Can you even give up your constitutional rights as a condition of employment? Does that mean some company could ask you to waive your right to Free Speech as a condition of employment?
I can't see any way this could be abused. Nope. It's aaaaaall good.
Anyone who uses the legal system of the United States as an UNJUST weapon against others deserves significant punishment, "pour encourager les autres".
I don't think this word means what you think it means.
From the Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary:
encourager/É'ÌfkuÊaÊ'e/ (conjugateâ')
transitive verb
1. to encourage (a faire to do);
2. to cheer [sb] on.
When they find out what they really bought, I don't expect them to admit they were wrong. I expect them to somehow blame Republicans anyway, or simply deny that anything is wrong to begin with
Gee, sounds a lot like what the Republican supporters have been doing for the last 8 years: refusing to see the problems and blaming any that can't be avoided on the Clinton administration.
It's comforting to know that we have the U.S Border Patrol protecting us from all those authority-abiding criminals out there. As we all know, dangerous criminals are way too timid to try to pull something like this.
That depends. If you insist Bush lied to go to war, then Clinton must have lied about it first since two of the countries he bombed were on the grounds that Iraq had and was pursuing WMD.
Alright, what the hell? The presence of WMDs in Iraq is not some sort of unchangeable, eternal quality.
Just because Saddam had the weapons 15 years ago doesn't mean that he still had them when the US invaded recently. In the same way, the current absence of WMDs has no bearing on whether or not the weapons were present in the past.
This isn't some weirdo time paradox feedback loop that makes everyone in history a liar on a given subject just because someone lied about it recently. This is the real world, and things actually do change.
Sounds a bit like having to choose which of your divorced parents you want to live with, where the parent you choose gets mounds of money from the government. They may not care all that much about you, but they sure want that money, so they tell you want you want to hear to convince you to live with them.
I don't know that it necessarily has to do with shared genetic code anymore. The trick is in the definition of "tribe", really. In today's world, your tribe is whatever group with which you feel a strong affinity. I feel much closer to my group of friends than I do to my family, for example. so, while we may be hard-wired to ensure the survival of our tribe, I don't think this is limited to family anymore.
Children can be seen harnessing these feelings as they mature, initially not seeing anything wrong with getting naked in public, but eventually hiding their private parts from even their parents. Many people are even embarrassed to get naked for a doctor.
While I don't have a handy link to back it up, my (long ago) Anthropology studies suggest that attitude towards nudity varies considerably across cultures. Not everyone is as prudish as, to pick an easy example, North Americans.
I think that for some people the 'soul' theory is the reason they trust religion, not the other way around.
You'll have to agree that it is a bit depressing knowing for certain that your existence is just the few years you spend 'alive' and after that it's all gone. And for some, it's too depressing.
Humans need to know they'll live on somehow, that their lives have some meaning. And if you're not famous enough to hope for historical eternal life, than soul is what you have left.
I can see another reason why people might have started to believe in the soul: seeing the dead body of a loved one.
I saw my grandfather's body a few minutes after he died, and something felt wrong about it. The first thought that crossed my mind was: "This isn't my granddad anymore, it's just cooling meat." It really felt like there was something missing from the body.
Now, I know full well that what gave me that impression was that all the little subliminal clues that tell you someone is alive were gone, but I can understand how someone could believe some intangible part of the person had left the body.
If it's any consolation, it's better than the minority government clusterfuck we've got up here in Canada (where a provincial special interest group basically holds the swing vote and doesn't give a flying fuck about the rest of the country)
It doesn't help that the official opposition has no balls, or effective leadership for that matter, and seems content to let this minority government get away with stuff only a majority government should be able to pull.
Anyone able to get themselves elected president should on no account be allowed to have the job.
While I heartily agree - seriously, we can't do better than Obama or McCain? I mean shit, I wouldn't trust either of them to be able to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, much less actual policy.
Well, that's okay then. They have a truckful of "advisors" that can make up policy for them to enact. And they also have people to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for them.
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Sure, that knife/gun/whatever-wielding guy would only be able to hurt one or two people before they go down.
It all looks straightforward until you realize that *no one* wants to be the one that gets stuck/shot/whatever.
Can you even give up your constitutional rights as a condition of employment? Does that mean some company could ask you to waive your right to Free Speech as a condition of employment?
I can't see any way this could be abused. Nope. It's aaaaaall good.
Anyone who uses the legal system of the United States as an UNJUST weapon against others deserves significant punishment, "pour encourager les autres".
I don't think this word means what you think it means.
/É'ÌfkuÊaÊ'e/ (conjugateâ')
From the Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary:
encourager
transitive verb
1. to encourage (a faire to do);
2. to cheer [sb] on.
What you're looking for is "decourager".
Yes, it's much better to have elected profiteers take care of it.
