If memory serves, Carl Sagan's reasoning (at least earlier versions) neglected to take into account the fact that the center of most galaxies are most likely filled with massive amounts of radiation and that life would have a much harder time existing there. Perhaps it's no coincidence we appeared on the outer rim of the milky way. Perhaps a huge, radioactive black hole stands between us and our neighibors on the other side.
Except that most of what Bush has done should have been illegal i.e. hiding folks in Guantanamo so the courts can't rule as to the legitamacy of their detention. Nominally, though, he did get congressional consent before going to war.
The difference between Linux and Windows is that my ethernet card configures properly under Windows.
I've tried Mandrake 10.0 SUSE 9.1... but none of them work. Typically, the whole computer freezes up if I plug in the cable. If I start with the cable plugged in, the computer won't even load. Infuriating!
I have no clue why this happens, but the hardware problems I've had with Linux, using cards they're supposed to support, is enough to turn me off to the system entirely despite my support for the underlying philosophy and my native dislike of M$
Yeah, it's supposed to be a funny quotation. It's also supposed to be ironic. Ever been to a rave? It's people from the pacman generation, running around in poorly lit rooms popping 'magic pills.'
The joke is that the least likely of all games to be influential turns out to have "caused" the modern rave scene.
Congress passes a lot of stupid legislation, but rarely any of it is outright harmful to industry, unless it has a lot of popular support. I'm sure someone will have a lobbyist whisper in a few congresspeople's ears that this is a bad idea, bad for industry, not going to work, etc.
This is true of the American government no matter how hard you try to deny it.
This is true of the Neocons, Neolibrals and CIA which make up a fair portion of the American Government. Of course, speaking as an American Bush fixed the election by giving double ballots to the millitary, threatening a coup if they weren't counted, illegally disenfranchising 55,000 mostly black voters by claiming they were felons, etc.
Of course, LBJ's mistake in Vietnam was treating the enemy as a single entity rather than seeing it as a conglomration of many factions.
The same way you justify firebombing Dresden during WWII. If it brings the war to an end faster, demoralizes the enemy, helps your side, etc.
The US had more nukes aimed at Russia than they had aimed at us. And these weren't tactical nukes for the field. These were 'take out Moscow and Leningrad' nukes.
Noam Chomsky's punch out; Do CD (Civil Disobedience) in one of 5 locations and try to get yourself knocked out by state troopers or arrested.
Sim Iraq - Try to Govern an Iraqi province amidst street wars, bombings, and counter insurgents. Will opening that Liquor store pacify residents or will it create a band of brigands who want to kill you? Find out in Sim Iraq.
Axis and Allies; The Cost of Empire Play as the United States and England against most of the rest of the world. Try to finish your game within the time limit or you may not be re-elected.
Bill Clinton's Dating sim; Includes "Arkansas Governor" and "U.S. President" levels. As you raise your profile (and other things) your ability to attract increases, but you'll also face more politically powerful enemies. Try our new 'hentai' expansion pack. Includes Asian girls and tentacles.
Conflict appropriate custom chess sets.
Warcraft mod pacs to change the characters into political figures with appropriate slogans.
Bush "I'm a reformer with results", "Saddam. 9-11. Saddam. 9-11"
"They misunderestimated me"
"All your votes are belong to us"
*and if you keep clicking*
"Hey Rovie, what do I say next" "I'm a uniter not a divider so you're either with us or against us"
Political Jeapordy Any kind of trivia game is easily attapted to any political persuasion. I can see it now. Get Bill O'Reilly hosting "who want's to be a Republican Millionaire"
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo VP, 1989
Perhaps the American Conservative Union doesn't understand the concept of conservative?...However, McCain's voting record is not out of step with many other Republicans in the Senate. His lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union is an 85, the same as Orrin Hatch's lifetime rating. Hatch is not exactly considered a moderate or liberal Republican. Although McCain's scores have dropped slightly in recent years, they are still fairly close to his lifetime rating. In 1999, he received a score of 77, and in 2000, he received an 81, one point above Republican Olympia Snowe of Maine and three points below Republican Gordon Smith from Oregon. Compared to James Jeffords, his scores are fairly high. James Jeffords received an overall lifetime rating of 27 from the American Conservative Union, well under conservative Democrat John Breaux's lifetime rating of 47. McCain's lifetime rating and recent lower ratings are well above the ratings of conservative Democrats. Democrat Robert Byrd of Virginia, a moderate Democrat, has a lifetime ACU rating of 31.
