Well, why not just have the free speech zone cover the entirety of the area outside of the campus buildings? If they want to protest inside, they can do it silently with a sit in or so. The rules would be just the same as anywhere off-campus in that case.
While I agree with most of your post, the notion that the US is anywhere near a free market is rather naive. The US has shifted far closer to economic fascism over the past 25 years, that is, we have a lot of corporate welfare and interdependence between the corporate world and the government. This is especially true for the health care industry and Big Pharma(tm). They receive untold amounts of free R&D from the taxpayer via our university system while they have become the most represented lobby in America. If America were a truly free market, they wouldn't be getting such rich, and more importantly difficult to quantify, welfare payments from the government.
Allowing people or corporations to set their own profit margins via legislation is the very ANTITHESIS of a free market.
The truth is that free markets DO work, but only when the government keeps its big fat nose out of it. Socialized medicine also works, but probably not as well due to increased administrative costs--it's hard to say because there really isn't a good free market health care system anywhere in the modern world. The US had a true free market system from the 50's-70's, and during that time they had the best health care in the world, IIRC.
You should join the Revolution. If enough like minded people come together, Dr. Paul CAN get elected. Even if he doesn't win, other candidates will sit up and take notice of the freedom movement, and shift their positions to take advantage of our voting block.
You can't just leave it up to other people, you have to get out there and make your opinions known.
You can say "anti-gay" if you want to (it has no basis in fact), but he has stated on national television that he is for gay marriage. I dare you to find a front runner that has publicly confronted such a divisive issue. While he may or may not think that homosexuality is immoral, he defends their right to do what they want. He keeps his personal beliefs separate from his political actions.
There's a saying: "I may not agree with what you are saying, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it." That sums up this apparent incongruity between his personal beliefs and his voting record. Honestly, the only real civil rights problem that he has is the abortion issue, and he wouldn't really have any control over that as president. I wouldn't expect it to be a litmus test issue for his appointments either, as he has more pressing issues to take care of, and he knows it.
I got rid of all of the incandescent bulbs from my house almost four years ago. I keep just one out back, which I use when it gets really cold to keep my well from freezing. It's nice because I can turn it on from the house and can easily confirm that it is still working by the light coming from under the door without having to go out in the 10 degree weather to make sure it has come on.
I mean, I wouldn't mind paying more for them, just because I use so very few, but I don't want to have to put a ceramic heater out there and risk burning down the housing. Light bulbs are very safe heat sources.
The government should stop thinking it knows better than me. I should be able to make my own choices, God damn it.
TFA said that at the time these things roamed the earth, the levels of oxygen were much higher than they are now, allowing them to grow far larger than they ever could today.
You have a right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.
Sounds like this is a clear cut violation of Miranda Laws. Of course, I didn't RTFA, so I can't be sure.
>>Infinitely better drugs.
Prove it. The number of new drugs may be up, but most of them aren't new, and almost none are better than existing drugs.
Damn near all the drugs that have come out in the past ten years have been reformulations or slight modifications of old drugs. Procedures and basic understanding of the way the human body works have improved dramatically, which accounts for most of our current longevity, but drugs haven't gotten much better since the 90's. Drug companies love to harp on all the money they spend on research, but the truth is that they include a lot of their marketing in their research budgets, and they refuse to open their books for review.
Check out this special for more info: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81DmeC_EXKI for part 1, and continue to the others through the sidebar.
Netflix lost me when they started slowing down my shipping. Instead of getting my movies within the next business day like I was supposed to, it would take 7-10 days, which was ridiculous. With blockbuster, I can just take in my movies for a free rental at the local store and they get a 2-5 day extension. I don't really care how long it takes to get my next movie, as long as I have something to watch whenever I like.
If they were to up my charges I would most assuredly abandon the whole rental service altogether. This service is for my convenience, and the moment it becomes inconvenient, either because the price is too high or I don't get movies in a timely manner, it will be dropped. There are plenty of other entertainment options out there.
On the Iron Law of Oligarchy, one could theoretically prevent this decline by respecting the principle of states rights and rule from the bottom, which reduces the massive organization of the government into at least 50 smaller ones, hopefully with those state governments passing a significant amount of power down to the municipality or district level.
If we would return to this basic principle, we would see a new blossoming of freedom in this country.
