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<t>Accountable;1382599 wrote: :yh_clap Agreed, except that I heard a report that Romney netted an increase in jobs created/saved. Such numbers are easy to produce, since Romney's actions directly ended, created, and saved actual people's jobs, unlike the current admin's wild fictional claims. ...

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<r>Heh, the shills at Fox news can't even get the name right. They refer to SOPA as the "Stop Online Privacy Act"... though that's actually a better title: A Q&A On Contested Internet Anti-piracy Bills | Fox News Edit: looks like they corrected the text now. Or ...

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<r>I read the SOPA bill and was puzzled by the approach. The core of the bill is aimed at taking control of DNS. This is both ineffective and too overarching, for the stated purpose of combating piracy. One, if they shut down a domain name, a person can still access a site via IP address...

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<r>IMO it's difficult to create a moral dilemma on physical gender because most likely the male may have female children, wife, or relatives that would be harmed by an act of likely suicide. Also, I don't see this as the same type of case where 'women and children first' would apply. It's not a mass...

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You are probably okay, as long as the shots are not punctuated by remarks like "where's my money?" and "How's that feel?"

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I just saw a show with Jeff Garlin (from Curb your Enthusiasm) .. he's pretty funny.

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<t>It is true Obama's poll numbers have dropped on the left, but when confronted with a choice like Obama or a choice like Palin/Perry what choice is there really? The left is virtually forced to vote for a center-left or center-right candidate because there is no representation of the left in U.S. ...

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<r>flopstock;1367803 wrote: I don't know why you want to keep making it hard. Any money I make will have already been taxed at my 8-10%. What I do with that money is then no longer the business of the internal revenue service. If I reinvest it and make more money off of it, that new revenue would be...

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<t>I've been thinking more about the tax rate on corporations, and suspect the effective rate on a healthy corporation is probably close to 0%. Who really pays this corporate tax? The company likely just passes the cost on to the consumer (higher prices for middle class) or subtracts thi...

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<r>Ahso!;1367770 wrote: As for Ron Paul - he's not part of the sabotage, he simply wants to go back in time and live in the 1700's. Sorry, but that's the truth. We live in the 21st century now. He says some good stuff and makes some common sense, but his views are very limited and his world seems ra...

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<t>flopstock;1367738 wrote: Social Security has been abused, IMO. We should all be paying into retirement accounts. Start today. That's possible, though by the same token ... as the market becomes more intertwined with social well-being you create an entity that's "too bi...

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<t>flopstock;1367732 wrote: So can the person's who is making 250,000 per year. I agree... tax deductions are one way to tax take-home versus gross. For example being able to subtract a huge medical cost from your taxable income seems fair. One medical procedure can easily cost $250...

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<t>Ahso!;1367709 wrote: Not necessarily true. Restaurant servers and commissioned salespeople are often paid less than $3.00 per hour plus tips/commission. $10000.00 is equal to $4.81 per hour@40 hours. Also, a person's check can easily be decimated by medical insurance and bills. P...

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<t>flopstock;1367703 wrote: Remove all credits and exemptions and tax everyone 8 to 10 percent. If someone is only making 10000 a year, they are not working full time. As we are running huge deficits as it is, this would of course mean huge military cuts and getting rid of things li...

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Ah, I hadn't considered that. I suppose the other side too, is they may then start taxing a person more depending on BMI.

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<r>Ahso!;1367690 wrote: Ron Paul is no longer calling for a "gold standard", he's now calling for "some sort of hard commodity standard", they're calling it a "basket". It sounds to me like Paulies are coming around to the understanding that there isn't enough gold in existence for growth purposes (...

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<t>Doing a quick calculation on wikipedia data, the U.S. has less than 500 billion dollars in gold reserves. Meanwhile, the stock market for example is valued at -- what -- trillions of dollars? (It's backed by the companies, technologies, etc represented). So if we move to a ...

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<t>Accountable;1367642 wrote: Right on both counts. The problem is that faith is limitless. It has become a bottomless pocket with no meaning and has allowed Congress to be phenomenally irresponsible. Why worry about a budget when we can simply print more money? I know teenagers with more money-sens...