McCain has blurred the line on a number of issues and even waffled (on gun control, for instance), but on the whole he has voted more in line with conservative rather than liberal ideology.
Nowadays, there are a good number of conservative Democrats. Hell, Kerry was courting McCain. There's a reason why Wellstone's line "I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party" plays so well with some Democrats. The Blue Dog Democrats have been formed as 'pro-business Democrats' because the Democratic party realized they weren't going to win at the federal level unless they could match the Republican ability to secure legalized bribes (i.e. campaign donations). They've done a pretty good job of it, too. Now we've got two bought-and-paid-for parties working at the national level.
Generally speaking, the mass media's reporting tends to be liberal on social issues, but conservative on economic issues. The economic left has been mostly marginalized in the US.
1. People have a right to a certain level of control over their own bodies which exceeds the control they have over their other possessions. A person can be taxed or have their property taken away, but they cannot be forced to give blood or be impregnated or remain impregnated, and they can only be imprisoned if they commit a crime.
2. Killing life (human cells) or killing potential life (sperm) is not murder to most people, though it's not typically viewed as morally insignificant either. The early church (including St. Augustine, for example) was fine with abortions performed a certain time (40-80 days depending on the source) after conception. It wasn't until the middle of the second millenium that the view started to shift.
Masturbation Jewish law clearly prohibits male masturbation. This law is derived from the story of Onan (Gen. 38:8-10), who practiced coitus interruptus as a means of birth control to avoid fathering a child for his deceased brother. G-d killed Onan for this sin. Although Onan's act was not truly masturbation, Jewish law takes a very broad view of the acts prohibited by this passage, and forbids any act of ha-sh'cha'tat zerah (destruction of the seed), that is, ejaculation outside of the vagina. In fact, the prohibition is so strict that one passage in the Talmud states, "in the case of a man, the hand that reaches below the navel should be chopped off." (Niddah 13a)
2600 BC - First recorded recipe for an abortion producing drug. http://www.hopeclinic.com/history.htm
The Hippocratic oath states "Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy." Hippocrates was from the 5th century B.C.
If God says 'before I formed you in the womb' this contradicts, rather than supports, the notion that life begins at conception. Emphasis on "before." Of course, guys can do what they want. It's not until the problem becomes a woman's problem that people actually want someone to be responsible for their actions.
Well, in Judiasm at least, no. It would, at the least, be considered 'wasting the seed of life.' I don't think there's a punishment attached, but the old testament basically says "don't be like the gentiles and waste the seed of life." Arguments could possibly be made for abortion if it was needed to preserve the life of the mother ("picol nefesh", you can break almost any law to save a life)
Because there's been exactly one person that I've known who equates abortion with murder and wasn't a conservative religious type. All the rest were. An assumption, but one based on experience.
Hmm. Nowhere in the bible does it say 'abortion = murder' or 'an unborn child is a full fledged human being' or anything like that. If you can find it, let me know.
If you really want to go biblical, lets make male masturbation a felony.
I wonder if there's any way to get a chain letter like this which would persuade people to write a letter to congress protesting the DMCA...... it'd be more believable if you ask folks to BCC the letter to some junk yahoo e-mail box for 'tracking purposes.'
As anyone who watched "Wheel of Fortune" on a regular basis is aware, the most common consonants in English are R,S,T,L,N,, and the vowel E. By increasing the percentage of words which use off-peak letters such as "X","M" and "L", operators of conventional style typesetting devices have been able to increase their printing capacity by a whopping 3%!
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If memory serves, Carl Sagan's reasoning (at least earlier versions) neglected to take into account the fact that the center of most galaxies are most likely filled with massive amounts of radiation and that life would have a much harder time existing there. Perhaps it's no coincidence we appeared on the outer rim of the milky way. Perhaps a huge, radioactive black hole stands between us and our neighibors on the other side.