In my lab we used to work with capsacin to study the long term effects of pain nerve dysfunction in rabbits. Capsacin is similar to topical anesthetics in some respects, but what is unique is that it ONLY blocks pain signals. Pressure, heat, and cold signals still make it through.
Interestingly, we found that the rabbits who had this treatment on their eyes (yes, they were sedated for the treatment, and experienced no pain or blindness later) would eventually develop sores on their eyes which were similar to those in human patients that had to have the nerves to their eyes (excluding the optic nerve) cut for whatever reason (this was a few years ago, and I wasn't involved in the project). We found out that capsacin blocks production of a certain small protein, which at the time was thought to regulate pain signals. We found that it was also responsible for coordination of wound healing. This is likely the reason that people with degenerative nerve diseases or diabetes experience non-healing sores.
They probably did, as it would be a public relations coup if the US revealed that China DIDN'T reach the moon. Tracking a launching rocket and checking if it was moving at escape velocity on a course towards the moon should be trivial for them. Not to mention that it could probably be tracked by telescopes from anywhere on Earth.
Bacteria can't develop resistance to alcohol without becoming something other than bacteria. If they could, humanity would never have become civilized. Much of the problem with living together in large communities is finding clean water. The easiest way to turn infested water into something you can drink is by fermenting it into an alcoholic beverage.
Other antibiotics are more prone to causing immunity, as they attack specific proteins and such, tearing the membrane open. Ethanol just penetrates the membrane and changes the characteristics of the cellular medium, killing the cell.
Pnuemonia is caused by Pseudomonas aeurgenosa, which is present on the skin and could be isolated by anyone with just a little bit of microbiology experience.
I guess that makes us all terrorists now. Hell, most of us have even worse stuff crawling around on our skin, bugs that could kill if they got into your body and multiplied, but he body is designed to defend against them. Just having them around in a vial is no more dangerous than leaving a stool sample in a closed container on your table.
This case is somewhat similar to the "plague professor" from Texas Tech Health Sciences Center a few years ago. The local prosecutor had a vendetta out on this guy because he caused a scare, and ended up putting him in jail for quite a while for not filling out the right paperwork on shipping some bacteria samples from Africa. This is something that ANY professor could be taken down for. From speaking with the professors there, I can tell you it has had a real chilling effect on research at that institution. Everyone is so uptight that it's hard to get anything done. Most labs have been forced to hire inventory personnel in an attempt to stay "legal", which takes away from money that should be spent doing research and curing disease.
Incursions into minor possessions aren't the same as having an army roll into your capital. Also, the Israeli/Palestinian thing is more of an internal struggle with poorly armed groups, again, not an occupying force rolling into Jerusalem.
Think about how many great nations rose, fell, and exchanged large tracts of territory (involuntarily) in the 70 years before Hiroshima vs the seventy years afterwards and tell me that nukes aren't a stabilizing force in the world.
The British are still at the top table, the Spanish and French were military superpowers, not a scientific ones, the Chinese succumbed to monoculture, and the Persian empire was destroyed by invading armies long before the invention of the atom bomb. If ICBMs had been invented by the persians, we would all still be speaking Farsi.
No nation that is well armed with nuclear counterstrike capabilities will ever be invaded. The political boundaries of the world will remain as they are until a highly effective nuke shield is developed.
That being said, why the outburst? You seem to have some sort of inferiority complex, lashing out like that for no great reason. No, the US wasn't "chosen by God", it was chosen by circumstance. And the conditions that exist in the world right now tend toward unshakable stability for the US and all other great nuclear powers. The only way to reduce the power of one of these nations is for their economy to collapse in a spectacular fashion (a la the Soviet Union), but even with that, Russia remains a great power with "a seat at the top table".
I think you can get a phone like what you want at Walgreens or a similar drug store. Just get the prepaid type (the kind that all the criminals use). I'm pretty sure those are bare-bones models.
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How's this for proof? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7222536.stm
The third cable was cut in a completely "unrelated" incident.
Yeah, I'm sure it was nothing but a random anchor. Move along now, nothing to see here.
Well, why not just have the free speech zone cover the entirety of the area outside of the campus buildings? If they want to protest inside, they can do it silently with a sit in or so. The rules would be just the same as anywhere off-campus in that case.
