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Presidential signing statements, rejection of oversight, refusals to testify, unequal application of law for the rich and white, abuse of Social Security, road and other trust funds, abuse of prisoners in violation of international treaties, refusal to reveal special industry consultants to the president, invasion of privacy in defiance of law and the Constitution as generally understood, expansion of U.S. presence abroad without informing Congress, a secret intelligence establishment big enough to field armies yet unable to provide reliable intelligence
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Lament of the Whale
I cry for our shared grace
I cry for your human family
I cry for your whaler’s family
I cry for my family
I cry for me
With your warm hand you could stroke my skin like so many of your family have chosen to do
You would feel my warmth and gratitude
Why do you touch me only with your cold harpoon as you thrust it into my flesh?
I thought after so much killing that we would both crave harmony
That we had learned that we both feel and love
That we both treasure life
That we revere our comrades
That we embrace our children
That we share the same blood of our ancestors
That our hearts both beat the rhyme of life
How my child will cling to me as you haul my dying carcass out of the sea
How she will cry
Until you kill her too
regular butter contains enough energy to drive your car on it, but it is quite tricky to ignite and hence fairly safe.
In the United States, more than 290 people have died since June 2001 after being struck by police Tasers, according to the human rights group Amnesty International.
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The company who developed the SURTASS LFA (Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS) Low Frequency Active (LFA)) is named QinetiQ. When their stock went public in March, 2003, the offering was private and the primary benefactor was the Carlyle Group, who is cited as having significant connections to many members of the Bush Administration.
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Captain Janeway awoke a short time later to the sound of the singing of a Mariachi band. She opened her eyes and saw a full Mariachi band playing in her quarters with Q leading the group. He smiles when he sees she is awake.
"Good Morning El Capitan, did you have a nice rest?" Asked Q.
"What do you want Q?" grumbled Janeway.
"Just passing by when I noticed a hole in your hull, so thought I would be courteous and make a quick stop and tell you about it." Answered Q.
"Thanks for your concern but I already know about the hole and repairs are being made. Now go away so I can go back to sleep." requested Janeway.
Q ignored her request as usual. So according this the report the accident occurred when your navigator was ogling your borg's boobs instead of paying attention to flying the ship.
Janeway snatched the report from Q's hand and told him to go away and mind his own business.
"You know Kathryn, I can call you Kathryn cant I? Boys will be boys, there is nothing you can do about that.
"First you may not call me Kathryn. Second this is none of your business now go away Q."
"Perhaps there is something i can do to help you with this problem. What if I were too ..." started Q.
"Listen Q, I dont want your help on this matter. If you want to send us back to the alpha quadrant then that would be deeply appreciated. If not then go away and leave us alone." Shouted Janeway.
"That wasn't the response I expected but ok you talked me into helping you. Q snapped his fingers and vanished. Janeway shut off the light and went back to bed.
The next morning when she woke up she discovered ....
All the female crew members had the same size boobs as seven
*All clothing and uniforms had disappeared and everyone was nude
*Everyone's uniform was altered to make it more erotic
Q did something else
Go back - Go to the parent episode.
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we have one in my platoon. did we use it at all in the 15 months we were in iraq? nope! why? interpreters work better and stop bullets.
I think your believing Western and Nazi bourgeois propaganda and basing that as your opinion.
Stalin did fundamentally what Marxist is all about, he empowered the proletariat through massive industrialization and fought against the bourgeois. 'Stalinism' is simply a mythical bogeyman for the naive Trots and their bourgeois masters. 'Stalinism' (essentially Marxism-Leninism) is nothing but the self-determination of the working masses, I suggest you use a but of self-criticism to correct your revisionist and deviationist views, and stop slandering comrade Stalin as a mouthpiece of imperialism.
these days when something like only making a 25% profit instead of a 27% profit can cause emotional investors to dump your stock, dropping the price, and causing your company a loss of net worth in the millions
I was in the US just two weeks ago. The airport was at security level 4 out of 5. I asked an officer what the threat was, and he told me that in the four years that he had been working there, the threat level had not budged from level 4.
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lol anon
but to be honest I kind of expected you to look like that
Look up a recipe on the net and see if you have the money and if it seems easy to do.