Contribute a million dollars to his campaign fund and he'll give Richard Stallman a lapdance, if you ask him to.
Except that most of what Bush has done should have been illegal i.e. hiding folks in Guantanamo so the courts can't rule as to the legitamacy of their detention. Nominally, though, he did get congressional consent before going to war.
Okay, I just have to ask... what is condensed water? Is it like condensed milk; Water with most of the water taken out?
The difference between Linux and Windows is that my ethernet card configures properly under Windows.
I've tried Mandrake 10.0 SUSE 9.1... but none of them work. Typically, the whole computer freezes up if I plug in the cable. If I start with the cable plugged in, the computer won't even load. Infuriating!
I have no clue why this happens, but the hardware problems I've had with Linux, using cards they're supposed to support, is enough to turn me off to the system entirely despite my support for the underlying philosophy and my native dislike of M$
Apparently it works for other people, though.
In Soviet Russia, Satan sells his soul to you.
Yeah, it's supposed to be a funny quotation. It's also supposed to be ironic. Ever been to a rave? It's people from the pacman generation, running around in poorly lit rooms popping 'magic pills.'
The joke is that the least likely of all games to be influential turns out to have "caused" the modern rave scene.
Make sense?
Congress passes a lot of stupid legislation, but rarely any of it is outright harmful to industry, unless it has a lot of popular support. I'm sure someone will have a lobbyist whisper in a few congresspeople's ears that this is a bad idea, bad for industry, not going to work, etc.
Now we're going to have to arrest you for disseminating this information.
Sincerely,
The Feds
This is true of the American government no matter how hard you try to deny it.
This is true of the Neocons, Neolibrals and CIA which make up a fair portion of the American Government. Of course, speaking as an American Bush fixed the election by giving double ballots to the millitary, threatening a coup if they weren't counted, illegally disenfranchising 55,000 mostly black voters by claiming they were felons, etc.
Of course, LBJ's mistake in Vietnam was treating the enemy as a single entity rather than seeing it as a conglomration of many factions.
The same way you justify firebombing Dresden during WWII. If it brings the war to an end faster, demoralizes the enemy, helps your side, etc.
The US had more nukes aimed at Russia than they had aimed at us. And these weren't tactical nukes for the field. These were 'take out Moscow and Leningrad' nukes.
Noam Chomsky's punch out; Do CD (Civil Disobedience) in one of 5 locations and try to get yourself knocked out by state troopers or arrested.
Sim Iraq - Try to Govern an Iraqi province amidst street wars, bombings, and counter insurgents. Will opening that Liquor store pacify residents or will it create a band of brigands who want to kill you? Find out in Sim Iraq.
Axis and Allies; The Cost of Empire
Play as the United States and England against most of the rest of the world. Try to finish your game within the time limit or you may not be re-elected.
Bill Clinton's Dating sim;
Includes "Arkansas Governor" and "U.S. President"
levels. As you raise your profile (and other things) your ability to attract increases, but you'll also face more politically powerful enemies.
Try our new 'hentai' expansion pack. Includes Asian girls and tentacles.
Conflict appropriate custom chess sets.
Warcraft mod pacs to change the characters into political figures with appropriate slogans.
Bush
"I'm a reformer with results",
"Saddam. 9-11. Saddam. 9-11"
"They misunderestimated me"
"All your votes are belong to us"
*and if you keep clicking*
"Hey Rovie, what do I say next"
"I'm a uniter not a divider so you're either with us or against us"
Political Jeapordy
Any kind of trivia game is easily attapted to any political persuasion. I can see it now. Get Bill O'Reilly hosting "who want's to be a Republican Millionaire"
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo VP, 1989
Perhaps the American Conservative Union doesn't understand the concept of conservative? ...However, McCain's voting record is not out of step with many other Republicans in the Senate. His lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union is an 85, the same as Orrin Hatch's lifetime rating. Hatch is not exactly considered a moderate or liberal Republican. Although McCain's scores have dropped slightly in recent years, they are still fairly close to his lifetime rating. In 1999, he received a score of 77, and in 2000, he received an 81, one point above Republican Olympia Snowe of Maine and three points below Republican Gordon Smith from Oregon. Compared to James Jeffords, his scores are fairly high. James Jeffords received an overall lifetime rating of 27 from the American Conservative Union, well under conservative Democrat John Breaux's lifetime rating of 47. McCain's lifetime rating and recent lower ratings are well above the ratings of conservative Democrats. Democrat Robert Byrd of Virginia, a moderate Democrat, has a lifetime ACU rating of 31.
