That's it exactly. In the US, we like to feel we are downtrodden because we can't have someone else pay for things for us, while half of Latin America is risking their lives to dwell in the land where everyone has an electric light and a flush toilet. We ARE the elite in this country. We are just careful to make sure we compare ourselves with people who have more, so we can still feel like we don't have enough.
"You seem to think that impeachment is a way to rerun an election you didn't like."
I guess, to be honest with myself, that is probably the way I have been thinking about it.
But perhaps this supports my point: Bush is still in the White House because there are not enough people who want him out.
To answer your last paragraph, though, I feel I could better answer it if you would represent the facts a little more fairly. Another way to word it is: Clinton committed perjury, under oath, on TV, speaking directly to the American People and their elected representatives. Bush believed, passed on, and acted upon intelligence given to him by every major intelligence service in the world.
"And the only reason Bush isn't hanging on a traitor's gallows is because of his class privilege."
The only reason Bush has not been impeached is because not enough of the US citizens are clamoring for it.
I wanted Clinton out, and I knew my representatives would vote that way. If they hadn't I wouldn't have voted for them next time. They knew that enough of their constituency felt the same way, so they did it.
You'll notice that it reduces chances, it doesn't eliminate them. The parent post can't possibly have been meant to suggest lack of feeling for those poor children. The thing is, we can control our behavior. We can't control others'. Abstinence has been shown to dramatically decrease chances of getting AIDS. In fact, should any of these poor children somehow survive without getting it, their future abstinence will also dramatically reduce their chances of getting it as adults or teenagers.
I don't know which ones are red and which are blue, but I am pretty sure Mass. is pretty liberal, and Wyoming is conservative. Nevada is highest, but I don't know if it counts. Partly because I imagine there are inflated divorce rates, and partly because Clark County is very liberal, and the entire rest of the state is very conservative.
But, like you said, what does this really mean? There are more reasons to divorce than cheating. Also, there are far more promiscuous people out there than the cheating divorcees.
I was thinking USSR would have controlled Europe.
I realize that Canada got its independence peacefully. I wonder if that would have happened if the USA had not existed. Maybe, maybe not. Probably, I guess.
Now, would England have been able to successfully abolished slavery in the southern states without war? I doubt it.
Still, you make good points. I have never been to good at playing the "what if" history game.
What I was driving at was the idea that there will always be opposition to war. Just or unjust, there will never be unanimous support for a war.
"We shouldn't be fighting a war if the people don't agree with it."
If the USA had followed this standard, Europe would not be free, the southern slaves would still be enslaved, and most of North America would still belong to England. Oh, and Saddam Hussein would still be in power.
OK, it's been a few years since I was in high school, but I seem to remember something where they shine a light through a crack, and there were dark bars in the pattern on the wall. Kind of like the noise-cancelling headphones, the light waves would stack in a way that the trough of one wave intersects with the crest of another wave, "creating" dark.
I know this doesn't mean you can make a "flashdark," but your analogy reminded me of that time in school. Doesn't it have any application?
Now that I think of it, probably not, as I imagine there would have to be some kind of mechanism to predect and provide the correct cancelling waveform, and that mechanism would probably not be fast enough to produce the wave, as the wave it's meant to cancel is travelling at the speed of light.
I don't think that's really fair. People don't need to know what's possible to know what they want, or to know what they need. How many inventions came about because someone wanted something they couldn't have? If the military wants something they can't have, they will get something closer to it that what they already have, and it will probably push the envelope of what's possible.
If the military wants an R/C cockroach with audio/video feed, they probably can't have it. But I'll bet they get close enough to push the technological envelope, and get them maybe the smallest camera and microphone ever.
Because someone wants something that doesn't exist doesn't make them dumb. It might make them unrealistic.
Forgive me if my comment sounded rude, but your post does bring up a good question: why do you live in this country if you are not willing to pay the price? Why not go to Canada now and avoid the hypocrisy?
I admit I am at least partially talking out of my backside here, but there is something to be said for the idea that if you are planning on leaving as soon as your country starts wanting something back from you, you should leave now.