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Paul 4,382 13% 3
McCain 4,348 13% 3
Thompson 2,583 8% 2
Huckabee 2,560 7% 2
Giuliani 1,533 4% 0
Hunter 584 2% 0
"I must be so sexy I'm growing more feet than I need."
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The only problem is that the government officials always try to create problems with you unless you pay them off. I was riding a motorbike and got pulled over because my headlights were not on even thoguh it was daytime. I could have let him take me to his station, write me up, hold me, and wait until a trial where I would have been freed, but a coupla ruppees let him give me a "warning" and drive off.
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Humblefool is an active Wikipedia member. He lives in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, in the United States, and is a democrat. He is a member of the Deletionists and the Discworld WikiProject. His editing intrests include Fremont, California and districts, the internet and its culture, imageboards, and architecture. His website is humblefool.com (http://www.humblefool.com), which is his random junk site, with a range of imageboards, both work-safe and not. He is not not a member of the non-existant Cabal. Flames to /dev/null, please.
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The right to speak your mind does not entitle you to the privilege of being listened to. - Anon
It's not a bug, it's a feature! - WAHa
Does that thing serve any purpose besides being huge and embodying thousands of years of cultural history? - Anon
What sort of programming is available on Jewish ethnocentrist cable? Reruns of The Goldbergs and Bridget Loves Bernie? - Calton, in response to a racist remark on VfD.
Since when has the likelyhood of complete and total failure been a reason to give up? - Geni
The purpose of editing articles is to make them better, not to make them perfect. - Paullusmagnus
I visited Canada once, does that make me a secret Mountie agent? - Walkingeagles
So, in other words, it's the number of avocados it takes to fill a mole? 6.022 * 1023. That's a pretty big mole... - Cormac Lawler
Or a very small avocado :) - Alphax, both discussing Avocado's number
Oranges exist in a non-determined chaotic transposition between a given wavelength of visible light and an edible fruit. Apples are decidedly edible fruits. - Anon, comparing apples to oranges.
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This page has been vandalized 1 time.
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Reimu waited. The lights above her blinked and sparked out of the air. There were youkai in the base. She didn't see them, but had expected them now for years. Her warnings to Cirno were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway.
Reimu was a shrine maiden for fourteen years. When she was young she watched the flowers and she said to mother "I want to stay at the shrine having tea parties."
Mother said "No! You will BE KILL BY YOUKAI"
There was a time when she believed her. Then as she got oldered she stopped. But now in the shrine she knew there were youkai.
"This is Marisa" the radio crackered. "You must fight the youkai!"
So Reimu gotted her spell card and blew up the wall.
"SHE GOING TO KILL US" said the youkai
"I will shoot at her" said Eirin and she fired the spell card. Reimu focus-shot at her and tried to blew her up. But then the ceiling fell and they were trapped and not able to kill.
"No! I must kill the youkai" she shouted
The radio said "No, Reimu. You are the youkai"
And then Reimu was a zombie.
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I have a 1-1/2" Guardrail nut looped on a piece of 550 cord. Not whiz bang tactical, but one smack in the grape and its coloring books for Christmas time.
If someone with skills can do it
PCs I know that are left on all the time don't have a significantly increased lifespan.
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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
To: GovernmentIsTheProblem
No, he thinks the War on Drugs is a war on civil liberties.
Oh well .. .then lets all shoot up on heroin and be like Ron Paul! Let’s all ve BRAIN DEAD and be like Ron Paul!
I guess you support no-knock warrants?
Hey, if someone is breaking the law like TERROISTS, yes they really do exist, I EXPECT them to break down the dam door!
Property seizure, where property is sold before the defendant is proven guilty?
Hey, if creditors need their money and the idiot is ignoring them SEIZE IT! It has nothing to do with being proven “guilty” . The numbers speak for themselves. Our legal system isn’t as nuts as Ron Paul would like you to believe.
SWAT teams breaking into houses based on anonymous tips from informants, shooting the dog, and giving Grandma a heart attack?
Yeah ... RIGHT ... lay off the DOPE!
The seizure of cash based on the assumption that anyone carrying enough of it must be a drug dealer?
You really have no clue on how the LAW works ... the more you talk the more I see that ... As if our law enforcement had the resources to be so reckless and never mind about HUGE lawsuits that would ensue ... This is so idiotic!
Encouraging children to inform the police on their parents?