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http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article
McCain has blurred the line on a number of issues and even waffled (on gun control, for instance), but on the whole he has voted more in line with conservative rather than liberal ideology.
Nowadays, there are a good number of conservative Democrats. Hell, Kerry was courting McCain. There's a reason why Wellstone's line "I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party" plays so well with some Democrats. The Blue Dog Democrats have been formed as 'pro-business Democrats' because the Democratic party realized they weren't going to win at the federal level unless they could match the Republican ability to secure legalized bribes (i.e. campaign donations). They've done a pretty good job of it, too. Now we've got two bought-and-paid-for parties working at the national level.
Generally speaking, the mass media's reporting tends to be liberal on social issues, but conservative on economic issues. The economic left has been mostly marginalized in the US.
2 things.
1. People have a right to a certain level of control over their own bodies which exceeds the control they have over their other possessions.
A person can be taxed or have their property taken away, but they cannot be forced to give blood or be impregnated or remain impregnated, and they can only be imprisoned if they commit a crime.
2. Killing life (human cells) or killing potential life (sperm) is not murder to most people, though it's not typically viewed as morally insignificant either. The early church (including St. Augustine, for example) was fine with abortions performed a certain time (40-80 days depending on the source) after conception. It wasn't until the middle of the second millenium that the view started to shift.
Masturbation
Jewish law clearly prohibits male masturbation. This law is derived from the story of Onan (Gen. 38:8-10), who practiced coitus interruptus as a means of birth control to avoid fathering a child for his deceased brother. G-d killed Onan for this sin. Although Onan's act was not truly masturbation, Jewish law takes a very broad view of the acts prohibited by this passage, and forbids any act of ha-sh'cha'tat zerah (destruction of the seed), that is, ejaculation outside of the vagina. In fact, the prohibition is so strict that one passage in the Talmud states, "in the case of a man, the hand that reaches below the navel should be chopped off." (Niddah 13a)
2600 BC - First recorded recipe for an abortion producing drug.
http://www.hopeclinic.com/history.htm
The Hippocratic oath states "Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy." Hippocrates was from the 5th century B.C.
There is also nothing I can find in the bible prohibiting polygamy...
The old testament allows it
The new testatment says 'there shall be only one man and one woman for this lifetime'
If God says 'before I formed you in the womb' this contradicts, rather than supports, the notion that life begins at conception. Emphasis on "before." Of course, guys can do what they want. It's not until the problem becomes a woman's problem that people actually want someone to be responsible for their actions.
Well, in Judiasm at least, no. It would, at the least, be considered 'wasting the seed of life.'
I don't think there's a punishment attached, but the old testament basically says "don't be like the gentiles and waste the seed of life." Arguments could possibly be made for abortion if it was needed to preserve the life of the mother ("picol nefesh", you can break almost any law to save a life)
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
I post humorously. That really improves my karma.
Because there's been exactly one person that I've known who equates abortion with murder and wasn't a conservative religious type. All the rest were. An assumption, but one based on experience.
Hmm. Nowhere in the bible does it say 'abortion = murder' or 'an unborn child is a full fledged human being' or anything like that. If you can find it, let me know.
If you really want to go biblical, lets make male masturbation a felony.
I wonder if there's any way to get a chain letter like this which would persuade people to write a letter to congress protesting the DMCA... ... it'd be more believable if you ask folks to BCC the letter to some junk yahoo e-mail box for 'tracking purposes.'
As anyone who watched "Wheel of Fortune" on a regular basis is aware, the most common consonants in English are R,S,T,L,N,, and the vowel E. By increasing the percentage of words which use off-peak letters such as "X","M" and "L", operators of conventional style typesetting devices have been able to increase their printing capacity by a whopping 3%!