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Diedel wrote:I have asked in some OpenGL forum and got a good answer ...

And that answer is?

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And, of course, the concept of morale itself varies with different cultures, beliefs, etc, from person to person. Cutting off the hand of a thief would be immorale and cruel in some places, but accepted in others. Isn't morale the level of motivation within a group of people, and morals a group of ...

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(4) supernatural without design. Something like a great supernatural sneeze could splatter across our cosmos and create things that somebody might mistakenly interpret as design (perhaps by mistakenly reasoning that natural processes cannot create them, so they must have been designed, or even beca...

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Precisely. It's like asking whether Mt. Rushmore was formed by intelligent designers or by tools that can shape stone. If there is a creator, then natural processes may be among the tools the creator fashioned. Biological ID advocates needs to make up their mind whether the designer they're searchi...

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Of course, this is true of all science, not just evolution. I mean, you just don't get it, do you? Every time science successfully makes a prediction, God falls back. Every time science successfully explains a phenomenon, God retreats. Occam's razor slices God right out of the equation. There's lit...

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Will Robinson wrote:It's easy to say "We shouldn't go piss them off" but what do you propose we do when they are attacking us anyway?

Don't we piss them off just by being, though? Or, at least, by being free in our choice of actions, words, belief systems, etc.?

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Not sure what you mean. "This can only end in tears" is an overused phrase, so I decided to change it slightly. Also, I'm sure we both know how these things can degenerate into flame wars. I like the way he started the program. He told you up front that he is not a journalist, he is a con...

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*Shadowfury333 begins to set up flame shield

This can only end in sardonic laughter.

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As it turns out TB you are absolutelt correct. News this morning after the big "Lets pull out of Iraq and we can negotiate demoscammer win" we have from AQ is they have 12 thousand fighters willing to die with the destruction of the White House as their stated goal. When they do I hope it...

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...Shadow... you are wrong. Word! Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars....or just about any Bowie record was definitely a complete album as were lots of stuff from the sixties and seventies! Most Bob Dylan recordings had a completeness to them, just because they weren't laid out in one easy to ...

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...and The Mars Volta, and Coheed & Cambria, and Metallica, and Dream Theater, and The Flaming Lips, and Radiohead, and countless others. And that's only "concept albums". A good album doesn't require a narrative thread through every track. Take, for example, Pretend You're Alive by L...

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Hence why I buy cd's instead of downloading music. (Plus, the art of making a complete album is being lost in this age of only downloading singles.) The art of making a complete album was only ever really understood by the Alan Parsons' Project, Pink Floyd, and in one case, The Who. Most bands simp...

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Capitalism, by its very nature, will have people who are rich and those who are poor. The upside is that it is a matter of effort and skill, not arbitrary decisions by people who are the nth descendant of the country's founder, or exclusive to people who are the nth descendant of someone who did so...

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The other odd thing is that I'm actually considering going into politics, possibly as a Member of Parliament, but I would be running as a conservative, and not a democrat. The National Party here, is the conservative side of things. Which country is this? Canada? If so, in which riding will you be ...

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Mobius wrote:If you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear.

But can't politicians (and presumably the corporations to which they are supposedly beholden) arbitrarily change what "wrong" is?

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Especially when it is outsourced to a busy company.

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At the other end of the economic spectrum, a highly regulated system might conserve the environment, establish national health care, and eliminate poverty. But as we've learned from the Soviet system, extreme regulation can also lead to stagnation, sameness, and unhappiness. WOW did they just compa...

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\"You are a Social Moderate (50% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (31% permissive) You are best described as a: Centrist You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness.\" Not exactly surprising, although I had considered myself a bit more ...

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CUDA wrote:then why do you sing praises to him every sunday??

Don't get her started, we've been over this before and she acknowledges the hypocrisy.

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Bet51987 wrote:
Shadowfury333 wrote:
Bet51987 wrote:He was not the son of any God and thats the part thats sad.
Prove it
I can't... Now its your turn. Prove otherwise.

Bee

Read my edit, I figured you'd say this.

