As a minister in a far eastern country that shall go unnamed, I am very concerned about the health effects of these western laptops.
Exposing children to toxic chemicals and complicated heavy machinery in sneaker factories and similar industrial environments is regrettably one of the ugly necessities of partaking in the spirit of new enterprise that allows us to join the global community. I believe the expression is that "it is required to break many eggs before one enjoys the omelet."
However, instructing our children in the use of a device that may facilitate the exchange of untempered democratic ideas and other destabilizing counter-cultural principles will make it far more difficult for us to promote the adoption of those attitudes and habits appropriate and indeed necessary to ensuring both the continued well-being of each individual citizen, and that of society in general.
If I want to marry a person of the same sex, how does that affect you?
If affects me because marraige is a social institution, by definition. If you & your partner were isolated on an island, the concept of 'marriage' would be mute. Other people (aka society) interacting with you forms part of the definition of 'marriage'.
So, my answer is, of course you should be able to 'marry' any consenting adult, but you should not be able to force me to recognise your relationship as marriage.
This appears to suggest that you believe that the state's sanctioning a marriage means that you yourself are forced to recognize it as valid and acceptable. That being the case, why should the state force anyone to recognize any marriage? That is, why should the state be in the business of sanctioning marriage at all?
If you would respond that marriage confers benefits on society that the state should support, then what are these benefits that are conferred only by heterosexual marriage?
Furthermore, why do you believe that the state's sanctioning of homosexual marriage forces you to recognize it as valid and acceptable? Presumably if you were against capital punishment, and your state has the death penalty, your state is not compelling you to recognize capital punishment as valid and acceptable, and you are free to convince others that it is not. You appear to be responding to complaints that preventing homosexuals to marry restricts their freedom with the argument that allowing homosexuals to marry restricts your freedom of people who disagree with this marriage. How is this actually the case?
Publish a Grand Theft Auto MMORPG and use google adsense to advertise it on gang blogs...take real world crime into virtual space....and make money....wonderful.
and in that MMORPG there will surely arise an insufferable lawyer who complains that the real world has become a gateway to video game violence.
you mean the majority of voters are.. if the election was close, the voters for John Howard may be a minority of the population when you take into account people who can't (underage/felon) or didn't vote. I think that's why we have so many stuffy politicians (at least here in Boston, where bars close at 2AM because the geriatric thought police want to make sure we wake up in time for church).
sure the plasma needle sounds better than the drill *in principle*, but the article fails to mention key factors, namely: what's the reload time and how much ammo can you carry?
We could use this to take pictures of women and associate the women with their locations - a kind of new-age black book!
I've tried that.. the problem is that their location keeps changing, and the faster you take the pictures, the faster their location changes in some random new direction.
I'd explain why this happens, but it involves a lot of math.
more importantly, if you brainwash a kid into buying your deodorant now, they may mindlessly buy it for years and years to come, whereas most older people are already brand loyal, and even if you do brainwash an 80-year-old guy, he might not finish his first stick before he keels over.
seems like if that worked, everyone would be using windows apps on linux, and then more and more programmers would start developing for linux since everyone uses it anyway, then eventually no one needs Windows API and M$ can go farm goats or something.
Of course, maybe that's what you were intending to happen...
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Exposing children to toxic chemicals and complicated heavy machinery in sneaker factories and similar industrial environments is regrettably one of the ugly necessities of partaking in the spirit of new enterprise that allows us to join the global community. I believe the expression is that "it is required to break many eggs before one enjoys the omelet."
However, instructing our children in the use of a device that may facilitate the exchange of untempered democratic ideas and other destabilizing counter-cultural principles will make it far more difficult for us to promote the adoption of those attitudes and habits appropriate and indeed necessary to ensuring both the continued well-being of each individual citizen, and that of society in general.
are you sure that slamming a technologically advanced race of alien robots in the face is really a good idea?
So could some defense contractor use an aspect of this fossil's design as evidence of prior art in a patent dispute?
that's going to become much less endearing in 10 years or so when he's driving your car.
That's a relief.
PS. I hope she's feeling better -- summer colds are the worst.
yes! I have developed a brand new, never seen before cure for this affliction. I bet you want some now, don't you?
This appears to suggest that you believe that the state's sanctioning a marriage means that you yourself are forced to recognize it as valid and acceptable. That being the case, why should the state force anyone to recognize any marriage? That is, why should the state be in the business of sanctioning marriage at all?
If you would respond that marriage confers benefits on society that the state should support, then what are these benefits that are conferred only by heterosexual marriage?
Furthermore, why do you believe that the state's sanctioning of homosexual marriage forces you to recognize it as valid and acceptable? Presumably if you were against capital punishment, and your state has the death penalty, your state is not compelling you to recognize capital punishment as valid and acceptable, and you are free to convince others that it is not. You appear to be responding to complaints that preventing homosexuals to marry restricts their freedom with the argument that allowing homosexuals to marry restricts your freedom of people who disagree with this marriage. How is this actually the case?
I think that's more of a confession than you meant to provide.
it can also be an adjective (participle), as in "My texting citation caused me to lose my license."
and in that MMORPG there will surely arise an insufferable lawyer who complains that the real world has become a gateway to video game violence.
you mean the majority of voters are.. if the election was close, the voters for John Howard may be a minority of the population when you take into account people who can't (underage/felon) or didn't vote. I think that's why we have so many stuffy politicians (at least here in Boston, where bars close at 2AM because the geriatric thought police want to make sure we wake up in time for church).
sure the plasma needle sounds better than the drill *in principle*, but the article fails to mention key factors, namely: what's the reload time and how much ammo can you carry?
I've tried that.. the problem is that their location keeps changing, and the faster you take the pictures, the faster their location changes in some random new direction.
I'd explain why this happens, but it involves a lot of math.
I suppose pretty soon the RIAA will demand that all blank CD's come pre-printed with a pair of teary puppy-dog eyes.
I'm thinking GSpot would bring more traffic.
that's why I love the Slashdot 'Funny' mod. It always lets me know when to laugh at a joke, so I don't feel left out.
ok, I can accept that, but I hope at least they resign Richard Nixon.
whoa! I mean re-sign! RE-SIGN Mr. Nixon! We miss not having you to kick around any more.
firefly is taking a bit longer because of the extra F.
harvesting organs from people to whom you've just given a lethal injection.. someone over there needs to retake Police State Governance 101.
actually thanks to rigorous backwards compatibility, you can be perfectly safe from productivity all the way through Vista.
As Marcus Aurelius once observed, "A man cannot gold-plate his Ferrari with justice alone."
you said it, buster. I'm 93 and can hardly stop myself drooling when I think of those lovely, lovely kidneys. Plus, Alba's my blood type!
tsk, tsk, looks like someone's been playing a bit too much GTA
more importantly, if you brainwash a kid into buying your deodorant now, they may mindlessly buy it for years and years to come, whereas most older people are already brand loyal, and even if you do brainwash an 80-year-old guy, he might not finish his first stick before he keels over.
Of course, maybe that's what you were intending to happen...