I would write and sign an executive order prohibiting me from doing almost anything at all! Then sit back for four years, and enjoy my pension for the rest of my life! Ah, its nice to be king!
Those anomalies are occassional as opposed to the vast majority of fossils which stay together in time periods. 99.9% of the time, there isn't a great jumble of fossils at all, which means that fossils staying together aren't the exception, they are the rule, which means a giant flood didn't mix them. And of course, there should be vast amount of evidence to support a giant flood, and thats not there. There is enormous amounts of evidence for localized floods in any given time period, they leave copious amounts of evidence in their wake. This isn't the case for the flood of noah.
Like what, Noahs flood? Okay okay, that was it, the dinosaurs were killed in one gigantic flood and spread into different layers keeping all of one species in one layer and all the other species to their own layers as well, in order to make it look like that layer was a time period. The flood was so awesome that it managed to give it the entire look of species when they die and another begins. One would have thought the flood would have just jumbled them all up and they would be everywhere in all layers, but no, it was a really good divine flood that managed to layer them all perfectly as to look like they weren't killed in a flood at all. Genius!!!!
Ultimate Deathmatch:
Sony and Kim Jong
Vs
Media Max and George W
Round 1
Sony uses MM to keep GW out of the Ring
Round 2
GW shows Sony why they screw up and forms Voltron with Media Max!
Round 3
Sony gets pissed and just talks smack!
Round 4
Kim Jong wonders to himself "How the hell did I get in this discussion?"
Round 5
The Supreme Courts rule that Media Max is unconstitutional and sentences Sony to fifteen years of tech geeks hating them. GW finally gets it and starts laughing "Ha Ha, my last name is BUSH!"
I think that the problem does lie with complacency, just no in the same fashion that you speak. People make money and buy cool stuff. They get enthralled with whats on TV, knee deep in World of Warcraft, and basically enjoy their life. People do not stand up to "tyranny" or "challenge the system" as long as their every day existence is not interrupted. In other words, it doesn't truly effect them. While they watch fight club, there is no noticeable impact on their life by anything that the RIAA, or any other company does. My father rarely gets on a computer, he cares nothing for all this "illegal" downloading deal thats been going on for so long. As long as peoples way of life in general doesn't change, no one will care enough to get up and do something.
Whoops, lets make that House and Senate! And yes, I know they were up, thats why they are in majority now and still the President does what he wants. That was my point.
Democracy has been working well? Is that why the president has been able to create spy programs behind our back that are wholly illegal and violate our liberties? Right, democracy is working so well. Thats why 80% of Americans are against the war, the majority of congress and the house oppose the war, yet our president still does what ever the hell he wants.
No, democracy is not working well and the ideal to censor the internet is just another exposition of what is wrong with it. As long as we sit around and say that democracy is working just fine, things will be okay, it won't be. Democracy works to keep our freedoms because the people are always on guard against this type of crap! And if we sit back and let "democracy do its thing" then the internet will go into censored oblivion and our children won't know what it was like to surf the free world wide web.
infidel/nfdl, -dl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[in-fi-dl, -del] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
-noun
1. Religion.
a. a person who does not accept a particular faith, esp. Christianity.
b. (in Christian use) an unbeliever, esp. a Muslim.
c. (in Muslim use) a person who does not accept the Islamic faith; kaffir.
2. a person who has no religious faith; unbeliever.
3. (loosely) a person who disbelieves or doubts a particular theory, belief, creed, etc.; skeptic.
-adjective
4. not accepting a particular faith, esp. Christianity or Islam; heathen.
5. without religious faith.
6. due to or manifesting unbelief: infidel ideas.
7. rejecting the Christian religion while accepting no other; not believing in the Bible or any Christian divine revelation.
8. Also, infidelic/nfdlk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[in-fi-del-ik] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of unbelievers or infidels.
You do realize that the Christian god is Yahweh and the Muslim god is Allah right? So yes, my nearly every Muslims standard, every non-muslim is an infidel. Thus the reason for most of the crusades, the conversion of the unbeliever of Allah.