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<r>gmc;1367569 wrote: It's called progressive taxation and that's what warren buffet was arguing for. "Les Super-Riches" French Pull A Buffett And Ask For More Taxes The notion that if you let the rich stay richer and become richer they spend and invest to stimulat...

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<t>I can't believe there are so many GOP candidates that outright reject science. It's almost a badge of honor to act as stupid as possible. I'm waiting for a candidate to come along and say: "My fellow Americans, as president, I not only promise I will uphold all the truths of the Bible...

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<r>It could be simplified but I don't really trust the GOP to simplify it. <E>:)</E> If a company is making billions in profits but not doing much for the community, IMO the tax rate should be fairly high. Because the GOP apparently wants to dismantle the government, and without a net, i...

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<r>I hardly see what's been said in this thread that's any worse than what the Bible itself says about organized religion and it's followers. Look at what Jesus was ranting about half the time. Unfortunately the point of most of his ranting has been lost, not the least the cause of his execution. He...

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<t>The weakest point of google's cloud book IMO is it's priced at $499 (at least the ones I've seen), which is on the high end of net books. They need to pull the price down a bit I think. $299 would make more sense. Otherwise they are creeping into the desktop and low-end laptop territory, which I ...

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<t>Bryn Mawr;1359606 wrote: Is saying that God created domesticated plants any different to saying that God created animals? We would say that animals evolved through natural selection just as we would say that domesticated plants evolved through human intervention. I do see your po...

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<t>Bryn Mawr;1359587 wrote: If you look at the evolutionary picture of creation, entities of the type "plant" were the first life on land and it was not until after man had arrived on the scene that plants were domesticated and entities of the sub-type "plants of the field" started to exist - why th...

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<r>Bryn Mawr;1359583 wrote: This specifically refers to plant and herbs "of the field" and not plants in general. Given that Genesis 1 specifies that plants were formed on the third day, well before man was formed on the sixth day, and that Genesis 2 gives the reason for the late creation of "plants...

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<t>Loyal;1359539 wrote: and that one persons or that one being's opinion is Almighty God and I do understand the point of the story. If you have a few hours i'll tell you what the point to the story is. It was of course written by people. Let's listen to what the authors had to say ...

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<r>Loyal;1359535 wrote: ISTHIS WHAT YOU "THINK?" I do not want to hear what you think. Show me the scriptures, then we'll discuss it. As for figuratively.... Just because you read something in a book ... that doesn't mean: (a) you understood the point of the story, or<br/...

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<t>Bryn Mawr;1359452 wrote: So what is the advantage to cloud computing forcing your documents into the aether over you choosing to save your documents to a raid array on the net? One for me (local) and one for security (remote) and if you've lost data to a hard drive failing then it's yo...

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<t>The problem is essentially in trying to think of a polite way to call someone "permanently dumb." On one hand, there's a good argument that we don't need such a classification, but there are financial and legal benefits for such a classification. it will keep you from getting electrocuted if you ...

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Ahso!;1359420 wrote: You've changed your mind. How dare you be so flexible.

Yeah, I didn't like the idea of cloud storage initially. Though in reflecting, I've lost more data to a hard drive failing than I ever have through a internet server going down.

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<t>I didn't think anyone used the term "retarded" anymore to refer to people with real disabilities. I don't think it's been seriously used in that sense for maybe 10 or 20 years. It now is more of a synonym with 'dillweed' or 'nimrod' (now, thanks to the national council of fifth graders). It's gen...

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<r>I think it's pretty interesting, and they make some good arguments towards killing the standard pc. I have been using google's apps more, and it's very convenient to have data on the web, rather than on disk. I can access google docs anywhere, and already like it more than open office ...

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<r>Bryn Mawr;1359412 wrote: You are, surely, making the assumption that spiritual inheritance follows Mendelian rules. Without the sort of evidence the Gregor Mendel accumulated about physical inheritance you have no basis on which to base that assumption. Well, to be honest I'm a l...

