That's ridiculous. You can tell it's art because it's got an urn in it..... or cherubs.... I forget but one of those means it's alright to look at and not shameful in any way:p
According to a recent court decision, the sperm donor. Don't remember the exact details of the case, but in Mass. a man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple is now being tapped for child support after their divorce.
The issue at hand is the following: War is about killing people and destroying stuff..
As subtle but important distinction. A war is about destroying the enemy's will to resist. The destruction and killing are a means to that end, not the end in and of themselves.
I would be willing to bet that an American made the parent post, here’s why:
Going from memory here, so exact details are a little fuzzy, but I remember reading a quote from one of Napoleon's generals to the effect that "recruits are cheap, cannon are expensive." That thinking dominated military strategy since ancient times.
At some point, American generals began to reverse that equation. I’ve seen the change pegged to right after our civil war, although WWI would seem to give lie to that assumption. The point is that the attitude that lives are worth more than equipment has come to dominate Western Military assumptions.
The prior poster was referring to the fictional Librarian of the Unseen University in Ankh Mor-pork on the Discworld in novels written by Terry Pratchett. People don't criticize him as he tends to rip off their arms and or head.
And for the love of the gods, don't use the "m" word....Nice monkey....Oh S**t!
Mort may have been written before Reaper Man, but Reaper Man does a much better job of intorducing Death as a character rather than a prop THAT SPEAKS IN ALL CAPITALS. Given the complicated nature of the multiple worlds Pratchett has created, the first time a character is introduced is not necessarily the best time to meet him/her.
I did not recommend starting with The Colour of Magic, as IMHO, it is one of the weakest books in the series. (Surpassed, perhaps, only by Pyramids.) Don't, get me wrong,it's still entertaining, but if it is used as an introduction to the Discworld, there is less of an impetous to find out more.
Pratchett, IMHO, speaks to different people throught different characters. The problem with Discworld is that it is not so much as series of books as four or five different series that intertwine. I generally recommend that people start with "Guards! Guards!" (The Nightwatch Series), "Reaper Man" (The Death Series), or "Equal Rites" (The Witches Series). "Kingdom for sale isn't Pratchett, it was written by Terry Brooks.
If they eventually find more evidence for these "dark matter streams", and start naming them, I think "the styx" would be a completely awesome name for such a stream.
Maybe that's what happened, we keep finding evidence of dark matter streams, and then the scientist who makes the discovery forgets about it before he can tell anyone...
"Not evil, amoral. Which in this day and age, is worse."
Despite our legal fiction that a corporation is a person, it is, in fact, a construct. It can be neither moral or immoral but must (by its nature) be amoral: Not unwilling to make a moral judgment, but incapable of doing so. The actions of those persons who made the decision can be judged to be moral or immoral in their effect, but it is the person rather than the company who is creating the morality (or lack thereof.)
As a corporation, Microsoft is no more capable of judging the morality of the Chinese law with which they are forced to comply than is a chair. Where does this lead us? As individuals, we can make the decision that Microsoft's complying with what we view as an immoral law is worthy of censure, and may use the remedy available to the marketplace (i.e. not using Microsoft's services,) or we may purchase part of Microsoft (in the form of stock) so that we have a voice in the decision and attempt to change their corporate policy.
The final alternative is to attempt to get our government to invade and impose our morality on the Chinese. (Given how well the recent action in Iraq was received (and that had a much stronger moral justification), I see that going over like a lead balloon.)
The incident is still immortalized in the halls of the SCA in the form of a song called "I'll see your six (and raise you thrity-five.)" (Yes, I'm a society member.) Quite a few women fight "heavy" as we call it, and by and large they have much more in common with Rosie the Riveter than they do with Laura Croft. Large breasts abound, but there is a muscle and bone structure behind them to back it up (and to allow them to hit like the hammer of god.)
Even the lightest of the simulated kits we wear weight close to fifty pounds, add in a five pound ratan "sword" and the ability to swing it for an hour or more at a stretch, and you've got to have quite a bit of muscle. (If you think five pounds doesn't sound like much, try holding the average yellow pages at arms length for any length of time.)
My point is, even though these women are quite lovely in their own right (heck, I married one of them!), they hardly look like the stuff of Playboy fantasy that dominates the female characters in computer games. Rather than blame society for this, however, I think it has more to do with male psychology. You have to be quite confident in your manhood to make a move on a woman who looks like she could squash you flat without so much as breaking a sweat. Most men just aren't up to that task.
