three-and-a-half hours, during which you were not supposed to move at all except for breathing and (between the 20-minute-measurements) swallowing). I also hold a M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering.
I can assure you that not shielding them off makes it practically impossible to be within a radius of 10 to 20 meters. You would even faint if you were walking too fast in their neighbourhood
I would call that an urban legend. You absolutely don't realize that you're
approaching a several-Tesla magnetic field unless you forgot your keys in your pocket, or
carry other ferromagnetic objects on your person. Some people have reported the phenomenon
of magnetoluminescence while inside the "tube", but I've never experienced it.
I've had the opportunity to play around with a key inside the scanner room (courtesy of
the radiologist who was showing us around, but we had to promise not to open our hand while
holding it), and you need to be fairly close (well under 10m) to feel the pull of the
magnetic field, but then it is very impressive.
That's easily fixed by liberal application of duct tape. Remember to leave the two important facial orifices uncovered, though.
Which is why muslims are now slaughtering each other in Iraq over the question of who the legitimate successor of the prophet is.
Apostasy is not "believing in something different", but "leaving your current religion for something different".
You brain's all analog. DRM doesn't apply.