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Posted in: the President's support of "intelligent design."
  toms
08-03-2005, 8:35 AM
#7
Make him a Theocrat? Not really. Make him an idiot? Doesn't everything he says? If you throw out Evolution from school feaching you need to throw out most of physics as well, plus a lot of other science that is the basis of the way our world and tec...  [Read More]
Posted in: Tom Tancredo
  toms
08-02-2005, 9:10 AM
#28
I doubt he'll appologise, and i doubt voters will do anything if he doesn't. So he'll just carry on being an idiot. What more is there to say? You guys better make sure he doesn't get to be president some day though.......  [Read More]
Posted in: Tom Tancredo
  toms
08-01-2005, 7:43 AM
#22
Einstien said "there was never a weopon man hasn't eventualy used." There were times when It almost happened, (knock on wood). er. Hioshima? Nagasaki? (sic) But what's with the massacres? I would figure that Christianity be a little less....  [Read More]
Posted in: Tom Tancredo
  toms
07-28-2005, 7:07 AM
#10
And, lest we forget, the bible also teaches us to: Stone your kids to death if they disobey you (http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_law/when_to_stone_your_children/dt21_18a.html) Destroy towns of other religions, killing everyone and burning them...  [Read More]
Posted in: Tom Tancredo
  toms
07-27-2005, 6:37 AM
#8
said a spokesman: “They are a lot more upset about what he stands for, our nation’s security and border policy, than anything else,” Adams said. Er... ok... is it me or do the "evil" muslims seem a lot more rational and coherent tha...  [Read More]
Posted in: Magical thinkers opposed to Magical thinkers
  toms
08-02-2005, 12:40 PM
#10
My mother is fairly religious too... (though in a church of england way, so not too fundamentalist). However she was always willing to listen to common sense arguments about issues, and therefore alway kept a pretty open mind on things. I wasn't al...  [Read More]
Posted in: Magical thinkers opposed to Magical thinkers
  toms
07-27-2005, 6:52 AM
#6
I think you mean this one, where a "harry potter day" was cancelled. I don't know of any schools int he UK where it has been banned. Just goes to show that we get religious nutters too. I think Skinwalker does have a point about belief t...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Digital Millenium Copyright act: is it necessary?
  toms
07-29-2005, 10:58 AM
#20
of any interest? (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/28/hatch_test_utah/)...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Digital Millenium Copyright act: is it necessary?
  toms
07-28-2005, 10:36 AM
#18
Pretty soon the book authors will be complaining that the internet allows people to easily sell second hand books and this cuts into their profits... http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/technology/28scene.html?ex=1280203200&en=33765024cbf62d4c&...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Digital Millenium Copyright act: is it necessary?
  toms
07-28-2005, 6:53 AM
#15
True... its also been used to justify things such as phone taps... which it was never intended to cover. Bad Bad Legislation...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Digital Millenium Copyright act: is it necessary?
  toms
07-27-2005, 10:29 AM
#10
The crazy thing is that in many other industries they'd pay (and infoact do pay) for the kind of distribution/refferal network that file sharers and P2P apps have created. In a lot of worlds you'd be getting loyalty points based on how many people...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Digital Millenium Copyright act: is it necessary?
  toms
07-27-2005, 7:10 AM
#7
Copyright, Patents, the DCMA and Fair Use have all become horribly intertwined in a mess that will be almost impossible to unravel. Copyrights and Patents were originally designed to promote creativity, protect innovation and ensure that all great...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Digital Millenium Copyright act: is it necessary?
  toms
07-25-2005, 8:36 AM
#4
no....  [Read More]
Posted in: 25,000 civilians killed
  toms
07-28-2005, 6:49 AM
#6
Maybe they were using MSN World... it seems to mostly use may data from around 1992... :D Still, its a fairly sobering thought when you realise exactly what "collateral damage" actually means......  [Read More]
Posted in: 25,000 civilians killed
  toms
07-25-2005, 8:38 AM
#4
I seem to remember them saying that this time (after all their bombs going astray in the first gulf war) the bombs were much better and more acurate. I think they've been duped by the weapons manufacturers, who've put hte same chips in a new V2 cas...  [Read More]
Posted in: 25,000 civilians killed
  toms
07-19-2005, 10:51 AM
#1
Nearly 25,000 civilians have died violently in Iraq since the US-led invasion in March 2003, a report says. The dossier, based on media reports, says US-led forces were responsible for more than a third of the deaths. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wo...  [Read More]
Posted in: Child killed in police shootout.
  toms
07-18-2005, 10:08 AM
#10
Since when do we wait for full information before passing judgement? :D The ONLY justification I can see for firing on a guy holding a child would be if the guy was firing on other civilians. And since the stand off seems to have been going on fo...  [Read More]
Posted in: Child killed in police shootout.
  toms
07-15-2005, 8:26 AM
#3
Or even just NOT SHOOTING BACK and waiting for him to get tired out, give up or run out of bullets. sigh....  [Read More]
Posted in: Could the President's econ policy actually be working?
  toms
07-15-2005, 8:35 AM
#10
Originally posted by rccar328 I was thinking more along the lines of programs the could use some trimming - such as welfare (get rid of those who turn the 'safety net' into a hammock), the bureacracy that plagues our education systems...stuff like t...  [Read More]
Posted in: Could the President's econ policy actually be working?
  toms
07-14-2005, 8:23 AM
#3
the article as a whole doesn't paint as rosey a picture as you make out. Though i have to admit that the whole thing is pretty impenetrable, and if the experts all have different opinions htere is no chance that us normal folks can understand what is...  [Read More]
Posted in: "Tell people the truth, Mr. President"
  toms
08-01-2005, 7:16 AM
#29
The matter of scale is the problem that they are having with the EU. Each member state is (braodly) democratic in electing its officials... but then how do you get those officials to work together? Make the EU process too directly democratic and pe...  [Read More]
Posted in: "Tell people the truth, Mr. President"
  toms
07-29-2005, 9:15 AM
#21
To be fair the first bit of british "democracy" wasn't actually that democratic... most of the power still remained with the king. It was only over time that it became truely democratic (well, as close as it got anyway)....  [Read More]
Posted in: "Tell people the truth, Mr. President"
  toms
07-28-2005, 6:47 AM
#16
he/she???? :eek: But yes, that is what i was refering to. Although the US is a much newer country than most of europe, all the democratic governments kind of sprung up around the same time so they didn't get much chance to learn from each other's m...  [Read More]
Posted in: "Tell people the truth, Mr. President"
  toms
07-25-2005, 9:22 AM
#13
The only way a true democracy would work would be if we were all part of some borg-like collective... where all our minds worked as one to come up with every decision. Otherwise the whole country would have to come to a halt every day to read evide...  [Read More]
Posted in: Do video games corrupt our youth?
  toms
08-03-2005, 8:13 AM
#49
I used to fall off tall things a lot when i was a kid... never did me any harm. *twitch* Kids are pretty invunerable, and recover from injuries much quicker than grown-ups. Seeing what hurts is part of the way they learn their limits. I know there a...  [Read More]
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