When are we just going to fess up and admit that death is the natural result of life? Eat what you want, drink what you want, in the end it's not really going to matter. To quote George Carlin, "Eat well. Live right. Die anyway."
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That's ridiculous. You can tell it's art because it's got an urn in it..... or cherubs.... I forget but one of those means it's alright to look at and not shameful in any way :p
According to a recent court decision, the sperm donor. Don't remember the exact details of the case, but in Mass. a man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple is now being tapped for child support after their divorce.
Only if you're spherical and in a vacuum.
I'm surprised, (particularly because the discussion has broken down into push vs. destroy) that nobody has mentioned the Orion Project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)
This seems like an elegant solution to the problem, with the added bonus of keeping both camps happy.,
You're ignoring the fact that budget resolutions are immune to filibuster under senate rules. (see: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/jack-lews-misleading-claim-about-the-senates-failure-to-pass-a-budget-resolution/2012/02/12/gIQAs11z8Q_blog.html?wprss=fact-checker) (And note, the WAPO is not traditionally known as a hotbed of right wing thinking.) True, for a budget to pass, it requires cooperation of the house and senate, but the claim that the Senate hasn't passed a budget for fear of filibuster are, at best, specious.
The issue at hand is the following: War is about killing people and destroying stuff. .
As subtle but important distinction. A war is about destroying the enemy's will to resist. The destruction and killing are a means to that end, not the end in and of themselves.
I would be willing to bet that an American made the parent post, here’s why: Going from memory here, so exact details are a little fuzzy, but I remember reading a quote from one of Napoleon's generals to the effect that "recruits are cheap, cannon are expensive." That thinking dominated military strategy since ancient times. At some point, American generals began to reverse that equation. I’ve seen the change pegged to right after our civil war, although WWI would seem to give lie to that assumption. The point is that the attitude that lives are worth more than equipment has come to dominate Western Military assumptions.
People say I'm a great programmer but, sometimes, I'm a very bad smeller.
Have you considered changing your soap?
I think you mean free lunch. Free launch is what you get when they decide you're no longer useful.
The prior poster was referring to the fictional Librarian of the Unseen University in Ankh Mor-pork on the Discworld in novels written by Terry Pratchett. People don't criticize him as he tends to rip off their arms and or head.
And for the love of the gods, don't use the "m" word....Nice monkey....Oh S**t!
Mort may have been written before Reaper Man, but Reaper Man does a much better job of intorducing Death as a character rather than a prop THAT SPEAKS IN ALL CAPITALS. Given the complicated nature of the multiple worlds Pratchett has created, the first time a character is introduced is not necessarily the best time to meet him/her. I did not recommend starting with The Colour of Magic, as IMHO, it is one of the weakest books in the series. (Surpassed, perhaps, only by Pyramids.) Don't, get me wrong,it's still entertaining, but if it is used as an introduction to the Discworld, there is less of an impetous to find out more.
Pratchett, IMHO, speaks to different people throught different characters. The problem with Discworld is that it is not so much as series of books as four or five different series that intertwine. I generally recommend that people start with "Guards! Guards!" (The Nightwatch Series), "Reaper Man" (The Death Series), or "Equal Rites" (The Witches Series). "Kingdom for sale isn't Pratchett, it was written by Terry Brooks.
The incident is still immortalized in the halls of the SCA in the form of a song called "I'll see your six (and raise you thrity-five.)" (Yes, I'm a society member.) Quite a few women fight "heavy" as we call it, and by and large they have much more in common with Rosie the Riveter than they do with Laura Croft. Large breasts abound, but there is a muscle and bone structure behind them to back it up (and to allow them to hit like the hammer of god.) Even the lightest of the simulated kits we wear weight close to fifty pounds, add in a five pound ratan "sword" and the ability to swing it for an hour or more at a stretch, and you've got to have quite a bit of muscle. (If you think five pounds doesn't sound like much, try holding the average yellow pages at arms length for any length of time.) My point is, even though these women are quite lovely in their own right (heck, I married one of them!), they hardly look like the stuff of Playboy fantasy that dominates the female characters in computer games. Rather than blame society for this, however, I think it has more to do with male psychology. You have to be quite confident in your manhood to make a move on a woman who looks like she could squash you flat without so much as breaking a sweat. Most men just aren't up to that task.
When are we just going to fess up and admit that death is the natural result of life? Eat what you want, drink what you want, in the end it's not really going to matter. To quote George Carlin, "Eat well. Live right. Die anyway."
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