If they are being ABUSED, I want kids to report their parents - that’s a SANE thing to do! If parents are breaking the law and smoking DOPE, you bet I don’t want them as “parents” and someone to look UP to!
How conservative.
THAT is something RON PAUL IS NOT!
He’s a godless, paranoid LIBERAL playing on your imaginary fears. Ron Paul is NUTS!!!!
12 posted on 01/22/2008 10:03:17 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
CIA operatives admit that al-Qaeda is a complete and total fabrication by the CIA. They plainly state that NO SUCH ORGANIZATION HAS EVER EXISTED AT ANY TIME.
Actor Heath Ledger has been found dead in a Manhattan apartment, New York police tell CNN.
Modern day Iraq, along the rivers. See Fertile Crescent. Burgeoning city-states gave rise to monarchies along the rivers. This is the start of civilization as we know it, as people transitioned to farming, aided by irrigation. Monarchies developed, the first permanent governments.
Why Monarchies? It's a combination of war and a need for a strong central government, which was needed to both organize social projects (irrigation) and resolve disputes with the rule of law. In the beginning, that "rule of law" was simply one person. Surpluses allowed for this sort of political system to develop.
But enough theory. Assyria developed from c. 744-623 BCE. Ashur, named after the god of the Assyrians (a god of war), was the capital. Nieveah, another city, reaches 120,000 citizens. Assyria was good at conquering, spreading towards modern-day Turkey and Egypt. The monarchy was "appointed" in antiquity by Ashur, and all claimed to be descended from that first king. Assyrians danced around the idea of apotheosis; the process of becoming a God. For example, they had a specific word for their god or their king, placing them on much the same level. In the end, the king was a proxy of sort for the god. Their statues were in the temples, and were treated in much the same reverence as the god's. It's an important idea.
Access to the king was limited to the extreme to promote reverence. His chambers would be decorated in frescoes about the power of the king, telling of his exploits. The rights of the kings were almost total; all laws were his to hand down, all land was owned by him. There was no higher appeal past the king; in the end, he might as well have been god. Of course, the nobles could have overthrown him, but that's bloody work.
Assyria was not known for its abundance of natural resources. It could grow a nice crop, sure, but that wasn't worth very much. Assyria sat at a natural crossroads, where they could tax anyone coming through. Tribute, as well, was a source of income. Conquered lands had to pay a tribute to the king, who then distributed it to the cities, who used it for public works, which people liked. If, of course, either revenue stream dried up, everyone's out of luck. Eventually, the economies of scale doom the economy. The economy becomes risk-averse because there's no profit in it. Supply-demand economics were sort of broken, because the supplies were related to who they conquered last.
The army was the basic meaning for Assyria's existence. The king led the army as his main job. The army was composed of a small number of professional soldiers, the ILKU (farmer-soldiers), and the "Special Service," the general enlisted man. Archery formed the core of the army, and each archer was protected by one man with a giant shield, and another with a spear. Horse-drawn chariots with archers and archer trios on horses. Effective, but not efficient. And these people could win a siege. Pontoon bridges, scaling walls, tunneling and collapsing walls, battering rams with covers and wheels! And irrigation as a weapon. As in floods. The violent reputation of the Assyrians preceded them. And they liked it that way. Made things easy.
Assyrian art sucked
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I’ll never be open again, I could never be open again
I’ll never be open again, I could never be open again
And I’ll smile and I’ll learn to pretend
And I’ll never be open again
And I’ll have no more dreams to defend
And I’ll never be open again
hey, I went to technical school with a guy named Ashur who was Assyrian.
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port,
Aboard this tiny Ship.
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You probably didn't know it, but those airplane contrails you see up in the sky are part of the government's plan to infect you with a nasty skin disease. Many Ron Paul supporters have been wise to this government conspiracy for a while now, including Dave Von Kleist (above), who was just added to the bill for the RonPaulapalooza blowout scheduled for this summer.
In addition to composing this truth-exposing anthem about the government's nanomicrobes, Von Kleist has also produced a devastating documentary that lays bare the government's complicity in orchestrating the 9/11 attacks. Von Kleist joins Poker Face on the RonPaulapalooza slate, a band that loves the rock group Boston but hates the "Satanic Jews" who "need to be cleansed from our planet."
