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Reply to When is 2% not 2%? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote who="lulapilgrim" reply="3" id="3308963"]Obama taxes all done without the Senate ever passing a budget. [/quote] What does your good book say about bearing false witness Lula? Congress, and the Senate, passed the "Budget control act" last year, that makes the budget a law, not just a resolution, for last year and this year. So you are running under a current budget. You need to get your terminology correct. The actual GOP claim i

Reply to Obama and Freedom of Religion in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Schweitzer and Staedter (1997) is most charitably characterized as a dumbed down version of the scientific publications published the same year ( Schweitzer, et al . 1997A, B, C ). Schweitzer, et al ., "Heme compounds in dinosaur Trabecular bone" (1997A) gives us a straight forward data presentation,and con

Reply to Educational spending per student in Michigan in Politics Stardock Forums

The trouble is Dr Guy a lot of funding is like that in the government, but I have seen it in business too. If money ear marked for a certain use is not used for that use, it has a tendency, the year after, to be cut, and no manager likes to have funds cut from them.

Reply to The Religion of Atheism … Exposed in Religion JoeUser Forums

I still prefer the term apathist though, especially when it more accurately describes the feeling of the majority of us that live in Britain. Except for weddings, and discussing which religious loonies are trying to bomb us this year, Protestant, Catholic, or Muslim, religion gets pretty much ignored. So people do not brand themselves atheist mostly because they never really care, talk about it, or think about it.

Reply to Get a job, kid in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Part of the main reason too, is a growing trend highlighted by Draginol himself. He will not hire any one without work experience, trouble is many companies are doing the same, even for low paid traditionally starter jobs. How some one supposed to get work experience, when they will not hire you because you have none.

Reply to Americans Taking it up the Pipeline in US Domestic Stardock Forums

As you said politicians have been going on about this since 1973. I hardly see this as a result of just Democrats in this case, BOTH parties have been pandering to the people on this matter, without ever doing anything serious about it.

Reply to US Constitution?... Pffft in Politics Stardock Forums

The USA constitution was ground breaking when drafted, but as mentioned it is now the oldest written one still working. It a bit dated, and it shows some times. Just try to argue what "The right of a militia to bear arms" means in this day and age, and you will have dozens of interpretations. Both the Canadian and South Africa constitutions based themselves heavily on the USA one, but updated it to both better suit their own conditions, and the current time we are in. I think it makes more se

Reply to Why the iPhone is made in China in Mobile Tech JoeUser Forums

"How can they have 3,000 engineers on pop-up as well? There's more afoot than population density... although that's tempting... @ DrJBHL Part of the answer to it is China is training 3 times the number of engineers a year that America is, and that gap is growing. Even India has over taken America in numbers too.

Reply to Need some good sci-fi or fantasy books in Everything Else JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Mumblefratz" reply="23" id="3014521"] Like I've certainly read every Asimov, Clark, Heinlein and Norton that's every been written even though I have hardly any of these old timers in my collection. [/quote] Minor nitpick, Asimov wrote over 200 books ;) I looked through your list and I think I own about 90% of them. Mind you my own collection must run to 750 books now, and 10 dvds. I always much rathe

Reply to Brief Note to the Atheist in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="1" id="2997607"]Their "non-faith" is a faith. Since the existence of God is unproven and the non-existence is also non-proven, they have to accept on faith there is none. That others believe there is appears to be a threat to their core beliefs, so they become as bad as a proselytizing religious person.[/quote] Interesting position for a Christian to take, most say that Zeus, Odin, Thor, or Epona do not exist. Yet you take the posi

Reply to Why so many different religions? in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote who="lulapilgrim" reply="228" id="3016170"]Yes, indeed...the choice for God or against God is set before us. We have the power to choose. It's called free will. God doesn't force Himself on us, so it is an either/or situation.[/quote] Not forced at all. You just have to spend all of eternity in hell if you do not. It is like trying to explain to a judge that because you held a gun to some ones head, and told them to sign a contract or you would shoot them

Reply to Congress Inches Toward Repeal Of in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote who="lulapilgrim" reply="175" id="2987817"] Mike Judge is head of communications at the Christian Institute in Britain. [/quote]

Reply to Congress Inches Toward Repeal Of in Politics JoeUser Forums

Lula are you now resorting to using fringe groups to try to peddle your wares now then? A question I would like answered though is horses, chimps, dolphins and sea horses can be gay. One species of sea horse even has a much larger % of gay males than humans. Are you going to claim they are going to bring seahorse society crashing down to?

Reply to Three Mile Island fuel modules at DOE facility cracking!!! in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

Thank you Dr Guy for explaining it for me.

Reply to Three Mile Island fuel modules at DOE facility cracking!!! in US Domestic Stardock Forums

That is the third time in two weeks I have heard a variation of "That's government work for you". I am curious what is it about America where you settle for sub standard work just because it the government doing it?

Reply to LIBYA; A NEW WAR IN THE DESERT in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Bahu Virupaksha" reply="2" id="2920885"]as the very same European Parliament has armies which deploy such weapons.[/quote] The European Parliament has no armies. They can ask their member states for them, but you can be sure they already know the answer to that request before they even make it public. If the member states do not want to do something they just tell the European Parliament to take a hike, in the matter of foreign affairs anyway..

Reply to Lawmakers trying to overturn FCC Internet rules in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="psychoak" comment="36"]This argument was done into the ground a few hundred years ago. It's the whole point of natural law. Your rights exist beyond the law of the day, they are something you're born with and are morally correct in defending. Slaves were wrongfully imprisoned. Despotic rulers denied their citizenry justice. Rights are absolute, Law is subject to the whims of those in power. [/quote] If you born with it, how come it

Reply to Lawmakers trying to overturn FCC Internet rules in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="30" id="2890553"]RIGHTS are absolute. [/quote] Rights are definitely not absolute. You only need a superficial understanding of history to realise that. Only 200 years ago you had the right to own slaves. 600 years ago many people had no right to move from where they lived without permission from their rulers. I could go on listing changes, but you should get the idea. Rights are only what the current population say they are. Nothing abs

Reply to ANOTHER VENDOR SPYS ME OUT - updates only via impluse :-( in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="N3rull" reply="10" id="2142413"]Finally, Stardock is well aware that file hosts like fileplanet or filefront stand ready to host any file for free and knows that to lower our costs (and then yours) is nowhere near true. So, summing things up, it's a game of money vs. gamer's convenience. Should we let the pirates (and legal customers) put their hands on our patches more easily or should we screw the 5% people that might HATE THIS STUPID IMPULSE.<br /

Reply to Tips: Beating the CPU in entrenchment (TEC) in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="Deflagratio" reply="22" id="2097071"] The Sova Carrier is the useless TEC ship, Avoid wasting fleet supply/capship crew at ALL costs on that stinker, until they make Cap Carriers competitive with Light Carriers. [/quote] I agree completely with what you say about the Marza, but have to disagree here. As we are just talking Ai matches I find they more than replace LCs. To qualify that I will first say, even when playing vs 9 hard AIs, I would still only be using

Reply to Hidden Tech? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

Well TEC already has faster phase jumps, and better turning circles (This one for capital ships only). Another race has can jump slightly inside the grav well research.