I don't know if I said that very well, but I hope you get my idea.
I am not really trying to rip on you (OK, maybe a little), but I am trying to understand.
I can tell you from personal experience that even the simplest division problem becomes amazingly difficult for students who don't have their times tables memorized. Long division is an arduous torture-session for those who have to look everything up, and a snap for those who have their times tables memorized.
I also find it interesting that it helps to memorize up to 12 x 12, as opposed to only going up to 10 x 10. I don't know why that is.
I think that most laptop media bays are the same size, while most battery bays are different size. I read somewhere on a support forum that basically all laptop optical drives are the same size, with a different bezel on the end of the tray. If that's so, then this will be a lot cheaper to produce.
That said, I would definitely prefer it in the battery bay.
"In my experience, the Democrats and Republicans both have the same problem: they don't follow through with their promises. "
I remember when Contract with America happened. I think that was one of the greatest things that happened in Congress in my lifetime: our elected representatives setting themselves up for accountability.
Of course, I don't remember Contract with America ending up the way we hoped, but I still think of the way politics are handled in this great country, and think, "Oh, if only we could REALLY follow through on these guys. Really keep track of them and hold them accountable."
My brother says the real secret is to get involved and handle these things as much as possible at the local level. I think he's probably right.
I've been thinking about this a bit, and I'm still working on it:
The more power is taken away from the local communities, the more opportunity for abuse and corruption on all levels. I'm still working on this, and would appreciate any more points of view.
"Utopia was the creation of Plato, who argued that the best humans could attain would be done through incorruptible and all-powerful philosopher Kings."
Actually, I agree with that, but until the Lord comes to rule personally, we've got to make do with liberty.
I have been reading this little exchange with great interest, and I think there's a communication problem going on here. How is Bob not addressing your differences between Monopoly and Natural Monopoly? I think you guys are really not settling on definitions, or perhaps not even defining the discussion. As a bystander, I would get more out of this if you two would settle on some definitions or something. This is interesting stuff, and I don't want to miss anything.
Quote from that page: Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service, that would turn it into work and then they would resign.
But what about the poor? Those in India need the jobs more than we do. What are the odds of any of us starving to death in the USA? Besides, aren't we all brothers anyway?
Or perhaps we should only worry about the American poor.
Anyway, if there is job to be done, and someone in India can do it just as well, but cheaper, and he needs the money more, then how can we deny the job to the Indian? What exactly is the problem here?
I posted too soon. If you were trying to say something else, and NOT trying to be a dink, then I apologize for even suggesting it. It just seemed to me like you were looking at all the US accomplishments during WWII and the first thing that jumped into your head was our defeat at Pearl Harbor, and that our loss there was somehow representative of the US governments handling of the whole military affair from 1941-1945.
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That's it exactly. In the US, we like to feel we are downtrodden because we can't have someone else pay for things for us, while half of Latin America is risking their lives to dwell in the land where everyone has an electric light and a flush toilet. We ARE the elite in this country. We are just careful to make sure we compare ourselves with people who have more, so we can still feel like we don't have enough.
Could you please explain how you are forced to join it?
I guess, to be honest with myself, that is probably the way I have been thinking about it.
But perhaps this supports my point: Bush is still in the White House because there are not enough people who want him out.
To answer your last paragraph, though, I feel I could better answer it if you would represent the facts a little more fairly. Another way to word it is: Clinton committed perjury, under oath, on TV, speaking directly to the American People and their elected representatives. Bush believed, passed on, and acted upon intelligence given to him by every major intelligence service in the world.
My wording is certainly no better than yours.
The only reason Bush has not been impeached is because not enough of the US citizens are clamoring for it.
I wanted Clinton out, and I knew my representatives would vote that way. If they hadn't I wouldn't have voted for them next time. They knew that enough of their constituency felt the same way, so they did it.
If you want Bush out, write your congresspersons.
You'll notice that it reduces chances, it doesn't eliminate them. The parent post can't possibly have been meant to suggest lack of feeling for those poor children. The thing is, we can control our behavior. We can't control others'. Abstinence has been shown to dramatically decrease chances of getting AIDS. In fact, should any of these poor children somehow survive without getting it, their future abstinence will also dramatically reduce their chances of getting it as adults or teenagers.