Please, you can't sit here and seriously argue that Islam is not a religion of extremist who hate us due to the very faith they proclaim. The very fact that Osama Bin Laden has given the standard call for us to repent and turn to Islam, the accepted prelude to Jihad (the struggle against the enemies of Allah). Give me a break, stop the silly politically correct crap and speak the truth. The war on terrorism is a duck and and the emporer is naked!
You can BELIEVE that I am talking out my are all you want. Or you can do like me and READ IT YOURSELF before opening your mouth to defend it again!
No, it most certainly does not teach against violence. There are all of two scriptures that teach against suicide and violence compared to the MULTITUDE that speak of your rewards if you kill yourself in defense of the faith. Those are used to kill us because we are against nearly every priciple of Islam. Moderates who don't interpret it as literal are rare and mostly found in the US and other western countries.
If any of you really wants to know why they try and kill us, just read the Koran, dying killing an infidel is THE way to skip judgment and go straight to Allah's garden and bring 70 people of your choosing with you, 70 virgins and such, blah blah blah. Hating us, the infidel is taught, encouraged, and rewarded, period. Its in the book. Like christians, but much crazier, their faith leads them to hate us and want to kill us. Of course, this was easy to know since in the last five years Bin Laden has issue three calls for us to convert to Islam, the standard issue procession to infidels before killing them! He is going by the book this time, and faith is driving him and his following!
Hate to be the one who tells you this, but your assessment is only accurate for non-muslim countries. Islam by its very definition is going to hate us based on the fact that the Koran teaches violence against infidels (someone who doesn't believe in the same god you do)on nearly every page. And yes, most people believe that it is the actual factual word of Allah and that every word is to be followed literally. Its not extremists, its the norm, moderates in Islam are a rarity outside the US.
Second, if you compare the US freedom of press to ten years ago, we have significantly dropped. Ignore some ridiculous international survey that makes guesses based on things that really don't matter. Base it on the fact that the government told the New York Times to not publish a story because it was in the interest of national security. Of course, it was a story that the government is spying on us with out warrant. This should not happen in this country. We should not have a government deciding what we should read about when it involves us. If it really involved national security, then a warrant should have been just fine to spy on our phones lines. Wait, warrants require evidence of some kind, which they didn't have! Ooops! So thats why the NYT reported it! And the government supressing that kind of information is why we keep dropping in the index, and why we should be worried.
Every one knows that high powered gaming runs better on AMD due to the old floating point. But to the average user, price is he only advantage. I dont do much gaming, I have both intel and amd machines. Doing the same things like ripping dvd's, they are equal in performance. The market wont see a performance boost from average users, and the majority of games, due to awesome graphics cards, dont see a performance boost on most games. Testing and baselining usually show amd out performing intel, but not to a drastic degree. Performance testing with actual users side by side is often not noticable by the users. Amazingly, AMD users always say their amd processes much better than their intels used to. Die hard intel people say the same thing. Preference bias runs deep and every amd person will say im crazy and every intel person will say im crazy. True performance to the user has shown nearly equal until you get to really high end processing like CAD and some upper tier games. But with games, the processors just arent as important as graphics cards which offload so much from the processors these days.
Why come here and blast/.? People will always read/. no matter what crap gets spunked out against it. And I havent heard anything about the 'digg effect', but I know and have experienced the/. effect first hand. Its not by accident that we keep coming back!
Taxes not only pay for social programs (which generally keep the poor population in need of the government) but they pay for the salaries of the lawmakers who in turn make more social programs. Our government has become a system in which people can rely on to fix their problems for them. That reliance becomes the system of control used to keep the people in line. Its the poor population that is being controlled, the ones who have nothing to lose.
Not sure why there is any arguement about seat belts. Seat belts save lives, period. If you think that is BS, then go google some picks that show accidents with drivers and riders not in seatbelts. A seat belt saved my life in an accident. Not every law is about money or control. Some times it is about safety.
I have seen the new yahoo beta webmail and used it occassionally just for testing. I much prefer the gmail look and feel. Yahoo looks too much like outlook for my tastes and reminds me of work. Gmail looks better and is easier to use in my opinion.