While I agree with most of your post, the notion that the US is anywhere near a free market is rather naive. The US has shifted far closer to economic fascism over the past 25 years, that is, we have a lot of corporate welfare and interdependence between the corporate world and the government. This is especially true for the health care industry and Big Pharma(tm). They receive untold amounts of free R&D from the taxpayer via our university system while they have become the most represented lobby in America. If America were a truly free market, they wouldn't be getting such rich, and more importantly difficult to quantify, welfare payments from the government.
Allowing people or corporations to set their own profit margins via legislation is the very ANTITHESIS of a free market.
The truth is that free markets DO work, but only when the government keeps its big fat nose out of it. Socialized medicine also works, but probably not as well due to increased administrative costs--it's hard to say because there really isn't a good free market health care system anywhere in the modern world. The US had a true free market system from the 50's-70's, and during that time they had the best health care in the world, IIRC.
You should join the Revolution. If enough like minded people come together, Dr. Paul CAN get elected. Even if he doesn't win, other candidates will sit up and take notice of the freedom movement, and shift their positions to take advantage of our voting block.
You can't just leave it up to other people, you have to get out there and make your opinions known.
You can say "anti-gay" if you want to (it has no basis in fact), but he has stated on national television that he is for gay marriage. I dare you to find a front runner that has publicly confronted such a divisive issue. While he may or may not think that homosexuality is immoral, he defends their right to do what they want. He keeps his personal beliefs separate from his political actions.
There's a saying: "I may not agree with what you are saying, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it." That sums up this apparent incongruity between his personal beliefs and his voting record. Honestly, the only real civil rights problem that he has is the abortion issue, and he wouldn't really have any control over that as president. I wouldn't expect it to be a litmus test issue for his appointments either, as he has more pressing issues to take care of, and he knows it.
You should dig a little deeper. Those comments weren't written by him, but were posted under his name, without his permission.
For more detailed rebuttal of Ron Paul's alleged white supremacist ties, read here: http://www.nolanchart.com/article607.html
I got rid of all of the incandescent bulbs from my house almost four years ago. I keep just one out back, which I use when it gets really cold to keep my well from freezing. It's nice because I can turn it on from the house and can easily confirm that it is still working by the light coming from under the door without having to go out in the 10 degree weather to make sure it has come on.
I mean, I wouldn't mind paying more for them, just because I use so very few, but I don't want to have to put a ceramic heater out there and risk burning down the housing. Light bulbs are very safe heat sources.
The government should stop thinking it knows better than me. I should be able to make my own choices, God damn it.
TFA said that at the time these things roamed the earth, the levels of oxygen were much higher than they are now, allowing them to grow far larger than they ever could today.
Would you like a chocolate covered pretzel?
You have a right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. Sounds like this is a clear cut violation of Miranda Laws. Of course, I didn't RTFA, so I can't be sure.
Find us one that supports it, and we will.
>>Infinitely better drugs. Prove it. The number of new drugs may be up, but most of them aren't new, and almost none are better than existing drugs. Damn near all the drugs that have come out in the past ten years have been reformulations or slight modifications of old drugs. Procedures and basic understanding of the way the human body works have improved dramatically, which accounts for most of our current longevity, but drugs haven't gotten much better since the 90's. Drug companies love to harp on all the money they spend on research, but the truth is that they include a lot of their marketing in their research budgets, and they refuse to open their books for review. Check out this special for more info: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81DmeC_EXKI for part 1, and continue to the others through the sidebar.
Netflix lost me when they started slowing down my shipping. Instead of getting my movies within the next business day like I was supposed to, it would take 7-10 days, which was ridiculous. With blockbuster, I can just take in my movies for a free rental at the local store and they get a 2-5 day extension. I don't really care how long it takes to get my next movie, as long as I have something to watch whenever I like.
If they were to up my charges I would most assuredly abandon the whole rental service altogether. This service is for my convenience, and the moment it becomes inconvenient, either because the price is too high or I don't get movies in a timely manner, it will be dropped. There are plenty of other entertainment options out there.