Goatse Linux?
One thing that the death of someone I loved has proved to me is that there are no ghosts, and certainly no afterlife.
Either that, or the afterlife is so much fun they're forgotten to come back to visit.
When they find out what they really bought, I don't expect them to admit they were wrong. I expect them to somehow blame Republicans anyway, or simply deny that anything is wrong to begin with
Gee, sounds a lot like what the Republican supporters have been doing for the last 8 years: refusing to see the problems and blaming any that can't be avoided on the Clinton administration.
Sounds like a massive lawsuit waiting to happen.
It's comforting to know that we have the U.S Border Patrol protecting us from all those authority-abiding criminals out there. As we all know, dangerous criminals are way too timid to try to pull something like this.
That depends. If you insist Bush lied to go to war, then Clinton must have lied about it first since two of the countries he bombed were on the grounds that Iraq had and was pursuing WMD.
Alright, what the hell? The presence of WMDs in Iraq is not some sort of unchangeable, eternal quality.
Just because Saddam had the weapons 15 years ago doesn't mean that he still had them when the US invaded recently. In the same way, the current absence of WMDs has no bearing on whether or not the weapons were present in the past.
This isn't some weirdo time paradox feedback loop that makes everyone in history a liar on a given subject just because someone lied about it recently. This is the real world, and things actually do change.
Posting to nullify slip-up in moderation. You deserved a "funny"!
and when he was finally connected to tech support, they told him to erase the HD and reinstall everything.
Is that when he tried to save some of his work using this "Noah's Ark" external storage device?
Well, of course. He had to take the day off so he could call tech support.
"Please stay on hold. Your call is important to us. Current average waiting time: 2 aeons."
Sounds a bit like having to choose which of your divorced parents you want to live with, where the parent you choose gets mounds of money from the government. They may not care all that much about you, but they sure want that money, so they tell you want you want to hear to convince you to live with them.
I don't know that it necessarily has to do with shared genetic code anymore. The trick is in the definition of "tribe", really. In today's world, your tribe is whatever group with which you feel a strong affinity. I feel much closer to my group of friends than I do to my family, for example. so, while we may be hard-wired to ensure the survival of our tribe, I don't think this is limited to family anymore.
I suggest you find a handful of geeks like myself and force them to count the ballots. :)
If you can be forced to count, you can be forced to count so that the total matches one side's desired result.
wow. it's chess, not checkers. would you really have rather had Richard "Dick" Cheney as president? What must you think?
Do you honestly think that Bush is running the country?
Children can be seen harnessing these feelings as they mature, initially not seeing anything wrong with getting naked in public, but eventually hiding their private parts from even their parents. Many people are even embarrassed to get naked for a doctor.
While I don't have a handy link to back it up, my (long ago) Anthropology studies suggest that attitude towards nudity varies considerably across cultures. Not everyone is as prudish as, to pick an easy example, North Americans.
I think that for some people the 'soul' theory is the reason they trust religion, not the other way around. You'll have to agree that it is a bit depressing knowing for certain that your existence is just the few years you spend 'alive' and after that it's all gone. And for some, it's too depressing. Humans need to know they'll live on somehow, that their lives have some meaning. And if you're not famous enough to hope for historical eternal life, than soul is what you have left.
I can see another reason why people might have started to believe in the soul: seeing the dead body of a loved one.
I saw my grandfather's body a few minutes after he died, and something felt wrong about it. The first thought that crossed my mind was: "This isn't my granddad anymore, it's just cooling meat." It really felt like there was something missing from the body.
Now, I know full well that what gave me that impression was that all the little subliminal clues that tell you someone is alive were gone, but I can understand how someone could believe some intangible part of the person had left the body.
It's not the PATRIOT act because the PATRIOT act is published.
Considering how unreadable the USAPATRIOT Act is, it's the next best thing to unpublished law.
If it's any consolation, it's better than the minority government clusterfuck we've got up here in Canada (where a provincial special interest group basically holds the swing vote and doesn't give a flying fuck about the rest of the country)
It doesn't help that the official opposition has no balls, or effective leadership for that matter, and seems content to let this minority government get away with stuff only a majority government should be able to pull.
Anyone able to get themselves elected president should on no account be allowed to have the job.
While I heartily agree - seriously, we can't do better than Obama or McCain? I mean shit, I wouldn't trust either of them to be able to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, much less actual policy.
Well, that's okay then. They have a truckful of "advisors" that can make up policy for them to enact. And they also have people to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for them.
Have you accepted SxFafsfs'aGVA!521VAn as your personal saviour?
Wasn't LSD Popular around Apollo 14?
Looks like it was popular in it, too.
well, don't create an online account, and viola, you aren't subject to their vulnerabilities.
Yup. That way, no one can string you along...