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He was not the son of any God and thats the part thats sad. Prove it, since that's what you care about. I read your posts and I see that you are blindly refusing to acknowledge any unintuitive belief and blindly sticking to the stuff you can sense. While I have no problem with you doing that, I fin...

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An example is evolution being discussed in another post as being implausible, questionable, or difficult to believe. That kind of thinking in any school classroom is an outright danger to education. Why is it bad for education if what is taught is being questioned? Isn't that exactly what is needed...

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Drak, Perhaps you have already, but if not I would recommend you read Ken Miller's "Finding Darwin's God", especially Chapter 5 - God The Mechanic, as a starting point. There Miller deals with a number of examples that Behe considers to be irreducibly complex; the flagellum, cytochrome c ...

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Yeah, but with premiums and deductibles in the thousands, I'm not certain how useful it would be. Could someone please inform me as to the average costs of these big medical procedures? Heart/lung transplant is $135,000 to $250,000 No, not everyone needs a heart or lung transplant. But if you do it...

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Unless youre retarded, you'll stop paying for insurance if it costs more than the medications themselves. From the individual customer's perspective, most pay a LOT more than the cost of any doctor visits and medications they're on themselves. It's the catastrophic stuff that the non-retarded reali...

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Sounds to me like the main problem with this situation is a lack of competition, allowing UHC to charge whatever they want and be unaccountable to their customers. Interestingly enough, that doesn't always happen. In Alberta (province directly east of mine) the auto insurance is mandatory (as it is...

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ccb056 wrote:You think every company who makes a profit is unethical at best?

No, I simply don't think that the profit-gaining could ever be considered ethical in and of itself. That does not mean that it is necessarily unethical either.

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ccb056 wrote:Unless youre retarded, you'll stop paying for insurance if it costs more than the medications themselves.

I wasn't sure if it was mandatory in some states. It's mandatory here, in a way. We pay our taxes, they pay our healthcare workers.

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It's not ethical to make a profit? It is neutral at best, and unethical when said profits are being gained through overly inflated prices. It's not ethical to charge what the market demands for services? What the market demands is partly affected by the current prices(along with supply/demand, infl...

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Thanks for the hosting space, I just uploaded my Salt Mines level, although PD also hosts it.

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Thanks for the reality check Lothar. Once again you have cleared up any unnecessary anxieties caused by irrational, politically motivated assumptions.

Mind you, I'm still glad to be Canadian.

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Wow, I've never been so glad to live in Canada.

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Grendel wrote:
Aggressor Prime wrote:And the proof for the human spirit is the absolute truth statement "I exist."
How is that a proven true statement ? Hegel is dead, in case you didn't know. Go watch "Dark Star" and pay attention to Bomb #20.

well, if you didn't exist, how could you argue about it?

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Genghis wrote:
Shadowfury333 wrote:Just use http://www.bugmenot.com, no need to sign up.

Thanks.

As for the article, I'm not entirely surprised at the actions taken. When you consider that there has been quite a bit of violence with teenagers recently, it isn't particularily astonishing for the SS to investigate this one.

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Grendel wrote:Here's a fine example of how things work..
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/38768.html

Could you please get that in a place anyone can read without having to sign up.

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ThunderBunny wrote:It teaches the devaluation of human life

Isn't that what the left has been teaching for the past 40 years?

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snoopy wrote:
Shadowfury333 wrote:I know, you just couldn't let an opportunity like that pass by.

Well, what I was meaning was that secular people do it too.

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Pretty much agreed. Problem is, the process continues through high school and sometimes beyond. 4 year olds need a particular type of guidance, but "the system" assumes kids never become more mature, so it doesn't help them become more mature. Yep, that's basically what a nanny state is. ...

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actually you are getting close to harm minimalisation strategys that are actually in use in some areas in the form of "safe injecting rooms". I suppose if a co-op or private charity ran it, I couldn't object, but I would certainly be angry if they were using my tax dollars to fund such a ...

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Kilarin wrote:
So would that mean that the mob has a vested interest in NOT legalizing drugs?
Oh, most definitely.

How ironic.

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