On the Iron Law of Oligarchy, one could theoretically prevent this decline by respecting the principle of states rights and rule from the bottom, which reduces the massive organization of the government into at least 50 smaller ones, hopefully with those state governments passing a significant amount of power down to the municipality or district level. If we would return to this basic principle, we would see a new blossoming of freedom in this country.
Sure. Here's the patent: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20070154448.html And the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_P
That depends entirely on what games you play. Civ IV might be a good starting point for potential future leaders.
In my lab we used to work with capsacin to study the long term effects of pain nerve dysfunction in rabbits. Capsacin is similar to topical anesthetics in some respects, but what is unique is that it ONLY blocks pain signals. Pressure, heat, and cold signals still make it through. Interestingly, we found that the rabbits who had this treatment on their eyes (yes, they were sedated for the treatment, and experienced no pain or blindness later) would eventually develop sores on their eyes which were similar to those in human patients that had to have the nerves to their eyes (excluding the optic nerve) cut for whatever reason (this was a few years ago, and I wasn't involved in the project). We found out that capsacin blocks production of a certain small protein, which at the time was thought to regulate pain signals. We found that it was also responsible for coordination of wound healing. This is likely the reason that people with degenerative nerve diseases or diabetes experience non-healing sores.
Yeah, but which is which?
And thus the flying wing was born!
They probably did, as it would be a public relations coup if the US revealed that China DIDN'T reach the moon. Tracking a launching rocket and checking if it was moving at escape velocity on a course towards the moon should be trivial for them. Not to mention that it could probably be tracked by telescopes from anywhere on Earth.
Bacteria can't develop resistance to alcohol without becoming something other than bacteria. If they could, humanity would never have become civilized. Much of the problem with living together in large communities is finding clean water. The easiest way to turn infested water into something you can drink is by fermenting it into an alcoholic beverage. Other antibiotics are more prone to causing immunity, as they attack specific proteins and such, tearing the membrane open. Ethanol just penetrates the membrane and changes the characteristics of the cellular medium, killing the cell.
Pnuemonia is caused by Pseudomonas aeurgenosa, which is present on the skin and could be isolated by anyone with just a little bit of microbiology experience. I guess that makes us all terrorists now. Hell, most of us have even worse stuff crawling around on our skin, bugs that could kill if they got into your body and multiplied, but he body is designed to defend against them. Just having them around in a vial is no more dangerous than leaving a stool sample in a closed container on your table. This case is somewhat similar to the "plague professor" from Texas Tech Health Sciences Center a few years ago. The local prosecutor had a vendetta out on this guy because he caused a scare, and ended up putting him in jail for quite a while for not filling out the right paperwork on shipping some bacteria samples from Africa. This is something that ANY professor could be taken down for. From speaking with the professors there, I can tell you it has had a real chilling effect on research at that institution. Everyone is so uptight that it's hard to get anything done. Most labs have been forced to hire inventory personnel in an attempt to stay "legal", which takes away from money that should be spent doing research and curing disease.
Incursions into minor possessions aren't the same as having an army roll into your capital. Also, the Israeli/Palestinian thing is more of an internal struggle with poorly armed groups, again, not an occupying force rolling into Jerusalem.
Think about how many great nations rose, fell, and exchanged large tracts of territory (involuntarily) in the 70 years before Hiroshima vs the seventy years afterwards and tell me that nukes aren't a stabilizing force in the world.
The British are still at the top table, the Spanish and French were military superpowers, not a scientific ones, the Chinese succumbed to monoculture, and the Persian empire was destroyed by invading armies long before the invention of the atom bomb. If ICBMs had been invented by the persians, we would all still be speaking Farsi.
No nation that is well armed with nuclear counterstrike capabilities will ever be invaded. The political boundaries of the world will remain as they are until a highly effective nuke shield is developed.
That being said, why the outburst? You seem to have some sort of inferiority complex, lashing out like that for no great reason. No, the US wasn't "chosen by God", it was chosen by circumstance. And the conditions that exist in the world right now tend toward unshakable stability for the US and all other great nuclear powers. The only way to reduce the power of one of these nations is for their economy to collapse in a spectacular fashion (a la the Soviet Union), but even with that, Russia remains a great power with "a seat at the top table".
I think you can get a phone like what you want at Walgreens or a similar drug store. Just get the prepaid type (the kind that all the criminals use). I'm pretty sure those are bare-bones models.