I don't know which ones are red and which are blue, but I am pretty sure Mass. is pretty liberal, and Wyoming is conservative. Nevada is highest, but I don't know if it counts. Partly because I imagine there are inflated divorce rates, and partly because Clark County is very liberal, and the entire rest of the state is very conservative.
But, like you said, what does this really mean? There are more reasons to divorce than cheating. Also, there are far more promiscuous people out there than the cheating divorcees.
I was thinking USSR would have controlled Europe.
I realize that Canada got its independence peacefully. I wonder if that would have happened if the USA had not existed. Maybe, maybe not. Probably, I guess.
Now, would England have been able to successfully abolished slavery in the southern states without war? I doubt it.
Still, you make good points. I have never been to good at playing the "what if" history game.
What I was driving at was the idea that there will always be opposition to war. Just or unjust, there will never be unanimous support for a war.
If the USA had followed this standard, Europe would not be free, the southern slaves would still be enslaved, and most of North America would still belong to England. Oh, and Saddam Hussein would still be in power.
I know this doesn't mean you can make a "flashdark," but your analogy reminded me of that time in school. Doesn't it have any application?
Now that I think of it, probably not, as I imagine there would have to be some kind of mechanism to predect and provide the correct cancelling waveform, and that mechanism would probably not be fast enough to produce the wave, as the wave it's meant to cancel is travelling at the speed of light.
Maybe subspace... or the HoloNet....
Nope. My name is Robert Combat. My wife's name is Henrietta Combat. Your name isn't all that unique.
If the military wants an R/C cockroach with audio/video feed, they probably can't have it. But I'll bet they get close enough to push the technological envelope, and get them maybe the smallest camera and microphone ever.
Because someone wants something that doesn't exist doesn't make them dumb. It might make them unrealistic.
I admit I am at least partially talking out of my backside here, but there is something to be said for the idea that if you are planning on leaving as soon as your country starts wanting something back from you, you should leave now.
I don't know if I said that very well, but I hope you get my idea.
I am not really trying to rip on you (OK, maybe a little), but I am trying to understand.
Why wait? Go now.
I also find it interesting that it helps to memorize up to 12 x 12, as opposed to only going up to 10 x 10. I don't know why that is.
Q: How many kids with ADHD does it take to change a light bulb?
A: I don't know, how ma
Q: Wanna ride bikes?
That said, I would definitely prefer it in the battery bay.
I remember when Contract with America happened. I think that was one of the greatest things that happened in Congress in my lifetime: our elected representatives setting themselves up for accountability.
Of course, I don't remember Contract with America ending up the way we hoped, but I still think of the way politics are handled in this great country, and think, "Oh, if only we could REALLY follow through on these guys. Really keep track of them and hold them accountable."
My brother says the real secret is to get involved and handle these things as much as possible at the local level. I think he's probably right.
I've been thinking about this a bit, and I'm still working on it:
The more power is taken away from the local communities, the more opportunity for abuse and corruption on all levels. I'm still working on this, and would appreciate any more points of view.
Actually, I agree with that, but until the Lord comes to rule personally, we've got to make do with liberty.
I have been reading this little exchange with great interest, and I think there's a communication problem going on here. How is Bob not addressing your differences between Monopoly and Natural Monopoly? I think you guys are really not settling on definitions, or perhaps not even defining the discussion. As a bystander, I would get more out of this if you two would settle on some definitions or something. This is interesting stuff, and I don't want to miss anything.
In the context of a scientific study, a "cup" of coffee would be 8 fl. oz.
Quote from that page:
Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them considerable money; but if they were offered wages for the service, that would turn it into work and then they would resign.
I know what you mean, but this is just a thought.
Or perhaps we should only worry about the American poor.
Anyway, if there is job to be done, and someone in India can do it just as well, but cheaper, and he needs the money more, then how can we deny the job to the Indian? What exactly is the problem here?
Again, I apologize for jumping to conclusions.