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I would write and sign an executive order prohibiting me from doing almost anything at all! Then sit back for four years, and enjoy my pension for the rest of my life! Ah, its nice to be king!
Those anomalies are occassional as opposed to the vast majority of fossils which stay together in time periods. 99.9% of the time, there isn't a great jumble of fossils at all, which means that fossils staying together aren't the exception, they are the rule, which means a giant flood didn't mix them. And of course, there should be vast amount of evidence to support a giant flood, and thats not there. There is enormous amounts of evidence for localized floods in any given time period, they leave copious amounts of evidence in their wake. This isn't the case for the flood of noah.
Like what, Noahs flood? Okay okay, that was it, the dinosaurs were killed in one gigantic flood and spread into different layers keeping all of one species in one layer and all the other species to their own layers as well, in order to make it look like that layer was a time period. The flood was so awesome that it managed to give it the entire look of species when they die and another begins. One would have thought the flood would have just jumbled them all up and they would be everywhere in all layers, but no, it was a really good divine flood that managed to layer them all perfectly as to look like they weren't killed in a flood at all. Genius!!!!
Ultimate Deathmatch: Sony and Kim Jong Vs Media Max and George W Round 1 Sony uses MM to keep GW out of the Ring Round 2 GW shows Sony why they screw up and forms Voltron with Media Max! Round 3 Sony gets pissed and just talks smack! Round 4 Kim Jong wonders to himself "How the hell did I get in this discussion?" Round 5 The Supreme Courts rule that Media Max is unconstitutional and sentences Sony to fifteen years of tech geeks hating them. GW finally gets it and starts laughing "Ha Ha, my last name is BUSH!"
I think that the problem does lie with complacency, just no in the same fashion that you speak. People make money and buy cool stuff. They get enthralled with whats on TV, knee deep in World of Warcraft, and basically enjoy their life. People do not stand up to "tyranny" or "challenge the system" as long as their every day existence is not interrupted. In other words, it doesn't truly effect them. While they watch fight club, there is no noticeable impact on their life by anything that the RIAA, or any other company does. My father rarely gets on a computer, he cares nothing for all this "illegal" downloading deal thats been going on for so long. As long as peoples way of life in general doesn't change, no one will care enough to get up and do something.
Whoops, lets make that House and Senate! And yes, I know they were up, thats why they are in majority now and still the President does what he wants. That was my point.
Democracy has been working well? Is that why the president has been able to create spy programs behind our back that are wholly illegal and violate our liberties? Right, democracy is working so well. Thats why 80% of Americans are against the war, the majority of congress and the house oppose the war, yet our president still does what ever the hell he wants.
No, democracy is not working well and the ideal to censor the internet is just another exposition of what is wrong with it. As long as we sit around and say that democracy is working just fine, things will be okay, it won't be. Democracy works to keep our freedoms because the people are always on guard against this type of crap! And if we sit back and let "democracy do its thing" then the internet will go into censored oblivion and our children won't know what it was like to surf the free world wide web.
infidel /nfdl, -dl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[in-fi-dl, -del] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
-noun
1. Religion.
a. a person who does not accept a particular faith, esp. Christianity.
b. (in Christian use) an unbeliever, esp. a Muslim.
c. (in Muslim use) a person who does not accept the Islamic faith; kaffir.
2. a person who has no religious faith; unbeliever.
3. (loosely) a person who disbelieves or doubts a particular theory, belief, creed, etc.; skeptic.
-adjective
4. not accepting a particular faith, esp. Christianity or Islam; heathen.
5. without religious faith.
6. due to or manifesting unbelief: infidel ideas.
7. rejecting the Christian religion while accepting no other; not believing in the Bible or any Christian divine revelation.
8. Also, infidelic /nfdlk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[in-fi-del-ik] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of unbelievers or infidels.
You do realize that the Christian god is Yahweh and the Muslim god is Allah right? So yes, my nearly every Muslims standard, every non-muslim is an infidel. Thus the reason for most of the crusades, the conversion of the unbeliever of Allah.