As for the Catholic church.. Well since Christ’s death, Ha-Satan has been attacking it at its roots. Today we have at least 40,000 Christian who are actually in a cult. The Catholic Church has always been the biggest impediment to Satan’s plan of destroying this 2nd earth age as he did the first. In my opinion, there are millions of good, God loving people in and involved with the church. But I also believe that Satan finally took over the hierarchy of the church in 1963 with the election of Paul the 6th to the POPE’s throne. I think that the same year a satanic mass took place in Rome as well as The Citadel in South Carolina. That very year was when the ‘Novus Ordo Mass’ was given to the faithful, and the church has never been the same.
Satanists, Communists and homosexuals where headhunted by people like Bella Dodd to infiltrate the church and destroy it from within.
The question is, why are we all sitting at our own respective computers, ‽
Damn why do I use Ctrl-X instead of Delete? It's a very odd habit.
I need some advice on what could be a life changing decision.
I've suspected for some time now that my g/f has been having an affair. The usual signs. Phone rings, I answer, someone hangs up. She started going out 'with the girls' a lot recently although when I ask which girls it is always "Just some friends from work, you don't know them".
I always look out for her ride coming home but she always walks from aroud the corner, I can usually hear a car driving off as she walks towards our house. If it really is a taxi why not just get dropped off in front? I once picked her cell phone up just to see what time it was and she went beserk and screamed that I should never touch her phone again, and why was I checking up on her.
Anyway, I have never approached the subject with my g/f. I think deep down I just didn't want to know the truth but last night she went out again and I decided to check on her. I decided I was going to hide behind my car which would give me a view of the whole street so I could see which car she was getting out of. It was while I was crouched behind my car that I noticed rust on my exhaust tip.
Should I take it to the dealer for replacement, or should I just take the opportunity to buy the aftermarket 3" I've been looking at. Its a big decission so I thought I would ask for your advice. Maybe I'll just try to buff it out.
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Saying that something is more intuitive than something else is all the rage right now. Apple and Apple fans like to use this word a lot. Are Apple products really more intuitive just because they say they are?
First off, what does it actually mean to have an intuitive interface? It means that you can use it by intuition. You don't need to learn how to do it. Now, all humans are born with certain instincts that are built-in to their brain functions. Interacting with a computer is not one of them.
Humans do learn things however. They learn to read words, recognize shapes, move objects, type words on a keyboard, etc. These things can be translated to human-computer interfaces in order to make the computer (and other electronic devices) easier to learn. In other words, we can base learning new things on things we have already learned in order to make them seem inuitive.
Now, easy to learn and easy to use are often two entirely different things. Making something easy to learn may mean simplifying the interface so that you don't have to see a bunch of potentially confusing things at the same time. It may also mean, creating multiple levels of navigation screens which explain to the user each step or creating a hardware interface that gives tactile/audible/visual feedback. And most importantly, it means basing the design on previously learned and widely accepted concepts such as language.
"Easy to use" is another animal. If you want it to be easy to use, you're looking for user interface efficiency. You want to be able to accomplish the tasks you've set out to do with as few steps as possible. This is very important for productivity.
Take a look at the interface for Windows. Up until Windows 2000, if you open a menu you'll notice that certain letters are underlined (they can be turned back on in the Display Properties). Once you understand that typing those letters on the keyboard will activate those commands without you having to move the mouse and point to them, you'll see how much more efficient this interface can be. This same user interface convention has been brought to Windows Mobile. If you open a menu on a Windows Mobile device (and your device has a keyboard or number pad), you'll see either underlined letters corresponding to each command, or numbers for each command. Pressing the corresponding button is much easier and faster than using the directional pad or stylus to select the command you want. If you already know about this user interface convention in Windows, you'll quickly recognize it on Windows Mobile. You’ll also quickly realize how much easier-to-use it is since your eyes and hands have much less work to do.
Does the Apple Macintosh OS have an equivalent for such an efficient user interface convention? Not at all. On all Apple OSes, you actually have to use the mouse to activate commands. While this is easy to learn, it's not easy to use when it comes to productivity and efficiency. Moving the mouse and following it with your eyes takes a lot more time than pressing a key on that keyboard. Sure, most programs implement keyboard shortcuts that are combined with modifier keys, but these are not nearly as discoverable as the underlined letter in the menu on Windows.
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