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<t>Bryn Mawr;1359352 wrote: So, I see it as invalid to argue against Original Sin in terms of mendelian genetics when it is quite clearly not defined in those terms within Christianity - you prove nothing and achieve nothing. Even with a distinction of "genetic" and "spiritual" inhe...

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<t>Ahso!;1359159 wrote: You don't think the practice has become more precise and the tools manufactured better? You doubt there were any lazy priests who didn't bother to sharpen their knives regularly? You also doubt there were any priests who took pleasure in watching a living thing suffer? Any Ca...

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<r>I find it interesting the list of things God can't do, given that he's supposed to be all powerful. Apparently he couldn't figure out a way to prevent inheritence of a gene he didn't like. More puzzling is given that he created everything, he's upset with the gene he made. The only solution he ca...

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<t>Omni_Skittles;1359135 wrote: like we said in junior high... ohhhhhh buuuuuurrrrrrnnnnnn, someone call the fire department cause i just got burnedddddddd ooooohhhh snaps! You're getting burned by the Christian community, not me. I think you are qualified as anyone to be a minister...

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Lon;1359163 wrote: Here's another example of what's wrong with religion.

Hillary Clinton Removed From Situation Room Photo By Der Tzitung, Hasidic Newspaper (PHOTOS)

I'd be curious how many females this paper has hired.

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<t>spot;1359173 wrote: You're mistaking sacrifice for scape-goating. Sacrifice is payment, scape-goating is loading your sins onto a representative and ejecting him from the community. Two different forms of magic without a lot in common. Well, there's two levels of discussion here ...

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<r>As I understood it, the whole concept of animal and human sacrifice is a transference of punishment. You take something innocent and punish it. It's meant to be the payment for the "sin" in the eyes of God. (God sees the blood, and is less angry). But according to the story why didn't...

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<r>Omni_Skittles;1359122 wrote: uh... do you listen to yourself? Yes usually, though I doubt you bothered listening. Your professor is actually right on this one .. you are wasting your money on a Bible degree, if that's what you are doing. Because most people that call themselves C...

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<t>spot;1359116 wrote: In what way did any biblical animal sacrifice involve torture, yaaarrrgg? This part of the discussion relates entirely to biblical practice stemming from the Mosaic law. According to the Bible story ... Jesus was tortured for quite a while. The whole foundatio...

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<t>Omni_Skittles;1359118 wrote: actually, i still have a professor at my school who thinks women shouldn't preach and calls us a waste of time for lack of remembering his fancy college terms... i think there will always be these battles in anything and women doing something. I compl...

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<r>along-for-the-ride;1359083 wrote: The "rocks and weeds" that are needed to be cleared on the earth represent work. We appreciated more what we have if we work for it; when we are responsible for it. That complicates the picture of Heaven then, if pain and work is required for tr...

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Animal and human sacrifice doesn't solve anything. You have a problem and torture an animal ... now you have a problem and a dead animal to dispose of. What more disturbing though is the notion that anything would be appeased by watching the torture.

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<t>Omni_Skittles;1358925 wrote: I do have 21 hours of bible classes..... maybe i should look into that Does the bible actually allow females to be preachers? Should Women Be Pastors and Elders? | Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry There is a guy named...

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<t>spot;1358720 wrote: A useful script. It would be sensible to use the temporary RAM directory for the unencrypted copy so it dies when the machine's powered off but I do agree, you need to define the edge of where's protected and where's the wild outdoors. Unless you know exactly where that edge i...

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<r>spot;1358701 wrote: [john@cb6 ~]$ k spot 4dzq774wtRSh0kVzc51VZVN <URL url="http://www.forumgarden.com">http://www.forumgarden.com</URL> account spot [john@cb6 ~]$ [/code] That's a nice way to manage it. It would be a nice firefox/chrome plugin to...

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<t>spot;1358429 wrote: In my opinion the purpose of security isn't so much stopping people from finding out, as knowing they've found out if they ever do. That's probably a good approach to take. Also in that case, intrusion detection software like tripwire or ossec (that save a cop...

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