Please, you can't sit here and seriously argue that Islam is not a religion of extremist who hate us due to the very faith they proclaim. The very fact that Osama Bin Laden has given the standard call for us to repent and turn to Islam, the accepted prelude to Jihad (the struggle against the enemies of Allah). Give me a break, stop the silly politically correct crap and speak the truth. The war on terrorism is a duck and and the emporer is naked!
You can BELIEVE that I am talking out my are all you want. Or you can do like me and READ IT YOURSELF before opening your mouth to defend it again! No, it most certainly does not teach against violence. There are all of two scriptures that teach against suicide and violence compared to the MULTITUDE that speak of your rewards if you kill yourself in defense of the faith. Those are used to kill us because we are against nearly every priciple of Islam. Moderates who don't interpret it as literal are rare and mostly found in the US and other western countries. If any of you really wants to know why they try and kill us, just read the Koran, dying killing an infidel is THE way to skip judgment and go straight to Allah's garden and bring 70 people of your choosing with you, 70 virgins and such, blah blah blah. Hating us, the infidel is taught, encouraged, and rewarded, period. Its in the book. Like christians, but much crazier, their faith leads them to hate us and want to kill us. Of course, this was easy to know since in the last five years Bin Laden has issue three calls for us to convert to Islam, the standard issue procession to infidels before killing them! He is going by the book this time, and faith is driving him and his following!
Hate to be the one who tells you this, but your assessment is only accurate for non-muslim countries. Islam by its very definition is going to hate us based on the fact that the Koran teaches violence against infidels (someone who doesn't believe in the same god you do)on nearly every page. And yes, most people believe that it is the actual factual word of Allah and that every word is to be followed literally. Its not extremists, its the norm, moderates in Islam are a rarity outside the US. Second, if you compare the US freedom of press to ten years ago, we have significantly dropped. Ignore some ridiculous international survey that makes guesses based on things that really don't matter. Base it on the fact that the government told the New York Times to not publish a story because it was in the interest of national security. Of course, it was a story that the government is spying on us with out warrant. This should not happen in this country. We should not have a government deciding what we should read about when it involves us. If it really involved national security, then a warrant should have been just fine to spy on our phones lines. Wait, warrants require evidence of some kind, which they didn't have! Ooops! So thats why the NYT reported it! And the government supressing that kind of information is why we keep dropping in the index, and why we should be worried.
Every one knows that high powered gaming runs better on AMD due to the old floating point. But to the average user, price is he only advantage. I dont do much gaming, I have both intel and amd machines. Doing the same things like ripping dvd's, they are equal in performance. The market wont see a performance boost from average users, and the majority of games, due to awesome graphics cards, dont see a performance boost on most games. Testing and baselining usually show amd out performing intel, but not to a drastic degree. Performance testing with actual users side by side is often not noticable by the users. Amazingly, AMD users always say their amd processes much better than their intels used to. Die hard intel people say the same thing. Preference bias runs deep and every amd person will say im crazy and every intel person will say im crazy. True performance to the user has shown nearly equal until you get to really high end processing like CAD and some upper tier games. But with games, the processors just arent as important as graphics cards which offload so much from the processors these days.
Why come here and blast /.? People will always read /. no matter what crap gets spunked out against it. And I havent heard anything about the 'digg effect', but I know and have experienced the /. effect first hand. Its not by accident that we keep coming back!
Lol, I saw that one coming! I guess the gulf is safe from terrorist now!
Taxes not only pay for social programs (which generally keep the poor population in need of the government) but they pay for the salaries of the lawmakers who in turn make more social programs. Our government has become a system in which people can rely on to fix their problems for them. That reliance becomes the system of control used to keep the people in line. Its the poor population that is being controlled, the ones who have nothing to lose. Not sure why there is any arguement about seat belts. Seat belts save lives, period. If you think that is BS, then go google some picks that show accidents with drivers and riders not in seatbelts. A seat belt saved my life in an accident. Not every law is about money or control. Some times it is about safety.
I have seen the new yahoo beta webmail and used it occassionally just for testing. I much prefer the gmail look and feel. Yahoo looks too much like outlook for my tastes and reminds me of work. Gmail looks better and is easier to use in my opinion.